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Facts about Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.)
One in every 20 Americans over the age of 50 has P.A.D., a condition that raises the risk for heart attack and stroke.
Peripheral arterial disease, or P.A.D., develops when your arteries become clogged with plaque—fatty deposits that limit blood flow to your legs. Just like clogged arteries in the heart, clogged arteries in the legs mean you are at risk for having a heart attack or stroke. Plaque buildup in the legs does not always cause symptoms, so many people can have P.A.D. and not know it. People who do experience symptoms, such as pain or cramping in the legs, often do not report them, believing they are a natural part of aging or due to another cause. In all, P.A.D. affects 8 to 12 million people in the United States, especially those over 50. You can lower your risk for P.A.D. This fact sheet answers key questions about P.A.D. and provides steps you can take to reduce your risk. Timely detection and treatment of P.A.D. can improve the quality of your life; help you keep your independence and mobility; and reduce your risk of heart attack, stroke, leg amputation, and even death. Taking steps to learn about P.A.D., including asking your health care provider to check your risk, can help you stay in circulation longer to enjoy your life.
What is P.A.D.?
Peripheral arterial disease—also known as P.A.D.—is a common, yet serious, disease. It occurs when extra cholesterol and other fats circulating in the blood collect in the walls of the arteries that supply blood to your limbs. This buildup—called plaque—narrows your arteries, often reducing or blocking the flow of blood. P.A.D. is most commonly seen in the legs, but also can be present in the arteries that carry blood from your heart to your head, arms, kidneys, and stomach. Nearly everyone who has P.A.D.—even those who do not have leg symptoms—suffers from an inability to walk as fast or as far as they could before P.A.D.
What Causes P.A.D?
The cause of plaque buildup in the limbs is unknown in most cases. However, there are some conditions and habits that raise your chance of developing P.A.D.
Your risk increases if you:
What are the Signs and Symptoms of P.A.D.?
If they are present, the typical signs and symptoms of the disease include:
However, most people with P.A.D. do not experience symptoms.
If you believe you are at risk for P.A.D., discuss this concern with your health care provider. Find out if you should be tested for P.A.D and what you can do to lower your risk.
How is P.A.D. Diagnosed?
Many types of health care providers diagnose and treat P.A.D. Whether you see a family physician, internist, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, the first step is to ask about your risk for P.A.D. Your provider will take a medical and family history, perform a physical exam, and conduct diagnostic tests. In addition, there are many specialists who take care of patients with P.A.D., including: vascular medicine specialists, vascular surgeons, cardiologists, podiatrists, and interventional radiologists.
Medical and Family History
Physical Exam
Diagnostic Tests
Questions to Ask Your Health Care Provider
How is P.A.D. Treated?
The overall goals for treating P.A.D. are to reduce any symptoms, improve quality of life and mobility, and prevent heart attack, stroke, and amputation.
There are three main approaches to treating P.A.D.: making lifestyle changes; taking medication; and in some cases, having a special procedure or surgery. Your health care provider will determine the best treatment options for you, based on your medical history and the severity of your condition.
Lifestyle Changes
Special Procedures and Surgeries
Stay in Circulation: Take Steps to Learn About P.A.D. is a national awareness campaign to increase public and health care provider awareness about peripheral arterial disease (P.A.D.) and its association with other cardiovascular diseases. The campaign is sponsored by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute—part of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—in cooperation with the P.A.D. Coalition, an alliance of national organizations and professional societies united to improve the health and health care of people with P.A.D.
To Learn More
For additional information about P.A.D. and to download free patient education materials, please visit the following Web sites:
Stay in Circulation: Take Steps to Learn About P.A.D
NHLBI Health Topics: Peripheral Arterial Disease (P.A.D.)
NHLBI Health Information Center
PAD Coalition


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A winner was selected from 206 designs submitted by 74 freelance designers.
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We're open to ideas for the logo. The current "hands" design is ugly. Feel free to submit either updated "hands" designs, or something completely unrelated. Something on the themes of "integration" and "telecommunications" would be good.
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The Motivation for Perseverance
Neuroscience is on the right path in seeking to understand perseverance.
Last Christians?
We should not dismiss the idea of becoming more than what we are.
Made for Feedback
Science is once again catching-up to Scripture concerning human beings and how we thrive.
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Where are the Christians when this kind of stuff is being discussed?
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AV was one of my favorite battlegrounds to play as a protection warrior. It had a lot of PVE focused content which allowed us to shine where we shine best. However, most of that has changed. AV can still be fun, but don't expect to be leading the charge to your opponents general in the shortest time possible.
WoWInsider has a nice post about the changes to AV in patch 2.3.
After a few runs of the new and improved AV, I think it is very important that the masses become educated on the new AV. In my battlegroup, the Horde were still very firmly of the mindset of the race to Vann at all costs, giving away towers and bunkers freely with little to no defense.
In the new AV, a balanced offense and defense are more important than ever. Keeping your towers and your captains are very important to exiting the battleground with a good amount of honor. The sooner everyone realizes this, the better!
Devastate Spam FTW
On another, somewhat related note, I have a little tip for all you deep prot warriors. In battlegrounds, don't be afraid to whip out your [item]The Decapitator[/item] and [item]Fool's Bane[/item], then go Devastate crazy with all your might. You never know, you might just find out you can be the damage king and really piss off Arms warriors =)


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Not too long ago, I wrote a post about IBM's then very recent acquisition of a mobile application platform company called Worklight. Given the fact that is has been a while (at least in mobile market time) and IBM recently released (6/15) the new IBM Worklight 5.0 product, I thought it was a good time to revisit the topic.
First things first, the acquisition of Worklight by IBM and the subsequent release of IBM Worklight does not change the nature of the solution. It is still a mobile application platform, and it still provides the end-to-end capabilities that you probably (or at least should) expect from such a solution. At a high level, those capabilities address the following needs:
- Application development and build: IBM Worklight provides a robust development environment called IBM Worklight Studio that allows you to quickly construct mobile applications for multiple mobile operating system platforms. The Worklight Studio does not constrain you in terms of mobile application architecture (native, hybrid, mobile web), nor in terms of the libraries (JavaScript and otherwise) that you choose to use in your mobile application. Furthermore, the development environment includes an integrated build engine that makes it easy for you to initiate builds to produce device-installable binaries from a central location.
- Application runtime: IBM Worklight provides mobile application runtime capabilities that span from the mobile device to the enterprise backend through the IBM Worklight Device Runtime and the IBM Worklight Server respectively. The device runtime provides a rich set of APIs that are cross-platform in nature and offer easy access to the services provided by the IBM Worklight Server. Additionally, the device runtime provides a key-value, encrypted cache that your mobile applications can use to store data locally (on the device) in a secure manner. This cache can be instrumental in enabling applications to function offline and in improving overall application performance.
On the backend, the IBM Worklight Server provides services such as data integration, data transformation, application security, device authentication, direct application update, auditing, and more. It is worth pointing out that the IBM Worklight Device Runtime and the IBM Worklight Server are engineered to work together. This ensures your mobile applications have easy access to the services provided on the server, and it means there is a mechanism to deliver value right out of the box. There is ample evidence of the value of this integration, from the ease through which you can integrate existing enterprise information systems with your mobile applications to the ability to directly and proactively update application assets that are running on a user's device.
- Application management: Of course just as important as providing for the ability to develop, build, and run mobile applications is enabling you to effectively manage and administer said applications. IBM Worklight provides a web-based console that delivers an easy to use UI for leveraging some of the management features of the IBM Worklight Server. From the console you can manage multiple versions of an application across multiple platforms, send notification messages to application users, remotely disable specific application versions to prevent user access, and manage push notification sources and targets. Additionally, the console provides reports based on the audit data captured by the IBM Worklight Server. These reports provide important information about application usage such as application visits per day, total visits per application, newly detected devices per application, and more. Furthermore, the source data for these reports can be exported into your BI or analytics tool of choice.
I started off by mentioning the recent release of IBM Worklight v5, so I think it is appropriate to do a quick rundown of a few of the enhancements made in that recent release:
- WYSIWYG editor for quickly building mobile application UIs in a drag and drop fashion. The new Rich Page Editor can be used to quickly build mobile UIs using HTML5 and Dojo Mobile constructs. In no way does it limit the control you have over the underlying application source code, but it does make the construction of the views in your mobile application much simpler.
- Integration with IBM Cast Iron via an out of the box adapter. This adapter allows for bi-directional communication with IBM Cast Iron thereby delivering a rich set of application connectivity options right out of the box.
- Simulator for quickly testing mobile applications in a browser. The new Mobile Browser Simulator allows you to test your mobile application in a browser while simulating many different device form factors across a number of different platforms.
- Channel for easily sharing mobile applications during the development and test cycle. The new IBM Application Center makes it easy to share mobile applications amongst important stakeholders of a project while enabling those stakeholders to immediately provide feedback about the application.
- Much more. Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself by visiting the developerWorks site for mobile development. On that page, you will find links to download the new IBM Worklight Developer Edition which provides the end-to-end capability of the platform installed as a set of Eclipse plugins. That's right, the only thing required to install and get your hands on the product is an Eclipse environment! Furthermore, it is completely free to install and use on your local machine!
Okay, so this has gone on a little longer than I intended, but I wanted to wrap up by addressing one more thing. The entire mobile space is hot, and it is crowded with technology providers. A question that I often get asked from my clients is 'Why IBM Worklight?' While the answer always varies based on the unique scenario, it often comes back to a simple but profound statement: 'IBM Worklight delivers a truly open approach for developing and running mobile applications.' This is first encountered in the development environment where you can choose both the mobile application architecture and libraries that you want to use to do the job. It extends to the runtime by allowing you to quickly and easily integrate with a heterogeneous ecosystem of enterprise information systems. To be sure, there are many valuable and differentiating features and functions of the platform, and if you are so inclined I strongly encourage you to dive deeper into it (after all, it is free to try). That said, I do not think I can understate the value of a truly open platform!
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DEAR ABBY: My wife of six years was recently arrested for wire fraud, involving the receipt of unemployment benefits. She was receiving money when she should not have been. I knew she had applied for benefits since she was laid off; however, I was not aware that she was falsifying documents in order to receive the benefits.
I feel hurt, betrayed and offended. I am a retired law enforcement officer and currently an independent fraud investigator. Our relationship had been on the rocks for some time prior to this humiliating event. How do I handle this mess? - BETRAYED IN FLORIDA
DEAR BETRAYED: The first thing to do is realize that your wife's indiscretions are a reflection only on her character, not yours. Then let the law take its course, and once you have cooled off, decide rationally if you want to continue a marriage that has been 'on the rocks for some time.'
DEAR ABBY: Before my daughter turned 18, she followed the court's visitation specifics, as her brother does. Now that she's 18, she doesn't call or come over at all. She won't answer phone calls, so I text her. She'll respond with one-word answers - 'yes,' 'no,' 'maybe.'
It doesn't bother me that she chooses to live this way. She's an adult. I sent her money for her birthday. She didn't acknowledge it. If I text invitations to her, I still don't hear from her.
She doesn't go to college, doesn't drive, doesn't have a job and lives off her enabling mother. According to her brother, she plays video games all night and sleeps all day.
After her birthday silence, should I continue sending her money for occasions? The lack of respect makes me think not, but my love for her says I should. Is there a lesson to be taught, or do I continue dropping a check in the mail twice a year? The money is insignificant. Learning respect, I believe, is important. - DAD IN BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
DEAR DAD: It doesn't bother you that your daughter chooses to live this way? That she doesn't work, doesn't go to school, plays video games all night and sleeps all day? Is she on drugs? Suffering from severe depression?
Your daughter's behavior is not normal. You have described a young woman in serious need of counseling to bring her back to reality. If you love your daughter, forget the etiquette lesson and help her to get the psychological help she needs.
DEAR ABBY: When I was 17, I was checked into a psychiatric hospital for severe depression and a suicide attempt. While I was there I met 'Jim,' a boy who was there for the same reasons. To make a long story short, we kept in touch and now we're dating. We benefitted from the experience and are good for each other.
The catch is that he lives more than an hour away from me. We see each other frequently, but friends often ask how we met and we don't know how to answer the question. Generally, we say something vague about how we have known each other for a long time, but some people continue to press. Neither of us wants to advertise that we spent time in a psych ward. How can we gracefully sidestep the question? - DODGING THE QUESTION IN THE U.S.A.
DEAR DODGING: It is difficult to sidestep a question that is asked so frequently in the course of conversation - especially if a couple seems compatible. Because you would rather not be specific, just say you met in a teen counseling group a few years ago. It's the truth - you were being counseled.
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New Drug May Help Prevent Leg Blood Clots, Study Finds
(NEW YORK) -- A new Italian study finds that the new anti-clotting drug apixaban (Eliquis) may help prevent potentially fatal blood clots in patients with deep vein thrombosis, Health Day reports.
People who suffer from venous thromboembolism are inclined to develop blood clots in their legs, which can be dangerous and even fatal if they break loose and travel to the heart, brain or lungs. Patients with DVT currently take a drug called warfarin, which is effective but carries the risk of major bleeding, sometimes fatal, Health Day says.
Nearly 2,500 patients in the study were given either 2.5 milligrams of apixaban twice daily, 5mg of apixaban twice daily or an inactive placebo. Researchers found that both doses of apixaban reduced the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism by roughly 80 percent, compared to the placebo. And while major bleeding was similar for those taking the drug and those taking the placebo, both doses of apixaban reduced the risk of stroke, heart attack and cardiovascular-related death, according to Health Day.
The findings were published online in the New England Journal of Medicine on Dec. 8.
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South Florida's visual artists, performers and musicians have a new TV canvas to showcase their work.
That's "Art Loft," a new weekly art series that launches at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday on WPBT-Ch. 2 (airing from the Keys to Palm Beach). The show will also focus on national artists as well as arts groups that are helping establish South Florida as a global arts mecca.
The series, which has been in development since last year, serves to give local artists a broadcast platform at a time when many commercial news stations have reduced their arts coverage, WPBT officials say.
"We have sensed from the community a real gap in arts coverage,'' said Neal Hecker, chief content officer for WPBT. "We think the audience will be interested. It seemed like the right time."
Hosted by Kalyn Chapman James, the first episode features Arts Garage, a Delray Beach city-based cultural arts venue. That episode also profiles veteran violinist Itzhak Perlman, who recently performed at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Fort Lauderdale and Miami choreographer Rosie Herrera whose dance troupe recently made its New York debut with "Various Stage of Drowning: A Cabaret."
Future episodes will include an interview with photographer Annie Leibovitz at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach and Miami artist David "Lebo" Le Batard. There will also be a segment on the public art spaces in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.
Supplementing the local coverage will be segments contributed by PBS stations around the country. Overall, "Art Loft" is expected to run through the end of August. The program is funded by grants from the Newman's Own Foundation and Alvah H. & Wyline P. Chapman Foundation.
It's not the first time WPBT has presented a regular local arts program. From 2007 to 2008, the station aired "Art 360'" which also focused on the tri-county arts scene.
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We've been so busy with health care reform and trying to figure out how to "bend the health cost curve" that we've almost forgotten about the other federal entitlement program that is on an unsustainable (albeit less severe) fiscal path.
An article in today's New York Times reminds us of that other program, Social Security, with the newsworthy event being a Congressional Budget Office table that reveals the program is expected be in a cash deficit this year–with Social Security benefits paid out expected to exceed Social Security payroll taxes collected.
True, the Social Security program only faces one of the two pressures adversely affecting Medicare spending: just the demographic challenge of a rising elderly population relative to the working-age population. And as a result the problem is not as large. Some argue that's a reason not to worry about it–and not to do anything about it until it's more certain we're right at the doorstep of that unsustainable fate.
Not doing anything about Social Security now would be fine if either: (i) we knew what to do with the much bigger challenge of much more rapidly rising Medicare spending (i.e., we knew how to flatten that health cost curve and were really on the way to doing it), or (ii) we didn't know what to do to close the much smaller Social Security deficit.
But the fact is that it's hard to know how to solve the Medicare problem and relatively easy (mathematically and economically) to solve the Social Security problem. We know how to solve the latter, and I think most Americans in hearing what some of these solutions are (see this NYTimes editorial blog featuring some experts' ideas), would think they were no big deal.
Why, just this week my (very socially-conscious) 17-year old daughter, Emily, brought up the unsustainable fiscal outlook and said she didn't understand why we don't just raise the retirement age–which is what both Bill Gale (of the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution) and Andrew Biggs (of the conservative-leaning American Enterprise Institute… ok, perhaps more than leaning, but more on the David Frum story later) recommend in the NYTimes piece. Emily spoke of raising the retirement age as a "no brainer"–and not because I've brain-washed her but perhaps because she knows her mom will be working forever anyway just to pay for her and her three siblings' college educations…
Of course no one likes to work longer, just like no one likes to pay higher taxes or have limits on their subsidized health benefits. But let's face it: there will have to be more of these things we don't like, and to me it's a simple cost-benefit analysis.
The relative benefit of doing something we know how to do sooner (reducing the Social Security deficit) seems high in that small, phased-in changes now can save a lot of compound interest going forward. Even if it saves us more money than the size of the (small) Social Security "problem," that's a good thing, because chances are really good that our other reforms to the other programs will save us less money than the size of those other (bigger) problems. And any pain associated with these Social Security fixes–such as a gradual rise in the retirement age–seems relatively low and "easy" compared with those other (currently largely uncertain) ways of solving the long-term fiscal challenge which we'll still be trying to figure out for many, many years to come, and which will have to result in much more fundamental (and ultimately painful) changes to those other programs.
So yeah, we still have this little problem of Social Security, but it's completely and pretty easily solvable–and so we should be paying attention to it, now.
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On a recent rainy morning, three people sit chatting in the Wanokko House Support Center for disaster victims in Japan's Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture. There was Nisaburo Sasaki, a karaoke-loving, costume-jewelry-wearing retired steel worker; Shigeru Kanahama, a bonsai enthusiast; and staff member Akiko Sasaki, a middle-aged nurse.
The group likely wouldn't have gathered before the tsunami swept away their town in March 2011. But now the two men, who live in temporary housing units nearby, meet at the center most days.
Over 300,000 people were temporarily or permanently displaced last spring after a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami struck the island nation. Japan's elderly population was hard hit, and remains one of the most vulnerable groups among disaster victims. With limited mobility and shrinking support networks, many elderly Japanese find themselves isolated and alone seven months after the tsunami devastated their communities.
Equipped with exercise machines, baths, kitchens, and friendly staff, support centers like the one in Iwate Prefecture are part of plans by government agencies and aid organizations to stave off isolation and depression among the elderly.
"I don't have any friends here, except this guy," says Mr. Kanahama, giving his quiet companion a pat on the back.
In order to move disaster victims out of cramped communal shelters several months after the tsunami, municipal governments assigned temporary housing through a lottery system. Victims were moved and spread out across each municipality, losing ties to their neighborhoods along the way. A shortage of centrally-located flat land on which to build temporary housing units after the tsunami meant many elderly survivors not only found themselves living far from friends, but also from amenities like shops, clinics, and town halls.
"The older generation has been through a lot," says Ruth Campbell, a visiting scholar at Tokyo University's Institute of Gerontology. This includes war, poverty, and previous tsunamis. "A lot of them are very strong and resilient, but for some, the more losses they sustain, the more difficult it is for them to keep their wellbeing," says Ms. Campbell, a retired geriatric social worker.
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For Nisaburo Sasaki, the support center is one of his few remaining ties to society. A widower of seven years, he lost one son in the tsunami and doesn't see his other two children often. His former neighborhood friends are scattered across town. The nurse, Akiko Sasaki says he likes to drink. She's found him passed out alone in his room on several occasions.
"I'm keeping an eye on him. I think he'd be at risk if it weren't for this place," she says.
It's too early to assess how widespread the problems of depression and social isolation are, says John Campbell, also a researcher at the Institute of Gerontology. Prefectural officials haven't compiled statistics on how many elderly are living alone in temporary housing or in their own partially damaged homes.
The government-funded Wano Support Center is one of about 12 support centers opened on temporary housing sites in Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima – the three prefectures hit hardest by the disaster – so far. But with 63 planned support centers still not completed by late September, many survivors over the age of 65 don't have anywhere similar to go.
"This is the countryside and people tend to help each other out, but their communities have been destroyed," says Takashi Yamamoto, director of the Peace Boat Volunteer Center in Ishinomaki city, located in Miyagi Prefecture.
Communities in small villages are less likely to receive public services such as support centers, he says. Peace Boat is one of the most active NGOs in Ishinomaki and recently began publishing a free paper to help build community ties among temporary housing residents.
Government officials and NGOs are well aware of the risks that isolation entails. Following a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Kobe in 1995, a number of elderly survivors died alone in temporary housing units. Public, private, and nonprofit organizations say they are determined not to let that happen again.
What Japan is doing for it's older population
Japan has a universal long-term healthcare system, which means that even in remote areas elderly disaster victims are eligible for affordable day-care and health services. Some may even have more family support than before the tsunami because younger relatives are out of work and available to stay at home all day. But as months go by, many young people are forced to leave devastated coastal towns for economic reasons.
In September, a 65-year-old man committed suicide in a temporary housing unit in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, stoking fears that support projects may not be moving fast enough or reaching the residents of the nearly 50,000 temporary houses built so far. The man, who lived alone, was not found until relatives came for a visit about a week after he died, police said. Japan has the highest suicide rate in the world.
To reach those who can't or don't actively seek out support, the Japan National Council of Social Welfare is launching a 600-million-yen ($7.8 million) government-funded project. Support staff will go door to door at every temporary housing unit in the disaster area, and follow up with services, says Atsuo Shibuya, the organization's policy planning director.
Ruth Campbell, who studied what happened to elderly in temporary housing after the Kobe earthquake, agrees that long-term programs are needed.
"In the beginning [in Kobe] there were lots of volunteers. The real risk came about a year later. People had so little contact with relatives. It had to do with family relationships breaking down," she says.
Since then, awareness of the emotional needs of the elderly has grown greatly in Japan, she says. But to help prevent the same thing from happening in Tohoku, both public and private groups will need to stay focused on the issue for years to come.


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Recent studies of past climate and streamflow conditions have broadened understanding of long-term water availability in the Colorado River, revealing many periods when streamflow was lower than at any time in the past 100 years of recorded flows. That information, along with two important trends--a rapid increase in urban populations in the West and significant climate warming in the region--will require that water managers prepare for possible reductions in water supplies that cannot be fully averted through traditional means. This National Research Council report assesses existing scientific information, including temperature and streamflow records, tree-ring based reconstructions, and climate model projections, and how it relates to Colorado River water supplies and demands, water management, and drought preparedness. The report concludes that successful adjustments to new conditions will entail strong and sustained cooperation among the seven Colorado River basin states. The report recommends conducting a comprehensive basinwide study of urban water practices that can be used to help improve planning for future droughts and water shortages.


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CALGARY - A fourth day of deliberations will be required to determine the fate of a Calgary reservist charged following a fatal training mishap in Afghanistan in 2010.
Maj. Darryl Watts, 44, faces six charges, including manslaughter, in the death of Cpl. Josh Baker and injuries to four other soldiers on a firing range north of Kandahar city in February, 2010.
Baker died when a Claymore anti-personnel mine, packed with 700 steel balls, peppered his platoon during a training exercise.
The five-member military panel in the court martial spent Monday hunkered down in a conference room at the Mewata Armoury, a cordon of white tape providing a buffer and guaranteeing privacy.
Deliberations began late Saturday but the panel of senior military members still had not come to a conclusion when it adjourned Monday afternoon.
The Crown argues that Watts, who was the platoon commander, turned a blind eye to safety standards and abdicated his duty as a leader during the exercise.
The defence counters that Watts had no training on the Claymore, so he handed over responsibility for safety to his second-in-command, who was an expert on the weapon.
The platoon, which was stationed at Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City, usually visited the Kan Kala firing range about once a month.
On the day of the accident the range was divided into four training sections.
The first two tests of the anti-personnel mine went off without a hitch. But when the second firing occurred, the ball bearings fired backwards, hitting Baker and four others.
Videos of the accident show several soldiers, including Watts, standing around watching the tests. They were not inside armoured vehicles or standing behind them for cover, as set out in Canadian Forces safety guidelines.
Watts's commanding officer, Maj. Christopher Lunney, pleaded guilty to negligent performance of duty in September and was demoted to captain and given a severe reprimand.
Lunney's negligence was in failing to ensure that Watts was properly qualified, something the major said he had assumed because of Watts's rank at the time.
Another court martial is pending against Warrant Officer Paul Ravensdale sometime in the new year.
Ravensdale, who has since retired, is facing identical charges to Watts and will stand trial for manslaughter, unlawfully causing bodily harm, breach of duty and negligent performance of duty.
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In our Bible study for this Lord's Day, we find ourselves in the 14th chapter of the book of Acts and we invite you to turn with us to the 14th chapter. The Spirit of God has laid upon our hearts this most wonderful passage for today. Really, the whole chapter is taken together in this message and so we'll be taking it, as we often do, in parts but in the 14th chapter, verses 1 through 28, we find what I have entitled "Qualities of a Great Missionary." Now it could well be entitled qualities of a great servant of Christ any place, not necessarily a missionary, whom we assume to be somebody on foreign soil, but since the passage deals with Paul and Barnabas on their first missionary journey, certainly these are qualities of a great missionary.
We know that every job has qualifications. It doesn't matter what it is that you're applying for, and you're all very aware of this, there are certain qualifications that need to be met. Whenever you apply for a job, you fill out an application form and you're interviewed and the questions are asked to determine whether you qualify. Some jobs demand rather simple qualifications; other jobs demand rather complex ones. The simple job, for example, requiring physical dexterity and strength, limited mental capacity, the ability to follow orders, a limited amount of education, even these have their qualifications. The very complex jobs that are rather scientific that demand upwards to mental genius and the graduate degrees and psychological strength and capabilities of administration and leadership and so forth, all of the gamut in between, all of these kind of things are really just a matter of qualification. If you fit the qualifications, you're fitting the job.
I remember one time when I was in college, I needed a job and since I enjoyed athletics, I thought it'd be great to get a job with the Parks and Recreation and so I applied but then, of course, the first thing they do is find out whether you can throw a ball or do anything like that and I passed all of the physical qualifications in athletics and then they gave us a mental capacity and aptitude test and I passed that. The third test was a psychological test which I failed and it's never ceased to prey upon my mind that I failed that psychological test. There were five men interviewing me to determine whether I was psychologically capable of handling 50 kids on an elementary playground during the summer. Well, it was amazing. I went to the city hall and went through the whole thing and they didn't pass me. I think it had a little to do with the testimony of Christ that I gave which may have been a little heavy at the time but nevertheless I didn't pass and all of us have been through things like that where for some reason or another we didn't qualify or we did qualify and we had a positive response, but jobs demand qualification and the world is very qualification conscious.
Young men get out of college and immediately they're hit with all kinds of corporations and all kinds of programs that have a whole list of qualifications and if somebody doesn't qualify for anything, they tell them to go into the service, you know, and maybe they'll teach him a trade or something and he'll come out qualified. Qualifications are very important and, believe me, if the world is that hung up on qualified people, the church can be no less and I believe that God demands out of those of us who are fit for service that we really endeavor to meet the qualifications and I'll say this in a further statement, that it is God's design to use the people who most closely fit the qualifications for the most significant tasks. So if we as Christians ask ourselves why it seems that we never really get in on what God is doing, it may be that we have not endeavored to really be qualified. I believe God wants highly qualified people. If the world needs qualified people to do everything from directing Parks and Recreation to figuring out scientific formulas to send men into space, if the world needs qualified people for all of that, that's very mundane and very transitory and very temporary, believe me, God wants the most qualified to do the things that He has to be done because they are ultimately and eternally significant.
Now as we come to the 14th chapter of Acts, we're going to see some qualified people. There are a lot of missionaries on the field who aren't qualified. There are a lot of missionaries who are. Well, here's a couple who were super qualified. They manifest qualifications that are basic to effective service for Christ, whether they be a missionary on a foreign soil or whether you be the missionary to your house and your neighborhood. These are qualifications that really render service effective. Now there are at least eight of them that I find in the chapter and we'll look at them over the next couple of weeks.
Let me say this at the very beginning. In the 14th chapter, you could read this chapter and never hear of one of those qualifications. You say, "Well, you're reading them into the text." No, I'm taking them out of the narrative. The chapter is about Paul and Barnabas who went from Iconium to Lystra to Derbe, back again and went home and while they were doing it, they were preaching and creating trouble but I'm not about to say that and quit though that is the historic narrative of the passage but, in the flow of that narrative, they exhibit these eight qualities of effective missionary service and the beautiful thing about it is this and I always approach a passage the same way. I always ask the Lord, "Show me, Lord, what in this passage is practically applicable to us today." And the thing that just flew out of these verses to me were these qualities that made these men so effective.
Now notice, this is not a lecture listing the qualities. This is looking at two men who simply exhibited them in the action of their life and that's a lot better, isn't it? This isn't a chapter where Paul preaches eight qualities of being a good missionary. This is a chapter where Paul just exhibits them without saying a word and we can see them just leaping off the page and so here we see them in practice, not just talking about it but doing it. Now let's note these qualities. Quality No.1 that makes for effective missionary service or makes for effective Christian witness is this: the ministry of spiritual gifts...the ministry of spiritual gifts. Now this is generally revealed throughout the chapter and we'll take it just in a general sense and then we'll get specifically beginning at verse1 into the flow of the text. But we know that Paul and Barnabas are the missionaries.
Now let me review what's happened. The church has expanded in the Book of Acts and, incidentally the Book of Acts is the record of the expansion of the early church from Jerusalem to Rome, and the church has expanded and, as it has expanded, the Lord has begun to reach the Gentile world. He established a beachhead, first of all, in the Gentile world in a town called Antioch, a great major city in the world, Antioch in the land of Syria. A church was established there that had five great leaders. Two of them were Paul and Barnabas. From those five, the Spirit of God said, "Separate unto Me Paul and Barnabas for the work that I have called them to do," and Paul and Barnabas were sent from that church in Antioch to reach the Gentile world. They began what is classically known as the first missionary journey and they took off to the west and they went to Cyprus, an island. They proceeded across the Mediterranean Sea from Cyprus into the area known as Galatia. Last week, we saw that they went to a town called Antioch...not to be confused with the former Antioch; this is a different one...and there they preached Christ and created a riot. They were thrown out of Antioch. They didn't tuck their tail between their legs and crawl home. They proceeded further into Asia Minor, Galatia particularly, to a town called Iconium and, as we pick them up in verse 1, they have arrived at Iconium carrying the gospel to the pagan world, but the thing that we see in this chapter as they minister is that they are ministering their spiritual gifts.
Now we here at Grace have talked much about spiritual gifts. We have talked about the fact that every Christian at the moment of salvation receives spiritual gifts. A spiritual gift is not a natural ability. It is not something you exercise in your own strength. It is simply a channel through which the Holy Spirit ministers through you to the body. There are varying spiritual gifts listed in 1 Corinthians 12 and in Romans chapter 12 and all believers should be aware of theirs and should be ministering them because this is how God uses you. Now as we look at these men, we find that they exhibit spiritual gifts and I'll show you the four dominant ones that they exhibit. The first one is the gift of preaching. One of the spiritual gifts, I believe, is the gift of prophesy or preaching. In verse 1, it says, "It came to pass in Iconium, they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spoke," and here they exercised the gift of preaching which is a spirit-given ability to declare the gospel with clarity and power. Not everybody has that gift, right? They had it. They used it.
Down in verse 21, "And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many...that's the city of Derbe...they returned again to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch. There they are doing it again, exercising the gift of preaching or prophesy. Verse 25, "And when they had preached the Word in Perga, they went down to Attalia." There again, the gift of preaching. They had the ability then given them by the Spirit of God to proclaim the gospel with power and with effect. That's the gift of preaching but they had another gift and I believe gifts come in combinations. They had the gift of teaching, also. If you'll notice verse 21 again, it says, "And when they had preached the gospel to that city and had taught many..." Verse 22, "Confirming the souls of the disciples..." The only way to confirm somebody is to establish them in the doctrine of the Scripture. So they exhibited again the gift of teaching...the gift of the preaching and the gift of teaching.
Thirdly, they had another gift that I think goes with spiritual leadership. It goes with the Apostles. They had the gift of exhortation. The gift of exhortation is just what it says. It's exhorting people. Sometimes it's exhibited publicly. Sometimes it's exhibited in a one-to-one basis in counseling. But it's the ability to encourage somebody to pursue a certain course of action, so first they would preach the gospel, then they would teach doctrine, then they would encourage people to follow what they had learned. Those three gifts belonged to these men. Notice verse 22, "Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God." And so the gift of exhortation.
They had another gift. They had the gift of administration. The gift of administration, the Bible says, is the ability to put the pieces together to make things function. Notice verse 23, "And when they had ordained elders in every city, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed." They went back after they'd gone through those cities and organized the church in each city on their return. That's the gift of administration. Now here, friends, we have a marvelous insight into what gifts the Holy Spirit granted to the early Apostles. He gave them the gifts of preaching, teaching, exhortation and administration. Those are leadership gifts and I believe that in the main, though perhaps not exclusively, in the main, those are the gifts that pastor-teachers and evangelists still have today...preaching, teaching, exhortation and administration. Certainly, those are gifts necessary for the teaching pastor and the evangelist to declare the gospel, to teach doctrine, to encourage people to follow it and to organize for effective functioning within the body. Those are the gifts of leadership and they exhibit them here, I believe as Apostles, and I believe they are still the gifts belonging to pastor-teachers, for the most part, and to Biblical evangelists.
Now in addition to those gifts...incidentally, those are permanent gifts; if you have any questions about this, we do have a study on the gifts that you can follow through...but in addition to the permanent edifying gifts, such as those which still exist today, there were special gifts just for the Apostles which we don't have today. In 2 Corinthians 12:12, just a brief review, "Truly the signs of an apostle...says Paul; and there he says there are some signs that belong to Apostles...were wrought among you...and here they are...signs, wonders and mighty deeds." Now Paul says that Apostles were given the ability to perform signs which created wonder and they had the ability to perform mighty deeds. This is the gift of miracles. It is a temporary gift given to them to confirm their preaching. If a preacher comes to town and preaches, how are you going to know he's telling you the truth? If you got three guys giving you three messages, you believe the one who raises the dead, right? You believe the one who has the wonders accompanying him because it shows that God is attaching to his ministry supernatural evidence and so God attached to the Apostles supernatural evidence. You say, "Don't we need that today?" No, because anybody, any place, can determine whether we speak the truth by comparing us with the Scripture and so the Scripture becomes the confirmation today, whereas miracles were the confirmation in the day before the Scripture was completed.
When the Apostles came to the congregation of whom the Hebrews were a part...the letter of Hebrews is written. It says, "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at first was spoken by the Lord but unto us by them that heard Him." It was confirmed to us by them with signs, wonders, mighty deeds and diverse gifts of the Holy Spirit, so when the gospel was preached in the early days, there were certain special gifts given to these men in order that they might confirm their message and that the message might be believable as it was accommodated by supernatural miracle. So in the apostolic day, they not only had these permanent kinds of gifts, these edifying, body-building gifts, but they had the gifts geared to convince unbelievers. Miracles is one that they had, obviously, from verse 3. It says that "Unto them God granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." Secondly, the gift of healing, verse 8. They saw a cripple. Paul said to him, "Get up," verse 10, and he did and that was a miracle to establish in the minds of an unbelieving people that this message was of God. So they exhibited spiritual gifts.
Now let me hasten to say this. As we have seen so many times in the Book of Acts, it is not a question of sitting around, saying, "Oh, I wish God would use my gifts." It is a question of already functioning with your gifts and then being moved by God into critical situations. Do you understand the difference? Remember how we saw Peter? It says that "as Peter passed from all quarters." Isn't that a terrific statement? He's just going everywhere doing everything. The Spirit of God put him here, put him there, and put him there and put him there, and he kept doing things and we told you at that time when we studied that that God doesn't dust off crusty Christians who haven't done anything and stick them in critical situations. God uses people who are already overdone, busy and actively ministering their gifts. In the flow of the Christian's life, he ought to be ministering his gifts and, as you minister your gifts, just in the flow of life, the Spirit of God will direct you to the strategic places where you're going to see those gifts maximized.
From the time of Paul's conversion, he began to minister. It's in the same chapter that he was saved that it says he was preaching in Damascus and he preached and kept preaching and never stopped preaching and he was teaching. Paul, from the very beginning, began to minister his gifts and consequently when it got to be time for Barnabas to look for a good guy to help him in Antioch, the one guy that he wanted was the guy he knew was functioning already and he chased all over the place until he finally found Saul and hauled him off to Antioch and made him his co-pastor. Why? Because the Spirit of God is always in the business of collecting people who are functioning already.
I'll never forget a missionary who told me that if a person isn't a missionary at home...it's inevitable...99 times out of 100, they never become one on the field because where you are geographically has nothing to do with your commitment and they look for people who are already functioning people and always the Holy Spirit has done that and so when the Holy Spirit wanted a couple of missionaries to go to Cyprus and then to Antioch of Pisidia and then to travel to Galatia, He didn't go to some new group of converts and say, "Now let me have a couple of you who aren't doing anything. You're not on the publicity committee or you're not on this committee or you're not working over here in evangelism and you're just kind of nothing. I want to send you to Antioch of Pisidia which will be a tough place to go." No, not at all. He picked the two busiest guys going in the Gentile church, Paul and Barnabas, and said, "Get out. You're My man." That's the way God operates.
And so we find then that to begin with really effective missionary service wherever it is demands the ministry of spiritual gifts. If you're not ministering your spiritual gift...watch...then you're not functioning in the way the Spirit of God designed you to function. You say, "John, I don't even know what my spiritual gift is." Then you're even a further step removed from effectiveness and you need to read Romans 12, 1Corinthians 12, pray, be filled with the Spirit and see what the Spirit does through you. People say, "Well, how do I know my gift?" And I even heard of the computer thing where you can send in all your qualifications and they'll send you back your gifts. No, that's not the way to do it. You want to know what your spiritual gift is? Just be filled with the Holy Spirit, see what the Holy Spirit does and say, "Oh, so that's what my gift is." Look at it in retrospect and stay with it. They were ministering spiritual gifts.
You know, the Bible is very strong in urging us to do this. In Romans chapter 12, Paul lays it on pretty thick. He says beginning in verse 6, "Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us...we have these gifts...whether prophecy, let us prophesy...if you've got the gift, use it...ministry, let us wait on our ministering or he that teacheth, on teaching...get with it...he that exhorts, on exhortation: he that gives, let him do it with liberality; he that rules with diligence, he that shows mercy, with cheerfulness." In other words, if you've got a gift, use it...use it. 1 Peter, the end of the chapter...I should say at the end of the book chapter 4 verse 10, "As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold...or multicolored...grace of God." If you've got some gifts, use them. They're not even yours. You're a steward of them. You're holding them in trust for God. Don't waste them. Use them. Determine your gift; use it. That's the beginning of effective missionary service. These guys were functioning in every capacity. They preached, they taught, they exhorted, they administrated. The dominant gifts which they possessed, they used and they had all along been using them. We can trace back and we'll find preaching, teaching, exhortation and administration revealed in the life of Paul or Barnabas already at least once in the Book of Acts before this ever happens. They already were functioning people in the body of Christ. Consequently, the Spirit chose them for the specific task to which they come in the 13th and 14th chapters.
All right, now there's a second qualification that really comes out of the first seven verses and now we'll get into the text proper and that is this: boldness. Somebody told me...I forget who it was...recently that the thing they had learned most out of the Book of Acts and appreciated most and had made the most difference in their life as a Christian was the concept of boldness. Now for us who have been studying the Book of Acts for any time, it's a review, isn't it, because we've seen so much boldness in the Book of Acts, we're almost overwhelmed by it but here it is again and the reason the Spirit repeats it so often is because it's truly a part of the early church and it's also because we need to know about it. We need to be reminded that boldness is a basic ingredient to the Christian experience, and I'll show you why in a minute, but let's begin by looking at verse 1 and let's follow the pattern of boldness revealed in the city of Iconium.
"And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews...Paul and Barnabas...and so spoke, that a great multitude both of the Jews and also the Greeks believed." Now there's a couple of things that just really hit me here. They came to Iconium, which is about 100 miles southeast of Antioch. You remember they were thrown out of Antioch. They messed up Antioch so badly that the city split wide open. Finally, they kicked them out but they didn't go home. They didn't quit. They didn't go back and lick their wounds and say, "Oh, we've got to get a new strategy to reach the Gentiles," and then invent some gospel blimp or something. They stayed right where they were and pursued the path the Spirit of God had led and they came to Iconium. Now I like this: "They went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spoke that a great multitude believed."
There's one word in that verse that escapes most eyes and it escaped mine the first couple of times I read it and then it hit me like a ton of bricks. That's the word "so." They so spoke that a multitude believed. There is speaking and then there is so speaking. You say, "What is so speaking?" That's speaking in the energy of the Holy Spirit. The only time anybody is going to believe, the only time you're going to have any kind of response at all, is when you so speak that it could happen and the only time you have so spoken that it could happen is when you have spoken in the energy of the Holy Spirit...right?...which means they ministered their gifts. They so spoke that results happened. You go out and try to minister your gift in the flesh and you know what'll happen? You'll speak...period, paragraph. And then there are the times in the energy of the Spirit when you have so spoken that multitudes have believed. You see, there's a big difference. Just watch those little ones. They'll get you. So...very important.
So they so spoke that people believed. Now this little old frontier town, which was officially a Roman colony since Emperor Hadrian, was little out in the boondocks a hundred miles from Antioch. Its population was the usual conglomeration of ex-soldiers, expatriates, Jews, Romans, Greeks, Syrian merchants and some half-civilized natives who inhabited the area and it was a typical kind of frontier dusty, dirty place, not much bigger than a village, though it was a fair sized city, and it's an interesting footnote, too, that Paul usually went to large cities. He left the evangelization of the village to the people that got saved in the city. I think it would be good if some missions realized that this is the pattern of the New Testament. Now times were that he did go to small towns but usually large cities and then when they got saved, they would go to the villages.
Well, he came to Iconium and it says in verse 1 that he went to the synagogue and again here's the same pattern, isn't it, that we've seen before. He goes to the Jews. Why? Because he loves them. Because he knows there's a ready-made audience. Because he knows they know a little about the Old Testament so he has kind of a base on which to go. He knows also that if some of the Jews get saved, they can help him win the Gentiles. Let me give you another reason I haven't given you before. Another reason to go to the synagogue first is because if he went to the Gentiles first, you'd never get to the synagogue. You see, if he evangelized the Gentiles, the Jews would have written him off and the synagogue never would have been open, so he started with the synagogue and went from there.
Well, they went in there and they both preached and tremendous results. People believed. Now we have no idea whether they continued in the faith and were really saved. We just know that there was an initial reception of the gospel. We've learned long ago that when it says, "They believed," it's no guarantee they were really saved, right? We have to wait to see if they continue in the faith. But at that point, they believed in their minds that this was so. He preached Christ. Barnabas preached Christ. The people bought it. It's true. That was a great beginning. The pattern so far has been go into the synagogue and have a terrific start, hasn't it? And then immediately, trouble. You know, just when you think everything's going good is when Satan's really at work. They knew this. They weren't overly-joyed when this initial response happened. That's exactly what happened in Antioch in the last town and, before everything cooled off, they were thrown out.
We were meeting with our elders this morning as always for prayer about an hour before our early service and I said, "What do we have to share this morning by way of prayers and what are we going to pray for and what's happening and what's Satan doing and so forth," and nobody said anything. It was just kind of silent for a few minutes and a few little things were shared and I said, "You mean nothing really going on specifically we need to pray about?" Nobody said anything. I said, "Well, let me just tell you, men. Get ready. A bomb is about to blow up somewhere." Just when everything gets going smoothly is exactly when you can be sure that Satan's busy doing something and, believe me, it'll pop. It'll happen.
Well, it happened. Verse 2, "But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles." There were some Jews who didn't buy their message at all and they stirred up the Gentiles. Now it doesn't say what they did. "Unbelieving Jews" is an interesting phrase. In the Greek literally, it says, "the Jews...and then a participle...the ones who were disobedient." An unbeliever is disobedient to God, disobedient to God's revelation, disobedient to God's truth. And so these Jews, the ones who were disobedient, did not obey, stirred up the Gentiles. Somehow they riled them all up "...and made the minds evil affected against the brethren." They stirred them up against the Apostles and whoever had believed and apparently some were saved and they are called "brethren." And so the unsaved Jews started to foment against the saved who had come to Christ under Paul and Barnabas' preaching.
Now apparently, this opposition was kind of underground, just kind of like smoldering, just kind of boiling. Have you ever seen a geyser just bubble before it goes? Just kind of...nothing really explosive but just smoldering bitterness and hatred and sort of a slow, polarization of the population of Iconium was taking place. Verse 3, it took a while for it to unfold apparently because it says, "A long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord." The Lord kept the lid on this boiling pot of bitterness for a long time. Now that phrase, "a long time," in the Greek is used elsewhere to speak of time as much as three years and as little as a month, so somewhere between a month and three years, likely several months, they remained in that city and they continued to preach and they continued to teach, speaking boldly in the Lord. "And the Lord gave testimony unto the Word of His grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands." The Lord confirmed what they were preaching by miracles so they stayed a long time and the thing continued to smolder.
Now notice the word that keys on our point here. The word is boldly...boldly. They knew the resentment was brewing. They were well aware of the treacherous nature of really the events to come. They knew it was inevitable and yet they were bold in their continuing to preach and I think that's a quality that really makes the difference in the Christian's life and that is the quality of fearlessness. It is the declaration of the truth in the face of any kind of opposition. This was absolutely characteristic of the Apostle Paul. I mean he didn't even know how to live any other way than that. He had tremendous kind of commitment to boldness. In 1 Thessalonians 2:2, just for example, "Even after we had suffered before, and were shamefully treated, we were bold in our God to speak the gospel." He says, "Even after we've been beaten up and were treated shamefully, we still were bold." You could never daunt Paul. There just wasn't any way to stop him and this is a quality that I think has no substitute. Let me show you why.
I believe...and this is worth something to you so grab this thought...I believe that boldness is a necessity to any effective service. You know what most of us do? We say, "Well, I think I'll witness to Martha over here." And so you run over to your neighbor and Martha says, "I don't believe any of that garbage. Don't bother me with that anymore." E-e-e, see. You just freeze up. Your mouth becomes like the Arctic River, you know, frozen over at the mouth, just kind of...was it that bad? Anyway, you just kind of hmmm, you know. You have this terrible cold feeling. You've been rejected and you sort of crawl back. Or at the job, a guy says, "You know, I started to talk about Christ and the guy told me shut up. My foreman told me to shut up or I'd get fired." And so we whew; clam up. You know what boldness is? Boldness is this: it's meeting the opposition and whew; going through.
You want to hear something? Nobody ever accomplished anything for God in the long run without boldness. Let me show you why. You start something for God. You get all organized. Here I go, God. I'm going to do this for You. As soon as you take one step, who knows? Satan does and wham! He's there. Now you have a test. If you have boldness, hmm, see. Right through and victory. If you don't, ah-h, see. Boldness then is essential to victory because boldness is that quality that makes you go through when you're being resisted and if you don't have that, you'll never go through because you'll always be resisted. So to say, "Well, I'm a Christian but I'm not very bold," is to admit that you're hopelessly defeated. If you go to work and you share Jesus Christ and somebody says, "Shut up. You'll be fired." In your heart, say, "Good," and then continue to declare Jesus Christ and if you get fired...good. Go somewhere else, some new territory to declare Jesus Christ. And if your neighbor gets excited and can't stand your testimony, she'll move away and a new one will come.
Boldness makes for greater opportunity. It always did in the Book of Acts. They were bold and people got upset and threw them out and they went new places. Don't be ashamed. Boldness is basic because there's always to be resistance and boldness is only the capacity that says, "I will not succumb to the resistance," you see. Now this doesn't mean you're some kind of a bull in a china closet or you stomp all over people's necks and become terribly offensive but it does mean that nobody, but nobody, stops you in a ministry you believe the Spirit of God has called you to do.
Now my favorite word in verse 3 might surprise you. Of all those wonderful words in there, my favorite word is "therefore." You say, "What's so great about that?" Well, it's like "so" up in verse 1. Verse 2 says, "But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren." You say, "Oh, tragedy." Then this: "A long time therefore abode they speaking boldly." When the persecution got hot, therefore they stayed. Don't you like that? I like chapter8 verse 3 and 4. It's similar. "As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. He entered into every house and was hauling men and women and committing them to prison." You say, "Oh, wonder what the terrible results of that were?" "Therefore...next word...they that were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the Word." See, it always has a positive effect. They ran into opposition. They just plowed through to victory and I love the fact that it doesn't say, "a long time in spite of that." No, a long time because they were persecuted, they stayed and spoke boldly. You see, persecution just means the battle's getting hot and somebody's going to win. If there's no fight, there's no winner, so when you get opposition, you get an opportunity for victory. You plow through and you've won. Therefore, they stayed a long time because it was a tough...listen, they knew that when things were smoldering something was happening and so they stuck it out and they were bold.
Boldness is that willingness to go through. You know the early church, chapter 4, they hauled Peter and John in there in front of the Sanhedrin and all the religious mucky-mucks and they said, "Look, that's all. No more preaching about this Jesus. We've had it with you." And Peter and John didn't shrivel up. John didn't say, "Don't say anything, Peter. We'll do what we want when we get out. Let's play it cool." No. Peter says, "We must speak that which we have heard. You decide whether we ought to obey you or God." And they couldn't find any reason to punish them, it says, so they just said, "Don't do it anymore," and sent them out. So they went back to the Christians. They said, "Guess what? We just got persecuted. They told us we couldn't preach anymore." And so they all fell on their knees and started to pray, chapter 4, and I love what they prayed. Let me just read it to you. I don't want to misquote it because it's so rich. Verse 29, "And now, Lord, behold their threatenings"...they're after us. What'd they say? Grant unto Thy servants that we may be protected. No. "...That we may with all boldness speak Your Word." They had a prayer meeting and when the prayer meeting was over, "the place was shaken, the Spirit filled them and they spoke the Word with boldness and a multitude believed." You see, that's boldness. That's plowing through the opposition. That's what it's all about and that's so basic to Christian service. If missionaries got stopped every time there was opposition, nobody would get anything done. That's the difference between an effective, victorious Christian and one that's just saved, just standing around watching things happen.
Well, the opposition was getting worse and the longer they stayed, the tougher it got and the Lord was giving testimony unto the Word of His grace...I love that phrase. The whole gospel is grace, isn't it? And you say, "Well, how is the Lord giving testimony?" By those miracles. They'd preach and the Lord would give them the power to do miracles and people would believe and so the Lord was giving testimony by granting signs...semeion; sign points to something. It pointed to the power of God and wonders. It created wonder in their minds. It was done by the Apostles. This was the gift of miracles as the Lord confirmed the Word of grace. Well, the city began to polarize. The longer they stayed, the more it polarized. Verse 4, "But the multitude of the city was divided: part held with the Jews, part with the Apostles." Paul and Barnabas, two guys, hit town and split the thing right down the middle. They polarized the believers and the unbelievers to two extremes and the thing was a smoldering caldron about ready to explode. Jesus said this: "He that is not with Me is...what?...against Me." When the claims of Jesus Christ are laid upon men, they polarize men. Jesus even said, "I am not come to bring peace but...what?...a sword, to divide."
A footnote of interest in verse 4, it says that "...part held with the Jews and part with the Apostles." The apostles...apostolos is in the plural. Isn't that interesting? There's only two men there, Paul and Barnabas. Paul was an Apostle by title; Barnabas was not. But the plural indicates that Barnabas here is called Apostle. Now we run into a problem. Was Barnabas an Apostle or was he not? The answer is in terms of the specific sense, he was not an Apostle. There were 12 Apostles, Matthias substituting for Judas, plus...who was the other one?...Paul. The qualifications of an Apostle were two-fold, a personal confrontation with Jesus Christ, seeing Christ, which Paul qualified for on the Damascus Road. Secondly, a true Apostle, capital A, the official title had to have been called by Christ himself to be an Apostle. Barnabas didn't qualify on either count. As far as we know, he'd never seen Christ. It may have been that he had seen Him but we do know, secondly, that nothing in Scripture says Barnabas was ever called and commissioned by Christ as an Apostle. You say, "But there, the plural then has reference to what?"
The word apostolos, which is translated Apostle here, I feel, perhaps would be better translated "messenger." It is so translated, for example, in Philippians 2:25. The word does mean messenger. For example, you have a word diakonia in the New Testament or diakonos which means servant. Sometimes it's used just to speak of servant. Other times, diakonos is transliterated "deacon" when it's speaking of the office. Every Christian is a servant but not all Christians fit the qualifications of a deacon and so the same word is used in some senses for the title; in other senses, in a general sense. The word apostolos is sometimes also used as an official title. In other senses, it is used to speak of a messenger from apostello, one who is sent, and so apparently, Barnabas is simply included as a messenger and we might even conclude that in a secondary sense, he is an Apostle as an early church sent one. Some commentators say he's called an Apostle because he's sort of sliding in on the apostolic coattails of Paul, but it's best to see it in its widest possible meaning as a messenger from God rather than in the narrow significance capital A, the official Apostle. Well, that's a footnote.
But anyway, the town split. Those who attached to Paul and Barnabas, the gospel of Christ. Those who were with the Jews who were bitter, hating and angry. Well, the pot blew in verse 5. "And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully and to stone them"...we'll stop here...finally the lid blew. The word "assault," the cognate verb, the verb that goes with the noun means "to rush." They literally rushed. A big mad mob just took off through town tearing toward Paul and Barnabas. The verb is translated "rush" in Acts 19:29 so it's the same word. They just rushed on them. It was a furious mob. This was nothing but a lynching only without a rope, with rocks instead. The whole mad mob just lost its cool, reached the end of its tether. The polarization had finally just kind of maximized to the place where tolerance was no longer possible and they just flew in a rage after Paul and Barnabas and it says, in the classic understatement characteristic of the King James, they wanted "...to use them despitefully," which being interpreted means they wanted to blast them out of existence. They wanted to bring upon them contempt, injury and death and they were going to stone them, verse 5 says.
Now this is indicative of the fact that the Jews had perpetrated the thing because Gentiles didn't stone people. This was a Jewish form of execution and it was a Jewish form of execution in connection with blasphemy, so the Jews had perhaps convinced the Gentiles first of all that these guys were guilty of blasphemy against God and also perhaps convinced the Gentiles of the terrible thing they were doing to the town by splitting it up and creating problems, so the Gentiles joined in and the whole big mob came to kill Paul and Barnabas. And as I say, it's nothing but a lynching mob. They're just completely wild. They've lost their control. There's no law and order. There's no nothing. It's a wild, uncontrolled, mass hysteria. They're going to take their lives.
Well, Paul and Barnabas were bold but they weren't stupid and so verse 6 says, "They were aware of it." Somehow...maybe they heard the thunder. "And they fled into Lystra, Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about." You say, "Ha-ha. I knew they'd chicken out when it really got hot. What happened to their boldness?" Well, boldness is one thing; stupidity is another. There's obviously the time when the Spirit of God says, "Now it would be wise, men, to go to Lystra." I mean it's fine to be bold but God wants living, bold servants and it's apparent that it came to the place now where they would not really have any necessity to stay. Their ministry had been completed there...it's obvious. Everything had polarized. The thing was done. The Spirit had accomplished it and when He had accomplished it, after a long time, God subsided the revolution. Finally when God let it go, He let it go when it was consummate with the ministry so that they could leave no sooner than God had designed them to leave in the beginning. So beautifully they took off.
But, believe me, old Paul left an impression on that town. That's an impression they never forgot. In the second century...in the second century, a description of Paul comes from the tradition of Iconium. From this time on into the second century, Paul had left such an impression on that city that an old traditional description of Paul was hanging around Iconium and it was added into a writing called The Acts of Paul, which is not Biblical. This was the Iconium description of Paul. It's the only one we have. Whether he looked like this, I don't know. This is what came from the tradition of Iconium. "He was a man small in size with meeting eyebrows, a rather large nose, bald-headed, bow-legged...not too good so far, right...strongly built, full of grace, for at times he looked like a man and at times he had the face of an angel." Now if that is an accurate description...and we'll not know that and we may never know it...if he's got a glorified body in heaven, that certainly wouldn't be what a glorified body looked like so we never would know but if that is the case, he really left an impression on that town.
Well, they fled out of town. You say, "Well, they shouldn't have chickened out." Listen, Matthew 10:23, Jesus gave explicit orders. He said this: "When they persecute you in this city, flee unto another." Remember that...Matthew 10:23? He said, "Even shake the dust off the feet. Get out." Well, the persecution only resulted in more evangelism. By the way, they weren't really without courage. They only went 18 miles away and guess what they did? They holed up in some cabin. No, they started preaching again. Right away, 18 miles away, wham! Verse7, "And there they preached the gospel," as soon as they got to Lystra, 17 miles down the road. And incidentally, they were going the wrong direction. They were going away from civilization. They were really going out into the boondocks. The dusty, provincial market towns of Asia Minor were out in barren country far from civilization and the further east they went and the further distance from the coastline and the city of Perga on the coast, the greater the dangers...corrupt magistrates, superstitious natives, hostile sorcerers, rebellious Jews, a lack of Roman law...all that became worse and worse the further they progressed into this barren country but they went because the Spirit sent them and they went preaching Christ.
Lystra was a Roman colony, also, founded by Augustus. It was a part of the region there called Lycaonia and again all of this is in the area known as Galatia. Now there's no mention of a synagogue there, none at all. Now there may have been a synagogue, we don't know, but it's not mentioned. But in Lystra they began to preach. They had fought through the opposition and had victory at Iconium and they weren't to be daunted and so they preached when they got to Lystra. Boldness...there's no substitute, beloved, for the ministry of spiritual gifts and boldness. They are the two basic frontline ingredients that are listed in the chapter.
I want to give you the third briefly and then I'm going to quit. Power...these three are where the starting place is. Now when I say power, I mean this: an effective Christian servant, an effective missionary, experiences the free flow of the power of God. Acts 1:8 says, "You shall receive power after the Holy Spirit has come upon you," right? Does every Christian have the Holy Spirit? Yes. Does every Christian have power? Yes. Does every Christian exhibit the free flow of that power? No. They did. Watch just a simple illustration of the flow of power in their lives. They'd already seen it in Galatia. They'd seen it back in Cyprus. Here it comes again, verse 8. "There sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from birth who had never walked." Here was a man crippled in his feet. Impotent means without strength. He couldn't stand up. He couldn't walk. In his life, he had never walked; congenitally crippled. No capacity for walking. Everybody in town had known it. He'd probably lived there all his life. If he couldn't walk, he would have a hard time going anywhere else. Transportation wasn't easily accomplished in those days so perhaps he had grown up in the place. Everybody knew he was the town cripple.
And Paul was preaching as always, and he wasn't preaching in a synagogue, as I say. Maybe they didn't have one. "But the same heard Paul speak." The word "heard" is in the imperfect tense in the Greek which means he was continually listening. He was listening to Paul's presentation of Christ. Now watch this. God was working on that guy's heart. He was crouched, huddled somewhere in the street of the marketplace where Paul was preaching and then Paul "...steadfastly beholding him." And again it's in the linear sense. He was listening and Paul was continuing to stare at him. Out of all that gob of people out there, Paul's eyes stuck on this cripple over in a corner and that was unusual because, in the eastern world, cripples were very common. They stood by gates or they sat by gates. They were everywhere and yet the Spirit of God drew Paul right to that man. He just stared at that man. That man was being convicted by the Spirit of God in his heart. And it says, "Paul perceived that he had faith to be healed," in verse 9. Somehow the Spirit of God revealed to Paul that this guy believed. "That cripple over there believes," the Spirit said to Paul. He believes in Jesus Christ and he believes in the power of Christ for healing.
Well, Paul as an Apostle had the gift of miracles and the gift of healing and Paul saw here is my opportunity in the power of God to confirm my message. The people were standing around saying, "Oh, this guy might be right. That sounds pretty good. Not bad." Others are saying, "No, can't be. How do we know he's from God?" All of a sudden right out of the blue, verse 10, "Paul said with a loud voice, Stand upright on your feet." That's what he says to this guy who has never stood upright in his life and everybody knows it and his eyes have been fixed on the man and, when Paul said it with a loud voice, you better believe it was loud. He was used to speaking to big crowds outdoors without a microphone and he hollers, "Stand up on your feet." Now that's the test of faith for the little crippled man. A normal guy would say, "Is he kidding? Me? Who's he talking to? I've been like this all my life. What's this?" I love this. "And he leaped and walked." He leaped first, walked later. He shot up. I mean he was so ready. The Spirit of God had so prepared him and so prepared Paul that when the two came together, the little guy just shot right up and started walking and some of the people undoubtedly said, "I think there may be some truth to this guy." And that's exactly what the Spirit of God wanted them to say. That's the point, but don't you see? Here is Paul in a situation where right in the middle of his sermon, doing...ministering his spiritual gift, the Spirit of God was able to let the power flow to accomplish a dynamic miracle. It's just another illustration how that in the life pattern of the man of God, the flow of the Spirit is free to exercise itself at any point.
Now that's the kind of power I'm talking about. The kind of power that makes the difference in the Christian life is not that kind that comes the day after you get home from camp or not that kind that you have when you leave the service thinking, "Ooh, boy, I'm so dedicated, committed, rededicated, irrigated, whatever's been...needs to be done, I've done it. I'm ready." And you run out here and you're like the man who jumped on his horse and rode off madly in all directions. You're just exploding but it really isn't harnessed but here was a man, Paul, who just lived in such a state that the free flow of the power of God moved through him all the time. You see? In the middle of doing one thing, the power of God does another thing. All through his life, he exhibits this. You say, "Well, how could I ever know that in my life? How could I ever experience that kind of power?" It's simply a question of confession. What's the one thing that bottles up the power? Sin, and sin just needs to be confessed. We need to confess it as soon as we commit it. That just keeps the channel clear. If you're harboring sin, you're clogging up the channel. A Christian who is so sensitive to sin that as soon as it's occurring, he's confessing is the one in whom the power flows free.
Now you and I can't do miracles like this. We can't raise the lame and the dead and all like the Apostles did. We don't need that kind of confirmation. We have the Word of God, but God wants to express His power through us, doesn't He...His power in witnessing, His power in prayer, His power in our spiritual gifts, His power in accomplishing the ministry He gives us and He wants it to be the free flow of that power, unrestricted, which comes by living in constant harmony with the Holy Spirit and in confession of sin moment by moment. And so we see the power. I mean Paul had power. This man was crippled all his life and in one statement, he shot up and leaped. Didn't even need lessons on how to walk. That's power. You say, "I wish I had that power." Listen to this. "Now unto him that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or think according to the power that works...where?...in us." You've got that power. Same chapter, Ephesians 3, it says that we are filled with all the fullness of God. That's power. Just let it flow. There it is. A man of God is effective ministering spiritual gifts, boldness, power.
Let me close with this. If you've got all three of those, you know what's going to happen? You're going to be really effective and you know what you're going to be tempted to do? One great temptation is going to come to the person whose functioning in his spiritual gifts, who's really bold, who's really powerful. He's going to see results and he's going to be tempted to be proud. You know what the next qualification is? Humility. You think the Spirit of God knows how to put things in the right order? We'll see that one next week. Let's pray.
Father, we are thankful that we've been able to look into the Book this morning. Our hearts have been stirred and enriched because of our fellowship. Father, we are thankful that the Word of God presents to us not only by precept but by example, truths for life. Father, help us. Help us to be faithful in ministering the spiritual gifts that are ours, in being bold, blasting right through the opposition and in confessing our sin, living in the fullness of the Spirit, that the flow of the power might be unrestricted. Father, as we close this morning, we pray that You'll speak to our hearts. Encourage us. Bring to our minds the decisions that need to be made, the commitments, that we might go from this place to be used of Thee. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (Sept. 7, 2007) - The ETSU women's soccer team picked up their first win of the young season Friday night as they blanked the Bulldogs of The Citadel at the Gamecock Soccer Classic hosted by Jacksonville State. The Bucs improve to 1-1-1 overall while the Bulldogs fall to 0-3-0.
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