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Well on to the study of the Word of God tonight and we continue in our doctrinal series, obviously, studies in doctrine could take up your entire life, but we're looking at them in a somewhat abbreviated fashion and tonight I want to talk about the doctrine of assurance...the doctrine of assurance.
One of the tragic elements of Roman Catholicism which embedded itself in Christianity in the Dark Ages was the denial that anyone can have the assurance of salvation. It is part of Roman Catholic dogma that no one can know if they are going to end up in heaven. Since salvation is a joint effort, since salvation is a cooperative effort between God and man, salvation ultimately then falls to man. God is not likely to fail, but we are. And since the outcome of our salvation is in our hands, it is seriously in doubt since we cannot know if we will endure to the end. And we cannot know if we have satisfied the requirements of God and are actually saved and additionally very unlikely to avoid Purgatory where even if we've made a noble effort, we will have to spend thousands and thousands of years paying for sins before we are ever given heaven. This is part of Roman Catholic theology, you cannot know that you're saved.
Consequently when the Reformation came, this great truth asserted itself and freed people from this horrific life of fear and doubt. One of the most gifted of Puritan authors, Thomas Brooks, wrote a classic book on assurance called Heaven on Earth and the title of the book really sort of sums up what assurance is. Thomas Brooks said, "Assurance is the experience of divine bliss this side of heaven." "Assurance," he wrote, "yields to the soul two heavens, one here and one there; one now and one later." And so at the heart of the Reformation gospel of salvation by grace alone through faith alone and Christ alone was the reality that one could know for certain that one was saved. Consistent with God's sovereign election, consistent with God's promise of eternal life, consistent with God's gift of perseverance or eternal security is also God's gift of assurance. Faith itself is the assurance of things hoped for. Assurance is a gift from God. It is part of the promise of God in the gospel. It is not some addition. It is a privilege which we are granted in Christ. It is a birthright that God gives to all His beloved children, to know for sure that you're headed for heaven.
The redeemed of the Lord as the Old Testament puts it, can say so because they know so. It is again an interesting thing to me that assurance seems rarely to be an issue today. Assurance is very little discussed by professing Christians. Popular simplistic books that treat lightly the gospel say nothing about assurance. Preaching today tends not to call one's salvation into question, but to do the very opposite. Evangelism today normally seeks to make sure that no one ever doubts his or her salvation. Evangelism today wants to illegitimately, but nonetheless to reinforce to people that the most meager approach to Christ and the most simplistic prayer is sufficient to remove any unnecessary question about the reality of salvation. And so the evangelism of today normally seeks to remove all doubts, throwing them all into the category of illegitimacy and even labeling them as unnecessary temptations from the devil himself. Don't let the devil make you doubt. Preachers are afraid to weaken anyone's confidence. Preachers are afraid to ask questions about the legitimacy of one's faith. They are afraid to cultivate thoughts about the fact that assurance could be false. They're really afraid to deal with the terms that Jesus laid down in Matthew 7, "Many will say unto Me, 'Lord, Lord, and I did this and I did that,' and I will then say to them, 'Depart from Me, you workers of iniquity, I never knew you.'" People don't want to deal with those kinds of realities.
And so, today the idea of assurance is not a major issue. We don't hear a lot of discussion about it. You don't hear people addressing the issue of assurance. And it seems to me that fewer Christians, so called professing Christians, than ever before show any concern about the legitimacy of their salvation. The attitude today seems to be, "Look, I prayed the prayer, I said the words, I'm in." They are products of superficial preaching that leads to superficial faith, that leads to superficial self-examination.
But it was a very different thing in the post-Reformation world...very different thing in the world of the Puritans. All through those years from the Reformation through the Puritan movement in England and even into America and through the time of the Great Awakening, the seventeenth century, and the eighteenth century, that followed. Preaching was strong. Preaching was even frightening. Preaching shook people to the core and it called into question their salvation. And the Puritans themselves were rather merciless at this. I think sort of collectively if you read the Puritan preaching, they probably overdid it. They were so concerned that no one have the wrong idea about his salvation, they were so concerned that no one possess a false and therefore damning assurance, that they pounded strongly on the reality of a false conversion, a false faith. John Owen wrote about it and identified it as the most treacherous of things to believe. And it is, to believe you're saved when you're not. And so the Puritans preached hard on true salvation. And people struggled. It almost became for some people a kind of badge of spirituality to doubt your salvation because it indicated that you were falling under the great power of preaching. Maybe we don't want to go as far as the Puritans and bash people to the point where even those who should enjoy assurance can't, but we certainly don't want to end up on the other side in that superficiality today where to call anyone's act of faith into question is somehow tantamount violating the gospel. There is a biblical balance, as always. We can have assurance. I am convinced that God has given it to us as a birthright, not an option but a birthright. It's a part of our salvation. And I want to talk to you about it a little bit tonight. Obviously it's a huge subject, this will be an introduction. But I'll break it down as simply as I can.
In looking at the doctrine of assurance, we look in to two categories, one is objective and the other is subjective. One has to do with something outside of us, the other has to do with something inside of us. That's what I mean by objective, subjective. Objective considers that which is outside of us, subjective considers that which is inside of us. And I am convinced that Scripture calls upon both, that which is objective and that which is subjective, as the ground of our assurance. That is to say we look first to history and then to experience. Both are essential in assurance.
The objective ground is clearly indicated to us in statements like this, 1 John 5:1, "Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God." There is objectivity. You believe in the truth of Christ, therefore you are born of God. And in saying "believing that Jesus is the Christ," you are gathering up everything that is true about Christ, the true Christ, His work, His promises. According to 1 Corinthians 1:30, everything is yes and amen in Him. So the objective ground then is what you believe about Christ. To have assurance, you have to believe the right thing.
But secondly, there is subjective ground and that is internal. The subjective ground is the convicting, sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in us. Romans 8:16, "The Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God." It is because we believe something outside of us, the historical fact concerning Christ, and it is because of the work of the Spirit inside of us, those two together produce in us assurance. And so in 2 Corinthians 13:5 we read what is essentially a call, a command, "Test yourselves to see if you are in the faith." Examine yourselves. And you ask the question, "What am I looking for?," right? What am I looking for? Am I looking for a past event? When I'm called to examine myself, what am I...am I looking for a past event, a prayer prayed once somewhere sometime? What am I looking for? Am I looking for affirmation from my parents who tell me I prayed that prayer when I was small? Am I looking for affirmation from a friend who thinks I'm religious and quote/unquote spiritual? What am I looking for?
Well let's start with the objective truth...let's start with the objective truth. What is it that I have to believe objectively? What revealed historical truth must I believe to be saved? This is so foundational I can't...I can't overemphasize it and yet it is obscure to so many people that you would never expect to have a lack of perspicuity or clarity on this point. I remember sitting in the office of D. James Kennedy down in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in a meeting with some of the greatest minds in theology and some of the greatest leaders in the evangelical world and I was sitting in that room for seven hours and we were talking about the essence of the gospel. It was an unbelievable experience, you would loved to have been a fly on that wall, it was everything from compassionate to violent, and everything in between as the battle was raging for the clarity of the gospel. And at the end of all if it, I said to the leading theologian who had been sitting at my right hand, a man revered and respected by all who know anything about Christian theology, I said to him, "You tell me what it is that is the bottom line that must be believed and if you don't believe that, you can't be saved. Where is that? There has to be some non-negotiable, non-optional elements of saving faith, what must a person believe to be saved?" And this gentleman who has written many books, who is astute in theology looked in my eye and said, "That is a good question." To which my heart said, "I know it's a good question, it is THE question of all questions when dealing with the gospel." But he was unwilling to give me a definitive answer.
If we don't know what we have to believe to be saved, and if we don't believe it, then how are we every going to know who is saved? And how could you ever have assurance of salvation unless you believe what God requires that you believe? The health of the church, listen to this, the health of the church and the impact of the church is always based on the church's ability to keep objective truth clear. It was like that pastor that I quoted or mentioned to you this morning, from a Bible church who was shocked that somebody might think Mother Teresa wouldn't go to heaven just because her soteriology was messed up. It's shocking. The church is the pillar and ground of the truth. And the health of the church is always based on her ability to keep objective truth, biblical revelation clear. Never to blur the line between truth and error. As soon as you blur the line between truth and error, you blur the line between Christian and non-Christian. As soon as you water down the gospel, you wipe out that line between Christian and non-Christian. And as soon as you blur the line between truth and error and therefore blur the line between Christian and non-Christian, you throw the door open and welcome Satan and the devil goes to church. Ian Murray writes this, "When churches have recovered from apostasy as at the time of the Reformation in the Eighteenth Century Evangelical Revival, when churches have recovered from apostasy, it is always by a return to discriminating preaching and practice." He further says, "Given the great decline in the English-speaking churches of the Twentieth Century, the chief need again is the reassertion of the meaning of being a Christian."
When our theology gets watered down, the line is rubbed out. And here we are, because we so desperately want to be popular and so desperately want everybody to accept us, we fear being alienated, we fear being marginalized. As John Piper said to me the other day in a phone conversation, "The church is full of wimps." That was his quote, but I agreed. Cause we're afraid to stand up for the truth, afraid of losing reputation and acceptance, wanting so desperately to find something that people will accept, we have blurred the line. And if we're going to deal honestly with assurance, we have to go back and reconstruct the truth. You're not a Christian just because you believe in Jesus, just because you prayed a prayer to Jesus, just because you have good feelings about Jesus. There are things that must be believed. And I was telling the men earlier, we had a conversation, it was kind of a conference call this week with some of us, John Piper and a group of people including Al Moler and R.C. Sproul and Mark Deavor and Philip Rikin, and some of the leading men in evangelical world, and they were all basically saying the same thing. You know, the horror of our time is the church's indifference toward theology. And when it's indifferent toward theology, it blurs the line between a Christian and a non-Christian, and as I said, the devil goes to church. The church that is interested...disinterested in doctrine is left shallow, worldly, weak, self-deceived, superficial. And the really interesting thing is, truth becomes its enemy. And that's the truth, truth becomes its enemy. It's what John Wesley, I believe it was, who said, "In our day to be a true Christian is to be a scandal to the church." It think truth may be the greatest enemy of the current evangelical drift. But if we're going to have a revival and if we're going to have a reformation, and if we're going to get back, it has to start with the truth again.
Now, we start then in this matter of assurance with knowing that we believe the truth because salvation is predicated on that. Now let me work into that a little bit. Let's take number one point, the objectivity, what it is that we believe. What it is that we believe. Salvation comes not by some mystical experience...I remember, just thought of it, being interviewed on a Christian radio station by an afternoon talk show personality, happened to be a woman who had been on the air in a major city for years giving Christian counsel to people. And it became apparent as she was interviewing me about a book that I had written that she was relatively clueless about almost everything, asking me very strange questions for someone who was on the air three hours every day giving people Christian counsel. And I finally said to her off the air when a commercial was running, "How did you become a Christian?" To which she replied very glibly, "Well I'll tell you, it was really cool. One day I got Jesus' phone number and we've been connected ever since." I mean, I was stunned. I said, "Well what do you mean by that?" She said, "What do you mean what do I mean by that?" She didn't know if there was any more content in it than that. And then she said to me, "Well, if someone asked you how you became a Christian, what would you say?" And so I told her what was necessary...what does it mean you've got Jesus' phone number and you've been connected? This is not somebody on the fringe here, this is somebody giving people answers. This is the expert.
One thing has genuinely occurred in salvation, and I guess maybe the best place to look at it is in Romans 6. Turn to Romans 6, there's a lot of Scriptures, but Romans 6, and I want you to just look at verse 17, it's a great chapter with a lot of wonderful things in it, but verse 17 for now. "Thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin...that's what you were...you became obedient from the heart...that was salvation, transformation, conversion, regeneration...you became obedient from the heart...listen...to that form of doctrine to which you were committed." You know what happens to somebody who's saved? They become committed to new understanding. You were committed, paradidomi, to deliver, to hand over. You were literally delivered from error to truth. You became a believer when you understood that form, that theology and you were delivered over to it. Literally, you ceased being held captive by error and you were delivered over to a new captivity. It's the same thing in 2 Corinthians 10:5, you brought every thought captive to Christ. So if you're asking the question about your salvation, it all starts at the point of what you believe. First Timothy 2:4 parallels salvation with truth. Paul writes, "To be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." And the end is even, it's a parallel. "To be saved is to come to the knowledge of the truth." To be saved in the New Testament is to believe the message. Christianity means you know the truth and you believe the truth. Being saved means coming to believe with all your heart what is true about the Lord Jesus Christ. Prior to that, you believed lies and deception. And now you've come to the truth.
So what is the truth? What is it you have to believe? Well if you listen to the modern climate today, it would be pretty minimalist, wouldn't it? Broad mindedness, believe in Jesus. That's not what Scripture teaches. Let me help you with that a little bit. Everybody who is a true Christian if you're looking for assurance, you have to go to this starting point. Everybody who calls himself, or herself, a Christian must agree that there's a body of doctrine that is non-negotiable. There's a body of doctrine that is required. There are articles of faith that make up this constituted body of truth that Jude says is the faith once for all delivered to the saints. There are things that must be believed, they are indispensable to salvation. In fact, they are so indispensable to salvation that if somebody doesn't believe them, even though they profess to be a Christian, you are commanded to have nothing to do with them. Second Corinthians 6:14 to 17, you are told that there is no fellowship between light and darkness, there is no concord between Christ and Satan, there is no harmony between a believer and an unbeliever, there is no agreement between the temple of God and idols. Don't be bound together with people who don't believe what you must believe to be saved. The body of truth, the scheme of doctrine to which you have been delivered, the constitutional body of truth is the essence of the faith which saves. They are indispensable truths and if someone denies them, you're not to have any fellowship with them. Listen to what Paul said, Galatians 1:8 and 9, "Even though we, an Apostle, or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you, let him be cursed." There is zero tolerance policy for adulterating elements of the gospel, zero tolerance.
If any man, says Paul, is preaching to you a gospel contrary to that which you received, let him be accursed. Curse is pronounced on those who pervert the gospel. We are commanded to have nothing to do with those people who believe anything other than, more than, or less than the gospel. Listen to 2 John 9 through 11. "Anyone who goes too far and doesn't abide in the teaching of Christ doesn't have God." You mess up teaching about Christ, His person and His work, you're not saved, you don't have God. And then he says, "If anyone like that comes to you and doesn't bring this true teaching, do not receive him into your house, do not give him a greeting, for the one who gives him a greeting participates in his evil deeds." You're not even to greet people like that who come with an aberrant message. They are not of God. They are destructive. They are dangerous. We have nothing to do with them. They are cursed and the last thing we want to do is pat them on the back and make them seem like they belong to our group and therefore participate in their evil deeds. We are commanded then to keep spiritually separate from those who corrupt the essential truths of the gospel, essential truths which have to do with Christ. And if you welcome people like that in, you literally bear the guilt of the false teacher himself. This is very stern language. Any corruption of the gospel is condemned. Any kind of false Christianity is in the category of the most heinous sins. We cannot justify any kind of connection, spiritual union with anyone whose teaching at all corrupts the New Testament gospel.
And that leads us then to the question...what is that truth which saves and delivers? What is that truth which must be believed? What is that truth that is non-negotiable? What is that truth that cannot be denied?
Well it has to do with that which relates to the gospel. Let me just work you through it a little bit. If a doctrine is truly fundamental, it must have its origin in Scripture. Now you say, "Obviously." Well not obviously, it can't have its origin in church tradition, Papal Bull, somebody's vision, somebody's prophecy, somebody's intuition, somebody's idea, can't come out of Mary Baker Patterson Glover Frye, she had husband after husband, or Joseph Smith, or Annie Besant or Judge Rutherford or Madam Blavatsky or any other of those who started the cults. If a doctrine is truly fundamental, it must have its origin in Scripture, not tradition. It is, Paul says, the Scripture which is able to make you wise unto salvation, right?, 2 Timothy 3:15. So whatever doctrine is essential for salvation is a biblical doctrine. The Psalmist said, "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul." Scripture is sufficient to give us what we need to be saved. And so, we come, first of all then, to the Scripture to find the truth. And as I said, this is in stark contrast to the time of the Reformation when the Catholic Church was its own authority, threatening eternal damnation on anybody who called into question anything the Pope said or anything the church councils decided. For example, in the Canon One of the Seventh Session of the Council of Trent, anathemas were pronounced on anybody who said there are more or less than seven Sacraments established by the Council. The Council said there were seven, so if you say there's six or eight, you're cursed. That means that if any Catholic in the world ever questions even today the Sacraments of Confirmation, Penance, Extreme Unction, mentioned, by the way, nowhere in Scripture, that person is cursed, subject to excommunication and in the Church's eyes, worthy of nothing but eternal damnation because they've called into question the Church's authority. One writer in that day said, "The Church is impudent enough to declare as fundamental its own hay and stubble." They must come from Scripture, these doctrines, and Scripture alone because the Scripture is able to make us wise unto salvation.
Secondly, they are set forth in Scripture clearly. This is that perspicuity issue. There's no secret knowledge. There's no hidden knowledge. There's nobody who just popped up and discovered the truth. There's no...and I hate this idea...key that unlocks the teaching of the Bible. You hear people talk like that all the time. This is the key to unlocking the Bible, like the Bible somehow is locked up on its own and it takes person to come along and figure out the key. The Bible was never aimed at intellectuals. That's comforting, isn't it? No, never. In fact, Matthew 11:25 Jesus said, "God hid these things from the wise and the intelligent, revealed in babes." And 1 Corinthians 1 says, "By the wisdom of the world, the world knew not God. Or, "God through the foolishness of preaching brought salvation." The Bible is not riddled with riddles. It is not cryptic or encoded or mysterious or secret. The testimony of the Lord is sure and makes wise the simplest. Every necessary article of doctrine essential for salvation is in the Scripture and is clear....clear.
Third thing to consider is you must believe what is biblical, what is clearly revealed in Scripture and what is fundamental to eternal life...what is fundamental to eternal life. Not everything in the Bible is fundamental to eternal life. What you might believe, for example, about sacrificial ceremonies in the Old Testament and what you might believe about modes of baptism or patterns of church polity, what you might choose to believe about the interpretation of a parable here or there, those things are not necessarily linked to eternal life. But those matters which are essential to eternal life, fundamental to eternal life must be believed. And there are a number of them that are very obvious to us. One of them, to start with is, salvation is by faith. Without faith it's impossible to please Him, he who comes to God must believe. Faith is essential to a right relationship to God. And as you follow the idea of faith throughout the New Testament, you find it's faith alone, not works, as we saw in our study this morning. We find that eternal life comes to those who believe. And what is it that they believe? They believe in the true knowledge of Jesus Christ. They believe that Jesus is the true God. They believe in His deity. They believe therefore that He is a part of the Godhead. They believe that He is equal to the Father. He Himself said, "All who honor Him, honor His father." You cannot honor Him and not His Father, they're one and the same. Truths then that relate to Jesus divine Sonship, truths that relate to His deity are essential. If you deny the deity of Christ, you can't be saved. That's the struggle I have constantly with the Mormons with whom I interact. They have the wrong Christ. And even though they feel sentimental toward Jesus and they say they love Jesus and they put their faith in Jesus, it's not the Jesus who is the true Son of God. And there are a lot of people who are praying prayers to Jesus and being told that if they just trust in Jesus He'll save them without ever knowing who He is or having any idea.
Even beyond that, to believe in His death as well as His sinless life. And to believe in His resurrection. The Apostle Paul says, "If you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God...what?...raised Him from the dead, you'll be saved." How can you leave that out? It's believing and only believing. He who believes, Romans 4, is justified by the One who justifies the ungodly. And I think, and I say this because against the backdrop of what's going on today, it probably needs to be said, you can't tamper with the doctrine of justification either because when I say I believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and I believe in Him as the One who saved me, as the One who redeemed me, as the One who paid the price for my sins, I am by that saying that I cannot establish my own righteousness and if I am to be righteous before God, it has to be a righteousness that God gives to me because of what Christ has done. You can't escape the great doctrine of imputed righteousness, the great doctrine of justification. Christ is the end of the Law for righteousness to everyone who believes. When we believe, the Law is no longer our hopeless path to righteousness, Christ is. The Jews going about to establish their own righteousness did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God and thus were apostate and doomed.
I think you must also believe in the doctrine of sin. Really, you know, because the Bible says this, if you say you have fellowship with Him and walk in darkness, you lie and do not the truth, 1 John 1. If you say you have no sin, you deceive yourself and the truth is not in us. If we say we haven't sinned, we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us. Deny your sin and you can't be saved. You must affirm your sinfulness. You must affirm your hopelessness to be saved by any merit of your own. You must affirm that Christ died in your place, redeemed you and only through Him can you be given righteousness from God. You must affirm that God was satisfied with His sacrifice by raising Him from the dead. So it goes.
Many deceivers are gone out into the world. And they always tamper with Christ and the gospel. These are fundamental. So the first thing that gives ground or foundation to our assurance is that we believe the truth concerning Christ. In fact, the fundamental doctrines of salvation are all summed up in the person and the work of Christ. All...the Trinity is there, His deity is there, His sinless life is there, His virgin birth is there, of course. If He wasn't born of a virgin, He would be just another human being. All of the elements of life of Christ, He is the foundation, that's why Paul says, "No other foundation can be laid than that which is laid which is Jesus Christ." Jesus Himself embodies and establishes every doctrine that is essential to salvation. You reject any of the doctrines concerning Christ, His nature or His work, you reject any of those that have to do with who He is and what He did, and you can't be saved. And if you are ignorant of those things, then you're not putting your trust in the person and work of Christ but in some illusion or misinformation about Him. It is Christ in whom we are justified. And that is why the Apostle Paul says, "I preach Christ, I preach Christ, I preach Christ, I preach Christ, I'm determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and particularly Him crucified...the cross, the cross, the cross, the cross and all that goes with it. His virgin birth, He is the sinless God. His deity, He is the Son of the Father. His humanity, fully human. His sinless life, His substitutionary death, His glorious resurrection, His ascension, His Second coming, everything concerning Christ." That is the objectivity of our faith.
So what you want to ask yourself if you're wondering whether you're a Christian is what do I believe objectively? And if you're saying to yourself, "Well I don't know if I buy all that." That's a good indication you're not a Christian. I would sum it up by saying this, a sure test of a true Christian is their response to Scripture, would you agree with that? A sure test of a true Christian is how they respond to Scripture. Unregenerate people do not have any response to Scripture. If they don't like what it says, they throw it away. They ignore it. And that's understandable because by nature they're at enmity against God and against His Son and against His truth and the natural man receives not the things of God, they're foolishness to Him. In fact, Jesus said to the Jews one day, "Because I tell you the truth, you don't believe Me." Then He went on to say, "He who is of God hears God's words." You don't hear God's words because you're not of God. So in general, all who hear the voice of Christ, John 10, are members of His flock. That's why Paul said to the Thessalonians, "For this reason we thank God unceasingly that when you received the Word of God which you heard from us, you welcomed it not as the word of men but as it is in truth the Word of God." The saved person has a heart that embraces the Word of God, embraces the truth. And what do we have today? This ridiculous idea that dogmatism is unchristian, that doctrine is unchristian. There is no Christianity without doctrine. When I hear people say that, I'm reminded of 1 John 4, "They are of the world, therefore they speak as of the world and the world hears them."
If you can find somebody whose message the world likes, it's because they're speaking of the world and from the world. He who knows God, writes John, hears us. He who is not of God does not hear us and that's how we know the difference between the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. The objective evidence that one is a Christian is one's response to Scripture. The true believer hears the words of God, embraces the truth, takes it in affirms it and particularly that saving truth concerning Jesus Christ. When the Spirit of Truth saves the sinner truly, He brings to that sinner an understanding of, a belief in and an embracing and total commitment not only to the true gospel, but to all the Word of God. And we understand the heart of David who says, "O how I love Your Law."
So that's where you start. We start with that objectivity. Assurance then first is a reckoning of what you believe and embrace from the Word of God. That's the objective. I have maybe five minutes, that's okay. I'm not going anywhere for a while. Let me talk about the subjective, okay? Let me just talk about the subjective. This is the work of the Spirit in the heart. This is again Romans 8:16, "The Spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are the children of God."
Listen, folks, you have not just been justified, it's not just a forensic declaration on the part of God. You have not just been granted righteousness from God's perspective in some legal way. There is another element to your salvation apart from justification and that is regeneration. You're different. You've been changed. And this is where the subjective aspect of it comes in. You have had your sin taken away. You have, according to Ezekiel chapter 36, been given a heart of flesh, the old heart is gone, the stony heart is gone and God has put His Spirit in you. You are, says Paul, the temple of the Holy Spirit. You have been circumcised not in a physical way. We are the true circumcision, says Paul in Philippians 3, who worship in the Spirit of God, glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh. All of a sudden instead of pandering to the flesh, we can't do enough to honor Christ. That's the subjective reality.
So you start with this matter of assurance by asking...what is it that I believe? Do I believe that which is necessary to save? And then you ask...and what do I desire? What is going on in my life? I am...am I seeing a transformation in my life because that's essential? That's essential. Hebrews 12:14 says, "Without sanctification, no one will see the Lord. Without holiness, no one will see the Lord." We've been changed.
Let's go back to Romans 6 again, that's the key passage. We looked at verse 17, let me just look at the subsequent words. "You have been transformed by having your heart moved to a form of teaching the truth of the Word of God which you are committed." Verse 18 then adds this, "And having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness." That's not hope, that's fact...that's fact. Back to verse 16, "You are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death or of obedience resulting in righteousness. But thanks be to God, though you were slaves of sin, you're not anymore." Verse 18, "You became slaves of righteousness." All of a sudden there's a new heart and a new desire and a new servitude. And that's why we always say sanctification is inseparable from justification. We remember when we went through 1 John the...really the whole epistle of 1 John describes for us this transformation. It says in verse 5 of chapter 3, "He appeared to take away sins and no one who abides in Him sins." You don't go on in the same unbroken pattern of sin. "The one who is righteous practices righteousness. The one who practices sin is of the devil. No one born of God practices sin. His seed is in him, he can't sin because he's born of God." It's not saying you never sin, it's saying that the pattern is different, it's not this unbroken pattern of sin, it's a new pattern of righteousness interrupted by our fallen flesh.
So I guess to just sum it up, and I wish we had time, we could take a lot more time, maybe I'll do that, developing the second point. But the issue here is you start with what you believe objectively and you move to what you love subjectively. People have said to me through the years, "Well, you're calling for perfection." No I'm not, I'm calling for direction and that's the issue. We're not talking about sinless perfection, we're talking about direction in the direction of righteousness our desires go, our heart goes, our love goes. And that...that takes us back to what we were saying earlier about Psalm 119, "O how I love Your Law, it's my delight, it's my delight." I read through Psalm 119 a couple of times recently and how frequently the Psalmist says he delights in it, he delights in it, he delights in it. And Paul in Romans 7 says, "He delights in the Law, even though he doesn't fulfill it perfectly because of his fallen flesh."
Assurance is your birthright. You should have it. You should love it. You should enjoy it. You should have two heavens, the heaven to come and the heaven now. And one of the reasons, you know, we would say, "Well heaven is so wonderful. Heaven is so wonderful. It's so glorious. It's so beyond imagination. Why don't we all just long to go there? Why aren't we all miserable here? Why aren't we just saying get me out, get me out, I want to get out of here, I want the heaven of heavens?" And I'll tell you why. The answer is because there's a heaven here. There's a heaven here for those who have assurance. It doesn't get any better than this in my experience. And you can tell me about something I've never experienced, but I will tell you this, I want to go to heaven and experience what I've never experienced but I'm very content to be experiencing the heaven I'm experiencing now. This is a heaven of assurance. This is a heaven of confidence. This is heaven of a solid hope. It's a heaven that I live in because I know what I believe to be the truth. And I know my heart loves and longs to live in that truth. And therein is the evidence that God has done His work in me. He transferred me from lies to the truth and from sin to righteousness.
Lord, as we think about these things, sometimes imagining there are complexities in these matters, we find it's pretty simple really, as it should be because we need it simple. We're so childish. It is a matter of what we believe and what we love, believing in the truth of Christ and loving righteousness. Therein lies our assurance. And may we rest in the objective and the subjective as our confidence knowing that there will be days when doubt will come because we're human and susceptible to temptation and we may doubt something we know to be true. And we sin and our conscience assaults us and calls into question our salvation. But give us strength to survive those moments and to rest in what we know to be true and what we know we love. Christ is true, His gospel is true and we love Your Law, O God, and long to live in righteousness. Therein is our heaven on earth. Give us the fullness of it, give everyone here the fullness of it until we come to the heaven of heavens and we'll thank You in Your Son's name. Amen.


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Rugby World Cup 2011
Horwill keen to focus on Wales
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October 17, 2011
James Horwill feels the strain during Monday's press conference in Auckland © Getty Images
James Horwill believes that the Wallabies have no other option but to move on after being comprehensively beaten by the All Blacks in their Rugby World Cup semi-final showdown in Auckland on Sunday.
The Aussies never looked remotely like denying their hosts a place in next weekend's tournament decider against France and managed just a penalty from James O'Connor and a Quade Cooper drop goal as they came out on the wrong side of a 20-6 scoreline, All Blacks centre Ma'a Nonu scoring the only try of a one-sided contest.
"It's still obviously bitterly disappointing that we didn't get the job done," Horwill said. "But that's sport, that's footy. We were beaten by a better side on the day and that's the reality of it."
The Wallabies would be forgiven for wanting to return home as soon as possible but Horwill is grateful for the fact that they have the opportunity to finish their campaign on a high when they take on Wales in the third-place play-off in Auckland on Friday night.
"I think it's a good thing that we're playing so soon because you can sit and dwell on these things now," he said. "But the fact that in four days' time we get the chance to pull on the jersey and finish this tournament off on a positive note is the thing that's going to drive us.
"A lot of work has gone into to getting to where we now. The whole group has put in a lot of effort and we want to finish this tournament on the right note and that's by finishing third."
Horwill admitted, though, that it will be difficult for him to raise spirits after the demoralising nature of their defeat by bitter rivals New Zealand.
"It's a difficult one. The boys were all visibly disappointed with the result," he said. "We came here to win this tournament and unfortunately that's not going to happen.
"But I was very proud of the guys throughout the tournament with the way they've carried themselves and the effort that's been put in by everyone, not just the players but by the management and all our support staff. "It's a big group here and we've spent a lot of time together..... but the reality is we've fallen one step short to a very good New Zealand side.
"The World Cup's a unique tournament. This is my first experience at it and it's certainly difficult to any rugby that I've played before and so that's probably the thing you learn from it.
"For a number of guys it was our first tournament. It's a different style of rugby and everything is amped up and I think we'll have to learn from this moving forward."
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Tucher, Jörg (16th century)
Jörg Tucher, an Anabaptist from Wissemburg(?), was arrested at Strasbourg together with Jakob Gross, Matthis (Matthias) Hiller, Wilhelm Echsel, and Jörg Ziegler. They were among the first Anabaptists in Strasbourg; in August or September 1526 they were probably all banished from the town.
Hulshof, Abr. Geschiedenis van de Doopsgezinden te Straatsburg. Amsterdam, 1905: 18-23.
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Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 4, p. 753. All rights reserved.
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Bobcats offer up a new season of possibilities
The Charlotte Bobcats open training camp next Tuesday, and this one ought to be different. Fans are interested and curious. They're prepared, I think, to believe.
The camp with be the 16th for Charlotte general manager Rich Cho, and he says he is as excited as he has ever been. This is a man who came up with the Seattle SuperSonics, which became the Oklahoma City Thunder.
The Bobcats have a new coach, Steve Clifford. But that's not news. It's news if they don't have a new coach.
For the first time they splurged on a free agent, 6-foot-10, 289-pound center Al Jefferson. Jefferson's moves are so old they're covered with dust. But when was the last time somebody stopped them?
The Bobcats have a rookie, Cody Zeller, 7 feet and athletic, whom they love. They expect fans to love him, too.
They spent money to retain Gerald Henderson, who continues to evolve as a shooting guard.
They have second-year player Jeff Taylor, the greatest player in Sweden.
They have Josh McRoberts, who was surprisingly effective after the Bobcats picked him up last season moments before the trade deadline. He's 6-10 and able and willing to pass, and he immediately made the Bobcats better.
Maybe Bismack Biyombo evolves into a defensive stopper with some semblance of an offense. Maybe guard Ben Gordon reappears in a new system with a new coach.
If point guard Kemba Walker improves as much between seasons two and three as he did between seasons one and two, what will he be?
"I'm sure he wants to be an All-Star," says Charlotte president of basketball operations Rod Higgins. "I'm sure he's thinking about how he can be a great player. But right now he's our great player."
If Michael Kidd-Gilchrist improves as much as Walker did after his rookie season the Bobcats will have a slashing, attacking and defending starter who is working to add a jump shot. Kidd-Gilchrist has been training with new assistant coach Mark Price, a legendary shooter as a point guard.
Somebody asks Higgins if he can think of a player who, after coming to the NBA, evolved into a shooter. Higgins talks about Karl Malone, the former Utah big man.
Why reach to Utah for an example? Bobcats' owner Michael Jordan was a mediocre shooter at North Carolina. He evolved into a good shooter as a pro.
"I'm not touching that one," says Higgins, pointing his long, former NBA arm, in my direction. "You said that."
The best team the Bobcats had was in 2009-10, when they made the playoffs. But they were swept by Orlando and they weren't going to get any better.
This team will. The starters are in their 20s – except for Kidd-Gilchrist, who will be Thursday.
I have no idea how good the Bobcats will be. Could they win half their games? Such a statement would have been inconceivable last season. Maybe it's inconceivable this season. But they're young and they're athletic and they're deeper than they have ever been. They should be interesting. They could be competitive.
"Sometimes the beauty is the uncertainty," Higgins says.
The certainty is that Charlotte offers possibilities.
"So let's lace them up and see how it goes," Higgins says.


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5 Horrific Serial/Spree Killers Who Are Free Right NowArticle Source: Cracked.com
Pedro Lopez
From: Colombia
Why You Don't Want to Meet Him:
Here's everything you need to know about South American serial killer Pedro Lopez: when he confessed his crimes to police, they refused to believe him. They listened to him tell his story, glanced at each other and said, "Oh, bullshit. Get outta here."
Then, a flash flood uncovered a grave containing Lopez's victims. A mass grave.
Lopez had killed over 300 girls in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador. Authorities put him in prison in Ecuador and then explored ways to attach the entire prison to a rocket and fire it into the sun.
Why You Might Meet Him Anyway:
It turns out Ecuador has no death penalty, so Pedro, who has served the maximum sentence of 20 years, was secretly released in Colombia in 1999. So he served about three weeks for each person he killed. That seems fair.
So Where Is He Now?
Two possibilities. He can be in Ecuador, the place where he killed the most victims (an average of three per week). In his own words: "I like the girls in Ecuador, they are more gentle and trusting, more innocent".
But, seeing as he is pursued by InterPol over a recent 2002 murder, there is one more possibility. A country where Latino immigrants have been making their way for years, a place where a such a man can basically disappear among his own people, and find employment. We're not going to come out and say that Pedro Lopez is hiding out in America, or that he could be doing work around your neighborhood at this very moment. But he totally might.
Issei Sagawa
From: Japan
Why You Don't Want to Meet Him:
Issei Sagawa was a student of avant garde literature at the Sorbonne Academy in Paris in the early 80s. In 1981, he invited a Dutch student, Renee Hartevelt, into his apartment for a little "private poetry reading," if you catch our drift. And by that we mean he shot her and ate her body.
Why You Might Meet Him Anyway:
After the courts declared him insane (no surprise, as the actual details of what happened are far more gruesome than what we relayed up there), he was placed in a French asylum.
However, Sagawa's wealthy father arranged for him to be transferred into a Japanese institution, which, due to some paperwork trouble and lack of cooperation between Japan and France, Sagawa left after only 15 months. With a few pieces of Hartevelt still between his teeth, he became a free man.
So Where Is He Now?
Living in some isolated mansion deep in the woods which he leaves at various nights to feast on the local women? Not exactly. Sagawa is living a perfectly open and public life in jolly old Tokyo, enjoying the status of a celebrity.
He is often a guest speaker at various public events and talk shows, openly talking in graphic detail about his experience with eating a human. Surprisingly, he says it taste like tuna. He also has starred in movies, written two books (one basically a step-by-step re-enactment of his 1981 dinner) and even inspired the Rolling Stones's song, "Too Much Blood."
Now he gives TV interviews casually mentioning how he'd like to eat another girl some day.
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Earlier tonight I was working on a spreadsheet with thousands of rows and over a dozen columns so I kept forgetting which column was which when working down inside the spreadsheet. I knew there was a way to have a a single row or multiple rows always display at the top of the spreadsheet but was not sure exactly how and I was unable to find the option in the Google Docs Spreadsheet drop downs. I finally figured out how to have a set number of rows always display at the top of a Google Spreadsheet and have shared the information below.


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Vegetarian: Baked Orzo with Chard, Feta and Dill
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A baked pasta dish such as lasagna or ziti is often one of the highlights of a vegetarian diet: they're hearty, filling, and, importantly, also crowd-pleasers, sure to delight your omnivore friends when you invite them over for dinner. Besides being great vehicles for cheeses like ricotta and mozzarella, they also accommodate nearly any veggie you would want to mix in.
But here's the thing about those pasta dishes: sometimes they can be unnecessarily heavy. That's why recently when a friend served me baked orzo with plenty of sautéed vegetables (but just a little bit of cheese) folded in, I was intrigued: the dish was full of flavor and texture without being overly rich.
I got to thinking about the possibilities of baked orzo, which uses raw pasta and liquid and is baked, covered, in the oven until the orzo becomes tender. The version I'm sharing here takes a Mediterranean approach, using canned tomatoes, tender dark greens, and creamy feta cheese. The recipe comes together in minutes: after sautéeing the vegetables, you add the tomatoes and orzo, stir in the cheese and a big handful of fresh, fragrant dill, and then into the oven it goes. Forty minutes later, you've got yourself a big, satisfying dish of pasta that's soft underneath and just a little crispy on top.
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Golden State Warriors (13 - 19) @ Miami Heat (25 - 9)
Start time: 4:30 PM PST @ The AmericanAirlines Arena
Local TV: CSN Bay Area
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors:
C - Louis Amundson
PF - David Lee
SF - Dorell Wright
SG - Monta Ellis
PG - Stephen Curry
Probable starters for the Miami Heat:
C - Zydrunas Ilgauskas
PF - Chris Bosh
SF - LeBron James
SG - Dwyane Wade
PG - Carlos Arroyo
Team leaders:
PPG - M. Ellis (25.5) | D. Wade (24.5)
RPG - D. Lee (10.1) | U. Haslem (8.2)
APG - S. Curry (6.2) | L. James (7.3)
SPG - M. Ellis (2.4) | D. Wade (1.5)
BPG - E. Udoh (1.3) | J. Anthony (1.4)
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As much as I hope we win by 50. My gut feeling is we lose, or we win by less than 6.
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I saw the first half... even though we were up, i knew we were losing it... too much irregularity by the officials convinced me the heat were winning.... didn't see the second half. HOWEVER, 47 freethrow attempts for the heat, versus 16 for the Warriors.... just ridicules
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It was a good game... to bad we couldn't hold on. If we had a stronger bench this is ours.... but there wasn't anyone who could come off the bench and handle the presure defense the heat were using. Or even if we can get a low post player, this is where Udoh, if he can develop, will help us out. Also return of Beans would be nice.
great game by warriors killed by referees letting heat play defense and not letting warriors do the same. nothing new. good defense is only good if referees let you play fouling, hacking and so on. some teams can do that, others not. for this alone i hate defense. since it's not a talent or a skill, but a bully raping the fairy. bully wins in the end, but the ugliness of it makes me wanna puke. i just wished that smart didn't want to play the lead, but keep on running the bully throat with beautiful virages of a dancer. oh, wait, the dancer was smashed down to the floor and we had not enough of shoes to fly as long as we wanted. hated this crap.
my reaction to one simple stat:
lbj/wade 33 FTA, warriors 16 FTA.
my reaction to one simple stat:
lbj/wade 33 FTA, warriors 16 FTA.
It was a combination of the light switch flipping for Miami, being at home, and the refs giving them a lot of the calls in the 3rd to get back in the game. You could see it coming. Hard to fault the Warriors too much. I know we're not going to shoot a lot of FT's because we're an outside shooting team, but last night was ridiculous.
the season stat for free throws is miami 29 to warriors 21. wade/bron got 33 alone (4 over the TEAM average) and warriors got 16 (5 less than average). you bet when the team is behind and plays hard defense, they must commint fouls, it's like dunks if you play fast break basketball - you can't go naked into water and not get wet. and this really kills team spirit and especially a thin team like ours that rely on skill and creativity plus speed. you hold, you grab, you smack and all of that becomes nonexistent. also, see that lee fall after anthony foul, do warriors need more injuries? ellis falls no call, so why would he risk driving more? i bet these smaller players not getting fouls makes them injuryfobic and forces them to rely on jumpshots, which are hard to get off if you're being hacked and held in so called defense. of course if we had one barkley type bully we might have had a chance or a dignity meter rise up by knocking miami's primadonas down, but that would make us the same ugly **** (as them) with couple of ejections.
I swear, I wanted to wretch in the second half. I don't think I've felt that angry for a while now.


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Bernhard Langer took a three-shot lead in the Senior British Open after shooting a 2-under 69 in the third round at Carnoustie on Saturday.
The German has yet to win on the Champions Tour, but is in position to change that after outplaying his nearest rival, Corey Pavin. The pair set out as co-leaders at 4 under, but three bogeys dropped the U.S. Ryder Cup team captain to a 1-over 72.
Despite his lead, Langer was wary of Carnoustie's fearsome reputation.
"I am aware that this golf course is one of the toughest links you will ever play," he said. "And I am aware that a three-shot lead is nothing if very little around here. I am going to have to play very solidly again in the final round if I am going to lift the trophy."
Langer's lead would have been even greater, but he drove into a bunker on the final hole and was forced to lay up short of the infamous Barry Burn with his recovery shot. He then hit a wedge to five feet, but missed the putt to save his par and had to settle for the three-shot lead with a 6-under 207.
After his round, Langer said he wished he had used a different club off the 18th tee to take the bunker out of play.
"I hit a 3-wood," he said. "But my caddie and I also discussed hitting one less -- a hybrid. I should have listened but I am a stubborn German."
Despite falling out of the lead, Pavin was upbeat about his performance.
"I played fairly well, and a lot of putts just missed. Sometimes you have days like that," Pavin said. "Bernhard played really solidly and I can't really expect him to come back and then again I can't be aggressive on Carnoustie and try to kill it, because it will kill you if you try to do that."
A group of six players go into the final round at 2 under, one shot behind Pavin and four off the lead. Five of them are Americans, reflecting three days of domination at the top of the leaderboard.
Joining Larry Mize, Jay Haas, Russ Cochran, Jay Don Blake and Fred Funk is Welshman Ian Woosnam. Funk climbed more than 15 places after a bogey-free 4-under 67, the lowest round of the day.


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The Governor of each State in Region 5 is requested to designate a lead agency that will direct State-led response operations. This agency is responsible for leading State response actions and coordinating/communicating with any other State agencies as appropriate (NCP 300.180). Each Governor will also designate a representative for the State on the RRT5. Each State representative may participate fully in all activities of the RRT5. The State RRT5 representatives are expected to coordinate with the State Emergency Response Commission (SERC) or State Emergency Response Board (SERB) in their States in order to communicate and coordinate preparedness and pre-response planning activities between the State and the RRT5. State and local government agencies are encouraged to coordinate with:
Section 311(j)(4) of CWA calls for inclusion of local, Tribal, and State representatives on the Area Committee. In US EPA Region 5, this has been partially accomplished through the designation of the RRT5 as the Area Committee.
Each State in Region 5 has a State disaster plan and laws that specify that State's authority and organization for a technical response to environmental emergencies. All States can provide technical expertise to assess environmental and public health threats and damage, as well as to advise local responders. In specific circumstances, States may provide additional response capabilities in the form of contractors and funding.
The following are summaries of emergency preparedness measures for lead agencies in each of the States in Region 5.
The Illinois 24-hour spill notification number is to the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA), 217-782-7860 (800-782-7860 in Illinois). The phone number during office hours is 217-782-7860. After office hours, call IEMA to speak with the Duty Officer.
The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) provides the designated RRT5 member for Illinois. To prevent and abate environmental pollution, IEPA has various responsibilities for responding to environmental emergencies within the State or its adjoining waters. IEPA is the State's lead agency for developing plans and coordinating action before, during, and after certain emergency situations, including:
Within IEPA, the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Office of Chemical Safety is responsible for coordinating the agency's response and ensuring appropriate cleanup of any subsequent environmental contamination. ERU collects information about environmental emergencies and responds directly and/or notifies other divisions within IEPA of needed action. Technical expertise is provided to first responders and public officials, addressing such issues as:
Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA): Serves as coordination and communications center for Illinois State agencies and is in overall command of emergency government efforts during major multijurisdictional disaster responses. IEMA is also the SERC, designated pursuant to SARA Title III.
IEMA Division of Nuclear Safety : Responds to incidents involving radioactivity, whether in transport or at nuclear power plants or other facilities.
IDNR Office of Mines and Minerals : Carries out initial investigation of incidents involving crude oil and natural gas production sites, unless waters of the state are being impacted (in which case the role is assumed by IEPA).
Illinois State Fire Marshall : Responds to incidents involving underground storage tanks (USTs); this responsibility is shared with IEPA. Has the authority to require equipment inspection and testing.
Illinois Commerce Commission: Investigates incidents involving railroad transport, has authority over the use, movement, and compliance of railroad equipment with U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) regulations.
Illinois State Police: Responds to transportation incidents involving DOT Hazardous Materials, responsible for enforcement of DOT shipping regulations, traffic control, and security.
Illinois Department of Natural Resources: Responsible for assessment of natural resource damage in incidents involving serious environmental injury, such as fish kills and oiled waterfowl.
Other agencies serve a secondary role and provide technical support and resources as needed. However, they do not generally maintain an emergency response capability for on-scene response. These agencies include the Departments of Agriculture, Public Health, and Energy and Natural Resources; the Office of the Attorney General; and other human service agencies that might be involved with evacuees, should a prolonged incident occur requiring relocation of the general public.
Spills can be reported to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) 24 hours a day at 888-233-7745.
Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) provides the designated member of the RRT5 for Indiana and is the lead agency for the State in addressing spills, providing a 24-hour response capability. IDEM must provide technical assistance to the responsible party and the responding personnel and ensure compliance with Indiana spill regulations and other pertinent State and Federal rules and regulations.
Technical assistance can take the following forms:
For large spills, or where the spiller fails to respond adequately, IDEM staff responds onsite to assist in the response effort, assuming the role of State OSC if necessary.
During a response, staff of the Emergency Response Section (ERS) of IDEM assume the role of technical advisers and provide on-scene assistance to the responsible party, and to individuals or agencies involved in the response. On occasion, ERS staff have assumed a role that would appropriately be called OSC. However, if a structure (e.g., ICS) that exists within a local or County jurisdiction provides an OSC and that OSC is being utilized, ERS staff will provide assistance to that OSC.
Once the immediate threat to public health and the environment has been dealt with, the incident is further stabilized and cleaned up under ERS supervision. Rule 327 IAC 26.1, Spills: Reporting, Containment, and Response, requires that the spiller report to IDEM and perform a spill response. A spill response means that a spill is contained and free material is removed or neutralized. Disposal of recovered material that is classified as waste is referred by ERS staff to appropriate personnel in the Office of Solid and Hazardous Waste Management. ERS staff may then conduct a follow-up investigation to ensure that material has been disposed of properly and the cleanup is acceptable.
The role of liaison between a spiller and the different program areas of IDEM is perhaps the greatest benefit that ERS can provide to those involved in a spill. This role can also extend to other State agencies and other response organizations. State agencies:
Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS): IDHS is the lead planning agency for coordinating man-made and natural disasters. IDHS also provides an alternate member for the RRT5.
Office of the State Fire Marshal (OSFM): OSFM responds to fire and explosion hazards from hazardous materials incidents.
Office of the Indiana State Chemist (OISC): OISC provides technical guidance regarding agricultural chemical incidents including fertilizers and pesticides. It also conducts investigations of improper application of regulated agricultural chemicals.
Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR): DNR Conservation Officers conduct investigations to assess damages to natural resources, such as fish kills.
DNR, Oil and Gas Division (O & G): DNR O & G regulates oil production facilities, including operation, maintenance, construction and abandonment of oil wells and associated equipment.
Indiana State Police (ISP): ISP investigates transportation incidents involving DOT hazardous materials, enforces DOT shipping regulations, and provides traffic control and site security.
Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH): ISDH is the lead agency for releases of radiological and etiological materials. It also provides technical guidance to IDEM regarding health issues and advisories.
Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT): INDOT usually provides traffic control for major transportation incidents involving releases of petroleum and hazardous materials. ERS also coordinates with other program areas within IDEM, as well as local response agencies such as fire departments, hazardous materials teams, sheriffs' departments, local emergency planning committees (LEPCs), emergency management agencies, county health departments, and county highway departments.
Spill emergencies can be reported to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Pollution Emergency Alerting System. 24-hour in-state number: 800-292-4706. Alternate/out-of-state number: 517-373-7660
Michigan's representation on RRT5 comes from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) . MDEQ is the primary environmental emergency response agency in the State in all non-agricultural-related spills. Recent legislation has designated the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) as the primary response organization, in close association with MDEQ, in spills involving agricultural chemicals.
Staff of MDEQ can be notified of oil and hazardous materials incidents via the Pollution Emergency Alert System (PEAS) at (800) 292-4706 (in-state) or (517) 373-7660.
MDEQ has approximately 19 full-time equivalent field positions available to respond to complaints and environmental emergencies. Most of these positions are located in the nine Field Operations Districts operated by MDEQ, which are situated throughout the State. The primary response role of MDEQ is one of technical advisor. These personnel are responsible for complaint investigation and emergency spill response and generally oversee the environmental aspects of spill containment, control, and mitigation. Appropriately trained staff within MDEQ can provide hands-on response with absorbents and skirt boom if the situation requires this type of response. It is anticipated, however, that all "first responder" response will be conducted by local units of government and the various Hazardous Material Response Teams located throughout the State, although predominantly in the lower third of the peninsula.
Environmental mitigation associated with material spills will generally be conducted by the RP. If the RP cannot be identified or is reluctant to adequately address mitigation needs, the State can hire contractors to perform the mitigation. A limited amount of money is available through funds administered by the MDEQ Environmental Response Division. The State can also access the Federal fund administered under ERT in accordance with Federal guidelines and regulations.
Michigan has a responder immunity act.
MDEQ, in conjunction with the Department of Attorney General, is the designated Natural Resources Trustee for the State.
Michigan State Police (MSP): The MSP Emergency Management Division (EMD) serves as the designated emergency/disaster response coordination agency for the State and as the primary State contact point in the event of a declared disaster resulting in the activation of the State Emergency Management Plan.
Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA): MDA is the lead agency in spill responses involving agricultural chemicals and/or fertilizers.
Michigan Emergency Response Commission (MERC): MERC is the primary coordination agency and liaison with the local Emergency Planning Commissions throughout the state. MERC is co-chaired by MSP-EMD and MDEQ.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR): MDNR is the lead agency for the State in decisions involving fish and wildlife issues during a spill response working cooperatively with the MDEQ State OSC.
Spills can be reported to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) 24 hours a day at 800-422-0798. Alternate contact number during business hours: 651-296-6300. Spills can also be reported to the Minnesota Duty Officer at 651-649-5451.
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) provides the designated member of RRT5 for Minnesota. MPCA is the primary State responder to spills and other emergencies involving hazardous materials (with the exception of incidents involving pesticides and fertilizers, which are under the jurisdiction of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture). All of the following information describing State emergency response therefore assumes MPCA actions for general hazardous materials incidents, but applies to the Department of Agriculture for all pesticide and fertilizer incidents. The State Department of Public Safety Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management has 11 local hazardous materials teams under state contract to provide for chemical assessment and mitigation when requested by a local incident commander.
MPCA's Emergency Response Team (ERT) includes 12 full-time ERT members whose primary duty is to monitor the cleanup of spills and other emergency situations that pollute or threaten to pollute surface or ground water. By default, they also respond to reports of other environmental emergencies (e.g., air releases, illegal hazardous waste disposal, tire dump fires). In addition to receiving release reports, the ERT may perform field inspections at spill sites, provide technical assistance to responsible parties, or carry out enforcement actions for violation of State laws and rules.
If necessary, ERT staff will proceed to the site to provide coordination and assistance in handling the emergency. This may include taking charge of the response if the responsible party is unknown or unavailable. In situations where public safety is the primary consideration, the ERT member does not take charge of the incident, but assists the fire chief or other public safety officials at the scene. This assistance may include emergency waiver or suspension of State laws and rules (e.g., allowing emergency wastewater discharges or burning of a spilled product in order to minimize overall environmental damage). The assistance may also include activation of contractors using State funds.
Minnesota Statute Chapter 115E requires companies handling oil and hazardous substances to act to prevent releases and to be prepared for releases they may have. Chapter 115E requirements are similar to OPA but cover protection of the public's safety and the environment, and pollution of the land, air, and waters of the State. A facility operator is to notify the Department of Public Safety when their plan is completed, and must supply a copy upon request. ERT staff actively inspect the prevention capabilities and preparedness of major facilities and will assist facility owners if requested. They conduct enforcement if the preparedness of a facility is found to be inadequate, especially if it contributed to a release or poor response.
Both Minnesota Statute Chapter 115E and State Superfund Chapter 115B contain language providing immunity to those responding to oil or hazardous substance discharges.
Minnesota Department of Public Safety: Operates the 24-hour-per-day Duty Officer System to take incident reports for all State agencies.
Minnesota Homeland Security and Emergency Management (HSEM):: HSEM coordinates the actions of State agencies, including MPCA, Natural Resources, Transportation, Public Safety, and Health. HSEM conducts training for State and local responders, and reviews county emergency plans. HSEM conducts the Right-to-Know programs in the State.
Spills in Ohio can be reported to the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency at 800-282-9378.
The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA) is the designated representative of RRT5 for Ohio. OEPA is also the State agency charged with investigating releases of oil and hazardous substances from both fixed and mobile facilities. Ohio's spill response program is housed in the Emergency Response Unit (ERU), which is a part of the Division of Emergency and Remedial Response. This unit, which is responsible for receiving reports of releases to all environmental media, uses 15 spill responders to aid in chemical identification, containment, cleanup, public safety, and the identification of responsible parties. If a responsible party cannot be identified or is recalcitrant, the ERU can activate a level-of-effort contractor to initiate actions to contain or clean up the spill. Spills can be reported 24-hours-a-day at 800-282-9378. Ohio has enacted no laws specifically related to responder immunity in environmental emergencies but it has enacted both a Good Samaritan Statute and a "General Duty Clause" that applies to State employees.
Several different State agencies have areas of expertise to contribute during a spill, and in the case of such an event, operate under a cooperative agreement that outlines the activities of the signatory agencies when a spill occurs. These agencies are:
Spills can be reported to the Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) 24-hour emergency hotline at 1-800-943-0003.
The primary agency representative to the RRT5 for Wisconsin is theWisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) with alternate representation from Wisconsin Emergency Management (WEM) . WDNR is responsible for developing and updating a State Contingency Plan addressing spill response. The agency is responsible for
WEM administers the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA) in the State, and also administers eight Level A Regional Hazardous Materials Response Teams. This agency also coordinates resources for overall emergency management and provides hazardous materials training classes for all levels of responders. WEM operates a 24-hour emergency hotline that has a voice prompt directing spill calls to WDNR. WEM also serves as the lead State agency for consequence management of terrorism events.
Department of Health and Family Services (DHFS): DHFS is responsible for monitoring the effects of chemical spills on public health and for providing assistance to local public health authorities.
Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP): DATCP responds to spills of agrichemicals and coordinates with WDNR on remediation issues.
Wisconsin State Patrol (WSP): WSP enforces State hazardous materials transportation regulations and can be involved in the initial response to transportation-related spills.