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ICD-10 Code S23.171A
Dislocation of T12/L1 thoracic vertebra, initial encounter
Diagnosis Code S23.171A
Short Description: Dislocation of T12/L1 thoracic vertebra, initial encounter
Long Description: Dislocation of T12/L1 thoracic vertebra, initial encounter
Version 2019 of the ICD-10-CM diagnosis code S23.171A
Valid for Submission
The code S23.171A is valid for submission for HIPAA-covered transactions.
Code Classification
- Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes (S00–T98)
Information for Medical Professionals
- 839.21 - Disloc thoracic vert-cl (Approximate Flag)
- Fracture dislocation of spine
- Fracture dislocation of thoracolumbar junction
Information for Patients
Dislocations are joint injuries that force the ends of your bones out of position. The cause is often a fall or a blow, sometimes from playing a contact sport. You can dislocate your ankles, knees, shoulders, hips, elbows and jaw. You can also dislocate your finger and toe joints. Dislocated joints often are swollen, very painful and visibly out of place. You may not be able to move it.
A dislocated joint is an emergency. If you have one, seek medical attention. Treatment depends on which joint you dislocate and the severity of the injury. It might include manipulations to reposition your bones, medicine, a splint or sling, and rehabilitation. When properly repositioned, a joint will usually function and move normally again in a few weeks. Once you dislocate a shoulder or kneecap, you are more likely to dislocate it again. Wearing protective gear during sports may help prevent dislocations.
- Dislocated shoulder - aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Dislocation (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Kneecap dislocation (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Kneecap dislocation - aftercare (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Nursemaid's elbow (Medical Encyclopedia)
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Spine Injuries and Disorders
Your backbone, or spine, is made up of 26 bone discs called vertebrae. The vertebrae protect your spinal cord and allow you to stand and bend. A number of problems can change the structure of the spine or damage the vertebrae and surrounding tissue. They include
- Infections
- Injuries
- Tumors
- Conditions, such as ankylosing spondylitis and scoliosis
- Bone changes that come with age, such as spinal stenosis and herniated disks
Spinal diseases often cause pain when bone changes put pressure on the spinal cord or nerves. They can also limit movement. Treatments differ by disease, but sometimes they include back braces and surgery.
- Compression fractures of the back (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Foraminotomy (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Kyphosis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Laminectomy (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Lordosis (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Spinal fusion (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Spine surgery - discharge (Medical Encyclopedia)
- Spondylolisthesis (Medical Encyclopedia)
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ICD-10 Footnotes
General Equivalence Map Definitions
The ICD-10 and ICD-9 GEMs are used to facilitate linking between the diagnosis codes in ICD-9-CM and the new ICD-10-CM code set. The GEMs are the raw material from which providers, health information vendors and payers can derive specific applied mappings to meet their needs.
- Approximate Flag - The approximate flag is on, indicating that the relationship between the code in the source system and the code in the target system is an approximate equivalent.
- No Map Flag - The no map flag indicates that a code in the source system is not linked to any code in the target system.
- Combination Flag - The combination flag indicates that more than one code in the target system is required to satisfy the full equivalent meaning of a code in the source system.
Present on Admission
The Present on Admission (POA) indicator is used for diagnosis codes included in claims involving inpatient admissions to general acute care hospitals. POA indicators must be reported to CMS on each claim to facilitate the grouping of diagnoses codes into the proper Diagnostic Related Groups (DRG). CMS publishes a listing of specific diagnosis codes that are exempt from the POA reporting requirement.


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If the icy weather disrupted delivery of your printed Charlotte Observer today, we invite you to try our electronic edition at NO charge.
That also goes for single copy buyers who can't get to a news rack.
Our E-edition is an exact replica of that day's printed newspaper. If you have not tried it, I think you will be pleased at how easy it is to virtually "turn the pages." It also has the added advantage of search.
It is easy to get the E-edition on your home computer. Simply go to:
When asked for a phone number, type in 704-358-0108. For the home address, type the number 600. Then apply the security code as provided.
If you need further assistance, operators are waiting at 800-532-5350.
While our carriers are working hard to maintain delivery, it is inevitable that we will experience problems in some areas as a result of the ice. We sincerely apologize if this happens to you.
Please feel free to try the E-edition as an alternative. And if it is your first time, let me know what you think of the experience.
(The E-edition, by the way, is regularly available to print subscribers for an additional $1 a month, and to non-print subscribers for $5.99 a month.)
Monday, January 10, 2011
Observer E-edition is free today
If the icy weather disrupted delivery of your printed Charlotte Observer today, we invite you to try our electronic edition at NO charge.
34 comments:
- Anonymous said...
The e-edition should be FREE to people who subscribe to the print edition. Even a dollar is too much.
- January 10, 2011 at 12:37 PM
- ThaQueenCity said...
I like the regular online edition better than the E edition. We do get the Observer at home so I can flip through if I want.
Personally, I don't like flipping through the E Edition as if it were a real paper, kinda defeats the purpose to me.
however, I do like the interaction of the online edition.
Thanks for the free preview!
- January 10, 2011 at 12:42 PM
- Art Rouse said...
I read the electronic edition on a Kindle, but I can't read the Kindle edition on my I-Pad or computer. Are there any plans for a Kindle app for I-Pad?
- January 10, 2011 at 12:55 PM
- Rick Thames said...
Art, our parent company, McClatchy, is experimenting with an i-Pad application on a couple of fronts right now. Until that's ready, if you haven't tried this E-edition on your computer, I think you will find it very useful.
- January 10, 2011 at 1:06 PM
- Anonymous said...
Would be nice to view it on iPad. I'd subscribe then. I tried this on iPad and you cannot see anything. On computer looks pretty good, but I want to read on iPad and iPhone. Get that going and you may have something. Does it work on Android tabs or phones anyone?
- January 10, 2011 at 1:07 PM
- VanderQ said...
Art, go to the Amazon hope page where you will find the Kindle app for Ipad.
- January 10, 2011 at 1:28 PM
- Moses Baba Wimmer said...
I think ANONYMOUS might be expecting a little too much. Where else could you get a deal like this for $0.033 a day?
- January 10, 2011 at 1:48 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thanks for the opportunity to try this out. I subscribe weekends only to save money, but find I miss the paper during the week. This might just be the solution!
- January 10, 2011 at 2:10 PM
- Anonymous said...
I can see the benefit of the online edition for a shut-in, etc. but it is not for me. I much prefer the application on my iPhone or the regular website.
- January 10, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- Anonymous said...
Cool! Great way to reintroduce the electronic version. Thanks!
- January 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM
- Anonymous said...
What time is the latest E edition available each morning?
- January 10, 2011 at 5:05 PM
- Anonymous said...
This blog post caused me to see if TCO was finally up on Kindle and I was surprised to find out that it was. Checking out reviews of it on Amazon, there are some complaints about it not being as complete an edition as some other papers have. Is this still the case? I've never subscribed to the paper, but I would be more than willing to give it a go on Kindle.
- January 10, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- Anonymous said...
Thank you - after flipping through it I do find it to be user friendly - and I like the look of a "real" newspaper!
- January 10, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Need to make printing more user-friendly. It prints too small. How can I do the puzzles and crossword/sudoku?
- January 10, 2011 at 6:21 PM
- Charlotte Observer Circulation said...
The digital edition of The Charlotte Observer is available between 3-6am on most days.
- January 10, 2011 at 6:24 PM
- Rick Thames said...
I have a Kindle and I've enjoyed reading the Observer on it. Some of the complaints I've read about the Observer on Kindle date back to more than a year ago when we had some brief problems with the feed. Other complaints are rooted in limitations of the Kindle as a platform. It is very good at delivering text, but only allows a limited number of photos and no graphics, advertisements or comics. Some people miss these features more than others. I suggest that you try the free, 14-day trial for yourself and see if it works for you.
- January 10, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
Do we get a credit? Plus my Golden can't retrieve the E-edition
- January 10, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- Anonymous said...
I can't believe someone would complain about paying $1 per month for the online edition. I have subscribed to the paper for over 20 years and am amazed they are able to continue to provide such a labor intensive effort at the prices they do. Papers across the country, including the CO, are hanging on by a thread. You probably spend more on fast food than on the CO.
- January 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM
- Rocks-R-Us said...
I'm a lost cause...in my 40's and still living with my parents. My iPad, Nook, and Android devices are all different, but I like to read the E-Edition on all those devices so I can continue my stories from the little boy's room, to the couch, and down to my bedroom.
Again...I'm a super loser, so please help me learn to live again via the E-Edition.
- January 11, 2011 at 8:43 AM
- Anonymous said...
I gotta say that I really like the format, once I got the hang of the navigation. The ONLY issue for me is price. The problem with $6 per month is the comparison shopping - is it really worth double what I pay for Netflix? Is it worth 6 times the free edition? I think the bean counters have this all wrong - make it $2 or $3 and you will get 10 times the participation. But I could be wrong.
- January 11, 2011 at 9:15 AM
- Anonymous said...
I have been trying to log on using the phone number, 600 and the code to no avail. Is there are problem logging on today?
- January 11, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- SMP said...
Just tried it for the first time and I liked it. I am not a print subscriber, and I admit will probably not subscribe to the E-edition. But I thought it was great to be able to see an exact replica of the print edition--to be able to not miss anything.
- January 11, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
I'm glad our carrier didn't attempt delivery in the early hours as usual.
Thanks for the alternative.
- January 11, 2011 at 9:36 AM
- Anonymous said...
I tried to download it on my Droid & I got an unknown runtime error.
- January 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM
- Anonymous said...
My Monday and Tuesday papers were not delivered and this was a great way to read those papers. I still prefer the actual paper edition. This option should be made free whenever a subscriber reports a missed or damaged paper.
- January 11, 2011 at 10:28 AM
- Anonymous said...
I am able to access the free e-version now. Thanks-
- January 11, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Anonymous said...
if i'm a weekend print subscriber (Fri-Sun) does that mean $1/month for e-edition or still $6?
- January 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Anonymous said...
Nice to see this even in the E-Version: "Auburn vs. Oregon - LATE"
- January 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
The reason E-edition does not work on an iPad is due to the fact that Apple does not support Flash on the iPad. E-edition is a Flash application.
Apple's position is that they do not want to support a "fading" technology; they view HTML 5 as a successor to Flash and therefore choose to focus on the future of the web rather than support a technology that nearly everyone uses.
So until Apple supports Flash, or the E-edition is available as an iPad app... Your best choice is the Kindle app for the iPad.
- January 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
I have always been a lover of printed media. I don't own an E-reader and still buy hard back books. Thank you for the free E paper. I caught up on yesterday's and today's paper just like I was holding it in my lap. My only complaint is that I couldn't do the crossword puzzle. :)
- January 11, 2011 at 2:14 PM
- Anonymous said...
Up in Richmond, VA paper subscribers can get e-edition for an extra $5 / year which is reasonable. 5.99 / month is crazy and 12 / year for subscribers is equally crazy. I guess, once print goes away the papers can charge what the heck they want. Right now the papers are doing right-sizing research on e-editions in anticipation?
- January 11, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Rick Thames said...
Anon 6:21, there is good news here. This E-edition actually lets you magnify the size of what you are printing out. Simply double-click on your Sudoku or crossword puzzle and it gets much larger. You can then further adjust the size to fit the page you are using to print on. So, if you like your feature bigger, just make it so.
- January 11, 2011 at 4:19 PM
- Rick Thames said...
Anon 9:21, our apologies for a brief server problem that occurred with our vendor. A number of you said you later were able to access the site.
- January 11, 2011 at 4:26 PM
- Anonymous said...
I cant print the sudoku or crossword big enough
- January 11, 2011 at 7:21 PM

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Hearty, creamy, chunky and flavorful � those words just begin to describe the 30 or so different soups that were available to about 350 hungry guests Sunday.
Hearty, creamy, chunky and flavorful � those words just begin to describe the 30 or so different soups that were available to about 350 hungry guests Sunday.
The Community Council for the Arts held its 14th Soup and a Bowl fundraiser with volunteers dishing out their favorite recipes to support the Council�s operations.
�We�ve got more cooks than we�ve ever had,� Annette Turik, event co-chairwoman, said. Those volunteers donated the soups and their time.
Guests could receive samples at no charge, and for a donation could receive a handmade pottery bowl and all the soup they could swallow. Soups were also available for purchase to take out.
Turik�s husband, Scott Turik, event co-chairman, made a version of Brunswick stew passed down by the Eleanor Cummings family.
�It�s been changed as the years have gone by,� he said.
The original recipe called for a little mustard, making it a yellowish color. The color worried Annette, who said she thought traditionalists might not go for it if it wasn�t tomato-based. So Scott added some tomato sauce to the soup he featured at the event.
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�I tweaked it a little bit,� he said, about adding ingredients like cumin and nutmeg to a standard recipe.
Some of the more unusual soups included John Nix�s Venison-bacon white chili and David Mooring�s pheasant noodle soup.
Mooring, a Kinston native who�s been cooking since age 8, said the pheasants were caught at Smokin� Guns Game Reserve in Lenoir County.
�Pheasant tastes a lot like chicken,� he said, �so I wanted to use a chicken recipe.�
Nix, who founded Stew Fest, a fundraiser for the CSS Neuse, said his thick and creamy soup contained strips of bacon and chunks of deer meat sausage and burger. He�s been experimenting with the recipe lately.
�Everything�s really infused together,� he said.
Mary Jo Jefferson, a Kinston resident and Grifton native, took a recipe with parsnips and turnips and made it her own. She calls it chive soup because she said root soup didn�t sound too appealing. She swirled some cream into the smooth soup and topped it with chives.
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�It was good when I tried it at his house,� Vermillion said, �that I said we�re going to serve this.�
It included shrimp, bay scallops, crab and clams and canned cream of potato soup as a base.
Kinston farmer Mike Robinson has been cooking for about 15 years. His fish stew recipe, given to him by Tucker Braxton of Pleasant Hill, features rock fish, potatoes, onions and red pepper in a tomato base. It also includes spices, �the ones you don�t tell anybody about,� Robinson said.
Teena Williams of Kinston made a shrimp stew with sausage, potatoes and, of course, shrimp, using a recipe from the late Charlie Larkins.
Joe Strickland, who cooks at Christopher�s downtown, made a chili recipe he prepares at the restaurant. It was passed down by his father, the late Claxton Strickland. Guests could top it with cheese, sour cream, jalapenos and hot sauce and scoop it up with corn chips or homemade corn bread.
�I can�t tell you about what I put in it,� he said about the chili. �I got a secret ingredient.�
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I want us to take our Bibles now and look at Matthew chapter 17...Matthew chapter 17. I want us to look at a lesson taught by the Lord Jesus Christ on the power of faith. In this text, I want you to look at verse 14 and I want to read, for a setting for our message tonight, verses 14 through 21.
And when they were come to the multitude, there came to Him a certain man kneeling down to Him and saying, Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is epileptic and greatly vexed, for often he falleth into the fire and often into the water. And I brought him to Thy disciples and they couldn't cure him. Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me. And Jesus rebuked the demon and he departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus privately and said, Why could not we cast him out? And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief, for verily I say unto you if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Move from here to yonder place, and it shall move and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
And then the Authorized version adds, "Howbeit this kind goeth not out except by prayer and fasting?"
Now this is an exceedingly interesting passage and I think before you're done you'll see the clarity of the Lord's message in it to His disciples and to us. Faith can move mountains, that's the essence of it in verse 20. If you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say unto this mountain, Move from here to yonder place and it shall move and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Now faith moves mountains. Faith accomplishes great things. That's obvious. I think we've heard that many, many times. But I wonder if we really understand what it means. Let me give you just a little background. It was faith in God's power that caused Caleb the Jewish spy to look at the land of Canaan with its giants and say this in Numbers 13:30, "Let us go up at once and possess it for we are well able to overcome it." That was faith in God's power.
It was faith in God's care that enabled Job to say in the midst of personal disaster, "Thou He slay me, yet will I trust Him," Job 13:15. It was faith in God's protection that enabled Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to stand on the edge of the fiery furnace and say, "Our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king," Daniel 3:17.
It was also faith in God's Word that enabled Daniel to survive the lion's den, as it says in the sixth chapter, "So Daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he believed in his God." It was faith that saved the sinful woman who washed Jesus feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head, as it tells us in Luke chapter 7 verse 50.
And as you look at the eleventh chapter of Hebrews, that great chapter of faith, the Bible tells us it was faith that enabled Abel to offer a better sacrifice. It was faith that caused Enoch to be translated to heaven without death. It was faith that allowed Noah to build a great ark and preach righteousness. It was faith that caused Abraham to follow the call of God. It was faith that caused Sarah to have a child. It was faith that caused Isaac to bless his sons, that caused Jacob to bless his sons, that caused Joseph to hope in the future. It was faith that called Moses to reject the pleasures of sin for the reproach of Christ. It was faith that caused Rahab to receive the spies. And it was faith that came in the time of crisis to Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jetha and David and Samuel and the prophets and many, many others. The power of faith.
And the writer of Hebrews leads into the great opening of the twelfth chapter and says, "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses..." and what are they witnessing? "to a life of...what?...of faith as we stand surrounded by so many who say that we are to live by faith, let us lay aside every weight in the sin that thus so easily has beset us and let us run with patience the rest...the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith."
And so you have throughout holy Scripture, the testimony to the life of faith, to the power of faith. Now in our text, and we can look at our text more closely now, Jesus makes one of the great statements in all of the Bible relative to faith when He says that faith moves mountains and that it makes nothing impossible. The point of the whole passage in many ways is a summary of the whole testimony of the people of God through all of history that God moves powerfully when we believe the power of faith.
Now let me set you in the context of Matthew. We start in chapter 17 and verse 14, really kind of a special section because here the Lord begins an instructional period with His disciples. And running through the end of chapter 20, that is chapter 17, 18, 19 and 20, we find the Lord's special instruction to the Twelve. He is giving them sort of their final preparation for the ministry that lays ahead of them. He has given them a revelation of His person as King. He's given them a revelation of His program for the Kingdom. And now He gives them a revelation of the principles for living in that Kingdom. And there are so many lessons and each is rich and essential and practical and they will be great lessons not only for them but for us.
For example, He teaches them in chapter 17 about faith. And then He teaches them about citizenship, how to live in this world. And then in chapter 18, He teaches them about humility and then He teaches them about offending. And then He teaches them about discipline. And then He teaches them about forgiveness. And then as He comes into chapter 19, He teaches them about marriage and about divorce and about children and about wealth and about rewards. And then into chapter 20 about position and compassion. All of these are profound lessons for living the Kingdom principles. And by the way, stuck in between those lessons periodically is a word about His coming death so that He continues to remind them that He's moving to the cross.
This then is lesson number one in this series of lessons. And it is a lesson on the power of faith. And I believe it could change your life and mine if we learn it well.
Now the whole scene takes place as the disciples--Peter, James and John--with the Lord Jesus are coming down from the Mount of Transfiguration. They have just seen the glory of God revealed in Jesus Christ. They have just seen what Paul calls the glory that is in Christ in the face of Christ. And they've seen it in its fullness, at least fuller than they've ever dreamed it could be seen. And as they descend from the Mount of Transfiguration, having just had that marvelous incomprehensible experience of seeing the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, they are met by a large crowd. And in verse 14 we read, "And when they were come to the multitude, there came to Him a certain man." And we'll stop there.
Here is the setting for the story. They come down the mountain. They meet a crowd. The other gospel writers tell us more about this crowd. Mark tells us it included scribes, Jewish legal experts, just the normal run-of-the-mill gang of people that populated the northern Galilee area. And also the nine other disciples who weren't there at the Mount of Transfiguration. So you have the disciples, the scribes and the multitude of people. And they're there to wait and to meet Jesus and the three who come down from the mountain.
Now this sets up the scene. And in almost every one of these teaching incidents that run through chapter 20, the Lord uses a living situation as the illustration for the principle He wants to communicate. He was the master of taking life situations and from them teaching and burying indellibly in the minds spiritual truth. So it is not just spiritual truth given verbally, but coming out of a living dramatic illustration.
Now as we look at the narrative, I want you to follow four key elements in this narrative text. First is the pleading of the father...the pleading of the father. Now the center of attraction, obviously, in this crowd, as the text tells us, is a man, a certain man it says in verse 14. And it says about him he was kneeling down to Him, that is to Jesus Christ, and saying... Now here is a man in a posture of reverence. Here is a man in a posture of humility. You see him worshiping, kneeling. And then you add the title of verse 15, he says to him, "Lord..." And you can see that he really held Jesus in high esteem. Just what he fully meant by the title "Lord" we can't really know but it certainly was the deepest respect for Jesus Christ whose reputation as a healer and as one sent from God, a miracle worker and a teacher without equal, had run its course throughout all of Galilee and surely the man knew all about Jesus. So, though we may know now the full quality of his reverence in the usage of the title "Lord", we know the man believed that Jesus could heal. He believed He had divine power.
And so he has a request, in verse 15. "Have mercy on my son." A simple request. It's an aorist imperative in the Greek. He begs for an act of mercy. He begs for an instantaneous healing. He wants Jesus to heal his son. By the way, the word "mercy" eleeo, basically means to show or demonstrate compassion. Show compassion on my son. The father is in deep agony. He is pleading for his son. And the further you read in the story and when you add the narrative of Matthew...of Mark that parallels it and the narrative of Luke that parallels it, it becomes obvious why the father was so wrought in his heart with the matter of his son.
Look at verse 15 again. It says he is epileptic. Now that's a very interesting word. And in the Greek language, it basically means to be moonstruck...to be moonstruck. Because they believed in that period of time that certain strange behavior was caused by the moon. And we're not too far from that, by the way, we have a word that we use rather frequently for people who act strangely, we call them "lunatic." That also means moonstruck, or related to the moon. So that the term "moonstruck" simply demonstrates a rather pagan approach to defining this kind of behavior as something related to the moon like the tides, perhaps. The term is used only one other place and that's in Matthew 4:24. But it is used to described behavior that includes epilepsy which is nervous disorder, convulsions, seizure. And in ancient times people believed this was caused by some movement of the moon.
Now this is not a very pathological use of the term, but nonetheless we understand they're talking about a person acting crazily and out of control. Further it says he is greatly vexed. And that's Old English for saying "he is tremendously afflicted." It is not a mild case of epilepsy, it is a major case, it is perhaps grand mal at its most serious level.
Now Mark adds at this point, most interestingly in Mark 9:17, that the man was also dumb, that is he couldn't speak, or rather the child couldn't speak. And Mark also adds in chapter 9 verse 25 that he couldn't hear either. He was deaf and dumb. So he was epileptic at a severe level. He was deaf and dumb. And then we go back to Matthew and we pick this up, "He falls into the fire often and often into the water."
Now when he would go into one of these fits and one of the seizures of massive proportions, he would be exposed to great danger because all around that part of the world, of course, there were open fires. And as he would thrash about he would have the obvious potential of falling in to either a pool of water of which there were many around the cities for the drawing of water, or falling into a fire. And so he was always in danger of being severely burned, and--no doubt--had been severely burned and always in danger of being drowned. Perhaps there was in that demon that possessed this young boy a violent desire for murder.
So you have a child with epilepsy, seizures, deaf and dumb, compounded by burnings and near drownings. And this is his life. Mark and Luke add other symptoms. Mark says that there was a demon in him and the demon in him, he says, taketh him and teareth him. Literally thrashes him. You could translate tear to strike, to dash or to smash down. And so in the fit that would go on, the demon would smash him to the ground and thrash his body. Luke says the demon threw him down, or slammed him down. Mark says that he foams at the mouth, he convulses, he wallows and rolls in the dirt and he withers away.
You can imagine, can't you? It was so severe that he couldn't eat, that his body was dissipating rapidly. And then to make it worse, if it could be, Mark adds that the demon in him was a foul unclean demon...which may mean that he uttered profanities, that he acted in a licentiousness lewd immoral way out of control. And in Mark 9:21, the question is asked of the father, "When did he get like this?" And the father says, "He was like this since he was a child." Now you understand why the father is pleading? He's got a real heartache on his hands. Something that would be very, very difficult for a father to bear. And this is his only son.
What a picture. Here is the only beloved son of his father and he's about to face the only beloved Son of God. Jesus can identify with him. Jesus can understand the heart of this father. And so the father comes and he pleads.
And I can't help but think at this moment that there is such a stark contrast, isn't there, between the mount of splendor and the valley of despair? I mean, all of the glory up there and the unveiled Christ and Moses and Elijah and the transparent beautiful light, the glow of the Shekinah coming from Christ, the conversation of Moses and Elijah, the glory of that Second Coming preview and now just a few hours after that they descend into the reality of the sin-cursed world at its worse.
You say, "How do people get demons in them like this?" Let me tell you something. If you're not a Christian, you don't have to do anything to get like this because you're ruled by the prince of the power of the air who can dispatch or permit or allow or not prevent his demons to do anything to you that they want to do. You have no way to resist that. And it's not to say that this child was evil, this child was possessed from his childhood, from his young childhood. It was the choice of the demon, perhaps not even the choice of the child in terms of any moral choice. And so we are reminded again that we come from the mountain top of the Second Coming right back down to reality. Let's face it, we've had a few great weeks on the mountain top, haven't we? And we've been singing and praising God for the Second Coming as we've been anticipating it but before it comes we've got to get back to reality and here's reality, here's a pleading father with a son that is--humanly speaking--an utter disaster, has no resource.
Kebble(?) has written, "If ever on the mount with Thee I seem to soar in vision bright, with thoughts of coming agony, stay Thou the two presumptuous flight, gently along the veil of tears, lead me from Herman's sunbright steep, let me not grudge a few short years with Thee toward heaven to work and weep." Don't let me get so caught up in the Second Coming and so caught up in the glory that is to come that I forget the pain that must be dealt with here.
That leads us to a second point in the narrative. The pleading of the father brings us to the powerlessness of the followers. Verse 16, "I brought him to Thy disciples and they could not heal him," therapeuo, same word used throughout the New Testament for healing. "I brought him to the disciples and they couldn't do it."
Does that seem strange to you? Well, let me show you something. Go back to chapter 10 verse 1. When Jesus called His disciples, He called unto Him the Twelve, verse 1 says, Matthew 10, "He gave them power against unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all types of sickness and all types of disease."
Look at verse 7, "As you go, preach saying the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons." Hey, they had been given the commission to do this. They had been given the power to do this and now they can't do it. And what is even more amazing is they'd already been doing it. That's right, this isn't the first time that they had tried to cast demons out. In Mark chapter 6 it tells us that He sent the twelve forth to preach and to heal. And it says in verse 13 they cast out many demons and anointed with oil many that were sick and healed them. They had done it before. They knew Jesus gave them the power. They knew they had accomplished it in times past. And now all of a sudden they can't do it. What's gone wrong? Have they lost this power?
Luke adds, by the way, that the father pled with them, the nine who were down below...pled with them to do this. And they couldn't do it. Now listen, did Jesus give...did Jesus promise them they could do it? Did He? Yes, chapter 10. Did He prove to them they could do it by allowing them to do it? Yes. So they had the promise and they had the power, what was missing?
Well, it's very simple. They didn't appropriate the power. Not too hard to figure out, is it? They didn't appropriate it. It was available but they didn't appropriate it. They couldn't do in chapter 17 what they were promised to do in chapter 10. Now let's leave that for a moment, we'll come back to that.
So, the father presses past them to Jesus. And we can't help but be moved by the sense of urgency of this father. He doesn't now have a lot of faith in the disciples of Jesus but he still has some faith in Jesus. I think it kind of reminds me of how some people think about the church. They don't have a whole lot of faith in the agents of Jesus but they sure would like to get past the agents to Him. In fact, I remember reading in a New West magazine an article by a man who was cynical about Christianity. And he said at the close of his article, "Frankly, I think Jesus had a lot more class than most of His agents." And so, in a sense, they're not unlike...the father, rather, is not unlike the world in seeing the impotence of the church in wanting to press off and past that to get to the Savior Himself.
So, we see the pleading of the father and the powerlessness of the followers. That leads us to what we'll call the perversion of the faithless in verse 17. It's time for Jesus to give a lessons, folks. I mean, the disciples are in confusion. The father's in a state of tremendous grief. And now it's time for Jesus to speak. "Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you?" Stop right there.
You don't get very many glimpses into the heart of Jesus like that one. You know what we'd call that in our language? That's being totally...what?...frustrated. How long will I be with you? How long is this going to last when I'm so used to working through angels? How long will I bear with you?
You're really seeing into the heart of Christ, the pain of His heart, the disappointment that comes out of His lips. You say, "Well, who does He have in mind?" O faithless and perverse generation...well, I think...I think that's a general statement. The whole generation was faithless and perverse, but He generalizes off of the specific and who were the specific ones who weren't exercising faith? The disciples. It was the particular inability of the disciples from which He generalizes to the whole inability of the generation in which they lived, because the scribes standing there, they didn't believe either. And the other nine disciples, they couldn't pull it off. And the father himself was weak in faith. You remember he says, according to Mark's gospel, when in conversation with Jesus in this same incident, he said, "Lord, I believe, help Thou my unbelief." He believed a little bit but not much more than a little bit. And so the Lord is saying, "Oh, you disciples are symbolic of a whole generation of faithless people." And if you don't trust God and you don't believe in God, you get twisted, and that's what perverse means, to be crooked, or to be twisted. It's used of objects made by a craftsman that turn out lousy because he's a clumsy craftsman...twisted, distorted, out of shape. And He says, "You people who don't believe are distorted and twisted." And that's the generation He faced.
No wonder there was a sense of frustration. I love that statement in verse 17, "How long shall I be with you?" You can see Him starting to get anxious to go back to the Father, can't you? He sort of senses the end, how long do I have to endure this? You see, His contemporaries were disastrous failures and even His own disciples were continually having to learn the same lessons over and over and over and over. I mean, just look at the crowd. The crowd is thrill-seeking, they don't really believe fully. The scribes, they're gloating. Oh, you can know it, they're gloating over the inability of the nine disciples to heal this young boy. I mean, they're really happy they can't do it. And the father is struggling with faith. And the disciples had failed to exercise the faith they needed to heal the young boy, even though they had the promise and the power. And so, to some degree, the whole bunch of them were faithless and twisted and diverted from trust in God. And Jesus says, thirty-three years is about all of this I can take. And so, in the end of verse 17 He says, "Bring him here to Me...bring him here."
At this point Matthew doesn't tell us what happened, but Mark does. The father brought the boy. And as he brought the boy, Mark says, the demon in the boy saw Jesus and when he saw Jesus he threw the boy into convulsions. The boy smashed into the dirt and began to roll in the dirt, wallow in the dirt and foam at the mouth.
And to be deaf and dumb in addition to that, and all the horror of that scene... Well, you know the demon knew where he was. Demons know Christ. Remember Acts chapter 19 verse 15 when the demon said, "Jesus I know and Paul I know, but who are you?" They know Jesus. And this one knew Him, just like the demons in the maniac of Gadara knew Him. He knew Him. And he knew he was at his Waterloo, too. When he saw Jesus, this demon, fallen angel of the Satanic host who had what the New Testament called demonized, daimonizonminos(?), who had demonized this child. When he saw Jesus, threw him into convulsions.
Now verse 18, "And Jesus rebuked the demon and he departed out of him and the child was cured from that very hour." What a marvelous scene, isn't it? I mean, it all has been going on for years and it just ended that fast. Jesus rebuked the demon, he left. The child was cured from that very hour. He could speak, he could hear, he could think, no more convulsions, no more seizures, no more wallowing, no more foaming at the mouth, no more foul, evil, vile, wretched vocabulary...if there was anything to come gutterly out of his dumbness. Amazing, miraculous.
But Jesus always had that power...always. It was just part of His ministry to cast out demons. He did it over and over and over again. And we've been following through Matthew and we've seen it in chapter 4, we've seen it in chapter 8 twice, we've seen it in chapter 9, we've seen it in chapter 12, we see it here. Jesus had power over wretched fallen angels.
By the way, Luke adds a wonderful little footnote here. Luke says, "And all were astonished...I love this phrase...all were astonished at the majesty of God." Beautiful phrase. All were astonished at the majesty of God. You know why Luke uses that phrase? It lingers in his mind from the transfiguration. On the mountain, the majesty of God was seen in Christ and no less was it seen in His power over the demonic world. Majesty. And Luke uses that word, the majesty of God. And it...by the way...is the very same word that Peter uses in 2 Peter 1:16 when it says we were eyewitnesses of His majesty on the holy mount. This, too, revealed His majestic glory.
So, in response to the pleading of the father and the powerlessness of the followers, the Lord confronts the perversion of the faithless generation. And He heals the child Himself. Now that brings us to the main point, this is the fourth point, the power of faith. It's now teaching time, folks. And we're going to find out what all this is meant to teach. I mean, if we just stop here and go home we really wouldn't know. Which seems a nice story, glad for that child, it's wonderful. Nice to have that child whole for the father's sake. Nice for people to see the power of Christ, but it has nothing to do with me.
Oh, but it does...it does and let's see why. The whole incident is merely an illustration of a lesson, and here comes the lesson in verse 19. "Then came the disciples to Jesus privately and they said, Why could we not we cast him out?" I mean, You just came up and...(snap) he was gone. Why couldn't we do it? It doesn't square with what You told us in chapter 10. I mean, it doesn't make sense.
Mark says they went into a home, maybe a home where they were staying in that area. And they got Him alone and they said, "Why couldn't we do it?" They didn't ask, "How did You do that?" They knew how He did it, they wanted to know why they couldn't. So, Jesus teaches them a great lesson. Verse 20, "Because of your little faith..." That's the original text. Not unbelief, not no faith, "Because of your little faith, you had weak faith, you didn't believe enough."
Now at this point I know I run the risk of sounding like the average faith healer. So let me clarify this because most of us run so fast the opposite way that we've eliminated faith from our lives all together, and everything for us is just matter of fact, you know. But He says because of your little faith. You know, if they had one problem, what was it? Little faith. Have you heard that before? O ye of...what?...little faith. Remember I told you that was the subtitle for the disciples, the O ye of little faith association. They always were indicted for that. Four times Jesus says to them "O ye of little faith."
And what's He saying? It's not enough for me to say that, I've got to get a handle on that and I think you do, too. I want to know exactly what that means. Now follow my thinking very closely. What is our Lord saying, O ye of little faith? Does He mean, "Well, you don't believe down deep in some subjective way," what is He really saying?
Now let me give it to you as simply as I can. When the disciples first saw this child, the father brought him, and there's little doubt in my mind that they attempted to heal the boy. And maybe they said in the name of Jesus Christ, be gone. He didn't go. Nothing happened. And maybe they said it one more time, in the name of Jesus Christ be gone...and he didn't go. And so they said, "Well, it's too difficult for the Lord...it just, it can't be done...can't be done." So they gave up. I mean, they just bailed out. Their faith ran out at that point. And they quit. And in case you think that's unusual, let's take a little trip.
Go back to Matthew chapter 6, this was pretty routine behavior for them. He teaches them a rather important lesson. We believe the Sermon on the Mount was spoken to the multitudes but also to His disciples, as it's indicated in chapter 5. And when He speaks to them, and particularly in verse 30, "Wherefore if God so clothed the grass of the field which is today and tomorrow is cast in the oven, shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith." Now one thing they worried about was the matter of clothing and food and drink. Now they were okay with what they had, it was what they didn't have that worried them. They had a lack of faith in God to supply what they didn't see immediately in their hand. I mean, all of us can believe, and we say, "Oh yes, my God supplies all my need, all you need to do is go to the closet and take it out." Or the Lord provides all our food, all you have to do is go to the cupboard in your kitchen or go to the market and buy it. So you don't have any trouble believing God for what you have in hand. But what is accessible and available to you? And that's the way they were.
But as soon as they were hearing from Jesus, "Follow Me, and come after Me and I want you to know there's going to be no place to lay your head," and all of this and all of that and the Lord says, "Now don't worry about it, My God is going to take care of everything." And God who clothed the grass is going to clothe you. And God who feeds the birds is going to take care of your food and all of these kind of things. They had a very difficult time handling what they didn't have but knew they needed. They didn't have any resource, they weren't having any jobs. How were they going to get fed? Where were they going to sleep? And their faith ran out at the point they couldn't see the provision.
Now go to chapter 8 and verse 26. And now they're on a sea, the Sea of Galilee, in a boat and there's a tremendous storm. And Jesus is asleep and they shake Him and wake Him. They say, "Lord, save us, we perish, we're going to drown. And He said unto them, Why are you fearful, O ye of little faith?" There's that same speech again. You see, they could believe the Lord would take care of them and protect them as long as there were no waves. But as soon as the storm came, their faith quit. It only went so far until they couldn't see any human way out and that's where their faith ended.
And, you know, we fall into that category. We can believe God. "Oh yes, I trust the Lord, I believe the Lord." And then we hit the storm and we cannot see anyway out and our faith comes to a halt. And we enter into despair. You see, when faith stops, despair begins. When faith stops, worry begins. When faith stops, doubt begins.
Look at Matthew chapter 14 verse 31. And we're going to pull this all together and you'll see it. Here's Peter, he's out of the boat, he's walking on the water. Now, his faith got him out of the boat but as soon as he saw what was going on, in verse 30, he saw the wind, he was afraid, he began to sink, he cried saying, "Lord, save me." Immediately Jesus stretched forth His hand, caught him, and here comes that same speech again, "O you of little faith, why did you doubt?"
And we see it again. He could believe God until he saw the wind, until he saw the storm. And when he knew there was no human way to conquer that problem, he ran out of faith. It really wasn't faith at all, was it? Because faith is the ability to believe God when there are no human resources.
Look at chapter 16 for the fourth time that He gives this same speech. And now the disciples don't have anything to eat. And they're concerned about that. In verse 8 He says, "O ye of little faith," again. They needed food for themselves, for another crowd that had gathered. They didn't have the faith to believe the Lord could supply it.
Now listen, let me sum all four of these up and you get this, you get the whole lesson. All these incidents tell us what little faith is. Little faith is the kind of faith that believes in God when you have something in your hand. Got it? Oh yes, I believe God. Oh yes, the Lord provides. Here it is and I'm hanging on to it. That's little faith. But little faith can't believe God when it doesn't have in hand its resource, that's little faith. Great faith says I believe God without anything in my hand. I believe God in the middle of the storm. I believe God though thy wind is howling. I believe God though there's nothing on the cupboard. I believe God though I don't have any clothing. I believe God. That's great faith. Little faith, most of us are really good at little faith. We believe God because we can see what He's done, it's right here.
Now, in all these four incidents of little faith, the Lord was present, right? In each time He took care of it. Provided for them, gave them what they needed, met their need, took them with the point of their little faith, and did what they couldn't do. But this time, He was away and they couldn't do it and He wasn't there. And this is a new test for them, you see. Oh, this is a brand new test for them. Usually He was with them and when they couldn't do it or when they couldn't believe, He'd step right in and take over. But now He left them on their own and He's giving them a sample, listen, of the way it is going to be pretty soon when He's gone. And the way it is for you and me. He's starting to cut the cord, see. He's starting to turn them loose to leave them on their own.
And now watch, as He begins to let them go on their own, He starts to teach them a profound lesson that everything you want, everything you need isn't necessarily going to come the first time you ask God. Did you get that? Did you get that? That's the lesson. You see, they said, "Come out," it didn't come out. Maybe they said, "Come out?" it didn't come out. Maybe they said, "Come out..." it didn't come out. Can't do it. God can't do it.
You know what little faith is? It's the kind of stuff that doesn't know how to persist in prayer. Did you get that? It doesn't know how to persist in prayer. Now when they were young and they were new, He responded immediately. And have you noticed that that very often happens with new Christians? They come to Jesus Christ and they start to pray and ask the Lord for things and they come very fast? Because they just have a little faith to start with and the Lord wants to strengthen that and some of us have been a Christian long time, and we ask the Lord for something and it seems like He's not even there. And we ask Him again and it seems like He's not even there. And after two or three times, you say, "Well, it's obvious He's certainly not interested in this project." And we exercise little faith...little faith. But the Lord is strengthening us. The longer you've been a Christian, the tougher the test has to be, right? To strengthen you. Like when you start lifting weights, you start with a little bit and you see it right away. But the longer you do it, the more weight you have to add to do any good. And so the trials and testings that God gives us get longer and harder as we go because that's how He continues to strengthen us.
Now the Lord was available to these nine disciples. But He was testing...how long will you persist in prayer? This is a marvelously comforting truth, beloved, listen to it. Even these apostles with their apostolic uniqueness and their gifts of miraculous healing, casting out of demons, were dependent on the prayer of faith to see the power work. And though we do not have apostolic gifts in terms of miracles and healing, we are too dependent on the power of faith. You go to the Lord with a problem, two or three times nothing happens, you give up. I've heard people say, "You know, I've been praying for so-and-so to come to the Lord for two months..." two months? The test is how long you going to stay there and let God strengthen your faith. You see, follow now in the text and look what happens, verse 20, you couldn't do this because of your little faith. And then He says, "If you...and He says it seriously, verily I say unto you...if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed you could say to a mountain move and the mountain would move."
And, you know, you read that and you say, "Now wait a minute, You just said we had little faith and now You tell us if we had faith as little as a grain of mustard seed and that's the littlest seed that was known in that part of the world, what are You saying? You just said we had little faith and that's why we couldn't do it, now You tell us if we had little faith we could do it." No. Most people misinterpret that mustard seed. The principle of the mustard seed is not that it's little, no. The principle of the mustard seed is that it is little and it does what? It grows. You remember that principle? It's in Matthew 13, sure you remember it. Verse 31, another parable He put forth unto them saying, "The Kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and sowed in his field which indeed is the least of all seeds, but when it is grown it is the greatest among herbs and becomes a tree so the birds of air come and lodge in the branches of it." And what you've got in the mustard seed is something that starts very, very small and grows very large.
Now what is our Lord saying? Watch. If you had the faith that is illustrated in a mustard seed, you would start out small but your faith would do what? It would grow and increase. And that's an indictment of them. They started out with a little bit of faith and they just bailed out. Beloved, I believe there are many things that God desires for you to experience in your life that God desires to accomplish in your life that are available to you through the exercise of His divine power. But that power will never be tapped until you have the faith that starts small. And when it meets with resistance and when you don't see it happen, the faith doesn't die small, it gets larger and larger and larger. And you continue persistently in prayer.
Would you look with me at Luke chapter 11 as we wrap up our thinking with just a few closing thoughts? In Luke 11 verse 5, "And He said unto them, Which of you shall have a friend and go to him at midnight and say, Friend, lend me three loaves?" I mean, you've got a friend and you go to his house at midnight to borrow some bread, or buy some, and a friend of mine in his journey has come to me and I have nothing to set before him. "And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not." I mean, you're saying, Look, I've got a guest, he just arrived, I can't feed the guy, get out of bed and give me some bread. And the guy inside says, "Hey, don't bother me. My door is shut, my children are with me in bed," and that tells us a lot about how they used to sleep. They all used to get in the same bed to keep warm. Some of us can identify with that, those of us who have raised kids, waking up in the morning with two little feet by your head. He says I can't get out of bed, I'm all snuggled in here with the whole gang, I get up and everybody's going to get up. We're extricably tangled in this deal. "And I say unto you, though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he'll rise and give him as many as he needs." You know what importunity means? His persistence. I mean, the guy just says, "Please...please...please, get up, I need the bread." And just goes on and on and he won't do it for a friend but he'll do it to get rid of the guy. And He goes on to make the point that if a guy will give you something to get rid of you, what will God do for you when He loves you and when He wants you to come?
But the same lesson is true. He wants you to persist in prayer because that's the extension of your faith. You see, if you just said, "God, I want this..." (snap) you've got it...you'd never learn the strength in your faith. You'd never be ready for the trial, would you? And so the Lord asks us to persist and persist. And you have the same thing in the eighteenth chapter of Luke in that marvelous opening passage there, there was a judge who feared not God nor man and a widow, she came, and she wanted vengeance. And the judge wouldn't give it and so she came and troubled him and kept coming and kept coming and kept coming and he said, "You know, this woman is driving me out of my mind." Finally responded. If an unjust judge will do that, what will God do who is a just and loving God?
Let's go back to Matthew...to Matthew chapter 17 then. You see, that's the lesson here. The disciples started on the project but they ran out of faith cause they didn't see their answer immediately. And the Lord said if you had faith like mustard seed, which starts small and gets bigger and bigger, you would have been able to do it.
Now let me just tell you something about this verse. Please, it is not saying that if you have little tiny faith the size of a grain of mustard seed that you could say mountain be removed. It's not talking about literal mountains. It's talking about mountains of difficulty. It's figurative. In fact, when the Jews...by the way, this was a rather common Jewish phrase...when the Jews talked about removing mountains, they used it in reference to the ability to get past difficulties, or to remove difficulties. One writer says, "A great teacher who could really expound and interpret Scripture and who could explain and resolve difficulties was known as an uprooter or a pulverizer of mountains. To tear up, to uproot, to pulverize mountains were all regular phrases for removing difficulties. Jesus never meant this to be taken physically and literally. After all, the ordinary man seldom finds any necessity to remove a mountain. What He meant was, if you have faith enough, all difficulties can be solved and even the hardest task can be accomplished."
And then He says it at the end in verse 20, nothing is impossible to you. But that nothing...it's conditional. You see, He was saying to the apostles nothing is impossible to you which is in the framework of My promise to you, right? I promised you could do these things and it's possible. It's only possible, first of all, if it's within the framework of God's will and God's promise. So don't make that so broad that it means nothing is impossible. It has to be qualified somehow. And it's qualified by the promise of God. I promised you could do this and you can do it...if you have faith that grows. I want to stretch your faith. I want you to learn to trust Me so you'll be able to trust Me in the extreme tests. And I have to let you out a little bit at a time.
What the disciples should have done when they didn't heal the man the first, second or third time, was to keep on praying and keep on trusting and keep on believing God till their persistent prayer broke through and reached its point where God wanted them to learn, and then God would have responded. It isn't that they had to batter down heaven to get His attention, it is that God knew exactly what He was going to do but He withheld it in order that they might continue to stretch their faith.
It's a great lesson. The principle is clear, the disciples couldn't heal even though they had a promise, they couldn't heal even though they had available power because they weren't persistent in prayer. And the lesson for us is, beloved, God has given us promises. O my, promise for wisdom, promise to meet all our needs, promise for comfort, peace, joy, virtue, strength, safety, protection, deliverance, fruit, promise of guidance, promise of forgiveness, promise of freedom, promises, promises. And He's given us power in the Spirit of God and yet very often we don't experience the fulfillment of the promise in God's power because we don't know the persistence of prayer that keeps on praying until God responds. And that's why, you see, the story ends, verse 21 says, "Howbeit this kind goes not out except by prayer?"
Now let me tell you some things about this verse. The terms "and fasting" are not there in the original text. Someone added them. Matthew 2:19 says this is not a time for fasting when the bridegroom is present. And verse 21 isn't even in the best manuscripts of Matthew, it's borrowed from Mark's account but it is at the end of Mark's account. The story does end with this statement. So somebody, some scribe thought it capped off Matthew's account so he pulled it over and put it here. And that's fine in a sense because it is the ending of the story in Mark 9:29 and what the Lord says in the end is this kind goes not out except by prayer.
And listen to me very carefully then, the antidote to little faith is what? Prayer...persistent prayer. Listen, James says it, the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man...what?...availeth much. Effectual dedicated fervent passionate continuous persistent prayer gets results. You may never know the full promise of God. You may never know the full blessedness of God. You may never know the full rewards that...of all that God wants to bestow upon you until you learn persistent prayer.
More than half a century ago, George Mueller prince of intercessors began to pray for a group of five friends...five friends. After five years, one of them came to Jesus Christ. After ten years two more of them came to Christ. He prayed for twenty-five years and the fourth man was saved. And for the fifth he prayed until the time of his death and that fifth friend came to Christ a few months after George Mueller died. For that fifth friend he prayed fifty-two years, perseverance.
Have you bailed out already? If you do, you miss the power of God.
Our Father, thank You for a good lesson that we should be faithful in prayer. Thank You for great, great insight, that the Apostles were like we are, even though they had unique gifts, they had to come to that power source the same way we do by persistent prayer that can reach beyond what it has in its hand and cry out effectually, fervently for that which it desperately needs from Thee. Give us a heart of persistence in prayer for the glory of Christ, amen.
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For the holy Cyril also, after he had written a derisive book against Theodore and Diodorus, the teachers of the impiety of Nestorius (and he contends against them and says, «You have surpassed the open-mouthedness of the heathen, you have shown the impieties of Jewish pride to be nothing»), sent a message by letter to Proclus of saintly memory bishop of Constantinople not to remove the name of such men from the sacred diptychs, because those of the East clung to the memory of this man.
1. Has anyone done a study on the authenticity of some of these letters. For example, I stop by a few letters addressed by St. Severus to St. Dioscorus, and I have to say, there seems to be a question of authenticity there. The date of these letter was well after the departure of St. Dioscorus.
Does this mean that while St. Cyril may personally anathematize Diodore and Theodore, he allowed them to be celebrated as saints in some other churches, or could this letter be brought to question in authenticity for some scholarly reason?
lol You can't just go looking for "scholarly" reasons to doubt something just because it prima facie irks you.
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There is a Serbian bishop I know who is planning on doing his disertation on Severus and all of his works.
Anything you could give me would be really helpful. Thanks
Nice. What point of view is he seeking to advance?
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Last week I paid a visit to my favorite antique shop in Houston – M. Naeve. Darling Margaret, the proprietress, had just gotten in her new shipment so I wanted to see it and share it with you. Don't worry – this time my pictures are all in focus, unlike last time I was in M. Naeve and all my snaps were totally blurry! The most exciting news ala Miss Margaret is she is now on 1st Dibs! Yes! So, anyone in the country that wants to share in everything M. Naeve can now do so here. What I enjoy most about M. Naeve is everything here is authentic and period, which is a real rarity these days. It's antiques for the privileged few I know, but looking is free and it's a lot easier to look in Houston than flying over to Provence! I'm an addict needing a fix, every so often I just have to stop in and look around and dream. Margaret knows that when I win the lotto, my first stop will be at her shop. If you have ever wondered where all the chicest of Houston interior designers get their antiques – rest assured, M. Naeve is at the top of their list.
At the front door was the biggest surprise of the day – chairs from Spain that Margaret bought in Belgium – got that?! This purchase represents a departure for Margaret who is looking to broaden her appeal, but just a little. This summer, she spent a few days shopping in Belgium and she couldn't resist this set of chairs. We spent a long time talking about Belgian design in general and where she thinks design and the antiques business are headed – in between giggles and cups of coffee, of course!
OK, enough talk about mid century modern and Belgian design, let's get back to the subject at hand – French and Swedish antiques. Margaret has two high tea tables, both period, both to die for. First, there is this table. And the chandelier - I just so love this with the amethyst cut crystal.
And then there is this table – period, again! Margaret said she just had to buy this table – she couldn't resist it. Imagine putting your accessories and books on a table that someone used in the 1700s. Hard to imagine what that must feel like. And notice the charming bench in front of the table.
Another period piece – the red chest. A-maz-ing is all I can say. J'adore the settee atop it too.
A rare set of period Swedish Bellman chairs. Twelve in all. Isn't this a gorgeous vignette? The chairs, the sofa, the chandelier – love it all!
I'm crazy for this desk – and especially the book on top of it – Style by Saladino.
Yummm. No other word for it! This would be so great in front of a bed or in a living room or on one side of a dining table.
VSC: Very Special Chair – period, leather, nailheads. VSC!
Painted enfilade with two adorable stools on top. Nice mirror too!
Check out this banquette! Too cute!
Iron park chairs flank an armoire. The window is full of metal flowers.
One day I am going to own a fireplace like this – one day, I promise you! It might be when I'm in heaven, but one day, I will!
This table is actually a black stone! Wonderful set of painted Swedish rococo chairs.
I love that Gustavian day bed in the window! Great chandelier and lantern.
And speaking of lanterns, Margaret sells this line of reproduction lanterns – here are the square ones.
And here are these – do they look familiar?
Yep, it's where I got my lantern that caused so much upheaval in Mr. Slipper Socks Man's life with his missing ceiling fan!
The South of France – overlooking olive tree farms. I wonder if Vicki's farm is one of these?
I asked Margaret about hotels in France that she likes to stay at and first we talked about the South of France.
Margaret said her favorite town when antiquing is the charming St. Remy de Provence. She really loves this hotel – the Hotel Chateau del Alpilles. An old farmhouse, with ties back to medieval times, the hotel was in total disrepair when the current owners bought it and restored it in 1979.
You reach the property through a long allee of traditional French plane trees.
At night, it becomes magical.
The main building, or the mas, was constructed in the 1800s to take the place of the old farmhouse.
The hotel is surrounded by many acres of parkland. Meals are taken outside in good weather.
Rest spots are found throughout the park.
Springs and fountains dot the area along the paths.
There are several outbuildings on the property where guests can stay – this is La Chapelle, where weddings used to be held.
Even the old wash house was converted into guest rooms!
The old farmhouse has been converted into several different suite arrangements with meeting rooms on the first floor.
The pool area is hidden in the park.
Some rooms are filled with antiques, some are more contemporary.
What a view – I would set up my lap top right here!
The rooms are all furnished differently.
Whenever I look up hotels on their web site, I like to get a "true" idea of what the hotel "really" looks like. The best way to do that is to search Flickr, Webshots, Picasa and other photo hosting sites. Most amazing was I found pictures taken by a very young newlywed couple on their honeymoon. They actually stayed in BOTH hotels that Margaret recommended! Here is the room they stayed in – so far, so good. It looks amazingly like the hotel's web site – a good sign, for sure. What a mirror!
The view across the river in Avignon.
The next town where Margaret stays is Avignon and her favorite hotel there is La Mirande, which she says is one of her favorite hotels anywhere!
Located in a centuries old building that has a long and illustrious history, the hotel is very beautifully decorated with wonderful fabrics. There is a also a cooking school at the hotel.
The decor is pure French Provencal. Everything I just love!
Like, the terra cotta floors, the jugs, the stone console, the candlesticks.
In the dining room – this looks more like a still life painting!
The courtyard at night, where all the action takes place – taken by our famous honeymooning couple.
In the hotel there are historical salons that you can rent out for private affairs. This is the Garden Salon. What a beautiful room to host a wedding shower in!
Each salon is more charming the next!
Beautiful sofa!
How does the salon look in "real life" to a visitor? I found this picture on Picasa – looks as good as the hotel's web site, I have to say! The wallcovering is so beautifiul!!! And notice the gorgeous French doors. There is nothing prettier than French design in my book. It is so pleasing to the eye - don't you think? Just pleasing to the eye and that is what it all about.
I particularly love the decor of this one – the Red Salon!
A visitor's "real" picture of the Red Salon.
The rooms all have painted paneling with fabric walls above. So beautiful - I can see why Margaret loves this hotel so much!
So charming with these fabrics! So Pierre Frey. Just beautiful. They even have seagrass – what's not to love?
I might have to chose this room though with the toile fabric and the heavily veined Carrara marble bathtub!!!!
This suite is quite charming too – I love that shaving stand.
So where did our young honeymooning couple stay? In this suite – and it does look true to the web site actually.
Even their bathroom seems the same.
Another couple posted their room at La Mirande.
And finally – Paris! Where does Margaret recommend staying in this wonderful city?
The Plaza Athenee – is first on her list. Her absolute favorite place to stay in Paris is the hotel where the last episode of Sex and the City was filmed. She also likes The Ritz, "so classic" and Hotel San Regis.
But Margaret Naeve's secret source in Paris is Maison 1400. Owned by American interior designer, Tom Scheerer, it is a townhouse which also happens to be one of the oldest houses standing in Paris. The townhouse dates back to the 15th century and is a designated landmark. It has been completely restored – and it is quite beautiful. The entire townhouse can be rented for up to 10 people, or each floor can be rented by one or two people. There is a kitchen or kitchenette in each apartment, so they are totally self sufficient from each other.
Since the house is 500 years old – more than 20 generations have lived here – amazing! There is even a medieval limestone well in the basement. The circular staircase was built around a solid oak tree - "carved down with a handrail its entire 3. 5 stories!" Even more amazing!
The townhouse was featured in March's Elle Decor and it is decorated in true Sheerer fashion with Saarinen tables, circular motifs, and even the famous Swedish bird prints he loves so much! Seeing this townhouse makes me almost give up my fear of flying just to go stay here!!! Sure. Well, it sounds good.
The main floor apartment is entered through this foyer with its oversized Flemish chandelier and vivid orange curtains.
Styled for Elle Decor, the same foyer looks just a tad more finished! The famous 500 year staircase is seen here. I would love to see it in person and try to go up and down it.
The main apartment has a beautiful limestone floors and a mix of contemporary and French antique furnishings.
Across from the sofa is Scheerer's trademark Saarinen table flanked by a mix of his beloved Thonet chairs and Os de Mouton chairs.
The master bed is a four poster – the closets are hidden behind the prints on the doors.
Hard to believe this townhouse is 500 years old! All the mod cons are here.
This apartment is two stories – with a mezzanine bedroom overlooking the living area. There it is – another Saarinen table!
Scheerer designed the staircase in this apartment leading up to the bedroom. Les Indiennes fabric at the windows.
The bed is so Scheerer!
This apartment is just darling – I would have to stay here. You can see the staircase that winds around one tree trunk through the doorway.
This apartment is definitely the most French styled one. Notice the Swedish bird prints he uses quite a bit.
And, last, the top floor is designed like a tiny tent. There is even a tinier kitchenette and bathroom in this apartment.
Thank you Margaret for the tour of your favorite hotels in France! Don't forget if you live in Houston to go see M. Naeve's new shipment – it's gorgeous. And if you don't live in Houston, be sure to visit her at 1st Dibs, HERE.
And don't forget the photography giveaway! You have until Wednesday night to enter!!!


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