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Well this is really your time tonight and we have Jesse over here, and Curt over there to kind of give you a little bit of guidance. As I said this morning, the idea is not to stump me, that would be pretty easy. The idea is maybe help you a little bit to understand some things, to bring the Word of God to bear upon them. It's not limited to Bible interpretation, how do I interpret a certain verse here and there. I brought my MacArthur Study Bible so I have all the answers here. In case...somebody said to me this morning, you know, there's a statement in John 17 such and such and such and such, what do you think that means? I said I don't know, but I'll go home and read my notes in the Study Bible and I'll tell you tonight. I don't remember everything I wrote in there, you understand that. And going over it and over it and over it as often as I do, I still need to be refreshed. So it's a good companion for me to have along.
I spent this afternoon, just as a footnote while somebody comes up to ask a question because that would be a good way to start....I spent the afternoon reading through the latest volume of commentary material, and this is the second volume in the gospel of John, I finished it a few months ago, it was an agonizing process to get it down because I preached the gospel of John I think the first year I was here.
And so basically when I write a commentary, I write it off of the original sermons that I preached, they're typed up, they come to me quadrupled spaced and I use that as the basis and then I fill in between all the lines and add and change things. It was a very painful exercise because...now that was the second volume, I had already done the first volume, but in both cases it was done so long ago and in the first year I was here, I really thought I was deep. But when I looked at what I preached back then, from this vantage point, I wondered why these even allowed me to continue to preach here.
So I had to do a lot of extra work. I think the two volumes come out to about 800 pages on John and I found probably about a hundred pages worth in what I preached in 96 messages on the gospel of John many years ago. But for me, it is a profound catharsis to pour all that truth back through me and to go into the book and search it out and develop it and write and rewrite and edit and add and delete and enrich and do all of those kinds of things. What an immense privilege.
So even though I'm not preaching it to you, I'm full up to my ears with the truth of the gospel of John. And what a marvelous, marvelous epistle it is. I think, and I always felt like this would be the worst of all the commentaries because it was coming off of material I preached at the beginning of my ministry and it wasn't as well informed, and I thought it would end up being the worst. But I think at this point it may be my favorite two volumes in the whole series because of the astounding wonder of Jesus Christ who is the theme of these two.
So I was studying the gospel of John and it was as fresh to me as if I never had preached it. And even though I preached it many years ago, I've preached the contents of it again and again through the years. And yet every time I go back to it, it's a special joy. So I'm like you, in a sense, some people might give me more credit for a good memory than I deserve and I need sometimes to read my own commentaries to find out what I believe about things. And I have my Study Bible handy. So we'll see whether I need it or not.
Now maybe that's enough people for the time being, so that people don't wind up standing there for a very long time. Why don't we begin over here, just give me your name so I know who I'm talking to, then you can ask your question.
PHIL: Hi, John, my name is Phil Holland and I've been with you for 31 years and still...
JOHN: Thank you for your ministry.
PHIL: And I just have one quick question that I've...it's been on my mind for quite some time. Both my wife and I live in Burbank, we have a lot of people from the Watchtower Society come to our door.
JOHN: Right.
PHIL: And I have such a great compassion for these people that I actually invite them in so we can talk and I can get a chance to share the gospel. And my question was, out of, of course, John's second epistle in verse 10, "If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house and do not give him a greeting," and then John goes on and on. How would you respond to that? And....
JOHN: Well we have to respond...good question, Phil,....we have to respond to that in its context, okay? In the period of the New Testament and after and before, there were itinerant teachers. Basically people travel around and taught and preached. They were dependent upon the care and the reception of people in the towns and villages where they went to receive them into their homes to give them lodging, to give them food. That's the context here. What John is saying is, when an itinerant teacher comes to your town who is not faithful to the gospel, do not provide for him a home, a place of reception. That's the context here. It does not mean that you should not have a conversation with somebody with the objective of communicating the gospel to them.
In fact, Jude tells us that we need to snatch people like brans from the burning without getting our own garments burned or we need to reach down for people who are corrupted without staining our own garments. So, you remember perhaps the best illustration of this, of course, on the positive side would be Jesus sending out the 70 in the New Testament and saying, "Wherever you go where people receive you into their home, you know, give peace to that home. Where they spurn you, you know, shake the dust off your feet and go somewhere else," that's a picture of the itinerant preacher moving around the countryside going from village to village, that's how they plied their trade. It still goes on to some degree in parts of the world today. But it would be the idea of a welcoming reception.
If in the Jewish kind of social world, having a meal with someone was tantamount with acceptance of that someone. That is exactly the way they viewed that because that's why the leaders of Israel condemned Jesus, they said He eats with sinner. And the Pharisees, you remember, wouldn't eat with anybody but a Pharisee. So the idea of opening your home, receiving somebody in, having a meal, giving them hospitality, caring for them, meeting their needs which is aiding and abetting their enterprises is exactly what it's talking about there, I don't think that it is specifically referring to the fact that we should not have a conversation with these people geared to communicating the truth to them. I think we should.
Now having said that, you have to be very, very careful that if you're going to engage yourself with a Jehovah's Witness, or with a Mormon, or with any other person that comes along denying the truth, that you take the position of the offensive. It's very easy for them to twist and manipulate a new believer who can get tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine. So someone as mature as yourself, I would say they have no idea what they just stepped in to, and that's a good thing. So keep it up, Phil. Okay...okay.
CARLOS: Good evening, John. I just want to tell you I love you.
JOHN: Thank you...thank you. I'll take that any time. Thank you.
CARLOS: In regards to particular redemption or some would call it limited atonement...
JOHN: Sure.
CARLOS: I love your teaching on that the last year and a half or so, I appreciate it. In 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 1 it says, "But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves." Can you tell me how that verse reconciles with the doctrine of particular redemption? You know, the fact that Christ didn't die for people who will never be saved...according to...
JOHN: Well apart from the rather extensive note in the Study Bible, there is a very extensive note there on that because it's a very important issue...and I think...what I've said here, and I will read it because I think it's important. The terms which Peter used here are more analogical than theological, speaking of a human master over a household, the Master bought slaves and the slaves owned the Master allegiance as their sovereign. Where God in Deuteronomy has said to have bought Israel though they rejected Him. Doctrinally this analogy can be viewed as responsibility for submission to God which the false teachers had refused. We're not talking about bought in a redemptive sense. We're not talking about bought in a ransom sense. We're not talking about bought in a salvific sense. We're talking about being bought analogically. And in this sense, every human being that comes into the world has an obligation to God. And as I see it, that's the best way to understand that. If you take...what he's asking, of course, is if you take a limited atonement view, that is that Christ actually provided a real atonement for all those who would believe and for no one else, then you cannot say about an apostate that the Lord bought them. So that's the question. But here it does say that and I feel the best response to that is that this is analogical. That is to say, every human being has an obligation to God as sovereign master. And to fail to fulfill that obligation, look at the human responsibility side, brings about swift destruction. It clearly says they deny the master...they deny the master. And that's where you draw the analogy part of it. They are guilty of rejecting their responsibility to the sovereign who is over all men. And consequently they exist in a position of disobedience and rebellion for which they are culpable. Okay? Good question.
DAVID: Hi, my name is David...and I was running into a cult member and I said, the Hare Krishnas, and I said, "How often do you folks get together and share meals and their fellowship together?" And they said basically almost every day with meals. And then I look at Hebrews 3:12 and 3:13 it says, "See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God and encourage one another daily for as long as it is called Today so that none of our hearts get hardened by the deceitfulness of sin." And I look at our pattern and I look at cult's pattern, even the cult down the street, and we have a tendency to not meet as much as they do. Can you shed some light on why we have our pattern and how it was established?
JOHN: Well sure, and I can go as far as I can go. Let me say this. I spend an awful lot of time with Christians. I married one. So far I've raised four, they married four and I've got fourteen more coming along. My whole life is surrounded by the people of God, every day of my life, wherever I go, I'm in fellowship. It is a very rare day in my life, even if I go away somewhere in the world, or somewhere in the country that I'm not in fellowship with God's people. What you're dealing with, with Hare Krishna, is communal living which is a kind of socialism, it's a kind of communism. It's the same thing with the Buddhist temple down the street. We have in recent months, as Rick was talking about, I guess it was back in December, gone down there and talked with them and spent...essentially Rick gave them the gospel, I don't know if you knew that. Majesty...was it? One of the singing groups at the Master's College went down because they were interested in finding out what Christian Christmas music was like, so we put on a concert. Rick went and preached the gospels to the monks inside the temple. And they were saying they wanted to come to the concert but there were certain limitations upon what they could do. They had to wear their orange robes. They kind of work in a collective kind of environment. And if they came here, they would have to come in that garb and they were under authority. And it's turned out they didn't come.
But that's a very different thing. It's a very circumscribed communal socialistic living where people who...it's like Buddhist priests and these people, they give up all their freedoms, they give up all their ownership. They step into that kind of communal environment. That is not to say Christians aren't responsible to spend more time with each other. But I don't think there's a biblical mandate about that. I think the family is the unit in Christianity that is the primary unit. That is where...and you can go all the way back to Deuteronomy chapter 6 where parents are told to lead their children to talk about God every day when they stand up, walk in the Way, rise up, lie down. The family is God's unit by which righteousness is passed from one generation to the next. We saw an illustration of that tonight in baptism.
So we are not a communal society. In the book of Acts, early in the book of Acts that was not communism, it wasn't everybody selling everything they possessed and taking the money and pooling it and doling it out equally to everybody, such as in the Communist or Socialist structure. It was merely families, individuals willing to make sacrifices to give money to the elders that could be disseminated to the people who had need. That was all discretionary. In fact, in Ananias and Sapphira's case where they sold a piece of land, it wasn't that they didn't give it all to the Lord. It was that they said they gave it all to the Lord and they lied. And you remember, Peter said to them, "You didn't have to sell it and you didn't have to give it all. But the Lord's not going to tolerate your lies." So there's no biblical justification for communal living, for any kind of socialism, any kind of communism. I mean, that's...that's a lot of answers to the question, but I appreciate it, David. But I am saying this, where believers know someone has a need, they need to open their hearts and open their homes and embrace those people and meet those needs, right? How can you say you love God if you see your brother in need and close up your compassion to him? Okay?
And you know what? One of the reasons we have a Sunday night service is because we want to be together more than just on a Sunday morning. Most churches don't even have that. And during the week, I would be interested to know how many of you people sitting here tonight meet at least one other time other than on Sunday with other believers during a given week, put your hands up. There we go...there we go. Grab one of those hands and they'll take you to their next meeting.
DAVID: Do you think food would facilitate fellowship a little better, like rolls or something?
JOHN: Yeah, David, let me put it this way. There is no fellowship without food. (Laughter) It never happens. I don't know...I don't know how coffee got into the Kingdom of God, but it's certainly there...as we know when we have to spray wash the church patio every Monday from the coffee. Okay.
JESSICA: Hi, my name is Jessica, I attend the Master's College...
JOHN: Hi, Jessica.
JESSICA: I was greatly encouraged by the Truth in Life Conference.
JOHN: Good...good.
JESSICA: And I had a question regarding that. I know that God's Word is God-breathed and infallible and I believe that He is faithful in preserving His Word throughout the translations which is why I was concerned when you were speaking about the word doulos and its faults in the translations. So I was just wondering that our English translations are not fully reliable unless we look back at the original language. And are there other places that are mis-translated?
JOHN: This is a very good question. Some months ago I talked about doulos, the word slave, which the English translators inevitably have translated servant or bondservant which is kind of an invented word. And I talked about how much we have lost because the word is slave and it should be translated slave and that's a paradigm that really helps us understand what it means to be a Christian, kurios, doulos, Lord, slave...there's no such thing as a Lord who doesn't have slaves, no such thing as a slave that doesn't have a lord or a master. And I laid that out. And one of the sad realities of New Testament translation is that the word which means slave is so often translated servant. A servant is somebody who works for a wage. A slave is somebody who is owned. That's a big difference. The idea of slavery is a paradigm which makes sense out of the New Testament.
So her question is, why would God permit this word in the English versions? Is He not protecting His Word?
The answer to your question is, He is protecting His Word because we know without question what the original is. We know it without question. Everybody has always known it. We haven't lost the Word of God at all, we know exactly what it is. The text is pure. It is doulos. In fact, none of the doulos passages that I know of, and there are almost a hundred and fifth of them in the New Testament, are disputed. They're all clearly doulos.
Now your second question is, are there other things that are obscured? I've never come across anything like this before. That's what's been so remarkable about it. And by the way, we have a new assistant baseball coach at the college and after I spoke on this the other night, Christ Bando, you may know the name, he played in the major leagues for ten or eleven years, a wonderful, wonderful Christian man, his wife and his sons, part of our college family now, Christ came up to me after I did that and he had a fresh new Greek translation of the New Testament by Jay Adams. You know who Jay Adams is? And he had been faithful to translate doulos slave all the way through. So maybe this is making a resurgence. There are definitely some historical things that find their way, and I don't know of anything anywhere close to the breadth of this. It's the only one I know of. But the text has not been corrupted. And I don't know everything about every other language in the world and how they deal with that word, but God has protected His Word. Occasionally translators are unfaithful to that. But we know what the original says.
And anybody..that's why I'll say this, Jessica, that's why it's so important for people who teach the Scripture to deal with the original languages. Even English sometimes misses the nuance. If you use the word "servant" for example in English, that would translate at least six and maybe seven Greek words that all have a different nuance. That's the value of digging in to the original languages.
JESSICA: Thank you.
JOHN: Good question...thank you. See how insightful the Master's College students are. Great question.
BRET: Hello, sir, my name is Brett Barton. I praise God every day for your faithfulness over the years.
JOHN: Thank you.
BRET: I just had a practical question. I've heard before, a couple of times, about the way you apologize to people, so this is just a practical wisdom question for me to grow from. I just would like to know do you've got like a policy...I've heard just as an example, Dick Mayhue said that he had a lady write you and say that she had appreciated your ministry but she was going to stop supporting it because she had found out that you were stealing all your material from her pastor.
JOHN: Yeah.
BRET: And you wrote her back and apologized.
JOHN: Yeah. That's one of my favorite letters. This lady...this lady wrote me from the Midwest and she said, "I've been listening to you for years and I have now figured out, you're using all my pastor's material and you never give him credit." I don't know how she figured out I even knew who her pastor was. But I just wrote her and said, "Ma'am," I didn't want to say the obvious, I didn't want her to lose confidence in her pastor, so I just wrote and said. You know, "If I've ever done that, I ask your forgiveness. I'm just grateful you have a good, faithful pastor," something like that.
Yeah, first of all, I can't keep up with all my critics. So I learned along time ago not to try to defend myself. Just to write back some kind of a letter that says thank you for the criticism, thank you for pointing these things out. If there's been anything that I've done that offended you, I'm sorry for that. Pray for me. And just go on.
I just don't think you...I never want to be backed into a position of being defensive. Because if the truth were known...Look, I'm not perfect, I know that. And if you happen to pick the wrong thing to criticize me for, you could just as well have picked the right thing to criticize me for. So who am I to defend myself? I will defend the people around me. If people come to me to criticize the people I work with, they're going to find me an unwilling hearer. I don't take people's criticism of the people that serve the Lord with me or in the circle of faithfulness. I don't take that very well. I will defend them. I will always defend them until I have reason not to. But when it comes to myself, I...you know, it's kind of like the Old Testament, "Let your praise be in another man's lips." I'm not going to spend my whole life trying to defend myself.
I've got to tell you a funny story. Is Melinda...are you here? Where are you, Melinda? Yeah, my daughter, Melinda. Some years ago she went to work at Grace To You. Now she thought...she comes to Grace Church, she thought everybody liked her father. You know, because nobody stands up here and criticizes me or protests, it's pretty...pretty loyal group here, that's why you're here. And she thought everybody liked my father.
Well she came to work at Grace To You and they put her in the responsibility of...was it?...taking e-mail off the computer, or whatever it was, you were getting messages coming on the computer, all this anti-John MacArthur propaganda was coming like a flood and she had the job of taking all this stuff off the computer. And there were all kinds of websites that were sort of anti-John MacArthur websites and all this. She just didn't get it.
Well she didn't say anything. She just started firing back at these people. (Laughter) Stuff like this, "How dare you, you don't know my father. I know my father and he does not do that." (Applause)
So finally, as it all began to mount, that's like pouring gas on a fire, you know, you do that. It came even hotter. And finally she told me about it and I said, "Stop doing that. That's what they want. Are you kidding? You've just fed the monster. They've got John MacArthur's daughter reacting to them. That's what they're after."
So I just don't think...I don't think there's any virtue in that. You just keep teaching the Word. You know, I've said this many, many times, time and truth go hand in hand. Given enough time, the truth about a person will be told. And you just keep doing what you do, do it faithfully, do the best you can do. Don't defend yourself. Just encourage people if they criticize you, thank them and say, "Pray for me." And just move on and let God be your defender. And let time and truth be your defender. I mean, that's a better way, as far as I'm concerned. Okay? Good question.
AMY: Hi, Dr. MacArthur, my name is Amy.
JOHN: Hi, Amy.
AMY: I want to thank you so much for your ministry. You've impacted so many people, including myself and my family. My question is, what is the relationship...how does the Bible define the relationship between Christ and the Holy Spirit, especially during His ministry on earth?
JOHN: Good question.
The best way to understand that is this, that when Christ emptied Himself as it says in Philippians 2, and took upon Him the form of a servant, He yielded up His own personal will. He said over and over, as we have noted many times, "I only do what the Father shows me to do. I only do what the Father tells me to do. I only do what the Father does. I only do it when He says to do it." And it comes to the crux in the garden when He says, "Not My will, but Yours be done," which means He is completely submitted to the Father's will. So He goes through life, not that His will is in disagreement with it, but He yields up His own prerogatives to do the will of the Father.
The self-emptying, however, is more than that. It is more than just a willingness to do the Father's will in the Father's time. It is a yielding up of prerogatives within His own power. For example, He said if I wanted to I could call a legion of angels. Right? But I won't. He yielded to the Father's will and He yielded to the Spirit's power so that if you, and this comes out in Matthew chapter 12, if you said of Jesus He does what He does by the power of Satan, that's what the leaders said, He says you have blasphemed the Holy Spirit. Which is to say what He does He does by the Spirit.
You see an illustration of that, several illustrations of that, early on in the gospel of Luke. You can remember the Holy Spirit leads Jesus into temptation. The Holy Spirit empowers Him as He goes into Galilee, empowers Him to preach, empowers to do miracles so that He in His self-emptying does the will of the Father in the power of the Spirit. So to assign what He does to the devil is to blaspheme the Spirit who is really the one doing it. This comes into clear focus, if you understand from the very beginning, that He was conceived in the womb of Mary by the Holy Spirit. He was at His baptism being baptized by John the recipient of the Holy Spirit in a symbolic way when the Spirit came like a dove and settled upon Him. This was a demonstration of now that He's going to launch into His ministry, it's going to be empowered by the Holy Spirit. So that's the way to understand that.
Now Jesus said in that last night in that Upper Room with the disciples, He said, "When the Holy Spirit comes, He will speak of Me." So the ministry of the Holy Spirit now is to point us to Christ. In His humiliation, Christ pointed to the Holy Spirit as the source of His power. In His exaltation, in His saving work, the Holy Spirit comes to point us to Christ. Okay? Good question, Amy.
AMY: Thank you.
CHRIS: Hi, Pastor John, my name is Chris.
JOHN: Hi, Chris.
CHRIS: I know that you've spent a large portion of your ministry and even your life to training men for the ministry. I think the building right to my left is a testament of that. So I have a two-part question for you.
First of all, what would you say to a young man who was aspiring to be in full-time ministry, who strongly desired it but wasn't quite sure that he was called by God? And secondly, what are some major pit falls that same young man should be looking out for.
JOHN: Sure, I think I know who that young man is. (Laughter) That's wonderful, Chris. Look, you're in the same place everybody's in. I never had an epiphany, an angel never showed up. I never heard a voice out of heaven. When I looked at my own life and said, "What do I want to do?" There were no supernatural events. There were NO supernatural events.
All I could look at was a desire. And I think that fits perfectly the New Testament pattern. First Timothy 3, "If a man desires the office of an overseer, or pastor, he desires a noble work." The assumption there is that this is the normal way that God indicates the calling through desire...through desire. And as that desire flourishes and strengthens, it becomes a singular desire.
All I can tell you is there were times in my life when I thought I would be a preacher. Then there were times in my life when I hoped I would be a preacher. Then there were times in the progression of that when I knew I would be a preacher. Then there were times when I knew I couldn't be anything other than a preacher or a pastor.
And I think it's that desire that grows and develops. And what grew it in me was not so much the nature of ministry itself, but my undying passion for the book. When I went to college, I'm not going to give you a whole lot of useless information about my past, but my whole life I got notes that I had to take home about how bad I did in school. And "Johnny could do better" notes, you know? My mother was always saying to me, "We know you can do better..." And I was always trying to convince her, "No, no, this is it, I'm maxed out (Laughter). I'm giving it my best shot, that's all I can do." "No, you can do better...you can do better." And the teachers would say Johnny could do better.
The point is, I was no scholar. I was no academic. That was true all the way through high school. And in college, I didn't let my books get in the way of my education either. I went through college from one event to another event, student life, athletics, every sport...I played every sport in my college days. I was involved in all kinds of activities.
As I got toward the end of my college years, I think it was my junior-senior year, the Word of God took on a whole new depth for me. And what it came down to was this need to know what the Bible meant. That's what drives me, by the way. It's not you that drive me, it's this that drives me. I really became a preacher of the Word of God because I didn't want to do anything in my whole life but that because I wanted to know it and I wanted to share its glorious truths with others.
And so, it just kept developing in my heart. And I remember when I went to seminary, remember now, I had convinced my mom that I had maxed out with, you know, Cees and Bees, and I went to seminary and I remember the first time I showed her my first semester report card. She just..."I knew you hadn't been telling me the truth all these years." I went through seminary and I did so well and I graduated with honors and all of that. And there was one driving reason, I was doing what I really loved and the passion was there.
The other components of that, the desire, the growing explosive desire in your heart that eliminates anything else, the next thing that comes along was confirmation from the people who were saying, "You want to teach? Let's hear you teach." And that's fine as far as it goes. But if you say I'm called to teach and everybody says, "Oh no you're not," maybe you ought to think about that. But where there's affirmation of your giftedness and where there's confirmation by the leadership of the church that your character and your giftedness fits this, so you have the laying on of hands like in the case of Timothy. But all the way along, sure there's a certain sense of "Is this what I really what I ought to do." Why, because there's this nagging unworthiness, there's this reality that how am I going to survive? How am I going to be faithful? You just take it a day at a time.
I will tell you, it is the greatest joy, continues to be the greatest joy of my life. But it continues also to be more important than it ever has been in the past, it's a growing joy that I have. So there's a certain sense in which it's a desire, a flourishing, developing desire. Eventually you can't do anything but that because that begins to completely capture your heart. Then you have to look at your giftedness, response, affirmation from spiritual leaders around you, set aside your fallenness because the only kind of people the Lord can use are broken vessels, because that's all there are. Okay?
And when it comes to that, and I tell young guys this all the time, all ministry, all ministry comes back to this book, all of it...all of it is informed by this book. So when you want to get trained, get the tools to understand this book. And then when you've gotten that foundation, you can go take whatever field you want, whether you want to teach, whether you want to be in a university, what do you want to teach in a seminary, pastor a church, or be a missionary. But the end of the day, all ministry is a dissemination of divine truth, right? And that's what you want to make sure you grasp.
If you're young enough, if you still have a little bit of doubt about whether this is what you ought to do, and I can honestly say I had no idea when I went to seminary what I was going to do, I just was driven to dig into the Word of God and I loved it. I don't think I even knew till I finally got to my third year where I would go. But I think you can start there and if the Lord continues to make that desire flourish that you're going to find that you're in the right spot. My guess is, if that's already a passion for you, that's the work of the Lord in your heart. Okay? Good.
MARK: Hi, Pastor MacArthur, my name is Mark Nielson, how are you?
JOHN: Good, thank you, Mark.
MARK: My question is, in Romans 11:26, Paul says, "All Israel will be saved," who does he mean exactly as far as we can tell from the Scriptures as who all Israel is?
JOHN: It's pretty clear if you put that together with the whole picture eschatologically. All Israel will be national Israel in the future...in the future. All Israel will be saved at some point. Right now, individual Jews here, there, but as a people they have not come back to their Messiah. In the future, God will sovereignly save the nation. That will be essentially the Jews collectively as a people will believe in Messiah, Zechariah says, they will look on Him whom they've pierced, mourn for Him as an only Son, a fountain of cleansing will be opened and they'll be washed from their sins and they'll receive the Kingdom God promised to them in the Old Testament. That is after, according to Isaiah, two thirds of the rebels...two thirds of Israel rebellious purged in judgment during the time of the Tribulation. So in the period time of the Tribulation, there's going to be a salvation of national Israel. It encompasses twelve thousand from every tribe. They don't know their tribes now, God does know them. Constitutes 144 thousand Jews, then they become evangelists to the world. The revival seems to start to take effect, the salvation of Israel in the city of Jerusalem, Revelation 11, at the end of the chapter where the population of Jerusalem begins for the first time after the two witnesses to glorify God. So that's talking about a future generation of Jews at the end of the age that the Lord will redeem as a constituted people and give to them the Kingdom which was promised in the Old Testament.
MARK: Does that literally mean any Jew who would be alive at that time?
JOHN: Right.
MARK: Okay, great. Thank you.
BRIAN: Hi, John.
JOHN: Hi.
BRIAN: My name is Brian.
JOHN: Hi, Brian
BRIAN: How you doing? Let's see, I consider this a privilege being able to ask you...you don't know how many times in my own personal studies I've always thought...Boy, if I could only ask Mac about this thing." You know. And so now what I've been graveling with lately and it's kind of a trivial thing. In Leviticus 11, I guess God didn't give me the gift of speaking in public, just as a side note....
JOHN: You're doing great.
BRIAN: In Leviticus 11, God gave to Aaron and Moses the commandment about cleanliness, unclean animals in hygiene and such. And there was food that was forbidden, to kind of go along with the food and fellowship thing. A lot of that food that was talked about then is part of our cuisine now. How do we address that?
JOHN: Sure, that's good, very good question.
The critical thing for God dealing with Israel was this, they were to be repository, the national repository of divine truth, okay? They were the...they were the sole monotheists in a polytheistic animistic world, okay? They were the true worshipers of the true God. They were an island in a sea of polytheism, animism, whatever kind of false religion...multiple gods.
How was God going to protect them and insulate them? The food and fellowship thing comes into play. They couldn't dress like the other nations. They couldn't eat like the other nations. And basically all social contact, as it still does, is built around the dining environment. So what God was doing was isolating them.
They had cooking laws. They had certain animals they could not eat. There were ways they had to prepare the food. They couldn't mix milk and meat, that's still part of being kosher today. But all of that had no real purpose other than isolation, just a way to separate them. This was part of their cleanliness so that they just couldn't go over to anybody's place and interact with them and therefore be influenced. God was designing a peculiar people.
Another way to view it on the big picture side was no matter how the other nations did it, the Jews did it different. No matter how they dressed, the Jews dressed differently. No matter what they ate, the Jews ate differently. No matter how they prepared the food, the Jews did it differently. They had all kinds of laws with regard to Sabbath, ceremony, worship, all that isolated them. The design of God was to isolate the community for its own holiness, separation...separation.
At the same time, they were challenged to proclaim the truth but with in inability to interact with the other cultures to protect them from evil influence. And God was protecting the people to protect their future so that the Messiah would come from Abraham through the line of David that that would still be in existence. So that was part of the insulation and protection.
Once the Messiah came, all that part of the law goes away. And that happens immediately in the book of Acts. Peter has a vision, remember that in Acts 10? He sees a sheet an din the sheet are all kinds of animals, clean and unclean. And the Lord says to him, "Rise, Peter, kill and eat." All that's gone...no more.
And his response is, "Wait a minute, I've never eaten anything unclean." And the voice comes back and says, "Don't dare call unclean what God has cleansed." That whole part of the Old Testament law, that ceremonial part is gone. That's why in Colossians Paul says, "Don't let anybody hold you to a new moon, a festival, or any kind of food." And he goes on to talk about it a lot that we're no longer under Old Testament dietary laws. So they're gone. So you can feel free to eat anything.
There were some issues in the past that in some of the elements of their diet were designed to protect them from diseases. There's a wonderful book written about 35 years ago, it first came out called None of These Diseases by McMillan, a medical doctor. He showed how some of those laws in the Old Testament, even circumcision was a way to prevent certain diseases as God protects His people in a very unique way. But in the New Testament, all of that element of the Law is set aside and what remains is the moral and theological elements of the Law, okay?
BRIAN: Thank you.
????? I have a question about if you've given God authority over your life and you've been praying for something and doing everything in your power to make it happen, and it's not. At what point can you say, "Okay, this is not God's will," or at what point do you continue trying?
JOHN: That's a good question and I think the answer to that is you never really want to say this is not God's will if what you are seeking and praying for is for His glory. That's the question. I don't know what this specific thing is you're thinking of but when you're...for example, let's take you're praying for somebody to come to salvation. You...you don't ever want to get to the point where you say, "Well, I've been praying for I don't know, a half an hour here, and or I've been praying for 30 days or I've been praying for two years," you don't ever want to assume that it's not God's will to save someone. That's presumptuous.
You can assume, however, that it's not yet God's time. I think the thing that has to cover your prayer at all times is, "God, if this is Your will, do this," and you pray and you keep praying and you keep praying and sometimes you pray for a long time, many years, decades. Since you don't know God's will, you can't say it is God's will, nor could you say, "Oh well, it's not His will."
I had a very prominent preacher say to me, somebody you would all know, say to me, "I have a child that's not elect."
I said, "What? What do you mean you have a child that's not elect?"
"I have a child that's not elect."
I said, "Well why would you say that?"
"Well, because this child has not come to Christ and it's been a long time. And the direction of the life of this child is opposite."
I was very surprised by that. By the way, that particular child is now in Christ and serving alongside that father. So I teased him a little bit about his inside knowledge of who's elect and who's not. You just don't want to get to the point where you decide that God's going to act in your time or you're going to think it's not His will.
So, depending on what it is. If you're praying for God's will in a certain situation, keep praying, God hears you just because you're faithful, that's called importunity, you know, like the guy who knocks and knocks and knocks and knocks and if somebody is going to do what you want just because you keep banging and he's irritated, what will God do for you when you keep asking and He loves you? So don't give up. Okay. Yes, sir.
ANDREW: Well, Dr. MacArthur, my name is Andrew.
JOHN: Hi, Andrew.
ANDREW: Is the New Testament Lord's day Sunday in any way a replacement for the Jewish Sabbath? And to what degree then should Sabbath principles and also specific laws apply to how I spend Sundays?
JOHN: Very good question. First answer...no. The Lord's Day is not a replacement of the Sabbath, no. Secondly, there are no Old Testament Sabbath laws that apply to Sunday.
Now if you want a fuller explanation, which I think you probably do, this was the whole subject of a message that I gave and I will point you to that message. Genesis 2:2, " By the seventh day, God completed His work which He had done and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done." And then verse 3, "Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."
When I was teaching on those two verses, when I went through Genesis, some of you remember, I gave a great amount of effort and time to that very question. So what I want you to do is call Grace To You on the phone, 1-800-55-GRACE. And when the lovely gal answers the phone, you say, "John MacArthur told me to call, that you're going to send me free CDs on Genesis 2 and 3." Okay? Will you do that? And they will send those. Okay? All right, Andrew.
ANDREW: I also want a copy. (Laughter)
JOHN:: You want a copy? My advice to you is see what you can get away with. Now you understand that if 35 people call Grace To You tomorrow and give that speech, nobody's getting anything. Okay.
CHRISTIAN: My name is Christian ???? My question is about grace evangelism, I've taken that long ago. And in that it forces you to preach Jesus Christ to be God. Now do you really have to preach Jesus Christ to be God when you're preaching the gospel on the street or someone...to someone actually? Because when I look at the Scripture, they do when they teach the gospel, they would say the Messiah, actually, you know, died and resurrected. They don't actually and directly say the Messiah or Jesus Christ is God.
JOHN: Well, sure. Ultimately you have to define who they're believing in. Who is the Savior? Who is God's chosen one? And therefore you're going to have to define who He is. That may not be the first thing you say, but at some point you must preach Christ. And if you're going to preach Christ, then you have to make it clear who Jesus Christ is. It is meaningless to someone to respond to a Christ who in their mind is not the Christ who is the true Christ. You have to explain this is the God/Man. That may not be the first thing you explain. You may start with the Lord Jesus Christ is the Messiah of Israel, the sacrifice for sin on the cross. But sooner or later in every discussion, they must believe that He is God. Obviously if you start in Romans 10:9 and 10, "Believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord," the question is going to come up. What does Lord mean? And you're going to go not only Master but divine sovereign Master, God himself. So yes, in every presentation of the gospel it must be affirmed that Jesus is God incarnate.
Now let me just show you why this is so important. Did any of you happen...December 23 or something, Joel Olsteen was on, and they asked him about Romney and they asked him about whether he accepted Romney as a true Christian. And, of course, he said yes, yes, he believes in Jesus, he believes in the same Jesus I do. I accept him as a Christian brother. He kept saying, "I think...I think..." And then at the end of all that he said, "Nah, I never thought about it." I think I think, but I never thought about it. That's a perfect illustration of that kind of stuff. I think he is. He talks about Jesus. He talks about the same Jesus I talk about. He loves the same Jesus. I love...
See, that's what Mormons want you to think. That's what Jehovah's Witnesses want you to think. That's what Muslims would like you to think. They believe Jesus is a prophet, a true prophet. So it is essential that we define Christ accurately.
We did a little gospel tract at Grace To You called "Who is Jesus Christ?" Because that's the prevailing question. Okay?
TOYA: Hi, Pastor John, my name is Toya.
JOHN: Hi, Toya.
TOYA: I have a question regarding sacrifice of yourself. Recently...well we've gone through some major issues with our daughter. And they're really started to escalate. But in the midst of it, I feel such a compulsion to want to do something for other people, take care of my family but also do something for other people as well. And I have been a lot of responsibility taking care of my daughter at home and everything, but in the midst of it, really wanting to serve. I don't mind losing sleep a little bit to serve, to sacrifice. But I also know that I need sleep so that I can be well. But it's hurting me that I can't serve because it's such a joy and being able to give. And the desire has even increased. How do I look at it? Do I sacrifice sleep to study more? Or if I can't sacrifice and do my priorities, but to do for others, you know, sacrificing myself and trust that the Lord's going to give me the strength. How do I do that?
JOHN: Just listening to you, Toya, I would assume that you're probably doing exactly the right things. Your heart is coming through. You're struggling for that balance, but...and I wouldn't question your commitment at any level, and you don't need to question your own.
But let me just say this to you. Your priority is your daughter. Now, this is only for a season, okay? This isn't your whole life. This isn't your whole future. This is for now. And there are times in all of our lives when there is someone for whom we have the most immediate priority responsibility, right? And in those times, and in those seasons, we give ourselves wholly to them. God knows that. The Lord understands that. That's your priority. That's where your focus and your energy needs to go.
In endeavoring to reach beyond that, you may cheat that person because you're not getting your rest, you're not getting your sleep, you're not maybe having time in the Word. So this is for now. This is for this season. And I'm convinced the Lord would have you to give the maximum attention and focus. And to get as much energy into that commitment to your daughter as you can, you're going to need to be wise about how you take care of yourself. Believe me, the Lord will cover the basis for you as you cover the priority situation. And you'll find that balance. The very fact that you asked the question tells me where your heart is and that the Spirit of God will direct you in that balance.
And I think what I'm probably hearing is an unnecessary feeling of guilt. You don't need to feel that way. The Lord will take care of the needs of the folks around you while you fulfill the priority of the one that the Lord actually gave you. Okay?
TOYA: Also, I would include her, it would be a teaching thing to her, too. Like I cook...I like to cook for people, and she'd be right there with me and we'll do it together and teaching her about sacrifice and doing for others.
JOHN: Then do it.
TOYA: Okay.
JOHN: Look, you're going to find that balance cause your heart is right. You're going to find that balance, just keep in mind what your priority is. If you can do both at the same time...win/win.
TOYA: Okay, thank you.
JOHN: Okay, Toya. All right, we're going to have to take a couple more and that's going to be it. So..
CHRIS: Just a quick question.
JOHN: Quick question.
CHRIS: Hi, :Pastor John, my name is Chris ????, simple question, I don't know if there's a simple answer. I've already looked into Scripture and the different views on it, I just simply wanted your understanding about Sheol and particularly regarding the immediate destination of Old Testament saints...after they die.
JOHN: What happened to Old Testament saints when they died? Their bodies went to the grave and their spirits either went into the presence of God or out of the presence of God. There's no neutral holding tank...as some people have thought. I think, you know, David said, "I will awake in His likeness." So I think the Old Testament saints understood that they would be in the presence of the Lord. So Old Testament saints who died, their spirits either went out of the presence of the Lord or into the presence of the Lord. Their bodies remain in the grave until the return of Christ, Daniel 12. At that time they receive their glorified bodies at the end of the Tribulation when Christ returns to set up His Kingdom. Okay? Good. Yes.
ERICA: Hello, Pastor John, my name is Erica but I have two questions that are related on behalf of Kathy Kemp. I'll read those to you.
JOHN: Hi, Kathy.
KATHY: Hi, John.
ERICA: She says, "How are you?"
JOHN: Great
ERICA: The questions are, when we die, do we wake up in God's presence? And will we know each other in heaven?
JOHN: When you die, you will immediately go into the presence of the Lord. "Absence from the body, present with the Lord," right? 2 Corinthians 5, or Philippians, "Far better to depart and be with Christ." It's instantaneous. It's instantaneous. There's no delay. There's no waiting. It's not waking up because you never really go to sleep. It's absent from the body, present with the Lord. As soon as your spirit leaves here, your spirit never goes to sleep, your spirit never dies. Your body may go to sleep, your spirit will enter into the presence of the Lord immediately.
And then at the Rapture of the church, you will receive a glorified body and there are no wheel chairs in heaven...none of them. (Applause). Okay? But there's no soul sleep, waiting place, no limbo, you go from the presence here to the presence of the Lord. You'll see the Lord Jesus face to face. When you get to heaven, you will know as you are known, you will have instant knowledge of the Lord, instant knowledge of everybody else that is there.
I wrote a book on heaven. You can go to the bookstore afterwards and get a copy of that book, it has a whole section on that. Okay? Will you do that, Erica, for her?
KATHY: How are we going to know each other?
ERICA: How are we going to know each other? Should she just read the book?
JOHN: Well, you could probably gain a lot by reading the book, or I can just give you the answer and you can forget the book. Either one. Because you're going to have perfect knowledge. You're not going to need...we won't have...to put it another way, not only will there not be wheel chairs, there will not be name tags. You will know because you will have perfected knowledge, okay?
KATHY: I think you rock.
ERICA: She thinks you rock. (Laughter)
JOHN: Thank you, I think you roll. (Laughter) Together we're a perfect combination. Okay. Really quick.
CHUCK: How you doing, Pastor? My name is Chuck Johnson, we go back all the way to the days of Harley and I just want to ask you a question, I keep forgetting to ask you. But it's in regard to actors in the entertainment business. And a lot of churches have high esteem for actors and they sit in a lot of front places in churches. In regards to them taking on roles that we would probably consider ungodly and they use language and they are married and they kiss other women and they drink, but they aside say that it's just work alone. Just what's your take on...
JOHN: Hey, I think you're a Christian twenty-four hours a day wherever you are. I don't care if you're in a movie or not in a movie, you don't sin. You don't sin in private, and you certainly there's no virtue in sinning in public and saying it's only a role I play.
I know what you're talking about and I know some of those churches where those people are high profile. I just think there's a terrible lack of integrity and consistency in a Christian testimony...I don't see how a Christian can do that. I just...I don't think you can use the excuse that I'm only acting because what you're doing is selling sin. That's what movies do. I think it's touch for actors. You know, there are many very good competent actors who find it very difficult to take roles because they are unwilling to compromise. I think that's the right place to go, use your talent where you can use it, use it when it's honest, legitimate, doesn't compromise your testimony, wouldn't bring reproach on Christ. And if there aren't very many of those things, you've got to find another way, the Lord will take care of you. But I don't think there's any justification for someone who claims to be a Christian, acknowledging Christ, to play a role that is ungodly, that is sinful, that would bring dishonor on the Lord and that would advocate and promote sin. It's just not right for a Christian.
CHUCK: Thank you, Pastor.
JOHN: Okay, our time is gone. I think I've kept you too long now. Are you in a real panic mood over here? Okay. This will have to be the last question, I think, Jesse.
HARRY: Yeah, this is a quick one. My name is Harry.
JOHN: Hi, Harry.
HARRY: Matthew chapter 16 where Peter said...or Jesus said to Peter, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood did not reveal this to you." Where he said, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God." Then Jesus said this, "I also say to you," is that a claim to deity. I also...when God the Father revealed to Him that Thou art the Christ and then He says, "I also say to you.
JOHN: Yeah, what you're saying is, by Christ putting what He says on an equal level with what God says, this is making Himself equal with God. That's a good observation, yeah...yeah. Good, Harry. Keep looking at the Word, keep digging, that's wonderful. And that's enough for tonight. And nobody asked me who to vote for. Thank you very much.
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Dr. Juan C. Cockburn received his B.S. in Electromechanical Engineering from the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. From August 1994 to July 1995 he was a Research Associate with the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, Minnesota sponsored by Honeywell Technology Center, were he worked on practical algorithms to obtain minimal models of systems with uncertainty. From 1995 to 2002 he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering of Florida State University. His research focus was on the application of robust control of tracking systems in the aerospace, robotic s and process control industries. After receiving tenure and promotion in 2002, he moved to the Rochester Institute of Technology where he is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering. Dr. Cockburn was a visiting scholar at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University during the summer of 1998. In the summers of 2000 and 2001, he held NRC Summer Faculty Fellowships at the Air Force Research Laboratories at Eglin Air Force Base, Fort Walton, Florida. His research contributions have been in the area of robust control theory and uncertainty modeling. He has authored/co-authored more than forty technical papers. Dr. Cockburn serves as a reviewer for multiple technical journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is currently interested in the application of robust control theory and uncertainty modeling to the economics of sustainability, 3D printing systems and computer vision.
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Macksamie, K. and Cockburn, J.C. and Wagner J., "LPV Tracking Control for Economic Management of Ecosystems," IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, pp 1131-1935, October 03 - 05, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2012.
Cockburn, J.C., McLoud, K. and Wagner J., "Robust Control of Predator-Prey-Hunter Systems," American Control Conference, pp 1934-1939, June 29 - July 01, San Francisco, CA, 2011.
Nelson E. and Cockburn, J.C., "Dual Camera Zoon Control: A Study of zoom tracking stability," ICASSP , Honolulu, HI, March , 15-20 April I-941-I-944, 2007.
Castaneda, B, and Cockburn, J.C., "Reduced Support Vector Machines Applied to Real-Time Face Tracking," ICASSP , Philadelphia, PA, March 18-23, 2005.
Cockburn, J.C, "Discussion on Generalized LFT-based representation of parametric uncertain models", European Journal of Control, Vol. 10, 338340, 2004.
Cockburn, J.C., "Multidimensional Realizations of Systems with Parametric Uncertainty," Proc. MTNS, Perpignan, France, June 2000.
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I've avoided writing anything so far about the latest Gaza war because it's just too depressing. But I can't ignore the situation entirely. So, a recap of points I feel like I've made 100 times before (at at least twice on my old blog), and which unfortunately never stop being relevant.
Israel's policy, since at least 1993, has been a fighting retreat.
Israel ceded territory to the PLO at Oslo without settling any of the most contentious issues that fuel the conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs.
In 1996, Israel's Labor government launched a massive attack on Lebanon, in an effort to cripple Hezbollah. A few years later, the next Labor government withdrew unilaterally from Lebanon, leaving Hezbollah (the spawn of their 1982 invasion) the most potent force in that country. The 2006 war on Lebanon degraded Hezbollah's capabilities temporarily, but strengthened the organization politically.
When PLO leader Yasser Arafat launched a massive wave of terror attacks against Israel, the Israelis elected arch-hawk Ariel Sharon, who ultimately led an Israeli response in Operation Defensive Shield. A few years later, that same Ariel Sharon withdrew unilaterally from Gaza, leaving Hamas (the spawn of the Israeli occupation) the most potent force in that territory. The next Kadima government's war against Gaza in 2008 degraded the "terrorist infrastructure" in the territory, but strengthened Hamas politically. It looks likely that the current war will have the same effect.
It's possible that Hamas will, when this is all over, have emerged as Israel's only plausible Palestinian negotiating partner, and will have won a loosening of the embargo, and have achieved these things on the battlefield. Or they may get less than that – but, bottom line, this war will have been another round in which Israel achieves the tactical objectives it set at the outset, but its enemies achieve their strategic objectives.
Israelis are rightly terrified of what the increasing sophistication of their enemies' missiles portends. The next iteration of the conflict will see more powerful missiles falling across the most densely-populated portion of of their country. The Israeli response to such an eventuality will, presumably, be even more horrific. And when that round is over, Israelis and Palestinians will be facing exactly the same questions about a final settlement that they are today, and that they have been since 1988 when Jordan took itself out of the equation.
Although the day-to-day makes me exceptionally pessimistic, looking from 20,000 feet I actually feel modestly optimistic. Why?
First, because the conflict in Gaza has remained a one-front war, just as the past conflicts in Lebanon have remained. For all the substantial solidarity that exists in the Arab and Muslim world against Israel, individual actors in this depressing drama are still driven by their own self-interest. Hezbollah has lined up with its patron – Assad – and hence against other supporters of the Palestinian cause – Turkey, the Gulf states – who are supporters of the Syrian rebels. As well, as Hezbollah has gained power and status in Lebanon, it has more to lose by provoking an Israeli response. When it comes right down to it, taking big risks for other people's conflicts is never terribly popular. And so, Hezbollah has stayed out.
That should encourage Israelis about the long-term trajectory of Hamas, as well. Winning on the battlefield will, on the one hand, encourage radicals who support violence; but, on the other hand, the more established Hamas becomes, the more they have to lose. In the long run, Israel is not particularly well-served by Quisling regimes, because such regimes cannot actually deliver on any promises they make. Israel can only make a durable peace with an opponent of unquestionable legitimacy. And this war just gave Hamas a bit more legitimacy.
That doesn't mean that a Hamas victory – which, to one degree or another, is what is likely – will make the prospects of peace more likely in the short term. Nothing will make the prospects for peace more likely in the short term. But a thoroughly legitimate Palestinian leadership is a necessary if not sufficient condition for any kind of final settlement – a settlement that will require a Palestinian retreat from maximalist positions on repatriation (something "everyone" knows will be forthcoming – everyone, that is, except the Palestinian people). And the most plausible route to legitimacy for any nationalist movement is through armed opposition to the colonial power.
Necessary, but not sufficient. The Israeli far-right could be correct about the "eternal" nature of hostility to Israel. If they are, though, then Israel is doomed. Even the most heavily-armed Jewish state won't be able to hold out against the determined opposition of the entire Arab and Muslim world. Israel's survival is premised on the notion that under some set of circumstances, the Muslim world will accommodate itself to the existence of the Jewish state. That is, it is premised, ultimately, on the notion that everybody can be motivated by self-interest.
If that is the case, the only question is when it will become clear to both sides that self-interest dictates a mutually-agreeable solution. Unfortunately, the history of the conflict to date suggests that this will only happen when the Palestinians have enough to lose from initiating conflict that peace is preferable to continuing to fight, and Israelis have retreated to the point where they truly have nothing else they can concede without losing their state – when all the bluffs and phony red lines are past.
It would be nice if we could get there without years of additional violence, but I wouldn't bet on it.


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[Editor's Note: This commentary by former Federal Election Commission Chairman, Center for Competitive Politics Chairman and Founder, and Capital University Josiah H. Blackmore/Shirley M. Nault Professor of Law Bradley A. Smith is reprinted here with his permission.]
A libertarian professor friend of mine took the opportunity of Trump's nomination to write on Facebook:
The fact that the GOP appears to be nominating Trump, and the fact that libertarian-leaning conservative intellectuals in the GOP are (rightly) frothing at the mouth the most about it, only provides more evidence for my long-standing view that libertarian intellectuals who thought their (our?) home was in the GOP were making a very risky "pact with the devil."
He went on a bit but that gets the mood and core message of the piece.
My response, which I'll reprint here with light edits, was this:


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A 29-year-old Army soldier serving in Afghanistan secretly came home for the holidays to New Jersey and surprised his mother at her company Christmas party by dressing up as Santa.
Travis Ruggiero didn't tell most of his relatives that he was coming home, going so far as to stay with cousins and sneaking around town for two days so as not to ruin the surprise.
He rented a Santa suit and showed up at the work party for his mother, Leslie Ruggiero, a nurse in a maternity ward.
His mother, not knowing she was standing right in front of her son, was handed a card and became emotional as she read it.
"It's from my baby," she exclaimed.
"And where is he?" asked another person at the party, apparently in on the ruse.
"Afghanistan," she said, weeping, and not noticing her son behind her, taking off his Santa hat, hair and beard.
Then she turned and saw her son. The room erupted as they embraced.
The Ruggieros later appeared on the "Today" show, where Leslie Ruggiero said she was "still in awe that he pulled this off."
"He's been away from home for years but always made that effort to be with family for Christmas," she said.
Travis Ruggiero said he had "a couple of close calls" before the surprise, but was proud to have made it work.


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BRISTOL — The Addison Northeast Supervisory Union has commissioned a facility and educational needs study for Mount Abraham Union High School.
"There are no current issues with the structure," said Arden Harwood, the facilities director at Mount Abe. "But for the first time, probably ever, we're trying to be more proactive with the repair cycle."


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Weekly Writing Update – 12/18/14
It's that time again~! Unfortunately neglected for a long time, my Weekly Writing Update is starting up again! NaNoWriMo kinda knocked me out a LOT. My sleep schedule got fucked over, my writing schedule got fucked over, and for almost two weeks, I couldn't write a word, not even to get this blog up and running again. But! I am hopefully recovered, and going to start writing again!
Word Counts:
First Book of the Kurylian Saga: 22,205 words
Kaimi Rowe Series: Seeker Born – Rough Draft – Restarted
Blue Roses – 9,971 words – Dystopian Love Story
Blog Posts
Guest Post – Chat With A Kitchen Witch
Imagine Your Oc – Practice Drabbles 1
Guest Post – Let's Talk about Karma with a Kitchen Witch!
ISWG 11/5/14 – NaNoWriMo Anxiety
Books Read
Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer
Normal Gets You Nowhere by Kelly Cutrone
Finish The Well Fed Writer by Peter Bowerman (Published 2000)
Finish Real Money Answers by Patrice C. Washington
Finish Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
Polish up Blue Roses for submission to this contest
Two more blog posts for this blog this week!


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The Three Wise Men, or Kings, bow down before the child Jesus in gratitude. For me, 2011 was a year for growth in gratitude — because I spent this past year fighting prostate cancer. I didn't see it as a Job-like tragedy but what often befalls men of my age regardless of their "goodness," or lack of it, in the eyes of God.
I was grateful, first, that my illness wasn't going to kill me quickly, if ever. But, the news that my prostate had to be removed and that hormones and radiation were to follow was a thunder-clapping reminder that every day is a gift.
Later I was grateful when a kind of good humor unexpectedly arrived and buoyed my spirits for a while after the surgery. I found lots to laugh about and people to laugh with, given the travails of my body and spirit. Yet, I was not to remain the same man, no matter how good the jest or manly the bravado. If anything proves definitively that the human person represents the full union of the material and immaterial, the body and the intellect, it's experienced in the impact of drastic, sudden changes in body chemistry.
My body had absorbed three consecutive shocks to its natural chemistry. I found myself actually feeling things differently, sometimes at a darker level than I had known before. There were times when none of my usual coping mechanisms worked — there was no music, no film, no round of golf, or time with family and friends that would release me from the darkness.
For a time I was overwhelmed, then something within urged me to get acquainted with this new me. I've accepted (almost) what those changes entail. Though the surgery, hormones, and radiation are over, the new me is still hanging around. There are even times I like the new me more than the one I left behind — I'm more creative, more compassionate, and more grateful to God for the gift of life.
I'm a Christmas music fanatic. A long row of Christmas music LPs still stands at dusty attention on my bookshelves. Names like Perry Como, Bing Crosby, the Kings College Choir, and Eugene Ormandy peek out from their spines. (My Christmas cassette collection was destroyed by a flooded basement), but CDs began replacing them long ago, the latest being a superb collection of new and traditional carols from conductor Simon Halsey, Rejoice! Christmas at Sage Gateshead. All the CDs have been "ripped" into downloads, and the only music presently loaded on my iPhone is about Christmas.
I had forgotten how superbly Glen Campbell sang "Little Altar Boy" — it doesn't eclipse the memory of Karen Carpenter, but the same note of sincerity is there, and it's touching. But my favorite right now, among all my Christmas recordings, is the Mormon Tablernacle Choir singing, "When Is That Goodly Fragrance Flowing?"
Some years ago — at a time that was not good for me –a week or so before Christmas I was flipping channels when I stumbled upon the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's annual Christmas special. Kathleen Battle was the featured soloist, but it was this performance of the French carol ( Quelle est cette odeur agréable) "Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance" that both riveted my attention and lifted me out of the doldrums.
It's one of most exquisite recordings of choral music I know, and if you ever have a chance to see it performed on TV, I urge you to watch it. It begins with the sopranos singing the first verse over an orchestral accompaniment. The second verse is sung almost pianissimo by the tenors, again with orchestral accompaniment. The third verse is shared by both women's sections, but after the first few bars the orchestra suddenly goes silent, and the effect of the exposed voices in harmony is thrilling.
The experience of beauty in music, for me, is literally a "Sursum Corda," a lifting of the heart toward the final happiness we are destined to share with God. Music is unique among the arts for its ability to penetrate us, to take the mind and body on a journey, away from division and toward unity. The beauty of music envelops us in its musical line, and through the impact of harmony and melody we find it easier to pray, to aspire to goodness, to believe in the underlying order of the world.
Religions provide guiding narratives for human existence — they address the question of origin and destination, the meaning of suffering, and the means to joy. Music, as no other art form, has a greater ability to help convince us that a paradise once existed and still does out of time, as it awaits us in the presence of God. Anyone who doubts what I say should listen to the "Dona Nobis Pacem" at the end of Bach's Mass in B Minor (I would recommend Robert Shaw's unsurpassed account on this little-known Christmas CD).
If the beauty of this breathtaking prayer for peace does not touch you, does not lift you out of the ordinary, then I would let Shakespeare issue you this warning:
"The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted" (The Merchant of Venice).
You may not have heard of him, but a Christian man of letters, one of our greatest, just passed away. A native of Georgia and educated at its University, Marion Montgomery was a prolific writer. His works include three novels, short stories, poetry, literary and cultural criticism, a trilogy on Flannery O'Connor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe, and a number of books that applied the Thomistic tradition to contemporary culture and the great works of American literature.
Montgomery's earliest works bear the stamp of the "Fugitive-Agrarian Movement," whose central figures, such as Donald Davidson, Robert Penn Warren, John Crowe Ransom, and Andrew Lytle became major figures in the literary world of the 40s and 50s. Marion Montgomery was a product of this movement's second generation. But, when his fiction and poetry never received the attention it deserved — and still deserves — he turned his attention to the critical and interpretive works that earned him a national reputation and small but devoted group of admirers.
I was privileged to visit Marion and his wife Dot many times at their home in Crawford, GA before I moved to the East coast. We had a reunion of sorts when I devoted four of my "Church and Culture Today" shows on EWTN to interviewing Marion, and I hosted him several times as a speaker at meetings of the American Maritain Association.
I recall that late scholar Ralph McInerny from Notre Dame had great regard for Montgomery's work, as did so many others who sought to bring the Thomistic tradition into contact with literature and culture. Montgomery may have been called a "Hillbilly Thomist" but his learning was broad and deep — it cut to the core of Western civilization, its metaphysical ailments and spiritual confusions.
If you've not discovered his books you have quite a treat, no, a treasure, waiting for you. I was privileged to know him and learn from him. One of the best places to start reading Montgomery is his "Possum and Other Receipts for the Recovery of "Southern' Being."
Requiescat in Pace, Marion Montgomery, 1925-2011.


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A few days ago, a fairly new online store emailed me to ask if they could use some of my images on their website as I was wearing a product that they are currently selling. They were apparently featuring images of their customers and bloggers modelling the range.
Sure, I replied, and I'd appreciate a link back to the blog.
A reply came saying thanks, blah blah blah and this:
"We aren't linking to other sites at the moment though we may in future, but we will certainly put 'modelled by cosmetic-candy, which should lead people to your blog."
Now, although a little bit taken aback, I didn't quite get annoyed until really thinking about it later. (That, and my favourite Irish Pixie (after Colin Farrell) giving me a Rocky-like pep talk on Twitter.)
I have decided I am not too amused by the situation:
Pictures take work. A lot of work.
I am not alone I'm sure, when it comes to having pictures nicked for whatever reason – for other people's sites, for eBay etc. and I am pretty zen about it although it is mighty frustrating when you have put a lot of time and work into your pictures.
It doesn't matter if your photos aren't tip top David Bailey quality, the point is you have taken that time to take the pictures, download then, edit them, resize them, post them etc.
I aim to put personal photos with nearly every blog post I do, and that's quite a few. It takes many many many hours to put these together in whatever spare time I have. I have to take most of my pictures with studio lights because I have a full time job in the day and I use the early hours of the morning to catch up with photos.
In an ideal world people should always ask if they can use an image first and generally the answer will be a yes…
But come to think of it, it also depends what you want the photo for. My pictures are for THIS blog and if another source wants to use for NON COMMERCIAL reasons WITH A CREDIT, that is fine.
Asking to use someones images without payment, a decent credit or a link back (whichever you feel comfortable with) is basically asking to take someones work for free.
When it comes to eBay – I have had my photos stolen by sellers lots and lots of times before.
If you want to use my photos for eBay (which I see as commercial) then the answer is no. Besides the fact that people may mistakenly think I am trying to sell samples on eBay, it only takes a few hours to take your own pictures and swatches (seeing as editing and lighting isn't a huge consideration for auction shots). So do that instead, you lazy gits!
Link backs: Sharing is caring
Methinks someone has a bit to learn about the world wide web, and certainly dealing with bloggers…
I am not sure why this particular site has decided that they "aren't linking to other sites", especially ones they are happy to borrow photographs from – so I shan't speculate.
But the fact is, linking to one another keeps traffic flowing. Wanting lots of people linking in and not linking out is a little bit – what's the word? Greedy?
And, why would it be ok to put down 'modelled by cosmetic candy' but its not ok to change that text into a link?
We all know that people are lazy when browsing the net – they are a lot less likely to remember your name and google it than they are to click on a link.
And at the end of the day, its hardly wise at such an early stage of your business to attempt to be setting these kind of 'we don't link out' rules.
Had they offered me a link back I may have added them to my blogroll with my favourite shops. A quick check on page views tells me that Cosmetic Candy has just over 100 times more page views a month than their site does so can you guess who would be helping out who the most?
After politely explaining my policy, I got this reply
"All the images had "cosmetic-candy.com" clearly written on them, but we will remove them from our site immediately unless we hear back form [sic] you that that [sic] is ok."
I won't rush to reply back then.
Kids take note! If someone contacts you from another website, especially a commercial one and wants to use your images without giving you a measly link back to your site, they are not valuing your work. JUST SAY NO!
Ok bored of ranting…
What's your view on bloggers photographs?
Is it ok to use other people's shots without asking?
Have you ever had photographs "borrowed" be other people?
Is asking for a link back unreasonable?
Have you eaten all your Easter eggs yet?
Tell me in the comments!
P.S. Speaking of link backs, I am adding beauty bloggers (please bingo/lottery/gambling sites, stop asking) to my blogroll page (which badly badly needs updating!). You can leave me a comment with your blog if you'd like to be added and I would very much appreciate to be added to your blog roll too 😀


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