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The U.S. Congress has what
is called "regular order," meaning that the lawmaking process follows well-defined written procedures. It requires the president to submit the following year's budget by the first Monday in February, and then the House and Senate budget committees submit budgets of their own. A House-Senate conference committee then agrees on a compromise and submits it to both houses of Congress in the form of a resolution, one that is technically nonbinding but that greatly influences how federal spending is arrived at.
President Barack Obama has yet to submit his budget. The White House says it may be sent to Congress the week of April 8, more than two months late.
Last week, the House passed its budget resolution, the work of Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, the 2012 GOP vice presidential candidate. Basically, the budget is a reworking of earlier Ryan budgets and, if anything, it's even more politically unpalatable. It promises to balance the budget in 10 years instead of 20, as in the previous document, through massive cuts in federal spending. And it would replace Medicare with a voucher system, a political nonstarter.
Ryan boasted that this was the third consecutive year the House had passed a budget on time, a dig at the Democratic-controlled Senate that hadn't passed a budget at all in four years.
Just before dawn on Saturday, the Senate in fact narrowly passed a budget resolution, 50-49, calling for $3.7 trillion in spending next year and $975 billion in tax increases over the decade. The budget calls for modest cuts in defense, farm subsidies and some health programs, but those savings would go to finance repeal of the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts over 10 years, the "sequestration" that Congress got itself locked into.
The budget -- the handiwork of Senate Budget Committee Chairwoman Patty Murray, D-Wash. -- would shield most of the programs that her House counterpart would like to cut. It would not balance the budget; instead, it would reduce the annual deficit -- projected at $900 billion for 2013 -- to $566 billion in 10 years.
Murray is too gentle, whereas Ryan is too harsh. The two budgets are so far apart that Senate Leader Harry Reid said he sees little reason to send them to a conference committee.
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Gov. Gary Herbert urged both sides in Utah's gun debate to take a deep breath and approach the issue in a reasonable, rational way.
The governor said that, with emotions running high after the shooting in Newtown, Conn., both sides need to be methodical about the situation.
"I'm a little disappointed that we have a president who is proposing 35 or 37 executive orders to solve the problem and skirting Congress. I don't think that's the right way to solve the problem," Herbert said. "I have someone else out there who is worried about Congress sweeping in and taking away our guns. I think that's an exaggeration, too."
Herbert expressed skepticism about a proposal by Rep. Brian Greene, R-Pleasant Grove, that would prohibit the enforcement of new federal gun restrictions in Utah. Herbert said Utah will obey the law.
"I think we need to adhere to the law," he said. "Nobody is above the law and, again, if we have laws that are passed that are unconstitutional … we need to fight that in court and change the law."
The governor also said he believes a letter from the Utah Sheriffs Association to the president, stating that its 28 sheriff members all but Salt Lake County would not enforce gun laws they believed violate the constitutional right to bear arms, was also an overreaction.
"I think it was probably an emotional, knee-jerk reaction to the idea that Washington is somehow going to tell us what we're going to do," Herbert said. "If we don't like the laws that are passed, if we don't like the executive orders, we have a process in place. Go to court. We don't have to have confrontations at the border. Go to court and we'll find out whether it's the law of the land or not, but Utah will adhere to the law of the land."
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Editor's note: The BYU rugby team recently won the 2013 Varsity Cup National Collegiate Championship. In part one of this two-part series, author Todd Hougaard looks back at their season. Part two will detail why there will be two "champions" in college rugby this year.
PROVO — BYU 27-Cal 24.
BYU is the 2013 national champion in rugby.
For many casual fans, that's as far as their knowledge goes. It's sort of like reading the last page of the book first.
It's time to turn back the pages.
The story of this season goes back at least to May 19, 2012. The Cougars cap a perfect 17-0 season with a victory over Arkansas State, 49-42, at Rio Tinto Stadium, and claim the 2012 National Championship.
Less than a week later comes this headline from USA Rugby: "USA Rugby levels playing field with new college eligibility regulations."
The new rules basically cut off a year of playing time for athletes who take time out of school for military or church service. BYU head coach David Smyth felt it was a direct shot at BYU, "They left us no option but to look for other options."
Three weeks later, BYU announces they "will no longer be participating in USA Rugby's Collegiate Division 1-A postseason tournament," and start looking for other post-season options.
Not only that, the team also has to piece together an independent schedule without games they were playing against Western Conference foes in the USAR College Premier Division. Games against Arizona and Arizona State were replaced with ones against Dixie State and Snow College.
Smyth also had to replace the holes left by 12 graduating seniors. Two of the biggest slots were the two halfbacks, where Shaun Davies and Dylan Lubbe have been for five years. The whole team's chemistry hinged on Smyth finding the right players to fill those shoes.
One of those players showed up at the beginning of October, shoes in hand, all the way from New Zealand. "Jonny (Linehan) showed up and we worked him out on Tuesday, he came back for an hour and a half on Thursday, and we were impressed with what he could do," Smyth said. Linehan went home, took the ACT, and was in school by Jan. 9.
The other position was taken by Luke Mocke, another freshman, who came from South Africa to play for the Cougars. His highlight of the year actually came after the championship game, when he proposed to his girlfriend.
With the new "boys" in town, as Smyth calls them, the season kicked off on Jan. 11 at the Red Rock Tournament in Mesquite, Nev. BYU won a couple of close matches against Utah, 29-12, and Idaho State, 27-17. The Cougars also experienced their first of five canceled games due to weather — Weber State couldn't come due to a major snowstorm along the Wasatch Front.
A tough match against San Diego State came next, with the Cougars prevailing 41-21. "We were on their field, they were hosting the defending national champs, and they rose to the occasion," Smyth said. "We were able to tweak a few things in our next match with UCLA," he continued. Those "tweaks" turned into an 84-14 pounding of the Bruins. One of those tweaks — Linehan's first start — resulted in two tries and six conversions.
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In search of stiffer competition, BYU regularly schedules men's division teams. This year was no different, with the Cougars taking on the top two teams in the country. One such team, Old Puget Sound Beach, scored a late try to edge out the Cougars 34-30 in St. George.
"I was very impressed with them," said Smyth, "They were a big, physical team, with four national team players, but our boys went toe-to-toe with them. We learned something from them, and I saw how the boys would respond."
BYU hosted the reigning USA men's division champs New York Athletic Club in early March, which resulted in a 22-16 in favor of NYAC. "The match literally turned on two or three mistakes," said Smyth, "They were a little more crafty than our boys were, but we finished very strong. If we'd had a little more time, we could have won the match. We had moments that we were not at our best, but there were moments we showed we could go toe-to-toe with anybody in the country."
The experience from those two games proved to be valuable.
The rest of the regular season wasn't much of a test: 91-3 over Utah State; 91-0 against Snow College; 98-3 vs. Southern Utah (which included having to shovel the snow off of their home field before playing); and a season high 112-0 against Dixie State.
The last of their canceled games was their late-season battle against Utah. That didn't happen because of Utah suspending their Rugby team for violating university policy. This was very disappointing for the Cougars, who look at their match against Utah as a great measuring stick for how they are playing.
This brings us to the post season, in what Smyth describes as "very unchartered waters."
In their search for a better option, BYU turned to themselves and seven other top programs from the top division of college rugby, and came up with 2013 Varsity Cup National Championship. The strength of those teams is evident, with 31 of the last 33 National Collegiate Championships having been won by one of the Varsity Cup teams. But really, at the end of the day, it was about bringing back a championship match between BYU and Cal.
BYU beat UCLA for the second time this year in the quarter finals, 69-8. Smyth was concerned since his team hadn't played for three weeks, but they "came out very well against an improved UCLA team."
Next came a semi-final match versus Central Washington. The Cougars came back to win, 53-20, but Smyth admitted, "They were the better team for about a 20-minute stretch, but two quick tries right before half took the wind out of their sails."
"A lot of teams we play will try hard for about four or five minutes, and then they give up," Linehan added, "But they came in and gave us a game."
Finally, it was time for the hoped for final. The matchup of seven of the last eight years to crown a national champion.
BYU vs. Cal
As BYU senior prop Ray Forrester put it, "It's going to be a battle. One for the ages. One that will have a big impact on not only both universities' rugby traditions, but also the future of collegiate rugby. It doesn't get any more exciting."
The early lead for BYU is 16-3, but Cal comes back and ties it up at 24 going into the waning minutes. Linehan wins it for BYU with a drop kick as time runs out.
As BYU senior captain Ryan Roundy said, "There's no better way to go out. You couldn't ask for a better scenario for my last game of my college career. To be able to beat Cal in my last game, and for it to come down to the last drop kick — it was picture-perfect. It was awesome. You couldn't ask for a better finish."
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Lorne Michaels, the creator of "Saturday Light Live," which has come under fire in recent weeks for its historic lack of female black cast members, is addressing the issue.
Michaels said he is focused on finding an African American female cast member for the NBC series, but he did not specify how soon it would happen.
"It's not like it's not a priority for us," Michaels said in an interview with the Associated Press on Thursday. "It will happen. I'm sure it will happen."
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Although the timing of Washington's appearance might be tied to the controversy, the show has been talking to her since last spring about a hosting gig.
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Don Lake, vice president of international operations for Dunavant Logistics Group, will add another accomplishment to an already impressive and diverse logistics resume.
Lake has been named 2014 president for the Memphis World Trade Club, a group of professionals – whether they be shippers, bankers, lawyers or brokers – connected with the distribution and logistics industries.
"It's a really neat mix of people," Lake said. "It's a means for the industry within Memphis to get together and listen to a good speaker talk about whatever the hot topic is at the time."
Lake began on his career path nearly a quarter of a century ago quite by accident. The lifelong Memphian attended the University of Mississippi for a general business degree.
He had worked with a small cotton merchant in Memphis during the summers and holiday breaks and harbored dreams of trading the commodity. Upon his graduation in 1990, he went to work for the cotton merchandising firm DECA International and was immediately pulled into logistics to fill a need in that department.
"It was a smaller cotton company and I really got to have my hands in on everything," Lake says about his time with DECA. "I did a little bit of trading, I bought some cotton and sold some cotton, but my main job was to get it from point A to point B, whether that was from Clarksdale, Miss., at the warehouse it was stored in to Belmont, N.C., to a domestic mill, or from Clarksdale to Bangladesh. I was the guy that had to figure out how to get it there efficiently and get it there on time."
After nine years with DECA, the firm was closing down and, in need of a job, Lake called on longtime friends, the Dunavants, whose cotton trading company stretched back to 1928 and would become the first seller of U.S.-grown cotton to China in 1972.
With annual cotton sales of more than a billion dollars, Dunavant sold that portion of its business in 2010, yet retained its logistics operations. While they entered the cotton business in the 1920s, Col. William Pemberton Dunavant began in logistics just after the Civil War by building short-line railroads in Mississippi.
From its home office in the Ridgeway Loop today, Dunavant Enterprises runs many factions of a global shipping and real estate development company. The Logistics Group, in part, services smaller international shippers who may not have the leverage for competitive market rates from carriers.
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Though the scope has changed, Lake's days now are as varied as they were with DECA, staying in the mix in an effort to best serve clients.
"It's never the same thing every day … ," he said. "One minute I may be wearing my sales hat, the next minute I may be wearing my operational hat and the next minute I may be wearing my financial hat."
When Lake first entered the business, individual sales receipts for bales of cotton were on paper and stored in a nearby bank. When a few hundred bales were to be shipped, Lake's job was to retrieve them from the bank. As those receipts went to being electronically stored, and sales jumped to 3,000 bales in a day, he thought, "My God, the world has changed."
And indeed it had, but much has stayed the same, he said, and part of Dunavant's advantage isn't necessarily in pricing but in customer service. The company went from the top of the cotton world to a much smaller fish in the logistics ocean, yet it's still that small Southern company that knows how to analyze a client's needs and address them in the best way they know how.
"The buyers and sellers have become more sophisticated," Lake said. "We have a lot of competition out there. … What I really want to do is to figure out how to help a customer diagnose where his pain points are and try to help him work through those points and try to drive business more on customer service. I want to be able to make sure that customer knows that we're going to be proactive about his account rather than reactive."
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Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE)
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) is a disease in cattle. It belongs to a group of diseases called Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs) that affect the brain and nervous system of humans and animals. The diseases are characterised by a degeneration of brain tissue giving it a sponge-like appearance.
BSE was first diagnosed in 1986. Since 1989, the European Commission and the EU Member States have put in place a comprehensive series of measures to manage the risk of BSE in the European Union (EU).
BSE can be divided into Classical BSE and Atypical BSE. At present only the infectious agent causing Classical BSE has been demonstrated to be transmissible to humans.
Classical BSE
Classical BSE was first diagnosed in the United Kingdom in 1986. It was first a European and later became a global problem affecting cattle. Epidemiological studies suggest that the source of this disease was cattle feed prepared from BSE-infected animal tissues, such as brain and spinal cord.
The common symptoms of Classical BSE in cattle include behavioural changes, lack of coordination, difficulty in walking or standing up, decreased milk production and weight loss. However, the disease has also been detected in animals showing no symptoms.
The infectious agent – a prion – which causes BSE in cattle can be transmitted to humans through consumption of contaminated meat causing variant Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease, which was first diagnosed in 1996. A prion is an abnormal form of a protein(known as PrPc).
EFSA's role is to provide independent scientific advice to risk managers on all animal and public health-related aspects of BSE in the EU. Most of EFSA's work is based on requests from the European Commission.
EFSA has carried out comprehensive scientific work regarding BSE. The Panel on Biological Hazards (BIOHAZ) has provided scientific advice on different aspects related to BSE such as:
- The EU monitoring regime
- Risks associated with certain animal tissues (specified risk materials)
- Risks associated with the use of animal proteins in animal feed
In addition to BSE in cattle, EFSA has also carried out assessments on the BSE infectivity in the tissues of small ruminants (sheep and goats). Based on available scientific evidence only one natural case of BSE (in a goat) has been found so far worldwide. The BIOHAZ Panel concluded that the likely prevalence of BSE in the wider EU small ruminant population is very low.
Previously, EFSA was also responsible for assessing the geographical BSE risk of countries. Given the global impact of BSE, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) has since 2007 advised on the classification of BSE risks in different countries.
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In the EU, a large body of legislation is in place to protect humans and animals from BSE and other animal TSEs.
The main measures for BSE include:
- A ban on using animal protein in feed given to animals farmed for food production.
- A comprehensive monitoring system, including post-mortem testing of healthy and at-risk animals over certain ages. Annually around 10 million cattle are tested for BSE in the EU.
- Compulsory removal and destruction of tissues containing the highest risk of BSE infectivity, such as the brain and spinal cord (Specified Risk Material, SRM) from bovine animals over a certain age.
- Following the detection of a positive BSE case, destruction of the carcass and culling strategies for herds with confirmed BSE cases.
The Commission has adopted a strategic document – the TSE Roadmap- which outlines possible future changes to EU measures on animal TSEs, including BSE, in the short, medium and long term until the year 2015. Due to the EU progress made in the battle against BSE changes to the main measures, such as the feed ban are expected.
- Information on risk management measures regarding BSE and TSEs - European Commission, DG Health and Consumers
- TSE Roadmap - European Commission, DG Health and Consumers


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A Great Inheritance: An Interview with Conrad Mbewe
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Foreign Dairies Eye South Dakota as Ideal Place to Relocate
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - Foreign dairies are immigrating to South Dakota because of the state's near-perfect dairying conditions.
Dairy Development Specialist David Skaggs says there are 23 herds, or 20,350 cows, in the state belonging to transplanted foreign farms. In the past decade, about 35 dairies relocated to South Dakota from other parts of the country, Canada and Europe.
Skaggs tells the Capital Journal (http://bit.ly/UN8ZDc ) that the state is appealing to outside farms because there is so much available land, especially compared to Europe. The state can support a large cow population, as well as a variety of feeds.
Foreign dairies also face land and quota restrictions that don't exist in South Dakota.
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Matthew 5:17-20 is our text tonight, and we'll be considering a section of Scripture that we've entitled 'Christ and the Law.' Tonight, we'll be looking at verse 19, which is the believer's relation to the law; it's a tremendously important passage. Let's read it.
"Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men to do so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven."
There is an old clich that has hung around since the 1960's that sort of characterizes the spirit of this age, and that is, "Do your own thing." How many times have you heard that? Freedom has been equated with doing what you want, expressing yourself. As a corollary to this kind of mentality of 'do your own thing' has come an almost anti-law attitude, which we could call antinomian, or anti-law.
There is almost a spirit of lawlessness that rides as a corollary to the concept of doing your own thing. Don't let anybody tell you what to do; not God, not the Bible, not the government, not your school, not your husband or wife, not your boss or anyone else. This kind of antinomian ideal is reminiscent of a time in biblical history which provoked God's vengeance, because the Bible says, "Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes." This is nothing more than doing your own thing - it's the same idea.
In our secular world, this antinomianism, this rebellion, this 'do your own thing' mentality has really revealed itself in two areas that stretch into many other areas. First of all, it has bred a sort of personal existentialism. Existentialism is a philosophy that says, "You've got to fill this moment with everything you want to cram into it. It's all you've got; live for the here and now. Forget the sweet by and by, and grab on to the here and now." Existentialism says, "Do what you want now. Grab it while you can get it; take advantage of it now." So there has come out of this attitude a personal existentialism.
Secondly, it has also been the legacy of this particular antinomian do-your-own-thing attitude that the function or the right of the state to legislate morality or to say what is right and wrong is gradually being removed from the state. In other words, the first thing that happens in an antinomian, existential philosophy is that everyone does that which is right in his own eyes. The natural next step is that they don't let anyone tell them what is right. So you begin to see not only a personal existentialism, but a breakdown in government in terms of its function to try and keep a lid on morality.
So what we hear today is, "Let everyone alone morally. If they want to be a homosexual, have a bunch of wives, or commit all kinds of various personal crimes that are supposedly called 'victimless crimes,' let them alone. We don't need any government legislating morality, we don't need any God telling us what to do, we don't need any antiquated, biblical Victorianism to put down a suppressing palm on what men want." Consequently, what you have in the natural decline of man is a speeding-up process when he attunes himself to this kind of thinking.
Even in the church of Jesus Christ, there has been this same attitude. The church has been infiltrated by, in many cases, an immorality and even an amorality. It has become tolerant of sexual activity. I heard of one church recently, a gentlemen was an elder there and told me that they had elders there who were swapping wives. They decided to do nothing about it in the church because it might create some problems. We are very much aware of churches where homosexuals are being given certain rights, and on and on it goes. Churches are afraid to discipline people because they feel it might make waves. So even in the church of Jesus Christ, a kind of removing of the authority of the Word of God or of the power of the church to act on sin is slowly taking place.
There are other people who have an antinomian spirit based on a false interpretation of the concept of justice or justification. They feel that since we have been justified by faith alone, since we have been made just by God, since He has declared us saved, and since the Bible says we are no longer under the law, now grace is so magnanimous, so full, and so far-reaching, we can do whatever we want and not eve worry about it.
I know of one church in our country, and know of it very well, where they believe that the individual Christian is really two parts: you are the new creature and the old man. When you sin, it's the old man. So you expect that if you have the old man, he's going to sin, so sin is just the old man doing his thing. It doesn't do any good do discipline the old man, he's rotten anyway, so don't worry about it. So there is no reason to discipline sin, no reason to deal with sin, that's just the old man who will be around, doing his thing anyway. This is nothing but a rebirth of philosophical dualism and it is anti-biblical.
There will always be people in society who want to kick over the traces, to throw out God, His standards, His Word, and His law, and it's amazing that can even become a problem in the church. There are people who have written books about grace, about justification, about the magnanimous forgiveness of God, who have traded on that forgiveness and lived dissolute, sinful, evil, vile lives.
That's not what the Bible teaches. The Bible never teaches that we are to be lawless, to live against a divine standard, that grace frees us from responsibility to obey God's laws, that God has altered any of His moral standards. That, in effect, is what Jesus is saying in this passage.
So we pose the question, "What is the Christian's relation to the law of God?" We've been saved by faith; the Bible talks about being free from the law, but what does it mean when it says we are still obligated to obey? What is the believer's relationship to the law? Are we free from it or are we not free from it?
I really believe verse 19 is an excellent answer. "Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach me so, he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven. But whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Here, our Lord gives us, in one verse, a very simple and direct answer. I'll remind you that our Lord is speaking about His attitude toward the Old Testament. The Jews of this time who were listening to Him were very curious about what He thought about the Old Testament. He was so new, so different, so unlike their system, so unlike the Judaism that was extant at the time. He was so different from what they defined as religion that they wanted to know whether He had made a clean break with the past, whether He had overthrown the Mosaic law, whether He was setting aside the Old Testament. So our Lord, in this passage, tells us His view of the Old Testament law.
First of all, He reiterates the preeminence of it in verse 17, the permanence of it in verse 18, the pertinence of it in verse 19, and then the purpose of it in verse 20. They were looking for a king, and He was a King, but they were looking for a political king who would bring an external kingdom. But He was a spiritual King who would bring an internal Kingdom. So instead of talking about a new economy, or a new politic, He kept talking about new character - that's what He was talking about in the Beatitudes. Instead of changing the outside, He wanted to change the inside.
Here, He tells them that the key to a change on the inside, the key to qualifying to fulfill the responsibility to be in His Kingdom, is the Old Testament Word of God. "It still stands," He says. "Righteousness is still defined on God's terms. God hasn't changed His mind." So He lifts up the law of God. He says, "Do I believe in the Old Testament? Do I ever! In fact, I hold it higher than any of you ever thought of." So this passage is surely the single most wonderful New Testament passage on the exaltation of the Old Testament, God's law.
Remember that we talked about, in our first week's study of this passage, the preeminence of the law in verse 17. Just to remind you, the Lord said, "Think not that I have come to destroy the law or the prophets. I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill." We talked about the fact that Jesus saw the law as preeminent; in other words, it ascended above anything else. It was far beyond the rabbinic traditions or anything that they were defining as religion on their own terms.
He exalts the law of God for three reasons. First, it was authored by God; it was The Law. Secondly, it was affirmed by the prophets; and thirdly, it was accomplished by Christ. Those three things give it its preeminence. Then our Lord moved to the permanence of the law. It was not only preeminent in that time, it is preeminent now in its permanence.
Verse 18. "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or tittle shall in no way pass from the law until all be fulfilled." The Jews were looking for a more lax system, they were looking to drop the standards. Jesus lifted the standard higher than even the leaders of Israel had done. He said, "It will stay and abide until every single small letter is fulfilled."
Then, tonight, we come to the pertinence of the law. In verse 19, the Lord says, "If the law is preeminent and permanent, then the law lays a claim on your life." Frankly, this is one of the most basic, definitive studies that a Christian could ever do; to comprehend and understand in your spiritual mind what is your responsibility to God's divine law is a critical issue. It will determine whether you are the least or the greatest in the Kingdom, whether you come in by the hair of your chinny-chin-chin or whether you're loaded down with rewards.
Our Lord warns His hearers in verse 19 about setting aside, or disannulling, even the least of God's moral standards. There are several reasons for it, and this is the outline that I want you to follow.
First of all, He says that the law is pertinent to us because of its character. What does that mean? Look at the beginning of verse 19, "Whosoever therefore." What's the 'therefore' there for? To take you backwards. "Therefore," He says, "Because it is preeminent." Since God wrote it, the apostles affirmed it, and Christ fulfilled it, it's preeminent.
"And since it is permanent, therefore it is pertinent." Anything that is preeminent, that is, anything that stands above any other written truth in the history of the world, anything that is exalted as the very Word of God, anything that is upheld by God's mouthpieces (the prophets), anything that is fulfilled by the very Christ Himself is preeminent. Because it is preeminent and because it is permanent, therefore it is binding. God doesn't put out whimsical things; the Bible doesn't make suggestions, it gives commands. There is a big difference. So the first point is that we are responsible to listen to the law of God because of its character.
Secondly, we are to listen to the law because of its consequence. What you and I do with God's moral law will bring upon our lives a direct effect. How we deal with God's law will directly affect us. There are two categories; those who break even the least command and teach others to do it will be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven. Those who keep the commandments and teach them will be called the greatest, or great, in the Kingdom of Heaven. In other words, by what you do with the law, you will be designated as the least or the greatest.
Let's look first of all at the negative result, the negative consequence. We are to obey God's law because of its character as permanent and preeminent and because of its consequences. The first one, the concept of 'least,' is negative. Verse 19 says that if you break this or teach others to do it, you are the least.
Let me help you understand this thought. The word 'break' is a very interesting word; it is the word luo, a very common word in the Greek. It means 'to loose, to release, to nullify, to destroy.' The idea here would be that if you loose yourself or release yourself from an obligation to obey God's least command, you'll be called the least in the Kingdom. It's kind of interesting to see the word here because of the word that went with it earlier in verse 17.
There, Jesus said, "Think not that I have come to destroy the law." This is another form of that same word luo. Jesus said, "I did not come to loose the law, and if you do it, you'll be considered the least in the Kingdom," only Jesus used a more intense word. Jesus used the same verb, only with a kata on the front, which intensifies it. What He is saying is this: "I did not come to utterly nullify, I did not come to utterly destroy, I did not come to utterly devastate and abrogate the law. But if you even loose one little part of it, you'll be called the least in the Kingdom." In other words, Jesus is saying, "I did not come to destroy at all, but the temptation to the believer is going to be to fool around with parts of it, and set aside what doesn't accommodate what they want to do."
That's a very common problem, you know. It's very possible for a Christian to do that; it is impossible for Christ to set it aside, but it possible for you to do it. Isn't that interesting? It is possible for you and I, by disobedience, ignorance, misrepresentation, or by manipulation for selfish reasons, to set the law of God aside and just do what we want. It's very possible. But if you're doing it, let me tell you, you're doing something that Jesus would never do. You have ceased to be Christlike when you sin.
Notice that He says, "One of the very least commandments." Are there degrees? Yes. I think there are some sins more severe than others. The Jews believed that. The Jews had divided the Old Testament and their laws into two categories: positive and negative. They said that there were 248 positive commands and 365 negative ones - one for every day of the year. So there were 613 commands, and they used to have big arguments, big debates, over which were the heavy ones and which were the light ones, which were the important and less important ones. They were more concerned with concentrating on the more important ones. Yes, there were some greater and some lesser in their minds, and no doubt in the mind of God.
However, Jesus is saying, "If you take one of the very least of these, one of the very minor ones, and flagrantly and openly set it aside and loose yourself from the obligation to that law, you will be called the least in the Kingdom." Jesus was saying that He upheld every single part of God's law in its proper place.
Keep in mind that there were parts of the Old Testament law, ceremonial, civil, and judicial parts, that would have fulfillment in Christ's time. When they were fulfilled, they ceased to be binding on us. But at any point in redemptive history, whichever part of God's law was for that time, whichever part was still binding in that time, no one had a right to loose. No one. That's why in Acts 20:27, the Apostle Paul said to the Ephesian elders, "I have not failed to declare unto you the whole counsel of God." Why? Because the whole counsel of God is binding.
That's why I love being in a church. That's why I desire to be here, because I feel that I need to teach people the whole counsel of God. I used to have 10 suits and 10 sermons and just move, just keep moving. But I can never get it all done. When you land in one place and pour your life into the Word of God, then you can teach the fullness of the counsel of God.
Remember, there were some parts of the ceremonial law and civil (or judicial) law related to Israel that Christ would fulfill. In other words, when Christ set Israel aside and built His church, then the civil law related to the nation of Israel was set aside. When Christ died on the Cross, the ceremonial law was set aside; the veil was rent in two, the holy of holies was wide open, the sacrificial system came to a screeching halt. A few years later, the whole city of Jerusalem was wiped out, the temple was flattened, and there have never been Jewish sacrifices since. So when Christ came, there were some things that were fulfilled, judicial, civil, and ceremonial things. But the moral law of God hasn't changed.
Regarding the question of whether some commandments are more important than others, just to give some insight, let's look at Matthew 22. Here we have what must be the tail-end of such a discussion about what is the most important part of the law of God. The Pharisees and Sadducees are involved here. The Pharisees came, and one of them who was a lawyer asked Jesus a question, testing Him, saying, "Master, which is the great commandment in the law?" This indicates that this was their discussion. They wanted to know what the most important commandment was; what are the heavies, you know? We want to keep those; it's kind of hard keeping the little ones, but if we could just zero in on the big ones, that'd be good.
Jesus said, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. The second is like it; love your neighbor as yourself. On these commandments hang all the law and the prophets." There it is, folks; the Lord Himself was grading the commandments. Number one, love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind. Number two, love your neighbor as yourself. Numbers three, four, five, six, seven, and so forth come under those. So even the Lord acknowledged that there was variety of intensity and degree of importance to the various commands. So it is possible that if there is a great command, there is also a lesser one.
In Matthew 23:23, it says, "Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay tithe." Now tithing was right, wasn't it? Weren't they supposed to pay tithe to the nation of Israel of all that they grew and all they they had? He says, "You pay your tithe of mint and anise [a plant] and cumin [a seed] and minced herbs." Here they were, saying, "Here are nine seeds for me, and one for God. Nine little plants for me and one for God. Nine little herbs for me and one for God." They were doing it with little, tiny, minuscule things. But He says, "You have omitted the weightier matters of the law." Yes, it was important to tithe, but not nearly as important as justice, mercy, and faith.
So in God's law, there were degrees. There were greater commandments and there were lesser ones. That is just a footnote to help you understand that it is possible to violate what the Lord would see as a less important command, a least important command, perhaps. But lest you feel yourself off the hook for the little ones, Jesus said that if you loose your obligation from the least commandment and teach someone else to do it, you'll be called the least in the Kingdom. Let's go back to Matthew 5.
I think we'd all agree that murder was a worse sin than missing the Sabbath observance, but for a Jew in the Old Testament, that was serious. I think in our time today, we would say that murder is worse than failing to give to the Lord what is rightfully His in your giving one week or another, but to violate even the least of God's standards is to take a place of lesser respect and honor and reward in the Kingdom.
Some say that when it says 'least in the Kingdom' that this is what other people will think about you. Some commentators say, "Everyone will think you're the least in the Kingdom; you'll get a bad reputation." I don't think that's what it's saying. I don't think it's least in a subjective sense, where someone thinks you're the least. I think it's least in an objective sense; I think that if you break God's commandments, God is going to make you least in His Kingdom.
I'm gratified about one thing: it doesn't say He kicks you out. Aren't you glad that even when you fail and loose yourself from God's law, and go ahead and do what you want anyway, and turn your back on God, and disobey Him as flagrantly and openly as you want, all you can do is be the least? But you're still going to be in the Kingdom. But I feel it's a place of blessing, a place of fruitfulness, a place of usefulness, and a place of reward.
If you go around breaking God's command, you won't necessarily be kicked out of His Kingdom - that's not the idea. What will happen is you'll become a person He can't use, bless, or reward. You may say, "I'm just failing now. In the past, boy, I really racked it up. I've been faithful for a long time; this is just a final fling." That's why John said, "Look to yourselves that you lose not the things that you have wrought, but that you receive a full reward." You can spend the first half of your Christian life earning it and the second half giving it back up.
So the Bible says, "Even the least commandment, when violated, makes you the least individual." You see, the reason is this. If you break any part of God's law, you've broken the whole thing, right? In James 2:10, it says, "For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all." You offend in one point, and you show an irreverence for the whole law of God! Jesus is saying, "If you violate the principle at any point, then you have shown a disregard for the totality of the law of God, which is a disregard for the holiness of God." Such a person would be the least.
There is another possibility in this passage also, and that is that He's talking to the scribes and Pharisees, and that He includes them in the Kingdom only in a visible sense. They are the phonies, they aren't real at all, so what He's saying to them is, "You people who take a physical place in the Kingdom, who attach yourselves to the Kingdom externally and don't obey God's laws are going to be the least in the Kingdom." The implication is that ultimate judgment will put them out of the Kingdom to be like John 15, branches cut off and cast into the fire.
I don't know specifically which one our Lord was referring to here, I don't know anyone who does. I think both have a wonderful message for us to listen to. If He's talking about the true citizens of the Kingdom, as some commentators think He is, because He says 'you' in verse 20, then contrasts the 'you' with the scribes and Pharisees, as if He's talking about His disciples. They think what He's really saying is, "You'll be in the Kingdom but you'll be the least blessed, the least useful, the least rewarded." That's a tremendous message for us. Or on the other hand, if He's addressing all of the crowd, He's saying, "You're all sort of attached externally and visibly, but you're going to be the least in this whole deal when the judgment comes down, and the least are going to be cast out." Personally, I like the first interpretation better. Because of the pronoun 'you,' I think He's directing His talk more to those who have made a commitment.
If you think it's serious to break God's law, I think it's more serious to teach someone else to do that. James also said in James 3:1, "Stop being so many teachers, for theirs is the greater condemnation." I tell young men all the time, "If God didn't call you into the ministry, run a million miles away from it! You don't want the responsibility." I can remember four years ago when I came as close to leaving the ministry as I ever will in my life. I had this terrible inward feeling that I didn't want the responsibility to stand up and give the Word of God because I knew my own human frailty and weakness, and I didn't want to be responsible for leading anyone astray.
"If you break the least of these commandments or teach anyone else to do it," and you can teach two ways, beloved. You can teach by what you say and you can teach by what you do. If the words aren't right or the example isn't right and you're breaking the commandments, you're just decreasing your place in His Kingdom. As Isaiah 9:15 puts it, "The ancient and the honorable, he is the head. The prophet that teaches lies, he is the tail." If you're going to teach, teach the truth or don't teach. If you're in the Kingdom, live it, don't break it.
So though Christ did not come to literally and totally abolish the law, there are believers who, by their own self-will and sin, set it aside. This is something Christ Himself wouldn't even do. Then they teach others to do it. The Pharisees were guilty of that, and so are many people today. In Acts 20, Paul said, "The thing I fear when I leave is that grievous wolves will come in, not sparing the flock, and of your own selves shall teachers rise, teaching perverse things." The church has always been attacked by heretics from the outside and heretics from the inside. Oh, how they are condemned in Scripture. No, Jesus says we can't set it aside.
There is another consequence; we are to take the law of God as pertinent to us because of its character. God wrote it, the prophets affirmed it, and Christ fulfilled it. Secondly, we are to take the law of God as pertinent because of its consequence. Consequence number one: if you break it, you're the least. Consequence number two: if you keep it, you're the greatest. This is the positive side.
Look in the middle of verse 19, "Whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven." Here, again, we see the two things: doing and teaching, precept and pattern, life-living and life-teaching, what you are and what you say. He says, "All God's laws are still in vogue, all His standards are still there."
A the time Jesus was talking, Israel was still a nation. They were still a duly constituted nation and were being offered the Kingdom. Consequently, they were still under civil law, still under the Old Testament judicial (and I'm using 'judicial' and 'civil' synonymously) or civil law of Israel, and they needed to keep every bit of it. They were also still under the ceremonial law, right? They were also still involved in all the sacrifices, all the feasts, all the Sabbaths, and all the other things, because Christ hadn't yet died. The church hadn't yet been born, so at the time Jesus spoke, they were under the civil law, the ceremonial law, and the moral law. It was all still binding on them.
Nothing had changed for them. Now for us, the civil law, the law that duly constituted Israel as a nation, has been fulfilled. The ceremonial law, the law that set up the sacrificial system and a priesthood, has all been fulfilled; we have a new priest, a new sacrifice, and a new temple not made with hands. The only law left for us, really, is the moral law. The law that is the extension of God's character and His nature, beloved, that is still binding on us.
In I Thessalonians 2:10, Paul says, "You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe, as you know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father does his own children that you would walk worthy of God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory." Paul says, "You know we lived a holy, just, blameless life among you, keeping God's standards." Nothing changed for the moral law of God.
I Thessalonians 4:7 says, "God has not called us to uncleanness but to holiness." Nothing has changed. The moral law of God is still binding on us. I Timothy 4:11 says, "These things command and teach: be an example of the believer in word, conduct, love, spirit, faith, purity." Nothing changes; keep God's standards. I Timothy 6:11 says, "Thou, O man of God, flee these things. Follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good fight of faith."
So the idea is that the ceremonial law was fulfilled in the Cross; the civil/judicial law was fulfilled in the birth of the church and Israel being set aside. A new people was carved out for God's use. But the extension of God's nature, and His moral and ethical law, is still the same. So we are to obey it because of its character and consequence.
I want to close with a third reason. We should obey it because of its clarification. The Apostle Paul looked forward to going to Heaven because he knew he would receive a crown. He knew that awaiting him there was a crown of life, a crown of righteousness, a crown of rejoicing, a runner's crown, an incorruptible crown. He knew of at least five crowns awaiting him in Heaven. Why? Because he had not broken Gods law willfully and unrepentantly, but he had upheld God's law and taught others to keep God's law.
So we are to obey because of its character, consequence, and clarification. What I mean by that is just this. People say, "Well, yes, verse 19 does say that, however, that was in the old dispensation. That was in the past, and now that isn't in vogue. It was before the Cross." You'd be surprised how many people say that. "It was before the Cross, so we don't have to worry about it. We can just free-wheel it from here on in, and break a few here and there. After all, it's just the old man doing his thing; what are you going to do about it? Romans 7 says that sin that is in me, I can't do anything about it, and I have to let it do its thing. But the real me, the good me, I just really don't care to do that. I don't know how to handle that old nature - the Lord will have to deal with that in my resurrection body." That's a cop-out.
You see, you can't dispensationalize away Matthew 5:19 because of its clarification. I mean that it is repeated through all the epistles of the New Testament - that's where it's clarified. That is a very important point. We can't stop here, we have to go on to the clarification. Did the Cross end our obligation to the law? Was it all finished at the Cross? Not on your life, and the epistles make this abundantly clear. They teach two paradoxical truths, which I'll give and illustrate to you. They are tremendously important.
Principle number one we find in the epistles of Peter, Paul, John, James, and Jude. What they're effectively saying is that in some sense, the law has been fulfilled and is no longer binding. Hang on to that. They teach that in some sense, it has been fulfilled and is no longer binding; I'll admit that. First of all, the civil/judicial law we've already talked about. It was for a limited people for a limited place and purpose and time. That law which was given to Israel has passed away. For example, most of the judicial and civil law given to Israel was to keep them separate from other nations. They had different dietary and clothing laws, different rituals, and all kinds of things that had been given by God to keep them apart.
Do you know the first thing that happened when Christ created the church? It says in Ephesians 2:14: "For He is our peace who has made both Jew and Gentile one, and has broken down the middle wall of partition." The first thing He did was break down the middle wall. What was the wall? It was the civil, judicial law that set Israel apart from the Gentile world so that when God gave birth to the church, the wall came crashing down and Jew and Gentile became one. There were no more dietary laws, no more cooking laws, no more kosher laws, it was all gone. In Acts 10, Peter sees the sheet, and in the sheet are clean and unclean animals. The Lord simply says, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat, and don't you dare call unclean what God has sanctified."
There is no more difference; there is no more civil differences, there is no more judicial identification of Israel as a separate entity. There will be a blending of Jew and Gentile in the church. The barrier was broken down. That very term, in the Greek, of breaking down the barrier is the same term used of the law in Colossians 2:14. In that passage, it talks about the ordinances, or the law, that was against us. There, it talks about a moral element, but it was the civil, judicial law that separated. So the epistles definitely teach that the civil/judicial law came to an end.
Now what about the ceremonial law? The ceremonial law was for a limited time. Mark 15:38 says that the veil of the temple was torn from top to bottom and the ceremonial law was over. Look at Colossians 2:16. It says, "Let no man judge you in your food, drink, or in respect of a feast day." Don't worry anymore about Passover, Feast of Lights, Feast of Weeks, Pentecost, all that. "Or of a new moon, or a Sabbath. Those are a shadow of things to come, but the body is Christ. And when the body comes, don't mess with the shadow." So what Paul is saying is that the ceremonial law came to an end.
In Ephesians 2:14, he says the civil law came to an end. By the way, if you have any trouble on this ceremonial law thought, read Hebrews. I won't take the time now, but I found at least 20 verses that show that the ceremonial law is not binding on us. So the epistles do teach that there is a sense in which the law is no longer binding on us. That is, in its civil or judicial sense as identified with Israel as a nation and in its ceremonies.
That leaves the moral area. Do the epistles teach that the moral law is no longer binding? Yes, in one sense. This is tremendous. This is the sense, Colossians 2:14. When Christ died on the Cross, it says here what happened. "Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, He took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross." God had a moral law, and every time you broke that moral law, God wrote it down, until against you was a handwriting of broken laws. Then do you know what God did with all of those? He put them on Jesus, nailed them to the Cross, and He paid the penalty. In that sense, and in that sense alone, the law isn't binding on you. You know what sense it is? The sense of the penalty of the law; you are not under the penalty of the law. Who paid the penalty for you? Jesus. So you will not suffer the consequence of your sin in terms of ultimate penalty.
The same thing is said in Romans 6:14, and we could spend forever on this principle. "For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law." What does he mean, that you don't have to do anything any more? Do you not have to live a moral life or obey God? No! What he means is that you are no longer under the power of the penalty of the law. It can't kill you anymore; you can only die once. That's all, only once. Christ died on the Cross, and you, by faith, died in Him. That pays the penalty, so in that sense, you are no longer under the law. That is, the law has no power to slay you. The law had a penalty, the wages of sin is death, and Christ took the penalty.
Romans 10:4 says, "Christ is the end of the law to everyone who believes." In what sense? Do we never have to obey it? No. Only in the sense that He paid the penalty. We're no longer under it's curse. It says the same thing in Galatians 5:18, "But if you are led by the Spirit," that is, the function and operation of the Spirit in your life, "You are not under the law." If you possess the Spirit of God, and the Spirit of God is moving in your life, you are giving evidence of having been born again, which means you have been taken out from under the curse of the law and penalty of the law. In an additional sense, you literally can fulfill the law by the energy of the Holy Spirit.
This is something that is repeated many times in Galatians, and we don't have the time to go through it. Galatians 3:24 says, "The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, but after faith has come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster." In other words, we don't need the law anymore to hit us, whip us, strap us, beat on us; we don't need the law to ply its curse on us, because Christ has borne all of that. The law had a penalty: "Cursed is he that does not abide by all things written in the book of the law," says Galatians 3:10. You were cursed, but here came Jesus and took your curse on Himself.
That's the sense in which the moral law is no longer binding. So what do we see? The epistles teach that, in some sense, we are not under the law. Civilly? No. Morally? Only in one sense - we are no longer under its penalty, and frankly, we don't need to be under its power either, do we? Because if we walk in the Spirit, we will freely energize, by God's Spirit, to fulfill the law in a positive way. We don't need to feel the guilt that comes when we violate that law.
Some people say that the Gospel overthrows the law, but it doesn't. The Gospel exalts the law, because never forget that for Christ to save you, He had to fulfill the whole penalty of the law for every man who ever lived.
The person who is trusting Christ is no longer under the condemnation of the law. Look at Romans 7:1 for the last word on this point. It says, "Do you not know, brothers, that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives?" That's all; when you die, that's it. If you're going to your funeral in the back of the hearse, and you're in your pine box, and the guy is going too fast, they won't give you the ticket. The law has no power over you.
Then he gives an illustration in verse 2, "For a woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband for as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is loosed from the law of her husband. So, if while her husband is alive, she marries another, she is an adulteress." She's also a polygamist, "But if her husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress, even though she has married another man."
In other words, he says, "The law is only good until you die. For example, marriage - the laws of marriage are binding until you're dead. When you're dead, they're no longer binding." That's all. Verse 4 says, "Wherefore my brothers, you also have become dead to the law by the body of Christ," and I believe he means the crucified body of Christ, "That you should be now dead to the law and married to another, even Him who was raised from the dead that we should bring forth fruit unto God." When you put your faith in Jesus Christ and were united with Him in His death, then you died to the law in terms of its power and penalty, and you have risen in new life. You are no longer under the law in that sense, so verse 6 says, "We are now delivered from the law."
There are some people who go crazy at this point and say, "See, we don't have to keep the laws or the rules." One guy said to me, "I don't have to confess my sin; that's all old stuff. I don't have to worry about what I do; I'm in grace and can just let it all go." No, because the epistles also teach a second truth. This is the clarification; the epistles teach that the law is still binding on the believer in some sense. We are free in some sense, in the sense of penalty, the sense of its dominating power over us. But the law is also binding in another sense.
For example, in I Corinthians 9:21, it says, "Though not being without the law of God but under the law of Christ." Isn't that great? When you become a Christian, you aren't lawless, you're under the law of Christ. Look back at Romans 7 for a minute. Someone will come to verse 6 and say, "We're not under the law anymore; fantastic! We can really live it up!" That's exactly what Paul figured they'd say, so he says this, "What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. The law is not sin, the law only reveals sin. I would not have know sin but by the law, because I wouldn't have known I was coveting unless the law said, 'You shall not covet.' Don't blame the law for your sin. It isn't the law that's the problem, it's you!"
I mean, if you have a clumsy servant who is a real clod, you'll never reveal it until you tell him to do something and say, "Will you go get that?" and he gets up out of the chair, knocks over the chair, runs into the lamp, breaks the lamp, trips over the rug, knocks over a vase, and shatters the television set. You see, it wasn't the command that was the problem, it was the clumsy oaf that tried to obey it.
Don't blame God's law if you can't keep it; it's not the law's fault, it's you. That's what Paul is saying, "Don't blame the law. If the law couldn't justify you, if by the deeds of the law, no flesh could be justified, if you couldn't save yourself by keeping God's law, don't blame God's law, blame you. You just are a clumsy slave. So the law reveals sin, and secondly, the law provokes sin.
Verse 8. "Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of coveting, for apart from the law, sin is dead." In other words, once there was a law, once God set a standard, it just made my sin obvious. It stimulated and aroused my sin. You know how that goes? When God makes a rule, you just wonder why He made that rule and think, "There must be something interesting there." It's like the sign that says 'keep off the grass' and you see a little kid, sticking his toe over just to defy the sign. Make a law, then watch people work hard to try and break it; it's the way human nature goes. The law provokes sin, and condemns sin.
Verse 9. "I was alive apart from the law once," I didn't know God's rules, so I thought I was fine. "Then the commandment came, sin revived, and I died." In other words, once I found out about the law, it condemned me. So what Paul is saying is, "The law is not sin, it just reveals it, provokes it, and condemns it." He summarizes in verse 12, "God's law is holy, and the commandment is holy, just, and good." The law is not the problem, you are.
You say, "Should we keep the law?" Oh, yes. Paul says later on in this chapter that he wants to keep God's law so much. Verse 22, "I delight in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and it is bringing me into captivity to the law of sin." What's he saying? "I'm not under the law anymore, in terms of its penalty and power to dominate my life, because I've been freed by the Cross and given a greater power in the Holy Spirit. But that doesn't mean that I don't have to keep it anymore. I delight in God's law and will keep it. The law of God is good, the problem is me."
Verse 24. "Oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death? Who will get me out of this mess? It's not God's law, it's me. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord." He says, in effect, "I know it's in Christ that the answer comes, but I just don't know what the answer is, so with my mind, I serve the law of God, and with my flesh, the law of sin." He doesn't give the solution until chapter 8. In verse 4, he learns to walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Let me summarize: what do the epistles teach? They teach what I call the clarification of Matthew 5:19. On the one hand, in some sense, the law passes away. It is no longer binding ceremonially, civilly, and in the sense of its moral consequence and penalty. But in another sense, the law is still binding, so that Paul can say, "I delight in the law of God. So the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit." He's saying, "I delight in it," in chapter 7 and, "I fulfill it," in chapter 8. Beloved, that's the message that the Lord was giving there.
Fulfill His law. Don't break even the least of His commandments. Why? Because the law is preeminent, the law is permanent, and the law is pertinent. God, help us to be obedient Christians. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be the least in the Kingdom. What kind of an answer is that to someone who has given all for me? Ask yourself that question. Let's bow in prayer.
Lord, we've had a great time already tonight, in singing and sharing, and our hearts have been wonderfully blessed in so many ways. I just ask You to take these simple thoughts that maybe didn't sum up all that needed to be said and somehow apply them to our hearts, at least in one way. Help us to know that You have done so much for us, given so much for us - dying on a cross, bearing our sin. In You, it was all fulfilled, and You've given us the power to walk, not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, so that we too could fulfill Your law. How incredible, Father, that apart from Jesus Christ we could never keep it no matter how hard we tried, but because of Jesus Christ, He keeps it in us by His Spirit as we yield.
We don't want to be libertines, we don't want to be legalists, we just want to be law-abiding believers. We want to take what is rightfully ours to obey, and with the spirit of obedience that cherishes the privilege, we want to say 'yes' to Your commands. For that, we give You praise, that we should have such a privilege to be counted worthy to hear Your voice, and let alone obey it. In Christ's name, Amen.
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Marching on: Penguins beat Isles in OT, advance to second round
Uniondale, NY – Brooks Orpik's first career playoff goal was an overtime winner, as his point drive with 7:49 played in the extra session sent the Pittsburgh Penguins to a series victory over the New York Islanders in Game 6 of this Eastern Conference quarterfinal.
Tyler Kennedy set up the winner, skating with his back to the Isles' net into the left circle, before passing back to Orpik for a blistering one-timer that Evgeni Nabokov had no chance to stop.
"I'd much rather get one there than in the regular season, when it doesn't really matter," Orpik deadpanned about his first score in 78 NHL playoff appearances. "He (Kennedy) laid it right on a tee for me. I was just trying to put it on net, and found a hole."
Paul Martin tied the game late in regulation for the No. 1 seed Penguins, who took the set four games to two and will face the seventh-seeded Ottawa Senators in the second round.
Pittsburgh won its first playoff series since a six-game first-round decision against the Senators three years ago.
Jarome Iginla and Pascal Dupuis also lit the lamp to back a 35-save performance from Tomas Vokoun, who acquitted himself well in his second straight start for an ineffective Marc-Andre Fleury.
John Tavares, Colin McDonald and Michael Grabner tallied for the Islanders, who were bidding to take Pittsburgh to a deciding Game 7 on Sunday. Nabokov ended with just 17 saves in the season-ending defeat.
"We took some big strides as an organization this year," New York head coach Jack Capuano said. "Not many people gave us a chance to do some of the things we did. Anybody that watched the games, that saw the crowd ... I'm sure we've got some respect around the league right now."
For the eighth-seeded New Yorkers, there will be no talk of a shocking upset similar to the one that the 1993 Islanders pulled off against the stacked Penguins roster 20 years ago.
"They came at us for the whole series. They never gave up," Iginla said of the plucky Islanders.
Tavares -- one of three finalists for the Hart Trophy as league MVP -- sent the Nassau Coliseum crowd into a frenzy when he opened the scoring at 5:36 of the first period, one-timing a Josh Bailey feed high and inside the far post from the inner edge of the right circle.
Pittsburgh tied the game with 7:39 played. Sidney Crosby moved in on a breakaway off a neutral-zone turnover, and though Nabokov turned away his backhander, Iginla followed up and slid the disc home.
The hosts led by one at intermission. Grabner beat his man to a loose puck to the left of Vokoun, and his chip in front found Keith Aucoin, who passed over for an easy one-timer by McDonald with 37 seconds remaining.
Despite misfiring on a power-play chance near the midway point of the second, the Pens evened the score on Dupuis' tip from the right side of the crease with 9:01 left.
New York went ahead by a 3-2 count at 2:21 of the third, when a Pens giveaway ended up on the stick of Aucoin in the slot, who faked a shot then passed to Grabner for an easy score at the right side.
"We could have taken a bigger lead, but we couldn't do it," Tavares said. "They stayed with it and that's ultimately why they're moving on."
But Evgeni Malkin moved behind the New York net from right to left and his drop pass came to Martin at the left point. His blast elevated off the stick of Islanders forward Frans Nielsen then past Nabokov with 5:16 left in regulation.
"We needed the win. We're glad we don't have to play them tomorrow," said Vokoun.
Game Notes
Orpik, who missed the first three games of the series, netted his first goal since Nov. 21, 2011, a 5-0 win against the Islanders ... Including Saturday's triumph, Pittsburgh's last six playoff-series clinchers have occurred on the road (2010 ECQF vs. Ottawa, 2009 SCF vs. Detroit, 2009 ECF vs. Carolina, 2009 ECSF vs. Washington, 2009 ECQF vs. Philadelphia) ... The Penguins also posted their first win over the Islanders in four postseason meetings, after losing in 1975, 1982 and '93 ... Crosby's assist pulled him just one away from tying Ron Francis for fourth place on the franchise's all-time postseason point list with 100 ... The game was the 16th of the first round to be decided in overtime, tying the NHL record set in last year's playoffs ... Nielsen returned to the lineup after a one-game absence with an undisclosed injury.


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Fort Walton Beach High School cheerleaders successfully defended their national title at a competition over the weekend.
Fort Walton Beach High School cheerleaders successfully defended their national title at a competition over the weekend.
The 29-person squad won the top spot in large non-tumbling division at the National High School Cheerleading Competition in Orlando after landing in second place at state competition a week ago.
�It�s an amazing feeling being back-to-back national champions,� said Jordyn Hoffmann, one of the team captains. �Being second (at the state competition) definitely helped up our game.�
The group was in first place against the 14 other teams after preliminaries and concluded six points above the next closest team in the division, Hoffmann said.
They also went on to win second place at a world championship competition against teams from Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica.
Hoffmann, who is graduating this year, said they had high hopes that the winning trend at nationals would continue.
�Definitely the third is going to be tough, but I think we can do it,� she said.
Choctawhatchee High School�s squad might not have won their division as they did at state last week, but Coach Hailey Buchanan said they were pleased with a third-place finish after placing seventh the previous year.
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�The kids were very, very excited,� Buchanan said. �The teams that we competed against were very good.�
The squad went up against 20 other co-ed teams in a new division this year. In spite of having far fewer males on their team than other squads, they were able to secure one of the top 10 spots in the finals, she said.
An imperfect routine landed them in third rather than first or second, but Buchanan said she was still proud of the team especially since it was only the second time they�d competed in a national co-ed division.
�We were very unsure of how the competition was going to look when we actually got to nationals,� Buchanan said. �They really pulled through and made sure we did what we needed to do.�
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Hi, there. Do you have many books in your house? Where do you put all of those books? Do you have a home library in your home? What does it look like? If you want to decorate a home library, you have to design it as cozy as possible. So, you will enjoy staying here. I will share some home libraries design. Are you curious? Let's see these pictures.
I have to say amazing because of this home library. It is designed in attic of house. I like the design of this roof. It is so cozy with transparent glass roof. It is a living room, actually. But, it can v=be used as a small library in the house. There is a long bookshelf on the white house. The presence of brown armchairs with blue cushion on it make it more comfortable to use. I like the puff so much. With assorted colorful puff gives cheerful nuance in this small home library.Near to the window, there are some plants which generate fresh atmosphere.
Other home library here looks so fancy with two floor design. You can see in this picture. There is a living space used to study space and a home library above it. The office space is designed with oval shape of the table with a green rocking chair. If you want to look for some books you want to read, you have to climb with a metal ladder. It connects to small library with round shape also. The books are arranged so tidy, so it can beautify this room.Read more »


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