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It's fitting that we bring our Shepherds Conference to a climax by turning in our Bibles to 1 Timothy chapter 6 and looking at verses 11 through 14. The subject of these verses is the man of God...the man of God. That in itself is one of my very favorite biblical descriptive phrases, man of God. It appears in verse 11 as a title the Apostle Paul gives to Timothy, a title that is simple yet immeasurably wonderful and rich.
What a privilege to be called man of God, or God's man. It is a possessive phrase indicating that Timothy belonged to God in a special and unique way. The fact is though this term "man of God" is a very common term in the Old Testament, it is a very uncommon term in the New Testament. Only one person on the pages of the New Testament is ever called man of God and it is Timothy and it is in this text. In a very special and unique way, Timothy was God's man. And Paul uses this title to increase the sense of responsibility that Timothy had to discharge his ministry. To be reminded that you are God's man, that you are the very possession of God is to be reminded of great responsibility. And that is precisely the sense in which the Apostle Paul uses the phrase in designating Timothy.
Though it is us uncommon in the New Testament, it is common in the Old Testament. It first appears in designation of Moses, the great prophet of God who wrote the Pentateuch. In Deuteronomy 33:1, Moses is first called the man of God. He is called the man of God again in 1 Chronicles 23:14 and Ezra 3:2. The term "man of God" one time in the Old Testament was used of an angelic messenger, one who came in the form of a man to bring a message from God to the wife of Manoah that she was to bring forth a child who came to be the man Samson. That occurs in Judges 13:6 and 7. In 1 Samuel 2:27 it was used to describe a prophet who spoke on behalf of God to the high priest Eli about the divine judgment soon to come on his sinful family. It was used again in 1 Samuel 9:6 and following to designate Samuel himself as the man of God who spoke divine truth.
Anyone who was the prophet of God was God's man. And the term "the man of God" was always used in reference to one who bore the Word of God, who represented God by speaking in God's behalf God's truth. It was used of the prophet Shemaiah who was sent from God to prophesy against Rehoboam in 1 Kings 12:22. It was used again for the prophet who spoke the Word of God to Jeroboam regarding his being replaced and then judged, 1 Kings 13. Elijah is called the man of God in 1 Kings 17:18 and following, and Elisha in 2 Kings 4 and following is called the man of God many times. David in Nehemiah 12 verses 24 and 36 is also called the man of God. The prophet who confronted Amaziah is called the man of God in 2 Chronicles 25:7 and a prophet by the name of Igdaliah in Jeremiah chapter 35 verse 4 is also called the man of God.
All of the uses in the Old Testament reflect someone who uniquely represents God by speaking the Word of God. The sum of all those uses then tells us unequivocally that it is a reference to a messenger who is sent by God to speak for God. When Timothy then is called the "man of God," it is reflective of his call and his ordination and his responsibility to speak the truth of God.
There are two other uses of the term "man of God" in the New Testament. One of them reflects back to the Old Testament men of God, that is 2 Peter 1:21. It says, "The prophecy came not...that referring to the Old Testament...at any time by the will of man but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." And there you want to see that as a technical term for the authors of Scripture who were the spokesmen of God, the holy men of God.
The one other use of it is a generic use in 2 Timothy chapter 3. Would you look at that for just a moment? Every use of the "man of God" is specific up to this point, referring to one or another prophet, referring as in 2 Peter 1:21 to a group of prophets, referring in 1 Timothy chapter 6 verse 11 to Timothy specifically, but here in verses 16 and 17 of 2 Timothy 3 it is broadened and used in a somewhat generic sense. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness in order that...and here's the phrase...the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. While Timothy is certainly the object in the context here since he is the recipient of the letter, and since his own conversion has been mentioned in verses 14 and 15, the term in use in verse 17 broadens beyond Timothy to include any man of God. The statement then in verses 16 and 17 is primarily for the benefit of those who are the articulators of the Word of God, the messengers of the Word of God, though it certainly extends beyond that at the widest point of interpretation to every believer.
But what Paul is saying here is that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God for the purpose of perfecting the man of God. That is particularly focusing on the spokesmen for God. Obviously the Word of God will perfect all believers, but his particular object in mind is the man of God.
Now it's interesting to me that the last usage of this phrase in Scripture is a generic use and therefore we do not feel reluctant to broaden the use of "the man of God" to encompass any today who are the spokesman for God in our generation or in any other generation. God has always had His spokesman, He has always had His prophets, He has always had His preachers. Men of God are those who uniquely speak His Word.
We can conclude then from 2 Timothy 3:16 and 17 that the man of God can embrace anyone who having been perfected by the Word is called to proclaim the Word. So all of us who are called by God, set apart for the proclamation of His Word, to be preachers and teachers and proclaimers are to be men of God. And we should bear that title in some measure of consistency with the long line of holy men who make up the elite company of those so designated men of God. We as men of God today take our place in the ranks of those who are the historic spokesman for the eternal God. What a tremendous calling. Paul's instruction to Timothy then, back in 1 Timothy 6, is heightened intensified and made even greater when he calls Timothy man of God because in so doing he identifies Timothy with that long line of historic spokesmen for God and intensifies his own need to be committed to the task at hand.
We are, as Pilgrim's Progress put it, the King's champions. What a marvelous thought. Men of God are men who have been lifted above worldly aims and who have been devoted to divine service. Men belonging to a spiritual order with which things temporal, transitory and passing have no permanent relationship. We are men who are not the world's men. We are not our own men. We are God's men. We have been raised above earthly things, we have been raised to the heavenlies, we have become the unique possession of God, His property, we stand in His stead to speak His Word.
It's important that Paul use the term here because of the weighty ministry at the feet of Timothy. You remember that Timothy had been left in Ephesus to put things right in the church, to bring order to a church that had lost its way. False doctrine had crept in. False leadership was there. People unworthy of pastoral roles and serving as elders were in those roles. Sinful leaders, heresy, ungodliness, tolerance of sin, all of that was in the church and Timothy was given the task of making it right. In order to lay upon him the weight of that responsibility he calls him God's man. You are there as the representative of the living God. That adds tremendous sense of responsibility. In fact, this is such a strategic letter for such a strategic church that Paul three times in the letter points out false teachers and how Timothy is to respond to them. And each time he does it by reminding Timothy of the sacredness of his calling.
Let me show you that. Go back to chapter 1. Three times Paul speaks of false teachers. Starting in verse 3 he talks about those who teach another doctrine. Verse 4, who teach fables and endless genealogies, who serve up questions rather than answers, and do not provide things that godly edify. These turn others aside, verse 6, and their motive is they want to be teachers but they have no idea what they're talking about, according to verse 7.
The second reference to false teachers comes in chapter 4. The first four verses, starting in verse 1, speak about the fact that some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, doctrines of demons, propagated by lie speaking hypocrites whose consciences have been seered with a hot iron.
The third reference to false teachers comes in chapter 6 verse 3, those who teach otherwise, who do not consent to wholesome or healthy words, who do not consent to the doctrine that is according to godliness, who are proud, who don't know anything, who are morbidly sick about questions and disputes and debates producing only envy, strife, railing and evil suspicion, who propagate nothing but the twisted corrupt perversed disputings of men, destitute of the truth who imagine that the real gain that they're after is money, not godliness. And he goes on to speak about their love of money down through verse 10.
So, chapter 1, chapter 4, chapter 6, Paul introduces the problem of false teachers. They were high powered, they were strong and they were in positions of authority in the church. Each time, however, he speaks of them he follows up by telling Timothy he has to resist them. Back in chapter 1 verse 18, he says to Timothy, "This charge...or command...I commit to you, son Timothy, according to the prophecies pointing to you that you might war a good warfare, holding faith and a good conscience in the midst of battle." Once he mentions the false teachers, he immediately then charges Timothy to resist them.
Chapter 4, he mentioned the false teachers, as I said in the first four verses, and then immediately in verse 14 having discussed all the way from verse 6 Timothy's responsibility, I mean 6 through 16, he flows through that whole passage and tells Timothy how to resist them. Verse 6, "Put the brethren in remembrance of these things, be a good minister of Jesus Christ nourished up in the words of faith and good doctrine unto which you've attained and refuse their profane and old wives fables and exercise yourself unto godliness."
Down in verse 16 he sums it up, "Take heed to yourself and unto the doctrine, continue in them. In doing this you'll save yourself and the ones who listen to you." Again false teachers and then Timothy's responsibility.
Chapter 6, we find the same thing. Three to ten, the false teachers and then in 11 through 14, Timothy's responsibility. "But you, O man of God, flee these things and follow after," and so forth. Each time he mentions false teachers which are the heart of the problem, he mentions Timothy's responsibility to resist them.
Now here's the real key point. In each case Timothy's responsibility to resist them is heightened by a reference to Timothy's call to the ministry. Chapter 1 verse 18, "Timothy, do this, I charge you, according to the prophecies which pointed to you." That is, the Word of God that came through means of prophecy to point to Timothy as God's anointed servant. Chapter 4 verse 14, the second portion about false teachers, Timothy's responsibility is again heightened by a reference to his spiritual beginnings, his call and ordination, "Neglect not the gift that is in you which was given you in prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elders." And again he goes back to spiritual responsibility based upon his call of God, his ordination, his spiritual beginnings. Chapter 6, he does the same thing. Verse 12, "You are to fight the good fight, you are to hold on to eternal life because this is what you were called to and this is what you have confessed in your confession before many witnesses."
In other words, Timothy's responsibility to stand against error and to fight for the truth and to be God's man in setting the church right is based upon that original call of God that so designated him as the man of God. God's representative. Beloved, the responsibility of the ministry revolves around a man's call from God. That's basic. We are called by God to be His man. We are uniquely His. He owns us. He possesses us. We represent Him.
In verse 11 it begins, "But thou, O man of God,.." "But thou" is set in contrast to the false teachers. The false teachers are into everything mentioned from verse 3 through 10, "But you," he says in contrast, "You are God's man, they are money's man, they are materialism's man, they are the world's man, they are their own man, they are sin's man, Satan's man, hell's man, but you, O man of God..." Contrast. The word "O" is a personal appeal, it's an emotional appeal. It's very rare, by the way, in personal greetings in the Greek that word would be used and it shows the pleading in the heart of Paul...but you, O man of God, remember your spiritual beginnings, your spiritual calling, don't lose sight of your identity. As a man of God, you have a unique calling. As a man of God, you are to be uniquely identifiable. As a man of God, you are to have characteristics that can be seen and measured.
How is a man of God known? What is Paul going to say to Timothy as to the character of a man of God? Four things...Timothy, you man of God, hear are four things that should mark you. One, a man of God is marked by what he flees from. Two, a man of God is marked by what he follows after. Three, a man of God is marked by what he fights for. And four, a man of God is marked by what he is faithful to. A tremendous practical outline for every man of God who stands to speak in the place of divine truth.
Number one, a man of God is known by what he flees from. Verse 11, "But thou, O man of God, flee these things." That's a present imperative, keep on continually fleeing. It's a continual running from. It's the word pheugo, from which we get fugitive. Someone who is running to escape a pursurer. It pictures one running from a plague, running from a serpent that's poisonous, running from an attacking enemy. The man of God is a runner. The man of God does not stand still, he runs and he runs from things. He is known by what he flees from. First Corinthians 6:18 the Apostle Paul says, "Flee sexual sin." First Corinthians 10:14, "Flee idolatry." Second Timothy 2:22 Paul writes to Timothy, "Flee youthful lusts." We are fleeing. The man of God is fleeing at all times those kinds of corrupting things.
Here he says flee these things. What does he mean? The things he has just talked about. What has he just talked about? The evils attached to the love of money. Verse 9, "They that would be rich, desiring to be rich, fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition, for the love of money is all kinds of evil which while some coveted after they have erred from the faith and literally skewered themselves through with many griefs. Flee these things, the love of money and all its attendant griefs, lusts, temptations, hurtful things, errors in the faith, sorrows, griefs...flee these things.
The man of God is not attached to the love of money. He does not have affection for material things. Paul has been telling Timothy to avoid a lot of things. He's told him several times in this epistle to avoid endless genealogies, vain repetition, fables, science falsely so called as its mentioned in verse 20 of chapter 6. And here he says flee the love of money which is the root of all kinds of evil. Flee greed with all its vices. It is the sin of false teachers. It is the sin of lying hypocrites who pervert the truth for personal gain, who make merchandise of people, who really pursue filthy lucre and people are only a means to that end, who preach for money. From Baalam, the prophet who was bought by the highest bidder, to Judas, the apostle who sold Jesus for 30 pieces of silver...from the false prophets of Israel who were greedy dogs that never had enough and were concerned every one for his own gain, Isaiah says, and the covetous prophets and priests of Jeremiah's time and the prophets of Ezekiel's time who could be bought by handfuls of barley and pieces of bread, and the prophets who divined for money of which Micah speaks, all the way to the false teachers who spoke good words and fair speeches to the Romans to deceive the innocent for the satisfaction of their own bellies and the unruly and empty talkers and deceivers of Crete who subverted whole households teaching things they ought not for filthy lucre's sake, the characteristic of false teachers is greed. From the first to the last. But it has no place for the man of God. The love of money has twisted and perverted many.
Paul was so careful to avoid this, he says to the Ephesian elders in Acts chapter 20, "I have coveted no man's silver, no man's gold and no man's clothing and I have labored with my own hands to provide my own living and the living of everybody with me so you wouldn't have to be charged with that. I've gone the second mile so as not to be accused of grasping for money." To the Corinthians he writes in 1 Corinthians chapter 9, "I have a right to be supported, I have a right as an Apostle to lead about a sister as a wife...that is have marriage...I have a right to be receiving a living from my ministry, they that preach the gospel should eat of the gospel, or live of the gospel, but I wave that right so as not to get you in any way, shape, or form thinking that I might be in it for the money."
In Philippians he says, "I would love to send someone to you but I don't have anybody to send because everybody does what he does for himself, not for Jesus Christ. The only person I can send you who is not like that is Timothy." Paul must have experienced people in his own ministry who were in it for what they could get, like Demas who having loved the present world departed from the Apostle.
In 1 Thessalonians he says to the Thessalonians, "We were gentle among you like a nursing mother cherishing her children and we did not charge you for anything," and he goes on to explain his own labor night and day in toil in order that he might provide ministry to them at no cost.
Let me tell you something. You may call yourself a preacher, but if you're in it for the money you are not a man of God...you are not God's man. You cannot be God's man and money's man. You have prostituted the call of God into personal gain. We see it all around us. And when do we awaken to the reality of it? Never put a price on your calling, never put a price on your ministry, never charge a certain amount for bringing the Word of God, for whatever you charge will have the net effect of devaluing you to zero.
A man of God is known by what he flees from. He flees from sexual sin. He flees from having other gods in his heart. He flees from youthful lust. And here in this text he flees from the love of money.
Secondly, the man of God is also known by what he follows after. Verse 11 says, "Follow after..." and six virtues are mentioned, "righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and meekness." The man of God while continually running from is also continually running to. Something behind him he wants to avoid, something ahead of him he wants to catch. And it's present imperative again, continually be pursuing, keep on running after. We are always fleeing, that's the negative, and we are always following after, that's the positive. Like that wonderful widow mentioned in chapter 5 verse 10 who has diligently pursued every good work, so the man of God has a life pursuit of that which is right.
The Christian life is not just running from what's wrong, it's running toward what's right. And there's a sense in which as long as we're in this body, in this flesh, on this earth and victims of our own fallenness, we can never stop running because if we stop running from what is evil it will catch us, and if we stop pursuing what is righteous, it will elude us. We'll never ever be at the point where we have finally outdistanced what is wrong, nor will we ever be at the point where we have fully captured what is right. So our whole life is in a pursuit of what is right and a fleeing from what is wrong.
In 2 Timothy 2 where Paul said, "Flee youthful lust," he added, "and follow righteousness, faith..." and so forth. Proverbs 15:9 says, "The Lord loves the one who pursues righteousness." What a great thought. Ask yourself what you pursue. What are you after in this life? What are you living for? What are you directing your goals and energies at? What occupies your mind? What goals do you want to attain...success, fame, esteem, promotion, money, possessions, house, car, whatever? What are you really after? That's the mark of a man of God. He's after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, meekness. A man of God is known by what he runs from, he's also known by what he runs after.
Let's look at these. The first two are overarching general virtues, one having to do with the external behavior, the other having to do with the internal attitude and motive. The first is righteousness...the beautiful word righteousness. And I don't want to beg the issue and you all know what this means, that rich word dikaiosune basically means to do right, do right before man, do right before God; do right to man, do right to God.
The remnant of faithful Israel were called by Isaiah in chapter 51 verse 1, "You that follow after righteousness." The writer of Hebrews says, "The only people who see the Lord are those who follow after holiness," Hebrews 12:14.
And the righteousness Paul has in mind here is not imputed righteousness, it's not sort of that declared righteousness that you receive positionally in Christ in salvation, it's practical righteousness. The man of God is known by doing right. He does right in his life. He lives according to the standard of God. He obeys God. His conduct is right, his behavior is right, his life is right, he does what's right.
And how tragic it is when as we have seen this week in the terrible scandal that's hit the television evangelists, living ungodly lascivious sexually disoriented lives apart from the truth of God and all the time mouthing the gospel of Jesus Christ is a total sham on everything the gospel stands for. And I was interested to read in the paper yesterday that 99 percent of the letters that came into that program have been affirming and positive. Ninetynine percent, which tells me that the truth was probably never given out through those years on that program to those constituents or they would have seen sin for sin and dealt with it as sin ought to be dealt with. And so a man can maintain his credibility when his life would make a black mark on a piece of coal. How can that be? A man may be a preacher, I say it again, but he's not a man of God who lives like that. Obeying God's standard is characteristic of the man of God. The man of God follows after righteous behavior. He pursues righteous behavior. He does not pursue sexual gratification, material gratification, ego gratification, he pursues righteousness. He lives to do what's right. He lives to do what's good. He lives to do what's obedient to God's commands.
And the partner to that spiritual virtue is the next one, godliness. That has to do with the inside. Righteousness has to do with the behavior, godliness has to do with the attitude and the motive. This moves inside to direct our thought to the spirit of reverence, the spirit of holiness, the spirit of piety that's in the heart. Eusebeia, that beautiful word used nine times in the pastoral epistles, a very rich theme throughout all these letters, right behavior flows out of right attitude, right action flows out of right motive, reverence for God is what eusebeia means, godliness, it means a worshiping heart. This is a person who not only does right but thinks right, who not only behaves properly but is properly motivated. This is one, who in the words of Hebrew 12:28, serves God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. This is one who lives life in the conscious presence of the holiness of God.
Godliness...what a beautiful term. Godlikeness, this is the one who standing before the Lord some day, according to 1 Corinthians 4:1 to 5, when the time of the revealing of the secret things of the heart, the motives of the heart will receive a reward for godliness. Those are the two overarching virtues the man of God should be known by, they are the things he pursues. They are at the core of his usefulness. They are at the core of his power. They are at the core of his character. Watch your heart. Watch your motives. Watch your desires. Watch your conduct. Watch your behavior. Don't be an unsanctified preacher.
Richard Baxter said in The Reformed Pastor back in the seventeenth century, "Many a tailor goes in rags that makes costly clothes for others and many a cook scarcely licks his fingers when he has dressed for others the most costly dishes," end quote. Don't be a tailor in rags, don't be a starving cook, don't be preparing things for others that you don't have yourself. Paul was so concerned with these matters of godliness that in Acts 20 he said to the Ephesian elders, "Take heed to yourselves," start there. And back in the fourth chapter we saw what he said to Timothy in verse 16, "Take heed to yourself."
Paul knew himself. In Romans 7 he said, "I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing. And I know what I want to do I don't do, and what I don't want to do I do, and I'm a wretched man because of that presence of the flesh." He called himself in 1 Timothy 1 the chief of sinners. He didn't say I was, he said I am. He knew his sinful tendencies and he knew that he had to use all the means of grace to allow the Spirit of God to conquer those tendencies. And that's why to the Corinthians he said, "Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, perfecting holiness in the fear of God." That's why he wrote to Timothy in 2 Timothy 2 that if you want to be a vessel fit for the Master's use, you must purge yourself, sanctify yourself. The sad reality, beloved, is that we have very few men of God whose lives are marked by great power because we have few men of God who fit the standard.
John Flavil, the Puritan writer, said, "It is easier to cry against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves." Is that not so? And it is the duty of the preacher to cry against the thousand sins in the lives of others. It is also his duty to deal with the one sin in himself.
John Owen wrote, "A minister may fill his pews, his communion role, the ears of the public, but what he is on his knees in secret before almighty God, that he is and no more," end quote. Unholiness, sin in the heart and life of God's servant disgraces the ministry and the Savior's glorious name. The man of God, the real man of God pursues righteousness and godliness. And he employs all the means necessary to that, the Word and prayer and selfdenial and discipline and accountability and worship and communion and all those spiritual graces in order that he may capture his own heart and bring it captive to Christ. It comes down for us to making sure in the ministry that we aren't doing what we're doing for others and not for ourselves, like the ragged tailor.
Charles Bridges wrote in The Christian Ministry this and I think it's so direct, "If we should study the Bible more as ministers than as Christians, more to find matter for the instruction of our people than food for the nourishment of our own souls, we neglect then to place ourselves at the feet of our divine teacher, our communion with Him is cut off, and we become mere formalists in sacred profession. We cannot live by feeding others or heal ourselves by the mere employment of healing our people. And therefore, by this course of official service, our familiarity with the awful realities of death and eternity may be rather like that of the grave digger, the physician and the soldier than of the man of God, viewing eternity with deep seriousness and concern and bringing to his people the profitable fruit of his contemplations. It has well been remarked that when once a man begins to view religion not as of personal but merely of professional importance, he has an obstacle in his course with which a private Christian is unacquainted. It is indeed difficult to determine whether our familiar intercourse with the things of God is more to our temptation or to our advantage," end quote.
It's true. If we do not use the means of grace for our own righteousness and godliness, we will not be a man of God. Stalker(?) in his book on the Yale series on preaching says, "Brethren, study God's Word diligently for your own edification and when it has become more to you than your necessary food, sweeter than honey or the honeycomb, it will be impossible for you to speak of it to others without a glow passing into your words which will betray the delight with which it has inspired your own heart."
So, the man of God pursues these two general virtues and others correspond. The dominant internal virtues are then named: faith and love...faith and love. What does faith mean? Confident trust in God for everything, loyalty to the Lord, unwavering confidence in God's power, unwavering confidence in God's purpose, unwavering confidence in God's plan, unwavering confidence in God's provision, unwavering confidence in God's promise. We live believing God. The man of God lives by faith. He trusts the sovereign God to keep His Word and meet his needs and provide everything. There's no frustration. There's no forcing. There's no manipulation. He lives in what I call a relaxed desperation. He is desperate because of the tremendous ramifications of the ministry, but he is relaxed because of his confidence in the sovereignty of God.
He lives in faith. The dominant internal attitude is faith. He trusts God. He lives in that confidence. He believes God for everything. He is loyal to God in everything. Unwavering.
And coupled with it is love. That beautiful volitional love, the love of choice, agapan(?), unrestricted and unrestrained. You say, "What does this mean? Love to whom here?" Love to everybody...love to God, love to men, love to Christians, love to nonChristians. It's unrestricted, it's unrestrained, it's just love. His internal virtue is predominantly that of faith in the sovereign God and love to the sovereign God and love to all men. He understands the great commandment, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength," and he also understands how essential it is to love your neighbor as yourself, Matthew 22:37 to 39. The man of God is a lover of God. He longs for God. He understands what Paul means when he says, "O that I may know Him." He understands the significance of a spiritual Father in 1 John 2 who knows Him who is from the beginning. He is a lover of God more than a lover of self. And because he is a lover of God he loves whom God loves and God loves men and so he loves men. The man of God is known as one who pursues after a life of confident trust in the sovereignty of God and love to God and love to men. He seeks to let the love of God shed abroad in his heart, as Romans 5:5 says, out that it may touch the world. He is a lover. And in the sense, please, that he loves enough to confront with the truth, do not pretend to love someone whose sins you will not confront.
And then the outward virtues are designated as endurance and meekness. Endurance or patience is hupomone, it means to remain under. It refers not to a passive resignation but a victorious triumphant endurance, an unswerving loyalty to the Lord in the middle of trials...that's what it means...going through severe troubles, severe anguish, severe difficulty, never wavering, never compromising, always trusting, always believing whatever the circumstance. This is the endurance of the martyr who will give his life if need be for the cause, the shepherd who if need be will lay down his life for his own flock as his master did. This is the person who under the worst of circumstances makes no issue out of his own rights and his own needs and his own demands. This is the noble virtue, the ability to endure injustice, to endure deprivation, pain, battle, grief, whatever it is with spiritual staying power, to endure even to death. This is the spirit that takes what comes in victory.
George Mathison was blind. He fell in love. He lost the woman he loved with all his heart. He wrote a prayer in which he pleaded that he might be able to accept that loss as God's will. He said, quote: "Not with dumb resignation but with holy joy, not only with the absence of murmur but with a song of praise," end quote. Only hupomone does that. It is the man of God who faces the inevitable and the constant trials of ministry that must have that virtue of endurance because the stuff keeps coming and coming and coming on the outside. Read 2 Corinthians 11 and all the things that Paul endured and maintained his victorious triumphant spirit.
And then that second outward attitude is one of meekness, or humility. He projects a selflessness. He projects a meekness, the sweet gentleness of one who though consumed with a great cause recognizes that he makes no contribution to its success. Meekness.
The man of God is known because he follows those things, he follows righteousness. That is he pursues right behavior. He follows godliness, that is he pursues right motives and thoughts. And in his heart he pursues a life of total confidence in God and love toward God and men. And on the outside he pursues a life that no matter what the circumstances manifest triumphant endurance and humility. Those are the marks of the man of God. And again I say you may be a preacher but if these are not the things that you pursue, you're not the man of God.
Thirdly, the man of God is known not only by what he flees from and what he follows after but by what he fights for. This is just a brief and direct point in verse 12. "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life unto which thou art also called and has professed, or confessed, a good confession before many witnesses."
Let me say this very directly to you. I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that the literature of the New Testament supports the fact that a man of God who speaks for God is to see himself as a fighter...as a fighter. We are polemicists. We are usually on the attack. We are fighters, contenders, battlers, soldiers and protagonists. We must understand that ministry is war and we are warring with the truth against error. We are called to be soldiers. In fact, in chapter 2 of 2 Timothy, we are soldiers who must endure hardness, who cannot entangle ourselves with civilian life and who do everything we do to please the one who called us to be a soldier. When Paul came to the end of his pilgrimage and ministry he said in 2 Timothy 4:7, "I have fought the good fight." It was a battle. It was a warfare. And to perceive it as anything less is to lose. We battle the world. We battle the flesh. We battle the devil. We battle sin. We battle heresy. We battle error. We battle apathy and lethargy in the church. We battle the kingdom of darkness that yields to us reluctantly. And so it is a severe and never ending battle.
Sadly, some people don't even know there's a battle. And some people feel that if things don't go exactly the way they want them, they better quit. That if it isn't the way you think it ought to be you ought to leave. And they may be doing nothing but going AWOL. This is a battle. We expect a battle. All that live godly in this present age, 2 Timothy 3:12 says, will suffer persecution. There's no way around it. We were made for war. We were made for battle. And it is a battle. And first of all, we have to admit to the battle. And Jesus said if you're not willing to lose your life to find it, you lose it. And if you're not willing to take up your cross and follow Me, which means to the death if need be, you're not even worthy to be My disciple. This is a warfare.
And so he says fight. And it's again present imperative, as the first two verbs were, keep on continually fighting, be always battling. The term is used in military context as well as athletic ones to describe the concentration and the great effort coupled with discipline and conviction required to win. It's used repeatedly in the New Testament, it's the word agonizomai, from which we get agonize. And the word "fight" is the same root, agon, agonize the agon, agonize through the battle, spiritual conflict with sin, with unrighteousness with the kingdom of Satan. Play your part as a man of God with a noble commitment to the contest for the truth.
I'm thrilled to be a soldier. People say to me all the time, "You always seem to be in some kind of a battle on some front." I seem to be in battles on all kinds of fronts and that's the way it ought to be. It isn't just that I have an ugly personality and make enemies. I know that's not true because there are people on the outside who don't know me. Now people here might think differently but on the outside they don't know. It's the battle over truth. And I am greatly distressed that we live in a time when the idea is that you don't want to be a battler for truth, you want to do all you can to set aside any theology that might make someone else disagree with you. It's frightening to me. We are to earnestly contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, in spite of the intensity and the danger in the fight, beloved, it's a good fight. Fight the good fight. The word "good", kallos is best translated, I think, excellent or noble. Fight the excellent fight, fight the noble fight, battle for truth, battle for the faith. He says fight the good fight of the faith.
What is the faith? The faith once for all delivered to the saints is the contents of the Word of God, the truth. Fight for it, it's the highest cause in the world. Don't compromise. Fight effectively. If you say, "Oh I might get in trouble in this world, they might not like me and I might have to suffer," so forth and so on. All right, then go to the next phrase in verse 12, "Lay hold on eternal life unto which you were also called and have confessed a good confession before many witnesses." What does he mean by that? Does he mean get saved? No. Timothy's already saved. Does he mean go to heaven? No, he doesn't mean go to heaven when he says lay hold on eternal life. What he means, and it's very simple, get a grip on eternal life.
In other words, you won't mind giving yourself up in this world if you've got a grip on eternal life. In other words, live in the light of eternity. Isn't that great? Hey, if you're ministering here just for what you can gain here, you've got the wrong perspective. That's not the perspective of a man of God. Lay hold on eternal life. To put it in the terms of Colossians 3, "Set your affections on things...what?...above and not on things on the earth." "Recognize your citizenship...Philippians 3:20...as not on the earth but it's in heaven." Live and minister in the light of eternity, that keeps your focus in the battle.
And then he says, after all, you were called to eternal life and you confessed a noble confession before many witnesses of that eternal life, now live in the light of it. You were called to it. That's, by the way, every time you see the word "called" used, the reference to calling used in the epistles, it is always the effectual call of a sovereign God to salvation. You were called to salvation which is eternal life. You confessed your confession, publicly confessing Jesus as Lord with your mouth, you affirmed your salvation unto eternal life, you confessed that Christ was your Lord, you confessed it before many witnesses, he may have in mind Timothy's baptism, he may have in mind his ordination, he probably has in mind everything from his conversion on through every confession he ever made. He says you have confessed to being a possessor of eternal life, now live in the light of it. See that?
I mean, what are you going to believe about a man who says, "I live for eternity, I have received eternal life," and you watch this guy and he spends everything he's got and all his energy to amass things here and now. Does he live in the light of eternity? Jesus said, "Where your treasure is...what?...that's where your heart is." To live in the light of eternity. The man of God who has been called to eternal life, who has confessed Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior has entered into a battle with the forces of sin and a battle with the forces of hell, a battle with lies, a fight for the faith which demands every thing he has. And the only way he's going to be able to give himself to that battle is if he can divorce himself from this world and live in the light of eternity.
Paul ministered because he knew some day he'd stand before Jesus Christ, right? He lived in the light of eternity. In Acts 1 it's...Jesus went away, the angels came down and they said this same Jesus will so come in like manner as you've seen Him go, which was saying to them, in effect, get about it, He'll be back soon. Back in chapter 4 verse 8 of 1 Timothy, bodily exercise profits little, godliness is profitable to all things...why? Because it has promise for the life that now is and for the life which...what?...which is to come. So where you going to spend yourself on time or eternity? On temporal things or eternal things? The man of God, beloved, rises above the pitiful struggles for things perishable and things useless. He fights for things that are eternal...the truth of God.
So, the man of God is known what he flees from, what he follows after, what he fights for and lastly, and very briefly, our time is gone, what he's faithful to...by what he's faithful to. Listen very carefully for five minutes to me. Verse 13, "I command you." He's been commanding him on several occasions through this epistle, this isn't the first time. "I command you in the sight of God who makes all things alive and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession that you keep the commandment without spot, unrebukable unto the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ."
The main thrust here comes in verse 14, "That you keep the commandment," te entolen. What does it mean? The commandment, what is that? Some people say, "Well, it's the gospel." Others say it's the teaching in this epistle. Others say it's the whole of the new covenant. Folks, simply it is the complete revealed Word of God, the commandment, this is the commandment of God summed up in a singular word. It could be translated the Word, the revealed truth. He says to Timothy in verse 14, "Keep it," what does that mean? Guard it. Guard it with your life.
How do you guard it? Not only by speaking it, speaking it, speaking it, but by also living it, living it, living it. What good does it do to speak the truth and live a lie? It just undercuts the truth, destroys, devastates. It's so tragic when someone who keeps the Word with their mouth does not keep the Word with their life. Guard it, he says, Timothy. Guard the commandment from God, guard the truth, guard the sound doctrine, keep that which was committed to you.
Verse 13 of 2 Timothy 1, "Hold fast the form of sound words, keep that good thing committed to you, keep it by the Holy Spirit who dwells in you." Use the Holy Spirit's power to hold on to truth. How do you keep it? By preaching it, preaching it, preaching, by living it, living it, living it. Be faithful to it, that's what he is saying. The man of God is known by what he is faithful to. He's faithful to declare the truth. He's faithful to live the truth.
Even if the cost is high. Notice how he covers this, back to verse 13, "I command you to do it in the sight of God." God's watching. But it's not negative, it's not because God's looking over your shoulder and He'll clobber you if you don't. It's in the sight of God who makes all things alive, and that verb is most generally used of resurrection. Get this. In the sight of God who raises the dead. What's the point? The point is this. You keep the truth and you don't waver on the truth and you have the courage of your convictions and you live it and you keep it and even if they kill you for it, God is watching and God is able to...what?...to raise the dead. That's the point.
What can they do to you? Ultimately all they can do at the worst is escort you into eternity. So you don't compromise. In the sight of God, the allseeing omniscient God who makes all things alive, He is not only creator of life, He is sustainer of life, He is provider for life and more than that, the general usage of this term, He is the one who restores life through resurrection power. And so we are to be faithful without fear, faithful with courage knowing that God is watching who is in charge of our life, that is protective power. At worst the world can kill us and He raises us from the dead. And there are perhaps millions of martyrs through the history of the church who are living testimony to the fact that the God who is able to raise the dead was watching them when they took their courageous stand. Amen?
And not only is God watching but he calls another witness. "I command you in the sight of God who is making all things alive and before Christ Jesus who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession," which is exactly what he wants Timothy to do. Hold fast to his confession. He said Christ did it. Christ went before Pilate, Matthew 27:11, Luke 23:2 and 3, John 18:36 and 37, Pilate said to Him, "They accuse You of being a King. Are You a King?" If Jesus says, "Yes, I'm a King," what does it cost Him? His life. Pilate said, "Are You a King?" And in contemporary language Jesus said, "You said it...you better believe it. I am a King and if I wanted I could call an army. I am a King but My Kingdom isn't of this world." They killed Him. That was courageous. That was fearless. Jesus Christ is a living example and model and perfect illustration of courage to be true and faithful to the Word of God at any cost. So he says, "Timothy, I command you to stand for the truth and hold it and preserve it in your message and in your living in the sight of the God who will make you alive if it cost you your life and in sight of Christ who is your example, who stood and it cost Him His life. And God made Him alive." Tremendous...tremendous...faithful because you trust in the God who makes alive and because you want to be like the Christ who took His stand and willingly gave His life for the truth. Jesus told the truth about who He was and why He had come, it cost Him His life.
The man of God tells the truth at any cost. He is faithful to the truth no matter what the price...no matter what the price.
Verse 14, "Timothy, be faithful at any cost," and then he says, "totally faithful, without spot and unrebukable." No blemish and no accusation. I want you to be totally faithful to the truth. You know what the truth is, don't waver.
Not only totally faithful but permanently faithful...until the shining forth, the epiphainos, the appearing, the glorious Second Coming display of our Lord Jesus Christ. In other words, until it's over, until Jesus comes, Timothy, should He come in your life time, until He comes, be faithful...be faithful. Totally faithful, permanently faithful, living in the light of the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
What a picture of the man of God. He's known by what he flees from. He's known by what he follows after. He knows...he's known by what he fights for. He's known by what he is faithful to. I thank God to be called into His service. I thank Him that He in His grace saw fit to make me His man, to preach His truth. But there's a down side risk, and let me close with that. First Kings 13...1 Kings 13 introduces us to a man of God. It just says in verse 1, "Behold, there came a man of God, a messenger from God, a prophet. He came by the Word of the Lord and he was to speak to Jeroboam a prophecy. And he did. And God had said to the man of God, When you have spoken the prophecy leave, and do not eat in that place and do not drink water in that place, do that prophecy and leave."
And after some pleading and some deceit, the man of God was coddled into disobeying. And so he sat down to eat...it says in verse 19...and drink water. He disobeyed God. Small thing. God said give your prophecy and get out of there, don't eat and drink. Eating and drinking is not a moral issue, disobeying God is. "It came to pass," verse 20, "as they sat at the table, the Word of the Lord came to the prophet who brought him back, he cried to the man of God, who came from Judah, the man of God had just used in a mighty way to give a prophecy to a king. Thus says the Lord, For as much as you have disobeyed the mouth of the Lord and have not kept the commandment which the Lord your God commanded you but came back and have eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which the Lord did say to you, Eat no bread and drink no water, your carcass shall not come to the sepulcher of your fathers." They went out of there and got shredded by a lion.
It's a wonderful privilege to be a man of God. It's a fearful responsibility. Potential for great blessing, potential for great danger. Let's bow together in prayer.
Thank You, Father, again this morning for meeting us here in Your presence, for we know that You inhabit the praise of Your people. We bless You for Your Word to us, we want to be the men of God that You want us to be. I pray especially for every man here for this conference, the men who are here in our own church. I pray, too, that all of us might be men and women of God in the general sense who also flee from evil and pursue what is right and fight for the truth and are faithful to it. Father, apply these things in our hearts. Work Your work. Glorify Your name. Exalt Your Son in every life. We pray in His name. Amen.
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When I click on the html file he sent me I can see that the menu works perfectly the way I want it, unfortunately though, I know Nothing about javascript, nothing about .ds_store files and very little about .html files...I am not a coder, just a regular guy.
Anyways, my site is on WordPress foundation, how do I go about adding the navigation menu to my site, Where do I put it in Wordpress? I only had him add 2 states and 4 counties, how do I open it to see what it looks like so I can add more when needed? Do I need to add the .js file + the .ds_store file ++ the .html file ALL to my Wordpress site to get this working? I have added a dropbox link to what he sent me in case that helps. And please, if you are kind enough to answer me, explain it in a way even an idiot can understand 🙂
Also he sent me a folder named Mac_OSX, do I need to do anything with this? I'm working on a PC...
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It's football season! Well, I'm not a big fan. I know it's in season because all the guys and Facebook friends are talking about it. Five Star Makeover challenge is in trend. They're hosting a virtual tail gate party! This month's theme is tailgate food. I was actually excited about this even though I'm not a football or any sport fan in particular. The idea of having a party, finger food, beer, and going wild blows me away (tee hee).
I cordially invite you to join our virtual tailgate party this Friday at our host's home - Natasha @ Five Star Foodie and Lazaro @ Lazaro Cooks.
I had been thinking for a while what I should make. I wanted finger food. Asian BBQ chicken wings, grilled pork with sticky rice, Asian meatballs, blah blah blah.... They all pop into my head but it doesn't "click". You know, it's like chemistry when you're on a date. That is until I thought of a Thai fish cake; I can incorporate this into classic fritters. Fried food is always a hit. Anything fried is good, don't you think?!
Red curry paste and kaffir leaves are mysterious ingredients in this recipe. You will get the what-is-that flavor while eating it and continuing to keep eating more! Salmon chuck and green beans are a nice touch, and topping with fried basil is just sexy. I can gaurantee these fritters will be a crowd pleaser at your tailgate party! Whether your team wins or loses; this dish will always be a winner.
|Fresh diced coho salmon
1 Tbs red curry paste
1/2 Tbs fish sauce
1 cup chopped fresh green bean
1 lb fresh salom. I used Coho salmon, wild caught
2 whole eggs
3/4 cup whole milk or heavy cream
1 1/4 cups AP flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 Tbs minced fresh kaffir leaves
1/4 cup green onion (white part)
1/2 lime, juiced
1 tsp white pepper
Oil for frying
1 cup fresh basil
Salt and Cayenne pepper for dusting
|Red curry paste
- Beat eggs, milk, lime juice, fish sauce, and red curry paste in a bowl or stand mixer just until everything is incorporated and curry paste is dissolved.
- Change the speed to stir or low speed and add flour, baking powder, and white pepper. Stir until mixed.
- Add green beans, green onion, minced kaffir leaves, and salmon to the batter. At low speed, stir to mix. You can use spatula or wooden spoon to mix the ingredients.
- Add oil to a sauce pan and heat it up to 375 F. Lay paper towel on a baking sheet.
- Scoop a spoon full of mixture in a hot oil. Don't overcrowd. Fry them until brown. Use a slotted spoon to scoop up and transfer to prepared tray.
- Keep doing until the mixture is out.
- Sprinkle salt and cayenne pepper to fried fritters.
- Use same oil to fry fresh basil until it's crispy.
|The mixture
Lime juice
Chopped green onion
Splash of Siracha
|They are hot tubing
|Sprinkle with cayenne pepper and salt
|Serve with fried basil and Siracha sour cream
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A total of 58 tournament matches, including 35 men's matches and 23 women's matches, will be played in the 27-day tournament in Bengaluru, Chennai, Dharamsala, Kolkata, Mohali, Mumbai, Nagpur and New Delhi. New Delhi and Mumbai will host the semi-finals on 30 and 31 March, respectively, while Eden Gardens in Kolkata will be the venue of the 3 April finals. The women's semi-finals and final will be followed by the men's knock-out matches. There is a reserve day for the finals.
The men's event will carry a total prize money of $5.6million, which is an 86 per cent increase from the 2014 tournament, while the total prize money for the women's event is $400,000, which is a 122 per cent increase from the Bangladesh event.
There have been five different winners of the men's event while the England women's team won the inaugural tournament at home in 2009 before Australia won three straight titles in the West Indies, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh in 2010, 2012 and 2014, respectively.
According to the men's event format, eight sides in two groups of four, will feature in the first round matches with the group winners joining eight sides in the Super 10 stage (two groups of five teams). The top two sides from both the Super 10 Groups will then qualify for the semi-finals. In the women's event, the 10 sides will be divided into two groups and the top two sides from each group will progress to the semi-finals.
The first round matches in the men's event will take place in Dharamsala and Nagpur from 8-13 March and will feature Bangladesh, Netherlands, Ireland, debutant Oman (all in Group A), Zimbabwe, Scotland, Hong Kong and Afghanistan (all in Group B). In a double-header on the opening day on 8 March, Zimbabwe will face Hong Kong in the afternoon match, to be followed by the evening match between Scotland and Afghanistan. Both the matches will be played in Nagpur.
The group winners will join Australia, England, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, Sri Lanka, West Indies and host India in the Super 10 stage, which will be played alongside the women's event from 15-28 March.
Men's defending champion Sri Lanka has been placed in Super 10 Group 1 along with South Africa, West Indies, England and the Group B winner. It will open its title defence against the Group B winner in Kolkata on 17 March, and play West Indies in Bengaluru on 20 March, England in New Delhi on 26 March and South Africa in New Delhi on 28 March.
Host India, which won the inaugural tournament in South Africa in 2007, is in Super 10 Group 2 along with 2009 winner Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand and the Group A winner. India will launch its campaign in Nagpur against New Zealand on 15 March, while it will go head to head with Pakistan in Dharamsala on 19 March. Its other matches will be against the Group A winner in Bengaluru on 23 March and Australia in Mohali on 27 March.
2009 champion Pakistan will take on the Group A winner in Kolkata on 16 March, before locking horns with traditional rival India in Dharamsala on 19 March. Its remaining two matches will be in Mohali against New Zealand and Australia on 22 and 25 March, respectively.
England, which won the 2010 tournament in the West Indies, takes on 2012 winner the West Indies in Mumbai on 16 March, followed by matches against South Africa (18 March in Mumbai), the Group B winner (23 March in New Delhi) and Sri Lanka (26 March in New Delhi).
After taking on England in its tournament opener, the West Indies will square off against Sri Lanka (20 March in Bengaluru), South Africa (25 March in Nagpur) and the Group B winner (27 March in Nagpur).
First round (group winners to progress to second round)
Group A – Bangladesh, Netherlands, Ireland and Oman
Group B – Zimbabwe, Scotland, Hong Kong and Afghanistan
Second round groups
Super 10 Group 1 – Sri Lanka, South Africa, West Indies, England and winner group B (Q1B)
Super 10 Group 2 – India, Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand and winner group A (Q1A)
Group A – Australia (A1), South Africa (A2), New Zealand (A3), Sri Lanka (A4) and Ireland (A5)
Group B – England (B1), West Indies (B2), India (B3), Pakistan (B4) and Bangladesh (B5)
Tournament schedule ('M' denotes men's match; 'W' denotes women's match; PM means afternoon match and Eve. means night match. Match timing to be confirmed in due course)
Tue, 8 Mar – Zimbabwe v Hong Kong (PM), Nagpur; Scotland v Afghanistan (Eve.), Nagpur
Wed, 9 Mar – Bangladesh v Netherlands (PM), Dharamsala; Ireland v Oman (Eve.), Dharamsala
Thu, 10 Mar – Scotland v Zimbabwe (PM), Nagpur; Hong Kong v Afghanistan (Eve.)
Fri, 11 Mar – Netherlands v Oman (PM), Dharamsala; Bangladesh v Ireland (Eve.), Dharamsala
Sat, 12 Mar – Zimbabwe v Afghanistan (PM), Nagpur; Scotland v Hong Kong (Eve.), Nagpur
Sun, 13 Mar – Netherlands v Ireland (PM), Dharamsala; Bangladesh v Oman (Eve.), Dharamsala
Tue, 15 Mar – India v Bangladesh (W) (PM), Bengaluru; New Zealand v Sri Lanka (W) (Eve.), New Delhi; New Zealand v India (M) (Eve), Nagpur
Wed, 16 Mar – West Indies v England (M) (PM), Mumbai; Pakistan v Q1A (M) (Eve.), Kolkata; West Indies v Pakistan (W) (Eve.), Chennai
Thu, 17 Mar – England v Bangladesh (W) (PM), Bengaluru; Sri Lanka v Q1B (M) (Eve.), Kolkata
Fri, 18 Mar – New Zealand v Ireland (W) (PM), Mohali; Australia v New Zealand (M) (PM), Dharamsala; South Africa v England (M) (Eve.), Mumbai; Australia v South Africa (W) (Eve.), Nagpur
Sat, 19 Mar – India v Pakistan (W) (PM), New Delhi; India v Pakistan (M) (Eve.), Dharamsala
Sun, 20 Mar – South Africa v Q1B (M) (PM), Mumbai; West Indies v Bangladesh (W) (PM), Chennai; Sri Lanka v Ireland (W) (Eve.), Mohali; Sri Lanka v West Indies (M) (Eve.), Bengaluru
Mon, 21 Mar – Australia v New Zealand (W) (PM), Nagpur; Australia v Q1A (M) (Eve.), Bengaluru
Tue, 22 Mar – England v India (W) (PM), Dharamsala; New Zealand v Pakistan (M) (Eve.), Mohali
Wed, 23 Mar – England v Q1B (M) (PM), New Delhi; India v Q1A (M), (Eve.), Bengaluru; South Africa v Ireland (W) (Eve.), Chennai
Thu, 24 Mar – England v West Indies (W) (Eve.), Dharamsala; Australia v Sri Lanka (W) (PM), New Delhi; Pakistan v Bangladesh (W) (Eve.), New Delhi
Fri, 25 Mar – Pakistan v Australia (M) (PM), Mohali; South Africa v West Indies (M), (Eve.), Nagpur
Sat, 26 Mar – Australia v Ireland (W) (PM), New Delhi; Q1A v New Zealand (M) (PM), Kolkata; England v Sri Lanka (M) (Eve.), New Delhi; South Africa v New Zealand (W) (Eve.), Bengaluru
Sun, 27 Mar – West Indies v India (W) (PM), Mohali; India v Australia (M) (Eve.), Mohali; England v Pakistan (W) (Eve.), Chennai; Q1B v West Indies (M) (PM), Nagpur;
Mon, 28 Mar – South Africa v Sri Lanka (W) (PM), Bengaluru; South Africa v Sri Lanka (M) (Eve.), New Delhi
Tue, 29 Mar – Rest/travel day
Wed, 30 Mar – Women's semi-final (2nd group A v 1st group B) (PM), New Delhi; men's semi-final (Super 10 Group 1 2nd v Super 10 Group 2 1st) (Eve.), New Delhi
Thu, 31 Mar – Women's semi-final (1st group A v 2nd group B) (PM), Mumbai; men's semi-final (Super 10 Group 1 1st v Super 10 Group 2 2nd) (Eve.), Mumbai
Fri, 1 Apr – Rest/travel day
Sat, 2 Apr – Rest/travel day
Sun, 3 April – Women's final (PM), Kolkata; men's final (Eve.), Kolkata
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The Paxton TV Stand is casual with just a touch of industrial interest. It features four doors covered in an industrial metal grille. Behind the doors is ample space for your media players with four adjustable shelves.
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Democrats Say Continue South Dakota GOED Investigation
The Richard Benda portion of the Northern Beef Packers/Governor's Office of Economic Development/South Dakota Regional Center, Incorporated saga was revealed last week with the release confirming Benda's suicide. So now we know that Benda siphoned over a half million dollars from the project.
Keeping the pressure on the Governor and State officials is the South Dakota Democratic Party. Executive Director Zach Crago would like the investigation to go further and be conducted by an outside agency into the GOED. Crago is less than satisfied with the findings and feels that Attorney General Marty Jackley left too many loose ends. In a press release, Crago outlined his motivation behind the charges.
"It is outrageous that Attorney General Marty Jackley has terminated his so called investigation without addressing the theft of public funds. This is exactly why I had called on Mr.Jackley to recuse himself. He is simply unwilling to conduct a real investigation that may look too closely into his patron former Governor Mike Rounds, who alone had the authority to grant state dollars to the bankrupt Northern Beef Packers plant. There are too many unanswered questions, and the Attorney General has proven he will not look to find the answers.
"It is time for Governor Daugaard to name an independent special prosecutor. $550,000 was stolen from the South Dakota taxpayer. South Dakotans deserve a real investigation to get to the bottom of this."


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Not only is Adrian Peterson healthy, but he's hitting his stride.
But while the Vikings running back's numbers are moving in the right direction, the Bears' run defense has looked vulnerable lately, heading into Sunday's game at Soldier Field.
''We're just in a slump,'' cornerback Charles Tillman said, via Sean Jensen of the Chicago Sun-Times. ''It just happens like that sometimes. Guys are trying.''
Maybe so, but the numbers show they're not getting much for their efforts.
The Bears entered the bye week second in the league in run defense, allowing 65.8 yards per game. They've since slipped to eighth, after giving up 131.5 yards per game on the ground in their last four.
Granted, they've played from behind, against good backs, and the numbers are inflated by some garbage-time runs, but the problem is clear.
Meanwhile, Peterson leads the league with 1,128 yards, his torn ACL seemingly decades ago. Unlike the Bears, he's trending up, with 157.2 yards per game over his last four.
"I think everything can be vulnerable, especially against a team where it's no surprise that we're going to run the ball and we're going to try to establish the run game," Peterson said. "'They haven't faced a run game like us this year, I don't think. So we're excited about the challenge, and I'm sure they are, too."
Given that Peterson's the one thing the Vikings do well offensively, the challenge for the Bears is clear. Stopping him is another problem altogether.


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PITTSBURGH, Pa. – For the second time this season and the third time in his career, Brandeis University men's basketball senior guard Tyrone Hughes (Dorchester, Mass./Taft School) hit a shot as time expired, today connecting on an off-balance jumper to give the Judges a 77-76 overtime victory over University Athletic Association (UAA) rival Carnegie Mellon University in Skibo Gymnasium. With the win, Brandeis improves to 12-8 overall, 6-3 in the UAA, while CMU falls to 7-13, 2-7 UAA.
Earlier this season on January 22, Hughes forced overtime with a buzzer-beating offensive rebound against the University of Chicago in UAA action as the Judges went on to win 97-89. His first buzzer-beater came on Nov. 30, 2010, when he drove the length of the floor for a lay-up to defeat Clark University, 67-65, also in OT. Today, after CMU missed a pair of free throws with less than nine second left in the extra session, Hughes dribbled into the offensive zone and got off a jump shot that he banked home as the lights went off on the backboard to give the Judges the win. Brandeis improved to 4-0 in overtime this season and has now won nine in a row when playing more than 40 minutes.
Today's game was a tale of two halves in regulation. The Judges led by as many as 13 and were ahead 36-27 at the first intermission thanks to 65% shooting from the floor (15-23) and 63% from 3-point range (5-8), while holding the Tartans to 34% (11-32) overall and 30% from deep (3-10). In the second, the hosts responded with a 62%-35% shooting advantage (13-21 to 10-29). CMU opened on a 15-3 run to take their first lead of the contest at 42-41 with 12:47 left in regulation. They expanded that lead to six with 6:19 left in regulation on a Christian Manoli lay-up that made it 58-52. The edge was still six at 64-58 with 2:48 to go on a John Duhring bucket.
Brandeis answered with a key exchange on their next possession, as junior guard Jay Freeman (Dorchester, Mass./St. Mark's School) hit the first of three free throws, but rebounded his own miss and out it back to cut the deficit to three. CMU hit one-of-two from the line on their next trip, but senior forward Vytas Kriskus (Kvedarna, Lithuania/Holderness (N.H.) School) made it a one-possession game with a pair from the charity stripe with 1:45 left. Kriskus gave the Judges a 66-65 lead with a traditional three-point play with 46 ticks on the clock. Carnegie Mellon's Joe Kromka got back to the line with 18 seconds left in regulation, but only hit one of his shots, knotting the game at 66. Kromka also blocked a Freeman shot with less than three seconds left, while Manoli's attempted game-winner also came up short, forcing overtime.
The OT featured two ties and two lead changes. Despite losing Kriskus and sophomore Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.) with five fouls each, the Judges were able to take advantage of poor CMU free-throw shooting to hang around. The Tartans, who were 12-of-14 from the line in regulation, hit just 5-of-10 in the last five minutes. CMU owned a 76-73 lead with 57 seconds left when Sean Brophy had the Tartans' only two-point trip to the line. Freeman cut the lead to 76-75 on a lay-up with 37 seconds remaining. On the next possession, the Judges fouled Manoli with nine seconds left, and he missed both attempts, with sophomore Alex Stoyle (Goffstown, N.H./Tilton School) grabbing the rebound to set up Hughes's heroics.
For the game, Brandeis put four players in double figures in scoring. Kriskus led the team with 16 points and a game-high eight rebounds. He hit 5-of-9 from the field with a 3-pointer and 5-of-5 from the line. Freeman added 12 points off the bench, outscoring all the CMU reserves by himself as Brandeis owned a 27-11 edge in bench scoring. Hughes and sophomore guard Derek Retos (No. Attleboro, Mass./Brimmer and May School) each score 11 points, with Retos hitting 3-of-6 from downtown and Hughes tying for game-high honors with three assists. Hughes also played all 45 minutes, marking the fifth time this season and ninth time in his career he has played at least 40 minutes in a game.
CMU had three starters finish in double figures, led by Duhring with 21 points while Manoli finished with 17 and sophomore guard Asad Meghani rounded out the trio with 13. Kromka led the Tartans with eight rebounds while Brophy was second with seven. Kromka also led the team with a career-high four blocks and Brophy led the team with a season-high three steals.
The Judges continue their UAA road trip with a matchup against the University of Rochester on Friday, February 10th. Carnegie Mellon also hits the road for a UAA contest at the University of Chicago on the same night.


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Meet Melissa Joan Hart, who lost a whopping 40 pounds on Nutrisystem! She is a mother of three sons named Mason (8 years), Braydon (5 years) and Tucker (17 months). Was it a magic? Here Melissa Joan Hart explains how she lost 40 pounds on Nutrisystem and what it means to her.
Hi, I am Melissa Joan Hart and I lost 40 pounds using Nutrisystem.
Q: How much weight did you gain with Tucker?
A: I gained about 60 pounds of Tucker.
Q: Ok and that's your third pregnancy?
A: Yeah and I lost a chunk of it. You know after the baby was born his weight and you know all the other stuff.
Q: But that's only around 10 or 15 pounds.
A: That's not a lot. I know it's not a lot and so then I had another 30 to go. I lost that 30 and then it felt good and I kept going and now I am 40.
Q: Is Mark supportive? How does he handle?
A: He is very much supportive. Oh! He is the guy who is like disciplined and you know his whole thing is to "stick to it, be healthy and be fit". He does it for me so I have returned him a favor. I mean I had three babies for him but I also wanted to look fantastic going into my 40's.
Q: Are you going to have more babies?
A: I don't know we haven't decided. We thought so but now we are exhausted. I know the feeling! I know I feel great so I don't want to go back there. For me it was important to bond with my child, as opposed to lose the weight. So, I waited until I was ready, and I knew I had the time, and then I made it a priority that I would eat well and then once I had some time and my schedule will open up I would get back to working out, spinning. I love spinning, I go home walking and love hiking. I got the joggers to walk while dragging the stroller so that I could stay active.
Q: Did you ever feel the pressure to get skinny right away?
A: Well, No not this time. In the beginning I felt uncomfortable pressure that I rebelled against. But this third time I had to go back on camera. I wanted to look great. So I focused on it once I knew I had the time.
Q: Are you there where you want to be?
A: I am actually. I am really happy where I am. I can live like this. I am on a good path. I feel amazing and I have just so much energy to give to my kids and work and my husband and you know it's just a good time again.
Q: What are your experiences with the camera?
A: I stay away from that scenario but they don't come stalk me. They don't hunt me down because I do expose my child. I do take them out and make them see. So I have protected my kids by kind off putting them on camera and letting people see that these are my kids and this is my family. They are also coming with me in commercial of splash into the pool. They are cute. I said that I want them here. I think they are beyond adorable so why don't show them off?
Nutrisystem is based on the concept of eating foods of low glycemic index. It's a method that has been proven scientifically to promote sustainable and safe weight loss.


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MUKILTEO — A trail providing public access to a park and beach with views of Whidbey Island and Possession Sound opens today in Mukilteo.
The gravel trail begins near Sound Transit's Mukilteo station at 920 First St. and continues for about a quarter of a mile, leading to Edgewater Beach. The park will be open from dawn to dusk.
The trail will provide interim access to the one-acre park, which is owned by the Port of Everett. "The long-term vision is to use Mukilteo Lane and the Mount Baker railroad crossing and a nicely paved road," said Marko Liias, a policy analyst for the city of Mukilteo.
The Mount Baker crossing, which has been closed due to construction at the transit station, is expected to reopen late this year or early next year, he said.
A ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 10 a.m. today at Edgewater Beach "to celebrate the fact that people can get to the beach safely and legally," he said. It's not legal to pass through the gates near the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's research lab, Liias said.
Visitors are urged to park outside the fenced area adjacent to the lab, such as along Park Avenue or at Lighthouse Park.
Edgewater beach and park straddles the boundaries of both Everett and Mukilteo. Mukilteo is working with the Port of Everett to provide restrooms and garbage pickup at the park. Police and other public safety will be provided by Mukilteo, Liias said.
The park is part of a 22-acre area where a U.S. Air Force tank farm was once sited. The Mukilteo ferry dock eventually will be moved to the area.
Earlier this year, five government agencies drew up a tentative plan for dividing the site. Mukilteo is searching for a consultant to help the city develop a plan for the far-west end of the property, near the current waterfront business district, Liias said.
Sharon Salyer: 425-339-3486; email@example.com.


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$\{G,*\}$ is a group with identity element $e$, and $\{G',\circ\}$ is a group with identity element $e'$. Let $S=G\times G'$. Define the "product" of pairs of elements $(a,a'),(b,b')\in S$ by $(a,a')(b,b')=(a\circ b,a'*b')$
Prove that $S$ is a group under the "product" operation.
My first thoughts on the problem was that how can we prove that $a\circ b\in G$ and $a'*b'\in G'$ and thus that $S$ is closed under the "product" operation. The problem is, I can't seem to find a way to do so. The fact that $a*b\in G,\forall a,b\in G$ doesn't seem to give any information about whether $a\circ b\in G,\forall a,b\in G$. Any help with regards to closure would be helpful. Hopefully I can use that help to figure out associativity, identity and inverse for myself.


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