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Compelling Reasons for Biblical Preaching, Part 1 (2 Timothy 3:1-4:4) - Duration: 55:24.

I am grateful for the kind remembrance that this Sunday celebrates 39 years of being at

Grace Church.

I am often asked, "How has my ministry changed through these years?"

There have been many changes in our society.

Since I came here in my late twenties in 1969, there have been many changes in the world.

There have been many changes in the culture.

Forms of entertainment have changed.

Technology has changed.

Society has changed.

Morality has changed.

Education has changed.

Philosophy has changed.

Everything has changed.

The church has changed.

The denominations have changed.

The interpretation of Scripture has changed.

Styles of ministry have changed dramatically.

And...I have not changed.

I have not changed.

I have been doing the same thing...(Applause)...well, thank you.

I didn't say that for you to applaud but I'm grateful.

But I have not changed.

And one would assume if one listened to those who are the gurus of ministry and church life

and growth that not to change is to die.

There have been books written that have warned the church...if you do not adapt to the contemporary

culture and the way people think and act and respond, and what they expect and what they

want, the church will die.

Well, this has proven to be a bogus prophecy.

I have changed nothing.

When I first came here in February of 1969, I stood behind a pulpit similar to this in

the chapel over there and I opened the Bible and explained what it means.

And I've done that all these 39 years.I hear a lot today about the necessity to contextualize

the message.

If I had any sense, I would be wearing a black t-shirt with a skull and crossbones on it

and I would have holes in my jeans and there would be no pulpit here.

And I would be wandering from pillar to post up here, we would turn the lights down and

change this environment because people need contextualization if they're going to respond.

I haven't found that necessary, nor am I at all convinced that contextualization means

anything or has any value in the church.

I'm particularly uninterested in the society's forms of entertainment.

I am widely illiterate about contemporary social literature.

I am indifferent to the films and the television programs of our culture.

They have no bearing on what I say.

I will confess to you tonight that I am largely indifferent to the politics of our day.

I understand that we are drowning in a sea of political exposure.

For the most part, it has absolutely nothing to do with what I do, what the church does,

what the church is, or the advancement of the Kingdom of God.

Now why am I stuck in 1969?

Why does nothing change?

The answer is, because I function under a divine mandate, not under a cultural one.

The culture has never and will never dictate to the faithful preacher what he is to do,

or what he is to say.

It is irrelevant.

We do not operate under a cultural mandate.

I'm not ready to change the way I preach and become a story-telling, narrative preacher

because we live in a culture where stories and narrative are more acceptable to people,

because I have a biblical mandate, a divine mandate.

And it all boils down, all summarized in a very straightforward command given in 2 Timothy

4:2.

So, open your Bible to 2 Timothy chapter 4 and verse 2.

If you've been here any time, you know this very well because I have referred to it on

a number of occasions.

Second Timothy 4:2, "Preach the Word....Preach the Word."

That defines biblical ministry in one simple command.

According to 1 Timothy 3, we are as pastors to have one skill.

In 1 Timothy 3, the list of qualifications for those who pastor and those who preach

and those who lead the church are given.

Only one of them has anything to do with function.

They have to do with character.

One has to do with function.

Pastors are to be didaktikos .

That means skilled teachers, skilled preachers.

That is our only skill.

That is the dominant skill because ministry is about disseminating divine truth.

And there's only one source for that and that's the Scripture.

And so we are commanded, as was Timothy, to preach the Word.

The time for this is given.

"Be ready in season and out of season."

What does that mean?

Well I perhaps could imagine that Paul had something specific in mind, but since it's

not clear what he may have had in mind specifically, generally speaking it's pretty obvious.

Whatever he meant by in season and out of season, those are the only two options.

You are either in it or out of it, which is another way of saying, "Preach the Word all

the time."

Whatever the season is, you're either in it or out of it, which means at all times preach

the Word.

So the time to do this is all the time.

He not only gives the time, but the tone.

"Reprove, rebuke, exhort."

Reprove, rebuke?

That has a tone of authority.

That is even negative.

It implies that you are preaching the Word of God in such a way as to expose people to

their own failures, their own sins, their own disobedience, and the inevitable judgment

that falls upon sinners.

Reproof and rebuke assume an inviolable truth, a demand, a command which must be obeyed or

there are consequences.

Positively we exhort with great patience and instruction.

The time to preach?

All the time.

The tone of preaching?

Both negative and positive.

Both with reproof for disobedience and with great patience in the event that people are

endeavoring to obey.

This is what we do.

It doesn't matter when.

It doesn't matter where, in any age, in any time, in any environment, this is what we're

called to do.

Even in the area of evangelism, Paul in Romans 10 says, "How will they hear without a preacher?"

God's ordained delivery method is preaching.

It was Martin Luther who said, "The highest worship of God is the preaching of the Scripture."

The highest worship of God is the preaching of the Scripture.

And last week we talked about Titus 2:15, if you just go to the right one page or so,

you'll come to Titus 2 and you'll remember that this was our subject last time.

Verse 1, "As for you, speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine."

Here is instruction to another young preacher, the first was Timothy, this is Titus.

He is told to speak the things which are fitting for sound doctrine.

And then in verse 15, "These things regarding sound doctrine, speak and exhort and reprove."

There again is that authoritative note, you bind people to these things as being the authoritative

Word of God "You speak, you exhort, you reprove with all authority.

Let no one disregard you."

The preacher is not offering options, not giving suggestions, but proclaiming the Word

of God with authority.

Our mandate doesn't come from the culture, it comes from God Himself.

In one sense it is irrelevant how people in our society entertain themselves, dress themselves.

Their felt needs, their personal preferences are irrelevant.

They need to hear the Word of the living God in any culture, in any time, in any place.

And the only way you can do that is to explain to people what the Bible means by what it

says.

This is bound upon every minister from the New Testament, the binding of the conscience

of Timothy and Titus to this responsibility, it extends to all who preach and all who lead

the church...preach the Word...preach the Word...preach the Word.

Now I'm not trying to be self-serving, but I would be the first one to stand up and say,

"This church has not died.

This church is not irrelevant."

Sunday night after Sunday night after Sunday night you hear these testimonies of people

in baptism upon whom the Word of God has come with transforming power.

Now, surrounding this verse are the reasons why we preach the Word.

Preach the Word at all times in all places.

Preach it with authority so that people are warned as well as exhorted.

And there are five reasons why...five compelling reasons why.

And I want you to look at these reasons with me because they are so very important, more

than that, they're really urgent.

The first one starts in chapter 3.

Let's go back to chapter 3.

This statement, this command, "Preach the Word," is surrounded by these reasons as we

will see.

When Paul finally gets to the command in verse 2, he's built up to that by laying the groundwork

as to why this is critical.

Each of the five reasons is a very, very potent motivation.

And I will confess to you that these things drive me.

They are very powerful motives in my own heart.

Number one motive, go back to chapter 3, let me read the opening nine verses.

"But realize this that in the last days difficult times, actually dangerous seasons...dangerous

seasons will come.

Men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient

to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without

self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather

than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness although they have denied its power and avoid

such men as these for among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak

women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to

come to the knowledge of the truth.

And just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of

depraved mind, rejected as regards the faith, but they will not make further progress for

their folly will be obvious to all as also that of those two, Jannes and Jambres came

to be."

Here's reason number one.

We preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons, because of the danger of the

seasons.

Verse 1, "Realize this," and this is for Timothy in that very first century.

"In the last days," the last days began when Christ came.

The last days had already begun.

Christ had come and inaugurated the last days, the messianic era has already begun.

That's why John writes, "My little children, it is the last time."

That's why the New Testament says, "Christ appeared in the end of the age."

It is the last days.

We are two thousand years deeper into the last days, but they began with the arrival

of Christ.

"In the last days, dangerous seasons will come, perilous times."

Not clock time, not chronos ... kairos , epochs, seasons.

You could even translate difficult, savage...savage seasons come that threaten the church, that

threaten the gospel, that threaten the truth.

And they increase in severity.

Go down to verse 13 for a moment.

"Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived."

There is an increase of these dangerous seasons.

They go from bad to worse.

As time goes on, we accumulate these dangerous epochs.

They began at the very start of the life of the church.

They are basically fomented, propagated, distributed by the kind of people who are described in

verses 2 and following.

Men who are lovers of self, which is always characteristic of false prophets.

They are proud, arrogant.

Men who are lovers of money, which is always true of false prophets who do what they do

for filthy lucre.

They are boastful, arrogant, they are revilers, they are disobedient to parents, ungrateful,

unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters

of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God

who have a form of godliness.

They have a religious garb and a religious paradigm and a religious frame of reference

in which they operate.

But they have no true power.

You avoid such men as these.

These are the kind of men who, verse 6 says, enter into households and captivate weak women

weighed down with sins led on by various impulses.

False teachers have always done this, false leaders have always done this.

They have found their most ready reception among unprotected women, as Satan found Eve

in the garden.

They have endless information, always learning, verse 7, never able to come to the knowledge

of the truth.

Verse 8, "They're like Jannes and Jambres," who oppose Moses, the two magicians in Egypt

who are only named here, not there.

Apparently tradition passed their names down.

These are men who oppose the truth, who have useless minds, who are rejected as regards

the true faith.

Paul is saying to Timothy, "Look, they're going to be sin-laden, money-hungry, self-loving,

arrogant, boastful, false leaders of religion who will manifest every imaginable form of

evil, who will propagate dangerous epochs, damnable epochs that the truth must face in

these last days.

Now if I were to do a quick historical survey, I'm not going to drag you through every form

of false religion, but I think we're pretty well aware of the fact in this culture that

there was very soon in the early days of the church a fast developing Gnosticism.

Gnosticism, from the Greek gnosis , the people who said they were in the know, they had the

secret knowledge.

They were the initiated who knew the things that the hoi-polloi know.

It was out of that Gnosticism that these false gospels came, the gospel of Judas, the gospel

of Thomas, the gospel of Peter, and other false documents that show up in our modern

media in things like the DaVinci Code, etc., etc., etc.

This is old ancient Gnosticism.

It was fraught with feminism.

They worshiped the goddess.

It is that early Gnosticism that struck very strong blows against the church and incipient

Gnosticism is even addressed by the Apostle Paul in his letters.

It did not take long for false religion to develop.

And the interesting thing about this is that even ancient Gnosticism which you might say

was the first epoch, the first great perilous season that came, still exists.

They come and they never go away...they never go away.

I suppose historically you could say, and we're looking at very broad...in very broad

terms, the second great epoch was Sacramentalism...Sacramentalism.

This is that period of time that really starts in the fourth century with Constantine making

Christianity the religion of the entire Empire and constituting Christianity as the only

two religions and persecuting the people who aren't Christians.

Christianity then is not something personal, it is something institutional.

It is something kingdom wide.

It is something you are born into and baptized as an infant into, this institution called

Christianity.

This exists until the 1500s, over a thousand years you have a highly developed Sacramentalism.

What is Sacramentalism?

It is the kind of religion that produces only external, ceremonies, rituals, rites, symbols.

The church is a surrogate Christ.

You connect to the church, you don't connect to Christ.

Salvation is by automatic ritual.

You are saved by a baptism, by the eating of a wafer.

You are saved by observing a Mass and having infused grace put into your life.

Or by Penance, or by confession, or by buying an Indulgence.

This is Sacramentalism.

It is one and the same as the Roman Catholic Church that dominated the western world for

well over a thousand years.

That era is past but Sacramentalism is still with us.

Roman Catholicism is still with us.

Eastern Orthodoxy, another form of it, is still with us.

Greek Orthodoxy is still with us.

And other forms of Sacramentalism are still with us in the deadness of Lutheranism and

Episcopalian churches, and Anglican churches that are in to symbols.

And I will tell you this in general, it is true, the more symbols, the less reality.

The more reality, the less symbols.

We are still today dealing with Gnosticism.

We are still today dealing with Sacramentalism.

We preach the Word because of the danger of these epochs.

They are perilous.

They damn the souls of people.

They derail them from discovering the true gospel and the true God and the true Christ.

It was out of the Reformation that the gospel was recovered and a protest against this Sacramentalism

was made, that's why we're called Protestants because we were part of the protest.

But it wasn't long after the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century that there came another

dangerous epoch, Rationalism.

It was in great measure the Reformation that freed men up from the great monolithic Roman

system that owned their souls and damned them at the same time.

It was the Protestant Reformation that freed them from that.

And it liberated them to discover what was capable, what man was capable of.

And out of that came the Renaissance, out of that came all kinds of new discoveries

of what men could do if they were out from under the tyranny of this dark and damning

system.

But that all gave birth to a love affair of the human mind and it led to Rationalism.

Gnosticism is first.

Sacramentalism is second.

Rationalism comes rushing in soon after the Reformation.

And they abandon...they were so enamored with their own reason that they abandoned faith

for reason.

They abandoned revelation for reason.

They put man above God.

The key book was The Age of Reason written by Thomas Paine.

The first half, the supremacy of reason; the second half, the debunking of the Bible.

Rationalism...Rationalism, still a very dominating force in the philosophies and education institutions

of our world.

It turned religion on its head.

It developed religious liberalism, neo-orthodoxy, critical theory, again assaulting and attacking

in a destructive way the Bible.

Of course it infested all the mainline denominations and brought them literally to their graves.

And we still have it around.

We still face Rationalism.

My last time to go to St.

Andrew, Scotland, when I was over there about a year ago or so, I was reminded again of

the great university at St.

Andrews and I went there.

And it's a very heart-wrenching experience to go there because the college called St.

Mary's College which is a school of theology at the University of St.

Andrews, and you can always identify a theological student because they wear a red cape if they're

in theology.

The school of theology is on one side of the street.

Across the street is a pub.

In order to walk to the School of Theology to the pub, you have to walk across the initials

of one of the martyrs that was slaughtered for the gospel when the Catholic Church ruled

England and killed those who affirmed the true faith.

So students from the theological school walk across the initials of the martyr, Patrick

Hamilton, to go to the bar.

The building next door is the St.

Salvader's(?) chapel, part of the university, and in that building is the pulpit from which

John Knox preached the great Scottish Reformation.

Great history.

I was told it is still true, there's not one professor in the School of Theology who believes

the Bible is the Word of God.

That's the legacy of Rationalism.

They worship their own minds.

And their reason is above the revelation of God.

In the nineteenth century, another ism came along, Orthodoxism.

What happened in the nineteenth century was very, very important.

Mass printing came in, I mean really mass printing.

There was printing before that from the middle of the fifteenth century.

But mass printing came in, in the 1800s, and the first thing that many wanted printed was

the Bible.

And so Bibles were printed in mass and they were distributed.

They had virtually, according to historians, no effect on the churches.

The churches were so loaded with liberalism, so loaded with Neo-orthodoxy in Europe that

the mass printing of Bibles had no real impact.

In little places here and there, people affirmed the truth of Scripture.

They began to read their Bibles, but most historians would say it produced nothing but

a kind of dead, cold orthodoxy...shallow spirituality, superficiality and the church in Europe never

ever really awoke to a great revival, though the Word of God was made available.

A kind of orthodoxism, we have the Bible, we read the Bible, we like the Bible, it just

has no effect on our lives.

In the twentieth century, a most interesting thing happened in Europe.

I guess you could call this politicism.

The church politicized itself.

In most cases all throughout Europe, state churches existed.

The state church was either the Roman Catholic Church or the Protestant Church.

The church therefore was inextricably connected to the government.

It was a big mistake in the beginning and now they had to live with the consequences.

The church was significantly politicized.

I think the most dramatic illustration of that was Nazi Germany.

Do you understand that Hitler did not dismantle the church, did not persecute the church,

did not attempt to destroy the church, but simply redefined the church?

First of all, rejecting the Old Testament because of its Jewish character, and secondly,

extracting from the New Testament all those passages which were in any sense favorable

to Jews.

Hitler came up with a new kind of Christianity that fit perfectly into his agenda.

It was called The German Christian Faith Movement, and it was one and the same with Naziism.

There were other kinds of politicizings in Europe...the social gospel, reconstruction,

liberation theology, that's more modern, that's more common in South America where in the

name of Christianity you take guns and knock off the palace and the ruling group, or in

America this preoccupation with politics which drives many churches.

Very dangerous.

Post Millennialism is a form of politicizing the church which believes that we could somehow

make the world a better place on our own and bring in the kingdom and give it to Christ.

You notice now that these isms are coming faster because communication is getting better

and movements come quicker.

In the 1950s you have the development of Ecumenism.

Ecumenism, the idea of unity without doctrine, sentimentality, tolerance of error, disdain

of doctrine, lack of discernment, let's all embrace, let's all get together, let's have

a cooperative campaign, a cooperative evangelistic effort.

Let's get the Catholics and everybody together.

Let's have all the common ground that we can and we're not going to make anything an issue

that divides us.

And so all kinds of strange alliances were formed, many of which still exist.

In the 1960s you had a new movement, Experientialism.

This is the Charismatic Movement.

You move from truth to feeling, from external revelation to internal intuition.

You move from the Word of God to visions and prophecies.

Dangerous stuff.

I look at my ministry.

If you were to ask me, what am I battling when I'm preaching the truth?

I could just take you through the list.

Look, I'm trying to help people get out of Sacramentalism, superficial ceremonial religion

that damns the soul because there's nothing real there.

I'm trying to protect people from the Rationalism that calls the Bible into question and puts

human reason above revelation.

I'm trying to help people get out of dead, cold orthodoxism, some kind of superficial

affirmation of Scripture truth that never changes your life.

I'm trying to help people understand that the church is not a political organization

that...it is a Kingdom that belongs only to God and is ruled only by God and has nothing

to do with the kingdoms of this world.

Trying to help people know that you can't make alliances that compromise the truth.

Trying to protect them from Ecumenism.

Trying to protect them from experiencialism which sucks people into the idea that they

can intuitively determine what is true and that they ought to be looking for a feeling

rather than understanding the revelation of God.

It was the 1980s when subjectivism came in.

Subjectivism, everybody got enamored with psychology and everybody wanted to contemplate

their navel and see how they felt.

And get all their little petty problems solved.

Narcissistic navel watching is the bottom line on that movement.

Self-esteem, personal needs theology, personal comfort, man-centered subjectivism, these

haven't gone away.

We're still dealing with the Charismatic Movement and all of its excesses and they get worse

and worse and worse and worse.

We're still dealing with people who have been psychologized to death so that now while maybe

psychology as a counseling method isn't a big deal in a church.

Churches define their ministries around what they think people to satisfy their own needs.

That's subjectivism.

I don't want to be unkind here, but I really don't care what you think you want.

I know what you need.

And what you need comes from God through His Word.

And I also know that it will do its work and truly satisfy your heart and not in a superficial

way.

In the 1990s we had to face a new ism, mysticism, belief in everything.

Also in the 1990s, pragmatism, the appropriate means for ministry is whatever is popular,

whatever works.

Truth is the servant of what works.

So whoever has the biggest crowd got it right...right?

Wow, look at all the people that go to that place, they've 10 thousand, 11 thousand, 12

thousand.

And I've been told you are a pony express horse in a computer age, you're out of touch.

I've been told the key to evangelism is image, style, you can't just pound the Word of God

into people's minds.

Pragmatism is what reigns today, whatever works.

Whatever draws the big crowd.

Also in the 1990s we got big doses of syncretism.

Hey, Mormons are fine, Christians are fine, Hindus are fine, Ecumenical Jihad, we're all

going the same way, we all worship the same God.

Let's put our arms around each other and go together.

And, of course, now we've got relativism, right?

You've got your truth, I've got my truth, he's got his truth, that's the way it ought

to be.

Just one ism after another, after another, after another, and none of them ever leaves,

right?

They all stay.

So if I gave you twelve, that would only be a smaller number out of the total number.

And they're all still here.

I will tell you this.

I have no interest in communicating to people on some simplistic, social, cultural level.

I really don't...I don't think it's an issue how I dress.

I don't think it would make a difference...I don't think it would make one difference in

the Kingdom of God if I took off my tie.

That doesn't have anything to do with anything.

I don't think it has anything to do with the Kingdom of God if I wear one.

But I have a certain respect for this.

I don't think it has anything to do with anything.

I know that the power is in the Word of God.

And you don't want to take the Word of God and simply apply it to the superficial things.

You drive the Word of God not at how people play, you drive it at how they think.

The Apostle Paul went on Mars Hill and confronted people at the point of their religion, not

their life style, not their forms of entertainment.

He confronted them at their religious point.

And the only way you can do that is with the truth of the Word of God which is the true

religion.

If you do not preach the Word of God in a pulpit, you have no impact on any of this.

You just let it flourish, you become part of the problem.

We must preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons.

And understand....you say, "Well, you know, they're nice misguided people."

No they're not, they are lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant revilers, they

are unloving, irreconcilable, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of

pleasure rather than lovers of God who have a form of godliness but no power.

You better avoid people like this because they lead captive women weighed down with

sins, they're always learning, never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

They're just like Jannes and Jambres who oppose Moses, they oppose the truth.

And if you love the truth and the truth is precious, then you understand what you're

called to do.

So they are described here, these leaders, according to their character, their immoral

character.

They are described in verses 5 and following according to their fraudulent ministry.

And they are described in verses 6 and 7 according to their danger.

They are counterfeit liars, men of corrupt minds, perverted, unfit, disqualified, rejected

as regards the true faith.

And the progress they appear to have in verse 9, is only apparent not real.

Their folly will be obvious, eventually to everyone.

We're called then to preach the Word because of the dangers of the seasons.

Let me give you a second point, and I won't finish this, but I'll introduce it.

Because of the devotion of the saints...because of the devotion of the saints.

There's a transition in verse 10.

Paul says, "But you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,

persecutions and sufferings, such has happened to me at Antioch and Iconium and at Lystra;

what persecutions I endured.

And out of them all, the Lord delivered me and indeed all who desire to live godly in

Christ Jesus will be persecuted."

What is this saying?

Preach the Word, Timothy, because of the devotion of the saints.

In other words, follow in the line of the faithful who went before you.

Paul was a strong champion for the truth.

He set the standard for ministry.

Verse 10, he did his ministry duty.

You followed my teaching, and conduct.

Those are the two things that are critical to effective ministry that you teach and you

live what you teach.

This is called integrity.

You followed my teaching and my conduct.

You walked with me, you talked with me, you traveled with me, you saw me all the time.

You know what I taught and you know what I live and you followed it.

Ministry duties, personal qualities as well, you followed my purpose, my faithfulness,

my patience, my love, my perseverance.

This uncompromising resolve to walk with the Lord obediently, faithfully, even when it

meant persecution, verse 11, suffering because that's what should be expected by all who

desire to live godly in Christ Jesus.

You followed.

You walked in the pattern that I set.

And you got what I got, persecution.

You expect it, verse 13, "Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving

and being deceived.

But in spite of that, in spite of the work of evil men, you, however, continue in the

things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them."

From whom?

Paul...Paul.

Back in chapter 2 verse 2, "The things you have heard from me in the presence of many

witnesses, these entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also."

What is it about this New Emerging Church Movement that has such deep-seeded disdain

for the previous generation of faithful men?

This is not a virtue.

You don't mock the faithful preacher of the Word, the faithful pastor.

You don't mock him because he's not as cool as you are.

But that's the attitude of this Emerging Church Movement...disdain for the faithful in the

past.

Paul says, "Look, change nothing.

Teach what I taught.

Act like I acted.

Do ministry the way I did ministry."

Lystra was Timothy's home town.

Timothy probably heard Paul preach there first.

May have witnessed the healing of the crippled man and the stoning of Paul.

So he knew from the very outset the uncompromising character of Paul's devotion to Christ and

the gospel truth.

Paul says, "Follow me no matter what it costs.

Follow me no matter what it costs, no matter what it costs."

I look back in my own life to a grandfather who died and on his lips were the words, "I

just want to preach one more time, I just want to preach one more time," to a father

who died at the age of 91 and had preached into his ninetieth year, never brought a reproach

on the church, never brought a scandal on the name of Christ, never accused of anything

that would discredit his ministry.

Taught faithfully the Word of God.

I don't want to change anything.

The truth can't change.

I can't reinvent what character is.

I just want to be faithful to the legacy of the past.

As you know, Paul is my hero.

He set the standard.

And following him, godly prophets and apostles, preachers and evangelists have been faithful

through the centuries.

I don't want to do anything...in fact I find more joy reading dead people than living ones.

I just can't understand why you have a whole generation of young people who think the cool

thing to do is to show disdain toward the faithful of the past.

Paul says to Timothy, "You preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons and because

of the devotion of the saints."

You don't have a right to reinvent ministry.

You don't have a right to determine that the Word of God is no more relevant, that we've

got to turn it in for something else.

You don't have a right to say preaching is out of vogue.

Can't do that anymore, expositional preaching especially out of vogue.

We've got to come down out of these pulpits, we've got to have a conversation with people,

got to have a sharing of ideas.

We've got to stop calling people preachers and start calling them sharers, facilitators.

You don't have a right to do that.

God only had one Son and He was a preacher.

And His forerunner was a preacher.

And all His Apostles were preachers and it is still the preaching of the cross that causes

the transformed heart to believe.

Well, I'll introduce a third one.

I could say a lot more about that one, but that's okay.

We preach because of the danger of the seasons, because of the devotion of the saints...what

a privilege it is to stand in the long line of faithful men who have done this...faithful

to every generation every place in the world, opening and expositing the Word of God.

But there's a third reason we preach the Word, because of the dynamic of the Scripture...because

of the dynamic of the Scripture.

If I were confronting the dangers of the time, if I were endeavoring to be faithful to the

devotion of the saints in the past, I might still deviate from preaching the Word if it

didn't have the power.

But it does.

Look at verse 15, "From childhood, Timothy, you have known the sacred writings which are

able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ

Jesus."

That's all I need to know...that's all I need to know.

Does the Scripture give the wisdom that leads to salvation?

Answer?

Yes.

That's all I need to know.

I don't have a better message, I don't have a more powerful message.

This isn't about me.

If you want a clever speech out of me, I could give you one.

It would be entertainingly useless.

I can't change anybody.

I'm not adequate to transform a life.

It doesn't come from my ability or my cleverness or my compassion or my sympathy, or my clarity.

The power is in the truth.

We're begotten again by the Word of truth, Peter says.

We're sanctified by the Word.

And he says to Timothy, "From childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able

to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

I don't care who you are, if you're in a church and you call yourself an evangelical and you

say you love Christ and you want to be a part of evangelism in building the church of Jesus

Christ, if you say that much then I will hold your feet to this verse...if you want to see

people saved through faith in Christ, then you must acknowledge that the wisdom which

leads to that comes from the sacred writings.

That's what the verse says.

That's what it says.

The Jews used to claim that their children drank in the Law of God with their mother's

milk and it was so imprinted on their hearts and minds that they would sooner forget their

names than the Law of God.

The law was given to them when they were very small and that was Timothy, he had that experience.

He grew up..one of his parents was Jewish and he grew up under that influence of the

Law.

And from the time he was a brephos , an infant, a baby in arms, that's the Greek term here,

he was exposed to the Law of God.

And it was the schoolmaster that led him to Christ.

It was the tutor that led him to Christ because the Law of God exposed his sin and exposed

his need for a Savior and when the gospel of that Savior came along, his heart was ready.

What do you mean "sacred writings" here, verse 15?

"You've known the sacred writings."

Hiera grammaton , holy writings, that's the name for Scripture.

That is actually the name for the Scripture used by Greek speaking Jews.

If you read Philo, you read Josephus, that's their normal word for Scripture, holy writings.

And it is the holy Scripture that provides the wisdom that leads to salvation.

Psalm 19:7, "The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting...what?...the soul."

The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.

Failure to preach the Word and to preach the Word with authority comes from a low view

of Scripture combined with a high view of yourself.

It's unmistakable.

If you have a low view of yourself and a high view of Scripture, you preach Scripture.

If you have a low view of Scripture and a high view of yourself, you preach yourself.

It's that simple.

Now I want to add a footnote and it is this, there are different ways that the Bible can

be taught, exposition-verse-by-verse, sometimes a topical message, sometimes a doctrine, theological

message using the truth of the Scripture.

You can put it together in different ways.

So I don't want anybody to assume that if you just don't go verse by verse, letter by

letter that you have failed to teach the Bible.

The idea is to teach the truths that are contained in Scripture.

To do that systematically over the long haul, you go verse by verse.

But at any given point in time, you may pull together a number of passages and reflect

upon something taught in the Scripture in a number of different places and a different

format.

So there are lots of ways to get at it, but you're always starting here, right?

There's a lot more to be said about the Scripture, and I have a couple more reasons to give you

in this little list, but I'm going to leave you hanging.

So I'll come back the week after and we'll pick this up there.

Let's pray.

We have learned, Lord, so much about obedience from Your Word, and yet somehow manifest so

little of it.

We are to be obedient to this command, this all pervasive and yet simple and direct command

to preach Your Word.

We are to be held to that, all of us who preach.

It's inexhaustible.

Its riches are endless.

And we must continually mind its powerful transforming, joy-producing truths.

I pray, Lord, that You'll raise up many who will be faithful to this.

This is the power, this is the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith in Christ

Jesus.

May we give a voice to the Word in all our preaching and teaching.

And may Your people hold their pastors to this standard.

We want to be faithful to You, to discharge our responsibility, to do it with joy and

humility.

We thank You for such a privilege in Christ's name.

Amen.

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FULL PRESS CONFERENCE: 2 arrested in mass shooting at Cincinnati nightclub - Duration: 10:03.

>> WELCOME.

OUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS

CONTINUE TO GO TO THE VICTIMS

AND THEIR FAMILIES.

I WANT TO COMMEND THE POLICE

DEPARTMENT AND FIRE DEPARTMENT

ON HOW THEY HAVE CONDUCTED

THEMSELVES FROM THE BEGINNING OF

THIS INCIDENT TO TODAY.

AS LIEUTENANT SAUNDERS

MENTIONED, CHIEF ISAAC WILL

PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHERE THE

DEPARTMENT IS IN THE

INVESTIGATION.

HE WILL BE FOLLOWED BY MAYOR

CRANLEY.

WE WILL TAKE SOME QUESTIONS

AFTERWARDS.

>> GOOD AFTERNOON.

I WANTED TO GIVE AN UPDATE ON

THE PROGRESSION OF THE

INVESTIGATION AT THIS POINT.

TO RECAP, AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE,

SATURDAY NIGHT WE HAD 17 VICTIMS

OF GUNFIRE AT THE CAMEO

NIGHTCLUB.

OF THOSE 17, 1 INDIVIDUAL WAS

DETERMINED TO BE DECEASED AT THE

SCENE.

THAT WAS O'BRIEN'S THE --

O'BRIEN SPIKES.

EVIDENCE OF THE CRIME SCENE AND

INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED WITH

MULTIPLE WITNESSES INDICATED

THERE WERE MORE THAN ONE SHOOTER

INVOLVED IN THE INCIDENT.

OVER THE COURSE OF THE PAST

SATURDAY'S, HOMICIDE -- PAST

FOUR DAY, THROUGH THEIR

INVESTIGATIVE EFFORTS, TO

INDIVIDUALS -- TWO INDIVIDUALS

HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN BEING

INVOLVED IN THE NIGHTCLUB.

BOTH SUSPECTS ARE IN POLICE

CUSTODY AND ARE IN THE PROCESS

OF EATING CHARGED IN CONNECTION

WITH -- BEING CHARGED IN

CONNECTION WITH THE SHOOTING.

MR. CORNELL BECKLEY WAS

APPREHENDED THIS AFTERNOON BY

OUR FUGITIVE APPREHENSION UNIT.

WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF DISTRICT

FIVE OFFICERS.

THE SECOND INDIVIDUAL IN OUR

CUSTODY IS MR. DEANDRE DAVIS, A

MALE 29 YEARS OF AGE.

HE IS CURRENTLY BEING TREATED

FOR A GUNSHOT WOUND AT THE

UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AND IS

LISTED IN CRITICAL CONDITION.

BOTH SUBJECTS ARE BEING CHARGED

WITH MURDER IN CONNECTION TO THE

INCIDENT AND ADDITIONAL CHARGES

WILL LIKELY BE ADDED AS THEY

PROCEED THROUGH THE GRAND JURY

PROCESS.

AS THE INVESTIGATION PROGRESSES,

THERE IS EVIDENCE THAT OTHER

INDIVIDUALS WERE INVOLVED IN

THIS INCIDENT.

THERE ARE CONTINUING TO DEVELOP

MORE INFORMATION AS THE CASE

PROGRESSES.

AGAIN, I WANT TO SAY THAT THE

INVESTIGATION IS STILL ONGOING.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO CONDUCT

INTERVIEWS, COLLECT MORE

EVIDENCE, SO I WILL BE VERY

LIMITED IN WHAT I AM ABLE TO

ANSWER IN YOUR QUESTIONS TODAY.

I WILL TURN IT OVER TO THE MAYOR

AND THEN WE WILL TAKE SOME

QUESTIONS AFTER THAT.

>> I'M GLAD TO BE JOINED BY

COUNCIL MEMBERS SIMPSON AND

SINCE ELSE.

THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL BREAST

IN THE FUTURE -- ARRESTS IN THE

FUTURE.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THE

DANGER WITH WHICH BOTH POLICE

OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WHO

RUSHED ONTO THE SCENE.

CHIEF ISAAC JUST MENTIONED THAT

THE FUGITIVE APPREHENSION UNIT

ARRESTED ONE OF THE MEN TODAY.

LAST YEAR, I HAPPENED TO GO ON A

LOT -- RIGHT ALONG -- RIDE

ALONG.

INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS WORK.

SOMETIMES IT IS AT HOME OR AT A

FRIENDS HOUSE.

THESE ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST

OFFICERS THAT WE HAVE AREA AND

THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE

TAKE OUR FIRST RESPONDERS AND

OUR POLICE FOR THIS GREAT POLICE

WORK SO QUICKLY.

IT IS ALL TEMPERED -- IT IS GOOD

NEWS OF THE BAD SITUATION THAT

MR. SPIKES HAS DIED.

WE EXTEND OUR PRAYERS TO HIM AND

HIS FAMILY AND ALL THE OTHER

INNOCENT VICTIMS.

THEY WERE TRUE INNOCENT

BYSTANDERS.

SOME WERE INVOLVED IN THE

SHOOTING.

THIS IS A TRAGEDY OF EPIC

PROPORTIONS.

THE WORST LAST SHOOTING IN THE

HISTORY OF THE CITY.

WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO

ON THIS INVESTIGATION.

A LONG WAY TO GO IN THE SHOOTING

ON WESTWARD, NOT AUBURN, THE

SHOOTINGS OF WINTON TERRACE.

WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO

GET THE GUNS OFF THE STREET AND

TO TEACH PEOPLE NOT TO RESOLVE

THIS IS WITH GUNS.

-- DISPUTES WITH GUNS.

WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE

BEST POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE

COUNTRY TO BRING PEOPLE TO

JUSTICE, WHO SHOULD

INDISCRIMINATELY VICTIMS AT THE

CAMEO WHAT WE SAW LAST D NIGHT.

THANKS TO EVERYONE INVOLVED.

I'M SURE THERE WILL BE QUESTIONS

FOR THE CHIEF.

>> WILL TAKE SOME QUESTIONS.

I BELIEVE IT WAS ALL OF COLERAIN

AVENUE THIS AFTERNOON THAT

DISTRICT FIVE -- I BELIEVE THE

INDIVIDUAL HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED.

HE WAS UNDER SURVEILLANCE BY

FUGITIVE APPREHENSION TEAM.

HE WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY

WITHOUT INCIDENT.

>> DO YOU THINK OF O'BRIEN

SPIKES WAS TARGETED IN THIS?

>> HAVE NO INFORMATION THAT

INDICATES THAT.

>> FLIP DEANDRE DAVIS ONE OF THE

INTENDED TARGETS?

-- WAS THE UNDERRATED IS OF THE

INTENDED TARGETS?

-- DEANDRE DAVIS ONE OF THE

INTENDED TARGETS?

>> A GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS

DETERIORATED INTO A FIGHT.

IT ESCALATED INTO INDIVIDUALS

BEING ABLE TO SNEAK GUNS INTO

THE BAR AND SHOTS BEING FIRED.

REALLY, THAT IS ALL WE KNOW AT

THIS POINT.

>> THERE WAS RUMORS THAT THERE

WAS ANOTHER LINE WHERE YOU COULD

PAY MORE WITHOUT BEING CHECKED.

>> I HEARD THINGS LIKE THAT AS

WELL.

THAT IS NOT BEEN THE PRIMARY

PART OF THIS INVESTIGATION.

WE ARE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO

FIRED THE SHOTS, WHO ARE

RESPONSIBLE FOR THE VIGIL BEING

STRUCK BY GUNFIRE.

THOSE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED

AT A LATER DATE.

>> IT DID NOT STEM FROM AN

INCIDENT EARLIER IN THE DAY?

>> TO MY KNOWLEDGE, IT DID NOT.

BETWEEN SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS WHO

WERE PATRONS OF THE NIGHTCLUB

AREA -- NIGHTCLUB.

WE BELIEVE THERE WERE SEVERAL

INDIVIDUALS.

WE BELIEVE THERE WERE AT LEAST

THREE DIFFERENT GUNS THAT MADE

IT INSIDE THE NIGHTCLUB,

POSSIBLY MORE.

>> SO THERE MAY BE A THIRD

SHOOTER.

>> YES.

THE INVESTIGATION IS CONTINUING.

I WANT TO BE CAUTIOUS IN WHAT I

ADDED.

WE MAY PROGRESS.

WE CONTINUE TO MAKE PROGRESS,

AND I DO NOT WANT TO JEOPARDIZE

THAT.

I REALLY CAN'T, EXACTLY.

I KNOW WE HAVE RECOVERED SEVERAL

, I BELIEVE 16 SHOWCASING AT THE

SCENE.

HOWEVER, THERE IS INDICATIONS

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN MORE SHOTS

FIRED THAN THOSE 16.

>> THE SECOND MAN IS IN CRITICAL

CONDITION.

IS HE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE?

>> A LOT OF INFORMATION TO

PROCESS.

THEY WORKED TIRELESSLY TO GET US

TO THIS POINT.

WE BELIEVE THERE WILL BE MORE

ARRESTS TO COME.

>> DO YOU KNOW WHO WAS FIGHTING?

>> I AM NOT CERTAIN OF THAT.

I WANT TO BECAUSE THIS IN THE

INFORMATION I SHARE.

-- BE CAUTIOUS AND INFORMATION I

SHARE.

WE HAVE RECOVERED SOME, BUT I DO

NOT WANT TO REVEAL THAT

INFORMATION AT THIS POINT.

>> FOR ANY OF THESE VICTIMS

INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT?

>> THAT HAS NOT BEEN MADE AWARE

TO ME AT THIS POINT.

I BELIEVE THE MAJORITY OF THE

INDIVIDUALS STRUCK BY GUNFIRE

WERE SIMPLY PATRONS OF THE

NIGHTCLUB.

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High 5: Brighton HS Boy's Basketball - Duration: 3:07.

1:00, RIGHT HERE ON CHANNEL 5.

FOR HIGH 5 WE TRAVEL ALONG

WASHINGTON STREET WHERE THE BOYS

BASKETBALL TEAM IS CELEBRATING

THEIR SECOND STRAIGHT TITLE IN

THE SEASON.

MEET THE GENTLEMAN OF THE

BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL

TEAM.

DIVISION II STATE CHAMPIONS.

THEY GREW STRONGER AS THE YEAR

PROGRESSED.

>> IT FEELS AMAZING WHEN THE

COACHES TELL YOU THEY HAVEN'T

WON ANYTHING.

WE FEEL LIKE A WINNER.

>> THIS FEELS GOOD TO ACTUALLY

WIN SOMETHING.

>> HOW THEY HANDLE THEMSELVES IN

THE HALLWAY AND THE CLASSROOM IS

MORE IMPRESSIVE.

13 PLAYERS HAVE BEEN ON THE

HONOR ROLL.

THE GPA IS OVER A 3.0.

THEY ARE IN SCHOOL BY 7:20.

PRACTICE 5-7.

THEY DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN EVERY

MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY.

>> ALL 13 MEMBERS OF THE TEAM

CONTRIBUTE EQUALLY.

IT IS AN ATTITUDE THAT BEGINS

DURING THE SCHOOL DAY.

HAMMERED HOME BY THEIR COACH.

>> IN THE CLASSROOM, IT STARTS

IN THE CLASSROOM.

EVEN THOUGH IT IS A 2.0, HE

WANTS TO BRING IT UP TO A

DISMISSAL.

>> GETTING 13 TEENAGERS TO PLAY

WELL AND STUDY HARD IS NO EASY

TASK.

THEY ARE BRIGHT, UNSELFISH AND

DO THEIR JOBS.

>> THEY WORK HARD ON AND OFF THE

COURT.

THEY MAKE US PROUD.

>> CHARACTER, INTEGRITY AND

RESPECT.

THAT CAN MAKE A COACHING STAFF

FAIRY HAPPY.

>> HAPPY.

HAPPY.

WE'RE HAPPY.

ABSOLUTELY.

>> WE SALUTE THE BENGALS AND

THIS WEEK'S --

(CHEERING)

>> THE COACH AND HIS COACHING

STAFF -- I HAD TO WEAR A TIE.

WE ENJOYED OUR VISIT.

EVERY ONE OF THOSE KIDS CAME UP

AND SHOOK OUR HANDS AND LOOKED

IS IN THE EYE.

>> GREAT KIDS.

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Authorities release identity of Manchester homicide victim - Duration: 0:25.

DOWN AGAIN IN

THE TIMELINE, STRAIGHT AHEAD.

JENNIFER: WE NOW KNOW THE NAME

OF THE MAN KILLED TUESDAY

MORNING IN MANCHESTER.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE

SAYS 39-YEAR-OLD RYAN CHAFIN

DIED FROM MULTIPLE GUNSHOT

WOUNDS.

CHAFIN WAS FOUND DEAD INSIDE A

DOUGLAS STREET HOME.

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Police believe they know who killed driver after accidentlly striking child - Duration: 1:32.

EXPECTED TO BE.

THEY CAME HEAVILY ARMED --

>> I SAW POLICE ACTIVITY IN THE

AREA.

BRIAN: WITH ASSAULT RIFLES, HAND

GUNS, AND A MURDER WARRANT.

>> I KNOW THIS IS THE AREA WHERE

SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED.

BRIAN: THE FUGITIVE APPREHENSION

TEAM SURROUNDED THIS HOME ON

KENTON STREET, WHERE

INVESTIGATORS BELIVE A KILLER

WAS HIDING OUT, BUT THREE

PITBULLS STOOD BETWEEN POLICE

AND A SEARCH OF THE HOME

IT ALL COMES AFTER A GRISLEY

CRIME LESS THAN A WEEK AGO, AND

JUST A FEW FEET AWAY A YOUNG BOY

WAS HIT BY A CAR DRIVING THROUGH

THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

>> THEN A NUMBER OF PEOPLE CAME

OUT AND WERE UPSET WITH THE

DRIVER.

BRIAN: FOP PRESIDENT DAN HILS

SAYS THE DRIVER, JAMIE URTON,

WAS DRAGGED FROM THE CAR,

ASSAULTED, THEN THINGS TURNED

EVEN WORSE.

>> SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF

THAT ASSAULT HE WAS SHOT, AND HE

EXPIRED BECAUSE OF THAT

SHOOTING.

>> THIS MAN DID NOT DESERVE TO

LOSE HIS LIFE.

THIS MAN DID NOT DESERVE TO BE

SHOT.

BRIAN: REVERAND ALVIN SCALES WAS

AT THE SCENE TODAY, SAYING

PEOPLE AT EVERY LEVEL IN THE

COMMUNITY HAVE TO GET INVOLVED

TO STOP THE VIOLENCE.

>> WE HAVE TO BE PROACTIVE, OR

IT'S GOING TO BE A VERY HOT

SUMMER.

BRIAN: THE ASPCA WAS CALLED IN

TO TAKE THE PITBULLS, BUT THE

SEARCH TURNED UP EMPTY.

THE BOY WHO WAS HIT WAS TREATED

AND RELEASED WITHIN HOUR

HE IS BACK HOME AND OK.

POLICE HAVEN'T RELEASED THE NAME

OF THE SUSPECT.

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1 dead, 1 injured in shooting in Park Hill neighborhood - Duration: 1:40.

NED BEFORE DARK

AROUND 7:30.

THEY SAY THE VIOLENCE IS

DISAPPOINTING BUT NOT

SURPRISING.

>> I WAS LAYING IN BED AND I

JUST HEARD THE ONE SHOT AND I

HEARD SCREAMING.

MORGAN: THERE WAS A PAUSE THEN

WITNESSES SAY THREE OR FOUR MORE

SHOTS.

MOMENTS LATER THE 1700 BLOCK OF

BOLLING AVENUE WAS A CRIME

SCENE.

>> IT' SCARY, BUT I'M GETTING

USED TO IT.

I'VE BEEN HERE FOR YEARS, SO I'M

USED TO IT.

MORGAN THURSDAY MORNING BITS OF

: CRIME SCENE TAPE STILL LINED

THE STREET.

A MEMORIAL WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL

AND A BALLOON WITH THE WORDS I

LOVE YOU MARKED THE SPOT WHERE A

YOUNG MAN LOST HIS LIF

NEIGHBORS CALL THE SHOOTING

BRAZEN AND SAY IT HAPPENED ON

THIS STRETCH OF SIDEWALK

CHANCE LEE KNEW THE VICTIM.

HE SAYS IT'S SAD THE MAN KILLED

AND THE OTHER WHO POLICE SAY WAS

GRAZED BY A BULLET HAD TO

EXPERIENCE THE CITY'S VIOLENCE,

FIRST HAND

>> THESE GUYS FEEL LIKE THEY

HAVE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES.

IT'S A DANGEROUS PLACE.

MORGAN LEE SAYS YOUNG, BLACK MEN

: NEED BETTER ROLE MODELS SO

THEY CAN AVOID BECOMING ANOTHER

STATISTI

>> WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TEACHING

OUR KIDS A BETTER WAY GO

INSTEAD OF SHOOT THEM UP.

>> AT THE SCENE WEDNESDAY NIGHT

A MAJOR WITH LMPD'S SECOND

DIVISION VOICED SIMILAR

CONCERNS

>> IT'S A SIGN OF WHAT'S GOING

ON IN OUR COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW.

WE HAVE PEOPLE OUT HERE WITH

GUNS, HEAVILY ARMED.

PEOPLE ARE RESOLVING CONFLICTS

THROUGH GUNFIRE, WHICH IS

SHAMEFUL.

MORGAN:

AT LAST CHECK, POLICE HAD NOT

MADE ANY ARRESTS IN THIS CASE.

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Baby won't wait, arrives before ambulance in North Huntingdon - Duration: 1:38.

ENTERED BEFORE RESCUE

CREWS TO GET THERE.

[SOUND OF SIRENS ]

REPORTER: WHEN NORTH HUNTINGDON

EMS RESCUE RECEIVED THE 911

DISPATCH FOR PATIENT IN LABOR

THEY ASSUMED IT WAS LIKE ANY

OTHER PREGNANCY CALL.

>> HE WAS READY TO QUIT OUT OF

THERE AND SEE THE WORLD.

REPORTER: UNTIL THREE MINUTES

LATER WHEN A SECOND AMBULANCE

WAS DISPATCHED FOR A SECOND

PATIENT.

>> WE GOT THERE AND THE MOM HAD

ALREADY PRETTY MUCH DELIVERED

THE BABY.

SHE WAS HOLDING THE BABY AND

EVERYTHING.

REPORTER: 7-POUND 2-OUNCE CARS

ON MILLER WASN'T DUE TO ARRIVE

UNTIL APRIL 5th BUT HE WASN'T

WAITING ANOTHER MINUTE

LITERALLY.

911 DISPATCHERS WALKED DAD

THROUGH THE DELIVERY WHILE THE

MILLERS OTHER KIDS GRABBED

TOWELS AND NAGGED DOWN THE

AMBULANCE.

>> HE SAID YOU KNOW I DELIVERED

THE BABY AND THEY TOLD ME TO

CLAMP THE CORD SO I DID THAT

TOO.

HE HAD PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THE

INITIAL STEPS DOWN FOR US.

REPORTER: ROBBY IS STILL A

PARAMEDIC STUDENT AND HE USED A

BIG LESSON TODAY.

>> MOM WAS A GREAT PATIENT.

SHE LET US DO OUR THING AND THE

BABY WAS TAKEN CARE OF.

MOM WAS HAPPY TO HAVE US THERE,

HAPPY TO HELP US IN ANYWAY WHICH

YOU DON'T ALWAYS GET FROM A

PATIENT.

REPORTER: MOM AND BABY WERE

TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL WHERE THEY

REMAIN UNTIL IT'S TIME TO GO

HOME FOR GOOD.

THE MILLERS ARE ORIGINALLY FROM

THE PHILADELPHIA AREA, BUT THE

PITTSBURGH AREA WILL ALWAYS HOLD

AT LEAST ONE SPECIAL MEMORY FOR

THEM AND IT WAS SPECIAL FOR EMS

TOO.

>> IT WAS NOT A USUAL CALL, IT

WAS VERY UNEXPECTED, BUT GOOD

START TO THE DAY INTERESTS WE

ARE TOLD MOM AND BABY ARE BOTH

DOING WELL, BUT THE PARENTS

DECIDED TO NOT DO AN ON CAMERA

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Threatening photo on Snapchat cancels classes at Newman for two days - Duration: 2:59.

WEATHER ALERTS.

SHAUN: A 15-YEAR-OLD NEWMAN

STUDENT IS BEHIND BARS AFTER

POLICE SAY HE MADE A THREAT OF

VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SCHOOL ON A

WELL KNOWN SOCIAL MEDIA SITE.

WDSU'S TRAVERS MACKEL IS LIVE AT

NOPD HEADQUARTERS WITH MORE THE

CHARGES THE TEEN FACES

TRAVERS: THIS 15-YEAR-OLD FACES

TWO FELONY OFFENSES, TERRORIZING

AND MAKING INTIMIDATION AND

INTERFERENCE IN THE OPERATION OF

A SCHOOL.

AND THE SITUATION CAUGHT MANY

OFF GUAR

NEWMAN SCHOOL SHUT DOWN.

CLASSES CANCELED THURSDAY AND

SCHEDULED PARENT -TEACHER

CONFERENCES SET FOR FRIDAY,

SCRAPED AS WELL.

AFTER A STUDENT WAS CAUGHT

MAKING A THREATENING POST ON THE

POPULAR SOCIAL MEDIA SITE

SNAPCHAT.

CATHY MIDDLEBOURG WORKS RIGHT

ACROSS THE STREET FROM NEWMA

>> UNFORTUNATELY HAVE TO TAKE IT

SERIOUSLY AREA >> IT IS SAD.

TRAVERS: BUT POLICE ARE SAYING A

LOT.

DETECTIVES SAY A 15-YEAR-OLD

TEEN MALE WHO'S NAME IS NOT

BEING RELEASED DUE TO HIS AGE

POSTED A PICTURE WEDNESDAY OF

RIFLES LAID OUT ON A BED WITH

THE PHRASE DON'T COME TO SCHOOL

TOMORROW BENEATH I

SOURCES AND POLICE CONFIRM THIS

IS THE PICTURE IN QUESTION.

DO NOT POST ANYTHING THAT

WOULD CAUSE ANY HURT, ARM,

DANGER TO US OR ONE ANOTHER.

TRAVERS: SO AFTER EXECUTING A

SEARCH WARRANT AT THE TEENS

HOME, POLICE MADE THE ARREST

JUST AFTER LUNCHTIME THURSDAY.

THE GUNS BELONGED TO T

STUDENT'S FATHER, WHO WAS

UNAWARE OF THE TEENS ACTIONS.

>> MY DETECTIVES SPOKE TO THE

PARENT AND I UNDERSTAND HE WAS

DISTURBED AT THESE ACTIONS.

TRAVERS: POLICE ALSO SAY THEY

WERE NOTIFIED AT THURSDAY ABOUT

8:30 A.M. THE SITUATION, ABOUT

THREE HOURS AFTER THE SCHOOL

SENT THIS EMAIL TO PARENTS

NOTIFYING THEM CLASSES WERE

CANCELLED.

IN THAT EMAIL THE SCHOOL SAID WE

ARE WORKING WITH THE NOP

>> SO IF THE SCHOOL TOLD PARENTS

WE'RE WORKING WITH THE NOPD,

THAT IS NOT ACCURATE?

>> WE ARE NOTIFIED BETWEEN 8:30

AND 8:00 THIS MORNING AS WHEN WE

WERE NOTIFIED WE BEGAN OUR

INVESTIGATION.

TRAVERS: IN THE LAST 60 MINUTES

NEWMAN ISSUED THIS STATEMENT,

SAYING IN PART,

WE ACTED QUICKLY IN THE EARLY

MORNING HOURS TO SET A NUMBER OF

RESPONSES IN MOTION, INCLUDING

CONTACTING OUR PARENTS,

CONNECTING WITH THE NOPD, AND

WORKING WITH A THREAT ASSESSMENT

CONSULTANT.

WE REGRET THE TIME DISCREPANCY

IN OUR EMAIL.

AS ALWAYS, WE APPRECIATE THE

SUPPORT AND COLLABORATION OF THE

NOPD ON ISSUES CONCERNING SCHOOL

SAFETY

POLICE DO NOT BELIEVE ANY OTHER

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Bill's Evening Update - Duration: 3:34.

VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE COMING

TOGETHER FOR THAT.

BILL: OMAHA IS THAT KIND OF A

CITY.

IT IS GREAT TO SEE THIS BIG OF

AN EVENT BEING PUT ON HERE, AND

US GETTING TO LEARN ABOUT IT.

I WISH WE COULD GET SOME

SUNSHINE IN HERE.

IT IS JUST NOT THAT NICE.

I WILL GO WITH A RANDBY FACTOR

OF 5 THIS EVENING BECAUSE IT IS

ABOUT AS GOOD AS IT HAS BEEN FOR

THE LAST FEW DAYS.

AT LEAST THERE IS NO RAIN HERE

ON SUPER DOPPLER 7 RADAR.

IT LIKE THAT WILL CHANGE THIS

WEEKEND.

LOTS OF CLOUDS AROUND.

IF YOU LOOK UP, IT LOOKS LIKE

THE CLOUDS WERE TRYING TO PAIN,

BUT THEN THEY DID NOT.

VERY WIDESPREAD CLOUD COVER

CROSSED NEBRASKA STILL.

LOOK AT THE LEADING EDGE OF THE

STORM SYSTEM NOW IGNITING OF

YOUR WEATHER INTO THE OHIO

VALLEY.

LOOK AT THAT -- THAT IS THE NEXT

SYSTEM THAT WILL BRING US THE

RAIN CHANCES INTO SATURDAY AND

SATURDAY NIGHT.

THERE IS MOUNTAIN SNOW OUT

THERE, BUT THAT SYSTEM WILL BE

WARM ENOUGH THAT WE WILL JUST

SEE RAIN FROM IT.

THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF

SEVERE WEATHER IN THE OHIO

VALLEY AREA.

THERE IS CURRENTLY A TORNADO

WATCH.

NOTHING HERE WITH THE CLOUDY AND

COOL WEATHER.

THAT IS ONE PLUS WITH CLOUDY AND

COOL WEATHER, NOT SEVERE.

UPPER 30'S TOMORROW MORNING.

THAT IS A LIVE LOOK, IT DOES NOT

LOOK DIFFERENT THAN THIS

MORNING.

NO RAIN, LIKE WE HAD YESTERDAY.

TENTH STREET IS DESERTED.

IT IS CHILLY AT 44.

THERE ARE THE FLAGS AND THAT OF

THE DURHAM ON 10TH STREET.

TEMPERATURES HAVE NOT BIASED.

41 THIS MORNING AND 44 THIS

AFTERNOON.

AFTER MIDNIGHT, THERE WERE SOME

SPRINKLES AND DRIZZLE.

JUST A LITTLE BIT OF MOISTURE

TODAY.

43-44, THAT IS ABOUT IT.

COUPLE SPOTS IN 45, LINCOLN,

BEATRICE, FALLS CITY.

HERE ARE THE CLOUDS.

THERE GOES THE STORM SYSTEM EAST

INTO INDIANA TONIGHT.

A LIGHT NORTH BREEZE AND THE

CLOUDS THAT HANGS ON.

THERE IS SOME CLEARING PROJECTED

TO THE WEST OF US OVERNIGHT

TONIGHT.

THAT WILL FILL WITH CLOUDS AND

FOG EARLY TOMORROW MORNING.

TOMORROW, THE INDICATION IS THAT

AS WE HAVE SUNSHINE, THE

ATMOSPHERE WILL DRY OUT A LITTLE

WITH THE NORTH BREEZE.

WE'LL SEE BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS

DEVELOP.

I DO NOT THINK IT WILL BE CLEAR,

BUT AT LEAST THE POSSIBILITY OF

BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS AND LIMITED

IN CHINA AS WE GO INTO THE

AFTERNOON BEFORE THE NECK SYSTEM

BRINGS US MORE CLOUDS AND

ARRANGING.

IT WAS THEY CLOUDY TONIGHT.

38 DEGREES FOR THE LOW.

COOL START, CLOUDY TOMORROW

MORNING, 39 DEGREES AT 8:00 A.M.

THE AFTERNOON, MY FINGERS ARE

CROSSED, I THINK WE WILL GET

SOME BITS OF SUNSHINE BOOSTING

TEMPERATURES TO 53 DEGREES.

THAT IS STILL ON THE COOL SIDE,

SO YOU WILL STILL NEED YOUR

JACKET.

CLOUDS BACK IN ON SATURDAY WITH

THE RAIN CHANCE IN THE

AFTERNOON.

THE BEST CHANCE OF RAIN THIS

SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN THE CHANCE

IS 70%.

SHOWERS MIGHT LINGER INTO SUNDAY

MORNING.

THE CLOUDS COULD STICK AROUND

FOR MOST OF SUNDAY AS WELL.

MONDAY COULD BE BACK INTO THE

60'S WITH SOME SUCH.

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Compelling Reasons for Biblical Preaching, Part 2 (2 Timothy 3:1-4:4) - Duration: 58:05.

It is incumbent upon us to understand as Christians that we are under authority.

We do not exist in some kind of self-styled freedom.

And that authority clearly is divine and it is not oblique, it is not hard to discover

the essence of that authority because it is revealed to us on the pages of Scripture.

God exercises His authority over us and delineates in clear terms what it is that He requires.

And that is why He has given us His Word.

So, we are under authority and we are under the authority of God as revealed on the pages

of Scripture.

The responsibility of preachers and teachers, elders and leaders in the church, is to delineate

then the meaning of Scripture so that the people understand what it is that God demands

of them.

We are told, as you will remember from a few weeks back, to speak the things that are fitting

for sound doctrine, Titus 2:1.

And then at the end of that chapter, "These things speak and exhort and reprove with all

authority."

There is no equivocation about what the Bible means by what it says.

And faithful ministers, faithful servants of the Lord, faithful preachers and teachers

give the meaning of Scripture clearly and directly.

We then speak with authority.

Now we have talked about the fact that we live in a world that is resistant to authority.

We live in a world that is in love with personal freedom and autonomy and imagines that every

individual should be able to determine his own life, his own directly, his own belief

system and be perfectly fitted to do just that.

The truth of the matter is, you are either under the authority of God as revealed in

Scripture, or you are in rebellion.

The responsibility for those in ministry is clear cut, we delineate the people, the will

of God as revealed in Scripture.

Now that takes us to our text for tonight as it was the last time we spoke of the subject

of authority, and that is 2 Timothy chapter 4...2 Timothy chapter 4.

It all comes down to a very simple command, "Preach the Word," verse 2, "Preach the Word,"

meaning the Word of God, the revealed Word of God inscripturated in the Bible, Preach

the Word.

That is why in 1 Timothy chapter 3, pastors are to be didaktikos, that's the one skill

in the list of requirements, skilled in teaching and preaching, to have the ability to clearly

delineate the Word of God.

We do it in season and out of season, which is to say we do it all the time, verse 2 says,

we do it on the negative side, reproving, rebuking.

We do it on the positive side, exhorting with great patience and instruction.

We then proclaim biblical truth with authority.

This is the Word of God that must bind the soul of every person.

Our Lord it was who said, "Man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds

out of the mouth of God."

We are reminded in Romans 10, preachers have a very great responsibility because people

must hear the truth of God and how shall they hear without a preacher?

Without a preacher.

And so, the Apostle Paul instructs Timothy, his protege, and all preachers who will follow

and have followed him, with this simple basic instruction...Preach the Word.

Which is to say preaching nothing but the Word, and preach everything in the Word.

This is not a cultural mandate, this is a heavenly command.

Now surrounding that command are some compelling reasons.

Reason number one, because of the danger of the seasons.

And we've already looked at this, but just for a moment, back to verse 1, "Realize this,

that in the last days," which, of course, began with the arrival of our Lord Jesus,

dangerous seasons will come, difficult times."

That is perilous epochs, not clock time, but eras, seasons, epochs.

Savage is another way to describe that term.

Savage seasons that threaten the life of the church.

They will increase, according to verse 13, because evil men and imposters will proceed

from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

We looked at the fact that dangerous seasons have come and have accumulated and accumulated

and accumulated until there are so many now and coming so fast that it's hard to step

back and even identify them.

The character of those who are engaged in these dangerous assaults on the truth, the

character of those is delineated in verses 2 and following.

It deals with the fraudulent nature of their ministry and their personal wicked character.

They're even described as like those who have corrupt minds who have rejected the faith.

So, first of all, it is essential to preach the Word because everywhere in every era there

is the accumulation of error which becomes a dangerous thing to the truth.

Because of the danger of error, we are called to uphold the truth.

Error captivates men, as Paul says in 2 Corinthians 10, it incarcerates them.

They are in prisons, in fortresses of their wrong ideologies.

Those fortresses must be smashed if people are to be liberated from damning ideas.

That can only happen by the proclamation of the truth.

So we preach the Word because of the danger of the seasons.

Secondly, we preach the Word because of the devotion of the saints.

Starting in verse 10, you remember, Paul said, "You followed my teaching, conduct, purpose,

faith, patience, love, perseverance, persecutions and sufferings, just as happened to me."

You are told again in verse 14, along with Timothy, "If you're in the ministry, continue

in the things you have learned and become convinced of knowing of whom you have learned

them."

Take the truth that's been passed down from the apostolic generation through every other

generation and remain faithful to that.

We preach the truth because of the danger of the epochs of error that surround us.

We preach the truth because of the devotion of the saints in the past who set a godly

pattern and a godly example which example we are called to follow.

Now let me pick it up exactly where we left it off a couple of weeks ago.

Thirdly, we preach the Word because of the dynamic of the Scripture...because of the

dynamic of the Scripture.

And Timothy is reminded of the power of Scripture in verses 15 through 17, that from childhood

you have known the sacred writings, meaning the Scripture, which are able to give you

the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

I realize that we live in a day when there are endless sophisticated quote/unquote evangelistic

methodologies.

I have lived long enough to see them all come and go.

Certain strategies to reach the lost, I'm very aware of the endless surveys that have

been conducted by survey organizations to try to help quote/unquote the church understand

the societal thinking, the cultural queues, the social norms.

If we're ever going to reach people supposedly, we have to know all of those kinds of things

about them.

Somehow we have to find the angle at which we can have easy access into their hearts.

And so we are told that we have to alter the message, that we have to make the message

the kind of message they are ready to hear, given in the kind of form they are ready to

accept.

However, the simplicity of Scripture contradicts that.

"From childhood, you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom

which leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus."

It is the sacred writings, it is the Scripture that gives the wisdom that leads to salvation.

In one sense, I don't really care what your social preferences are.

In one sense I don't really care what your culture is.

I don't really care where in the multiple paradigms of social awareness today you pick

your spot.

It's all rather irrelevant to me.

In one sense, I don't care how you dress or what kind of music you listen to.

That has no bearing in my mind on what I would bring to you in order to bring to you the

truth that saves.

Whatever your societal identification, whatever your cultural preference, it is only the Scripture

which is able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation.

Now that's why I say none of that really matters to me.

I've been thinking a lot about this in preparing for the Shepherds' Conference.

And there's so much talk today about contextualizing the gospel, fitting it in to the contemporary

context in which some people find themselves comfortable and therefore identifying with

them at that point so that the gospel will have access.

I don't think that has any significance in salvation at all...none whatsoever.

The Scripture is itself able to give the wisdom that leads to salvation.

The gospel, Romans 1, is itself the power of God unto salvation whether you're a Jew

or whether you're a Gentile...which would be two extremely contrary cultures.

In fact, to the first group of believers gathered together and commissioned by our Lord, in

Acts 1 He said this, "You shall be witnesses unto Me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the

utter most part of the earth."

They had a message that transcended all cultures.

They had a message that you could take anywhere.

If you want to pain yourself into the proverbial corner, then tweak your message to talk to

one little piece of societal demographics.

If you want your message to know no limits and no bounds, then teach the Word of God.

It has no bounds.

The power of the Scripture knows no limits.

There are no cultural barriers.

We're even being told today that we can no longer preach the Law of God.

We can no longer preach the Law because people don't live in a society of absolutes anymore

and so they don't view Law as absolute, they view Law as arbitrary.

So we've got to come up with a new way to address people's sins.

The pop way now is to talk about idols of the heart, you're worshiping the wrong thing.

If you're worshiping your girlfriend, or you're worshiping your car, or you're worshiping

your career, or you're worshiping money, you're worshiping the wrong thing.

Well, that's true.

But Scripture lays out unmistakably that the Law of God is designed by God to reveal sin.

Whether or not people externally agree that there is such thing as absolute Law, it is

the work of the Holy Spirit to convict the sinner of sin and righteousness and judgment.

The Spirit of God will work on the heart because no matter what happens in society, no matter

what happens in world view in thinking, the heart never changes in any culture and in

any time.

The sinner still feels the guilt, the anxiety, the fear and the remorse that comes with the

violation of the Law of God which Law, according to Romans 2, is written in his heart.

And so we bring the Word of God to bear upon the heart and the Law of God is our aide,

the Law of God written in Scripture if known, the Law of God written in the heart which

is known, the Law of God is the school master that brings people to Christ.

So we preach the Law, and sin, and righteousness and judgment and the gospel of salvation.

And so, in verse 14 we see, first of all, the dynamic of the Scripture.

We preach the Word because the Word saves sinners.

You are begotten again, says Peter, by the Word of truth, 1 Peter 1:23.

It is the Word that saves.

So we preach the Word.

It's not only the Word that saves, but it's the Word that edifies.

Look at verses 16 and 17, "All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching,

for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness that the man of God may be

perfect, or adequate, equipped for every good work."

Scripture is powerful to save and Scripture is powerful to sanctify.

Now we've been only called to do those two things, called to do only those two things,

I should say.

We have been called to preach a message that people might be saved and to teach that they

might be sanctified.

The Word of God, inspired, God-breathed, theopneustos, it is the breath of God, meaning it comes

from God, is profitable, that is it is useful in four ways.

One is teaching, didaskalian, doctrine, that which is taught.

Not the process but the content, the body of truth.

Scripture breathed out from God is useful to establish the truth.

Secondly, reproof.

Once the truth is established, it reproves all violations of it.

It rebukes.

This is the other side of teaching.

When you lay down the truth, you expose error.

And so, by proclaiming the truth, you also expose people to the recognition of their

own sin.

From these two workings of the Word, doctrine and reproof, which have to do with content,

the truth exposes false thinking, false behavior, come two more effective uses of Scripture

for correction.

Literally, to restore to an upright position in the Greek.

The Word is not just true, it not only exposes error, it transform, it restores.

Sounds like Psalm 19.

It is not just information, it is transformation.

It is not just truth, it is power.

It is not just divine revelation, it carries with it the energy of God to change lives.

And, fourthly, it is useful for training in righteousness.

Once it has corrected and set you upright, the Word then sends you down the path of righteousness.

The result is that the man of God, a technical term for the preacher who then is the example

is adequate.

Let me talk about that word adequate for just a moment.

It means more than barely sufficient, as you might think it means, it means fully equipped

for every good work.

Why do we preach the Word?

Because of the danger of the seasons of error that accumulate.

Why do we preach the Word?

Because of the devotion of the saints, the faithful ones who come before us who have

done it and passed down that responsibility to us.

Why do we preach the Word with authority?

Because of the dynamic of the Scripture.

It saves, it sanctifies, even the one at the highest calling that God gives in the church,

the man of God.

That's a technical term used 70 times in the Old Testament, always refers to a spokesman

for God.

It is the Word that equips the spokesman who becomes the model for all others to follow.

That brings us to chapter 4 and verse 1, and a fourth reason why we preach the Word.

Because of the demand of the sovereign...the demand of the sovereign.

I came across this verse early in my life and it's a formidable thing to deal with,

believe me.

I don't know how preachers who are unfaithful to the Scripture, unfaithful to the preaching

of the Word avoid fearing this verse.

"I solemnly command you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who is to judge the

living and the dead and by His appearing and His Kingdom preach the Word."

This is a very penetrating statement.

I'm struck by a kind of holy fear in just reading it.

Here the ministry becomes so serious as to be frightening.

I identify with John Knox who when first called to preach was so distraught that he burst

forth, he writes, in abundant tears at the face of that awesome duty.

I solemnly command you....this is a dead serious command, a charge from God.

Not unlike chapter 2 verse 15 , "Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman

doesn't need to be ashamed, handling accurately the word of truth."

Here again is the reality that we render this service in the presence of God and of Christ

Jesus.

The Greek puts it in the presence of God even Christ Jesus, which is another way of saying

Christ Jesus is God.

We preach then under the scrutiny of the sovereign Himself, under omniscient holy scrutiny.

That's why James 3 says, "Stop being so many teachers, for theirs is a greater condemnation."

There's a trend today for people to rush into ministry, start a sort of self-styled pseudo

church and think that that's all that's necessary without affirmation from elders, without proper

training, and preparation, without proper life examination as to virtue and holiness

and integrity.

They rush in to this responsibility, present themselves as if they represent Jesus Christ,

stand up and say things that they say comes from God.

This is a frightening thing to do.

Stop being so many teachers, writes James, theirs is a greater condemnation.

Hebrews 13:17 says, "Those who do what we do have to give an account to God."

Have to give an account to God.

Paul says, "I have to beat my own body into submission lest in preaching to others I myself

might become a castaway."

In other words, not only a matter of doctrine, but holiness, take heed to yourself and to

your doctrine, Paul says to Timothy.

Take heed to yourself and to your doctrine.

It is the most serious thing to enter into this ministry because the sovereign has established

the standard.

Why do you preach the Word?

Because I have been solemnly commanded in the presence of God and Christ Jesus, the

very one who is to judge the living and the dead at the time of His appearing and establishment

of His Kingdom, I have been charged by Him to preach the Word.

I actually hear people say, "Well, Bible teaching won't cut it in this culture."

Really, so you've somehow been liberated from this divine mandate?

You've somehow come out of the weightiness of this passage?

That's frightening.

There's a fifth reason why we speak the Word of God with authority, why we proclaim the

Word of God.

We have given you four, the danger of the seasons, the devotion of the saints, the dynamic

of the Scripture, the demand of the sovereign, here's one more in that little alliterated

outline.

We preach the Word because of the deceptiveness of the sensual...the deceptiveness of the

sensual.

Verses 3 and 4, "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but wanting

to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their

own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths."

People can be easily seduced, you see it all the time, don't you?

You see it all the time.

They can be easily seduced.

They're seductive preachers in every community.

Some of them are on national television, you see them seducing massive crowds of people,

manipulating their emotions in bizarre ways because they are appealing to the sensual.

We already talked about the dangerous seasons concocted by seducing spirits and propagated

by false teachers.

And here is, in a sense, what makes them so successful, they appeal to the feelings of

people.

The truth always goes at the mind.

The truth of the Word of God always goes at the thinking of people.

It does not go at the feeling of people.

We want them to think differently about themselves, about God, about Christ, about truth, about

sin, about righteousness.

I really am only concerned that your feelings follow your thinking.

You hear sometimes preachers preaching in their sort of stylized way with a constant

drone of an organ playing in the background...a means to manipulate people's emotions.

And there are a myriad of other means to do that, as well.

The time will come, the season, again it's kairos not chronos, and it's been around a

long time, when they will not endure sound doctrine, they refuse the truth that saves,

they refuse the truth that sanctifies.

They have been seduced.

They have gone astray from the truth led by men who have gone astray from the truth, which

he mentions in chapter 2 verse 18.

They abandon healthy doctrine.

And we're in such a season right now where this kind of emotional manipulation of people's

feelings abounds and dominates the church today.

Doctrine is a bad word.

Doctrine is a bad thing.

Doctrine is divisive.

Doctrine is all about the mind, intellect, and has nothing to do with the heart and feelings

and emotions.

The prevailing mood in this post-modern culture is that every person certainly has the right

to determine truth for himself and truth is going to be determined by how you feel.

I often have thought through the years that the evangelical church fights abortion and

the evangelical church fights homosexuality and lesbianism and religious freedom and prayer

in the schools, and euthanasia, gets all worked up about those things.

The worst form of wickedness existing today is the perversion of sound doctrine.

Far worse than any of the things that I mentioned.

But with so many churches and professed Christians, they will fight those popular sins to assault

and be absolutely indifferent, if not outright hostile to sound doctrine.

The ability to distinguish between the false and the true is essential, and that's a mental

thing.

It's how you think that matters...it's how you think that matters.

I was introduced one time at a convention as a man, quote, "who is a lot nicer in person

than he is in his sermons."

Well, I'm glad for that in a way.

I want to be nice and I want to be gracious, but the idea was also apparent in the introduction

that my preaching was not nice.

And I will confess to you that I'm not trying to be unkind, I am bound to the truth...bound

to the truth.

I understand the antagonism toward doctrine and dogma.

I understand that the evangelical church in its wideness and breadth today flourishes

at that level because they don't make doctrine an issue.

I understand that doctrine divides.

But I also understand that the truth is absolutely necessary, it's all we have...it's all we

have.

A kind of Christianity that people are sucked into today has nothing to do with the mind,

nothing to do with rational thinking, nothing to do with doctrine, it is all about what

you feel...what you feel.

When I wrote the book The Gospel According To Jesus a few years ago, quite a few now,

I was taken to lunch by one of the leading evangelical preachers in the country and he

said to me, "Your book is divisive."

I said, "I know, that's why I wrote it.

I'm trying to divide truth from error."

He said, "Your book is going to shred the evangelical community.

It is divisive."

I said, "May I ask you a question?

Is it true?

Is it true?

Is the book true?

If it's not true, if it's not an accurate representation of Scripture, show me where

it's not true.

If it's true, I have no choice."

What is it about the truth of the Word of God that is such a threat?

It was a number of years ago, we had an evangelist in our church named John Blanchard whom I've

known through the years, he's an Englishman.

He preaches about half the year in America, all over the place in America and he's done

it for years and years and years and years.

He came to our church to preach after decades of preaching in America.

He sat in the service and after the service he had an interesting comment, after he preached

he said, "Yours is the only church I've ever been in in America where the Scripture is

read."

Yet Paul says to Timothy, "Give attention to reading the Scripture."

What is it about reading the Scripture that is to be avoided?

In our culture with its relativism, there is an unwillingness to be, let's call it antithetical.

There's an unwillingness to be antithetical, black and white, to say that something is

right and something is wrong, something is true and something is false.

In the Garden of Eden there were two trees, one allowed, one forbidden.

The eternal destiny of the human being, there are two possibilities, heaven, hell.

The Bible sets forth two and only two ways, God's way and all other ways.

God's way leads to heaven, all other ways lead to hell.

People are either saved or lost.

They either belong to God's people, or the devil's people.

There is Gerizim, the Mount of blessing.

There is Ebal, the Mount of cursing.

There's the narrow way and the wide way that leads to eternal life or eternal destruction.

There are those who are against us and those who are with us.

There are those on the inside, those on the outside.

There's life and death, truth and falsehood, good and bad, light and darkness, kingdom

of God, kingdom of Satan, love and hatred, spiritual wisdom, the wisdom of the world...that's

antithetical...that's antithetical.

It's on every page of the Bible virtually.

And the Old Testament people were taught very early that there's clean and unclean.

They were given all kinds of laws which appear to us to be arbitrary in the Old Testament.

They were given them so they would learn to think antithetical.

There's the way everybody else does it, and there's the way God wants you to do it.

Everybody else cooks a certain way, you cook this way.

Everybody else eats a certain way, you eat this way.

Everybody else behaves a certain way, you behave this way.

Everybody else does such-and-such on the seventh day of the week, this is what you do on the

seventh day of the week.

Whether it was food, clothing, farming techniques, justice, health care, holidays, methods of

worship, there was God's way and there was every other way.

And in the ABC world, the primer world of the Old Testament, God was teaching people

to think.

There is always God's way and the way of the rest of the world.

And so we are bound to this antithesis to understand that God's way is different and

distinct and unique and singular.

And so we preach the Word of God unhesitatingly, the truth of God because we must save people

from the seduction that is so abundant that approaches them as if all that mattered was

that they feel good.

I remember the radio talk-show host, and I've told you about years ago, and after she interviewed

me about a book, I...and she did a three-hour afternoon Christian counseling program on

a Christian radio station...after three...after I think it was three segments of conversation,

we had an hour, fifteen minute segments, in the break for the commercial, it became apparent

to me that she really was clueless about the gospel.

And so I said to her, off the air, I said, "How did you become a Christian?"

She said, "Oh, it was cool.

One day I got Jesus' phone number and we've been connected ever since."

And I said, "Just exactly what does that mean?

One day you got Jesus' phone number and you've been connected ever since, what does that

mean?"

To which she responded, "What do you mean what does that mean?

I don't even understand the question."

She had absolutely no idea.

She said if somebody asked you how you became a Christian, what would you say?

And so I just gave her the gospel.

To which she replied, "O come on, you don't have to go through all that, do you?"

This is somebody doing a three-hour five day a week Christian counseling radio program.

This is largely the state of the evangelical church because they have not been brought

under the authority of the Word of God with all of its clarity and its power.

Nothing is more important than this.

Nothing is more important than this.

I've said it so many times, all we have is the truth, that's the only commodity the Lord

has given us, it's all in one book.

Go out and preach the book.

It doesn't matter how you dress.

It doesn't matter who you're talking to.

It doesn't matter where I go on the planet, I do the same thing.

It doesn't matter what the culture is, I don't even know what's going on in the culture.

But the human heart never changes from generation to generation, country to country.

And the message is transcendent and you can take the same message of the Word of God to

Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the uttermost part of the earth.

And I'll say it again, if you want to paint yourself into a proverbial corner and guarantee

the smallness of your ministry and isolate it to a certain time and a certain place and

that's it, and question even the validity of that, then figure out a way to talk to

only a few select people on a cultural basis and ignore the great power of the Word of

God and the great and constant reality of the heart of man which is deceitful above

all things, desperately wicked and which at the same time has written in it the Law of

God.

But if you understand the power of the Word of God and the condition of the human heart,

then you will be faithful to preach the Word.

So, preach the Word is the mandate and the reasons are given to us.

Without any excuse then, we all stand under this command.

I just want you to know why I do what I do because this is allo there is to do.

It was a few years ago, and I just want to kind of close with this, it was a few years

ago that I was thinking about why you must preach the Word.

And I went through these reasons.

And I thought, you know, there are probably a lot of other reasons.

So once in a while I'll do this.

I just took out a pad and I said, I'm going to write down ten reasons why you must preach

the Word.

And I stopped when I had 62....62 was the number, I said that's too many.

I was going to do a seminar with some pastors, expository preaching seminar here with men

who were coming from other places, so I condensed it to 50.

It took me about three days to unload it.

And I've condensed it again and again and again and eventually down to maybe 15.

But let me just list them for you as kind of a wrap up of our thinking.

What happens to people...let's frame it this way...what happens to people who sit under

the authoritative preaching of the Word of God?

What happens to them?

Number one, the authority of God over their soul is established.

The authority of God over their soul is established.

If you sit under a clever teacher telling interesting stories with his own clever insights,

you come under the spell of the preacher.

If you sit under the teaching of the Word of God, you come under the authority of God.

That's absolutely foundational.

Whether a preacher boldly proclaims the Word of God, or not is the question of authority.

Who has a right to speak to the church, the preacher or God?

Whenever anything is substituted for the preaching of the Word, God's authority is usurped.

I can't imagine a more prideful thing than to usurp the authority of God over the church

He purchased with His own blood.

Secondly, people who sit under the preaching of the Word of God acknowledge the headship

of Christ in His church.

Who is the head of the church?

Is Christ the dominant teaching authority in the church or some man?

If the Word of Christ is proclaimed, if the mind of Christ is delineated, then Christ

is exercising headship in His church.

Modern preachers who neglect the Word of God have replaced Christ and they've become the

head of the church.

When a church is commandeered by a man, a clever, careful, thoughtful, innovative, strategic-thinking

man who may be very skilled and very adept at what he does, but who sets aside the Word

of God in favor of his own ideas, as interesting as they are, to tempt to appease the culture.

Then the headship of Christ is usurped, no matter how effective he might be on the surface.

Thirdly, people who sit under the expositional preaching of Scripture find the Spirit of

God and His work established in their hearts.

How does the Spirit do His work?

I can't take time to develop all this, the Spirit works through the Word...the Spirit

illuminates the Word, the Spirit quickens the Word.

The Spirit applies the Word.

The Spirit even causes us to disseminate the Word.

Being filled with the Spirit, we become witnesses.

What is the instrument the Spirit uses?

The Word.

It is the Word that regenerates.

It is the Word that sanctifies.

It is what the Spirit uses.

That's why the Word is called in Ephesians 6:17 the sword of the Spirit.

So when the Word is taught, God is the authority in the church.

Christ is the head of the church.

And the work of the church is the work done by the Spirit of God who uses the Word to

accomplish everything.

If the Word of God is taught in the church, fourthly, humility and submission characterize

the people...humility and submission characterize the people.

They know how to worship.

They know how to be under authority.

They know how to recognize their Lord.

They know how to depend upon the work of the Spirit of God.

And there is a consequent submissiveness and humility.

I remember many years ago when I preached a series on the role of women here from Ephesians.

It was a barn burner, let me tell you.

This was at the heyday of the big lesbian and Feminist Movement.

And somebody in our church contacted the Los Angeles Times and told them what I was saying,

and it showed up on the front page.

And so people poured into the church, we had to take the choir out of the loft on Sunday

mornings and put guests up there.

Boy, that's a very distressing thing for guests to be sitting behind the preacher, but that's

where they ended up because they would come late and that would be the only place we could

seat them.

ABC, CBS and NBC showed up with their cameras here at the church wanting to know how in

the world was I getting away with saying that the husband is the head of the wife and women

need to stay home and manage the house and take care of their children and love their

husbands, how could I get away with saying that?

And I remember going out the door over there and being stopped by one of the reporters,

stuck a microphone in front of me and he said, "How in the world do you get these women to

come to this church and buy into this?

They seem like intelligent women."

That's what he said.

I said, "It's easy."

I said, "They already have a complete commitment to the authority of the Word of God and so

whatever the Word of God says, they submit to that."

Well they couldn't understand that, of course.

Couldn't fathom that.

I actually ended up on the NBC nightly news, trying to explain to these people how these

intelligent women could buy into submission to their husbands and the priority of the

home.

This church has always had a kind of humility because it's always had a submission to the

Word of God.

There's a fifth and very important reason why it is beneficial for a church to be under

expository preaching of Scripture, it is because the preacher himself is regularly connected

to the sanctifying grace of Scripture.

The great tragedy, of course, of tragedies in the ministry is an unsanctified preacher

who scandalizes the church, who gets involved in immorality or steals from the church, or

gets caught in some horrible homosexual sting, as I heard about just in the last couple of

weeks, a pastor was trapped.

You want a preacher who is personally, regularly under the sanctifying power of Scripture.

That is a very, very great benefit.

I am so blessed to be in the same church, in the same place week in, week out, week

in, week out of my life, being under the sanctifying work of the Word of God.

That's the only explanation for being here 39 years...39 years.

On my own, I couldn't survive that long.

It's the wonderful work of the Word in my own heart.

It is the sanctifying work of the Word in my own life that sustains me spiritually and

allows this ministry to go on and ultimately makes me useful to God in your lives as well.

There's another reason to be under expository preaching of the Word of God, it generates

transcendent worship...it generates transcendent worship.

Most of the sermons that I hear aren't transcendent, sadly.

I listen to sermons from time to time and I just can't imagine how anybody could really

engage in exalted worship because there's nothing there that lifts me up.

There's nothing about God that's dramatic and transcendent and challenging and inspiring

and lofty and grandiose and great and clarifying and magnificent and majestic and glorious.

It seems to me that it's all on this flat man-to-man level.

I tell young pastors, your people will only go as high in worship as you go deep in teaching.

You have the responsibility to go deep down into the Word of God and uncover the great

treasure of truth.

The deeper they go into the Word of God, the higher they go in worship.

If you don't go deep, then you have to be manipulated by the music.

You've got to come in and you can't just worship God because of what you understand, that is

activated by the words and enriched by the words, you've got to be whipped up by a sort

of frenzy into some emotional experience which is not worship at all in most cases.

The only way true worship occurs is when you are expressing praise and thanks to God because

you grasp the profound realities of His revelation.

Preaching today is neither profound, nor transcendent.

The preaching doesn't go down, or up, it's just flat and therefore people's so-called

worship is equally flat.

So the solution, get a bigger band, get a louder drum, do more sentimental music to

stir their emotions.

True worship is a direct result of truth understood.

This church has the kind of music it has and kind of worship expression it has because

you know what you're saying.

You understand the depth.

That's why we sing hymns.

You don't need to sing 7/11 choruses, seven words repeated eleven times.

You can go way beyond that.

You can sing the nuances of theology in the great songs and hymns of every era because

you get it.

Well, there are a lot of other benefits.

In the place where the Word of God is taught, you find people develop the mind of Christ.

They know how Christ thinks about everything so they have answers to the issues of life.

In a place where the Word of God is exposited and taught, Bible study dominates, personal

Bible study, incorporate Bible study dominates because people have had a taste of the Word

of God and they can't get enough.

In a place where the Word of God is taught and preached, the preacher becomes the voice

of God.

And when he opens his mouth, God speaks.

In a place where the Word of God is constantly taught, you have a congregation that is strong

and committed to the glory of God.

Another one, in a place where the Word of God is taught, people have a true source of

help in the hour of desperate need.

All those shallow ministries, all that shallow superficial stuff that carries no biblical

weight or authority provides absolutely no foundation for the life and death crises of

life.

It's not true in a church where the Word of God is taught.

They understand the issues of life.

They have a foundation for the great crises.

Well I could give you more but I think that's sufficient.

We are committed to a ministry that has authority, I admit it.

It is authoritative but it is not my authority, I have no authority.

We are committed to a ministry that is powerful, that's what the Word of God does, it works

powerfully.

We're committed to a ministry that doesn't put the stress on the cleverness of the preacher

but on the truthfulness of Scripture.

We're committed to a ministry that's weighty, that's authoritative, that's powerful.

It lays a true foundation in the Word of God because this is what we've been called to

do and nothing less, preach the Word.

Simple, straight-forward, unmistakable.

And it has been for me the most wonderful privilege to do this.

People sometimes ask me if you could live your life again, what would you do differently?

And the answer is...nothing, I would be here with you doing exactly what I've done.

It cannot possibly be conceivable to me how anything could be more wonderful than this.

After all these many years, I just thank the Lord that by His grace and goodness I got

started the right way those many, many years ago.

And it would be our great joy as a church to send off many more men to do the same and

to influence as many as we can around the world to be faithful to this.

Let God speak with authority and in that His power to save and sanctify and protect His

church is released.

Father, it's just a basic foundational things that we're talking about.

But so missing, so absent in the world that calls itself the church today.

Thank You for the faithful through the ages.

Thank You for the faithful now scattered around the world who are doing just the very thing

You've commanded us to do, preaching Your Word.

Bless them, make them fruitful, encourage them, strengthen them, give them enough success

in ministry to know that Your hand is on it.

Lord, raise up more in the future.

Your Word is the source of power.

We proclaim it without equivocation or hesitation.

May You honor it as You promised that when it goes forth it will not return void.

Be glorified, Father, through Your truth, we pray in Christ's name.

Amen.

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Chris Webber's Full Court Pranks - Bill Goldberg's On-Set Meltdown | truTV - Duration: 4:04.

Bill Goldberg.

He's 6'4"

of raw muscle and fury,

and today, his fan gets to be ringside

for an unforgettable bout.

Hi. Guy. Hi.

Hi, Guy. Rachel.

-Nice to meet you.

-Very nice to meet you, Rachel.

This is Guy, a member

of the Goldberg Fan Club.

Bill Goldberg is here.

Yep.

-I know who he is, yeah. Okay.

-Exactly.

He thinks he's won a contest to help out his hero

on a razor-blade commercial shoot,

but, in reality,

he's only one step away from a suplex.

So, today is the second day of the comme

It's up to you.

Well, if it's up to me,

then we'll be out of here in 30 minutes, so, yes.

So, the line is,

"When it comes to a good shave,

you're next,

but only if you use The Razor Factory."

Okay?

"When you're up for a good shave"?

"When it comes to a good shave, you're next." Right. Gotcha.

Razor Factory, take 1.

[ Clacks ]

[ Beeps ]

When it's up to a good shave, you're next.

-Cut. -Felt good.

Okay, so, the line is,

"When it comes to a good shave, you're next." Right.

Razor Factory, take 2.

[ Clacks ]

[ Beeps ]

When it comes

to a good shave --

ha-ha-ha! -- you're next.

How's that, Derek?

I'm taking five.

[ Sighs ]

It was a little too menacing with the --

I'm on the road every two days, okay?

-I know, but you -- -And I agreed to come do this

as a favor for, actually, his father.

Okay, but you --

And I don't need to listen

to his condescending bull[bleep]

while I'm trying to do a promotion for him.

Yeah.

Okay, but you've been in the ring before, right?

You've dealt with people who are hard to deal with,

I'm sure.

Mm-hmm.

That's not that much different than what we're doing today.

So, as long as you guys both walk out of here without hurting --

Try not to hurt him -- is that basically what you're getting at?

Yeah, just walk out of here without hurting each other -- exactly.

-I'll do my best. -Okay. All right.

Thank you.

Yes, of course. Let me get my slate.

I'm just glad you're here helping me out, dude.

That's okay.

All right, okay. What do you got there?

It's a bit

of a wardrobe change.

Wardrobe change?

Yeah. Could you have him

put this on?

Is this gonna get me punched

in the face...

-No. -...by Bill Goldberg?

No, dude, no.

Please, dear God, what now?

Okay, so, we're just gonna have a little wardrobe change.

He wants you to put this on. I have no idea what's in here.

Just...

You know what?

This wasn't in my contract.

I'm Goldberg, dude. You know that, right?

-You're wearing it. -Okay, you know what?

Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys, guys.

Seriously, dude.

No, seriously, dude,

you're wearing it.

Guys, this is -- this is a professional --

Here's the deal. Here's the deal.

Look, honestly -- Dude.

-Hey, hey, hey, hey. -I call my agent.

Listen -- Guys! Guys!

And you pay me 10 times as much

as much as you've

already contracted to pay me.

Just listen. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

And then -- then I come back and I wipe the floor with you.

Hey!

-Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. -How's that?

Guys, guys! Just chill, okay?

Nobody's gonna be hitting each other here, right?

I'm not agreeing with that, okay?

Okay, well, let's at least get the take we need

before we hit each other.

Yeah, why don't you just change positions with him?

I think he's more qualified

than you are

to do your [bleep] job.

I didn't sign up for this, all right?

You wanted me to do the clapper -- that's it.

Wrestling might be fake, but this is real.

Dude, listen,

did you say wrestling was fake?

Yeah, well, you know what I mean.

Bill: No, I don't know what you mean.

Okay.

Come on, man. Whose side are you on?

All right, just wear it.

I ain't doing it for you, bro -- that's for damn sure.

I'm doing it for your dad and Guy.

Thanks.

You guys got about 600 pounds

between you, okay?

Can you just keep it out of my face, please?

Fridding, right?

You're joking, right?

[Bleep] jerk.

-Hey. -You're joking, right?!

Derek: Hey, come on.

-S-Seriously, guys. -Okay.

You're next, man!

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Guys!

-Hey, hey, hey, hey! -Whoa! Whoa!

Bush-league bull[bleep]. Now you're next!

Me? What the [bleep] did I do?

You're next...

Uh, look, just --

Okay.

...to be on "Chris Webber's Full Court Pranks"!

How about that?

[ Applause ]

-Okay. -Whoo!

[ Laughing ] Okay.

Gotcha.

[ Laughs ]

Great job. Great job.

Look at this. Look at this.

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Man accused of armed threat tells judge he's unstable - Duration: 1:46.

HEALTH.

REPORTER: AUTHORITIES SAY THIS

WAS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS

SITUATION FOR EVERYONE INVOLVED,

THE POLICE OFFICERS, THE PUBLIC,

AND THE SUSPECT.

>> THERE WAS A MAN IN THE MIDDLE

OF THE ROAD WEARING SWEAT PANTS,

NO SHIRT, HAD A KNIFE IN HIS

HAND.

REPORTER: THE CALL CAME IN AS

TWO BROTHERS FIGHTING, BUT IT

TURNED INTO A LIFE OR DEATH

ENCOUNTER WITH PELHAM POLICE

WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

THIS DASH CAM VIDEO SHOWS

CHRISTOPHER LANZILLO STANDING IN

FRONT A CRUISER.

OFFICER KELLY WAS FIRST ON THE

SCENE.

>> I KEPT REPEATING IN DIFFERENT

WAYS TO DROP THE KNIFE, PUT THE

KNIFE DOWN.

HE WAS ASKING ME TO SHOOT HIM.

WHICH I REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO

HAVE TO DO.

REPORTER: WITH HIS GUN DRAWN, HE

TRIED TO GET THE SUSPECT THE TO

DROP HIS WEAPON, AS TWO OTHER

OFFICERS ARRIVED ON THE SCENE.

>> HE WAS ABSOLUTELY JUST NOT

RATIONALE, HE WAS YELLING AND

DISPLAYING THE KNIFE HE HAD.

REPORTER: AFTER A FEW MINUTES

POLICE WERE ABLE TO TALK HIM

INTO DROPPING THE KNIFE AND THEY

TOOK HIM INTO CUSTODY

LANZILLO WAS ARRAIGNED ON

SEVERAL CHARGES THAT INCLUDE

CRIMINAL THREATENING.

THE POLICE ARE JUST HAPPY THAT

NO ONE WAS HURT.

>> IT WAS GREAT TEAM WORK.

THE SUBJECT WAS SAFE, HE IS SAFE

NOW.

I DON'T THINK IT COULD HAVE GONE

ANY BETTER THAN IT DID.

EVERYBODY WHO NEEDS HELP IS

GETTING HELP.

REPORTER: POLICE SAY ONE THING

THEY HOPE COMES OUT OF RELEASING

THIS VIDEO IS THEY CAN SHOW THE

KIND OF PUBLIC THE KIND OF

DANGEROUS AND STRESSFUL

SITUATIONS THAT POLICE

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Here's how the pumps in New Orleans move water out during heavy rainfall - Duration: 1:10.

.

DAMON SINGLETON HAS DETAILS FROM

A PUMPING STATION IN ORLEANS

PARISH.

DAMON: I'M HERE AT STATION

NUMBER ONE IN FRONT OF THE PUMPS

THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD ALL

DAY LONG.

THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR

ALMOST A HUNDRED YEARS PULLING

WATER OUT OF THE CITY.

THAT'S A LOT OF WATER IN A SHORT

AMOUNT OF TIME.

HERE AT STATION NUMBER ONE, THE

WATER COMES DOWN LOUISIANA

AVENUE TO THIS LOCATION.

THEY PUMP THE WATER HERE DOWN TO

THE 17TH STREET CANAL AND FROM

THERE THE WATER GOES INTO LAKE

PONTCHARTRAIN.

IN ANTICIPATION OF THE RAIN

EVENT THAT WE HAD, THEY SINCE

FOLKS OUT TO ALL THE DRAINAGE

PUMPING STATIONS TO MAKE SURE

THERE WAS NO DEBRIS TO GET IN

THE WAY OF THESE PUMPS OR THEIR

JOB.

THIS GUY HAS BEEN WORKING BEFORE

THE RAIN GOT HERE TO MAKE SURE

THE STREETS ARE NOT FLOODING.

THEY HAVE BEEN DOING A PRETTY

GOOD JOB.

FOLKS HERE SAY THE COMES ARE

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VT House OKs budget, tax Bills almost unanimously - Duration: 1:18.

STEWART: IN MONTPELIER, THE

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES GAVE

PRELIMINARY APPROVAL TO THE NEW

BUDGET AND TAX BILLS TODAY, AND

THIS YEAR THERE WAS NO

OPPOSITION, ALL 3 PARTIES VOTE

YES.

NO ONE COULD REMEMBER THE LAST

TIME THAT HAPPENED, HOUSE BUDGET

WRITERS CAME UP WITH A PLAN TO

SPEND ABOUT $5.8 BILLION DOLLARS

OVERALL, GOVERNOR SCOTT INSISTED

THERE BE NO TAX INCREASE, AND

DEMOCRATS WHO CONTROL THE HOUSE

AGREED.

SOME REPUBLICANS VOTING YES

TODAY SAID IT WAS THE FIRST TIME

THEY'D EVER DONE SO

>> THIS BUDGET GORWS AT RATE OF

LESS THAN 2% WITH REVS GROWING

3% WITH NO NEW TAXES AND FEE

>> THIS IS ONE YEAR.

ONE YEAR DOESN'T FIX MULTIP

YEARS OF OVERSPEDNIGN.

THIS PUTS US IN A BETTER PLACE

BUT DOENS'T FIX ALL PROBLEMS

STEWART: THE TAX BILL PASSED

TODAY 138-TO-ZERO.

LEADERS SAY EVERYONE'S MINDFUL

OF THE POSSIBILITY CONGRESS

COULD IMPOSE MAJOR FEDERAL CUTS

ON THE STATES LATER THIS SUMMER,

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Man at center of Laconia search appears in court - Duration: 1:57.

CONDITIONS.

KRISTEN CAROSA IS LIVE WITH WHAT

HAPPENED IN COURT.

REPORTER: ROMAN CORNELIUS IS

BEING CHARGED WITH ESCAPE,

PROSECUTORS SAY HE HAD NO RIGHT

TO RUNAWAY FROM THE FACILITY HE

WAS ORDERED TO STAY AT.

ROMAN CORNELIUS IS NOW IN

CUSTODY AFTER POLICE SAY HE LEFT

THIS STATE RUN FACILITY IN

LACONIA WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

WHILE WALKING TO GET THE MAIL.

AUTHORITIES FOUND HIM IN TILTON,

PROSECUTORS SAY HE HAD NO RIGHT

TO LEAVE THE SECURE FACILITY.

>> HE WAS UNDER THE DIRECT CARE

AND CUSTODY OF A CASEWORKER WHEN

HE WALKED AWAY.

REPORTER: PROSECUTORS SAY

CORNELIUS WAS AT THE FACILITY AS

PART OF PRIOR BAIL CONDITIONS.

>> HE WAS TRANSPORTED FROM

MERRIMACK COUNTY JAIL BY A

MERRIMACK COUNTY SHERIFF'S

DEPUTY TO A SECURE FACILITY HERE

IN LACONIA, IT'S CLEARLY A COURT

ORDER THAT SENDS HIM TO THAT

FACILITY.

REPORTER: INITIALLY POLICE

INDICATED HE WAS A SEX OFFENDER,

BUT PROSECUTORS SAY HE IS NOT.

>> THE DEFENDANT IS NOT IT A

CONVICTED SEX OFFENDER.

THE PERCEPTION IS THAT THIS

PARTICULAR FACILITY IS FOR SEX

OFFENDERS.

HE IS NOT A SEX OFFENDER, AND

THAT'S NOT THE BASES OF ANY OF

MY ARGUMENT BFS THE THE COURT.

REPORTER: CORNELIUS' DEFENSE

ATTORNEY ARGUES HE WAS NOT IN

OFFICIAL CUSTODY AND THEREFORE

CANNOT BE CHARGED WITH ESCAPE.

HE SAYS CORNELIUS WAS OUT ON

PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE BAIL AND

WAS FULFILLING HIS BAIL

CONDITIONS BY PARTICIPATING IN A

RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM.

>> HE HAD IS NOT A HARDENED

CRIMINAL, HE WAS ESSENTIALLY

THERE AND IT'S ALLEGED THAT HE

WALKED OFF.

AGAIN, NO OFFICIAL CUSTODY,

THERE'S NOTHING TO SUPPORT THAT

BOTH IN THE AFFIDAVIT OR AS

ALLEGED IN THE COMPLAINT.

REPORTER: PROSECUTORS SAY

CORNELIUS IS A DANGER TO THE

PUBLIC BECAUSE HE HAS SHOWN HE

CANNOT COMPLY WITH BAIL

CONDITIONS.

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NH man arrested on four counts of sexual assault - Duration: 0:24.

ONLY.

KRISTEN CAROSA, WMUR NEWS 9.

JENNIFER: NEW TONIGHT A

WAKEFIELD MAN IS ACCUSED OF FOUR

COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED FELONIOUS

SEXUAL ASSAULT.

68-YEAR-OLD JAMES MEYERS IS

BEING HELD ON $50,000 CASH BAIL.

HE'S BEEN ORDERED TO HAVE NO

CONTACT WITH THE ALLEGED VICTIMS

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Cameo shooting victim believes she was one of first people hit - Duration: 1:44.

WLWT NEWS 5'S TAMMY MUTASA SPOKE

WITH HER AND HAS HER MESSAGE

TONIGHT.

TAMM

TAMMY: THIS VICTIM SAYS SHE WAS

SO CLOSE TO A FIGHT AT THIS

CLUB, SHE BELIEVES SHE WAS ONE

OF THE FIRST PEOPLE HIT WITH A

BULLET.

THE VICTIM SAYS SHE WAS ABOUT TO

LEAVE THE CLUB, BUT A BIG FIGHT

BROKE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE

FLOOR, BLOCKING HER PATH TO THE

EXIT.

SHE AND HER FRIEND TRIED TO RU

OUT, BUT THE FIGHT KEPT

SPREADING.

SHE SAID PUNCHES ESCALATED TO A

SHOT, AND BULLETS STARTED

FLYING.

17 PEOPLE WERE SHOT, AND

27-YEAR-OLD O'BRYAN SPIKES DIED.

THE VICTIM SAYS SHE HELD HER

STOMACH UNTIL SHE GOT OUT OF THE

CLUB TO AN AMBULANCE.

THE BULLET PIERCED HER STOMACH

AND TRAVELED TO HER BACK, WHERE

IT STILL IS TODAY.

SHE SAYS SHE DOESN'T WANT FEAR

TO KEEP PEOPLE SILENT.

>> IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING TELL.

WE DESERVE JUSTICE.

WE WERE IN THERE THINKING WE

WERE GOING TO HAVE A GOOD TIME,

AND IT DID NOT END LIKE THAT.

IF YOU KNOW SOMETHING, JUST

TELL, SAY SOMETHING FOR THE SAKE

OF EVERYBODY WHO GOT HURT,

PEOPLE WHO GOT SHOT, PEOPLE WHO

GOT INJURED, PEOPLE WHO LOST

THEIR LIFE

TAMMY: THE VICTIM SAYS SHE WAS

RUSHED TO CHRIST HOSPTAL BECAUSE

UC MEDICAL CENTER WAS SO BUSY

TRYING TO SAVE OTHER VICTIMS.

REPORTING LIVE IN LINWOOD, TAMMY

MUTASA, WLWT NEWS

MIKE WERE THEY ABLE TO REMOVE

THE BALL IT?

-- BULLET?

TAMMY: THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO

REMOVE THE BULLET BECAUSE

DOCTORS TOLD THE VICTIM IT WOULD

ACTUALLY DO MORE DAMAGE IF THEY

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Chocolatier's staff reflects tradition of inclusiveness - Duration: 1:54.

REPORTER: YOU WON'T FIND IT ON

THE LABEL BUT SOME MIGHT SAY

NUTTY STEPH'S CHOCOLATE BARS,

SWEETEST INGREDIENTS, ARE GRACE

AND CARIGAN

[LAUGHTER]

FOR MORE THAN A DECADE, THE

OWNER SAYS SHE'S MADE IT A

PRACTICE TO HIRE PEOPLE WITH

DISABILITIES.

>> JAQUELYN OTHER BUSINESS

OWNERS ASK ME, YOU'RE BUSY AND

YOU HAVE SO MUCH GOING ON HOW

CAN YOU AFFORD TO EMPLOY PEOPLE

WITH SPECIAL NEEDS AND TO ME THE

QUESTION IS HOW CAN YOU AFFORD

NOT TO EMPLOY PEOPLE WITH

SPECIAL NEEDS

REPORTER: JAQUELYN RIEKE SAYS

SURE, IT TAKES A LITTLE EXTRA

TIME TO TRAIN THEM, BUT IT PAYS

OFF IN THE END

>> AFTER THEY'RE TRAINED.

THEY'RE ACTUALLY SUPERIOR TO

ALMOST ANYONE WHO HAS DONE THAT

JOB THAT THEY DO

REPORTER: CARGIAN AND GRACE HAVE

MASTERED THE ART OF WRAPPING,

THEIR THE FASTEST IN THE

BUSINESS.

SHE SAYS HER 3 EMPLOYEES WITH

SPECIAL NEEDS SHOW UP TO WORK

CONSISTENTLY AND NEVER HAVE

SOCIAL CONFLICTS.

AND POINTS OUT IT'S GREAT FOR

WORKER RETENTION GRACE IS HER

LONGEST STANDING EMPLOYEE.

>> THERE'S SUCH A STABILITY AND

LONGEVITY AND PREDICTABILITY

THAT BLESSES OUR COMPANY

REPORTER: AND FOR GRACE AND

CARIGAN, IT'S A HIGHLIGHT OF

THEIR WEEK

>> I LIKE MY TWO JOBS IN THIS

BUILDING

>> HAPPY I'M HAPPY

REPORTER: CARIGAN SAYS SHE HAS

ALSO LEARNED LIFE SKILLS LIKE

COOKING AND HELPING OTHERS

>> YOU GET THIS TREMENDOUS JOY

THAT THEY BRING TO THE WORKPLACE

REPORTER: NOW, SHE WANTS OTHER

COMPANIES TO FOLLOW THEIR LEAD.

>> TO US THIS IS COMMUNITY THIS

IS LIFE, THIS IS NOT AN EXTRA

SPECIAL THING.

IN 100 YEARS MY HOPE IS THAT

COMMUNITIES ARE MUCH MORE

INTEGRATED

WITH ONE CANDY BAR, THE COMPANY

IS DEMONSTRATING THE IMPORTANCE

OF INCLUSION, WRAPPED BY GRACE

AND CARIGAN.

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Suspect in Church St. stabbing death pleads not guilty - Duration: 3:01.

REPORTER: IT WAS RIGHT HERE ON

THIS BUSY PART OF CHURCH THAT

36-YEAR-OLD LOUIS FORTIER

ALLEGIDLY STABBED AND KILLED

ANOTHER MAN.

THE PROSECUTION SAYS THE KEY TO

THIS CASE WILL BE THE SURVIELNCE

VIDEO MULTIPLE CAMERA'S CAUGHT

>> WE PLEAD NOT GUILTY

REPORTER: 36-YEAR-OLD LOUIS

FORTIER DID NOT SHOW MUCH

EMOTION DURING HIS ARRAIGMENT.

LESS THAN 24 HOURS EARLIER HE

WAS ARRESTED FOR STABBING

43-YEAR-OLD RICHARD MEDINA.

>> THERE IS SOME INDICATIONS

THAT THEY KNEW EACH OTHER BUT IN

TERMS OF THE ACTUAL INCIDENT

THEIR INTERACTION IS VERY QUICK.

IT APPEARS IN THE SURVIELLENCE

VIDEO IT ALL HAPPENED WITHIN TWO

MINUTES.

REPORTER: ACCORDING TO COURT

DOCUMENTS A WITNESS TOLD POLICE

HE WALKED BY THE TWO MEN NEAR

CHURCH AND CHERRY STREETS.

AND OVERHEARD FORTIER ASK MEDINA

QUOTE WHERE'S THE MONEY YOU OWE

ME?

AFTER THE WITNESS WALKED OFF HE

SAW OTHER PEOPLE RUNNING TOWARD

MEDINA.

>> THEY APPEAR TO ENGAGE IN SOME

SORT OF CONVERSATION THEN MR.

FORTIER TAKES A KNIFE OUT OF HIS

POCKET AND STABS MR. MEDINA

THE HEAD FACE NECK A RE

REPORTER: PROSECUTOR SARAH

GEORGE SAYS THE 1ST DEGREE

MURDER CHARGE IS JUSTIFIED FOR

SEVERAL REASONS.

>> HE STABBED HIM MULTIPLE TIMES

WHILE HOLDING HIM THEN AGAIN

WHEN HE ATTEMPTED TO RETREAT

CONTINUED TO STAB HIM, FROM THE

STATES PERSPECTIVE THAT'S

INTENTIONAL ACT, IT WAS WILLFUL

AND IT WAS PREMEDITATED HIS PLAN

WAS TO KILL HIM.

EPORTER: GEORGE ALSO SAYS AREA

SURVIELLNCE VIDEO FROM CAMERAS

ON THE CHURCH STREET MARKET

PLACE AND NEARBY VENDORS

SUPPLIED A WEALTH OF INFORMATION

ABOUT THE ATTACK AND WILL HELP

THE CASE.

>> THE SURVIELLNCE DOES SHOW

HE DROPS THE KNIFE HE TAKES OFF

HIS BACK PACK HE TAKES OFF HIS

COAT AND HE PUTS IS HANDS ON HIS

HEAD UNTIL POLICE ARRIVE.

REPORTER: THIS IS THE SECOND

TIME IN A YEAR A HOMICIDE HAS

INVOLVED THE BURLINGTON

TRANSIENT COMMUNITY LEAVING SOME

TO WONDER IF MORE COULD BE DONE

TO PREVENT SUCH INCIDENTS.

>> YOU KNOW, MR. MEDINA,

POTENTIALLY BEING HOMELESS,

DOESN' JUSTIFY -- POLICE ARE

DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO

MAKE SURE STUFF LIKE THIS

DOESN'T HAPPEN BUT I'M NOT SURE

WHAT THEY COULD HAVE DONE -

REPORTER: EVEN THIS AFTERNOON

YOU CAN SEE AN INCREASE IN

POLICE PRESENCE HERE ON CHURCH

STREET.

BOTH FORTIER AND MEDINA HAVE

LENGHTY CRIMAL BACKGROUNDS.

WITH IN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS

FORTIER WILL REAPEAR IN COURT.

FOR NOW HE IS BEING HELD WITHOUT

BAIL.

AND HAS ASKED REPRESENT HIMSEL

IN THIS CASE.

LIVE IN BURLINGTON JENNIFER