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This striking home in the Latin Quarter is spread over three floors. The front door's on the first floor, and leads into the open-plan living area, where the smart monochrome kitchen is straight ahead. To the right is a sitting area, dazzlingly white but cosily furnished, with a plush corner sofa, well-stocked bookshelves and a piano. To the left there's a glass-roofed dining area and (just beyond its contemporary table and orange chairs) a secluded terrace.
The sitting room's sleek staircase takes you up to the next floor – the kids' quarters – where you'll find two pastel-painted bedrooms, a toilet room and a compact bathroom. Above that is the master bedroom, which has pure white walls, honey-toned wood furnishings and a slate-tiled ensuite. You'll also find a second terrace here, a private spot with a little lawn is a charming place to sit outdoors, right in the city's heart.
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There are stairs up to the entrance of this home, and no elevator.
The bedrooms are located on the upper floors with no internal elevator, so this home may be unsuitable for those who have difficulties with stairs. A portion of the stairs has no railing.
There's air-conditioning in the sitting room and in the kitchen. Please let us know if you would like fans for your stay.
There is no hanging space in the third bedroom, so we will set up a collapsible hanging rail for your stay.
Cancellation. Provided you book more than 7 days before the start of your stay, you can cancel your booking within 24 hours and we'll provide a full refund. Our flexible rate offers more flexibility for those who need it. Read our cancellation policy here. Please note bookings for Hamptons and French Riviera have a separate cancellation policy.
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Lead guest. The lead guest must be at least 25 years of age.
I.D. check and card authorisation. When you arrive we'll check the lead guest's I.D. and secure a £1,000 hold on a credit or debit card which will be released once we confirm no damage was caused during your stay.
Smoking. Guests are not permitted to smoke inside any onefinestay home.
Cleaning. We carefully clean and prepare each home before you arrive and after you depart, and for stays longer than seven days we provide a complimentary weekly Housekeeping service. More frequent Housekeeping visits can be arranged on request, subject to availability and a charge.
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The Ministry's specific objectives include establishment of alternative vocational pathways, and development of a Master Plan for TVET centers. The Centre will follow the TVET Strategic Directions from the Ministry and strengthen franchise relationships.
It is our aim to meet the Ministry's goal of 80% or better success rate through the TVET programs, and to ensure the program aligns with the National Curriculum Framework.
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This basic building trade certificate will utilize the trainees for the provision of windows, doors and furniture for all buildings, and furniture and fittings for the classrooms and the special purpose buildings.
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These are trades for which training can be developed as the campus expands, with the availability of special purpose buildings and work areas.
Hospitality Industry
We are looking for partnerships with supporting resort hotels in Fiji and internationally, to provide learning environments in conjunction with formal training at the School.
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At the 2013 Laureate Leadership Summit, Universidad del Valle de México (UVM) graduate, Patsy Pamela Ordóñez Arellano was announced as the 2013 Here for Good winner for her tireless effort to spread awareness about the human papilloma virus (HPV) and cervical cancer as well as provide screening and treatment to women in Mexico City, Mexico. Patsy attended the event in Orlando, Florida and received recognition for her work as founder of the National Foundation for Cervical Cancer.
In 2010, at the age of 22, Patsy created her foundation, recognizing the vast need to provide information to women about the prevention and treatment of HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer. The foundation operates a clinic in Mexico City and volunteer doctors and nurses treat women for both HPV and cervical cancer. In its first year, the National Foundation for Cervical Cancer served 700 women. In 2012, the clinic was able to treat almost 3,800 women.
Patsy delivered an emotional speech to the crowd of over 300 assembled at the 2013 Laureate Leadership Summit and said that her dream is to not only operate a clinic, but to provide a hospital that would help more women in Mexico fight the disease. As founder, Patsy advocates for information about prevention of HPV and works with local government and community leaders to elevate and encourage conversation. The disease is widespread in Mexico and unfortunately, many women do not have the financial means or the access to speak to a doctor and get treated for the virus until it is too late.
To learn more about Patsy and the National Foundation for Cervical Cancer, please visit their website www.funacc.org.mx
You can also see a brief video about Patsy http://youtu.be/IUYAtk__ilU
The annual Here for Good Award was created in 2012 by Laureate Education, Inc.'s founder, Chairman and CEO, Douglas L. Becker, and seeks to recognize and promote the work of Laureate social entrepreneurs who apply and use the skills learned at Laureate institutions to solve social problems. Patsy is just one of the many outstanding Laureate social entrepreneurs who are working to positively change the lives of people all over the world.
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"Linux on PowerPC?" you ask? And at 450 MHz? Debian is one of the few distributions that officially supports the PowerPC architecture. And SkinnyDebbie on i386 at 500Mhz works just fine. So it seemed natural to try.
It worked. In fact, I am really happy not just that it works but also with how well it works. So far I have found only four gotchas--two having to do with SkinnyDebbie and two having to do with Larger Issues. The SkinnyDebbie ones are easy to fix. The Larger Issues are not.
First the SkinnyDebbie stuff:
IceWM's network traffic monitor doesn't work. This is caused by the fact that (at least on my Cube), eth0 gets assigned to FireWire networking and eth1 to Ethernet. The fix is easy: open
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The volume control is batty. The Cube uses a USB sound card and SkinnyDebbie is currently using ALSA. It turns out that Debian Etch doesn't play perfectly with this combination--on either PowerPC or i386 platforms. I'll say more about this in a later post, but the fix is again simple: use
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Flash is very limited. Adobe doesn't make a version of Flash for Linux on the PowerPC. Why would they? There are a couple open source alternatives--Gnash and Swfdec--but neither will do Flash video. So, no YouTube on PowerPC Linux for you. It's just not possible in any PowerPC Linux at the moment. The best workaround is to download videos with any of the million YouTube download services and then watch them in VLC.
Java is at best a PITA. Sun doesn't make a version of the Java Runtime Environment for Linux on the PowerPC. If you want/need Java, the best workaround seems to be GCJ and its bundled GIJ interpreter. I have had success in compiling command-line apps from scratch in GCJ, but I have not had success with GUI apps using GIJ. This definitely needs more research to see just how viable a solution it is.
I am hoping Lenny (the next Debian release, due later this month) works as well as Etch on this hardware. Should it be enough to make you abandon Mac OS? Given that the next OS X release may not support PowerPC, you might think so. But this isn't really a good enough reason since maintenance support for older OS X releases will likely continue for quite a while. The decision to switch in this case needs to be made based on what you want from the OS and operating environment. OS X is certainly more polished and easier to use than SkinnyDebbie. But it costs more and doesn't let you run at least one thing that makes Linux really attractive.


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We are holding a Feva Chat Night at Wakatere Wed 2nd May 2018.
This is for any current or future Wakatere RS Feva sailors to help us plan for next season, get some feedback and survey winter sailing interest.
We will talk about the progression from learn to sail, learn to race and racing and what's on offer for each. Hope you can make it.
Wednesday 2nd May
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FAQs: Is it legal to home educate in England?
Is it legal to home school in England?
One of, if not the most unusual thing about our family is that our children don't go to school. Instead we home educate, with our educational philosophy being inspired by our calling to be gentle parents and based on the autonomous education style. I'll cover autonomous education more in another post, and for now I will answer some questions that we get asked a lot, probably most days. Home education is not something that most people are aware of and if they are, it is generally shrouded in myth and mystery, perhaps influenced by an experience of meeting one or two home-schooled children. It is my aim to help people understand what home education is and is not and why we as a family find it so beneficial, so I am going to blog the answers to a few FAQs that we hear on a regular basis.
"Home schooling- isn't that illegal? Don't kids have to go to school?"
Home schooling, or home education (same thing, different names) is perfectly legal in the UK. School is an opt-in service, where parents go through an application system to get their child a school place. If this process is not completed, the child is home educated. Children are not required to attend school unless they are enrolled in a school and have not de-registered, in which case they have a school policy of attendance to abide by unless there are mitigating circumstances such as illness. Children have a legal (and moral) right to a 'full time and age appropriate' education, but the definition of this is not laid out with details of time structures or what is age appropriate. So for example, we may be up at the crack of dawn reading books, or (like last night) up late making Christmas decorations and baking; we are not required to fit 'education' into any particular time frame. Age appropriateness is completely contextual- some children, like my friend's daughter, are very ready to do basic equations at age 5. Our five year old is very interested in DSLR photography and video making, rhyme schemes and dress-making. A ten year old we know still enjoys playing with dolls, learning how to thoroughly and properly care for a baby as she wants to be a nursery assistant when she is older. (I will go through the 'but that's not school?!' issue in another post). One of the benefits of home education is that we can lawfully and thoroughly meet the needs of each child according to their individual development. If a child who is in school wishes to be home educated, the delivery of a deregistration letter to the school fulfils the legal obligation to begin home educating (unless the child is in a special school because of additional needs). There is no legal obligation to attend further meetings with the school, or to have immediate visits from the council. In some extreme circumstances, where the parents are not meeting the needs of the child, a school attendance order may be issued to force the child to attend school. This is exceptionally rare, as the vast majority of home educating parents are committed, attentive and determined to help their children achieve their full potential. To summarise, home education in the UK is perfectly legal in most circumstances.
If you have questions or queries about the legality of home schooling in your circumstances, take a look at the Educational Freedom website and/or search for your local home schooling Facebook groups; generally there is a supportive online community and more experienced home-edders are happy to help you navigate the often confusing process of talking with the Local Authority or your child's school.
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"If a person has a white blotch, discoloration, or spot on the skin of his body, and it is suspected of being a mark of the leprous curse on his skin, he shall be brought to Aaron or to one of his descendents, who are the priests." (13:2)
This very same procedure is prescribed once again in Chapter 9 and later, in regard to such an infection in one's clothing, in Chapter 49. Interestingly this same procedure is not prescribed when a spiritual infection is found in one's home:
"When you come to the land of Canaan, which I am giving to you as an inheritance, I will place the mark of the leprous curse in houses in the land you inherit. The owner of the house shall come and tell the priest. It looks to me as if there is something like a leprous curse in the house. The priest shall give orders that the house be emptied out before any priest comes to see the mark so that everything in the house will not become unclean. Only then shall a priest come to see the house." (Chapter 14)
Why is it in the case of the house the owner must come and apprise the priest of the situation and then the priest takes action, while in the case of the infection of either the skin or clothing he merely shows the infection to the priest? The simple answer is that one cannot physically bring the house to the priest and therefore a procedure different from that employed with infected skin or clothing must be used. I think, however, there is a far deeper meaning to this change of procedure than the mere physical difficulties involved.
Our Rabbis are quick to point out that these infections are the manifestation of spiritual imperfections, in particular the involvement of the individual in lashon hara, in speaking ill of others. Maimonidies remarks that these illnesses were found only among the Jews and represent a novel manner in which G‑d attempts to assist the Jew toward the acquisition of the status of Holiness. With this as the basis for these infections we can postulate another reason why of necessity the rules applying to the infected home must be different than those applying to infected skin or clothing.
Our home is our private fortress. Within its walls much of our life is lived out away from the prying eyes of others. Indeed our deepest felt emotions are displayed only within the confines of the home and our immediate family. The well known line, "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence," reminds us that what we see is the exterior of the home and not its interior. The exterior always appears nicer than our own but we know little of the true nature of life lived within the portals of our neighbor's home. How often are we shocked to find that a family we thought was well functioning is found to be terribly dysfunctional, resulting in all sorts of horrible situations. Nowadays this is very much the case when we find out many years later of the physical and sexual abuse children endured at the hands of their own parents in what always seemed to be a perfectly normal family. The home can breed secrets.
Not so with the infection of the skin and clothing. Readily seen by all, the need to aggressively treat these diseases of the soul is obvious.
Therefore the Torah tells us that in the case of an infected home, the residents of that home must go to the priest and tell him of the problem. The first step toward dealing with the internal problems of the family is for the family itself to seek the help of a professional. It is at that juncture that the priest orders the house be cleared out or, in modern terms, that the professionals involved begin to work with the family members to understand the intricacies of the family's life and the resultant problems that have arisen. Only then can a priest visit the home and begin to offer means by which the issues encountered can be addressed.
There is a statement attributed to the Posek of the last century, HaRav Moshe Feinstein, zt"l, which is very telling. R' Moshe said "people are most willing to come to me to ask me if a chicken is kosher, but it is the rare person indeed who comes to me to ask for some guidance on the raising of his/her child." Known not only for his scholarship, R' Moshe was known as well for his compassion and humanity. An ideal source for guidance in family matters; he was most often relegated to the role of ritual advisor.
Too often the stigma of having a problem, of needing professional assistance, is enough to keep those in the greatest need from seeking such support. Rather, they allow the home's infection to grow and develop until it explodes into tragedy. This is particularly apparent among those who consider themselves members of the Orthodox community. Afraid of even admitting that someone else has violated them, for fear that this will bring shame upon them in the community at large, they allow the "leprosy" to continue to grow until it moves beyond the confines of their own private home and life infecting others as well.
I have often remarked concerning the misplaced value system that seems all too prevalent within Orthodox circles today. There is no doubt in my mind that a declared Orthodox Jew found eating in McDonald's would feel the wrath of the community. People would rebuff him at every turn. Yet, when one commits any act against another human being, the reaction, if there is one, is quite mild. We have all heard the stories of child molesters within the Jewish school system who are simply dismissed from their posts only to take up another teaching position elsewhere. Why? Because the original school says nothing of his behavior when asked about the teacher. And so, this individual, this seriously sick individual, is given carte blanche to continue on in his perverted activates reeking havoc with the lives of additional innocent children.
Scrupulous about weeding out those in the community who violate the laws between man and G‑d, for example eating in McDonald's, the community somehow is willing to look away when the violation occurs in the area of the laws between human and human. We seem to live in a topsy turvy world. I am sure G‑d can take care of Himself. It is our fellows, our young, who need our protection and the support of the community at large. Praising those who come forward to expose such problems suffered at the hands of others would be a magnificent first step by the community to change this very dangerous situation.
While it is true that these Biblical manifestations of our moral weaknesses no longer exist, their message regarding how we are to live our lives is a lasting one - one from which we should all seek guidance when we are confronted with problems and difficulties.


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In the second deal of its kind this week, AT&T and Excite today announced a three-year agreement to jointly produce a new online service and co-develop a range of multimedia communications services.
The AT&T/Excite partnership follows an almost identical agreement made on Monday under which AT&T and Lycos said they would jointly develop "Lycos Online Powered By AT&T WorldNet Service."
The "Excite Online Powered by AT&T WorldNet Service" is slated for a national launch in June featuring "competitive" pricing, according to the companies. The service will offer AT&T customer-service features along with customized functions from Excite's search and navigation offerings.
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Portugal Segunda, Benfica B – Naval 1 3/10
Time for Benfica to win finaly. They have potentia, they had resaults but come into crisis. They have great strikers (Cavaleiro 21/9, Rosa 23/10) and if they improve their defensive game resaults will come..No new missing sin their team, just long term missings Correa (att 16/2), Sidnei (df 13/0), Cancelo (df 18/2) and Ascues (df 11/0). Missing in defence, that's why they recive also lot goals but they are now oll missing for few games
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While it may not have the violence and action that todays teens are used to in video games, one former Supreme Court Justice hopes they get hooked.
America's first female Supreme Court justice unveiled a videogame project on Wednesday to teach children how courts work, saying she wanted to counter partisan criticism that judges are 'godless' activists, according to a story on MSNBC.com.
The project, called Our Courts, will aim to capture a portion of the 40 plus hours that kids spend with TV, computers and video games each week.
Best of luck Sanda Day O'Connor. And don't quit your day job. (she already did in 1996 - oops)


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Hotels and beach resorts across Sharjah have been witnessing a heavy turnout of international tourists and visitors.
High-end luxury hotels and resorts offering top-notch, world-class services are conveniently located along the coast and across the emirate.
HE Khalid Jasim Al Midfa, Director General, Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority said the heavy turnout at beach hotels and resorts in the emirate has exceeded expectations. According to the SCTDA statistics, guests at these special beach hotel facilities had swelled to more than 180,000 during the first half of this year registering 80% occupancy rates.
Al Midfa said that numerous cultural, artistic, entertainment and shopping festivals hosted by Sharjah, not to mention special promotions offered by major malls and shopping centers since the beginning of the year, have added to the emirate's attractions in the eyes of visitors. He drew attention to the fact that hotels in the emirate had been encouraged by the Authority to offer special concessional rates to both visitors and residents.
Sharjah is an ideal beach tourism destination both for the country's residents and international tourists who head to the Emirate especially during the summer season and prefer to spend their holidays in hotels.


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Susanna, recently wedded to Count Gil, fears to confess to her husband that she likes to smoke cigarettes when he is away from home. Gil notices a smell of tobacco in the house and it provokes his jealousy, since he thinks that she has a secret lover.
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The Teachers' Council wants its disciplinary meetings to be open to the public after fighting tooth and nail to prevent such oversight.
At last they have come around.
It will be good to see all those registered ratbags out in the open finally. The NZ Herald reports.
The Teachers Council is proposing rule changes that would make disciplinary tribunal proceedings open to the public, however the council said careful safeguards were needed to protect children and young people who gave evidence.
"This requires that appropriate suppression powers are provided to the tribunal," Teachers Council director Peter Lind said.
The tribunal needed suppression powers, and the same penalties for suppression breaches as apply under the Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal, he said.
"Such penalties need to be included in any amendments to the Education Act currently being proposed by the Minister of Education.
"So while the proposed rule changes are in accordance with the principle of open justice, the Teachers Council is seeking strong legislative protection from anyone who breaches any orders of the disciplinary tribunal," Dr Lind said.
The tribunal's practice of automatically suppressing names of teachers who are under complaint has been called into question.
I don;t think they can be trusted with suppression powers given their shameful past in covering up dirty ratbags. Most of them will have already been before the courts and had suppression removed.
Let court suppression order remain but name everyone else.
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text: Matt has played a charity concert for us. After the first few notes that screamed through the speakers quite a few NEXTers came up and said something along the lines of "DAMN…now this is rock n roll". Eric Safka on Hammond B3, Scott Bennert on Bass, and John Hummel on Drums and Matt playing guitar. … Read More


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Discussion in 'Fate' started by Mahesvara, Sep 5, 2017.
A thread to post and share Fate Cosplay, don't forget to link the Cosplayer as well!
Thought that was art for a hot sec.
@Nova Its real life art
Also this,
Bro this one's actually scary how good it is.
Yeah I follow her on twitter, she does a lot of good cosplays, my favorites being her Swimsuit Scathach, Tamamo, Ishtar, and Musashi cosplay.
Eresh cosplays are already popping up
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"Object Making" is the term used for altering the look of objects. "Hacking" is the term used for altering the object's function.
What Do I Need To Do To Start Hacking Objects for The Sims?
1) First step in altering an object is to have one to work on! For this you will need an object cloning program.
With this program you "clone" your own copy of the objects, assigning them their own unique Object ID number, also referred to as an 'GUID number'. It is this number and not the file name that defines your object as a new object instead of a replacement object.
PC users use Transmogrifier (T-mog or Tmog, for short).
Mac users use IffSnooper
2) Whether you are a Mac or PC user, be sure to pick up (or make) a "Magic Cookie" number before your start.
PC users, this is a number you will enter into Tmog (only once and it remembers the number for next time you want to make objects) and needs to be a number that no one else uses. T-mog will use this number to figure out what Object ID numbers to give all of your objects (and those must all be unique to prevent Object ID conflicts)
Mac users can also enter their magic cookie number just once. Yersinia, a budding mac sims creator and experienced story teller, posted instructions for doing so at the Simblesse Oblige Forums.
To enter your magic cookie number in IFF Snooper so that cloning or subcloning will automatically put your cookie in the GUID, go to the Edit menu in IFF Snooper and choose Enter Cookie (or, Command-K). You will then get a Magic Cookie box. Type in your original six-digit cookie number in the "Enter Magic Cookie" box, then hit Enter. Both your hex and two bites versions of your cookie will appear. Click OK, and that's it.
3) To Hack objects you need an iff editing program.
PC users have a few choices but the most common (and most complete) one is IffPencil2. (the "2" is now sometimes dropped so it's just called IffPencil and occasionally IP2 or IFF2). IffPencil 2 consists of the program (an exe file) and a text file (script.txt). They must be kept in the same folder otherwise IffPencil wont know how to translate all of those numbers into words.? IffPencil was never actually completed so does have a couple of little quirks but on the whole you can do pretty miraculous things with it. The author of this program has moved on so and it's now distributed "As-Is". IffPencil2 may be downloaded from The Sims Resource's Programs section.
Mac users will be delighted to find that their cloning program (IffSnooper) is also an iff editing program. The author is still actively developing this program. Recent updates to it have included a BHAV editor and BCON editor (BHAVs are where all of the objects coding is and are the core of object hacking. The BCONs house numbers that the BHAVs use.) Awesome stuff!
4) Learning to use iff editing programs.
Hacking tutorials were always a lot more scattered than object making tutorials. Most of the information was found in a few key sites and forums. As hackers moved on to non-sims activities and to The Sims2 these forums and sites dwindled away and domains were not renewed.
One that remains is Sims College. No longer given in the form of classes, this site has left it's material up as online tutorials for anyone who wishes to come learn it on their own. Unfortunately many people are having problems accessing the classroom now but the author of those lessons gave SSoW permission to host the lessons.
The PC program IffPencil is used for these lessons so Mac users will have to translate the material into IffSnooperese. As most tutorials available are written for IffPencil this is something you will need to do a lot and the creator of IffSnooper has written a tutorial to help with this:
The two programs, Iffpencil and Iffsnooper, use very different layouts so it can be a bit difficult to translate between the two at first. A majority of the hacking tutorials cater to IffPencil making the already difficult task of learning to hack even more difficult for Mac users, but if you take it slow and be patient it WILL all click into place.


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Sardis: The Church of the Walking Dead
When Ancient Meets Current: A Study of the Seven Churches of Revelation
By Todd Stiles
Bible Text: Revelation 3:1-6
Preached on: Sunday, August 7, 2016
First Family Church
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Ankeny, IA 50021
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Tradition says that it was merely a military helmet and that's all he dropped over the wall. He didn't mean to. It was unintentional but somewhere on a part of the wall that they were not guarding, a soldier accidentally dropped his helmet. This soldier was living on the acropolis of the city of Sardis, an elevated area just above where the temple was and their gymnasium. It was a pretty good city and because their major fortress was up high, they considered themselves impenetrable. In other words, "You'll never get inside our walls." In fact, they felt so confident about their military status that there were certain areas of the wall that they just left unguarded and this is the part of the wall to where the soldier just accidentally dropped his helmet, at least that's what tradition says.
But he knew how to scale the wall and go down the mountain. He knew he needed his helmet and so at night, about 12, 13, 14 days into this battle with Persia, this soldier scales the wall from the inside, scampers down and kind of navigates the slope, gets his helmet, comes back up, goes over the wall and little did he know that the Persians were watching. This is in the 5th century BC, by the way. The Persians saw that there must be a way up the slope and there must be a way over the wall. Sure enough, they sent a few, then they sent more, and that moment of inattentiveness and military laziness cost Sardis their city. A few centuries later, early 200s, still BC, the same thing happened when Antiochus III came and waited out what Sardis thought was an impossible to penetrate situation, but they watched and they waited and sure enough, they figured out how to climb the slope and scale the wall and overthrown the acropolis which really was the stronghold and then they overtook the city.
This is kind of the historical setting of the city of Sardis. In fact, here is the acropolis in the background where the temple, I wouldn't say the temple, the temple to Zeus, let's say or they had several temples in the city. There was also a Jewish synagogue, by the way. I won't show you that here but here's some older remains from one of the pagan temples and you see the acropolis in the back, the large mountain? That's where they had their military structure. You could look out and defend and see what's coming, but it was on the lower level that Persia and Antiochus waited out and figured out how to scale it. So because the folks up top thought they were safe when they really weren't, at least twice they were overthrown. History also says this: early part of the first century, there was an earthquake in this area and Sardians were known to have said this even about their situation geographically, "Oh, that earthquake would never bother us." So Sardis has somewhat of a reputation for being a sleepy town militarily, even you might see geographically or whatever the word is for volcanoes and stuff like that, you know. They just thought, "Not us," and yet it actually was them.
So when Jesus writes to the church at Sardis and he uses these two words – watch this – he says, "Wake up." He says it twice. Say it with me: wake up. How do you think a resident, a citizen of that city heard those words? They probably thought back, "Wow, I know the history of this town. We were overthrown because we were militarily sleepy. I remember that earthquake. We had to rebuild for years because we were sleepy, we were overconfident." This is really the gist of the message to this church in this town and it is talked about in Revelation 3. Will you take your Bibles, open them up, turn them on, and let's look together at the first six verses of chapter 3 and let's talk about the church of the walking dead, shall we? This church in the city of Sardis that, quite frankly, was also sleeping spiritually. Today I'd like to kind of explain this text to you, walk you through, again, as our pattern is, a few thoughts about the city, the church and the Christ. This week I'll take a few questions live. I plan to take two. If you have some, be sure to text them in. Our guys in the back will pick out the top two, the top two easiest, guys, and they'll showcase those. We'll try to answer those. Then I want to close by just walking you through what I think verses 2 and 3 describe as the way to wake up, alright?
So let's begin, shall we? Here's Revelation 3, a letter to a city, actually a letter to a church in a city that was known for its complacency and its laziness, not just historically, militarily, even geographically, but now spiritually. We won't say much more about the city. You see it mentioned in verse 1, "to the angel of the church in Sardis." So enough about the town historically. The Bible doesn't say, by the way, those things about Sardis, we draw them from history, but can we just agree together with smiles on our faces that aren't we glad the Bible is a book that confirms history? That shows history to be true? I mean, we're not talking about a book that is absent of actual verifiable evidential history. I think that's very…it makes you as a Christian like we're not believing some myth or fable, amen? And so Sardis here mentioned and even the way Jesus writes this letter, it really complements what was true about the city. They historically, militarily, this is very complacent. Overthrown twice. The earthquake kind of comes to the city. Overconfident.
So he writes in this vein about the church, first of all he says that the one who is writing is the one who "has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars." You'll notice at the beginning of each letter Jesus does describe himself in a certain way, pulling from the entire description of chapter 1 so if you're wondering where these various descriptions come from in each letter, they come from chapter 1. Here is probably what I think may be the hardest one to figure out. Jesus says he has the seven spirits of God. You're thinking, "Man, I thought there was one, the Holy Spirit? What's up with that? You know, there are seven spirits?" We know the seven stars refers to the seven messengers of the seven churches. Let me kind of tell you how I see this phrase and then I'll jump to the idea of the church and explain more about their spiritual comatose state. Just first of all notice that I think the word "seven" mentioned about the spirits of God and the word "seven" mentioned about the churches, I think it's a figurative symbolic use meaning "complete." Alright? Some translators have said that perhaps this means the sevenfold spirit of God, that the Holy Spirit has seven functions. Hm, perhaps. And this is not something that I would divide over but I think the best way to see this is that Jesus through John is saying that the Holy Spirit fully, completely, perfectly embodies and fills and empowers Jesus. He did for his 3+ years of ministry here. At Christ's baptism, remember that? The Holy Spirit descended like a dove? And every move that Jesus made was led and empowered by the full perfect power of God's Holy Spirit, alright? I think John is reiterating that Jesus moves in, displays works and embodies the perfect power of the Holy Spirit which, as we're going to see, is what's needed to bring life to a sleepy church. You see, there is some connection here. He's showing the power of Jesus to do the impossible. I think the same thing is true about the seven stars as well. I see this as a very consistent understanding. Are the seven angels, the seven pastors, the seven churches, are they the only ones that he's thinking of? I don't think so. There are the ones mentioned in these two chapters and they are the historical ones that he writes to but they are representative of all churches which is why at the end of each letter Jesus says, "If you have ears to hear you should hear what the Spirit says to the," what? "Churches." So even every single letter is a call for every other church to listen in. So I think the word "seven" here can kind of be seen as a figurative as well as literal understanding that here he's speaking of this idea of perfection, completeness and fullness. By the way, the number seven was used that way in the Jewish culture. That's probably not a surprise.
Now, let me pause there and say this to you: what I just did for you was a hermeneutical exercise. Say the word hermeneutic. It just simply means the way you interpret Scripture. Now, I chose at this point based on the text and context to see the word "seven" in somewhat of a literal way but also in a figurative way. That's a hermeneutic and so that affects how I read all of Revelation, the rest of Scripture. Everyone operates with a certain hermeneutic in mind and it affects how we see the end times, how we see Revelation. The reason I tell you that is because on August 28th, we're going to be having a roundtable and we're just going to unravel some things about the end times. Part of unraveling the end times is knowing the hermeneutic to use in deciphering Scripture. Did you know that? When is it literal? When is it figurative? When is it both? How do we do this? So I do want to urge you if you're curious about why I chose to see "seven" as somewhat figurative and yet literal, show up August 28th. We're going to talk more about how to see the Bible in times figuratively and yet sometimes literally. When are symbols just that and when are they more than that. All of that is going to be involved in our unraveling the end times roundtable. I think you'll really like it and you'll know then, those that are a part of it, you'll know clearly where they stand on the end times issues too, at least for that night where they stand. How does that sound? I'm just kidding you about that.
So here Jesus Christ is in all of his fullness and power and all of his complete perfection with the power of the Holy Spirit saying to this church, "I know your works. You have the reputation of being alive, but the reality is you are dead." So there's this sense in which people think one thing but you're really something else. Then he says in verse 2, "Wake up." Say it with me: wake up. "And strengthen what remains and is about to die." Now, that's interesting, isn't it, because he says, "You are dead," and yet here he says, "You're about to die, some things are about to die." We'll explain it in a minute but notice that seems like a little bit of a contradiction. "You're dead. Some things are about to die. Which one is it, John? Which one is it, Jesus?" We'll explain it in a minute, alright?
"I want you to wake up and strengthen what remains and is about to die, for I have not found your works complete," the word there is "filled up" or "to the top"; it's not the word for "mature" in Hebrews. Teleios means complete. We mentioned this in our series on Hebrews. It's not that word, this is the word just to fill the cup up all the way to the top. He says, "I have not found your works filled up to the top, complete or full, in the sight of my God." So the Lord is watching, God is watching.
He says, "Remember, then, what you received an heard. Keep it, and repent." So what are they going to repent of? What are they to remember? They are to remember that there was a day when they weren't spiritually comatose; a day when they were what? Alive. But now apparently they're dead, some things are about to die. There is this sense in which they're not what they used to be, they're not what they think they are, and there is a divine call to wake up. The word "wake up" there means "to watch," it means "to be on guard." It's the words that Jesus used when he asked the disciples to watch with him in the garden. So he's saying here, "Wake up. Be on guard." It's somewhat of a military word. You can kind of see the same ambiance affecting this whole letter. "Don't let your guard down. Don't let part of the wall go unguarded. Wake up."
"If," he says, "you don't wake up, I will come like a thief." Here is more reason for them to wake up because judgment is pending. "I'll come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you." Now, let's ask this question: is this the second coming because in Matthew 24, Jesus says that his coming will be like a thief in the night? Is this the second coming? I tend to think it is not. Why? Because of the simple word in verse 3, "If you will not wake up." The implication I think clearly stated is this: if you do wake up, I won't come like a thief in the night. Would you agree with that? If you don't wake up, I'll come like a thief in the night. I think what he's saying is this: the judgment that I'm going to bring upon the church if they don't wake up will be sudden, unexpected. Now, could this be a reference to a second coming? There may be some that hold to that. Perhaps what he's saying is that in that coming, those who don't repent would then experience that judgment of his coming like a thief in the night. Perhaps that could be true. Again, these are things that we can disagree on and remain really good friends, alright? But I see this phrase as not talking about his second coming as much as I do the judgment upon this church will be like the second coming in that it could be unexpected and sudden. But the good news is, he says, "If you repent, then that won't happen." Again, it's a divine call to wake up from sleepiness and laziness.
Here's an example of some who have not fallen asleep in verse 4, "Yet you have still a few names in Sardis," and by the way, I think this would represent the minority of folks in that church. This is why I would say they are spiritually comatose but they're not confirmed dead, okay? There are some there who indicate, "Hey, there's a little blip on the radar in this church. There is a little blip in the radar. We're detecting life somewhere."
He says, "You have some who have not soiled their garments," that's a sexual phrase there. It means to become impure. This may be the only reference in this letter as to what they were letting go of and not remembering. We don't know. By the way, in this church, in this letter unlike Thyatira, Pergamum, we don't really know what it is that they weren't doing well or what they were neglecting or how they were falling short. We don't know. We don't know if it was the Nicolaitans, if it was the doctrine of Balaam, was it sexual immorality. We just don't know. This may be an indication, however, because there is a sexual word of impurity, uncleanness that maybe they too were letting go of sexual standards or purity, spiritual monogamy with God, so to speak, and embracing adultery and fornication and all kinds of sexual perversions. This may be an occasion of that's what's happening but we don't know for sure.
Either way, the few names in Sardis who weren't asleep, they had not become impure and so Jesus says, "They will walk with me in white, for they are worthy." In fact, circle the word "walk," and then watch this next word, "The one who conquers will be clothed." Circle the word "clothed." And can I just say to here for a moment, I love the way in these last two verses that Jesus becomes very personal and relational with these people in this church who have not defiled themselves and become impure. He says, "Do you know what? Man, you have held out, you have endured. I'm going to clothe you. I'm going to walk with you." He even says later, "I will confess your name before my Father and before his angels," so in my Bible, I've circled the word "walk," the word "clothe," the word "confess," and it says to me, man, Jesus is personal. He knows his church. He knows our works. He says this in every church, "I know your works," and to those who have not given in to the culture and the pressure of society, guess what? Jesus knows that and he's going to share with you, he's going to reign with you, he's going to be personal with you. That's a great reward, church.
So he says they are worthy because they have been clothed in white. I think this is a reference here to the work of Jesus on behalf of those who are undefiled. He clothes us and so we walk in worthy manner.
It says here that those who conquer, those who are clothed, those who are walking worthy, he "will never blot his name," or their name, "out of the book of life." Instead he'll "confess that name," that person's name, "before my Father and before his angels. So if you have an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." Jesus here is saying, "I'm not going to be ashamed of you, I'm not going to blot your name out, I'm not going to turn on you, I'm going to confess you before the Father." That's an awesome identity.
Now, perhaps your mind is asking this question: so are there some who get blotted out? Does that mean they were once in there and they're gone? Do you lose your salvation? What is with this phrase "the book of life" and getting blotted out? It's a good question. Now, let me give you three views on this issue, alright? Those of you that like sequential kind of learning process, this could mean one of three things. It could mean there is a book and that every person's name that has ever been born is written in it, it's called the book of life, and that when someone, maybe I should say when it's revealed that someone is not going to become a Christian then they are blotted out of that book and it in the end becomes the Lamb's book of life. Does that make sense? That's one view.
Another view is that this is a book in which from the foundation of the world only the names of God's elect are in it and so it's the book of life and the truth is you could never be blotted out of it anyway. This is a view that I hold. Why? Because if you read the verse, it never says that Jesus will blot your name out. It's not a threat, this verse is a promise that if you really belong to God, have no fear, he's never going to turn on you and blot your name out. It's not a threat saying, "By the way, I might just kind of one day realize I don't think you're really doing very well, I'm going to scratch your name off the list." It doesn't really say that. We tend to want to make it say that but it doesn't. It's just a promise. "Do you know what? I will remain true to my character and those who are in my family and truly belong, man, I will confess you, I will clothe you, I will walk with you. I will never blot your name out. It's there for good." Amen? Eternal security not based on what we do, eternal security based on the character of Jesus. Hallelujah!
The other view is that it's strictly figurative; that there really is no book, that it's just John's use of language that they understood in that culture. The Jews had a book in which they registered every single person. Even the Romans had one. By the way, in these cities, if you died they would take you off the citizen registry. They would "blot you out." So some commentators think, do you know what? This is just John's way to say, "Listen, Jesus knows who his children are. He knows what you do and what you don't do." There's not really a book. It's just a way to say Jesus is omniscient about his family. He knows, he protects. I don't hold to that. I don't hold to the first one. I tend to think based on the use in Revelation 13:8, Revelation, I think it's 17, and then 20 and 21 as well, in those chapters, this book seems to contain the names from the foundation of the world of all of those that God has elected to eternal life. That's what I think it is and God is not going to change his mind. Hallelujah. It's a real promise of our security in Christ. Now, are there people who think their names are in there and they're not? Yes. That doesn't mean he blotted them out, it means they're reading it wrongly.
Can I take a detour here and ask you an eternally important question? Is your name in the book of life? Assuming that this second view, let's say that the way I see it is right. We'll get there, God will clear it up, he says, "Yeah, that's the way to see it." Is your name in the book of life? Have you trusted Christ and responded to his grace, repented of your sin and asked him to save you? If not, today is the day of salvation. And I just want to just be extremely transparent with you, I don't want to say simple like dumb simple but I just want to be plainly simple that you don't have to wonder and worry, "I guess I'll find out when I get there." That's not how God operates. God is a God of clarity, of confirmation, of assurance, and he says this: to all who believe that Jesus is who he said he was, he was the Son of God, and that he did what he said he did, he came to pay the sacrifice for our sins. He died on a cross, he was buried in the tomb, and he arose the third day and on that, God said, "It is finished. It is complete." He raised his Son to show he was satisfied as Jesus' death being full payment for our sin. So throughout church history from the moment of the resurrection until this very moment, preachers and pastors and missionaries and people and men and women have proclaimed this good news that believing in Jesus Christ, that's what saves people from their sins. "If you confess with your mouth," Paul said, "Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved." From what? "Your sin." The very thing that's killing you, your death-like experience that will end in hell. How much better to repent and believe and to know your name is in the book of life?
That's me this morning. Man, did you read my mail this week? That's me. I came here. I wasn't sure even why I ended up here or what made me come, I just kind of showed up because I thought, "Do you know what? I need to go to church. Or I've been coming for a few weeks and someone invited me and I've got a lot of spiritual questions. I'm not sure if I'm even saved." Oh, this morning would be the day for you to say, "God, I believe the truth about Jesus. Save me by your grace." And at this very moment while you're in a chair in this room, God will do the miraculous work of saving your soul and I can assure you of this: genuine salvation means you'll never be blotted out. He won't change his mind, have a bad day, wake up in a bad mood. That never happens with Jesus or God, amen? You are secure and I just pray that if you have not been a believer, if you've yet to become a Christian, today you would just right now in your seat, just pray and ask God to save you.
So here this letter is to this church about repenting, waking up, because they are sleepy and comatose. It comes from one who is Trinitarianly confessional with us, Jesus. Powerfully personal. By the way, can I just pause on this idea of the Trinity for a minute and show you that in this letter, I was struck by this, I think there's a real Trinitarian connection here and I kind of made this word up perhaps, Trinitarianly. I'm not sure it's a word but I think it is today. Because he talks about the Holy Spirit in verse 1, he talks about his God in verse 2. We know it's Jesus giving this letter throughout all six verses. He talks about confessing the believer's name before his Father. So in this letter you have a real connection between the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ and God, which is God the Spirit, God the Son, and God the Father, three persons, one being. Very hard to understand but it's this Trinitarian God that's saying – watch this – "I want you in the church to wake up." And I think there's an implication there. It takes – watch this – it takes the full power of the Trinity to revive us. It doesn't take another church program or another great book or a hot CD or the celebrity speaker. Do you know what it takes? It takes the Trinitarian God in the full power of the Spirit, knowing the full truth of Jesus, to the full glory of God, the church to arise and say, "Wow, this is what we believe and who we know and only he can bring life to us." This is a good message for the church. It kind of recalibrates us, refocuses us, especially in an age when celebrities and Christian stars, you know, that's what people follow sometimes. Man, let's just weed through that and focus on the incredible need for Trinitarian revival, for God to awaken us through the words of Jesus that are perfectly empowered by the Spirit, alright? That's the key to revival.
That brings me to ask you a question about these verses. By the way, I think this is really the essential question of the text: is this written to people who need to be saved or is this written to people who need to be revived? Because he does say they're dead, doesn't he? Is that an Ephesians 2 type of death like you're dead in your sins so, man, this whole church needs to be saved? Or is he just saying, "Do you know what? I'm calling you dead, I'm just trying to make the point that, man, you are this close to extinction. There are a few things that are remaining." Here's where I land on that: I think this letter admittedly does appeal to a few within the church who were maybe lost, they won't repent, they've soiled their garments, unfortunately they will probably prove in the end not to be in God's book of life, but I don't think this call to awakening, to waking up, to being alive, I don't think it's a call to lost people. I think this is a call to saved people who have fallen asleep and so he uses the word "dead" to kind of insinuate that which is why he would say in the first verse, "Hey, you're dead." He'd say later, "Some things are about to die." He's simply using those words to show that you're sleepy, just like historically Sardis was sleeping and was overthrown, they were inattentive, they were complacent. This church spiritually now in this same city is the very same way: complacent, sleepy. And he says, "Wake up." He's calling on Christians – watch this very carefully – this is a call and I think an expectation of revival in the present – now watch how I word this – it's a call to and an expectation of revival in the present as proof of regeneration in the past.
So God is calling out, "Hey church, wake up! Strengthen yourself! Arise! Remember what you had!" He's not saying get re-saved, he's saying, "Let the Holy Spirit breathe fresh life into you. Let what I've delivered to you first of all, what you received," we'll mention this in verse 3 and we'll talk about it in a minute, "Let these things you used to have, man, let that, read that, look at that, remember that, let the Holy Spirit use that to breathe life into you and revive you to what you used to be." So the fact that they have something that they are holding onto so they received something in the past and then as a church it leads me to think this is really a call to revival. It's a call to fresh life.
And can we just be honest with each other? That happens in our spiritual life. Did you know that? Some of you this morning, you are dry as desert ground spiritually. You're born again and you know it. God's got you. He's not going to change his mind on you. You're in his book of life. You are. You are as assured and secure in that as you are your real physical name but if you are alone in a corner pressed to be honest, you'd say, "My spiritual life right now is just parched. I feel thirsty. I feel distant." And you would say, "I need revival. I need life again. I need some water poured on my life. I want to sprout new fruit and show growth but something's missing, something's happening. I don't feel fresh in my walk right now." You'd say that. I don't think that's unbiblical, I don't think that's out of bounds, I think that's what this letter is addressed to.
In fact, my own personal experience would confirm that. Did you know that? I thank God that as a senior in high school I was born again. God had saved me when I was 14 and I was a true child of God but I was struggling with some things and just in a moment of being alone with God driving home from retreat, God just got a hold of me and said, "Choose whom you're going to serve," and that beginning of my senior year was a massive change in my life. I let go of just about every friend I had that was leading me the wrong way. It took about six months to make some new friends. That was a long six months but, man, I'm so glad. Most of the friends I had prior to that moment with God in that van riding home from that retreat either spent time in jail, ended up sexually dysfunctional. Now, there is grace for all that but can I just say to you, humanly speaking, I'm glad God spared me that road. I'm glad I don't have a record, can I just say that to you honestly as a pastor? Is that okay? If you've got one, that's not a judgment, it's just a personal comment that at that moment before my senior year God said, "Hey, wake up, Stiles."
I recall as a single youth pastor in Augusta, GA, at a crossroads about some issues in my life, things didn't turn out in Augusta like I thought at all relationally, spiritually, ministerially. I'm on the side of Bobby Jones Expressway thinking, "Okay, this is really not what I signed up for in lots of ways," and God came to me and said, "Hey, I got you. Forgive, make it clear and move on." So I just dealt with the sins and said, "God, you're right." He gave me some new life that day. I don't know how to explain it. He didn't save me. I didn't get re-saved but he revived me. He brought some sin to my eyes. I dealt with it and he revitalized me.
I think this happened in regards to just our own children. We had a couple kids and I was done. I was like, man, I've got to be a youth pastor and, again, this is my personal experience. Don't read into this and think I'm saying what I'm not saying. I'm just giving you my experience in revival, alright? I was kind of done having kids. I wanted to just be successful in ministry and Julie wanted more children. We had honest disagreement about it. I went to a Promise Keeper's conference and at that moment in that conference, I mean, it was like almost my call to ministry. That's how clear it was to me. God said, "Kids are the only inheritance you really leave on the earth. Have more." I'm like, "Man, my wife was right again." And it's amazing, her voice sounds like the Holy Spirit's voice a lot. Are you with me on that? I remember and she'll confirm. I went home that very evening after Promise Keeper's and said, "Honey, let's have a bunch more kids." So we had a miscarriage, then we had two more. I needed some sanctifying in that area. I needed some fresh life. I needed perspective changing.
I think that happened as a young youth pastor in Ankeny. Four little children and this is not a bad thing but just life is hard sometimes when you've got little kids. Can somebody say amen to that? And especially for moms. Guys, we've had it easy. We don't think we do at times but we really do. Our wives bear up under so much of the load. In the midst of that, just a lot of character flaws really got revealed and I think I've shared more of this than I have other stuff. It was just time for me to deal with that and so God in graciousness revived me over a period of probably a couple of years and really refined some definite character flaws that were in my life that were revealed just in moments when, man, what do you do with four little kids and a wife and a job, how do you handle that? And all the bad things were coming out of me, you know? Usually they were seen in responses. But God just mercifully said, "Do you know what? You need some new life. You need some different fruit. Let me work with you." Revival.
I even think I experienced this as a pastor of this church especially in Romans, and you'll probably never know the extent of the impact Romans had on me. But I think many pastors are proud and many pastors are sure they can persuade people to the kingdom, but I wasn't any more through Romans 8 that I realized this whole salvation church planting thing, it's God's deal and, man, I wanted to be a hard-nosed, loud, long-winded preacher badly, I'll be honest with you, alright? But can I be honest with you? I can't persuade anybody into the kingdom. I don't bring any spiritual life into your life. That is the work of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit. And those moments in Romans were revitalizing for me. I just unvelcroed a lot of pressure and expectation and said, "God, I'm going to preach my heart out and love these people and it's your church."
Those are at least five places where I experienced a reviving of my life spiritually. Yeah, I was already saved. I was born again. I was secure my name is not getting blotted out, God's not going to change his mind on me. He's not going to turncoat on me. He will carry me through. He will keep me from stumbling. That's how faithful God is and how secure we are, amen church? But can I say to you, along that journey there are times that my experience has been, it's just sometimes you feel dry like you're on a wheel and your motion, you're running but you're not going anywhere. At those moments God says to us, "Hey, wake up. Remember. Let me revive you in the full life-giving power of the Spirit."
Now, I want to take a few moments to explain how that happens but first a couple of questions. Can we do that? I'm looking for a nod if any came in. None came in. Okay. We'll move right to this section then that I think is focused in this letter about how does that happen. I'm going to show you the whole list and I'm going to have the band join me as we kind of wrap things up here because I think this is the applicational part that in my mind just kind of makes revival, and I don't want to use the word "simple" but it makes revival correctly viewed. In other words, it's really the work of the Lord in our life as we do some things he said. We don't produce revival, okay? But we do position ourselves to experience God's fresh work in our life. Does that make sense? Here's a way to position yourself, a way to wake up to what I would call confessional living. I think that's just another way to describe revival.
Why do I say that? Why do I say revival is simply confessional living? And don't be distracted. I asked them to come up so we'll be okay, alright? I'll let them get set because we're going to go through this kind of quickly and we're going to sing together and we're going to use communion as our main response time this morning, like we do every week but I want to spend more time in communion and in prayer and in responding to the Lord. So I want to do this quickly. Watch this, here's why I connect reviving especially because Jesus Christ right now, he says, "To those who are walking worthy and not soiling their garments, to those who," and I think in this same category, those who do repent and kind of get in that same group, so if you repent or if you're already walking worthy Jesus says here, "I will confess your name." In other words, he will say the same thing about you up there. Confess means to say the same thing. It's the word homologeo. So guess what? Jesus is saying the same thing about you up there that you're saying about him and you down here.
That's what revival is. Revival is no longer trying to pretend to be something you're really not. It's not trying to skirt around the issue or you're real identity. Revival is saying, "Do you know what? I belong to God. I have a confession to believe and a confession to behave." As we do that, Jesus owns up to us in heaven while we own up to him down here. That's just revival. It's wearing your identification without shame. It's enjoying the personal relational aspects of Jesus without any fear. He has clothed you. He walks with you. He is going to protect you. He is securing you. He is confessing you. All of that brings out, like we sang earlier, this incredibly immortal gladness in our hearts. And so we walk this earth, we journey not soiling our garments or not in unrepentance but we repent. We stay close to Jesus and we don't get complacent and sleepy, we engage fully in following him. We're watching. We're waking up because God's Spirit is fully alive in us.
So here's what I think are three simple ways to kind of wake up to revival confessional living. I think these are found in verses 2 and 3. Stay awake through truth. He says to repent of losing and forgetting. By the way, this is the second of the two imperatives in this text. There are only two imperatives in the whole letter. Repent is an imperative, remember is an imperative. So he says, first of all, he wants you to repent of losing something and forgetting and going to sleep on it. Repent of that. Stay awake through truth. Let God's word remind you, "Oh, I have fallen asleep. Yeah, God, I've gotten lazy." Now, if you're struggling saying that and yet you are that, then that's the devil trying to make you proud in your own humanity and repentance is your quickest cure for that. Just humble yourself before God and say, "Lord, I have forgotten. Yeah, I've avoided your truth. I've strayed away from what we've received."
You see, I think when he says in verse 3, "remember what you received," he's talking I think there if I can just be this honest with you, I can be, he's talking about the Gospel. I think it's similar to what Paul said that when he preached to them, he gave them what he first received, that Jesus Christ came, died, was buried and rose again. In other words, this is of prime importance. I think they received the same thing, truth about who Jesus was. They had received this orthodox, solid, evidential doctrine but they had kind of forgotten, they had gotten away from the words of Jesus, the life of Jesus, the truth about Jesus. They forgot it. Have you gotten away from the core orthodox doctrine about Jesus? If you have, if you're away from his word, if you're not reminding yourself, if you're not remembering and reading, if you're not in his doctrine, guess what? You're sleeping on the job. Don't be surprised if someone scales the wall and overtakes your life.
So repent of sleeping on the job. Change your mind and actions and say, "God, I'm going to come back," and then do the second thing: stay alert to truth. Say, "Lord, I'm going to get back to the book. I'm going to get back to your truth. I'm going to remember what you gave us. I'm going to anchor my soul. I'm going to cement my feet in this." So remember that. Keep it. This is one of the reasons we say the creeds here in this series. Can I be honest with you and I'll be frank with you? I love it. I love hearing you corporately proclaim what's been held for centuries. I hope it's been good for your soul. We didn't make this stuff up, church. It's not some novel idea of the elders or somebody who can play with words and make it sound good, this is long held orthodox doctrine given by God through the apostles and the prophets and now held onto by the church generation after generation. Yeah, I want to remember that. Are you with me on that? I want to hold onto that. I want to stay alert to truth because I've been awakened through truth, and then I want to actively live with that truth in mind.
This is what he means when he says, "strengthen what remains," and if you do, it seems like the last part of the verse will be true then, your works then would be complete in the sight of God. What is he saying here? They had partial obedience, that's what he's saying. You started strong and you forgot what you received. You got sleepy and so your obedience lagged. Here's what he's saying, "Guys, repent of forgetting the truth. Come back and remember what you were given and then obey that fully." Watch this, this is how I'd say it to you: hold on til the very end. In our culture in a myriad of ways is trying to wrestle your hands off of the solid truth that Christ is asking you to remember. Your pastor is asking you to hold on. Fix your grip. Don't let go. And obey fully all the way to the end. Amen?
It won't be easy. I'm not going to lie to you. In fact, I believe over the next 30 years, it will become increasingly harder. Churches may get surprisingly smaller. Did you know that? I don't know for sure it will happen but I'm just saying to you, I'm not going to promise you a rose garden, you'll get that if you're over 40, won't you? I'm going to promise you that Jesus, if you're his, will never turn on you and you're secure in him so hold on. Obey to the fullest extent the Bible calls you to. Remember what he has given you. Stay in his word.
This is the essence of revival. Repenting, remembering and retaining. Staying awake through truth. Staying alert to truth. Staying active with truth. So this morning, I don't want to be a complacent, sleepy Christian, I want to hear God's call to wake up and through his truth what we have received, the truth about Jesus, man, I want fresh life, don't you? I do. I want new vitality. That's why I think communion is such a vital part of what we do week-in and week-out. I think it's one of the top five decisions we've made in this church that have proven to be a wise move. It's been a great thing for our church health, for our spiritual vitality because it's a communion that we do three things – watch this – we repent, we remember and we retain. We commit to obedience. When you eat the spiritual meal, you're saying, "I am not ashamed to identify with Jesus among his family. I follow him. He's the King, not the consultant. What he says, I'll do." That's what we say at communion. We proclaim that.
So this morning, we are going to bow our heads. I just want to give you a chance to do this, would you ask God to revive you? That's all. To wake you up. And by the way, he can because in the letter, Jesus says, "Man, I've got the seven spirits of God." No one can bring you to life like Jesus, amen? The full perfect power of the Spirit is at his disposal so where do we run when we need revival? To Jesus who knows our church.


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Introduction to Locksmith and Door Services Found in DC Most of us look to our homes as something that is very valuable for us. That is the reason why there are many people who spend long hours at work just to be able to afford their dream of owning a home. We make sure that we give our best effort in our jobs to earn the money we need to pay for our mortgage. This is the lot of most folks except for those who were born rich. The door is one of the important parts that can be found in a house. It is through the door where people come in and go out of the house. One can say that the doors in the home serve as the portal to the house. The main door is actually just one type of door that is found in the house. When you go inside you would find other doors there. It is normal to find bedrooms and bathrooms having doors. The doors are the ones that give access to people to these rooms. Now what do you do as a way to protect your home when you go out? Well of course you lock the doors in your house and if you have a gate you lock that as well. This is what most people to do as their way of protection. If you want to have a very strong lock made for your doors in the house how do you do that? If you happen to reside in DC you can get hold of a locksmith and door service man easily from that area. All you have to do is look for them. How would you find out if they are good to hire? Well what you can do to know if they are any good is to look up reviews on them. There are even some that have websites already. This is because there are now more people who are looking for information online. You can even make a comparison of the services and rates of different locksmiths in DC based on what you read from their website.
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Big Data? Master Managing your own Data First
As noted, Big Data and Predictive Analytics is a hot topic today. Many large companies, especially, retailers and consumer goods companies have viable programs to take advantage of the ever increasing amounts of data streaming real time and accumulating in data bases. Combining this internal, transactional, data with outsides data feeds, or streams as they are sometimes called, provides incredible, mind boggling, amounts of data the could be used to make better decisions to optimize performance. These decisions could range from optimizing product offerings and assortments to particular customer segments to ensuring that materials and service are bought at the best prices. With the ever increasing amounts and types of data streams available, the possible applications seems endless.
There is some fundamentals that have to be in place however. Before one excel at or even think about Big Data and the Predictive Analytics, one hasto be very good at basic data. It is quite simple. The transactional data and information in the company ERP needs to be
As accurate and up to date as possible
Utilized effectively to generate performance indicators, analysis, and forecasts to manage and run the business.
Without the above above two prerequisites are necessary before one can even think about incorporating outside data sources. If this is not mastered, any foray into Big Data and Predictive Analytics will simply be a waste of time and money.
Companies that are known for Big Data in the automotive, consumer goods, and retail sectors, are also the companies that first implemented ERP systems like SAP and Oracle. These were also the first companies to have to deal with data integrity and management in an organized and disciplined manner. Small companies are, in general, behind the larger multinationals in this regard.
This distinction was clear at the last year's Oracle Big Data Event in Chicago and in all other strategic presentations on Big Data and Predictive Analytics. The future possibilities are amazing. The vast amounts of data that is and will be available is incredible. The ability to manipulate large data bases is easier and more nimble than ever. The smartest folks working in this area are promising amazing capabilities for managing. The promised land includes concepts like Cognitive Systems and Big Data Analytic Ecosystems.
These concepts sound great in presentations at conferences but are most likely behind what 80% of the companies are capable of doing right now. Most of the companies we work with are not fully utilizing the data they have. They have invested in some ERP system and using the system, generally well, to execute the day to day business. For many companies we see, it stops there. They are not really tending and mining the data they have. They are not taking advantage of the data that they are responsible for, the data that they own, the data that defines their business. Before worrying about using outside data streams and going bigger, it is imperative to be using one's own data to the greatest and most effective extent.. When we talk to people at Big Data Conferences and ask what level they are working at, almost everyone is working only with their their own data. Only the cutting edge companies are looking at outside data streams. This will no doubt change quickly in the next few quickly.
Where to start with Big Data? Begin with this basic blocking and tackling of fully and effectively using one's own ERP data before looking at outside data sources and other Big Data and Analytic methods. Make sure sound data management processes are reliably in place. Create power users who can then mine that data for General Management, Marketing, Sales, Supply Chain, HR, and Finance. Once on this road to mastering the basics, then start looking at outside data streams and maybe dabbling in cognitive algorithms.
Basic blocking and tackling: we can help you achieve that.