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Let's open our Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 6...1 Timothy chapter 6. We're going back this morning to the text from last week. I really just want to expand on it. I didn't get to say everything I wanted to say last Lord's day, which is not an uncommon phenomena for me. We covered verses 6 through 10, this matter of the danger of loving money. And afterwards, several people inquired of me, even to the point of writing me letters, about how to avoid that, how do you set yourself in a spiritual position not to be victimized by the love of money.
Let's look at verse 10 just to establish a starting point. The Apostle Paul says, "For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil which some coveted after, they have erred from the faith and pierced themselves through with many severe griefs, or sorrows." And we talked last time about the danger of loving money. What I would like to do this morning is just to follow that up a little bit and talk to you about how to avoid loving money, how to avoid loving money. And the best text for that is just to leave 1 Timothy and let's go to the sixth chapter of Matthew. And I want to draw us back to this wonderful portion of the Sermon on the Mount to the teaching of our Lord Jesus and have us look at verses 19 through verse 34, the end of the chapter. And in so doing come to grips with the very basic elementary teaching of our Lord on how to live a life that is not preoccupied with affection for the material.
Now in looking at Matthew 6:19 to 34, we have a very practical portion of Scripture which our Lord outlines for us. He gives principles to eliminate the love of money, principles to remove our affection from moving in that direction. There are four of them. Let me suggest them to you at the outset and then we'll look at them individually. First of all the Lord says in order to avoid love of money you must have the proper treasury. Secondly, you must have the proper vision. Thirdly, you must have the proper allegiance. And fourthly, the proper confidence.
Let's look first of all at the proper treasury, beginning in verse 19 and reading through verse 21. "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal; for where your treasure is there will your heart be also."
Our Lord is saying your perspective must include the proper treasury. In other words, where do you put your deposits? Where do you invest? Where do you put your money? The principle simply stated in verse 19 is treasure not up for yourselves treasure. It's the Greek verb from which the English word "thesaurus" comes from which has to do with a treasury of words. The word means to lay aside, to store, to horde, to keep, to actually stack up. In fact if you look at some of the lexicons it indicates that it has to do with a vertical stacking rather than a horizontal kind of stacking. It's an interesting word. And what the Lord is saying is this, He's not forbidding us from earning money. He's not forbidding us from keeping money for good purposes. He is forbidding us from storing money to be wasted on self indulgence. That's the whole issue here. That when you perceive life as mainly involving the gaining of money to be stored and then used for your own indulgence, you have a wrong perspective. The key words here are the words "for yourselves." You might underline that or make a note of it in your mind because that's the issue. He doesn't say, "Lay not up treasures on earth," He says, "Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth."
John Wesley himself said, "I have three great principles when it comes to money. Principle number one, earn as much as you can. Principle number two, save as much as you can. Principle number three, in order that you may give to God as much as you can." It is never a question of how much you have, it's always a question of what you're going to do with it. And the key here is "for yourselves."
Somebody said there's no smaller package than a man wrapped up in himself. Very true. The sin here is not earning money, the sin is not even saving money. The book of Proverbs tells us to save money and Jesus in a parable said you would have been better to have put your money in the bank and earned interest on it. The issue here is the accumulation of wealth for self indulgence, that's the issue. Extravagant luxury with hard heartedness toward the cause of God, materialism in a word. A sinful habit that is very hard to break and very prevalent in our society. The Lord never condemns money itself. The Lord never condemns the possession of money. In fact it is God who gives you the power to get wealth, it says in Deuteronomy 8. And it is God who has made men wealthy and made other men to be poor. It is God, it says in 1 Timothy 6:17, who gives us all things richly to enjoy. It was rich Abraham who was called in James 2:23 and in the Old Testament, the friend of God. It was Job who was made wealthier than he had ever been by God. The New Testament even extols diligence in business, Romans 12:11. It extols providing wealth for our households, 1 Timothy 5:8. And so there's no question that God allows and even grants a certain amount of wealth to people.
The sin comes in where you put that. If you invest it in the kingdom of heaven, you've made the right choice. If you invest it in self, you've made the wrong one. So in verse 20 He says, "Lay up for yourselves treasure in heaven." And again the key is "for yourselves."
What do you mean by that? How can I be giving money to God, investing in eternity and have it reap dividends for me? Well that's the whole point, that's exactly what it does. That is exactly what it does. And I'll show you how as we go along. You lay up for yourselves treasures on earth and they will remain here. You lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven and they'll be there to greet you when you arrive. But we tend, don't we, to horde things for ourselves, like the farmer who said I have two calves, one I'm going to grow for myself to feed the family, one I'm going to grow and sell and give the money to the Lord. And some months later came in to announce to his wife a terrible thing has happened, the Lord's calf died.
Well that's a rather arbitrary choice, isn't it? But that's pretty typical of so much of our thinking. Make your fortune but store it in the right treasury. That's the issue. A proper treasury where it will be drawing eternal dividends. All our efforts and all our gifts to the Lord's work to advance His Kingdom and glorify His name constitute heavenly treasury.
Look with me for a moment at Luke 16 verse 9, a quite interesting statement is made here, Luke 16:9. And we could really deal with this entire passage, it's so germane to the subject. But verse 9 for now, "I say unto you, says the Lord, Make to yourselves friends by means of the money of unrighteousness that when it fails they may receive you into everlasting habitations." That is a very unusual verse...very unusual. It's even hard to understand at the outset. Money is unrighteous in the sense that it is not righteous, it has no righteous property inherent in it. He says take your money which is basically unrighteous, or maybe a better way to say it would be nonrighteous, and use it to make for yourselves friends.
You say, "You've got to be kidding me. You mean the Bible is saying take your money and buy friendships?" That's right. "What kind of friendships?" Friendships that when your money fails they will receive you into everlasting habitation. The best understanding of this verse is simply this, invest your money in the souls of men and women who will some day greet you in heaven with thanksgiving when you arrive. What a thought. What an incredible thought...to take your money and purchase eternal friendships by investing in the Kingdom. What you keep, you lose. What you give to God you keep forever. And that's why Paul writes to the Colossians and says, "Set your affections on...what?...things above and not on things on the earth."
And He says further, let's go back to Matthew 6, that if you do lay up treasure on earth, you're going to run into problems. Let me give it to you very simply, in ancient Palestine treasure basically came in three forms. One was garments, your clothes; two was grain, your crop; three was gold. That's basically it. Garments, your clothing; grain, your crops; and gold, your monetary fortune. He says regarding your garments, "Moths eat them." Regarding your grain, the word "rust" is a poor translation really of brosis, the word literally means eating. It's never used to be a reflective of rust, it has reference to rats or other things that eat stored grain. So He says, first of all, moths will eat your clothes and then rats will eat your grain and then thieves will steal your gold. The word for thieves is interesting, mud diggers. Most of the houses were made out of mud and so a thief was somebody who dug a hole in a mud wall. They'll break in and steal.
So if you put your fortune in worldly things, it is subject to worldly corruption. We say, "Ha, but I'm covered, I have moth balls, rat poison and burglar alarms. And there's no way they can get at me." Yeah, well as I said last week, you've never seen a hearse pulling a UHaul. There will come a time when it all ends and you're not taking it with you.
The major thing that He wants us to consider is in verse 21. He says in verse 20, there are no need for moth balls in heaven, there is no eating that can corrupt what you've laid aside and there are no thieves, but the real issue in verse 21 is, wherever you put your treasure, that's what? That's exactly where your heart is. Show me a man's checkbook and I'll tell you where his heart is. Just let me see the list of where he writes his checks and I'll tell you where his heart is. Pretty simple because wherever his treasure is, that's where his heart is. And rather than give away what you have to purposeless consumption and indulgence in this world, Jesus says give to the Lord that you may place your heart where your fortune is and that is in the matters concerning His Kingdom.
Where's your treasury? That's the question. If you love money, it's here. If you love God more than you love money, it's there. Very simple.
Secondly, to avoid the love of money you not only must have the proper treasury but the proper vision and they go along with each other. Verse 22, "The lamp of the body is the eye," that is it is that organ of the body which lets light in. "If therefore thine eye be healthy, thy whole body shall be full of light; but if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness?"
Now what is He saying here? Let me give it to you simply. Just as your eye effects your physical perception, so where you fix your heart determines your spiritual perception. In other words, a seeing eye floods the body with light, you see, you are filled with light, light is everywhere, your eyes can capture it. And so it is with a spiritually clear eye that has its focus on the kingdom of heaven, it has a heavenly vision of treasure and therefore spiritually is lighted. The heart that is set on godly things is lighted, it is lit with spiritual sight. Blind eyes bring only darkness. An earthly perspective, an earthly vision that is selfish and indulgent plunges one into spiritual darkness.
The point is this, if your focus is continually on money and on accumulation and on materialism and selfindulgence, you will be blind to spiritual reality. Your spiritual eyes are dark, your vision is clouded and it is a severe darkness, it says at the end of verse 23...a severe one. Greedy people become blind to spiritual reality. They can't see spiritual reality. They can't see spiritual need. They can't see the joy of spiritual investment. Their focus is really on the wrong thing and they therefore become blind.
The word "healthy," just as a note, in verse 22, the Authorized says, "If your eye is healthy," is actually the word that is translated at least three places I found in the New Testament by the word "generous...generous." And so this tells us really what he means here. The word for "evil" in verse 23, poneros is used in the Septuagint, Deuteronomy 15:9 and translated there with the idea of grudging, or ungenerous. So what he is saying is if you are characteristically generous in putting your treasure in heaven, you're going to see clearly spiritually. If you are characteristically ungenerous and put your money in your own selfindulgence in the world, you are going to be characteristically blind. Generosity forms a clear understanding of life, grudging selfishness distorts everything and it distorts the spiritual dimension most of all. So the call here is for a heavenly vision. And a heavenly vision is a corollary to a generous heart.
So, first of all, if we're going to be free from the love of money we want to make sure we've chosen the right place to invest, and secondly, we want to make sure we have a perception of spiritual reality and that our viewpoint is that which pertains to the kingdom of God not to self. One who is consumed with his own self aggrandizement becomes blind to the things of God and if we can sharpen our focus on the Lord and on His Kingdom, then we can really see spiritually.
So avoiding loving money requires having the right treasury and the right vision. Thirdly, and this is so important, the right allegiance...the right allegiance. And these really run parallel to each other. Verse 24, "No man...and that's inclusive, no man....can serve...what?...two masters." It's impossible, that is axiomatic, it is impossible. "Either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other." And so the conclusion is you can't serve God and at the same time serve money. So the love of money is exclusive and therefore eliminates the love of God. On the other hand, to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength is then to set aside the love of money. You must have the proper allegiance. You ask yourself the question: do I love God or do I love money?
John Calvin said, "Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority." That's true. Because where riches hold the dominion of the heart, when the Spirit of God prompts someone to give money to the Kingdom to invest in the Kingdom, the person resists that in selfindulgent prideful protection of his own investments and therefore the authority of God in that life is blunted and ignored.
On the other hand, M.E. Bern(?) wrote in that lovely hymn, "Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise, Thou my inheritance now and always." Jesus first in my heart, he said. You see, the orders you get from God and the orders you get from self indulgent love of money are diametrically opposite. One commands you to walk by faith, the other to walk by sight. One calls you to be humble, the other to be proud. One to set your affection on things above, the other to set your affection on things on the earth. One to look at things unseen and eternal, the other to look at things seen and temporal. One to have your conversation in heaven, the other to cleave to the dust. One to be careful for nothing, the other to have all anxiety. One to be content with such as you have, the other to enlarge your desires as big as hell. One to be ready to distribute, the other withhold. One to look at the things of others, the other to look at your own things. One to sing...to seek happiness in the creator, the other to seek happiness in the creature. They're mutually exclusive and so you have to determine your allegiance.
The love of money is inseparably related to where your treasury is, what your vision is, and to whom your allegiance is given. The safest place, by the way, I feel, for my money is in God's hands. You feel that way? He's the safest steward of all. And sadly we live in a world that is gone mad over the matter of accumulation, for selfish purposes, indulging itself under the illusion that that brings happiness, joy, peace and contentment. It doesn't. Contentment comes from being attached to the right master...the right master.
After all...have you thought about this?...who owns everything? Class? God...thank you. Who owns everything? God owns everything. That's good. The earth, Psalm 24:1 says, belongs to God. Anything in the world is His. First Chronicles 29:11 says, "Everything in the heavens and earth is yours, O Lord." It all belongs to Him. I was reading John Wesley some years ago. His house burned down. And he said simply this, "The Lord's house burned, that's one less responsibility for me." That's the spirit.
Do you realize that there's only really been one nation in the history of the world that understood the proper relationship to possessions and that was the nation Israel? Because they understood that God owned everything, that God owned everything. They were a theocracy and God owned everything. They were just managing it as a point of stewardship by which they could be spiritually evaluated. But God owned everything. We are victims not of a legacy of the culture of the Old Testament but of the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans who believed they owned everything and that mentality dominates us.
Not only does God own everything, He controls everything. He controls everything. First Chronicles 29 again 11 and 12 says, in effect, that God controls everything. Therefore if God owns everything and God controls everything, then God provides everything. Is that not so? Everything we have...absolutely everything that we have is given to us by God. There is nothing that we possess, even the most mundane things of life that God has not allowed us to possess. For believers particularly, Luke 12:31, "Seek ye the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added to you....Fear not, little flock, it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom so sell what you have, give alms, provide yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in the heavens that fails not, where no thief approaches, neither moth corrupts, for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Basically the same ideas with the added thought that you can give it all away because God is in charge of providing what you need.
The point is, beloved, we don't have to control our destiny. We don't have to control everything. We can't say, "Boy, I dare not give that to God because what's going to happen to me in the future," etc., etc. If the Spirit of God prompts your heart, respond to the Spirit of God with the confidence that God owns everything, God controls everything and God promises to provide everything needed by His own. If God gave you life, God will sustain that life, won't He? So we're anchored to that confidence.
As World War II was coming to a close, the allied armies gathered many of the hungry orphans that were left as a result of the war. They were placed in camps and they were well fed. Despite excellent care, they found that these children couldn't sleep. They seemed nervous and afraid and they would stay awake all night with insomnia starring at the ceiling. Finally somebody came in to try to figure out what was going on. They came up with a solution. Every night before the children were put in bed, they were given a little piece of bread to hold in their hand and they went to sleep clutching this little piece of bread.
You say, "What was the point?" The point was they had lived so long existing without food in hunger that they couldn't sleep for fear that they wouldn't be able to eat the next day. But once they put a little piece of bread in their hand and they knew the next day was secure, they could sleep. It's as if when God gives us the promise, "Fear not, little flock, it's your Father's good pleasure to give you the Kingdom," He puts a little piece of bread in our hands and says go to sleep. What are you worried about? What are you worried about?
And that brings us to the fourth point and the final point in avoiding the love of money and this one stretches through the rest of the text, it demands that you have a proper confidence. Not only the right treasury and vision and the right allegiance but the right confidence built on who your God is. Verse 25, "Therefore...and you know what the therefore's there for, it's a transition...because of what you have just heard, having the right treasury and the right vision and the right allegiance, therefore with those things in place I say to you, stop worrying, don't be anxious...don't be anxious." Verse 31, "Don't be anxious." Verse 34, "Don't be anxious." He says it three times. You get the feeling that they were...what?...anxious...very good. They were excessively worried about things they ought not to have been worried about at all.
Now what is it He says? "I say unto you," by the way, He says stop being anxious in this verse, the form of the Greek, don't start being anxious in verse 31, so He hits it from both angles. But He says, "Don't be anxious for your life." psuche, your physical earthly life. Don't be anxious for your physical life. Don't worry about that. Because, you see, people are going to say, "Well I'd love to give to the Kingdom and I'd love to open my spiritual eyes and have that perspective, and I would love to have this allegiance that invests in the glory of my God who is my Lord, I want that, but I'm concerned about providing for myself..." and so forth and so on. Now it's not a question of giving away what you need to live. It's a question of that stock piling mentality that says I'm amassing my fortune to cover all my bases. And when the Spirit of God prompts your heart to give, you don't do it and you're disobedient to that authority because you feel you have to have it to indulge yourself in whatever way you've decided.
But what our Lord is saying is since heavenly treasure fully satisfies and sets the heart in the right place, since generous giving brings mental, moral, spiritual vision and since allegiance to the Lord puts us under His loving authority and care, therefore we can have confidence and not worry about our physical life. Don't be preoccupied with that. Even the basic necessities of life are in God's control.
Now you remember in Timothy, the text basically said that man was to provide for his household, if he didn't do that he was worse than an infidel. And you remember also that we are to be content with the basic necessities of life, be content..the Scripture says...with such things as you have. That's the idea. And anything beyond that, God may want us to save for future use in His Kingdom, God may want us to give to someone in need, God may want us to invest in the Kingdom, God may want us to do all kinds of things, we want to be responsive to whatever He asks without fear because we have the confidence that we're under His care. That's living by faith.
Now what are the things He refers to here? The necessities, food, water, and clothes. Now if you lived in Palestine at that time you would realize that that's basically what occupied most people's life...the pursuit of food, the pursuit of water and the pursuit of clothing. They were into the basic necessities of life. He says you shouldn't worry about this and let me show you why.
Number one, the first reason you don't worry about this is because you have confidence in your Father. That kind of anxiety is unnecessary because of who your Father is. And He promises to take care of these necessities. First of all, food...He says in verse 25, "Don't be anxious for your life, that is the physical part, what you eat, what you drink, nor yet for your body what you shall put on. Isn't life more than food and isn't the body more than its clothing?" In other words, don't get preoccupied with mundane things...material things. Boy, that seems so obscure to us and so hard to interpret and understand because we're so locked in to that kind of preoccupation.
But first of all, in verse 26 here's why you don't worry about food. Here's why you don't worry about it. "He says, Behold the fowls of the air," it's very likely that they might have been flying by at that very moment, there is obviously to anyone who knows any of the history of Israel a very very prominent place given to birds. In fact, one ancient assessment was that it was the crossroads of bird migration, that is Galilee was. Sowing in the field brought birds to eat the seed, and so maybe there were some birds flying by. And He says, "The fowls of the air, they don't sow...they don't sow, they don't reap, they don't gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them." And then there's an ????? ????? argument which says from the lesser to the greater, "Are you not much better than they?" What are you worried about? Ever see a bird lying on its back saying, "Woe is me, I'm starving?" God cares for them.
The Scripture emphasizes this. Job 38:41, "Who provides for the ravens his food?" Psalm 104, "So is this great and wide sea wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts, these wait all upon Thee that Thou mayest give them their food in due season." God feeds all the created world and will He not feed you? Are you not better than they? Much better than they?
Now this is not an excuse for idleness. You don't see the birds lining up at some Godcentered distribution point. They do their work. They don't sit on the branch waiting for food to drop in their beak, they search for it. They gather insects and worms, they prepare their nest, they care for their young, they teach them to fly and pursue their own food. And so it is with man. We do our work. In fact, the Scripture says in 2 Thessalonians if you don't work you shouldn't...what?...eat. So there's work to do but the provision is made by God. And to say that God will provide your food is to say also that God will provide a means for you to earn your food. And that's the promise. Our Lord's argument from the lesser to the greater. Birds don't overdo a good thing like the rich fool, they don't build barns and keep more than they need. They don't store up, stock up, and add to what they already have unnecessarily. They simply gather enough and they're satisfied. No stock piling, no stuffing, no hording and that's what the Lord is saying. The birds can't plan ahead, they have no reason to worry. You have no reason to worry either, you're more important than they are. Are you not more valuable than them? What a beautiful thought.
So that frees me. Does that free you? I'm not worried about my future. People say to me all the time, "What are you doing for your retirement?" My first answer to that is, "What retirement?" You mean when I stop preaching? That will happen when I don't have a voice. What do you mean what am I doing for my retirement? You mean when I get to the point where I don't have anything to do but sit back and indulge myself with all that I've amassed? I'll never come to that point. All I want to do is take what God has given me, reinvest it back in His Kingdom in a wise manner, some to be given today, some to be saved for future use for His glory when He lays before me things that He wants me to be a part of in the days to come, but always the perspective has to be that. And I don't have any anxiety about the future because of God feeds birds, I think He'll feed me. That's His promise. And when He stops feeding me that's because He wants me to go home. But as long as He gives me life and breath here, He'll make sure that I'm sustained.
You say, "Yes, but I want to be sustained at the manner of life in which I am accustomed." Well, that's a whole different ball game, folks. I just want to be sustained in life in the manner in which God decides I need to be sustained. Life is a gift from God. And if He gives it, He'll sustain it. I'm not going to be anxious for that. If He gives me the gift of life, He'll give me the gift of food that life may be sustained.
So, first of all, it's pretty silly not to have confidence in God because of who our Father really is, He is the provider of our food. Look at verse 27, and this is quite interesting. He is the provider of our life span, verse 27, "Which of you by being anxious or worrying can add a cubit to his stature?"
Now people have misunderstood this. A cubit is basically 18 inches...18 inches. Now that wouldn't make a lot of sense. Which of you by worrying can add 18 inches to your stature? That would make me about seven foot ten...that's...that's at best hyperbolic at that point. What you have to understand is the word helikia basically means not so much your stature as your span of life. And the idea is somewhat metaphorical. He's saying which of you can worry yourself into a longer life. The converse is true, you worry and you're likely to have what? A shorter one. Worrying isn't going to do you any good. You cannot add to your span of life by anxiety, in fact what you'll do is shorten your span of life by anxiety.
So we're not going to give ourselves to something that shortens our span of life. Worry...Charles Mayo, the Mayo Clinic says, "It effects circulation, the heart rate, the glands, the nervous system." He said, "I have never known of a man to die of overwork, but many die of worry." That's right. You can worry yourself to death but you'll never worry yourself into longer life.
Such a sin of mistrusting God is so foolish. God has given us life and God has given us food and God will give us the fullness of the span of life that He wants us to have, His sovereignly designed life plan. I can't lengthen it. I could shorten it by my sin, 1 Corinthians, 1 John 5. He might just take me out because of sin, but I'll live that full span that God sovereignly designed. And why not live it to His glory? Do you understand what I'm saying? You don't need to control your destiny. You need to invest in God's Kingdom as prompted by the Spirit and let Him take care of the results. And I'll tell you, that's the only wonderful way to live. And you will see that God will keep providing more and more than you can possibly use because He is a God of grace.
And then He gives the third illustration, what about my clothing? Boy, I have got to keep working because I have these withdrawals if I come to the end of a full week and I haven't been to the mall in seven days. I...as somebody recently said, "A woman's place is in the mall." And there's...I get pangs if I don't get there and get a new dress or a new suit or whatever it is that people go there to get. I've got to take care of myself. We've got to be clothed properly. So in verse 28 He says, "Why are you worried about your clothes? You worry about your clothes? Consider this, the lilies of the field how they grow, they toil not neither do they spin, and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these, wherefore if God so clothed the grass of the field which today is and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall He not much more clothe you? Oh you of little faith."
That's so practical. Why are you anxious about your clothes? Some people are very anxious about their clothes. They don't want to go out of the house if they have something on they had on the day before. They're very conscious about what they wear. They also can be fearful about what they might not be able to wear and so there are many working wives who are out abandoning their children for nothing more than to support certain fashion habits, lusting after costly clothes is a sin. In fact do you remember what it says in Timothy that a woman is to be adorned not so much on the outside but...what?...on the inside. The hidden man of the heart, that sweet meek quiet spirit, that which characterized Sarah who called her husband Abraham lord, as 1 Peter 3 tells us.
So the Lord says look, don't worry about your clothes. I'll make sure you're not only clothed but I'll make sure you're clothed beautifully. You want an illustration? The field lilies...the field lilies...look at them how they grow. They grow with seemingly no effort, freely gorgeously without effort. I'm looking at these flowers and I'm saying I don't see anybody in here that's as delicately and beautifully arrayed as they are. What an indictment, He says. The best of human garments, verse 29, Solomon in all his glory can't even come close. That little flower, that anemone that grew in Palestine, that lovely little gentle flower, that fragile flower was more beautiful than any garment, gorgeous, fragile in its beauty. Put it by the side of any garment Solomon ever had and it pales to the magnificence of that flower. The finest fabric that any human being ever wore cannot under a microscope look like anything but sackcloth. Take that flower, put it under a microscope and see the delicate living beauty of God's glorious creation. There's no comparison.
He's not indulging in hyperbole, He's stating fact. No garment loomed in the finest and softest texture is anything but sackcloth when placed beside the petal of a flower. The little scarlet poppies that blossomed one day on the hillsides of Palestine and were clothed in a beauty surpassing royal robes and a day later burned up and vanished away and replaced by new ones exceed in beauty anything that we could ever create.
So He says in verse 30 if God's going to clothe the grass of the field, those little flowers and it only lasts a day and tomorrow is thrown into the oven to be burned, how shall He not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith. And again His argument is from the lesser to the greater. Let the men of the world worry. Let the people of the world worry. I'm not going to worry about that. I'm not going to say, "I can't give to God, I might not have enough for my new suit." I don't want to say that. I want to give all I have to God and let God clothe me in a wonderful way.
And I can tell you the Lord does it, folks. I just want you to know that the Lord knows how to do that. And I bless His name for that. So God is good. In fact the suit I have on now was a gift to me from the Moody Bible Institute when they asked me to make a movie...they wanted me to have a gray suit...so they said, "Here, take this money and go buy a gray suit." So the Lord said He wanted me to have this suit through that means. The Lord is good. Not long ago there was a gentleman who said, "I want you to have a car." The church has provided a car for me in the past but they don't have to do that anymore because a man gave me a car. And...see, I never worry about that. In fact the man called me a couple of days ago and said, "I don't know if your wife has a car." "Well," I said, "at the present time we kind of share the car." He said, "Well Monday you come and I want to give you a car for your wife." Now I don't know...I'm just saying, "All right, Lord, if You want me to have this, I can handle it." I'm not going to argue about it. But I have this sense of stewardship, you know. But I'm not going to worry about that. I'm not storing up money to save for my future, God has proven Himself to me. And I'm just grateful and I don't want to be...I don't't want to be...I don't want to be selfish about those things and I don't want to be indulgent but I have learned that my God gives and He gives richly and He gives to be enjoyed.
See, the sum of it is very clear. God takes care of all the necessities of life in a grand and glorious way so what are you worried about? And so He says your real problem at the end of verse 30 is you have little faith. And remember what we called the disciples, the little faith association. Inevitably He was giving them this speech at some point or another. Don't you worry about those things, just trust Me. Boy, it's really wonderful to live by faith. That doesn't necessarily mean you live by poverty, it just means you live by faith and you accept what God gives and you invest in His Kingdom. So you know where your treasury is, you know where your vision is, you know where your allegiance is, therefore you know where your confidence is. And I'm not going to distrust God because I know who my Father is and I know what His resources are.
Therefore, verse 31, He hits it again, Not only am I confident because of who my Father is, but I'm confident because of my faith in Him. "Don't be anxious saying, What shall we eat, what shall we drink, or what we be clothed with, for all these things do the pagans seek." You see, that's the world. They're out there hacking through the jungle to make sure they get their share, carving out their space. Not us, your heavenly Father knows you have need of all these things. Isn't that wonderful? He knows exactly what you need.
So, your task is to seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be...what?...added unto you. I'm not anxious about what I eat, what I drink, what I put on. Why? Because that's typical of unbelievers. They're worried about that. It's needless for me because of God's bounty. It's senseless because of God's promise. It's useless because of man's inability. And it's faithless. It is uncharacteristic of Christian faith to worry about that.
I just want to see God work. And as I've said to you in past years, what do you believe in God for that only He can do so when He does it you give Him all the credit. Boy, some of us are so insulated against God doing anything because we've got every base covered. Where's your vulnerability where God can work? God works. I tell you, folks, there is a God who loves and cares for His own and who shows Himself faithful in what He wants to do. And if He doesn't have a lot of folks to do it like at Grace Church, He'll find somebody else to do it. And we see by faith the hand of God. That's how it is in life and that's what makes it exciting to live by faith.
The heathen? Hey, they're in complete darkness. They don't have any connection with God so they're amassing it for themselves. Not us. Not us. Some people think that materialism is a trivial sin. No, materialism is one of the grossest most heinous sins, let me tell you why. Because it strikes a blow at the character and the promise of God. You understand that? It is a devastating sin against the character of God as provider and the promise of God who said He will care for His own. The Gentiles seek with all their might, it's an emphatic phrase there in verse 32, they really seek, consumed with material, gratification. Not us...not us.
What do we seek? Well first of all we know our Father knows we have need of all these things. He knows we need food. He knows we need clothing. He knows we need to care for our families. He knows all that. But we seek first the Kingdom and all of that He adds. That's the way to live. So you don't love money, you love God. You don't seek money, you seek God. You don't seek to be rich, you seek to do your best. And He knows you need these things.
And then finally in verse 34 and we'll come back to verse 33 in a minute, just wrap it up. But in verse 34 He is saying I am confident in God because of who my Father is, because of my faith in Him and then lastly He sort of says, because of my future. "Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow." Don't worry about tomorrow. "For tomorrow will have enough worry for the things of itself sufficient to the day is its own evil." Don't worry about tomorrow. Why? God is the God of tomorrow. Tomorrow will be whatever tomorrow will be but God will be who God is tomorrow just as He is today. God is the God of tomorrow just as He's the God of today. The worries of tomorrow will be there tomorrow and so will God and I want to live for today. What a wonderful approach to life.
Worry about the future debilitates people constantly. They're worried about usually what hasn't happened. Is that not true? They're worried about usually what never will happen. And so they forfeit the joy of what could happen today because they've sentenced themselves to anxiety about a nonexistent future. The Lord says don't do that. Tomorrow will take care of itself. Tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Every day has enough trouble all by itself. You don't need tomorrow's trouble added to today's. You understand that? But some people aren't satisfied with today's trouble, they want years of trouble pushed in to today. I don't know why. God only gives you strength for what? Today. His mercies are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness. We sung it, didn't we, from Jeremiah. There's no sense in worrying about the future. Fear is a liar. Fear lies to you about the future. It doesn't tell you the truth. Don't cripple the present by worry about the future.
So, the fourth thing then is you have to have the proper confidence. You trust God who is your Father, you put your faith in Him, you let Him take care of the future and you live for today. Beloved, you're no spiritual orphan. You're the child of God. He hasn't abandoned you. He's there. And He'll meet every need.
So go back to verse 33 and let's focus finally on what we're all about. "Seek ye first...that's the priority...the Kingdom of God and His righteousness." What does He mean by that? Well in everything you do that's your pursuit. I'm seeking God's Kingdom. What is the Kingdom, what does it represent? Well there's a sense in which the Kingdom represents conversion, entrance into the Kingdom is by grace through faith and so what He is saying first of all is seek to enter the Kingdom, if you're not there. We're assuming that the ones to whom He speaks are. So He is saying seek the conversion of others. Seek the extension of the Kingdom. Seek the expansion of the Kingdom through conversion.
Secondly, when He says seek the Kingdom He is saying seek to fulfill the commands and demands and character of the Kingdom through your own spiritual commitment. As Romans 14:17 says, "The Kingdom is not food and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit." In other words, spiritual principles, spiritual blessings, spiritual characteristics. So we seek the Kingdom by seeking the salvation of the lost, by seeking the extension of the power of the Spirit, the joy of the Spirit...all those spiritual principles.
And then thirdly, seeking the Kingdom means to anticipate the coming of the Christ in that great millennial glory which will invade the world and usher in what ultimately will become the eternal Kingdom of Christ. Seek the Kingdom in every sense. Let your life and your energy and your talent and your time and your money all go toward the advance of the Kingdom, that's the issue. And then if God responds by giving you much or giving you little, you be content because you know your needs will be met. He says if you seek the Kingdom, all these things will be...what?...added unto you. When somebody comes to me and says, "Boy, I don't know if I have enough money to make it." Often I'll say to them, "Well maybe it's because you haven't been giving enough." Sometimes people will step back and say, "What? I couldn't afford to give anymore." Maybe the reason you can't afford to give anymore is because you haven't given enough. You've never allowed yourself the privilege of living under the promises of God.
Well, I want the Holy Spirit to apply this to all of our hearts individually as we think on it and meditate on it. Let's bow together in prayer.
We thank You, Father, for the good word that comes to us from the dear Apostle Paul who says that we are to avoid the love of money because it is a root of all kinds of evil. We thank You for that wisdom, that Holy Spirit inspired wisdom that reminds us that people who pursue that as a way of life are consumed with all kinds of grief. Err from the faith, pierce themselves through like meat on a skewer with their soul literally torn apart. Father, help us never to pursue those things which are so unfulfilling, but help us to love You so much that all we ever seek is for the advance of Your Kingdom that our resources are poured into that. And if You're gracious enough to give us a comfortable home, may we use it for Your glory and share it with others. And if You're gracious enough to give us clothing and a car and some of the benefits of life, the ability to travel and to enjoy some special things to put in our homes objects of beauty, pieces of art, pictures, help us to realize that the source of beauty, the source of design comes from You and to give You glory for it and to share it with others that they might in enjoying its beauty see the wonder of the creative mind of our great God. Lord, just give us that focus in everything.
And, Lord, help us to take our resources and under the prompting of the Spirit of God not withstand Your authority as You call us to invest in eternity that the Kingdom might be built. What else would there be to live for? And then to know Your good and gracious hand which continually pours out on us the benefits of Your sweet grace. Bless every person here, Lord. There are some struggling with this, some who have much and are struggling with being selfish, some who have very little and are struggling with having their very needs met. Help us all, Lord, personally and individually in that intimate relationship which we enjoy with You to seek Your will and to wait for Your provision and to be content with whatever we have, be it much or little, knowing it is what You have given us for Your glory. In Christ's name...Amen.


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Wed, 22 Jan 2014 01:52:34 -0800
The San Francisco Giants signed OF Tyler Graham to a minor league contract, financial terms of which were not disclosed. Graham spent time in the Giants organization from 2006 to 2011 and then split between San Francisco and the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2012.
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Tue, 06 Nov 2012 08:35:46 -0800
Arizona Diamondbacks 3B Josh Bell, P Jonathan Albaladejo, P Daniel Cabrera, P Mike DeMark, P Jensen Lewis, P Yonata Ortega, SP Brett Tomko, C Ryan Budde, 1B Ryan Strieby, 3B Matt Mangini, SS Wladimir Sutil, OF Irfran Becerra and OF Tyler Graham elected free agency.
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|Diamondbacks | Three players added to MLB roster
Sun, 02 Sep 2012 10:06:46 -0700
The Arizona Diamondbacks have recalled C Konrad Schmidt from Triple-A Reno and have purchased the contract of OF Tyler Graham from Reno. They have also activated recent waiver claim INF Cody Ransom.
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Thu, 17 May 2012 10:04:53 -0700
The Arizona Diamondbacks signed free-agent OF Tyler Graham (Giants) to a minor league deal Wednesday, May 16, and assigned him to Triple-A Reno.
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Tue, 01 May 2012 15:06:13 -0700
The San Francisco Giants placed RP Jeremy Affeldt (knee) on the 15-day disabled list with a right knee sprain Tuesday, May 1, and recalled P Travis Blackley from Class AAA in a corresponding move. OF Tyler Graham was also designated for assignment.
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|Giants | Nine players cut
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 11:52:16 -0700
The San Francisco Giants have optioned P Hector Correa and OF Tyler Graham to Triple-A Fresno. Ps Justin Fitzgerald, Mitch Lively and Matt Yourkin, C Jackson Williams, INFs Chris Dominguez and Nick Noonan and OF Juan C. Perez were reassigned to minor league camp.
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Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:34:11 -0800
The San Francisco Giants have selected the contracts of 2B Charlie Culberson, 1B Angel Villalona, OFs Tyler Graham and Roger Kieschnick and Ps Hector Correa and Dan Otero from Triple-A Fresno.
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What is blood pressure?
Blood pressure is the amount of force that your blood puts on your artery walls as it moves through your body. Here\'s how it works: Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood your heart to the rest of your body. When your heart beats, it pushes your blood through your arteries. As the blood moves, it puts pressure on your artery walls. This is your blood pressure.
What is high blood pressure?
High blood pressure (also called hypertension) occurs when your blood moves through your arteries at a higher pressure than normal. Many different things can cause high blood pressure. If your blood pressure gets too high or stays high for a long time, it can cause health problems.
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After age 18, have your blood pressure checked at least once every 2 years. Do it more often if you have had high blood pressure in the past. Your doctor may even ask you to monitor your blood pressure at home.
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Blood pressure is really two measurements, separated by a slash when written, such as 120/80. You may also hear someone say a blood pressure is "120 over 80."
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BOSTON — Twenty-two year old Deivid Ribeiro's eyes have been glued to C-SPAN for days, anxiously watching as Congress debates what could be the fate of his future.
"Come on, I want this vote to happen already," Ribeiro says, tapping his fingers nervously on the kitchen table. He's hoping Congress passes the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act – or DREAM Act.
The legislation would put illegal immigrants like Ribeiro, who was brought to America as a child, on a path to citizenship after completing two years of college or two years of military service. Without it, Ribeiro says a lot of illegal students will have no where to turn.
"We don't feel like we have a future because when we graduate our degrees are useless. And if we can graduate, we're hindered by the cost," Ribeiro said.
Ribeiro was eight years old when he passed through customs at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, setting foot in the United States for the first time. "I remember the first thing my mom said. She said, 'This is the first word you're going to learn in the United States: Immigration," Ribeiro said.
It was 1997 when his parents uprooted the family in Brazil and resettled on Cape Cod. At the time, they were here legally on a tourist visa. Ribeiro and his brother started school; his parents began working at a local church where his father was a pastor.
Ribeiro says he quickly assimilated to American life. "I went to elementary school, middle school, high school. I made American friends, listened to American music. My favorite bans are Chili Peppers and Dispatch. So we did everything normal Americans would do."
In 2001, Ribeiro's parents began the process of establishing permanent residency. They filed all the paperwork and paid all the fees, but in 2007, they were denied, meaning the entire family is now here illegally. At the time, Ribeiro was heading off to college and was applying for FAFSA. His initial reaction was devastation.
"All I could think was, I'm not going to school. I worked so hard, I was number eight in my class. I got all A's. I did the best I could. I got 5's on all my AP exams, and now I can't go to school?"
But he went anyway, working full-time while taking classes at Cape Cod Community College. He graduated in 2009 with a 4.0 GPA and is now at UMass-Dartmouth getting a degree in Physics. But he could be deported at any time, which is why, he says, he's fighting for the DREAM Act to pass.
"We were taught form the beginning, do what you want, work hard, because you will have a future. You will have a life, a career and you'll be happy. And we did and now we get to this point where we can't even go to college," Ribeiro said. "We need the Dream Act to pass so we can live our lives and give back to the community we're part of."
But critics of the DREAM Act say it's just a fancy form of amnesty that rewards bad behavior. Former GOP Senate candidate Ken Chase argues that the bill is a way for Democrats to secure a large dependent Democratic voting block for generations to come.
"This is the block of people that will replace black Americans in terms of being the most overwhelmingly Democratic voting block in the nation. This is the strategy," Chase said. "This is what I think is the shameless manipulation of people. People who are immigrants, but particularly illegal immigrants, are the most desperate and the most vulnerable."
Chase also fears that DREAM Act is just the beginning, that once the door is opened a crack, it will eventually be opened all the way.
"We're talking about the larger picture here. This is the democratic approach because they raised this in 2007 and it was shot down, so this is their way to get piecemeal to the end goal, which is eventually to get everyone who's here illegally, legalized."
But Ribeiro argues the DREAM Act is different. It doesn't apply to everyone because you've got to work to earn it. Plus, there are strict eligibility requirements. Applicants have to have come to American before they were 16 years old, they must be living here continuously for five years, and they can't be older than 29 when they apply. But most importantly, says Ribeiro, they have to be good students with no criminal record.
Ribeiro says the DREAM Act would give him the kind of stability he needs to succeed in the United States.
"All my dreams are dreams I want to accomplish here. I want to work at MIT, which is here. I want to be an astronaut with NASA, which is here. My friends are here. I want to marry somebody here," Ribeiro said.
Meanwhile, Congress is still debating. The House narrowly passed the measure on Wednesday night, 216-198, but on Thursday, the Senate shelved the measure until later in the Lame Duck Session. That means young illegal immigrants like Ribeiro are left in limbo a little bit longer.
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Nonprofits face July 30 deadline for annual reports
Secretary of State A. Ralph Mollis is reminding thousands of nonprofit corporations that they can beat the state's July 30 deadline for submitting annual reports by filing online at sos.ri.gov.
More than 7,900 nonprofits ranging from community groups to youth sports organizations are subject to the requirement. Under state law, nonprofits that miss the deadline face fines and the revocation of their Certificate of Incorporation or Certificate of Authority.
"We have made complying with the law as easy as possible and are doing all that we can to make them aware of the deadline," said Mollis, who hopes the reminder will help nonprofits avoid incurring unnecessary expenses in these difficult economic times.
Mollis added the online filing option a few years ago. Every organization has its own unique Customer Identification Number and Personal Identification Number in order to ensure security.
"Enhancing our technology makes it easier to do business with us. Our virtual office is open 24-7, so nonprofits can file when it is convenient for them," said Mollis. "The online option also lowers our costs and gives the public access to the reports faster."
Nonprofits can file online at sos.ri.gov (link to: http://ucc.state.ri.us/loginsystem/login_form.asp). They can also file by mail or in person at the Secretary of State's Division of Business Services, 148 West River St., Providence.


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Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:32:56 -0800
Baltimore Orioles minor league C Chris Robinson and OF Tim Smith have made Team Canada's provisional roster for the World Baseball Classic.
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|Orioles | Tim Smith added
Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:02:24 -0800
The Baltimore Orioles signed free-agent OF Tim Smith (Braves) to a minor-league deal Tuesday, Jan. 8. The deal did not include an invitation to spring training.
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|Royals | Four cut
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:20:21 -0700
The Sports Network reports the Kansas City Royals reassigned OF Tim Smith, 1B Scott Thorman, C Edwin Bellorin and IF Irving Falu to minor league camp Thursday, April 1.
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Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:01:47 -0700
Dick Kaegel, of MLB.com, reports the Texas Rangers acquired P Danny Gutierrez from the Kansas City Royals Thursday, Sept. 3, in exchange for C Manny Pina and OF Tim Smith.
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Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:00:15 -0700
Dick Kaegel, of MLB.com, reports the Kansas City Royals acquired C Manny Pina and OF Tim Smith from the Texas Rangers Thursday, Sept. 3, in exchange for P Danny Gutierrez.
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Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:55:44 -0700
The Texas Rangers have signed seventh-round draft pick OF Tim Smith (Arizona State) to an undisclosed contract, according to the Associated Press.
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Night Line: Is Vanderbilt Back? Commodores Are Getting Stronger Every GamePosted by EJacoby on January 20th, 2012
Evan Jacoby is an RTC contributor and correspondent. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter. Night Line will run on weeknights during the season, highlighting a major storyline development from that day's slate of games.
The popularity of Alabama's basketball team might pale in comparison to that of its National Championship football squad, but the boys on the hardwood win its games in a similar fashion: defense, defense, and more defense. So the fact that Vanderbilt showed up in Tuscaloosa on Thursday night with the more physical defensive effort was impressive, especially considering how poor the Commodores struggled on the defensive end just a few weeks ago. Kevin Stallings' team allowed just 59 points in the road win, and Vanderbilt (14-4, 4-0 SEC) is a much tougher team now with physical force Festus Ezeli back in the lineup. This group is a changed bunch from the team that lost to Indiana State at home in December, and the Commodores must be taken seriously now as a team with the formula to make a run in March.
Vanderbilt entered this season a preseason Top 10 team, bringing back all five starters and three NBA prospects in Jeffery Taylor, John Jenkins, and Ezeli. Jenkins has held up his end of the bargain, leading the conference in scoring at 19.8 points per game. He's arguably the best shooter in college basketball, currently leading the nation in three-point field goals (67) at a 45.3% rate (third in the SEC). Taylor has done his part, too, displaying his all-around game to the tune of 16.9 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.0 assists, and 1.4 steals per game on 53.6% field goal shooting and the ability to hit from deep (45.3% on 3.5 attempts per game). But Ezeli missed six games due to an NCAA violation-related suspension, and another three recovering from knee surgery, and the Commodores struggled without him. While he doesn't provide the statistical production of his fellow team leaders, Ezeli is their only true interior threat and most impactful defender. Take away those two aspects, and Vanderbilt barely looked like an above-average team for the first 10 games of this season.


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The bank agreed to pay a U.S. civil penalty of $285 million and return $125 million in ill-gotten profits to electricity ratepayers, according to a FERC statement today. New York-based JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank by market value, said the settlement will "put this matter behind it."
JPMorgan "employed a fraudulent device, scheme or artifice, made false statements or material omissions, or engaged in a course of business that operated or would operate as a fraud on electricity market participants," the FERC said today in an order posted on its website.
The case marks another setback for JPMorgan, which sailed through the 2008 financial crisis without a single quarterly loss. Last year JPMorgan lost more than $6.2 billion from wrong-way derivatives bets placed by traders in London. The incident prompted a U.S. Senate investigation, the departure of two senior executives and a debate over whether Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon, 57, should keep his chairman role. In May shareholders re-elected him as chairman.
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The owner of the troubled Haven Healthcare nursing home chain is asking a bankruptcy judge to stop the chain's largest creditor from suing him personally for $5 million, saying the demand for payment will hurt his ability to rebuild the company.
In court papers filed last month, Raymond Termini, Haven's chief executive officer, asked a judge to enjoin Omnicare's Value Health Care Services from proceeding with a lawsuit against him that seeks to recoup $5 million for unpaid pharmaceutical bills. Termini had personally guaranteed the debt in an April agreement with Omnicare, in the event that Haven defaulted on a payment plan, according to court documents.
Although Termini acknowledges in court filings that he guaranteed the debt, he wants to stop the pharmaceutical supplier from pursuing its lawsuit against him while Haven is in bankruptcy proceedings. In his appeal, he said defending himself against Omnicare's demand would "unduly distract Termini from his responsibilities in advancing [Haven's] reorganization" and could pit him against his own nursing home company if he is forced to pay the $5 million and then seeks "reimbursement or indemnity" from Haven.
Haven Healthcare filed for bankruptcy in late-November, in the wake of a Courant series that detailed the chain's patient-care and financial problems. The bankruptcy filing came as Omnicare was stepping up its efforts to recoup millions of dollars in unpaid bills from Haven for medication and pharmacy consulting services.
Omnicare Value Health Care filed suit against Haven in February 2007, seeking more than $20 million in payments dating to 2004. In an attempt to avoid a court fight, Haven entered into a "workout agreement" with Omnicare that guaranteed repayment of the bulk of the debt over six months. As part of that agreement, Termini had personally guaranteed at least $5 million of the debt, according to documents.
After Haven defaulted on a $7 million payment in September, Omnicare filed suit against Termini on Nov. 13 in Middletown Superior Court, seeking the money he had guaranteed. Termini's lawyers notified Omnicare that Termini was "not in a position to pay the $5 million requested," then sought protection from the demand in bankruptcy court.
Omnicare is the largest creditor of Haven and its affiliate companies, which are more than $46 million in debt. Termini has acknowledged using more than $8 million in proceeds from his nursing home companies, derived from refinancing real estate, to launch a Nashville recording company and make other purchases in the past several years. He has maintained that those decisions did not impact the chain's ability to pay its bills.
But auditors with the state Department of Social Services and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal have said that Termini's diversion of funds for personal use is a major reason for the chain's financial troubles. Federal law-enforcement officials have seized Haven's financial records in an investigation into possible Medicaid and Medicare fraud and tax fraud. Termini has denied any wrongdoing.
The status of Termini's Nashville record label, Category 5 Records, is uncertain. The building that houses the company is now being offered for sale for $1.97 million, according to Nashville real estate listings. Termini purchased the building in December 2006 for $2.15 million - $550,000 in cash and a $1.6 million mortgage.
Last month, the label's big-name artist, two-time Grammy winner Travis Tritt, filed suit against Termini to break his ties to the label, alleging breach of contract and fraud. Tritt said in his lawsuit that the record company was "from a practical standpoint defunct."
In a statement Wednesday, Termini said the record company "continues to distribute and sell its recordings," but that it had "downsized." He has said he used personal funds to finance the purchase of the building.
State social services auditors have said Termini used more than $15 million in assets from Haven to launch the record label and make other "personal investments," including a lakefront home in Middlefield, a yacht and three Connecticut apartment buildings.
The bankruptcy court last month named a New York City financial firm to oversee Haven's finances. Other consultants have been appointed to monitor patient care in Haven's 25 nursing homes, 15 of them in Connecticut. The state health department also has stepped up its monitoring.
Court records show that Haven negotiated a complex repayment agreement with Omnicare last spring that called for it to repay $2 million in April and another $2 million by August, and then raise an additional $10 million through a refinancing plan. Haven made the April and August payments, but failed to raise the additional proceeds by a September deadline.
In a Nov. 7 letter, Haven's lawyers told Omnicare that the chain was working on a "sale-leaseback" arrangement that could generate "substantial proceeds." But the lawyers said that paying the full amount demanded by Omnicare could jeopardize Haven's viability. Haven cited Omnicare's demand as a key factor in its decision to file for bankruptcy.
In the last few years, Haven has defaulted on numerous bills for supplies and services, including basic utilities. Termini has blamed the problems in paying bills on a shortfall in state Medicaid funding.
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Seasoned Storage Executive to Drive Growth for Desktop Virtualization Innovator
ASHAWAY, RI--(Marketwire - Nov 29, 2012) - GreenBytes®, Inc., a developer of cloud-scale IO-offload solutions that enable organizations to meet desktop virtualization performance requirements using their existing architecture, today announced that Chairman Steve O'Donnell has been named Chief Executive Officer. O'Donnell, who will continue to serve as Chairman of the GreenBytes Board of Directors, will lead the executive management team and drive strategic business efforts that will enable the company to shape the desktop virtualization market with its IO Offload Engine, a high-performance network infrastructure device purpose-built to absorb the transient IO (input/output) required for VM (virtual machine) booting, rapid provisioning and swap to provide an excellent virtual desktop user experience at an affordable cost.
Before joining GreenBytes, O'Donnell was CEO at MEEZA in Qatar, a large data center and managed services business, Managing Director at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) EMEA, a leading analyst firm, Global Head of Data Centre Operations at British Telecom, and member of the Advisory Board at Fusion-io. Recognized as an expert in green IT and sustainability, O'Donnell has been the recipient of six industry awards including the British Computer Society Best Use of Green Technology. He acts as a spokesperson for the IEEE on Cloud and IT Security. O'Donnell is the author of "What Every CIO Wants - a Guide for High Technology Salespeople" and is credited as the initiator of the Green Grid's Data Center Maturity Model.
Back in August, GreenBytes announced the IO Offload Engine, a purpose-built, cloud-scale desktop virtualization solution that enables organizations to reliably and cost-effectively meet demanding virtualization performance requirements using their existing storage architecture. With an increasing number of customer deployments throughout North America and Europe, O'Donnell will work closely with newly appointed Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Brett Johnson, in ramping up global sales efforts and strategic partnerships.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
high as a horse's belly -
as long as it grows . . .
Life-giving water
deep beneath the fine, red dirt -
as long as it flows . . .
We honor the old,
and we birth our fine, strong young,
but peace is poison.
Mother Buffalo
has entered the mountain, and
we shall be starved white.
For Kerry's Challenge at Real Toads,
April Heights Haiku Challenge,
and . . . it's 55 words for my G-Man!
20 comments:
- hedgewitch said...
You've braided three prompts into one beautiful rawhide rope. The last stanza is beyond chilling, and all too true.
- April 5, 2012 at 7:34 PM
- Fireblossom said...
"starved white" ...wow, that says it all.
- April 5, 2012 at 8:18 PM
- G-Man said...
Mama Zen...
One of my favorites EVER from you.
A Nations Lament!!!
Thanks for including me this week.
Fantastic 55 Lady.
Thanks for this Triple Threat of PERFECTION...Have a Kick Ass Week-End
Happy Easter
- April 5, 2012 at 8:42 PM
- Sherry Blue Sky said...
Whoa! "Starved white".......Such a powerful poem. "Mother Buffalo has entered the mountain"........great writing, kiddo!
- April 5, 2012 at 9:00 PM
- Brian Miller said...
lovely visual in the opening...peace is poison is a nice line...and that last stanza is killer
- April 5, 2012 at 9:06 PM
Starved white ... oh my!!!
This is my Day 5 ~~ Waves Wash Over Me.
- April 5, 2012 at 9:48 PM
- PattiKen said...
Wow, there are some powerful images here. Well done.
- April 5, 2012 at 10:47 PM
- Other Mary said...
Yup, great stuff, and the last stanza is really powerful, and sadly true.
- April 5, 2012 at 10:57 PM
- anthonynorth said...
Perfectly done.
- April 6, 2012 at 3:14 AM
- Kerry O'Connor said...
Oh, I was so hoping someone would invoke the White Buffalo - what a tremendous slice of oral lore that is. I'm so glad you brought the thread into your marvellous haiku series, and that it's all done in 55 is a mark of your talent in the short write - this story is immense.
- April 6, 2012 at 3:52 AM
- happygirl said...
I am in awe of your talent. Your wit and craftsmanship created a piece with beauty and strength.
- April 6, 2012 at 5:56 AM
- Daydreamertoo said...
And this is beautiful and yet, so sad for its truth.
- April 6, 2012 at 6:43 AM
- Mary said...
Evocative and intense from beginning to end!
- April 6, 2012 at 7:39 AM
- Yvonne Osborne said...
Great poem! Peace was poison. 55 perfect words.
- April 6, 2012 at 7:52 AM
- izzy said...
So inspired! lovely piece in 55-
- April 6, 2012 at 8:07 AM
- Brendan said...
The native voice is like a relic beach, now just the outlines of what was once a vital encounter. All we see now is the "staved white" bones; but you've picked up one and, like a conch, heard and wrote down this. So much for treaties, longing, peace. Fine, fine, poem MZ - Brendan
- April 6, 2012 at 8:28 AM
- Helen said...
The wisdom of a woman ... a woman who has lived, who understands, who is.
- April 6, 2012 at 2:54 PM
- Fred Rutherford said...
Wow, this was so good I didn't even catch on to each being it's own haiku, alone yet interconnected. Everything just flowed together.. You are the Haiku master…Love the final one too, as it uses tribal religious belief imaging very nicely. Great read. Thanks
- April 6, 2012 at 4:57 PM
- Grace said...
Those treaties were spelled with death and starvation ~
Fine work MZ~
- April 7, 2012 at 6:57 AM
- Carol Steel 5050 said...
Evocative, strong words. Powerful piece of writing.
- April 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM


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Prosecutor: Man confessed to son's slaying in call
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Washington state man told his father during a jailhouse phone call that he killed his 3-year-old son after taking pills and running out of gas on a remote road in southwestern Montana, prosecutors said in new court documents.
Excerpts from the transcript of the call recorded the morning after Jeremy Cramer's arrest depict the 38-year-old Lacey man as rambling and sometimes incoherent, but he repeatedly refutes his father's hopes that Brody Cramer may still be alive.
Cramer told his father that he started walking down the road, with Brody on his shoulders, after running out of gas. The boy became "like some other kid when he was on my neck," then he remembered looking at his son's face and "I just died right there," Cramer said, according to the transcript.
"I killed my own son and I don't know why," Cramer said. "The thing was, it wasn't like I had a few beers or it was like something was up inside. Why did I take all my pills? Did I take all my pills?"
The charging documents and affidavit were filed Friday by Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Attorney Ben Krakowka. They provide the most details released to date on what happened between the morning of July 8, when Cramer's wife reported him and his son missing, and late that night, when Cramer was arrested in an Anaconda gas station washing blood off his clothes and body.
Cramer has been charged with deliberate homicide. His court-appointed attorney did not return a call for comment on Monday.
If convicted, Cramer could face death or life in prison. Krakowka did not return a call for comment on whether he will pursue the death penalty.
Brody Cramer's beaten and stabbed body was found in a field the morning of July 9. Investigators found a knife and two rocks covered with blood and hair next to the body, along with a blanket and a global-positioning satellite unit, according to the court documents.
Police found bloody keys and a knife on Jeremy Cramer, along with an empty container for a generic substitute of the drug Adderall. The container for the stimulant said the prescription was filled July 3 with 60 pills, and only two pills were supposed to be taken per day.
Cramer's brother, Jon Cramer, told police that his brother was a former methamphetamine addict who had been "doctor shopping" in Washington state for a physician who would provide him with Adderall.
Nataliya Cramer reported to Lacey police on July 8 that her husband had not responded to numerous phone calls and text messages. Jeremy Cramer's credit card was used that day in Post Falls, Idaho, and that night, a security company noted Cramer's truck parked near a power plant east of Anaconda.
Austin Howell told police Cramer offered him and Trenton Zolman first $50, then $100, for a ride into town, saying he had run out of gas.
They gave Cramer a ride and asked about the blood on his pants, shirt and tie, to which Cramer responded, "I had a traumatic experience and no one is dead," according to the documents.
When they arrived at a gas station, Howell went inside and warned the clerk "there was something off about this guy," the documents said. Outside, Cramer held Zolman's hand, saying, "You are clean," prayed and then went inside to the bathroom.
The clerk called police, and an officer found Cramer in the restroom with his pants off attempting to wash away the blood. He told the officer that he had broken up a fight at a rest area.
He was arrested when he refused to put his clothes back on.
Cramer's wife confirmed her husband's identity and asked police to "find my son."
Cramer refused to provide information about his son or the location of his truck. Cramer, a Mormon, asked to speak to somebody high in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, saying "the adversary," or devil, "is out."
The church president for southwestern Montana spoke with Cramer for an hour, but Cramer did not reveal the boy's location.
At 5:27 a.m., Cramer called his father from the jailhouse near a sign that says all calls are recorded. He also asked an officer whether phone calls are recorded, the documents said.
His father suggested over and over that Brody may still be alive.
"Dad, Brody's dead," Cramer said.
"Are you sure?" his father responded.
"My son is dead, 100 percent, my son is dead, yes I did it, something did it of me but I didn't do it," Cramer answered.
"He could be laying in a field still alive," his father said a moment later.
"Dad, he's dead, dead, dead, dead because I know he is. I just know it. I see a vivid picture of him looking at him before ahhh. He's dead, OK," Cramer said.
Investigators found Brody's body at 6:15 a.m. in a field off Mill Creek Road, about 5 miles southeast of Anaconda. The cause of death was sharp- and blunt-force injuries, according to an autopsy.
Cramer told investigators that morning as they were trying to read him his rights, "You gotta understand something. I killed my best friend."
The officer told him to quit talking until he was advised of his rights. The interview ended soon afterward as Cramer said he'd need an attorney, according to the documents.


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Skip to comments.Clinton: U.S. must demand fairness from China
Posted on 10/14/2011 6:19:56 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Clinton: U.S. must demand fairness from China
World Oct. 15, 2011 - 07:00AM JST ( 4 )
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday its time for the United States to stand up to China as the U.S. puts the economy at the center of its foreign policy.
She told business leaders at the Economic Club of New York that the U.S. shouldnt continue to allow itself to be taken advantage of by China, which long has been accused by the West of undervaluing its currency to boost exports around the globe.
They continue to try to game the system to their advantage and our disadvantage, she said. It is fitting and timely for us to be standing up and saying, this is not acceptable.
China is the worlds second largest economy, and it increasingly isnt shy about showing off its weapons as well as its wealth.
(Excerpt) Read more at japantoday.com ...
"just-a-guy Oct. 15, 2011 - 09:18AM JST
Being lazy,unproductive,warmongerings and wasting earth resources was the faults of the demise of america! Hillary 'demanding' China..........with what? Send B-2 bombers to bomb China? Silly! My advice is she better shown some gratitutes our contributions to her and her husaband back in 1996!"
OUCH. This must be a Chinese.
If China is "unfair", what exactly are we supposed to do about it?
As far as I can see, the concept of "fairness" basically means, "I'm a communist, and here's how I think things should operate ..."
Clinton. Like a bad case of VD that will not go away.
At least GW keeps his mouth shut most of the time.
Maybe Clinton should be blabbering at Obama to get him to resign to save the DemoRat party — that assuming the radical left DemoRATs even care anymore.
They sure do not care about America and its people.
Hillary you fool, they are a sovereign nation. You can't demand anything form them.
Now do you understand why it's good to be a sovereign nation?
after the clintons literally gave away our technology to the chicoms for campaign cash.
Is she going to demand they return our missile launch technology secrets?
Obama , " Hey Hillary. We SERIOUSLY need a distraction if not crisis to deflect how much I suck."
Hillary, " Hmm we could start a world-wide trade war and blame it on China?"
Obama, " Brilliant, I love it! Let`s do a Smoot-Hawley 2.0 and blame the Chi-Coms. It will deflect all the anger focused on me and how inept I`ve onto the "evil Chinese trade policies" . "
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton-- and *don't you forget it*!
I'm thinking a strongly worded objection from the White House Clown should be just the ticket to put China on the right path.
"This must be a Chinese" should be "This guy must be a Chinese."
Nope just turn back and ignore both hillary and china !
Then when you figger they are about to stab you in the back step aside and let them implode but don't feed the beast!
What are we supposed to do? Protect our markets and our jobs? Look out for Americans instead of transnational corporations? That's crazy talk.
| Remember this lovely chapter in American history:
Clinton's top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.
Clinton recieved funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady, who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.
Within the time-frame of the illegal Communist Chinese contributions to the Clinton-Gore Campaign, president Clinton had signed a retro-active Executive Order protecting Loral, the US contractor which handed over top-secret military ICBM targeting technology to the Communist Chinese for use in Chinese missile testing.
The legal effect of Clinton's action granted Hong Kong aerospace engineer, Liu Chao-ying's firm access to US ICBM targeting technology and made Liu an attractive Chinese entity for contractors like Loral and Hughes Aircraft to do business with in China.
Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit cities in the USA, using state-of-the-art solid-fueled missiles with computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.
Also Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O'Leary to head the Department of Energy. She set to work ''leveling the playing field,'' as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.
Clinton and company gave away the store.
Federal investigators later concluded that China made off with the ''crown jewels'' of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton's open-door policy.
Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.
Nov 11, 1996 - Clinton issues executive order 12981 to gut export controls on encryption items and transfer export controls to the Department of Commmerce.
July 15, 2007 - Chinese DF-25 Missile Revealed for the first time (3-warhead MIRV medium range)
The Cox Committee report released in 1999 confirmed that China had stolen the neutron bomb design and the W-88 miniaturized warhead. The W-88 would allow China to field smaller, mobile missiles and carry multiple warheads on larger missiles. In addition, the Cox report proved that U.S. companies illegally transferred ''missile design information and know-how.''
The Clinton legacy just keeps on giving.
The Chang'e 2 blasted off from a remote corner of Sichuan
province and is set to orbit the moon.
They don't have that kind of courage though.
Yes, they DIDN'T pass an Obama-care mandate on their employers when Obama did on ours. That is so unfair.
Given what is going on at Wall Street I bet Jim Rogers is happy he fled Manhattan for Singapore a few years ago with his family. No gangs of Marxists treated as heroes causing trouble and disrupting business there.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would agree with this one. The must be serving popsicles in hell today.
Really; blowing the whistle now means nothing when the time for heroism was 15 years ago when her hubby sold us to Red China.
Kind of like that dopey broad sounding the alarm about Tyco/Worldcom/whatever after the story broke; at the time they said she was sounding her whistle under a basket...
Hillary makes a request from the Chinese? Now that's funny.
She may as well demand they return all our secret technology her husband gave them.
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