the suburbs almost as much written about as Madison Avenue and just as much in need of reflection like Madison Avenue life in the suburbs has its good moments and others not so good discouraged disgruntled techno they're glad to be here remember so they join the stream of family life in the suburbs soon to become part of its familiar sights soon to absorb its familiar sounds these are what red book means by its young adults people in a certain living situation with particular interests and particular goals these young adults begin to discover red book about the time they apply for their marriage license start life in their own homes have their first baby take out their first loan and they stay with red book through their busiest years as red book sees them they're an energetic lot a carefree life even though so suddenly plunged into family life as the babies start coming they usually decide to concentrate on their houses with a woman staying home to learn new ways to run a household where it soon dawns on her that she could use a little expert help while the kids are young many of the mothers try to stay at home which isn't always so easy either when it's good to have other young adults to talk to wherever they go there's usually a baby nearby and about the time the parents think their children have them hypnotized they give a party and bring the kids any magazine written for young adults and matching their busy lives is bound to be lively full of things to talk about varied and warm to miss a single new home making idea they're busy just making choices and welcome solid information in concise form it takes a while for a young couple to realize all they're in for when they buy a house or when they have a baby and when they buy a house and have a baby though hardly realizing it they come into their purchasing stage and are often a wild non-stop ride spending world reflected in the windows of the suburban shopping centers where they go to buy they've been studying shopping centers because the people who created the suburbs are young adults and the shopping centers are built in their image selling to young adults demands a new kind of marketing for these young adults the shopping centers have built fountains commissioned statues put in restaurants and freestanding stairways they've included banks loan offices rental plans plant nurseries and places to buy building materials the shopping centers see these young adults as people whose homes are always in need of expansion people who buy in large quantities and truck it away in their cars it's a big market to help people find their cars the centers have enlisted the children they've put in shopmobiles to help them cover the ground they've added banks of storage blockers miles of checkout counters and endless rows of carts carts rolling down the malls at south dale at northland at gulfgate sunrise and east point at hillsdale in california these young adults shopping with the same determination that led them to the suburbs in the first place are the goingest part of a nation on wheels living by the automobile the first young adults in the age of the push button the rest of life in suburbia shopping has a family flavor these busy families make the shopping centers look young and colorful they have a let's go see quality that brings crowds to community events and promotions whom the young adults have always at hand there's plenty to do and see while his family shops a boy can catch a fish ride the rides go to the circus visit the center zoo and have his hair cut and if that doesn't tire him out his mother can put him in the center's nursery school or he can get paint on his shirt see his friends and wear himself out on the bars since these young adults seem to be able to outlast their children they stash them away at a neighbor's house and go back to the center for more this is the life young adults lead summed up recently in a single phrase and dramatized by red book in major shopping centers all over the country for more than two years red book had been working with merchant associations in shopping centers studying young adults when the easy living promotion was presented almost every store joined in the first center-wide promotion in the history of marketing book could develop a successful selling program for young adults it had to get out and see them many different ways it had to get to know them so well that it could become a magazine solely for them what are young adults like from an editor's point of view well they're not so much high brows or low brows as wrinkled brows they're serious and no wonder to give these serious young adults the substance they want to build a durable relationship with each reader red book edits for one person at a time having established a personal relationship with its readers red book then talks to them so that they recognize their own living situations in its pages i wonder whether we could be happy in a place like that when we brought the baby home i thought billy looked awfully worried i've got a boy just like you comes home from school always asking questions i remember the first time my daughter asked me about god on strike for months if that ever happened to us i don't know what my husband would do just as the realities of family life are thoroughly woven into red book so are the realities of community life many young adults come to the suburbs as x apartment letters so what about the roads the schools will somebody please explain what a fond issue is red books editors have to keep learning and analyzing without too much crystal ball gazing red books editors have to keep an eye to the future there is a whole new generation coming soon to be young adults a bigger than ever market of people who have a history of their own who remember all the way back to eisenhower who probably never saw their mother use a ringer think automobiles or household appliances and have reserved seats on the next rocket to leave the earth right now you can ride along with the happy ghost spending buy it now young adults of today ride with the young adults who are buying 70 percent of all homes sold swing into the orbit of more than two and a half million families right now with the only mass magazine aimed exclusively at young adults


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psychologists will tell you that parents affected with psychological distress may treat their own children with hostility and rejection for example they might push their children away after dealing with something terrible because they just want to be left alone studies have shown that when parents reject their children they cause all kinds of issues in their little ones these issues include sleep problems and listlessness in this case at least it seems like the psychological issues that the parents are facing are projecting and harming their children in effect these children may develop psychological issues as a result of reoccurring abuse number two depressed parents can show a total lack of emotion towards their kids depression is a very common mental disorder but what happens when parents develop it how does it affect their children one 2018 study revealed that depressed parents do not show proper sentiments or emotions towards their children or their feelings about parenting responsibilities are assumed negative to combat this one researcher proposed a radically different treatment approach one that focused on the entire family unit instead of the individual alone number three children show less trust towards parents with low self-esteem issues low self-esteem is something most of us have struggled with at some point but what happens when children see their parents suffering from this one study found that low self-esteem had an impact on the trust between parents interesting research shows that self-esteem radically impact our perception of our own relationships when we have low self-esteem we might believe that our relationships are much worse than they actually are parents might believe that they have a strange relationship with their children when really it's not all that bad number four poor parenting is linked to early psychopathy a lot of youtubers right now are talking about sociopathy and it's been really enlightening psychopathy is characterized by antisocial and immoral behavior issues with romantic relationships and extreme egocentricity but did you know that early psychopathy can be caused by poor parenting more specifically one 2017 study stated that harsh discipline and insensitivity could contribute to early psychopathy and other behavioral problems the consequences of this are quite severe many times parents who try to correct psychopathic behavior at a young age end up making it worse a child's mind is plastic and changeable when they are young which means that if intervention isn't successful during childhood psychopathy could end up being a permanent thing in the future number five parents who have been abused as children can result in less empathy with their kids parents raise their kids with an eye to the past to their own childhoods but what happens if these parents experienced abuse when they were young one study stated that mothers with sexual abuse history in childhood may suffer from greater parenting stress which can lead to diminished empathy with their own children simply put this means that mothers who have been abused have a hard time connecting and bonding with their young ones studies have shown that children who grow up without a good initial bond are less likely to be happy and resilient number six anxiety disorder in kids is linked to poor parenting interestingly enough or parenting is linked to anxiety disorder in children new research has found that anxiety disorder is linked to over controlling parents who don't give their children enough independence these children find it hard to control their own behavior and achieve independence if you've been controlled for your whole life it's hard to start taking things into your own hands number seven a rational and educated beliefs in mothers is linked with more behavioral problems and their daughters every parent wants to provide their children with a solid rational education it's one of the most important tools you can provide your child with so how does education levels in parents impact their children one study came to the conclusion that younger mothers with lower levels of education are more likely to have daughters with behavioral problems number eight lack of parental warmth is linked with higher anxiety different parents have different approaches when it comes to raising their kids some like to be very authoritative while others like to be more laid-back but when it comes to anxiety in children a very important factor is how warm parents are towards their children this was confirmed by a 2003 study which found that perceived parental warmth was positively associated with active coping and negatively correlated with trait anxiety in adolescence number nine authoritarian parents can cause their kids to become depersonalized depersonalization disorder is where people feel like they're disconnected from their own bodies and thoughts almost like they're watching themselves from the outside looking in one study 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Thank you, Hassan. Good evening to you all. And indeed, this is the second anniversary of the Center for Palestine Studies, and we launched the Center in this very room two years ago, and I'm sure quite a few among you were already at that meeting. And thank you all for coming this evening. We have the honor and privilege of having Professor Khalidi as our first speaker for this annual lecture series, which we intend as a prestigious annual event, which will try to coincide more or less with the anniversary, which is early March of the launch of the Center for Palestine Studies. So before giving the floor to our speaker and introducing him, let me just speak of some of what we have accomplished or are in the process of accomplishing when it comes to the Center. I mean, this is an initiative which started and is still functioning with zero funds, practically, except the help that we get from the London Middle East Institute and the administrative help in that regard. But otherwise, we have plenty of projects, and our next phase will be to try to get proper funding for the number of projects that we have. We have nevertheless, over these two years, I think managed to achieve quite a few results, and I will describe them quite briefly to give you an idea of what is going on. One of the first initiatives that we managed to realize was a Palestine Research Seminar, which includes the PhD students working on Palestine, and SOAS is such a center for Middle East Studies that there are quite a few and quite brilliant, actually, PhD students working on issues directly related to Palestine. So for the second year this year, this started last year, and this year for the second year, this seminar has been functioning. So this is one of the first achievements of the center. Another achievement or another project which is in the process of being realized is to remain in the academic sphere, or the directly academic sphere, the teaching sphere, if you want, is the fact that as a center we contributed in setting up an MA in Palestine Studies, which to my knowledge will be the first, with this kind of designation at least in the Western world, and that would include, I mean, as a core course, a course in Palestine Studies which will be open to students in various departments at SOAS, and I think this is an important, quite important achievement that we are in the process of fine-tuning and formalizing and going through the procedures needed for such initiatives. I should mention also that the Department of Media Studies, which is headed by one of the board members of the center, Dina Matar, Dina is here. Dr. Matar has also created a course on Palestine and the moving image and is working on a Palestine Film Club here at SOAS. There's also an opportunity to say that we are seeking closer collaboration with the Palestine Film Festival, which is already an institution here at London. Then the next achievement, and I consider this as a really important one, because the rest is, of course, but I'm stressing the importance of each of these achievements actually, is the fact that we are about to launch officially a call for manuscript for a new book series. We have an agreement, we are finalizing an agreement with I. B. Torres, the founder and director of which is here, Mr. Irat Baggerzade, and we will launch a series called the SOAS Palestine Studies series, which will be a peer-reviewed academic publishing project, open to everybody. It's not restricted to SOAS in any way. It will just be something which is run by the Center for Palestine Studies and the key editor of the series. Then we have further projects, and the next big project, let me speak now for the future, is to set up an international association for Palestine Studies with the idea of convening every two years here in London an international conference of Palestine Studies, which would be a major contribution in putting Palestine Studies very much on the map of the academia and the western academia and the global academia, and I think this is very important for the time being. There are just three Palestine Studies Center, one in Exeter and one of the founders of which is here, Dr. Radhakarmi. There is, of course, the Columbia Palestine Studies Center and our center here at SOAS. Last but not least, or actually what I started with, the annual lectures series, which we are starting this year. We have, as I said, the great honor and privilege of starting it with Professor Walid Khalidi, but I should say who better than Professor Khalidi could start such a series. I mean, Professor Khalidi is definitely, let's say, the dean, or in some way even the founder of Palestine Studies, if we're speaking of scientific study of the question of Palestine, he definitely is the main pillar or the original person who fought for the scientific elaboration of a counter narrative but built on historical facts and that has been extremely important. Professor Khalidi, I think most of you here would not even need to be introduced, but let me just mention the fact that actually he started working in Palestine, in the Arab office, before the partition and he has been also actually someone who has lived this whole history and among the very first person to build up a scientific discourse, a scholarly discourse on the issue, which at the same time was definitely dedicated to the Palestinian cause but again on a solid scientific ground. And of course, Professor Khalidi is the founder and director of the Institute for Palestine Studies and I happened to be last year in Beirut in November part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the IPS, the Institute for Palestine Studies. And we had a panel there and at the same time, the same year saw the publication of collections of former articles by Professor Khalidi, both in French and in Arabic, in Arabic it's in the Majella de la Seate de la Palestine the Arabic counterpart of the Journal for Palestine Studies, the JPS and in French it's in a book series which is connected to the IPS and well, I mean, there was a consensus in the panel to very much emphasize the way these articles, some of them were, I mean, I think the oldest of the articles was one published in 1959, how much they still stood the test of time and this is absolutely the best testimony to the importance, solidity and the quality of Professor Khalidi's research and that's why, as I said, there couldn't be any better person to inaugurate this cycle, this series of annual lecture than Professor Khalidi. So thank you very much for coming and we very much appreciate also the effort of coming from all the way from Boston where Professor Khalidi establishes thought and research for many years at Harvard, among other several places, Princeton and the rest and so we very much appreciate the effort. It took you to come and join us for that. Before just ending this, I would like to thank all those who made this event possible and especially once again Dr. Matar who played a major role and Professor Izdat Darwazi and Katan Foundation which also helped us make this possible. So many thanks to all of you and please join me in welcoming Professor Khalidi. Thank you. I must first thank Professor Ashkar for his very generous and kind words about me by which I was deeply touched and moved and I would like to say I salute the Center for Palestine Studies for the good sense of making him head of the Center. Ladies and gentlemen, we meet today to celebrate the second anniversary of the establishment of the SOAS Center for Palestine Studies. I'm honored to have been asked to deliver this first annual lecture. It is deeply gratifying to be addressing you on this occasion. In the name of a sister institution, the Institute for Palestine Studies which has just celebrated its 50th anniversary as an independent, private, non-partisan, non-profit public service research institute. We at IPS look forward to long years of innovative cooperation between our two institutions. Like other Centers of Palestine Studies, we are both researching the same phenomenon. The ever-growing debris generated on that fateful day of November the second 1917 by the so-called Balfour Declaration, the single most destructive political document on the Middle East in the 20th century. How far this university has traveled and how alien the idea of a Center for Palestine Studies would have been to Lord Balfour can be gauged from the oft-quoted words dripping with Olympian disdain he uttered in 1919. Quote, the great powers are committed to Zionism and Zionism, be it right or wrong, good or bad is rooted in age-long traditions, in present needs, in future hopes of far-pro-founder import than the desires and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who inhabit that ancient land. The expression Palestine problem is shorthand for the genesis, evolution and fallout of the Zionist colonization of Palestine, which began in the early 1980s and is ongoing at this very hour. One century ago this year the floodgates of World War I opened to usher the chain of events that led to the Balfour Declaration. By the time it was issued in 1917, almost 40 years had passed since the beginning of Zionist colonization and 20 since the first Zionist Congress at Basel. Despite the further of the early colonists, the movement of the Jewish masses fleeing its arist rule was not southwards towards the Levant, but westwards across Europe towards the magnetic shores of North America. A trickle arrived in Palestine, a flood rolled across the Atlantic. Most rabbinical authorities throughout the diaspora were hostile to Zionism for pre-empting the Messiah. While the American and European Jewish bourgeoisie were embarrassed by Zionism and fearful of gentile charges of dual loyalty. All this changed when Britannia gave its blessing to the Zionist venture in the Balfour Declaration. Not only did it give its blessing, it also agreed to transform this unilateral declaration into a self-imposed obligation guaranteed under international law in the newly established League of Nations mandate system. Uniquely in its governance as an imperial power, it agreed to carry out this obligation in partnership with a foreign private body, the world Zionist organization, now elevated in the guise of an international Jewish agency to an independent actor recognized by the League for the specific purpose of establishing the Jewish national home in Palestine. An immediate question leaps to mind. How could London, teaming with pro-consular expertise, ripened during centuries of dealings with multitudinous races and faiths across the globe? How could it have fallen for the Zionist plan? The short answer is too syllabic. Hubris, at the end of World War I, with the U.S. withdrawn behind a wall of isolationism and with Ottoman, Romanov, Habsburg, and Hohenzollern empires in ruins, British power was paramount. King Clovis' realm across the channel alone could challenge it, but this was no big deal because Sir Mark Sykes had found a handy formula to win French acquiescence, divide the loot. There is, of course, a longer answer, which is where our research centers come in. Setting aside the trees and thick foliage of the mandate periods, white papers, blue books, and commissions of inquiry, our scholars would do well to look more deeply into how and why Imperial London, between the two World Wars, nurtured a rival Imperium in Imperio under its governance. The puzzle deeperness, when one considers that this Imperium was not only local, it had an external dimension, the Imperium ex Imperio in the Jewish agency whose major central financial institutions and other sources of power were largely American and beyond London's control. Thus, when in 1939, Bangurian, the pre-eminent leader of the Yishuv, decided to change horses, discarding the British mount, favored by his political rival, Chaim Wiseman, for an American steed, he did so in deliberate calculation of America's potential as a counterweight and successor to Britain. The story is as old as history, the revolt of a client against a metropolitan patron. But the erosion of Anglo-Zionist concord by the late 1930s also illustrates an iron law of politics. No two political entities remain eternally in sync. There may be a moral here for the current relationship between Obama's Washington and Beebe's Tel Aviv. Ladies and gentlemen, the events of 1948 have stirred up more controversy than any other phase of the Palestine problem, giving rise eventually to a new post-Zionist school of historiography in Israel. Its authors have been designated as the new historians, as opposed to the old historians who articulated a mythical Zionist foundational narrative. The old narrative featured a Yeshua David facing an Arab Goliath with perfidious Albion bent on strangling the infant state. It also involved hundreds of thousands of Palestinians leaving their homes, farms and businesses in response to orders from their leaders to make way for the invading Arab armies on the 15th of May 1948. Given the role of the IPS and this speaker in the articulation of the Palestinian counter-narrative to that of the old historians, it could be useful for the record to share some elements of how it developed. One of the first authoritative accounts of an early version of the Israeli orders myth is given by the Palestinian historian Araf el-Araf. Araf had been based in Ramallah as assistant district commissioner in the last days of the mandate and the Jordanians kept him on as de facto civilian governor. In mid-July 1948, Israeli forces launched a massive attack against Lidda and Ramallah. While the Arab armies, a stone's throw away, stood by. The entire population of the two towns, some 60,000 people, were forced on a long trek towards Ramallah. They arrived there in pitiable condition after hundreds had dropped along the way. Count Bernadotte, the UN mediator, arrived in Ramallah the third week of July 1948. Araf, who was delegated to accompany him, was astonished when Bernadotte told him that the senior Israeli officials he had just met had assured him that the inhabitants of Lidda and Ramallah had left because of orders given them by the town leaders. Araf immediately arranged for Bernadotte to meet these leaders, still living in caves and under bridges after the recent expulsion. Muslim and Christian ecclesiasts, municipal counselors, judges, professionals of all kinds. There is little doubt in my mind that this experience contributed to Bernadotte's recommendation to the United Nations on the return of the refugees, which the General Assembly passed after his assassination by Yitzhak Shamir's Sterngang. In the 1950s, the order's myth was well over the British press. By this time, the predominant Israeli version was that the orders had been broadcast by the top Palestinian leadership, not the local leaders. The most aggressive exponent of this version was the British journalist John Kimche, then editor of the weekly Jewish Observer, the organ of the Zionist Federation in Britain. The top Palestinian leader, Haj Amin al-Hassani, was then living in exile in Lebanon. I had known him from childhood and he had always treated me kindly. When I described to him the impact of the order's myth in the West, he immediately allowed me unrestricted access to his archives since destroyed by the phalanges during the Lebanese Civil War in the 1970s. I had earlier gone through reams of the BBC monitoring records of the 1948 radio broadcasts kept at the British Museum in London. I added the data from Haj Amin's archives to the findings from the BBC records to produce my article Why Did the Palestinians Leave? which was published in 1959 by the AUB Journal Middle East Forum. Enter Erskine B. Childers. Soon after the article's publication I received in Beirut a visit from this young Irish journalist who showed great interest in the question of orders and in the BBC records. And he said to me that he intended to examine himself upon his return to London these BBC records. Enter early 1960, Ian Gilmore, owner of the Spectator, the prestigious British weekly. He had just been to Israel and had heard all about the orders from the senior Israeli officials. Having read my article in Middle East Forum he asked me many questions and left. On 12th of May 1961 the Spectator published Childers' article entitled The Other Exodus whose conclusion was No Orders. There ensued a crackling correspondence of readers' letters that lasted almost three months in the columns of the Spectator and in which, thanks to Ian Gilmore, subsequently a Cabinet Minister, the counter Israeli narrative was given unprecedented exposure. An early responder was John Kimche who loftily opined quote, new myths have taken place of old ones. The Israelis have contributed their share but more lately it has been the Arab propagandists, Walid Khalidi and Erskine Childers. At the time I was on sabbatical from the AUB at Princeton checking the CIA records, monitoring records, of the 1948 Arab broadcasts at the Firestone Library. From there I wrote to the Spectator disclaiming acquaintance with Childers which was untrue but expressing great delight that he had independently arrived at the same conclusion as myself which was true. I also noted that my latest findings in the CIA records corroborated my earlier findings in the BBC records. No orders. As it happened, while at Princeton I had also been looking at the Hebrew sources with the help of a sympathetic, elderly Sephardic lady scholar. The result of my research was Plan Dalet, the Zionist master plan for the conquest of Palestine soon to be published in 1961 again in the Middle East Forum. As the Spectator correspondence increasingly involved the Palestinian exodus in general, I weighed in with a summary of my findings at Princeton. My letter to the Spectator at the time 1961 said the following, inter alia, a Zionist master plan called Plan Dalet for the forceful occupation of Arab areas both within and outside the Jewish state given by the United Nations to the Zionists was put into operation. This plan aimed at the de-Arabization of all areas under Zionist control. Plan Dalet aimed at both breaking the back of Palestinian Arab resistance and facing the United Nations, the United States and the Arab countries with the political and military fit that completely in the shortest possible time. Hence the massive and ruthless blows against the centers of Arab population. As Plan Dalet unfolded and tens of thousands of Arab civilians streamed in terror into the neighboring Arab countries Arab public opinion forced their shilly, shallying governments to send their regular armies into Palestine. I concluded by the following. It is the considered opinion of this writer that it was only the entry of the Arab armies that frustrated the more ambitious objective of Plan Dalet which was no less than the military control of the whole of Palestine west of the Jordan. To the best of my knowledge this is the first public mention of Plan Dalet in the west. Ladies and gentlemen just as World War I gave birth to the Balfour Declaration the 1967 war gave birth to another momentous document Security Council Resolution 242 and just as the Balfour Declaration is in a sense the fountain head of all developments in the Palestine problem and Arab Israeli conflict in the 20th century up to and including the 1967 war so is Security Council Resolution 242 in a sense the fountain head of all developments in the conflict throughout the balance of the 20th century and to this day oddly many observers look with favor on Resolution 242 largely because its preamble talks about the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war but in its operative in its operative paragraphs Resolution 242 does the precise opposite true it talks about withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the French territories occupied but it does not specify the time when the withdrawal should begin the line to which Israel should withdraw or how long the withdrawal should take place nor does it mention by name the territories to be withdrawn from the resolution calls for peace and security recognized borders between all the protagonists but it does not indicate who decides the security or location of these borders there is no mention of the armistice lines the resolution affirms the need for a just settlement of the refugee problem but it does not indicate who decides the justice of the settlement or who these refugees are the word Palestinian is totally absent and there is no reference to the applicability of the Geneva Convention to the occupied territories this remarkable text should be seen against the background of decisions taken by the Israeli cabinet on the 18th and 19th of June soon after the hostilities ended briefly the Israeli cabinet consensus was on one withdrawal only on condition of peace agreements two peace treaties with Egypt and Syria on the basis of the international frontiers and Israel's security three annexation of the Gaza Strip and four the Jordan River as Israel's security border implying permanent control of the West Bank you don't have to be a cryptographer to see the concordance of the resolution 242 with these specifications of the Israeli cabinet or rather these instructions of the Israeli cabinet the focus on peace treaties with Egypt and Syria in the cabinet's guidelines to the exclusion of Jordan is of course designed to decouple these countries Syria and Egypt from the Palestine problem and to isolate both the Palestinians and Jordan on 28th of June 1967 10 days after this cabinet meeting Israel revealed its true intentions by annexing the 2.5 square miles of Jordanian municipal east Jerusalem together with an additional 22.5 square miles of prime adjacent West Bank territory in an obscene territorial configuration sticking northwards at Ramallah resolution 242 was an Israeli diplomatic and political victory no less momentous than its victory on the battlefield but it was only possible because of President Lyndon Baines Johnson what really motivated LBJ remains a field of study for our centers of Palestine studies as a senator in 1956 Johnson had adamantly opposed Eisenhower's decision to force Israel to restore the status quo and give back territories acquired by war in the aftermath of the 1967 war Foreign Minister Aba Iban worked closely with LBJ's inner circle including US ambassador to the United Nations Arthur Goldberg as a member of a pre-Saddam Iraqi delegation to the United Nations General Assembly right after the war I had to listen to Iban weaving the spider webs of his false hoods but I also got the chance to rebut him Iban reveals in his memoirs that he urged his American counterparts to eradicate from their minds the very concept of armistice and to link Israeli withdrawal from the current ceasefire lines to peace negotiations in which boundaries would be fixed by agreement this meant that the starting point for the negotiations would be the farthest foxholes reached by Israeli armor deep in Arab territory it also meant that Israel could as indeed it did use the full weight of its conquests and the full weights of its military superiority to dictate the time tempo sequence and extent of its withdrawal the regime established by resolution two for two has been acquiesced in if not abetted by successive American administrations since Johnson's presidency the resolution's opagness and permissiveness has made possible the settlement policy ongoing to this very hour it is this regime that sent Sadat to Jerusalem and Arafat to Oslo the 1967 war dealt the coup de grace to secular Arabism already in its death throes but it catapulted the Palestinian guerrilla movement to the front ranks because it symbolized resistance for the entire Arab world after the humiliation of the Arab armies but the war's most profound and potentially catastrophic impact lies in the inspiration it gave to neo-zionist religious fundamentalist messianism and to its creation of conditions conducive to a clash over Jerusalem's holy places between Jewish and Christian evangelical jihadists on the one hand and Muslim jihadists on the other ladies and gentlemen when one looks at the Palestinian scene today one sees a people hanging by their fingernails to the ramp of their ancestral land in such dire straits the top most Palestinian priority should surely be to close ranks this is why the Fatah Hamas rift is so scandalous you need your two fists your two fists to survive both sides are equally to blame and both sides should be tirelessly and relentlessly urged to reconcile of course the very act of reconciliation between them would be punched on by Netanyahu is an act of war but surely Israel knows that the intra-Palestinian reconciliation is a must for any Palestinian Israeli peace the gap between Fatah Hamas on the mode of struggle is wide Abbas is committed to non-violence this commitment is not philosophical as a practitioner of violence in his guerrilla days Abbas was quietly absorbing its cost and consequences it is no coincidence that he was the first within the Fatah leadership to propose a dialogue with sympathetic Israeli interlocutors Abbas's commitment to non-violence is strategy not tactics I know this for certain having listened to him and to his three predecessors Arafat Shukri and Haj Amin in many ways Abbas is a tragic figure he is a guerrilla leader withingly turned collaborationist every night his security forces keep to their barracks while Israeli Kobando squads prowl the Kaspas and refugee camps and West Bank villages hunting young militants this is a terrible price to pay for moral high ground how long can Abbas maintain this policy without real progress towards peace how long can the Palestinians put up with his leadership nevertheless it should not be forgotten that the BDS movement could not have progressed so far without Abbas wide though it is the gap between Abbas and Hamas on the issue of armed struggle is not unbridgeable there is evidence of pragmatism within the Hamas leadership and if it thinks theologically it can also conceive of a theological exit strategy from its declared commitment to the armed struggle besides Abbas's commitment to non-violence does not preclude disobedience this could be the meeting ground once the will to reconcile takes over and the time for civil disobedience comes ladies and gentlemen if the Fatah Hamas rift is dangerously detrimental to the Palestinian cause so is this agreement about the political goal it is no secret the one state, two states issue is a major topic of debate not only within the Palestinian camp but also within a much wider circle of allies and supporters as you may have surmised I am not a congenital advocate of the partition of Palestine the two states formula in fact I came to it pretty late it was only in 1978 that I espoused it in an article in foreign affairs entitled thinking the unthinkable I am still a two state and this is why there is global support for a two state solution with the possible exception of the federated states of Micronesia it would be irresponsible to forgo this invaluable asset we have already tried the one state framework during the 30 years of the British mandate and we know what happened even though the balance of power was at first massively in favour of the Palestinians the balance of power today is crashingly in favour of the other side Israel is the superpower of the Arab Mashrek thanks to the rottenness of the Arab state system in a one state framework Israel would have the ideal alibi to remove whatever constraints remain on settlement within a twinkling the Palestinians would be lucky if they had enough land to plant onions in their back gardens and to bury their dead alongside Israel's 1948 declaration of independence pledged to ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all inhabitants irrespective of religion race or sex now is insisting on prior recognition of the Jewish character of Israel as an absolute condition of a peace agreement of the 37 signatories of the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Independence only one was born in Palestine the others came mostly from Poland and the Russian Empire from Plonsk, Poltava Pinsk Lodz, Kornas these men were mostly left of centre but they had not come all the way to Palestine to share their new home with its inhabitants when Netanyahu speaks of a Jewish state he is speaking in the name of a vast and growing religious fundamentalist right wing nationalist constituency which splits Israeli Jewish society right down in the middle the division in the Jewish population of Israel today is no longer between left and right but between the secularists and the religious many of the secularists are liberal post-Zionist but they are not in the ascendant in the ascendant is a neo-Zionist messianic triumphalist religious right settler movement allied to the US Christian apocalyptic evangelism fired by the 1967 conquest of the whole of Eritz Israel and the return of the temple mount to Jewish military possession this coalition considers Palestinians Canaanites whose doom is biblically predestined it does not look much more favourably on the secular Jewish leaders Israelis there is no consensus in Israel on who is a Jew indeed we should ask BB for a definition of Jewish many proponents of BDS are one-staters looking to the success of sanctions against South Africa looking against South Africa but between the start of sanctions against South Africa in the early 1960s and Mandela's election in 1994 there was 30 years 30 years this is time time is not an asset for Palestinians in a one state framework despite the demographic factor I am not against BDS I want it to succeed to succeed it needs the Jewish post Zionists and the liberal Zionists de legitimize the occupation and your chances are bright de legitimizing Israel itself will cost you the bulk of your Jewish allies and most of the friendly world capitals let us have two BDS campaigns BDS one to end the occupation BDS two to implement a pledge to its Arab citizens in Israel's declaration of independence in that sequence ladies and gentlemen to hug one's identity in an age of globalization is a global phenomenon witnessed in the breakup of states and devolution movements worldwide the one-staters run counter to this trend a Palestinian state is a Palestinian imperative Palestinians need to maintain their own link to what is left of their own ancestral land they need an umbilical cord to the collective memories of their parents and grandparents they need a tribune who will stand up for those of them who will remain in their diaspora they need to pass an inheritance to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren they need a spot under God's son where they are not aliens stateless ghosts as citizens ladies and gentlemen just how sorry the state of the Arab nation is can be gauged from the fact that the future of Palestinians hinges more on the desires and prejudices of Benjamin Benzion Natan Yahu than on those of any incumbent in the proud Arab capitals of Umayyad Damascus Abbasid Baghdad Ayyubid Cairo or Wahhabid Riyadh still the current tripartite discourse between Natan Yahu Kerry and Abbas is in reality a facade for the arm wrestling marathon that has been going on between Bibi and Obama for five years I listed Bibi's parentage advisedly his ideological template was forged by and embodied in the teachings of his grandfather Rabbi Natan and his father Professor Benzion Rabbi Natan a contemporary of Herzl's a national religious Zionist a rare species at the time he was an ardent follower of Ladimir Jabotinsky the founder of the Zionist revisionist movement so named because from the early 1920s it sought to revise the gradualist dissembling strategy of Wiseman and Bengarion Jabotinsky insisted on unabashed assertion of the end point of the Jewish national home a Jewish state through which river Jordan flowed not one in which the river was a border this goal was to be achieved in the shortest possible time by massive immigration by means of an iron wall by which he meant overwhelming military might Bengarion routinely referred to Jabotinsky as Vladimir Hitler Benzion's ardor for Jabotinsky was no less intense than Natan's he joined the revisionist party at 18 and later edited a revisionist daily entitled Jordan which relentlessly criticized Benzion and Bengarion Benzion followed Jabotinsky to the United States where he became his secretary he stayed there for 10 years spreading the revisionist ideology but returned to Israel to blast Begin for the peace treaty with Egypt recently not long ago before his death Benzion told an Israeli daily that withholding food from Arab cities preventing education terminating electrical power the Arabs won't be able to exist and will run away from here Bibi's Israeli biographers tell us that Benzion tutored his sons in history and Judaism and that they held their father in holy reverence as a boy Bibi often wanted to discuss the two banks of Jordan principle if Bibi's grandfather and father were his formative ideological influences his role model in life was his older brother Jonathan the commander leader the hero of Entebbe where he was killed in action this is where Bibi's swagger comes from Jonathan's death traumatized father and son to honor him they established the Jonathan institute in Jerusalem for the study of international terrorism appropriately one of its conferences was addressed by prime minister Menahim Begin though he apparently was trained from sharing his reminiscences about Daria Sin or about how his organization the Irgun had introduced the letter bomb the parcel bomb the barrel bomb the market bomb and the car bomb to the Middle East for Bibi the US is as much home ground as possible he knew the country from age 7 elementary school high school MIT a Boston consulting firm during this period he honed a Philadelphia accent and mastered baseball vocabulary at least three of his uncles had emigrated to the United States where they became steel and tin tycoons after Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon Yitzhak Shamir then foreign minister sent Bibi as an attache to the Washington embassy to help repair Israel's image Bibi was an instant success ubiquitously glib in the media lionized by the Jewish major organizations ambassador to the United Nations from 84 to 88 he consolidated his stardom with the pro Israeli public in the United States in 1991 Shamir now prime minister made Bibi deputy minister further feeding his Himalayan political appetite by 93 Bibi was the Likud leader by 96 he was prime minister a major source of insights into the relationship between Washington and Tel Aviv is the memoirs and autobiographies of successive presidents and secretaries of state the space devoted to the Arab Israeli conflict in these writings recently has grown enormously in the recent decades curiously to date there has been no serious attempt to collate this information with the other sources one other field of study for Palestine centers since his Washington embassy days Bibi has dealt in various capacities with five US administrations he considers the American political arena as legitimately his own he believes that his writings on terrorism convinced president Reagan to change American policy on how to deal with it he brags that he successfully lobbied Congress to end secretary Baker's attempts to open a dialogue with the PLO he explains all I did was force him forcing Baker into a change of policy by applying a little diplomatic pressure that's the name of the game unquote on his first visit to the United States minister in 1996 Bibi addressed Congress receiving tumultuous Jack in the box bipartisan ovations a tycoon uncle whom he had invited to the session told the US newspaper that he believed his nephew could beat Bob Dole and Bill Clinton at the presidential race President Clinton complained that when Bibi came to the White House for a visit, evangelist Jerry Falwell was outside rallying crowds praising the Israeli government's resistance to withdrawal from the occupied territories Clinton believed that Bibi recoiled at heart from the peace process his favorite tactic was to stall and fill a buster and when challenged he would cry national insult enter Barack Obama Bibi born in 1949 is 12 years older by the time Obama ran for the US Senate in 2003 Bibi had already been UN ambassador leader of the Likud prime minister foreign minister and was then the incumbent finance minister it was probably only after Obama's 2004 speech at the national democratic convention that Obama began to loom on Bibi's political radar screen where on earth did this guy come from and with that middle name it is tempting to speculate that Bibi feels Obama impinging on Bibi's own turf there is no time to go into the various rounds of the Obama Bibi arms wrestling match the settlement freeze Iranian nuclear ambitions the 1967 lines UN recognition of the PLO the Hamas Fatah agreement some observers believe Bibi has humbled Obama I think they are at deuce as in federal federal the other chap ladies and gentlemen in the last 100 years since 1914 Zionism rode piggyback first on packs Britannica then on packs americana to establish packs israeliana of the palestinian people how long can it persist in its refusal to seriously address what it has done to the palestinians my hunch is that Bibi will acquiesce to carries framework proposals but only with the intention to stall he thinks he can get away with it he sees himself as more than the prime minister of Israel in 2010 and 2012 the Jerusalem Post ranked him first on a list of the world's most influential Jews to Bibi the Atlantic flows through erets Israel Bibi knows he will outlive Obama politically in Israel once a prime minister always a prime minister Obama has three less than three more years to go meanwhile Bibi knows he can outflank Obama in the congress he certainly has more bipartisan support than the incumbent in the oval office all the other protagonists are committed to a peaceful resolution Kerry is his master's voice and Obama's understanding of the Palestine problem far surpasses that of all his predecessors Abbas's commitment to peace is genuine at his age peace would be the crowning achievement of a lifetime the Gulf dynasts are panting for a resolution they want to focus on the real enemy the un-Islamic anti-monarchical Tehran Bibi will never share Jerusalem continued occupation and settlement while tightening the noose around East Jerusalem is a sure recipe for an apocalyptic catastrophe sooner or later over the Muslim holy places in the old city with the continued surge in religious fundamentalist zealotry on both sides the road to Armageddon will lead from Jerusalem that is why ladies and gentlemen Benjamin Benzion Ben Natan Natanyahu is the most dangerous political leader in the world today thank you very much Mr. Khalidi thank you very very much for this fascinating fascinating lecture and I should say an also fascinating performance quite humbling to all of us teachers and public speakers who are in this room and we again thank you very much for this big effort that you did and this is a person who just arrived in Jerusalem yesterday so I mean you got enough food for thought for a long time I guess maybe it's time for the other kind of food thank you very very much


In high school, we had to write a booklet, because it was called a career booklet or something like that, and I titled it Medicine and Plastic Surgery. This was all just new. This was all developed during the war. The penicillin was the big drug, and lo and behold, I won the prize for the best career book in health acts that year. The prize that I got was a book about a surgeon in Burma, a North American surgeon. I forget where it's Canadian, I still have it. So I had a lot of incentive to go in that route. Into medicine? Yeah. I had started working in the drug store down the street from my home when I was about 12, I guess, delivering prescriptions on my bike, and as I got older and in university, I would then help behind the counter with prescriptions under their direction, of course. So getting my blood somehow, it got into my blood, and then getting, so there was quite a departure going from a city with that idea of medicine and going up into the Arctic, which is quite barren, bleak, very, very cold, most beautiful summer you ever see now, caribou wolves, and I enjoyed the rocks for various types of ore specimens and minerals, and I could just not stay with that.


Well, we're going to be looking at Romans chapter 8 verses 1 through 18 tonight as we continue our series here in The book of Romans and so I'll begin reading at verse 1 I'll read verses 1 through 4 and We'll get into our study Romans chapter 8 beginning at verse 1 reading to verse 4 Paul writes there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus Who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit for the law of the Spirit of life In Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God did by sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh on account of sin He condemned sin in the flesh that the righteous Requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit So Paul has just written concerning a war a war that is a spiritual war a war that is raging within us We saw that in chapter 7 at verse 18 and 19 when he had said I know that in me that is in my flesh Nothing good dwells for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good? I do not find for the good that I will to do I do not do but the evil I will not to do that I practice and he went on into verse 23 he said I see another law in my members Warring against the law of my mind bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members And so as any Christian Desiring to live for Christ as any Christian who desires to live for Christ Well, that same Christian will encounter conflict within The desire to please the Lord battles with our inclinations as you know to satisfy the lust of our flesh and in Galatians chapter 5 verse 17 Paul had said it like this he said the flesh lusts against the spirit And the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary to one another so that you do not do the things that you want And so we know this war this war that rages within us and this continuous internal battle Can begin to wear us down You know our own hearts Can cause us to feel guilty Our own hearts and memories Can remind us of what we've been and and that's the reality that propelled him to write verse 24 of chapter 7 When he said oh wretched man that I am who will deliver deliver me from this body of death So he understood that that battle Within who will deliver me is his cry. I'm I'm tired of this and and I don't want to be going through this I'm a wretched man. Who's going to deliver me? He went on in verse 25 and he said I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord So then with the mind I I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh love sin Who will deliver me God? God delivers me It reminds me of what we read in 1st John chapter 3 verse 20 when When John had said if our heart condemns us God is greater than our heart. He knows all things Who's going to deliver me from this body of death? Thank God through Jesus Christ. He's the one who delivers us And so as we begin We know even as paul has already stated that every person entering into the world has entered as a sinner Psalm 51 5 said surely I've been a sinner from birth sinful from the time my mother conceived me And no other no other human being no other person who wore human flesh no other Then jesus has ever been exempt of this So that answers the question. Why do people do such evil things? Why do evil things occur? Well, it they be they occur because of our human nature They they they occur because by nature we are sinful Our unredeemed human nature does what is natural for it to do When you read your bible paul actually gives lists of of some of the things that human nature produces the sinful things He said in glatians 5 19 through 21.  When he was writing to the aphesians in chapter 5 He said in verses 5 and 6 this you know That no fornicator unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater Has any inheritance in the kingdom of christ and god and he went on to say something important Obviously, he said let no one deceive you with empty words For because of these things the wrath of god comes upon the sons of disobedience There are pulpits today in the united states will say it's okay to do that I saw a video of a man who who said that there was a holiness in uh in Being a drag queen and so there are people and he actually called it a gift So there are I've looked through the gifts of the spirit haven't seen that yet, you know But that's what he said and he was a preacher by the one he was he was by the way he was on On in his pulpit and he was quote unquote preaching So is it possible for us to live with no sense or anticipation of condemnation? Well, that's what paul is saying as we begin our our study here in chapter 8 Notice what he says and he's already outlined that that there's a war within he's already outlined that all fallen short of the glory of god He's already outlined those kinds of things and he's spoken concerning this war and all and he had said Who's going to deliver me? But now he in verse 1 says this there is therefore now no condemnation To those who are in christ jesus who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the spirit So there's now no condemnation now notice how he says to those who are in christ jesus Now the phrase in christ jesus you might find this interesting if you take notes You might want to note this the phrase in christ jesus is used around 164 times in the new testament You know the the air is is what is fit for the bird the sea is what is fit for The fish and we are in christ jesus as the bird is in the air and the fish is in the sea We are in christ jesus when he speaks concerning that it's another way of speaking of salvation It speaks about us how we came into a relationship with jesus christ When he wrote to the carinthians in first carinthians 12 13 he said it like this he said For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body? So we all belong together. We all have different gifts and abilities One person is an eye another person is an ear one person is a hand another person is a foot And paul speaks concerning that and he says which of those is unnecessary Every one of those is necessary And so we are all necessary in the body of christ We all be in place in the body of christ through salvation And there's one body and so he's speaking about us being in relationship to jesus christ because we are in christ And so being a christian is more than simply an outward form of identification Being a christian is being in christ that means there's a spiritual union with god through jesus that resulted Because of our faith in christ We're in christ. We're united with jesus by faith We're in union with him In john 15 he said it like this john 15 verse one He said i'm the true vine And my father is the gardener And he went on in verses four and five and he said remain in me and i will remain in you Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me I am the vine you are the branches the one who remains in me and i in him will bear much fruit For apart from me You can do nothing And so we're in christ we have been grafted in we'll see that later on in this in this book But we're in christ and in christ because we've been grafted in We are in this true vine we produce fruit because we're in him And so because we are in christ notice again in verse one we have no fear of judgment. We have no condemnation no fear of judgment In john 5 24 jesus said it like this he said most assuredly i say to you he who hears my word and believes in him Who sent me has everlasting life and shall not come into judgment But has passed from death into life In john 6 47 most assuredly i say to you he who believes in me has eternal life And so that came from our receiving the promises of god place in our faith in jesus christ And now having a relationship with him and we are now in christ And so verse one again the fruit of being in christ is we no longer walk notice according to the flesh According to the flesh We no longer live to satisfy our carnal desires So instead we walk according to the power and the leading of the spirit of god We don't walk in the flesh. We walk in what is called walking in the spirit In glacians 5 16 he had said walk in the spirit. You shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh So as christians we reveal that we're walking in the spirit In some very basic ways for example, what is our walk like? What is our way of life like? What is our manner of life like? Well in the second christians 5 verse 7 we walk by faith And not by sight A second aspect of walking in this way is our obedience and love evidence that we're walking in the spirit In second john verse 6 this is love that we walk in obedience to his commands And as you've heard from the beginning his command is that you walk in love and then third It's evidenced by a love for the truth. It's a love for god's word That which is the truth in third john verse 4 john said something that as an apostle and a minister it's something that i as a pastor can say He said in third john verse 4 i have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth And so that's a symbol or evidence that you are walking in the spirit you walk by faith You have obedience and love for the word of god and others and And that's how it demonstrates that you know the lord and so he says in verse 1 again There's therefore now no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus who don't walk according to the flesh But according to the spirit verse 2 for the law of the spirit of life in christ jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death The law of the spirit of life is a principle It's a principle of spiritual life that works within us We have liberty in jesus christ through the holy spirit We've been set free from the bondage of the law You see in second carinthians 3 17 paul said where the spirit of the lord is there's liberty And so verse 3 for what the law could not do Why because it was weak through the flesh while in the law god had said standards no human being could achieve Again, we saw in romans 3 23. I'll have sin and fall short of the glory of god We couldn't fulfill its demands So Jesus did it on our behalf. That's why he could look at anybody including his own family could say this to his His mother mary. He could say which of you can convict me of sin Which of you he could he could look at his brothers But an odd upbringing they would have had Imagine that living with a perfect person Isn't that would be difficult Living with a perfect person would be mary has trouble with it every day Living with a perfect person is very hard She'll tell you But imagine that We cannot fulfill The intentions of the law We could do the best that we can and still not satisfy it completely. That's why we need the grace of god And so jesus came to fulfill the demands of the law So that we could have relationship with the lord and he gave his life as a ransom in matthew 5 17 He said I think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets I'm not come to destroy but to fulfill And that's what he did And so in verse 3 he said god did this by sending his own son in the likeness A flesh a human flesh God did this by sending jesus christ who had the outer appearance he looked he was in other words He's a physical human being and speaking of his incarnation jesus he's saying became fully human Yet he was without sin When he was writing to the philippians in chapter 2 he said it like this speaking of christ in verses 6 through 8 He said who being in the very nature god Did not consider equality with god something to be grasped But made himself nothing Taking the very nature of a servant being made in human likeness Being found in appearance as a man He humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross And speaking of the incarnation that god took upon himself human flesh So he sent his son in the likeness of man and what he did do in verse 3 he condemned sin in the flesh Again in the flesh speaks of his Substitutionary death on behalf of us He died for us isaia prophesied that in chapter 53 of his book verses 4 and 5 When you're speaking concerning messiah he said surely he took up our infirmities carried our sorrows Yet we considered him stricken by god smitten by him and afflicted But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our inequities The punishment that brought us peace was upon him By his wounds we are healed So he condemned sin in the flesh by taking upon himself My sin our sin and in doing so gave to us his righteousness He says in verse 4 that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh But according to the spirit The requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us by faith in jesus We're unable to keep the requirements of the law. So we're made righteous We're made righteous by faith in jesus christ because as he Fulfilled the law. He did so on our behalf I've I've mentioned this scripture more than once second grinthians 5 21 But it bears repetition here. He made him who knew no sin to be sinned for us That we might become the righteousness of god In him we're unable to keep the requirements, but jesus did it on our behalf In verse 5 those who live according to the flesh said their minds and the things of the flesh But those who live according to the spirit the things of the spirit So what he's going to do here is contrast the life of the spirit filled man Spirit filled woman versus the carnal life Now the person in the flesh indulges their bent towards rebellion In everything they do They're bent towards rebellion If you say it's black they say it's white if you say it's up they say it's down if you say it's sweet They say it's sour If they say stop they say go It's just a rebellion against order And the bible says in proverbs 4 16 evil people can't sleep until they've done their evil deeds for the day They can't rest until they've caused someone to stumble And there's truth to that But christians set their mind on the things of the spirit What it's been called is a holy longing Like it says in psalm 39 verse 7 now oh lord For what do I wait my hope is in you So instead of us pursuing the things of the flesh where there is a just due penalty for those things Now that we're saved we live for christ and walk in the spirit And our our hope is set on something higher and it's more majestic It's being with him and serving him And so he says in verse 6 he says to be carnally minded as death But to be spiritually minded is life in peace To be carnally minded as death you can only party for so long Until you realize it's empty You can do it for a week you can do it for a month you can party for a year You can party for 10 years you can party your whole life away At the end you realize this is an empty life Eventually you realize it and ultimately what happens is you die and very often you die alone And you die unfulfilled and then ultimately you're judged To be carnally minded is death to be setting your affections on things below rather than things above And to be tasting and drinking the water of the world every day only leaves you thirsty But when your mind is set on the things of the lord well there's life and there's peace From god we set our affections on the things of eternity and i have to tell you The the the the longer you walk with the lord the more aware you are of eternity The longer you walk with jesus The more aware you are that you're just passing through At a certain point some of you will discover this some have already i've discovered this now at this point in my life When you're young you're you're caught up with with all the kinds of things that You can be caught up with you you get caught up with your education you get caught up with Relationship you get caught up with your job you get caught up with a variety of things You know these are things that you pursue and many of those are the things that are Necessary at that time in your life. There's no condemnation concerning those things But you do get caught up with them then if you get married you have your children You're caught up with raising the children And as they grow up in everything you get caught up with wanting them out of the house I mean that's how it works But you do you get caught up with quite a number of things over time and And after a while you may you may be less unfortunate enough to achieve many of the Goals that you set for yourself you got the degrees you got the good job You got the nice neighborhood you have a nice vehicle you have Relationship you have all of those things and yet if you don't have christ in the center of them It's all emptiness And then ultimately what happens is you get to the end of your life and then you have a chance to Look back over your life and you begin to wonder whether or not you accomplished the things that Really mattered and when you begin to speak to people and you ask them concerning what their Greatest regret is very often they'll say I didn't spend enough time with those I loved I didn't spend enough time relaxing. I didn't spend enough time enjoying I spent so much time doing all the work to get to the things I wanted And I never even enjoyed it Many years ago there was a song concerning a man who it was called mr. Business ban and It speaks concerning him having roses in the garden. He says have you even smelled the roses in the garden Have you ever listened to the laughter of your children when they said about to play You know all you've done is survive, but you've never lived was the whole point of it. Why is that? Because we're pursuing he was pursuing the things that didn't matter He was pursuing the things that didn't last And so Christians when we walk in the spirit We're seeking the things of the Lord And that's what we want in Colossians 3 1 and 2 if if then you were raised with christ seek those things Which are above where christ is sitting at the right hand of god your mind on things above Not on things on the earth So we have abundant life We have peace We have peace with god and we have peace from god Well, he says in verse verse 7 He says the carnal mind is enmity is that constant hostility. It's a war The unspiritual mind the carnal mind is is enmity against god It's not subject to the law of god nor indeed can be The non-christian is in a constant state of hostile warfare against the lord Again in Colossians 1 21 he had said once you were alienated from god you were enemies in your minds Because of your evil behavior And so your minds were not set on the things above he's saying the carnal mind is that constant war against god Isn't subject doesn't voluntarily submit to him is in constant battle against him So he says the result verse 8 so then those who are in the flesh cannot please god Why well, there's no spirit led longing to do so To to have a genuine a real desire to please god requires regeneration requires being born again Because with regeneration Comes the desire to please god And so you can't please them no matter what you do no matter how many prayers no matter How many times you go to church no matter how much money you spend No matter how much charitable work you do you can't please god Because even the things that are being done in the name of god very often are done for personal benefit It's so that someone may look at you and say oh boy, what a good person you are what a generous person you are So in fact what they're doing is what jesus condemned You know they're doing their works before men to be seen by men and receive the praise of men It takes a genuine believer to do it without the desire to be recognized for what they're doing It's been said the most beautiful sound in any person's ear is the sound of their own name on somebody else's lips Well, I'm glad that I don't have that spirit Well, sometimes we sometimes we do Sometimes we want to be recognized, but not all the time the lord has a way of breaking us because of that and bringing humility to us And so he's making it clear He says if you're in the flesh you can't please god first time But you're not in the flesh, but in the spirit if indeed the spirit of god dwells in you Now if anyone does not have the spirit of christ He's he's not his and if christ is in you the body is dead because of sin But the spirit is life because of righteousness But if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead dwells in you He who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you And so in verse dying. He says you're not in the flesh if you're saved in other words You no longer are opposed to god now your body dies because The wages of sin is death And and you will ultimately we all unless the rapture occurs which we pray for of course You will I will we will physically die And we're in the state Of dying daily Some of us can say amen to that very loudly Though we are physically dying Faith in christ is actually producing life in us And john 11 25 and 26 jesus was speaking And he said i'm the resurrection and the life He who believes in me though he may die He shall live whoever lives and believes in me shall never die Do you believe this your body may physically die But spiritually you're alive So he says in verse 10 if christ is in you the body is dead because of sin In other words because of sin physical death still occurs even for believers yet Though physical death occurs We will be raised to life He says in verse 11 if the spirit of him who raised jesus from the dead Dwells in you He who raised christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you We are The temple of the spirit of god and the spirit of god Dwells in us. I think that's one of the things that um, I need to sometimes Remember out loud to to us the congregation believers Because there's still a very real That's the word there's there's a real evidence that there are some who have Yet to come to understand that that you are the temple of the spirit of god We many of us were raised with the mentality of going to church, right? What are you going to do this sunday? I'm going to church and that's a phrase we use and it's a generalization. We know that But we get the idea that the building is the church So where are you going that all this sunday? I'm going to church. No the church We know this is the individual believer in christ. We are his temple And what happens right now is the church is gathered together The building doesn't matter. We know that it's that we matter. Why because he has dwelt in us by his spirit In the old testament they built a temple They had a tabernacle at one time It was a portable tent a place of worship and there were various items that were within that and it was to Be transported to various locations as they traveled but in the in the later years A man by the name of david king david had it in his heart to build a temple for god and even went about Drawing up plans and things to do so and and the prophet came and spoke to him and said When did god tell you to build a temple? Has god given you a command to do that? It this thing in your heart is a good thing But david you're a man of war. There is blood on your hands God will not allow you to build that temple Your son solemn Solomon is going to build the temple Why because he was a man of peace david you're a man of war And so that's how the temple was first built and there were requirements For the children of israel at a certain age above 20 males 20 and above were to meet in and Go to temple at least three times a year for specific feasts And so the people Would go to temple And in the new testament the temple goes to people When you got saved you became the temple of the spirit of god And now the temple Is no longer in jesusland Jesus said the gospel shall begin to be preached in jesusland judaea samaria and the uttermost parts of the earth So we don't go to the temple the temple goes to the people And we go out to minister and when we gather like this is for the purpose of learning So we're equipped for works of service so that we can speak to those who don't know the lord And help them to become the temple of god themselves And so the spirit of god dwells within us And so we are that temple now notice how paul speaks of the spirit He also speaks says the spirit of god and the spirit of christ and those are interchangeable In verse nine he speaks of the spirit of god and the spirit of christ and in verse 11 he speaks of the spirit of him Meaning god's holy spirit And the spirit of him raised jesus from the dead in other words death could not hold jesus Acts 224 peter said god raised him from the dead Freeing him from the agony of death because it was impossible For death to keep its hold on him Let this sink into our hearts the same power that brought christ from the dead works within us Works within us It's been said the resurrection is an ongoing thing We grieve the loss because there is an emotional loss. We grieve the loss of those we love But they're never lost When I lose something and I used to lose things all the time because I was a a doper And I would I smoked so much pot that I began losing my memory I couldn't remember where I put my keys that actually became kind of a An easter egg hunt every day with my mom I I never knew where I put my keys And and she didn't know I was a loady. We used to call it loady. I don't know what's called now She didn't know that I was Constantly loaded. She didn't know that She just thought I was weird Every morning my mom and I would have a hunt for my keys every morning Because I would just walk in and just put them down somewhere, you know That's how it used to be It used to be that way But god has a way of changing lives, doesn't he And the spirit of god dwelling in you causes you to to aspire to greater things Transforms your life changes your purpose gives you meaning And causes you to to to be inspired to pursue him to follow him And and it's this power that works within us and gives you gives us life and it's an ongoing thing In verse 12 he says therefore brethren We're debtors not to the flesh to live according to the to the flesh For if you live according to the flesh, you're gonna die But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you'll live so We are under obligation to live for god not Our fleshly desires why is that? It's because jesus jesus bought us Jesus jesus purchased us in redemption We belong to him In first chrithian 6 verse 20 you were bought at a price Therefore honor god with your body And your spirit which belonged to god he redeemed you You are not your own you were bought at a price He took you from the from the marketplace of sin He redeemed you during the time of the writing of the new testament They had the a marketplace and they would they would sell slaves there And uh somebody would come and they actually paid what was called the price of redemption And in the purchase of that person that person who was purchased that slave That one who bottom had options They could use him during the time of the romans and greeks as a as a living tool Which is what one of the writers or the historians of that day referred to slaves as Or They could redeem to set free And we were in the marketplace of sin as a picture in scripture But somebody redeemed us they paid that redemptive price The price was the blood of christ And he chose to take us out of bondage Because the one who was in sin jesus said as a slave to sin he Redeemed us purchased us and the cost was his blood He did so to set us free Because all our lives we had been held captive by the enemy to do his will But now because we've been saved he's given us a new nature And new desires that go along with that So rather than remaining in lives of sin We have now been set free to be pleasing to him And by reading the word and walking in his spirit We're aware of the lust of our flesh and therefore we die to those things And we pursue those things that bring honor to god By the power of the holy spirit Titus 2 12 says teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lust We should live soberly righteously and godly in this present age In verse 13 he said if you live according to the flesh you'll die But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body You will live Now when he speaks of this he's speaking obviously of the unbeliever who lives according to the flesh These people are coming under god's judgment.  It's just foolishness to them You know, there are people who are very caught up with just living for their flesh I can still remember it was in this room Many years ago now And I gave an invitation And off to my right over here in this direction I saw movement right over here And I didn't know what was going on But you could see movement there And later on I was told what it was When I gave the invitation and said if you need christ, please come forward This young woman began to stand up to come forward and her boyfriend grabbed her and pulled her down Pulled her down And wouldn't let her he wouldn't let her out of the seat He wanted to live in the flesh This young lady wanted to live for jesus and he didn't come forward. She didn't come forward I don't remember seeing her ever again That happens He says in verse 13 if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you shall live If you reject listen even hating The sin that you were once held by that's a good thing You put to death the old way of life through spiritual discipline In uh first chrithians dying 24 through 27 Paul said it like this. He said do you not know that in a race All the runners run but only one receives the prize Run in such a way as to take the prize Everyone who competes in the games trains with strict discipline They do it for a crown that is perishable But we do it for a crown that is imperishable Therefore I do not run aimlessly I do not fight like I am beating the air Now I discipline my body make it my slave So that after I've preached to others I myself will not be disqualified when he says I won't be disqualified I want to receive the full reward. It's like what it says in 2nd John verse 8 Watch yourselves so that you may not lose what you have worked for but may win a full reward I don't want to lose a single element of a reward. So I discipline myself Being filled with the spirit gives us strength To live for Christ and no longer satisfy the flesh Notice in verse 14 He says as many as are led by the spirit of God.  He directs us were led by the spirit Through God's words and the internal promptings of the spirit Let me share a couple of things about that in John 16 verse 13 Jesus said when the spirit of truth comes He will guide you into all truth for he will not speak on his own authority But whatever he hears he will speak and he will declare to you the things that are to come You see the holy spirit leads us in our daily lives There's an intimacy and I want to develop this with you from them There is an intimacy that we as children can have with our father I have four children and they have they have insight into me that That children will have for a dad There are people who can say I know what your father will do And they they know me well enough to be able to say that well, I know what your father would do they could say that I know what your father would do But my children can tell you why I do what I do and there's a difference Someone can see the actions and explain what they've seen in the past But others can see the heart and know why that's being done When you are a child of God It's not that you're just talking about what God can do I've been around a lot of people who can tell me things that God can do It's not hard to find things that God can do just pick up the bible and look and you see it But there aren't that many who can tell you why he does what he does And there's a difference in that We don't want to know just the actions of God We want to know the ways of God We want to know why he does what he does and that takes intimacy And so when he's speaking concerning the Holy Spirit and the way the Holy Spirit works within us He's speaking of how we have this intimate connection with God And we know his actions and the reasons that he acts in this way In other words, we have communion with God by his spirit Now you see in scripture that that the Holy Spirit is one who leads you again verse 14 As many as are led by the spirit of God. These are the sons of God And so we see examples of the spirit leading for example in Matthew 4 verse 1 Where it says that Jesus was led up by the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil the spirit Let him there in the book of Acts in chapter 8 That particular chapter records how an evangelist the only one in scripture By the way who's referred to as an evangelist man named Philip How that the evangelist Philip went south of Jerusalem to an area called Gaza And while he was there he ran into a very powerful and influential Ethiopian eunuch Now this Ethiopian eunuch was was in his chariot and he was reading the book of Isaiah And as this was happening in Acts 8 29 the spirit said to Philip go over to that chariot stay by it Now Philip we read that story. He saw that this man was reading Isaiah And and he the man said Philip said do you understand what you're reading? And the man said how can I unless somebody teaches me? So what are you reading while he was reading out of Isaiah? And he read the portion and explained that that it was speaking of messiah And that that that Ethiopian came to faith in Christ And so the spirit those who walk in the spirit were led by the spirit God will lead us to do those kinds of things In Acts 13 it records how then Antioch and Church leaders were in prayer and worship and in Acts 13 2 and 3 it said while they were worshiping the Lord and fasting the Holy Spirit said Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I've called them And after they fasted and prayed they laid their hands on them and sent them off They were fasting they were praying seeking the Lord. He said set apart and that's how they went off on one of their ministry experiences So being led by the spirit Is another way of speaking of having communion with God There are times when God prompts you to action. Let me tell you a story. It's story time I was thinking of all these things that I could share with you today because Because the Holy Spirit leads us and prompts us But this was not that long ago. My wife Marie and I were driving to New Mexico And I I can't see very well in the dark I I have a night blindness and also um You know glaucoma and I had a cataract In my left eye And so I'm driving it's around 12 or 1 in the morning No lights those of you who've driven into Arizona and all at night. You're in desert, right? And they're doing construction No line In in the lane that I'm in no line And so as it's as good as a single lane to me So normally what I'm hoping for is a car in front of me So I can just kind of tail them, you know and follow because I can't see in the dark and it's pitch black.   No, my wife doesn't know this because I'm mr. Macho. She wouldn't know But I got a little nervous because I couldn't see And I'm driving it's just as good as me just driving into into darkness And so that's I'm driving And now there are cars and there's this kind of one of these gullies And then cars coming on the other side And I think within myself. I think Turn on your brights because you can't see I'm I'm reasoning with myself And I said, no, I can't um Because my my lights will blind the drivers who are on the other side of the road. I can't do that But I sense the spirit of the lord Say turn on your brights So I did I turned my brights on And right in front of me. I was driving straight to the lip I was about to go over And hit that gully But it was the spirit of the lord who said and I know it was He said turn on your brights. He actually did it twice the first time. I thought it was me second time I knew That wasn't the first time something like that happened. I'll give you another brief story We were on our way into towards the glendale area Marine are driving. It's a four lane highway. I usually drive on the in the third lane And there's no traffic in front of me and no traffic behind me and I sense the spirit say change lanes And so this time I did it quickly Change lanes Why why would I do that change lanes? I changed to the slow lane what we call the slow lane And as I did that within 10 seconds An 18 foot stake bed blew through the fence Come in the opposite direction Shot into my lane and then went back into You know what? The holy spirit still communicates He still leads you He still prompts you And what we need to learn to do is to listen to listen I I can't imagine how many conversations I've stifled with him simply because I thought it was just me Maybe too much salsa. I don't know So the holy spirit by his word teaches you his ways But in fellowship with him, he also leads you in your footsteps. That's why you pray. That's why you seek god That's why you say what do you want me to do today?  He says You did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear you received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba father the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit We are children of god and if children then heirs heirs of god joint heirs with christ If indeed we suffer with him, we may also be glorified together For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy To be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us Now when he speaks of the spirit of bondage, that's referring to a frame of mind bondage to sin results in a life filled with fear Because you can't keep the law But we have received not the spirit of bondage, but a spirit of adoption It's a holy spirit Who gives us the ability to have a relationship with god and gives us that secure knowledge of fellowship with him And the spirit in verse 16. He bears witness with our spirit. We belong to him. There's an inner testimony I belong to god and and and this is a holy spirit Who produces a love for god a hatred for sin and a desire to walk in holiness And so in verse 17 if we're children we're heirs We're heirs of god joint heirs with christ We are heirs of god. He is the one who is going to give to us what is called our inheritance And he himself actually is our inheritance But we're joint heirs with jesus In christ we we receive through him. He's the air of all honor and glory of heaven And we're in him and united with him and all that he inherits. This is amazing We inherit in him In john 17 22 the glory you gave me. I have given them that they may be one even as we are one But he closes by saying Indeed if indeed we suffer with him that we may be glorified together with him If we suffer for his cause And bear the afflictions and pain as he did is what he's speaking about You know philippians 129 says it has been uh to you it has been granted on behalf of christ not only to believe in him But also to suffer for his sake And you know what he says in verse 18 i consider the sufferings of this present time Are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us I love second chrithians 4 17 and we'll close with this Our light affliction Which is but for a moment Is working for us a far more exceeding an eternal weight of glory What we go through may feel like forever right now, but he says it's only for a moment We go through it And there's a weight of glory Someone wrote as believers often Suffering comes through men But glory comes from god Our suffering is short But our glory is forever