Welcome to Precision Agriculture in the Southeast. Hello, I'm your host, Mark Hall. I'm an extension specialist with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System. And with us today, we have Dr. John Fulton. John is an expert on this precision agriculture stuff. It's just amazing what all we've been talking about in these other lessons. John, I thought I knew a little bit about it, but this is really ground changing, rule changing that everybody needs to be adopting this and not be intimidated. A lot of times old guys like me, all this new technology stuff is scary. But this is a must. I mean, this is going to be like email or anything that if you're going to farm, you're going to have to do this. In the case of some of this that we've already talked about, as we mentioned, it's already come as standard options on the implements, the tractors, the applicators. It's integrated into the machines and in the farm equipment today. And that just kind of highlights how the benefits, but how much it's going to, the importance of it as we go into the future. But Mark, we're going to talk a little bit about automatic section control in this lesson. Some other terminology you're here is autoswath, clutches. There's a lot of things that some other terminology. But for our lesson today, we're just going to call it automatic section control technology. So with that, kind of stepping back and thinking back where we were talking about in the introduction and trying to farm, these are real conditions. A couple of field boundaries here for the south. We've got these irregular shaped fields. Got them small to large, as we have mentioned prior, 20 acres to 200 acres. And within those fields, we have not only variant drain, but these environmental structures, these conservation structures that we've implemented. And we want to preserve them as much as possible because they play a key role in our farming system. So when we think about the increase in size of machinery, you know, think back to, we probably doubled the planar capacity in this state just in the last 10 years. And think about spares, Mark. You know, once we were talking about 60 foot, now guys are talking 90, 120 foot. When you talk about these large machines and sticking them in these conditions, how do we accurately apply and how do we manage those machines to maintain their performance and consider time? You know, we want to not be spending too much time because that's a critical component of applying a lot of the crop protection type products. We also, you know, if I've got a waterway that's navigable, I might have to drive around it, or I've got to be in this condition. I've got to compromise. You know, when do I turn things off? I don't want to spray, but at the same time, I've got to cover my crop. And so, you know, you've got to, there's times when as an operator of the machine, in this case a sprayer, but think about a planar, I've got to make that decision of either turning the whole thing on and off or sections of that on and off manually. And making that decision sometimes can be difficult considering field speeds and the size of the equipment. So, you know, and this can happen. Again, this is just an example of cotton. And, you know, we talked about how much seed costs today and these type of conditions. We want to minimize as much as possible. We don't want these areas that are double planted or, in some cases, triple applied to. That's just, that's a waste of money today.  Absolutely. So, again, we step back and we talk about automatic section control. On average, again, we want to highlight these are just averages for Alabama. You're going to see about a 5% savings or essentially an overlap reduction of about 5%. But when you couple that with the idea that I already have guidance involved, you know, that's 15% and we've got cases that we've measured, you know, up to 30%. When I'm using guidance in conjunction with automatic section control, there's a lot of potential savings. And you think about your fertilizer bill, you think about your crop protection bill. So it might not be 30,000, it might be 100,000. That's, you know, 5%, 10%. That's a huge savings and can pay for this technology very quickly. So with that, we're talking about automatic section control is simply put. We're just automating the on-off aspect of the machine. Typically that's in sections as we would call it. So sections of that sprayer, whether there's five sections, seven or nine sections on a sprayer. I'm coupling rows together on my planer, so I might have a 24-row planer, but I might have three or four coupled together that automatically turn that, turn either the rows or those sections on and off automatically. And that's based on a couple of things. Number one, wherever I previously applied, you see the bottom left picture. I did a headlin pass around the field. So as I come into that headlin and start to turn, again, I'm not fooling around trying to figure out, well, where did I spray and it had to turn that sections or the whole machine on and off. It does it automatically. So at the end of the day, to me or to the program, it's two things. There's these savings are really a reduction in overlap. A lot of times people think about double overlap, but in some cases you're going to get triples just because of the field conditions we're in. But the other thing is, is we're not applying product in those areas we don't want product applied, whether that's grass waterways, outside the boundary, those type of conditions, we just eliminate that with this type of technology. Look at that metal slide, John, that is unbelievable. I bet you put somebody in there with a hoe to chop out. That is just too clean and on a, not a straight boundary, but it's curved around there. That is, I don't think I've ever seen anything like that. Well, I wish we could say that that was the case. But in this, when everything's working properly, these are the kind of results. We plant those rows right out into our headland rows or our point rows in this case. And you just eliminate a lot of that overlap, as we've mentioned prior. And there's savings, there's yield benefits to that that we've documented. It could be up to 17% yield reduction when I double plant. There's just those type of conditions exist. So getting that right, we've got these inputs, we've got to manage them as efficiently as possible. And this is really the real one of the key enabling technologies that really shines and pays for itself in most cases less than a year. So here's just some examples. On the left side, we've got a couple sprayer examples. We'll come back to this later in the presentation. But again, just examples. Going across that waterway, I can have that pre-mapped into the display. So example, we've got our 26-3. I could either tell where I've already applied so it has that knowledge or, hey, I don't want to apply in these areas. And when I go and drive across that, it just shuts on and off. There's no compromising in the case. I can move down and there are a few systems that are available today that you do on a nozzle by nozzle basis. So all of a sudden, think about on the bottom example. All of a sudden, you can really fine-tune where you're applying and where you're not. On the right side, on the top, this is the situation. It's normal. I've got to plant clear out in that headland. Normally in order to get all areas, we don't want areas not planted. And in the bottom left, in the example, we've got row clutches on that planter. And as it moves into the headland, I'm still planting, but it's automatically shutting those clutches so we don't get that double planted area. So that's what we're talking about, automating that process and having these scenarios very quickly dealing with these type of scenarios. Would this be pre-programmed into your computer on your tractor that you would be taking a map and lining it up that way? So there's two approaches. Some people allow you to preload a map. So the boundary map, as we saw in the first slide or second slide. So I could preload some of the systems, some of the displays will accept that. So all of a sudden, you have what the cropable areas and then outside the boundaries. Or the other thing that can occur, I don't have to have that information. I can basically run my headland or that first pass around the field and start to fill it in. And so I don't have to have the map. I just kind of have to outline it that first pass. And then I start filling in and it memorizes where I've applied. That's impressive. So that's kind of the overview. These are the conditions that we try to really clean up. When I'm manually driving a machine, this is a spray courtesy of Joe Luck at the University of Nebraska since this. But I can use guidance for my pass-to-pass and really eliminate those blue. You see some areas where there was a lot of overlap on pass-to-pass. So my guidance gets rid of that in terms of that overlap. But the section control really cleans up the areas. Those overlaps are potential skips around the edge of the field, in this case point rows. So you got two technologies that really coupled together to get the blue areas to be really reduced. One thing that we tend to forget about and there's some research that just recently published that we make the decision normally as the day goes long. We're probably not as tuned to turning things on and off, but that decision-making time. And that can be anywhere from about one to two seconds somewhere in there. Again, added more overlap at the end. But just because and again, if I'm out there 12 hours on end trying to get a field operation done across my farm, that can vary quite a bit. But I go over to the right and I've got three section control. Basically, I take that big area that I overlap down to those small little three triangles as an example. That's just what we're saying. That whole area in light orange on the right there is savings automatically. And then we'll do that at the morning and it's going to do the same thing at night, Mark. But we tend to forget about that operator response time as well. Here's an example and I think you can see on the top basically this is a spray application. Blue is overlap, red is skips, same field basically throwing the technology back on the sprayer and all of a sudden look at that. Look at what we've done on those blue areas. All of a sudden they're pretty small and we don't want those skips especially if we've got weed control. Well that's a tremendous difference. And you think about weeds and we talk about escapes and some of the resistance issues. We don't want those red areas appearing. So that's what this is a really good example. Same field, same operation just done under a scenario where no zero technology on the top or on the bottom we're adding the guidance plus the automatic section control and look at how much better of a job we do just with that. Here's some savings and we emphasize that the average was 5% presented earlier. It can be a long range. This is some data that out of the University of Kentucky but it shows how the orange basically shows with no section control so that sprayer operators having to make that decision all day in that field. Whereas if I throw the technology on all of a sudden look at where the green bars end up. And so it varies field by field. Every field is different in terms of size and shape and so there's some tremendous savings in there. You look at the difference between the orange and green and the idea here is there's a tremendous amount of savings and I think no doubt about it that's a very tangible benefit that most people can pencil out very quickly and say man I saved 10% on my seed build just based on the technology. So just some example that really highlights what the true benefit but the variability from field to field. The other thing that we emphasize too the bigger the machinery is the more savings that you're going to get out of this type technology and we know when we move from a 12, 16 up to a 24 row planter just a lot more going on with a larger machine in the field. So again so there's some savings as the size of equipment goes up. So at the end of the day a lot of benefits. We won't go through all these but anyways the overlap is what we've really emphasized but there's a lot of other things you know you can really improve your efficiency within field getting timely on your applications or more timely and then there's that environmental aspect that really shines and you can show that back to people and say listen this is how I'm being a good steward with my crop protection with my nutrients out there in the field. But we will once again emphasize shape size really impacts the real percent going back to the bar charts that we saw that again the more irregular shape the field is the more savings there's going to be. So equipment options we're seeing it adopted at sprayers are quickly I don't know too many sprayers especially large sprayers today that don't come equipped with automatic section control. Primarily we're looking at boom sections marked on these sprayers and every company it's again it's almost like guidance it's just standard options on the sprayer. We're seeing it on planters today it's not necessary a standard option but looking at sales here the last two years it's definitely increasing the number of road clutches that are being put on planters rolling from the dealer or at the on the assembly lines. Nitrogen side-dress units you want to really try and focus on your nitrogen bill section control can really work on that we're seeing spreaders fertilizer spreaders litter spreaders you know when you're out in the pasture not knowing very hard to see where you've been or haven't been you know again it takes a lot of that guesswork out and so there's pretty much anything that applies something we can really retrofit or in most cases are going to be a commercial product out there you can buy and put on the equipment very quickly. Most guys recognize you take this John Deere 2630 display mark it's already got section control built into it you might have to pay a fee to unlock that capabilities but again it's very nominal in comparison what the savings are going to be whether that's on your plan or on your sprayer. Is that about the size that a unit would be today in a tractor cab or combine cab it would be a screen that size? I would say there's kind of the across the board this is probably the higher end and probably mostly what guys are purchasing yeah but most of companies too also do have smaller screens okay it gives you maybe a little bit more less cost to get into some of this but the higher end screens are very similar to this one as we see here today touch screens and have all the capabilities that we've been talking about automatic section control guidance rate control berberate all that's already built into the capabilities and their touch screen and their touch screen so but but there are smaller ones out there that work just fine and it really depends on what you're comfortable with I think a field operation what you're focused on so you know if I'm looking at litter and I'm just doing that on a routine basis I could probably buy a what we talked about kind of a simplified light bar that can do the rate control and the section control so so let's talk a little bit about the components you know what we're talking about is back in the day mark if you think about spraying or even planters to some extent we really didn't have the ability to turn sections on we could turn the whole planter on and off but in terms of the sprayer a lot of that's done right from the joystick and again I had to turn the sections on and off press a button make that decision you know coming up to the headland I'm trying to turn and there's a lot going on or could be going on and doing that all day you know you can get tired and not being as consistent so you can switch off individual sections or whole boot but again all that rests on the operator's responsibility I've got to make that decision and manually press a button or flip a switch to turn something on and off and your action times would change as the day goes on absolutely and again there's some good research that really highlights that that's recently published we'll talk about planters we'll talk about planters we'll talk about road clutches there's really two different styles out there maybe three today as well but pneumatic what we normally call true count which is owned by tremble but that's basically a pneumatically operated on the bottom right there on the case planter today most of John Deeregg leader using some kind of electric clutch or electric motor and that goes across other brands as well Raven has a hydraulic drive system called their OmniRow option it does the same thing so it's again all we're talking about is turning that road clutch or that meter on and off okay for those that are really interested in doing the picture that you highlighted before I'm going to do a road by road type control going back to GPS or DGPS mark we really emphasized the need to go to RTK to be consistent to get that type of response out of your planter clutches each and every time it's RTK so that kind of covers planter we're talking about most of planters today if you really want to save on your front end capital cost buy the planter with the clutches already installed if you're going to do it after the fact you know you're probably going to spend somewhere six to nine hundred dollars per row expensive but again going back to the savings thing very quickly I can pay for that components you got the receiver you got the display we got these valves or what we talked about the clutches you know what we really emphasize is get with your trusted consultant whether that's your dealer or the technology provider and see what makes sense for you what you need to buy but you're going to have to have all this to make it happen most of the time if I've got guidance it's a very especially on a sprayer it's a very simple ad to bring an automatic section control less than four thousand dollars I could be doing automatic section control displays we mentioned this prior but everyone's providing automatic section control already built into their technology you know figure out what works best for you who's going to be able to service you and then purchase that which allows you to upgrade you know section control might be you might go from guidance to section control the next thing you know I want to do variable rate buy something that can do it all and you just kind of grow with the technology from sprayer perspective most of the sprayers are equipped with boom shut off valves okay and this example again taking all those components and focus down on the bottom right we've got three boom set up on this particular sprayer this will be very common on some of the 60 foot sprayers out there today mark and all we're doing is plugging into those boom shut off valves and clicking them on and off automatically from basically the display okay so that's kind of the setup on a sprayer there's those boom control valves we really have two options most people are going to use the boom shut off valves to shut the sections on and off we do have cap stand and now cases of marketing the ability to do some of this at the nozzle level you're also seeing T-Jet and some of the other technology companies come out with nozzle level control so we're doing each and every nozzle on there and controlling them so you're either at the boom shut off which is probably the majority of the sprayers out there but we do have the capability to really fine tune and go down to the nozzle level here's an example from Purdue this is a sprayer that has nozzle level control mark and you can see moving out that corn crop that on the left side of that picture that the nozzles have turned off individually as soon as it comes and it just keeps shutting off sequentially across the boom again I don't have to make that decision you can see very accurately we're not spraying out there in that that's a good picture so you add back in this idea that we presented about trying to manage around this in this case I got a grass waterway that I can drive through so I come in with your sprayer and drive around that and not kind of set up that no spray area when I can drive through it and if I can map that in and establish that as a no spray zone here's a sprayer we were out doing some research it's very hard to see but basically if you go back to that prior picture from Purdue we got a buffer strip and you can see he's running about 18 miles an hour right there we were measuring and so he's coming but the right edge of the boom had kind of come over the buffer strip he's essentially coming to the end to make a turn and the nozzles shut off and we're not spraying in that buffer strip and impacting that vegetation that we want to see growing well if that wasn't automated you couldn't be quick enough on your joystick to get that done again this is nozzle level control that's just starting to come maybe a little bit more popular we'll probably see more of this in the next few years starting to come out with several companies but you know there's what maybe three nozzles that were sticking out over that buffer strip and they are not on at 18 miles an hour it did it for you so at the end of the day look at this how we basically cleaned up that field we've got grass waterways we've been able to drive through those grass waterways but with the technology we've managed around them and we've been as efficient as we can with that machine in the field to get this application done in a timely fashion but that's what the technology can really do and highlight that improves efficiency or infield efficiency while maintaining some of the environmental structures that are within that field so with that Mark you know it's kind of the same thing pick what's right for you and you're comfortable with if I feel like you're the person that's really going to be the person to help me then I'll probably go with your technology and put that on you know evaluate if it's new and versus old equipment and tell your dealer what you're dealing with you know this is what I have you know what kind of correction service do I have do I have the right receiver in place to work with that technology you know and what rate controller so most of the times most of the software today is already built into any of the displays okay even the basic displays to the higher end displays that's not a real issue today one thing I point out with is what's the number of control channels what that represents is how many sections can I manage on the machine so if I buy something that can only manage three sections but my sprayer is set up with five sections I'm only going to have the capability of managing three sections again today most of these controllers are up into 24 or 48 levels of control that's not going to be an issue but if you're starting to get some of the basic technology or an older technology and trying to adopt it the number of control channels could not match up with what your machine or what you're trying to get accomplished just be aware and the size of our sprayers and planners I mean sprayers are 90 foot kind of norm and up to 120 and planners boy they're 30 foot it's not uncommon not 40 foot in a lot of cases you know just to emphasize you know when you're buying technology get things you know guidance is your first step make sure that technology can work itself up to doing the variable rate can do the section control I call that growing with technology because it's just addictive it really can enable you to do the right thing on your farm and really help you manage those inputs as accurately as possible so those capabilities just don't buy a guidance system on your sprayer very soon you're going to be adding section control because it's just a nominal fee in terms of what the savings are going to be John it seems like the RTK that we talked about that earlier but that seems cheaper and cheaper every lesson we go through it gets more and more detailed and I'm like I thought RTK to start with absolutely and that's what most people or most of farmers you'll find that they might start next thing you know next year they're upgrading RTK so think about capabilities by technology that's going to give you the full range of capabilities plus give you those GPS corrections as you grow because I might not be willing to pay for RTK this year but next year I say hey your value system has changed so we've already emphasized that all the time we're getting upgrades to these at least once a year for anything the documentation side make sure they can document I know that seems a little bit far in terms of how I might use that data but more and more having that documentation has become a real value at the farm level and who's going to be your personal support system out there who's going to really be the service and support to call when something happens and that's something to consider so really great technology across the board mark whether it's on planters or sprayers in particular you're looking at a one and a half and a lot of times less than one year payback period on automatic section control it's just a smaller fee in comparison to some of the other technologies and it really shines and really can pay for itself so if you've got a ten year life cycle you break even one year and you're way ahead for nine years and you've got that benefit each and every year you know I've heard we've had some people in Alabama call it I've saved up to 25% on my seed savings just because the idea of having small regular shaped fields saved 10% on my crop protection just because of technology so next year when I go to water my numbers have already changed and the environmental impact John the environmental you show those grass waterways when it's not dead and it don't get sprayed with herbicides and that's a tremendous impact on our environment and water quality so thank you John before we go today let's thank our sponsors John the Alabama Soybean Producers every year they fund your spreader and these planner clinics and sprayers they are so good to us and that is the check off funding when you sell a bushel of soybeans there's a penny or two goes into these programs and the Alabama Wheaton Feed Grain Committee those folks have just been so good to us and this is your money if you grow corn or soybeans in the state of Alabama you've helped fund this and we thank you for that yeah thank you very much for the support and thank you for tuning in


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prayer so could somebody please start off this session with prayer yeah Charles would you like to pray can't hear your choice Charles is not able to pray could somebody else lead please Prabhakar how about you I can pray pastor oh okay sure Rose please go ahead father in heaven oh glory praise and honor to you thank you for another spacing time when we can learn more about you help us settle in this moment so we may receive what you have willed to reveal to us we commit this hour to you father open our eyes open our ears most of all open our hearts and make them fertile soil so your word might produce fruit some 30 some 60 and some even a hundred fold in the name of your only son Jesus Christ and the help of your most holy spirit amen amen amen thank you thank you rose for leading us in prayer so we will just have a very quick review of what we have learned in the last class we talked about kingdom thinking and we said that the way we think as people of the kingdom is different from the way the world thinks so based on our thinking obviously our thinking is going to translate into the decisions that we make it's going to translate into the lifestyle that we develop so kingdom thinking will produce kingdom lifestyle and as part of the kingdom we saw that we are in the kingdom of light so you know these are all ways of living righteous these are all patterns where we are called to exercise kingdom authority these are all decisions that we make with kingdom resolve for the sake of the kingdom so though we live here on the earth we know the way Jesus said I'm from above we are people from above with that born again life of Christ so we're living the regular life like everyone else but we have a kingdom mindset and we have a kingdom way of thinking so we looked at you know different thinking patterns decisions that we can incorporate we said as part of the kingdom we have higher living standards Jesus went a step further from just the behavior aspects to the the motives and the intentions of an individual we talked about having faith in everything that we do we talked about living this life for the sake of the king because we are part of the kingdom of God we said that we need to have a mindset which is childlike childlike as it depending on God relying on God and completely pledging our allegiance to God then we talked about servant humility where we learn that those who are least in the kingdom right those who humble themselves in the kingdom they are the greatest we talked about celebrating the king's perspective where we know that our king is righteous and he is just so the decisions that he makes we put our trust in that okay and we are led by the king we are directed by the king kingdom resolve we talked about committing ourselves you know letting though we're living here in the world we are responsible for all that God has entrusted to us but at the same time we are very focused on the expansion of the kingdom on the fruitfulness of the kingdom life that God has given us so the focus is always there and it must remain we also talked about the fact that when we live for the kingdom there will be rejection which we might experience from time to time but we don't let that affect us we take it knowing that you know God is the one who ultimately rewards us for being faithful to him so that even persecution opposition for doing the right thing obviously we're not encouraging doing the wrong thing and then receiving opposition for it so when we're doing the right thing living for God we are bound to experience rejection but we face it positively knowing the eternal rewards and then the next section here talks about trusting God over the riches of this world and you know this is this cannot be over emphasized Jesus brought it up in his teachings we see this in other passages of the New Testament where we are encouraged not to you know I mean obviously again we are living in the world so we have to be earthly wise but giving ourselves completely to the world or the world having us you know the the lust of the eyes the lust of the flesh and the pride of life when those things take over our kingdom focus our kingdom resolve can diminish so we have to be careful about not giving into the things of the world then the last section I think yeah says we live righteously and we live so not for the sake of our reputation but it's an inner transformation see the Christian life is always live inside out so we're not doing anything to earn God's approval we are not doing anything to to earn our salvation salvation is already given to us as a gift of God's love but once we receive that we live a righteous life living out of the truth that exists which is we are now the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus as a second Corinthians 521 puts it so we live our lives inside out and not outside it so the example of people who live their lives for the sake of man's applause they are the Pharisees in scripture so you find Jesus rebuking them and telling them hey you know you're not doing this for the glory of God but it's just an outward form or it's a shell or it's projecting something to the world which actually does not exist so that is not kingdom thinking and that is not kingdom living but kingdom living true kingdom living has to be from the inside out so these are the patterns that we are called to and when we look at the word of God we know that we are complete we are born again and our spirit is transformed a hundred percent and the life of God is is flowing in and through our spirit man but given that no we also have a mind okay and the mind which has the components of our will our emotions and what's the the third one I'm forgetting mind will learn our emotions okay our decision making so the mind has to be renewed and the mind can be renewed as we meditate on the word of God and as the book of Proverbs 4 you know it says that you you take the word and keep it in the midst of your heart keep it in the center of your heart so when the word is inside us the word will transform us okay and also the psalmist writes right like how can a young man keep his way pure by keeping hiding the word of God in his heart so the word of God in our lives will bring the transformation now as we study about kingdom thinking as we study about kingdom living some of us could could feel that I'm far from this pattern of thinking or you know I'm far from making decisions in this sort of a righteous way but see the whole point is yes by virtue of our you know our exposure by virtue of our upbringing our our background so maybe we are not used to some patterns of kingdom thinking but the good news is that we're all called to renew our minds right so it's only when we renew our minds as we commit our bodies as a living sacrifice to God that whatever we we are taking in from the word of God you know that begins to transform our lives and so we start living it out it's more than just saying oh wow you know thinking in this way is good and I must I must decide in accordance to this word of God but it becomes a part of you and even through the leading and the prompting of the Holy Spirit we can make decisions based on these kingdom principles that we looked at so today we will jump into the next chapter here which is about kingdom living so the kingdom thinking kingdom pattern of kingdom mindset should translate into the lifestyle that you and I developed so going into this chapter here on kingdom living we begin with an introduction where Jesus used to preach and say that the kingdom of God is within you okay so the kingdom of God you know again the kingdom of God is is what God has done in us and we continually release that life of God so the kingdom of God within us is you know the the Holy Spirit working in us the transformation that has come through us becoming born again and and you know through the word of God whatever has been deposited into into our spirit basically the rule the reign the domain of the king within us okay and every aspect of our lives so when Jesus preached the kingdom the Pharisees expected him to talk about a little kingdom they expected him to talk about establishing Jerusalem as the headquarters they expected him to talk about the conquest of new territories in a little geographical sense but they must have been amazed to hear the teaching of Christ where Jesus said that the kingdom of God is near you the kingdom of God is within you so he was preaching and saying that the kingdom of heaven the rule and reign of the kingdom of heaven can be experienced by everyone who believes right here on earth so he used your terms to describe the nearness of the kingdom even the fact that the kingdom of God is within us so the kingdom of God again has to be an out working so it is within us and every day as we abide in the Lord John chapter 15 it says that we must abide in the Lord and if you study the book of 1st John you know it talks about the fellowship that we have with the father the son and the Holy Spirit so we begin to live our lives fellowshiping with God and there are many ways in which we do that we pray we worship we spend time in the word we meditate the word we live a life of obedience to God and as we are doing all these things we can expect the very life of God the very kingdom of God to flow out of us and that's the manner in which the out working of the kingdom actually takes place so this is a good thought so to the extent that the kingdom rules within me the kingdom will rule around me and through my ministry or through my life okay so we let the kingdom reign in us that is what is most important so when the kingdom reigns within me I'm able to release that kingdom in various ways and I can touch the lives of people I can bless the lives of people so the kingdom from within the kingdom which is near the very kingdom of heaven the rule and reign of God it's not limited just to heaven but by way of me abiding in God by way of my intimacy with God you know that release is given to me and that rule and reign from within me is released outside to the world so while the Pharisees expected a kingdom outside of them and a literal kingdom that they could feel and touch the kind of kingdom that that Jesus was talking about was very different it was a spiritual kingdom but a kingdom which could affect the natural world okay so what are the characteristics of this kingdom now the characteristics of this kingdom will be the values that kingdom people carry and every believer is a kingdom person so every believer should have and carry these values okay uh yes thank you Samir and Mangi for answering Christopher's question here so we're in chapter five uh and right now page number 27 yes page number 27 so we're looking at the characteristics of kingdom living so the first characteristic of kingdom living is holiness and reverence okay holiness and reverence uh so this needs to be a part of all of our uh lifestyle now looking at the Corinthian church now Paul addresses the Corinthian church and uh he invites them to uh have a life which is aligned to what God has already done for them so uh anything helpful to read the passage which is given here on page 27 uh if somebody could read 2nd Corinthian 6 verses 14 through 18 that will be good could somebody please read it shall I read ma'am yes yes please I'm going 2nd Corinthians 6 14 to 18 do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship has righteousness with lawless lawlessness and what communion has light with darkness and what a God has Christ with Belial or what part has a believer with an unbeliever and what agreement has the temple of God with idols for you are the temple of the living God as God has said I will dwell in them and walk among them I will be their God and they shall be my people therefore come out from among them and be separate says the Lord do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you I will be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters says the Lord Almighty yes thank you Ammi so here here we find that Paul is inviting the Corinthians who lived you know very sinful lives just by the by the things that he is sharing here and then as you go through the book of Corinthians you will find that they they carried and they brought all kinds of issues that they had earlier into the church so Paul had to address matters of unity he said okay you must not live in strife and division there is sexual immorality among you you know and just issues of life that were not pertaining to the kingdom of life okay so even here he is telling them and he's saying that you must live a life which is separate unto God and God is saying when you do that when you live a life when you have separated yourself unto God you know I will be your father so this aspect of holiness as you look at the Old Testament we find that there were certain vessels there was some furniture there were things which were set aside or there were people who were set aside for the service of God and anything which was set aside for the service of God generally we we see that God told the priest you know that it must not be mixed with anything else it must be separated unto the Lord or in other words it must be kept holy so the meaning of holy is keeping aside setting it aside or dedicating it the general example which you know I use and a lot I've heard others use also is you know the communion cups that we use in church generally the communion cups are treated with a lot of reverence okay so so you you clean them up and you keep it for whichever Sunday you know where your church practices holy communion so on that Sunday it's brought out neatly set and the the grape juice is poured into that and distributed and once that's done again it's taken and put back but nobody will ever think of using the communion cup for anything else because you know it's almost like oh I we could never do that you can't touch that holy thing and maybe you know use it for some other beverage because it's set aside and it is kept aside for God so holiness is like that you know our lives are set aside for God and Paul is telling the Corinthians once they were born again he said look what is the connection of light with darkness what is the connection of righteousness with lawlessness right so what is the connection of with of God with Satan now we know that there is a like a huge delight there's no way of these two things connecting together because if there is light there is no darkness okay so what is Paul actually saying he's saying that we must live a life which is clearly holy a life which is set aside for God so when it comes to the decisions we make when it comes to you know the way we choose to live we make every effort to live it in such a way that you know there is God's truth in our lives and that nothing puts us away from the worship of God right anything anything at all should not let make me mix with the things of the world so basically sinful things basically standards which don't glorify God and Paul is inviting the believer in every aspect of their lives to to live holy so whether it is our workplace and I'm sure you know in the workplace there are so many opportunities for us to make the wrong decisions because the world out there wants to be profitable in any which way hook or crook but that's not how a believer must demonstrate prosperity similarly you know when it comes to relationships when it comes to even ministry you can do it whichever way you want but we have to go by the standards of God we have to go by the right things and the truth of God's word and Paul is saying that there's no connection or darkness with life so we are called to holiness and to reverence now Paul also points out to the convent church as well as other churches he he calls up certain certain things in people's lifestyle okay and and now some we might want to think that oh these are extreme sins or you know things like this I'm not associated with uh and so you know it doesn't doesn't really I don't relate to this so whatever even if you don't relate to it uh Paul did see sins like this and he called it out so he was addressing certain Christians who who who sins were out there okay and uh he he addressed it harshly and he warned them so in first quarantine six uh versus nine through ten he calls out things like fornication idolatry adultery homosexuality and you know he says no sodomites thieves those who are covetous drunkards revilers extortioners um he goes to the extent of saying that no such people will not inherit the kingdom of God so you know developing that sinful lifestyle um not uh responding to the convictions of the Holy Spirit and when people have caught up uh in these kind of sins your Paul brings them a very stern uh warning and says that you might you run the risk of losing the kingdom of God even okay and uh there are other such sins that he that he writes about he writes to the Galatians he says lewdness uncleanness contentions hatred sorcery jealousy outbursts of wrath selfish ambition dissensions heresies right so he basically lists some all these uh patterns of life uh and he says that it doesn't suit a person who has experienced salvation salvation is about sanctification right we have been saved we have been cleansed uh and in Christ Jesus we have already been sanctified but the beauty of of God's word is that it also says that we are being sanctified okay so it is a continuous process as well now which is taking place in our lives and we must yield to that so when we talk about kingdom living one uh aspect that we must have as a characteristic or or of value in us is holiness and reverence because outside of that no we we are not really demonstrating the true nature of the kingdom of God okay and God gives us the grace to live uh with holiness and we've talked about this several times where uh we've said that God has already empowered us he has given us the victory uh we have the the covenant blessings of the cross since shall not have dominion over us so whatever we need to live a victorious life has already been handed to us now the decision is ours we need to uh walk faithfully before God and uh live that life of holiness so I see a question here uh from Christopher and you say please define yoke with examples can a believer be unequally yoked with an unbeliever okay so uh Christopher the this passage is usually used to talk about um you know a believer wanting to marry an unbeliever so then you know people say don't be unequally yoked right what does light have to do with darkness so yes that is uh the right application also but even in general even in general uh Paul is writing this to the believers uh I think applying not specifically to marriage alone but it is applying to uh any any sort of close uh decision making kind of connections that we have okay uh so I would also say okay so suppose you have a uh ministry okay or or let's say kingdom venture that that you are launching out and the values the core values of that venture are based on scripture okay and uh you are found uh you are the founder of this venture and you're going ahead and starting it out now the kind of people that you must have as your close advisors or partners ideally it should be those who have your values because uh the mission and the vision of what you are doing is kingdom based now if you have let's say an unbeliever sooner or later uh you might run into conflict of interest because you might find that you know they they don't agree with the way you want to handle money or with the way you want to um uh you know approve certain certain things that that have uh that you have come across so basically decision making value-based decision making right so unequally you would mean that when you are in in a close relationship even a working relationship with somebody uh where both of you have to make big decisions right so if we are unequally you're uh and for for something like a kingdom venture then you will you will run into difficulty when it comes to decision making and appropriately uh talking about a believer marrying uh an unbeliever we know that you know uh that's that's not uh it's not advisable and the the word of god definitely does not recommend that because the value system is different and here there is a spiritual dimension uh to to marriage okay so uh if one person is born again you know it's like they are from the kingdom of light and one person is not born again they are from the kingdom of darkness now uh how do two people like the book of amus uh three it says how can two people walk together if they do not agree right so then later you're going to end up uh with with a lot of challenges because of the decisions that you have to make okay uh and i i mean i would uh anyway that's a different i mean i'm going on a tangent so does it make sense christopher uh yes um i think i also asked a question because uh you know a few years ago when i was when i started a commercial venture i was uh i was advised that you know if i was to look for a business partner uh it should be a it should be a believer and um well i could not find anyone so friendly i decided to do it all by myself so uh that that was something that i am that's what really prompted me to ask that question yes the second question is i see about you know just about uh you know because there it is mentioned unequally you so i was just saying is there any are there any scenarios where it is where you could be equally you as a believer but i don't think that's really going to be possible right uh no no you i mean there's no question no christopher because the values are so different thank you sure sure no problem um and just uh an extension to what we are discussing here now this doesn't mean that we cannot have a working relationship with an unbeliever that's not the point no we uh invariably when uh we we get uh job assignments we're working with unbelievers and that's okay that's totally fine now we're talking about uh positions where we have to make decisions together with them at kingdom decisions now if there is going to be interference when you're launching out of business in that scenario in that context being unequally you can cost us uh but otherwise yes you know if you have even though you you have a kingdom venture if you have uh people at a level of implementation where they're just very skilled and uh they are able to roll out what what you have planned or designed that's fine because you know they're at a different level you're not at the decision making level right so when it comes to a decision making level where you have to make big decisions about the resources about the future plans if we are unequally yoked that that is very difficult so just a little clarity there yes any any other thoughts or questions about a lifestyle of holiness and reverence we could address that and then move forward so i think it's rather clear uh we uh are called to live a life which is holy set apart for god committed to god okay moving forward uh a life which has the rule and reign of the kingdom of god uh will also have righteousness peace and joy because that is what you have uh up in heaven and that's what god wants for us here on earth so this passage from robins 14 uh was 16 through 19 it says the kingdom of god is not eating and drinking but righteousness peace and joy in the holy spirit and uh we have to live a life in this manner acceptable to god and approved by men so uh now how do we how do we do this how do we uh live a life of righteousness peace and joy well it would be a life of surrender to god basically that's what it means now and when we are walking obedient when we are uh yielding to god at every prompting of the word every prompting of the holy spirit righteousness uh it not just in the positional truth but also uh in our walk now we're able to live out that righteous life uh peace when we are at peace with god that peace will flow through in our daily lives and joy of course we don't have anything hindering our relationship with god we're abiding in god then the joy of god also begins to flow out of us and also notice in the passage he says that uh the kingdom of god is not about eating and drinking but righteousness peace and joy so basically he's also making a point there where he says that uh as we live the life here uh on earth you know we we are actually rejoicing about the things of the kingdom so when it comes to the benefits or the privileges that this world has to offer even if it comes to letting go of our rights sometimes okay we are willing to do that so instead of you know suppose you are not well accepted uh for your faith and your friends say that okay we don't we are not going to invite you for a for a particular gathering then you're okay because for the sake of the kingdom you're letting go uh of of um you know those those friendships or those relationships or so the sort of things that you could have had if you uh compromised your lifestyle but you're not willing to compromise and therefore so you are experiencing the righteousness peace and joy of the kingdom instead right and that should be enough and we are given to that so that's what uh we are called to and god will release that for us and we can walk in it so righteousness peace and joy uh and now we also realize that you know sir it's a wonderful thing uh in our everyday lives we may be going through circumstances where uh that peace and joy because of the circumstances it may not come naturally but because we are people of the kingdom and the way Jesus started he said the kingdom is in you right so the righteousness peace and joy can actually be produced inside and we released outside so that's the beauty of it so inside out righteousness peace and joy we can bring the kingdom uh Jesus taught us to pray thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven and uh we can see the release of that kingdom okay i see that uh uh shrikumar has a follow-up question to what we were talking about um so just backtrack a little bit uh i hope that doesn't confuse us so in the context of working with an unbeliever shrikumar is asking uh taking advice from an unbeliever consultant is the right thing okay okay so uh shrikumar the point is what kind of advice okay it depends on that is it uh business uh business uh advice taking from the uh an unbeliever consultant is it okay is it right because anyway we can consult with a doctor that's another thing but consulting about the business is it the right thing what we do or i just want to know that thank you okay okay sure uh yes thank you um yeah that's something we we do think about uh i believe that it's okay because see when you are going to a consultant you're going on the basis of their work experience you're going for an opinion based on their skill uh so yeah there's nothing wrong with that i mean they they have those many years of experience uh in the workplace uh you can take their advice but when it comes to implementing it i think the only thing we should be careful about is check whether some of the principles that they have shared are they based on the kingdom if it's not then don't implement it that's all thank you pastor thanks a lot yeah sure thank you thank you uh and um yeah the uh you know the converse of this is unfortunately like if you don't have a believer who is skilled or you don't have a believer who is well experienced in that area of work uh then you know you have to go to an unbeliever it doesn't give you much of an option right yeah very true yeah so yeah so i think we can like encourage young people to pursue their dreams their careers and everything we should have a lot of uh skilled believers hopefully yes yes pastor yeah thank you okay uh all right so now we will continue we talked about righteousness peace and joy um that is produced within us and it's uh something that the Holy Spirit produces in us so you know we can actually walk uh victorious in the mid-storm storms okay uh the next uh characteristic is power authority and dominion yes power dominion and authority now uh Paul when he wrote to the Corinthian believers he said the kingdom of god is not in word but in power so the kingdom we talk about the kingdom uh and we connect demonstration of the kingdom because if we fail the demonstration of the kingdom then uh just talking about it is actually incomplete okay and that's the way Paul introduced the kingdom uh even Jesus preaching teaching and demonstrating we've seen this uh earlier when we talked about the kingdom of God so demonstrating the power the authority and the dominion of the kingdom becomes very very important for a believer so instead of um uh you know being bogged down by by all that uh the world brings at us we talked about this in the believers authority as well right so the world comes against us or it could be Satan who uh plots against us whatever it is any sort of an interference any anything that is against the purpose of God we can override it by the dominion that the Lord Jesus has bought back for us on the cross of Calvary so we can um uh you know silence every storm uh and we can uh uh walk on the water so to speak right so as a kingdom person we must be demonstrating power authority and dominion so that that is something we can ask ourselves you know how how is it going in terms of my personal life you know how is it going in terms of the way I deal with with um problems situations uh it could also be like sickness or some oppression that that we might be going through now am I really using what God has put on the inside of me so I'm a kingdom person uh yes I'm facing all these situations but I have the authority so we release the power of the kingdom into those circumstances how do we do it various ways you know we could uh decree declare we've talked about prayer the way uh when we pray we are releasing the kingdom of God so for a kingdom person you know it's not just about living right use biblical principles use kingdom principles live right live righteous live holy that's about yes that's important but in addition to that you know we we are a part of a uh kingdom dynamic where there is power and authority we can uh we can we're already victorious so we are fighting a defeated four but we can uh totally I mean I'm not getting the word but we can demonstrate that victory okay over uh over satan and the world and that should be something that is happening in our everyday lives and similarly when it comes to uh our ministry okay preaching yes there is there is a place for preaching there is a place for teaching but the demonstration of the power of God so as we proclaim the word you know it's always a blessing when we hear things like okay uh you know you shared that or there was this prophetic word and I got healed uh I this miracle happened because what is that it's from the kingdom it's the power of the kingdom which is being released into an individual's life and as kingdom people uh that should be normal for us to receive those uh confirmations of the living kingdom in our midst so power authority and dominion is also a lifestyle that we must carry I'm moving to the next focus here it's endurance and suffering uh endurance and suffering you know by way of uh us living here on the earth we know that uh we would go through trials tribulations these are things that Jesus said we will definitely face uh but also because we are kingdom people and we're making kingdom decisions uh there will be opposition right uh that could be persecution and in the midst of these things we have to demonstrate endurance and uh that also is something which must be seen in the lifestyle of a kingdom person uh and the way we face persecution is also uh very very uh um how do I put it you know that that is also a testimony isn't it so we we face it knowing that uh we're doing the right thing and uh we have eternal rewards for the opposition which is coming against us so endurance and suffering uh in the midst of these things that we go through here on the earth uh that also shows the kingdom lifestyle extending forgiveness okay extending forgiveness is uh walking in obedience right to what God expects of us so over here in this section the passage which uh has been listed is the one where a master he forgives a servant and that servant is supposed to forgive another person right who owes him uh some talents but you notice that the servant is unwilling to forgive another person who owes him so the master rebukes him and he says you know what is this like um I I gave you a forgiveness but you're not willing to extend it to others so God's expectation is that you and I will continue to walk in that forgiveness which he has given us so we demonstrated and uh we we uh glorify God right in in the kind of lifestyle that we have so as part of this same passage which has been given here uh in that in that parable you also notice that the master gives uh some talents to the servant and this servant is to um yeah this servant is expected to invest uh those talents and be fruitful okay however he doesn't do it so the master rebukes him for this as well and uh and he says that even if you would have given me the money I I would have invested it and I would have got some benefit out of it so there's also the aspect of stewardship which this particular passage is talking about so I thought I would highlight that as well so in the kingdom of God uh we're talking about um living living with the right values living a lifestyle of holiness um living to demonstrate the kingdom with the power of God uh living to release the righteousness peace and joy of God but in addition to that you know um uh having the capacity to endure having the capacity to suffer for the sake of righteousness uh extend forgiveness and also be good stewards and be fruitful in whatever has been entrusted to us so these are some aspects that we are touching upon today but this is not to say that you know an exhaustive list has been presented to us so some of the main things um which describe our lifestyle uh have been given here in this particular chapter but you know if you have any thoughts you two could share it then we can discuss on those particular characteristics that the believer must have so at this point I think I I'm just gonna pause uh and uh if you have any comments for what has been talked about so far we can take that up is say you want to say something okay uh the audio is not coming through it seems like a problem there okay uh you could type your question say anyone else any thoughts uh so if we don't have any uh inputs for now we can take a break and you come back in 10 minutes and continue from where we've stopped we'll see you all in 10 minutes thank you