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Scott A. Waldman, M.D., Ph.D., will receive the American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) Rawls–Palmer Progress in Medicine Award at the 2012 Annual Meeting on March 16.
Established in 1978 by Dr. W. B. Rawls, the award recognizes scientists who have implemented progressive research techniques and tools to improve patient care.
ASCPT will present the award to Dr. Waldman prior to his lecture at the 113th Annual Meeting.
Dr. Waldman is the Samuel MV Hamilton Endowed Professor of Medicine, Vice President of Clinical and Translational Research, and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics at Thomas Jefferson University. He is also Director of the Gastrointestinal Malignancies Program at the university's Kimmel Cancer Center and Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Sciences at Jefferson Medical College.
As a longtime volunteer leader of ASCPT, Dr. Waldman has participated on various committees and task forces, serving on the Board of Directors, as Society president, and as Editor in Chief of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics since 2006.
Dr. Waldman has chaired numerous scientific review panels for the NIH and is on the editorial boards of Personalized Medicine, Expert Reviews in Clinical Pharmacology, and Regenerative Medicine, among others. He is the inaugural Deputy Editor of Clinical and Translational Science and the inaugural Senior Editor of Biomarkers in Medicine.
Dr. Waldman is a recognized clinician–investigator whose research ranges from molecular biology to cancer diagnostics and therapeutics. He received the 2010 ASCPT Henry Elliott Award and the 2011 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation Award in Excellence for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
About ASCPT
ASCPT is the leading forum for the discussion, development, and integration of clinical pharmacology in the drug development continuum—from discovery to safe and effective use. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, ASCPT was established in 1900. Today, more than 2,100 ASCPT members are committed to advancing the science of human pharmacology and therapeutics worldwide.
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As a staunch conservative, I was deeply disappointed by the outcome of this election. Many of us are still stunned not so much by the results, but by the notion that half of America could vote to continue on a course which the evidence shows has not worked, is not working and will not work.
The only good note is that North Carolina stood solidly with the Republicans, though I doubt it will do much good for America. We all heard this was the most important election in our history and I believe it was. For the first time, the tipping point has been reached.
The values that made America the greatest nation in the history of the world have been usurped and will likely never recover. Never again will there be a culture where more people are working and supporting the country than not. Romney was vilified for his 47 percent comment, but what he said is true.
There are now more people who do not work and do not pay taxes than there are people who do. And those who do work are seeing their buying power and investments diminished to the point that there will be no value in working. Once the printing presses ramp up in Washington, inflation will skyrocket, sending the economy deeper into the sewer.
Obama and his Marxist handlers plan to increase taxes for the rich � those who don�t pay their �fair share.� What about taxing those who don�t pay taxes, such as those who get �earned income credit� for not paying taxes? If every person making over $250,000 per year were taxed at 110 percent of his income, it wouldn�t make a dent in the federal deficit and debt.
We cannot, we are told, cut expenditures because the programs are �necessary.� Really?
Sadly, half the American voters seem to think government is some sort of fairy godmother who can meet all of their needs. Democrats tend to be issue-voters who cannot see beyond their immediate needs.
The dumbing-down of America, a deliberate insidious movement based on the Humanist Manifesto, has resulted in a generation that is becoming more isolated, mentally and socially, from the American tradition. They have substituted social media for social responsibility. They have substituted education for knowledge.
They have substituted virtual reality for life experience. They have substituted �caring� for involvement. They have substituted self-worship for worship of the Creator. They have substituted entertainment for intellectual pursuits.
They have substituted entitlement for work ethic. They have substituted situational ethics for morality. They have substituted blame and apology for accountability. They have substituted political correctness for honest expression. They have substituted guilt for pride.
They have substituted mediocrity for excellence of achievement. They have substituted observation for participation. They have chosen inertia over activity. They have substituted vague wishes for commitment. This is the generation, truly, of symbolism over substance. They have substituted sound bites for ideas.
Videri quam esse?
Our organizations are dying. Service organizations like Ruritans, Civitans, Lions, Rotary, VFW and American Legion are dying by attrition.
Our traditional churches are dying. People will not commit and participate because they are too busy or maybe they don�t want the responsibility � or they just do not want to do anything that requires effort. Out traditions are under attack. We are being told we must subvert our values so that we become more inclusive of a more diverse population. As our traditions die, our nation becomes less of a beacon of liberty and more a dying ember.
I don�t understand how any person who claims belief in God could belong to a political party or vote for any candidate of a party whose main platform planks include the murder of innocent babies, the acceptance of homosexuality, the exclusion of God, the superiority of science over theology and immorality and amorality over morality. God�s Word is clear on the consequences of sin, so the action plan of the Left must include relentless efforts to remove God(and the concept of sin and accountability)from our society and to demean those whose who are believers.
If one does not acknowledge God, then there is no moral imperative to follow. The Self then becomes the object of worship and the idols are highly subjective.
The Balkanization of America is nearly complete. The nation that once welcomed the �huddled masses yearning to be free� into a melting pot that was uniquely America is now a smorgasbord of hyphenated-groups each wanting its piece of the pie, like hungry pigs fighting at the udder of a government sow.
Racial and economic divisiveness, class-envy if you will, is the moths eating away on the warp and weft of our society. The government has created a welfare class that has strained our ability to support. Yet it expects us to continue to play the game, even though we know the outcome.
The Left has no rational, logical or otherwise valid defense of its demagoguery and resorts to ad hominem attacks on conservatives, calling us racists, homophobes, Neanderthals, Hitlers and bigots. If backs defy and deny the racist rhetoric of black politics or black lineration theology, they are called Uncle Toms or accused of acting �too white.�
If we refuse to accept homosexuality as just a harmless �alternative lifestyle,� we are vilified and denounced as insensitive or called �haters,� a label that is neither appropriate nor accurate. If we defend the unborn, we are accused of waging war on women.
If we question the causes or effects of climate change, we are called ignorant or uncaring. If we demand enforcement of immigration laws, we are called anti-Hispanic, even though immigration laws also apply to Germans, Japanese, Australians, Canadians, Indians, Russians, etc. If we decry Muslim extremism, we are closed-minded religious bigots � or infidels. We are called intolerant by those who cannot tolerate conservative principles.
Unless America has a spiritual, moral and patriotic revival, we will never again experience the America that has deposed dictators, lent aid to distressed nations and brought freedom to the oppressed. We will be just another third-world nation. American Exceptionalism is not a myth, even though the current generation would have us believe that it is.
America has never been a perfect nation. We have made mistakes. We have some dark history. That doesn�t make us an evil nation.
It is bad that the Left prevailed in this election. The political forces at work will continue to make it difficult for economic recovery.
With economic vitality, it won�t matter how many wonderful programs the government launches in its feeble efforts to create an illusion of prosperity. Without a productive free market economy we are at the mercy of those who seek to destroy us. When they come to take your property, your support of abortion, gay rights, environmentalism, or any of your pet cause will not save you.
Your vote for a strong capitalist economy would have been preferable. The sadder notion is that half the American people have no concept that their vote for the liberal agenda charts a path to the destruction of that �Great Shining City on A Hill.�
Nikita Khrushchev prophesied our destruction will come. It�s closer than many think. I just pray that there are enough right-thinking people to turn the ship of state before it is too late. It�s time to separate the sheep from the goats.
God help us.
Bob Gaddis lives in Grifton and is an entrepreneur at Bee-Gee Enterprises. You can reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com. The opinions of the guest columnist are not necessarily those of The Free Press.
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Nicole Farber Named ECAC Metro Softball Player of the Week
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Centerville, Mass. - Junior shortstop/pitcher Nicole Farber (Oakdale, N.Y./Connetquot) was named the ECAC Metro Softball Player of the Week on Tuesday, March 23rd for her play last week. Farber also joined the NCAA record books last week, recording eight consecutive hits on March 16-17th.
Farber went 16-for-22 (.727) with 18 RBI's, 12 runs scored, five doubles and three home runs, leading the Rams to a 6-0 week in Orlando, Florida.
Her eight consecutive hits came in game two against St. Joseph's (CT) on March 16th and then carried over to game one against Daniel Webster on March 17th. Against St. Joe's, she went 3-for-4 with two doubles, a single and two RBI's. She then batted 5-for-5 with eight runs batted in, five runs scored and two home runs in game one against Daniel Webster.
Her streak was halted in game two with a fly out to second base, but she pitched a complete game shutout in that game, allowing two hits while striking out five and walking only one batter.
In the next two games vs. University of New England, Farber was 5-for-6 at the plate with a homerun, three RBI's and three runs scored.
She currently leads the team with a .590 batting average, 39 at-bats, 16 runs scored, 23 hits, 6 doubles, 24 RBI's and a 1.128 slugging percentage. She is tied with sophomore teammate Aubrey Walker with a team-leading five homeruns.


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Study of Once Daily Elvucitabine Versus Lamivudine in Subjects With a Documented M184V Mutation (Resistance)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00312039
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 7, 2006
Last Update Posted : January 22, 2014
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HIV-1 infected patients receiving long-term therapy with lamivudine or emtricitabine (nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors [NRTIs]) are at risk for the development of a mutation at position M184 on the HIV reverse transcriptase gene. This mutation confers resistance to both drugs (> 100 fold increase in IC50).
In-vitro studies with elvucitabine have shown that HIV-1 isolates with the M184V mutation show only a 10-fold increase in IC50 as compared to wild type HIV-1. Achillion Pharmaceutical's intention is to demonstrate that 10 mg of elvucitabine, administered once per day for 14 days with continued background anti-HIV-1 medications, will demonstrate a fall in HIV-1 RNA plasma levels, as compared to baseline. The data from this study will guide dosing in future long-term studies in HIV-1 infected patients with the M184V mutation.
|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: elvucitabine Drug: Lamivudine
|Phase 1 Phase 2
Protocol Title: A 14-Day, Randomized, Double-Blind, Comparative Viral Kinetic Study of Elvucitabine Versus Lamivudine Administered Once Daily to HIV-1 Infected Subjects With a Documented M184V Variant Protocol Number: ACH443-014A Clinical Phase: 2a Primary Objectives: • To assess the viral kinetics of 10 mg of elvucitabine administered once daily (QD) for 14 days in combination with background antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1-infected subjects with a documented M184V variant
- To demonstrate the antiviral activity of 10 mg of elvucitabine administered QD for 14 days in combination with background antiretroviral therapy as compared with lamivudine in combination with background antiretroviral therapy in HIV-1 infected subjects with a documented M184V variant
- To assess the safety of elvucitabine therapy in HIV-1 infected subjects with a documented M184V variant Number of Subjects: 20 Number of Study Centers: Multi-center study Study Population: HIV-1 infected subjects who are presently failing an antiretroviral therapy regimen containing lamivudine or emtricitabine, genotypically demonstrate a MI84V variant, and have an HIV RNA plasma level ≥ 2,000 and ≤ 150,000 copies/mL. Study Design: HIV-1 infected subjects, with a documented M184V variant, will be randomized to receive elvucitabine 10 mg QD or lamivudine 300 mg QD for 14 days. Subjects must be receiving a stable antiretroviral regimen (defined as no change in antiretroviral therapy for at least 4 weeks prior to randomization) that includes lamivudine or emtricitabine. At 72 hours prior to randomization, only lamivudine or emtricitabine will be stopped for washout; subjects will continue to receive the other drugs in their prescribed regimen (background antiretroviral therapy) during the 72-hour washout period. Subjects will then be randomized to receive blinded elvucitabine or lamivudine in a 1:1 ratio and continue to receive their prescribed background antiretroviral therapy for 14 days on an outpatient basis. Subjects will be followed for an additional 14 days post-treatment for safety, unless they enroll into the ACH443-018 extension study where they will continue to be treated and followed for safety.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Estimated Enrollment :
|20 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A 14 Day Randomized, Double Blind, Study of Once Daily Elvucitabine Versus Lamivudine in Subjects With a Documented M184V Mutation
|Study Start Date :
|March 2006
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|October 2007
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|October 2007
|Experimental: A
Drug: elvucitabine
Elvucitabine 10 mg QD for 14days
|Active Comparator: B
Drug: Lamivudine
Lamivudine 300 mg QD for 14 days
- Reduction in viral load [ Time Frame: 14 days ]
- safety [ Time Frame: 14 days ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinically stable HIV-1 infected patients
- Ages > 18 and < 65 years
- Documented M184V mutation
- CD4 cell count > 100 cells/mL
- Plasma HIV-1 RNA levels > 5000 and < 150,000 copies/mL
- Currently receiving lamivudine or emtricitabine
- Other hematologic and metabolic parameters must be met.
- Provide written informed consent
- Other inclusion criteria apply.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Hepatitis B antigen positive
- HIV-1 genotype positive for more than or equal to 4 protease mutations
- HIV-1 genotype positive for more than or equal to 2 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI) mutations
- Previous therapy with cytotoxic or myelosuppressive drugs in the past 3 months
- Evidence or history of cirrhosis
- Women who are pregnant or breast feeding
- Other exclusion criteria apply.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00312039
|United States, Alabama
|UAB Birmingham
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|United States, California
|University of California at Davis
|Sacramento, California, United States, 95817
|United States, Florida
|University of Miami School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
|Orlando Immunology Center
|Orlando, Florida, United States, 32803
|Olayemi Osiyemi
|West Palm Beach, Florida, United States, 33401
|United States, Georgia
|Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30308
|United States, New York
|Beth Israel Medical Center
|New York, New York, United States, 10003
|United States, Ohio
|University of Cincinnati
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45242
|Principal Investigator:
|Judith Feinberg, MD
|University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, Cincinnati, OH
|Principal Investigator:
|Donna Mildvan, MD
|Beth Israel Medical Center, Infectious Diseases, Baird Hall, NY, NY
|Principal Investigator:
|Richard Pollard, MD
|UC Davis Medical Center, Div. of Infectious Diseases, Sacramento, CA
|Principal Investigator:
|Michael Saag, MD
|UAB Medical Center, AIDS Outpatient Clinic, Birmingham, AL
|Principal Investigator:
|Dushyantha Jayaweera, MD
|University of Miami School of Medicine, Infectious Disease Research Unit, Miami, FL
|Principal Investigator:
|Edwin DeJesus, MD
|Orlando Immunology Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Melanie Thompson, MD
|ACRA Atlanta Georgia
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00312039 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 7, 2006 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 22, 2014
|Last Verified:
|January 2014
Keywords provided by Achillion Pharmaceuticals:
treatment experienced
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors
Nucleic Acid Synthesis Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Anti-Retroviral Agents
Antiviral Agents
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I'm sure it's different when two people are in a relationship and comfortable with each other, but when you're navigating the single girl's minefield of tipsy hook-ups, awkward dating and long (I'm talking long) periods of unintentional celibacy, getting oral sex is like, oh, I dunno, a Mast chocolate bar.
It's a treat, but it shouldn't be! We should always have some. Plus, There's never enough of it, and it hardly ever lasts as long as it should.
Bet you never thought that dudes in search of good sexual ground rules should look to the mating rituals of the Indian fruit bat. However, a study reprinted in HuffPo that sampled 420 of the critters in one small village reflects an awful lot of considerate foreplay on the part of the male bat. Specifically, cunnilingus, although the time they spend down there could use some improvement.
Each case of cunnilingus typically lasted about 50 seconds. The males then mounted the females for 10 to 20 seconds, and then went back to cunnilingus for 94 to 188 seconds.
Over 13 months of monitoring with binoculars and a video camera (pervs), researchers witnessed 57 cases of bat sex, both intercourse and oral. It's a two-way street, of course: female fruit bats also perform oral sex on the males.
It's speculated that the biological reason behind male bats' tendency to go down on female bats (God, my job is weird) is to prolong copulation, further arouse and lubricate the female bats, and improve the chances of pregnancy. However, one researcher confirms that "bats also exhibit oral sex as a courtship behavior."
Yup, that'll do it! Not to mention give female bats some great brunch conversation.
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Halloween understandably spurs the release of new horror films every year, and 2012 is no exception. Two weeks ago, we were treated to the mercifully brief run of "V/H/S," an anthology of interchangeable stories organized around "found footage" that would have been better left unfound. Last week was "Sinister," which was a step up, but basically recycled a bunch of creaky plot ideas so overused that they now qualify as conventions: family arrives at new house, kids start acting spooky, objects start moving on their own, and each casual closing of a door triggers a noise so loud that the characters — and, of course, the audience — are physiologically forced to jump.
"Paranormal Activity 4" manages to trump both movies by putting the family/kids/objects/blam elements into a "found footage" format, a device that the first "Paranormal Activity" revived so effectively five years ago. Because — spoiler alert — everyone dies at the end of the first film, the economically mandated sequels have mostly been filling in the back story, while trying to set up enough pre-story to allow for "Paranormal Activity 5," "6," "7." Katie Featherston is the only cast member to appear in all four so far: one of the blessings of the form, from the actors' point of view, is that death is not quite as final as it is in other genres — or, for that matter, in life.
This time around, a family must temporarily look after Robbie (Brady Allen), the spooky kid from across the street, while his mother is in the hospital. Fortuitously, their son Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp) is the same age — 6-ish? — and quickly bonds with Robbie and the "imaginary" companion he's brought with him. When the weirdness starts, big sister Alex (Kathryn Newton) and her wiseacre boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively) secretly network all the computers in the house into a 24-hour webcam peep-and-keep system.
The "Paranormal Activity" series is one of the few franchises to succeed at introducing something different into each film. (The same was true for most of the first run of "Nightmare on Elm Street" movies.) But the ideas are running out; for the first time, there is nothing new, other than one cool special effect. Beyond that, it tiresomely relies on the "slam-and-blam" tactics. Sure, I was scared in the sense that I leapt along with everyone else, but I wasn't proud of myself in the morning.
Last week's "Sinister" is slightly better, largely thanks to Ethan Hawke, who plays a true-crime writer desperate for a hit. He is dopey enough to move into the very house he's investigating, and dopier still to hide this from his wife (Juliet Rylance). It seems that, one day, the previous occupants (except a son) were hanging out under the old oak tree; the next day they were hanging from it. Things get weird, ominous and progressively convoluted when the writer comes across a box of old Super-8 films (and, helpfully, a projector) in the attic. That's right: more found footage.
Unlike the "Paranormal Activity" films (and "Cloverfield" and "The Blair Witch Project"), the footage in "Sinister" is used within a conventional narrative; it doesn't determine the way in which the story is told. As a result, it looks slicker than those others, despite having reportedly been made for under three million dollars (which it handily recovered the first weekend).
Like the "Paranormal Activity" films, it's full of shock cuts and loud noises and fake-out threats. Similarly, every time it barked, I jumped. And, once again, I wasn't proud when I woke up the next day. I'm beginning to feel like a horror-film tramp.
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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FIFA mulling over fourth extra-time substitute
Substitutes have made a big impact at the World Cup, and there could be more of them in four years' time.
FIFA's coaching advisers will propose before the 2018 World Cup kicks off that teams can use a fourth substitute in extra time.
"I think that's an idea that we will put to football's rules-making panel," said Gerard Houllier, the former Liverpool manager who is now a member of the FIFA technical study group.
Up to three replacements are currently allowed, even when knockout matches go to 30 extra minutes after scores are level in regulation time.
Houllier said changing the rules could see fewer players struggle with muscle problems in high-intensity matches.
"It's a good idea. Only in extra time. Maybe if someone is injured, why not?" the former France coach said.
So far, substitutes have scored 29 goals after coming off the bench in Brazil, already a World Cup record with eight matches left to play. The previous mark was 23 at the 2006 tournament in Germany, FIFA said.
"Substitutes play such an important part because they come with a freshness and attitude," Houllier said. "Nearly a quarter of the goals have been scored in the final 15 minutes of the game."
Those goals by subs have often been game-changing, rather than additional scores in blowout victories.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar came on late when the Netherlands were losing 1-0 to Mexico in the round of 16 on Sunday. Huntelaar teed up Wesley Sneijder for an 88th-minute leveller and then scored the decisive stoppage-time penalty.
On Monday, Belgium could not beat inspired United States goalkeeper Tim Howard until substitute Romelu Lukaku was sent on in extra time, and quickly set up Kevin De Bruyne for the equalising goal, then scored the second in a 2-1 win.
The Americans also got a decisive late goal in their opening group match from defensive replacement John Brooks.
FIFA has asked Houllier's group to propose ideas to football's rules panel, known as IFAB.
The panel was denied the chance to approve a fourth sub at its annual meeting in March 2012, when FIFA withdrew the proposal.
Houllier suggested it should now be revisited.
"At this World Cup everything is going so quick, so fast, the tempo has been so high," he said. "As a technician we would like to have in extra time the possibility to have another substitution."


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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bill that could allow several thousand bars in Pennsylvania to profit from gambling contests called small games of chance hit the fast-track Wednesday in the state Legislature, and its passage would represent the largest expansion of legal gambling in nearly four years.
The bill passed the Senate 39-11 without debate. A spokesman for House Republican majority leaders said a final vote was possible before the end of the day Wednesday.
The last substantial expansion of gambling approved by lawmakers was in 2010, when slot-machine casinos were allowed to add table games.
Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, said he expected the bill will be passed by the House and signed by Gov. Tom Corbett. A spokesman for Corbett did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Under the bill, approximately 4,500 bars and taverns could seek licenses to hold pull-tabs, daily drawings and tavern raffles. Individual prize limits would be $2,000 for a single game and $35,000 over seven days, while raffles would be limited to once a month. The state would take 60 percent of the bar owner's revenue, an amount projected at $150 million a year for the state's main bank account.
Amy Christie of the Pennsylvania Licensed Beverage Association, which represents bars and restaurants with state liquor licenses, said the gambling expansion would allow mom-and-pop bar and tavern owners to compete with casinos and the private clubs that can sell liquor and profit from gambling. But, she insisted, the gambling expansion being afforded to bars and taverns in the bill was a fraction of what their competitors are able to offer.
"This is not casino gaming, this is not private club gaming," Christie said. The additional income for tavern owners— state budget analysts project about $100 million a year — would help bar and tavern owners make a living, but also allow them to continue donating to charities and sponsoring civic causes such as ball fields and softball teams.
"It's not going to come out of our meager existence we make selling a beer," she said.
A companion bill passed by the Senate, 45-5, would expand from six to eight how games that private clubs and volunteer organizations — VFW posts, American Legion halls and Moose and Elks lodges — could offer, and it would raise some maximum prizes.
It also would legalize small sports betting pools, as long as the volunteer organizations and clubs return the entire betting pool to the players.
A House vote on that bill also was possible Wednesday.


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I want to talk to you tonight about the role of Scripture in sanctification...the role of Scripture in sanctification. Now you know we've been working through a bit of a doctrinal series and it's been a little bit scrambled, and that's okay, we're picking and choosing doctrinal themes that in some ways stand alone, although they are, of course, all related. Now when I mentioned the idea of sanctification, you know what I mean by that. That's the progress toward holiness. That's spiritual growth. That's becoming increasingly separated from sin and separated unto Jesus Christ. Sanctification begins at our salvation and it ends or culminates at our glorification. We are justified, declared righteous at our salvation. We are glorified, made fully righteous when we see the Lord face to face. In the meantime, we are being progressively sanctified. That is, we are progressively being separated from sin unto Christ.
The process of sanctification that goes on all our lifelong and we never arrive at the finish, there's no such thing in this life as perfect sanctification. But the process is dependent upon Scripture. Just as the process of your own growth is dependent upon food, you grow as you eat. And our food is Scripture, the Word of God, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Characteristic of life is growth, where there is life there is growth, where there is growth there is life, it's not static and we grow because we live and we live because we eat and we eat the Word of God. So the Scripture then is the food that fuels our spiritual growth and our sanctification. That's what I want to talk about tonight.
One of the most remarkable statements that our Lord Jesus ever made, and He made an awful lot of remarkable statements as you obviously know. But one of the ones that I think is the most remarkable...one of the most remarkable He ever made, there are many revelations that comes from His lips about His holy perfection, but it is the statement that He made in His prayer in John 17. It is a brief statement but it is an emphatic statement. He could have used, really, less words, three...He could have used one. But He used three for the sake of emphasis. What is recorded in John 17 are these three Greek words, ego hagiazo emoton(??), ego hagiazo emoton. It's in verse 19, by the way, of John 17 and it is this statement, "I sanctify Myself." I sanctify Myself. Now you could say that with one verb in a reflexive first-person usage. You could say it with one form of the word hagiazo. When you add the ego you make the I emphatic and when you add the emoton you make the myself emphatic. So this is as emphatic as a statement can be made, "I sanctify Myself," emphasis not so much on the sanctification as on the I and Myself. It is a stunning statement. It is a statement unknown to any human being. It is furthermore a statement He makes to God, to His holy omniscient Father and He makes it without any hint of hesitation. He knows He won't be contradicted. It is a statement that none of us could make, no human being could ever say to God and get away with it, "I sanctify Myself."
We all know what sanctified means, it means to be separated from sin. And Jesus was fully separated from sin, as we read in Hebrews 7:26, He was holy, innocent and undefiled, separate from sinners. There's no debate in Scripture about His sanctification, His absolute, perfect sanctification, His complete holiness. There is no question about that. But the wonder of the statement is the uniqueness of His claim to self-sanctification. The indicative tense indicates a continuous reality, I continually sanctify Myself. He, according to Scripture, was at all points tempted like we are yet without sin. And He is saying the power of sanctification is within Me, I continually sustain My own sanctification, I continually separate Myself from sin, I continually maintain My own holiness though tempted as relentlessly as all of us are tempted. This is a staggering statement. This is a statement that sets Jesus apart from every person.
Now the essence of His self-sanctification, what is the essence of it? It is found in His own words. Go back to verse 17, "Sanctify them in the truth, Thy Word is truth." Then down to verse 19, "For their sakes I sanctify Myself that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth," or in the truth, implied. The essence then of self-sanctification on the part of Jesus has to do with the truth. And the truth, according to verse 17, is God's Word. He sanctified Himself by His response to the Word of God and therefore set the model for our sanctification as He prays in verse 27, "Sanctify them in the truth." Sanctification comes in aletheia. Sanctification comes in aletheia. It comes in the truth, in the context of the truth, in the realm of the truth, in the paradigm of the truth, in the presence of the truth. And that is to say by means of the truth. The key to sanctification then is to know and obey the truth. That is the will and word of God.
Let's follow this back in the gospel of John to chapter 4...chapter 4, and I'll show you specifically how Jesus related to the truth and why He sanctified Himself. Verse 34 of John 4, "Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me.'" There it is, He did exactly what God willed Him to do. Turn to chapter 5 and verse 17. In verse 17 He says, "My Father is working till now and I Myself am working," indicating that He worked along in perfect harmony with the Father. And then down in verse 19, "Truly, truly I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself unless it is something He sees the Father doing. Whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner." He does the will of the Father, He does exactly what the Father does. He is consistent, perfectly consistent with God the Father. Down in verse 30, He says, "I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge, My judgment is just because I do not seek My own will but the will of Him who sent Me."
That is perfect sanctification, to always do exactly what God does, to always do exactly what God wills, to always do exactly what God tells you to do. That is perfect sanctification, to always do the will of God. In John 6:38 we follow the same thought. "I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me." He is the model of what sanctification is. Sanctification is always obeying the will of God. He establishes that in chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6, "I do what the Father revealed that I should do. I do what the Father has asked Me to do. I do the will of the Father. I do what the Father does. I always do what the Father does."
And when you come in to chapter 7, you come to verse 18, He says this, "He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But he who is seeking the glory of the one who sent him, he is true and there is no unrighteousness in him." He's talking about Himself. He was self-sanctifying. He was of His own power righteous. There was no unrighteousness in Him because He not only did what the Father told Him to do, He not only did what the Father willed Him to do, He not only worked alongside the Father and did only what He saw the Father do, but He did everything that He did for the glory of the Father.
In chapter 8 you come to verse 28, He says, "When you lift up the Son of Man," John 8:28, "then you will know that I am He and I do nothing on My own initiative but I speak these things as the Father taught Me." Verse 29, "I always do the things pleasing to Him." I do what He tells Me, I do what He shows Me. I do what pleases Him. I do what glorifies Him. And in the fourteenth chapter of John, verse 31, "But that the world may know that I love the Father and as the Father gave Me commandment, even so I do."
What does it mean to be sanctified? Jesus said, "I sanctify Myself." How did He sanctify Himself? By always obeying the will of the Father. Always doing exactly what the Father told Him to do, always doing exactly what the Father did, always obeying exactly what the Father asked. Was the Father pleased? The Father said, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." He could stand before the omniscient Father and say, "I continually sanctify Myself," emphasis on the I, Myself and not get an argument out of heaven. That is one of the greatest statements of the deity of Jesus Christ on the pages of Scripture, perfect sanctification. What is it? Flawless obedience from the heart to the will of God, that's sanctification.
But if you go back to John 17 and you're almost there being in John 14, so turn over a couple of pages. Our Lord's sanctification is a model for us. He says, "I sanctify Myself that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth." I'm doing this, I'm doing Your will as a model for them to follow and to provide a salvation which will provide them the means by which they can be sanctified. The same way, by the truth, in the truth.
When you talk about sanctification, there are a number of things that contribute to our sanctification, our prayers do, our worship does, our service does. There are a number of means of grace that are laid out in the Scriptures but they're all laid out in the Scriptures so that the foundation of all sanctification is the truth. It is the Scripture, 2 Timothy 3:15, that makes you wise unto salvation. It is the Scripture that perfects you. You know, John really learned his lessons well. John did, the Apostle John. He wrote that record, that record about sanctification being modeled in Jesus as His perfect obedience to the revealed truth of the Father established the pattern. He learned His lessons well. Let's look at them.
Turn to 1 John and see it when he wrote his epistles how he included this. First John 2, let's look at verses 5 and 6. "But whoever keeps His Word, in him the love of God has been truly perfected." Obedience is the demonstration that we truly love God. Go back to verse 4, "There are those who say I come to know Him, they don't keep His commandments, they are liars and the truth is not in them. But whoever obeys His Word, in him the love of God has been truly perfected. By this we know we're in Him." Verse 6, "The one who says he abides in Him ought himself walk in the same manner as He walked," and how did He walk? He walked in perfect obedience to His Father. He walked keeping God's will, Word, truth. He walked obediently, perfect obedience. And we're to walk the way He walked. He's the model. He sets the perfect standard, perfect, constant, continual obedience to God because He always lived in the truth.
Let's look at the second letter, and this will be a reminder to those of you who were with us in our study of 2 John. And I want you to see it in this opening four verses, 2 John, the elder John is writing to a lady unnamed called the elect or chosen lady who has a family, so her children are included. Notice this, he says, "Whom I love in truth, and not only I but also all who know the truth, for the sake of the truth which abides in us and will be with us forever, grace, mercy and peace will be with us from God the Father and from Jesus Christ the Son of the Father, in truth and love, I was very glad to find some of your children walking in truth just as we have received commandment to do from the Father." Five times the word aletheia appears, five times. Our lives are about the truth, about knowing the truth, in verse 1, "All of us who know the truth." About the truth abiding in us, about walking in truth. Verse 6, "And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments," same thing. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning that you should walk in it. Walking in the truth and walking in obedience to the commandments is the same thing. That's why he warns us that deceivers have gone out into the world and we have to watch ourselves, in verse 8, because we could lose our reward, not our salvation but our reward, if we get too close to deceivers because they direct us away from the truth that sanctifies and what happens then is tragic. So verse 9 warns, "If anybody goes beyond, doesn't abide in the teaching of Christ, doesn't abide in the truth, then he doesn't have God and the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son." So when you run into somebody like that, verse 10 says if he comes to your house and brings this teaching that is not the truth, don't receive him into your house, don't give him a greeting. If you give him a greeting, you participate in his evil deeds. Stay away from error because it halts the sanctifying process. There's no virtue in exposing yourself to error. Truth sanctifies and sanctification is what we are to be about in this time between our justification and our glorification, progressing in our sanctification, our spiritual growth, and it only happens as we live in the environment of the truth and respond to that truth and obey that truth, and avoid anything that diminishes our understanding of that truth or perverts that truth.
I think it's pretty clear then what the role of the pastor is, what the role of the servant of the Lord, shepherd of God's sheep is, people can't be saved without the truth, they can't be sanctified without the truth. So what do we do? We teach the truth. You show me a place that doesn't teach the truth and I'll show you a place where true salvation isn't going to happen. I'll show you place where sanctification is stunted severely.
Look at 3 John, if that's not enough, and see how well John understood his lesson. This letter, unlike the first of these two postcard epistles, which would have been written on one piece of parchment, they're very brief. This one written to a man, the woman was unnamed, the man is Gaius. Notice how he again features the truth. "The elder to the beloved Gaius whom I love in truth.." And verse 3, "I was glad when brethren came and bore witness to your truth, how you are walking in truth," verse 4, "I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth." Why? Because then he knows his people are being...what?...sanctified. So important. It's so important.
You come to Jude and Jude in verse 3 says, "I wanted to write about our common salvation, but I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith...or if you will...for the truth, because certain persons have crept in unnoticed, long ago marked out for condemnation, ungodly persons turning the grace of our God into licentiousness and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus." And he is worried, Jude is, because he's not going to have a common salvation if you let go of the truth. So in verse 17 of Jude he says, "Beloved, you ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the Apostles, remember the truth." Verse 20, "Build yourselves up on your most holy faith."
You see, the New Testament ends with these warnings, right before the book of Revelation which then goes right to the end, the Apocalypse. So in John's two postcard epistles and Jude's little epistle with 350 words or so, at the most, one to a lady, one to man and one general epistle from Jude, the message is clear. It is the last message of Scripture before the book of Revelation, that is to say it's the last message before glorification. And the message is there will be false teachers, there will be false prophets and we can avoid them and we must avoid them and we must cling to the truth and fight for the truth because the truth is critical to our sanctification which is the purpose God has in mind for us here. There is no...listen, there is no sanctifying revelation, there is no sanctifying power in human intuition. There is no sanctifying power in human wisdom. There is no sanctifying power in human experience, it is all in the Scripture. Only the truth sanctifies, only the truth sanctifies. As believers live in, walk in the truth, they progress in their Christlikeness.
Back to 1 John chapter 2, and I will show you this in very specific terms. First John 2 verses 12 through 14, this is the definitive text, the definitive text on the role of Scripture in sanctification and spiritual growth. Verse 12, "I'm writing to you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for His namesake." His is a general statement. The word "children," is teknia, general term for children of God, without regard to whether you're young or old. In fact, all of us could be called teknia, I am a child of my parents no matter how old I am, I will always be their child, that's the broad general sort of non-chronological sense of this word. We are all little children, we are all teknia, we're all God's children, we all have been forgiven. So we know we're talking about believers here, okay? So we are all children of God. In the broad sense, all saved, all forgiven. It is to us he is speaking.
But then he splits us into three groups, verse 13. "I'm writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I'm writing to you, young men, because you've overcome the evil one. I have written to you, children...different word...because you know the Father." He repeats it. "I have written to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning. I've written to you, young men, because you're strong, the Word of God abides in you and you have overcome the evil one."
After identifying us all as children of God in the broad sense because we're forgiven, he splits us into three categories. There is another passage in which we are definitively split and that is in John 21 where Jesus says to Peter, "Feed My sheep and feed My lambs." There He splits us into two, lambs and sheep, the immature and the mature. Here we're split into three; children, young men and fathers. These are the three stages of spiritual growth. They have to do not with spirituality as opposed to carnality, but with sanctification. They have to do with maturity and growth. Spirituality is simply at a moment being obedient. Carnality is at a moment being disobedient, that is an absolute. This is a relative idea, maturity and growth is relative to where you were and where you're going. So we're talking here about maturity and we fall into three categories. First of all, the end of verse 13, "I have written to you, children." This is not teknia, this is paidia which specifically means kids, children underpedagogy, elementary children. We talk about elementary school, that's where we teach elemental things.
What is characteristic of children is ignorance. That is what characteristic of children, they are ignorant and elementary education is a process by which you eliminate ignorance. That's what we're doing with kids in elementary school, we're eliminating their ignorance at a basic level. What is characteristic of them is pretty simple. He says at the end of verse 13, "I've written to you, children, because you know the Father." What is true about a child is parental recognition. You have known the Father, that is a salvation expression. Romans 8:15, "We cry Abba Father." Again in Galatians 4:6, "Abba Father." When you become a Christian, when you become saved, you know God, God is your Father and you depend on God and you trust God and you know God loves you and that's what you know. And that's basically all you know. You are still immature. You recognize who you are. You recognize who cares for you, who loves you, who gave His Son for you. You have attachment to God. You have dependence on God. It is more regulated by your trust than by your knowledge.
It is characteristic of immaturity to be attached, right? What do we...what do we mark out as maturity? When a child grows to a point where they detach, right? Where they're on their own. Where they're responsible. It is characteristic of children, according to Ephesians 4:13 and 14, to be tossed to and fro, carried about by every wind of doctrine. Why? Because all their ignorance hasn't been eliminated. They're in the process of learning the ABCs, the elements. Hebrews 5:12 and 13 describes children as those who lack discernment. They don't have the criteria to discern so they need to be protected because they're really susceptible to error. Sad to say, there are churches and ministries that major on keeping people at this level. And they're proud of it. They're offering themselves as the models of ministry and they are filled with the unsaved and those who are saved are left in spiritual childhood struggling and unable to discern, knowing little more than God as Father, dependence on Him, trust in Him but lacking necessary discernment to protect themselves, and lacking the truth that moves them along the path of sanctification. Not being taught the Word of God, they're not even sure what God wants. They therefore don't know what to obey since the commands of God are not given to them. It's a sad state to be in. Certainly not a condition to celebrate and not one to perpetuate.
Second category is young men, verse 13, middle of the verse, "I'm writing to you, young men, because you've overcome the evil one." Verse 14, middle of the verse, "I have written to you, young men, because you are strong and the Word of God abides in you and you've overcome the evil one." What's the difference then between a spiritual child and a spiritual young man? First, spiritual young men have overcome the evil one. What does that say about spiritual children? They haven't overcome the evil one. They are therefore susceptible to error. What is Satan? He is disguised as an angel of light. He spends his time deceiving people. He spends his time confusing the undiscerning. And you cannot overcome the evil one who 99.9 percent of his efforts are spent in lies and deception, you can't do that unless you're strong in the Word. If you become strong in the Word, you have overcome the evil one. It doesn't mean you're sinless. The evil one isn't the problem in sin, you're the problem and I'm the problem. It's the flesh, not the devil that makes us sin.
The contrast between sin and righteousness in Galatians is not a contrast between the Spirit and the devil, it's a contrast between the Spirit and...what?...the flesh. So spiritual young men overcome the evil one. Why? Because they're strong. How did they get strong? "The Word of God abides in you." There you see very clearly what takes you from spiritual infancy and vulnerability to spiritual strength, the Word of God, you know what it is. It's just appalling to me that churches are being designed...designed to keep people at stage one, keep everything shallow, directed at childish preoccupations, stunt everyone's growth. It's hard for those who want to get out of that condition to find a place where they can become strong and the Word of God can abide in them.
But when you are strong in the truth, two times he says it, once in verse 13, once in verse 14, you have overcome the wicked one, overcome nikao from which the word Nike comes. It means to triumph, to conquer, prevail, win. You have overcome the evil one who is a liar and a deceiver because you're strong in the Word. You've grown up out of your maturity. You are no longer victimized by error.
It's wonderful to see these kinds of people. I'm surrounded by them all the time. Our church is full of these kinds of people. They want to go out and battle error. They want to go out and fight the cults. They want to champion the cause of the truth. It's wonderful to be in that condition because it eliminates so much potential destruction in your life. I'm pretty sure that I would never abandon the faith. I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to buy somebody's lie about God, or Christ, or the gospel cause the Word of God abides in me. And it's wonderful to be surrounded by people like that, triumphing over that. That doesn't mean we're sinless because that's the flesh. But it does mean that we have prevailed over the deceiver.
But that's not the end of spiritual growth. The third and the most mature is the fathers and he says, "I'm writing to you, fathers, because you know Him who has been from the beginning." Verse 14, "I've written to you, fathers, because you know Him who is has been from the beginning." Who is that? That's the eternal God, right? Do you know what the highest level of spiritual development is? The highest level of sanctification is not to know doctrine but to know the eternal God. You've gone beyond the doctrine and you see the one who is revealed there. This is where you live in wonder. This is where you live in worship. This is where you're more concerned about loving God, adoring God, worshiping God than pronouncing your theological accuracy. Your life all of a sudden is not defined by your theology, it's defined by your adoration, it's defined by your worship. Spiritual young men can be a little tough to deal with. This is where your biblical knowledge is deepened. This is where your biblical knowledge is not all you have, but you have seen the hand of God and the power of God and the grace of God and the mercy of God and the goodness of God through the experience of your life that has enriched your understanding of God. You've seen the powerful presence of God in your suffering, the providence of God in your life. And you have grown in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And in the words of Paul, you've come to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings. The Word has done its work year after year after year and God has made Himself known in your life. But divine truth is the source of sanctification.
Now, that's the introduction. Now I want to give you an outline, okay? It is not just information that we're after. The same sun that melts the wax hardens the clay, okay? There are people who sit under the teaching of the Word of God and just destroy their lives, walk away. Some Christians sit under the teaching of the Word of God, some Christians teach the Bible, teach it well, teach it accurately, and fall into horrific scandalous sin. And one wonders whether any sanctifying process was going on in the gathering of all this information. And so we have to approach this issue, I think, from several levels. Let me just give you a little outline you can work with.
First of all, sanctification by the Word of God demands cognition. Okay? Cognition, knowledge...knowledge and understanding of what the Bible means, that's where it starts. Since sanctification is by the knowledge of God, we are called to renew our minds. This is repeated against and again in the New Testament that we are sanctified by the renewing of our minds. All that means is the premium is on your brain to start with, it's not mystical, it's not mystical...you must know the truth. You must know what Scripture says and what it means by what it says, the meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture, as I've said to you. The meaning of the Scripture is the Scripture. You don't have the meaning, you don't have the Scripture. It's not the words, they're not magic. It is the accurate interpretation of those words that is the Scripture. And cognition is essential. This then is the discipline of putting the truth constantly into your mind. Any lack of knowledge retards and hinders sanctification. Any misunderstanding of Scripture eliminates that part of Scripture from one's bank of truth on which sanctification can be built. Any unbiblical paradigm for sanctification is useless, it cannot restrain the flesh, it cannot inform the mind, it cannot strengthen the will. It cannot empower us. You can take legalism and mysticism, you can take pragmatism and sacramentalism and all kinds of religious paradigms, even what I call demonism, chasing demons around as if getting rid of certain demons and pronouncing judgments on them is a means of our sanctification, you can try all of that, it accomplishes nothing. The only way you'll ever be sanctified is to know what the Bible teaches. You cannot confuse childlike faith with childish understanding. Childish teaching about Scripture accomplishes nothing. Superficiality and shallowness retards people. And I know there are some of you here at Grace Church who are new and you're beginning to realize that Scripture is filled with rich, profound, powerful truth. You're now discovering this after years of sitting in some shallow place, after years of being a spiritual child. Not because you wanted to be but because you didn't know. You know, you take one generation after the Apostles, just one generation after the Apostles, we call them the church fathers, these people were so disciplined in the knowledge of the Word of God they were writing treatises, they were writing profound theological apologies or defenses of the Christian faith. Now they were writing letters of immense depth and insight. Here we are almost two thousand years later celebrating our superficiality in the evangelical world. Here we are in the Christian church in a time when the largest and the most influential churches, the fastest growing churches are built on shallowness. And the church has become like a Christian comic book, or at most a People Magazine version of Christianity.
If then we are to be what God wants us to be and to be sanctified, we have to be not only counter-cultural in the world's sense, but we have to be counter-cultural in the church's sense. Many, many people, I run into them all the time, are struggling with their churches. They're struggling with the immaturity of their churches. They're struggling with the fact that their churches are content to deal on a superficial child...childish level and when they bring it up they become problems in their church. Sound doctrine has become a threat to the evangelical movement today because a kind of anti-intellectualism prevails and it produces a shallow self-indulgent theologically indifferent church that just wants to feel good about its infancy, if it is alive at all. In fact, it is this environment over the last fifteen/twenty years that I believe has led to the resurgence of the writings of the Puritans. I think people are desperate for depth. I think people want to grow. God's people want to grow. And where are they going to go? For the most part, they have to find authors that are dead, that have been dead a long time to find any depth. They have to travel into the past.
And I'll tell you this, folks, listen to this, the greatest and most faithful theologians of our day cherish the great theologians of the past. And the more a person reveres the great theologians of the past, the more careful students of Scripture they are. You see, we're producing today the kind of stuff that goes along with the childish church. J.P. Moreland said, "The mind is the soul's primary vehicle for making contact with God...the mind." And he said, "It plays the fundamental role in the process of maturation and spiritual formation." You take a course on spiritual formation today at some schools and they'll take you up in to a mountain and they'll tack you to a monk for two weeks who will teach you how to contemplate your navel and mystically ascend. That's not how you are sanctified. Spiritual formation, spiritual maturation comes through the mind. Bishop Molle(?) wrote, "Lord and Savior, true and kind, be the Master of my mind. Bless and guide and strengthen still, all the powers of thought and will while I ply the scholar's task, Jesus Christ be near, I ask. Help the memory, clear the brain, knowledge still to seek and gain." That's why Jesus said, you remember when He was talking to Mary and Martha, and one wanted to serve, Martha, Martha, and Mary sat down and He said, "You have chosen the better part," sitting at the feet of Jesus and learning. Foundation is absolutely necessary. And it makes obvious how important it is to have preachers and teachers who teach you the Word. "The Lord has given," Ephesians 4, "apostles, prophets, evangelists, teaching pastors, to the church for the perfecting of the saints." That's what we do, we mature you, we perfect you, we move you down the path of sanctification by the truth preached. That's why we're told, "Preach the Word in season out of season." Sanctification then in the truth requires cognition. You have to know it and know it rightly divided.
Secondly, it leads to conviction. Cognition should produce conviction. It doesn't always and this is where the hardening instead of the softening can take place. If your cognition doesn't become conviction, you've somehow halted the process. This progresses from knowing the truth to being compelled against all that opposes it. Excuse me if I have a conviction. People say, "You have such strong convictions." What else do you want me to do with the truth? What do you want me to do? This is divine truth. Do you want me to be indifferent to it? It has to lead to conviction.
Look at 2 Corinthians chapter 4 and in 2 Corinthians chapter 4 there are a number of elements here, but let's just start in verse 8. And this is sort of...a little brief bio of Paul. "We're afflicted in every way, but not crushed. Perplexed but not despairing. Persecuted but not forsaken. Struck down not destroyed." Now you'd think he could avoid that, wouldn't you? You would think he could make himself a little more popular. What are you doing, Paul, to be afflicted, persecuted, perplexed, struck down? Well it gets worse. Verse 10, "Always carrying about in the body the dying of Jesus." Verse 11 he says, "We are constantly being delivered over to death." This is pretty serious persecution. Verse 12 he says, "Death works in us." In other words, I'm always on the brink of death. He's talking about real physical death. I'm always on the edge of death. Somebody would say to him, "Paul, you know, this is ridiculous. What are you doing? What are you doing?" Verse 13 he tells you. He says, "My problem is I have the same spirit of faith according to what is written." And he quotes here from Psalm 116, "I believed therefore I spoke and so we also believe, so we speak." What's that? That's conviction, isn't it? I believe it's true so I say it and that's what gets me into trouble. It's a conviction.
You probably have read Pilgrim's Progress, anybody read Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan's great work? Sure. Do you know that John Bunyan spent twelve years in prison? He spent twelve years in prison for preaching the gospel. But he was never held there by the stone, and he was never held there by the steel bars. John Bunyan was held in prison by his conscience and by his conviction. People kept saying to him, "Look, you can get out, you can walk out, just stop preaching. You can walk out, you don't have to be there." Stinking rotten place, it was tearing his heart out because he left his wife and children without a father, without a husband, without a provider. This is what he said, he said, "If I stop preaching I will make of my conscience a continual butchery and slaughter shop. I'd have to slaughter to my conscience." And then he said, "I would rather suffer if frail life might continue so long till the moss grows on my eyebrows." That's a lot of conviction. He wasn't going to violate his conscience, it was a conviction. I don't understand people, but I know people who have the cognition but they don't have the conviction. They'll say, "Oh yes, that's true, but we certainly don't want to impose that on everybody. We don't have to be hard-nosed about that." I don't get that. For me, cognition, the understanding of the truth, leads immediately to conviction. There's a bridge there that one must cross or you've just jumped into the river. We learn Scripture truth in the mind, to establish what we believe and what we hold with all our will as a conviction. That's why Paul said, "You know, my conscience is clear. Second Corinthians 1:12, "My conscience is clear. I've lived so that my conscience does not accuse me." Acts 23:1 he said, "I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience." He said, "Look, I...I keep my conscience clear." Biblical truth establishes cognition, understanding, that must lead to conviction. I cannot understand people who don't move to conviction. If it doesn't become a conviction, it doesn't sanctify. It's when it grips your will. It's when you will speak the truth whatever the cost, whatever the price. I don't understand any other way to deal with the truth.
But there's a third. Cognition in the mind, conviction in the will, affection...affection in the soul. It goes beyond conviction, for me, it goes to affection. This is necessary for spiritual growth. It has to go here to really move you along. Psalm 1 really warns us, doesn't it? It warns us not to walk in the counsel of the wicked, or stand in the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of scoffers. But verse 2 says, "Blessed is the man whose delight...the word is delight is in the Law of the Lord and in His Law he meditates day and night." Not because somebody has a gun to his head, not because he has an assignment. Not because he has to, because he longs to, loves to. Psalm 19, "The Word is more desirable than honey in the honeycomb. It's more valuable than gold, than much fine gold."
If you look for a minute with me, look at Psalm 119 and let's see the psalmist giving us the illustration here of what it means to have affection for the truth. Psalm 119 verse 24, I'm going to go quick, verse 24, "Thy testimonies are my delight." Verse 35, "Make me walk in the path of Thy commandments for I delight in it." Verse 47, "I shall delight in Thy commandments which I love." Verse 48, "I shall lift up my hands to Thy commandments which I love." Verse 72, "The Law of Thy mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces." Verse 92, "If Thy Law had not been my delight I would have perished in my affliction." Verse 97, "O how I love Thy Law, it is my meditation all the day." Verse 111, "I have inherited Thy testimonies forever for they are the joy of my heart." Verse 113, "I hate those who are double-minded but I love Thy Law." Verse 127, "Therefore I love Thy commandments, above gold, yes above fine gold." Verse 159, "Consider how I love Thy precepts." Verse 161, "My heart stands in awe of Thy words." Verse 165, "Those who love Thy Law have great peace." Verse 167, "My soul keeps Thy testimonies and I love them exceedingly." Get the picture? That's the affection. It was Job who said, Job 23, I think it's verse 12, "I have treasured Thy words more than my necessary food." I'd rather know Your Word than eat. This is affection.
Turn to 1 Peter chapter 2, this is a good place to sort of wrap up our thoughts. First Peter chapter 2, verse 2, "Like newborn babes who long for the pure milk of the Word that by it you may grow in respect to salvation." You want to grow? You want to grow in respect to salvation? The big picture of salvation, justification, sanctification, final glorification, you want to grow? Then long for the Word the way a newborn longs for milk. That's affection. Long for, epipotheo, to crave. It's the word used in the Septuagint, Greek version of the Old Testament, Psalm 42:2, "As the deer pants for the water brook, so pants my soul for you, O God," pant for the Word. The only thing that can quench your thirst like a newborn baby longs for the pure milk, the gala logikon, the pure milk of the Word. Setting aside sin in verse 1, longing to be satisfied not for curiosity, not for intellectual stimulation, not to win an argument, but for a crying brephae, a crying baby longing to suck with all its strength on its very life supply. I'll tell you what, if the church doesn't provide the Word, there's going to be a lot of frustrated, angry, hungry spiritual children cause this is how you grow. This is how you grow.
Now having said all that, one more mentally critical reality that must he understood, okay? We have the Word of God, it functions in cognition, teaching us what we need to know; in conviction, gripping our will and making us live our lives by that no matter what the price. Then capturing the affection of our hearts so that we love it more than we love anything else. And in this sanctification takes place. However, one more thing needs to be said. Even with the Word of God, even with an understanding of the Word of God, we would not develop convictions and we would not develop affection apart from the gift of the Holy Spirit. In John 14:17, Jesus says, "I will ask the Father, He'll give you a Helper who will be with you, the Spirit of truth...the Spirit of truth." You're not going to know the truth, you're not going to be convicted as to its reality, you're not going to have that affection apart from the Spirit of truth. John 14:17, then again in John 15:26, "When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness of Me." When the Lord gave us the Holy Spirit at our salvation, He gave us the Spirit of truth, the Spirit who activates the truth and helps us understand it, the Spirit who ennobles us to conviction and the Spirit who lifts us to affection.
In the sixteenth chapter of John and the thirteenth verse, "When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth." I love that. He will guide you into all the truth. He will help you to understand the truth. He will help you to have conviction about the truth. And He will grant you affection for the truth. It is the Spirit, after all, who sanctifies as we gaze upon that truth. Second Corinthians 3 says, "We're changed into the very image of Christ by the Holy Spirit." It is then the Spirit working through the truth that sanctifies. He produces the cognition. He produces the conviction. And He produces the affection.
There really are two heavens, that's right, two heavens. There is the heaven in heaven and there is the heaven on earth. The heaven in heaven is glorification, but the heaven on earth is sanctification. And those who don't grow miss the heaven on earth. Join me in prayer.
Father, we thank You for the Word spoken to us so clearly and how helped we are to get a grip on this matter of Scripture and sanctification. We ask, Lord, that we might respond obediently and joyfully that we might become what you want us to be so that in our maturity we can enjoy the heaven on earth as well as serve You fully and radiate Your glory to those who need to know You. Grow us up in Your truth, we pray, in Christ's name. Amen.
I want to close by just reminding you of anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa has some interesting symptoms. People who have that interesting disorder are characterized by the following symptoms. They occasionally binge followed by vomiting, or enemas. Secondly, they are characterized by hyper activity, excessive exercise to give them the appearance of health. Thirdly, depression, private sadness, private shame, private depression, private guilt, private despair and very often suicide. Fourthly, they're characterized by isolation. They must be isolated because they have a fear of discovery. That's anorexia, occasional binges followed by vomiting and enemas, hyper-activity, depression, internal sadness, guilt, and isolation.
You know what the cure for this illness is? Eat nutritious food. Pretty simple, isn't it? I think there's a parallel there. There are within the church those who have a kind of spiritual anorexia. Occasionally they overdose on some Bible conference, or some book, but somehow having a way of getting rid of what they heard. They will very often get very involved in church activity to give the illusion of spiritual health, while inside they are characterized by private sadness and a struggle with sin that they can't really win. Because of the fear of discovery, they become isolated and want to make sure nobody gets very close. That's sad. The cure for that is normal nutrition. Feed on the Word to achieve cognition, conviction, and affection. Don't let that process get halted.


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