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[Slide 1] Today, I'd like to do something a little different. Today I'll preach a message that has already been preached at least one time before. Although we aren't sure when this sermon was preached originally, I do know that it is over 300 years old. The original composer was Dr. Thomas Manton. I have preached a sermon from the past before. Why do I do this? For several reasons actually but the most important reason is that every time I've preached a message like this, it has been abundantly relevant to our time even though it is separated from us by centuries. This proves not the wisdom of the man, but the living nature of the Word of God and how it transcends through all generations. [Slide 2] But let me tell you a bit about Dr. Thomas Manton… Born in Somerset in 1620 from a long line of ministers. He was ordained by Bishop Hall at the age of nineteen. He served as a chaplain to the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Yet Manton was firmly opposed to the execution of Charles I, causing considerable offence by preaching against it before Parliament. Later he was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II and became a Royal Chaplain. But when offered the Deanery of Rochester he chose rather to suffer with his Puritan brethren in the Great Ejection of 1662. Preaching afterward in his own home he was imprisoned for his ministry. Manton died in 1677, after a lifetime of rich and practical biblical ministry. [Slide 3] The following sermon “Sermon LXX (70)” is included in Several Sermons upon Psalm 119, which contains 190 sermons and was his crowning achievement as a pastor. One quick note. I haven't abridged and translated very little of this sermon. Therefore, it is necessary for you to pay extra close attention as the language will be understandable – but challenging. Keep your eyes on the screen since the outline of the sermon will appear there. It should help you stay with me. But you must be extra attentive listeners today if you are to understand Dr. Manton's sermon. From this point on, all the words I say until the prayer at the end, will be Thomas Manton's Words with few alterations. [Slide 4] At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.—Ver. 62. In these words observe three things:— 1. David's holy employment, or the duty promised, giving thanks to God. 2. His earnestness and fervency, implied in the time mentioned, at midnight I will rise; rather interrupt his sleep and rest than God should want his praise. 3. The cause or matter of his thanksgiving, because of thy righteous judgments, whereby he meaneth the dispensations of his providence in delivering the godly and punishing the wicked according to his word… [Slide 5] [Which establishes 3 doctrines] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. Doct. 2. That, God's providence rightly considered, we shall in the worst times find much more cause to give thanks than to complain. Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise God and give thanks to his name, both in season and out of season. [Slide 6] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. This duty is often pressed upon us: Heb. 13:15, ‘Let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually, which is the fruit of our lips;' giving thanks unto his name. There are two words there used, praise and thanksgiving: generally taken, they are the same; strictly taken, thanksgiving differeth from praise. They agree that we use our voice in thanksgiving, as we do also in praise, for they are both said to be the fruit of our lips. What is in the prophet Hosea, chap. 14:2, ‘calves of our lips,' is in the Septuagint, ‘the fruit of our lips;' and they both agree that they are a sacrifice offered to our supreme benefactor, or that they belong to the thank-offerings of the gospel. But they differ in that thanksgiving belongeth to benefits bestowed on ourselves or others; but in relation to us, praise to any excellency whatsoever. Thanksgiving may be in word or deed; praise in words only. Well, then, thanksgiving is a sensible acknowledgment of favours received, or an expression of our sense of them, by word and work, to the praise of the bestower. The object of it is the works of God as beneficial unto us, or to those who are related to us, or in whose good or ill we are concerned. As public persons, as magistrates: 1 Tim. 2:1, 2, ‘I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority.' Pastors of the church: 2 Cor. 1:11, ‘You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.' Or our kindred according to the flesh, or some bond of Christian duty: Rom. 12:15, ‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice.' Another place where this duty is enforced is Eph. 5:20, where we are bidden to ‘give thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;' where you see it is a duty of a universal and perpetual use, and one wherein the honour of God and Christ is much concerned. A third place is 1 Thes. 5:18, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' See what reason he urgeth; the express will of God requiring this worship at our hands. We are to obey by the insight of the will. God's will is the fundamental reason of our obedience in every commandment; but here is a direct charge, now God hath made known the wonders of his love in Christ. [Slide 7] I shall prove to you that this is a necessary duty, a profitable duty, a pleasant and delightful duty. [Slide 8] 1. The necessity of being much and often in thanksgiving will appear by these two considerations:— [1.] [Slide 9] Because God is continually beneficial to us, blessing and delivering his people every day, and by new mercies giveth us new matter of praise and thanksgiving: Ps. 68:19, ‘Blessed be the God of our salvation, who loadeth us daily with his benefits, Selah.' He hath continually favoured us and preserved us, and poured his benefits upon us. The mercies of every day make way for songs which may sweeten our rest in the night; and his giving us rest by night, and preserving us in our sleep, when we could not help ourselves, giveth us songs in the morning. And all the day long we find new matter of praise: our whole work is divided between receiving and acknowledging. [2.] [Slide 10] Some mercies are so general and beneficial that they should never be forgotten, but remembered before God every day. Such as redemption by Christ: Ps. 111:4, ‘He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered.' We must daily be blessing God for Jesus Christ: 2 Cor. 9:15, ‘Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.' I understand it of his grace by Christ. We should ever be thus blessing and praising him; for the keeping of his great works in memory is the foundation of all love and service to God. 2. [Slide 11] It is a profitable duty. The usefulness of thanksgiving appeareth with respect to faith, love, and obedience. [1.] [Slide 12] With respect to faith. Faith and praise live and die together; if there be faith, there will be praise; and if there be praise, there will be faith. If faith, there will be praise, for faith is a bird that can sing in winter: Ps. 56:4, ‘In God will I praise his word, in God have I put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me;' and ver. 10, ‘In God I will praise his word, in the Lord I will praise his word.' His word is satisfaction enough to a gracious heart; if they have his word, they can praise him beforehand, for the grounds of hope before they have enjoyment. As Abraham, when he had not a foot in the land of Canaan, yet built an altar and offered sacrifices of thanksgiving, because of God's grant and the future possession in his posterity. Then, whether he punisheth or pitieth, we will praise him and glory in him. Faith entertaineth the promise before performance cometh, not only with confidence, but with delight and praise. The other part is, if praise, there will be faith; that is, supposing the praise real, for it raiseth our faith to expect the like again, having received so much grace already. All God's praises are the believer's advantage, the mercy is many times given as a pledge of more mercy. In many cases God will give gifts. If life, he will give food and bodily raiment. It holdeth good in spiritual things. If Christ, other things with Christ. One concession draweth another; if he spares me, he will feed me, clothe me. The attributes from whence the mercy cometh is the pillar of the believer's confidence and hope. If such a good, then a fit object of trust. If I have found him a God hearing prayer, ‘I will call upon him as long as I live,' Ps. 116:2. Praise doth but provide matter of trust, and represent God to us as a storehouse of all good things, and a sure foundation for dependence. [2.] [Slide 13] The great respect it hath to love. Praise and thanksgiving is an act of love, and then it cherisheth and feedeth love. It is an act of love to God, for if we love God we will praise him. Prayer is a work of necessity, but praise a mere work of duty and respect to God. We would exalt him more in our own hearts and in the hearts of others: Ps. 71:14, ‘I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.' We pray because we need God, and we praise him because we love him. Self-love will put us upon prayer, but the love of God upon praise and thanksgiving; then we return to give him the glory. Those that seek themselves will cry to him in their distress; but those that love God cannot endure that he should be without his due honour. In heaven, when other graces and duties cease, which belong to this imperfect state, as faith and repentance cease, yet love remaineth; and because love remaineth, praise remaineth, which is our great employment in the other world. So it feedeth and cherisheth love, for every benefit acknowledged is a new fuel to keep in the fire: Ps. 18:1, ‘I will love thee, O Lord, my strength;' Ps. 116:1, ‘I will love the Lord, who hath heard the voice of my supplications;' Deut. 30:20, ‘That thou mayest love the Lord, who is thy life, and the length of thy days.' The soul by praise is filled with a sense of the mercy and goodness of God, so that hereby he is made more amiable to us. [3.] [Slide 14] With respect to submission and obedience to his laws and providence. (1.) His laws. The greatest bond of duty upon the fallen creature is gratitude. Now grateful we cannot be without a sensible and explicit acknowledgment of his goodness to us: the more frequent and serious in that, the more doth our love constrain us to devote ourselves to God: Rom. 12:1, ‘I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.' To live to him: 2 Cor. 5:14, 15, ‘For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead, and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.' And therefore praise and thanksgiving is a greater help to the spiritual life than we are usually aware of; for, working in us a sense of God's love, and an actual remembrance of his benefits (as it will do if rightly performed), it doth make us shy of sin, more careful and solicitous to do his will. Shall we offend so good a God? God's love to us is a love of bounty; our love to God is a love of duty, when we grudge not to live in subjection to him: 1 John 5:3, ‘His commandments are not grievous.' (2.) Submission to his providence. There is a querulous and sour spirit which is natural to us, always repining and murmuring at God's dealing, and wasting and vexing our spirits in heartless complaints. Now, this fretting, quarrelling, impatient humour, which often showeth itself against God even in our prayers and supplications, is quelled by nothing so much as by being frequent in praises and thanksgivings: Job 1:21, ‘The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' It is an act of holy prudence in the saints, when they are under any trouble, to strain themselves to the quite contrary duty of what temptations and corruptions would drive them unto. When the temptation is laid to make us murmur and swell at God's dealings, we should on the contrary bless and give thanks. And therefore the Psalmist doth so frequently sing praises in the saddest condition. There is no perfect defeating the temptation but by studying matter of praise, and to set seriously about the duty. So Job 2:10, ‘Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' Shall we receive so many proofs of the love of God, and quarrel at a few afflictions that come from the same hand, and rebel against his providence when he bringeth on some needful trouble for our trial and exercise? and having tasted so much of his bounty and love, repine and fret at every change of dealing, though it be useful to purge out our corruptions, and promote our communion with God? Surely nothing can be extremely evil that cometh from this good hand. As we receive good things cheerfully and contentedly, so must we receive evil things submissively and patiently. [Slide 15] 3. It is a most delightful work to remember the many thousand mercies God hath bestowed on the church, ourselves, and friends. To remember his gracious word and all the passages of his providence; is this burdensome to us? Ps. 147:1, ‘Praise ye the Lord, for it is pleasant;' and Ps. 135:3, ‘Sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant.' Next to necessity, profit; next to profit, pleasure. No necessity so great as spiritual necessity, because our eternal well-being or ill-being dependeth on it; and beggary is nothing to being found naked in the great day. No profit so great as spiritual; that is not to be measured by the good things of this world, or a little pelf, or the great mammon, which so many worship; but some spiritual and divine benefit, which tendeth to make us spiritually better, more like God, more capable of communion with him: that is true profit, it is an increase of faith, love, and obedience. So for pleasure and delight; that which truly exhilarateth the soul, begets upon us a solid impression of God's love, that is the true pleasure. Carnal pleasures are unwholesome for you, like luscious fruits, which make you sick. Nothing is so hard of digestion as carnal pleasures. This feedeth the flesh, warreth against the soul; but this holy delight that resulteth from the serious remembrance of God, and setting forth his excellences and benefits, is safe and healthful, and doth cheer us but not hurt us. [Slide 16] Use. Oh, then, let us be oftener in praising and giving thanks to God! Can you receive so much, and beg so much, and never think of a return or any expression of gratitude? Is there such a being as God, have you all your supplies from him, and will you not take some time to acknowledge what he hath done for your souls? Either you must deny his being, and then you are atheists; or you must deny his providence, and then you are epicureans, next door to atheism; or you must deny such a duty as praise and thanksgiving, and then you are anti-scripturists, for the scripture everywhere calleth for it at our hands; or else, if you neglect this duty, you live in flat contradiction to what you profess to believe, and then you are practical atheists, and practical epicureans, and practical anti-scripturists; and so your condemnation will be the greater, because you own the truth but deny the practice. I beseech you, therefore, to be often alone with God, and that in a way of thanksgiving, to increase your love, faith, and obedience, and delight in God. Shall I use arguments to you? [Slide 17] 1. Have you received nothing from God? I put this question to you, because great is our unthankfulness, not only for common benefits, but also for special deliverances—the one not noted and observed, the other not improved. Humble persons will find matter of praise in very common benefits, but we forget even signal mercies. Therefore, I say, have you received nothing? Now, consider, is there no return due? You know the story, Luke 17:15–19, Christ healed ten lepers, and but one of them ‘returned and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down at his feet giving thanks, and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.' All had received a like benefit, but one only returned, and he a Gentile and no Jew, to acknowledge the mercy. They were made whole by a miraculous providence, he was made whole by a more gracious dispensation: ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole;' he was dismissed with a special blessing. God scattereth his benefits upon all mankind, but how few own the supreme benefactor! Surely a sensible heart seeth always new occasions of praising God, and some old occasions that must always be remembered, always for life, and peace, and safety, and daily provision; and always for Christ, and the hopes of eternal life. Surely if we have the comfort, God should have the glory: Ps. 96:8, ‘Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.' He that hath scattered his seed expecteth a crop from you. [Slide 18] 2. How disingenuous is it to be always craving, and never giving thanks! It is contrary to his directions in the word; for he showeth us there that all our prayers should be mingled with a thankful sense and acknowledgment of his mercies: Phil. 4:6, ‘In everything let your requests and supplications be made known with thanksgiving.' Do not come only in a complaining way: Col. 4:2, ‘Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.' They are not holy requests unless we acknowledge what he hath done for us, as well as desire him to do more. Nothing more usual than to come in our necessities to seek help; but we do not return, when we have received help and relief, to give thanks. When our turn is served, we neglect God. Wants urge us more than blessings, our interest swayeth us more than duty. As a dog swalloweth every bit that is cast to him, and still looketh for more, we swallow whatever the bounty of God casteth out to us without thanks, and when we need again, we would have more, and though warm in petitions, yet cold, rare, infrequent in gratitude. It is not only against scripture, but against nature. Ethnics abhor the ungrateful, that were still receiving, but forgetting to give thanks. It is against justice to seek help of God, and when we have it to make no more mention of God than if we had it from ourselves. It is against truth; we make many promises in our affliction, but forget all when well at ease. [Slide 19] 3. God either takes away or blasts the mercies which we are not thankful for. Sometimes he taketh them from us: Hosea 2:8, 9, ‘I will take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and flax.' Why? ‘She doth not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and gave her silver and gold.' Where his kindness is not taken notice of, nor his hand seen and acknowledged, he will take his benefits to himself again. We know not the value of mercies so much by their worth as by their want. God must set things at a distance to make us value them. If he take them not away, yet many times he blasts them as to their natural use: Mal. 2:2, ‘And if you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.' The creature is a deaf-nut; when we come to crack it, we have not the natural blessing as to health, strength, and cheerfulness, or if food, yet not gladness of heart with it; or we have not the sanctified use, it is not a mercy that leadeth us to God. A thing is sanctified if it cometh from God and leadeth us to God: 1 Cor. 3:21–23, ‘All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, for you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.' You have a covenant right, a holy use. [Slide 20] 4. Bless him for favours received, and you shall have more. Thanksgiving is the kindly way of petitioning, and the more thankful for mercies, the more they are increased upon us. Vapours drawn up from the earth return in showers to the earth again. The sea poureth out its fulness into the rivers, and all rivers return to the sea from whence they came: Ps. 67:5, 6, ‘Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee: then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us.' It is not only true of outward increase, but of spiritual also: Col. 2:7, ‘Be ye rooted in the faith, and abound therein with thanksgiving.' If we give thanks for so much grace as we have already received, it is the way to increase our store. We thrive no more, get no more victory over our corruptions, because we do no more give thanks. [Slide 21] 5. When God's common mercies are well observed or well improved, it fits us for acts of more special kindness. In the story of the lepers—Luke 17:19, ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole,'—he met not only with a bodily cure, but a soul cure: Luke 16:11, ‘If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?' When we suspect a vessel leaketh, we try it with water before we fill it with wine. You are upon your trial; be thankful for less, God will give you more. [Slide 22] Means or directions:— [1.] Heighten all the mercies you have by all the circumstances necessary to be considered. By the nature and kind of them: spiritual eternal blessings first; the greatest mercies deserve greatest acknowledgment: Eph. 1:3, ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ'—Christ's spirit, pardon of sins, heaven, the way of salvation known, accepted, and the things of the world as subordinate helps. Luke 10:20, ‘Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.' [Slide 23] Then consider your sense in the want of mercies; what high thoughts had you then of them? The mercies are the same when you have them and when you want them, only your apprehensions are greater. If affectionately begged they must be affectionately acknowledged, else you are a hypocrite either in the supplication or gratulation. [Slide 24] Consider the person giving, God, so high and glorious. A small remembrance from a great prince, no way obliged, no way needing me, to whom I can be no way profitable, a small kindness melts us, a gift of a few pounds, a little parcel of land. Do I court him and observe him? There is less reason why God should abase himself to look upon us or concern himself in us: Ps. 113:6, ‘He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.' We have all things from him. [Slide 25] Consider the person receiving; so unworthy: Gen. 32:10, ‘I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant;' 2 Sam. 7:18, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?' [Slide 26] Consider the season; our greatest extremity is God's opportunity: Gen. 22:14, ‘In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,' when the knife was at the throat of his son; 2 Cor. 1:9, 10, ‘We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us.' [Slide 27] Consider the end and fruit of his mercy; it is to manifest his special love to us, and engage our hearts to himself: Isa. 38:17, ‘Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption,' or ‘thou hast loved me from the grave;' otherwise God may give things in anger. [Slide 28] Consider the means by which he brought them about, when unlikely, unexpected in themselves, weak, insufficient. The greatest matters of providence hang many times upon small wires: a lie brought Joseph into prison, and a dream fetched him out, and he was advanced, and Jacob's family fed. Consider the number of his mercies: Ps. 139:17, ‘How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!' The many failings pardoned, comforts received, dangers prevented, deliverances granted. How he began with us before all time, conducted us in time, and hath been preparing for us a happiness which we shall enjoy when time shall be no more. [Slide 29] [2.] Satisfy yourselves with no praise and thanksgiving but what leaveth the impression of real effects upon the soul; for God is not flattered with empty praises and a little verbal commendation. There is a twofold praising of God—by expressive declaration or by objective impression. Now, neither expression nor impression must be excluded. Some platonical divines explode and scoff at the verbal praise more than becometh their reverence to the word of God: Ps. 50:23, ‘He that offereth praise glorifieth me.' But then the impression must be looked after too, that we be like that God whom we commend and extol, that we depend on him more, love him more fervently, serve him more cheerfully. [Slide 30] Doct. 2. That God's providence rightly considered, we shall find in the worst times much more cause to give thanks than to complain. I observe this because David was now under affliction. He had in the former verse complained that ‘the bands of the wicked had robbed him,' yet even then would he give thanks to God. [Slide 31] 1. Observe here, the matter of his thanksgiving was God's providence according to his word, seen in executing threatenings on the wicked, and performing his promises to the godly. God's word is one of the chiefest benefits bestowed on man, and therefore should be a subject of our praises. Now, when this is verified in his providence, and we see a faithful performance of those things in mercy to his servants, and in justice to his enemies, and the benefits and advantages of his law to them that are obedient, and the just punishment of the disobedient, and can discern not only a vein of righteousness but of truth in all God's dealings, this is a double benefit, which must be taken notice of, and acknowledged to God's praise. O Christians! how sweet is it to read his works by the light of the sanctuary, and to learn the interpretation of his providence from his Spirit by his word: Ps. 73:17, ‘I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end;' by consulting the scriptures he see the end and close of them that walk not according to God's direction: his word and works do mutually explain one another. The sanctuary is the place where God's people meet, where his word is taught, where we may have satisfaction concerning all his dealings. [Slide 32] 2. That when any divine dispensation goeth against our affections, yea, our prayers and expectations, yet even then can faith bring meat out of the eater, and find many occasions of praise and thanksgiving to God; for nothing falleth out so against but we may see the hand of God in it working for good. [Slide 33] [1.] Though we have not the blessing we seek and pray for, yet we give thanks because God hath been sometimes entreated, he hath showed himself a God hearing prayer, and is only delaying now until a more fit time wherein he may give us that which is sought: Ps. 43:5, ‘Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.' Now we are mourning, but he is our God, and we are not left without hope of a blessed issue. God, that hath been gracious, will be gracious again. He is our gracious father when we are under his sharpest corrections, a father when he striketh or frowneth; therefore we are not without hope that he will give us opportunities again of glorifying his name. [Slide 34] [2.] We bless God for continuing so long the mercies which he hath taken from us. Former experiences must not be forgotten: ‘Ebenezer, hitherto the Lord hath helped us.' If he shall afflict us afterward, yet ‘hitherto he hath helped us,' 1 Sam. 7:12. If he take away life, it is a mercy that he spared it so long for his own service and glory; if liberty, that we had such a time of rest and intermission. [Slide 35] [3.] God is yet worthy of praise and thanksgiving for choicer mercies yet continued, notwithstanding all the afflictions laid upon us. That we have his Spirit supporting us under our trials, and enabling us to bear them: 1 Peter 4:13, 14, ‘Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. For if ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth on you.' And that we have any peace of conscience: Rom. 5:1, ‘Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.' That the hope of eternal life is not diminished but increased by our afflictions: Rom. 5:4, 5, ‘We glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.' That many of our natural comforts are yet left, and God will supply us by ways best known to himself. [Slide 36] [4.] That evils and afflictions which light upon us for the gospel's sake, or righteousness' sake, and Christ's name's sake, are to be reckoned among our privileges, and deserve praise rather than complaint: Phil. 1:29, ‘To you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.' If it be a gift, it is matter of praise. [Slide 37] [5.] Take these evils in the worst notion, they are less than we have deserved: Ezra 9:13, ‘And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve.' Babylon is not hell, and still that should be acknowledged. [Slide 38] [6.] That no evil hath befallen us but such as God can bring good out of them: Rom. 8:28, ‘All things shall work together for good to them that love God.' All things that befall a Christian are either good, or shall turn to good; either to good natural: Gen. 50:20, ‘Ye thought evil, but God meant it for good;' or good spiritual: Ps. 119:75, ‘I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me;' or good eternal: 2 Cor. 4:17, ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' [Slide 39] Use 1. For information, that God's righteous judgments are matter of praise and thanksgiving. An angel is brought in speaking, Rev. 16:5, ‘Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.' Indeed, the formal object of thanksgiving and praise is some benefit: Ps. 135:3, ‘Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.' We praise God for his judgments, because they are just and right; we praise God for his mercies, not only because they are just and equal, but comfortable and beneficial to us, and so a double ground of thanksgiving. Use 2. For reproof, that we make more noise of a little trouble than we do of a thousand benefits that remain with us. We fret and complain and manifest the impatiency of the flesh; like a great machine or carriage, if one pin be out of order, all stoppeth, or one member hurt, though all the rest of the body be sound; or as Haman, the favours of a great king, pleasures of a luxurious court, all this availeth him nothing as long as Mordecai was in the gate; notwithstanding his riches, honours, multitude of children, great offices, this damped all his joy: Mal. 1:2, ‘I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?' Oh! let us check this complaining spirit; let us consider what is left, not what God hath taken away; what we may or shall have, not what we now want; what God is, and will be to his people, though we see little or nothing in the creature. [Slide 40] Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise and give thanks. [Slide 41] 1. It is certain that our whole life should be a real expression of thankfulness to God. The life of a Christian is a life of love and praise, a hymn to God: 1 Peter 2:9, ‘But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.' Christianity is a confession; the visible acting of godliness is a part of this confession; we are all saved as confessors or martyrs. Now the confession is made both in word and deed. [Slide 42] 2. There are special occasions of thanksgiving and praise to God, as the apostle bids Timothy preach: 2 Tim. 4:2, ‘in season, out of season,' meaning thereby that he should not only take ordinary occasions, but extraordinary; he should make an opportunity where he found none. So we should press Christians to praise God not only in solemn duties, when the saints meet together to praise, but extraordinarily redeem time for this blessed work; yea, interrupt our lawful sleep and repose, to find frequent vacancies for so necessary a duty as the lauding and magnifying of God's mercy. [Slide 43] 3. As for rising up at midnight, we can neither enforce it as a duty upon you, nor yet can we condemn it. It was an act of heroical zeal in David, who employed his time waking to the honour of God, which others spent in sleeping; and we read that Paul and Silas ‘sang praises at midnight,', though then in the stocks, and they had been scourged the day before. And it is said, Job 35:10, ‘None saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?' that is, giveth matter of praise if we wake in the night. And David saith elsewhere, Ps. 42:8, ‘The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me;' day and night he would be filled with a sense of God's love, and with songs of praise. Therefore we cannot condemn this, but must highly commend it. Let men praise God at any time, and the more they deny themselves to do it, the more commendable is the action; yet we cannot enforce it upon you as a necessary duty, as the Papists build their nocturnal devotions upon it. That which we disapprove in them is, that those hours instituted by men they make necessary; that they direct their prayers to saints and angels which should only be to God, that they might mingle them with superstitious ceremonies and, observances; that they pray and sing in an unknown tongue without devotion, appropriating it to a certain sort of men, to clerks for their gain, with an opinion of merit. [Slide 44] 4. Though we cannot enforce the particular observance upon you, yet there are many notable lessons to be drawn from David's practice. [1.] The ardency of his devotion, or his earnest desire to praise God, ‘at midnight;' then, when sleep doth most invade us, then he would rise up. His heart was so set upon the praising of God, and the sense of his righteous providence did so affect him, and urge him, or excite him to this duty, that he would not only employ himself in this work in the day-time, and so show his love to God, but he would rise out of his bed to worship God and celebrate his praise. That which hindereth the sleep of ordinary men is either the cares of this world, the impatient resentment of injuries, or the sting of an evil conscience: these keep others waking, but David was awaked by a desire to praise God; no hour is unseasonable to a gracious heart; he is expressing his affection to God when others take their rest. Thus we read of our Lord Christ, that he spent whole nights in prayer. It is said of the glorified saints in heaven, that they praise God continually: Rev. 7:17, ‘They are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.' Now, holy men, though much hindered by their bodily necessities, yet they will come as near as present frailty will permit; we oftentimes begin the day with some fervency of prayer and praise, but we faint in evening. [2.] His sincerity, seen in his secrecy. David would profess his faith in God when he had no witness by him, at midnight, then no hazard of ostentation. It was a secret cheerfulness and delighting in God when alone; he could have no respect to the applause of men, but only to approve himself to God who seeth in secret. See Christ's direction, Mat. 6:6, ‘But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly;' his own practice: Mark 1:35, ‘Rising early in the morning, he went into a desert to pray.' Both time and place implied secrecy. [3.] We learn hence the preciousness of time. It was so to David. See how he spendeth the time of his life. We read of David, when he lay down at night, he ‘watered his couch with his tears,' after the examination of his heart; at midnight he rose to give thanks; in the morning he prevented the morning-watches, seven times a-day praising God, morning, noon, night. These are all acts of eminent piety. We should not content ourselves with so much grace as will merely serve to save us. Alas! we have much idle time hanging upon our hands; if we would give that to God it were well. [4.] The value of godly exercises above our natural refreshings; the word is sweeter than appointed food: Job 23:12, ‘I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.' David preferreth his praises of God before his sleep and rest in the night. Surely this should shame us for our sensuality. We can dispense with other things for our vain pleasures; we have done as much for sin, for vain sports, broken our rest for sin. Some monsters of mankind turn night into day, and day into night for their drunkenness, gaming, vain sports, &c., and shall we not deny ourselves for God? [5.] The reverence to be used in secret adoration. David did not only raise up his spirits to praise God, but rise up out of his bed to bow the knee to him. Secret duties should be performed with some solemnity, not slubbered over. Praise, a special act of adoration, requireth the worship of body and soul. [Slide 45 (end)] Use. Let David's example condemn our backwardness and sluggishness, who will not take those occasions which offer themselves. Mark, he gave thanks when we fret; at midnight he rose to do it with the more secrecy and fervency; this not to pray only, but to give thanks.

[Slide 1] Today, I'd like to do something a little different. Today I'll preach a message that has already been preached at least one time before. Although we aren't sure when this sermon was preached originally, I do know that it is over 300 years old. The original composer was Dr. Thomas Manton. I have preached a sermon from the past before. Why do I do this? For several reasons actually but the most important reason is that every time I've preached a message like this, it has been abundantly relevant to our time even though it is separated from us by centuries. This proves not the wisdom of the man, but the living nature of the Word of God and how it transcends through all generations. [Slide 2] But let me tell you a bit about Dr. Thomas Manton… Born in Somerset in 1620 from a long line of ministers. He was ordained by Bishop Hall at the age of nineteen. He served as a chaplain to the Lord Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Yet Manton was firmly opposed to the execution of Charles I, causing considerable offence by preaching against it before Parliament. Later he was instrumental in the restoration of Charles II and became a Royal Chaplain. But when offered the Deanery of Rochester he chose rather to suffer with his Puritan brethren in the Great Ejection of 1662. Preaching afterward in his own home he was imprisoned for his ministry. Manton died in 1677, after a lifetime of rich and practical biblical ministry. [Slide 3] The following sermon “Sermon LXX (70)” is included in Several Sermons upon Psalm 119, which contains 190 sermons and was his crowning achievement as a pastor. One quick note. I haven't abridged and translated very little of this sermon. Therefore, it is necessary for you to pay extra close attention as the language will be understandable – but challenging. Keep your eyes on the screen since the outline of the sermon will appear there. It should help you stay with me. But you must be extra attentive listeners today if you are to understand Dr. Manton's sermon. From this point on, all the words I say until the prayer at the end, will be Thomas Manton's Words with few alterations. [Slide 4] At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee, because of thy righteous judgments.—Ver. 62. In these words observe three things:— 1. David's holy employment, or the duty promised, giving thanks to God. 2. His earnestness and fervency, implied in the time mentioned, at midnight I will rise; rather interrupt his sleep and rest than God should want his praise. 3. The cause or matter of his thanksgiving, because of thy righteous judgments, whereby he meaneth the dispensations of his providence in delivering the godly and punishing the wicked according to his word… [Slide 5] [Which establishes 3 doctrines] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. Doct. 2. That, God's providence rightly considered, we shall in the worst times find much more cause to give thanks than to complain. Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise God and give thanks to his name, both in season and out of season. [Slide 6] Doct. 1. One special duty wherein the people of God should be much exercised is thanksgiving. This duty is often pressed upon us: Heb. 13:15, ‘Let us offer the sacrifice of praise continually, which is the fruit of our lips;' giving thanks unto his name. There are two words there used, praise and thanksgiving: generally taken, they are the same; strictly taken, thanksgiving differeth from praise. They agree that we use our voice in thanksgiving, as we do also in praise, for they are both said to be the fruit of our lips. What is in the prophet Hosea, chap. 14:2, ‘calves of our lips,' is in the Septuagint, ‘the fruit of our lips;' and they both agree that they are a sacrifice offered to our supreme benefactor, or that they belong to the thank-offerings of the gospel. But they differ in that thanksgiving belongeth to benefits bestowed on ourselves or others; but in relation to us, praise to any excellency whatsoever. Thanksgiving may be in word or deed; praise in words only. Well, then, thanksgiving is a sensible acknowledgment of favours received, or an expression of our sense of them, by word and work, to the praise of the bestower. The object of it is the works of God as beneficial unto us, or to those who are related to us, or in whose good or ill we are concerned. As public persons, as magistrates: 1 Tim. 2:1, 2, ‘I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplication, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority.' Pastors of the church: 2 Cor. 1:11, ‘You also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf.' Or our kindred according to the flesh, or some bond of Christian duty: Rom. 12:15, ‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice.' Another place where this duty is enforced is Eph. 5:20, where we are bidden to ‘give thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;' where you see it is a duty of a universal and perpetual use, and one wherein the honour of God and Christ is much concerned. A third place is 1 Thes. 5:18, ‘In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.' See what reason he urgeth; the express will of God requiring this worship at our hands. We are to obey by the insight of the will. God's will is the fundamental reason of our obedience in every commandment; but here is a direct charge, now God hath made known the wonders of his love in Christ. [Slide 7] I shall prove to you that this is a necessary duty, a profitable duty, a pleasant and delightful duty. [Slide 8] 1. The necessity of being much and often in thanksgiving will appear by these two considerations:— [1.] [Slide 9] Because God is continually beneficial to us, blessing and delivering his people every day, and by new mercies giveth us new matter of praise and thanksgiving: Ps. 68:19, ‘Blessed be the God of our salvation, who loadeth us daily with his benefits, Selah.' He hath continually favoured us and preserved us, and poured his benefits upon us. The mercies of every day make way for songs which may sweeten our rest in the night; and his giving us rest by night, and preserving us in our sleep, when we could not help ourselves, giveth us songs in the morning. And all the day long we find new matter of praise: our whole work is divided between receiving and acknowledging. [2.] [Slide 10] Some mercies are so general and beneficial that they should never be forgotten, but remembered before God every day. Such as redemption by Christ: Ps. 111:4, ‘He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered.' We must daily be blessing God for Jesus Christ: 2 Cor. 9:15, ‘Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.' I understand it of his grace by Christ. We should ever be thus blessing and praising him; for the keeping of his great works in memory is the foundation of all love and service to God. 2. [Slide 11] It is a profitable duty. The usefulness of thanksgiving appeareth with respect to faith, love, and obedience. [1.] [Slide 12] With respect to faith. Faith and praise live and die together; if there be faith, there will be praise; and if there be praise, there will be faith. If faith, there will be praise, for faith is a bird that can sing in winter: Ps. 56:4, ‘In God will I praise his word, in God have I put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me;' and ver. 10, ‘In God I will praise his word, in the Lord I will praise his word.' His word is satisfaction enough to a gracious heart; if they have his word, they can praise him beforehand, for the grounds of hope before they have enjoyment. As Abraham, when he had not a foot in the land of Canaan, yet built an altar and offered sacrifices of thanksgiving, because of God's grant and the future possession in his posterity. Then, whether he punisheth or pitieth, we will praise him and glory in him. Faith entertaineth the promise before performance cometh, not only with confidence, but with delight and praise. The other part is, if praise, there will be faith; that is, supposing the praise real, for it raiseth our faith to expect the like again, having received so much grace already. All God's praises are the believer's advantage, the mercy is many times given as a pledge of more mercy. In many cases God will give gifts. If life, he will give food and bodily raiment. It holdeth good in spiritual things. If Christ, other things with Christ. One concession draweth another; if he spares me, he will feed me, clothe me. The attributes from whence the mercy cometh is the pillar of the believer's confidence and hope. If such a good, then a fit object of trust. If I have found him a God hearing prayer, ‘I will call upon him as long as I live,' Ps. 116:2. Praise doth but provide matter of trust, and represent God to us as a storehouse of all good things, and a sure foundation for dependence. [2.] [Slide 13] The great respect it hath to love. Praise and thanksgiving is an act of love, and then it cherisheth and feedeth love. It is an act of love to God, for if we love God we will praise him. Prayer is a work of necessity, but praise a mere work of duty and respect to God. We would exalt him more in our own hearts and in the hearts of others: Ps. 71:14, ‘I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.' We pray because we need God, and we praise him because we love him. Self-love will put us upon prayer, but the love of God upon praise and thanksgiving; then we return to give him the glory. Those that seek themselves will cry to him in their distress; but those that love God cannot endure that he should be without his due honour. In heaven, when other graces and duties cease, which belong to this imperfect state, as faith and repentance cease, yet love remaineth; and because love remaineth, praise remaineth, which is our great employment in the other world. So it feedeth and cherisheth love, for every benefit acknowledged is a new fuel to keep in the fire: Ps. 18:1, ‘I will love thee, O Lord, my strength;' Ps. 116:1, ‘I will love the Lord, who hath heard the voice of my supplications;' Deut. 30:20, ‘That thou mayest love the Lord, who is thy life, and the length of thy days.' The soul by praise is filled with a sense of the mercy and goodness of God, so that hereby he is made more amiable to us. [3.] [Slide 14] With respect to submission and obedience to his laws and providence. (1.) His laws. The greatest bond of duty upon the fallen creature is gratitude. Now grateful we cannot be without a sensible and explicit acknowledgment of his goodness to us: the more frequent and serious in that, the more doth our love constrain us to devote ourselves to God: Rom. 12:1, ‘I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present yourselves a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.' To live to him: 2 Cor. 5:14, 15, ‘For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead, and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.' And therefore praise and thanksgiving is a greater help to the spiritual life than we are usually aware of; for, working in us a sense of God's love, and an actual remembrance of his benefits (as it will do if rightly performed), it doth make us shy of sin, more careful and solicitous to do his will. Shall we offend so good a God? God's love to us is a love of bounty; our love to God is a love of duty, when we grudge not to live in subjection to him: 1 John 5:3, ‘His commandments are not grievous.' (2.) Submission to his providence. There is a querulous and sour spirit which is natural to us, always repining and murmuring at God's dealing, and wasting and vexing our spirits in heartless complaints. Now, this fretting, quarrelling, impatient humour, which often showeth itself against God even in our prayers and supplications, is quelled by nothing so much as by being frequent in praises and thanksgivings: Job 1:21, ‘The Lord hath given, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' It is an act of holy prudence in the saints, when they are under any trouble, to strain themselves to the quite contrary duty of what temptations and corruptions would drive them unto. When the temptation is laid to make us murmur and swell at God's dealings, we should on the contrary bless and give thanks. And therefore the Psalmist doth so frequently sing praises in the saddest condition. There is no perfect defeating the temptation but by studying matter of praise, and to set seriously about the duty. So Job 2:10, ‘Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?' Shall we receive so many proofs of the love of God, and quarrel at a few afflictions that come from the same hand, and rebel against his providence when he bringeth on some needful trouble for our trial and exercise? and having tasted so much of his bounty and love, repine and fret at every change of dealing, though it be useful to purge out our corruptions, and promote our communion with God? Surely nothing can be extremely evil that cometh from this good hand. As we receive good things cheerfully and contentedly, so must we receive evil things submissively and patiently. [Slide 15] 3. It is a most delightful work to remember the many thousand mercies God hath bestowed on the church, ourselves, and friends. To remember his gracious word and all the passages of his providence; is this burdensome to us? Ps. 147:1, ‘Praise ye the Lord, for it is pleasant;' and Ps. 135:3, ‘Sing praises unto his name, for it is pleasant.' Next to necessity, profit; next to profit, pleasure. No necessity so great as spiritual necessity, because our eternal well-being or ill-being dependeth on it; and beggary is nothing to being found naked in the great day. No profit so great as spiritual; that is not to be measured by the good things of this world, or a little pelf, or the great mammon, which so many worship; but some spiritual and divine benefit, which tendeth to make us spiritually better, more like God, more capable of communion with him: that is true profit, it is an increase of faith, love, and obedience. So for pleasure and delight; that which truly exhilarateth the soul, begets upon us a solid impression of God's love, that is the true pleasure. Carnal pleasures are unwholesome for you, like luscious fruits, which make you sick. Nothing is so hard of digestion as carnal pleasures. This feedeth the flesh, warreth against the soul; but this holy delight that resulteth from the serious remembrance of God, and setting forth his excellences and benefits, is safe and healthful, and doth cheer us but not hurt us. [Slide 16] Use. Oh, then, let us be oftener in praising and giving thanks to God! Can you receive so much, and beg so much, and never think of a return or any expression of gratitude? Is there such a being as God, have you all your supplies from him, and will you not take some time to acknowledge what he hath done for your souls? Either you must deny his being, and then you are atheists; or you must deny his providence, and then you are epicureans, next door to atheism; or you must deny such a duty as praise and thanksgiving, and then you are anti-scripturists, for the scripture everywhere calleth for it at our hands; or else, if you neglect this duty, you live in flat contradiction to what you profess to believe, and then you are practical atheists, and practical epicureans, and practical anti-scripturists; and so your condemnation will be the greater, because you own the truth but deny the practice. I beseech you, therefore, to be often alone with God, and that in a way of thanksgiving, to increase your love, faith, and obedience, and delight in God. Shall I use arguments to you? [Slide 17] 1. Have you received nothing from God? I put this question to you, because great is our unthankfulness, not only for common benefits, but also for special deliverances—the one not noted and observed, the other not improved. Humble persons will find matter of praise in very common benefits, but we forget even signal mercies. Therefore, I say, have you received nothing? Now, consider, is there no return due? You know the story, Luke 17:15–19, Christ healed ten lepers, and but one of them ‘returned and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down at his feet giving thanks, and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed, but where are the nine? There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole.' All had received a like benefit, but one only returned, and he a Gentile and no Jew, to acknowledge the mercy. They were made whole by a miraculous providence, he was made whole by a more gracious dispensation: ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole;' he was dismissed with a special blessing. God scattereth his benefits upon all mankind, but how few own the supreme benefactor! Surely a sensible heart seeth always new occasions of praising God, and some old occasions that must always be remembered, always for life, and peace, and safety, and daily provision; and always for Christ, and the hopes of eternal life. Surely if we have the comfort, God should have the glory: Ps. 96:8, ‘Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name, bring an offering, and come into his courts.' He that hath scattered his seed expecteth a crop from you. [Slide 18] 2. How disingenuous is it to be always craving, and never giving thanks! It is contrary to his directions in the word; for he showeth us there that all our prayers should be mingled with a thankful sense and acknowledgment of his mercies: Phil. 4:6, ‘In everything let your requests and supplications be made known with thanksgiving.' Do not come only in a complaining way: Col. 4:2, ‘Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving.' They are not holy requests unless we acknowledge what he hath done for us, as well as desire him to do more. Nothing more usual than to come in our necessities to seek help; but we do not return, when we have received help and relief, to give thanks. When our turn is served, we neglect God. Wants urge us more than blessings, our interest swayeth us more than duty. As a dog swalloweth every bit that is cast to him, and still looketh for more, we swallow whatever the bounty of God casteth out to us without thanks, and when we need again, we would have more, and though warm in petitions, yet cold, rare, infrequent in gratitude. It is not only against scripture, but against nature. Ethnics abhor the ungrateful, that were still receiving, but forgetting to give thanks. It is against justice to seek help of God, and when we have it to make no more mention of God than if we had it from ourselves. It is against truth; we make many promises in our affliction, but forget all when well at ease. [Slide 19] 3. God either takes away or blasts the mercies which we are not thankful for. Sometimes he taketh them from us: Hosea 2:8, 9, ‘I will take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and I will recover my wool and flax.' Why? ‘She doth not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and gave her silver and gold.' Where his kindness is not taken notice of, nor his hand seen and acknowledged, he will take his benefits to himself again. We know not the value of mercies so much by their worth as by their want. God must set things at a distance to make us value them. If he take them not away, yet many times he blasts them as to their natural use: Mal. 2:2, ‘And if you will not hear, and if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, saith the Lord of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.' The creature is a deaf-nut; when we come to crack it, we have not the natural blessing as to health, strength, and cheerfulness, or if food, yet not gladness of heart with it; or we have not the sanctified use, it is not a mercy that leadeth us to God. A thing is sanctified if it cometh from God and leadeth us to God: 1 Cor. 3:21–23, ‘All things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come, all are yours, for you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.' You have a covenant right, a holy use. [Slide 20] 4. Bless him for favours received, and you shall have more. Thanksgiving is the kindly way of petitioning, and the more thankful for mercies, the more they are increased upon us. Vapours drawn up from the earth return in showers to the earth again. The sea poureth out its fulness into the rivers, and all rivers return to the sea from whence they came: Ps. 67:5, 6, ‘Let the people praise thee, O God; yea, let all the people praise thee: then shall the earth yield her increase, and God, even our own God, shall bless us.' It is not only true of outward increase, but of spiritual also: Col. 2:7, ‘Be ye rooted in the faith, and abound therein with thanksgiving.' If we give thanks for so much grace as we have already received, it is the way to increase our store. We thrive no more, get no more victory over our corruptions, because we do no more give thanks. [Slide 21] 5. When God's common mercies are well observed or well improved, it fits us for acts of more special kindness. In the story of the lepers—Luke 17:19, ‘Thy faith hath made thee whole,'—he met not only with a bodily cure, but a soul cure: Luke 16:11, ‘If, therefore, ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?' When we suspect a vessel leaketh, we try it with water before we fill it with wine. You are upon your trial; be thankful for less, God will give you more. [Slide 22] Means or directions:— [1.] Heighten all the mercies you have by all the circumstances necessary to be considered. By the nature and kind of them: spiritual eternal blessings first; the greatest mercies deserve greatest acknowledgment: Eph. 1:3, ‘Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ'—Christ's spirit, pardon of sins, heaven, the way of salvation known, accepted, and the things of the world as subordinate helps. Luke 10:20, ‘Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.' [Slide 23] Then consider your sense in the want of mercies; what high thoughts had you then of them? The mercies are the same when you have them and when you want them, only your apprehensions are greater. If affectionately begged they must be affectionately acknowledged, else you are a hypocrite either in the supplication or gratulation. [Slide 24] Consider the person giving, God, so high and glorious. A small remembrance from a great prince, no way obliged, no way needing me, to whom I can be no way profitable, a small kindness melts us, a gift of a few pounds, a little parcel of land. Do I court him and observe him? There is less reason why God should abase himself to look upon us or concern himself in us: Ps. 113:6, ‘He humbleth himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth.' We have all things from him. [Slide 25] Consider the person receiving; so unworthy: Gen. 32:10, ‘I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which thou hast showed unto thy servant;' 2 Sam. 7:18, ‘Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house, that thou hast brought me hitherto?' [Slide 26] Consider the season; our greatest extremity is God's opportunity: Gen. 22:14, ‘In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen,' when the knife was at the throat of his son; 2 Cor. 1:9, 10, ‘We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver; in whom we trust, that he will yet deliver us.' [Slide 27] Consider the end and fruit of his mercy; it is to manifest his special love to us, and engage our hearts to himself: Isa. 38:17, ‘Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption,' or ‘thou hast loved me from the grave;' otherwise God may give things in anger. [Slide 28] Consider the means by which he brought them about, when unlikely, unexpected in themselves, weak, insufficient. The greatest matters of providence hang many times upon small wires: a lie brought Joseph into prison, and a dream fetched him out, and he was advanced, and Jacob's family fed. Consider the number of his mercies: Ps. 139:17, ‘How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!' The many failings pardoned, comforts received, dangers prevented, deliverances granted. How he began with us before all time, conducted us in time, and hath been preparing for us a happiness which we shall enjoy when time shall be no more. [Slide 29] [2.] Satisfy yourselves with no praise and thanksgiving but what leaveth the impression of real effects upon the soul; for God is not flattered with empty praises and a little verbal commendation. There is a twofold praising of God—by expressive declaration or by objective impression. Now, neither expression nor impression must be excluded. Some platonical divines explode and scoff at the verbal praise more than becometh their reverence to the word of God: Ps. 50:23, ‘He that offereth praise glorifieth me.' But then the impression must be looked after too, that we be like that God whom we commend and extol, that we depend on him more, love him more fervently, serve him more cheerfully. [Slide 30] Doct. 2. That God's providence rightly considered, we shall find in the worst times much more cause to give thanks than to complain. I observe this because David was now under affliction. He had in the former verse complained that ‘the bands of the wicked had robbed him,' yet even then would he give thanks to God. [Slide 31] 1. Observe here, the matter of his thanksgiving was God's providence according to his word, seen in executing threatenings on the wicked, and performing his promises to the godly. God's word is one of the chiefest benefits bestowed on man, and therefore should be a subject of our praises. Now, when this is verified in his providence, and we see a faithful performance of those things in mercy to his servants, and in justice to his enemies, and the benefits and advantages of his law to them that are obedient, and the just punishment of the disobedient, and can discern not only a vein of righteousness but of truth in all God's dealings, this is a double benefit, which must be taken notice of, and acknowledged to God's praise. O Christians! how sweet is it to read his works by the light of the sanctuary, and to learn the interpretation of his providence from his Spirit by his word: Ps. 73:17, ‘I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I their end;' by consulting the scriptures he see the end and close of them that walk not according to God's direction: his word and works do mutually explain one another. The sanctuary is the place where God's people meet, where his word is taught, where we may have satisfaction concerning all his dealings. [Slide 32] 2. That when any divine dispensation goeth against our affections, yea, our prayers and expectations, yet even then can faith bring meat out of the eater, and find many occasions of praise and thanksgiving to God; for nothing falleth out so against but we may see the hand of God in it working for good. [Slide 33] [1.] Though we have not the blessing we seek and pray for, yet we give thanks because God hath been sometimes entreated, he hath showed himself a God hearing prayer, and is only delaying now until a more fit time wherein he may give us that which is sought: Ps. 43:5, ‘Hope thou in God, for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.' Now we are mourning, but he is our God, and we are not left without hope of a blessed issue. God, that hath been gracious, will be gracious again. He is our gracious father when we are under his sharpest corrections, a father when he striketh or frowneth; therefore we are not without hope that he will give us opportunities again of glorifying his name. [Slide 34] [2.] We bless God for continuing so long the mercies which he hath taken from us. Former experiences must not be forgotten: ‘Ebenezer, hitherto the Lord hath helped us.' If he shall afflict us afterward, yet ‘hitherto he hath helped us,' 1 Sam. 7:12. If he take away life, it is a mercy that he spared it so long for his own service and glory; if liberty, that we had such a time of rest and intermission. [Slide 35] [3.] God is yet worthy of praise and thanksgiving for choicer mercies yet continued, notwithstanding all the afflictions laid upon us. That we have his Spirit supporting us under our trials, and enabling us to bear them: 1 Peter 4:13, 14, ‘Rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy. For if ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth on you.' And that we have any peace of conscience: Rom. 5:1, ‘Therefore, being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.' That the hope of eternal life is not diminished but increased by our afflictions: Rom. 5:4, 5, ‘We glory in tribulation, knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope, and hope maketh not ashamed: because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us.' That many of our natural comforts are yet left, and God will supply us by ways best known to himself. [Slide 36] [4.] That evils and afflictions which light upon us for the gospel's sake, or righteousness' sake, and Christ's name's sake, are to be reckoned among our privileges, and deserve praise rather than complaint: Phil. 1:29, ‘To you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.' If it be a gift, it is matter of praise. [Slide 37] [5.] Take these evils in the worst notion, they are less than we have deserved: Ezra 9:13, ‘And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve.' Babylon is not hell, and still that should be acknowledged. [Slide 38] [6.] That no evil hath befallen us but such as God can bring good out of them: Rom. 8:28, ‘All things shall work together for good to them that love God.' All things that befall a Christian are either good, or shall turn to good; either to good natural: Gen. 50:20, ‘Ye thought evil, but God meant it for good;' or good spiritual: Ps. 119:75, ‘I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me;' or good eternal: 2 Cor. 4:17, ‘For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' [Slide 39] Use 1. For information, that God's righteous judgments are matter of praise and thanksgiving. An angel is brought in speaking, Rev. 16:5, ‘Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus.' Indeed, the formal object of thanksgiving and praise is some benefit: Ps. 135:3, ‘Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good.' We praise God for his judgments, because they are just and right; we praise God for his mercies, not only because they are just and equal, but comfortable and beneficial to us, and so a double ground of thanksgiving. Use 2. For reproof, that we make more noise of a little trouble than we do of a thousand benefits that remain with us. We fret and complain and manifest the impatiency of the flesh; like a great machine or carriage, if one pin be out of order, all stoppeth, or one member hurt, though all the rest of the body be sound; or as Haman, the favours of a great king, pleasures of a luxurious court, all this availeth him nothing as long as Mordecai was in the gate; notwithstanding his riches, honours, multitude of children, great offices, this damped all his joy: Mal. 1:2, ‘I have loved you, saith the Lord; yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us?' Oh! let us check this complaining spirit; let us consider what is left, not what God hath taken away; what we may or shall have, not what we now want; what God is, and will be to his people, though we see little or nothing in the creature. [Slide 40] Doct. 3. That a heart deeply affected with God's providence will take all occasions to praise and give thanks. [Slide 41] 1. It is certain that our whole life should be a real expression of thankfulness to God. The life of a Christian is a life of love and praise, a hymn to God: 1 Peter 2:9, ‘But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.' Christianity is a confession; the visible acting of godliness is a part of this confession; we are all saved as confessors or martyrs. Now the confession is made both in word and deed. [Slide 42] 2. There are special occasions of thanksgiving and praise to God, as the apostle bids Timothy preach: 2 Tim. 4:2, ‘in season, out of season,' meaning thereby that he should not only take ordinary occasions, but extraordinary; he should make an opportunity where he found none. So we should press Christians to praise God not only in solemn duties, when the saints meet together to praise, but extraordinarily redeem time for this blessed work; yea, interrupt our lawful sleep and repose, to find frequent vacancies for so necessary a duty as the lauding and magnifying of God's mercy. [Slide 43] 3. As for rising up at midnight, we can neither enforce it as a duty upon you, nor yet can we condemn it. It was an act of heroical zeal in David, who employed his time waking to the honour of God, which others spent in sleeping; and we read that Paul and Silas ‘sang praises at midnight,', though then in the stocks, and they had been scourged the day before. And it is said, Job 35:10, ‘None saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night?' that is, giveth matter of praise if we wake in the night. And David saith elsewhere, Ps. 42:8, ‘The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me;' day and night he would be filled with a sense of God's love, and with songs of praise. Therefore we cannot condemn this, but must highly commend it. Let men praise God at any time, and the more they deny themselves to do it, the more commendable is the action; yet we cannot enforce it upon you as a necessary duty, as the Papists build their nocturnal devotions upon it. That which we disapprove in them is, that those hours instituted by men they make necessary; that they direct their prayers to saints and angels which should only be to God, that they might mingle them with superstitious ceremonies and, observances; that they pray and sing in an unknown tongue without devotion, appropriating it to a certain sort of men, to clerks for their gain, with an opinion of merit. [Slide 44] 4. Though we cannot enforce the particular observance upon you, yet there are many notable lessons to be drawn from David's practice. [1.] The ardency of his devotion, or his earnest desire to praise God, ‘at midnight;' then, when sleep doth most invade us, then he would rise up. His heart was so set upon the praising of God, and the sense of his righteous providence did so affect him, and urge him, or excite him to this duty, that he would not only employ himself in this work in the day-time, and so show his love to God, but he would rise out of his bed to worship God and celebrate his praise. That which hindereth the sleep of ordinary men is either the cares of this world, the impatient resentment of injuries, or the sting of an evil conscience: these keep others waking, but David was awaked by a desire to praise God; no hour is unseasonable to a gracious heart; he is expressing his affection to God when others take their rest. Thus we read of our Lord Christ, that he spent whole nights in prayer. It is said of the glorified saints in heaven, that they praise God continually: Rev. 7:17, ‘They are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.' Now, holy men, though much hindered by their bodily necessities, yet they will come as near as present frailty will permit; we oftentimes begin the day with some fervency of prayer and praise, but we faint in evening. [2.] His sincerity, seen in his secrecy. David would profess his faith in God when he had no witness by him, at midnight, then no hazard of ostentation. It was a secret cheerfulness and delighting in God when alone; he could have no respect to the applause of men, but only to approve himself to God who seeth in secret. See Christ's direction, Mat. 6:6, ‘But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly;' his own practice: Mark 1:35, ‘Rising early in the morning, he went into a desert to pray.' Both time and place implied secrecy. [3.] We learn hence the preciousness of time. It was so to David. See how he spendeth the time of his life. We read of David, when he lay down at night, he ‘watered his couch with his tears,' after the examination of his heart; at midnight he rose to give thanks; in the morning he prevented the morning-watches, seven times a-day praising God, morning, noon, night. These are all acts of eminent piety. We should not content ourselves with so much grace as will merely serve to save us. Alas! we have much idle time hanging upon our hands; if we would give that to God it were well. [4.] The value of godly exercises above our natural refreshings; the word is sweeter than appointed food: Job 23:12, ‘I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.' David preferreth his praises of God before his sleep and rest in the night. Surely this should shame us for our sensuality. We can dispense with other things for our vain pleasures; we have done as much for sin, for vain sports, broken our rest for sin. Some monsters of mankind turn night into day, and day into night for their drunkenness, gaming, vain sports, &c., and shall we not deny ourselves for God? [5.] The reverence to be used in secret adoration. David did not only raise up his spirits to praise God, but rise up out of his bed to bow the knee to him. Secret duties should be performed with some solemnity, not slubbered over. Praise, a special act of adoration, requireth the worship of body and soul. [Slide 45 (end)] Use. Let David's example condemn our backwardness and sluggishness, who will not take those occasions which offer themselves. Mark, he gave thanks when we fret; at midnight he rose to do it with the more secrecy and fervency; this not to pray only, but to give thanks.

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Russell Crowe attempts to sing a famous Italian anthem. Massacre or masterpiece? Sooshi Mango decide. Plus, red alert in the hometown of Joe and Carlo's parents as volcanoes erupt across Italy.  CREDITS Hosts: Joe Salanitri, Carlo Salanitri, Andrew Manfre Producer: Liza Altarejos Audio Imager: Nat Marshall  Follow the Sooshi Mango Podcast page on Instagram @sooshimangopodcast and on Tiktok @sooshimangopodcast   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Whether it's the ethnic mums and their cooking, or the ethnic dads with their home made wine, it's safe to say things get pretty competitive amongst the w0gs. So much so that it caused a 3 year long family feud in Joe & Carlo's family. We also hear some international phrases that translate terribly into English, eg "I want to die on your body", and speak to another 'Fully Sickest Of Them All' nominee who might just be our strongest contender yet!   CREDITS  Hosts: Joe Salanitri, Carlo Salanitri, Andrew ManfreProducer: Mandy CatalanoAudio Imager: Nat Marshall Follow the Sooshi Mango Saucy Meatballs Podcast page on Instagram @sooshimangopodcast and on Tiktok @saucymeatballspodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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If you've grown up with parents where English was their second language, it's likely they mispronounce plenty of words. We have a fair few examples and hear some hilarious ones from you guys too, plus we go through some of our parents' ridiculous encounters with technology and social media. Wait til you hear what Carlo & Joe's dad accidentally posted to 'da Face-abook'!   CREDITS  Hosts: Joe Salanitri, Carlo Salanitri, Andrew ManfreProducer: Mandy CatalanoAudio Imager: Nat Marshall Follow the Sooshi Mango Saucy Meatballs Podcast page on Instagram @sooshimangosaucymeatballspod and on Tiktok @saucymeatballspodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr. Melissa Moreno is a CA Community College faculty. Her passion has been teaching, researching, and developing curricula in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Native American Studies, Education, and Leadership for over 15 years. As a first-generation college student, Ethnic Studies saved her life. Schooling became interesting, and she became a professor and leader with the support of many inspiring professors and leaders. For over a decade, she has led Ethnic Studies and taught Chicana/o Studies, History of Race and Ethnicity, Mexican-American History, and Native American Studies. She is a former community educator and faculty in Chicana/o Studies, Education, and Liberal Studies. She holds degrees in Ethnic studies, Sociology, Women's Studies, and Education. She is a co-founder of the California Community College Ethnic Studies Faculty Council. Her publications and research interests include issues surrounding racial identity formations, subjugated knowledge, cultural citizenship, foodways, food justice education, Chicana/o indigeneity, intergenerational trauma and healing, and practices of community-based leadership. She is a member of the Indigenous Caucus for the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS), among other associations. Painted by artist Jerry Jordan, this mural celebrating ethnic diversity is displayed in the Multicultural Student Center Satellite Office in Gordon Commons residence hall. [...]

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The Final Draft podcast is all about books, writing and literary culture. We're dedicated to exploring Australian writing, looking into the issues that drive our storytelling to discover more from the books you love. These are the stories that make us who we are. Shirley Le is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona. She is a Creative Producer at Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Shirley's writing has been published in Kill Your Darlings, The Griffith Review, Meanjin and several Sweatshop anthologies. My old bio used to say (Shirley is currently working on her debut novel with Affirm Press.) but now it's out and we are talking about Funny Ethnics Sylvia has just dropped a bombshell on her parents; she's dropping law to focus on her writing. It's a blow few parents are equipped to take and Sylvia's parents are only too quick to remind her of their struggles fleeing Vietnam for a better life in Australia. As Sylvia's father points out the perilous future awaiting artists (he's not quite so polite in his phrasing) Syliva takes us on a trip through her life and the perennial clash between her dreams and the expectations of her family and community. Final Draft is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

Today I've got a terrific Sydney novel… Shirley Le is a Vietnamese-Australian writer from Yagoona. She is a Creative Producer at Sweatshop: Western Sydney Literacy Movement. Shirley's writing has been published in Kill Your Darlings, The Griffith Review, Meanjin and several Sweatshop anthologies. My old bio used to say (Shirley is currently working on her debut novel with Affirm Press.) but now it's out and we are talking about Funny Ethnics Funny Ethnics opens with Sylvia Nguyen dropping a bombshell on her parents; she's dropping out of law school to focus on her writing. It's a blow few parents are equipped to take and Sylvia's parents are no exception. Sylvia has prepared a speech in English and Vietnamese to reassure them she is not turning her back on her culture, but they are prepared to point out her mistakes bilingually. Sylvia's dilemma is one faced by many second generation children of migrants. Somehow though, knowing that she is well supported amongst the diaspora populations of Western Sydney is small consolation as Sylvia tries to live with her feet in both worlds. When I spoke with Shirley about Funny Ethnics she described Sylvia's story as occupying the hyphen between Vietnamese and Australian. While Sylvia's parents are only too quick to remind her of their struggles fleeing Vietnam for a better life in Australia, Sylvia can only fight against her own struggles. And that means facing the stifling boredom that comes with academic excellence whilst leaning towards her creative impulses. Sylvia's father is quick to point out the perilous future awaiting artists and Le shows us a world where a creative young person might win literary awards or stand on stage performing self loathing comedy. The novel shifts us back and forth throughout Sylvia's young life. We travel from public school to private high school. From bizarre tutoring experiences to the kaleidoscopic reality of university cliques. Through Sylvia, Le shows us the wildly discordant reality of Sydney with its Fried Chicken Line seemingly splitting the city. While Sylvia knows where she comes from she also understands that everyone she meets will see that place with different eyes. The racism that isn't supposed to exist dogs Sylvia's growth as she struggles with location, body image and culture. All are battlegrounds between the identity her family has raised her in and the world where she is growing up. This is a world of bricks wrapped in PAuline Hanson headlines hurled through windows and people nominally paying lip service to cultural diversity as they window shop at the buffet of cultural appropriation. Through all this we see Sylvia finding her voice and noting that amongst the fraught is the bizarre, and the injustice sometimes comes with a side of the sardonic.  I got a lot out of Funny Ethnics because it showed me the familiar through new eyes and allowed me to rediscover Sydney in ways I probably should have been paying attention to before now Funny Ethnics - Event Launch  09 Mar, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm (with Benjamin Law) Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia Loved this review? You can get more books, writing and literary culture every week on the Final Draft Great Conversations podcast. Hear interviews with authors and discover your next favourite read! Book Club is produced and presented by Andrew Pople Want more great conversations with Australian authors? Discover this and many more conversations on Final Draft every week from 2ser. Get in touch with Andrew and Final Draft. We love to hear about what you're reading! Twitter - https://twitter.com/finaldraft2ser  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/finaldraft2ser/  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/finaldraft2ser/ 

"The most excellent Black immigrants still don't have access to the same stuff that the most mediocre white people do." Michael Harriot continues amplifying Africa with his continued conversation with Dr. Christina Greer about the diversity of Blackness across the diaspora. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"You don't reduce the totality of your ancestors to something white people did to us." Michael Harriot brings on Dr. Christina Greer to talk about her book Black Ethnics and how being Black is a lot more diverse than people think. TheGrio Daily is an original podcast by theGrio Black Podcast Network. #BlackCultureAmplifiedSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This absolute weekly shitfest of a podcast returns as Aeron, Kyle, Cam and ALEX discuss the weeks wrestling news. HUGE NEWS as Cody leaves AEW and is on his way to WWE apparently. Steve Austin at Wrestlemania? Brock Lesnar opening up as well as predictions for WWE Elimination Chamber AND IWE Valentine Violence in Essex! PREPARE TO BE OFFENDED! #GETPLUGGEDIN PWT: https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/wrestleplug J Miller Twitter: https://twitter.com/JMillerPod Cameron Anderon Socials: @Cameron1pw Aeron Nix Design: https://www.facebook.com/AeronNixDesign/ Kyle Twitter: https://twitter.com/xKyle_Wilkinson Wrestle Plug Twitter: https://twitter.com/WrestlePlug Wrestle Plug Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wrestleplug/ Wrestle Plug Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WrestlePlug/ Wrestle Plug Merch: https://wrestleplug.bigcartel.com/

This week we took a look at a letter by Jordan Peterson published in the National Post. In it, our favourite "clean up your room" Dad, blames the ethnics for his decision to quit his position at the University of Toronto.

Time.....clocks Time is our most valuable possession. You can get more money but you cannot get more time. John Paul Getty, once the wealthiest man on the planet, who was married three times, said, ‘I'd give my entire fortune for one happy marriage.' Marriage. Family. Friends. And happiness is based on time! Redeeming the Time....Ephesians 5:14-15 Time makes things temporary. Positive and negative * The most common thing that God has given to the human race is time * COMMON— we all have time the same —Ethnics, color, height, weight, education 9 billion people in the world have the same amount of it in a given day. billionaire - begger....old-young...black-white/asain/indian Common 1. What you are and what you become depends on how you use your time. 2. TIME cannot be stopped but humans can control how it will be used 1. Time is unstoppable but controllable 2. What you do with it will determine who you will become how has your time in 2021 been spent. Are you able to go back and look over the past year and be thankful or how you spent your time. PRINCIPLE OF TIME 1. Life is time ( How old are you? Really I'm saying what is your life) you say your age 2. Life s defined by Time 3. life is measured n Time 4. Life is determined by Time 5. Life is Lived out in Time 6. Life is qualified by Time 7. The passing of Time s the passing of Life 8. Life stops when Time stops...when you die 9. Death is Lie leaving Time 10. Time is temporary-life is eternal WHAT IS TIME *Time is an interruption in eternity *Time is a small measure of eternity *Time is a piece of eternity *Time is a slice of forever *Time is the limited period during which an action or process exist and takes place. *Time is the measurement of space Eccl. 3:10-12 Time has power Time is a release from eternity. Adam expelled out of the garden to protect the tree of life.... A mistake in eternity is an eternal mistake Genesis 1:14-15, :18 God saw it was good universe is a big clock...synced in time...like it was wound like a clock THE PURPOSE OF TIME 1. To take you out of eternity 2. To protect you from forever 3. To measure the existence of life 4. To define life 5. To measure the quality of life 6. To account for your life 7. To define the distance between your beginning and end 8. To live life in doses 9. To measure the purpose of our lives TIME HAS LIMITATION Job 14:5-7 Psalms 39:4 Psalms 90:12 Ecc. 8:6 The Measure of TIME 1. Time is measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years 2. Time measures life in yesterday, today and tomorrow 3. Decades, centuries, seem like a large past 4. Seasons...winter spring summer fall Time separates your past from your future. It protects us from living in a permanent position of the past. ***I will not be in this spot tomorrow! PAST TIMES Broke..sick...behind...unmarried...divorced...widowed...fat...out of shape... Nothing is permanent in time!!!! The equality commodity of time 1. Time is the only commodity on earth given equally to each human being 2. Time is the only commodity every human possesses 3. every human every day is given the same amount of time 4. What you become in life is determined by what you with your time SPENDING TIME 1. Time is the currency of life 2. Every human is given the same amount of time each day 3. Time like all currency must be spent 4. Time is used to buy life 5. Time is used to spend your life If you are poor you are spending your time doing what poor people do What ever you invest your time in will change your life! There are some people you need to drop. “No”vember Time gives you the opportunity to change relationships Abusing-Wasting Time JUST LIKE MONEY 1. Time can be stolen 2. Time can be abused 3. Time can be lost 4. Time can be squandered 5. Time Can be appreciated 6. Time can be depreciated (were did time go) 7. Time can be devalued (time has flown by and i missed it) What are you spending your time on, with, doing 8.Time can be revalued...you can find new and better places to spend your time. The books you read...TV show...Social media...internet..video games...sports VICTIMS OF TIME 1. You can never stop time 2. You can never control time 3. You can never resist time 4. You can never compromise time 5. You can never reprocess time 6. You can never buy time 7. You can never slow time down 8. You can never speed time up 9. Until death you are stuck in time...victims of time BUT you can measure time so that is the key not to let time fly away. Psalms 90:10 teach us to number our days...how old are you What To DO WITH TIME 1. You can manage it 2. You can use it 3. You can invest it 4. You convert it into projects 5. It should be used to create, develop, build, and add value to life 6. To fulfill your divine purpose

Just some random chat and laughs from the boys today. 

the White ethnics

Episode 3 Interviewing Dr. Chak Hing Chung (Director of Rotary District 3450) and Nadya (2nd generation ethnics minority)Broadcast on: Commercial Radio Hong Kong AM864Airtime: Thu 29th Oct 10:00pmThanks for Rotary District 3450 Area 6's full sponsorship making LemonAid an ever success! We have invited Dr. Chak Hing Chung, Director of Rotary District 3450, as our guest host to interview a locally born and raised second generation ethnic minority, Nadya!

Minneapolis law enforcement finally insists that the intersection of 38th and Chicago MUST be re-opened. We still don't know when. Johnny Heidt with guitar news. New ethnics studies in the CA school system seem to suggest that very idea of America is to be frowned upon.

The boys breakdown the second 5 minutes of Hamlet 2 and go on a couple of wild tangents about the vatican and shitty high school kid attitudes.

It's Election time! In this episode, The Ethnics spill on all the minor details that can majorly disqualify your vote (some of them may surprise you) as well as Netflix's The Umbrella Academy and the art of empathy. Will your vote be counted? How do the ladies feel about The Umbrella Academy? Is Activism Selfish? Find out now! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/laila-drew/support

San Diego is now officially off the state’s coronavirus watch list but what that means for local businesses remains to be seen. Plus, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill by Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) that requires all students at California State University to take an ethnic studies course to graduate. Also, California’s power grid manager is in the hot seat after calling for the first rolling blackouts since 2001. In addition, as the new school year starts during the pandemic, the question of how to discipline students who are attending classes virtually is a challenge for teachers and administrators. And, many nursing homes are ill prepared for wildfire disasters, we examine the regulations that are supposed to protect residents. Finally, La Jolla Music Society Summer Fest is back — the musicians will be live but the audience will be virtual.

We back! In part two, The Ethnics discuss Today's TV shows, movies, and broadway shows! The ones that are are doing it right and the ones that need a lil' work. Dear Evan Hansen, Handmaids Tale, Jagged Little Pill, Charmed, Pose and many, many more! Where do they fall on the scale of social justice? Let's find out shall we?

Issa two parter! (Ayeee!

What does racism look like today? In this episode, The Ethnics tackle racism and it's many forms. How could you (yes, you!) be contributing to the problem? And what should you be aware of to combat it within your community...and within yourself? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/laila-drew/support

In the first episode, The Ethnics have a conversation about what it means to be themselves today. What does it mean to be African American, Asian American, and Mexican American in a time where each one of those cultural groups are being targeted? What is the entertainment industry doing wrong? And how could instagram be a pivotal factor when it comes to racial education? @lailaericadrew @ashleydiane.ad @therealmamashelbs --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/laila-drew/support

In this Episode Maki is over 9000 thousand with rage due to Anthony one: being tardy and two: having a "****ed up week!!!" Teri Joins in as reinforcements and we discuss the current events of the week, health debates (circumcision yes or no), Transgender notes, and more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deliverybros/message

in this episode we discussed topics from religious stance Zach the ginger being an ordained minister and so much more in this thought-provoking and hilarious episode. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deliverybros/message

and this episode Maki Watts and Zack Vilagturo return as we talked about homophobes and the LGBT along with open conversation with vulnerability that brings our friendship to a new level --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deliverybros/message

SO two black people a half Polynesian woman and a ginger walk into a room and do a podcast what you are about to witness is a cocktail mixed with some hard drugs welcome to the new segment three ethnics and a ginger --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/deliverybros/message

Bringing the good stuff once again with pure greatness from Hank Robot & The Ethnics, Flash Kicks, Th' Losin' Streaks, The Zipheads, The Delta Bombers, Red Elvises, Souther Culture On The Skids and more. Git it. Hank Robot & The Ethnics | Elvis-Jello Mojo | Where Are You Gonna Go?(Moody Monkey Records)2016 Flash Kicks | 2nd Rough Mix [Cut] | No Clue(Self Release)2018 Menace | G.L.C. R.I.P. The Best Of Menace | Live For Today(Captain Oi!)2000 Cock Sparrer | Shock Troops | I Got Your Number(Razor Records)1982 Stiff Little Fingers | Go For It | Roots, Radicals, Rockers And Reggae(Chrysalis Records)1981 Th' Losin' Streaks | Sounds of Violence | Blue Girl(Slovenly Records)2004 The Sting-Rays | From The Kitchen Sink | June Rhyme(Big Beat Records)2002 The Toxenes | Electric Shock | Bad Girls(Self Release)2017 The Von Nitros | Gasoline | Gasoline(Diablo Records)2016 Titty Twister | Gimmie Some Noise | Kimino Tokomade(Dead Beat Records)2018 Dead Bundy & The Neat Neat Neats | Train To Paradise | City Morgue(Self Release)2013 The Quakes | New Generation | Stranded In The Streets(Nervous Records)1993 The Peacocks | After All | Boring(People Like You)2010 The Zipheads | Z2:Rampage! | Last Man On Earth(Bomber Music)2016 Cracks | Psychotic Pride | Stew Maker(Phalanx)2016 The Delta Bombers | Howlin' | Howlin'(Wild Records)2009 Omar Romero | Hog Wild | Remember The Good Times(Wild Records)2006 Dusty Chance & The Allnighters | Savage | Drive Me Wild(Wild Records)2013 Hi-Strung Ramblers | I'm A Rambler | If You're Not Around(Wild Records)2010 Imelda May | Love Tattoo | Johny Got A Boom Boom(Universal Music)2007 Red Elvises | Better Than Sex | Joint Was Jumping(Shooba-Doobah Records)1999 Southern Culture On The Skids | Girlfight | Girlfight(Sympathy For The Record Industry)1993 The Wigsville Spliffs | The Wigsville Spliffs | Buzz Outta You(Raucous Records)1996 The Sure Shots | Four To The Bar | No Show Dole Cheque Blues(I.D. Records)1987 Adios Pantalones | Playtime! | Setting Sail(Drunkabilly Records)2017 Southern Culture On The Skids | Liquored Up And Lacquered Down | Drunk And Lonesome (Again)(Telstar Records)2000

No lawyer should assume their firm's technology is secure. In this episode of The Digital Edge, hosts Sharon Nelson and Jim Calloway talk to Lucian Pera about the ethics of lawyers using the cloud and how they can use it with confidence. They break down the different cloud providers, the dangers that can potentially crop up when using the cloud, and the importance of having a technology mentor that lawyers can turn to with questions whenever they need it. Lucian T. Pera joined Adams and Reese in 2006 and focuses his practice on commercial litigation, media law, and legal ethics work. Special thanks to our sponsors, ServeNow, Scorpion, Answer1, and Clio.

Everyone wants to know what's wrong with Appalachia. But beginning in the 1960s, it was "white ethics"—Italians, Irish, Polish, Jews and other non-WASPs—who broke from the New Deal coalition, embracing their Ellis Island immigrant roots in reaction to the Black Freedom struggle and, ultimately, Latin American migration. Dan's guest today is Matthew Frye Jacobson, an historian at Yale and the author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America, from Harvard University Press. Thanks to Verso. Check out Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot, now out in paperback versobooks.com/books/2732-out-of-the-wreckage George did a Dig interview too blubrry.com/thedig/34202825/telling-a-new-story-with-george-monbiot/ And register for the Socialism 2018 conference (July 5-8, Chicago!) at socialismconference.org Support this podcast with $ and access our weekly newsletter at patreon.com/TheDig

Everyone wants to know what's wrong with Appalachia. But beginning in the 1960s, it was "white ethics"—Italians, Irish, Polish, Jews and other non-WASPs—who broke from the New Deal coalition, embracing their Ellis Island immigrant roots in reaction to the Black Freedom struggle and, ultimately, Latin American migration. Dan’s guest today is Matthew Frye Jacobson, an historian at Yale and the author of Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post–Civil Rights America, from Harvard University Press. Thanks to Verso. Check out Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot, now out in paperback versobooks.com/books/2732-out-of-the-wreckage George did a Dig interview too blubrry.com/thedig/34202825/telling-a-new-story-with-george-monbiot/ And register for the Socialism 2018 conference (July 5-8, Chicago!) at socialismconference.org Support this podcast with $ and access our weekly newsletter at patreon.com/TheDig

Episode 73 Guests: Sunbun and Brycas Follow all the things! http://www.twitter.com/brycas http://www.twitter.com/sunbun https://about.me/kingkaz http://www.twitter.com/curley ~~Show Notes~~ dkgVEGAS link! Video version on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/drunkkidsgaming Audio versions at itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dkgwelp/id1022069181?mt=2&ls=1 or on the website at http://www.dkgtv.com/dkgwelp Live every Sunday 7PM PST at http://www.twitch.tv/drunkkidsgaming

Sermon Notes Series: Stay Blessed, Salty and Bright Sermon Title: Stay Bright Matthew 5:14-16 In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus is setting the stage for what it is to be like his followers. He is breaking away from the religion commonly taught by the Jewish leaders of his day. Not only was God doing a new thing and new modes of operation needed to be applied. The current state of affairs in the religious life of the average Jew was not at all what God intended. It was time for a complete makeover. When Jesus says to his disciples that we are the light of the world this is in direct opposition to the long held belief that Israel was to be the light of the world (see Isaiah 42:6; 49:6; 60:1-3). Jerusalem was to by the City on a Hill that lit up the world. Since Jerusalem was located on a hill (actually 7 hills) it was in reference to Jerusalem that Jesus said “A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” Israel’s failure to be a light to the “nations” is at the forefront of this teaching. The word “Nations” can also be translated “Ethnics.” This then becomes the priority of Jesus; to reach all the ethnics of the world, including us of course. Note also that Jesus is also saying something important about the world. It needs light. It is in darkness. Without his light in us the world is a bleak place. In John 9:5 Jesus says “While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” In 1 John 1:5 we are told that God is light. So God is light, Jesus is light, and we are light. The implication is that the light responsibilities transferred from Jesus to the disciples after his ascension. It is his light in us that needs to shine. The challenge for us is to not hide our light. The challenge a verse earlier was not to lose our saltiness. Our light is defined as our “good deeds.” The question then is how might we avoid hiding our good deeds. The answer of course is by not living out publicly the life of Christ. By not standing up for the oppressed, by not speaking up for truth, by not living as Jesus did in the world. Discussion Questions: 1.The Gospel writers and Jesus himself put a great deal of emphasis on the light/darkness metaphor. In what ways is this way of picturing the world still relevant today? 2.Describe opportunities for “good deeds” that have come across your path. In what ways have you failed to capitalize on these kinds of opportunities? 3.How might you make sure that you are not hiding your light? What are some best practices for light bearers?

Capping off 2016 with our countdown of the top five releases of the year. Come bask in the greatness from The Bone Machine, The Spastiks, The Nevrotix, Hank Robot & The Ethnics, and The Moonshine Stalkers. Sasquatch and the Sick-a-Billys | Enjoy The Blood | Downtrodden(Self Release)2016 The Bone Machine | Sotto Questo Cielo Nero | L'uomo Gorilla(Self Release)2016 The Bone Machine | Sotto Questo Cielo Nero | Siedi Accanto Al Fuoco(Self Release)2016 The Bone Machine | Sotto Questo Cielo Nero | Senza Piu Niente(Self Release)2016 The Spastiks | Sewer Surfing | My Baby Was Abducted By Aliens(Crazy Love Records)2016 The Spastiks | Sewer Surfing | Retard(Crazy Love Records)2016 The Spastiks | Sewer Surfing | Mickey Mouse(Crazy Love Records)2016 The Nevrotix | Paranoid | Mad About You(Crazy Love Records)2016 The Nevrotix | Paranoid | Moon Monster(Crazy Love Records)2016 The Nevrotix | Paranoid | Panic Attack(Crazy Love Records)2016 Hank Robot & The Ethnics | Elvis-Jello Mojo | Homba(Moody Monkey Records)2016 Hank Robot & The Ethnics | Elvis-Jello Mojo | Where Are You Gonna Go?(Moody Monkey Records)2016 Hank Robot & The Ethnics | Elvis-Jello Mojo | Hang On(Moody Monkey Records)2016 The Moonshine Stalkers | Last Day On Earth | Visitors(Diablo Records)2016 The Moonshine Stalkers | Last Day On Earth | Miss Murder(Diablo Records)2016 The Moonshine Stalkers | Last Day On Earth | Jane Doe(Diablo Records)2016 The Monsters | M | Not Enough(Voodoo Rhythm Records)2016

Jan Sneum tager os denne gang med ind under masken på Kim Kix' alter ego Hank Robot, og udover at vi får fortalt, hvordan musikken bliver til og hvad/hvem der er inspirationskilder, kommer vi også ind, hvor det er rigtigt farligt og personligt. Kim Kix som også agerer forsanger i Powersolo danner i Hank Robot & the Ethnics band med de etniske jyder Anders Birkekær fra bl.a. Drön og Per Silkjær fra Fossils og sammen laver de noget fantastisk musik, der er mange lyt værd. Værsgo og nyd 5. udgave af Sneum Instituttet..

EP 30. Where Are All The ETHNICS?! by 2 Girls & A Mic

Christina Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013). Greer is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. In previous podcasts, authors have illuminated the immigrant experience of Latino and Asian Americans (Rouse, Masuoka and Junn), as well as the African American politics (Logan and Gillespie). Researchers have increasingly studied the opinions, political culture, and political institutions of each community. Greer uses this literature to explore an understudied population, who she dubs “Black Ethnics.” Green analyzes the public opinion differences between African Americans, African immigrants, and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City. She finds that Afro-Caribbean immigrants held some of the lowest opinions of the American Dream. Their collective frustration with a lack of opportunities placed them below African Americans and African immigrants.

Christina Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013). Greer is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. In previous podcasts, authors have illuminated the immigrant experience of Latino and Asian Americans (Rouse, Masuoka and Junn), as well as the African American politics (Logan and Gillespie). Researchers have increasingly studied the opinions, political culture, and political institutions of each community. Greer uses this literature to explore an understudied population, who she dubs “Black Ethnics.” Green analyzes the public opinion differences between African Americans, African immigrants, and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City. She finds that Afro-Caribbean immigrants held some of the lowest opinions of the American Dream. Their collective frustration with a lack of opportunities placed them below African Americans and African immigrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christina Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013). Greer is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. In previous podcasts, authors have illuminated the immigrant experience of Latino and Asian Americans (Rouse, Masuoka and Junn), as well as the African American politics (Logan and Gillespie). Researchers have increasingly studied the opinions, political culture, and political institutions of each community. Greer uses this literature to explore an understudied population, who she dubs “Black Ethnics.” Green analyzes the public opinion differences between African Americans, African immigrants, and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City. She finds that Afro-Caribbean immigrants held some of the lowest opinions of the American Dream. Their collective frustration with a lack of opportunities placed them below African Americans and African immigrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christina Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013). Greer is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. In previous podcasts, authors have illuminated the immigrant experience of Latino and Asian Americans (Rouse, Masuoka and Junn), as well as the African American politics (Logan and Gillespie). Researchers have increasingly studied the opinions, political culture, and political institutions of each community. Greer uses this literature to explore an understudied population, who she dubs “Black Ethnics.” Green analyzes the public opinion differences between African Americans, African immigrants, and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City. She finds that Afro-Caribbean immigrants held some of the lowest opinions of the American Dream. Their collective frustration with a lack of opportunities placed them below African Americans and African immigrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Christina Greer is the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013). Greer is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. In previous podcasts, authors have illuminated the immigrant experience of Latino and Asian Americans (Rouse, Masuoka and Junn), as well as the African American politics (Logan and Gillespie). Researchers have increasingly studied the opinions, political culture, and political institutions of each community. Greer uses this literature to explore an understudied population, who she dubs “Black Ethnics.” Green analyzes the public opinion differences between African Americans, African immigrants, and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in New York City. She finds that Afro-Caribbean immigrants held some of the lowest opinions of the American Dream. Their collective frustration with a lack of opportunities placed them below African Americans and African immigrants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"The Modern Church Family"*Please excuse the audio malfunction toward the middle of the sermonSupport the show (https://mosaic.aware3.net/give/)

--{ Who Foments and Lashes Ethnics to Clashes?: "Ethnic Clashes are Burning in Sweden And in England which Hymns Depicted as Eden, A White Man's Hacked to Death, in Pieces, Followed by Cautious News Releases Of a "Terrorist" Attack, Public Execution Of Englishman to Protest British Resolution To Continuous Warfare on Islamic Nations, And Bring Back Troops to Base Stations, While Swedish Minister said the Scheme Of Multicultural Utopia's Now a Bad Dream" © Alan Watt }-- Trading Blocs and Free Trade System - EU Soviet System, Budget Fraud - Iceland Shelves Accession Plans to EU - Railroads and Robber Barons - Canadian Economy, Oil Pipelines, Exportation of Raw Resources - Interdependence - Flu Hype and Marketing for Drug Companies - UK Gov. Contract for Tamiflu Drug - Monsanto Protection Act - Machete Attack in London - Policy of Mass Immigration and Multiculturalism in EU - Stockholm Riots - Public Suicide over Same Gender Marriage in France - Scam of College Education, Student Loan Debts - Bank Foreclosure Protest - Banking and "Victimless Crimes" - Legalized Plunder. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - May 22, 2013 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the weeks of December 5, 2012 with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary. Our commentary this week touched base on the death of jazz great Dave Brubeck, Russian scientists research into DNA & how it can be affected by sounds, Turkey's battle back for it's antiquities from the British Museum, the U.S.' #17 ranking in public education, the Manny Pacquiao vs. Juan Manuel Marquez boxing match and some other things here and there. There are brand new Black Agenda Report and Black University Radio Network (BURN) DIRECT EFX news mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Weeks of December 5, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Chrisette Michele feat. Wale/Rich Hipster/ThisIsChrisetteMichele.com (Played Live) 2. Meshell Ndegeocello feat. Toshi Reagon/House of the Rising Sun/Naive (Played Live) 3. Promise feat. Slakah/Somebody Else/Duck Down Records (Played Live) 4. Masta Killa/Food/Nature Sounds (Played Live) 5. Naytronix/Lead The Way/Plug Research (Played Live) 6. P.SO The Earth Tone King/Poppy Seed/EARTHTONEKING.COM (Played Live) 7. DJ Nu-Mark/Troplicalifornia/Hot Plate Records (Played Live) 8. Jesse Boykins III & Melo-X/The Perfect Blues (Jacques Greene RMX)/Ninja Tune (Top Song Requested) 9. Dead Prez/Learning, Growing, Changing/ Krian Music Group, Boss Up Inc. & Sound Weapon (Top Song Requested) 10. Kendrick Lamar/Swimming Pools (Drank)/Aftermath & Interscope (Top Song Requested) 11. All Good Funk Alliance/In The Rain (Omegaman RMX)/Fort Knox Recordings (Top Song Requested) 12. InI MLD Allstars/Government/White Label (http://INIMLDAllStars.bandcamp.com) (Top Song Requested) 13. J. Cole/Miss America/Roc Nation & Columbia (Top Song Requested) 14. Ivy Chanel/For You/IvyChanel.com (Top Song Requested) 15. 100dBs & Ryan O'Neil/Wait A Minute/Hipnott Records (Top Song Requested) 16. Muggsy Malone/Black America/White Label (http://www.twitter.com/MuggsyMaloneDC) (Top Song Requested) 17. James Watts feat. Navegante/All Of The Way/IAmJamesWatts.com (Top Song Requested) 18. Ancient Astronauts feat. Azeem & DJ Zeph/Oblivion (Maker RMX)/Switchstance Recordings (Top Song Requested) 19. Lalah Hathaway/My Everything (Dynabeat RMX)/Stax & Concord Music Group (Top Song Requested) 20. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnics feat. Nona Hendryx/It's Time/Katalyst Ent. (Top Song Requested) 21. Cody ChesnuTT/What Kind Of Cool (Will We Think Of Next)/White Label (Top Song Requested) 22. The Bamboos feat. Daniel Merriweather/I Never/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 23. Craig G/Back At 'Em/Soulspazm (Top Song Requested) 24. Skull feat. Mixmaster Mike/Cry Die/Digital Rhytnms (Top Song Requested) 25. Mark Clive de Lowe feat. Nia Andrews/Hooligans (Nostalgia 77 RMX)/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Big Boi feat. Sleepy Brown/The Thickets/Purple Ribbon & Def Jam 2. DJ Kentaro/Kikkake (Reso RMX)/Ninja Tune 3. Big Shug/Blue Collar/Brick 4. Jesse Boykins III & MeLo X feat. Ango/Better for You RMX/Ninja Tune 5. Major Lazer/Jah No Partial/Downtown 6. Mark de Clive-Lowe & the Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra/Take The Space Trane/Tru Thoughts 7. All Good Funk Alliance/Closer to the Edge (Dads on Display RMX)/Fort Knox Recordings 8. Rihanna/Diamonds (J-Vibe Reggae RMX)/White Label 9. Exco Levi/Save The Music/White Label DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: The Roots feat. Q-Tip/Ital (The Universal Side)/DGC, Geffen & MCA PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the weeks of November 28, 2012 with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary. Our commentary this week back post-Thanksgiving vacation touched base on the removal of the "indefinite detention" clause of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) here in the U.S., updates on the Trayvon Martin case along with a similar case happening with the FL shooting death of teenager Jordan Russell Davis, the death of Hostess & layoffs at the snack company (but not before it's executives gave themselves big $$ raises), two foolish rappers who thought it was smart to kidnap a producer for cash & Apple electronic products and some other things here and there. There are brand new Black Agenda Report and Black University Radio Network (BURN) DIRECT EFX news mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Weeks of November 28, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Chrisette Michele feat. Wale/Rich Hipster/ThisIsChrisetteMichele.com (Played Live) 2. Naytronix/Lead The Way/Plug Research (Played Live) 3. DJ Nu-Mark/Troplicalifornia/Hot Plate Records (Played Live) 4. Muggsy Malone/Black America/White Label (Played Live) (http://www.twitter.com/MuggsyMaloneDC) (Played Live) 5. James Watts feat. Navegante/All Of The Way/IAmJamesWatts.com (Played Live) 6. Ancient Astronauts feat. Azeem & DJ Zeph/Oblivion (Maker RMX)/Switchstance Recordings (Top Song Requested) 7. Lalah Hathaway/My Everything (Dynabeat RMX)/Stax & Concord Music Group (Top Song Requested) 8. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnics feat. Nona Hendryx/It's Time/Katalyst Ent. (Top Song Requested) 9. Cody ChesnuTT/What Kind Of Cool (Will We Think Of Next)/White Label (Top Song Requested) 10. The Bamboos feat. Daniel Merriweather/I Never/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 11. Craig G/Back At 'Em/Soulspazm (Top Song Requested) 12. Skull feat. Mixmaster Mike/Cry Die/Digital Rhytnms (Top Song Requested) 13. Mark Clive de Lowe feat. Nia Andrews/Hooligans (Nostalgia 77 RMX)/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 14. John Robinson & PVD/Miles & Trane/Cotter & Brick Records (Top Song Requested) 15. DJ Muggs/Muggs Mood/DJMuggs.com (Top Song Requested) 16. Arkword feat. DJ Dyllemma/I/ArkwordRap.com (Top Song Requested) 17. Murs & 9th Wonder/It's Over/IWWMG (Top Song Requested) 18. Roc Marciano/76/Decon (Top Song Requested) 19. Plan B/The Runaway/Atlantic (Top Song Requested) 20. Francis Yip/Green is the Mountain/Soul Temple (Top Song Requested) 21. Adele/Skyfall/Columbia & Sony (Top Song Requested) 22. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch/Sweet Nothing/Ultra & Columbia (Top Song Requested) 23. Jose James/It's All Over Your Body (Oddisee RMX)/Blue Note (Top Song Requested) 24. R. Kelly/Feelin' Single/RCA (Top Song Requested) 25. The Hood Internet/Our Finest China/Decon (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Jesse Boykins III & Melo-X/The Perfect Blues (Jacques Greene RMX)/Ninja Tune 2. Meshell Ndegeocello feat. Toshi Reagon/House of the Rising Sun/Naive 3. Promise feat. Slakah/Somebody Else/Duck Down Records 4. Masta Killa/R U Listening/Nature Sounds 5. Dead Prez/Learning, Growing, Changing/ Krian Music Group, Boss Up Inc. & Sound Weapon 6. Kendrick Lamar/Swimming Pools (Drank)/Aftermath & Interscope 7. All Good Funk Alliance/In The Rain (Omegaman RMX)/Fort Knox Recordings 8. InI MLD Allstars/Government/White Label (http://INIMLDAllStars.bandcamp.com) 9. P.SO The Earth Tone King/Poppy Seed/EARTHTONEKING.COM 10. J. Cole/Miss America/Roc Nation & Columbia 11. Ivy Chanel/For You/IvyChanel.com 12. 100dBs & Ryan O'Neil/Wait A Minute/Hipnott Records DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: Shaquille O'Neal feat. Erick Sermon/My Style, My Steelo/Jive PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of Nov. 7, 2012 with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary. Our extended commentary this week touched base on our opinions on the multi-faceted results of the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election (the re-election of Pres. Barack Obama & what it means, how the vote stacked up on local and national issues, when keeping it real with your racism, sexism + classim goes horribly wrong for the GOP on a lot of fronts & what political direction the country as a whole needs to head into for the future), post-Hurricane Sandy news updates in the Americas, the death of Philly Soul singer Major Harris (formerly of the Delfonics + had the solo hit "Love Won't Make Me Wait") and some other things here and there. There are brand new Black Agenda Report and Black University Radio Network (BURN) DIRECT EFX news mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Week of Nov. 7, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Ancient Astronauts feat. Azeem & DJ Zeph/Oblivion (Maker RMX)/Switchstance Recordings (Played Live) 2. Muggsy Malone/Black America/White Label (http://www.twitter.com/MuggsyMaloneDC) (Played Live) 3. Naytronix/Lead The Way/Plug Research 4. Mark Clive de Lowe feat. Nia Andrews/Hooligans (Nostalgia 77 RMX)/Tru Thoughts (Played Live) 5. James Watts feat. Navegante/All Of The Way/IAmJamesWatts.com (Played Live) 6. Lalah Hathaway/My Everything (Dynabeat RMX)/Stax & Concord Music Group (Top Song Requested) 7. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnics feat. Nona Hendryx/It's Time/Katalyst Ent. (Top Song Requested) 8. Cody ChesnuTT/What Kind Of Cool (Will We Think Of Next)/White Label (Top Song Requested) 9. The Bamboos feat. Daniel Merriweather/I Never/Tru Thoughts (Top Song Requested) 10. Craig G/Back At 'Em/Soulspazm (Top Song Requested) 11. Skull feat. Mixmaster Mike/Cry Die/Digital Rhythms (Top Song Requested) 12. John Robinson & PVD/Miles & Trane/Cotter & Brick Records (Top Song Requested) 13. DJ Muggs/Muggs Mood/DJMuggs.com (Top Song Requested) 14. Arkword feat. DJ Dyllemma/I/ArkwordRap.com (Top Song Requested) 15. Murs & 9th Wonder/It's Over/IWWMG (Top Song Requested) 16. Roc Marciano/76/Decon (Top Song Requested) 17. Plan B/The Runaway/Atlantic (Top Song Requested) 18. Francis Yip/Green is the Mountain/Soul Temple (Top Song Requested) 19. Adele/Skyfall/Columbia & Sony (Top Song Requested) 20. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch/Sweet Nothing/Ultra & Columbia (Top Song Requested) 21. Jose James/It's All Over Your Body (Oddisee RMX)/Blue Note (Top Song Requested) 22. R. Kelly/Feelin' Single/RCA (Top Song Requested) 23. The Hood Internet/Our Finest China/Decon (Top Song Requested) 24. D.O.E. C.I.G.A.P.O.M. feat. DaNedra Rowel/Caged Birds/Inner Loop Records (Top Song Requested) 25. Brother Ali/Say Amen/Rhymesayers (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Jesse Boykins III & Melo-X/Black Orpheus/Ninja Tune 2. DJ Nu-Mark/Troplicalifornia/Hot Plate Records 3. Chrisette Michele feat. Wale/Rich Hipster/ThisIsChrisetteMichele.com 4. Keith Murray/La La La/White Label 5. Doujah Raze/Left Out/Trilogy Records DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: The Meters/Hey Pocky A-Way/Reprise PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

This is the latest episode of the syndicated FuseBox Radio Broadcast with DJ Fusion & Jon Judah for the week of October 31, 2012 with some new and classic music from the international Black Diaspora, news and commentary. Our extended commentary this week touched base on the numerous new stories and aftereffects - tragic and inspiring - of Hurricane Sandy in the Americas, the upcoming U.S. Presidential election and the HUGE importance of not just voting, but being involved in the political process in the United States on multiple levels and some other things here and there. There are brand new Black Agenda Report and Black University Radio Network (BURN) DIRECT EFX news mini-segments on this week's episode. FuseBox Radio Playlist + Charts for the Week of October 31, 2012 Top Spins (Music Still Lasting in Rotation/Music Played Live on Air Each Week/As Well As Music Requested By The Listeners) 1. Mark Clive de Lowe feat. Nia Andrews/Hooligans (Nostalgia 77 RMX)/Tru Thoughts (Played Live) 2. John Robinson & PVD/Miles & Trane/Cotter & Brick Records (Played Live) 3. DJ Muggs/Muggs Mood/DJMuggs.com (Played Live) 4. Arkword feat. DJ Dyllemma/I/ArkwordRap.com (Played Live) 5. Murs & 9th Wonder/It's Over/IWWMG (Top Song Requested) 6. Roc Marciano/76/Decon (Top Song Requested) 7. Plan B/The Runaway/Atlantic (Top Song Requested) 8. Francis Yip/Green is the Mountain/Soul Temple (Top Song Requested) 9. Adele/Skyfall/Columbia & Sony (Top Song Requested) 10. Calvin Harris feat. Florence Welch/Sweet Nothing/Ultra & Columbia (Top Song Requested) 11. Jose James/It's All Over Your Body (Oddisee RMX)/Blue Note (Top Song Requested) 12. R. Kelly/Feelin' Single/RCA (Top Song Requested) 13. The Hood Internet/Our Finest China/Decon (Top Song Requested) 14. D.O.E. C.I.G.A.P.O.M. feat. DaNedra Rowel/Caged Birds/Inner Loop Records (Top Song Requested) 15. Brother Ali/Say Amen/Rhymesayers (Top Song Requested) 16. Preservation Hall Jazz Band feat. Yasiin Bey, Trombone Short & Allen Toussaint/It Ain't My Fault/Rounder Records (Top Song Requested) 17. The Wonderful Sounds of Induce/One Day, Some Day/Wondersound (Top Song Requested) 18. Solidisco/One More Chance (Original Mix)/Solidisco.com (Top Song Requested) 19. Flying Lotus/Heave(n)/Warp (Top Song Requested) 20. Oh No feat. Montage One & Guilty Simpson/Devastation/Heavy Keys (Top Song Requested) 21. Sonnymoon/Nothing Thought (Natural Self RMX)/SunnymoonMusic.com (Top Song Requested) 22. Daville feat. Charley Black/Never Let You Go/White Label (Top Song Requested) 23. Dee-1 feat. Mannie Fresh & Mos Des/The Very Best/Dee1Music.com (Top Song Requested) 24. Maze Hill/Long Haul (LV RMX)/Wah Wah 45s (Top Song Requested) 25. JR & PH7 feat. Freeway, Saigon & Ras Kass/Who Want What/Soulspazm (Top Song Requested) Top Adds (New Joints Played Live On This Week's Broadcast) 1. Ancient Astronauts feat. Azeem & DJ Zeph/Oblivion (Maker RMX)/Switchstance Recordings 2. Muggsy Malone/Black America/White Label (http://www.twitter.com/MuggsyMaloneDC) 3. Lalah Hathaway/My Everything (Dynabeat RMX)/Stax & Concord Music Group 4. Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnics feat. Nona Hendryx/It's Time/Katalyst Ent. 5. Naytronix/Lead The Way/Plug Research 6. Cody ChesnuTT/What Kind Of Cool (Will We Think Of Next)/White Label 7. The Bamboos feat. Daniel Merriweather/I Never/Tru Thoughts 8. Craig G/Back At 'Em/Soulspazm 9. James Watts feat. Navegante/All Of The Way/IAmJamesWatts.com 10. Skull feat. Mixmaster Mike/Cry Die/Digital Rhytnms DJ Fusion Flashback Tracks: A Tribe Called Quest/Vibes and Stuff/Jive PLUS Some Extra Special Hidden Tracks in the Jon Judah Master Mix w/ Old School Black Music Classics and Independent Music Finds

Discussion about Cardiovascular Healthby Drs. Nunez and Lee Drexel University College of Medicine christof.daetwyler@drexelmed.edu

Discussion about Oral Healthby Drs. Cohen and Yeh Drexel University College of Medicine christof.daetwyler@drexelmed.edu

Discussion about Mental Healthby Drs. Schindler and Yeh Drexel University College of Medicine christof.daetwyler@drexelmed.edu