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Turn in your Bibles to the 2nd Chapter of Hebrews. For our study we're going to be looking at verses 9 to 18. The title of the message is our perfect Savior, Hebrews 2:9-18. Now we're continuing in our study of the book of Hebrews. We find ourselves at this point right here in Chapter 2 and verses 9 through 18 are a beautiful description of Jesus Christ as the perfect Savior.
And I trust and pray tonight as we study these verses and we'll not take the time to delve totally into every concept obviously, but as we study them, those of you who as me are believers will find yourselves drawn again to the perfections of your Savior. Those of you who may not have received Jesus Christ might find yourselves irresistibly drawn to Him tonight because you see Him in all of His beauty.
A recent newspaper article hailed the arrival of the Son of God in the world. According to the article the Savior of the world, the Son of God is a 13 year old Indian Guru whose name escapes me, which is perhaps not such a great tragedy. He is being called by his followers the Son of God. He is really nothing new, because he merely takes his place in a long line of would be saviors of the world. Of would be son of Gods, would be Messiahs going back to men like Theudas who tried to split the waters of the Jordan River and didn't make. Simon Magus who tried to prove himself the Son of God by flying from a building. The flying was okay. The landing was miserable.
Right on down to a more modern day men like Hitler, father divine, and some day finally an ultimate individual to make that claim known in the Scripture as the antichrist. But unfortunately for them and fortunately for us, none of them has ever made it. There is only one Savior. There is only one perfect Savior, that is Jesus Christ. And thus did Peter say "neither is there salvation in any other for there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved." Jesus Christ alone is the Savior.
Now how is it that we know that Jesus Christ is, in fact, the perfect Savior? Why should we believe that? What qualifies Him? Well, the answer to that is given very beautifully in verses 9 to 18 of Hebrews Chapter 2. A very complete answer that tells us why it is that Jesus Christ claimed to be the perfect Savior is valid.
Now just to give you a brief summary of what we've studied in Hebrews, let me remind you that the Holy Spirit is writing, we do not know the human author. The Holy Spirit is writing this letter to Jews primarily. That does not mean that it isn't for all of us. But primarily in His mind is the Jewish frame of reference. He's writing to a congregation of Jews located outside the land of Israel very likely. Second generation Christians in that they did not know Christ, but were witnessed to by apostolic missionaries. Some of them were saved, some of them were not. Some of them were intellectually convinced, but had not accepted Jesus Christ as yet, because they were hanging on to their Judaistic heritage and weren't willing to make the necessary sacrifice of excommunication.
And so to them He writes to prove to them that Jesus Christ is, in fact, the Son of God. That He is the mediator of a new and better covenant than the old covenant and to the Christian Jew, He is saying let go of all of the ritual of all of the trappings of the old covenant for the new totally supplants it and replaces it. To the unconverted Jew, He is saying accept Christ because He is the mediator of a new and better covenant through His blood.
Now in order for the Holy Spirit to prove to the Jew that Christ is the mediator of a better covenant, He must then prove to the Jew that Christ is better than all of the issues that go along with the old covenant. And we've learned already that the old covenant was mediated to men by whom? Angels. Therefore, the Holy Spirit must prove to the Jewish mind that Christ is superior to angels, which He proceeds to do as we have already seen in the opening Chapter and also in the beginning of Chapter 2.
He says that Christ is better than angels. And since the angels mediated the old covenant, Christ is therefore a better mediator and His covenant, therefore, a better covenant. And there is no reason at all to hang on to the trappings and the ritual of Judaism when one has come mediating a new and better covenant. That's His message to the Jews. But even after the presentation as its come already in Chapter 1 and into Chapter 2 there are some lingering questions, because throughout this passage He has been attempting to prove that Jesus is better than angels.
And the problem that is hanging in the brain of the Jew is this problem. How could Jesus be better angels if, in fact, Jesus was a man and on top of that, He died, for angels never die and are certainly higher than men. So the theological problem that they face is the kind of the relating of the humanity of Christ and the death of Christ to the superiority of Christ over angels who do not die, according to Luke Chapter 20, verse 36.
And, of course, as we saw in Chapter 2, verse 9 last week where we began our study, where we'll pick it up tonight, it says, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower and we determined from the Greek that little lower is a time connotation. That what it is saying is that He was made or that he became or was made less, not created apotelo, but made less. He was made less for a little time. So that His nature was not lower than angels, but incarnation for a little period of time, He became less than angels. And that's, of course, the answer.
Christ is by nature greater than angels only for a little time to accomplish a specific purpose, He became less than angels. But that answer is expanded in this particular passage as we'll go through it tonight, because it really doesn't...just that verse alone doesn't answer the whole question. The second question that the Jews always were stumbling over was the problem of the death of Christ. Not only that if He was superior to angels, how could He die, but if He was the anointed of God and the Messiah, how could He be the victim of death? And this is why whenever the word of God was preached to Jews, as in Acts 17, it was needful that they tell them why Christ had to suffer, Acts 17:2-3.
That's the whole point of the message. Because as Paul said to the Corinthians, "the cross to the Jews is," what, "a stumbling block." So they were still hanging on these two questions that found real problems in this particular view. How could Jesus be greater than angels if angels never die? How could He be this perfect Savior if He Himself was killed? And this was the lingering question. And so it is in the passage, verse 9-18 that the Holy Spirit defends the incarnation. That He tells us why it is that Jesus did for a little time become lower than angels and what He accomplished in doing that.
And this is so very, very important. And He also tells us this, that in fact, He was made lower than angels in order to die. Did you get that? In other words, His death was the reason that He was made lower than angels for what it accomplished. Those soft baby hands fashioned by the Holy Spirit in Mary's womb were made to take two great nails. Those chubby feet, pink and white, without step were to walk a hill and be nailed to a cross. That sacred head with sparkling eyes and eager mouth was made to wear a crown. That tender body wrapped in swaddling clothes would be ripped opened by a spear to reveal a broken heart and for that reason did He come.
As we saw this morning, the death of Christ was no accident, was it? It was God's destiny. Jesus was born to die. And so it is not that Jesus loses His dignity by being lower than angels. It is that He becomes lower than angels for a very distinct and definite purpose, which He accomplishes. And we saw last week what it was, didn't we?
You remember, I told you there were three phases to man's relationship to God and to angels and to the world. When God created man in innocence, He gave him dominion over the earth, did He not? Man sinned and what happened to him? He immediately lost his dominion, and Jesus Christ came to die to remove the curse so that man could regain His dominion.
So there was a very definite purpose in Jesus coming to die. He came to restore the crown. And if He was going to restore the crown to men, He had to come as a man. And if He was going to remove the curse that was on men, He had to take the place of men. So He had to be a man. And even though He was lower than angels, He accomplished something that no angel could ever accomplished. He accomplished the restoring of the crown to men.
Now in our text as we see this unfold, I want you to see five particulars. Five perfections that His humanness and His death brought about. Through Jesus becoming less for a little time, He became our substitute, our salvation captain, our sanctifier, our Satan conqueror, and our sympathizer. What a perfect Savior. And do you see the genius of the Holy Spirit at this point? To show that not only is the death of Christ not hard to explain, if He's greater than angels, but it's the purpose for His incarnation.
First of all, because Jesus was incarnate, because for a little time He was made lower than the angels, He became our substitute. That's verse 9. "But we see Jesus who was made for a little time lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor that he by the grace of God should taste death for," whom, "every man." That is the substitutionary death of Christ. He died in your place and in my place. This is basic to the gospel. Here is the first and foremost reason for the incarnation. The first and foremost reason for He who is better than angels becoming for a little time less than angels, that He might taste death on the behalf of every man. He came to die in my place to be my substitute. The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel said "the soul that sinneth it shall," what, "die." The Bible lays down that principle again in the New Testament. "The wages of sin is death." Sin brings death. Death is inevitable where there is sin. And God as He views man has an option. Either He lets man die and pay for His own sin or He allows a substitute to take the punishment of man and die in his place. And in fact, that was His design in sending the second person of the Trinity. God humbled Himself, came to earth to die in my place, a substitutionary death.
And this is so important, because this is just the doctrine that modern day liberalism and modern day theology will not adhere to. They say Jesus died as an example of dying for a cause. That He died as an example of a martyr. This, that, and the other thing. He died as a substitute for your death and my death. Now this has many, many ramifications and you're familiar with its significance.
But let me just take this verse apart for just a minute and show you the key clauses. First of all, we see in verse 9 is humiliation when it says "He was made or became less for a little time lower than the angels." Now man was originally created for a time lower than angels. So if man was created originally lower than angels, then Jesus Christ, if He's going to come and die a death for man, must become what man is, right?
That's the whole story of the incarnation. It is God becoming what man is in order to substitute for man's death and therefore free man to life with God. That's the simplicity of the gospel. The whole concept though is stunning. It's staggering. To realize that the creator of angels, the head of angels, the Lord of hosts, the one worshipped by angels should for our sakes for a little time become lower than angels. That's humility. And after having done that, notice in verse 9 "He was lifted up to glory and honor." And so first of all, we see that He was humiliated for our sakes. Secondly, we see the extent of His humiliation when it says in verse 9, "He became a little lower than the angels for the suffering of," what, "of death." He came to do precisely what no angel could ever do. Angels cannot die. But Jesus came to die. He went so far beneath angels that He did something they could never do. Now you'll notice that it also says there "for the suffering of death." His death was not only dying, but it was a suffering kind of dying.
And this term suffering indicates that Christ's exist from the land of the living will not be calm and peaceful. But it will be accompanied with outward torcher and inward agony. The third thing we see here is the purpose of His humiliation. The purpose of it was that "He should taste death for every man." And I love the idea of tasting there, because as you well know the Bible tells us that He tasted it and drank the bitter cup to the complete bottom. Every bit of it He bore for us. And the death that He tasted was the curse of sin.
As I told you this morning, what Jesus felt dying on the cross would be the total agony of every soul in Hell for all eternity put together and suffered in a few hours. All the punishment for all the sin of all time. That was the depths of His death. He was guilty of nothing. He suffered for everything, because He was our substitute.
In Galatians 4:4, Paul says, "But when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth His Son made of a woman, made under the law." Why? "To redeem them that were under the law." God sent His Son, God incarnate to redeem men. This to the depths of death to be accomplished. In verse 15 of 2 Corinthians 5 it says, "And that He died for all." Did you hear that? "That they who live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him who died for them and rose again."
And so Jesus Christ in His death purposed to die as a substitute for every man. And it is only by the Son tasting death as a man that I am free from death. You might make an analogist to the king's taster. Historically, kings have always had somebody who tasted their food before it ever got to them. And the cup of poison that belonged to us was drained to the dredge by Jesus Christ before we could ever touch our lips to it. He substituted His own death for ours and released us to live with God.
Not only do we see those things, but see not only the extent and purpose of His humiliation, we see the motive of His humiliation. And my what a statement it is. Again, we see it in verse 9 "that He by the grace of God." You know what moved Jesus Christ to suffer for us? What did? What's the one word? Grace, grace, the greatest word there is. Grace. You know what grace is? It's free loving kindness. When we didn't deserve anything. When we deserved...let's say this, when we didn't deserve what we got, but deserve what we didn't get. We got what we didn't deserve and didn't get what we did deserve.
You can untangle that later. That's grace. You say what prompts grace? Love, God's great unbounded love prompted a gracious deed on our behalf. And solely on the basis of His own good pleasure and solely on the basis of His sovereign will did Jesus die. Not by the hands of men alone, not by the deed of Satan alone, but by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God He died for our sins.
Jesus made the statement, "No man takes my life from me." John 10, "I lay it down of myself." The Bible says "Here in His love not that we loved Him, but that," what, "He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation or the satisfaction for our sins." He was the substitute. Then we see one other thing in this verse, and that's the results of His humiliation. He was crowned with glory and honor. Oh what a fantastic thing it is to realize that after Jesus had accomplished this task of substitutionary death, He was exalted to the right hand of the Father and there He sits on a throne from which He reigns and will reign forever and ever and ever. In Hebrews Chapter 5, it talks about verse 4, "And no man taketh this honor unto himself, but He that is called of God as was Aaron. So also Christ glorified not Himself to be made in high priest, but that He said unto Him, thou art my Son. Today have I begotten thee." In other words, Christ didn't glorify Himself. God glorified Him. And so Jesus was crowned by the Father with glory and honor. Philippians 2 says, "That He was highly exalted and God has given Him a name which is above every name that the name of Jesus every knee should bow." Ephesians Chapter 1, verse 21 tells us that Jesus Christ "has been set overall principalities and powers. He's been set over all might and dominion and everything that is and is to come."
And so the result of His humiliation was His exaltation. And so the writer says to the Jewish reader we do not apologize for the cross. We do not shove it under the rug. For the cross magnifies the Lord. And the fact that He was a man, and the fact that He died is no problem for that was not the natural thing for Him to do. He condescended to do that. So far from Christ's humiliation and death being something of which we are ashamed, it is something for which we glory.
And so Jesus is a worthy substitute, and He became that perfect substitute by becoming a man. If He had not become a man and died for us, we would die in our sins. The second thing that Jesus Christ became in perfection because He was humiliated and came into the world was our salvation captain. Not only our substitute, but our salvation captain. Verse 10, "For it became Him," that means it agreed with His nature, "for it agreed with His nature for whom are all things and by whom are all things," that'll tell you who He is in His own nature. That's before His humiliation. It agreed with Him though, even though He was by whom..."for whom are all things and by whom are all things in bringing man sons unto glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
In other words, Jesus had to come. He had to be a man and He had to die to be a perfect salvation captain. Now let me just give you a look at this verse. "For it became Him," and evidently this is a reference to God, although certainly it would refer to Christ as well, "for whom are all things and by whom are all things." This means God not only made it all, but He made it all for himself. That's because He wants glory, remember that? All right, "It became Him for whom are all things and by whom are all things, that is God in bringing many sons to glory," God's design in the world was to bring men to Himself, right? "Was to bring sons into His glory." In order to do that, He had to make the captain of their salvation perfect. And in order to make Him perfect, He had to suffer. So Jesus needed to be incarnated. He needed to die in order to be a fitting salvation captain.
All right, now let me just look at this word, it became Him. It means it agreed with His character. It's a beautiful thought. For example, God is wisdom, right? And it agreed with God's character as wisdom to do what He did. The cross was a masterpiece of wisdom. God solved the problem, which no finite brain could hope to solve, nor could angels ever solve it, but God in His wisdom did it. Became God's wisdom. It agreed with God's wisdom to do what He did.
Secondly, it agreed with His holiness. God showed on the cross His hatred for sin. Thirdly, it agreed with His power. It was the greatest power display that was ever given. Christ endured in a few hours what it's going to take an eternity to expend on sinners. Then it agreed with His love. It agreed with His grace, because it was substitutionary. It agreed with His nature to do this. And God's desire was to bring many sons to glory. Now if He's going to bring many sons to glory, He's got to tell us how to get there, right? But more than that, He's got to have somebody to take us. I mean, it wouldn't have done a bit of good, think about this, if Jesus had arrived here and left a map to heaven. It wouldn't any good. Got to be more than that. Let me show this.
The word for captain here, it's a fantastic word, archegos. It literally means a pioneer or a leader. In Acts 3:15 and Acts Chapter 5, I think it's about verse 30 or 31, it's used to refer to a prince. It's used in many references archegos, translated captain, but it always means somebody who does something that somebody else enters into. For example, it's used of a man who founds a family and others are born into it. Or it's used of a man who founds a city in which others come to live. And commonly it was used of a pioneer who blazed a trail for others to follow.
The archegos never stood at the rear giving orders. He was always out front blazing the trail. And Christ is not standing at the rear giving orders. He is out in front blazing the trail. He has gone before us, hasn't He? For example, He showed us the pattern of obedience, didn't He? What does Hebrews 5:8 say? It says this, "Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered and being made perfect, He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him."
In other words, by His own obedience He blazed a trail of obedience that set the pattern for us. Not only that He blazed the trail of love. He blazed the trail in suffering. Peter says, "Here unto You we're also called to suffer as Christ has suffered for you." He blazed a trail through death and resurrection and He said, "Because I live," what, "ye shall live also. Whosoever believeth me shall never die," He said. So Jesus is the archegos of salvation. He blazed the trail to God. He didn't just get at the rear and tell us how to get there. He got out in front and all we had to do was take His hand and He led us into the presence of God. And so it is that God made Christ for a little time lower than the angels so He could come down to us, take our hands and the perfect leader, the perfect trailblazer, the perfect pioneer could walk us into the presence of the Father.
Else we would never have found it. It's only when you, by faith, put your hand in that nail-scarred hand of Jesus Christ that you'll ever enter the presence of God. No other way. You'll never find it on your own. Men have tried too long and failed. And so through death He became the perfect leader. Because you see the trail...where the trail got tough was at the point of death, right? That's where we couldn't make it. And that's why when He says, "because I live, ye shall live also," that solves the problem.
G. B. Harding in his little book Countdown says, "that's the ultimate question in the world." Number one, has anybody ever cheated death. Number two, if he did, did he leave the way open for me. Yes, somebody did cheat death. Jesus Christ. Yes, number two, He did leave the way open. All you've got to do is place your hand in His hand by faith and He'll lead you one... inside one side of death and right outside the other end. And you'll say with the apostle Paul, "oh death where's thy victory?" Where's the sting of death? Where's the victory of the grave? There is none. Christ has given us the victory. And so He became the perfect archegos. Not only telling us what to do, but taking our hand and blazing the trail to God. And He had to be a man to come into our world and lead us out didn't He. He couldn't stand on a cloud and yell at us.
He had to be what we are. Most of all conquer the barrier between us and God which was sin, and He conquered it by bearing the punishment of death and thus leaving the way open to life with God. The third thing that He became was our sanctifier. Verse 11 to 13, verse 11 and this is fantastic. "For both he that sanctifieth," that's Christ, "and they who are sanctified," that's us, "are all of one." Listen to this one, "For which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren."
Boy that is an overwhelming concept. Overwhelming, He is the one who makes us holy. Notice it there. "For both He that sanctifieth," or makes holy, "and they who are sanctified are all of one." You say well, does that mean Christians are holy? That's exactly what it means. You say well, that's...I'm not holy. Yes, you are. You're absolutely, totally holy. You say that's just what I try to make you think. No. No, I'm not talking about your practice. I'm talking about what? Your position before God you're holy. You may not act holy, but you are.
Just like a child is the son of his father and may not always like it. He is. You're holy in the sense that before God the righteousness of Christ has been placed in your behalf. You see the two truths in the New Testament are practical truths and positional truths. What you are and what you act like. Positionally you're holy. You're perfect.
Colossians 2, "And ye are complete in Him." Positionally perfection. Practically we've got a long way to go, but here He says "He that sanctifieth and they who are made holy," we're separate unto God positionally, "are all one." Did you know that? Did you know we're one with Christ? Do you know that Paul calls us joint heirs with Christ? We literally become one. Why? Because the holiness that Christ has is our holiness. You got that? It's ours. I do not stand in my own righteousness. No way. Paul says in Romans that "the righteousness that is ours is the righteousness of Christ that has been given to us." Therefore, we're one with Him, because His righteousness is our righteousness.
And as a result of being one with Him, He's not ashamed to call us what? Brethren. I'll tell you that's a humbling thought to have the Son of God call me brethren and not to be ashamed of it. I could imagine if He said brother, you know. But to say brother without any shame through His death, conquering sin, through His death bearing sin, He eliminated the sin possibility and He placed His righteousness on us in an eternal positional sense and thus we became holy. He could never have done that had He not come and died and paid the penalty for sin. So He had to come and He had to die to be our sanctifier.
Now the word sanctified is hagiaso, it simply means to make holy from what the word...which the word saints comes. And so it is that Jesus Christ alone can make one holy and only through His death. Now listen to this verse. Hebrews 10:10, "By which will we are made holy," listen to this, "through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all." We were made holy through His sacrifice. Verse 14. "For by one offering He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified." He has removed the possibility of positional sinfulness. You are therefore as pure as God is pure positionally. You are as righteous as Christ is righteous positionally. Then you are entitled to be called a brother of Jesus Christ in the sense of a common righteousness. Now that must give you a little idea of what God's grace must be like. That would stoop to pick us up and give us that kind of righteous equality with Jesus Christ and do it all out of love.
So the person who receives Christ is made holy and it would never have been possible had not Christ paid the penalty for sin and it is death then given us His righteousness. The Bible says, "He became sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made," what, "the righteousness of God." The righteousness of whom? Of God, in Him. Whose righteousness do I bear? Little old John MacArthur, 1972, Panorama City, the righteousness of the God of the universe.
Now the hang up is I don't act like it. And whole picture of the Christian life is to become in practice what I am, what, in position. All right, so then Jesus had to die to give us His righteousness. He had to bear our sin. And then we become one. We become one. We have the same God and Father. We have the same righteousness and Jesus calls us brother. Oh what a fantastic thing. What a fantastic realization. And He's not ashamed to do it. I'm thinking of a verse, I think it's...yes, Hebrews 11:16, "But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God." Isn't that terrific? Can you imagine God being happy to be called the God of you? Can you imagine that? Can you imagine God saying I am so happy that I am the God of John MacArthur? Can you imagine that? And not be ashamed to say it? You know why, not because of who I am, but who I am in Christ, because my righteousness is His. You know we get a kind of...you know, I think about it almost in a backwards since. Paul said in Romans 1:16, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ." Right? But isn't it a sad thing that God is never ashamed to call us His own, but how often are we ashamed to call Him ours. And let's get it straight. Who has the right to be ashamed of whom? I tell you when I realize that Jesus is not ashamed to call me brother and that God is not ashamed to say I am the God of him. That thrills my heart and it makes me well aware that it's in the righteousness of Jesus Christ that I stand not in my own, which is at best filthy rags. And let me add this, all men are not brothers. Did you know that? All men are not brothers. Only others who by faith in Jesus Christ have His righteousness are brothers.
Verse 12, listen to this, He proves the brotherhood aspect by using Old Testament quotations as always, He does in Hebrews because He's writing to Jews. And He says in verse 12, "saying," and here he's quoting Christ as if Christ is speaking in the Old Testament. Here are the words of Christ in the Old Testament. "I will declare thy name unto my brethren." This is Christ talking to the Father. "I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee."
Here you have a picture of Jesus Christ calling believers brother in the Old Testament. Now that is in Psalm 22, Psalm 22. That's a fantastic thing. Now the Psalm 22 as we saw this morning deals with the crucifixion, but it also deals with the resurrection. And in Psalm 22 by the time you get to verse 22, you're into the resurrection. "I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation." Not the word church. It's the Greek word ekklasia. It just means an aggregation. The church is not in the Old Testament. The Old Testament is congregation. "I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee." And that's right after the crucifixion.
So if you've got the crucifixion in one verse and Jesus standing in the midst of the congregation talking to His brethren and praising God, you're going to have something in between, because you've got death in one verse, life in the next verse. What's got to come in the middle? Resurrection. And so Jesus is pictured then in an Old Testament passage in a post resurrection joy with His brothers. And what is this to say? This is to say to the Jewish reader that this idea of Jesus Christ the Messiah calling you brothers is something that comes right out of Old Testament truth.
And this is a very convincing argument for the Jewish individual. And so how often in Scripture, especially in the book of Hebrews does the writer turn to the Old Testament to corroborate the truth. And let me add this, the Lord Jesus never called His people brethren on the other side of the cross. No place in Scripture. They're called disciples. They're called friends. They're called sheep. They're never called brethren. Why? Because they cannot be brethren until after the cross. When sin is paid for and the righteousness of Christ is imputed to them. Then they are brethren in the sense of an equal righteousness.
And as soon, watch this one, it's a beautiful thought, file this one. Right after the resurrection as soon as Jesus was risen from the dead, He said to Mary, "Go to my brethren for the first time it ever came out of His mouth." Because it was the first time they were ever His brother. That's a beautiful thought. Friends yes, disciples yes, sheep yes, not brothers yet, until they were one in righteousness perfected at the cross.
And so Jesus grabbed Psalm 22 not only to prove His death and resurrection, but show them that that brotherhood begins in resurrection. The anointed Messiah then in Psalm 22, verse 22 "is seen among the congregation after His resurrection taking His place as brothers in praise of God." Then He takes another text from Isaiah 8 in verse 13 to prove His point. In Isaiah 8:17 and He quotes, and it says in verse 13, "I will put my trust in Him," this is Christ talking in the Old Testament. "I will put my trust in Him and again behold I and the children whom God hath given me." Isn't that beautiful. There you have Christ admitting that He lives by faith. That He lives by faith.
The tremendous realization. Christ is saying like my brothers I tread the path of faith. And even in the Old Testament it is revealed that Christ will put His trust in the Father and it's an equal statement, "Behold I and the children whom God hath given me." So it is that Jesus Christ takes His place as our brother, not certainly by nature for we are human, He is divine. Not in power for we are again human and He is divine, but in righteousness we are brothers and in faith toward God we are brothers. But Jesus when He was in this world learned the obedience of faith, didn't He?
And thus became a perfect Savior. And I'll tell you it's a tremendous thing to realize that when we are called on to walk by faith to submit ourselves and to live in dependence on God, we can follow the path that Jesus walked because that's exactly what He did. He said, "I only do what the Father shows me to do." Right? In His incarnation. So brotherhood with Jesus means that we have His righteousness and that we walk by faith as He did. We are one in the sense of the faith life as we are in righteousness.
Tremendous truths. Let me give you the fourth one. Jesus Christ is not only our substitute, our salvation captain, and our sanctifier, He is our Satan conqueror, verse 14 and 15. Now you realize that somebody had to break Satan's power over us, right? If we're going to be free to live with God and experience what God has somebody's going to have to shatter the power that holds us down. Now what was Satan's power over us? What is it today over men? Death. Death is Satan's weapon. Sin is a part of it, but death is ultimate weapon, right?
If Satan can hang on to a man until he dies, he's got him forever right? So death is his weapon. So somebody has to conquer death in order to conquer Satan and tear his weapon out of his hand. Verse 14, "For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same." Why did He become man? Why did He die? Same question. Here's another answer. "That through death He might destroy Him that had the power of death, that is the devil." Do you see.
The only way to destroy Satan was to rob him of his weapon. And his weapon is death. Satan's hold on men was death, physical death, spiritual death, eternal death, but death, death, death. And Satan knew that God required death for us because of sin. Satan knew that. Satan knew that as in Adam all died, that death had entered as a principle into life and he knew that men would die and go out of God's presence to a Hell forever and Satan wants to hold on to men until they die, because once they're dead, that's the end.
Men cannot escape after death. And if the devil can only hold on, he's got them. So God needs to rest from Satan's hand the power of death. And just for that purpose did Jesus come. Now how are you going to break Satan's power. Simple, conquer death, right? If you've got a greater weapon than him, his weapon is useless. You can't fight against a machine gun with a bow and arrow. And if all Satan's got is death and God's got something greater, then Satan's weapon is useless. And so Jesus provided something better than death. And what could be better than death? Life. And Jesus destroyed death. That's exactly what it means in verse 14. It says, that "through death He might destroy him." Did you notice that it was through death that He destroyed Satan's power of death? Did you get that? He dying destroyed death. Why? Because He went into death and came out the other side and showed that He could conquer it. And then He said, "Because I live, ye shall live also." He left the pathway open.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ, my friends, provides the believer with eternal life. It's the only thing that could ever have done it. Now the idea of power of death there means dominion. Satan's dominion over men was in the form of death, but Jesus shattered that dominion. Let me give you a little theological footnote here. There's a good indication of the significance of the incarnation, God becoming man and the word partakers and took part.
"For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood," now this is talking about Christ's brothers who are human beings, those of us who are believers. We are partakers of flesh and blood. The word partakers here is koinonia, from which we get fellowship or communion. It means a partnership. We are partners in flesh and blood. That's our common nature, right? But we are partakers of flesh and blood. It says then next, "But He also Himself took part of the same." That is not koinonia. That is metago, which means He took hold of something that was not His own nature.
We by nature are flesh and blood. He by nature is not. But willingly took hold of something which did not belong to Him by nature. He added to Himself an additional nature in order that He might die in our place. And so there you have just a little hint at the incarnation from the words in the Greek.
Jesus died and smashed Satan's power. And Revelation 1:18 says "Jesus Christ has the keys of Hell and," what, "death." And so Jesus became the death of death. As one writer says, the Hell..."He Hell and Hell laid low made sin, He sin or through, bowed to the grave, destroyed it so and death by dying slew." And so Jesus Christ conquered death in His resurrection and left the way open for us. He had to be a man to do it.
Verse 15, and watch this, "And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage." Boy could you preach a series of evangelistic sermons on that text. Do you know the thing that panics people more than anything else is death? Look at it there, "men are all their life subject to the bondage of the fear of death." It's a fear. It's a horrible fear. It's the king of terrors.
But when you receive Jesus Christ does death hold any fear? No. We're released from the bondage of the fear of death. And you actually look forward where Paul says "To live is Christ, and to die promotion." He says, I don't mind staying around here, but to die and be up there is far better. And we say with Paul "oh death where is thy sting, oh grave where is thy victory." Death holds no fear. Death simply releases us to the presence of Jesus Christ.
We're not longer in fear of death. Why? Because Jesus has conquered it. We've placed our hands in the hands of the salvation captain and He'll lead us in one side of the grave and out the other side. And you want to know something? He never could have done if He hadn't become lower than angels for a little while. And so we see our perfect Savior as our substitute, our salvation captain, our sanctifier, our Satan conqueror, lastly our sympathizer. Verse 16, "For verily He took not Him the nature of angels, but He took on him the seed of Abraham." That's good. You say what's the significance of that? He didn't come to redeem angels. I mean, if He's going to come and redeem them, what's He going to become? A man. The whole idea is to redeem men. If you're going to redeem men, you've got to be a man. So He took on himself in the form of Abraham's seed and became a Jew.
Jesus was a Jew. I hope you understand that. You hear all these songs about Jesus is black and Jesus is white, and one song the little kids sing that he's all colors. He was a Jew, no question about it. And somebody says how odd of God to choose the Jews. And we wonder why did He choose them, but if He had chosen somebody else, we'd all have said why did He choose them?
The Bible simply says "I chose them because I love them." Verse 17, "Wherefore," since He was a man, "in all things in behooved Him to be made like His brethren." The question of the Jews, well, if Jesus is God, why does He...how come He's a man? If He's higher than angels, how come He's a man lower than angels? Because it was necessary to be made like his brethren in all things. You say why. That He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people for in that He Himself had suffered being tempted. He is able to help them or sucker them that are tempted.
You say why did He become a man? Because He came to reconcile men that's why. But not only did He come to reconcile them, make reconciliation a high priest job was to take a man to God. Did you get that? A high priest job was to take a man to God and Jesus made that reconciliation. He came to take man into the presence of God. But beyond that He came also that He might help those that are tempted. He wanted to feel everything we ever felt that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest.
You see He came not only to save us, but He came to sympathize with us. You know when Timothy was having problems, and Timothy had a lot of problems, Paul said to him, "stir up the gift that is within me." Fan the flame a little bit Timothy, you're running cold. And Timothy was bugged by the...some of the heretics who were giving him a bad time and people were pouncing on him because he was young. And remember Paul said, "don't let anybody despise your youth. Be thou an example to believers." And Timothy was kind of defeated and he was getting an ulcer and Paul told him to take a little wine for his stomach sake, cure his ulcer.
Timothy had a lot of problems, but the final advice that Paul gave Timothy was this. He says, "Timothy remember Jesus Christ born of the seed of David." You say what does that mean? That means, remember Jesus Christ in His humanity. Timothy just remember wherever you've been He was there before you got there. And you can get down on your knees when the going gets tough and you can say Lord, you know what you went through when you were here, I'm going through it now. And you'll know that He'll say yeah, I know.
And then He'll say, "but there is no temptation taken you, but such is as common to man and God is faithful who will not be...will not allow you to be tempted above that you are able, but will with the temptation also," what, "make a way of escape." Jesus will say yeah, I've been there. You know, isn't it wonderful when you have a problem to go some...to somebody who's been there and through it and out the other side with victory and lean on them a little?
You know how you have a problem and you tell somebody and they don't have any way to relate to it. And you feel like you might as well not even tell them. You don't understand. But you go to somebody who's been there and back again and you feel like you've found a rock to lean on.
Listen, Jesus didn't just arrive in the world and die. He was in all things tempted like as we are, yet without sin. He wanted to be a merciful and faithful and sympathetic high priest. He was hungry. He was thirsty. He was overcome with fatigue. He slept. He was taught. He grew. He loved. He was astonished. He marveled. He was glad. He was angry. He was indignant. He was sarcastic. He was grieved. He was troubled. He was overcome by future events. He exercised faith. He read the Scripture. He prayed all night. He saw. He sighed in His heart when He saw another man in illness. Tears fell from His eyes when His heart ached. He had it all. He felt everything you'll ever feel. Only you want to know something? He felt it to the enth degree because the one who never gives into temptation, feels temptation to its extreme on every occasion, you see.
Most of us never know the degree to which temptation can go because we succumb about three quarters of the way down the line at best. And Jesus never sinned and thus He took the full shot of every single temptation that ever came and He felt every pain that you and I will ever feel. You say why do we do that? That we might have a merciful and faithful high priest who can be touched with the feelings of our infirmities, that's why.
I'll tell you something, I don't want a cosmic God whose out there indifferent to me. I want somebody who knows where I hurt and knows where I feel pain. And so the Holy Spirit is saying to the Jewish reader. Look again my friend. He had to become lower than angels because He has to the kind of a savior you can go to for not only salvation, but sympathy.
This is our Savior, the perfect Savior. Our substitute, our salvation captain, our sanctifier, our Satan conqueror and our sympathizer. What a Savior He is. The perfect Savior. Our Father, we thank You tonight for teaching us again from the book. The perfections of our blessed Christ. Lord we've just gone over these. We could have spent time and time on each of them. I want to thank You for a Savior who is everything that a Savior needs to be. I want to thank You for a Savior who died my death. That takes my hand and leads me to God who leaves nothing undone. Who feels the pain as I feel it. Who hurts where I hurt. Who sympathizes with me with tenderness and love. I want to thank You for a Savior who conquered Satan. Who was victorious for me.
And Father I just am overwhelmed by the fact that all I have to do by faith is accept what You have done. And it's all mine. Oh what a Savior we have. Christ, I say to You, I'm overwhelmed at Your marvelous work of grace. And with all my heart and the hearts of all us gathered here, we say thank You. And words cannot express what we feel.
We just pray in Your name. Amen.
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The Volcano EPX is an electrifying four-wheel drive monster truck that is ready to run right out of the box! Get started in this exciting hobby with this bold RC vehicle, complete with an electric brushed 27T 540 motor, forward/reverse transmission, four wheel drive, high torque servo and a two channel AM radio. Equipped with an aggressively styled polycarbonate body scheme, huge soft compound RC off road tread, aluminum capped oil filled shocks, battery and charger, this vehicle is a mini eruption of enjoyment for any level RC enthusiast. Add 8 AA batteries to the remote and you are ready to conquer the toughest terrain!Â
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- Length: 400mm
- Width: 310mm
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Section 45 of the Planning Act empowers the Committee of Adjustment to grant minor variances to an existing bylaw. Minor variances must to meet all of the following 4 tests under the Planning Act:
The Planning Act also gives the Committee of Adjustment the authority to grant the enlargement or extension of a legal non-conforming use. The Committee of Adjustment can impose conditions if an application is approved. These conditions must be satisfied before a building permit is issued, unless otherwise specified by the Committee.
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Chevy Venture Transmission Issues
grimmfam Posts: 2Don't do anything until you contact GM. I'm having trouble with my 2002 with 80,000 miles and am trying to work with them to have it repaired. The more they know these vans and the transmissions issue the more likely it is we will all benefit.0
jantonio Posts: 1Did you find out anything from GM? I have a 02 venture with transmission problems.0
jrdwyer Posts: 168Although possible, a failing transmission will often give warning signs. Ours started downshifting hard and making clunk sounds when doing so. When that happened, I pulled the dipstick and noticed black fluid and the burnt smell. It then went to the dealer and was diagnosed as transmission failure. Specifically, the GM dealer service receipt said: "REMOVE AND TEAR DOWN TRANS PLANTERY GEARS AND SHEEL IS BUSTED REBUILD TRANS."
Parts replaced were carriers, dam, bearing assembly, bearing, gear, transmission kit, torque converter (remanufactured part used), gear rear, cleaner, and ATF fluid.
Ours is the Olds Silo version with the same tranny and was purchased new in Sept. '01. Tranny failure occurred Sept. '03 at app. 26,286 miles. All repairs were covered under warranty. So far so good at 11 years and 130K miles on odometer. I changed the tranny fluid and filter myself at app. 75K miles.
I hope GM/dealer will lower the price below $1K to get your tranny rebuilt or replaced, especially considering that you had all service done at GM dealers. There is no reason for a properly built, maintained, and normally used automatic transmission to fail before 200K miles of use.0
uniq1979 Posts: 1Hello,
That sounds a bit fishy to me. I say that because I have a 2003 Chevrolet Venture and it has over 200,000 miles on it and the transmission has never stopped working. I have been having problems with the shifting and it needs a TCC Solenoid, other than that it's still going. I know I will need one after awhile. If you have been maintaining transmission flushes and you only have 90,000 miles on it, I don't see how all of a sudden you need a new transmission and a offer to buy a new vehicle. Doesn't sound right at all!0
ethan100 Posts: 1My 2000 Chevy venture has 120K miles. Until recently is was fine as far as the trans goes. Now it works for about 200 yards, the trans whines, and I'm without thrust. Before I go down the money hole, what happened to my trans?0
I'm getting a low toned winding down noise when slowing to a stop. Occasionally I will get a bump before the van gets moving from a stop. Haven't noticed a pattern to it's exhibiting these signs. It has107K miles and 24K from the last transmission service (fluids). Thanks!0
Another ques. My owners manual is MIA, from something I read elsewhere, can't find it, there is a special procedure to checking the transmission fluid. Can someone tell me what it is?0
gerrywitjes Posts: 1I have a 2000 Venture, and only recently started experiencing this same slipping transmission and noisy clunking gear shifts, with a high whine for the engine. I noted that this seemed to occur mostly after having to accelerate out of a turn (Hwy on ramp, accelerate into traffic from corner turn, etc.) or if needing to apply some power when climbing an incline (usually when on 20%+ Hwy grade). Stopping the car for a few minutes and turning ignition off seemed to reset the issue until it started to recur.
+ Again, since this only just started to occur, I was reminded that we had some cooler mornings of late, and I needed to use the defrost setting for the fan. This means that the compressor is being activated. So lately I've been trying to see if the problem recurs when I intentionally don't engage the compressor (front window defrost) or air conditioner. So far, so good. At least that may resolve symptoms for why it occurs, but not yet how to fix it.0


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Ninth in a series exploring the April 26-28 NFL draft. Next: Safeties.
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Heidi Klum, star of Project Runway, model, actress, designer and mom dishes on her kids and her parenting style.
Describe your parenting style in one word:
Loving. I had an upbringing that was quite harsh. My dad was very strict and at times very harsh, and I didn't want to be like that. For me, it's more reasoning and explaining when they do something wrong, for them to understand. Sometimes, it doesn't sink in immediately, but I'd rather them learn over time than all at once.
What is one behavioral or physical trait you hope your children didn't inherit from you?
My ADD maybe, but then again that's not bad either. It's hard for me sometimes to focus when I do things, it's like I'm doing one thing, then I'm on the Internet, on the phone at the same time, and then someone walks in with a question.
What was the best piece of parenting advice you ever received?
To kind of roll with the flow. Our house is full of life, laughter, and mayhem. Every dinnertime something spills. Or they are wearing uniforms for school, and when we have breakfast in the morning, food gets all over their hands. You can tell them a thousand times "Do not wipe it on your pants," and sure enough they wipe it on their pants. But that's when you roll with it. My house is not like a museum. You can see that children live there. It's their house as much as mine.
What's your favorite pick-me-up when you're tired?
I don't have one. I just sleep. A lot of the time I will sleep when the kids go to sleep. My whole lifestyle has changed with children, even though I never really partied or went out a lot. I was never that person, so it didn't change the older I got. It got worse I think. So when they go to bed, a lot of times I fall asleep with them in the bed, or they all come in the bed with me, (which I like to do a lot). Sometimes I fall sleep and they are still watching Umizoomi or whatever!
What's your favorite piece from your new 'Truly Scrumptious' collection launching at Babies R' US?
I love all of the jackets, but the pink satin military jacket is my favorite. Leni would love it.
Name the one mom essential you couldn't live without:
Schedule. You have to schedule. When you have four kids especially, they all have different things that they like to do, different friends, and different interests. So, to make sure that they all get what they individually deserve, you have to make sure that they get it.
What inspires you when you are designing?
My children, the fashion industry, and a lot of mixed patterns. You know when you see flower print with leopard mixed together? These kind of wilder things, like polka dots and stripes. I don't know if you remember Mondo from last year's Project Runway, he's very good at putting patterns together that you normally wouldn't see together, he would put them together and they would just blend in amazingly. You have to have a feel for that, and he did. I tried to do that a little bit with some of the toys. For example, the little dinosaurs, they have polka dot legs with a striped body. You can do it, if you keep the colors similar. We did it with rugs and some other items.
What's the most important thing to keep in mind while dressing a baby bump?
Comfort, but for me I always like to be sexy. Sometimes it would be the most form-fitting dress, where it's completely tight, I love that feel. Sometimes I loved wearing like a muumuu with a crazy print on it. It always depends on how you feel.
Do your kids dress themselves? Do they have individual styles?
Themselves. I have bought them things; it doesn't work. They want what they want--especially my son Henry; he is so into fashion. Sometimes, they come down with the most unusual, strange, things. Henry, for example, would wear a Lakers t-shirt with a tie over it. Or a t-shirt with jeans and then he will put a belt over the t-shirt. I don't know why. He wanted to have a mohawk because he saw someone who had a mohawk. So I said okay and buzzed it; I buzzed all of his hair. Then he wanted it blond, so my mom and I bleached it. Then a month later, he wanted it all off, and now he has it off.
Johan usually wants to do whatever Henry does, like when he buzzed his hair all the way off, he wanted it too. It has been hard, you have to learn [how to manage] this type of hair, with different products, and combing everyday; it's a lot of work. It was four years of growing his hair, and caring for it, and then he's like, "Okay, now, Mama, I want my hair off too! Henry has it off." I don't like to push my kids into something that I want. I want them to be growing into themselves, instead of me pushing. So we shaved it all off. I kept it, and then we made art with the hair, which was fun.
What job would you say has been the most difficult: model, actress, television host, spokesperson, designer, or mom?
Being a mom is the hardest. With things in business, if something goes wrong, it goes wrong. You don't want to mess up with your children. That is something that you can never take back. My kids are not allowed to walk in the street without holding hands. I'm very strict with safety.


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On our fifth day in Brazil we discovered just how small the world is when we met another agricultural tour group at our hotel in Rondonopolis, Mato Grosso (MT). This group, a young-adult agricultural leadership class, was from Oklahoma State University.
They, like us, were in Brazil to study soybean production, Asian soybean rust, and the impact of Brazil on international agricultural trade. Not so surprisingly, both groups were going to visit many of the same places.
Our first stop was the agricultural research station run by the Mato Grosso Foundation, a private foundation that several years ago severed its ties with EMBRAPA, the Brazilian national crop research agency. There we were met by Foundation Superintendent Dario M. Hiromoto, who gave us a presentation, "The Brazilian Agriculture on Cerrado Region."
He said that based on the 2002 world agricultural production estimates, Brazil ranked first place in citrus, coffee, sugar cane, sugar and papaya. Also that year, Brazil ranked second in the world in soybean, beef and chicken production; third in corn production; sixth in milk and hogs; and seventh in cotton.
Many of those products are of interest to producers in various regions of the United States. The Cerrado region contains 500 million acres, of which 45 percent is suitable for agricultural production. In MT alone the soybean production area grew nearly 50 percent during a recent two-year period — from 10.6 million acres in the 2002/03 cropping cycle to 15 million acres in the 2004/2005 cropping cycle.
The Cerrados region (2002) produced 43 percent of the country's beef, 23 percent of its coffee, 34 percent of its rice, 59 percent of its soybeans, 65 percent of its cotton and 29 percent of its corn. Most of this growth has taken place over the last 25 years.
In our travels in MT we saw beef, soybeans, cotton and some corn. We must have missed MT's coffee, rice and sugar areas.He spoke of the need to balance production and preservation of this important ecosystem and the role of the Mato Grosso Foundation in developing technologies to preserve the environment.
He also spoke of the growing world population and the need to increase agriculture by intensifying the use of present agricultural lands, the need to improve the factors of production such as genetics, chemicals and fertilizers, and the expansion of cultivated areas with Brazil representing a major source of new cultivated area. Clearly, Brazil wants to be a world class player in the agricultural arena.
The Mato Grosso Foundation is Brazil's largest private plant breeding research program. Overall they have 76,400 experimental plots as a part of tests for canker and cyst nematode control, Asian soybean rust, as well as for the development of varieties suited to the conditions of the Cerrados. In 2004 and 2005 their researchers released varieties tolerant to soybean canker and soybean cyst nematodes.
In 2006, they will release a variety with a stacked gene that will be tolerant of both diseases. Hiromoto expects that they will release their first generation of soybean plants with resistance to Asian soybean rust in 2008, with a stacked Roundup Ready rust resistant variety in 2011.
After departing Mato Grosso Foundation's test plots we drove to APROSMAT (don't ask us to translate what these letters stand for). APROSMAT is a state of the art facility that has two functions: the certification of seeds, primarily soybeans, and the diagnosis of soybean diseases. We were told that this is the premier testing facility in all of Latin American. From what we saw, we had no reason to question that claim.
We were there during slack season and still a dozen workers were busy doing a visual inspection of soybean seed samples and recording their observations. In peak season, the seed samples come in by the pallet load and all of the visual inspection stations are filled. In a room, which we could not enter, they were conducting germination tests on the seeds.
The disease testing lab was across the courtyard from the seed inspection area. In recent years they have seen an upswing in Asian soybean rust, but more traditional soybean diseases are also diagnosed there. One of the interesting pieces of data they collect is the age of leaf and plant samples sent in and the disease diagnosis. That way they can identify the plant stages that are critical for the development of various soybean diseases.
As we reflect on what we saw on Monday, Feb. 13, we were reminded of the Rogers and Hammerstein song, "Everything's up to date in Kansas City." Except that this time it's, "Everything is up to date in Mato Grosso, they've gone about as fer as they can go," - well, at least fer now.
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee: [email protected]


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Cleanfit COA451 is a retractable assembly for all fields of dissolved oxygen measurements. It is equipped with a stop bolt, O-ring seals and a ball valve, enabling complete isolation of process and sensor compartment. This allows you to access the sensor without interrupting the process or emptying the pipe or tank. Better still, benefit from increased process and operational safety and significantly reduced maintenance effort across the whole measuring point.
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text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Haiti Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Haiti Goto page 1, 2 Next Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> General Caribbean Forum View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15323 Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 5:18 am Post subject: Haiti I am surprised that we do not have at least one inquiry from some misguided individual who thinks his sole purpose in life is to go to Port-au-Prince and teach EFL. We have posts from people who want to go to Kinshasa . Why not Haiti ? Back to top grahambJoined: 30 Apr 2003Posts: 1945 Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 11:05 am Post subject: Haiti Scot, Have a look at the DRC thread in the Africa section. There's an interesting post from someone who spent some time there. All the best. Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject: Love Potion Number Nine As Scot implies...probably not much action on the TESOL scene in Haiti.However,there may be a few openings for voodoo priests and priestesses.Qualifications?Who needs QUALIFICATIONS??? Why, ANYONE can do that! Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:51 am Post subject: You Gotta Stop Those "Evil" Ways.... What was the John Carpenter film about Haiti? Title slips my mind.Not up to his best,"Halloween".... Scot,give them time.Some newbie will get around to asking if "Haiti is a good country to teach in?" There is some guy now on the General Latin American Section who is hellbent on teaching in NICARAGUA...so Haiti is probably not far behind.... Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15323 Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2003 5:55 am Post subject: haiti For sure we will get something along the lines of Is Haiti nice ? Will I like it there? Can you give me the websites of some rural schools there ? Back to top [email protected]Joined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 473Location: here and there Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2003 6:24 pm Post subject: Thank God you're both here to set us all straight on appropriate dreams. Did you actually need to start a thread to insult people in advance? Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15323 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 7:44 am Post subject: haiti Well since [email protected] like me are in such a small minority in the EFL world, yes. The average wannabe EFL teacher, it seems, needs basic warnings about places not to think about going to. Haiti is one such destination. As is Zaire. What's wrong with insulting people anyway ? You think the world out there is full of touchy-feely types who really love everyone - especially Americans ? The universe is hostile, kid. Back to top grahambJoined: 30 Apr 2003Posts: 1945 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject: If you can't stand the Haiti... It's true, some people are incredibly naive about the potential risks involved in foreign travel. It's the Haiti of nonsense! Personally, I enjoy the cut and thrust on this forum, although I don't like the Haiti... sorry, hate mail that appears from time to time. Wouldn't it be dull if everyone agreed about everything? Back to top ShamanJoined: 06 Apr 2003Posts: 446Location: Hammertown Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2003 10:28 pm Post subject: bnix - I could be wrong (happens now and again ), but the film I think you may be referring to is The Believers directed by John Schlesinger. Martin Sheen has the lead. Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:01 pm Post subject: Reply to Shaman...Give "em Hell,Scot! Shaman,the film you are referring to, "The Believers", starring Martin Sheen,is about "santeria". An excellent film, by the way.The Carpenter film about Haiti is called(I believe),"The Serpent and the Rainbow". Scot,give 'em hell, boy! If people like M?tt do not want to read specific threads, nobody is holding a gun to their heads and forcing them to read'em. What the hell, Scot, maybe the rest of us would be better off if some of the "teachers" DID leave for Haiti, DRC, Zimbabwe,etc. Maybe it would clear a bit of the flotsam and jetsam out of this "profession". Back to top ShamanJoined: 06 Apr 2003Posts: 446Location: Hammertown Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 2:56 pm Post subject: Upon further investigation, it appears the name we were looking for was Wes Craven (Serpent and the Rainbow). "Dont bury me... I'm not dead." Perhaps there are opps to teach zombies? Shaman Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 10:23 pm Post subject: Yeah,Craven,not Carpenter Shaman is right.Craven.not Carpenter was the director of the film in question.Zombies?Well,hell,you don't have to go to Haiti to teach zombies. Back to top SethJoined: 05 Feb 2003Posts: 575Location: in exile Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:10 am Post subject: It was me who lived in Haiti. Go to Port-au-prince if you want to see hell on earth, although parts of it aren't too terribly bad. The south coast is quite nice and there were some French tourists there and even French policemen in uniform. While I realize that this is just a scot-being-grumpy-and-spiteful-towards-Americans thread, there's no market for ESL there that isn't voluntary. For a child to go to school for a term it's 25 dollars and most can't even afford that. I met a few Haitian English teachers while I was there, though. They travel from school to school so usually the kids only get an English class once every week or two. Haitians (who aren't bandits) are wonderful people, though, and there are quite a few whites there but they're mostly Catholic aid workers and usually Canadian and/or French. Nearly all women, as well! Back to top scot47Joined: 10 Jan 2003Posts: 15323 Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject: spiteful scot47 "spiteful towards Americans"? Moi ?????????? . I resent that and regard it as defamatory. i am spiteful to everyone in this wretched business, but especially to the naive newbies who think the world is wonderful. Back to top bnixJoined: 16 Jan 2003Posts: 645 Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 1:42 am Post subject: Spiteful? No.I do not think Scot is spiteful.A bit irascible ,maybe,but different strokes for different folks.And maybe at least a little bit comes from living in Saudi.The newbies?They will always be with us.At least, it really looks that way.A lot of them are just young kids(no offense meant at all),who were told for years that a college degree would set them up in life.Then after they graduate,they find they have been dumped on the job market(not much of one in the US right now) with countless other grads who were told the same lies ,more or less. So,what to do?Well,a lot of then are heading to TESOL. Are they naive?Yes,of course. A lot of them are.They are very young and have not had the experience older teachers have(again no offense meant). Yes, it irks me too ,sometimes when some of them are just off the boat(figuratively speaking) in some foreign country, but act like they are experts in the country on the basis of their few months or weeks in the country and maybe some funky anthro or soc course they took.But some of them arrive ready to give advice to teachers who may have been in the country for years,but who are at least wise enough not to pretend that they are "experts". Of course,then there is always the less savory fringe element in TESOl...the hangers-on, the farters around,who are not really interested in teaching at all. It is...an unregulated field...probably the major problem in this field in my opinion. 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La Crosse, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse football team fell 41-7 to sixth-ranked UW-Oshkosh Saturday afternoon at Roger Harring Stadium at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex. The Eagles drop to 3-5 overall and 2-3 in the WIAC while the Titans improve to 8-0 overall and 5-0 in the conference.
UW-Oshkosh, ranked sixth on D3football.com and seventh on the American Football Coaches Association, earned its first win at UW-L since 1967 with Saturday's victory. The Titans were 0-19-2 in their last 21 appearances in La Crosse.
After toth teams punted on their first possessions of the game Saturday, UW-Oshkosh drove 64 yards on 12 plays in 3:18 to take a 7-0 lead. Jake Dostalek scored on a one-yard run with 7:49 remaining in the opening quarter. The Eagles had a forced a fourth-down after an incomplete pass, but were called for holding to give the Titans a first-down at the UW-L 16-yard line.
UW-Oshkosh took a 14-0 lead on the first play of the second quarter as Nate Wara threw a 29-yard touchdown pass to Cole Myhra. The Titans went 70 yards on four plays in 1:56. The key play in the drive was Wara's 54-yard completion to Dostalek.
The Titans made it 21-0 with 8:40 left in the first half as Wara threw a 43-yard touchdown pass to Caleb Voss. UW-Oshkosh went 61 yards on three plays in :33.
Wara threw his third touchdown pass of the first half with 6:59 left in the second quarter on a 62-yard pass to Voss. The extra-point was missed.
UW-Oshkosh led 27-0 at halftime.
UW-L cut the lead to 27-7 on the first drive of the second half. Andy Sires threw a 23-yard touchdown pass to Jake Welch with 11:57 left in the third. The Eagles went 71 yards on eight plays in 2:56.
The Titans quickly took a 34-7 lead three plays later as Myhra scored on a 74-yard run with 11:00 remaining in the third.
Wara threw his fourth touchdown pass of the game with 2:26 left in the third quarter with a 48-yard pass to Mitch Hintz. UW-Oshkosh went 61 yards on three plays in :51.
UW-L finished with 225 yards of offense, including 43 rushing and 182 passing. Sires was 14-of-28 passing for 172 yards with one touchdown and one interception. Zachary Mestelle finished 3-of-3 for 10 yards. Jared Stan had 33 yards rushing on nine carries while Jake Gundlach had 23 yards on six attempts and Dillon Bean 18 yards on 13 rushes.
Welch totaled five catches for 59 yards and a touchdown while Bean had four receptions for 16 yards.
The Eagles finished with 14 first downs while going five-of-21 on third-down. UW-L won the time of possession, 32:18 to 27:42. Christian Hallingstad averaged 45.1 yards on 12 punts for UW-L.
UW-O totaled 543 yards Saturday, including 162 rushing and 381 passing. Wara was 20-of-30 passing for 369 yards and four touchdowns. Myhra had 152 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown. Voss finished with 171 yards and two touchdowns on seven receptions. Myrha (42 yards) and Jon Krysiak (21) each had three catches.
The Titans had 22 first downs while finishing five-of-14 on third-down.
Max Nicholson led UW-L with 10 tackles, including eight unassisted. Jake Meckstroth finished with eight tackles, seven unassisted. Jordan Pendergast (all unassisted) and Jack Leahy (four unassisted) each totaled seven tackles. Brandon Heeg had two sacks for the Eagles.
Beau Steffens led UW-Oshkosh with 11 tackles. The Titans had nine quarterback sacks.
UW-L returns to action Saturday, November 3 at UW-River Falls at 1 p.m.
Sixth-Ranked UW-Oshkosh Earns Win Over UW-La Crosse
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|UW-La Crosse (3-5)
La Crosse, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse football team fell 41-7 to sixth-ranked UW-Oshkosh Saturday afternoon at Roger Harring Stadium at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex. The Eagles drop to 3-5 overall and 2-3 in the WIAC while the Titans improve to 8-0 overall and 5-0 in the conference.


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Midnight Fantasies
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Midnight Fantasies is a zine by Wilum Pugmire.
Midnight Fantasies was published in the mid 1970s in the U.S.A. It was a combination of fiction and material about horror films. The first issue appeared in 1973, and the second issue in 1974. There have been at least four issues published.
Contributions include "Near the Crypt" by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, editor of The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror and Fantasy Macabre.
Midnight Fantasies is the first of a few of the zines devoted to horror and H.P. Lovecraft and the Chtulhu Mythos that Wilum Pugmire has released. He also published the zine Old Bones devoted to Lovecraft; as well, he has released the punk zine called Punk Lust.