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MINEOLA, LONG ISLAND (PIX11)—When a Florida electrical worker got beaten up while on Long Island to restore power to communities without electricity, it made national headlines because the attacker was thought to be an irate customer left in the dark too long. What's coming to light, however, now that there's an arrest in the case, is that the victim may have provoked the attack.
John Applewhite, 34, from Lakeland, Florida, is the electrical line worker who suffered a broken nose and other facial injuries, as well as severe swelling after he was punched in the face around 7:15 P.M. last Friday.
There had been speculation that the alleged attacker was upset because he'd been without electricity for so long, and that an out-of-state electrical worker like Applewhite was a convenient target. However, police said something very different on Wednesday.
"The victim did not tell us the entire story," said Inspector Kenneth Lack at a news conference at Nassau County Police Headquarters. "And that part of the story [about an irate customer] is not the case."
In fact, it's not certain that Applewhite's attacker even knew at the time that Applewhite was an out-of-state electrical worker who was in New York to help. That may be due to the interaction between the two men.
They encountered each other in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse restaurant on Hempstead Turnpike in East Meadow. Police said that Thomas Libretto, 34, of Levittown, spotted Applewhite urinating on Libretto's late model BMW, and confronted him about it.
"They started cursing at each other," Lack said, and then Applewhite kicked gravel on Libretto's BMW, according to Libretto's account to investigators. "That caused the defendant to go after the victim," said Inspector Lack.
Before the encounter was over, Applewhite's face was swollen from the beatdown he got from Libretto, police said, but they added that some of Applewhite's coworkers from Florida, who were with him at the time, started beating up Libretto. He fled the scene in his BMW.
Police would not say if alcohol was involved in the incident. They did say, however, that Applewhite, who was admitted to the hospital for treatment after he returned to Florida, was not likely to face criminal charges.
Libretto, for his part, was charged with third degree assault after being arrested at his home Tuesday night. He is scheduled to be arraigned next Tuesday.


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Romans 6:15-18
January 16, 1983
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Before I formally get into the message, let me just say how deeply appreciative I am of your faithfulness in coming. I have just been thrilled with the full church because this is difficult. It strains us to comprehend it in many ways. We have to think along with the thoughts of the Apostle Paul. We have to have our mind in gear. I'm reminded of what Peter said about Paul in 2 Peter 3:16 that, you know, all his epistles he speaks of things which are hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable rest as they do also the other Scriptures. Paul did say things that were hard to be understood. Peter even confessed to that. And I confess to it and I know you do as well. So, it's been very gratifying to have such faithfulness as we've gone through these very, very closely knit theological discussions of the Apostle Paul in the Roman epistle. Chapters 4, 5 and 6 have been very, very intricate, very profound, theological education in brief, believe me, occurs when one studies these great portions of Scripture.
Now, tonight we come to the second half of Romans 6. And as we look at Romans 6:15 to 23, I want to title this section, "Free from sin...free from sin." Let me read you verses 15 to 23 so you'll have it in mind as we approach it.
"What then? Shall we sin because we're not under the law but under grace. God forbid. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, His servants ye are whom ye obey, whether to sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. But God be thanked that whereas ye were the servants of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things of which ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now being made free from sin and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life. For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Jesus said in John 8:34, "Whosoever commits sin is the slave of sin." All men who live a life of committing sin are slaves to that sin. In fact, every person who comes into this world is under the tyranny of sin. It controls their thoughts, it controls their words, it controls their actions. To put in the terminology of Romans 6, verse 17, "Ye were the slaves of sin." Verse 20, "Ye were," again "the slaves of sin." Twice in that passage. He says you used to be slaves, doulos, bondslaves to sin. And the ultimate end of being a slave to sin we found in verse 21 at the end, "For the end of those things is death." And verse 23, the beginning of the verse, "For the wages of sin is death..." To be a slave of sin is to die. Sin ultimately kills.
Now when you think about what it means to be a slave to sin, it's a horrifying thought. Years ago, Dr. Guthrie's great words, prosaic words about sin were written. They have become very insightful, even in this society and perhaps will give you a feeling for what it means to be a slave to sin. He wrote this:
"Sin is a debt, a burden, a thief, a sickness, a leprosy, a plague, a poison, a serpent, a sting. Everything that man hates, sin is. A load of curses and calamities beneath his crushing intolerable pressure, the whole creation groans.
"Who is the undertaker that digs man a grave? Who is the painted temptress that steals his virtue? Who is the murderess that destroys his life? Who is the sorceress that first deceives and then damns his soul? Sin.
"Who with icy breath blights the fair blossoms of youth? Who breaks the hearts of parents? Who brings old men gray hairs with sorrow to the grave? Sin.
"Who changes gentle children into vipers, tender mothers into monsters and their fathers into worse than Herods, the murderers of their own innocence? Sin.
"Who casts the apple of discord on household hearts? Who lights the torch of war and bears it blazing over trembling lands? Who by division in the church rends Christ's seemless robe? Sin.
"Who is this Delilah that sings the Nazarite asleep and delivers up the strength of God into the hands of the uncircumcised? Who, winning smile on her face, honey flattery on her tongue, stands in the door to offer the sacred rites of hospitality and when suspicion sleeps, treacherously pierces our temples with a nail? What fair siren is this who seated on a rock by the deadly pool smiles to deceive, sings to lure, kisses to betray and flings her arms around our neck to leap with us into perdition? Sin.
"Who turns the soft and gentlest heart to stone? Who hurls reason from her lofty throne and impels sinners mad as Gadarene swine to run down the precipice into a lake of fire? Sin," end quote.
Sin, that terrible life-wrecking, soul-damning reality which clings like incurable cancer to the human breast and ultimately devastates, sin to which men are enslaved. And then cry to be free from sin but they cannot. They run to flee its guilt, but they cannot find relief. And because men are the slaves of sin, this passage is so marvelous because it says in verse 20...verse 18 and 22, "Being then made free from sin..." and verse 22, "But now being made free from sin..." that this passage becomes to all those haunted by their sin, a promise of deliverance...free from sin. What a great thought...sin which devastates, sin which destroys, sin which kills.
The greatest gift that God could ever give a human being, bar none, would be to be free from sin...free from sin, to be restored to the place of righteousness, to be able to fulfill all that we were intended to be when God made us before sin invaded our human stream, free from sin...what a thought, from its penalty, from its power and from its debilitating and killing presence, free. I can't think of a more wonderful thought than that, can you? So, this masterful passage is all about being free from sin. And you ought to really find a tremendous amount of comfort here and a great cause for rejoicing.
Now, remember that Paul is discussing the very doctrine of sanctification which is connected to the doctrine of justification. Starting in chapter 3, he began to talk about justification by grace through faith to show that men are made right with God. Justified means to be made right. And men are made right with God by God's grace through faith. And now having discussed that in chapters 3, 4 and 5, he is showing the result of that. And the result of that we saw in the first half of chapter 6 is to be made holy. And the result of that in the second half of chapter 6 is to be made free from sin. And to be honest with you, folk, they're one and the same. And Paul is just looking at the same great reality from two angles. And so, in this chapter we learn the great reality of what sanctification is and we also learn the great reality of how it is connected to justification. When we were saved, when we were redeemed and made right with God, it was to make us holy and free from sin. That was the intention.
Now we learned in the first fourteen verses of the chapter that we're united with Jesus Christ in His death and resurrection and thus we have died to sin and risen to walk in newness of life. The penalty for sin has been paid in that death. The power for sin has been broken. And we walk now in newness of life, alive to God. And now in verses 15 to 23, Paul demonstrates that we are made holy in another analogy. Not only have we died in Christ and risen in Christ and now are walking in a new life, having died to the old one, but we also have become slaves to God and in so doing the slavery to sin which was characteristic of our former life has been broken. So, he really is coming at the same thing from two different perspectives. He shows the believer has a totally new relationship to sin after salvation, different than before. Because he died in Christ and rose in Christ and because he has a new master which obviates the old master, that's the thrust of the second half of the chapter. And in both cases, his point is to show that a truly regenerated person can not go on in the same pattern of sinning that was characteristic of his life before he was saved. Why? Because we are no longer in the same relation to sin. We have died in Christ and risen. We have now, in the second half of the chapter, a new master which means we no longer are under the old master. So, whether you look at it from the first half or the second half of the chapter, you're going to see the same thing. A truly justified, redeemed, saved individual is going to have a different relationship to sin than he ever had before. It cannot continue as it was.
Now, I want you to look at this passage, it's a very simple passage, although on the surface it appears to be perhaps difficult. We're going to break it down and take a few elements tonight and a few elements next time. But let's start with the antagonist. We used that same kind of little outline for the first half of the chapter and the second follows the same thought. It begins with a proposed question. We'll call this the antagonist. And by that, I mean the one who's antagonistic toward Paul's doctrine of salvation by grace. The legalist can't tolerate that..that grace kind of thing. And this is what, typically, they would say, verse 15: What then? I mean, if we're saved by grace and if as you've just said in verse 14 we're no longer under the law, "Shall we sin then because we're not under the law but under grace?"
In other words, to some people who are legalistic, grace appears like license, grace appears like lawlessness. I mean, when you come to a group of people like the Jewish people who all their life long have been trying to earn their way into heaven by good works and you say to them, "All your good works are nothing but filthy rags, they don't mean a single thing. You can be saved by the free gift of God given to unworthy sinners." That's very hard for them to handle. It sounds like lawlessness. It sounds like liberty to sin. It sounds like it doesn't matter how you live. And that's where the antagonist comes in. He is saying, "Look, if you preach this message of salvation by grace, in other words, that I don't do anything to get saved and I can't do anything to get saved, and none of my goodness matters in my salvation, and it's all grace and God is going to forgive me and I'm not under the law and I'm under grace, then--boy--you've just turned me loose."
Well, Paul's answer in the first half of the chapter is simply this. No, we haven't turned you loose because God's put in you a new nature and your new nature, your new creation, your new self, your new identity isn't going to do that. You understand that? And if you do do that, you indicate that you're not under grace and you're not a recreation at all.
So, the first antagonist question came in verse 1 and it was, "Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?" And now the question is much like it, "Shall we sin because we're not under the law but under grace?" The idea is the same. Does the doctrine of salvation by grace give freedom to sin in an unrestrained way? And that is the accusation that is made against this doctrine.
And you can imagine that in the context of the Jewish society in which Paul ministered that they would be just saying, "Wait a minute, you can't go around doing that." And that's why, for example, when he preached in Galatia in the cities of that territory known as Galatia and he preached salvation by grace through faith, the Jewish people followed him along and they came into all those churches and said, "No, no, no, no, no. You've got to be circumcised, you've got to keep all the law of Moses and if you do that, then you can come to Christ." And Paul had to write Galatians and say - Don't you let anybody bewitch you, don't let anybody add works to your gracious salvation. If anybody comes along and preaches that, I don't care who it is, even an angel, let him be accursed.
The doctrine of grace stands, folks, with all the accusation, it still stands. And there have always been those critics who said the doctrine of grace leads to lawlessness. This is the criticism of the antagonist. And may I say to you what I said earlier in our study? Grace preaching and Grace teaching always is liable to this charge...it always is. It always exposes itself to this criticism but we aren't going to change it because I'm not afraid of that. I'm not afraid of saying to someone, "You come to Jesus Christ by grace, that is by God's free gift of salvation independent of anything you've ever done and disregarding everything you've ever done, you come by grace and I believe is you do, God will create you anew, as the Bible says, and you're not going to go out and abuse the reality of that grace." Now you may abuse it now and then but it isn't going to be an utter life style.
So, the antagonist asks the question, back at verse 15 again, shall we sin? Deliberately, is the idea...persistently, continuously, habitually. Shall we now who have been delivered from being under the law and by that he does not mean that we are no longer responsible to obey God's Word, what he means is under a system of law, righteousness; under a system of law, salvation; under a system of works, righteousness. Since we've been delivered from trying to earn our salvation, since it's a free gift of grace, that's what under grace means, shall we just go on and sin? Does grace free us to do that?
Well, the answer again, first point is the antagonist, here's the second point, the answer. Me genito, verse 15, the Greek says. The Authorized translates it "God forbid." And it could be translated "No, no, no, not on your life, no way, impossible, ridiculous, absolutely not." It is an utterly unacceptable thought. To even ask the question is to prove you're not a Christian. And believe me, there have been people who have done this.
I can remember that there was a lot of this activity going on about 12 or 13 years ago out here. And I was having conversations with some college students who were saying, "Man, I've just gotten into what they were calling `super grace' and I don't have to confess my sin and God doesn't care what I do and, boy, I'm free in grace and I can live anyway I want to live. And just sow my oats and just...I'm under grace." And the very continued life style which they exhibited was seemingly evidence enough to me that they never did know what it was to be under grace because grace not only grants an undeserved salvation, it transforms a life. And the pattern is changed...the pattern of sin.
So, the antagonist is in verse 15 and the answer is in verse 15...no, no, no, no...but Paul doesn't just give you short answers like that, he explains them. So, come to verse 16 with me and let's look at the axiom...the axiom. What is an axiom? It's a general truth. An axiom is something you don't prove, it's self-evident. It doesn't need proof because it's obvious. And that is exactly what you have here. You have a very simple axiom stated. And it starts out by saying, "Know ye not..." The assumption is that you know this. I mean, you can't be dumb enough to think other than this. "Don't you know this, that to whom you yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are whom ye obey." A very simple axiom. If you sign up to serve a certain master, you're bound to serve that master. I mean, it doesn't take a brilliant person to figure that axiom out, it is obvious, it is self-evident. It's simply saying this, a slave is bound to obey his master by the very nature of his slavery. I mean, that's what slavery is. If you sign up to be a slave to somebody, you sign up to obey them. That's just axiomatic. And that is the essence of what Paul wants to get across...a very important point. If you give yourself to any master, you become the slave of the master.
Look at it again in verse 16. "To whom you yield yourselves, doulos, to obey, servants or slaves, his servants ye are whom ye obey." I mean, you do it because you yielded yourself. Now particularly is that not true when you willingly yielded yourself to that individual. You give yourself to a master and you become the slave of that master. That's obvious.
Then he goes on in verse 16 and makes an application. "Whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness." Now he personifies these two masters. One is sin and one is obedience. Sin, by the way, is disobedience, right? So one could said to be disobedience and the other obedience. And to what standard do we either obey or disobey? God, right? So, the whole issue then is some people yield themselves servants of disobedience to God and some people yield themselves servants of obedience to God.
To put it in the terms of chapter 5, men are either in Adam or in Christ. To put it in the terms--that's 5:17--of chapter 5:21, men are either under the reign of sin or the reign of grace. So, in this sense, you're either serving sin or you're serving obedience. Now let me just say it as clear as I can. There are only two options, people, that's all, just two. There's no middle ground. Two to choose from. You choose to serve sin or you choose to serve obedience. You choose to obey God or you choose not to obey God. And if you don't obey God you become the subject or you are naturally the subject of the prince of the power of the air, Satan himself. It is a universal law then that a man becomes a slave of whatever master he commits himself to. Just a simple axiomatic principle.
It is also axiomatic in that same principle that you never can serve two masters. You are committed to one or the other. Jesus said in Matthew 6:24, "No man can serve...what?...two masters; for either you love one and hate the other, or you hold to the one and despise the other." And in that case, he said, you can't serve God and money. You can't serve two masters. It is the nature of slavery that you can't have two people giving you orders if you're a slave. Once you've chosen your master, by the very definition of that act you become bound in obedience to that master.
Now that's the...that's the basic substantive axiom that the rest of the flow...text flows from. Just as we saw in the first 14 verses, the idea that we were buried with Christ and we've risen with Christ, here the idea is the slavery analogy. When you became a Christian, what did you say, in effect? I submit myself to whom? To God through Christ.
Now let me put it as simply as I can. There is no salvation apart from such a conscious submission. That would destroy Paul's whole point here. When you come to Christ, you come as a slave to a master...as a servant to the Lord. No other terms. And when you say, "I come as a slave or a servant to the Lord and Master," you are affirming your commitment to be subject to Him.
Now if you are...back to verse 16...if you are the slave of sin, what does it lead to? Death. And we're going to hear that a few times before we get to verse 23. And if you are the slave of obedience, what does it lead to? Righteousness. Sin leads to sin, leads to sin, leads to sin, leads to death. Sin begets sin, begets sin, begets sin, begets death. "Men," says Charles Hodge, "hurry on from one degrading service to another until it wreaks their ruin."
But, on the other hand, if you serve obedience and obedience is personified at this point as if it were a master, if you serve obedience, it leads to righteousness, to righteousness, to righteousness. And as we shall find in verse 23, ultimately to what? Eternal life. So, you have your choice. That's your choice. You can be a slave to sin which you are by nature. Or you can be a slave to God which you are by new creation.
Now let me say something very important at this juncture. One who comes to God through Christ and says, "I take you as my Savior, Master and Lord," is not...listen to me, and this is Paul's whole point here...he is not only ethically bound, he is not only ethically bound to obey, he is creatively made to obey. And that is a very important truth. When you become a Christian, it is not simply that you are ethically bound to obedience, it is that you are creatively made unto obedience.
If you have any question about that, then you don't understand Ephesians 2:9 which says that we are created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God has before not wished or not hoped or not wanted but ordained that we should what? Walk in them. Salvation is unto good works...without equivocation. So note that because many people have fouled up in Romans 6 because they don't understand that concept. Paul here is not talking about an ethical binding, that is a binding of moral conscience, he's talking about a remaking of the nature of an individual so that the obedience factor is a reality. There is an ethical reality there as well, but it begins with a creative fact and moves to an ethical responsibility.
So, Paul is dealing...now mark this...with a state of being, with a fact not an ought, not a command. You say, "Well, what you're trying to say then is that everybody who is saved is transformed." You've got it. In the first 14 verses we saw the transformation through the figure of death and resurrection, right? Here we see the transformation through the analogy of having, in a sense, died to the old slavery to live to the new slavery. In the next chapter, chapter 7, we're going to see the same analogy, only that time it will be in a marriage situation where you've got a former husband and a new husband. And Paul is banging the same thing, that there is a new creation. And even though we are in the presence of our bodies, even though we still possess the flesh, even though we can only experience imperfect holiness, we will obey, we must obey. It is an essential in our new creation.
Now, if you want to see a comparative text on this, Colossians 1:21 would be helpful. "And you," that's us, "that were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh through death." Now when God reconciled us at the cross, something happened. You say, "Yes, He brought us to God." That's right, but something else happened, look at this. He reconciled us to present us holy and unblamable and unreprovable...where?...in His sight.
Now you can go back to Romans. When God redeemed us, that new creation became holy and it will issue in a consequential behavior change. Obedience...listen, I'll say it another way...obedience is a certainty in the life of a truly justified person. Now that is not to say that there won't be sin there. And that is not to say that there won't be times when that sin appears to dominate. But obedience will be there if obscured even at some points.
And so, we can say if a person continues in unmitigated and continued habitual persistent willing sin as he did before he supposedly came to Christ that no matter what he thinks, he's not a Christian. So the very fact of the question asked in verse 15 is ludicrous for someone to say, "Well, then, if we've come under grace and we're not under law, let's just sin like mad." You show by asking such a stupid question that you're not even a Christian. If you continue as a slave to sin, 1 John says you could not belong to God. You couldn't. First John 1:6, "If we say we have fellowship with Him and continue to walk in darkness, we...what?...we lie, we do not the truth." First John 2:4, "He that says, I know Him, and keeps not His commandments, he is a liar, the truth isn't in him." Three:9, "Whosoever is born of God does not commit sin, His seed remains in him and he cannot sin because he's born of God. And this the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil. Whosoever does not righteousness is not of God. Neither he that loveth not his brother."
In other words, if you're a Christian, you're going to manifest righteousness, you're going to manifest obedience. Doesn't Peter say the same thing in 2 Peter 2:19? "While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought into bondage." Great principle. Whatever dominates you is indicative of who your master is. And that's why we say - You show us a person who lives in an unmitigated life of sin, and it really doesn't matter what they claim.
Matthew Henry put it this way, "If we would know to which of these two families we belong, we must inquire to which of these two masters we yield our obedience."
Now, let's go back to what we said last week...just so you understand it. If you're a real Christian you may sin, but the real you is going to hate that sin. And you're going to be where Paul was in Romans 7, you're going to see...be saying the things I want to do I don't do, the things I don't want to do I do, O wretched man that I am.
And so, there are two reasons in this chapter why a believer will not continue in sin under grace. Number one, he's united to Christ, he's died to sin, sin has no power over him. Number two, he is a slave of a new master and he will obey the new master by a very definition of his slavery.
Now, having looked at the antagonist and the answer and the axiom in verse 16, verses 17 to 22 become the argument in which he unfolds all of his thinking based on the axiom there. And then in verse 23, he finally closes with what I'll call an absolute. We're not going to get through this but let me just introduce you to the argument in verse 17 to 22, just a marvelous, marvelous thing.
Paul is now explaining the principle of verse 16, explaining the axiom, applying it to the situation. And he does so by drawing an extended contrast between these two slaveries: the slavery to sin, the slavery to righteousness. He just runs them out. He starts with their position and then their practice and then their promise. He moves through the three phases: when they started, where they're going and when they end up.
Let's look at the position, first of all, of these two slaveries. Verse 17, "But God be thanked that whereas you were the slaves of sin, ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered, being then made free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness." Now you see both of them there, don't you? On the one hand, in verse 17, you were the servants of sin. In verse 18, you have become the servants of righteousness. Now those are the initiating points that we want to look at. This is positional talk, and I'll explain that as we go.
Look at verse 17, "But God be thanked..." and this is an important footnote. Whenever you're talking about someone's salvation, who do you have to thank? Who do you have? God. You didn't come to Christ because you were so intelligent. You didn't come to Christ because you surveyed the field and you said this is the thing I want to do. You didn't come to Christ because somebody convinced you intellectually because of a whole bunch of data that this is true. You didn't come to Christ for any other reason really than that God brought you. That's right, "No man comes unto Me except the Father does...what?...draws him." And you always thank God for salvation because He is the author and finisher of our faith. It is God alone who can break the slavery to sin. Salvation is of God and no other. There is no salvation apart from that which God has given. In Romans 1:8 at the very beginning of the epistle, Paul says, "I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of through all the world." I thank God for what has happened in your life. Well, that's basic.
And by the way, you will find that same concept all throughout the whole of the New Testament. The transformation that takes us from death to life, from sin to God, is one that God works Himself.
Having said that, then, let's look at the rest of the contrast here. He then says, "You were the servants of sin." That's an imperfect tense verb which means it's a past time of continuous reality. In other words, in past times you were continually in the past, continually a slave of sin. Now that is the natural condition of every man. People don't want to admit that. They don't like to hear that. To put it in a very consistent way with the way we've been speaking in the last couple of weeks, what he's saying is - From the start, you by nature have been sinners...continually. That's your nature. That's your natural condition...involuntary forced and harsh dominance has been opposed on you by being born in the world. You know where you got all this sin? Where did you get it? From your mother and your father and they go back to Adam and Eve.
And so, men and women born into this world are born into this tremendous condition of slavery to sin. In Romans 3, in fact, it sort of helps us to see what it means. In verse 10, "There is none righteous, no not one, none understands, none seeks after God. They're all gone out of the way. They're all together gone sour," is what that verb means. "There is none that does good, no not one. Their throats an open sepulchre, their tongues have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips, their mouth is full of cursing, their feet are swift to shed blood, destruction and misery in their way, the way of peace have they not known and there's no fear of God in their eyes."
So, this is a description of human kind...slaves of sin. Men don't realize it. You know, they think they're free. And you inevitably come to somebody with the gospel and you tell them about coming to Jesus Christ and they're afraid to come to Christ because they're afraid it's some kind of bondage and they think they have such liberty. They don't have any liberty. There's no such thing as freedom to an unregenerate person...none at all. They're slaves. But he says this, "You were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart." Oh, I love that.
What does that say? Well, it wasn't external, was it? When they came to Christ it wasn't something they did on the outside, it wasn't some water baptism or some church membership or signing some card or putting their hand up or walking down an aisle or doing some religious rite or saying their beads or lighting a candle or whatever, taking a pilgrimage. It wasn't something outside, it was something inside, from the heart. And what was it that happened in their heart? They obeyed. They obeyed.
In other words, listen, even though it is the work of God, you're not passively transported from one master to another. You're not just involuntarily picked up and slapped over somewhere else. And people who get into the doctrine of the sovereignty of God, very often, see people being saved without even knowing it. You can read theologians who say you can be a redeemed person and not even know it because it's happened, God already did it, He just hasn't announced it to you yet. I find that very difficult. Because you never see salvation occurring apart from the act of commitment to Christ. In this particular context it's spoken of as obedience...obedience, gladly and eagerly with a sense of the slavery to sin, you rushed to make God your new master.
And what did you obey? Some nebulous vague spiritual thing? No. This is marvelous. And a lot of people think, "Oh, I believe, I believe in believing, I believe." And they...you know...you hear that all the time from people. "Oh yes, I'm a believer." What do you believe? "Oh, I believe God. I believe." Well, there's more than that. It says this, verse 17, "You obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine." Isn't that good? It isn't a question - Well, I believe is you just believe you'll be all right. No. You believe that form of doctrine, the body of saving truth. Form is tupos. It has a lot of uses. The way it's framed in this verse is marvelous and the Authorized has missed the nuance. It should read that you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine into which, get that, into which you were delivered. Not which was delivered to you, into which you were delivered. Boy, that's a tremendous thought.
Let me give you the idea. The word tuposhere means "mold, a mold, a casting mold." And let's assume that the mold is in the shape of a servant. When you came into this world, you were poured into a mold and you came out after the molten metal cooled and you were lifted from that mold and plunked down in the world, you were a slave of sin. You were a slave statue and your slavery was to sin.
But God be thanked that you responded to the true gospel by obeying the form into which you were poured. And it's as if, in Paul's analogy, when God saw you as a slave to sin, by His great grace He melted you down and reduced you to the basic elements. And while you were hot and molten, He repoured you into a new mold. This mold is the form of doctrine into which you were delivered. And you have that same concept in several places. Second Timothy and First Timothy and Titus, where it talks about the form of doctrine and the form of sound words, you can see it, 2 Timothy 1:13, 1 Timothy 1:10, 2 Timothy 4:3, Titus 1:9 and 2:1, I think. But in those passages, the form of sound doctrine. That word "form" is used 6 times in the New Testament. There is form to this.
So, here you are, you've been melted down by conviction, by the beginning work of the redeeming Spirit and now you are repoured into a new mold. And when the metal is cooled and you have hardened and you are lifted out, you're in a new shape. What is your shape? You have conformed to the mold into which you were poured. And what is that mold? It is the form of doctrine. What does that mean? You have conformed to the pattern of truth that is the gospel. You now are a living statue of the reality of the gospel. Great thought, you're new, all new. The teaching, and think of it this way, the teaching to which you submit yourself when you become a Christian stamps you with its image. You want to know? That's a great thought.
Have you ever noticed?....this is true of everything in life. People live the way they learn to live. It's true. People live the way they learn to live. You come to Grace Church long enough and we'll pour you into our mold. We really will. And you'll go bouncing out like a little "Gracite." That's it...it happens. And that's all right because it says Jesus said, "And when a man is fully discipled, he'll be like his teacher," that's okay...that's okay. I mean, after all, you come out of a certain family and you bear the image of that family. It's put you in its mold, hasn't it? That's precisely what it says in Romans 12:2 when it says, "Don't let the world put you in its mold." You've been poured into a mold of the form of sound teaching regarding the gospel and you've been cooled there and you've been plopped out and you are a living reality, you now are a slave statue all over again, but you're a slave to God. And only God could melt down that old person and pour that ingredients back into a new mold and shape that new person. The one who once was stamped with false teaching is now stamped with the image of the true doctrine of God...so good.
And let me just take it a step further. You have to fit the form, folks. You don't become a Christian by just floating all over the place and believing whatever you want.
I had a luncheon the other day when I spoke to The Full Gospel Business Men International Luncheon. They asked me to speak on "The Errors of the Charismatic Movement." So I did. And it was an interesting day and afterwards, a man came up to me and he said, "I've been in this group for a long time," and he said, "I'll tell you how I think you get to God." And I said all right, you tell me.
He said, "Well, you see, there's just a lot of steps," and this is what he said exactly, "and up there at the top there's this door and behind it is this guy name Jesus." And he says, "What you really want to do is try like `blank' to make it up the stairs and to get through the door, have a guy like the guy Jesus let you in." And he says, "When you're on the way up the stairs, you've got all these preachers and movements hollering at you but you just keep going up the stairs. And I call it the stairway of hope. That's how I think it is."
I said to him, "Sir, bless your heart, you are not a Christian and your stairway is hopeless. You need to depend on Jesus Christ. You don't even know what it means to be saved."
You see, you can't invent your own mold. You understand that? There's a sound form of doctrine, the teaching of the gospel, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, confess your sins, affirm His Lordship, His death, His resurrection. There is a gospel content. There is a form and if you are to come out in the image of the servant of God and to bear His stamp, you will have been poured into His mold. You understand that?
People, that's what bothers me about this thing they call the "Local Church." There's one down here, down the street. And the title of the main book written by Witness Lee who headed up that movement is Christ vs Doctrine...Christ vs Doctrine. And the book is full of their doctrine because you can't say anything in terms of teaching that isn't doctrine because doctrining means teaching. But they're trying to set up the idea that Christ is against formal teaching. It's not true. My goodness, have they ever read the epistle of the Romans? You practically need a Ph.D. to wade through it it's so profound in its theological content.
So, this is the statement of our position. When you came to Christ, you were melted down and poured into a new mold and you have come out a new statue, a new image and you bear the mark of a servant of God. Isn't that marvelous? Because you obeyed when the gospel called, reached your heart. Foolish to try to fight doctrine.
By the way, the word "obeyed" there, I just can't resist this, I think we'll stop at this point. But I can't resist, don't tune out yet. I shouldn't say that. But the word "obeyed," it just seems to hit me so strongly. Just in case you haven't noticed, that's the fourth time we've read it in three verses. That's right...obey...obey, obey, obey, obey. You see, that is the key concept: the obedience of the faith, that is obeying the gospel; the obedience of life, that is a Christian responding to the Word of God. Believing Jesus Christ is the initial act of obedience and then it becomes a life of obedience, obedience, obedience, obedience. We never get our independence, folks. You hear me? We never do. We never get to the point like kids do when they burst out of the house and call their own shots. We're always under the Master, we're always under the Lord. And we're always to obey.
And may I suggest to you that there is inherent in that concept the very heart of the meaning of the doctrine of salvation that a Christian is marked as one who does...what? Obeys. And if you don't, you can't be one no matter what you say. Obedience is the expression of faith. Obedience says I believe God, I believe His Word, I'll act on it. And all true justification produces obedience. And the longer we live with Christ, the more obedient we ought to become.
Titus 2, have you read this recently? Verse 11, "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men." And what did it do when it came to us? "Well, it taught us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present age." That's what it did. Verse 14, it says Jesus Christ gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from iniquity and purify unto Himself a people of His own zealous of good works. Isn't that good? We were saved to good works. We're saved to purification. It's very simple.
Peter says this. He says in 1 Peter 1:22, "Seeing that you have purified your souls in obeying the truth," oh, that's so good. See, when you came to Jesus Christ it purified your soul. You became a new creation and a life of obedience is the result. This new casting means a whole new master. And he says it in verse 18, we became free from sin. Great thought. Oh, not free from sinning, we do that now and then. Not free from temptation. But free from the mastery and the tyranny of sin where we couldn't do anything but sin.
You say, "You mean, before you're a Christian all you do is sin?" That's right. All you do is sin. Even your good deeds fall into the sin category because they're not for the glory of God and when men do good deeds just so they can be good men, that's pride. And that's a sin. What amazes me is how much men love their slavery. Have you noticed that? They don't even know they're slaves to sin. They love it. Men love darkness rather than light.
My daughter was telling me the other day about a history class she was in and she said that it was interesting to her that the slaves in the south fought for the south against the north, thus defending their own slavery in trying to stop their own emancipation. Not unlike sinners who fight against the very one who would deliver them. But you've been made free from that and became the servants of righteousness. And that's a creative alteration, not only an ethical responsibility. We are now free.
Now listen to me very carefully, I'm going to close with this thought. We are free for the first time in our life. A sinner is not free, all he can do is what? Sin. Who's the only person who has a choice? A Christian. So for the first time in your life, you're free. Not free to do wrong. Oh, no, no, no, you've done that a long time. For the first time in your life, you're free to do what? Right. That's Christian freedom. And the people who go around saying Christian liberty gives me the freedom to do wrong, do not understand Christian liberty. Christian liberty, the liberation of the soul, is for the first time in my life I can do right. Marvelous thought.
Well, there we see the initiation, the position, the difference between the servant of sin, the servant of righteousness. One has no freedom. One has freedom to do right.
Now, we'll go from there next time to see the progress of these lives and the promise. One ends in death and one in life. Let's pray.
Lord, thank You for our teaching time tonight and thank You so much, Father, for Your grace to these dear people in saving them. Thank You for the hunger in their hearts for the Word. We know this is not entertainment and we know it's taxing and the body is weary and the mind as well, sometimes. And, Father, I just thank You for their loving support, for their hunger for Your Word that makes them set aside the time and prepare the heart and the mind to receive the deep things of God. And, O Father, bless them, fill their cup with the water for which they thirst. Fill their spiritual stomach with the food for which they hunger. Thank You that we're free from sin, for the first time free to do right, free to do Your will because there's a new life principle in us that does righteousness. Thank You, Father, that You didn't just save us and write it in a book but You changed us that we may enjoy the reality of that salvation in the glorious liberty of the sons of God. And all of this causes us to thank You for Christ, our Redeemer. We pray in His name. Amen.
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After writing two articles about both the major and the junior heavy oil producers of North America, I decided to write a third one about Rock Energy (OTCPK:RENFF). Rock is a heavy oil junior producer with production from Plains and Southwest Saskatchewan in Canada. It also trades at the main Toronto board under the ticker (RE).
Rock Energy has shallow, low decline, low cost wells ($750K-$850K per well) with an average IP rate ~60 bopd. The funds from operations in conjunction with some accretive acquisitions will fuel the company's growth according to the corporate website.
Rock Valuation Metrics
To prove Rock's current undervaluation, let's find first the Enterprise value of the company:
Share Price (as of the closing price on Dec 10th) = $1.08
Fully Diluted Shares Outstanding = 41,900,000
Bank debt = Zero
Enterprise Value = (41,900,000 x $1.08) + $0 = $45,252,000
1) Based on Production
Current production = 2,600 boepd (74% oil and liquids)
2012 Forecast Average Production = 2,300 boepd (79% oil and liquids)
2012 Forecast Exit Production = 2,900 boepd (85% oil and liquids)
Enterprise Value / Current Production = $17,404 per boepd
Enterprise Value / 2012 Average Production = $45,252,000 / 2,300 = $19,674 per boepd
Enterprise Value / 2012 Exit Production - $45,252,000 / 2,900 = $15,604 per boepd
2) Based on Reserves
Total Proved Plus Probable Reserves = 8.3 MMboe (79% oil and liquids) as of Dec 2011
PV10 (Pre-tax) of 2P Reserves = $136,500,000
Enterprise Value / Proved and Probable Barrels = $45,252,000 / 8.3 = $5.45 per Mboe (79% oil and liquids)
Enterprise Value / Pre-tax PV10 = $45,252,000 / $136,500,000 = .33x
Rock has an inventory of over 120 drilling locations and it also explores new technology to increase recovery factors from known pools (radial drilling, water flooding, SP flooding, High Volume Lift). The company has currently 5 High Volume Lift projects that would provide up to 50 reactivation candidates. It has also a new oil pool discovery at Mantario at the early stages of development and numerous exploration prospects identified on its 85,000 net acres of undeveloped land.
3) Based on Funds From Operations
2012 Forecast Funds Flow From Operations = $15M
Q4 2012 Forecast Funds Flow From Operations (Annualized) = $14.84M
Enterprise Value / 2012 forecast cash flow = $45,252,000 / $15,000,000 = 3.01x
Enterprise Value / Q4 2012 forecast cash flow = $45,252,000 / $14,840,000 = 3.04x
All the multiples above ($15,604 per flowing barrel, $5.45 per Mboe and 3.01x per EV/FFO) are definitely very appealing.
Rock has also Working Capital = $2.6M (Sept 30, 2012) and an undrawn bank line of $45M to fund its growth for the remainder of 2012 and in 2013.
The Heavy Oil Acquisitions
The gross undervaluation of Rock Energy is also obvious, if we check the recent heavy oil-focused acquisitions of Twin Butte (OTCPK:TBTEF) in Lloydminster area right where Rock operates. Here are these 3 acquisitions of Twin Butte during the last 10 months:
1) It acquired the privately held heavy oil producer Waseca for $127M. The transaction metrics were $32,114 per boepd and $14.14 per Proven plus Probable boe.
2) It acquired the privately held heavy oil producer Avalon for almost $89M. The transaction metrics were $32,506 per boepd and $12.02 per Proven plus Probable boe.
3) It acquired the heavy oil producer Emerge Oil and Gas for $170M. The transaction metrics were $29,250 per boepd and $13.05 per Proven plus Probable boe.
So the average acquisition metrics were $31,290 per flowing barrel and $13.07 per Proven and Probable boe. If I apply these metrics to Rock, the value per share is as below:
1) Current production from Rock = 2,600 boepd
Estimate of value = $31,290 x 2,600 = $81,354,000
Bank Debt or Convertibles as of Sep 2011 = Zero
Working Capital as of Sep 2011 = +$2,600,000
Market Cap = $81,354,000 + $2,600,000 = $83,954,000
Shares Outstanding = 39.1M
Estimate of value per share = $2.15
Current share price = $1.08
2) Proven and Probable Reserves of Rock = 8.3 MMboe
Estimate of value = $13.07 x 8.3 = $108,480,000
Bank Debt or Convertibles as of Sep 2011 = Zero
Working Capital as of Sep 2011 = +$2,600,000
Market Cap = $108,480,000 + $2,600,000 = $111,080,000
Shares Outstanding = 39.1M
Estimate of value per share = $2.84
Current share price = $1.08
The Valuation Gap
It is clear that there is a valuation gap here. Two factors may be the reason for this:
1) The company is not widely known.
2) Those investors who know the company are in a "wait and see" mode. Rock has been in a transformational period during the last 10 months after selling part of its natural gas assets to pay off its bank debt in early 2012. So the company has to deliver first to be rewarded later by the market.
The Production Target
The company notes in the corporate website that it has a production target higher than 5,000 boepd during the next 3 years in order to become a dividend payer. I believe that the company can achieve this target primarily through the organic growth. Let's see how:
The heavy oil wells have low decline rates. The average decline rate for them is around 20% annually.
The company has currently $15M annual funds from operations which gives it room to drill at least 15 new heavy oil wells. If we multiply this with the average IP rate of 60 bopd, we get 900 bopd new production in 2013.
The current 2012 exit target of 2900 boepd reduced by 20% gives 2320 boepd in 2013 from the existing production.
So the production by the end of 2013 can be:
2320 + 900 = 3220 boepd.
This does not capture any use of the undrawn bank line ($45M) and any production benefits from Rock's optimization techniques. With an horizon of 3 years, it is clear that the 5000 boepd target by the end of 2015 is achievable if the company decides to use the credit facility to drill an additional 50 new wells and if it gets a decent 30% production increase from its ongoing waterflood initiatives.
Insiders' Ownership
The management team has a 12.4% (f.d.) stake and the ARC Financial fund holds 17.1% of Rock. This fund is owned by ARC Resources (OTCPK:AETUF) which is a major natural gas weighted producer from Canada. There is also a new shareholder who took a sizable position recently. I talk for Bissett Investment Management who bought 10.85% of the company in Oct 2012.
I can not know how long Rock Energy is going to stay around as an independent company but I do know for sure that it is a grossly undervalued company currently. My thorough analysis above suggests the company is worth from $2.15 up to $2.84 per share. I don't know if it ever gets acquired as this is insiders' information. However it is apparent that the current share price leaves a lot of upside which can be realized in the near future.


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A week ago, the CBS Sports Network made a Really Big Deal out of the San Diego State-at-Colorado State basketball game. Which is the first time any sports network has made a Really Big Deal out of anything in Fort Collins in, like, forever.
It was also the first time the No. 24 Rams had won a game as a ranked team in 59 years. Really.
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"The rankings don't mean anything, but they do mean something in that your games get put on all the highlights," said Doug Gottlieb, one of CBS' top college basketball analysts who has his own radio show on CBS Radio (weekdays, 1-3 p.m., KFNZ 1320 AM) and co-hosts "Lead Off," a sports wrap-up show that airs weeknights at 10 p.m. MT on the CBS Sports Network.
But here's another reason CBS made so much of the Rams' overtime victory over the Aztecs — a reason that's a bit of a punch to the gut to a lot of local college hoops fan.
"The Mountain West is, frankly, a better conference than the Pac-12 and the West Coast [Conference] this year," Gottlieb said. "It's a really good league."
Ouch, Ute and Cougar fans. The league you left behind is better than the ones you're in?
Those are, perhaps, encouraging words for Aggie fans, what with Utah State headed for the MWC next season. But Gottlieb, who's never shy about expressing his opinions, didn't exactly go overboard in praising the Mountain West.
"I don't think the teams at the top are as good as Arizona or Gonzaga, but their percentage of quality teams is better," he said.
With the exception of Weber State, still battling for a Big Sky championship (a game out of first place), you don't have to tell local basketball fans that this is a down year. Gottlieb at least gives Utah State a bit of a pass.
"They weren't going to be that great this year anyway, but then you have those big injuries and it's tough," he said, pointing to the season-ending cardiac arrest suffered by Danny Berger, the season-ending knee injury suffered by Kyisean Reed, and the broken wrist that will keep Preston Medlin out 6-8 weeks.
As for BYU's struggles in the West Coast Conference, "I've been surprised by how they've kind of under-achieved this year," Gottlieb said. "I would have thought they'd be better."
The Cougars, 9-4, trail Gonzaga (12-0) and Saint Mary's (11-2).
And while giving props to the MWC, he didn't disparage the WCC.
"That league's a grind," Gottlieb said. "And even though [the Cougars] have better resources than just about anybody in the league, you get out on the road and they kind of lock into what you do best."
That said, he thought BYU's home loss to San Francisco on Feb. 9 was "just kind of bizarre."
If Gottlieb is right, the worst news is for Utah fans. The Pac-12 isn't a great league, and he figures the Utes are "at least three years away" from being able to compete in it.
(Utah, 3-10, is a game out of last place.)
The Southern California native said recruiting in the Los Angeles area should be a top priority for Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak.
"Colorado has gotten a couple of the kids Utah needs to get," Gottlieb said. "Spencer Dinwidde and Askia Booker — those should be Utah guys.
"Coaching changes will do that to you, but they've got to do a better job of recruiting Los Angeles, there's no question in my mind."
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La Crosse, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's and women's track & field teams posted wins in nearly every event they competed in at a pair of meets in late action Friday.
First, at the UW-La Crosse Eagle Open, the Panthers swept the pole vault competitions on the day. Sarah Finer won the women's competition with an outstanding effort. The senior cleared 12 feet, ¾ inches (3.68m) to take the top spot. That height now stands second in UWM history. On the men's side, Garrett Vetesnik won with a height of 16-5 ½ (5.02m), well ahead of second place.
Milwaukee also finished 1-2 in the women's triple jump. Samia Taylor took the top spot with a leap of 40-1 ¼ (12.22m), soaring past the rest of the field by nearly two feet. Erika Suchla was second at 38-5 (11.71m), also well in front of third place to give Milwaukee the top-two spots.
In other action at the Dr. Keeler Invitational in Naperville, Ill., the Panthers boasted wins in three more events in limited action.
Senior Washington Farrington won the 100m with an impressive time of 10.68 seconds, just shy of his career best that is second place in UWM history.
In the 4x100m relay, Dan Simon, Matt Ferry, Davontae Johnson and Farrington combined to win the race in 41.52 seconds, besting the field of 12 teams.
Chiamaka Okonkwo took the top spot in the 100m hurdles with a season-best time of 14.22, more than half a second in front of the next finisher.
Sophomore Chelsea Maxey was runner-up in the 400m hurdles with an impressive time of 1:02.86, just shy of the career best she set one week ago at the league championships.
Simon came in fourth overall in long jump with a leap of 22-7 ¾ (6.90m), just shy of his career best.
Weston Brusky posted a PR in the 1500m, crossing the line in 3:58.36 to win his heat and take 17th out of more than 80 runners.
In the 800m, freshman Reed Schmidt led the way for Milwaukee with a time of 1:54.47 for 17th. Teammate Jeff Pigg was just behind at 1:55.70 for 25th out of 100 competitors.
Shelby Schaal finished fourth in javelin after a toss of 126-0 (38.42m), not far behind her school record.
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Jarvis McClam went through a ton of changes during his high school career.
He transferred to Laurel High after his freshman year at Meade High in Anne Arundel County, then played for two football coaches in three seasons for the Spartans.
Despite all the adjustments, there was one constant in that McClam was a consistent performer as a two-year starter at quarterback for Laurel High, and he pulled off a rare athletic hat trick, running indoor track in the winter and baseball in the spring as a senior for the Spartans.
"He was a kid that it really didn't matter what you asked him to do, he would do it," Laurel football coach Todd Sommerville said of McClam, the Laurel Leader Male Athlete of the Year. "He has been the consummate team player the last two years. You don't have to re-teach and re-teach. He picks things up easily."
McClam, who also started at safety in 2012, threw for 1,090 yards with eight touchdowns as a senior and ran for 644 yards for seven touchdowns and an average of 6.1 yards per carry.
He made 34 tackles last fall with one sack and one interception for Laurel.
As a junior he threw for 1,135 yards and eight touchdowns and ran for 403 yards and six touchdowns (5.6 yards per carry).
There were challenges along the way.
"The most difficult part was connecting with the team and learning the plays," he said. "I did not know anybody. It was hard."
McClam took part in the 200 meters and 800-meter relay last winter with the indoor track team after one of his friends talked him into trying out.
In the spring, he threw a curve and tried out for baseball for the first time.
He batted around .380 for head coach Don Cleveland, an assistant JV football coach at the school.
Cleveland said when McClam learned he was the head baseball coach he told the coach he would try out, though Cleveland was skeptical.
"He is a natural athlete," Cleveland said. "He played a great outfield. He was just incredible. He hit second or third in the lineup and he started every game. He was not thrown out stealing and he stole home once. He was a great baserunner."
McClam's older brother, Dewayne, ran track and played football and lacrosse at Meade High and is now in the military, stationed in Texas.
His father, Wayne, who played high school football in South Carolina, was a Laurel High assistant last season under Sommerville.
While McClam was a rare three-sport athlete, he will focus only on football at Seton Hill University, a Division II program in Greensburg, Pa., near Pittsburgh.
Isaac Collins, named the Seton Hill head coach in January, said McClam will be used on offense as a wideout and in a wildcat package out of the backfield as a partial scholarship recruit.
"Athletically there is not a position he could not play," Collins said.
Collins and Sommerville were part of the coaching staff at The Citadel in South Carolina and the Laurel coach told Collins about McClam during a coaches' convention.


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Georgia Tech interim defensive coordinator Charles Kelly is like his predecessor in at least one regard. Similar to former coordinator Al Groh, Kelly doesn't mind using baseball analogies.
"It's like a hitter in baseball," he said, talking about safety Isaiah Johnson. "Sometimes you get your pitch. When you get your pitch, you've got to make it count."
Kelly refrained from assigning Johnson a spot in a batting order or guessing what his on-base percentage might be, but let's just say that Johnson has raised his slugging percentage in the past two weeks. With a forced fumble against Boston College followed by an interception return for a touchdown against BYU a week ago, Johnson ranks among the defense's more improved players since Kelly succeeded Groh on Oct. 8.
"I think he's kind of settled down a little bit," Kelly said. "When Isaiah puts his eyes in the right position and he's comfortable, he can make some things happen."
Johnson said he misses Groh and has good memories of the only defensive coordinator he had had until Groh was fired. However, Johnson's play has taken a turn with Kelly. The simplification of the scheme has impacted his performance.
"I was thinking too much," he said. "Just a lot going on as far as the defense and things weren't going right. They're still kind of not going right, but you just can't sweat it. You've got to let things happen."
For Johnson, a junior and second-year starter, letting things happen refers to Kelly's "wait for your pitch" exhortation. Johnson's mindset has been to hurry.
"So he's telling me to slow it down," he said, then paraphrased Kelly's instructions. "Look, it's not your responsibility to be on the front line, trying to stop them. He's just saying, 'You're a safety. You're the last line of defense. Just make sure nothing gets behind you.'"
Through the first six games of the season, Johnson and the secondary repeatedly misplayed coverages and either missed tackles or were outrun when they took poor angles to the ball carrier.
With less thinking and a renewed commitment to just playing his assignment, Johnson has responded with the two impact plays and better tackling. It was his first interception since the first half of the 2011 season and his first forced fumble since the first game of his 2010 freshman season. On the fumble, Johnson delivered a punishing hit to Boston College running back Andre Williams on the opening play of the second half, causing a turnover that Tech turned into a field goal.
On the interception, he baited BYU quarterback Riley Nelson into throwing to tight end Kaneakua Friel, then picked him off and returned the ball 22 yards for the score. It was Tech's first defensive touchdown of the season.
"I know I haven't been doing what I'm capable of doing, so this second part of the season has been like a whole new season, a different mindset," he said. "Just run the play. Be free and don't be afraid to make mistakes."
Across the defense, mental errors are down considerably. Tackling was much better against Boston College but worse against BYU. Often defending short fields — the Cougars needed a total of 23 yards to score two of their touchdowns — Tech gave up 40 points for the fourth time in five games.
Kelly thought part of the reason for the missed tackles against BYU was that players were so anxious to get to the ball that they overran the play.
"The one thing I'll say, I don't think it's a not-want-to factor," he said, "but we have to learn how to be under control."
It is a lesson that Johnson appears to be grasping. Maryland, Tech's opponent Saturday, could enable him to keep his turnover streak going. Because they've lost their first four quarterbacks to season-ending injuries, the Terrapins not only are starting a freshman who was a linebacker until last week, but they also have turned the ball over 22 times, fourth most in FBS. Johnson is more than willing.
"Whatever I can do to help the team and get to a 'W,' then I'm just going to do my job," Johnson said.
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November 2nd, 2012
12:14 am
November 2nd, 2012
12:22 am
Ah, very interesting article Ken. I really did think it was a lack of focus and discipline that we've had so many missed tackles, but I realize now that it is in fact possible to attack too much defense and let the ballcarrier slip by you. So many flying dives and arm-tackling instead of proper wrapping… that's not poor coaching after all… it's players attacking too much. There is a fine line between overrunning the play and hanging back lazily, and that's the line we need to play.
All goes back to recruiting. We have such a minute margin of error (on offense, defense, special teams) that even the tiniest lapses can cost us the game. Yes, we may not have brand-name playmakers… but overall our unit is capable and talented enough to win the ACC. We just need to be near-perfect. That may be asking too much… or could be well within reach.
November 2nd, 2012
12:23 am
Nice article Ken. I'm thinking the D should be arlight for this game. Any word on our qb situation?
November 2nd, 2012
12:26 am
I have noticed I Johnson's improved play since the defense has been simplified. TJ Barnes has made some plays too since since Coach K took over. He actually got what I referred to as "the next time he collapses the pocket will be the first time" in the past….he did it at least twice that I noticed against BYU. The dismissal of Groan has begun paying off just with some simplification.
November 2nd, 2012
12:27 am
Agreed If do right, in the words of lombardi "…if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."
November 2nd, 2012
8:01 am
Way to go #1.
U shut your critics up too but losing prevented your being a hero which has happened to a number of Jackets who made good plays in losses.
Reminded me of Tarrant's pick 6 that prevented the NC State game of 2010 from being a blowout loss though it still came close.
A good QB having the time to pick us apart, even on our field, was evident in year one of Groh (especially that game) and never solved.
There is a solution to the two WRs, one behind the other, that also has not been solved in three years.
But I'm not providing it for free.
November 2nd, 2012
9:12 am
Does this game scare anyone? I am worried that we make the LB/QB look like a pro with our soft defense. If he picks us apart it will be very embarrassing. Maryland has a good D and they have played GT's offense well. Gotta get pass rush, make this guy hurry up and make mistakes. One thing to remember though, the LB/QB is big, has run an option attack in high school and can run the ball. With our poor tackling I expect him to run or give it to someone who can run. He won't be easy to bring down that's for sure. Think Logan thomas size.
November 2nd, 2012
9:17 am
Johnson was BURNED on so many big plays early in the year. I was wondering if he was not hearing the what the D play was being called. he was coming up and not covering the Deep WR. Glad to see is playing better. I know he is a talented player so it is good.
I hope we go to the 4-3 next year.
November 2nd, 2012
9:23 am
Remember when we were SO PROUD of that close loss to Va Tech. Both teams felt pretty good about themselves back then, but look where we are now! Thank god for Virginia, else we're tied for last in the weak sister division of the weak sister conference. That CPJ, he REALLY has us moving in the right direction. Well , he will soon, anyway, because we can't be too far from rock bottom now…
November 2nd, 2012
9:35 am
November 2nd, 2012
9:49 am
Here is a nugget from the Associated Press that seems to indicate an "expanded curriculum" for football players at Pitt:
"Police tried to ensure the students identified the correct players by having them look at photo lineups. While none of the alleged victims could recognize all three players, each player was recognized by at least one, including Mitchell who recognized Street from a class they took together on vampires."
November 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
Tre Jackson (FSU) & Stephon Tuitt(ND) at TECH on Defense and TECH is Undefeated and in the top 10. We have to close the deal on some of the Great Defensive players we recruited.
November 2nd, 2012
10:23 am
Ken, what's the final word on Autry?
His story this year was probably my favorite.
November 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
5150 UOAD A lot of folks have been thinking for a while that you only had a tenuous grasp on reality, but that latest perhaps indicates you have lost your grip. If you think Tech is two players away from undefeated and top ten, you are surely gone…
November 2nd, 2012
10:36 am
billyBob…………..with a GOOD defense TECH doesn't go to OT and lose those 2 games and isn't down when playing MTSU. Very different season at that point and BYU isn't a question either.
November 2nd, 2012
10:37 am
AJC fire Michael Carvell……The guy has posted 5 articles and none have been open for comments.
Why does he write if we can't respond.
Get Michael Carvell off the Recruiting Blog he sucks.
November 2nd, 2012
10:57 am
Can you walk and chew gum at the same time?
Reading your posts, I have my doubts!!
November 2nd, 2012
11:18 am
Not to worry UOAD.
What kind of grasp on reality do any of us have to be wasting so much time on these blogs just so one day we can be proved "right" about something or another.
November 2nd, 2012
12:22 pm
…my wife tells me I am never right so I don't try to be anywhere…
November 2nd, 2012
12:31 pm
I.J. started quite a few games as a true freshman, (his very 1st college game, IIRC). He has a lot of defensive snaps under his belt to not be any more advanced in his game than he is. I AM noticing an upgrade in his aggressiveness, so maybe a switch HAS finally been flipped on.
November 2nd, 2012
2:55 pm
Ken, why does sweeting seem to be burned much more often this year than in the past?
November 2nd, 2012
7:33 pm
UOAD: Lots more wrong with this D that two good players would NOT have fixed. Sounds like CPJ "if this and that blah blah blah everything would be perfect." If we had quit when the Germans bombed pearl harbor…
November 2nd, 2012
8:37 pm
November 2nd, 2012
9:01 pm
You've gotta hand it to those Krauts.
November 2nd, 2012
10:13 pm
"Germans bombed Pearl Harbor".
I hope you're kidding on this one.
Japs not Germans.
November 2nd, 2012
10:23 pm
It seems the worse thing u can do as a coach of any team at Tech is to raise expectations.
Once you have a very good year, the fans expect that level of success every year and despise you for not producing it.
Cremins, Hewitt and now Johnson have now made that "mistake".
It may even have happened to Dodd but to a lesser extent.
November 2nd, 2012
11:49 pm
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November 3rd, 2012
11:14 am
Jacket Detective@ 10:13, Nothing gets by you does it?