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I probably am more devoted to the Apostle Paul as a New Testament writer than any other writer. And that's simply because of the sheer volume of letters that he left us, the author of 13 different New Testament books. I am certainly growing to have a deep and wonderful love for Luke, having some years back taught through the book of Acts, which Luke also wrote, and now going through the gospel of Luke, and being endeared to him because of his obvious passion for the person of Jesus Christ, which is contagious. But having said that, I would have to put John right up there as a favorite of mine as well. Having gone through the gospel of John, and seen the unique way in which he writes concerning Jesus Christ, very different than Matthew, Mark or Luke, having taught, as well, the book of Revelation and gotten into the wonderful apocalyptic visions that John was given. But in particular, I like John because he has a way of justifying what I do. John repeats himself a lot, that gives me a great amount of comfort because I do that also. And when you read the gospel of John, when you go through the gospel of John, you find John cycling back around through things that he has already said, adding nuances, adding richness, almost as if he makes an argument and then next time he circles back, he takes you from where you were the last time to a new dimension, or a new height or depth or length or breadth of understanding. John loved to go back through the important truths in this gospel, laying again, as it were, the foundation of these truths in an enriched fashion in our minds.
Now as we come to the fourth chapter, the opening of the fourth chapter of John's epistle the subject in the opening six verses is to test the spirits. You see that in verse 1, "Beloved, do not believe every spirit but test the spirits." John understands how important it is to realize that you can't believe everything you hear, you can't believe everything that is purported to come from God, you can't believe everything that is supposedly biblical. Cannot believe all teachers of religion, you cannot believe all Christian preachers, or Christian evangelists or teachers. You cannot believe all who came...who claim to speak for God and claim to have a prophetic voice there is set loose in the world. You'll notice at the end of verse 6 the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. Religious information is not benign. It either comes from the Spirit of truth, who is the Holy Spirit, so called by our Lord Himself several times in the upper room discourse in the gospel of John. There is the Spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, and there is the spirit of error who would be Satan and his demons. Nothing is benign. All spiritual truth either comes from a divine source or a demonic source. And we know that God speaks truth and reveals truth and Satan speaks a lie and is a deceiver and so it is critical that we be able to discern the difference. God's truth must be guarded very, very carefully. It is always under attack. It is relentlessly under attack.
It amazes me, frankly, even though the Bible is clear on this, how inept the church has been through its history at protecting biblical truth. Every generation seems to fall into error. This is why the Apostle Paul instructed Timothy at the end of his first letter to him, 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 20, "O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you." And what had been entrusted to him was the treasure of divine revelation. Guard that.
In order to guard that, he says, you have to avoid worldly and empty chatter. You have to avoid arguments that oppose the Scripture, even though they might be called knowledge. They are falsely called knowledge. Some have professed these things and gone astray from the faith. Guard the treasure, guard the truth, what is essential to the faith. That's how he ended his first letter to Timothy. Here's how he began his second letter to Timothy. Chapter 1 of 2 Timothy, verse 13, "Retain," that is hold, "the standard of sound words. Hold on to sound doctrine which you have heard from me." Verse 14 , "Guard," there is that same word again. "Guard or keep through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us the treasure which has been entrusted to you." Literally the good deposit, and that is the deposit of divine truth, guard it, Timothy, retain it, hold on to it because it is ever and always under assault. And you notice also there in 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 15 says, "You're aware of the fact that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes," a couple of defectors, a couple of those who turned away from Paul and thus turned away from the truth. And Paul is saying to Timothy, "Don't be like them, don't abandon the truth, don't abandon me the true Apostle."
It's the guardianship that is so important. We cannot pass on the truth unless we protect it, unless we guard it. There are always false religionists, cultists. There are always those who come along with their deceptive schemes that purport to be biblical, that quote Bible verses, that say they have a message from God, that have a better way to understand the Bible and apply the Bible to make the Bible acceptable, to make the gospel acceptable. There are those who in outright fashion attack the Bible and then there are those who are much more subtle than that. But we are constantly being called to the defense of the Scripture and the defense of the truth.
And this duty falls heavily upon me as it does any servant of God. It requires two things to guard the truth. One, you have to know the truth. That's why Paul said to Timothy, "Hold on to sound doctrine." You can't guard what you don't understand. If a minister or a pastor does not know sound doctrine, he can't guard it. So, first of all, it requires the fulfillment of this duty requires the knowledge of sound doctrine, and secondly, it requires the recognition of error. Sound doctrine and sound discernment, essential in the church. This is our primary responsibility and it runs parallel to our teaching. How can we teach sound doctrine if we don't know it, how can we teach our people to avoid error if we don't recognize it. Sound doctrine and sound discernment go side by side and are the primary responsibility of every preacher, every elder, every shepherd and pastor in the church. And John discharges that responsibility. John knows sound doctrine and he articulates it and John also possesses sound discernment and he provides helpful warnings to aid others to do the same.
In this epistle here in chapter 4, John commands believers to test the spirits. This is necessary if you're going to discern between the spirit of truth and the spirit of error. You have to know whatever information is coming to you by its source. And again I say, error is not benign, it is malignant. It is not human, it is demonic. We saw last time in either religious truth, spiritual truth comes from the Holy Spirit and it is life-giving, life-sustaining, life-producing, God-glorifying, or it comes from demons. It is either the doctrine of God or the doctrine of demons. It is either that word which is sent and energized by the Holy Spirit, or it is that which comes from seducing spirits. And teachers are either the true teachers of God, or hypocritical liars, espousing the doctrine of demons fostered by seducing spirits. We must know the difference because of the malignancy of error because of the power of truth. The truth gives life, error kills.
And so, here John is writing to his flock, as you would understand it, to the people that have been put in his charge and all beyond them whom he can influence, including us today, and among the instructions that he gives here in this epistle, much of it, of course, is about who is a true believer, and he gives all kinds of criteria for us to evaluate that, both doctrinal tests and moral tests. And part of that instruction includes these commands to make sure that we discern the truth from error. Now we've look at this passage last week by way of introduction, we're going to get into the test, but let me just review a little bit.
First, John gives us a command to test, a command to test. "Beloved, do not believer every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God." There is a spirit behind every teaching. Be skeptical to discern whether it is the truth or error that is being taught, whether it comes from the Spirit of God, or a demonic spirit. That's the command to test. We looked at that last time in some detail.
Secondly is the reason to test. And the reason is the end of verse 1, "Because many false prophets have gone out into the world." It is a huge problem and the undiscerning are victimized. The vast majority of religious teachers are false teachers. The vast majority of spiritual teachers are false teachers. The vast majority of religious prophets and gurus and teachers, and I would even add teachers within the framework of Christianity in its broadest terms, including the false Roman system and all the cults, the vast majority in the dead denominations which have gone liberal, the vast majority of those who claim to know Christ and to represent Christianity are hypocritical liars teaching doctrines of demons motivated by seducing spirits. This is a massive problem. The world is literally drowning in a sea of demonic lies, is it not? People who tell me repeatedly they go to a town, they try to find a church where the Word of God is being taught faithfully and it is very often an almost impossible task. We live in a time then when we must be discerning. We are commanded to be so and the reason is because this false teaching is so common.
Now that brings us to tonight the emphasis on the way to test, or the means to test. The command, we've seen. The reason, we've seen. And now here is the means, or the way to test and that goes from verse 2 down through the remainder of this paragraph, verse 6. And I've just summed it up. The simple way to sum it up is to give you three perspectives on this. But let's look at verse 2 just to get the introduction. "By this you know the Spirit of God." Now here comes the means by which we can test. We need to know how to know that something comes from the Spirit of God. And he tells us, "By this.." and then goes on to identify what "this" refers to. Here are the positive tests that will reveal that something is coming from the Spirit of God and not a demon spirit.
Number one test, the confession of the divine Lord. Let's call it the confession of the divine Lord. Verse 2 again, "Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God." There's one thing demons will inevitably deny in all their demonic systems, and that is they will deny the deity of Jesus Christ. They will deny God in human flesh. In a word, they deny the incarnation. When someone comes and affirms that Jesus Christ is God in flesh, that is divine truth. That's the first test.
Now looking at it a little more closely, "Every spirit that confesses," that is continually confesses, agrees with that reality to homologeo is to say the same thing, everyone who is saying the same thing as the Word of God is saying about Jesus Christ, that is that He is God in the flesh, is confessing therefore a truth that is taught by the Holy Spirit.
So the first test that you want to have for any teacher is their Christology...their Christology, their doctrine of Christ which presupposes the doctrine of the Trinity. If you have somebody who denies the Trinity, you have a problem because Jesus Christ cannot be God come in the flesh, the second person of the Trinity in the fullness of what the New Testament teaches about Him if in fact there is not a Trinity. So it backs you into Trinitarian doctrine as well.
But John doesn't get in all of the nuances here. He's just saying basic to testing the validity of any teacher as coming truly from God is that teacher's doctrine of Christ. In fact, go back with me to chapter 1 for a moment and John says in verse 1, "That he beheld, and actually touched, the Word of life." That is a term expressing the very deity of Christ, for Christ emanates from God as His living Word. He was in verse 2 with the Father. One with the Father, sharing the same essence with the Father and dwelling in an affable light with the Father before He came to earth. He was manifested to us. The end of verse 3 tells us that our fellowship consequently is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
John's language then starts out with the fact that Jesus Christ emanates from God as the very living Word of God. There is the written Word of God on the one hand, Scripture. There is the living Word of God, namely the One John says that was from the beginning that we heard, we saw and we touched. That One, that Word of life was the eternal One, the eternal life, verse 2, who was with the Father prior to His incarnation and was then manifested to us in the flesh that we could see and hear and touch. Now that we know Him, and that you know Him, we have fellowship with Him and our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son Jesus Christ. He is therefore the very Word of God incarnate, He is the eternal life who became flesh, He is one with the Father, manifested to us. He is namely the Son in the Trinity who is Jesus Christ. So John starts out with a very definitive Christological statement in his epistle.
Then if you would look at chapter 2 verse 1, further concerning Jesus Christ, "If anyone sins...the middle of the verse...we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." And here we learn that Jesus Christ is sinless, that He is our sinless advocate, our sinless High Priest. Verse 2, "He Himself is the propitiation for our sins." That means He is the satisfaction. He provided the satisfactory sacrifice to satisfy the righteous judgment of God. He was the fitting substitute. That engulfs His humanity, He had to become flesh in order that He as man could die for men. He is the advocate, the High Priest seated at the right hand of the Father interceding for us. And He has earned that privilege because of His righteousness, His holy perfection which rendered Him as a fitting sacrifice for sins which satisfied the requirement of God. That's all bound up in His incarnation. Jesus has come in the flesh in order that He might come as man to be the substitute to die as man for men.
In the third chapter of John, well...go to the 23rd verse for a moment of John 2, before we go on, or 22nd verse, "Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. This is the Antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son. Whoever denies the Son doesn't have the Father. The one who confesses the Son has the Father also." And here again John emphasizes the deity of Jesus Christ that He shares the same nature as the Father, you can't honor the Father without the Son because they are in essence one sharing the same divine and perfect nature.
In the third chapter of this gospel and the twenty-third verse we read about the commandments of God, God is identified at the end of verse 21. "Whatever we receive," verse 22, "we receive from Him...whatever we ask we receive from Him, and this is His commandment," verse 23, "that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ." And here again John is saying God has commanded us to embrace His Son, that is, the one who shares the same essence with Him, embracing Him, Jesus Christ, as our Lord, that is His supreme command.
Over in chapter 5 I think maybe just a couple of verses here. Verse 6, "This is the One who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ." Jesus Christ came, He came into the world as the one whom God sent. Now drop down to verse 20 and we read more about that. "And we know that the Son of God has come." Verse 6, Jesus Christ comes and He is identified in verse 20 as the Son of God. "And He has given us understanding in order that we might know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true in His Son Jesus Christ." Listen to this, "This is the true God and eternal life."
Over and over and over John makes this point. If you look to 2 John, just stretching this a little bit, 2 John, his second epistle, verse 3, "Grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father." Down in verse 7, "Many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, this is the deceiver and the antichrist." Verse 9, "Anyone who goes too far and doesn't abide in the teaching of Christ," anybody with an aberrant doctrine of Christ, "does not have God. The one who has the right teaching of Christ has both the Father and the Son."
Well, I think you get the message how very, very important one's Christology is. If one errors on the identity of Jesus Christ, that is not from the Spirit of God. Every spirit that confesses Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God. That's the first proposition about Jesus, that He is God, He is the eternal life that came from dwelling in the very presence of God the Father and God the Spirit down to earth. You're confessing that Jesus is a person, not just a proposition. You're confessing that Jesus as a person is God in human flesh, not a created being, as the Mormons and the Jehovah's Witnesses and others say. You are saying He is come from God. That is implying the necessity for Him to come into this world in human form to carry out His redemptive work as a substitute for men. We believe then that the human Jesus and the divine Christ are one and the same. When someone has that Christology, they are speaking a message that comes from the Holy Spirit.
It doesn't mean that everything they say is accurate. But if they get that right, they meet condition number one. But there's another element to it. It is not just confessing Jesus Christ has come in the flesh that saves, we have to borrow from other elements of the Scripture. Demons recognize that Jesus Christ is God in human flesh. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes God in human flesh. The other element comes out of Romans 10:9, "Thou shalt confess with thy mouth Jesus as...what...Lord...Lord...Lord." Demons recognize His deity. There are others who would recognize or affirm His deity. But it is absolutely critical that one confess Him as Lord.
Jesus is the litmus test of reality for people. You have the right view of Jesus, you have the right beginning. Luke 10:16 from our last Sunday's message says, "The one who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me." You reject Jesus, the true Jesus, the one and only, and you are rejecting God, no matter what you think. Anybody who rejects Christ rejects God. You honor the Son and the Father or neither. And the idea today is that other religions worship the same God. They don't. You reject Jesus as God in human flesh, you reject Jesus as the God/Man, fully God, fully man, who came as a substitute for sin and you don't know God no matter what you think. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by Me." Jesus said to the Pharisees in John 8:42, "If God were your Father, you would love Me." And so John says in chapter 2 verse 23, as we read, "No one who denies the Son has the Father. Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also." We all like to make everybody in their religion feel good, but if they reject the deity of Jesus Christ, they do not know God at all.
Just one little footnote here. It says in verse 2 that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, not into the flesh...not into the flesh, as if the Christ's spirit...this was an old what was called the Syrinthian(?) heresy that Christ just came down and temporarily went in to some man, stayed there for a while and then left. It doesn't say that He came into the flesh, it says that He came in the flesh. He didn't descend into an already existing man, He came and was born. He came and actually indwelt that little tiny baby in the mystery of the incarnation in the very womb of Mary and was framed and formed there into the God/Man. Jesus Christ also is full of meaning. Jesus, Greek form of Joshua, means Jehovah saves. Christ means the Anointed One, the King, the Messiah. So you have to confess that this is the God/Man who came as God's chosen King and Messiah and took on flesh to be a substitute for sinners. And on the other side of that, verse 3, "Every spirit that does not confess Jesus in this way is not from God."
You know, people want to say today, "Well, these other religions, they don't know Jesus, so they're trying their best to worship God, they're worshiping God as they know Him the best they can. You know, the Muslims have Allah, that's just their name for God and they're doing their best with God and people in other religions that have never seen a Bible or heard the gospel, they're looking up and seeing that there must be a Creator and they fabricate in their minds some idea of God, and that's the best they can do. And they're worshiping God." But it says wherever Jesus is not confessed, you can't know God. Every spirit that comes up with any religion, any spiritual teaching that leaves out Jesus, is not from God. Leaves out Jesus as the Jesus who is the only true one, any redefinition of Jesus or the absence of Jesus is not from God. In fact, in verse 3 it says, "This is the spirit of antichrist of which you heard it is coming and now it is already in the world." So wherever Christ in His true person is denied, you have demonic data. Any system that denies the deity of Christ, anything from Christian Science to Islam, any of it that denies the true nature of Jesus Christ is from demons, the spirit of error.
And, in fact, it is not just wrong, it is against Christ. There in the middle of verse 3, "This is the spirit of the antichrist of which you have heard that it is coming and now it is already in the world." We think of antichrist, we think of some future person, the beast of Revelation. But antichrist, he's just the final antichrist, the antichrist spirit exists in the world because demons that are espousing anything that is not a representation that is accurate concerning Christ are espousing an anti-Christ idea. So there are many antichrist teachings. All teaching that presents untruth about Christ, lies, is the spirit of antichrist which is already in the world and yet in its final form is coming.
Now we dealt with that. Go back to chapter 2 for a minute. I don't need to go over that again, this is what I was saying about John being somewhat repetitious. In 1 John 2:18 you remember this, and we went through it in detail so I won't do it again, spending several weeks on it. "Children, it is the last hour, just as you heard that antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen." Anybody that attacks the truth about Christ is antichrist. "From this we know that it is the last hour." In other words, we know Christ has come because of all the attacks on Him.
Down in verse 22, "Who is the liar, but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son." If anyone denies the deity of Jesus Christ, that is a demonic...that is a demonic concept, idea, teaching, and is reflective of the spirit of antichrist. It is not just wrong, it is against Christ, in opposition to Christ.
So the first test that we learn from John in regard to how we can test the spirits is the Christology test. Those who are true confess the divine Lord, the full truth about Christ. Let me give you a second one. They confess the divine Lord. Secondly, possession of the divine life. Secondly, possession of the divine life.
The first thing you look for is their doctrine of incarnation. The second thing you look for is regeneration. In the incarnation God becomes a partaker of human nature. Let me say that again. In the incarnation, God becomes a partaker of human nature. In regeneration, man becomes a partaker of the divine nature. Look at verse 4. "You are from God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world."
This is primarily a statement of their security against false teachers. Primarily it is a statement that they are secure when the false teachers come in. It's an echo of back in chapter 2 again, back to chapter 2 verse 20, "You have an anointing from the Holy One and you all know. I haven't written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you do know it and because no lie is of the truth." Verse 24, "Let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father." Verse 27, "As for you, the anointing which you received from Him abides in you, you have no need for anyone to teach you but as His anointing teaches you about all things and is true and is not a lie and just as it has taught you, you abide in Him." Repeatedly he says there, "Because you are God's, because you have eternal life, because you possess the Holy Spirit, you do not fall victim to deception and lies." You have an anointing from God. Back in verse 19, "There are those who go out from us but they go out because they never were really of us. If they had been truly of us, they would have remained with us." Why? Because they wouldn't have been led astray by lies and false doctrine.
So here's the second test. The second test, he says you, or we...better, including all of us...you are from God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is He that is in you than he who is in the world." You are a partaker of divine life. You are a possessor of the Holy Spirit. You are the offspring of God. You are the possessor of an incorruptible seed of eternal life and consequently you have not fallen victim to error. You have not believed lies because greater is He that is in than he that is in the world, because you have the indwelling anointing that we saw in chapter 2, you possess the Holy Spirit, the Lord lives in you and protects you. Regeneration provides then a devotion to the truth, an understanding of the truth. "The natural man understands not the things of God, they're foolishness to him, he can't discern them, he can't know them." You understand because you have the mind of Christ, 1 Corinthians 2. God has planted His truth in you, planted His Spirit in you as a resident teacher. You are impervious, in one sense, from fatal error. You can be led astray on some issues, but not concerning the truth of the gospel. You possess God's life. You possess God's Spirit. And that's another simple test. Does this teacher possess divine life? Are they from God? Are they free from error, heresy? As you listen to what people have to say, you can be discerning because you know the truth. You have spiritual instincts that are right and accurate. You can trust them. When you hear somebody teaching something, and you say to yourself, "That is not right," that's the Spirit of God, the truth of God kicking in and acting in a discerning fashion on your behalf. As you walk in the Spirit and walk in obedience to the truth, the Spirit of God exercises that protective influence. You are saved because you know the truth and believe the truth. It is the evidence of your regeneration. And there will be in your life the fruit of that regeneration.
So, look at their lives. Trust your doctrinal instincts about the gospel. There may be some peripheral issues that you're not sure about, but false teachers don't usually camp on that. Real false teachers who want to undermine the gospel, attack Christ, they attack the realities of regeneration.
And how do they do that? Well their system is always a work system. They're not so concerned about you being from God as a source, but somehow you finding God through your works and ceremonies and religion. It's that divine accomplishment verses human achievement thing that we talked about several times earlier in this gospel. So you test people by their view of Christ and you test people by how they live. Do they manifest, do they demonstrate the characteristics of regeneration? He says, "You're from God, you're His little children, you have overcome them. All of the things that attract them, all of the things that invite them, all of the things that motivate them, you've overcome all that. You've overcome the world," he says. And that's what moves them, controls them, attracts them, dominates them.
So compare yourself with them. Compare your life with their life. In fact, in verse 5 he says, "They're from the world. They speak as from the world and the world listens to them." And that takes us to the third sort of overlapping test. The first one is...look and hear their doctrine of Christ. What do they say about the incarnation? Look and see their life, is there demonstration of regeneration? The confession of the divine Lord, the possession of the divine life, and, thirdly, the profession of the divine law, we'll call it, just to keep the letters the same. The profession of the divine law.
What is their source? They're from the world, verse 5 says. They speak as from the world. The world listens to them. They're very popular. That's a dead giveaway. On the other hand, verse 6, "We're from God. He who knows God listens to us. He who is not from God does not listen to us." Here's the bottom line. When you meet these teachers, and they come with their teaching, you test their Christology. What's their doctrine of the incarnation? You test their regeneration. Are they manifesting evidences of being children of God, or are they just parroting stuff from the world? And then, thirdly, when you bring the law of God to bear upon them, do they respond to it? Do they express devotion to the divine law? And that's verse 6. "He who knows God listens to us."
When I sat for hours and hours with the leaders of the Mormon church from Salt Lake City, and they tried to tell me that they spoke the Word of God and they had an aberrant view of Christ and they were wrong in their doctrine of salvation, they had not been regenerated, they were simply speaking seductive doctrines of demons, I brought to bear upon them the Law of God. I pointed to Scripture after Scripture after Scripture and they would not listen. That's the test. When they come banging on your door, you confront them about their Christology.
The doctrine of incarnation, you confront them about regeneration. Have they become the children of God and are they indwelt by the Holy Spirit and is the Holy Spirit manifesting the evidence of His being there, which is love for the true Christ and love for the true Word? And, when you bring the truth of the Word of God to bear upon them, do they respond to it? Because if they possess the Holy Spirit, they will. And those are simple tests, but they're guaranteed to function. The world listens to them because they speak from the world...we're talking about source again. Their theology has its source in demons. Their religion has its source in demons. Their ideas come out of the world and the world is in the lap of the evil one. And when you speak to them the truth of God, they don't listen. They have no affinity for it. They have no capacity for it. They have no apparatus by which they can discern it, understand it, take it in. The world will listen to them. False teachers will have popularity. I'm saying it again, that those who believe the truth are a small part of the population of the world. The vast majority of the world is swept away in false teaching because the world believes false teachers because they're of the same ilk. They recognize their own language. Sinners have an affinity for error. Sinners have affinities for demons, seducing spirits, hypocritical lies cause they have no apparatus for the truth.
But on the other hand, verse 6 says, "We're from God and we know that, and he who knows God listens to us. And he who is not from God, doesn't listen to us." That's the final. The evidence of their view of Christ, the evidence of manifest fruit of regeneration and the evidence of submission to biblical truth, that's what you're looking for in discerning a true teacher. The ones who are true, like the noble Bereans, will search the Scriptures to see what's really true. And when we use these tests, obviously the more we know about Christ the more we have seen the fruit of righteousness and the more of the Word of God we know, the better able we are to exercise these tests.
Before you accept any teaching, be sure of their view of Christ, their view of salvation, and their view of Scripture, summing it up. I mean, that's it. Do they acknowledge a biblical Christology? Do they manifest a regenerate life? And do they submit to the Word of God? Then verse 6 closes, "By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error."
Here's a benediction we lose with, Jude 2, "May mercy and peace and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. Fight to guard the truth for certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ."
They're everywhere...everywhere. And he says, "I'm writing because I feel a necessity to appeal to you to fight earnestly for the faith once for all delivered to the saints." It is a battle. It is a battle that has to be fought with all our might to guard the truth for the next generation, as well as this one.
Father, we thank You tonight for this look at Your precious Word. So much more could be said and should be said and we've edited things down, but much of this we've recalled from our time in the second chapter of this wonderful epistle. We pray that You will make us diligent contenders for the once-for-all delivered to the saints faith. May we be faithful and loyal to the truth, to fight for it. We grieve in our hearts at how unwilling so many are to contend for the faith. How easily they will abandon it for the sake of popularity or being well spoken of. They would jettison the truth to make some earthly gain. So tragic and we pray, God, that You will raise up many who will earnestly contend with grace and love, but nonetheless contend, to bring to bear on all that is taught the measurement of the standard of biblical truth and expose error and proclaim truth. We pray that the church will not defect and depart and lose its nerve and its conviction and its commitment in abandoning, as it's so frequently done, and seems to do in every generation but that many will rise strong in this day for the truth. And this to Your honor and glory we pray. Amen.
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Common ground for students
For decades we have heard the rallying cry that American students' performance is falling behind that of students in other countries and for decades education experts have attempted to come up with ONE solution.
This time, under the guise of making students more prepared for a global economy, New York has adopted the "Common Core" standards and is forging ahead at breakneck speed to implement a new top-down education mandate on local school districts. Without dissecting the validity of the "global competition" argument, there are elements of the Common Core's implementation in New York that must be addressed first.
There is nothing wrong with asking our students to strive for more and prepare them for what their futures hold. There is something wrong with asking our students to perform at a higher level without properly preparing them. There is something wrong with asking someone in Albany or beyond to evaluate a student in Brooklyn the same as one in Bedford or Buffalo.
There are many issues with New York's implementation of Common Core, and the concerns are not limited to a small contingent, as some have suggested. Real people who have students in schools and are of every ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, age and geographic makeup share reservations about the Common Core. It is also an issue that does not pit Democrats versus Republicans; it is truly about the students.
New York is asking students to take exams based on curricula that are not fully implemented in and certainly not readily embraced by those who are actually in classrooms every day. Yet proponents of Common Core continue to move forward without compromise.
With significant corporate interests behind the shifts toward a "global" education system, I think it is imperative to analyze this in a business-oriented manner.
Many business school students and graduates are surely aware of failure of the "New Coke" initiative in the early '80s, a product that the top brass of Coca-Cola were convinced would usher in a new generation of an already successful brand. Consumers rejected it, prefering they product they already knew and liked.
Aggregate scores from the entire state have already slipped in the first year of these new tests, and we know our students are not X percent less intelligent than they were the previous year. The scores dropped because the top officials at the Education Department, like those at Coca-Cola in the '80s, are convinced that they have a new "brand" of education that will usher in a new generation of globally competitive students. The scores dropped because in its haste to implement the new "brand" of education, SED did not do "consumer" research and development before bringing this product to New York's education "marketplace."
The critics of elements of the Common Core, myself included, are not against having students who are able to understand the "why behind how things work," but we are opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach to educating children in a state, nation and world where one size rarely fits all. I believe that the outcry against specific aspects of the Common Core — the lack of preparation, privacy of student data, and over-reliance on testing — is an opportunity for us to respond to consumer feedback and adjust to the market.
As the Legislature gets set to return to Albany, this issue will certainly draw significant attention and debate. I see no reason why we can't find common ground that balances what works in successful schools with the necessary reforms in areas that need the most help. I believe that to this point, proponents have failed to properly assess the need for a completely new product in their market, and if we don't evaluate the public opposition to the Common Core as a gauge of the education market, we will make a mistake that will hurt our children.
Sen. George Latimer, D-Westchester, is the ranking member on the state Senate Education Committee

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Ubisoft's current lineup on the Wii is...regrettable. Could do with a few more "proper" games. Like the Tom Clancy ones, most of those are pretty decent. Here's what Ubisoft boss, the delightfully-named Yves Guillemot, has to say on the matter:
Tom Clancy will appear [on the Wii] at one point. We need to make sure they [look good]. We have engines that were created for the next-generation consoles. We had to re-engineer a certain number of engines to be sure we could use the quality of the machine. Even without the [high-end] graphics, the experience can still be very interesting. ... To make sure we can create good enough products [on Wii] or products better than Nintendo's takes time. That's why you don't see many products, but you will see more and more in the future.
Yves, screw the new games, just re-release the GameCube version of Chaos Theory (with MP intact), we'll forgive the wait. Interview: Ubisoft CEO on Games and Hollywood, Tom Clancy, Casual Growth and More [GameDaily]


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A new study reveals that an older sister's pregnancy increases a teen girl's risk of getting pregnant herself — and the effect is stronger than that of education.
According to the Telegraph, a study of Norwegian women who had kids in the seventies and eighties shows that an older sister who got pregnant doubled a teenager's chances of pregnancy. Closeness in age and family poverty increased the risk even further. And while more education reduces this risk, study author Carol Popper says, "these findings reveal the positive sibling effect still dwarfs the negative effect of education."
The rumored "pregnancy pact" in Gloucester, MA sparked fears that girls might reinforce one another's desire to become teen mothers, and the possibility that conditions from obesity to happiness may be contagious has been much discussed lately. It's certainly possible that having an older sister get pregnant makes early sexual activity, unprotected sex, or teen motherhood seem more acceptable to teen girls. However, it's also possible that girls who get pregnant come from families where birth control isn't discussed or encouraged. And it's not clear whether these influences have changed since the late twentieth century, when the data was gathered. At the very least, though, the study authors say their research points to the need for targeted anti-pregnancy programs — and educating teen girls about how to prevent unwanted pregnancy is always a good idea.
Teenage Pregnancies 'Contagious' [Telegraph]
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Strange Bowling Throw Has People Gawking and Talking and Earning Man Strikes [VIDEO]
A man's bowling style is so bizarre, that a bowling alley once tossed him out because they considered it horseplay. And after watching him in action, I can see why.
Tennessee native, Jim Cripps, is as normal a guy as you'll ever meet, and he'll be quick to tell you that his style was discovered accidentally. You might say it's a bit backwards.
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NEW YORK, May 7 (UPI) -- The Broadway production of "Orphans," starring Alec Baldwin, Ben Foster and Tom Sturridge, is to close six weeks earlier than planned, producers said.
Sturridge and author Lyle Kessler's play were nominated for Tony Awards last week, however, the show will play its final performance May 19 after 27 previews and 37 regular performances at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
Slow ticket sales are to blame for the early closure, The New York Times said.
The Daniel Sullivan-directed production began performances March 26 and opened April 18. It was scheduled to run through June 30.
The show made headlines before it even opened when Foster replaced Shia LaBeouf, who left during rehearsals because of creative differences.


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The St. Johns River and Area Lakes
It's been another strange week of weather extremes, swinging between freezes and 80 degree weather a couple days later.
But the overall warm winter is the only explanation for the big bite of panfish along the St. Johns River.
When it's a week away from what should be the best speckled fishing of the year and bait shops are selling out of worms and crickets rather than minnows, you know something eerie is up.
When you see the cane-polers on the Shands Bridge swinging jumbo bluegills up on the seawall, you scratch your head.
But what's happening? The specks have developed lockjaw all week while 50-fish limits of bluegill were reported. The bluegills are holding in deeper depressions in the river and just off the lily pads in the creeks.
The most successful fishermen are chumming with gar roe, if not fishing with it. That stuff is deadly.
If the speckled perch do as we would expect - and they have not thus far this year - the biggest spawn of the season should be on either side of the full moon Monday. We'll see.
The bass continue to bed in Lake George. A 13-plus pound fish was weighed this week. Warming temperatures combined with the moon this weekend ought to put fish on beds all over the St. Johns basin south of Palatka.
The catch of the week has to be an 8-pound flounder caught on dead shrimp by a fisherman on the Shands Bridge. The fish's weight was verified at R&J Tackle in Green Cove Springs.
The Intracoastal Waterway
There is no better time of the year to target big sheepshead than now. It is no coincidence that the largest sheepshead tournament in the world - the El Cheapo - takes place Saturday at the Mayport Boat Ramp north of Jacksonville. It's a fun time if you want to make the drive up. The fresh fried sheepshead dinners are memorable. Over 400 boats fished it last year. You can still sign up at www.jaxfish.com.
The redfish have been way back in the creeks most of the week warming up. Anything but very shallow draft boats have had a hard time finding them.
Trout fishing is good. The first of the big spawning drum, 50 pounds and up, were caught near the inlet. The old-timers say that the first of these migrating fish show up around the first full moon of February, so they're dead on.
The Atlantic Ocean
It's been such a windy week we've really had no reports, so I won't waste your time.
Of interest, however, was an email from the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council. Apparently, its biologists have determined that vermilion snapper are no longer being overfished. The board is expected to end a closure on this popular little fish and allow the five-fish limit year-round. That meeting is the first week of March, so we may see the season open by late spring.
The weather
Southwest winds are forecast Saturday at 10 to 15 knots with seas at 2 to 4 feet and a high temperature of 83 degrees - wow. Sunday winds will swing out of the north at 10 knots with seas as 2 to 3 feet. Temperatures will drop into the mid-70s.
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In a clash on the Senate floor Monday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said that Majority Leader Harry Reid's planned move to change the Senate filibuster rule could jeopardize chances of reaching a deal on avoiding tax hikes and spending cuts at the end of the year.
"We have huge issues before us here at the end of the year, much of which will probably carry over into next year," McConnell said in a debate with Reid that lasted nearly 30 minutes. "It's a time that we ought to building collegiality and relationships and not making incendiary moves that are damaging to the institution and could have serious ramifications on our ability to work together here at the end of the year."
NBC's Domenico Montanaro reports that although some Republicans have changed their tone on a new-no-taxes pledge, they aren't putting tax rate increases on the table.
The filibuster is the Senate tradition of unlimited debate on bills and nominations. Under current rules, a filibuster can be ended only by a vote of three-fifths of all senators, or 60 senators.
Reid said he's not proposing that the Senate do away entirely with the filibuster, "just that we do away with filibusters on motions to proceed," the procedural step that precedes a final debate on a bill or a nomination.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), speaks at the White House after meeting with US President Barack Obama on November 16, 2012 in Washington,DC.
Reid called his proposed rule change "minor" and an attempt to make the Senate "more efficient" – but McConnell vehemently disputed that. "This is no small matter, this is a big issue about the future of this country and how this institution ought to be operated," the Kentucky Republican said.
McConnell accused his Democratic counterpart of intending to "break the rules of the Senate in order to change the rules of the Senate."
He pointed out that under the current Senate rules it takes 67 senators to enact a rule change.
Andrea Mitchell talks to Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., one of the Republican lawmakers breaking with the pledge to oppose all tax increases.
But Reid may move in January as soon as the Senate convenes for the new session of Congress to change the rules by a simple majority vote.
McConnell said Reid had used his power under the Senate rules to prevent Republican senators from offering amendments on proposed bills.
"He alone, out of 100 of us, gets to decide who gets to offer an amendment," McConnell complained. "In other words he gets to pick our amendments for us."
Therefore, McConnell said, the Republicans had responded by slowing or blocking debate through filibusters.
If Reid wants to defeat filibusters, McConnell suggested, he should "use the fatigue factor to grind down opposition" by forcing senators who were filibustering motions or bills to stay on the Senate floor and keep speaking.
But Reid said that "to the average American, these reforms are just common sense… America believes Congress is broken. Once again the only ones who disagree are Mitch McConnell and Republicans in Congress."
He added later, "As I've traveled this country, people said, 'Do something to change the Senate so we can get things done.'"


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Here is the entire transcript from a question-and-answer session with Raiders coach Dennis Allen on Sunday afternoon in Napa:
Q: Do you have a conditioning test for the players?
A: "We went out there and ran. I wouldn't necessarily call it a conditioning test where (people are graded). But we went out and got sweaty and we were able to evaluate where guys were conditioning-wise. But I wouldn't call it a conditioning test."
Q: Do players have to pass the test to be cleared to practice?
A: "Not per se. It's really no different than anything else you do from a physical standpoint. It's just another step in the process to make sure these guys are ready to go for camp."
Q: Moore, Wiz, all the others cleared to practice?
A: "We'll let you guys know tomorrow exactly who's where, but Wiz and Moore will be practicing. I haven't had a chance to talk to the training staff yet to find out exactly how all the physicals went, so I'm really not at liberty to say right now, but we'll know later on this evening or, for sure, by tomorrow's practice."
Q: Do you anticipate placing any players on the physically unable to perform list?
A: "There's a chance but, again, until we get through the whole physical process, I don't really know."
Q: Do you expect to fill the 90th roster spot?
A: "We don't necessarily have a plan for that particular spot right now but we kind of wanted to leave ourselves a little bit of room in case we needed to make an adjustment during training camp. So, to bring a guy in, we wouldn't have to cut somebody to bring somebody else in. So, right now, I would anticipate that that spot would be open."
Q: Is there a premium on making the most out of every practice in light of the new Collective Bargaining Agreement?
A: "Yeah, there's only so many days that you get to practice. You got to give them five days off before the last preseason game. You got to give them one day off every seven days. And you're only practicing one real practice a day and then the other practice is a walk-through practice. So, our ability to get the most out of the limited opportunities that we got is going to be critical. The teams that are able to do that the best are going to benefit from it."
What do players get out of walk-throughs and how do you know players are zeroed in?
It's a lot of alignment assignment. And what I try and talk to those guys about is, 'Listen, we're at a walk-through tempo physically but mentally our minds have to be working a hundred miles an hour. That's the thing that you have to make sure you do, is make sure that they're focused. From a mental standpoint.
Was there ever any doubt about getting Criner in on time?
I mean, you never know what's going to happen in those negotiations but we felt pretty confident all along that he would be in here for training camp.
What did he show you in minicamp?
He's a big, athletic receiver that has a big catching radius and he went and made some plays for us in OTA's. His ability to be a big target for the quarterback was a positive.
Is everybody here?
Did Criner's and Streater's performance this offseason help make it possible to trade Louis Murphy?
Well, yeah, obviously their emergence at OTA's made that an option. What they did in the offseason made that something we could do.
How active are you going to be during camp? Do you anticipate that the guys you have on the roster are going to be the guys or that once teams cut guys that you're going to add quite a few?
That's a question … Nobody has a crystal ball. I can't answer that. We're going to look at every option that we can to make this team better. And we'll do that from today through the end of the season.
Q: Was Steve Wisniewski's departure something you knew was coming for a while, did it catch you by surprise, and did you think about adding a second line coach?
Allen: No. 1, is, yeah, it was a little bit of a surprise. Obviously he has his personal reasons as to why he made that decision. I will say this _ it was totally his decision. It was nobody else's decision. We thought about whether or not to bring somebody in or not and we just felt like at this point, this late in the game, that the right thing for us to do is to stick with the coaches that we have and go forward, and I got every confidence in the world in Frank Pollack as an offensive line coach, being able to watch him throughout the OTAs and minicamp he did a great job and he'll do a great job coaching the offensive line.
Q: Your outlook changed at all on defense, think you may have more than you realized when you came in?
Allen: That's hard question to answer because we haven't put the pads on. I think once we put the pads on we'll have a better feel for where we're at defensively and that will be an ongoing process. I will say that the way that they picked up the system throughout OTAs and minicamp I was pleased with the way we picked up the system.
Q: Tackling during practice philosophy . . . a couple of times taking them to the ground?
Allen: There may be a couple of times during the course of training camp we might have a live session, but for the most part, we won't have live sessions. There will be some contact, and we try to keep them off the ground as much as possible, but every now and then guys go to the ground.
Q: First padded practice is . .
Allen: Let's see, Monday, Tuesday . . . Wednesday.
Q: First two days you can't hit (CBA)?
Allen: First two days we can't have pads. We can have those little soft shells.
Q: How much first two days repeating OTAs and minicamp stuff?
Allen: Well, all of it will be. At the end of the day we got through probably, I don't know, 90 percent, I'm just giving you a number of what we're going to do this season, we got through OTAs and minicamp, at the end of the day it's a little bit of a repeat process of going through all that at training camp, and as you get into game weeks you add a little bit here and there.
Are you comfortable for now with what you're going with at running back? There has been some outside speculation that Cedric Benson or somebody like that could be headed here to have a heavy-legged replacement for Michael Bush. Are you comfortable with the situation as it is now?
"Yeah. That's what we have, and that's who we're going with. Mike Goodson's been a guy that – a couple of years ago in Carolina we got a chance to play him a couple of times, and he did a nice job as a replacement there. Obviously Taiwan's an explosive back. So, the key is hopefully is that we're able to keep Darren healthy and then if we're able to that we're going to be just fine."
With a guy like Darren do you monitor him practice-wise and try to limit him at all? Or is it because he's healthy, it's full-go?
"Well, I think you see how things play out throughout training camp. There's not a plan in place for anybody right now where we're saying, 'Well, we're just going to limit this guy.' But obviously there may be some people as we go throughout the course of training camp where we decide we've got to monitor them a little bit and maybe cut down on some of those reps."
There were some years where San Diego wouldn't even play LaDainian Tomlinson in the preseason. Do you plan on playing McFadden?
"That's the plan. We'll look at that on a game by game basis. I'm not sitting here right now thinking that there's anybody on our team that we're planning not to play."
Would it be tough to hold somebody out when you have a new system and new coaches?
"Yeah. Obviously that's all part of it. You want guys to go in and execute the system under game-like situations. We don't have a plan for somebody not to play in a particular preseason game."
With your offensive line at the practices we were at for a month and a half, it seemed like you had your five guys. Were you waiting until you got up here to weave in some of your younger guys to get reps with the 1's or are you pretty much firm on the guys you have?
"Our depth chart's not set. There was a little bit of maneuvering within the offensive line, but you're right, it stayed pretty constant throughout most of the offseason. Nothing's set in stone, especially at those positions – offensive line, defensive line, even linebacker to a certain extent. It's hard to make a whole lot of moves until you start putting pads on, until you really get a chance to really evaluate those guys. So there's a chance you may see a little bit more movement once we get the pads on and start working."
What did you learn about Carson during the OTAs and the offseason that maybe you didn't know?
"No. 1 is he's extremely smart. He's a great leader. He's way more athletic than anybody gives him credit for. And he loves the game of football. This guy, he's a competitor and he wants to be great. He's done everything you could possibly want your quarterback to do.
Q: Pretty good sense of confidence going into a season with a proven quarterback like Palmer?
A: Yeah. This is a quarterback-driven league. For you to sustain success in this league you've got to have a good one and I think we do. So yeah, I think that gives you a lot of confidence.
Q: Penalties. Hammer that from Day 1?
A: We've already talked to them about it. I've already tried to show them through different visual aids how that has an effect on winning and losing football games. And we'll monitor that situation as we go through practices and we'll make whatever moves we need to try and hammer that point home and make sure they understand it's costing us games so we can't have it.
Q: Will you bring in officials?
A: There will be officials in here for three days during camp… I don't have plans to bring anybody else in as of right now.
Q: Were you able to get away and recharge for training camp?
A: Absolutely. Absolutely. You have to. You can't – it's a 24/7/365 days a year job but I've got a family too. I've got a wife and two kids and I want to be a dad just as much as I want to be a coach. So we got away and spent some time as a family and now it's time to get back to work.
Q: You ready for your first camp?
A: Yeah. Jacked up about it. We're ready. It's a start of a long journey and we'll take it – and I know this is cliché – but we'll take it one day at a time. And we'll attack whatever challenges come up on a day-by-day basis and deal with them and keep pushing forward.
Q: Important to get players who police themselves in terms of not wasting practice?
A: Absolutely. When you look at the successful teams in the NFL and the teams that sustain success for long periods of time they have great team leadership. Those guys within the team, they police themselves. When their vision of the culture and the way it's supposed to be done meets what the coach's vision is that's when you really got it. That's the type of stuff we're looking for and we need more guys like that who provide that type of leadership. At the end of the day, change is going to come because people decide to change. We might have a change in philosophy or a change in ideas but if people don't change their actions. If you keep doing the same thing over and over again, you'll keep getting the same results. We have to change our actions. That's coaches, players the organization, whatever the case may be.
Q: How do you like the setup in Napa?
A: I think it's a great set up. The fields are in great condition. Having our rooms right there next to the meeting rooms, the food's been outstanding here so I think from that standpoint … the weather is great. I think it's a great situation for camp.
Q: Important to get away for camp?
A: I do. I think obviously we're about an hour from Oakland here. We're away but not really too far away. But I think having everybody in one little area does a lot to build team chemistry. We want to eliminate all the distractions as much as we can.
Q: Do you like to have any outings like golf or wine train?
A: I think if we decide to do that which I don't know, I don't have that crystal ball. We'll see if they want to do it on their day off.
Q: Are you like Sean Payton in terms paint-ball outings and other antics?
A: One thing is when Sean was doing all those things, number one you didn't have as many offseason restrictions as far as the time and what you can do. You could still have two-a-day practices. You didn't have to give them a full day off every seventh day. The times are a changing a little bit. I think once you get an established culture, an established team and they understand the way that you're going to do things then it makes it easier to do those types of things.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina running back Marcus Lattimore did not practice Wednesday because of a bruised hip and coach Steve Spurrier said his junior star might not start Saturday against No. 4 Florida.
Spurrier had said Lattimore was running well earlier in the week, but the injury kept him out of Wednesday's workout. Lattimore arrived at practice late and watched from the sidelines.
If Lattimore can't go, Spurrier says backup Kenny Miles and freshman Mike Davis would handle the load at tailback when the ninth-ranked Gamecocks (6-1, 4-1 Southeastern Conference) go against the Gators (6-0, 5-0).
"We're sort of banged up all of a sudden," Spurrier said.
Spurrier said an injury like Lattimore's generally takes a week or two to heal. Lattimore had a touchdown, but gained just 35 yards on 13 carries in ninth-ranked South Carolina's 23-21 loss to the Tigers.
Spurrier has gone back-and-forth on Lattimore's condition since Sunday. At first, he expected Lattimore to miss a couple of workouts, but said Tuesday that Lattimore had looked OK during Monday's session and expected him to play at The Swamp on Saturday.
Then came Wednesday's twist.
Lattimore is sixth among SEC rushers with 584 yards. He's tied with Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel for the SEC lead with 10 rushing TDs.
"It's not surgery type things," Spurrier said of Lattimore's condition. "It appears it's something that'll be fine in a week or so."
Lattimore tore ligaments in his left knee while blocking against Mississippi State last year, an injury that cost him South Carolina's final six games in 2011. He had offseason surgery and has looked strong this fall.
Spurrier detailed several other key players dealing with injuries and illnesses.
He said sophomore defensive end standout Jadeveon Clowney had a foot problem that has limited what he can do at practice. Defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles had his arm in a sling because of a shoulder injury and is doubtful to play against the Gators. Defensive linemen Byron Jerideau and J.T. Surratt are also hampered by injuries, although both are expected to play.
And then there's the flu bug, which Spurrier said has kept some Gamecocks from working out this week. Punt returner and starting receiver Ace Sanders missed practice Tuesday while receiver Bruce Ellington was out on Wednesday.
Spurrier was hopeful all players hit by the flu could play on Saturday.
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FASEB promotes regulatory changes aimed at enhancing research.
It should come as no surprise to working scientists that the U.S. biomedical research enterprise is highly regulated. Investigators and the institutions in which they work are subject to a vast array of reporting requirements, review procedures and training courses aimed at ensuring the safety of laboratory personnel, appropriate use of federal research dollars, human care and use of research animals, protection of human study participants, and even national security. While these regulations are intended to address serious and valid concerns, the cumulative burden of compliance has had a deleterious effect on scientific productivity. Scientists responding to a 2007 survey conducted by the Federal Demonstration Partnership estimated that 42 percent of the time they spent on federally funded research was devoted to administrative and regulatory activities, resulting in the expenditure of $97 million in salary support for principal investigators and co-investigators for activities related to grants administration – not research.
"FASEB is hopeful that the Obama administration's interest in streamlining federal regulations will result in changes that allow investigators to devote more time to their research, enhance scientific productivity, and speed the generation of new knowledge related to human health and disease."
Fortunately, scientists aren't the only ones concerned about regulatory burden. In January, President Obama issued an executive order directing federal agencies to design cost-effective, evidence-based regulations that are compatible with economic growth, job creation, and competitiveness and that rely on the best, most innovative and least burdensome tools to achieve regulatory ends. The president also directed each agency to consider how best to review existing rules to determine if they are outmoded, ineffective, insufficient or excessively burdensome.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which has jurisdiction over 16 separate agencies including the National Institutes of Health, issued its preliminary plan for regulatory review in May. While HHS did single out some regulations designed to enhance research, other areas of concern to Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology constituents were not addressed. The federation brought attention to these regulations in a June 30 letter to the department. FASEB stressed two general principles in its comments to HHS: 1) The department should establish mechanisms to evaluate the need for both proposed and existing regulations as well as the impact the implementation of those regulations have, or are expected to have, on the research enterprise, and 2) it should make every effort to harmonize regulations and guidance within HHS and among federal agencies.
FASEB also offered recommendations in a number of specific regulatory areas. Citing the challenges of precisely measuring the time researchers spend on each of the many activities that make up their work days, FASEB urged HHS to eliminate effort reporting. It also encouraged the department to review myriad training courses investigators are required to take to streamline this training and identify topics for which retraining and recertification could be offered every two years rather than annually.
The ethical treatment of human research participants and the humane care and use of laboratory animals are of the utmost importance to FASEB. Regulations in both of these areas are, however, a major source of administrative effort for investigators. One way HHS could ease the burden on faculty, FASEB noted, is by clarifying the roles and responsibilities of federal agencies as compared with those of institutional animal care and use committees and institutional review boards regarding the review of the vertebrate animals and human subjects sections of grants, respectively. FASEB also advised HHS to eliminate the requirement that animal care and use protocols be reviewed every three years and replace it with a requirement to match the period of the animal protocol to the length of the grant. This would remove the disconnect between protocol approval times and grant length and greatly decrease the workload of both investigators and IACUCs.
With regard to human subject protections, FASEB encouraged HHS to exempt research from the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, a statute that has impeded biomedical research significantly while doing little to improve protections for human research participants. At a minimum, FASEB recommended that HHS harmonize the Privacy Rule with the Common Rule, the department's comprehensive framework for reviewing and conducting research with human beings, so as to eliminate inconsistencies that hamper research.
FASEB is hopeful that the Obama administration's interest in streamlining federal regulations will result in changes that allow investigators to devote more time to their research, enhance scientific productivity, and speed the generation of new knowledge related to human health and disease. FASEB will continue to press for these changes, and we welcome input from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology community as we continue our advocacy efforts in this critical area.
Jennifer A. Hobin (email@example.com) is director of science policy in FASEB's office of public affairs.
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Anonymous Attacks North Korea
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I gotta say, whoever writes this crap for Anonymous really is an ineloquent bastard.
One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
Also there jus trying to shut down internal communication in northkorea which is fairly simple.
Oh no! North Korean is going to initiate a nuclear strike against the internet!
Being an ultimately decentralized collective, I can't say I support everything Anon does, but if the group has a overall point, it's to stir the pot a bit; get people talking, like we are now, & they tend to succeed at that.
These forums rant & rave if DRM boots them from a game server, but start ringing their hands any time people claiming the title of Anonymous start an open act of protest.
No, but they have unicorns!
And all five of those computers are in the hands of a megalomaniac with nuclear weapons who would view this as an act of war! =p
Either that, or against the USA and it's allies using "cyberterrorist attacks" originating from these countries, as a casus belli.
Internet insult vs. Thermonuclear explosion...
I already had a low opinion of Anonymous, but now that they'll put innocent lives on the line for the sake of egotism, it somehow got lower.
I seriously doubt their delivery capability. And they are certainly incapable of thermonuclear attacks as they do not posses thermonuclear weapons (or at least they have never tested any, nor is their any evidence of one existing)
You know, I feel like N. Korea and Anonymous fit each other quite well. Both so delusional about their actual strength it's rather sad.
You think a couple of DDOS attacks would be the tipping point? That's a bit hyperbolic isn't it?
Do you really think the U.S. gives a single shit about that? We didn't have a problem preemptive striking the shit out of Iraq.
Also, I think there's a lot less controversy even if we attacked first. China is supposedly their ally and they've moved troops to the border, and I don't think they're going to be supporting North Korea. They are the most destabilizing influence in Asia and no one likes that. China particularly doesn't like the threats against the U.S. After all, we're essentially economically codependent.
Soooo... Any chance Anonymous are going to stay true to that bounty or are they just telling pork pies?
The more people do this, or laugh at North Korea or make jokes about them... the more I wonder just how much they want to tempt fate.
That had to be one of the most stupid messages Anon could have possibly written.
Why mention the United States government at all? It just makes it look like an attack FROM the United States. It will do nothing but give the North Koreans actual ammunition to use in their anti-American propaganda. "This is what the United States devils are like, they can barely communicate in their own language."
North Korea doesn't have a missile that is able to strike anywhere near the US Mainland. And there are anti-missile batteries stationed in Guam, Japan and South Korea in case anything does happen.
Iraq didn't have a big brother like China with a vested interest in not allowing a United Sates military presence so close to its borders. If the North was to launch a nuclear strike even China wouldn't be able to say "No, you can't attack North Korea because if you do we will declare war/trade embargo (not certain which would be worse)" because that would paint them as pro-nuclear strikes against America.
China has already stated that they won't help North Korea in any military conflict. China has too much invested in the Western world.
You all realize this is entirely pointless, right? At best the only thing this is gonna cause is more saber rattling. NK does not have the technology to hit with the crumby ICBMs they have, and their nuclear technology is not at the point where they could actually fit it into a warhead. Plus attacking would be suicidal, not even China (their only ally) would support them at that point, there is too much profit to be had in peace at the moment (for China at least). At the very most it will be a border skirmish like the many they have had with SK since the end of the Korean War. The only purpose is to focus the attention and fear of their oppressed people on so called 'external' threats so they don't get it in their heads that maybe now would be a good idea to overthrow the government or something radical like that. NK may be outrageous, they may like to make threats and they may even kill a few SK soldiers (hopefully not though) but attacking in force or with ICBMs or something like that would bring the wraith of the whole civilized world down on their heads. If they honestly attacked SK or Japan or one of the military bases on Guam it would not wind up like the Iraq war where only a handful of countries got bullied into joining our attack... it would be everyone against NK, even China. It would essentially mean the end of NK as we know it. They just want the attention, and they hope that maybe if they make enough noise the people will stay afraid and maybe some of the new harsher sanctions will be lifted.
Regardless, it's a much bigger story than "Anon Vandalized A Thing" when a country is literally on the brink of declaring war on the USA.
At last, its been ages since the anon's have done anything intresting.
Actually they said they wouldn't support N. Korea launching attacks. They still hold their stance on that they will help N. Korea should S. Korea or it's allies start hostilities again.
Right now N. Korea is poking the US and it's allies trying to get them to shoot first. It's not all that different to a school bully taunting a classmate so when they get punched by said classmate they can claim the victim.
The United States also isn't under a republican government. Korea might boast threats but the world is pretty certain they're entirely bark and no bite. The United States is trying to repair its reputation and running in to North Korea, guns blazing, and the collateral damage that would cause would destroy any effort it has made to repair that reputation.
As many reasons as the United States has to just want to shut North Korea down they haven't actually proven themselves to be a 'threat'.
The only people talking about this are first-worlders like us. (Well, I am, and I assume that since you have an internet connection and use it to comment on gaming websites, you are too.) But the people Anonymous' brilliant message is targeting are, most likely, not even aware the message exists. Anonymous only tries to be as visible to the first world as possible to stroke its collective ego--this message means less than a grain of dust in a sandstorm to North Korea.
...at a time like this you're asking me if I would kindly think that a couple of DDOS attacks would be the tipping point? ...well... ok!
Srsly though, the North Korean Regime is completely neurotic, can you look me in the eye and tell me they won't view this as a personal attack on the great leader by evil imperialists?
North Korea knows that if it even sneezes in the wrong direction, South Korea, Australia, Japan and the US would be on them like Gabe Newell on a buffet.
I absolutely agree. The arrogance in some of these posts is mindblowing, hoping war does start so that we can have "chaos because it's fun!" and because "with our combined alies they have no chance!" and also "why don't we just attack them first?" is actually unnerving. Those were actual things people have said in this thread, paraphrased. I think people are under the impression that war is fun, and totally justifiable if the enemy is different from them. I don't support North Korea, but this reaction is pathetic, and they seem to forget its a real place with real people, and invading just because is not a good reason.
I know I'm being a bit serious, but I'm really disappointed with some people. I would blame the "America, F*** yeah!" craze, but it's not just the US that thinks this about foreign nations. And it is the Internet, after all - people are always arrogant.
Shoot first and ask questions later? I wouldn't want you in charge. So, if this the cold-war you'd risk M.A.D and the genocide of several nations just because of a threat? Got balls my friend.
NK are out gunned, out manned and out nuked statistically. That said, NK are defensive not aggressive but they will use their munitions if provoked even if they are out numbered. Actions and ideas like you're expressing gives them reason into believing that what they are doing is right and therefore continue and reinforce their way of existence.
The cold-war was scientific discovery, not in the technical sense but into the psychology and sociology of every day life.
Somehow, if North Korea decides to fire a missile because of this, Im gonna have a hard time not laughing about it, even if it does do damage somewhere. just the thought of Someone going, "these people made a mockery of us on the internet, FIRE THE MISSILE!"... hell its funny thinking about it now...
They arent on the brink of doing anything. Do a little research for gods sake.
Their military is PATHETIC compared to the forces that are arrayed against it.
Their missile technology is decades behind the countermeasures ready to be brought to bear against them.
They KNOW that if they take one step along the path of war that they would be slapped into oblivion in the same way you might slap an ant crawling on your arm.
The only reason they make statements like the one you are shaking and whimpering over is so that they can gain international acceptance. "look at us, we are willing to go toe to toe with the most deadly military in the world. No really we are! We can do it! Please consider us a legitimate threat and deal with us on equal footing! ...Please?"
I'm terribly sorry but this just seems to go so well with what you just said and it also kind of explains NK's positions at the moment.
Jokes aside, I can't really take any of NK's threats seriously anymore. Not since they threatened to blow up the Sun.
Chaos because it's fun person is kind of stupid, I agree, but everyone else is working off the general assumption that everyone is aware that North Korea existing as it does now is a bad thing. Making war, and the end of the shithole government they have, would, in this instance, be a good thing.
No one has said "let's go have a fun war and murder those people" they're just pointing out how easy it would be to defeat North Korea and it's stupid dipshit of a leader. And then, you know, make human rights a thing, remove the border skirmishes, expose all those people to what it's like when their country isn't living decades in the past, all pretty fucking good things. Wishing that we'd just hurry up and get it over with seems like an expected, and positive thing.
It would be the best thing Anon could possibly have accomplished. They would have been the catalyst that led to the resolution of the "North Korean issue".
I want Anon to keep this up just without giving the NKs a means of turning it into propaganda. Though I fear it will take more than a DDos attack to really have a proper effect. Perhaps changing a video recording to something different half way through discrediting Kim that is being broadcast/displayed to a large group of people? But that's more along the lines of espionage than what Anon usually does.
You imply NK gives a damn about the point themselves.
All they know is that a group, likely American, has attacked them. As the others mentioned, MAYBE THIS IS ACTUALLY A BAD THING.
I feel like whichever member ended up writing this was... self elected, to say the least. While I've been around proclaimed Anons (physically, during Scientology protests. Not bad people), I can't begin to explain their structure, seeing as how they purportedly have none.
Regardless of the... I'm sorry but- abysmal message, the general Anon tactic of swiping information was rather intriguing. I'm not sure what can be done with it, exactly, but... hmm...
Still, I guess I would rather Anon had some form of preventing retaliation before doing something quite like this. Or at least, had someone writ e a better note. What about the person who wrote the anti-Scientology videos? Not pulitzer winning, but effective, and rather chilling in the write context.
This was not what I felt to be a really strong effort by the group that was able to so thoroughly shame HB Gary, fluster the Cha-church of $cientology, and help put a few criminals behind bars, to top it off. However, how strong of an effort could Anon do, and would it be "too much"? As it stands, I don't think this will be enough to worry about, but also not enough to do much.
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So, I tried my hand at editing a file using Gibbed before I came here, but the info in ME3 was off from what I put in, meaning the raw values (which gave me a headache trying to look at) wasn't quite right, and I decided I didn't want to try loading it and have something go wrong.
I'm trying to make a renegade Shepard for ME3, here's what I got in mind character wise.
Name Alaric Shepard
Gender / Alignment Male Renegade
Level / Class 30 Adept
Background Colonist / Sole Survivor
Romanced None
Collector Base Destroyed
Casualties None
DLCs All
Kaidan lives
Wrex lives
Original council
Anderson on council
Rachni Dead
Deal with the Geth Flyers to save the salarian who's name I forget atm.
Tali got the Geth Data
Feros Renegade end, try to save everyone I can, intimidating Jeong
Everyone Recruited - Kasumi and Zaheed too
Helped Liara
Tried to warn Batarians (May be a renegade badass but still, it's a colony...)
All loyalty missions done
Samara killed Morinth
Garrus killed Sidonus
Kal'Reeger alive
Tali wasn't exiled
Encouraged Cease Fire
Kept Genophage Cure
Either/or when it comes to Zaheed, but renegade either way
Kasumi kept greybox
Explored the galaxy
Scanned the galaxy
Probed the galaxy
Kelly is feeding the fishes
Released David
Everyone survived the Omega 4 relay (crew and team)
Yea, I don't exactly know any other major details, it's been awhile since I played ME2 through (Poor Kelly, turning into a human gooey slurry) so, yea... If anyone could assist me in either figuring out how to craft this with Gibbed or a file to use (or closest to that, cause I like the thought of being able to be Renegade and not have to lose ME3 prospects because I had to not complete a mission as a paragon...)