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If you would open your Bible to 2 Corinthians chapter 5, I want to draw your attention to a very, very significant portion of Scripture. Second Corinthians chapter 5, and I want to read for your hearing verses 17 through 21 just to embed in your mind this text. Second Corinthians chapter 5 and I'll begin reading at verse 17.
"Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things passed away, behold, new things have come. Now all these things are from God who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them. And He has committed to us the Word of reconciliation. Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ as though God were entreating through us. We beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
The word "reconcile" in some form appears five times in those verses. Fairly easy to conclude that that's the theme. This is a text about reconciliation. It is about, verse 18 says, the ministry of reconciliation which involves verse 19 the word or the message, the logosof reconciliation which is a word whose opposite is muthosrather than the other religious myths that deceive the hearts of men. This text defines for us the mandate that every Christian has from God to engage in the ministry of reconciliation to proclaim the message of reconciliation, thereby functioning as an ambassador for Christ through whom God is conveying His message.
When you ask yourself why you're here on earth as a Christian, the answer should find its way back to this. This is really a broader understanding of the great commission, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." "Go and make disciples of all nations." Or, "You shall be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem, Judea and the uttermost part of the earth." Really the only reason believers are left on earth is for this ministry of reconciliation. Everything else will be better in heaven. We struggle to be holy here. We struggle even with our fellowship here. We struggle with our praise here. We are easily distracted. We struggle with our communion, our prayer with God here. We limp along in this life and wonder why it is that God just doesn't get us out of here. We long to escape to the glories of heaven. We want to be perfect. We long for that body which is from heaven, as Paul states it in 2 Corinthians 5. We're left here really for one reason, we're left here for the ministry of reconciliation because there's one thing we will not ever do in heaven and that is we will never tell a sinner he or she can be reconciled to God;. There is no evangelism there. We are left here, a force of ambassadors, with a ministry of reconciliation to declare the message of how sinners can be reconciled to God. Sometimes when I'm flying, somebody sitting next to me says, "What do you do?" I will say, "I have a great job, I tell sinners they can be reconciled to God. Would you be interested?" That's what I do. That's what you do. I said that to one young man on a cross-country flight, he got up, went to the back and never returned. The last thing he wanted to do was sit for four hours next to a preacher.
But one night I was flying to El Paso, Texas, I was going down there to do a men's conference at the civic center in El Paso. And I was in the middle seat on Southwest Airlines. I...I tried to get on the plane as quickly as I could because they don't have assigned seats, but I had a high number and I was the last and I squeezed into this seat, next to an Arabic gentleman. And as we got up into the air a little bit, I took out my Bible and my notes and just started writing some things I wanted to say when I got there. Ten-fifteen minutes into the flight, he looks over, I can see he's glancing and glancing, and glancing, and finally he says, "Excuse me, sir, is that a Bible?"
I said, "It is a Bible."
He said, "Oh," he said, "then maybe you could answer a religious question."
I said, "Yes, I think I could answer a religious question." I said, "What's your question?"
He said, "Well, I'm new in America, I just immigrated, I immigrated through El Paso." There's a huge immigration center there. "I immigrated to the United States and in my country everybody is a Muslim, it's against the law not to be a Muslim. Religion is very simple, everybody's the same. In America," he said, "it's very confusing...very confusing." And he said, "My question is, what is the difference between a Catholic, a Protestant and a Baptist?" That's his question.
And I said, "Well, I'll be glad to answer that." And so I sorted that out for him as simply as I could. Talked a little bit about what Catholicism was and why there were Protestants who protested that and recovered the glorious gospel of grace and faith. And put the Baptists in the right category, just gave him a little explanation. And I said, "Since you asked me a question, could I ask you a question?"
And he said, "Of course, of course."
And I said...and I knew the answers, but I wanted to engage him in the conversation. So I said, "Do Muslims have sins?"
He said, "We have so many sins, I don't even know all the sins."
I said, "May I ask you another question?"
He said, "Of course."
I said, "Do you do them?"
"I do them all the time...all the time. In fact," he said, "I'm going to El Paso to do some sins." That's a pretty honest guy.
I said, "Really. Well just what kind of sins are you going to El Paso to do?"
He said, "When I was immigrating I met this girl at the immigration point and we will meet and do some sins."
And I said, "Well how does..." and now we're on the right subject, you understand that. I said, "How does Allah feel about this?"
"It's very bad. I could go to hell. There's a hell in Islam."
I said, "You could go to hell. Why don't you stop doing them?"
"I can't."
I said, "Do you have any hope that you might escape hell?"
And I'll never forget this line, he said, "I hope THE God," in Arabic it's Alelah, contracted to Allah, Alelah, THE God. "I hope THE God will forgive me."
I said, "On the basis of what?"
"I don't know, I just hope THE God will forgive me."
And then I said something just came out of my mouth, I said, "Well I know the true God personally and He won't." I didn't really think when I said it how it would affect him, but it had a dramatic effect on him because in Islam God is totally transcendent, nobody knows Him. You can't know Him, He's not knowable. He's not even involved except in judgment. And he was trying to process "You know..." and he said to me, "You know THE God personally?" Like, what are you doing in the middle seat on Southwest, you know? If you actually know the God of the universe, I would think you would have more pull than that, right? Maybe even your own plane, right? He just couldn't process that. But I said He is the true God, He is too holy to overlook your sin and you will pay for it forever in hell. And he was very quiet. And I said, "However, God has designed a plan for you to be reconciled to Him and go to heaven."
He said, "What is it?"
And so I unfolded the gospel completely to him. First time in his life he had ever heard it. He said to me, "Now, I understand how Jesus fits in."
Made no particular commitment then. I got his address, sent him a lot of material. Never heard back. Even directed him to a church in the area where he lived. I don't know what long-term affect I had on him, but I think I fouled up his weekend a little bit. That's a guess, but it's a fairly good one.
This is not an abnormal conversation. This is what we do. This is why we're here. This is what we live for, to tell sinners they can be reconciled to God. We have been given the ministry of reconciliation. That's our task on earth. We have been given the message, the logos, the Word of reconciliation, that's the gospel. And we go through this world and through this life announcing to sinners that the enmity, the hostility, the violent breach, the alienation between them and the living God of the universe can be ended and they can be reconciled.
When we say the word "reconciliation" in our culture, we understand that. There are even courts of reconciliation. There are even reconciliation organizations that engage themselves in animosity between people to try to resolve that. There are friendships that need to be reconciled. There are sibling rivalries that need to be reconciled. There are spouses that need to be reconciled. We understand what that means. We understand what it means to be alienated in a relationship and to find a way back. But when you think about God being reconciled to sinners, that's a much more difficult thing because sinners being reconciled to one another seems reasonable since both will be guilty of sin. But with God all the sin is ours, He is perfectly flawless and holy and He has been violated. It's all our fault, all our guilt, all our responsibility and yet God has determined a way in which sinners can be reconciled to Him. It would seem from a human viewpoint irreconcilable. I understand why Islam has a god that's really transcendent and irreconcilable. That's reasonable. There is no God in the science of religion across the face of the earth that is by nature a reconciler. No system of religion has...that's why the gospel is so startling, stunning and shocking. That's why it was a stumbling block to the Jews and foolishness to the Greeks. It made no sense to have a God who was offended, who was blasphemed, whose law was violated regularly, willfully, who then desires to reconcile all those violators to Himself and to do so as to offer Himself in death as a sacrifice.
But God has designed a way of reconciliation. And we are here in this church not only locally but the church of the Lord Jesus Christ with the objective of proclaiming the word of reconciliation as ambassadors. The term there you see in verse 20...ambassador...really refers to what you would understand as an ambassador. It's a very noble word. It was a title possessed by someone who represented his government. It was a term of great dignity. To scorn an ambassador or to mistreat an ambassador would be to scorn and mistreat the government he represented or the monarch he represented. To send the ambassador away is defacto to break the relationship with the government, or with the monarch he represents. An ambassador speaks wholly for his king, or his government. He is the mouthpiece of his sovereign. He never utters his own thoughts, he never makes private personal offers. He doesn't give personal promises. He doesn't make personal demands. He represents his sovereign. It is not our own dignity that lends weight to our ambassadorship, it is the dignity of the one we represent. So we are ambassadors of Christ. We are God's ambassadors, it says God is entreating through us. We don't have our own message, we don't have our own words. We don't make our own promises. We don't exact our own demands. We speak only that which our sovereign has told us to speak.
In Paul's day this responsibility was well-known. It was a very, very commonly understood duty. It is still well-known. The world is full of ambassadors. Every government on the earth sends its ambassadors into other places in alien foreign lands for representation. Consequently if you are an ambassador, you wind up in an alien culture. You wind up in a foreign environment. You wind up with different traditions, different life style. That's how it is for us as well. There's so much about this world in which we are ambassadors that is counter-culture to us. Our citizenship is in heaven. We belong in the fellowship of the saints. Heaven is our true home. We are aliens and strangers in this world. We don't like the way they think. We don't like the way they act. We don't like the things they advocate. We don't like what they perpetrate upon us. We do all we can to protect ourselves from it, insulate ourselves from it, protect our children from it and the people we love from it. But at the same time we are here because we have been mandated to proclaim the message of reconciliation in a ministry of reconciliation as ambassadors in an alien culture. And our responsibility here is not to change the culture. An ambassador who goes into a foreign culture doesn't have a mandate to change that culture. If you're the U.S. ambassador to France, or the U.S. ambassador to Haiti or the U.S. ambassador to any other country in the world, the Arab Emirates is not to change the culture, your job is to represent the sovereign government that sent you there.
I preached a message some years ago called "The deadly dangers of moralism," in which I said, "Evangelical Christianity today is spending too much time, too much money, and too much effort trying to change the culture rather than preach the ministry of reconciliation. The sovereign has given us the message. It is the gospel of Jesus Christ." We have been sidetracked into moralistic efforts, political efforts trying to perpetuate capitalism to one degree or another, trying to make sure we protect future generations as well as the present generation from the liberal left, making sure that we develop some kind of cultural morality. That's not our mandate. We uphold righteousness, we live as righteous citizens in this world. But our mandate is the Word of reconciliation. I remember visiting the White House, I got in the security line, I was going through the very, very serious security...this was an invitation event, only people who had been invited to come and get briefings got in line. They were all people known to the White House, it all had to send security there...security information first, they had done checks on all of us and still I'm standing in this very carefully designed screening line. A tall gentleman walks over to me, very young guy, taps me on the shoulder and says, "Come with me." And I'm thinking...What? Before I even got to the thing, you know, they're pulling me out of the line. And he said, "I'm on the White House staff, I work for President Bush and I just want you to know that your tape on the deadly dangers of moralism has been circulating the White House staff." You immediately think, "What did I say in that message?" And I remember all the things I might have said. O Lord, I hope they cut some of those things out when they edited. But he said to me, "You made the point that it's very easy for us to get caught up in a worldly agenda, in moralistic issues, political issues, economic issues, even though they might be good things to become hostile toward the people who disagree with us." And I made the statement in the message, "You turn the mission field into your enemy." And he said to me, "We had become hostile and angry and even unkind to the people that we must reach with the gospel." So he says we've been having some meetings here to talk about how that needs to change.
We have been given an ambassadorship not to fix the culture but to proclaim the message of reconciliation, changed people, changed by the gospel will change the society. This is our ministry. This is your ministry, not just mine. It's yours.
Now let's look at our text. What is involved in this ministry of reconciliation? What are the component parts of it? What are we talking about? We've said clearly this is about that, so break it down. What are the elements? I'm going to give you four things. Number one, reconciliation is by the will of God. It is by the will of God. That is so foundational, that is so critical, that is so basic, so absolutely essential and yet we might easily miss it. Reconciliation is by the will of God. Look at verse 17 for a moment. In this very familiar verse Paul says, "If any man is in Christ he's a new creature. The old things passed away. Behold, new things have come." He's talking about salvation, regeneration, conversion, new birth. All that comes with it, all the old is gone, all the new has come...so he's talking about the great work of salvation. Verse 18, "Now all these things," that is all the things that are new, all the elements of salvation, all the components of conversion, all these things are from God.
What is this telling us? That God is the reconciler. That reconciliation is by the will of God. Verse 19 puts it this way. God was in Christ reconciling the world, the world used in the sense of humanity. It doesn't mean every single person who has ever lived, but it means from the human race God is doing His reconciling work. God was in Christ reconciling the world. Then verse 20, God is entreating through us. In every sense God is the source, God is the initiator, God is the reconciler. Obviously the offended party has to set the terms for the reconciliation. If you have blasphemed God as all of us have, if you have become the enemy of God, if you are hostile to God, alienated from God, if you have violated God's holiness by violating the holy expression of His holiness which is His Law and all of us have violated His Law, if you are a violator of God's Law and therefore a violator of His holiness and therefore a blasphemer of God and therefore the enemy of God and if you have done all of that against God, then only God can set the terms of the reconciliation. When two human beings reconcile, there's give and take on both parts because we're all sinful and we have to give and take on both parts to bring about the reconciliation. In the case of reconciliation with God, we are guilty alone of the violations and God alone can set the terms for reconciliation. How thankful we should be that the true and living God is not like the false gods of this world but is by nature a reconciler.
Through the years I've studied false religions all over the world, ancient ones, modern ones, and they invent these various kinds of deities. Sometimes they even try to name them as if they are the true God of the Bible. But the gods of the nations run on a spectrum from, I guess what you could say is indifference to hostility, basically. It's one way to look at them kind of fanning across from one extreme to the other. Some gods are indifferent, apathetic and Allah appears to me to be a God who is transcendent, who is indifferent, who is way out there, who is not knowable, who has really no personal interaction with anyone. This would be true, for example, of Baal in the Old Testament. Baal is very indifferent. He is the apathetic God. And when demons and men invent their own gods, they have invented some who have been very, very apathetic. Remember Elijah up on Mount Carmel with the prophets of Baal and they built altars and Elijah said let's find out who's God. You build an altar, you put your sacrifice, I'll build an altar, put my sacrifice...you call your god, I'll call my God, we'll see who comes down and burns the offering. And while they're calling on Baal and cutting themselves and going through all kind of histrionics to try to get Baal who doesn't exist to react, what is Elijah's comment? Maybe he is sleeping, or on a vacation. This was a reflection of the apathy of their deity. But on the other hand, in Israel they worshiped the people, the pagan people and the unfaithful and apostate Israelites got caught up in the worship of another god called Molech or Moloch, and this was a god who was so angry, so hostile, so vicious that to appease him and get him off your back, you had to incinerate your body in a fire. So on the one hand you've got the indifferent god, on the other one you've got the hostile god, this is typical of the gods of the world, and gods of the nations, somewhere in between they all find a place. And here comes the true and living God and there is nothing like Him at all because men and demons cannot invent the true and living God. And here comes a God who is not apathetic, and who is not cruel, here is a God who is by nature a Savior. Here is a God who is by nature a reconciler. Here is a God who though completely holy, absolutely pure and flawless and who has been offended and blasphemed by His human creatures will still reconcile with them. He is by nature a reconciler.
It's a sad thing, you know, when you think about people who have been told, and this has been out there for centuries, for example, in Roman Catholicism that you don't want to go to God for your salvation, you don't want to go directly to God for your needs because God is hard and God is a judge and God is vengeful and God is wrathful. You might think you should go to Jesus, but Jesus can also be hard, and Jesus can be stern, and all of that. If you really want to be sure you can get the attention of God and be reconciled, if you really want to be saved for sure, go to Mary, she's sympathetic, she's compassionate, she's tender hearted. And Roman Catholic theology says Mary never refuses anybody who comes to her and Jesus can't refuse her, and so she sells Jesus on your case and then Jesus sells God on your case, and that's how you get God to be willing to accept you. That is...that is an attack on the nature of God. God is no reluctant Savior. God, our Savior...writes the Apostle Paul again and again in 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy and in Titus...God our Savior, God our Savior, God our Savior, God our Savior in every chapter. God is by nature a Savior.
Somebody says, "Well look at the Old Testament, what kind of a God is that? He opens up the ground and swallows people whole, He sends down fire from heaven and incinerates them. He drowns the whole Egyptian army in the Red Sea. What kind of a God tells the Jews to go slaughter all the Canaanites? What kind of a God sends bears out of the woods to shred young men who are demonstrating hostility and animosity toward a ?????? ? What kind of God does this? What kind of God allows all these things to happen? What kind of God initiates these kinds of deadly judgments?
That's not the question. The answer to that question is a just God. "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?" says the book of Genesis. A just God is doing what is just. The soul that sins shall die, the wages of sin is death. God says to Adam and Eve, "In the day you eat, you will die," Genesis 3. "In the day you eat of that forbidden fruit, you will die." They eat...I think they probably ate a few days after they were created. I don't think there was much time that went by.
They ate. And Adam lived over nine hundred years. What's that about? In the day you eat you die and nine hundred years later he's still alive, what is that about? The real question in the Old Testament is not why did God execute certain people at certain times, and they were a very small minority compared to the population until the Flood and then they were a massive majority. What kind of God drowns the whole world and let's only eight people survive? A just God, but it was a long time of God's pleading and pleading and pleading with mankind before that judgment fell. When God takes a life, that's justice. That's what is deserved. The real question to ask in the Old Testament is, why did God let so many sinners live for so long? Why didn't God destroy everybody? If God is a holy and just God, why doesn't He kill the sinner when the sinner deserves to be killed? If that were the case, nobody would be born because as David said, "In sin did my mother conceive me." It doesn't mean he was illegitimate, he meant that from the time he was conceived in the womb he possessed sinful propensities. The fact that anybody lives, that anybody wakes up, has breakfast, smells the morning dew, looks at the sunrise, enjoys the day, falls in love, has a baby, throughout all of human history the rain falls on the just and the unjust, the sun shines on the just and the unjust, the richness of this world is enjoyed by all...what is that? That is simply a temporal illustration of God's patient enduring kindness toward sinners that causes Him to withhold His judgment. Some died, many died under the judgment of God, not all died and that's the question that really should be asked, not why does God kill sinners, but why does God let sinners live? And the answer is, because...as Romans 2:4 says...He is patient and enduring, desiring that they should see His kindness and repent...and repent. God is by nature a reconciler. That's why 1 Timothy 4:10 says that He is the Savior of all men. Great statement, especially of those who believe.
Now we know how He's the Savior of those who believe, spiritually and temp...and eternally He saves us. But how is He the Savior of everybody? In what was is God the Savior of everybody? In a general sense, He's the Savior of everybody because He doesn't give the sinner what the sinner deserves when the sinner deserves it. Sinners live all around us, at all levels relative levels of sin. There are religious sinners, religious hypocrites, phonies in the church. There are pedophiles and child pornographers and terrorists at the other end, relative end of sin. They live, they survive, they flourish, they get rich. Why? Why doesn't God snuff them if He's a just God. Because He is a by nature a reconciler. He shows that to us in allowing sinners to live. He is the Savior of all men, then in a broad sense, temporally and physically He spares them what they deserve. But He's the Savior of those who believe spiritually and eternally. That is a far greater expression of His saving nature. But God puts His nature on display as a Savior by allowing sinners to live. And it is His kindness and forbearance intended to lead them to repentance. God is by nature a Savior. It is the will of God.
So you work on the sinner, not God. You work on the sinner, not God. God is ready and eager to save. Do you remember the story of the prodigal, the tale of two sons? The father is God, He looks in the distance, He sees His vile, wretched, selfish, indulgent, immoral, filthy traitor son coming back. And what does the father do? Pulls his robe up, straps around his waist and runs a sprint through the middle of the village to that son and before anything can come out of the mouth of that son, throws his arms around him, kisses him all over the head. That's full reconciliation. That father is God...the sprinting, eager reconciler embracing the filthy sinner. Puts on him the sandals, the ring, the robe, kills the fatted calf, huge celebration, pictures the joy of heaven when one sinner repents. God so loved the world...the world of sinners...that He gave His Son to reconcile them. He reconciled us not just to become friends, He reconciled us to become children. It is not foreign to His holy nature, it is true in every sense to His nature. He is the reconciler. Reconciliation then is the divine provision by which God's holy displeasure can be appeased. It is the divine provision by which hostility can be removed. It is the divine provision by which sinners can be restored to Him. Man never makes reconciliation. It is what we embrace, not what we do.
To put it another way, reconciliation with God is not something we accomplish when we stop rejecting Him. It is something He accomplishes when He stops rejecting us. It is initiated in divine sovereignty. God then is the source of reconciliation. Reconciliation is through the will of God so never are we more engaged in the will of God in this world than when we are proclaiming the message of reconciliation in the midst of the ministry of reconciliation, when we are discharging our ambassadorship we are doing God's redeeming work.
Second point, reconciliation is by the will of God. Secondly, by the act of forgiveness...by the act of forgiveness. Look at verse 19. It says that God reconciles us, God is in Christ reconciling, God is begging. And here is what makes it happen. Verse 19, "God in Christ reconciling the world to Himself not counting their trespasses against them." That's the only way this can work. God has to stop making our sin an issue. That is the only possible way. God has to overlook our sin. God has to dismiss our sin. God has to erase the record of our sin. He has to treat us, listen to this, as if we never sinned. That is such a wonderful thing.
You would think when you say to a sinner...Reconciliation with God is possible. And you say, "He's willing to forgive all your sin, all the sins you have committed in the past, all the sins you are currently committed...committing and all the sins you will ever commit in your life. He will forgive them all forever. Bury them in the depths of the deepest sea, remove them infinitely as far as east is from west and forget them." Does that sound good? Does that sound like a good offer, to have all your sins completely and fully forgiven? Who wouldn't accept that?
I love what it says in Ephesians 1 verse 7, "In Him we have redemption, through His blood the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of His grace which He lavished upon us all." Lavished grace washes away our sin. The only way that God can be reconciled to the sinner is if God no longer considers our sins. This is staggering. This is absolutely staggering. How can God, infinitely holy God, just decide sin is no longer an issue to Me? We might work that way in relationships. We have to. You might say to your child who has sinned against you as a parent, you bring your child in and you say, "Look, I forgive you. I love you. I want the best for you. This is wrong. I acknowledge it is that. But I forgive you. I forgive you so completely for your conduct or your behavior." Or you might be talking to a spouse or someone else, a friend. "I will no longer remember this. I will remove it. It will cease to be an issue. And I will be reconciled to you." We can do that as human beings. But to think of God doing that who has been so offended of just stepping up and saying, "I forgive it all?" That's exactly what is necessary. That is exactly what is required. Not counting their trespasses against them.
So when you talk about being reconciled to God, you're talking about a relationship to God in which your sins do not any longer exist. Wow. That leads me to a third point. The ministry of reconciliation is by the will of God, by the act of forgiveness...thirdly, by the obedience of faith...by the obedience of faith. And now we get to the point that the sinner is going to have to do something in the middle of all of this and that's in verse 20. Most interesting verse, he says, "We are ambassadors for Christ as though God were entreating through us," that's the ambassadorship idea. And then he says this, "We beg you on behalf of Christ, be ye reconciled to God." Now for the first time we have the introduction of the human element here. You need to be reconciled to God. God is the reconciler but not apart from the human will, not apart from your response. And isn't it fascinating...you would think the sinner would say, "Where do I go and what do I do? And what do I say to have all my sins forgiven, to escape the horrors of eternal hell, to have the promise of everlasting heaven? What? Just tell me. You're telling me that all my sins will be forgiven, not held against me, not accounted to me, obliterated, blotted out, wiped out forever. I will escape hell and enter heaven. Who would refuse that deal?" And yet Paul comes back and says, "We beg you."
What are you begging about? This is the best offer any human being was ever made. What is the begging part? The picture here is pleading. It's actually the Greek word parakaleo. This is a word with lots of meanings...ask, urge, encourage, counsel, admonish, exhort. It's associated with the Holy Spirit who is called the parakletos, a noun form of the same word. So here we are counseling, urging, asking, pleading, admonishing, exhorting to get people to be willing to reconcile to the God who is willing to reconcile with them. Why in the world is this something you have to beg people to do?
I'll tell you why. Because, Jesus said, "Men love their sin. They love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. They run from the light," John 3. You talk about them having to repent of their sin, you talk to them about having to be willing to give up their sin, you hear the words of Jesus, "If any man come after Me, let him deny himself," that is put an end to the person you are with the choices that you make and the life that you live and the sovereignty that you exercise over your own behavior, this is the end of you refusing any further contact with the person you've been, willing to take up your cross and die if necessary and eager to obey...you're talking about hating father, mother, sister, brother. You're talking about hating your own life, Jesus said, you're talking about giving up everything, selling all to buy the pearl of great price, selling all to buy that treasure hidden in the field, Matthew 13. Oh, this is giving up everything. The sinner's life is defined by sin. The sinner's life is defined by sinful thoughts, sinful attitudes, the cultivation of sinful activities and sinful relationships. And this is where he gets his gratification and this is where he gets his fulfillment, or she and you are asking them to let go of all of that. That's why it's a begging operation. The sinner holds to tightly to his sin, even the legalistic religious sinner, Jesus goes in Luke 4 to His hometown of Nazareth, He preaches in the synagogue to the people He grew up with, He spent 30 years in that synagogue, everybody knew Him, it's His own synagogue where He was every Sabbath, where He went to Sabbath school as a kid and He goes, He preaches one sermon, Luke 4, at the end of the sermon they try to throw Him off a cliff and kill Him...the people who knew Him best. Why? Because they would not accept His diagnosis of their wretched sinful condition. They were proud religious hypocrites who wouldn't let go of their hypocrisy. The sinner clings with a death grip to his sin.
And so, we plead, we beg...be reconciled to God. How? The Scripture is very clear, "By being willing to turn from your sin and trust in Christ." Christ is the focus of this. Look at verse 17, "It all is in Christ," verse 18, "It all is through Christ." Verse 19, "Again it is in Christ." We are ambassadors, verse 20, for Christ, on behalf of Christ. It is necessary for the sinner to repent and turn to Christ. And that's what we beg sinners to do. That's what I said to the man on the plane, "I'm telling you, God is a reconciler and God is willing to be reconciled to you if you will repent of your sin and put your trust in Jesus Christ." And you beg and you beg and you beg, you say in Acts 16:31, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you'll be saved." It's hard to believe because they can't get past the love of their own wretched sin.
Reconciliation is by the will of God, it is by the act of forgiveness, it is by the obedience of faith. One final point remains and this is the key to everything. Okay? God is a reconciler, willing to forgive the sinner who repents and believes in Christ...raises a huge question...huge. Here's the question. How can God...to put it in the language of Romans chapter 3 verse 26...how can God be just and the justifier of sinners? How can...how can He do that? Because as soon as He just passes over everybody's sin, forgives it, He stops being just. Justice punishes sin. For example, if I'm a judge in a court, I sit at the bench, people are brought in criminal court, the criminal comes in and says, "Yes, I'm a mass murderer, yes I killed all those people, I confess to all of it, I did it, here's how I did it." Here are the circumstances, a full confession. A full confession is corroborated by all the evidence, eye witnesses the whole case is air tight. He says then to the judge, "Judge, I'm really sorry about it and sorry I did that. I won't do that again. Could you please be gracious and forgive me?" And if I as a judge were to say, "Of course I forgive you, I feel compassion toward you, and love toward you, you're forgiven, you're free."
I wouldn't be a judge very long, would I? Because I'm not just. The violation of the crime demands justice. And shall not the judge of all the earth do right, as I said? God must be just so how can He be just and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus? How can God be just and holy and uphold His Law and still justify someone for believing in Jesus? That's Romans 3:26. Or to put it in language of Romans 4:5, how can God justify the ungodly? That is a profound little statement. Most people think religion is about the godly. You know, you're going to get to heaven if you're good. But it is God who justifies not the godly but the ungodly. How can He do that?
And that brings us to the fourth point and the key. Reconciliation is by the work of substitution...it is by the work of substitution. God justifies the ungodly by punishing a substitute. God's Law being violated, listen I'm going to make a statement that you might not have thought of, every sin ever committed in the history of the world will be punished by God...every sin you or I or any human beings who have ever lived or will ever live, every single sin will be punished, either eternally in the punishment that comes to that sinner, or in a substitute. And there's only been one substitute, verse 15. Here's how God maintains His justice and justifies those who believe in Jesus, justifies the ungodly, verse 21, "He...being God...made Him who knew no sin..." Who's that? You've only got one person on the list. One sinless one. "He made the spotless sinless Son of God, holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners....Hebrews says...the one of whom God Himself said, I am well pleased with Him." He made Christ...the Greek says...sin on our behalf, in our place for us. What a statement.
God made Him who knew no sin, the Lord Jesus, the Lamb without blemish and without spot, He made Him sin. No one was qualified but Him. Revelation 5, He's the only one qualified to come and take the scroll out of the hands of God and take back the earth as the rightful heir. He is the holy one. He is the perfect Lamb, sinless. God made Him sin.
What does that mean? Does it mean He became a sinner? There's a teaching floating around in the Faith Movement that on the cross Jesus became a sinner. It's been articulated again and again. On the cross Jesus became a sinner and had to go to hell for three days to pay for His sin and then was raised from the dead. Blasphemy. On the cross He is the Lamb without blemish and without spot. On the cross He says, "My God, My God, why?" There's no sin, that's why the why. If there's sin, there's no why, it's becoming a just punishment. What is this going on then if Jesus isn't actually a sinner?
Listen to this. On the cross God treated Jesus as if He were a sinner. He brought Him, the sinless one, to be the substitute for sinners, depicted in all the sacrifices in the Old Testament, a substitute giving His life for the sinner. Put it another way, God killed Jesus with His wrath over your sin instead of doing it to you. To put it another way, on the cross God treated Jesus as if He lived your life, as if He lived my life. That's right. On the cross God treated Jesus as if He lived, listen, your life and my life. To put it another way, on the cross God treated Jesus as if He had personally committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe through all of human history. He treated Jesus as if He had personally committed every sin ever committed by every person who would ever believe through all of human history, though He committed none. God treated Him as if He had committed them all. And you ask the question then, "How is it that if it's going to take an eternity of punishment for one sinner and still the punishment is not enough, how could Jesus bear the punishment of all the sinners who belong to God and bear it all from Friday to Sunday?"
And the answer is only this, that He could take an infinite amount of punishment summed up in a brief amount of time because He is an infinite person. So God treated Jesus as if He lived your life and unleashed the full fury of His wrath. And again I say, He bore the punishment of God for every sin ever committed by every person who through all human history would ever believe in the true and living God.
But that's not all. The back side of this substitution is equally startling. Look at the rest of verse 21, "That we might become the righteousness of God in Him." He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement for our peace and reconciliation was laid on Him. God caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him. All of that is in Isaiah 53. He became sin for us who knew no sin. But here's the other side of that. That we might become the righteousness of God in Him. This is so thrilling. He was made accursed for us, so says Galatians chapter 3. He bore our punishment by becoming a curse in our place. Peter puts it this way, "He Himself bore our sins in His body on the cross that we might die to sin and live to righteousness, by His wounds you were healed." It's the same idea. Substitution, our sins imputed to Him. But the other side of all that is His righteousness then credited to us. That last statement, "That we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
I'm not righteous. You're not righteous. We know that, don't we? We all live in Romans 7, don't do what we ought to do and do what we ought not to do. And we all say with Paul, "Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death." We all long to go to heaven so we can get rid of this cantankerous flesh that keeps subjecting us to sinful things. I'm not righteous. But then again, Christ was not a sinner, but God treated Him as a sinner and though I'm not righteous, God treats me as if I am righteous. On the cross God treated Jesus as if He lived my life, and now He treats me as I live...as if I lived Jesus life. Is that a startling thought?
People say, "Why did Jesus have to live thirty-three years?" If I were God I might have said, I need you to go down and redeem sinners, so go down on a Friday, you can die and be raised on Sunday and be back Sunday night. Get it done. What's 33 years? He had to live a perfect life. He had to be in all points tempted like as we are. He had to fulfill all righteousness, Matthew 3:15. Why? So that a perfect life would exist that could be credited to the account of those who belong to God. He dies a perfect death, the death that we should have died, so that we could be credited with living a perfect life. That's why there's no condemnation. God looks at the cross, sees Jesus. Looks at the cross rather and sees us bearing His fury. Looks at us and sees His Son. That's what it means to be in Christ. This is the gospel. This is the message, the word of reconciliation that we are to discharge in the ministry of reconciliation as ambassadors. Reconciliation is by the will of God, by the act of forgiveness, by the obedience of faith and by the mighty work of substitution.
Father, as we close this wonderful discussion of this great text, we are reminded that this is all Your plan, all of grace, grand and glorious, incomprehensible grace that You would treat Your Son as if He were a sinner so that You could treat us as if we were righteous. And some day You will make us righteous when we enter into the glory of heaven to come. We bless Your name, for giving us this reconciliation, for making us Your beloved, adored children though we are undeserving. May we be faithful in the ministry of reconciliation to preach the glorious gospel by which we were reconciled, so that others may be as well. In Your Son's name, amen.
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University is 2-1 heading into tonight's District 2-8A opener on the road against Lake Brantley, and nearly took down a talented New Smyrna Beach team.
ORANGE CITY — As University's Tyler Aziz sprinted off the practice field Tuesday afternoon, one of his teammates tried to grab his attention before giving up.
"He's always running," he said.
That would be one way to describe the senior running back.
Another would be dynamic, a description his coach, Brian Kells, uses and one Flagler Palm Coast found out first hand in its Week 3 matchup.
Aziz scored two touchdowns in a span of nine seconds to help the Titans stun the Bulldogs, 14-6. He returned a punt 58 yards for his first score. Then, after University recovered the ensuing kickoff, he reached the end zone from 18 yards out on the Titans' first play.
"It's been very exciting," said Kells, who's coaching varsity for the first time this year. "He's brought a dynamic element to our special teams. His ability to return kicks, whether it's punts or kickoffs, is awesome. We knew we had a special running back, but he's been equally great as a returner."
The Titans set a school record with five wins in 2012. But Kells had a feeling things were on the rise when Aziz, the area's leading returning rusher with 1,136 yards as a junior, transferred in from Trinity Christian in the offseason.
Kells' outlook has been proven right so far.
University is 2-1 heading into tonight's District 2-8A opener on the road against Lake Brantley, and nearly took down a talented New Smyrna Beach team in Week 2. Aziz returned a kickoff 84 yards for a score in that 27-21 loss that gave the program a glance into its potential.
The following week, University pulled out the game over FPC — a team the Titans lost to 28-7 a season ago.
"We work hard, we expect to win," Kells said. "It wasn't a surprise."
During Tuesday's practice, coaches used a wide-open district race to motivate the players during conditioning drills. The Titans have only won one district game in their four-year history.
With the 5-foot-10, 155-pound Aziz in the fold, quarterback Chris Negron believes that will change.
"We were excited when we found out he was coming," Negron said. "It was just another playmaker on this offense that people were going to have to deal with."
Negron also said it didn't take long for Aziz to convince the whole team this summer.
"He had to gain the coaches trust and our players' respect," Negron said. "He had to show that he was the best. We knew that he was a good player. We knew that he was a good running back. We just wanted him to show us he was a good running back."
According to Aziz, that took maybe "two weeks."
"I think the competition here pushed me to be better," Aziz said. "I think it was great for me."
Aziz and the Titans know things are about to get a lot more difficult. That's one of the reasons why Kells loaded up on quality games to open the season.
University's district includes DeLand, Lake Mary, Lyman, Seminole, Spruce Creek and tonight's opponent, 2-1 Lake Brantley.
The Patriots were 9-2 last season and reached the playoffs before losing to Neptune Beach Fletcher, 24-21, in the first round. The week before, Lake Brantley closed out the 2012 season with a 37-14 victory over University.
Aziz said part of the benefit of transferring to University was the chance to make history. For a team that's never reached the postseason, tonight could be a good place to start.
"It would be nice," Aziz said. "Having a chance to do something we've never done here would mean a lot. We have to take it one game at a time."


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Carlton Moore, 64, of Evansville, Ind., passed away Monday, April 8, 2013 at Deaconess Gateway Hospital. He was born on April 16, 1948 in Clarksville, TN to the late Billy and Geneva Moore.
Carlton was a medical technician student before being drafted in the Army. He served in the Army and was a member at Oak Hill Baptist Church. He enjoyed camping, riding bicycles, wood working, hiking, fishing, and being outdoors. He also had a love of reading history, singing, and church drama presentations.
Carlton never met a stranger. He was a friend to everyone. He loved spending time with his wife and family.
He was preceded in death by his parents; infant sister; and brother, Leon Moore.
Carlton is survived by his wife of 29 years, Ruth Ann Moore; son, Marc Moore of Paris, TN; daughters, Marshan Farrier (Tim) of Troy, OH and Adrienne Light (Jeremy) of Rolla, MO; grandchildren, Rian and Alaina Moore, Timothy and Emilie Farrier, Zachary and Grant Light; one niece, Jennifer Schumacher (Scott); one nephew, Joe Moore (Heidi); sister-in-law, Judy Moore; and many cousins.
A Memorial Service will be held at 1:00 PM Friday, April 12, 2013 at Oak Hill Baptist Church, 4615 Oak Hill Road, Evansville, IN 47710. Friends may visit Friday from noon to service time at the church.
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Exec Director Jon Fitzgerald also introduces Hollywood Network lineup, CineCause Spotlight, and Gravidi Video Platform for films in the Spotlight.HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 8, 2013 — (PRNewswire) — The Hollywood Film Festival's Executive Director Jon Fitzgerald has announced the 23 short films chosen for competition at the annual fest, which kicks off its 2013 season on October 18th at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood. With the establishment of new programs, themes and events, Fitzgerald will enhance the mandate of "bridging the gap" between established Hollywood and the film industry, an original mission of the Festival now in its 17th year.
The shorts film programs have been grouped by genres and themes many of which connect back to the Celebrate Hollywood and CineCause Spotlight. Docs – Exploring Culture all offer a rare glimpse into our culture, past, present and future. (Asia One, Do Not Duplicate, Sleeping with Suri), CineCause – Youth and Consequences embrace kids as the future, how we treat them, teach them and respect them will have a direct impact on all of us, for better or for worse. (Children Next Door, School's Out, Slave Queen), Narrative – Dependency focuses on complicated relationships and for the heroes in this program dependency proves difficult to overcome. (The Bright Side, Cash for Gold, Home, Six Letter Word), European Film Showcase – Transitions offers change as a good thing, but as we see with these characters, their next chapter is full of surprises, some more rewarding than others (Avant Que De Tout Perde, The Golden Bough, Wannabes), Family – Growing Up is all about children and coming of age. From superpowers to imagination, role playing to fighting off bullies, it's all part of the package. (Learning to Fly, Lucy, The Scenes, The Swimmer), Animation – Adaptation showcases Science achievement and medicine which often converge to push the boundaries for living creatures and their environment (The Collector's Gift, Day 6011, Feral, Rescue, Vengeance+ Vengeance), Student - Identity Crisis highlight stories about identity. Are we honest with ourselves, and with each other? Who, or what, do we love? (Iris, Home, Josephine & the Roach, Paulie)
Shorts and Feature filmmakers will have an opportunity to participate in the new Hollywood Network® program, sponsored by FilmLA; a series of round table discussions between independent filmmakers and Hollywood industry professionals. "The industry is always looking to discover emerging new talent," says Fitzgerald. "Hollywood Network® gives both Filmmaker and Executive the opportunity to meet and form relationships through a festival experience." This is yet another step in HFF efforts to "bridge the gap" between established Hollywood and the global creative community, an original mission of the festival. Selected Industry Participants include: Producer Laura Bickford (Traffic), David Dinerstein along with reps from: Gravidi, Paradigm, Showtime, Preferred Content, CAA, and Chill.
In addition to the onsite opportunities for Arclight audiences to get involved with the causes reflected in the CineCause films, a unique video App – Gravidi ( http://gravidi.com) - that offers users hot spots to learn more about projects and related causes, with a donation platform, will support the shorts and features highlighted in the CineCause Spotlight ( http://www.causecinema.com). Gravidi, Inc. has developed patented interactive technology with offices in Los Angeles and Baltimore. (Shorts utilizing this platform will include: Asia One, Mountains Will Move, Children Next Door, Schools Out, Running Blind and Slave Queen).
The Hollywood Film Festival bridges the gap between established Hollywood and the global creative community, providing an avenue of discovery for emerging filmmakers.
The Festival will initiate a series of meetings between independent filmmakers and industry professionals, through the Hollywood Network program. And with an aim toward promoting philanthropy and social awareness, HFF engineered the "Hollywood Gives Back" project to showcase the industry's artists who have supported a variety of important causes around the world. CineCause will enable up-and-coming independent artists to be honored alongside some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Networking opportunities rarely get better than this.
Taking place in the heart of the film industry, HFF makes it easy for attending filmmakers to connect with agents, producers, distributors, and other top industry decision-makers. HFF provides all exhibiting filmmakers with VIP Passes, granting access to premieres and screenings at the Festival Submit your film today for the chance to put yourself directly in front of the film industry's biggest movers and shakers!
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – As Conference Carolinas continues to hand out awards from the spring season, King University student-athletes keep getting honored. Both Cassie Ringstaff (softball) and Maegan Henry (women's track and field) were named Conference Carolinas Scholar Athletes of the Year for their respective sports.
A senior and first team All-Conference Carolinas performer this season, King University softball player Cassie Ringstaff added another award to her mantle this week when she was named Conference Carolinas' Scholar Athlete of the Year for softball. Earlier this spring, Ringstaff earned Capital One Academic All-District, carrying a 3.66 grade point average through her four years at King.
The senior graduated from King in May with a biology degree and was a two-time academic all-conference honoree. Ringstaff, a native of Richlands, Va., also excelled on the field, earning first team all-conference honors after batting .351 with 10 runs batted in and 10 runs scored in conference play. She finished second in the league with 19 stolen bases in 21 attempts on the season and was second on the team with 24 total runs scored.
King University's Maegan Henry earned her second Conference Carolinas Scholar Athlete of the Year award when she was named the league's scholar athlete of women's outdoor track and field this week. The junior earned the same distinction during the indoor season, and garnered Capital One Academic All-District honors earlier this spring.
Henry, a native of Bluefield, Va., continues to rewrite the King throwing record book as she set four new school records this season. The junior has won back-to-back Conference Carolinas Outdoor championships in both the hammer throw and shot put. Her tosses of 44.43 meters in the hammer throw and 14.04 meters in the shot put both came at the Conference Carolinas Outdoor Championships and set new school records.
With her toss of 14.04 meters, she became the first student-athlete in school history to eclipse the 14-meter mark. Her toss of 14.04 meters was also an NCAA provisional qualifying mark. She also won Conference Carolinas championships in both the weight throw and shot put during the indoor season with marks of 15.56 meters and 13.34 meters, respectively. Henry holds indoor school records in both the weight throw (15.71 meters) and shot put at 13.49 meters.
Outside of athletics, Henry is a member of FCA (Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and holds a grade point average of 3.79 while majoring in Biology.
The duo becomes the sixth and seventh King student-athletes to be named Conference Carolinas Scholar Athlete of the Year, joining Kendra Sokol (women's cross country), Kelsey Griffitts (women's volleyball), Bonnie Durrett (women's basketball), Logan Lyle (men's basketball) and Maegan Henry (women's indoor track and field).
The qualifications include being a junior or senior student-athlete with a cumulative grade point average of 3.25 or higher on a 4.0 scale in all work completed at their member institution that have played in a conference sponsored sport. Additionally, in order to qualify for the award the student-athlete must be a current member of the All-Conference Carolinas first, second, or third teams that were recently selected by head coaches from conference member institutions that nominate and then vote upon award winners.


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Velia Echeverria
Our beloved mother, Velia Echeverria, entered into rest on January 18, 2013.
She is survived by her children, Angie R. Leal, Velia Soto, Juan Soto and Robert Echeverria;
sisters, Mary, Eva, Linda, Elva, and youngest
sister Laura (Barton) Miramontes; brothers, Ernest and Edward.
Visitation will be held at Sutter Street Memorial Chapel on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Contributions can be made on behalf of the family to Sutter Street Memorial Chapel.


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Nothing is new anymore. The new winter fashion is still stripes and bright color. The new television sitcoms feature single women in big cities. John Grisham tops the best-seller list. Even in politics, everything is repurposed nostalgia. The 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, a $2 billion cacophony of promises for the future, is ending with homages to the recent past.
For Mitt Romney, it's 2008 all over again. Except this time, he is playing the role of Barack Obama, the inspirational candidate who can heal the nation, fix Washington and deliver change. In Iowa on Sunday, he announced, "This time demands bringing America together." He promised to work with politicians of both parties. "This has gathered the strength of a movement," he said later, in Pennsylvania, of his own campaign. "I ask you to vote for real change," he continued. "I won't just represent one party. I will represent one nation."
For Barack Obama, it's 2004 all over again. Except this time, he is playing the role of George W. Bush, the incumbent President with a significant technological and logistical campaign advantage. All the numbers look like they did before. Obama's approval rating on the eve of the election neatly matches Bush's in late October 2004. The national polls, and the polls in Ohio, which looks again to be the decisive state, match up too.
(PHOTOS: Political Pictures of the Week, Oct. 26–Nov. 2)
On the stump, Obama has traded Bush's national-security attacks on John Kerry for economic attacks on Romney. "You know me," Obama told a crowd in Ohio on Saturday. "You may not agree with every decision I've made … but you know what I believe. You know where I stand." Without attribution, Obama was quoting Bush, who told a crowd in Toledo, Ohio, on Oct. 29, 2004, "Americans have seen how I do my job. Even when you might not agree with me, you know what I believe, you know where I stand."
Neither candidate's pitch means much when removed from the rhetoric of a late-fall stump speech. Romney, the one promising unity, has promised for two years a frontal assault on Democrats from Day One in office, when he plans to begin the repeal of Obamacare. A year ago, Romney promised to veto a deficit compromise that included just one dollar of new taxes for every $10 of spending cuts, a position that would all but ensure gridlock for his Administration's agenda in a Democratic Senate. As the Associated Press pointed out, as Romney promised national unity, he also cut an ad supporting a Republican candidate in North Dakota that promises to "stop the liberal Reid-Pelosi agenda.''
As for Obama, his quotations of Bush are belied by his own campaign anthem. At every rally for nearly a year, he has walked on stage to the same song, "City of Blinding Lights," a rock ballad from the Irish group U2 that begins, "The more you see, the less you know/ The less you find out as you go." It's a fitting pick for a leader who has struggled to connect with Washington and struggled to hold the connection with his supporters from 2008. "If we know him, why does he seem so much slighter than the Barack Obama who thrilled the country a mere four years ago?" asked the New York Times' Maureen Dowd, one of most prominent liberal opinion writers in the nation, in her final last pre-election column. "If we know him, why were we so stunned at his crimped, self-destructive performance in the first debate."
(MORE: October Jobs Numbers Are Big News … for the Next President)
But the closing arguments don't matter so much. As Obama said in Virginia on Saturday, "I'm sort of a prop in the campaign." The race has been stable since the summer. The country is narrowly divided. The polls differ only in who they predict will turn out to vote on Tuesday. That outcome will almost certainly have more to do with the invisible mechanics of modern, billion-dollar campaigns than the final utterances of their candidates on the stump.
Despite the rhetoric on both sides, this has become an election about small things — about targeted messages for a few million voters in a half-dozen swing states. There is more enthusiasm on the Republican side but no real movement for either man; Obama remains the measurable favorite. And the victor wins stewardship of a federal government that will likely continue to deadlock, on the brink of national self-immolation. If 2008 was ultimately an election about hope, this one has been defined more by fear over the path the country has taken since the financial implosion of 2008. Whoever wins, the country will most likely get the most predictable outcome: closely divided, deeply polarized and faced with the same hard problems, and same painful list of possible solutions, that the nation faced last year before this campaign even began.
MORE: Viewpoint: The Case for Mitt Romney
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Event Name: Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series
Event Location: Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, NV
Event Date(s): September 21, 2012 to September 22, 2012
The greatest show on dirt makes its way to Las Vegas, Nevada for rounds 13 and 14! This will be the first time the famed Las Vegas Motor Speedway Short Course track will be run under the lights! Be sure to keep an eye out for the Team Associated/RC10.COM drivers, as we have a stacked team and they're hungry to win!
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Regret, Disappointment, A sense of 'I wish I could have done something'. These are all feelings you get when you miss a sale. Topman have tried to sneakily put the entire Lens range on sale and hoped no one noticed. That means £45 Mjolk trench coats, £15 Material Boy t-shirts and £25 Carolyn Massey shirts all slipping between our fingers.
Lad Musician T-shirt – how far will you go for fashion?
There comes a point in every man's life when he desires an item no one else has. An item that runs no risk of being worn by anyone else in the country. Would you go halfway across the world to obtain that item?
Leather Puma Clyde trainers
As you might have guessed, we're quite the fans of Puma here. You could say that Puma is our version of crack. No matter how much we try to stay away from it, we just keep on going back for one more hit. This will be the last time you see Puma on Brandish. This week.
Robert Geller S/S 2008
German Born, New York based designer Robert Geller is a very new kid on the block. His label only launched in A/W 07, after working at Marc Jacobs, revamping Cloak and creating a women's wear range called Harald. The following sentence will sound a little odd, but I'm going to look at a S/S 2008 range while we're actually in the same season.
WISHLIST: Uniqlo UT by Nicola Formichetti
A few weeks ago I spotted something on Nicola Formichetti's blog but thought it was too vague (being only a set of pictures) and decided not to post.
Thom Browne Runs…In Thom Browne Cardies!
This is probably a good time to admit that before Brandish, I wasn't too involved in the world of menswear (only now do I realise how much I was missing out on!) However, Thom Browne is one of those designers who manages to capture two opposite industries with just the cut of a hem and the snip of a gorgeous thread. His signature look of shrunken suit, sports socks and loafers has cemented him as a style icon for both sexes and his shows have even inspired my own trend reports. Now, Style.com has talked to him about his exercise regime (although running daily on tracks including Central Park, the Eiffel Tower and the Imperial Gardens of Japan are a luxury rather inaccessible to us hoi polloi.) But I really must warn you that the vid may leave you feeling slightly inferior- after all how many of us can claim to have completed 15 marathons worldwide and still be running in Thom Browne knitwear?
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Pop It Like It's Hot…Snoop Dogg's Cognac Copy
Snoop Dogg has some explaining to do! Over at Fashionista, they have spotted this rather blatant copy of Jean Paul Gaultier's 'Le Male' perfume bottle for his new Landy Cognac 'Desir' bottle design. Snoop Dogg is the latest spokesperson for the alcohol brand but he seems to be running dry of ideas (pardon that shocking pun!) So what do you think? Horrific homage or careless copy?
You Would If You Could: Busy Boots
After too many torturous nights of Cotton Eye Joe and Cowboy-clad cankles, customised boots have been effectively ruined. From D&G to Calvin Klein, embellished boots have done the rounds this season and I want in on the action. My brown leather Chelsea's have blurred into wardrobe background and now I'm looking out for glittery, brightly coloured boots without any Simon Cowell heel.
Pudel S/S 2008 biker jacket zip sweater
Pudel is only three years old, but has already built a reputable name based on its androgynous aesthetic. Headed by Lina Österman, a Central Saint Martins graduate, whilst clearly influenced by Swedish minimalist design, Pudel also has its roots in 'traditional Belgian deconstructionism'.
WISHLIST: Pauric Sweeney Bag
So I am back from a rather long and horribly full-on camping trip and I've decided that maybe I need to be a bit less full-on when it comes to fashion. How much longer can we go on with these studs and chunks of waxed crocodile leather- to be honest I am worryingly attracted to Jason's idea of living in pyjamas for a while.
From sweatshop to runway: a denim photo essay
Time magazine have produced an amazing series of photographs on the journey of a pair of jeans, from production in Chinese and Sri Lankan factories to runways and shops. Workers churn out 10,000 pairs a day, hand-distressing and sewing denim.
Toddy lead the sleepwear revolution
Curiously, pyjamas are fairly high on the agenda right now. Between Fantastic Man's latest photoshoot, and Alexis Petridis weighing up the practicalities of sleepwear-chic; it sounds like PJ-inspired looks are being talked about with completely straight faces in fashion circles.
Váronique Nichanian's ten rules of fashion
Rules, rules, rules. Who need them? Apparently men into fashion clearly do, otherwise men.style.com wouldn't have monthly features on the ten rules of fashion. This month is Váronique Nichanian's turn and the Hermes menswear designer chimes in with her ten rules of fashion.
Diet Butcher Slim Skin Hi Tops
If you like the colours of the Jaime Hayon shoes but think they're a little low cut, you'll love these Diet Butcher Slim Skin hi-tops. Although high tops are about as rare as a Fred Perry collaboration these days the colourways on these make them stand out from the dayglo dunk wearing crowd.
DWS Menswear Sample Sale
In London? Still have money in your account? In you answered yes to both these questions, then you have no reason to miss out on this DWS Menswear sample sale. If you've forgiven Evisu for flooding the market back in the late 90's then you can pick up some of their items alongside Vivienne Westwood, Hardy Amies and Hugo Boss amongst others. If there's a better reason to go on a pasta diet for the rest of the month, feel free to let me know.
Stand alone Marc by Marc store to open in London next year
Rejoice! Everyone's favourite diffusion line is about to set up shop in Europe this year, reaching the UK early next year.
A.P.C. release madras inspired S/S line
As regular Brandish readers will already know, we've been on a madras shirt offensive in the run up to spring/summer.
COS in Monocle magazine
Now that COS is a success, with three more stores set to open this year, it's nice to look back on what they wanted to achieve and whether they did so. Thankfully, this Monocle.com video allows you to do just that. For those who haven't read Monocle magazine, it's basically an international current affairs magazine with a website that has clearly been designed with the magazine, not as an afterthought.
Pyjamas outside of the house – good look or am I going crazy?
You know when you've become so accustomed to something that things that should look odd don't anymore? That's how I'm starting to feel with the pyjamas look. Wearing your pyjamas outside of the house should make you look like an extra from One flew over the Cuckoo's nest – instead I'm thinking that it's quite a wearable look. As long as you don't stray too far from your house.


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The unemployment rate was at 4.6 percent with 52 straight months of job growth on Jan. 3, 2007 when Democrats took control of Congress.
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The unemployment rate was at 4.6 percent with 52 straight months of job growth on Jan. 3, 2007 when Democrats took control of Congress.
Subsequently, unemployment has swelled to 10 percent and is at 7.9 percent. Barack Obama approved of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry Reid�s budgets 2007-2010. Fiscal responsibility and accountability should give Americans the desire to fire and hire.
The Declaration of Independence, Constitution and the Holy Bible were conspicuous in there inspiration, authority, sufficiency and perspicuity in times past. I have been disappointed in the politics, rulings and in President Obama�s direction away from these document�s jurisdictions.
We have been set apart from other countries in every aspect of individual liberty to believe, share and worship as we choose. This guarantee to be able to accept or reject is reiterated in our First Amendment.
The hostility of the president toward Americans of biblical faith is unprecedented: revoking conscience protections for health-care workers, military chaplains and institutions; opposing the inclusion of President Franklin D. Roosevelt�s Day prayer at the World War II memorial; arguing no First Amendment protection for churches and synagogues in hiring; and once issuing guidelines that �no religious items (Bibles, reading materials and/or facts) are allowed to be used or given� at Walter Reed Medical Center, just to name a few.
Encroachment upon an unambiguous right should not be tolerated by Congress, courts or the people.
Finally, the Constitution sets up jurisdictions of government. The three branches have not been diligent in the checks and balances given to uphold the integrity of government. President Obama judges enforcement by his opinion. The executive branch is obligated to law enforcement. Laws are made by �The People� through representation, not tyranny.
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COLUSA, Calif. — Jonnalee Henderson was impressed when she saw the walnut and almond tree shaker, painted hot pink, for the first time.
"Wow!" she exclaimed as the shaker was displayed at the farm show here. "This is awesome!"
The shaker was customized for the Arbuckle, Calif.-based harvesting operation Henderson co-owns with her brother, Wesley Henderson, and brother-in-law, Jake Spooner.
The project was done by the Yuba City, Calif.-based Orchard Machinery Corp. as a way to raise breast cancer awareness. Brenda Mayo, the wife of company owner Don Mayo, recently died of the disease, marketer Greg Kriss said.
Kriss found an enthusiastic buyer in the Hendersons, whose aunt, Linda Meyer Henderson, also succumbed to the disease. The two women's names are painted on the shaker.
"Don has been wanting to do a breast cancer awareness shaker for a long time," Kriss said. "Then to have a customer that has suffered the same loss, it kind of made sense. We presented it to them, and they were on board."
During almond and walnut harvest, the shakers move through the orchards and dislodge all the nuts from the trees, then sweepers come along and collect them all to be hulled and processed.
Typically the equipment is yellow or green, or perhaps red. But the shaker that will be used by the Hendersons' business, Spooner-Henderson Orchard Care, has a bright pink base and is adorned with various designs, including a depiction of the Sutter Buttes and a pink breast cancer ribbon painted on the door.
After its unveiling at the Colusa Farm Show last week, the shaker was brought to this week's World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif. However, the shaker won't just be relegated to farm shows, Jonnalee Henderson said.
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The shaker has gotten a warm reception from passers-by at the farm shows, Kriss said.
"Once they find out what it's for, everyone has been really supportive and thought it was a very nice gesture," he said.
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Victorian Hand Carved Ivory Eagle Fob
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A fob is an adornment or a seal that hangs from the ribbon or chain of a pocket watch. Its purpose is to decorate or add weight to the watch chain itself making it easier for the watch to be withdrawn from a pocket. A spinner or swivel fob has two or more plaques which can be turned or swiveled within a moveable bracket. This allows the wearer a choice as to which face is displayed prominently! The fob would have been used to seal the wax of a letter or note.
A spectacular carved ivory fob/pendant from the Victorian (ca1880) era! This beautiful and unusual hand carved piece is fairly large in size and wonderfully detailed. Made of ivory, the figural fob is carved to depict an open winged eagle which is perched upon a 10kt rose gold branch. The powerful bird is double sided with textured feather details and prominent facial features. The piece hangs from a simple bail which is ideal for hanging from a long gold chain. The beautiful fob would make a wonderful addition to any collection!
Measurements: The ivory eagle fob/pendant hangs approximately 1 5/8" long, is 1 1/8" at the widest point and 3/8" at the thickest point.
Condition: The overall condition of the ivory fob/pendant is excellent. Besides normal surface wear, there is no apparent damage to the ivory eagle or to the gold branch.