Okay. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for this day that you have blessed us with. Father, we pray that as we study today, Father, let it be your wisdom that guides us. We pray that you bless Pasadipika with all the wisdom that she needs to teach us. We pray that you prepare our hearts to receive what is in store for us today. We learn and ponder over it and strengthen our spirits into the new dimensions, Lord. Thank you and we ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you so much. Yes. So, before we get into today's session, there was a small glitch in the assessment which was put up, you know, in the Google Classroom. But the settings have been reset. So, I'm assuming that now there should be no more issues. I think you will be able to access the final assessment and, you know, do those multiple choice questions. If you're able to tackle maybe about 10 questions per day, you should be able to finish in time. I know, so it's just think of it as, you know, having to take 10 answers per day. I mean, of course, you have other subjects as well and those assessments as well. But my hope is that if you just do about 10 questions per day for John, you should be able to, you know, complete within the time limit. So, yeah, that was just regarding and you have any other questions regarding that, you know, you can always raise questions during the class today. Anything regarding the final assessment or any other doubts regarding the class because, you know, we have only one class left. We have today's class and we have next week, of course. So we have finished with first John chapters one and two. So today we will look at all the other three remaining chapters in the first epistle. So we will begin with first John chapter three today. If someone could read out for us just verse one, we'll reflect on verse one and then continue from there. First John chapter three verse one, if someone could read out for us, please. See what kind of love the Father has given to us that we should be called children of God. And so we are the reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Yeah. So we, as we read this entire epistle, we need to keep in mind why this particular letter is being written. He is writing with a very specific purpose. Wrong teachings have come into the church. There are this one section of the church which has, you know, gone out from the community. Now they formed a separate group group and they're making allegations and saying, you know, you Christians, you're not actually Christians. We are the true Christians. We are the ones who have received this special mysterious knowledge from the Lord. So we are the chosen of God. Now you others, you know, you don't have this kind of mysterious, our nostic knowledge which we have received. So the believers are confused. These people who are making allegations seem so superior, so knowledgeable, so intellectual. And they're speaking of all these mysterious spirit experiences that they are having. And they're making statements regarding Jesus himself about how he was not fully human and all of that. So they're confused. So throughout the letter, it is this issue which is being addressed. So we have to keep that in mind, you know, and not read other meanings into this entire epistle. So here when we see the very first verse of chapter three, here, John is assuring these believers and telling them, see what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God. And that is what we are. So here they are wondering, oh, are we really the true believers because these people who seem to know so much, they're saying things about us. They're saying that we don't have any kind of special mysterious knowledge. And they're saying that we are not really part of, you know, Jesus flock. So even as they are worrying about that, this letter is being given to them. And John is assuring them and saying, you know, you are greatly loved by the Father.  Okay, so he again reemphasizes what he is saying and he says, that is what we are. So never doubt that, never doubt the status that you have in him. So while these fake Christians, these Gnostic Christians were saying that they are the elite, the superior ones, he says, actually, it is you people who are children of the living God, you're the, you know, true children. So you're the elite. And if you are the children of God, then, you know, there's nothing higher than that. And so he assures them of their position and security in the Lord. And then he goes on to say the reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. So these people, these fake Christians, they are in fact part of the world. They are not even part of the true church. And they have never really known him, you know, because that he may he refers to that we saw that in the in the previous class. They if they had really belonged to us, you know, they would have remained with us. But the fact that they left and they went out talking about a different doctrine. It shows that in the that even in the beginning itself, they never really made a true commitment. If they had made a true commitment, if they had, you know, based their faith on the true revelation, then they would have had a experience of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit would have made them into a new creation. They would have given them a brand new spirit. Now none of those things happened to these people. They came into the church. They pretended as if they're part of the church. And then they got led away into this new doctrines and they left the church. So they were in fact never really part of the church and they are part of the world. And here he assures and says they do not accept what we are saying simply because they do not know him the way we know him. We on the other hand are children of God and we have been we have a personal relationship with God. So he assures the Christians and says, you know, do not be shaken by what is being said.  So that's the assurance that he is giving them. Yes, this is first turn chapter three and we looked at verse one. Okay, so if someone could read out for us verse two. Beloved, we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is in him. Yes, so here it says now. Okay, right now. Dear friends, now we are children of God and what we will be in the future that is has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. So John is making a differentiation between what we are now and what we are going to be later. What does he mean? He says that right now our status is that we are God's children. But he says what we are going to be in the future that is not known. What could he mean by that? Obviously, he does not mean that we will stop being God's children. Once you are part of the family, you are part of the family. So the Lord would never reject us and say, okay, now you are no longer children. So he is obviously not talking about that. So what is this other thing that we are going to be in the future which is not known now? What is he talking about? If you see, one fact that he brings out is that we don't know the details of what we will be later. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. So that is one thing which he clarifies. We will definitely be like him that much is very, very clear. So maybe we can just talk about that aspect and then we will move to the other part of the question. So when he appears, we shall be like him because we will know him the way he is. Now what does this mean? It's talking about how when we see Jesus Christ with our own eyes, at that time we will see what exactly being like Christ really is. Right now we have a good idea based on the scriptures of who Jesus is, what his character is, what he stands for. But then when we literally see him with our own eyes and we begin to interact with him physically, then we would know to a greater extent the depth of his love. We would know the extent of his faithfulness. We would know the very depths of how humble humility actually is meant to be. We would see the greatness of his justice and power. So we would actually literally see the outer extents, the outer boundaries and limits of who he is. Because right now in our minds and our human limitedness, we may not be able to comprehend the bigness of this Jesus. And we cannot be as humble as he is because we still do not even know what humility is. When we see him, we will think, my, this is the king of kings and lord of lords. And look at him. He's so humble. So this is humility. We will see with our eyes and we will understand what the standard of humility is that has been set for us. And then on that day, we would begin to move into those things. We would be like him. We would be like him in humility. We would be like him in our faithfulness. We would be like him in the way we regard justice and fairness and all of that. So right now, the picture that we have of him is still incomplete. We think we understand what humility is. We think what faithfulness is. But when we look at him, then we will know that this is the extent of what these things stand for. And on that day, we will then choose to go up to that standard, to go up to that level, because we would of course desire to imitate him and be like him. So we do know that when we see him, we will be like him. But it also talks about another aspect where it says, right now we are children. What we will be has not yet been made known to us. So I am assuming that most probably this refers to something similar which Paul said in his writings. So Galatians 4, 1-7, I know that's a huge chunk of 7 verses, but it really helps us. It really throws light on what is being said over here in 1 John 3 where it says, What we will be has not yet been made known. What is he talking about? What is he referring to? Is someone could read out Galatians 4 verses 1-7 and if we can really kind of apply minds to what it's saying over here about what we will be and it's not being fully known now. So think about it, even as this passage is being read out, Galatians 4, 1-7, think about what implications this passage can have for what we are going to be reflecting upon. Yes, please go ahead. Galatians 4, 1-7, what I am saying is that as long as the heir is a minor, he is not different from a slave. Even though he is the legal owner of the estate, rather he is subject to guardians and caretakers until the time previously set by his father. So it is with us, when we were children, we were slaves to the elemental spirits of the universe. But when the appointed time arrived, God sent forth his son. He was born from a woman born into a culture in which legalistic perversion of the Torah was known, so that he might redeem those in subjection to this legalism and thus enable us to be made God's son. Now, because you are sons, God has sent forth into our hearts the spirit of his son, the spirit who cries, Abba, that is their father.  And if you are a son, you are also an heir. Yes. So Paul begins by saying that once upon a time, earlier before we came into the Lord's family, before we made a commitment to the Lord Jesus, we were slaves because it was these elemental spiritual forces that controlled us. We were under Satan's control. We were under the control of his demons. We had this sinful spirit inside us and so we were living in sin. Because we were living in sin, we were under the control of the evil spirits and we could not set ourselves free on our own.  But once we came to Jesus and made a commitment to him, he set us free. So we who were slaves became free and not only did we become free, we actually became children of God and we became heirs to a great spiritual inheritance which God has waiting for us. But he also makes another point. He says that as long as that heir is still a minor, he does not inherit that full inheritance. So he is just like the slaves in the house. Now, of course, when we think of a slave, we think of someone shackled and then chains or working out in the open fields and he's being whipped and he's in a very pathetic condition and he has absolutely no rights or privileges. That is the kind of image that we have of a slave because of the kind of horrible slavery that was going on in the USA in those days. But before that, in biblical times, a slave was not something terrible because slaves held positions of great importance and authority in big households. They would be like the administrators. There would be people who are carrying out important responsibilities. So the master of the house would shell out a lot of money to buy a valuable slave, someone who with skills and talents and then he would train him up. He would invest in him, train him up so that he can take those positions of responsibility in his household, in his business. So slaves were not really anything inferior. Of course, you also had the menial slaves who would be made to do physical labor and all of that. But there were many slaves who were in good positions.  His status would be like that of the slave who's running the household. In the sense, the slave has no inheritance of his own. Nor does this boy who's running around in the house still have any inheritance. But one day, his father would have set a time. It says that in verse 2, Galatians 4 verse 2, on the day when the father has set the time, on that day, this boy would be grown up enough and the father will put his signature and say, now onwards, this inheritance is yours. And on that day, the status of this boy automatically increases beyond that of the slave. The slave is still running matters, but now this boy is going to be the boss of that slave. Rather than the slave giving him orders and taking care of him and being his guardian, now this boy who has reached manhood and the inheritance has been turned over to him, he will be in authority and in fact the slave would be taking orders from him in the future. So things kind of change in the household at that point of time. So when John is speaking over here about what we still do not know about what we are going to be in the future, he is probably speaking about this. Right now we are just sons, right now we are heirs and we have not yet entered into the full inheritance that we are meant to have. But when we see him, we will be like him and we will be ready for this new role that God has for us. So all those details have not been revealed to us. We know that there will be a new heaven and a new earth. We know that we will have some kind of role to play over there in that new kingdom. But the details of what exactly we will be, what our role will be, the powers and privileges which will be given to us, those things have not been revealed to us as yet. All we do know is that when it comes to character, we will begin to be like him, completely like Jesus, that much we know. Now what privileges and responsibilities will go with that new character, that is something that will be revealed to us only in the future. So these are some of the things that we could apply over here to this particular verse when we are trying to understand it. If we can also just look at 2 Corinthians 3, 16 to 18. If someone could read out 2 Corinthians chapter 3, 16 to 18 please. 2 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 16 to 18. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. But this comes from the Lord who is the spirit in it. Yes, so here it talks about how even while we are here on this earth, even now as we are fellowshiping with him, even as we are spending time with him. Even now itself the transformation has already started. We are already becoming more and more like him. But the process has not been completed. And that is why it says in 1 Corinthians 13 verse 12 it says, For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror. Then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part, then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. So on that day, when we know all that is required, we will know it fully. Because now Jesus says we are no longer slaves, but we are his friends. And he is beginning to reveal to us all the matters regarding his father's business. Now, when we step into this new life, into the new heaven and the new earth, at that time we will be given even more details regarding the father's business. So we will know fully. We will be like Christ and we will also know everything more fully. At that time we will be ready to take on the new responsibilities that come with the inheritance. So there are very great grand things awaiting the believer. And this is the time when we can prepare ourselves for it. If we waste away these years, on that day, we will not be able to actually get into what was originally planned for us. We would just be given maybe something lesser because we simply never even prepared ourselves for it. So now is the time to build up the relationship with him. Now is the time to really understand his heart and do his father's business to the extent that we know it today. Because even as we get into these things and prove ourselves as very, very faithful, on that day he will say, well done faithful servant. And then it says that we would be given greater responsibilities. So we could understand this along the lines of these principles. All right. If someone could read out for us verse 3. It's just a short verse. If someone could read out for us verse 3. Is anyone there? I can go ahead. Yes. So first John or first Corinthians? Oh, no, no. Okay. First John chapter 3 verse 3. Okay. And everyone who has this hope in him continues purifying himself since God is pure. Okay. So those of us who really have this hope that one day we will be like him and this thing means something to us. We value this. We treasure this that we are going to be like him. If that thing is something precious to us, then we will start that process of becoming like him today itself. We will not have the attitude that, okay, one day I'll anyway become like him. So right now while I'm here, let me know enjoy my life of sin. We will not even have that attitude because we are looking forward to what we will become. We long for that. And so we begin that process now itself with the help of the Holy Spirit. And that is the difference between people who genuinely have become born again Christians and those who are just part of the Christian community simply because it has been handed down to them as tradition. So those who have become a new creation on the inside, those who have been given a new spirit by the Holy Spirit, we have new desires. We no longer want to live in sin. We feel convicted in fact and we feel uncomfortable when we sin. So we have this longing to be better. We long to get the praise of our master and father. We long for noble things. So those who have this hope, those who really value what is going to be done for them in the future, they will start moving towards those things even from now. There's an eagerness to become those things. On the other hand, you have some people who only ever really wanted to chase the ticket to heaven. And so they have no desire whatsoever for God. They don't feel any need to please him. They're just happy that they managed to get hold of a ticket. So if anyone has that attitude, maybe we really need to sit down and ask ourselves, have I become a new creation on the inside? Did I ever really make that commitment where I submitted to the Lord and said, okay Lord, now come and take over my life. If we have not done that, if we have not felt those desires, if I don't see any change, any renewal in me happening, then I need to ask myself, do I have the Holy Spirit living in me? Have I been made into a new creation with a new spirit? These are important life and death questions which we would need to ask ourselves. If we don't see any kind of change taking place, if we don't see ourselves becoming more and more like Christ, if there is absolutely no improvement, then we would have to ask ourselves whether we have even been born again or not. So that's one kind of a warning which we can take. Because some verses which are there in the later part of the chapter actually talk about that. Has someone raised a hand? No, okay. Alright, let's move on. If we could read verse 9. Yeah, if someone could read out verse 9, please. Yes, Pastor. Verse 9, it reads, No one who has God as his father keeps on sinning, because the seed planted by God remains in him. That is, he cannot continue sinning because he has God as his father. Yes. Okay, so the fake Christians, the ones who had gone into Gnosticism, if you remember they were the ones who were making the claim that they have been perfected by Christ and now because Christ has perfected them, they are incapable of sinning anymore. So even if they do something sinful, they would say, no, no, this is not sinful. What I am doing is not sinful because I am incapable of sin. And so they were living in all kinds of sinful behaviour and claiming that they are sinless. Okay, so here John is pointing out that people who live like that, they are not really true Christians at all, because a person who is a true Christian, he will have God's seed inside him. He uses this metaphor of God being a father who has actually given birth to children. So it's just a metaphor. So obviously here it's not talking about physical birth. It's talking about just the metaphor of God giving birth to children. So in that sense, metaphorically, the seed of God, the sperm of God is in the believer. And we know that how did we become a new creation? It is through the Holy Spirit. That was explained to us in John chapter 3, that entire passage where Nicodemus and Jesus have a conversation. So we are born of the Spirit. So over here, we could say metaphorically, it's basically talking about in what way is the sperm of God inside us. Basically it's the Holy Spirit, because we have been birthed through the Holy Spirit.  And that is why we call ourselves born again Christians. We no longer have a dead sinful spirit inside us. A new spirit, a new creation has been placed inside us by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit literally resides in that. People like that cannot just continue to sin because the Holy Spirit continues to convict them. He continues to give them the desire to change. He urges them by reminding them of all that Jesus has taught. That's what we were told. All that Jesus has taught, it will be re-taught to us. It will be reminded to us again and again by the Holy Spirit. So the Holy Spirit constantly is our teacher and our guide and he goes on urging us. And so we can never be complacent and say, oh, I'll just continue living like this and not feel anything, not feel any urge to improve. That is just impossible. So John is saying, look at these fake Christians. They are saying that they are the elite. They say that they have some kind of mysterious relationship with the Lord. But if you look at their lifestyle, they are living in sin. And if you're a true believer, that would not be the case. You cannot continue living in sin if you are a true believer. Now, NKJV makes this a little complicated because it does not bring out that present tense as a continuous present tense. In NKJV, it just simply says, whoever has been born of God does not sin, for his seed remains in him and he cannot sin because he has been born of God. So over here, it's not just simply does not sin. It means it does not continue to sin. So it's a present continuous tense, which is why now almost all the English versions will try to make sure that they're using that present continuous because it brings out the meaning better. So we all sin. That was made very, very clear in 1 John 1, verses 7, 8, 9, 10. Basically in those verses, it's made very, very clear that we do sin. But we don't continue to live in a lifestyle of sin. There is conviction, we repent, we come back to him. We learn the keys of living a victorious life. We try to apply those and start practicing. The Lord helps us in our journey. So all of this key goes on. There's a progression taking place, but a person cannot just remain at one level if truly the Holy Spirit is inside them. If truly the Holy Spirit has made them into one new creation, they cannot just stay stagnant. And that is why NKJV, even though it does not use the present continuous tense, that is how we need to understand this verse. Yes, Brother Shai, go ahead. Yeah, I have a question, comment and observation altogether, but more of a question. I think again, just to add to what you mentioned about the other translations, making this verse simply is, the Amplified Classic says habitually. So somebody who is in the habit of singing, that we are not supposed to be that way if truly we are from the Father and we are God's children. But again, somebody else might argue, and I've actually had these kinds of conversations, still going back again to what we read in 1 John chapter 1. And basically, let me just put it in this way. If you say somebody drives a cab or a taxi, you call that person a driver. If you say somebody fights in the ring, you call that person a boxer. Some people will now say, oh, if I sing, then I'm a sinner. And then the question now comes back again to this verse we are reading now in verse 9. How then do we now reconcile the fact that we are not sinners? But yes, we fall short. We sing, right? But that doesn't make us sinners because these two verses, the one in 1 John and then this verse that now we're reading, to some people, it could be a struggle because sometimes again, there might be things that they are not happy about in their Christian life, but it's not like they want to keep doing them. They just have a struggle and they are praying to God, Lord, help me. Or for some people, maybe because at some point in time they say things they're not supposed to say. They do things they're not supposed to do. So they just categorize themselves as sinners. And then they now come to this verse and it's a bit confusing and intimidating that, okay, if I'm from God, then I'm not supposed to keep singing. Then why did I keep doing this? So how then, maybe you can just explain to us and give us clarity. How then do we reconcile these verses to ensure that the believer doesn't lose the identity in Christ in spite of what they might be doing or have done, you know, in line with what you've been saying with us. Thank you. Thank you so much, Pastor. Yes. So last week when we were looking at 1 John chapter 2 verse 2, where we looked at that, you know, the meaning of the term helamos, atoning sacrifice. So 1 John 2 2, it says, and he himself is the propitiation for our sins. He's the atoning sacrifice for our sins and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. And we looked at the meaning of that word that was used over the helamos. Which means atoning sacrifice. And we saw that it has two meanings. One is that it cleanses completely the sacrifice of Jesus which was performed. That sacrifice, that atoning sacrifice completely washed and cleansed us from all unrighteousness. So not only were the sins which we had committed up to that point forgiven, but even all the sins which we would be committing in the future as well. Right up to the time that we die. All of those sins were wiped out, washed, cleaned. So we have been made perfectly righteous and we saw that the other implication that that word brings out is that not only are we washed and cleansed, now God's anger is no longer against us. All he feels towards us is the love of a father. So yes, the love of a father will include correction. It will definitely include removing the scales from our eyes when we have wrong doctrines and we have wrong ideas about what God's word says. All of that would be going on. But there is no wrath against us. There is no anger against us. All that he is doing for us will be out of love. So now we are part of his family. We have been made completely righteous. So we do not call ourselves sinners anymore. We call ourselves righteous in Christ because we are clothed in the righteousness of Christ. That is our status and 1st John 2 makes that very clear. But Hebrews 10 14 also brings out the difference between the spirit and the soul. So Hebrews 10 14, if we could have someone read out please. Hebrews 10 14 Hebrews 10 14 for by a single offering he has brought the goal for all time. Those who are being set apart for God are made holy. Wow, that translation really does not bring out the word to word of the being Greek.  So by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy. So the first portion of the verse it is talking about how that one sacrifice has made perfect forever. The same thing which John was trying to say. It's a atoning sacrifice for sin. It's a propitiation for sin. So by that one sacrifice we have been made completely righteous. We have been perfected that old sinful spirit with which we were born as a baby that got removed. It was replaced by a new creation by a new spirit which is in harmony with the Lord and has the same desires that the Lord has. So we have been made perfect. We are no longer sinners but in our soul you see we are still in the process of being made holy. We still think the way we used to think earlier in many areas of life because our mind has not been fully renewed. It's only the spirit. The old spirit was taken out. A brand new creation was placed inside. So we are a new creation but in the mind we are still having many thought patterns which we had earlier. Now so it becomes our responsibility to renew our mind on a day to day basis and teach it how to be holy unto the Lord. To teach it how to stay separated unto the Lord not be confirmed to the world but be transformed by the renewing of the mind. So every day you tell your mind to set itself apart from worldly thinking from worldly ways and set itself apart to think like God to align its thoughts with God's thoughts. So it's a responsibility that we have. So a careless lazy Christian can say that's just too difficult. Anyway my spirit is renewed. I can enter into heaven anytime I want. So why bother with the mind but no if we live like that we would live a very defeated life. We would lead a very discouraged life because we will not be able to claim any of that spiritual inheritance which is ours you know because we still have this unrenewed mind just like holding us down like a weight and we can't move to higher things. We see everything the way the words he said. We are unable to catch the beauty of what the scriptures are offering and oh our lives would be so miserable because here you have on the inside the spirit which is crying out longing for greater things, grander things for this abundant life that has been planned for it but here you have on the other hand your unrenewed mind which still holds on to old thought patterns. It's unable to grasp what the scripture is saying and oh you're so messed up. So which is why you know Paul says do not be confirmed to the world. Start moving towards a transformation by renewing of your mind on a daily basis. Take the word of God he says in Romans chapter 12 verses 1 and 2 you know if someone could actually read out Romans chapter 12 verse 1 we will look at what the wording over there says because then we'll have a clearer picture Romans chapter 12 verse 1 if someone could read out please I appeal to you big four brothers by the mercies of God to present your body as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable to God which is your spiritual worship yes and then verse 2 do not be confirmed to this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that by testing you may discern what is the will of God what is good and acceptable and perfect so we choose we consciously make a choice to not act like the world but to present our bodies and set it apart for holy things in the process of doing that there is a transformation which takes place you know it talks about how we are no longer we should not be confirmed to the world but we transformed and so we take God's word we act upon it and by doing God's will we prove to our mind and to the world that you see when we actually do God's will we discover that it is pleasing and perfect and good so by actually practically taking God's word standing on it believing in it and practicing it in our daily life we are proving that indeed his will is good and pleasing and perfect so as you are doing that your mind catches up it begins to understand oh God's word is superior to the thought of the world you have to literally bring your mind in line with what your spirit already knows in your spirit you catch these things in an instant because you know are united with the Holy Spirit on the inside so you catch these things but your mind that's something that has to be educated so which is why he says over here in verse John chapter 1 verse 9 he says you know if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves you still have a mind that needs to be renewed so if you are under the impression that you already reached you already arrived you are really deceiving yourself and the truth is not in you because the truth is that you are supposed to be renewing and walking into God's word at the thinking level your mind will and emotions they have to be brought into alignment with God's word so he says here if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us and then again he repeats that in verse 10 we have not sinned we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us because the Lord said that you become a new creation on the inside in your spirit he never said that he automatically waves a magic wand and makes your thinking into a brand new you know Christ like thinking that's something that we are a responsibility that we are given you know it's our offering to him daily we are saying to him rather than being like the world Lord I am setting myself apart to follow you to think like you to have your standards to honor you so it's a conscious offering a beautiful pleasing aroma that you are presenting to him on a daily basis how do you do that by constantly renewing your mind and saying I will act in line with God's will and prove and establish that his will is better it's pleasing it is perfect better than what the world is offering so it's a demonstration of your giving of your faithfulness every day and it's very pleasing in the Lord's eyes so we are not sinners we are righteous but we are righteous people who are still training our training up our minds and we are doing it as sincerely as we know how with the help of the Holy Spirit we are not giving up even though our mind sometimes you know back to its old ways we say no you're going to come back in line with the will of God and we bring it back so it's something that we are doing on a daily basis so we would never call ourselves sinners we are righteous and we are engaged in a battle where we want to bring even this mind also in line with God so that along it can be in sync with our spirit which really loves the Lord so finally when one day when we see him that day what our spirit always knew and sensed our mind also will fully grasp and on that day we will truly be like him not just in our spirit but even in our mind but while we are on the earth it's a process that we are going through I think that's a rather lengthy answer but I hope it has you know really answered the question beautifully explained well thank you so much thank you very much okay so now it is 9.53 so at 10.03 you know let's connect back so we will log in once again at 10.03 thank you


If you're listening to this on Spotify or iTunes or YouTube first, I just want to say thank you so much for taking the time to invest your attention into this episode. And you're going to hear me say the word invest a lot in today's episode. I plan on making this anywhere between 10 to 20 minutes, it might be longer. And as you know, when I do stuff like this, I don't have a script, I talk and I will share ideas and I'll share concepts with you, things that have worked for me. Now today's topic is why coaches are afraid to invest into their business, right? Why they are afraid to invest into their business. And I have discovered really two key ingredients of why coaches don't invest in their business and why they're afraid to spend money to better their business, right? And what I want to do first here is really make a clear point, right? If you go to, right, I'm just going to say, let's say you have Bank of America, right?  And you say, great, can you review every transaction with me, every single transaction? And the lady looks at you and she's like, great, yeah, I can do that. It's going to take us a few hours, but for sure. And she goes through every single transaction from January 2021 to up till now, right? When I'm doing this, this episode, we're in February of 2022, right? And she names out every single transaction that you've made. And let me ask you this question. Are those transactions that you've made over the last year, at this point, 14 months, are those transactions investments that you're making in your business?  Are you spending money on your personal life? And the way that I break this down is your priorities will be seen on those bank statements. And here's what I mean. Whatever you spend money on, that is your choice. If you want to have a $700 per month car lease, that's your choice. If you want to go out every Friday and Saturday night and you're spending probably around like $600 to $1,000 per month on just going out and you're eating out all the time and you're in credit card debt. Your payment history on your bank statement will tell you everything that you need to know about yourself. And there's no way to hide from that. And that's why I love explaining it this way, because you can clearly see how you spend your time. You can see how you either spend your money or how you invest your money, right? And again, there's a clear difference between spending and investing. And I'm going to break that down now. So when I think of spending money, right, most coaches that think, well, I just don't want to spend money on my business. They're thinking about taking money from their wallet and putting it into something and that money just going away.  They have never put skin in the game and been like, all right, I'm going to take this really serious and this money that I'm investing, I'm going to learn. I want to put forth the effort, right? Because of the everyday purchases that they have, like they're spending money on drinks or spending money on fireworks, spending money on going out, spending money on smoking weed, spending money on cigarettes, spending money buying a six pack every three days, spending the money on things that have no return on investment. And when someone doesn't have a return on spending, which is that is normal, right? You normally don't get a return when you spend money on anything on food on groceries on whatever. And that what that does is that conditions people's brains that, you know, taking money and putting it into the business is a scary thing. It's a afterthought. It is something that is not accepted. And it's one of those things that those coaches, they don't have their priorities straight and I'm serious. I talk to coaches every single day, like I have a team member now who helps message coaches on Instagram.  I have calls from you from coaches that watch my YouTube is every single day. I can assure you I've talked to more coaches that are within the sports industry than anyone in the world over the last six years. And that is a fact. So I have the biggest sample size when I when I can think of this subject and when coaches are are thinking about a, you know, doing something to better their business, what they do is they they cling on to the things that they spend money on and they're like, well, I'm not willing to sacrifice that. So I would rather keep doing what I'm doing. Instead of investing into my business, right? And that is because most people are used to spending money. They're they've never invested money in life. All right. And I know for me, I was very resistant to investing too. And that changed though for me in 2012. 2012, that's when I made my first investment into my business. I hired a sales coach, someone who could help me clearly communicate my message to parents so I could charge more and so I could close more clients. And I paid $800 per month for that service. I can tell you because that was a lot of money at the time for me.  I listened to everything that my my business coach told me. I showed up. I didn't miss a meeting. I executed and my business tripled. Literally tripled over a three month period of time. And that's because that was the first time in my life. I was like, All right, I'm going to really take this serious. The money that I was spending on doing things that I didn't really need at that time. I moved that towards investing in myself. And when I did that, my business tripled over 90 days. Right. And I held myself accountable, though. I didn't just show up and listen like I showed up and I did the work. All right. And since then, I have made multiple investments into my business, into my company. All right. That could be going through courses. That could be hiring mentors. That could be joining a mastermind. Like coming up, I'm going to be investing into a new mastermind on my end because I know that there are people that are in that group that can help my business get to a brand new level. And by being a part of that group, I can use a lot of that information to implement in my business. And then I can relay that back to the clients that I work with that are in this industry and help them exponentially grow. Right. And at this point, right, I have nothing to hide. I've spent well over a hundred thousand dollars. A business income, right? Back into my business, right? So I wasn't like borrowing from I wasn't like getting new credit cards. I wasn't I wasn't doing that sort of stuff at the beginning. I think when at the beginning, actually, when I made that first eight hundred dollar per month investment, I did open up a new credit card for that. And I did that full knowing that I was going to pay it off. Like I wasn't going to be in debt for the rest of my life. All right. And after my business started generating more income, though, I started investing more of my money back into my business. All right. Now, here's the thing. One of the reasons why. Coaches don't do this and business owners don't do this is again, they have their own priorities with their spending habits and they spend money. They don't invest money. And at the end of the day, I can't help people who think that way. It's a decision that they have to change, like, especially if they're going to work with me because my program is proven to work. It's helped hundreds of coaches at this point. It's straight up works, but it does not work for people who are like, oh, I have to pay this like that doesn't work. It works for people who are like, I'm making an investment into myself because if I utilize this information and I follow through, that's going to help me for the rest of my business career. See, there's two different ways of thinking. Either you're spending money. Hoping to get something out of it or you're investing money and you are putting skin in the game and you're taking it serious. Right. And again, let's go look at your bank statements. You can tell me how you're living your life. Right. That that's that is a straight up reflection of what your priorities are. And you can't hide from that. You can change it, but you can't hide from it. Right. So what you've done over the last year, where you spent your money, you're spending money on shoes, spending money on going to watch movies, spending money on DVDs. Like, I don't know what what most people spend their money on these days because I'm very frugal. And again, I when I invest money, it's into my business or it's into an asset. It is not going to be on, oh, I really want this new car and let me get stuck in a seven hundred dollar per month lease. No, that is not going to serve me or my wife at all. Right.  Just so I can have a cool car. Don't need a cool car. I'm already married. So that's number one, number two. I've talked about this a lot on previous videos, on previous podcasts. Your surroundings are everything.  But that's also the same person. Who, you know, when July 4th comes around, they're spending a thousand dollars on fireworks and when New Year's Eve comes around, they're at the club, buying bottle service, going into debt. It's that same person who's giving you business advice. Right. So your surroundings will determine. If you become someone who just stays a spender or you become someone who's an investor, this is why like one of the biggest reasons why for me, I spend very limited time with people who think that way. And at this point, I spend zero time with people that think that way. All right. And they're everywhere. They could be part of your family. They could be your brother in law or sister in law. They could be your parent, right? They could be anybody that's really close to you. And they mean well, like they mean well how they want to live their life. That's cool.   And yet they're over here getting the new iPhone every single year over the next 10 years, they will, they will spend 10 K minimum on iPhones. When that 10 K over the course of 10 years could be invested into getting mentorship, getting coaching. And I'm not trying to like use this message to convince you to join my program. Right. Our results are there. And I get this point. I really don't even feel the need to have to try to pitch it or have to sell it because like if you go to my application process, you'll, you'll see at this point over like 20 to 25 videos of coaches that have already gone through it every single day on Instagram. I post results live results from coaches getting results. All right. So like results are there. I'm not trying to get you to, to convince you to do anything with me. What I am trying to do is I'm trying to convince you that you need to change your mindset if you are a spender and you're afraid to invest in yourself, like that's going to stop you from growth in your business because when you invest in yourself, again, you take it more serious, you learn faster and you can get ahead faster when you put more skin in the game. And I know coaches are afraid and it's because of their current priorities that they have. They're not willing to give those things up because those, those things that bring them comfort in their life, they, they cling onto that, right? Cling onto it. And they'd rather, they'd rather continue spending, you know, $400,000 per month on things that they don't need versus investing that money into something that can really help them grow in the future, right? And that's again, that's something that most people are, are the, the living their day to day life like that, right? And then the surroundings that they have surroundings, the surroundings that you have are 100% in your control. I don't care. I don't care what your situation is right now. It is 100% in your control. Like, even if so, like I've talked to guys, right? This is just straight up. I've talked to guys who are married that have a wife that completely disagrees with them about investing in their business. All right. Now, in my mind, that comes down as a man as the leader of the household. It's not that you need to convince your wife that you need to invest into something, but she probably doesn't believe you because you haven't put forth any effort. You haven't put forth, you haven't shown any results with your business. So why would she believe you? Why would she believe you? Why would she want you to invest in herself if you, if you guys go look at the bank statements and, and, and you go through the first part of this audio that I just went through, if you guys are wasting money left and right or you're irresponsible with money, how, why would she want you to, why would she trust you to, to invest into something like I wouldn't trust you either, right? But as a husband, that's your responsibility for a man. To be the leader and to not show through words, but show through action, show through responsibility that, you know what, this is an investment that I want to make. And I'm going to make it because of this. And in order for me to get the result, I need to do this. And if I invest into something and it doesn't work out, then it's like, it's either a, I didn't do it or B, the program sucks, which most likely is not the case, right? Most likely is not the case, right? Now, the final thing that I'm going to say here, because I really do feel this just deep down in my bones. If you're the type of person who is afraid to invest into your business, I want you to think about just one word or it's one sentence. Why are you scared to invest into your business? All right. Why? Why are you scared? And 10 out of 10 times, the answer will come back to things that you're not willing to give up, right? Things that you're just simply not willing to give up. All right. And I'll end with a funny story. So over Christmas in 2021, all right, this is a couple of months ago, every month I get paid a very small amount of money from YouTube, right? It's like, I'm not going to disclose what that number is. But it's very small, but it adds up over time and I don't touch that money. Like that money gets locked up into an account and I can do a couple of things with that at the end of the year. Like if I wanted to invest into myself, I could do that. If I want to invest into some asset, I could do that. If I wanted to pay for something that brings me joy, I could do that, right? That money is just sitting there and it's accumulating every single month. And that's because I have at this point over almost 600 videos. So I've worked really hard to be able to do that. That just didn't just happen overnight. And I was sitting with my wife and I was thinking about what I wanted to do with that. And again, it's not a crazy amount of money, but it's over a year period of time. I could buy something or I could invest into something. And I was thinking like, man, like it'd be really cool to have ping pong table. Like I love playing ping pong.  And I thought about it and I actually thought about this way longer than I should have. And I was like, okay, well, if I buy a ping pong table, that means like more people are going to be at our house. And like, I honestly, I don't really like it when people come over to my house. Like, so that was a red flag. And then I was like, well, if I buy this, I'm going to be spending a lot more time with it. So like, if I'm spending more time with the ping pong table and like friends or buddies that are coming over here, like, how, how is that going to impact my marriage? Right. So I started to think about that. And then I was like, well, I know how much I like ping pong. So if I have that table in my house, I'm probably going to want to like go practice all the time. So how is that going to affect my business? So you can see here, I started to analyze this decision. And I was like, what return am I getting on this ping pong table? Right.  But I found zero return on this other than like having just this like hour or three hours or four hours per week of, oh, this was fun. Right. Okay. And again, that hour or three hours or four hours of having this thing in my house, having people come over, spending more time with it. Right.  All right. When I multiply that out times of the course of the year, I'm spending 144 hours doing something that I'm not doing right now. Right. And I looked at how focused I've been in my business the last year, how disciplined I've been in my business the last year. I'm like, well, now I'm just adding something to my plate. So me spending like, you know, $1200 on a ping pong table. And then I'm talking about like a nice ping pong table. Right. Me doing that is not going to be an asset. That that is not an asset in my business or my personal life that is going to take away and it's going to add to the plate of responsibilities. And I was like, I literally thought about this for three days, like a psychopath. And I was like, I don't need to buy this. And I was like, where can I put this money to work? Where can I invest this money? Not how can I spend it? Right. And I do know most people if they had that amount that I'm talking about, just sitting there in account, they would have spent it so quickly. And they would have just bought in the thing that I was the ping pong table. And then it was just going to collect dust over the next five, 10 years. Right. And I'm in the mindset of no, if that is not going to be an asset, it does not need to be purchased because if it's being purchased, I'm spending money. I am not investing the money. Right. And I want you to like really think about what I just said, like, do you think through things that way with your business? Do you think through things that way in your personal life? If you don't, maybe you should start, like, I think you'll start to see reflection over the next year in your bank account. Like, again, when you invest money, you get return. Right. I'm not going to talk about what investments you should make. I'm talking about like hiring a coach, just going deeper into your business, like even just investing money into like a website or a logo or business, like just doing something, right, putting money into the business.  So you're not having to pay taxes on that money. That's like, amazing. That's such an amazing gift. Probably one of the only amazing gifts that our government gives us. Right. It's an amazing gift. You don't have to pay taxes on it. And it's like it's considered as an educational expense. Right. So again, I wanted to walk through that, that story with you at the ping pong table, just so you can actually understand what I'm talking about. And it's, you know, safe, safe to tell you here, didn't buy the ping pong table, don't need it. After I thought about it, I was like, no, I need to put this money to work. I need to put this money to, to be an asset. All right. And for me, that's investing back into my business or investing the money, not spending the money. All right. The final thing I'm going to say, and I know I said that like 10 minutes ago, but it is this, if you look at your bank account and you are not happy with what you see, like, let's say you're either in debt, which hopefully you're not, or you're like, man, like I thought by this age, I would have more money.  And the best news about what I'm telling you is you can change if you want, you can change your habits, you can change your surroundings, you can change how you think. You can change how you, instead of becoming a spender or staying a spender, you can become an investor. That's all I got for you today. I know this is a very blunt message. I know in my mind, if this can help one person out there, I know that I've done my job because I wish I would have heard this message right when I started my business, because that first year in my business was very slow. That first year, I struggled a lot. I was really annoyed with how my business was going and I was stubborn. I wasn't prioritizing really investing money in my business.  No, an older I've gotten. I realize that stuff doesn't matter. Like when you become an investor, like later down the road, guess what? Like you'll be able to retire from coaching with money, not with retiring from coaching and then getting a job. That's how I look at it.  All right, so hope this helps. If you want to connect with me personally, shoot me a message via text at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I said this would be 10 to 20 minutes and I knew it was going to go longer. So sorry about that. So hope everything's good in your life and you have any questions. Like I said, shoot me a text. Make sure you're subscribed to what we're doing on Instagram and on YouTube and I'll see you later.


We're now going to continue on looking at different properties that we can evaluate with the velocity field and these are kinematic properties. The next one that we're going to look at is the volume rate of flow and this is something that we will use quite often in fluid mechanics and so we often denote volumetric flow rate or volume flow Q and then sometimes we'll put an over dot to denote rates. Now what we'll begin with is a surface or a body and we'll begin with coordinates and we have some arbitrary body here and let's imagine that we have a surface on this body and this surface what we're going to do we're going to draw a unit normal vector so that's n with a hat to denote the fact that that is a unit vector and if you recall if it is a unit vector and we take the magnitude of a unit vector that will be equal to 1 so there we have a unit vector it is normal to the surface and let's then imagine that we have some velocity vector v that is leaving the surface but it is not in the same direction as the unit normal and what we will do is we will specify the angle between the unit vector and v as being theta and this particular area that we're looking at we'll call that dA and this is over a larger surface S so this is basically a body with fluid leaving or entering so it's some arbitrary body we could have fluid coming in or leaving now when we're doing or computing the volumetric flow rate what we're most often interested in is going to be the component of velocity in the direction of the unit vector which is normal to the surface dA so we're usually interested we're interested in the component of v in the direction of n the reason is that velocity going parallel to the surface doesn't leave the body and consequently we're not interested in that we want to know the volumetric flow or the velocity of the fluid in the direction of that unit vector which is normal to the surface dA so the way that we evaluate that we use a mathematical operator for that that you've probably seen in your math courses and that is the dot product so we take the velocity vector v dot it into the unit vector and the definition of the dot product it's the magnitude of v multiplied by the magnitude of the unit vector which is one multiplied by cosine theta the cost of the angle between the velocity and the unit vector and what we get with this then is v cosine theta so that gives us the velocity component leaving the surface now what we want to do is we want to extend that to volume because we're interested in volume out or in so we will look at delta v out or delta v in and so what we're going to do we're going to take a look at another area so we'll call that dA and let's assume that there's some unit vector n and if we have some velocity here what we are most interested in is going to be the component of the velocity in the direction of that unit vector so what we're most interested in then is going to be the magnitude of this side here which from the equation that we looked at just a moment ago is going to be v cos theta assuming that theta is the angle between the velocity vector and the unit vector and if we're looking at this for a period of time to get volume flow it is then going to be multiplied by dt so what we can say here is that only the normal component flows in or out so only the normal component of the velocity vector is going to flow in or out of our surface that we're looking at and that's the one that we're most interested in so with that what we can write is delta v is v cos theta dt multiplied by the area dA and that would then give us the volume that is leaving or entering and that can be re-expressed in terms of the dot product that we looked at earlier now that's a delta v now what we want do we want to look at the elemental flow rate which that would be equal to delta q and delta q is going to be the elemental volume divided by time delta t so with that our expression can be rewritten in the following manner and notice the dt disappears in the limit of infinitesimal values so what we end up with for the volumetric flow rate into or out of a surface we would apply a surface integral over that entire kidney shaped object that we had so this entire surface we would apply a surface integral and the equation that we would be integrating in order to get the volumetric flow rate is going to be the velocity vector on the surface multiplied by a unit vector normal to the area on the surface multiplied by the area itself dA so you would integrate over the entire surface and from that you would then be able to determine the volumetric flow rate either going into or leaving a surface and so we use the dot product in order to enable us to do that now there is one thing that I should say here and the thing that I should say is that in our studies we will use the convention of n pointing outwards and will always be pointing outwards and so what does that mean what that means is flow out of a surface is positive and flow in is negative and that results due to the dot product that we had we had the v dot n and as a result of that if n is always pointing outwards from a surface and the velocity is moving in a similar direction that would be a positive flow rate out if the velocity vector is moving in the other direction that would give us a negative value because there we would have volume flowing into the surface but that is just the convention that we will use in fluid mechanics within this course.