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Joan Collins wins lawsuit against Random House
On this day in 1996, actress and bestselling novelist Joan Collins won a judgment against Random House for $1 million. In 1990, Random House had offered Collins $4 million in a two-book deal, and paid a $1.2 million advance, with the rest due on delivery of the manuscripts. But when Collins turned in the first of the two books, the publishing house claimed it was "unreadable" and sued for the return of the advance. The court ruled in favor of Collins and demanded that Random House pay her an additional $1 million for the work she turned in.
The novel, not surprisingly, was never published.
Collins, a British-born actress and older sister of bestselling novelist Jackie Collins, had already starred in some 50 movies and 25 television shows, including the 1980s hit Dynasty, when she sold her first novel to Simon and Schuster for a rumored $3 million. Critics trashed the book, Prime Time (1988), which nonetheless became a bestseller. Her next book, My Secrets, was published in 1994, followed by Second Act in 1996. Her tangle with Random House evidently failed to quell her literary ambitions: She published My Friends' Secrets, a beauty book, in 1999.

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Depth will keep the competitive juices flowing at practices on the local hardwood as the season unfolds.
Coaches at Lansdowne and Catonsville hope that competition can mean more victories while the Western Tech coach feels strength in numbers will offset the star power lost from last year's regional finalist.
Read on to see who will be battling for playing time when the season gets underway.
Record last year: 7-13
Returning starters: Seniors forward Shawn Brown (6-1), senior center Trevor Morris (6-50 and junior forwards Tyler Jones (6-4) and Edrick Mallard (6-2).
Breakdown: The Vikings took their lumps last season with an inexperienced squad, but held together and should be improved with more depth and some fresh talent.
Senior guard Dallas Rowe (6-4), who played as a freshman and sophomore, returns to the backcourt after taking last year off.
"We've knocked some of the rust off and he's looking pretty good," coach Greg Karpers said.
Joining the backcourt is senior John Johnson (6-1), a transfer from Forest Park.
Sophomore Mark-Jared Kelly (6-3) figures to make an impact and Karpers hopes he can get contributions from senior Quentin Muhammad (5-10) and juniors Anthony Abram (6-1), Alfred Allen (5-10), Damon DeShields (5-10) and Ryan Woods (6-2) in the backcourt.
Seniors Ronald Stewart (6-5) Joey Cox (6-0) and Martin McCoy (5-10) will man the paint.
"This is the biggest team (depth wise) we've had," Karpers said. "We've got nine or 10 guys who are really going to contribute on game days, which has made our practices really competitive."
From what the coach has seen in the early practices, the Vikings should have balanced scoring and be pests with their size on defense.
"We are extremely long and athletic and we will pose some matchup problems," Karpers said.
2011-2012 record: 3-17
Returning starters: Senior forwards Jamal Tyson (6-foot-3), Kevin Sheppard (6-0) and Jack Rasmussen (6-3 ) and senior guard James Baker (5-6).
Breakdown: Second-year coach Matt Fannin has seven returning varsity players ready to create a winning vibe around the program.
Seniors Justin Sneed (5-10, G/F) and Brendan McTaggert (6-0, F) and junior Daniel Thompson (6-1, F) also have varsity experience.
"This year, the guys that are coming back are hungry," Fannin said. "It's been a while since Catonsville has been relevant in basketball and they have a chance to do something special."
Last year's squad was unsettled at the start of practice because several prospective players were still playing football on a 12-1 squad that reached a state semifinal.
This year's gridders were eliminated in the first round of the regional playoffs and junior football players Teddy Crayton (6-1, G/F) and Joey Getzendanner (5-10, G) are ready to go.
Juniors Christian Boxley (5-9) and Daniel Carver (5-8) will help in the backcourt and junior newcomer Nathan Hines (6-6) brings size to the paint.
Fannin coached the Comet junior varsity from 2008 through 2010 and has been with some of his seniors for four seasons.
"James, Jamal and Jack, you can see by the way they are practicing, they want to make it happen," Fannin said.
Western Tech
Record last year: 13-5
Returning starters: Senior guard Tre Beverly (5-8)
Breakdown: The Wolverines graduated the dynamic inside duo of Andre Jackson and Keith Crowell and with them went 33 points and 22 rebounds-per-game averages, which makes coach Mike Slepesky aware that he will have to call on his entire 15-player roster to replace those numbers.
"They gave me a very good reason to keep 15," Slepesky said. "I think the teams is deeper than last year, we just don't have the star power."
Beverly is the only returning starter, but the Wolverines do have veterans in senior guards Brandon Luster (5-7) and Khalil Edwards (6-1) and senior forwards Tyrell Laster (6-1), Coyet Goodman (6-2) and Devin Collins (6-2).
Junior Chaz Lassiter (5-11) could shared point guard duties with Luster and junior Josh Miles (6-4) brings a physical presence to the interior.
"We are very good across the board," Slepesky said. "We will probably rotate 10 or 12 guys."
Seniors Daquane Skipwith (6-0), Earl Holly (6-0) and Lamar Briscoe Wortham (6-0) hope to work into the mix with juniors Donald Imes (6-0), Mike Haysbert (6-4), John Williams (5-11) and John Morant (5-11).
"This year we are going to have to rely on our fastbreaks, pressure and our outside shooting ability," Slepesky said.


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Fulham seems safe from relegation for now, but that doesn't mean they can't be a laughingstock. The club has announced it will unveil a statue of Michael Jackson at Craven Cottage, all because he was good friends with their Chairman.
Said Mohamed Al Fayed,
"Michael Jackson was truly a legend, a term used too often in this modern world saturated in the hyperbole surrounding celebrity.
I hope that many fans of his will visit the statue at the Cottage from far and wide, and that Fulham fans will appreciate seeing the finest performer in the world, in and amongst them, the finest fans in the world."
Al Fayed has a thing for statues, commissioning this bizarre memorial to his son and Princess Diana inside his department store. He's also a very rich man, and if he wants a statue of Michael Jackson outside his team's stadium, he's going to get it.
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School Holiday Doughnut Decorating @ Krispy Kreme (Port Wakefield Road)
Join us for Doughnut Decorating at Krispy Kreme these School Holidays!
Location: 853 Port Wakefield Road, Bolivar
Cost: $5 per ticket.
Each session is approximately 20 minutes, and are suitable for children under 12.
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PGA pro Tim Lewis, 51, of Hampton delivered a final round 2-under-par 68 to post a two-stroke comeback victory as the seventh Senior Open of Virginia concluded Friday at The Country Club of Virginia's Westhampton Course in Richmond.
Lewis, the PGA teaching pro at Kempsville Greens Golf Course in Virginia Beach, finished with a 3-under 137 (69-68) and was the only competitor in the field to fire two subpar rounds.
Lewis earned $600.
Allen Barber of Yorktown tied for sixth at 141 (70-71), and Jim Gallagher of Yorktown tied for eighth at 142 (69-73). Williamsburg residents Dave Pulk (144) and Mike McDonald (147), plus Suffolk pro Mark Lambert (147), also were among the high finishers.
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The size of those paws… and BEANS
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Happy Pride Month Eleanor Roosevelt was queer, the Little Mermaid is a gay love story, James Dean liked men, Emily Dickinson was a lesbian, Nikola Tesla was asexual, Freddie Mercury was bisexual & British Indian, and black trans women pioneered the gay rights movement.
Florence Nightingale was a lesbian, Leonardo da Vinci was gay, Michelangelo too, Jane Austen liked women, Hatshepsut was not cisgender, and Alexander the Great was a power bottom
Honestly just reblogging for that last one
Probably not historically backed but fuck yes
Eleanor Roosevelt wrote love letters to Lorena Hickok
Love letters Hans Christian Anderson wrote to Edvard Collin contain elements that appeared in The Little Mermaid, which he was wr iting at the same time
Several people who knew James Dean have talked about his relationships with men
Letters and poems allude to a romance between Emily Dickinson and at least two women
Nikola Tesla was adverse to touch. He said he fell in love with one women but never touched her and didn't want to get married
Freddie Mercury is well known for his attraction to men but was also linked to several women, including Barbara Valentin whom he lived with shortly before he died. Friends have talked about being invited into their bed and walking in on them having sex (documentary Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender)
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the best-known activists who fought in the Stonewall riots
Florence Nightingale refused 4 marriage proposals and her letters and memoir suggest a love for women
Leonardo da Vinci never married or fathered children, was once brought up on sodomy charges, and a sketch in one of his notebooks is 2 penises walking toward a hole labeled with the nickname of his apprentice
Condivi said that Michelange lo often spoke exclusively of masculine love
Jane Austin never married and wrote about sharing a bed with women (Jane Austen At Home: A Biography by Lucy Worsley)
Hatshepsut took the male title Pharaoh (instead of Queen Regent) and is depicted in art from the time the same way a male Pharaoh would have been
"Alexander was only defeated once…and that was by Hephaestion's thighs." is a 2,000 year old quote
I want to hire you to follow me around and defend my honor with meticulous research
re: the Alexander the Great source: "The concepts of heterosexuality and homosexuality didn't exist in ancient times" yeah neither did the concept of uranium yet that shit has been around forever.
Bringing this back
Please look at the contestants for the upcoming season of The Bachelor and laugh with me.
I like how she got her hair lightened for one of the pictures
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Reasons Why Retail Jobs are Harder than Office Jobs.
And yet people don't think retail workers should get a living wage. I've literally gotten a five cent raise myself.
8 cent raise right here
my direct manager had to fight the district manager for two months to get me a six cent raise
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do you want to know something?? I always wondered what the hell kind of hairstyle the Ancient Egyptians were trying to portray with depictions like these
and this
until I did my hair this morning and
you can take the noses off our statues but until you find a way to take Egypt out of Africa we're still going to find ourselves
I'm reblogging this post without all the salty, racist commentary because I'm sick of looking at it. please spr ead this around again in its pure form for posterity.
What's funny is that white people thought they were hats/crowns 😂
Here's a really good post about this.
And here's some pictures of the Afar people, who still live on the horn of Africa today.
People thought it was Hats and Crowns? How could they not see hair?
The same reason archaeologists, upon finding a woman's skeleton in the grave of a famous Roman gladiator, immediately wondered where the gladiator's skeleton was: Old Straight White Man™ brand denial.
Same way they denied the Really Gay Egyptian Tomb, too. It's kind of a Thing.
This post is amazing, I'm so glad it exists. I have learned.
There is so much greatness in this post and all white people care about is defending why they thought the depictions are hats. White people??? Why are you like this???
I'm salty as fuck that we were taught they were crowns at SCHOOL. For Christ sake.
Their hair is laid to rest. How do I get on this wave?????
I'm really afraid how woke my kids are gonna be in school.
This is why Eurocentrism is bad for archaeology, and we really need race and gender theory. We can only learn about the past if we're able to ask the right kinds of questions.
Reblogging especially for that last comment cuz it's fucking TRUE
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Tonight we continue our series of the book of Hebrews and we come to chapter 4. We're going to consider verses 1 to 13.
Now I realize that the book of Hebrews is a book that tests your courage in a sense and I can honestly say that I admire your faithfulness coming out Sunday night after Sunday night to labor through the book of Hebrews. I can promise you great blessings and great insight in the many things as you're faithful to learn this book.
And you know it's like our children when we feed our children, we don't always give them what they like we sometimes give them what they need. And so I want to be faithful to the call of the ministry to not only give you the things that you may like to hear that may entertain your fancy but to give you those things you need to understand because they're so strategic and so important to your understanding of the word of God and to your own Christian life and so we're studying Hebrews and we're arriving at the fourth chapter and the first thirteen verses are going to show us the subject of entering into God's rest. And we'll explain, we trust, in detail so you'll be able to understand what's involved in these verses.
Now as we approach chapter four we are right in the middle of a warning that began in chapter three verse seven. Now I told you, initially, when we began the book of Hebrews that Hebrews is written to Christians. It is written to believers however scattered throughout Hebrews are warnings to unbelievers. Not just any kind of unbelievers but unbelievers who know the truth, who, in fact, in this case were Jews who had renounced Judaism, turned from Judaism and begun to point toward Christ but never really received Christ. They'd gone away from Judaism but they hadn't stepped into a real relationship with Christ so they're turning around, they're facing Christ and they're in great danger because of the persecution and social pressure and all of this and the love of their own sin, they're in great danger of turning around back again and going back to Judaism.
And so periodically in the book of Hebrews this group is warned not to turn around and go back to Judaism no matter what the pressure but to take that next step, they're hanging right on the knife edge of decision and to take the step of faith in Jesus Christ.
Now this is a most important subject because they're many people who are in this very identical situation who have maybe begun to turn from the former way of life, they've turned toward Jesus Christ but never made the step of real commitment, they're always in danger of having hardened hearts, turning back and going back into the former kind of life.
And so as we began chapter 3 we saw Jesus greater than Moses and then on the basis of that, beginning in chapter 3 verse 7, we saw the warning that if those who were disobedient to Moses didn't escape, how shall they escape really who are disobedient to Jesus Christ who hardened their hearts against Him. And so beginning with verse 7 we saw the seriousness and the tragedy of hanging on the edge of a decision and not making that decision for Jesus Christ. Now this gives us a basic introduction to this section and the warning runs from 3:7 through 4:13.
So tonight as we begin chapter four we find ourselves right in the middle of this warning to those Jews and to anybody for that matter who is halting on the edge of decision and not making a commitment to Jesus Christ. And the warning comes to them beginning in chapter 3 verse 7, "Today, harden not your hearts", it's repeated again throughout this section, really the same message in verse 13, "Today, lest any of you be hardened", verse 15, "Today, if you'll hear His voice, harden not your hearts", and clear down in verse 7 of chapter 4 again, "Today, don't harden your hearts". And the illustration that is used all through here is don't harden your hearts like Israel did. Israel turned away from Egypt. They began to go toward the promise land but on the way to the promise land they stopped. And they did not believe God, they did not put their faith in God, therefore, they did not ever enter in to the full rest of Canaan. They turned away from Egypt, they never went, that generation that died, never went into the promised land. They halted at the crucial place of decision. And so the warning of the Spirit of God in this passage is do not do what Israel did, do not be taken away from the old life but never commit yourself to that new relationship with Jesus Christ but hang on the balance and the longer you hang and the more you hear the message and the more you hear the gospel the easier it is to reject and pretty soon you find one day you've woken up to realize, you've awaken (I'll say it right) to realize your heart is hardened, you have an evil heart of unbelief and you have departed from the living God. That's the warning of this large section. Now I want us to understand this because I think it's very, very important. The message tonight will be for unbelievers. Those hanging on the balance but may I hasten to say it's also for us believers to be much aware that we need to be urgent in the presentation of the gospel and we need to beseech and beg people like Paul did to take the decision, the step of faith in Jesus Christ. I think so many times we, as Christians, are reluctant to really come to grips with people and say, "Right now, why don't you commit yourself to Jesus Christ". And if there's anything for us in this passage, that's it.
Now we found in chapter 3 verses 7 to 1? the reason those Jews never made it to Canaan because of unbelief. Unbelief forfeits rest. And the word rest used back there in Psalm 95, which is being quoted here, has reference to entering the land of Canaan, resting from the wanderings and the persecution in Egypt and so forth and so on. It's the rest of finally getting into your own land, not being persecuted, not being pressured, not being killed, not being made slaves; it's rest from all of that. And they never entered into that promised rest because of unbelief. That's the basic principle of this whole passage. Nobody experiences God's rest apart from faith that's the key to entering into rest. Now if you go back to Moses's situation in Numbers chapter 14, you find in verses 22 and 23 these words, "Because all those men have seen My glory", this is God talking to Israel in the wilderness, "They've seen My miracles which I've did in Egypt and in the wilderness and they've tempted Me ten times and have not hearkened to My voice, surely they shall not see the land which I swear unto their fathers neither shall any of them that provoke Me, see it". God said because you've never believed Me but you've constantly thought you needed to put Me to the test, you've never accepted Me, you've always wanted to prove Me, you've never believed, you'll not enter the land. The Bible says their carcasses will die in the wilderness. Now even under Joshua when the other, of course you realize that was a whole generation that died off and then the younger. generation went into the land, but even when the younger generation went into the land they did not enjoy the full rest that God had planned for them. And the reason they didn't enjoy their full rest was simply because when they got into the land, instead of doing what God told them to do and believing God in obedient faith, they rejected God's information to them and God said because of that I'm going to drive you right back out of the land and that's exactly what He did, at a later time. So even the generation that went into the land never experienced full rest. It was a hassle all the time fighting against every imaginable group and they got messed up from beginning to end of their time in the land. So there was no rest in either Moses's case or Joshua's case. The people who died in the wilderness or who entered the land because of unbelief. And may I say this, there is still a rest available. The rest of Canaan pictures a divine, spiritual rest that comes by faith in Jesus Christ. It's a picture of salvation rest and that salvation rest which we shall see in a moment is still available but it is only available to those who believe God, who commit themselves in faith to Him. Israel never entered full rest because of their unbelief and Moses couldn't make it happen and Joshua couldn't make it happen but God has a rest far greater than Canaan. God has an eternal rest that's available to you by faith in Jesus Christ and it takes a greater than Moses and a greater than Joshua to make it a reality. And that greater than both is Jesus Himself. Now when we talk about rest what are we talking about? I want to define the word or else all through the message you're going to be wondering what I'm referring to. In this passage, you're going to have to stick with me on this, there is rest promised. Now rest in it's fullest sense. And I looked up in the dictionary and found some interesting definitions of rest that fit beautifully in the typical or I should say into the instruction of the word of God here. First of all, the dictionary defines rest as ceasing from action or motion. Now these are just different definitions of the word rest, the English word. And the word in the Greek or the Hebrew is identically the same definition.
So first of all rest means to cease from action or motion, you stop doing what you are doing. The action and the motion is over. It means to stop from labor or exertion. Now applying that to God's rest it means no more selfeffort. No more trying to please God by your feeble, fleshly works. And the moment you enter into God's rest works cease as a way to please God, they don't please Him anyway because you can't do enough works to be perfect. And so rest then involves cessation from legalistic activity. It is a rest in free grace.
Then the dictionary secondly defines rest as to be free from whatever worries or disturbs you. Some people can't rest mentally because they're always bugged by everything. Every little thing just pounds away in their brain and they can never just rest because they're always hassled by everything. To rest means to be free from whatever hassles you, from whatever disturbs you or creates worries in your mind. It means, in this sense, to be quiet, to be still, to be peaceful, be free from guilt and the things which drive us to neurosis, psychosis etc. And so bringing that across to God's rest we would say that to enter God's rest simply means to be at peace with God. It means to possess the perfect peace that God gives. It means to free from guilt. It means no need to worry about sin because sin is forgiven and we're at rest all of a sudden, no more anxiety, no more pressure, no more guilt:
peace. So God's rest involves cessation of works and it involves a rest in the total forgiveness of God. Thirdly, rest in the dictionary is defined as to lie down, to be settled or to be fixed. No more flux, no more flow, no more shifting around and we can take this again to God's rest and say that God's rest is the kind of rest where a man is positionally established in Christ. No more running from philosophy to philosophy, no more being blown about by every wind of doctrine, no more floating over to this and floating over to that, he is established he is rooted, he is grounded, unmovable. That's rest. Fourthly, rest in the dictionary is to remain confident, to put your trust in something, in other words, you rest in something in the sense of confidence. And to enter God's rest logically means to enjoy security, no more fear you have absolute trust and absolute confidence in God's care and charge of your life. Fifthly and lastly the dictionary says that rest means to lean on and to enter into God's rest means that for the rest of your life and eternally you can rest on God and you can lean on Him and you can be sure that He will never topple over.
So when it talks about rest in the Bible, it's talking about a new relationship to God that is available to a man whereby that man can depend on God, can impose on God that means totally depend on God for support, for health, for power, for everything he needs. It is a new relationship which man is confident and secure that he's committed his life to God and God holds his life in an eternal trust. It is a new relationship that involves being settled and fixed, no more flux, no more floating around: all of a sudden you know Whom you have believed you know why you believe it and you stand on it. It is a new relationship with God that means we can be free from that which disturbs us, sin is gone it's been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, therefore guilt is gone, therefore we have no reason to worry we have only reason to be at peace with ourselves and with others since we are at peace with God.
It is, then, a new relationship with God that means the cessation from works and legalism as a way to please God. That in total is what rest is all about. So when the Bible says here in Hebrews 3 and 4 that God offers you rest it means all of those things which we have talked about A new relationship with God that is multifaceted as I've just explained it to you. It's full, it's blessed, it's sweet, it's satisfying. it's peaceful. And this is exactly what God is offering to every man.
And this is exactly what was pictured in the Canaan rest that Israel never understood and never entered into because of unbelief. And just as Israel never entered Canaan rest because of unbelief so soul after soul after soul since the time of Israel and even before has also missed God's rest spiritually because of unbelief.
Now there are also two other dimensions that the dictionary doesn't handle in defining rest. One of them is kingdom rest which is the millennium and the other is eternal rest which is heaven.
And those are the ultimate expressions of that new relationship.
The fullest kind of relationship with God that takes care of you in this life, in the kingdom and in heaven forever. That's what God is promising and that's what He calls rest. But men don't enter into that rest. There's only one reason that they don't and what's that one reason? Unbelief. Men won't believe God that He means what He says about rest. It's unbelievable to think about it but it's true that when God offers a man all of this; men won't believe it. And even some will turn away from the world like these Jews and Hebrews and they'll look toward Jesus Christ, they'll turn their back to the old patterns but they'll hang on that edge and never commit themselves to Christ and they'll find it easier and easier to resist, they'll find one day that they have an evil heart of unbelief and they have departed from the living God.
And so the warning from the Spirit of God is harden not your hearts. Don't be like unbelieving Israel and miss God's perfect rest.
Now that is an introduction. I'm tired already. I want you to see the sermon. I'm going to get to that now.
I want you to see four things here: the availability of rest, the basis of rest, the nature of rest and the urgency of rest chapter 4. First of all the availability of rest verse 1, the availability of rest verse 1 says, "Let us, therefore", what do you mean therefore?
What's the Holy Spirit use therefore to indicate? That means go back because of what we saw in Israel, because we saw Israel forfeit rest, because they blew it and never entered into God's promised rest look at that and let us therefore "fear". Why? Because when you don't believe God, my friend, you don't enter into His rest. That's something to be afraid of, that's something to be afraid of. The Bible says "fear not them who are able to destroy the body but fear Him who is able to destroy both body and soul in hell". And you know who that refers to? God. When you look at the past history of Israel and you see what happened to the people who didn't believe God, therefore, let us do what? Fear. Let us fear. Now Scripture indicates that the Christian doesn't need to fear, Jesus said, "Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid". The only kind of fear a Christian experiences is not this kind of fear but the fear that is reverential awe. The reverential kind of fear. The Bible says in II Timothy. 1:7 that, "God hath not given us the spirit of fear". Believers don't need to fear but here he says to unbelievers, fear. Why? "Lest a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it". You better be afraid, my friend, you better be afraid that you might miss God's rest. That's something to be afraid of. So having reminded the readers in chapter 3 that the generation which came out of Egypt did not enter Canaan rest because of unbelief he then warns them of a possible failure on their part to enter into God's perfect rest and he says you'd better be afraid lest you miss it. It's not a trifling thing, dear ones, it's not a trifling thing to dillydally around with the salvation of God. It's not a trifling thing to fool around with the rest of God that He offers. That's not something you fool with, that's something you consider with great fear for God is a God of judgment, our God is a consuming fire.
Now notice in verse 1 it says, "Let us, therefore, fear; lest a promise being left us". Now there is a promise left. The word means being left behind and remaining. What the Holy Spirit wants them to know, those reading the book of Hebrews, those Jews and also us today, is when Israel fell because of unbelief, watch this, when Israel fell because of unbelief that didn't mean rest was done. When Israel fell in the wilderness God didn't say, OK Israel, out the door, you've had it, I'm done with you, move down a few miles and pick on somebody else.
God didn't start the work to Egyptians. When Israel didn't go into the land, that generation that didn't, that didn't mean that rest ended.
And let me take it a step further. Many of the Jews at this time were very fearful that because of what they had done to Messiah had, therefor forfeited any possibility of rest. This is even a common doctrine, today that when the Jews joined with the Gentiles to bring about the execution of Jesus which was initiated by the Judaistic rejection, when that happened Israel then forfeited their right to God's blessing and from that time on God stopped dealing with Israel and God deals only now wit the church. There's is no restoration of Israel, there is no promise for Israel, there is no kingdom for Israel that's called amillennialism and that's a very dominate theology. And the argument is that because of what they did in the Old Testament in unbelief, because of what they did to Jesus Christ in unbelief they then forfeited everything, they lost the possibility of rest but here the word of God says, "Let us, therefore, fear, lest, a promise being left we come short of it".
The promise is not removed from Israel, it's still there. One of the greatest passages in the Bible to prove that Israel is still in God's economy and that God is still working with them is in Acts chapter 3, listen to this; Peter is preaching and he says, "You denied the Holy One and the Just, and you desired a murderer to be granted unto you", and he's really letting them have it, these Jews in Jerusalem and he says, "You killed the Prince of life", now that's a pretty strong indictment, pretty strong. And you say; that did it, they therefore forfeited everything. And then you go over to verse 25 and you read, listen to this, Peter says, "Ye are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham and in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Unto you first God, having raised up His Son Jesus, sent Him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities". Do you that Peter says right there that even though you killed the Prince of life, you're still the sons of the covenant? Even though you killed the Holy One, the Just One; even though you desired a murderer to be released unto you, you're still the sons of the covenant which God made with Abraham and that was an unconditional covenant in which God said through you I will bless the world, no conditions? And even when Jesus Christ came out of the grave and supercharged His church, there first direction was right to the Jew? No, God did not write off Israel Paul says in Romans, "Has God forsaken Israel? God forbid". And so the writer of Hebrews can say, "Therefore, there is a promise left to us, rest is still available". Is that grace? Is that grace? But he says, "Beware, fear, lest any of you seem to come short of it, it's available, don't miss it". Now this is an interesting thing and we need to kind of retranslate a little bit here. Let me give you the translation of this phrase that closes out this verse, if any of you seem to come short of it. The translation that is the most accurate in terms of the Greek construction reads this way; Beware, lest you think you have come too late to enter into the rest of God. Did you get that? Beware, lest you think you've come too late to enter into the rest of God. In other words, they were in danger of kind of talking themselves out of it by the fact that it was too late, that their nation had forfeited it, that the Messiah had been killed and that they certainly, by this time, had forfeited all rights to rest and so he says don't get the idea that there's no rest remaining and that somehow you have seem to come short of it or that you have the attitude or idea that it's too late to enter into rest, there still remains a rest. This is God's today. Do you want to know something, friends?
Tonight I can stand here in 1972, whatever it is, April 23rd and I can say just the same thing; there's still rest remaining for you tonight. And don't you think for one moment, that it's too late for you to enter into it. You say, "But, oh yea, you don't know how bad I really am, I've probably gone too far". No, the Bible says there's a perfect rest available to you but this rest is not automatically yours, it's not automatically mine any more than Canaan was unconditional. It's ours by faith in Jesus Christ, if we believe. In Matthew chapter there's a very startling statement by Jesus. He said this, "Everyone that heareth these sayings of Mine and doeth them not shall be likened unto a foolish man who built his house upon the sand and the rains descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon the house and it fell, great was the fall of it". You see, there's the man who didn't listen and had a great fall. Jesus says don't miss grace, there remains a rest it's still available. Salvation is extended, this is the day of grace right now April the 23rd 1972, God's grace is offered to you tonight. He'll forgive your sin and you can enter in His rest. I don't know about tomorrow, I don't know if tomorrow will ever come but I know that today is still God's today. You say, "Well John, I'm too great a sinner to be forgiven". No you're not.
You're too great a sinner to be forgiven on a human level but you're just the kind that God likes to deal with. You see, unless you recognize your sin He can't get at you. Listen to what Paul said, I Timothy 1:15; "This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptance, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners". And then what did he say? "Of whom I am chief." Sure, I'm too much of a sinner to deserve salvation but I'm not too much of a sinner for the grace of God to handle. The Bible says, "He giveth more grace", how much is more?
More than you'll need. There's always more, always more. Romans chapter 5 verses ? to ? teaches the same truth; Matthew chapter ? verses 12 to 13 Jesus says, "I've come for the sick people who know they're sinners not the ones who think they're pious". I remember my dad telling me about a little boy who came into a prayer room one time and he came and said I want to receive Christ, he was fiveyears old and they said well let's pray and you can ask Jesus into your heart and this is how he began his prayer. "God, I don't know if You can save an awful sinner like me but if You can I want You to " Fiveyears old, an awful sinner like me. God can save even an awful sinner like that. I think of Jerry McCauley, a story I've read many times. Jerry McCauley was as debauched an individual as you can imagine. His children were starving because he was spending his money on alcohol and on one occasion his little girl died, a little baby girl of about 4 died of malnutrition and the mother took the little body and the neighbors gave some money to buy a little clothes and shoes for the baby to lie in the casket.
They put the baby in a mortuary in a casket. In the middle of the night McCauley broke into the mortuary, hard to believe, took the clothes off his dead baby and took them down to exchange them for a drink. Now that's how low that man had gone. Not too many months after that Jesus Christ reached down and got a hold of his life and he became one of the greatest preachers America ever knew. You see, you're never too far gone for God to deal with you. Don't you ever think that there's the possibility that you've fallen short. You let God worry about that. If your heart is still tender and you're still sensitive to what the Spirit of God is saying then when you're still sensitive, while you can still hear His call, now's the time to move.
God's rest is available and don't you think you've come short of it.
God still calls, rest is still available.
The second point; the basis of rest. Not only the availability but the basis, verses 2 to 7. You say, well if it's available, John, how do I get it? Three principles are involved; personal faith, sovereign decree and immediate action. Rest is available, number one, by personal faith. This is from our standpoint, verse 2. "For unto us was the good news preached", and gospel here is a poor translation we should translate this good news since it also has an Old Testament connotation and the word gospel sticks in our minds only in the sense of the New Testament. So we'll say, "For unto us was the good news preached as well as unto them", and by that it doesn't mean that they preached under the people of Israel the gospel of Jesus Christ, crucified and risen again, it just means that they got the good news about rest. "So unto us the good news of rest is preached and unto them it was preached but the word preached to them didn't profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it." It doesn't do a bit of good to hear if you don't believe, that's the whole point. The good news of the rest of God does not mean anything to anybody at anytime unless it is mixed with faith. And some people have the mistaken idea that they can become a Christian by entering the church by the process of osmosis. Hearing the gospel, knowing the gospel, being able to recite the gospel doesn't mean anything unless you believe it with your whole heart. That's the point. Israel heard the good news of salvation rest by faith, Israel had heard it all along they heard it as far back as Exodus chapter ?
verses 6 to ?, they heard God say believe Me and you'll be blessed and enter My rest. They knew what it was. They knew the good news of believing God and they will be saved. And we know it today. But it didn't do them any good because it wasn't mixed with faith, they didn't believe it. And in Numbers chapter 14 as we saw earlier, it tells us that the children of Israel came to the borders of the promised land, sent twelve spies into the land. One of them came back with the grasshopper complex and said we can't handle it, there's giants in that place we're like grasshoppers, let's get out of here. God had said don't worry about it, I'll handle it. They didn't believe God. Two of them came back, Joshua and Caliph said no problem, Lord, let's go. The people listened to the advice of the cowards and, therefore, were doomed to wander till their carcasses dropped in the wilderness and they never entered the promised land and that's what happens to people who don't believe, they don't experience God's rest. And it's just as simple as that. Rest is available by faith from our standpoint.
Now I want you to catch a little thought here that's very important In verse 2 it says the good news was preached. There's a very interesting construction here in the original that indicates to us that it's a completed work. The technical name for it, I'd tell you but you'd never remember it anyway. But it's the kind of construction in the Greek that means a completed work. In other words, they heard the good news totally. They didn't get a smattering of it, they knew it from front to back and there was no excuse for their unbelief. And I dare say the same thing can be said for today, they're some of you sitting there tonight and you've been coming.
And without that personal saving faith in Jesus Christ you can die tonight and go to hell. The same hell you'd go to if you never entered this church before. And the tragedy of it is that hell is going to be populated with people who are going to say, "Lord, Lord, we did this and we did that and we did it in Your name and we went to church and we went through the rigmarole and we took our kids to Sunday school", and He's going to say: "Depart from Me, I never knew you". Because all of their knowledge was not mixed with faith. Total saving faith.
Now you see, this is an important message for the Jew because the Jew prided himself on the fact that he had the information. He figured all I have to do is have the Law and I'm in, I don't have to worry about obeying it as long as I possess it. Which is ridiculous but in Romans chapter 2, listen to this argument, verse 25: "For circumcision verily profiteth, if you keep the law". The Jew was saying, well, we're circumcised, us, doesn't that get us automatically in? I mean, we're circumcised. Well, circumcision's good if you keep the Law. That's like the guy who went into the ring and before every fight he made the signs of the cross, you know. And one guy said, "Does it help?"
He says, "It does if you can fight." And the point is it doesn't do any good, it's like a cop that brings you over to the side of the road and he says, "You just went through three red lights, you were speeding", and you say, "I'm sorry, officer, you can't give me a ticket I have a copy of the California State Code of Laws, I own one, I own a book on how to drive, I'm sorry. I have all the information, I'm not responsible, you can't punish me I know the information." That doesn't mean anything. That makes you all the more responsible. And in Romans chapter 2, "Circumcision profiteth if you keep the Law: but if you're a breaker of the Law your circumcision is made uncircumcision." And they were rejoicing over the fact that they possessed the Law figuring that's all that matters, you know, we've got the Law. Paul says it doesn't mean anything if you don't obey it. Some people say, well, I go to church. That doesn't mean anything. Going to church doesn't make you a Christian anymore than a garage makes you a car. That doesn't have anything to do with it. The whole issue is faith, the whole issue isn't activity, it's faith. And unless the information is mixed with faith, it profits you nothing and you need to be aware because you may come short of rest. But when somebody hears the word and believes it then they're saved. In I Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 1, I love this, "For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was n in vain. We came to you and we preached", Paul goes on to say how we preached and how we were like a gentle nursing mother, we gave you the word and so forth, and then in verse 13 he says, "For this cause we thank God without ceasing", what are you so happy about Paul? "Because when you received the word of God you received it not as the word of men but as it is in truth, the word of God", watch this, "which effectually worketh in you that believe". See? The thing that Paul was happy about was not the fact that they had heard it but that it had begun to work in them because what? They believed. And over in II The second time he writes to them, he can't resist saying the same thing. Chapter 2 verse 13; "We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath chosen you from the beginning to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit", that's the sovereign side, "and belief of the truth". Paul was happy because they believed, that's the whole issue. James chapter 1 verse 21; "Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only", watch this one, "deceiving your own selves". It doesn't do a bit of good to hear it if you don't obey it. Some of you going for years and years to church, some of you for months, some of you for weeks, you've heard it all but your knowledge is unmixed with faith. I say to you what the Spirit said, "Beware".
Notice in verse three, he continues the argument for faith. "For we who have believed do enter into rest", that's simple. We who believe we enter into God's rest, we come into salvation experience by faith.
And the word here is a categorical word. It doesn't say we are entering into rest, we are on the way to rest it says we are in it. It's a positive. We who believe are in rest. That's a positional fact. Ever Christian is in rest. We all live in God's rest. That's just another word for total salvation. We all live in salvation experience by faith That's the positive. We believed we entered into rest. That's a categorical statement, positional truth. Then he says on the negative side, quoting back again Psalm ?5 which we saw is his text all the way through here, he quotes Psalm ?5 because Psalm 95 was David describing Israel in the wilderness and so he quotes from David's sermon, "As I have sworn in my wrath", now watch this translation, "they will not enter in My rest", the if should be a not later in the statement. I'll say it again. As I have sworn in My wrath, they shall not enter into My rest.
Here he quotes from Psalm ?5 and he says listen, we who believe enter into rest but they who do not believe God swears in His wrath they shall not enter into My rest. Now you can go back to chapter 3 verse 1 and hear the same thing. "I swore in My wrath they shall not enter My rest". You see, when you're dealing with God's attitude toward those who are unbelieving you're dealing with a very, very serious thing. And this verse simply tells us that we who believe enter into rest, they who don't believe fall prey to the wrath of God and forfeit rest eternally.
And I want to give you a little thought here. It says My rest.
This is God's rest. God's own rest and God's rest is not a rest of weariness or inactivity but a rest of finished work. God has finished His work. God has done it all and if you want to enter into the finished work of God it's available by faith.
Now God's rest, and here I want you to hang on to your seat, God's rest, use your brain, put on your thinking cap, God's rest began after His creation. You see, put it all together in six days, I believe six 24hour days, He put it all together. And once He had put it all together, He did what? He rested. And God said, "It's done, I've made a wonderful world for man and I've plopped him down there and I've given him a wife and everything is set, and I'm going to let him enjoy his relationship with Me". Adam was a saved man. Adam was walking and talking with God, he was at rest. He was at God's rest. He leaned on God. He had no anxieties, he had no worries, he had the complete freedom to fellowship with God while he was living in God's rest. God had finished His work and God rested. That's what it says in verse 3 at the end. "Although the works were finished from the foundations of the world. For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day from", this certain place is Genesis 2:1 ? 2, "and God did rest the seventh day from all His works." Now stay with me on this, you're going to have to use your brain for a minute. "My rest", verse 3, right? "My rest" verse 3 is defined as the rest when God finished His works and rested on the seventh day. That's it, right there, a definition. God' rest began right after the sixth day of creation. God was satisfied.
He was infinitely satisfied and He rested and He said Well, men, there's where you can enter into My rest, I made you a lovely world, you and I are going to get along, just fellowship from here on out, you can enjoy My rest and there was only one condition. What's always the condition for God's rest? One word, what is it? Faith, belief.
What happened? Did Adam and Eve believe God or did they believe Satan?
They believed Satan's lies, didn't they? Satan came down and started impugning the word of God and pretty soon Eve thought well, I don't know, that sure looks good maybe God's wrong. I'd like to be smart like that too and know good and evil. And Satan kept working on her and she disobeyed. And what happened? Immediately unbelief forfeited what? Rest. And you know what happened? Adam was restless. No longer did he walk and talk in the cool of the day, he started making clothes and hiding behind leaves, didn't he? Sneaking around with Eve trying to stay out of the sight of God. You see, what happened immediately unbelief brought the forfeiting of rest and it was over with. And God's great rest that He had provided for His creation, man was lost.
And do you know what the history of the Bible is and the history of man? It's the effort of God's part to get man back into His rest.
Now God had to do one other thing to make it available to man.
What was that? He had to accomplish the taking care of sin. And so the coming of Jesus Christ took care of the sin issue and through that death of Christ men may enter back into God's rest. And even the people who lived before Jesus were saved on the basis of what God was going to do through Christ, right? We who are saved on this side of the cross are saved on the basis of what God has done in Christ. But Christ bore sins past and future. So through Jesus Christ God's rest still continues and men may still enter His rest and the history of God's dealings with men were an attempt on God's part to get men to enter His rest of which Canaan was a symbol.
And so God finished His perfect work and men blew it. And man became restless because of unbelief. And verse 5 says, "And in this place again", they're quoting Psalm ?5, "they shall not enter into My rest."
God says because of unbelief man can't enter. God provided a rest on the seventh day and it's been going on ever since and the only people who ever enter into it are those who believe.
My friends, I believe that those people who sinned in the wandering in the wilderness not only forfeited Canaan but unless they exercised personal faith in God sometime through those forty years they forfeited eternal life of which Canaan was only a symbol. And so God swears because of unbelief men will not enter His rest.
So the first basis of rest is faith, the second one, quickly, is verse ?. The second basis of rest is divine or sovereign decree and this is the balance of salvation. I've taught many, many times on this and I'm sure you understand by now that you are saved by two things.
You're saved by your personal faith and because of the total and absolute sovereignty of God who chose you in Him before the foundation of the world. You're saved because He designed to redeem you before the world was ever created. That's what's known in the Bible as predestination, election and I believe in it absolutely and totally. But I also believe in personal faith and I believe Jesus put them both together in John 6 when He said, "No man cometh unto Me except the Father"
what? "Draw him", God does that but He also said this, "Him that cometh unto Me", what? "I will no ways cast out." There you have the balance of salvation. It's total and absolute sovereignty and it's personal faith and how the two meet, I don't know and I'll never know till I see God. That's His problem not mine. I'm just glad He said, "Whosoever willmay come." I'll let Him worry about how He justifies that with His absolute sovereignty. And so on the other side you have not only saving faith but you have divine decree, verse 6 "Seeing, therefore, it remains", what remains? "Rest, that some may enter into it but they to whom it was first preached because of unbelief. Do you see what happens here. Rest still remains. Why? God couldn't cut off rest. Do you know why? Because that would mean that God had started something that didn't have any purpose. He started rest, everybody blew it so He just threw it away. God doesn't do that. God isn't like you and me, He doesn't do things that doesn't matter. Did you get that? God didn't start rest for nothing and if God started a rest then somebody's going to enter that rest. That's exactly what it says.
There remaineth that rest where some must enter into it. Do you see?
God couldn't cut it off because He doesn't do things that don't matter.
And so when God established His rest and man lost it then God had to get into a recovery process through Christ to get some people back into it because He put it there for the purpose of fellowship with man and so He had to have somebody in it. And by divine decree there is a remnant throughout history, isn't there? Of believers. It's always a narrow way and it's always few who what? That find it. But some must enter into it. Why? Because God doesn't design things for no purpose. By sovereign decree He designed a rest and some are going to enter into that rest. God always has His remnant. Even among unbelieving Israel. In Romans 11:5, "Even so at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace". Some people don't like the word election. There it is. God has called out, selected a remnant to enter His rest and they enter it by personal faith.
So in order to understand how we enter rest we must know two things. First of all it's by personal faith, that's our part; secondly, it's by divine decree, that's God's part, right? Third thing, the third basis of rest is by immediate action, verse 7. "Again", oh ho watch this third word, "Again He", now what's the third word? "limits".
"God limits a certain day.' Listen, do you think the age of grace is forever? Oh no,"God limits a certain day, saying in David", that is now he's quoting Psalm ?5 again where David said it, "Today, after so long a time, as it is said, today, if you will hear His voice, harden not your hearts." Did you know that God limits the day of grace? Did you know that? And so you see the basis of entering into rest is number one, personal faith; two, divine decree; and three, immediate action. That's why the apostle Paul said, "Today is the day of salvation". Right now is God's today. And in Genesis chapter six God looked down on that civilization that He was ready to drown and it says in chapter ? of Genesis in verse 3, "The Lord said, My Spirit shall not always strive with man for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be onehundred and twenty years." We believe that that indication is that God was saying it's only going to be 12O years for man and then I'm going to wipe him out. God limits salvation.
This is God's today, right now. You see the word today, what does it mean? It means the day that salvation is offered. The day that rest is available. And so the Spirit of God is saying in verse 7, act immediately, today doesn't last forever. Life could end for some of you tonight. Jesus may come tonight. Your heart may come hard tonight The promise will end and rest is lost forever. This is an urgent cry.
That's why it's repeated four times prior to this even. Now the period of opportunity is called today. And I can say to you tonight with great joy in my heart, I don't know about tomorrow but I know that you can come to Jesus Christ right now, I know it. I know His arms are open and this is the day that rest is available. Don't delay, don't tempt God. So we see the availability of rest and the basis of rest.
Thirdly, the nature of rest and this is simple. The nature of rest. Now the rest that the Spirit is speaking of is not the physical rest of Canaan that's only a picture. If it were Canaan rest He were speaking of Joshua would have given them that because he got them into Canaan, that wasn't the issue. Verse ?, "For if Joshua", now some of your texts may read Jesus, Jesus and Joshua are the same name but it's obvious He was talking about Joshua here, "For if Joshua had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day."
Joshua even talked about another day when rest would come and if he had given them rest he wouldn't need to talk about another day of rest.
But they got in the land and they didn't experience, they may have experienced a partial, physical rest but God's talking about a spiritual rest. The true rest comes not through a Moses or a Joshua it comes not even through a David it comes through Jesus Christ. And so He says in verse ?, it's spiritual rest that He's talking about not Canaan rest, not physical. "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God." You know, there's one thing that all the cults always promised everybody and that's happiness and wealth and health and so forth in this life but that's never the promise of God, never.
God promises that His rest is spiritual not physical. Oh, there's a certain sense in which we enjoy it physically as we live in the heavenlies right here, but God's rest is future in it's fullness, present in it's manifestation. And yet it's spiritual, dominating spiritual, not physical. Some people who are experiencing the greatest amount of the rest of God are the busiest, hardest working, nonresting people from a physical standpoint imaginable. So the kind of rest that He's talking about is not Canaan, if that were the case Joshua would have given them that but he spoke of another day, another coming rest.
"There remains, therefore, a rest to the people of God." And I think by the term people of God you can take it generally and mean anybody who knows God but I think specifically it has in mind Israel. What he's saying is there is salvation for Israel, there is a rest remaining for the people of God and in the Old Testament Israel is called the people of God. And it's interesting in verse 10 he says, "For he that is entered into His rest, he also has ceased from his own works as God did from His." And here he uses a different word for rest, a word that means Sabbath rest and this refers to the full and final kind of rest, "Ceasing from all our labors." The nature of rest, then, what is it? It's spiritual. It's promised to Israel and I believe that God's not through with Israel until they come into rest. And, thirdly, in verse 10 it's future. There is a rest coming when we will cease from our works. You say, well, what does that mean? Let me read you a verse, are you ready for this? Revelation 14:13 says beautifully these words, "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto mewrite."
John grabs his pen, here I go. Here's what you are to write, John, listen; "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." Why? "Yea, said the Spirit, that they may", what? "Rest from their labors." I believe verse 10 is a reference to that final day when we cease from everything and enter into the presence of Jesus Christ. So you see the nature of rest involves a spiritual rest here, it involves a promised rest to Israel and that it's kind of pinpointing it to them to whom he's writing and it involves an ultimate sense when we shall se from all our works and rest completely as God did when He finished His creation. That's our Sabbath rest and that's the word sabbatismos that is used here, Sabbath rest.
So we see the nature of rest it has a present sense, it has a future sense, the kingdom to Israel, it has an ultimate sense, heaven as we experience it with Jesus Christ. So we see the availability of rest, the basis of rest and the nature of rest. Lastly, the urgency of rest, and this is a closing warning and I want you to hear it well.
Verse 11, "Let us labor, therefore, to enter into that rest lest any man fall or fail after the same example of unbelief." .
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The fourth point that we have to emphasize is the urgency of rest. And we begin by looking at verse 11 and we see that he says, "Let us labor", but we do not consider that to be working. The work means to make haste or work diligently. And the idea of this is simply that we would with intense purpose and intense concern enter into that rest. It's not the idea that you work your way to salvation, it's the idea that you diligently seek to enter God's rest by faith. This isn't something you play with, something you put off; this is something you move into rapidly, urgently with great diligence. And so you see what he's saying to them is enter into that lest you fall, like they did, through unbelief in the wilderness. They are the example he's talking about in verse 11, don't be like them, don't fall because of unbelief but you enter into that rest. So these Jews to whom he writes are at the point of renouncing their professed faith in Christ.
They're right up to the edge and they're in danger of falling back and he says don't do what your forefathers did, don't fall back as the generation did in Moses time and die in the wilderness but strive, make haste, hasten, give diligence to enter into rest while it's still available. You see, God can't be trifled with and that comes out in verse 12 in startling terms, "For the word of God". What is meant by the word of God? When God says something, He means it and God said, "I swear on My wrath by unbelief you will not enter My rest." It says here "the word of God is alive and it's powerful and it's sharper than any two edged sword, more piercing to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart." That's a great verse and we use it for many things. Let me tell you what it means in the context. He is saying you better give diligence to enter into God's rest because the word of God is living and powerful and it will pierce right down in the most inner part of your heart to see if you're really real or not. You can't trifle with God. God's word will penetrate your heart and see if you're for real. You may say well, I believe and I confess Jesus Christ but if you've never observed a real repentive saving faith, my friend, when judgment comes the word of God will cut you wide open and it will reveal the hypocrisy and the sham of your profession to Christ.
The word of God is alive. It's not a dead thing, something as dead as a dooropener, that's not the Bible and not the stated word of God. When God says something, He means it. The word of the Bible knows the condition of your heart and it will tell you whether your profession to Christ is a real one or a sham. It will show God and on that basis God will judge. Now we often take this verse and we use it to say isn't the word of God wonderful it's an instrument of salvation. That's great. Isn't the word of God wonderful, it's a tool of comfort to the soul and a source of joy and a source of food and I agree but right here in this verse the word of God is a source of terror cause that sword that penetrates in and cuts your innermost being and lays bare the thoughts and the intents if it discovers them to be sham then becomes a sword of execution. And if you want to see the sword of execution you can read about it in these words, Revelation 1:1?, "Jesus had in His mouth a sharp twoedged sword", 2:16, He said, "Repent or else I will come unto you and fight against them with the sword of My mouth." That's His words, that sharp twoedged sword and He will fight with them against those who do not obey.
And then a startling indication in Revelation 1?:1:15 says this, "And out of His mouth", here comes Christ in judgment, Rev. 1?, "out of His mouth came a sharp sword with it He shall smite the nations", verse 21, "And the remnant were slain with the sword of Him that sat upon the horse which sword proceeded out of His mouth." That's His word. The word of God is not only saving, it's not only comforting, it's not only feeding but it's the tool for execution. And some day in great judgment the word of God is going to dive into your heart and lay it bare and the sham and hypocrisy shall be revealed and though you made the profession the sword will not make a mistake.
And if the revelation is hypocrisy then that sword becomes a sword of execution.
We could say much more about that verse and we can in another context but what I wanted you to see is the penetrating judgment of the sword. Let me add that the word for sword here is machaira not the word rhomphaia which is the big broad sword but machaira, the dagger, the incisive dagger that can make the accurate cut in the accurate place. And God's word is penetrating and accurate and like a knife that can go in and thrust itself through the joints and the marrow so the sword of the word of God penetrates the innermost part of a man. And it becomes a discerner, in the Greek that's kritiko from which we get to analyze the facts, to be a critic. God moves in and begins to sift out and analyze a man's insides. He determines what His thoughts are and that's the word that means desires and what his intents are and that's the word that means his innermost attitudes. He lays bare the inside of man. And if He sees unbelief then the piercing sword becomes a judging sword.
Then in closing a powerful word in verse 13, because of the incisiveness and devastating power of the word of God verse 13 says this, "Neither", we should omit that probably and textually and read it, "And there is no creature that is not manifest in His sight:
but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do." And what that's saying is this, don't think that you can find a religious activity by your profession of faith in Christ by having turned from the old life and kind of facing toward Jesus Christ fool God into believing you're for real if you're not, you can't. Everything is open and naked before Him. The word means then all the disguises are ripped up, the facts are laid bare. God can see what you are. The phrase "opened unto the eyes of Him" is tremendously interesting because that word itself is very unique, it's rare and it's unique. Let me give you what it means. The word that is used here opened unto the eyes of Him all of the meaning of this is wrapped up in two little thoughts. It's a word used in connection with wrestling and it's used for a seizure and a pull by the throat in such a way that he can't move. And what it's saying is we can't run from God continually for there comes a time when God grabs us by the throat and holds us face to face. Sooner or later we face God. The second use of the word is in ancient times it was used in reference to a criminal.
And when a criminal was under judgment they would strap a dagger around him pointing upward and the reason was they didn't want his head bowed, they wanted him face to face with his accusers. That's the very word that is used here. And so both uses of the word have to do with a face to face death situation and when the Bible says all things in your life are opened to Him it means the very sword of God lifts your chin to a face to face confrontation with God. Dear one, don't you ever think for a minute that you're going to live your life the way you want to live it and God's not going to know and don't you ever think that you're going to live and go your way and never face God. You're going to face the living God.
You will face the living God whose word will penetrate and lay bare your heart and you will have to lift your head face to face to reveal openly and totally to Him. And therefore we conclude today we are to hear His words, harden not your hearts.


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A Pretty Strange Love Story
My lovely banner up there was made by the generous Marauder by Midnight... *stares adoringly* Bella is becoming a vampire, and Jacob can't stand it. Can Ang help him come to terms with it? Angela thinks that Bella will be the same after she is changed, but Jacob is convinced that she will be a monster. Who is right? And will Angela get to keep her best friend and her boyfriend? Oh, by the way, this is the sequel to A Not So Every Day Romance, so read that one first unless you want to be majorly confused. Go read the author's note... big, plot changing edits! DISCLAIMER: I don't own anything from Twilight.
Sequel to A Not So Every Day Romance
1. Something Unexpected
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I raced down the stairs to answer the knock at the door. Alice stood on the stoop, graceful even in absolute stillness.
"Oh, hi Alice. What's up?" I asked breathlessly.
"We need your help. Would you mind coming with me?" Alice's pixie-like face looked worried.
"Uh, sure. What's wrong?" I stammered. Why would a houseful of super strong vampires need my help?
"Good. Close your eyes, we're running. We don't have time to drive." Alice's granite arms swept me up and threw me over her shoulder as gently as she could, and then, we were off.
It felt kind of like flying. Then, all too soon, it came to an end.
"Open your eyes." Alice's voice, suddenly harsh, demanded.
I was not expecting what I saw. Five wolves stood in a circle, surrounding one. It was russet colored, and had dark brown, friendly eyes that I would know anywhere.
"Jake!" I heard my voice wheeze.
The wolf's head snapped around, and looked straight at me. Then, he went back to pacing around the circle. Then, suddenly, he lunged at one of the others.
The largest one jumped in front, and bore him to the ground.
"What-what's going on?" I demanded, asking anyone who would answer me. To my surprise, it was Bella's voice who answered me.
"He freaked out when Sam decided to let Edward change me. He's been doing this since dawn." Bella's voice dripped with anger, but also with compassion.
Edward walked up behind her, and draped an arm over her shoulder, his jaw clenched angrily. "We would be-in your debt, if you could calm him down. The do-" He stopped at Bella's glare, "Sam, said if anyone could convince him, you could."
I stared at them, then over at the circle of wolves.
"Jacob William Black! What are you doing?" I shouted.
The russet wolf's head swung around, and he growled in my direction.
Before, that would have terrified me, but by now, almost two months after I had discovered that he was a werewolf, I just grew angry.
I guess it's a good thing that Bella's transformation was put off. Otherwise I'd be running scared right now.
Originally, Bella was going to be changed immediately, the night the decision was reached, but Alice had another vision, this one showing another catastrophe had befallen someplace called, Vol-something, Volti- no, Volter, Volterra, yes, Volterra, and the Volturi had to deal with it before they could come after Bella and the Cullens.
Anyway, the change had been scheduled for this morning, but it obviously couldn't happen while Jacob and the other members of the Pack were outside.
"Change back," I demanded, having come a long way from the trembling mess I used to become whenever he phased.
He growled again, and leapt over the shortest wolf's head -- Paul, I thought, and came to rest near me. Sam -- the biggest wolf -- roared, and grabbed Jake by the scruff of the neck, yanking him back toward the circle.
I walked carefully towards the circle myself; I was braver, but not stupid. Those wolves could crush me with one paw.
I tapped who I thought was Embry on the shoulder of his forepaws, and said, "Excuse me. I think I'm going to need to get a little closer."
Embry swung toward Sam's regal form, then stepped aside. Sam must have told him it was ok through their mind-link.
I walked through the mass of furry bodies to my werewolf. Jacob Black, my boyfriend of almost a year, Quiluete werewolf.
"Jake," I murmured, "What are you doing?" I knelt by his side and immediately felt dwarfed by his towering form.
I stroked the silky fur on his back, not knowing how to accomplish what I wanted to do.
"Come on. Let's go for a walk." I stood, and started towards the forest. When he didn't move, I sighed.
"Are you really going to let me go into the woods alone? What if I get eaten by a wild animal?" I purposely kept moving, and soon felt his presence behind me.
"Change back, I can't carry on a conversation with a wolf."
He snorted, and in a moment a half clad young man stood before me. He had been letting his hair grow out since last year, and now it nearly reached his shoulders, and he had grown a few more inches, reaching 6'7. Other than that he was the same Jacob I had met at the movies on that fateful night.
He had a sullen expression on his face, somehow managing to look livid as well.
"Angela, I can't let them do this! Bella is my best friend … I can't let them turn her into a monster!" He was practically yelling by the end of his sentence.
"Jake, the Cullens are no more monsters than you are. Well, Rosalie and Jasper are pretty scary, but really, they aren't monsters. And Bella won't be one either."
"How do you know?" He sounded desperate, like his life was hanging on the answer.
"Because I know Bella. She's kind, and loving, and funny, and this is what she wants. Who are you to tell her what she can and cannot do with her life? It's hers. And you know what? If she doesn't get changed, she's going to be miserable. And that would be your fault. Could you deal with that?"
Jacob's face was torn with indecision. I could tell that this was hurting him, coming close to causing him physical pain.
I patted the log I was sitting on, signaling for him to join me. He sat, and I wrapped my arms around his torso.
"It's going to be a change," I admitted. "Bella is my best friend too, remember? We won't be able to be around her for a while, but we'll see her again. And she'll be the same old Bella."
"You don't know that," he said quietly.
"Not for sure," I agreed. "But I'm going to keep thinking that until I'm proven wrong. Now, let's go apologize for holding things up, and you have some serious groveling to do."
At his confused expression, I raised an eyebrow. "Your brothers? You were attacking them."
Jake shrugged. "They'll get over it. None of them have any room to talk. They've all done some stupid things too."
He stood, and laced his fingers through mine. "As long as I don't have to stay and watch."
"I don't think we'd be allowed if we wanted to. Come on."
The vampires and werewolves had formed two circles when we returned, as far away from each other as they could get. Bella sat with the vampires, looking disappointed and sad.
They all looked up as we approached, taking heart in the fact that we were holding hands and Jake looked human.
He looked toward his brothers. "Let's go home."
Bella rushed towards me and hugged me tightly. "Thank you so much. I'll see you as soon as I can."
I smiled, and nodded. I knew my friend would be around when I needed her.
Then she turned to Jake. "It'll be ok, I promise." She said, hugging him tightly as well.
He pulled away, looking upset again. Edward growled menacingly in the back of his throat, and I took an involuntary step back.
"Bye Bella. See you soon." I said, beginning to pull Jacob away.
She raised a hand in farewell, then turned away and began walking towards the house, hand in hand with Edward.
This will most likely be the last time I see her as a human. I realized, and smiled. Oh well, she would be the same when I saw her next.
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It's almost December, and the Jaguars have their first home win of the season.
They also have a huge question to answer at quarterback.
Replacement Chad Henne overcame a pick on his first pass attempt to lead the Jags to a 24-19 win over the Titans. The Jags had been 0-5 at home this season, losing by an average of nearly 22 points per game.
It would be an overstatement to say Henne was sharp, but he was able to do things injured 2011 first-round pick Blaine Gabbert had not — namely, throw downfield. He took seven sacks, but threw for 261 yards and a pair of touchdowns.
They were talking about him having a chance to be next year's starter if he performed well, but let's be honest, the Titans didn't get to be 30th in the league in defense by accident. Henne would have to have this game five more times to be fairly considered an answer, and he's not going to get to play the Titans every week. Gabbert, on the other hand, has shown nothing to indicate he deserves more chances to make the job his own when he's well again.
The Jaguars (2-9) played like a team that hadn't quit on coach Mike Mularkey. They didn't play particularly well, but after what they had forced their home market to watch this season, it was a pleasant surprise.


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Naomie Harris grateful for privacy despite Skyfall smash
SKYFALL beauty NAOMIE HARRIS is convinced she has reached the "perfect" level of fame because she has managed to escape the paparazzi radar despite the huge box office success of the latest JAMES BOND film.
The British actress, who plays secret agent Eve in the new 007 spy caper, admits she's been lucky to star in one of the biggest movies in British box office history and still get to live her life in peace away from the spotlight.
She tells U.S. news show Access Hollywood, "Skyfall opened in London and... it had the highest grossing week of all time, and so I'd imagined there would be paparazzi all outside my door, I was gonna be followed down the street...
"I went to (famous London shopping district) Oxford Street, I was shopping in (high-end department store) Selfridges, nobody recognised me, nobody at all. So I get to do this career that I love and I get to have my normal life as well, which is perfect."


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WASHINGTON — Undercover federal investigators discovered that it was surprisingly easy to cheat on random drug tests designed to catch truck drivers who use drugs, NBC News has learned.
Undercover investigators with the Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, used bogus truck driver's licenses to gain access to 24 drug-testing sites. They found that 75 percent "failed to restrict access to items that could be used to adulterate or dilute the [urine] specimen, meaning that running water, soap, or air freshener was available in the bathroom during the test."
The GAO team also bought drug-masking products over the Web and was able to mix them with real specimens at the drug-testing sites "without being caught by site collectors," the agency said in a report scheduled to be made public Thursday.
Drug-screening labs never realized that there was a problem. "Every drug masking product went undetected by the drug screening labs," said the report, a copy of which was obtained by NBC News.
DOT cites drop in road deaths
A spokeswoman for the Transportation Department, which requires motor carriers to test their employees and sets the regulations for collections, said driver errors, not drug use, caused most accidents.
"Our efforts on this front have been critical in helping us reduce the number of large truck fatalities by nearly 5 percent last year — the largest decline in four years," said the spokeswoman.
But Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, who asked GAO to investigate, said the report was "frankly astonishing and shocking and dismaying. You can manipulate the tests, you can mask substance abuse and go undetected on the roadways."
Oberstar, who planned to hold a hearing Thursday, said the drug-testing system was broken and was placing other drivers in danger.
"It fails, it is not sufficient, it is not protecting the public interest," he said.
How many are cheating?
The Transportation Department estimates that fewer than 2 percent of truck drivers test positive each year for controlled substances in random federal tests. But when Oregon law enforcement officials conducted their own random tests this year, 9 percent of truck drivers tested positive.
Dozens of products widely available on the Web are marketed to truckers as fail-safe ways to defeat the mandatory drug tests.
"My first reaction was total disbelief. I just felt sick," said Kathleen Ellsbury, whose husband, Tony Qamar, was killed two years ago when a truck driver in Washington state lost his load of logs on a curve, crushing the car he was riding in. Also killed was Qamar's colleague, Daniel Johnson, who was driving the car.
Ellsbury learned later that the truck driver, who was sentenced to 4½ years in prison for vehicular homicide, had previously been convicted of possessing methamphetamines and had meth in his blood at the time of the crash.
"The system has big holes, let's say that," said Ellsbury, who said she had a message for truck drivers who might be tempted to cheat: "I'd like to be standing right outside the bathroom and hold up a picture of my husband — remind them there's consequences."
Truckers promise to do better
Spokesmen for the trucking industry said truck drivers were among the safest drivers on the road, with much lower rates of drug use than the general population. Still, they said, having roughly 30,000 drivers test positive each year was unacceptable.
Transportation Department spokeswoman Melissa Delaney, while blaming "commercial and passenger driver errors" for most highway deaths, said the department was continuing to "work with our state law enforcement partners to aggressively ensure trucking companies comply with our regulations, including drug and alcohol enforcement."
"In 2006 alone, this combined federal and state effort led to more than 5,000 enforcement cases that resulted in more than $19 million in fines and 1,035 companies being taken out of service," she said.
Lisa Myers is chief investigative correspondent and Richard Gardella is an investigative producer for NBC News.


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I've been trying to install Ubuntu on some unallocated space, but I'm getting confused with the manual partition setup. I didn't want to try the other options for it suggested that everything on my drive would be erased (but I might be wrong)
I have an old(ish) laptop with a 60GB hard-drive. Theres a Windows 7 partition of 30GB, followed by 20GB of unallocated space, then HP's Windows recovery partition of under 10GB.
Do I need to format the empty space in windows first? What's the recommended method in this case?


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Enter the Fort!
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During that time he had a bulletin board system which could be accessed by his subscribers. This was called Fort Freedom.
I first made contact with it on November 18, 1988 (see Responses to Fort Freedom) - 8 years ago, almost to the day of my writing this (November 20, 1996)! Anyway, because I had to make an expensive overseas telephone call to access Fort Freedom, I arranged with Prof. Beckmann to send me the contents of Fort Freedom on disk. I received that in February 1989. I had ideas that I might set up an Australian copy of it - but it never happened. Until now - when I have been able to put it on the Internet. So this is Fort Freedom, as it was in 1989.
I have not changed the contents at all (except for eliminating original bulletin board specifics such as instructions on which key to press). Formatting has been preserved, except for the addition of some hypertext links to other areas in the Fort where there were orginally keystroke instructions. The original documents had banners with the title encased in angle brackets; these have been changed to square brackets to avoid confusing some browsers. My article Greenhouse Hokum has had hypertext links to the footnotes added (and that gives me an excuse to mention it here! You can buy a later edition, with graphics and charts, from here - look under "View Our Booklist").
Because this information is presented as it was then, it will not be updated. I am unable to enter into discussions
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How Homosexual Was Tchaikovsky? by Petr Beckmann.
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: http://www.co2science.org/
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Global Warming Information Page: http://www.globalwarming.org/
Health Physics Society: http://www.hps.org/
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Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (Art Robinson): http://www.oism.org/
Population Research Institute (Stephen W. Mosher): http://www.pop.org/
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Still Waiting for Greenhouse: http://www.john-daly.com/
The Canadian Nuclear FAQ (Jeremy Whitlock): http://www.nuclearfaq.ca/
The Science & Environmental Policy Project (S. Fred Singer): http://www.sepp.org/
The Heartland Institute: http://www.heartland.org/
Writings by Julian L. Simon: http://www.juliansimon.org/
The Underground Grammarian (Richard Mitchell): http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/