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AP News Radio
'Everything' wins best picture, is everywhere at Oscars
"Everything everywhere all at once won 7 Academy Awards last night, including best picture. I'm Archie's are a letter with the latest. Daniel Kwan of the directing team the Daniels says everything everywhere all at once is what the world needs at this moment. It's a shotgun blast of joy and absurdity and creativity. Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and kehoe Kwan won acting awards for their roles in that film. Kwan says he went for years with his agent telling him there was no work for him. Hopefully when I called my agent tomorrow, he would give me a different answer. Brendan Fraser won the best actor award for his role in the whale
77WABC Radio
"curtis" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Curtis. Curtis, is it true that they're taking you off the air they're taking away your hours? Anybody but Curtis, anybody but Curtis, anybody but Curtis, anybody but Curtis, anybody bought quarters. Let it out of the box. Curtis, but I listen to you. What am I going to do? I'm going to have to listen to another station. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. No. Don't do that. Elaine, I tell you. I'll tell you Elaine, don't worry about it. This is war now. This is war. I'm tired of being a nice guy. I'm tired of training all these new jacks to come in here and do their own show like Andrew Giuliani's off playing golf in Mar-a-Lago with Donald Trump. Laura Curran who will be interviewing Mary Ann Williamson that wing ding was running against Joe Biden in just a few hours at four and earning a nasty mister smiley. He reminds me of Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs. He's always smiling. In the taking my hours to Curtis, they can't. The Ukrainians are winning the war. You gotta win. You gotta get more hours. Well, I don't know if I want to be compared to either the Ukrainians or the Russians. Man, did you see man? They're like entrench war fit in. And by the way, did you know that savory in those trenches that fill up with water? I mean, this is a World War I tactics. It's what my grandfather fought and he explained it to me Anton from my dad's side to Polish side when he was fighting with the United States Army. In the trenches, he got trench foot musty gas poisoning and there were rats. Rats in the trenches. And you know what the Ukrainians are using to fight off the rats? Ukrainian cats. But oh, we can't do that in New York City according to Eric Adams swagger man with no plan who still doesn't have a rat saur I might add four months later. Everyone that knows me, they know one thing. I hate rats. Yeah. You hate him. Meantime, they're infesting your building in Lafayette avenue, but I got a surprise for you, mister mayor this week. I got a surprise for you right on Lafayette avenue. Ben Stein do or die
AP News Radio
Everything you need to know about the 2023 Academy Awards
"Everything everywhere all at once leads the nominations for Sunday's Academy Awards with 11. I'm Archie's are a letter with a preview. The producers of the Oscars are promising a moment to start Sunday's show, but they won't say anything more. Executive producer Molly mcnair, who is married to Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel, says the show will acknowledge Will Smith smacking Chris Rock last year and then move on. She says they don't want to make this year about last year. Nominee Jamie Lee Curtis says she's living in the moment. I'm riding the wave. I'm having a good time. I'm feeling very much in my body and in my mind. And that's important to me. The Oscars will air live on ABC.
AP News Radio
Screen Actors Guild Awards 2023 winners: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' takes best cast
"At once was the big winner at the Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday on marches are a letter with the latest. Hollywood likes to look for clues at the award shows leading up to the Oscars for who might win Oscars. If the sag awards are an indicator, everything everywhere all at once will do well in one best ensemble and Michelle Yeoh kehoe kwon and Jamie Lee Curtis won for their roles in it. Yo says it's a triumph for Asian women. This is not just for me. This is for every little girl that looks like me. Brendan Fraser won for his role in the whale in
The Eric Metaxas Show
What It Takes to Be a Mayor With Greg Kelly of Newsmax
"We're talking about the qualities that it takes leadership qualities, but particularly to be a great mayor in New York City. To some extent, Koch had that, although, of course, he was a Democrat and I would differ with him on some things. But Giuliani had it like crazy, even Bloomberg because he was willing to follow common sense rather than the woke mob was able to continue in the tradition of Giuliani. We've seen a nightmare under de Blasio and sadly also under Eric Adams. They are just, they almost couldn't be worse. And you were talking about what it takes to be a mayor. And I really think in 2014, long before Trump announced for president, my wife said, you know, Trump would be a great mayor of New York. And I thought, yes, you need kind of a maniac, a truth telling person who understands the wildness, inherent in the city who understands the crookedness of the unions and out all this stuff. Which is one of the reasons that I hope that you or Curtis Sliwa will be the next mayor of New York City. But you have to run and you were talking about the barriers. So continue the barriers. What are these barriers? The barriers are new. Look, I agree with former president Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James baker. Mail in voting is so open to corruption to coercion. I do believe I could beat Eric Adams under the not terribly old system of showing up on election day. But where you have unions handing out ballots, I don't think a Republican perhaps will ever win citywide office again or anyone outside the machine will ever win citywide office. I don't see it any time soon. And actually, I'm very pessimistic about 2024. Should Trump be the nominee? And I am a supporter of Donald Trump, a very clear about that. I love his policies. I also love him. I think he's amazing. And I think he's the chosen one in so many ways. But I'm very concerned that. I don't want to say steel. But they'll mess with the election all over again. And so that's my concern. And I know that that would happen to me.
AP News Radio
Golden Globes are back on TV, but are reform efforts enough?
"The Golden Globe Awards are back on NBC tonight after celebrities boycotted last year's event amid accusations of ethical and financial lapses within the Hollywood foreign press association. I'm Archie Sara letta with the latest. The question with this year's Golden Globes, who's going to show up. Last year's show had no celebrities, no TV deal, and winners were announced on Twitter. The Hollywood foreign press association has put in new rules and edit diversity to its membership since then, Michelle Williams says that shows progress. This organization has really done a lot of work to reform themselves and that we can support we can support change. Seth Rogen Judd Hirsch, Jamie Lee Curtis and baz luhrmann planned to attend Brendan Fraser nominated for the whale will not. Are you standing by your decision to knock out? Correct.
Stephanie Miller's Happy Hour Podcast
What Damage Could Electing Election Deniers Cause
"Oh, this is, by the way, I asked for the numbers here is Charlie pierce. Election denials will be on the ballot in 48 of 50 states. And make up more than half of all Republicans running for congressional state offices in the midterm elections nearly 300 Republicans seeking those offices this November have denied the outcome of the last presidential election. Many will win more than a 170 election deniers are running in districts or states where Republicans are expected to win. You said it is impossible to overstate the damage this situation could create. The big lie about 2020 already has poisoned politics for the next decade or so. It's accelerated the progress of the prion disease affecting the higher functions of the Republican Party, perhaps beyond recall and electing these people will validate their delusions and set them in concrete. The Secretary of State will send their state's elections into utter chaos and got alone knows what the new Congress Curtis will deface and vandalize. Charlie, that's really quite serious. And what do we do about this? To give proper, excuse me, to give proper credit. I survey a compendium done by The Washington Post, which spent obviously, it seems like three months putting the list together and it's inside the number. Some of these people are really crazy. That guy in Nevada, you know, that guy's gone to the zoo years ago.
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How Sammy Davis Jr and Kim Novak's Love Affair Started
"One night in 1957, Tony Curtis goes backstage and he tells Sammy that Kim Novak wants to meet him. And he invited him to sit ringside that night at the place called the shape Harry. And he didn't have a chance to talk to her. He didn't want to create any problems. So he says, look, I'm going to have a party at my house. Come on by and I'll invite Kim. That's what Tony Curtis said. And they both came over and they spent the night together deep, deep and talk. And right from the beginning, it was obvious they were getting along in a very intense way. And that was the beginning of the relationship. So you can blame Tony Curtis, I suppose. Well, Kim Novak also asked to meet him. But she wasn't alone in her being attracted to Sammy Davis magnetism. A lot of men might have considered a monthly because it was short and slight, and he had that flat nose, but chicks loved them. Chicks love his charisma. His stage presence was very sexually charged, and women were really drawn to him. But it hurt when men talked about his face being as far as his shovel and shit like that. And he'd say, yeah, it hurts me, but it gets me where I'm going. But Sammy knew how much women loved him. He liked his looks. He knew his face was ugly, but he worked on his body. He stayed trimmed he stayed athletic. Fantastic shape. He loved this little ass. That was his prized feature. He'd make a point of asking people how they liked his ass. Isn't it adorable? So he had a good time with himself. But after that meeting, the gossip industry started to hum. And went into high gear as it normally does when two big stars are seen together. Somebody makes a call as they still do today. And back then, somebody at Tony Curtis party put a phone call into Dorothy kill gallon, who worked for the Hearst newspaper chain. And she wrote in her column, which top female movie star initial kn is seriously dating which big name entertainer, initial SD. I mean, who the fuck's gonna get that wrong?
The Eric Metaxas Show
Professor Walter Hooper Recounts a Story About C.S. Lewis
"When you first came to Oxford, I remember story that you went to maybe it was the bob land. I'm guessing, and you asked for anything by Lewis, but the term you used was Lewis, Louisiana. Can you do you remember that story? I don't think it's exactly as I told it. I may have asked for Louisiana, but I think together we worked it out. I worked so long in the bodleian over 50 years. And I was always working on Louis. So people who worked there called the readers by not by name, but by the name of the person they're researching. So I've called mister C is Lewis when I'm there. And I know a man who is Civil War Robert E. Lee and Hitler. Mister Adolf Hitler. You're kidding. Well, actually, one of the things about Hitler's. Is that the people that I work with have work with for years, these Curtis Brown, agents, literary agents and London. Well, they were Hitler's literary agents. And they have you're not kidding. No, I'm not. Curtis Brown where Hitler's literary agents. Some have they inherited they have the rights to they control the rights to mein kampf. But and all the children's stories that he wrote. Well, I understand that the royalties of mein kampf have been around for 50 years, and they built up quite a lot.
AP News Radio
Sam Gooden, founding member of The Impressions, has died
"Founding member Sam gooden of the impressions has died at the age of 87 according to his daughter I'm Archie's are a letter with a look at his career Sam gooden sang bass in the impressions which also included Jerry butler Curtis Mayfield and Richard and Arthur Brooks Their hits include people get ready it's all right and gypsy woman Mayfield went solo in 1970 but continued to write and produce for the impressions The group was inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 So people get ready gooden was still performing as the impressions into his 80s
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Turning Point USA Moved Its Headquarters to Indiana
"Story real quick? I didn't know this until you were speaking tonight over at the church. And the meet and greet and you said something that blew my mind, you liked Indiana so much that what did you do? Yes, so it's interesting. On a technical basis, this is true. If you just look at any of our turning point USA, 9 90 forms. So Illinois was becoming increasingly oppressive and authoritarian. And I wasn't really trusting who was running the Illinois government for good reason. I think you would all agree. And so I started to see some behavior from people across the country targeting groups like project veritas or targeting the pro life groups in California from state based attorney generals. And I was like, I don't want this to happen in Illinois. So I called one of my board members. I said, we need to go and change our headquarters to a friendly state. And he's like, all right, where I said, well, Indiana obviously, right? So if you look at our turning point USA 9 90 forms, we're headquartered in crown point Indiana, if anyone's asking, actually. So amazing. And it was because of attorney general Curtis hill because it was a sane constitutional defender that actually believed in the rule of law. And
Entrepreneur on FIRE
"curtis" Discussed on Entrepreneur on FIRE
"Curtis say what's up to fire nation and share something interesting about yourself that most people don't know. What's up fire nation? Something about me that most people don't know is on a funny side. I've never eaten a hot dog in my whole life. What? But on a more serious note, I lost $2 million in a single day, a little bit over $2 million in a single day. I don't share that with too many people recently. I've started sharing that because it's part of my story, but if you have one of those days, you know what I'm talking about, it does not feel very good. What a gut shot. I mean, I don't want to go too deep, but can you just give us the basics of that? Because that's pretty brutal. It was pretty brutal. It's part of my story about business and entrepreneurship on how we focus so hard on getting home runs and growing our business and scaling our business with out considering the risk that's in our business. And if you don't take in consideration the risk, your business can go out of business in a blink of an eye, whether it was your fault or not. And that's kind of how I got where I am today on helping people understand why we're in business. The purpose of business and not to not to do the mistakes I have and avoid the pitfalls that the majority of entrepreneurs do. Because we have this mindset that we can always make more money. And we're taught that as entrepreneurs will go getters and we just go kill it. And then when we lose, we shrug our shoulders and say, hey, we'll just make more money again. And that is my story to the world that it has nothing to do with how much money we make, but how efficient we are with the money we make. And I love that message, and that's something we're really going to be focusing in on today fire nation..
AP News Radio
Bruins back home, beat Hurricanes 5-2 to force 7th game
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The Dan Bongino Show
Media Research Center Gives Dan Bongino a Bulldog Award
"Hey before I get back to what I wanted to talk about how Biden is repeating the same mistakes of the past that are going to lead us to more mistakes in the future which are going to be mistakes that you are going to suffer the ramifications of Biden will be fine believe me Biden will be just fine He's taken care of in The White House I want to thank the media research center They gave me I have the award if you're watching here on Fox nation I found out about it last week but they the press release went out today Their first bulldog awards they're called the anti pulitzers of Pulitzer so I'm honored to be on the other side of the ridiculous Pulitzer prizes given to idiots in the media talk about the pee pee hoax So they gave me the bulldog award Here's the award right there It looks like Jim what do you think is in the shape of a liberal tier Looks like a big liberal tier right Yeah It's even blue kind of the color of water with the sky reflection So the MRC media research center those guys are awesome repose group and all those people Curtis Howe Dan came to all those folks MRC bulldog award recognizes Dan bongino for outstanding podcast 2022 Thank you Thank you You guys are fantastic I am honored I love my podcast I've been doing it for 8 years You can check it out folks I want to congratulate Steven gypsy and Mark Levin got the best radio show award I certainly can not dispute that I am a fan of the great one as you know as well He has been a warrior for as long as I've been alive on this cause on the radio But podcast that's really great So thank you very much media
AP News Radio
Eller scores, Capitals beat Bruins for 3rd consecutive win
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AP News Radio
Pastrnak scores tiebreaker in 3rd, Bruins beat Devils 5-3
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AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
How AJ's Mother Got Him Hooked on Gossip
"When I was a little boy, my mother never read me children's books. She read me the gossip pages from the four dailies. We had delivered to our home. And as she licked her thing is through the pages of the New York Post, the daily news, the Long Island press, and newsday, she exposed me to a world that I knew I had to be a part of. Now, what could a little boy possibly have in common with Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Tom Jones, or Cher? Well, apparently everything. To me, those big names in bold print who were always in the news weren't people as much as they were invitations into a world. I knew I had to live in, or at least visit from time to time. So before I bolted out of the house to play with my friends in the schoolyard, I would sit at the kitchen table with my mother as she read out loud the papers gossip columns to me. Cindy Adams Liz Smith, wrote a Barrett. I love to hear where movie star spent their summers. What films they were making, where they ate, and who they were in love with. And of course, some of the gossip artists would have just fallen flat. Had it not been for the comical side of my father who would sprinkle in some jokes now and then. You know, a simple mention from my mother about, say, Joe DiMaggio would turn into a detailed screed that my father would deliver from across the room. He'd say, he was the greatest ballplayer in the world, ruined by a Hollywood whore. And as soon as my mother took the side of mala Monroe, he digging deeper. Look, the guy goes to surprise his wife with roses on a movie set one day. He gets there. He gets there and sees 5000 people staring at her panties while they're blowing wind up her ass from under a subway grating for half an hour. And that was that, three weeks later, he filed for divorce, and he was never the same man. Is that true, man? Unfortunately, yes, on this set of the 7 year rich. Yeah, she had literally all right, my father would say. And everybody scratched it. Mickey Rooney, you will bring a Tony Curtis brandel Monty cliff uncle mill to even Ruby Rose is scratched that itch. It was my mother who made me crazy about gossip. Without her, there's no gossip column. There's no book. There's no podcast, no nothing. Who knows right?
AP News Radio
Little Curtis, Birmingham Hospital And Michelle Butler discussed on AP News Radio
"Little Curtis means is only sixteen months old but he's a world record holder Curtis weighed less than a pound when he was born at the university of Alabama at Birmingham hospital in July of twenty twenty his mother Michelle Butler also gave birth to a twin boy who did not survive she was pregnant for only about twenty one weeks about half the time of a full term pregnancy little Curtis spent two hundred seventy five days in the hospital defying the odds getting stronger and stronger after three months they were able to take him off of ventilator and following months of round the clock care little Curtis went home in April a moment is mother will always remember she says the world's most premature baby to survive says Guinness world records I read a folate
AP News Radio
Alabama boy named world's most premature infant to survive
"Means is only sixteen months old but he's a world record holder Curtis weighed less than a pound when he was born at the university of Alabama at Birmingham hospital in July of twenty twenty his mother Michelle Butler also gave birth to a twin boy who did not survive she was pregnant for only about twenty one weeks about half the time of a full term pregnancy little Curtis spent two hundred seventy five days in the hospital defying the odds getting stronger and stronger after three months they were able to take him off of ventilator and following
Zúme - Multiplying Disciples
"curtis" Discussed on Zúme - Multiplying Disciples
"Disciple worth multiplying. So it starts with being not the doing. And this is critical in the kingdom that we first, you know, our disciples that God would delight to multiply. And then we can worry about multiplying. So that's in a nutshell. That's how I would explain it. So good. So when people hop on Zoom vision or zoom training and they see the button join our community. What does that mean? Yeah, essentially, you're registering for the site. Yeah. It's possible to use the site without registering. But there are advantages to registering. So such as. Such as you can get a coach, you know, for free, indefinitely. You can have your own dashboard, you know, that will quickly let you see your progress, not only going through the course, but also in applying the lessons from the course in equipping others and then seeing, you know, how many of those are passing on with their receiving. So it gives you this dashboard that helps you track that and it's a little bit easier to access the different pieces of training, sort of separately or individually, if you register. Awesome. So yeah, people are going to hop on and use it and go for it and share it. But just another way that the tool can just help serve in the work. And so thank you Curtis for taking time to share about zoome and just a little bit about the history. Is there anything else that you would like to add before we close out this episode and look forward to future ones together? Just that the history is not over. We have lots of plans for future development and improvements. Some of which are pretty significant. So stay tuned for the future history. Amen amen. Thanks for listening. To learn more, go to WW zoome dot vision, and to be equipped, go to WWW dot zoom dot training. Have questions for the podcast, you can email them to podcast at zoom dot.
Mark Levin
Mark Levin Endorses Curtis Sliwa for New York City Mayor
"There's a mayoral race you know in New York City And the candidate that I've endorsed is Curtis sleeva Curtis How are you sir Oh there were great mark going 24 7 three 6 5 now to November 2nd And a lot of lavenders out there have heard you extoll my character my background Your support for me and they come up to me and they say oh you know Mark he's like your number one supporter so I appreciate the tactical air support Mark You got a brother because I know you'd be a great mayor And I know the guy you're running against is a phony I'll give you a perfect example As he defended the firefighters of the cops or the emergency personnel against the current mayor who's seeking to lay off lay them off by the tens of thousands No no in fact one of the female leaders of the fire department great African American woman said that today in that rally that I attended She said how dare you Eric Adams You used to be a cop You're abandoning your fellow comrades who now will be fired There will be 10,000 less police officers if they don't take this shot by tomorrow And they're not going to take this shot They'll be they will be fired They will not be able to feed their families pay their bills unless they get vaccinated And I got to tell you we got to end these mandates We encourage vaccination I'm vaccinated Most people are vaccinated But there are people who for religious or medical reasons can't get vaccinated have antibodies because they already had the coronavirus And some who just don't trust the government Wow Isn't it a crazy idea Why would you trust the government
The Eric Metaxas Show
"curtis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Adams has been wine dying in pocket line by a lot of Democrats all throughout the country. So I got to make up for lost time and lost ground. And when is the date that we go to the polls? On November 2nd, it's the final day of voting, but obviously now we're pushing all of our finances into the last minute television advertising radio advertising. It really galvanizes the people most likely to vote. I'm going to be back in New York City on November 2nd. I can not wait to vote for you on the independent line. It's very, very important. What do you think the future of New York is? If a guy like, if a guy like Eric Adams gets elected, we know that he can talk a good game, but it's frightening to me to think after 8 years of de Blasio, what would happen for you? Well, Eric my taxes, he said it all last night on the final debate stage. He said, I believe that Maya de Blasio deserves a B plus for the great work he's done for the city of New York. This guy is out of his mind. He indicated to everyone looking at that debate. The tens of thousands of people who are watching that that he'll just be de Blasio 2.0. 2.0. So I say to people who's gonna keep you safe, who do you trust to keep you safe? And people know where I've been from 42 years. They know that I shed blood in order to defend New Yorkers under attack on the siege. And I think that will propel me to victory because Eric Adams is like your typical politicians, robotic, you know, he regurgitates sound bites, but he never says anything. And I think that's what will resonate. Is this where we are in America? I think people have finally woken up to the fact that guys like that, they do absolutely nothing. They've got cliche after cliche. They'll say whatever they will smile. They put on a suit. They do nothing for the people that elected them. Folks don't make a mistake. This is way too important. If you can give to Curtis, go to courtesy well for mayor. I'd come please. This is important Curtis. God bless you and we'll talk to you after the election. Oh, thank you. Thanks for the tactical air support Eric. My hands across America to all of you listening. Holy.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"curtis" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Ladies and gentlemen, do you remember that I said that I would get courtesy while on the program? Do you remember that? I said a couple of minutes ago, so you should remember. Well, promises made promises kept Curtis Sliwa, future mayor of New York City. God bless you, my friend. You just make me happy. Just looking at your face. You had an amazing debate last night. And I want to frame this and tell everybody, you don't need to live in New York. We know New York is America city. It's a bellwether city, what happens in New York affects the entire nation and New York was an unbelievably thriving city until mayor de Blasio destroyed it in 8 years. He put the pedal to the metal, courtesy, welcome. Oh, my pleasure to join you again last time. Remember, I was on a city bike outside a prospect park. I don't believe, I don't believe you remember that. You have been so busy running for mayor. Let's frame this, okay? Because most people listen to the program. Don't live in New York, right? So number one, I want to ask you, how do you see this race shaping up? De Blasio was a full out, I mean, he's like a Biden wannabe. He is a total communist. I mean, we're not even joking, right? He's as bad as you can imagine. I've seen the city change in a few years like I never dreamt. It could change. The crime, the graffiti, the street people on the upper west side. I mean, it's an unbelievable deterioration. Number one. Number two, now you are running against Eric Adams, talk about the race as it stands now. Well, all you had to do was listen to Eric Adams on that debate stage last night and towards the end, we were asked by the moderator to give a letter grade to Bill de Blasio. Harry Adams said, B plus and that made my entire point that if the voters in New York City vote for Eric Adams did not Kurdish sleeve, you're gonna get four more years of de Blasio. What drug induced psychosis was Eric Adams in to give him a B plus. That is the ultimate in social promotion. I gave him an F and I said, I can't wait to this guy leaves New York City, goes back to Cambridge. He'll probably be an adjunct professor and ruin a whole new generation of poli sci students at Harvard. You know, it's a joy to have you on introduce you to introduce you to my audience because I think that you are the ultimate New Yorker, okay? All of us had problems with with Ed Koch. You had real problems with that Koch. But he was in New Yorker. You didn't get the impression that, you know, he kind of took the train down from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He sounded like a New Yorker. You have been in New York, your whole life. Tell us a little bit about your biography for people are just tuning in because I want people to know you who you are. I came out of a blue collar working class background in canarsie Brooklyn. My father, merchant seaman Chester for 55 years and my mother, Francesca raised both myself and my two sisters who are directly involved in my campaign to become mayor. But if we look at it, my father when he would return from being offshore for 8 months of the year, we would go down in the 1960s to an area called the boundary. Right now in Manhattan, you would have to take a reverse mortgage just to get parking space down there. Never mind living space. But back then it was where auditions and the flop houses were. What's called the derelict bombs they referred to them. And my father knew some of these men. Because he had previously been seaman with him. And he said to me, there by the grace of God go you Curtis, at any moment, this could happen to any one of us. I need to have conversation with these men. And I understood that that early age you had to be caring and compassionate. And so that's what I've done for 42 years as leader of the guardian angel. It's not just in New York City, but around the world now in 13 countries, a 130. Let's talk about that because there are people watching this is saying, why is this guy wearing a red beret? I know why. And it fills me with pride just to look at you. But there are people thinking this guy's got the heavy New York accent. He's wearing a French beret. What is going on? I will just say as a preface, I grew up in New York City. I was born in Queens. I was in there into the 70s. We got out in the 70s, moved up the Danbury, Connecticut because the crime, the deterioration was unbelievable and we watched the New York news every night. It was unbelievable. We had mayor beam. We had it was just like a nightmare. And into this nightmare, steps a young guy named Curtis Lee tell the story Curtis. It was a night manager at McDonald's in The Bronx. The Bronx was burning down at the time and in the 70s alone a million people fled from New York City. The biggest exit is a population ever. And rightfully so, gangs arson property values plummeting quality of life dismal. So I decided, hey, you know, something they've removed the transit police from the subways at night because we were on the brink of a fiscal collapse. So they were laying off a lot of civil servants. I said, oh, I'll start patrolling with a group of my closes at that McDonald's. We will call the burger boys. And we started to patrol this one particularly train the number four train, which had been nicknamed by the right as the muggers expressed. I thought I get the congressional Medal of Honor. Eric, I couldn't have been more hopelessly wrong. The mayor at that time, Ed Koch vilified us, called us vigilante, said we were the hell's angels. The police unions were upset. They didn't want us there, because they figured their furloughed employees would never be brought back. And so within the first 13 years until Rudy Giuliani got elected mayor. I got arrested 76 times. I got wooden shampoos, concrete facials, attitude, no readjustments. It was whenever you elected or in a changed all that. I always gotta stop you because nobody knows what you just said. And it's the funniest stuff I've ever heard. You said you got wooden shampoos. You're talking about Billy clubs across the head from cops. Yes. Yes. And then concrete facials where the cop would say, Curtis, you see the curb down there as I was handcuffed. I said, yes, Sarge. And then you go, good. We're gonna have your forehead meet the curb bang. And you get a big lump in the front of your head. So this is the kind of thing that went on under the democratic administrations. And I want to say to my fellow Americans as somebody who grew up at that time was there at the time, my parents tried to raise us there. New York,.
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"Go ahead and take a seat. We are going to get right into it this morning if you have your bibles you can turn a luke chapter thirteen. If this is your first time at curtis lake first time in a long time we have been in the series where we're going through luke's description of the life ministry of jesus christ and so over the last now few months we've been making our way we're up to chapter thirteen. We still have several weeks to go. I hope you've enjoyed the journey. Those of you that have been.
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"It's pervasive in a couple of weeks. I'm going to have surgery on my face. I have been diagnosed with a skin cancer. And it's the quote unquote mind right. The good kind of skin cancer. The doctors described to me that this is the kind of skin cancer that doesn't have a tendency to spread it is in essence encapsulated within kind of the little seller. Tumor that it exists. And so what they'll do remedy is they will cut my face open and just dig it out and that's the end of it hopefully right for most for the most part. That's how you deal with this thing and that's fine. Maybe you get another one somewhere else but like in and of itself. Just its own little thing. That's very different from eight years ago. I was diagnosed with foam by and back then. What the doctors discovered was like a fist sized tumor in my chest and even in the diagnosis of that lymphoma. Some testing had to be done to find out. Just how bad is this right. And so as i'm in the hospital and their first biopsy they cut open my chest. They biopsy the tumor to find out. Exactly what it is. What kind of cancer are we dealing with. But then they did the most awful thing to me after after they had figured out what it was then they came in and did another procedure on me where they turn me over on my bed the pull my pants partway down and they ground into my buttocks with some kind of tool in order to extract bone marrow a bone marrow biopsy literally the most painful thing i've ever undergone in my life. You know why they did that. They did it because they wanted to know. Are we talking about lymphoma that exact essentially exists currently as this tumor or is it worse right. Is it in the mayor. Is it has. It has gotten into the lymph. Nodes right what they're trying to discern and hypocrisy. It's not like the skin cancer. It's not like the isolated tumor that they can go ahead and deal with her cut out. Or how however they're going to kind of deal it's pervasive it's pervasive like some cancers that people have experienced where the really bad news is. Hey this is kind of taken over your entire body. And that's what jesus says. Hypocrisy is like it's like yeast. And here's the problem with policy is that it's not it's not easily detectable it's not easily detectable when it comes to park in our lives like the policy that you and i are guilty of. It's really really hard for us to see our own hypocrisy. It's not like you look in the mirror most days and you can just see your life folk because again like we think hypocrisy has just being this outright like i don't do this and then i go and do that right. That's what we think of when it comes to hypocrisy hypocrisy is it's so much deeper and really broader than ira because it's far more has to do with what we have justified in our lives. That is wrong but that we are now unable to identify ourselves. And that's why. Jesus says the disciples pay attention to your selves. Like pay attention to yourself what we do is we pay attention to other people right. We pay a lot of attention to what other people are doing. Or how they're behaving or how they're talking or how they sound right or what they posted on facebook. What they said to me how they acted toward me. We have so much attention directed on what other people are doing. Our other people are acting. But jesus says pay attention to yourself. There's a little bit of m y o b in this matter of hypocrisy. See this levin the errors of the pharisees. He says pay attention that you don't fall into exactly the same trap that they themselves have fallen into crecy. It's not easily detectable. So sometimes we need a little bit of help right sometimes. We need that. Hey tak- good look in the mirror. Right that's what this kid is. Essentially saying to his dad and the commercially watched a few moments ago like dad. I get your incense that i have started doing this. And i'm not supposed to be doing this and i get why you're angry by hey favor for a second. Take a good look in the mirror. Because you're doing exactly the same thing. Hypocrisy is not easily detectable hypocrisy also and this is part of the challenge of is that it feeds on praise right. We started as we were looking at hypocrisy at talking about the idea that hypocrisy seeks to please others right to gain their favor or to keep the favor of a particular group and poxy find its food on this thing called praise on the approval of other people as we looked at the beginning of the story. Luke describes the scene for us. He said the crowds grew. He essentially gave us the idea that the crowd had come to be innumerable. He uses the word used for ten thousand people or just used. Generically of an innumerable number of people had begun to gather around. Jesus right that there was to some degree. A rapidly growing popularity. Four this figure. Jesus and his disciples so much so that now they were stepping over each other trampling on one another and jesus as he is there with his disciples. Viewing the expansive crowd understands that he has to warn he has to caution disciples against the temptation that there are naturally going to feel as they view the crowds that have come to see them and to hear from them. It would be tempting for jesus and his disciples to grow to like the crowd right into not only having received a favor of the crowd but then wanting to maintain the favor of that crowd that was what the jewish leaders had been guilty of so many times in their lives is this desire to have attributed to them the praises of other people the applause of men and women and jesus says beware or watch yourselves. Pay attention to yourself that you don't grow to love the crowd you see we. We find ourselves especially i feel like in these days in which we live having the temptation to align ourselves with the right crowd right the people that are in power the people that seem to hold the cards at any given time and we want to be aligned with the right people and sometimes we we actually kinda give up on. What we know is right for ourselves because we know that we have to align ourselves with what other people think and not only that but we have to show content right to the right degree for the people that the people in power don't like and we find ourselves instead of actually living out this thing called love instead of actually living out the kind of graciousness that jesus would have in our lives. We jump in with a group of people in a desire to earn and keep their favor..
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"That which is that. Who is jesus. You see a lot of times we do just that we let our lives be informed by things other than jesus we let are lies being formed by culture as if culture has the answers in the wisdom that we need for actually living through this life and we listened to culture all the time we start behaving according to the pattern of culture. We listen to popular opinion or majority opinion. Hey if more people think that this is right then it must be right. Sometimes there are more people than there are smart people so majority opinion doesn't always work. We listen to people that we trust you. Listen to a person that you trust who stands in opposition to who jesus is run away. What are you listening to. That isn't jesus. We listened to our own feelings. This is how i feel. This is how i make sense of what i see of what i'm experiencing and so we are feelings actually determine what is truth for us on a caution. You don't listen to anything. That isn't jesus peter said for. We weren't making up clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our lord. Jesus christ we saw his majestic splendor with our own eyes. The promise of jesus's return is still a promise. I get it. It's been two thousand years since what was promised in the old testament and then refreshed in jesus's life and ministry. It feels like it's been forever and we could certainly be prone to just think well if it hasn't happened yet it must never be happening. But jesus is promise was that he would return and that return is still a promise and so again i ask you not. Just what are you listening to. That isn't jesus. But what are you looking for. That isn't jesus. why are you looking for. That is other than jesus who again let us peek into.
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"Really just how small and fragile they were compared with him again before he was big brother before he was yeah. Let's follow this guy. He's got some things going on here but it's like he was just some superhuman one word to be followed absolutely but one who deserved the abandonment of everything else. That's where they needed to be brought to you. That's where you and i need to be brought to as well. The jesus isn't one to be followed. Here's one for whom we absolutely and utterly abandoned everything else. That's what it means to follow him. Peter later on. After jesus died rose. Again and peter's he is fulfilling the great commission jesus had given to him into the rest of the apostles. Peter later wrote a couple of letters and in second peter chapter one versus sixteen through nineteen. This is what he says as he reflects back on the experience on the mountain. This is why he says he says for we were not making op clever stories when we told you about the powerful coming of our lord. Jesus christ peter is here trying to help his readers stand that there are certain promises that have been made regarding the return of jesus and the church as time waned on experience this tendency to forget or to disregard the promise that jesus was going to come again because they thought well if he were going to come again he would have done it.
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"We try. Who so we have rules in our home for me with my grandmother. Rule number one. If you can't say something nice don't say anything at all. You're not gonna believe this. But when i was younger i would very often use my words to put down my younger sister. I did that over and over again. In fact i was good at it. She was younger. Than i was rarely. Was i going to lose a battle of wits. My younger sister right and so it was easy for me to kind of have my way and bullying my way through the day with my words. My grandmother she had this rule for all of us. That is if you can't say something nice. Don't say anything at all. Probably a good rule from many of us on facebook to think about every once in a while right. That's my grandmother. Still wise right. So we make these rules to try to legislate to regulate our behavior but the reality is you know. It really wouldn't matter. If i actually followed the rule to not put down my sister to not be little her or to not use my words to make her feel inferior right. My not doing. That doesn't necessarily mean that i am then actually loving her right because love can't be legislated and other thing i noticed in here is love. Can't it can never begin with the question or the motivation of well. What's in it for me. What's in it for me. Listen if you're trying to live out love and it's coming from a place of what's in it for me then. You're not doing it right. That's exactly what we find is the angle at which the lawyers coming to jesus. Sarah listen to his words. He said to. Jesus what should i do to inherit eternal life. What should i do. He knows the answer. Essentially we come to the conclusion that jesus ultimately wants him to come to. But there's that question of what should i do to inherit eternal life. Then later it says in order to justify himself to feel good about his actions about the way he was living his life he then asks the follow up question. There was this motivation for him to see what was in it for himself. But love can't begin with what's in it for me. It just can.
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"I love the declaration of that song. I think that's a great way for us to go into the word of god this morning declaring this living hope. I'm really glad that were in the business of providing. Hope you know there's a lot of things out there in the world that would presume to promise hope to people right but we have many of us discovered why is the true source of our hope and that is the hope that we have in jesus amen. How's everybody doing good good to see you all out here. Thank you to those of you. Who are joining us online as well so glad to have you all part of this experience today if you have your bibles you can turn to luke chapter nine. We're going to read chapter nine versus twenty eight to thirty six together this morning. If you're new to curtis lake or if this is the first time you've been with us for a long time. We have been journeying through the gospel of luke and trying to understand better. His presentation of jesus's life. Many of you are aware that there are multiple gospel accounts of jesus's life. There's matthew mark luke and john and we are specifically looking at luke has to say as he tried his best to describe the historical events surrounding jesus life today. We're going to look at one. Such event that i think that many of us who have read through the bible a number of times probably have a tendency to just kind of gloss over. I don't know why it seems that. I feel like a lot of times especially in this series that for those passages of scripture that we have a tendency to gloss over the down. I wanna park here for a little bit to try to understand. Maybe the deeper meaning of what's supposed to be being communicated to us many of you know that was a long time ago. We of organized the weeks leading up to into the series and there are a couple of messages that i was especially a little squeamish about one was early on when we talked about angels as i confessed to the church at that time it never preached the message on angels before angels aren't particularly all that interesting to me and so it's like our is supposed to say about angels but you can't really get around the birth narrative of christ in the early parts of luke without just seeing all this activity surrounding angels. So we we made the decision to kind of camp there for a little bit. This is another one of those stories. This is the story that if you have a bible that differentiates between sections of scripture. The kind of gives you some headings or to help you understand what's going on there. This is the story involving the transfiguration of jesus jesus's transfiguration as we read this. We're gonna discover that there's this kind of event in jesus's life. It's a little peculiar a little odd yet. It's recorded in matthew. In mark and luke all three of the synoptic gospel writers bring this into the story and their and their elaboration of the life of jesus to us. And so chances are if you see it three times right three gospels. It must be important. So we're going to do our best to kinda dive into the story of jesus's transfiguration. My goal is to help us see what the transfiguration what.
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"Embrace that forgiveness this morning i also want to speak to those of you may be the. Haven't you've never experienced africanness in fact you're not really even sure what exactly it is. That i'm talking about your. You're here today or listening online or at some later. Point down the road and this whole concept of forgiveness four into you. I hope that by the time we are done today. You will see the this thing called. God's forgiveness extends to every single person who wants it and it doesn't matter how we have a mask for ourselves all kinds of things for which need to be forgiven. It does not matter the depth of those offenses maybe the level of evilness that we might associate with any of those actions or behavior lifestyle or way about us. None of those things is exempt from or out of the reach of god's forgiveness so i want to speak to all of us today. Those have experienced. God's forgiveness how we should that respond even today Some of you that experience of god's forgiveness is something that's relatively new for you. Maybe it happened over the course of the last year. But there's others of you you have you experienced that thing called god's forgiveness twenty thirty forty fifty sixty years ago. I want to talk to you about how we respond to that forgiveness this morning new. Chapter seven verse. Thirty six through fifty. Let's read it together. One of the pharisees. Ask jesus to have dinner with him. And so jesus went to his home and sat down. To eat the pharisees were of course. This religiously elite group of people right. These were these were the the holiest the more serious about their religion. The most rigid in their lifestyle. They were all about doing the right thing. They were all about living righteously. They were all about being able to walk through the streets of their town and having absolutely nothing bad said about them and the way they conducted themselves. And so one of these guys. He invites jesus who is now. Travelling around from place to place speaking from synagogue to synagogue. He's invited into come into his home for a meal. And so jesus goes into this meal and he sits down and eats with this ferris. His name is simon well. When a certain immoral woman from that city heard that jesus was eating at simon's house she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his feet. Weeping her tears fell on his feet and she wipe them off with her hair and she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them. Well when the pharisee who had invited. Jesus sawed this. He said to himself if this man jesus if this man were truly a prophet he would know he would know. What kind of woman is touching him. She's a center so again to set the stage. Jesus has come into the home of this religious person. This person is very very serious about his relationship with god and while they're eating suddenly a woman presents herself at jesus's feet now. That probably sounds really strange to us. And that's for good reason because that's not how we have meals these days right if we if i were to invite you over to my home or you would invite me over to your home. We go to each other's house and close the door and sit at the table and we would eat well. In jesus's day it was customary for a banquet of sorts to be held especially on the sabbath following the religious service. That occurred at the synagogue. That's probably the context that we're talking about here and this pharisee is well known right. He's not he's not a person that is a small figure in his community. No he's he's a well known. Well respected probably leader within his community. He's invited jesus. Of course his famous just just blowing up all over the place and so when jesus comes into his home. I'm like how we would do at. The door is not closed. It was customary for other people who aren't particularly invited to the feast to come and observe taxi. Stand around and watch other. People eat and listen in on their conversation. I mean something to be expected. When you have a notable figure like jesus coming into the home of another individual a lot of the people that had come into simon's house. Where probably simon was largely okay with what was going on. But then there's this woman this woman that simon had a choice she certainly would not have been invited in fact. He was probably kind of disgusted. That she was even there under his roof in the first place while she comes up behind jesus and she starts sobbing at his feet. Just starts weeping. We don't know exactly what experience she may or may not have had with jesus whether there was some direct contact where she actually experienced. Jesus as forgiveness right where where there was some some point in which they had come together and jesus was able to communicate her directly the love of gaba. Apparently she has four herself experienced. God's love and forgiveness for for her a person who has been cast off by the rest of society. And how does she respond. What's she responds by following. Jesus is feet and weeping probably just unloading all that weight of emotion that comes alongside the kind of life that she's lived a life that is full of regrets and remorse. And i wish it weren't this way. And i wish i had done things differently and i wish i had had better opportunities and i wished that people didn't think about me the way they think about me. I wish that i was different somehow. Someway she's beginning to experience. Some of the difference that god makes in the life of a person even person that's very very far away from him and overwhelms her. She can't control herself. She response to the forgiveness of god. I weeping at the feet of jesus now we might think as we read the story this. This is about the pharisee. Simon making a bad judgment about another person right. I mean after all he looks at her and he certainly has some criticism for how she has conducted her affairs over the course of her lifetime but this is not about simon making a judgment on this woman because there was nothing to judge right. This was not about somebody trying to split between. You know a person's behavior and what are their intentions. We very often do today. This was not trying to figure out. Was she in the right way. She and the wrong. No there was. She was categorically considered to be an immoral person. A person who is as far away from.
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"Good morning welcome back so good to see all of you out here this morning. Thank you for those of you. Who are joining us online as well. Today we're going to look at what is perhaps one of the most difficult commandments in all scripture for us to follow you ready for that. How many of you got up this morning expecting that. You're going to go to church and be encouraged to follow. What is really probably one of the most difficult things we have ever ever been asked to do. Do you realize that when it comes to such things as the commandments. When we think about the things that we are commanded or expected to do in this life a lot of them are really easy right. I mean when you look at when you look at the big ten for instance right the ten commandments. One of them is don't kill another person right. Thou shalt do no murder. Maybe you have trouble with that one now. Most of us doing okay right and even like don't steal from other people how we doing on that. Maybe not quite as easy to satisfy when you really think about. It is the donut murder other people on but still when it comes to many of the commandments that we understand create these requirements these obligations these expectations of us. A lot of them are easy to follow. Well today we're going to look at one. That i believe is really really really really difficult. The good news is we're all the same camp like we are all in this together. The reality is that the struggle that we have with such a commandment is what we're going to look at. Today is pretty common to all of us right now. Don't be fooled us. Think we're doing really well when it comes to actually following this commandment but in reality if we were honest. We maybe see a little differently. Now what's interesting is that this message comes in the context of what we're kind of experiencing in our society today as i think about the events of this past week in fact you know the time leading up to the election of our president and many of much of what has happened even after that election to this present day to the storming of the capitol building this week right i mean we are living in absolute crazy town. The world just feels like it has gone crazy that people have gone crazy that the distinction between people on one side and the other side is getting wider and wider and wider in that the anger and the hatred that one faction of people has for another faction of people just seems to be getting deeper and more entrenched that instead of us as human beings coming into a deeper sense of unity and purpose and desire to get along right even with the virtue of of tolerance having been preached to us for now many many years. We live in a very very intolerant time. A very intolerant day. Now this message does not come as a reaction to what has happened over this last week in fact we had planned to be in this passage of scripture. That we're going to look at a back in the fall so it was months ago and so i always find it interesting to see how often the word of god presents itself as being really really alive and really really relevant to our every day life. Invite you to turn your bibles to luke chapter six. There's a few verses. We're going to read their together and again. Let me introduce this to you as one of the most difficult commandments. We've ever been asked to obey luke chapter six. We'll start reading in verse twenty seven. This is jesus speaking and he says but to you who are willing to listen. I say love your say there. Oh i know that's hard to say isn't it and love your what love your enemies do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you. If someone slaps you on one cheek offer the other cheek also if someone demands your coat offer your shirt also give to anyone who asks and when things are taken away from you. Don't try to get them back due to others as you would like them to do to you. There was a part of me that as i was reading through and thinking about the scripture and especially given just what feels like the temperature.
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"curtis" Discussed on Curtis Lake
"New standard for you to follow all you have to give everything. So what actions can i take. What does this mean for me. What does this mean for you. What does this mean for us as church. What does this mean for people who want to continue to proclaim good news to the poor. How do we actually effectively proclaim good news to the poor. What does that look like well. It's very simple. Three things three suggestions on number one give from what you have is that easy give from what you have. some of. You are extremely generous. And i am so grateful for how god has brought you to this place in your life where you've been able to actually part with some of what is rightfully yours. You have recognized that you were just a steward of all that god has given to you and you've used what god has blessed you with to bless others. I want to encourage you keep doing it and grow in it. But then there's some stingy folks out there too. I think they're all online but some sometimes we're sometimes. We're we're stingy greedy right where where forgetful of is the need that exists out there and so we we forsake the idea of giving or we give in such a mazer early miserly level. Listen there's coming a day. You know this. Whole when god sets the world right when justice equity finally bound when god holds each of us accountable for what we did in this present life. I mean we're gonna we're gonna have to answer for we handled are stuff. That's just the reality. So gift from what. I have a couple of really easy ways for you to just jump into that. We started our benevolence offering campaign. Right christmas eve. That evidence offering is used to purchase food and supplies to make meals for our community for people who are hungry largely for everybody but it is largely centered on trying to provide some relief to those who are poor who can't adequately provide for themselves even the most basic some you hear benevolence offering. It's like he's just walk your years. You want to hear anything about it. I would encourage you give give generously toward help us to not only ensure that this ministry continues on in its present day but even grows so that it can actually make the difference lies more in the year. Twenty twenty one. Sharon shared a little last week. About just some of the impact that that's been making those are real stories real people that drive through this parking lot so whom we hand the simple gift of a meal for many it makes all the difference and it actually invites hopefully and ultimately an opportunity for the proclamation of the good news of god's grace and forgiveness to actually be hurt. We're not going to abandon. What is our obligation toward one. Another and replace it merely the proclamation of the word. it's not that we do one and not the other. It's that we need to have priorities in the right order. So give from what you have can give is to global outreach. Some of you doing that already. Thank you continue to do it and give even more for those of you that you don't even know what that is. Find out what it is. It is the way in which our church participates with ministries throughout the world that are providing tremendous amounts of relief relief to fatherless relief to the widow relief to the hungry relief to the oppress relief to the stranger. Give from what you have secondly serve where you can help serve where you can help I if you write a check for the benevolence offering thank you. That's wonderful right another one but even beyond that guess what there are hands and feet that are needed to actually make that ministry go on money alone doesn't get the job done. We need people to prepare the food. We need people to plate the meals. We need people to deliver and have a conversation with people receiving. We need people to clean up and wash dishes after all kinds of very very humble access service that each of us has called so serve where you can help. That's just a starting point right. The reality is that god by put into your heart. A real deep desire to see justice served in our world in some particular area. I have nothing to do with food. Community meals might not have anything to do with. Our church is presently in corporately involved in but it might be something else. Do serve where you can help them and finally share with whom you know and it is my desire for our church place that just regards a growth in our social activity and reform but we are a place that unashamedly unabashedly and withholding nothing back proclaims the good news in its entirety. The good news says you and i are lost. The crossover price got is provided his grace forgiveness and he welcomes poor and rich alike answering to this community of faith looking forward to his kingdom fully. Invite you to stand. We're gonna sing the song enclosing together this morning. I want as we sing the song for you to understand the words that come straight out of scripture to just be a dream a wish they desire. I believe god has over. Each of us speaks of blessing. But i want you to see not only as a pronouncement of blessing over your life but also the of those that god is going to bring into your life. Those baby that fall under the category of the poor the marginalized the forgotten and understand that. God's heart aches and breaks for people living in the situations of injustice inequality. And watch for you and i to become more and more awake and sensitive so that we can begin to move to make change in our world.
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"curtis" Discussed on Curtis Lake
"How's everybody doing this morning. So i basically prepared three messages today. We were in danger of basically being here all day for first service. And so i'm to get right into it. If that's all right with you you might get a little more information. You might get a little less information. I don't know what we're going to do our best. We're in the gospel of luke chapter. Four if you're to curtis lake. We're doing this series. On the gospel of luke which is a presentation of the life of jesus historical events and facts surrounding his life and the teaching of jesus throughout his ministry. So here we are embarking on jesus into ministry like last week. We talked about the preparation being made for the messiah. The promised one that all israel was anticipating and waiting for now in luke chapter four. We see jesus beginning his ministry as an itinerant kinda guest reader lecturer in the various synagogues in galle. Pick it up. So if you have bibles you can turn to. Luke chapter for starting at verse. Fourteen then jesus return to galilee. Okay this is the area in which jesus was beginning. His ministry and filled with the holy spirit's power reports spread about him quickly through the whole region. So the name of jesus is starting to gain some notoriety. People are starting to take notice of this. This man who is now thrust on the scene. John having prepared the way for him it says he made it this habit to teach regularly in the synagogues and he was praised by everyone so at least the initial reception of jesus positive. One people are listening to an anticipated masses of jesus as he is making his way from synagogue to synagogue. Right well at one point says he came to the village of nazareth his boyhood home. Right the place where he grew up as a child and as was his custom he went to the synagogue on the sabbath and he stood up to read scriptures. The scroll of isaiah. The prophet was handed to him. I don't know. Jesus asked for it or if it just so happened that it was handed to him but he takes that scroll he unrolls it to the place where this had been written hundreds of years before the spirit of the lord is upon me for years. Anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim that captives will be released that the blind will see that the oppressed will be set free. And that the time of the lord's favor has come. He rolled up the scroll handed back to the attendant and sat down and all the is in the synagogue looked at him intently then he began to speak to him the scripture. You've just heard has been fulfilled this very day. I wanna talk about the scripture that jesus not only read but then told to the people that were listening to the reading. This applies to the very want standing before you today. This fact has been set up to be what is the mission statement of. Jesus the reason for his being the reason for his coming. We talk about the arrival of the messiah christmas. Or why did jesus come in the first place. The isaiah in this prophecy relates a major kind of idea for why the messiah was to come. Jesus reads it and he says today. The scripture has been fulfilled. Look at it a little more carefully. First of all these the reads this portion. That speaks of this thing called the anointing right. He says the spirit of the lord is upon me because he has anointed me. What does that mean. Well if you're familiar with what were the kind of common practices especially of the old testament times. You find this thing called the anointing. This is the act by which a person has been set up set a par for a particular work kings before they came into their kingdom. Were anointed became. You remember the story. Maybe when david who still as a young boy was visited by the prophet samuel there was already a king in the nation of israel king saul but the prophet samuel came and after having gone through the entire brotherhood of david. Finally comes to david and god says to him. This is going to be my cane. And so samuel takes this jar of oil and he pours it on the head of david again as an act signifying that david had been set apart and commission for a very particular active service that he was going to be god's instrument he was god's choice for his next came right. And so we see this anointing happening from time to time as god sets op commissions. A person for some particular role is as spoke hundreds of years before and prophetic terms. The spirit of the lord is upon me for he has anointed me and jesus now quotes that verse in application to himself saying this is the reason for my coming the spirit of the lord is upon me free. His anointed me. Now what does he anointed him for. Jesus begins in talking about what is his mission as he is anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor and then he goes on to say a number of other things like preaching liberty to those who are captive the restoring of sight to those who are blind of ushering in the day of the lord and jesus says this is why i'm here. I want to focus in on those words that jesus begins to describe his mission with that is that he has come to proclaim good news to the poor. I don't know about you. But as i read that i find it curious and interesting and so i decided that that's kind of where we're going to spend the bulk of our time together this morning. What exactly did jesus mean when he said. I have come to proclaim good news to the poor. What is the good news. What are the aspects that this good news speaks of. What exactly is the good news that jesus is going to convey to the poor and we all know it are some of the major issues regarding the poor especially in speaking of jesus's day. We're not talking about somebody. Living at or below the level of poverty as we have defined it in our developed current living situation. A lot of times we're thinking about the biblical poor. We're we're speaking of people that had no means by which to provide for themselves even their most basic needs like food clothing shelter right. These are people that were without the ability to provide for themselves. This is a condition that continues to be perpetuated even in our world today now two thousand years after jesus speaks and says i have come to preach good news to the poor. We still wrestle with this major issue of poverty. Jesus bent when he said. I have come to proclaim good news to the poor. You and i would think initially that that good news would be. Hey guess while. I have a solution for your poverty. We're gonna fix the inequities and injustice that exists that has created the poverty that this world experiences in the first place right. That's what we would expect to be the good news. At least if you were a person. Categorizes being impoverished a person who could not meet the basic needs of your life. Like you didn't know your next meal was coming from. You didn't have adequate clothing. You are homeless. If i were to come to you if somebody were to come to you and say hey. Guess what. I have good news.