Therefore, clearly this Jesus of Nazareth – who had been crucified on a wooden cross – could not be their long-awaited Messiah. They knew that the One coming would have the Spirit of the Lord resting on Him, and that He would carry the blessing of the Lord. The scholars of Israel knew the Scriptures well. As such, Saul was a strict Pharisee who was filled with a kind of righteous indignation at the newly emerging sect of Jewish people who claimed that Jesus was the Christ. These men took an oath to protect the orthodoxy of the Law in anticipation of the coming Messiah, as prophesied in the Scriptures. He was also a leading member of the Sanhedrin – a select group of 71 scholars who were appointed as judges over all the religious matters concerning Mosaic Law. although I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an insolent man but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief” ( 1 Timothy 1:13).įor the first part of his life, he was known as Saul of Tarsus, a well-educated man in Israel, and a religious and social elite. You can also stay up-to-date by liking us on Facebook or following us on Twitter.“. You can find out how to listen to and follow The Detail here. Want to hear more about the state of the Far North's roads? Check out the full podcast episode. "So my challenge, and I guess I'm laying down the gauntlet and I hope New Zealand will join me, is let's make sure we hold this minister to account.that we don't see all these election bribes designed to support the metros, and particularly Auckland, and at the price of rural and provincial New Zealand." "Yes Auckland is important, we love Auckland and 1.5 million people live there, but 3.5 million people don't. "It's an election year and the minister of transport has just been appointed as the minister of Auckland and has been on TV talking about Auckland and how if Auckland succeeds, the rest of the country succeeds. "I'm going to be a pretty little provocative here," she says. "The government's indicated pretty strongly that it's going to have to step in and take general taxpayer money.to top up the transport fund and that's a wee bit controversial."Ĭourt says there's got to be a better way to balance funding for metro and rural areas. "We always set aside money from the fuel taxes to pay for fixing the roads, now what is obviously a problem is that climate change means that there are a lot more storms and we need a lot more money to fix the damage that these storms create. "It puts it into a central government kitty.and then you have a local government side of things and local governments raise revenue from rates.and every road is a mixture of those kinds of pots of funding."īut Waka Kotahi's emergency fund has all but dried up, Coughlan says. The government - through the transport agency Waka Kotahi - raises money from costs associated with cars - for instance petrol taxes, taxes on tyres and registrations. The New Zealand Herald's deputy political editor Thomas Coughlan says roads have basically been funded the same way for a century. This is just one of the many districts across New Zealand having huge problems - roads at the top of the South Island, Tairāwhiti and the Coromandel have also had serious damage after recent rain. "The funding has been coming extremely constrained - we're not getting the level of funding that we need.our proximity to Auckland means we get a lot of tourism up here so that's putting more traffic on the road, we're getting a lot more industry up here.and all of that freight and logistics is moved by road."Īnn Court, a Far North councillor Photo: Diane Stoppard/supplied When that's closed, as it was last time for over a year and this time for longer, that puts an enormous amount of strain on the existing network that is not designed for it."Ĭourt has been a councillor for 24 years and says she has never seen it this bad. "That's our main arterial route that takes us north to Kaitaia and beyond up to Cape Reinga. We'd only just got that open from the previous event and that's State Highway 1. "Last year we had the significant event which took out the Mangamuka and that's still closed. "We are facing a very real situation now where the funding just cannot support the level of service," councillor Ann Court says. In the Far North, as soon as some of the roads are fixed, they start falling apart again. The landslide that sliced through SH25A in the Coromandel, pictured on 2 February.
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