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God's Purpose in Our Pain (2 Corinthians 12:7-10)
How privileged we are to hear from the living
God through His living Word. Take your Bible, if you will, and turn to
the twelfth chapter of 2 Corinthians and I want to read for you verses 7 through 10 which
will provide the text for our study in the Word of God…2 Corinthians chapter 12 beginning
at verse 7. The Apostle Paul writes, "And because of the
surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason to keep me from exalting myself,
there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, to keep me
from exalting myself. Concerning this, I entreated the Lord three
times that it might depart from me. And he has said to me, 'My grace is sufficient
for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly therefore I will rather boast
about my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weakness,
with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties for Christ's sake for when
I am weak, then I am strong." At the heart of this passage is the statement
in verse 9, "My grace is sufficient for you." The word grace is a magnificent word in the
New Testament, it's the Greek word charis it is used a hundred and fifty-five times. And it should be used frequently because we
live in grace. It is grace below us, above us, before us,
behind us and beside us. It is grace in which we stand. This marvelous word refers to divine favor,
to divine blessing, to divine benefit. It refers to that which God has given to us
in Christ not because we earned it or deserved it, but because He willed to give it. And all of god's gifts to His children are
given by grace. Everything we have in our salvation from beginning
to consummation is by grace. We do not earn our justification, it is a
gift of grace. We do not earn our sanctification, it too
is a gift of grace. We certainly do not earn our glorification,
it is the culminating gift of grace which then allows God to show us everlasting grace
through all eternity. In the book of Ephesians, both in chapter
1 and chapter 2, reference is made to the riches of His grace, even to the surpassing
riches of His grace. The word surpassing, huperballon, hyper super. That is to say it is an exceeding, abundant,
lavish extension of grace. All of this, of course, is in and through
Jesus Christ. One of the most wonderful statements about
Jesus Christ in all of Scripture is given us by John in his gospel, chapter 1 verse
14, where he says of the Lord Jesus, "He was full of grace…full of grace." That wonderful fact is followed by an even
more wonderful statement, "And of His fullness have all we received and grace upon grace." He is full of grace and we receive out of
that fullness grace upon grace upon grace upon grace. We accumulate grace every moment of our Christian
experience. Grace that comes from the abundance of God's
supply and never diminishes that supply at all. Luke said that the early Christians, according
to Acts chapter 4, were experiencing abundant grace. I mentioned earlier, Paul says in Romans 5:2,
"We stand in grace," that is to say our very life is lived in an environment of grace. In Romans 5:17 Paul says, "God gives us an
abundance of grace." James says, "We have received a greater grace,"
that is to say greater than we can comprehend. And Peter, not willing to be left out, adds,
"We have been given the manifold, or multi-faceted or multi-colored grace of God." Grace is always spoken of in terms of lavishness,
of excess, of fullness, of richness because we need so much grace. And God gives enough and more than enough
and the supply is never ever diminished. From all of that you get the distinct idea
that God doesn't skimp on grace. That He doesn't dish it out in a miserly fashion. In all areas, His benevolent kindness is lavish
as He dispenses grace. Maybe the best summation of that is found
earlier in 2 Corinthians. If you go back to 2 Corinthians chapter 9
and verse 8, you read there these words, and this comes not only by direct revelation through
the Holy Spirit to the mind of Paul as he wrote, but also corroborated by Paul's own
experience, "And God is able to make all grace abound to you that always having all sufficiency
in everything you may have an abundance of grace for every good deed." Now the extent of this grace is indicated
by the grandiose terms that are used. Not just grace, but all grace. Not just all grace, but all grace abounding. Not occasionally but always, having all sufficiency
in all things. You have an abundance for all good deeds and
good works. The lavishness of this grace is again brought
to our minds in the language that is used in that verse. It is grace that saves us. It is grace that sanctifies us. It is grace that gives us understanding of
the Word. It is grace that gives us wisdom to apply
it. It is grace that gives us the power to overcome
temptation and sin. It is grace that allows us to obey the Lord. It is grace that enables us to serve and to
minister. It is grace that carries us through suffering
with endurance. It is grace that lifts us above disappointment
and pain. That is why this grace is called the surpassing
grace of God in you…the surpassing grace of God in you, 2 Corinthians 9:14. What a profound promise of God that all the
grace and more is available to us. Now let's apply that in a very common category…the
category of suffering. Job was obviously correct when he said this,
"Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward." In other words, as inevitable as it is that
sparks off a fire go up, so inevitable it is that people are going to have trouble. But it is equally true for believers that
our sufficiency is from God, 2 Corinthians 3:5. We will have trouble. Jesus said it in John 16, "In this world you
will have trouble. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the
world." Or, "My grace is sufficient for you." As we read in this passage. All the necessary resources are available
to us. In fact, the throne of heaven to which we
go for everything we need. The throne to which we go for our salvation
when we fall before God and bow to Him and confess and repent of sin and embrace Jesus
Christ and ask God for Christ's sake to save us. That throne, the throne that we go to for
wisdom and understanding and learning the Word of God, the throne we go to for sanctifying
power and mercy, the throne we go to seek the will of God, to know His mind and to find
His direction, the throne we go to for hope for the future, the throne is called the throne
of grace. Thrones were not normally places of grace
in the ancient world when monarchs ruled. They ruled from fear, and terror, and threat
and wielding the power of death. But the throne of heaven to which the penitent
sinner comes and the believing saint comes is a throne of grace, where abundant grace
is always dispensed to give help to us in our time of need. The question then is when we go through the
deepest and most profound of all our troubles in life, is there sufficient grace? Well the answer just from the general discussion
we've already had is certainly a clear yes, but maybe we could look a little more deeply
into that reality and find in this some profound wisdom and help. So let's turn back to our text, 2 Corinthians
chapter 12 verses 7 to 10. This is one of the most powerful passages
in all of the New Testament. In fact, the whole section from chapter 10
through the end of chapter 13 is the most emotionally charged passage that Paul ever
wrote. Here, more than anywhere else, more extensively
than anywhere else, more deeply than anywhere else, the Apostle Paul lays his heart open. Here you really see the heart of this man. And his heart is bleeding profusely at this
point. He is under assault, he is under attack from
enemies. And it is devastating to him. This is the severest blow that his ministry
has been dealt. His integrity is called into question. His honesty is disputed. His authority is denigrated. His teaching is despised, and all of this
by some false teachers who have come to this Corinthian church with one objective, to teach
satanic lies…to corrupt the church, to undo the work that God had begun. To bring it to a halt, to crush that church. Now in order to gain a hearing, these false
teachers have to destroy the people's confidence in Paul. He has been the founder of the church, the
pastor of the church. Spent nearly two years there. Has written extensively to them, prayed fore
them. He has made a major investment in their lives
in order for that to be brought to an end and that church to lose its impact in that
wretched city of Corinth, there must be a loss of confidence in Paul. And so before they teach their damning lies,
they put on a campaign to destroy him. They attack him every way they can. They attack him even physically, they say
his presence is contemptible, he's ugly, unimpressive, has no persona. His speech also is uninteresting, boring. He is both boring and ugly. If you're handsome you can get away with being
boring for a little while. If you're ugly you can get away with being
interesting. But if you're both boring and ugly, you have
a problem. They said that he had lied about his credentials. He had no apostolic credentials. He had falsified the history of his ministry. He had a secret hidden life of shame. He was in the ministry for money and favors
from women. They said everything wicked you could say,
lies upon lies upon lies. And the sad reality is that the Corinthian
church were swayed by this, bought into it, listened to the false teachers, gave the false
teachers a place in their lives. Paul made a short visit. Somebody stood up when he was there, confronted
him to the face, accused him to the face. Nobody defended Paul when he was there and
he left with a broken heart. He writes back, trying to defend the legitimacy
of his apostleship and his character. And that's the purpose of this epistle. But he writes from a profusely broken heart
because he has been wounded in the house of his friends. He has been betrayed by the people he gave
his life to. If you drop down into that twelfth chapter
just a little bit further, you will see that he asks the question in verse 15, "If I love
you the more, am I to be loved the less?" Is this what I get for my increase love for
you, a diminished love for you? This is heartbreaking stuff. Paul knew about service. And he knew about suffering. Go back to chapter 11, for a minute. In chapter 11 he said, "I've been through
a lot." Verse 23, "Far more labors, far more imprisonments
than the false teachers," he's comparing himself with the false teachers. This is evidence of his legitimate apostleship,
his suffering. The proof of his legitimacy was not his success
but his suffering because he was invading the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of
darkness was reacting. I have been in far more labors, far more imprisons…imprisonments,
beaten times without number, often in danger of death. Five times I received from the Jews 39 lashes…five
times he received what Jesus received in His scourging by the Romans. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked. A night and a day I spent in the deep. I've been on frequent journeys, in dangers
from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles,
dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren. I have been in labor and hardship through
many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst often without food in cold and exposure…physical
dangers. All having to do with his physical life. But then in verse 28 he says, "Apart from
such external things, or actually beyond such external things, far more painful than anything
afflicting my body there is the daily pressure upon me of concern for all the churches." the churches had a far greater ability to
wound him than the world did. Why? Verse 29, "Because who is weak without my
being weak?" When you're weak, I feel the pain. "Who is led into sin without my intense concern? When you're spiritually weak, when you're
following a pattern of sin, this is agonizing to me." One thing to have your body wounded, it's
something else to have your soul wounded. The deepest pain, the greatest trouble in
human life comes in the soul category. It comes in the category of relationships. He knew about shipwrecks and floggings and
beatings with rods and narrow escapes from criminals and thieves. He knew about all kinds of terrors. He knew about pain, being put into stocks
with his legs and arms stretched as far as they could and then being locked in stocks
and left there for days with muscles knotted and aching. He knew about filthy stinking jails and foul
food. He knew about tortures of all kinds. But beyond that was the agony of his soul
in dealing with people…people who disappointed him, people who rejected him, people who turned
against him, people who failed him, wounded him, betrayed him, misunderstood him, turned
on him. And the more love he invested in them, the
greater their potential to harm him. So again I say, the deepest pain, the greatest
trouble in human life apart from one's personal guilt is the pain that comes to us from our
relationships, the pain that people inflict on us. No disease is as painful. Now you can die in peace as a believer with
the worst disease, held up and surrounded by the loyal love, compassion, sympathy and
care of those who love you, but to be healthy and whole and to be rejected, to be maligned,
to be falsely accused, to be misrepresented, to be betrayed, to be hated…this wounds
the soul. So here is Paul in his deepest pain, wounded
in the house of his friends, wounded by the Corinthians who have believed the lies about
him. This is his deepest trouble. This is his most taxing moment in ministry
life. How's he going to react? How's he going to get through it? What's he going to do in the midst of being
unloved, unappreciated, untrusted, maligned, his integrity called into question, his credentials
mocked, his authority degraded? What's he going to do? Well, in the midst of this suffering he learns
four profound lessons and he gives them to us here. And listen, folks, if these are good for the
deepest suffering, they work for every other lessor category. These principles operate at all levels of
suffering, right down to the very depth. This dear sacrificial selfless humble apostle
is being when he writes this repeatedly battered and abused in the church to which he gave
his life, his heart is shattered, he is at the bottom and he finds the answer in the
deepest moment of suffering. And if it's good for the deepest, it's good
for all the shallower experiences of suffering, as well. Four lessons. Lesson number one, God uses suffering to humble
His children. Verse 7, "And because of the surpassing greatness
of the revelations, for this reason to keep me from exalting myself there was given me
a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me to keep me from exalting myself." Unmistakably clear. The reason for his suffering is to keep me
from exalting myself. Paul was a believer, he was the noblest of
Christians, he was the most mature of Christians, and yet pride still remained in his unredeemed
flesh. He still had the body of sin attached to him. Pride was still a problem. And it would raise its ugly head at the most
spiritual moments around his many revelations. And it's not talking about the epistles that
he had been inspired to write, it's talking about actual divine revelations in which the
Lord Himself was revealed to him. He had four personal visions of the Lord,
four personal appearances of Jesus in his life, the first being on the road to Damascus. And there were others recorded in the book
of Acts, and they are not at times when Jesus appeared and he was among a group that saw
it, they were personal appearances, only to him and no one else was having those appearances. These are stark in their uniqueness, bold. They do not happen to anybody else. Why? Why does the Lord need to appear to him personally
so many times? Well perhaps because of his immense suffering,
because of the vilification and hatred that he experienced. Maybe he needed the strength that came from
those appearances. But the downside was they could make you very
proud. It would be pretty easy to say to your friends,
"You know, the other day when the Lord appeared to me,…well was it that time or the time
before? We were talking about…nah, I think it was
the second time…let's see. No, I know when it was, it was when I went
to heaven." This is a pretty big head trip and if you're
having a discussion about how to do ministry and Timothy and Titus say, "this is what we
need to do, I've talked to the people, this is the way to go." And Paul says, "No, I want to do it this way." And there's a little bit of a discussion…do
we do it their way or Paul's way. And Paul says, "How many personal appearances
with Jesus have you guys had?" Well none. "Well, we'll do it my way." That would be very easy to feel it just quietly
in your heart elevated. And then there was that trip to heaven. Go back to chapter 12 verse 1, boasting is
necessary. Boy, he hated to defend himself. Boasting in a good sense. Trying to defend his apostleship to the Corinthians
so they'll turn back to him because he's the source of divine truth. And the false teachers are the source of devilish
lies. And so he's got to plead his own case a little
bit. He hates to do it. He says it's necessary, though it's not profitable,
though I will go on to visions and revelations of the Lord. I'm just going to tell you something about
a vision and a revelation that I had, it's not profitable…and I'll tell you why it's
not profitable, because it's not verifiable because it was personal to him and it's not
repeatable. So Paul understands the weakness of this. Visions and revelations are not verifiable
and not repeatable and he knows that but he says I'm gong to tell you anyway. "In sort of vague terms, I know a man in Christ
who fourteen years ago whether in the body, I don't know, or out of the body, I don't
know." In other words, I don't know what the reality
was but God knows. Such a man was caught up to the third heaven
and I know how such a man whether in the body or apart from the body, I don't know, God
knows, was caught up into paradise and heard inexpressible words which a man is not permitted
to speak." I don't know what happened, it's not profitable,
and I can't speak about it. But I did go to heaven. I went to heaven. I went to heaven and I could boast about that,
verse 5, but on my own behalf I'll not boast. I'd rather boast about my weaknesses. I'd rather talk about my weaknesses than boast
about my trip to heaven. To heaven and back, for real? Four appearances of the glorified Lord, extraordinary
stuff…too much for the remaining flesh to handle. So for this reason the surpassing greatness
of those revelations to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the
flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me. God's goal in the life of a believer is that
believer's humility. Humility is the ultimate virtue. Pride is the ultimate sin. All other sins stem from pride. That's why Lucifer was thrown out of heaven,
that's why Adam and Eve were thrown out of the garden. Lucifer wanted to be like God. Eve wanted to be like God. Pride always leads the parade. The greatest sin is pride, the noblest virtue
is humility. To be poor in spirit, to not think more highly
of oneself than we ought to think, to look not on our own things but on the things of
others, to have the humble mind of Christ, to consider others better than ourselves,
this is necessary, this is the purest kind of spiritual attitude. It all starts with being broken, mourning,
hungering, humble. And Paul says so many revelations would make
me proud. And we all can identify with that, though
we don't have those kinds of revelations. When your life is blessed, when your life
is enriched by the goodness of God, it's easy to look upon yourself as if you are specially
favored by God because of some merit, because of some virtue, because of some faithfulness,
or some giftedness. Since God is after humility, God humbled a
man who otherwise would have been proud. And so it says He humbled me this way, there
was given me by God, I will add, there was given me by God a gift…by the way, unsolicited…Paul
didn't ask for it, didn't want it, didn't like it when he got it….but there was given
me by God a thorn in the flesh. And by the way, Satan wouldn't want to give
this, in one sense, because Satan doesn't want anything to happen in your life that
humbles you, right? That's counter-productive. Satan is behind the self-esteem cult. He doesn't want to humble us, he wants us
to exalt ourselves. God wants to humble us. So God sovereignly gives Paul a thorn in the
flesh. Now you think of the word "thorn," I know
what you think of…rose bush, immediately. A little thing that pricks in your finger
and bleed a little bit. No. The word translated thorn is stake…s-t-a-k-e,
a shaft, like you would put in the ground to attach a small tree to, or a shaft that
you might use to pierce somebody in a battle. What you would use to impale someone. This is not just a little prick in the finger
that God has given him, this is a shaft rammed through him. In fact, the Greek text would be read this
way…a thorn for the flesh, not in the Greek but for the flesh, to kill the proud tendencies
of Paul's flesh. And just exactly what was it? What was it that was humbling him? What was this spear, as it were, that pierced
his otherwise proud flesh? He says what it is, "A messenger of Satan….a
messenger of Satan." God gave him…there was given me by God a
messenger of Satan. Some people say this is an eye disease, or
malaria, or whatever. It's a very simple thing to understand what
it is. The word "messenger" is angelos … angelos
, that's the word from which we get the English word angel. So it really is a satanic angel. What's another word for a satanic angel? A demon…a demon. There was given me by God to impale my otherwise
proud flesh a demon. Does that mean Paul was demon possessed? No, not at all. Clearly not possible for a believer. But what it does tell us is that what was
going on in the disruption of the Corinthian church by the false teachers was demonic. False teachers are the servants of Satan,
they operate under the power of demons. Go back to chapter 11 which says in verse
13 that the false apostles, the deceitful workers disguised themselves as apostles of
Christ and no wonder for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So when false teachers show up, they are Satan's
angels, indwelling men propagating Satan's lies. All the gods of the nation are demons, says
the Old Testament. Satan infiltrates all false religious systems
and orchestrates them for his own ends. He's referring here, I think it's pretty clear,
to the demonic influence on the false teachers that was ripping and shredding his beloved
church. This would be the demon who was behind the
ring leader of the Corinthian conspiracy. Verse 15 of chapter 11 says that Satan's agents
disguised themselves as servants of righteousness. And so demons embody false teachers to do
their hellish work. The effective enemy then here was Satan or
his demons who were moving through the false teachers. But, here's the amazing thing, even the demon
leading that assault was given that opportunity by God as a way to humble Paul. It's astounding to think about it. In fact, the word "buffet" there is the word
torment. Paul was being tormented by this demonic assault
on the congregation he loved and their succumbing to it. The word "torment" is used in Matthew 26 and
Mark 14 of the soldiers beating Jesus in the face with their fists. It's also used in 1 Corinthians 4 of Paul
being physically punched. Paul is saying I'm taking a pounding. Why is God allowing demon-possessed false
teachers to go in and disrupt this church and abuse me like this? The answer, to keep me from exalting myself. That is a staggering thing to think about. The humbling of God's servant is so important
to God that He will use Satan and demons if need be to inflict the profoundest wounds
where the servant of the Lord will feel the pain most because it accomplishes His purpose. God wants His children humbled to the degree
that He will allow Satan, He will use Satan to torment the work of ministry if it assists
in the humiliation of the servant. Luke 22, Satan desired to have Peter. Satan desired to have Peter and Jesus said,
"Have at him…have at him." And He said to Peter, Satan wants you and
he's going to sift you, but when it's over, you're going to be able to strengthen the
brethren. Is that surprising? Think of Job. Satan goes to God, says give me Job and I'll
destroy his faith. And God says have at him. And in the end, Job's faith was triumphant,
I had heard of you with the hearing of my ears, now my eyes sees you and I repent in
dust and ashes. In a glorious triumph in Job 42:6 he says,
"Now I really know my God." And his life is flooded with blessing. Which more than covered what he had lost. There are times when God who is sovereign
over Satan at all times and sovereign over demons at all times, uses Satan and demons
for His own ends. God wants His children humbled to the degree
that He, the sovereign over even the forces of hell will use them in the humbling of His
own servants. So bless God for what humbles you. Embrace the suffering that humbles you, for
He gives grace to the humble, but resists the proud. Secondly, Paul learned another principle. God uses suffering to draw us to Himself. God uses suffering to draw us to Himself. Verse 8, "Concerning this, I entreated the
Lord three times that it might depart from me." I can't take it, God, I cannot take what's
happening in the Corinthian church. This is my work, I'm afraid it's all going
to be undone. I can't take it. This is my great success story. I went into the most wretched city to Corinthianize
men to go to bed with a prostitute. It was so identified with that place. The worship of false gods, pagan orgies with
temple priestesses up on the Acropolis, a horrendous place, worship Aesculapius. I went into that place and I preached and
a church was born and I gave nearly two years of my life and it's all gone bad and why don't
you remove this? For three sessions he goes to God and it leads
us to this second principle…God uses suffering to draw us to Himself. I think it's interesting, first of all, just
to look at this, "I entreated the Lord." Entreated is a very strong word used frequently
in the gospels of the appeal of the sick for Jesus to heal them. It's a begging word. What interests me is he goes to the Lord three
times. He doesn't go to the demon and try to chase
the demon. He doesn't go to Satan and try to bind Satan. Those are foolish things. You wouldn't want to be attempting to do that
anyway because you might be trying to send away the ones God had sent, then you'd be
in conflict with God. But it's foolish to assume that there's any
necessity to do anything about demons or Satan, why would you when God is the sovereign over
all of them? So he goes to the sovereign over Satan. Satan is God's servant, only able to do what
God allows him to do…so are all his demons. I entreated God. I begged God on three separate occasions. And I asked Him to eliminate it, stop this. Probably prayed the imprecatory Psalms on
the head of the false teachers…Kill them, God, kill them…kill them now. He was persistent. That met the condition of Luke 11, persistence
God responds to. He goes to God and he goes back and he goes
back. His prayer was in faith. His prayer was specific. His prayer was persistent that he might be
delivered from this. And so here we learn a second lesson. Profound suffering has a very positive effect
on your prayer life, right? Very positive effect on your prayer life. Where else you going to go? You face the greatest trial by turning to
the only one he knew to be sovereign over all things, all circumstances, all persons,
righteous and unrighteous…his Lord. And he asked Him to remove it. This is what happens in times of great stress. Our prayer lives are enriched and we enter
in to the richest, deepest, sweetest communion with the Lord, far more sweet than the prayer
we offer in times of prosperity. But that leads a to a third principle. He learned, thirdly, that God uses suffering
to display His grace…that God uses suffering to display His grace. Verse 9, "He said to me," actually He has
said to me in the prefect tense which means it's a settled answer, it's a fixed response. All three times the Lord established this
standing answer. "My grace is sufficient for you." And so the point is, God uses suffering to
put His grace on display. And what a benediction this is…what a benediction. God answered not by removing the pain, not
by removing the trouble, but by increasing the grace which then increases our confidence
in our salvation and in the presence of God and the goodness of God. It is these kinds of test when we experience
enduring grace that produces assurance. He gave relief but relief not by removing
the problem, but by pouring on the grace. It's amazing when someone has been told they
have a terminal illness, or a loved one has a terminal illness. One who walks with the Lord finds a flood
of grace, the likes of which they've never experienced before. As believers near the end of their life, an
illness, you watch God just expand the grace until there's a certain joy and anticipation
that overwhelms all the sense of loss. God wants to display His grace. He has a right to display His grace. He finds His glory in His grace. This is not a new idea…the wonderful book
of Lamentations gives us insight into this in the third chapter where Jeremiah who suffered
so much…so much rejection from the people he loved, writes, "Remember my affliction
and my wandering," Lamentations 3:19, "the wormwood and the bitterness." And then he says, "His soul is bowed down
within him." This is sad and this is remorse and grief
and agony and pain and suffering. But in verse 21 he says, "This I recall to
my mind, therefore I have hope." What did he recall? "The Lord's loving kindness indeed never ceased." Loving kindness is an Old Testament word for
grace. The Lord's loving kindnesses indeed never
cease, His compassions never fail, they are new every morning, great is Thy faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore
I have hope in Him. The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
to the person who seeks Him. So it is good that he waits silently for the
salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man that he should bear the
yoke in his youth. Let him sit alone and be silent since he has
laid it on him. Sit there, be silent since God has brought
about this trouble and wait quietly, silently for the faithfulness of God, the compassion
of God and the loving kindness of God to flood you. God said My grace is sufficient. Deuteronomy 33:26 says, "There is none like
the God of Jeshurun, or the God of Israel, who rides the heavens to your help." What a vivid picture. Or Joshua 1:9, "Be strong and courageous,
do not tremble or be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." Enter your trouble, embrace your pain, in
it God is humbling you. In it God is drawing you into His intimate
presence and in it He is displaying His sufficient grace. He does not promise a trouble free life, but
He promises lavish grace in the midst of it. There's one other lesson. God uses suffering to perfect His power…God
uses suffering to perfect His power. We would all like to be powerful for the Lord. We would all like to think our lives really
mattered, that our lives were a saver of life to life, or death to death, that we were living
lives of powerful influence. I guess it's a nagging painful realization
for most people in the world that their lives don't matter at all. It's wonderful for Christians to think of
lives that really matter eternally. And that means our lives need to be powerful
for God. Go back to verse 9, "Not only is My grace
sufficient for you, but My power is perfected in weakness." My power just begins to operate in its fullness
when you have none left. The suffering that humbles you, the suffering
that draws you into My presence, the suffering that dispenses My grace is also the suffering
that makes you powerful. It's when you're broken, it's when you're
at the end of your own resources, it's when you have nothing in yourself to lean on or
trust in that you cast yourself completely on Me that you really become powerful. As long as you keep trusting in your own ingenuity,
as long, as long as you keep trusting in your own cleverness, as long as you keep trusting
in your own money and your own ideas and your own strategies and you keep trusting in your
own ability to solve all problems and accomplish all ends in ministry or whatever it is, as
long as you operate, you're going to be weak. No one is too weak to be powerful, but many
are too strong to be powerful. You want to come to the end of yourself and
then you begin to see the power of God released through your emptiness. So what's the end of it all? Paul goes to sadness to joy. Verse 9, "Most gladly…" I get it, Lord, I get it. It's about humility. It's about intimacy. It's about grace. It's about power. I embrace the suffering. I embrace the spear rammed through my otherwise
proud flesh. I embrace the pain most gladly therefore I
would rather boast about my weaknesses that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses,
with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties for Christ's sake for when
I am weak, then I am strong. That's the heart and soul of the Christian
life. Not the assumption that, "Well, I don't know
what's going on in my life, I'm a Christian, everything should be going right. And some people are telling me there are problems
in my life and illness and disappointment and lack of success, it's because I don't
have enough faith or I haven't found the right formula or I haven't figured out the right
strategy or I haven't read the right book or gone to the right counsel or heard the
right message. I could just kind of sort this deal out, I
could extricate myself from all this stuff and get on living this gloriously successful
life." Nothing could be further from the truth when
God really does His work in your life, He puts you in the place of pain and suffering. As Peter said, "After you've suffered a while,
the Lord will make you perfect." And it's in the midst of that, that you find
your real power and then you say with Paul, "I am well content with weaknesses and insults
and distresses and persecutions, difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong." Embrace the pain. Embrace the suffering because you embrace
the divine purpose. Samson, strong in weakness crushed the enemies
of God. Joseph strong in weakness rose to the throne
of Egypt. Job strong in weakness saw the glorious face
of God. I asked for prominence, God gave me humiliation. I asked for power, He gave me weakness. Then I became usable. Some words of a song go like this. "There burns a fire with sacred heat, white
hot with holy flame. And all who dare pass through its flames will
not emerge the same. Some as bronze and some as silver, some as
gold then with great skill all are hammered by their sufferings on the anvil of His will. I'm learning now to trust His touch, to crave
the fire's embrace, for though my past was sin was etched(???), His mercies did erase. Each time His purging cleanses deeper, I'm
not sure that I'll survive. Yet the strength in growing weaker keeps my
hungry soul alive." And the chorus, "The refiner's fire has now
become my soul desire, purged and cleansed and purified that the Lord be glorified, He
is consuming my soul, refining me, making me whole. No matter what I lose I choose the refiner's
fire." Let's pray. What more, O God could we want than to be
humble before You, to be intimate with You, to be flooded with sufficient grace and to
be powerful for Your cause. All things which come through our suffering. We embrace that with Paul, gladly we embrace
it. Gladly we are content with it that You might
truly be glorified and honored through us. O Refiner, refine us, we choose the Refiner's
fire. We thank You, O Lord, for the good gift of
grace and power, sweet fellowship and humility that come to us through our suffering. And we admit that we do look forward to that
day when we will suffer no more in the glory of eternal heaven. But until then, may we suffer whatever refining
we need that the glory of Christ may be manifest through us in this world that His saving power
may be on display for others to see and believe. It's in His name that we ask. Amen.


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Pig Farms were used by the Horde during the Second War.[1] (W2Man 81) Just before the Third War, when Thrall went to Kalimdor, he left behind the pig farms and instead used burrows. After the war, Thrall's forces continue to use both pig farms and burrows.
In Warcraft IIEdit
- For Warcraft II statistics, see Warcraft II structures.
[Pig] Farms provide the necessary raw foodstuffs to sustain both the slave labor force and the war parties in the field. Without a sufficient food supply, new units cannot be acquired. The staple diet of the Orcs - along with their kindred Troll and Ogre brothers - is fresh meat. To satisfy this hunger for flesh, wild Boars are trapped and bred for food. Readily abundant in most regions, they have become a bonfire favorite (along with a tankard of Bloodmead) among the hardened troops engaged in a long war march.[1] (W2Man 81)
In Warcraft IIIEdit
- For Warcraft III statistics, see Pig farm/W3 Stats.
Before the Third War, Thrall's forces continued using pig farms,[2] however when they left to Kalimdor they used burrows instead.
Also, during the Third War, the Blackrock clan used pig farms to fed their troops. Some were destroyed by Arthas' forces when they attacked the Blackrock clan village during The Scourge of Lordaeron[3] and the rest of them were destroyed by the Scourge during Path of the Damned as they intended to communicate with Archimonde using a functional gate located in the Blackrock clan village.[4]
In World of Warcraft Edit
The Horde has several pig farms in the time of World of Warcraft. Most of them are new, but a few remain from the second war.
Moaoto is a Broken pig farmer.
Reference listEdit
- ^ a b W2Man, 81
- ^ "Exodus of the Horde: Chasing Visions", Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Blizzard Entertainment. Somewhere in the Arathi Highlands. Pig farm.
- ^ "The Scourge of Lordaeron: Blackrock & Roll", Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Blizzard Entertainment. Pig farm.
- ^ "Path of the Damned: Blackrock & Roll, Too!", Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. Blizzard Entertainment. Pig farm.

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- With maturity amniocentesis, a sample of amniotic fluid is tested to determine whether the baby's lungs are mature enough for birth.
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Participating in clinical trials can help you receive treatment you would usually not have available. Unfortunately, finding clinical trials can be a hassle. First, you have to find trials you qualify for. Of those trials, you need to be able to get to them. Corengi.com can help people with Type 2 Diabetes find clinical trials much faster and with less stress.
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Here's a quick review of the service they offer. You can find a lot of these answers (in greater detail) on their FAQ page.
How much does it cost?
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Ok this tutorial is going to be packed with Staff tools to help you and your staff in the game. Then we are going to look and fix the Right.php
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Remember like we did The Help Desk Reply where we only wanted the staff to see the page, well we are going to do the same for this. Create a page called Ban.php and in the body section add this
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Under Ban.php we are going to add all of our coding in that little section. Add this html in there

 Ban Member: <? echo "$user"; ?>

 Username 	 <input name="ban_name" type="text" id="ban_name" onfocus="if(this.value=='Name')this.value='';" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['ban']);?>" />

 Reason	 <textarea name="reason" rows="6" id="reason">Duping.</textarea>

 <input type="checkbox" name="ban_all" value="1" id="ban_all" /> Ban all on IP.

 <input name="Ban" type="submit" id="Ban" value="Ban." onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()" />

now one of the things that will make you ban someone is multiple account for that same user. Which means a user can create like 5 accounts send money from all of those account to one main account and create havoc amongst players. It will be like you having 5 lives, which is cheating and is called Duping. When a player is duping and you want to ban them, you will want to ban all account that he is duping with. well if all those accounts are created under the same ip, we are going to add code that will let you check the "Ban all on IP" and it will ban all accounts created under that ip.
Sometime player may way want their account dead not banned, so we need to create a little script for that, this will let staff kill players not ban them. Add this code under the top one.

 Kill Player:

 Username	 <input name="target" type="text" id="target" onfocus="if(this.value=='Name')this.value='';" value="<?php echo htmlspecialchars($_GET['kill']);?>" />

 <input name="Murder" type="submit" class="button" id="Murder" value="Murder." onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()" />

and finally we are after all humans and we do make mistakes, so if you make a mistake and ban a user we need a way to unban them. Add the following below to your page

 Unban / Revive Member:

 Username	 <input name="remove_ban_name" type="text" id="remove_ban_name" onfocus="if(this.value=='Name')this.value='';" value="Name" />

 <input name="Remove_Ban" type="submit" class="button" id="Remove_Ban" value="Remove Ban." onfocus="if(this.blur)this.blur()" />

Step Two - PHP
ok we have got our design now it is time for some coding.
we need to store some information of the banning so we need to create a banned table.
# # Table structure for table `banned` # CREATE TABLE banned ( id int(22) NOT NULL auto_increment, `name` varchar(20) NOT NULL, banner varchar(20) NOT NULL, `date` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, reason text NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (id) ) ENGINE=MyISAM AUTO_INCREMENT=124 DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; # --------------------------------------------------------
How ban/kill works.
when a user gets banned or killed what happens is that we change their sitestate under the users table to 1 for banned or 2 for killed. Right now the sitestate is 0 for alive. then on safe we are going to add a validation to check if sitestate is greater 0 stop the page from loading and display a message. There are better ways of doing this but this is simple and does the job.
right add the php.
<?php if(isset($_POST['Ban'])){ // fetching and storing the information we need from database $sql = "SELECT name,sitestate,userip FROM users WHERE name='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['ban_name'])."'"; $query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); $row = mysql_fetch_object($query); $banned_name = htmlspecialchars($row->name); $banned_state = htmlspecialchars($row->sitestate); $banned_ip = htmlspecialchars($row->userip); // using the ban all on ip function if($_POST['ban_all'] == "1"){ $result = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET sitestate='1' WHERE userip='" .mysql_real_escape_string($banned_ip). "'") or die(mysql_error()); echo "all have been banned."; }else{ if (empty($banned_name)){ echo "This person does not seem to exist."; }else { if($banned_state == 1){ echo "This person is already banned."; }else{ if (in_array($banned_name, $admin_array) or in_array($banned_name, $mods_array)) { echo "Cant Ban Staff."; }else{ $result = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET sitestate='1' WHERE name='" .mysql_real_escape_string($banned_name). "'") or die(mysql_error()); $sql = "INSERT INTO banned SET id = '', name = '" .mysql_real_escape_string($banned_name). "', banner = '" .mysql_real_escape_string($name). "', reason = '".$_POST['reason']. "'"; $res = mysql_query($sql); echo $banned_name." has been banned."; }// killing staff }// if already banned. }// if user doesn't exist. }// ban type select. }// if isset Ban. // removing someone from ban if(isset($_POST['Remove_Ban'])){ $sql = "SELECT name,sitestate,userip FROM users WHERE name='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['remove_ban_name'])."'"; $query = mysql_query($sql) or die(mysql_error()); $row = mysql_fetch_object($query); $banned_name = htmlspecialchars($row->name); $banned_state = htmlspecialchars($row->sitestate); $banned_ip = htmlspecialchars($row->userip); if (empty($banned_name)){ echo "This person does not seem to exist."; }else { if($banned_state == 0){ echo "This person is not dead or banned."; }else{ $result = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET sitestate='0' WHERE name='" .mysql_real_escape_string($banned_name). "'") or die(mysql_error()); echo $banned_name." has been Revived / Un banned."; }// if already banned. }// if user doesn't exist. }// if isset Ban. // killing an account if(isset($_POST['Murder'])){ $nsql = "SELECT name,sitestate FROM users WHERE name='".mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['target'])."'"; $query = mysql_query($nsql) or die(mysql_error()); $row = mysql_fetch_object($query); $target_name = htmlspecialchars($row->name); $target_state = htmlspecialchars($row->sitestate); if(empty($_POST['target'])){ echo "You didn't enter a target."; }else{ if (in_array($target_name, $admin_array) or in_array($target_name, $mods_array)) { echo "Cant Kill Staff."; }else{ if($target_state != 0 ){ echo "Your target is already dead or banned."; }else{ $result = mysql_query("UPDATE users SET sitestate='2' WHERE name='" .mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['target']). "'") or die(mysql_error()); echo "You shot extremely large amount of bullets at ".$target_name." He/She died from the shots."; } } } }// if isset post murder. $user=$_GET['ban_name']; ?>
the above php code should be simple and easy to understand. There is nothing new from what we have being doing. if you dont understand any part of it or you need me to explain just post it below and i will.
Step Three - Safe.php
On safe.php we need to add some coding that will block the user from the rest of the site content.
The structure is like this.
If the users sitestate is = 1
echo "You have being banned"
exit (This stops anything else from loading, and because safe is top it will stop any page from loading. This is why we need safe on every page.)
the code looks like this, add this to the bottom of Safe.php
if ($sitestate == 1){ echo " Your account was ban from this site. Bye"; exit(); } if ($sitestate == 2){ echo " Your account was Killed from this site. Sign up again"; exit(); }
Try to be creative in the way you tell users that their account i banned or killed.
Right.php and Left.php
On the Left menu you may want the staff tools to show just for your staff so normal players cannot see it. the principle to the normal staff pages are the same. For now this is what you should have on the Left.php
<? include_once("Safe.php"); ?>   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="Style.css" />

 Main Game

 Users online
 Help Desk
 Find Player

 Social

 Forum
 Send Message
 <?php if (in_array($name, $admin_array) or in_array($name, $mods_array)){ ?>
 Staff Menu

 Ban
 Help Desk
 <? } ?>
 LogOut

below is a code to improve Right.php. this is just basic tables and also i use the style we created in the last tutorial. All this is just information fetched in to safe.php displayed on the right menu like the user money their health etc etc.

 Players information

 Money

 <?php echo "$".number_format($money)."";?>

 Points

 <?php echo number_format($points);?>

 Health

 <?php echo $health."%"; ?>

Ok that's it for now. The next tutorial will be my last and final tutorial on php game making. so i am going to let you guys choose what you want the last one to be. Vote for the page you want me to make a tutorial on next. Voting close on the 14th of October.
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Colts put S Corey Lynch on injured reserve
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Colts put safety Corey Lynch on injured reserve Friday with an undisclosed injury.
Lynch played in five regular season games and both playoff games last season, primarily on special teams, after signing with Indianapolis on Nov. 27. He had six special teams tackles for the Colts. He made two tackles on defense and three more on special teams in the postseason. He also played three games with Tennessee before being released Nov. 22.
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TORONTO — Strolled into the Jays clubhouse this afternoon and a good chunk of the players were taking in the end of the Rays/Indians game. A day after Toronto enjoyed a walk-off win here, Tampa Bay did the ol' anything you can do, we can do better.
Down 7-4 in the ninth, the Rays rallied for six runs with no outs to take the game. Eric Hinske doubled home a run. Gabe Gross homered. And Carlos Pena hit a three-run walk-off blast to center.
Alex Rios obviously left the room before the rally, because he came back in and looked stunned to see Pena being interviewed on camera after what was apparently a Rays win.
"What happened?" begged Rios, who was quickly brought up to date. "That's unbelievable. Just unbelievable."
Believe it: Tampa Bay, 68-45. Toronto, 11 games back.
As for your Jays, not much going on in the way of news. Mighty Joe Inglett is still out of the starting lineup, but at leats available off the bench after missing the last two games with a bum left knee.
Today's lineups:
OAKLAND (53-59) at TORONTO (57-56)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Ryan Sweeney, RF
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Mark Ellis, 2B
Jack Hannahan, 3B
Bobby Crosby, SS
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PITCHING: LHP Gio Gonzalez (MLB debut)
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David Eckstein, DH
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Rod Barajas, C
Adam Lind, LF
Scott Rolen, 3B
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PITCHING: RHP Shaun Marcum (5-5, 3.57)
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If this game is lost you can blame it on Cito I said to my wife when Marcum gave up the home run that they should get someone up but no let him get into trouble and lose the game ,The funny thing is Gibbons would have gotten somebody up???did they make a mistake by letting Gibbons go because these nobodys can't hit.
From now on I will post after the game so I don't look so STUPID.
Marcum was really strong tonight, it now looks like he's healthy again. He had everyting going, he just made one mistake and Crosby made him pay for it.
Tampa is a team on mission this season. Scrappy is a good word. They certain had some scrappy wins against the Jays. If it weren't for Eric Hinske playing so well with them, I would really be rooting for Tampa to win the division. I'm just glad someone other than the Yankees or Red Sox may win the division for once. Still bothers me that Hinske would be leading the Jays in homers and RBI's (i think) right now.
It is fun to see ex-Jays succeed (like Hinske and Gross), but way more fun to see Marcum coming back and Doc and AJ doing what we hoped they would do last April. We've got a shot. Why not the Jays and Rays at the top of the East?
Garryguy – I bet everybody in the bar was agreeing with you until MacDonald made that play and Marcum was over it! It is great to win three in a row!!
Guess what? Currently, our 3 game winning streak is the longest out of all teams (AL and NL).
Oakland has the longest loosing streak in NL and AL with 9 losses in a row.
Just a fun fact
Yes, they're 4-2 for the month of August. With 1 left with Oakland, 3 with Cleveland, 4 with Detroit, 6 with Boston, 6 with NY and 3 with TB this month, it would be a great time to see them go on a roll.
There is no question Joe Inglett has been a valued contributor to the Blue Jays this season and has proven out as a versatile and talented player in all regards.
Having said that, I do take exception to Mr. Riccardi recently being quoted as saying that he (Inglett) is much like Reed Johnston, and while he liked Johnston, he likes Inglett more as he has more to offer overall.
If you check Reed's Chicago Cubs numbers against Joe's, Reed is on top in pretty well every category, with both having played about the same number of games.
I thought it was a huge error on Riccardi's part to dump Johnston in favour of the highly questionable and oft-times under-motivated Shannon Stewart and it seems to me Riccardi is now trying to justify his bad decision by rationalizing that Joe fills the void created by his gaff.
Reed Johnston was by far my favourite Jay, as witnessed by his always clutch performances, both offensively and defensively, as well as his hustle, grit, toughness, leadership and determination; characteristics sadly lacking throughout the Blue Jay roster over the first half of the season.
I feel Toronto really lost something when Riccardi simply "gave him away."
Reed is in good shape, however, as he has a good shot at playing in the World Series, which sadly would not be the case had he remained with the Blue Jays.
The problem with JP is one day he says one thing and the next day something else. A month ago, he dissed Joe Inglett and said he was nothing more than a so-so utility player, now he's praising him. That's sort of standard fare with JP.
I liked Reed as well, he has a lot of heart.


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Miami, for example, might seem promising. It has clean air, pure drinking water, and vast green spaces--but it doesn't have many openings. That's right; life is anything but a beach for job seekers in the cruise capital.
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Sunny Los Angeles may also sound like the perfect place for a fresh start--but job seekers there would disagree. There were merely 12 job postings for every 1,000 people in the three-month period ending in September.
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With only six job postings for positions paying $50,000 and up (per 1,000 people), Riverside, Calif., headlines the list of the hardest cities for finding employment.
"Riverside County still has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the nation and is continuing to recover from a very depressed housing market" says Mike Werch, Indeed's communications manager.
Indeed.com compiled a list of America's easiest and hardest cities for finding a job using data collected from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The ranking was determined by calculating the number of job postings per thousand people in each major U.S. metropolitan area. The data covers job listings in the third quarter of 2012 with salary estimates of $50,000 or more.
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While the employment picture in some major metro areas is pretty bleak right now, you shouldn't lose all hope. It turns out there are plenty of cities with thousands of well-paying jobs.
San Jose, the city located in the heart of Silicon Valley, ranks No. 1 on the list of the easiest cities for finding a job--and tech geeks are the ones most likely to win employment there with ease.
There were approximately 96 listings for high-paying jobs per 1,000 residents in the area, which contains the headquarters of major corporations such as Adobe Systems, Cisco Systems, and eBay, as well as esteemed universities like Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, which are notorious for pumping thousands of computer science and engineering graduates into the local job market each year.
"Established tech companies as well as startups are aggressively recruiting talent," Werch says. "They look for experienced professionals as well as recent college graduates."
As it turns out, the San Jose metro area also topped our list of the best-paying cities this week. (See: The Cities Where People Earn The Biggest and Smallest Paychecks.)
Click here to see the top 10 easiest cities for finding a job.
In the No. 2 and No. 3 spots on the list, Washington, D.C. and Raleigh, N.C. also saw heavy recruiting between July and September.
The federal government remains a top hiring source in D.C., where there were 75 high-paying job postings per 1,000 people last quarter. Meanwhile, Raleigh had 50 listings for high-paying jobs, per 1,000 residents, in the same period.
Elsewhere on the list, No. 7 Baltimore, which is home to major research institutions and defense-related contractors, has particularly many job opportunities for health care and information technology professionals.
"Demand for health care professionals remains high, with nearly two times more job postings than any other industry," Werch says.
There were 44 openings for every 1,000 residents in the Maryland metropolis in the third quarter of 2012.
"The difficulty or ease of finding a job ultimately depends on how well an individual's skills and qualifications align with the hiring needs of employers in their city," Werch concludes.
This is an update of a story that originally ran in 2011.


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Vermont Votes to Overturn Citizens United
Update, April 19, 2012: Following the lead of the 64 towns that voted on Town Meeting Day, the Vermont legislature today voted in support of a constitutional amendment overturning Citizens United. Vermont is the third state to do so, joining Hawaii and New Mexico.
In the seven states that voted on Super Tuesday, Super PACs—the funnels for unlimited corporate and millionaire spending legalized by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling—outspent actual candidates by a margin of three to one.
That statistic represents one vision of what the future of American democracy will look like: a system overrun by rich entities looking to forward their own interests. But Tuesday also provided a very different vision, one more in keeping with the idea of democracy we learned in civics class.
In Vermont, in addition to picking their Republican primary favorite (the state went heavily for Mitt Romney, for what it's worth), voters also filled civic centers and school gyms for Town Meeting Day, an annual tradition since before Vermont was a state; Vermonters were voting in town meetings well before they were voting for president.
Norman Rockwell painted a Vermont town meeting as part of his World War II-era Four Freedoms series—and in today's cynical political world, they begin to sound very much like an impossibly idealized, outdated vision of American democracy. During floor meetings, people stand up to make their case before their neighbors; their neighbors debate back. Voters directly debate and vote on budget decisions, tax increases, and other business, including the election of local officials. Citizens have a legally protected right to take the day off work so they can participate.
If that all sounds quaint in comparison to today's Super PAC primaries, well, I can't blame you. But this year, a strong message emerged from Vermont's town meetings: It shouldn't have to.
On Tuesday, sixty-four towns across Vermont voted in support of ending the rule of Super PACs by overturning Citizens United through a Constitutional amendment.
The Vermont townships are far from the first to take up the issue: New York City, Los Angeles, Madison, and Boulder are a few of the cities that have also urged Constitutional action to overturn the decision. The Democracy for People Campaign is hoping to help pass 100 more local resolutions this spring alone.
Rights are for Real People
Where the infamous Citizens United decision came from and how to overturn it.
State senator Virginia Lyons of Chittenden County told the Burlington Free-Press that she had initially expected to see only four or five towns Vermont take up the measure. But "people are just fed up with the status quo."
It's true: in poll after poll, majorities of Americans report that the post-Citizens United status quo doesn't square with their vision of what democracy is. For all our cynicism and apparent resignation, we yearn for a political system more like the one that the Vermont townships are demanding. And the movement to make it happen is growing stronger all the time.
For more than a decade, a groundbreaking Clean Elections law has helped protect Maine politics from the influence of big money. But what's happening now that big spenders have free rein to influence elections—and what does it mean for the rest of the country?
From courthouses to statehouses, the pro-corporate ruling is under pressure.
Sarah van Gelder on a record season of corporate-funded political advertising and what it means for the 99 percent.


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DeskNotes is the high-tech version of everyone's favorite low-tech reminder system, the yellow "sticky notes" that litter the cubicles and desktops of people everywhere. As you would hope for in a sticky notes program, it lets you create notes and move them around with ease. But this open source desktop utility also goes beyond what you would expect, with the ability to send notes via e-mail, and synchronize with Outlook.
To create a note, simply press Ctrl-N, or else right-click the program's icon in the System Tray and select New. You can also right-click a note and select New from the DeskNotes menu as well. A bright yellow note area appears. Type in your text, and you're done. You can resize the note, reposition the note, delete the note, change its font and text size, change the background color of notes, and so on. You can also change those defaults as well.
There's a lot more you can do as well, including attaching a reminder to a note, for example if you need to be reminded of an appointment or deadline. You can also insert a timestamp and e-mail your notes, hide them, and synchronize them with notes you've created in Microsoft Outlook. You can even paste graphics into them. In short, if you're a fan of paper-based sticky notes, you'll want to give DeskNotes a try because it offers more options than many other similar programs, such as Simple Sticky Notes.
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