Welcome back after the break. So before we went for a break, we looked at positioning ourselves in the right place that we can be protected by God. Okay, and we saw that we need to be in a secret place so that we can receive God's protection. The next one is we need to position ourselves to be promoted, okay? So we need to grow up in the things of God but as to grow up in the things of God, we need to grow in the things of life, we need to position ourselves right. So to grow in the things of God, to grow in the things of life, we need to position ourselves rightly, okay? So if you want to grow in the things of God, if you want to grow up in the things of life, how to live your life, you need to position yourself. A good example we can see here is of King David, okay, in Samuel chapter two versus one to four. Is it first Samuel or second Samuel? First Samuel, okay. First Samuel, chapter two versus one to four. Second Samuel, first there in your notes. Second Samuel, chapter two versus one to four. Thank you, okay. So before this incident here, what we read in second Samuel, chapter two versus one to four, we see that, you know, King David is running away for, you know, to save his life. He's running away from who? King Saul, yeah. He's running away from King Saul to save his life and he's like a, you know, he's running from place to place and he's living basically in the caves, in the wilderness, okay, and then when King Saul dies, you know, David inquires of God and says, shall I go up and take any of the cities of Judah, okay?  So what does David do? You know, we don't see him jumping and say, okay, God has already anointed me as King, I will just go and become King, okay?  It is intimacy with God, constantly asking God every stage of your life, okay? He inquires of God, shall I go up and take any of the cities of Judah? And God tells him, what does he tell him? Go up, please look at your notes, second Samuel chapter two, verses one to four, okay? What does God say? Go ahead, go up and David tells him, where shall I go, okay? And he says to Hebron.  And then he goes to Hebron and they make him King over Judah and then much later, they make him King over Israel, okay? But what if David would have said, God, you know, I don't want to go and become King. I want to just stay here in the caves. It's nice living in the wilderness, like a jungle book, you know, the jungle book story, you know, like jungle books just staying in the wilderness in the forest, jumping from tree to tree, enjoying the, this I know, and I have 400 men who are there, strong men who are there to guard me and protect me. I'm happy here, God, I don't want to go back to the city, I don't want to become, you know, I don't want to go back, I mean, I'm happy here. Then what would have happened if David would have said that? What would have happened? Yes, Rin, he would never have become a King, yes. What else? Very good, he would have lost out on God's plan and purpose for his life, okay? Perhaps he would never have been King as well, okay? And he would have just continued living in that caves so here we need to learn an important lesson that if we want promotion, that means if you want to move into the next step or the next move that God has for our life, the next season he has for our life, we need to position ourselves in the right place, the right time so that his plan can be, you know, fulfilling unto our life. So it was for a season that David had to live in the caves, so not for this entire life that he was to live in the caves, but there was a season when he had to move from the caves back to the city and live in a palace and be the King of Israel and Judah and fulfill his responsibilities. The next one is to position ourselves to be in the current move of God, okay? Now we know that God has not stopped working. Does God work even today?    That all must be saved and come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ. So is he still working? Yes, he's unfolding his plan here on earth. It's not over 2,000 years back when Jesus came and died on the cross, which means that God is executing, is unfolding his plan here on earth, but some of us we get stuck in the previous plan or the work of God and we miss out on what he is doing currently or what is his current move on the earth now, because we're just living in the past. It can be sometimes even the past glory. No, I received salvation, I'm born again, I'm water baptized and Holy Spirit baptized. We're just living there in the past. We don't want to move ahead in the current move of God. So why do we miss out on the current move of God?  And we need to know, yes, God worked that way at that point in our life, but it's time to move on because God moves on. And we need to move on and we need to know what God is doing right now and that is where we should be. A good example was the God's general, what we had looked at, William Brayham. It was a move of God in that season four, and God used him mightily in that season for healing. But when the season for healing, miracles and deliverance, healing came to an end, when that rain of the outpouring or the rain of that season ended, then he needed to ask God, like David asked God, what do I do next? But he didn't ask God, he quickly jumped and did what he wanted and he was such a disaster and he brought about such a lot of wrong teachings and doctrines. So we need to understand what is God doing right now and we need to be there, position ourselves and flow in what God is doing right now in our lives or even in the church that we are in or the city or the move of God in our city or in the nations, we need to recognize it. We definitely, we need all that God has done in the past, but we need to move on because all that he's done in the past, that's past, that is history, okay? That's our foundation, but we need to know what God is doing right now and we need to be there the right time, the right place in the right move of God so that we can experience this move and fulfill God's plan and purpose in that specific move of God, okay? For example, let me give you an example from Numbers chapter 21 verses five to nine, is there in your notes? The brazen serpent, all of you know about that serpent, you know, the Israelites, they sinned against God and God sent snakes, venomous snakes and it bit everybody and you know, all the people were dying and Moses cried out to God and God tells him, make a strong snake, put it on top of a pole, okay? So everybody who sees that were bitten and who sees it, there will be healed and there will be saved, okay? But that was a move of God for that particular instance, but what happened? If you look at second thing, chapter 18 verse four, you know, the same bronze serpent that Moses had made, it became a, you know, a high place, it became a place where they went and started worshiping it instead of worshiping God.  So several years later, we see what happens to something that God used as an instrument for his move or to bring about his move in that season, it became an idol that people started worshiping, okay? And they got so locked in with what God had done in the past, you know, they did not move on, they did not look at God, they started looking at the serpent as the one who has saved them, but they failed to look at God as they deliver as a healer, sorry, as a deliverer, as a healer and, you know, worship him. So they got so locked up with the way God was doing things in a certain way, but God had ceased that, means he stopped doing it, you know, and he's moved on and the people got just locked on to the past move of God. And that became a high idol, that became an hindrance for them and they started worshiping God, they started worshiping that bronze serpent, okay? Now let's look at Moses and as an example about Moses, you know, Moses, you know, the people set out on their journey in the wilderness and there was no water for the people to drink.  Rock, strike the rock and there will be water that comes out. So we read about this in Exodus chapter 17 verse one to six where Moses then takes the rod and he goes and he strikes the rock and water comes out and all the people and the animals have, you know, they're filled. But in numbers 20, we see a similar incident, okay? Numbers chapter 20 verses six to 12 is there in your notes. We see that, you know, again, there was no water and this time the people again grumbled and Moses tells God and what does God tell Moses? Speak to the rock. He doesn't say strike the rock, but he says, speak to the rock. And Moses is so angry with the people. What does he go and do? Instead of speaking, he strikes the rock in anger twice and what is the result of that? Did the water come out? Yes, God was faithful in bringing out the water for his people, but what happened to Moses?  You will not enter the promised land. Imagine, we can say, I mean, just for one small thing, he's just struck it and he didn't speak for that. He was not able to enter the promised land. It's, you know, when we're saying that when, you know, greater the level of position, greater the responsibility, greater the anointing, but we can also say greater the position, greater the anointing, greater the accountability. See, you're greater the accountability and God will not, you know, deal with it very, very lightly because you've tasted God's goodness, his seen as power is anointing. And then, you know, you still go ahead and sin, then there is no forgiveness. And did Moses try to tell God, if he can enter the promised land, he does, you know, he stands on the mountain and he tells, what does God tell him? He says, don't let, let's not discuss about this. I mean, I'm not just saying it's not exactly the same words, but let's not talk about this, you know, God, that's what God says. And he's not allowed to enter the promised land.  And why did Moses make this mistake? Because he was still in the past move of God. The last move was strike the rock. This time it was God moved on, okay? He said, speak to the rock and he did not do what God wanted to do and he failed, okay? Yes, God had done things differently in the past, but he's told him what to do this time and he failed. And we see, because he failed, you know, did God not provide the water? He provided the water for him, but he lost out on being part of God's plan and purpose for his life. So see the consequences that it has, okay? So we need to be in step with what God wants to do in our life. Each step, we need to know whether we're in the right time, the right place, doing the right things. Another example is John's disciples. John's disciples, we read about this in John chapter one versus 36 and 37, okay? John chapter one versus 36 and 37 says that, you know, and looking at Jesus as he walked, he said, behold the Lamb of God. John the Baptist says, behold the Lamb of God. And two of the disciples heard him speak and what did they do? They followed Jesus, see? Because John, they knew John the Baptist was only showing them the way. He was telling them that the true Messiah is going to come. Okay? When he sees the Messiah, he says, you know, behold the Lamb of God. The revelation was given to him and he speaks it. And what do these disciples do? They're very smart, see? They are now changing their move for moving behind Jesus. They're not saying, hey, we are John's disciples. We'll continue being Baptists, you know? John the Baptist disciples, will we continue being Baptists? No. They say, now we need to take that move. We need to change and they start following Jesus as his disciples. What if they continue to say, okay, we don't want Jesus, we don't know if he's a Messiah? You know, John the Baptist was our Guru, you know, our leader, we'll just follow him. What would have happened? They would have missed out on the move of God.  They would have missed out on, you know, what God would want to entrust them or they would have missed out on them experiencing, you know, firsthand their relationship with Jesus the Messiah, okay? So we need to position ourselves, right? Okay, to fulfill God's plan and purpose for our lives, to receive God's provision for our life, to receive God's protection and to receive a promotion from God and also to be in the current move of God, okay? Any questions so far? Are you able to understand about what is positioning yourself? Yes, hope you're able to understand. Okay, what are the things to keep in mind as you position yourself? Be willing to let go, okay? Don't hold on to things very, very tightly. Don't get caught up to things very tightly. There are few things that you need to hold on to tightly, there are the rest of the things you have to hold on to them very lightly, okay? Did you get that? There are few things in life that you have to hold on to very tightly and many things in life that you have to hold on to or let go. The few things in life you have to hold on very lightly, okay? So any moment it's very light, it can just fall, you just let it go. So one of the things that you hold on to tightly is your relationship with God and what else? What do you hold on to tightly in life? Okay, that's your relationship with God, word of God. Second thing is, okay, that all comes when you hold on to God.  So these two things you hold on to tightly. The first thing is your relationship with God. The second thing is your relationship with your family, your wife, your children. You know, sometimes we're holding on to some things of the past. You know, we're not willing to let go and that's why we're not able to receive God's plan and purpose for our lives. We're not able to receive what God is releasing in and through our lives, the move of God he wants to release and through our lives. But if you want to receive, you have to let go. Okay, you have to just give up some things. You know, sometimes we can hold on to our present. We can say, God, you know, I'm comfortable here in this place, in this job, in my hometown. You know, why do you want to move me? Sometimes we are so caught up in our past. You know, looking at the past days or we're so caught up in some certain relationships that, you know, we are emotional, we have emotional ties and you're holding on to these things so tightly, you're not willing to let go. You just can't let go, okay? Some of them are not a positive influence on you.  But if you want to position yourself the right time, the right place, you need to let go. An example is Lot's wife.  Run and don't look back. But she was so caught up with the town and the people in the town that she turned back to see the destruction and she became a pillar of salt, okay? The second thing we can do or to keep in mind as you position yourself is to be willing to step out and to be unknown, okay? Sometimes when God, you know, is asking us to do certain things, it is like stepping out into the unknown. For most of you coming here to Bible college in Bangalore City was stepping out in the unknown.  God is not gonna necessarily tell us everything, okay? Like Abraham, a great example, okay?  What if Abraham had said, God, why should I go to an unknown place? You know, you know, why are you moving me out to an unknown place? I mean, you are more comfortable here. Can't you make me a father of many nations here itself? I'm also here with all my relatives. You know, and my father is here, mother is there, uncles, aunts, cousins, everybody is here. You know, can't you fulfill your purpose in and through me here where I am? Why do you want me to move me, okay? But we see that Abraham obeyed God, he went, okay? And when he positioned himself in the right place at the right time, he could experience God's promotion, he could experience God's protection and experience God's providence as well, okay? Be careful how you enter and leave, okay?   So you're saying, you know, oh, I got a better job. I'll just wait for the last day to come. The last day, you know, all of these people really troubled me.  I'll just teach them all a lesson, okay? That's not how we, God wants us to leave because how we leave determines how we enter into the next season of our life because we're leaving here with hatred, bitterness, with, you know, anger. And when we are entering into the next season, the next place that God has for us, we will enter with the same attitude. We'll enter with the same mindset, okay? Let me be careful of this, this is his person, this is what happened in the past, this is what they did, I need to do like this, I need to do like that, you know? So, you know, you're entering with the same mindset. So if you leave, exit the previous place, you know, just being nice, being loving, being forgiving, being compassionate, gracious, knowing that maybe you've been wrong but God is a faithful judge, he will judge. When you enter into the next place, we'll receive God's favor, you will enter with the right attitude and you know, things will work perfectly fine for you, okay? So be careful how you enter and leave because the way you enter determines how you will, sorry, the way you exit will end or leave will determine how you enter into the next season of your life. Be open to change, okay? We all know that change is very difficult, all of you are in the process of change now from home to hostel life and like study, some of you have not studied for a long time and you've not gone through this rigorous study system, especially those of you from North India, you know? But you know, change is difficult but you know, adapt the change and learn so that it will just help you because God has brought you here and say, God, I'm just going through all of this so that, you know, I'm positioning myself right so that I can, you can build me up to do something significant and great for your kingdom so that I can be of significance for the kingdom of God, okay? So be able to accommodate change when you are repositioning yourself because you know, whenever there's a change, things are going to be different.  Now, what next, God? Okay, ask God now itself. God, what next? Where do you want me to go? Show me what you want me to do and start preparing me from right now, okay?  During summer holidays, we have about two or three months summer holidays and they stay on campus. They don't go back home because it's a long journey and summer and all that. And so, you know, they, and I asked them, how do you spend your summer holidays? It was boring. They said, no, it was actually more hectic and busy than when we had Bible college, when it was running. I said, what did you do? They said, you know, we prepared sermons. And I was like, really sure. They said, prepared sermons? They said, you know, when we go back to our home places, we won't have all of these books, these dictionaries.  And so we are preparing the messages now so that we can go and, you know, we'll have all of this so that we can, I was like, wow, you know, how wonderful just to think, but just then what meets the eye, they were able to see beyond and prepare themselves for what God is calling them to do. Okay? So we need to prepare ourselves for the next move of God. God would at all times use the actions of others to also position us. You know, sometimes we can get lazy.  Okay? But when he uses people to correct us, we shouldn't be upset with them. They are just put there by God so that we can position ourselves right and get on with God's plan for our life. So God is using them to get you on to fulfill your plan and purpose for your life. Okay? For example, we know Joseph's story, right? Potiphar, his brothers treated him as slaves and it's a Potiphar and he was thrown into the prison, but we see his attitude, okay? He never stumbled, murmured. He just did what was required and God promoted him and gave him a position of greater promotion and honor because God saw his attitude and his faithfulness, okay? Be strategic, don't wander aimlessly. When you look at your life, look at everything is connected to God's plan and purpose for your life, okay? Right from where you are studying, okay? What you're studying, what you're going through, what God is preparing you, look at all of it as something that God is using. You positioning you strategically to build you, to work in you so that you can do something of greater significance, which he has to build the kingdom of God, okay? And the last thing that will answer Jason's question, God is greater than your mistakes. He can reposition you to do his will, okay? We know that Moses made mistake. We know that David also did a mistake, but when we make mistakes, you know, God is greater than our mistakes. He can reposition us, but we need to be willing to change. We need to identify our mistakes. We need to ask God to forgive us. And when we go back in repentance, God will put us back on the track. And if you are open to God and say, God, I want to position myself in the right place, the right time doing what you want me to do, then God will help us. And it's extremely important for us, you know, to follow through with God and to be in the right place at the right time. Like for example, Moses and Jonah, remember Jonah, you know? It's like Jonah was like, like that potato put back into the pressure cooker, right? And then finally, he goes to in a way, okay? So we need to repent first since then we come back, God is willing to reposition us and put us on track and fulfill his plan and purpose for our lives. Any questions? Any questions from our online students? Okay. Any of you have any questions? No. Yes, Sean. Yeah, true. So Sean is just adding on to the last point. He was saying that, you know, David is a good example because David committed many faults, but every time he did, he goes back to God. And when he goes back to God and asks for forgiveness, he just basically learns more of God's way of doing things. And his intimacy with God grows more closer. His trust and dependence with God grows more closer. Yes, thank you. Any other questions? Yes. Yes. Yeah, it's a good question. So what does a student here is saying is that, you know, when we do a mistake, you know, and yes, it delays God's purpose for our life, but like he's pointing out and what I said, he says, but it does not take away God's purpose from their life. It just delays. Then what about King Saul? When King Saul disobeyed, you know, he got removed him as a king, okay? Saw him no longer as king, which is a good example. But, you know, in Saul's case, God showed him his mistake, but yet he was not willing to repent. You know, when Nathan goes and says, what is all the sheep that are bleeding?   And then he's, he tries to cover up his mistake and say, you know, come with me, like, as it to say, you're my friend, come with me because we are going to sacrifice in front of the people. So in front of the people, he wanted to show that, okay, God is not angry, Nathan is not angry with him. What he's done is the right thing. But what if he had repented, like King Hezekiah? You know, King Hezekiah repented and God gave him 15 more years to live. What about King Ahab?  And then what does Ahab do? You know, he repents, he goes to God and repents. And then what does God tell when Nathan comes back, Nathan, look at how Ahab is, you know, repenting, okay? And because he repented, God says, I will remove that, it'll not happen during his lifetime, but it'll happen to his generations.  And there's another side where, you know, he does punish him, but you know, if they ask for forgiveness, son, you can say, okay, then why not for Moses? You know, sometimes we really don't know God's ways. It may be also because he wanted to teach the people of Israel, you know, obedience son and as a leader, those due diligence from him to be obedient, okay? Good question, very nice. Yes, Sean, Samuel. Yes, yes. So Sean is saying, just like Saul covered up his mistake when Prophet Samuel came, if Adam and Eve could have also confessed their sin, rather than blaming each other and hiding away from God. Good thoughts, good. Yes, yes. Yes, pillar of salt, yes. That's what the Bible says, okay? So he's saying the Lord's wife, the question one of our students asked was, was Lord's wife really like a pillar of salt? And he said, yes. Any questions from our online students? All of you with me, online students? Okay, if there are no questions, then we will move on to the price of the high calling of God, which is the next chapter, okay? You know, in life it's very exciting if you're living for something that is higher and bigger than ourselves, yes or no? Now, when you have something, a purpose that is higher and bigger than yourself, life becomes really exciting, okay? So what is this? You know, what is the higher and the bigger, you know, calling or the purpose that brings excitement in the life? It is to live our heavenly call, live for heavenly purpose, okay?  He takes us through life. He begins to open things up in our life. He, you know, removes circumstances that are not right. He orders circumstances that will write. He changes circumstances for us and he helps us. He brings people the right contacts he brings into our life and he moves us forward in what he has for our life. So this is actually very exciting to live for God and it's also exciting to know that God has a plan and purpose for everyone which he's unfolding, which he reveals, he lets us know. So, you know, life has tremendous meaning when we lock into God's plan and purpose for our life. It's become very exciting. It becomes fun. It becomes worth, life becomes worth living, okay? But there's another side to it. Now, when we're in the process of fulfilling God's purpose for our life, it will cost each one of us something, okay? It will cost each one of us something. Yes, it's exciting. It's the best life to live when we're living in God's plan and purpose for our life but it's not going to be easy, okay? Now, some of us don't want suffering. We think suffering is not for me. It's for my neighbor. It's for somebody else. And we also don't like this word sacrifice, right? You don't like these two words which begin with S, suffering and sacrifice. But if you want to do what God wants us to do then and we want to fulfill God's plan and purpose for our life, then we need to come to a place where we're willing to sacrifice and we will also go through suffering but we'll have to endure just like we read. You know, we have to run our race with perseverance, enduring all the tribulations, all the difficulties. Look at Luke chapter 14, verse 27. Luke chapter 14, verse 27. Can we read that please? Read, read. Yes, so what does it say here? Jesus is saying, if you cannot carry your cross or you cannot bear your cross, then you cannot be my disciple, okay? So if you're going to be a disciple of Jesus or if you follow Him, then there'll be one thing that will be part of your life and what is that? You have to take up your cross when? Daily, okay? Which means you have to carry your cross daily, okay? We look at three things the cross signifies. The cross signifies it's a place of suffering and when we look at the cross, we see how much Jesus suffered for us, the pain, the agony, the shame. He was even forsaken by His Father, okay? It was not easy for Him and it's not going to be easy for us to carry our cross daily and follow Him. Cross is also a place of separation, okay? Galatians chapter six, verse 14 says, but God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. So what is Paul saying here? The Paul is saying, you know, after I accepted Jesus as my personal savior, after I had this encounter with God or, you know, in the language that I need to put it in what we are talking now, after the entrance of the cross in His life, you know, He says He separated from the world, okay? You know, and He says that, you know, whatever I boast, I boast except, I'm not boast of the things that I have, okay? But I will boast about the cross. He could have boasted a lot about things about Himself. He was a scholar, He studied under the Gamaliel, the well-trained scholar teacher in those times. He also was a leader, Saul was a leader before he became Paul, but he says he will boast in the cross, okay? And when he's writing Galatians, he's also, you know, founded many churches. He's written many epistles, but he says he will boast about nothing excepting the cross. So the entrance of the cross in our life, you know, separates us from the world. We are in the world, okay? We all belong to this world, okay? We are living in this world, but we belong to the kingdom of God, sorry, okay? We live in this world, but we belong to the kingdom of God. We belong to the kingdom of heaven, okay? We, so what do we mean by this? We are living this world, but the world is crucified to us, which means the world is dead to each one of us, okay? It means that the world does not attract us anymore. Any of the things of this world does not attract us, okay? And the cross is also a place of suffering. Now suffering means, you know, two things we can think about suffering here. The first thing is giving up, you know, rights or giving up something that you have a right to. I'll explain, okay? So sacrifice here could mean two things. The first thing is giving up something that you have right to, and then take on something that you don't have to, okay? The first one is giving up something that you have right to. And the second one is you take on something that you don't have to, okay? So I'll just give you an example.   And if it's going to be a hindrance to another believer, then I might as well not eat it because that's not going to edify a believer, okay? For example, if I go to North India and I have to teach, we have short-term Bible colleges in North India or we have called to preach, we all wear salwar, okay?   So, you know, it's my legal right. I can wear a trouser or jeans. I can wear even a top, which is decent looking. And I can go and preach, but, you know, they will not accept me. And I'm going to be a hindrance from them to accept the gospel or to share with them what God has laid in my heart just because of my attire. Okay, they will say, they will think that, okay, she's so worldly, why should I listen to her? You know, and as it is, she's a lady and she looks so young, what does she know about the gospel, about the word of God and why should I listen to her? Now, we've had this kind of attitude when we've gone to North India.  So it's a legal right to do certain things, but we don't do it, you know, so that others are benefited. And you take on something that you don't have to. Okay, you take on something that you don't have to. For example, you know, just say, you know, the church, they are just cleaning up the church. So, you know, on a Saturday, all the teens, the youth, the teens, they come to church and they, you know, they do a cleanup.  You know, they're just teenagers, they could have gone to the mall, they could have gone out with their friends, they could have sat at home and watched the movie. But, you know, they did something that they didn't have to, but they did it because they loved the Lord. They want to do something for the church. So they all turned up on Saturday morning and they clean up the entire church or, you know, they helped out in some program. Or, you know, like for example, when we have our sessions, you know, some of them, we don't have childcare. So we need people for childcare. And we have people who step in and help with childcare. You know, they really don't have to do it, but you know, there is something that they don't have to do it, but they're doing it. It's a sacrifice they're making rather than just, you know, they're staying back at home. They get one day of leave Saturday, they can enjoy it with their family, they can go out shopping, they can rest, but they're coming and doing childcare. So that is meaning of a sacrifice. So Paul says in Philippians chapter three verses, verse seven, can somebody read that? Philippians three verse seven. Yeah, so Paul is saying whatever things will gain for me.  I know all the Old Testament, I myself can become a teacher. You know, I'm a learned man. He says, all these things I counted loss for Christ. Okay. Because, you know, looking at the cross that is much more greater to boast about than what I have accomplished or the knowledge I have, the skills I have, the talents I have. Okay. We look at John chapter 12 verses 24 to 26 and then we'll end there. Okay. Can somebody read that? Somebody else can read John chapter 12, 24 to 26 quickly. Thank you. So here we see that if we live a self-centered life, we will be like that sea that contains itself. Okay. Or we will be like people who contain our lives within ourselves and you will just remain alone. Okay. But if you're willing to fall to the ground and you're willing to die, then Jesus says, what does he say? You will bear much fruit. Okay. So, you know, what is a pathway to be fruitful? Or what is a path for fruitfulness? Path to fruitfulness is always dying to yourself, is death. No, all of us want to be fruitful in life. Yes or no? The pathway of fruitfulness in our life is always death. So every time we die, we're getting ready for resurrection. Every time we are dying to some things in our life, you know, we are actually resurrecting into a more glorious image of being like Jesus Christ or being transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Okay. So these things are not in your notes. That's why I'm saying, please follow your notes. And if it's not there, you can make a note of it. You can write it down. Okay. So we all want God's resurrection power to be manifest in our life. Yes or no? We're all saying, God, you know, give me the resurrection power.  But if the resurrection power needs to flow in and through our life, we must be willing to die to our self.  So every time we die to our self, that means what?  We're bearing fruit of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Every time we make this, make a sacrifice of dying to the pleasures of the sinful body, our mind, our thoughts, our emotions, it's actually leading us into grateful, greater fruitfulness in the kingdom of God. Okay, so two things. When we die to our self, it bears fruit. And what's the second thing? It brings about resurrection. Thank you, Nina. Okay, so we must understand that cross is a place of suffering, it's a place of separation, it's a place of sacrifice and all of this is part of our journey. Now you might be thinking, okay, you know, I wanna just fulfill God's plan for my life, but I'm not willing to make any sacrifices. I'm not going, willing to go through all these sufferings, you know, and I don't think God will give me all of these. Well, we see in the Bible, we read various people, you know, all of them went through challenges, difficulties, sufferings when they had to make sacrifices. And that's when they were in the right place, in the right time, doing the right thing and they received God's protection, provision. They were able to fulfill God's purpose for their purpose for their life and they also receive God's promotion. Okay, we'll end here. Thank you all for joining class. Anyone has any questions, online students? Okay, Krisha says, are ladies supposed to cover their heads while praying or worshiping? It's mentioned by Paul and Corinthians. Yet still some women do not cover their heads, what is the right way? Okay, since we are running out of time, can I explain this, give you the answer for this question next week, Krisha, is that okay? Is that fine? Sorry, we're running out of time. I need to run to my next class. But it's a good question, we'll answer it next class. Okay, thank you everyone. Thank you for being patient and listening.


Introduction to File Management Can you no longer see your desktop background image? Is your desktop covered in files? Do you spend five minutes searching for a file you know you saved? Have you ever had to redo an assignment because you can't find it? If you answered yes to any of these questions, this video is definitely for you. What is File Management? File Management is the process and act of creating an organized structure in which you store information for easy retrieval. As an undergraduate student, you're going to save more files than you can imagine during your time here in college. Developing a system for managing and organizing all of your files early in your academic career will set you up for success inside the classroom and in extracurricular activities. Why is File Management important? Learning how to manage files now prepares you for a successful future. You may decide to apply for an internship, a job, a committee, anything really, and you'll need a resume or maybe even a portfolio for the application. Having quick access to well organized files will make it easier for you to pull together all of the information and examples of your work in order to showcase your best self. Alternately, you may be able to build upon past works and your more senior level classes. Being able to locate past projects easily is essential in that scenario. Why should you learn about this now and employ these strategies? Because you never know when you'll need something, starting a system for file management now means you'll never have to clean up the mess. Some best practices for file management include utilizing subfolders, employing consistent naming patterns, and dating files. Taking advantage of the Google Suite is another great idea because it makes creating, sharing, and version control easy, which is essential for group projects. And don't worry if you don't know about version control yet, you will. How is file management useful and long term? In addition to your own personal file management, we can think about file management in terms of research. Research projects often take a long time to complete. They can span from months to years. Proper file management at the start of a project can ensure that you have access to the data and files you need and you know when the file was made and what information each file contains. When should you begin managing your files? Now, find a method that works best for you that you can commit to using. If you have any questions about file management, be sure to ask your research mentor, a professor, or a librarian for help.


We're talking about religion today, the global emergence of the evangelical movement. The religion in general with Dr. Roopmati Kandikar, who joins us today. He's our esteemed guest, our strategical analyst, if you will, who covers the whole world with us. Hi, Roopmati. Hello, Harje. And thank you for having me, and lovely to be back with you always, always, you know, when I went to law school, my roommate was an Indian Muslim. And he had prayer rug. People carry their books and notes in their Tashay case. Saeed carried his prayer rug in the Tashay case. And five times a day, he prayed. He was really, really, really serious. He followed all the rules. Sometimes it worked for him, and sometimes it didn't work. But I was impressed with that. And he was kind to me. He showed me how to cook a madras curry dish during, we ate only at night during Ramadan. So I know about that. Anyway, come to find in Iowa, just a few days ago, religion seemed to determine the outcome because the evangelists, we've heard of them increasingly heard of them, voted as a block for Trump. What I cannot understand, and maybe you could help me, is why. Because they're religious, they say. They're passionate about their religion, they say. And the press agrees with that, I guess. But Trump is not religious. He's certainly not an evangelical. He's a Presbyterian. And he doesn't follow any of the rules. And he violates the rules and does things that would be immoral and inappropriate in any religion, any religion anywhere. So why then did he win with so much assistance from the evangelicals in this country? Have you got an answer for me? As speechless as you, Jay, but religion has taken the forefront in politics everywhere. And so when we see Iowa, which had supported Trump around only 20% last time goes up to 59%. And this overwhelming support for Trump is only fueling his, you know, his fervour. And this, Jay, we see that they're non-religious.  But you find a set of Protestant people who believe in God, who believe in Jesus, who believe in goodness, and the teachings of the Bible supporting him. So that becomes kind of, you know, a point for reference and thinking, why? But Jay, remember we had spoken a long time back about the Roe v. Wade decision by the Supreme Court. This was given by Trump to them when they abolished the right to abortion. That was Trump's gift to them. And when Trump gives such a overwhelming judgment for them, they kind of go with his this conservatism and, you know, this kind of going back to the roots and going back to nature, but it's playing to that tune. And Trump is doing this very smartly. He is now bought religion into everything. You see any of his speeches, he'll talk to you about the Bible.  He'll talk about transgender issues, gender, choosing issues when they allow kindergarten kids to choose their gender. That is morally wrong for any, any, any sane person. But this kind of freedom that they are giving to and at school level. So he's, you know, talking of the vulnerability of parents when they allow drag shows into school campuses, you know, allowing this gender thing men are allowed to participate in women's sports, this kind of what is that imbalance in society. Trump is playing to the tune. He is catching every soft corner, every nerve that hurts. And he is playing to the crowd. And his crux, he's taken the Bible. Now Bible is such a, when nothing fail, everything fails for a ruler, he always goes to religion. We have always seen that through the ages, that every ruler goes to religion. That is his ultimate weapon, Trump card, as you say. That's hard to find a positive thing about religion vis-a-vis politics and democracy. The founding fathers were right to to prohibit the establishment of a religious state and to separate religion and government. But that's changing now and evangelicals seem to have the upper hand and they will have the upper hand in the election, assuming that Trump, you know, takes the candidacy and I think he will in November. They'll be playing from a religious point of view. And I agree with you that the abortion issue, his stand on abortion, wedded him to them and they're going to support him in terms of holding the line on that issue and maybe other issues which have religious importance to them, but not necessarily to him. It's the old thing about one issue connection with the cult organizer and everybody gets behind them, even though they don't agree with anything else he's doing. But let's move east. Let's move across the Atlantic to the Middle East. And it seems to me Europe has become secular, where in those countries a hundred or two hundred years ago were very religious. You know, the Catholics were wedded to Rome, you know, Germany was Protestant and so forth. But they're secular now. Religion does not play an important role, I don't think. But if you go into the Middle East, religion plays a very, very important role. And, you know, we know that the largest single religion in the world is Islam.  They proselytize people by force. And they have the core end to justify using that force to proselytize. But the terrorists who say they're doing this in Allah's name, are they really doing it for religion or something else? Jay, Europe is in such a point that it's in the middle of two proselytizing religions. Both religions have always survived on preaching and spreading the message.  You have people going door to door and speaking about Sharia law, about the goodness of Islam and trying to convert the previously known Christians to Islam. And Jay, history speaks that Islam has always converted by sword. If preaching doesn't work, they go to force. And you have this love Jihad, you have points where Islam spreads from person to person. They go from person to person. And that is very, you know, in depth, graining of Islam. So Jay, this kind of Christianity has divided into Protestant and Catholic. Islam is going by force on Islam. That is the problem Jay, when the migrants come, they don't change the religion. First, if they had to adjust to a European society, they had to adhere to the Christian way of life. They had to follow certain rules and now you have halal and laws everywhere in Europe. So it's not a European country anymore that you go to. You go to kind of offshoot of an Islamic country. They have, you know, you have a donor shop more than you have a pretzel baking shop. So that kind of cultural invasion that Islam brings in is extremely dangerous. We see that even in Israel, Alaska was not a mosque before. It was a Jewish site. They came and overtook it. They invade culture. And then the conflict comes after many, many years. They convert. They don't have places of worship. They will come on the street and worship. How many pictures have you seen where people will pray right down next to the car in the lawn of you never see a Catholic going in or Protestant going in front of a tree and bringing a cross and praying. But they can do that in every street. That is the visibility of the religion that they bring in. And 10 people who see 200 people praying on the knees, you will be like that religion may be something, you know, in curiosity kills the cat, that kind of thing. And that's the way they convert young minds. That's the way they doctrine it, you know, you take a two-year-old child and we've seen this, we've seen this many times. And going back years in my life, the two-year-old child hardly speaks in either Arabic or Hebrew or English or anything. But the two-year-old child knows how to say, I will dedicate my life to killing Jews. But is the two-year-old child familiar with the Qur'an? Does the Qur'an give principles that the two-year-old child knows about? Is the two-year-old child being trained in some sort of religion or in only that distilled single statement, I will dedicate my life to killing Jews? Is that a religion? What is the nature of that religion? Intolerant, violent, Islamophobia is real because J, Islam preaches jihad and they call the other who does not believe in your religion as infidel, a person who should not, who does not deserve the right to live. And the person who does not believe in your religion does not go to heaven, he goes only to hell. So this kind of extreme grip that they have over life, death and you know the way of living and they even tell the Qur'an even preaches that the way to deal with people who are infidels is to do away with them. So when a child is learning Arabic and learning Qur'an, he'll not learn about the way of life, he will learn that he does not have to tolerate anything outside his religion and that's where the problem starts when you start growing up with this. I'm telling you J, immigrants who came to Europe had to adjust to European way of life. Today Europeans have to adjust to the migrant way of life and that is a bit dangerous because I don't see European cafes, yeah a little bit you know rare, it'll be a rare rarity in the future, they will say you have segregation of women and men, you know they will bring the Islam way of life into the streets of Europe like it has already happened but migration was wrong because it brought in religious and cultural invasions. That is the problem, giving shelter, giving you know relief from your war zone, everything refuge is brilliant but those coming in and doing cultural invasions is wrong. Now America is facing this in all the porous borders, there was a case I'll tell you Jihadi's head of Islam in Azerbaijan has reached the borders of America, they were asking him where are you from, he says you'll know soon who am I and he is a convicted terrorist in 2019. So this kind of screening on religion will happen J and Trump was one of the people who was doing screening on the base of religion and he was called out for it that he can't do this and today the reality that that was a bit right to screen on religion, it was not against humanity because we are facing problems of this kind, we are having these religious fanatics coming into a democratic country and going to threaten every democratic institution that this country stands on. You know it's interesting and this is a friend of mine just came back from London and you know he was there when that 100,000 group of people was in London protesting for the Palestinians but also for Hamas and you know violent Islam and you know his reaction was this is kind of funny because they came to Britain seeking sanctuary, they came to Britain saying that things in their country were too dangerous for them so they had to leave that country and come to a country that was not dangerous that where they could enjoy you know the quality of life in Britain and for that matter in the continent but they never really latched on to the culture that they said they wanted to join. This is so in Paris too by the way it's very it's very accentuated in Paris so you have these communities that are really dangerous as you say and at the same time they came and they are still coming as a matter of sanctuary in order to escape the danger back home. It all seems ironic to me I'm sorry very ironic but let's let's move to let's move to India for a minute. What provoked my title for this show was a couple of news stories about a church called the Halvary Church that was founded about 20 years ago and is now led by a fellow named Pastor Kumar and Pastor Kumar has somehow increased the size of this church this is a gospel church it's a born-again church I guess you would say the Indian variety of evangelical church and from a couple of dozen people 20 years ago till now it has achieved 300,000 parishioners and it has a dozen different locations in India and a number of other locations in every country in Central Asia around India and it is going great guns and that is important to understand you know what that is what is what is happening for a Christian church in the heartland of India in fact in Iverdad which is a Muslim city that it should grow so quickly and be so successful they have a they have one I guess you call it a temple but it's really a warehouse that seats 18,000 people and they have services a day this Pastor Kumar runs five services a day it's just like the mega churches in the U.S. and his vision is to expand it everywhere in India and around India and for that matter the world and so we have notions of global religions that are essentially disconnected with old-fashioned Christianity this is a a newfangled religion kind of thing and you know it's it's built on the same Bible I suppose but it's different principles and different ways of increasing itself can you explain to me what is going on with this church yeah in India you see churches have a different kind of setting and this particular church that you speak about in Hyderabad Muslim dominated area he is doing well for himself but the problem with these churches in India is that they used to learn poverty stricken people with food medical aid for the sake of conversion conversion activities were on the basis of food and this so that was looked down upon if you teach and you preach and you get your converts that is fine but if you write and you try to get converts that would not work and now like you know during COVID how the rationing was free and is still free for below poverty level we have around 13 million people who have come out of the poverty level so people now converting on the basis of poverty has reduced to such a drastic bit and religion in India Jay is always the majority and one bit I want to tell you about the Ram Mandir being built it was inaugurated yesterday in India is Hindu that's why Hindu that India is different from Pakistan Pakistan and Muslim and India is Hindu so what is a Christian church of this size doing in the very center of India much more complicated in the very center of a Muslim city in India why why we have the most beautiful churches in the world Jay some of the most beautiful churches in the world but now like you're talking of Mr this one Joseph he'll be like you know his activities will be monitored his activities will be monitored why because if he converts on the basis of poverty that's what I'm telling you this point of conversion on poverty was looked down upon by many many both the cast even Islam even Hinduism they did not want Christianity was competing with them but Christianity has always survived we have always had a good set of we had a meeting on Christmas at the Prime Minister's residence so Christianity is ingrained in Hindu society Indian society but this kind of evangelistic churches is a new thing and he preaches 18,000 in a huge population is a miniscule amount we find it very big but there it is nothing so yeah because too many people millions and millions of people and 18,000 is like that he'll present his case to the funding from abroad in such a way that 18,000 people attend my this but from abroad when you're funding you have a church in Texas which will take only 500 people and you have this guy taking 18,000 people you will fund him more and that is where the you know it's imbalanced that he presents he is not able to capture the heart of the Indian society that's you know it reminds me maybe there's not a good comparison of the Falun Gong in China and now the Falun Gong is not a religion it's just it's a I think it's a less than a religion it's just a sort of culture thing and yet the Chinese government sees it as a threat a risk a political risk and therefore they go after anyone who is associated with the Falun Gong and they put them in retraining camps and torture them and what have you and you know it's interesting that here you have this evangelistic church of some size already may not be that big compared to the size of India which is 1.4 billion already but but it is certainly a phenomenon worth Mr Modi's attention and I wonder if this presents a political threat to him your thoughts not all day because they have you have you have him writing the Ram Mandir issue right now 3 million 3 million devotees in 7 million devotees in 3 hours at the inauguration so that kind of madness he enjoys oh why don't you explain those explain the Ron temple explain the Ron temple so people will know the significance of this with Indian religion Ram Mandir was a historical event in India and all the media western media the guardians New York Times everybody has reported it as the temple being erected on a raised Muslim site but the Muslim site was built on the birthplace of Ram and after a struggle of 550 550 years India has finally got its Ram Mandir built and it's a magnificent temple and you have seven million devotees entering and Mr Modi did this single-handedly so he doesn't need to even he's got the he celebrated Diwali on a day of 22nd August 22nd January which is always celebrated in November so on a call he got 1.4 billion people to celebrate a festival so that is what religion holds in Indian society we have pictures of the of the Muslim church that was there before the mosque and and the new relatively new it's only 20 30 years old the new and this is the temple that is being made right now so the mosque is gone the mosque is gone because the mosque was built on a Hindu temple which was raised to the ground that was on the birthplace of Ram and that's where he erected this mosque general so that was brought and it's been that mosque that birthplace is since 7500 years so I guess to draw some conclusion out of this is that India is certainly a very religious place people show up by the millions for an event like this is a very ironic a rather iconic event and I guess what I'm saying is that Varendra Modi knows how to knows how to make political capital of this he is elated himself he's done something which was impossible and it would have kept on in Indian society for millions of years nobody would have done anything about single-handedly he has done through his life he started early on in his life campaigning for the building of the Ram and it means he was a person who used to be a organizer on the street he never dreamt of being a prime minister and when he became the prime minister he has fulfilled his dream and it's a it's a journey which is is going it's a lifetime achievement you say because he has done something for the Hindus which nobody would have ever done so here are you are you saying that that India is more unified under the Hindu religion than it was before yes yes definitely yesterday because India never had caste we had divisions on the basis of work and when the British came in they got a census in 1831 on the caste system of India and they divided the Hindu society into caste untouchables you know you are from this caste this and it divided the Hindus yes on 22nd of January it was a day when Hindus came together as Hindus for Ram and you imagine 1.1 billion people coming together irrespective of state irrespective of which caste they are and uniting is one this was he united India in a matter of ministry entire India was celebrating a festival together for the return of Ram to his rightful place so this have happened without rent promoting never I am practically tell you that never it is a huge achievement religion making somebody a king out of a political leader this is it okay now we're now we're hitting pay dirt so we're going to try to draw some global threads here some global principles we've looked at how you know evangelicals are taking over political process in the US we've looked at how how the how Islam is taking over I don't know third of the world and teaching children that all they got to do is hate Jews and some religion all I will bless them and then and then we're looking at India where you have two phenomena working at the same time you have Reverend Kumar and his extraordinary growth of this evangelical church and I agree with you it's all about feeding people take care of them becoming a community is in our previous show we talked about how the Mormons have done that in the United States if somebody is down and out they come in they're acting good neighbors and so the evangelicals in hybrid dad are acting as good neighbors and helping people out who need help and this brings them to the church and not only for their generation but maybe for the generations to come and the church becomes bigger and more important in in the life of of those people and then of course you have Modi and you know developing this this new Hinduism yes by taking this iconic church iconic mosque and putting it aside and putting the old temple 500 years ago and it said the birthplace of rum and so what we have is an emergence of new political power on the horns of religion lovely love yes right right jay i mean you can actually see that religion every time a leader is presenting going back to the bible going back to the rama and you know you have these things playing such a big role big role and religion has come to the forefront of politics like never before it was never like this people tried to keep themselves a political a religious a secular no inclination towards any particular religion that was the cracks of the situation but openly support even Trump said that he will not allow any anti-jew activities on any campus or any you know anybody supporting this will be thrown out of the country that much he went so supporting your right religion has become the in thing right now and nobody's complaining about it because religious tolerance taught us that we were falling prey to domination by one particular violent religion and that kind of tolerance was bringing us to our knees jay we were at the mercy of any organization which was formed in the desert they would come to your doorstep in a matter of minutes and you had masterminds who are plotting and planning on bringing down every symbol of democracy or religious tolerance that you had and you know it was falling flat on the face so we have this kind of brazen upliftment of politics in such a way that they support the religion that they believe there is no pretence there is no appeasement and that kind of politics is appealing to the masses yeah but it also it also maybe you can help me with this other phenomenon it's the phenomenon of Vladimir Putin the master of propaganda and disinformation you know he's trying so hard to win the hearts and minds of every Russian and with many Russians he's failing but but with some with maybe millions he's succeeding one of the things he does is he gets the Russian Orthodox Church involved and he corrupts the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church and they support him as a matter of religion they support his his crazy war invasion of Ukraine and the expansion of Russia as a religious matter and I'm saying where did that start it certainly did not start with the with the church it did not start with the church wanting to be bigger and more powerful such as these other examples that we've been talking about in this case it's Putin who was who wanted to enhance his propaganda machine by using the leadership the the bishops or whatever their titles are in the Russian Orthodox Church so it's the other direction here in Russia right so he's using the church as something to enhance his power even though he's he's not religious at all he's a completely secular person um so what do you think about that how does that play with the investigation you and I have been making here today he does the most immoral thing of war and then he goes and shows himself to be very religious and bowled down and everything with the Orthodox Church and that has happened on many occasions I mean you really see when you visualize Putin you see him as a very religious pious man but the things that he does are completely different and he is really catering to anti-Christianity or anti-Jewish agenda J he supports these people to a tremendous extent when they can attack Israel and you know that kind of double standards doesn't work well you cannot I told you appeasement politics it's you cannot play both sides you have to take a side which is right and which is wrong if you play in the gray zone white or black if you play in the gray zone he is going to find himself in such a mess and J the more transparent your actions are the more clearer you are in life and he is not clear about many of his actions not all of his actions when he does this when he tries to show that cloak his actions with religion he tries to show that he is pious but he is not he's doing he's having wars which are of a tremendous catastrophic event in countries he's wiping out countries he doesn't care about life religion is all about morality caring for the other respect that doesn't work anywhere so he's just using it now when he talks of China China is brazenly bringing down Islam brazenly you were Muslims the Uighur camps they are not allowed to put Islamic signs on the board they are very clear that they don't like it put in place the balancing act is seesawing between Christianity and Islam that that will hurt him very badly he has to take a proper right to try to stand stand with one side don't play both cards that is always there ah such such interesting vectors such interesting connections here on global connections I really have enjoyed this discussion I learned so much I think the best talk shows we have on think tech are the ones we we learn things that we never anticipated we will learn it's lovely talking beauty thank you dr. group body counter cover this great discussion talk soon thank you always thank you very very much


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When you watch the musicians you love on social media, it can sometimes be easy to slip into the trap of thinking that there's 10 people making their posts for them. Because it often seems like way too much for one person to be this smart, brilliant, and funny all the damn time. Okay, maybe Brilliant's pushing it with some of these artists. And while it can be true that for some of the artists, it can be a few people working on their social media presence, that isn't usually what makes it so great. Instead, it's some simple philosophies and exercises that make what they post so much better than the stuff you do. So with this video, I'm gonna show you how you should be developing content, whether it's social media or music videos, so you can compete with your favorite artists. Hi, I'm Jesse Cannon, a music marketing nerd who's teaching musicians how to go from zero to 10,000 fans on YouTube, and this is Museformation. So with this channel, what I do is pass on the knowledge I've learned by being in big indie and major label marketing meetings. And over the last year, I've been building up to this video with my guide to social media and how to tell stories about your music. But I think I've now done enough world building where I could finally go in and show the main techniques to use to really blow up your favorite artists on social media. But I'll first say, if this feels a bit over your head, I can't recommend enough that you hit the description below or click on the playlist now that's on the screen and get acquainted with what we discuss on this channel. Okay, so one of the things musicians are always asking me is what is the most effective thing you can post or make for content? And this is a great question because honestly, you want everything you do to be more effective. In fact, if you've been at this game for a while, you probably have noticed that some things work better than others and you wanna be doing those things that work well. So let's first talk about the philosophy you should be considering when you develop any content. And to do that, I'm gonna play you this quote from my favorite nerd in podcasting, Scott Galloway. He's probably the smartest public intellectual in technology, entrepreneurship, and marketing. He teaches at NYU and does a ton of investments for his own company and his podcast, The Prof G Show and Pivot are two of the best lessons I do every week. But there's a particularly interesting quote he did recently that really hit me hard. If you think about all strategy comes down to one question. Oh, really? What can we do that is really hard? What can we do that is so hard everyone else has a tough time doing it? When I've been in meetings with artists who have top management and labels and teams who are brainstorming what we should do to market an artist. This is exactly what the people who really make waves and do things that are memorable, ask the room. This is the jumping off point for the most effective content we can make. In these meetings, we set aside time to try to get inspired on this exact thought by asking the room this question and spitballing ideas. We then try to get inspired by watching other people's content and try to think what they can see in other people and how the artist we're working with can authentically do it better than them. Rather than doing an imitation of what other artists are doing and probably falling short, we try to find a good idea and then ask how we can take it even further. But let me make this clear by example. When I think of this philosophy, I think of when Cardi B came along as Nicki Minaj's shtick started to get a bit old. And Cardi basically just did everything Nicki did but more extreme and better. The raps were more hard. The singing less cheesy. The attitude and personality 10 times more real and the fashion way more out there and hard. She took every single thing good about Nicki just a bit further. But the biggest problem I see with ours who aren't developed enough is they don't even know what to build off to find what they can do that's more extreme. I've talked to you before about building content off your SWOT analysis. And if you don't know what I'm talking about with this SWOT analysis, you gotta click the video that's on the screen now or in the description below. Because if you feel lost on what you should be doing to make developing social media and great content better, it's probably cause you haven't done enough work on this. But really, when we talk about the heart of the strategy that works and why ours really blow up on social media compared to you who just keeps wondering why nothing seems to work. A lot of it is the artists it works for have taken in their SWOT analysis and found what is authentic for them and then they figure out what they can do to accentuate their strengths and go further than everyone else out there. They do something extreme that their competition won't do and that is what gets people's attention.  And if you don't remember me talking about this, it's the minimum expected effort required. Yes, and one more time for the mouth breathers. Minimum as in least amount. Expected as in how much you think you need to put in. Effort as in the thing most musicians don't put in at all. Required as in how much you think you will need to do. Again, minimum expected effort required. Here's a real world example of the mirror. If you're making a music video, you may say, we're gonna put one day into filming and maybe five hours of editing tops, bro. Since you think that's what you need to make a passable video, instead of paying attention to what I just said before about using a strategy of trying to do what your competition will not do, you instead adhere to the mirror and get a barely remarkable result that doesn't get people excited about what you do or do you any favors when you put it out into the world. You can really see way bigger results by just working harder and outdoing people in the effort department. And yes, there's exceptions. Just deciding to do 10 layers of harmony misses the point because with music, you're trying to make songs as emotionally resonant as possible, not just beat someone at a number game. That's not how it works. And if that doesn't make sense to you, I have a whole playlist of videos on how you make music people love and I even wrote a whole book on it, cha-ching. We have to remember you have to know what game you're playing and music isn't a numbers game. But hell, social media can be just about putting an effort and making a spectacle from a damn good idea. And now that just takes time to get to by asking the right questions. Making content is a different game than songwriting. I mean, look at Mr. Beast. He's arguably the biggest YouTuber and really he is often just throwing more thought and effort at his videos and figuring out what will be the most effective thing to make people wowed. And now I will try to never mention Mr. Beast again since there's few things as cringe as a man my age explaining YouTubers to people. Okay, here's some examples of going beyond the competition and exceeding the mirror. Okay, go is the easiest one in the world. No other group of awkward white guys was going to learn to do these dance routines to get attention. The whole sad boy rap genre loves to do these really sick videos all made with drones and high def cameras and Echo 2K's video for peroxide took it where the competition wouldn't go. A goddamn wind farm in the sea. And yes, I'm gonna be that fanboy yet again and talk about my favorite video of recent years and say that Guppy and Fraxium, aka Food Houses video for Thosmoser when further than the competition was willing to go when they made the most extremely online video the world has ever seen. Okay, onto our second technique. Some of you may have had success already and have done things that have worked but have had a rough time replicating that success and are wondering how on earth do artists you love repeat that success over and over again. Well, the first thing is they actually spend time getting inspired and really thinking about ideas. This means oftentimes brainstorming for an hour or more as you scroll through other artists' feeds and you write down ideas. But the key to doing this is to have a blue sky period and listen up, because this really is the secret of your favorite artists movies and TV shows. I learned this technique from the writing room of the show The Office and they used this technique to come up with the really insane ideas you see all throughout the show.  Instead, you're only allowed to either move past that idea or build upon it to make it as imaginative and beyond what the competition would do as possible. Meaning you can take the idea further but there's no negative commentary allowed at all during this period. Since we want creativity rewarded, not discouraged. I mean, here's a fact. As a record producer, I know most of the dumbest ideas lead to good ones, since they often inspire something that can be built on or for someone to go the exact opposite way as the bad idea. The fact is, the discussion in a positive building way really helps you get to better ideas. But particularly, encouraging the most ridiculous ideas and to go too far and then pull back is how the best ideas happen and what people do that you're probably not doing. And hey, sometimes you don't even pull back the idea since the extreme idea is what will often go beyond the competition. But after you feel you have an excess of insane ideas, you then rein them in and vet and critique them to make sure they're as good as possible after the blue sky period ends. And truly, TV shows will often start their season with a blue sky period for a whole damn month before really getting into the writing of the season since they know this is the crucial framing for what comes next. And if you want to learn more about this brainstorming technique, I have a video linked now are in the cards. And now for our third tool. There's a structure to building off your social media posts that have worked that is extremely helpful for getting good ideas in the future.  So for this example, I'm gonna use this band, Wakely, who I've made some great music with, which I'll link in the description. And I'm gonna use them as an example because they recently had this big viral TikTok reels video that made the rounds to millions of people where they dreamt up a fake way mychemical romance approached the vocal for their breakout record. And so let's say they wanted to replicate this video's success. At the top of the snowman for its head, as you can see, we have the mychemical romance video they made that worked well for them. In the body, we have doing this for similar groups like Seyo, Sin and Fall Out Boy, and just doing basically the same approach and trope of the video where they show the before and after of a singing technique. But the arms are the ideas that are divergent from this video, but still a little similar and build off of it. This can be ideas like doing more skits of what it must be like when certain bands are in the studio and acting out scenes from a session. An arm could be doing more content around mychemical romance, let's say about their makeup. Then a leg could be what their band meetings must be like or another leg could be like what it was like when they wrote all their lyrics. All of these are related to the original idea. And as another one gets successful, you make a new snowman and slowly start diverging from them and making new snowman with each success. And then you slowly have tons of ideas that feel seamless and authentic to your audience. Look at that. Every time you have a successful video, just make a new snowman to follow up on it and you will evolve and grow your audience. But there is one last key to this, which is the fourth and last point of this video. I have more than a few friends with more than a million followers on social media. I know clearly I am very cool and I get to hang out with people who are obsessed with being on their phones while hanging out instead of enjoying each other's company. No really, it's a glamorous life. But the thing my oh so cool friends with millions of followers will tell you that not enough people seem to say out loud is that it's okay to make mediocre posts and not have every single post be a hit. They will always tell you to not be so precious about what you post. Think about it this way. When someone you follow makes a mediocre post, do you wanna follow them when they post a dud? Hell no, or else I'd personally follow no one. As long as you deliver the goods every dozen or so posts, you're gonna keep your followers happy and your channel growing. If you bet one gem that gets a lot of shares out of every seven posts, you're absolutely killing it. The fact is you could throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks. But granted, that sure makes bad cleanup work. But as a grown man who still eats from a George Foreman grill, I'm not about that life. But I am about the life of doing smart things. And the smart thing is to follow up your success as fast as possible with a few ideas. So trying some of those arm and body ideas is how you make that happen. Acting fast while asking yourself what can outdo the competition using free form borders brainstorming and reiterating upon past success is the key to how people who win at social media actually do it. So the three things to take away from this video are, one, the trick of doing amazing at social media is going further than your competition will go while staying authentic to yourself and asking yourself how you can outdo the competition while you do free form brainstorming. Two, try to come up with the most imaginative and excessive ideas before reigning them in to something rational. Three, organically reiterate upon your successes on social media over and over again, and they will be seamless and feel right to your audience. And four, don't be afraid to make duds and experiment. You won't be punished and you're more often than not rewarded for content you put out instead of keeping it to yourself which you're never rewarded for even when it's not your best idea. If you enjoyed this video, this is exactly what we discussed on this channel. So please like and subscribe so you don't miss more of it and make sure to click that notification bell so that you know when I put up a video. If you have questions on this, hit me in the comments as I'll be making a follow-up video all the more about this going into further details on this subject. And if I've already made that, it's linked on the screen right now. Otherwise, watch one of these playlists on how to get your music notice or how to blow up on Spotify in 2021. Thanks for watching.


Hello everybody and welcome to another hobby cheating video and last week We actually painted a plaguebearer, and I thought he came out pretty cool. It was fun to paint nergal It's fun to step outside of your comfort zone And if we're gonna paint up a little plaguebearer, well, we've got to do a cool base for him So this week we're gonna talk about painting a plague world base Something that's gross disgusting bubbly oozy and fun. So Let's get amongst it The strict techno man sir that is Vincy V. Let us get to the technique and learn it Vincy V style All right, so you can see the paints for this and it's pretty simple as always the paints will that I'm actually using when I use them They'll scroll up in the top so you know what's going on But we begin our base with our old friend quirk I see a lot of people use quirk on bases, and it's perfectly fine The trick is you can't stop at quirk. That's where people go wrong They apply some quirk and then they just call it a day But our goal here is trying to raise the model up and make an area where we can then Have other effects water and mud and rocks and stuff like that So we first step is to making it not look like quirk is to mess up the quirk So here I'm just using a pen and digging around in the quirk creating unnatural Breaks and divots and things like that up top You'll see how we continue to mess it up as we go along But you just want to bust up that surface You need to have changed the top from being perfectly flat and change the sides from looking like quirk Now here is my recent discovery. This is some Liquitex coarse gel medium I really love this stuff for doing extremely fine grain and I found these super cool brushes on Amazon that are supposed to be like for some kind of Other purpose like makeup or something. I don't know I'll put the link in the description But they're so great for spreading this kind of paste or just messing around on your bases because unlike your hair brushes They actually don't get gummy. You can just wipe them off and they're silicone. So it's really nice I'm making this base for a plague bear But of course you can make these sorts of plague roll bases for anything could be anybody on top of here It doesn't even have to be something nerve-related Just representing a gross awful world. And so we want that to be muddy Now that it's dried, we've got to break up that texture though Okay, again continuing to make it look not like quirk So one side of the base is gonna have some rocks on it just to again further Create change and that's what you want to do on your bases. Even though you've got a small amount of space It's great if you can have areas of differentiation. So all of my rocks are on the left side as you'll see later We're gonna put in some water effects and those will be kind of in the middle the idea being that You want to make sure that your bases have that they feel like they're part of a varied world I just primed it in black and then from here We're just gonna go ahead and again use all brush no airbrush on this There's taken a nice soft dry brush and doing a nice little run over the top of it to pick out all the details And start to create that contrast. I'm focusing a lot more on the front of the base This is another simple trick to pop up the way your miniatures look Focus more highlights toward the front of the base because then it looks like the light is at a place where the viewer's Eye is and it's just more visually interesting I'm the reason I'm putting this thinned sepia ink over everything is two fold one I want to get rid of some of the black work in a brown tone to sepia is a perfect color Cuz it has a little bit of green in the brown So again, it's setting my tones for what I eventually want and it just kind of helps to reinforce some of the shadows Now I'm gonna take some plague bearer flesh and though this isn't flesh yet again We can help to set some tones nature is very random and a plague world would theoretically have layers and layers of muck and Goop and mud and gross sick all on top of each other So we're aiming to repeat lots of simple steps to move colors around and create natural variants On these lower areas that are still mostly black or dark brown because of the way that the dry brushing works I'm just taking some rhinoxide and forcing it in there and then kind of smoothing it around Now why rhinoxide? Well because rhinoxide is a purple brown And as stated in last video purple makes an excellent complement to green as our shadow color Now I'm just gonna push up that green through a little bit of pigment pigment is very strong But don't worry. We're gonna knock it right back so we can go a little ham with this I shoved some of the pigment on and then force it around You notice how I didn't rub my brush all over it really getting it down in the paint People ask me all the time whether or not you seal pigment or stuff like that Most of the time you don't need to in this case you'll see how we cheat and seal this pigment without needing to actually seal it But next up I go over some brown because we do want some kind of earth tones here or something It looks more like actual brown mud and then finally a little bit of red for the same reason I put a little bit of red on the plague bearer Because red is the complementary color to green and we'll make it more eye-catching if there's just a little hint of it in there Then I take some some of this agrax and I just dab it all over notice. I'm not wiping I don't want to wipe because wiping will pick up too much of the pigment. I just dab and dry Once we're all dry, we've significantly darkened our base, but we still have a lot of different colors in there So then I'm dry brushing again This is almost think of this like edge highlighting notice how I'm focusing on the edges and the top front of the base Just trying to bring those back up create more of that natural variation But in the same way that edges gather light on our miniatures edges gather light on our bases So and a little quick dry brush on that texture helps to pick that out Now we begin the magic part of the base. This was all just you know muddy earth And take some of this very green paint. You can use any green paint I haven't been using or flesh any green paint work. I'm gonna lay that down right in that area Now what I'm doing by laying down that green is setting up for this next step This is my new favorite trick for water effects. This is green stuff world UV resin. I absolutely love this stuff so what this is is It's a little squeegee resin you kind of squeeze out of this tube and you notice It's pretty controllable like it's got a really good surface tension So it doesn't run everywhere or anything like that I'm gonna take the previous tool you saw me use and I'm just gonna you know kind of make sure that it's in the Places I wanted shape it around Smooth it out a little bit make sure the pool is covering all the areas I like and I just you know wipe that off Somewhere then I'm gonna take these little you can get these silica gel packets They come in clothing and boxes all the time, but you can also just order bulk amounts of them I'm gonna take these little silica balls and I'm gonna just drop a few of them right into that wet UV resin and I'm gonna make sure they sink down in there, but not all the way they'll just kind of wonderfully halfway sink into this puddle of goop and What they then form are perfect little bubbles It's so easy and wonderful these little gel packets are you can get up You know like I said you can order them off eBay or Amazon for a few dollars And we just hit them with the UV and after about 10 seconds if UV light it is solid as a rock now we need to make it look nuclear toxic and So here we're bringing out the green stuff world fluorescent ink. I love this stuff for this kind of purpose You get big old globes on your brush, and you just dab I'm not painting it that surface is way too glossy and smooth to paint But the ink will settle in and make it just wonderfully look like it's this glowing green Toxic waste and notice how it ends up pooling around the bubbles Around the little beads Which is exactly what we want because now we're gonna take a little bit of the bilious green from warcolors But any bright green like this I guess we're peening green or something like that would work We're just gonna dab each of those little bubbles With this to make it look like this horrible radioactive bubbling up out of the swamp out of this toxic and Captain Planet would definitely not be happy I'm also gonna dab a few little spots around the base that aren't the bubble You want to make it look like there's other little bits of this radioactive stuff or this toxic stuff You know in there not just the bubbles other smaller bubbles that would be in scale because admittedly these are pretty huge But that's okay. They look cool Now we're just gonna add a few small tufts I picked something very dark green and kind of dead-looking you can use any tufts you like but These happen to be from gamers grass, and I just fasten those in place To make sure it's I use a little bit of Gel glue and as always everything on our base gets painted. So we have three different tufts We just take a little ice yellow give them a quick dry brush to make sure that the tops look again more gray and dead Which seems appropriate for this kind of an atmosphere Take a little agrax and sweep it around the bottom of the tuft to make it feel like it's part of the world It's in you shove a little down the tuft you sweep it around the outer edge That takes the tuft and ties it together with the environment.  There's our little plague bearer in his toxic world I thought this came out pretty fun if you liked this give it a like if you've got questions about any of the tools I used drop those down in the comments Subscribe for additional hobby cheating in the future, but as always I very much appreciate you watching this one And we'll see you next time


5 reasons why teaching abroad is better than studying abroad. Do you want to live abroad and experience a new culture? Studying abroad is a wonderful opportunity for university students to do just that, but it's not the only way. Many students are eager to head overseas to study at a foreign university because they think if they don't they will miss out and never have another chance of living in a foreign country. This is simply not true. The worldwide demand for qualified English teachers is through the roof giving everyone who wants to teach aboard the opportunity to find a position. Here are 5 reasons why teaching abroad is better than studying abroad. You will make money. It's no secret that student debt is an incredibly heavy burden for a lot of students. In the United States the national student debt totals over $1.4 trillion in 2018. That means the average debt per graduate in the U.S. is now at $17,126. Students who study abroad also need to think about additional costs for flights, international insurance, possible language courses, etc. However, if you move to another country to teach English you will actually get paid to live abroad. Depending on where you decide to move, you can earn anywhere from $1,600 to $4,000 U.S. dollars per month. Even if your salary is on the lower end of the scale, the low cost of living in the regions with that average salary will still allow you to live comfortably. On top of that, in many areas you will not only be able to live a comfortable lifestyle, but also save up to $1,000 or more per month. You won't be able to do that when studying abroad. You will get international work experience. While studying abroad definitely adds some juice to your resume, nobody can deny the value of true international work experience. Employers all around the world are looking for employees who can work in a different culture with people from different backgrounds with a variety of mindsets. Not only that, employers are also looking for risk takers and those employees who are able to tackle new challenges and step out of their comfort zone. This set of skills is exactly what teaching English abroad will offer you. You will live like a local. According to most students abroad who stay at international dorms, English teachers abroad often live in the same apartments where locals live. Therefore, English teachers are generally more integrated into the local population. They are likely to have local colleagues and also work with local students. On the other hand, most international students tend to stay within their international student groups. You can stay as long as you want. Being a board has an end. Whether it's after a semester, after one year or after two, it's not a permanent situation and students usually don't have the chance to influence this time frame. If you decide to teach English abroad, you don't need to be in a rush as you can generally stay as long as you wish. While there are teaching contracts that usually cover a period of one year, employers happily extend these for great teachers who fit in well. It's also easy to find a new position once your contract with one school is over.  One of the greatest benefits when teaching English abroad is the fact that you as the teacher can impact and change the lives of your students. The teacher is a very important figure in a student's life and it's the best feeling in the world when you see your students improve their English. And it's not only the students who benefit from your work as a teacher abroad as the parents are often eternally grateful for the guidance you provide for their children. This is definitely the most rewarding part of the job and something only teaching can give you.  Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.


Welcome to this week in Monmont for October 23rd, 2020. I am your host, Craig Stevens. Let's get started. Drop off old medicines for free. Drugs discarded down the drain can pass through the wastewater treatment plant and into the St. Frank Creek. Instead of throwing them away, residents can take them to a free drop-off event from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, October 24th, and the Circular Drive in front of Longmont United Hospital, located at 1950 Mountain View Avenue. Do not park your vehicle or enter the hospital or lobby, and please wear a mask when you enter the drive. Pills, capsules, liquids, inhalers, patches, over-the-counter medicines, etc., are welcomed. However, no needles, thermometers, controlled substances, medical equipment, personal care products, household hazardous waste, or business waste are accepted. For more information, visit bit.ly forward slash take back dash rx or call<PHONE_NUMBER>. Wildfire resources and how to help. Residents interested in helping those impacted by the wildfires can find fire updates and support opportunities online. Read more at longmont colorado.gov forward slash home forward slash components forward slash news forward slash news forward slash 11304 forward slash three. Free groceries for Longmont residents. Three grocery distribution sites made possible by the friends of Longmont youth are open for those in need. Drive up and walk up service is on. Mondays from 3.30 to 5.00 p.m. at the Emory Street Apartments, located at 1440 Emory Street. On Tuesdays from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. at River Valley Mobile Home Park, located at 10,910 Turner Boulevard, and on Fridays from 3.30 to 5.00 p.m. at Clover Basin Village, located at 6.30 South Peck Drive. Please wear a mask when picking up groceries. Find more information at longmont colorado.gov forward slash food. Virtual talk, 100 years of women's suffrage. The 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified in 1920, giving American women like men all the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Tune in at 7.30 p.m. on Thursday, October 29th for a panel discussion with four civilly-engaged women as they reflect on the century-long struggle that led to women's suffrage, what's happened in the 100 years since, and what remains to be done. View on the Longmont Museum's Facebook page, longmontpublicmedia.org, or on local Comcast Channel 8, 880. Celebrate Day of the Dead virtually. We can't gather for the usual festival, but you can celebrate Day of the Dead from home with all the performances you love. Performers include Las Dalas, Singing Mexican Trio, Grupo Folklorico Mexico, Lendo Dance, Mariachi Poetry by bilingual community leader Laura Soto, and much more. Tune in from 2.30 to 4.00 p.m. on Sunday, November 1st on the Longmont Museum's Facebook page, longmontpublicmedia.org, and on local Comcast Channel 8, 880. Fall Leaf Collection. The City of Longmont offers residents the one-time curbside collection of bag leaves from November 2nd to November 13th. Leaves must be in paper or plastic bags and place curbside by 7 a.m. on the Monday of your Schedule Leaf Collection Week. To find your collection schedule and rules for leaf collection, please visit bit.ly forward slash longmont-leaf. Call<PHONE_NUMBER>6 with questions. Local Ghost Hunter returns to the library. Longmont's International Ghost Hunter, Richard Estep, is returning to Longmont Public Library online to share new tales of ghost, poltergeist, and mysterious happenings in Coast to Coast Ghosts from 7 to 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 4th. This program is free, and best for those aged 16th and older. Registration is required at bit.ly forward slash lib programs. No internet access? Call<PHONE_NUMBER> to register. Are you loco about cycling?  Consider subscribing to the city of Longmont's e-newsletter. Loco about cycling. Monthly issues include useful information and news, such as planning efforts, new projects, road closures and detours, rules of the road, bicycle writing tips, notices of events and classes offered by the city, and interesting stories from around the world. To subscribe and to repass issues, visit bit.ly forward slash loco archive. This has been This Week in Longmont for October 23rd. Thank you for watching.