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I'm going to have you look with me this morning at Matthew 16 verses 18 to 20...a very familiar text and one that has been a battleground between the Roman Church and the Protestant church, one that has been a very key text traditionally among dispensationalists. But at its very heart, a simple, profound, rich, glorious passage of Scripture. And in order to understand verses 18 to 20 fully we really need to back up and so I want you to listen as I read verse 13 through 20 of Matthew 16.
When Jesus came into the borders of Caesarea, Philippi, He asked His disciples saying, Who do men say that I the Son of Man am? And they said, Some say that Thou art John the Baptist, some Elijah and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets. He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee but My Father who is heaven. And I say also unto thee that thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build My church and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Then charged He His disciples that they should tell no man that He was Jesus the Christ.
Now I know when I read that that it is very familiar to you. And yet you're probably wondering just exactly what it means. For centuries now the Roman Catholic Church has said that it is a passage that tells us that the church is built on Peter therefore making Peter the first Pope establishing papal succession and making the papacy itself the very heart and soul of the divine authority on the earth.
Protestants have reacted to that and said the church is not built on Peter at all but it is rather built on the confession that Peter makes in verse 16, "Thou art the Christ the Son of the living God." And it is Christ who is the head of the church and there is no papacy found in the passage. And so it becomes a very critical passage. Dispensationalists have said it is a passage in which Christ introduces something new, "I will" future tense, "build My church," the implication being there never has been a church but there will be a church, setting off the church as distinct from Israel. Nondispensationalists say it is not nearly so technical as that, it is simply the Lord saying He will continue to build His people in the future as He has in the past.
And there have been great debates as to what are the gates of Hades, or the gates of hell, or the gates of the grave, just exactly what does that mean? And in what sense does the church conquer these gates?
And then in verse 19 it says to Peter was given the keys of the Kingdom. What are those keys? And what does he unlock and lock? And what does it mean that whatever he binds on earth or looses on earth is already done in heaven? And why does the Lord say don't tell anybody that I'm the Messiah?
So, you can see there are some issues here, can't you? And those are just samples of what we'll be looking at.
But to begin with for this morning, I want to introduce the passage by focusing in on one statement of our Lord in verse 18; "I will build My church." And that is the heart of the passage. Everything else amplifies that great statement. That is the affirming reality of the text, Jesus is saying to the disciples, "I will build My ekklesia, My ekklesia."
Several years ago there was a gentleman crossing the United States going from church to church, visiting large churches where God has obviously blessed in unique ways. And he was interviewing the various leaders of those churches to find out how it was that they had seen such great growth. He came into my office and sat down and began to ask me questions to try to get at the heart of the matter here at Grace Community Church. And one of the questions he asked me was this, he said, "All across the country I have found that where there is great growth in the church, those who lead the church have had a great desire to build the church." And he said, "I want to ask you the same question I have asked them, do you have a great desire to build the church?"
I thought for a moment and I said to him. "No, I have absolutely no desire to build the church, none." And I let it go at that.
And he looked at me rather quizzically and said, "Well, I don't understand that."
And I said, "Well, let me explain it to you. I have no desire to build the church because, you see, Christ said He would build the church and I'd rather not compete with Him." And although that was somewhat facetious, it really truly expresses my feeling. I have no desire to build the church. I was young as a minister of Christ, I had not yet come to Grace Church and I was preaching a series of meetings in a church in Beloit, Wisconsin, the People's Church, pastor Boyer has been there now about 30 years and he's a dear man of God. In fact, my father held citywide revivals for him before me. And so I was in some historic territory.
And I'll never forget sitting on the platform with him one service and he pointed, he said, "You see that man on the front row?" And I said yes. He said, "He's one of my converts." And I said, "Well, how wonderful." He said, "No, you don't understand, he's one of my converts, not the Lord's." I never forgot that.
And I suppose there are churches that men have built but that's different than the Lord building His church...very different. And I confess to you that I have never been and am not now interested in building the church. I'm not interested in gimmicks. I'm not interested in technics. I'm not interested in programs and plans and promotions and methods that guarantee a crowd. I'm not really not interested in building the church at all.
However, I am extremely interested in having a church that Christ is building. And I want to make sure we keep a distinction. I know from what the Bible says here that He's going to build His church, I just want to be part of the church he's building. You understand? The Lord will build His church, I want to be part of that church. And I want this to be part of that church. And that's...that's our commitment. That's our labor.
Now I believe this to be a very comforting passage to me because it says that He'll build His church and that makes me feel comfortable. That makes me feel confident that the Lord is going to do His work and it isn't up to me, I just have to get into place where He can do it where I am, you understand?
Now if that's comforting to me, imagine how comforting it was to the disciples that day. They were walking along the dusty roads around Caesarea, Philippi which is in the northeastern corner of the land of Palestine. They were really in exile. They had been rejected by the nation Israel. There was really no place of acceptance for them in Judea in the south. There was no place of acceptance for them in Galilee of the north. The Jewish leaders, religious and political, were both after Jesus and would have been wellpleased if He were dead. The populous understood only a political economic kingdom, they understood only a military political Messiah. They missed the whole point.
And so, the whole Kingdom concept, as the disciples had understood it, with all of its glorious Messianic expectation, the whole idea of the Messiah coming and setting Himself on a throne, the throne of David and restoring dominion to Israel and having a kingdom that swept across the globe with all of the pomp and circumstance and glory and grandeur, all of that Messianic expectation just wasn't happening. In fact, quite the contrary. They were a little band of nobodies, sort of a dishoveled group of the illequipped who were rejected and seemingly going nowhere but toward greater hostility. They had even to retreat into this obscure place populated mostly by Gentiles to find some rest and some privacy and some safety. And there they were with Jesus wondering whether or not the whole program of God was really on schedule because from external appearance it looked as if everything was the very opposite of what had been planned.
And so, it is in this very special moment when their hopes are beginning to fall, when they are beginning to question their Messianic expectations, when they're wondering why the Messianic experts, the Pharisees and the scribes, had missed Jesus all together and were the most venomous and vitriolic and hateful of all those who were against Him. The whole thing was so strange to them. It looked as if the Lord wasn't building His Kingdom. Quite the contrary.
And then if you'll notice verse 21, for a moment. If things were strange by now, they were going to get stranger yet because from that time on Jesus began to show unto His disciples how He must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed. And this became His message for these last few months. And, of course, Peter's reaction in verse 22 is, "Lord, Lord, this is not going to happen. Be it far from Thee." I mean, it was bad enough that it had been this bad, but for You to die, that is an inconceivable thought. That the Messiah should be rejected was tough enough, that He should be executed was beyond belief.
They don't have a lot of confidence, you see. They don't have a lot of hope. There's not any comfort in what they've seen. And they'll be even less when Jesus begins to unfold verses 21 to 23 to say nothing of verse 24 when He starts to talk about their cross...not just His. And so, there's coming a lot of bad news, you see...bad news, worse than they've even heard before. And in light of this, the Lord needs to reveal to them that in spite of what appears on the surface, the program is moving ahead, you see. And that's why it's so marvelous that in this very moment He says, "I will build My church." There isn't any variation from the original plan. There isn't any loss. The program hasn't changed. He is building the church. And what appears on the surface isn't the reality at all.
And so, they needed that confidence, just like we do, just like those people of God throughout all the history of the ages have needed it when it looked bleak. You can imagine how it looked to the early church when they were being massacred. You can imagine how it looked to the Chinese believers when the communist revolution took over and they were crushed. There have always been times when it looked as if the people of God would be wiped out. You can go into the Old Testament and you can see when Israel was in Egypt, they could have been lost there. When Israel was in Babylon, they could have gone out of existence there. Or when they were worse yet in apostasy and intermarrying with the nations of the world, they could have been lost there. There were always those times when the train of God's people looked like it was going to come to a halt.
But it never did. And it wouldn't now. And so this is a message of great hope that the beleaguered, persecuted, martyred, rejected, maligned, poor, ignoble people of God are still going to go on. And when they look like losers, you just aren't looking close enough. There's victory at the end.
And so He says I'll build My church. Now this is the heart of the passage. You have to understand this before you can understand the things around it. So we want to look at it this morning and I want to just share with you some points that mark a church that Christ builds. What is the church that Christ builds? What are its characteristics? What are its marks? What are its features? What are its elements? What is it like?
First of all, let me speak of the certainty of it. The church that Christ builds is a certain church, assured, secure because in verse 18 it says, "I will build." Now what makes it so certain is the "I". Who is the one who said that? Christ. And He is God. And God cannot lie. And God is the faithful God who always keeps His word, whose word never returns void but always accomplishes that to which it is sent, said Isaiah. And when Jesus said "I will build My church," then that means the church is certain to be built. It is built on the promise of the divine Savior.
Now may I say at this juncture that this is not to say that He's never built it in the past? It is a future tense verb, "I will build," it does not mean "I never have," it does imply that I will continue to build. In spite of what looks like defeat, we will go on and I will build in the future. Not that He hasn't in the past, but that He will continue in the future. God has been building and will go on doing so.
So, the certainty of the church is its unchanging, unwavering absolute foundation which is the promise and the power of God to fulfill that promise. So the Lord builds the church. That's the certainty of it. That is so comforting, people. That is so thrilling to know that it is the Lord who builds the church. And all we want to do is be in the place where He's building it.
You say, "What is that place?" Well, it's very simple. As you get into the New Testament, you find there are very obvious patterns presented for righteous living. We are called upon to walk in the Spirit. We are called upon to obey the Word of God. And the Scripture tells us how to live and how to think and how to speak and how to act. The Bible lays out the pattern. And as we begin to live in obedience to God's Word, people and leadership, as we live in obedience to God's Word, as we have divine priorities in focus, as we walk within the parameter set by the Word of God, we become a channel through which Christ can build His church. Now as soon as we stop obeying the Word, as soon as we detour from a life of righteousness and obedience, as soon as we abandon the biblical pattern, then the channel is blocked. The church isn't blocked. It will find another place to go. And it will move on being built. But we won't be a part of it.
And that's why you can say, "Well, I know a church over here and nothing's ever going on there. Nobody ever gets saved there. Nothing ever happens. It's a dead place, they might as well bar...bar the windows and board up the doors and forget it. Nothing's happening." That doesn't mean the church isn't being built. That means those people aren't in the position so that God can do it there. But He'll cut that fresh channel as many times as He needs to to keep the flow of the life of the church. He'll build His church.
But isn't it more exciting to be in the place where He's doing it? You see, that's why the commitment in my heart has always been the same, just do what the New Testament says and when you do whatever the Word of God says in building the church, you're letting Him build it His way. That's the joy. I believe with all my heart that Grace Church is what it is because Christ made it this way. And people ask me that all the time: how did Grace Church get to be like it is? I mean, what gimmicks do you use? What's your method? What's your approach? We even have people who come here, very often, to our Shepherd's conferences and they're not looking for the...for the real answer. They don't know what it is. They're looking for whatever tricks of the trade we might be using. And the wonderful confidence is the longer they look, the more they come to the awareness that we're not doing anything that clever. I mean, we're not that bright. We don't have any foolproof methods. What's happening is we have leadership and people committed to righteousness. And where you have a righteous channel, the Lord says that's where I'll run My church. And we don't have any guarantee that that's permanent, because the day we stop walking in the obedience to God's Word and we stop doing things by the book, then the Lord's going to sort of damn up the situation, He's going to shoot off in another place.
We've seen that. You know as well as I do churches at one time that were flourishing and the Lord was building the church and He was using a certain local assembly and today it's nothing but a shell of what it was. It's happened all over the world. The Lord will build His church. God help us to be in the place where He's doing it because that's the exciting reality.
If you look at the book of Acts you see this, this element of God building His church. And let me just run you through quickly, Acts 2:39...Acts 2:39, and here after Peter's sermon, he calls for repentance and baptism. And he says you can receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, of course, in salvation, "For the promise is to you, to your children, to all that are afar off," he's talking to the Jews and also to the Gentiles around the world, "even as many as the Lord our God shall call."
Now, in Peter's mind, who is building the church? Who is calling people? The Lord our God. It is the Lord who is building His church. Jesus said in John 6, "All that the Father gives to Me shall come to Me and him that cometh to Me, I will under no circumstances turn away." But all that the Father gives shall come. It is the Lord building His church.
In Acts 2, look at verse 47, the end of the verse, "And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved." The Lord is building the church. Acts 5:14, after the death of Ananias and Sapphira for lying to God, "There were many signs and wonders among the people," and then in verse 14 it says, "and believers were the more...I love this...added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women." They weren't added to the church, they were added to the Lord. You don't join an organization, you unite with the Lord. He calls. He builds. People are united to Him.
In 11 of Acts, verse 24, it talks about Barnabas, says he was righteous, full of the Holy Spirit and faith. "And many people were added...there it is again...to the Lord...to the Lord." The Lord is building, calling, redeeming, adding to Himself His own body. Acts 13:48, "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the Word of the Lord and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed." The ones that God had chosen and ordained to eternal life believed. He drew the ones He had predetermined to set His love on. In Acts 18:10, "For I am with thee," the Lord said to Paul, "no man shall set on thee to hurt thee for I have many people in this city." Now here the Lord says I've got a...I've got a group of people in that city that I'm going to bring into My church so I'm going to make sure you can reach them. The Lord knew who they were. See, it's the Lord who builds His church.
Now the epistles will add more detail as to how this happens. And it tells us how the church is to function to be the channel the Lord can bless. It tells us how the leadership is to be chosen, how the leadership is to fit certain qualifications. It tells us about elders and deacons and deaconesses. It tells us about the order of prayer and the teaching of the Word. It tells us about holiness and righteousness and church discipline. It tells us in the epistles how we're to conduct ourselves. It just gives us the whole layout of how this works itself out in practical living. But the bottom line is the Lord is building the church. And when we walk in obedience to Him, we become the channel in which He'll build His church. What a great confidence.
And the goal of it all, why that's Ephesians chapter 5. "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for it in order that..." now here's why He gathers the church, here's why He builds the church, "to sanctify, to cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word in order that having it cleansed now He might present it to Himself a glorious church."
You know why the Lord is building the church? To present it to Himself a glorious church. What does He mean by that? He means to present the church to Himself as a vehicle through which He can manifest His what? His glory. That's why Ephesians 3:21 says, "Now unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus."
You see, God is building the church so that when the church is built no man will be able to say, "Look what we did." But God will say, "This is solely and only to My glory." And Paul in the Ephesian letter even says that he's doing this to display to the angels His infinite wisdom. The angels are saying, "Ah, what a God who can make something out of that miserable bunch of human beings."
So, God is building the church and that is so marvelous to know that. And all we want to do is be in that place where He's doing it. And that's why we oppose human wisdom. And that's why carnality and ineptitude and indifference and apathy and apostasy and liberalism and denominationalism and charismaticism and fanaticism and ritualism and ceremonialism and all the other stuff doesn't stop the church. It may stop a congregation from being used to be part of it, but the church will go on. And He'll build His glorious body. And if God is for us, who can be against us? Great to be a part of a winner, isn't it?
There's a second truth here. Not only the certainty of the church but the intimacy of it. And I just love this. He says, "I will build...not the church, not the great church, but...My church." I love that personal pronoun. I will build My church. He's the builder. He's the architect. He's the owner. We are to be to the praise of His glory. We are His personal possession. We are His body. We are one with Him in marvelous holy intimacy. He purchased us, Acts 20:28 says, with His own precious blood. In Acts 9 when Saul was persecuting Christians and he was confronted on the Damascus Road, the Lord said to him and I love this statement, He said, "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting the church," is that what He said? That's not what He said. "Why are you persecuting...what?...Me?" You touch His church, you touch Him. Now that's intimacy. "He that is joined to the Lord is one spirit," 1 Corinthians 6.
It's in the Old Testament this way. God says when you touch Israel, you touch the apple of My eye. Now apple of My eye, we think, well, He's got a nice apple out here and it's the prettiest apple in the bunch and He says when you mess with Israel, boy, you're messing with that real nice apple that I in joy looking at. No, no. The apple of the eye means the pupil in Hebrew. God is saying you touch Israel and you're poking your finger in My eye and that irritates Me...the most sensitive part of the exposed human anatomy, of course. And so He is saying you touch Israel, you poke your finger in My eye. You touch the church, you irritate Me, it's My church, I gave My life for that church, Acts 20:28, He purchased it with His own blood. He is its architect. He is its builder. He is its foundation for other foundation can no man lay that in that is laid which is Christ Jesus. He is the living cornerstone. He says in John 10 I am the good shepherd and I know My sheep and have known of Mine. I know them and they know My voice. And He says no man is able to pluck them out of My hand.
The intimacy of it, God's people, intimate, union with Him forever. What a blessed thought. David in the Psalms sensed that intimacy with God, didn't he? The saints of old did. You and I do and all the saints who have ever lived who've walked with God have sensed that God is no impersonal, God is not far off, God is not indifferent, but God is a God who draws near. He's a friend who sticks closer than a brother, the intimacy of it. We don't belong to some organization. We belong to an intimate union.
This was brought home rather forcefully to me this week. I was at the Moody Bible Institute because I am a member of the Board of Trustees and we were having a board meeting. And I got on an airplane to fly home, one of those DC 10's and I had to take the seat that was given to me and it was in the very center of the plane, in the coach section. And I was in the middle of the thing. And it was filled. You know, it's like a cattle car when they fill those things up, you can't even get around hardly...although I haven't traveled a lot in a cattle car I'm only imagining that. It looks like what I think one would be like.
But anyway, I'm sitting in the middle and I was reading. I read a book for a couple of hours and finally my eyes were getting a little weary and decided I'd get up and crawl over a couple of people and just walk up and stand around for a while and sort of relax myself. And so I walked up the aisle and I stood by where the door is by where the kitchen is where they prepare the meals, I just stood in that little area there. And just kind of refreshing myself, looking out a window and it was dark and I could see a city, that little hole that's in the door and I could see a city going by below.
And a man all of a sudden tapped me and he was a very well dressed man, very, very smart looking man and nice looking fella and he said, "Say," there was a cart there, he said, "is that your drink?"
And I said, "No, that's not my drink."
He said, "Oh yeah," he said, "that's got to be your drink." He said, "You see, that's my drink, that must be your drink."
I said, "No, that's not my drink."
He said, "Well, I'm sure it's your drink." And he was very persistent.
And I said, "No, it's not my drink." I said, "I don't even know what it is."
He said, "Well, it's Scotch on the rocks."
I said, "Well, now I know it's not my drink."
He said, "Well, why don't you drink it? It's a good drink. No sense in wasting it."
I said, "I don't want to drink it."
He said, "Don't tell me you don't drink."
And I said...and he was very persistent, you know...I said, "I don't drink."
I said never.
He said, "Do you have cancer?"
I said, "Well, as far as I know I don't have cancer. I haven't checked lately but up to now I don't know that I have cancer."
He said, "What are you..." he said, "a young man like you," he says, "I drink every day." And he was like he was preaching at me. And I was looking around because I knew everybody was listening to this conversation. He says, "I drink every day." He said...he says, "Some day you're going to get old and then what are you going to do? All the fun will be behind you." He says, "You've got to drink now while you're young."
I said, "I don't have any desire to drink, none at all." And he looked at me and he said, "What have you got that you don't need to drink?"
"Oh, I said, I'm glad you asked..." I said, "I have total peace and happiness, I don't need that at all."
He said, "Where'd you get that?"
And then I said this, and I...I don't always answer the question the same way, but I said it this way, I said, "I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ." And he got real quiet and he looked just dumbfounded. And he said, "You mean, YOU personally know Jesus Christ?" He couldn't believe that.
And I said, "That's right. I personally know Jesus Christ."
And he looked at me and said, "Well," he said, "I went to a school where they taught us about Jesus Christ but I don't know Him personally."
I said, "Well, you can." And so we had a little talk. And then he went back to his seat. And he sat down and I came down and sat behind him. He didn't know that I was quite behind him. And he pokes the guy next to him who is traveling with him and he says, "See that guy behind us," and the guy starts to strain his neck, he's a big guy, you know, and he's trying to turn to see back over the seat and says yeah. He says, "You won't believe this, he personally knows Jesus Christ."
"You're kidding?"
I mean, the guy was dumbfounded that somebody could know somebody who died two thousand years ago. And I was just thinking, sitting there thinking, I do personally know Jesus Christ. And you know what's even more astounding? If you ask Him, He'd say, "I personally know John MacArthur," and that's even more astounding.
I got off the plane and got his card...I asked him for his card and he didn't have one. He said, "I'll get my luggage." I didn't know if he'd do that but he got a hold of his bag and he walked up to me and he says, "Here's my card." He said, "I just...I just want to hug you." And so he hugged me and he said, "I just want to know...want you to know how special it is to meet somebody who personally knows Jesus Christ." And he said, "I want you to help me, I want you to help me." So he gave me his card and I've sent him already some material and some tape. And he said, "Now you call me and I want to have lunch and you tell me more."
And you see, that's the intimacy of the church. That's the intimacy of the church that we personally know Jesus Christ. We're His. His redeemed people are His possession.
There's a third point here that I sense. And just looking at this phrase and trying to just sort of explode it on our mind, and that's the identity of the church. I will buildthe certainty of itMy churchthe intimacy of itand the church the identity of it.
What does He mean by ekklesia? Well, some people would have us believe that here He's talking about the church as we know it. That all of a sudden if we're walking down the road in Caesarea, Philippi and He says, "I will build My church," immediately all the disciples are supposed to see a dispensational chart. Aha, and figured out the whole plan. Or they're supposed to understand First Baptist, or Second Presbyterian, or United Methodist, or Episcopalian or Church of Christ, or Grace Community, or they're supposed to see a big building with a steeple on it or...
In other words, we can't read into the text a twentieth century technical definition of the church because the word used here is ekklesia. And if you want to really do justice to the passage, just change the word "church" to "assembly" because that's what the word means...called out ones. People called together under a certain authority, or under a certain banner, or under a certain purpose. There were no Baptists, no Presbyterians, no Lutherans, no Grace Churchites, no denominations, no organizations, no pastors, no elders, no deacons, no congregations, no nothing, no dispensational chart, no anythings.
He's using the term, listen carefully, in a nontechnical sense. He's using the term in a very general sense. It's the first time the word ekklesia appears in the New Testament. It is later translated "church" and its well understood as church by the time we get to the epistles which helped to define it for us. But it's a very general word. It's used once here in Matthew 16, once again in Matthew 18, those are the only two times it's ever used in the gospel. And it cannot be seen as a technical term for it was used in that period of time as a general term for an assembly of people.
For example, the Greeks used ekklesia for a town meeting. They used it for a group of people who came together as free men under the government of certain state. It was a very secular word. The Jew would understand it in the same way he would understand the word synagogue, in a non technical way, a gathering together, a collection of people. It is not a technical term for the institution that we have come to know at this point. It doesn't have the full of...fullness of definition that it later gathers as it moves through the epistles and is added to it the fullness of Pauline and Petrine and Johannine meaning.
In fact, very likely if Jesus spoke in Aramaic, He would have used the term kahal which means "congregation," a very general nontechnical term. And so He's really saying, "I will build My assembly, I will build My congregation. I will build My people. I will build My redeemed community."
Now, if you want to get a little better feeling for this, you can just go a little bit further in the New Testament and look with me for a moment at the seventh chapter of Acts. For in the seventh chapter of Acts we find the word ekklesia again used. And this is early in the life of the church. And we see here that in the seventh chapter, Stephen is speaking and he uses the word to refer to the nation Israel. Verse 38, "This is he that was in the ekklesia in the wilderness." And he's identifying Moses with the assembled people of God in the wilderness. So ekklesia there refers to the assembly of Jews gathered in the wilderness. They haven't really gone into the land yet, they're not a duly constituted nation quite as yet in their own land. And the word ekklesia is general enough even in the seventh chapter, general enough even in the sermon of Stephen to refer to an assembled group of Jews under the old covenant. So we certainly don't want to read too technical a meaning into it in the sixteenth chapter of Matthew if it doesn't even have that technical meaning in the seventh chapter of Acts.
Then if you'll notice the nineteenth chapter of Acts, you'll notice something even more interesting because in Acts 19 verse 32 we have a riot. And the riot is precipitated in Ephesus because of the miracles and the ministry of Paul. And this big riot breaks out and it is described in verse 32, "Some therefore cried one thing and some another for the ekklesia was in confusion." Now there's the word that we translate church and it has to do with a mob of Gentiles who rejected the gospel. So again I only point out that the word cannot be forced into a very technical meaning early in the revelation.
Now just another note on that is the twelfth chapter of Hebrews where you have in verse 22 this statement, Hebrews 12:22, "You are come to Mount Zion to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, to an innumerable number of angels...innumerable company of angels." Here's a picture of heaven, all the redeemed and all the angels and God is there and everybody's there. And he calls it in verse 23 the general assembly and ekklesia of the firstborn. And there ekklesia is big enough to encompass all the people of God in God's heaven. It is to all the spirits of just men made perfect.
So, even in Hebrews you have this concept of ekklesia in a nontechnical sense referring to the whole redeemed community. So it's a very general term.
Now, go back to Matthew chapter 16 and I think you find it here used very much like it's used in Hebrews, to refer to the whole company of redeemed people, Old Testament, New Testament, in general. And what the Lord is saying is I will continue to build My assembled redeemed people. In fact, it is a synonym with the Kingdom of heaven in verse 19. And that's really the key interpretive concept. You interpret the word "church" in verse 18 by the word "kingdom" in verse 19 because He uses them in a synonym fashion, parallel. So He is saying I'm still building My Kingdom.
Now let me note this. The future tense of the word "build" does not mean He never has built but will in the future. The idea here is that He will continue to build, the emphasis being on the continuing, not that it has never been done in the past. Now that's important for you to understand. So what the Lord is saying is I have been gathering My redeemed people and this rejection of Me and this hostility and what you see going on is not going to change that, I will go on gathering My redeemed people. So the essence of the text is there is continuity in the church. In fact, maybe that's a better word than identity, the continuity of the church, its certainty and its intimacy.
So, the church here is the assembly of redeemed people gathered to God. It is the same as His Kingdom. And he is building it. And He will build it. And that's so important.
You know, just this key thought. Jesus is saying no matter what the world does, no matter how the world reacts to Me, to you, to the gospel, I will go on building the church. No matter how apostate the nation Israel, I will build the church. And we could say today, no matter how liberal the church gets, quote/unquote church, no matter how apostate Christianity becomes, no matter how decadent America gets, no matter how godless and Christless our society gets, that will not thwart the building of the church, will it?
People ask me all the time about that. They ask me, you know, are you a member of the Moral Majority, do you believe in political action, do you believe in political lobbying and etc., and etc.? And when I tell them that I believe in preaching the Kingdom of Jesus Christ and the principles of the Word of God and I believe in changing men from the inside and then as a citizen outside of my ministry, I'll do the best to vote my conscience and do what is right and preach on sin and morality when it conflicts with the Word of God and all that...and I don't aver to being totally committed to a political approach, they inevitably will say to me, "Well, what do you think's going to happen to the church if America falls?" And you know what my answer is? Absolutely nothing. Now I don't want America to fall, but I'll tell you one thing, whether America rises or falls will have absolutely nothing to do with the church. That isn't the issue in building the church, that never is the issue. Jesus said I'll build My church...I'll build My church...certainty, intimacy, and the identity, the continuity of God's redeemed people.
So, beloved, we're a part of something marvelously successful. And my prayer for Grace Community Church is that we will always be as long as Jesus tarries, we will always be so committed to the Word of God, so committed to the Spirit of God that we will be a place where He can be building His church because there are a lot of places that call themselves "church" where God can't build His church, true? Let's pray.
Our Father, we have come again this morning with anticipation and that anticipation has been fulfilled. We wanted to meet You. We wanted to have our hungry hearts fed. We wanted to pour out our praise. We wanted to be lifted to a new vision of You. We've had that happen by the grace of Your Spirit. Thank You. Thank You for ministering to us when we have come to minister to You. Thank You that in our worship to You, we have been fed and our hearts delight that we are a part of Your church. Thank You for this place, Grace Community Church, one little place where because of the godliness of the people, because of the holiness of the leadership, because of all of our commitment to go by the Word of God, You have been able to build Your church for Your glory and for our consummate joy. Thank You. Help us to be faithful to that, to be unwavering. May this place always be a channel where You can build the Kingdom, where You can continue to gather to Yourself in intimacy Your redeemed people. That's our joy, to be a little part of that and then to spend forever in the throng of those, the church of the firstborn, praising and glorifying Your blessed name.
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At El Pollo Loco, pronounced "L Po-yo Lo-co" and Spanish for "The Crazy Chicken," we go to crazy lengths for our signature citrus-marinated, fire-grilled chicken. First, we marinate fresh, whole chickens in a special recipe of herbs, spices, fruit juices and garlic. The whole chickens are then fire-grilled, hand-cut, and served with our chicken meals, burritos, salads, soups, tacos and quesadillas. And if that's not enough, we apply that same passion to our handmade guacamole, salsas and dressings every day.
We're dedicated to serving healthful, freshly prepared food hot off our open-flame grills from the skilled hands of our Grill Masters. But we're not just dedicated to our delicious, authentic food. We're dedicated to our customers—from our grill masters, who compete annually for the honor of being the best, to our cashiers, who want to make every customer experience count. We're dedicated to our communities, too, whether it means volunteering in our local neighborhoods, running Fire-Grilled Fundraisers, or supporting those in need through our EPL Charities partnerships. And, of course, we're dedicated to serving perfectly fire-grilled chicken every single day.Read Gary's Story
Gary Herrarte has been a fundamental part of the EPL team since 2002. Over the course of 12 years, Gary has gained a unique EPL experience working in various roles. Gary exemplifies the meaning of "hard work pays off" – he started as food prep crew member, was quickly promoted to Shift Leader, became an Assistant Manager and General Manager, then eventually moved up to General Training Manager. As a GTM, Gary feels privileged to help other employees learn the El Pollo Loco way and successfully move up the ranks. His favorite parts about working at El Pollo Loco are educating others about the company and getting involved in the community. Gary often lends a helping hand with EPL Charities and has served food for underprivileged children and families in Los Angeles. Gary's continued dedication to El Pollo Loco and its neighboring communities are what make him a model employee.
In 1980, the very first American El Pollo Loco opened on Alvarado Street in Los Angeles where El Pollo Loco quickly became a local favorite. With authentically prepared flame-grilled, citrus-marinated chicken, freshly prepared ingredients and a welcoming atmosphere customers knew they had a unique dining experience unlike any other in their neighborhood. As word spread, so did our popularity and locations -- establishing El Pollo Loco as a true local brand throughout California.
While a lot has changed over the past few decades, El Pollo Loco's commitment to fresh, authentically prepared food has not. And we're just getting started because with each day that passes, we grow more and more passionate about our food.Learn more here.
1980: El Pollo Loco opened its first location on Alvarado Street in Los Angeles, CA and lines form around the block as the mesmerizing aroma of fresh chicken cooking on an open grill fills the air. Called El Pollo Loco or "The Crazy Chicken," the chicken restaurant features an authentic recipe for fresh chicken marinated in special herbs, spices, garlic and fruit juices, and then fire-grilled to perfection. The restaurant quickly becomes a local favorite.
1991: El Pollo Loco opens its 200th restaurant.
1993: El Pollo Loco expands its menu and debuts six new burritos in October. Lunch sales soar.
1994: El Pollo Loco adds self-serve salsa bars in all restaurants.
1995: On July 31, El Pollo Loco earns a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the world's largest burrito in Anaheim, California. The burrito is 3,112 feet long and weighs two tons.
1996: In February, El Pollo Loco introduces the original Pollo Bowl®, a tasty combination of fire-grilled chicken, Spanish rice and pinto beans topped with onions, cilantro and salsa, with only 10 grams of fat.
1998: In October, El Pollo Loco introduces two new salsas–Avocado and Pico de Gallo–alongside its famous House Salsa. All are prepared fresh every day.
2005: In April, El Pollo Loco celebrates its 25th anniversary, introducing its first-ever Loco Value Menu.
2007: In January, El Pollo Loco appears on NBC TV's hit show, The Apprentice: Los Angeles. Contestants compete by creating and selling versions of El Pollo Loco's Pollo Bowl®.
2008: In July, El Pollo Loco captures first place in QSR Magazine's 2008 Applied Technology Awards in the "Enduring Technology" category for implementation of its customer feedback program.
In September, El Pollo Loco debuts the Chicken Tortilla Roll, a tasty, portable entree served with a choice of dipping sauces.
2009: In April, El Pollo Loco's "throwdown" with fast-food goliath KFC ruffles a few feathers when it launches an award-winning Taste the Fire® campaign and challenges KFC to a public taste test: El Pollo Loco's fresh, natural, citrus-marinated chicken grilled to perfection over open flames vs. the fried chicken chain's new "grilled" chicken cooked in an oven. KFC plays "chicken" and does not accept the challenge. El Pollo Loco's hugely successful campaign brings forth a series of amusing television commercials and online videos, igniting what reporters have referred to as the "Chicken Wars."
2010: El Pollo Loco is recognized by the World Franchising Network as a Top Franchise for Hispanics.
2012: In January, El Pollo Loco launched major remodel program that celebrates the brand's heritage and updates the dining room and building exterior.
In March, El Pollo Loco began a series of popular limited time offerings including the upscale Roja Wet Burrito, Avocado Bacon Tostada with fresh slices of avocado, Pork Carnitas Tacos, Burritos and Quesadillas and the unique Stuffed Chicken Quesadillas.
2014: On July 25, trading of El Pollo Loco Holdings, Inc. commenced on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ: LOCO)
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Carlos Zaldivar necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
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Homeowners, Contractors, Interior Designers,Branding companies,walking customers,internet viewers,facebook and twitter friends,etc. We need a design that will set us apart and capture our target audience's attention long enough to get them to take a closer look at our product.
We are looking for a stationary that represent our business. For a unique design that can be eye-catching, professional, modern, elegant, stylish and fresh.
Our Goal: Integrated Marketing - in other words, Stationery ,Full Page Magazine Add,Web Page, Magnetic Sign for our cars and Warehouse sign designs. We will provide you with our logo (designed by 99 designs) and the picture we would like you to use in the differents items. All designs must match our Logo, so please design accordingly.
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Because we are going with an integrated marketing approach (wherein the logo, font styles, & color schemes are reinforced across all of our communication materials), we are offering all of our requirements as one contest. Given bellow is a breakdown of what we need:
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We are open to any other ideas.
Atttached you will find the web page design brief,as well as the information we would like you to incorporate into the different items.
Please feel free to contact me if you have additional questions and/or need clarification. Thanks to all of you for your initiative and contributions and good look on your designs.


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A Ferrari is the pinnacle of high-performance vehicles for most people, but John Hennessey has no fear about tweaking the model.
Hennessey, who operates Hennessey Performance in Sealy, has spent a career out of milking every last mile per hour and horsepower out of a car. The local automaker is now entering uncharted territory by modifying the company's first Ferrari model.
The company plans to display the modified Ferrari 458 in Monterey, Calif., this weekend.
"The HPE700 Twin Turbo 458 delivers a sound and driving experience that few road cars can offer," Hennessey said. "(Lamborghini) Aventador owners, beware — this car will take you by surprise."
Under the hood, Hennessey has added a HPE700 twin turbo engine that'll power the car from 0 to 60 mph in less than 3 seconds. The car can cover a quarter mile in 10.5 seconds, too.
The company made a few more tweaks to the Italian luxury car, mainly reducing weight and improving the efficiency of the sports car.
The whole 458 upgrade will cost an owner $59,995, which doesn't include the more than $200,000 Ferrari model.
"This is car will impress any Ferrari owner," said Don Goldman, HPE CEO and longtime Ferrari owner. "Most purists would shudder at the thought of modifying their Ferrari. However, the HPE700 Twin Turbo 458 would easily change their mind."


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Twins Trade Span to Nationals
The Twins have traded centerfielder Denard Span to the Washington Nationals for minor league righthanded pitcher Alex Meyer. Meyer is a 22-year old who was drafted 23rd overall in the 2011 draft. He pitched one year at Class A and had a 2.86 ERA in 129 innings. Meyer is 6'9 and would be considered the 6th best prospect on the Twins roster according to Baseball America.
Denard Span batted .283 in 568 plate appearances for the Twins in 2012. Ben Revere will likely take over as the regular centerfielder for the Twins in 2013.


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On the side of a highway, next to windswept sugar cane fields
As we accelerated into the first rise of a 4-mile climb up Waihee Valley, Axel Merckx said to the group, "now how social you going to be?" 3.5 miles later, regrouping for the descent, he answered his own question with, "not very social!"
A windy, climb in Maui
The Boxing Day Ride is an annual, day after Xmas ride hosted by South Maui Bicycles and Axel attended as a guest of the shop. He vacations in Maui with family, like most of the ride attendees do. Many of them were on bikes rented from the shop.
So what's it like to ride with a former Pro and the son of cycling's most celebrated legend? Like any other accomplished roadie, you ride steady, go when they go, and don't make too much small talk (that's if you can go that hard and talk at all).
Pro tip for social rides and fondos: even the pros come back and get their wives on hard climbs, like Axel did half way up to milepost 10, through the remains of the group.
Riding shoulder to shoulder, I gave Axel props for focusing on the next gen of racers and directing the Bontrager Livestrong Cycling Team. We stopped short of any more difficult or controversial discussions about the state of the sport. We're both on vacation and this was a social ride. And it got even more social back into town at 34MPH, with a tailwind past sugar cane fields.
Back into town, looking for the final sprint
The Boxing Day Ride is photomapped on Google with high-rez photos on G+ and Flickr. Also see Andrew's strava upload for the effort. His suffer score was 86. After 3 hours of sleep before the ride and plane legs, I'd rate my suffering at 87 on the climb.
You can ride with Axel during his next Valley First Granfondo Axel Merckx Okanagan, on Sunday, July 7th, 2013.…
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Dear all, the Workshop on Generic Programming is only a few days away: 20th September 2008 (http://www.regmaster.com/conf/icfp2008.html). ==> Invited talk: The Generic Paradigm ==> Lambert Meertens (Utrecht University) ==> We have reserved 20 minutes for *lightning talks*. If you plan to ==> attend and if you would like to give a short talk (about half-baked, ==> exciting, new stuff) please drop me a short note. Slots will be ==> reserved on a first-come-first-serve basis. Looking forward to seeing you in Victoria, Ralf Hinze ============================================================================ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Workshop on Generic Programming 2008 Victoria, Canada, 20th September 2008 http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/ralf.hinze/wgp2008/cfp.{html,pdf,ps,txt} The Workshop on Generic Programming is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN and forms part of ICFP 2008. Previous Workshops on Generic Programming have been held in Marstrand (affiliated with MPC), Ponte de Lima (affiliated with MPC), Nottingham (informal workshop), Dagstuhl (IFIP WG2.1 Working Conference), Oxford (informal workshop), Utrecht (informal workshop), and Portland (affiliated with ICFP). ============================================================================ Preliminary program ------------------- 9:00 - 10:00, Session Chair: Ralf Hinze (University of Oxford) Welcome Invited talk: The Generic Paradigm Lambert Meertens (Utrecht University) 10:30 - 12:00, Session Chair: Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford) A Functional Model-View-Controller Software Architecture for Command-oriented Programs Alley Stoughton (Kansas State University) A Lightweight Approach to Datatype-Generic Rewriting Thomas van Noort (Radboud University Nijmegen), Alexey Rodriguez, Stefan Holdermans (Utrecht University), Johan Jeuring (Utrecht University and Open University of the Netherlands), Bastiaan Heeren (Open University of the Netherlands) Lightning talks 13:30 - 15:00, Session Chair: Ralf Hinze (University of Oxford) Report from the program chair Ralf Hinze (University of Oxford) Scala for Generic Programmers Bruno C. d. S. Oliveira, Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford) A Comparison of C++ Concepts and Haskell Type Classes Jean-Philippe Bernardy, Patrik Jansson, Marcin Zalewski, Sibylle Schupp, Andreas Priesnitz (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg) Lightning talks 15:30 - 17:30, Session Chair: Patrik Jansson (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg) Polytypic Programming in Coq Wendy Verbruggen, Edsko de Vries, Arthur Hughes (Trinity College Dublin) Bialgebra Views: A Way for Polytypic Programming to Cohabit with Data Abstraction Pablo Nogueira, Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) Discussion ============================================================================


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Reid plots to block potential 2016 foe
Harry Reid isn't on Nevada's ballot this year, but he may as well be.
The shrewd Senate majority leader is putting the strength of his formidable political machine behind a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor whose fate could have major implications for Reid's own three-decade congressional career. The race is rapidly becoming a proxy war between Reid and popular Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, who is viewed by both parties as the toughest potential challenger to Reid in 2016.
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If a Democrat were to win the lieutenant governor's race, it's widely believed that Sandoval wouldn't challenge Reid, since it would mean turning over the governorship to a Democrat if Sandoval won.
But that calculation changes if a Republican captures the lieutenant governor's seat in November.
( Also on POLITICO: Harry Reid has no apologies)
Sandoval is on the ballot this fall and expected to easily win reelection. If he does, the Hispanic Republican will come under enormous pressure from the GOP to take on Reid — especially with a Republican lieutenant governor to succeed him. For that reason, both parties are preparing for the most expensive race for lieutenant governor Nevada has ever experienced.
"It's one of the biggest races in the country right now," GOP Sen. Dean Heller said of the usually low-profile statewide race. "The web of this can be far greater than just the lieutenant governor's race."
For all his power in Washington, Reid has had several reelection scares back home, and 2016 could provide one more. He is highly unpopular among Republicans statewide and has long struggled both in rural counties and in areas north of his home base of Clark County, which encompasses Las Vegas.
( PHOTOS: Harry Reid's career)
In an interview, Reid declared he doesn't care what Sandoval decides to do in 2016. While Reid seemed to acknowledge that defeating Sandoval this year is a lost cause for Democrats — "we're not doing too well" finding a candidate, he said — he promised to do "whatever I can" to elect Democrats up and down the ticket.
"Personally, I don't know if Sandoval is going to run against me or not," said Reid, who served as Nevada lieutenant governor four decades ago. "I don't know, and I really don't care. He's a supernice guy, and I'm not sure he would want to do that. But that's up to him. I mean I've run up against a lot of people, and I'm not wanting to be worrying about who I'm going to be running against."
Though Reid replied "Oh, yeah" when asked if he'll run for a sixth term, the 74-year-old Democratic leader could still decide to retire after his current term expires in January 2017. And Sandoval — whom close friends view as an unlikely bet to run for the Senate at this point — might opt to stay in Nevada.
( PHOTOS: Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid's friendship)
But Reid and his team are taking no chances in the lieutenant governor's election — and neither is Sandoval.
Reid and his chief political aide in Nevada, Rebecca Lambe, spent months interviewing potential candidates. They wanted someone who could win in a political environment this year that favors Republicans, with no presidential election driving Democrats to the polls and Sandoval cruising to reelection.
Lucy Flores, a 34-year-old state assemblywoman, had to convince Reid she was the right choice. After several conversations with Reid and his political advisers, and after she hired a nationally known pollster to lay out her path to victory, Flores convinced the Democratic leader and his team that she could win.
"They were always very positive and supportive," Flores said of her conversations with Reid. "But also at the end of the day, everyone wanted to ensure that, including myself, that this is something I can actually win. And when we got to the point where I was able to come to that conclusion, that's when I decided I would do this."
Reid's imprimatur makes Flores the beneficiary of a well-oiled machine and vast voter turnout operation that the majority leader has spent the past decade building, turning a Western swing state toward Democrats in recent elections. Reid's team has helped staff up Flores's nascent operation — including bringing on as a senior adviser Brandon Hall, the senator's 2010 campaign manager.
The senator is also putting his fundraising muscle behind Flores. On Thursday, Reid is hosting his first money event for Flores at the posh Charlie Palmer Steak restaurant on Capitol Hill, where donors are being asked to pony up as much as $5,000 each to attend the breakfast gathering.
For his part, Sandoval wasted no time anointing a candidate of his own. When a 50-year-old Republican state senator, Mark Hutchison, approached Sandoval last summer about running for the post, the governor quickly jumped behind him and dispatched his top political aides and advisers to help build his team in hopes the two could campaign as a ticket, highly unusual in Nevada.
"His political team is my political team, his fundraising team is my fundraising team, so we are completely integrated in terms of our campaign," said Hutchison, an attorney who grew close to the governor when he led the state's lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare.
Last summer, the governor's political associates privately urged prospective primary opponents to clear the field for Hutchison, including Republican Sue Lowden, who had been weighing whether to run for the post. But Lowden, a former state senator and ex-party chairwoman who lost a bid for the GOP nomination to take on Reid in 2010, jumped into the primary, anyway.
Lowden, 62, said in an interview that the governor's team has "strong-armed" donors to give to Hutchison and effectively dried up some of her potential sources of money, forcing her to decide whether to put even more of her own cash into her campaign ahead of the June primary.


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Is Beyoncé's 'Love on Top' Video the New 'Single Ladies'?
Pop star Beyoncé has released a fun video for her new single, 'Love on Top.' And it could potentially become the next 'Single Ladies.'
Set in a sun-drenched dance studio with the skyline of New York City visible through the wall of windows, Beyoncé is accompanied by five male dancers and is initially dressed in a rather low-key outfit consisting of a leotard, captain's hat, and sneakers — definitely a departure from her normal sky-high stilettos.
But before long, night falls and she launches into one of several costume changes. The familiar heels are back, and the mom-to-be rocks some perilously low-cut jackets that have clearly benefited from the use of sturdy double-sided tape, lest she suffer an epic wardrobe malfunction.
Do you think 'Love on Top' is the next 'Single Ladies'? Check it out below and tell us.


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In a sense, the tobacco industry may be thought of as being a specialized, highly ritualized and stylized segment of the pharmaceutical industry. Tobacco products, uniquely, contain and deliver nicotine, a potent drug with a variety of physiological effects. Related alkaloids, and probably other compounds, with desired physiological effects are also present in tobacco and/or its smoke. Nicotine is alleged [known] to be a habit-forming alkaloid, hence the confirmed user of tobacco products maybe [is] primarily seeking the physiological "satisfaction" derived from nicotine -- and perhaps other active compounds. His choice of product and pattern of usage are primarily determined by his individual nicotine dosage requirements and secondarily by a variety of other considerations including flavor and irritancy of the product, social patterns and needs, physical and manipulative gratifications, convenience, cost, health considerations, and the like. Thus a tobacco product is, in essence, a vehicle for delivery of nicotine, designed to deliver the nicotine in a generally acceptable and attractive form. Our Industry is then based upon design, manufacture and sale of attractive dosage forms of nicotine, and our Company's position in our Industry is determined by our ability to produce dosage forms of nicotine which have more overall value, tangible or intangible, to the consumer than those of our competitors.
The habituated user of tobacco products is said to derive "satisfaction" from nicotine. Although much studied, the physiological actions of nicotine are still poorly understood and appear to be many and varied. For example, in different situations and at different dose levels, nicotine appears to act as a stimulant, depressant, tranquilizer, psychic energizer, appetite reducer, anti-fatigue agent, or energizer, to name but a few of the varied and often contradictory effects attributed to it. Many of these same effects may be achieved with other physiologically active materials such as caffeine, alcohol, tranquilizers, sedatives, euphorics, and the like. Therefore, in addition to competing with products of the tobacco industry, our products may, in a sense, compete with a variety of other products with certain types of drug action. All of these products, tobacco and other, appear to have certain common attributes in that they are used largely to relieve, in one way or another, the fatigues and stresses which arise in the course of existence in a complex society.
Happily for the tobacco industry, nicotine is [both habituating and] unique in its variety of physiological actions, hence no other active material or combination of materials provides equivalent "satisfaction". Whether nicotine will, over the long term, maintain its unique position is subject to some reasonable doubt. With increased sophistication of knowledge in the biological and pharmaceutical areas, a superior or at least equivalent product or product mixture may emerge. For this reason, it would be a mistake to assume that the tobacco industry, as we now know it, is immortal or that no direct competition from organizations outside of the tobacco Industry will ever occur. It is safe to assume, however, that nicotine will retain its unique position throughout the present ten year planning period, and probably for a much longer span of time.
If nicotine is the sine qua non of tobacco products and tobacco products are recognized as being attractive dosage forms of nicotine, then it is logical to design our products -- and where possible, our advertising -- around nicotine delivery rather than "tar" delivery or flavor. To do this we need to develop new data on such things as the physiological effects of nicotine, the rate of absorption and elimination of nicotine delivered in different doses at different frequencies and by different routes, and ways of enhancing or diminishing nicotine effects and "satisfactions". In the absence of such data, we may survey the market and conclude that current cigarette products delivering about 1.3 mg. of nicotine appear to "satisfy" the typical smoker. This, somewhat crudely, establishes a target dosage level for design of new products. An accompanying Research Planning Proposal describes that approach in some detail. However, if we knew more about nicotine absorption, action, elimination, enhancement and the like, it should, in theory, be possible to more precisely specify, and deliver, the optimum amounts of nicotine activity in sophisticated products which would be more satisfying and desirable to the user. This area merits consideration and activity.
Before proceeding too far in the direction of design of dosage forms for nicotine, it may be well to consider another aspect of our business; that is, the factors which induce a pre-smoker or non-smoker to become a habituated smoker. Paradoxically, the things which keep a confirmed smoker habituated and "satisfied", i.e., nicotine and secondary physical and manipulative gratifications, are unknown and/or largely unexplained to the non-smoker. He does not start smoking to obtain undefined physiological gratifications or reliefs, and certainly he does not start to smoke to satisfy a non-existent craving for nicotine. Rather, he appears to start to smoke for purely psychological reasons -- to emulate a valued image, to conform, to experiment, to defy, to be daring, to have something to do with his hands, and the like. Only after experiencing smoking for some period of time do the physiological "satisfactions" and habituation become apparent and needed. Indeed, the first smoking experiences are often unpleasant until a tolerance for nicotine has been developed. This leaves us, then, in the position of attempting to design and promote the same product to two different types of market with two different sets of motivations, needs and expectations. The same situation is encountered in some industries, but the problem is usually not as severe.
If what we have said about the habituated smoker is true, then products designed for him should emphasize nicotine, nicotine delivery efficiency, nicotine satisfaction, and the like. What we should really make and sell would be the proper dosage form of nicotine with as many other built-in attractions and gratifications as possible -- that is, an efficient nicotine delivery system with satisfactory flavor, mildness, convenience, cost, etc. On the other hand, if we are to attract the non-smoker or pre-smoker, there is nothing in this type of product that he would currently understand or desire. We have deliberately played down the role of nicotine, hence the non-smoker has little or no knowledge of what satisfactions it may offer him, and no desire to try it. Instead, we somehow must convince him with wholly irrational reasons that he should try smoking, in the hope that he will for himself then discover the real "satisfactions" obtainable. And, of course, in the present advertising climate, our opportunities to talk to the pre-smoker are increasingly limited, and therefore, increasingly ineffective. Would it not be better, in the long run, to identify in our own minds and in the minds of our customers what we are really selling, i.e., nicotine satisfaction? This would enable us to speak directly of the virtues of our product to the confirmed smoker, and would educate the pre-smoker, perhaps indirectly but effectively, in what we have to offer and what it would be expected to do for him.
But again, the picture is not quite all that clear. Critics of tobacco products increasingly allege that smoking is dangerous to the health of the smoker. Part of this alleged danger is claimed to arise from ingestion of nicotine and part is claimed to arise from smoke components or smoke "tar". If, as proposed above, nicotine is the sine qua non of smoking, and if we meekly accept the allegations of our critics and move toward reduction or elimination of nicotine from our products, then we shall eventually liquidate our business. If we intend to remain in business and our business is the manufacture and sale of dosage forms of nicotine, then at some point we must make a stand. We should know more, rather than less, than our critics about the physiological effects of nicotine, and we should in all ways scientifically validate and speak to the beneficial effects and "satisfactions" derived from use of nicotine. Essentially all commercial drugs give rise to some undesirable side effects, but we continue to use them with great benefit to humanity because of their overriding beneficial effects. Might we not take a leaf from that book in our approach to nicotine? Unless we do, our long-term prospects become unattractive.
Our critics have lumped "tar" and nicotine together in their allegations about health hazards, perhaps because "tar" and nicotine are generated together in varying proportions when tobacco is smoked. An accompanying Research Planning Memorandum suggests an approach to reducing the amount of "tar" in cigarette smoke per unit of nicotine. That is probably the most realistic approach in today's market for conventlonal cigarette products. However, another more futuristic approach is possible which goes more directly to the fundamentals of the alleged problem.
If our business is fundamentally that of supplying nicotine in useful dosage form, why is it really necessary that allegedly harmful "tar" accompany that nicotine? There should be some simpler, "cleaner", more efficient and direct way to provide the desired nicotine dosage than the present system involving combustion of tobacco or even chewing of tobacco. A conventional 1000 mg. tobacco rod containing about 20 mg. of nicotine is smoked to produce only about 1.3 mg of smoke nicotine, accompanied by about 20 mg. of "tar" and 20 mg. of gas phase matter; and a [substantial] part of the 1.3 mg of smoke nicotine is lost to the smoker via exhaled smoke -- surely an inefficient nicotine delivery system. It should be possible to obtain pure nicotine by synthesis or from high-nicotine tobacco. It should then be possible, using modifications of techniques developed by the pharmaceutical and other industries, to deliver that nicotine to the user in efficient, effective, attractive dosage form, accompanied by no "tar", gas phase, or other allegedly harmful substances. The dosage form could incorporate various flavorants, enhancers, and like desirable additives, and would be designed to deliver the minimum effective amount of nicotine at the desired release-rate to supply the "satisfaction" desired by the user. Such a product would maximize the benefits derived from nicotine, minimize a11egedly undesirable over-dosage side effects from nicotine, and elimlnate exposure to other materials alleged to be harmful to the user. For the long term, we should be working toward development of such products -- if we do not, inevitably someone else will, and there are strong indications that others are already moving in this direction.
In the present real situation, where nothing has been done to counteract the adverse allegations about nicotine and where conventional products delivering adequate amounts of nicotine dominate the marketplace, no abrupt change in our posture or strategy would be appropriate or reasonable. The approaches advocated above are aimed at stopping and eventually reversing a trend that may in the long term put us out of business, and are intended to lay a framework of philosophy around which research efforts may now begin. Hopefully, some day we will rejotce rather than despair when a new crop of tobacco shows an unusually high content of nicotine, our primary product. Hopefully, with time we will be able to develop sophisticated and improved minimum dosage forms for nicotine which will be more satisfying to the user and free of alleged health hazards. And hopefully, by that time, we will have been able to establish and use information showing that use of nicotine fills real, demonstrable human needs, the beneficial effects overriding the allegedly harmful side effects.
If the above is a valid line of reasoning, then our long-term future courses of action should be as follow:
- 1. Recognize the key role of nicotine in consumer satisfaction, and design and promote our products with this in mind.
- 2. More precisely define the minimum amount of nicotine required for "satisfaction" in terms of dose levels, dose frequency, dosage form, and the like. This would involve biological and other experiments.
- 3. Sponsor in-depth studies of the physiologlcal, psychological and other effects of nicotine, aimed at demonstrating the beneficial effects of nicotine and at disproving allegations that nicotine produces major adverse effects.
- 4. Study, design and evaluate new or improved systems for delivery of nicotine which will provide the minimum satisfying amount of nicotine in attractive form, free of allegedly harmful combustion products.
- 5. Study means for enhancing nicotine satisfaction via synergists, alteration of pH, or other means, to minimize dose level and maximize desired effects.
- 6. Monitor developments in materlals and products which may compete with nicotine products or which might be combined with nicotine products to provide added advantages or satisfactions.
- 7. Monitor work by others which might be aimed at improved nicotine delivery systems of the type proposed here.
- 8. Search for and evaluate other physiologically active components of tobacco or its smoke which may provide desired effects to the smoker.
Signed, Claude E. Teague, Jr.
April 14, 1972
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After spending 2 nights in KL, we flew out to Kota Bharu in order to get to Petani Beach House on Pulau Perhentian, our island destination. At the airport we bought an official airport taxi transfer ticket to Kuala Besut's jetty. We had been told by Debbie (the lady who manages/owns Petani Beach House with her husband Hash) to not go for the cheaper combined taxi-boat tickets if we wanted a better "boat experience". She also advised to look for Kuala Besut Travel at the jetty. It was a little hidden away, but was worth looking for since we managed to get a boat ride before most of the other people who were waiting for their boats. The lady who manages Kuala Besut Travel was very efficient and quickly got us on our way. The jetty is quite chaotic and confusing, so having someone that takes control is very handy. By the way, since Pulau Perhentian has been made a "Marine Park" you now have to pay an admission fee of 5 MYR to get on the island.
We must have looked a bit "out of place" with our over-sized luggage (blame the city destinations), excessive hand luggage and Siân's white leather handbag. The boat ride itself was fast, very fast and a little bumpy.
My partner Siân was slightly worried about the fact that we wouldn't have aircon nor hot showers, but she wanted a "perfect beach" destination. I discovered Petani Beach House by accident 10 years ago (was able to find my name in the early pages of the Register Book) and afterward never managed to find a beach that lived up to that particular beach setting, not even The Crane in Barbados.
Now, in order to get the perfect beach on an island such as Perhentian you have to be willing to make a trade-off between luxury and nature. It would be really difficult to build concrete aircon bungalows without affecting the surrounding nature and destroying some coral while at it.
I knew the accommodation was going to be quite basic (but not as basic as some other places on the island) and that we should expect some creepy crawlers inside (the backyard literally is jungle), but I was also hoping that the atmosphere and setting would compensate for all these minor issues. And it did! Big time!
Even though Siân had asked me to come up with a Perhentian back-up plan (meaning a place with aircon and hot showers), once we arrived at Petani Beach House she didn't want to leave anymore. The atmosphere at Petani Beach House was just amazing, which was mainly due to the setting and the people who are running the place.
The owners, Debbie and Hash, were visting family in South Africa when we went, so they left the management of Petani Beach House to their children, with their partners and friends. Bianca and David are excellent at running "front of house", while Icken and Raisa are producing amazing food in the kitchen. And even with everybody being very efficient at what they do, there is no trace of stress to be found on this beach. If you can't chill at Petani Beach House, you need valium and if you don't like the food, you need other taste buds.
Remember me saying Siân was initially slightly worried about staying at Petani Beach House, and I honestly was also slightly worried how she would react to it after the 5 star luxury in the cities ... well, have a look at her review on TripAdvisor and you'll see she also loved it!
Tips when staying at Petani Beach House:
- Go for the "specials" at dinner time. Every evening Bianca or David came by the bungalow to say what the special was that evening (always fresh from the day and served at about 8pm) and we systematically just went for it. We had some amazing food, and I particularly remember the red snapper, calamari and crab.
- David organises his own snorkel tour which is just amazing. Do it! With David being ex-military, a qualified diver and having a certificate for rescue at sea, he made us feel very safe and relaxed while we were just totally gobsmacked at seeing sea turtles from up close, giant rays, sharks, and the most techni-colour bunch of fishes ever.
- Make sure to have an underwater camera. I'm still kicking myself for not having brought one to the island.
- Bring some battery powered LED book lights and torches when staying at Petani.
- If you are planning on keeping some snacks or food inside the bungalow, make sure to bring Tupperware style containers, because the ants seem to be able to find your food wherever it might be (even when hung, in a tightly knotted plastic bag).
- Mosquito repellent! Loads of it, and go for the strong stuff! Even though Bianca and David hand out mosquito coils and use them under the tables at the restaurant, the mosquitoes are really aggressive. Seemingly Off is one of the most efficient mosquito repellents for the island according to them.
- For the ladies, bring a mirror you can place on the deck outside if you want to do a bit of pampering. (the light inside the bungalows might not be bright enough)
- Get yourself a local Malay SIM card before going to islands. All the major Malay mobile network providers have a decent signal on the island.
- The nearby bigger Impani resort is handy for when you want a snack when Petani's restaurant is closed, or when you need extra rental snorkel equipment.
- Try the local Orang Utang rum, also known as "Monkey Juice". It mixes very well with Coke or pineapple juice.


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Pain looms for motorists at 1604/281 interchange
U-turn closings are just start of closures North Side drivers will face.
Work continues to barrel ahead on a long-awaited interchange linking Loop 1604 to U.S. 281, a massive road project designed to provide relief for desperate commuters at one of the city's most congested intersections.
But the $130 million project, which started last spring, will force a series of road closures over the next two years.
The latest started Tuesday, when construction crews closed the turnaround from eastbound to westbound Loop 1604 at 281. The turnaround will reopen at 5 a.m. Aug. 2, said Michelle Martinez, public information officer for the Alamo Regional Mobility Authority, the agency overseeing the project.
Once that construction is complete, the turnaround that connects the westbound 1604 access road to the eastbound side will close for two weeks.
The construction cranes and half-finished concrete pillars that dot the landscape are signs of the long road ahead — a few hours after crews closed the 1604 turnaround, traffic already had backed up along the loop's eastbound access road.
The long line of cars, trucks and SUVs wasn't unlike another nearby stretch of traffic — this one on the northbound 281 access road, where scores of vehicles slowly inched their way up to a traffic light, waiting to turn onto the loop.
The traffic clog has become a way of life for North Side commuters, and one that RMA officials and area residents hope the interchange will address.
"It'll definitely bring congestion relief to an area that has been stuck," Martinez said.
Williams Brothers Construction will build flyover ramps connecting the loop to U.S. 281. Crews will erect 125 concrete columns of varying sizes, the tallest of which will rise about 100 feet, making it comparable in size to the two recent interchanges at Loop 410 and 281, and Loop 410 and Interstate 10.
Construction started in March, though the work remains tied up in an ongoing legal battle. The environmental group Aquifer Guardians in Urban Areas filed a lawsuit last August to halt the project, arguing it threatened the Edwards Aquifer recharge zone.
A federal judge denied AGUA's request for a preliminary injunction in April, but the case remains in federal court.
For now, the interchange is on target for completion by summer 2013.
Stone Oak resident Annette Jennings moved to the area in 2002, because her husband's co-workers recommended the nearby schools. But she got no warning about the congestion problems.
"I don't think we were aware of the traffic issues," said Jennings, 45.
She hopes the interchange will ease congestion more than another recent traffic-relief effort, the construction of a super-street system farther north on U.S. 281.
"This will be more straightforward," Jennings said. "That's what we're hoping."
The interchange is a design-build project, meaning engineers design the connector as they construct the structure, which can save time and money, said Patrick Irwin, the RMA director of engineering and operations.
It also means engineers can't predict exactly what road closures are in store for drivers, Irwin said, but he warned commuters to be prepared and mindful for future project signage.
Crews are building steel rebar cages, which eventually will become the interchange columns, Irwin said.
A horizontal structure called a cap will tie the columns together. Bridge beams will rest on top of the cap, and crews will build a bridge deck above the beams, Irwin said.
Two massive columns will support the director connectors.
"You can envision a time-lapse photograph of that thing kind of growing out of the ground," Irwin said. "You'll see the same basic design as you see in multilevel interchanges around town."


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Eric O'Dell's two goals lead St. John's IceCaps past Binghamton Senators 4-2NHL.com @NHLdotcom
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A six-game homestand may be exactly what the St. John's IceCaps need to stay in the chase for a playoff spot.
Eric O'Dell scored twice as St. John's opened the homestand with a 4-2 victory over the Eastern Conference-leading Binghamton Senators in American Hockey League play Friday.
Kael Mouillierat, who had a goal and two assists, said it was vital for the IceCaps to establish some momentum to start the long stay at home.
"We have six games at home here and we wanted to get off to a good start. I think we just played hard all night long, we knew we were playing a good team and we knew we needed a 60-minute effort," he said.
Kevin Clark also scored for St. John's (20-22-3), which is last in the Atlantic Division but just three points behind Manchester for the eighth and last playoff spot.
Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Shane Prince scored for Binghamton (27-11-4).
O'Dell, who became the first IceCaps player to record ten goals this season, said the team knew how difficult Binghamton would be coming into the game.
"We've been struggling at home lately, and Binghamton is top of the list in the conference. It was a big game for us," he said.
O'Dell added the team's home struggles this season need to change, and Saturday's game is even more important for St. John's (20-22-3).
"We usually go five-hundred at home, that's what we have been tending to do, so tomorrow is going to be a bigger game than tonight. We need to get the two points."
Mouillierat recently signed an AHL contract with St. John's, after playing most of the year in the ECHL, and has become a scoring threat by putting up 16 points in 23 games.
Moullierat said he felt fortunate to be signed to an AHL contract.
"I got to sign the contract there last week, and it's nice knowing you don't have to worry about being sent down and stuff like that. Now I get to focus on just playing hockey," he said.
IceCaps head coach Keith McCambridge said there is nothing magical about scoring on Robin Lehner, who made 30 saves for the Senators and was credited by McCambridge as an outstanding goaltender.
"His percentages are unbelievable, how he's been this season. You have to get traffic, but not just traffic of being in that area, you have to realize where he is in that net," said McCambridge.
"We were fortunate to get some goals on him, but I know this, if he does go tomorrow, he's going to be, again, a really focused goaltender."
Eddie Pasquale meanwhile had 21 saves for St. John's, which was a paltry 2 for 10 on the power play. Binghamton went 1 for 5.


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- Harsh Shah said...
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I believe that before sending kids to schools, parents themselves should go to school or train themselves in parenting skills.
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