Today I am very excited to show you guys my results so far on this new project that I just invested. Currently I'm making over $5,000 a month and I am projected to make $73,000 passively over the next year. All of this just by simply running nodes on the Ethereum blockchain.  Strong Block has automated this entire process for us so that we can just create our own node and have it up and running within a few seconds. What Strong Block basically does is they host and maintain the node for you. So you're essentially renting the node out and getting rewarded for it. So before we get ahead of ourselves and start talking about all the lambos that we're gonna buy, let's break down exactly what this project is and how it works. So there are two core elements to the blockchain, miners and nodes. So the thing is that miners are compensated while those running nodes typically are not. So with no monetary reward, there is a high risk for the public blockchains that they support. To solve this, Strong Block has created the Strong Block Community DeFi Protocol. They incentivize nodes to perform better by rewarding them with their strong token. So think of it this way. Instead of providing liquidity to a liquidity pool and being rewarded for providing that liquidity, we're providing nodes to keep the blockchain safe and being rewarded for doing so. So this is the first ever DeFi system that actually also improves the blockchain itself. So before we go further into Strong Block, let's talk about what a node is. A node is basically a computer that connects to a cryptocurrency network. Each node or computer supports the network that it's connected to. Nodes store and transmit data that is bundled together in a block, hence the name blockchain. So these nodes store the historical blockchain transactions and they send and receive this information. Now this is not to be confused with miners who are also known as nodes. However, they're validating and creating new transactions to add into the blockchain. While what we will be doing is basically being role and record keepers. Nodes are a critical component of the blockchain infrastructure. It helps maintain the security and integrity of the network. So now that we understand exactly what a node is, what is Strong Block's purpose in all of this? Strong Block is a first and only blockchain protocol to reward nodes for supporting the infrastructure of their blockchain with limited resources and no financial incentive. Many nodes run out of date software, maintain incomplete blockchain histories, and some are even intermittently offline. There was no easy mechanism to fix these issues once the blockchains launched. To solve this, Strong Block has made it possible for anyone to create a node in seconds and receive strong token rewards every single day. More nodes means more resilience in the infrastructure. All right, so if you're still a little bit confused and haven't yet got it, let's quickly summarize what we've gone over. Nodes are the role keepers of the blockchain and are very important to the infrastructure and security. The problem is that there's not much financial incentive to run nodes. So most of them are out of date, have incomplete blockchain history, or are just plain offline. So to solve this, Strong Block is making it extremely easy for anyone to create a node in seconds and get rewarded daily with the strong token. All right, so hopefully you caught up and you're with me now. So next, before I ever invest and put my hard earned money into any type of project or investment, I wanna see who the team is. I wanna know their background. What's their experience? So Strong Block was founded back in 2018 by members of the original EOS core team. The Strong Block team is led by Blockchain and Enterprise Software Veterans, including CEO David Moss, CTO Brian Abramsen and CPO Corey J. Letterer. So they all have a background in Blockchain, which I really like and they're also all located here in the US and they're real people. So that gives this project a lot of credibility in my eyes at least. Now, Strong Block first launched back in September of 2020, but back then you had to provide your own nodes. Then in December of 2020, they launched their nodes as a service project, which is what we are using today. Now, the last thing to note about them as far as their tokenomics, they've actually burned 94% of the original 10 million minted strong tokens back in November of 2020. So now there's only around 500,000 of those strong tokens left. So you can see here on CoinMarketCap, it tells you that they burned 94.7%. So their current supply is at 138,000 and their max supply is 528,000. Here's the current price of each strong. Their market cap currently sits around 65 million. So there's definitely some upside potential here. And I believe that we're currently at a pretty good spot for entry. You've seen in the last three months, the price went up as high as $1,200. And now we're currently sitting back down at that $400 area. So the main risk here is that it is a little volatile here. As you can see, we've had about a 68% correction from the all-time high. But from what I'm seeing right now, we're getting down to that bottom where we have a lot of confluence here of support. So it seems like a pretty good time to dive in. A lot of the down movement had to do with recent rumors about a decaying model for rewards. Where basically once you get back your initial investment, then the rewards decay off a little bit, but there's no, nothing factual on that yet. So it's still up in the air. All right, so your next question is probably, how do we get rewarded and how much? So we get rewarded about three strong coins per month per node that we create. So at the current prices, that's just about $1,500 per month. Of course, this is not counting the fees and ETH gas fees. The current return rate is about 0.1 strong per 7,000 blocks, which is around 0.091 strong per day per node. I hope that makes sense. If the price and rewards remains exactly the same, it will take around 110 days to earn back your investment. So basically three months in a week or so. So naturally your next question is probably okay, so how does strong make money? What's the catch? So most of the rewards comes from strong itself. The investment that we make to create a new node is basically how the rewards get paid out. Here's a breakdown of exactly how your contribution of 10 strong to the strong block community is distributed. 10% goes to future use, 10% goes to strong ETH and link strong pulls for rewards, 20% goes into the strong pool and 60% into node rewards pool. All right, so after all of that, if you're still interested in creating a node and making some passive income like I have, I'm gonna walk you through exactly how to create a node. So to create a node, the first thing to know is that it requires kind of a hefty buy-in. To get started and create a node, you need 10 strong. So at current prices, that's about $4,750 for one node. Now it is on the Ethereum blockchain, so you have to account for gas fees and you have to pay a monthly maintenance fee to keep your node running, which is $14.95. And that's every single month. Do not forget to pay this because if you do not pay it, you completely lose your node and your investment into it. So if you want to create a node, this is how you do it. First, you have to buy strong. I bought my strong on Q-Coin with USDT. Remember, you need to buy 10 strong in order to create a node. Buy a little bit over 10 so that when you transfer it over to your MetaMask, you can cover the fees as well. So the next step is that you have to transfer your strong to your MetaMask wallet. So it's a ERC-20 token. That means that it's on the Ethereum blockchain. So just copy the Ethereum blockchain address and send your strong to that Ethereum address. Now, if you don't have MetaMask, that's something that you need to get and you can add it as an extension on your Chrome browser. That's how I recommend you to get MetaMask. You can also use it as an app on your phone, but I think it's just easiest if you do it through the Chrome extension. That's the way that I do it. Now, once you have your MetaMask set up, next you need to add strong to your MetaMask. The way to do that is go to etherscan.io. Once you're on etherscan, simply type in strong. You'll see it's going to pop up right here. You just click that. What you're looking for here is the contract address, which is this right here. So just hit copy. Now open your MetaMask, grow down to where it sees don't see your tokens and hit import tokens. Click on custom token, where it says token contract address, paste the address there. You see for me, it already says that it's already been added.  And that's it. The token decimal should automatically fill for you. So now you've bought your strong, you've set up your MetaMask, you've added the strong coin on your MetaMask. Now you have to send your strong from the other exchange into MetaMask. Just use the ethereum address that's there and MetaMask is going to put it in strong. Don't worry, you can use the same address. Also you need to have some ethereum in your wallet to cover the gas fees. That's another very important part. So let's say just have at least two to $300 in there for the gas fees. Now go to the strongblock.com then hit create your node now. You see I already have my nodes here, so mines pop up. What you're gonna do is hit create node, then just fill out no name and no description. It really doesn't matter what you name it. You can see that I named it bitcoin baby node one, node two, three, four. And the description, I just put the date that I created them so that I remember when it was created. After that, just hit that you agree and create ethereum node. Once you do that, make sure to open up your MetaMask wallet because it's going to be asking for permissions and you have to pay the 14.95 fee. You have to pay gas fees to create the node. Gonna be a couple different things that you're gonna have to do that is gonna ask you to do to create that node. But once it's all complete, it should pop up here under my nodes. It'll take up to 30 minutes sometimes, just refresh your page until it pops up. And once it pops up, you'll see that it'll instantly start running and you'll instantly start getting rewarded as you can see here. So I've created this little spreadsheet here just to kind of have an idea of what the yearly return could be and what the investment to get those yearly returns would cost. So here's basically how much you could potentially make depending on the value of strong, whether it goes up or down then these numbers all change. Also depending how many nodes you buy and depending on what the price of strong is when you first invest into it. You can see here that I bought my first node back on November 23rd. At the time of that strong's value was at 575. So it actually cost me $5,750 without counting the fees to buy my first node. Then a week later, I did a lot more research on the project and I was like, it just makes so much sense. And of course I bought a second one because I wanted to make more money. So the first node put me at around $18,250 passive yearly return. Then the second one put me at around $36,500. But as recent as yesterday, the price of strong did go down and because it went down, I decided to buy two more nodes. So I bought the next two nodes at an average price of around $473. So my total investment in strong block is now up to $20,810 plus the gas fees I've had to pay. So I'm probably closer to $21,000 overall. Now so far with the two nodes that I had previously buying them one week apart from each other in about three weeks I made around $1,600 or three and a half strong. But now with the four nodes, I'm expecting to make around $73,000 in the next 12 months. However, if I compound my rewards and then just continue to create new nodes every time I accumulate 10 more in the next 12 months, I could potentially own 99 nodes. Now I didn't even do the math for 99 nodes because I never even thought of trying to compound it to that much. But according to this calculator here provided from the calculator guy, at that point I'd be making around $4,000 per day, 29,000 per week, 127,000 per month and 1.5 million per year. So it definitely gave me something to think about. So my new plan is this, I want to get at least eight nodes. So I plan to compound all my rewards until I'm able to create all eight of them. The reason I bought four nodes total is because now with four nodes I can create one new node every single month. So remember if each node is giving me about three strong per month and to create a new node, it costs 10 strong with four nodes that puts me at around 12 strong per month. Now, because I've already had a few nodes running for a few weeks now, I'm almost at four strong already. So I only need six more to create my fifth node. So this actually gives me a date for about January 1st. That's right, we're gonna start the new year off with a fifth node. So if you do the math, so I did the math and as long as I compound my rewards every time I get 10 strong, I create a brand new node. By the first, I should have my fifth node. By January 20th, I should have my sixth node. By February 6th, I should have my seventh node and by February 20th of 2022, I should hit my goal of eight nodes. Now you'll see at eight nodes the expected yearly return is $146,000. At an average price of $500 per strong, that means that I would be making around $365 per day, $2,500 per week, almost $11,000 per month and $133,000 per year. So at this point, my goal is going to be to take out my initial investment of $21,000 before I continue to compound my rewards to create more and more nodes. Once I pull out my investment, then I think my goal of thinking just as of right now, but this of course can change, will be to reach 60 nodes. Now why 60? Because 60 would get me to about $1 million in 12 months and that just feels like a great number. So that's pretty much it guys. I think I covered everything. If you guys do have any other questions just drop it in the comments. Remember guys that this is risky. There is the potential of the volatility of the price of the strong coins. There's a potential that there's that decay reward model that might be coming up. And of course it's crypto guys. Anything could happen with crypto. This is gonna depend on your risk tolerance. If you wanna wait it out and see how it plays out for me, I'll be updating you guys frequently on how I'm doing, how much money I'm making and every time that I create a new node. So thank you guys so much for watching this video. I hope you guys enjoyed it. I hope this tutorial helped you guys set up your nodes if that's what you plan on doing. Remember now that this is financial advice. This is just my experience. What I plan on doing, what I'm currently doing to try to make some passive income because at the end of the day, if you work for your money, you're going to work for the rest of your life. Make passive income. That'll give you financial freedom. Make sure to subscribe to the channel guys. If you're new here also turn on that notification and smash that like button on the video. Till the next one guys, peace and love.


In this cave, by the restless sea, we are met to call from out the past stories, strange and weird. Bellkeeper, hold the bell, so all may know we are gathered again in the weird circle. Here is the ruin of the famous bell tower built by the great Bonadona four centuries ago. It doesn't look like much, does it? A heap of rubble shapeless covered with earth and black moss.  But dreams lie buried here and memories and the ghosts of a man and his genius are said to haunt the spot. Some even say the spirit of Bonadona's bell still tolls high up in the silent night sky. Other scoff, a bell cannot have a ghost even if there were such things. But what is that ghostly sound? Surely no earthly bell ever sounded like that? Can it be that Bonadona's bell actually does toll for its long dead maker, though this tower that supported it is now no more? Or does the shade of Bonadona himself still linger here, thinking back to the day he was called in by the chief magistrate of the town? I'm flattered, Your Honor, that the chief magistrate of so prosperous a town should have heard of the humble architect called Bonadona. Your pretended modesty is not very convincing, Signor Bonadona. But if I were responsible for the wonderful monuments you have built, I suppose I wouldn't be very modest either. Naturally, naturally. But there is only one Bonadona. Perhaps you should start by imagining yourself Michelangelo and work up to imagining yourself the incomparable Bonadona. Michelangelo was a very great artist. A beginner. He would have sat at my feet. Your views are interesting, Signor Bonadona, but it was not to discuss art that I summoned you here.  To be sure. Briefly, Signor, our town has grown rich through trade with the Near East. And now at last we can afford the finest monument in all of Italy. The elders have voted to have you build the most imposing bell tower that your genius can conceive. Your town must be very rich indeed to afford my services. Never fair, the money is there more than you have ever been paid for. And if you build a bell tower that will bring admirers from all over the civilized world, you will get a bonus of twice the fee agreed upon. That is an incentive. Can you fulfill it? I will erect a bell tower that will endure forever. Its fame will be known wherever men dwell, be it in palaces or caves. That, Signor Bonadona, is precisely what we want. And I am just the man to do it. The town suddenly realized what real activity was when Bonadona brought his crew of masons and artisans. The chief magistrate and the elders came day by day to marvel as stone by stone and month after month the tower strained toward the sky. But there were some who grumbled at this amazing creation of Bonadona's genius. I tell you, Bonadona's man, no matter how great an architect he is, he can't build a tower as high as this without a wider base. He wants to build it so slim and tall that people will wonder how it stands against even the gentlest breeze. Against the breeze, yes. But when the winter gales roar down from the mountain, it'll tupper like a pencil stood on end. Take it easy. Careful. Careful how you dump those bricks, Paolo. You want the whole insane tower to come tumbling down? Oh, you two are always grumbling. One would think you were better architects than Bonadona himself. Better than he used to be? No. But Signor Bonadona is not as sane and cautious as he once was. All right.  Crazy? Yes, sir. You think he is not a maniac, eh, Paolo? That's right. We will prove it then. We are on the top of the tower, huh? How high above the ground are we? 200 feet. And Bonadona proposes to build it another 100 feet, 300 and all. Yet the base is wide enough for a tower only half that height. Already you can feel its sway when the wind is strong. What will happen when the winter comes and the gales roar down from the mountain? Always, you are asking that question, Enrico. And you never phrase it differently. This is no time for literary effect. Answer what I ask. Well, I... I don't know. I am no Bonadona. He must have made allowances for the wind and Earthquakes. With a huge bell and clock on top of the tower. The weight alone will be enough to pull the whole thing down. And when the gales roar down from the mountain... I know, I know. Well, I will admit that my wife worries when I leave for work in the morning. Then why, Paolo? Well, it's silly.  She says if the tower stands when it is 300 feet tall, it will prove that Bonadona is in league with... with Satan. Ah. That is a possibility. Of course, Enrico. I had not thought of it. That would explain why he thinks it can stand on so small a base. And the gales that will roar down from the mountains... will not tumble it to the ground. Bonadona... in league with Satan. Hey! Hey, you up there! What are you doing? Chattering and loafing. Get to work! That's the way you drive. Tool of the devil. The Lord will have vengeance for this blasphemous bell tower. He will smash it to the ground... and you along with it. Molden. Swing it over to the mold. Into the mold. There. Everything is finished. Now all we have to do is wait for the bell to cool in its mold. And then haul it up to the top of the tower. Senor Bonadona... What is it, Paolo? The men and I, we have been talking. My wife too. Of course you know what women are, it's a different with the men. I mean, we're all experienced. We've worked with you a long time. What in the name of heaven are you gabbling about? You dare to use that sacred name, you. The name of the saint who has a better right than the great Bonadona. Will you come to the point? This is the bell tower, senor. There is only one way that a tower so high can be supported by so slimmer base. Yes. Which way is that? By a pact with the devil. You fools. You're so prestigious apes. I am hundreds of years ahead of my time. I worked out mathematically every stress and strain before the first shovel dug into the soil. I don't need Satan. My science is enough. But, senor, look at the size of the bell we are casting. When we pull it up to the top of the tower, its weight will make the horsey... Senor Bonadona, what are you going to do?  You hear? This tower is towering my dream.  You won't interfere with my plans. Teach you to meddle. Does anyone else want a taste of the same medicine? I thought not. All right.  Then get back to work. And I'll stand for no more nonsense. Or Paolo will have company in the graveyard. Murderer, you will hang for this. The great Bonadona?  Well, now, there is no court that would convict the great sarcotheque in all Italy. Poor Paolo. How are we going to break the news to his wife? Look, with one blow of that murderous ladle that devil's accomplice smashed in his skull. See how the blood is spattered everywhere. And we go. What is it, Cesare? Look at the bell we are casting. Dear Mille, a drop of Paolo's blood has splashed into the molten metal. It is an evil omen. Your attention, please, worshipful elders of our fair town. We are gathered here to sit in judgment upon one Bonadona architect who has been accused of slaying one Paolo artisan. You have heard the testimony of the eyewitnesses. Now I will call the defendant to state his case. Mr. Bonadona, what have you to say in your defense? If it pleased your honor, would you clear the court of all spectators and witnesses for the deceased? Very well. Clear the court. Thank you, your honor. Now, Mr. Bonadona, is it or is it not true that you killed Paolo the artisan with a blow of a heavy utensil known as a ladle which is used for pouring molten metal? Yes, yes, I did, your honor. Then you plead guilty. Oh, no, no, no, your honor, I would not do anything like that to harm your interests. How would you pleasing guilty harm my interests? The bell tower I'm building is a very costly monument. Is it not? Naturally, naturally, our town is rich and we want nothing but the best. But a half-completed tower would be the laughing stock of all Italy. Isn't that so? Not to mention a waste of the money that has already been spent on it. You have a pointer. I can imagine the scene a hundred years from now. Visitors from some distant land are gazing at the topless monstrosity. Oh, how sad one of them exclaims. This could have been the most beautiful bell tower in the whole wide world. Why was it never finished? Do you not know, asks another? The architect, the maestro, Barnadonna, slew a medal some fool who got just what he deserved. But Barnadonna, Barnadonna was hanged. The tower was never completed because nobody could duplicate the great architect's plans and the art of designing monuments were set back for many centuries.  It's enough to wrench even a tyrant's heart. Of course, justice must be done, sir Barnadonna. Justice has been done.  Yes, senor Barnadonna. Yes, we, the elders, and I have the sacred duty of handling our neighbor's money. Therefore it is my opinion that you acted wisely and in the best interest of the town by quelling the threatened revolt. Do you agree, venerable colleagues? Oh, yes, I agree. Then, senor Barnadonna, we absolve you of all guilt in the death of one Paolo artisan. Thank you, gentlemen. I knew you would not allow justice to be undone. Now I shall return to my work on the bell tower, which I will force to completion as speedily as possible. Adios. Well, well, my faithful friends. The great Barnadonna is free. Why is it that some of you do not look properly joyful? You are free now, you tool of Satan! But Paolo will have his revenge from the brave! And soon! That drop of blood that splashed into the molten casting of the bell when Barnadonna killed Paolo, everyone said was an omen from beyond. An omen that poured dead Paolo would take vengeance on Barnadonna for his murder. Yet, nothing seemed to happen. But the day finally arrived when the bell was to be swung up to the top of the tower. And then, at last, the workman felt that Barnadonna's time on earth was drawing to an end. Beauty! The biggest and most exquisite bell that ever was made. But wait! What is this? A floor at the nape of my beautiful bell. Oh, I will soon have this fold fixed. Just chip out the weak metal, scrape away the rough edges, and fill it in with this secret formula of mine. There. There is good as new. All right, everybody, we're ready to swing the bell into position. Grab the rope. Ready now. Pull! Easy now. Easy. That's it. That's it. Down, down a bit. All right. All right. There you are. There. The bell is in place.  You thought you could teach Barnadonna something about architecture, huh? Well, this bell tower will outlast you and your entire line of descendants. Perhaps it will outlast time itself. And now, now I start on the mechanism to strike the bell on the ours. If my tower is the wonder of Italy, my mechanical ringer will be the wonder of the world. I'm coming. The idea of waking up a man of my position at this time of night. Well, well, well, what is it?  Forgive us for waking you so late at night. Yes, but it was necessary, Your Honor. It's urgent. Hey! Oh, oh, you're two of the men who worked on the bell tower, aren't you? Yes, Your Honor. What's wrong? Has an accident befallen in your Barnadonna? No, Your Honor, not yet. That mechanism, he is perfecting to strike the ours. He's working secretly on it at the top of the tower. Everything he needs is brought to the bottom carefully wrapped up. He opens the door and takes the packages. He permits nobody to see what he's doing. I find nothing wrong with that. There are men who would sell their souls to learn Barnadonna's secrets. Perhaps that is how he obtained those secrets by selling his own soul. Hey, what's that? Are you bringing a formal charge of witchcraft against Mr. Barnadonna? No, Your Honor. No, Your Honor. We have told you that everything is brought to the bottom of the tower for Mr. Barnadonna. That was a mistake. There was one thing he went out and got himself. Yes, yes, yes. It was an object the size and shape of a man wrapped round and round with a white cloth. If one were to dig up poor dead Paola from his grave, Your Honor, and carry him furtively to the tower late at night, still clad in his shroud, that is the sort of parcel one would carry, the sort we just saw Mr. Barnadonna carrying. Hmm, hmm, hmm. A corpse, an automatic ringing mechanism, and other secrets. There is a sinister logic about the combination. There's only one way to be certain. Yes, Your Honor. That is why we brought these shovels along with us. Go, Chesler. Yes, Your Honor, yes. This confounded night air was always hard on my arthritis. And here in this deserted graveyard it seems still worse. We're almost down to the coffin, Your Honor. Go, go, go. Ah, I've struck you. Good, good. Now make haste. Come, straight away. All right, Chesler, the top of the coffin is cleared. Now give me a hand and opening it. Right. But Paolo's body is still there. Paolo is still here, Your Honor. But Senior Barnadonna could be using another dead body for his automatic mechanism. Hmm, hmm. You are right, Chesler. I will speak to Senior Barnadonna the very first thing in the morning. I heard something very disturbing yesterday. You, Senior Barnadonna, are reputed to be making your secret ringing mechanism out of a... out of a... Yes? Out of a corpse. I see. One brought back to life, of course, enslaved by my wizardry to strike the ours forevermore, huh? Naturally, you have a certain measure of proof, Your Honor. Oh, yes, yes. You were seen carrying what appeared to be a body wrapped in a shroud. It was late at night and you were hurrying toward the tower as if wishing not to be observed. It is my inflexible practice never to display my inventions until they can safely be shown. That time will come when the tower is thrown open to the public. Well, uh... When will that be, Senior? Tomorrow at noon, Your Honor.  Now, if you will excuse me, I shall return to my work. What a strange man. I was so sure of myself. Well, we will know tomorrow if the rumors are true. I can't understand what is delaying, Barnadonna. The bell was to ring at the stroke of moon. It is noon now, Your Honor. I know, Cheserelle. That's what puzzles me. Senior Barnadonna is usually a man of his word. Maybe he found it necessary to make some very sudden changes, Your Honor. Yes, that could very well be. Well, we shall soon find out. I'll hail him. Senior Barnadonna! Oh, Senior Barnadonna! He doesn't answer. Naturally. He is probably much too busy. Well, we won't give him any more time to destroy the evidence. If we can prove a sorcery charge, we won't have to pay him a button. Open the door. It's locked. Then break it down. Follow me. What a climb. 300 feet straight up into the air. Your Honor, come here. Against the bell. It's Senior Barnadonna. Dead.  Serves him right if someone murdered him. But this was not murder, gentlemen. See, he was working on the bell with mallet and chisel. Evidently, he had not turned off the clockwork. And the heavy hammer of the automatic bell ringer swung round with tremendous power and crushed his head against the bell. Then the bell ringer is what we thought it was. No, Chesere. It is no reanimated corpse. Then what? It is an amazingly intricate bit of machinery.  And so, Senior Barnadonna was not a tool of the devil. He was a genius. The greatest genius of our time.  Perhaps we will never know. From the dust he came and to the dust he returns. Peace to your ashes, Barnadonna. The world of men is poorer for your passing. Has Enrico reached the top of the tower yet, Chesere? Yes, Your Honor. Then give him the signal. All right, Enrico! Ripley and Barnadonna's coffin. And drove him so far into the ground we won't have the expense of the funeral after all. But is it? Yes, Your Honor, just as we thought. What are you jabbering about? The bell, Your Honor. There was a floor in it where poor Paolo's blood splashed into the molten metal as it was being cast. Senior Barnadonna thought he repaired the floor. But he hadn't. Then what has that got to do with this calamity? It was right there, Your Honor, that Barnadonna's famous bell cracked. And Paolo has taken his vengeance from the grave.


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Amen. So tonight we're going to start a study, a two-part study tonight and next Sunday night on the man Joab. And Joab is one of, in my opinion, one of the most interesting characters in the Bible. There are some good things about Joab and some bad things about Joab, plenty of bad things about Joab. We're going to focus on the bad this evening. And you know, the first thing we need to look at, we just read one story in the life of Joab. There's a lot about Joab in the Bible. There's a lot of, he's David's captain of his army throughout David's reign. So I mean, the first thing that we're going to look at is just all the different characteristics and the things that Joab did when he interacted as David's captain. And just kind of, we'll begin to see a series of a pattern of behavior with Joab and we'll see what we can learn from that this evening. So first of all, turn to 1 Chronicles chapter 2. Who is Joab? Who is he? Where did he come from? And how did he get in the role that we see him in in 2 Samuel chapter 3? Keep your place in 2 Samuel chapter 3. We're going to be going between 1 Chronicles and 2 Samuel this evening looking at all the different stories about Joab in the Bible. But tonight we're going to focus on, you know, the shortcomings of this man Joab in the Bible. So if you're there in 1 Chronicles chapter 2, look at verse number 15. So we can get an idea here of who Joab actually is. And the Bible says in 1 Chronicles 2 15, Osum the 6th, David the 7th. We're talking about David's family and David whose sisters, now it's talking about whose sisters. We have a genealogy here. It's talking about David's genealogy and David's sisters in verse 16 whose sisters were Zariah and Abigail. And the sons of Zariah, Abashai and Joab and Asahel 3. So David's sisters, David's one of David's sisters, Zariah had these three boys and the boys were Abashai and Joab and Asahel. So Joab is David's nephew. Joab was David's nephew. So he's a close relation to David and turned to 1 Chronicles chapter 11. And we'll see, you know, so we see how he has a tie to King David right away. But he didn't actually just become the captain of the army because he was the nephew of David. And we'll see how Joab got the title or got the job of, you know, David's main general. Look at verse 5 of 2 Chronicles 11. The Bible says, And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless, David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David. And David said, Whosoever smiteeth the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. So David puts this challenge forth to whoever can go and win this battle for him. So Joab, the son of Zariah, went first up and was chief. So Joab, I mean, we see here he gets the job of a general because he was very brave. So Joab was not someone to be trifled with. None of these three boys, by the way, were anything to be trifled with. We'll see that later in maybe next week's sermon. But Joab was a warrior. He was a man of war and he was very brave, but he had some issues. Turn back to 2 Samuel chapter 3. Let's go back and look at the story that we just, we saw in 2 Samuel chapter 3. So basically what you have going on here in 2 Samuel chapter 3 is you have, Saul has died, his son Ispasheth is taken over the kingdom, and his son has this captain of his army called Abner. So David is now king, but everyone has not come and recognized David as king. Some people still are following, especially the tribe of Benjamin of which Saul was. They were following the son of Saul, which is Ispasheth, I'm sorry. And Abner is his general. Abner is to Ispasheth as Joab is to David. So we can see right there there's some conflict right away between Joab and Abner because they hold the same positions in these two conflicting divided kingdoms. So if we look back at 2 Samuel chapter 3, basically what happens is Ispasheth, he accuses Abner of something wicked, of having relations with a woman that he shouldn't have had relations with. Abner is super offended and Abner goes to make peace with David. And Abner goes to make peace with David saying, I will bring the kingdom together. I can bring everything to you. And David is like, okay, sounds good. So David accepts the offer and sends Abner away in peace. We'll look at 2 Samuel chapter 3 in verse 26. Joab is coming back from a mission, from a battle, from a skirmish of some kind. And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner which brought him again from the well of Sira, but David knew it not. This is after David the king has made peace with Abner. And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly and smote him there under the fifth rib that he died for the blood of Asahel, his brother. And afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before the Lord, forever for the blood of Abner, the son of Nero. Let it rest on the head of Joab and all his father's house and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue or that is a leper or that lenith on a staffer that falleth on the sword or lacketh bread. So David basically finds out about this, is extremely unhappy about it. I'll get to why David puts up with so much from Joab in a little bit towards the end of the sermon.  David makes peace with a man, Joab calls him back. You know, he's the general. He's not, he's underneath the king. And Joab has some sort of a problem with Abner and I'll get there in a second, turn back to 2 Samuel chapter 2. One chapter back and he basically takes him aside quietly and he murders him. He kills him. Okay? So Joab goes behind David's back and kills Abner.  Look at 2 Samuel chapter 2. Look at verse 17. So in 2 Samuel chapter 2, this is before Abner has come and made peace with David. The kingdoms are still, you have Ishvishacheth. I'm having a hard time pronouncing that tonight. And then you have David. There's conflicting kingdoms here. Well, there's a battle in 2 Samuel chapter 2. Look at verse 17 between these two kingdoms and Joab is there and Abner is there. So these men have met each other in battle recently. Look at verse 17. And there was a very sore battle that day and Abner was beaten. So Joab's men defeated Abner's men. And the men of Israel before the servants of David. And there were three sons of Zariah there, Joab, Abishai, and Asahel. So these are all David's nephews. These are all David's nephews that are leading this battle. And Asahel was light of foot as a wild road. That means he was fast. He could run fast. And Asahel pursued after Abner. So they were beaten. Abner was fleeing with his army and he was running away. They were retreating. And Asahel, one of these nephews, Joab's brother, was chasing down Abner. And in going out he turned not to the right hand or the left from following Abner. So basically what was happening was this whole army was retreating and Asahel had picked out Abner and was just after him the whole way. He wasn't fighting the men to the left or the right. He was just chasing down Abner and he was very fast and he was catching him. Then, verse 20, then Abner looked behind him and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am. And Abner said unto him, this is interesting. Abner said unto him, Turn thee aside to the right hand or to the left and lay thee hold on one of the young men and take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. And Abner said to Asahel, Turn thee aside from following me. Wherefore should I smite thee to the ground?  So Joab is the captain of the host. His brother is chasing Abner. And Abner realizes that he's only after him. He's like, hey, just go fight one of these guys. Take his spoil. You'll have your victory. He's like, quit, look, Abner did not want to kill Asahel. He's warning him twice here. He warns him. How be it he refused to turn aside. In verse number 23, Asahel would not stop pursuing Abner. Wherefore Abner, with the hinder end of the spear, smote him under the fifth rib. That the spear came out behind him and he fell down there. And he died in the same place. And it came to pass that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died stood still. So Abner finally is left with no choice. Asahel will not stop pursuing him. He kills him. So he kills Joab's brother. And Joab, as we'll see, just he had a real hard time letting things go. Joab was a man who was going to exact revenge himself. And that's exactly what he did in 2 Samuel chapter 3.  He just came here to get information on your kingdom. But really what Joab was upset about was that David was just, he was making an alliance with the man that killed his brother. And so Joab took things into his own hands. It even says it in 2 Samuel chapter 3 in verse number 27. It says, And he smote him under the fifth rib that he died for the blood of Asahel's brother. That's why he killed him. He killed him to get back at him for killing his brother. And we see that, you know, Abner basically killed Asahel in self-defense because he just wouldn't stop pursuing him when they were retreating. So we see that Joab kind of just did what he exacted his own revenge in this story. Now there's many other incidents turned to 2 Samuel chapter 14. There's many, you know, there's incidents where Joab was also very manipulative. And he was manipulative to David, his boss, his ruler. And look at 2 Samuel chapter 14. And well don't, no, turn to 2 Samuel chapter 20. I'll just tell you the story about 2 Samuel chapter 14. We don't have time to go through all of it. But basically what happened in 2 Samuel chapter 14 is he's manipulating David. Absalom has been banished by David. Absalom was David's son. And of course, you know, there was his brother. He killed his brother Amnon because his brother Amnon forced himself upon Tamar, their sister. Absalom couldn't let that go.  David banishes Absalom for that. Now Joab in 2 Samuel chapter 14, he wants him back. He wants him back so he hires a lady to go and tell David this story about these 2 sons that have been banished of hers.  She's like, yeah, he did. So Joab tried to manipulate David to bring Absalom back. And then, you know, David does bring Absalom back. But he was very manipulative to try to get David to do it. Joab was serving David like he should have. And he had a thought that he wanted David to do. He should have just went to David and said, hey, why don't you bring Absalom back? It's just Joab had an idea and he wanted to manipulate David to follow through with that idea in a manipulative fashion. So again, we see that Joab is not necessarily doing things in the right way in this fashion. You know, he just had a pattern of disobeying David and a pattern of just following what he wanted to do. Look at 2 Samuel chapter 20. So now in 2 Samuel chapter 20, we see that Absalom has come back and Absalom now leads a rebellion against David. So Absalom actually kicks David out of the palace and he actually takes over the kingdom from David for a while. Well, in 2 Samuel chapter 20, we have the battle where the three generals that David, you know, invokes to prosecute this battle against Absalom. They win the battle and they fight against Absalom to regain the kingdom to David. And his three captains were Joab and Abishai, two brothers, the two brothers that remain, and then of course Itai. And we've talked about Itai in the past. So look at 2 Samuel chapter 20 in verse number five. The Bible says this, it says, and the king commanded, this is before the battle. This is before the battle to re-retake the kingdom and the king commanded Joab and Abishai and Itai saying, deal gently for my sake with the young man, even Absalom. And all the people heard when the king gave all the captains charge concerning Absalom.   Now look down at verse number nine. The Bible says in verse number nine that Absalom met the servants of David and Absalom rode upon a mule and the mule went under the thick bows of a great oak and his head caught hold of the oak and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth and the mule that was under him went away.  And a certain man saw it and told Joab and said, behold, I saw Absalom hanged in an oak. So notice how a certain man saw this. So a certain man during the battle saw where Absalom was and knew that he was in this tree and Joab said unto the man that told him, and behold thou sawst him and why dost thou not smite him there to the ground?  Joab was one of the ones that David directly told to not kill him. So we see again here just Joab doing his own thing. Joab doing what he thinks is right. He says, and I would have given thee ten shekels of silver and a girdle. Joab said, if you would have just killed him, then I would have just paid you a nice reward. But look at this man. Now we don't even know this man's name, but look at this man, what he says. And the man said unto Joab, though I should receive. So he said, I would give you ten shekels of silver. But look at what the man said. He said, though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in my hand, yet would I not forth my hand against the king's son? This guy just basically says, he's like, look, there's no amount of money that would ever get me to put my hand against the king's son because I know what he said that we're supposed to do. That we're supposed to go lightly with, you know, deal gently with my son. The, you know, David said, look, this man, whoever he was, he's not even named in the Bible. This man has much more loyalty to David than Joab ever did. So this man says there's no amount of money. For in our hearing the king charged thee in Abishai and Itai saying, now he tells Joab, he's like, the king told you in Abishai and Itai, saying, beware that none touch the young man, Absalom. Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against my own life, for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself would have set thyself against me. Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee, and he took three darts in his hand and thrust them through the heart of Absalom while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak. So Joab kills him himself. Joab goes and he finds where he's at and he kills the king's son. He kills Absalom. And then even after that when they tell David that his son is dead and David is mourning his son, then Joab basically rebukes the king. Think of the boldness of this man. He goes and he defies the king's orders, and he kills the king's son, and then David is lamenting his son after this battle. You could say that it was decent advice that Joab was giving, but Joab basically feels bold enough and he feels comfortable enough with David to just rebuke him for mourning his son after this battle. Look, people died in the battle. People definitely died because of Absalom's rebellion. They died in the battle to try to win the kingdom back.  You know, when all these people have won this great victory for you today, you're very bold with David. After he defied David and killed Absalom. Look at Samuel chapter 20. But wait, there's more. So we see that Joab is just kind of doing his own thing. Look at 2 Samuel chapter 20 in verse number 9. So here we have another man in verse number 9 where after Absalom, Absalom's general, when Absalom took over was this man named Amesa. So after David wins the battle, you know, David, he comes back and he makes peace with Amesa, the general of the person, you know, of Absalom's army that took over his kingdom and he just wanted peace. So he makes peace with Amesa. Well, Joab doesn't agree. Once again, Joab doesn't agree. Then there's another uprising. Amesa is given an order to go do something. Amesa, he takes longer than he's supposed to and Joab goes to do it. But then Amesa follows behind Joab's army and, you know, because Joab doesn't necessarily like, you know, this Amesa guy. Look at verse number 9. Joab goes up to Amesa when he meets him again and he says, And Joab said to Amesa, Art thou in health my brother? And Joab took Amesa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him. But Amesa took no heed to the sword that was in Joab's hand, in his left hand. So he smote him therewith in the fifth rib and shed out his bowels to the ground and struck him not again and he died. So Joab and Abashai, his brother, pursued after Sheba the son of Bikri. So they continued on their path. So basically he sneaks, once again, it's very similar to Abner.  And in his left hand, you know, we know how many people are left handed, not that many. In his left hand, which was not expected, he pulls out a sword and he basically, you know, his bowels were shed out to the ground. I don't have to go into detail on that, but he kills him right there. So he murders Amesa. Again, it was not a fair fight. He just, surprise attack, just murdered him without the permission of David, once again. So what do we know about these stories from Joab? First of all, we know that Joab was very manipulative. We know that he was very manipulative. When he wanted his way, he didn't just ever go to the king and just say, hey, I think this. He was very manipulative when he wanted to bring Absalom back. He was sneaky. He was very secretive in the way he killed Amesa, in the way he killed Abner. These were not fair fights. He basically murdered these two men very subtly. So there wouldn't even have been a fight. So Joab, number two, he was manipulative. Number two, he was self-willed. He was a self-willed man. Throughout his life, when you read about Joab in the Bible, we looked at a few of the main incidents tonight, but throughout his life, one thing you will notice about Joab is he was a man that was just pushing his own agenda. I mean, he wanted something and he just made it happen. He just did it, and he was just basically doing whatever he wanted. You know, killing Abner was his agenda, not David's. Killing Abner was revenge. It was his agenda for Asahail of revenge. He went directly against David's agenda, which was to unite the kingdom. That was David's agenda. So, turn to 2 Samuel chapter 11. I read you all these things that he did. He went against David.  He just puts up with it. He just puts up with it. So, did he just put up with it because he was his nephew? I don't think so. And I'm going to show you why I believe that David put up with it and probably the strongest evidence in the Bible that David did put up with Joab for so long. And you know, this is my opinion of this part of the Bible, but I mean, turn to 2 Samuel chapter 11. There is something that Joab went through with David that I believe gave him the confidence to be as bold as he was and to defy David in so many different ways throughout his entire life. In 2 Samuel chapter 11, we see one of the saddest stories in the Bible and this story is the story of a man named Uriah. And of course, David, when Uriah and Joab were off to war, they were in this great battle. David stayed home and he commits adultery with Uriah's wife. And he commits adultery with Uriah's wife and the story goes that it turns out that she becomes pregnant from this affair that they had and then David sends right away for Uriah to come home from the battle. So, Uriah comes home from the battle and David tries to get Uriah to go home.  Take a couple days. Take a break.  The story gets so sad because the man wouldn't do it. The man would not go because he said, how? How? And I'm paraphrasing the story for the sake of time. He's like, how could I go home and spend time with my wife when all the other men and all my brothers are laying in the field in battle? When all my brothers are out fighting a war? How could I go and just, you know, spend time and be with my wife? He's like, how could I do it? So, David's plan is not working out. So, David, he goes to plan B. And plan B is he writes a letter. He writes a letter and the contents of the letter are where I'm going to read for you, but he writes a letter basically ordering the death of Uriah and he writes this letter to Joab. And the saddest part of the story is the man that delivers the letter is Uriah himself. This man who just would not, I mean, Uriah was an honorable man. You could see that just from this part of the story. Look at verse number 14. So, Uriah would not go home. He would not go home to visit his wife. In verse 14, the Bible says, when he came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah. And he wrote in the letter saying, set ye Uriah at the forefront of the hottest battle and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and die. Imagine, first of all, David knew the type of man that Joab was in order to send him a letter like this. Joab knew the type of man that Uriah was. These men were the mighty men. These were the elite of David's army. They knew who each other was. I imagine they had a brotherhood here. And he knew that if he ordered Joab to do whatever he wanted, Joab would just do it no matter how backwards it was, no matter how wrong it was. And he sends this letter and he basically says, put him in the front lines, not just put him in the front lines. Put him in the front lines and then leave him there.   And verse 16, and it came to pass when Joab observed the city that he assigned Uriah into a place where he knew that the valiant men were, the hottest part of the battle. And the men of the city went out and fought with Joab and there fell some of the people of the servants of David and Uriah, the Hittite also. So Joab was the one that carried out the hit on Uriah. He was the one that did it. So look, David, David had, and then look at verse 27. Verse 27, Joab comes back from the war and what does he see? He sees verse 27. So did Joab, Joab, there's no indication that Joab even knew why David did what he did. He just saw the letter that Uriah, he's like, he saw the letter from Uriah, basically kill Uriah. And he does it, and then he comes back from the war and this is what he sees. And when the morning was passed, David sent and fetched her to his house and she became his wife and bear him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord, you think? So Joab comes back from the battle to see that David, the king, has married Uriah's wife. I'm sure he put it together at that point. So look, Joab knew a lot of things about David that nobody else knew.  And ultimately at the end of his life, ultimately, so David likely felt powerless against Joab. And that's why Joab was so bold with David throughout his entire life and it also explains why at the very end of David's life he orders the death of Joab. At the end of his reign, turn to 1 Kings chapter 2, at the end, so David, David has not forgotten this. He put up with it. He put up with it because Joab knew where the bodies were buried.  And of course, God always knew and we know how God dealt with that with David. That's another story. But look at 1 Kings chapter 2. In David's orders to Solomon to get the house in order, Joab is one of the first on the list. Look at 1 Kings chapter 2 in verse number 5. Moreover, moreover, he's talking to Solomon. This is David to Solomon, the one who's going to take over the kingdom. Moreover, thou knowest also what Joab, the son of Zariah, did to me. And what he did to the two captains of the host of Israel, unto Abner, the son of Neer, unto Amesa, the son of Jethar, whom he slew and shed the blood of war and peace.  Do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his whorehead go down to the grave and peace. Whore meaning gray, his white hair. He's saying do not let him. Look, Joab's an old man at this point. David's an old man at this point. Joab's an older man at this point. He's saying do not let him die in his old age.  Then of course Joab, he flees to the temple to try to, you know, not be killed. But then verse 32, and the Lord shall return his blood upon his own head who fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and slew them with the sword. My father David not knowing thereof to wit Abner, the son of Neer, captain of the host of Israel and Amesa, the son of Jethar, captain of the host of Judah. Their blood shall return. Now Solomon's talking to Baniah saying because they came back and they're like, he's holding onto the horns of the altar. What should we do? He's like, and he repeats David's order. That's what he's doing here.  Their blood shall therefore return upon the head of Joab and upon the head of his seed forever. But upon David and upon his seed and upon his house and upon his throne there shall be peace forever from the Lord. So Baniah, the son of Jehoida, went up and fell upon him and slew him and he was buried in his house in the wilderness. So look, Joab had a lot of problems. And we see that there's a pretty strong reason why David put up with Joab doing what he was doing. Joab, I mean, Joab fought some great battles. He won some great victories. But he defied David. He manipulated David. I mean, the conclusion of Joab's life, if we were going to wrap it up in one problem is this. That Joab had serious issues with authority. He had serious issues with authority. He only followed authority when it suited him or when it agreed with his will.  Turn to Hebrews chapter 13. So the application we can take from Joab's life here, when we look at Joab's major problems, was his problem with authority in his life. Look, here's the thing, folks.  Everybody. Look at Hebrews chapter 13. Hebrews chapter 13 is talking mainly about spiritual authority, but it's talking about God-ordained authority here. Look at verse 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit yourselves. Why? For they watch for your souls as they must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief. For that is unprofitable for you. It's talking about obeying spiritual authority in your life. Look, your life, the Bible teaches very clearly that there is... Look, we all are subject to God. We know that. But look, there is man-made authority over your life here on earth. And it's not just... Look, it's not just your pastor. Look, it's talking about Hebrews 13 is the best fit for your pastor. That's spiritual authority that's over you. But ladies, ladies, your husband is a God-ordained authority over you. That's a God-ordained authority in your life. You know, don't be...   You have authority in your life. Turn to Romans chapter 13. Turn to Romans chapter 13. And the way to... I mean, the methodology for that authority is very simple. It's very simple. In Romans chapter 13, verse 1, the Bible says, let every soul be subject under the higher powers. For there is no power but of God, the powers that be are ordained of God. Look, these powers in your life, but it says the higher power. So what that means is God is ordained authority over you.   I can't tell you to do something that goes against the Bible. Because you're subject to the higher powers, always. But look, Joab... This is Joab's major miss right here.  From work, to church, to your family, there is this God-ordained authority that is there for you, to look out for you. And Joab put his agenda... He didn't just put his agenda over God's. He put his agenda...  I will repay. You know, Joab... He's like, no, I'll do it. He didn't just put his agenda over David's.  You know, Joab thought he should be in charge. I mean, you can hear it the way he talks to David sometimes.  You can almost hear it when you're reading the Bible.  You know? But most people... Most of the time, in my experience, by the way, most people that think that they know better and think that they should be in charge, it's a good thing that they aren't. It's been my experience. So look, this one reason for Joab. Think about Joab. Think about Joab. Think about the man that he was. You could be the most skilled person. You could be the smartest person. You could be the bravest person. You could be, you know, this warrior that is just unrelenting warrior. But this one thing could ruin your whole life. Not being able to follow authority. Could just take all that to nothing. And I mean, for us as well, it doesn't matter how good we are, how, you know, whatever we have, this one thing could be the end of you. If you don't get this right. I mean, it could be the end of your job. I mean, if you think, if you're the type of person, I've met many people like this. They can't hold a job. Why? Because they think that they should be in charge. The second day, they're telling everybody what to do. They don't know anything. They're telling everybody what to do and they're fired eventually. This attitude of not being able to respect authority over you will end your job. If you take that at work. You know, I mean, look, there may be times where you think you know better. There may be times at work, man, where you think that you know better. You know, but here's the thing. Maybe you don't see his perspective. Your boss's perspective. You know, here's another thing. Maybe you are right. Maybe in that one case, you do know better. You know what? It doesn't matter because you're not the boss. You know, the same thing, ladies. Same thing, ladies. You know what? Ladies, don't try to rule your home. It's not going to work out well.  I mean, the ladies in this church know, but in a biblical home, the husband is in charge. That is the way God has ordained it to be. I mean, ultimately, it's his decision. Which way you go? Which way the family goes?  You know, thankfully, I mean, that's not a Christian attitude. And thankfully, I can't really think of any saved Christian Bible believing ladies that do that. But I've certainly met plenty of these women that speak of their husbands and talk of their husbands like they're idiots. But it's common in the world today. It's common.    Well, I mean, what does that make you?  Maybe he doesn't lead well. But you know what? Here's one for the single ladies. You should have thought of that before you married him. You should have thought of that before you chose him.  Look, after you get married is not the time to realize this. Because now, now as you marry that man and you don't want to follow him and you're just, I'm just doing things, now you're just the Joab. It's all you are. A disobedient wife is bad for the family. It's bad for the kids. It's bad for the husband. It's bad for everybody. You let him lead. It's his role. Hey, support him in it. Support him in it. You know, be part of the solution. But it's God ordained. It's supposed to work that. There's nothing worse than a female Joab. But look, here's the thing. If he's in church and he's following the Lord and he's learning the Bible, look, he's going to lead you in the right direction. Just follow and just listen to God's ordained authority in your life. I mean, it's very simple. So back to the main point of Joab. Back to the main point. You could be skillful. You could be smart. You could be hardworking. But if you cannot respect and follow the proper authorities in your life, you're pretty much done. That one thing can just, it can just trump all those things in your life. And I've seen it. I've seen it ruin everything for people. Just that one thing. You need to be able to put yourself under authority. I mean, it's very simple. You say, oh, it's easy for you to say, you're in charge here. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. I'm not in charge here. I'm the leader of this satellite ministry. I'm not the pastor of this church. Look, I do this all the time. Just put myself under authority. I mean, I have authority. You say, oh, you're the boss at work. No, I'm not. I'm the boss of some people, but there's a lot more people I'm not the boss of. You got to put yourself under authority. And here's the thing. You think that I agree with every decision at work that people make above my head. No. But I mean, if I have a better way in my, you know, if I have a better way, I might bring it up at work one time. One time. But if they don't take that idea, then it's over. Look, and as far as the church goes, and as far as being under the authority of the pastor, here's what I know. Here's what I've figured out. Look, I know the agenda of this pastor of this church. I know his agenda. And, you know, it's pretty easy to follow that agenda. Once you know that agenda, it's pretty easy to get on that program.  When, you know, God willing, we become an independent church, it's going to look a lot like it does right now. Because I agree with that agenda. Because that agenda is a good agenda. But I'm not in charge here. Look, if we spend 20 bucks at this church, I run it by the pastor. Because I know that's his agenda, that he runs a tight ship, that he's very well organized. That's what I like it. So, I mean, look, it's a sign of maturity being able to put yourself under authority. And as far as the church goes, folks, you've got to put yourself under the authority of the pastor. But here's the thing. No one's forcing you to be here. This is an occult. You know, so you have to find a church where you can respect the pastor and you can respect his agenda. And then, you can willingly put yourself under that agenda. And that agenda becomes your agenda. Being successful in a church is so easy. I mean, you just figure out the agenda that you agree with and that your conscience agrees with and you find a church like that and then you just push that agenda. It's very simple. It's very simple. But look, think of Joel F. He was very smart.  You can see that in the Bible. He was very smart. So what did he use it for? He used it for manipulation. He used it to push his agenda. You know, he was very hardworking. He was very skillful. But ultimately because he couldn't respect authority, it ended badly for him. So you have to learn to put yourself under authority. It's a very simple message.  This is kind of the things that I think about at work. You know, when somebody does something at work that I was like, I wouldn't do it that way.  Never.  Because they're different person than I am. But I'm just like, yeah, they must, you know, they see things a different way. You know, I'm not in charge. They probably see a different aspect. You know, they have bosses that are expecting things from there. Maybe I don't see that picture. These are things that I think about to make myself feel better when somebody's doing something that I don't necessarily agree with. Look, I'm not talking about something that violates my conscience. My conscience is mine. And the higher powers always rule me. So no one will ever tell me in the secular world to do something that goes against God. Ever. That's Romans 13. That's the point of Romans 13. But here, go turn to Colossians chapter 3. Ultimately, this is how you deal with it. This is how you deal with work situations, even home situations, whatever. This is how you handle people not doing things the exact way that you would do them. Look, I'm not working for men. Did you know that? I'm not working for men. You say, how do you stay motivated when you work for men that maybe don't do things the same way you would do them? Because I'm not working for men. That's how I do it. Look at Colossians chapter 3. Look, this is how you need to think about your job right here. This is how you need to think about men. This is how you need to think about your career right here. This is how you need to think about your trade right here. This is how you need to think about how you support your family right here. And then it doesn't matter what other people do.  Look at Colossians 3, verse 23. And whatsoever you do, do it heartily. Why? As to the Lord and not unto men. Look, I'm serving God when I'm at work. Look at verse 24. Knowing that of the Lord, you shall receive the reward and the inheritance for you serve the Lord Christ.  I don't care what I'm building. I don't care where it is. I'm working for Christ. I don't care what you do for a living. If you're supporting your family and you're doing what the Bible says you're supposed to do, you're working for Christ. So all these little details of why did the Boston, forget that. Just work for Christ. Submit yourself to the authorities in your life and work for Christ. Because that's what's been ordained for you but you're ultimately not working for men. You're working for Christ. So every, look, because of Colossians 3, I mean, this isn't true, but it should be. Because of Colossians 3, you ought to be able to go to every workforce and within in any workplace. And you should be able to pick out the saved Bible-believing Christian within like a day or two. You should be able to.  I should be making more money. You know, there's companies not treating us right. And then you'd have the people that are like, we're working for Jesus here. They're going to work like they're working for the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, you'd think you would notice a difference. But I don't think you do. Why? You should. I mean, that's motivation right there. I mean, just when you get in that point where you're like, yeah, everybody else just watches YouTube all day at this job. Yeah, I guess I could be lazy too. No, not you. Because you're working for Jesus. You're not getting away with anything. You're working for the Lord Jesus Christ. I mean, you should be able to pick these people out. Worldly, secular employers should be hunting and paying bonuses and all these finders' fees for Christians. That's what should be happening. That's what should be going on. Because you know what? They're honest. They don't cheat. They don't steal. They're not going to do anything that disobeys the higher powers, which is God. They're going to try to follow the Bible and do all these things. And they work, man. They work like they're working for Jesus himself. You would think that they would just be hunting these people down. Ladies, you're like, yeah, you're really ripping on the guys today. Ladies, you should want to serve your husband and submit to him and serve him like he is your head. But ultimately, you know what? You're working for Christ too. You're working for Christ too. You're working for Christ too.  You do what you're supposed to do because you're working for Christ. You're working for Jesus. He's your higher power. Colossians 3 applies to you too. You're serving Christ. There's not a person in this room that isn't under the authority of man somewhere in their life. And look, it's going to be this way until you die. It's going to be this way until you die.  Imagine being a saved, smart, eager young man but not being able to submit to authority and getting kicked out of church when you're 21 years old or 22 years old. Look, it's a tragedy. It's a tragedy. It's a life gone wrong. It's a life gone wrong. A whole life ahead of you. You can't put yourself under the leadership of a pastor so you're just going to throw it all away. It's so sad.  He's there to help you. He's not there to take advantage of you. He's there to guide you. He's not forcing you to be there. He's there to love you and help you be successful. But you can't put yourself under authority and you're going to throw it all away. I mean, what could you think of a worse story? All because you have an issue with authority. This Joab complex. Look, this Joab complex can ruin everything for you. Everything. Next week, we'll talk about the good side of Joab. You're like, what? What in the world?  You're like, this guy's horrible. This guy's the worst guy ever.  We're going to talk about the good side of Joab. I've never heard a good sermon about Joab. You're going to hear one next Sunday night. Before next Sunday night sermon, I want you to go to, write this down if you have a pen. I want you to go to 16 personalities. Google that. And you're going to take the personality test there. You're going to find out what kind of personality that you have and it will help you. I'm going to preach a sermon series on that test. I've been given that test in way more complicated tests like that several times in my life. And here's the thing. I'm pretty sure that I'm the exact same type of personality as Joab.  That's not what I'm talking about. Those are character flaws. The authority thing. The murder. All that. Those are character flaws. But Joab has a very unique type of personality. And I've been told that I'm this type of personality. That's why I recognize some good things. So I'm going to show you, look, Joab is generally a bad character in the Bible.  But there were some good character traits that he had. And I want to show you what those are next week. So we'll talk about Joab the good next week. But go find out what kind of personality you are. And then when I tell you what kind of personality I am, please don't leave the church. My wife cried. I'm just kidding. She took the test and she sent it. She sent me the website or whatever. And the test is something like 30 questions or something like that. It's very simple. But I've taken these tests that are hundreds of questions. And they give you a quadrant of personalities. And I'm always way down here in the far lower left. The HR people, they see it and they're like, but I'll explain all that next week. And we'll talk about Joab's personality and some of the traits that we see in Joab that can be good. All right, let's bow our heads and have a word.


It's regional finals this week all around the Commonwealth as eight teams from each of the state's six classes continue to vie for the chance to make it to Bowling Green. From the Hambly Athletic Compilax and the Class 1A Football Action, the defending Class 1A state champions, the Pikeville Panthers, hosted district rival Hazard. Some pre-game smack talk went on before the teams took the field. Hazard just trying to help out Pikeville's girlfriends, saying that, well, they'll be free next Friday. Only the more subtle touch, 99, Bulldogs lights out as the Panthers take the field at the Hambly Athletic Complex. Mid-first quarter here, Panthers trying to find their offensive groove. Quarterback Wyatt Battle airs it out, connects with Clay Sloan just outside of the end zone and the Panthers strike first. Just seconds into the second quarter, the Bulldogs tie it up with a rushing touchdown from Corey Smith. And that, well, it won't be the last you see of him tonight. A few minutes later in the second quarter, he is unstoppable by this Pikeville defense. Corey Smith carrying this Hazard offense on his back, trying to take a breather. The guy is saying, come on, you're doing a great job. We need you. And as soon as he gets back onto his feet, he's back into the end zone for another Hazard touchdown. Corey Smith went for 279 yards, get this, 40 carries and five touchdowns. It was an upset tonight as the defending Class A state champions fall to Hazard by a score of 42 to 19. And the Bulldogs advance to play the winner of Paintsville and Raceland. Heading to Paintsville now to find out who the Hazard Bulldogs will play next Friday. An electric game from Memorial Field. The crowd and the players were up for this game. The Tigers starting with the ball and a handoff to number one Kitseltz, a kid who has done wonders for this offense. Darren Morris connects with James Allen and again they keep the drive alive. Darren Morris finds a slant right across the middle and connects with Tyrese Allen and he does the rest, taking it into the end zone for a Paintsville touchdown. Final score from Paintsville, 21 to 14 as Paintsville moves on to face Hazard as they pick up their, as they pick up a regional title. The three times state defending Class 3A champions, the Belfrey Pirates wasted no time defending their Tarfoot Camp Stadium. In the first quarter, Derek Wellman is handed the ball and goes to the center for his first touchdown of the night. Though they were at midfield, Belfrey wanted everyone to know that nowhere is safe. Quarterback Noah Corbett takes the ball and runs and runs and runs for another touchdown. However, well I'm sorry he stopped just shy of the three yard line but that'll end up in a touchdown from Wellman. He falls into the end zone and the second score for the Pirates. Belfrey receives the punt from Russell. This one goes well for the Pirates when Kevin Browning receives the ball and scores from a 57 yard return. Once the Pirates got back within striking distance of the end zone, the ball is handed off to Cameron Cantron in this next play here as he charges straight through the defense and makes a straight shot for the end zone to score the fourth Belfrey touchdown of the night. Final score from Cam Stadium, the Belfrey Pirates pick up their seventh straight regional title by a score of 43 to 12 on the George Twain State Farm High School Scoreboard. They will travel to Corbin next Friday. Johnson Central took on the Allen Central Tom, I mean, I'm sorry, Ashlyn Blazer Tom Katz this evening, little tongue twisters. Three minutes into the first quarter, number 16 quarterback, Riley Priest makes a 40 yard pass to Jordan Blanton following Priest. He hands it off to number six, Joe Jackson, who takes it about 30 yards for the first Eagles touchdown. Back at it again, number eight, Blake Gamble takes it 65 yards all the way home for touchdown number two. Still on the offensive side of things, the Eagles give it to Joe Jackson again and 70 yards for this one for the third Johnson Central touchdown of the night. Final score shutting out the Ashlyn Blazer Tom Katz, 51 to nothing. Then the Johnson Central Eagles pick up their second straight regional title and they will face Wayne County next Friday. So plenty of more football action to look forward to next week as we get down to the nitty gritty of high school football. Absolutely. And we'll be right back.


What up ladies and gents this is going to be the season 6 PvP Bist List and we are going to start this video out a little bit differently because I want to address one thing straight away before you guys close the video if you've learned nothing else from this video learn this one thing we run multiple sets so before you come asking why aren't you spell pen cap well have you only got 55 spell pen why haven't you got 130 it's 55 enough we run multiple sets right we have a set with an extra spell pen that we can swap to note when you swap weapon you will get a global cooldown unless you do it when you're already on global cooldown so make sure you're already on global cooldown when you swap and then you can swap back straight away afterwards you only need to swap when you're fearing uh if you really try hard you can do it when you're mind controlling as well but spell pen is removing the shadow resistance this is what it's removing doesn't doesn't donate to master spell or dispel or anything like that these spells are holy school there is no holy resistance spell pen does nothing for them they won't resist they will maybe miss but they won't resist so the spell penetration is for shadow school and we're going to be swapping to these this set whenever we want to try and fear to make sure that we don't get a resist due to shadow protection shadow resistance or from paladin or maybe mage armor from mage potentially stuff with warlocks that is the only time you're going to swap to this other than that you're going to run your main set and you're going to get all this extra spirit so this is why we're running 55 spell penetration most of the time i hope this has cleared up any confusion it seems to be a huge issue for people so i really wanted to get that out of the way straight away and help you guys understand so the gear mostly we're going to be running furious stuff damage is going to be really crazy high eye level is going to be really high you must have seen people talking about it they buffed eye level in all the war they're going to be buffing pvp weapon eye level things like that as well i don't know whether they're going to buff off-par eye level i think is still a point of contention we will wait and see potentially there are going to be some changes to the best list down the line if they decide to change stuff there is a couple of things that i'm not entirely sure about yet we're going with our best guess currently and obviously i will keep these pages updated obviously i can't update the video but i'll keep these pages updated as best i can and if anything does change your best bet is to just check out the stream and see what i'm up to feel free to ask a question if the best list doesn't coincide with what i seem to be doing there will be probably a reason for it and i can explain and hopefully it will be clear so we're going to start off with the furious gladiators mooncloth herd nothing special there same gems and chance the usual then we're going to go for the hit neck and the mooncloth shoulders with the jc gem and then we're actually going to go for the mp5 cloak and the reason for that is we're going to go for a hit ring and the ring and neck actually have a lot of hit combined so if we go for the cloak as well we're going to be quiet a bit over a cap so we're going to take advantage of this and go for the mp5 cloak and we're going to do one gem for hit which i usually don't like doing but we're going to do one gem for him i'll show you that a little bit down the line mooncloth robe nothing special here same gems same enchanter as last season then we're going to be going for the cuffs of salvation and all off parts will be salvation as before nothing really special or out of the ordinary there then for the mace we're going to be obviously going for the legendary most people won't have access to this that's completely fine you can just run the pvp weapon instead no harm done the pvp weapons going to be decent this season so i wouldn't stress too much about this unless you're a keen pvea it's going to take a fair bit of farming and time investment so it's not it doesn't give you a benefit in pvp that is corresponding to the amount of effort that it takes to farm it so really unless you're a massive tryhard don't sweat that you don't have it you'll be completely fine with that as well the main benefit i see of this is that the shield that it provides is actually magic so this will help protect your other buffs potentially and obviously circumvent mortal strike so when you're chucking out a penance you're going to get a nice 15 shield on that whole penance that isn't affected by mortal strike so it's a nice bit of extra healing i actually think that potentially if you are the target the pvp weapon will still be better due to the potential resilience that you can run on it i'm going to show you now so it'll be this one and you can just chuck a a resilience gem in that and that's going to give you 60 odd resilience you know that's a lot of resilience from the weapon uh you can pretty much ignore the the sucker bonus on this i think i think that the resilience gem is going to be superior here so yeah again that's another point of contention where i'm not entirely sure yet what's going to be better for tanking whether it will be the legendary how strong it's going to feel or if it's just going to be the straight up pvp weapon obviously offhand is going to just be reprieve and baton of light for the one and this is actually really strong this one this season you'll see one minute i'll come back to this when we look at the other weapon sets trinket is just the same again 108 rezil and then the other trinket is going to be spark of hope now this trinket at first glance doesn't look that good but if you take a minute and think we're gonna have a decent amount of haze maybe like 10 percent this season probably and this is obviously including the enlightenment talent now with that 10 percent haze is reasonable to assume that in fast paced games you will be doing approximately three globals per five seconds because your global will be 1.5 or just under 1.5 seconds maybe on average you don't cast every five seconds you take leave some spaces that kind of thing you might get cc'd etc now if you do get cc'd the spirit has more value which is great if you are casting constantly then the spirit gives you about 30 mp5 we can assume now if we're casting three spells every five seconds this is going to be about 132 mana reduced off your spells on average because we're not including things like talents which make it a little bit janky stuff like absolution makes it a little bit weird uh and reduces the value of it a little bit but not by not by a huge amount but yeah 132 mana reduced every five seconds so that's essentially 132 mp5 that you are gaining by having this trinket uh and then obviously we have the 30 that's 160 odd mp5 which is insane because the other options are things like this right now there's definitely value in the spell power of this but if you look at the actual mp5 if we look at this from a pure regen point of view this is uh 272 mp5 for 15 seconds which looks pretty nice but it has about a 25 percent uh 25 up time so it's going to be up for about 15 seconds every minute this is a you know a generous it's a little bit more than a minute but we'll be generous to say it's it's up 15 seconds every minute right 25 percent of the time so if we divide that 272 by four that's going to give us 68 mp5 on average from this trinket which is considerably less considerably less than the show uh sorry the uh the spark of hope apologies so the benefit of this trinket is obviously going to be the spell power which is really high right 158 spell power is really high and that's where a lot of the value of this trinket is so this is potentially going to be useful in some comps not sure what yet but any comp where mana is an issue for you you're going to be wanting this this spark of hope is going to be really strong i would say in two spark of hope for most comps is going to be superior uh to any other choice whereas in threes maybe if you're playing something like rmp you're winning games a lot quicker you want a little bit more power the show of faith might actually be the superior choice so picking up both if you can obviously is going to be worth it for sure but for the in all intents and purposes i think the spark of hope it's slightly easier to get as well it's going to be dropping from ten man all the world from colligan and he's going to be relatively uncontested by pv as i don't think it's used in pv at all so this is going to be a really good pick off you can get it and it's going to be very valuable i think to to compare i believe this is actually even more mana than than solace if you can if you cast every three three casts per five seconds it's going to be more mana per five than solace even which is insane for this season then for rings we're going to have the star shine circle just because it's really high eye level the stats are near insane haste mp5 really high spell power it's got a socket can't complain it's literally the perfect ring if you can get this definitely go for it then the other ring is going to be the shimmering seal and this is where we're going to be getting the other half of our hit from almost half and there really aren't a lot of hit rings available so this is probably going to be the best option it's got spirit on as well which we can't complain about in a socket so if you can get your hands on this this is a good pickup if you can't or you know you don't get it straight away or whatever then you can just continue to use the pvp hit ring until you do i think that's completely fine you will be a little bit short on hit so potentially using the hit cloak until you do pick this up and then you can swap is going to be a good shame then the rest is relatively straightforward we're just going to go the furious gladiator slippers of salvation with the winter grasp gem in it furious legs same gems as this season this is where we're making up the spell pen we're actually going to be a little bit over capped this season however it's not going to be for a while we're not going to pick up the spell pen weapons for a while we'll talk about that in a second and then we're going to be running the belt of salvation same again but here we've got the 16 hit rating this will be just resilience until you pick up this ring as we just talked about so you'll swap it out and then the gloves same as this season just furious instead of deadly of course with the hand mounted pyro rocket as before this is pretty irreplaceable i think as as priest the fact that it's off global call then is absolutely insane so in terms of weapon swaps not a lot changes we've got a different off hand which just has a bunch more spirit on but really compared to the furious it's not that that different it's even a little bit less spell powers pretty much the same spirit you're essentially just trading haste for resilience yeah this is very min maxi i would i would i would i would say that this is mainly going to be relevant if it's better to run the resilience mace instead of the legendary mace if you're tanking we'll have to see what that otherwise i wouldn't even bother probably i would just stick with a pvp stuff in case you get targeted and don't swap in time or anything like that before stun this is probably not going to be a thing this season if this is irrelevant uh next we've got obviously the pen set up with the pen off hand and wand and you should already have the deadly stuff from this season which will bring you up to 129 so you can really make these two items your last purchases you don't really need to prioritize these at all this very very minor upgrade and then the final set is going to be the spirit wand which will be the stuff endless winter with the spirit gems and the spirit enchant and this is going to be for if you literally are not casting you're going you're running around a pillar you're looking for a drink you just want to squeeze out that little bit of extra mana regen while you're not uh procking the five second rule and this is this is going to achieve that for you the wand as you can see all the three pretty much except for the pen set has been a baton of light and this is because there really isn't any good pve wand available um that is significantly ahead of this this wand it's got it's got good spirit on it it's got good spell power on it it's got good other stats on it as well and on the other ones you're essentially just trading resilience for some crit which really isn't that strong for us there's no real good spirit haste or mp5 haste options available so we're just going to run this all the way through and just simplify everything rather than over complicating it and looking to find you know another drop from pve which could be a pain in the ass so minimizing the actual pve that we need it's it's you know if you don't go for the legendary the staff again is min maxi you can get something from karazen uh sorry from nax that is is relatively similar so even this is not that that big of a deal and the big the big pickups are going to be the two rings and the trinket I would say this season if you can get those everything else is is pretty chill you can just go for pvp items elsewhere so that was my rundown really do keep in mind that this could change as we go forward and if anyone does have any other suggestions uh based on current information please do let me know i'm happy to hear it maybe we can adjust some stuff min max a little bit more that kind of thing but yeah this is a business so hopefully it was useful hopefully it makes sense it's not too crazy this season we are going to be running a good one one fifty rizal at least maybe one two hundred if we swap out the weapon um because damage is going to be high so stay safe out there kids uh thanks for watching have a good one


So one of the things we need to be able to do in order to set up a good cryptographic system is to find a good prime number. And so this leads to the problem of primes. We need to find a good method of determining whether a number is prime. Unfortunately, the only certain way to guarantee that a number is prime is to determine whether it's divisible by any of the integers less than itself. On the other hand, we can determine rather easily whether a number is composite using the Euler Fermat theorem. So again, to restate that, if I have two numbers, A and P, that are relatively prime, if P is a prime number and A is some value smaller than P, then A to the power of P minus 1 is going to be congruent to 1 mod P. And so this sounds great because it seems to be a good way of distinguishing primes between non-primes. However, the important thing here is that the theorem does not allow us to conclude that P is prime. P is prime is the antecedent. It's what we're starting with. What we can conclude is A to the power of P minus 1 is congruent to 1 mod P. On the other hand, if we take a look at the contrapositive of the theorem, it will tell us how we can determine whether a number is composite. If A to the P minus 1 is not congruent to 1 mod P, then A is not prime. A is a composite number. Well, let's take a look at an example. So let's take the number n equals 493, and let's see if we can determine whether this number is prime. And again, what I could do is I can try trial division by everything less than 493, but let's evaluate the Euler for a mod theorem. And I'll evaluate A to the power of 493 minus 1 mod 493. Now I need to find a value of A that's relatively prime to the modulus. And what I could do is I could pick a number and then check using the Euclidean algorithm to see that it's relatively prime. But let's take the easy way out. I know this is an odd number, so A equals 2 will definitely be co-prime with 493. So I'll evaluate 2 to the 493 minus 1. So I'll use the fast-powering algorithm, find the powers of 2 mod 493, and select the ones that I need, multiply them together. And again, 2 to the power of 492 is congruent to 373. And because it's not congruent to 1, then 493, whatever it is, is not prime. Now I know it's composite, but I don't actually know what the factors of 493 are at this point. Well, how about 341? Well, again, I'll evaluate 2 to the power of 341 minus 1 mod 341. I'll use the fast-powering algorithm, and I'll select things that work. And I find 2 to the power of 340 is congruent to 1. However, remember, that tells us nothing about whether 341 is prime. The Euler-Fermat theorem tells us that if a number is prime, this congruence is going to hold. It doesn't tell us what happens if the congruence holds. In fact, 341 is a composite number. It's 11 times 31. Well, this suggests the following approach that we might be able to use. So I know that if it's not prime, then something to power 340 is not going to be congruent to 1. So what if I try a different base? Well, for example, if I try a equals 3, I find that 341 and 3 are relatively prime. So I'll evaluate 3 to the power of 341 minus 1. Again, same procedure. And I find that it's congruent to 256. And so what does this tell me? Well, this tells me that because 3 to the power of 340 is not congruent to 1, then 341 is not a prime number. So what this suggests is I might try the Euler-Fermat theorem for a couple of different bases, and if any of them give us something not congruent to 1, then we know that the number we're working with is going to be a composite number, and we don't have to worry about it anymore.


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