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Man sentenced to prison in 1994 slaying
04/09/2014 7:21amJose Leyva-Padilla, charged in 2010 in connection with the 1994 death of Richard Leetham, 35, was sentenced to prison Tuesday.
Missing teen found safe
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Charges dismissed against man accused of sex abuse
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Amendment 3 debate deeper than legal questions
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Website finds best car rental deals as they come along
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Name of man killed in Ultralight accident released
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I-15 southbound reopened after full closure near 3300 exit
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5 common misconceptions about buying a home
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Tips for going from novice to Half Ironman in 10 weeks
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Study linking infidelity and divorce to Twitter use proves false
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3-year-old passes away after completing 'bucket list'
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23-year-old injured in Ogden shooting
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Killer swine virus hasn't reached Utah pigs, official says
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Media gets a look at 'dual personality' of new federal courthouse
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Roy day care provider accused of killing infant
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Man arrested after living as unregistered sex offender for 20 years
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Art project targets drone attacks
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Reyes requests stay of same-sex adoptions in Utah
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U.S. Bancorp (USB) stock price recent trade pushed it move about -12.68% away from the 52-week high and closed 5.34% away from the 52-week low. USB stock price traded with dropping change along with the volume 7.45 million shares in wednesday trading session. Shares are trading price at $51.08 with move of -0.29%. The company's 3-months average volume stands at 6.98 million. When we divide the last trade volume by the 3-month average volume, we found out a relative volume of 1.05. The total dollar value of all 1.65 billion outstanding shares is 84.38 billion.
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Even with a new Zerg campaign and seven additional units for multiplayer, this expansion feels like retreading similar -- albeit well-designed -- ground.
Not too surprising. It's a strange business model, after all.
I'm sure the fans are going to love this stuff, but as someone not already part of the cult, this doesn't appeal to me.
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We come in Acts Chapter 2 then in our continuing study of Acts to the sermon that Peter preached on the day of Pentecost. Now we've been seeing much about this all the way through the book of Acts as God has set the stage for the preaching of this sermon. Although the sermon doesn't start until Chapter 2, verse 14. Everything leading up to that is really just preliminary to this preaching of the powerful sermon that Peter gives. The occasion of Pentecost has no parallel. The sermon has no parallel prior to it. It is a very unusual occasion. The Spirit of God has descended. The Spirit of God has melted together by baptism all the believers into one body, the body of Christ. Then the Spirit of God filled each of those believers and sent them out with a new kind of boldness and speaking languages that they did not know. And speaking to the people the wonderful works of God.
And all of that was simply a buildup to this fantastic sermon that climaxes the day of Pentecost. Everything that the Lord had done up to this time was to set the stage so Peter could stand up and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now just to review for a moment. You remember that in Chapter 1, Jesus gave the disciples all the equipment they needed to fulfill the commission that He gave them, which was to go into all the world and preach the gospel. They had all of the equipment to do that. The only missing thing was the power of the Holy Spirit. And He said, "not many days hence you will receive the power of the Holy Spirit."
And in Chapter 2 it came. Beginning at Chapter 2, the Spirit of God descended. They were blended into the body. They were filled with the power of the Holy Spirit and they began to do the job. And then God in the marvelous miracle allowed the Spirit of God to be made obvious to some extent by the sound of a mighty rushing wind and the crowd began to gather. Then the disciples begin to speak in languages and because of that, the people were confused and they couldn't understand how a lot of ignorant Galileans could possibly be such linguists.
And then to hear them speak the wonderful works of God even confused them more, because they had believed, the Jews had, that these men were of the devil. They had concluded much earlier that what Jesus did, He did by the power of whom? Satan, Matthew Chapter 12. And they believed that this was a whole satanic movement against their true God. And now all of a sudden, they were speaking the wonderful works of Jehovah God, which made it a little bit hard for them to understand. There are only 2 supernatural sources for miracles, Satan and God. And you can be sure that Satan wouldn't be going around glorifying God. Therefore, they recognize that they were speaking concerning God and yet they believed in their hearts them to be blasphemers because they had assigned themselves to Jesus Christ who was the greatest blasphemer because He claimed to be Messiah.
And so they were confused. At the same time that they were confused, they were gathered together. They did not understand what was going on and that's exactly what the Holy Spirit wanted to have accomplished. He wanted them to be together in one place, well confused. And involved in it would be activity of the supernatural. And so that somebody could stand up and say now let me tell you what this is all about. And that's exactly the setting for Peter's sermon.
There were several hundred thousand people in Jerusalem at this time. It was the key time because it was the feast of harvest, 50 days after Passover. Hence it's called Pentecost. And so they are gathered together in a perfect fullness of time type fulfillment to fulfill the picture of the feast of harvest. They are drawn in their minds and in their bodies into one confused conglomerate and they are ready to hear the gospel of Jesus Christ. The strategy is fantastic. It is the key time. Because Jerusalem has been invaded by all the Jews from everywhere.
And everyone of them is going to get infected with the gospel. They may not all catch the disease of salvation, if we can call it that in this analogy, but they're all going to be carriers, at least of what's gone on here when they go back to their own country. And so it's a critical time to get the message out. And so gathering all of them together confounding them by the miracle of languages, then preaching the gospel to them sends them back to their own homes with a lot going on in their minds and an awful lot to tell everybody.
And thus they became willing or unwilling carriers of the message of Jesus Christ back to all of their own people. So in response to sovereign timing, the Holy Spirit came. And the strategy was fantastic. God had set the stage perfectly. Now it's interesting to me just to draw a couple of tangents here, footnotes. It's interesting to me that everything up to verse 14 was preparation and immediately when the preparation was done, they did the job and the preparation was all spiritual. There was no structural preparation.
Somebody asked me this week what's your view of church organization. And I began to draw from this particular passage, a least a basic view and that is the first thing the church is to do is not to get organized, it's to get at it. Do you realize that in the book of Acts the basic structure of the church never even begins to appear until the 6th Chapter. For the first part of the book of Acts up until Chapter 6, they're just kind of moving with the Spirit of God. And then all of a sudden in Acts Chapter 6, they realize that it's time to set some structure so that they can really operate like the Spirit wants. In other words, the first responsibility is to do the job and worry about getting organized later. Not to create a structure seemingly in which everything has to function. In Acts Chapter 6, finally the apostles who had had to serve dinner and everything else, said look it's ridiculous. Guys we've got to give ourselves to the most important things. We'll give ourselves continually to the study of the Word and to prayer, and that's really what the ministry's all about. "You guys wait on tables. Choose out from among you men full of the Holy Spirit to do the job." And they were called what? Deacons. And that's the basic structure of the church.
It never ever gets any more involved than that. That's it. The leaders called, of course, in the early church, the beginning church, thefirst-century church, that apostolic church--they were the apostles and prophets. Later on called bishops, pastor, teachers, or elders or Presbyters, all the same idea. And that is the leader, that's the pastor teacher and under them are the deacons and that's it. That's all there is in the involvement of the organized church. It stayed just that flexible because the Spirit of God moves the way He wants to move and it's always different. It's always different.
We've found here at Grace Church that as the church has grown, as the Spirit of God has led us in certain directions that all of a sudden the old organizations of the church are obsolete and we keep running into old organizations that don't have anything to do with what we're doing. In other words, the church is to be organized only as it accommodates the moving of the Spirit of God flexible enough so that the Spirit can move in another direction without throwing everything into chaos.
LaCoch said on one occasion, "Christians when they get organized become very un-Christian." And that's very often true. When the structure restricts the work of the Spirit, then the structure isn't right. And so these people weren't too concerned about the organization. They didn't start a committee immediately after all the preparation. They just got at it and preached. And then later on they let the structure catch and accommodate the work of the Spirit.
And so they were completely unconcerned about organization. They were a living organism. Now you don't have to sit down and plan your body. Do you have to do that? Plan your activities for your hand for the day? Plan the activities for your feet? Do you sit down and map it all out. Now knee you be sure you cooperate with ankle there. We want to get a subcommittee to make sure that thigh goes along.
When you have an organism you don't need to have an organization. And so the structures are always minimal in the New Testament because they were living, breathing body of Christ really doing it the way God intended them to do it. And the only kind of structure they had was to accommodate the ministry that the Spirit was directed.
And the most obvious characteristic that we see of them is that they got right at the job. So many times we excuse ourselves to work on something when we could go right out and do it. Now this was a new age. We saw that didn't we? A new age had begun in the day of Pentecost. The age of law had ceased. The age of grace had been born. The age of the church had been born and this was a whole new ballgame. In every dimension the new age had dawned a few days before this the disciples were huddling in secret in their little upper room and they were kind of afraid. They were hesitant, they were powerless, they were hobbled by questions and fears and doubts and weren't too sure really what was going to go on and all of a sudden Pentecost came, the Spirit of God came, the Spirit of God filled them, no more secret knocks, no more little secret passwords. They were out on the streets and they were announcing Jesus Christ all over the place like a mortar barrage. They were unhesitating.
The transformation proves the Spirit had come. The transformation proves the new age had been born. And unto the energy that was there it's because of the birth of a new age, because of the birth of the church and because of the baptism and the filling of the Spirit of God they moved out to preach Jesus Christ with power and boldness. And they began in Peter's sermon. Peter was first. He got the first shot at it. And he announced a blockbuster announcement to the Jews. He announced to them, I'm telling you the messianic age has arrived. Now that is a fantastic announcement.
Every Jew since the first one has been waiting for that. Since the Abrahamic covenant in which God promised to bless all nations through the seed of Abraham. Every Jew since then has been waiting for messianic times for the Messiah to come for the wrap up on history. For the time when the kingdom would come, when the wrong would be made right and the injustice is just and Israel would be recovered, placed in the land and ruled in the land and all would be well and the curse would be reversed and the lion would lie down with the lamb and the desert would blossom with a rose, that all...like a rose. That all of these things would happen. Every Jew was waiting for that day.
Then all of a sudden Peter stands up and says you know what you've just seen, you've seen the beginning of messianic times. That is a blockbuster announcement. And that's how Peter begins his sermon. They thought that the disciples were drunk. That's how spiritually perceptive they were. Peter says they aren't drunk, verse 15, "But this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel, it shall come to pass in the last days." You've seen the beginning of the last days. The last days in Jewish terminology has been going on now for 2,000 years. The last days to the Jews meant the time of Messiah. Messiah has come and He'll back to set up the kingdom. All of that is the last days, the Jewish last days.
And so Peter makes this fantastic announcement that the Spirit has come as Joel said He would, and you have seen the beginning of the last days. That's how he begins his sermon. That's his introduction. Now we studied his introduction last week, and we saw that his introduction explains Pentecost. Today we're going to study his theme and his theme exalts Christ.
Like any good preacher, he starts with an introduction, then has a theme, then he makes an appeal at the end and then examines the results. And to begin with, we saw the introduction last time as he explained Pentecost. He said you know what it is? It's the birth of the messianic age. Now let's face it, if the messianic age has been born, then Messiah must be around, true? That's the point Peter wants to make.
He says in verse 21, and we saw this last week, "It shall come to pass that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. It's time folks to get saved. It's messianic times. It is the last days. And he shows how that some of the last days will involve the signs that are indicated in verses 18, 19, and 20. And these are signs, of course, of the second coming of Christ. But nevertheless, this whole period is the last days.
Joel's prophecy has already been prefilled. It will be fulfilled at the second coming of Christ. And we studied that last week. But he says you need to get saved. Now if he's saying to them it's messianic times, it is the last days, you need to get saved, then the implication is obvious. There must be a Messiah around here somewhere. That's exactly what Peter wants you to think because he's about to tell them who it is.
And he informs them in his theme, verses 22-36 that the Messiah is none other than Jesus of Nazareth. This is a powerful, powerful sermon. If we could only reconstruct the whole Jewish attitude and the whole scene, you would see that this was a dynamic event to announce that messianic times had come would be one thing, but to announce it in view of the miracles that they had just seen and the wonders of those languages made it monumental.
And then for Peter to say what you saw was the beginning of the end. It's messianic times. Now let me tell you who the Messiah is. And then when he opened his mouth and said it is Jesus of Nazareth, can you even begin to imagine the reaction? The same one that 50 days earlier had been crucified as they all screamed for His blood. Peter says, "you've killed the Messiah of God." The one you've been waiting for centuries and centuries and centuries came and you killed Him. That's Peter's announcement.
Now to the Gentile reader, it may seem like a small thing that Jesus is the Messiah, because we don't understand what Messiah is. Messiah is the ultimate ruler. Messiah is the one of whom it was said the scepter shall not depart from Judah. Messiah is the one promised to David in 2 Samuel Chapter 7 when he said, "there will come a king who will be an everlasting king, who will rule in peace and righteousness over Israel." Messiah was the great anointed king who would come and set everything right and give Israel its kingdom and reign in Israel and restore everything that had been lost. Messiah was the greatest figure in the Jewish heart and mind. And for Peter to announce that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah to the Jew was the absolute height of blasphemy.
They crucified Jesus because He was a blasphemer, they said. And here's Peter continuing to blaspheme. I'll never forget I went into the office of a rabbi in Hollywood who is the rabbi of the largest temple there and I wanted to just talk to him about Jesus Christ. I got an appointment with him and I went in and I...his name was Bowman, and I said sir, I'd just like to ask you what you think of Jesus Christ. And he looked at his fist and he hit the desk as hard as he could and things just went up and right down again. And he pointed his finger at me and said don't you ever mention that name in my presence. That's what he said.
And then he says, you don't know anything about Judaism. He said, you can't even read the Talmud. I said, let me see a copy. He wasn't aware that I had had enough Hebrew to barely get by. Well, he didn't show me a copy, but I spent the time talking to him about everything but Jesus Christ. He refused to mention the name of Jesus Christ. And for Jesus to be exalted as the Messiah of Israel right in the face of all these Jews gathered in Jerusalem, was absolutely the most powerful dynamic, open and forceful issue that ever could have been brought to their attention. This was a serious situation. And Peter shows boldness encouraged like he has never shown before.
And so Peter stands up and he doesn't just say it. He proves it. He proves that Jesus was the Messiah and the evidence is overwhelming. And there are many things that Peter...he didn't use all his thunder in one sermon. You just keep reading through the book of Acts, the first part when Peter's preaching up through Chapter 12 and there's just thunder after thunder. He stores some of it up. It doesn't say it all at once. When you read through this chapter and I keep thinking to myself, boy why didn't he use that Old Testament passage. Gee, Peter if you had used that one and then later on you say oh yeah he did use it over here, see.
But Peter is going to prove that Jesus is Messiah. Now I want to show you just there are four things that he uses to prove it and we'll only cover two of them today. Four things that he uses to prove, the life of Jesus, the death of Jesus, the resurrection of Jesus, and the exaltation. Life, death, resurrection and exaltation. It just goes chronologically right through it.
Verse 22, the life of Christ. Verse 23, death of Christ. Verse 24 clear on down to verse 32 the resurrection and then verse 33-35 the exaltation. He just says everything about Him, His life, His death, His resurrection, and His ascension into heaven all proves He is Messiah. And the sermon is so absolutely passionate and so overwhelming that when it's done with they are stunned and they are shocked and they stand there in a stupor and say what shall we do?
And then Peter tells them, repent. Look to begin with how Peter presents His life. This is the first thing that accredits Jesus as Messiah. Verse 22, "Ye men of Israel hear these words," and I like that positive approach. I like that boldness. "Ye men of Israel hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs which God did by Him in the midst of you as ye yourselves also know."
Did you catch two things in there? Number one, God did it. God did it. Number two, you saw it, you saw it. The same time he accredits Jesus by God, he indicts them because they can't claim ignorance. And so he begins with a confident demand for their attention. Listen to me, I'm going to talk to you about Jesus of Nazareth. "Ye men of Israel." He speaks first to the men of Israel. Christ came in the beginning you remember to Israel. Israel was always to be God's vehicle. It wasn't that God didn't want to reach the Gentiles. It was that God had designed to reach the Gentiles through Jews. But finally when the Jews rejected Christ, He just completely bypassed them and went directly to the Gentiles and called His church out of the Gentiles and the remnant of believing Jews.
And so here he announces again the message is to Israel. In the beginning Christ came to Israel and the disciples were told specifically, of course, to go to the outer most part of the earth, but the Bible still indicated that it would begin in Jerusalem. Jesus said, "You'll be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem." That's where it'll all start. And that's grace, that's just grace. The message of grace is given to the ones who crucified Christ.
And so the age of grace begins with the greatest illustration of grace in the Bible. Grace to the crucifier. Grace to the unbelieving. There were times in the Old Testament, do you remember when God wrote Ichabod in Israel, that means the glory hath departed and just walked away, but here they have committed the greatest crime that could ever be committed. The execution of their own Messiah and yet He turns to them in love. That's the age of grace.
In the Old Testament, they would have seen the word Ichabod, and God would have walked away. In the age of grace, grace is extended. Now notice that Peter uses the name Jesus of Nazareth. This is, of course, not the theological name of Jesus, but it's His common name. It's the name by which the Jews called Him in mockery, because they all believed that nothing good came out of Nazareth. Nazareth was really nothing. I mean, just a little nothing town and for the Messiah to come out of Nazareth, they just didn't believe that. In John's gospel, they said Messiah, no prophet comes out of Galilee.
Nothing good, John 1, can come out of Nazareth. That was not where Messiah would come. Not through that kind of a pattern or route. And so they mockingly called Him Jesus of Nazareth. When He died on the cross, that's the inscription they put over His, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews. Why? Because it was so incongruous for anybody from Nazareth to be king of anything. They thought that was a laughing kind of matter. And so Peter picks their own word, Jesus of Nazareth.
In a very sarcastic way, Jesus of Nazareth. The one that you have despised. And he uses that same name for Jesus in Chapter 3, verse 6, Chapter 4, verse 10, Chapter 10, verse 38, whenever he talks about Jesus, he called Him Jesus of Nazareth. Only the next time that he uses it, he puts the word Messiah in there. Jesus, Messiah, from Nazareth. Oh can you imagine the reaction?
Can you imagine they were tearing their...they were tearing their clothes you know hearing that. Jesus of Nazareth our Messiah. No way. It's an open rebuke to the Jews, because it was their mocking name for Him. And yet it's also a beautiful way for Peter to show the condescension of Jesus Christ who was God in human flesh and condescended all the way down to be a humble man from the humblest of villages, Jesus of Nazareth.
Then he says this, a man approved of God. That is just a rich statement. Jesus Christ didn't have to give testimony to Himself. He said in John 5, "I have a greater who gives testimony for Me, My Father. John 8, "My Father in heaven." In John 5, He made the statement "That I don't do the things I do of Myself. I do them because the Father shows them to Me." He said, "My meat is to do," what, "the will of Him that sent Me." He was approved by God.
Now what does it mean to be approved? This is a fantastic word, enapodeiknumai. It has many shades of meaning. Let me give you a couple and pull it together. First of all, the word is used in 1 Corinthians 4:9 for exhibiting. For putting something on display. And so we could translate it that way. Jesus of Nazareth, a man put on display by God. It also means to bring evidence to prove your point. It's used that way in Acts 25:7, the idea of proof. We could read it that way. Jesus of Nazareth, a man proven by God.
Thirdly, it's used in 2 Thessalonians 2:4 proclaiming someone to a high office. So just in that little word approved, you have the whole thing. You have God in human flesh on display. God in human flesh proven to be who He claims to be. And proclaimed to be the Messiah. Everything in that word is true of Jesus. God exhibited Him. God proved by infallible evidence that He was who He claimed to be. And then God declared that He had the right to the highest office. God even said, "Thou art My beloved Son."
You say well, by what did God approve Him? By what did God proclaim and prove and exhibit Jesus Christ to be whom He claimed to be by, look at it, "miracles and wonders and signs." In the life of Jesus Christ there is overwhelming miraculous evidence that He is who He claimed to be. He did miracles. He created things. He said to a man 38 years ill, would you like to be well, and the man said yes, and so He recreated his insides. He took blind people and recreated eyes that did not function. He gave hearing where there was no capacity to hear. That's creative miracles. He saw people who had no ability to speak and He gave them voice.
One day by the sea of Galilee with 20,000 people sitting at His feet, He made fish and He made bread out of His own hands and just turned it over to them. He began His miracles at a wedding where He created wine. Then one day He stood by the tomb of Lazarus and He performed the acid test. He stood there and simply said, "Lazarus, come out!" Now that separates God from man. As I said before you, you stand can stand beside the cemetery and you can say come out everybody and the only people that will come out are the caretakers.
He said Lazarus come out and he did. That's the acid test. He was a man approved, proven, proclaimed, exhibited by God to be the Messiah and it was verified by miracles, signs, and wonders. Nicodemus came to Jesus by night and he said, hey he said, we know, we know. We don't think so. We know, and he was no believer, Nicodemus. We know that nobody could do what You do except, what, that they be from God. You do things that people can't do. And he was right. He was approved by God. You say well, that's the thing that I can't buy miracles. Now you can always get the rationalistic argument. Well, I can't hack miracles. I mean, that's the thing that's wrong with religion is miracles. Listen, miracles are no big thing. You know, the German rationalists went through the Bible on one occasion in about the 18th century and they just ripped all the miracles out. They wanted to get it back to the rational. No miracles. You know, that is ridiculous.
No miracles assumes no God, right? And if there's no God, then what is it that got us here? You say it's nothing. Nothing got us here. You say well I believe in evolution. Where did that come from? You know the premise that evolution is built on? Nobody times nothing equals everything. Now you say well I believe there's something up there, but it's not the God of the Bible. Well, what is it? Well, Paul Tillich says it's the holy other. The holy other what? Or is it just the ground of being?
But whatever it is out there, listen to this, miracles are no big thing. There's got to be something that made this. Einstein said, "If a man doesn't believe in a cosmic power he's a fool." But Einstein followed it by saying, "But it's such a power that no man could ever know and dare he was wrong." Now let's say there's a power out there. Let's say there's a God out there. That a miracle's no big thing. A miracle is simply God sticking His finger in the natural and making waves. That's all it is. And if He's supernatural by definition and we're natural, it's no big deal. A miracle then proves the existence of God. And so when I pick up my Bible and I read about miracles that are verifiable then I say God is.
And this book is too. Don't give me a Bible with no miracles. That's not being rational, that's being idiotic because that's assuming that nothing times nobody equals everything and that's the stupidest equation that ever was. There has to be somebody. And then there has to be miracles, because that Somebody can touch this little world and make waves whenever He wants. And when Jesus started making waves, He started telling us who He was. He was approved by God by miracles.
And you'll notice there are three words here. Miracles, being one of them, wonders and signs. Now these three words, though they can't be distinctly cut apart in always, give us shades of variations that I think are important for us to understand. First of all, the first word miracle has to do with their nature. They are dunamis, powerful mighty deeds, supernatural deeds. Deeds that just aren't normal. That's their nature. Miracles were manifestations of the mighty power of a supernatural God. That's the word miracle. That's what it means. It means mighty deeds. Mighty power, mightier than any human could ever do, supernatural.
Then you'll notice the word wonders. Wonders is an interesting word too. It speaks of what is generated by the miracle. It speaks of the wonder or the marveling that goes on in the mind of the individual who sees it. Wonders. Something that is hard to explain. Startling, grabbing the attention by the marvelous character of it. So the nature of it is one thing and the appearance of it is the wonders. What it appears to be to the mind of the beholder.
The third word signs, semeion, it has to do with its intention. They were mighty deeds that people might wonder that they might become signed. Now what's a sign? Well, a sign is something that points you to something, right? And a sign always says go over here or this is this or it identifies something else that you want to know. There's no such thing as a sign in itself. There's no such thing as a sign you just crawl up on and enjoy. See? A sign always refers to something else. If it says this is the store. You don't go into the sign, you go into the store.
In other words, you don't get on a sign and say oh this is a wonderful product. Signs always point to something else and all of Jesus' signs always pointed to something else. They were mighty deeds to catch the wonder of the people to sign them over to some spiritual reality. They were always used to point to spiritual truth. That's what a semeion, sign, is.
And so Jesus put it all together. He did a mighty deed creating wonder in their minds as a sign pointing them to spiritual truth. Jesus never did a miracle as an end in itself. He did miracles to point to spiritual truth. That's what a sign was for. And all the miracles that Jesus did had these features. They were mighty manifestations of the power of God to get the attention of the people to point them to spiritual truth. Do you remember, for example, in John Chapter 6 how that Jesus had fed the what is really called the 5,000, but it's likely 20,000 people.
And when He got all done, He didn't say you're dismissed, how did you like it? Did you like that? No, He doesn't say that. He says, now sit down and listen to this. "I am the bread," what, "of life." You see He begins to teach. He uses that to teach. He goes to the resurrection of Lazarus. What does He say? Just raised Him and listen to this, "I am the," what, "resurrection and the life." Always a sign pointing to a spiritual truth.
Sometimes the sign came after He taught the truth as a great illustration. Sometimes it came before. But always connected to spiritual truth. So here comes Jesus and being approved by God in all of these things that He did. His life is living testimony that He was who He claimed to be. And then this one. Just impact this, look at verse 22. It says God did it among you. God did it by Him in the midst of you and then He adds, as if that's not enough, "as ye yourselves also know." He indicts them. Just plain and simple. You cannot claim ignorance. You guys know those were miracles. You saw those miracles. You can never plead you didn't know.
Rejection of Jesus Christ on the part of Israel was not a question of information, it was not a question of revelation, it was a question of hatred and the love of sin. The Holy Spirit convicts these people then through Peter of sin and rejecting the evidence of Christ's miraculous life. They couldn't plead ignorance. There was no excuse whatever. They sinned against light. They sinned against conclusive evidence and that was what was fatal.
And I love the fact that it says, He was approved of God and the miracles that God did always Jesus gives the credit to the Father, always. And clear through this whole message by Peter down to verse 36, he keeps saying God did it. God did it. God did it. God did everything. God raised Him from the dead he says three times. God exalted Him on the right hand. God sat Him down and God said stay there until I make Your enemies Your footstool. God's running the whole program. And he's trying to tie into the Jewish mind that this Christ is not some stranger, but He is God's approved Messiah. And God's doing it all. And you don't know God, so you don't see it. In fact, Jesus even said to them in John 8:45, He said, "The reason you don't understand Me is I speak the truth." And He said, "the reason you don't know what's going on is because I speak from God and your father's the devil."
Jesus never claimed what He did was His own. He always claimed that it was from God. And it said, He did it in the midst of you and you know it. Now they knew this. They knew He was doing miracles. They knew that. Nicodemus knew it. Now follow me for just a minute and I'll show you how powerfully the evidence had come through to them. How clearly. John 10:37. "If I do not the works of My Father believe Me not." Believe Me not. "But if I do though you believe not Me, believe the works that ye may know and believe that the Father is in Me and I in Him." He says at least believe what you're seeing. Miracles all over the place.
Then in verse 39, "Therefore, they sought again to take Him, but He escaped out of their hand." They didn't even listen. He got all done saying that and they just wanted to kill Him, but He escaped. You say, well, maybe they weren't too clear about the miracles. Look at John 11:47. Well, back to verse 46, Just finished raising Lazarus from the dead. That's hard to argue with, right? I mean, you've got a dead guy and then you've got a live one. Verse 46. "But some of them went their way to the Pharisees and told them what thing Jesus had done. Then gathered the chief priest and the Pharisees and the counsel and said, "What do we do?" What, what do you mean? "For this man doeth many," what, "miracles." They knew exactly what He was doing. They had all the evidence in the world. They did not have any question about the miracle. But their own hard, vile, God-hating hearts restricted from coming to Christ. They didn't get the message from Him they wanted to hear. They wanted a Messiah who would come along and say fellows, you've been so wonderful come on in and we'll reign together. And He kept talking about their sin and they didn't like it.
In John 12, verse 17, "The people therefore that were with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead bore witness. For this cause the people also met Him, for they heard that He had done this miracle." This is Jesus entering the city on what we call Palm Sunday. The whole city comes to meet Him. Why? Because He's raised so many from the dead. That's the same crowd that later on in the week are screaming for His blood.
It was never a question of evidence. It was never a question revelation. It was always a question of open, willful, God-hating rejection. Listen to Chapter 14, verse 10. "Believest thou not that I am in the Father and the Father in Me," He said to Philip, "the words that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself. But the Father that dwelleth in Me He doeth the works. Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me or else believe Me for the very works sake." Philip, you ought to know. I mean, how could anybody deny. Then listen to this, John 15:24, and here He indicts them. Verse 23 says "He that hateth Me hateth My Father also. If I had not done among them the works which no other man did, they had not had sin." The great sin of rejecting Him. They wouldn't have been guilty of rejecting Him if He hadn't done these miracles. But He gave them all the evidence. "But now have they both seen and," what's the next word, "hated both Me and My Father."
The end of verse 25 says "they hated Me," what, "without a cause." They hated Him. They despised Him. Why? Because He was all the righteousness that they were not. And their whole bag was self-righteousness and He indicted them and He stepped all over their ecclesiastical code. And so the life of Jesus Christ was an exhibit. It was a proof and it was a proclamation by God the Father that this was in fact the Messiah. The evidence was in. The evidence was conclusive and they knew it. "But men love," what, "darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil."
And thus they committed the greatest sin that could ever be committed. They rejected Jesus Christ. Not only though was His life testimony, but so was His death. Look at verse 23. "Him," that is Jesus of Nazareth, he adds it for emphasis, the very person whom God the Father delighted to honor, they had delighted to crucify. "Jesus of Nazareth being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands have crucified and slain."
This is a very interesting verse and I wanted to just spend a moment on it because there are several things here that you need to understand. First notice that it says "Him being delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God." I love that statement. You know the whole thing, they thought they were pulling this great big thing. Get rid of Jesus. Boy we got rid of Him. It's all done. And Peter says, you know, that thing that you did, that was all predetermined by God and you did it right on schedule accordingly as He designed it.
By the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God, you took Him and crucified Him through it. You see what he's saying there? The argument would come up immediately well if Jesus is the Messiah how come He was a victim? If He's really the Messiah and the ruler, why didn't He exercise His power? If He's really divine, why didn't He do something to prevent the cross and Peter says, He was no victim, this was God's plan. Predetermined.
Over in John 19, Pilate says to Him, "Don't You know I have the power to take Your life?" Jesus says to him, "You don't have any power unless the Father gives it to you." Any power. So he simply says that Jesus died, not as a victim, not because He couldn't handle His enemies, but He died because He was delivered to them by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God. Now let me talk to you about that for just a minute.
The word delivered here is a word used commonly of those who are surrendered over to their enemies. God delivered over Jesus to death. Notice this. It says He was delivered and here's what it was by. Not by the will of men, not because they plotted it out and God looked way ahead and so oh it's going to happen. I better work that into My plan. No, He was delivered by the determinant counsel and foreknowledge of God. Let's look at the term determinant counsel.
"Counsel" means will or design. "Determinant" is obvious. It means decreed, determined, appointed, comes from a word that means to mark out with a boundary. God set it down in order, marked it out, said that's My will, Jesus will die on the Passover, crucified, etc., all predetermined. You say well, when did He do that? When did He make those plans? Well, long time ago. 2 Timothy 1:9, "Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world," what, "began." Did you know that God and Christ had it all mapped out before there ever was a world? They knew there would be a world and it would have trees and one of those trees would be made into a cross. And that it would have people and the people would go through history till they finally came to the place that they would do that. And that was all part of God's predetermined will.
You see somebody had to die for sin, because that was also God's will that men would be recovered from sin by the death of someone else. And thus God planned with Jesus Christ the death of Christ long before the world was ever made. It was by God's planning. In Acts, for example, Chapter 4, Peter is preaching again and he makes the same point, because he wants them to know that Jesus is no victim. This is just really powerful. He describes the attitude of people toward Christ from Psalm 2, quoting David. Verse 26, Acts 4, "The king of the earth...the kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against His Messiah." And they were against Christ, no question. Not only the Jews, but the Gentile. For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate," the Jews and the Gentiles, "with the nation and the people of Israel were gathered together." They gathered against Christ. To do what? "To do whatever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done."
Isn't that good? They thought they were so sharp on their own and all they did was carry out the will of God. I told you several weeks ago and I'll remind you of it. It doesn't matter whether you're saved or unsaved. God can use you any way He wants to use you. If He can't use you for His good one way, He'll use for His good another way.
Just because a man's not a Christian doesn't mean he's outside of the ability of God to use him. Oh no. God used these people to carry out His will, but He never violated their will to do it. And that's why He says after all of that and ye have taken Him and by wicked hands crucified and slain. Now notice the word foreknowledge and I want to say something about it just briefly. The word foreknowledge is misunderstood by a lot of people. A lot of people have used the word foreknowledge in terms of predestination or the doctrine of election.
And say well, when we say we're elect, that based on foreknowledge and foreknowledge is that God knows what's going to happen before it happens so that God's up there and He looks down at the world and He says well John MacArthur's going to come to Me therefore I'll elect him. Or this is going to happen over here, therefore I'll fit that into My plan. Foreknowledge then is determined to mean by many people awareness beforehand or knowing something before it happened.
Unfortunately, it never means that in Scripture. It always means a foreordination or a foreplanning or a predetermining and I'll show you what I mean. This verse would be senseless if it said this, Him being delivered by the determinant counsel and because God knew I was going to happen. That doesn't make sense at all. It...foreknowledge could see something, but foreknowledge can't act and make something happen. There's a difference.
One preacher illustrated it this way, he said "God sees a man like this. If I'm driving down the road and I see a guy weaving in and out of the traffic and he's whipping in and out of the traffic, I can have the same kind of foreknowledge God can have and I can say at the rate he's going he's going to have a wreck." And that's what foreknowledge is. That's not...it can't be. I may say yes, he's going to have a wreck, but I...my foreknowledge can't go down there and wreck him. Or maybe God looks at a man and sees him and says boy the way he's going he's going to make it to the right destination.
Now I may be able to say that about a guy driving down the road, but I can't get him there. Foreknowledge can't act. Foreordination can and when Christ was delivered that wasn't foreknowledge that was what? That was foreordination. That was God's planning. The word is prognosis and it means simply to foreordain or foreplan. And if it means there, it means it 1 Peter 1:2. When it says that we're "Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father." And it means foreordination.
It means foreplanning. It's the only way the verse makes sense. Why would He say your elect according to what God knows is going to happen. That's not election. Certainly foreknowledge knows, but it cannot perform an act like delivering Jesus to His enemy. Nor can it perform an act like calling individuals to Himself. Foreknowledge can only know, it can't act. This is foreordination. Prognosco and progonosco...prognosis I should say... and progonosco have to do with ordaining or determining something in eternity that is carried out. And I give you another illustration. The word is used and translated correctly in 1 Peter 1:20.
FirstPeter 1:20 says "Christ was barely foreordained, before the foundation of the world." Now you certainly wouldn't say Christ was barely foreknown in the sense that God knew what Christ was going to do before the world began. Knowing He planned what Christ was going to do, true?
The word is translated correctly there. And should be translated that way everywhere. You have it again in Romans Chapter 11, verse 2. In Romans 11:2, it says about Israel, "As God set aside Israel whom He foreknew." It doesn't mean that they were the ones He knew about. It means, they were the ones He chose to be His nation. It always has to do with choosing with foreordaining, with predetermination. God is never pictured at any time sitting up in heaven looking over the balcony figuring out what's going to happen to everybody and then putting it into His plan.
God maps it out. He is sovereign. His purposes run the world. Now Peter makes a strong point of this because he wants to show that Jesus is no victim. Not victim at all. Let me add this quickly as Peter adds it. You say well, does that remove human responsibility? Of course not. Of course not. It says in the same verse, you take... "you took Him and by wicked hands," and the indication of the of the "ye have taken" is the Jew, the wicked hands... "the by wicked hands" evidently is a reference to the Romans, "have crucified and slain him."
The Jews were the instigators the Romans were the executioners. You see, he presents the total sovereignty of God and the complete responsibility of man. You say I don't know how those two go together and I say good, I don't either. Praise the Lord, because if I understood everything and you understood everything we'd be equal to God. I'm glad He knows some things we don't know. All I know is that man is responsible for his sin in a human sense from our viewpoint, but from God's viewpoint everything in the world is mapped out according to His divine plan. Now there's a sense in which in His plan man can move freely. How He rectifies those two things, how He justifies them is His problem and don't worry about it. He can handle it.
My puny little brain can't. And I'm not going to try. All I know is that men are responsible. I can illustrate it to you from Luke 22 with this startling illustration. Luke 22:21, talking to Judas at the table there, the Last Supper. Jesus says, "But behold the hand of him that betrayeth Me is with Me on the table." I don't know whether he was actually holding Jesus' hand or not, but his hand was on the table. And He says this, "And truly the Son of man goes to the cross as it was determined." Did you get that? Did you get it?
Now listen to this statement. "But woe unto that man by whom He is betrayed." You see there's both sides of it isn't it? I'm going, but it was determined, but woe to the man who did it. You have the divine paradox, the absolute sovereignty of God, the responsibility of a man for his deeds. How those two come together is in the mind of God. Too far beyond our understanding. Except know it well "a man is responsible," watch this, "a man is responsible for his sin, not for the plans of God." Did you get it?
"A man is responsible for his sin, not for the plans of God." They had personally, individually rejected and killed Jesus Christ. They had committed the horrible, blackest sin of all. And as any salvation presentation must, Peter begins with a conviction of sin. You see to be saved isn't just to see the loveliness of Jesus. No, it's not just to see the grandeur and the glory of God. To be saved is to see beyond all the things the blackness of your own sin.
Did you get that? And you'll never come to God and experience real salvation until you've come with a life that has been shattered over the terror and the horror of your own sin. And what sin? One particular sin. John 16:8, "When the Spirit comes He will reprove the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment." Watch it, "Of sin because they," what, "believe not on Me."
To present the gospel of Jesus Christ, you must begin with a conviction of sin. Now watch this, but it's not enough to say well, you're a sinner, because when you were a little kid you told a lie or you cheated on your income tax or you did this. That's all superficial stuff. What we need to nail down in the hearts of people is you are a vile sinner because you have rejected Jesus Christ. That's the sin. That's the sin. When He has come He will reprove the world of sin. What sin? "The sin because they believed not on Me."
The greatest sin a man could commit is the sin of rejecting Jesus Christ. And we must tell men that they have done the blackest deed in the universe. And if they don't like it, then they're not ready for salvation, right? If they're not willing to admit it, they're not ready for salvation. Let's not squeeze them in some other door. There is no other door.
Either they come knowing the very deep heinousness of the sin of rejecting Christ or they're not really going to get saved. So it is that the Spirit of God through Peter's sermon convicts them of the depth of their sin in crucifying and slaying the Son of God. Even after His life and death had shown that it was approved by God.
But isn't it grace that God had planned into the cross, the salvation of the crucifier? Isn't that grace? God plans the very salvation of the ones who put His son there. And Peter speaks to them now and says repent. Repent. Repent from what? From rejecting Jesus Christ. And I say to you this morning, some of you who are here and you've never received Jesus Christ. You were guilty of the most serious sin in the universe. You are guilty of rejecting Jesus Christ the son of God. But that sin there is no forgiveness. For that sin you will be sentenced to Hell forever.
And I say to you what Peter said, repent. And so Peter begins by showing from the life and death of Jesus that He is the Messiah and the sentence which Jesus' human judges passed on Him and His human executioners carried out has been reversed by God. They were wrong. Jesus of Nazareth, look at it in verse 36, "This Jesus of Nazareth, God hath made Him Lord and Christ." You crucified Him. God says He's your Messiah.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Sari recently gave me a fabulous project: An illustration/portrait of twins for their May birthday. One loves photography and travel, and the other loves to cook. So much fun!
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3 comments:
- pve design said...
Oh how wonderful! What a lovely gift!
- June 2, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Debra said...
I'm here from PvE! Lovely work here- where have I been? I'm off to look a little more. Do stop by and visit with me if you have a second.
- June 2, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- TeRi said...
wow I love your watercolor illustration!! you really inspire me to study watercolor even further. I was impressed by Toledo's watercolor illustrations, but I think your color sense is better then his. just love it.
- June 2, 2009 at 2:29 PM
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Newtown board leader scolds superintendent
NEWTOWN -- The goodwill between school board members and the school superintendent, forged in the weeks following the Sandy Hook shootings, appears to have fractured again.
The dispute between some board members and Superintendent Janet Robinson centers on the town seeking a waiver for third- to eighth-graders who would take the Connecticut Mastery Tests in March.
Robinson said last week she opposes the request because the tests provide data needed for curriculum and instruction.
But the board voted 5-2 on Wednesday to seek the waiver.
Now Robinson's credibility appears to be at stake, at least as depicted in an email sent to board members by Chairwoman Debbie Leidlein.
The email, dated Jan. 18, was obtained by The News-Times through a Freedom of Information request.
"It is, once again, disappointing to me that you have given misleading or false information to myself and to others," Leidlein wrote in the letter to Robinson and forwarded to board members by email.
Leidlein asked board members to schedule a last minute, closed-door session at last Wednesday night's board meeting. The board voted 4-3 to have the session.
"It creates credibility concerns between yourself and the board, educators and the community," Leidlein wrote. "I believe these concerns are becoming too great to overcome and am concerned as to how we, as a district can move forward with so much distrust."
In the email, Leidlein states Robinson "unequivocally" informed the teacher's union last Tuesday that state Department of Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor would not support a districtwide CMT waiver. Robinson said he would grant a request only for the Sandy Hook Elementary School, she said.
Later that day, Leidlein said she was contacted by other educators, "as I am on a daily basis," who disputed Robinson's word.
So Leidlein said she called Pryor. She said the commissioner informed her "he would take his lead from the district and support whatever decision was made."
A formal request was mailed to Pryor on Friday and once he decides he must send a request to Arne Duncan, President Barack Obama's secretary of education. The time frame for a response is not clear.
On Monday, Leidlein declined to comment on the email about Robinson.
"Where are we? We are working to move the district forward collaboratively," Leidlein said.
Robinson is out of the office this week, and could not be reached for comment.
Calls to Pryor's office were not immediately returned on Monday.
What the dispute means for Robinson and the school district is unclear.
"I'm clearly disappointed our chair has not been able to establish a good working relationship with the superintendent," said board member Bill Hart, the chairman prior to Leidlein's election last year. "I had an excellent working relationship, and she did with two preceding chairs.
"Unfortunately, we have what clearly is a misunderstanding that is a `he said, she said' situation. There are more productive ways to resolve such an issue."
Robinson's contract ends in June 2014; the board had voted months ago against extending it another year.
First Selectman Pat Llodra said she has been so consumed in managing the aftermath of the tragedy that she was unaware the collaborative spirit forged between the board and Robinson to "handle the catastrophe" has eroded over the last week.
"If it has, I'm sorry to learn that," Llodra said. "We're facing some significant challenges, and we need everyone working together."


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Exception Class
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
[SerializableAttribute] [ComVisibleAttribute(true)] [ClassInterfaceAttribute(ClassInterfaceType.None)] public class Exception : ISerializable, _Exception
/** @attribute SerializableAttribute() */ /** @attribute ComVisibleAttribute(true) */ /** @attribute ClassInterfaceAttribute(ClassInterfaceType.None) */ public class Exception implements ISerializable, _Exception
This class is the base class for all exceptions. When an error occurs, either the system or the currently executing application reports it by throwing an exception containing information about the error. Once thrown, an exception is handled by the application or by the default exception handler.
The common language runtime provides an exception handling model that is based on the representation of exceptions as objects, and the separation of program code and exception handling code into try blocks and catch blocks, respectively. There can be one or more catch blocks, each designed to handle a particular type of exception, or one block designed to catch a more specific exception than another block.
If an application handles exceptions that occur during the execution of a block of application code, the code must be placed within a try statement. Application code within a try statement is a try block. Application code that handles exceptions thrown by a try block is placed within a catch statement, and is called a catch block. Zero or more catch blocks are associated with a try block, and each catch block includes a type filter that determines the types of exceptions it handles.
When an exception occurs in a try block, the system searches the associated catch blocks in the order they appear in application code, until it locates a catch block that handles the exception. A catch block handles an exception of type T if the type filter of the catch block specifies T or any type that T derives from. The system stops searching after it finds the first catch block that handles the exception. For this reason, in application code, a catch block that handles a type must be specified before a catch block that handles its base types, as demonstrated in the example that follows this section. A catch block that handles System.Exception is specified last.
If none of the catch blocks associated with the current try block handle the exception, and the current try block is nested within other try blocks in the current call, the catch blocks associated with the next enclosing try block are searched. If no catch block for the exception is found, the system searches previous nesting levels in the current call. If no catch block for the exception is found in the current call, the exception is passed up the call stack, and the previous stack frame is searched for a catch block that handles the exception. The search of the call stack continues until the exception is handled or until no more frames exist on the call stack. If the top of the call stack is reached without finding a catch block that handles the exception, the default exception handler handles it and the application terminates.
Exception types support the following features:
Human-readable text that describes the error. When an exception occurs, the runtime makes available a text message to inform the user of the nature of the error and to suggest action to resolve the problem. This text message is held in the Message property of the exception object. During the creation of the exception object, you can pass a text string to the constructor to describe the details of that particular exception. If no error message argument is supplied to the constructor, the default error message is used.
The state of the call stack when the exception was thrown. The StackTrace property carries a stack trace that can be used to determine where in the code the error occurs. The stack trace lists all the called methods, and the line numbers in the source file where the calls are made.
Two categories of exceptions exist under the base class Exception:
The pre-defined common language runtime exception classes derived from SystemException.
The user-defined application exception classes derived from ApplicationException.
Exception includes a number of properties that help identify the code location, the type, the help file, and the reason for the exception: StackTrace, InnerException, Message, HelpLink, HResult, Source, TargetSite, and Data.
When a causal relationship exists between two or more exceptions, the InnerException property maintains this information. The outer exception is thrown in response to this inner exception. The code that handles the outer exception can use the information from the earlier inner exception to handle the error more appropriately. Supplementary information about the exception can be stored in the Data property.
The error message string passed to the constructor during the creation of the exception object should be localized, and can be supplied from a resource file using the ResourceManager. For more information on localized resources, see the System.Resources namespace overview and Packaging and Deploying Resources.
To provide the user with extensive information concerning why the exception occurred, the HelpLink property can hold a URL (or URN) to a help file.
Exception uses the HRESULT COR_E_EXCEPTION, which has the value 0x80131500.
For a list of initial property values for an instance of Exception, see the Exception constructors.
Performance Considerations
A significant amount of system resources and execution time are used when you throw or handle an exception. Throw exceptions only to handle truly extraordinary conditions, not to handle predictable events or flow control. For example, your application can reasonably throw an exception if a method argument is invalid because you expect to call your method with valid parameters. An invalid method argument means something extraordinary has occurred. Conversely, do not throw an exception if user input is invalid because you can expect users to occasionally enter invalid data. In such a case, provide a retry mechanism so users can enter valid input.
Throw exceptions only for extraordinary conditions, then catch exceptions in a general purpose exception handler that applies to the majority of your application, not a handler that applies to a specific exception. The rationale for this approach is that most errors can be handled by validation and error handling code in proximity to the error; no exception needs to be thrown or caught. The general purpose exception handler catches truly unexpected exceptions thrown anywhere in the application.
In addition, do not throw an exception when a return code is sufficient; do not convert a return code to an exception; and do not routinely catch an exception, ignore it, then continue processing.
The following code example demonstrates a catch block that is defined to handle ArithmeticException errors. This catch block also catches DivideByZeroException errors because DivideByZeroException derives from ArithmeticException, and there is no catch block explicitly defined for DivideByZeroException errors.
using System; class ExceptionTestClass { public static void Main() { int x = 0; try { int y = 100/x; } catch (ArithmeticException e) { Console.WriteLine("ArithmeticException Handler: {0}", e.ToString()); } catch (Exception e) { Console.WriteLine("Generic Exception Handler: {0}", e.ToString()); } } }
import System.*; class ExceptionTestClass { public static void main(String[] args) { int x = 0; try { int y = 100 / x; } catch (ArithmeticException e) { Console.WriteLine("ArithmeticException Handler: {0}", e.ToString()); } catch (System.Exception e) { Console.WriteLine("Generic Exception Handler: {0}", e.ToString()); } } //main } //ExceptionTestClass
The C# code has the following output:
ArithmeticException Handler: System.DivideByZeroException: Attempted to divide by zero. at ExceptionTestClass.Main()
The Visual Basic code has the following output:
ArithmeticException Handler: System.OverflowException: Exception of type System.OverflowException was thrown. at ExceptionTestClass.Main()
Derived Classes
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see System Requirements.


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Young CPA Profile: Chris Ekimoff and the World of Forensic Accounting
How many times can you say you just met a guy whose work seems like it's straight out of an espionage novel? If that's the case, then you may be talking about Chris Ekimoff, CPA, CGMA, CFE, MAFF (Master Analyst in Financial Forensics). Chris is a manager in Investigative Accounting and Financial Litigation in the Washington, D.C. office of Duff & Phelps where he focuses on forensic accounting in court and in practice. A graduate of the AICPA Leadership Academy, Edge caught up with Chris to talk about his unique specialty, several high-profile cases he has been involved with, his thoughts about how young CPAs can ascend the career ladder, and more.
Edge: What motivated you to pursue this line of work?
Chris Ekimoff: My original interest in fraud examination came from the much-touted 1987 crime film, "The Untouchables." The movie depicts the investigation and eventual arrest of Al Capone, and the role of accounting and tax evasion in his conviction. The movie's emphasis on the accountant and IRS investigator caught my eye because the team who worked to best the criminals used their minds instead of just their guns.
As objective experts in disputes and litigation, I feel like the work we do pushes to find the truth in the substance of transactions and business arrangements. Because we can be hired by either side of a court case, or even be appointed by the court itself, the conclusions that can be made from the data are not construed to meet any predetermined goals or theories. I enjoy the objectivity and integrity in the process.
Edge: What kind of training does it take to work in forensic accounting?
Chris Ekimoff: Forensic accounting is like any other profession; it requires enthusiasm and focus in the face of difficult problems. My most successful colleagues hold an unwavering consistency in developing inferences and conclusions from their analysis. Playing "devil's advocate," with regard to your own work, also strengthens your analysis and supports the arguments you make. The best forensic accountants strive to understand their assumptions and limitations in each project they work on, and any impact they may have in the eyes of the court.
Edge: You have worked on some high-profile financial cases, including the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme, matters related to the 2008 financial crisis, and even foreign development and government spending in Iraq and Afghanistan. Describe these experiences and what they meant to you.
Chris Ekimoff: In each of the cases mentioned, it has been easy to motivate myself to work hard and perform quality analysis. When you are dealing with a media-intense $17 billion Ponzi scheme, government spending to rebuild a war-torn nation, or the oversight of bailout programs, you remember that your work can have widespread impact on the parties involved and even the public at large. As CPAs, we have an ethical responsibility to the public to encourage integrity and transparency in the financial system. Each of these projects has put that perception at the forefront.
I've been a part of amazing teams, with colleagues I continually learn from and respect. Without them, the success of the projects we've worked on would not be possible.
Edge: You've worked in forensics accounting for most of your career. What kinds of activities bring you the most enjoyment?
Chris Ekimoff: Forensic accounting is not a "single-solution" service. Clients hire us to help solve unique and evolving problems. The cases I enjoy the most are those that present new challenges, new ways of thinking, and different circumstances or developments. Working collaboratively with clients to solve those problems and draw key conclusions gives me the greatest satisfaction. It's great to be able to identify potentially fraudulent transactions in a set of millions of records, but even more enjoyable to help clients plan to catch those payments before they are made again in the future.
Edge: You were recently named a Top 5 CPA Under 35 from the Virginia Society of CPAs. How did you feel about this honor?
Chris Ekimoff: I have been an active member in the VSCPA and the AICPA since I earned my CPA license in 2009. I have come to learn of the focus and enhancement that each of these organizations brings to the accounting profession. It means a lot to be recognized by associations that carry such influence for CPAs in my state and the country as a whole. I look forward to connecting with other young CPAs in Virginia, and recently began volunteering as a member of the Young Professionals Advisory Council for the VSCPA.
Edge: You have managed teams and projects, as well as worked in many areas of accounting, from fraud and auditing to leadership development and other "soft" skills. In your opinion, what are the best ways for young CPAs to get involved at a higher level with their firms or companies?
Chris Ekimoff: I've found the most successful young CPAs are those who have meaningful, honest conversations with their managers and partners. CPAs are often mislabeled as green, visor-wearing bean counters who don't work collaboratively or speak up. By soliciting feedback and input from superiors on your development, a young CPA can stand out and play a more impactful role in their specific projects and career.
I would also stress that young CPAs should avoid trying to be something or someone they are not, just to please a superior. By being themselves, young CPAs will better drive their own career direction instead of letting projects or managers choose their development tracks for them.
Edge: If you could do anything else for a career or job, no matter the risk or reward, what would it be?
Chris Ekimoff: I get the most enjoyment in my career, by sharing my experiences with other professionals, and learning from their experiences.
On the last day of fifth grade, my teacher, Mrs. David, brought each student up in front of the class and predicted what she thought they'd be when they grew up. For me, she thought I would make a great talk show host. I don't think she's far off, as I reflect about my propensity to collaborate with others, both professionally and socially.
Are working in the career you thought you would be in 10 years ago? If not, what changes did you make to become passionate in what you do now?
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If you have visited this site over the last couple of months, you might have noticed we were really hyping T-Mobile's planned upgrade to HSPA 7.2. T-Mobile told us the rollout would be complete in 2009 on all their 3G nodes, but we have no evidence it was ever turned on.
Over the last week I have been guessing the launch was pushed back till January 5, 2010 to coincide with the Nexus One launch. According to Phone Scoop, that is exactly what happened.
T-Mobile has yet to publish an official press release, but look for one later today. Phone Scoop is a reliable site and if they are reporting that HSPA 7.2 is live, they likely had access to an early press release from T-Mobile.
We have reached out to T-Mobile USA to confirm the network status, but you can help us test it in the mean time.
Grab the application Speedtest.net from the Android Market (or scan the QR code above) and share your results. For the sake of keeping everything simplified, please run the test with the default settings (kbps). If you are on another network (Sprint or Verizon), feel free to share your 3G speeds as well.
The key things T-Mobile customers should look for are:
- Improved latency: Ping times under 200 ms.
- Faster download speeds: Theoretical peak of 7.2 Mbps, but actual speeds should hopefully be around 2000 kbps +.
- Improved upload speeds: I believe most current model Android phones max out at 2.1 Mbps for upload speed. Anything over 500 kbps is good.
The following is an example of a speed test I ran. It is not exactly blazing fast, but there is an improvement in ping times and download speeds. I've only tested in one area of my city and I intend to run a lot more speed tests as we travel the country this week.
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The Program in Italian-American Studies is an interdisciplinary major that focuses on Italian-American experiences as they relate to both the Italian and American contexts. The program provides the student with the opportunity to investigate the social, cultural, psychological, historical, and esthetic dimensions of the Italian-American experience. The Major in Italian-American Studies offers an area of specialization for students who plan graduate training in ethnic studies, and for those who expect to teach in urban areas where there are large numbers of Italian-Americans.
For those students who will pursue advanced degrees in the arts, the humanities, or in the various social and behavioral sciences, a major in both the field of their choice and in Italian-American Studies, a dual major, permits a specialty within the academic discipline. The curriculum has practical applicability to teaching at all levels, and to the service-oriented professions (medicine, psychology, social work, law, etc.). A dual major is required of all students majoring in Italian-American Studies except those preparing to qualify for a provisional certificate in education. In most instances, 12 credits from the second major may serve as part of the Italian-American studies major as well (see outline of requirements below).
In consultation with a member of the Italian-American Studies Committee, each student will formulate an individual program of study, without reference to traditional departmental fields. The program thus offers the opportunity to investigate those features of Italian-American culture that match student interests. Special courses emphasizing research and critical thought, such as seminars and tutorials taught by participating faculty, will be provided to synthesize the work of each student in the major.