So now let's actually load up Unity for the first time. And we're gonna create a new project. Here's just showing projects I've already created, just tutorial projects I've gone through. And I'm gonna create something called example. You can specify if it's gonna be a 3D project or a 2D project, understand that in Unity there's really not much distinction between 3D and 2D. 2D is just a special case of 3D where our camera is an orthographic projection. It's a projection without any perspective distortion. And a few other settings are different when you start a 2D project. But if I start a 3D project and want to switch over to making a 2D, it's just a couple of settings I have to change anyway. So you can just, it doesn't really matter here at the start whether you make it 3D or 2D, it's not a huge deal. We though are going to be starting with 3D. So we'll make a 3D project and Unity will load up here, takes a little time. There we go. Okay. So the first basic concept to understand about Unity is that your project contains some number of assets. What are assets? Well, they're just the data elements that are used in your game and they come in various different kinds. There's sound assets, image assets, mesh assets, that's 3D geometry. Those kinds that I just mentioned, those are things that you create externally to Unity.  And sounds of course are various different programs for creating sounds and music. And 3D models, meshes, those are things you create in programs like Maya and Blender. It's probably the one you wanna start with if you're gonna get into 3D modeling. It's a whole very complicated thing unto itself. So we're not gonna talk about that at all. We're going to, for a long time, we're just gonna be sticking with very, very basic built-in meshes of cubes and spheres and cylinders and really basic stuff like that. Again, we're not gonna focus on making things look good at all. We wanna learn as much about Unity itself, not really about creating good art, which is a whole field unto itself. Anyway, so a lot of kinds of assets you'll create external and you wanna bring them in and let's see. I'll just, what do I have? I have this duck. I'm gonna drag that into Unity here. Make an asset out of that. And now what's happened is in my project here, I can open up and explore my project. And here's my project folder. And in your project folder, you have these five subfolders. Assets is where all your assets go and there's the image file I just brought in. And it now has an associated Metafile. Unity will generate these Metafiles for every asset you bring in. And what that Metafile is, we can actually just open that up in a text editor. And what it looks like is, well, one thing here is that for every asset you bring in, Unity wants to have an associated ID, a unique ID for that, a GUID for it. So just randomly generate this thing here and then it has other information about the file. And this is describing how the asset's gonna get imported if we go back to Unity and click on the asset. You have all these options. It depends on what kind of asset we're talking about in this case as an image. So there's various different ways like you would want to have the image compressed when it's brought into your project and stuff like that. So that's all described in the Metafile. And be sure not to delete the Metafiles. You wanna keep them around, make sure they have the same name and stay in sync with these files. So I mean, we could, it's up to us exactly how we structure stuff in our asset folder. We can just create random, we'll just call images and I'm gonna move these into there and just be sure to bring, move them together. And as long as you do that, you need to be fine with it. No, actually I'm not sure, maybe that will break some things because now the path to that asset has changed. I think what you really wanna do, let me go back actually, let me undo the move. Oh, notice that the directors themselves have made a files. Yeah, actually I think the thing to do you really wanna do is to make sure that what's gonna happen in your project is things in your game will reference your assets and you don't want those references to break when the file path changes. So if you move something from one directory to another or change its name, you don't wanna have those references break. That's what the GUIDs are about. So instead, if you wanna rename things or move them, you should do so inside Unity. So now if I rename this to Mallard for Mallard 2, we go look at the directory. The metafile, its name has been updated in sync so it's no longer mallard2.jpg, it's mallard with node number two. If I were to move this into images here in Unity also, it's moving the metafile along with it. And I don't know if anything, I don't think anything in here changes, but yeah. Anyway, just to be safe, you should really only move and rename stuff in your assets directory, but that'll prevent the references to assets from breaking. So an image is an example of an asset that will be importing in from an external program, but then there are some assets that you'll be creating directly inside Unity. For example, there's what's called a material. I'll just leave this with a default name, new material and the inspector here, I select the asset here and it shows all the options about the material. What is a material? Well, a mesh, as I described, is it's the wireframe of a 3D object. It's just the vertices in three-dimensional space and the edges that connect them. It's not the actual texture information about how the polygons get filled in. That's what a material describes. A material is all the information about what should be drawn on the surfaces and how they should be drawn. So we can specify textures. We can join, this is called albedo. That's the main texture you see on an image. So here, let's just set that up. I can drag this here. And okay, so now this is a material which is referencing the texture such that when you apply this material to a mesh, that texture will be drawn on the surfaces. And how the coordinates of the texture match up with the geometry, the various polygons that make up the mesh. That's something you generally arrange and match up in 3D modeling packages like Blender as I mentioned. So there's a lot of complications to that which we won't go into as of yet, if ever. But anyway, so we can also just apply on the material. We can say everything here is red. So it's just gonna tint material to being red. You have controls over things like that. You have controls over how lights are supposed to affect these surfaces. Lots of options and we have various rendering modes which again, all these details we won't get into as of yet. But that's the idea of a material. It's a little strange because you might assume naively that, oh, well I have my meshes and I wanna apply textures to them so I just associate the texture with the mesh. But no, we create these materials, apply the materials to the meshes and the material describes what the surfaces should look like and there's a lot of options about how exactly we want the surfaces to get rendered. So again, a material is a kind of asset we create inside Unity. There are many other kinds which we'll get to in time. One for example, C-sharp script. So this just creates a file called .cs and if I double click this, it'll open up the code in Visual Studio. You can configure that in Unity if you wanna use other text editors. Understand that, yes, Visual Studio has a C-sharp compiler and when I edit my code and save, it'll compile my code or attempt to compile my code and here's the compilation error and it'll tell me there's a problem but Unity has its own variant of the mono C-sharp.net runtime so what you compile in Visual Studio is not the compiled code being used in here so it's actually in a sense that it'll just be compiled twice when we save here. Regardless, it's nice to have Visual Studio just a good environment for writing C-sharp code and Visual Studio these days is practically free. For a long time, Unity by default would install mono develop on your system but very recently they've moved over to now Visual Studio is installed by default and associated with Unity. So this is the default choice going forward. So we'll come back to how to write your code later but anyway, so this is a kind of asset. It's a file that sits in your assets folder. It has an associated meta file and it's something that certain elements in our game can make reference to as we'll see. That's most everything we need to know about assets for now, we'll talk more about them later and that's everything under the project window. The project window really probably should just be called the assets window but they call it the project window and then up here what's called the hierarchy window that's showing us all the game objects in our current scene. And by the way, if you don't have Unity looking like this and you want it to look like this this is what I recommend. Come up to layouts, select two by three it'll arrange things like this but you can just drag this down, dock it there that's what I prefer. And I like to have the console open so I like to dock that down here. That's my preference. That's what I find generally most useful but this is all customizable and it's up to you. Here it's showing my current scene that's what this untitled thing is and the entitled currently has two game objects in it one called main camera, one called directional light. Those are just the default objects included in a new scene and if I hit control S right now what I'm gonna be saving is an asset called a scene a dot unity file and I'm just gonna call this example because that's the name of my project could call it whatever I want but now you'll see an assets in my root folder there's an example scene and we actually can view that in a text editor it's just a YAML file which is sort of an alternative to like JSON or XML and it's just all the information in text form describing the scene and all of the game objects currently in it which right now is just those two game objects so there's actually not that much in it as of yet most typical games will have much more complicated scenes anyway just understand that's really just a text file that's how it gets saved and what are these game objects? Well a game object is just a logical container for what are called components this main camera here if I click on it oops the inspector's stuck it's still showing me the new material because earlier I locked that I'm gonna unlock it so now whatever I click on whether an assets or a game object is gonna show me the components of that object in the inspector so click on the main camera and it's a game object containing this transform component which I can expand and collapse this camera component I'm expanding and collapse and then a flare layer and an audio listener so right now it's just four components and you can see the list of all the component types under here there's many different kinds there's things for lights, for physics for particle effects, meshes, rendering stuff just a whole bunch of stuff which you'll learn in time so in this particular case the transform component that's the one component that every single game object is gonna have if I right click here and create a new empty game object it'll have by default name game object but I can rename it to whatever I want I'll call it Fred and Fred by default this new game object just has a transform component every game object has to have a transform component whether it's gonna use it or not it's a little strange the transform is the position in 3D space it's a rotation in space and a scale those nine coordinates together are the transform of an object and everything has to have it whether it's gonna be used or not the directional light for example a directional light is a kind of light that casts on the scene as if from a very distant large source of light like the sun and all the rays of light shine down in parallel and because of that because it's logically a light that's in effect infinitely far away it doesn't matter where you position the light but it is casting rays in parallel that's what it's kind of showing you with the icon when I select my directional light it's showing these yellow beams and I can rotate the object and that is relevant that part of the transform actually affects the lighting of the scene but if I translate it around if I move it up and down left and right that has no bearing so it doesn't matter where we position this thing but it doesn't matter how we rotate it so there are cases like that where the transform may be ignored in this entirety or maybe only some aspects of the transform are relevant but again all game objects have to have a transform component a camera component as you might assume makes a game object into a camera it's something from which we can render the world and there's nothing in our world yet except skybox at the moment this will be a lot clearer once we add visible objects into the scene but here I'm moving the camera around I can rotate it up and down and this is relevant for the camera because where you position the camera of course affects what you see relative to the objects in the scene and the flare layer that component simply adds a flare effect to your camera so depending upon what lights it's looking at there are cases where you'll see a little flare I don't know why they put that on there by default and audio listener that's a component which picks up sound coming from audio source components so other objects you're gonna attach audio source components to and from those audio sources we can play sound assets and based on proximity an audio listener component which by default is attached to our camera is gonna pick that up and generally you wanna hear stuff from the perspective of the user's view so that's why it's generally attached to the camera Fred, we have this empty game object let me move the directional light out of the way it's right up in our faces okay so Fred you can always just double click on an object to center the scene view on it this is the scene view this is where we move stuff around and you have this preview grid of things whereas the game object this is what the game looks like from the current camera which is by default this main camera the only camera we have at the moment anyway so Fred, we can add components to it let's make a visible mesh and to make a mesh we can actually see we need two components we need what's called a mesh filter and we need a mesh renderer the mesh filter is where we just specify what the mesh is and we don't have any mesh assets yet in our project but there are these built in meshes cube, capsule, cylinder, plane, sphere, and quad we'll just make a cube and right now our cube is rendering as just pink that's Unity's way of making sure that a mesh stands out if it doesn't have an associated material you wanna catch those mistakes so that you can fix them so that's why it's bright pink or magenta I guess you would say so we can apply the material to it and we have a material here, our duck material which I've shaded red let's get rid of that red tint so it looks like a duck and we wanna just associate that onto the mesh renderer component of Fred and we can just do so by dragging here or I could have done the same thing I think by dragging to Fred I think that also would work or if you look at the components and the materials in some cases a mesh actually might have multiple materials applied to it this is an array component that's why it expands and collapses like this and you can specify a size so we can have like three and then we can apply three materials I don't think it would actually do anything if we applied three different materials because the way the mesh is its geometry is defined there's only one material it's expecting so I think the other two would be ignored anyway let's just set that back to one so it has one material and this is where we can also apply the material we can come here, select from materials here like there's this default diffuse material let's just make something white but let's go back to the duck and we can directly drag from assets to here so that's another way of applying the material to the mesh just be clear here we have two components on our Fred game object the mesh filter which specifies the mesh mesh renderer which specifies various options about how lighting should affect the mesh we'll just go with the defaults for now and also it's where we specify what materials are being rendered on the mesh so why are these separate components you may be asking why not just have one component which is both the renderer and the filter well there are actually cases where maybe you don't necessarily want to have a mesh be rendered you don't want to have it visible but you want to use its geometry to define like say a collision box or something like that so you might have a mesh filter without a mesh renderer I don't think it ever makes sense to a mesh renderer without a mesh filter I don't know I think you might even get an error if you delete this let me see what happens remove component and I'm gonna try and play the scene is it gonna accept that well we don't get any errors but we definitely don't get anything rendered so let's just undo that put the mesh filter back okay and now if we render the scene okay then you see there it is this is actually the game being played and it looks just the same as when we didn't play but that's just because we have a totally static game that doesn't do anything as of yet it's just rendering from the camera and nothing else is happening let's move that camera around so we can see it in action and move it closer to our duck move it down something like that that's good enough whatever okay so that's a basic example of a game object again a game object is really just a logical container for some number of components and it's the components that really define what kind of game object that is there's some cases where a component you can only have one instance on a particular game object like I don't think you can give a game object multiple mesh renderers I believe let me try that yeah we got an error message if we try and add a second mesh renderer to this object because it already has one there are cases where if you have one kind of component you can't have a different kind of component like I think under tile map can I add a tile map renderer no yeah because we have a mesh renderer you can't also have a tile map renderer that just doesn't make sense there's a conflict there are certain cases where if you add a component other components are also required and generally if you try and add one of those components it'll automatically add any other required components so there are some various rules like that it just depends on what kind of components we're talking about but there are cases where you can add seemingly unrelated components to the same game object because maybe you just want them to logically be grouped together or you want them to share the same transform that's one reason to group otherwise unrelated components onto the same game object sometimes that's useful but again game object just sort of a generic container and we can call them whatever we want that's totally arbitrary in fact I can very quickly duplicate my object here in hierarchy if I just hit control D and by default it'll give it the same name but with a number after it to distinguish but actually I can give two or more objects the same name and that doesn't necessarily harm anything though in our code as you see it as a way of finding objects by name and if you have multiple objects with the same name it's indeterminate which one you retrieve so generally you probably want to give things unique names but you don't have to I'll just get rid of the second Fred there we go now for our purposes we're probably gonna be creating a lot of simple game objects like this so rather than having to create an empty game object and then add the relevant components so we can see like a cube or a sphere as a convenience under game object here we can just simply come 3D object and there's a cube and it automatically adds in the cube mesh filter and a mesh render using the default material at the start so it just looks white but we can quickly change that with whatever material we want I'm gonna undo that and keep it white it also adds this box collider we'll talk much more about colliders later but understand for now that what a game object looks like doesn't necessarily correspond to how it collides with other things by default the objects that you render don't collide with anything else at all they'll just pass right through and render on top of each other if you want to detect when things collide that's where colliders come in and then we'll talk about that when we talk about physics so we're not gonna do anything with collisions at the moment so I'm just gonna actually remove this component but it's actually kind of harmless right now so it doesn't really matter let me also get a sphere in here okay I don't want to move that over actually what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reset this component, I'm gonna reset it and it just has the default values so it's gonna reset back to the origin you can, if I modify the stuff, the rotation the position you can reset the position rotation independently I'm just gonna reset the whole thing so it's back at the origin as we see down there and we'll do the same for the cube so they'll be overlapping each other just reset the whole thing center on that in the view by double clicking and let's make the sphere bigger so that it pokes out so we can see it poking out of the cube there we go okay and to make that stand out clear I'm gonna create another material where, well I could just use the duct material and apply that to the sphere okay now you can see what's going on I think and if we just pan down here you can see it's like poking out through this cube anyway so you can just see there's two distinct objects there oh and one small thing I wanna make clear here in the inspector view it's showing us all the components of this object and it sort of visually implies that material here is a component but it's not a component it's an asset and it's being referenced by the mesh renderer but as a convenience the inspector is showing you all the materials being referenced by the components of this object it's just a convenience so you can come down here and look at the materials being applied to this object and perhaps mess with these values if you so choose but this is really just an asset being referenced by one of the components


Good morning everyone. Welcome to vlog week day three. It is currently 7 15. Don't ask me why I'm up I woke up at 6 30. I mean I always need My gosh, I don't know my fan is making a really loud noise I always need it naturally, but I just woke up at 6 30 wide awake And I just laid in bed and I'm like all right. I guess I'm going out of run today is Wednesday We have a lot going on getting my hair done at my house is getting deep cleaned What else are we doing my therapy tonight? I just have some things I need to do You know around the house shocker right now in one of these vlogs I'll talk more about my reading plan, but today. Oh my gosh. This needs to be lost. Oh Maybe thumbs up here somewhere, but I went to bed early, and I guess you're probably fall asleep downstairs Anyways, yeah, so today is week five day two or day one That means I have three weeks left. So this is what I'm wearing all my run This is from Lululemon. These are my favorite outdoor voices shorts I want like 15,000 shorts like this because I will be living in them this summer They're so comfortable, and they're perfect to run in and yeah, it's just great. It's really hot in Texas I say that in every single vlog. I mean you guys know this I'm not hungry this early really eat much before I go work out in the morning just because it's just no But I have to eat something so I've been eating granola Just straight up merely Elizabeth granola guys It's time for shots The probiotic shot from breast fishery and an espresso shot because I am tired. So this one's not bad. I don't think Yeah, that's fine The combination between those two is not good not good at all. All right guys back for my run. I've showered They hold in the alarm story.  I didn't go to bed till like two or three Well, no, no, no and the best part is that when I was leaving this morning It's like 7 a.m.  Yep, and we laughed so hard. Yeah Yeah, so like she is in it's blaring It's beeping everywhere, but then you kept calling me and I couldn't use my phone I know the bed and the light is flashing red and I'm like, oh my god The cops are gonna come. I don't live here. I might get arrested. I don't know what's gonna happen I'm like, and she's ignoring my calls to like disarm the system and so she disarms it. It's good And then it starts beeping again because it beeps when it's re-arming. Okay I didn't know that but it scared me and so I called her again. She was like, this is what's supposed to happen I was like, oh, okay, and I haven't got to sleep since Yeah And it is now almost 10 30. So Sav is like really happy.  You really just have never been a morning person. Never. I want to be but Even from the time you wake up. It doesn't really matter what time you wake up It takes you all two hours to like kind of now. I'm finally awake and it's been almost three hours. Yeah So we're gonna get a lot of land we decided My house is being cleaned right now. We'll talk about that later. It's actually really cool especially for like Dallas people but I just want my Chee a pudding that I've been eating like every day, so I'm gonna see you there. See you there. This lip balm beauty kind of look conditioner I'm just like not impressed with my cousin used to use that and she wasn't I'm not impressed But it's all I have right now because my summer Fridays went missing again the one that I bought because other all went missing So I need to buy like 15 of them. That's like a personal problem. You know, I am so sorry Well, let's have a good day, okay Oh My number one housewife housewife for bust. All right guys. We stopped in La La Land The best drink ever strawberry fields. It's an every single vlog of mine at this point I don't know this is a little bit setting. Oh it is Savgos What did they say where you said you too? Oh, he said enjoy. Yeah, so oh Yeah, so he was like enjoy your drink and I said you too But like I had a weird look on my face and he was like, thank you and I was like you're welcome And then everyone is kind of looked at each other where we're like, yeah, okay He's like, I'll enjoy my food when I eat it and I was like good. Yeah, that was that boy walked in and he was like welcome back He's like you brought your friends this time. I'm like I brought her before but I don't know if that was the same guy There's two guys. It was the guy that complimented my brown shirt. Oh, yeah, there's There's two guys that look the same like they look very similar They're wearing masks, but they're wearing masks and that's why it's so hard like if they weren't wearing masks I would be able to like I would be able to tell them apart, but they look very similar So anyways This is pretty standard in a car for her she's loves cars and she's much better in them. Oh, so cute She's like a rat guys. So okay update on why Coco hasn't gotten groomed.  I couldn't get her vet records long story short Um, so she has to go to a new vet here just to get like an update so they can prove like in a file So send her to the groomer. So she's a vet appointment tomorrow, and then I'm gonna make it a groomer I can probably make the appointment today. I guess but yeah, we can do it back. Oh, she looks up home like I live there Yeah, I did early him and you have a key I was thinking is gonna add you to the security app You said that this morning cuz they asked me the guy asked me if I could if I wanted other people on it And I think about it, but I'll add you after Mike's We can't go through that again. No, yeah, no, that's not happening again. All right guys I'm showing you before it's now like 12 30. I've made it to my hair appointment my hair is Just like so dead and really need some tragic work. I Had to drive and pick up my pants for my grandma She took a lot of my pants in so they would set me better and and she gave me vegetables from her garden Which is so cute.  She does hair in Frisco I don't know why I'm putting lip balm on because I'm gonna put a mask on this always happens to me She does hair in Frisco. So if you guys live in the area, she's really good And I'm not just saying that because she's my sister so um, I'll have her Instagram like linked down below You guys have seen her on all of my stuff, but 2020 It literally looks like I'm in like going in a hospital Your hair looks different. Did you do something different?  Are you sure that's enough? Yeah, I think I do more I'm born Yeah, I want the full thing on my Oh my gosh This is like a different All right guys, so I just finished doing my sister's hair. I don't know how to work this thing. Oh, I did it Look at me What did you say? I just finished like applying your color. Oh, I'm so kind of in this like zoom Yeah Am I messing it up? Oh? It's so cool. What they keep love. Thank you. I think but everything should be pink, you know you guys want to see my Floater It's pink Oh, it's fine. Okay. Bye guys This is so complicated. All right guys just got another Starbucks. I have not had Starbucks really Had a lot in the past few like recently. I do not have it at all, but here we go. Yeah, it does look really good 2020 Back in the car during next time. My hair feels So much better. This will just make my life better because I don't think my hair has ever been more dry or more dead in my life, so It's just amazing. It's a very exciting day while I was out my dryer arrives So we finally have a washer and dryer here guys. Who's excited? I'm excited. Okay, like this is literally the best day Exciting things guys. I am trying out a new laundry detergent I asked you guys in our Facebook group But if you're not in the Facebook group, you need to be in the Facebook group It's so much fun So I asked you guys in the Facebook group what the best laundry detergent was because I want to be like Notice that girl who's like close but really good. I'm in so many of you guys said this It's a little bit pricier. So I'll let you guys know from Amazon, but I'm gonna smell it actually. Oh It smells really good. So I got it on Amazon guys. I'm back in my house got deep clean today Um, oh my gosh, it looks incredible. You know when you just feel amazing like I cannot tell you Oh my gosh, and just like so many things it needed a deep clean so bad So it was really great was blued or cleaning any of my Dallas girls That's where you need to go to get your house cleaned They donate five to 30% of all proceeds this so basically they donate a portion of every cleaning to either like a foster care organization or People who are out of sex trafficking. So it's like incredible. So if you are hiring anyone to clean You should hire blued or cleaning. I like love them because they give back so much cocoa.  They were they're so freaking nice and cool. So anyways, my house looks the best It's probably ever looked since I moved in here Um, I will have the link down below and stuff especially if you guys are a north Dallas People if you guys aren't north Dallas people.  So it's a really good like when you know Cocoa is very clean something else. I wanted to mention I asked them to like send over more stuff because I just love them something else I wanted to mention is that they allow clients to nominate foster parents and they'll go and clean a foster homes for free So um, they're the best you guys should check them out really really great Um, I will have them linked down below. All right guys This would also be a good time to mention that I do have a Dallas specific like Facebook group if any of you Guys live in the area. We've been doing threads of like favorite places and like best dog groomers and stuff like that Um, I just shared like all the door on there as well. Just because like they actually live here. Um, Coco You were so cute. So anyways, I'm really hungry Actually, what was I gonna say there was something else I was gonna say Morgan Yates Just texted me and asked me for my country playlist. Can you believe this? This is the best thing that ever happened to me She's always hated country made fun of me for it and now here we are guys All right guys, Liz is here because she is shooting some photos in the office, but I got a package from dr. Brandt Very very exciting. This is the I don't even read it. Wait. No, I read it somewhere back to balance I don't know where I'm oh, this is what I'm talking about calm the chaos. Okay, so we have a cleanser oh Redness relief cream this is gonna be the best thing ever if anyone remembers when I was obsessed with dr. Jartz Like tiger grass stuff actually my little brother probably would really want this to Recovery sleep mask. I'm actually gonna try these like really tonight. I'm gonna get these out later, but um, yeah This is exactly what I need. That's like the only skin problem. I have is redness. So This is my dinner. I mean my lunch.  Oh my gosh incredible really Just incredible view a really quick grocery haul. I got myself delivered from Instacart I just realized though. Maybe I forgot to add the ground pork. I don't think so. So maybe they were out Anyways, I got ground pork my favorite marinara sauce I want to make bolognese, but I'm gonna have to go get pork before I do that celery carrots also for the bolognese Broccoli because I got salmon. I made broccoli and salmon in probably like two or three months and Now Like it just sounds so good. I've had a really weird up tightly as I've mentioned 15 times honeycrisp apples cheez-its goldfish This is really good pasta for bolognese. I guys don't even ask. I literally don't know why this is the problem with with Instacart is that you just see random things like why would I I would have never ever purchased those then some Shield Oh and I got pesto, but it didn't come so they must have been out of a lot of stuff my favorite yogurts ever and then kind of Many so these are really good for like before running a morning. That would have been nice for this morning But that's what I got flavor. Oh my gosh. I totally skipped over the snack section Goldfish baked. I've heard these are really good. I mean flavor blossom cheesy pizza I'm so sorry guys and extra toasty cheez-its. That's what I heard There if tonight has been canceled so I'm watching stuff in the den it really just truly I say this all the time, but it really truly finally feels like summer even though it's you know I don't even think it's technically summer yet. You guys get what I'm saying. Okay. It feels good You guys I'm gonna end today's vlog just because I don't want it to be too long Hope you guys enjoyed daily vlogging is so fun But it's harder for me because I'm used to doing vlogs that are like an hour long But I'll see you guys tomorrow. 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Good morning everyone, Shalom and welcome to the class on the Kingdom of God. We'll continue studying chapter 7 this morning, just looking at the last parable that we were to study, which is given in our publication and then we'll move on to chapter 8. So before we look at Luke chapter 19, verses 11 to 27, the parable that presents to us about stewardship and future authority, we'll just pause for a word of prayer. So can any one of you please lead us in prayer, please? Nobody wants to pray? Hello. Yes, Lynn go ahead, they can hear you. Thank you Jesus for this wonderful morning, for this new day. Lord you've blessed us with, we thank you Jesus so much for that. And Lord as we are going to study today about your Kingdom, I pray that our minds and our hearts would be open and that we would be able to understand and learn something new today Father. Thank you Jesus for just helping Parcellina to teach us well and that we would all have a good time together in your name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lynn. So last week we were studying the parables concerning the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven and we looked at quite a number of parables. The last parable that we were studying was in Luke chapter 19, verses 11 to 27, where we see that a certain noble man you know went into a far off country to receive for himself a kingdom and he was going to return and he called 10 of his servants and gave them 10 minas and he asked them to do business till he comes back, okay? So here in this parable we see that Jesus is that, is referred to as the noble man and he has gone back to the Father and he is going to come back after he receives a kingdom and he will return and he is going to ask us how we were good stewards of what he has entrusted to us. So this parable talks about presence, stewardship and also about future authority. So we see here in this parable that Jesus says that we need to get into the world and we need to do business till he comes back, which means we need to engage in the world till he comes back. Jesus wants to find out what his people have done with, you know, how successful they were in engaging the world. He just wants to find out what his servants did, which means, you know, where they're successful in engaging the world, how much did they multiply what he has given to us, how much did we increase in our influence, increase in our impact, increase in the way that we are reaching out to this in this world and how much did we gain by trading. So this is not just a nice story that he was telling or a nice parable that he was telling the people, but this parable is about the kingdom of God. So this is what Jesus wants his kingdom to be like. It's not just what he wants his kingdom to be like, this is how his kingdom is and this is what Jesus expects of you and me. But we can say, you know, we can say, Jesus, you know, we thought you're already rich, you own the entire world, all the riches of the world belongs to you. Then why are you asking me to make something for you? Or why are you asking me to engage in this world and trade and do business and make something for you? So we don't see it in that sense, but you know, what he wants to see in us, if he wants to see in us stewardship. And our stewardship is actually measured by how much we gain by trading, which means what did we do with the talents that he has placed in us? What did we do with the time that he has given us? What did we do with the opportunities that he has given us? What did we do with the people, the contacts? What did we do with the abilities that he has given us? What did we do with our contacts, the people that he's placed in our life? What did we do with the abilities or whether it's the intellectual knowledge that he's given to us, you know, whatever it is, you know, what have we done with what he has entrusted to us? So he wants us to be good stewards of the talents, the time, the people, the contacts, the opportunities, the gifts, the abilities that he has entrusted to us that he has given to us and he is looking for us to be good stewards. And how do we know that we are good stewards is measured by how much we gain by using what he has entrusted to us. Another very interesting thing that we can learn from this parable is not just about stewardship, but also about future kingdom authority. You know, this parable which Jesus teaches us, he says that, you know, those who are profitable by trading, which means those of us who are good stewards of what he has entrusted to us, those who have used all of their gifts and their abilities and the opportunities that he's given to us to enhance his kingdom, to build his kingdom, to further his kingdom, you know, we will receive a reward. So, you know, he will reward each one of us with authority over the cities.  And the first one said, Master, your mina has earned 10 minas, and he said to him, well done, good servant, because you are faithful in very little, have authorities over 10 cities. And the second one came and said he earned five more. And what does the noble man say, you know, likewise he said to him, you also will be over five cities, which means you will have authority over five cities. So, you know, the reward that we will receive is, you know, that we would be given authority over cities, which will be proportionate to the stewardship that we have lived in this world, or we have exercised in this world. So, how good stewards we have been in proportion to that, we will be given authorities over cities. And we know that, you know, when Jesus comes again, he is going to literally establish the future kingdom here on earth. And the believers who are called as saints will rule the world and, you know, will administer or govern the nations in the literal kingdom that Jesus is going to establish. We're now talking basically about the spiritual kingdom. All that we've been looking so far, studying about the kingdom of God, is the whole spiritual dimension of the kingdom of God. But there is going to be in the future, you know, the literal future kingdom that Jesus is going to come and establish. And in that, you know, proportionate to how good stewards we have been in this world, what we have done with what God has entrusted to us, how we have been sincere, committed, faithful in doing what God has given to us, you know, he will give us authority over, to rule over nations, to govern, to administer over the nations of the world in his literal kingdom. And this is very interesting. Therefore, you know, we need to look at our presence to worship as something that will bring about rewards, which will affect our future role of who we are, our authority, our position, you know, in the, in the literal kingdom that Jesus will come to establish. Okay, so I hope this parable will encourage us, will motivate us, will get us into a serious mode of, you know, knowing that everything that God has given to us, even people, even contacts, even the opportunities that he has placed in our life, that we take it seriously, that we are good stewards of what God has given to us here right now, and, you know, multiply it, use it, enhance his kingdom, build his kingdom, and we will receive future rewards when we are in the literal kingdom that he comes to establish. Okay, so that is the parable in Luke chapter 19, verses 11 to 27. And with that, we looked at a few of the parables that talk about the kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven. There are more parables that we can, or we can study, you know, so I just encourage you to, like I said last class, you know, when you, when you read these parables, Jesus ask God to open your heart and your mind to see the mysteries, to see the truths regarding his kingdom, what he wants us to do, and that will, you know, open us to the revelations that he has, of what he has spoken through these parables. Okay, so Rue says, Pastor, the story applies to the millennium time when Jesus will come to rule and reign. Yes, yes, because it says he will, when the nobleman, you know, comes back, he's gone, he'll come back after receiving for himself a kingdom and he will return. Okay, so talking about the literal kingdom, the 1000 year millennium rule when Jesus himself will establish the literal kingdom here on earth and he will rule and reign and how good stewards of what he has entrusted to us now, how we have been good stewards, how we have done business, how we, you know, we have multiplied what he has given to us, how we have engaged in this world, bringing about increase and influence and impact and reaching this world will, you know, establish whether we, what rewards we will get in the literal kingdom, whether we will be administrators, governors, rulers of the nations of this world that help us. So any questions, chapter seven, the parables, before we move on to chapter eight. Yes, Nina, John. This particular parable as, I mean, which is, which is in Luke, right. So it says that we need to be engaging with the world to be involved in trade and commerce. Right. I mean, it's talking about that essentially, you know, in this chapter, Luke, it's not really talking, it's talking about really being involved with what resources God has given you to be using it in the world. Right. And to gain more, I mean, or to be profitable in that area. Yes, profitable in the sense how, how we are going to bring about God's kingdom reign, His kingdom rule, His kingdom presence, His kingdom value into the sphere of influence, or the mind molders, or the, you know, the seven mountains that we were talking about, you know, and how we can establish His kingdom, basically bringing about the kingdom mandate, His kingdom come His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Yes. So in, when we say when we get involved, then it will probably be that you are initiating any particular sphere of activity, because it also says that we can't really be yoked with other people who would not probably have the same view point. I mean, they would be working in different ways that would be at cross purposes then, no? I mean, so you're saying that be in all these seven mountain areas and yet be a representative of God, is that what this is mean, this means? Yes. Because, okay. Yes, we need to be part of this, we are in this world, He's put us in this world, and He's put us in this world so that we can be an influence to the people of this world. So why did God, even if you look at the Old Testament pattern, why did God choose Israel? Not because they were greater than any other nation, not because they were good, but because He wanted through them, His laws, His covenants, His people around them to experience the God that they serve, the God who's called them, and experience His laws, walk in them, His covenants and so that was the whole initiative why He chose a particular nation, He chose the Israelites, so that they can be an influence to people around, but sadly what happened was instead of being an influence, they became like the people around them. So what God is looking at us as a church is that He doesn't want us just to say, okay, we're born again, go up to Himalayas or some mountain and stay there, just worship Him and be pure and holy, but He wants us to engage in the world, means He wants us to use all of what He has given to us to enhance, to build His kingdom, to influence His kingdom, to be salt and light, to penetrate into the darkness and bring about His light and establish His kingdom, just like Jesus did. You see Jesus also, He went around the marketplaces, He was always with the sinners, ministering to them and just speaking to them and making known the kingdom of God to them, so that is what He expects of you and I. Did that help Meena? Yes, that is kind of clear that what we have to be in our respective areas, no matter where we work and things like that. What I really wanted to know is that partnering in that way, that we'll have to be careful, isn't it? I mean, when it's a business venture or any of those things, whatever is involved in trade and commerce and everything, so partnership in that way with people who will not be seeing whom we will not probably work in the same way. I mean, so we need to be wary of that is what I was asking. Yes, you mean the same values that we uphold? Yes. And the lifestyles that we live? Yes. But we can, even as we uphold kingdom values and kingdom lifestyle and culture, it will bring about, it is going to bring about a change in their lives. It is going to impact them because we are going to be different. That is what attracted people to Jesus and that is what He, God had this whole purpose of fighting for the Israelites, being for them, doing science miracles and wonders. So the nations will see and they would know the true and living God. So what we do, we are going to be salt and light. We are going to impact other people's lives. Anyone else has any questions? If there are no questions, then we move on to the next chapter, chapter 8, Kingdom Authority. We see that God's kingdom is so important and understanding the kingdom of God is so important and we are learning to, all that we have spoken in or studied in the last seven chapters, we are learning to live and flow and operate by the standards of the kingdom of God, by the kingdom of God and the kingdom of God is so important because we know that Jesus himself began his ministry by saying the kingdom of God is here and he also concludes in his final days on earth by talking about the things concerning the kingdom of God. We study this in chapter 1 and chapter 2. So it is very important for all of us to understand and live by the principles and the teachings of Jesus on the kingdom of God. So what we are studying, what we are learning, just like I just want to encourage you all really to soak into the subject of the kingdom of God, let this teaching just sink into our hearts and our ears and not just attend it as a class or a lecture that you have to attend, but something that we need to live by. So don't just treat this as a course teaching that you have to hear every Monday morning, but this is something that you have to live by, something that you have to order your life even as we've learned about kingdom culture, kingdom lifestyle, kingdom values, what God wants us to do, how he wants us to study his word, the parables that we can receive, revelations and mysteries of his regarding or concerning the kingdom of God even as we study his word. So we are part of God's kingdom, each one of us and all that we are studying is not something that is just a course content, but it's something that we need to let it just soak into our lives, sink into our hearts and our minds and live it out because that is more important because we need to live out our lives as kingdom citizens, know our kingdom mandates, know what God has called us to do so that we can be good stewards of what he is interested to us, we can do what he is looking up to us, he is looking up to us.  That means he came to establish the kingdom of God, he wants us to spread his kingdom here on earth. So this is our purpose why we are living, this is the calling that we have on our lives, even though we have specific calling but this is also a general plan and purpose that God has for our lives that he wants us to build his kingdom, enhance his kingdom and further his kingdom here on earth. So we look at another aspect of the kingdom of God that is chapter 8 kingdom authority. You know as part of the kingdom of God, God has vested his authority in your life and in my life and as believers we need to learn how to flow under this authority, how to operate in kingdom authority, how to walk in kingdom authority and walk in kingdom power and dominion. Now when Jesus introduced the kingdom of God, when he began to say the kingdom of God is here, he just did not preach and teach about the kingdom of God or how the kingdom of God is but we also saw that he accompanied that with demonstrations of power and authority and dominion. So even as he brought about the or he spoke about the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven, the Bible says he went about healing sick people, casting out devils, raising the dead, cleansing the lepers and we read this in Matthew chapter 4 verses 20 to 24. Can somebody please read that? Matthew chapter 4 verses 20 to 24. And Jesus went about all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing all kinds of disease, sicknesses and all kinds of disease among the people.  So here we see that Jesus went about teaching concerning the kingdom of God and he not only made a proclamation about the kingdom of God but there was also demonstrated a demonstration. He also demonstrated kingdom authority and how did he demonstrate kingdom authority by healing every sickness and disease and by casting out demons. Look at what Jesus said in Matthew chapter 12 verse 28. Can somebody read that please? Matthew chapter 12 verse 28. Matthew chapter 12 verse 28. She said, but if I cast out demons by the spirit of God surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Amen. Thank you. So here Jesus meaning to say that here is the evidence that I'm proclaiming to you. The kingdom is here is evidence. What is the evidence that the kingdom of God is here? And so he's saying the evidence is by me casting out demons. The evidence is here by me casting out devils and how do I cast out these demons and devils is I'm casting it out by the spirit of God. What Jesus is basically meaning to say is the powers of darkness are being destroyed because of the work of the Holy Spirit and he said this is the evidence that the kingdom of God is here. So the main evidence that Jesus is giving that the kingdom of God is here is that the powers of darkness are being destroyed through the work of the Spirit and the evidence is through science wonders and miracles.  In Matthew chapter 10 verse 1 he says he called his disciples and he gave them power over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal all sickness and all disease. And then the same chapter in Matthew chapter 10 verse 7 he commands them he says you know go preach saying that the kingdom of heaven is at hand heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead cast out devils freely you have received freely give. So we see that Jesus not only spoke or taught regarding the kingdom of God he not only just you know dialogue with them regarding the kingdom of God he not only just shared stories parables regarding the kingdom of God but he also did science miracles and wonders and he says these science miracles and wonders are evidence that the kingdom of God is there in there midst that the kingdom of God has come and you know Matthew chapter 12 verse 28 he says you know if by the spirit of God I cast out there was then the kingdom of God has come to you. So he's he's not pointing out to his teaching he's not pointing out to his you know the parables that he's telling them the stories that he's telling them but what is he pointing out as an evidence that the kingdom of God has come is that he's pointing out that the powers of darkness have been destroyed because of the work of the Holy Spirit says this is the evidence that the kingdom of God is here and he's he's showing it he's showing the evidence to science wonders and miracles and he's asking his disciples even to do the same thing you know he calls them and he gives them power over unclean spirits to cast them out and to heal every kind of sickness and disease and he also commands them to go and preach and teach that the kingdom of God is at hand and he doesn't just stop that it doesn't just say preach and teach but he also says you know heal the sick raise the dead cleanse the lepers and he tells his disciples to do that so you know he's telling his disciples I want you to go and tell the people about the kingdom of heaven that the kingdom of heaven is here and what else you should do is you should accompany it by science miracles and wonders so he says when you go about proclaiming the kingdom of God you know heal the sick cleanse the lepers raise the dead and cast out devils and he says do this as a means of proclaiming that the kingdom of God is here you know do this as a means of proclaiming that the kingdom of God comes with power that the kingdom of God comes with a demonstration of kingdom authority and kingdom dominion so when Jesus says you know I cast out demons by the Spirit of God and he's saying it's the the work of the Holy Spirit he's saying that you know the kingdom of God is come here in your midst and proclaiming it and it's coming with power it's coming with the demonstration of kingdom authority and kingdom dominion is because of the power of the Holy Spirit that is being manifested in and through my life so you know he he wants people to know that the kingdom of God is is is also demonstration of kingdom authority and kingdom power and it is through the work of the Holy Spirit and Jesus you know not only intended that for his disciples but Jesus also intends that for you and me the same thing that he told his disciples you know two thousand years back he intends the same thing for us in our own generation and in the generations to come so look at what he told his disciples in Matthew chapter 28 verse 19 can somebody read that please Matthew chapter 28 verse 19 28 verse 19 it's it reads so therefore go and make disciples of all nations baptize them in the name of father son and the Holy Spirit yeah and you can read the 20 verse 20 as well and and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age amen thank you prince so here we read and we see that you know Jesus says telling his disciples you know this is a great commission is giving them he says go and make disciples of all nations and then he says I want you to teach them okay I want you to teach them because you have been taught by me you know you have learned from me and I want you to teach your disciples to observe everything or to observe all things that I have taught you okay so Jesus is saying just like I have taught you I want you to teach the disciples and that goes on through the generations because it is the great commission you know so what did Jesus teach them he taught them to you know to proclaim that the kingdom of God is here and how did he teach them to proclaim that the kingdom of God is here to heal the sick to cleanse the lepers to raise the dead and to cast out demons okay to cast out devils so he's saying this is what I talked to you this is what I'm asked I've taught you to do this is what I've asked you to proclaim about the kingdom of God and I want you to you know teach this to the disciples I want you to observe all things I wanted to teach all things so he's saying you know I want you disciples to teach your disciples to do the same thing that I have done that I have taught you okay and you know I believe that Jesus also wants you and me to do the same thing in our day even as we proclaim the kingdom of God even as we you know preach and teach the kingdom of God even as we bring about the kingdom of God into our circumstances into our environments he wants the kingdom of God to not be something that is just spoken about and thought but also a kingdom of demonstration of his kingdom authority and his kingdom power okay and this is what he wants you and me to do so now you know here's the deal you can say well how can I do that okay it's okay with Jesus he could he could do it because he's the son of God it's okay with the apostles it's okay with the early church but you know who am I you know so who are you you are and who are you or who am I is that we are a head of God we are joint hairs with Jesus Christ and we see that you know this was God's original intent this was God's original plan that he had we read this in Matthew chapter 25 verse 34 can somebody read that please Matthew chapter 25 verse 34 Matthew chapter 25 verse 34 then the king will say to those on his right hand come you're blessed of my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world amen so Jesus you know here he's talking about the story when he separates the the sheep from the goats and he's saying you know he tells us that come you blessed inherit the kingdom that was prepared for you before the foundation of the world so you know we read this in Matthew chapter 25 verse 34 you know when we even began the series with that verse you know it was God's intent to have a kingdom you know even before we started this whole study about the kingdom of God we looked at how it was God's original plan his original intent to have a kingdom he taught about this even before you know he created the world even before the foundations of the world came into being into existence God had this intent he had this plan he had this purpose in his heart in his mind where his people would inherit his kingdom meaning that you know we would be heirs of God and we would be co-heirs with Jesus Christ in that kingdom okay so today as a child of God you know we read in Romans chapter 8 verses 16 and 17 it says that you know God has sent his spirit into our hearts and therefore we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ so each one of us are a heir in his kingdom we inherit that kingdom because we are his sons and daughters and even as we inherit that kingdom you know it's not something that we just enjoy the privileges enjoy the blessings but it is also a responsibility and because it's a responsibility you know we has given us the authority his authority his life his dominion his power just flows in and through our lives to invade the sphere of influence that he has placed us into to invade to influence to impact the environment that he has put us in so that we can bring about his kingdom reign his kingdom fool in his kingdom presence so today as children of God you know you and I are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus can somebody please read Romans chapter 8 verses 16 and 17 please Romans 8 16 and 17 Romans chapter 8 verse 16 and 17 the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and if children then heirs heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ if indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together but icons yeah that's 16 and 17 thank you thank you Anand so here we see that God has sent his spirit into our hearts and you know his the spirit of God in our hearts attest that we are children of God that we are sons of God that we are heirs of God and that we are joint heirs with Jesus Christ so kingdom authority has been vested upon each one of us because we are a heirs of God the authority of God the authority of the king of the kingdom is flowing in and through each one of us as people who are inheritors of his kingdom as as people who are children sons and daughters of the king of this kingdom as people who are heirs with God and co-heirs with Jesus Christ now to understand this you know when we look at a policeman who is you know standing on the road you know when he raises his hand what happens you know traffic stops most of the time you know some people always like to go past that as well but you know traffic stops most of the time now if you look at it you know the traffic police has no inherent ability to by himself you know stop running or a moving car but if he just comes in the if he gets in the way he'll probably get run over it but when he stands aside and when he just raises hand you know the car just stops why because you know he's he's wearing his uniform he is he is in the place of authority that has been vested upon him by the government and so the the person who is driving the car has to automatically stop but if he tries to come you know when the car is is you know on the road and is is moving and if he just comes in the way then you know he can be run over he can be hurt he can come under the vehicle but if he just stands at the distance and he just raises his hand and he you know he does this you know the traffic has to stop the car has to stop but even if the car is speeding the car will go a little ahead and you know will have to stop otherwise the person knows that you know he'll be fine he'll get the ticket he'll have to pay a fine so why does the person stop the car is because they've seen this this policeman in his uniform and he knows they know that he has the authority because it has been vested upon him in the same way it's in in the spiritual realm okay so you and I might think we are very insignificant we are very small you know we don't think highly of ourselves we might not be having a big name we are not even a pastor or an apostle or an evangelist so to say or a missionary we're just an ordinary believer a born-again believer who loves the Lord but you know we need to know that whoever we are if we have accepted Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior you know if we are born again we are part of the kingdom of God we are sons and daughters of the kingdom of God we are a heirs with God and co-heirs with Christ Jesus and irrespective of you know our titles our positions where we are in life you know whether we have a big name or not whether we have a standing and influence whatever we need to know that there is kingdom authority that is vested in our lives in each one of our lives each one of us are vested with kingdom authority because we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus Christ okay so you know it's time for us to you know be like those policemen to raise up our hand to use the authority with humility that God has given to us or we can choose to be like the policemen you know at the traffic signal just seeing people violating the traffic laws the traffic rules and you know he doesn't do anything about it he just stands there he just looks you know he just says okay you do what you want I'm not bothered you know I'm just paid for I just want to get my pay slip or my paycheck and so I'm just going to be standing here because they posted me here and I'm tired and I just don't want to do anything with the traffic y'all do what you want you know so we can choose to be a policeman like that you know who's seeing the traffic rules being violated the traffic laws being violated and we can just turn to the other side and pretend you know nothing happened you know or we can be the policeman who sees that there has been a violation we raise up my hand we stop we bring about justice we bring about enforcement of the rules and we teach people what needs to be done and how they need to practice those rules so you know you need you will each one of us has to decide what kind of policemen that we want to be whether we want to use the kingdom authority that has been bested upon our lives or just pretend that you know let people do what they want live how they want you know as far as I'm going to heaven as I as far as I'm going to see the Lord Jesus Christ and I'm going to live in eternity with him what does it matter for me what other people are doing well that is a sad approach to take a sad mindset to have but you know we need to be those kind of policemen who say you know say excuse me there has been a violation you know and I'm going to use my authority that has been bested to ensure that you know the rules are being followed if you look at our church today you know sadly we see that there are you know many of them who are born again their hares of God though they are part of the kingdom of God you know they just prefer to be like the policemen who prefer to turn aside turn away pretend that it has been no violation and they go on and we need to change that you know we need to be a church we need to be a generation that says you know what you know we are part of the kingdom of God I know that the almighty God has made me an heir and there is kingdom authority that's flowing through my life and it's time that I raise up my hand and I stop what the devil is doing you know I stop the work of the deeds of the evil one I nullify it I cancel it because he's already rendered as somebody who's defeated he's a defeated four he has no power he has no authority because all power and authority has been stripped of him and I am going to stop him I'm going to stop the devil because we looked at in chapter one that you know the church has to advance against the gates of hell it's not the gates of hell that comes against the church but it's the it's the church that advance against that against the gates of hell that means it's a church that goes against or goes behind the forces of darkness the dark places and it's bringing light it's bringing God's kingdom rule kingdom activity kingdom presence in those places so it is we who need to advance we just can't say okay our church is doing well there is peace there's unity there's oneness hallelujah everything is fine you know we just go and worship and come back no it's it's there is darkness there is forces of darkness that is working in the in the workplace in our families in our localities in our city in our nation we need to know what it is and as a church we need to advance we need to raise up our hands and stop what the devil is doing because he's on a rampage he's allowed to steal kill and destroy and we can't say that hey it's not with me it's not with my family we are safe but we need to advance against the the gates of hell and we need to stop what the devil is doing and we need to come against him because we have been given kingdom authority okay now why did god best that authority in our lives why did god give us kingdom authority kingdom power kingdom dominion so that you know you and i can bring his kingdom here into this world you know god will never do that for us we've got to do it he has entrusted that to us he has called us and he has given us this responsibility you know he will never do that for us it's what we need to do so the reason why you and i have authority is you know because because of our position you know it's a positional authority who we are in christ as we read in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 4 to 6 can somebody read that please Ephesians chapter 2 verses 4 to 6 Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4 to 6 but god who is rich in mercy because of his great love with which he loved us even when we are dead in trespasses made us alive together with christ by grace you have been saved okay thank you so it says that god has raised us up together with christ and he has made us to stick together at his right hand in heavenly places okay so this is actually our you know this the our spiritual identification who we are in christ and paul talks about this in roman chapter 6 he says that you know we spiritually are baptized as you know our spiritual the spiritual truth our spiritual identification is that we are you know dead buried resurrected you know ascended and seated at the right hand of god this is our spirit this is the spiritual truth this is our spiritual identification that we have and as a result of us being you know seated at the right hand of god which is our a spiritual identification we identify this spiritually not just not physically but the spiritual identification is saying that you know we are seated at the right hand of god in heavenly places so as a believer we are seated in a position of higher authority that is at the right hand of the father and this is you know the highest place of authority there this there cannot be another better place on another better seat or a position that you and i can be given rather than the right hand of god and that is where we are this is our our spiritual identification the spiritual truth who we are in christ that we are seated at the right hand of god and and what does that mean it means that even as we see to the right hand of god everything is under our feet okay or we'll stop here it's time for our break and we'll come back and continue with this after the break thank you everyone we'll see you after the break


Ignatius of Loyola defined the aim of discernment as finding God in all things in order that we might love and serve God in all. God is so much bigger than the boxes we try to keep him in. He is infinite. His ways are not our ways and his thoughts are not our thoughts. He is other though we are made in his image and this infinite God is truth. So of course finite humans are not capable of fully knowing him this side of eternity. That's not to say that we cannot know God or truth at all, just that we cannot know him completely. He is too wild and big and great and wonderful for any box to hold and I thank God that he will not be contained.


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