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Well I was asked to speak on the subject, "Who is Jesus?" That is very basic but it's certainly a question that a lot of people are struggling to answer. Some of you have been reading recently, probably about the pseudo religion called Scientology. You know about Scientology? You probably came in to Scientology through the back door...the back door is labeled Tom Cruise.
Scientology is a demonically informed pseudo religion basically invented by a combination Science Fiction writer and medium by the name of L. Ron Hubbard. And L. Ron Hubbard wants to answer the question, Who is Jesus? This is what he said.
"Jesus never existed as a person but rather he is an electronic idea, implanted by the true powers of the universe into the mind of someone between incarnations about 600 B.C. This implant is labeled R6 and occurred while this person between incarnations was watching a mad man, or something. Jesus is nothing more than an electronic, mystical, biological implant… says Hubbard… and the implant has all the characteristics of a pedophile."
Frankly I can't think of anything more bizarre or anything more blasphemous than that. It's just stunning, And yet, if you reject the true Christ, you can concoct any Christ you want and you're going to end up in the same place. The effect of missing the truth about Jesus Christ is the same. You can pick your poison, you can pick your religion, but any other than believing in the true Christ is damning belief. The right understanding of Jesus Christ is essential to the gospel and to salvation. If anybody preaches another Christ, let him be… what… accursed… accursed.
The right answer alone can lead to salvation. And you can be very close to the right answer and miss it and the results are disastrous forever. And that leads me to confront this question by looking at a monumental moment in the life of our Lord Jesus.
Open your Bible to Luke chapter 20...Luke chapter 20. I want to take you into the life of Jesus and capture your interest by the compelling scene that you're going to find yourself hopefully in the middle of. It is the twentieth chapter of Luke and it is verse 41. Follow as I read.
"And He said to them, how is it that they say the Christ is David's son? For David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to My Lord, sit at My right hand until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet. David, therefore, calls Him Lord and how is He his son?' And while all the people were listening, He said to the disciples, 'Beware of the scribes that like to walk around in long robes and love respectful greetings in the marketplaces and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets who devour widows' houses and for appearances sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.' And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury. And He saw a certain poor widow putting in two small copper coins, and He said 'Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them for they all out of their surplus put into the offering but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on.' And while some were talking about the temple, that it was adorned with beautiful stones and votive gifts, He said, 'As for these things which you are looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down.'"
Now you would think today that if you just get a lot of things right, and maybe miss the Jesus part, you're going to go to heaven. That's the new breath of tolerance that defines much of contemporary evangelicalism. You don't really have to believe in the gospel of Christ. You don't have to believe in Christ. If you're a monotheist, if you believe in the one true God, and O my, especially if you believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. If you are a monotheist and particularly like the Jews you believe in the true God of the Old Testament, you may not be informed about Jesus, you may miss a little on Jesus but you're going to be fine.
And that is absolutely diametrically opposed to what I just read you. Jesus says to thee Jews who have made the wrong conclusions about Him that you will not have a lesser condemnation. Not only will you not have salvation, not only will you not be excused, not only will you not have a lesser condemnation, you will have a greater condemnation. In fact, this entire Judaistic system is coming down in an imminent holocaust in which the symbol of this religious system, namely the temple, is going to be leveled to the ground.
This would be a pretty frightening message for people today to think about who are trying to extend and expand the gospel to include just about anybody and everybody who believes in God, any God as long as it's a one-God system. This is an indication from the Lord Jesus Himself that divine condemnation is coming on a apostate form of Judaism. They believed in the one true and living God, the God who was the Creator, the God who spoke in the Old Testament, the God who revealed Himself through the prophets and His righteous character through the Law, and the God who established that He would uphold His righteous character by means of judgment.All the things that are true about the true God in the Old Testament the Jews believed, it was not enough. Jesus never sat down and said, "You know, we've got so much common ground, let's find a connection and have a conversation. I really don't want to condemn you, let's have a conversation."
Now when I wrote the book, The Truth War, I knew it was going to get some flack from the people in the Emerging Church. Here was the flack. "All MacArthur wants to do is condemn. He's not willing to enter the conversation. He's not willing to find the common ground and celebrate the common ground."
And so, I'm going to respond to that by writing a second book. And the second book is going to be, Did Jesus Engage His Enemies in a Conversation or Level a Condemnation. Did Jesus look for common ground and find places to agree, or did He point out the damning nature of rejecting Him. Pretty easy question to answer. I've got to figure out how to take 200 pages to say that. That's my big problem.
All right, let me set the scene. Go back to where we began. Let me set the scene. Three years of ministry is over in the life of our Lord. The ministry in Judea for the first year, the ministry in Galilee for the second year, back to Judea for the third year of His ministry, He has traversed Judea, the southern part of Israel, and He has gone from town to village to city proclaiming the gospel of the Kingdom. And He has been banishing illness from Palestine and demonstrating divine power and again and again saying that He is the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy.
He has been declaring His messiahship. He has been declaring His deity. And then He's been proving it by His power over disease, His power over demons and His powerful presentation of the truth, as well as His power over death. Three years are finished now and we find Him here and it is Wednesday of Passion Week, Wednesday.
It was Saturday when He first came through Jericho, ascended to Jerusalem from the lowlands of Jericho and arrived at Bethany. On that Saturday, found His place of rest with His friends, Mary, Martha and the recently resurrected Lazarus who had stirred up no small amount of conversation in Jerusalem. In fact, was largely the resurrection of Lazarus that drew the crowds to the triumphal entry.
On Sunday, I think the accurate chronology is, on Sunday Jesus stayed in Bethany and many people came to Him, to see Him, to talk with Him, to hear from Him on Sunday. Actually it is on Monday that He entered Jerusalem, triumphantly indeed. In one sense He rides on the colt, the foal of an ass, because that's what Zachariah 9:9 said He would, and that's exactly what He did. He came in fulfilling prophecy on Monday.
The crowds were massive. Some would estimate a quarter of a million. There was a real possibility in their minds that He might be the Messiah. I mean, how else could you explain His power over disease, demons, death and His power for proclamation of the truth. He had spoke like no other man had spoken. And there was this fever pitch because Lazarus was alive. He came back into town early on Tuesday, after having left that night to go to the Mount of Olives.
Each night He stayed at the Mount of Olives. Took His disciples out the eastern gate of Jerusalem, down the little slope, across the Kidron Brook, back up the Mount of Olives directly east of Jerusalem and disappeared into the massive grove of Olive Trees. Why? Because He knew His enemies wanted Him dead, He knew they didn't want to arrest Him in the daylight or in full view of the crowd and needed a clandestine place where He could hide at night in the darkness with His disciples. That's where He went every night.
In the morning on Tuesday, He came back. He had one thing in mind. He went directly to the temple and you know what He did, He cleaned the place out for the second time in His ministry. Did it once at the beginning and once at the end, bracketed His ministry by identifying the whole Judaistic system as apostate. He declared the apostasy of that system and divine judgment falling on that system at the beginning of His ministry, as recorded in John 2, and He punctuated it at the end with the same act. It was corrupt to the core. It was corrupt to the core.
The Pharisees were hypocrites. Scribes were Pharisees who were also hypocrites. The scribes were the law experts who informed the religion of the Pharisees. The Pharisees were the purveyor of that religion throughout the synagogue system which made it the most populous of all the forms of Judaism. The Sadducees, another sect of Jews, ran the temple enterprises and it was as corrupt as corrupt can be, extorted money out of people by discrediting their sacrifices which they brought, and making them buy sacrifices that they sold, cheated them on the exchange of money, created all kinds of means by which the people could buy divine blessing by putting money in the thirteen trumpet-shaped receptacles that filled the Court of the Women. People would parade by and put their money in those things. The rabbis had taught with alms one purchases his redemption. It was a corrupt system. It was a system of works/righteousness, self-righteousness and blatant hypocrisy, as you heard me read.
So on Tuesday, Jesus declares, "You have taken My Father's house, intended to be a house of prayer, communion with the true and living God by the means that He's established and you have turned it into a cave of thieves." They were stealing people blind to become wealthy themselves. It was religion at its worse possible form.
The rest of the day, after doing that, He taught, interacted with the people, addressed the issues of the Kingdom… a long weary day. Went back to the Mount of Olives, found the place in the Garden of Gethsemane, laid on the ground and slept.Wednesday He came back again. This is the last day that Jesus ever taught publicly. This is a very important day. This is the last day He ever taught. So we hear the last things He ever said.
At the end of Wednesday, He walked out of the temple ground on the east side, down that same little slope and went up the Mount of Olives and stopped and sat there with His disciples, long enough to tell them He would never be back in that place again. He would someday return in glory. That was His last time in a public ministry. The rest of Wednesday and Thursday, He was with His disciples. They celebrated the Passover Thursday night. He taught them all the things contained in John 13, 14, 15 and 16 and then prayed The Great High Priestly Prayer of John 17 in front of their full view and in their full hearing and then walked to the Mount of Olives, this time knowing He would be betrayed. It is after midnight. By three o'clock He is dead because He has to die at the very hour the Passover lambs are being killed. He has to be in the grave before the sun goes down so that He can be in the grave Friday, Saturday and Sunday. He's in control of every detail.
This is Wednesday… this is Wednesday, the last day of public ministry. He preaches the Kingdom, it's an exhausting long day. He confronts the religious leaders who hate Him with an uncontrollable passion. This hate has been going on for a long time. It's safe to say this hatred has been going on for years, since the very beginning when He first came and did the very same thing, cleansed the temple, struck a blow at their religious system, which not only disrupted its operation but discredited its integrity, validity.
They hated Him because He assaulted His apostasy. They hated Him because He assaulted their theology, their seats of power, their fragile truce with Rome. He assaulted their false righteousness. And He didn't do it in subtle ways, He publicly denounced them. He openly exposed their corruption and their hypocrisy and it drove them feverishly to seek His murder. And above all, of course, they hated Him for blasphemy because He claimed to be equal with God. That's the ultimate blasphemy.
So here at the last occasion of Jesus speaking publicly on the final day, it's very important to hear what He says. His final words… the last message. And what is it? It's about His identity, who is He? He had been telling them for three years. He had been telling them day after day, after day, after day, after day, after day. He had may the claims again and again and again and again and verified them and given vast evidence to support them. But He goes back to that issue again.
Now just backing up a little bit. Who did the Jews expect their Messiah to be? Who did they think Messiah would be? Bottom line, they were sure He would be a man. They were sure He's be a man. Not an angel and not God, but a man and not just a man, but a Son of David, a Son of David, they thought because that's what the Old Testament promised, that the greater Son of David, promised in 2 Samuel chapter 7, you can read it for yourself, the greater Son of David would come and establish the everlasting Kingdom. They expected that when the Messiah came, He would be a man, He would be a man in the line of David with a royal right to the throne. He would be a man of immense power and influence who would sweep into power, who would overthrow the Romans and all the enemies of Israel and fulfill instantaneously all Kingdom promises to Abraham, and to David, and all the Kingdom promises reiterated through the prophets as well as bring full salvation to Israel.
Even the disciples thought that. Luke tells us that they thought He would bring a Kingdom. But the people thought He would be just a man and a Son of David. And so that brings Jesus to the ultimate question. Is He merely a man? And I want you to look at verses 41 to 44 and we'll call it the final invitation...the final invitation.
Even after all the hatred of the leaders, even after all the fickle interest by the uncommitted crowds who were so exuberant on Monday, but by Friday they're screaming, "Crucify Him, Crucify Him," in spite of the hatred from the leaders, in spite of the fickle interest by the uncommitted crowds, He is still the compassionate evangel. One last time He will clarify who He is so that unbelieving sinners can believe.
Matthew 22:41 really begins this for us. In that text we read, Jesus said this, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose Son is He?" That was the question that He asked. "What do you think about the Christ, whose Son is He?" And He is saying this to the Pharisees and the scribes, in the hearing of all the people. And Matthew 22:42 says, "They replied, "David's… David's."
Everybody understood that. And by the way, there's a definite article in the Matthew text when the question is posed, what do you think about THE Christ? He's distancing Himself from that at that moment. He's simply asking, "What is your view of the Messiah? Whose Son is He?" And they reply, "David's." And that gets us to verse 41. "He said to them, 'How is it that they say the Christ is David's son? How have you come to that conclusion?'"
That's as far as they wanted to go. That's as far as they could go. That's as far as they understood. They have a fundamentally flawed conception of the Messiah. It's not wrong, it's incomplete. And incomplete equals wrong.
The question is basic. The disciples knew better than that. Peter said on behalf of all of them, "By divine revelation, You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Son of David...yes. Son of God...yes. For the Jews, the answer was strictly David's son, a man with a right to the throne of Israel. That's the Messiah. Any Jew would have answered the question that way. They all knew that. That is what the Old Testament taught. You can read it in 2 Samuel 7. You can read it in Psalm 89. You can read it in Ezekiel 37. You can read it in a lot of places. And if you just go through, for example, Matthew is probably the best one to follow, and just hear what the people say, what the populace says. For example, Matthew 9:27, "As people passed on from there, two blind followed Him, crying out and saying, "Have mercy on us, Son of David." Luke records in Luke 18 that later on in His ministry, when He was coming through Jericho, Luke 18. He ran into two more blind men and blind beggars tended to hang out with each other so it's not surprising on a couple of occasions He ran into a couple of them.
Same thing, they cried out to Him, "Son of David, have mercy on us." Matthew 12, "There was brought to Him a demon-possessed man who was blind and dumb. He healed them so that the dumb man spoke and saw and all the multitudes were amazed and began to say, 'This man cannot be the Son of David, can He?'" That's what everybody understood, that the Messiah was a Son of David.
By the way, as a footnote, that's why it's so important to have a Matthew genealogy and a Luke genealogy. Matthew, the genealogy of Joseph, Luke the genealogy of Mary, in both cases through both families, Jesus is from the line of David. From His mother He gets the royal blood, if you will. From His father He gets the right to rule. Nobody would deny that the Messiah was the Son of David. The Old Testament is crystal clear about that.
In fact, Zachariah is a good illustration. Zachariah, the father of John the Baptist, back in Luke chapter 1, when Zacharias knew that the Messiah was going to come because God was going to give he and his barren wife, Elizabeth, the child who would be the forerunner of the Messiah. He was filled with the Holy Spirit, Luke 1:67. He prophesied, "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, He has visited us, accomplished redemption for His people. He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of David, His servant." Everybody knew the Messiah was to be the Son of David… everybody.
Frankly, there could not have been a more successful attack on the deity of Jesus, on the messiahship of Jesus, than if the temple records showed that He was not a Son of David. And you could be certain that the Pharisees and the scribes checked it out. And by the way, Messiah had to come before the temple was destroyed because all the records were gone after that.
Their answer is accurate, He is David's Son. Their answer is true, it is just inadequate. And for the rest of the answer, the Lord does a brief exposition of Scripture. Verse 42, "How is it… verse 41… that they say the Christ is David's Son only implied, for David himself says in the book of Psalms, 'The Lord said to My Lord, Sit at My right hand until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet. David, therefore, calls Him Lord and how is He His Son?'" This is absolutely stunning, brilliant. No self-respecting Middle Eastern father would ever call his son Lord. Why is David calling His Son Lord, Adonay in Psalm 110. David calls Messiah Lord and God, "The Lord said to My Lord, 'Sit at My right hand until I make Thine enemies a footstool for Thy feet.'" That sounds like Psalm 2, doesn't it? Another Messianic Psalm that says when Messiah comes, He will rule and all enemies will be brought under His feet. That kind of depiction is from ancient thrones where the throne was elevated above everybody and everybody was under the feet of the ruler.
Verse 44 He asked the question, "David therefore calls Him Lord, how is He His Son?" Some Jewish commentators have decided that David made a mistake. Oops, David shouldn't have said that, he made a mistake. But Matthew 22:43 says, "He spoke in the Spirit." And some critics have suggested, "Well in His own human spirit, so Mark 12:36 says, "He spoke in the Holy Spirit."
When David called the Messiah His Lord, it was by Holy Spirit inspiration. The Lord said to My Lord, You're the one who is going to reign and rule. Always Psalm 110 was messianic. Always it was interpreted by the Jews as messianic until the early church. The Jews had always acknowledged that this was a messianic Psalm. By the way, it's the Psalm most often quoted by New Testament writers. Our Lord uses this Psalm to verify its messianic character, its Davidic authorship and His own deity. And this Psalm became so strongly used in the early church to prove the messiahship of Jesus that for hundreds of years the Jews abandoned the historic interpretation, they applied it to Abraham, Melchizedek and even Judas Maccabees. It has been restlessly attacked by rabbis and critics who want to reject its prophetic element, its Davidic authorship and certainly want to reject the deity of Jesus Christ.
Jesus said David wrote it. Jesus said David wrote it by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said David was prophesying concerning Him, the Messiah, and the Messiah is David's Lord.
And what did God say to David's Lord? "Sit at My right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for Your feet." Putting Him at His right hand is putting Him in a position of equality. The right hand expresses power. Old Testament calls God's power His right hand. He invests into His Son, the Messiah, all power and all authority. And we hear that repeated in the New Testament. Messiah then will not only be David's Son humanly, He will be David's Lord divinely. He is Son of David and Son of God, David's Son and David's Lord.
"And we beheld His glory… John writes… the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth." This is the only explanation for Jesus, the only one. He showed the ability to create divinely. He shared omnipotence with God the Father. He commanded the elements. He commanded all creatures. He created food. He created whole, healthy bodies. He raised the dead. He forgave sin, and He pronounced judgment. All elements of divine omnipotence. He had the attribute of omnipresence and was able to be everywhere at all times if He desired to be, He said. He was omniscient, He knew everything that was in the heart of man so that no one needed to tell Him anything about a man. Therefore He shared the very infinite knowledge of God. He was immutable. He's the same today, yesterday, and forever, always holy, true, wise, sovereign, loving, eternal, glorious, unchanging. He accepted worship. He is to be sought in prayer. In every sense He is God. He even shares some of the same titles with God, rock, stumbling stones, Savior, Redeemer, Holy One, Lord of Hosts, King, First and Last, etc., etc.
We're not surprised when you look at the life of Jesus Christ to see manifestly that He is God. So the classical approach to this, if God became a man, we would expect His human life to be sinless and His was. If God, the Holy true God, were a man, we would expect Him to live perfectly righteous. He did. If God were a man, we would expect His words to be the greatest words ever spoken. They were. If God were a man, we would expect Him to exert a profound, unequaled power over humanity. He did. If God were a man, we would expect supernatural demonstrations. There were many of them. If God were a man, we would expect Him to manifest the love of God. And He did. Even His entire ministry was a ministry of compassion, delivering people from the ravages of demon possession, death and disease.
Well there's no other possible conclusion that this is David's Son who is also David's Lord. They got it. Matthew adds a footnote. Matthew 22:46, "No one was able to answer Him a word or ask Him another question." Sadly it doesn't say they believed. They just ramped up the hatred. That was the final invitation. That's the last invitation He ever gave. One more opportunity to acknowledge that I am God as well as man, David's Son, and David's Lord. That is the Lord God, Yahweh speaking to My Lord… David says… Adonay, the one who is indued with all My power and the one I will make ruler. This is Messiah, the God/Man.
It is at that moment the final invitation ended for Israel. And what follows is tragic. Here comes our Lord's very last words. And while all the people were listening, this is the last thing He ever said publicly, and it wasn't How To Have Your Best Life Now, just thought I'd throw that in to wake you up. The last thing He ever said publicly, "Beware." Wow! "Beware of the scribes who like to walk around in long robes and like respectful greetings in the market places and chief seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets, who devour widows' houses and for appearances's sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation." And He pronounces severer damnation on apostate Judaism.
There's one thing, of course, that Christ is intolerant of, and that's false religion. And the final words are a warning, His last words. By the way, Luke gives us two verses. Matthew gives us the whole speech, Matthew 23, read it. Matthew 23 is a blistering malediction, a scathing rebuke of the false leaders of Israel. That was Jesus' parting shot because of the damning power of false religion that denies the reality of a biblical Christology. Luke just gives us two verses. Matthew stretches it to nearly 40. He describes them as hypocrites. Matthew gives us the full text, hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites, hypocrites, he repeats it again and again and again, woe, woe, woe, curse, curse, curse. Jesus walked out of that temple after having cursed the religious leaders of Israel and warned the people, "You're going down with them if you don't get away from them."
There's only one action in the description here in Luke and it's fascinating. Only one action. He talks about their hypocritical attitude, they like to walk around in long robes, love greetings, etc., etc., cheap seats. Very proud, self-serving, self-righteous.
There's only one sinful act here. They devour widows' houses. This is the only specific sin of action, katesthio, consume, plunder, eat up. How bad was this religion? It had descended to the place where the people in charge were getting rich at the expense of the most defenseless people. That's how corrupt Judaism was… so far from the heart of God. The heart of God throughout the whole Old Testament was to care for the poor, right? What does James say? "Pure religion undefiled is to care for the widows' orphans." This is the heart of God, tender, compassionate.
This looks at the apostasy of Judaism not theologically, but practically. This is where their theology led them, to become fat, isolated, self-serving, spiritual hypocrites who were getting fatter and building their religious empire on the backs of the most beleaguered, defeated and defenseless. In their system, if you were a widow, it was because there was sin in your life and you were being punished by God. That was the system. And if you're a woman, on top of that, you were also a second-class citizen to start with. So they looked on widows as the lowest, treated them with disdain.They devour widows' houses and at the same time, make these long prayers for appearance sake, spiritual frauds. These will receive greater condemnation.
And then the nest passage just shakes us. He looked up… I'll give you a first lesson in Bible exegesis, what does that tell you? He looked up? It tells you that He had been looking down. Good, class, you're on your way. If you put the whole picture together from the synoptic gospels, He's weary. It's been a hard week, a long week. He is just spewed out this diatribe recorded fully in Matthew 23, pulled at and pushed by the crowd all day, teaching relentlessly. He's weary. His heart is grieved. When He first came into the city, you remember, on Monday, what did He do? He wept...He wept. He's broken hearted, cleaned the temple the day before. Has come to the end of the day, He knows they're not going to accept Him. It's over, He knows that. He knows the fickle crowd will follow their leaders. He told them beware, they won't. When the leaders stir them up they'll say, "Crucify Him, crucify Him, crucify Him." And they'll all go to hell with their leader.
And so, He finds a place to sit, Matthew tells us, in the area of the temple treasury, which is the Court of the Women, a large court where He would be teaching because that's where men and women and even strangers could be. And He sits down, And He's weary. And He looks up. And this is where the thirteen trumpet-shaped receptacles were where people came and put their money in. Of course the Pharisees did that, Matthew 6 said, they had somebody blow a trumpet to announce their arrival, put their philanthropy on display. And He watched the rich putting their gifts into the treasury. And Mark says, Mark 12:41, they put in large amounts. This is what the system demanded, that's what it demanded. You purchase your redemption by your alms and the purveyors of that religion were getting rich.
And then He saw a certain poor widow putting in two small copper coins, lepta, one-hundred and thirty-second of a denarius, smallest coin the Jews used. They didn't like to use Roman coins cause they saw them as idols, it had Caesar's face on them. But they had Jewish coins, two little pennies, two small copper coins. And He said, He's talking to His disciples now, they've left the city, they went out the gate. They're just walking away from the temple, magnificent, gold everywhere, overlaying this magnificent Herodian temple that had been under construction 50 years, the symbol of this rich religion. And they walk out.
But before they walk out, Jesus notices this and He says to them, "I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for they all out of their surplus put in their offering but she out of her poverty put in all that she had to live on."
Now how many sermons have you heard on this story and then somebody takes the offering? Right? "O Lord, may we learn from the widow."
Let me tell you. What's going on here? What...you say, "Well this is the principle of sacrifice." Oh yeah...yeah...yeah. If you're going to say this is a giving principle, here's the principle, give a hundred percent of what you have and go home and die. That's the principle. That's what she did. Well it says she put in all she had to live on. The Greek says she put in all her life. That was it. And went home to die. And He's basically saying, "You know, the people who have more, they give out of their surplus. When she's done giving, she's got nothing." So if this is a lesson on giving, the only lesson that I can see here that's obvious is give everything and go home and hope somebody comes to your door with more, or die.
I don't think that's biblical. You say, "No, no, the lesson here is she had a really good attitude." Really? Where's that, in the white space? Where's that? Where does it say anything about her attitude, it doesn't say a word about her attitude. What do you mean it says… it doesn't say anything about her attitude, poor widow put in more than everybody else relatively because she put in everything she had… a hundred percent. It doesn't say a word about her attitude.
Other people say, "Well, you know, the principle of giving here, it's not how much you give but how much you have left when you've given." It doesn't say that. It doesn't say that at all.
Can I encourage you a little bit? There is no principle here. There's no principle for giving here at all, none… none. So take that out of your sermon repertoire and your offering talk. This is not a principle of giving. Is this the context? All of a sudden Jesus is talking about… I'm bringing judgment on you, beware of the scribes and Pharisees. And Oh, by the way, this nice little lady rolls through and drops in a few coins. Now some words on giving. Come on.
I mean, that would be where Baptist offerings were born. You know, you could be preaching damnation, but you always stop and a few words about giving, right? Well Jesus is no Baptist evangelist here, trying to take His own love offering. And there's no… there's no principle for giving here. Nor do the disciples say, "Well what are You trying to tell us, Lord? What are You trying to tell us? Take all our money and go run over there? We'll follow her, Lord, here we go. Hey, who's got the money? Judas used to have the money, but he's gone. No, he still had the money, he was still there. Hey Judas, go take all our money over there and dump it. Is that what we're supposed to do, Lord? And then just, you know, die or hope somebody shows up and gives us more money? Or shall we make ourselves burdens for other people?"
There's no principle. They don't ask any questions. They get it. Jesus didn't commend her. He didn't say He was proud of her. He didn't say she had a good heart. He didn't say she had a bad heart. He didn't say she had a good attitude or a bad attitude. Didn't say anything about it.
What He said was this. "Judaism is so corrupt, it devours widows' houses and here's an illustration. Here's an illustration." This poor woman, destitute, is so desperate that she'll give her last cents trying to purchase favor from God. This is the birth of the prosperity preachers. And Jesus pronounced damnation on them, "Woe to you who build your personal fortune on the backs of the destitute and the desperate with promises of success, prosperity, health, wealth if they send you their money."
This is tragic. And so they start to talk as they leave. Verse 5, they're talking about the temple and it was adorned with beautiful stones and votive gifts, gifts that were given in connection with a vow. And those vows were illegitimate. Remember the guy who wouldn't give money to his parents when they had a need cause they made a vow to God? Matthew 15.
So, they're walking out. Jesus turns around. Looks at it glistening, gold in the late afternoon in Jerusalem, this is what He says. "As for these things what you're looking at, the days will come in which there will not be left one stone upon another which will not be torn down." Here is an apostate religious system that abuses people. That is the opposite of what God, the gracious, compassionate, saving God desires to do. Forty years later, Jerusalem and the temple was flattened. All the genealogical records were destroyed. The sacrificial system came to an end. The judgment was true. The final invitation led to the final condemnation.
I think I have enough time just to mention a third point. But for that, you need to look at chapter 22 and verse 37. Is this a bad ending? Is this a nightmare for Jesus because now they're so angry. What are His final words? He gives the whole Matthew 23 speech to the leaders in front of the whole crowd. He discredits them, blisters them with judgment. Their fury reaches the out-of-control level. They're going to get Him. And they got an insider to help them. They got Judas who knows where He'll be on the Mount of Olives and will lead them directly there and they'll get Him on the cross.
Is this a bad ending to a guy who had some nice ideas about morality and religion? No. Verse 37 of Luke 22, now you go to Thursday night. They're in the Upper Room and they've come together to have the last official legitimate Passover and to institute the first Lord's Supper and Jesus warns them. "Look, it's not going to be easy for you guys in the future." Tells them all about persecution, being hated. All of that in John 15 and 16 is included. And then He says this, "It's okay," verse 37, "for I tell you that this which is written must be fulfilled in Me and He was numbered with transgressors for that which refers to Me has its fulfillment."
Let's call this the final realization. The final invitation, rejected. The final condemnation, pronounced. But even in the condemnation that came on the nation that rejected Him, God accomplished the final realization of His saving purpose. At that moment, Jesus makes the staggering claim that He is the one prophesied in Isaiah 53. He quotes Isaiah 53:12, not to isolate Isaiah 53:12, but to kick the door wide open on Isaiah 53, the whole chapter. He throws the doors open to that chapter. Twice He says it. "That which is written must be fulfilled in Me," at the beginning of the verse. "That which refers to Me has its fulfillment," at the end of the verse. Twice in one verse He says, "I am the fulfillment, I am the fulfillment of...and He was numbered with the transgressors," Isaiah 53.
It has to be this way. The worst that the Apostate system can do is going to fulfill the plan of God. He was killed by your wicked hands, but primarily by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. Jesus is God's Lamb, He's God's Lamb. Satan didn't want to kill Jesus. Satan wanted to keep Him from the cross. Satan didn't want to kill Jesus, God did.
Why? Because someone had to take the place of sinners. He was numbered with the transgressors. That is staggering. That is the apex of Jesus' life and ministry. He is saying, "I am the fulfillment of Isaiah 53, I am the fulfillment." And He pulls one line, "Numbered with the transgressors." That line is only one of twenty in that chapter that speak of His substitutionary identification with sinners. Twenty times in that chapter it speaks of that, that's just one. That just opens the door. I am the fulfillment of Isaiah 53. Isaiah 53 has been called the torture chamber of rabbis.
I want to close by having you go to Isaiah 53. This is stunning. And I want you to just sort of break this up in to four little parts. Number one, the section starting in verse 12 of chapter 52...actually verse 14 of chapter 52 starts to talk about the suffering substitute. And verse 14 of 52 says, "Many were astonished at You so His appearance was marred more than any man and His form than the sons of men." And in verse 2 of 53, "He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him. He is the scarred substitute. He is the scarred substitute. The suffering servant of Isaiah will come and He will be scarred and He will be disfigured."
And then the prophet says, "He will be the sufficient substitute… verse 4… Surely our grief He Himself bore, our sorrows He carried, yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted, He was pierced through for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The chastening for our well-being fell on Him and by His scourgings we are healed. All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned his own way. But the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." Do you see the sufficiency of that? He's taken care of our transgressions. He has taken care of our iniquities. He has brought us well being. We have been healed. He is the efficient substitute. He is the submissive substitute in verse 7. He was oppressed and He was afflicted, yet He didn't open His mouth like a lamb led to slaughter, like a sheep silent before its shearers. He didn't open His mouth. By oppression and judgment, He's taken away. As for His generation who considered that He was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of My people to whom the stroke was due. Yes His grave was assigned with wicked men, yet He was with a rich man in His death because He had done no violence, nor was there any deceit in His mouth. This is the submissive substitute, the scarred substitute becomes the sufficient substitute and the submissive substitute and ends up the sovereign substitute in verse 10. You see how it flows. "The Lord will prolong His days, that's the resurrection. The good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand as a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied. By His knowledge, the righteous One, My servant will justify the many, bear their iniquities. I will allot Him a portion with the great. He will divide the booty with the strong. This is all triumph. Because He was numbered with the transgressors and Himself bore the sin of many."
You know what the most stunning thing about that whole chapter, it's in the past tense. Did you pick that up? Here's a prophet writing hundreds of years before the cross. He bore, He was smitten of God, He was pierced. He was scourged. He was oppressed. He was afflicted. Past tense.
What is that about? The entire chapter, it's just a magnificent thing, the entire chapter is from the perspective of a Jew in the future, after the cross, looking back at Christ and seeing the truth. What did Zechariah 12:10 say? "They will look upon Me and mourn for Me. They'll look upon Me whom they have… what… pierced.
What's going to come out of the rejection of Israel in the future is the salvation of Israel, and not just Israel, but Gentiles. Anybody who looks back on the cross and sees the truth, fountain of cleansing opens to them. And so, Jesus culminates His life, His public ministry by saying, "You reject Me, you're damned." And then pulls His disciples aside and says, "But it's okay, because I must fulfill Isaiah 53 and from this hour on, souls will look back and all who look back and see the reality of the cross in the light of Isaiah 53 and believe it and embrace it will be saved."
Our Father, we thank You for the glorious realities of our Christ like the numberless stars of heaven...each feature of His life shines with blazing brilliance and there are so many, they're almost incalculable. We've just picked out a little glimpse of His majesty and His glory. And we just want to affirm that we love our Christ, but we only can love Him because You first loved us. Forgive us for our cold and indifferent hearts. May we grow to love the Lord Jesus with all our heart and soul, mind and strength. What privilege that we should be among those who look back and get the story right. Thank You for this grace. We give You all the glory in Christ's dear name. Amen.
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If you have a stack of old pictures—like, real pictures from your primitive days—they're probably just sitting around collecting dust. Don't you want to move those pictures to the modern age by digitizing 'em? Of course! Shoebox, an iPhone app, can do it for you.
Of course, there are other ways to digitize old photos—scan 'em all to get the bestest quality you can or something—but I'm much too lazy to do that. Shoebox makes the steps really easy, you just use the iPhone camera to take a picture of your old picture, crop the pic with their slick crop tool, tag it and share with all your friends just like you would an Instagram. Your new digital picture looks exactly like the print picture and you get all the cool new snazzy social sharing options. Plus, all the pictures you take with Shoebox are archived on 1000memories.com so you don't ever have to worry about those prints getting destroyed. [iTunes via @sacca]

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Varroa Pop
Varroa Pop simulates the growth of Varroa mite population in honey bee colonies. The program demonstratres how Varroa mites influence colony population growth throughout the year. You can change many factors through the menus in the model such as the initial population size, queen egg laying potential, and mite reproduction rates, so you can see how these factors influence both colony and mite population growth. We hope that the model will help you understand the interactions between the honey bee and mite populations and provide insights on how best to control Varroa in colonies.


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Dec. 12, 2006
Head Coach Michelle Bento-Jackson
On the game:
"We definitely didn't shoot very well to start the game, and that's why it was so important that our defense was so intense. I thought we did a good job, especially in the first half."
On the balance of scoring:
"Its always nice to have a balanced scoring attack, it just makes us that much tougher to defend."
On the rebounding effort:
"One of our focuses is on rebounding, and Jen, Kasey and Gonny have been real consistent for us, especially in our most recent games. That's what we need in order to be successful, while their scoring is a bonus, we need for them to give us the solid defensive rebounding."
On Ashley Graham's career-high 13 assists:
"Ashley has done a tremendous job. She is a phenomenal shooter, and I've told her, there will be nights that the ball just doesn't drop, and she knows that on nights like tonight she needs to find ways to be a factor on the court, and she did that by getting all of her teammates involved."
On building momentum for the trip to Kansas:
"It gives us some momentum from a winning standpoint, however I was a little bit disappointed tonight as the team needs to work on maintaining the intensity for a full 40 minutes. We're going to have to work on that before we hit the road tomorrow."
Guard Chandice Cronk
On the team bouncing back from the early shooting woes:
"We're going to have off nights and it did take awhile for us to get started, but what got things going for us was the defense. When we started to get steals and make our rotations, that just got the offense going in transition."
On scoring 24 points and averaging over 18 points a game so far: "It's a big credit to the team, Ashley Graham is such a great point guard and she sees everything. My teammates are setting great screens, our post rebounding is working so well, and everyone is just coming up huge right now."
On Ashley's 13 assists opening up the offense:
"I have complete faith in Ashley and know that she will do what she knows best out there. She sees the floor great, gets the ball up the floor, and is such an amazing point guard."
On building momentum for the trip to Kansas:
"These wins are huge, especially with this road trip coming up. K-State and Kansas are pretty good teams, so hopefully we will carry over the momentum from these two wins into this weekend in Kansas."
Forward Jen Gottschalk
On the rebounding effort:
"Getting second chances through rebounding has been something we've worked on in practice, because when we do that we give the offense another chance to score. Ashley Graham is such a great point guard that we know that as long as we get the ball back out to her she will get us going."
On the scoring balance of the post players: "I think our team has a great balance. With Pacific's guards being up on ours, they were able to get the ball to us underneath so we could score. And when we score, the defense has to come in on us, which leaves our guards open outside. I think it's a great strength because then opposing teams don't know what to do in guarding us."


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Drawing in WPF
I'll try to explain drawing in WPF while comparing it to drawing in WinForms
This tutorial should introduce you to drawing in WPF. It's recommended to know how to draw in WinForms before reading this tutorial, but it's not required (since drawing in WPF has little to do with drawing in WinForms). Following the same analogy as many functionalities in WPF this concept is based on nesting elements one in another.
WPF comes with a class called 'Line' and one called 'Canvas'. We will use these in our example but you can use any other shape (in WPF that's a class that inherits from Shape Class)
More info on the:
Line Class
Canvas Class
So first create a WPF application (I trust you know how to do this... )
1. Add a canvas control to the main window
2. Rename it to drawingCanvas
3. Add a button control to the main window
4. Rename it to testButton
5. Create an event handler for the testButton_Click event (Just double click the button in the designer)
In WPF you need to create a Line object and add it to a control (In our case the Canvas control). But before we add it to the control we need to define some properties of our line (Like the position and the Stroke).
Drawing the line through code
Create a new Line object:
Line myLine = new Line();
Define it's start and end point coordinates:
myLine.X1 = 10; myLine.Y1 = 10; myLine.X2 = 50; myLine.Y1 = 50;
After that we need to define the stroke property. It is a Brush Class that is actually the outline of the shape.
You can define the stroke property like this:
myLine.Stroke = new SolidColorBrush(Color.FromArgb(100, 50, 125, 255));
NOTE: I didn't create a local variable to hold the brush.
Now we need to add that line object to the canvas control:
Build and start the application. Click the button. Voila!
Drawing the line through XAML
It's the same process:
1. Define the properties of the line
2. Nest it in the canvas control
So it's easy:
Open the <Line XAML tag, define the point coordinates (X1="10" Y1="10" X2="50" Y2="50", you can chose different points), define the stroke property (Stroke="Black", chose a different color if you want), close the tag />.
The complete line looks like this:
<Line X1="10" Y1="10" X2="50" Y2="50" Stroke="Black"/>
Build and start the application. Click the button. Voila!
You can apply the same logic for the Ellipse Class or any other shape for that matter. Of course the same logic applies for all shapes.
Hope this gets you started drawing in WPF!


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At the 59th International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting held this May in Anchorage, Alaska, pro-whaling nations were expected to bristle with confidence gained from the simple majority they achieved briefly at last year's meeting. But the 2007 gathering was anticipated anxiously by both sides of the whaling debate, since all of the aboriginal subsistence quotas, including Alaska's own, were up for their 5-year renewal. Participants were leery of a repeat of the 2002 meeting, where aboriginal whaling quotas were held hostage by Japan and its allies in an attempt to weaken the US resolve on commercial whaling. Susan Millward, D.J. Schubert and Serda Ozbenian represented the Animal Welfare Institute, pressing the United States not to capitulate on any measure in exchange for the Alaskan bowhead whale quota—as it did with a vote in support of a resumption of Japanese small-type coastal whaling in 2002.
The pro-whaling factions were unusually reasonable and almost conciliatory during the first few days of the meeting, although constant references to reciprocity hinted at an expectation of future payback. Nearly all of the aboriginal whaling quotas, including the one for Alaskan bowhead whales, were approved by consensus. The exceptions were the quotas sought by the Natives of Greenland, who on the final day were denied their request to kill humpback whales, but received approval for a significant increase in the number of minke whales and the addition of bowhead whales to their hunt.
Japan's anticipated call for reciprocity came to a head on the last day, with a proposed schedule amendment for a resumption of its small-type coastal whaling. Japan has been trying for two decades to get the IWC to sanction commercial whaling for its coastal communities, including Taiji, where the notorious dolphin drive hunts take place. This year's attempt was deftly tailored to mirror the aboriginal subsistence whaling that Japan and the other pro-whaling nations had been so agreeable to earlier in the meeting.
Japan first tried to remove the term "aboriginal" from the subsistence whaling category. When that initiative failed, it still pursued the subsistence argument for its coastal people, who are not indigenous and do not have subsistence need for whale meat. If successful, the proposal would have resulted in a partial lifting of the moratorium on commercial whaling and had significant ramifications for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. The issue resulted in a protracted debate over two days and was finally defeated. Japan then threatened to leave the Commission and was forced to rescind its offer to host the 61st meeting in 2009.
A good deal of discussion at the meeting centered on the future of the currently polarized IWC, which is at an impasse because, despite the moratorium, whales continue to be killed for commercial purposes at an increasing rate through loopholes in the IWC. The pro-whaling factions favor "normalization" of the IWC, taking it back to its origins—which once led to the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of whales and pushed many to the brink of extinction—while others favor "modernization" and the evolution of the IWC into a non-lethal use and whale conservation regime.
The escalating commercial whale killing, the inadequacies of the IWC, and the lack of progress in improving whale-killing methods are deeply troubling. However, we are also concerned that efforts to resolve the perceived impasse may lead to dangerous compromises. There are already rumblings of suggested solutions among traditionally conservation-minded IWC members and observers, including accelerating the development of the Revised Management Scheme (the rules that would guide a reinstated practice of commercial whaling), revisiting the Irish Proposal of the late 1990s that sought to ban high seas whaling and the international trade in whale products in exchange for coastal whaling, and the creation of a whaling-free Southern Hemisphere. An intercessional meeting has been proposed to further the negotiations, and we will attend to ensure that poor compromises are not made.


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Control How Payroll Works in QuickBooks 2013
The Payroll & Employees Preferences set in QuickBooks 2013 includes only Company Preferences. The QuickBooks Payroll Features radio buttons let you tell QuickBooks how you want to handle payroll: using an outside payroll service such as Intuit Complete Payroll (select Complete Payroll Customers in this case), using QuickBooks payroll features (select the Full Payroll radio button), or that you're not using payroll at all (select the No Payroll radio button).
The Pay Stub & Voucher Printing button lets you tell QuickBooks what employee information to print on the payroll check: employee address, company address, sick pay information, vacation pay information, and pay period information. You can figure out how this works by clicking the button and looking at the dialog box that QuickBooks displays.
The Workers Compensation button lets you fiddle with the way that QuickBooks tracks information related to your workers' compensation tax. The Sick and Vacation button lets you fine-tune how QuickBooks monitors employee sick and vacation pay accrual and usage. Again, click either of these buttons to see a screen that provides more information about how the button works.
In roughly the middle of the Company Preferences tab of the Payroll & Employees Preferences set, QuickBooks supplies several other check boxes and radio buttons:
Copy Earnings Details from Previous Paycheck: Another duh.
Recall Quantity Field on Paychecks: QuickBooks recalls or reuses paycheck quantity information from the last pay period's paychecks. (The QuickBooks Help file suggests that you use this option when you have a "fixed quantity that occurs from paycheck to paycheck." The Help file uses the example of tiered sales commissions where the commission amount is set for each tier.)
Recall Hours Field on Paychecks: QuickBooks recalls or reuses paycheck hours-worked information from the last pay period's paychecks. You use this option when you have a fixed number of hours that occurs from paycheck to paycheck.
Job Costing and Item Tracking for Paycheck Expenses: QuickBooks lets you track payroll expenses not just by account, but also by job, class, or item.
Assign One Class Per radio buttons (Entire Paycheck and Earnings Item): These options enable you to break down wage expenses into classes more finely. For example, you can indicate that you want to use a different class for each item that appears on an employee's paycheck. (Note: These options appears only if classes are enabled.)
The Display Employee List By radio buttons let you choose how employee lists are sorted on reports — by first name or by last name.
If you click the Employee Defaults button, QuickBooks displays a dialog box that you can use to set employee payroll default information, such as deductions for taxes or health insurance.
Finally, at the bottom of the dialog box, QuickBooks provides two other options for handling payroll. The Mark New Employees as Sales Reps check box, if selected, does what you'd expect: It marks new employees that you add to the employee list as sales reps.
And the Display Employee Social Security Numbers in Headers on Reports check box, if selected, also does what you'd expect: It adds employee Social Security numbers to reports.


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How Kenya is using World Bank Group Instruments to Leverage Private Investment in Power
Having spent some of my formative years on the African continent, I can attest to the fact that the frequency of power blackouts desensitized citizenry to the point that power outages were neither a cause of despair nor excitement but just another mundane facet of everyday life. Power outages remain common phenomena throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa owing to various reasons such as low capacity output, over-reliance on volatile sources of energy, outdated machinery, mismatched pricing, energy theft, low collection rates, among other reasons. Over 30 countries in the continent have suffered power shortages in recent years, with detrimental economic effects including lost revenues, typically ranging between 1 and 4 percent of GDP.


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Camping It Up! (Japanese: ポケモンサマースクール開講!! Pokémon Summer School Course!!) is the 88th episode of the Diamond & Pearl series, and the 554th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan on August 7, 2008 and in the United States on January 3, 2009.
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Ash and his friends are just in time for the Pokémon Summer Academy at Professor Rowan's research facility on Mt. Coronet, where young Trainers have gathered to make new friends and learn about Pokémon. Among the campers are Dawn's one-time tag partner, Conway, and Jessie—now Jessilinda—who's forgotten about Team Rocket's plan to steal the Academy's Pokémon. Each Trainer is assigned a team and a new Pokémon; Ash nearly gets into a fight over a Poké Ball with Angie, another Trainer on Ash's Red Team, before ending up with a Raichu. Angie has a Monferno, Dawn gets a Grimer, and Brock has a Magnemite. Angie's Monferno is out of control and Ash's Raichu is too shy, but tomorrow Professor Rowan will judge how well everyone has done with their Pokémon!
When they're not busy getting on each other's nerves, Angie and Ash are busy falling asleep in class. But after a full day of excitement, bedtime finally rolls around. Everyone is still wide-awake, so Angie plays cards with Ash and his friends until Professor Rowan's assistant, Yuzo, angrily enforces the lights-out rule. The next day, Ash works to build up his Raichu's confidence, and Angie challenges her Monferno to let out all its aggression. Pokémon and Trainer are finally bonding, just in time for the day's battles!
Brock is up against Jessie and her Smoochum, but Smoochum is so cute that Jessie cuddles her Pokémon and forfeits the battle. Dawn's Grimer faces Conway's Venonat, then Ash's Raichu and Angie's Monferno take each other on in a match that perfectly demonstrates their Trainers' attack-oriented styles. At the end of it all, Dawn gets an award for bonding with her Pokémon, but the Red Team—including Ash, Angie, Brock, and Dawn—is currently last in overall points, thanks to Angie and Ash's behavior the previous day. Conway's Blue Team is first in the points, but it's not over yet. There are still more Pokémon Summer Academy adventures ahead!
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On their way to Celestic Town, Ash and his friends arrive at the Pokémon Summer Academy and decide to participate there after an invitation from Professor Rowan. At this event, many Trainers gather and spend time together for one week while learning various things about Pokémon. After being separated into one of three teams (Red, Blue, and Green), the Trainer's first task is to choose a random Poké Ball, train the Pokémon contained inside, taking a day to bond with it, and battle with it the next day. Ash and friends also meet Angie, a competitive tomboy who quickly becomes Ash's rival. In a twist of fate, Angie and Ash are both assigned to the Red Team. Many of the Pokémon that were highlighted had some kind of social issue, from low self-esteem in the case of Dawn's Grimer, to the lack of confidence of Ash's skittish Raichu. Being able to overcome such obstacles and befriend their Pokémon would require much more skill and patience and thus be a fitting test of a Trainer's ability to bond with their Pokémon. Team Rocket stayed totally off the radar, with Jessie, acting as Jessilinda, spending all of her time gushing over her Smoochum, while James and Meowth posed as janitors.
After checking out their Pokémon's moves, Ash and Dawn begin to bond with their Pokémon. Dawn feeds Grimer some of her homemade Poffins while Brock feeds his partner Magnemite static electricity. Meanwhile, Angie goes to get her Monferno but sees it trying to pick a fight with a Trainer's Croconaw. Ash starts brushing Raichu's fur with a brush but gets it caught making Raichu freak out and discharge. Dawn bonds with Grimer getting it to do poses with her. Angie's Monferno defiantly uses Ember at her when she tries to get it to practice moves. She chases Monferno throughout the classroom while Monferno uses Ember again hitting Ash, Pikachu, and Raichu. Ash and Angie argue and get in trouble. After lunch everyone participates in games and classes (with Ash and Angie passing out in the middle of a lesson and getting in trouble again) until it's bedtime. Ash, Angie, Dawn, and Brock stay up playing cards and talking about their dreams until Yuzo barges in angrily enforcing that it was time for bed.
The morning before their battles, Ash and Angie do some last-minute training to overcome their Pokémon's issues. Ash boosted Raichu's confidence by encouraging it to use strong attacks. Raichu Digs itself underground to hide, and Ash attempts to pull it up. Raichu is bothered by the pulling, so it shocks Ash. Telling Raichu that you have to be pretty strong to make someone's hair look a mess like Raichu just did to him, Ash manages to get Raichu's confidence up. After telling Raichu to use Focus Punch on a huge boulder, Raichu smashes it to pieces becoming surprised at its own power while Ash and Pikachu cheer it on. Angie sees this and bonded with Monferno by dodging the disobedient Pokémon's Ember attacks, taking a page from Ash's book and having her Pokémon attack her.
During the battles, Jessie squared off against Brock, Dawn faced Conway, and Ash battled Angie. After being hit with an attack while gushing over her Smoochum in the middle of battle, Jessie forfeit her round. The battle between Dawn and Conway was inconclusive, and the match between Ash and Angie, while intensely heated, ended in a draw once time ran out.
At the end of the day, Dawn wins the award for most development in their relationship with their Pokémon. The blue team came in first, the green in second, and the red in last. Even though Dawn's team got the most points, Ash and Angie lost them points for quarreling and their daytime nap.
Major events
- Ash, Dawn, and Brock enroll in the Pokémon Summer Academy.
- Ash and his friends meet up with Conway again.
- Ash and his friends meet Angie, another student in the Summer Academy.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Piplup (Dawn's)
- Shinx (Angie's)
- Monferno (trained by Angie; debut)
- Raichu (trained by Ash)
- Grimer (trained by Dawn)
- Magnemite (trained by Brock)
- Venonat (trained by Conway)
- Smoochum (trained by Jessie)
- Makuhita (trained by Kendall)
- Slakoth (trained by Mitchell)
- Oddish
- Drifloon
- Dodrio
- Bidoof
- Wooper
- Graveler
- Loudred
- Bagon
- Scizor
- Mightyena
- Croconaw
- Sandshrew
- Rhyhorn
- Linoone
- Cherubi
- Growlithe
- Snorunt
- Electrike
- Nuzleaf
- Rattata
- Drowzee
- Butterfree
- This episode begins the four-part Pokémon Summer Academy arc.
- Summer Vacation Fan Club is used as background music.
- None of James's Pokémon appear in this episode and throughout the rest of the Summer Academy arc.
- Team Rocket doesn't appear in their standard uniforms in this episode and throughout the rest of the Summer Academy arc.
- They also don't blast off or recite their motto during the entire arc.
- However, they do say the beginning of their motto in one scene.
- The three teams' names come from the first Pokémon games Red, Green, and Blue.
- When Dawn first sends out Grimer, her Piplup is not on her head. After Grimer is sent out, Piplup is back on her head.
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In other languages
|Mandarin Chinese
|Pokémonový tábor
|Tilbage på skolebænken!
|Op zomerkamp!
|European French
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Has ZSI died?, no updates since Aug 7
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Sep 20 2004, 04:56 AM
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And here the thread from April on integrating Killefiz/ZSI into ZUG.
There, I had made some proposals. DZ, could you please have a look there?
And an other idea: I think as soon as the new database is running, it could be possible to copy some entries from ZSI to the new one. Maybe, the Killefiz author is even willing to provide his database table scheme for extension.
And one more. Can the new database be made "open source" (on Freshmeat :-) )? It will probably be written in PHP and MySQL - so there would be some developers here who would be interested in downloading and trying out pre-releases on a local host. And probably providing patches. Just an idea where I think DZ must decide if he needs that type of development support (which can slow down development of simple applications but speed up complex ones).
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Sep 20 2004, 02:13 PM
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Ahh, it's good to see community support for this. Ok, if I may answer some questions now:
As far as integrating into the ZUG, I think it'd be ok to integrate a little bit, but not too much. Like I said before, having one central point of failure is never good. One thing I was thinking of though, for example, would be that if you are subscribed to any projects in the ZSI and that project is updated, it'll automatically message your account here on the ZUG and let you know. You simply set in the options of the ZSI your ZUG username and it'll do the rest.
Editing screenshots: that's not a problem.
As far as comments, that was already definately in the pile. User comments definately help when you're trying to choose between a bunch of different programs, so I had already thought of adding those. I never thought of ratings though. Are they actually used? If you guys would actually use them, I have no problem adding them in. To prevent abuse, I'd obviously make it so you have to have an account to vote for a project. An idea I though might work is maybe letting you vote for a project only if you comment on it. Let me know what you guys think of this.
As far as making the zsi open source, I dont see why that would be a problem at all. If you don't mind, I'd like to get a somewhat functional version first and up and running, and then I'll provide it to the world. It's just a lot easier to get something up and running on your own, and have people come in eventually rather than having everyone start it up at the same time.
And finally, the naming conventions. I read the devnet post, and they make a lot of valid points. I'm going to try and save the naming of the file for last, because I think we should all agree on a standard before we implement it. The one I liked most is this one:
I think that includes most everything you need in the filename. Remember, the programs will have their own page where they will be able to list any dependencies they might have, so it doesn't all need to show in the filename. As well, debate this and let me know what you guys think.
If anyone else made any points and I missed them, sorry about that. I started some of the coding last night, and I'll work on it some more tonight. I made sure the whole site will fit in 640x480, for those of us that have the clamshells. I'm also going to try, eventually, to make a version that fits in 320x240 for the zaurus owners with that size screen.
As usual, let me know any ideas you come up with.
Sep 21 2004, 01:19 AM
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With regards to ROM/model compatibility, perhaps there could be an entry for the developer to say what it has been tested with and then when users are giving comments/ratings they can say what ROM/model they are using and the results can be summarised.
It would be good if a list of models and ROMs could be maintained so that developers and users are given a drop down list of ROMs/models to select from for this, instead of a free text box. Then the data would be much more consistent and people could do searches on software that is known to work on their Zaurus model and/or ROM.
Sep 21 2004, 02:19 AM
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perhaps there could be an entry for the developer to say what it has been tested with and then when users are giving comments/ratings they can say what ROM/model they are using and the results can be summarised.
It might be good to have a separate section (away from the general comments - "yeah it's great"; "no it's crap", etc.) where the users can say what hardware & ROM they are using and what they had to do to get it to work - that way people won't have to trawl through the comments to work out how to get stuff working on their ROM. Can this be wiki style, as people often make typos, or forget exactly what they had to do and write these things from memory?
Sep 22 2004, 06:34 PM
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I like the idea of having to enter what Zaurus / Rom you are using when you enter your comments. I can just have a 'statistics' link at the top of the page where it will break down what models and whatnot have used the program.
Here's a different scenario though: People have been saying I should make it a repository for all kinds of Embedded Applications; not just a Zaurus. Any objections to that, or should I just stick to the Zaurus?
Sep 23 2004, 02:16 PM
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As far as allowing developers host their own files I'm not real keen about that.
My biggest reason being if the link gets broke temp or permenently a great piece of software could be lost forever.
This whole idea is great and despiratly needed. IF you need an hand in anything just shout.
Sep 23 2004, 03:06 PM
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QUOTE(dz @ Sep 22 2004, 07:34 PM)
Here's a different scenario though: People have been saying I should make it a repository for all kinds of Embedded Applications; not just a Zaurus. Any objections to that, or should I just stick to the Zaurus?
Personally, I'm only interested in a zaurus software repository. In general, I think the overall embedded software repository is a neat idea (this is exactly what Sven, who runs the current zsi was planning on doing), but the scope of that and the eventual cost of supporting this might be more than I can commit to for now.
This narrow mindedness of mine might be due to my general lack of knowledge of the overall embedded space.
Sep 23 2004, 11:27 PM
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Have you had a look at http://www.zaurusoft.com/ ? I thought they used to host their own files while the creating company still funded them.
Anyway, I can perfectly understand offroadgeek only wanting to host Zaurus stuff on his home SDSL connection. But how about automatic bittorrent links for all packages over 1MB? I guess the biggest problem with this is most ipks are under 1MB and I don't know how effective bittorrent is with small files since the server has to seed each download with a small chunk to begin with.
Sep 24 2004, 01:06 AM
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Best system I've ever used is Aminet, the Amiga software collection. All files are stored on FTP. Submissions are not accepted unless they have an accompanying .readme file that conforms to the template. There are many mirrors, it's very easy to search. It's very much in the KISS (keep it simple, stupid) mentality of design. CDs used to be sold containing the latest submissions.
A version of Aminet for the Zaurus would be ideal. It is a great system.
Sep 24 2004, 03:54 AM
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How about a subscription fee to download the files? If Every Zaurus/Linux embedded handheld user subscribed and paid, say 5 dollars (using american cause that's a global currency too) a year, to download as many ipk files as they wanted in that year, wouldn't that theoretically pay for hosting?
5 dollars a year is a pretty minimal investment to make. Any excess could go into open source projects like OE/OZ etc.
Just an idea.
Oct 10 2004, 03:56 AM
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Is this still progressing.
Not downloaded/played with much "New" software of late...
Oct 10 2004, 04:00 PM
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Is what still progressing?
Work on the ZSI2, or programming for the Zaurus?
Oct 11 2004, 03:54 AM
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ZSI seems to have been updated on 11th October - still a lot of stuff in the back end though.
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Hi, I know that you have a which 'platform' category, however, in the case of PDAXROM RC5 all the new stuff that has floating point requires some very specific Kernel functionality to run at all.
I would suggest that we encourage applications posted at least for X distribution to have a direct link to a source file tarball too so that people using XQT or GPE stand a fair chance of getting them up for their systems too.
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I was referring to updated list of Zaurus apps.
But since ZSI has been updated with a few entries, hopefully, it will be getting back on track as well...
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