So this morning the this is the 19th lesson on union with Christ and it's union with Christ in the ordinances in the ordinances and to begin with I have a Couple verses at the top of the handout and I'll read each of them and I Want to try to get some dialogue this morning, so I'll ask a couple questions before we begin But to read the verses first The first one is Matthew 28 19 go therefore and make disciples of all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and Also Luke 22 19 and he took bread gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying this is my body Which is given for you Do this in remembrance of me so the first one is the command to baptize and the second one is the command to Practice the Lord Supper so Quick question for you. Why do we call these two? Commandments ordinances and what are other names that? They might be called Sergio Ordinance is because God ordered it. Uh-huh, and then I could be wrong about that And then the other one is the sacraments the sacraments, right? So It's another word for commandment It does have the nuance of authority and a standing commandment with the word ordinance But there's nothing like special about that particular word it these are commandments but we prefer to call them ordinances instead of sacraments and yes sacraments are what some denominations and other religions will call these Commandments and church activities But we Prefer not to use sacrament because in the Roman Catholic Church. They call these sacraments and They define them differently in the way that they go about practicing baptism and the way that they go about practicing the Eucharist and the Lord Supper they also call confirmation a sacrament and other Activities of the Catholic Church, so to distinct make ourselves distinct from that We call them ordinances How many Ordinances are there Braillea just to That's right Baptism and Lord Supper so on the handout you can see there's really just two points Baptism and the Lord Supper and I've got water next to baptism Because I don't want to anyone to get confused When we use that word baptism what we're referencing If you look at the second bullet under baptism symbolizes our spiritual baptism into Christ so there is a Spirit baptism that comes from Christ and that's not the same thing as water baptism when someone's physically immersed in water and Brought back out of the water Those are two different things one's theological and spiritual the other one's physical and has no Immediate grace Invested in it like just the participation of it means that you get grace it it's a means of grace and Appropriated by faith it does grow us and God does bless us in the activity But we're talking about two different things when we talk about water baptism and spiritual baptism any questions So far All right So let's look at the first bullet. How is union with Christ revealed in the ordinances and First of all will be more specific. How is union with Christ revealed in the ordinance of water baptism and First of all that bullet doesn't really that first bullet doesn't really answer the question But it does establish that this is in fact a biblical Christ-given commandment and Requires our study and attention because it is his command. So let's look at that first If you will turn to Matthew 28 19 and I'm gonna start in 16 And if you will remember with the Great Commission what has occurred in history is that the Lord has atoned for sin and Fulfilled his state of humiliation and all that was required of him by the law and Having done that which pleased the father even to death the death of the cross. He has resurrected with power and Now in verse 16 we pick up Then the 11 disciples went away into Galilee to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them when he saw him they worshiped him but some doubted and Jesus came and spoke to them saying all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth Go therefore and make disciples of all nations Baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit Teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and low I am with you always even to the end of age end of the age. Amen So right here in verse 19. We have the commandment to go Which carries the imperative force of the word make the main verb of that's that sentence is make So we are to make disciples and that involves baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and This is a reference to water baptism It's something that the church is to obey Christ in not just the 11 disciples Because the 11 disciple 12 apostles when we add in Matthias Not just the 12 and then the 13th with Paul are to fulfill this commandment But there to teach the church and the people of God to observe all the things that Christ has commanded including Baptizing so we practice baptizing today just as they were initially commanded. This is a commandment for the church and Water baptism you can see it in John And then in Acts so if you go to Acts briefly Just to show you it's Happening in the first church in the early church Acts chapter 2 verse 40 and This is after Pentecost Peter has just preached and By God's grace and the Holy Spirit has convicted them of their sin and They respond and it says here and with many other words he testified and exhorted them saying be saved from this perverse generation Then those who gladly received his word were baptized and that day about 3000 souls were added to them. This is the church baptizing The apostles and those who are baptizing baptizing new believers So they're fulfilling the commandment back here in Matthew 28 and it is water baptism What does that mean when it says in the name of the father and in the name of the son and in the name of the Spirit anybody Mr. Lee the authority that's that's who that is that's who you being baptized And you're not being baptized in the name of Paul or being baptized in the name of You know Julia Caesar whoever it's the one who is an authority that you being baptized. Amen. Amen. That's very well said I Have another question when let's say today when we baptize someone Are we baptizing them into union with Christ? spiritual union Like when they go into the water Are they entering into spiritual union with Jesus Christ? No Braleos got something. I'm sorry brother. I missed you All right, I was gonna say no only because in acts it says Those who had received his word were baptized. So you receive his word first Meaning you're converted and then you are baptized. Yes. Amen and I Think that most everyone here has heard total depravity taught and understands it to some degree But if you're new or a visitor or you haven't heard that word that term before Braleo is stating that in acts we saw that who was it that was baptized It was those who gladly received the word that Peter was preaching the word of God So why does that mean that they were in union with Christ? Prior to their water baptism and he was stating because they gladly receive the word So underlying what he was thinking you're thinking well brother and amen. I'm just trying to explain it better or More specifically is because of who we are dead in our sins Unresponsive to the word of God to the spirit of God in our life We are aliens from God and enemies and we are enemies by nature By nature we hate God And we cannot please him and we do not want to please him. We suppress the truth and unrighteousness and And total means it affects every aspect of our life Whether it's the way we think intellectually the way we have emotions and we respond emotionally to things our values Everything the way we make choices and decisions our sin affects everything. Are we as sinful as we can be in our practices? No But that does not mean you're good and the fact that we Aren't as evil as we could be is only a testimony to God's restraining common grace on us he restrained sin all over the world even the most vile men and Paul understood that he said I a Hebrew of Hebrews a Benjamin a Benjamin Zellas as far as the law goes blameless I am the chief of sinners and We ought to see ourself that way It's the Pharisee that says I thank you God that I'm not like him him and him But it's the one that recognizes in truth that he's pouring spirit that says I won't even look to heaven God have mercy on me So if that if you understand that biblically and if you have it yet if that causes you friction And you just disagree and you think no there's some good in man Or he has the potential to do good apart from God only God needs to stir him up to do that good that is potentially lying within him And then he will respond that's unbiblical Romans 8-7 so when we say they gladly receive the word of God We know biblically That they only gladly received the word of God by faith Because they had been granted that faith in the regeneration of their spirit So the regeneration there's already a union that has occurred now Sometime later for them, maybe hours or less they were water baptized In accordance with Christ's commandment They were not brought into union into which they were already a part of what what kind of law Is baptism in the Lord's Supper when we talk about different types of laws in the Bible I'll give you two major categories so you have and some of you might not have heard this before you have moral law and You have positive law Positive law is Authoritative and yes to disobey it is morally sinful But it's not eternal and it is not Indivisible from God's character like the moral law is I'll give you an example circumcision was a positive law and To disobey circumcision was to disobey the Lord and to sin against the Lord, but yet there's no circumcision today That's because it's it's a positive law and not an eternal Law of God which we would call the moral law the Ten Commandments and God in his sovereignty and in his timing is free to make it obsolete and no longer a commandment But God will not ever Change his name and his character therefore it's always sinful to commit adultery But it's not always sinful to not circumcise. It depends on which covenant you're in in which era you live in because that positive law was only in authority During a certain time period in God's history and that's what we call positive law. So baptism and the Lord's Supper Will we call that moral law or positive law? No, well positive law positive law. That's right Positive law is it sinful to disobey these positive laws? Yes However, it is positive law Will we will we baptize anyone after Christ returns like after the consummation of all things? Is that sinful? Well one there's not gonna be new converts But are we gonna practice the Lord's Supper in the same way that we're practicing it today? We will gonna we're gonna The Lord's Supper points forward to something and when that that thing arrives There's no need for the ordinance anymore similar to a lot of the ordinances of or ceremonial law of the Old Covenant I'm going through that because I think there's a lot of confusion in history around baptism and There are some that teach that you receive the Spirit when you're water baptized and that's unbiblical and I know that the text of John 3 and Roman 6 and Acts 2 38 are used and you can get a book of it But You can't maintain that theology and be biblical when you start to see Clearly what the Bible teaches on total to privacy and on the order of solutice like how the ways in which God saves So it is Christ's commandment and it isn't ordinance since it's a positive law Let's talk about positive laws briefly. What are some positive laws in the Old Covenant? I already said one on you. I think one of the first ones was not to eat the fruit of the tree Not to eat the fruit of the tree. Oh like wine or No, then the garden of Eden. Oh, oh I'm sorry. I didn't know I didn't know what you meant. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm thinking mosaic covenant I'm sorry. Yeah, not to eat the tree not to eat the fruit of the tree in the garden of Eden. So That's a positive law. It's not a moral law, but God gave that positive law as part of the Covenant of Works And to disobey it was sinful What's one though in After the fall What's some positive laws after the fall? You can't eat bacon you can't eat bacon dietary laws and we have the Seventh-day Adventist Predominant here in Florida. We have a whole health system the Adventist health system, which is coming off of Seventh-day Adventist theology There's this this heavy emphasis on health. Is that wrong? No But when you make it Theologically necessary to practice certain dietary laws today in order to be holy. That's unbiblical. I think I know where you're going with this All right Circumcision and the Passover. Yes. Yes, you'd thank you brother And I'll get to where I'm going now that you said that because that's really easy to jump off of Circumcision and Passover meal Were required by the children of Israel during the time of the Old Covenant Circumcision wasn't a positive law that just had meaning and purpose or use In its time it was symbolized and pointed forward to God's promises Related to his anointed the Messiah When he would circumcise the hearts of his people Passover was to remind them of a physical redemption out of Egypt when they were in slavery to Pharaoh and the Egyptians The meal was to remind them of that past event and to point forward and symbolize of a greater redemption in the promise of redemption from sins and When Christ comes there is the Doing away of the Old Covenant because much of what it pointed to is now already here and no longer necessary so we need to Take into consideration of what's the purpose of baptism and what's the purpose of the Lord's Supper What is it is it? Pointing to what is it symbolizing? How is it supposed to inform my faith and encourage me in this Christian walk? Because We want to avoid formalism We want to avoid the legalism that our hearts latches on to Do you remember when the children of Israel? I think it was that they complained and I can't remember for sure what their sin was but they sinned against the Lord and he sent fiery serpents to bite them Mr. Ron you got it. Okay. Yeah, did you want to say it? Say the feast the sacrifices and the burnt offerings. Yes. Yeah, the sacrifices and the burnt offerings Amen, and we know the sacrifices pointed forward to the greater sacrifice Amen, that's another good one, but there with the fiery serpents. What did God use to say? I will physically heal you of your judgment For your sins, which is poison and death If you do this, what did he say? Mr. Lee if you look at the standard it was a Snake a bronze serpent on a standard or I don't know. I haven't got a good image of what that was I imagine some kind of big pole Study of that and and what it was it was Like the cross, but the serpent was You know the way he had it. Okay. It was like Okay So but the my point there is the children of Israel With if you imagine, let's just say a million people. That's a large camp You got the tabernacle in the middle and you've got tents all over For a long distance that way that way that way and that way and then the Lord says You get word from Moses and on down There is a piece of wood with a bronze serpent on it and the center of the camp if you go up there and look at it, you'll be healed and They would have to walk up there and they would get healed from it What did the children Israel do? Later on with that's that bronze serpent. They made it an idol They started to worship the serpent. It's just wood and metal There's no ability for that object to do anything for your spirit and The fact that you're physically healed by looking at it is merely by God's good pleasure and wisdom that he he Would heal you by that act The there's no Force or healing power physically coming from that wood and that metal to heal you It's from God and it's just an act and you know You would and think about it if you're looking at that you have to think Why am I looking at a serpent? I'm looking at my own judgment. You can't look at it and not remember your sin and Jesus said just as Moses raised up the serpent in the wilderness so to the Son of man must be looked up You can't look at Jesus Christ by faith and not see your sin and your judgment So we don't want to be guilty of the same sins with these ordinances and somehow in our minds Falsely invest into water value that is not there and power that is not there or In taking food into my mouth and juice into my mouth that there's power in that You can take those things and do those things and go go to hell It's not the doing of it It's not the objects themselves It's God by his grace and power that he caused you to overcome sin through faith in act doing those things and I know I'm hitting hard on that and the reason why is when you study this more and you look more Even with the limited amount that I've done You start to see there's a lot of confusion The Roman Catholic Church practices transubstantiation Which believes that the food and the the bread and the wine actually Become the body and blood of Christ and that there is an actual Resacrifice of Christ and you are actually physically eating the body of Christ And I don't know that if we're in jeopardy very much of becoming Roman Catholics But even within other circles, you know, there's differences on the mode of baptism with Presbyterians And there's some even in what I would say is reform circles that believe there is some kind of grace invested in baptism Because it's through it that you become partaker of the covenant So I'm saying all that because I want to inform us and guard now. Let's go to Romans 6 symbolizes our water baptism Symbolizes our spiritual baptism into Christ What shall we I'm reading from verse 1? What shall we say then shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? Or do you not know that as many of us as Were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death Therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death That just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in newness of life For if we had been united together in the likeness of his death, certainly we we also shall be in the likeness of his resurrection Knowing this that our old man was crucified with him and that the body of sin might be done away with That we should no longer be slaves of sin for he who has died Has been freed from sin in here You have to ask the question is this speaking of water baptism and I know that we've only talked about it briefly in the Sunday school classes But I do not believe that this is referencing water baptism If we look at Paul's argument, he's just got done telling in chapter 5 That there was death in Adam and life in Christ and he said in verse 20 of chapter 5 The law entered that offense might might abound But where sin abounded grace abounding much more so that as sin reigned in death Even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Christ Jesus Christ our Lord and Paul is thinking of Someone who's contrary or asking contrary questions to what he's teaching and when he talks about the grace of God here Romans 5 how it abounds in light of sin abounding The thought process of someone opposing Paul would say well Paul it sounds like you're saying that Let us continue to sin So that God's grace will be even more manifest Didn't you say that the law came that sin might abound So are you teaching that as Christians that if You practice more sin you're going to only manifest the grace of God and That's why he asked that question he says mega noita certainly not it's a very emphatic negative How shall we who died to sin? Live any longer in it He doesn't say baptism there. He doesn't say how shall we who were baptized live any longer in it He says dead What does it mean to die to sin? Claudia, what does it mean to die to sin?  We're gonna say something brother I Simply it's to be released from the power scene, but I was thinking of Roman seven how there's an analogy Between somebody who's married and how you know by say the husband dying then the woman is free from the law. Yeah and specifically In verse five from seven Says for while we were living in the flesh our sinful passions aroused by the law We're at work in our members to bear food for death But now we are released from the law having died to that which held us captive Captive so that we will serve in the new way of the spirit not in the old way of the written code code Amen He goes on later in Roman six and he he says in verse 20 for when you were slaves of sin you were free in regard to righteousness In verse 22 but now having been set free from sin and Having become slaves of God you have your fruit to holiness in the end everlasting life When he talks about death to sin there It we know that to say you're without sin is sin first John It's clear about that You know, he says he's without sin is a liar but there is a death to sin now and initially occurring in the believer's life when he is born again and he dies to the power and Condemnation of sin in other words the the influence that Sin had as a master and him being a slave to that and the influence of his guilt in its condemnation and his Subjection to the influence of that Those things he is now free from and when you die to something if you think about death in this life You are released from it. You no longer live within its boundaries and its Its domain You are now Going to go into the intermediate state and be under a new realm and another domain and You are now like inactive in that one You're free from that one and you're alive to this one so to speak So that's why marriage, you know like when there is When marriage ceases let's just say through death one of the spouses dies that bond of marriage is done away with So that person is no longer to consider themselves a married individual Because they're freed from those bonds now that that other person has has passed away So they died to the marriage Not that they like don't love the person. They just died to that bond they're no longer active in that bond and Same way when when a Christian is born again, he's no longer a slave of sin and That's supernatural That's not man-made it it comes from God So here what Paul is focusing on is answering the objection of Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? No way Absolutely not because how can we Who have spiritually died to the reign and realm of sin and in that and its reign Live in it, you know, it's like how can how can someone who's passed away live in this world? I Want to read John Brown on this The adversary might say no no doubt such as your obligation to Live righteously, but how can the obligation consist with your doctrine?  That's exactly what your doctrine teaches And whatever whatever you've engaged to do that is what your doctrine warrants and encourages and we doubt We doubt not we'll end in leading you to do to continue in sin that grace may abound The apostle takes up different ground altogether He sets himself to show that the divine method of justification, which was the first four chapters Is the once nest is is at once necessary to sanctification so The divine method of justification faith in Jesus Christ Through the atoning work of Christ and the renewal of the spirit is at once necessary to sanctification And that same method that that God supernaturally Causes you to be born again grants faith and thereby gives you Justified state by the imputed righteousness of Christ that same divine work is necessary to sanctification And secures it He shows that's paul shows first that the divine method of justification Establishes such a union Or intimate relation between those who are its subjects and jesus christ Both in his death and in his restored life As secures that anything like habitual unholiness of heart and life cannot take place And as besides furnishes the strongest motives and encouragement to the cultivation of universal holiness in other words God's way of salvation Through union with christ and our relation therein Secures not only our justification, but our sanctification in paul's argument is basically How can we who have been justified and died to sin live in it? Because the union that we have in christ And have received our justification is the same union that we have with christ in life Or do you not know he says in verse three that as many of us as we're baptized into christ We're baptized into his death therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death that just as christ was raised from the dead By the glory of the father even so we should also walk in newness of life You look at galatians three And i'll read verse 26 for all you are all sons of god through faith In g in christ jesus for as many of as Many of you as we're baptized into christ have put on christ It does say here Baptized into what? into christ This is talking about being immersed into christ It's not talking about Water baptism it's talking about being brought into union with christ and his body By spiritual baptism So water baptism though symbolizes that It symbolizes The spiritual baptism That a believer has In their salvation They receive the spirit and they're born again and christ has baptized them With the spirit and now they are in union with him And baptism the water baptism is meant to symbolize that The third one is Symbolizes water baptism Symbolizes our union with christ and his death burial and resurrection which we read in romans There's this union and relation that we have with christ that We are benefactors of his death burial and resurrection and partakers of it when salvation is applied to us In our relation to sin and its reign The fourth point at water baptism symbolizes our spiritual purification in union with christ So water baptism is doing more Than just one thing it's not just symbolizing one thing If you go to axe 238 You could say it's one thing, but i mean that broadly when i say one thing not one thing i mean like specifics Perspectives of of a greater thing, but those perspectives are distinct So i don't want to get lost in semantics, but it's symbolizing not just death burial and resurrection In our spiritual union with christ but also water Is often used to clean the body and it's a symbol of cleaning So we look at axe two Uh 38 Then peter said to them repent and let every one of you be baptized in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins And you shall receive the gift of the holy spirit for the promises to you and to your children And to all who are far off as many as the lord will call So here we can see water baptism He's commanding it and now go to axe 22 Verse i'm gonna start in verse 15 Well, let's start in 12 Then a certain ananias a devout man according to the law having a good testimony with all the jews who dwelt there came to me This is paul giving his testimony of his own Time of conversion And ananias has come to him by the direction of the lord And he stood and said to me brother saw receive your sight physically And at that same hour i looked up at him Then he said The god of our fathers has chosen you That you should know his will And see the just one And hear the voice of his mouth For you will be his witness to all men of what you have seen and heard And now why are you waiting arise and be baptized? Wash away your sins calling on the name of the lord So was paul Responsive to the lord at this point Prior to ananias coming was he Did he have a new heart Any questions any thoughts there mr. Lee? Yeah I think that someone could argue and i've read that A little but i heard a counter argument and I'm convinced that he was converted before this moment As you said He responds to christ and and christ is saying why is it why do you kick against the goads? And he's already there Under the revelation of christ by his Glorious revelation Responding lord Who are you lord and then lord reveals his name to him who he is? And then paul is here uh was there waiting on ananias And the lord told him that he would be coming So but what you can see here in verse 16 he says now why are you waiting chapter 22 16 arise and be baptized and wash away your sins Calling on the name of the lord There's this element of cleansing That occurs when a person is brought into union with christ The holy spirit purifies them of the filth of their sin and its guilt The stain that no man can clean When someone's brought into union with christ They're made a new creation and by faith in christ by the spirit They are purified They are what another what term would be definitively sanctified Made holy set apart by the lord They're not what they once were anymore If if you had a bar graph and they're down if this is like Somewhat externally moral on your way down here and then you're regenerated you go way up Or that you're not all the way to the top though But there is a supernatural changing of the man where he is made holy by the work of the spirit And that that spirit's work is there's a washing that occurs a cleansing You can hear people's testimonies when they Have a soft heart and they don't have that that the burden of guilt And I know that introspective people with lacking assurance can have troubles with guilt But all those even those who have struggled with assurance Put their faith in christ and have hope in him And do not have the crushing guilt of their sin when they were dead so baptism symbolizes that Symbolizes a washing so when you see somebody getting baptized you can think That person's died and they've come to life In christ That person was once filthy And now they're made clean By god's grace by his spirit Praise the lord And even now this water is doing nothing for them But we are obeying christ and i am appropriating this activity by faith and praising god in my heart And with his people I say do nothing and what I mean by that not that it's not set apart and holy and its use What i'm saying nothing what i'm talking about is the water itself is not being Made uh some kind of an elixir All right, so let's go to the lord supper is christ The lord supper is christ's command and ordinance So we go to luke 22 19 And i'm just going to read this one and move to the next point I'm going to read these two verses just to show you that it is a commandment 22 19 And he took bread Gave thanks and broke it and gave it to them saying this is my body Which is given for you Do this commandment in remembrance of me His body has not yet been crucified And he's telling them to remember it This is intended for a future use And the church understood that through the holy spirit Helping and guiding the apostles into truth If you look at first Corinthians 11 Just verse 20 Therefore when you come together in one place it is not to eat the lord supper He's he's rebuking them. But what you can see here is that the Corinthians were meeting supposedly Or there was some intent to do that to do to practice remembering the lord Through this ordinance of bread and wine It is not that you and he's saying you're not doing it though properly And he goes down look at verse 24 and when he had given And when he had given thanks he broke it and said take eat. This is my body Which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me In the same manner he also took the cup after the supper saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood This do as often as you drink it in remembrance of me For and now paul speaking for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord's death till he comes So you can see that this is not just something that was occurring Towards the end of christ's life. It was An ordinance intended for the church. It's a commandment Second point it symbolizes christ's body and blood in our redemption So just to wrap up When it was instituted they were having the Passover feast and christ is now replacing The Passover with his own Passover and he's giving an ordinance on the basis of that But similar they were to have a feast related to the Passover to remember their redemption from israel And to point forward to promises god made for them in the land Well, god christ pass over when we partake of this food here and this this drink We are to remember our redemption Spiritually and we are to to look forward to the redemption Consummated the redemption of our bodies and our final Bring brought into Fellowship with christ when he returns physically So when we are partaking of that of try to guard against formalism and renew your mind pray and by faith appropriate that come prepared And remember the redemption that was purchased for you by the body of blood of christ And then look forward to What's coming with the completion of this redemption And then last it symbolizes our fellowship with christ and if we went to first Corinthians 10 paul talks about the table Partaking of the sacrifices eating food. So in the old covenant, they had peace offerings a thanksgiving meal that they would have together In this ordinance, we are symbolizing a fellowship that we have with christ We're not actually eating a meal with him. He's not here physically But we are proclaiming his death like I said with the redemption and we're also proclaiming our union with him and our fellowship in it And we're hoping for that day that we will have the consummation when we fellowship with him physically Any questions? Well, let's pray and we'll close Thank you Father for these ordinances. Thank you lord jesus for commanding them and Thank you for the word of god o holy spirit For informing us of What is proper related to them and how they are symbols positive law intended to be obeyed for Means of grace that we might grow and walk with you I pray that we as a church would not fall into any formalism with our ordinances but by faith rejoice in christ jesus and Be strengthened in this fellowship and in this union As it s as it pertains to our own sanctification Amen


And we are live. What's up guys? Welcome back to another episode and today's special guest is Jesse Limberg gruber and so his quick bio is he's bootstrapped to businesses to over a million dollars in revenue while still in high school That's fucking impressive and launch an enterprise analytics startup at Stanford serving brands like Walmart Microsoft Amazon And then in another company Neo reached three point five million dollars And now as a co-founder of bloom which we're talking about today because it's a pretty cool initiative and project I just read the white paper about an hour ago. I do have some questions So the first question is I'm gonna come from this as a meal fight and I'm gonna ask you Jesse. What what is that? What is bloom? Yeah, thank you. So thanks for having me on the show bloom Brings credit to the blockchain around the world There's lots of problems with credit in China your political affiliation can influence your credit score In other countries religion can influence your credit score Even in the United States takes years to build up a full credit history And you have to have debt to have a credit score. And so what that means is there's 45 million Americans a lot of Millennials who never opened up a credit card for example, which don't have a credit score and Aside from all the scoring issues. They don't work if you move to a new country in most countries like America the scoring agencies are essentially monopolies FICO is scored on like 90% of loans and The algorithms that score Credit haven't really been updated since like the 1980s. And so they don't use any modern signals They don't look at you know things like Utility bill income cell phone income and so we're taking all of these problems with credit and solving it by bringing credit scores to the blockchain So, how do you solve how it works is it's there's basically a few components Bloom ID first Generates a global identity for everyone if you don't know who you're lending to they can essentially run off with the money And so we once we establish that ID Bloom IQ keeps track of all their debt obligations and pulls in lots of information about that person so It's in addition to their credit report if they have one it also pulls in their Utility bill payments their cell phone payments and any other financial data We can get on an individual to assess them and then balloons score the last component takes in the identity component and The financial data to generate a global single or credit score Okay, so a couple of things I want to talk about over here So you guys are building your own credit courts credit score system. So what's the difference between you and FICO then? You know in the if to a lender virtually nothing to a lender They are you going to use a similar score like they're used to in the exact same process They're used to accept that our score will have FICO as a signal so it'll at least be it'll at least be as good, but it will also have lots of lots of lots of other signals and In countries where you know, there's governments and central banks and monopolies which essentially control the score And make it unfair We will not be subject to those limitations And so from a user experience standpoint very little but from a data standpoint, it'll include a lot more data It'll have billions of additional people that don't currently have a score Well, I'll be able to be scored and lenders will be able to recognize that the score is actually an indicator of credit worthiness Not an indicator of factors that the government arbitrarily decided to So there's two things over here Number one is me as a lender am I lending out tokens or crypto or is this a fiat based lending platform? It's a great question So you can lend out crypto if you want it's perfectly sufficient for that But no most of our I would say the With the exception of a couple exceptions every single lender we've talked to and signed up on the platform is lending out crypto like sorry, sorry lending off the dot like we just Partnership with self-lender which aims to bring credit to the credit lists And so we share a very similar mission and that we're trying to get people loans that don't have them They're a fiat lender. We've got a lot of other fiat lenders that are going to be using bloom as a alternative to you know scores and So essentially for the borrowers, you know, there'll be a lot of borrowers interfaced with bloom that will never even realize They interface to the blue sort of like a behind-the-scenes replacement for the credit bureaus if you will And you have a native utility token on that. That's right. So our token actually has a few use cases in the in the ecosystem The first and probably the most important is it's an anti fraud mechanism for the generation and verification of ideas You have to the lender has to input token which Makes it that a fraudster or bad actor can't just try to Guess and check a thousand IDs until once generated because if there's a little bit of cost associated with that for you Or me or a lender. It's like nominal. It's nothing to Hey, but for a fraudster that would have to do millions of attempts Really high that means that you know as more loans are issued and as more lenders in the system There's a much more demand for tokens One token is Your is the is a vote on the governance of the scoring So that way we keep the score decentralized and we also do use the token as a payment and settlement mechanism for for banks and data providers and People who are providing services for the network, but definitely the main two are the anti fraud which is tied to every ID and every loan that's generated and the governance of the score So let's run it through say I'm a lender I would hook up my bank account directly to bloom and then lend throughout my bank account onto bloom There would there will be a lending marketplace But if you're a lender you will you do the exact same process that you've done today It'll be no difference except you'll now for the first time ever have the option to either check someone's FICO score or Check someone's FICO score and their Bloom score knowing that the Bloom score includes the FICO score but also lots of other pieces of information and so Lenders, you know, we're not trying to create any new behavior here. We think Visions in crypto but with ours in particular We're trying to go right to what's already Existing in the world trying to tap into the lenders who are already doing an action and are already using a broken system and just give them an alternative with crypto and so Basically lenders won't notice the difference between Bloom score and And bloom and what they're doing today. Just that'll be a more sophisticated decentralized Distributed way for them to pull credit reports And so then me as the receiver from the lender, I'm taking Fiat directly into my bank account So you mentioned there won't be any difference whatsoever Mm-hmm. That's right. So we there will be you know certain interfaces that we're going to be building for users and I end Though though we're building on right now. I'm working on the core protocol. We've been working on that for for quite some time It's just about done. We're launching a Testnet version very soon So this isn't theoretical. I know a lot of token projects are theoretical what we've actually like my co-founders are Studied at Stanford as well and we've been in the space for a while But we will after the protocols built be building like a consumer marketplace for consumers to log in and see loans that are Accessible to them, but our main our main like number one priorities to build the protocol that lenders will use so I Wanted just for everybody listening. I want to kind of reiterate the main difference. So How do you eliminate the centralization of FICO compared to you? What is the decentralized nature of bloom compared to FICO? Yep, right now FICO and the various equivalents around the world FICO is checked on 90% of loans There are factors that That are included in FICO reports, which are proven academically For the last 20 years to not correlate to credit worthiness, you know, we're talking about things like You know The fact that your score drops if your credit gets checked or the fact that you have to use 30% of your line of credit The fact that you know closing out an old credit account that you're not using can damage your score There have been academics that have shown that these things don't matter But they do matter for the business of the the lenders, you know, they you know It's it's very nice if part of your score is to actually use your credit It's very nice if part of your score is to You know align with the political views of the government in China or be registered to vote, you know in the UK and so These are problems from centralization Rather than let the governments or central banks decide what the factors of the score are We let the people decide the lenders the borrowers and the token holders That means that no one party or institution controls the score We at bloom don't even control the score. We're more like Guiders of the open source protocol, you know, we'll have suggestions But ultimately the decision of what data to include and how to weight it is controlled by the people You mentioned token holders. What's their responsibility in the network? Token holders are essentially the checks and balance system of the ecosystem. So The majority of the token holders will be lenders for sure They're they're the ones that have to have the biggest need for the token But also data providers Banks and companies providing information to the network will have a lot of tokens Consumers individually will have a very small number of tokens, but the at scale it'll be a large amount and essentially The they are responsible to ensure that the score is pulling in Accurate information they're responsible to whitelist certain data providers and vendors to make sure that bad actors and fraudsters aren't sending bad information on to the network, but most importantly, they're just responsible to Help oversee the scoring process to make sure that it stays fair and not influenced by any central Government so practically speaking. It's very minimal oversight. We're using Aragon for Governance of this aspect of the protocol, but it's like, you know, occasionally voting on improvement requests is the main responsibility And then I'm assuming your talk and it's going to be on Sorry cut out for a second assuming it's going to be on exchanges on second tier exchanges right now we're mainly focused on Building the token as utility token. I mean, there's there's certainly, you know various things that happen in the ecosystem, but That's not really what we're focused on right now. So the token will stay inside as a utility token based on the governance model Is there any slashing conditions like let's say you find out I'm a bad actor inside the ecosystem. What happens to me? um So basically this gets into a little bit of the technical details, but we have a whitelist of data providers that when you query the network you can data of various trusted nodes and trusted data providers and Anybody can be a node or a data provider But whether or not you have a historical track record of success is whether or not you're a trusted node or trusted data provider and To start sending back at informations You'll essentially lose your status of being a trusted provider which means that you could still send information to the network People could still trust your information if they wanted to but it would be sort of like Your email going to spam, you know, the network would advise you not to listen to this information Are you guys having any plans in the future of like Connecting with oracles to kind of streamline kind of this authority like let's say for example You mentioned you have your own bloom queue type of scoring model in conjunction with FICO Are you guys using like social signaling models where depending on the user behavior on social media or how they surf the web? Like for example in M. Pace and Kenya and M. Pace how they look at the usage of cell phone minutes How often do you how often do you get credits for a cell phone where do you use your cell phone? How do you use your cell phone so the behavior of your actual cell phone usage determines your credit rating on getting more cell phone minutes? So I'm wondering if you guys are looking at any other different like social signaling like that as opposed to just looking at standard Variations of FICO, which you just mentioned a second go Yeah, don't work. Um That we're starting with things that are tried like really really tried and true like 20 years of research, but there's actually a lot of Really really fascinating metadata. You mentioned a really great example There's a lot of metadata that you can get from From social media from an actual transaction logs, you know, it's what you're actually buying from the store. There's metadata around Available these days and it's only growing you know and Everything is a data point, you know including things that you wouldn't expect to be a data point can be a data point You know what utility bill provided you have what cell phone bill provider? Do you have you know, what's what types of things you're buying, you know, how it's your activity online and on social media and so focused on ones Social media is going is likely going to be a component in the long run. We don't have that incorporated into what we've actually built so far Just because we're trying to focus on things that are more global But it's something we're definitely looking at and there's a lot of really really really fascinating things we can pull from it Very cool. So obviously you mentioned being built on a theory and you're using IPFS for decentralization What's your guys game plan and roadmap for the whole scaling issue right now with the area and based on just transactions per second The nodes. Yeah, we are built on a theory, but we actually don't Are not a very blockchain intensive application This is most of the difficult processes the things that would normally contribute to a lack of scaling or done an IPFS Certainly this can't have 7 billion credit scores on it tomorrow. We recognize that it's like that would be larger than the whole blockchain itself, but We are more It's more of a concern for us of IPFS being able to scale than it is the ethereum But like I said, you know a theory will have to get bigger to support our network at scale and you know we'll just continue to Support the ethereum foundation work with them You know if we if we ever had to help out on engineering things to contribute to that We absolutely would but it seems to be mostly getting better You know the relighting work and other developments. There's plans to get a lot of it resolved So I see like the biggest hurdle for you guys and it's hurdle for any major Say application like this or initiative like this is user acquisition The whole premise of this is a network effect You need same amount of lenders same amount of receivers people Interacting together through the interactions alone. It's a negative feedback system to get the data on improving the data so where do you see right now the The best low-hanging fruit for you to acquire users for the network. That's great great question So fundamentally, you're definitely right definitely network effect You need lenders and borrowers data providers There's a lot of different players in a lending ecosystem and then even you know behind the lenders There's people funding the lenders. There is you know behind the Identity providers and so a lot of different players a lot of things have to fall in place for bloom to work the technical actual implementation of bloom is a Very minimal aspect of the actual difficulty of building this um So the short answer is we already have a lot of the relationships needed to scale this up and they're already on board the longer answer to that is My co-founder is john and alan built the identity verification and anti fraud company that's used by like Coinbase for example in a large large number of financial institutions and us crypto exchanges and so We're quite familiar with the ecosystem in that Who to target and what we need to where we need to go in order to bootstrap the network So our current plan Is we're going after lenders first In fact, we're not even considering borrowers. We're going after lenders first who already have methods of knowledge to acquire borrowers Lenders that are that are higher risk lenders. So, you know, they take more risky loans. They're willing to try new things Lenders They're businesses, you know, they they want to grow their profit They want to acquire new users and they're willing to take risks if it means more profit And so we've already announced some on our blog. We just announced one with self lender, which is a credit building lending company They raised a a few million dollar series a they've done over 40,000 loans And they haven't had they're excited about using bloom to potentially get a lot more people But they've already done 40,000 without us and I'm sure Uh, you know integrating bloom into their system. What does make it easier for them to get more then over time? Of course, as you get more lenders, then we'll work on the marketplace then we'll work on some of the network effect components So as a business model, then I'm blooming correct me if I'm wrong. I'm sorry if I get this wrong, but The business model right now is a token appreciation or you actually guys like is there any other form of business model there? Um, there's not really a Uh business model in the traditional sense. We're not trying to build like a high revenue generating company There are some aspects that bloom would generate revenue other than token appreciation Just to fund the development of the protocol Um, you know in terms of there's there's some centralized style apps that we could build, you know, think like a coin based style interface Um, but for the most part, uh, you know, I don't want to call it a non-profit Just because that has a lot of you know legal connotations and whatnot, but we're essentially Not generating any profit as an organization and just generating the minimum minimal amount of revenue Needed to support the you know open source protocol and do you guys uh You guys have figured out your token distribution model yet? We are announcing that really soon. Um we We have a real lot of lenders that have been interested in uh in you know Acquiring tokens and so we're just finishing up our conversations with them. Uh, and we're putting lenders first Definitely, I know that might make the community annoyed But lenders have the the biggest need for our token and so we're really focused on them They're going to be holding a lot of our tokens. Um, but then outside of that we will be doing, um You know, I don't have an exact date yet. Uh, we're we're actually going to we're going to launch the protocol first We're going to get some traction first before we actually announce it But we are going to be doing like a some level of a token distribution at some point And i'm assuming that's like in next year or is it this year? Sooner than later for sure, uh, I I would Much more likely a q4 date than a q1 date But uh, it's just it's just going to depend on uh, when we actually can finish the first version That's publicly usable and has utility to the general public Hmm I know that I know though you mentioned It's going to be fiat based but I have a suspicion that there's going to be a lot of lenders as well for crypto just based on the nature of this Yeah, definitely. I think we've been in touch with I think just about every crypto lender that's ever existed or had aspirations to exist Um, many of them are already building applications on top of bloom. Uh, so we've given them access to you know What we've built so far, which is mostly done and that you know, a lot of them are already Integrating their applications on top of it. Uh, and we haven't even launched the public, uh, you know testing that version yet and so I think they'll There's going to be a lot of business applications to be built on top of bloom um, even if And so I think when it's open source, there's going to be a lot of you know, uh, entrepreneurship I'll give you one example You know, we're we're working with district 0x to build a peer-to-peer lending district That's controlled by no one owned by no one and facilitated by no one peers kid on their own Uh, put up a need for a loan and then the data comes from bloom the information comes from bloom and whether or not Mind to give this loan or not But it connects, you know peers and borrowers directly to each other There's a peer-to-peer marketplace for loans very simple very straightforward nothing crazy complex about it more of a bulletin board style of listings and loans um And it's a set it's a relatively simple application that actually has massive implications around the world Because where the places where there's no financial infrastructure to lenders, uh, you can default to peer-to-peer kind of like You know local bitcoins if you will did for bitcoin trading And so there's a lot of very simple applications that could be built by a developer or two on top of our api That I suspect will be built Cool, I like it. I think we'll wrap it up of that. Uh, jesse if people want to get more information about bloom best resource for them is um, definitely just to read more our blog, but we have We've added over 3 000 people to slack in the last three weeks That may be closer to four weeks now and I'm on there every single day our co-founders are on there every single day Sign up for a newsletter. Join slack. Those are the best two Resources and then of course our blog is the the go-to source for updates lots of information on there Thank you jesse. All right, brother. Thank you


Welcome everyone. These are the two words that you'll remember after this talk, exploration and exploitation. They are the main concepts behind the algorithms that we are going to cover today that are called multi-armed bandit or just bandit algorithms. Weird name you can Google for the historical reasons. They are part of a bigger family of the reinforcement learning that is more popular than the others in the last years thanks to projects like Deep Mind of Google or chapter itself that is using reinforcement learning to improve the quality of the answers. So they are in many scenarios today most of the applications that we are using mobile web they are constantly learning from you, from your habits, your preferences and they are adapting somehow. For example, Netflix. Netflix is constantly changing the home page, the images associated to the movies to select the images that are most attractive for you. They want you click, they want you watch the movies. So my home page is probably different from yours, yours, yours. And everything is publicly documented. On the slides you'll find the study. They are explaining how they are using these algorithms to adapt the home page. This is public but I assume that also the others major streaming platforms are doing the same. So everywhere you have a home page with the thumbnails probably they are using this approach. Another example is The New Times that is constantly changing the titles of the articles to select the most clicked one. You know how clicks are important. So they are changing and finding the best titles to make you click. Click means money. And again, they are disclosing everything. They are disclosing the technical details and they assume that most of the new news websites at least the major ones are doing the same. Advertisements. In general that's the main industry, one of the main field of application of these algorithms. So reinforced learning and bandit algorithms. The goal is to show the right image, right video, right text to make you click. And there are plenty of researches, plenty of articles. So these examples are on the front end, on the UI, but the same approach can be used also on the back end. So for example here there is a use case for the network routing, but also in technical fields like technical trials and financial portfolio optimization. Same approach. So how it works? Let's take the advertisement scenario. Suppose that you have three banners, blue, red and green. You have to show one of them your website or your mobile application. You know that one of these is more clicked and you want clicks because one click, let's say, brings you one dollar. But you don't know in advance which is the best banner to show. So how you do? You are against the exploration phase, the first word. So you have to learn something. So you are going to use the basic reinforcement learning approach. You have to learn something of the environment, of the world, so which banner is the most attractive.  Very simple approach if you think we do it every day because it's one of our learning process. It's modelled on biology. These are my kids, my children, different ages, four months and four years, but they are both using reinforcement learning to learn the new skills. So they are trying random moves, random actions to explore and learn and the next day they will discard the actions, the moves that didn't work and they will keep what they liked. We learned to survive in this world thanks not only but also thanks to reinforcement learning that is embedded in our brain, animals brains and so on. So let's say that we explore the environment and we randomly show the banners to the users. So after a while we have some performance score and we see that the blue banner is the most clicked. So every 100 users we get 10 clicks, 10 dollars. At this point we can start the exploitation phase. So we explored, we get some knowledge and we can exploit the knowledge. The optimal strategy to maximize the profit if nothing changes in the environment is to always show the blue banner, right? Is there anyone that thinks that showing the blue banner is not the optimal strategy? If nothing changes, the few people you are losing money because it is, not fixed. But assume that there is something that changes in the environment. There is news, there is a viral video, you know how it goes on the social media. Something suddenly happens and people are interested in something else. So the environment changes and now the red and the green are better. So at this point, same question, who thinks that showing the blue banner is not the optimal strategy? Good, good, good, yeah. Got the point is not now because the environment changes. But there is a problem. I told you that the environment changed. The algorithm is still in the exploitation phase. So it's always showing the blue banner because it was the best action, right? So how do you solve this problem? You solve as you can guess mixing exploration, exploitation. This is the exploration, exploitation dilemma. So you allocate a portion of the traffic to explore and test and continuously test the non-optimal choices because you hope to find something better. It's a risk opportunity problem. So you invest something to find a better opportunity. So how much to invest is the challenge in these algorithms? These algorithms are public from decades, but the parameters are the secret. Any company is tuning. In many machine learning algorithms, the parameters are the secret. So usually you start exploring a lot because you don't know nothing like a baby. And then you decrease. So as long as you learn, you decrease and you exploit your knowledge, but you keep some exploration rate in background. This is what you find on books and papers. In real world, it is this way. So whenever the environment changes, you increase the exploration rate. When I design these systems, I always define or try to define a metric, an indicator that tells me if the environment is changing or not. At that time, it's time to increase the exploration until I know the new state. If you cannot define, you simply sample over time, you increase the exploration base. The challenge is that there are not only three banners usually. So there is this metrics and the metrics that was in the description of the session. So imagine thousands or millions of possible banners or in general actions multiplied by thousands or millions of user profiles. All of us are in a profile. Even if we don't register to our website from our IP, we are at least labeled by country, but they also can guess the age based on patterns, cookies, and so on. So the goal of the algorithm is to choose the best actions for every profile. The Netflix homepage is different from profile one, two, three, and so on. And there are different strategies. You cannot just sample everything randomly. Because you don't have enough traffic, you don't have enough time, resources, sometimes doing an action, depending on the scenario, for example, in the clinical trials, doing an action is dangerous and expensive. So it's not like showing the banner. So there are different strategies. And these are the most popular strategies, algorithms. If you're interested, you can click on the slides. There are some links. If you're interested to see some code, you can also take a look at, on my GitHub repo, there is this project that contains the implementation on those popular algorithms. And there is also simulator that compares for the advertisement scenario. That's because I worked in these industries for four years, compares the performance of the different algorithms. And if you want to, again, continue and learn more, I can also recommend this book. This book, this one. It's 10 years old, still valid, pretty simple. Again, it contains in Python some explanation also on the other strategies that are available. And so we are at the end. This is a complex topic to cover in 15 minutes. But what are the main takeaways? You have seen that we are surrounded by this algorithm. So reinforcement learning somehow is everywhere, is embedded in us. We are using it unconsciously every day. But also technically in the applications, in the web, it's driving somehow the application. If you're interested to use it, you have seen that you can use it both on the front end, that is the main field, but also on the back end. But also if you never implement these algorithms, it's still useful to know the concepts of the exploration exploitation because if you pay attention, you'll start noticing while you're using the applications. When you are in the exploration exploitation, while you're scrolling, you'll see some new content, sometimes labeled like adjusted for you, new for you, that is unrelated. If you click or you stay for three seconds, it will be considered a positive feedback and you'll start getting there. So most of the information that we received today is influenced by bandit and reinforcement learning. So it's good to know. Is it bad? Is it good? Up to you to decide. The important is to be aware. And I hope now you are. Thank you. Two questions. If you're faster, more. Yes, so the depression is the difference between A.B. testing and this approach. One difference is that usually A.B. testing has only two options. So here we have multiple options, sometimes no limit, limitless options. And yes, not sure. Probably also A.B. testing can be adopted in some way, but this approach, as you noticed, can be used continuously. So in theory, the mathematical formulas that are behind allows to retrain the feedback for every click that you receive you could train. And yes, I have always used these algorithms in a continuous way. Let's say, learn as you go mode. So you start with nothing. And this is also good. There are no assumptions. You can start with assumptions. But they are pretty good in discovering things with zero knowledge, like the babies. Out of time, thank you. I hope you enjoyed it.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny, welcome back to FNAF News. In today's video we have the official release date for Help 1 and 2 on flat mode. We got some major reveals for Funko's upcoming FNAF merchandise, but it's got some mixed opinions. Some brand new updates and behind the scenes for The Joy of Creation, that and so much more we're going to be talking about today. So if you're excited for all the FNAF news and you want to stay up to date with everything going on in the future, scroll down, tickle that subscribe button. And first up, it's been a while since we last caught up with Hot Topic. They've been busy pumping out apparel, soda cans and actually a high number of FNAF characters being turned into backpacks. So quickly flying through these, first up we've got a Nightmare Freddy hoodie. I actually think the front of it is pretty cool with that terrifying looking render, though the text on the front and especially on the back just ruins this hoodie for me. We got some shorts featuring brand new chibi iterations of the FNAF 1 crew. And quite frankly, those designs are absolutely adorable. I pray they're used for something else in the future, other than shorts. We got brand new backpacks of Chica and Glamrock Chica. I definitely know I've talked about these, but it seems like Hot Topic wasn't done because they just released a brand new Glamrock Freddy backpack as well. And this one actually looks pretty cute. It's in the form of a backpack instead of trying to be a backpack in the shape of an animatronic. And lastly for Hot Topic news, you may remember a few months back they released this exotic beverage soda water bottle. Well they have also just released a brand new water bottle this time featuring Sodoroni.  They're just empty water bottles, you can put water or I guess if you want to make Sodoroni you can put that in here. Moving on now to Numschool Designs. Recently they got the license to make FNAF merchandise and a lot of people were speculating this is most likely for their popular Tubbs Duck line of merchandise. Basically you've got rubber ducks dressed up or cosplaying as various pop culture characters and actually the co-founder of Numschool Designs did confirm the original FNAF 1 characters will be getting those Tubbs Ducks. He specifically called out 4 so Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy seems like is going to be their first characters. They did mention they want to do a lot more with the FNAF IPN license so hopefully we can see a lot more products coming from Numschool in the future. And those FNAF ducks should be releasing in only a couple months so get excited. Moving on now to U2's we've got a quick update on their 3rd and final Popgos Pinsat featuring all the classic characters Popgos, Blake, Sarah, Saffron, Stone, Minora all having a fun lovely day at the beach but there is a problem. You may notice that the box the pins come in is colored blue and if you've picked up U2's FNAF pins in the past you'll know we've actually gotten quite a few blue boxes so to spice things up a bit Cain and the U2's team are going to be changing the box color from blue to yellow. Yellow's also a bit more of a beachy color and it's definitely going to help it stand out from those other FNAF pin boxes. Lastly for U2's that's right we've only had two U2's news this video feels like we usually have like 15 they tease their upcoming yellow rabbit plushie from Blumhouse's Five Nights at Freddy's movie. Ignoring this camera angle for the plushie here's the teaser. U2's has said that their first FNAF movie wave is going to be releasing around June-ish and that's going to feature four plushies it seems like the yellow rabbit plushie is confirmed to be in that wave but something a lot of people picked up on is that the yellow rabbit plushie actually has a black bow tie while the yellow rabbit in the FNAF movie of course has a purple one and actually this is something U2's originally messed up on the yellow rabbit figure first teasing it as black before then realizing their mistake and switching it to purple so hopefully they changed that minor detail before his release but I'd love to know what are your thoughts on their first look the yellow rabbit plushie again ignore the camera angle I why is U2's like this man. Moving on now to Trends International they've been busy pumping out some brand new FNAF posters last time we caught up with Trends was their brand new help wanted two posters actually the other day I was able to find two of the brand new help wanted two posters so somewhere around this room I gotta find room for them but they are not done because these are some brand new posters also coming from Trends these pieces were done by Turntail and for the longest time fans have been asking please Trends give us some Turntail posters and thank god they listen because these posters are just going to go so hard man separate from Turntail's designs they're also releasing a brand new Freddy Fazbear's mega pizza plex neon sign poster though a whole bunch of brand new posters from Trends I'd love to know are you gonna be picking up any moving on now let's talk about Hex because we've got some major updates in regards to their next FNAF plushies if you recall the next plushies will be getting from Hex will be continuing the withered wave featuring withered golden Freddy as well as withered Chica and also sneaking his way into this wave is Springtrap Hex also showing off some brand new artwork of the plushies and also confirming that these three plushies will be releasing at late April this month or in early May so very very soon I'd love to know are you gonna be picking up some of these plushies what other Hex plushies would you like to see in the future don't forget we got Sister Location coming up but now let's move on to Funko because we've got some interesting updates in regards to their future FNAF merchandise and when I say interesting I mean Bayer 5 interesting joking aside this is the brand new Moonlight Freddy Funko pop figure exclusive to Amazon there's been a lot of mixed opinions on this guy some people dreading another recolor of a FNAF character what are we doing Funko you got the other side of the fandom which I'm kind of leaning towards actually thinking his color scheme looks pretty cool we also got revealed this 16 inch circus baby plushie she's gonna be exclusive to GameStop stores a lot of people weighing in their opinion whether or not this is better or worse than the original baby plushie I honestly think if it had the faceplate lines as well as pulling that hairline down a bit this could have been a amazing circus baby plushie but I'd love to know your thoughts do you prefer this new baby design do you like the old one more and finally we got an update on the 10th anniversary line from Funko previously we got revealed to us that a withered golden Freddy pop figure is in the works as well as two brand new statues and also a brand new release of mystery minis though it's unclear what the theme will be for those guys but scarlet joker took to twitter the other day to say that a brand new puppet pop figure is in the works apparently this one will feature a brand new mold so it'll look pretty different from the original puppet pop with this brand new figure also having a floating pose so this Funko news does sound promising I'd love to know what are your thoughts on all the reveals but moving on now let's talk about the joy of creation because an office demo for the upcoming fanverse title is just around the corner with all the animation work for it actually being completed fairly recently with click team also tweeting out that their qa department is excited to play test but while we wait for that we got some brand new behind the scenes for tjok with crash l dev shout out I know he watches these news videos showing some behind the scenes the thought process behind the logo for the joy of creation you can see just how many iterations the logo went through though interestingly they share a similar format though a massive shout out to crash for showing the behind the scenes for the logo you did a fantastic job a man but that's not all because we also had Gabriel the lead character artist for tjok show some behind the scenes showing some comparisons between the old and new look for ignited foxy throwing off some up close photo some mug shots as well as a full view of a skeleton I still absolutely adore the mechanical slash and atomical designs they went with for the ignited this time around and just like fnaf for it seems like foxy at one point was planned to have a tongue but as always fantastic work from Gabriel thank you so much for showing these amazing behind the scenes looks and now we come to the final topic for today fnaf help wanted to because we just got revealed to us some screenshots for the flat mode which will be released on june 20th 2024 which is actually the final day of spring very sneaky steel wall and actually the game looks pretty fantastic from these flat mode screenshots with a playstation blog post going in detail about the flat mode this adaptation of help wanted to seamlessly transitions the terrifying gameplay enhanced in the psv r2 on to the flat screen utilized by the power of the playstation 5 no matter how you prefer to play be it from your couch or wandering around your living room with a headset that as their entertainment is happy to welcome you to the pizza plex all of the games and help wanted to have been carefully adapted to accommodate the playstation 5 allowing a wider range of new hires to come join the fun if you're already an employee via the psv r2 the standard playstation 5 version is included at no extra cost our team has taken great care to ensure that every step you take is filled with chills and thrills only freddies can provide we look forward to receiving your applications fnaf help wanted to hits playstation 5 june 20th you've probably noticed by now it doesn't say anything about the pc flat mode for help wanted to which would make sense it's a playstation blog post i don't think they want you knowing about other platforms that you could play on but i'd assume it'll release around the same time if not probably the same date especially because we know for a fact that a few days later on june 30th is when it releases on physical around that time is also when we should expect a brand new patch for help wanted to as revealed by a previous steelwall blog post and because i'm sure i'm gonna get a lot of people asking unfortunately there is no update on the oculus version of help wanted to last we heard the port was starting its certification process with steelwall saying a release date should be super close that blog post was posted on the 4th of march which was well over a month ago at this point and i know there's a lot of oculus fans patiently waiting so hopefully there's an update on oculus coming pretty soon i'll be sure to let you guys know asap when that releases but that is going to do it for all the finnaf news thank you all so much for watching this video thank you all so much for watching and i'll see you all on the flip side goodbye


He's in League 2 on Valley Parade today as double European Cup winner, two-time Premier League winner, four-time FA Cup winner, and three-time League Cup winner Mark Hughes takes his first game in charge of Bradford City. 58-year-old former Wales, Manchester United, Barcelona and Chelsea striker who've never managed in his six previous jobs outside the Premier League.  Standing in their way today though is Mansfield, a club managed by a man that Hughes knows well in Nigel Clough and a manager who has got Mansfield performing brilliantly at the moment. On 3-2 away from home, back in August, we've seen a long, long time ago for those Bantam fans who have subsequently seen their side drift down the League 2 table. Will there be something better in store though under the stewardship of Hughes? They're defending to do straight away here's Longstaff. Songo makes a complete mess at that! Well, goodness mate, they're going to have to defend better there. Longstaff's ball in is dangerous but it should be dealt with. Too much dilly-dallying, there's almost one there. And he bursts from midfield as it just did there. He's a handful for any team. We've got plenty of attacking options of Mansfield, Oates, Quinn, Sturk, Murphy as well and Longstaff don't need asking to get forward, do they from Mansfield? Now, here come the hosts, opportunity possibly to get a shot in on goal, which they do. Robinson with it, nicely played, brilliant, through the middle and it falls to Robinson. Here's the trigger, straight-o-fishing, managed since December 2018 by Hughes. Three-and-a-bit years, never outside the top four ranks. They just have Glyn Hodges alongside him who knows the EFL pretty well, 20 games in all competitions in Mansfield. So in terms of things to do, that would have plenty of trouble. In front of them as they wing this ball in, it's a decent free kick. Two men from the back, Songo and O'Connor were up for it. Decent free kick, isn't it? I think it was O'Connor that couldn't quite get the touch. The games for the Bradford, two white shirts forward, opportunity to shoot if it will just come down, which it doesn't, fortunately for Daly. Just bottled on the surface, received it in space. The first touch was okay, but Longstaff just wouldn't sit down. O'Connor is rising from defeats in all 16 Premier League games this season. Four wins and eight defeats for Bradford City. It's a big catch from Aria, they can get the valley parade full. And a big city in West Yorkshire. All of his gillian, good play from he on to Cork. Cork turns his man, good feet from Cork. And it's a smart bit of goalkeeping as well from Bishop. And if there's one man that should be able to learn a thing or two from Hughes, it's Cork. There's Shimmy one way and the other, first half for people of Ukraine. Here's out, opportunity for Mansfield. First real good opportunity and would you believe it? They've taken the lead, they've spent many minutes in this first half, camped inside their own half. It's a long ball forward. The flick on was from O'Connor in fact, the defender. Oats on to it first and he fires it beyond the goalkeeper for 1-0. Gold of the season, the difference between the two teams in that first half. Mansfield's last league win against Darby, against Bradford rather. Three-nil at home, two years ago. Right at the end of the first half, scores them onto greater things in this second. Here they come again. O'Connor, looking ball in. There's Murphy shot, it might fall to Longstaff. It does! Would you believe it? Mansfield have doubled their lead. All right at the end of the first half and a goal right at the beginning of the second. It was pinball in the box, it's a scrappy one but they won't care. Matty Longstaff certainly won't. His first Mansfield goal, it really is a job to do for Bradford City. Two-nil down, three minutes into the second half, part of the script. Here's Quinn, win my go for goal, you know, he does. The man in the middle but he chose to try and beat Bassett, his near post. Matty experienced Quinn thinking about shooting my go for goal, which he does. I tell you what, that was almost a third. Well, since they've scored their second, Mansfield have really come into this game. They could have had two more, this could have been four-nil by now. The game's the season, four in front of their own fans. Here's Sutton, opportunity to cross maybe for Hendry. He does get his ball in but it won't get the better of the man on the front post, Hewitt. That's Quinn. He's a decent one! Well, Cook got their first and straight at Bishop in the Mansfield goal. The officials direct towards Cook. The knee, the substitute, spreads it to the far side. He comes towards the back post again. Cook is there on another day, he might have got a hat trick.  He gets up well, doesn't he? Just can't keep his head down. Oh, it's the season, the leading scorer, 10 to his name. Might have had a couple this afternoon but I think Mark Hughes will be pleased that he's certainly got something to work with, with his number nine. As Matty goes long for Mansfield. Got a wrestling off the ball there. I'm pretty happy to allow that one to play our humidity to cross. Again there's the head, oh, so wonderful save! Really, really good goalkeeping from Bishop. Well, he's determined to keep a clean sheet today, isn't he? Cook again. Oh, that's the best of the lot. That was going in the top corner. Oh, it's going to be a consolation. They've got to get it forward quickly but there is no more time. Handshakes between two legends of English football. Former Welsh striker Mark Hughes and of course Nigel Clough as well. Two men that know English football very, very well but ultimately it's no winning start for Mark Hughes. It's ended Bradford Neal, Mansfield two.