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In 1 Corinthians 10 verses 23 through 11 verse 1, we have Paul's final statement regarding Christian liberty. And this morning we are going to be summing up and building on the things we've saying to you for several months since we began the study of chapter 8.
Because in our study of 1 Corinthians we are, in chapters 8 through 11 verse 1, dealing with one single subject. The subject of how does a Christian function within the framework of his liberty? How does a Christian know what is right or wrong when the Bible doesn't tell him? What does our Christian freedom allow us to do? And we've been covering that in detail and you're certainly more than welcome to get some tapes on that if you haven't been able to be with us so that you can bring yourself up to the understanding of the total message and lesson of this portion. But for this morning we're going to just pull all the things together that Paul summarizes in verses 23 through 11:1.
Now to begin with, by way of an introduction, this section contains one of the most important and essential statements in the entire Bible. In fact, it is a statement that is vital because it encompasses everything else in all that the Scripture says and brings it down to one statement, and it's in verse 31. It says...at the middle of verse 31..."Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." Now that is the bottom line on the Christian life. That is basically the meaning of life for anyone. We are here for one primary reason, and that is to glorify God. "Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." You can't make a more general statement than, "Whatever you do, do it all to the glory of God."
Now that leads me to want to talk about, for a few minutes, what it means to glorify God. Now if you know anything about me you know that's something I like to talk about because I talk about it a lot, and that's a little bit about what the Book is concerning itself with also. But for this time I want to approach it from a negative standpoint, something we haven't done, and I want to give you a clear understanding of what it is to glorify God by looking at what it is not, or how to un-glorify God.
Now there are only two things that an individual can do with his life. And with any given point in his life, or any given moment in his life, or any given day in his life. One is to glorify God and the other is to be a reproach to God. An unbelieving individual lives a continual life that is a reproach to God. He ignores God, he dishonors God, he un-glorifies God, if there is such a word. A believer glorifies God. That's the goal of his life. But sometimes he can also be a reproach to God. He also can dishonor God. So there are those two capacities.
Now let's begin by looking at what it means to dishonor God, what it means to be a reproach to God, as opposed to glorifying Him. Take your Bible and I want you to begin by looking at the 36thchapter of Ezekiel, Ezekiel chapter 36. This is a great prophetic chapter that some of us are very familiar with in reference to the future of Israel that God is going to bring Israel back into the land and God is going to establish Israel as His people in His land. God is going to conquer Israel's enemies and God is going to defeat those who would come against Israel. And God is going to place them in a place of blessing. And in this particular portion we find some very interesting truths.
But I would like to draw you all the way over to the 20thverse of Ezekiel 36. Now God has just said...reminding Israel of the history that they have endured..."I have scattered you throughout the nations." This is what is called the dispersion of Israel, the diaspora. Israel was, because of sin, scattered all over everywhere. They became a people without a land. They were disinherited at the times of the Gentiles in 586 B.C., the overrunning of Jerusalem, the hauling away of Israel. And Israel was then scattered throughout the world. And at this particular juncture in history they are beginning to be re-gathered. And we are seeing this beginning of the re-gathering of Israel that is consummated in the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ in the future. We're beginning to see it. So Israel is scattered. And this is what God has to say in regard to this, verse 20, "When they entered into the nations, to which they went, they entered into the nations to which they went, they profaned My holy name." Now let's stop there for a minute. God says, "Now when I scattered you, you dishonored or un-glorified, or profaned, or brought evil upon My holy name. You were really bad publicity for Me. You gave Me bad press." Now they said, "These are the people of the Lord, and are gone forth out of his land." You know what happened? The Gentiles said, "Boy, that god over there in Israel must be some kind of impotent god. Look at His people. He can't even keep them in their land." In other words, the Gentile world had a plethora of localized deities and they assumed that the Jehovah God of Israel was just another localized deity, that He had a certain territory in which He had responsibility and He had evidently revealed by the dispersion of Israel. And the fact that they had been thrown out of the land, that he was impotent and couldn't even keep His own people in their land, some kind of God. He's even a failure as a local deity. Look at Him.
So verse 21, God says, "I didn't like that. I don't like getting that bad publicity that I'm an impotent local deity. I had pity for my holy name, not for Israel." Now notice this. The re-gathering of Israel is not nearly so much for Israel, as it is for God's name. "I had pity for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations to which they went. Therefore, say unto the house of Israel, thus said the Lord God; I do not this for your sales, O house of Israel." Did you hear that? "What I'm going to do, it isn't for you. Not for your sake, but for My holy namesake, which you have profaned among the nations to which you went. I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the nations, which you have profaned in the midst of them; and the nation shall know that I am the Lord, saith the Lord God, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes." "How you going to do it God? How are You going to get back Your reputation? I mean, you've got Israel splattered all over everywhere, and you're saying now, 'I'm not going to tolerate this. I'm not going to continue to be profaned. I'm going to get back the sanctity that My name desires.'" "How?...verse 24..."I will take you from among the nations, and gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. I will sprinkle clean water upon you, you shall be clean from all your filthiness, and from your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart will I give you, a new spirit will I put within you: I will take away the stony heart of your flesh; give you a heart of flesh. Put My spirit within you, cause you to walk in My statutes, you shall keep My ordinances and do them, and you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and you shall be My people, and I will be your God."
God says, "You know what I'm going to do? Someday I'm going to gather you back. I'm going to bring you all back to the land. When you get in the land I'm going to save you. I'm going to plant my spirit within you. I'm going to make you an obedient people, and all the world is going to think differently about My power." And says, "I'm doing this, not for your sake, but for My sake." You see, the heathen seeing the miserable state of exiled Israel concluded that Jehovah was impotent. And Israel has brought upon God a bad press, bad publicity, a profaned name, a reproach. Because of their sin God had to chaisen them. When God had to chaisen them their life became so miserable that the rest of the world thought God was impotent.
Now this opens up to us a very important truth that I don't think very many of us have ever thought about. God is reproached when we sin, because when we sin He has to chaisen us, and when He chaisens us our life gets miserable. And when the world sees a Christian who is miserable they assume our God has got something wrong with Him. Luftha, said, and I quote, "Sin is not only evil in itself, but it compels God to do what men are bound to misunderstand. God's name is profaned, not only when His people sin, but when they force Him to punish them." end quote.
Look at people...they look around the world and say, "Aw, you say God is a God of love and God is a God of grace. Look at the mess the world's in." Do you ever hear that? You hear it all the time. "Look at all the people that are dying and the infants that are dying and babies that are born deformed," and on, and, and on, and on. And people say, "What kind of a God do you have? What kind of God is this? If He's such a loving, kind, and gracious, and merciful God, why does this happen?" Do you see what happens? Men sin, God is just and God must punish sin, and when He does it He gets bad press, bad publicity, His name becomes profaned. And, Beloved, that's one reason why the Lord says to His people, "You could help a lot if you just cool it on sinning. If you could just shape up, and I could at least bless your lives, and the world could see what you are, then maybe that would increase the possibility of Me being thought of in a different way."
I'm going to show you another Scripture, Numbers chapter 14, because this is very helpful in understanding this principle. I hope you're getting it. Numbers 14:15, the Lord is very upset at this point because of rebellion and unbelief in Israel. They were very, very...they were griping, and complaining, and bellyaching, and worshipping a golden calf...oh, it was awful. So the Lord finally says, "I've had it." Verse 11, "How long is this people going to provoke me?" I mean, how long can any God take this. This is enough. Verse 12, "I'll smite them with the pestilence, disinherit them, and find another greater nation mightier than they." That's all for Israel. And Moses says, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, Lord." What did he say? Moses said to the Lord...verse 13..."Then the Egyptians will hear it. Do you want your reputation to float back to Egypt, you just took us out of?" "And they will tell it to the inhabitants of the land." They'll make a big announcement. "For they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, that they cloud stands over them...the cloud that lead them...and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of cloud, and a pillar of fire by night. Hey the Egyptians know You're here and that You're the God responsible for us, and You're the God leading us, and You're the God empowering us, and You're the God protecting us."
"Now...verse 15...if you kill all of us, like you would kill one man...just wipe the whole nation...then the nations which have heard the fame of You will speak and say...do you know what they'll say if you do that?...because the Lord was not able to bring the people into the land which He swore to give it to them, therefore He slew them all in the wilderness." "Impotent. He got them all the way out there, didn't have the power to bring them into the land so He wiped them out in the desert. Some God." And Moses says, "God, is that the kind of reputation you want?" See what Moses is appealing too? He's appealing to God's glory. "Do you want to be reproached God?"
Deuteronomy chapter 9 verses 23 to 28, says essentially the very same thing, and goes over the very same ground. He says in chapter 9 verse 27, "Remember your servants...Moses again... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not onto the stubbornness of this people nor to their wickedness nor to their sin. Don't consider our sin Lord. Lest the land from which you brought us out say, 'Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land He promised. And because He hated them He's brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.' Don't do it Lord because then they're going to misunderstand Your character. They're going to think You are incapable of fulfilling Your promise. You got over to the Promised Land and You didn't have the power to pull it off." Now you see God does not desire His name to be polluted, so God within His hand, didn't He, from Israel? And slew some of them. At least three thousand men died there in the slaying by the Levites, and more than that. But God withheld His hand because His reputation is important to Him.
Do you know God is so gracious that sometimes when you deserve something you don't get it just so he can protect His reputation? In Ezekiel 39, we find similarly that when God talks about the future, he's going to come in the tribulation time, and he's going to conquer Gog and Maygog, which seems to be confederates army that descends on Israel from the north. God says, "I'm going to wipe that Gog and Maygog out." This is the coming invasion that God is going to deal with. And he says, "When I've wiped them out they will know that I am the Lord... verse 7 of Ezekiel 39...so will I make my holy name known in the midst of My people Israel, and I will not let them pollute My holy name anymore and the nation shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel. I'm tired of bad publicity, and I'm going to reverse it some day." You see, a people can either reproach God or they can glorify God. And God desires that we glorify Him. And if the world is ever to really see who God is it's going to be dependent, I think, upon our faithfulness in giving Him glory.
Now let me just add a footnote because you might think that if you prayed like Moses you could get out of everything and God wouldn't punish you. So the next time you do something bad you'll say, "Now Lord, protect Your name, protect Your name. See. Don't hit me Lord it'll just be bad for You because, you know, I'll cry a lot and people will say, 'Boy, what's going on?' And I'll say, "Well God did this to me, and that'll be bad."
But let me hasten to add that in Jeremiah 14:7, that's essentially what Jeremiah was going through. "Oh Lord...Jeremiah 14:7, Oh Lord, though our iniquities testify against us, do it for Your namesake. Whatever You do Lord...we've really been bad...but whatever you do Lord, do it for Your own glory. Whatever you do, do it for Your own namesake. Our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee. Oh the hope of Israel, it's savior in time of trouble, why should you be like a soldier in the land, like a wayfaring man who turns aside to tarry for a night? Why should you be like a man dumbfounded, like a mighty man who can't save? God, don't make people think that You just hang around a little while, and You've vacated the place. You've been like a soldier, to here and gone again. You've been like a dumbfounded man. You can't figure it out so You bail out. Or You've been like an impotent man; You're not mighty enough to save. Don't run away from us now, God, or nobody will understand Your character. Yet, O Lord, you are in the midst of us, and we are called by You name; leave us not. Don't go away Lord. Don't forsake us and leave us to the consequence of our sins."
Now what was the answer? "Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not restrained their feet, therefore the Lord does not accept them; he will now remember their inequity, and punish their sin." The Lord said to Jeremiah, "Do not pray for this people for their good. Stop praying for them. They're going to get it. When they fast I will not hear their cry, when they offer burnt offering and oblation, I will not accept it. I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and the pestilence. Then said I, Ah, Lord God." You say, "What happened?" Jeremiah said...tried to pray like Moses...said, "God, you can't do this." God says, "I have to do it." He was gracious to Israel as a nation, but do you know that the entire generation that sinned there were wiped out, weren't they, except for two of them. And here He's saying, "Look, I gotta do it. I know it's going to be a dishonor to me. I know the world isn't going to understand. I know it'll cast reproach, but I have to do it." You say, "Why God?" Because God is a God of what? Justice.
And God, in order to gain glory, never is able to bypass justice. And that's why in the world you could say, "Well God if you really want everybody to like you, why don't you just clean the place up? Why don't you eliminate the trouble? Why don't you stop the war? Why don't you solve all the problems?" And God is saying, "Yeah, that's fine for you to say, but I can't because My justice demands that I reattribute sin. The wages of sin is what? Death, and it has to be paid. So God is saying to the Christian, "You could sure help a lot, if you just make sure your life isn't reproached."
God said to Israel, through Paul, in Romans, "Because of you My name is blasphemed among the Gentiles." That's sad, and it can even happen in a Christian's life. And because of the kind of life you live God's name is literally blasphemed because of you. Sad. Whatever you do in your life ought to be to glorify God.
In 1 Timothy...I'll show you a couple, just simple illustrations. Now this is so very, very practical here. First Timothy 5 is talking about young women. And this is assuming the young women had been widowed; their husband has died and they're still young. It says, "I will therefore that younger women marry again." A little early there. Get married. If you're a young widow get married again. "Bear children, lead the house, guide the house...the old author I said, "give direction in the household, give no occasion to the adversary to speak reproachfully. Don't you dare give Satan anything that is going to cast a reproach on God. For some are already turned aside after Satan." Do you know what he says? "If you don't get married, young women, you're liable to fall into sexual sin, and if you fall into sexual sin then you will cease glorifying God and you will cast reproach on God." Don't do that.
First Timothy 6:1 goes a step further. This is talking about employees. Now that includes a lot of us, doesn't it? All employees please listen. This is a bulletin for all employees. "Let as many employees as are under the yoke ...you say, that's us ...under the yoke." That means you're pulling somebody else's plow. That's an employee. "You do this, count their own masters worthy of all honour." You say, "You don't know my boss." That isn't the point. "Count him worthy of all honour." "Why?" That you might get a raise. "No, no." "That the name of God and his doctrine...what?...be not blasphemed." Do you know what'll happen if you're not a good employee? Your employer knows you're a Christian, sees you're not a good employee, and concludes that God's not a very good God, and God is dishonored. That's pretty practical stuff folks.
Titus chapter 2 verse 5...there's some more. We've got to get everybody in on this. Titus 2:5, now this to the young married women. You say, "Who fits in the young category?" You'd have to decide that in your own mind. Verse 4...youth is a state of mind, you know? Verse 4, "That they may teach the young women to be sober minded...that means to know their priorities...now you teach those younger women you older women...to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste...that means pure...keepers at home...that's good. Stay home once in a while...you're making those payments, you might as well use it...keepers at home, good or kind, obedient to their own husband...why?...why?...to keep harmony in the house...that the word of God be not what?...blasphemed." You see, a wife who doesn't live the way she ought to live casts dispersions on God - the God she claims to love. See this is the thesis of all of our Christian behavior.
Verse 8, "Young men...we've got to get you in here...young men...verse 6 says...be sober minded, show yourself a pattern of good works: in doctrine show uncorruptness, true doctrine, gravity...that's dignity...sincerity, sound speech, that can't be condemned. When you open your mouth, boy, it ought to come out solid...sound speech...why?...that he that is of the contrary part...who's he that is of the contrary part?...anti-Christian, may be ashamed having no evil thing to say of you." You see that? Shut the mouths of the critics so God is not dishonored. Now there you are folks. You only have two options in life. One, glorify God. Two, reproach Him. You have to face that reality.
Now go back to 1 Corinthians 10:31, and what is Paul saying here? He is saying there's only one thing to do, and in whatever you do, do it all...what?...to the glory of God. Don't let it be a reproach on God." Now the command is very simple. Now let's put it in its context and take a look at the passage. One of the most urgent areas in which we must glorify God is in the use of Christian freedom. This is one of the most urgent areas. We must glorify God in the use of our Christian freedom, our Christian liberty. And by Christian freedom I don't mean the right to vote. I mean the liberty that you have in Christ to do things in the area the Bible doesn't talk about. Christian liberty. Now how are we going to glorify God in the use of our liberty? How are we going to say, "Well, look the Bible doesn't forbid this, or this, whether it's eating meat offered to idols, drinking wine, going to this entertainment, to that entertainment, shopping on Sunday, reading the funnies on Sunday morning, you know, whatever it might be that is in your particular cultural heritage that's something that may be approved or disapproved, whatever that gray area is for you. How do you apply this principle so that you can do everything that you do to the glory of God?" "I want to do that in the gray area. How do I do it?" You've got to know three things: No. 1, the principles, No. 2, the purpose, No. 3, the pattern. That's what I want to show you from these verses. These three things will enable you to glorify God in the use of your Christian freedom.
Let's look at the principles first: the principles, the purpose, and the pattern. Principle's No. 1. I'm going to give you four, and that's what Paul does. Four overlapping principles, and these four principles are given in order for us to use our liberty so that it glorifies God. Principle No. 1, edification over gratification. No. 1, edification over gratification. You say, "I can't even spell it, let alone know what if means. I'll give it to you slowly and carefully. Edification over gratification. Look at verse 23, principle No. 1. And Paul is summarizing everything he's been saying. "All things are lawful for me, all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things...there's the word...edify not." Now notice twice it says all things are lawful. Back in chapter 6, twice in verse 12 it said all things are lawful. This was a slogan of Corinthians we're using.
Apparently, when Paul had been there at one time he had used that phrase. "That all things are lawful." And they had made it a slogan. So whenever they wanted to go out and do anything, they said, "All things are lawful, all things are lawful." Somebody said, "You shouldn't do...all things are lawful. See? It became a little slogan. You know, "The Bible doesn't say we can't do it. Paul said, 'All things are lawful'" And this was their little deal. See? Everywhere they went this was their slogan. And the basis upon which they did anything, their general principle for all behavior was flashing the little slogan, "All things are lawful." And it probably came from Paul because it is true. In the gray areas, it's not talking about evil, it's talking about the non-moral, the amoral. In that area, yes, all things are lawful. But there are some limitations. All things are not expedient, that means beneficial. All things to not edify, that means build up. So what you want find out is this: it's lawful, but is it beneficial and does it build up? You don't want to say, "Well I want to do it because it's neutral." You say, "I want to do it because it's positive." And if you've got a choice between a neutral and a positive you want to do a positive. And if all you've got in your life is choices between neutral and neutral you're not doing anything. There's not enough time to do that, just neutral things. So how do you deal with it? Is it expedient? That means beneficial. Is it going to build up? Is it beneficial? Will it build up? That's the key. That's edification over gratification. You're not trying to gratify yourself, you're not trying to satisfy your own ideas, you're not trying to do what pleases you, you're trying to do what builds you up and builds anybody else up who will be involved.
Now edification is a very vital word. It comes from the Greek word, oikodomeo, which literally means to build a house. What is going to build up? Figuratively/metaphorically it means spiritual growth. This is the issue: everything that I do, everything that you do as a Christian is to be to the end that we are build up, that we grow in grace, and in the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, as Peter puts it, in 2 Peter 3:18.
Now the New Testament it's got gobs of information about building up people. But there are four basic tools that build us up. No. 1 the Word; read the Bible. Paul says to the Ephesian elders in Acts 20 verse 32, "I commend you to word of His grace, which is able to...what?...build you up." The word will build you up. Secondly, preaching and teaching. Coming to hear the preaching of the Word of God will build you up. First Corinthians 14:3, Paul said to the Corinthian assembly, "Instead of speaking in tongues all the time, what you ought to be doing is prophesying or preaching, because preaching has the end of exhortation, consolation and edification." It'll build you up. The reading of the Bible and studying the Bible builds you up, preaching will build you up, love will build you up.
First Corinthians 8:1, "Knowledge puffs up, love builds up." And a fourth thing that builds you up is obedience, obedient service. Ephesians 4:12 says, "When the saints do the work of the ministry, the body of Christ is...what?...filled up." So what edifies? Study the Word, the hearing of the Word, love, obedience, service. These things build you up. Now, Beloved, you want to do what builds you up. So you want to study the Bible, you want to go hear the Bible proclaimed, you want to love, and you want to obey. And you'll be built up. Now this is really a very vital thing in our lives. In 1 Corinthians 14...we'll get into this in a week or two...into chapters 12 to 14, which is a unit...no, it'll be about a month, I guess. But, anyway... realistically right? Six months. No. First Corinthians 14:26, the end of the verse says, "Let all things be done unto edifying." Let everything you do have as end result that'll build you up. "All things be done unto edifying." Let it build you up.
Second Corinthians 12:19, same thing. The end of the verse, "But we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying." We do all things to build you up, all things to edify you. Ephesians chapter 4 verse 29, "Let no corrupt communication precede out of your mouth, but that which is good, as it fits the need of edifying." Everything you say let it build up. First Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 11, "Edify one another." Build each other up. Everything you do, build up. See, there you have it. The guide for our life then is to do what builds us up. It is edification over gratification that determines what I do with Christian liberty. So I ask myself this question. "Do I have the right to do that? Yes. Will it build me up and will it build up the people around me?" If I answer yes to both of those I'd do it. If I answer no I don't do it. Practical guideline.
Principle No. 2, 1 Corinthians chapter 10 verse 24. The first one is edification over gratification. The second one gets even more specific; others over self. Now you're saying, "Well, let's see. Is it going to build me up, um-hum, yes, but it's not going to build him up because he doesn't have that liberty. He's a weaker brother, it'll offend it. All right, then I don't do it. Because when it comes to choosing between what builds me up and what builds him up, I do what builds him up." Others over self, verse 24, "Let no man seek...what?...his own, but every man...what's the next word?...another's." And rather than wealth there I'd almost think you could use the word edification. Don't seek your own, but another's edification. "When it comes down to a choice I've got to choose. I could do this. It's not going to offend me. It's going to be a good thing. It'll build me up. If it's going to offend him then I don't do it." That's the second principle. And this is really the principle of love. I'm going to do what is spiritually beneficial for both of us if I can, but if I have to make a decision I'll do what's most beneficial to him and sacrifice my liberty. And in the long run that'll be most beneficial to me. Wont it? Because in loving him I have build myself up because love...what? Builds up. I may say, "Well I could do that and, boy, I'd build me up, that it taught me to enjoy my liberty, and it'd be good, but it'll offend him." Then don't do it, condescend to him, love him, and love will build you up more than if you exercise your liberty and tear him down because that becomes a sin.
All right every Christian then in his liberty has to be guided by a spiritual principle, and that is, "Love your neighbor as yourself." You know, it's hard, I think, for us to relate to this because selfishness is such a dominant thing. What have you ever done or what have you ever not done because of someone else? I was talking to Darryl Delhusay, the other day, and he was preaching out of Romans 14 and 15, the same theme, different passage. And he was saying after talking about, you know, loving the brother and sacrificing certain things for the brother he asked his congregation to have a testimony time at the end. We were all there and he said, "I'd like to have you stand up and share something you've given up for somebody else, for the love of a weaker brother." And so he said nobody did anything, you know, nobody moved, until finally some guy got up and said, "Well," he says, "I like to smoke and drink but I've given it up. I never to it around Christians." That's fantastic. "I only do it when they're not there." Really terrific sacrifice. Anyway...why'd you tell them then, you know? If you weren't going to do it just keep it quiet, you know?
But anyway. . .after that nobody bothered to say anything in this whole time and everything was getting kind of quiet. Nobody says ________. So when he was all done he said...service was over and people kept coming to him. He said several people came and said, "You know, that's the first time in my life I ever realized I don't do anything for the sake of anybody else." That's pretty serious, isn't it? "That's the first time I ever thought about it," they said. What are you giving up for somebody else so they don't stumble? See, others over self. Say, "Well it's my liberty to do what I want, so, you know, don't push me into a corner." You have to crucify self and self-desire somewhere or you're never going to know what it is to really be fulfilled as a Christian. It's a disaster to the church, anyway, and to the fellowship of believers when everybody exercises their liberty and doesn't care about anybody else. That's what happened in Philippi. And everybody was going at it, and Paul says, "You'd better cool it. You'd better get likeminded and everybody better start thinking about somebody else." "Look, not every man on his own things but...what?...Philippians 2:4, on things of others...let everything be done in lowliness and meekness, each esteeming others...what?...better than themselves." And that's what he's saying.
So, principle No. 1, edification over gratification. "Whatever is going to build me up and build him up, that's what I'm going to do, but if it comes down to building me up or him, I'm going to do what builds him up if it means sacrificing something on my part. And because I've loved him and done that, that'll build me up anyway." Principle No. 3, liberty over legalism. And here's the balance, here's what creates the tension at this point. We could all get in a strait jacket pretty soon because there's somebody who's against everything. You know, if you look long enough you'll find somebody who won't do anything. You just go around like this all the time. "Am I all right? Am I all right? Right? Is that offending you? Oh, it's not offending you, okay. How's my tie? Does it __________? Okay." I mean, you could get to the place where, you know, there's somebody who's sort of got their little quirk on everything. Now how do you find your balance? Well one way is you don't run around asking everybody. "I would like you to turn in a list of things to me that offend you." No, no, just cool it on that and enjoy. See? Don't make...don't be too fussy about this deal.
Liberty over legalism, verse 25. Now here's how he illustrates it. "Whatever is sold in the market eat, asking no questions for conscience sake." If you go to the market don't say, "Say, Mr. Butcher...the word's shambles in the Old King James. It simply is the Greek for butcher shop, mockalan; butcher shop. When you go there don't say, "Sir, I would so like to eat this piece of meat. Where did it come from?" "Well I don't know. I bought it off a guy who... "Oh, where was that guy? Have you seen that guy around? I must check with him." See? And you're going to trace this thing back and find out that long before the cow was even killed somebody put a hand on it and dedicated it to Zeus. "Oh I can't eat it. Here's your meat back." He says, "Ridiculous." If you're going to buy it there just keep your mouth shut. Don't ask any silly questions. Go home and eat. Enjoy. Don't be over scrupulous. Don't get picky. There's no sense in making a mountain out of a molehill.
Verse 26, "The earth is the Lord's anyway, and the fullness, thereof, he made them all." So eat em and enjoy em. If it isn't an issue, for goodness sakes don't make it an issue. Now Paul is already condemned going to an idol feast and getting into the celebration at the feast and the festival because that's communing with demons. Remember last week? But when you go into a marketplace and it's detached from the idol feast it ceases to have any religious significance at all. He says, "Buy it, and eat it, and don't worry about it. There's no sense in putting burdens on your conscience. Don't ask needless questions. Enjoy your liberty. Don't give it up." And then quotes Psalm 24:1, "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, anyway." Don't be too fussy. Don't create difficulties. Everything is the Lord's. He made everything to be received at Thanksgiving. Right? First Timothy 4:4 and 5, "Just give thanks and eat it."
But you might have a different situation, verse 27, "If any of them that believe not...here's a unbeliever...some pagans...they bid you...and actually they bid you over to their house for dinner. You have a bunch of unbelievers that invite you to dinner...and you be disposed to go...and you say, "I want to go. I'd like to go over...that's my family or that's my old acquaintances before I was saved. I want to go...whatever is set before you eat, asking no question for conscience sake." The word is a legal term, meaning don't make an investigation. You sit down, you just eat it. You don't say, "Now about this food here, I'd like to know where you got it." Just eat it. You have freedom, folk, live it up. Don't ask stupid questions that are going to only cause your conscience problems. Nothing wrong... incidentally from this verse, there's nothing wrong with going to dinner with a sinner. You can go to a pagan's for dinner and it's a great idea.
The only thing the Bible forbids is in 1 Corinthians 5:9 to 11, it says, "You can eat with sinners, just don't eat with Christian sinners. Those that are living in sin as Christians need to be cut off from the fellowship. Eat with sinners not Christian sinners." And so go over and enjoy it, "For liberty Christ has made us free," Galatians 5. Stand fast in your liberty. Don't give up your liberty. Don't let anybody take your liberty. Paul says in Galatians 2:4, "They tried to spy out our liberty. We wouldn't let them." Enjoy your liberty. Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is what? Liberty. Enjoy it, not legalism. Don't concentrate on a...you go over to somebody's house and they serve you a nice meal. And you don't say to them, "Say, was this cooked in wine?" Eat it, just eat it. You want to, at all costs, avoid legalism. See, that's the point. Don't be picky. Now you don't want to offend the weaker brother, but at the same time you certainly don't want to make sure that all weaker brothers stay weak their whole lifetime because we all condescend to their level. See that's the tension here. You say, "Well how do you help the guy?" You restrict your liberty and then you get alongside of him, tell him why you restricted your liberty, and help him to grow up, so that he can enjoy his liberty. And then when he gets to enjoy his you'll enjoy yours too.
So when you condescend to that level, when you go down to that brothers level, and you go down to help the weaker brother, make sure that you build up the weaker brother so together you can enjoy your liberty, and he'll begin to realize everything Christ meant him to be. You don't want to make sure the legalists all stay legalistic because we all continually bow to them. We want to get down there, but we want to teach them why we're doing it, and we want to help them with their liberty so they'll grow out of that legalism. We limit our liberty, not to offend, but we certainly should teach the weaker brother the truths of freedom so he'll grow out of his legalism. You see, it's very comfortable to be a legalist; cause you don't have to do anything internally, it's all in a box for you. You have a little list, "I don't, I do, I don't, I do, I don't, I do, sometimes I do, I don't, I do." You've got all your little lists there. That's a lot easier than living by the Holy Spirit's power because that you have to yield to in an internal way. So you want to take somebody out of the little box of rules and you want to allow them to have the freedom to operate and the freedom that God has given them.
All right. Three principles: edification over gratification, others over self, and liberty over legalism. And there's one other principle, condescension over condemnation...condescension over condemnation. Let's go back to this dinner at the pagan house, verse 28...you've got another Christian friend there. He's at the dinner too at the pagan house. And he says to you, "This is offered in sacrifice to idols." You're sitting there ready to dig into this nice piece of steak and he's saying, "Hey, that's offered to idols meat." You're saying, "Why'd you have to bring that up for? I'm hungry. I'm not one who would offend my host right? This really bothers you?" "I don't believe we can eat meat off of two idols." What do you do? Verse 28, it says what to do, don't eat it. "For his sake that showed it and conscience sake." Whose conscience? Not yours. Jump to verse 29, "Conscience, I say, not yours, but his." If it bothers his conscience don't eat it, You say, "Uh, what's my host going to think? Here I'm sitting...I'm sorry, it's lovely, I can't eat." You'd offend the host, you're right.
There is another principle. If you have to choose between offending a Christian and offending a non-Christian, offend the non-Christian. You say, "You're kidding me?" Nope, that's what it says. "If you have to choose between offending a Christian and offending a non-Christian, offend a non-Christian." You say, "We're trying to win him." The way to win him is for them to see the validity and the honesty and the purity of your Christianity. Right? And if you're sitting at the table fighting each other he's not going to get a Christian message no matter what you eat. You see? "The way to win people...Jesus said...is to love each other." Isn't that right? You love each other and the world's going to know we're his disciples. If you have to choose between offending a Christian and offending a non-Christian, offend a non-Christian. And make sure you maintain the unity of the love of the body of Jesus Christ because that's the greatest testimony that we have in the world. See, that's his point.
So condescension rather than condemnation. Don't do something that's going to make your Christian brother condemn you. Verse 29, "Why is my liberty judged by another man's conscience?" In other words, I certainly don't want to say, "Well, I'm going to do this and have him condemn me for it. I don't want to get in a position where my liberty...my act of liberty is going to be condemned by another man's conscience. The word judge means condemn. Don't let him condemn you. Enjoy your host, if you will. And you know what your host will see? He will see an act of love. And he will say, "If that man loves that other brother enough to make that sacrifice there must be something to that."
Verse 30 adds a further point. "If I, by grace, be a partaker...in other words, if I recognize God is giving me this food why would I be evil spoken of that for which I give thanks?" Now let me tell you what that means. It would be pretty ridiculous to say thank you Lord for the gracious gift of this food, and then go ahead and eat it while your brother was condemning you. That's inconsistent. Don't thank God and go out and do something that's going to make some other Christian condemn you for doing it. "Lord, thank you for the marvelous liberty that you've given me. Lord, bless this meal," and eat up and drink up and here's a Christian brother condemning you...condemning you. That's ridiculous. You can't thank God for something that another Christian brother's going to stumble over. So condescension over condemnation. If you have to choose between a Christian and a non-Christian, offend the non-Christian at that point, in order that your love might be made manifest to the world. And I don't mean that you should just run out and offend non-Christians just at will.
Just in case you might think that, verse 32 says, "Give no offense neither to the Jews nor to the Greeks nor to the Church of God." The basic rule, Beloved, don't offend what? Anybody. But if you have to choose, offend yourself before you offend a weaker brother. And if you have to choose, offend an unbeliever before you offend a weaker brother. But if you can don't offend anybody. Condescension over condemnation. Don't do anything that's going to cause somebody else to condemn you. Now there are the principles, Beloved.
Let's go to point two, the purpose. Why does he give us the principles? Why does he tell us edification over gratification, others over self, liberty over legalism, condescension over condemnation, verse 31, "Therefore...here's why...so that whether you eat or drink or whatever you do it will be done all... what?...to the glory of God." God is glorified when you do it with these principles in mind. You want to glorify God? Do you think it's important to glorify God or to be a reproach to God? To glorify. Do you want to glorify him follow the principles. What is the purpose...bang...verse 31, "That God will be glorified."
Lastly, the pattern. It's fine to have the principles, it's fine to have the purpose, but Paul closes with a very typical, practical word. He says, "Let me give you a model to follow." Verse 32, "Give no offense neither to the Jews nor to the Greeks nor to the Church of God." And there you have the three divisions, incidentally, of humanity: Israel, the Gentiles, and the church. Don't offend any of them. And here comes the pattern...even as...what's the next word?...I. Paul says, "I'm the model. I'm the pattern. Even as I please all men, in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many that they may be...what? Saved.
And here sums it up: Don't offend the unbeliever. The first idea was don't offend yourself. Do what builds you up. Second, don't offend the weaker brother. If you have to offend an unbeliever to keep from offending a weaker brother then offend an unbeliever. But finally Paul says, "If you can avoid it don't ever even offend an unbeliever. Do whatever you have to do that they may be saved." And, here is the sum of it, verse 1, "Be ye followers of me. Do it like I did it because I'm doing it like Christ did it. Follow me I'm following Christ." Example is vital folks. No occasion, give no offense, no occasion to sin, no cause for stumbling, don't do anything that offends anybody: Jew, Greek, or the church. No action of ours should prevent a Jew from coming to Christ. No action of ours should prevent a Gentile from coming to Christ. No action of ours should prevent a Christian from growing to maturity and being built up. And no action of ours should prevent us from being built up. So Paul closes with a word of example. "Do what I do, I'm doing what Jesus did."
Let's pray. Thank you, our Father, this morning for this Word. Thank You for the truth that we find in these pages. Truth that is so very, very practical. And we pray that You would teach us by Your Holy Spirit to apply it, that we might, with everything that we do, bring glory to Your name, and never a reproach. Help us to avoid sin, so that we can avoid Your chastening, so that Your name will not be polluted in the eyes of the world.
Father, I pray this prayer, summing up the hearts of all of us here. Glorify Your name Father in us. In Jesus name. Amen.
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Video: Chris Bosh Has a Breakdown..Lebron's Reaction After Losing NBA Finals
I love Villains.
Lex Luther, The Joker, Magneto and the list goes on. I think Villains are more interesting than Heroes. They are more complex, their story is deeper and the fact that they are hated by so many makes them intriguing to me.
But in the comics the Villain no matter how brilliant or how powerful normally loses in the end.
I will have a more in detail thoughts on Lebron James and the Heat, but for now just remember when you call yourself the King, you have to be able to bear the weight of the crown.
As for Bosh I will say this.
He has been nothing but a professional throughout the entire season. During his post game press conference he was very respectful, honest and sincere with his comments.
Even though he has been slandered all year, in the playoffs you could say Bosh was the most consistent of the Big 3 and the most professional.
I am going to kill him for getting emotional, it is obvious that it meant a lot to him. I have gained a lot of respect for Bosh, both on and off the court from how he has handle things during this playoff run.

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VOC (volatile organic compounds) in the Household
September 25, 2015
There are three ways in which people are exposed to chemicals: ingestion, dermal absorption and inhalation. Ingestion occurs when materials that have chemical content are eaten or placed in the mouth. Dermal absorption occurs when chemicals come into contact with the skin. But the majority of chemical exposure comes from the air we breathe in our homes, offices, schools and other indoor environments. These airborne chemicals that we come in contact with daily are called Volatile Organic compounds VOC's.
Other impact of VOCs are that it is a principal ingredient of ground level ozone that will increase the levels of urban smog. When VOCs are deposited in landfills they will find their way into our water supply (e.g. groundwater or urban runoff).
The majority of VOCs are found in furniture, paint, drywall, bedding, paint strippers, adhesives/glues, solvents, upholstery and other textiles, carpet, cleaning products, copy machine toners, office supplies, electronic equipment, dry-cleaned clothing, and materials.
What can you do to minimize VOCs in your house? For starters you can use Low- or Classified Zero-VOC paints, wood finishes, adhesives, and caulks. Look for labels indicating "Low-VOC" and "zero-VOC" paints. They contain a reduced number of grams of VOC per liter (under 150 grams for low-VOC and under 5 for zero-VOC).
For flooring you can explore the possibilities of sustainable wood floors. Visit the site "Eco-Friendly Flooring." Other options include cork, bamboo or plyboo. For carpeting, ideally your rugs and carpets would come from 100% natural and renewable resources, with biodegradable backing. If this is in your budget, Nature's Carpet and Shaw may be of assistance. For conventional carpets, look for those with high percentages of recycled content from wool, cotton, nylon or recycled plastic bottles.
For countertops, floors, and backsplashes, you can use recycled content tile, such as Sandhill Industries and Vetrazzo, which contain up to 70% recycled glass and other materials. There are also a number of cement countertops available with recycled and post-industrial by-products, like those of Wilsonart. Icestone is made of recycled glass and concrete, and Richlite is recycled paper compressed into a warm, durable alternative to stone.
The possibilities are endless for choosing exterior surfaces—cladding, siding, roofing, and decking, but those key environmentally-preferred items mentioned above should be applied to all. Of the many siding options, FSC-certified or reclaimed wood, recycled metal, fiber cement board, and durable, recyclable materials, such as stone, brick, and stucco, are preferred over virgin wood, metal, or plastic.
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We find out the tip times for Saturday at the end of Thursday and Sunday at the end of Friday. Fans will also be able to access the games through NCAA March Madness on Demand. NCAA March Madness on Demand will provide live streaming video of every game of the new 68-team tournament as they are broadcast by CBS Sports and Turner Sports.
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The Goldstein Project: In Search of the Run Tool Bell
Curves. They're all kinds of good. Whether a well thrown hook induces an embarrassing swing and miss, a fine, Italian sports car hugs them on a mountain road or Scarlett Johansson is wearing something tight, curves are a beautiful part of life. The curve that thrusts itself into my existence most often is this one:
That's a graphical representation of the normal distribution that makes up the 20-80 scouting scale. I doubt the readership of this site needs an elaborate explanation of this so I'll be brief. Scouts grade the tools of players of all ages and skills from 20 to 80 in increments of 5 or 10 (I know of at least one team that splinters it even further than that) with a score of 50 representing the major league average and every 10 away from 50 represents a standard deviation away from that mean. So, when scouts talk to one another about players, these numbers help to paint a picture of his skill set even if the inquiring scout hasn't seen the prospect at all.
"Haven't seen Ben Revere yet, Hank? He's about 5'9", 160lbs, 65 hit, 20 power, 70 runner at least. I don't know if I'd go so far as to put an 8 on the glove but it's a magnificent 7 while the arm is a 3 at best, and I'm being generous, Hank, he can't throw worth a shit."
Now I grade everything on this scale. I saw Looper on Wednesday night, comfortably put a 50 on it. The water coming out of the fountain at the theater was a 30 but the Neapolitan coconut candy I snuck in was a delicious 60. Branch Rickey is generally credited with its creation (the 20-80 scale, not the coconut candy) but we're not totally sure where it comes from.
Scouts, who are not the xenophobic, math-hating dipshits they've been made out to be lately, communicate their evaluations to their bosses and each other with these numbers. Most of what scouts are grading they are grading subjectively, using skills honed over years of keen baseball observation. There are, however, a few things evaluators can quantify and grade objectively. Two that come to mind are fastball velocity and, of course, speed. Mostly, speed is measured by hand with an Accusplit stopwatch, the timer ignited when the hitter makes contact with the ball and snuffed out when he makes contact with first base. Here are the times and their corresponding grade on the scale, the way it has been since….. forever:
Grade Time (R)/Time (L) in seconds
80 4.0/3.9
70 4.1/4.0
60 4.2/4.1
50 4.3/4.2
40 4.4/4.3
30 4.5/4.4
20 4.6/4.5 and the Molinas
My stopwatch and I just sort of accepted this reality and the measurements within it and went happily about scouting minor leaguers and high schoolers all over the place until the dulcet voice of Astros Pro Scouting Director, Kevin Goldstein, blew it straight to hell. Goldstein, on several occasions in several mediums, has stated that this scale, especially at the major league level, is likely incorrect. Guys get to the big leagues mostly because they can hit, and speed is just icing on the cake of major league relevancy. As such, "average" or better runners are rarer than the curve states they should be, according to Goldstein's hypothesis. At Baseball Info Solutions this past season I watched baseball for about 7 hours a day and timed every full effort sprint to first I could to see if Kevin is right and, if he is, what the curve actually looks like. This is what I found:
There are a few differences. First, the results aren't distributed in a beautifully even curve, they're skewed. Second, the .1 second buffer built into the scale to separate right handed hitters from left handed ones (since the lefty batter's box is closer to first base) is a little light. Third, left handed hitters are, on average, a little faster than the scale would indicate while righties are a little slower.
Some important logistics stuff about how I gathered data:
We use DVRs at BIS so I was constantly rewinding, timing everything a few times to make sure I got accurate results. I got about 280 times (not all from different players, I have multiple times for some guys) which probably isn't enough to be statistically significant, but it's a nice start. Some players for which I recorded multiple results displayed inconsistent times. David Freese, for example, has a few times in the 4.5s but one 4.23 dash that had me constantly questioning my own existence. Some players were remarkably consistent. I've got several times for Angel Pagan, all of them between 3.98 and 4.02. Variances like Freese's can occur from all sorts of stuff. Maybe the guy slipped off camera or took a poor path to the bag to slow his time. Some players' times are not accurate representations of their speed at all. Munenori Kawasaki has a jailbreak element to his swing that has him starting toward first much sooner than other players who take forever to get going. This alters his times in context. Rickie Weeks' weight transfer is so odd that he also gets out of the box very quickly. There are plenty of caveats involved with this data but also tons of possibilities. Are there correlations with speed and defensive metrics? Would I see trends if I sorted players by position or by the team that drafted them? I rounded everyone's time to the nearest five-hundredths, just so you know. Ben Jedlovec, who busts his ass along with the rest of BIS's full time staff, took time out of his day to help me with Excel so I can churn out histograms now. I once saw Ben arm wrestle Bill James. Go buy a Fielding Bible.
Even if my curve is right and the model being used by scouting departments across the globe is wrong should we care and adjust the scale? Hell no. The value in clear communication far outweighs whatever value increased accuracy provides the scouting community. Of course, I'm open to all sorts of debate about that.
If anyone wants to google doc with everyone's individually recorded time or has a request for an individual's time, drop my a line in the comments section and I'll see if I've got it.


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Reviewed By James S (Olympia, WA) Reviewed for a 2009 Dodge Challenger —6/21/2012 3:22 PM
I installed these on my 2009 Challenger. The headlights were a piece of cake as they are flat. The fog lamps took a little longer, I simply turned them on for the heat and they hugged the curves. Looks BETTER than new.


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Automotive terminologies are constantly changing, becoming more and more complicated, and getting harder to follow.
Have you seen some of the abbreviations these days? It's tricky, folks. Tricky and confusing and daunting. We've got Acuras with P-AWS, crossovers with SH-AWD, Volkswagens with TSI or TFSI, BMW's with xDrive, and Civics with i-VTEC, and CVT transmissions.
Today, let's stick to the basics, for simplicity's sake. Below is a list of automotive brands, models and terminologies that many folks get wrong—and you might be one of them. Read on to see if that's the case.
Glove Department
Just no. Cars have a compartment for your gloves (and other knick-knacks), and it's called the glove compartment, not the glove department. There is no such thing as a glove department, unless maybe, you're in a fancy outerwear store that sells an awful lot of gloves.
Brake Caliber
There is no such thing as a brake caliber, but there is such a thing as a brake caliper. Among other things, "caliber" references the inner diameter of a gun barrel, or the quality of someone's character. It does not reference any part of an automotive braking system.
Complicating things, there is a car called the Caliber.
The Caliber has brakes, which have calipers (not calibers). So, the Dodge Caliber (not Dodge Caliper) has brake calipers (not calibers). Many other cars have brake calipers too, but none has a brake caliber. Congratulations: you just saw the word caliper so many times that it no longer looks like a word.
Brake Routers
Brakes do not have routers, and routers do not have brakes. The correct terminology is brake rotor, not router. A router is a thing you use to connect to the internet. A rotor is a part of your car's braking system, and sits partially inside of the brake caliper (not the brake caliber).
Muck this up real bad, and you might wind up asking your mechanic to fix the calibers and routers on your Dodge Caliper, which would be silly.
Cadillac Converter
There is no such thing as a Cadillac Converter. There is such a thing as a catalytic converter though, and it's a part of your vehicle's exhaust system that helps clean up its emissions. Most cars have catalytic converters, including Cadillacs. No cars have a Cadillac Converter, though, because these are not a thing that exists. For reference, Cadillac (the car brand) is pronounced CAD-A-LACK, and Catalytic (the exhaust thinghy), is pronounced CAT-A-LIT-TICK.
And now you know.
HON DIE / Hi-un-day
There is no such brand as Hon Die. Or HON-DIE. Or Hi-un-day. You're probably thinking of Hyundai, which is pronounced HUN-DAY. Hyundai is not Honda. Hyundai is from Korea, and Honda is from Japan. The brands are not related, though their hood emblems are similar, as they're both a letter 'H'. Honda uses a plain letter H inside of a square, and Hyundai uses a letter H in italic font, inside of an oval.
FUN FACT: My mother is not up on car names and brands. She once took her Hyundai to a Honda dealer to have a recall performed, because she thought her Hyundai Elantra was a Honda Altima. There is no such thing as a Honda Altima. There is a Nissan Altima, however. Nissan is not related to Hyundai or Honda, and it's pronounced somewhere between Nee-sun or Nee-san. Niss-san is incorrect.
What's under your ride's hood? An engine? Or a motor? Turns out, it's probably an engine, though many folks get it wrong. It's a technicality—an engine runs on combustion, like the engine in your Kia Rio, Chevrolet Camaro or Ford Focus. Unless you have a Ford Focus EV, or Electric Vehicle, because that vehicle has a motor.
See, motors run on electricity. Engines run on fuel, like gasoline, diesel, or even steam, if we're talking trains. If you have a hybrid vehicle, it has an engine, and a motor, because that's how hybrids work. The nutshell? If it burns a liquid, like gas, it's engine. If it runs on batteries, it's a motor.
Centre Council
Does your car have a centre council? The answer is no, unless your car has an advisory, deliberative, or legislative body of people, formally constituted and meeting regularly, in the centre of your car. This is not likely. Your car does, however, probably have a centre console. That's console, pronounced CON-sole, which (according to Wikipedia) refers to the control-bearing surfaces in the front centre area of your ride.
Porsche Panorama
The Panorama is a four-door sports sedan model from Porsche, except that it's called the Panamera, not the Panorama. According to the dictionary, a Panorama is a wide-angle picture, or, an unbroken view of the whole area surrounding an observer. Conversely, the Porsche Panamera is named for the famous Carrera Panamericana race. Note that the word Carrera is also used to name certain variants of the Porsche 911 model range. Both the Porsche Carrera and Porsche Panamera have brake calipers, not brake calibers. They also both have catalytic converters, not Cadillac converters.


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Josh Hamilton and Andrew Romine each drove in a run as the LA Angels of Anaheim took the rubber match of a three-game series with a 2-1 win over the Houston Astros.
Jerome Williams (8-10) earned his third consecutive win after yielding just one run on five hits over seven strong frames of work. Ernesto Frieri entered in the eighth inning and struck out four en route to recording a two- inning save.
"I probably threw three balls up in the zone, two by design, one by accident," Williams said. "That one by accident was a homer."
Astros starter Paul Clemens (4-5) took the loss despite pitching a career- high seven innings and allowing just two runs on six hits. Marc Krauss homered in the lone run as Houston dropped its second straight game after winning four in a row.
The Halos are winners in five of six.
"I'm happy with some of it and there was some pitch selection that has got to get better," Clemens said. "I don't know how much you guys were watching, but there were some at-bats there where pitch selection was wrong. This game comes down to two things: executing your pitches and choosing the right pitch in the right situation. I just want to continue to get better at those things."
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Dane De La Rosa took the hill to begin the home half of the eighth and allowed a single to Brandon Barnes before walking Jonathan Villar to put two on with no outs. Frieri, who recorded a five-out save earlier in the series, took over and retired three straight to preserve the lead.
Frieri remained on the mound for the final inning and pitched around a leadoff single by Matt Dominguez to secure the series for LA.
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Irony-resisting Chinese bicyclists have skipped the fixed-gear trend that has swept the rest of the world.
BEIJING—A multicolored messenger bag slung over one shoulder and short-brimmed hat cocked to the side, Nie Zheng parked his brakeless bike in the corner of a trendy cafe in the Beijing Central Business District before settling into a molded plastic chair to chat about his particular obsession. "It's been a dream since I was a kid to get a bicycle like this," the 40-year-old fashion photographer told me. "But no one sold them here." It took nearly nine months, he said, to get a track bike he wanted sent from England in 2007.
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And the absence is notable. Despite the rise in car ownership, China remains the world's largest bike market, with 51 million sold in 2009, according to the China Bicycle Association. With so many bikes, is it really possible that, apart from a few devotees like Zheng, no one in China got the trend memo?
Fixed gears—brakeless, single-speed bicycles in which the only gear is locked in place on the back hub, so that the rider reduces speed by pedaling forward at a slower rate—have long been a staple of New York messengers. In the last 10 years or so, the urban-cowboy quality of riding without brakes, as well as the bikes' simplicity, has made fixed gears, aka "fixies," an increasingly common hipster accessory and a growing part of global urban style.
Irony also plays a key role, as riders deliberately opt for an expensive, often custom-made ride, with hand-built components, that is less functional than what's available at Wal-Mart. (That is, until March, when even Wal-Mart jumped on the trend.)
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"There is a saying in Chinese: 'Laugh at the poor, not the prostitutes,' " Juanjuan Wu, a professor at the University of Minnesota and author of Chinese Fashion From Mao to Now, told me. "Hipster fashion only really works by communicating your irony—in other words, someone needs to 'get it.' Hipster irony in dress would most likely be misinterpreted in Chinese society as simple poverty or weirdness."
Nicole Fall, co-founder and trend director at Five by Fifty, an Asian trend consulting firm, agreed. "Consumers need to be in a position to reject norms or feel confident enough about their status and knowledge to be ironic," she said. "Thus a 20-year-old New York hipster can smoke a pipe or drink a really naff drink because it's funny, but for someone in China, many of their equivalent peers don't have the history and past knowledge of trends to understand what has been cool in the past."
Though there are examples of ironic style on display in China—Mao's face, red stars, military regalia are today worn with something less than earnestness—there is also more at stake in young people's fashion choices, making them "less likely to 'play' with their dress in a cynical or ironic manner," Wu explained. They prefer brands that are recognizably luxury—Louis Vuitton, Prada, Bottega Veneta, etc.—over more ambiguous fashions.
A bike is not associated with luxury, no matter how expensive its vintage Italian frame might be.
On the campus of Beijing's elite Tsinghua University, which is jammed with bicycles, most students said they didn't give two thoughts to their ride. "There are very few people in China who think that the bicycle is a cool thing," said Fang He, a senior.
Over cold cafeteria duck, Qin Haocheng, the president of the university's bicycle club, bemoaned his fellow students' lack of interest in their bikes: "Most of the students don't understand why the bike society exists," he said. The club only has 10 members, he admitted, on a campus of over 20,000.
Bicycles weren't always associated with poverty in China. In fact, after the revolution, they were a central part of what it meant to live a comfortable, modern life: "three rounds and a sound"—bicycle, clock, sewing machine, radio—were the essentials a man was expected to provide his wife. Many of the same bikes that were a sign of wealth 50 years ago are still puttering along, hulking cruisers from brands like Flying Pigeon, Forever, and Phoenix.
Jeff Stracco, who blogs about classic Chinese bicycles, became obsessed with these old models when he came to Beijing, but he found that few young Chinese people shared his interest in the classics. "There's no college kid saying 'I love this bike, it was my dad's.' There's no one like that," he said. Stracco, who's 41, spends many weekend mornings at used-bike markets, where "the youngest guy might be me." The Chinese people who do take an interest, he said, are mainly focused on leisure riding for fun and exercise.
Still, despite the odds, a handful of devotees from the West believe that now is the time to import the fixed-gear trend to China.
Hanging in the window of Ines Brunn's new fixed-gear bike shop—Beijing's first—is a Flying Pigeon that's been converted into a fixie, a literal link between the past and what she believes will be the future.
"People ask: Why do you open a bike shop in Beijing? I think, well, you can do anything here," said Brunn, a German-born physicist and acrobatic fixed-gear rider. In a year, her riding group has swelled from seven to 70. "I am optimistic!" she told a Beijing audience in November. "I see signs that the perception of the bicycle is changing."
Tyler Bowa is similarly optimistic. In less than a year, the 22-year-old Canadian has established a small but excited fixed gear and bike polo scene in Shanghai, where he lives, and on the Web. His site, the People's Bike, expanded this year with shop and ride guides for a dozen Chinese cities from Hangzhou to Wuhan. Bowa's goal seems clear from a recent article on the site: "Can Hipster Youth Reinvigorate Bike Culture in China?"
Even with this growth, the scene is still very small, Bowa admits. After all, it's challenging to change people's attitudes about both the bicycle and the appeal of ironic fashion. "Most of the guys in the small cities only have about 10 guys to ride fixed-gear with," Bowa said. Though he stressed that he's never turned away a cyclist from a ride because he or she wasn't on a fixie.
His Chinese business partner, Karl Ke, says it's hard to get past China's utilitarian attitude to the bike. While fixed-gear aficionados generally take loving care of their high-end rides, few Chinese bikers see the point: "It's just a tool," Ke said. "You never wash your hammer."
And, he might have added, there's never been much of a market for ironic hammers.
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Dominated By Her Legs
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Jennifer's victim is begging for mercy and for the pain to end, as she squeezes him relentlessly with her powerful legs. Watch her strong thigh muscles ripple as they turn this guy's face purple, while he whimpers in submission. His face gets put where men can only dream, but between Jennifer's legs is a very dangerous place. After almost 8 minutes of pure mixed wrestling female