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As you know we have been studying the gospel of Luke, but we have taken a bit of a break and I have been sharing with you on the subject of deliverance, the neglected doctrine. Some apology perhaps is necessary to those who have not been with us in the month of October. We are always in some continuity here, always teaching through a book. If you come on a given Sunday at Grace you may struggle to get yourself into the flow a bit, because there's so much continuity from week to week as we go through the word of God.
We've take a bit of a break from Luke to address the subject of deliverance and I confess that too has been a continuous message over the month. I apologize for bursting on you in the middle of this morning. It has been of grave concern to me that the evangelical church has seemingly been willing and content to abandon sound doctrine. I'm not talking about liberal churches, I'm talking about those that would be confessedly evangelical. Many popular evangelical leaders and writers, pastors, professors, people who are the influencers are content with a lack of discernment as if it were some spiritual virtue.
They have entered upon what I suppose if we were living in Spurgeon's time would be called a downgrade. Church is on a slippery slope, the evangelical church is progressing down away from the heights of truth and the honor of God. It is willingly abandoning its discernment, willingly abandoning bible exposition, and therefore a deep and accurate understanding of truth. In so doing it is moving away from what glorifies God, because what glorifies God is the exposition of scripture.
Let me tell you very simply why. In the bible God is revealed. God's glory is on display through the biblical record. God puts himself on display in scripture. The preacher then has one clear compelling duty and that is to display the glory of God by the exposition of scripture. I'll say that again the preacher has one clear compelling duty to display the glory of God by the exposition of scripture. When you exposite the word of God you wind up teaching sound doctrine, truth. When the truth is understood and the truth is known God is therefore displayed in that truth.
The Revelation of scripture is the truth, and it is the truth of God which is the very nature and essence of God. So I say again the preacher has one clear compelling duty and that is to display the glory of God by the exposition of scripture. That's not what's going on in the evangelicalism today, people are moving away from bible preaching and bible teaching and bible exposition. They're moving away from an interest in sound doctrine, an interest in definitive truth. They are embracing anything and everything that nominally identifies itself as Christian, and the church will continue to do this until someone or someone's hold up the word of God.
The word you see faithfully, the word accurately and the word relentlessly brings to people the true majesty of God. With it comes true understanding. Any preacher who doesn't do this has failed in his responsibility before God. My task as a preacher is very simple, I am expected to teach the deep things of scripture so that I can lift you to the heights of praise. I suppose some of you who are visiting with us might say to yourself if you come from another church environment they sure sing a lot of old songs here. Where are the praise choruses? There's a reason, hymnology is tied to theology.
Where you have depth you have height, where you have a shallow theology you have a shallow hymnology. Where you have a superficial understanding of divine truth you have superficial expression of it. But where you have a people who have come to grips with the depth of divine truth, and who have grandiose and glorious thoughts about God, produced by an understanding of the profound realities of divine truth they're not content with a shallow expression. We love the old hymns because they are profound, they have a certain poetic genius that reaches into the depth of our theology and gives it expression.
We don't need to be seduced by a saloon melody. It's enough for us to sing great words, we don't' need a mantra to induce an emotion. Our thoughts of truth and our thoughts of God catapult us into lofty hymns. So the preacher's responsibility is to dispense the truth, and in unfolding the truth of the word of God, going deep into the truth of the word of God, God's glory is revealed. When God's glory is revealed God's people praise him; so the preacher goes down, takes his people up. Down into the depth of truth that they might be elevated to the heights of praise.
I only have one tool; can you imagine a profession with only one tool? I only have one tool, just one, scripture, it's the only tool. There's a popular book written by a well-known Presbyterian pastor that advocates the fact that the gospel is in the stars, that the whole gospel including justification is revealed in the constellations. In the book he says God preached the gospel and the stars to Adam even before he fell. This is nothing new, this has been advocated in years past. It surprises me that a man who knows theology well would write a book like that, because that is a flat denial of sola scritura. Listen, I only have one tool and it's not the stars, it's this book.
God has revealed all divine truth in one book of which he is the author. If you say it's in the book and it's in the stars then why can't the Roman Catholic's say it's in the book and it's also in the Pope and church councils? Then why can't Mary Baker Eddy say it's in the bible and it's also in the science and healthy key to scriptures, and why can't the Mormons say it's in the bible and it's also in the doctrines and covenants of Pearl of Great Price in the Book of Mormon?
Divine truth is not in a church, it's not in a Pope, it's not in the Bishop, it's not in the denomination, it's not an experience, it's not in somebody's intuition, and it's not in the stars, it's in a book, the bible. Every time the church has wandered away from this it has been fraught with disaster. This is reformation Sunday; what produced the reformation was a Catholic priest by the name of Martin Luther came to the conviction that God's truth was confined to the book. This is revolutionary, that's not what the Catholic Church believes.
Martin Luther said God spoke only in the book, and all divine truth is confined to the book. Not Popes, not bishops, not church councils, not the magisterium, not the tradition, the book. He said it's the book alone and next to Jesus and the apostle Paul Martin Luther was the most divisive man that ever came along in the Christian faith. He created a massive rift, which separated those who believed the book from those who were caught up in the Roman system. It was the conviction that God spoke only in the book that produced the reformation.
It was then once Martin Luther had come to the conviction that the truth was in the book he went into the book and he found the truth, and it was justification by grace through faith alone wasn't it. You didn't have to pay any attention to what the Pope said, what the bishop said, what the council said it was all in the book, and the book's clear. In 1539 Luther commented on Psalm 119 he wrote this, "In this Psalm David always says that he will speak, think, talk, hear, read day and night and constantly, but about nothing else than God's word.
Luther called it the external word, I like that. It's outside of us, and Luther said the saving, sanctifying, illuminating word is the external word. What did he mean by that? He meant that it's outside of us, like God is outside of us. You can't invent God and you can't invent truth, God isn't the product of your imagination, God isn't the product of your fantasy, God isn't the product of your experience. God isn't the product of your intuition, God isn't the product of your charismatic emotion, God is not the product of your existentialism, God is God and he's outside of you, not subject to your tampering. God is not a clay toy you can shape any way you like. So the bible is outside of you, it is external. You can take it, you can leave it, you can't tamper with it.
You can't make it other than it is, and you can't make it say other than it says. It is a book, it is a fixed book with fixed letters and fixed words and fixed sentences. This was Luther's great conviction that changed the world. Luther said with a resounding forcefulness in 1545, which was the year before he died, he said let the man who would hear God speak read holy scripture. You know there are books that's flooding the Christian world today, you can see them at the Christian bookseller's convention about how to listen for the voice of God.
Training yourself to listen for the voice of God. Learning how to hear God's voice. Let me tell you something do you want to hear God, through the book. Stand around and listen who knows what you're going to hear. Whatever it is it won't be God. So what is the task of the preacher? John Piper says a large and central part of our work is to wrestle God's meaning from the book. That's right. Luther in 1533 said the word of God is the greatest, most necessary, most important thing in Christendom. It is, and I'll tell you what you turn away the book and you have endless problems. You turn away from the book and Jesus becomes a clay toy, you can shape him any way you want.
Truth becomes a clay toy you can shape it any way you want. John Piper says, "Luther had one weapon to rescue Christ from being sold in the markets of Wittenberg. He drove out the money changers, the indulgent sellers with a whip of the external word, the book." See people want to reinvent Jesus, shape him any way they want. They want to come up with their own view of truth, shape it any way they want. The book doesn't let you do that. Our faith is rooted in a decisive revelation in history called the bible, and as a pastor, as a preacher, as a minister I have one job. I'm a broker of the book, the word of God transmitted in a book.
Fundamentally I am a reader, and I am a teacher and I am a proclaimer of the book. I have to feed you the book, the truth of the book. As much as I am faithful to that I discharge my duty before God, as much as I am unfaithful to that I fail in my responsibility and I incur a serious accountability before God. I want to take you down into the richness of the word so that you can go high to the heights of praise. When people grasp the deep truth of scripture they begin to grasp the high majesty of God. I look at the evangelical church today and I see shallowness, indifference towards scripture, truth is a problem because they see it as divisive.
I see because of that they don't now the depth of truth, they also don't know the glory of God. David Wells writing in No Place for Truth his wonderful book said, "It is this God majestic and holy in his being who has disappeared from the modern evangelical world." Lesslie Newbigin wrote, "I suddenly saw that someone could use all the language of evangelical Christianity and yet the center was fundamentally the self and God is auxiliary to that." This modern evangelical drift puts man at the center of everything. More important than the scriptures and more important than God. When that happens what can change that is to confront it, and that's really why I have been addressing this the last few weeks.
I don't anything else to do other than what Luther did and what John Calvin did and what Spurgeon did and what others have done in history. You just have to take it head on and say it the way it is. I look at – and I've been doing some reading in the life of Calvin and Luther and other reformers, trying to understand how it was that they had such a massive influence. When you think of those kinds of names you think they must have been strong personalities, they must have been gifted leaders, etc. As you study their lives what you find out is that they were absolutely, indefatigable and relentless expositors of scripture.
They took every single opportunity that ever came their way to exposit the word of God before people, and the word of God was what caused things to change. As people came under the powerful, clear preaching of the depth of truth they became consumed with the glory of God, they became discerning and they saw error for what it was and truth for what it was, and they made right choices. Benjamin Warfield, the great Princeton theologian who had a great ministry in my life long after his death when I was a seminary student and read the inspiration and authority of scripture.
Warfield said of John Calvin that no man ever had a profounder sense of God than he. He said that in work on Calvin and Augustine. He said no man ever had a profounder sense of God than John Calvin, and where did John Calvin get that profound sense of God? He got it out of scripture. John Calvin spent his life studying the scripture, he spent his life as an expositor of scripture. People assume John Calvin was some kind of a theologian. He was a theologian, but he was a theologian who had a right to be a theologian because he was an expositor. His theology was the product of his bible exposition.
Through Calvin sound reformed theology, theology the reformation took hold, found its roots and with that deep theology came the product of that theology which was high praise. Many of the songs and hymns that we sing that are the most beloved and the most rich and deep were written by those who were reformers, Puritans. Did you know John Calvin only preached bible exposition? God used him to change the face of the world.
He went into Geneva in 1536 and he did bible expositions until 1564 with a three year banishment that I'll mention in a moment. But he preached the exposition of scripture, I've stood in the little – it's almost like a chapel, it's a consistory they call it next to the St. Peter's Church where Calvin preached on the Lord's Day. He preached in this little chapel every day. He did exposition of scripture and he had five guys sitting on the front row and they wrote down everything he said. All five of them collectively would get it, put it all together and give it back to him to edit, and that's how he produced commentaries. Day after day after day he would teach, expositing the scripture.
R.L. Dabney writes, "All the leading reformers whether in Germany, Switzerland, England or Scotland were constant preachers, and their sermons were prevalently expository." That means to – exposit means to explain the meaning of scripture. So he said we can assume with safety that the instrumentality to which the spiritual power of the great revolution and the reformation was mainly due, was the restoration of scriptural preaching.
Dabney also points out that what happens in history is a three step downgrade, and we're watching it happen right now. There is a time in the church, he calls it the Golden Age, when the truth of God is preached from the word of God. That's the Golden Age. When men exposit the scripture; I grew up in a time like that. Bible exposition was for issue, bible exposition was what people did, not anymore. The evangelical say there's a second step; that they don't know this, but Dabney says there's a second step. Evangelicals say we still believe biblical truth, we still believe sound doctrine, we're still evangelical.
But we just think the bible is archaic, and people don't identify with it and it's boring so we've taken the truth and we've put it in some cultural context that people can identify with that communicate better. It's still the truth and we believe the truth and the bible is so old, and it's stuffy and people just don't relate to and so we still hold to the truth, and we just give it new clothes. That's a transition folks, that's the transition from the Golden Age. First, you preach the truth of God from the word of God; that's the dress that God put on it.
That's the way he clothed it and God knows what is best for the soul and the spirit and the mind of a man who is under the convicting influence of the Holy Spirit. So he knows what truth comes to a man most powerfully in the working of the Holy Spirit and that's why he put it in the bible the way he put it. But maybe people think they know better than God so they take the truths of scripture out of the scripture, put them in another dress, clothe them differently in order to remove the stigma of the bible, the offense of the bible, and somehow think they can get through to the culture in a soft sell way.
They have basically set the bible aside because they think it's embarrassing. Dabney says this is the transition state. In this the doctrine taught is still that of scripture. But their relations are molded into conformity with the prevalent human dialectics. God's truth is now shorn of a part of its power over the soul. Third step, you know the bible was offensive, we got rid of that, now we find that the doctrine is also offensive so we get rid of that too.
Then Dabney pleads may we ever be content to exhibit bible doctrine in its own bible dress. That's why you see I say that if people would just start preaching the bible, the bible would provide clarity, it would provide discernment, it would provide understanding, it would provide profundity and also lift people to the heights of transcendent praise. The bible forms the whole content of our preaching, it's a one tool profession as I said. God set forth all its truths in such context and such proportions and such relations as he knows the soul and mind and man best when under the influence of the Holy Spirit. No other forms of truth are as good.
I just hate to see people beginning to see we still believe the truth, but we don't teach it from the bible, because people don't accept that. If you got rid of the bible because they didn't like it why are you going to hold on to the truth when you find out they don't like that either. I don't think you can do ministry without a radical commitment to the bible. I mean a radical commitment to the bible; I'm viewed as a radical. I'm viewed and a non-intellectual, low level Christian pastor, because I'm not open to every view of everything. I'm seen as anti-intellectual. That's fine, I really don't care.
My intellect can only function effectively for the honor of God in one way and that is if I use it to come to an understanding of scripture, and then communicate it to you. Whether or not I understand every wrong view is not relevant. I don't think you can do ministry in this climate today the way God wants it done without a radical commitment to the bible, and I say radical because it's resisted even within the framework of evangelicalism.
As I said before the meaning of scripture is the scripture, as you clear the fog and reveal the meaning that is the scripture. That's the truth of God and that puts God on display and that gives people discernment and it gives the church power. You know I just think there are people who don't want to do the hard work. You look at Calvin he wrote prolifically, he wrote his institutes – he wrote his commentaries, several shelves of my study are filled with is volumes. He preached 10 sermons every two weeks, all of it scripture exposition. Same with Luther; between 1510 and 1546 he preached 3000 sermons. Many days a week and many times a day he preached.
All that with family struggles, with his wife Katie gave him six children, some of them died, the rest of them he catechized on Sunday afternoon. Do you want to hear a typical Sunday for Martin Luther; 5:00 a.m. was the first service, it was an exposition of an epistle; 10:00 a.m. was the second one, it was an exposition of the gospel. In the afternoon he taught the word of God to his children. At 5:00 p.m. he came back to exposit a book in the Old Testament. On Monday and Tuesday he taught more exposition, on Wednesday he taught on Matthew, on Thursday and Friday he taught on an apostolic letter, and on Saturday he exposited the gospel of John.
You know people don't roll out of bed and lead a reformation. You understand that? There's a reason why these people had the influence they had. Consumed with scripture, with its understanding and its proclamation. All he did was preach and preach and preach, and the people worshipped. He went down and they went up. That's why I told you a few weeks ago it's better to go slower than faster, it's better to be deep and not shallow, it's better to be thorough and not superficial. Back to John Calvin he never wavered from expository preaching for almost 25 years.
From 1536 to 1564 in Geneva, and he even ignored Christmas and Easter and every other event, and just kept doing his exposition. He didn't give any special messages, he just stayed with his expositions. The scope of his pulpit is really amazing, it's just amazing. He preached for six years on the book of Acts, he gave 46 sermons on Thessalonians, 186 sermons on Corinthians, 86 sermons 1, 2 Timothy and Titus, 43 sermons on Galatians, 48 sermons on Ephesians. In 1559 in the spring he started a study of the gospels, expositing the gospels in a harmony fashion, and he didn't finish when he died in 1564 in the month of May.
That was on the Lord's Day and in the middle of the week he preached 159 sermons on Job, 200 on Deuteronomy, 353 on Isaiah and 123 on Genesis and so on. All that took preparation and study. He was preaching on Easter 1538, after his sermon he left the pulpit of St. Peter's Church and they threw him out of town. City council banished him, they'd had enough of him. He'd only been preaching for a couple of years there, but he was so strong, so powerful that they threw him out of town after his sermon. He came back just a little over three years later and picked up his exposition at the next verse.
As I was saying. Biographers tell us that Calvin believed the word of God was the only lamp and that the lamp had been taken away from the churches, and that's what I believe. Calvin had a horror of those people who preached their own ideas in the pulpit. He believed that expounding the scriptures was the only thing that God wanted done. Calvin believed that God's majesty was revealed in his word, and if you didn't preach the word then you didn't give glory to God. You know it wasn't easy for Calvin preaching 10 times in two weeks, lecturing three times in theology, having a Friday bible study, visiting the sick, counseling people, reading and writing.
He had a weak stomach, he had severe migraines, and the only way he could control his migraines was by eating one meal a day. He worked night and day with scarcely a break, that's why he died young. In 1564 when he was 53 years old he wrote his physician, describing colic, spitting of blood, ague, gout, excruciating sufferings of hemorrhoids, kidney stones, etc. At the same time his wife gave birth to children, they died one after another and she died, turned the world upside down. This literally turned the world upside down.
Because of the power of bringing the word of God to bear. Back to Luther for a moment, just to show you how prolific they were in the word Luther in 1520 wrote 133 works, in 1522 he wrote 130 works, in 1523 he wrote 183 works, one every other day. The same in 1524, all the product of intense scrutiny of the word of God. This is what turned history. Contemporary evangelical church sad to say is not interested in biblical depth, and therefore it doesn't experience biblical height. It tends to be shallow and worldly and weak, and self-deceiving. Deceiving itself with superficial success.
At the heart of this is this tragic thing of embracing non-Christians as if their Christians; that's what we've been talking about in this – I know this is a long introduction and I'll never get to my point. But you understand this is a passion with me, and I just want you to know where I'm at in my heart. Without a deep grasp of biblical truth there's no discernment, and with no discernment then you just can't tell who's a Christian and who's not so Satan comes into the church, comes into the leadership, comes in to teach at colleges and teach at seminaries and write books and get on Christian TV, and on and on it goes.
As I told you where you don't have the truth and you don't have the preaching that brings clarity and discernment and the glory of God you have terrible problems. The first one is people no longer distinguish between who's a Christian and who's not. This was one of the great realities of reformation, the reformation said you're not Christians period, you're not. You say we're Christian, no you're not. It's time for us to take the stand at the same point in this day, and as I've been trying to tell you the last few weeks the way you distinguish a true Christian from a non-Christian no matter what they claim is found in this category that we're calling deliverance.
What have we been saying, you can tell who's a Christian because they've been delivered. The ministry of the Lord is to deliver, to rescue, to save. A Christian isn't known by some act, some event, some prayer, some signing of a card, some going forward, some being baptized, some joining a church. It's not identified by an event, but by deliverance. True Christians are those who've been delivered, and deliverance is this general truth, it contains the realities of salvation. First we said true Christians had been delivered from error to truth, and that was a big issue, and it's an issue we need to be clarified on.
If you haven't been here you need to get those tapes; that's just very important. Nobody is a Christian folks who doesn't believe the true gospel. That's a pretty sweeping statement; you have to believe the true gospel or you're not a Christian. You can't believe a false gospel like Mormons and people in the Roman Catholic system. You have to believe the true gospel, you can't believe the liberal message of good works and social change. You can't believe some abhorrent kind of thing about who Jesus is.
You can't be a non-Trinitarian and believe in a God who's not a trinity such as T.D. Jakes and people like that and be a Christian. Christians believe the truth because what we saw clearly in Colossians 1:12 and 13 we've been delivered out of the domain of darkness into the kingdom of the son of God's love. We have become saints in light, we've gone out of the darkness of ignorance and error, and into the light of truth. I'm being specific with you because I feel like we have to do that. Who is a Christian, somebody who's been delivered from error to truth? You've come to understand, to believe, to embrace the truth.
Secondly we said true Christians have been delivered not only from error to truth, but from sin to righteousness. We looked in particular at Romans chapter 6, which is a very vital text last time, which talks about the fact that we were slaves to sin and we're now servants of righteousness. I just want to finish up that point, turn to 1 John 3, just a couple of comments to finish that point up, and next week I'm going to give you the third point since I've run out of time.
1 John 3, John is just giving us a very black and white look here. 1 John 3 in verse 2 he says, "Beloved now are we children of God." Alright, we're children of God, how do you know that? How do you know when somebody's a child of God? How do you know when somebody belongs to God, when they are a true believer? Go down to verse 4, "Every one who practices sin practices also lawlessness; and sin is lawlessness." Verse 5, "You know that he appeared in order to take away sins," now stop right there.
Why did Jesus come into the world; to take away sins? So what should be characteristic of a Christian? Sin is taken away; how clear is that? Matthew 1:21 he came to save his people from their sins. So John is simply saying he appeared to take away sins. So what's true about a Christian is sin has been replaced by righteousness, and he goes on to explain that. Verse 6, "No one who abides in him sins," present tense, continues in sin in that same pattern. It doesn't mean we never sin, because back in chapter 1 he said if you say you don't have sin you're making God a liar. Of course you have sin, but you do not continue in that constant pattern of sin; that's a present tense verb in the Greek which indicates continuous action.
No one who abides in Christ continues in that same pattern of sin, and no one who continues in that same pattern of sin has seen Christ or knows Christ. People say all the time I know they're living like this and they're doing this, but I know they're Christians. I know they're Christians because I remember when this happened and that event. Christians don't continue in a pattern of sin, it's unbroken. Verse 7 here's the key, "little children, let nobody deceive you," don't let anybody deceive you. "The one who practices righteousness is righteous," is that difficult to grasp?
Come on, who's righteous? People who do righteous things. It's a matter of nature, it's a matter of the life principle, the life power, and he makes that very clear. The one who practices, verse 8 sin is of the devil; he's got the old nature under the control of Satan. The devil is a sinner from the beginning, but the son of God appeared for this purpose to destroy the works of the devil. What are the works of the devil, sin? Second time verse 5, verse 8, the son came to destroy that pattern of sin. To destroy that principle of sin, that power of dominant sin, and so in verse 9 no one who is born of God practices sin, practices that idea of constant unbroken, continual sin because he has a new seed in him.
He uses the analogy of birth, human birth. A baby is the product of its parents, it bears the life of its parents. The seed, the egg the parents have create the essence of that child. That child is literally the coming together of the two lives that produced it, and the child will manifest characteristics. It'll be shaped like its parents, it'll look in the face like its parents, it'll have physical mannerisms like its parents, it'll have some intellectual capabilities like its parents or maybe some other capabilities as well. It'll reflect the genetic structure inherited from parents and that's essentially what he's saying.
If you're born of God you're going to be a product of that new birth and you're not going to continue to practice sin. But what's going to happen is you have a new seed in you and you can't continue in sin, because you're born of God. Look, if you were ever born of God the principle of sin has been broken and the practice of sin has been interrupted. If somebody looks like they're a Christian and all of a sudden wanders off into sin and stays there they never had that new birth. Because if they had a new birth, if they were born of God no one who was born of God practices sin
No one has that same constant pattern. As I told you last week it has to do with what you desire. We sin as Christians but we hate that sin. We love righteousness; like Romans 7 I want to do things and my flesh gets in the way, and I don't do want to do and I do what I don't want to do. But I know that's a wretched thing and despise that, and I cry out to be delivered from it. One of the great reasons to go to heaven, you talk to people about going to heaven and they say streets of gold, and you know the best thing about heaven no sin.
That's the most appealing thing about it. Don't you get sick of it? I'm not talking about sin in your spouse, I'm talking about yours. No one who's born of God continues in an unbroken patter of sin, it can't happen. Why, because his seed is in you. You have incorruptible seed Peter says, a new life, a new nature, a new creation. In verse 10 sums it up, here's how you distinguish the children of God and the children of the devil. It's obvious, I like that; how obvious is it? Anyone who doesn't practice righteousness is not of God, that's enough for me.
How do you know who's a Christian? Somebody who loves what is right, who loves the law of God, who hates sin, who has a pattern of righteousness interrupted by sin. That's sin that he hates, it's the residual of his old self, his old disposition. Galatians 2:20 apostle Paul talks about this and he says, "I have been crucified with Christ." What do you mean Paul? I'm dead, the old Paul's gone, the old life has died, it's no longer I who live. That old ego, that old I is gone, but Christ lives in me.
If Christ lives in you everything is different, everything. There's a new life principle that produces a new life practice. If we don't understand who a true Christian is we're confused at the most critical point, aren't we? Because we can't tell a person their true spiritual condition; they may be lost on their way to hell, it doesn't help them to tell them they're Christians. We've also invited Satan's terrors into the church; people who do not love God's truth, who do not love his righteousness law, who do not hunger for what is right, don't have a new heart.
Don't have a new birth, don't have an incorruptible seed, don't have Christ living in them; they haven't been delivered. If the heart hasn't been changed to love God's word, if the heart hasn't been changed to love God's law, if the heart hasn't been changed to desire to obey the law of God as Ezekiel 36 put is, if the heart hasn't been changed to pursue virtue, not sin then that heart hasn't been changed at all. The hallmark of salvation folks is you understand, you believe, you embrace the truth of the gospel. You love that truth and you love righteousness, and you hate sin.
True Christians worship God, love the word of God, and obey the word of God. They are like the deer we read about in Psalm 42 who pants for the water brooks, their soul pants after God. Psalmist says my soul thirst for God, for the living God. The Psalmist says in Psalm 119:97 O how I love your law. So if you have a child or a spouse or a brother or sister or friend or an acquaintance who really wants to sin, plans to sin, plans fulfillment in sin, doesn't have a passion for righteousness, doesn't have an interest in the truth, the person hasn't been delivered, not a Christian no matter what they claim.
Today as we have been saying evangelical churches and leaders are saying anyone who says he's a Christian is a Christian, anybody who says they believe in Jesus is a Christian. Liberal, Protestants, charismatics, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, free floating unattached people who believe in Jesus, athletes who do this, and they make a good play and get caught soliciting a prostitute. Anybody who claims to be a Christian can be tested by truth and virtue. This is critical; real deliverance produces changed life. There's a third point and I'll just tell you what it is and we'll do it next week. They have been delivered from the dying world to the eternal kingdom. Profound and we'll look at that next time, let's pray. Father, what clarity, what precision your word provides. Thank you for the examples of men of the past that we talked about this morning who's testimonies are instructive to us, because of their faithfulness, power of their lives which you so mightily used.
Give your church a restored confidence, a restored passion, a restored hunger for truth, for the word of truth. We pray father that you will give us the discernment so that we can truly judge a person's spiritual condition. Protect your church from the downgrade of truth, the downgrade of scripture. We just pray father that you will awaken pastors and leaders to be faithful, to preach bible truth and bible dress relentlessly and passionately for all the years of their ministry that you might do a mighty and a true work in hearts. Thank you for the deliverance that you have provided us by your grace, in Christ name, amen.
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Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism official, has recently come out suggesting that George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld should be charged with war crimes. Unfortunately, media outlets reporting this story have failed to examine Clarke's long relationship to Cheney and Rumsfeld and his record of having prevented the capture of Osama bin Laden. These omissions highlight that, although Cheney and Rumsfeld undoubtedly are guilty of post-9/11 war crimes, suspicions that they helped create the pretext for those crimes go unreported.
Clarke's history is regularly misrepresented in the media. It's often said that he started in his counterterror position under Clinton when he was, in fact, appointed to it by George H.W. Bush in 1992. Clarke is a right wing hawk who had close ties to Cheney and Rumsfeld going back at least another decade with his selection for a secret Reagan Administration project. Clarke, Cheney and Rumsfeld were among a small group that spent nearly 30 years practicing to takeover the United States government in the Continuity of Government (COG) program. Their secretive COG plan was implemented only once—on the morning of 9/11.
Considering the media's treatment of Clarke, it's no surprise that most people have little or no understanding of his relationship to Cheney and Rumsfeld. It's also not surprising that some people don't know why these men are primary 9/11 suspects, despite the many reasons to consider that Cheney and Rumsfeld were behind the attacks. Much of the evidence against Cheney and Rumsfeld is circumstantial. But the amount of evidence linking them to the crimes is far greater than that used to accuse Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Osama bin Laden.
Apart from George W. Bush, who was well controlled on that day, Cheney and Rumsfeld were in the most important positions of power on 9/11. Some of their closest colleagues were also in positions to affect the crimes.
- Rumsfeld's direct subordinate Ralph Eberhart was in charge of the military exercises that disrupted the nation's air defense response on 9/11.
- Cheney's protégé Duane Andrews led SAIC on 9/11. Andrews was a leading expert on the DOD systems that failed and SAIC had numerous suspicious links to the facilities and systems impacted, as well as to the official accounts for what happened.
- Rumsfeld's deputy Paul Wolfowitz managed the Pentagon renovation project that was focused on the exact spot where the Pentagon was hit.
- Rumsfeld's fellow ABB director Peter Janson managed the company that did the renovation work at the Pentagon and that was hired to clean up the Pentagon and the WTC.
- After the attacks, Cheney's old business partner Bruce Bradley went into business with WTC security company manager Barry McDaniel.
- Rumsfeld's close friend Frank Carlucci ran the Carlyle Group, a company that was partly funded by the Bin Laden family and that employed Barry McDaniel before he left to run security at the WTC.
- Cheney and Rumsfeld were both on the advisory board of Salomon Smith Barney, the company that occupied almost all of WTC 7.
- Paul Bremer, the terror propagandist who was selected by Rumsfeld to govern occupied Iraq, had an office in the WTC and helped present the official account of what happened.
- Porter Goss, the old CIA operative who ran the initial investigation, had "long shown himself to be under the spell of Vice President Dick Cheney."
The actions of Cheney and Rumsfeld on 9/11 also suggest their involvement in the crimes.
Vice President Cheney was in charge at the White House. That morning, he had an unusual early meeting with Sean O'Keefe, who was deputy assistant to the president and Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. O'Keefe had been a close colleague of Cheney at the Pentagon and served as Secretary of the Navy under George H.W. Bush. The meeting with O'Keefe was remarkable in that, unlike Cheney's normal meetings, it was unscheduled and lasted longer than Cheney normally allowed. And although the conversation seemed urgent, "In time, neither man would be able to recall what it was that had been so important."
The attacks began as Cheney and O'Keefe were meeting in Cheney's office. O'Keefe then left and Cheney began another meeting with his speechwriter. It was reported that other members of the White House staff began to congregate there until the Secret Service came in to move the vice president to the lower levels.
When questioned by the 9/11 Commission, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta testified that he came to the basement operations center at the White House, around 9:20 a.m., and Cheney was already there. Mineta said that Cheney had an exchange with a "young man" who came in and out over a period of time, giving Cheney updates about an incoming plane and asking if "the orders still stand." Mineta's testimony indicates that Cheney was aware of Flight 77 as it was approaching Washington, before the official account says that anyone knew, and that he was maintaining orders about that incoming plane.
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld was in charge at the Pentagon. As the attacks were beginning, he was finishing a breakfast meeting with Pentagon leaders. Attendees said that at this meeting Rumsfeld predicted that a shocking world event would occur in the near future, one that would remind people of the need for a strong U.S. military.
By the time that the second plane hit the WTC, Rumsfeld had moved on to a meeting with his CIA briefer. Reports vary on where he was after that, but national security advisor Condoleezza Rice claimed that she could not reach him. Some said that Rumsfeld continued with regularly scheduled meetings after the second strike, and that he was on a roll with his predictions that morning. Apparently, he told Congressman Christopher Cox "Believe me, this isn't over yet. There's going to be another attack, and it could be us." Minutes later, the Pentagon was hit.
After the Pentagon was hit, Rumsfeld wandered out to the parking lot for approximately 30 minutes. His presence there showed that he was not concerned about other planes that were reported hijacked and that he was not considering the danger to other potential targets. It was as if he knew what to expect.
To explain his behavior, Rumsfeld later stated; "I wanted to see what had happened. I wanted to see if people needed help. I went downstairs and helped for a bit with some people on stretchers. Then I came back up here and started—I realized I had to get back up here and get at it."
Rumsfeld did not concern himself with the work of his direct subordinate, NORAD commander Ralph Eberhart, and he did not do his job to ensure the nation's air defenses. Meanwhile, NORAD experienced inexplicable failures and Eberhart lied about it to Congress afterward.
After the 9/11 attacks, Cheney tried to prevent an investigation. It was later learned that Rumsfeld co-authored a letter to the 9/11 Commission, warning it to limit its investigation and denying it access to critical evidence. According to Kean and Hamilton's book Without Precedent, each of the commissioners was also invited to have private meetings with Rumsfeld, who gave them advice throughout the investigation. This was despite the fact that Rumsfeld's DOD failed to provide many of the documents that had been requested.
Considering the unraveling of the official accounts for 9/11, people don't need more deceptive comments from Richard Clarke about the obvious post-9/11 crimes of Cheney and Rumsfeld. What people need to understand is that Cheney and Rumsfeld were running the show on 9/11 and were in perfect position to coordinate the attacks. Their actions on that day, as well as their surprising links to others who had the access and knowledge to accomplish the crimes, make them prime suspects.
TLB recommends you visit http://www.globalresearch.ca for more great articles and pertinent information.
See original article here: http://www.globalresearch.ca/war-crimes-and-911-why-dick-cheney-and-donald-rumsfeld-are-suspects/5385759


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Trust Amid the Silence
"He answered her not a word" (Matt. 15:23). "He will be silent in his love" (Zeph. 3:17).
It may be a child of God is reading these words who has had some great crushing sorrow, some bitter disappointment, some heart-breaking blow from a totally unexpected quarter. You are longing for your Master's voice bidding you "Be of good cheer," but only silence and a sense of mystery and misery meet you –"He answered her not a word."
God's tender heart must often ache listening to all the sad, complaining cries which arise from our weak, impatient hearts, because we do not see that for our own sakes He answers not at all or otherwise than seems best to our tear-blinded, short-sighted eyes.
The silences of Jesus are as eloquent as His speech and may be a sign, not of His disapproval, but of His approval and of a deep purpose of blessing for you.
"Why art thou cast down, O…soul?" Thou shalt yet praise Him, yes, even for His silence. Listen to an old and beautiful story of how one Christian dreamed that she saw three others at prayer. As they knelt the Master drew near to them.
As He approached the first of the three, He bent over her in tenderness and grace, with smiles full of radiant love and spoke to her in accents of purest, sweetest music.
Leaving her, He came to the next, but only placed His hand upon her bowed bead, and gave her one look of loving approval.
The third woman He passed almost abruptly without stopping for a word or glance. The woman in her dream said to herself, "How greatly He must love the first one, to the second He gave His approval, but none of the special demonstrations of love He gave the first; and the third must have grieved Him deeply, for He gave her no word at all and not even a passing look.
"I wonder what she has done, and why He made so much difference between them?" As she tried to account for the action of her Lord, He Himself stood by her and said: "O woman! how wrongly hast thou interpreted Me. The first kneeling woman needs all the weight of My tenderness and care to keep her feet in My narrow way. She needs My love, thought and help every moment of the day. Without it she would fail and fall.
"The second has stronger faith and deeper love, and I can trust her to trust Me however things may go and whatever people do.
"The third, whom I seemed not to notice, and even to neglect, has faith and love of the finest quality, and her I am training by quick and drastic processes for the highest and holiest service.
"She knows Me so intimately, and trusts Me so utterly, that she is independent of words or looks or any outward intimation of My approval. She is not dismayed nor discouraged by any circumstances through which I arrange that she shall pass; she trusts Me when sense and reason and every finer instinct of the natural heart would rebel;–because she knows that I am working in her for eternity, and that what I do, though she knows not the explanation now, she will understand hereafter.
"I am silent in My love because I love beyond the power of words to express, or of human hearts to understand, and also for your sakes that you may learn to love and trust Me in Spirit-taught, spontaneous response to My love, without the spur of anything outward to call it forth."
He "will do marvels" if you will learn the mystery of His silence, and praise Him, for every time He withdraws His gifts that you may better know and love the Giver. –Selected


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Dammit. Now I want gelato and the campus gelataria (which, if it isn't a word, is now) is closed.
It is a word and it's spelt Gelateria.
I include the meat & wool sectors amongst the retards
Then you'll guess where the demand for sick day crackdowns comes from.
Mr Key said this issue had been raised with him, and it affected the meat industry.
Gio, I'm saving my 'e's for later.
That sick day proposal is shocking, I worked for a company once with that condition and after waiting in a clinic for an hour to see a doctor to sign a certificate verifying I had the flu, I ended up worse for wear than if I had just stayed in bed. There's a healthy black market in China for those doctor's certificates. Requiring certificates does less for maintaining a healthy workforce, then allowing one off sick days.
Fantastic news from the article Sacha linked to: Sick leave change 'not major'
She [Minister of Labour] disagreed with Ms Turei that there was no problem that needed fixing, saying: "The issue has been raised with us"
So it turns out that all you need to do to get some government action is to raise an issue with them. Anyone want to start a list of issues we could raise?
You do need to be a donor or fellow traveller as well
Gio, I'm saving my 'e's for later.
See you at Spy bar.
Oh and this by the Herald's employment law columnist may interest Graeme:
However, the practical reality is that if an employer wants to hire an employee and include a trial period in the employment agreement, and the employee refuses to consent to the inclusion of the trial period, the employer is unlikely proceed with the offer and instead, make an offer to another applicant who is willing to agree to a trial period.
So an applicant can specify they don't want a trial period in their employment agreement - but they may not get the role.
because we is after all but actors.
In the UK the first 12 months of employment lacks the protection of unfair dismissal rights, so it is relatively easy to dismiss an employee in that period. This is of course subject to discrimination law (Equality Act just passed before the election, to consolidate such) and pay claims.
The three month probation rule is simply one of custom and practice, which is usually followed up by the contract or letter of offer. By virtue of the contract is is also quite possible to opt out of disciplinary and grievance procedures in that first 12 months.
It is reasonably common to dismiss an employee without reason at about month 10 or 11 on the basis of the above. The long and the short of it is that if an employee wants to take action in that first 12 months they must find a pay or discrimination claim or breach of contract.
PASers be ribbin'
Surely a contender for a top 10 placing in Word of the Year 2010.
And, noting that the Word of the Year has averaged three-words-long in recent years, we can observe it is like Paul Hlmes, perfectly formed.
who one day will learn not to take Danielle and others seriously all the time -
So an applicant can specify they don't want a trial period in their employment agreement - but they may not get the role.
Oh for a New Zealand where there are more jobs than people available. Then businesses would have to, you know, compete, in a free market, to attract employees.
It would surely be Roger Kerr's idea of heaven.
For numerous reasons, trial periods should be the employer's prerogative, the Government should ideally be focusing their attentions on writing fine print to protect potential casualties such as octopusgrrl's dear friend.
There's a healthy black market in China for those doctor's certificates.
Well there's an opportunity for Farrer Slater Ltd (and others) to start up an enterprise selling medical certificates through the interweb.
No need for a doctor to have seen the person. Nor indeed to be a registered medical practictioner in NZ. Just collect $200 for passing Go, and the employer pays. What a wonderful business model.
Yeah, not recommended, tabling this seems as good an indication as any that those in the National Party have 'trust issues' with the working classes.
The "evidence" appears to have further basic flaws, says Frogblog.
The quantitative research using the Department of Labour's employer database involved an initial short phone call, with a request to complete a follow-up on-line or postal survey.
But only 23% of the 3352 employers the DoL attempted to contact actually completed the follow-up survey, and those who did were self-selected.
The sampling bias introduced by that selection method makes the quantitative research almost worthless – employers with strong views supportive of trial periods are obviously going to be more likely to respond.
This govt decided against proper monitoring when they introduced the policy (and officials advised it would be hard to make sense of) and now their acolytes are complaining on blogs that those who oppose it aren't producing evidence. Reminiscent of Thatcher eliminating poverty data - problem, what problem?
However, a regular commenter from the right on The Standard makes a good point.
Surely one needs to question the Unions strategy over all of this. They knew National would eventually make the 90 day Bill available to all employers. They disagreed with it when it was first implemented and clearly stated they'd have a name and shame record kept. Were they all that naive that they the Unions simply forgot about it all?
Because with National indeed making the 90 day fire-at-will available to all employers You would think the Unions would actually show evidence of how troubling this will be for employees. And while I support the 90-day law I have no doubt many employers abused the system. Hence, why the fuck don't the Unions have more evidence about such an abuse.
Of course banning unions from workplaces unless employers agree will be a good way to prevent any of those 'worse work stories' getting out.
So, when you call in sick, the sick person goes to doc. There seems to be the assumption (from National) that the boss will pay up front so as not to cause difficulty with reimbursements. Bollocks. By the time you go get money from the boss, go to the doc, you may as well stay at work sick. That is a probable outcome. I guess if there is no doctor's certificate, (just try fit in an appointment that day and if you can get out of bed) you may be fired without explanation, or have sick day become holiday used. Another probable outcome.
It's always bollocks with this lot.How much more can they manipulate out of the everyday person . Nasty.
I know when I was in management, no money was ever available to take out of the till. -
So it really does discourage people taking risks with their employment and moving into new fields, physical locations.
I think this will be a consequence that hasn't really been explored. In my profession I can see teachers staying put in their schools for a long time rather than risk applying for a new position and then finding they don't fit. Then there's the possibility some children could have 3 teachers in one year. Both scenarios are long shots but could happen and are not good for education.
And doing a bit of a cross post here is anyone else becoming sickened by the matey relationship Key (thinks he) has with Richie M and the rest of the AB's. I know they're playing well but I'm starting to hope we don't win the World Cup next year because the Nats will ride it all the way to the polls. -
What sort of medical certificate can you get after the fact?
May as well be. Have you ever tried to get tests recommended to and by, your doctor, if he suspects your ailment to require tests? They have 6 months to get in touch, via public health system.Does that make it useless legislation?
Just the usual pattern for these clowns of announcing policy without first checking it can work.
General Practice New Zealand chairwoman Bev O'Keefe said the change could put pressure on medical centres.
"The issue for general practice is how we accommodate all those people who need to claim medical certificates because they will need to be seen and assessed which means they are going to impact on what is already the heavy workload of general practice.
"One thing we are not happy to do is to furnish medical certificates without seeing people because that's just hearsay."
Dr O'Keefe said another practical issue would be whether people would be able to get the appointment within three days of taking a sick day and may need to take time off work to do it."There are some logistic issues around that. but I guess that's something we have to address because if this is going to become the law then we need to make sure that people can in fact get access to the medical certificates that they require when they need them and that is going to put some pressure on the system."
That's OK, I'm sure they can fire some health policy or childcare workers to make up the shortfall in funds. Or maybe this is the part of the policy that they'll back down from so people don't notice them keeping the rest?
Oh and the Greens at least ran a quick survey of 40 GPs.
25 / 40 said not today
12 / 40 said today
3 / 40 said we may be able to squeeze you in1 day wait to see doctor at 12 places
2 day wait to see doctor at 2 places
4 day wait to see doctor at 1 place8 / 40 doctors had closed their books to new patients
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Un…deux…trois…Whenever I start eating cherries, I cannot stop.
I am really fond of the fruit.
I love to keep a few cherry pits in my mouth while I go on with my daily activities, and I even forget about them until I decide I need to eat or drink more.
For my entire French family, cherries are really special too.
My grandparents and parents have always owned cherry trees at the back of their houses. Each spring, we enjoyed conversations to guess how good the season would turn, awaiting when the fruit would become ripe.
"Ton père est dans l'arbre entrain de cueillir des cerises," (Your father is picking cherries in the tree) my mum said a few days ago when I called to ask how they were.
"Je ne sais plus quoi en faire tellement il y en a cette année," (There are so many this year that I don't know what to do with them anymore) my father later added.
This year, everyone back home says it happened very early.
With us, cherries would go in jams and tarts; clafoutis and cakes; ice creams and preserves.
My grandmother always liked to poach cherries in syrup. She'd add the fruit to tall glass containers that she'd sterilize attentively. They were what she'd decide to take out of the pantry and serve for dessert with crème fouettée (whipped cream), should unexpected guests stay for dinner. Then, she always gave my mother a few of the preserved fruit, and I remember that we loved to have them when cherry season was over. When we were lucky, they'd last until the next season started.
Even if to me, the best way to enjoy cherries is to gulp them down one after the other while continuing with my day, I also enjoy to use them in sweet or savory dishes.
Do you remember? In the past years, I've used them in clafoutis, with or without chocolate; in amandines and crumbles; salads with shaved fennel and radish; and summery soups.
This recipe is another summery soup, refreshing and light, that highlights the beauty of the fruit.
With accents of vanilla, ginger and lime, I know it's certainly not the kind my grand-mother would have made since ginger would have been a foreign ingredient to her.
I kept thinking about how recipes evolve. With time, and generations.
I keep thinking how special it is to initiate Lulu to the taste of the soup (there's some work ahead…) And about how much I wished I could have prepared it for my grandmother if she were still alive.
Maybe she would have liked the taste of Rainier cherries too.
You need:
- 1 pound Rainier cherries, pitted
- Plain yogurt or vanilla ice-cream, to serve
For the syrup:
- 1.5 cups water
- 1/3 cup (80 g) blond cane sugar
- 1-inch piece of ginger root, peeled and diced
- 1 vanilla bean, split open and seeds scraped out
- Juice of 1 lime
- 1/2 cup raspberries
- Combine all the syrup ingredients in a pot and bring to a simmer, making sure the sugar is dissolved. Stop the heat, cover and let infuse for 30 minutes. Remove the vanilla bean and transfer the syurp to a blender to puree. Strain through a chinois to remove the seeds and transfer to the pot again with the pieces of vanilla bean you previously removed. Reheat.
- Poach the cherries for 5 to 8 minutes in the warm syrup. Let the cherries cool in the syrup before putting in the fridge. Serve with plain yogurt or vanilla ice cream. But the soup is also delicious on its own.


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Letters in a Photo Album:
Searching for My Mothers Rabinowitz and Pinsley Cousins
By Sam Glaser
My mother's family never spoke much about distant relatives and by the time I started researching my genealogy she and all her siblings had passed away. Contacting my cousins on that side of my family turned out to be completely useless since they had no names and only rumored anecdotes. This left me relying on memories of what my mother had told me and some letters she had sent to her sister that were later recovered.
Sarah Rabinowitz 1931 Obituary
When I was growing up my mother, Fraydell (Zlotnick) Glaser, told me she had cousins on her mother's side in the U.S. whose last names were Rabinowitz and Pinsley (formerly Pinski). I knew one of the branches lived in Chicago and the other lived in Kansas City, but which was where I had never asked. I knew that one cousin's first name was Louis. She also told me that when she was little she had a dream that there was a plane wreckand a week later one of her cousins died in a plane crash. This story stayed with me, but didnt lead to any more information about my family history.
I asked my mother what my grandmother's maiden name was, but she responded, We never talked about that. Later, from my grandmother's death certificate, I learned her maiden name was Golaboski and she was from Kobryn, Belarus, indicating her sisters had married into the Rabinowitz and Pinsley families.
Upon my mother's death in 1996 my sister pulled out an old photo album in which my mother had pasted letters she had written to her sister during the time she was in the Womens Air Corps during World War II. This was the first time my sister and I had read these letters. I was fortunate that some of the information we gleaned from these letters stuck with me.
Wedding Photo of Sylvia Golabulsky and Sam Pinsley c. 1901, Kobryn, Belarus
By the time I began an in-depth look into my maternal grandmother's family it was 2009. I asked my sister to go back over the letters we read together and pull out any relatives' names she found. In a couple of weeks she got back to me with the unfortunate news that she couldn't find any references to family members. This pretty much stopped my efforts. Without additional names I had nothing new to search on. Previously I had posted to the Belarus Special Interest Group (SIG) at JewishGen without any luck.
Two months passed and it was time for my annual trip to visit with my sister and get in some skiing. At that time she offered the letters to me thinking maybe she had overlooked something. She brought out a shoe box which I'd never seen before. I reminded her that the letters we had read were contained in a photo album. She brought out the album and I spent the rest of that evening identifying key information to further my search. Louis it turns out was Louis Rabinowitz from Kansas City, Missouri, and he had several sisters and brothers who were also identified. This also meant that the cousins in Chicago were then Pinsleys. I was ready for more research when I got back home
I picked up the investigation again beginning with Ancestry.com. There, using the combination of names and the location (Kansas City, Missouri) I was able to identify that my great aunt's name was Sarah and that she had married Davis Rabinowitz. Back I went to the JewishGen Belarus SIG with my new-found knowledge. This elicited responses from several members with additional information extending my family tree. One of them was extremely helpful notifying me that the state of Missouri had a free death certificate site online and also that there was a woman I could contact who kept a history of Jewish burials in Kansas City. I wrote to her and she supplied me with the obituary of Sarah Rabinowitz. Success! It stated Sarah was survived by her sister, Mrs. S. Pinski of Chicago.
Mrs. S. PinskiI thought I had hit the jackpot! But wait, was the "S" her given name or her husband's. A quick look at Ancestry told me there were male and female Pinskis and Pinsleys in Chicago with the initial "S" in 1931. I took a break from my research.
Sam Pinsley WWII Registration
With some time to think about my approach I decided to try a combination of Pinsley/Kobryn. Ancestry now gave up a 1942 military registration record of a Sam Pinsley from Chicago whose next of kin was William Pinsley. Searching on Sam Pinski from Chicago turned up a couple of plausible results. One was married to a Sylvia who had a child named William. I searched on Pinskis with a father whose first name was Sam and a mother whose first name was Sylvia. This turned up a birth certificate for Hymen Solly Pinski with the father listed as Sam Pinski and the mother listed as Sylvia Golabulsky. That was too close for coincidencenames started with "S", name change from Pinski to Pinsley, Sam was born in Kobryn and Sylvia's maiden name was listed as Golabulsky, clearly a variation of my grandmothers maiden name, Golaboski. This had to be them.
Next I searched on Ancestry for Pinsleys with family trees and came across one listing a William Pinsley. I contacted the owner who confirmed that the family was from Chicago, they had changed their name to Pinsley from Pinski in the 1930's, and that one of the children had died in a plane crash in 1931, confirming my mothers story.
I've now been in contact with some of the descendants of these families. It's pretty amazing that something I never thought could be achieved was possible given the current technology and help from some very kind people who responded to my inquiries to the JewishGen Belarus SIG and Ancestry.com.
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Research Notes and Hints Old letters stuck in a family photo album gave Sam Glaser some leads regarding his mothers cousins. He received suggestions from other JewishGenners when he posted an inquiry to the Belarus Special Interest Group (SIG), including a tip that lead him to a crucial obituary. The obituary gave him the names of other possible relatives and, following these clues on Ancestry.com, he used a creative combination of names and places to find other vital recordsand ultimately to connect with previously unknown family members.
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Beyond Consumption: The Future of Cannabis
Take a look at how cannabis, including hemp and CBD, may help society in a variety of ways in the future.
This article by Emily Plizak originally appeared on myfoli.com.
The use of marijuana goes way back and actually has a long history dating back centuries.
While ancient civilizations didn't exactly use marijuana to get stoned, they did use it for its medicinal effects and treatment of ailments.
In fact, the use of cannabis dates as far back as 500 BC in Asia and back to the colonial days in America when hemp was grown for use as textiles.
Yes, marijuana's healing properties have long been acknowledged, but only recently have they been brought to the mainstream and clinically tested for medical efficacy and safety.
The stigma surrounding marijuana and other cannabis products only started in the 20th century, stemming from political and racial factors. As a result, marijuana became an illegal substance and has remained so for decades.
But as we know, the laws regarding the production, distribution, possession, and use of medical and recreational marijuana have been changing. We're on the cusp of a revolution in the realm of marijuana, and thanks to all the incredible ways that the marijuana plant and its cannabinoids can benefit the mind and body, it's become more widely accepted — even by the law.
Today, the cannabis industry is exploding, and it's not showing any signs of stopping. In fact, it's estimated that the global cannabis market could be worth as much as $130 billion in as little as 10 years.
And while there will always be the typical ways to consume cannabis - including smoking, inhaling a vape pen, eating, or applying it under the tongue as an oil or on the skin as a topical - innovators and cannabis companies are always looking for new and different ways for users to consume it and take advantage of its benefits.
Not only that, but hemp is being used in revolutionary ways outside of just the health and wellness sphere. In fact, many in the cannabis industry are using marijuana to create cutting-edge intellectual property that promises to create a better, healthier world.
Here are just a few futuristic uses for marijuana that users may be able to benefit from in the near future.
Potential Futuristic Cannabis Uses
Medicine for our furry friends
Lots of people use cannabis oil to relieve anxiety and pain, and even improve their sleep. But humans aren't the only ones who can stand to benefit from cannabis.
Loving owners have been administering CBD oil to their cats and dogs to alleviate ailments such as pain and anxiety. CBD's reach can even go so far as having cardiac, anti-inflammatory, anti-nausea, and even anti-cancer benefits for animals, though conclusive results in clinical studies are still needed to solidify these findings.
That said, there's plenty of anecdotal evidence to support the notion that CBD can be incredibly helpful for animals that may be suffering from various ailments.
To administer to pets, CBD manufacturers have come up with convenient CBD pet treats that animals are more than happy to gnaw on. The CBD is disguised quite well in treats that taste great to animals, making it a lot easier for pet owners to deliver the desired amount of CBD oil to treat whatever issue is ailing their beloved pet.
Improving our health
There are all sorts of supplements available in the wellness sphere to help consumers maintain optimal health, and hemp seeds might have a place in this world. In fact, pure hemp seeds come packed with an amazing nutritional profile, making them an ideal component to improve and sustain a healthy diet.
Two tablespoons of pure hemp seeds contain the following nutritional makeup:
· 2g fiber
· 5g protein
· 300 mg potassium
· 15% vitamin A requirement
· 25% iron requirement
Hemp seeds also have the ideal ratio of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids that help promote a healthy heart and immune system.
It's pretty easy to consume hemp seeds, too. Simply sprinkle them in salads, cereals, dips, or smoothies to add a nutritional punch to whatever you're eating or drinking.
A more sustainable type of plastic
Plastics that comes from natural, biological sources as opposed to petroleum are referred to as bioplastics. For example, they can be derived from things such as vegetable oils, straw, woodchips, food scraps, and so forth. And cannabis may be playing an emerging role in bioplastics.
The benefits of bioplastics are pretty obvious: namely, they leave a much less significant carbon footprint on the planet. Further, they can help to minimize our dependency on fossil fuel sources as they become increasingly expensive over time.
So, how is the cannabis plant involved in bioplastics? Thanks to hemp becoming more and more popular to be used as a raw material as a result of the deregulation of hemp in the US, hemp-based bioplastics are on the horizon.
With almost 80% of plastics that don't reach the landfills polluting and overwhelming our oceans and natural environment, the emergence of bioplastics is welcomed. But by reusing leftover hemp waste from the nutrition industry instead of using it as cattle feed, it can be recycled into a usable, sustainable packaging.
Wholesale "green packaging" supplier Best Practices Packaging has applied for patent protection and partnered with big producers of nutritional hemp products in North America to create and commercialize hemp packaging and plastics.
Hemp-based construction materials
Along the same lines as plastic alternatives, hemp-based construction materials are also becoming a reality in the world of building. Rather than depending on synthetic materials to create products for the industry, hemp-based materials are more sustainable, better for the environment, more affordable, and even better for our health.
The inner core, outer fibrous skin, and seed oil from hemp can create concrete alternatives, insulation, and wood finishes and deck stains that contain far less toxicity than traditional materials. Many companies have natural cannabis patent products in the works that promise to make the industry a more eco-friendly one.
Replacing fossil fuels
Hemp can actually be used to create two types of fuel: hemp biodiesel (made from hemp seed oil), and hemp ethanol/methanol (made from the fermented stalk).
Considering how much damage fuel can do to the planet when spilled and how much more expensive fossil fuels are getting these days, coming up with more sustainable alternatives to fuel has never been more important. And hemp may just be a reliable, viable, and cost-effective source to use to create better fuel.
Hemp biodiesel is made by pressing the hemp seeds to extract the oil. It can extend the life of diesel engines because of it's more lubricating compared to petroleum diesel fuel, and can be made from domestically produced and sourced renewable hemp seed oil. And when it's burned, it releases far less harmful toxins into the environment.
Along the same lines are hemp batteries. They work based on carbonized hemp, graphite electrodes, and CBD isolates for conduction. The fibers from hemp are able to store just as much energy as graphene.
In fact, hemp batteries may even work better than traditional lithium batteries, creating the potential to completely revolutionize the global battery industry.
Final Thoughts
Between cutting back on the carbon footprint on the earth, creating a healthier environment for everyone inhabiting the earth, and offering a more sustainable form of "clean" energy, hemp really may have so much more to offer than its healing properties. Based on continued research into hemp's applications, the innovative possibilities seem both incredible and promising.


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Ductwork — Look for cracks or air leaks in ductwork and use duct tape to seal them.
Improve indoor air quality
Furnace filters — Change forced air heating system air filters monthly. Make a clean break into winter with a fresh filter instead of using last year's used goods.
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Maintain your lawn and garden
Cool-season grasses — Fertilize grasses such as ryegrass, fescue, and bluegrass in or before early November.
Bulbs — Plant hardy bulbs in milder climates in the earlier part of November.
Vegetable and perennial beds — Clean and prepare beds for next season's planting.
Leaves — Rake and remove leaves left on the lawn to discourage disease.
Push mower, outdoor power equipment — Perform annual maintenance before storing.
Lawn and garden equipment, patio furniture — Store to avoid harsh winter elements.
Hoses, outdoor faucets and sprinkler systems — Drain before season's first freeze.
Bird feeders — Regularly clean and refill feeders for winter's feathered friends.


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Living Free Every Day®
Today's Scripture
"Children are a blessing and a gift from the LORD." Psalm 127:3 CEV
Thoughts for Today
If you are expecting a baby, your preparation should include reading the Bible in order to more fully understand how God views the child in your womb. This baby is a gift and a blessing from him. God is the giver of life. He has formed the baby in your womb. He is intimately involved with each of the changes that takes place during your pregnancy.
You are the one who put me together inside my mother's body, and I praise you because of the wonderful way you created me. Everything you do is marvelous! Of this I have no doubt. Nothing about me is hidden from you! I was secretly woven together deep in the earth below, but with your own eyes you saw my body being formed. Even before I was born, you had written in your book everything I would do. Psalm 139:13-16 CEV
Consider this ...
Your initial emotion when you learned that you were pregnant might have been regret or fear or joy. No matter what you felt then, understanding God's involvement in your pregnancy should bring about peace.
God loves you. He loves your baby. No matter what your circumstances or special challenges, God is with you. He will give you the strength and wisdom that you need. He will continue to love you and your baby and will make all good things possible.
God has a plan for your life--and your baby's life--and it is a good plan. Praise him for his goodness. Thank him for this new life within you. Thank him for caring, for loving you and for helping you. Praise him for all the good things he has in store for you and your baby. Thank him that you can do all things through Jesus who gives you strength.
Father, thank you for helping me understand that my baby is a gift and a blessing from you. Thank you for your promise to love us and care for us. In Jesus' name ...
These thoughts were drawn from ...
Godly Parenting: Parenting Skills at Each Stage of Growth by N. Elizabeth Holland, M.D. This study addresses parenting skills from the time of conception until the child has reached adulthood. It suggests methods for raising healthy, godly children in an increasingly secular society. Specific emphasis is placed on communication and teaching skills, discipline, protection and sexual issues at each age. Note: This curriculum was written especially for small groups, and we encourage people to use it that way. However, it can also be used effectively as a personal study for individuals or couples.
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