Good day, fellow investors. Welcome to the stock market news with a long-term fundamental twist. Today, we're going to discuss the Fed's data-driven decision-making, inflation, how they see it, and how the reality actually is. But before that, let me just give you the overview for the week. I'm researching Asian stocks. So on Sunday, we'll discuss BYD, the Chinese Tesla that's owned by Buffett. I'll make a research and analysis and overview and the investment thesis. On Tuesday, I'll discuss Minebia Mitsumi, a Japanese precision parts maker from ball rings, from motors, small motors, etc. That's a very interesting long-term play on what's going on. Again, a risk-reward investment analysis. Tomorrow, as there have been a lot of questions about my platform, I want to explain what I do in detail, what's the research, how much research goes into what I do, and how just parts of that come up in videos, like you will see with the Chinese and Japanese stock that I'll analyze. On Thursday, I'll discuss owner's earnings from the 1986 Warren Buffett letter, owner's earnings, free cash flows, and what we as investors really have to focus when it comes to earnings. That will lead into the next stock market news. As we are entering earnings season, I want to discuss something very important that's macro development in the earnings system, which are margins. But that's about to come, so subscribe, click that notification bell so that you see which video adds value. You see that in the notifications, which video adds value to you so that you can watch that and not miss on the important videos. Let's start with the news today. Now, the Fed Powell recently held a speech and he said that their decision making is data driven. They always look at data and then they make the decisions, how inflation is okay. And thirdly, he said how this, what they are doing is not quantitative easing. And I want to discuss, A, how what they are saying and the data they are looking, how they are looking at it, and what they are doing from their perspective, that's one thing, but from your perspective, it's a completely different thing. Because they are looking from a statistical perspective, you have to look it from an investor perspective. And how does it impact me? That's the key to differentiate between statistics and impact on your life. And this is what this news is going to be about. Let's start with the Fed's speech and let's say overall overview of what the Fed is doing or let's say they are saying they are not doing it. So the Fed recently, just a speech quickly, he said, we are doing data driven decisions based on data, then what they are doing, they are increasing the balance sheet. That's not quantitative easing. And they said that what they are doing can change all the time. So it's not fixed. And they will change to help the economy. So let's see how this fits. First, there is a lot of expectations that U.S. interest rates will go negative. And they announced that they discussed that in their minutes and in their meeting how the market is expecting the Fed to lower rates below zero. And that's actually not what they want to do. So they are discussing how to make it, how to show to the market that they don't want to do negative interest rates in the U.S. But that's again something they are just saying, which might be opposite of what they were, what they will do. On the economy, it is in a good place. Inflation is a little bit lower, but okay. And the risks are there, increased a little bit due to trade concerns, but the economy is still great. Now I want to discuss something. Let's start with the quantitative easing. So this is the Fed's total asset balance sheet. So if the Fed sprints money, the balance sheet goes up. And if the Fed withdraws money from the system, the balance sheet goes down. And they started withdrawing money in 2018. They didn't buy new treasuries. And after a year and a half, it led to problems, especially on the short-term market. And now you see this small little blip up where they started again buying treasuries, putting liquidity in the market. But they are saying this is not quantitative easing. This is just a journey for liquidity in the short-term overnight markets. It doesn't matter where they do it, how they call it. This is, again, they are back to quantitative easing. So what has the Fed done? They first started to increase interest rates. The economy cannot sustain higher interest rates. Your variable rates, mortgages, would crush consumption, less cars bought. And we are already seeing that the repercussions of that in the economy. And as soon as they started to take out liquidity out of the system, there were liquidity crunches, short-term, but very important. So the Fed cannot increase interest rates. The economy is already so high on low interest rates and free money that it can't be change. And the Fed is very aware of that. So they have started to print money and they have started to lower rates again. How low will it go? How much money they will print? Nobody knows. But what's important for us is to separate between the statistics and where we can take advantage or protect ourselves. Let's look at the stock market in relation to what the Fed is doing. So if I compare the stock market and the Fed's balance sheet, you can see as long as the balance sheet was expanding, stocks were following. So more money into the system, asset prices go up. And then when the Fed started to cutting the balance sheet, lowering the amount of money, liquidity in the system, however you want to call it, I know there will be comments about the details about how that is called. But I'm looking at how that affects me. And when they started lowering the balance sheets, lessening the amount of money, trading stock markets got itchy. And we have seen the 2018 Q4 crash, December big crash. But then as the New Year turned 2019, there was already signals that the Fed will stop with higher interest rates. They will actually lower them and that they cannot reduce the balance sheet at the same rate. And therefore in 2019, stocks in anticipation of what might come rebounded and went higher. And that's exactly what the Fed did. We see now the sharp increase in the balance sheet and we see a decline in interest rates. Lower interest rates help stocks, more money into the system, helps the economy, helps especially those assets that are in limited supply or that are related to interest rate. And that's something you have to understand very, very well. There is inflation that everybody says it's very low, but that's just inflation as a whole. You as an investor, you care about inflation in real estate, inflation in asset prices, inflation in healthcare, inflation in education, depends where you are in your life. That is what matters for you. And that's a big, there is a big divergence between just saying inflation is low, it will never be higher and actual reality. Let's dig deeper. So everybody is saying that inflation is very, very low because of technology. So new technology, low interest rates, increase the competition, actual prices remain subdued, emerging markets growing production, lowering prices. And consequently, inflation, there is no signs of inflation acceleration during time. But this is the aggregate, this is how it's measured. Let's look at reality. Let's look at those things that are in limited supply. We have already seen stock prices surge quadruple over the last 10 years. So limited assets really are in a big, big inflation. Stocks didn't go up because something fundamentally changed. Stocks went up because there is more money and asset prices became inflated. If we look at something that's again limited in supply Manhattan, luxury demand Manhattan, it's an island. You cannot build another Manhattan. And you can see how rents, home prices really exploded there. And that is what shows inflation. Amsterdam home prices again exploded. So that is inflation for me. And the message is very simple here.  Because competitive advantages, businesses that have a mode, whatever happens around that business, people will still go to that business. The business can increase prices if there is inflation. And the value of that asset of that business will become bigger, bigger and bigger. Limited supply, real estate, assets, businesses that deploy that supply things that are in limited supply. I like miners, for example. I like fertilizer producers that have assets that have a competitive advantage over all others. And if you hold those assets over the long term, you see those segments really spike thanks to inflation, even if other things keep aggregate prices subdued. So that's the message for today. Don't listen or listen to what the Fed is doing, what others are saying about the economy, about the general, about the macro, but try to diverge between what isn't important for you and what really impacts your life. So the message today is inflation. There isn't any, but there is a lot of inflation in certain segments. On the Fed, they cannot increase interest rates and that will remain so until the whole world loses control and then we will see probably inflation and hyperinflation. When that will happen, nobody knows. All that we can do is focus on assets, real assets that are in limited supply that have a competitive advantage and have a mode, how would Buffett say. Thank you for watching. If you liked this approach to investing where we look for limited things in this environment of unlimited money supply, please subscribe, click that like button, comment below, check my stock market research platform, check my website for more articles, more research in that overview of my portfolios if you're interested in those assets, if you're interested in diversifying into those, let's say, mode-like businesses. Thank you. Looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.


everyone. Welcome to Espresso Press Design. Mary here. Thank you for stopping by and thank you for joining me today. Number two in the series. I think you'll like it a lot. I don't have any new products to show this week. I had a busy week so thank you and thank you in appreciation to Henrietta, Natalie, Carolyn. Thank you so much for all of your kind comments and thank you so much to those who have recently favorited my shop and thank you for watching my channel. So today we're gonna make a little mini album. I think I'm gonna call it a mini album and it's three pages, 12 by 12 series number two. It's three pages, five pieces of ephemera and four to seven pockets and I'm just gonna give you a little flip through here. I'm one I made and decorated. So you have your one, two, three pockets.  That's four, another little card and I turned the fifth piece of ephemera instead of a tag. I turned it into another little pocket and then that's five pieces of ephemera, four to seven pockets.  So once you learn this there's so many ways that you can put it together.  You'll be doing these in various ways. So okay it's Tuesday, March 26th. I chose to keep it closed with a hidden paper clip and I did a little one on this one. I did a plain one and then I'm going to show you how you can use a single-sided paper and how you can hide most of the pages so they're not white and you only have to cover two. I'm also going to show you the ways you can do the different pockets and then I'm going to show you how you can use it in a journal and how you can use it for a Mother's Day gift. So okay let's get started. I decorated one. Remember that pretty much you're not going to decorate these because after I got started I went around looking for scrap paper, scrapbook paper I wanted to get rid of. I found a bunch of little ephemera and I just decided to keep it in there. So when it goes it goes. I decorated it and all that but generally we're not going to decorate these. We're just going to keep them in our stash and decorate them as we need them and this one is a lot of fun. So you'll need a 12 by 12. I need a scoreboard. For the most part we're going to cut with scissors but if I get worried about getting a straight line I'm going to bring out my mini guillotine. I have two sheets here double-sided and you're going to want to work out how things are going to go after you learn this because there's a lot of flipping involved. So for the most part it would probably be better to start with a non-directional until you learn. And I have two here but I realized I can use either one. I know which way it would go but probably for ease I'm going to use this one. That way I don't confuse you and this is very simple. Just trying to figure out here which side of the scoreboard or which side that you are going to see this course. So we have our 12, 12 by 12. We're just going to score it 4 and 8. Sorry about the scratch on my hand. My cat got me. So that's 4 and 8. Give it a quarter turn and then we're going to score at 4 and 8 again. So I'm going to hopefully, let me see here if you can, I know you can barely see those score marks. Maybe there is a little better. Let me score on this side and see if I can get you to see those a little bit. Whoops, don't do that. Score those a little better. Turn 4 and 8. If you can see those better or not, probably not. But you'll see it when we fold. So okay then we're going to fold. You'll see it when we fold and cut. Very easy. So maybe now you can see a little better. We have three, six, nine squares. So we are going to cut these two and these two up the score line to the middle score line. Okay turn it around. Cut this one up to the middle score line. I forgot to say which paper this was. Okay this one is Bo Bunny Brighton Royal. It doesn't say the weight but it's kind of a medium. So we're left with this three flappies on the top, three flappies on the bottom. The first one you're going to fold up is this one because that's going to be your center pocket.  That's our cover. This is our pocket. Okay then I usually cut the pocket. That way I don't forget. I'm going to make a little divot in here. Notch my pocket. You'll need a punch and some glue. Sorry I forgot about that. My pocket notched. That way I know that's my center. Now we're going to cut these two off and I will do my best to do this with the scissors to get a straight line although we can't trim it and these will be shortened. Go in the pockets. It looks pretty straight. There's two pieces of ephemera. Now these you're going to fold them up and then you're going to fold them back down. Meet the bottom. Give it a pinch in the middle. Burnish as much as you need to because you're going to cut that off. Same thing over here. Meet the bottom. Press in the middle. Burnish as much as you need but that's not straight which it looks pretty straight here because this pattern is helping me. Okay I'm going to burnish it on that side. Burnish it on that side. Then I'm going to use my scissors. Be brave even though I could get this in the guillotine pretty easily. There's another piece of ephemera. There's another piece of ephemera. So that's one, two, three, four, five. Okay then I'm going to show you. I'm just going to fold like this. Get your bottoms evened up like this. This paper is giving me a little resistance but we can fix that. I'm going to fix that in a second. Let me just get this nice and burnished. I did do this also with cardstock and I didn't have too many problems. So you can either cut your little V up here or you can do as I did and fold this over either way.  So I think I'm just going to fold mine in this time. Go almost up to the score line. Fold it in like so. That nice and parallel then you shouldn't have any issues. If you do you can cut out a little bit on each side of your score lines. Tiny bit, tiny bit on each side of your score line. So you have a little, let me just get something here for you.  But so far I've done these so many times I haven't had any resistance. So now we have our little book. This folds in like this and once you start doing this, you know, okay I'm going to show you on the last piece but you'll be flipping these every which way and trying to figure out how many different books you can make. So here's our front. Here's our front with our little card in the front and I'm going to notch that and to make it easy on myself I just went near the top and did a notch. Okay so let's start getting these glued in. I start with my center because then I don't forget which way I'm going. Two sides, get that glued up there. I'm going to glue these down and you can just leave these un-glued and then when you get to your final, they get to their final project then you can decide. And if you want to make them tucks or if you want to make them a folder type like this and we're going to glue this edge. Click on there. We're going to glue this edge. Okay you really wouldn't have any resistance now. Okay it's probably dry. Now we're going to glue our pocket and we're going to go our front pocket. We're going to go around here. Two sides around here. Let's hope to you. Okay I'm just going to clip that a minute. Here's our front covering pocket. Okay now we can move on to these and I'm going to do the middle one first. See if anything needs straightened up a little and you just take it down as much as you need to fit it in the pocket. So four I know is too big. I'm going to try.  Probably see three and a half. Probably going to go down to three and a half. You can do these three by fours which is kind of standard if you want. Loosen that up a little bit. See what's going on. Too much glue squirted. Come on. I'm feeling resistance. Don't know where. I don't want to go down to three.  Okay another smidgen. Just another eighth. There we go. There we go. That looks nice. Okay and same for this. I guess I might as well do that right now. Three and a quarter. This pocket is usually a little looser. There we go. Isn't that cute? So now this can be another pocket there which is what I did. It can be another pocket here. Here. Here. There can be two little tags. So I think I'm just going to do what I did on the others and make one a little pocket and one a little tag. I'm just going to shorten it a little bit so it sits in there nicely. Get a little notch as I can't see anymore. I'm not kidding.  Okay three sides and this is so fun. Happy mail. Mother's Day gift which I'm going to show you here in a minute. Now these are all over the place called mini albums but usually they're scored differently but I didn't find it necessary to put large gaps because I didn't have any problem closing it and I didn't want to add all that math. Okay so then there's a little tag. I think I'll just leave it as a little tag and I kind of liked it right there. I'll give my tag punch. Let me just even that up a little bit. Smidgen and you could just keep these. Keep them and store them in there and then when you get to your final project you'll know what you want to do with them. Okay there's a little tag. I like it there. There's our little book. Okay now I put this one I will do for you. You can save those pieces to make your tabs if you want. I'll do this one around the top corners for you. The other one I like to have a tab so that's all I have left is a little bit of waste. That's it from your 12 by 12. That's pretty good and it's very versatile. Now closing my recommendation was a paperclip because then you can have another gift and because it's going to be pretty hard to get a string around there but what you could do, let me just see if I can find a little strap here. What you could do is a little loose strap. Let me see if I have something that's too wide. Let me just use this so you can see. What you could do is a little loose strap for a closure. You could also do magnets or Velcro. Click click but once I did it I just kind of like the idea of a paperclip. Okay. There we go. I'll finish that off for the photo a little bit because I really want to store these. So like I said you can just store it plain. Keep your pockets loose until you decide how you want to actually do them. Then I will show you this part. If you have a single-sided paper, let me get this all unfolded. There we go. Single-sided. This one gets flipped down. You can flip this one down to cover the back and just glue it. You can flip this one down to cover the back and just glue it. Or you could cut it off. Use it to decorate this and then you have a white back. You can flip it down to glue it.  This paper is so thin. You can just glue these together. Get a pocket. Get a pocket. Get a pocket. You could also do this. Cut this one off and do this pocket on the outside and then covered. That's your front pocket. Covered. Covered. Covered.  Do your pocket on the outside. So see what I mean. Once you get this, you'll be doing pockets all over the place. Now I want to say something. If you decide to put a pocket over here or over here, you might have to shorten it because you won't be able to close your book. But you can do another pocket over here. Or no. Yeah, either way. If you want to slip it in there, you're gonna have to put a deep notch. Put your little item. And same for over here. You're gonna have to put a deep notch because you won't be able to close your book. So see what I mean. Once once you get started, you'll be making these flippy flop books. And actually on this thin paper, all six sides will fold in there. Okay, because it's so thin. But I just wanted to show you that in case you have just have a single side of paper and you want to put a little thin one in your journal, even though they do not take a lot of bulk. Okay, I hope that was once you cut them and start playing around with it, you'll be coming up with all kinds of things. Okay, let me show you this and then we'll get to how it's going to look in a journal space here. Clean up a little bit. Hope everyone had a nice week and is going to have a nice week for Easter. I had a busy week, but guess what? Sunday I had a little time to sit down at the piano. First time I've touched my piano in five plus years. I'm not kidding. Okay, let me practice by saying I was very much a beginner. But one day I just decided I really miss having some me time. So I did. And it's kind of like starting all over, but it is what it is. So this would make a really pretty Mother's Day gift and I did one little one and I just wanted to show you. This could be a photo mat. Put your little kid photos on there. This could be a photo mat on your front. It holds a little gift card in the center or in either side. You could tuck some little ephemera in there, some tags. You can make it as a gift set.  Yeah, you can make it a little gift set. Have a note card and then you're pretty, you're pretty embellished and that would make beautiful Mother's Day gift or Happy Mail. So let's show you what you can do with it in a journal. Let me get my card here. I'm just going to use this one. You can glue it three sides and then you'll have a little interactive page. Tuck something else in the top. Or what I would do personally is clip it on a page. Since you already have your clip, I would just clip it on a page. Isn't that cute? That is so cute. I love this one. As you can see, I've been making them and now I have another one. This one I just wanted to try it out and see how well it would work with cardstock and I'll have to decorate that some way. Of course, you can do it with plain paper and matte. Cut out your design paper. Glue it on so it has a little border. That would be the scrapbooker way. Excuse me. Let me get a drink here. But I think this one is a lot of fun. And as I said, once you get it, you'll be making all kinds of these. I actually put another little card in there so it was easier. Once you get it, you got it. Easy peasy. 12 by 12. Score it four and eight. Give it a turn. Score it four and eight. Okay everyone, I don't know. We might take a break next week. Maybe not. I'm having a lot of fun doing these and remember you don't necessarily have to decorate them. They are just for just store it like this. And then when you get your journal or whatever you want to do, it's ready to go. So, see I made one, two, three, four, actually five. Five already. Okay everyone, have a great week. Happy Easter. I hope you have a very happy blessed Easter and I'll see you next time. Bye!


Make sure that you have really good support systems around you, have good relationships with your family, not the toxic members, but look for other members in your family that are not toxic, that will support you, that will love you, is very important. This is one thing you've said many times is that having someone whose perspective and opinion you can trust and rely on when you can't be sure of your own. Very, very much. So that you can test against them and say, hang on, is my thinking like reasonable here or have I gone too far? Am I too extreme in my thinking around things? So you can pick up those warning signs early and do something about it early as you go through this process. You've said that that was important.


So, first of all, I'm going to give a quick introduction about what the problem is. For our large-scale data centers, the memory errors happens not quite rare, so it's not quite open, but not quite rare. So, there are two kinds of errors. First one is uncreated errors. The other one is uncreated errors. Uncreated errors already means the errors cannot be fixed by hardware, so your data is actually corrupted. For encrypted errors, it means the errors could be fixed by hardware, so your data is actually consistent. And for the memory failure handling in the kernel, here I'm referring to the uncripped errors. So, for our page cache, the memory failure does truncate the hardware-pointed page from the page cache, regardless of the clean on dirty. So, even if the page cache is dirty, it's going to be truncated by the memory failure handler. So, truncating dirty cache may cause some problems for some of the data loss, because once the page cache is truncated, the later access will read the data from the disk, but actually the data is already incase-cited. So, but the problem is that, the bigger problem is that it's a silent corruption, because there is no any notification to the user from the kernel as long as the page is not mapped. So, yeah, this will cause the problem is that the memory failure will cause the data loss, and it's very hard to debug. Even though we are aware of some data corruption on data loss, it's not easy to trace back to memory failure, because sometimes you maybe didn't think of that it's caused by the memory failure. And the solution is that, I'm going to propose a simple solution is that, first of all, we keep the poison dirty page in a page cache instead of truncating. So, and the second step is that we have to make the other first things be aware of the poison page, because in our current design and the implementation of the first things, there is no check about whether the page cache is poison or not. So, the first things assume the data in page cache is always consistent, and actually ignore the poison page. So, we have to make the other first things be aware of there may be a poison page existing in the page cache. So, it involves all the... I have some bullet points about some process related to the page caches in the first thing code. The first one is a readback. So, I think readback is fine as long as the dirty flag is clean. And the second one is job caches and other colors which may invalidate the page cache. So, we should prevent from invalidating the poison page caches. And the third one is that truncated and hole punch and something similar, it should be fine to allow truncate invoked by the users. Because the users explicitly request to remove the page from the page cache. The user doesn't care about the data anymore. And the first step is that we need to notify the applications and user space by returning some error code when the poison page is accessed. For example, in the read and write path, actually the page fault path already handles that. And for some other process, for example compression or encryption, I'm not quite sure because I'm not a third team expert, so I need some advice from fellow third team developers. And we approach it. So, to make the third team be aware of the poison pages, we could choose three, we have three, basically have three choices. The first one is to just simply check the hardware poison flag. In every code path, we're accessing the page, for example the read and write, because there is a page flag called hardware poison. So once the memory failure code will set the flag for the poison page, so we can just check the flag to know if the page is a poison or not. The second choice is that we just return now from the page cache lookup code for any poison page. It's a, I think it's a simple list of ways and you know, encourage the list to work. But the disadvantage is that all, maybe not all the process, but maybe the most core size, when the now page pointer is returned, the first team assumes it's a no-memory error. And don't assume it's other errors. So if we return the no-memory errors, it sounds confusing to the users. So the users may still be not aware of this data consistently issue. And the third way is that we can return an error pointer instead of now. But this may incur more changes because some process actually doesn't care about if the page is a poison or not. But it doesn't care if the return the page pointer is now or not. So usually the code just check if the pointer is now or not. If we return the error pointer, we have to add actual code to tell if the page is a poison and now it's just a normal regular page. So the steps to fix problems... Okay, I'm just gonna stop in here. Could you go back to the previous slide? Okay, so we can't do either of those second things. We can't return now and we can't return error pointer because the information about whether a page is poisoned is per page. But everything is being converted to the folio lookup rather than doing a direct page lookup. So that's just not going to work because you might be accessing the part of the folio which has the hardware poison. Yeah, I know, but actually the memory failure is going to split the large page. But that doesn't always succeed. Split the large page to the space page. Page split doesn't always succeed. Sorry? Page split does not always succeed. Yeah, but in return error code has a memory failure. 100 is failed. So yeah, but I get the appointment. We'll leave the large page with the poison and the sub-page in the page cache. So we cannot know which sub-page is the poison. Yeah, I agree with the problem. So we may have to find a way to resolve that. Sorry, I think that first approach is the only one which actually works. Yeah, actually there is another flag called page has... I forgot the name, but it actually said in the head page and it tells the kernel that there is at least one sub-page with the poison in the large page. So we can check that. And if we found that, we may have to iterate every sub-page. But it's not very optimal. I understand that that exists, but if somebody is reading a part of the folio which is not hardware poisoned, then that should be allowed to succeed and we can't do that with either the second or third option here. So we have to go with the first approach. Yeah, I agree. So actually I did convert the TMPFS with the first approach. One of the things we're doing recently on the DAX side is telling the file system that a failure happened. So I'm wondering if that's another approach. If the page is already dirty, you know that the data on the storage is bad. You still do the trunk cape to the file system to record the error. And then when they try to read it back, then they get the EIO from the file system. Yeah, I think we could use maybe the similar solution for the page cache tool. Yeah, I'm inclined to support that particular solution because correct me if I am wrong, but it appears that since the information is only being kept in memory, once the system crashes, all knowledge that there is a dirty page that was never written back is lost and you still have silent data corruption. It's just that what is on disk is either non-existent or the previous contents of the page before it was modified. So it seems like this is an awful lot of work to only allow EIO to be returned until the system is rebooted or crashes. And I guess the question is, how worthwhile is that? And if we're going to go to all of that effort, it's certainly more effort to ask file systems to keep state about the fact that a particular page is corrupted. But maybe that's the better approach if this is really a problem. And maybe the next question is, do we really need to do this on the granularity of a page or do we, I suspect for many use cases, the file system could just simply mark a flag on the file, right? The entire I-node saying, the contents of this file is suspect. You should restore from backups or take other administrative means to recover. And that might be a little bit more of a practical approach. Yeah. First of all, I think you're concerned about if it's worth it. But I don't have a good answer for that. So first of all, the memory failure does happen, as I said, not very rare in the large-scale data centers. Actually, I do take a lot of problems about that. But how often it happens on the dirty-page cache, I don't have the data, so I cannot tell right now. But I agree it involves a lot of work for the file system developers. Yeah. I think the question is very worth it or not. And for the second question, to set a flag for the I-node, to mark all the I-nodes, the whole file is corrupted. I'm not quite sure if the user doesn't care about that. It should be fine. But if just one page is corrupted, for example, you have a big file, and one 4K page is corrupted, the whole file is corrupted, I don't think it's a good idea either. I'm trying to understand the objective of this effort. Is it that you want to give the error code to the user and the user handles it how he wants to do it? Yeah. Okay. So I think my point is that notifying the user, the problem that has happened on existing, is better than setting the data loss. Yeah. It's all together. Yeah. Sorry? It's also about preventing garbage from getting written out. Going back to your point earlier, Ted, if the system crashes, then the slate is wiped clean. Then we're all good. That garbage memory doesn't exist anymore. That's the good scenario. Well, it's not entirely a good scenario because now we've had data loss.  But usually it's somewhat time constrained, right? There are syncs that happen invisibly in the background every 30 seconds. You haven't lost that much probably. But this could be sticking around for years. But I guess if it's still in the page cache and you give an error to the user, the user could actually take that, move it to another file and recover that data and not lose it, right? Or am I misinterpreting? So I think that of all of the things that you've talked about, I think the flag makes the most sense because that's easy to put into the generic code. And I think that if we want to be smarter at some point in the future, we can do that. But we need to start with mark the pages as poisoned, make sure that we don't return any data and we don't write that data out and mark the mapping error, like Jeff did all of this work to make sure we returned errors to the user, we should take advantage of that.  Yeah, but from my experience, we are not very good in the kernel and even worse in user space in dealing with errors in the first place. So having granular errors as opposed to like, this file is unreadable, let's err on the side of the biggest blast radius so we don't cause more problems. So I think flag, put in the generic code, check for flag, if things are wrong, make sure it doesn't get written out, set mapping error, and then we can have further discussions later on about how fancy we want to be. Okay. I'm just going to point out that for virtual machines, you sometimes have like fireback memory and the virtual machines can actually propagate or like your hypervisor can propagate, for example, memory error to the virtual machine. In case you would be like damaging that whole file or prohibiting it from being used anymore, you would essentially kill that virtual machine although that virtual machine might be able to deal with the MCE itself. So that's just something to keep in mind when we're talking about like completely corrupting the file essentially compared to only like a single page that a guest operating system might be able to handle. But I mean, I agree, like it's the easiest solution to just mark the whole file as corrupt, but it doesn't apply to all use cases, I think. You might provoke more harm than actually not doing anything. Yeah, right. So I agree for the VM case. All of a sudden the whole VM goes down because one page is screwed.  We need to get the normal, just the file is screwed case working and then start talking about how do we handle this in the more fine grained cases because yeah, okay, it sucks for the VM people. But again, speaking of somebody that manages a humongous amount of machines, I don't care at all. I want to see that the thing died and that I need to replace memory. So like we're kind of like negling about like things that yes, we can do and we could do a lot and a lot better and do some fancy stuff, but we need to make sure that like the brain dead stupid case works first and then go from there. I also want to say that you've got to use a check in page access path, so I read slash write. There was an upside here in the right path. If you're writing the entire page, get rid of it. Get rid of the corrupted page because now you know what data should be there. Because it's just being overridden by user space. I think any rating, the poison page should be prevented because the data is already existing. You write back to the storage, the data corrupted. No, I'm saying if user space calls the right system call and it's going to overwrite the entirety of the corrupted page, then you can throw away the corrupted page. That will still be a problem with copy and write funds because because it flushes the data first as whatever is existing on the on the on the disk and then gets in a way. Yes, but if you've taken a snapshot or something of that sort, then you're in trouble. Yeah, this is why I argue against fancy things in the first place.  We can even add a fancier thing. Like mapping has a hardware poison page. Really do not write anything out. But I think that simply having a hardware poison flag and then putting the logic in all the generic places and all the files to recognize this flag and to do something with it. And then we can start looking at fancier solutions. Yep. Do you have anything else? No, I don't have anything else. Perfect. Let's go have some lunch. People on the Zoom call will be back in an hour. Thank you. Thank you.


How to know your spiritually mature five important signs. Here's what the Bible says in Galatians chapter five. I'm going to read verse 22 and 23. But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives. Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things. I want to begin this message by making it very clear that the ultimate sign that the presence of the Holy Spirit abides in you is when the character of Christ is demonstrated through your life. The greatest sign that you have the presence of the Holy Spirit. The greatest sign that you're surrendered to the Holy Spirit. The greatest sign that you are growing spiritually is that the character of Christ Jesus is demonstrated through your life in word, in deed, in attitude, in thought. When Jesus begins to shine through you, that's how you know you're growing spiritually. So that is the most important thing to consider. The character of Christ are the fruits of the Holy Spirit being demonstrated through your life. That's the standard to which we aspire. Having said that, I'm going to give you five signs that many actually don't often consider. We know, of course, that love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, and so forth. We know that these are demonstrations of spiritual maturity. The greatest sign that the presence of the Holy Spirit dwells in you is that you act like Jesus. Having said that, I want to show you five signs that maybe you haven't considered, but that also demonstrates spiritual maturity. And by the way, all of us are works in progress. All of us are progressing spiritually, myself included.  We all should be examining our lives. We all should be honest with ourselves. We all should seek to be more like Jesus.  Let that be your prayer. Let that be your goal to let the character of Christ, his nature, shine through you. So again, having established that the fruit of the Spirit is the standard, having established that the character of Christ in you is probably one of the greatest measures by which you can judge whether or not you're spiritually mature. Let's now look at some other signs that demonstrate spiritual maturity. The first one I have listed here, and by the way, these aren't necessarily listed in any particular order. But the first one I'll mention here, number one, you don't avoid or seek controversy. Christians really do need to get controversy correct. Many times we fall into one of the extremes of either completely avoiding controversy out of fear or looking for controversy out of immaturity. So number one, when it comes to controversy, you don't want to avoid it. Psalm chapter 15 verses one and two say this, who may worship in your sanctuary, Lord, who may enter your presence on your holy hill, those who lead blameless lives and do what is right, speaking the truth from sincere hearts. So the scripture speaks highly of those who will speak truth out of sincerity. Some speak truth out of hypocrisy, but there's real power when you speak the truth and your life aligns with the truths that you declare. Acts chapter 5 verses 26 to 29 say this, the captain went with his temple guards and arrested the apostles but without violence where they were afraid the people would stone them. Verse 27, then they brought the apostles before the high council where the high priest confronted them. We gave you strict orders never again to teach in this man's name, never speaking of Christ Jesus.  Verse 29, but Peter and the apostles replied, we must obey God rather than any human authority. So here we see the scripture telling us very clearly that we are to speak truth. We are to stand for the things of God. We are to, when it's appropriate, stand in the midst of controversy. Listen to me. If you want to be in ministry or you want to have any impact on this earth or you want to touch lives or you want your life to be spent for the glory of God, I promise you you will run into controversy. Now many people miss their calling because they're so afraid of controversy and it's sad to me that the body of Christ is almost quick to judge those who find themselves in controversy. Now I'm not talking about blatantly teaching heresy, something that would directly contradict one of the fundamentals of the faith. Like if somebody stands up and says that Jesus isn't God or somebody stands up and says that Jesus didn't resurrect in bodily form. That's the kind of controversy that should be condemned. But think about the fact that when miracles begin to happen, when people start to get delivered, when people get healed, when you teach a truth that's aligning with scripture, if you do something right for God, if you do something effective for God, it will always attract critics. It will always attract controversy. Oral Roberts said this about the healing ministry. He said, the healing ministry attracts crowds, controversy and criticism. And it's true. Yes, the miracle ministry draws crowds, but people criticize those miracles. You can teach a perfectly sound teaching. And someone somewhere will find some way to pick it apart or maybe be upset with the way you worded it or maybe be upset with the terminology or the lingo that you use to communicate a truth that they believe. Now, we don't want to avoid controversy and miss our calling. We don't want to leave the call of God unfulfilled. We don't want to disobey God just because we're afraid of stirring things up. The spirit field shake up the systems of the world. The spirit field upset the religious establishment. That's what we do. And that's just by our very nature. So as you're being used for God, as you grow in Christ, as you begin to become more effective for the kingdom of God, there will be criticism. There will be controversy.  And as I said, I think the body of Christ needs to learn to reserve their judgment because sometimes I've seen my fellow brothers and sisters in Christ being criticized unfairly and just by the mere fact that there's criticism or controversy. People say, oh, well, I knew I had a bad feeling about that ministry. And that's just immaturity. That's to misunderstand what controversy actually is because not all controversy is bad. Think about the controversy that the apostles raise. Now, on the other side of the coin, I've already established that we mustn't hide behind false humility and wisdom just to avoid controversy. But we also shouldn't seek it. This is something the spiritually mature understand. You don't avoid it and you don't seek it. So don't seek it. Proverbs 20, verse three says this. Avoiding a fight is a mark of high honor. Only fools insist on quarreling. There are some believers who just want to argue. There are some believers who just want to be in the midst of controversy. There are some ministers. God help us. There are some ministers who just want attention. So it's all about trends. It's all about clicks. It's all about views. Now, there's nothing wrong with trends, clicks, or views in and of themselves. It has everything to do with motive. But there are some who will purposefully be controversial just because they know it attracts attention. And we have to be very careful of that. That's not spiritual maturity. Second Timothy chapter two, verses 23 and 24 say this. Again, I say don't get involved in foolish, ignorant arguments that only start fights. A servant of the Lord must not quarrel, but must be kind to everyone, be able to teach and be patient with difficult people. So here we see that the scripture is making a case for both. We mustn't avoid controversy at the cost of our calling. But we also shouldn't seek controversy just because we're looking for attention. Think about the fact that people often comment things on YouTube, on Facebook, or maybe they'll get up and make a video. And I'm not talking about anyone particular. Maybe in your church, people will come up and say comments. Maybe in your family, people will come up and say comments. And it seems that they're always trying to start an argument. They're always trying to start a fight. They're always wanting to egg someone on so that they can get involved in some type of quarrel. And this is a mark of immaturity. They say things like, well, you know, I'm just saying, it just had to be said, well, you know me, I'm just truthful. And they try to disguise their foolishness as virtue. They want to be seen as the one who always calls it. They want to be seen as the one who tells it like it is. And because of this, they make a trap for themselves and they end up walking in foolishness. They end up being labeled as a quarrelsome person. It doesn't have the effect that they think it does.  I don't want you to fall into this trap of someone who thinks that because I'm someone who speaks truth, I have to get involved in every controversy. I have to speak against everything that I see. Now there is a time and a place to speak out. We should boldly declare truth. We should boldly speak up for righteousness. We should boldly come against the forces of darkness when the time comes for it. And that, of course, if there's anything that needs to be called out, call it out. Blatant sin, call it out. Wickedness advancing, call it out. That goes back to my other point. We shouldn't avoid controversy just because we're afraid of the opinions of man. But at the same time, we mustn't hide behind our ego disguised as false boldness. So don't hide behind false humility and false wisdom. Don't avoid controversy just because you wanna avoid it. And don't seek controversy. Don't hide behind your ego and say that your ego is just actually a passion for truth. When really all it is, it's a desire for attention. This isn't scripture, but it's a popular quote. A wise man speaks because he has something to say. A fool speaks because he has to say something.  Both of these are marks of immaturity. When you're so concerned about your reputation that you won't even declare clear truths, when you're so concerned about what man thinks of you that it affects your obedience to God, well now you're walking in immaturity. When you think it's your place to call everything out all the time just because you wanna be looked at as the one who's bold and who's the speaker of truth, and you wanna be perceived as someone who will go there when no one else will go there, that's immaturity as well. We have to be well-rounded. We have to have balance. Those who are spiritually mature do not seek controversy, nor do they seek to avoid it. It's just happenstance. It's just a symptom. We who are spiritually mature seek truth. We seek Jesus. And if on the way to truth, if on the way to pleasing the Lord, we find controversy along the way, well then we deal with the controversy as it comes. Like I know that when I speak against religious established thought, I know that when I speak truth in love and boldness, that it will always upset someone. I'm not speaking it to offend people, but neither am I going to withhold that truth just because I don't want to offend them. And so we have to realize that controversy is a part of calling. So don't avoid it and cost yourself your obedience to God and don't seek it just because you're passionate and you're overzealous. Instead, just focus on your calling. Focus on what the Lord has you doing. Focus on ministering the truth in love. Focus on doing what your assignment is. And if on the way you encounter controversy, so be it. Don't seek it, don't avoid it. So that's number one, a mark of spiritual maturity is that you don't avoid or seek controversy. Number two, you demonstrate self-control. Proverbs chapter 16, verse 32 says, better to be patient than powerful. Better to have self-control than to conquer a city. I love that phrase, better to be patient than powerful. You see, your maturity isn't marked by how much you pray in tongues. I believe in speaking in tongues. I teach on speaking in tongues. In fact, one of the criticisms about me is that I'm too focused on speaking in tongues and teaching about it and helping believers walk in that spiritual gift. But that's not the measure by which you can tell whether or not you're spiritually mature. Spiritual maturity isn't being able to drive out demons. New converts can do that. Spiritual maturity isn't seeing miracles and healing. That's just speaking the name of Jesus. And it's God's power anyway. It's not like any one of us wield these powers in our own will and in our own strength. It's the sovereignty of God responding to faith. So it's not power demonstration. It's not about having dreams or visions. Dreams and visions are wonderful. I think they're powerful expressions of the Holy Spirit's voice. I think dreams and visions are for today. I think prophecy is for today. I think all of the spiritual gifts are for today. I think God moves supernaturally through anyone he wants to move through. But demonstrations of power aren't marks of spiritual maturity, not necessarily. Neither is being gifted in teaching or preaching. You may be able to communicate charismatically. You might be able to confound the wise with how you can expound upon the scripture. You may even have a lot of scripture memorized. A lot of Bible study techniques in your back pocket. You may know Greek and Hebrew. You may understand the nuances of the various texts that people have trouble with. That's not spiritual maturity. That's not the mark. Perhaps you pray a lot, but do you obey? Do you walk with God? You see, it's not power. It's not ability. It's not demonstrations that can be made in the efforts of man. That's not the mark of spiritual maturity. I've seen people who can preach, but behind closed doors, their character was just awful. No, a mark of spiritual maturity is the mastery of self. Before you can have dominion in the world and over demons, you have to have dominion over self. Dominion in your own life begins with dominion over your words, over your thoughts, over your impulses and your cravings. What are impulses? Impulses are those quick ways we respond to things. I know I need a lot of work in that area too. We all do. And then cravings have to do with those lingering desires of the flesh. How do you respond to your impulses? How do you respond in those split seconds where your anger is flair, where your impatience is flair, where your emotions are tossed to and fro? Emotional maturity, that's self control. Controlling your tongue, that's self control. Honing your thoughts, that's self control. Focusing in the midst of distraction, that's self control. Choosing the heavenly over the secular, that's self control. Saying no to sin and yes to God, that's self control. The Holy Spirit will give you the desire to please God, but you must make the decision to please God. He provides the desire. You must act on making the decision. You want that, that's spiritual maturity. How do you control those impulses? You know, the real test of how much mastery you have over the flesh, and as I said, we all are works in progress, is your ability to catch yourself in those split seconds just before you say something or think something or allow your attitude to turn a certain way. So mastery over your words, mastery over your thoughts, mastery over your emotions, sure you might be able to preach, but do you have flares of anger that send you into rages? Sure you might be able to prophesy, but can you control your tongue? Sure you may lay hands on the sick, you may drive out devils, but how stable are your emotions? How do you act when you don't feel like acting right? How motivated are you to do what you should do when you don't feel like doing anything at all? How do you feel when you're tired, when you're hungry, when you're exhausted, when you're physically drained? When difficult people are pressing on your patience, prophesy, lay hands on the sick, cast out devils, that's all wonderful. But have you mastered your character? Anyone can have dominion over demons, that's the easiest part of the Christian life. One of the easiest is dealing with demons. You speak a command under the authority of Christ, period. Demons have to obey, but are you under God's dominion? Is your tongue under God's dominion? Are your words under God's dominion? Are your thoughts under God's dominion? In those split seconds where your impulses drive you to act, what are you doing? Do you just allow yourself to go into autopilot and do what you want to do according to the flesh? Or have you learned to stop yourself in those split seconds and prevent the flesh from taking dominion in your life? Self control. The Bible says that one of the fruits of the spirit is self control, not spirit control. In other words, the Holy Spirit isn't going to overtake your free will and force you to do what you want to do. No, it gives you the ability to control yourself, but you control yourself. Stop blaming other people. Stop blaming your environment. Stop blaming circumstances. Stop blaming former generations. Stop blaming demons and curses and your pastor. Have some self control. We need to grow up, it's time to grow up. Grow out of blaming those things and gain some self control. That is a hallmark of the spiritually mature.  Number three, you forgive generously. Flesh has the tendency to cling to offenses. You ever notice that when someone offends you, they reoffend you in the memory of the offense? Like perhaps you remember a conversation. And you perceived that they were slighting you.  You perceived that they were disrespecting you. You perceived that they were mocking you. You perceived that they were somehow coming into conflict with you through what they were saying to you.  And then you begin to spiral and as you begin to replay it again and again and again, you start to judge their motives.  We're suspicious and cynical and paranoid. We misjudge people all the time, but then we take that offense and spin it again and again and again in our heads and we get angrier and angrier and angrier and angrier. My brother, my sister, you can't offend a dead man.  No longer I live, but Christ lives in me. Now I'm not saying that there are no legitimate hurts, but maybe a sign that you are still bitter is the fact that you probably got offended that I didn't say that right off at the top.  They actually hurt me. Well, that's where forgiveness comes in, isn't it? Sometimes the offense is perceived and sometimes it's real. Sometimes we think someone was angry with us. We think they were insulting us. We think they wronged us when they didn't and other times it's actually an offense. But I'm telling you that as Christians, whether we were offended in perception or we were offended in reality, whether we were offended in perception or whether we were offended in reality, as Christians, we have to let it go. No, if ends are buts. Well, you don't know how bad it was. You don't know what they did. They never apologized. The Bible says in Ephesians 4.32, instead be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another. Just as God through Christ has forgiven you. Just as God through Christ has forgiven you. Does God replay your offenses again and again? No, what does the scripture say about what he does? He separates the memory of your sin from his mind as far as the east is from the west as it's eternally separated from his memory. He chooses to forget. He chooses to not remember. The scripture says he does not deal with us according to our sins. What do we do? Well, you don't know the full story. And how dare you say that?  I'm just giving you biblical truth. But I promise you, and again, I'm not reading the comments on purpose, but I promise you in the comment section there will be people who will say things like, you don't know the story. Well, I can't let it go. Or easy for you to say, or some excuse.  I don't care what culture says. Our culture is professionally offended these days. Being offended is a profession these days. And there are a lot of pros. As Christians, we let it go. We forgive radically the way Christ forgave us. That's the difference between us and the world. One of the major differences I should say, when speaking of forgiveness, Jesus said in Matthew chapter five verse 48, or I should say, when speaking of loving your enemies, Jesus said in Matthew chapter five verse 48, but you are to be perfect even as your father in heaven is perfect. Perfect how, perfect in this way that you love those who persecute you. You pray for those who come against you. You bless those who've wronged you. Wow, that's the true act of the supernatural power. Oh, it's easy to prophesy. It's easy to cast out devils. It's easy to heal the sick. Can you forgive? Can you forgive even when you have a right by the world standards? Can you forgive even when you have the right by the world's standards to be angry? Can you forgive even if they didn't apologize? Father forgive them for they know not what they're doing. He forgave them before they said, I'm sorry. As Christians, we forgive so much like God that we forgive faster than they can apologize. No exceptions, no excuses. Forgive. Did you hear what I said? Guys, this is Bible. No exceptions, no excuses. I'm sensitive to the plight of anyone who's been offended.  That prison of bitterness and unforgiveness. It's not an insult. Bitterness and unforgiveness is a prison. No excuses. No workarounds. We must forgive. And that is a mark of a truly mature Christian. Don't tell me about your visions and dreams. Don't tell me about how the Lord speaks to you.  Don't tell me about the miracles you've seen or the demons you've driven out or the visions about the future that God has given to you. You wanna know if you're mature? Forgive. And this is easier said than done for sure. I'm not saying this is easy. I'm saying this is true. Forgiveness and the ability to forgive radically just as the Lord has forgiven us. That is a mark of the spirit field. Now nobody is saying that you have to continually put up with abuse. Nobody is saying that even that you don't report crimes. What I am saying is that you forgive generously no matter the circumstance. And that is truly a difficult thing to do. But it's a mark of spiritual maturity. So number one, you don't seek or avoid controversy. Controversy just is or it isn't. You seek Christ. You seek your calling. You declare the truth. And if on your way to fulfilling your calling, you encounter controversy, so be it. And please, body of Christ, just because a preacher, a man or a woman of God is being criticized from left and right, doesn't mean you dismiss them. Oh, well, they're controversial. That's something that I think is so manipulative. And this is on a side note. Thank God it's not really happened with me because it just hasn't. I guess the Lord's been gracious in that area. But I've seen my brothers and sisters in Christ who just get pummeled with criticism and questioning. And that's a part of the job, so to speak. But then what really frustrates me is the way the body of Christ responds to that. And they'll say, well, you know, well, there's so much controversy there. I'm gonna steer clear and I'm thinking, wait a minute. There was controversy around Jesus. I was speaking to someone on the phone who was asking me about a great man of God.  I think he was like a 16, 17 year old guy. And he's just telling me about this. He's telling me about this man of God and saying, well, you know, he's this, he's that. And I go, really, where did you hear that? From the critics and the secular media? And he's like, yeah, okay. And you just believe that because somebody said it. You just repeat it, because everyone else repeats it. No thinking for yourself, no digging, no questioning. And he said to me, he goes, well, you know, it's just, there's this cloud of confusion around him. Thinking it's the critics that are the ones that are kicking up the dust. Isn't that funny that it's a tactic, by the way. It's used in political campaigns where they'll criticize, criticize, criticize, ask all these leading questions and stir up all this controversy and then say, see, look what's happening over there. Look at all that controversy.  So this is a tactic of Pharisees. It's okay to ask questions. It's okay to challenge people on doctrine. But you know when it's being done in the right spirit and when it's being done from a religious spirit. They criticize, criticize, criticize, say, look at all the criticism surrounding them. Well, you're the ones who did it. But they did the Jesus. So let's be discerning and not so sheepish in the way that we respond to these controversies. Now again, if somebody's teaching blatant heresy, of course the controversy is probably well deserved. But number one, you don't avoid or seek controversy. Number two, you demonstrate self-control. Number three, you forgive generously. Number four, you think eternally. Colossians chapter three verses one through four says this, since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven. Where Christ sits in the place of honor at God's right hand, think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life and your real life is hidden with Christ in God. And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in his glory. Now, when we begin to turn our focus to the eternal, it puts things into perspective that are here on earth. This is something I'm really praying that the Lord would help me with. I'm very driven by nature. I love to build, I love to create, I love to expand. And it's somewhat of my offering back to the Lord. I've had conversations with several of my friends here. I truly believe that one of the best offerings you can offer to the Lord is not, yes, of course, you need to offer him your faith, your obedience, your holiness, and so forth. But I think additionally, God created us for a purpose. And one of the greatest ways that you can glorify God is by living to the potential with which he created you. It's your offering back, thank you for giving me breath.  Thank you for giving me energy and strength and a body and influence.  And as long as the motives are in place, I think the work will hold up on judgment day. But you know, even as I'm driven to build, even as I'm driven to win souls today, to see miracles today, to expand the kingdom of God through media today, I also have to be thinking about the future because every great man or woman of God who I've sat with, they all tell me the same thing regarding time. They all tell me that it just goes by so much quicker than you could possibly imagine. And maybe you're in that season of life where you have had your focus shifted now to the eternal, to the next life. But you know, there are generations who don't really pick up on this. And I have to ask for the Holy Spirit's help to keep me focused on eternity because I can get so caught up in the everyday here. And it happens so fast, every week goes by that. And I'm finding that the longer I live, the faster the years go by. Think about this. If your life were a pie, say apple pie or pizza pie, whatever one you want, let's cut it into four slices, okay? If you're 20, 25 years old, you've already had your first slice and you have three more. And then the next three slices will go by much quicker than the first one. Think about it, if you're 20 to 25 years old, everything you've experienced, everything you've known, your entire life, that whole timeline, you've got three more of those at best. And not even that is guaranteed. You're in your 30s, like me, then you can cut that pie into thirds and you've had one of three slices. And the next two will go faster than that first one. We could go on and on. I don't want to freak everybody out, but that's just the reality of our time we're given. The scripture says life is a vapor. Just, we're here today, gone tomorrow. And even if someone can make history, they make a name for themselves, even history forgets its greats. I mean, most of us can't name actors or celebrities from even 30 years ago. Who was famous then? I don't know. Fame fades. Even if you become iconic, even if you become legendary, even if you become historic, that all fades. Money, somebody else will have it. All the things you work for, somebody else will use it. Car you drive, the clothes you wear, the house you live in, it's temporary. But what you do for eternity, that's what truly matters. And because it's so difficult, please hear this, because it's so difficult to think about the eternal when the now is so apparent is exactly why only the spiritually mature do it. There are some individuals who are well into their final slice, and they're still just thinking about the here and now. They're still just thinking about what they can gain on this side of eternity. They're still just thinking about the car, the money, the career, not even considering eternity. What are you doing for eternity? Are you taking souls with you through the preaching of the gospel? Are you preparing to help the next generation? What are you leaving behind? Think about that, because everything else fades. Only what you do for eternity truly counts because it's the only thing that lasts. And so this is a difficult thing to do because it's so easy to be caught up in all of this. I mean, it's right here, right now. I can touch it, I can hear it, I can see it, I can feel it, I can experience the now. And it's coming at me so fast and it's also vibrant and it's also distracting. I'm not careful, I'll fail to see off into the distance into eternity. The Bible tells us, think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. Spiritually mature people, yes, they acknowledge that here and now is important. I'm not saying just dismiss the moment because technically now is all you'll ever get to experience, but those who are spiritually mature, they live from the perspective of eternity. And I'm asking the Holy Spirit to help me do this because I'm a very fast-paced individual. Everything's quick. Let's get it done, let's go. That's me. But I ask the Holy Spirit help me to really see things from the perspective of eternity. The spiritually mature think long-term. They think eternally. They think generationally. Not about the temporary only. Yes, there's some significance to the now. Otherwise God wouldn't have us experiencing it. But in all that you do for the now, don't forget about eternity. So, so far we've seen these signs of spiritual maturity. Number one, you don't avoid or seek controversy. Number two, you demonstrate self-control. Number three, you forgive generously. Number four, you think eternally. Number five, you're always willing to learn. Correction, even though it's uncomfortable, can lead to learning. Proverbs 12 one says this, to learn, you must love discipline. This is the Bible here. I think it's the new living translation.  Hebrews 12 six, for the Lord disciplines those he loves and he punishes each one he accepts as his child. So, if you're not experiencing correction in your life, you're likely not growing. You ever talk to someone who, as you're trying to teach them, they just go, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know. Oh, yeah, yeah, of course, of course, of course. I used to have a friend who would do that to me. I like, I would be teaching him things like on the technical side. And I knew he didn't know any of it. And I would talk to him about he would go, correct, correct, that's right, correct, you're correct. I know I'm correct. That's why I'm telling you this.  They don't like correction. They want to be the one with all the answers. They want to be perceived as knowledgeable and competent. And I understand that, but it can be quite unhealthy if we're not willing to acknowledge that we do need correction. All of us have blind spots. All of us have character flaws that we can't quite see clearly. All of us have areas that we need someone to speak into to correct whether that come through the correction from the word. Correction from a legitimate source like your pastor or a spiritual leader or even a friend.  He loves you.  I call him Vladisms, by the way. You know those short phrases. Many of you know pastor Vlad. Those short phrases he uses, those quick, they're almost, I told him he needs to write a book and call it Vladisms. Short like statements. And I believe the alliteration he used was something to the effect of there's a difference between a coach and a critic. And I love that because everyone's gonna have their critics and of course you can't legitimize them with responses or legitimize them by being concerned about what they're saying. With critics you kind of just have to dismiss and ignore or move on. And so you have to know the difference between a critic and a coach because if you're receiving correction from your critics all the time, no matter what, you're never gonna be able to please anybody because you can't please everybody. But instead, look for those coaches, people who have that fatherly love, that big brother love, that big sister love, that motherly love, that grandmotherly love, that grandfatherly love, those people who love you and who are mature in the faith and who have an actual connection with you and who are correcting you because they care about you, not just because they want to be perceived as the one who got you or the one who put you under, what is the phrase like, they wanna sun you, like you're under me and I want everyone to think that, no. Correction leads to learning, we must love correction and of course receive it from legitimate sources. Number two in terms of willing to learn, you're always willing to learn, a humility leads to learning. Psalm 119, 25 to 29, look at the language being described here. I lie in the dust, revive me by your word. So here's someone who knows that they need God's help.  Now, teach me your decrees. Help me understand the meaning of your commandments and I will meditate on your wonderful deeds. I weep with sorrow, encourage me by your word. I love this, this right here. Look at verse 29, this is incredible. I don't know about you, but I love this. Keep me from lying to myself. Wow, keep me from lying to myself. Give me the privilege of knowing your instructions. Here we see someone who understands their own brokenness. Maybe not fully, but at least acknowledges it to some degree. Here we see someone who recognizes their dependency upon God. They recognize their shortcomings. They recognize the need. They recognize that they cannot do it without the help of the Lord. Even knowing his instructions is a privilege and they approach him in humility. People who are filled with pride, they'll never learn. Why? Because people who are prideful despise it because anytime they admit they learn something, it's a check to their ego. So correction leads to learning. Humility leads to learning. Hunger leads to learning. Psalm 119, same chapter. View verses above, we'll go to verses 12 through 16. I praise you, oh Lord, teach me your decrees. I have recited aloud all the regulations you have given us. I have rejoiced in your laws as much as in riches. I will study your commandments and reflect on your ways. I will delight in your decrees and not forget your word. Here is someone who rejoices in the law. They rejoice in the word of God. They have a hunger. Now if you're starving, it means you haven't been eating. If you're hungry, it means you're regularly eating and that's healthy. I'm not saying we should starve for the word because that means you're not getting it on a regular basis. I'm saying we should have a hunger for the word, a healthy appetite, meaning we're regularly eating the word, we're regularly receiving from Him. We should have that childlike wonder around the word of God even if we've been serving the Lord for decades. I was saved when I was 11 years old. I'm 33 now. And still I pray, Lord, don't let me lose that love for your word. Oh, I don't wanna lose that. You can get it back by the way if you feel you've lost it. It's not completely gone. It's just like dusting off an old book. You have to get rid of that layer of apathy. And under there is your passion. Under there is that desire the Holy Spirit has placed in you. One of the best ways to grow a desire is to feed that desire. And if there's even a small desire in you to know the word, to understand God's ways and to receive that correction, then you act on that. You begin to receive of that desire and that desire will begin to grow. Correction leads to learning. Humility leads to learning. Hunger leads to learning. But don't lose that childlike eagerness to learn because when you're willing to always learn, that's how you know you're spiritually mature. It's the immature who are insecure. And it's the insecure who can't admit that they have learning to do. It's the immature who are insecure. And it's the immature who can't admit that they've not completely arrived. Let us not be immature. Let us be fully mature and maintain this hunger for the word. Hunger to learn, hunger to receive that correction. But to recap, five important signs, and we're gonna pray right now so don't turn this video off. Five important signs that demonstrate that you're spiritually mature. And of course, this is in addition to the fruits of the Holy Spirit. One of them was mentioned self-control. Number one, you don't avoid or seek controversy. Number two, you demonstrate self-control. Three, you forgive generously. Four, you think eternally. Five, you're always willing to learn. Now let's pray and let's ask the Holy Spirit to help us in these areas. And as we pray, I want you to believe that the power of God's gonna touch you right. I truly believe that the tangible touch of the Holy Spirit's power can flow right through that camera, right to you watching.  Say this first, say, welcome Holy Spirit. Say that out loud. Say, welcome Holy Spirit. Now, Father, I pray for that one receiving this in this moment. And I ask that you would give them grace. Let your empowering presence draw them.  Father, we cry out, transform our nature. Change the way we are Lord. Help us to surrender Holy Spirit. Give us the desire for your word. Incline our hearts towards your will and your nature. Holy Spirit, let the character of Christ shine through us. Help us in all these areas. We desire to be like Jesus. Just say that out loud, say, Holy Spirit. Say it again, say, Holy Spirit. Make me more like Jesus. Father, also heal your people, deliver them. Come against every sickness and disease. We break that bondage in the mighty name of Jesus. And I pray for deliverance to come upon your people. Set them free from deception. Set them free from stronghold. Set them free from the attacks of the enemy. I speak peace to your mind. Someone's receiving that right now. Peace to your mind. Torment to the mind. I command you to cease now in the mighty name of Jesus we pray, the mighty name of Jesus we pray. Matthew 6, 19 through 21. Jesus says this, don't store up treasures here on earth where moths eat them and rust destroys them. Where thieves break in and steal. Store your treasures in heaven where moths and rust cannot destroy. And thieves do not break in and steal. Wherever your treasure is there, the desires of your heart will be also. Now I want you to resist the impulse of the flesh to now click to the next video or turn this off. It's good that you received, but now I want to challenge you to give. And I want you to resist that fleshly urge that says, okay, I got to get out of here now. No, no, no, no, no. Isn't it interesting that whenever you talk about something that's demonstrated through selflessness, the flesh doesn't want to hear it. The flesh gets offended, gets defensive. Doesn't like to hear things that challenge selfishness and all of us need to be challenged in this area. All believers need to be givers. And there's that impulse. There's that side of us that we wrestle with, isn't there?  And I don't mean that as a spirit, I mean just that side of our nature where we like to withhold, we like to retain, we hesitate and we become defensive when we're challenged to give. Now this isn't everyone. Most of you watching this are givers. In fact, most people who watch the stream give and we appreciate that. But then I want to challenge that one who maybe hasn't quite grown in this area. You say things like, well, preachers shouldn't ask for money or move on to another topic or you're asking too long. That's the conviction of the Holy Spirit. And the flesh gets stirred up whenever it's challenged. That's why Jesus said, there the desires of your heart will be also. Money is a test of the heart. I'm not saying you need to give to be saved. I'm not saying you need to give to please God and that's the only thing you ever need to do. No, but money does test the heart. Why? Because money is what we've worked so hard to gain. It's the time you invested, the skill you invested, the energy you invested. It took a lot of you to get it. And so it takes a lot out of you to give it. And that's just the fact of the matter. But money is a test of the heart. That's why we recoil. That's why we become defensive. That's why we try to use any excuse that we can to get out of it.  The majority of you are probably already going to the link and clicking it. But I want to challenge you. If you're not a giver yet, you're not someone who practices this. This is good practice for you to begin to do these things that are difficult to do, to mature and grow in this area. I want to challenge everyone watching this, whether you're watching live or on the replay, to give toward the gospel. Don't give to get. Don't give for selfish ambition. Don't give for your own gain. Instead, give because you love Jesus. Give because you love this ministry. Give because you love souls. Give because you want to see this ministry continue to affect more lives. Well, we see what's happening in our world. Doesn't our world need the gospel now more than ever? Doesn't the darkness need to see the light? We need to show them the light. It's time that the world sees the power of the Holy Spirit demonstrated with the true gospel preached. I need you to do your part. I need you to get involved. I can't do this without you. You're my brother, you're my sister. God designed it so that we need each other. That's just the way he did it. If I could do it alone, God would have made it so I can do it alone. But the word makes it clear that we need each other. I need you. And I'm asking for your help.  Davidhernanisministries.com slash partner to become a monthly ministry supporter. So whether you're giving large or small one time or monthly, I'm asking you to give so that the work can go forward. Help us continue to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit all around the world through events and media. As you give, we will continue to see the kingdom expand. We're not talking about it. We're doing it. We're not just philosophizing. We're taking action and it's working. Hear me now. It's working. Thousands upon thousands of people are being impacted by this ministry every single day. I'm asking you now to do your part. Join us and help us spread the gospel all around the world. Now, as people give on davidhernanisministries.com slash donate, I'm actually able to see many of the donations that come in. So I wanna say thank you to Bryant for your one time gift. Thank you, Donna, for your one time gift. Thank you, Noah and Glory. That's a beautiful name, Glory. God bless you. Also thank you to Merida, our dear friend, Jessica, that's my wife's name. Thank you for your gift. Marie, thank you for your gift. Patricia, thank you for becoming a partner. Rapi, thank you for becoming a partner. Luigiini, thank you for becoming a partner. Raymond, thank you for your gift. Matthew, thank you for becoming a partner. Diane, Alexandra, thank you for your gift. Mirna, thank you for becoming a partner. Valerie, thank you for becoming a partner. I also see a single gift from Araul. Thank you so much. And they're just continuing to pour in from all around the world. So thank you for your giving and remember until next time, nothing is impossible with God.


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