With that said, we'll get into our study. We're going to look today at, like I said, verse 6 through 21. What we're going to do is we'll look at verses 6 through 12 together, then we're going to go into verse 13, into verse 21. And as we look at verses 6 through 12, we're going to be looking at a question, and I'm going to introduce the question, and hopefully supply an answer for you, because, you know, there are those who would wonder, what is a disciple? And is a disciple the same as an apostle? What qualifies someone to be an apostle? And those may be questions you've had in the past. These aren't questions you necessarily have all the time, but if we're going to be doing a Bible study, it's always good to supply you with answers, because there are those who are saying today that there are modern-day apostles. Perhaps some of you have heard that they go to a church, or that is quote, unquote, passed by an apostle, or you're watching some Christian program. There are so many that call themselves Christians that are on the air now, and they may say, you know, you've been listening to apostles, so and so. And there are those who go by the title, apostle. And so this is going to be one of those studies that I wanted to be practical, and it will be, but I also want to give you information to help you, because I have had people ask the question more than once, are there modern-day apostles? What qualifies someone to be an apostle is a disciple, an apostle. And so we'll see that. So in verses 6 to 12, we'll look at that in a moment. Then verse 13, and following, we're going to be introduced to the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ in detail in some names, and I'll be looking to make some application as we go through this portion of scripture. So let's begin reading here in Mark chapter 3. We'll begin at verse 6, read to verse 12, get into our study. Mark chapter 3, beginning at verse 6, reading to verse 12. Then the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against him how they might destroy him. But Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea and Jerusalem and Edomia and beyond the Jordan. And those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things he was doing, came to him. So he told his disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for him because of the multitude, lest they should crush him. For he healed many so that as many as had afflictions pressed about him to touch him. And the unclean spirits, whenever they saw him, fell down before him and cried out, saying, you are the Son of God. But he sternly warned them that they should not make him known. And so as we've seen as we've been going through the Gospel of Mark, we've seen that Jesus has been performing a variety of miracles. And the verses just prior to the ones that we're approaching today, we saw how he had healed a man who was suffering with atrophy in his right hand. Now, even though Jesus was performing incredible works, he had religious opponents and they were called the Pharisees. And so they are now becoming opponents to Christ. It seems that each work that he did only created more antagonism towards him. And as we've seen, he's been doing several miracles and all he healed, a paralytic, he cleansed a leper. He healed the man with the withered hand. And all of these miracles that we've seen should have softened the heart of even the most callous person. But instead of them being softened, they began to be even more antagonistic. You see, instead of having joy overseeing him, setting these people free, instead of them having joy and seeing these people who are crippled, who are now walking, who are forgiven, who are able to use their hands again, instead of them having joy, they actually have the opposite. Luke chapter 6 verse 11 says they were filled with rage and they discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus. You see, what happened is their man-made traditions, their regulations, had hardened them against the Lord. As far as they could see, Jesus Christ was a Sabbath daybreaker and offender of their traditions. He consistently violated their traditions as related to the Sabbath. We've seen this as we've gone from chapter 1, chapter 2 into chapter 3. We saw that in chapter 1, he cast out a demon on the Sabbath. In chapter 2, he allowed his disciples to pluck heads of grain on the Sabbath. In chapter 3, he healed a man with a paralyzed hand on the Sabbath. And so, by now, he's established a pattern of performing works of mercy on the Sabbath. And so the Pharisees are now hardening in opposition. What's interesting as you look at this in verse 6, it says the Pharisees went out and immediately plotted with the Herodians against him. Normally, when you're reading your New Testament and you're looking at the Gospels, normally you'll see the Pharisees and Sadducees. That's who you'll see most often. Well, here you're introduced to a group called the Herodians. Now, the Herodians are normally at odds with the Pharisees. You see, they were not a religious party, but they were a political party and as a political party, they supported Rome. They had formed in order to support the dynasty of Herod the Great. And so they weren't religious, but they supported Herod. And by extension, in supporting him, they were supporting Rome. And so they were hated by the people. And these two opposing groups became united in one mutual thing. And the thing that united them was their hatred for Christ. The Psalmists in Psalm 2 verses 1 and 2 says it like this, why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord and against his anointed. The word anointed would be speaking of Messiah. So they're joining together and they're raging against the Lord and the Messiah. There's an old saying, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And that's what's taking place here. These enemies are uniting because they have a greater enemy that they too hate. And that is Jesus Christ.  Matthew 12 verses 14 and 15 says the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus. Aware of this, Jesus withdrew from that place. A large crowd followed him and he healed all who were ill. And so Jesus is withdrawing from them. They're now plotting with the Herodians how they might destroy him. And so verse seven says again that Jesus withdrew. So he withdrew with his disciples to the sea and a great multitude from Galilee followed him from Judea, Jerusalem, Edomere, beyond the Jordan, those from Tyre and Sidon. A great multitude when they heard how many things he was doing came to him. And so Jesus knows that they're plotting against him and he withdraws himself. He knew that his time had not yet arrived. So he goes to the sea, the sea of Galilee. There was no need for him to unnecessarily antagonize these people. There's no reason to have confrontation with them. And Psalm 109 verses three and four, it says they have also surrounded me with the words of hatred fought against me without a cause in return for my love. They are my accusers. I give myself to prayer. And so what's happening is instead of being drawn by his loving compassion, his ability to heal and forgive, to cleanse lepers, instead of them being drawn, they see him as a habitual Sabbath breaker and an enemy. Herodians think he's undermining their political position. They join together in order to undermine him if they can. And so what's he do? Well, verse seven tells us he, Jesus withdrew, notice with his disciples to the sea. And so he withdraws to the sea of Galilee with his disciples. So I'll begin to answer the questions that I had brought up in my introduction and all of that. And so in his ministry, Jesus had many that would be called disciples. The word disciple, when you see that word, the word disciple refers to someone who learns. That's what it means. It's those who attach themselves to a teacher, to a rabbi. When you go through your scriptures, you'll see that Jesus had many followers and they could in general very often be referred to as disciples. But not all of them became lifelong followers. Some were simply disciples in name only. They listened to what he said. They were curious about his miracles. But the difference between these people and genuine disciples was commitment. Those who were committed to him and his words, Jesus said, would be his disciples. In John 8 31, Jesus said to those Jews who believed him, if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed. So the commitment to Christ in his word, that's what helps to constitute a person as one of his learners. One of his, those who have attached themselves through a lifetime to the rabbi. That's how it is usually determined. And so not everyone who called themselves or even referred to in scripture as disciples are actually genuine disciples. Many of them are simply what you would call fair weather followers. You can see that in the Gospel of John in chapter six. In John chapter six verse two, it says a great multitude followed him because they saw his signs which he performed on those who were diseased. So these people were drawn by his miracles, but not to his message. And so John tells us that a great multitude gathered and Jesus saw that these were people without any food. There were 5,000 men, not including women and children. And we know the story of the feeding of the 5,000 Jesus multiplied lobes of bread and fish and he fed them all. Well after feeding them we're told that Jesus perceived that they would try to make him king by force and it caused him to leave the city. He was in Tiberius and he went across the sea to the city of Capernaum. It was noted that he was gone. So a great crowd followed him to Capernaum and Jesus began to speak. And while speaking to them, he made it clear that they followed him, but they followed him for the wrong reasons.   And this is where the reality of their faith was revealed because after he said this, John let us know how those listening responded. In John chapter six verse 66, it says from that time many of his disciples went back and walked with him no more. So these were fair weather followers. It's what they were. They had no faith in him. They liked the miracles that he performed and the fact that he fed them and he made it very clear that's what it was like. That's what it's like with you. So not every listener is a learner and not every professor of faith is a possessor of faith. It's those who stand firm in Christ to the end that are genuine followers of Christ. And not everyone who claims to be a Christian is actually genuine. It's those who remain faithful to him no matter what that demonstrates that indeed they truly are his disciples. That's what Jesus said in Luke 22 28 when he says, you are those who have stood by me in my trials. They didn't abandon him, but they remained with him. And it's from these disciples, these true followers of Christ that Jesus selects as apostles. And so it says in verse seven, Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, great multitude from Galilee followed him, which is the north from Judea, which is in the south. Jerusalem is the city of Ido mea beyond Jordan regions. And those from Tyre and Sidon to the north in in modern Lebanon. It says a great multitude when they heard how many things he was doing, they came to him. So people from all around begin to hear of what he's doing. They begin to follow after him. Notice how Mark uses the words great multitude twice, once in verse seven, once in verse eight, to emphasize this. And so this covers the nation of Israel from north to south and includes, as I mentioned, parts of Lebanon. Now in verse eight, it said they heard how many things he was doing and they came to him. And so people were hearing all that he was doing. They heard of his miracles. They heard his message and they're beginning to follow after him. Well, verse nine, he told his disciples that a small boat should be kept ready for him because of the multitude, lest they should crush him for he healed many. So that as many as had afflictions pressed about him to touch him. And the unclean spirits whenever they saw him fell down before him and cried out, saying, you are the son of God, but he sternly warned them that they should not make him known. So there are so many, so many in need that they have become a crowd that could crush him. And so how does he react to these great crowds? Well, the Bible makes it clear. He began to teach them. He began to minister to them, to heal them. That's what he began to do. And so there were many of them who were delivered of possession. And casting out of demons, he was revealing that the kingdom of God was present. In Luke chapter 11, verse 20, he said, if I drive out demons by the finger of God, the kingdom of God has come to you. But notice how it says in verse 11, the unclean spirits would fall down in crowd in recognition of who he is. As we've been reading the mark through mark, I've noticed that Jesus had many encounters with people who were demonized or demon-possessed. That gives us insight. It gives us insight into the incredible number of demons at work. We don't have any idea how many there are, but Jesus' presence caused them to manifest. And it seems that they're everywhere, and they're constantly being confronted by Christ. We know that demons normally like to work in secret, but were often unmasked by Jesus. When in the presence of Christ, they were revealed. They would cause the possessed individuals to fall down, and they would cry out. As I was thinking about this, my wife, Marina, were talking about this particular thing. Demons were being manifest during the time of Christ, and the evil began to show itself for what it is, and how the enemy has a tendency of attempting to undermine what God is doing, and very often through the manifestation of demons or demonic doctrines. You know, when I first got saved, ancient history, here's the story for you. I got saved in 1970, and when I got saved, they called it the Jesus Revolution.  I'm just getting aware of the things of the Lord and all, and I begin to notice something that I've never forgotten. And so, my wife, Marina, were speaking about this just the other day, because when the Holy Spirit began to move in a modern-day revival, the Jesus movement is actually a modern-day revival that matches any revival the United States has ever had in its history. Hundreds into thousands of young people were getting saved. They were young people. Not to say that the older weren't, they were. But it was a youth movement, and so many young people were getting saved. Just this week, just this last Thursday, I meet on occasion, a regular occasion, with a friend of mine, his name is Bill, and I've mentioned to this church before that in my testimony, the way the Lord worked for me to get saved was through a man named George, George Adams. And George and Bill came and visited me just this week, just this Thursday. There we are. And I was looking at Bill and George, and myself, I said, you know, we have 150 years of experience in this room right now, and most of it is on you, George. And we began to talk about what had happened. And how God had moved. And one of the things I've been thinking about, and I'll share a little bit about demonic activity, is that it's not always manifested through demonized people. It's not always manifested through somebody foaming at the mouth or spitting out guacamole or anything you've seen in the movies. Demonic activity is often undercover. It's hidden. What it is, it is an activity that Paul refers to this as the doctrines of demons. It's the underlying activity through a presentation of ideas, beliefs and thoughts that are normally pointed towards scripture, distorting the scripture the way Satan does when he quotes scripture out of context.  That's what he does. And so there are things that can be done that are actually inspired by demons, but can appear to the common person, the unsafe person, as a movement of God. You see, there's an old, and he is old, used to be called rock stars. I don't know what they're called now, but Alton John. And there was a song that he sang where he said, Jesus freaks out in the streets, handing tickets out for God. He was talking about what was taking place on Hollywood Boulevard. Levon's the name of the song. And he was talking about what was taking place at that time because young people were going to Hollywood Boulevard handing out tracks. And it was so obvious, something was going on, that even his writer wrote that line and he's singing of Levon. He says, Jesus freaks out in the streets, handing tickets. That was the tracks, handing tickets out for God. So you started hearing songs that would have application in a Christian way. And what happened is cults began to spring up that had yet to have been known. There was the Children of God movement that a guy named Moses Berg, he called himself Moses Berg. He started what was called COG, the Children of God. And they were going on Hollywood Boulevard and they were talking young people into leaving everything behind, taking their possessions, living with them on communes. You also had the Tony Susan and Susan Alamo Foundation that took place, doing very similar things. You had that stuff going on. That's when the way international began to make an impact. That's when the People's Temple under Jim Jones began to manifest itself. All of this in the 70s, that's when the Beatles got involved with the Maharishi Yogi and they began to introduce a Hinduistic thought into their music. And they had lyrics that people thought were just cool, but they didn't realize that what they were doing, and this was coming from the inspiration of George and Arlene as Hinduism, they were actually bringing in songs that were speaking of Hinduism and all, but people didn't realize that was going on at that time. There's a lot of that going on. So when the Lord Jesus Christ was manifesting through the power of the Holy Spirit through the church, the enemy began to manifest too. So wherever there is good, there's going to be evil exposed. And so what was taking place during the time of Christ was that Jesus would be there. The undercover spirits would say, we know who you are because indeed they did, and they began to reveal these things. And that's why Jesus in verse 12 sternly warned them that they should not make him known. He does not want the impure testimony of demons because his words and his works were speaking for him. You know, Mark, we saw it in chapter 1 verse 34, the second portion of that verse, where it said that he cast out many demons and he didn't allow the demons to speak because they knew him. So he didn't want their testimony. He wanted the pure word and the power of the Spirit to manifest who he was. So this is taking place. He's healing many, there's so many people that he asked to have a small boat, a small boat that will keep him from being crushed by the multitude. Now, out of these disciples, he is now going to select what we call apostles, and I'll give you some insight into apostle in just a moment. So it says in verse 13, he went up on the mountain called to him those he himself wanted, and they came to him. Then he appointed 12 that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have power to heal sicknesses to cast out demons. Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter, James, the son of Zebedee, John, the brothers, the brother of James, to whom he gave the name Boanegis, that his sons of thunder, Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James, the son of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him and they went into a house. Just so that you know when it says Judas Iscariot, most of you would probably already know this, Judas Iscariot. When I first got saved, I thought Jesus was his first name and Christ was his last name because everybody has a first name and the last name, right? They said, no, Jesus is his name. Christ is his ministry. And so I said, oh, and the same thing can be true. The same kind of thought can be true with Judas Iscariot. You may look at the name Judas Iscariot and you say Judas is his first name and Iscariot is his last name and that's not what it is. Judas Iscariot is given name Iscariot is Iscariot. Is is the word man. Cariot is a village. Judas, the man of Cariot, that's what his name is. And so he's to be distinguished from another one in the apostolic band whose name is Judas. But you'll notice that Peter's name, if you ever go through the names wherever you're finding them in the Gospels and the Book of Acts, Peter's name always is the lead and Judas is always the last. And you'll see that when the names are given. And so what we have here is we have the names of the apostles. So let me give you some things related to that and share some things with you about that. These are the men that Jesus appoints as apostles. And these are those who are taken out of the multitude of those who are referred to in Scripture as his disciples. These men, these apostles, become what are called the building blocks of the church. If you take notes Ephesians chapter 2 19 and 20 says, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus the chief cornerstone. And so the church is built on apostolic doctrine, the men that Jesus appointed. And so the word apostle is the simple word apostolos. And in the Greek, it speaks of someone who has been sent. That's what it literally means. It's someone who has received divine authority in the scriptural sense of these men. People who've received authority who are messengers who are representing another kingdom or the one who sent them. So the apostle has been sent on an errand. He's been sent with a message. And he's accountable to the one who sent him and he carries the authority of the one who sent him. And so Jesus, when he was on earth, selected these 12 from the larger group of disciples. And these men were given the responsibility of leading the church into the future. And again, I mentioned this, and this is worth your time to learn because you may very well already have these kinds of conversations. If you haven't, you may in the future have one because there are those who say, are there modern day apostles, modern day apostles who hold the same authority as the original apostles? Well, in scripture, there are certain qualifications that determine if you're an apostle, you see, when Judas betrayed Jesus, there was a need to replace him. So when deciding who to replace him, the qualifications of an apostle were clearly stated. If you're going to be replacing this one who fell, there needs to be some qualification. So when that happened, when when he was being replaced, it's found in Acts chapter one, verses 21 and 22, it says this. It says, it is necessary to choose one of the men who've been with us the whole time that the Lord was living among us, beginning from John's baptism to the time when Jesus was taken up from us. One of these must become a witness with us of his resurrection. And so he was to have walked with Jesus. Second, he was to have been an eyewitness of Jesus after his resurrection. In 1 Corinthians chapter nine, verse one, Paul said, have I not seen Jesus the Lord? A third thing is that he was one who performed miracles. In Acts 243, it says, fear came upon every soul. Many wonders and signs were done through the apostles. So they performed miracles. Later on in 2 Corinthians 12, verse 12, Paul was speaking of his own credentials. And he said, truly the signs of an apostle were accomplished among you with all perseverance in signs, wonders, mighty deeds. So the apostles were those who were entrusted to do works of power. An apostle was inspired by the spirit to write scripture. In 2 Peter chapter three, verses 15 and 16, bear in mind that our Lord's patience means salvation, just as our dear brother Paul also wrote you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. He went on to say his letters contained some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort as they do the other scriptures to their own destruction. So during that day, they recognized the writings of Paul as scriptural. An apostle wrote scripture and an apostle was chosen by Jesus through prayer and by the leading of the spirit. In Luke chapter six, verses 12 and 13, Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, spent the night praying to God. When it was day, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose 12, whom he also named apostles. In Acts 9.15 concerning Paul, the Lord said to him, said to Ananias, Go for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. An apostle is chosen by Jesus. So the question, do we have modern day apostles with the same authority as these are being referenced to here? And the answer is no, because none today meet these qualifications. And so no, there are no modern apostles. The word apostles sometimes can be used as someone delegated with authority. And perhaps sometimes these who refer to themselves as apostles so and so on this and that, they may be using it in that context. It's very confusing to a lot of people. And the biblical words would normally be either pastor, shepherd, or even bishop, but not apostle. Now apostles don't exist today. None of them meet these conditions. None of them have these qualifications. Now let me show you a couple things here, because I want to highlight a few things about the calling. In selecting these men, Jesus was judging the religious leaders of the nation, the Sadducees. When you read your Bible, the Sadducees were infected with Greek philosophy. Their faith had been polluted. When you look at the Pharisees, they were legalists. Jesus said, you strain at gnats and swallow capitals. So the religious leaders were respected by many, but were leading people to strain because of this Christ instituted fresh leadership that hasn't been polluted by these men. These were new wineskins that could hold the new wine of the Spirit and the grace of God. The others, the Pharisees, the Sadducees were unqualified. Jesus in Matthew 1514 called them blind leaders of the blind.  You see, Israel's religious leaders needed to be replaced, and that's why Jesus brought in his new leaders. He pursued these men, he called these men, and as he's been focusing his attention on the multitudes, he is now training these men to be leaders. Now they came first as a result of the prayers of Christ. I already read Luke 612, but it says that Jesus went out on the mountainside to pray, spent the night praying to God, and then when it was day, he selected these men. I want you to note that they didn't strive to become leaders. They were chosen. Mark says that Jesus called to him those he himself wanted. In John 15, 16, you didn't choose me, I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, that your fruit should remain whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you. So they didn't go to apostle 101 classes until they got their certificate. They were called by the Lord Jesus Christ and appointed. Notice in chapter 3 here verse 14 that he appointed 12 that they might be with him. He's going to mentor them. He's going to give them personal training, first hand knowledge so that they will know the ways of God straight from the mouth of God in the flesh. It says in Acts 413 when they saw the boldness of Peter and John perceived that they were uneducated, untrained men, they marveled and they realized they had been with Jesus. So instead of going to rabbinic training, they sat under the greatest and Jesus taught them and he mentored them in the ways of God. He revealed himself in clear ways to them. That's how he did it. And he intended to equip them in order that he might send them. So they were trained to preach a message, a message of redemption to the whole world. We need to mark this in our hearts guys, I say this often, but the only plan the Lord has for reaching the world is for those who know him to share about him. That's how he reaches the world. In Matthew 28 19 and 20 it says go therefore make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. He said teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. Behold I'm with you always to the end of the age. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. When he says go and make disciples, people think while evangelism is what he's saying. No, what he's saying is the main verb is not making disciples. The main verb is not evangelism. The main verb is teaching them to observe. And what the Lord is saying simply is this, when you go, where you go, as you go, make disciples, make learners, make people who are followers. I will be with you to the end of the age. You will have my power. You will have my word. You will have my presence. But it's not just the going. It's the going and giving my word. It isn't the going and giving your opinion. It is not the giving of things that are going on culturally around you 24 seven. What it is, it's my word. Why? Because as we've known this, we've gone through this because it's the truth that sets you free. And the only way you can be free is hearing the gospel of Jesus Christ. And that's why he sends us to give out the gospel. And so the responsibility of declaring the message moves us to share his love with others. And he equipped them, he equipped them with a message at Pentecost. He gave them the power and he's also given to us power and the same message. And so in versus 14 and 15, Mark tells us that he sent them out to preach. They were empowered. They perform healings. They deliver the demon eyes. They're sent out to preach. They're bringing healing to those who are sick and they're casting those demons out. None of them are formally trained rabbis. But each one is specially prepared because they have the power of God's kingdom. And God used them that way. So as we look at these men, verses 16 through 20, I'll give you their names. And I have a couple of things I want to share. Some of the names that you see here are very familiar. You read your Bible for a while, read your gospels. You recognize their name. Peter, James, John, Andrew, Philip, Matthew, Thomas, Judas Iscariot. But there are other names that are not quite so familiar. Bartholomew, James of Alphaeus, Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite. One of the things the Lord has reminded me of many years, and I'm not going to share a long time, but that's just making an observation is that there are a lot of people that are unknown, unknown in the body of Christ, unknowns, who are not known by man so much, but are known by God. You may be, I am one of these, Bartholomew, James of Alphaeus, Thaddeus. Tell me what you know about them, and the answer is not much. Why? Well, because these other fellows get a lot of print. Peter does, and James does, and John, and Andrew, Philip, Matthew, even Thomas. If I say Thomas, people will say, oh, the doubter, even Thomas is known. But if I say, well, tell me something about Thaddeus. It's not a lot of scripture. So guess what? Most of us are the unknowns, and don't have a problem with that, because you may not be known by man, but you're known by God. That's what matters at the end. Listen, it's not when all people know your name. It's when Jesus looks at you and says, well done, my good, and my faithful servant, and that's what matters. I'm sorry, but sometimes pastors forget that. They want to be known by man.  Never forget that. But as you look at this, there's a name here that stands out, and I'll point it out, Simon the Zealot, Simon the Canaanite. The word Canaanite is also the Zealot. He's known as Simon the Zealot. This Simon here was what is called an anti-Rome revolutionary. He was an anti-Rome revolutionary. He was part of a group of people who hated the Romans, and yet he's mentioned as working alongside of a Republican by the name of Matthew, and that by itself reveals the power of Christ and his ability to bring people who would be normally enemies, because Matthew worked for Rome, and Simon opposed it, and yet somehow he brought them together. This shows how Jesus can take two people who are enemies, who don't have anything to do with one another, and can make them into brothers. So as I'm watching Patrick and Carlos up here, I'm thinking that, because the way that Patrick met Carlos is Carlos robbed him. Just kidding. How did God make you guys brothers? How did he do that? He did it by the gospel. He did it by the power of the Holy Spirit.  And when you share those two things, your brothers, you love one another, you serve God. That's what God does. He can take a man like Simon who hated Rome, was a revolutionary against Rome, and a man like Matthew who was a tax gatherer hated by the Jews, and he could make them one white, because they took their eyes off the things that mattered to them before, and they now have them placed on Jesus Christ. And that's how it works. Now, as we look at this, I want to show you something in verse 17 about James and John, just a little bit of a sidelight here, but it's something that you may find interesting. Notice how they're given the nickname, a Boanergis, sons of thunder. That's what Boanergis means, sons of thunder. And that would be what today some might refer to as like a nickname. When they are called sons of thunder, there are different camps related to that title. There are commentators, scholars, Bible scholars who believe that the reason that they're referred to as sons of thunder is because that's a way of pointing them out as being prophets. A son of thunder can be a prophet because it's another way of speaking of God's voice, because in the Old Testament, God's voice on more than one occasion is likened to thunder. In Job chapter 4 to verse 9, the question is asked, do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like his? Or in 2 Samuel 2214, the Lord thundered from heaven and the most high uttered his voice. And so there are those who would say, well, the reason they're called sons of thunder, Boanergis, is because they're prophetic. Well, the other ones were prophetic too, and they weren't called sons of thunder. And so that brings us to another interpretation, which is the interpretation that I lean to. Sons of thunder more likely speaks of the fact that they were extremely passionate. Somebody referred to them as hotheaded, bad tempered. Sons of thunder, why would they say that? Well, because their love and their loyalty to Christ motivated them to service as well as to defend him. How do I know that? Luke chapter 9, verses 51 through 56, it came to pass when the time had come for him to be received up, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem and sent messengers before his face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare for him. But they did not receive him because his face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them just as Elijah did?  The Son of Man didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village. God, may we make them into crispy critters? Would you mind if we called fire down on them and smoked them to a drive by? You see a little bit of temper there? Anger. Why? Because the Samaritans refused Christ. So they said, we could just wipe the village out because we know our scripture is well enough to know that's happened in the past. Perhaps it ought to happen again. And so they had a hot temper. Now, I want to share a couple things with you because this is something that I think is very application. And it's applicable, I think. And I wanted to make this part of our message, almost its conclusion. Their reaction is extreme. There's no doubt. But it also gives us insight into the kind of men that God uses. These men have a passion and these men have intensity. What is needed is it has to be directed. They have a passion and an intensity. They have a loyalty. In ministry, as long as I've been, it's always wonderful to have people who say that, oh, I really love and I want to serve and all. That's one thing because it's easy to say that. But I've been blessed many times to see that those who have a passion and an intensity, they're the ones that are going to get things done. And so these men have the qualifications and qualities of doing something with passion. But they need that passion to be directed in the right areas. You see, when you read your Bible, you're going to discover that this kind of zeal is part of every great believer. Moses, Moses signed justice. Moses saw that one of his fellow Jews was being mistreated by an Egyptian taskmaster. And the Bible tells us that it got him so upset that Moses looked to the left and he looked to the right and then promptly just disposed of this taskmaster, buried his body in the sand. And that shows to us an intensity in the heart of Moses and a desire to remedy an evil that had taken place. And so when Stephen was speaking about this in Acts chapter 7 verses 24 and 25, our first martyr in the church, Stephen said, seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, avenged him that was oppressed, smote the Egyptian. He supposed his brother and would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them, but they understood not. So he took them out. And if you know anything about the taskmaster, you would know that they were amongst the elite within the Egyptian forces. They were not just regular military type guys. They were a special forces type guy. And yet Moses sees what this guy does and the scripture says he looked to the left and right, meaning that he was just making sure the coast was clear because he had no hesitation whatsoever in dealing with this guy. He had an ability and a passion, but as a result of that, he also had to go into a wilderness so that that prideful arrogance and thinking that he's going to deliver by the arm of flesh is taken away from him so that he can realize that the only way he can deliver is through God. That's what happened. But he had a passion that needed to be directed. When you look at King David, King David, when you're introduced to him in his earlier days is a young man. And as a young man, he comes and he sees a giant nine foot nine man by the name of Goliath, taunting the armies of God. And when he sees this taking place, it says in 1 Samuel 1726 that David asked the men standing near him what will be done for the man who kills this Philistine, removes this disgrace from Israel. Who is this uncircumcised Philistine that he should defy the armies of the living God? That's a man of passion. He came and he sees that nine foot nine. He says he can come in the name of his own God. I come in the name of my God.  That was David, a man of passion. And he said in Psalm 144 verse one, praise be to the Lord my rock who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle. Elijah. When you look at Elijah, this King Ahab called him a troubler, a troubler of Israel. And Elijah responds and says, you're the troubler of Israel. You have abandoned God and you've introduced Baal. And as a result of that judgment came upon them through the hand of God. Well, God used his hand to bring judgment or Nehemiah. Nehemiah, look at this old man. Nehemiah 1325. These people were violating the law of God. And it says in Nehemiah 1325 that he slapped people and pulled their beards. It's kind of old man who got bad temper. And again, I mentioned Simon the zealot. He wanted to incite the people to rebel against Rome and use force. And then you have the apostle Peter who cut off Malchus's ear in his attempt to defend and protect Jesus Christ. And then you have Paul. And Paul spoke to the high priest Ananias. And Ananias said, ordered that Paul gets slapped and Paul looks at him and said, God will smite you, you whitewashed wall. This man had some passion. Jesus revealed his indignation when he cleansed the temple. And John chapter two, he cleansed it out, had whip and drove him out twice. And his disciples remembered Psalm 69 verse nine, zeal for your house has consumed me. So what am I trying to say, trying to get all these men mad right now? No, God isn't looking for angry carnal men. God is looking for determined, disciplined men with passion. And I believe that God in these days we're living in is calling us to stand up for righteousness. And that the church needs to awaken from its lumber. And he's looking for passionate people who know it is right to do that, which is right to make his name glorified once again in this nation. I believe that God wants to do a work. And I'm going to say something at this point. I'll close and then I'm going to add something to my clothes. I believe that the Lord is calling us men, especially to stand up. It's not difficult fellas for the women to it's not women stand up. I love our women. I love women who they love God and men. I'm going to stand up for God. It's the man who sometimes say, well, I'll let the wife do it. No, God has called you. God has called you. And it's time for us as men to say, you know what, we're going to take our place, our rightful place. And we're going to lead the way God has called us to because it's our time. It's our time to stand up for righteousness. And I don't mean to be carnal. I don't mean to go out and yell at people and scream at people about how bad things are. It's just if there has ever been a day that we need to stand up and say, this is true and this is right. It's today. And what we need to be is united through a love for Jesus and a reception of him so that we can proclaim a message and do so with the passion that God has given to us for Jesus Christ. With that said, I'm going to make this quick because it's time for me to close. But with that said, anybody in this fellowship who's been here for a while knows my way of doing what I do. I believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the message that transforms lives and therefore I remain faithful to the gospel.  And I believe this is a right occasion. I feel the spirit of the Lord lead me to say things that I ordinarily wouldn't say. If you're a visitor here, visitor here for the first time, I don't do this often. As a matter of fact, once in a very long time. But I'm going to share some things with you right now because as a country, as well as a state, we've gone through some very difficult times. And I'm going to take my liberty to share with you a couple of things before we pray. When we look at this beautiful state, I born and raised here, I've lived here every second of my life since being born outside of a few trips, etc. This has been my home and my state. But we have gone through the worst lockdown of any state in the nation. And during this lockdown, thousands of businesses have been closed, jobs have been lost, and people are leaving California. We have the second highest unemployment in the nation. We've had an incredible spike in crime. We have thousands of criminals being released on the streets. We have a crisis of homelessness. We have the highest taxes in the nation. We have the second highest prices for gasoline. Our forests have been mismanaged, wildfires are out of control. We're going through droughts, blackouts, no plans for reservoirs or dams. Schools have been closed. There have been moves to involuntarily mask children. Mandatory vaccines have cost people their jobs. And as for our national government, we have failed our American citizens and allies. I'm very grieved. I hate to close with this, but I'm very grieved at what has taken place in Afghanistan. I was a military. I spent my time in the Army. All of you know that. If you don't know that, I served in the Army, 82nd Airborne. I was trained in certain things about loving my country, loving my country. And there was something that was almost an unspoken law in the military, and that is you never leave one of your brothers behind.  And when I, when I saw the news, forgive me, I don't want to be angry, but I am. I'm trying to be cool, but I'm not. I'm upset. Oh, you carnal pastor. Okay, fine. I'm carnal. I am upset because we left Americans. You don't do that. You don't do that. Am I wrong in this? Am I by myself in this? And so I want to remember by name those 13 members of our armed forces who died because I believe that they deserve the honor of being remembered. And I'm going to mention their names here right now. I want to remember Marine Corps Lance Corporal David Espinosa.  Army Staff Sergeant Ryan Gnauss. Marine Corps Corporal Hunter Lopez. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Riley McCollum. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Dylan R. Merola. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Kareem Nikoi. Marine Corps Corporal Dagan Williams Tyler Page. Marine Corps Sergeant Johanny Rosario. Marine Corps Corporal Umerto Sanchez. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz. Navy Hospital Corpsman Max Sobiak. I want you to remain standing because we're going to pray in a moment, but I want to say it and I'll close this way prayerfully you'll understand the heart that's speaking. We live in a country where we can vote and I already have. I'm going to vote the poor leaders out and I think we know who those poor leaders are. It's time. It's time. And I ask that the Lord, Father God, I ask that you would speak to our hearts today and that Jesus, we would understand that these concerns that are being brought out in the conclusion of this really relates to having passion for that which is right. This is not a Democrat, independent or Republican kind of thing. This is an American thing. And Father, I just ask that you would show mercy to us. Father, show us mercy. We the church are on our knees before God forgive us or our sins. Lord, ignite in us a passion for the lost and Lord bring comfort to the families of those military personnel because they receive knocks on the door and the news that their loved one would come home never again. Hearts are touched by that. Father, I believe that what we're seeing is really just what was, it's just wrong. It's just wrong because Lord forgive me for this but it seems pretty obvious that this is a photo op for 9-11. People's lives were lost because of it. I can't help but believe that. Forgive me if I'm wrong but Lord I ask that you would bring comfort to those families, to parents and loved ones and wives and children and they were young so many of them. I just ask for your comfort but I also pray that this would unite us Lord to do the right thing. May the church awaken in these last days and may we proclaim a message that changes hearts and even as our eyes close one last thing perhaps there are some right now we need to get right with the Lord before I close if you do would you raise your hand let me pray for you right where you're at just raise your hand. Father you see these hands you know the reason they're being raised to you in Jesus name I pray that you would reach and touch these now washing cleanse them and Father fill them and make them into warriors for you people who stand up for what is right who know your word and are willing to stand to be counted we lift this to you now Father we will yield ourselves to you now thank you Lord you can put your hands down in Jesus I ask that you keep moving in all of us in your name to your glory amen


Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to this talk, What's New in JRPC. My name is Gina Ye, and I'm a JRPC maintainer on the Go team. And I'm excited to be here to share the latest updates on JRPC. So the goal of this talk is to give you an overview of the new features that we launched in JRPC recently. And we have a larger cover, so I'm not getting into too much details on each individual features that we have. Instead, you'll be seeing short links in most of the slides throughout my presentation. And that will take you to our resources and documentation, and that you can learn about it after this talk. And as always, you can certainly talk to us during the day if you have any questions or feedback. All right, so let's get started. So Kubernetes Gateway API is a new API that provides an extensible way to manage your traffic routing in Kubernetes clusters. It is designed as a revamp of the ingress resource and to get rid of the vendor's specific annotations. The special interest group firstly identified the most common use cases of the ingress resource and bring that over built into the Kubernetes Gateway API. We introduce JRPC route to integrate JRPC with the Gateway API so that you can route your JRPC traffic earlier, easier, rather than having to do it at a level of HTTP. JRPC route is now currently in the experimental stream and will be promoted to View on Bearer once soon. And it's currently supported by GCP traffic director and several other controllers. The other exciting thing in this space is GEMA using the Gateway API to manage not just in ingress, but also for service match use cases. And we are deeply engaged in the design process to ensure that JRPC process list service match will have the first class support in the APIs. So stay tuned for the ability to use the vendor agnostic Kubernetes Gateway API to manage your JRPC process list service match. And we also have a birds of feather topic around service match. I'd be happy to join Richard and myself if you are interested in this topic after this talk. We have been working hard to expand our support in low balancing and one of them is custom backend metrics. This is a mechanism in the JRPC library that allows you to inject your own custom metrics at the JRPC server. And this metrics can be used with a low balancing policy. We follow the open request cost aggregation standard that you can report your custom metrics from your backend in two ways. The first option is to sending us the metrics when RPC finishes. And the alternative is to create a derivative channel and periodically sending out the metrics to us. If you want to learn more about the feature, follow the short link at the bottom ending with JRPC-CBM. And that will take you to our developer guides with example code. We recently added weight around Robin low balancing policy, which also mentioned in the previous talk. And it can be used with the custom backend metrics that we just covered a few seconds ago. It's really simple to configure your server. If you are using GCP traffic director, just set the custom policy as weight around Robin and with the parameters based on your needs. If you prefer to send the metrics out of band, set enable or be load report to true. And additional parameters are also available for you to find the behavior of the weight around Robin policy that we provided to you. You can still leverage our weight around Robin policy if you're not using TD. And you just set the load balance in config with a configuration in a JSON format and when you're calling dial function in your application. Once you configure LB policy as weight around Robin, the next step is to send metrics from your baggants.  Which includes CPU utilization, QPS, EPS and error penalty. Below is the example of using out of band reporting. In the GRPC server code, you create server metrics recorder with the options that fits your needs like the minimum reporting interval. And then register your recorder and start sending CPU utilization, EPS, QPS, etc. at any places that you like. That's all you need to do to enable weight around Robin policy in provided by GRPC. And more details that can be found at the short link at the bottom ending with GRPC-WRR. The next one, randomized pick-first. So we are extending the E16 pick-first policy with a flag to shuffle the address order that your name resolver returns. As you may know, pick-first is like a first travel word policy and just like its name, when the name resolver returns a list of the addresses, we try to connect with the first one and then connect to the second one if the first attempt failed. Pick-first is commonly used with a DNS server, shuffling the address order. In some cases where your DNS server couldn't support shovel or randomization, you can simply flip the flag, shuffle address list in your GRPC code, and we will do that for you. And next one, we are excited to share that step forward session ability will be available soon. It is a load balancing technique that ensures all the requests from a particular client session are routed to the Sandbagian server. And this is extremely helpful for applications that maintain the state information for each session, such as like shopping cart, user profiles. The most common approach to achieve it is to use cookies. So when the first request sends out, the load balancer routes it to a server based on your existing LB policy. And the server returns the response back to the load balancer and it will encode the server information and send the cookie, set the cookie in the response header, which will return to your application later. If you want to send a subsequent request to the same server, you can store the cookie in your application. In the following request, include the cookie in your request and the load balancer will decode the cookie to retrieve the server information and route requests to the Sandbagian server. Before the cookie is expired, all subsequent requests with the cookie are routed to the Sandbagian server. And like I mentioned before, this is extremely helpful to improve the user experiences by ensuring all the requests from a particular client session are processed by the Sandbagian server, especially for applications that requires to maintain the state information like shopping cart or the user profiles. So now let's take a look at how to configure Staffel Session Affinity with the Kubernetes resource, GCP Session Affinity Policy. So in the YAML file, you set the cookie TTL time in seconds and target reference to specify which route or service that you want to enable Staffel Session Affinity. And if you want to learn more about the feature, check out the short link at the below, which will take you to our talk at KuKong Europe earlier this year. And the next one that I'm going to talk about is microservices observability. So it is released to public preview for Go and Java last year. And we are excited to announce that it is generally available across all the languages that JRPC supports. This is a powerful tool for you to gain insights into your system's behavior. It helps you to quickly identify the problem, improve the performance and reliability, and so that you can make better decisions about how to architect or manage your system. Microservices observability has three types of data. First of all, logs, for example, like how the message payload looks like, the final status, and also the error code. Secondly, it also has metrics such as how many RPCs started, how many RPCs completed over the time. Last but not least, microservices observability also provides traces which represent how long RPCs are taken to complete and also known as round-trip latency. If you are using microservices-based architecture, you should definitely enable observability to get all the benefits that I just mentioned. And it's really simple. All you need to do is to provide an observability config, and JRPC will send logs, metrics, and traces for you to Google Cloud Platform or any third-party services that they are currently using. We built a unified plugin integrated with any platform that supports open-sense metrics and traces. And this makes it easy for you to identify and troubleshoot problems regardless of the stack that you're using now. Another good news is we are working on open telemetry support that we also mentioned in the earlier keynote. And we are trying really, really hard to get open telemetry support into JRPC. Open telemetry is a new open source standard for observability. And it will be more extensible, flexible, and many companies are involved in the design. So stay tuned for more updates on open telemetry support in JRPC. Here I want to show you an example of observability configuration. In the Cloud Logging, you can list out the events that you are interested or use Star for all the relevant events or exclude certain events. And to enable monitoring, all you have to do is to add Cloud Monitoring Object as a value that we have on the slides. In Cloud Trace, it could be overwhelming if you are sending all of the traces data because the monitor is so huge. So you can specify the sampling rate to fit your needs. In this example, we have 5% of the trace data are randomly selected and sent to Google Cloud Platform. After that, you will have to add a few lines into your application. In the main function, call observability.start and press a context to start a feature. And JRPC Library will start sending logs, metrics, and traces to Google Cloud Platform. And don't forget to call observability.end to flush out the data and clear the resource and memory before closing down your application. And that's all you need to enable microservices observability, which helps you to gain insights of your system's performance and identify potential problems. We also have a birds of feather topic on observability and Jordan Phan, who's leading the session if you are interested in the topic. So here comes some of the fancy features that I like to take this change to quickly go through. Firstly, custom low balancing policy. If our building policy doesn't fit your needs, unfortunately, you can still bring your own custom low bid policy into JRPC. And we recently added support of RBAC HTTP filter for service method scope client authorization on XDS enabled JRPC servers. Lastly, JRPC clients currently support both IPv4 and IPv6. However, most implementation doesn't have support have individual backends have both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, and we are working on that. So in the near future, our API will support multiple addresses returned per endpoint and happy eyeballs will be used to determine the address. And next, we recently added support of Java modules and the module name of the JRPC draw file automatically generated for you. And another feature that we have in JRPC Java is least request low balancing.  In the latest release of JRPC Python, we have removed all the external dependencies. This means JRPC Python now officially have no dependency. And besides this, we also add support of Mac M1 chip. So in the latest release, you will find Mac universal dynamic libraries, which can be around both on M1 or Intel chips. In JRPC core, we are introducing event engine, a new public interface for applications to provide your custom behavior or implementations for IO and synchronous executions. For example, driving JRPC from the external event loops, you can implement your own event engine and override the methods with the behavior that you want. And make sure you set event engine factory to your own class before initiating any JRPC object. If you're interested in this feature, check out the short link below, ending up with JRPC-EE. And on the C++ site, we recently upgrade the way that we notify you when asynchronous RPC actions are completed. And we are excited to introduce the new callback API. And the good news is you no longer need to manage any threads and like keep regularly polling our completion queue. And whenever the JRPC actions are completed, your call will directly call by JRPC library. The callback API provides a set of methods for your application to initiate operations. And your application can also override the methods like unread, done, unwrite, done to get notifications when RPC actions are completed. For more information, check out the short link, ending with JRPC-Callback. For JRPC Go, we are introducing a new channel state, which is called idle, as the initial state. And it will transition into ready when connections are made. If there's a period of time without using JRPC, we will temporarily move the channel state back to idle and close all the open connections for you to optimize the performance. And when new RPCs.com comes in, the connection will be automatically reestablished for you. No additional code, no additional effort needs to be made in your application. This feature has been available on Java and C core for a while, and we recently added into JRPC Go. And you can also customize the idle timeout with a code on the slides. So here comes my last slide, developer tooling. So I want to share two tools that could be helpful during your JRPC journey. First, JRPC Debug is a command line interface that provides you lots of debugging information, such as states about how many RPCs are being sent or failed, the address resolution results, and also the XDS configuration. And the second one is JRPC-Call with one C in the middle. It is also a command line tool that lets you interact with your JRPC server in a curl way. So check out the two GitHub repository. These are super handy tools when you are doing development with JRPC, and if you haven't tried it out, you should definitely give it a try. All right, that brings me to the end of my talk. Make sure if it's in our JRPC.io site, which has all the documentation and call snippets, example code that we have been putting lots of effort in, and subscribe our YouTube channel to get notifications when there are new videos available. You can also request, you can always request in conversation with maintainers if you have any questions, and finally join our mailing list to get the latest updates. All right, thank you for your time. And now I will hand it back to Kefa for Birds of Feather. So was there any questions from our new features? Thank you for telling about the new features. We have been waiting for the callback-based API for some time, so it's great news. Is it already available or is it coming soon? It's already available. Isn't I going to correct me if I'm wrong? The question is, I have a callback API. I believe it's generally available for everyone, and it's ready for use, and we are actually adding a couple more APIs that will be available soon to make it even easier for you. But you can start using it today.


Item Number – SCP-210 – Object Class – SAFE Special Containment Procedures – The property containing SCP-210 has been designated as SITEMENT. The primary responsibility of guards on said site is to prevent entry by trespassers and maintain the cover story detailed in Document 210-1. The servants' quarters adjacent to SCP-210 have been deemed safe for human habitation and may be used for on-site housing. A remotely controlled vehicle is to be sent into SCP-210 on a monthly basis to catalog any changes. Description – SCP-210 is a two-story mansion, flooded to a depth of 4.35 meters with an unknown fluid substance. The substance, designated SCP-210-1, possesses a refractive index nearly identical to water. This fluid is invisible from the outside of SCP-210 and does not flow out of SCP-210 if a door or window is opened. Any living creature that comes into contact with SCP-210-1 enters a sleep-like state and begins drifting through SCP-210-1 as if neutrally buoyant. Beings trapped in this manner are designated SCP-210-2 to date. Instances of SCP-210-2 have been cataloged by remote means. Instances of SCP-210-2 emit a constant stream of bubbles as if exhaling, despite no source of air being identified and subjects appearing to breathe as normal. Subjects have been noted to move through SCP-210-1 slowly as if dancing. It has not been determined if this is under the power of the subjects or of micro-occurrence within SCP-210-1. SCP-210 came to the attention of the Foundation when an agent embedded in the County Police Department received a number of related missing persons reports. General Task Force Iota 12, Damn Feds, was dispatched to intercept the investigations. The disappearances were quickly traced to a party held at SCP-210 in 2001 with several subsequent disappearances resulting from persons undergoing private investigations. Two team members were lost on initial contact with SCP-210, the first one entering through the front door and the second while attempting to recover the first. The full documentation of this investigation can be found in Document 210-1. Addendum 210-1 Attempts to remove SCP-210-2 from SCP-210-1 have failed, as instances of SCP-210-2 which reach the edge of SCP-210-1 will not travel any further. Examples of SCP-210-2 cannot be damaged. This property extends to clothing evidenced by remote attempts to harvest sample material. Furniture and other inanimate objects within SCP-210-1 behave as if in normal atmospheric conditions and may be removed from the residence. Removed items show no anomalies. On 210-2, the remote observation of SCP-210 in 2001 was unable to locate SCP-210-2-7. Note, we have been completely unable to locate SCP-210-7 on subsequent observations. A request has been placed for tracking devices in case of further disappearances. Researcher B. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-209, the sadist's tumbler, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.


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my mother is Ramapachori and she was having troubles with her spine and actually she was not able to walk, she was not able to do any daily chorus. She was losing control on her legs. So we consulted with Dr. Arun Dhanu and Dr. Anshughal. So they have suggested for the surgery. So initially we were very, we are not comfortable with the surgery thing because we heard like a spine is a very critical thing and in case of any operation happened without expertise it could cause an issue with the patient. So but we got the confidence after reviewing the Arun Sir and Anshughal Sir. So finally a mother was operated on 27th of February. So initially one month she had a feature therapy and she started walking with the help of walker and now she is using only a stick and she is able to do her daily chorus without any issue and she is very comfortable and we are also very happy she is able to do his daily routine life, she can use freely washroom and she can take bath and all those things. So we are happy with the way Dr. Arun, Dr. Anshughal take care of my mother. So I would like to thank Dr. Arun and Manibar team for their expert suggestion and their expert in the spine care thing. May ma, we ask you a couple of questions about their experience. I am Ramahab Bachori from Khatsar Sharma. I was very troubled from this year but it was more than a month and my son had a surgery and Dr. Arun Sir told me about the operation and I am not troubled at all. It has been three months and I have been here for three months.