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Father, as we approach Your Word, we are humbled, we feel less than adequate to deal with these grandiose and glorious truths that are beyond us. We are reminded that the secret things belong to the Lord. We are reminded that Your ways are higher than our ways. That we cannot understand all things. And yet, Father, we ask that the Spirit of God would give us a measure of understanding for the deep things of the Word, as we look at them this morning. And that it might be the voice of God that speaks and the power of the Spirit of God who delineates and applies the truth. To that end we seek Thee in this time, in Christ's name. Amen.
We're looking at Ephesians 1, Ephesians chapter 1, in our study this morning. We're not going to consider a lengthy passage but a brief one, but the depth of the passage demands that we dig in and I hope you have your thinking cap on, you're not going to be able to operate on half of your cylinders this morning, you're going to have to function on all of them because of the depth of what we want to say out of the Word of God.
We're looking at verses 4 through 6a of Ephesians 1 and I'll read them just to give you a setting for your thoughts:
"According as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before Him, in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will to the praise of the glory of His grace." And we'll stop right there.
Now this is the third in our series looking at the book of Ephesians as we go through the book and I would just remind you that we have already emphasized the fact that Christians have a common source of life, a common kind of life and a common destiny. We all came in through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. We all possess the same divine nature, partaking of that divine nature, as Peter says. We all are moving to the same ultimate destiny - the kingdom of God and glory in heaven forever with Christ. So there is a tremendous, basic life unity among believers. We've all been saved the same way for the same destiny and are carried to that destiny by the maintenance of the same common, eternal life. So we are one in a marvelous and unique way. And the message of the book of Ephesians is that we are one in Christ, that's the overriding message. The ramifications of that are discussed in all the chapters of this book. We are one body in Christ. In fact, he calls us a bride, he calls us a building, but singularly he calls us here does the Apostle Paul, the body of Christ to emphasize our unity. As a body is one body responding to one head, so the church is to be one in response to the Lord Jesus Christ.
There is a unity in the church that is more than just the unity of a common agreement on a philosophy or religion; it is the unity of commonness in life, the common eternal life of God pulses through the soul of every believer. And we are tied together. I Cor. 6:17; "He that is joined to the Lord has one Spirit; therefore all that are joined to the Lord are one Spirit with one another." The emphasis of Ephesians, then, is that we are a body.
Now in the theology of the body, which is basically what Paul deals with in the first three chapters of Ephesians. The practice of the body in the last three. But in the theology of the body Paul begins by taking us into eternity past to see how God designed it. This is like looking at the blueprint.' Into eternity we go, we find God the Father, God the Son, God the Spirit, all three mentioned in the first great paean and praise that runs through verse 14, all having their part in the master-planning of the body of Christ. And we have seen at least initially, last time, how we are part of that marvelous body.
Look with me for just a moment at chapter 4 verse 13 because of all the verses we discussed last time about the concept of the body, this sums up its definition perhaps best. Verse 12 ends with the term - the body of Christ. The body of Christ, that is the intention of the book of Ephesians to instruct in the area of the body of Christ. Further it says in 13 the body of Christ can be seen in this manner, really, "Till we all come in the unity of the faith," that is there's a basic unity not in faith but in the faith, the content of the gospel, there's a basic unity, "And of the knowledge of the Son of God." We all come in through the same basic content, we all come in to the knowledge of the same person, the Son of God, but we are moving to a perfect man to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Now I want you to note something. God's purpose for the body is that it would manifest uniformly, totally, completely, corporately Jesus Christ. That's the intention. We are, as a body, to manifest Christ in the world. I call the incarnation - Body I, and the church Body II. God manifest in the flesh in Jesus Christ, God manifest in the flesh through His church. We are Christ in the world. We are to manifest Christ. We are corporately to give testimony to Jesus Christ. And he problem with that, of course, is that if any of us fails then the corporate testimony is hindered. When someone doesn't function in the area of his spiritual giftedness, when someone doesn't follow through on the responsibilities of fellowship, such as the responsibility to love one another, comfort one another, pray for one another, edify one another, rebuke one another, reprove one another, etc. When we don't do those kinds of things we cripple the body, consequently the manifestation of Christ is untrue and the world does not evaluate properly Christianity. All it takes is one person's testimony to undercut the credibility of the entire congregation. You see, it is essential that we understand, beloved, that we are one in Christ. And as we understand the theology of it in the first three chapters, we can then move to the practice of it in the last three. But the foundation is here in these first three chapters. This is the rock bed understanding of our union in the church. Really important. I mean, it's more than just coming in and just sitting here and staring at the back of somebody's head and leaving. We are involved in a manifestation of Jesus Christ, individually and corporately.
For example, all the gifts that are listed in I Corinthians 12 and Romans 12 were true of Jesus Christ in His ministry. So that what you have in those spiritual gifts is the remanifestation of Christ in the corporate church. We are to be one in Him. It says in 4:13 "Until we come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ," the world should see Jesus Christ in us composite Christlikeness.
Now this tremendous master-plan, this tremendous concept by God, this great plan Paul says, was begun in eternity past. Before time, before creation, before anybody existed. In the free and independent and sovereign will of God He set the plan in motion, a body was formed in eternity past. That's the message of chapter 1 verses 3 to 14. I want you to look at it with me. Chapter 1 verses 3 to 14. Now we're just taking 4 through 6a because that's where we've begun, 4 through 6a.
After a brief introduction in the first two verses in which Paul introduces himself and greets them in the common greeting - grace and peace - he then launches into that great doxology in verse 3; "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ." It's just a doxology and really he can't help but praise God because of what he's about to say. You see, it's literally a knockout to Paul that God has designed this entire thing before the world began and he's a part of it. I mean, I know how I feel when I think somebody likes me. I know how I feel when I know somebody loves me. But to imagine that the eternal God of the universe designed me into a plan before time began is an overwhelming thought. A plan that would ultimately culminate in me living with Him in His house forever. Incredible thought.
Listen, being a Christian is a super thing. God designed it before the world began. And once Paul gets this doxology rolling in verse 3 he can't stop and he rolls right on and never puts a period in the Greek sentence until the end of verse 14, 202 words in a row without a period. He just rolls just like a snowball going downhill and it just picks up more glistening glory as it goes. As he thinks about this master-plan in eternity.
Now, just a little footnote, there are three elements to the plan, he's looking at the past, we'll see the present tense when we get into chapter 2 of how that plan works out in here and now, but we're in eternity past, but even then there are three elements to the master-plan.
First element is what you would call election, from verses 4 to 6. The second element is what we call redemption, from verses 6 to 11. And the third one - inheritance, verses 12 to 14. We find election in verse 4 - He's chosen. We find redemption in verse 7 - we have redemption. We find inheritance in verse 14 - the earnest of our inheritance. We also find it in verse 11.
So we find, then, that there are three phases to this master-plan. There's God's election. There is the working out of redemption which results in this incredible inheritance. That's God's master-plan.
Now I want us to look at just the first section, the section built around the concept of election, this morning. Now I realize the doctrine of election is a doctrine that is hard to be understood. And we must remember Deuteronomy 29:29 - "The secret things belong to the Lord." And Isaiah says - "That His ways are higher than our ways." We have to rest in that. Because we're not going to be able to understand this. Now I don't want you to get your head scrambled, I just want you to stay with the biblical text. Okay? Here we go.
Seven elements are here indicated in this concept of election. It has seven aspects or elements. The first one is the method, the method of election which I call sovereign selection - sovereign selection. That is the method. God had a method by which He chose, sovereign selection, verse 4; "According," and the according links up with the praise of verse 3 - the reason He is praising God in verse 3 is because God is the one who did this, "As He hath chosen." He hath chosen. Now there you are introduced to the method by which God formed His body in eternity past. Simple, independent, unaffected, sovereign choice God simply chose. By sovereign will, by sovereign decree He chose those who were to be the members of His body totally apart from the will of any man, totally apart from any human consideration and purely on the basis of His own will. Notice at the end of verse 5, according again to the good pleasure of what? His will. His will. Verse 9; "According to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in Himself." Verse 11; "According to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the council of His own will." Now you get the message. Right? God freely, independently, unaffected by any human work, or any human choice, chose us to be included in His body.
Just to reiterate the emphasis here, look with me at the first chapter of the gospel of John and verse 11, John's gospel, chapter 1 verse 11. And you remember that this great statement was said in reference to the rejection of Israel of their Messiah, verse 11: "He came unto His own and," what? "His own received Him not." He came unto His own things and His own people received Him not. But in spite of the majority there was the minority. "As many as received Him to them He gave power to become the children of God even to them that believe on His name." And there's the human part of it. Faith, believing. But look at 13; "Who were born," born-again, "Not of blood," that is you're not a Christian because you're born into the Jewish race. Right? Not of blood, you can't inherit it. "Nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man but," what? "Of God." See, salvation is of God. And as many as received - received because they believed, because the will of God, in fact, infected their depravity with faith. It even says in Ephesians 2:8 and 9; "For by grace are you saved through faith, that not of yourselves." That even is a gift of God. Saving faith.
And so it is that God chooses, not according to human will but according to His own will. The word eklego in verse 4 means to pick out for Himself, it's reflexive. God chose for Himself those who would be a part of His family.
In II Timothy 1:9, it says; "God who hath saved us, called us with a holy calling not according to our works but according to His own purpose and grace," listen to this, "Which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began." Literally incredible. You and I who are a part of the body of Jesus Christ, who know and love the Lord Jesus Christ, who are in His church, who have been saved, been born again, are simply responding to the divine decree of the eternal God made before the world began. Nobody's a Johnny-come-lately in the body of Christ. Everybody was master-planned in because there is a vital area of responsibility that no one else can fulfill and because there is a unique purpose which God has designed in His own love to place upon you, some special and eternal blessing.
Now it's all of God. If we had anything to do with it, then verse 3 would say - Blessed be us. Blessed be us. But we don't. Our praise is to God because He's done it all.
Now some people will always say - Well, John, I don't believe in that election stuff. I believe that everybody chooses. Well, the Bible teaches that too. Jesus said, "You will not come unto Me that you might have life." Isaiah said, "Come - Come and buy - Come and drink." Revelation 22 Jesus says, "Come, whosoever will let him come." Romans chapter 10 says, "Whosoever believes on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Whosoever everywhere in the Bible. You say - But how can you have God choosing and a bunch of whosoevers? I don't know. I have no idea how you can have them but you have to have them because they're both in the Bible. And you let God resolve the problem. But I'll tell you one thing, I don't care what your theological background is - you believe in the sovereignty of God if you're a Christian I'll prove it to you. You say - Oh no I don't. Yeah you do. It's easy to prove. Are you ready for this? Do you pray? You say - Yes I pray. Every day. To whom do you pray? God. Why? Well, because God is the source of all good things. See, you believe in the sovereignty of God. Every --- how many? --every good and perfect gift--how many?--every... comes down from whom? The Father of lights in whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning - all of it comes from Him. And you seek Him for it. And in prayer you're asking for things and you're giving thanks for things - why? Because you recognize that God is the source of all these things. 'You see, prayer for the Christian is not an attempt to con God, it's not to try to force God's hand, it is a humble acknowledgement of dependence on His sovereign will. We pray for somebody who is ill and invariably say - Lord, we'd like so-and-so to be made well, but Your will be done. We acknowledge He is sovereign. We even were told by Jesus to say this: "Give us this day our" what? "Our daily bread," is even dependent on His sovereignty.
Now if God is sovereign in all things in our lives then God is no less sovereign in salvation. And I'll show you two other reasons why I think everybody believes in God's sovereignty. Number one reason is that you thank God for your salvation. Right? You don't go to God and say - God, I hope you appreciate the intellect that I have. I hope You realize that of all the options - I have chosen You. You don't say that to God. That's ridiculous. You didn't save yourself. When you talk to God about your salvation you thank Him, don't you? Because you know it was Him.
I'll tell you another way to look at it. When you love somebody that's not a Christian, and you've presented Christ to them what do you do? What do you do for that person? You pray for them, don't you? You pray ... why do you pray for them? Because you know that the source of salvation is whom? Is God. By virtue of prayer in general, by virtue of thanking God for your salvation, by virtue of praying for someone else's salvation you are constantly acknowledging who is sovereign, you see. You see, you really believe in the sovereignty of God, you just don't know that you do.
J.I. Packer in his book, EVANGELISM AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD says this, listen carefully to this: "What is true is that all Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware they do. And mistakenly imagine and insist that they reject it." What causes this odd state of affair? This is what he says; "The root cause is the same as in most cases of error in the church, the intrusion of rationalistic speculation, the passion for systematic consistency, a reluctance to recognize the existence of mystery and let God be wiser than men and a consequent subjecting of Scripture to the supposed demands of human logic." end quote. Boy, that's so good.
What he's saying is - we can't stand tension. We can't stand a paradox. We can't stand the antimony. We can't say the Bible teaches sovereignty and it also teaches choice, I can't handle it. So our perverse mind says - we must be like God, so we harmonize in the middle and destroy both. We're really dealing with depravity. And what happens is that you get people who want to systematize the Bible and they systematize it so it all fits together and what just fits beautifully into their system, and if it doesn't fit the way they want they explain it a new way and they remove all the mystery and God is no longer really mysterious in the Word of God, they've reduced it all to a system and in so doing they've eliminated much of its truth.
Packer goes on, he says: "People see that the Bible teaches man's responsibility for his actions, they do not see how this is consistent with the sovereign Lordship of God over those actions, they are not content to let the two truths, live side by side as they do in the Scripture but they jump to the conclusion that in order to uphold the biblical truth of human responsibility they are bound to reject the equally biblical and equally true doctrine of divine sovereignty and explain away the great number of texts that teach it. The desire to oversimplify the Bible by cutting out the mystery is natural to our perverse minds; it is not surprising that even good men should fall victim to it, hence this persistent and troublesome dispute. The irony of the situation, however, is that when we ask how the two sides pray - it seems apparent that those who profess to deny God's sovereignty really believe it just as strongly as those who affirm it." end quote.
Besides, you can't solve the problem anyway. People say - Well, I just can't believe that God chose everything. But you see, that's just pure speculation because the Bible says He does. You say -Well, then, how can man possibly have a choice? Well, I don't know but he does. And you just let God figure out how that works. As soon as we start to systematize it we're in trouble.
So, the method by which God began the body was sovereign selection. Now let me show something to you. There are three kinds of election. And you need to distinguish these in the Bible or you get confused. We don't have time to go through all the verses on this, but I want to share some of them with you. There are three kinds of election in the Bible.
Number one is what's called theocratic election, what I call theocratic election. And that is, for example, in Deuteronomy, now theocratic theocracy was simply the title given to the nation Israel. Theo from the word Theos which means God rules. The nation of Israel was ruled by God. There was a theocratic election, that is, God chose a nation for a special place. Deuteronomy 7:6; "For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a special people." God chose a nation that is theocratic election. God didn't say - Now all right, I'm going to look around and find the best nation. He says, I didn't choose you because you were the biggest nation, I just designed to set My love upon you. I designed to love you. That was My own free choice I chose you as a nation.
Now watch this point, that in no way had any effect on their personal salvation. Okay? The theocratic election, the choice of the nation of Israel had nothing to do with the individual salvation. Just because a person was a Jew did not mean they were a believer in Old Testament times. For example, in Romans 9:6, Paul says: "Not all Israel is Israel, not all those who are Jews are truly the Israel of God." So, there was theocratic election. And in a sense, even within the election of the nation there was an election of those who would be saved and that's what Jesus meant in Matthew where He says; "Many are called but...what? ... few are chosen." Within theocratic election you have specific election to salvation.
There's a second kind of election I want to mention and that's what I call vocational election, vocational. There are sometimes when God just on His own sovereign choice chooses a certain person or persons to do a specific task. That also is unrelated to salvation.
The first illustration of it is in Deuteronomy 18 where God chose the Levites out of Israel to be His priests. Because you were a Levite did not necessitate the fact that you were granted absolutely salvation. That was task choice. God called the Levites to a task that was vocational election.
The same is true in the New Testament where Jesus called 12 Apostles. He called 12 of them to a task only 11 of them were called to salvation. You see the difference? Judas was not.
So there was vocational election. Jesus said in John 15:16; "You have not chosen Me but ... what? ... I have chosen you." And He wasn't talking about salvation there He was talking about the task of being a disciple or an Apostle. This has nothing to do with salvation.
But now you come to the third one and that's salvational election. And this is the kind that you find in Ephesians 1.
He has chosen us, not in a theocratic way, not in a vocational way but in a personal way to come to know Him. You have a statement, for example, in Romans 16:13; "Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord." That's salvation. That God has ordained that we should be His people individually. He has chosen us.
And there are many scriptures on this. First Peter starts out where Peter says that he writes to those in Cappadocia and Ponti and Bithynia and Asia who are predestined, who are chosen. And we'll say more about this in a moment.
So the method is election. God's free choice. He chooses individuals to salvation. In fact, in John 6:44 it says; "No man come unto Me except ... what? ... the Father draw him." No one is saved unless they are--I think the word is helkuo, drawn. And it's used in ancient pagan writings, that word, to speak of an irresistible force. For example, some pagan writers used the word to speak of a hungry man being drawn to food as if by a magnet.
It is used to speak in other pagan writings of demonic forces drawn to animals when they're not able to possess men. It is used of the power of love that draws two people irresistibly together. It is a force, it is a firm and compelling and an irresistible force, is this term helkuo. A good way to illustrate it, I don't know if you've ever seen a scrap metal plant where they bring the boxcars in and the boxcars are jammed full of this scrap metal stuff and this great crane comes over and hanging from the crane is this huge electromagnet with all those big copper coils and it generates just an incredible field of force down into that thing. And as if rising from the dead, the metal that has any kind of iron in it just comes leaping out of that thing. And any of the nonferrous matter like tin and aluminum and brass and those kinds of things just falls to the bottom. And in such a manner Jesus says in John 6:44, the force field of God's free, sovereign elected power has drawn to Himself those that are predetermined to be loved for eternity. That's election. And that's God, an irresistible force.
But on the other hand, it is not without faith that we respond. Right? It is not without faith that we respond. Jesus said, "All that the Father gives will come to Me," and then He turned right around and said, "And him that comes to Me, I'll ... what? ... in no wise cast out." That's the other side. Anybody can come.
Romans 9 it says; "That the children were chosen before they were born so that nobody would think that salvation had anything to do with them." It was all of God so that the glory is all God's. But in the next chapter it says; "Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." You have sovereignty, that's God's side. You have human choice, that's man's side. And from our side the benefit of the doubt is here folks because we can come just because we want to come. That's what the Bible teaches.
And so George Chadwick said at the end of the eighteenth century, "I sought the Lord and afterwards I knew He moved my soul to seek Him seeking me, it was not I that found 0 Savior true, no I was found by Thee."
He's right. Now some people are going to say - "Oh, you missed the whole point. You see, election is based on foreknowledge, and foreknowledge is why God chooses because He looks ahead and He says, 'Aha, so that's what they're going to do.
I heard guy say one time, it's like you're driving down the street, see, and some drunk comes driving by you. And he's weaving all over the place, you know. And you say to your wife, "If he keeps driving like that he's going to have an accident."
You go five miles down the road and sure enough, he's smashed into a post. Aha .....
And so I heard a preacher say, -"See, that's God. He's looking at the way things were going in a life as He sees it in the future." And He says, "The way they're going, they're not going to make it." And so on that basis He chooses the ones who will already, according to His foreknowledge make it.
That isn't what the Bible says. It's a nice story. It just isn't true. You can't pair that up with the Bible. It's amazing how you can teach off of illustrations that aren't biblical.
That isn't what it says. Listen.... people say, "Well, but look at Romans 8:29.11 All right, look at Romans 8:29. Romans 8:29 says, "For whom He did foreknow He did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."
And people will say, "You see, you see, He only predestinates the ones He foreknows will come to Christ. See, He looks in the future, He sees who will believe and those are the ones He predestinates. It says that right there, whom He foreknows He predestinates."
Yes, yes, but you see ... you forget verse 28. You see, in verse 28 it says; "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God; to them who are the called according to His purpose." You get the point? He foreknew it before He predestinated but, listen to this, beloved, He called before He ever ... what? ... foreknew. You've got foreknowledge in verse 29 but you've got the call of God according to His own purpose in verse 28.
Foreknowledge is an interesting word, proginosko, it does not mean to know something before it happened in the Scripture. The word know implies an intimate love relationship. For example, it says in the Old Testament, "Cain knew his wife and she bore a son." It doesn't mean he knew who she was, it means they had an intimate physical relationship and a child was conceived.
When it was talking of Mary and Joseph it says that Mary had never known a man. It means she never had a sexual relationship with a man. That word know carries with it a very, very, close.... Jesus said of His sheep, "I know My sheep and they know Me." And He wasn't saying - "We know who we are." He was saying, "We have an intimacy together."
Matthew 7:23, they said, "Lord, Lord .... He said, "I never knew you. I never had that intimate relationship with you."
In Amos 3:2 He looks at Israel and says; "You only have I known of all the nations of the world." They weren't the only people He knew about, they were just the only people He had a unique, intimate love relationship with.
And foreknowing is simply predetermining that love relationship and thus does Deuteronomy 7 say, "That God decided to love you before the world began." He decided to set His affection on you, that's foreknowledge. A preliminary love relationship established in the mind of God before time began.
And so, Romans 8 is really saying - that those He called, He predetermined to set His love on and the predetermination to set His love on them caused Him to want to make them become like Jesus Christ. That's the essence of it. You've got to unscramble your theology a little bit.
In Romans 11 he talks about Israel whom He foreknew. Is that the only people He ever knew anything about? No, no, it means Israel whom He predetermined to set His love on. Reads Romans 11, verses 2 and 5 and you'll see it there.
Now that doesn't mean that there's no human responsibility. I say that again, beloved, I don't want you to get confused. There is human responsibility but there is divine sovereignty. God is running things. Now I don't know how it harmonizes with my choice but I know this, I believe with all my heart that I can walk up to any man in the street, any day of the week and I can say to that man - Here's the gospel of Jesus Christ, and if you will in your heart to know the Lord Jesus Christ, you can be saved. I can say that to him. I don't know how that harmonizes with God's sovereignty but that's His problem and He can handle it.
So, the method - sovereign selection. Now real fast, we're going to go through the next six points. (chuckles) Oh ye of little faith.
Point number two, Point number two - the object. And this has become obvious now; they'll flow right out of what we said. What is the object of this marvelous election? The method we know; sovereign selection. The object; the elect, us. Verse 4; "He has chosen us in Him." He's chosen us to be in Christ. The us are the faithful, the use are the ones who believe. The us are the ones who respond. And you see, beloved, this is the human side of it. Nobody ever will go to heaven, ever, ever, in all of history who does not willfully, consciously, submit himself to obedience to God. There must be a response.
Jesus said "You will not come to Me that you might have life." You won't come. You remember in Luke 22:22? It says that Jesus was delivered, in effect, delivered to be crucified, "As it was determined.' God had it all planned. And the next line says; "But woe unto that man by whom He was betrayed." Both sides of it. God's absolute sovereignty and yet Judas was responsible for every deed he did
That doesn't take you off the hook. It just lets God be God. And man man. We are the objects, us. You know I think about that, people, and it just really is amazing. I look at myself and you say; "You mean to tell me that God chose John MacArthur in Him before the foundation of the world in order that He might make me like Jesus Christ? In order that He might give me a room in the Father's house? And fellowship with me forever?" I don't know what that does to you but it's pretty exciting stuff, folks. I mean, being a Christian is pretty fabulous when you think about it in those terms. We are the chosen. We are the elect. There's no sense of time with God. We were His before the world began. We were the inheritors of His Kingdom before the world began. We were the choice to be in the Father's house forever before the world began.
Now by the time you get three chapters full of this, and you come to chapter 4, Paul is going to suggest that maybe you ought to live like it. And you're going to say he's probably right. If you're not saying it already. You ought to walk worthy of such a vocation, he says in 4:1. Such a high calling. This is cause for praise. No wonder he says, "Blessed be God."
You know, it's all of Him that He has chosen us. So the object - the elect. The method - sovereign selection. Thirdly, the time. We already know this. "According as He's chosen us in Him." When? "Before the foundation of the world." Before the foundation of the world. Before anything ever was. In theology we call it predestination, election, before the fall, before creation, before time, before anything. God laid it all out. You know, it says here that He formed the body before the world began.
In Matthew 25:34 He said, "It's the joy of the Father to give you the Kingdom which He prepared for you from before the foundation of the world." The Kingdom was ours then. In I Peter chapter 1 verse 19 it says this; "But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world." Listen, the body was formed before the world began. The Kingdom was formed and we were given a place before the world began. Christ was crucified, as it were, before the world began. The whole master-plan is simply being worked out and we're a part of it. Things don't happen by chance.
No wonder in 2:10 he says, "For you are God's masterpiece." You are God's masterpiece, "Created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before ordained that you should walk in them." See. 'Your style of life was preordained before the world began.
So, the method - sovereign selection. The object - us. The time -eternity. Fourth, the purpose. Why did He do this? "That we should be holy and amomos, without blemish, before Him."
"Oh," you say, "John, I think this is where the plan broke down. I can't make it. I'm a Christian, and I love Jesus Christ, but I am not without blame. I am not without blemish. I am not spotless, I am not holy."
Oh yes you are. You see, because Paul is talking about your position in Christ not your practice. Boy, if you don't understand positional truth, you'll never understand Ephesians. Positionally before God you are holy. Why? Go back to verse 4, "He has chosen us in Him." We are in Christ. The end of verse 3; "In Christ." I told you that that is repeated in this book at least 27 times. Because we are in Christ His holiness is ours. His righteousness is imputed to us. His spotlessness is our spotlessness. And thus does Paul say in 5:27; "He has taken the church to present the church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish." Listen, before God you are holy and without blemish. Why? Cause you're one with Christ. And His blood covers your sin. It's hidden from God. His righteousness imputed to you as if you have a cape of righteousness covering you and when God sees you He sees only the righteousness of Christ. You couldn't stack up one sin in a row because they're all covered in the sacrifice of Christ. Because you're covered in the righteousness of Christ. That's your position.
Now your practice ought to match that, you see. The Christian life is simply making your practice equivalent to your position. Do you understand that? It's living like who you are, it's becoming what you are. When God looks at John MacArthur positionally, He says, "John MacArthur; holy, spotless, without blemish." And when He looks around the corner and sees me practically, He says; "Got a long way to go.
But you see, He's talking about your position. Beloved, listen to this. He's made a holy church, positionally. We're all as holy as Jesus. Can you imagine that? Before God. You say, "God, is very kind." That's right. That's what he's been saying through this whole book here. He's is very gracious.
It would be nice if He said, "Look, I'll take you half way, and if you've got what it takes, fellow, you'll go the rest of the way." He takes us all the way.
And so does it say in Colossians 2:10; "And you are complete in Him." And it says earlier, "And He is the fullness of God and you are complete in Him." He is the pleeroma of God and then Paul again says, you are pleeroma in Him. All that God is you become in Christ, just as holy, just as blameless, just as spotless, positionally. That's why I don't believe you could ever lose your salvation because it's secured to you in the righteousness of Christ. The only way we could ever be lost would be if Christ was lost, and that can't happen. Because we're in Him we're as secure as He is.
In fact, if you read the book of Hebrews you'll find that salvation there is even called perfection. It's called perfection.
And so, we are made holy in Christ. Now I don't know about you but...when I think of all that God has done for me in making me holy and imputing to me the righteousness of Christ as Romans 3 says, it causes me to want to live it. Doesn't it you? At least to be grateful and show it in my life.
So the method, the object, the time, the purpose, the motive is number five. Why did He do this? Whatever possessed God to do this? Very simple, the last part of verse 4 should be the first part of verse 5; "In love having predestinated us." You see, there's only one reason He did it. What was it? Love. What did I read you at the beginning of our fellowship this morning? "For God so....what?....loved the world." It's always love. It's always love. And what is love? It is a disposition in the heart of God by which He determines to sacrifice Himself to meet the needs of others. Love is not an emotion, biblically. Love is an act of selfless sacrifice. "Greater love hath no man than this; than that a man...what? ... lay down his life." That's love. Love is the act of self-sacrifice which seeks the betterment of someone else. God determined that He would sacrifice Himself for us. And in love He set His affection upon us before the world began and said, "For those people I will die," For those people I will go to a cross. For those people I will build a Kingdom that will never end. For those people I will pour out all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies.
Why? Why, God? Why do You care so much? Because God is...what? love. And we love Him because ... what? ... He first loved us. It was love. Chapter 2 verse 4; "But God who's rich in mercy for His great love for which He loved us, that's why He has made us alive together with Christ." That's why. Amazing, amazing that God would set His love on us.
Paul never got over it. He never could understand it. Never. I don't think any Christian can, who thinks of it. And so we see that God has planned this from eternity past.
We see the method - sovereign selection. The object - us. The time -eternity. The purpose - holiness. The motive - love. Sixth, the result. And the result is so beautiful. The result is sonship. In love having predestinated us unto the adoption of sons by Jesus Christ to Himself. Through Jesus Christ, God adopts us to Himself. What a fabulous thought. God doesn't say - Listen, you folks, I'm going to allow you to be subjects in My Kingdom, you can be My servants, I might even let you be My friend. That would be nice. But God says - You're not only not servants, you're not only not friends, you're going to be My ... what? ... My sons. You see, if God loved us then He would draw us as close to Himself as was possible. And the closest you can be is to be in the same family ... sonship. When you become a Christian you become a child of God. And Paul says you can cry Abba Father, which in the Greek means papa, or daddy, a term of closeness and endearment, a term of affection. Because you have access to Him. Daddy, God is on your side. God is one with you with the same common life. Do you realize that to be saved means to have the life of God in the soul of man? His life pulses in me. You know, I can adopt a child. And I could love that child as much as a child that was born to my wife and I. I could love that child more even. I could pour my love upon that child. I could make a home for that child, as many of you have. But there's one thing I could never do. The one thing I could never do would be to give my spirit and my nature to that child. I couldn't do that. And that's precisely where adoption into the family of God is different. When you were adopted into the family of God, at the moment you believed in Jesus Christ as it was predetermined before the world began, Peter said - You became a partaker of the divine nature. You have the very nature of God within you, not only that He granted unto you His Spirit. So when we were adopted, we were given God's nature and God's Spirit. He drew us as close to Himself as He could. And Jesus said, "I'm going to go away and make a room for you in the Father's house." And, as sons you have access to all that God has for you.
And so God formed the body.
Lastly, why? What was the end that He had in mind? Why did He want all of us to be His sons? Why did He want to do this? The reason is - glory, verse 5 at the end. "According to the good pleasure of His will to the praise of the glory of His grace."
You see, the reason He did it was because He wanted to do it to get glory. The reason, beloved, the reason for everything, the reason for everything that exists in the universe is that God may be glorified. The Old Testament says; "The beasts of the field shall give Me glory."
The psalmist said, "The heavens declare the glory of God." The only rebels in the whole universe are fallen angels and fallen men. Everything else glorifies God. And, believe me, the fallen angels have been removed permanently from God's presence and so will the fallen men who don't come to Jesus Christ. God will remove from His universe all which does not give Him glory. Leaving only that which glorifies Him. That's the ultimate reason for everything that exists. That's why it says to the Christian in I Corinthians whatever you do is mundane, as eating and drinking, do it all ... what? ... to the glory of God. That's the purpose of everything.
The reason the Lord chose the body before the foundation of the world, the reason He preordained it, the reason He laid it out, the reason He did it all Himself, with no human will and no help and nothing is that the glory might all be His. If salvation was half God and half man then God would get half the glory and man the other half. If salvation was 95% God and 5% man, then God would get 95% glory and we would get 5%. But salvation is 100% God so He gets all the glory. And just to make sure nobody ever got confused He laid it all out before any human being was ever born. So there's no question about it.
And so for His own good pleasure He said; "It's the Father's good pleasure," said Jesus, "To give you the Kingdom." If for His own good pleasure to seek His own glory. Well, what a thought. Fit into His body before the world began, to be to the praise of His glory.
I hope you are in practice what you are in position. Let's pray together.
Thank You, our Father, this morning again for the richness and the depth of the treasure of the Word of God. We realize that we're like little children playing around with the grains of sand while the ocean rolls at our feet and we can't really comprehend everything. We can't see the depth of all You are. Now and then when we get a glimpse of something deep like this it leaves our minds scrambled and uneasy partly because we're so frail in our understanding and partly because our depravity so wants ourselves to be exalted in understanding everything. Help us to be humbled, to be content with things we cannot understand but know that You are the One who does understand, who is too loving to do anything unkind or unfair, too just to do what is unrighteous, too wise to ever make a mistake. And that all will be well and in accord with Your love and Your absolute wisdom and justice. Help us to submit to who You are and to humbly bow understanding who we are. And in the mystery of why you would want us may our joy be overwhelming and may it motivate us in gratitude to serve You with all our capacity. We will thank You in Christ's name. Amen.
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With back to school season in full swing, we couldn't help but wonder which colleges and universities are rated at the top of the green class. And with all the research that high school Juniors and Seniors put into selecting their future higher education institution, sustainable initiatives on campuses are becoming an increasingly important thing to consider. We did a little due diligence of our own with the help of Sierra's Top Cool Schools, the Princeton Review's Green Score card, and Greenopia's University Ranking Guide, to save you the hassle. Here's our report of the five schools that consistently make the green top 10.
5. University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley has made a pledge to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2014 and is in the process of implementing over 200 energy efficiency projects. They are making the entire process transparent and have submitted their emissions information to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) which requires that all new buildings be accredited LEED Silver or better, have one LEED building and 10 others seeking accreditation.
4. Evergreen State College
Evergreen State College's thousand acre campus has miles of trails, a half mile stretch of beach on Puget Sound, wetlands, forest, and their very own organic farm. The farm has been integrated into the curriculum serving as a living classroom for courses in organic agriculture, ethnobotany, visual arts, beekeeping, forest ecology, and ecological agriculture. Integrated into the cost of tuition, Evergreen students all pay a self-imposed clean energy fee to make sure that 100 percent of their electricity comes from renewable sources.
3. College of Atlantic
A small college located in Bar Harbor, Maine, the College of Atlantic is for those who are interested in how humans interact with their environment and only has one major, Human Ecology. Carbon neutral since 2007, all of the electricity for the campus comes from hydropower. They have recently introduced a new Trans-Atlantic Food Systems program and an undergraduate green and socially responsible business program that's sure to pick-up in the new green economy.
2. Middlebury College
Middlebury College is set to become carbon neutral by 2016. Inspired by the students, the plan was adopted by their board of trustees in 2007. Not an entirely unusual move for a college that hosts one of the country's oldest undergraduate environmental studies programs. The college also operates a biomass gasification plant, which runs off of sustainably produced wood chips that generate steam used toward heating, cooling, and electricity and supplement the otherwise one million gallons of fuel that would otherwise be used.
1. University of Washington
The only program that consistently ranked at the top of all three major surveys, the University of Washington has signed the President's Climate Commitment and were founding members of the Seattle Climate partnership requiring the university to purchase power that is 100% renewable. All new buildings are required to meet LEED Silver standards, and they already have 4 LEED accredited buildings on campus. UW has a comprehensive composting program and currently diverts 40% of its waste. They also have stringent water conservation policies and more than a quarter of its food is grown locally, organic, or from fair trade sources.
+ Greenopia: Top Green Schools
+ Princeton Review: Green Honor Roll
+ Sierra Club: Top Cool Schools

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Dexter Pittman Rejoins Miami Heat
It's back to South Beach for a cool customer. Dexter Pittman has been recalled back to the Miami Heat after an assignment with the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the NBA Development League.
The former Texas Longhorn spent 10 games on this latest assignment from the Heat, along the way earning second team honors on the All-Development League Showcase Team. Pittman accumulated 12 points, 8.5 rebounds and almost 2 blocks per game.
Presumably Pittman has met the goals of the Heat brain trust while in Sioux Falls. Among the stated items on the checkoff list: 1) Get some serious playing time. Pittman pulled through on that measure averaging just over 25 minutes per contest to go with his other stats. 2) Not foul so much. In that regard, mark it off in pencil. After dueling with current and former NBA players such as Robert Sacre, Chris Johnson, Jerome Jordan, Brian Butch and Fab Melo, it can be said that Pittman held his own. However, the one matchup that flummoxed Dexter during his stint was a former member of the German national team Tim Ohlbrecht of Rio Grande Valley.
The Miami Heat has been in dire need of a rebounding presence and a defensive stopper in the middle. With a playoff push on the horizon and a chance to repeat as NBA Champions, Dexter has been putting in the work. After one contest when Pittman got into foul trouble and did not get a lot of court time he ran a series of sprints long after everyone else was gone.
As for the Sioux Falls end of things, without Pittman there is a sizeable gap to fill. The first inclination is to consider Jarvis Varnado who most likely will be released after the completion of the 10-day contract he currently has with the Heat. However, don't expect the NCAA shot blocking record holder to suit up on Friday night against the Texas Legends. After the contract is up, Varnado has 48 hours to clear waivers and then is free to rejoin the Skyforce. That would come on Monday or Tuesday IF Varnado doesn't sign another 10-day deal with a different team. Meaning the upcoming games that the Skyforce will play include a little basketball and some wait and see.


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Charlie Ward
Allan Houston
Latrell Sprewell
Larry Johnson
Pat Ewing
Kurt Thomas
Marcus Camby
Chris Childs
Chris Dudley
Ray Felton
Jason Kidd
JR Smith
Kurt Thomas
99 Knicks
99 Knicks would sweep the current Knicks. Your thread is disrespectful 1 star
2012 Knicks
2012 Knicks would sweep those old school bums
Charlie Ward
Allan Houston
Latrell Sprewell
Larry Johnson
Pat Ewing
Kurt Thomas
Marcus Camby
Chris Childs
Chris Dudley
Ray Felton
Jason Kidd
JR Smith
Kurt Thomas
I think u have a point jafet if they stayed healthier at the end of the season they woulda made the playoffs. That was the last year of Marburys prime and he played his best defense. That was also the only year Eddy Curry almost made the all star team
I think the current team would take in about 6. Ewing wasn't the same player at that stage of his career and I think Tyson could do a pretty good job on him. Also I don't see Houston or Spree slowing down Melo
H2O vs Shump would be an interesting battle to watch but I think the current team would end up taking it in the end.
Good thread.
The 99 team were a struggling 8th seed that peaked at the right time, and proved to the world that any pro team in basketball that worked at full potential could be deadly.
And they were. It was almost uncanny to see a team hit 5th gear the way they did, and under the circumstances in which they did it.
This team, much like the legends of 99, can straight rape any other when the cylinders are firing at full noise.
It's a tough call for me, even though I remember that 99 run clearly, but I think when we see this Knick team peak, that we'll know for sure.
If the 99 team had anything on this team, it's speed. Sprewell was a hurricane stuck in a 94x50 foot rectangle. Unstoppable. He made up for the majority of that advantage.
This years team for certain. i'd say in 6 games. As big of a Ewing fan as I am i recognize that Tyson would of been a lot of trouble for Pat at that stage. Shump/brewer would be able to slow down H20/spree. Felton is much better then childs or ward. Melo is better then anyone on that 99 knicks team and him and STAT could still score against LJ/Camby/KT. This years team has more depth and a better backcourt. the old team probably has the edge in shooting because of pat and h20. But I think that the defensive edge is actually with this years team and that would be too much for the 99 knicks.
will this be an option in nba 2k13? would love to try it out.
I say the 99 team would win.
Charlie Ward is underrated, decent floor general and excellent defender.
Spree would own the current team like Wade does on a yearly basis.
Larry Johnson was a man, he'd prison rape Amar'e and his soft game.
Camby and Ewing were both better overall players than Tyson Chandler is, they could score too and not only defend....even the old and injured Ewing.
Chris Childs was at least as good as Felton, probably even better.
I'd say in terms of defense, experience, mentality and balls the 99 team has a huge advantage.
The current team is more athletic and provides more scoring, but guess what it's defense and attitude (toughness) that wins in the playoffs.
Melo would get frustrated by the 99' defense and start chucking the Knicks out of the game. Amare is too soft to play against a team like that.
Only chance 2012 Knicks got is Chandler dominating the center position and hoping JR Smith makes 45% of his shots. Melo can't do it alone.
The 99-Knicks were an 8th seeded (double-deep) team that made it to the FINALS .... I havnt seen the 2012-13 Knicks play .. but hell2da NO the 2012 dont come close to the 99 Knicks .. Chris Childs was a monster with Spree & Houston
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I picked 99 Knicks but it's close, it must be noted that the NBA was pretty weak that year comparatively. Spurs were a good team but not a standout champion, Lakers were still coming together, hell even the Heat were pretty bad for a 1 seed. The Mourning/Hardaway pairing was pretty flawed.
I agree with what alotta u sayin, Spree woulda been a problem for Melo. He knew how to position himself perfectly on defense, great footwork and great hands too. Carmelo mighta had his way in the low post against Sprewell though, but that knicks team had good help defenders and they coulda switched LJ on to Carmelo. I think their mental and physical toughness would be too much for the current knicks, even though this current team might actually have just as much talent if not more.
And as some posters said, i cant finalize my opinion until the end of next season and I gotta see what we do in the playoffs. But I kinda think the 99 team might even son the 2012 Knicks
I would just love to see Kurt Thomas and Camby vs Kurt Thomas and Camby. Both of them might actually have better rebounding stats now then they did then
The current Knick would run both the 99 and the 2013 Knicks off the court!! (Not really)


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Half-Blind, All-Heart Algieri Shocks Provodnikov/
Photo: Ed Mulholland
By Eric Raskin
If Ruslan Provodnikov is, as he calls himself, "The Siberian Rocky," then in Chris Algieri he apparently found his unlikely Clubber Lang.
After a breakout 2013 campaign in which he excelled in the underdog role and emerged as one of boxing's most in-demand fighters, Provodnikov found himself heading into his first fight of 2014 in the unfamiliar role of betting favorite and television star. Perhaps those designations didn't agree with him, or maybe Algieri, though wholly unproven coming into the fight, is just a better boxer than we might have imagined. At the very least, the Long Island native has a bigger heart than anyone could have known, rallying back from two first-round knockdowns and a grotesquely swollen eye to win a shocking split decision in front of 6,218 fans at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
A 30-year-old clinical nutritionist with a master's degree who didn't start boxing until age 23 (though he was a professional kickboxer before that), the light-punching Algieri looked on paper like 140 pounds of moose liver for Provodnikov to devour at whatever pace he wanted. And for the first three minutes, that's how the fight played out. Provodnikov, coming off a violent stoppage of Mike Alvarado and a narrow loss to Timothy Bradley in 2013's Fight of the Year, came out of his corner like a bowling ball rolling downhill, his head down, arms banging to Algieri's body as the underdog kept a high guard. The first time the Russian shifted upstairs, halfway into the round, a left hook toppled Algieri, swelling his eye in the process. Algieri rose quickly with a clear head, but just as quickly went down again, a short left uppercut convincing him to take a knee. Provodnikov had a three-point lead on all cards after one round, and a knockout appeared only a matter of time.
But the former kickboxer, having learned to use his legs quite well in the ways boxing allows, moved and worked his proficient jab and four-inch height advantage to change the tenor of the fight. Was he actually winning rounds with his busy output, in the face of Provodnikov stalking and landing a handful of solid left hooks to that damaged eye every round? That depends on what a judge prefers. But Algieri avoided getting badly hurt and certainly boxed in the style that best suits him, particularly against a straight-forward aggressor like Provodnikov.
Oddly, the worse his right eye got, the better Algieri looked—and perhaps the more encouraged Provodnikov was to look for one big shot upstairs rather than utilizing a concerted body attack. You could give Provodnikov many of the rounds based on some of those clubbing hooks snapping Algieri's head to the side and on Algieri appearing focused on primarily survival in spots, but two of the judges were giving them to the guy who was jabbing, moving, and frustrating the Russian. The fifth round was perhaps Algieri's best of the fight's first half, until Provodnikov landed a crackling left hook just a second before the bell, making the scoring a matter of debate, like so many other rounds.
From rounds eight through 10, it got easier to give Algieri rounds as Provodnikov's flush connects became a rarity, and after the 10th, trainer Freddie Roach encouraged Provodnikov to go for the knockout. Provodnikov didn't seem to believe he really needed to go that route to win, but as it turned out, he needed to at least win the last two rounds by 10-9 scores to get a draw. Instead the last two rounds were as inconclusive as many of the nine that preceded them.
The CompuBox stats at the end of 12 rounds favored Algieri: He had a 288-205 edge in punches landed and a 993-776 lead in punches thrown. The difference was his jab (the power punch numbers were nearly even). The numbers that mattered most, though, were on a piece of paper held by ring announcer Michael Buffer. Max DeLuca's score of 117-109 Provodnikov came first, as he gave Algieri only rounds four, five, and seven. Tom Schreck's score was next, 114-112 for Algieri, with Provodnikov winning the sixth, ninth, and 11th rounds, along with the 10-7 opener of course. None of Algieri's punches stunned Provodnikov as much as that score, as he was left slack-jawed by the news that one judge had gone against him. However, the news would get worse for the prefight favorite when Buffer revealed that Don Trella had the same final score, giving Provodnikov only the first round and the final three, making Algieri the split decision winner and new junior welterweight titleholder. As it turned out, the first and 11th rounds were the only ones Provodnikov won unanimously.
"I have to admit, runners are not my style," Provodnikov (23-3, 16 KOs) said, seemingly coming to terms with the judges' decision rather quickly after the initial shock. "I like guys who stand there and fight me. This is the worst style for me … He did a good job …The judges made the decision, it was up to them." He did express some frustration, telling reporters in the post-fight press conference, "I don't see you can take a guy's belt by going to the hospital and running all night."
The week of the fight, Algieri was very nearly in a car accident, and as HBO's Max Kellerman pointed out to him, he looked like he'd been in a collision of some violent sort after 12 rounds with Provodnikov. But Algieri, who said his eye probably looked to the carnivorous Provodnikov "like a nice, juicy steak," persevered and prevailed. "Even the shots I was getting hit with in the first four rounds, they were few and far between," he said. "The only shot that hurt me was that first shot … Round 12, I was fucking blind. I just kind of anticipated [the punches]."
Algieri (20-0, 8 KOs) told the press afterward that action icon Arturo Gatti was his favorite fighter in high school, but that he never intended to fight in a Gatti-like style. "I think I did for half of the fight tonight," he said.
Sometimes, stereotypes and aesthetics influence our perceptions, and with this matchup there was a primal destroyer from a frigid part of the globe most sane people would never willingly visit taking on a suburban kid from Long Island. It was only natural to assume Provodnikov would smoke Algieri. But the way it played out, and the way Algieri battled, didn't conform to such snap judgments.
"I don't fight because I have to fight," Algieri insisted. "I fight because I love to fight. If you didn't see passion in those 12 rounds, I don't know what to tell you."
In the televised co-feature, Demetrius (or "Demitrius," if the back of his robe is to be trusted) Andrade continued his transition from prospect to contender in the junior middleweight division with an undemanding victory over England's Brian Rose that, unlike Algieri-Provodnikov, did go according to script. The talent divide revealed itself in the opening round, as the 2008 U.S. Olympian dropped Rose with a southpaw straight left hand just a minute into the fight. The rout was on from there, with Andrade able to relax completely and display his offense without much fear of return fire. But he needed six more rounds to fully blast his way through Rose's tight guard, scoring one more knockdown in the third and doing all sorts of damage in the sixth and seventh. At 1:19 of round seven, with Rose (25-2-1, 7 KOs) bleeding from a cut on the bridge of his nose and just looking to survive, ref Michael Griffin called a well-timed stoppage, elevating Andrade's record to 21-0 with 14 KOs.
"Andrade is better than I thought he would be," Rose offered after the fight. "He might be one of the best in the game today. I just wanted to keep up with him. I couldn't keep him off me."


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In Activation synthesis hypothesis, I represent the intangible dream world through the dream-states of three characters. My premise, that dreams are simply the result of random electrical impulses that pull imagery from traces of experience stored in our memory, is investigated in three sub-themes – 'The good', 'The bad' and 'The ugly'. We cannot simply watch the film in its unrelated and coincidental form, just as we are unable to accept the random display of impulses during sleep. We create meaning around the actions that are perceived, whether during sleep or movie viewing.


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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - The LSU softball mantra for the 2012 season has been "Whatever IT Takes," and the Tigers did just that on alert base running from A.J. Andrews to score the game's only run on a sacrifice popup to secure a 1-0 elimination victory over No. 19 South Florida Saturday to open day three of the Women's College World Series in-front of 8,504 fans at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium.
In the process, LSU (40-24) notched its 40th victory of the season and reached that impressive benchmark for the 14th time in 16 seasons since softball was reinstated in 1997. The 8,504 fans were a Session Four record at the WCWS.
The Tigers advance to face No. 3 national seed Arizona State in another elimination tilt Saturday at 6 p.m. CT televised on ESPN and ESPN3.com. Beth Mowins, Jessica Mendoza, Michele Smith and Holly Rowe will serve as the broadcast team.
"First, I want to congratulate South Florida on an unbelievable season," head coach Beth Torina said. "That's a program that we pull for when we're not playing against them, and they deserve every bit of success that they had. They do things the right way, and they definitely gave us a tough game today. Any one thing for either team was going to be the deal breaker in it. So luckily, we got the break and it fell our way. Our kids battled. I thought Brittany Mack pitched a great game and kept us in it."
Andrews was hit-by-pitch to start the sixth inning. Two batters later, she advanced to third base on a dropped fly ball by USF centerfielder Janine Richardson. Juliana Santos kept the rally alive and was plunked by a 0-2 pitch to fill the bases.
On a 1-0 offering, Allison Falcon popped up to shortstop Kourtney Salvarola. Since Salvarola was playing drawn in with the bases loaded, Andrews tagged from the third base bag and scampered home. Salvarola's throw was offline, high towards the first base line. That enabled Andrews to slide around the tag attempt head-first safely into home plate.
"I've been in softball for a long time, seen a lot of things," Torina said. "I don't remember if I've ever seen that before, but it was a pretty amazing, gutsy play by A.J. -- not me.
"I was not told to go. She [Coach Torina] said 'Tag,' but I guess that doesn't mean go," Andrews said. "But really, I think, because she was facing backwards, so my instinct is just to try it. It was a really close game. I knew that it would come down to something really close, like a close play. I just wanted to be safe, and I just thought about how I could get safe."
Brittany Mack fired a two-hit shutout and notched eight strikeouts versus four walks to move to 16-12 on the season. It also was Mack's 15th career shutout which vaulted into a seventh-place tie on LSU's all-time list with Brandi Landry (1997-98) and Cody Trahan (2007-10).
Mack stranded multiple South Florida (50-14) base runners during the first and fifth innings to preserve the shutout. The senior right-hander left runners at second and third base during the fifth inning with a strikeout of USF's Jessica Mouse.
"I felt great throughout the entire game, I just had a strong point with my off speed curve breaking a lot," Mack said. "It's something that moves so much, they just really had no idea. Obviously, my defense is always there for me. Even though we may make some kind of error, I know we're going to get out of it no matter what."
Mack also made a spectacular defensive play in the third inning. After a leadoff walk to Ashli Goff, she stole second base. An errant throw by catcher Morgan Russell allowed Goff to scoot over to third base.
Goff sprinted towards home after an overthrow by centerfielder Simone Heyward that ricocheted off the LSU dugout. Mack, backing up the play, picked up the ball, and fired a strike to Russell to gun down Goff at the dish.
Actually, just like a drill that we do [at practice] where we purposely overthrow the bases and back them up," Torina said. "Then, we get you out at home. You can give me the credit, but you can give Brittany the throw."
Every LSU postseason game will have live audio and live stats inside the Geaux Zone on www.LSUsports.net/live. The games also will be carried live on Country Legends 104.9 FM in the Baton Rouge area with Patrick Wright and Matt Dunaway set to call the action.
Fans can follow every pitch of LSU softball this season via live in-game updates on LSU softball's social media outlets at www.Facebook.com/lsusoftball and @LSU_Softball on Twitter.
LSU vs. USF (Women's College World Series Game 7)
June 2, 2012 - ASA Hall of Fame Stadium (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Team Notes
1. LSU is 40-24 overall this season, 42-27 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and 6-5 in WCWS games.
2. The June 2 game date is the latest for the LSU softball program. During LSU's previous two trips to the WCWS there was no super regional round, so the season ended a week earlier.
3. Today's lineup is the 47th different combination in 64 games.
4. LSU is 4-0 all-time against South Florida with all four games coming away from Baton Rouge.
5. LSU has now won 35 of 40 games when scoring first this season.
6. With the win LSU will face Arizona State at 6 p.m. CT today. The last time LSU faced ASU in the postseason was in the 2009 NCAA Tempe Regional when LSU went 1-2 against the Sun Devils.
Individual Notes
7. OF Ashley Applegate has reached base safely in 10 of her last 13 games after reaching first on an error in the second inning.
8. OF Simone Heyward was thrown out trying to steal second base in the fourth inning. It marked her first caught stealing of the season. She is now 9-for-10 this year.
9. OF A.J. Andrews scored on a sacrifice fly in the infield by Allison Falcon to give LSU a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning.
10. INF Allison Falcon picked up her 23rd RBI of the season with a sac fly in the sixth inning. Falcon moved past Juliana Santos for second on the team in RBIs this season.
11. P Brittany Mack picked up her 16th victory this season and second of the postseason. She now has four career postseason wins, two this season.
a. With the shutout victory, Mack moved into a tie with Cody Trahan for seventh place in LSU history with 15 career shutouts.


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Duke Career: Played and started all 70 games in his career … A NSCAA All-America third team pick in 2013 … A two-time All-ACC first team honoree and the 2012 ACC Defensive Player of the Year … Earned NSCAA All-South Region honors all four seasons … Finished career with eight goals and three assists for 19 points … Anchored defense to 26 shutouts during his career.
2013: Started all 19 games at center back … Team Captain … NSCAA All-America third team … All-ACC first team … NSCAA All-South Region first team … Tallied two goals … Netted the game-winning goal in 2-1 victory over Wright State (9/24) … Also had a goal in 1-1 draw with Virginia Tech (9/13) … Played all but 17 minutes this season.
2012: Started all 18 matches at center back … ACC Defensive Player of the Year … All-ACC first team selection … voted to the NSCAA All-South Region first team … named to the College Soccer News All-America squad … anchored Duke's defense to nine shutouts, the most since 2009 … team posted its best goals against average (0.70) since 1987 and allowed multiple goals in just four games … provided a spark on offense with a team-high 12 points from five goals and two assists … registered his first multiple-goal game with two scores in 3-0 win over Georgia State (9/11) … netted the game-winning goal in 1-0 win at NC State (10/5) … also had goals against Santa Clara (8/31) and UNC Wilmington (9/25) … earned John Rennie/Nike Classic All-Tournament team recognition … voted team's Most Valuable Player and Defensive Player of the Year … went the distance in all but three games.
2011: Started 17 games at center back ... voted to the All-ACC second team ... selected to NSCAA All-South Region second team ... anchored the defense to four shutouts, including a 1-0 victory over Georgia State in the NCAA first round ... went the distance in 11 games and played 1,473 minutes overall ... scored the game-winner in a 1-0 win over Furman (8/29).
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Personal: Born Sebastien Uchechukwu Ibeagha on Jan. 21, 1992, in Warri, Nigeria … son of Christian Sr. and Joyce Ibeagha … brother, Christian is a senior captain defender for the Blue Devils … mother, Joyce, played professional tennis and father, Christian Sr., played soccer at the University of Nigeria.


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Kobudo: Weapon Arts
by Charles C. Goodin
by Charles C. Goodin
This article appears at the Hawaii Karate Seinenkai website.
Karate is an important cultural legacy of Okinawa. Today, "karate" means "empty hand," but this was not always the case. Prior to 1936, "karate," which could also be pronounced "tote," meant "China hand." This older terminology was used in Hawaii even after World War Two. The modern usage of the term "empty hand" has incorrectly led some people to believe that Okinawa lacks a weapons tradition -- after all, by definition how can an empty hand hold a weapon? In fact, Okinawa has a rich kobudo (weapons arts) tradition. Karate and kobudo were often practiced together.
The development of karate in Okinawa is often attributed to a ban on the ownership of weapons in the country by King Shoshin (1477-1526) and later by Lord Shimazu of Satsuma. Stripped of weapons, the civilians were forced to develop unarmed methods of self-defense, literally to turn their hands into swords and their arms into clubs. There is some controversy about the extent of the weapons ban in Okinawa. In any event, the sword and samurai class certainly did not play as central a role in Okinawa as they did in mainland Japan.
Over the centuries, Okinawan martial artists actually used a wide variety of weapons. These weapons originated in places such as China, Japan and in Okinawa itself. Some of the more well-known Okinawan weapons are the bo (6 foot wooden staff), sai (iron truncheon usually used in pairs but sometimes in sets of three), nunchaku (wooden flail), tuifa or tonfa (a section of wood with handles, usually used in pairs), and kama or nichogama (sickles, usually used in pairs and sometimes with a long chain attached). In recent years, the use of the eku (wooden paddle) has also become popular.
Several of these weapons were derived from farming implements. The bo was readily available in the form of long-handled tools. The nunchaku is said to have come from a horse bridal and the tuifa originated as the handle of a grinding stone. The kama (sickle) is little changed from the ones still used in farms and gardens.
There are also variations of these weapons. A short staff is called a jo. While most bo are about 6 feet in length, there are also longer and shorter versions. Bo can be tapered, straight or even octagonal. Most sai are as shown in the accompanying photograph. There is also a type of sai with prongs in opposite directions. This is called a manji sai. When a manji sai is attached to a bo, it becomes a nunti bo.
Other weapons used in Okinawa include the tekko (metal knuckles), tinbei (short sword and shield), and double bladed sword. Many Okinawans were educated in Japan and/or China and thus had opportunities to learn the weapons arts of these countries. Thus, some Okinawans were educated in the use of traditional Japanese weapons such as the long and short swords, yari (spear), naginata (halberd), and bow and arrow. Sokon "Bushi" Matsumura, the bodyguard and karate instructor to the King of Okinawa, for example, was a master of the Jigen-ryu form of swordsmanship. Some Okinawans also mastered one or more of the many forms of Chinese weapons.
The most commonly used weapon in Okinawa was the bo. Bo training in Okinawa is documented as far back as the 14th century. A wooden staff was readily available in farms and villages. In fact, it is sometimes said that karate training was more popular in the cities in towns while bo training was more prevalent in outlying areas. Each village usually had one or more bojutsu masters. A village style was unique to that village and it generally would not be taught to outsiders.
Unlike the sai, nunchaku and tonfa, which are short-range, generally concealed weapons, the bo offers the advantage of length, particularly against a weapon such as a sword. One expert I spoke to said that the bo is the easiest weapon to learn and the most difficult to master. In the hands of an expert, the bo moves almost invisibly and actually cuts through the air (and the opponent) like a sword. Imagine a skilled kendo sensei. His precise movements are literally too quick to see. The same is true of a bo expert. And unlike a swordsman, a bo expert can strike with either end of his weapon!
There have been many kobudo masters in Okinawa this century. Some of the more well-known are Yabiku Moden, Chojo Oshiro, Kenwa Mabuni, Kamiya Jinsei, Shiken Taira, Shinpo Matayoshi, Shinyei Kyan, Jokei Kushi, and Chogi Kishaba. Although he rarely instructed students in their use, Gichin Funakoshi (the founder of the Shotokan form of karate), was also skilled with the bo and sai.
The art of bojutsu, like karate, came to Hawaii with the first Okinawan immigrants in 1900. Demonstrations of bo kata or bo odori were common at festivals and gatherings here in Honolulu and on the neighbor islands. Some experts practiced bojutsu alone, but others also practiced karate. During my research, I have discovered several bo experts, but none who taught the art after they arrived in Hawaii.
Chinese martial artists also used the bo. One of my karate teachers mentioned that one of the experts he knew back in the "old days" was a manapua man who carried his wares hanging on the ends of his bo. When trouble arose, the manapua man was quick to drop his goods and grab his bo. His attackers usually ran for their lives!
Fortunately, Okinawa's weapons arts have experienced a resurgence in Hawaii, due in part to their popularity in tournaments. Ironically, a company I contacted that manufactures bo, reported to me that their most popular model is a "toothpick" bo, one that is extremely thin and light weight. Something I have always found amazing is how a true bo expert can make a heavy, hardwood bo seem weightless. Such an expert would snap such a light weight bo in half.
Weapons arts are also practiced in traditional dojo as an adjunct to empty hand practice. In our dojo, shodan (first degree black belts) are expected to train with at least one weapon. Each person will usually select a primary and secondary weapon. For example, I primarily practice with the bo but also train with the sai. Yudansha (black belts generally) are expected to show proficiency with various weapons as they advance.
Aside from their direct self-defense value, weapons are useful training aids. The heavy metal sai, for example, offer an effective form of weight training. After practicing with sai, the arms are strengthened and the hands feel very light. The same is true of tuifa (or tonfa) practice. The bo is useful to make a student relax. It is impossible to use the bo correctly when the body is tight or stiff. Because the bo is so rigid, the student must learn to relax and harmonize with its weight, speed and momentum.
Kobudo involves much more than merely using weapons in an existing karate kata. Some karate students are known to do just that. For example, the sai can be held along the forearm and used in a conventional jodan uke (upper block). Many modern karate students practice such a movement. In ancient kata, the blade of the sai would usually be flipped out, rather then held against the forearm. This increased the engagement distance (maai) and also deflected the attack rather than transferring the shock directly to the arm. In addition, the sai could be thrown, particularly at the opponent's feet. It was for this reason that a third sai was often carried concealed in the obi (belt). The unique advantages of the sai and other weapons are maintained in the ancient kobudo kata.
By practicing the weapons arts, we are helping to preserve an important aspect of Okinawa's rich cultural heritage. Do you know of a bo or other weapon's expert who practiced or demonstrated in Hawaii before World War Two? If so, please contact me so that I can include the information in my book on the early history of karate in Hawaii.
Charles C. Goodin
98-211 Pali Momi Street, Suite 640C
Aiea, Hawaii 96701
Telephone: (808) 488-5773
Fax: (808) 488-5778
E-mail: email@example.com
Copyright © Charles C. Goodin. All rights reserved.


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