This is part three of our Advent series entitled Prepare the Way of the Lord. Prepare the Way of the Lord. And today I wanna bring part three of this series to you called Looking for Jesus. And by the way, Pastor Stephen Davis knocked it out of the part last weekend. We are blessed to have him here at Richland broadcasting to all of our locations. We love you, Stephen, great job. And this morning we're gonna talk about Looking for Jesus. And we're looking, I'm gonna read two texts to you this morning, the main one, Matthew chapter two and then Luke chapter one. But in Matthew chapter two, beginning in verse one, it says, now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold wise men from the east came to Jerusalem saying, where is he who was born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him. When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled and all of Jerusalem with him and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born. And they told him in Bethlehem of Judea for so it is written by the prophet. And the prophet said, and you, O Bethlehem in the land of Judea, are by no means among the rulers of Judah, for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. Then Herod summoned the wise men secretly and ascertained from them, what time the star had appeared and he sent them to Bethlehem saying, go and search diligently for the child. And when you have found him, bring me word that I too may come and worship him. After listening to the king, they went on their way and behold the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest in the place where the child was. And when they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy. And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother and they fell down and worshiped him and then opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh and being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way. Now I'm gonna also read to you one verse out of Luke, chapter one, verse 17. And it's describing the ministry of the forerunner of Jesus, John the Baptist. And it says, and he will go before him, talking about Jesus in the spirit and the power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready for the Lord a people prepared. What's interesting about the story of the wise men at Christmas time, we focus a lot on some of these major themes. We focus on the shepherds and we focus on the nativity, the prophetic words spoken to Mary about giving birth to Jesus. And we also talk about the wise men. One of the things that most of these Christmas stories or these Advent stories have in common is they are all stories of people that are looking for Jesus. So we see the shepherds who receive the announcement by the angels and the choirs and the choruses in the open heavens as they're singing, glory to God the highest and on earth goodwill towards men. And the shepherds go into Jerusalem or go into Bethlehem looking for Jesus. And we see here two different individuals or two different groups of people also looking for Jesus. One is the wise men or the magi who have come from the east and they come to Jerusalem looking for Jesus, the king. But we also see Herod who's looking for Jesus for other reasons, is looking for the king for other reasons. These magi, these wise men, when they come from the east, there's a lot of speculation about where they are coming from. Most likely they're coming from Persia or from formerly Babylon, Persia area. And they're most likely Jewish because when Israel came back out of captivity out of Babylon and out of Persia, really only about 20% of the Jews who were living in what you and I today know as Iraq and Iran, only about 20% of the Jews actually came back into the land. For many centuries, there was a thriving Jewish community in Iraq and Iran in that area and that was no different in Jesus' day. They were still Jewish in their orientation but they are in the east. We don't know for sure, but it's very likely because we know that they were familiar with the scriptures in anticipation of a king coming. However, it is that they came across it, whether they were Persian and were familiar with the Jewish scriptures, a promise of a coming Messiah. We don't know for sure, but here's what we do know for sure is that when they saw the star indicating that the king had been born, they weren't looking for him. And they went on a long journey. This is a several week journey that they go on. Looking for the king or Jesus. They don't know that his name is Jesus, but they're looking for him. And when they're looking for him, they go where you would assume a king would be. They go to Jerusalem. After all, this is the capital city of the Jewish people. This is the city that David reigned and ruled in. This is the place that it is prophesied that the Messiah will suddenly appear in his temple. And so if you're looking for the king, you go to the city of the great king. But in this particular case, they went to the wrong place because Jesus was not yet in Jerusalem. They had to go to Jerusalem. And there when they encountered all the scholars and the theologians and the leaders and they asked the question, where do we find the king? They said, well, yeah, Jerusalem is where the king is gonna reign and he's gonna rule from, but that's not where he's going to start. That's not where it begins. He's actually going to be born in Bethlehem. And so that sent them on a continued journey to find him. And when they found him, as we just read, they went in and they worshiped and they gave gifts to him. And then they went back on their journey, avoiding Herod because they knew that Herod had ill intentions. Herod wanted to get rid of the competition. But what's interesting to me is when you read this, this account of how they went to Jerusalem looking for the king, a lot of us in not even just people that are in church are actually looking for God. They're looking for Jesus. They don't maybe know that it's Jesus that they're looking for, but they're looking for what Jesus came to do, which is to give peace, which is to reconcile us to God, which is to give us purpose and meaning. There's a lot of people that are looking for Jesus from a lot of different perspectives. There are lost people that are looking for Jesus to be their savior. There are Christian people that are looking for Jesus to intervene and to do something and to provide something into their life. And then there are a lot of people that grew up in church and have been outside of the church and they get to certain points in their life where they're like, all right, I think I made a mistake. I think I need to make a U-turn and I need to go back to where I started. But when we go on a quest looking for Jesus, just like the Magi or anyone else in the particular Christmas story, when we go looking for Jesus, if we're looking for Jesus in the wrong places, it's possible for us to love him, want him and need him, but actually miss him. And especially those of us who are in Christ, we're Christians, and we're saying, Lord, I want you to use me.  It's possible for us to actually miss Jesus because we're looking for him in Bethlehem. We're looking for him in Jerusalem, but we're missing him in Bethlehem. See, Jerusalem is the big, it's the obvious. And so if we're constantly looking for Jesus to show up in our life in the big, in the powerful, in the grand and in the obvious, we very well might miss what Jesus is doing in obscurity because that's what Bethlehem is. Bethlehem is the beginning, it's not the end. Bethlehem is the obscure and the subtle, it's not the grand and the obvious. And part of what God is wanting to do in his people that I talked about in week number one is prepare us, that's what I read from Luke. Prepare us to be a people who are ready for the Lord, his first coming and his second coming. But part of the way that we prepare the way of the Lord is we allow him to prepare us, a people prepared. We have to allow God to prepare us. And so when we're saying, God, okay, I want you to prepare me, I want to be prepared in this hour. I want to be prepared in this season. I want to walk in all that you have for me. I want to walk in the victory that Jesus won for me. I want to be closer to you. And I'm looking for you, Jesus. But yet sometimes Jesus doesn't show up in the obvious ways in our life. Jesus doesn't show up in the things or in the places that we think he's going to, but it doesn't mean that he's not there. And so this morning, what I want to communicate to you is this, if we're going to find Jesus, we have to know where to look for him. If we're going to find Jesus, listen, how many know you can go through Christmas this 30 days or however many weeks, four weeks of Advent, you can go through it and actually miss Jesus. And you can also go through many days of your life, of going to church, reading your Bible and never experiencing freedom, never experiencing maturity, never experiencing a heart that is prepared for him, even though for many, many years intellectually and in your heart, you would say you believe in him. I'm thinking of the words that we sang this morning, joy to the world, the Lord has come. Let earth receive her king, let every heart prepare him room. How do we prepare him room? We have to know where to look for him. And he's not going to always be in the Jerusalem's of our life. What are the Jerusalem's?  Number one is we're constantly looking for Jesus in the places of our life where we think he would be, which like number one is like our sin. Well, I really want to grow and I want to mature in being a follower of Jesus, but I think Jesus is really mad with me about this thing that I've done or this thing that I continue to do. What if Jesus is actually not so much focused there as he is in the more subtle arena of what's causing that sin? When we look at Jesus, his whole life, why he put him in Bethlehem before Jerusalem is because Jesus first had to go through a process of preparation. The Messiah went through a process of preparation. Luke chapter two, verse 52 says that Jesus as a child increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man. So Jesus went through a process of coming into maturity or being prepared to be the Messiah. Why do we think that we are going to be ready on day one to experience the fullness of what God wants to do in our lives without going through a process of preparation? Why are we looking for Jesus in places that seem to be obvious, but really he's working in subtle places of our life? Let me throw out a couple of places that I think are the Jerusalem and contrast them with the Bethlehems of our life. Number one is, as I said, our sin. And here's, this is the obvious place. We think Jesus is zeroed in on our sin.  Just go ahead and raise your hand. By the way, if you're not raising your hand, welcome to the club, you just sinned. What I just saw with all of our hands raised is I saw a lot of people qualified for the grace of God. So because a lot of times when we think the Jerusalem of my life, where's God working? As we think of the obvious, we think that he is zeroed in on our sin and we say things like this, God, I know I should stop, but I don't know how. I know I shouldn't do that anymore. I know that this disappoints you. And all of that is true, but there's a greater reality. There's a Bethlehem to the Jerusalem and the Bethlehem, which is the subtle, the Bethlehem, which is where he's at work preparing us long before he ever reveals us and manifests us, is instead of being so focused on our sin, God is working on the hidden roots of our lives that are causing that sin. The hidden roots, the under the surface roots that keep driving that sin are insecurities, excuse me for just a second, our insecurities, our fears, our pride, our broken belief systems, our trauma, our wounds that are perpetuating and underneath the surface of our life where we don't show and where we don't go very often, we're trying to manage sin. We're trying to manage it. We're trying to say, God, I know you're irritated with me. I know that you're mad at me. I know that this upsets you because you're a holy God, but just give me another chance and I'll fix it because we're looking at the Jerusalem and God is saying, no, I want to start by preparing you by going deep into the surface of your heart in healing and revealing those things that are driving the fruit on the branches of your life. You see, can I just let you in on something? Nothing you do is gonna shock God. God doesn't look at your life and your sin and God didn't see that coming. Whoa, how did they come up with that? Or God knows the beginning from the ends and God also knows that you can't manage your sin. If salvation were nothing more than a self-improvement plan, Jesus would not have left heaven. He would have just sent an angel to tell you what Isle at Barnes and Nobles to buy the best self-help book that will make you a better version of yourself. God is not interested in just making you a better version of yourself. He wants to make you a new version of himself in you. And that begins with dealing with the roots. We can all stop and look at our own lives and the things that we wrestle with and the sins that we wrestle with and the shame that comes with that. And we can either cover it up or we can expose it to the Lord and let Him do in us to prepare us what He did with His son Jesus. And I'm not saying Jesus sinned, but Jesus still, even though He was without sin, still had to go through a process of maturity. And part of our process of maturity is dealing with those broken root systems that are driving our sin. This is one of the obvious places that we're looking for Jesus to be. What does Jesus do when He goes to the root systems? He calls us to repentance. I don't know about you, but I grew up in a church where when I heard the word repentance, I thought tears, I thought of sorrow, I thought of shame, I thought of promises that said, I'll never do it again. And running to the altar and getting saved every Sunday and God, I'm so ashamed and the more shame I allowed myself to feel and the more guilt connected to that sin, I allowed myself to feel. The more I felt like God was like, okay, He's sincere. Okay, we'll give you another shot. That's a very, very 1% version of what repentance really is. Obviously there's a godly sorrow that we experience because of our sin that separates us from God, but there's actually more to it because the word repentance means to change your belief systems or to change your thinking. And when God calls you and I to repent, He's not pointing his finger and going, repent, like I can't take it anymore, I'm about to growl.  This isn't sin management. This is, God wants us to become more righteousness conscious than we are sin conscious. He wants us to become more focused on who we are in Christ as new creations than we are by the identity that our sin tries to shape us in. Romans two verse four says, or do you presume on the riches and the kindness and the forbearance and patience of God, not knowing, and listen, that it's the kindness of God that leads us to repentance. God is so kind, what He wants to do is He wants to rewire us in the secret places of our life, in the Bethlehem's of our life and cause us to think differently. One of the scriptures that we often think of when it talks about how God has built us and equipped us and made us is Psalm 139, where David's writing, he says, for you form me, my inward parts, you knitted me together in my mother's womb, I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made, wonderful are your works, my soul knows it very well. But then think about this next part, he says, my frame was not hidden from you when I was being made in secret.  He makes you secretly in the hidden place of your mother's womb. He knits you together in your mother's womb from embryo that's just growing and doubling in size and has a heartbeat and feels pain and has a brain and a nervous system, but it matures and it grows in the mother's womb. Nobody sees it, but you're there and the Lord is the one knitting you together until the day of your birth and your manifestation. Do you know that God also knits us together in our identity in Christ, in the secret place? The place with him, the place of submission to him that becomes a spiritual womb, where he's dealing with the root systems. And replacing our sin consciousness with a righteousness belief system. What's the second Jerusalem that we look for God obviously and think that must be where he's at. That must be where Jesus is at versus where he really is. Well, I think it's this, I think it's, we're looking for Jesus in breakthrough moments. This is gonna be controversial, okay? We're looking for Jesus in breakthrough moments and here's what we say. It's like, I know my life is broken. I know things are messed up. I know that I'm going through hardship. I know this is a test of trial. It's even sickness at times. And we say, Lord, give me a miracle in a moment. Let me just start by saying, I believe that God is a miracle working God. Does God heal instantaneously? Yes. Does God deliver instantaneously? Yes. Can God set people free? And does he, from demonical oppression, yes. I'm not saying he doesn't do those things, but I am, here's what I am saying, that it's far too easy for us when we're dealing with any difficulty in any struggle in our life to say, God, change it now. And then it doesn't happen. And then what we say is, I guess he either doesn't care or he's not strong enough or he's saying no. Instead of realizing that very often, instead of breakthrough moments, God wants us to renew our mind and our way of thinking that brings about change. It's obvious to look for him in Jerusalem. That's like the breakthrough moment. Everybody loves that moment. But God's like, I'll give you a breakthrough starter kit, but now I want you to walk that out. Romans chapter 12 verse one says, I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly unacceptable unto God, which is your reasonable act of worship. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you might prove what is the good and the acceptable and the perfect will of God for your life. He's saying, I want you to renew your mind. I want you to change the way that you think and can I just tell you that that is not a singular moment. That is a process. In the Old Testament, in Judges chapter three, God is bringing the children of Israel into the Promised Land under Joshua. And it says this, it says, and when God brought them in, he did not defeat all of their enemies all at once. He didn't defeat all of their enemies all at once and he did not give them all of the inheritance all at once. It says, so that those who had never learned to make war might learn to fight. In other words, if God had brought the children of Israel into the Promised Land, fought all their battles for them, cleared it out, two things would have happened. In the vacancy, before they could possess the Promised Land, it would be overrun with wild animals. That's what it says, it'd just be overrun because all these people are keeping that at bay. The second thing that would happen is a generation would quickly rise up that doesn't know how to fight. You and I live in an amazing nation. And one of the, I think the greatest treasures of our country is what's referred to as the Great Generation. Those who fought World War II, those who went overseas, faced pure evil, came back and built families and to me, I love hearing the stories of the people who came back from that greatest generation, what a national treasure it is. But you know what, they saw things that my generation never saw. And now we're a couple generations away from that and it's amazing to me how culture begins to instantly shift back towards the very ideologies that they actually fought against in order to preserve our freedoms in this nation. And it's because they don't know the price that comes with fighting for that. And I think that that's true both in Israel going into the Promised Land. And it's also true with how God oftentimes is preparing us as a people.  Change, give me a breakthrough. Give me a miracle in my marriage. Give me a miracle in my finances. God, I'm in debt up to my ears. I can't pay my bills. I don't know how to buy Christmas presents. I got nothing. And what we're saying is, God, all I want is I want a $100,000 check to show up in my mailbox tomorrow, amen. How many would like that to happen, by the way? All right, praise God. But most of the time how God answers that prayer is he's like, let's renew your mind about your budget. And let's renew your mind about your work ethic. Let's renew your mind about that second job and selling a car. Let's renew your mind about investments.  It's easy to say, God, show up and get me out of this hole. And God says, no, let's renew your minds about all of this. And that's something that happens daily. Second Corinthians chapter four, verse 16 says, we do not lose heart, though our outward man is wasting away, our inward man is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory that cannot be compared. So think about that. Paul's saying this light momentary affliction, nobody in this room has probably had more difficulties than the apostle Paul. He was bitten by a snake. He was beaten with rods. He was beaten with cat and nine tails. He was shipwrecked. He was treading water for a day and a half. He was light about. He was put in prison, ultimately beheaded. He was starving at different times, chased down by wild animals. I mean, people posted negative things about him on social media. It was horrible. I mean, he just went through every, and yet he says this light momentary affliction. Why? It's because his perspective was everything I'm going through right now is preparing me to be able to carry a greater weight of God's glory. And nothing that I'm enduring right now is worthy to be compared with what God's ultimate purpose in my life is. So instead of God being the God of the breakthrough all the time, sometimes he is. Other times he's like, I'm actually going to teach your hands to war. I'm actually going to challenge you to renew and change the way that you think about your life, how you think about me, how you think about others, how you think about all the different dynamics where you need breakthrough in your life. God's like, I want you to renew your mind. Another one of our Jerusalem's that we look for Jesus in instead of the obscure, subtle, progressive things that he does is we're looking for him in church. Now listen, I'm so glad you're here today.   We raise our kids up to do that. And I don't say that because I'm a pastor, I'm a pastor because I believe in church. I think every Christian needs to be plugged in to the local church. Coming to church is not optional. Online is not the same as in person. We need one another. We need to sit next to people that are different from us. We need to be an encouragement. We need to serve. We need to be irritated with one another. We need all those blessed things that happen when we gather together as living stones. But if we're looking for Jesus only in church and saying things like, oh, I believe this is where God lives. So I'm going to church. We're missing the Bethlehem, which is that God lives in us and with us every single day. And very often where he's working in our lives is in our homes, in our families, in our living rooms, at our dining room tables, in our neighborhoods, and even in our workplace, in our coming and our going. That's where God is really working and really preparing us. Yes, this is awesome, but we can't come here every Sunday and go, okay, God, you've got an hour and 20 minutes, maybe an hour 30, depending on how long Pastor Lee goes. You've got an hour 30 to do your work in me. And then I click the time clock and I go back to my regularly scheduled programming. Now the good news is that God doesn't dwell in temples. You are the temple of the Holy Spirit, according to 1 Corinthians. And you are being built up to be a dwelling place for the Lord. Do you know that 90% of the things that we see God do in the book of Acts took place out of church services? They took place in people's homes, on the roads, on missions trips, out in the marketplace, even in some of the darkest corners of society and culture, in the marketplace, in the workplace. This is where God was working and this is where God is moving. And it's possible that we can miss what Jesus is doing in us and through us if we're looking at the obvious. Obviously God works at church, but can I just let you guys all in on a little secret here? You ready? It's a little secret of the ministry. Jesus doesn't live in this room Monday through Saturday and not out there. The reason why he comes here and manifests himself when we all gather together is because we are living stones and when we gather together, we're creating a dwelling place for his presence. But when we go out these doors, Jesus doesn't wave at us and go, bye, buddy, I hope you find you're dead. I mean, he goes with us. Cause he's in us. He's in us. Everybody take your index finger, raise it up. Now turn it and point it at yourself. You're pointing at God's dwelling place. He lives in you. That means everywhere that you go, he goes. And God wants to manifest himself. He wants to work in your life every single day in every single environment because 2 Corinthians 4 or 7 says, we have this treasure in these jars of clay.  Everywhere you go, you can talk to him. He's working in you. And he's not just gonna work through sacraments. He's not just gonna work through the obvious religious things. He works through conversations. He works through relationships. He works through circumstances. He works through conflict. He works through laughter. He works through joy. Fourth thing that is a Jerusalem in our lives, it's the place where we are looking for Jesus but don't find him because he's really in Bethlehem, the subtle places of our life is we're constantly looking at God for an audible voice. Saying, God, if you would only speak to me. God, if you would just speak to me, I'm listening. I have served Jesus since I was 12 and I've never heard an audible voice. I've heard him speaking here and I will tell you there's been a few times where he's spoken internally in a way that every fiber of my being has been shaken but nobody else heard it. But maybe twice in my life has that happened but he has spoken to me every single day through his word. The ironic thing is that in America, we have more Bibles per capita than the rest of the world combined and yet most of them are closed. We're still looking for truth. We're still looking for peace. We're looking for answers. We're looking for change and transformation. God, please change me, transform me, forgive me. I want to be closer to you. I want to draw near to you. If you would just speak to me, everything would change. If I could just hear the audible voice of God that would clear up all doubt and I would never deviate again, I would be so confident and so bold in my faith and can I just tell you that is just absolutely not true.  But yet the Bethlehem of our life, which by the way, the name Bethlehem means house of bread and Jesus said, man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from my mouth. He called the Bible, the scriptures, the bread of life. This is our daily bread. Give us our daily bread. He's given it to us. And every single day he's like, if you'll come to me and if you'll open and give me your full attention to the word, listen, he's speaking to us 24 hours, seven days a week, but it's subtle, it's Bethlehem. But to the one who has ears to hear, he's speaking. To the one who's hungry, come, eat. James 1.21 says, therefore put all filthiness and rampant wickedness away and receive with meekness the implanted word of God that is able to save your souls.  Oh, how often we miss the voice of the Lord. We miss Jesus because we're waiting for him to speak like thunder. When he's whispering in the pages of scripture every single day for us, wisdom cries aloud in the street. It says, come in this way. And yet we're distracted, we're busy, or we're looking for him to do something big and profound. He's spoken to us every single day. When God spoke to Mary about partnering with him in bringing the living word into being Jesus, her words to God were, I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word. Do you know that that is the greatest statement that we can make to God? James 1 says, receive with meekness. In other words, we humble ourselves and we say, God, your word is true. Mary said, I'm your servant, whatever. It doesn't make sense. I don't know how this is gonna work. How can I carry God? I'm just, I'm not even married. I've never known a man and I'm a human being, but it doesn't matter. Lord, let it be to me according to your word. What if we said to God, Lord, I don't know how you're gonna bring change into my life. I don't know how you wanna use me. I don't know how to overcome the things that have kept me bound or limited me for many, many years, but I'm saying this, Lord, let it be to me according to your word. I humble myself. And as we do that, we will find ourselves, listen, if we'll come to his word, we'll find ourselves just like the Magi coming and actually finding Jesus. There he is. And a manger in Bethlehem, the living word of God silently and lowly. That same Jesus would grow up and mature and become the son of the living God, the savior of the world and our soon incoming King. What starts small in seed form in our life of the word of God will grow into the kingdom of God and will bring about maturity and bring about a life and a heart that is fully prepared for him daily and in his coming. I wanna invite you all across the room and all across the locations if you would just stand with me. Lord Jesus, today our heart, like Psalm 84 says, is set on a pilgrimage to find you. Jesus, we wanna find you. Your word says in Jeremiah 29, that if we seek you with all of our hearts, then we will find you. Lord, today I'm praying across this family that you would more than anything give us hearts to seek you. Give us hearts to pursue you. Lord, soft, pliable, hungry hearts that are willing to go on a journey just like the wise men and the magi that takes all the days of our life but we say, Lord, we wanna find you. We wanna find you daily and we wanna find you in the obvious but we wanna find you in the subtle and we surrender to you. We surrender to you, to your process and to the subtlety of your commitment to us that daily we are not alone, that daily you are with us and that you are working in the big things and in the subtle things, in the big and in the little, in the Jerusalem and in the Bethlehems of our life. Holy Spirit, we submit to you. Jesus, we submit to your word.  I wanna invite the prayer team to make their way down to the front this morning and here's how we're gonna dismiss this morning. Today, there might be, I'm convinced that the Holy Spirit is doing this where he's highlighting some areas that you've been looking for Jesus in the wrong places or there's some areas that he's calling you to yield to submit to. And today my challenge would be part of what repentance looks like is humbling ourselves and actually coming to the conclusion, I can't do it on my own. Maybe you're listening to me today and you have never personally invited Jesus Christ to be your Savior and your Lord. Today's the day. Maybe today you're a Christian but there are areas that you keep cycling through because you're trying to manage your sin but today it's just surrendering it. Or maybe today you're just asking for God's grace to meet you and you do need him to show up in a significant way in your life. We believe that God does that when we pray together and when we confess to one another and I'm just gonna open the altars. I'm gonna pray and dismiss. And if there's something that the Holy Spirit is highlighting maybe you need to come to Christ. Maybe you need to repent and come home and reset your relationship with Jesus. Maybe there's an area of surrender and maybe you just need someone to stand and pray with you and believe God for him to begin to move and to give you eyes to see where he's moving. I'm just gonna invite you to come and receive prayer because God will meet us as we step closer to him. If we draw near to him, he draws near to us. And so Lord today as we go from here, send us with hearts that are expectant and looking for you. And Lord give us hearts as well that receive your word with meekness. Meet us as we pray for one another. Lord it's by your grace and by your grace alone that we stand and we ask this today in Jesus' name. Amen.


That is S2O3 2 minus the first no observation here experiment and observation We have that mixture and we add dilute H2SO4 here. What we get We get a colorless gas. I'm just writing on the keyword here, right? You can also write on the same thing Colorless gas the whole sentence is not required colorless gas is it which has the suffocating order Suffocating order. What is this gas? Could you tell me we have done this now? SO2 right suffocating order that is SO2 evolved SO2 evolved and It turns the solution yellow right on yellow also turns solution also turns yellow that is what SO2 This confirms the presence of S2O3 2 minus in the mixture and Then the same thing we have here if you this SO2 in this mixture because we have S2SO2 We have we have S2SO4. So if you add K2CR2O7 in this solution then what happens? K2CR2O solution you add then what happens? Yes, so the solution turns into green Color changes CR2SO4 whole size the second reaction is actually same if you add K2CR2O7 Okay now third one you see Which here we have the second one is sodium carbonate extract we add SC and AGNO3 solution right, so it converts into white PPT white precipitate changes to quickly changes to yellow brown And finally it converts into AG2S that is black Okay, this confirms the presence of S2O3 2 meters copied One more we have here test And that is also the second and third one is more important here that I've written here Second and third one the third one is what we have SCE sodium carbonate extract and in this we add few drops of iodine right, so the what observation we have The color of iodine Or I don't I to decolorize you I to decolorize which confirms the presence of S2O3 2 minus So reactions we'll see the first reaction we have thiosulfate NA2S2O3 Plus we have H2SO4 We heat this and we get sulfate NA2SO4 Plus we'll get SO2 suffocating order We get H2O And sulfur also forms in this AGNO3 if you add Suppose the ionic equation if I write down S2O3 2 minus It takes AG plus so I'll written here 2 AG plus It forms AG2S2O3 precipitate and this is of white precipitate so first this forms Right based on dissolving in water It slowly converts into yellow and then it finally converts into AG2S which is black so reaction is AG2S Plus H2SO4 With I2 it converts into 2I minus plus SO4 O6 2 minus tetrathionate ion This if you remember we use this also in Iodometric titration this kind of reaction Then P block Yes even in ionic also we have the titration no they also we have here I think we have we have redox they also we have millidox we have this Okay Now the last one in this you write down acetate ion acetate ion We have the mixture and in this mixture We added a few drops of H2SO4 and we heat this The reaction is we got the smell of vinegar only smell of vinegar That confirms acetate ion No gases evolve only the smell of vinegar we have Water extract you take WE and we add FeCl3 solution which is neutral FeCl3 solution in this and it converts into blood red color Blood red color which also confirms the presence of acetate ion reaction is This we have Cs3COO Na sodium acetate and we add H2SO4 So it forms obviously Na2SO4 and Cs3COOH So Na2SO4 forms and Cs3COH forms and because of this only we have vinegar smell over here With FeCl3 it forms blood red color if you look at the ionic reaction It is Cs3COO minus plus FeCl3 means Fe3 plus FeCl3 means Fe3 plus so it forms FeCH3COO What I have written wait Fe then we have Cs3COO This complex is blood red color Copy it Now first category we have done now we will see anions belongs to group two You know we have all the halide ions fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine all kind of halides we have over here And along with halide we have Nitrate ion as well Okay oxalate and nitrate as well okay all these five six ions we need to understand we need to discuss here Right so in this what happens What is the reagent we use? We use concentrated Correct, okay So first we'll see chloride ion here chloride ion Cl minus So can I write down this in In smaller ways sort away If I Okay, I'm just trying to write down this in a in a In a map We have the mixture correct All the test I'll write down here whatever mixture we have which you need to Analyze this is the mixture right? And in this mixture what we do One of the way is We add concentrated h2s of 4 concentrated h2s of 4 So the product we get here Is colorless pungent smell colorless gas Pungent smell all these are for the detection of chloride ion So i'm not writing down after this okay to confirms the presence of chloride. No This is the result we have which confirms the presence of chloride and that is understood Okay, next is we take a glass rod And we dip into NH4 OH So in short I'll write down glass rod dipped in dipped in NH4 OH NH4 OH And we'll keep this near the mouth of the test tube So if this rod which is dipped in NH4 OH Comes closer to this test tube right then it forms white dense fumes here It forms white dense fumes In the test tube if you add mn o2 magnase dioxide pyrolycite mineral, okay? Name is important.  So mn o2 We can say we add into this one Okay, I'll write down the reaction for this one. Basically this Takes place in two steps. First we get this and then on reaction we'll get cl2 Okay, now the another one is The reaction with se sodium carbonate extract sodium carbonate extract We heat this with dilute HNO3 HNO3 and And ag NO3 solution all these we are adding here It forms white precipitate white PPT soluble in NH4 OH in NH4 OH Right, and in this mixture if you again add HNO3 The white precipitate reappears. Okay, it got soluble vanish Again, you add HNO3 white precipitate reappears One more we have in this Which we'll discuss separately. I'll write down this name over here Which we call it as chromide chloride chromile chloride test chromile chloride test all these tests of chloride and we have Copy down this then we'll see the reaction Okay, look at the reaction now the reaction is KCl with H2SO4 Cl- with H2SO4. So if Cl- is present It forms KHSO4 plus HCl So HCl gas evolves here Which gives pungent smell So this confirms the presence of chloride iron Cl- in the mixture The second one we have In this HCl gas we have when it comes in contact with NH4 OH NH4 OH For the test one is this is done With NH4 OH so NH4 OH plus HCl It converts into NH4 Cl And H2O this is what it forms So white fumes of ammonium chloride we get White fumes of ammonium chloride we get Okay And then in this if you add HCl Okay, we are getting here here HCl this HCl is left And if you add MnO2 not HCl MnO2 if you add a heat Then it converts into MnCl2 plus Cl2 Plus H2O Chlorine evolves in this So magnesium dioxide oxidizes Cl- from this into Cl2 This is a pale green gas The next is If you add agnO3 in this It's agCl white precipitate White precipitate Plus KnO3 KnO3 it forms So on addition of agnO3 To the solution chloride salt solution a white precipitate of agCl formed AgCl is soluble in NH4 OH Okay So agCl you see further in this if you add NH4 OH It is soluble in NH4 OH And it converts into agNH3 whole twice And Cl water evolves forms a complex here Complex salt it is soluble Now this complex salt On addition of HnO3 decomposes agNH3 whole twice Cl On addition of HnO3 Decomposes and forms agCl white precipitate And NH4 NO3 This is the reaction we have here Okay Now you see this one Chromide chloride test This is only for chlorine not for bromine or iodine Chromide chloride test Okay Chromide chloride test Write down Write down On addition of I will also write down it Addition of Concentrated H2SO4 and K2CR207 2 chloride salt 2 chloride salt Deep orange Deep orange Red vapors Of Chromide chloride Of Chromide chloride That is CrO2Cl2 forms Chromide chloride is this only CrO2Cl2 Okay The reaction is You see KCl with H2SO4 converts into KHSO4 plus HCl This we get in the first step K2CR207 K2CR207 Also we are adding Plus H2SO4 Converts into 2 KHSO4 Plus 2 CrO3 And H2O Now this HCl that we have HCl Reacted CrO3 Converts into CrO2Cl2 And H2O This is Chromide chloride One more point you add in this The color of NaOH solution Changes to yellow The color of NaOH solution Is changes to yellow When chromide chloride vapor When chromide chloride vapor Vapors Is passes through Is passes through it So here the reaction is We have CrO2Cl2 chromide chloride Is you know Allowed to pass through NaOH vapors NaOH it converts into Na2CrO4 Plus 2 NaCl Plus H2O This is yellow in color Done? Yes Okay Next I don't test of bromide What is the experiment? Again we have mixture Which I'll write down that Don't leave it So we have the mixture The sample we have And in this if you add H2SO4 dilute Red is brown Red is brown Pungent gas Br2 evolves Another one In this solution I'll write down here only In this solution if you add MnO2 The solution becomes denser The solution becomes denser If you add MnO2 I'm sorry MnO2 here Yeah The solution becomes denser If you have Sodium extract if you add You add Se Sodium extract With dilute HNO3 With AG NO3 solution NO3 solution So it forms light yellow precipitate Light yellow precipitate forms Which is soluble in In NH3 ammonia One more test we have in this Which we call it as layer test I'll write down here In layer test what happens We have Sodium extract We add either we can add CCL4 Or we can add Chloroform that is CSCl3 Anyone we can add in between the two With chlorine gas With chlorine gas Right Then in this reaction The organic solvent Or I'll write down this way The organic solvent layer Solvent layer Turns brown All these experiments we have By which bromide ion tested I'll write down the reaction First you pop it on this Sir are we going to take up some questions on this We'll do that Let me just take up one or two more ion then Which I will take up one question after this And then we'll do some more ions Okay Okay So we have this test right now Reactions which is involved in this you see We have KBR the bromide ion With H2SO4 The reaction it gives Similar kind of reaction we have like we had for Chloride ion KHSO4 plus HBR And then in this HBR HBR which forms Further reacts with H2SO4 And converts into bromine BR2 H2O evolves and sulfur dioxide we get This is reddish brown gas Reddish brown That's how Now in this if I add MNO2 Magnesia dioxide if you add here With HBR It converts into BR2 With H2O And we also get MNBR2 Next write down Addition of AGNO3 solution Addition of AGNO3 solution To the acidified sodium carbonate extract To the acidified Sodium carbonate extract Results in the formation of Light yellow precipitate of AGBR Results in the formation of Light yellow precipitate of AGBR Which is Which is Sparingly soluble in NH4OH Which is sparingly soluble in NH4OH Okay Now you see this reaction here What I said Addition of AGNO3 solution To acidified sodium carbonate Okay Acidified sodium carbonate So basically what happens when we add AGNO3 So it forms AGBR because we have the bromide ion With AGNO3 It forms the precipitate of AGBR Plus NANO3 AGBR NANO3 This AGBR Is soluble in Ammonium hydroxide NH4OH It forms AG NH3 whole twice BR and HD Complex forms Layer test is very simple Write down Last one in this The fourth one that I have given you Layer test very simple See it's based on the fact that bromine is more soluble in organic solvent In comparison to Chlorine Right So you see in that you know Reaction I have given Sodium extract With CCL4 or CHCl3 Yeah Rahul will get update We'll have a question We'll discuss a question And then we'll take a break Okay after this Just 10 more minutes I guess Okay So bromine is liberated from bromine salts Why because The reagent we are adding in layer test is what We are adding organic solvents Like CCL4 and CHCl3 if you see Correct Plus CL2 So bromine and Chlorine If you compare the solubility of bromine in organic solvent It is more And hence And hence it gives an orange color To the Organic solution that we have which we also call it as organic layer And which the lower part is You know orange color And the upper part is You know That aqua layer remains colorless So you will have You can easily detect the two different layer over here The lower part is orange And the upper part is colorless Like we have Like we have clean water Like that Okay So that orange color that forms That only confirms the presence of bromide ion There's two line you write down to this Bromine since it is more Soluble in organic solvent than Chlorine Bromine since it is more soluble in organic solvent Hence It evolves from the bromine salt Hence it evolves from the bromine salt On addition of On addition of an oxidizing agent Addition of an oxidizing agent What on oxidizing agent we have We have Cl2 water Chlorine in presence of water We can have a drop of KMnO4 So you're not sharing a screen Yeah I know I am just Taking one question for this You can I'm dictating you can write it down Okay So I said what all oxidizing agent we have Chlorine water Drop of KMnO4 And concentrated HNO3 also we can use Okay so all these oxidizing agent we can use For this Okay So what happens here In presence of oxidizing agent Bromine evolves And it turns the lower part of the solution Or you write down like this It turns the lower solution orange And it turns the lower solution orange Which confirms the presence of Which confirms the presence of bromide Okay so layer test is this It basically depends upon the solubility of Halide ions in organic solvent We will choose those organic solvents In which In which the Solubility of bromine Since we are detecting bromine Solubility of bromine is more basically Now I will see one question Before the break Just a second So we will remove this I will share my screen now Yeah this one yeah The first one you see A Look at the Question first A dissolving dilute S2SO4 Brown colored vapor You know forms Which turns start solution Potassium iodide start solution blue Same A we dissolve in NaOH Then S3 gas evolves A converts into a gas B And into a gas C But liquid at room temperature So gas C is what? C is a liquid at room temperature You see all these questions You see A the first question You have it's basically If you do not know the property Then you cannot do it Tell me what is the value Which one is A, B and C We need to identify A, B and C Yes nitrite I am correct A is nitrite and that's right So we can say A is No NH4 NO2 Because ammonia gas is also evolving B you see Ammonia gas is evolving So we can have NaNO2 and NH3 What is B there? And C is also a gas But liquid at room temperature You see A you are saying nitrite I am What should be the compound Because when you heat A It converts into a gas You know which is liquid at room temperature So what are liquids we have at room temperature Tell me What are liquids we have at room temperature Is it going to be NON NO2? What is that NON NO2? That's right gas B and C you are saying Yes No NO2 or NO is not See NO2 is not a liquid at room temperature No it is a gas And A is what? A what you said? A you said nitrite I am So what should be the nitrite compound you must have When you heat that You will get two gases One is a liquid and one is gas at room temperature So what are liquids we have at room temperature This way if you go it will be easier for you to understand What are liquids we will have at room temperature H2O is a liquid at room temperature right Any other liquid at room temperature? Some bromine Bromine is also liquid But bromine is you know it's It's standard state is liquid only Is it HNO2? NH4 NO2 HNO2 you are saying A is NH4 NO2 and then B is NH3C HNO2 Yeah right right See bromine yes bromine you can think of But why bromine is not possible here Because we won't have bromine anywhere right Where is bromine? There's no chance of bromine over there Once you are confirmed it is nitrite ion So it is a reaction of all these nitrite ion right Nitrite compound So if A is NH4 NO2 obviously you need to do some practice Then only you can you know guess like this If A is NH4 NO2 then it is possible that you heat this It converts into NH3 and it converts into H2O also And we know H2O is a liquid at room temperature So answer for this question is A is NH4 NO2 A is NH4 NO2 B is NH3 and C is H2O Try this B So it's that K2CO2 is a green color Right so what we'll do how do we you know detect So only the property you know How do we use this property to detect So if we pass SO2 it will give green color SO2 with what? K2CO2 Right it will form a chromium sulfate and that will be a green And that green solution is not given by CO2 right Yes SO2 will give green solution but CO2 won't give So what we'll do we'll take this mixture and we'll allow K2CO2 to pass through this mixture If it turns green then we'll have SO2 present into this Right and when it passes through lying water it turns milky Which confirms CO2 So all these are you see all these are property based questions you will get Okay, you must have the information that only you can do it And it's not like you if you do not know You know from the beginning to end you won't be able to do it Somewhere in between also if you can catch what is the compound Then you can you know correlate that okay this is the possibility this is not the possibility Maybe this kind of questions is a bit difficult when it comes to you know in J advance that to You know where options are not given in that case you have to you know Take a call whether it is this or this but when options are there Like suppose in this question only A that we have they'll ask you what is you know C Or what is B and they will give some options or what is A they will give some options Correct so in that case you know you can have the idea that okay this option is possible or not This option is possible or not and then you know you can think about it But yes if you know the property you can figure it out what is the question all about Just you need to you know understand the chain how the reaction is going on Any one particular reaction if you understand properly then you can think of the product or react Okay, what is the last one A C A So so three you can tell from the green color and then I The green mass is equal like equal to the s7 h2o mass Okay, it's given k2 cr2 or 7 with h plus its real screen color. Okay, okay Identify a and explain the reaction. It has water of this monovalent alkaline cation Alkaline cation is also given so we can think of either na or li mostly right Monovalent so it will be group one, correct Alkaline cation so we can have na plus and and one more thing if it is mentioned that monovalent Then you can think of group one, correct group two is gone group one you have in group one also It is mostly it is true that either you will have na plus or li plus These two cations only possible in general. I'm not saying any logic over here In general you can think of mostly we'll have the salt of these two elements cations only So x is then divergent anion That's right. Divalent anion. So either we can have sulphate or we can have bottle divergent anion anions we have Sulphide sulphate all these things we can think of H2 so for a gas turns this solution green Identify a next to this. Huh, fine. It's correct only so we have na2 so three Because we know the reaction of sulphide with h2 so four and then with k2 cr2 a seven it turns green solution So I would say what from the last two line You will have the idea from this reaction from this line You will have the idea that that anion is the sulphide and we have so three minus Okay, and the first information that is given you can think of Either na plus and li plus there It is na2 so three Dot seven h2o is the compound we have Clear understood one is to one weight also Oh, where is that I missed it correct. Yeah, so ratio and weight also it is given me one by one it is given. Yeah, that's fine So that is how we can so basically Informations need to extract and then you can think of and what could be the possible answer. Yeah So this kind of questions you will get we have few more things left. We'll continue after the break. Okay 655 So what would be potassium? Sorry So what would be potassium because so three minus weight is 80 and potassium will be 40 into 280 That's one second one over into the land and x is any divergent anion in one is to one Has water and m2x One into one ratio. So water And m2x no, sir. I think they mean water and salt is in one is to one because then it comes exact one is to one What you come 126 126 it comes exact one is to one ratio Wait, so water is A 18 into 7 no the mass of this because seven is to a we have So it is 126 is coming out to be and what should be m over here So that the weight of this would be 126. Isn't it? This is the question, right? Yes Water and this salt Come master issue is one is to one is it? So water come us is 126. What should be m and x over here so that the mass is 126 So you can check if you talk about potassium. What is the mass of potassium here? 39 39 39 into 278 and sulphide ion and a to s o 3 What is the mass of s o 3? 30 32 into 2 that is 64 64 plus 16 80. So it is coming out to be more, right? Yes, sir. I thought they meant like m2x like m is to x ratio. That's why I thought it would be potassium No, it is clearly it is given has water and m2x and then we have the bracket open till here Water and salt in one is to one ratio by weight So what are current weight and discover it is one is to one. Yes, sir. Correct Okay, so we'll take a break


Hello traders at CMC Markets. Welcome to another update for Monday, the 3rd of July and I'm recording this on Friday the 30th of June. My name is Trevor Neal and I'm presenting to you from London. I am a research analyst at RRG Research. As we reach the end of the week, end of the month, the end of the quarter, the end of six months, it's worth thinking about what has been the best thing to be in this year, 2023. And this is of course the answer is the NASDAQ or the tech stocks or particular tech stocks but that area. I've done the chart here where each bar is six months so this is this year and that's last year and this is the performance in the six months so that's this year's performance and you can see that we've had 35% in six months and it's the best since the tech bubble and in that six months into the high we achieved 61%. So more is possible and historically has happened previously before we can say the bubble has burst but no need to say that this balloon will inflate as big as the last one but the question is has it got more to go but at the moment it's looking very strong and definitely that has been the right thing to be in and it's good that the RRG charts did pick that up right at the beginning of the year after the brutal punishing we hate technology it's all over value the bubble it's all over period that we had last thing for two six months there. There it is that's what has been the best to be in and maybe continue to be for a little while longer. Looking now at the relative rotation graph versus MSCI world so this is versus the average of the other stock indices global stock indices we see the best performing stock indices index compared to the others is the still the NASDAQ still pointing in the right direction northeasterly furthest to the right strongest and with good positive momentum as well we've got the Nikai that's a product of the weak currency more than anything else the S&P following having crossed into the leading quadrant the Dow still holding here and the broadly based Russell right over here in good trajectory in the improving quadrant but not exciting yet we've got weakening european it's getting worse saying with the footsie as well but these have separated out the cac leading it down the stocks the big stock a european stock index the moving into the lagging quadrant and the DAX looking like it's heading its way into there hence saying still pointing absolutely the wrong way on the daily chart we have a slightly different picture we still have the NASDAQ and the S&P and the Nikai on the right hand side but you remember the in the weekly chart sampling the Nikai and the NASDAQ were up in here in the leading quadrant and then the NASDAQ was heading northeasterly here they've come around a little bit so losing some momentum you're struggling a bit but still the strongest stocks against the average of the MSCI world average of the other indices also the european stock indices are in a much better place on the daily charts so here's the DAX still in the lagging quadrant but the stocks has crossed through the cac is which in the weekly was leading down is leading up so in the bounce there and the footsie also good trajectory there but still quite far from 100 so to say that they're having a short-term rally in relative strength but they're still facing the wrong way in the longer-term perspective this is the daily chart of the NASDAQ and here we can see the struggle we surged to the resistance point which we had identified and we've got precisely to it and it's backed off it from 15 200 it has pulled back to this consolidation top in here as we draw this a little bit better before to do when it's extended out like that but around the 14 600 level I'll check I'll home in on that in a moment it's been enough to turn the MACD daily MACD across it to downside that's the first time it's done that since the beginning of May and so we're feeling the resistance and we saw that in the RNG chart with the NASDAQ in the daily turning down from the leading quadrant losing momentum and here we see it in the absolute chart here now there is support let's zoom in on that homing in we see that the market has pulled back to previous resistance level which is now support it's quite normal behavior in a rising market zigzagging up like this high halted that advance we pulled back then we broke through it now we retest it where it's support there's a story that's gone on all the way up in here it is enough however to have crossed the MACD as I've said now the RSI look at this it's come down below 50 and then turned up again through it and that is typically the behavior of a market that's is reacting during an advance so the reaction may be over so people who've got a shorter-term perspective could see this support as somewhere to protect themselves for longs looking for a next run upwards and it could be as extensive as this one here which it went from 14 300 to 15 300 so if you add 1000 to this low here at 14 700 we'll call it be 15 700 which the next run Fibonacci projection for that would be up in here so it does look as though this long-term trend which is still intact we haven't got a top in place yet I don't believe it's just part of the normal progress bit of a wobble which is likely to resume and we probably possibly have got new highs ahead of us here now is a daily chart of the S&P it cleared the resistance as 4 300 resistance which was a struggle for a very important level broke it powerfully went up to 4 450 and then it's come back rather perfectly from a technical point of view to the breakpoint and has bounced from there we've mentioned this before that it could happen likely to happen it seems that it is happening and we are resuming the advance the RSI dropped below 50 and has come up so the pullback is is corrected the MACD which is somewhat lagging is still negative it does look as though we're on our way again that the trend is resuming on the upside traders can look for protection below the 40 4 300 look for the small amount of resistance at the high here at 4 400 to be tackled and then the next resistance is a long way up is at 4600 and that is from the high back in March D1 so we're there's a big gap between that high and the high of March 2021 so that leg could be quite extensive there so watch out for this move maybe already resuming and the high may be taken out with relative ease because it's not a strong resistance level and then that leaves it clear for an attack on that March high of 2022 I think I said 21 2022 we're watching the Dow Jones industrial average very closely there's a daily chart of it we've got a series of highs in here they're not precisely lined up but they're very close together 3400 4200 sorry and then extending up to a range of about 34600 so we're close to that now we're pushing up higher lows intact in here it's hesitant it has been rebuffed how many times one two three four five six seven eight nine times that level so it's a very significant level and we're pushing towards it every time the sellers get control the buyers come in more aggressively low higher low higher low is this another higher low here so watch out it could be something explosive going to happen here and if it does break up I think the next resistance is going back from April May of 2022 and that's at 3500 and 35350 right up there long way up so I can just clear these highs I should draw another line in here draw it in now for the future so we've got these highs in here and the clear that and I think the sky is blue above up to above the 34 35000 350 area I'm jumping to foreign exchange this is a weekly relative rotation graph here we've been talking I've been very keen on the Canadian dollar and particularly versus the Japanese yen for a slight change in behaviour here we've got continuing weakness in the euro and this is heading in a southwesterly direction wrap quite rapidly through the weakening quadrant towards the lagging quadrant the British pound has flipped around again resumed its stronger tone in the in this weekly sampling and the Canadian dollar is still the best one the only one with the British pound the only one pointing northeasterly then we got notably also the Japanese yen going the other way so let's start by looking at the euro so here is the euro which is having a bit of a wobble the move up here from around 95 up to 10 111 area was impressive but when we had this high and this high we had a bearish divergence in the MACD so we had severe loss of momentum into this high back in May then we came back hard to significant support which held very well around 106 50 then it's bounce and it's fading here and looking like it's putting in another lower high in here and turning down and still according to the RSI in the pro process of going down so the threat is now that this uptrend line here which I'll extend here going up to 107 area is is going to be visited again so this is looking a little bit wobbly cable has eased off and in the last few last two weeks but it's come back to support it has reached it so far but I'm not sure that it's really broken the uptrend of higher lows in place here and I think that's still good as I do this analysis it maybe is beginning to stabilize here if it doesn't stabilize here it's very likely to stabilize around 124 the MACD has crossed down the RSI has come down quite deep down below 40 around 39 and hooked up maybe the very first sign of it stabilizing if it were to take out this high here of 127 and I think you could protect yourself below 126 and look for a resumption a breach of the high and then I tackle this very prominent and formidable resistance at 130 up here but we have got the zigzagging pattern in the current zag looks like completing I like the position in the RRG and it could be there are signs that it is bottoming out here and finally our favorite pair and this the Canadian dollar versus the Japanese yen soaring away it's this has been clear to RRG followers for several months it's still moving strongly up powerfully up maybe moving close to parabolic the MACD is still very positive but it's moving towards caution you a significant resistance level of these double tops we'll call it a 110 there's and we're at we're at 10921 at the moment we're close to it everything's looking strong for it the RSI too higher lows in place here no divergence yet but be ready this one could be close to having a well-deserved rest in its advance and it is looking rather extended and parabolic in shape so you have been warmed if you're with us on this you should have been doing well out of it but we may be coming towards the end for the moment for this move and have a significant correction it's due for a significant correction so that may be ahead of us but I think it's probably quite soon I will leave it there for this week thank you very much for watching we always appreciate it and we're honored to give us your time we'll be with you again next this time next week it'll be Julius next week Julius to Campana so goodbye from Julius and I research analyst at RRG research and may the trend be with you


All right, good morning, cyber traders. Welcome back on this Tuesday. What do we got to see what he does today? Today, oh, you know what's very important? It is election day for my school. I gotta go vote today. All right, good to see you, Bonnie. Good to see you all. Hope everybody got their taxes done. And I don't think it was really the greatest day yesterday. It was a couple of good stocks. We'll talk about BTU because that thing was phenomenal. But, you know, we're getting at least sort of the Dow. It's not really going anywhere. We're up about 18 points. Bitcoin is down $150. Woo, down huge. But a couple of other stocks also not doing too well like Coinbase and stuff like that. We'll check those stocks out in a little bit. But anyway, it was talking a little bit about inflation yesterday. And you know, I don't know if you guys have done your homework, but those look like it's gonna probably be here. Very hard to fix inflation. So we're gonna keep an eye on certain stocks that could benefit from inflation and also could do the opposite. So it looks like a trader's market. Just gotta find those stocks and we got a benefit from them. Obviously, BTU is one of them. But regarding about what happened yesterday, let's just talk about this BTU really quick because it was one of the only stocks that really made it a pretty decent move. You can see right here, it's gonna point this out because I know Josh did his clash yesterday for everybody that has a goal in planting them. Student year at Cybertree University, you obviously know we started from the beginning. And one of the biggest things that you learn here at Cybertree University is not how to make money. That is the worst thing that anyone could teach you. You know why? Because if you know how to do it, we don't need them. You need to know how to stop losing money. And the biggest T that we train is tradeables. Tradeable is the first T of learning. You gotta know how to stop losing money. And one of them is knowing if the stock is tradeable or not. Timing during the day, everything. So BTU, you could see it right here, had a really nice move around 9.30 this morning. And it just literally went up to about 11.30, nice little push. And you could see right at about 11.30, really didn't go anywhere, you know, hell, even if, and you could see most of the pop was done right around 10.30. And that was about it. And it was a really nice move. The stock moved up a dollar. It had about 5.10 shakes, 10.10 shakes. But you could see right here that the stock has obviously been on a really nice move since the beginning of May. Stock obviously went from 4.50 up to $9, really, really strong. It is testing some resistance levels going back of last year in February. But overall, the stock has done pretty well. Now we heard about the whole merger yesterday, right? Well, didn't work too well for AT&T yesterday. That thing was a great short. That thing just came down from 34 down to 30. It's making new lows. I guess this whole merger thing didn't really work out the way they planned it. So, you know what? It was a great short old day yesterday. So a little bit more expensive. I know some of us, whatever, you know, a little on the expense side, it was a very consistent trend. And I'll tell you, I haven't seen a stock like this in a long time as pretty as a short like that. I mean, that thing just literally, very rarely you see a stock just go down like that.  That was even like how the stock goes up. It flats, it goes up. Not really, you know, make as big a move in the morning after it just kept going, don't follow that trend. So that was pretty cool right there. But overall, you know, I made a little money. I didn't do that many trades yesterday. I called it early Monday and whatever, you know, it's a beautiful day, but two days, Tuesday, so things usually pick up. So let's keep an eye on those. Let's go through some of the watch list.  I didn't find that much out there. There was a stock, A-G-E-N. It's gapped up pretty nicely this morning. You can see it's starting to pick up a little momentum. It's about 34% of a dollar. It's got some nice movement. Didn't really just start picking up until now. It gapped up right here from 320 to 460. It came back down a little bit. Let me just go look over here on the level four because I actually took that off by accident. Let's type the wrong symbol, A-G-E-N. All right, just let that load up. Get the data. There we go. All right, so I'm gonna bring this over here so you guys can see what's going on over here.  You got about 23,000 shares sitting right around 450, another one here around 420. It had a little bit of a buy here, but nothing huge. Nothing really that major. There was a big buyer right here around just that $4 where it kind of tested it and went right back up. Got some orders here and there. Nothing, no big 100,000 share lots yet. So we'll see how that plans out. I mean, it traded 1.9 million shares. It just started picking up right now. You know, not a decent move right here. Another one that we found earlier this morning too which was the ULBI. This one had a really nice push right around 830. It went from 1040 all the way to 1140. That's a really, really nice move. Only issue is it's not a category one. I was given this probably a three because look at the tier sizes. Very, very small. Spreads a little bit big. Gotta be a little more advanced trade or trade like this. Grant, yeah, there was a little bit of phastal flag being built right here. Stock obviously had a nice little gap up from $8 and right now it's right at 1140. It's at the highs of the day. It looks pretty good. Let me bring up the level four on this one too. Let's see where all these big institutions and algorithms are hiding. Load up that data. That was pretty fast. So we got this big order. We got about 16,000 share sellers sitting there around 1150. You can see him. He's been out there for an awful while. Actually he's been out there since about 830. He's kind of holding it down, holding it on the ship right there. We'll see how he basically kind of like gets filled or executed or not, which by the way, you know how we know if he gets executed all the time in sales. All right, another stock that made the watch list too. Very cheap stock. Not, you know, it just started dying a little bit and made a big move around five o'clock. I might put this on the B list. MITO. We got this SRPT. A lot of you remember this stock? This was a $180 stock. This stock got crushed, hammered. Obviously that drug didn't work out too well. But anyway, it started being up from yesterday. It just started making a move around 835 from 75 to 82. It's starting to trend down a little bit. It is a category five. If you're not one of the advanced traders, you know, once again, stay away from it. All right. Remember it's all about risk versus reward. All right. We got the T there. T still looks like it's probably gonna be a short. It's coming up to some support levels right here. We'll see how that goes. You know, T, I'll be really careful with it because T's really a AT&T.  Apparently that what Tom Warner deal that they made a few years back didn't really work out too well for them. But you know what? Anyone that does own it, they do bring it up. You know what they always tell me? Oh, they pay a dividend. They pay a dividend. They pay, you know what? You want a good dividend? We all know it pays a good dividend. CSQ, that's the dividend stock right there. Pays you 9% interest every day on every month. It pays you on the month. So we have one we did pretty well with it. I don't, and it pretty much doesn't. I mean, I was looking at the big percentage gainers. I mean, you saw what's going on with cryptos yesterday. Took a huge hit. Some people still big buyers on it. I've probably, you know, I wait to see these things start to settle down. All right. Anything we're missing. Norman just made 24 cents on GEVO. All right, Norman, that's a good call right there. That was a nice trade. Gebo, love that stock. We did well with that stock back in December. It was at $2. This thing was just like an animal. Like every day it was like a became like a day trade and all of a sudden turned into a swing trade. We got Stern here on YouTube says, hey Fausta, what do you think of Summit SMMT? Nothing. Garbage. Time to do anything. It's 7,000 shares. Think they didn't move at all in pre-market. Not interested. But Nikola, NKLA, that stock obviously has been having a nice little push lately. You could see it did pretty well yesterday. It gapped up. You could keep this stock. The stock might be going back on the watch list on a swing trade. It's got a great couple of resistance levels right here. I think President Biden's gonna be talking today regarding about EV stocks, regarding about EV electric cars. So I would keep an eye on some of these electric car stocks. See how they're paying out. So that's the only thing I think I'll probably keep a close eye on it. All right, Norman says agent looks pretty interesting. AGEN, yes, absolutely, absolutely. And it's starting to get interesting. If it can get past this resistance levels that we called out, and it looks like it's tested in right around that 450. So I like that chart. I like when they're nice and tight, those orders out there, but those look pretty strong. What was the low right here? 27. All right, everybody. So we got about a little less than 15 minutes to go. Before we leave, I just wanna remind everybody, today at 11 o'clock, we have traders talk. So Josh is gonna be, it's one of our biggest events that we do over the week in the side group room. We are gonna be broadcasting live on YouTube and on Facebook, so please feel free to join us. We always give that once a month to our audience on our YouTube channel. But remember, make sure if you're here in the side group room, make sure you send your emails to Josh and he's gonna look at someone's journal and he'll be able to share with everybody. He won't tell you who it is, but remember the goal is not how to make money, it's how to stop losing it. And that's one of the biggest, most popular events that we have here in the side group room. And like I said, he was out last week, but we're back this week and he's gonna basically go over it. It's a great event, it's about an hour long. So don't miss it. If you are gonna miss it, just make sure you're registered. You can always access it on your portal page on Cybertrainversity. All right, everybody, good luck today. Happy trading. We'll see you back here at 2.30. And as always, if you're in the side group room, we'll start commentary once the market opens up. Good luck and be safe, everybody.


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