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First John chapter 5, and now we're going to have some joy just looking at the Word of God, aren't we? First John chapter 5 verses 6 to 12 and in this particular text of Scripture we are looking at the testimony of God to His Son. Let's pick it up at verse 6, "This is the one who came," speaking of Jesus the Son of God, "This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three then that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood and the three are in agreement. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater for the witness of God is this, that He has borne witness concerning His Son. The one who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar because he has not believed in the witness that God has borne concerning His Son. And the witness is this, that God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has the life, he who does not have the Son of God does not have the life."
Here the important theme is the witness of God. As you can see, that indication appears repeatedly in those verses which I read. The word "witness" is used five times in that text. This is God's testimony to His Son.
But the testimony of God to His Son affirming Him as King, anointed Christ, Messiah, Savior, Redeemer did not begin in the New Testament. God has been giving testimony to His Son from the very beginning of divine revelation. It all starts in Genesis chapter 3 and verse 15 where immediately after the Fall of man, God testifies about a seed who would come to bruise the serpent's head, to bring about the crushing defeat of Satan who had brought about the crushing defeat of humanity in the Fall. And so as early as Genesis 3:15 you have God giving testimony to the seed born of a woman. We all know that the seed is not in the woman, it's in the man. It was planted in the woman only one time by the Holy Spirit in the womb with Mary and the virgin-born Son of God came forth. In the forty-ninth chapter of Genesis, in the tenth verse, still in the first book of the Bible, God reiterates the promise that He would send His Son, a King who would carry the scepter who would be called Shiloh.
Still in the Pentateuch of Moses, Numbers 24:17, God promised that the King would be a star and He would come out of Jacob and He would be a ruler for Israel. In 1 Samuel chapter 2, Hannah is given the promise of a son, Hannah who had been barren and in response to the promise of a son she breaks out in song and the song of Hannah sings praise to God for the promise that God was going to send a King, the anointed one. The Messianic hope passed down from Genesis 3:15 when first the seed was proclaimed through with the star out of Jacob, the ruler out of Israel, on in the history of Israel to the time of Samuel and the celebration praise of Hannah of the King that God was going to send. Then you come in to 2 Samuel chapter 7 and God promises David a son, not Solomon but a greater Son who would have an earthly Kingdom that would last forever. And it was the promise of that same seed, that same scepter, that same star, that same Shiloh that had been promised before.
You come in to Psalm 2 and again the psalmist reiterates this great hope of the coming King and refers to the Son of God, the one who is the King, the one who will come to rule the nations with a rod of iron. And then you come to Psalm 22 and this King who will come is going to be taken to a cross where He will be mocked and inflicted with pain. Backing up to Psalm 16, His resurrection is described. In the Psalms we also read that He would be betrayed by a familiar friend with whom He was breaking bread, referring to Judas and his betrayal the night of the Last Supper.
The prophets gave witness to Him, including the fact that He would be conceived in a virgin, Isaiah said that. That He would be born in a small village called Bethlehem, Micah said that. That He would depart out of Egypt, Hosea said that. The Old Testament prophet Jeremiah talked about the slaughter of the innocents that would surround His coming. There was prophesied in the Old Testament a forerunner who would come by the name of John the Baptist, a late Elijah. Isaiah it was who said that when He did come His ministry would be in Galilee of the Gentiles and He would preach the gospel to the poor, the blind, the oppressed and the prisoners.
The Old Testament is loaded with testimony from God as to the coming of His Son. And had the Jews been careful and accurate interpreters of the Old Testament, it would have been very easy for them to affirm that this Jesus was indeed the fulfillment of all those prophecies, born in Bethlehem, born to a virgin, born in the line of David both through His father and His mother, raised in Galilee, given divine power, having been rescued, as it were, out of Egypt, having spent a couple of years there to avoid the slaughter, having been declared to be the Messiah by the last Old Testament prophet, John the Baptist.
If they had been watching what was going on, they would have known exactly to whom the testimony of God related. That is why at the end of the gospel of Luke in verse 44 chapter 24, Jesus said to the disciples that He had met on the road to Emmaus, "These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled. Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. And He said to them, 'Thus it is written...and He means in the Law, the prophets, the Psalms...that Christ should suffer and rise again from the dead the third day and that repentance for forgiveness of sin should be proclaimed in His name to all nations beginning from Jerusalem.'" Everything they needed to know about the coming of Messiah had been written in the Scripture, in the Law, the prophets and the Hagiographa, the holy writings sort of labeled here as the Psalms. If they had known the Scriptures, they would have heard the witness of God and known He was speaking of Jesus Christ. They rejected Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of all Messianic prophecy because they didn't like His message, not, as I said this morning, that they didn't want to go to heaven, or want the Kingdom, they didn't like His indictment of them as the poor, prisoners, blind and oppressed on their way to judgment.
In John 5:39 Jesus said, "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life." That is the reason the Jews searched the Scriptures, because they wanted to find eternal life. And then He said this, same verse, "And it is these that bear witness of Me and you are unwilling to come to Me that you may have life." You want life, you search the Scriptures, they speak of Me, but you don't want Me. The Scriptures, the Old Testament Scriptures point unambiguously and unmistakably to the person of Jesus Christ and no other.
In Acts chapter 13, another very, very important portion of Scripture, the Apostle Paul says in verse 26, "Brethren, sons of Abraham's family, and those among you who fear God," that would be Jews of Abrahamic descent and God-fearing Gentiles who had proselyted into Judaism, he says, "To us the word of this salvation is sent out, for those who live in Jerusalem and their rulers recognizing neither Him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfill these by condemning Him. And though they found no ground for putting Him to death, they ask Pilate that He be executed. And when they had carried out all that was written concerning Him, they took Him down from the cross and laid Him in a tomb but God raised Him from the dead." And what he's saying is, they not only rejected their Messiah, rejecting all the utterance of the prophets about Him, but they also fulfilled all the prophecies about Him that indicated that they would find no beauty in Him, and that He would be executed. And they're referring there, of course, to that great text in Isaiah 53.
God had said plenty about Jesus in the Old Testament. But here in the text of 1 John 5, we have the special witness of God to His Son during His life on earth. If God gave no testimony at all during the life of Jesus Christ, there still was enough Old Testament testimony clear enough, precise enough to have been unmistakable in knowing that Jesus Christ was the promised seed, Shiloh, Son, Sovereign, that the Old Testament anticipated. But here in our text John pulls together the witness of the Father to the Son. And this is important to John. As you'll notice, verse 13 is the key to the whole book, we've been saying that all along, and it follows this section. So it ties in directly. Verse 13 says,"These things I've written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God in order that you may know that you have eternal life." The book was written for us to know we have eternal life, to remove doubt, fear, anxiety. And we're going right back to this thing we've been talking about on Sunday mornings, the Jews were preoccupied with eternal life. I just read you John 5:39, "You search the Scriptures because in them you think you'll find eternal life, and I...He says...am that life, but you are unwilling to come to Me to receive that life." That was exactly what we saw, wasn't it, this morning with the scribe in Luke 10 who wanted eternal life, asked about eternal life, but when Jesus gave him the terms of eternal life, he wasn't interested. But here in our text, it says in verse 13, "These things are written that you may believe in the name of the Son of God and know that you have eternal life." Eternal life, again I say, is the big issue and right before that is the witness of God to Christ. It is absolutely foundational to eternal life and to salvation to have the right view of Christ. That's the connection. That's the connection. This is what we've been saying all along, is the doctrinal test. You want to know you're a Christian, there are behavioral tests, obedience to the Word of God, and love to God and love to others and not loving the world. We've gone through all those moral tests. But the doctrinal test, the pervasive overarching consummate doctrinal test of true salvation is a right view of Christ.
Just quickly, chapter 2 verse 23, to remind you, "Who is a liar, but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ. This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son, whoever denies the Son does not have the Father, the one who confesses the Son has the Father also." There again, nobody is a Christian who doesn't know the Father and the Son. No one apart from Christ, no one who denies Jesus as the Christ is saved. This is antichrist, that's the doctrinal test. Same thing in chapter 3 verse 23, "This is His commandment that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ." God commands us to believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ. Not to do that is to forfeit salvation. Chapter 4 verse 1,"D"Do not believe every spirit, test the spirits to see whether they're from God." How do you know that? Verse 2, "By this you know the Spirit of God, every Spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is from God, every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God and this is the spirit of the antichrist."
Again, there is only belief in Christ and all the rest of the people essentially are antichrist. And that is a damning perspective. Verse 9 of chapter 4, "By this is the love of God manifest in us that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him." Apart from Christ there is no redemption, there is no salvation. That is clear.
And so, we find the very same thing here in chapter 5 verse 13, to know you're saved you have to know you believe in the Son of God. The name of the Son of God means all that He is...all that He's done. And so belonging to Jesus Christ, belonging to God starts with believing in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, the Anointed One, the King, God in human flesh, His person and His work. Anything else is antichrist and cuts one off from salvation and eternal life.
Now the question is, what is it that brings us to this conviction? What is it that brings us to this faith? What is it that brings us to this believing? And the answer is, the witness of God. So as John comes to the end of his epistle, and reiterates the necessity of believing the right thing about Christ, he brings it to the point where we understand that this is the great testimony of God. It was His testimony all through the Old Testament, it again is His testimony all through the New Testament. The Old Testament is about Christ in anticipation and the New Testament is about Christ, as it were, in consummation, His arrival and fulfillment of all the Old Testament promises.
In John 5:37 it says, "The Father who sent Me, He testified of Me." In John 8:18, "The Father who sent Me testifies about Me." He testified, past tense, John 5. He testifies, present tense, John 8. He testified in the Old Testament. He testifies again in the New Testament. You cannot read the Old Testament without seeing Christ. You cannot read the New Testament without seeing Christ. The sum of all of the books of the Bible are really bound up in the revelation...is really bound up in the revelation of Jesus Christ. All testimony to Christ comes from God as the source. Even if it's the testimony of a person, it might be the confirming testimony of someone on earth, or an apostle, or a disciple of Jesus, or a preacher, but all we can do is reiterate the testimony that God Himself has given on the pages of Scripture. That is why Psalm 19 calls the Scripture God's testimonies, and many of the Psalms, particularly Psalm 119, refers to Scripture many, many times as God's testimonies. And to what does He give great testimony? To His Son the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And again, the witness of God is convincing, it is infallible, it is incontrovertible, it is unassailable, it is unarguable. And that is what John wants us to talk about here in verses 6 through 12, particularly verses 9 and 11 where he refers to the witness of God in both of those verses.
Now, we have already sort of looked at this passage in a starting fashion, let's jump back into it again. And we're going to just move through some points. First of all, let's consider the witness of God. The witness of God, just by review, in verses 6 through 8. "This is the one who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with the water only but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is the truth." So in verse 6 he refers to the testimony from the water and blood, verse 7 testimony from the Holy Spirit, verse 8 he caps it up with a summary. "There are three that bear witness, the Spirit and the water and the blood and the three are in agreement." This in verse 9 he calls the witness of God. He calls it again the witness of God in verse 11.
There are three then that bear witness. Pick it up there in verse 8, three that bear witness. If you're looking at Jesus Christ and you want to find out whether or not this is the promised King, the promised Savior, the promised Messiah, there are three streams of evidence. They all three are in perfect agreement, and that is consistent with divine law. Deuteronomy 19:15 says that evidence must be confirmed in the mouth of two or three witnesses, so God draws, as it were, the maximum necessary evidence from three separate categories. The three elements all agree on Jesus Christ and meet the maximum requirement for evidence to be believed.
Now we said there are these three. Water I told you last time refers to...what?...His baptism. Blood refers to His death. The third one, the Holy Spirit, referring to the ministry of the Holy Spirit in and through His life. And last week we concluded in saying this week we're going to look a little more closely at God's testimony in these three areas.
First of all, let's talk about the water. God gave testimony to His Son at His baptism. If you wonder why I interpret that as His baptism, get last week's tape. It's all there. But let's go back to Matthew 3:13 where the baptism happened, and we will there find the Father's testimony and how that testimony unfolded. Matthew chapter 3 verse 13, "Then Jesus arrived from Galilee at the Jordan, coming to John to be baptized by him." At the height of John's baptizing ministry, John the Baptist, of course, is in view here, and why was John the Baptist baptizing people? It was a baptism basically of repentance. It is called a baptism of repentance. Here is the picture. John the Baptist, the forerunner to the Messiah, John the Baptist says Messiah's coming. When Messiah comes, He'll bring His Kingdom. Are you ready? Are you ready to receive the Messiah? Are you ready to receive the Kingdom? John preached repentance. He preached on sin. He was a hard preacher. He called the people to repent, to confess their sin and to ask God to cleanse them. And to make a public affirmation of that, he told them they needed to be baptized which was an outward way to symbolize what they wanted God to do on the inside, an outward cleansing placing them down in the Jordan River and lifting them back up, symbolizing what they desired God to do on the inside. Now what made that so very unique was that that particular baptism was used only for Gentiles. Jews were not baptized. They were circumcised. They were born into Israel, born into the family of Abraham, as it were, and then born into the covenant people. They didn't go through a baptism. But when a Gentile wanted to become a part of the Jewish community, when a Gentile wanted to join Judaism and become a proselyte to Judaism, they had to go through a baptism, they had to go through a cleansing because they were viewed as unclean. And they would come and go through a baptism. So essentially what John the Baptist was saying was very, very strong and very harsh. He was saying, if you're going to be ready for the Messiah when He comes, and you're going to be ready to come into His Kingdom when He establishes it, you're going to have to see yourself as no better than a Gentile. You're going to have to see yourself as unclean and come and make a public confession of that reality of your uncleanness and be willing to be baptized like an outcast is when he comes into the land to be a part of Israel. And people did it because they wanted to be a part of Messiah's Kingdom. It's while John is doing that that Jesus arrives from Galilee where He's been with His disciples and desires to be baptized by him, by John. But John tried to prevent Him saying, "I have need to be baptized by You and do You come to me? You, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, You the Son of God, You the one born of virgin Mary?" And John was related to Jesus in family and so by this time certainly knew of Him and the revelation of God had been given to him that this was the Lamb of God. And he made that declaration. John was shocked. He said, "We've got to reverse this. I'm the sinner, You're not. I need to be baptized by you. You don't need to be baptized by me."
John felt, I think correctly, that the lesser could only be blessed by the greater...not the greater blessed by the lesser. But Jesus answering him in verse 15 said to him, "Permit it at this time. Don't argue with Me, John. Allow Me to do it for in this way it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness. Even though there is no sin for Me to repent of, and there's no need for Me to be washed on the inside, God requires this of all His people and I will do all that God requires. I will do it in order to fulfill all righteousness. Whatever it is that God requires of His people, I will do." He was fully human and He obeyed God's Law in full. That was the perfection of His life, which by the way, as we know was imputed to our account. And so He says, "I must fulfill all righteousness. God requires it, I will do it." And verse 15 then,"H"He permitted it. And after being baptized, Jesus went up immediately from the water and behold, the heavens were opened. And he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and coming upon Him." John saw the Holy Spirit coming down, not a dove...the Holy Spirit didn't come as a dove, He was descending as a dove might come down and land. This coming down in some visible form and resting on Jesus.
And then verse 17, "Behold a voice out of heaven saying, 'This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.'" Here is the testimony of God at the water. This is the testimony of God at the water event, the baptism of Jesus.
What is amazing about this...oh, a lot of things amazing about it, we don't have time to go into all of them, but I'm sure John expected not this gentle floating, miraculous representation of the Holy Spirit settling like a peaceful, gentle, quiet dove, I think John probably expected fire to come out of heaven because John was a judgment preacher. And John had said, "When He comes He will baptize you with...what?...with fire." And Jesus will come at a later time and baptize this world with fire, but His first coming was a coming in grace and meekness and gentleness. And so it was fitting that the Spirit of God comes upon Him. The Father then sends the Spirit to descend upon Him to show that He is functioning in full harmony with the Holy Spirit.
This is not Jesus receiving the Holy Spirit. He is God. This is not because Jesus was void of the Holy Spirit up until this point. Of course, He's God, never anything less than God. But it was for John to see, the affirmation of the Spirit of God and then the affirmation of God the Father. This is Messiah, fully qualified, fully affirmed, fully satisfying God the Father and God the Spirit. In the gospel of John, I always think it's an interesting note, chapter 1 verse 32, "And John bore witness saying, 'I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven and He remained on Him.'" It was like a photograph. The Spirit came and stayed there, fixing it forever in the memory of John, and I didn't recognize Him. "But He who sent me to baptize in water, that's God, said to me, 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining upon Him, this is the one who baptizes in the Holy Spirit." John had said there's one coming, He'll baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Down comes the Spirit, rests on Jesus, John's not exactly sure at that particular time who it is, but then the Father says to him, "The one on whom the Spirit descends, this is the one who is coming to baptize with fire."
And so you have the Father's testimony to Jesus in the descending of the Spirit. The Father's testimony to Jesus in telling John what He did about the Spirit coming and descending upon the Messiah. And then you have that consummate statement of the Father's testimony in verse 17 of Matthew 3, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased." The Father is perfectly pleased with the Son.
So, the Father's witness then, back to 1 John for a minute, the Father's witness then begins as John views it with the water. This is the one who came by water, the first one to bear witness, the water. The second to bear witness is the blood...water and blood. And this is the witness of the Father that occurred at the death of Jesus...at the death of Jesus. There's so much to say about this, I don't know if we can get to all of it, but I think we can get you a good idea of what this means.
When Jesus died on the cross, there were a number of things that took place that indicated the divine hand of God. And I think maybe a good place to go to start would be to go to Matthew chapter 27, if you will. Turn to Matthew chapter 27, and there are a number of things that become very apparent here that are of a nature that are miraculous, and so much so that we will see the appropriate and the only appropriate conclusion that can be drawn. We can pick up the scene, this is the scene of the cross, verse 45. Jesus is hanging on the cross. The robbers have been crucified with Him. They're insulting Him in verse 44. "Now from the sixth hour," do you know when the sixth hour was? Twelve noon. "From the sixth hour, darkness fell upon all the land until the ninth hour." Supernatural darkness, supernatural darkness, this is a divine miracle, this is God intervening. And Jesus knows it and at that ninth hour when it was still dark, He cried with a loud voice saying, "Eli Eli Lama Sabachthani?," that is, "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?" He understood the symbolism of the darkness was an indication of the forsaking of God. God was giving testimony to His Son as a sin-bearing sacrifice by turning out the lights, as it were, all together and creating darkness at high noon.
If you go down to verse 51, "Behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom." That cannot be done by men, far too high, far too heavy. God while Jesus is crying out with a loud voice and yielding up His Spirit dying, God whips the veil of the temple from top to bottom, which throws open the Holy of Holies because Jesus has provided access to His presence and abolished the priesthood and the separation. This is a divine miracle. And then it says in verse 51, "And the earth shook." God literally shook the planet. "And the rocks were split and the tombs were opened and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised and coming out of the tombs. After His resurrection they entered the holy city and appeared to many."
Wow! What an astonishing assortment of miracles. Darkness, the veil's rent from top to bottom, ripped, as it were, by the very power of God, the earth begins to shake, the rocks split, the tombs are opened, dead saints are raised, they come out of their tombs and then after the resurrection enter the holy city and appear to many. Verse 54 says, "Now the centurion and those who were with him keeping guard over Jesus, when they saw the earthquake and the things that were happening, became frightened and said...what?...'Truly this was the Son of God.'" Not only did the centurion say it but those who were with him said it. There's no other conclusion. This was the Son of God. Here was God's testimony at the cross. No less miraculous, in fact in some ways even more astonishing than the decent of the Spirit, that the voice to John, the voice out of heaven, "This is My beloved Son in whom I am well pleased" at His baptism, this is astonishing, astonishing.
And you could also say that the Father's testimony was given at the cross by the fulfillment on the cross of the Old Testament pictures. For example, Psalm 22, "All My bones are out of joint, My heart is melted within Me, My tongue cleaves to My jaws. Dogs have surrounded Me, a band of evil doers has encompassed Me, they pierced My hands and my feet. I can count all My bones. They look, they stare at Me, they divide My garments among them. And for My clothing they cast lots." Specific fulfillment of Psalm 22.
And then, of course, there He hangs on the cross in perfect fulfillment of Isaiah 53 where it says, "He has no stately form or majesty that we should look upon Him, nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him." Of course not, "He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And like one from whom men hide their face, He was despised and we did not esteem Him." And then it goes on to say, "Surely our griefs He Himself bore, our sorrows He carried. Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God and afflicted." He was smitten of God and afflicted, that's why He said, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?"
Verse 5 of Isaiah 53, "He was pierced through for our transgressions." He was pierced with nails, He was pierced with thorns and He was pierced with a spear. "By His scourging we are healed." We all know about His scourging. "The Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him." Isaiah also said, "He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth." You remember when He went to His trial He didn't speak a word? "He was led like a sheep, silent before its shearers." Without opening His mouth He was taken away, cut off from the land of the living. "Yet He was with a rich man in His death." What does that mean? He was buried in the tomb of a rich man, Joseph of Arimathaea, a very rich man. "The Lord was pleased to crush Him, putting Him to grief, render Himself as a guilt offering."
All of those portions and many more that are depicted in the cross, scenes of the Old Testament were fulfilled at the death of Jesus Christ. There is no other conclusion than this is the testimony of the Father, fulfilled prophecy, physical phenomena that's so convincing that a Roman centurion says, "Truly this was the Son of God." You want to know about Jesus? Accept the testimony of God the Father at His baptism and the testimony of God the Father at His death.
Then the third, back to 1 John, the third source of testimony here is the testimony granted by, or given by the Holy Spirit. That is indicated, first of all, in verse 7, "It is the Spirit who bears witness because the Spirit is the truth." That is to say that anything the Spirit says is true. And so then in verse 8, "There are three that bear witness, the Spirit, the water and the blood, and the three are in agreement." The Spirit, the water and the blood.
How do we understand the testimony of the Holy Spirit in the life of Jesus? That in itself is a full-range...that's a whole branch of theology. But the Spirit was testifying of Jesus through His whole life, through His whole life. Jesus Christ was conceived in the womb of Mary as an act of the Holy Spirit. Luke 1:35, "The angel answered and said to her, to Mary, 'The Holy Spirit will come upon you and the power of the Most High will overshadow you and for that reason the holy offspring shall be called the Son of God.'" It was the Holy Spirit who put life in the womb of Mary, that life being the Son of God.
When the Lord Jesus began His ministry, it was the Holy Spirit who led Him. It says in Mark 1:12, "And immediately the Spirit impelled Him to go out into the wilderness." And we know then and there are other records in the gospels that tell us, He was led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. We know that Jesus was empowered by the Holy Spirit so that everything He did was done by the Holy Spirit through Him. That is He set aside the use of His own powers and restricted Himself to allowing God's will and the power of the Holy Spirit to achieve everything through Him. That was His servitude. Listen to Acts 10:38, "You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power." God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power. Jesus said, "When you...when you say what I do is done by the power of the devil," we're going to get to that passage in Luke, it's a very formative passage in Matthew, Matthew 12, Jesus said, "When you say that what I do is by the devil, you blaspheme the Holy Spirit. Why? Because it's the Holy Spirit doing all of this, all the teaching, all the miracles, all the expressions of power. They were all the work of the Holy Spirit. He humbled Himself. He emptied Himself and did the will of the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit. Remember Luke 4:14, Jesus returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit. Normally the second member of the Trinity doesn't need to be energized by the third member because He Himself is God. But that is part of what we call thekenosis, the self-emptying of Jesus. And it was the power of the Spirit that came through Him to do all He did and say all He said. In fulfilling the prophecy of Isaiah He says this, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me because He anointed Me to preach." Jesus was literally the means, the perfect divine means through whom the will of the Father was done by the Holy Spirit.
Listen to John 3:34, "For He whom God has sent, Christ, speaks the words of God for He gives the Spirit without measure." Jesus' teaching ministry was accomplished the immeasurable power of the Holy Spirit. All the miracles that Jesus did were done by the Holy Spirit's power. And again I say, that's why in Matthew 12 Jesus says, "If you deny My miracles, you blaspheme the Holy Spirit."
So, you see the witness of the water and the witness of the blood and the witness of the Holy Spirit all come together in perfect agreement externally, historically, manifestly, visibly, publicly to demonstrate that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God promised seed, scepter, Shiloh, sovereign, Anointed One, eternal King, Lord of the Old Testament. And even though you weren't there and I wasn't there, the testimony still exists here, doesn't it? Because, of course, the Holy Spirit did one other thing, the Holy Spirit inspired the writing down of the record of all the Father's testimony. The Father gave His testimony at His baptism. The Father gave His testimony at His death. And it was the Father who sent the Spirit. And so it was that the Father at all these points gave testimony to the Son then sent the Spirit to inspire the writers to write the record accurately so that anyone who wants to know who Jesus Christ is need only open the Holy Spirit-inspired record to hear the testimony of God, the witness of God.
Now at this particular point, just a footnote because some of you are probably wondering, go back to verse 8 of 1 John chapter 5. If you happen to have a King James or a New King James or one of those, I do want to make a comment about verse 8 because in some Bibles, the KJV and the NKJV and those that are based upon the Textus Receptus, they have more in verse 8 and it's usually included in the margin, as it is here in the NAS. They add to verse 8 that rather long statement there where it says, "Heaven, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one and there are three that bear witness on earth, the Spirit," and so forth. That does not appear in the text of the later editions of the Scripture, those that are based upon the more ancient manuscripts because we don't think it actually belongs there. There's nothing in there that's not true, there's nothing in there that's heretical. It's inserted after the word "bear witness" and before "the Spirit" because the Spirit, it's sort of stuck in there where the comma is.
The truth of the matter is, although what is said is true, in heaven there is the Father, the Son and the Spirit and those three are one, and on earth the three witnesses, of course, are the Spirit, the blood and the water, those are all true, but those...that statement in itself, and particularly that statement about the Trinity while true does not appear in the best manuscripts. I don't want to get you into all of the details, but let me just read you something that Jim Boice wrote that I think is helpful on this. "This idea of three heavenly witnesses, the Father, the Word and the Holy Spirit, was first found in a treatise written by a Spanish Christian named Pricillan(?), it was found some time before his execution on a charge of heresy in A.D. 385. It was written into the margin of some old Latin manuscript and from there passed into the text being added to the Vulgate about A.D. 800. But how did the error present only in Latin manuscripts get into our English texts which are based upon Greek manuscripts? It's an interesting story," writes Jim Boice.
"At the time of the late Renaissance and Reformation when classical texts were first being edited critically, Erasmus of Rotterdam produced a Greek text in which the words in question were missing. At this time most of Europe was using the Latin Vulgate as its Bible version, so Erasmus was quickly criticized for omitting the passage." He was using the Greek original, they were using the Latin, the Latin had this, the Greek didn't. So Erasmus was criticized for omitting it. "He replied that the words were not in any Greek manuscript. Somewhat rashly he added that if a Greek manuscript containing the passage could be produced, he would include it. Unfortunately in time, such a manuscript was found. It was not an old one, it was written about 1520 in Greek. Erasmus knew it wasn't a valid evidence at all, since the manuscript probably included the passage because it had been taken from Latin texts. Nevertheless he had given his word so he included the words in the third edition of his text, published in 1522. However, he also added a note in which he expressed his belief that the new Greek manuscript had been written on purpose just to embarrass him. From Erasmus' text the passage was taken over into the German by Luther, and into the English by Tyndale."
There are only three Greek manuscripts known to contain the passage, one from the fifteenth century, one from the sixteenth century and one from the seventeenth century. And so we would conclude that it wasn't there before that, added later. And that's why it's not included here. Enough said. So the text stands as it is in the NAS and I think every edition of the Bible makes a notation of this important treatment of these words.
All right, God then gave His testimony. Why did He give it? Why did He give it? Turn to verse 11, let's look at least briefly at the purpose for God's testimony, very simple. "And the witness is this..." Here's the reason for the witness. "The witness is this, that God has given us eternal life." There we go again with that eternal life. I'm starting to see that every time we turn around, right? If you've been with us on Sunday morning you know why I'm saying that. That is the issue. And the reason that God gives this witness is because God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. So if you don't have the witness of God that brings you to believe in His Son, you don't have eternal life. Eternal life,z[zoe aionion, is life in God's Kingdom, the next life, eternal life, life after this life.
The purpose of God's witness, God's witness through the water, the blood, the Spirit, the purpose of all of God's witness that essentially is the New Testament, is that you might have eternal life and this life is in His Son. Go down to verse 20, right toward the end of this epistle, "We know the Son of God has come." How do we know that? Because of the testimony of God now recorded on the pages of the inspired Scripture. "And has given us understanding in order that we might know Him who is true and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ, this is the true God and eternal life...and eternal life." It's always about eternal life.
Back to verse 11, it closes, "This life is in His Son." That is the exclusivity of the gospel. There's no salvation in any other. There's no other name under heaven given among men whereby you must be saved. "I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father but by Me." God's witness is, "This is My Son in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him. Believe in Him. He is the promised Messiah. He is the King. He is the Redeemer. He is the Savior. He is the only source of eternal life. Life is in Him." That is the purpose of God's witness. God wants to give us eternal life.
And then what possible response could we give? Finally. We've talked about the witness of God and the purpose of that witness. Let's talk about a response to God's witness. And with this we'll back up to verse 10 and then look at verse 12 just briefly. What should be our response?
Verse 10, "The one who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself. The one who does not believe God has made Him a liar because he has not believed in the witness that God has borne concerning His Son."
I don't know how you could say it more seriously than that, do you? "The one who believes in the Son of God has the witness in himself." What does that mean? "Has the witness in himself" means to hold on to. He has a lifelong grip on Jesus Christ. He has a lifelong hold on eternal life. He will never let go of the truth of eternal life by faith alone in Jesus Christ. He believes and he believes permanently as described back in chapter 2, you have an anointing from the Holy One and you all know, verse 20. Verse 21,"I've not written to you because you do not know the truth but because you do know it. You who believe have received an eternal life and you have a lifelong grip on Jesus Christ, you will never let go. "Those who went out from us went out from us because they never were of us, but you hold on to life through faith in Jesus Christ."
The witness is yours, that's simply saying you bought it, you believed it, you embraced it, you took hold of it. When you believed, you took the witness of God inside and made it your own and you'll never let go of that truth. On the other hand, verse 10 says, "The one who does not believe God," does not believe God about what? About Jesus Christ. Interesting to change from the fruit of believing in Christ to the root of not believing God. The reason people reject Christ is because they don't believe the testimony of God. So if you don't believe God's testimony, you've made Him a...what?...a liar. You've made God a liar. It's similar to chapter 1 verse 10, "If we say we haven't sinned, we make Him a liar." If you deny what God says about you, you're a liar, you're saying He's a liar. If you deny what God says about His Son, you've made Him a liar. It's blasphemous to say Jesus Christ is not who God said He is. It is blasphemous because you are saying God lies. Rejection of Christ, rejection of the exclusivity of the gospel, rejection of faith in Christ is the only way to have eternal life makes God a liar. He said Christ is His Son, He said He is the only source of eternal life. To deny that He is the Son or that He is the only source of eternal life is to make God a liar and that is to be guilty of the greatest blasphemy possible.
How is it that you have made God a liar? Back to verse 10,"B"Because he has not believed in the witness that God has borne concerning His Son." Literally in the Greek, "The witness He has witnessed concerning His Son." Numbers 23:19 says, "God is not a man that He should lie." Titus 1:2 says, "God who cannot lie." So if you refuse to believe the testimony of God concerning Jesus Christ, you have become guilty of blasphemy to add that to all your other violations of God's law, and a blasphemy, frankly, beyond which blasphemy cannot go. The severest of all blasphemies is to say that God is a liar. And if you say God is a liar, then you are unforgivable, you are unpardonable. You see, unbelief or disbelief in the testimony of God given in the Old and New Testaments, disbelief in the witness of God to His Son is not a misfortune to be pitied, it is a sin to be hated. We can have no comfort and no patronizing sympathy to offer those who reject the witness of God and call Him a liar. It is a blasphemy that dooms. It is not just a wrong perspective, it is a damning, damning sin against the God who is by nature true. Let God be true, Scripture says, and every man a liar. If every man on the earth is a liar and all fallen men are to some degree, God is still true. A man is a fool who waves his frail fist in face of the Almighty and calls Him a liar when He gives testimony to His Son as the Savior, the Redeemer, the Promised King, the very Son of God.
John then concludes this section with a restatement of the response options and their results in verse 12. "He who has the Son has the life. He who does not have the Son of God does not have the life."
Is that simple enough? If you don't have Christ, you don't have life. That is not what's happening in our Christian world today. I think maybe I told you some weeks ago, even Moody Press published a book that said you don't need to believe in God by name, you don't even need to know about Jesus or know about the gospel to go to heaven. All you have to do is sort of believe there's a God up there who made everything and you'd like to know Him. And this particular book says if God doesn't take you to heaven, He'd be unjust. So then, God lied when He said he who has the Son has life and he who doesn't have the Son doesn't have life? This is not a minor issue here. We're talking about the integrity of God. We're talking about calling God a liar. If we're going to embrace everybody and call everybody a Christian and talk about wider mercy and include other religions that don't believe in Christ, then basically we're saying God didn't tell us the truth when He said Christ alone saves and only through faith in Him can one have eternal life.
John 1:12 is a good place to end. "As many as received Him, as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name." If you haven't received Him, Jesus Christ, believed in His name, you have not been saved. So, the testimony of God is clear. He gave it all through the Old Testament. He gave it in the New Testament, primarily at, says John, the baptism, at the cross and then through the Holy Spirit all the way along. Even before Jesus was born you had the testimony of the Holy Spirit through the inspired writers of the Old Testament. You had the Father's testimony in sending angelic announcements to Zacharias and Elizabeth. The Father's testimony in sending angelic announcements to Joseph and Mary. And you have the Father's testimony in the Spirit being sent to plant the seed in Mary's womb and then to supervise that fetus until birth came. And then all through the thirty-three years of His ministry He was yielded fully to the operation of the Holy Spirit sent by the Father. All of that the Father's testimony through these three great confirming categories of evidence. And the end result is if you believe, you embrace the truth and you are saved and you are given eternal life. If you don't, you make God a liar because you will not believe. It's as simple as this. If you have the Son, you have eternal life. If you don't, you have no eternal life.
We understand that to be the truth, do we not? God does not lie.
Father, again this Word to us is so important, so foundational, basic and seems to be so confused at our particular time in history when even Christian people seem to be unwittingly, perhaps without malice and intention, guilty of calling You a liar. This is a frightening sin, an inexcusable ignorance and folly for Your Word is crystal clear. May we be faithful to proclaim the only way the exclusivity of the gospel of Jesus Christ and would You use us to do that for Your glory? We pray in Your Son's dear name. Amen.
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I join everyone in mourning over the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school massacre. Words cannot make sense of what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary School on December 14th, 2012. In people's attempt to rationalize the actions of an obviously deranged 20 year old young man, many are already turning to the government for answers.
I try to put myself in the shoes of one of the parents dealing with the loss of their precious child. I almost immediately come to tears just imagining my 7 month old being ripped from this life into eternity so suddenly and cruelly. While my tears are nothing compared to the extreme sorrow, emptiness, and anger those parents and family members of the fallen must be experiencing, one thing is for certain- I would not be looking to my government or it's leaders for answers. Nor would I be blaming them.

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HP Looks to Limit Student Labor in China
Feb 8, 2013 3:28 PM PT
HP, one of the top three PC manufacturers, announced Friday that it had directed suppliers in China to limit their use of student labor. The move comes amid growing concerns in the tech community about working conditions in overseas factories.
The announcement also follows recent efforts by Apple to address problematic labor practices in China.
As with other high-tech companies, HP sources many of its products from China, and the company is taking a proactive stand on the increase of student and temporary workers. In many cases, underage workers -- often with forged documents -- are recruited to work in factories by agencies that offer the promise of internships or temporary assignments.
HP may not have faced the kind of negative media coverage that Apple has with this issue, it may be looking to head off any bad PR if it ends up directly connected to a scandal.
"I'd call it proactive fire prevention," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Scandals around students in China being forced to work in various manufacturing jobs have been around for years, but ongoing contractions in the country's labor force mean that the practice is likely to intensify rather than retreat."
HP did not respond to our request for further details.
Future Proofing
The move by HP suggests that American companies are taking note of conditions in China and are responding. Apple, which has had more than its share of negative press for working conditions at its iPhone suppliers' factories in China, last year joined the Fair Labor Association, one of the world's largest workplace monitoring groups.
In the case of HP, it shares a manufacturer of products with Apple: Foxconn, which has been the source of bad PR because of complaints about the treatment of workers who assemble the iPhone.
Given the pressure on Foxconn to meet the labor treatments set out by the Fair Labor Association, the company will have to change its practices. In this case HP could be taking advantage of that momentum and "future proofing" against allegations.
"By putting its manufacturing partners on notice, HP is also placing the blame for any future incidents firmly on them," King told TechNewsWorld. "That may make the action seem more or less symbolic but it's a necessity given the circumstances. No U.S. company wants to be tarred with the brush of what is essentially slave labor. "
Changing Role at HP
While HP is still one of the world's tech giants, it's been the recent victim of negative press thanks to massive accounting fraud at Autonomy, a British software company it acquired in 2011. As the company attempts a turnaround, avoiding any future negative spotlight is crucial.
"This obviously has Meg Whitman's fingerprints all over it," industry analyst Jeff Kagan told TechNewsWorld. "We have to expect HP to think and act differently going forward. Yes, this is new and different for HP but may be more in line with the company going forward."
The question is whether HP can back up its warnings to its Chinese suppliers.
"It seems to be a pretty ordinary statement," said Steve Blum, president of Tellus Venture Associates. "It's a common enough problem. Shoddy labor practices in a low wage market are exposed, large multinationals that benefit take a hit to brand image and implement, or at least announce, measures to ensure it doesn't happen again."
It isn't likely this move will disrupt HP's -- or Samsung's or Apple's -- supply chain, Blum added.
"They're all more or less adopting common standards," Blum told TechNewsWorld. "Costs will go up, but the problems with illegal and/or unethical labor practices are a symptom, not a cause. Wage expectations in China are rising along with living standards. A lot of the problems we're seeing with labor practices are ill-considered and ultimately futile efforts to fight that trend."
Enforcement by an outside commercial entity like HP may be mostly rhetoric, expained Pund-IT's King. "It has no effective way to force partners or government officials in China to clean up their acts. The company could threaten to reduce orders, but manufacturing options for complex technology products are limited ether by both access to skilled workers, and to areas where wages are low enough for the company to maintain competitive pricing and positive margins."


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Goldenrod Kisses ... so delicious!
Anyone knows what I am talking about? Chewy taffy from York, Maine. I still can't believe that the place where you can stand outside and see the owners do the candy is still existing. As I wrote this, I am eating a few and can't believe that the taste is still the same. The restaurant was opened in 1896 and is still there at the same place in York. In the past, the owner would work the taffy by hand. Now part of it is made by hand and the stretching is done by a machine… but still this brought back memories to my heart. This is part of the few memories that I remember… The other memories I will remember is the time spent "Au Trois" a piece of land that belonged to my uncle… but this is another story for another time. The Goldenrod Restaurant is still there and it still belongs to the family who started it more than 100 years ago. It is the fourth generation who now make the delicious candies but it's still have the same good taste.
I'm glad that I was able to bring my children there. Mind you I will have to bring them back someday so that Jasmine can enjoyed it too! And I sure hope to have start a tradition… Maybe one day my grand-children will discover the great taste of the salt water taffy of the Goldenrod in York, Maine. I pray they do and they enjoy it as much I as have in the past and still do right now.
BTW – for those of you who would like to taste it, you can order some on the internet. So don't be shy and try them…
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Jimmy Kimmel has already braved Oprah, the White House Correspondents Dinner and the Emmy Awards this year — so why not cap it off with a hurricane in New York? Of all the weeks to be broadcasting live from New York City, Jimmy Kimmel Live happened to be in Brooklyn for a week of shows when Hurricane Sandy hit.
The Late Show That Almost Wasn't: The Backstory to Letterman's Hurricane ShowsThe superstorm forced Kimmel to cancel Monday's show, but by Tuesday JKL was up and running from Brooklyn's BAM Harvey Theater. And on Wednesday, Kimmel checked off a major entry on his bucket list: David Letterman, the host's boyhood idol, visited the show for the first time as a guest. It's been quite a week, but amid the chaos, Jimmy Kimmel Live executive producer Jill Leiderman spoke with TV Guide Magazine about how the show weathered the hurricane and braced for Letterman.TV Guide Magazine: This has probably been quite a challenging week for you. Has it been on one hand, the worst week ever to be doing a show there on location, but on the other hand, perhaps the best?
Leiderman: It has been incredibly challenging for our staff and crew and Jimmy, but at the same time absolutely exhilarating. The confluence of elements this week was like nothing we could have ever imagined. We planned for a year to come to Brooklyn, and never in our contingency plans did we ever make any accommodations for a hurricane. We just never, ever had that on our list of to do items that we needed to address. We tried to think of everything that we could ever imagine happening, and that certainly was not one of them. It feels like we're all in this together, creating this unbelievable experience of a week of shows that we knew would be special, but we never could have anticipated just how special it would be to bring these shows to Brooklyn and entertain people who absolutely, in addition to many other things that they need this week, are in desperate need of some comic relief.TV Guide Magazine: How did the show prepare for, and weather, the storm?
Leiderman: We have brought all of our technical equipment here; we are set up on Ashland Place with trailers that have millions of dollars of equipment in them, state-of-the-art equipment, in order to deliver the show. We had to tether the trailers that have all that equipment down with sandbags, and we boarded up the windows in preparation. The doors to the theater had thousands of feet of cable coming into the building, and we needed to make sure that water wouldn't get in underneath the doors to the building, so we had to sandbag up the entire side of the building to make sure it would remain intact. Everyone came in over the weekend to get ready. We were able to get into the BAM Harvey theater, they were loading out a show that already had a run here at the BAM, and we started at 10 p.m. on Saturday, our crew worked round the clock to be able to be ready for a 7 p.m. taping on Monday night. But it became very clear by 2 p.m. on Monday that everyone needed to evacuate the building and we needed to take necessary steps to keep everything as safe as possible. But brace ourselves for what possibly could be coming. And so our crew was phenomenal, they kicked into high gear, and they got the whole tech load in of the equipment that we needed: the set pieces, bandstand, everything was done within 36 hours. We were under pressure to get everything done in time anyway and then the added element of wanting to be able to close the door here at BAM and be able to go away in the hopes that we'd be able to come back the next day and hopefully be able to put on the show was a harrowing experience. It was scary, but thank goodness everyone is healthy and safe and we feel very blessed that everyone was able to come back the next morning. Everything that we had left the day before, the trailers, were all intact. Thank goodness everything was OK and we were able to put on a show.TV Guide Magazine: What was it like during the height of the storm?
Leiderman: There was definitely a bunker mentality. A lot of people are buddying up and sleeping in rooms with other folks, because a lot of the people who are actually local here to New York weren't able to go home. Some of them have been sleeping and showering here at the BAM. Everyone is bonding together through the storm, and then on top of that you have local Brooklynites who are ecstatic to have a show specifically geared toward them. The energy that's been coursing through these shows on a nightly basis is electric. There's 665 people in the audience who, amid whatever their circumstances, have found a way to get to our theater, by foot, by car, by bus, whatever way they can get here, in order to be entertained for an hour. We've been planning this for a year and it is such a heartfelt endeavor to see it all come to fruition amid the chaos.TV Guide Magazine: Talk about the decision not to do a show on Monday.
Leiderman: It was really important to Jimmy to make sure that the safety of our staff, crew and audience was foremost. And it was quite clear that we just couldn't put people in jeopardy. We have been sold out for these shows for such a long time and we actually had to turn a lot of people away, so our audience coordinator did a phenomenal job as soon as we got the all clear.TV Guide Magazine: What did we miss on Monday?
Leiderman: Monday was supposed to be Chris Rock, Kelly Ripa and Alicia Keys, so Alicia Keys has moved from Monday to Friday.TV Guide Magazine: Did you have any trouble in making sure your guests could still make it?
Leiderman: Even though bridges and tunnels were closed, we were very lucky that the bridges opened in time and Howard Stern and Tracy Morgan were generous enough to get in cars and come to the show, while Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings were luckily already in Brooklyn, ready to go. We were able to cobble together a show that night, and it was really exciting. There's such a spirit of camaraderie. Everybody is chipping in to do whatever is necessary to get the show on the air with whatever means they have.TV Guide Magazine: How many people made the trip? This was already an adventure for the show's staff and crew. I imagine the storm just made it more so.
Leiderman: We brought 190 people. Jimmy was here until the age of 9 and has tremendously fond memories of the city, but to then come back, and on top of it have all Jimmy's friends and family here, an entire community of people who are rallying together amid the chaos of the storm, there has been an additional layer of heartfelt camaraderie that has made our show even more special.TV Guide Magazine: Luckily, you had already pre-taped several segments.
Leiderman: Yes, we came earlier this summer and knocked out a few pieces in the field. Jimmy and our writers and production folk came out and shot a few bits here at Jimmy's elementary school, as well as giving [sidekick] Guillermo an entire tour of Brooklyn, all the hotspots including the town house he grew up in, as well as reuniting with one of his childhood bullies.TV Guide Magazine: What was it like to have Jimmy's idol, David Letterman, walk on your stage?
Leiderman: Jimmy's obsession with Dave, from the time he was a kid watching on a black and white TV underneath the sheets, has been indelibly marked in him forever. The opportunity to invite Dave and then potentially have him say "yes" was something that Jimmy and I were dreaming about for a very long time. We knew that if we were ever able to have the opportunity to have Dave do the show we would need to be on the Eastern seaboard. Coming to Brooklyn meant we at least had a shot at having the King of Late Night on our show. We delicately asked him if he would participate, and he was incredible to say yes. The experience is one that Jimmy and I and our staff and crew were incredibly moved by. He so rarely makes appearances and we were honored to have his participation, particularly amid the circumstances. Initially he was supposed to take the subway to us, which would have been a much easier trip. But unfortunately he needed to be stuck in a car. So he was extraordinarily gracious and a gentleman to honor his commitment to come be with us. It was historic for us. Truly.TV Guide Magazine: You could tell on camera how much Dave being there meant to Jimmy.
Leiderman: It was validation of the work we're doing here and that he trusts us enough to come. It was truly the focus of the whole week. We'd all been anticipating it, wanting to make sure that it went perfectly. Jimmy has come on Dave's show eight times, and each time Dave has been impressed by the amount of work that Jimmy puts into each appearance. He wanted to reciprocate in kind by being a good guest on our show. That made the experience even more special, knowing that Dave was invested in being a good guest for Jimmy. Which is surreal, knowing that Jimmy and my sensibility was completely shaped by Dave's comedy.TV Guide Magazine: What was he like off camera? Did he come by himself, talk to anyone?
Leiderman: I worked with him for nine years and I learned everything I know about late night television from working with him and near him. So I know his security guard and his assistant and his publicist and they were all vested in making sure that this experience was great. For me it was, my life coming full circle, and for Jimmy it was the opportunity to have his idol sitting next to him in his chair at his desk. Dave was so gracious to give him the opportunity to ask him any question that he wanted to ask him. Nothing was off limits. Jimmy got the opportunity to ask him the things that he's been so curious about. It was so heartwarming for me. I sat in the booth as I watched the two of them sitting next to each other, and I'm not going to lie to you, I cried at the end of the segment. I know how much it means to Jimmy, I know how much it means to our staff, I know how much it means to our crew and me personally.TV Guide Magazine: Obviously the upcoming move to 11:35/10:35c is the next big thing for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Have you had a chance to think about it yet?
Leiderman: Let's all get home safely to Los Angeles from Brooklyn first. One step at a time.


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At the BEST WESTERN Bolholt Country Park Hotel, the proposition of 50 acres of beautiful parkland between two lakes and a mere ten minutes' drive from the northwest motorway network is just too good to pass up! Manchester is close (but not too close for comfort) while our enviable location just a mile away from Bury makes the hotel an ideal base for exploring the Rossendale valley in between meetings. Whether you join us for a working break or a special treat, you can relax and unwind in the superb on-site leisure facilities. With two heated indoor pools, 2 saunas, a steam room and 2 hot tubs, well-equipped gym, aerobics area and beauty salon to keep you looking and feeling fantastic during your time with us.
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Having a properly designed location to operate in the kitchen is essential in today times. To that end, new kitchen cabinets are readily available with developed in dividers, moving trays and also organizers and also numerous of these technologies are readily available as add-ons to older closets.
Until just recently, accessing these drawers loaded with gadgets as well as gadgets was quite utilitarian. While cabinet suppliers started to turn out lots of new designs to match nearly any kind of design you can possibly imagine, equipment manufacturers were delaying a little behind the times, generating lots of lackluster, one-size-fits-all kitchen cabinet handles.
That's not the situation any longer. Today, kitchen cabinet handles have become an extension of a homeowner's individual preferences as well as need for expression. Not just are new designs arriving daily in home improvement establishments throughout the globe, but there has actually been an explosion of selections on the internet, where screen as well as equipping problems are considerably simplified.
Among the most effective things about all these new choices is that they not only let you make your cooking area distinct to you, yet it's a basic weekend break task to do, one that is an instantaneous remodel of sorts.
Not as long earlier, you had a very basic selection to make: chrome, brushed metal, shiny steel or satin steel. Today, you can obtain crazy with kitchen cabinet handles, from ones with suede, natural leather or ornate tones to ones that record the essence of your individual passions or locale - from horseshoes and also veggies to sea equines as well as lighthouses.
One of the biggest patterns is to use handles that make use of recovered and also reused materials or have an earthier feeling to them. These can be made out of embossed natural leather, washable suede, or perhaps multimedias, a blend of recycled glass, pewter and rich appearances.
Ergonomics are an important consideration these days. Kitchen cabinet handles have the tendency to be larger compared to they were only a few years earlier. Part of this trend is because of the needs of consumers, which intend to have takes care of that are a lot more symmetrical to the cabinets. Gone are the days (a minimum of in the meantime) of Euro-style cupboards with hidden hand grabs - takes care of and also knobs are in and the bigger the better, particularly in kitchen areas with lots of kitchen cabinetry or larger than ordinary cabinets and also doors.
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The 2012 "Christmas in the Valley" concert tour will kick off its 9th season on Dec. 1. This one-of-a-kind Christmas show features traditional, contemporary, and original Christmas music performed with acoustic instruments and vocals.
The music got its start back in 2003 with Blackstone Valley Bluegrass' Bob Dick's solo CD "Tidings of Comfort and Joy" which in turn, got New Hampshire songwriter Rick Lang interested in writing original Christmas songs and the subsequent recording of his "The Season of My Heart" CD. The first Christmas in the Valley concert was held in Northbridge MA, and then Stratham, NH. The concerts series eventually expanded to the hometowns of the various performers of the show as well as a couple of new venues.
Today, Blackstone Valley Bluegrass along with Rick Lang, Karen Lincoln Wilber, Roger Williams, Amy Gallatin, and Kristine Dick have put together a broad spectrum of Christmas music set in an acoustic style that is truly a unique experience. Due to strong attendance and growing interest, "Christmas in the Valley" is fast becoming an annual tradition all across New England; its popularity growing each year. The 2012 tour will include a total of six concerts in three states (NH, MA, and CT).
"Christmas in the Valley" showcases holiday music from:
A New England favorite, Blackstone Valley Bluegrass Band has garnered a reputation for high-energy shows laced with powerful three and four part harmonies and fast but tasteful picking, coupled with winning on-stage camaraderie. Their show will feature songs from Bob Dick's solo bluegrass Christmas project Tidings Of Comfort And Joy performed by the Bluegrass "fab four" … Bob Dick, Dave Dick, Ken Taylor and Dan Nowlan. Bob's wife Kristine Dick adds some heartfelt versions of her favorite Christmas songs to the concert each year.
Acclaimed vocalist Amy Gallatin will be lending her trademark western flavor to this annual Christmas show, blending upbeat, fun and familiar songs with more contemplative quiet music along with her partner, renowned resophonic guitarist Roger Williams. Amy is a past member of the ensemble for WSFB's annual Joy for the Children with local television personality Scot Haney, filmed at the Hartford CT. Stage and televised during the holidays.
And the Christmas CD The Season of My Heart by Rick Lang & Friends …. featuring Karen Lincoln Wilber. Karen is the former lead vocalist for the popular New England bluegrass group "Waystation". Known as one of the bluegrass music's most renowned songwriters, Rick's Gospel recording "Look To the Light", released in 2010 was nominated for a GMA Dove award and IBMA award for Gospel recorded event of the year.
To keep the shows fresh, each performing act introduces new material each season …. much to the delight of the audience. There are always a few new wrinkles and surprises sure to keep you smiling on the outside … and on the inside. This upbeat, lively concert will provide a welcome relief from the holiday rush, providing simple moments to treasure and a chance to slow down and savor the season. Take a moment to relax and enjoy a truly unique and uplifting holiday event.
Saturday, Dec. 1
Christmas In The Blackstone Valley
Rockdale Congregational Church
42 Fowler Road (corner of Fowler Road and Ash St.)
Northbridge, MA 01534
Time: 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
Tickets: $15 Adults … $10 Seniors…. $5 Children (12 and under)
Sunday Dec. 2
Christmas in Haverhill
Riverside Memorial Church, UCC
278 Groveland St.
Haverhill, MA
Time: 3 p.m. Matinee
Tickets: $15 Adults … $10 Seniors…. $5 Children under 12
Ticket Link: www.ticketriver.com/event/4985-christmas-at-riverside-bluegrass
Church: 978-372-9871
Friday Dec. 7
Christmas On Minnechaug Mountain
Buckingham Congregational Church
16 Cricket Lane
(Hebron Ave. and Route 83 Manchester Rd.)
Glastonbury CT 06033
Time: 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:45 p.m.)
Tickets: $15 Adults … $10 Seniors…. $5 Children under 12
Reservations suggested: Buckingham Congregational Church 860-633-7992 firstname.lastname@example.com
Saturday, Dec. 8
Christmas at Pilgrim Church
Pilgrim Church
197 Middle Road (Route 111A)
Brentwood, NH 03833
Time: 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:45)
Tickets (at the door only): Adults $15 … Children under 12 and Seniors $10
Rick Lang — firstname.lastname@example.com
Pilgrim Church 603-778-3189
Sunday, Dec. 9
Christmas at the Country Corner Coffeehouse
Second Baptist Church
589 Amherst Rd (Rt. 202)
Time: 3 p.m. Matinee
Cost: $15
Contact: 413-467-9394
Saturday, Dec. 15
Christmas in Boxboro
United Church of Christ
723 Mass Ave.
Boxboro MA
Tel. 978-897-7380 Church 978-263-7387
Time: 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:45)
Tickets: $15 Adults … $10 Seniors…. $5 Children (12 and under)


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Stockton, CA
Sara (Sally) Schippers
June 13, 1930 - October 11, 2013
Sally was born in Jefferson, Iowa to Ivan and Harriett Underwood. She was preceded in death by her parents, twin sister, Susan
Vincent and sister, Shirley. Sally was the wife of John Schippers for over 62 years.
Sally was the mother of Gerald Schippers (Janet) of Volcano and Lisa Lambertson (Dan) of Stockton; Grandmother
to Holly Manetti (Mike), Alan Lambertson, Jeff Lambertson and Steven Schippers. She also had two great grandchildren. Sally was a graduate of Iowa State Teacher's College and University of the Pacific. She taught in the Stockton Unified School District for many years. She also worked in the Finance Department at the University of the Pacific.
Mom enjoyed gardening, trying new recipes and quilting. Mom and Dad enjoyed traveling the world together. Her family was the light of her life. She will be missed not only by her immediate family, but also numerous nieces, nephews and friends she made during her lifetime.
Per the family's wishes, no
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In lieu of flowers, the family suggests you make a donation to a charity of your choice.
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American Fork Idol (the show I am currently in) closes on June 6 and James Blonde opens on June 11. It's going to be a fun Summer!
Thursday, May 28, 2009
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American Fork Idol (the show I am currently in) closes on June 6 and James Blonde opens on June 11. It's going to be a fun Summer!
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Count Your Blessings...
These pills are called Sulfasalazine. These are the pills I take for Crohn's Disease. I have a massive bottle of them (it takes up a quarter of my purse). I take 6 pills a day. I sometimes forget how much these pills save me. I take them for granted and the wonderful life they have given me.
Well, on Saturday I asked Jesse to get them refilled for me, as I had 3 doses left. He called me and told me that my prescription had expired. Well, as it was the Holiday weekend, that meant that I couldn't get a new one until Tuesday (today). So I have taken the pills sparingly and tried to make them last for the last 3 days. As of today I am not feeling so hot (but not horrible). I called my doctor and they are going to get them filled for me right now.
Which brings me to another thing I am grateful for...my Doctor. Dr. Nelson has saved my life many a time, and he is a great friend in addition to all of the things he's done for me. I am so grateful that I found him and that he has been there for me thru so many rough times. He is the best.I am just so glad that I live at a time where solutions are right at our fingertips. Not only do I have this medication, and a doctor who figured out that was the right medication for me, but I have so many people around me who take care of me. So, in conclusion, I am grateful.
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Peach's Blessing Day
This is a picture of the chub-ster, Peach, in her big sister Abby's arms (Abby is my step-niece and couldn't be happier to be a big sister!):
This is a picture Jesse took while we were looking at another camera. It's a little weird, but why not include it in the pictures?
And finally, a picture of me and my Grams. She is one of the greatest and strongest people who have ever lived. She's been one of my best friends my entire life, and we had a good time chatting and giggling together that day. Meg and I happen to be her favorite grandchildren so that makes me like her even more (and to all of my cousins reading this, I hope you know I'm being sarcastic :)
The best story of the day was when we started singing the opening hymn and my Grandma leaned over to Meg and said VERY LOUDLY so everyone could here "Well, that's quite the organ!" Meg and I started giggling and then she said, "Then again, Harold and I always sit in the back, so maybe our organ is that loud too." And we continued to laugh. She really is so dang cool!
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Brussels, 19 May 2011
Commission asks ten Member States to implement the Directive aimed at improving safety of European railways
The European Commission has sent a reasoned opinion to ten Member States formally requesting to fully implement the last amendment to the Railway Safety Directive. Austria, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom, have so far failed to bring their national legislation into line with this Directive although obliged to do so by 24 December 2010. The Commission has set a two-month deadline for these Member States to remedy the situation. Should the Member States fail to do so, the Commission may refer the cases to the Court of Justice.
The EU rules
The aim of the Directive 2008/110/EC is to improve the level of safety of the European rail transport system. It provides a legal basis for a common framework for the maintenance of rolling stock: before a rail vehicle is allowed to be put into service, the "entity" responsible for its maintenance (known as the "entity in charge of maintenance" or ECM) must be identified. For freight wagons, the ECM must be certified according to a system developed by the European Railway Agency and adopted by the Commission on 10 May 2011. Member States had until 24 December 2010 to transpose the Directive into their national legislation and to notify domestic implementation measures to the Commission.
An essential provision of the Directive is that the certificate granted to an ECM is valid throughout the European Union. This provision, which recognises equivalence between the ECMs, is therefore intended to raise the level of railway safety throughout the EU and ensure interoperability.
The reason for today's action
Directive 2008/110/EC has not yet been transposed, or has been transposed only partially, by ten Member States: Austria, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Sweden and United Kingdom.
The practical effect of non-implementation
Failure to implement the directive would prevent achieving the expected level of safety. This will affect not only those countries that have not implemented Directive 2008/110/EC but the whole European single railway area as well.
The next step
If the Member States do not adapt their legislation within the two-month deadline, the Commission may refer the matter to the Court of Justice of the European Union.
For more information on EU infringement procedures, see MEMO/11/312
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Nov. 30, 2004
Alisa Mendelsohn, Carly Guss, and Sada Jacobson each went 3-0 against their opponents as the women's fencing team defeated NYU 17-10 in Payne Whitney Gym. Yale is now 1-0 in head-to-head competition.
Jacobson dropped only one point in her weapon, the sabre, en route to her 3-0 finish. The Bulldogs won 7-2 in that category, with Carly Guss winning all three and Erin Frey taking one bout.
In foil, Mendelsohn paced the Elis, who defeated NYU 5-4. Diana Schawlowski picked up two wins out of her three bouts.
Erica Korb and Isadora Botwinick each won twice in the epee, and Anne Nyugen won once to give the Elis the 5-4 win in that weapon as well.
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Use of fundamental principles to solve quantitative problems. Motion, forces, conservation principles, fields, structure of matter. Applications to electromagnetic phenomena.
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'El Chapo' sentenced to life in prison
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Memorial Day Weekend is the perfect occasion to pack a picnic and head outdoors to enjoy the beautiful weather. First you have to decide what dishes to bring. Typical picnic foods can include hamburgers, hot dogs, potato salad, and cookies, which are not the healthiest choices (though they may be delicious). If you're looking for better options, here are 10 healthy finger-food ideas for your next picnic outing!
1. Edamame
2. Ants on a Log (celery with peanut butter and raisins)
3. Grilled Vegetables (zucchini, squash, mushrooms, etc.)
4. Pita Chips with Hummus
5. Homemade Trail Mix (dried fruits and nuts)
6. Turkey Sandwiches with low-fat ingredients (whole-grain bread, lettuce, tomato, sprouts, and low-fat cheese)
7. Shrimp and Lemon Skewers
8. Yogurt
9. Fruit Salad
10. Angel Food Cake (low in calories) with fresh fruit and fat-free whipped cream
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The party officially starts tomorrow, Monday, March 26, 2012!
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For the eighth consecutive year, Accenture's Top 10 Challenges for Investment Banks series takes a closer look at the top issues facing the industry. Bob Gach shares highlights from our research and his personal insights on the findings.
If you had to name one theme from this year's series, what would it be?
Digital technology. It can change everything—how investment banks operate internally, how they develop products, how they serve customers, how they have to attract and retain talent, and the kinds of competitors they face in the market. Digital strategy is now synonymous with business strategy.
Are regulatory compliance, capital adequacy and cost reduction still top priorities?
These issues remain on the agenda, but many investment banks are choosing to tackle them in new ways. Instead of taking a project-based approach to dealing with these challenges, organizations are systematically embedding them as disciplines in their business, operations and technology functions. It's a subtle but powerful shift that could have a significant impact.
Will any of this year's challenges be surprising to investment banks?
One of our challenges focuses on blockchain technology and distributed ledgers. It's a topic that was barely on the radar last year, but we've seen it rapidly gain traction across the industry. Blockchains have the potential to help investment banks reduce total cost of ownership, manage system-of-record sharing, clear and settle transactions faster and automate certain electronic transactions. So it's an exciting technology that C-suite executives should definitely be examining.
We've heard a lot about tech, but what about talent?
The two are actually quite closely related. Today, between 60 and 65 percent of employees are older than 40, so investment banks need to start thinking now about how to address this looming wave of retirement. Complicating this is the fact that new graduates are less interested in investment banking than they were a decade ago. Finding ways to retain the knowledge of aging workers, organize efficient workforces and attract millennial talent will be key challenges.


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Yes, there is really a hotel in Taiwan called the Talmud Business Hotel, check out the description:
Talmud Business Hotel Taichung is a Business hotel that is named after a holy book contains a collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and traditions. The word Talmud has the following meanings: "Instruction, Learning, Teach and Study". Inspired by the Talmud theory, the owner uses red interior to add a splash of fashion and professionalism. In each room, there's also a copy of "Talmud-Business Success Bible" for anyone who would like to experience the Talmud way of becoming successful.