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We have just begun our study in the book of Hebrews and I want to just preface our lesson tonight by saying that you're going to find that this book is extremely deep. And tonight we are going to be dealing with meat as opposed to milk. I can't remember in my own studies since I've been at Grace Church a particular passage on which I spent more time than on these particular verses. I realize that in measure it's like an iceberg. You're going to get the top of it and it may come off rather simply to you, but believe me these are deep, deep truths that we shall look at in verses 4-14, not easy to be understood by any means. If I succeed in any small measure in making them simple, then I have succeeded in doing what I've asked God to help me to do after many, many days of study and toil over these verses.
Now keep in mind that the book of Hebrews is written to Jewish people, primarily to Jewish believers, but also with Jewish unbelievers in mind to convince them that the new covenant is better than the old covenant. That Jesus Christ is the better priest and the better mediator and that He is the final priest and the final sacrifice at the same time. And so all throughout this book we have a comparison between the new covenant and the old covenant and between Jesus Christ and everybody else to show that Jesus is superior.
Now in our first message dealing with the first three verses, we saw that Jesus Christ is superior to everything and everybody, which pretty well covers it all. Then beginning to unfold all of the everybodys that He is superior to, we come to verses 4-14 and the Holy Spirit teaches here that Jesus Christ is superior to angels, to angels.
Now man is a wonderful and an amazing creation. Certainly higher than the plants and the animals, whether simple animals or complex animals. Higher than any other material creation in this world, but above man there is yet another created group even higher than man and that created group are the angels. And Hebrews Chapter 2, verse 9 indicates to us that angels are higher than humans. For it says that when Jesus became a man, He was a made a little lower than the angels.
So angels have a place that is higher than men in terms of special creation. And obviously after the fall of the angels, they were no longer subject to sin, they are holy, they are powerful, they are wise. They do not suffer with the infirmities that men suffer with. And so they are especially created spirit beings made by God before men were ever created, they were in the heavens, in fact, watching when God was doing the creating when He was making the world and they were made higher than men. At least higher than fallen men.
Now to begin with tonight, I want to give you what I call a little angelology. A brief theological look at angels. And it's going to come out in a whole lot of rapid fire statements, so we're just going to fire through these things so you get a little picture. Now angels are spirit beings and Jesus said that a spirit does not have flesh and bones. Consequently angels do not have flesh and bones like humans. They do have some sort of a body. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15 that there are bodies terrestrial and there are bodies celestial.
That is there are bodies of the earth and there are bodies of the heavens. Angels have some kind of form. They are even capable of appearing in a human form. In Hebrews 13:2, the Bible says "be careful how you treat strangers or you might be entertaining angels unawares." They can take on a form that is human or decidedly like a human. They also appear for example in Matthew Chapter 28 in verses 3 and 4 to have a form. Speaking of an angel, at Christ's resurrection the one who was there when the stone was rolled away, it say, "his countenance was like lightening and his raiment white as snow, and for fear of him the keepers did shake and became as dead men."
A dazzling kind of brilliant blazing glory. Now when we say that angels are spirits, we do not necessarily mean that they have no form. They have a form that is celestial and can manifest itself as a human or in another way. In the Old Testament, we even have the saints wrestling with angels. Now angels were all created simultaneously. According to Colossians 1:16-17, we believe that inference is made. Angels are unable to procreate. They are not man and wife and having little angels. Only men and women have little angels, who grow up to be anything but.
There were no angels then added to the original batch. God made them. He made them all uniquely as single identities, they do not cohabitate. Matthew 22:28-30 indicates that to us. So they were all made at once. They do not procreate. The number of angels has not changed one angel since they were originally created, though a great number of them have fallen. They still exist as they were created. They are not subject to death. Scripture no where indicates that they die. Scripture no where indicates that they are in any way able to be made extinct. They do not decrease and they do not increase. Each angel then is a direct creation of God standing in immediate personal relationship to God the creator who made him.
Now the Old Testament assumes the existence of angels. There are 108 references in the Old Testament to angels and 165 in the New Testament. So there's no doubt about the fact that angels exist. And that the Old Testament saints were well aware of it is also fact. Now angels render intelligent worship to God and service to God. That's why they were created. They were created as a special spirit being group to render service to God of a special nature. Angels are intelligent. They can render intelligent service and worship to God. They are also emotional. The Bible talks about angels rejoicing when sinners are saved. They are capable of emotion.
Angels can even speak according to Galatians 1:8 where the apostle Paul says "Though we or an angel of heaven preach any other gospel unto you." They can speak. Angels also, according to Daniel 9:21, have incredible speed. Sometimes they are pictured with wings aren't they? Sometimes with as many as six wings. Now according to Mark Chapter 13, verse 32 and to Jude 6, they have a special abode in the heavens. They dwell in all of the heavens and we know in the Bible that the heaven where God lives is called which heaven? The third heaven. That's the heaven where God is. The second heaven is the spatial infinite heavens, the first heaven is that just about the earth. The dwell in all of those heavens. People say are there beings in other parts of the universe? All over the universe, but not with little things out of their head flying around in little spaceships.
There are angelic beings inhabiting the universe. They are countless ages older than men and there are trillions and trillions and whatever and whatever of them evidently. And even after numberless hosts of them fell with Satan, there are still numberless holy angels left. For example, in Daniel 7:10, Daniel said "thousands, thousands were ministering unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand were standing before him." That's just more and more.
In Revelation Chapter 5, it says in verse 11, "The number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands." Just take ten thousand times ten thousand and just keep adding thousands of zeroes. There are a lot of angels. You say how many are there? I'll tell you. There are exactly enough to get the work done. There is not one loafing angel. They are more powerful than men. And men must call on divine power to deal with them, especially fallen ones.
The Bible tells us as we've studied in Ephesians Chapter 6, "Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against angels." Fallen angels. They are highly organized and they are divided into ranks. Very, very complex organizations, some of them are thrones, some of them are dominions, some of them principalities, some of the powers, and some of them are called authorities. There are cherubim, seraphim, and living creatures. Some have names, Lucifer, Michael, and Gabriel. Michael is the head of the armies of heaven and Gabriel is called the might one.
They are seen in Scripture as spectators at all redemptive events. They minister to God and they do His bidding. They ministered to Christ in His humiliation. Remember at the conclusion of His temptation, the Bible says "and angels came and ministered unto Him." They ministered to the save. How? The Bible says that they watched the church and they watch the preacher. They also aide the church by answering prayer, delivering from danger, encouraging Christians and protecting children. They minister to the unsaved also by announcing judgment and afflicting it. Judgment angels.
Now that is a brief course in angelology. Now that is a biblical look at angels. The Jewish people at the time that this Epistle was written had a little bit different view. As many of their views had begun to wander from the basic Old Testament context because of all the Talmudic writings and the rabbinical feelings and ideas. They began to wander off the main biblical points of angels and they came up with some interesting views of angels so that when the writer of Hebrews is writing, He is writing not only with a true backdrop of a biblical view of angels, but he's writing against a backdrop of the Jewish common concept of angels.
Now the Jews did believe that they were very important to the Old Covenant, angels were. And they had always esteemed angels as the highest beings next to God. They believed that angels were the mediators between men and God. They believe for example that God lived surrounded by angels. They believed that angels were really the beings who are instruments in bringing God's word and the working of God's will in the universe and to men.
They were said to be ethereal creatures made of fiery substance like blazing light, which may not be far from wrong. They believe that angels were created. They believe that they did not eat and drink, and they also believed that they did not have little angels. They believed that angels were God's senate and that God never did anything without asking the angels. They were His counsel, and they believed that when Genesis let us make man, that the one God was speaking of His angelic senate in the word us.
He was talking to His angels. Now some Jews believed also that angels objected to the creation of men and were annihilated at that time for their objection. Others believe that they objected to the giving of the law and they attacked Moses on the way up Mount Sinai. They even named angels. They believed there were seven presence angels who stayed in the presence of God at all times and they named them Raphael, Uriel, Thaniel, Gabriel, Michael, and the El is a name of God and that was always tagged on the end of every name and so forth.
They believed that there were 200 angels who controlled the movements of the stars and kept things on course. And they believed that there was one super special angel who controlled the never-ending succession of days, months, and years. He was the calendar angel. They believed that there was a mighty angel who took care of the seas. They believed there were angels of frost, dew, rain, snow, hail, thunder, and lightning. There were also angels who were the wardens of Hell and the torturers of the damned.
They believed also, and this is interesting, that there were recording angels who wrote down every single word which every man spoke. They also believe that there was an angel of death. They believe that every nation had a guardian angel as well as every child. And there were so many angels that one rabbi said and I quote, "Every blade of grass has its angel." So they believed in angels obviously.
Now, I've given you a backdrop both scripturally and in the mind of the Jewish people as to their concept and understanding of angels. They believed in angels, and they believed that they were the highest created beings in the universe and that they mediated between God and men. But one more thing needs to be noted and this is the particular backdrop against which the book of Hebrews is written in reference to angels. The Jews also knew that the old covenant and the Old Testament was brought to them from God by angels.
And this above everything else exalted the angels in the mind of the Jews, the children of Israel. They believed that the angels were the mediators of their covenant with God. That angels kept administration running between them and God all the time. And so they had a lofty view of angels. And to show you that they believe this, notice in your Bible, Acts Chapter 7, verse 51. Acts 7:51 says, "Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit as your fathers did, so do ye."
And of course, this is Stephen's sermon indicting Israel. Verse 52, "Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted. And they have slain them who showed before the coming of the just one of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers. Who have received the law," you received, "it by the disposition of," what, "angels and have not kept it."
Now look at Galatians Chapter 3 and then we'll comment on that. Galatians 3:19 I'll read it to you, "Wherefore then serveth the law. It was added because of transgressions till the seed should come to whom the promise was made and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator." Now the old covenant was brought to man and maintained by angelic mediation. The angels ministered between God and men to carry on the work of the old covenant, the old economy. And the Jews knew this and consequently they believed in angels. Some of them believed in angels to such a degree that they actually worshipped angels. They worshipped them. This developed into a heresy known as Gnosticism. Gnosticism with many other things, involved the worship of angels and Gnosticism reduced Jesus Christ to an angel.
Colossians 2:18 we read this, and the Colossians were messing around the Gnosticism, so Paul writes to them, "let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels." Don't get trapped in worshipping angels. And so you see they had exalted angels to the place where there was the eminent danger that they would worship angels and some of them had fallen into even that pattern of worshipping angels. Now I hope you see to the Jewish mind angels were extremely exalted and important.
Now if the writer of Hebrews, in our Epistle here, if he is to present to the Hebrews that Christ is the mediator of a better covenant then he will have to show that Christ is better than angels. Do you see that? And that becomes his whole purpose from verse 4-14. We must show that Christ, the bearer of the new covenant, a new covenant, the New Testament in His blood, one sacrifice, one priest, believing in Him by faith, accepting what He did on the cross, receiving Him as your Savior, that new covenant is better than the old because Christ is a new mediator better than the old mediators who were angels. Christ must then be better than angels.
And so the writer sets out to do this and he does it beautifully in verses 4 to 14 by using, guess what, the Old Testament. He proves the superiority of Christ over angels by using seven Old Testament passages to verify. Tremendous. Now if you were to go down and take these Old Testament passages and look in the cross reference and go to the Old Testament and find the, you would find that they are not quoted exactly. That there is slight variation in the quotation.
The reason for that is this, by the time Epistle of Hebrews was written there had existed and prior to that already it existed, a book called the Septuagint. Septuagint was the Old Testament written, translated into Greek. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew. By the time of Christ there was such a tremendous number of Greek speaking Jews that 70 men had gotten together and translated the old Hebrew into Greek. And that is the Septuagint. It is a Greek translation of the Old Testament.
And evidently, the writer of Hebrews was a Greek cultured individual, because when he quotes the Old Testament he invariably quotes it from the Septuagint, or the Greek translation. And consequently it varies slightly from the Hebrew translation. Not in truth or in fact, simply in translation. So where there's a little area of difference and it won't be a difference in meaning by any stretch of the imagination, but only just in a phrase, the word choice or whatever it may be, it is because he is quoting the Septuagint. That's one of the reasons we don't believe that Paul was the writer because he quotes the Old Testament more from the Hebrew than from the Septuagint.
All right, so he uses the Old Testament so wisely and depthly and so beautifully to show the Jews from their own testament, from their own old covenant that Christ is a better mediator. And thus the argument is powerful. Were we to try to prove to Israel from the New Testament that Christ is a better mediator, they would say I don't accept the New Testament, right? And so the writer says let me prove it to you from your own testament. Open it up and I'll show you that Christ is a better mediator and the new covenant is better than the old.
And so as we come to it, we will see the tremendous power that is in this kind of an argument. Now I want to give you the text for the sermon. That's in verse 4a, the first part of it. Look at it. "Being made so much better than the angels," that's the whole...that's the text for the sermon. From now through verse 14 is the sermon itself. That's the proposition that he seeks to prove. There it is. "Being made so much better than the angels," who is? Jesus Christ who is the subject of verses 1-3.
"Christ being made so much better than the angels," that's the point. And then he goes on from there to show all of the proofs and all of the reasons, all from the Old Testament that Christ is better than angels. Now I want to point out one thing that has caused problems. A lot of cults and a lot of other religious organizations at this point deny that deity of Christ and they very often come to this passage to prove that Christ was not God, but that He was a created being.
And they start in verse 4 with the statement, "Being made so much better than the angels." And they say you see Christ was made, but the word there is not apotelo to make or create it is ginomai to become. Jesus Christ always was but He became better than the angels in His exaltation. Inferring at one time that He had been lower than the angels, and that's exactly what it says in Chapter 2, verse 9. Now you're going to have to stay with me on this, because this is heavy stuff.
But it's talking here...and we'll get to this in a minute. It's talking here about his son. If you get this, you're really going to have some good stuff. Hopefully you'll get it. It's talking here about Christ as the Son. As the Son, He was made lower than angels, but because of His faithfulness, obedience, and the wonderful work that He accomplished as a Son, He was exalted back up above angels where He was before.So He became better than the angels. For a while lower than the angels, faithful, accomplishing God's work, He became better than the angels as a Son.
Now in what ways was Jesus better than the angels. His title was better, His worship, His nature, His eternity, and His destiny. And these are the points of the sermon of the Holy Spirit of which the text is. He became so much better than the angels or becoming so much better than the angels.
First of all, His title was better, verses 4 and 5. Notice it, "Being made or becoming so much better than the angels as He hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said He at any time," that is said God, "thou art my Son. This day have I begotten thee. And again, I will be to Him a father and He shall be to me a Son." The Holy Spirit here says Jesus is better than angels, number one, because He has a better name. To what angel did God ever say "you are my son this day have I begotten thee." The answer is to no angel. You see?
To what angel did God ever say I will be a father to you and you will be a son to me. The answer is to no angel did God ever say that. The angels are ministers and messengers. Christ is the Son. Do you see? The angels are servants, Christ is a Son. There's a great difference there. He has obtained a more excellent name than they.
Now in our culture we don't put a lot of stock in names. You name your kid anything you want. It doesn't make...and some of you do, but anyway, you can name him anything you want. And there's really no connection at all with the child. Nicknames do pick up some meaning later on. We usually nickname somebody something because of some particular characteristic. But very often in the word of God, God has chosen specific names that have to do with character or have to do with some aspect of the individual's life.
And frequently the outward name spoke of an inward reality. And so Jesus Christ has been given a name. He has been given...Paul tells us, "a name that is above," what, "every name." It's a better name than angels. Do you know what angel means? Angel means messenger or servant. Jesus' name is Son. There's a big difference between your son and your servant.
Now in order to show this, he quotes two Old Testament passages. "To which angel did God ever say thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee." And that's Psalm 2:7, write down the line. You see he's quoting their own text. And then he says, "I will be to him a Father and He shall be to me a Son." And he's quoting exactly 2 Samuel 7:14. Do you remember the prophecy there to David that David would have a greater son. And God said "I will be to Him a Father and He will be a Son."
Now which angel has ever been called a son? None. Collectively as are Christians, angels are called sons of God or children of God in the sense that God created them, but no one angel is ever called Son of God. And to no angel has he ever said "this day have I begotten thee."
But God says "I have a Son who has a greater name." Now the Old Testament predicts that a son was going to come. Psalm 2:7 says that. "Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee." There's a Son coming. 2 Samuel 7:14 predicts the Son.
And so you see angels are excellent creatures. Of all creatures they are the most excellent, but if Christ has a more excellent name than the most excellent, He must have the most excellent name. Did you get that? If He has a more excellent name than the most excellent, He must have the most excellent name. And so says the writer of Hebrews to the Jews from their own Old Testament, Jesus Christ is greater than angels because He hath obtained a greater name. God never called any angel Son.
Secondly, He is greater because of His worship, verse 6. Now this is a fantastic verse. And we must take our time in going through this opening Chapter, because this is foundational to understanding everything. Even though Jesus Christ humbled Himself, even though He was made for a time lower than the angels, angels are to worship Him. And if angels are to worship Him, then He must be what? Greater than they. And if He's greater than they, then His covenant is greater than the one they brought. The new covenant is greater than the old covenant.
Christianity is greater than Judaism. Verse 6, "And again," watch that again, we're going to get that one, that is loaded. "When He bringeth in the first begotten into the world He saith and let all the angels of God worship Him." Do you see? He must be greater angels for God calls upon angels to worship Him. Now that's a quote from Psalm 97:7. Even the Old Testament Psalmist said that all the angels were to worship the Lord's Christ. That's in the Old Testament. The Jews should not be surprised at this. It comes right out of their own text. And so far from approaching the glory of angels or the glory of the incarnate Son, I should say, angels are commanded to worship Him.
Now let me give you this thought. You say well, didn't angels always worship Him? Yes, they did. They worshipped Him throughout all the time of their existence prior to His incarnation. They worshipped Him as God. Do you understand this? But they are now to worship Him as Son. You see? In His incarnate character they are to worship Him. He's trying to show that this Son who became a man was higher than angels.
He is the very God that angels have always worshipped. Do you know that it is an absolute sin in violation of all of God's laws to worship anybody whom? God. And if God is saying all the angels worship Him then He must be God. He must be. And He is not only God of eternity He is Son. He is God as Son and His incarnate character He is to be worshipped. Now it says that He is the first begotten. Now this again is where all these people jump and down and they think they've found their proof text. That Jesus is a created being. Look, look, look He's first begotten. You see He was begotten like all the rest. They just don't understand you see.
That the word first begotten is not a word that has anything to do with time. It's a word that has to do with position, proticos. In Colossians 1:15, "Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of all creation." And that's another used, you see, you see, you see. He was the first born in creation. He was the one who was created. Proticos my friends is not a time word, it is a position word. It is not a description, it is a title.
And when it says that He is first begotten it's not talking about the fact that He was begotten, it's talking about the fact that He is the chief of everything. The Sovereign. Proticos means the chief one. And the reason it's connected with the concept of first begotten is because it was the first Son that was usually the heir to everything. And He usually became the chief one of the father's estate. And proticos then came to mean the one with all the dignity and the one with all the honor who stood as the chief one.
And so Jesus Christ is proticos. That is a reference to position not time. It is a reference to right and authority, not to time. I can give you an illustration to that. There were two brothers in the Old Testament, one was named Jacob, one was named Esau. Who was the oldest? Esau. Who was the proticos? Jacob. Jacob was the proticos. Esau was the oldest. Genesis 49 tells us about the character of proticos and what it means. Genesis 49:3, "Reuben," here's in connection with Reuben, "thou art my first born, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellence of dignity, the excellence of power."
Now there you have a definition of proticos. What does it mean? Might, strength, dignity and power. That's what it means Genesis 49:3. It is not a time word, it is a right to rule word. It's an authority word. And Jesus Christ is the proticos in the sense that He has the right to rule. In Colossians 1:18, it says this, "And He is the head of the church, the body, who is the beginning, the first born from the dead." Now that says Jesus was the first born from the dead.
Had anybody been resurrected before Jesus? Sure. Lazarus, those people that Jesus had resurrected in His own life. All the saints who came alive at the crucifixion. The Old Testament people who came alive from the dead. Lots of people have been raised from the dead before Jesus. You say, yeah, but it says right there that He was the first born from the dead. You know what it means? He was the chief one of all who had ever been raised. You see?
It can't mean time or that verse would be a lie. Proticos means He is the main one. He is the most honored one. The most dignified one. The highest one. The most powerful one. That in resurrection of all those who are resurrected He is the greatest. So the title refers then to Christ's glory. It refers to His dignity not to the time and not to the concept of being created before anything else was created.
All right, now, I want you to notice the word again here in verse 6. Because this has really caused commentators an awful lot of problems. And I wrestled with an awful long time until I finally just took my Greek text and I just said now what does it say here in the Greek text. Let's assume that this is what God meant it to say and let's just take it simply and read it and then we'll just pray about it and say God what are you trying to tell me. And it worked. And I stuck all the other books away.
The word again is very important. Before we can understand again, let me pick up the word world here. "And again when He bringeth in the proticos into the world He saith let all the angels of God worship Him." Now the world here is not the common word for world, it's the word for inhabited earth. Inhabited earth. "When He bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world." Some people have said you see that talks about His creation. It couldn't. That couldn't mean that He was created before anything else because the word for world there is oikoumenhn which means the inhabited earth.
It's already inhabited when He's the first begotten. Do you understand what I'm saying? The first begotten, the prototokos the most dignified one, He is coming to inhabited earth. Now that's...just file that somewhere in your mind.
The point of it is He brings His first begotten into the inhabited earth. Now what is He talking about? As I say it can't mean just the kosmos, the whole universe when He first begot Him. It can't mean. It's an inhabited earth already when He brings it. Now I want you to notice the again. The Greek simply says this. Here's the order of it, it'll reverse what you have in your authorized. It says this, "And when again He brings in the proticos into the world." Now wait a minute, "And when again He brings His first born into the world."
You tell me when is the again going to happen? The second-coming. That's all I could get out of this. That's the way it has to be. And again, yes, when again He brings in the firstbegotten. He already brought Him into the world once as Son. He's going to bring Him again. It has to be future doesn't it. Sure. Is God going to bring Christ again? Sure is in blazing glory.
Now watch this, it is then at the second-coming that the fullness of that prophecy comes to pass and let all the angels of God worship Him. You see? You know that right now angels don't understand the whole picture well enough to give Him full worship. You say oh, you don't mean it. That's right. You say you mean angels don't understand everything now? I don't believe they do. You say what's your evidence? 1 Peter 1:11, you know I have a verse for that.
"Searching what person," or here's the picture of the Old Testament prophets you know who wrote down all those wonderful things and then read them over to figure out what they meant, they were inspired by the Holy Spirit and in many cases didn't understand. "Searching," here the prophets are searching through what they've written, "what person, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ who was in them did signify when He testified beforehand the suffering of Christ and the glory that should follow." The prophets were looking about all the sufferings and about Messiah trying to figure out what they'd written and when it was going to happen.
Watch verse 12, "Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Spirit." You see they were looking to see the things that weren't understood until our time when Christ had come the gospel took place and the Spirit preached. But I loved that at the end of verse 12. "Which things the angels," what, whoa, "desire to look in too." They don't understand it all yet.
Now maybe the presence angels sit around the throne do, but the vast angelic hosts have not yet evidently been able to discern everything. They're not omniscient. But it is again when He brings in the first...the proticos into the world that He says now angels, you have the picture, worship will be full and complete. Now I believe the angels around the throne worship God now.
And I believe that in a sense perhaps there are angels that worship the Son. But if I read my Bible right, the angels are still looking into the things that they do not understand. But my friends, once the time comes for Jesus to return would you like to see how the angels are going to react? Turn to Revelation 5 and I'll show you.
They're going to see the whole picture clearly. Revelation 5:9, well, 11, we'll start in 11. Revelation 5:11. "And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the living creatures and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. You see. Here's angelic worship. Why? Because He is beginning His move to come again and to take the earth. Do you see?
In Chapter 5 He goes to the throne. In verse 1, the Father's there with the title deed to the earth, the little scroll. And they're all saying "where is one that can open the scroll?" And John's crying because there's nobody to open the scroll. And all of a sudden one of the elders says don't cry John, here He comes. The Lion of the tribe of Judah. And Jesus Christ the Lamb takes the scroll and He's about to unroll the judgments and take possession of the earth and the angels say oh, it's all clear and praises burst out from the millions of angels all over heaven.
And it says in verse 13, "every creature that is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such are as in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying, blessing and honor, glory and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever and the four living creatures said Amen."
That's the Amen corner of heaven, those four living creatures. "And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped Him that liveth forever and ever." You see this is His second-coming. And so you see it is at the second-coming that He is revealed in full glory as Son, proticos. And even angels will see it all then. When they see Him come as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
So He is greater than angels because God commands angels to worship Him. And my friends, if God, in the Old Testament, commanded the angels to worship His Son, then His Son must be God. I think we'll stop there. Let's bow in prayer.
Our Father we just are overwhelmed at the power of these truths. Lord as we see the tremendous person of Jesus Christ exalted to the highest heaven above angels to equality with Thee, our minds and hearts cannot comprehend it. And yet Father, it is such joy to our hearts. Lord we do not understand the mysteries of deity, but we do know this we were sinners and You loved this and you sent Jesus Christ the Son to die for us, to pay the penalty for our sins and to rise again that we might walk in newness of life.
Father we rejoice, we rejoice because in our weakness and our misunderstanding and the stupidity of our human finite frail brains we cannot grasp the truths which have yet grasped us and made us Yours forever. And Father as we have seen Jesus Christ lifted up and exalted tonight, we join together now in praise to Him. Christ we exalt You. We praise You. We worship You. For we know that indeed You are greater in anything and anybody. The mediator of a better covenant. The full and final and ultimate sacrifice to which can be added none other. The final great high priest, and Lord we bow before Your feet in worship and praise. Father, we would pray that if there are some in our congregation tonight who are not worshipping You that You would turn their hearts to You.
Lord if there are some from Israel, Your chosen, Your beloved, Your wife of old, Father, call them to Your side. Help them to see that Jesus is the Messiah. That He is Your Son, God in human flesh come into the world to redeem them. Help them now even to look on Him whom they have pierced and mourned for Him as an only Son. See Him as Son of God. Turn their life to Him. May they receive the blessings and the rewards and the riches of the new covenant. Better than the old which could not take away sin. Father, we thank You for Jesus Christ and the sacrifice which can and does remove our sin. And bring us to fellowship with You abundant and eternally. We pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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Computex 2010 Coverage
It may surprise you to learn that many of your favorite technology companies are headquartered in Taiwan. Though these companies may not come close to big name companies based out of the United States or Japan in terms of revenue, the impact these companies have on the global IT market is tremendous. If you're a frequent visitor to OverclockersClub, you've probably heard of several of them - companies like A-DATA, Acer, AOpen, ASUS, BenQ, Biostar, D-Link, ECS, Foxconn, G.Skill, Gigabyte, IOGear, JMicron, Kingmax, Leadtek, Lian Li, MSI, QNAP, Realtek, Shuttle, SiS, SilverStone, Thermaltake, TITAN Technology, Transcend, VIA Technologies, and many, many more. Odds are there is at least one part in your current PC that was manufactured by one of these companies.
It's no wonder then, that Taiwan is the perfect spot for a computer expo. COMPUTEX TAIPEI, also known as the Taipei International Information Technology Show, is the second biggest computer expo in the world, trailing only CeBIT, and had nearly 120,000 visitors in 2009. Further stats from the 2009 show can be found here.
The last time OverclockersClub got to attend Computex was 2008. I, Andrew "ClayMeow" Resnick, am honored to be representing OCC at Computex this year and will do my best to provide you with a wealth of information. I have attended CES the past two years, so I do have experience with trade shows, but this is going to be an entirely different experience. I'm here on my own - no large group like we have at CES each year. It will certainly be a challenge, but one that I am very ready to conquer.
The Flight
For anyone residing in North or South America, the worst part about any trip to Asia is getting there. My trip started at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York, with a scheduled departure of 7:00 PM ET on Saturday, May 29th, heading to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). It was the one leg of my trip that I did not have a pre-assigned seat, and thus, of course, I was stuck with a middle seat - one of only two remaining at the time. Though I did the self check-in, there was an attendant standing by helping me, and he asked me if I'd rather have the other seat, as it was an exit row and thus had more leg room - I declined. Why am I mentioning this? Because one should never underestimate even the most minute decisions we make in our life. By some stroke of good fortune, it so happened that there was a couple split up, the guy having the window seat by me, while the girl had an aisle seat a few rows back. The girl asked if I would be willing to switch. Sure, it was further back in the plane, but giving up a middle seat for an aisle? No brainer!
So the trip started out rather good, but quickly turned frustrating. The flight was completely booked, and while a flight attendant was playing musical chairs, we were informed that a connecting flight from Kiev was first arriving, and thus we had to wait for roughly ten people. Thankfully, as you're probably aware, the airlines seem to account for delays, so we still arrived at LAX on time, at 10:50 PM PT.
At that point, I now had to exit the terminal I arrived in to head to Tom Bradley International Terminal. This involved me actually having to exit completely, and walk up a sidewalk to an entirely new building, which of course meant going through security all over again. My next flight wasn't scheduled to leave until 1:15 AM PT, however, so I had plenty of time. After getting through security, I made my way to Gate 123A, which was literally the very last gate on the right.
After standing around for a little while, someone from China Airlines made an announcement that our gate was changed to 101. Yes, you guessed it - the farthest possible gate from where we were. So I, along with a hundred other people, made our way past gate after gate to the other side of the terminal. Me being a New Yorker, I quickly emerged as the leader of the pack, and by the time we were just halfway there, was well ahead of everyone else.
While walking the long trek from the northern end of the terminal to the southern end, I hear an announcement - our gate was now changed to 104. I arrive at Gate 104, well ahead of anyone else, and ask woman at the desk if this is the flight to Taipei - she says yes, asks for my boarding pass, and issues me a new one. Unfortunately, because of the gate change, our departure time was pushed back to 2:15 AM PT. Remember, I'm from New York, so to me, it felt like 5:15 AM, and I had to fight really hard not to fall asleep in the gate - really, really hard.
By the time I was in my seat (again, an aisle seat), I was ready to pass out - indeed, that's what I did. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that we would be served dinner - I thought it was just a breakfast flight. So an hour into the flight, I'm woken up for dinner, which essentially means I had a power nap. The whole plan, going into the flight, was that I'd sleep through it so that I would be wide awake for my arrival in Taipei, early Monday morning. However, after the power nap, it was rather difficult to sleep. I took a combination of pills that are supposed to cause drowsiness, but it didn't entirely help. Still, I fought the urge to just watch a movie and instead kept my eyes closed throughout most of the flight - until breakfast.
Again, despite the hour delay on leaving LAX, my flight arrived at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (TPE) at the scheduled time of 6:15 AM local time on Monday, May 31st, which is a full twelve hours ahead of New York. After clearing customs and acquiring my one checked suitcase, I made my way to the exit where there was a driver waiting to take me to my hotel. Not only is English taught in schools, but it's mandatory, so I was rather surprised when my driver didn't speak English. Thankfully, he was already aware of my destination, so the language barrier wasn't much of an issue.
After a roughly 20-minute drive, I arrived at my hotel, the Golden Palace Hotel. Despite it being just after 7 AM, I had no problem checking in and receiving my room key. Because it was early, I was also able to attend the continental breakfast, which in my opinion is a hell of a lot nicer than the ones in the U.S. Typically speaking, continental breakfasts in the U.S. are cheap, consisting of some breads, cereals and drinks (coffee and juice). Here, we had all that, along with salad, eggs, fish, soup, and a variety of other local delicacies. As for the room itself, I must say it's quite nice. Not only is it very spacious and eloquently designed, but being a business hotel, it offers free wireless and wired broadband connections - perfect for doing Computex coverage over the next several days!

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What's that saying ... the couple that tattoos together stays together? Yeah, something like that. Teen Mom star Jenelle Evans thinks so, anyway. The newly married star is no stranger to ink and added a new piece to her collection over the weekend of a skull with a feather headband and rose detailing. I've gotta admit, skulls really aren't my thing, but for some reason -- I find this little gem oddly beautiful. Much better than her thigh leopard, that's for sure.
Her hubby Courtland Rogers opted for something on the different side, a Confederate flag type design on his side. It's personally not my cup of tea, but I think it's sort of sweet that they're going through the process of getting ink done together.
I can't help but wonder, though, would Jenelle have gone so ... hardcore ... if Courtland wasn't around? Would you let someone you love influence such a big decision?
People get tattoos for different reasons. Oftentimes, they mark a big life occurrence or event and have to do with one specific person. Yeah, 99 percent of the time, it's a silly decision to get someone's name tattooed across your arm, but to get a tattoo with someone in mind? Hey, it could definitely be worse. Sure, looking at this tattoo may always remind her of Courtland whether they stay together or not. However, the way I see it, the ink will always symbolize a stage in her life.
More from The Stir: 'Teen Mom' Kailyn Lowry Tells Us Her Deepest Tattoo Secrets
Personally, I don't have any tattoos. My boyfriend, though, has a whole slew of them now and he always explains them to me in reference to where he got them and how at that specific time it was just something he really wanted. That's what makes them worthwhile, I think. His different tattoos document memories he wanted to hold onto forever, big or small.
Hey, I like that. If I had more cojones, maybe I'd have some, too. For Jenelle, I'm interested to see what comes next. With her track record, something tells me it's only a matter of time until we're seeing something else. A half sleeve, perhaps?
What do you think of Jenelle's new tattoo? Do you think it was inspired by her time with Courtland?
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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has clashed with the new pope over the Falkland Islands.
On the 30th anniversary of the Falklands War last year at a special mass in Buenos Aires, the then Archbishop Jorge Bergoglio praised the Argentinian forces who died following the invasion in 1982.
He stated they "went out to defend their mother, the homeland, to reclaim what is theirs". He went on to say the British re-conquest under the Thatcher government was "usurpation."
The comments were slammed by the Spectator magazine which stated that the-then archbishop has spoken in the manner of a banana republic dictator"
Already Prime Minister David Cameron has differed sharply with the pope over the issue saying that a recent referendum on staying a British colony which passed overwhelmingly on the island proved it wanted to stay British.
"I don't agree with him, respectfully, obviously," Cameron said.
"There was a pretty extraordinarily clear referendum in the Falkland Islands," said the prime minister, "and I think that is a message to everyone in the world that the people of these islands have chosen very clearly the future they want and that choice should be respected by everyone."
Cameron added: "As it were, the white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear."
The islands have become a point of contention again in recent months with Argentine leader Cristina Kirchner saying "it's as if a bunch of squatters were to vote on whether or not to keep occupying a building illegally."
Argentina maintains they took control of the islands in the 1820s and were driven off by colonial British forces. In recent years rumors of large oil fields near the islands have led to new tensions.
The right wing Spectator magazine in Britain says the election of the pope was not done to annoy the British.
"But it is solipsistic to believe that the Vatican chose simply to annoy us and it may well be that the new pope acquires a degree of neutrality over the issue while he is busy concentrating on the more pressing problem of eliminating homosexuals and ripping up condoms. In the meantime we should treat our minority Roman Catholic population with kindness, understanding and indulgence, whilst quietly reminding them, every so often, that this sort of thing is why we had that schism in the first place."


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GE: "Review scores from the March 2013 issue of Game Informer are in. The publication handed out a nearly perfect score for Dead Space 3 and one of the first verdicts for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time."
awesome score for Sly cooper
can't wait
amazing time to be ps3 owner
with all those AAA exclusives coming out
Better score for Fire Emblem: Awakening. It also got a 9.6 from IGN :D
It's not really a competition...
FE:A is a wonderful game though. Such great games coming out on all platforms.
9.75 for DS3?
Looks like we all got fooled by someone on gamefaqs.
I've played the full game (friend won an advance copy in a contest)... and even though I found the first 2 not very scary. DS3 is really tense... I mean really bloody tense.
You are pursued by 4 re-generators in a place that resembles the final scene of terminator 2 and you are constantly being trapped by flames and have to keep these guys at bay
And this is in chapter 5.... there are 19 chapters total
For real?
That is actually really good to hear!
Damn just a few more hours for me to play it!
Thanks for sharing how many chapters their are!!!
you know you have just sold the game to me with that one statement.
For all the demo's, videos, articles etc + I have played the demo on xbox live, it still didn't do anything for me. Now I want to play the game just for that one section, lol.
Sounds great. I loved the previous two Dead Space games and I have little doubt that I will love Dead Space 3 as well.
Wow at that Sly Cooper score indeed.
Think I am going to pick up (and the HD collection too)
I picked up the HD collection back when, and it's fun. Then I played the Demo for Sly 4, and it's exactly what it should be - similar gameplay but some new tweaks, and updated but recognizable graphics. I can believe it'll be a winner.
it's out on pc and xbox too you know...nothing to do with being a ps3 owner.
sly cooper Thieves in Time is on xbox and pc ?! lolXD i would like to smoke what you are smoking
EZZZZZZZZ I think it's pretty safe to assume he was talking about DS3, seeing as how we are IN A DS3 ARTICLE!!!! Not in a sly cooper article. What aren't you smoking? Don't be a d1ck.
my first comment is talking about sly cooper score
and how it's a great year for ps3 owners
and he is quoting me
and say it's on xbox and pc
so of course i would assume his talking about Sly Cooper
get it now ?!
"IN A DS3 ARTICLE!!!! Not in a sly cooper article"
Title: "...Dead Space 3 Nearly Perfect, Sly Cooper"
No, it's definitely not just about DS3.
This is Game Informer's kind of game. They give Ni No Kuni a 7/10, and a generic action gamer(because that is what Dead Space is now)an almost perfect score.
Does anyone actually take them seriously?
no EA gives them cash, Namco doesn"t! logic!
They eat up action games from big-spenders of marketing.
I'm playing it and it isn't "a generic action game". For me, both Ni No Kuni and DS3 are both 8.5+, but I'm not going to start crying like a fucking fanboy because someone gave those games a low score.
hahaha 21 360fanboys disagree. go play Halo and Kinect i've heard i works well
I was gonna buy sly4 day one but ign gave it 8 which is great but said there are very very long load times, I am hoping within first couple of weeks we see a patch that fixes that so I can' buy it than
Dead space 3 got a 7.8 from ign
These magazines always give higher scores than mst gaming sites
Please Sony fix the load issues on sly4 soon
Yea, and the only reason ign gave it a 7.8 was because of the story and tedious errand side missions. Other than that, they praised the hell out of the rest of the game! They should not have lowered the score because of such unimportant gripes like that.
i am sorry but dd you just say they should not lower the score because of important aspects like single player story? DS1-2 had good stories, whether EA like it or not most people play it for single player so if that's not good than why shouldn't they lower the score?
i am still getting the game, but i don't agree with you that story doesn't matter or is important
They actually said that the story felt "forced" not that it was bad.
A perfect score for dead space huh? Interesting, from the demo, I didn't like what I saw, but I've been deceived by crummy demo's before, it's almost what caused me to miss out on Spec Ops: The Line.
I am really confused and GI usually doesnt do that to me. They have been quite trustworthy. They DO NOT hand out 9.75 to games unless they are goty contenders. And they definitely dont hand out 9.75 to sequels, especially ones that havnt had an installment with that score, unless it is way above and beyond previous titles. They generally set the bar higher for sequels and a 9.75 is basically the dead space game perfected.
Now, it is possible but from the demo and from what i have read, it veers from its original intent. I dunno but i assumed this iteration would get judged harshly. Stack this review up next to the 7 they gave Ni No Kuni and i am confused. I will wait to see about the game when i play it but i figured a 9 from them would mean it was better than the first 2. A 9.75 basically means it woulda been the best game in 2012, or close.
Keep in mind the demo is just there to show off the new additions to the game; the weapon crafting, the human enemies etc. reviews of the game mention that the human enemies are very rare, you only fight them a small number of times throughout the entirety of the game.
People who have played the full game are saying that the dead space experience from the other games is still pretty intact.
I've had similar concerns with GI in the past. But really when I think about it, they have multiple reviewers that all have different tastes and their Editor trusts their judgment. It may seem in consistent at first but sometimes even your favorite reviewers just don't agree with you.
Things that bother them wont bother you or things that bother you don't bother them. It all comes down to personal preference in the end and even though review scores are often very useful, sometimes they just don't mirror your own tastes.
I had the same problem with dead rising, i hated the demo quite badly, it felt like a dull hack n slash game, but my friend showed me it a few months later and if you play it properly you actually spend very little time killing zombies.
Wow, sounds like mixed reviews for Dead Space 3 so far. I'm pretty glad for Sly getting a 9 as well.
So far...9.75, 9, 9, 8.8
Mixed reviews? Cool story bro.
Seriously. So far the reviews have been pretty positive. I bet this game will sit comfortably at the 90s or so as an average.
Well, I guess I was mistaken by that troll review from Gamefaq's. Chill out bro.
A lot of people where and still do think it's real lol
Yay for good Sly thieves in time score :D I hope to see the reviews coming soon!
That's strange I thought they gave dead space 3 a 7.75/10
that was a fake review started by a troll on gamefaqs
Exactly why speculation by an 'insider' can never be trusted.
I really do want to get Sly 4 but with my backlog, I should wait. By then, the price should go down a bit.
Sly 4 is already at $40 new.
Thanks man, I just checked Amazon and it's listed at 34.99.
I'm with you. I'm playing Far Cry 3, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Ni No Kuni, all at the same time. I wont be able to catch up until the summer drought hits. And even now, this first part of the year is packed with so many dope looking games I might have to miss a few. I've already had to pass on Hitman and Arkham City.
At this rate I'm kinda hoping there is a summer drought, I have/gonna have so many great games to play and I don't wanna get even further behind. I actually skipped Hitman also...but I had to play Arkham City.
At this rate I'm probably just gonna get DS3 and try it for myself, I remember after DS2 got released and after I played it 10 times I was hoping for a third. It's the only Dead Space 3 we're gonna get, so I may as well make the best of it.
So we were told at 12:01 we could download Dead Space 3. I've had it pre-orderd on the PSN and its not letting me download it, just keeps directing me back the the THEME to download. did they lie? or am I missing something.
When the store updates then you can download.
Well then they lied. however it does not matter now, the people who pre-orderd were able to download it at 3am. Which was a WEIRD time.
I'm surprised by that Sly Cooper score. By the time I'm finished with the Sly HD collection the game should be $20.
whether Dead Space 3 is gud or not...i have to play this game just like COD - B.O 2....i hope this one will give me what i want the most "The Nightmares"!! but the good ones not like MOH....
I'll reserve Judgment for Dead Psace 3. GameInformer are well known to give big games high scores, as the company who owns them needs the game sales. This is comimg from a GI subscriber, I just don't think their reviews hold much merit tbh.
Great score for Dead Space 3, only game I want this month.
Oh man, that's hella buff. I'm actually in the UK where it doesn't come out until the end of March, so I ended up importing it from the U.S. Can't wait!
Does anyone know when all the other dead space reviews are going to start popping up?
You might want to push some games aside for Arkham City...
So the leaked score was a hoax? Glad to see it's doing well, love those games.
I new people were over reacting. What was bad was all they had to do was read the articles. God you have to love n4g... i've got and hour before i pick my copy up.
It's good someone likes it but DS3 got around 7.8 by many other reviewers, including Gametrailers, IGN and Gamespot. I'm not buying it, but i will get Sly Cooper for sure!
im about to go pick up my copy of Sly Cooper in a couple of hours.
Remember GTA4 got a perfect 10 & that was the worse in the 3D series.
I can personally say, from playing the game for the past few hours, that is you like DS 1 and 2 there is now reason why you shouldn't like this one. The crafting system in intriquet and is a nice addition. The combat and gameplay is classic DS. I'm completely satisfied with my purchase. It definitely deserves the high scores its getting. Play the first ten minutes and tell me you don't agree.
it is impossible for any multi-plat to score above 9 and any exclusive below 9.
I won't accept it and I am not renewing my subscription until I am asked to do so.


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As the agents approached his bedroom, though, Millar panicked. He remembered that he had stashed his last two syringes in a watch box on the bookshelf. "I had this flash – there's something in the bookcase," he recalls. Moments later, Millar was hauled off to jail – in handcuffs.
Today Millar has become a poster child for a budding movement to clean up a sport that has arguably been more damaged than any other by doping. After being stripped of his world championship and banned by the British cycling federation from the sport for two years, he is back with a team that is pioneering new methods to prove its athletes are drug-free.
And they're putting in a respectable showing. His Garmin-Chipotle squad led the team standings in the early stages of this year's Tour de France, and teammate Christian Vande Velde is now ranked third. While some on the cycling circuit fault Millar for trying to capitalize on his conversion, his team's self-policing approach has become a model that an increasing number inside and outside the sport are emulating.
Millar himself has rediscovered his passion for cycling. During his darkest days, he says he felt like he was "living a lie." When he was arrested and briefly jailed, he decided, "OK, that's it – I'm going to break free."
Now he's reveling in the purity of the sport again. "The process is more fun," he says in a telephone interview from his home in Girona, Spain. "I enjoy the training, enjoy the work. It's back to the way it was when I was a kid."
Millar considered going to college to study art, but instead became a professional cyclist. While in his late teens, the lean tall Scot, who was born on the island of Malta and grew up in Hong Kong, supported his nascent racing career by working nights at a supermarket and training during the day. He won his first major race at age 20.
In 1997, he got a big break: The professional team Cofidis hired him. Yet the easygoing Millar had no idea what he was getting into.
"I got into professional cycling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, totally naive to the fact that doping existed," says Millar. Within a few months, he realized that guys around him were taking illegal drugs. "It was a total culture shock – I was entering this dark, secretive world."
He was a good rider without drugs, but not good enough to guarantee results that would maintain his six-figure salary and comfortable lifestyle. In 2001, he went into the Tour de France having raced nearly 1 in 3 days for the past six months.
Exhausted, he withdrew. It was then that a team manager urged him to go stay with an older rider in Italy. Shortly thereafter, Millar started taking drugs.
"It was attractive to the team, and became attractive to me as well," he says. "My values and ethics got chipped away over time."
Doping did make his life easier. In cycling, a 2 percent boost in performance can mean the difference between winning and losing. Plus, he says, the drugs enhanced his endurance and reduced his body's recovery time. "I was doing it purely for the results – I was not doing it for the voyage," he says. "When you win, it's pure relief, because it justifies the risk you took."
Other athletes echo how intense the pressures of operating at the top can be. US decathlete Bryan Clay calls it a "scary and lonely place." "If all I wanted in the world was to win the gold medal and set a world record and make lots of money, I can almost guarantee you that I would be on steroids," says Mr. Clay, a 2008 Olympian who is participating in a pilot US antidoping program based on similar principles as Garmin-Chipotle's. "You'd never want that to end. You'd just want to be on top forever. [But] I want to be the best without sacrificing who I am."
That may be the larger point in the end: Do drugs at some point change who we are? As pill use of all kinds becomes more pervasive, artificial enhancements, both legal and illegal, are increasingly seen as a legitimate way to boost one's inherent abilities. We take everything from Botox for a wrinkle-free face to Viagra for better romance. What's wrong with a little oxygen-enhancement if you're a cyclist?
"People want an easier way to deal with their lives," says Oliver Catlin, vice president of an antidoping research firm in Los Angeles. "That's why athletes turn to steroids. It's looking for external ways to improve their identity."
Once a cyclist turns to doping, stopping isn't as simple as "just saying no." Millar says many riders "are married, have kids, are heroes in their villages. The people around them believe in them. They don't see that if you tell the truth and explain how it happened, people do understand."
Millar had to endure the worst before he could climb out of his own slough. When the drug agents came to his house on the fateful day in 2004, he wasn't home. He was dining out. They hauled him home to conduct the search. The agents had been investigating a doping ring involving some of Millar's teammates. The two syringes they found were left over from a time when the cyclist had used the endurance-boosting drug erythropoeitin.
"I realized I was going to lose everything – the house I'd built the expensive car I'd ordered – all this material stuff was gone," recalls Millar. "But when I was lying there, I realized it didn't matter. To be free and able to get out of that was almost a relief."
For the next few months, Millar indulged in "pure escapism." He wanted to get as far away from cycling as possible. "I was sleeping on my sister's floor," he says. "I had my head in the sand." Eventually, he realized how fortunate he had been to be an athlete and decided to stage a comeback – clean. He'd also come to sympathize with the disillusionment fans were feeling about cycling. "It became my role to be a voice that's seen both sides," he says.
When Millar finished his two-year ban, he wasn't the only one that needed a resurrection. Cycling was reeling. Revelations of doping were rampant, and major European TV stations were pulling coverage of races.
Former rider Jonathan Vaughters thought it was time to clean up the sport from the inside. In 2007, his team, Slipstream Sports, launched an aggressive antidoping program administered independently by the Agency for Cycling Ethics in Los Angeles. Each athlete was tested with no advance notice at least every two weeks – 20 times more often than required under cycling rules. It yields a physiological profile that would make any drug-induced spike readily apparent.
Several other teams followed suit, and sponsors began to flock to this audacious cadre of riders who declared the importance of competing clean over winning. Last year, Millar signed on, bringing new clout to the group.
"We're not afraid to fail," says Steven Cozza, a member of the team, now called Garmin-Chipotle. "It's 100 percent of you and nothing else that's achieving. At the end of the day, that's the most important thing." Riders feel a shift on tour as well. "The whole attitude and talk in the peloton has changed," says Mr. Cozza. "Everyone is believing you can win clean."
Still, some critics believe Millar has cast the sport as too dirty and himself as savior. "There are some who say he's spitting in the soup," says Guy Andrews, editor of Rouleur, a British cycling magazine. "But I don't think he's pious about it. He's very blunt and very honest."
Actually, Millar believes that dopers represent a "minority" of riders. Yet he thinks it will take five to 10 years to clean up the sport's image.
"It has lost a little bit of magic," he says. "They [the young riders] don't deserve to pay for the errors I made or the errors my generation made. We've got to get back to the stories of individuals and that epicness."
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NURS 631: Advanced Pharmacology
Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in Nursing or Permission of Instructor
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Credit Hours: (3) Three hours seminar
Every Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) should have a well-grounded understanding of basic pharmacologic principles, which includes the cellular response level. This area of core content incorporates both pharmacotherapeutics and pharmacokinetics of broad categories of pharmacologic agents. Emphasis of this online course is on the understanding of pharmacology in health promotion, protection, and restoration.
Detailed Description of Content of the Course
This course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, and manage (including the prescription of pharmacologic agents) a patient's common health problems in a safe, high quality, and cost-effective manner. The course addresses both pharmacotherapeutics and pharmacokinetics of pharmacologic agents, incorporating both broad pharmacologic principles and cellular response mechanisms. The role of pharmacology in health promotion, protection, and restoration is emphasized. As part of the course, students may access current national standards and clinical guidelines.
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A. Overview of Pharmacology and Terminology
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2. Issues in Client Education and Adherence to Medication Regimens
3. Special Populations
a. Children and Adolescents
b. Pregnant Women
c. Older Adults
d. Ethnic Groups
B. Pathophysiology and Pharmacology
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2. Genetics
3. Autonomic Nervous System
4. Central Nervous System
C. Categories of Medications
1. Respiratory
2. Cardiovascular
3. Hematological (Anemias)
4. Infection
5. Gastrointestinal
6. Renal
7. Endocrine
8. Opiate Narcotics
9. Analgesics and Anti-inflammatory Agents
10. Neurological
11. Psychiatric
12. Other Agents such as Alternative, Complementary, and Integrative Medications; Cancer Medications; and Sleep Medications
Detailed Description of Conduct of Course
This online course may incorporate lectures, discussion, and case studies. Because the course is online, audio or video presentations/lectures, discussion boards, and chat rooms may be used.
Goals and Objectives of the Course
Upon completion of this course, the student will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. comprehend the pharmacotherapeutics of broad categories of drugs;
2. analyze the relationship between pharmacologic agents and physiologic/pathologic
3. understand the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of broad categories of drugs;
4. understand the motivations of patients in seeking prescriptions and the willingness to
adhere to prescribed regimens;
5. safely and appropriately select pharmacologic agents for the management of patient health problems based on patient variations, the problem being managed, and cost-effectiveness.
Assessment Measures
Evaluation measures to assess achievement of course objectives may include case studies, presentations, and quizzes/tests.
Other Course Information
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) expects to treble its operating profit this year to more than $12.5 billion - still less than half what it earned before the global financial crisis - as Japan's top automaker recovers lost ground in markets from the United States to China.
Operating profit jumped more than five-fold in January-March to $3 billion, with all production centers back up and running after last year's earthquake, tsunami and Thai floods disrupted supply chains and cost Toyota around 400,000 cars in lost output - roughly 9 weeks' worth of U.S. sales.
With robust top-line growth a given in the current year - the company predicts operating profit of 1 trillion yen ($12.54 billion), in line with market forecasts - Toyota is looking to squeeze further cost cuts in a battle to offset a strong yen. Executives say they have gone back to a war on waste - or "muda" - a key component of its vaunted production system.
At a briefing on Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Satoshi Ozawa noted the "huge contribution from all the (cost-cutting) efforts we've been making."
Toyota President Akio Toyoda, the 56-year-old grandson of the automaker's founder, said everyone in the company had worked towards improving profitability, and "the focus on making good cars has translated into sales volumes and profits. That in turn is leading to investments for even better cars," he said.
With U.S. dealerships humming again, Toyoda and his aides have sketched out a strategy aimed at stripping costs from everything - from production lines in Japan to Mississippi to the years of design and engineering that go into making new cars and parts.
The goal is to push up profit margins even as Toyota rides a wave of recovering demand while tapping into its tradition of incremental improvement - or "kaizen" - the corporate creed that once made it the world's most feared and studied manufacturer.
Toyota expects operating margins to improve this year to 4.5 percent from 1.9 percent in the year just ended. That gets it closer to a target of a minimum 5 percent margin before 2015, but is still short of Nissan Motor Co's (7201.T) 7.1 percent margin and 6.5 percent at Honda Motor Co (7267.T), the Japanese automaker that was slowest to recover from last year's lost output. South Korean rival Hyundai Motor's (005380.KS) operating margin tops 10 percent.
Toyota said sales in emerging markets were in line with its plans, including in China where January-April sales were heading for a full-year target of 1 million vehicles.
"As we seek growth in emerging markets, a big challenge for us in a market like China, for example, is how to speed up product launches and come up with the right products for the market," Toyoda said.
Despite the pain of building cars at home with the dollar far below the 85 yen breakeven level in Japan, Toyota has committed to build at least 3 million vehicles a year at its domestic factories - roughly triple the output at local rivals Nissan and Honda. Among the hurdles Toyota faces in Japan are the strong yen, costly labour regulations, high corporate taxes and an energy policy deadlock that has shut all Japan's nuclear reactors and driven up costs.
As most of the Japanese factories are fully depreciated, closing them and investing in new plant overseas would be even more costly, say some analysts and industry experts.
"Toyota has been criticized for having so much production in Japan where the strong yen is such a big disadvantage, but that's a matter of honor and commitment to keep a certain number of jobs in Japan, not the result of a bad business decision," said Jeffrey Liker, a professor at University of Michigan and expert on Toyota's lean manufacturing system.
"The problem from Toyota's point of view is then defined on reducing costs through other means."
Toyota last month unveiled a new scheme aimed at slashing development costs by more than a fifth, in part by using more shared components. This allows automakers to cut procurement costs on the bits customers don't see or necessarily appreciate, such as the metal brackets that hold seats in place.
Toyota was once considered a benchmark in this, but rivals now look to follow Volkswagen's (VOWG_p.DE) lead in using a wide range of shared parts in both its luxury Audi and mass-market Volkswagen brands.
The Japanese firm is also renewing efforts to step up its manufacturing efficiencies - something executives concede fell by the wayside when the company raced to add factory lines to meet soaring demand before the global financial crisis brought growth to a shuddering halt.
In the United States, where its reputation for quality with vehicles like the Camry was once unassailable, Toyota is under pressure from Hyundai and the recovering Detroit automakers. Its U.S. sales jumped 12 percent last month - though that's still nearly a fifth below April 2008 before the financial crisis.
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Toyota forecast current year net profit of 760 billion yen, its best in five years.
Toyota shares, valued at more than $134 billion, have gained more than a third since the broad market trough in late-November, outperforming Nissan, Honda, General Motors (GM.N), Ford (F.N) and VW, but lagging BMW (BMWG.DE). The main Topix share index .TOPX is up by a tenth over the same period.
Toyota closed flat on Wednesday ahead of the earnings in a broader Topix market that fell 1.4 percent.
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Sensorimotor polyneuropathy is a condition thatcauses a decreased ability to move or feel (sensation) due to nerve damage.
Alternative Names
Polyneuropathy - sensorimotor
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Neuropathy means a disease of, or damage to nerves. When it occurs outside of the brain or spinal cord, it is called a peripheral neuropathy. Mononeuropathy means one nerve is involved. Polyneuropathy means that many nerves in different parts of the body are involved.
Neuropathy can affect nerves that provide feeling (sensory neuropathy) or cause movement (motor neuropathy). It can also affect both, in which case it is called a sensorimotor neuropathy.
Sensorimotor polyneuropathy is a body-wide (systemic) process that damages nerve cells, nerve fibers (axons), and nerve coverings (
Nerve damage can be caused by:
- Autoimmune (body-wide) disorders
- Conditions that put pressure on nerves
- Decreased blood flow to the nerve
- Diseases that destroy the glue (connective tissue) that holds cells and tissues together
- Swelling (inflammation) of the nerves
Some diseases lead to polyneuropathy that is mainly sensory or mainly motor. Possible causes of sensorimotor polyneuropathy include:
Alcoholic neuropathy
- Cancer (called a paraneoplastic neuropathy)
- Chronic inflammatory neuropathy
Diabetic neuropathy Drug-related neuropathy Guillain-Barre syndrome
- Hereditary neuropathy
- Vitamin deficiency (
vitamins B12, B1, and E)
- Decreased feeling in any area of the body
- Difficulty swallowing
- Difficulty using the arms or hands
- Difficulty using the legs or feet
Difficulty walking
- Pain, burning, tingling, or abnormal feeling in any area of the body (called
- Weakness of the face, arms, or legs, or any area of the body
Symptoms may develop quickly (as in Guillain-Barre syndrome) or slowly over weeks to years. Symptoms usually occur on both sides of the body. Most often, they start at the ends of the toes first.
Signs and tests
An exam may show:
- Decreased feeling (may affect touch, pain, vibration, or position sensation)
- Diminished reflexes (ankle most commonly)
Muscle atrophy
- Muscle twitches (
- Muscle weakness
Tests may include:
- Blood tests
- Electrical test of the muscles (
- Electrical test of
nerve conduction
- X-rays or other imaging tests
Goals of treatment include:
- Finding the cause
- Controlling the symptoms
- Promoting a patients self-care and independence
Depending on the cause, treatment may include:
- Changing medicines, if they are causing the problem
- Controlling blood sugar level
- Not drinking alcohol
- Taking daily nutritional supplements
- Exercises and retraining to maximize function of the damaged nerves
- Job (vocational) therapy
- Occupational therapy
- Orthopedic treatments
- Physical therapy
- Wheelchairs, braces, or splints
Safety is important for people with neuropathy. Lack of muscle control and decreased sensationcan increase the risk of falls or other injuries.
If you have movement difficulties,these measures can help keep you safe:
- Leave lights on.
- Remove obstacles (such as loose rugs that may slip on the floor).
- Test water temperature before bathing.
- Use railings.
- Wear protective shoes (such as those with closed toes and low heels).
- Wear shoes that have non-slippery soles.
Other tips include:
- Check your feet (or other affected area) daily for bruises, open skin areas, or other injuries, which you may not notice and can become infected.
- Check the inside of shoes often for grit or rough spots that may injure your feet.
- Visit a foot doctor (podiatrist) to assess and reduce the risk of injury to your feet.
- Avoid leaning on your elbows, crossing your knees, or being in other positions that put prolonged pressure on certain body areas.
Medicines used to treat this condition:
- Over-the-counter and prescription pain relievers to reduce stabbing pain (
- Anticonvulsants or antidepressant
- Lotions, creams, or medicated patches
Avoid pain medicine whenever possible, or use it only when necessary. Keeping your body in the proper position or keeping bed linens off a tender body part may help control pain.
Support Groups
For additional information and support, see:
Expectations (prognosis)
You can fully recover from peripheral neuropathy if your health care provider can find the cause and successfully treat it, and if the damage does not affect the entire nerve cell.
The amount of disability varies. Some people have no disability. Others have partial or complete loss of movement, function, or feeling. Nerve pain may be uncomfortable and may last for a long time.
Occasionally sensorimotor polyneuropathy causes severe, life-threatening symptoms.
- Deformity
- Injury to feet (caused by bad shoes or hot water when stepping into the bathtub)
- Numbness
- Pain
- Trouble walking
- Weakness
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if you have loss of movement or feeling in a part of your body. Early diagnosis and treatment increase the chance of controlling the symptoms.
Katitji B, Koontz D. Disorders of the peripheral nerves. In: Daroff RB, Fenichel GM, Jankovic J, Mazziotta JC. Bradley's Neurology in Clinical Practice. 6th ed. Philadelphia, PA:Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 76.
Shy ME. Peripheral neuropathies. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldmans Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 428.
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Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Monday marked two years since Israel's devastating invasion of the coastal enclave at a time of renewed high tensions with the Jewish state.
In Jabaliya, just north of Gaza City, about 1,000 people attended a rally organised by the Islamic Jihad movement to commemorate the start of Israel's Operation Cast Lead, chanting for "resistance" against Israel.
The Islamist Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip put on a musical and theatrical performance at Gaza City's main cultural centre.
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MP903, New May 2008
The dense foliage and rapid growth of false indigo make for excellent summer thermal cover. This shrub occurs naturally around ponds and other moist areas in the western Midwest, and transplants well.
North Dakota State Soil Conservation Committee, USDA-NRCS Plants Database
False indigo leaves are pinnately compound, with leaflets 3/4 to 1-1/2 inches long.
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False indigo has beautiful spikes of flowers 2-1/2 to 6 inches long, purplish blue, dotted with yellow stamens.
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False indigo produces an abundance of seeds and is an important food source for quail.
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Each pod contains a single seed. Seeds are shiny brown, curved at one end.
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The Latin name fruticosa refers to the shrubby character of this plant that occurs in moist ground in thickets along streams, rocky banks, pond borders and open wet woods. The leaves are pinnately compound. The dense flower clusters are deep purple to blue and produce numerous fruits that mature in late summer. The roots and stems of false indigo contain rotenone, which is used as an insecticide and fish poison and has shown some anticancer activity.
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Weekly Radar: Draghi returns to London
ECB chief Mario Draghi returns to London next week almost 10 months on from his seminal "whatever it takes" speech to the global financial community in The City – a speech that not only drew a line under the euro financial crisis by flagging the ECB's sovereign debt backstop OMT but one that framed the determination of the G4 central banks at large to reflate their economies via extraordinary monetary easing. Since then we've seen the Fed effectively commit to buying an addition trillion dollars of bonds this year to get the U.S. jobless rate down toward 6.5%, followed by the 'shock-and-awe' tactics of the new Japanese government and Bank of Japan to end decades.
And as Draghi returns 10 months on, there's little doubt that he and his U.S. and Japanese peers have succeeded in convincing financial investors of central bank doggedness at least. Don't fight the Fed and all that – or more pertinently, Don't fight the Fed/BoJ/ECB/BoE/SNB etc… G4 stock markets are surging ever higher through the Spring of 2013 even as global economic data bumbles along disappointingly through its by now annual 'soft patch'. Looking at the number tallies, total returns for Spanish and Greek equities and euro zone bank stocks are up between 40 and 50% since Draghi's showstopper last July . Italian, French and German equities and Spanish and Irish 10-year government bonds have all returned about 30% or more. And you can add 7% on to all that if you happened to be a Boston-based investor due to a windfall from the net jump in the euro/dollar exchange rate. What's more all of those have outperformed the 25% gains in Wall St's S&P 500 since then, even though the latter is powering to uncharted record highs. And of course all pale in comparison with the eye-popping 75% rise in Japan's Nikkei 225 in just six months!! Gold, metals and oil are all net losers and this is significant in a money-printing story where no one seems to see higher inflation anymore.
But with both Fed and BoJ pushes getting some traction on underlying growth and the euro zone economy registering it's 6th straight quarter of contraction in the first three months of 2013, maybe Draghi's big task now is to convince people the ECB will do whatever it takes to support the 17-nation economy too and not only the single currency per se. Last year's pledge may have been a necessary start to stabilise things but it has not yet been sufficient to solve the economic problems bequethed by the credit crisis.
Coincidence or not, Draghi speech on Thursday is flanked by keynotes from his monetary allies. Fed chief Bernanke speaks on Saturday and then to testifies to the congressional Joint Economic Committee on Wednesday, BoJ head Kuroda holds a press conference after the bank's policymaking meeting ends on Thursday and outgoing BoE governor King speaks Friday. G20 sherpas meet in Russia this weekend, while EU leaders meet in Brussels on Wednesday. The big economic data set-piece of the week will be critical flash global PMI readings for May – is business finally pulling out of the early year funk or is confidence still evaporating?
Main economic events and data releases for next week:
G20 sherpas meeting in St Petersburg Sat/Sun
Fed's Bernanke speech on long-run economic prospects Sat
Italy March Industry orders Mon
Irish PM Kenny in Boston Mon
Japan 40-yr JGB auction Tues
UK April inflation Tues
Japan April trade Weds
BOJ news conference after latest policy meeting Weds
BoE minutes Weds
EU summit Weds
German 10-yr bund auction Weds
US April existing home sales Weds
Fed's Bernanke testifies to Joint Economic Committee of Congress Weds
FOMC minutes Weds
Global May flash PMIs Thurs
Spain govt bond auction Thurs
UK April retail sales/Q1 GDP revision Thurs
ECB's Draghi speaks in London Thurs
EZ May consumer confidence Thurs
US April new homes sales/March house prices Thurs
SAfrica rate decision Thurs
German May Ifo sentiment Fri
French May business climate Fri
Italy May consumer confidence Fri
US April durable goods orders Fri
BoE's King speaks in Helsinki Fri
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