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Statement of John Dyer,
Acting Principal Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration
before the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight
Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology
March 10, 1997
Mr . Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
I am pleased to be here today to discuss how SSA is implementing the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GPRA). I will be discussing how SSA is refining our strategic plan to comply with the statutory deadline of September 30, 1997.
What the Law Requires
Before I do so, I will include a few words about the law itself. The GPRA requires Federal agencies to develop and institutionalize processes to plan for the achievement of mission results and to measure and report their level of achievement. Specifically, the law has several major provisions:
- Federal agencies must submit to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) and Congress, by September 30, 1997, a strategic plan for program
activities (covering at least 5 years in the future and to be revised at
least every 3 years) that includes:
- A comprehensive mission statement;
- General goals and objectives and a description of how they are to be achieved and how they relate to the required performance goals;
- An identification of key external factors outside agency control that could affect achievement of the goals and objectives;
- A description of how the agency intends to achieve its goals, including a description of the resources required to do so;
- A description of the program evaluations used to establish or revise goals and objectives and a schedule for future evaluations.
- Agencies must consult with their chief stakeholders, including the Congress, in the preparation of their strategic plan.
- OMB must require each agency to prepare an annual performance plan covering each program activity in the agency's budget. The plan must include quantifiable and measurable performance goals, describe the 2 resources required to meet them, and identify how agencies will measure their results and then validate their measurements.
- Beginning with a report in March 2000, each agency must prepare and submit to the President and Congress an annual report on program performance for the previous fiscal year.
- OMB was required to set up performance-planning and reporting pilots for fiscal years (FY) 1994-1996.
SSA Support for the GPRAHaving summarized the provisions of the GPRA, I would like to voice my strong support, which echoes through out SSA, for both the spirit and the letter of the law we are talking about at this hearing. The GPRA itself includes as one of its primary purposes "to improve the confidence of the American people in the capability of the Federal Government . . ." We have been pursuing a strategy to increase confidence in our programs. Confidence in the context of GPRA is society's very real concern about the government's ability to provide the public good service while it manages their tax dollars wisely. SSA is in a prime position to addre ss this concern. As one of only a small handful of Federal agencies whose programs directly and visibly touch the lives of millions of Americans every day. SSA plays a pivotal role in shaping the public's opinion, and we take our responsibility very seriously. I see the GPRA. as a very important--and welcome--tool in our diligent pursuit of creating a government that works better, costs less, and enjoys the unshakable support of the people it was created to serve.
SSA provides services to different populations, but our central purpose is essentially singular. And our core business processes, from issuing social security numbers to recording earnings to taking claims, are focused on our achieving that purpose--to make payments of benefits to people entitled under Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act.
A much greater advantage, though, is SSA's culture, which values many of the concepts that underlie the GPRA. We have a strong history of doing much of what the GPRA, requires:
- We have always measured the work we do and the way we do it. We collect information in literally hundreds of data categories, most of them related to inputs, outputs, and various outcomes of our internal processes such as processing times, productivity rates, and numbers of cases pending.
- We have always been attuned to important societal trends that would affect program implementation. This has been so for a number of reasons. Among them is SSA's need for a strong actuarial capability, so that useful projections of program income and expenditures--heavily dependent on such trends as increasing numbers of women in the work force and changing fertility rates--can be made. Another is our responsibility to maintain one of the largest automated data processing operations in the world.
- We have always been proud of our service orientation and our concern with the needs of our customer. Thousands of opportunities daily to interact with the people who use our services have provided us with a good perspective on what makes customers happy. A focused process of program integrity review--conducted to ensure high accuracy of benefit decisions and payments-sgives us important data about customer service. And we have been surveying customer satisfaction directly for over 10 years.
- SSA's first strategic plan was published in 1988, and its second and most recent one was published in 1991. Among the most important elements of the 1991 plan was an explicit set of service-delivery objectives that announced the level of service performance--in real numbers--that SSA intended to achieve over its 15-year strategic horizon. Establishing those objectives and understanding the gaps in performance that we faced led us to pursue many of the operational-improvement strategies that still engage us today. Our critical effort to reengineer the process by which we make initial disability decisions; the vast improvements in access to our 800 number; and the establishment of our Agency-wide client/server architecrure all had their roots in the 1991 strategic plan.
- SSA already tracks a number of workload and performance measures at the request of our House Appropriations Subcommittee. During the FY 1996 subcommittee hearing, conducted on March 28, 1995, Chairman John Porter listed 14 workload and performance measures for which he requested a committment as to the level of service that could be achieved throughout FYs 1995 and 1996 at two alternative funding levels. During the FY 1997 hearing, conducted on April 30, 1996, Congressman Porter discussed SSA's progress in meeting the performance commitments throughout FY 1995, and asked SSA to commit to performance levels for the same measures for FY 1996 and FY 1997 at three alternative funding levels, SSA reports on its actual performance against these measures in its annual Accountability Report.
- We report what we do. SSA began publishing audited financial statements several years before the law required us to do so. Those statements have evolved into our Accountability Report, which today links program and financial data to establish how well the Agency's programs and resources are being managed. The report provides a comprehensive picture of the Agency's performance pursuant to stated goals and objectives as set forth in the Agency strategic plan. Performance measures included in the report tie together resources used with outputs and outcomes and provides appropriations committees a comprehensive picture of how SSA uses its budgetary resources. The Accountability Report is seen as a model of integrated reporting on the operational health of a Federal agency.
Perhaps our most important advantage is how the current leadership environment of the Agency has coalesced with the impetus of the GPRA to move SSA into the much stronger, and we believe much more productive, position of espousing strategic management as a guiding philosophy for the Agency.
On a practical level, this means that all of the pieces we have had in place, and some new pieces whose importance we have recognized, are now being put together in the Agency to form a system of strategic thinking. We believe that thinking strategically at all levels will help ensure that all activities undertaken at SSA align with our strategic vision and move us toward achieving our strategic goals. The repre sentation of this new thinking is SSA's yearly Business Plan. The Business Plan, published for the first time in FY 1995, is generally known as the "story around the budget." It presents SSA's performance targets for the budget year; the drivers, approach, and enablers of SSA's business strategy; a candid assessment of SSA's business processes and service-delivery interfaces; and a summary of the objectives and time lines of SSA's key initiatives. In doing so, the Business Plan gathers into a single document evidence of the rigor and creativity with which integrated planning now takes place at Social Security.
A number of specific changes have been made since the introduction of the GPRA to improve how we manage strategically. For one, we "officially" recognized customer expectation as a driver of our strategy, and a focal point for customer service was established in the Office of the Commissioner. Over the last several years, SSA has used a variety of new vehicles to obtain direct customer input, and we are institutionalizing a comprehensive program to ensure that the voice of the customer is heard. Examples of vehicles we have used include focus groups, comment cards, and phone surveys. The customer input has been used as we developed customer service standards and to further inform the Agency's performance measures; it is also helping us create new strategies for process improvement.
In direct response to GPRA mandates, we are creating a new performance measures construct to ensure that the measures on which we report performance at the highest level reflect the entire range of program and administrative responsibilities. It also will help guarantee that the yearly targets we establish accurately portray the intended balance among Agency priorities, thereby guiding tactical planning in a meaningful way. SSA's participation in the GPRA pilots for performance planning was a useful exercise in helping us understand the value of interim targets and the need to expand our stable of "service" objectives. The construct we are establishing for use in planning for the FY 1999 budget and beyond is expected to be a natural evolution from the increasingly comprehensive slates of measures we presented in our pilot plans for FYs 1994 - 1996. The performance measures themselves and the targets being set at present will be based on customer input, current performance, resource-management strategies, and the Agency's own vision of its preferred future.
One of SSA's goals for its strategic management program has been to forge a strong link between planning and budgeting activities. We have been largely successful in creating an environment where decisions made in the Executive planning process drive decisions made in the budget process. To further our aims, however, GPRA is forcing us to continue our drive to link performance targets and resource allocations in such a way that differing levels of performance can be associated with differing levels of resources, thereby facilitating the strategic-decision- making process.
The GPRA has also inspired us to use more effective means of identifying where strategic action needs to be taken and to create systems and processes that allow us to evaluate the success those actions have had in closing the performance gaps. In recent years we have established a cost-benefit analysis methodology to be used Agency-wide; we have documented how work is done in our core business processes to help us identify innovation opportunities; and we are working with various automated modeling tools to help us choose the best solutions to operating problems. Our Planning and Budgeting System has been enhanced in a number of ways; for example, we have instituted a formal investment-review process for critical business initiatives, and we now require every tactical plan to include a plan for evaluating project success.
The changes being wrought in the new environment have not just been procedural, of course; real results are being seen. Let me remind you of some of the things happening at SSA that show what that can mean. First, in 1991, one of our service objectives was to ensure that individuals would be able access our 800 number system, i.e., avoid a busy signal, within 24 hours of their first attempt to call. That objective drove plans for certain changes to 800-number processing, including the use of new technology and expansion of the units in our processing centers (called "SPIKE" units) who are specially trained so that they can answer the phone on peak days. However, the input we got directly from our customers made us realize that the standard we were using was not responsive to caller expectations. We changed the access goal from 24 hours to 5 minutes for 95 percent of our callers in FY 1997, a dramatic change and a truly s-t-r-e-t-c-h goal. In addition, our new recognition of the value of setting interim targets led us to plan around incremental achievement, which in turn communicated to staff the expectation of an aggressive approach to improvement.
Continuing executive attention to the strategic issues inspired creative solutions to seemingly intractable problems. For example, the mission of two of our three Data Operations Centers, whose work was disappearing due to accomplishments in our earnings processing operation, was changed so that the talents of the personnel there could be diverted to the work of answering the 800 number. In addition, new technology solutions were negotiated with and then developed by our supplier. The bottom line is that, during the last three quarters of FY 1996, individual callers reached SSA's automated response system or entered the queue to speak with a live agent within 5 minutes of their first attempt, with no degradation in service accuracy, courtesy, or responsiveness to other customer expectations.
My second example is the disability redesign project that is currently in its implementation stage. The purpose of the project is to reduce dramatically the time SSA takes to process an initial disability claim (from filing through final Agency adjudication) and to improve the costeffectiveness of the process we use to do so. That project resulted directly from our new emphasis on evaluation of project benefits based on performance measurement. The need for strategic intervention in the disability claims process was recognized and called for in the 1991 strategic plan (again, based on analysis of the performance gap between then-current case-processing times and the processing times we set as our objective). Programs for improving the disability and appeals processes were identified in the plan as two of SSA's strategic priorities.
However, plans to achieve the performance goals were created based on an intuitive, albeit knowledgeable, understanding of the impact they would have on processing times. Later analysis, prompted by a strong desire to succeed and supported by the spirit of GPRA and the current leadership, showed us that the plans so carefully laid out would not get us where we needed to be in the time frames we required So, in late 1993 a very difficult decision was reached: to reengineer the disability process. SSA consciously decided, that the object of reengineering was not to change the disability program through changes in the law, but rather to improve our administrative process in a way that would make it easier for individuals to file for and, if eligible, receive disability benefits promptly and efficiently, and minimize the need for appeals. The decision was difficult because reengineering--in which one must take a "tear-it-down-and-start-over" attitude toward what is regarded as a "broken" process-is a radical approach, and it was at that time completely new to SSA. It was also a difficult decision because we knew that such a major initiative would require many staff hours and much management energy that would normally be devoted to other activity.
The 1991 strategic plan and 1997 business plan that SSA has already prepared present a cohesive vision of SSAs current strategies for the future. They also describe the major initiatives we have planned or that are under way to take us to achieve that vision and tell the story of how SSA intends to fill gaps in performance we have identified as critical to accomplishing our mission. Together, these pre-GPRA documents meet almost all of the basic elements that GPRA requires.
Still, it is important for us to regularly revalidate what our vision and strategies are, and we are using the legislated due date for a GPRA strategic plan as the imperus to refine SSAs plans. We are increasing participation of our customers and stakeholders in ensuring that the mission, goals, values, and activities that exist today are the ones we still wish to embrace for the future. To this end, we are looking forward to establishing an active dialogue with Members of Congress about the future they expect to help build for our Agency, as we continue our mission to administer arguably the most important domestic social program of modern history. We will also be finalizing the performance measures construct for the future and identifying levels of performance we intend to provide. The new construct will have a stronger focus on outcomes and better reflect a customer perspective.
We have just held the first of what we expect will be a series of executive discussions to identify and make decisions around the key issues facing SSA today and into the future. The results of these efforts will be Agency agreement on our highest priorities, alignment of our performance measures and targets with those priorities and mission requirements, identification of new approaches to integrate the strategic plan with implementation activities such as operational planning and budgeting, and, as required, a refined strategic plan and annual performance plan for FY 1999.We have just received our copy of the study of customer-driven strategic planning, sponsored by the National Performance Review, in which SSA and 15 other agencies participated. We will be looking in it for best practices that will help us equal, and perhaps exceed, the standards set by the best in business for understanding, anticipating, and fulfilling the needs of their customers through an active process of strategic management. We intend to adapt and adopt in our strategic management process whatever practices promise us that outcome.
Implementing the full letter and intent of the GPRA is a challenge we welcome at SSA. We are confident in our ability to implement it. More important, because we believe in the principles of management it encompasses, because we adhere to the principles of public trust it upholds, and because we believe that SSA truly personifies "the government" to millions of Americans, we pledge our commitment to making it work. We look forward to working with you to address what may be one of the biggest challenges of the GPRA: changing the definition of "success" from "what can be counted" to "what really counts."


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In concert tonight is, left to right, Kaljo Raid, cellist, Miss Mildred
Bisgrove, pianist, and Valdeko Kangro, violinist. They present chamber
music in the college chapel at 8:30 P.M.
—Photo by Ralph Carlson
Trio Performs Chamber Music
At Concert Tonight In Chapel
For we are His work-manship,
created in
Christ Jesus unto
good works, ....
... which God hath
before ordained that
we should walk in
them. Eph. 2:10
Bedtela Vaal cic4aal Pareit
Vol. XXIX—No. 4
Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Friday, November 9, 1951
Arts Club Features World Famous Musician
In a popularized lecture on "The Origins of Music", Dr. Richard
Stoehr, among the world's eminent musicologists, will appear on
campus next Friday at 8:00 P.M., in the college chapel, at the first
Arts Club meeting of the year. After his main lecture he will play a
group of unpublished oriental compositions.
For 38 years Dr. Stoehr was on the faculty of the Vienna Conserva-tory,
for 35 years heading the Department of Harmony, Counterpoint,
and Musical Form. Stoehr came to the United States in 1939 on the
invitation of the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia. He has been on the
summer faculty of the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, head of the
music department of St. Michael's College, Vermont, and the theory
department of the Vermont Conservatory of Music.
Among his 7,000 music students
Dr. Richard Stoehr Lectures and
Plays Here Next Friday Evening
Fall Party Features
Campus Treasure Hunt
Approximately 1 0 0 students
gathered in the pumpkin and corn-stalk-
decorated gym last Friday
night for the all-school Hallowe'en
The evening's entertainment be-gan
with several relays led by Jay
Fernlund, after which the group
was divided into smaller sections
for a treasure hunt on campus,
the main event of the evening.
Beth Tobiason, Vera Van Cleave,
Janis Smith and Al Malmstrom,
the first to reach the final destina-tion,
received prizes.
Following the treasure hunt the
group returned to the gym where
they played games. Mr. Otto cli-maxed
the evening with his read-ing
"Who's Got My Golden Arm?"
The refreshment committee serv-ed
apple cider, donuts and apples.
Coming Events
Students spent the chapel hour
on Monday, November 5, in class
meetings deliberating coming ev-ents.
The freshmen, led by Ken
Brown, made plaifs for a sleigh
ride November 30. Nancy Schnorr
and Carol Turnwall are selecting
committees for the event.
Camp Iduhapi, the site of the
Sophomore Retreat, was the main
topic of discussion at the sopho-more
conclave in Room 110. The
executive committee headed by
Wally Anderson announced the
dates, February 9 and 10 and ask-ed
for suggestions as to speakers,
transportation, and entertainment.
The juniors spent the time in
laying the groundwork for the
Junior-Senior Banquet, which will
be held at Dayton's Skyroom May
9 or 16.
The seniors nominated commit-tees
for their class project which
will take place sometime in Janu-ary.
Investigating the possibilities
as to what groups are available
for perforinance are Jim Hubbard,
Olga Shenning and Ron Nelson.
Publicizing the event are Dottie
Johnson, Eleanor Johnson and Jim
Mason. Dave Washburn, Helen
Peterson, and Doug Baltz have
charge of decorating the chapel
and securing ushers.
Gals Grab Guys
For Nik Dag Ties
Bethel's Swedish version of
Sadie Hawkins' Day finds the girls
in true leap year fashion trying to
get dates for Nov. 17. The shy
lassies have only one week left
to grab themselves fellows for
Nikolena's Dag. Pat Noland is as-sisting
the girls by .keeping a
check list of the boys who are en-gaged,
going steady, or already
A week from tomorrow night
the girls will pack the corridor
and lounge of the boys' dorm when
they call for their dates. Each
lass will then escort her fellow
to the program in the college gym
scheduled for 7:30.
Sophomore class president Wally
Anderson, the man behind the
whole affair, will be master of
ceremonies. Highlighting the en-tertainment
will be an original
skit written by Don Richardson,
"How Gorgious George Foxed
Scandalous Sam." Don Barnhill
and Pauline Gustafson play the
leading roles of Gorgious George
and Perilous Pauline respectively.
Skip Beard is the villain of the
The Courier Quartet has con-sented
to sing a few numbers for
the occasion. A humorous reading
is promised by Dr. Virginia Low-ell.
Bill Slivka and Audrey Kuehn
plan to sing two arias of Puchini's
opera, "La Boheme."
Bob Hilton and his committee
are responsible far the entertain-ment.
Tickets and advertisement
are being taken care of by Loyd
Cumings. Pat Noland is in charge
of refreshments. Head of the dec-oration
committee is Gloria Ber-how.
Dr. Richard Stoehr
Hors d'oeuvres, salad, ham
and fixings, and dessert are on
the menu for tomorrow night's
Chapel Choir progressive din-ner
Members leave the girls'
dorm at 5:30 P.M. and will stop
at Del Ray Peterson's, Cal Pet-erson's,
Howard Smith's and
Dean Carlson's homes for one
of the above courses respect-ively
They will also have a fel-lowship
hour at Dean Carlson's.
THE SWEDISH CLUB float and
the Edgren dorm decorations won
the Homecoming decorations
awards last October 27. They were
awarded a trophy and plaque re-spectively.
of the past 50 years are such well
known musicians as: Artur Rod-zinski,
Leonard Bernstein, Alex-ander
Brailowsky, Erich Leins-dorf,
Walter Hendl, Eugene Isto-min,
and Hilde Somer. Several
members of the Minneapolis Sym-penhtosny
are also his former stud-
As an author, Stoehr's textbooks
on harmony, form, modulation,
counterpoint, and on the origins
of music are considered classics
on both sides of the Atlantic. He
has been commissioned by the
Curtis Institute to translate the
personal papers of Richard Wag-ner,
who frequently visited the
Stoehr home during Dr. Stoehr's
childhood. It was Dr. Stoehr who
identified, among some music re-cently
brought to this country,
some original Schubert manu-scripts
hitherto unknown.
Since coming to America Dr.
Stoehr has written more than 70
new works: six of them symphon-ies,
two orchestral suites, one
cantata, and many larger and
smaller works for chamber music,
solo pieces, choruses and lieder.
As composer, Dr. Stoehr has con-tributed
many works in almost all
fields of music, from symphony,
the oratorio, and the opera down
to the smallest modest tonal
sketch. Most of these works com-posed
in Europe were published
and performed in the musical cen-ters
of Europe, where Stoehr is
recognized as a composer of rare
gift and individuality.
Dr. Stoehr studied music com-position
with Robert Fuchs, piano
with Schenner, and organ with
Vockner at the Vienna Conserva-tory.
In addition to his music edu-cation
he was graduated from the
University of Vienna as a doctor
of medicine.
Dr. Stoehr's son, Richard Stoehr,
is enrolled in Bethel College. He
attended North Park Seminary and
is a liscensed Covenant preacher.
Camp444 Caleotriaii
November 9—Chamber Music Con-cert,
November 10—Chapel Choir Pro-gressive
November 15—BWA, 3:00 P.M.
November 16—Dr. Stoehr, lecturer
at Arts Club, 8:00 P.M. in the
November 17—Nikolina's Dag, 7:30
P.M. in the Gym.
November 21-26—Thanksgiving va-cation
beginning at 5:00 P.M.,
Nov. 21.
November 26-30—Fall quarter ex-aminations.
November 27-30—Seminary Exams.
November 30—Freshman Party.
Featuring chamber music at the second concert in the faculty
series, Miss Mildred Bisgrove, associate professor of music, Valdeko
Kangro, instructor in music, and Kaljo Raid, instructor in music, will
perform at the piano, violin and cello in the college chapel tonight at
8:30 p.m.
The program will begin with the Sonata in G Minor by Tartini, a
composition for violin and piano in four movements: Adagio, Non
Troppo Presto, Largo, Allegro. The piano accompaniment in this work is
restrained, the whole number being termed "musicians' music".
The second number will be Trio
in Eb Major by Haydn for piano,
violin and cello in three move- Classes Outline
ments: Allegro, Andante, Presto.
The Passacaglia in G Minor an
arrangement by Halvorsen of one
of Handel's compositions, is writ-ten
for violin and cello and feat-ures
sixteen to twenty continuous
variations on one theme.
The last number, Trio No. 3 by
Lalo is an exciting work in three
movements: Allegro Appassionato,
Tres Lente, Presto, with much
piano and full sounding chords.
Chamber music is meant to be
played in a small room rather than
a large orchestra hall by several
solo instrumentalists for small au-diences.
It is more intimate than
orchestra music.
The week of lectures began Sat-urday
when Dr. Smith spoke be-fore
the Inter-School Christian Fel-lowship,
a group of high school
students, representing the entire
Vancouver area. Dr. Smith gave
the message at the Sunday morn-ing
worship service in the Fair-view
Presbyterian Church, Van-couver,
and spoke at the evening
service in the St. Giles United
Church of Vancouver.
Dr. Smith Gives Lecture Series
At British Columbia U. This Week
All this week Dr. Robert W. Smith, visiting professor of philosophy
here has been giving a series of open lectures on the campus of the
University of British Columbia in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. His general
theme is "Christ and Life."
At noon today he lectures on "The Lordship of Christ." This even-ing,
in his final address, he speaks at a fireside hour at the Holy
Trinity Church in Vancouver. Yesterday afternoon he addressed the
Theological School of the university. In all the meetings, he is being
sponsored by Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship.
At lectures every day during the Besides lecturing, Dr. Smith is
noon hour Dr. Smith's topics have having interviews with students
been "The Relevance of Christ To- and appearing at a tea and lunch-day,"
"Who is This Jesus?," "A eon to meet university students
Living Faith," and "The Real and faculty.
Problem of Life." At afternoon Tomorrow morning Dr. Smith
meetings Monday and Tuesday Dr. flies to Seattle to speak during the
Smith lectured on "Is Christianity day and on Sunday at a confer-
Credible?" and "How To Know ence centered at the University
What Is Right and What Is Wring." Presbyterian Church, off the camp-us
of the University of Washing-ton.
He arrives back in St. Paul
by plane from Seattle next Mon-day
FMF Answers
Three Questions
1. You say you have to stay here
and work? You say you have to
stay on campus and study reserve
books for finals? You say you live
too far away? Oh, so you say you
aren't going home for Thanksgiv-ing?
Well then you can be thank-ful
for F.M.F., because when 90
per cent of the students have gone
home Wednesday afternoon, Nov.
21, the rest of us will be looking
forward to a warm time of Chris-tian
fellowssip in the recreation
room of the Edgren Residence.
With a missionary emphasis
throughout, the program will take
the place of the regular student
fellowship with entertainment,
food, singing, testimonies, and de-votions.
Sign up soon on one of the lists
in the dorms, dining hall, or main
bulletin board.
2. Who's going with us to the
Third International Student Mis-sionary
Convention? Remember—
it will be at the University of
Illinois, December 27-31. The total
cost is estimated at $35 - $40., in-cluding
registration, room and
board, and transportation.
For further information see the
display in the library.
If you cannot go, but have spec-ial
problems or subjects you
would like others to keep in mind
at the convention, drop them in
the Suggestion Box and we will
try to answer them when we come
If you would like to help some-one
go who needs only money,
volunteer through the Question
Box, too.
3. Are the Tuesday evening Mis-sionary
Bible Studies worthwhile?
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eeowee! have i had a good time since crawling over to the library
even though i almost froze between buildings. this zero weather out of
season is rough on us silverfish. but i've had such a treat snoopin in
old spires that the trip has been worth while. what i found out about
the faculty. eeowee! an old 1921 spire showed virgil olson, seminary
senior, as having sung in a male quartette, mail chorus, chapel choir,
string trio, and clarion staff. that's singing. the same year elving ander-son
was spire editor. back in 1920 del ray peterson starred on the
basketball team averaging 12.6 points per game for the season. dug up
an old bethannual, which it was called in those days, and saw a picture
of dean carlson lined up with a basketball team, guess he was the
assistant coach. we'll have to check up on that. that same year we see
that ivar anderson was salutatorian of the graduating class. see here
that miss sabel has a different hair do in this bethannual of 19 , just
can't make out the year of it, but the dress style is about the same as
it was a couple of years ago. close to the floor. what's this. the bethel
heraid. sure a lot of name changes. here's one that says, 'the blue and
gray'. less see here. somethings wrong. mrs. sjordahl has her picture
there but she has the wrong last name. it says berggren. and they have
a. j. wingblade as principal, and h. c. wingblade as instructing english.
here's alphin conrad shown on the hockey, track, and basketball teams
in the 1944 spire. here's russel w. Johnson, class treasurer, who even
then liked to hike with the boy scouts, it says. eeowee! here's one with
swedish writing. I'm taking off now. this stumps me. the faculty has
quite a history. whoops! got these annuals so mixed up i suppose all
the above dates are mixed around some. o me. after my snoopin this
week i may have to crawl to another campus to finish out my silver
fish education. and that, even before anyone has discovered my last
name ....
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It's 7:00 P.M.—one hour past office hours—and the phone rings. A
desperate voice at the other end of the line pleads, "My roommate is
sick as a dog. Please come over and see him right away."
To this the nurse replies, "IC he's that sick you better get one of
your buddies to help you bring him over to the Health Service. No
doubt he'll have to be admitted to the Infirmary." The desperate voice
pleads on, "No, N. better not move him. If you can't come over we'll
have to get someone else to care for him."
"Oh, allright, I'll be over." Quickly the two nurses haul out supplies
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spirits of ammonia and some aspirin—just in case.
Room 313 had a somber look about it as I approached. Two boys
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The patient, who was keeping his head warm with a green beanie
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Eau Claire State Teachers will be
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- Zhu Ling was studying at Tsinghua University in 1994 when she was poisoned
- Now almost 40 years old, Zhu is mostly bed-ridden and is practically blind
- Suspicion turned to her roommate who wasn't charged due to lack of evidence
- A petition to the White House urges U.S. officials to investigate the case
A cold case involving the poisoning of a college sophomore in Beijing almost two decades ago has captured the imagination of Chinese communities around the world, landing a petition on the White House website and igniting an emotional debate on the pursuit of justice in China.
Zhu Ling was a chemistry major at the prestigious Tsinghua University, often called "China's MIT," when she started experiencing stomach pain, hair loss and other inexplicable symptoms in late 1994, state-run news agency Xinhua reported in a story published in April.
Doctors eventually diagnosed her with poisoning by thallium, a highly toxic chemical used in rodent and insect poisons. Police investigated one of Zhu's roommates, Sun Wei, but subsequently cleared her as a suspect, Xinhua said. The authorities have so far remained quiet on the case.
Although domestic Chinese media had covered the unsolved mystery in the past, news of a fatal poisoning case at a Shanghai college dorm in April rekindled national -- and even global -- interest in Zhu's story.
In the Shanghai case, police quickly identified the victim's roommate as the suspect and arrested him for alleged murder. As events unfolded in Shanghai, Chinese reporters and Internet users increasingly looked back at the Zhu case and highlighted her plight.
Now almost 40 years old, Zhu remains mostly bed-ridden and appears overweight in recent photos. Once an accomplished musician and avid swimmer, she is practically blind and has the mental capacity of a 6-year-old child.
Was investigation botched?
Amid new outpourings of sympathy, speculation on the investigation abounds across Chinese cyberspace. On Sina Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter with more than 300 million users, many posts alleged a botched process complete with vanishing crucial evidence and mounting political pressure due to the Sun family's powerful connections.
Sun's grandfather was a high-ranking official in the Nationalist government before the Communist takeover in 1949. He later held senior -- though largely symbolic -- positions in the People's Republic until his death in 1995. Another close relative, a cousin of Sun's father, was considered a national leader from 1993 to 2003 when he was a vice-chairman of China's top political advisory body.
Sun has reportedly made three online statements on Tianya, a popular Chinese Internet discussion forum, according to state media. CNN's efforts to reach Sun and her family Tuesday were unsuccessful.
In 2005, Sun stated that police took her in for questioning in April 1997 because of her access to thallium. She said police cleared her as a suspect in August 1998 due to lack of evidence. Sun added that she was not the only student with access to the toxic substance and denied personal animosity between herself and Zhu. Addressing her family's political connections, she said her grandfather had died by the time she was questioned.
In 2006, Sun said her family had submitted an application to the police on her behalf requesting the authorities re-open the investigation to "find the truth." In April, after the Shanghai poisoning reignited public interest in Zhu's case, Sun resurfaced on Tianya and wrote: "I, more than anyone else, would like to bring the real perpetrator to justice."
Online campaign for 'justice'
Last Friday, with discussion on the Zhu case reaching fever pitch, Weibo started censoring the topic by blocking keywords like "Zhu Ling" and "thallium." The site's action only added fuel to the fire over the continued official silence, especially about whether Sun had any role in the crime.
On the same day, a "Y.Z." from Miami created a petition on the White House's official website, naming Sun -- whose English name is Jasmine -- as the prime suspect in the poisoning case and accusing her of committing marriage fraud to enter the United States. The petition calls for the U.S. government to investigate and deport her "to protect the safety of our citizens."
In less than four days, more than 130,000 people had signed the petition.
Anyone can petition the U.S. federal government online to take action on an issue. According to terms posted on the White House website, a petition must reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days to require a response.
"It's extraordinary to seek another country's help to address a domestic judicial issue," Yao Bo, a Beijing-based political commentator, told CNN. "But if your own government ignores you, I think it's reasonable to see people feel compelled to seek outside pressure to ensure judicial fairness and transparency in their own country."
Other observers oppose what they view as a cyber witch-hunt for Sun.
"The law is about evidence -- you can't convict someone without evidence and not everything is a conspiracy," a U.S.-based user wrote on his Weibo page. "Petitioning the White House without evidence is the ultimate fail -- those people really don't understand the law or American politics."
Zhu's mother speaks out
Weibo has lifted its short-lived ban on the discussion of the Zhu case, as her 72-year-old mother was interviewed by a talk show host on China National Radio on Monday
Recounting her experience of being stonewalled by the police over the years, Zhu Mingxin said the government has rejected the family's request to make the investigation results public.
"I will continue to apply," she said. "I hope to have an answer. I hope to give Zhu Ling an answer."
"Zhu Ling is my child and she is a good child," she added. "In the prime of her youth, she almost lost her life and she's been miserable since. I hate the perpetrator."
Such heart-wrenching words have resonated with the public, prompting many of the so-called "Weibo stars" with millions of followers to retweet Zhu's story and appeal for help. Websites set up by Zhu's supporters home and abroad are attracting new donations for her parents, whose entire lives now focus on caring for their ailing daughter.
Will public attention bring action?
Even the official Xinhua news agency has jumped into the fray, mentioning Sun's "unusual family background" and challenging the police to speak up about the case with concrete evidence in a widely circulated article published Monday.
"Whether or not to re-open the investigation depends on new evidence, but the Beijing police should take a meaningful step forward by breaking their silence," opined the Southern Metropolitan Daily newspaper on its official Weibo page. "Doing so would help not only the victim but also the alleged suspect as well as the police's own credibility."
"In the past few years, people have seen too much injustice in stories posted online -- and the political power's wanton interference in the judicial system," said Yao, the commentator. "Things just erupted when Zhu's case resurfaced."
For Zhu's parents, however, the latest wave of public attention changes little for their daughter.
"I used to hope for a miracle," Zhu's mother said on the radio show. "Now that it's been so long, I just hope to see her conditions improve."


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Matthew Chapter 6, and folks we're again in the midst of the Sermon on the Mount and oh what a tremendous and thrilling time we're having. I get just excited about every message. In fact, I get so wound up, I can't finish these messages. I'm in the process of teaching the preaching class. And I'm trying to teach them how to develop a good sermon, having a good beginning and a great conclusion and major points and moving through with power and impact and I can't even finish my own sermon, so they all come out like a bunch of link sausage, just whacked off all over the place and hung together loosely.
But I get so exercised in my spirit on these subjects that I forget this structure and just wind up talking from my heart so much of the time, but especially in the Sermon on the Mount, I find myself with so much truth that can be expanded that you just don't know where to cut it off. Tremendous, tremendous material, tremendous truths from our Lord Jesus Christ. And the one major truth that I want you to see this morning is found just really in the first statement of the first verse of Chapter 6. We're really going to be considering verses 1-18 as a major unit over the next months. It's a tremendous portion of Scripture. But it is all introduced to us at the beginning of verse 1.
It says this, "Beware that you do not your righteousness before men to be seen by them." Stop right there. Simple statement opens up an incredible panorama of truth. "Beware that you do not your righteousness," or your righteous acts, "before men to be seen by them." Really the principle we want to deal with is the principle of hypocrisy. The story is told of an eastern mystic and esthetic a sort of a pious holy man who used to sit in a prominent place on a busy corner of the street of his city. And every day he would sit there covered with dust and ashes. A passing tourist asked him for permission to take his photograph, to which the holy man replied, "Just a moment please, let me rearrange my ashes."
Well, there's a lot of rearranging of ashes going on in religion. Fixing our piousity up so it'll look better for the photograph. And I suppose in all of our lives, there's a little of that rearranging of ashes going on. We want to make a good impression. That's a familiar religious game. We want to appear holy and we want to appear pious, especially if there are some true holy people around us. And so we play a game and the game is hypocrisy and we're phonies.
Obviously, if you read the Bible, you know the Lord seeks real, genuine, authentic devotion of the heart. He is not interested in rearranging your ashes. He is not interested on how you look on the outside and whether you look humble and holy and pious. The Pharisees of Jesus' time perhaps were the all time artists at rearranging their ashes. They made sure they put on a show. And that's the issue to which Jesus speaks in the verse 18 verses of Matthew 6.
But it opens up a wider concept for us because we have to understand what God thinks of this in general. Generally speaking, hypocrisy is dealt with in Scripture from the start to the finish. There are hypocrites in Genesis. There are hypocrites in Revelation. There are hypocrites when the world begins and there are hypocrites when it ends. There are hypocrites in every form of religion and even Christianity, the true form. There were hypocrites among the 12. There are hypocrites in the leadership of the church. They're always around. It's just part of the sinfulness of man to play the game of religion.
God dealt with it in Israel through the prophet Amos. Amos wrote this in Chapter 5, verse 21. "I hate, I despise your feast days. I will not take delight in your solemn assemblies, though you offer me burnt offerings and your meal offerings I will not accept them, neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take away from me the noise of your songs. I will not hear the melody of your harps, but let justice run down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."
In other words, God is saying look, all of those items which I, myself, introduced, all of them which I invented, all of them which I commanded, I despise. Why? Because you've twisted, perverted, falsified their purpose. You have maintained the external, but the internal is vacant, empty. That's hypocrisy. An outward show without an inward reality. Religiosity, being a phony. By the way, the Greek word hypocrite which appears in verse 2, again in verse 5, and again in verse 16 is hupokritase. Basically, in classical Greek it is used to refer to an actor on a stage who masks his real identity and assumes a role. Who plays a part that isn't the truth about his life. Who assumes something other than what is genuine.
Notice verse 1 again, "Beware that you do not do your righteousness before men to be seen." The word seen is theatomi. The first three letters are the same first three letters, or four letters of an English word theater. Do not be an actor on a stage before an audience as if you were in a theater putting on an exhibition. Don't do your righteous deeds theatrically before a watching audience. Don't rearrange your ashes for the photographs of people. So the impression will be made that you're really holy. You're really pious. That's being a spiritual phony. And God had Amos, the prophet, deal with it in Israel, because that was the biggest flagrant violation of true religion the prophet could speak to. I really think that the major reason that Israel fell at the northern kingdom was taken into captivity was simply because the allowed phony religion to take over the genuine.
It was not only true in the northern kingdom, it was true in the southern kingdom to which Isaiah wrote. Listen to Isaiah 1, verse 11. Almost sounds like an identical message. "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me, saith the Lord. I am full of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts and I delight not in the blood of bullocks or of lambs or of he goats. When you come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand to tread my courts? Bring no more vain oblations. Incense is an abomination unto me, the new moons and Sabbaths, the calling of assemblies I cannot bear. It is iniquity even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts, my soul hateth. They are a trouble unto me. I am weary of bearing them. And when you spread forth your hands I'll hide mine eyes from you. Yeah, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean, put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow. Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord, though your sin be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow and though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
You know, again, He says everything that I have introduced, everything that I have commanded, everything that I have instituted in your religion, all of the feasts and the new moons and the sacrifices and the oblations and the incense, all of it I despise it all. Why? Because it is phony. And until your hearts are made as white and pure as snow and wool, I have nothing to do with you. Don't even come into my courts.
Our dear Lord confronted much sin in His time, but never did He rebuke any sinner like He rebuked the hypocrites in Matthew 23. He reserved the most blistering language for those spiritual phonies who had masked their vial, evil hearts with a facade of piousity. God hates it. Isaiah spoke to the issue not only that time, but again several times. For example, in the 9th and the 17th verse, Isaiah 9:17, "therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men. Neither shall He have mercy on their fatherless and widows for every one is an hypocrite."
Isaiah 10 and verse 6, "I will send the Assyrians the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation against an hypocritical nation." You know how really hypocritical they were? They played the game to the hilt. And in the 65th Chapter and the 5th verse, listen to them. Here is what they say to others, "Stand by thyself, come not near to me for I am holier than thou." In other words, don't get near me, you might contaminate me. For I am holier than thou. And God says they are smoke in my nose. Did you ever get smoke in your nose? Very irritating. How irritated is God over hypocrites? Very irritated. Job 15:34 says, "For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate." Job 8:13 says, "The hypocrites' hope shall perish." Job 27:8 says, "For what is the hope of the hypocrite when God takes away his soul." And Job 36:13 says, "But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath." Hypocrites will receive a judgment.
Aesop had a fable. I don't know if you remember this one from your childhood. But Aesop had a fable about a wolf. And the wolf decided he wanted to have a nice fat sheep for his dinner and so the wolf figured out the best way to catch a sheep is to look like one and sneak in among the fold. And so at night when the sheep were taken to the fold, the wolf got on his sheep covering and he stole in among the sheep and he nestled in gently and quietly there at the edge of the sheep waiting until they were all asleep so he could pick the fattest one. And while he was there so hidden and so concealed and so secretive about his devices, the shepherd too became hungry and decided he'd make a meal of one of the sheep. And so he went and looked for the fattest one and the fattest of any sheep would be a wolf. And so he found that one and before checking as to what it was, he took it's life.
And God not as inadvertently as that shepherd, but rather purposefully will so take the life of the wolf in sheep's clothing. God judges hypocrisy. In Jesus' day the typical definition of the religion of the Jews at the time was in terms of its hypocrisy. In Mark 7:6, He answered and said unto them, Jesus speaking, "Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites." And so you see our Lord sees the statement of Isaiah relative to hypocrisy as a prophecy as well as a historical fact. And what is the prophecy? Isaiah said, "this people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. They worship me in vain teaching or doctrines the commandments of men." In other words, they are hypocrites. They give honor with their lips, their heart is far removed. They have substituted the divine commandments with human traditions, and they have an inadequate system of hypocrisy.
So there were hypocrites in Israel and there were hypocrites in Judah. There were hypocrites in the time of Jesus. There were also hypocrites in the church. The church is born in Acts 2 and you meet the first hypocrites in Acts 5, Ananias and Sapphira. They play a big phony game about giving all they possess to the Lord. All the while, they're holding back some of it and in their phoniness and hypocrisy, God strikes them dead in front of the gaze of the whole church, Acts 5.
You say maybe that cured it. No, Paul says in 1 Timothy 4 that "In the latter times shall come seducing spirits teaching the doctrine of demons, speaking lies in hypocrisy." There were hypocrites in the first times and there will be hypocrites in the last times. You know the list of hypocrites in the Bible is a series of ugly names. The first hypocrite in the Bible is Cain. Cain feigned to worship God, but was doing nothing but showing off and displaying his ability as a farmer and it cost him dearly.
We see the unmasking of the hypocrite and the anger that caused him to murder his own righteous brother. Absalom was a hypocrite. Absalom in 2 Samuel 15 embraces and kisses his father David while plotting his murder and overthrow. And then there was Joab. Joab who embraces Amasa throws his arms around him and while Amasa returns the embrace takes a dagger and jams it between his ribs and takes his life. And who could forget Judas, the hypocrite of all hypocrites, who repeatedly kisses Jesus on the cheek while even the foul deed which he has plotted is being done to bring Him to a cross of death. And Simon Magus in the 8th Chapter of Acts who feigned would have embraced Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, but the fact was all he wanted was the magic it could work to work himself into a better way to earn money. And Peter tore his mask off.
And so the Cains and the Joabs and the Absaloms and the Judas' and the Simons dot their way through the Bible and tell us the ugliness of hypocrisy. But just as ugly as any of those are the Pharisees and the Herodians and those Jews who can feign the worship of God in the same time they are seeking the blood of His own Son. What hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is never presented pleasantly in the Bible. It is seen as Leaven in Luke 12 that affects that whole loaf. It has a spreading infectious capacity.
It is seen in Matthew 23 as a whited seplicur, a filthy grave stinking with death, but covered over with a whitewash. It is seen in Acts 23 in the words of Paul as a whited wall which in reality is nothing but dirt and mud packed together, but painted to look white when it truth it is ugly brown. It is seen in Luke 11:44 as an overgrown grave so covered with grass that you no longer know it's a grave and so you're defiled in stepping on it. It is seen as a broken pot covered over with silver so no one knows the fatal crack that's really there. It is seen in Matthew 13 as the tares that grow amidst the wheat. It is seen in Matthew 7:15 as that wolf in sheep's clothing. It is seen in 2 Peter 2:17 as a well without water. All of the promise is there, but when the bucket is lowered, it's clanging and banging and dry and empty.
It is seen by Paul in 1 Thessalonians 2:5 as a cloak to cover sin. It is seen in Matthew 9 like a mourner who mourns at a death because he's paid to mourn. Phony, fake tears. It was interesting to me in reading some background on this hypocrisy that one of the customs among the Jews at a mourning when somebody died was to rend your garments, to tear your clothes as a sign of your sorrow. The Bible speaks of rending garments. The historians say that the Jews became so good at the hypocrisy of sorrow that when they would tear their garments, they were always sure to tear them on a seam, so they could be easily sewn together for the next mourning.
Hypocrisy, the fasad of caring when you don't care. Of being righteous on the outside when you're unrighteous on the inside and all you're doing is rearranging your ashes for the effect that it has on others. That is precisely the word of our Lord here in Matthew 6. Look at it again. "Beware," and I use the word beware, it's the best translation to force us to see the seriousness of this. "Beware that you are not doing your righteous acts." Now the King James says alms. That is not the best textual rendering. The word in the Greek really is dikaiosune, the standard word for righteousness. The word alms comes in verse 2, eleemosune. But for verse 1 it should be translated "your righteous acts." Beware that you do not your righteous acts before men to put on a show, theatrics, exhibitionism for them.
That your religion be real and the point is beware if it is not. And beware is a flaming sword, people. Beware tells us that we are not looking at something that is a sentimental issue or something that is a soft matter. This is serious. Beware. Why? There are consequences. Now I want you to get the context a little so you'll understand what's going on here. We're in the Sermon on the Mount. You know that. And the Sermon on the Mount is designed to present to the Jewish people of that time and to every succeeding generation whoever reads the Bible, the true standard of righteousness.
Now you remember that the Lord began with the character of righteousness in the Beatitudes. And then He moved to the influence of righteousness, salt and light in the world. And then He moved in to the very elements of righteousness. The character of righteousness, its influence, and its standards. And the character of righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and the Pharisees. They didn't have that kind of character. They weren't mourning over their sin. They weren't meek. They weren't broken in spirit. They weren't hungering for righteousness. They weren't pure in heart. They weren't peacemakers. They weren't merciful. They weren't any of those things.
And so He says you don't meet the standard. And then He talks about the influence of righteousness. It's salt and light, it preserves and lightens the world. They didn't do that. They were part of the rot and part of the darkness. And then He says now I want to tell you the standards of righteousness and He started them in Chapter 5, verse 21 and they didn't live up to any of them. They never met it. Their character was unqualified for His kingdom. Their influence was unqualified for His kingdom, and so was their standard of righteousness.
And frankly, He's still talking about the same thing, the standards of righteousness here in Chapter 6. But there's a little different twist that I want you to see. Because in Chapter 5, verse 21-48, He was talking about the righteousness, now mark this word, taught, taught by the scribes and Pharisees. The righteousness taught by the scribes and Pharisees. Now in Chapter 6, He wants to see the righteousness practiced or lived by the scribes and Pharisees. One is their theology and the other is their living. In 5, He was saying this is what you teach, but this is what God teaches. Now in 6 He says, this is how you worship. This is how you live. This is your practice. But God's standard is up here.
So in one section He is dealing with their teaching and in another He's dealing with their practice. You might say that in one sense in Chapter 5 He's dealing with their morality, their theological content, their moral choices, their cognitive information. Their standard of morality and in the next one with their religion. In other words, how that morality works out in their lives. Their worship was phony because their theology was phony. And true religion has to have both. You have to have the cognitive. You have to have the facts. You have to have the moral standards. You have to have the proper teaching, and then it has to be lived out in the proper way. And so here He is saying when you're doing something whether in verse 2, giving alms, or in verse 5, praying, or in verse 16, fasting. In other words, when you put your religion to practice it is substandard. Your theology is inadequate and so is your practice of religion.
The morality of your system doesn't make it and neither does the operation of your system. It's a very important thing to note this people. As believers we have to have both. There are always those people who think Christianity's only a matter of what you do. Just go to church, you know, and give a little in the offering and do a religious ritual and do your daily Bible reading or whatever and you're all right. Well, that's not all there is. There's that cognitive. That responsibility to have a moral standard that is right.
There are people today who just think all you need is the moral standard. They think all you've got to do...they call it religionalist Christianity. They don't want to identify with the church. They're anti-church, they're anti-structure, anti-organization, they just want to be pious in a vacuum. They want to be moral in a social way. But there's a balance. Jesus is saying yes, you have to proper teaching, but yes, there is a place for giving and praying and fasting within the community of those who believe and that is to be exercised properly. It is a question of what you know and what you believe and also how you act. And the two have to be together.
Now I want to show you another interesting thing. Jesus is setting a standard here that nobody else has ever set in the history of the world, except God, of course. No other human system ever came across this standard. It exceeds every system that has ever existed at the invention of man. I'll show you why. Go back into this section, Chapter 5, verse 20. Now we're back into the moral section, what you teach, what you believe, your theology. "I say unto you," verse 20, "that except your righteousness exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees you shall in no case enter the kingdom of heaven."
Now Jesus goes on then to present a moral standard that is in excess of the scribes and the Pharisees who were the teachers in Israel. All right, so it is superior to that system. There is a superior moral standard. Now go to Chapter 6, verse 5. And He says, "And when you pray you shall not be as the hypocrites." All right, verse 2, "When you do your alms, don't do it with the trumpet like the hypocrites." Verse 16, "When you fast, don't be like the hypocrites." They hypocrites are synonymous with the Pharisees and the scribes. And again He is saying when you practice your religion, when you live out your spiritual life, it's got to be superior to theirs too. So what Jesus is saying, now get this, is that what I'm saying to you in content is superior and in practice is superior to what's going on right now. This is an incredible indictment of the whole system. And there's even a third category. He goes from theology to righteousness that relates to morality to the righteousness that relates to practical religion and then a third one righteousness that relates to mundane things. And from verse 19 of Chapter 6 on, He talks about things, mundane things, like what you eat and what you drink or what you wear, clothing and all of those kinds of things.
He talks about money and how you treat it and how you think of it and how you regard it and so forth. So He goes all the way down the down the line, doesn't He? He goes, now watch this, He goes from your theological moral values to your religious practices, to your mundane every day living. And in the whole sequence He says your theology is inadequate, your religion is inadequate and your approach to life every day is inadequate. Your standards are totally too low.
And that's why He says there in verse 19, "You can't lay up for yourselves treasures on earth. You must not be anxious," verse 25, "for your life." Why? Because that is characteristic of them. They were hung on laying up treasure on earth. They were anxious for their life. So He says it's got to be a system beyond that of the scribes and the Pharisees. Now why am I emphasizing this? Because people look, both our theology, our religion, our worship, if you will, and our daily living must be superior to the finest system men could ever devise at their very best efforts. It's inadequate. Further, there are some people who might say well, I just assume scratch all religion altogether and just be a pagan. Just get a philosophy and go with it. Listen, the Lord does the same thing with human philosophy and I'll show you.
Most interesting, Chapter 5, verse 47, He says this, "If you greet your brethren only what do ye more than others? Do not even the heathen? Be ye therefore perfect as your Father who's in heaven is perfect." In other words, you're not only to have a commitment that is better than the scribes and the Pharisees, but it should also obviously be better than who? The heathen, right? They're substandard. He says the same thing in the next section in Chapter 6 when He comes into the section of Chapter 6, look at verse 7. Here He's talking about the religious life. "But when ye pray, use not vain repetition as the heathen."
And in the third section, He does the same thing. When He gets to the mundane things in verse 32. "For all these things do the heathens seek." In other words, Christ is saying, I'm offering you a standard and the standard is superior in its content, in its worship and in its daily living to any religious or nonreligious system the world has ever seen. You see? Now when somebody comes along and says well, how come you Christians say you're the only ones that have the truth? You tell them. That's what Jesus said. Jesus, without question is the most narrow-minded human who ever lived. He said, "Everything I say to you is true and anything else is false." Only He back up the fact that He had a right to say it. Amen?
You see, this is what he's saying here. You don't make it people. You don't make it. You come miserably, woefully short of the standard for my kingdom. I'm a king. Matthew is saying that all the way through and I'm offering a kingdom, but you're not going to get in it on the terms that you are now offering. There's another way and that is to realize that you can't make it. Your theology is inadequate. Your religion is inadequate and your approach to life is inadequate. You need somebody to wash away your sin, purify you, give you a new nature fit for my kingdom and I'm that somebody is what Christ is saying.
Now, that gives you the general context. We're looking at that middle section between theology and the mundane. That section of religious worship or practice. And He says whatever you do, in verse 1, make sure that you do your righteous acts. This has to do with your worship, your religious activity. Be sure you do it not to be seen by men. And He gives three illustrations, three. The first one is giving in verses 2-4. The second is praying in verses 5-15, and the third is fasting in verses 16-18. The Lord just picks out three religious activities, three spiritual activities, three elements of worship. And they're very comprehensive. Giving has to do with our religion as it acts toward others. Praying has to do with our religion as it acts towards God. And fasting has to do with our religion as it relates to ourselves.
Fasting deals with our own flesh. The mortification of the flesh, self denial, discipline, bringing ourselves Christ in terms of total commitment, praying is then communing with God, giving is then touching the lives of people around us. And so it really...these three illustrations beautifully sum up all the elements of our spiritual life, of our life of worship. It's almost as if they ascend, because you really start with a right spirit in your own heart purging yourself, fasting being a part of self denial when you're right then you're prayers are going to be right and out of fasting comes prayer and out of prayer comes giving and so he ascends from giving to praying to fasting.
And says to them in effect, you do all these, you give, you pray, you fast, but substandard and I offer you something beyond that. By the way, it's interesting to notice, verse 2 says, "when thou doest thine alms," verse 5 says, "when thou prayest," and verse 16 says, "when ye fast." It doesn't say if, it says when. Why? Because it's an assumption that you'll do that. It's assumed as a part of religion, worship, spiritual service. Now, I want you to see three key points in these first four verses and we're just going to look at the first one and we've already really done that. I just want to highlight a couple of things. I want you to see the practice of righteousness, the peril of religion, and the promise of reward. And we'll cover the two and three point next time.
But the first one is the practice of religion or the practice of righteousness. Look at verse 1 again. "Beware that you do not your righteous acts before men to be seen by them." Now listen beloved, the Bible talks about doing righteous acts. God never designed for us to be monks. Monasticism, stuffing yourself into oblivion and doing all your righteousness locked up in cubicle is not biblical. And some have misinterpreted this verse. Well, beware that you don't do any of your righteous acts before men. So go in a corner and do all your righteous acts.
Now wait a minute, is that what the Bible means by what it says? Doesn't the Bible teach that we're to do righteous acts before men? Indeed it does. In Psalm 106, verse 3, I'll just read it to you, it says this; "Blessed are they that observe justice and he that doeth righteousness at all times." Blessed to do righteousness at all times. Isaiah 58:2, "You seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness." And 1 John 2:29 is another good word on this. It says, "If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone that doeth righteousness is born of Him." In other words, we are to do righteousness and we are to do it where it can be seen so that people know we belong to God. We are to let our righteousness be manifest.
Now you say well, wait a minute. It says right here that you don't do your righteousness before men. But you have to see the last phrase. It really in the Greek has the construction of purpose or design. For the purpose of or to the design that we would be seen by men. In other words, you do your righteousness but not for the purpose of simply being seen by men so that you look good. Let me show you the contrast. I think it's beautifully made in the very same passage. Look back at Chapter 5, verse 16. What does it say?
"Let your light so shine before men." There it is. "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works." Now wait a minute. "Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works." Chapter 6, verse 1, "Beware that you do not your righteous acts before men to be seen by them." You say those are mutually exclusive. Those are contradictory. No, no, because the motives are different. It says do your works that God may be glorified, that's the positive in verse 16 of Chapter 5. But don't do your works that men may glorify you. You see it's really two sides of the same thing. In fact, there is no real issue here. It's only an imagined one. It's only symmantecs. It's only words, not a real problem. We are to do what we do that men may glorify God, but not for the purpose of seeking approval from them.
And John Calvin says "this is a necessary admonition for in all virtues the entrance of hypocrisy is to be avoided and there is no work so laudable as not to be in many instances corrupted and polluted by hypocrisy." That's a fine line. I have that temptation in my own life. Our Lord had that temptation, I'm sure, because He was in all points tempted like as we are. But there are times when you are tempted to preach to be esteemed of men rather than to give God the glory. There are times when you give and you give and you make sure you tell certain people that you gave. Especially people who question your commitment. So they'll know how really spiritual you are. Or you pray long and wordy prayers. Or you fast or look sort of tragic which is often confused with spirituality. Just look sick or painful and people will think you're humble.
Now we're good at that. But we all play that game. And we're all tempted in that area. Augustine said that the love of honor was the deadly of vain of true piety. It said other vices bring forth evil works, but this brings forth good works in an evil way. I'd like to put it this way, hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue. Hypocrisy, and our Lord is saying beware. It was a mark of the Pharisees that when they gave, they blew a horn about it and when they prayed they stood in a public place and prayed out loud so everybody knew how spiritual they were. They're almost a caricature so ridiculous it's hard to imagine. And when they fasted, the put cosmetics on their face so they'd look half dead hoping someone would say oh what a holy man he is.
Listen, we are to let our light shine. We are to let our works be seen that God may be glorified, but we are not to do it that we may receive honor. That's hypocritical. In fact, 5:16 and 6:1 could best be summed up by indicating that they are both dealing with different sins. That's why I say the discrepancy is only imaginary because the sins are different. In Chapter 5, He's dealing with salt and light. And He's dealing with the fact that we need to be an influence in the world. And He's dealing then with the sin of cowardess. Let your light so shine before men. In other words, don't be a coward. You are the salt and you are the light and let it happen. He's dealing with the sin of cowardess. But in Chapter 6, verse 1, He's dealing with the sin of hypocrisy.
I think A. B. Bruce brings the two together as simply as anyone I've read. He says, "we are to show when tempted to hide and we are to hide when tempted to show." The best way to be able to keep the tension is to play off your temptations in a righteous manner. The heart of the issue is the issue of the heart. What's your motive? Two people can give. Two people can pray. Two people can fast. Two people can do religious deeds. You and I would never know the difference to one...between one or the other and yet to God one is a source of joy, a sweet smelling savor and the other is smoke in his nose. And the difference is inside that person.
There's nothing wrong with displaying your Christianity. Let your light shine. Paul says, "they heard that I was converted," Galatians 1:23. And in verse 24, he says, "and they glorified God because of me." But he didn't keep the glory, he passed it on to the Lord. In Romans 10 it says, "you have to confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord." It says, "how shall people hear without a preacher." We are not rejecting public righteousness. We are not going to become monks and stash ourselves off in some kind of useless oblivion. Jesus said, "whoever shall confess me before," what, "men, him will I confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I deny before my Father who's in heaven."
We must practice our righteousness. We must because we were created in the image of Christ unto good works. It's just that we have to be sure the motive is pure. Who is the best illustration of this? Jesus. Jesus preached His messages in the public hearing. Jesus lived His life day by day the flawless majestic sinlessness of His life in front of the gazing eyes of the whole watching world. Jesus performed miracles and wonders and signs so everyone could see and in the midst of it all in humility He said, "I have come not to seek mine own honor, but the honor of Him who sent me." It was motive. Do your righteous deeds beloved, if you're a believer. Do them that your light may shine to the glory of God, but beware when you do them to rearrange your ashes so somebody's picture of you will turn out to appear more holy than you really are. Let's pray together.
Father, we are all sensitive to what the Holy Spirit has said to us in this message, because this is where we all face temptation. We are tempted to say a word that puts on a spiritual front to do a deed even against the will, but because it appears righteous. Maybe some people even coming to church on Sunday morning is an act of hypocrisy done for the sake of affect. Lord, we all fall to this. We sometimes give to someone need not because we care about them, but we want them to think highly of us. And then we tell others so they'll know how generous we really were. Sometimes our prayers even before our families are not really the cry of our hearts, but are routine to give a wrong impression that we're really right with You.
While your heads are bowed just a closing moment. There are two audiences for the message this morning as there were that day. There were the Pharisees and there were the disciples. For the disciples it said something. They had already committed themselves to Christ. But just because you're committed to Christ doesn't mean you don't struggle with hypocrisy. The message to them was be real, be genuine, be truly spiritual and truly righteous in your giving, your relation to others, your praying, your relationship to God as if you could fool Him. And your fasting, your relationship to yourself. Be real. Don't be a phony. Don't ever fall prey to that.
To the non-Christian, the Pharisee, don't think your good works, your self-developed and devised system will suffice, because it won't. No matter how righteous you appear, unless you have been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ and your sins forgiven, you'll have no entrance into God's kingdom and the severest eternal judgment will belong to the severest hypocrite. It's a fearful thing. So I trust you'll examine your heart.
Father, we do pray that the right folks will come Lord in response to your voice speaking in their heart. Help us all be what You want us to be knowing that the truth is so wonderful and the reality is so precious. May we never settle for a counterfeit, but always for that which is true that You in all things might receive the glory. We thank You for such a privilege of being able to be used to give You glory. In Christ's name. Amen.
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