Eric you're doing the counting here man you're doing the you're the rope counter but you're also gonna do a simultaneous interview is that work all right you can do it you can multitasker right yep okay first off Nebraska you're not in Nebraska anymore you're back in Albuquerque that's great how's that good it's gonna be home you know I miss miss Nebraska you got three I miss Nebraska but you know I was ready to be home and it's good to be around my family I haven't been around them that much in the past few years looking for a coaching job right now you know it might it might be enough to another kid yep just for kids to get recruited will your sons Russell that's something that you're interested in them dude yeah absolutely my dad raised me was he never pushed me to do anything you know he always pushed me to work hard but he never he wanted me to play baseball probably more so in wrestling so you know but he was one of those dads that said hey you know this is what you want to do I'm gonna support you and he didn't know a damn thing about it but you know he traveled me and I wanted to go places and and that's you know that's I guess the point I'm getting as if they wanted to do something else as long as they worked hard and tried to become the best of it I don't care but I you know I would love to look at your career you don't feel like this year was maybe was do you feel like it was your best year even though it wasn't your highest finish you know yeah sorry we talked no you're doing a job we already talked we're gonna multitask here but you know the throat slash was it was a big win for you and in Carver Hawkeye you had a great year man you won the one the Midlands yep you just you had a great season what do you think it says about how you finished and and where you finished in the sport of wrestling how did you feel about it I don't I still hurt you know just because I really felt like this is gonna be a year that I just envisioned it for so long I was gonna come out on top it didn't happen and it really hurts and I think watching that guy win probably made it sting a little bit more just because I you know I did it with a hurt shoulder and I was healthy I mean relatively healthy so I think and you know that was kind of my nemesis in my mind after my junior year I left there not put his name everywhere in my room and I'm training to beat him and he's the one who got it done so you know yeah it was a good year at the end of the day and you know just gotta move on and hopefully that like I said if I compete and go into fighting hopefully hopefully I never ever feel that feeling again these kids aren't from a state with a ton of division one wrestling opportunity you came from a state with no division one wrestling opportunity Ken guys from the Western States when I you know I talked to people a lot about this I feel like you guys aren't a huge disadvantage out here in the West how do guys in the West how can they be as good as the guys in the East in the Midwest we had just to get touch rewind a little bit you know it's true you know there's not a lot of opportunity and you know you look around most of these kids are Hispanic like I am and so you know that's the reason I'm out here you know I'm trying to give back and you know you're right and that's that's why these things are important because it gives them opportunity to know to get looked at and markets the wrestling here you know if you got bubble Jenkins walking around you mark Munoz here earlier you know you're you're giving them resources and allowing them to network I never had that never had that we never had one program and it's the Highlands and then you know no offense that was not great wrestling and in order to get to that level you have to work harder because you don't have the partners you don't have the coaches so I think I had to work twice as hard to get to where I was compared to some of the guys that were you know my weight that I was wrestling you know just to just to match them I even just so it's tough you know and I only got I didn't get recruited by a lot of schools because who recruited you Grand Canyon you said Grand Canyon wow that's it. So all the two business I took. Wow. Grand Canyon already have a program anymore Campbell's obviously flourishing. Exactly yeah this is because you know they didn't it's not their fault no one knew there wasn't anything going on in the mix. There's no way to make sense you know why I didn't get recruited.  Look at Penn State. Simple why they're at us. They have the coaches. They didn't call. They get in state tuition and they have the best. They have the best state with the recruit. You know what I mean? Pennsylvania. Yeah exactly and you're getting in state tuition. It's big. If you get 30% in state it's a lot of money you're not paying that much opposed to coming from out of state like Nebraska in states 15,000 out of states like 37,000. So if I'm getting 30% out of state that's nothing compared to 30% in state and it just makes it so much easier you know and that's you know they have a great program great coaches and all that great wrestlers I'm just saying. You're in the best state. You're in the best state. Look at the unsafe qualifiers. And they're getting in state. Look at the unsafe qualifiers. It's double Pennsylvania the next state. Illinois, Ohio, California. Exactly. Pretty crazy. All right man you got anything else from me? No man just... Is it nice to finally put a face with a voice? Is that nice? Did you ever do Ironman? Did it over here. I'll live right next to it. I'd be watching that one. I remember doing that voice. I wonder if that guy's got a face made for radio. Oh he does. Alright Eric thanks for the time man.


Hi guys, what is up? Welcome to my channel. So for today's video it is a very very fun one I'm going to be doing the if I could only keep 10 eyeshadow palettes tag I originally got inspiration to do this video because yesterday I was watching Kelsey Breonna J's videos and She did a if I could only keep 10 palettes video turns out It's this whole tag and a lot of you guys have been requesting that I do this video I've been seeing you guys requesting it and then once I watched Kelsey's video I was sold. This is a tag video originally created by Annette's makeup corner So I will link her video down below for you guys This is a really fun challenge and I have to say I'm very happy with the 10 that I picked out So if you want to see them then just keep watching For the 10 I didn't just pick my 10 favorite eyeshadow palettes First of all, that's just too challenging for me asking me to pick from my children as I always say I laid out all the palettes that I was picking because I wanted to curate a collection of 10 palettes That would fulfill all my needs all of my creativity and what I would want for every day to evening to holidays All of that good stuff. So this is a curation of palettes Containing colors that I feel I need to survive I want variety in colors, textures, dimensions, finishes, formulas, all of that good stuff And I really feel like I was able to do that first palette that I picked out This one was a no-brainer for me It was the first palette that I thought of kind of cheating because it's such a large palette I I feel like I cheated because I did pick a few palettes that contained a lot of colors But this one is amazing. And this is the vizi art grande pro volume one Now the reason that I chose this is because is an all-map palette with a lot of beautiful shades and a beautiful Formula vizi art has a formula that really builds very easily. It blends how you want it It just works how you need it to work every matte shade I could need as far as every day going out pairing with many different looks you have neutral browns here You have some cool toned grays, pinks, purples, navies. You can do a lot with this palette So for me for all of the palettes in here, this is a palette that's going to pair well with almost all of them This basically has everything I need as far as mattes go as long as we're not getting crazy with colorful looks So that is why I picked out this palette. Of course, it's a reliable formula and a great range of colors The next palette I picked out was to fulfill my neutral needs So I actually picked out the abh sultry palette. It was between this and the soft glam And I know some of you're gonna be like what ultimately I decided to go with sultry because I love the shimmery Cool toned neutrals that we have in here. This year for me, I'm all About the cool tones. I've been loving them. So at this moment in time This is the neutral palette that I need. It has very many steel shimmery Really glittery colors in here that I feel I would need to do a glam smoky eye It has great neutral matte shades in here And if I do want to warm the look up I can go into my visi art palette as well So luckily with the visi art palette, I'm not short for warm colors because of those mattes that I can mix them But I just love this. This is my ideal neutral palette And I love it even more than when I bought it because I'm so into cool toned neutrals now So this would have to be in my collection of 10 shadows. I'm starting off with the more neutral shades here I don't know why I'm going in that order, but I am but I was thinking how I needed a good travel palette in my collection of 10 palettes So I decided to go with the hood of beauty nude medium now this one the colors are more warm So compared to the sultry palette this can also warm that up And I just don't have a lot of these like red warm undertones in the palettes that I chose Not a lot of them anyways, so this kind of fulfilled that criteria You can get like a red cranberry look if you are going for that deep red roses all of that This covers those bases and it's also a great palette to travel with as well So if I needed something as far as size goes this would be in the 10 that I could keep I actually have not used this palette a lot, but every time I do use it. I absolutely love it It's a beautiful formula. So if I had to narrow down my collection God forbid this would have to be in it because it's such a good quality palette with beautiful colors And if I didn't have the wild collection that I have I would definitely have used and abused this one kind of my last true neutral baby This is from dose of colors and this is the katie and desi collection the friend kation palette I just love this palette so much. I love the textures in here the dimension that the shadows give you Ultimately, I really just love this color right here. This is one of my favorite glam Neutral glittery shades. It's so beautiful It's almost a see-through shade where there isn't a base to it But the glitters are just so stunning all over the eyelid for that glam Neutral smoky eye or whatever you want to do with it. I also love the neutral tones in here You can get more warm looks. You can get more cool looks. I just feel like this is a great all-in-one palette It has everything that you need, you know, this is a survival palette for me for sure I would need this and you can really get funky looks as well with this green gold right here You have this blue this black with so much glitter in it. This is just such a well rounded palette I would definitely be missing this one if it wasn't in my collection And it's a shame that it's no longer sold because for being 10 shades This fills so many bases in my collection and so many needs that I feel a shadow palette should have So they just did such a good job with this. I will never stop waxing poetic about it The next palette that I chose I of course had to add a natasha denona palette in here There's a lot of palettes that I love from natasha denona But I picked this palette because I need this formula in my collection and the metropolis palette has so many colors The main reason why I chose this palette is because you get a lot of colors from this formula She has a lot of other palettes with bigger pans with a lesser number So I just wanted something where I could kind of cheat and get the most colors possible And not to mention the colors in here are really great There's a lot of variety you have a lot of neutral shades that I'm going to go for all the time But you also have pops of colors. You can get some blue looks out of this palette You can get some gold looks out of this palette some green looks some warm cranberry looks this palette again It just checks off the list of things that I would want in an eyeshadow collection all in one palette Just the array of colors and everything in here. It just I don't the formula is why I would need to have this In my collection. Okay, I'm gonna do the other two palettes that I'm cheating on because they have a lot of colors But I wanted more color in my collection I wanted a palette that was going to get me out of my comfort zone Just one of those token palettes in my collection and I decided to go with the original abh Norvina palette and I know a lot of you are probably shocked because Nobody really truly needs this palette But you know, if I'm curating a collection of 10 palettes I want something that's going to put me out of my comfort zone and to be quite honest I just truly love the formula of this palette. I love how inspiring this palette is for me This one is to get my creative juices flowing if I really do feel like stepping outside of my box with my makeup I have this one as an option You can get a lot more looks out of this than you would think most of the base of course is purple Which is my favorite color. So that's why I gravitated towards this one over the other two in these collections But you can also get a very red look you can play around with some blue purples You have a gold in here You actually do have a larger array of colors than it would seem and I love the formula of this And I think that I wanted at least one colorful palette in my collection So formulation wise and inspiration wise this one was the one that I decided that I personally needed In my collection one more large palette the rest are more normal size But I wanted to add the color pop so jaded palette This was in collaboration with cathleen lights And I chose this palette because it is the perfect mixture of pops of colors Along with neutral tones. So you can get very neutral looks with this palette But you can also get super bright looks or not so bright looks, but they're brighter than natural if that makes sense So I just feel like this has so many unique colors and textures that you can't find in any of the other palettes That I have now of course this palette covers So many different colors that this palette is going to complement a lot of the other palettes that I have So for example, you can pull together a really cool teal look if you use this shade here and then the Friendcation palette. There's that blue in there You can get an emerald look pairing it with the other greens and the natasha Denona palette because there's not an emerald like this You could take the matte blue in the norvina palette and play around with these guys right here So this palette because it is so large with so many different colors It's going to complement the other colors that I have in the palettes that I have chosen a lot of times with palettes You'll find they follow a specific color story. This one though technically there is a color story The colors themselves are all across the board. So that's why I chose to have this palette in here And you guys know purple is my favorite color So I wouldn't be happy unless I had a all purple Dedicated eyeshadow palette and for that I chose the vizier liaison palette Now the reason that I chose this is because this is one of my favorite formulas of purples Though the actual number of shades are limited We do have the norvina palette and the so jaded palette to make up for that But the formula in here is just incredible You can actually get a relatively wearable purple look as well If you use these top three shades and then you can get obnoxious with it down here or with the abh Matte shades to go if you want a true vibrant purple So I just feel like this complemented the other shadows that I have and it's my favorite formulation of purples So I just know it's going to work well whenever I reach for it This is definitely the token purple palette that I had to have in my collection and it's small It's portable and it's a wearable version of purple if you want it to be as well This one I'm surprised made it into my top 10 But when I was laying out all of the palettes because that's what I did I put these out on a table I opened them up and I'm like what am I missing and this palette I felt like fulfilled something that in my heart was missing So I picked out the melt cosmetics smoke sessions palette just disclaimer I am a health teacher and if you are a student of mine I certainly do not promote the use of marijuana, but the colors in here are really pretty Okay, anyways back to the makeup I just love greens and these tones in here and when I was looking at my palettes I definitely had some pops of green But I wanted an all green palette and I like how you have some green golds here as well Ranging down to teal this right here kind of fulfilled that void for me that pop of color that I feel I would need If I wanted to create a look like that and I just love this palette altogether The quality is fabulous. The color story speaks to me and it's a very unique palette So I wanted to have this in there and I'm very surprised I put this in here But I truly felt like something was missing and this fulfilled that okay And it's time for the last one and I could not live with a collection without pat McGrath in there I'm sorry. I couldn't I'm surprised. I even only just picked one It's just you know, they only have 10 colors in a palette So I needed that token pat McGrath palette to feel okay with my collection and just kind of looking at the colors that I have I felt like This one was the one that I needed because it has so many of her special formulas in there I love the shades of her special formula that she chose in this palette right here The major reason why I wanted a pat McGrath palette was for her Blitz astral shades So I was looking through all of the palettes that I had and this palette had my favorite of the Blitz astral formula You have an iridescent color a blue color a purple color a green gold kind of color And you also have some great neutrals in here, which are replicated in my other palettes that I chose But altogether, this is the most unique pat McGrath palette that I have in my collection I find it to be the most inspiring So that is why I picked this one out to be the one pat McGrath palette that I would choose I really struggled with not putting broad seduction in this video But I had a lot of neutrals So I had to steps outside the box. So that's why I chose this one And I love the mix of formulations in here as well Those are the 10 palettes that if I could only keep 10 I would keep these a lot of it as you could listen was because I wanted to have a variety of things to keep me motivated And to keep me feeling inspired with my collection and excited to put on makeup because that's what it's all about for me So it's not even about what my top 10 palettes are is what is going to keep me wanting to create looks I hope you guys enjoyed this video.  So make sure you comment that down below I'm curious. So thank you guys so much for watching this video. If you aren't subscribed to my channel already I hope you take the time to do so and I will see you guys in my next video. Bye guys. Have a good one


First of all, what is part one? What is the rationale behind the style of questions and what the examiners are gonna be asking you?  Importantly, what we're gonna look at secondly is what not to worry about. Looking at, if you look at YouTube or Facebook or just Google, you know, speaking part one, you'll find a lot of misinformation. You'll find a lot of things that people say are really, really, really important when they're not important at all. Contribute zero to your score. So it's really important that you understand what not to worry about so that you can focus on the things that will actually improve your score. Because one of the keys to success is focusing on the things that will improve your score and ignoring the things that don't improve your score. We're gonna look at some common mistakes. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get Justin who's here with me to ask me some random questions. I haven't told him which questions to ask or anything like that. He's gonna throw these questions at me and I'm going to pretend to be a student making some of these common mistakes and in the comments you guys are going to tell me which common mistakes I'm making. Then we're going to look at the flip side of that which is he's gonna ask me more questions and I'm gonna try and demo what a good student would do or what a student at a seven, eight, or nine would be doing and then from that we'll take some best practices. So things that you should be thinking about, things that you should be doing on test day. Finally, we're gonna give you a PDF download with lots of the common topics that you'll get in part one of the speaking test and some sample answers for those. Not to be copied, of course, but just so you can give you an idea and solidify the things that we've been talking about today. So what is part one? It's really, really, really important that you understand that part one is about you. Why am I saying that? Why is that important? Well, one of the common things that students say about the speaking test is what happens if they ask me about something I know nothing about or I can't talk about? Well, all of the questions are about you so it's impossible to get them wrong because they're asking about you. So the best thing that you can do for part one is just answer the questions naturally. How you would speak to a friend or a colleague or a teacher if they asked you one of these questions because they're just normal everyday questions that they might ask you about you. And also importantly, if they ask you a question that you just have no idea about you can honestly answer because it's about you. I don't know about that and explain why you don't know it and we'll look at some examples of that because remember it's not a knowledge test or an IQ test or how much do you know about this topic test? It's a speaking test. So remember that and remember that the questions in part one are about you. Part two, part three, a little bit different but part one they're about you so don't worry about the content. Don't worry about having knowledge about these topics. This part's gonna last around four to five minutes and the examiner is gonna ask you a range of different questions. They can't just ask you like one or two questions and hope that you speak for a very, very long time and you'll see the significance of this in a second when we talk about what things you should be doing what things you shouldn't be doing. So be aware that they'll ask you a range of topics and a range of questions within each of those topics and it'll take about four to five minutes and this will be obviously the first part of the speaking test. So do not worry about the following things. You might think that these things sound like I've made these up or these are things that I'm just passing the time by telling you these things or to be entertaining or something like that but these are things that you will actually find on the internet. You will find these in Facebook groups you'll find these on blogs you'll find these on YouTube channels especially YouTube channels for some reason telling you that these things are really, really, really important especially for part one. None of these things are important at all. There is a real article from a real school telling you which clothes that you should wear in order to improve your speaking score. I'm not making this up, I found this myself I posted it about six months ago or nine months ago. It is a school actually wrote what clothes you should wear in order to improve your speaking score. We got a question a week ago from a student who asked is it okay to wear trainers and not formal shoes in the speaking test? Would that lower his score if he was wearing like sports shoes? You do not need to worry about your attire do not worry about this. And why am I even talking about this? To make you laugh? No, it's because if you're worrying about things like this then you're not worrying about the things that actually matter which is very, very, very important. Do not worry at all about how you greet the examiner. There are whole YouTube videos dedicated to how you greet the examiner. It does not matter. It really, really, really does not matter at all how you greet the examiner. When you're greeting the examiner the test is not going on. The test does not start until part one starts and you've already greeted the examiner.  So you'll be absolutely fine. Greet the examiner in the same way you would greet anybody else. Yeah, that's all you have to worry about. And if you greet him incorrectly I don't think there's any incorrect way of doing that. It really doesn't matter. Again, don't waste 15 minutes. I saw a 15 minute YouTube video on how to greet the examiner. Do not waste 15 minutes of your time talking about that. Also, you'll see a lot of people asking like, did I get a low score because my body language wasn't right or because my eye contact wasn't right or because I didn't use enough hand gestures or too many hand gestures. Like, you'll get a lot of students coming into the test and they'll maintain eye contact with you for a very, very long time and they'll do weird things with their hands.  It's because the teacher told them that these things are important. They're not important at all. Why? Because these things have nothing to do with your ability to speak English. It doesn't matter what your body language is like. It doesn't matter what your eye contact is like. It doesn't matter what your hand gestures are like. They don't contribute to your score in any way. Importantly also, don't worry about the examiner. Examiners are human beings. Just like going into McDonald's, sometimes you'll get a server in McDonald's who's really, really friendly and really nice and sometimes you'll get one who is not friendly and not nice and is rude. It's exactly the same with examiners. Is it part of their job to be friendly and to be nice? Kind of, I suppose. But really their job is to listen to you and give you an accurate score on your speaking test. That is their job. That's the most important thing that they need to do. We will get a lot of emails from people saying, I think I failed my test because my examiner didn't like me.  Or we'll get someone saying, I think I failed my test because my examiner was rude to me or was unfriendly.  They might be hungover. They might have had a, you know, been sitting in traffic before getting there and being just in a bad mood.  Also, if they are doing their job correctly, they might be focusing on your pronunciation and your fluency and your coherence and your grammar and vocabulary. Obviously, they might not have a big cheesy smile on their face while they're doing that because they're focusing on what they need to do. They might be serious about what they're doing. So don't worry about any of these things. And importantly, if you go to a school and they start teaching you about body language and hand gestures and what clothes to wear and how to greet the examiner, you leave that school because they're not focusing on the things that matter. The things that matter are these four things and these four things only. These are what the examiners are going to be listening out for during your speaking test and during part one, but throughout all the parts. Pronunciation, fluency and coherence, vocabulary and grammar. So what do these things mean? I could do a whole video on, you know, a whole 30 minute video on each of these, but just to summarize very, very quickly, can the examiner understand what you're saying? All right, do they understand 100% of what you're saying? If they can, you're on your way to getting a seven or above for pronunciation. You do need to worry about some higher level pronunciation features like intonation and connected speech and things like that. But just for the purposes of this video and to be concise, just worry about them understanding what you're saying. Grammar and vocabulary, you do have to worry about range a little bit, but for most students, accuracy is the real reason why you're not getting the score you need. Focus on your grammar being accurate and your vocabulary being accurate. Fluency, are you able to speak at a natural pace or do you have a lot of pauses and hesitations? Uncoherence, are you answering the question? Are you developing your answer enough for the examiner to understand the answer to your question, the point you're trying to get across? Those are the things that you really, really need to be thinking about. Not these things. Do not worry about these. So here are some common mistakes. Okay, so what we're gonna do is talk about these very, very briefly. Then I'm gonna get my glamorous assistant here to ask me a question. I haven't prepared any answers or anything like that. I want it to be as natural as possible. And I will pretend to be a student who is doing one of these common mistakes. In the comments, what I want you to tell me is which of these am I doing? Why am I doing this? To make the lesson as interactive as possible. If you just sit back and watch a video, you'll maybe learn 10, 20%, but if you're thinking about it and engaging with the lesson, you're going to learn more. And that's the reason why we make these videos is to help you guys learn and to improve your scores. So robotic delivery, so speaking like a robot, memorized answers. So looking at a very, very, we'll not talk about it because I don't wanna give you too many clues, but memorizing an answer and giving a memorized answer instead of just a normal answer. Trying to impress the examiners. So think about the things that people try and do to impress the examiners. Way too long and way too short. Okay, so think about these. It might be multiple ones or it might just be one, but let's start with the first question. My favorite website is IELTS Advantage because it helps me with my IELTS scores. Okay, so that's the first one. What do you think would be the problem with that one? Justin asked me, what's my favorite website?  Which of these things do you think is the problem? In the comments, let me know. Okay, so it's pretty obvious. It's too short, but why is that a problem? The grammar was fine, the vocabulary was fine, the fluency was fine, pronunciation was fine. Why is that a problem? Well, you're not really giving the examiner enough to go on if you give a really, really, really short answer to a question. And they might ask you follow up questions like why or asking you to develop your answer a little bit more.  It might be like, am I doing something wrong? It'll cause extra stress. You want to be developing your answer a little bit more than that. Now for part one, you don't have to develop it much more than that, but just giving a one sentence answer wouldn't really be enough. You'd have to add a little bit more detail or an explanation or example or something like that just to develop it a little bit more. This is gonna be more difficult than I thought. I thought this was gonna be really easy, but trying to answer a question and pretend to be someone else is more difficult than I thought. All right, so give me another one. My favorite kind of weather is cold weather because I do not like to be cold. When I am cold, I feel bad and I shiver because it is very cold. I always like warm weather. Warm weather is nice. That's why I like the summertime. Okay, so in the comments, what do you think about that one? Was it my memorized answer or trying to impress examiner too long too short robotic delivery? What do you think? And do we chances robotic delivery? Yeah, so I mean, this is not really a student's fault. It can be a couple of things. Number one, it can be because you're really stressed out. It is a very stressful exam. Obviously, you might have a lot of pressure in terms of it might cost you your job. It might lead to your family being upset with you. You might have a visa waiting for you. It is a very, very high stakes test. So what happens is people just kind of clam up and speak in a very, very robotic way. So that is a problem because you're not being as fluent as you could be. Also, if you are so stressed out that you are speaking in that way, then people tend to make in my experience more grammar and vocabulary mistakes because they're just not relaxed and speaking in a natural way. And also sometimes it can cause pronunciation issues for the same reason because a lot of people, when they're speaking in that way, can speak in a very quiet way, like inside their mouth is how I always describe it rather than projecting their voice so it might make it a little bit difficult for the examiner. So there's lots and lots of problems you can have there. The other reason is a lot of people have been taught that the IELTS speaking test is a formal academic test and you should speak in a formal academic way. It's not. It's a speaking test about how you would speak to a normal person in a normal situation. You're not going to speak in that overly formal, overly academic robotic way because that's not how you would speak to someone. Like imagine if Justin and I were having a meeting and I said like, how is your weekend? My weekend was good. I went like, he wouldn't really talk like that. So one of the key pieces of advice is just speak to the examiner in the same way that you would speak to a friend or a colleague or a classmate or a teacher. Someone who you know when you're not speaking in a really, really informal or formal way, just in a normal way would be good. So you could say that I'm a real fashionista and I wouldn't really dress down once in a blue moon because I am a real fashionaholic and fashion is my life. I would die for fashion. So when I'm in the mood, I go to the shopping center with my bodies and we buy the place out and we spend lots of money buying new clothes. Okay, so in the comments, what would you say is the problem there? Trying to impress, yeah. So that person is trying to impress the examiner and what they're doing is they're just thinking of as many big words and idioms and fancy vocabulary as they can. They are not answering the question. They're not thinking about answering the question. They're approaching the test as if it is a vocabulary test. You can also try and impress the examiner with fancy grammar structures and things like that, but that person was principally thinking that the test wasn't a speaking test, it was a vocabulary test and ignoring these things. All right, so when you're doing that, when you're focusing just on vocabulary, then you're not really focusing on being coherent and answering the question. So there's a relationship between these two and you shouldn't worry about one more than the other. For example, if you are just focusing on grammar and being 100% accurate all the time, then your fluency tends to go down, all right? Because you can't think of the perfect grammar every single sentence and hope to have really, really good fluency. Same with your vocabulary. If you're just focusing on vocabulary, then your fluency and your coherence tend to be affected. So there is a relationship between these two. Remember it's a speaking test and these are components of speaking.  So we talked about robotic delivery. We talked about trying to impress examiner. We've talked about being too short. Memorized answers, this is when obviously you memorize an answer and this really tricks people or trips people up because what you'll do is you'll memorize an answer for a common question like, tell me about your hometown or describe your home or one of these quick, what is your job? Do you, what do you like to do in your free time? So the memorize that answer and they'll give a normally a very, very, very, very long answer to a question. And I'm sure you've heard people do this. What that means is two things. Normally that will affect your coherence because you're not really answering the question because you'll ask someone like a really good example was on Friday I was working with a student and I asked them, is your hometown a good place to grow up? And they told me about the architecture in their hometown, the transport system in their hometown, their, what else did they talk about? Education system, like telling me everything about their hometown. And I said to them, you just memorized an answer about your hometown and you've given me that. So that obviously affected their coherence. What will also happen when you memorize an answer is the examiner will not think, oh my God, this person is amazing. The examiner will think, this person has memorized an answer, I'm pretty sure. Let's ask them a more difficult question or a question on a different topic or a follow-up question and see how they cope with that. They'll ask you a different question and what people who memorize answers normally do is like, I don't know how to answer that because it's not a, because I haven't memorized an answer. So you're not fooling the examiner. They're trained in these things. They know what you're doing. They do it for a job. Could someone come into your job and try and trick you on something as silly as that? Hopefully not. So why do you think the examiners would fall for that? So you've just demonstrated that you can't speak English. You've demonstrated that you can memorize answers and give very, very long answers, but it's not a memorization test, all right? It's a speaking test. Let's look now at best practices. So I'm not gonna give you the best practices. What I'm gonna do is I'm going to ask Justin again to ask me some questions. I'm going to pretend that I am a student in the test, all right, and I'm gonna answer them as best I can. Demonstrate what I would do and then we're gonna come up as a group in the comments you're gonna tell me some of the things that you think I did right. Remember, we're gonna be basing everything on the pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and coherence. So and compare them also with the bad examples that we showed you here, okay? I would have to say hands down my favorite food is steak. So my wife cooks this for me every Friday. Normally I go for a workout, been lifting weights and running around and I'm really, really hungry. So what I get is steak with chips, mushrooms, onions. I just feel fantastic after I have that. I normally have a little glass of red wine to go along with that as well. So in the comments, tell me some of the things that you think I did well and how could we create some best practices in the comments? And that wasn't like a, by the way, that wasn't a perfect answer or an answer that you should copy or an answer that, you know, that's the only way to answer that. What's your favorite food? There are a million ways that you could answer that that could get you a band nine. There are a million ways you could answer it to get you a band five. The content wasn't important. What we're trying to get are these best practices. The things that you can learn from so that you can not copy that answer but model it and learn from it. So a lot of you are saying that the answer was too long. What a lot of people learn from teachers and from online resources is that you should use a set number of sentences. That like you should say three sentences or you should say a set number of words. Like it should be 50 words long. That is not how you should think about it. You should think about the answer as how can I answer this question naturally? If somebody asked me this question under normal circumstances, how would I answer it? Don't be thinking of number of sentences or anything like that. So a reason, so put explanation here. Good coherence, which I think what you mean is that I actually answered the question. I got to the point and I answered it fully. So developed, specific. Okay, rather than just give one answer, I'll give a few different answers and then you can judge just better to have a good sample. I love to watch U.S. crime dramas. So there's a few of those that I've really become addicted to in the past, principally Sopranos, The Wire and Breaking Bad. So these are all very, very long series and what I like about them is they're very episodic so that you can just go from episode to episode to episode. And it's try and watch like one or two a night but sometimes it goes a little bit over that because they are very, very addictive. Again, from that, what would you say are the good things that you could use to model as well? If someone said the idea generation was good, I wouldn't really say idea generation for the speaking test so much because remember part one is about you. You can't get it wrong. So you're not thinking of an idea like making something up really. What you're doing is just talking honestly about what you're, like that was my favorite food. That were, those were my favorite TV programs. And those are much, much easier to talk about than to make something up like to generate ideas. Sometimes you'll have to do that but most of the time it's better just to speak naturally. A little pause for thinking. Yeah, so fluency does not mean speaking without pausing ever. You do need to think, all right? It is better to think for a couple of seconds and then give your answer than to immediately begin talking and then get lost and, you know, so I don't think it's, you know, mandatory for you to think at the beginning. I don't think that's a best practice but I think the point I'm trying to make is fluency does not mean that you never pause. It's a bad fluency is when you're pausing at a non-natural rate. Examples, grammar, I'm fluent, okay. So I'll give one more example and then we can talk about what I did. I used too many apps, I used hundreds of apps. Actually, recently what I've been trying to do is to make my phone a lot healthier to make me more productive. So what I mean by that is in the past I had a lot of social media apps such as Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and that wasted a huge amount of time so I deleted all of those from my phone and now I use apps that can track my number of steps that I'm taking, my sleep, general exercise, calorie intake, things like that so that will help me improve in the future rather than just waste time with apps that don't really improve my life at all. Again, what do you think about that one? So all of them have some common things, all right? And that's what you wanna do. You don't wanna be copying the content or thinking this is exactly what he said or this is exactly what he did. Just think about the common things amongst them. So definitely a lot of you talked about that they were natural and yes, these are about me. There are questions that are asking about me. When you are in the test or asking about you so just ask them naturally or answer them naturally and that is going to help your fluency but I also think it helps your grammar, your pronunciation and your vocabulary as well because you're not thinking too much because it's just easier to talk about yourself and to talk naturally. Also, I wasn't talking in a very robotic way. I wasn't trying to impress the examiner. I wasn't trying to insert lots of fancy words or anything like that. I was just speaking, obviously I'm a native English speaker so that obviously helps but if you need a seven or above you should be at a high level of English anyway. So just speaking in the same way as imagine you, it's your first day of a new class and you're speaking to your classmates. How would you answer those questions? So a lot of you talked about the questions or developed, I gave some explanations, some examples. Again, going back to this, answering it naturally. I don't think it is a good idea to answer part one questions in a very formulaic way. What do I mean by that? So what a lot of people will do is suggest that you answer explanation and then example, that is a very, very formulaic way of answering a question. Can that help you? Sure, it can help you but do you answer questions in your native language in that way? Like imagine you're speaking to your brother or your sister or your friend tonight and they asked you, what's your favorite TV program or what's your favorite food? You wouldn't think like my favorite food is steak. Explain, okay, it's my favorite food because blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Example, last week you wouldn't really do that. Does that mean that you should never use explanations and examples? No, but just have them as like tools in your toolkit. Think about it when you're developing things. I need to give the examiner enough information so that they can understand what I think about this but don't think about it in a formulaic way, like a mathematical formula. You can add a little bit more detail, add an explanation, add an example but not in a formulaic way. Hopefully that makes sense. Coherence, so that's really to, I developed the answer and I answered the specific question. When they ask you about your favorite food, tell them about your favorite food. They ask you about apps, talk about apps. Answer the specific question that they're asking you. And also, again, developing it will help with your coherence. I'm a native English speaker, so I don't wanna say my grammar was great or my vocabulary was great because I was born speaking English, obviously as well with fluency. So we're not wanna talk too much about those. I'm not gonna pat myself on the back by saying my English is great when I'm a native English speaker, of course. But what you will find there was, I didn't try and focus on using really, really impressive grammar, impressive vocabulary. What I did was just answer the questions naturally and by doing that, the grammar and the vocabulary and the fluency just flowed from that. If your grammar and your vocabulary and your fluency is good enough and you just answer the questions naturally, these will take care of themselves. But if you go into, okay, he asked me about my favorite food, what are some big adjectives I can think of or what are some idioms I can use? Then your fluency is gonna suffer because you're thinking way too much and you're probably going to make lots of grammar and vocabulary mistakes because you'll be thinking about grammar and vocabulary that's beyond your level that you're not able to use yet. So use the grammar and vocabulary that you are comfortable using to fluently develop your answer and then everything kind of looks after itself. Pronunciation will not talk about that because I'm a native English speaker and I obviously, hopefully my pronunciation is okay. I'm gonna give you a free topics and sample answers download. You can Google our website, IELTS Advantage and go to this speaking section. So you can Google that or just click the link and if you comment here, speaking part one, download your free PDF guide so you can just click that, enter your email and I believe that it just downloads automatically or is sent to your email as well. So what you'll get there are lots and lots of sample answers, sample questions, common topics. Again, you're not going to copy these. These are not so you can copy them. These are not so you can take the, even taking the vocabulary and stuff where you can learn from it but you're not going to answer it like this because it's about you. You're going to answer them based on you and your experience because that's what it's about. You're not going to copy someone else but these will give you a good idea and you can also relate it back to these best practices talking about development and how I answer the questions. So that will help you out. An exercise you can do is take each of the questions and just write them down on a piece of paper or have it on your phone or something like that. Look at each question and answer it how you would answer it and then record yourself and then listen back and think about the best practices and the common mistakes that people make and you can critique your own work and get better on your own and do some practice at home. And if you do that, you'll really, really improve. Thank you very much guys. Give us some feedback on the lesson if there was something that you liked, tell us if there's something that you didn't like, tell us if there's something extra that you need, feel free to tell us and it's always good to get feedback and these lessons are free. 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My name is Divya Vaidh. I'm an assistant professor at Javal Naal Nehru University. I have a chapter in this book on the ethnographic approach to social mobility. The aim of this chapter was to do a literature review but to also develop an analytical framework through which we could see what contributions ethnography can make to the study of social mobility. Ethnography is a combination of method but it's also an approach of writing, description is very critical and the context of time and place is very important to the ethnographic approach. Ethnography also allows one to focus on spatial mobility. Migrants who move from one country to another might actually experience social mobility in terms of occupational improvement. They might spatially move and their occupational position might not be much better but because they left their home country and they migrated to perhaps from a developing country to the developed world they actually seem to be status mobiles. Often the study of social mobility has been from certain disciplinary perspectives. For instance quantitative sociologists have often looked at social class position as indexed by occupation, economists have looked at income or assets and ethnographers have looked at anxieties and narratives of experiences. So a combination of these approaches would actually allow perhaps for the first time a more comprehensive understanding of social mobility. What UNI water can do is set the agenda to inspire research that can help us understand this complex issue.


Hey man, so starting John chapter 7 this evening, hopefully tonight I can give you kind of the context of what's going on, at least in this chapter. We're going to look at the overview of John chapter 7 tonight. We're not going to get through every verse of it, but I just kind of want to show you the overview of John chapter 7, what's happening, and hopefully show you some of the complexities of the Bible this evening, some of the reasons that hopefully after tonight's sermon you'll see that, you know, there's no possible way that somebody that is unsaved could properly translate the Bible, and that's why we're King James only, and that's why we only use the King James Bible. I try to show those things as they come along, but look down at John chapter 7, and we get kind of the setting for what's going on in the very first verse where the Bible says, and after these things Jesus walked in Galilee, so of course this is the area north of Jerusalem, this isn't down in what would be called Judah, after these things he walked in Galilee, for he would not walk in Jewry because the Jews sought to kill him. So at this point in Jesus' ministry, at this early point in his ministry, he's already being hunted for death at this point. Now the Jews' feast of the Tabernacles was at hand, his brethren therefore set unto him depart hence, and go into Judea, that thy disciples also may see the works that thou doest. Now brethren here means his literal brothers, like his brothers in his family, all right? Turn to Mark chapter 6, it says there is no man that doeth anything in secret, verse 4, and he himself seeketh to be known openly, if thou do these things show thyself to the world, for neither did his brethren believe in him. So turn to Mark chapter number 6, and just look there at verse number 3. I just want to show real quickly, this isn't the point of the sermon, but just how silly it is that this teaching that Jesus didn't have any brothers and sisters and Mary remained the Virgin Mary forever and all this stuff, it's just not in the Bible at all. Look at verse number 3 of Mark chapter 6. So first of all, John chapter 7 talks about Jesus' brethren, talking about his brothers. Look at verse 3, it says, is this not the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, Joseph, and Judah, and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us, and they were offended at him. So right there we know that Jesus had at least six siblings, four brothers, and at least two sisters, plural.  So look at verse number 6, back in John chapter 7, just to point that out. Jesus said unto them, so his brothers basically are saying, they don't believe that he's the Christ at this point, they don't believe on him, and they're saying, why don't you go to Judea and show everyone how great you are, and show everyone your miracles. And Jesus said unto them, my time has not yet come. What he means by that, he says, but your time is always ready. He's talking about they should be believing on him now, but what he's saying is, is that my time is not yet come, they want to kill me, and it's not time for me to die yet. All right, look at verse 7.   Because you are of the world, he's saying. They're unbelievers, they don't believe in him, but look at John chapter 15, verse number 18, Jesus actually gives different advice to his disciples, people that do believe in him, and look what he says in verse 18, it says that the world hate you in John 15, 18, you know that it hated me before it hated you. Now go back to John chapter 7. So all that to say this, there's a lot of hatred coming at Jesus right now, and people are literally after him to take his life. So he says, go ye up into this feast, I will not go up yet under this feast. Again, he says, my time is not yet full come. It's not time for me to die yet. People didn't understand what he was saying. Of course, we look back on this and we know the whole story, so we know what he was talking about. We'll look down to verse number nine. When he had said these words under them, he abodes still in Galilee. But when his brethren were gone up, then he also up to the feast. So he does eventually go. And when it says go up, remember, the Bible is usually talking about elevation here. He's talking about going up, he's actually going south to Judea, all right? Not openly, but as it were in secret. So he goes in secret, then the Jews sought him at the feast and said, where is he? So they're after him to kill him. Okay, verse 12. And there was much murmuring among the people, and this is really kind of where we're gonna start the context tonight in verse number 12 here. It says, there was much murmuring on the people concerning him. For some said he is a good man, others said nay, but he deceiveth the people. So here, we start to see that two things, I want to point out, two things. First of all, this crowd, these people in Judea, they are all over the map concerning Jesus. Some people trust on him, some people believe he's the Christ. We'll find that out later. And some people think he is a good man.  Now turn to Matthew chapter 19, and I really wanna focus on that point where it says he is a good man. So some people say he is a good man. Now those people that said he is a good man had it pretty much exactly right. Look at Matthew chapter 19, and look at verse number 16. Matthew chapter 19, I wanna explore this idea of this word good being used to describe Jesus Christ. Look at verse 16 of Matthew 19. Verse 16 of Matthew 19, the Bible says, and behold, one came and said unto him, good master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? Now that's a very interesting statement right there, because he goes up to Jesus and he calls Jesus good master, and then he says, what can I do that's good is what he's saying. Good master I want to do good is what this young man is saying to Jesus. And then in verse 17, and he said unto him, why call us thou me good? This is what Jesus says back to this young man. There is none good, but one. That is God, but if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments. So what Jesus is saying here is, a lot of people will say, see Jesus, a lot of unsaved people will read this and they will say, see Jesus never claimed to be God, which is ridiculous and I've gone to all the places that Jesus claimed to be God. The reason they killed Jesus was because he said he was God. But what Jesus is actually doing in verse 17 is he is saying, I am God. He's saying, I am God and I am good. There's only one good, that is God. He didn't say, I'm not good. And then he explains that the way to go to heaven is to be good. Which is what? To keep the commandments, which no one can do. No one has done. So there's really like, again, there's two ways to heaven. Be perfect or believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. You have to be good in order to get to heaven without Jesus Christ. But the problem is there's only one that's good and that is God. That's Jesus. So good master, again, was correct. And Jesus was saying that to this young man. He's saying, I am God equals good. He is good. Now I'll go back to John chapter 7. So Jesus is good. Look at verse number 13 of John chapter 7. John chapter 13 in verse number 7. And I just kind of want to go through a few verses here before we get to verse 27 where we're going to stop. And I want to show you just kind of the back and forth of the people here. But I want to point out that there's a main theme here on what these people are doing to Jesus. Look at verse 13. It says, how be it no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews. How be it meaning, however, now about the midst of the feasts, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. And the Jews marvel saying, how knoweth this man letters, having never learned. They're saying, how does he know the Bible? Because no one's ever, I didn't see him in college. I didn't see him in the university system. How is he smart?  Well, you don't have a degree, how could you know anything? Anyway, that's exactly what they're doing, though. All right, Jesus answered them and said, my doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. Oh, by the way, I am the word of God, but whatever. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God or whether I speak of myself. Skip down to verse number 19. Did not Moses give you the law? And yet none of you keepeth the law?  Now he accuses them of trying to murder him. Now look at verse number 20. Verse number 20 and verse number 25 are really kind of funny verses to put together, but the people answered and said, that has to devil.  They're like, you're paranoid.  And then part of them in verse number 25, then some said some of them in Jerusalem, it's not this he whom they seek to kill. So like, I mean, that's kind of funny, just those two verses right there. Like some people are like, you're nuts, buddy. Nobody's trying to hurt you. And then half the crowd is like, yeah, this is the guy that they're trying to kill right here. Verse 26, but lo, he speaketh boldly and they say nothing unto him. Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ? So there are people in this crowd that do believe on Jesus as the Christ. How be it, we know this man, whence he is. But when Christ cometh, no man knoweth, whence he is. So let me give you some King James Bible lessons here. This is how hard the King James Bible is to understand. How be it means however. And whence means they're talking about where he came from. It's like, whence is a, and it's actually, you know, when you look at the wording of it, whence he is, is much easier to say whence he is than where did this guy come from? I mean, you just think of the words that are saved there. It's actually smarter wording. So anyway, I just gave you how to read the King James Bible. And I was like, you can't understand the King James Bible. But we're going to stop right there and I just want you to kind of, I wanted to give you a context of what's happening here. So what's happening? You have Jesus that goes down into Judea. He's in the temple, he's teaching. And there are people that hate him. And remember, why do they hate him? Why do they hate him at this point? What is the big crimes that Jesus has done at this point? What did he do? He healed somebody on the Sabbath day? What is he doing? He's doing miracles. He's feeding people. He's walking on water. He's just doing good things out there. So the point is they hate him. They're trying to literally kill him because he is good. And that's the context of John chapter 7. I mean, all he's been doing is just helping people. As a matter of fact, go back to verse 15 of John 6. I think it's verse 15, verse 15. He didn't want to rule over anyone. He wasn't some politician that was trying to take control of the temple and trying to kick out the Roman leaders and be a king. As a matter of fact, in John chapter 6 and verse 15, they literally tried to, they were going to make him the king and he snuck away from them so they wouldn't make him the king. He doesn't want this earthly power. He's there for a specific reason, which by the way, he's subtly telling them, my time has not come, my time has not yet come. Look, his time to do what? The whole purpose of him coming to earth is to die for the sins of mankind. But look at verse 15 of John 6, which he's therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force. To what? To kill him? No, to make him a king. He departed again into the mountain himself alone. He didn't want power. He didn't want anything that the Jews had. He didn't want anything other than to just tell people the truth. They hated him because he was and was is the key word here. He was good. That's why they hated him. And the application for us and the one that we're going to look at this evening is that we need to understand, even as Jesus told the disciples in John 15 that they will hate you for the same reasons they hated me, I want to explain to you the difference between our goodness and Jesus's goodness. But you have to understand that the world, people in the world hate good. There will be people that hate good.  No, there's people that hate good. And this is what's happening in John chapter 7. They hated Jesus because he was good. Just look at some examples of this today. Turn to Psalm 127 in your Bibles and look at verse number 3. Psalm 127, look at verse number 3. You don't have to look too hard to find out that the world hates good things.  That's going to be a point as well. But look at Psalm 127 3. I mean, what's an example of this? Children. There's people that just hate the idea of children today. Look at verse number 3. It says, oh, children are in heritage of the Lord. And the fruit of the womb is his reward. So the Bible is very clearly saying children are a good thing. Children equals good thing.  But you just look at this. I mean, so the answer, I mean, a lot of people ask, like, how many children should you have? Many of God gives you. That's the answer. Because children are a blessing from God.  You should have, but what does the world teach? Look, the world today is against you financially if you want to have children.  But the world's pushing things like birth control and really pushing abortion as just normalizing these types of things. Like, birth control is abortion in many cases. And people use abortion, literal murder of children, as birth control. I mean, talk about somebody that is hating good. A culture that is just for abortion and where abortion is normalized and people are just desensitized to the murder of children. What are they doing? They're hating good. They're hating good. The world today hates the idea of a family. The world today hates the idea of marriage and a husband and a wife raising children. I mean, marriage is being, I mean, the Bible says in Proverbs 18 that he that findeth a wife, findeth a good thing. Marriage is good. Marriage is a good thing. But what is happening in our world today? Our world today is pushing a culture that hates marriage. It hates a good thing. What is it doing? It's perverting marriage. It's perverting this marriage to say guy and a guy is marriage. That's not marriage any more than a zebra is an elephant, if you call a zebra an elephant.  The idea is being perverted. Why? Because they hate that good thing. They hate it. It's being destroyed today. It's being discouraged today by things like, you know, just open divorce, no fault divorce. Hey, whatever laws we can possibly pass to make it easier for people to get divorced, let's do that. That is a culture that hates marriage.  Look, I mean, unless you are a Bible-believing Christian, there's not a lot of reasons to get married today.  But the Bible says it's a good thing. But our culture today is trying to destroy that thing. And just on that note, I mean, just the Bible. Just the Bible being a good thing.   I mean, you tell somebody that you believe the Bible today and it's like, you believe the Bible literally? Yeah, that's what fundamental means. That's why we're fundamental Baptist. It means we believe the Bible. You say, you know, we're from Holdfast Baptist Church. All that means being Baptist is that we believe the Bible. Nothing more, nothing less. That's it.   They hate the God that has represented him. The purpose of the Bible is for God to represent himself to us. Who's God? What is his personality? What's he like? It's all right here. This, I mean, God is much more than this, I am sure. But this is what he wants us to know about him. This is what he thinks we can handle or what he has for us.    They hate the goodness of it.  So the whole point of just this introduction, this is just introduction, you're like, what? The whole point of this is that people will always hate good. And that's what we learn from John chapter seven. Now turn to 1 Peter chapter three.  Look at 1 Peter chapter three and I just wanna preach through five verses for the rest of the sermon, but look at 1 Peter chapter three in verse number 10. And look what the Bible says. Now this is why you need to have a King James Bible and words matter, even tiny little words that have only two letters matter. Look at verse number 10. It says, for he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile. So this is talking about in verse number 10, it's talking about a person. It's talking about a Christian. You can apply verse number 10 to your life. You should see good days, refrain your tongue from evil and let your lips speak no guile, no bad things, no evil. Look at verse number 11. It says, letting him eschew evil, letting him put away evil and what? And be good, does it say be good? No, it says do good. Let him seek peace and ensue it. See, we are not good. We are not good. There's none good but God. We are not good, but you know what? We can do good though. We can do good. We can do good. Even though we can never achieve being good like Jesus did, this is why it's kind of, look, I say it too. I'm not down on you for saying this. You ever said like, oh, he's a good man. That's a good man or he's a, you know, I get it. I say that but I mean, literally that's not true of anybody. Say, oh, he's a good man.  Every time someone says that to you, you're like, no, he's not. Only Jesus is. No, I'm just kidding. The point is, literally, if you read the words of the Bible, we are not good. We can't be good, but we can do good. Look at verse number 12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do what? Do evil. Verse 13, and who is he that will harm you? Now, who is verse 13? Who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which what? Look at that. Does good. No, it says, who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good? What is verse number 13 about? Followers of who? It's talking about followers of God. It's talking about followers of Jesus. So the Bible is saying, you know, there may be people that harm you, but if you follow God, who is he that will harm you? There are people that will harm you that if you follow God, God is central to verse number 13. Now open your NIV real quick. In the NIV it says this. It says, who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?  They completely remove God from the verse. Who is he to harm you? Look at your King James Bible. Who is he to harm you if you are eager? Where does it say eagerness in verse number 13 in your King James Bible? This is making stuff up at this point. In verse number 13, who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? It completely removes God from verse number 13. These are not small things. In verse number 13 of 1 Peter chapter three, it is talking about being a follower of Jesus. A follower of the gospel of Jesus Christ which is good. I mean it's a very powerful verse when you read it in your King James Bible and in your NIV it's like, oh I just want to go do good things. It's like what? It completely removes God. It makes the Bible a joke. It takes, you can see, I think this is such a great verse and how there's no power in the NIV. There's no power in there. I mean you remove God, where's your power? There isn't any. There isn't any at all. These are not small things. Is good equals Jesus? Do good equals us. So we ought not remove God from the Bible. Now here's the point this evening. Look at verse number 14. Look at verse number 14. You see how?  And then you'll just be able to go to those. I don't know, it's like the Holy Spirit or something. You'll just read certain verses like this and you'll be like I bet that's wrong in the new versions.  No I'm just kidding. But you just look it up on the internet because that's the only NIV in my house is the internet NIV. And you're like sure enough it's wrong. Sure enough they missed it. Look you gotta be saved to understand these intricate details in the Bible. Okay now look at verse number 14. Let's get to the point of the sermon. You're like that wasn't the point. That was just the primer. All right, here's the point this evening. Look at verse 14. It says but if you suffer because up in verse 13 it says that who is he that will harm you there are people that will harm you for doing good. For doing good things. But if you suffer for righteousness sake. So verse number 14 matches verse number 13 saying if you're doing good and you suffer for that you're suffering for righteousness sake. It says if that is the case happy are ye. And be not afraid of their terror neither be troubled. But notice how it says if ye suffer for righteousness sake. It doesn't say if ye suffer. It says if ye suffer for doing good. Which means when we are suffering we need to make sure that we are suffering because we're doing good. Are you following me? Because there's many reasons that we could be suffering that are outside of doing good and doing good things. I mean one of the guys I think his brother Trevor said in one of the previous sermons that he preached if you could kick the person in the pants that was responsible for all your troubles you wouldn't sit for a week it'd probably be more like a year. But there's a lot of reasons that we suffer outside of doing good.  Let me ask you a question what are the odds you will ever get out of that loop? If you think you are suffering because of doing good when you're really suffering because you're doing something wrong. You're suffering because it's a direct result of something that you're doing that you're not supposed to be doing. This is a place where the Christian does not need to be where there are bad things happening to you and you're literally encouraged to keep doing what you're doing wrong because you think you're suffering for doing good. We don't wanna be there. So what are you talking about? Let me just give you a few examples I can go on and on and on about this but the first one I mean just here's a simple example slothfulness, slothfulness is a good example. Turn to Proverbs chapter 19. Turn to Proverbs chapter number 19. Slothfulness, slothfulness is a way, I mean look at verse number 15 of Proverbs chapter 19. Slothfulness chastis, I'll let you turn there but slothfulness, it will cause you to suffer and if you're suffering because you're slothful and you think well I'm doing good and so you just keep doing what you're doing you're just gonna continue suffering and you will never, you will have no chance of getting out of that suffering. Look at verse 15. Slothfulness chastis into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall what? Suffer, hunger. So look, laziness, slothfulness is very simple example.  Here's another one. Turn to Proverbs 16. Proverbs chapter 16. Like I said I could go on all night about these but we'll just hit some big ones here, all right? Look at Proverbs chapter 16 and look at verse number 18. Here's one that will cause you to suffer and you don't wanna mistake bad things happening to you because you think you're doing good when you're suffering because of what? Because of, how about this one, pride. Pride will cause you to suffer. Verse 15, verse 18, sorry, pride goeth before destruction and in hotty spirit before a fall. Destruction falling equals suffering.  One of the problems with us, let me just lump myself into this as well so I don't offend you so much this evening, just because we're right doesn't mean we can just go be these arrogant people everywhere we go. It was said once by one of the pastors, Pastor Jimenez or some, I think it was probably Pastor Jimenez but sometimes you can be too right. You can be this person that literally, you can be this person that is just so prideful you literally just get fired from every job. Seen it, seen it. Why?  I'm being persecuted because I'm a Christian.  It's guaranteed to you if you look at Proverbs 16, verse number 18, pride goeth before destruction and a fall. It's guaranteed. I mean, you have, look, just because what you're saying is true and I get it, you have the right to speak truth anywhere, anytime. You have that right, America. But people also have the right to dislike you. You have to remember that. I mean, just a general rule for life as far as our pride goes and something to kinda step down on our pride and look, we all struggle with this one. But a general rule for life is if you don't want people to think you're arrogant, don't ever give unsolicited advice to people. And that, by the way, that is biblical. That is biblical because the Bible says in Matthew chapter seven, hopefully we all just read this, that he that seeketh will find.  People must be seeking. People need to be wanting the answer and wanting it from you. And I'm gonna prove that to you from the Bible as well. Go back to 1 Peter chapter three. You say, but I'm listening to somebody talk at work and this guy's talking about his problems and I know the answer. But if he didn't ask you, don't give it to him. You need to follow that rule in your life because it's not gonna matter. If he's not seeking the answer, it's not gonna matter if you give it to him. He has to be first seeking the answer. It's not just for salvation. It's just in general. You say, well, why don't people seek? Well, because they're prideful. It's a heart problem. It's a heart problem with those people. It doesn't just apply. Matthew seven seeking and finding doesn't just apply to salvation. Look, even people, here's something that I do often even when I'm outside of church especially. Look, I'm the pastor and I very rarely will give unsolicited. Only time I will give unsolicited advice in the church is when there's like a problem that needs to be addressed.   They would hate that. When people are talking to you about problems, here's something that I often do. If somebody is just talking to me personally about a problem in a secular situation or whatever, a lot of times I'll even say like, are you just venting or do you want my opinion on this? I'll say that to people.  Meaning they just wanna like, again, it's what I said a couple of weeks ago that people just wanna near sometimes. And they'll be annoyed if you just start giving them unsolicited advice. This is even one of George Washington's rules of etiquette. Never, I think that one is medical advice. Never give unsolicited medical advice.  I think about like COVID, everybody was doing this. Like I wanted to pull out George Washington's rules when everybody was coming up to me in every aspect of my life except church, by the way, and saying, hey, if you don't take this shot, you don't love your family, you know?  But never give unsolicited advice. That is a great way to check your pride. Because a lot of times we think we know the answers and we don't, you know, that's another thing. But look down to 1 Peter chapter three in verse number 15. 1 Peter chapter three in verse number 15. Look what the Bible says. Sanctify the Lord in your hearts and look at these two words. I'm just gonna read it to you as I would delete these words and then we'll see why these words are in the verse. Be sanctified by the word God in your hearts and always give an answer to every man, a reason of the hope that is in you with the meekness and fear. But look what it says, it always, and be ready always to give an answer to every man that what? That asketh you. Every man that is seeking, and you know, how do I know if people are seeking because they will ask you? This is how to get people saved that you work with right here. This is on our prayer list. This is how you do it. How do you do it? You show yourself as a humble person. You show yourself as a Christian example to these people. And I'm telling you, sooner or later, some of them, they will ask you. They will ask you. They will ask you the hope, they will ask you the reason of the hope that is within you. They will ask you why you were different. They will ask you why your children are different, why your marriage is different. They'll ask you those things. That's why in the workplace, you should be, you should be, I don't wanna say proud, but you should be excited. You should rejoice in the fact that you stand out, that your language stands out, that your behavior stands out.  They're gonna, oh, he never, he doesn't speak like everybody else here. He doesn't act like everybody else here. He doesn't go to those places that everybody else goes. And those are the things that are gonna spark things in them and they may be cynical at first. They may be cynical at first, but some of them will eventually ask you the reason of the hope that's in you. And then at that point, you can tell them because you're ready to always give an answer. All right, look, even out soul winning, we ask. Even out soul winning, we ask. I mean, soul winning is, door to door soul winning is the most confrontational that we actually call it confrontational soul winning. But even then, we ask, would you like to know? Here's the second one. So one of them is pride. Here's another one. Like I said, I go on all night. I don't have a lot of time, but here's another one. Just being not nice to people.   I mean, look, it's tough to, I don't care if people are saved or not, it's tough to not like a kind person. I mean, it is tough to not like somebody that is always willing to help, somebody that has a great attitude. It is really hard to not like somebody like that. So this is the key, by the way, of getting people to ask you. Be nice. Be kind to people. They're gonna be people.  And they may not be saved. But they're gonna be extremely likable people. And it's because they're kind, and they're caring, and they're the third one, too. Here's another one. Be real. Be real. People could not like you because you're fake. Because you're just, you're trying to be somebody that you aren't. If you're trying to be fake and you're trying to be somebody that you aren't, there are many, many people who will recognize that in the first seven seconds of the conversation with you, and they will, you will be immediately disliked. And you will suffer. You will suffer.   Like, I'm suffering because I'm a Christian.  Who's arrogant? It's possible.  Just be real with people. And then look, it could just be chastisement.  God's chastisement could cause you to suffer. You could be in some sin in your life. And you know you're in the sin, by the way. You're the only one that knows.   It's up to you to identify that sin and get it out of your life and not just be like, oh, all these bad things are happening to me because I'm a Christian. No, it's because you're willfully sinning.  Nobody's gonna check that for you. Christians can be these people. We have all kinds of issues with the way that we treat people and we just chalk it all up to persecution. And that is not good for you as a Christian. So here's a, I wrote down a litmus test for you. Like, how do I know if this is part of my problem, part of my suffering, if you're going through this?  If you're having trouble, and I don't know if anybody's having trouble, but you eventually will have some sort of trouble with people in your life. Here's first check.  Do you turn them all into reprobates?  There's kind of a double check for you right there.   I mean, do a check on yourself there. And then the second one is this. Is this a repeating pattern? Are you stuck in this loop? Are you stuck in this loop in your life? Just look back two years. Just look back. Everybody can remember back two years in their life. Just self-reflect a little bit. Are you having a repeating trouble with people in your life? Take some humility to look back at situations and say, you know what, I could have acted different in that situation. I do this all the time. By the way, I always look back at situations and be like, you know, yeah, you know what, I could have handled that differently. Maybe I got in the flesh and I said some things. Not quite in the way I should have said them or maybe I shouldn't have said that stuff at all or whatever. I mean, don't dwell there, but use it as self-reflection going forward. I mean, don't dwell in the past, but use it.   You're treating people wrong.  You're treating people wrong somewhere. Jesus, John chapter seven was hated because he was good. He was good. We can be hated for doing good. It's very possible and pretty much guaranteed at some point. But do a check on the people that are, look, don't even freak out at the word hate. Hate just means dislike. I was like, hey, someone, people that dislike you.  Do a check on those things. But look, we can be hated for doing good. So a lot can be said by checking the people that dislike you. That's a pretty powerful thing.  But we just want to make sure that we suffer for the right reasons. We suffer because of doing good. And this is the point that I want to get across. And look, then when we drill it all down and we figure out, okay, yeah, this was me. This was my pride. And this is, I shouldn't have said that to that guy. And you know, I could have done without doing that or whatever and treating these people this way. And then once you get all that stuff out of the way, then you know that every time you're suffering, you know that you can just rejoice in it. Because you know that it's suffering for the right things. Suffering for doing good.  Let's bow our heads and have a word of praise.


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Hi, I'm Cindy Kang. I'm associate curator at the Barnes Foundation, and we are here in this picture plunged into a dark, cool kitchen room downstairs in a relatively wealthy home in Paris in about the 1730s or so. You see a woman at the center who works in the household and she's filling an earthenware jug with water from a copper urn. And she's surrounded by an array of buckets and pans. You see at the left here this copper pot that's on top of a kind of artfully tumbling white cloth, which is on top of a barrel. There's firewood there next to the pot and there's a broom leaning against the urn.  It looks like a rack of ribs and a chop. And if you follow the line of the woman's back, you get to an open doorway at the right side of the picture. And you can see that you can walk up a few stairs and get into this room or hallway where you see another woman who works in the household wielding a broom and perhaps minding the child who is standing there in the doorway looking out at us, the viewers, and bringing us into the scene. So this tranquil domestic scene was executed by a French artist named Chaldain. And one thing I love about Chaldain's paintings is how they seem so natural and truthful while being totally constructed and very meticulously composed. So this painting feels like a glimpse into the daily life of 18th century Paris. And yet Chaldain has clearly arranged the shapes and the forms to create a sense of stability in the composition, a sense of rhythm, and to lead your eye through the painting. So there's the rhyming of all the rounded forms, the urn, the buckets, the pans, the pots. There's also this wonderful pairing of the orthogonal parallel lines of the brooms. So on the right, there's the woman wielding a broom. We know she's wielding a broom, but we don't see the end of the broom, right? But we do see the end of the broom on the left here near the urn. And then if you look at the floor, you can see that the floor is cobblestone. And it's very carefully squared in perspective. So it gives you a sense of how composed and how planned this composition was. Another thing that I love about Chaldain is the way he gives attention to texture and the way he paints the surfaces, the material surfaces of things. It really adds to and lends to the sense of reality and truthfulness of his pictures. So if you look at the gleaming surface of the copper urn and how that contrasts with the soft marbled flesh of the meat, you can even see here in this detail the way the bloody meat reflects off the hard metallic surface. And look at the way that Chaldain lays on white paint. It really gives you the sense of sinews and bone and fat. Chaldain was actually well known for his handling of white paint. And this is all mainly concentrated in the bonnet and the jacket of the woman in the center. So first of all, Chaldain really makes this white paint stand out by putting it against a dark brown palette, but also by setting it off against cool colors like the blue apron. And this detail that I love, look at her skirt, this red and blue striped skirt, it's such a festive outfit and it really pulls the composition together. But let's go back to the white. This granular texture conveys this sense of starched and coarsely woven cloth and the dense application of paint with a very loaded brush also conveys a sense of the artist labor, which in turn corresponds to this picturing of the woman's labor. So Chaldain was a very slow worker and painting was a painstaking arduous process for him. So when he hit on a composition that worked, he often painted several of them. And this one is no exception. So the first version of this painting is actually in the National Museum in Stockholm in Sweden. And when Chaldain made it, he actually made it as part of a pair. And he exhibited this pair in 1737 at the Salon in Paris, which was the main official exhibition. And this pair proved to be so popular that he did a couple versions of them. And Barnes, in fact, lucky for us, bought a pair. So he, Barnes hung them in room three as a pair. So you get to see woman doing wash on the left and woman drawing water from a water urn at the right to the painting. I think Chaldain's work was so appreciated because it provides a sense of respite. Looking at these paintings feels so restful. I love the sense of quiet in his paintings. So even though there are indications of sound, you know, there's the rustling of the broom that the woman is wielding in the doorway. There's the rush of water that is feeling the earthenware jug. There is still a sense of a suspended moment in time that goes on forever. I think also this painting revels in the textures and sounds and rhythms of daily life. And so I hope it helps you value the beauty in the mundane and humble in your daily life these days. So that wraps up today's version of Barnes Takeout. Thank you for watching. I'm Tom Collins, Newbauer Family Executive Director of the Barnes Foundation. I hope you enjoyed Barnes Takeout. Subscribe and make sure your post notifications are on to get daily servings of art. Thanks for watching and for your support of the Barnes Foundation.


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