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Justification and the Law
Expounding the Faith
Scripture: Romans 5:1-19
Paul refers to Jesus as "the second Adam" to show the universality of His redeeming grace.
Good morning and welcome to Sacramento central Seventh-day Adventist Church here in sunny California on the west coast of the United States of America. We welcome those of you this morning who are joining us. We have a special surprise for you. We're going to forgo our usual hymn singing, and we will do that next week. But today we have a special guest who's joining us, pastor ron woolsey.
He is from tilly, ArKansas. He pastors the marshall Seventh-day Adventist Church in ArKansas. And this morning he is going to be blessing us with music on his concert grand marimba. Today he's going to be playing for us two pieces. And the first one is "sweet buelah land," and then "cleanse me," and "I will serve thee.
" So this morning we want to welcome pastor ron woolsey as he brings us two beautiful pieces of music. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Thank you, ron, so much for that beautiful music. At this time, let's bow our heads for prayer. Father in Heaven, we thank you so much for music, for blessing pastor ron with the talents that you have. And I pray that today you will be with each and every one of us, that we will use our talents for your honor and your glory.
And every day that we will dedicate our lives to you, to be used by you for the furthering of your work. We thank you so much for the opportunity that we have as Christians, to be lights in this dark world. And I pray that you will help each and every one of us to have that love in our hearts and that desire to share your love with others. We thank you so much for the beautiful Sabbath that you have blessed us with and for the opportunity that we have to worship you in this country where we have so many freedoms. And we know that they won't last forever.
And I pray that you will help us to make the most of them while we have them. We pray that you'll be with our speaker this morning as he brings us the lesson study, that you will soften our hearts and open our minds as we open up Your Word and we study together. In Jesus' Name, amen. At this time, our lesson study will be brought to us by our senior pastor here at Sacramento central church, Pastor Doug Batchelor. Thank you debbie.
And I'd like to thank pastor ron. That's an enchanting sound, isn't it? That--the marimba. And I know that takes a lot of practice and skill. I want to welcome our friends who are studying with us here at Sacramento central for our study hour of Sabbath school. And you may have noticed, we're back down on the ground here.
You know, we were doing some redecorating of the platform and adjusting of the lights. And they fixed things so that we could be--i didn't want to be so far away during our study time. So I'm glad that they worked that out where we could be back a little closer to the class here. We've been dealing with a special lesson for the last few weeks. And it is called, "assurance: justification made simple.
" Ask for offer number 727. And then you call that number that you'll see on your screen, -study-more. That's 866-788-3966. We'd like you to have it. If you don't have it, please request it, and we'll be happy to send it to you.
As I mentioned, we are going through a quarterly dealing principally with the book of Romans. It's called, "redemption in Romans." And today's lesson is dealing with--it's lesson number 6, but it's dealing with chapter 5 of Romans. Matter of fact, when I first looked at the assignment for this week, and it said, "read for this week's study Romans 5." And so that just makes it real simple: chapter 5 of Romans is our assignment. But it's a big chapter. Not big and long, like psalm 119, big in content.
It's one of the weightiest chapters in the Bible, a lot of very important and deep information there. We have a memory verse. And the memory verse is from the first two verses in Romans 5. I'll be thankful if you say that with us. Romans 5:1-2, and I believe this is taken from the new king James version.
You ready? "Therefore, being been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Boy, just even in that there's a whole encyclopedia of profound theology in that verse. Now when a chapter begins, and when a verse begins with the word, "therefore," what is that telling you? I mean you've never read a story where it says, chapter 1, first sentence, "therefore." The only reason you run into the word "therefore" is because it is commenting on relation to what was said previously. And so in order to get into the "therefore" of chapter 5, we've got to back up and read the last two or three verses of chapter 4, 'cause it's saying, "because of this." So in Romans 4, you can read in verse 23, "now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him, but also for us." Abraham, righteousness was imputed to him through faith. "But also for us. It shall be imputed to us who believe in him.
" That's capital h-i-m, "believe in him," God, "who raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification." Now there's no chapters and verses in the Bible. They were added later. So this thought continues on. "Therefore," now we're in chapter 5, "having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." You know I could stop right there and probably spend an hour talking about that one verse. That really summarizes what the Gospel is all about.
We are unjust because of sin. We are--if you are standing before the judge--that's where you get the word judge, justice, justification--he would declare us guilty because we have all sinned. But because of faith in what Jesus has done in taking our place, we are then declared justified. This is justification by faith in what he has done in our behalf. "Therefore having been justified," it's just--he states it so simply, but it's so wonderful when you think about it.
"Having been justified by faith, we have peace with God." You know, the whole world is feeling tension and alienation and separation from God. Adam, after he sinned, and we get in this a little later in the lesson, he ran from God. And then after God found him, and he says, "why did you run from me?" What did adam say? "I was afraid." When did fear enter into the Garden of Eden? Fear is the absence of peace. Terrorism is what we're fighting right now. And, you know, you wonder why do these terrorists just arbitrarily helter skelter just bomb innocent civilians? I mean they just bombed people that were watching a soccer game in uganda.
And there was no particular target in this gathering where they were all just watching a game. They decided to bomb 'em. No strategic target in mind. They didn't take out anybody's military. They just bombed a bunch of civilians.
Why? To use terror as a weapon to rob peace from the country. You know, the devil's a terrorist, isn't he? And what terrorizes us, death? If you're a Christian, are you terrorized by death? No. Because you're not afraid of death anymore. And so the devil can't use death from you. And Jesus said, "fear not him who might torture the body but he can't hurt your soul.
He might take your life, but he can't take your soul. Rather fear him who can destroy soul and body in hell." So if you fear God and you have peace with God, you don't fear anything else. Does that make sense? Adam sinned, he lost his peace. But now through Jesus that peace is restored because we're justified by faith. This is what he's telling us in chapter 5:1.
"Through whom--" through Jesus. It's not a what; it's a who-- "we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Now again, so much there. We're separated from God. God used to talk to man face-to-face. Right now if God was to appear in his glory, it would, you know, terrorize most of us.
And we'd feel condemned in the presence of this judge. We don't feel like we have any right to come into the presence of God. How do you get access to some great political power? A few years ago when we were doing our net program in Washington d.c., We had a friend that was connected with congress. And back before 9/11, anybody could schedule a white house tour. But after 9/11.
You had to get a congressman to sign you off. But we had someone that we knew that knew a congressman that could get us a white house tour. So it wasn't just standing in line and buying a ticket. It was through someone that you had access. By the way, that word in Greek there for "access," really is talking about access to the presence of a monarch.
And so through Jesus, we now have access where we can stand before God. We can come into his presence, and we can stand. Doesn't Paul tell us that through Christ we can now come boldly before the throne? And so it's incredible when you think that we have this privilege. We have this access. Now I've got to get my notes spread out here for me.
I'm sort of all over the place. One of the things when we talk about justification here in the Bible, we need to be careful not to fall for the counterfeit justification, where once you receive this forgiveness from the Lord, then you start to abuse it. Now does the Lord want us to have assurance? Is it okay--i mean, can you have assurance without necessarily believing once you're saved, you can't be lost. I don't believe in "once saved, always saved." I think that's presumption. That's erring on the other side of the equation.
But at the same time, God does not want us to live in constant fear. We're to have peace regarding our salvation. So there's a balance there that we're to understand. You know, the best way that's put is in the book, "steps to Christ." And you find this in page 59-60. "There are two errors against which the children of God particularly those who have just come to trust in his grace especially need to guard.
First, already dwelt upon, is that of looking to their own works, trusting to anything that they can do to bring themselves in harmony with God. He who is trying to become holy by his own works and keeping the law is attempting an impossibility. All that man can do without Christ is polluted with," sinfulness and sin--" or "selfishness and sin. It is the grace of Christ alone through faith that can make us holy." We're made holy through his grace and through faith. "The opposite--" and that was one error is justification by works or believing that you could earn it.
"The opposite and no less dangerous error is that belief in Christ," once we are justified through faith, "that belief in Christ releases men from keeping the law of God, that since by faith alone we've become partakers of the grace of Christ, our works have nothing to do with our redemption." Your works demonstrate your redemption. Your works actually help you know whether or not you stand. "Let every man examine himself." By what? "You'll know them by their fruit." And so if our works are works of lawlessness, then our hearts are not right. Does that make sense? You know, if I see a caterpillar on a cabbage, well that's normal. Caterpillar like cabbage.
But once that caterpillar makes a cocoon and it goes through this metamorphous and it emerges a few months later as a butterfly, it has totally lost its taste for cabbage. When it's a caterpillar, that worm devours copious amounts of cabbage. But once it's turned into a butterfly, and it used to be the same creature, but somehow it goes through this miracle of a metamorphous. It emerges from the cocoon. It's still attached to the cabbage.
The first thing it does is it flies away. It's revolted now by cabbage. And it looks for flowers, because it's been transformed. If it still has an appetite for cabbage, something's wrong with that metamorphous. See what I'm saying? So when we become new creatures, if we are still hungering for and being controlled by the lusts of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, then you wonder if we ever came out of our cocoon, or if we ever went into it.
So there's to be that transformation. At the same time, God does not want us to live in fear. It says, "let every man that has this hope in him purify himself even as he is pure." But then John also says that we might know that we have eternal life. We can know this. I've observed at the airport that you can pretty well pick people out of the crowd there at the gate before a plane takes off who have their boarding passes and who are on standby.
The ones who have their boarding passes look a little more relaxed. They're kind of sitting back and they might be dozing. They might be reading the paper. Or they might be listening to music. The ones who are on standby, they are on hyper-nervous alert, because they are kind of pacing the floor, by the gate, watching the gate to see if any notice comes up that says we have an opening.
And because they don't have a confirmed ticket, they're nervous. Now just because I might be at the gate and I've got a confirmed ticket, does that mean I have to get on the plane? I can walk away any time, can't i? I've got a peace, but it still depends on my getting on the plane. You see what I'm saying? I've got a confirmed boarding pass and occasionally there might be weather that can disrupt that too. But you see a difference between those who are on standby and those who have a confirmed pass. I think when you know that you're justified by faith, and you believe that God is going to finish what he started in your life, the Bible tells us, "he is the author and the finisher of our faith," that it gives you a peace.
And even though you may lose a battle and fall, you don't abandon your hope, and you can still have renewed assurance. You think about Peter-- oh, you know what, maybe I'm taking this too far. Well, I'll say that now since I started it, I probably ought to finish it. You think about the apostle Peter, when in acts 15, he has this experience, you know, in acts 8 where he preaches to the gentiles and they were shocked that they were going to preach to the gentiles. And now they've got this council in acts 15.
He's come, and they're trying to figure out what is it that the gentiles are supposed to observe from the old Jewish law. In acts 15:7, "and after there had been much debate, Peter stood up and he said to them: "brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the gentiles should hear the Gospel and believe. And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us." The evidence that they were accepted by God was the gift of the Holy Spirit. Got that? Same way that he gave it to the disciples, same Holy Spirit. "And he made no distinction--" notice there again-- "no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
" They are saved by faith as the Jewish converts are saved by faith. "Now therefore, why do you put God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?" Now here's what I've underscored. "But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ in the same way as they are." That's a very important verse. You may underline that. Everybody in the old testament is saved by the same grace as those in the new testament.
All of the jews and all of the gentiles are saved by the same grace, according to the apostle. They are all justified and saved by the same grace. Now the key is while the gentiles are really grafted into the stock of Israel-- and so we're all saved by that covenant that he made with them, based on the promises in the Bible, which is technically a Jewish book-- we become spiritual jews. When the angel of judgment was going through the land of Egypt during the last of the plagues, what was it that made that angel pass by? He saw something. He saw the blood of the lamb on the door and because of that, he passed by.
They were forgiven. They were given life. By the blood of the lamb, they were declared just and they were given life. Now that wasn't really sanctification; that was justification. Then it was that same blood that was to give them power for sanctification as they went on.
Romans 5:1-2. We're still delving into this. "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also you have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." And so I wanted that to be fresh in your mind. Now read acts 13:38-39. "Be it known unto you therefore, brethren and men, that through this man is preached unto the forgiveness of sins; and by him all that believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.
" Alright so Peter's preaching--and actually this is Paul preaching in antioch-- I mis-spoke there-- Paul is preaching in antioch and he's telling them, he's speaking principally to jews, "you are all justified by Jesus." The same thing that he's saying in Romans. That they could not be justified by the law of Moses. Is anybody justified by the law? How many are justified by the law? None. Are jews justified by faith? In the blood of the lamb? Are gentiles justified by faith in the blood of the lamb? All of us are. Now go on to Romans 5:3.
"And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope." Who would glory in tribulation? I mean if I said, "okay, we've got a line here. And this is the line to the California state fair and here's the line to tribulation. Everybody line up." Who wants to line up in the tribulation line? But what if I added a little fine print? I said, "by the way, those in the tribulation line will be given a pill. And that pill is going to give them the character of Jesus. Okay, everybody line up.
" Would you scramble for a place in the tribulation line? If you knew that you need to reflect Christ when he comes, would you want to get in that tribulation line? You might even rejoice if you found out that you were at the head of the line, because they weren't going to run out of those special pills that were going to give you the character of Jesus. And that's what he's saying here. He said we even rejoice in tribulation, because we know the tribulations that God sends, he is measuring, he is mixing specifically for us that we might develop the character of Jesus and be prepared for his return, that we might have the character of Jesus and be witnesses for him in this world. Makes it a little easier for us to look upon our trials if we know God is measuring this trial to help us be like him. When a child is being disciplined by their parents, or they're being denied something by their parents, sometimes they don't enjoy it at the moment.
Right? But then they get a little older, and they think, "boy, I'm sure glad that my parents did this or that for me, because it was so important." You know, looking back on my life, when I went to military school--and you've probably heard me say umpteen times, I went to military school the first time here in California, I was 5 years old, black fox military academy. I know it's unbelievable. I turned 6 while I was there, and that was the limit. They actually went from first grade up. And then I went again to New York military academy from 13--from 11 to 13 or 14.
At the time, I did not enjoy it. It was strict, regimented, rules. But I look back now and I thank the Lord that I went to military school, because I came to realize you can't do anything without self-control. And they were teaching self-control. And sometimes they had laws that didn't make any sense at all.
They would have a law that would say, "don't step on this square." And they had a square in the middle of the lobby that was polished. It was just a piece of polished floor, but it was squared off. And you were not to step on that. And if you did step on that, they had a punishment. And I knew within myself there was no good reason for that rule.
And sometimes just to be ornery, I'd walk right towards it and then jump over it. And if I went through the foyer and I knew nobody was watching, I'd step on it. Just because I knew there was no reason for that rule. And you know, as I've gotten older I've learned that in the military, if any of you have been in the military, sometimes they make rules that are absolutely ridiculous. They'll tell you to make something dirty and then tell you to clean it.
And you think, "why are they doing this?" Because they've learned that one of the keys to success is you have to learn to obey even if you don't know why, 'cause if you question every order on a battlefield, what happens then? There's a breakdown. You've got to learn to obey without question. You may have questions, but you obey anyway. And you know, learning some of those things. Sometimes God takes us through things and we don't understand why.
He says, "trust me, obey. Even if you don't understand the reason, obey." And there's still things in the Bible where God commands and I don't always understand why. Should I still obey? Yeah, because I trust him that he's a loving God and he's got good reasons for what he's asking. And you just need to know that. Somebody read for me.
The next verse is Romans 5, and I'll have you read verses-- or verse 5, Romans 5:5. I think I gave that to someone. "And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the holy ghost which is given unto us." So some of the evidence of this justification, this sanctification and our faith is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that's given to us. When God accepted the gentiles, how did Peter know that he had accepted cornelius and his family? They were baptized by the Holy Spirit. When Paul was preaching to these 12 ephesian men in asia, how did Paul know that they had been accepted by God? They were filled with the Holy Spirit and they prophesied.
Eldad and medad did not come with the other 68 elders to present themselves before the Lord because they just didn't feel worthy. And when God baptized them with the Spirit of Moses, how did eldad and medad know that they'd been accepted by God? They also were baptized with the Spirit. And so the Holy Spirit is an evidence. Not only does God give us faith; he gives us the Spirit. If I read here for instance in Romans 8:14, "for as many--" we're still in Romans obviously-- "for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are The Sons of God.
For you did not receive the Spirit of bondage--" it's not a spirit of bondage; it's a spirit of peace. "You did not receive the Spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom you cry out, 'abba, father.'" Alright, let's talk about that. When the prodigal son came home--I'm assuming you know the story in Luke 15 of the prodigal son. He comes home. He's got a speech prepared in his mind.
He's gone off. He's squandered his father's inheritance. He ends up in a pig pen. And he thinks to himself, "you know, even my father's slaves--" that's the word that's used-- "eat better than I'm eating. I will arise and go to my father, and say, 'father, I've sinned against heaven and you.
I'm no more worthy to be called your son. Make me one of your slaves, 'cause even your slaves are doing better than I'm doing.'" Son or slave? So he comes home, and he gets the first part of his speech out. And says, "father, I've sinned against heaven in your sight, and I'm no more worthy to be called your son." And what does The Father do? He runs to meet him. He embraces him. He puts his robe on him.
And he puts a ring on his finger indicating that he is now accepted in the family as a son. He says, "this, my son, was lost." Does he accept that he's coming back as a servant? Do some people like the brother of the prodigal son, he worked for The Father, but he thought of himself as a servant. He says, "I've earned it. What's this son of yours gone off, he squandered everything, and now you're bringing him home and you're celebrating and you're giving him the best robe. And what about me?" He said, "well you never asked for it.
You never recognized yourself like this." Paul is saying here in Romans that we are brought in as sons. It says, "it's not the Spirit of bondage," like a slave, "to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption where we cry, 'abba,'" that's like papa, "father. the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God." He says, "you're fully adopted. When Jesus came out of the water at his baptism, what did the voice say from heaven?" "This is my beloved son." And Jesus was baptized because of his sin? He needed cleansing from sin? Yes, no? No. Why was he baptized? Well, for one thing, as an example for us.
I also have this theory, and I don't push this, but I think Jesus was also the same way that he died on behalf of those. He was baptized on behalf of those who couldn't be baptized. Thief on the cross, could he get baptized? You think he would get maybe credit for Jesus' baptism. Jesus didn't need it. Right? But Jesus was baptized principally as an example.
What happened to Jesus happens to us. The voice of The Father that said, "this is my beloved son," is the same voice that you and I should hear. "This is now my beloved son and daughter." Doesn't the Bible say in John 3, "behold what love The Father's bestowed on us that we should be called sons of God." And in Isaiah it includes daughters, "that we are sons and daughters of God." And so we're adopted in. Corinthians 10:12, "let him who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall." So you've got these two extremes. And one extreme is you want to now through the evidence of the Spirit and the transformation in our lives that we have been justified by faith.
But you don't want to be misguided. You know, I heard a story, they've got these battery-powered defibrillators that are stationed everywhere. And they're usually very dependable and very important and a lot of lives have been saved. But I did hear a story about one place that had not had theirs regularly serviced. They had this defibrillator on the wall, and somebody went down with a heart attack.
And they went and got it, and they pulled it out. And they got the paddles, and got ready to zap him. Battery was dead. Wouldn't that be terrible? It's kind of like someone that's got a fire extinguisher, but they haven't had it serviced in 30 years. Fire breaks out and they grab it and they go to spray it and it goes, "ugh.
" Nothing happens. And so you don't want to have a false assurance of salvation. That is more dangerous I think. Having a false assurance is more dangerous than someone who is lost that at least knows it. If you're hot and if you're cold, the Lord can work with you.
If you're cold, you're lost and you're repentant, you can come to the Lord. That's better than having a false assurance. Did some of the religious leaders in Christ's time have a false assurance of justification? You know the story of the publican and the pharisee and the tax collector. Publican doesn't think he's worth it. He stands a far off, would not so much as lift his eyes to heaven.
He beats on his breast, and he says, "Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner." Jesus said, "I tell you this man went down to his house justified." He knew he was lost. He came seeking mercy and grace by faith. He is justified. Jesus said he is justified by faith, 'cause he came to God as he was and he confessed and repented. Alright, read for me please, Luke 16:15.
"And he said to them, 'you are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God.'" Whose justification are we looking for? Ours or his? We want to be justified by him. He says some people justify themselves. And you know, they're trusting in their external prayers, their external giving, their external fasting. And it's all an external religion to be justified before men.
And God says, "I know your hearts." So it's really a transformation of the heart. Isaiah 53:11. I think we gave that to somebody as well. Gene? Right here. "He shall see the labor of his soul, and be satisfied.
By his knowledge my righteous servant shall justify many, for he shall bear their iniquities." This is a wonderful promise. How many would Christ justify? Many. "By his knowledge," he will, "justify many." And then one more point before we get into the next section of Romans here. In Ezekiel 18:20-32. "When a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All of his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered: because of the unfaithfulness of what he is guilty, and the sin in which he has committed, because of them he shall die.
" So when we are justified by faith, is that a relationship that needs maintenance? Yeah, it's an ongoing experience of sanctification that we have with the Lord. Sanctification is something that continues. It requires a daily walk. Let me see here. I thought I had--you can tell I got more notes than I got--yeah, here it is, "sanctification ongoing.
" Thessalonians 4:3, "this is the will of God, your sanctification." Hebrews 10:14, "for by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified." Notice that, being. It's ongoing. Peter 3:18, "but grow in the grace and the knowledge of our Lord." "By his knowledge our Lord will justify many." It's a growing in grace and knowledge. Ephesians 4:15, "but, speaking the truth in love, that we may grow up in all things into him who is the head, even Christ." So we need this ongoing relationship. You know, I heard one time, maybe you've gone for a hike in the afternoon.
If you go hiking by a creek this time of year you want to keep moving, because that's typically when the mosquitoes come out. If you stand still you get bit. A mobile home doesn't get termites, not if it's mobile anyway. And in Christianity, it's like a bicycle, trying to stay up. I know there are these extreme riders who can balance themselves on one wheel, but most of us can't do that.
You've got to keep moving to maintain your balance. You can't steer a sailboat if there's no wind. It's got to be mobile in order for the rudder to work. And the Christian life is a dynamic life. It needs to have forward motion to maintain sanctification.
You need to keep on growing onward. Okay, I've said probably more than enough about that. Alright now I want to go to verse 12. We've talked about receiving this reconciliation through Jesus. I'm jumping over to verse 12.
And here it's talking about adam and Jesus, the first adam and the second adam." Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all have sinned." Now between verse, well even between verse 6 and the end of the chapter, you're going to find the word "man" 13 times. In chapter 5, matter of fact the same section, verses 6 through the end, you're going to find the word "one" is mentioned 13 times. You're going to find the word "reign" five times. And you can do a search on the words "Christ" and "adam" in your computer. But this really is telling us how did sin come into our world? Sin entered our world through the sin, or through the failure of one man.
And how many of you believe that because of adam's sin we all became infected? We all believe that? Doesn't seem fair. It doesn't even always make sense how one person could sin and everybody could become contaminated. Paul is saying if you can believe that, then why would you have a problem believing that through the second adam, Jesus, all of us could be made righteous through faith? And so, as truly as we all struggle--how many of you know that you have sin in your nature, that we've got selfishness in our nature. We have to fight it. Paul talks about that.
If you know that, and you believe in that, then can we believe just as well through the second adam's success, we can have righteousness? This is what he's talking about. I wanted to say it in advance before I read it. "Therefore justice through one man, sin entered the world and death through sin. And death spread to all men." Our world is pockmarked with graves because of the sin of adam. "For until the law sin was in the world.
" Even before Moses gave the Ten Commandments, we know sin was in the world. "But sin is not imputed when there is no law." Meaning the law must have existed even before the Ten Commandments were declared and written down. "Nevertheless death reigned from adam to Moses, even over all those who had not sinned according to the likeness of the transgression of adam." Adam sinned of course with a specific law, "don't eat the forbidden fruit. "Who is a type of him who is to come." Adam is a type of him who is to come. Who is the one who is to come? Jesus.
Friday afternoon, adam goes to sleep. God opens up his side. From his side, his bride is born. Jesus, the second adam, Friday afternoon, he goes to sleep. A roman spear opens his side.
The blood and the water come out, and his bride is born. You know, when there's a birth, you often have two distinct streams of water and blood. The birth of the church happens. Adam gave birth to his wife. That sounds kind of strange, doesn't it, when you word it that way.
From his rib. You know what comes out of your bones? Your blood. And we are washed from blood. Oh, there is so much in this chapter. Alright, let's read on here.
Verse 15, "but the free gift is not like the offense. For if by one man's offense," adam, "many died, much more the grace of God and the gift of the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many. And the gift is not like that that came through the one who sinned. For the judgment which came from one offense resulted in condemnation," through the one sin of adam. By the way, was it adam alone who woke up one morning and said, "you know, I think I'm going to rebel against God.
" Or was it because of the bride of adam that he then sinned? Wasn't it because of the bride of Christ that Jesus took sin? You still with me about the parallels between the first adam--adam, whatever his last name was, adam adam--and the second adam, Jesus Christ. There's a number of parallels there. Adam fell in a garden with a perfect body and no inclination towards sin in his nature, the first adam. And he ate from a forbidden tree. The second adam, who is the second adam? Jesus.
Jesus overcame in a wilderness after 4,000 years of the degeneration of the human body. And he was born with the fallen nature that adam and eve and their children had. What I mean by that is Jesus, the reason it goes through the family tree of Jesus--i know this is greatly contested and debated in the church. But the Bible says Jesus was tempted in all points as we are. Right? So he was tempted like we are.
He overcame like we can overcome. The reason it goes through the genealogy of Jesus in Luke and Matthew, telling about all of the colorful characters and the motley crew and his family tree, is because it's saying that if he could overcome with that inherited line, then we can overcome. See what I'm saying? And so Jesus, the second adam, he overcame with that shadow over his life. Where the first adam, the only shadow he had was the blazing glory of God. He had nothing in his dna that would make him do that, other than his free choice to disobey, because he was willing to share the fate of his bride, eve.
Jesus said, "I am willing to share the fate of my bride, the church. So I'm going to take her punishment." See what's happening here? What would have happened to eve--now I'm speculating here, so bear with me. This is by permission and not by commandment-- what would have happened to eve if eve ate the forbidden fruit, and she went to adam and said, "here," and he said, "no, I'm not going to do that." Have you ever wondered, what would have God have done then? Is it possible that God would have allowed eve to die there and done something else for adam? Is that at least possible? And adam not wanting eve to die said, "I'd rather die than lose you." That's possible. You can't prove it not possible. But I think it's pretty valid.
Didn't Jesus say, "rather than lose you to death, I will die," the second adam? Isn't that what-- that's not a hypothetical. That's real. And so that's what he did for you and me. Alright, we're still back here. Romans 5:16, "and the gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned.
For the judgment that came from the one offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift that came from many offenses resulted in justification. For by one man's offense," first adam, "death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ." In the same way that death reigned through the first adam's failure, life and justification can reign through Christ. When does the Kingdom of heaven begin? "the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." That means within reach now. It's available, right? When can you become a citizen of God's kingdom? After Jesus comes and you get your new body? Or can you become a citizen now through faith? the Kingdom of heaven is at hand, the Spiritual kingdom. There's later when his physical kingdom comes down to the earth.
We know about that. But that kingdom of life, eternal life, when do we get eternal life? When we're resurrected or now? So the Kingdom of death that came through adam, through condemnation, because of his sin, is very real, just as real is the Kingdom of life that comes through justification, that's Jesus, that's available now through faith. You can have life now through faith. That's wonderful news. This is what he's saying.
And he's laboring with the jews and the gentiles in rome to say, "as real as adam's fall was, as we're all affected--" not just jews are affected by adam's fall. Everybody's related to adam, and everyone's related to Noah. So he's talking to jews and gentiles. He's saying it's not just the promise that's in the seed of Abraham. It's the sin that is in every child of adam that's the problem.
Jesus didn't just give a solution for jews. Jesus gave a solution for every child of adam. See what--he's not the second Abraham; he's the second adam, meaning that everybody jew and gentile can benefit from the sacrifice of Christ. You hear the argument that he's making? 'Cause in the minds of the jews, Jesus came along and he became the second Abraham, which meant that only jews could benefit. And he's saying, "no, Jesus isn't the second Abraham; he's the second adam.
It's for everybody. God is made of one blood, all nations. I'm leaving out some things here, 'cause I'm looking at the clock. But I'm going to try and at least get through the chapter, okay? Verse 18, "therefore, as through one man's offense judgment came to all men," all are under the condemnation of the law, "resulting in condemnation, even so through one man's righteous act the free gift came to all men, resulting in justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so also by one man's obedience many were made righteous.
" Okay, here's an important question. Was Jesus obedient? We can be declared righteous because of his obedience. And then we no longer need to obey. Is that what Paul's saying? Some interpret it that way. You know that there are some who--there are many who interpret it that way.
Did Jesus obey? He said, "I have kept my father's commandments." And then he says, "if you love me, keep my commandments." And so the idea is not, "oh, he obeyed for me, so I don't need to." I've heard hundreds, thousands of Christians say that. That's what you call a doctrine of devils. That's terrible. Yes, it's through the obedience of Christ that we are declared righteous. And then because we are transformed by that, we then start to live like the second adam in obedience, not like the first adam who disobeyed.
The idea that we get the benefit of the second adam and we continue to act like the first adam, that's not what he's saying here. He's saying the opposite. He said, "we are renewed in the likeness of, the image of the second adam." See man lost the image of God, that adam was made in the image of God, but he lost it through sin. But through accepting Christ, the image of God is restored in us, and now we live lives of surrender and obedience. The way God intended adam to live is how Jesus lived.
And that's real. It becomes available to us. I want to tie off the last verses, 'cause I'm out of time here. "Moreover the law entered that the offense--" I'm in verse 20-- "might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign--" what does reign mean? It sits enthroned.
When you accept Jesus as your Savior and your Lord, he reigns. He's on the throne of your heart. "That he might reign through righteousness." What does--it's talking about just righteousness in theory as a label or righteousness in our lives? He reigns in our lives "through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ." Through the grace of God we live new lives. We are justified and we live righteous lives by his grace. Oh, I did get through the chapter.
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Nation Politics 18 May 2019 Stage set for last p ...
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Stage set for last phase of Lok Sabha polls on Sunday
Published May 18, 2019, 6:10 pm IST
Updated May 18, 2019, 6:14 pm IST
Over 10.01 crore voters are expected to decide the fate of 918 candidates.
Polling will be held in all 13 seats in Punjab and an equal number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh. (Photo: twitter/ANI)
New Delhi: The seven-phase Lok Sabha elections, one of the most bitterly fought in recent memory, will come to a close on Sunday when polling will be held in 59 constituencies including in Varanasi where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking to retain the seat.
Polling will be held in all 13 seats in Punjab and an equal number of seats in Uttar Pradesh, nine in West Bengal, eight seats each in Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Himachal Pradesh, three in Jharkhand and the lone seat Chandigarh.
Over 10.01 crore voters are expected to decide the fate of 918 candidates. The Election Commission has set up more than 1.12 lakh polling stations for smooth conduct of polls.
On Sunday, a bypoll will be held in Panaji, necessitated due to the death of former chief minister Manohar Parrikar in March.
Bye-elections will also be held in four assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu -- Sulur, Aravakurichi, Ottapidaram (SC) and Thiruparankundram.
Counting of votes will be taken up on May 23. An average of 66.88 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the last six phases. The whole elections were spread over 38 days.
In Uttar Pradesh, all eyes will be on Varanasi, where besides Modi, 25 other candidates are in fray. Modi's main challengers are Congress's Ajay Rai and SP-BSP grand alliance's nominee Shalini Yadav.
Union minister Manoj Sinha, Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey are seeking re-election from Ghazipur and Chandauli, respectively.
The BJP is contesting 11 Lok Sabha seats in this phase, while its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) is contesting Mirzapur, currently held by Union minister Anupriya Patel, and Robertsganj.
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and union ministers Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Hardeep Singh Puri are among the 278 candidates including 24 women whose fate will be decided in Punjab on Sunday.
Besides Punjab, more than 6 lakh voters in the union territory of Chandigarh will choose between sitting MP and BJP candidate Kirron Kher and former railway minister and Congress candidate Pawan Kumar Bansal.
Actor turned politician Sunny Deol, Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar, Aam Aadmi Party's Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann are among other prominent candidates in the fray. On most of the 13 seats, the contest appears to be a direct fight between the Congress and Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance.
A conglomeration of several political outfits, the Punjab Democratic Alliance (PDA) led by AAP rebel Sukhpal Singh Khaira, is also contesting on all 13 seats while SAD (Taksali), breakaway faction of SAD, has fielded one candidate from Anandpur Sahib.
In 2014, the AAP and the SAD had won four seats each, the Congress three and the BJP two. An electorate of 1,49,63,064 will decide the fate of 111 candidates in nine seats of West Bengal -- Kolkata North and Kolkata South, Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jadavpur, Diamond Harbour, Jaynagar (SC) and Mathurapur (SC).
Eight seats, barring Jadavpur, will witness a contest among the Trinamool Congress, the BJP, the Congress and the Left Front. The Congress has given the Jadavpur seat a miss.
The nine constituencies are spread across the three districts of Kolkata, South and North 24 Parganas. The high-voltage campaign for the final phase saw poll meetings by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit Shah, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress leader Sachin Pilot and West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee.
Shah's roadshow in the city on Tuesday was marred by violence and destruction of social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's bust in a college in north Kolkata.
In a first such action in India's electoral history, the Election Commission ordered campaigning in the nine West Bengal constituencies to end at 10 pm on Thursday, instead of 6 pm on Friday, in the wake of the violence between the BJP and the TMC during Shah's roadshow.
As many as four Union ministers -- Ravi Shankar Prasad, Ram Kripal Yadav, RK Singh and Ashwini Kumar Choubey -- are among the 157 candidates in Bihar. Seven of these seats were won by the NDA last time, five by the BJP and two by the RLSP, which is now with the "Mahagathbandhan".
One was bagged by the JD(U) headed by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, which then fought separately but is now back with the NDA. By-poll will also be held for the Dehri Assembly seat.
The most keenly-watched contest is in Patna Sahib where Prasad, one of the most prominent members of the Narendra Modi cabinet, is seeking entry into the Lok Sabha.
He is pitted against Shatrughan Sinha - the actor-turned-politician, who won it on both occasions for the BJP and is now in the fray as the Congress candidate.
The electoral fortunes of 42 candidates including that of former chief minister and Union minister Shibu Soren will be decided on Sunday in Jharkhand. Soren, the chief of Jharkhand Mukti Morcha and a eighth term sitting MP is in the fray from Dumka seat once again.
He is crossing swords with BJP's Sunil Soren. The JMM leader had defeated his BJP challenger twice in 2009 and 2014. Dewas, Ujjain, Mandsaur, Ratlam, Dhar, Indore, Khargone and Khandwa seats in Madhya Pradesh, all currently held by the BJP, will go to polls in Madhya Pradesh.
Former Union ministers Kantilal Bhuria, Arun Yadav are in the fray from Ratlam and Khandwa, the latter seeing a tough fight between Yadav and ex-MP BJP chief Nandkumar Singh Chauhan.
Polling will also be held in all four Lok Sabha constituencies in Himachal Pradesh where as many as 45 candidates, including five legislators, are in the fray.
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Category Archives: THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN; THE MULLINGAR CONNECTION
Posted on May 2, 2015 by mullingarhistory Standard	1
One hundred years ago,on April 25th,1915,one of the most disastrous military campaigns of the 20th century began. Seeking to put Ottoman Turkey out of the First World War,Britain and France landed an invasion force on the Gallipoli Peninsula in South Western Turkey. Over the next eight months more than 100,000 British,Australian,Turkish,New Zealander,Canadian,Indian ,French and Irish soldiers would lose their lives. In Australia and New Zealand April 25th is marked as ANZAC Day-commemmorating the day in which the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps put their nations on the map with what was seen as their blood sacrifice. Many of the Anzac troops were of Irish origin and as many as 7.000 were Irish born.
The British soldiers who landed at Gallipoli in 1915 included thousands of men serving with the historic Irish Regiments;the Royal Dublin Fusiliers,the Munster Fusiliers and the Inniskilling Fusiliers. Irishmen also served in the Royal Navy at Gallipoli and Irish doctors and nurses helped to care for the wounded at hospitals in Egypt and Greece. Gallipoli was as much an Irish tragedy as an Australian one. Up to 4,000 Irish died there. Until recently their service was almost completely forgotten.
Among the thousands of British soldiers who landed at Gallipoli were men from Westmeath. Those who died there included the 5th Earl of Longford,owner of Tullynally Castle,and Private Austin Kelly from Clonmellon. Those who survived the hell of Suvla Bay and Sedd-el Bar, where men from the Royal Dublin Fusiliers,the Munster Fusiliers and the Inniskilling Fusiliers disembarked,included Sgt Dan Gilroy from Patrick St,Mullingar,Sgt Michael Dunne from Barrack St ,Mullingar and Private Daniel Flood ,also from Mullingar.
Sgt Gilroy was an "old warrior",as the papers described him,with over 30 years of military service behind him. He was 57 and should not have still been on active service. But when the war started he left his job with the post office to return to the Army. He landed in Gallipoli on August5th at Lemnos Bay.Within a very short time 12 of his men were dead and another 50 wounded. The survivors battled through an area known as "Shrapnal Alley "and on to what was known as Chocolate Hill.
Among those killed when they battled the Turks on this hill was Nicholas Smyth from Piercefield-one of some 10 officers and 250 men killed as he and his men battled hand to hand with the enemy. With all the officers dead or wounded it was left to Sgt Gilroy and Sgt Alec Little from Carrick,Mullingar to hold the position,which they did,despite Gilroy being seriously wounded in the leg by a Turkish bayonet . The local papers in Mullingar reported Gilroy's death-much to his amusement. "I am as good as ten dead men yet",he told reporters when,following hospital treatment for his wounds,he came home on leave.
Private Daniel Flood was not even 18 when he went to Gallipoli in the summer of 1915. One of the thousands who volunteered for military service at the start of the war,Flood arrived at Suvla in August attached to a machine gun section. His unit endured heavy shell and machine gun fire as they landed and his Colonel was among the many casualties. A few days later he was involved in an attack against the Turks using the machine guns.
The following day he was wounded twice by shrapnel.After treatment in a dresing station he was moved by hospital ship to Malta and then to England. While the ship was heading for Malta,one of the wounded men,Private Barry from Mullingar,died from his wounds and was buried at sea.. Private Flood told reporters at home that he respected the Turks as tough but humane fighters. Aged only 17 when he was at Gallipoli.he would be killed in Palestine two years later,aged 19.
Sgt Michael Dunne from Barrack Street also saw action at Gallipoli,serving with the Inniskilling Fusiliers. He survived hand to hand combat with the Turks as well as heavy shell and machine gun fire. He was recommended for the D.C.M (Distinguished Conduct Medal ) for his courage under fire. He suffered injuries but survived and was able to give the Westmeath papers an interview from his hospital bed. Sadly,Sergeant Dunne was killed the following year at the Battle of the Somme. His brother was killed on the Western Front in 1915.
Private Austin Kelly from Clonmellon,a past pupil of Wilsons' Hospital School was just 18 when he went ashore at Suvla Bay in August 1915. A week later he was one of hundreds of men killed in the British attempt to capture the heights of Kiriche Tepe. Short of water and of ammunition desperate men battled through intense summer heat to scale the heights. Machine gun fire and grenades rained down on them and Private Kelly was one of the very many who did not survive the assault. Another fatality was the Earl Of Longford who was ,like Sgt Gilroy overage for frontline military service but put himself in danger because he believed it to be his duty. Lord Longford was last seen walking along the sand dunes leading towards the Turkish positions. His family was informed that he was "missing". A year later he was officially declared to be dead. although it took his widow a long time to accept that he was dead.
A fortnight after the Gallipoli campaign began the passenger liner the Lusitania" was torpedoed off the coast of Co Cork. Among the almost 1200 fatalities was Anne Doyle from Mullingar. She had been working in America and was returning to Ireland. Her father worked in a coach building firm in Harbour Street. Two years later her brother would be killled on the Western front.
The First World War inflicted terrible sorrow on many many families in Mullingar District. One hundred years after the horrors of Gallipoli and the Lusitania we should remember all those from our town who lost their lives. May they all rest in peace
By Ruth Illingworth


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Tigers: C James McCann (right ankle sprain) was scheduled to play nine innings for Triple-A Toledo after getting only five innings of work Saturday due to rain. He had originally been scheduled to catch only five innings Sunday. "We'll just flip-flop," manager Brad Ausmus said.
Twins: GM Terry Ryan said 3B Trevor Plouffe (right intercostal strain) was OK after playing nine innings Saturday and was set to play again for Triple-A Rochester on Sunday. Ryan also said RHP Ervin Santana (back) would makeMinnesota's upcoming trip to Cleveland and likely throw a bullpen session. "He's getting pretty close," Ryan said.
Tigers: Justin Verlander (2-2) makes his sixth start of the season Tuesday night at Cleveland. Verlander will face the Indians for the second time this year after giving up two runs and four hits over seven innings in an April 22 loss.
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There are only three examples altogether that use this beautiful pink (background) regarding this bowl created in an imperial workshop within Beijing's Forbidden City by a small team of craftsmen, with the help of Jesuits from Europe who had brought new techniques and materials, according to Sotheby's. Last year a 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold for US$37.7 million, a record for Chinese ceramics.
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Posted by posabilitymagazine | Oct 4, 2018
TV host, Anneka Rice, was welcomed back to Calvert Trust Exmoor on the 25th anniversary of the boathouse opening constructed by the Challenge Anneka team in 1993.
The 'Boathouse' episode of the popular 90s television show, which was aired on BBC One, saw the indomitable television presenter Anneka and her team challenged by two West Buckland School pupils to convert a derelict cattle barn into a fully-accessible boathouse within just two days.
Siblings, Ben and Amber Gatehouse from North Devon wrote to the BBC television programme in 1992 to appeal for the new boathouse facility, including critical improvements to access so that disabled people ability could get out onto the lake and go sailing.
Ben said: "We truly hope our letter written naively to Anneka has and will continue to be an asset to the Trust in providing life changing holidays. We still remember vividly the shock and surprise of Anneka walking into our school assembly. At the time we were amazed by the local businesses' willingness to help a great cause in such a short time frame."
Hampered by Devon's typical heavy downpours and patchy phone signal, the 72-hour construction challenge made for edge-of-seat viewing as the team approached the deadline and completed the project just in time to celebrate with a regatta on Wistlandpound Reservoir, where the Boathouse remains in service today.
Anneka Rice said: "I remember being bowled over by the beauty on that final day when we'd gone through all the rain and the project was completed, there was a wonderful regatta, the sun came out and we all had lumps in our throats just seeing all those smiling faces."
Anneka's return last week saw her walk the original zig-zag path down to the boathouse and explore the extensive facilities that have been added since 1993. "It's quite emotional seeing it again. A couple of decades on (and the rest), it's still going strong. It's amazing!"
25 years on the boathouse still in full use and remains as asset to the charity in providing boating activities to disabled visitors. Find out more about Calvert Trust Exmoor here.
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Coronavirus update: 09/01/2021
Dear parishioners, we have changed the rules for attending services. For services within the Church, only 40 people can be into the upper church, and only 20 people into the lower church. Distance inside the church 1.5 - 2.0 m. One cannot expect communion outside the Church. On Sundays, you can come after the late service for communion and confession. Those who wish to receive the Holy Communion after the Liturgy must contact Fr. Vitaly 07935700721.
His Holiness Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia to visit our Cathedral (updated)
His Holiness, Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia, will be making a pastoral visit to London from 15th to 18thOctober, to mark the Diocese of Sourozh's celebration of 300 years of the presence of Russian Orthodoxy in the British Isles. The history of the Russian parish in London began with the embassy church founded on the orders of Tsar Peter the First.
His Holiness will be honouring us by a visit to our Cathedral and attending the Vigil Service on Saturday 15th October. Although the Vigil will start at 5pm, his holiness will be met later at the start of Matins at the entrance by His Eminence Archbishop Mark and the other Cathedral clergy. At end of the Vigil His Holiness will leave the altar and greet the people before departing. His Holiness will preside at the Liturgy on Sunday at the Cathedral in Ennismore Gardens at which all the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Abroad in the United Kingdom have been invited to attend. Due to the considerable number of people expected to attend the services at Harvard Road and Ennismore Gardens it is advisable for clergy and people to arrive early.
Confessions will be heard after the vigil on Saturday evening. The Liturgy will be celebrated as usual on Sunday in the Cathedral in Harvard Road.
His Holiness, Patriarch Ireney of Serbia will also be visiting the United Kingdom at the same time as Patriarch Kyrill as a guest of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and Vladika Mark and Fr Peter have been invited to concelebrate with him St Savva's Serbian Church, Ladbroke Grove on morning of Saturday 15th October at 10am
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In the history of web development technologies, we've never seen a technology like Node.JS becoming mainstream this quickly. Today, Node.JS has become the go-to-technology for all kinds of businesses and companies.
According to 2017 User Survey Report, Node.JS has about 7 Million users with a 100% growth rate on yearly-basis. And not only that, but Uber, LinkedIn, Netflix, and even NASA has tested and embraced Node.JS for some time now.
The Node.JS Foundation also revealed that 98% of Fortune 500 companies use Node.JS on regular-basis. And, 96% of IoT companies prefer using Node.JS for IoT application development.
All these statistics clearly proves that Node.JS is definitely taking the web market by storm. But, if you're still not convinced yet, let's get to specific reasons why Node.JS is better for web app development in 2018.
As a matter of fact, many global enterprises have benefited in a great way with this feature. For example, LinkedIn migrated from Ruby on Rails to Node.js for the sole purpose of their mobile traffic, which also reduced their number of servers from 30 to 3. Additionally, the Node.JS migration also made their application 20x times swifter.
That's quite a feat, don't you think?
In simple terms, the data changes done at server-side appears immediately at client-side, and the web page that displays those data automatically makes the updates.
Gone are the days of low-level sockets and protocols. With Node.JS you can develop real-time web application just in the same time needed to develop a simple blog using PHP.
The event-driven architecture that we talked above, caters to both server as well as client side, making synchronization process fast and neat. Plus, the event loop that works on TCP web socket protocol also handles the multi-user function and block overhead of HTTP in real-time web app development.
Overall, Node.JS is definitely a winner when it comes to multi-user, real-time web application development.
Node.JS is an open-source platform that encourages sharing. In fact, the community has been so much active that there are over 400,000 modules available on Github and Stackoverflow which can be found by Node Package Manager's official website.
Lastly, NodeJS also supports C as well as C++ programming languages to speed up the processing. The add-ons in Node.JS are dynamically-linked & shared objects, programmed in C++, making it possible to load them into Node.JS through require() function.
All in all, if you're on a tight budget for building a complex web app, Node.JS is the right key to your web development project success.


Weaning your baby on to solid foods is one of the most important milestones during the early months of parenthood, and Gina Ford's expert advice on weaning makes a baby's transition from milk to solid foods as straightforward as possible. Gina's no-nonsense, quick and easy tips will help you to: - Understand which foods to introduce and at what age - Get the balance of milk feeds and solids right - Eliminate night feeds once solids are introduced. This handy guide offers sensible solutions to ensure that your baby eats well - now, and as she grows up.


Are you looking for a way to serve others, grow in your faith, meet new friends, and have fun? Then consider participating in Stretch!
All youth in grades 6-12 are invited to join us for Stretch. Stretch happens throughout the year over school breaks. Through this program, youth will have the opportunity to start their day with Mass, volunteer with organizations in the local community, learn more about the importance of service and our Catholic faith, and participate in fun social activities. Be on the lookout for upcoming Stretch events!


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Buddha Machine II
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A few years ago I wrote about the Buddha Machine, a charming little plastic box that emits ethereal music. It is an interesting object, mostly because the nine loops that it can play are so other-worldly and, despite their brevity, infinitely fascinating. Which is just as well, because they will repeat endlessly. Well, until you switch it off or the batteries run out.
It was dubbed the anti-iPod, because despite the fact that it bears a similarity in design and concept to the famous Apple gadget, it in fact rejects the entire ethos of the slick iPod. The Buddha Machine reminds many of medium wave radios for the poor, crackly sound quality that comes out of its large circular speaker. And instead of boasting several gigabytes of storage space to put on whatever music you want, you are stuck with the nine loops. Essentially, it is what the iPod would be like if it was cheap and made in China. Instead of, er, expensive and made in China.
My post about the Buddha Machine became a bit of a landmark for this blog, as I ended up speaking about it on Radio Scotland. On the radio with me was a local Buddhist, who was understandably rather bemused about being asked about what she (politely) saw as a cheap piece of tat.
Ostensibly it is a piece of pure tat. It looks like the sort of thing that might plop through your letterbox a few weeks after you collect your twelfth Weetabix token. But there is something oddly engaging about the Buddha Machine.
It is an interesting statement about the position the entertainment industry finds itself in. This is an age when physical music formats seem more and more redundant. But contrary to this trend, the Buddha Machine — the ultimate physical format — has become a cult fetish object for music and gadget geeks.
Plus, you cannot help but be captivated by the music, which you can imagine being transmitted from outer space, or a hitherto undiscovered dimension. Or perhaps an anonymous exotic location on the other side of the world. Mind you, that last one is kind of true. The music, like the box, is made in China. You see, the Buddha Machine is the brainchild of the Beijing-based electronic music duo FM3.
Since then, FM3 have set to work on that difficult second Buddha Machine. I never suspected they would try to repeat the feat. Could it possibly recreate the magic of the original?
It is true that, unless you are new to the Buddha Machine, there is not much so mystery about the second iteration. To an extent, once you've seen one Buddha Machine, you've seen them all.
But there is enough that is new about the Buddha Machine II to justify the purchase. Of course, there are nine new loops. The music is as fascinating as ever, even if these new selections don't quite seem to match the other-worldly qualities of the original loops. While the first Buddha Machine was based more on electronic sounds, a lot of the new music is more guitar-based — though it is still firmly of the ambient persuasion.
My personal favourite loop of Buddha Machine II is #3, 'Piano'. It is a decisive but quizzical riff that, in a fairer world, could be the Windows startup sound.
Overall, Buddha Machine II feels like a more mature version of the original. Although the designs of the two machines are very similar, there are some subtle changes. The first Buddha Machine came in a variety of bright, almost childlike colours. The new version comes in deeper, more adult hues: burgundy, brown or — my choice — grey. Even the "summer edition" comes in a curious teal-like colour.
Buddha Machine II also comes with a new feature — a knob that allows you to control the pitch at which the loops play. At first, this new addition feels like a failure. Controlling it while the Buddha Machine is switched on produces a rather unpleasant, disorientating effect. It sounds like a malfunctioning tape player — a noise that made me feel sick when I was a child.
But a more careful use of the new control brings more pleasure. It unlocks infinite worlds hidden inside this tiny box. Instead of just the nine loops, for each one you now have a choice of a slow and low-pitched version, or a fast and high-pitched version — and everything in between. Each loop is now massively variable. Exploring different speeds of each loop reveals new elements, elicits new emotions and brings new experiences.
This will bring a new dimension to the past time of Buddha boxing. This is where two or more people experiment with a number of Buddha Machines, allowing the drones to weave themselves among one another. On first listen to such an experiment, the loops may seem to match up poorly. But it ends up being a fascinating ambient creation, like some massive imagined Brian Eno installation.
You can try it for yourself with the Buddha Machine Wall, a web page that lets you experiment using the original nine loops. FM3 themselves invite you to play with three loops from Buddha Machine II.
The Buddha Machine has come on a long way since its original release four years ago, having spawned a number of other projects. Robert Henke remixed the Buddha Machine to create the album Layering Buddha. FM3 themselves encourage such remixing by offering MP3s of the loops to download for free, available under a Creative Commons license.
And despite originally being the anti-iPod, you can now buy an iPhone app that apes the original Buddha Machine. Of course, it doesn't quite have the same charm as the real thing, but there is nonetheless something novel about these wonderful sounds coming out of your phone.
All-in-all, this unassuming little box packs a lot of punch. It is roughly the price of a CD album. But as an object, you will get far more pleasure out of a Buddha Machine.
Official Buddha Machine website
FM3 website
A great blog post about the Buddha Machine by The New Yorker's Sasha Frere-Jones
Kelvin L Smith
Good review, but they are not guitar loops, FM3 have stated that they are tradditional asian stringed intruments, put through processing etc….that is nice to know, in that it retains it's original 'Buddhist' nature. Well done.
Many thanks for the correction Kelvin. I suppose using traditional Asian instruments makes more sense than guitars!


Tom and Silvia Becker are seen with their 10 children in this 1970s photograph. (Courtesy photo).
NEWPORT — Full to the brim would be a good way to describe Tom Becker's life.
Recollecting a father whose figure was an imposing one in Newport for many decades, Thomas Becker Jr. remembers optimism to spare, a warm style and a list of undertakings and accomplishments so long it might have seemed an impossible feat for a person of a less sunny outlook.
"He always had the opinion that if you had a good idea you should implement it and make it happen," said Becker Jr., now a Medford resident.
Although Becker worked long hours and the jobs were never quite done, he strove to set aside time for family — the kind kids never forget: 10 of them stuffed in the station wagon with the dog, every year exploring a different part of the Northwest, from California into Canada.
Becker's family likes to remember that he was born during a snowstorm which left two feet of the white stuff on the ground. That was Dec. 29, 1924, in the dark of a Nebraska winter. Like most of his generation, he and his family dealt with the shock of the Great Depression, rolling west to Washington State in 1930 to find better opportunities. Growing up with a magnified sense of the hustle, he ran three newspaper routes before most people were awake, tackled school athletics and then pulled graveyard shift in a grocery store.
Becker joined the Coast Guard, then enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His aptitude for radio engineering put him in the position of chief engineer constructing Loran stations in Florida, California and the northern Philippine island of Luzon during WWII.
There were plenty of stories from these times and he liked to tell them. On one of his trans-Pacific flights to the Philippines, an engine burst into flames and smoldered for 500 miles as the plane kept heading for its destination, finally bringing him safely to the ground.
Becker's life was unfolding a bit like the old action-adventure stories that youngsters used to buy in the drugstore and devour in the cool of the shade.
But soon after the war, Becker met Silvia Bisi, the woman with whom he would build a family, and they went on to have 10 children. Despite a busy workday, Becker's face would be seen in the bleachers at his kids' many sporting events, at school programs and at church.
Becker and his new family moved to Oregon in 1948, and immediately began to leave a mark on Newport. Becker launched KNPT Newport, the county's oldest radio station, that same year, near where Fred Meyer is located today. He and his staff worked long days and through weekends to get the station on the air.
"The only problem I had with the city was they wanted to know why I was building it so far out of town," Becker told the News-Times in February of 1998 as KNPT prepared to celebrate 50 years of broadcast.
His first employee was Mo Niemi, who would become founder of Mo's Seafood and Chowder along with continuing involvement by Becker in helping build out the restaurant chain.
Becker was president of the Oregon Coast Association from 1959 to 1960, spearheading a push to build the Astoria Bridge. He became the president of the Oregon Association of Broadcasters from 1968 to 1969, and later pushed for development of the Oregon Undersea Gardens as an officer of Lincoln Development Co.
Becker served on the Oregon State University Foundation, put up the first money for the feasibility study that led to the construction of the Oregon Coast Aquarium and was a strong early booster for the aquarium. He was also key in helping to secure the acreage that is now home to the Hatfield Marine Science Center.
In 1988, Becker married Shirley Keudell of Stayton and added her six children to his flock.
Tom Becker Sr. passed away peacefully on Jan. 24 at age 94, surrounded by those he loved.
Prayer Service: Thursday, Jan. 31, at 4 p.m., Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Stayton, Oregon.
Donations can be made to the Michael Paul Becker Scholarship Fund at Newport High School or the Becker-Keudell Scholarship Fund at Regis High School in Stayton, Oregon.
Full to the brim would be a good way to describe Tom Becker's life.


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Megan and Mike came to us through our good friend (and fantastic planner) Tonia of Aribella Events. When we first "hung out" with Megan and Mike (it was a Google Hangout) I could immediately sense that these two were passionate, caring, and very much in love. I don't use this word often, but I honestly can't think of a better way to say it—they just have a zeal that is contagious! When you see the clips of the two of them during the photo session, you'll immediately agree that zeal is the best adjective here. There is nothing forced or posed about the moments with the two of them. We love that! All we had to do was step back and maybe occasionally remind them that they are now married (!), and the joy and happiness overflowed.
Megan is passionate about dance, and if Mike ever wasn't into dance, you would never know it! The couple shared a first dance that tops any we have ever filmed or seen. It was epic. We also never had to ask twice about stealing them away for more time out around the beautiful grounds of White Manor Country Club, where we had endless opportunities to buzz around with our Inspire 1 and Ronin just taking it all in.
During the reception, friends of Megan and Mike conducted a Ballroom Dancing lesson with all the guests, and then everyone danced the night away!


Tomas Hrustic is a resident program coordinator in Slovakia where he works on NDIs program with Roma communities. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Comenius University in Bratislava, where he is preparing his dissertation in comparative religion on Ethnicity and Religion-Religious Conversions among Roma in Sobrance. During his academic career, Tomas has tackled a wide array of field research subjects related to the political involvement of Roma; folk religiousity; domestic violence; and the transmission of religious and superstition concepts. He has participated in research for and cooperated with such organizations as the Milan Simecka Foundation, the Teaching Human Rights in Europe project, the Institute for Public Affairs, S.P.A.C.E., the Government Plenipotentiary for Roma Communities and the United Nations Development Programme. In addition, Tomas has taught courses and delivered lectures at Comenius University, the University of Wien, and the Regional Education Centre in Pezinok. He has authored several academic articles on comparative religion, as well as a Slovak language translation of John Davidson s The Gospel of Jesus-In Search of His Original Teachings. Tomas has earned scholarships for study at the University of Szeged, University College London and Charles University in Prague. He is a member in good standing of the Slovak Society for the Study of Religion and the Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund. In addition to fluency in English and Slovak, Tomas enjoys intermediate proficiency in Romany, a dialect of East Slovak Roma, and basic skills in German and Polish.
Recent anti-Roma speech throughout Europe, including in Slovakia, negatively impacts Roma children like these, photographed by Nadezhda Mouzykina in a segregated Slovak settlement.
Editor's Note: Stanislav Daniel, NDI Roma Political Participation Program Alumnus and Coordinator of Romani Early Years Network, contributed to this piece.
Slovakia' ruling SMER party convened its annual congress in December. Although a social democratic party now in power for a number of years, the congress had the unfortunate political trappings of a populist, right-wing gathering. Instead of pronouncing on poverty and inequality and other issues important to all citizens, the party chose instead to scapegoat Slovakia's most vulnerable constituency—the Roma—as public support for a far-right political alternative grows.


Mount Royal Conservatory's newest music program for children is the first of its kind in North America.
Suzuki trumpet for children aged three to 10 is starting this fall, and both Calgary parents and students will be making history testing the method's first official book. Conservatory instructor Natalie DeJong is North America's first accredited Suzuki trumpet instructor.
DeJong is part of a prestigious international team collaborating and testing out the official method book. The group includes DeJong and 10 other teachers from Sweden, Poland, Ireland and Spain. Project leaders from Sweden are planning to arrive in Calgary in two years' time to offer teacher training.
While children typically start learning to play piano, violin and percussion as early as three years old, students must often wait until age 11 or 12 to begin playing brass instruments. The size and weight of the instruments aren't suited for young players.
The Suzuki Method teaches children to learn a musical instrument in the same way they learn how to speak their native language; with a natural process based on listening, watching and playing. To learn trumpet, children start with pitch and rhythm training by sining and moving, learning good posture, work on breathing exercises and playing on the mouthpiece of the trumpet. They work up to playing on "pocket trumpets," which are real instruments scaled to fit small players.
Participants — both students and parents alike — will play a key role in to shaping the future of the Suzuki trumpet method, and embark on an exciting musical journey.
REGISTER FOR SUZUKI TRUMPET TODAY!
DeJong holds a Master of Music degree from Rutgers University. She began her studies at the University of Calgary, earning a Bachelor of Music degree, before pursuing further studies at the Vancouver Academy of Music. She is a regular guest teacher at junior and senior high schools and she performs with a variety of ensembles, including Altius Brass, the new Calgary Creative Arts Ensemble, and occasionally with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. DeJong performed as principal trumpet with the Philadelphia Camerata National Symphony on a month-long tour throughout China and most recently performed on the baroque trumpet in Stockholm with the Swedish Baroque Orchestra.
Mount Royal Conservatory Speech Arts faculty members Jennifer Orr and Grant Paterson adjudicate at Applause 2014 children's speech and drama festival April 2 and 3. The Leacock Theatre is offered free of charge for the annual event.
With poems about pulling pigtails, dismal dinnertimes and other silly stories, Calgary's only elementary school speech arts festival took centre stage at the Conservatory this week.
Applause 2014, a students' speech and drama festival held April 2 and 3 in Mount Royal's Leacock Theatre, was packed with 750 school children from all quadrants of the city.
Now in its 26th year, the Applause festival is a non-competitive speech arts event hosted by Mount Royal Conservatory since 1988. The festival offers elementary school students their own arena for developing performance skills on stage.
The children's festival is a unique partnership between the Conservatory, the Calgary Board of Education and the Calgary Catholic School District.
And to ensure this beloved festival keeps thriving, the theatre is offered to the schools free of charge – the only outside event that receives the Conservatory's donation.
"The Conservatory has always supported us. We couldn't do it otherwise," said event organizer Marilyn de Waal.
"It is, to me, the most memorable thing children can be involved in. It's a group effort, so if someone has low self-esteem they have their friends beside them," said de Waal, who operates Words Alive.
Students are learning invaluable skills: memorizing poems and stories, incorporating drama, enunciating, and becoming entertainers. Students also write reviews to praise school performances and offer encouragement and constructive feedback. Sometimes, they send candy, too.
Organizers say being on stage is special for students, who create memories and delight in listening to storytelling.
They agree that the Conservatory's community outreach is making a difference in children's lives.
Conservatory faculty act as adjudicators, said Jennifer Orr, instructor and coordinator for the Conservatory's Speech Arts and Drama Program.
This summer, the Conservatory is offering MusicMakers summer camp for children 5-9.
Registration is open now for the Aug. 11-15 camp, which Inspires children to sing, dance, act, play and create!
Learn more about our year-round Speech Arts programming here.
It's what parents and teachers dream of: early music training is proven to help children succeed in the long run.
Music training for youngsters may increase the neural connections in regions of the brain associated with creativity, decision making, and complex memory, according to studies from the Society for Neuroscience.
And research also finds that introducing babies and small children to rhythm, melodies and instruments early can be even more helpful to them later in life.
Researchers are saying that beginning children's music training before the age of seven has the greatest impact on brain anatomy in adulthood.
This August, Mount Royal Conservatory is offering its popular MusicMakers five-day summer camp for children.
Noteworthy: Registration for this fall's early childhood music programs at Mount Royal Conservatory opens May 14, 2014.
Call 403-440-6821 for more information or register here.