Amen. Alright, so keep your place there in Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11, of course, great chapter on faith. A great chapter talking a lot about faith and, you know, what comes from faith and the examples of, you know, the fathers in the Old Testament of their faith. And also, Sarah, there's a woman in there as well.  You know, I guess this is what a lot of people, a lot of big churches will preach this.  Hebrews chapter 11 pretty much destroys, you know, the prosperity gospel. You know, it's not untrue that, you know, you'll receive blessings in your life, but what I wanna do tonight is I wanna look at Hebrews chapter 11 and I wanna talk about tonight the blessings that you may not see. The blessings that you may not see. Our verse of the week is Hebrews chapter 11 verse number 13 where the Bible says, these all died in faith not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embrace them and confess that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. So talking about, you know, these men and women in the Old Testament that, you know, they died in faith and they didn't receive those things that they had faith in, that they had, you know, those promises were not necessarily made, they were made to them, but they didn't receive the fulfillment of that promise. Okay, so let's just go through Hebrews chapter 11 and look at some things and see how we can apply that to us tonight and see what that means for us.  Yes, that's what I'm gonna do. Okay, and I'm gonna show you though what's better, what's better than things that you can receive in this life because look, God always has something better. Okay, God's not gonna say the prosperity gospel is too simple. It's too simple, it's not, God's better than that. You know, he can give you more than that. Okay, so let's look down at Hebrews chapter 11 and verse number one and hopefully, you know, I can get this across to you tonight and it may sound confusing right now but hopefully we can look into this in depth and you'll see what I'm talking about. Hebrews chapter 11, let's look at faith, first of all. Verse number one, now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Hebrews chapter 11 verse three is one of my favorite verses in the whole Bible and I'm not gonna preach on it tonight but I had to take that whole section out because I just started writing a sermon on that verse and when I was doing that, I love that verse. There's a lot there. I'll preach a sermon on just that verse sometime soon, okay? But look, look at the first part of Hebrews chapter three and where the Bible says, through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. God spoke the world into existence. We already know this. We looked at this a couple of weeks ago. Things which are seen were made by the word of God. They were framed. We believe that by faith. We were not there to see it happen, right? Well, you're looking at it, you're like, maybe you were. No, I wasn't. Okay, I was not there to see it happen. But it's not, look, it's not blind faith. Okay, we weren't there to see it happen. It's things not seen, but there is evidence. There is evidence. In verse number three, it says they were framed by the word of God. Don't we have the word of God? Don't we have the word of God? So the world was framed by the word of God which we have in our hands, right? We have the word of God. The Bible's never been proven wrong on anything. From science to physics to medicine, the Bible's never been proven wrong ever. It's as a matter of fact, it's modern technology and man's understanding of things that is constantly trying to catch up to the Bible. And I've gone through many examples of that. But it's faith all the same. We weren't there to see the world created. It's things not seen. Faith is things not seen, something we can hope for. That's faith, okay? Faith is not just your salvation, but it's for our life on this earth as well. Because there's more for us, look, there's more for you than just your blessings on this earth that God will give you. There are blessings that you and me and we may not see and we may not personally realize on this earth. And that's what Hebrews 11 talks a lot about. So let's look at, first let's look at some men in Hebrews chapter 11 and women who had faith in things that they did not receive, okay? The title of the sermon tonight is the blessings that you may not see. The blessings that you may not see. But I'll explain to you tonight on how, even though you won't receive those blessings, there's something better. There's something better for you. Look down at Hebrews 11 in verse number four. Let's start with Abel. The first example, by faith, Abel offered, so we know that faith is things hoped for, things not seen, right? So when it says Abel had faith, these were things that he had hoped for that he didn't see.  So what does that mean? That means that Abel brought the right sacrifice.  And Cain, of course, brought the fruits of his labor and things that were not meat, basically. And Abel received that, and it says, and by it, he being dead, yet speaketh. So what God gave Abel was he received, he wrote his testimony in the Bible is basically what that says. Okay, look at verse number five. We'll see somebody else. So we see that Abel's testimony, because of his faith, God wrote his testimony for us, is what the Bible says here. Look at Enoch. It says by faith, Enoch was translated that he should not see death. And was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation, he had this testimony that he pleased God. So Enoch didn't receive this blessing until the very time of his departure from this earth. Okay, look at verse number seven. By faith, Noah, being warned of God, of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house by which he condemned the world, by which he condemned the world and became heir of righteousness, which is by faith. So Noah's faith, by Noah's faith, God gave him a vision of things to come and then he blessed the generations of his family by saving them as well, but that was not yet realized. And so God's judgment was not yet realized and then the Noah himself didn't realize the blessings on his family. Okay, look at verse number eight. This is a big one. By faith, Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, he obeyed and he went out not knowing whether he went. That means he didn't know where he went. By faith, he's so joined in the land of promise as in a strange country dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise. For he looked for a city with hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. Now that's a big one. This is basically saying that Abraham was promised this land, this promised land and he never realized it. What Abraham did was he wandered in strange lands. I mean, think about it. I mean, we read through the Bible and it's just a few pages and then Abraham's gone and then we're into somebody else and then pretty soon they're in the promised land if you're reading through your Bible. But think about it. Abraham who lived and was given the promise never received that promise. You know, he received some promises but he didn't receive that promise in his lifetime of that promised land that he was going to get. Think about it. Abraham to David, we just studied this in Matthew chapter one, 14 generations. You know, it was like five, 600 years from Abraham to Moses before they stepped into that promised land. So that promise wasn't fulfilled anywhere near Abraham's life or Isaac's life or Jacob's life. Think about it. So he didn't realize it. He did not realize that promise himself but by faith he did it anyway. He went where he was supposed to go anyway. Hebrews chapter 11, look at verse number 11. Here we see Sarah. Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had promised. So she had, the Bible says here it says she had faith that God would deliver this promise. In verse number 12, therefore sprang there even of one and him as good as dead so many as the stars of the sky in multitude and as the sand which is by the seashore enumerable. Look, did she receive that promise in her lifetime? Was Isaac as the sand on the seashore himself? Was he like the stars of the sky? No, he wasn't. Those promises were fulfilled generations and generations after Sarah. So the point I'm trying to make here is that there's many blessings that these people, these people in the Old Testament that the Bible is talking to us here in Hebrews chapter 11 that they were promised that they did not receive in their life but they still had faith. By faith they received those things but they personally did not receive them. Okay, so you say what's the application? Well, the application is this. First of all, the prosperity gospel is not true basically because of this chapter in the Bible, all right? And many other places in the Bible but this pretty much blows away this idea that just whatever you do in this life for the Lord is just gonna be paid back to you in this lifetime, to you personally. No, that's not going, if you look, if you're expecting that you're gonna be disappointed. So I'm telling you so you're not disappointed. There's blessings that are gonna come elsewhere and later. Okay, so look, maybe, you know, some, maybe most of the blessings that you, that will come from your faith will not be realized by you. Think of it. Think of the prophets. I mean think of the prophets as you read through the Old Testament. Think of Jeremiah. I mean the guys constantly being rejected. I mean, did anyone listen to him one time? I don't think anyone even listened to Jeremiah even one time. I mean they're constantly just being, he's just being rejected, rejected, they're being killed. Look at verse number 37 of Hebrews 11. They were stoned, they were saunasunder. You know that most people, most historians think that that was Isaiah that was saunasunder and that's who that was talking. I mean, we don't know, it's not in the Bible. But most secular historians believe that when it talks about being saunasunder, it's talking about what happened to the prophet Isaiah. I mean, that's not a great life.  Look, many of them didn't receive any blessings in their lifetime. Okay, look down at Hebrews chapter 11 and verse number 32. I mean, any of the prophets for that matter, it's very hard to find something good happening to a prophet in the Bible. All right, look at verse number 32. And what shall I more say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon and of Barak and Samson, of Jephthah, of David also and Samuel and of the prophets. Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, and stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. Women received their dead race to life again and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection. And the others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yay, moreover of bonds and imprisonment. They were stoned, they were saunasunder, they were tempted, were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented, of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and the mountains and dens and caves of the earth, and all these having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise. Look, the Bible says that the world was not worthy to have these men. It says that the world did not deserve these men. And look at all the, look at what they got in their life and they received not the promise. So they didn't get the blessings in their life. It was all future blessings for many from these men. So how do we apply Hebrews chapter 11 to us is the question, what blessings might be received by others when we're gone? Let's just look down at, you know, let's use Abel as an example, his testimony. So your testimony, that's a blessing that people in this world will receive when you're gone.   Turn to 2 Timothy chapter one. Actually, turn to 1 Peter chapter three. I'll just read you 2 Timothy chapter one in verse number eight. The Bible says, be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God. So your life is a testimony. Your life is a testimony to those now and to those who will come after you, to those that you're raising. Look at 1 Peter chapter three in verse number 15. The Bible says this. It says, but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear. Your conversation is a testimony to people. When you speak and you speak of the things of God, that's a testimony to people. So look, you should strive to have a good testimony. As in 1 Peter chapter three, it's a view of your heart to other people, your testimony. It's how people can see your heart for those who come after. And you know what that will turn into? That'll turn into the second application tonight. That will turn into blessings on future generations. And that is Abraham. In Hebrews chapter 11, think of it. Abraham received none of the promises of that land, none of it, not even a little bit. He wandered in strange places. You know, if you ever feel out of place in this world, just think of Abraham. Just think of how he must have felt. As a Bible believing separated Christian, there are going to be times where you feel like a stranger. And that is okay. Look, that's the importance of church and fellowship, especially in times like this. You probably feel more like a stranger now. But in times like this, that's the importance of church and fellowship. You're gonna feel like a stranger to this world, but not to us, right? Not to us. You know, we will strengthen you. We will edify you. In times like this especially, turn back to Hebrews chapter 11. Hebrews chapter 11, verse 13, just look at your bulletin. These all died in faith, not having received the promises, we know that, but having seen them afar off and were persuaded of them and embraced them. They had faith in them, see? Even though they didn't even receive them. They had faith in them and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on this earth. Look, they all felt like this.  So you feel like, man, I just, I'm so different than everybody else. I'm so different. My beliefs are so different than the way everybody else is doing everything. I don't have the same feelings that everybody else has in certain situations, like this. I don't have anywhere near the same feelings that people out there have today. But they all felt like this. It's not just you. It's not just me. It's everyone. There were strangers and pilgrims on this earth. If you feel this way, you're doing it right. That's what it means. It can be, look, and you can be an incredible blessing on future generations if you so choose. Turn to Luke chapter one. Turn to Luke chapter one. And look at verse number 50. Luke chapter one in verse number 50, the Bible reads, and his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. Look, that's why, do you see a clause in there? Does it say that his mercy is just on everyone, no matter what? It says, no. His mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. Do you see why Moses and all these men were just crying out constantly to the children of Israel, saying, you have to fear the Lord, even when I'm gone. Even when I'm gone, you have to follow these laws because once you stop fearing the Lord, all bets are off. That's why Moses said it, Joshua said it, they all said it over and over and over. So as you read the Bible, you're like, man, you just said it two pages ago. Why didn't they listen? But we don't listen either. So you see that that is the catch, that to those generations that fear the Lord, that will be a great blessing. That's what you can pass on. We'll talk about that more in tonight's sermon. Number three, your seed, let's look at Sarah. Your seed will bless the world. Literally, the Bible says.  Think of it. Think of it. Sarah's son, Isaac, he wasn't the sand of the seashore, was he? No. He was the first grain of sand. He wasn't the stars of the sky, he was the first star. But when you think about this whole thing, look back at Hebrews 11 verse 12, or I'll just read it for you. They're for spraying there even of one, talking about Sarah. And him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky and multitude, and as the sand, which is by the seashore innumerable. That means you couldn't even count them. Couldn't even count them. So it grew after the first generation, it grew more, and it grew more, and it grew more. It's called an exponential growth, right? We've seen a lot of that lately. But it's called exponential growth. Children have children have children have children have children. I mean, look, that's a force multiplier if it's done properly. You know, you say, what's a force multiplier? Here's the definition of a force multiplier. From the dictionary. A capability that when added to and employed to a combat force, typically, significantly increases the combat potential of that force and thus enhances the probability of success of a successful mission accomplishment. Some examples of force multipliers in military history were like machine guns, right? Where they went from just regular rifles to a single shot rifle to a semi-automatic rifle to a machine gun. Those are force multipliers, right? The airplane, that was a force multiplier.  It's not even close, right? Helicopter, same thing. Look, that's the thing about church plants, right? That's the thing about church plants. I mean, you can go out soul winning and you can be like, I'm just gonna go soul winning and soul winning and soul winning and we could be a soul winning church and we could grow and grow. But you know what a force multiplier would be for our church? You know, look, church growth is great. Having more people come in here is gonna be great.  It's when we start training up men to go out and start other churches. That's when that exponential force multiplication happens. That is the power of this generational blessing. That's the power. Your generations, look, I'm talking about your generations that come after you. Your personal generations can be force multipliers for the world. You say why? Because kids have kids and then those kids have kids. And then you'll have grandkids and great-grandkids and then when you're dead, there'll be more kids and more generations and more generations. So if you can kind of figure out a way to make sure that that fear of the Lord passes to your next generation and the next generation and the next generation, you'll have a force multiplier on your hands from your family for the gospel. And you say, well, how do we do that? Well, the Bible tells you how to do it. I mean, just listen, right? I mean, we're not up here preaching the Bible on how to raise kids and raise godly kids just to waste time. I mean, this is the type of, look, it's a blessing to you to not have bratty kids, to be able to watch your own children serve the Lord in their life. That's a blessing that you will receive on this earth yourself personally. But there's more and there's something better for the world if you do it right. And you teach them to do it right for their children. You see, I mean, that's awesome. If my kids grow up and those few kids that I have, they grow up and serve the Lord, that's great. That's a blessing to me. But if they grow up and they have 1,000 other ancestors that all end up serving the Lord, that's a blessing on the world. That's better than the blessing that I had. You see? That's why those blessings that we might not see are better. And God tells us that they're gonna be better. So look, look, we go out soul winning. I mean, I love it, right? We go out soul winning and the stupidest, craziest situations, we'll find a way to still go soul winning. It's awesome, we love it, right? We all love it.  But don't forget to raise that next generation right. Because that's the force multiplier, right? So you're one man. Don't forget, look, there's plenty of godly men and women that have lost their children and that has just died with them. There's plenty, there's plenty in the Bible if you need biblical examples. There's plenty that I can think of in this world. Godly men of God that were great preachers and great leaders but for some reason not with their family. So don't think it can't be you. So don't be this person that's just, you know, it's just soul winning for me personally. No, there's other, you have to pay attention and focus on your family. Because look, it'll be a blessing for you but it'll be a huge blessing for future generations. If you do it right and the Bible tells us how to do it right. So we have the directions, we have the manual, right? So be well-rounded, be well-rounded folks. There's blessings for the world out there. So ultimately we need to realize that anything in this life folks and you know, a lot of, you know this is kind of becoming clear for a lot of people. I think this might be one of the benefits of this situation but anything in this life really can perish away, right? Especially now. We need to not focus so much on the blessings that we will receive in our lives but on the eternal blessings that God can give to future generations and ultimately folks from, you know, to the world just from us being here. Just from us being here and having that faith to do things according to the Bible. I mean it said by faith these men did these things. By faith these men did this. By faith Noah build the ark. By faith they, you know, by faith Abraham went to sacrifice a promise that he did receive. He's like, I got one. Woo, I mean I got that one. I received that one. Now God's like sacrifice it. He's like, oh, bummer. But he did it. He did it. I mean that's faith. So if we have that faith, those blessings will be better for future generations. That's why there's an unbroken chain of Christians going all the way back to Christ. That's why, that's why it's not broken because those men who were getting land and women who were getting no blessings who were living horrible lives and dying horrible deaths. They just, they just had faith. They just had faith all the way to the end that the blessing just wasn't gonna be for them in their time. That's it. So the blessing is for us as we read about them and they're what? They're testimony, right? Look back at Hebrews chapter 11 verse 39. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 39. And these all having obtained a good report through faith received not the promise. Look, they didn't receive the promise. And here it is.  Look at verse number 40. So they didn't receive the promise. Verse number 40. God having provided some better thing for us that they without us should not be made perfect. That's why. Because no matter what we receive in this life, I don't think, look, I don't think there's, first of all, I don't think there's anyone in this room that could claim the life of the prophets. Even, you know, as messed up as things can get and all this kind of stuff, I don't think there's anybody in this room who can claim that they haven't received blessings in their life.  You know, you have blessings. You know, tonight we'll talk about, you know, the fine line of how to handle those blessings in your life. We'll talk about that tonight. But in times where you think, man, you know, this is rough. You know, this is rough. You know, what's the pay off here? You know, what's the benefit of this, you know, Christian life that I'm living right now?   To go to heaven? No, you don't. You didn't remember that the prosperity gospel was not a, it's just fake. I hope and pray a lot that God blesses the lives of all of you. But it is very possible that these blessings that you have in your life, look, things come and go. I'm not that old. I'm kinda old. I'm 42. I've had, I've had good financial times and bad financial times in my life. Sometimes things are just working and sometimes they're not. That's just how it is. You just keep doing what you're supposed to do. By what? By faith. So look, the blessings you receive may not, they may not be realized by you. That's the whole point. I know I keep saying it over and over again, but I want to just drill that in. But what God has for you, what God has for us, what God has for future generations, because of your faith, what God has for the world, because of your faith that you have now is better. Than anything that you could get right now. You say, well, I just want it now. Well, you're selfish.  Think about just the blessings that could come from your faithful life. That's Hebrews chapter 11 right there.  And you know what? You eventually will realize those blessings because you'll be watching it from eternal life. Abraham saw it. He saw I'm going to the Promised Land. You know, Abraham knows all the blessings that came from his life. He saw that the Messiah came from him. He saw all these things. You'll see it. It just won't be in this tiny little blip of your physical life right here. It'll be somewhere in the eternity of your life. And guess what? It's going to be much better. That's why Hebrews 11 is such a great chapter. It tells you, you know, it explains faith and then it tells you the benefit of it. It tells you the power of it. It tells you, you know, this faith that you have now, don't just sit there and say, well, I'm having all this faith and I'm doing all these things and where's all the stuff coming to me? You're setting yourself up for failure. You know that, look, look, that sells books. Right, that sells books.  Your wonderful business now or whatever. Read the Bible six times a day and you're, I don't even know. But I mean, it sells. People want to hear it. It tickles the ears. Telling people they'll look. You know, first of all, am I really up here telling you that, look, you need to have faith. You need to have strong faith and your life is going to stink. It's going to be terrible. No, that's not really, it might be. But there's something better coming. There's something better and that's why you can have that faith because God promises you that if you don't receive it now, you'll see it later and it will benefit the world that will be much better than anything you could have gotten personally now. Through your generations and just through, you know, the blessings that you can affect on the world. I mean, look, that's powerful. That's exciting, right?  Yes, I'm telling that you, your faith can affect the entire world, like the sand of the sea, think about it. But it depends on how you do things now. It depends on your testimony. It depends on your works, right? It depends on your works. Not to get to heaven, but how you'll bless the world, how you'll bless those future generations. So works do matter in this sense. You know, that's why you're, look, that's why also your faith and your works are tied together like that.  That would just project itself out more. But you may not see it personally. You'll see it eventually though, guaranteed. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for Hebrews chapter 11. What a great chapter in the Bible. We thank you for all these wonderful promises, Lord, in the Bible that you've given to us that even though we may not realize these promises now, Lord, we understand that, you know, we just by faith believe these promises, Lord. We believe that what you say is true. And, you know, we have that hope and that faith of the things that we don't need to see, Lord, and we just know that your word is true. And we thank you that we're able to hold it in our hands. We love you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


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I know the Steelers are up right now 16-7 and probably the only reason I got on this Titans jersey right now is because the way things are going right now I honestly don't feel like I'll be able to wear this after the game because usually after the game I wear the team of the winning jersey so the way things are going right now it's not looking like I'll be having this on later but anyway before we get into this and it's gonna be very brief let me just introduce myself me I'm engraving vids and welcome to my YouTube channel engraving vids now me I'm a Ravens fan but on this YouTube channel we just talk football periods so if you're Ravens fan you can subscribe if you are Titans or Steelers fan you can subscribe if you just like football man you can subscribe and I appreciate all y'all coming through thank you very very much and after you subscribe turn your notifications on so anytime we go live just like this you can come through and last but not least like my boy Ryan Mallard always says make sure you leave a like on the video make sure you leave a like on the video because it's completely free but anyway let's get into this game now in this game let me sit down because I'm getting tired I'm an old man but anyway in this game from the beginning and I know that the I know that the Steelers have been struggling on offense all season long I know that Steelers have I mean that their offense has been shaky if you want to call it that and it has been but in this game the way that it started out Steelers came out just they just literally drove down the field they made it look so easy they made it look so easy like they didn't have a care in the world and they just drove down the field they were like oh these Titans we don't know who they are we don't know where they came from but we don't care and they literally just went straight down the field on the Titans defense and when they did that oh of course Harry Potter of course when they went down the field they I thought I said oh man it's gonna be a long game for these Titans man it's gonna be a long game for these Titans because Steelers offense look like it's about to literally go off it's about to go off make sure y'all leave a like on the video it's 31 people in here but only 10 lights y'all make sure y'all click that thumbs up button but anyway the Steelers offense look like they were literally gonna go off explode but things change things change I know Levy on bail hasn't really been getting many touches Martavius Bryant he had a drop Levy on bail he had a drop didn't did Antonio Brown have a drop too but really quick before we get into the drops let's rewind to that very first drive and shout out to Ben Rosensberger and him being a veteran shout out to Ben Rosensberger and him having some great awareness because I love it's not too many QB's that do it I know Ben Rosensberger does it all the time Drew Brees does it Tom Brady does it who's another quarterback that doesn't those are the first three I can think of off the top of my head but basically what I'm saying those are the quarterbacks those are the quarterbacks that when they catch you jumping off sides oh and and right oh and Roger's loves to do it too that's another one those are four quarterbacks that and those are guys that are in that elite category Ben Rosensberger Brady Brees and Rogers they're in a class of their own anyway um and Flacco is not but anyway those are guys that when they catch you off sides if they get a shot at a free play they got a shot at a free play and they make the most of it so shout out to all four of them and Ben Rosensberger once he got that free play what he knew it was a free play immediately he said and he said got him and he got him and he put the ball in a perfect spot and Antonio Brown being the beast of a receiver that he is he went up and got it that was a beautiful touchdown catch it's a beautiful touchdown catch and again like I always say about the Pittsburgh Steelers and I'm sure if they were even if they lose this game either way it still stands that the Steelers are some of the best appreciated King Kofi the Steelers are some of the best at drafting and developing wide receivers some of the best man some the best now me since I'm a Ravens fan I'm a Titans fan in this game but I really don't have much confidence in them the offense has been looking shaky at best they did get that one they did get that drive against Pittsburgh where um well first Marcus Mariota through the the interception that he threw was just ah just to look like an overthrow look like a miscommunication look like a mix of mix of both but they did get the drive where Marcus Mariota he had to look in search and he couldn't find anybody so you had to take it upon himself he had to take it upon himself to get into the end zone and he barely got it it was it was close it was very very close very very oh he looked like Fleckle you look crazy man but um he he it was it was close but um he got it but after that I mean the play calling there somebody made a comment on Twitter about Marcus Mariota about when the their last possession before half the last possession before they punt it to the stills before half and they said it seems like this coaching staff for the the Titans they don't trust Mariota they don't trust the QB because they were just running the ball they weren't letting him throw the ball I believe it was third down and long and it's the play where they had both there Derek Henry and the Marco Murray in the backfield they went split backs formation and they just did a handoff they just did a handoff now and I understand you don't want to do anything stupid right before halftime and the way that still is defense has been playing not only this game but really all year long still as defense has been playing pretty good still as defense has been playing pretty good but sometimes you just got to put it out there man but they are still in this game so they are they are still in this game appreciate that Michael thank you and Chris Jackson you're right you can't win in this league think you can't win in this league when you when you play not to lose when you play not to lose you already lost you already lost Lewis said I figure you'll be a Titans fan tonight keeping the stills is shutting down the run they do that still is win now Meach made a good point he said maybe we should be rooting for still is tonight reason being that three games up on the Ravens right now in the AFC North will the Ravens catch them but the way the Ravens play no but is the NFL so anything is possible but I'm not putting faith in Baltimore to catch the Steelers when the Steelers are three games up now no Steelers can have a slide Ravens can have just a turn around anything is possible especially this year in the NFL now again I'm not counting on it whatsoever now they then they showed the they showed that the AFC South and the Titans and Jaguars a neck and neck and you know I didn't even realize that the Titans on a five game women's streak like and Meach also brought out a good point earlier he said he can't believe we lost to this team now he could have been talking about Steelers we could have been talking about Titans but I'm sure he was talking about Titans because of how bad they've looked tonight but trust me when I tell you and I know you already know with how bad as bad as the Titans have looked tonight so far the Ravens look worst they look worse so oh and and said yeah but the win streak includes the Bengals Browns Colts and don't forget Ravens I don't know who the 15 was I don't remember but hey a win is a win wins all wins wins all wins so I'm not discrediting their wins because one of the teams they beat hello Ravens I was us they beat us so yeah oh there goes the the Hawk just said he said wins or wins it's true he said wins feel with pigs hey however you get it man whether you beat the worst team in the world you beat the best team in the world whether you throw 50 picks in one game when you catch 50 picks in one game all that matters at the end of the game is that final score is that final score what's up show out I said I seen you on Twitter man I know you're going through it right now I you know what I'm torn I don't know who to root for now who do you root for do you root for the do we root for Steelers to beat the Titans and sort of start knocking them down and and hope that they knock them completely out of the playoff race and maybe Jags get the division title or whatever or do we root for Titans to beat the Steelers and then just hope that the Ravens sort of just wake up on offense I don't know I'm torn you know it's kind of sad oh you from Tennessee and your Steelers fan so you must be having a lot of fun in your area today this must have been a lot of fun for you whether you went to work or you went to school you went to wherever you must have been having a lot of fun have to root for Steelers want Tennessee to lose games for that world-class black and you know what it's sad it's sad that we're in week 11 it's 17 weeks in the football season we're in week 11 Ravens are four and five they have seven games left it's so sad and I don't mean to be talking about my team when we talking about Titans and Steelers but it's so sad that the Ravens have to rely on other teams to play bad in order for them to have a chance it shouldn't have to have to come down to that that's sad that's when you know your team is doing really bad when you have to root for other teams to do bad so your team can come up so here's what it is oh there it goes you'll say stills were four and five last year made it to the AFC ship so it could be it could happen for the Ravens it could Ravens don't have Steelers offense they don't have anybody's offense but ain't over till it's over but anyway appreciate all y'all coming through this was a lot of fun you had a lot of fun on here who do I root for I don't know because yeah this season is so crazy too bad I can't say the same thing about the Ravens offense man I don't know we'll see we'll see what happens so I'm torn I don't know what to do I'm just hoping for a good game whoever comes out on top we'll see and we'll be here to talk about it afterwards appreciate y'all make sure you subscribe to the channel if you haven't already cuz we will be back here after the game and we're probably gonna be back here during the game too for some more questions from subscribers appreciate it Ty thank you thank you Lupe too I appreciate it I said root for bills to lose bill did just change they started quarterback they dropped Tyrod and they got I don't even know the guy's name who started but we'll see I see y'all after the game appreciate it make sure you leave a like on the video if you haven't already and subscribe to the YouTube channel if you want to you can follow on Twitter Instagram and Snapchat all three are engraving vids it's I and G R A V E and B I DS I'll 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Hi, and welcome to this special broadcast directly from our studios at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Oviedo, Florida My name is Edgar Nazario and today I have a special treat for all the ladies who are listening But before that we want to invite you to our 2016 woman's conference under the title seeking the glory of God with guest speaker Susan J. Heck and Martha Peace now stay tuned because at the end of the broadcast we will let you know how to register for this conference All the ladies who attend will definitely enjoy a time of fellowship Joyful worship and biblical teaching and speaking of biblical teaching this year We have the blessing to have two very special women who are very well known for their biblical teaching and Also their love for God's word and I'm speaking of Miss Susan J. Heck and Martha Peace Now today I have the opportunity With us live on the phone to join us on conversation on the subjects and the sessions of our Conference miss and Susan J. Heck. Thanks Susan for joining us. I'm doing great. It's a rainy day in Oklahoma For those who don't know Susan allow me to give you a little bit of background Susan Heck has been happily married to her husband Doug for 40 years She has been involved in women's ministry for about 37 years in a variety of different ways such as Bible studies Counseling and she's a guest speaker at many international women's conferences Susan is also the author of several published books such as a call to discipleship Putting off life dominating sin and with the master Bible study among others She's an encouragement to many Christian women by memorizing 23 books of the New Testament word-for-word Susan is a mother of two and a grandmother to seven precious grandchildren Susan thank you for joining us on this broadcast We're very excited and thankful to have you join us once again for our women's Conference now Susan what I like to do is to talk about the conference session so that the ladies Listening can get more in depth of what they should be expecting Have here in front of me the conference itinerary. So let's go ahead and jump in with the first Session but before we do that. I wanted to ask you how did you come up with the titles for your sessions? Did you and Martha have a theme in mind for this year's conference? Well, it'll be interesting Martha's been a friend of mine for a long time So I think the sisters there at Cornerstone just thought it would be a good time to Have us do something together and I'm looking forward to it you know the Sermon on the Mount is as Martin Lloyd-Jones says it's the Most understood sermon but the least obeyed. I'm just going to take three important Topics from chapter 6 of the Sermon on the Mount that I think are imperative if we're going to be a woman after God's own heart And so I'm looking forward to that. It'll be great. It's going to be a great time together I can't wait. What are the titles of your three sessions for this year's conference? What will you be teaching the ladies? Well? The first one is going to be Contrasting hypocrisy and holiness and you know Jesus says we shouldn't do our acts of righteousness Before men to be seen by them and I think women fall in that pitfall of doing things to please others and Doing things to be seen of others and Jesus is going to mention three acts of righteousness our praying our fasting and our giving But you know Edgar anything we do since we do everything to the glory of God It should be an act of righteousness and so even cooking our husband's favorite meal Could can be considered an act of righteousness But if I do it with a wrong attitude Then that act of righteousness becomes an act of unrighteousness. So I'm going to really zero in on that first and then secondly I want to talk about laying up treasure in In heaven and not on earth. I I think a lot of women You know, I just got done with some spring cleaning here in my house and you wonder Where do you where do we get all this stuff and why do we have all this stuff? That their moth and rest is going to corrupt and and bees to break through and steal it and I think women spend a lot of idle time Browsing recipes and clothes and all this stuff when they could be Doing something in their home or you know sharing the gospel or something like that we need to really get back to why are we here and Certainly we need to fulfill our responsibilities as moms and wives But our treasure should be laid up in heaven not not here on earth. And so we're gonna look at that passage and then lastly I think another pitfall of women is worry. I I think I counsel more women who struggle with anxiety and You know, if we believe in the sovereignty of God There should be no need for worry And so Jesus has that passage don't worry about what you're gonna eat what you're gonna drink what you're gonna wear He says the pagans do this pagans are characterized by worry But God's children should not be characterized by worry. So we're gonna we're gonna look at that as well and needful Worship and needless worry and hopefully the women will learn to put that sinful sin off and And get back to worshiping the Lord instead of worrying about their life So that's kind of where I'm going. I'm looking forward to it Susan being that you travel quite a bit and have the blessing of meeting women in many parts of the world As a pastor's wife and a Bible teacher to women What are some of the common pitfalls that you see Christian women are dealing with that shows? They need to address the contrast between hypocrisy and holiness. Well, I think one of the pitfalls would be Gossip, you know, that shouldn't characterize the life of a woman after God's own heart You know were to speak things that are edifying Another one I see is just a lack of the the disciplines of the means of grace And what I mean by that is being involved in the local church accountability Prayer Bible reading I have to tell you I'm just shocked at the amount of women that that don't read their Bible don't know their Bible and You know my Bible says that that the godly woman delights in the law of the Lord and yet I just see the women today delighting in so much of the world and I would say that is definitely You know to profess the name of Christ and then not delight in his ways and in his word is is To me very concerning as an older woman watching just the trend in the church today. So Yeah, there's there's a lot of hypocrisy in the church There might be women right now Susan who might be dealing and battling with the sin of hypocrisy right now if any of these women had The opportunity to sit down with you for a private counseling session and they asked you what biblical and practical advice Would you give me so that the Lord would help me overcome the sin of hypocrisy? What would you say to them? Well, I really believe Edgar that the best way is to honestly sit before the Lord and Ask yourself that hard question Why am I doing what I'm doing? Why am I serving in the church? Why am I reading my Bible? Why am I praying? Is it for so I could tell somebody about it? Is it so because somebody's watching or is it truly? because My love for God and my desire to glorify him and I have to do that from time to day like why am I doing what I'm doing? Why do I do what I do? You know that first self-glory is it for God's glory is it because I love him is it because I love myself Do I want the praise of man or the praise of God? and so but you know we don't sit long enough to sit before the Lord and ask those hard questions and You know, I think we're such a fast-paced society with so much technical social networking And we just don't take time to be holy and sit before the Lord and really evaluate our heart as much as we can I know the heart's deceitful, but at the same time I think it'd be wise for us to really ask ourselves some hard questions. Why am I doing what I'm doing and And be be real with the Lord. Don't don't have fake answers So that would be my two cents once again Susan. Thank you so much for taking time to talk to our listeners and Continue our conversation about our 2016 women's conference. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me Thank you so much Susan for sharing with all the women listeners a little bit of the great teaching that is to come and for all The women who are out there who are listening let me encourage you to register today and don't risk being left out Since we do have a limited amount of seating once again come and join us in our 2016 women's conference under the title seeking the glory of God with guest speaker Susan Jay hack and Martha Peace This woman's conference will be hosted at cornerstone Baptist Church this coming 15th and 16th of July All of our ladies will enjoy a time of fellowship joyful worship and biblical teaching So take advantage and register today online by visiting www.seekinghisglory.net I'll repeat that again www.seekinghisglory.net or if you have questions feel free to give us a call here and our studios at 407 971 7 685 407 971 7 685 thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you at our 2016 women's conference.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video today. It's time to get creepy. It's time to get googly We're gonna talk about painting ghoul flesh Let's get into it. Let's strict techno man sir. That is Vinci V Let us get to the technique and learn it Vinci V's now. I love painting flesh in general I think it's a really interesting fun experiment You get to play around with different colors soft tones a lot of different transitions It's really something to do if you want to improve However undead flesh can sometimes be challenging because we have to work in these unusual different tones We need to make it look alive enough to read is like a being up and walking around the world But dead enough to look like some carrion corpse eater That's harvesting the bones of the fallen and scraping the meat off of them for sustenance Sounds fun. So today we're gonna paint the new special edition ghoul king That came out from GW. This is a super cool model sitting on a throne. I couldn't resist painting it He is just awesome and we're gonna talk about the skin So let's head over to the desk see what we can do Let's get started with the actual paints and these are gonna be a bit unusual But I want to explain why we have this rotting flesh from war colors Nostalgia We have two scale 75 colors resurrection flesh brain eater Azure and then dark flesh a greenish tone a Pinky skin tone a purple tone for shadows and then a deep red to warm up the shadows We're gonna use these to create something that really doesn't look or feel like much of any of them But you'll see how it all works Now I do begin with just a little bit of airbrush here I'm being very directional with this lighting it mostly over his top right shoulder The nature of how the figures leaning forward and in this chair Does very much behoove this sort of directional lighting I don't go super strong with it in the execution of the mini but This is one of those minis if you've watched my previous videos on doing like extreme lighting This would actually work really well for that sort of thing I'm also then going to go ahead and colorize the shadows with this dark flesh with the airbrush This is just really sort of erasing the Deeper dark gray black that's remaining and toning it Basically, none of this red this pure red will remain But since our highlight is going to be that cold rotting flesh that cold green color I want our shadows to be nice and warm All right, that's all the airbrush stuff. You wouldn't have to do that with airbrush. Let's get to the actual painting The first thing I'm going to do here is set some just general shadows And I'm so I'm covering all of that red and a little more With a thin Version this is still a layer paint, but it's quite thin. It's still transparent the scale 75 fantasy and games colors are all quite transparent And I'm so I'm covering the shadows a little bit more with a mix of purple This purple and the red and that's really my actual shadow color Right and I'm just relying on the warm red to sort of tone that up and keep the shadows warm My next step is just very simple. It's just two thin coats of brain-eater azure over the whole Model now I don't cover necessarily the deep shadow areas But everything that still doesn't have a color and into some of the area I just painted Again, just two thin coats and now he's a little happy purple man So here's our happy purple man and I promise you when we're done. He's not going to feel like this much anymore But when you're building up skin tones, you really have the ability to start at a color That isn't going to be what the final color is It's going to feel very different, but you can use Those initial tones that you're going to put a lot of layers over to just kind of set The warmth that the environment that temperature the feel Of the miniature knowing that you're going to do lots of layers up and on a small figure like this It honestly doesn't take a lot of time But what i'm doing here is working up the actual Sort of main mid-tone skin tone building toward it So i'm being pretty aggressive with this layer, but I am still leaving some of that purple around I do want some of it, especially Uh in the deeper shadows Because that purple is so important to that ghoul to that undead flesh That bruised deep purple color just feels Really really dead when when humans see purple in skin. It doesn't feel good. It feels bruised. It feels dead It feels sick. That's what we want and I used that color you saw previously I applied that multiple times. I applied it all over the muscle structures. You saw then did it again When you're modulating with thin layers as you see me doing here I don't have to I don't have to change my paint mix necessarily to get a new effect I can keep layering up the same thin color Over and over again Intensifying it and increasing the opacity in certain areas to smooth those transitions I really can't impress upon you enough the importance Of multiple passes of thin transparent layers when you're working with skin without changing your recipe or your mix Everything you see me do here at least one of you'll notice I go over two three four times building that up Now why the rotting flesh? I use rotting flesh with the resurrection fresh because it's green The resurrection flesh is a pinky tone meaning it has some red in it Green is the complementary color to red both are highly desaturated But the green help cuts it helps to cut the pink and it introduces a dead gray tone Into it pushing my highlights into both a pseudo normal flesh tone by mixing that neutral together While also making it feel just a little dead a little gray a little goo Now remember I can't reinforce enough that the particular paints I'm using here aren't the important thing Okay What matters is using these kinds of different tones And you see how I'm shifting the pink with this light greeny tone How I'm incorporating those off purples to make the skin feel more bruised and dead So it doesn't matter if you don't have my paints Anything like in this color range in general any, you know soft purples Any off light greens any pinky flashes all of those are going to work to achieve what you see me doing here So now we're going to just work on the refinement And the refinement means these final highlights and here i'm coming in Lacking any of the purple and just hitting those really key areas those top highlights This isn't over the whole figure. I'm focusing in on the top of his chest the top of his shoulder Heating that original directional lighting so where that knee is sticking way out whereas knee cap is there right Trying to really really pop So i'm expanding the volumes of this big lighter color up on the the his you know sculpted chest and This dude really pushes some plates. I think for being so dead. He's you know, he hits the gym and good for him The next step is just to bring start bringing everything together no matter how thin and transparent our layers are They're still not going to be perfect. It's acrylic paint and acrylic paint isn't made for blending So we have to go to thin glazes And so all the rest of this work is just me taking some of the various layers that i've had Thinning them down to a glaze. I'm working with the same mixes that are sitting on my palette I'm just introducing some more water thinning them down and then pushing the paint in the direction I wanted to go notice when I push these highlights see how my brush is moving Towards the area that I want the light. That's because this glaze is so thin And remember with our glaze we thin it down We wick off the excess and then we move our brush Toward the highlight area Toward the area we want the most paint to deposit And so that's how you'll see me sweeping my brush here And all these glazes back and forth down into the purple and up into the lighter tones in various mixtures It really is just me moving around the previous mixtures are just there to refine and smooth I don't do a ton of this. This is meant to be a fun project Now that not really a competition piece. I could certainly spend hours more smoothing it out But for me this hit exactly kind of where I wanted and I'm really happy with the sort of effect This skin produced you can see how if I showed you the four colors You wouldn't think you would get to this place But by using the complimentary nature of the green in the rotting flesh against both the reds and the purples We produce something really unique and interesting and there we go He's all done. Let's roll some pictures of him over the top This guy was super fun to paint. I really really enjoyed this model This is exactly what I needed to kind of kick up some good hobby mojo for myself It's always fun to sit down give yourself four or five hours tops to paint a mini like this No, it's a single character and and just experiment have fun play around with the colors See what comes out of it and I was really happy with the the skin tone we achieved here And I'll be you know trying this again in the future Maybe adding some additional tones or colors and seeing what we can get to As always, thank you so much for watching this give it a like if you liked it Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't already There is a patreon down below if you want to support the channel and take your next step on your hobby journey That patreon is focused on review and feedback and gives you a Membership into an awesome discord community full of enthusiastic hobbyists As always, I thank you so much for watching and we'll see you next time


Does that make out any questions being put? Therefore, would those members who wish to speak in the debate please press their request to speak buttons? My colleagues have supported my motion that includes the removal of phone boxes across Scotland. I would also like to thank Brian Whittle and Jamie Greene who are present in the chamber to discuss an issue that affects a great number of people in a variety of tangible ways. I would also like to thank Mark Dames and Mark Johnson of British Telecom for taking the time to discuss this issue a fortnight ago before this debate was even scheduled. When I was first informed of the decision taken by BT to remove 947 pay boxes across Scotland, including 24 boxes located in North Ayrshire, I was immediately concerned about the impact that this would have on my constituents. Although significant efforts have been made to improve mobile infrastructure across the UK, many areas within Scotland still receive only a partial mobile phone signal, which is both unreliable and inconsistent. Those so-called not-spots are not only frustrating when trying to send a text or make a call, but can prove dangerous in the case of an emergency. This concern is of particular relevance to those living on Scotland's islands, such as Arn and Cumbry, in my constituency, where mobile coverage can be extremely poor. That is increasing isolation for island residents, as well as affecting the many tourists who visit our islands each year and who are consistently surprised by just how sporadic signal provision can be. Due to those concerns, I consider it a priority to meet with BT to discuss the reasoning behind this decision and fully understand the impact it would have on the people of Scotland. I am grateful for BT for engaging with MSPs on this issue. I would like to share some of what we discussed today. First, it is undeniable that our telephone usage and relationship with technology have been dramatically transformed in recent times. 93 per cent of all our apps now own a mobile phone, and as such, payphone usage across the UK has declined by 90 per cent over the past decade. In fact, not one call was made from more than 700 BT kiosks over the last year, demonstrating just how little use they are in some locations. I am not surprised that, when we have access to devices that allow us to make calls, send texts, check emails, browse the internet and even play games, call boxes are no longer used in the way they once were. In light of that, perhaps our focus should now be even more on increasing mobile coverage and reliability in remote and rural areas in particular, which currently do not enjoy the same connectivity as the rest of Scotland. I would like to hope to see more initiatives such as a pilot scheme launched in 2016 by then-elins minister Derek Mackay, which saw non-domestic rates relief on new mobile masks offered in two locations on Arn and one in Cairn Gorn to encourage the provision of mobile services and further investment in those areas. Such projects would mean that phone boxes would no longer be a necessity, and those living in Scotland's rural areas would be able to enjoy the full range of mobile services. It is also worth noting that Pratys decision BT entered into consultation with local authorities across Scotland, with 1,500 payphones originally earmarked for removal by 2020. Following consultation, which also allowed communities to voice their concerns over the removal of essential payphones, BT agreed to drop the number to 957, meaning that we will see the removal of some 433 boxes across Scotland with a further 111. That is being taken over by the adopt a kiosk initiative, as opposed to the loss of a third of all current payphones, as was initially proposed. That demonstrates BT's willingness to engage with those who rely on payphone services most and to protect services where they are deemed vital. I am pleased to highlight that, after reviewing the consultation responses, the decision was made not to remove any payphones on any Scottish island. That will guarantee the safety of island residents and visitors as these phone boxes can act as a lifeline in the emergency situation. Payphones have also been protected by the consultation identified as social need for the box, such as accident black spots, suicide hotspots and coastal payphones, where connectivity may prove life-saving. Other boxes were protected when meeting a number of criteria, such as the payphone being within 800 metres, used to make at least 12 calls within a 12-month period and located within a local population is not fewer than 500 households within one kilometre of the payphone. Finally, I would like to draw attention to BT's adopt a kiosk scheme, which was introduced in 2008 and offers local authorities, charities and communities the opportunity to adopt their local phone box for just £1 and transform it into an asset for the community as an alternative to removal. Following consultation, as I mentioned earlier, 111 phone boxes are currently being considered for adoption, with an exciting and eclectic mix of transformed kiosks already in use across Scotland and, indeed, some 3,000 across the UK. Some boxes are fitted with life-saving defibrillators, tiny libraries or venture art galleries that have been maintained by local communities in Scotland and, indeed, in England, many coffee shops and meditation space have even been created, so there is a wealth of opportunity and inspiration for transforming poorly maintained and unused phone boxes into a unique and creative community solution. In fact, that is exactly the kind of albeit modest community empowerment that I would like to see more of in my own constituency of Cunningham North, and I would encourage everyone watching this debate to consider if a phone box in their locale could become something that I catching is essential or, indeed, just a bit of good fun. What is interesting is that, when we look at those 111 boxes, 28 are in Angus, 18 in Fife, but none are in 18 local authorities, including my one of North Ayrshire, so that is something that I will personally be pursuing. I should point out, of course, when we are fighting to retain call boxes, that BT currently looses some £20 million a year in retaining them, and while there is a real issue of retaining them in rural areas in particular, some, and I would say only some, urban areas are not so keen because of perceived concerns that these call boxes actually cause in some communities in BT are fairly much aware of that. In closing, I would ask everyone present to remember that connectivity is not just a matter of economic necessity, but a vital part of guaranteeing the safety of our constituencies. By retaining phone boxes where they are essential, as well as looking at creative and effective solutions to signal coverage in rural and remote areas, we can ensure that everyone has access to telephone services wherever and whenever they need it most. I would like to start off, first of all, by thanking Kenny Gibson for bringing this to the less-than-pack chamber today, but nonetheless, lots of people will be watching this from afar, no doubt, in paying a close interest in what BT's plans are. Like him, I also engaged with BT to get some background as to what their plans are and also to get a better understanding of why they were doing what they were doing. Clearly, it is essential that any changes to pay phones do not hinder the important community needs of a pay call box such as access and emergency services, but more importantly, in places where there is no other means of contacting people where there is poor mobile coverage. Kenny Gibson's motion states the fair point that, although people do use still pay phones, the adoption of smartphones has dramatically increased in recent years. In the last decade, pay phone usage has dropped by over 90 per cent, and that is no small figure. In fact, some phone boxes are used by less than a dozen people a year, and anecdotally, some phone boxes are used by no one at all. As is often the case with those things, you do not miss something until it is gone, so usage has very much a big part to play in the decision making process, I have no doubt. To comment on the motion itself, BT did want to make it clear, however, that of removing specific pay phones from North Ayrshire, there will be 84 remaining in North Ayrshire, which is slightly more than the 35 stated in the motion. Nonetheless, there will still be a loss of pay phones in that part of the world. BT also should declare that I live in North Ayrshire and, on occasion, have been known to use a phone box when my mobile is either out of battery or out of coverage, and that unfortunately still happens more than too often. BT has said that absolutely it would not remove a pay phone that has been identified as a social need pay phone, and it has set some quite clear criteria for that. Mr Gibson outlined the criteria in terms of the location and usage of where those pay boxes are. If that criteria is met, then a kiosk cannot be removed, and that is the right thing to do. It is also worth pointing out that BT consults with local authorities on any proposed removals, and if that authority is against that, that will be taken into account. That second level of scrutiny is important. Moving on to the issue of the adopt a kiosk scheme, I think that what we are talking about here is finding alternative uses for things that have been made redundant. Not that there are many red phone boxes left, but those that are are certainly worth preserving to their fullest. When I did a quick internet search of some of the uses of adopt a kiosk, it was quite bemused by the images. I encourage you to have a look at what people have done this year, ingenuity and creativity of people and what they have done with their old phone boxes. They have been turned into an amazing array of purposes. In addition to some of the ones mentioned, I have seen coffee shops, automated coffee vending machines, salad bars, boot cases and people selling a whole wide range of cottage industry products. He would not believe how much he can fit into a phone box. In essence, I would like to support the motion. We should be careful that we are not taking away vital access to telecommunications points, especially for people in rural communities. We should also think about the fact that not everyone owns a mobile phone. Mobile phones can be prohibitively expensive for people. Even if coverage is available, I know that we will probably hear on the ambitious plans that the Scottish Government has on ensuring that we have full connectivity in Scotland. Mobile phone coverage, like internet access to many, is still unaffordable. Therefore, the simple phone box is a cheap and alternative solution to people to make calls. Many people still use them and rely on them for that form of accessing and calling people. I would say that any removals that are done should follow the strict process that the BT put in place. Clearly, any that are removed are ones that have been identified that are simply not being used by the public. I encourage people to engage in consultations around that. The old user or loser adage is very important, so I encourage people, if there is one, to make use of it before it might be too light. I urge people in Ershire to think about the adopt kiosk scheme and some of the creative things that we could do with any that are decommissioned. I look forward to seeing the results of that. Brian Whittle Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer, and my thanks to Kenny Gibson for bringing this debate to the chamber. The technology that we use to communicate continues to evolve at an incredible speed. Hard though it may be to believe, the first mobile phone call was made in 1973. For some of us in this chamber, that may feel like last week, but it highlights just how many people today have grown up in a world where you didn't need a physical connection to a phone line to make a call. Some of us can recall the days of police call boxes. They are increasingly only known to the people as doctors who have preferred mode of transport or a local landmark where you can pick up a coffee on the way to work. More recently, we have seen the trend of phone boxes and public pay phones being removed through lack of use. Today, Superman wouldn't be changing in a phone box. He would be using an app to book a short stay in a nearby room for let. That may be an advance in technology, Deputy Presiding Officer, but I am not convinced that it has quite the same drama. I recognise and agree with many of the points highlighted in Kenny Gibson's motion. Although the pay phone may be less popular and more of communication today, that does not inherently make it unnecessary. You can quite reasonably argue that those continuing to make use of phone boxes now are the ones who have no suitable alternative. The very people, the removal of the boxes, could have the biggest impact on. BT seems to be making significant efforts to minimise the impact that those closers will have. They are consulting widely, as has been mentioned, on the removal of each phone box and changing their plans when they receive an objection from the local authority. That being said, I note that one of the criteria for keeping a box in place, even if it is not regularly used, is the lack of any mobile phone signal. While an emergency call can be placed from any mobile phone anywhere with a signal, even if that signal is not from the mobile's own network provider, I am concerned that this is of no benefit in an emergency where people's mobile phone does not even have a charge. I wonder if perhaps BT has given any consideration to providing an emergency charging facility in some of the more isolated phone boxes, perhaps by using solar power. I have recently been involved in discussions between the Royal Bank of Scotland, Age Scotland and others around the impact of branch closers in South Scotland. The issue of the core of that discussion is not that different from what we are discussing today. Technology is changing the way many of us perform tasks, whether that is banking or making a phone call. For those who are not in a position to change, there is concern that they will be left isolated and disadvantaged. While companies such as the Royal Bank of Scotland and BT will always have commercial considerations to take into account when making decisions about closing branches or removing phone boxes, it is important that they also take the wider impact of communities from whom those services can be a lifeline. It seems to have been an improvement on that in recent years, and it is clear from the efforts that BT have made in their consultation that they wish to minimise the impact of those removals. I do have reservations around the removal of phone boxes in rural areas, and they are broadly the same concerns that I have with the loss of other services. Put simply, do those areas losing traditional services provisions have the infrastructure to support the modern alternative? Be it broadband, speed or mobile phone signal, rural areas in particular still experience very real issues with coverage and reliability of digital communications. I note that a switch survey earlier this week highlighted that three out of five slowest areas of broadband in the UK are in Scotland. Indeed, Scotland has a particularly high number of regions classified as having low speeds with average speeds in parts of the central belt and only Dundee and North Lanarkshire having high average speeds. Changing technology means change to how we live and work and is inevitable, but we have a responsibility to ensure that no one is left at a disadvantage by that change. That is why, although I am disappointed by the decision to reduce the number of payphones, rather than fight against that change, I encourage members to focus their attention on ensuring that the pace of that change is reasonable and that Scotland's digital infrastructure is up to the standard required. I call Fergus Ewing to respond to this debate. Thank you for Kenneth Gibson for bringing this unusual topic to the debate. As usual, he regaled us with a series of somewhat arcane statistics about a topic that perhaps many of us knew very little. It was an interesting contribution and I am also grateful to the other two contributors. Telecoms is reserved to Westminster. The provision of public call boxes falls within BT's universal service obligations. We have no locust intervene. However, OFCOM informed me that there has, as members have said, been a substantial decline in the usage of telephone boxes, 90 per cent in fact, over the past decade, and indeed many of the proposed removals have not been used to make a single phone call in the last 12 months. So, understandably perhaps, BT has taken action and they publish criteria designed to ensure that boxes are retained, either where they are actively used, which is good, or where there is a social need, also good. The overriding social need criteria are sites where there is no mobile coverage from any provider, suicide hotspots sadly, accident black spots and coastal locations and islands. BT has confirmed that no removals will be proposed in such areas. I very much welcome that approach taken, which I think one can appreciate may well prove to be very advantageous in extremists in urgent situations. There we are. Where removals are proposed, BT will consult with the relevant local authority, who in turn can consult locally, for example with community councils, and I encourage them so to do. Ultimately, the local authority can veto BT's proposed removal if it can demonstrate appropriate grounds. Mr Gibson highlighted the preservation of phone boxes in islands in his constituency. I think he mentioned Aaron, so he is a doubty fighter for the preservation of island telephone boxes, amongst a great many other things, I have to say. I perhaps being not possessed of an extraordinarily active imagination, I wasn't aware of all the things that you could do in phone boxes. It wasn't until the revelatory content of Mr Greene's contribution that I became aware that there could be a coffee shop, a salad bar or a bootcase, I presume not all three at once, but I had thought naively that there was not much that one can do in a phone box. I think that I won't go there, but the imagination does struggle to imagine what other activities could be carried out in a telephone box, and I hesitate to make any contributions of potential activities that are flitting through the cranial area just at the moment. I think that the telephone box is a very attractive piece of heritage. It's a nice thing to see around the place. It's part of history. It would be very sad if they all disappeared. I can imagine that in 100 years time if the television programme Antiques Roadshow is still being screened as well, it might be a quiz of a telephone box, what was this used for? People would ask in astonishment. I do, if I may, just digress a little bit to reflect on the late Ewan Bain, who I know you will have known and enjoyed the works of as a cartoonist, whose famous character was the Hebridean character Angus Og, who was the sort of character that found himself in difficult situations of his own making almost every day. At that time, my mother, if I may say so, was a quite well-known defence lawyer for the criminal fraternity, and Angus Og found himself in this cartoon, in a telephone box, in possession of a very, very large salmon on the phone saying, Oh, Mrs Ewing, Mrs Ewing, I'm in a spot of bother. That was in a telephone box, which goes to prove that there are uses to which they can be put. Before I digress even further from the topic, I accept in some locations that telephone boxes remain important and the removal will not be appropriate, and I'm more than happy to raise members' concerns should they wish me to do so with any local authority. So I'm very pleased to have this opportunity, albeit an unexpected one, to stand up for the phone box in Holyrood. Well, thank you everyone. We were thinking there that we might not need to suspend until 2 o'clock when you started to wax litical, Mr Ewing. However, this meeting is suspended until 2 o'clock.


Welcome folks. This is Tommy O'Brien. My dad's out today. I'm gonna try and fill in those shoes for the hour and we got a little volatility, man, in both directions right now. You got the S&Ps barely in the red as we talked about on the market. Kickoff there, 18,000 on the NASDAQ, 18,121 on the NASDAQ 100. Just like that though. You give up 100 and what 100? I mean, where were we? We were at 18,170 points. You trade lower, almost a full percentage point, a little bit of volatility ahead of the all-important CPI number out tomorrow morning. Now remember, Fed's preferred inflation gauge is actually the PCE. So there are a few certain components of the CPI that don't have as large of an impact on the PCE. So be careful on some of those headline numbers tomorrow, but nonetheless, market little volatility ahead of those important numbers tomorrow. S&Ps, there it is on your chart. We're about 25 points above the highs that we made at 1.15 this morning. You accelerated to that area at about 11.30, chopped around before we dip lower. You see the selling at about 2.15. You trade from 5,050 down to 5,035 and we've been chopping around there for about the last hour. S&Ps off by three points. We talked about the NASDAQ 100, slightly in the red right now. You get the Dow up by 108 points, 38,856 and you got the Russell just continuing higher, man, up by 1.9% so far, 37 points in the green at 2,056. How about Bitcoin, man? You talk about quite a tear. 50,000, nice round number. The ETFs get approved. You spiked to 49.4. You pull all the way back to a 38,000 handle and just like that, you're back above 50,000. We're going to talk a little bit more about Bitcoin throughout the program as well at one point. Crude, just chopping around as well. Near the top end of that range, $77 is kind of the top end. We're sitting at $76.95 right now and the price of crude. You jump over to the gold contract. Gold, negative by $5 this morning. Now there's your daily. We talked about this one before. Quite the consolidation gold has been in. You spiked 2,152. You pull back to 2,000. This thing's just been chopping around between about 2,000 and 2,100. You're negative by about $5 right now in the gold contract. You jump over to notes and bonds. As I mentioned at the beginning of the program, we're sitting on about 4.17. 4.17. Not a bad yield on the tenure, man. As we've risen a bit from where we were, odds of a cut. Not exactly where they were as we all know. A little bit higher for longer. Seems to be the trend there. We jump over the dollar. In the face of higher yields than the market may have expected, at least coming into the beginning of the year, we've risen all the way to 50% of the pullback from 107 down to 101. We're right at that 50% market, 104.13 right now for the DXY. Basically flat on the session. We talked about the VIX as well. Check out that volatility index. A little bit of a spike. The only thing I will say is we've gotten some spikes and they have been short lived recently. Each spike on the VIX, given it up, as this market just charges higher in the face of whatever gets in the way of this market, to put it lightly, right? All right, let's jump around to some of the stocks with action. How about ARM, man? How about Masoyashi, son? Right? It's not stopping, man. This is a daily. This is a daily chart, folks. Let's look at a one minute chart. It's a daily chart. You committed to their earnings last week. Gang Buster earnings plow higher on Thursday. Basically chop around on Friday. We closed on Thursday at 113.89. We closed on Friday at 115.21. So pretty much the same area. You got a nice green candle, but that's because you just dipped down to 102 before charging higher on Friday to almost 115 on the close. And then what happens today? Yeah. There's your 15 minute chart, man. As this thing takes off right on the open to 116 up to 164. If you're in the chip business, no matter where you are, it's a good time to be in the chip business. Man, you jump over to Nvidia shares. Still up by six tenths percent. They gave up some of the acceleration they had early in the day, 746 down to 715 up to 725. Not bad, though, when you consider the run that this thing has had, of course, right? We're still sitting a week ago. Not even. We were trading at what? 680 on six days ago. We were trading at 663. You just traded to 746. Now we want to talk about some bonkers. You get into the fundamentals of this company. NVIDIA is now at $1.8 trillion, folks. NVIDIA is now at $1.8 trillion. For some context, it's the size of Amazon. Just like that, man, as this thing has quadrupled in price. It's also, what was the other one? Google, I think. Yeah. It's basically the same size as Amazon and Google right now. I mean, they're in a sweet spot, right? You can't deny that. But at some point, these lofty valuations are what the future may hold. We've talked about this before. You got about $800 is the A to B, C to D. I did not think when I was putting this on the charts when we broke a bobbin on January 18th that you would accelerate up to 800 in the span of no time. And we are at 746 as of today. Pretty remarkable. NVIDIA up by another half a percent with some volatility. ARM just crushing it. And let's check out some of those other stocks. Microsoft gives it up a bit. Say a bit, man. The run has been magnificent. No pun intended. Magnificent. Microsoft, down 1.1 percent to kick things off. We talked about Amazon, down 1.3 percent to kick things off. You jump off Apple for the week, down 1 percent. Pretty remarkable. You got the NASDAQ 100 right now, only down 64 points when you look at some of the accelerations of the biggest companies out there, right? Jump over to Netflix shares. They're down 210%. I saw Disney catching a bid today. Yeah, up about a percent for Disney extending on some of the momentum they built last week. They still got some work to do to put it lightly, right? Disney right now sitting at 110. Uber was a big one with some volatility last week, down about 2 percent. Just volatility everywhere on some of these growth stocks, man. We jump around. Salesforce down about 1.1 percent right now. Yeah, it's going to be an interesting one. All right. Where do we jump to? Where do we kick things off? Let's see. What do we have pulled up? Yeah, we're not going to talk about that one yet. We're going to talk a little CPI. Where are we? Better get it up there. I think I have it up on this one. Forgive me, folks. Got a bunch of articles to talk about as we kick off the trading session. Yeah, come on.  All right. You know what? We're going to jump to this one because this is an interesting one. I'll give us a little bit of a teaser as we come into this first break. Interesting article from the journal. Is this today? I think so, right? Yesterday, okay? Stocks are at records, but are they expensive? This is what everybody wants to know, right? They are at records. One of the things you do want to consider, I talked to my dad about recently saying, you know, they're at records, but what did the S&P buy you when it was at its record two years ago versus what it buys you now? Well, you're above that level. That was only 4800, first of all, okay? So you're already 240 points or 5 percent above where you were on the all-time highs of 4800. But it's important to look at the acceleration these companies have had and the acceleration of the models in terms of the ratios I like to use, right? Tim Orton is ratios, man. He'll be on tomorrow, of course, as he is Tuesdays and Thursdays. The ratios, and we're not talking Tim's ratios, but we are talking ratios. We're talking economic ratios, whether you're talking about PE, et cetera. And interesting stuff when you take a look at some of these equities. That's what we'll look at when we get back folks. S&P is barely in the red by two. Fill in in for Tom today. Don't go away. We'll be right back in three minutes.


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