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"Law of christ so if a man or woman brother sister in christ is overtaken in any fault talking about sin. Should we criticize them. Should we throw stones at them. Should we talk about them and gossip and slander. Is that ever happened. Nope that's not what we're called to. We're not called to do that. We should seek to help those amongst us who have gone straight into said we are told by scripture to go and galatian chapter six in verse. Ju it's look to reclaim them to recover them to restore them. All those who are going astray all those who are going down to sinful pack. It's talking about christians and so but you look at this passage of scripture. We understand that the scriptures goes on and it really does it at the heart of more than that not only are we to do our best to restore people who are walking in a path of sinful living but we are to reach out to help other people around us. Whatever the burdens may be and this really in life is true because there are burdens of responsibility that we know that only us as individuals can bear. But there's also burdens of sorrow. There's burdens of pain. There's burgers various different types of burdens decisions. That are difficult to make. And that you look for wise counsel there's ways for us to help bear each other's burdens for example Do not make it hired for the shepherds this congregation to do their job because they're putting in positions of authority positions of trust and responsibility and we should make it easy upon them by for them to do their job shepherds of this congregation. Well how do we make it easy on them by the right kind of lives so they can focus on the spiritual wellbeing in the congregation. They could focus on the work of the church they could focus on all that goes into elder ship and shepherding so brothers or sisters. I'll give you. I'll give you an example. I like to watch movies and in some of the movies that i like to watch her sci-fi type stuff and different things anybody ever seen the lord of the rings. I liked to watch the lord of the rings movies. I know you might not be your cup of tea. But it's my cup of tea. And so i like to drink it and so as i'm watching these movies It makes me think of the friendship. It makes me think of the camaraderie that they have in these movies. Because you've got you've got hobbits elves. You've got drawers. You got mankind and their unite together in a spirit of bonds spirit of friendship brotherhood. If you will to help frodo reach mortar to do what to destroy the evil re ring that's threatening the existence of all mankind in the journey that they were on had been difficult that had been long. it'd been dangerous and frodo and his friend. Sam head barely survived. The dangers encountered along the way and they approach their as they were approaching their goal they. They're reaching their physical and emotional limits. Anybody here in life ever get to a point in life where you're reaching your physical and emotional limits and so what happens. Hopefully if you have built up trust and relationships within the family of christ the body of christ then we help bury others burdens. I can't always literally take your burden away. But i can help you carry your burden i can help lift you up and encourage you strengthen you and so as sam and frodo are climbing the mountain and as they struggled up towards the cave in order to to throw the ring to the fire to in order to to destroy the ring. What do we see on the way up frodo collapses he collapses he didn't have the strength to go on anymore so i was the only one though could carry this rain because of its mysterious power to tempt and to do other things. It's so sam. Knowing this says i may not be able to carry the ring frodo but i could kill you. I may not be able to carry the rain because of the problems that are be associated with it. But i could carry you brothers sisters. He lifted up frodo heathrow him over his shoulder and carry them the rest of the way and we know the rest of the story and how the story is so. That is how we as. Christians are called to live towards one another. We can't literally carry one another's burdens but we can carry one another. We can lift each other up and encourage each other. I got a text from our sister. Judy to this week and it was talking about a sister that she was helping her. And edward helping and she was doing what she was bearing the burden she had lifted up so to speak and put them on their shoulder and carry them to the rest of the way so to speak by helping them to to carry that load. Carry that burden. You can't always take the burden and away. You can't take the load away but you could be there as brother sister to help encourage strengthen and so brothers and sisters. We look at this here this morning. We can lift each other up and make sure that no one gets left behind. Make sure that no one is feeling along. Make sure that no one is feels deserted by their family here at lincoln park and that's why lately i've been encouraging look abuse around you. Look at some of the holes in abuse and if you know we all sit in the same spot every week you call on the brothers and sisters that you are there and ask them. Make sure they're ok. Find out if anything's going on in their lives and see if there's a way you can be an assistance if they needed to help to lift each other and encourage one another and then i get to the next passage of scripture. We get the next passage of scripture and this is the last aspect of burden bearing in the third aspect that we're going to look at here today and it comes from psalm. Fifty five and verse twenty two says pasture burdens upon the lord and the scriptures. Tell us that he will sustain us. Well if you were to read the fifty fifth psalm in its entirety from which this great promises taking. You're going to find some other. Languages says all that. I had the wings of a dove. He cried why then. I could fly away that i could get away. That could be at rest and that the burdens were so heavy and that the problems of life were so awful that he just wanted to quit that how then i'll give up a get away a fleet. I won't stay her any longer. Isn't anybody ever thought like that. Anybody i've read the slots. Doesn't that sound familiar over the years. How many times have you heard. Somebody say i've had as much as i can take. I've had as much as i can bear. So what happens. Oftentimes we look to get away. But you see. That doesn't always work. Doesn't like of catching up to you. You see because you can't run away from your burdens. You can't run away from your memories. you can't run away from your personality and from yourself in from the from the bad choices that some of us continue to make over and over and over again life as a way of catching up with us. So you can't run away from life's burdens because life will find you and the more knows all things and so what are you going to do. Where are you going to go while psalm. Fifty five leads us to believe that. There's one place that we could go one place that we should go that we should cast our burden upon the lower because he will sustain us he may not always take the burden away but sometimes he does so when we go to god and prayer. There's usually a couple of things that happen. Sometimes we'll be like jesus in the garden of gas seventy it will offer up a prayer that so something like lord. If it'd be possible take this cup from me. Anybody ever heard that her sometimes he does. Sometimes he doesn't but other times we pray in the burden remains. God doesn't take the burden away. Do we have illustrations of scripture. Do we have things that we turn to to give a strength in those times brother. I here to tell you that we do. And it comes by the way of the apostle paul second corinthians in chapter twelve.
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"Nobody on this planet could believe in. Christ jesus for you. There's a reason why so many of our children as they go off to college. Don't return to the church of their you because they never learned to have their own. They had their parents faith or maybe their grandparents faith but they need to learn how to have their faith. because they're gonna stand before god in judgment and so when we think about loads or or burdens in this life that only week at bear. Nobody can believe in christ for you. Nobody can repented the send your life for you. Nobody answer for you when you stand before god in judgment for each one must give an account of his life before a holy and righteous god and that means that nobody gets lost in the crowd that means that nobody gets to hide behind others then nobody gets to hide behind organizations because each one will stand or fall on his own merits. Each one will stand or fall based on the choices that they make in their life and choices could have either positive or negative consequences to them and so there is a man back in the colonial days who was a preacher. His name was john and he wrote in a diary in his diary. He said he said. I resolved that every man should do right. Whatever the cost his second resolve was whether it whether any other man does right or not. I will so help me get and i love that. Because that is the supreme being the supreme business of every christian and every man or woman child who follows god makes jesus the lord of their lives that everyone will bear his own load. Everyone should bear his own burden and so when he says whether any or other man does right or not by the will of god i will for god knows us as individuals. He judges us and he he he knows our thoughts. He knows our actions. There's nothing that's done in secret for. Knows all things and so whether anybody else does right or not. We as christians must be determined to do what is right whether anybody in the world is true or not. We must be determined as christians to be faithful and true as individuals begins first and foremost with us as individuals. So that's why when we read what it say in galatian chapter six in verse five. Each one was bear is owned load. Bears owned burden. That's what it's talking about. Because we know that because when you go back to verse four and if i go back if you slides and you were to look at this notice that verse four says that each one must examine his own work and then he will have reason for boasting but only regards to yourself not enjoyed another so you need to examine your life examined. The fruit of your life randy said this morning we can be fruit inspectors and we should examine the fruit either that we produce as righteous individuals. Do we produce good deeds or do we produce bad deeds. Do we produce bad works. Are we living in said. Are we the bad tree. Bears bad fruit. And so these are the things that we're looking to talk about here this morning because the highest contribution that we as individuals as we bear our own load can make any community. Whether it's lincoln park trenton. South grade allen park woodhaven no matter where you live each and every one of us the greatest Contribution that we can make to. Our communities is a life well lived a life. Well lift a life that is lived in righteousness with high integrity and high moral character. And we need to offer the world the right kind of life and the most beautiful portrait that we see in five words of jesus is said he went about doing good. He went about doing good and so should we. Someone once said that one example is worth thousand arguments. And i want you to think about that for a second. One example is worth a thousand arguments. Well let me give you an example. There's little story in the old testament is called sodom and gomorrah. Do you remember how many righteous individuals were needed in order to save an entire village of people telling people were needed so i asked the question. Would you been one of the ten because what they say is the greatest gift that we give to our individual communities to the world. A life. Well-lived are we the righteous tree or the battery are we producing righteous. Good works we're reducing bad food meaning son in our lives. It's you press forward. That story to the twenty first century over here in lincoln park michigan. And we all live in lincoln park and we need a ten righteous individuals to save the entire community of people. Could you be counted as one of those. Then you can answer that question. But don't forget. God knows all things he knows. If you're living faithful he knows if you're the good tree he knows if you're the battery. He knows the fruit. That's being produced from your life. And so the the most one of the most beautiful five word portrait of jesus is that he went about doing good. Another example would be jesus had twelve apostles. And then i know but when we think about the twelve men they went outside after jesus given a commission he goes back to have any gives them a commission the holy spirit comes in them and they turn the the world right side up living amongst a torturous regime like the roman empire in those twelve individuals. Along with all the disciples they went out into the world and made a world of difference. And so when you think about what i said a moment ago one example is worth a thousand eight thousand arguments how we live. Our lives matters. It's so it's very important that we understand these things the best contribution that we could ever offered this world is to is to set the right example and think about the second aspect of this and now we get to verse too because when you get a galatian and you get to chapter six and you you look at verse two. It tells us that we are to bear one another's burdens and thus fulfill the law of christ right. Well what is he saying here well. Burdens oftentimes should be shared with others. And we'll talk about this here this morning. It is also important to check the context of this passage because it says in verse five. That only only you can bear your own. Load your own burden but yet verse two so that we could bear the burdens of others and that we should in so many of the problems that we have in religion in the church is because scriptures have been taken out of their proper context and so we go back and we look at galatian six one. In what did it say in the verse before verse two it says brethren if a man be overtaken in a fault it's talking about sin you who are spiritual meaning right just restore such a one in the spirit of gentleness considering yourself less you be tempted brother. That's what we're talking about a bible study this morning. That is brothers in christ as sisters in christ that we are to go to one another when we find sin in the church and when we find sin that is a glaring obvious. one another's lives. We are to go each other to each other individually and that they don't listen to you then you take two or three more so they can be witnesses. They don't listen to them. You take it to the church. They listen to the church. Then the you allow those christians those brothers and sisters who have gone apostate to be like tax tax collectors heathens and so what is the point here when we look at this passage of scripture. The apostle paul says that we are to bear one another's burdens dust fulfilling the.
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"Our country and learn about all the rising percentages of depression, suicide, sin, crime, volatility in society, towards people who think differently than you, it becomes very clear, very quickly what the world needs and his name is Jesus. But it begins and ends. Not only in the word of God, but it begins and ends with you. Every single one of us hear this morning have a role to play. Every single one of us in this building this morning are integral to the furtherance of the congregation here at Lincoln park, but more than that, the universal kingdom of God. We all have to do our parts. And it starts with stepping out in faith. By sharing the word of God and by living out your faith and doing some of the things that I set forth as an example here this morning. Brothers and sisters as disciples of Christ we must all take the living word of God out into the world because God has said, go. And share. And teach and preach. And so I leave you with this this morning. When's the last time you've went? And you shared and you taught, when's the last Bible study you've had? When's the last time you sat down with the family member or a friend and had a Bible study? I know that most of the time people are going to say no. But that's why living your life as a Christian is so very important. But when's the last time you made an offer, I know many people will say no, but when's the last offer you made? With a family member, a friend or a coworker. I'm not talking about going out and talking to strangers. People you know. Ask yourself that question. Along with the last time I had somebody in my home with the express purpose to build a stronger bond with those individuals. Because brethren, that's where it begins. We are the living representatives of Jesus Christ. And he needs us to go into the world. He's done his part. Now it's time for us to do our part. Are you willing to stand up, share your faith in lip sacrificially for the kingdom of God? If you're hearing this message this morning, brethren, there's a challenge that has been set forth. And I pray to God that each of us accept that challenge. Because our eternal destination hangs in the balance. We will all stand before Christ Jesus. It tells us, and second Corinthians chapter 5 verse ten. And it says we will give an account of our lives. What do you want that account to read? You get to decide what Jesus sees. Brother, sisters, if you hear this morning and you need the prayers of the church, you can come forward this morning. We'll pray for you. It will help you in any way that we can. You may be may have been away from the church for a time. And you wish to be restored because you know you haven't been living for God. We know you haven't been living the Christian lifestyle and you want to make today the day that I start moving forward. You can come forward this morning and do that. We'll pray for you. And you may have not been a child of God. Yeah, you may have not come to Christchurch. You may not have been washed in the blood of the lamb. Well, you have an opportunity to be baptized this morning. For the forgiveness of your sins to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and God himself will answer to the kingdom as we come in as we stand and sing..
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"Because the word of God gives direction to our lives and the word of God is that guide that light to our path that gives that makes the crooked past straight. So every one of us has an important role to play in the kingdom of God. For the furtherance of the Lincoln park congregation, but for the furtherance of the kingdom of God. If too many people don't fully understand that you have a role to play, and showing up here on Sunday, really isn't part of that rule. We show up here on Sunday to give thanks for the sacrifice. Do this and remember to me that Jesus made on our behalf. So as Christians, we come together to worship God sing songs appraised to his holy name. To lift him up in prayer. It's a gift thanks to encourage one another. But then we are to leave this building, go into the mission field of the world and do what? Share your faith. Teach and preach and allow your changed life to be what sets the example. Brethren, noticed the first passage description here this morning. As we look at this first pass as a scripture in a first Peter, brother, we need to understand that by living out our faith and by living changed lives, people are going to see that something is different about you. Where does that concept come from in the scriptures? Because the scriptures are what guys are lives. It all begins and ends in scripture. First Peter one, 14 through 16 tells us this. As obedient children do not be conformed to the former lust, which were yours and your ignorance. What does it mean that we're yours and your ignorance? It says you didn't know what you didn't know. You didn't know what righteousness looked like. You didn't really know what sin was because you haven't read the word of gajah. You haven't been directed in holiness. And so Peter tells us that as obedient children, we're not conformed to the world, like we used to be in our ignorance, but like the holy one who called you, be wholly yourselves in all of your behavior. Why? Because I myself am holy. Brothers and sisters, you look at this passage description here this morning. And when you think about it, prolong sent in our lives has a way of defining us. Does it not? If you have consistent prolonged sin over a long period of time, when people see you, what do they usually see? The sin in your lives, they know you're knowing by the sin in your life, but that same concept is true of righteousness. You could change your past doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to define you, and you can allow a new found righteousness and holy living to be what defines you. But it's gonna take time to change the perception that they have of you from years gone by. That's why Jesus says it's hard for a profit to be a profit in his own hometown. Because many people aren't willing to let go of the past. What they think they know about you. And so brothers and sisters. We know that righteousness has the same effect that prolonged righteousness over a period of time consistent, holy righteous living will then change the perception that people eventually have of you. And when you allow your soul, when you allow your attitude when you allow the sin problem that you have in your life to be brought into subjection to the word of God, a beautiful transformation begins to take place. And it's like a budding flower. That's opening slowly. But as it opens slowly, it gets more and more beautiful every day. And that's what our Christian faith our Christian walk is like. Brothers and sisters, when you allow your life to be washed by the blood of Christ, a marvelous transformation takes place. Why? Because it says at that point, you become a new creation. God says, stop dwelling on the past. Stop dwelling on the sin. Stop allowing people to find who you are based on past actions. You're no longer that person. You buried that person. He's dead in God. And now we understand that when we've been washed in the blood of Christ and we're a new creation, rather and gossip stop dwelling in the past because I remember it no more. He says, why are you still dwelling on that garbage? It's like it never happened. But we have to allow that concept to sink in. It stopped dwelling on what used to define us. A fees chapter one number 7 tells us, in Jesus, listen to this, and Jesus, we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. Brothers and sisters, we need to be a people that immerse ourselves in the word of God. Why? Because we're now a new creation, there has been forgiven by the rich, graces of God, and now you look at the next passage description. And I think of what young what Paul told young Timothy who was an evangelist. And this is this concept in this thought process is for all Christians that we are to be diligent to present ourselves. What? As a proof to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, who accurately handles the word of God. Brothers and sisters. By doing so, we could teach others. We could go and share our faith and teach others about the love and the grace of Jesus Christ of God the father and the Holy Spirit, which we lived out, which as we transform our lives, we live out the sacrifice of Christ. Because now while living sacrificially because we buried the old man of sin, we're living a new, and now we're living sacrificially, not for the desires of the flesh, not for the sins that we used to enjoy, but now we live a sacrificial life in service to God and service to the kingdom. And we can confidently teach others how to be freed from bondage is sin. You know why? Because who else here has been freed from the bondage of sin? Anybody here have been freed from the bondage of sin? What freed you from the bondage you said? The blood of Jesus Christ. Don't you think it might be helpful if we let other people know that they too can be freed from the bondage of sin? That they too have a hope for a better tomorrow and that's your past doesn't have to define you in that there is hope in that God's great love and grace brethren is waiting for them. We look at the scriptures here this morning and we need to remember that as we teach people about the golden rule, we need to make sure we're living it out. And you think about Matthew chapter 7, you think about verse 12. This is where what we oftentimes and Christian them call the golden rule, right? It says in everything, therefore, treat people, the same way that you wish to be treated. For this is the law. This is the profits. How you treat others will say a lot about your faith. Remember what I said? You may be the only Bible that somebody ever reads. What is the impression that you want to leave with them? What's the impression that you want to leave with them of God and of his people? That were just like them. That we send constantly that they can't tell a difference between us. I've often said, if God looks out over the sea of humanity. And he can't tell a difference. Between his people, the church, the bride of Christ and the rest of humanity,.
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"We could call one another. You can call somebody and just take a few moments to say, hey, listen, I don't have a lot of time to talk man, but I just want to let you know brother that the lord puts you on my heart today. I want you to know that, hey, I hope you're having a good week. If I could do anything for you, please let me know. I'm gonna be praying for this week. I hope you have a good week, brother. I gotta get back to work, but I just want to let you know I was thinking about you. I guarantee you, if you did something like that. And same Matt's having a bad day. Just for a second, you're going to put a smile on that man's face. Even if it's just for a second, brother and we need to take more opportunities to send out letters to send out cards to make phone calls. It's a do all that we can to encourage each other. Sometimes the best way to encourage others is just by listening. Like listening to somebody, not always even offering device advice. If there's one thing I learned about marriage, many times my wife doesn't want me to solve all of her problems. She just wants me to listen to her problems, which is difficult for me, because I like to solve problems. But I learned that over the years, that sometimes it's better to listen and not offer the advice. They just sometimes want to vent. And sometimes we're in the same boat as well. Brother, that's an opportunity we have. We have brethren, like the bone family, and others who've lost loved ones recently. Guess what's coming up around the corner? Holidays. You know when it's the most difficult time anniversaries of the death, birthdays, holidays. Wouldn't it be great if people glide with their way to encourage them by knowing that somebody's suffering because the loss of a loved one that they just lost and invite them into your home for the holidays? Say, listen, I know you're hurting. But I also want you to know that you're not alone. And that I'm here for you. And then I want you to share in this meal with my family. And maybe they'll come maybe they won't. But what is the point? The point is that was offered, and they're going to remember that it was offered. Rather, there are so many ways that we can encourage one another if only will think about it as the scriptures teach. I get the hebrews three and 13. And it says but encourage each and other or to encourage each other every day and to help each other so none of you will become hardened because of because sin has tricked you. Rather and encouragement is to be a daily thing. I remember one Sunday morning and I'm gonna have to shut this down because I got so much more, but I'm already out of time practically. But I remember one Sunday morning. You guys have heard me say that if I'm leading singing, we're at the bottom of the barrel. It's just a fact, right? Some of us have abilities that others don't. That wasn't one of the gifts I received from my heavenly father. I was at sunset when I first came to the lord church and I was over there and we were joking around with some of our brothers and sisters at Christ's friends after service about how bad I sing and I mess up the words all the time. It's on the screen and I mess up the words, still mess it up. And this one elderly lady, I'll overheard our conversation. And she's so sweetie, I just want you to know you keep saying it. Because I guarantee you, if you keep saying, you're gonna get better. And I remember that. It's stuck with me. Literally a year went by. And I was sitting in the pew one Sunday morning like you guys are today and we were just got done singing to him and I'm not Christy with my elbows. I'm getting better. She looked me square in the eyes and says he'll never gonna happen. Obviously, encouragement isn't one of her strong suits. And so what is the point, brethren? The point tells me and I'm just gonna look at a couple more passages. We'll shut this down a little bit earlier. In progress, 12 to 25, it tells me on the screen behind me that worry ways a person down, but it encouraging word does what? Cheers up a person. I encouraging word cheers up a person. Listen to this, that was written by king Solomon. And king Salomon and Roberts ten and 18 through 21, he said, he who conceals hatred and has lying lips. And he who spreads slander is a fool. When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable. But he who restrains his lips as wise, the tongue of the righteous is like a choice silver. The hearts of the wicked is worth little. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of understanding. Brothers and sisters, that came from the wisest man of his time. And that the tongue of the righteous is like a choice silver. A choice silver that's always looking for individuals that they can encourage that they can lift up because we're to love one another. Serve one another. Forgive one another. Brothers and sisters encouragement is something that is a great and a powerful gift. We need to wake up every morning and we need to be determined to do one thing. It can be a phone call, it can be a letter. It could be a card. It can be picking somebody up for a doctor's appointment. It could be whatever it is. Think of ways. That's what the scripture says. We need to think of ways that we can encourage one another to be purposeful in our encouragement. Rather and instead of focusing on all the negativity of the 24 hour news cycle, we need to focus in on God his word and his great many wonderful promises. If you do that and you add love forgiveness and encouragements, sacrificial love agape type of love into your faith and into your daily lives, I guarantee you, you're going to be like a bright light in a sick and dying world. Rather and it's time to stand up. It's time to get out of these pews here in a few minutes. We're going to go out into the mission field of the world. And I want you to ask yourself, what can you do today? To make a difference. What can you do today to put a smile on somebody else's face? You may be sitting here this morning, and you may be one of the ones that are discouraged. You may be struggling in a marriage struggling in life, struggling with your kids struggling with your finances, struggling in your faith. I don't know what it is you're struggling with, but what I do know is we have a room full of brothers and sisters in Christ, who are here today and have come together with the express purpose of worshiping God, but to further than that to also encourage and love one another. We are a family here at Lincoln park. And as a family, we are to lift one another up. So if you're hurting, you can come forward today. The elders will come forward. You could speak with them. You could talk with them. They'll meet with you and they'll set up a plan to help you in whatever way it is we can. But you may be sitting here this morning and you're not a child of God. And you have all this regrets and you feel dirty because of the scent in your lives. Rather, you can get rid of that. You're this morning. You can have your sins washed away by going down into the waters of baptism and you can be raised back up out of the water as a new creation, your sins washed away. You receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. And God himself will add you to the kingdom. Come forward if that is your desire, as we stand and sing the song of invitation..
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"Put the phone away and talk. And so that's something that we're seeing that it's becoming more and more of a problem in society. And so there's too many people that are experiencing let down and discouragement. And they don't feel like they can have somebody that can turn to. You can't get that same effect on social media. As you can in the flesh, there's nothing that can replace a hug from somebody who loves you. And cares about you. There's nothing that can replace that listening ear when you got something going on in your life and you need that person. You need that one person that you can talk to. Not on a private message that I send you on Facebook, but now on a one on one basis. And so brother and proverb 17 and 22 tells us a joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. And why is that such a crucial passage of scripture? Because when we become discouraged, there will be times when our spirit starts to dry up. Our spirit starts to dry up and there will be times when our strength is gone. We don't feel physically or emotionally or spiritually as strong as we once did. And what usually happens when that happens, we start to withdraw ourselves from one another. We start to withdraw from worship. We start through withdrawal from fellowships and Bible studies. We start to seclude ourselves in our homes. We start to cancel plans that we once enjoyed. Why? Because depression is setting in. And because I start to feel sorry for myself. And I start to allow all this constant stream of thoughts to be fueled by negativity instead of positivity. And so brother and when we look at this here this morning, once in a while, I'll sit down and I'll meet with various individuals and if you've been an elder or a minister for any length of time, you do counseling from time to time. Individually as well as Mary's and couple counseling. And sometimes after I'm done, I'll sit there for a few minutes. Sometimes I'll pray, sometimes I'll just take a few breaths. And I'm usually left astonished at the amount of hertz that people are dealing with in their lives. But they're not reaching out generally to others whom they have a good personal connection with for advice. Because too often, the advice they get is worldly advice. And not godly advice. And so brother and we think about this. All around us in our communities are various peoples. Various people who are dealing with marriage troubles. Marriages are falling apart. Finances are a mess. They're worried about their jobs. They're worried about their kids. They're worried about the sin in their lives. They have regrets huge regrets from things they've done in the past. Their health isn't when it used to be. Their life, the life that they live in our lives that we live have a way of wearing us down. And when we become discouraged, when we become disappointed and depressed, what do we usually do? We seclude ourselves. That's exactly what Satan wants you to do. Say it and want you to think that nobody cares. He wants you to think that you're not as important. He wants you to think that you're kind of like the oddball out now, and he wants you to start to pull away from the church. He wants you to start to pull away from family members. Start to pull away from various friends. Rather, and when we start complaining and feeling sorry for ourselves, Satan begins to win. Because our faith begins to suffer. And when our faith begins to suffer, well, then we start to find excuses about why we can't make it to worship. Why we can't make it the Bible study. Why we can't make it to church fellowship opportunities. And why we stop actually fellowship being with our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ. Satan begins to win if he could get you to seclude yourself off from the brethren. It's sad when that happens, brother, because that's when we need each other the most. God calls us to be a unified body of believers. And that seclusion is should be the last thing that ever happens. We should never be secluding ourselves from one another. Instead of secluding ourselves, we need to come to God. We need to rely on his strength and we need to rely on the strength of the saints that are sitting in this pew here this morning. And so when you're struggling here at Lincoln park, don't seclude yourself off. Don't start to miss and forsake worship service and Bible study and fellowship opportunities. We probably had a dozen people, maybe 12, 15 people had showed up at the Kaggle berry farms yesterday. We had a great time the ones who showed up. And if you weren't there, you could have had a great time too if you were there. Brother and so I encourage you to take advantage of it as many of those type of opportunities as you can. I know sometimes life gets in a way and you can't attend every event, but you should try your best to attend as many of the fellowship opportunities as you can. And so when we look at this, remember what Jesus said why is it so very important that we and that we show the love to one another that we encourage one another that we lift up one another? Because Jesus said in John chapter 13 of her 35, he says your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples. And so brother and were to be a bright light in the world a world of darkness and sin and of depression and rising suicidal rates, people need to see that there's something different about us here at Lincoln park. There's something different about the way we carry ourselves. The joy that we have, even in difficult moments, knowing that even though when we lose a loved one, that we could take joy and comfort knowing that they're in Paradise that they went on to receive the reward, selfishly, yes, we want to hold on to them. And we want their for as long as we can. But they're now in a place that we all desire to get to. And so we can find the level of comfort in that, even though we're still sad. And so brother and we think of the word of God, we think of how we need to love one another and times of difficulty and the times of joy. We need to cry at each other's shoulders and lift each other up. We need to be willing to laugh with each other and to do all that life all that happens in life. Together as a unified body, constantly encouraging one another because that will show the world that we're Jesus's disciples. It makes me think of what the apostle Paul had to say. The way that we could show our love for Christ is by loving others without reservation. And first, thessalonians in chapter 5 and adverse 11, it tells us that we are to encourage one another. Encourage one another and build each other up just as they were already doing. But he gives us as a reminder. Some of us do a great job of building each other up and encouraging one another. I mentioned what Randy does for me every Wednesday and Sunday. Every time I preach a lesson, every time I do a Bible study, he always has a word of encouragement. It makes me think of calcium, who's gone out to his reward when I was an Allen park. A wonderful brother in Christ. That man encouraged me and encouraged me and encouraged me constantly. And what a joy he was to my life. Because there are days where there were days where I didn't feel like I did my best. I didn't feel like I presented the message to the best of my ability. Then maybe I could have done more at times. And yet he finds ways to lift you up into encourage you when he was on this earth. And why do we do that? So others can know that we are the disciples of Christ. And so brother and I makes me think of a Jesus had to say.
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"All right, just doesn't sound the same as what it normally is. So Jim is gonna turn me up a little bit. If you look on the screen behind me, this morning's lesson is gonna go into new direction. We've done a series of sermons over the last couple months, looking at first and second Peter. And why those letters were written why they're important, but now I want us to look at something else here this morning. You think we live in a time when we might need a little extra encouragement? You think there's some frustration in society? Do you think there's some problems in life? Is anybody tired of the pandemic? Right, we're tired of the pandemic. Life is difficult, life is busy. Our careers are hobbies, our children. I mean, we run ourselves ragged and I want us to really stop and consider for a little bit about encouragement. I want us to really look at the art of encouragement. I tell you what, here at Lincoln park, I think we do a pretty darn good job when it comes to encouragement. We have lots of us within this auditorium who like to like to encourage. I've said before, I said, Randy's got almost like my burnaby. You know why I say that? Every Sunday and every Wednesday, even now that I'm down a Tennessee and I do my lesson and I summed it up here for you guys. I still get a text from him on most Wednesdays, encourage me about the lesson. And it'll always make sure he comes up to me afterwards and gives me some form of encouragement about the lesson. And every time I see him, he's trying to offer encouragement. And I love that because really, isn't that really what the Bible calls us to do? How can we become that unified body of believers that family a believers if we're not always looking for ways to grow in the area of encouragement? And although we do a good job here at Lincoln park, we can always be better, right? And there's some of us that probably do some more encouraging than well, probably others. And so that's what I want us to concentrate on here this morning. I want us to think of encouragements. And I'm sorry that Jim used a slide that replicates and kind of really looks like me this morning. I didn't ask him to do that. But I wanted it to be an encouragement for you all to know that you chew. Can look like that if you just put a little time in the gym. So while we look at this, like this life have a way of kind of just bringing us down, right? Life has a way of weariness down. And when we become discouraged what usually is one of the some of the first things that happen when we become discouraged, what's one of the first things I usually have. And what do you think, Russ? Faith? Face starts to kind of wander a little bit, but don't we also start to start complaining a little bit? Anybody here ever complain? Anybody here have some difficult days and you start to complain? Well, that is usually something that starts to happen. We start to feel sorry for ourselves. Has anybody during the pandemic? Kind of followed yourself complaining and feeling sorry for yourselves? Has anybody who watches the regular news, whether a local or national news, do you start to kind of complain and feel sorry for yourself? It starts to feel sorry for this nation. And so brother and we need to know that complaining and feeling sorry for ourselves is something that's really inherent in humanity. But it doesn't have to be. Because there's this little stream of thoughts that go through your head all the time. And psychologists in them they'll call it self talk. And you get to determine that little stream of thoughts as I'm speaking right now. There are some of you that have a stream of thoughts that are going through your mind, some of them may be focused on encouragement, some of it might be focused on something else completely that has nothing to do with this worship service. But there's always thoughts going through our mind. You get to determine if they're positive or negative. You get to determine what you're doing with that little stream of thoughts that's constantly going through your mind. And so in today's world, it appears that everyone is becoming more and more connected. Well, you think about it, most people have smartphones. Most kids nowadays have smartphones. And it would appear that through social media and all the various platforms that were more connected than at any other time in human history. What's the problem with that? We're becoming more and more disconnected, personally. In the flesh, personal relationships. One on one fellowship time. Why? Because I got 700 Facebook friends. Even though I haven't seen probably 678 of them in 25 years, I got 700 Facebook friends. Even though I have no idea what's going on in their lives, I have 700 some Facebook friends. I really don't. But I'm sure there are people out there that do. What's my point? I don't care how many Facebook friends you have. If you're not interacting on a one on one, face to face in the person and the flesh relationships and interaction with people. While we are more connected at this point in time from a technological standpoint at any other time in our history of the world, we are dealing with higher levels of depression and higher levels of suicide than at any other time. Well, how could that be? We got all these social media things that people love my posts and they think my posters are funny and they think they're so great and I have all these social media friends and I have this great social media following. And yet, I'm suffering with depression. And suicidal thoughts. Well, how can that be? Brethren has God designed us to be separate and apart from one another or did God intend for us to become to spend time together. The God desire for children to leave their mothers or fathers and for sons, find a wife, it's a cleave to their wife and become one flesh, both in mind, body and spirit. When God created mankind on the 6th day, and then we know in genesis chapter two, when God created man, he said, it is not good for man to be alone. When you want to punish somebody in the judicial system in the system, where do they put the criminals when they really want to punish them? It's solitary confinement. Why? Because we know as human beings we're designed got designed us in order to be in fellowship with one another. So the worst thing you could do to a criminal is to separate them from the masses. And to make him be in an area that he's by himself. Why? Because what usually sets starts to set in regrets and depression and all these other things that go along with it. So as I said earlier today. I don't care how many Facebook friends that somebody has. It will never make up for the lack of personal in the flesh relationships with individuals. And brother, and that's something that we need to really fully consider. Because we're made with the desire to connect with people on a personal level. Don't people feel good about themselves when they feel like they belong? I mean, those doesn't it feel good after, and then I know sometimes we don't always want to break up our routine break up our schedule and schedule some fellowship time or go visit somebody. But how many times, even though you really didn't want to do it, but after you did it, you felt so much better. Like, man, I'm glad I went out of my way and I went and met with so and so because I actually, I actually enjoyed it. I felt good about it. And so we have to remember rather than that, while we are connected more from a technological standpoint, we're less connected personally and one on one basis than at any other time in our history. Young kids are having trouble because they have a hard time knowing how to talk with one another nowadays. I can't tell you every time you go to a restaurant every time you're out in public, you'll see a family of 5 sitting around the table and they're all on their phones, doing this. They're not even talking. They're not even enjoying the people that are literally right there in their presence. I had a friend who used to come by once in a while. And so some of the Christian fellowships over my house. And he would always be playing words with Friends. Anybody play words with Friends? And he would be playing words with Friends while we're all setting their talking. I said, why don't you use your words with your Friends? I mean, we're literally sitting three feet from one another and you're playing a game on your phone..
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"Morning everybody is great to be back here in lincoln park. I missed you guys are last week. You guys had a great week. I heard that there's a lot of people. There was a lot of fun to be had raised a lot of money To get a well going and so that's fantastic and it's not like i think i heard somebody say it's not a closed door so we could still continue to give in and regularly to that great. 'cause i'm trying to think because i feel like it's like a karaoke sunday with tyler up at the table this morning and so i wanna hit a couple of these things for tyler because he mentioned shock and awe in the family and the scary movies and so. That's why. I often recommend that we watch the movie the passion of the christ. So i'm ed in so i wanna know. Passion of the christ is passionate christ. Why do you feel. It's a great movie. That should be washed. Well at least a couple of times a year and i've heard people say but i don't like to watch it because it makes me feel all squirmy and i just don't like to see that's the polling. It's difficult to see..
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"I don't know if i could have a better introduction. Thank you matt now. The pressure's on. I wanna share with you this morning. The theme for walker water this year. And then we're gonna take that from talking about walk into. I think a thing that we can all relate to we. We talk about the word change. That's a scary word for some of us change but before we get into this morning for those of you like what in the world has walked for water. Well if you haven't been here for the last twelve years that your new than this being the thirteenth walk for water. Maybe this will help understand so last year and this year we've gone with the theme chains the cycle and you'll have shirts in some of your wearing the shirts and on the back or four icons and that is what to look at those real quick because when you wear the shirt you blast questions. I don't want to be like. Oh i don't know where to shirt comfortable. There's four logos on their done. What you like. The first one is the need for those who struggle to have water hunt daily basis that little person silhouette with the bucket turned over. Just a daily struggle that those around the world go through the don't have access easy access to clean. Water the icon is it comes down to the little of point you to two little silhouettes walking and that's what we're doing today. That's what you all have done for thirteen years including today. The nikon breezy around that water dropped with a nice little squiggly lines and that represents clean water. Which is why we walk for water. And then my favorite is. They're choreographing in the church of christ but the celebration the dancing that takes place at the will but also when we rejoice. So maybe this afternoon. When you're walking you get done. Walk in your four miles. You might still have energy to celebrate the fact that you're making a difference but ultimately that is and i've countless times when i've been to haiti in other places and i've seen someone at a will when the water pumps for the first time or if it's been repaired and flows again i've witnessed cure joy in that kind of celebration and then the aero. Obviously the cycle is changed. Now that cycle that we're talking about is a cycle that they get up every morning every afternoon. They'd take their journey that get dirty water. They get sick in the cycle starts over and over but with you all everyone else helping to change the cycle the cycle is broken and subtly. Thus who here this morning obviously here for common purpose we give the credit to god. And that's where the arrow points up. So that is what your shirt icon means and that is what we'll be doing today but i wanted to show you this for those of you have not worked lie. We walk could you imagine that is your water source. There's a lot of words that can be described but difficult insane dangerous but guess what's in there something. We need for life water. That looks yummy. I mentioned this class this morning. Kind of we kinda laughed. Because i know you guys experienced rainy and dry season but around the world. There's literally rainy and dry season. That is a riverbed in dry season. It'll continue. The water will continue to go down that a river bid many in the rainy season. Where you see brown is full of water is a river bid so the struggle is real but last year we worked together but we were still together and i just wanted to share a couple of memories last year. Madness had this deal still detention pitcher. But you all still found a way to walk for water in various locations. It looks like you walk in december tennessee. With all the geared murray. I don't know i. I usually look like that in october. When i come up for the ball and you guys are short. So i don't know must have been miller chillier and there you go just a flashback to show you it helps you remember the fine even though we're apart you still made that difference and that is what you walk for my favorite pitcher. We don't usually get that high quality photos back but in ghana there was a professional photographer taking pictures at some well. So so that is why we walked for water in the theme is change the cycle and this morning though. We're going to go down a different kind of theme with that. We're gonna talk about changing the cycle in our lives. I'm just gonna leave that up to the rest of the time you can see that in the background. But let me ask you this. When jesus came to this earth. Why did he come. You may very well say. He came to change the cycle in the gospel of john throughout the gospels. We read many accounts where we encountered jesus going into a situation and bringing chains do not specifically in john chapter five. Where we're gonna go to our story this morning to look if you want to go ahead and flip there. John chapter five but right there the chapter before john chapter four jesus encounters woman at the well bring change to her life change to that community then a chapter eight. Is you go on down. You see another counter where jesus brings change with. The woman caught in adultery when jesus encounters us change must take place when jesus encounters us. We have to ask. Are we willing to change. Now i'm gonna tell you this do do you like to change. Do you like change. No i want you to know and don't raise. Your hand confessed this morning but how many of you did not like the fact that some of your parking spots were blocked off. That is frustrating. Who is blocked. My how many of you come into church on a sunday morning. You look at somebody in your seat. I've sat there for twenty years. That's my seat. I don't change by sitting on the left side of the preacher looks different. We do not like change. So when we encounter jesus did he asked us to change our cycle. It's tough john chapter five. Let's go ahead and flip in our bibles they're fitting at a guy who works for an organization that his job is to talk about. Water would take you to the scene of water. John chapter five. We're gotta read versus through nine. Then we're going to focus on one part of the story now. There is in jerusalem by the sheep gate a pool. An aramaic called bethesda which has five five ruth colonnades in these lay a multitude of invalids. Why lane in paralyzed. One man was there who had been invoked. Kim it for thirty eight years when jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time. He said to him. Do you want to be heal. The sick man answered him sir. I have no one to put me into the end of the pool when the water is stirred up and while i'm going going another steps down before me. Jesus said to him.
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"Falem the son of your who loved the wages of unrighteousness but he received a rebuke from his own transgression for immu donkey. Speaking with the voice of a man restrained the madness of of this once. Prophet and peter compares false teachings when you look at those two verses. He compares those false teachings to the profit who is enticed by. What by money you allow greed and covetousness to overtake him so much so that he looked to destroy the people of god in the old testament and it was bayless greed rather than that overcame him on another occasion and he died a miserable death. It tells us in number shafter thirty one but then you looked at versus seventeenth nineteen as we get closer to the end of this lesson and in verses seventeen through nineteen notice what it says now these are springs without water and miss driven by a storm for whom the blackness of darkness have been reserved for speaking out arrogant words vanity they enticed by flesh desires by sensuality. Those who barely escaped from the ones who live in error promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption for by what a man is overcome by this. He is enslaved. You look at versus seventeen through. Nineteen and peter explains what some of the false teachers were doing at the time of his writing. They were telling..
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"Don't pronounce judgment onto anybody's eternal destination. But i absolutely can judge the fruit in your life. You got good fruit. Are you producing good fruit or bad fruit. And if you're produce bad fruit. I can judge that bad fruit. Who gives me that authority. God because he tells us that we're the judge with righteous judgment. Judge what judge the fruit that comes from your life whether well then or not so well. God says when you stand before judgment. You're going to give an account whether good or whether bad based on the deeds in your life based on the life that you lived in the things that you did and then you get the verses twelve or fourteen and he tells us but these things brethren like unreasoning animals but these like unreasonable animals born creatures of instinct to be captured and killed reviling where they have. No knowledge will end. The destruction of those creatures also be destroyed. He's talking about the false teachers suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They counted a pleasure to party in the daytime. And they are stains and blemishes the lady in their deceptions as they party with you having is fall of adultery they never cease from sin enticing unstable souls having a heart trade and greed accursed children. You look ed versus twelve through fourteen. There and peter is telling us that these people are not confused..
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"We're having a good weekend. We should have. We should have some happy overeating spurt phase in here. Some big victories yesterday. So i don't know if the lions will make it a clean sweep probably nots. If you've ever watched the lions if you know anything about the history of the detroit lions. We don't win a lot of football games. But that's okay that's okay. That's why we come together today before lines games in order to encourage one another so we're not just standing there just you know just depressed in In as we go throughout the rest of our day. I don't know if you guys noticed but the balls in the air isn't it. I think it's supposed to be eighty today. And i was looking at the weather as i was getting off the plane yesterday. And i think Wednesday supposed be like fifty nine or something. And so i think fall is officially here is so it's going to be getting chilly it so we're going to have to start getting those soups go in. We should probably have like a potluck soon right where we could do a chili cook off if we ever done a chili cook off here. Well you haven't done in a two and a half years. I've been here. So i'm just saying like a chili cook off. I could go for chili. Some just saying so let. Let's open our bibles this morning as we continue on and our series of second peter. We're going to be a second. Peter chapter two second peter. I'm sorry yeah chapter two. We're gonna get started at the beginning of this chapter if you remember The last couple of weeks as we started to go throughout the second. Peter in the series of sermons and we looked at the inspiration of god..
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"She was laughing. But everybody's laughing. I'm so embarrassed. And you know what what it rustu. I'm gonna pull tom's here the next time we stood up. We went to sit down and tom landed up on the floor. My best friend and everybody laughed. And i laughed and i can even remember what room this took place in the flag. Shirts is just vivid in my mind and sister watson looked at me and said russ vengeance is suite isn't it and it was for about ten seconds on never forget that i love sister watson. She taught me a lesson. She didn't scream at me or yell at me or take me to my parents. I'll never forget her. And i'll never forget that. Say vengeance sweet. We have to think about our actions. Jesus did not retaliate. I should not have retaliate. But it sure was sweet for a minute but later on i was ashamed. I'd never shared this with my parents. I probably should have. But i didn't. I'm sharing with you this morning. But jesus didn't retaliate and we don't need to retali- because of the lord knows what he's when he suffered he made no threats whereas twenty-three he lifted himself up and spoke from the clock cross. He spoke about the people he spoke about what he was going through spoke to his father. He spoke to the thief on the cross but he never talked about his suffering. He didn't scream out his suffering. He didn't threaten people from the cross because he knew what was going to happen. You know one of the things that amazes me the most is if you go into the old testament read about the relationship between king saw and david david was in the court. He was playing this harp and what did saw do he picked up a spear that's right lewis and he threw it at david didn't he. He missed him. And do you know what david did nothing. Nothing somebody said nothing. He didn't throw the spear back. And i thought isn't that a great example for us christians. Don't throw the spear back. Don't get upset and you have that about. Jesus we've gotta hurry. We're almost done here. It steady and trust himself to him who judges justly. That's exactly what we're talking about a twenty three verse twenty three we have to entrust ourselves. God he's going to take care of it on the judgment day. Don't forget that that's what jesus did. He said i'm going to let god. I'm gonna let my father take care of this on the judgment day. I don't have to be god. I don't have to be a judge and in verse twenty three. Jesus entrusted himself to him who judges justly. That's powerful. If jesus can trust god to take care of him then maybe we should. Don't you think i just love that. Verse what peter saying. Christians give up the right to get even. That's what it comes down to chuck you have to give in. Don't give in to try to take engines. That's the one guy. I know he take vengeance right. We have to give that right up. Because god will take care of it. He's going to act on our behalf. That's what faces all about. If you really have faith in god doing it taking care of business. That's what faith is all about. The world says someone's gotta pay. We're going to pay back. We're going to take vengeance. I'm gonna get even. That's not what christian should do. That's what the world says. That's not what we need to say. No one gets away with anything. Put that down on that outline. Nobody gets away with anything with that in the back there and remember god's gonna take care of it. He's going to take care of his time is coming. His action is coming and when we have faith enough to realize that will entrust to him. He's going to do it. That'll make us feel so much. Better fact enrollments. Chapter twelve verse. Fourteen says i will repay. Who do you think you are trying to pay people back. Those are words for russ in second grade. I should said that. Let the lord take care of these things. I don't think the lord cares about that. Cherubini pulled out from under me. He has more important things on his mind. Don't you so let's trust. Let's let him do it. Let's let him repay for us unforgiving and this is what happens. Unforgiving hinders our prayers are singing. Our lord's supper are giving our worship. Our marriage our life our children everything is affected because of this and not only that but it makes our life miserable when you have to repay somebody for something it takes a lot of planning and we have to get back at them and we have to get angry and we have to make things happen and try to organize our lives so we can repay them. That makes her whole life miserable. That's why i wanted to think about this as we close. I want you to think about what the lord did because this is. What's.
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"We're trying to figure out what we're supposed to do how we're supposed to do it. What's pleasing to got everything begins and ends in scripture. Never should we here. But i think but i feel but when you have these conversations you often hear but i think but i feel and people try to allow to get to to be what drives them and yet we know that scripture in scripture alone is what drives us if you're here this morning and you're hearing this message and you're not a child of god and that is your desire. Here this morning brethren yuka come forward. You could come forward to be baptized for the remission of your sins. You come forward to receive the gift of the holy spirit guide and chapter two hundred forty seven will add you to the kingdom of price edge to the church. You have that opportunity if you've been thinking about it for awhile. What's hindering you what's holding you back. There's something hindering you something holding you back. You need to speak with me. You need to speak with one of our shepherds elders and we can help. Walk you through that answer any concerns you may have. You may be here this morning and you're just hurting. You're struggling. You're having a tough time. You could come forward this morning. We'll pray for you and we'll pray for you and help the put a plan in place for you to get through to get over. What whatever it is an struggling with if you here this morning you've been away from the church for any length of time brethren. You can be restored to the church here this morning. Become an active part of the membership here lincoln park so if that is you this morning come forward as we stand to sing the song vegetation..
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"In our sunday morning bible studies. It's because that's how we're going to be judged we're going to be judged by the new testament. God has said the times of ignorance over and he is sent his sons dying on the cross. He's given us the complete revelation he tells us how the story ends. We know that jesus has already has the victory. The question is do we want to tag along and be included in that victory if we do then with jesus comes with his winnowing fork in the threshing floor to separate the wheat from the shaft. We have to ask ourselves. Do you want to be the wheats or the chef. Because the sheriff is going to be going into the birds up. So we understand in verse. Three god has given us granted to us all that we need through the complete revelation of god and he tells us as we go on here through the true knowledge of jesus who called us by his own glory and excellence for by these. He has granted to us as his precious and magnificent promises. So that by them you may become partake of the divine nature. Having escaped the corruption. That is in the world by lust. You look at verse four and it says he has granted to us his precious his magnificent promises brother. You guys have heard me talking about faith before amen. And you've heard me give you the definition of faith and i've often said faith real biblical faith is is threefold. You have to come to the word of god. You have to fake from hearing hearing from the word god romans sense seventeen right but it doesn't end there. You have to hear the word to determine if you believe it so it starts with hearing that it started with trusting and then it starts and then it ends with obedience you have to trust in those great magnificent promises that he's talking about right here in verse four so verse three is telling us we look at these and we break these verses down verse. Three is telling us that humans can know god only by the degree that god has revealed himself to us his revealed himself to humanity in. Why do i say that well did. God give the profits when they came the whole story or did he give them little little tidbits of information. He gave them tidbits of revelation a prophecy to pass onto the jews. And so that we can look back to see when prophecy will be fulfilled. Its so we know that now. We have the complete revelation of god. We know how the story is. We know how the story began. We know that jesus is the seed line. Jesus is the one that was gonna come from the seed line from the tribal judah of the family of david and for what purpose the save mankind from their sins and this was a plan that was put in place since before. The foundation of the world is so for god so free humans we can only know god to the extent that he had revealed himself. For example we can know the goddess creative. We can know that he's powerful. We can know that he's wise just by looking at creation but we can't know through creation is that god doesn't reveal recreation doesn't reveal what god thinks creation doesn't reveal with god wants for man creation doesn't reveal what the future will be with the spiritual world will be like it's a we're limited in what we can know from creation. We could see that there is a guy through creation that there is a designer because there's designed in nature but that's about the limit of what we can know in order for us to know more about god. He has to reveal himself to mankind. And we have that revelation through jesus christ through the holy spirit who jesus said he was going to send john chapters fourteen in john chapter sixteen for what purpose so that he could. The holy spirit would remind. The early disciples the early apostles everything that got ever sudden. Did everything that jesus ever saw and everything that he ever did. And so the knowledge of these things is only available to the point or the extended god reveals it. Well what did it say in verse theory. You go back and you look at it. And what did the same verse three seeing that his divine power has what granted to us everything that we need that pertains to life ansa godliness. Brethren all the information that humanity needs to live a good and godly life to be found acceptable in the eyes of jesus christ in the day of judgement is contained in the new testament. So when i ask you the question why is it important that we study out the new testament because it all begins and ends there because we're new testament christian so we don't follow the law because we don't we didn't live under the old law and the old law wasn't for us it was only for the jews and so you look at this information and as we continue on brother at true knowledge gives us access true knowledge of god and his revelation gives us access to godliness. It gives us access to spiritual living a spiritual life and that's why we said earlier that there needs to be a transformation that is taking place as you read as you study the word of god and he's you become more knowledgeable in the word of god you make sure you transform your life in versus five through eleven. Peter is going to describe as we continue on. He's going to describe what man's part is knowing. God he's also going to describe how this affects our life and how it's going to affect our salvation. So peters going to explain that growth is a process. Well what is the process. A process as a series of steps that build upon one another amen. It's it's a series of steps that build upon one another should there notch chew. We not see a growth. Transformation it a transformation be taking place in the lives of every child of god. Let's continue on now as we look at versus five through seven. His second peter one five or seven. Notice what it says now for this. Very reason. also apply diligence. All diligence in your faith supply moral excellence and in your moral excellence knowledge and in your knowledge self control your self control perseverance and your perseverance brotherly kindness or godliness your godliness brotherly kindness and then you brotherly kindness love. Peter tells us at the process of knowing god begins with what diligence it begins with diligence effort commitments resolved resolving commitments or want to the process to the process of transforming our lives to become the type of man and woman that god is desired us to be to become righteous in holy in his sight. That is the transformation process that we're not. We're not viewed as.
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Being Victimized by Scams is Solvable [Test]
"Episodes are out every friday. This is solvable. I'm jacob weisberg there. Only a few real cons that exist and the bones of the story are the same and they've been the same for centuries also maria conaco. Vince would writing about these number of years book. The confidence game explores stories of con-artists opportunists people who build up our trust and then take everything we have think bernie madoff the late investors who destroyed countless lives with false promises and financial theft but before we pledged to fight to abolish scams. Remember this another side to those familiar. Stories to the flip side of our vulnerability to cons is human connection and trust and all the good stuff. So how do we protect our loved ones in ourselves. We'll scams being enduring part of society forever because we refuse or are unable to learn from our mistakes rather than admitting i was dumb. I felt for a scam you say. Oh no no cure all of the mitigating circumstances and it probably wasn't even a scam. So i think that it takes a strong person. It's embarrassing So can scams be solved. Rea- konakov thanks so being victimized by a scam is actually a solvable problem. Maria has gone from investigating the lies. We tell ourselves to mastering the bluff herself by learning to play poker at a world class level and writing about that too so i started by asking her why she so hooked on these concepts of big and small manipulations. My first book was about sherlock holmes. So i've traveled this gamut from you know. How do you be detective to okay. What are the what are the bad guys doing to kind of being the bad guy myself but within a game right so so so there are rules And one of the reasons that i've that it's been such a passion of mine is that i hate to see in re in reality. Not in a game. I hate to see people being taken advantage of. And how often that happens. And how scammers often will target the most vulnerable parts of our population the most vulnerable people and then we as a society target again by blaming them and by saying oh well. You're just stupid. You were just greedy. You were just dumb. You shouldn't have fallen for it. I wouldn't have fallen for it and that just gets me. Yeah well i was going to ask you because of your longstanding interest. I mean this personal for you in any way of you've been scammed yourself or people close to you been victims of scams. I personally have not been scammed. That i know of but one point i always make is that you know. The scams are ones that you're probably not aware of so i. i'm sure i've been scammed on small things and when you're about to get on the subway someone stops you and says hey you know. I'm so sorry. I lost my wallet. Do you have the fair for the subway for the bus for the train. I need to get back to my family. And there's so many excuses and you can do one of two things you can say. I think you're con artist. I'm not going to give you any money on. Walk on you feel shitty. You feel like a bad person because they actually needed you. I've lost my wallet. I've needed help in the past. And i think we bought we probably been on the other side of that and so the trade off is yom maybe get scammed. But i'd rather take the risk of being the victim of scammer in that particular instance and. I'm sure i've been scammed that way. Well that's interesting. I mean i have experienced instill sticks with me from high school. I remember in chicago where i was growing up walking through lincoln park and there was a guy kinda ragged looking walking with a gas can and he stopped me and told me this whole sad story about how he was trying to get back to florida to see a family card run out of gas and he needed the money for gas. Now was probably fifteen years old or something like that. I think i gave him ten dollars. Which would have been a lot of money to me. At the time and i felt good about myself for doing that and then a week later i was walking through the park and there was the same guy looking around with this gas can And it just it sticks with
WGN Programming
Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo reopens to the public
"WGN, the fairly new director of the Lincoln Berg Zoo with the exciting news that the Lincoln Park Zoo is open. You need to make reservations, though, which is true for just about anywhere you go right now. But I'll tell you, you can find them and it's it's worth visiting. Can you go inside buildings or Outside on Lee. I note one point We've been to the zoo several times during this pandemic on and off, and it was only outside. But I has that changed. That has changed very recently. We were given some new guidelines operate under by the state and we are able to open our buildings at a limited capacity. We're being very methodical. We do We use science and everything that we do here at the zoo, and so we're Easing into opening buildings kind of a building at a time. So currently we have two buildings that were opening when we have staffing for it, and then we're going to be starting to open more buildings as we continue to move through the spring. So I love this text that I just received. I happen to know the answer Just a bit, But I'm sure you can do better than me cans. Kines. What was what was that? I said, will be all. Of course you get kids. Ooh! Animals Get Cove. It 19. Uh, yeah. Do animals can get Cupid 19. There's been a few zoo animals around the country that have gotten covert 19. We likely have not had any of the animals at Lincoln Park Zoo. Test positive for covert 19. But we, as all accredited zoos do around the country used personal protective equipment in order to ensure I know we're all familiar with face masks and other personal protective equipment. Because of our own personal use. We use that here at the zoo all of the time, especially with animals touches nonhuman primate center susceptible to many of the same diseases that we are, and it turns out the animals at The zoo's that have been diagnosed with covert 19 are, I think was that the San Diego Wildlife Park where some of the guerrillas were diagnosed lowland gorillas with covert 19? And also Malayan Tigers, and one of the species must been Asian lions at the Bronx Zoo. If I recall also a zoo in either Tennessee or Kentucky had a big cat that had it. But the good news is all of these animals have survived that have have have had it aspires. I know anyway, across the country, And as you say zoos are so careful anyway, particularly with nonhuman primates. Well, before anyone ever heard of covert 19 you you didn't want those great apes to get a cold. Which could be passed on because they can get it except sometimes it turns into a more serious respiratory disease in gorillas in particular, so it's for a very long time. Zoos have been very careful, correct. That is exactly right. We've been careful for a very long time with good reason. We want to make sure that they don't get any cold or flu or any bugs that we have the we've been protecting them by using our personal protective equipment for Decades now, so I said, going
The Morning Show with Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong
Chicago-area restaurants ready to reopen for indoor service again, while others will stay closed
"Cook Cook County, County, Jeff Jeff Lawler Lawler owns owns Gay Gay Ha's Ha's Cafe Cafe near near Lincoln Park Zoo. I think there will be restaurants, we're going, we're doing it, okay? And then there's going to be a lot of restaurants and say, OK, let's put on the brakes waited this law. Let's just do it right And that's the approach. The K House is chosen. They're indoor timing will remain closed until at least Thursday, after we arguably bringing them way want to have them tested. Okay before they come in. We need to order the appropriate amount of food and wines because we haven't had the need for much food as we will. State health officials say all of Cook County is on track to reach Tier one mitigations by today. That means bars and restaurants that sell food could against her of customers indoors. A 25% capacity with table group sizes capped it. Four people, gyms and fitness centers could reopen at 50% capacity. Man and two teenagers now facing charges for a
News and Perspective with Taylor Van Cise
Boston removes statue of freed slave kneeling before Lincoln
"And the statue of a slave freed slave kneeling before President Abraham Lincoln No longer standing in Boston. It was removed this morning, six months after the city's art commission decided to take it down. Statue is a copy of the immense of Emancipation Memorial at Lincoln Park in Washington,
WTOP 24 Hour News
2 injured in car crash into statue at Washington DC’s Lincoln Park
"Two people are seriously hurt after the car rolled over and hit a statue in Capitol Hill's Lincoln Park that has a lot of controversy surrounding it. Park police say one of the victims had to be freed from the car by firefighters. This happened at the Emancipation or Friedman's memorial. It became the center of controversy over the summer because it illustrates President Abraham Lincoln standing over a freed slave. The W T O P Traffic center was first to report the rollover crash at about 5 40 this morning. No word yet on what caused it.
Chris Plante
2 injured in car crash into statue at Washington, DC’s Lincoln Park
"New this hour, a statue that was the subject of several protest during the Black lives matter. Drama over the summer was the victim of a terrible car crash. Early this morning, a car struck the base of the Emancipation statue at Lincoln Park in northeast D C and flipped over, injuring both persons inside, one of them seriously. The statue, which portrays President Abraham Lincoln, standing over a kneeling, freed slave was not damaged itself. Cause of the crash itself is under investigation. Protesters called for the statues removal this summer calling it's the symbolism problematic.
Dean Richards' Sunday Morning
Chicago residents demand Lightfoot deny General Iron's relocation permit to Southeast Side
"Their community on the Southeast side gathered in Mayor Lightfoot's Logan Square neighborhood yesterday. W GM Steve Ruxton explains why General liar and currently located in Lincoln Park is looking to open a metal recycling facility in south Chicago early next year. Like a park residents are concerned about its impact on air quality. One attendee Oscar Sanchez said. Quote. We deserve to have a life expectancy the same as a north cider RMG, which owns the company says the new facility will meet or exceed city and state regulation. Steve Ruxton, WGN NEWS. There's some good
WTOP 24 Hour News
Parents, teachers rally against early return to some in-person learning for Washington DC students
"In person. Learning could be nearing for students in D. C. Though, D C Public schools plan to give 7000 pre K through fifth grade students the option to return to in person instruction on November 9th. But some are not happy with that plan. Theo group of teachers and parents marched around Lincoln Park in South East. This pre K teacher says her Stein sums up her feelings. I love my health. I love my family. I love my students. I love my life. Don't make me choose cash Ted only when it's safe. They called on D C public schools to delay the plan and to get more teacher input. Katherine Johnson, a parent is here to support the teachers. I think it's a good idea. It's just not a well planned idea for D. C. P s. Among the concerns everything from the quality of Ventilation systems at schools to the availability of P P. E. For teachers and Lincoln Park in Southeast Mike Murillo. W GOP News
WTOP 24 Hour News
Parents, teachers rally against early return to some in-person learning for Washington, DC students
"9th D C. Public schools plans to give 7000 pre K through fifth grade students the option to return to in person instruction. Also 14,000 other students will be able to learn virtually from classrooms. And ahead of the start. Some teachers and parents in the city's Ward six urged the school system to delay thie group group of of teachers teachers and and parents parents marched marched around around Lincoln Lincoln Park Park in in South South East. East. This This pre pre k k teacher teacher teacher says says says her her her signed signed signed sums sums sums up up up her her her feelings. feelings. feelings. I I I love love love my my my health. health. health. I I I love love love my my my family. family. family. I I I love love love my my my students. students. students. I I I love love my my life. life. Don't Don't make make me me choose choose crashed crashed head head only only when when it's it's safe. safe. They called on D C public schools to delay the plan and to get more teacher input. Katherine Johnson, a parent is here to support the teachers. I think it's a good Idea. It's just not a well planned idea for D. C. P s. Among the concerns everything from the quality of ventilation systems at schools to the availability of P P. E. For teachers and Lincoln Park in Southeast Mike Murillo. W T. O P News, the
WGN Radio Theatre with Carl Amari and Lisa Wolf
Woman Violently Attacked And Robbed By Teens In Lincoln Park, Chicago
"Three boys arrested after allegedly punching and robbing a woman in Lincoln Park Mohr from W. Against on clever police at a 23 year old woman was walking in the 2000 block of North Sheffield around 10:45 P.m. Friday officer said the three boys approached her and attempted to take her purse. The woman resisted. The boys, then punched her and threw her to the ground, according to police. Then the boys took off with her purse and we're arrested later at the Armitage Brown line. Stop charges are pending. The woman suffered minor injuries. Police say she declined medical
Brian Noonan
Netflix's 'Tiger King' was watched by 34 million viewers in the US in 10 days, according to Nielsen
"Tiger King on Netflix was watched by 34 million people in the 1st 10 days after it was released, making it one of the most popular series of all times. It was about this little known Area in the world. Life of zookeeper Joe exotic on people who collect animals and have these little roadside zoos that we're going to talk about. Joe Exotic was accused and convicted of exploiting wild animals and also plotting to kill another conservationists who campaigned against him. He sentenced to 22 years in prison. And Ah, well, I I want to talk a little bit about. Why can you buy a tiger? Can you imagine you can buy a tiger cub for as little as $2000? Why was this guy allowed to run this roadside zoo with seem like no regulation by the government. And are there laws And why aren't there laws to protect these beautiful wonderful animals? Joining us is not really the foremost expert in the country. On this topic. Kearney and Nasserist serves as the director and assistant clinical professor of animal welfare at Michigan State College of Law. She runs Klaus Consulting on has a great podcast called Tiger Talk. Welcome to the show. Carney. How are you? I'm fine. Thank you for having me so excited to talk about this topic because it's just fascinating and let me at first ask you. How were you involved in the Joe exotic thing at all in any way, shape or form? I'm the attorney who pitched the wildlife trafficking case the federal prosecutors against him so suddenly, the murder for hire thing didn't happen until after the K five hits with already under investigation for a couple of years, you know, he was charged with multiple counts of illegal trafficking. He's charged with multiple counts of illegally killing Haider violate teenager thinking back and That's already been underway. So, yeah, I mean, I was pretty neck deep in it, actually. So you know, being involved in the animal law world as I assume you are you knew about Joe exotic. You knew about what he was doing there and people in the in that milieu knew what he was doing. Is that right? Sort of robotic has long been, you know, on the top at the top of the list of the most notorious abuser than a goiter of big cats in the country, So you know, he all of the things that made for a great reality show that a lot of people who wanted to watch it during quarantine or the things that we had already known about been accustomed to you for one time, But I told people I live in New Orleans, you know? After you've seen that person you have painted themselves head in gold body caves and thinking on top of the stair on Bourbon Street. It's not there. No wow. Factor left any more. And the same is true for Joan thought it We've been after him for a long, long time. So you know, Chicago here has two world class ooze. We have Brookfield Zoo. I grew up very close. I could almost hear I actually when the wind was blowing right, you could hear some of the noises from the animals. And then we have Lincoln Park Su another beautiful city zoo, and I had never heard of a roadside zoo. I mean, I never understood that someone could just open up. Zoo without having certain regulations. Now tell me are there now regulations that would prohibit a Joe exotic from acquiring big, beautiful animals and putting them in a zoo? Like a menagerie of animals, capped by unqualified people who just collected animals that they want to open their doors in charge. If anybody can get us life in, um like from the U. S Department of Agriculture, which is the threshold entry point in order to get animals to the public and the application of the $30 That is really what hate you open a road pie deal. If you pass a pre lightened infection know that you're probably only going to be some feel about One infection per year in the U. S. D a very understaffed. It's notorious even in his own internal auditing department for failing to enforce applicable regulations, which are very, very low standards of care. Like Do the animals have water? Do they have food? Do they get veterinary care? Then they stand up, turn around and lie down on DNA with Russell, you know, And so in a, for example, like in a state like Illinois The law states that you know you cannot own. There can't be any private ownership of of the danger of exotic animals. Not great. Sounds like a prohibition. It is not really in practice because all it requires to circumvent that prohibition is to get that USDA license tell the federal agency that you have some future plan couldn't get an animal to the public. Pay your $30 half your initial infection and rock and roll and keep those animals so a lot of loopholes in victim lives on nine Good point, Illinois. But in fact, there are four things that don't have any regulation whatsoever. Existing federal laws are fraught with the pole that are really easy to circumvent. And that's why we've seen the proliferation of roadside menagerie that can operate on DH. The proliferation the pirate in particular. Let's go back to that this issue of the laws and changing the laws and all of that, but You're telling me you pay your $30 you go through these preliminary steps, and you can get a baby Tiger. If I wanted to do that, Carney if I just said, OK, I really like these cute little tiger's My my house. Pets from the DuPage animal shelter are just not doing it for me and I and I going to qualify and I get where do I go? And how much do I have to pay to get a tiger coming in? And how hard would it be for me to do that? You may have paid more and your tax deductible donation to the shelter for your rescue dogs. You have to pay to get a tiger. You know, I know that like I paid a few $150 donation to the shelter where I rescued my grumpy old 14 years ago. Um, you can get a tiger for a couple 100 bucks. They're even free, really, and people working on the Internet. Or using the network of roads by do that are going to dump animals month. They've become too big that once they reach that passed that threshold age where they can no longer be used for the extremely lucrative cub handling called pay to play photo op bottle feeding. Twin like tigers experience. Is that the right I do love you so lucrative. Um, once we're done with that, because the animal Barda financial and safety liability and nothing when they get dumped and feed about a pet trade so often recently there was a classified publication. It was a monthly publication and very mom and pop type of day. Anybody could have tried to it and you would be Lifting every single month. Like one ad, it was involving animal option. It was road five You're looking for or looking to dump animal. Whether they're tigers, lions, bears, monkeys, other primate, zebras, giraffes. You need it. You could find it in the animal finding God.
KIRO Nights
Tacoma Police Dog Fatally Shot in Police Shoot Out.
"To Goa police start was fatally shot after a homicide suspect and officers exchanged gunfire this morning. Public information officer Wendy had a with Mohr on the dog, Rania Rania was there to protect her handler, protect other officers to help protect citizens. And she did hurt shop. She will be shortly. Lieutenant Chris Lawler is with the Lakewood Police Department and which has been brought in to find out how this all went down. He says it started on South Street in Tacoma, few blocks west of Lincoln Park. About 1 20 in the morning. Tacoma police officers located a homicide suspect driving a vehicle. The vehicle obviously fled from them. And after that short pursued it crashed in the suspect fled on foot, and that is when the gunfire erupted. Canine was shot and later died or human partner sustained minor injuries. The suspect Was critically wounded and rushed to a hospital. Now we're learning that police were pursuing him because they believe he was involved in the deadly shooting of a 28 year old man in a department of licensing parking lot into coma yesterday. It happened about 5 p.m. In the deal, well parking lot on Yakama Avenue. Witnesses reported hearing multiple gunshots from several shooters with cars fleeing the scene, and they told responding officers that a black SUV left with a shooting victim inside. Minutes after that. Someone reported a gunshot victim in a black SUV about a mile away at south 54th and Jay Street officers investigated. They found the victim dead in the car again. Police say they caught up with that suspect in that homicide early this morning. Suspect critically wounded in that gun battle
The Topical
NASA Announces Plans To Launch Chimpanzee Into Sun
"NASA is once again looking to further our knowledge of the universe and the effects. It has on life here on earth, which is exactly why the Space Agency is announced. It is now planning to launch a chimpanzee into the sun within the next ten years. The science world is calling the efforts a crucial step forward in solar exploration and better understanding how species react to being deposited into the sons twenty seven million. Degree plasma core for more on this monumental mission were joined by Opie our science reporter Rebecca Neal. Hi. Leslie Rebecca. How does NASA plan on pulling this off? Well, I, spoke with Nastas lead on the mission Tom Danes and he told me that chimpanzee will be put in a capsule that will contain several sophisticated instruments that would monitor how the animal reacts as it plunges into a burning ball of gas eight, hundred sixty. Five thousand miles in diameter. Here's Danes with some more details. The heat sensors to the chimpanzees body will provide us with real time data about what he's experiencing is he's in by the Sun's gravity as a close biological relative to our species. We believe his skin will react similarly to the sons extreme heat and aggressive UV radiation, and hypothetically his body will disintegrate at a similar rate to human beans right and if. The mission is successful. Hopefully, what we learned from this mission will pave the way for sending human astronauts into the sun on a regular basis. So is the idea here that there could maybe one day be a permanent colony on the sun for humans to get launch to in evaporate and a hellish fire on a regular basis well, Dan said that is a long term goal, but I they need to monitor how the. Chimpanzee handles the sons, ten thousand degrees, surface right patients whose key. Now, this is a bold mission but not the first of its kind correct. That's right a mission like this has happened before but on a smaller scale, for example, on NASA's first attempt to land on the moon with Apollo Eleven, the agency strapped and unprotected duck to the side of the space shuttle the duck perished immediately upon takeoff which helped NASA. Stand the benefits of being inside the capsule as opposed to outside of it. When shooting towards space, they've also experimented with abandoning several elephants on Mars and sending a capsule full of turtles deep into the void of space to be consumed by a black hole. These have all been instrumental to the revolutionary undertaking NASA announced today definitely what are the chances of something going wrong? Well, space travel is inherently dangerous as many Americans. Still, remember several horses never even made it into orbit aboard the space shuttle Challenger but Danes told me that they plan on testing their launch model thousands of times to ensure that the chimpanzee reaches the Sun's core safely before anything goes wrong on its way there there's no have any idea who will be manning this mission to the SUN NASA is keeping its potential chimpanzee roster under wraps right now but sources tell. Me The leading candidate is a seven-year-old chimpanzee named Bobo currently taking up residence at Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. NASA
The House Whisperer
Linkin Park says it issued cease and desist letter over pro-Trump video featuring "In the End"
"Video using a song by Lincoln Park has been pulled after a copyright complaint on Friday. The president Retweeted, a campaign style video by White House social media director Dan Scavino, which featured the Lincoln Park song in the end Twitter later disabled the video after it received a complaint from the copyright owner. Yesterday, The band released a statement on Twitter, saying Lincoln Park did not and does not endorse Trump and issues a cease and desist order.
Matt Bubala
Chicago Will Close More Streets for Outdoor Dining This Weekend
"Expanding outdoor dining at neighborhood businesses through Maur Street closures. Businesses will now be allowed boost outdoor seating capacity starting this weekend in Chatham, Chinatown, Edison Park, Lincoln Park, Little Italy, Russian Division, The Lower West Side, West Lake View and the West Loop. Later light footwork with alderman to open up use of the public ways for the added seating by shutting down more streets to traffic. It's part of the city's face for re open plan. Same time the city's tightening some restrictions on operating hours. Places that sell alcohol now have to close at midnight.
Rush Limbaugh
Washington, DC Mayor Bowser says ‘mob’ should not be deciding which statues fall as protesters eye Lincoln
"Protesters have promised to tear down the statue of Abraham Lincoln on East Capitol Street. Tonight, the Trump Administration's activated the DC National Guard to protect the Emancipation statue and other monuments. We need to maintain safety and order around the statues, Mayor Muriel Bowser Says she wants open communications not have a mob decide that they want to pull it down is certainly not destroy anything in the district were set anything on fire. The statue in Lincoln Park dates to 18 76 and was paid for largely by freed slaves. Critics say the image of a black man kneeling before Lincoln is an
Joel Riley
Fencing returns around Lafayette Square; protesters march to Lincoln Park as protests continue in DC
"Told there's no let up in protests around Washington DC more police were patrolling Tuesday night in Lincoln Park around an area now called black lives matter plaza fencing will go back up around Lafayette square so the National Park Service can repair stand choose another park resources a new fence was put up around the historic Saint John's Episcopal Church near the White House here in Columbus mayor Andrew Ginther will deliver virtual address to the city set for this afternoon some protesters of call forget there to resign over the police handling of protesters downtown over the past few weeks get there earlier this week told ABC six he has no plans to resign last night protesters were ordered by police to stay on the sidewalks and not go into the streets as a March from city hall to the Franklin County
WTOP 24 Hour News
New Fences Go Up Near Lafayette Square in Washington, DC As Protesters Stand Off With Police
"Seen more security now returning this week to black lives matter plaza in DC with calls for the toppling of another symbol of racial injustice in the district protesters wanting to re occupy the downtown DC plaza saw their hopes dashed when police not only cleared their encampments but brought back the eight foot tall fencing the clothes off Lafayette park park over over in in the the Capitol Capitol Hill Hill neighborhood neighborhood speak speak out out our our company company would would not not speak speak you you know know protesters protesters demand demand the the removal removal of of the the emancipation emancipation memorial memorial in in Lincoln Lincoln Park Park showing president Abraham Lincoln standing over freed slave symbolizes the waning power white supremacists a group leader told the crowd they plan to return tomorrow night to tear it down