Welcome back to the Trade Hacker Mindset. In this episode, I want to talk to you about how you react when the market changes. Trading the markets can be difficult to master and seemingly just out of reach. Professional traders have a secret.  It requires the Trade Hacker Mindset. Alright, so let's jump into this topic of how you react when the market changes. By the way, if you hear a little bit of background noise, I am driving right now, but I had a couple of thoughts that I wanted to just talk to my trade hackers about. So how do you react when the market changes? At the time of this recording, it is January 25th, 2022. And we are in the midst of what has currently been a little bit of a mini crash in the market. I think the S&P is off of its highs from late last year of about 12 percent. Nasdaq was as low at one point as 19 percent off. So definitely a little bit of correction territory as the media would call it. Now, what's the main culprit of this downside move in stocks? Well, number one, there is a lot of stocks that were way, way, way overpriced. Okay, so let's just start there. I mean, some of these multiples of revenue and sales were just astronomical. The price to earnings ratios were just out of control to begin with. Okay, so part of this is simply profit taking. Some of this is just the market correcting itself back to pricing levels and a lot of stocks of where they should actually be anyway. But the main kind of headlines that you're going to be seeing right now are, it's all about the Fed and it's all about inflation. Now, you've heard the term don't fight the Fed, right? Whatever the kind of the mood or the momentum or the tone of the Fed is can be kind of where the market goes in, you know, from a directional standpoint. Now, I don't necessarily follow that logic. However, you can't ignore the fact that for the last, gosh, I don't know how many years the Fed has been extremely, extremely dovish, meaning they have provided unheard of amounts of stimulus to the economy. They have continued to drop and keep the overnight bank rates at or near zero. Okay, for an extended period of time. And the reality is we knew that wasn't going to last forever. But when and how fast was that going to change? Well, we obviously are in a situation of where we are in hyperinflation. Meaning, and this is not based on government released data or anything like that. It's simply you go to the grocery store, you're paying a lot more for food. Anything that you go to buy, you are paying a significant premium on compared to what you were six months, 12 months, 18 months ago. So, you know, the consumers are feeling that for sure. And the Fed, while they were consistently saying that this inflation was in their words transitory, meaning temporary, they finally killed that word and decided they weren't going to use that anymore. And so that was part of it. And then in their next follow up meeting, they admitted that inflation was beyond the scope of what they had originally thought based on data that's coming out. Unemployment, CPI reports, all that all the stuff that they that they track and monitor. So they there has definitely been an overall shift in the in the in the tone of of the Fed and they and how they are reacting to this data. So previously, they were continuing to keep rates low, no interest rate increases. They were tapering their bond buybacks and all that stuff that's been going on for for years. Okay, so they're changing their whole shift and saying there may be interest rate hikes three, four, five different interest rate hikes in 2022. So this is a big change from what it's been. And so my question that I asked at the beginning, how do you react to market changes? And the reason I ask that is because with the significant drop that we've seen in the market just over the last few weeks, are you still trying to implement the same strategies or the same methodology in the market now as you were a month ago? Because if you are and if you're not if you're not adapting to the current market, then it's most likely causing you frustration. It's most likely it could be causing you pain in the form of losses. It could be causing a number number of issues in your trading because the shift has happened. Now, the FOMC comes out and meets tomorrow, which is on January 26th. That will be you'll be hearing this podcast after the fact. But here is my personal assumption of what's going to happen if the Fed comes out and they back off of their aggressive hawkish acceleration of interest rates and all that stuff. If they back off of that because of what's happened in the market and the market does rally, I would be very cautious about viewing that as the continuation of this massive bull run that we've been in. In fact, I'm taking the opposite approach. If we do see a little run up a little rally in stocks, I'm looking that as an opportunity to reload some shorts. I don't think that we're out of the woods yet. I think we're going to see some more downside. That's just a personal assumption based on my view of the markets at this point from a directional perspective. But what else has changed about the market? Not only has the market gone down, we've seen almost since the COVID crash that any little dip in the market could be bought because every time the market dipped just a little bit, it ripped back up to new all-time highs. It might dip down a little bit, but then it ripped back to new all-time highs. If you are using that same buy the dip strategy in this market, you're probably getting crushed right now because the dip has not bounced. The dip is still dipping and the dip can dip even longer. If that was your main strategy was buying the dip, which a lot of people had been doing, and a lot of people had been doing well doing that, you've got to change your methodology. You've got to adapt to the current marketplace. I would eventually say almost even the opposite. Instead of buying every dip, I think every rally right now, at least in the short term, could be looked at as a shorting opportunity. That's from a directional standpoint. By the way, we just did another live class on our navigation trend trading methodology. If you have not checked that out, make sure you do. It's so powerful. It will keep you on the right side of the market by just simply following the rules that we have laid out within the strategy course. With my navigation trend trading trades, not if I only avoided getting hurt in this big downturn, but I've cashed in significantly by simply just following the rules of the trend trading system. That's number one. Number two, not only has the market coming down, not only has that made you need to shift your mindset around directional trading, but what else happens when the market sells off? Well, implied volatility, if you're an options trader, implied volatility has gone through the roof. Stocks come down, fear is now, there's fear, there's uncertainty in the marketplace, and so implied volatility in a lot of stocks and the indices has literally gone through the roof. Previously, when we're just grinding higher, buying the depth of grinding higher, and implied volatility is relatively low, we had one strategy or one overall big picture mindset about trading the market. Now with implied volatility going through the roof, we've shifted what we're doing in with a lot of our trades, and we're selling more premium, because what happens when you sell premium when implied volatility is high? Well, implied volatility is mean reverting. So when it contracts, we're going to benefit from those premium selling type strategies. Now that could be iron ducks, that could be short strangles, that could be iron condors. There's a lot of different premium selling type strategies, they're shorting VXX using options and some different strategies that we utilize, but the point is not to talk about specific strategies on this podcast, the point is for you to have the mental tools and the mental awareness to be able to shift how you approach the market when the market has changed.  Well, I'm not so sure it's going to bounce back so quickly this time. I'm not saying that the market is going to continue crashing to the downside, but we're certainly going to see a lot more two-sided action. And I don't think anytime soon you're going to see the stock indices ripping to new all-time highs. And so take a look at where your positions are. If you're underwater on some positions, I'm not telling you what to do with those positions, but if you're trying to hold on to those positions to make back what you've lost, you may also want to consider cutting those and re-establishing your new game plan for the rest of 2022. Because the quickest way, if you're underwater on some positions, the quickest way to make that money back may not be with that particular trade. The way to make that money back may be recalculating, re-evaluating, and kind of creating a new mindset, a new methodology to benefit in the current marketplace that could get you back to where you need to be quicker than trying to just hold on and hope that those losing positions that you held on to are going to come back. You see, the market is a very tricky animal. Just when you start to get comfortable in a strategy that you think, oh, this just keeps working over and over and over, it completely shifts into a market where that particular strategy will not work. And if you do not adapt to that shift in the market, then what works for you at one point and it doesn't work for you now is going to cause some serious anxiety, some serious frustration, and some serious losses in your account. So make sure you adjust if you want to be part of a community that helps with these kinds of situations. We have 16 different strategy classes that we implore at navigation trading. And if you want to understand what market environment to use certain strategies in, just go to community.navigationtrading.com. It's free to join. We do have a paid membership as well.  But if you want to just check it out, go to the community, check it out, interact with some of our other members. It's a great community. All everybody is there to help each other become better traders. I hope to see you on the inside and I will see you in the next episode.


The script sack that you got against the Chiefs on Sunday. Was that kind of a feeling that maybe you're on your way back, that you're feeling like yourself again? Yeah, just steps at a time. You start, I started to feel a little bit better. And each aspect of it, each week I started to feel better, just about how my knee responds and stuff. And that's the good thing about it, just continuing to play the amount of time I'm going to feel and continue to rehab. So it helps out a lot. Was there a particular launching point where you felt, okay, you know what, I think I am cool? Because remember how you said that you thought you went a little bit too early?  So a couple of those things, it's going to take a while too. Like the bending and stuff like that, it's just part of it.  That's part of rehab too. Taking a couple of plays off is a part of rehab too as well. So I got to make sure my body is being able to keep up with the workload that I'm doing. But not getting my knee too sore and not hurting it any worse. That's the key to it, to keep it for the long run. What do you think your explosiveness level is like now compared to maybe when you're first starting off and week one? Yeah, I mean, just thinking about it, like I said earlier, about that first time, being able to just not feel it when you're exploding. That's the main thing you look for. I'm better when I continue to get better each week. I just got to make sure that I'm still just trusting the process and continuing to go. With all the other guys who suffered the same injuries, did you talk like Nick Bolso or any of those guys about the process? Yeah, see, the difference between them guys, they were hitting me on injury-wise when it happened. So yeah, but during the process, talked to a lot of those guys, him, Joey too, Arnborough as well. So man, a lot of those people, we was in the same feeling.  Well, really in the same season, it just makes you feel that for that player. You know what they went through. They went through it first and I went through it too. So they know how that process was at the time. Do you recall anything that Bolso may have told you? Especially when you guys play in the same position. Yeah, same position, man. They'll just work hard and just try to get back going. And I'm happy to see him looking more healthy. You know, as the season goes on as well, it's a great for him. Earlier this year, about sort of one of the reasons why you wanted to get out there was sort of the expectations, you know, new team and so forth.  You don't have to worry about that. Yeah, that's part of it, man. I know I'm going to get sacks. I just got to make sure my mentally I'm ready and physically I'm ready. The sack's going to come. That's just part of football, you know, working hard. I work hard and I'll see him work hard during the season. So those are going to come. But, you know, the feeling of how I feel on the field is more important because, you know, that translates to you being able to play good, play explosive and play fast. What did you get back here when you came here? I just had one more on that scene. I was talking the other day about, he said, when you're around him, now you can feel a little bit of energy around you. So I think you used the word mojo that he felt like your mojo was there a little bit.  Yeah, man, I'm a real energetic player. I try to bring juice for the guys, man. You know, this is a business, but it's a game as well. You know, we've been playing this, so we say we were like five. I've been playing since I was six, five, six years old. So, you know, a lot of guys have been doing the same thing. You know, it was our way of overcoming obstacles of how we were brought up, getting our family to a different situation, you know, putting our family for generations to come so we can be successful. And, you know, sometimes we get lost in that and don't remember that it's supposed to be fun. It's supposed to be a game. So, you know, energy that I have is always trying to keep my mind for that reason, like to have mojo have swag on the field. That's what it was to look like.  And that made people want to watch a team, want to watch a game. Then it just gets people talking about you, paying attention more than you can showcase your talents. So, you know, we're going in the right direction and, you know, Shane and Crowe, they're doing a great job on that side of the ball, you know, preparing us for everything. So, you know, it was just fun to be a part of this organization right now and continue to grow. What do you think about Harold when you first got here and how cool has it been to see him develop and have the success he's had? Yeah, man, I knew Harold just from playing in the AFC, playing in the Titans a couple of times. And, you know, Harold always been a good rusher. And, you know, they had a, he's been playing with a lot of different players on the team, what he's been the whole time. So he's been the longest him in KB, probably with the coaches. And even up front, he's the oldest, well, he's the one who's been with this set of coaches for the longest period of time. Jeff got here after him.  What's it like for you?  What's it like for you in a new division learning the rivals, facing the Colts for the second time this year and kind of knowing what those teams are about, that you're facing? Definitely, you know, it's just like when you go, no, it's just like when you get to leave for the first time, you know, you have to figure out, you know, you used to being in college who your rivals are, but then get to the NFL. You got to figure out, you got to swap your mindset over to a whole different team. Like, all right, who do we don't like, who we want to play, who is considered our rival, who's going to have the most juice when they come play us. You know, and pit for a while, it was since the end in Baltimore. And here, you know, we're still trying to figure out, but it's still Andy and Houston and a lot of those guys, you know, those games be very, very intense when we guys are playing. And so, you know, this is always one of those games where they're going to give us the best shot and we got to go make sure we give us our best shot.  They going, they know what they're doing. They going just like we do. They going to stick it to you. They going to run, they got great backs. They got the super, they got the super guard. You know, they trying to run in, running ball down your throat to get the game going. So, you know, they take pride in it. You know, we, and we got to be up for the challenge. What were some of the things you did? You mentioned how important football is and how like it's therapeutic, so to speak. So, when it was taken away from going that whole recovery time, what did you do to clear your mind and pass your time?  That's the hardest thing it is, not being in the environment, in the locker room, not being on the field. Just watching practice ain't the same as being in the, watching practice ain't, never going to be the same as being in practice. I don't care how much you don't like practice, but it's always fun to be out there with the guys and, you know, getting better, correct the mistakes, knowing what's going on, and that way you can feel like you're ready and mentally stable in the time for the game. So, what did you do at home? Man, I ain't doing nothing. I was just trying to see what I could do to get back, trying to rush it, man. That's what I did. But it ain't nothing you really can do that's going to make your mind ease up besides if you got other stuff going on, but like business stuff going on. But, you know, that only lasts for so long. To keep you occupied, you want to get back on the field.


The XFL has announced the city's AJ. All but three are the same from the previous XFL run, which obviously derailed whenever COVID got in a nachos of the Seattle team. That's right. Remember that? They were having, they were having a million plus, million plus viewers. Spring League was going to have success. Then uncle COVID came through, got in nachos in Seattle, league got shut down, bankruptcy was filed, in the rock and Danny Garcia bought it. They hired notable and very famous head coaches, and they kept a lot of the same exact fan bases, which I think was a very smart idea. Eight teams, Seattle, Vegas, St. Louis, the Battle Hawks, back San Antonio, Arlington, Houston, DC and Orlando. They got a great set of coaches. They got a TV deal. What if the XFL goes AJ? What if the XFL goes? I hope it does.


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Today, I am going to take a very brief session on summary writing. So, summarizing your work for two different audience. One is a pure abstract, which is an abstract which goes part of your report, which goes part of your thesis or a journal article. That abstract is for a technical audience who are your peers. They are peers, so they know broadly at least they are science educated or they are in your discipline, your department discipline. That is one group. The second group is general audience. So, science writing for general audience. These are the two topics I am going to take quickly now. So, summarizing technical. So, why is abstract important? You all know because abstract is one thing which is read after the title and abstract is free. All the abstracts are free to be downloaded. So, if you have to capture an audience or if you have to get your abstract up in a search engine, you have to be clearly conveying what the message is. So, somebody reads it, they should feel the need to download the paper and read it in detail. So, an abstract is in short a complete paper written in a short form. Complete paper. I will tell you why complete it is. So, just as we said yesterday that you have to write two iterations of the introduction one for yourself and one for the actual audience. Abstract also you write twice. One as a guiding draft for yourself. So, abstract that you write will actually be a shortened paper. I will show you how it will be a shortened paper and then finally for the readers. How does abstract? So, this is the structure of the paper which we saw before. A paper begins with an introduction, the background, then there is a problem, then the results and discussion, then then conclusions. This is the overall paper that is what it contains. Correct? An abstract should contain almost all of this. A general abstract should contain almost all of this except they are just in one line or two lines. For example, it could be one or two sentences of the introduction or to the field. So, this line when you say it is a basic introduction, it means that anybody who has a reasonable knowledge in science or engineering should be able to understand. Anybody like for example, I will take an example here. There are people from electrical, mechanical, basic sciences and humanities. Now, if you all of them are educated in science at least up to school level and most of them are in their undergraduate also they have taken science. So, the first opening line should be understandable by this audience. So, that is this broad picture that I have shown. So, begin with any scientist or engineer can understand. Then two or three lines which is expanding on that introduction, somebody in your department can understand. It is not everybody in your college, but somebody in electrical department. You are in electrical, somebody in electrical department should understand. So, that comes a little bit background, detailed background. After that in one statement state the problem which is the question. What is the question you are addressing? You have given the background information. What is the question that you are addressing in one line? This line may not be understood by everybody not necessarily people in your department. Mostly people in your area that particular area only will be able to understand. So, that becomes a specific question that you are addressing in that topic. It should not be general or anybody should understand no. That should be understood and appreciated only by the person in that discipline. Then one line following it the answer the question and an answer. What is the main result that you got which answers the question you started off with? That is all. This core thing is just one center. The center part is just the problem and the result is one of them. Then comes expansion of the result. So, you started off wide and narrowed down to the problem. It is like started off with your university, came to your department, came to a specific area that is the problem. You found the result. Then you have to expand back in a similar way. What does this result imply? What was expected previously that made this result different? Did you expect something else? Did people expect something else that made it different? That is one thing and then expanded to something which in a general context. So, what does it imply to your department? That is your discipline. What does that result imply to your discipline? The last sentence is what does it imply to general science? You start with general science, department, specific area, result, department, general science. This is how an abstract is also structured. So, this is taken from the magazine, science magazine nature which has got this specs. I have slightly modified it to expand because nature is again little bit specific. It is not very general. So, I have just slightly modified that. So, but by and large it is that. One suggested activity which we will do later is we will share some material with you. In that material we will ask you, I mean ask the participants to identify which is the introduction statement, which is the problem, which is the result, what is the implication and so on. So, we will give some of these things and ask the people to identify. So, maybe we will have 2 or 3 papers so that you can distribute to different people from different disciplines and they can identify that. The other detail assignment that we will give is ask them to read a paper. So, since now we are dealing with mature people who are already done their PhD or doing the PhD, they will be able to appreciate what a journal article is. They will read any journal article and then ask them to rewrite the abstract. That is one activity we will do. But how do you use this for your students, particularly the undergraduate students? What you should do is you give them simple articles in which they understand. There may be simple detailed research articles like articles that come in popular science magazines. In India we have the sadhana, you have current science. Current science is little heavy, but sadhana and similar magazines have articles which is a resonance for example. All these things have articles which is understood by even undergraduate students. So, you can ask them to rewrite. So, this reading a paper and rewriting the abstract will actually help them to rewrite in this structure, the structure which I showed. So, this will actually help them to write the abstract for any work they are doing. So, this is some exercise which we will do in December. Synopsis has to be submitted before you are submitting the... Yes. Yes. So, are you including that particular part in some... No, so synopsis again... In some cases it is called as a summary. Correct. In some cases it is called as a synopsis. So, synopsis we not had dealing separately because it is extended of whatever I told you now. It is instead of having one or two lines you have few paragraphs of all of those things. They have to expect it to write down chapter wise, what are the chapter... Correct. Your PhD thesis. So, that is why I am expecting what is to be written when you are expecting that chapter wise you have to write summary. Then what is to be written? Right, the answer to your question is no, we do not, we are not doing it in this course because we thought we should not specifically target only research audience. Some of the things which I told is applicable to both research as well as people who are writing normal project reports. Even project reports need a summary. Then project reports need a proper organizing of matter. Synopsis, extended abstract, all these things is usually only for research audience and we did not want to specifically target only them. Although you are right that it is important for them. Okay, so do you want to take quick questions on this abstract writing anything? If we give an exercise for abstract writing, I provided some model to them. If you ask them to rewrite what will they do already it is very good. No, no, so there are two levels. The first thing is that the exercise which we will give them because when they are doing it for the first time, even identifying which line corresponds to an introduction, which is a problem statement, which is a result, which is an implication is not easy for the first time people. The best level we can ask them to identify these things. And then when I am asking them to rewrite I am not going to do it for something abstract is already well written. Something in which it is not so well written and not all abstracts need to follow this. Very specific journals they will not have the general broad introduction. They will already start at the problem statement. They need not start at the broad as I said institute wide, department wise and so on. So some of them will directly start at the problem statement. So if you take articles like that and ask them to read and rewrite, but ask them to rewrite as though they are doing the whole thing. So that will definitely be your exercise which they cannot simply copy from the existing abstract. So will you be giving or me ask you something? We will suggest one or two from our side. It will be nice if you can find out something because you will know ultimately who are the people who are coming. Suppose in your area there are only people who are coming only in English literature. So maybe the what we give may not be so interesting. We will try to find maybe one from, we will give one from humanities, one from as I did this time. One from humanities, one from electrical sciences, one from mechanical sciences. Mechanical and basic sciences one, electrical one and maybe biological sciences one. So we will have four articles which we will be using throughout for different exercises. Yeah, so keywords as I said I stressed yesterday but I did not have a lot of time to elaborate on that. In the detail lecture I will be elaborating on the keywords part that it has to be, the keywords has to come in the abstract, it has to come in the introduction, title everywhere consistently. This is what I point I made yesterday.


So, this is part 2, I am going to continue with you know 45 points of counseling non-PDF. Now comes the latching, ok. So, let us see what happens in latching, latching the baby's attachment to significant portion of lower part of the area is called latching, ok.  So, many times what happens now, I have seen in the field that a lot of mothers tend to open baby's mouth by putting finger in the mouth, and they will try to do something to open the mouth. They do not have patience, so this is not recommended at all, you do not want to put finger in the mouth and open baby's, baby will clench further, so what you need to do is to you ask the mother to kind of brush the nipple against the nipple. So, here in this position what is happening, baby's upper lip is basically brushed against the nipple, ok, and then as soon as baby opens the mouth, you know, you tell the mother to be ready, ok. So, here what is happening again, I will show you on, I will demonstrate to you, ok. Here baby is ready now to feed, ok, baby's mother is holding the breast properly, ok, and what she is doing, she is basically brushing the upper lip of the baby on the nipple, it takes sometime maybe 3 minutes, 4 minutes to baby to open the mouth, tell her that she has to wait good at least 3 to 5 minutes, you know, for baby to open the mouth, and how much mouth opening should be there, which I have mentioned over here, should be between 120 to 160 degree, minimum 120 degree, ok, so if she does not wait, and if she immediately poach the baby, there will be only nipple latch, ok, so tell her to wait till and the way I explain to mother, I tell her that, ok, if I make a big sandwich for you, how are you going to open your mouth? And she, most of the time she opens, she shows like, it should be this big, ok, so that's how I tell her that, ok, you wait till baby opens a big mouth, because there is a big, you know, breast which is ready to go in baby's mouth, so she has to, baby has to open the big mouth, right, so this is how I explain, so that is important, another thing which is very important, you tell mother to be ready, because if she is ready, she will be immediately able to push that breast in baby's mouth, ok, and then, because it takes just fraction of a second for baby to keep that mouth open, and within that couple of fraction, if she doesn't push that baby into the breast, you know, baby will immediately close the mouth, ok, so tell her to be ready, and it's like, it's like that she need to have a very good reflex, as soon as the baby opens the mouth, just push the baby in the breast, ok, that's important, you must practice all this thing, you know, in the world, or wherever you are, so that, you know, you know, like, how, what it takes to have a good attachment, ok, so you practice first, and then basically teach mother's, ok, so here, your 26th point is, when the baby opens his mouth between 120 to 160 degree wide, the mother should put the lower part of the area of her breast inside the baby's mouth, ok, this can take around 2 to 3 minutes, but it is important to wait until the baby opens his mouth widely, in a hurry, if the mother tries to put the area into baby's mouth, which is not widely open yet, the baby will only attach to nipple, and will not get enough milk while breastfeeding, ok, and one more thing you want to tell her, that try it for just about 8 to 10 minutes, and if she's baby's not opening the mouth, that means baby's not hungry, you put the baby down, ok, baby's not hungry, or there's some other issues, but you don't want to force feed the baby, ok, the baby's not opening the mouth for say 8 to 10 minutes, just let baby sleep, ok, so that's, this is important, ok, now another point which is important, the baby's upper lip should be a little above mother's nipple, ok, so this, this one, this upper lip should be just above the nipple, ok, the lower lip should be at the edge of the areola, so let's focus what's going on, baby's upper lip should be little above mother's nipple, baby's lower lip should be at the border of the areola, if the mother's areola is small, then the baby's lower lip will be beyond the border of the areola, this is correct and deep attachment of baby's breast, so this means that, you know, if the areola is big, then the upper lip should be just above the nipple, ok, so the upper lip will be just over here, ok, and the lower lip will be at the border of the areola and the breast, but if areola is say very small, ok, so in that case basically baby will have a full areola in the mouth, but the lower, lower lip will be on the breast, ok, so you make sure there is a asymmetrical latch, this is called asymmetrical latch, ok, so here what is happening, your upper areola is visible, lower, lower areola goes into baby's mouth, ok, so this is important, ok, the baby's lower lip should be curled in an outward direction, this is part of your WHO criteria, ok, you want to make sure that both lips, especially lower lip is curled outside, not inside, because when baby's, you know, the lips are curled inside, baby will not be able to suck, ok, baby's lip and chin should be completely embedded into mother's breast, so this is one more important point which I feel very, very strongly about, ok, because what is happening that, you know, when we are only focusing on the chin going into the breast and not lips, many times, you know, baby's don't have deep attachment, ok, so just in how I had explained to you that we need to do press, compress, release for expression of milk, you know, like press, compress, release, so similarly I want you to understand what this is press, so if baby is basically kind of brought very close to the mother and baby's, you know, head is pressed in the breast, ok, so that, that pressing will kind of, will ensure that baby is latching on to the deeper part of the collecting duct and will be able to kind of suck out a lot of milk, ok, so this, this is, this is very important that you make sure that you tell the mother once, you know, once a latching is done, you tell the mother to take the baby and push it into the breast, so that the breast is kind of pressed a little bit inside, ok, so that the lips are not visible and the chin is not visible, both lips and chin should not be visible, ok, if the lips are visible that means it's still very far, we will not get a good amount of milk transfer and if you want really good ketchup growth that pressing of lips into the breast is very, very important, ok, alright, so now you have latched the baby, ok, now what we want to do, we want to teach mothers how to see if the latching is good or not, ok, so that objective examination is very, very important because what happens many times when we teach mothers latched good or not, they, they don't look at the latch, without looking at the latch how would you know whether latch is good or not, so that objective examination is very important, I don't like some objective examination, just by looking at it you won't know whether there is a good amount of big mouth, there's good amount, you know, where is the lower lip, all these points that you need to check when you are checking the latch, ok, so the way you check the latch is basically what we're going to do is suppose mother is, you know, holding the baby, ok, and you teach mother how to check the latch, ok, and here baby is deeply attached, ok, but she has to check it whether baby is deeply attached or not, what she's going to do, she's going to basically put her fingers, ok, on the breast where the lower lip is there and she's going to press it because right now baby is so close to mother that she will not be able to see how the mouth is, where the lower lips are, so she has to press and press where the lower lip is there, ok, and then she's going to check, so over here she's going to push it over here and going to check, you know, attachment points, so what are the attachment points that she's going to see that I'll come, but let me go through this point. To check if baby is deeply attached to mother's breast, the mother should lightly press her breast upward near the baby's lower lip, then she must check whether the lower part of the relapse entirely inside baby's mouth or not, and whether baby's lower lip is curled in the outward direction or not, ok, so this is important. She must also check whether the baby's mouth is open at least 120 degrees wide or not, it is essential to check these three points, the mother must be taught to check them, ok, so one point that you want to, so there are a few points of latching that I want you to check, ok, first thing is the opening of the mouth, so when you're checking the latch you will make sure that baby's has at least 120 degree opening of mouth, ok, second point is all about lips, so first your mouth, ok, how big is the mouth, then about lips, so lips may there are two three points, one point is that the lower lip should be at the border of areola or at the breast, ok, if the areola is small. Another point about lip is that the upper lip should be just about the nipple, ok, not, it should not cover the whole upper areola, because during upper areola, this is again the concept is same, like when we eat food, we always put food at the lower jaw, we don't put food on the upper jaw, right, because with lower jaw we're going to chew, we're going to chew it, right, so we want to put the lower areola more towards the lower lip, not, you know, we don't want the upper areola going to the upper part of the lip, ok, upper part of the mouth, ok, so this is important, so it's the third point is that where is the upper lip, ok, upper lip should be on the upper lip of nipple, third point is that where should be the, how the lower lip should be called outside, so you want to just make sure that the lips are called outside and not inside, ok, and another point about basically chin and upper lip, both the lips and upper, both lips and chin is embedded into baby's mother's breast, so that is very, very important that, you know, it should be completely embedded, like for example here, if baby is coming like this, if suppose if baby has very good attachment, see here you will not be able to see the lips and the chin, ok, so baby has really good deep attachment, but deep attachment will occur only if there is a big mouth, so that big mouth opening is very, very important while you're checking the latch, ok, and the last point is basically there should be asymmetrical latch, so while you're checking you have to make sure that you're seeing the upper areola more and then lower areola, you don't see lower areola because obviously it's in the mouth, ok, so that, that one point that you want to check, so this are latching points that you want to examine, ok, once the mother confirms deep attachment, so here now what is happening is basically here mother has already checked the latch, ok, and baby has a deep attachment, ok, now what she's going to do, she's going to bring this hand, you know, behind baby's back, ok, for the support, but many times what happens, when she brings his hand back, many times she removes his hand, now if this happens, if she removes his hand, remember that baby does not have neck control for first two months, so she doesn't have neck control in first two months, baby will be able, baby will what will happen, baby will fall backward, ok, so if baby will fall backward or baby's neck fall backward then basically there'll be deep latching, ok, or the latch will become very superficial, so you want to make sure that, you know, you tell mother to keep this control of neck very, keep the control strong, she should in fact push that head in the breast, ok, will not, baby should not be falling off, and second hand she can bring it behind baby's kind of back, ok, now sometime what happens, sometime mother has very heavy breast, ok, so you want to make sure that you have a full support of the breast, so you bring that hand, ok, elbow below the breast and give the support a little bit, so you tell her to lift up the breast a little bit, because many times what happens, the breast is so heavy that baby, poor baby cannot hold the whole breast just by mouth, ok, so she will have to give support to her breast, so I do recommend pretty much in all the mothers that when she brings the hand, tell her to support her, you know, that breast with the elbow joint and lift it up a little bit, ok, so that really helps the deep attachment for the baby, so here again I'm going to go back again, once the mother confirms deep attachment of the baby to the lower part of the arula of a breast, she can release her breast from her hand and place that hand around baby's back for support, but she should not move the hand with which she's holding baby's head, if a mother has a very big or heavy breast and she releases from her hand after deep attachment, then the arula can slide out of baby's mouth, in such cases after releasing the breast from her hand, the mother can use her elbow to support her breast, so here what I'm saying is this is the elbow, so she is basically supporting her breast in that elbow joint, ok, sometime what happens that breast is so big that even this doesn't help here and basically breast tend to come out from mother's baby's mouth, ok, so in those scenarios I tell mother to keep holding the breast in a U-shape hold, but to make sure that she put some pillows under the elbow joint, so that she can basically breast feed well, and this is, you have to do this only while baby's small, when baby's little bit big, then baby will have big mouth, baby will have everything, but first couple of, I would say first couple of months she'll have to support the baby a lot, ok, and specially in low birth with babies or premature babies, you know, because babies are small, so you want to kind of give full support, you know, so that there is a good deep attachment, ok, here point number 33 is the mother should breast feed from one breast completely before offering the other breast to the baby, ok, now this part is very important because we know that the front for milk which is in front part of the breast, that milk is more watery and has protein, while the back part of that breast has lot more fat and it is very, you know, it has lipid rich, good fat, ok, so it is high in calories as well, also it has fat which has more of DHA EPA which is omega-3 fats which are very very important for brain development, ok, so we want to make sure that mother understand the importance of emptying of one breast, the way we tell them is that, you know, we want to tell mother not to judge whether breast is completed or not or breast is finished one side or not, you want to basically have equal, you know, you want to teach them objective examination not just subjective, ok, so the objective examination is very very important to kind of assess whether breast is completely emptied or not, ok, to check whether she has fed the baby from one breast completely, the mother should express milk from that breast with her hand, if the thin watery milk comes out of the breast or if there is a good flow of thick milk on expression, it means that the baby has not completely breast fed from that breast, the mother should continue breastfeeding from the same breast, so here, you know, obviously here we want to teach mother how to do milk expression, I have shown earlier also, but it's basically PCR, remember PCR, you know, breast compressed release, so you're pressing the breast against the chest, ok, backward against the chest, ok, then you're compressing and then you're releasing, you're pressing it against the chest wall, press, compress, release, so that press, compress, release and you want to make sure that your fingers are only two fingers away, not too far, because if it's too far, you know, you will not be able to express milk, if it's too close, it will only basically press on nipple and then breast milk will not come, ok, so you want to make sure that, you know, we don't have, you know, just a nipple pressing, ok, and you want to now, and she has to see it, objectively she has to see it, what is the kind of milk that she's, you know, when she's removing, what kind of milk is coming, ok, and this she should do if the baby, say, de-latches or if baby has gone to sleep, you know, so when she's trying to see whether she needs to feed the baby on the same side, on the other side, she needs to kind of make, you know, she has to press, compress, release and manually express and see, you know, what kind of milk is still remaining in the breast, ok, so here the mother should feed the baby, you know, completely, mother should breast, feed the baby from each breast completely, this includes the thin watery milk rich in protein that comes first and the thick milk rich in fat that comes later, both for milk and hand milk are necessary for the baby's growth, the baby should be offered the other breast only after breastfeeding from one breast is complete, ok, if the baby is still hungry, it will breastfeed from the second breast too, so this is important, like when to breastfeed, you know, on the other side, ok, so if suppose the milk is flowing and it's watery, it's translucent, obviously the milk is still, the fine milk is still there, if she's pressing and the milk is very thick and it's coming with a lot of force, you tell the mother to feed the baby still on the same side, ok, but if now, you know, she's pressing it and only few drops are coming, thick drops are coming, that means that milk is now over on that side, she can then breastfeed on the other side, ok, so this is the opposite examination, I very very strongly believe that, you know, once mother understand, like how, like how the empty breast should look like or feel like, you know, then, you know, she will ensure that the whole breast is completely empty before she goes on the other side, most of the time what happens in the field, when say baby delaches or when baby sleeps on the breast, she feels, she tries to compare the weight of one breast to another side, ok, and when you compare it, you know, although she may have lot more hind milk present, because she's comparing it on the other side with the full breast, obviously, your, your, this breast is much lighter than the other one, right, and then she will inadvertently, inadvertently put the baby on the other side before she completely emptied the side of the breast, ok, so that's why I put in this objective examination. The mother must make the baby burp before offering the second breast, to do so the mother should make the baby sit on her lap comfortably, then the mother should cup the baby's jaw with the hand, so this cupping is very important, so the fingers will come on the jaw, over your jaw angle, not on the neck, ok, because in the neck you have this carotid artery, carotid vein, so you don't want to press on the neck, it is basically on the bone, ok, slightly bend baby's back and slightly bend baby's torso forward, the baby will burp within two to three minutes, the baby will also open its eyes, ok, so two things happen as I explained earlier, you, once you put the baby in a sitting position, you know, you want to make sure that you're holding the jaw of the baby and not the neck, ok, and you're basically putting the baby forward a little bit and the other hand would be just on the back of the back, you know, not, you don't need to pat the baby, you don't need to do anything, it's just you put the baby, your hand on baby's back, ok, and two things will happen, one thing that baby will immediately burp within a minute, promise, it's very very, you know, powerful, and second thing what will happen is baby will, if baby's hungry they will open the mouth, mouth, actually they'll open the eyes, so you know, baby will open the eyes and then they'll look around, ok, so you want to kind of, this is a, you don't want to put the baby this way, because what happens, you know, baby goes to sleep, mother goes to sleep, everybody goes to sleep and baby will feel only one side, ok, and that too in half, so I don't recommend doing this, you know, put the baby in a sitting position, wake up the baby, if baby goes to sleep, immediately you, you know, try to wake up the baby, but if baby's not waking up, you delage the baby, put the baby in a sitting position, examine your breast, whether you have finished your hind milk or not, and then make recession fast, don't keep sitting with baby lashed to the breast without baby actively sucking, ok, because that will take a lot of time out of mother's schedule, ok, and that will also kind of, what will happen, and baby will feel only the four milk, baby will pass urine, but baby will not gain weight, ok, so that quickly, you know, making decisions and putting baby to sleep, you know, once baby is fed well, that will help both mother and the baby, ok, now the 37 point is, if the baby falls asleep, breastfeeding, the mother should caress its back or tickle feet, the mother can also make the baby sit in a position of the burping, ok, so this is a very powerful way of again waking up the baby to put the baby in a burping position, in a sitting position, ok, if the baby is attached only to nipple or if the baby goes to sleep while breastfeeding, then the mother can put her clean little finger in baby's mouth to remove her breast from baby's mouth, so here a lot of time what happens is baby goes to sleep on the breast, sometimes they, she see that, you know, latching is not good, so she will have to kind of put her finger in baby's jaw, kind of release a suction, ok, and then remove the baby, ok, because if you don't do that, what will happen, if you just pull the baby when baby is attached, then the mother will get nipple sore and you don't want that, so make sure that, you know, she puts, she releases the suction and kind of open baby's mouth and it becomes much easier to delage the baby, ok, this will open baby's clenched mouth and the baby can easily take her Rella out of baby's mouth, now if baby's nose is pressed tightly into mother's breast, then the mother can gently extend baby's neck in the outward direction, so the baby's chin is pressed further into mother's breast and the baby's forehead is pulled away from mother's breast, ok, so this is very important, here what is happening is basically suppose for some reason, ok, if mother, if baby's nose is pressed into mother's breast, what you want to do, you want suppose here, you know, here is the breast and if the nose is getting pressed, what you want to do, you want to tell mother to just extend the neck a little bit like this, ok, so when she does that, of course you want to see that baby has a good attachment, so if there is no good attachment, she has to remove baby delage and latch again, but if the mouth is big, if the attachment is good, but the nose is getting pressed, tell her to basically, you know, just extend the neck a little bit like this, ok, so that way what happens is the nose is coming out like this and the lips and the chin is going more further into baby's breast, ok, mother's breast I mean, ok, ok, if the, here so this I mentioned that how you can just extend the neck, don't bring the baby out completely, don't bring the baby out like this, ok, you just kind of extend the neck, ok, so then, so the nose comes out, ok, 40th point is if the baby is breastfeeding correctly, then baby's cheeks will appear round and full, there will be no dimple in its cheeks, the baby won't make fast swallowing sound, when swallowing milk the baby's jaw will slowly and distinctly drop down, so here this part is very very important, you want to examine baby's cheeks when baby is sucking, ok, it should be round and full, there should not be any dimple, if there are dimples then it is in a wrong latch, ok, so let's see what happens when there are dimples, if, if dimple appears in baby's cheeks while breastfeeding then it means that the baby is feeding only from the nipple, there is more of upper part of arula than the lower part of the arula in the baby's mouth or baby's lips and chins are not completely embedded into mother's breast, so this is important, the three things that you need to look for, ok, now this is diagnostic step, so if there are any dimple that you see in baby's cheeks, three things will happen, one thing that basically either there is only nipple in the mouth, just nipple latch, so nipple latch will create dimpling, ok, second thing is that baby will have, that the, you know, baby will be very far from the breast, so even the latch may be good, but if both the lips are visible, you know, chin is visible, that means baby will have, baby will have, you know, it's like, you know, when we have a straw, we always have a straw very, kind of very close, our mouth is very close to the straw, right, so when you're sucking, you know, you have a very good sloping, right, but if the straw is very far, then you will have to basically work very hard and you will see the dimple in your cheeks too, so similarly, you know, basically baby's sucking, right, from the breast, so if baby's very far, that so much so that the lips are visible, chin is visible, that means baby's not attached deeply and that baby will have, you know, and in that case, what I do, if the mouth is big, then I just press the baby's head into mother's breast, ok, but if the mouth is small, that means baby's attaching only to nipple, in that case I will remove, delage the baby and attach the baby again, ok, and the third point is if the upper area lies in the mouth, so what happens many times when the baby is brought with too much lateral to the nose being too lateral to nipple, ok, in that case what is happening is basically more of a upper area going into the mouth, so when you examine the latch and if there is more of upper area, that means baby will have again dimple, ok, so those are the three diagnostic things, so if there is a dimple, you want to do diagnostic and figure out where the problem is and then come up with a solution, ok, alright, then second, next point is your every 24 hours the mother must breastfeed 10 to 12 times out of which she must feed at least 3 to 4 times at night and this is mainly for first 2-3 months, ok, they will need 10 to 12 times, so after 3 months or so they will feed, you know, 8 times and then by 5 months they go to, you know, just 6 times in 24 hours, ok, but first 2 months you want to make sure that baby feeds at least 10 to 12 times, if baby's not waking up, you wake up the baby, ok, and also monitor weight gain, weight gain should be at least in first 5 to 6 weeks, I recommend 40 grams, ok, but minimum should be 30, ok, because if it is lower than 30 baby will falter, ok, the baby must be exclusively breastfeed, breastfed for 6 months, after 6 months continue breastfeeding along with the complementary feeding until 2 years of age, ok, so this is important, baby grow very fast at 2 weeks, 6 weeks and 3 months of age, during this days the baby needs more milk, that's why the mother must breastfeed more frequently and each session should be longer duration, the mother must learn the correct technique of breastfeeding, so you know what happens during this time, right, 2 weeks, 6 weeks and 3 months, baby's feeding a lot, ok, and feeding a lot, why, because they're growing, this is a growing phase, ok, so if you want to tell the mother beforehand, because if you don't tell her that baby's hungry because baby's growing, what she'll feel that, oh, I'm not getting enough milk now, I need to give pre-lact, oh, I need to give, you know, outside milk, I want to top feed, right, so she will immediately switch to formulas, ok, so you, if you tell her beforehand that, you know, this is a time that baby is growing, just make sure that you give her, give baby frequent breast milk or you increase the duration, ok, so then she'll, she is well informed and she will not start formula, ok, alright, and the last point is basically I've shown that how to express breast milk, you want to show this technique, press, compress, release, exactly where to keep the fingers as I've shown, ok, it can be C shape, U shape, doesn't matter, basically it's all quadrant, ok, but the finger should be only 2 fingers away, not 3 fingers, ok, and this is the final position of the mother and the baby, do not leave that cross-caddle hole, so do not leave this hand which is there, ok, which is there on the back of the head, ok, and the other hand should be just at the back and one more thing you want to make sure that you can definitely put pillow once baby has a good attachment, pillow is fine, mother can then take any position, once the neck control comes, then what you can do is the after neck control, you can, you know, use any technique, it does not matter, cradle hole anything, but what generally mothers do in our project is they try to latch the baby in a cross-caddle hole when babies are older, but then they become comfortable and they come into cradle hole, ok, but latching is much more easy in a cross-caddle holder, there is no doubt about it, it's just a mechanical engineering, I would say, of breastfeeding, you know, so, ok, so I'm going to end my 45 points over here and I hope you understand what I'm talking about, so now I'm going to discuss breastfeeding assessment form which we have improvised or we have taken it from the BHO breastfeeding observation form, but we have improvised as per our experience, you know, so in this form what you need to do is basically once you teach the mother, ok, in first 24 hours after birth, you're teaching her proper techniques of breastfeeding, ok, and you're teaching her 45 points, but after day, after day zero, so on day one, after 24 hours, you want to see whether mother understood what you have told her, right, so here what we do is basically we fill out this assessment form when mother comes to us, so when we go to mother, you know, after 24 hours, and then we basically, it's a checklist, ok, so in this checklist what we basically what we want is we want mother's name, we want baby's name, baby's date of birth, date of first assessment, like when you're starting, you know, to assess the breastfeeding and then baby's birth weight, ok, so here this left side is all the favorable behavior, ok, favorable behavior means whatever you told mother, she's doing that correctly, and on the right side, these are all unfavorable behavior, ok, so that means that mother probably didn't understand or she did not remember or she still needs to work on her skill, skill and also content, just not skill, ok, so here what we recommend that here this particular, so we have drawn columns, ok, and we want at least, I would say, you know, five, you know, checks, at least, ok, so here suppose you have checked, suppose baby's born yesterday, so you will write, you know, baby's date of birth, which is yesterday, and today day, today's day one, so today you will write the date, today's date, you will, here you will write day of like one, ok, which is 24 hours, and here then you will start looking, you will start observing, so you will see, when you do rounds on mothers, ok, if she's not breastfeeding, you will ask her these questions, ok, when do you breastfeed the baby, and if she's saying that, ok, she knows early hunger cues, you know, when baby's kind of little bit squirming, opening the mouth, if that time she's breastfeeding the baby, that means it is favorable behavior, and you will tick mark over here under day one, ok. Now, if you realize that mother is waiting for baby to cry, and only then she breastfeed, that means it's unfavorable behavior, so here again you will write down today's date, day one, day of life one, and then you will click on this one, means this one is, means that mother does not know that she has to breastfeed when baby is showing early hunger cues, ok, so this is how you fill out the whole form, we have put in all the important points of, you know, breastfeeding, you have to observe, and if there are a few points, you may have to ask her directly, ok. So, for example, when you're observing, suppose you miss that mother washed her hands, ok, so you will ask her, did you wash your hands, and she says yes, if she says yes, then you will be ticking mark over here, but if she says no, she hasn't washed her hands with soap and water, then you will be ticking mark where, over here, ok, so this is important. The mother drinks one glass of water before breastfeeding, so here you will put in that, you know, here you will say, ok, mother drinks one glass of water, and here you say, mother does not drink water before breastfeeding, so this way we have the whole form, we have put it, you know, for you so that you don't need to remember a lot of these points, ok, and you know, this way you will not miss any point, if there are any points which are unfavorable, then you can only focus on those points, ok, you don't have to keep repeating same thing over and over again if mother understood. So, this I recommend for all the babies, ok, in a hospital I recommend, of course, you know, we have a project right now going in Nashik, and over there, you know, we are coming up with a protocol where every shift, these babies will be observed, mothers will be observed by staff nurse in every shift, and then, you know, they will fill out this breastfeeding assessment form, but if you are in a private practice, what I recommend is to definitely, you know, teach her during ANC time, and then you can visit her once in the hospital, ok, and fill out this assessment form to understand whether she's learning it or not properly, and also then you will have to follow LAP protocol, so in LAP protocol, you know, you will basically see at what date or what day of life that you need to fill out this breastfeeding assessment form. So, here you can, again, mother's preparation, I've gone already a lot in detail in my 45 points, so I'm not going to go in each point, but it's basically, this left side is all your favorable, and this all unfavorable, ok, so it goes in the horizontal line, so for example, baby's position, baby's head, back, hips and legs are fully supported by mother's left hand, here baby's full body is not supported by the mother, only the, you know, head of the baby is supported, only the shoulders are supported, ok, baby's ear, shoulder joint and your hip joint are in the same line, here it's not in the same line, baby's body is twisted, neck is twisted, so again you will observe it when mother is breastfeeding, and you will check mark if it's positive, you do it over here, if it is, like if it's unfavorable, you check it over here, ok, so this is how you will go through each and every aspect of breastfeeding, so contouring of breast I've put, attaching, latching the, latching the baby to the lower LRD please, we have put it, important counseling points, so this all the important counseling points, so this all the, you know, important aspect of breastfeeding form that you need to work on, and you know physically make sure that mothers, by end of it mother should have all the positive favorable points, if you get all the points on this side that means you have, mother has mastered the breastfeeding technique, and then obviously comes your, you know, your weight monitoring, because weight monitoring very important as I told you in first five weeks babies gain almost 40 to 50 grams a day, ok, so if she's gaining less than 35, 30 then I would be, my antenna would be up and again do this breastfeeding assessment form every two days, ok, don't wait for one week because by the time you know baby will learn long latching, mother's supply will decrease and then baby will have a problem, ok, so do it every two days till you kind of, till mother master this technique, ok, so this is where I'm going to end it, and I hope you use it, we're going to put the link of this, you know, breastfeeding assessment form, LAP card, learning action protocol, and as well as your PDF for 45 points, stun paan chart, nutrition chart, which you'll be seeing in my next session, and you know, I will again come back and talk to you in my live sessions, ok, thank you so much.


The Spirit's work in the New Covenant is unmistakable to those who are His beneficiaries. For the scripture says, No more shall each man teach his neighbor and every man his brother saying, know the Lord, for they shall all know Me. Let me ask you a question. Do you recall in times of biblical meditation how your soul takes in more than it ever has before of a revelation of God or His salvation through Christ crucified? And then in your great great weakness you stop reluctantly like a cup which overflows and can receive no more. Are you acquainted with this reality? The subject of eternity is like this. Tonight we're going to look in the scriptures on eternity. That's the topic. JC Riles says, eternity is one of the most solemn heart-searching subjects and is one which the wisest can take in only a little. But we must take it in because God's word reveals much of it to us and we're accountable for what God gives us. Tonight we'll start rightly with our eternal God and His nature. Then we will move to the temporality of this world and life, then to the two eternal destinations of all people and last we'll look at the necessity to believe in the mediator of eternal life, Christ Jesus. Given that this series that we've been going through is on practical religion, I hope to incorporate application throughout the sermon and trust that God will give the increase. So once again, one God, two world, three, two destinations, and four Christ. With such an other subject separate from us in many ways, compared to our finitude, let us start with God and His nature revealed in His word. The eternal book is from God and it, the very first verse starts off in the beginning, God. So this is the next, the first section. The Jews once questioned Jesus, you are not yet 50 years old and have you seen Abraham? Jesus replied and partially quoted Exodus 314 with reference to himself. Before Abraham was, I am revealing his eternal nature. Let's go and look at that verse that he partially quoted in Exodus, Exodus 314. Starting at 13, then Moses said to God, indeed when I come to the children of Israel and say to them that God of your fathers has sent me to you and they say to me, what is his name? What shall I say to them? And God said to Moses, I am who I am. And he said, thus you shall say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you. In context, God has come down and has fulfilled and going to fulfill his covenant, his promise to Abraham and deliver the children of Israel from 400 years of bondage they've been in, 430. And Moses is reluctant. Later on he says they want, what if they don't believe me? He says I'm not eloquent of speech. So even though Moses knows that he's going to be used to be deliverer for the people, he doesn't want to fulfill the mission as God's calling him to. And one of the things he's concerned about here is what if I go to the people who have been in bondage for 400 years and I say the God of your fathers has sent me to you and they say, what is his name? I think Moses is concerned about the people's doubt in God's faithfulness to fulfill his word or his doubt or their doubt in that Moses knows him. So he asked what his name is and it helps to know the context. That's why I mentioned it because God reveals this name that we reference and Jesus even quotes multiple times in the New Testament with reference to I am the good shepherd. I am the light. Well, he says here, tell them I am has sent me to you. I am who I am. That's in context of the fulfillment of this temporal salvation. If the people are going to doubt that God is going to fulfill his promise to Abraham who it was made 400 years, God says I don't change. I am who I am. I am separate. I am not like man. My word will not be broken and my faithfulness will be fulfilled. This shows that many things, but it shows God's unchanging eternal nature. And if you pay attention to that when you study the Bible, you'll see that God often brings his eternal nature into bearing on his salvation or judgment. Let's look at Isaiah 40 28 and we're just looking at a couple verses to establish the nature of God. Isaiah chapter 40 verse 28. Have you not known? Have you not heard? The everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable. If you look at 27, why do you say, oh Jacob and speak, oh Israel, my way is hidden from the Lord and my just claim is passed over by my God? So the people here are doubting about the justice of God in delivering you. And that's when he responds, have you not known? Have you not heard the everlasting God, the Lord? This name reveals that God is everlasting. And think with me, what does that mean? Some philosophers and even theologians reject the idea that God is uniquely eternal and outside of time. In other words, some people think of God's eternal nature as only in terms of time that God exists within it and only within it though that time is unending. That's true. God does work within time, but he is not bound by it. What helps to refute that thinking is that to think of the other attributes of God. For example, the Bible says in Psalm 147, 4, and 5 that his understanding is infinite. He's omniscient. If he was bounded by time and eternal and only within time, then he could not be omniscient knowing all things at once. His very thought processes would have to be bound by that time. So the other attributes of God reveal that when the Bible speaks of God's everlasting nature, his eternal nature, yes, it has to do with his duration, but it's more than that. It shows that he's super over eternity. He exists outside of it, time, I mean, and he works within time. God is unbound by time. He is the only one uncaused. We can say that we have an eternal salvation and we're going to live forever. But what we can't say is that we don't have a cause. That we're uncaused. We are caused. I was created. You were created. We can't say we're independent, but God is not caused and he is independent, completely free. He is holy. He is the ancient of days, the Alpha and the Omega. He is the everlasting God. And your worship to the Father, the Son, and the Spirit should rise with this knowledge. And what God is as eternal, he is in his other attributes. God is not only righteous. He is eternally righteous. He's not just just. He's eternally just and he is eternally merciful and gracious to those whom he shows mercy. His love is an everlasting love in time and supremely over time and outside of time. Knowing God by faith makes all the following points in the sermon more real to the believer. We're moving to the next part of the message. Unlike God, this world and our lives are passing away. Let's turn to 1st John chapter 2 verse 17. And the world is passing away in the lust of it. But he who does the will of God abides forever. And then let's turn back to your left to 2nd Peter chapter 3. Should be one or two pages. Chapter 3 verses 10 through 13. But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness? Looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God. Because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire and the elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. Think about these truths. This world is passing away in the lust of it. It is not eternal. It is not permanent. It will not last. It's temporal. Ovito, Orlando, Florida, the United States, the earth, and all that is in it is passing away. We live, in another example, we live in one of the theme park capitals of the world. All the entertainment of this world can offer is going to pass away and it's temporary. Second Corinthians 4.18 says, We do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. Let me ask you, has this world and its value system been becoming your love? Have you grown all too comfortable with getting the world and all its careless playing and have picked up a growing disregard for God and his word? Spiritually speaking, have you moved out of the tents of a pilgrim and into the palaces of pleasure as a world dweller? Brothers and sisters, you know God is not mocked, nor will he deny himself. Don't let this world and all its idolatry become your idolatry. It's going to pass away and the lust of it. It is like a morning fog soon to be carried away by the daybreak. Perhaps some will say to me, well, every creature is of God and is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving. Yes, beloved, I agree with you for those who are wise with their time and resources. Amen. But those who are not likely not wise, remember, not everything in this earth is a creature from God, but rather much is from the wicked one. And as for those things which are from God, they were never given so that you can make them an idol, nor were they given so that you could justify the neglecting of the will of God such as diligent Bible study, fervent prayer, loving the brethren, submitting to your elders, and making disciples. For the Spirit says in 2 Peter, Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God? Let's look at 1 Peter chapter one. The world, the earth, the lust of it is passing away and so are you. We have a flesh that's passing away. Let's read chapter one verse 24. Because all flesh is as grass, and the glory of man is as the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away. Though you will receive a self same resurrection body, your flesh today is not eternal. It is not permanent, it will not last. It is temporal. From dust you came and to dust you will return. People who have yet to receive the mercy of God in Christ and turn from their sins, they have a great fear of death. I once worked at a company and moved to another company, but it was a small place and I knew them. So I was very excited because I was going to have my baptism and I wanted them to come and witness the work of God. So I went there and the owner, he wasn't converted and it was a small company and his daughter worked there and some other family members. So I went to talk to him and while I was encouraging him to come to the baptism, his daughter came and she was in her 20s I think and was entering into the conversation with us. And I noticed that he wasn't very interested, but she seemed to be. So I focused my attention on her and the conversation quickly went evangelical. I just started preaching to her and I was preaching to her about death. And as soon as I got on that topic, her dad, the owner of the company said, Brian, stop. And it really kind of caught me off guard. So I stopped and then he told his daughter to go back to work. And when she left, he said, I don't want her thinking about death. There was some death in there and their family. But the point was death has a great power over people and it is a reality that's inescapable. We're passing away and you need to look at it. This is the world's attitude towards death. Run from it. Act like it won't happen to you and don't talk about it. Inoculate yourself against it with mind altering drugs. Try to overcome it with help and medicine. But death comes without partiality. This life, as you know it, is temporary. You know what I believe is a good application of this verse. This may seem morbid.  For the Bible says in Psalm 90, the days of our lives are 70 years and if by reason of strength they are 80 years. Yet their boast is only labor and sorrow. For it is soon cut off and we fly away. Who knows the power of your anger? For as the fear of you, so is your wrath. So teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom. Go to a cemetery one afternoon. Read the names of some of the people in their ages. Count the tombstones in sight and get down on your knees before Almighty God and ask your Heavenly Father to teach you something that you want to learn better, that is to number your days in light of eternity so that you may gain a heart of wisdom. This brings us to the next part of the message. After you pass away, there are only two eternal places and states that you will be or go. Either it's the kingdom of God or everlasting fire. Let's turn to Matthew 25. In Matthew 25, we're going to start at 31 and I'm not going to read the whole section, just the parts relative to the sermon. This is Jesus foretelling the final judgment. And he says in verse 31, when the Son of man comes in his glory and all the holy angels with him, there he will sit on the throne of his glory and all the nations will be gathered before him and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And he will set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on his left. Then the King will say to those on his right hand, come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom of God, the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. And if you just get down to verse 41, then he will say to those on his left hand, depart from me, you cursed into the everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. And then if you look at verse 46, and these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. There's no other category outside of these two categories for where you're going to go when you die. Granted, this is after the great white throne judgment, and there is somewhere that is not the same as after this, because this is after resurrection and the new heavens and the new earth. But once you leave this life, it's irrevocable. There's no changing it. Let's look at 2 Corinthians 5. I want to talk real briefly about the two different. I don't know if you've ever thought this through or heard what I'm about to say, but I want you to please think with me through in these texts. You've just read about the judgment in this eternal kingdom of God and the eternal punishment. In 2 Corinthians 5, 8, it says, We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.  But you haven't been eternal, you haven't reached the great white throne judgment. You leave your body behind. You're not in the new heavens and the new earth. So what I've heard that called that stage is the intermediate period of heaven. And then the eternal or the one that endures through eternity is the eternal new heavens and new earth after the judgment. Also at the judgment, everyone receives, that everybody has already received their resurrected bodies. So I'm just trying to give you a picture of reality, according to the word of God, about what comes after from the perspective of heaven.  And one day you will dwell in new heavens and the new earth. People often ask, or I've heard people ask, what it will be like if they died and went to be with the Lord today. Well, this intermediate state is not as emphasized in as the eternal state in the Bible, but you will be removed from all sin and you will be with the Lord never to be taken away from him. S. Lewis Johnson has an analogy. There was a doctor, he was a traveling doctor. He would go to homes and stuff. And he met this man who was on his deathbed, but it was slow. It took months for him to pass away. And he ministered to him as a medical doctor. But this medical doctor was also a Christian. And he began not only to minister to him as a patient, but as a lost man. And over the months, the man actually, God used his preaching to convert him. And when he came close for him to die, he was concerned because he didn't know what heaven was going to be like. So he asked the doctor, because he didn't know many who would know an answer to his question, what's heaven going to be like? And this man was wealthy. So the doctor smiled and he said, ask your maid to open the front door to your house, which was down in another room. And she opened the door and he whistled. And in comes running his trusty dog. And the patient had never knew he had a dog. But the medical doctor always took it with him wherever he went. He was this beloved pet. And he knew him very well. And the dog, when he heard that whistle as distinct, he came running into the foyer, immediately came to the direction he heard the noise and came running into the room and jumped up on the doctor's lap. And the doctor looked at the patient and he said, I can't tell you a lot about it.  And that's what is a great hope for us. Is that when we die, we go to be with the Lord. Then after being resurrected, sometime later, you will be judged by Christ. And he will vindicate God's name in your judgment in finding you righteous in his sight. And no one will be able to bring a charge against you. Because God did not spare his own son, but had delivered him up for you. Then you will enter, as it says in Revelation 21, the new heavens and the new earth forever and ever. Brethren in application, be comforted in your hearts by these truths. It says that 1 Thessalonians 4 that to be comforted, comforted the faint hearted. This is a truth that if you're walking by faith and born again believer that you should not be faint hearted, but you should set your hope on these things. You're going to be with God. You're going to be in the presence and with Christ. You're going to be with all the holy angels. All the saints made perfect and no longer will you fight against one sin. You won't even be tempted to sin. Your love to God will have freedom.  Let's go back to Matthew, Matthew 25 verse 41. Then he will say to those on his left hand, on the left hand, depart from me. You cursed into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Let's look at 2 Peter also 2 4. So you saw there in Matthew 25 that those people are cast in or go to the place prepared for the devil and his angels. It's called eternal punishment. That happens after the great white throne judgment.  But they are in torment. Luke 16 is another text that we could go to to talk about that. But in 2 Peter, you can see here more about this intermediate state. But there were also false prophets. I'm sorry. Let's read verse 4. 2 Peter 2 4. For if God did not spare the angels who sin but cast them down to hell, that's not the lake of fire.  Later in Revelation are these the devil, the angels and all those not written. That's when there's the lake of fire and delivered into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgment. We kind of have us like that in our own legal system. When somebody is commits a murder they're awaiting their judgment. They're putting a death row or maybe not death row, a holding cell. Death row is the wrong example. A holding cell. We're not wanting to take any seriousness away from this. This is where many fallen angels are and those who have died and are waiting the judgment. They're in God's holding cell where they're in torment and did not spare the ancient world but say no, I won't read the rest. We must address this because God's word reveals much of it. Think of the tenderness of Jesus who is gentle and meek to all those who come to him. It is he who spoke much on destruction.  John Murray asked, why do people so often resist the thought of God's wrath? I know we don't want that. I know no one wants that. Even the sinless Lord Jesus Christ did not want that in Gethsemane. But why do we resist the thought of it? I think he hit the nail on the head with his answer. He said, it's not because is it not because we do not wish to entertain the terror which conviction involves and we do not wish to be placed under the necessity of fashioning thought and like in terms of this reality. We don't want our minds and our lives to be fashioned with this reality. We don't like to think about it. I know when we ask people where nobody wants to talk about hell, but the one who sent his son into the world has revealed it much of it. It is not callous. It is not hard hearted. And if it's in God's word, how serious do you think it is? It's a shame. We don't weep more for the people we know that aren't saved.  Yes or no? People reject God's graciousness, but it's a sober revelation on this and they deny it. I find that much of it stems from their perception of God and sin. JC Riles said this. He said, low inadequate views of the unutterable vileness and filthiness of sin and of the unutterable purity of the eternal God are fertile sources of error about man's future state.  They say they're soul sleep. They say, hell, there's a purgatory. You can get out. They say, I'll get saved after I die. Does the Bible though not use the same language for the eternality of heaven as it does for hell? Does it not use the same figures of speech for heaven as it uses it for hell in the duration of them? In that passage in Matthew 25, he says everlasting, the eternal kingdom and everlasting punishment right there together.  Why would Jesus mean anything else than eternity here? In Matthew 25 that is. Wouldn't it be deceptive for him to say that punishment is everlasting if man would just go to sleep and never awake again? Or if eternal punishment was anything short of eternal? God by his general call reveals this for your good, dear ones. If it were not so terrible, this language would not be here. If people only knew the chasm of destruction that is now awaiting them, like the rich man in Luke 16, five minutes after he died, he was in torment and he's been that way since. Everyone here will be in one eternal place or another in 120 years. Where will you be? Moving to the last part of the message, your only hope is repentant faith in Jesus Christ by the power of the Holy Spirit and the new covenant. Unless you repent, you, unless you repent, you will likewise perish. This next part is an exhortation for you to believe in the mediator of eternal life, Christ Jesus. Let's look at John 3.16. I'm going to start at 14.   For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. And let's look at John 17.3. This is Jesus's high priestly prayer. And he says in verse three, and this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. We all start out the same in Adam. There's not a person that started out any different. Everybody starts out guilty. Everybody starts out condemned. Everybody's conceived in sin and polluted Psalm 51. By nature, everybody is in a settled rebellion against God. Romans 8.7. Sin loving and light hating John 3. Spiritually dead Ephesians 2. Everyone is from birth the same, but not everybody stays this way. How does anyone get eternal life and end up in heaven? Last verse. Let's look at Hebrews 9. And then I'll just reference verbally the John 3 and 17 in closing. I'll just reference it now. And John 3 you could see. How do they get it? It's by the means of faith. They must believe. You must believe. If you say you're already believing, you must continue believing. And no, I'm not trying to subvert your assurance. But there is a healthy tension in the Bible if you want to call it that, of security and the not yet. And you must persevere. This not yet is not hypothetical. As a believer, you must continue to persevere. Yes, God will preserve you. They're both true. But if you're not in Christ, believe in him. You're in a healthy church. You're hearing the Word of God. You're seeing the new covenant being fulfilled among people just like you. Why would you be so foolish and jeopardize eternity and not believe in him? Because it's so clear that he was sent that he might save the world. He might save you if you believe in him. Hebrews 9 11. And I'll read through 15. And notice how eternity fits in here. Think about eternity and the work of Jesus Christ as we read this. But Christ came as high priest of the good things to come with the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with hands. That is not of this creation.  For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling the unclean sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. And for this reason, he is the mediator of the new covenant and by means of death for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant that those who were called may receive the promise of the internal inheritance. There is an incalculable, incomprehensible hope in the work that Jesus Christ has accomplished. We, those who go to heaven will never track it down. And when he as high priest and as the sacrificed entered the tabernacle not made with hands, he offered a sacrifice of his own blood and as a substitute for his people and obtained eternal redemption because he was offered up through the eternal spirit. So God who is unutterably pure is satisfied with his work because he is God the Son and we in closing can have and should have a clean conscience by faith because of this eternal worthy work on our behalf. We should no longer be living in dead works but have a clean conscience and we should be living to serve God because of this redemption. That is if you're in Christ, if you're not, look at what God has done. You'll never know what Christ suffered.  But he has suffered it and he offers you eternal life. God, we're no, I'm no different than anybody else. I need a savior. I'm a wicked man but transferred into the kingdom of his beloved son and he offers that to you. Believe that. That's the word of God. If you repent and believe in this, if you believe in Christ, he says eternal life is that you might know him. The only true God in Jesus Christ whom he sent.  Look at the eternity that we've been talking about. Look at what's coming. Let your life be set on that. Set your life on that and know God. The more you know him, the more you're going to praise him when you get to heaven and not regret. I'm not saying that everybody's going to regret but you want, there are going to be a lot of people I believe that will wish at some point when they realize that they worship and serve God more. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for your word. I pray that these truths would affect your people, that they would carry them with them and live in light of them. O Holy Spirit, your work is unstoppable. It is glorious work among us and make us live in your sight, not grieving unto you but pleasing unto you. Amen.