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Victory Over the Demonic
Matthew 8:28-34
When Harrison Ford was thrown into a pit full of venomous snakes in a Raiders of the Lost Ark movie, I almost had to turn it off. For me, that has to be listed among the ultimate horrors. I heard a true story about someone falling out of a boat into the middle of a gang of water moccasins. The fury of the snakes churned the water. There was no hope for survival. The anger of the snakes and the poison of their venom is horrifying.
I imagine the fury of the demons taking residence in the two men in Matthew 8 to be something like that. The Bible describes them as so violent that no one wanted to pass their direction. And when Jesus did, they ran out to oppose him.
"'What do you want with us, Son of God?'" they shouted. 'Have you come to torture us before the appointed time?'" (v.29) There is a time appointed for their eventual destruction, and they seem to know that. That time will be when God brings his kingdom in power and destroys all evil. What bothers them is that Jesus has come now, before they perceive the end time to be here.
The demons seem to assume that until the end of time when they will be subdued, they have free reign to wreck havoc and destruction. Thomas Long wrote, "They mistakenly believe that, until that last day, they have unfettered license to wreck destruction. They can torment as many souls as they can inhabit, wreck as many institutions as they can infiltrate, cause as much pain and sorry as they can imagine." (Matthew, 97)
How surprised they are that Jesus shows up before the expected time. "What do you want with us, Son of God?" they shouted. They didn't just ask. They shouted. They are in rebellion. They are disrespectful. They recognize Jesus as the Son of God, but they don't honor him for it. They yell at him. Jesus casts the demons into a herd of pigs who rush into the water and drown. The shocked pig herders run into town and report what Jesus has done to the pigs and the demon-possessed men. The towns people come out to get a look for themselves, and then they ask Jesus to leave.
Three things stand out in this story as particularly significant. One, very little detail is spent on the demon-possessed men. Mark describes only one demon-possessed man, but explains how he used to cut himself and break the chains that had been used to bind him. He was a crazy man totally out of control. He had no peace. But after the demons were cast out, the man was calm, he got dressed, and he conversed calmly with Jesus (Mark 5). No such details are given in this story about the men. The focus is not on what Jesus can do for them or us. The focus is on the incredible power of Jesus to conquer even demonic forces.
Two, the story shows Jesus power over the dark realms. We have seen Jesus' miraculous power at work all through this chapter. He heals a man with leprosy, so he has power over physical ailments. He heals bodies. Secondly, he healed the servant of centurion, showing his interest in and concern for those outside of Israel. Next, he healed Peter's mother-in-law and a host of others who came to him for care. After the healings, Jesus' miraculous powers are turned upon nature when he stills the watery tempest. Then, lest anyone think the span of Jesus authority and power has been exhausted, he shows his complete mastery over the demonic. He casts out the innumerable demons.
Three, the people of the region reject Jesus. They don't really even know who he is. This is Gentile territory so there is no way they can really know him. But, even in Israel the people are uncertain about Jesus. Interestingly, the evil spirits know who Jesus is! The Son of God! The identity of Jesus was revealed first by demonic forces. But, sadly, instead of getting to know Christ, the people cast him out. "Like many communities before and since, this town prefers the demons they know to the power of God they do not know." (Long, Matthew, 98)
Four, the time of God's defeat of evil is NOW! The Kingdom of God has already been revealed in power. We can take comfort and confidence in knowing that the kingdom is with us already.
Warren Baldwin


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Vikings' Stadium Architect to be Announced Friday
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Minnesota Sports Facilities Authority on Friday will name the architectural firm that will design the new Vikings stadium.
The authority is working with the Vikings to oversee construction of the $975 million football stadium. The Star Tribune reports it has scheduled a special meeting for 8 a.m. Friday to announce the decision.
Five national firms are competing to design the new stadium, which will replace the Metrodome in downtown Minneapolis: HKS Inc. of Dallas, Ewing Cole of Philadelphia, HNTB Corp. of Kansas City, Mo., AECOM of Los Angeles, and Populous of Kansas City.
The job is expected to earn winning firm as much as $50 million.
Ground breaking is planned for next summer. The Vikings hope to open the stadium in time for the 2016
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Harlan County Farm Bureau makes Thanksgiving donation to the Cumberland Hope Center
Harlan County Farm Bureau donated 5 Large Turkeys for Thanksgiving to the Cumberland Hope Center in Evarts.
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- May 17, 2019 - Statement From Kentucky Farm Bureau President Mark Haney on Trade and Tariffs
- May 17, 2019
In addition to being resourceful, hard-working and persistent, our nation's farmers have been very patient. We have endured continued drops in net farm income, a host of natural disasters, and some of the most volatile commodity markets experienced in decades.
- Down the Backroads: Teachers Make Such a Difference in Our Lives
- May 9, 2019
I'm not sure if this is an age thing or not, but it seems to me that the older I get the more I reflect on the past, taking in all the moments and memories that have guided me to where I am today as a person, a husband, a father, a soon-to-be grandfather, and a communicator.
- Forestry Industry Provides Value-Added Opportunities
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When thinking of Kentucky agriculture, many crops could come to mind including corn, soybeans, wheat, and tobacco, to name a few. But timber may not often be thought of as a crop.


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Mighty Crane Mini-Crawlers Now Available in U.S.
R&B Engineering Co. Ltd., Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan, now offers its Mighty Crane line of mini-crawler cranes in the United States. The first model available here is the CR285D, offering 6,100-pound maximum capacity and 28-foot maximum lift height. Able to fit through a standard 32-inch doorway, the CR285D measures 9'7" long, 2'9.5" wide, and 4'11" high […]Read more


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The relief and climate contrast dramatically between Puebla's highlands—a combination of the Mesa Central, the Sierra Madre Oriental, and the Cordillera Neo-Volcánica—and the fertile slopes and river valleys of the east and northeast, which extend toward the lowlands of Oaxaca and Veracruz. Average elevations vary from 5,000 to 8,000 feet (1,500 to 2,400 metres). The dormant volcano Iztaccíhuatl lies on the Puebla-México border; the highest of its three peaks reaches 17,159 feet (5,230 metres). The Atoyac River traverses the state southwestward to become the Balsas River in Guerrero.
Owing to the region's rich volcanic soils and strategic location, Náhuatl-speaking peoples developed a complex civilization there, now marked by monumental ruins. In the early 16th century Spanish missions were established, including several on the slopes of Popocatépetl (also in Morelos state) that were collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1994. Since the 19th century Puebla has developed as an agricultural-industrial area in the important Mexico City–Veracruz corridor.
Agriculture and mining employ a significant share of the workforce, including large numbers of subsistence farmers speaking languages such as Náhuatl, Totonac, or Popoloc. Coffee, sugarcane, fibres, corn (maize), and cereals are principal crops, and onyx, gold, and other metals are mined. The chief manufactures are processed foods, textiles, beverages, automobiles and auto parts, and machinery. Highways and railroads traverse the state, linking the capital with Atlixco, Tehuacán, and other cities and towns.
State government is headed by a governor, who is elected to a single term of six years. Members of the unicameral legislature, the State Congress, are elected to three-year terms. Puebla is divided into local governmental units called municipios (municipalities), each of which is headquartered in a prominent city, town, or village.
The colonial centre of Puebla city was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987. The capital is also the site of the José Luis Bello y González Art Museum (founded 1938); the Museum of Santa Mónica (1933), focusing on ecclesiastical art; the Regional Museum of Puebla State (1931); and several universities. The Tehuacán-Cuicatlán Biosphere Reserve (created 1998) is on the border with Oaxaca, and Pico de Orizaba National Park—centred on Citlaltépetl (Orizaba Peak), Mexico's highest point—straddles the border with Veracruz. Cuetzalán, in the north, holds a fair each October that is famous for its display of voladores ("flyers"), performers who tie their ankles to a rope wound around a tall pole, leap off, and fly through the air as the rope unwinds. Area 13,090 square miles (33,902 square km). Pop. (2010) 5,779,829.


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The World Trade Organization has ruled in support of complaints by Canada and Mexico that U.S. Country-of-Origin Labeling violates global trade rules and unjustly harms agricultural commerce. The dispute panel's ruling that the United States' COOL mandatory labeling law is too stringent, gives U.S. cattle and hog sales an unfair advantage over imports from Mexico and Canada. Canadian cattle shipments to the United States have fallen by more than half, and hog exports to the United States are down 40% so far in 2011 from the volume three years ago.
Colin Woodall, Vice President of Government Affairs for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association called this a strong ruling from the WTO that proves COOL was not only a disservice to U.S. cattlemen and women but also contained far-reaching implications for two of the most important trade partners for U.S. agriculture.
NCBA does not want this ruling appealed. Instead, NCBA urges U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk to work with NCBA and other pro-trade organizations to apply pressure on Congress to bring the United States into WTO compliance across the board. Woodall says the U.S. must act quickly before U.S. farmers and ranchers once again face unnecessary and unfortunate retaliatory tariffs on their products.
According to Woodall, U.S. livestock producers have yet to see any financial benefit from COOL provisions. In many cases, ranchers who feed imported cattle have incurred significant discounts, which have not been offset by benefits proponents of COOL claimed would be available. Just as importantly, cattlemen have yet to discern any positive reaction from consumers regarding mandatory origin labeling.
Following the WTO ruling, the U.S. Trade Representative's Office said it is considering all options, including an appeal. Although the panel disagreed with the specifics of how the United States designed those requirements, we remain committed to providing consumers with accurate and relevant information with respect to the origin of meat products that they buy at the retail level.
Roger Johnson, President of the National Farmers Union points out that WTO agreed that COOL is allowable in principle. COOL gives consumers the opportunity to make informed food purchases for their families while, at the same time, providing American food producers the opportunity to distinguish their products in the retail marketplace. But, COOL label requirements are not clear in all instances.
American Meat Institute President J. Patrick Boyle says the ruling was not surprising. We've contended for years in statements, letters and comments that this law was not just costly and cumbersome, but a violation of our country's WTO obligations.


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Sentenced to Death
A select group of corrupt religious leaders and unjust Roman officials are those who enacted the legal procedures that resulted in Jesus' death. Yet in a sense, we all killed Jesus, because had we not sinned, there would have been ...Read More
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Our God is a God of justice (Deut. 10:18) and is angered any time justice is not done. We likewise must be moved to work for justice, and being reminded that Rome did not deal with Jesus righteously should ...Read More
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Simpatia: putting yourself in someone else's shoes
How managers interact and communicate with employees has always been a vital ingredient in the work environment. One aspect of this relationship that has received increased attention in management studies over the last few years is empathy. Empathy can be described as the ability of someone to understand what another person is experiencing. In other words, putting yourself in another person's shoes. A key characteristic of empathy is the support of others using skills such as active listening, encouragement, and motivation. There's no denying that increasing one's empathetic skills in the workplace can improve social skills and workplace relationships.
As I've noted previously on this blog, Hispanic culture is very much people-oriented; Hispanics value relationships and often demonstrate behaviors that promote strong and agreeable interactions. Hispanics value a person's ability to maintain these cordial and positive relationships even in the face of adversity or stress. This cultural concept is known as simpatia.
Simpatia is an intrinsic quality in Hispanics; one that does not have a clear translation. The concept produces a strong sense of connection. Similar to empathy, simpatia highlights a person's ability to identify with others' feelings, and therefore, considers others with formality and respect. Minimizing confrontational situations and maintaining agreement is an important element of simpatia. This might translate into an individual encouraging harmonious social relationships and preferring cooperation over competition.
So what might this mean to a manager supervising a Hispanic intern? Some Hispanic interns might not feel comfortable openly criticizing or expressing disagreement, particularly when it relates to their supervisor, department, or team. Therefore, when it comes to asking for or sharing feedback, managers should assure to first develop strong relationships with Hispanic interns. If certain conversations are sensitive in nature or involve constructive criticism, discuss these matters privately to determine what your intern really thinks. Public interactions might not accurately reflect a Hispanic intern's personal perspective.
Another recommendation would be to be more aware of your intern's intrinsic motivations – become sensitive to his or her true perceptions. Keep in mind that Hispanics come from a collectivist background. The interests of the group are considered more important than individual. Be aware that in order to maintain group harmony and cohesion, Hispanics might be more diplomatic, supportive, and trusting in work settings. Because of simpatia, keep in mind that an intern's personal attitude and behavior might deviate slightly from that shown in a public setting.


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So, what's the main thing with conservation tillage? Time was, soil stewardship may have claimed the top spot on anyone's list of why he cut back on cultivation.
These days, however, considering the sorry state of commodity prices and the seemingly never-ending jump in production costs, simple economics take precedence.
"Profitability is the reason for reduced tillage," Stichler said recently at a Monsanto-sponsored "warm-up" seminar, a prelude to the 6th annual Cotton and Rice Conservation Tillage Conference in Houston.
The main thing, he said, means farmers find the best system for their specific farms. "Not everyone in this room wears the same size shoe. Farms are just as different as feet. Conditions in the Lower Rio Grande Valley vary widely from those in the Blacklands, which varies from the High Plains, etc. Rolling Plains soils may be different in San Angelo than they are in Vernon. And El Paso farmers have drier soils. Unique situations change the way we treat soil."
That means farmers have to take their unique situations, soil types, rainfall patterns, and crop selections, into account as they develop tillage programs, Stichler said. Different crops offer different challenges for conservation tillage.
"Corn may be the easiest to start in reduced tillage," Stichler said. "It's a forgiving crop. We can plant seed more than 2 inches deep, and we can plant early."
He said farmers have a "lot of herbicide choices, including Roundup Ready and Liberty Link systems. "Corn residue is easy to manage since the corn plant dies when it is mature and degrades by spring planting time."
Sorghum is less forgiving and not as easy to work into a reduced-tillage program, but it's still viable.
"We plant sorghum late and we plant seed shallower than we do corn. At planting time soils have started to warm up and dry out. With smaller seed, stands are more difficult to obtain."
Herbicide choices for sorghum are more limited, too, especially for grasses and hard-to-kill perennials. Many of the herbicides also require rain or irrigation to activate.
Stichler recommends farmers who use sorghum in their no-till systems should invest in a hooded sprayer to assure adequate weed control. Growers have no transgenic sorghum varieties available, so they have to take care of weeds with traditional methods, he said.
Killing the crop early also makes residue easier to handle for the next crop, Stichler said. "Kill it either just before harvest or as soon after as possible. Before harvest is best."
He said sorghum root crowns and stubble resist decay and stay tough into spring. "Shredding the stalks will put residue on the surface and provide badly needed mulch."
Cotton provides an even greater stand challenge than grain sorghum. "We plant late, often into dry soils and deal with a number of seedling diseases. More fungi are active in the emergence zone." Stichler said cotton seedlings have difficulty pushing through soil crust, so packing rains may delay a stand. Also, the cost of transgenic seed has encouraged farmers to reduce plant populations, which also could result in stand problems.
"But those transgenics have made weed control much easier in reduced tillage systems. Farmers have a lot of possibilities with herbicide tolerant varieties. But they still need a hooded sprayer and pre-emergence herbicides. Growers should avoid using the same soil-applied herbicides over and over, however."
Stichler says a lightly tilled, narrow row, may improve germination and stand. Occasionally, fall tillage, one disk pass or one run with a field cultivator, "will loosen up the soil crust and make it less firm at planting."
Stichler said growers must kill cotton stalks after harvest, especially with the Boll Weevil Eradication Program in place.
"Farmers have to kill the root to prevent re-growth that hosts weevils," he said. He recommends 2,4-D, applied right behind the stripper or header. Shred and spray a 12-inch band over the row. If growers wait until leaves emerge, control is more difficult."
Stichler said cover crops may pull more moisture out of the soil than they save. "We usually get fall rains and then little else before spring. Cover crops do the most good in the fall, when rains are heaviest and we need erosion control."
He says one compromise might be to plant one row of a cover crop in the bottom of the furrow. "The cover provides protection from wind and water erosion."
He said controlling winter weeds also poses problems in a cover crop.
Stichler recommends farmers plant on a bed, if possible. "But in rolling land or furrow-irrigated fields water erosion may become added to drainage problems. No-till may be a good bet in these situations. A low, rolling bed might work, too."
Beds hold water and farmers can knock off part of the bed to find adequate moisture to plant. Stichler suggests farmers pull up the bed in the fall and then leave it alone. Remaking old beds may be adequate.
He says limited tillage may be beneficial in some soils, especially heavy clays where "soils set up. Strip tillage units may play a role in these conditions. With most other soils, however, we see little advantage with tillage."
Closing wheels may improve crop stands, especially in dry soils planted no-till. "A spiked closing wheel destroys the side-wall compaction and improves seedling emergence," he said.
Conservation tillage farmers also need to evaluate fertility timing and placement. "Planting in the same place year after year may result in depletion of available nutrients; so accurate fertilizer placement is crucial for good plant growth."
With nitrogen, move placement site over enough to prevent root burn and watch for nutrient stratification. "Nitrogen should be placed 2 inches to the side and 2 inches below the seed. That placement puts nitrogen where young plants can take it up." Conservation tillage may require more nitrogen the first few years.
Pop-up fertilizer may benefit corn and sorghum, Stichler said, but not cotton. "Cotton needs zinc, however."
Limiting compaction remains crucial, even with reduced-tillage systems. Stichler says a "controlled traffic pattern," leaves the growing zone open. He also said reduced-till soils will be firm, but not necessarily compacted.
Weed control in conservation tillage demands attention. Stichler recommends killing in-season weeds as early as possible. "Do not let grass compete with the crop," he said. "Use a variety of herbicides and don't let weeds go to seed. Kill winter weeds before they can compete."
Stichler said farmers must pay attention to their fields to determine what works and what doesn't in each crop. "They should think about everything they do and ask why they do it. They have to forget what their neighbors say about conservation tillage, and they can't expect perfection on their first attempt."


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This week, Senator John Thune (R-SD) introduced a bill to prevent attempts to use inaccurate indirect land use models to assess the environmental impacts of ethanol.
"Following California's recent decision to use flawed models to estimate ethanol's impact, I am concerned that the EPA could soon apply similar standards that will handicap renewable fuel relative to regular gasoline," Thune said. "Congress has asked EPA to apply greenhouse gas emission standards that reflect ethanol's proven environmental benefits. However, with the EPA's current decision that is pending at the White House, I am concerned that EPA's action could have a detrimental impact on our renewable fuel industry and efforts to reduce our dependence on foreign oil."
The EPA has not yet issued rules for the new Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS), which was enacted as part of the 2007 Energy Bill under the Bush Administration. Senator Thune's office explains that the new RFS requires new corn ethanol plants and new cellulosic ethanol plants to produce a fuel that emits fewer lifecycle greenhouse gases relative to regular gasoline.
But, Congress also included a requirement to quantify emissions from indirect land use changes. "There is growing concern that EPA could unfairly interpret this provision and discredit American made ethanol with indirect land use changes that may or may not occur in other countries around the world," Thune's office reported.
The new bill directs the EPA to focus on direct lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions, which would level the playing field between ethanol and gasoline and bring more regulatory certainty to the ethanol industry, Thune's office said. The bill would require the agency to publicize the model for measuring lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions before taking regulatory action and also would allow ethanol producers with new production methods to apply to the EPA for a lower carbon score, which Thune's office, suggests "would provide an incentive for ethanol companies to develop innovative ways to produce ethanol."
The indirect land use issue is extremely complex and controversial. What I find troubling is that, at least in the California Air Resources Board deliberations and recent decision about the Low Carbon Fuel Standard, petroleum and other fuels were assumed not to cause any indirect carbon effects or "market-mediated" impacts. Don't oil spills and subsequent environmental damage figure into the equation? What about indirect carbon effects from wars over oil in foreign countries?
Thune's bill is important in that it calls for transparency when it comes to explaining the rationale for measuring lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions. It may also show how science needs to catch up to public policy—whether it's in California or at the federal level.
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Stand Alone Inverters
A stand-alone inverter is used in independent solar energy systems, any energy system that is "off grid." Independent solar energy systems might be used at remote locations (such as a cabin, cottage, water pump or monitoring station) as well as for mobile energy situations, such as boats and RVs. This page assumes you already understand inverters.
Stand-alone inverter sizes
Depending on your needs, inverters can come in a variety of sizes. A 100 watt inverter can be used in the powering of a portable (laptop or notebook) computer. A 10 kilowatt inverter could be used to independently manage the power to a house or small business.
Stand-alone inverter types
For the purest, best form of power, you will require a pure sine wave inverter.
A modified or square sine wave inverter is cheaper but some loads will be damaged by it (e.g. laser printers or some cordless power tools). Other loads will not be as powerful (e.g. a microwave)
What's a sine wave?
Pure sine waves have much more "flow" to them. You could say their power has been "smoothed out" much more effectively. This is the same sine wave form delivered in conventional electricity, and you will need a (more expensive) pure sine wave inverter, if you hope to effectively power large appliances or power tools.
If you do not require such a strong and consistent source of energy, then a modified or square sine wave inverter will do. The form of the wave is "choppier," and the power provided might also be choppy. The modified or square sine wave inverter is also called a multi-step or stepped inverter.


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Hope someone can help.
When I bought the 5 the headrest speakers didn't work, so when I had a new cd player fitted I made sure they connected them up.
Worked perfectly for a few weeks but now when I turn the ignition on and off the headrest speakers buzz (like when you turn on your stereo with the volume up full only much louder) and the screen on the player shows the word FAILURE. (I don't think it means me).
I took it back to Halfords (don't laugh they were cheap) but they say that they'll have to send the player back to the manufacturer and I can't live without me Led Zep.
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Well, this is Service Number 12 this week for us at the conference. And we think we've been drinking from a fire hose. (Laughter)it has been just amazing. The ministry of the Word of God and the seminars and everything have made this such a rich and wonderful week. And worshiping the Lord together and hearing that magnificent music and even listening to that song that Coryand Jubilantwere singing, and longing for that kind of fellowship with our great God and Creator, to love Him with a perfect love. What a thought. And yet to come in the glory that follows this life.
This is sort of a footnote on a great, great week. I cannot guild the lily. I cannot add to what has been said. But perhaps to set our thoughts in what is the most important direction of all, not just for those at the conference, but for all of us who are here. Life, for us as Christians, and ministry, for us as ministers, is not pain free. It is not without its difficulty.
And, in fact, the more devoted and the more obedient and the more faithful that we are to our great Shepherd, the more difficult life can be. The more bold we are in living the Gospel and proclaiming the Gospel, the more resistance we will get. "All that live godly," the Bible says, "will suffer persecution." "In this world," Jesus said, "you will have trouble." Keeping our perspective in the hard times is really a challenge. But it is necessary.
It's important for us to know our theology. It's important for us to know what we believe and why we believe it, and to faithfully proclaim it and fulfill the mandate of ministry and witness. It's important for us to understand what the Bible teaches. It's critical for us to know error when we see it and to be able to refute it, to protect the church and guard the truth. And it's important for us to grow up in the knowledge of sound teaching.
But beyond even that, and really at the very source of that, is the key that sustains our lives. And the key to sustaining our lives in all of the challenges that come, in all the good and the difficult times is to sustain a preoccupation with the Lord Jesus Christ. _____ of Hebrew said that we run this race, this faith race living the Christian life, fixing our eyes on Jesus.
When Paul was passing the mantle to Timothy and Timothy was waning and flagging and weakening because of the difficulties that were around him, both in the church and outside the church because of the threats against his life, as well as against his leadership, he was losing strength and he was ceasing to do what he should have done, the work of an evangelist and the preaching and teaching, using the gift that God had given him. He was even in danger of being ashamed of the Lord and ashamed of Paul and in danger of letting go of sound doctrine.
And the Apostle Paul wrote his last letter, the last of all his 13 letters in the New Testament to Timothy. Timothy was to pick up the ministry for Paul after he was soon to be beheaded and gone. And it would be Timothy's responsibility to lead the next generation. And Timothy was weakening. And so he gave him a letter full of exhortation to be a teacher and a soldier and an athlete who runs to the finish, and a farmer who never stops sewing and enjoys the harvest.
But above it all and beyond it all, he said this to him in 2 Timothy 2:8, he said, "Remember Jesus Christ. Don't ever take your eyes off Him." He is the model teacher, the model soldier, the model athlete, the model farmer. He is the model of endurance. He is the model of faithfulness. He is the model of power and wisdom and knowledge. He is the model of everything.
Remember, Jesus Christ -- no wonder Paul said he was determined to know nothing but Jesus Christ. No wonder the Apostle Paul said, "For to me to live is Christ." To live is Christ. Jesus Christ was his life. He didn't mean by that, "He's the source of my life, though He is." He didn't mean by that, "He lives within me, though He does." He didn't mean by that that his life was controlled by Christ, though it was. He doesn't mean that he submits to Christ's lordship obediently, though he does. It was beyond all of that life is Christ.
Everything is Christ from beginning to end. And that's how it has to be for us if we are to live triumphantly in our Christian experience. As the Psalmist said in Psalms 16, "I have set the Lord always before me. The Lord is always in my vision. My eyes are never off him, therefore," he said, "my heart is glad. I am not shaken. And I dwell securely." Paul said the experience of knowing Christ was far surpassing to every other experience, and he would gladly give up everything else to know Christ. Christ has to be our constant vision.
I have the opportunity from time to time to remind the students at the college who come there year by year to study the word of God, that they're getting their theology shaped and their learning what they need to believe and what they need to avoid. And they understand what the truth is and sound doctrine and what is heresy. And they're learning about ministry. And they're getting a Christian and a Biblical worldview. But in the middle of all of it, they have to continually ask themselves the question, "What is the condition of my relationship to Jesus Christ?" 'Cause it is in that vision of Jesus Christ that everything finds its appropriate place.
Open you Bible to 2 Corinthians 3 for just a meditation that I trust will add a final explanation point to the great word that has gone forth from this pulpit this week. In 2 Corinthians 3, I want to read Verse 18, just the last verse and then the first six verses of Chapter 4. I've been signing Bibles and books all week and frequently use a portion of this text as a verse written under my name.
2 Corinthians 3:18, "But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the spirit. Therefore, since we have this ministry as we receive mercy, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the Word of God, but by the manifestation of truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
"And even if our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In His case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves. But Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves your bondservants for Jesus' sake. For God, who said, 'Light shall shine out of darkness,' is the one who has shown in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ."
Here's a vision of Christ. Here's Paul telling us that he has an unveiled face, looked into the face of Jesus Christ, the glory of God manifest in Christ. He says it in Verse 18. He repeats it in Verse 4 and again in Verse 6. Here is his stirring vision of Christ, the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, or the glory of God shining in the face of Christ.
If you were to read this letter through you would find that things in this church of Corinth were very dismal from Paul's perspective. His heart was breaking. It could all really be summed up without going into all the detail in his words in Chapter 11 and Verse 3. "I am afraid. Lest as the serpent deceive Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ."
That was the sum of it. They got their eyes off Christ. Life had lost its spiritual simplicity, its spiritual purity which was Christ centeredness. And it was heart crushing what came out of that, sin. In fact, he was so concerned that when he got there he was going to have to clean up the place of all the inequity that would be present among a people who had taken their eyes of Jesus Christ.
And not only sin and sins of immorality that he mentions in Chapter 12, but heresy. False teachers having a heyday. And not only heresy, but terrible confusion, chaos, and discord. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong when people lose their focus on Christ. Here is Paul at the hardest time of his life. The champion he is, indeed, of all the church, in the thick of trouble. And it's not trouble of his own making.
And yet, the middle of it in Verse 1, he says, "We do not lose heart." And the question that jumps out of that text to me is, "How do you not lose heart when this kind of disappointment, discouragement, and disaster is going on among the people to whom you've given your life?" False teachers had come in. They'd been successful in a campaign to destroy the people's trust in Paul. People bought into it, turned against Paul.
Turning against Paul, they turned against the only source of apostolic truth, divine revelation, and were beginning to believe the lies. His person had been assaulted, his judgment, his discernment, his character, his honesty, his teaching, his authority, his morality, in a word, his spiritual integrity, as well as his teaching. He had loyally and faithfully, at great cost to his own life, great peril, exalted Christ, preached the new covenant Gospel unwaveringly, lived a godly life. And he's being treated like this. He's being attacked unjustly.
This is the deepest pain you will ever know, because the people you love the most, have the greatest potential to inflict the deepest pain. And yet he can say, "We do not lose heart." Another way to say that, in the original sense, would be, "We have not become faint-hearted cowards." We're not veiling on this. And so the question is asked, "How do you deal with this kind of difficulty? How do you deal with the downs of life? How do you deal with the massive disappointments that come and not lose heart?"
The answer to the question is the key to the whole treasury of sanctification truth for every Christian. The answer's pretty simple. He kept his gaze on Christ. He kept his gaze focused on the glory of Christ. And that is what sustained him. He looked into the face of Jesus Christ, and there he saw God revealed. The great miracle of salvation had turn on the light for Paul, even though it shown so brightly initially that it made him blind.
The light of the soul went on and he saw Jesus Christ differently than he had ever seen Jesus Christ before. He says to the Corinthians, "I once had an opinion about Jesus in the flesh. And I thought He was an illegitimate claimed into the Messiahship. I thought He was a phony and a deceiver. And I thought anybody that followed Jesus was a blasphemer and ought to be put in prison or executed."
But then the light of the glory of the Gospel shown unto Paul. And he said, "I now know Christ no longer in the flesh." That is to say no longer from a human perspective. In fact, he says, "I don't even know anybody else from a fleshly perspective. The whole world has changed for me know that spiritual reality has broken into my darkness." He saw the Lord. He saw the God he thought he served. He saw the true and living God shining in the face of Jesus Christ.
In the new covenant, Gospel has allowed every believer to have that same privilege, to look fully into the face of Jesus Christ and see the revealed glory of God. I'm not talking about having your own private vision. I'm talking about being able to open the precious word of God and it's all about Christ. Jesus even said, "The Old Testament is the Scripture that speaks of Me." How much more does the New Testament speak of him? We have the unveiling of God in perfection, "An exact reproduction of God," Hebrews 1 says, "in Jesus Christ."
The new covenant then has indeed, the new covenant Gospel has allowed every believer to have the same privilege that the apostle Paul had, to look fully into the face of Jesus and see the unveiling of the glory of God. No matter how dark the night once was, when the light broke and we were redeemed, we saw the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. There will never be anything more wonderful.
As yet, as we live our Christian lives, how easily do we turn our eyes away from Christ to some other thing? How can the disappointed, discouraged, and assaulted preacher? Or how can the Christian who struggles in his life with all of the trials and issues? How can we maintain our joy? How can we hold onto our confidence? How can we hang in there faithfully ministering in the midst of the things that come our way? And the answer is by never taking our eyes off Jesus.
You know how inveterately I am devoted to that. It comes down to the very practical reality of looking into the text that reveals Him. If I never preached a sermon in my entire life, I would thank God for all eternity for the privilege of studying His Word. If I never said a word to anybody about it, just because it is the glory of God shining through the face of Jesus Christ. And it has brought to me all the benefits that come from the Christ-focused life.
When you look at the face of Jesus, what kind of a look is it? First of all, it is a clarifying look. It is a clarifying look. So many mysteries in life, so many things hard to understand, but I would call you to Verse 18. We all; all of us who are in Christ, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror or glass the glory of the Lord. All Christians have full access, full access to God's glory revealed in Jesus Christ. In the Old Testament that wasn't true.
In the Old Testament, things were veiled. They were covered. From the prior section, He talks about Moses going up into the mount and he wanted to see God. And God put His glory into a cave and only allowed Moses to pass by and see the afterglow of it. And Moses came down with the glory of God reflected off his face and put a veil over it to symbolize the fact that this was only veiled revelation of God.
In fact, the veil in Verse 15 is still over the heart of everyone who reads the Law of Moses but doesn't know about Christ. But Verse 16 says, "Whenever a man turns to the Lord the veil is taken away." We see God in blazing glory in the face of Jesus Christ.
All you need to know about God, all God wants to disclose about Himself, all the beauty of His character, all His attributes, communicable and incommunicable, all His love and loyalty and mercy and grace and power and wisdom, and all His compassion and sympathy and care, all His saving purpose, all His ability to supply everything we could ever need, all things necessary to save us, all things necessary to empower us, all things necessary to console and comfort us, all things necessary to equip us, all things necessary to prepare us for service and for glory, everything we need is unveiled in Jesus Christ.
If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus. "You've seen Me, you've seen the Father," He said. Never before Christ was there such a clear view of God. That's why at the end of the 11thChapter of Hebrews, that great chapter of the heroes of the faith, it says, "But God had provided something better for us." As great as their lives were, and as great as the expressed power of God was, on behalf of all the heroes of the faith up until the New Testament era, there's something far better for us. And that is the clarity of the vision of God that comes in the face of Jesus Christ. And all believers have full access.
1 Corinthians 2:16 says, "We have the mind of Christ right here in this book. The mind of Christ is revealed." New life in Christ then gives us clarity about who God is. The mystery, as Al Molarwas saying the other day, "The mystery is unfolded. It is _____. It is revealed. It is disclosed. It is made manifest. But in New Testament text, the New Testament is the mystery hidden in ages past and now revealed. And you can look into the New Testament verse by verse by verse, chapter by chapter, book by book, and you will see the glory of God shining in the incarnate Jesus Christ.
And as you gaze into that glory, you will know the true and living God. Someday you'll see Him face to face and be like Him, 1 John 3. And there is a sense in which that will be the ultimate and perfect clarity. But even now, the veil is off. There is nothing to obscure God. There is nothing to hide Him from us. There is no more curtain in front of His dwelling place. So as you look at the face of Jesus Christ, as you look into the Scripture and see Christ here and there and everywhere on the pages of Scripture, God becomes clear and you know your God, and you know his character. And you know who you worship and who you can trust and why you can trust Him.
And that's why when you come together on a Lord's Day like this, and we singe a hymn about God, we sing at the top of our lungs. We about burst in singing of the glory of our God because we know our God through Jesus Christ. This is a clarifying look. And nothing is more important to be clear than to see the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus.
When I started preaching as a young guy, I used to go into churches, and they used to have little signs in a lot of churches said, "Sir, we would see Jesus." Sir, we would see Jesus. Just a little reminder about what the subject ought to be when you're up there. I want to hold up a big sign so many times when I hear preachers preach. "Enough of that, we would see Jesus." Where is Jesus in all of this? This is a clarifying look. I want to know my God. I don't want to know your ideas about how to deal with my pain. I want to know my God.
I don't want your ideas about how to be more successful. I want to know my God, and He is revealed in my Christ. This is a clarifying look. And it's secondly a transforming look. It says in Verse 18 that we are at the same time as we are beholding, looking intently at the glory of the Lord revealed in Scripture. We are at that time being transformed. God acts on us as we are Christ-focused. We are being transformed into the same image. That is into the very image of Christ.
How do you become like Christ? By being consumed and preoccupied with Him. And as you gaze at Him, you are being transformed into the very same image from one level of glory to the next. And frankly, you could add as many glories as you want and you wouldn't obscure or alter the point. There aren't just two steps from glory to glory. The idea is from glory to glory to glory to glory to glory. Just put the word "glory" in front of an infinite number of mirrors.
And this work is done by the Lord the spirit. And this is done by the Holy Spirit. As you focus on Christ, as you're preoccupied with Christ, and this, of course, is why -- and the people here at Grace Church know this -- I have a very hard time letting go of teaching the Gospels or teaching the Book about Christ or another book in the New Testament that focuses particularly on Christ because there is no greater vision. There is no other necessary vision.
I can't wait, really, to finish Luke. We're nine years in and we're in 16. (Laughter)we'll be there a few more years. You can do the math. We'll speed it up a little bit. But soon as we're done with Luke, I'm going right back to Mark if I'm still around. And I want to go right back and start all over again on the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ for all our sakes.
Because it is, as we gaze at His glory and see the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ unveiled on the pages of Scripture, we are by the Holy Spirit being transformed supernaturally into His very image from one level of glory to the next to the next to the next. There's a third way to look at Christ that gives us strength so we don't lose heart. And I think it's so important. It's a grateful look. It's a grateful vision.
You look at Christ and all you can do is be overwhelmed with gratitude. First of all, it's a clarifying look. Secondly, it's a transforming look. And it's also a grateful look. Look at Verse 1, therefore, since we have this ministry, "As we received mercy, we did not lose heart."
Easy to be in the ministry and say, "Oh, this is too much. This is too difficult." Some of you are just living your Christian life, "this is too much. Too much is expected of me. They want too much service. The Lord's asking too much. This is over my head. I can't do this. I'm discouraged, disheartened." Many pastors feel that way. "My church is too small. My congregation is too meager. They aren't getting it. You got people fighting me all the way." Then the, "I deserve better than this." No you don't. (Laughter)No we don't. We deserve Hell. Let's get that straight. That settles all arguments.
We deserve Hell. Everything is a mercy, including your ministry. Look at Verse 1 again. We have this ministry as we receive mercy. Whatever it is you have is mercy. I'm not here because I deserve this. You're not where you are because you deserve it. You're there by mercy. It is a mercy and nothing else. Apostle Paul knew that. He didn't lose sight of that. Listen to what he said, 1 Corinthians 15, "I am the least of the apostles. Not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am."
It's about grace and about mercy. He said when he was writing to Timothy, he said, "Look, I thank Christ Jesus our Lord because He considered me faithful, putting me into service. I give Him all the credit. Why? Because I was formerly a blasphemer and a persecutor and a violent aggressor and I was shown mercy. And the grace of our Lord was more than abundant. And here I am the foremost of all sinners who found mercy." And when you understand that your salvation and your calling is a mercy, then you're gonna go through your calling just overwhelmed with gratitude.
I'm not saying, "Hey, I deserve better than this." No you don't. It's a mercy. Your ministry is a mercy. It is a divine concession. It is a willingness of a kind and loving and gracious God to give to us a responsibility of which we are not worthy.
We're all in the room in seven categories with Paul, "Oh wretched man that I am. And what am I doing here? And what are these people doing here listening to me?" It is a mercy. It will always be a mercy. Even when you're good at it, it's a mercy. Maybe when you're good at it, it's even more of a mercy because of pride. Ministry is mercy like everything else.
Paul is saying, "Look, I know my ministry is full of difficulty. It's full of blessing in amazing ways. But it's full of difficulty, pain, suffering, persecution, eventually, of course, martyrdom." For him, the ministry could have been just the worst. If you read 2 Corinthians all the way through, you will have a litany of categories of suffering and abuse that this man took. And he could have complained.
At some point, he could have said, "I don't get enough appreciation out of anybody to make this worthwhile." Even as he told the Philippians -- when he's in prison, other preachers are saying he's in prison because somehow, he's corrupt and God put him on the shelf, and they wanted to add pain to his chains. But because his perspective was always that the ministry is a mercy -- "It's a mercy that I don't deserve," he didn't lose heart.
God gave it to him as a mercy. And it would always be a mercy. And that's the way he would hold it. He was not concerned that his preaching had to be fashionable, that it had to be admired, that he had to show some clever secret insight. He just wanted to preach Christ, be faithful, whatever God gave him, God gave him. And all that was good and all that was beneficial was a mercy. It was all a mercy and nothing other than that. It is a clarifying look to look always into the face of Christ. It is a transforming look. And it is a grateful look.
Fourthly, it's a purifying look. Verse 2, he says, "We've renounced the things hidden because of shame." I'll tell you this, if you look into the face of Jesus Christ continually, continually, and you are seeing clearly the glory of God, and you are being transformed into the very image of Christ, and your heart is overflowing with gratitude, your live is gonna be pure. And there aren't gonna be two of you. There isn't gonna be the one that all the Christians know and all the church knows, and then the other one, hidden one, the shameful one.
He says, "We've renounced that, the things hidden because of shame." From the start, when the chief sinner was saved, when he saw the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ, he says, "We renounced any secret hidden life of shame." And he was faithful to that to the very end. He kept saying over and over, "My conscience is clear. My conscience is clear." His defense to the Corinthians when they accused him of having a secret life of shame was, "My conscience is clear."
He says that in Chapter 1 and Verse 12. In fact, he say it such strong language, "Our proud confidence is this, the testimony of our conscience that in holiness in godly sincerity not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God we've conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you. We've conducted ourselves in holiness and godly sincerity so that we do not have an accusing conscience. My conscience is clear. Accuse me if you will. My conscience is clear. We have renounced any hidden life of shame."
And we are all profoundly harmed and hurt and heartbroken when some minister who proclaims Christ openly has some other life and it comes out and it's crushing to his congregation and to the cause of Christ. We are all heartbroken when that occurs in the church. Somebody who comes, a friend of yours, a family member, somebody that you fellowship with that you know and they appear to be a believer and then a horrible reality becomes apparent that there is a hidden life of shame. This is heartbreaking. Paul says, "Look, there are no secret devices. There's no deception. There's no corruption." He's not saying he's perfect.
Romans 7, "Oh wretched man that I am, but I am who I am and there's not another me hidden somewhere out of sight." Shame is _____. It's ugly, disgraceful, vial. There are no secret immoralities. This is not the hypocrite. What drives that out is the vision of Christ, the vision of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ.
When you look into the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, that salvation, you came in a repentant attitude, did you not? Repentance is necessary for salvation. You came repenting. So you were unveiling the true corruption of your heart at the moment of your salvation. We all did. And it is true that at that point we did renounce all those things that are hidden, because they're so ugly they can't be brought to the surface. We renounced that. But such things may creep back into our lives through the flesh.
How do we fight them off? By that constant looking into the face of Jesus Christ in His Word. Paul says, "Look, I'm not a deceiver." He further says in Verse 2, "I'm not walking or living in craftiness, conurgia, shrewd, unscrupulous means." You can't look into the face of Jesus and be a hypocrite. Somebody professes Christ, falls into horrible sin; that's not the beginning of anything. It's the end of a long looking away from Christ.
There's a fifth element in this look. It is a truthful look. It is a truthful look. It's a clarifying look for sure, a transforming one. It is a merciful, merciful gift. So it's a grateful look. It's a pure look. And it's a truthful look. Verse 2, One thing you can't do if you're looking into the face of Jesus is adulterate the Word of God. You show me a heretic and I'll show you someone who doesn't know Christ, who's not looking into His face. You can't separate the incarnate word from the written word.
The written word is only a manifestation of the divine word which is also manifest in Christ. Christ is revealed in the Word of God. So, the one who truly is looking into the face of Jesus does not adulterate the Word of God. It is a part of accountability. It is a part of devotion. It is a part of worship. It is a part of communion with Him to be faithful to His Word. Adulterating is an interesting term. It's the verb "delao." And it's only here in the New Testament. But the noun is ofishook. It has the idea of deceiving someone. Delao is used in some of the extra biblical sources in the Greek language to speak of diluting wine.
What people did who sole wine to make more money was to dilute it inordinately with water so they were selling supposedly a certain percentage of wine, but in reality, a lot less? Watering down something is the idea. Paul says, "Look, I will not water down the Word of God. I don't water it down. I don't dilute it with any other material. It's the Word of God." Our little motto at Grace Two, "Unleashing God's truth one verse at a time." We don't want to dilute it with any other worldly elements.
He says, "Look, somebody looking into the face of Jesus Christ and seeing the revealed glory of God, someone who is devoted to the truth incarnate and written incarnate in scripturated, someone with the vision of Christ is going to be commit to the pure truth. People may want clever subtitles. They may want teachers who tickle their ears and tell them fancy things that appeal to their carnality." But Paul will preach the pure, uncluttered, untampered, undiluted Gospel of grace and nothing else, nothing else. No deception, no cunning. He says it will be the manifestation of truth.
And thereby, and thereby alone can we comment ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. God knows what we're doing. And the only way to commend ourselves even to man, who have a conscience, is to be faithful to the Word of God. The one who is truly looking into the face of Jesus has a love for the truth, and faithfully and relentlessly proclaims that truth; a clarifying look, a transforming look, a grateful look, a purifying look, a truthful look.
But there's just a few more things maybe to mention to you. And this is very, very important. It is a privileged look. It's a privileged look. There are lots of things that could be said about Verses 3 and 4. I just want to draw this one thought out of it, 'cause our time is limited. If our Gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. In his case, the God of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving that they might not see the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.
Apostle Paul says, "Look, most people don't see it. Most people can't see the shining glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Most people have a Gospel still veiled." They are perishing, Verse 3. They are unbelieving, Verse 4. Their unbelief is compounded by the God of this world who has Satan further blinding them. This is how people live. It's like Peter, who said, "If you have tasted the kindness of the Lord, if you know what the Lord can do at your salvation, why would you not long for the Word like a baby longs for milk?"
You've tasted it. If you know what it is to be so privileged as to be delivered out of your blindness, out of your darkness, out of your unbelief; if you know what it is to have been given the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, then you must overwhelmed with the privilege.
Just a footnote to this, there are lot of people who think, "Well, the reason people don't respond to the Gospel is because we're preaching this archaic message. We're doing it from these ridiculous places called 'pulpits,' by these funny people who preach these expositional messages. Don't you get it? People aren't gonna respond to that kind of archaic stuff. They need a better strategy to reach people. This isn't any good."
People who argue like this are trying to make Christianity analogous to a marketing strategy. You have the product. That's the Gospel. You have the consumers. That's the unbelievers. And the preacher is the salesman. So you just have to figure out how to overcome consumer resistance. That's really an utterly useless analogy, because I can't overcome anybody's consumer resistance. They're blind. They're dead. They're unbelieving. They're captive to darkness and to Satan.
The truth of the matter is I can do one thing, perhaps. I can expose their formidable darkness. I can expose their resolute impenetrability. And if anybody believes, they have been privileged to believe. They have been regenerated and awaked from the dead and the light has shown into their darkness.
I don't save anybody. I can't sell the Gospel to anybody and either can you. That's not my job. Preach it, yes. How will they hear without a preacher? My cleverness and my methodology have nothing to do with it. My technique cannot break the bonds of sin. My technique, my style, my cleverness, my stories, my illustrations cannot bring the sinner to salvation. They cannot awaken the dead. They may exalt the pride of the preacher, but they cannot result the unregenerate.
So much modern evangelism is built on the heretical idea that anyone will respond to the Gospel if it's presented in a clever enough way. It's not true. All of us know that if we've ever seen the light, we are among the privileged. And the vision we have is a privilege. What a privilege to look into the face of Jesus Christ and see the savior and the redeemer. And if it was the privilege of all privileges as it is that our salvation, it is still a glorious privilege. And we ought to take every advantage of it now. Keep your eyes on Jesus Christ.
Two more. It is a humbling look. It is a humbling look. Paul says in Verse 5, "We do not preach ourselves. How could we do that?" But Christ Jesus is Lord and ourselves as you were bondservants for Jesus' sake. We're just here to serve. We can't preach ourselves, can't preach our own message. Self-promotion has no place. Personal authority has nothing to do with it. We just preach Christ Jesus as Lord.
Listen, let me tell you what preaching is. Preaching is information about Jesus Christ and the Gospel. That's what preaching is. It's information. It's biblical truth interpreted and disseminated. You must understand this truth with your mind. Why He came. Who He was. What He did. And God will, when He chooses, use that, to His glory through the salvation of sinners. We're just bond slaves, servants.
Any real true look into the face of Jesus Christ will humble a person. You see some proud self-promoting person walking around parading his own name, he overestimates his value. We're just slaves called to a duty. And the duty is pretty simple, preach not yourself, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and let everybody know you're a slave of Jesus.
Where there's a real look at Jesus, there's humility. Where there's no humility, there's no real look at Him. One last, this makes sense of all of it. The vision of Christ is all from God. It's a sovereign look. It's a sovereign look. Verse 6, "For God said," -- this is why we are humbled by the way. This is the connection. This is why we're so humbled. "Light shall shine out of darkness." God said that. He's talking about creation. There was a day, as we heard in that song when God created. And He spoke light into existence.
"For God who said, 'Light shall shine out of darkness.'" Nobody prompted Him. Nobody was around. God, on His own, uninfluenced spoke light into existence. God creates _____ out of nothing. The God who said, 'Light shall shine out of darkness is the one who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.'" The only reason you see the glory of God shining in the face of Christ is because God turned on the light. Sovereign salvation.
There's no sense of preaching yourself. There's no sense in exalting human wisdom, ingenuity, technique, et cetera. Preaching one's own cleverness is absolutely ridiculous for God, the creator is the only one who can turn on the light. If anyone is in Christ, he is a new what? Creation. And who alone is the creator? God. Spiritual darkness will cover the minds of men just like darkness covered the face of the deep until God speaks light into existence. God alone can dispel the darkness of sin and ignorance into which people will continue to be led deeper and deeper until they perish forever.
God alone sovereignly shines Gospel light. You see that when you look into the face of Jesus. Here's the essence of your life as a Christian. The essence of your life as a servant of the Lord, a vision of Christ, a clarifying, transforming, grateful, purifying, truthful, privileged, humble, sovereign view of Christ. And that will lead you to Verse 1. "We do not lose heart." Looking at the eternal glories of Christ is the reason you will never lose heart.
Father, we thank You for the time this morning to look at this precious gem of a text which we have lightly touched, but none the less, which ahs borne to us a profound and rich benediction of truth. Seal it to our hearts, Lord. Seal it to our hearts. Draw us ever to Christ.
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Call of Duty: Ghosts Trailer: Join the Clan
If you're interested in joining a clan or making sure yours is registered for Call of Duty: Ghosts, then you're going to want to jump into this post.
A trailer has been posted that gives us a brief overview of how clans will work in Call of Duty: Ghosts. You can either register your existing clan or join one in order to take advantage of many great benefits, such unlockable exclusive item, clan xp bonuses and the ability to participate in Clan vs. Clan battles.
New to Call of Duty: Ghosts is the cross-platform clan experience, which allows you to join a clan and contribute to the cause no matter what console version you're playing.
To help you manage all of this social awesomeness, the Call of Duty App is being introduced. You can use the Call of Duty App to manage your clan, check out stats, mess around with your clan emblem, chat with other clan members and send "rally up" messages that notify them that you're ready to put in some work.
You'll also be able to engage in Clan Wars, where you'll fight other clans in order to gain control of specific points on a map. Doing well in the Clan Wars means you'll unlock in-game xp bonuses and access to exclusive items. Sounds nifty, doesn't it?
Watch the trailer above and head to this site to check out the Clan Registration FAQ. Call of Duty: Ghosts will be released on Nov. 5 for PC, PlayStation 3, Wii U and Xbox 360. The next-gen versions will launch with their respective consoles.


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Depending on model, up to six DYNAMIC SELECT modes can be called up using the Controller on the centre console. "Comfort" mode allows particularly balanced and efficient driving. In conjunction with the AIRMATIC package, "Sport" mode offers a more agile and dynamic configuration of the suspension, which is additionally lowered by 15 mm, sportily taut damper tuning, a more direct steering feel and changed shift points. "Individual" mode allows the driver to vary individual settings to suit their taste.
Power, refinement and efficiency – the GLE 400 4MATIC with an output of 245 kW (333 hp) and a torque of 480 Nm masters all three disciplines. To further reduce both fuel consumption and emissions, the engines are equipped with ECO technology packages, comprising measures that lower friction and flow losses, reduce component weights and improve on-demand system control. Thrilling V8 performance comes in the shape of the GLE 500 4MATIC with an output of 335 kW (455 hp) and a torque of 700 Nm.
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Part of the bestselling SingStar karaoke series, SingStar Latino features popular Latino singers and Spanish language hits. Players sing along with music videos that feature a variety of Latin American recording artists. Score points by matching the pitch and duration of notes displayed on the screen. The game features 30 chart-topping singles and music videos from today's hottest Latin artists and legends including David Bisbal, Natalia Lafourcade, Jon Secada, La Oreja de Van Gogh, Paulina Rubio, Heroes del Silencio and others. As with previous SingStar titles, SingStar Latino provides an interactive social singing experience by incorporating technology that recognizes pitch, tone and rhythm to accurately score players as they perform to original songs featuring music videos.
This game is available only at select retail outlets.
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Release Date: November 18, 2009
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The 2013 recipients of the Excellence in University Service Awards are Sue Pendzich, Doug Frohmader, Mary McConnell and John Mohammad.
"Excellence. Faith. Leadership. Service. Doug Frohmader. For the past 28 years, Doug has been a valued — and invaluable — member of the Marquette community," wrote one nominator.
As creative director in the Office of Marketing and Communication, Doug Frohmader works closely with University Advancement and others to tell Marquette's story to alumni, donors and friends of the university.
Multiple nominators wrote about his professionalism, patience, work ethic and commitment to cura personalis. As one nominator put it, "Doug truly is a model of excellence."
Frohmader is also an award-winning designer, having been honored for his work multiple times by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, the country's leading education organization for professionals who work in alumni relations, communication, development and marketing.
"I value all of the wonderful people at Marquette whom I've been blessed to know," says Frohmader. "Marquette is a great place to be!"
Mary McConnell serves as the dental coordinator for the Pediatrics Clinic, where she is responsible for patient scheduling and coordinating patient, student and faculty schedules. She has worked for the university for 33 years and said she is humbled to receive an award for the work she does every day. "My job is to help and serve those in the school as well as the community," she says, a job that she handles in a pleasant and professional manner, despite working with patients who are often facing difficult circumstances.
"Mary is fiercely loyal to Marquette and our students," wrote one nominator. "She is always seeking the best for our young patients — even when put in the middle of difficult interpersonal relationships between our pediatric patients and their caregivers."
Although multiple nominators wrote that McConnell is so efficient that most people do not even realize the amount of work she handles on a daily basis, her many nominators agree: "Mary really is the heart of the Pediatric Dentistry Department.".
A technical support specialist in ITS, John Mohammad works closely with the College of Education and the College of Nursing, providing support for desktop software, phone deployment, printer and peripheral hardware, and smart classrooms.
"What I value most about working for Marquette is the strong sense of community and support among my colleagues," Mohammad says.
The feeling is mutual. Faculty, staff and deans from Education and Nursing all commented on Mohammad's ability to fix any problem that arises. One nominator wrote, "John is a pleasure to work with. I don't think I have ever seen him without a smile on his face and a cheerful disposition."
Another nominator added, "In my nearly 40 years of experience, John qualifies as the most talented, responsive, effective, pleasant and dedicated technology professional I've ever encountered."
As an administrative assistant in the Office of Student Development, Sue Pendzich coordinates the day-to-day operations of the office of the Dean of Students, including budget oversight and administrative support for alcohol programming, community service programs, the university student conduct system, and new student and family programs such as Preview, Orientation and Family Weekend.
A 15-year Marquette employee, Pendzich says she enjoys the work she does each day and never expected any special recognition for it. "I feel very fortunate to be a part of the Marquette family," Pendzich says. "I've met and worked with so many students over the years, and it is wonderful to see them achieving goals while they are here and then continuing to do admirable things once they graduate."
Her interactions with students clearly have a lasting effect. As one nominator wrote "The number of former students who come back to the Office of Student Development specifically to speak with Sue is a testament to the care and commitment she exudes each and every day."


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So now that Massachusetts voters took after 17 other states and validated the medical use of marijuana by a 2-to-1 margin, lawmakers are already predicting, predictably, that the Jan. 1 effective date is unrealistic.
So now that Massachusetts voters took after 17 other states and validated the medical use of marijuana by a 2-to-1 margin, lawmakers are already predicting, predictably, that the Jan. 1 effective date is unrealistic.
This is undoubtedly true, as the Legislature is getting into the game on this subject only after its procrastination forfeited the issue to the voters directly. Now the Legislature has to start from scratch when it should have been way out ahead of this topic.
And we're going to be asked to be patient and trust that the Legislature isn't trying to undermine the whole ballot question.
State Sen. Mark Montigny, D-New Bedford, said he supports the measure but it needs work. "The state is going to have to implement medical marijuana, which I personally support," he told me. "But it needs to be properly overseen and regulated, and there's lots of room for abuse."
I suppose there is, what with places like California and Colorado with pot shops as common as Dunkin' Donuts. And as far as complications go, you watch how the Obama Justice Department pounces on Colorado and Washington as they pursue total legalization of marijuana.
At least, though, it will likely draw the feds' attention away from Massachusetts, which is merely joining 17 other states in rejecting the federal fixation on prohibition.
State Rep. William Straus, D-Mattapoisett, said, "It may make sense, frankly, that in order to give what is already a stressed agency, the Department of Public Health, some time, the effective date may have to be pushed back because there are so many open questions as to what a 60-day supply is, what's the right number of distribution centers."
Did I mention that the DPH is going to conduct its own hearings independent of the Legislature? Doesn't this sound like we're about to have the complete legislative cycle after the fact that the ballot question passed so easily?
Straus was confident that his process doesn't have to take forever. "I'm not talking a year or beyond that. It's a matter of months," he said.
State Rep. Keiko Orrall, R-Lakeville, said that the leadership is already on it. "We've actually been working on the situation this week," she said. She said interim DPH Commissioner Lauren Smith is taking up the subject. "The DPH will be conducting hearings and they want public engagement, and they want to use examples from other states," she said.
I thought that's just what the referendum proponents have already done, but let it go. We need our own people to be happy.
State Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, saw an upside to the referendum route on questions like this. "Some questions as significant as this question sometimes come across with a lot more power" in a ballot initiative, he said.
In this case, he said, the Legislature as a whole never took a vote because medical marijuana never came out of committee.
I believe him, but I have to wonder about the reason. We may get a glimpse of that as the inevitable public hearings commence on Question 3.
Steve Urbon's column appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in The Standard-Times and SouthCoastToday.com. He can be reached at 508-979-4448 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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"The Hunt" is a terrifying cautionary tale about the loss of innocence, sexual abuse and children. But in a chilling twist, the innocence lost is that of a single father, a respected member of the community, a beloved kindergarten teacher suddenly pegged as a pedophile by an angry child.
It is a devastating film to watch, a heedful one, and a tragic reminder that no matter how well a life has been conducted, the mere whiff of such scandalous behavior is condemnation enough.
The film, which stars Mads Mikkelsen, that versatile Dane, follows the accused teacher, Lucas, through the destruction wrought by a single lie that sparks a wildfire of rumors and recriminations.
If you were in Los Angeles in the 1980s, it is impossible not to be reminded of the McMartin preschool case that dominated headlines for nearly a decade and still remains a question mark in so many minds.
Director Thomas Vinterberg co-wrote the screenplay with Thomas Lindholm. Better at drama than comedy, "The Hunt" is by far the filmmaker's most accomplished work yet. Vinterberg was smart to never let us doubt Lucas' innocence. It allows us to stay in his corner even as the accusations pile up.
"The Hunt" begins with a hunt in the literal sense. Introducing us to the dynamics of the small Danish town where the story unfolds is one of the more bracing annual rites — the men stripping and jumping into an icy lake to mark the beginning of deer season. It is central to the story how tightly they are bound. Friendships and family ties stretch back generations.
Lucas has a keen eye and is respectful in the way he takes down a buck — the crunch of the leaves underfoot, the crack of the rifle shot, all that break the silence of the forest. The deer is the first innocent to fall, completely unaware of his fate until that well-placed bullet strikes him down. It becomes a powerful metaphor for the film, beautifully shot in muted tones by director of photography Charlotte Bruus Christensen, who won the Vulcain Prize at Cannes in 2012 for her artistry.
Drinks are lifted as triumphs and failures are celebrated, companions finding comfort in the camaraderie. Theo (Thomas Bo Larsen, a Vinterberg regular) celebrates far too much and Lucas delivers his drunken friend safely home to wife, teenage son and a young daughter, Klara (Annika Wedderkopp). She's a beautiful little girl of around 5, bothered by many things, including lines on the floor she can't bear to step on. No one else seems to notice her dilemma at a doorway but Lucas, who gamely carries her across a room covered with them.
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That lines are crossed is another defining metaphor and, like the hunt, one the filmmakers will turn to again. Though this scene is a pivotal one in Lucas' downfall, he is already an embattled man. The divorced father is fighting for custody of teenage son Marcus (Lasse Fogelstrom). Financially he's struggling as a teacher at the local kindergarten. Lucas' kindness to Klara leads to a schoolgirl crush he quickly rebuffs. Her story is concocted out of hurt feelings and pieces of her older brother's conversations about boys and body parts.
The kindergarten becomes the prime incubator for a rising panic as Grethe (Susse Wold), the relatively restrained school administrator, becomes the instigator of this modern-day witch hunt. The rising hysteria is captured as Klara's story is repeated, interpreted, examined and embellished. Soon the entire community is undone along with the man.
The director is equally careful in the portrayal of Klara. She is no monster. Played with a great sensitivity by young Wedderkopp, she is more a troubled child whose momentary pique is immediately beyond her control. More frightening than her charge is the way the adults handle it over time.
Mikkelsen is no stranger to playing villains. He went up against James Bond in "Casino Royale" in 2006, a role that called for menace and no subtlety. His current run as Dr. Hannibal Lecter on NBC's "Hannibal," is a clear-cut case of evil. But Lucas required something else entirely, someone miscast in the role.
The actor is riveting as he moves from shocked to stoic to defiant, desperate to hold on to his dignity and reclaim his reputation. As the central conduit for virtually all of the building tension, Mikkelsen's performance of a man under siege earned the best actor prize at Cannes in 2012. Vinterberg took the Ecumenical Jury award.
In contrast to the explosive issue of sexual abuse, one of the film's strengths is its restraint. Violent moments are kept to a minimum and are more incendiary for it. More typical is Grethe's reaction during one of the interviews with Klara. The administrator becomes overcome by nausea at what she thinks is the truth. It is difficult not to feel that same stomach-churning sensation because you know it.
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Does anyone else think this could be a great figure? I had the coloring book in which this almost happened, but I believe there was a story or something also. If anyone can post pics, that'd be helpful.
SBTeela would be perfect as a Sub-Exclusive or for SDCC perhaps. Built with mostly reused parts and a new dress, she could even have swappability like Marlena, to perhaps create a Cold Weather Gear Teela (if the wedding dress maintained the sleeves) or even a Filmation look (if the dress was sleeveless).
She could have the BGTeela head with red hair, of course, and perhaps serve as an opportunity to get a blonde repaint of the first Teela head too.
This story always captured my attention as a kid, and seeing as it's been referenced already (somewhat) in the Bios, I think it could be a great addition!
Chime in with your SUPPORT and your ideas for accessories or execution!
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The recipe was a Ricotta and Orange Tart. What really interested me was the use of an Orange flavored pastry. Yum! I've blogged about flavored pastry before. I even teach hands-on classes on Pastry dough. I just love my dough, as you know!
Although you really can't see, there is orange zest and some orange juice in this lovely dough.
The dough handled very nicely under the rolling pin. And to my delight, not much shrinkage
This doesn't look like the photo in the magazine......but it did make the 'old man' smile!Such a light and lovely result. Not heavy after the meal. I will make this one again!