Hey, man, let's keep you placed there in 1 Thessalonians chapter number five. We're going to focus down on verse number 18 where the Bible says, In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. So this sermon this morning is going to be kind of a cousin or a companion sermon to one of the sermons that I preached at Faithful Word. I preached the sermon at Faithful Word called I'm Sorry. And it was the importance of, I looked at, you know, we did a Bible study on, you know, forgiveness and having mercy with people, but mainly that sermon focused on the importance of, you know, saying I'm sorry and being sorry, having godly sorrow. This morning the sermon is titled Thank You. And that is, we're going to look at being thankful and actually showing thankfulness, which is why people say thank you. Look down to verse number 18 where Paul says, In everything give thanks, you know, many times in the Bible Paul starts out his epistles, just go to the first chapter of Thessalonians where he says, look what he says. He says in verse number two, Thessalonians chapter one, the first Thessalonians chapter one, Paul many times starts his letters like this where he says, We give thanks to God always for you all. You know, whether he's going to, you know, talk to them about something serious or not, many times Paul will begin and end his letters with Thanksgiving.  Even in 1 Corinthians, you know, where Paul is about to just unleash, you know, some, you know, reproving to the people at the church of Corinth, Paul says, you know, we're thankful for you when he starts out the message, the letter, the epistle. So we're going to look at the importance of thankfulness this morning, the importance of, you know, saying thank you. Why do we teach our kids this? We'll look at it this morning. Turn to Psalm chapter 107. Let's just look at, let's look at the idea of being thankful for a few minutes. And then I'll show you the importance of, you know, showing thankfulness. And that's kind of the point of the sermon. So this is all introduction for the first few minutes here. Turn to Psalm chapter 107. Look at verse number one. Psalm chapter 107. Look at verse number one. The Bible says, oh, give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. So who should we be thankful? Thankful to who is the question. We should always be thankful to God. We should be thankful to people, yes, but we should always be thankful to God. Turn to Colossians chapter three. I'll read for you Ephesians chapter five. We could never go through all the verses in the Bible talking about thankfulness and how we should be thankful. Ephesians chapter five, you're going to Colossians chapter three. Ephesians five 20 says, giving thanks always, for all things unto God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Very similar to first Thessalonians chapter five and verse number 18 there, meaning in everything give thanks, we should appreciate everything. We should be thankful for everything in our lives. Look at Colossians chapter three and verse number 15. The Bible says, and let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which you're also called in one body and what? And be thankful. Turn to Philippians chapter four. I'll read for you James chapter one. James chapter one you say, why should I be thankful for everything? Because I mean certain things I have because I work hard or certain things that I have because I did certain things right in my life and I've got things together. So if I've done something right and I got a promotion at work or I got something for that, why should I be thankful to anyone but myself for that? Well James 1.17 says, every good gift and every perfect gift is from above. And what? And comeeth down from the Father of lights. Meaning everything good that you have is from God. If it's good and you have it, it is from the Lord. That's why you should be thankful for everything to God. Look at Philippians chapter four. Philippians chapter four and verse number six. The Bible says, be careful for nothing. That means, you know, don't care too much about things but in everything by prayer and supplication which with what? Thanksgiving let your request be made known to God. So the Bible here is saying that you should be praying, you should be going to God about things but you know what should be part of your prayers? A part of every single prayer that you have should be Thanksgiving. You should be thankful to the Lord. You know, it's probably, that's a good part of the prayer at the beginning.   Those are good ways to start prayers. But the problem is, the problem is when we don't give thanks, what are we doing? When we don't give thanks, when we're not thankful for things, we're taking things for granted in our lives. We start to think that things in our life are automatic, that things in our life are these things that I have, whether it be material things or my family or my church or whatever. We start to think that those things are just, they're just deserved. They're just going to always be there. This is a problem with human beings, right? Turn to 2 Timothy chapter 3. And the Bible has a word for that. When you stop being thankful or you stop showing thankfulness, the Bible has a word for that. It's called being unthankful. Unthankfulness in the Bible is a very serious sin. So let's look at that for just a couple of minutes. This is all introduction before we get into the sermon this morning. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 3 and look at verse number 1. 2 Timothy chapter 3 and verse number 1. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 3, 1, this note also that in the last days, perilous times shall come. So we know we're in the last days. We already know this. Jesus said we're in the last days, meaning the last half. We're not in the end times, but we're in the last days. So the Bible is saying in the last days, perilous times shall come. So you're going to see these things in the next coming verses. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedience of parents, and look at this, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good. Look, this is, this is, unthankful here is put in with a lot of serious sins.  It's included with this. Traders, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof, from such turnaways. So we definitely don't want to be any one of those things. And unthankful is one of those things. But it's interesting because there's four things there that you'll see come along. There's a lot of things listed with being unthankful in that same verse. And look what it is. It's covetous, boasters, proud, and unthankful. And you'll notice that unthankful people many times are all four of those things. They're what? They're unthankful, but they're also, they're covetous, they're boasters, they're proud, and they're also unthankful. You'll notice that just people that are unthankful are all four of those things. A perfect example of this is many, and I don't want to say all, but many of these people that are homeless today. I'm talking about the 30-year-old man standing on the street with a sign saying, give me money. This person, he's an unthankful person. And what is he? He's covetous. You're like, what? He's covetous? What are you talking about? Yeah, he's covetous over what is not his. He's covetous. He's covetous over someone else's labor. He has labor. He owns labor, but he doesn't want to spend his labor. He wants your labor. The Bible says in 2nd Thessalonians chapter three that if any would not work, another should eat. That's what the Bible says. But this is a covetous person. That's why you will see many times with people like this. And look, I've gone down this road with several of these people at this point.  And they're proud too. And you wouldn't think like, how could somebody that is at that state be proud but they are? Many of these people you can tell nothing to. You can go and you can lead them down this path like, hey, if you do this and this and this and this, everything will work out. And you go and just clear the path for them. They're too proud to listen to anything. Somebody that is at that state has made several missteps. They're too proud to take any advice from anyone. They're covetous and they're unthankful. And that's why they are at that state. The point being is unthankful is a very serious sin and we wanna be nowhere near it as Christians. Turn to Romans chapter one. Look, you shouldn't want other people's stuff. You shouldn't want other people's things. That's the definition of covetous.  That comes along with unthankfulness as well. It's a very serious sin in the Bible. It's in Romans chapter one at the beginning of the process where someone gets rejected by God. Look at Romans chapter one in verse number 21. Romans chapter one in verse number 21. It says, because that, this is somebody, this is somebody that as we go down the road, or Romans chapter one, this is the very beginning. This is the very beginning. Look at Romans chapter one. Actually, let's go back one chapter or one verse and let's get the whole context of the verse. Look at Romans chapter one. Let me turn there myself. But look at Romans chapter one in verse number 20. Verse number 19. Let's start in verse number 19. We're talking about, we're talking about that how no one has an excuse. No one has an excuse because everybody has this evidence of the creation around them. Nobody has an excuse to not know, to not seek who the Lord is. Verse 19 says, because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has showed it unto them. God has shown himself to everybody. You say in what way? Look at verse 20. For the invisible things of him, meaning God, from the creation of the world are clearly seen. Being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power in God had, so they are without excuse. They don't have an excuse because everyone can see the creation. Everyone can see nature. Everyone can see this earth. Everyone's living on this earth. Everyone's living in God's creation that he literally spoke into existence and you have to willingly deny that. But what was the first step of these people rejecting God? Look at verse number 21. It says, because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God. So they knew that there's a God because they can see the creation and they didn't give God credit for anything. They didn't give glory to God. Neither were what? Neither were thankful. But became vain in their imagination and their foolish heart was darkened. That professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. They changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made unto man and birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up unto uncleanness. And we see that these people, we see these people rejected God. They didn't give him glory and God gave them up twice. It says he gave them up. It says he gave them over to a reprobate mind. These are people that God literally has rejected. And how did it start? They were unthankful. They saw what, they saw God was there. They saw what he created and they just neither were they thankful. It's very serious to be unthankful. It's, and look, became vain in their imaginations. You know what that means? It means they were proud. Just like, just like I just read you in the previous verse, it's like proud people are unthankful people. And you may look at people and be like, how in the world could someone in that situation be proud? Well, what pride destroys you? Pride goeth before destruction.  And one of the ways it does it, makes you unthankful. It's a very serious sin that I'm trying to get you to understand this morning. And it's a prelude to even worse things. Obviously, if you're saved this morning, you're never gonna become rejected by God. But this is just a lesson that being unthankful is something we want to be nowhere near. We want our kids to be nowhere near being unthankful. Turn to Romans chapter six. I mean, unthankfulness in the Bible is a gateway. If we look at Romans chapter one and we look at where that led people, it is literally a gateway to a ruined person. That's what we're looking at in Romans chapter one. It is that unthankfulness towards God that ruins a person. It creates someone that literally cannot be saved. The Bible was saying in Romans chapter one. Look at Romans chapter six, just a couple of chapters over. But look, even saved people can be unthankful. Even saved people can be unthankful. That's what Paul's talking about in Romans chapter six. We're gonna look at Romans chapter six in depth tonight. Romans chapter six, Romans chapter seven. I'm in depth tonight. But let me just show you a couple of things in Romans chapter six, verse number one. The Bible in Romans chapter six, Paul is talking about, should you take your salvation for granted?  But you can go and you can take advantage of that salvation. You can take advantage of that eternal security that God has given you. You've been given that through no works of your own, through nothing but trusting on the work of Jesus Christ. And God has promised that he will save you.  It's forever. He will never take it away from you. But you can go take advantage of that if you wanted. And that's what Paul is talking about in Romans chapter six. Look at this in verse number one. I have everywhere in my Bible where a form of the word should is used. In Romans chapter six especially, and Romans chapter seven, I have it underlined because this is just like the core of so much false doctrine. These verses in Romans chapter six and Romans chapter seven are used for so much false doctrine. And I'll show you that tonight. But look at Romans chapter six in verse number one. What shall we say then? I have shall underlined twice here. What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin? That grace may abound? Shall meaning a form of the word should. It's like shall you continue in sin? That grace may abound? What grace will abound? But should you do it? Is what he's saying? God forbid, how shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? Know ye not that so many of us were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death. Therefore we are buried with him when we, this is on the baptism certificates that we give this is what your baptism is all about right here in verse number four. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father. See, look at this statement right here. As Christ was raised up, look, that's a different word than should, is it not? Christ was raised up meaning it happened. That was something that happened for sure. He was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we definitely will. Is that what that says? It says even so we should walk in newness of life. This is the point of your baptism. It is an outward showing of the thankfulness that you're not gonna take that grace for granted that God gave you. That you're identifying with the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. You know what? I'm not gonna take that salvation for granted. I'm gonna show what towards God. I'm gonna show thankfulness towards God. So when I, Paul's like you should do this.  I should not do that. That's what Paul is saying. God forbid I would do that. Again, verse number six. Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin. He's saying don't do it. Again in verse 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body.  You still have this flesh that you're contending with. People that twist this, they clearly are not saved and you do not understand what Paul is trying to say. Paul is trying to convince people you still have the flesh. You still have the flesh. Follow the spirit that is not within you. Not the flesh. You should do that. You should obey it in the lust thereof. Verse 15. What then? Shall we sin? Because we are not under the law but under grace. God forbid. He's trying to teach us to appreciate and be thankful for our salvation. For what? For the grace that God gave us. The free grace. If it's, look folks, if it's of works it's not of grace. It's one or the other. The Bible is clear about that. He's trying to tell us don't take advantage of that. Be what? Be thankful. So look. Thankful, good, unthankful, bad. But what I want to talk about this morning is the importance of showing thankfulness. That's why you say to someone, thank you. When I'm gone for a week and the men of the church handle things or the ladies clean and things in the bathroom get fixed or somebody brings up problems, you know what I say? I say thank you. You know what that's doing? That's showing thankfulness. Being thankful is one thing but it's important that we show thankfulness. Turn to James chapter two. You say I do appreciate things. I am thankful but there's a problem if you're not showing thankfulness in your life. Turn to James chapter two. This is the whole point of James chapter two. Maybe one of the most misused chapters in the entire Bible, James chapter two. This is the point. The point of James chapter two is showing your outward works. Showing people this. Look at James chapter two and let me just give you an example of the importance of showing things. The importance of showing outward works basically. Look at James chapter two in verse number 21. Look what the Bible says. It says was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son upon the altar. See us now you're like what in the world justified by works? How is that possible? I thought it was not of works lest any man should boast. See us now how fate wrought with his works and by works was faith made perfect. And we get another example here but look at verse 23 first. And the scripture was fulfilled with saying Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness and he was called the friend of God. You see that then by how that by works man is justified and not by faith only. People love verse number 24 that teach works-based salvation. Because they say oh see it's not just, it's not faith only. But the Bible is talking about he's saying Abraham was justified by works in verse number 21 and then it says in verse 24 again it says see how by works a man is justified by not faith only. But look at verse number 23 again where it says Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. So that is salvation right there where it says Abraham believed God and it was imputed unto him for righteousness but then it says he was called the friend of God. So the question is how was Abraham justified by works? What are we talking about here? Turn to Romans chapter three. Turn to Romans chapter three. A lot of people grab one or two of these verses and twist these into works-based salvation. But remember Bible reading rule number one. Bible reading rule number one. If you are interpreting the Bible in a way that makes it contradict clear scriptures elsewhere or full by grace or you saved through faith and not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast. That's one of the clearest two script two verses in the entire Bible right there. We are not saved by works not at all. So let's explain Romans chapter. Go to Romans chapter four. Romans chapter four verse number one. Romans chapter four look at verse number one. How was Abraham justified by works? That's the question we're after here. The Bible says what shall we say then? Abraham our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found. You need to underline in your Bible as pertaining to the flesh. Meaning as pertaining to his works and people around him what has he found? For if Abraham were justified by works he hath whereof to glory but not before God. You see what the Bible is saying there? If Abraham was justified by his works he could boast. And the Bible says lest any man should boast. And it's saying here he could boast but he would not be justified before God. So what the Bible is clearly saying in Romans chapter four you are not justified by your works to God. But look at verse number three. For what say at the scripture? The Bible says Abraham believed God and it was counted unto him for righteousness. That's how Abraham was spiritually saved. That's how Abraham obtained salvation. By what? Believing on God. By trusting God. But the Bible here is clearly saying that he was justified by his works. Who called Abraham the friend of God is the question. Who called Abraham a friend of God? When he went up and he did what God asked him to do he did this amazing thing of being willing to sacrifice his own son even though God didn't. Who saw those works? What the Bible is saying is that Abraham was justified by works. He was called the friend of God by other men. The only way anyone can see your faith is by your works. So you are not justified by your works to God. You are justified by trusting on Jesus Christ to God. This is the justification that matters folks. But you are justified by men by what you do. By what they see you do because men can't see your heart. Only God sees the heart. Nobody on this planet, no man or woman can tell what you believe. That's what the Bible is explaining here. It is the only way that your faith can be shown to other people is through your works. It's not talking about being justified by works to God. All right. Go back to James chapter two. We get another example here with Rahab. With Rahab. It says she received the messengers and sent them out another way. So Rahab was justified by her faith, by her belief, but the way the Israelites could see her faith is because she helped them. Is because she hid the messengers and she did what she said she was gonna do. That's what justified her before men was her works. Look at James chapter two and verse number 18. Yeah, a man may say thou hast faith and I have works. Show me thy faith without thy works and I will show thee my faith by my works. So the only way for you to show your faith to men on this earth is through your works is what the Bible is saying here. But you're not justified by God through your works. So if we apply this to the sermon this morning, what I'm trying to get you to understand is the only way people can see your thankfulness even though you may feel thankful and you may be thankful in your mind, in your heart. The only way for other people to see your thankfulness is through your works. Is through you actually doing something. By what? Here's one. Thank you by saying thank you to people. That is an outward way of you showing that you are thankful. You know, I mean, look, this is why kids and ourselves, I mean like kids especially need to be taught, look, kids especially need to be taught to say thank you to things because they need to be taught to be thankful.  It's a terrible curse.  So think about that when you talk to your kids about making sure they say thank you about things.   You say why? It's because he becomes unthankful. It leads to laziness. It's this gateway to drunkenness. Ultimately, if they're not even saved, it could lead down the path of Romans one, not even being thankful to God, not giving glory to God. It's a rejection of God. It could turn into. I mean, think about it. In order to be saved, think about why unthankfulness is such a big part of the Romans one path. In order to be saved, you need to appreciate the fact that you need a savior. Can you be saved if you don't even think that if you're just proud and you think that I don't need anything, I'm pretty good. Could you be saved if you weren't even looking for a savior? If you don't think that your sin is bad enough or maybe you think that every now and then you'll meet someone thinks that they don't sin. It's rare, but they're out there. If you have somebody that doesn't believe that they sin, that person cannot be saved. Because saved from what? They would never be searching for a savior. They would never be willing to trust in Jesus and his work on the cross to save them if they were just unthankful. Turn to Matthew chapter 12. But for men to see that you are thankful, you must show it. And look, saying thank you is a way to do that. Look at Matthew chapter 12 and look at verse number 34. So why is saying thank you so important? Why are those words so valuable to people to hear from you? Look at Matthew chapter 12 and verse 34. Jesus explains this when he's kind of rebuking the Pharisees here. This is Jesus many times how he spoke to the Pharisees. You won't hear this much today. But look at verse number 34. He says, oh, generation of vipers. You know, how's this for the real Jesus right here in the Bible?   I mean, as he was just, you know, he's rebuking them sharply. He's calling them snakes. He's saying, oh, generation of vipers. How can he, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak it. This is why saying thank you is so valuable right here. Because saying thank you, you know what? It shows that person that you're saying thank you to. It shows them that like in your heart you feel that you are thankful. So when I say thank you to the ushers, or thank you to someone for cleaning the church, or thank you to someone for doing something around here to help out, you know, when I'm gone or I couldn't do it or whatever, you know, what I'm saying is what my heart feels. And that's why that's important for that person to hear me say that. Because they're like, oh, well, you know, pastor or my brother is really thankful for what I did. Because it shows where the heart is. Because what's in your heart, you will say. That's what Jesus is saying. In Matthew chapter 12 and verse 34. Or not say. So somebody that never says thank you, somebody that you go and just help and do things for all the time, and they never say thank you. You're like, who would do that? Lots of people. You'd be shocked. You go out and you help certain people that need help and you help them and help them and help them, and they just never say thank you. You assume they're not thankful. Because what's in their heart, they will say or not say. This is why kids, kids, we need to teach things backwards. We need to teach kids things to do in their life. You need to teach kids the proper way of doing things. And then when kids get older and they grow up in that nurture and admonition of the Lord, they'll understand why they're saying those things and why they're doing those things. That's why kids, I mean, they may not understand when they're four or five or six years old why they have to say thank you to every single, they'll understand very quickly. But they may not when they're very young understand why they have to say thank you all the time. But pretty soon the doctrine of the Bible they will learn and they'll understand, oh, I should be appreciating these things. That's why my parents have been teaching me to say thank you for everything. I shouldn't just get used to things. It is super important to teach kids this. Kids, let's use the family integrated church here. Kids, you should say thank you to your mom after every time she makes you food. Kids, do you do that?  What she will start to think is, well, they're just getting used to it. And yes, it is her job to keep you alive. I get it.    You know what you should say? Thank you, mom. Thank you for making sure that I learn.  Because you know what? That's a rare thing in this world, kids.  You need to appreciate these things. And you know how you appreciate things, kids? You say thank you. You say it. You say the words. Spoiled kids will be lazy, unthankful adults. And let me tell you something, folks. How do you fix a lazy, unthankful adult? I don't know. I'll let you know when I figure it out. But it is super important that we catch these things now in our children when they are young. So they are thankful, godly adults. Unfortunately, the only way, I mean actually do know the way to fix a lazy, unthankful adult. But the only way, and basically our country today makes it very difficult to fix a lazy, unthankful adult.  They actually have to go through a period where the Bible says, neither should he eat. They need to go through that period where you know what? I've been handed everything in my life and now I'm starving. There's nothing to eat. Standing on this corner, a healthy, strong, 32-year-old man, it makes me sick to my stomach every time I see it. Standing on that corner, a healthy, young man with two arms and two legs, that person needs to go through pain and suffering in order to get not lazy and thankful. Because when you go through pain and suffering, you start to appreciate things again. But see, our society today, it just wants to hand everybody everything so it makes that pain and suffering impossible. Let's hand them everything. Let's hand them money. Let's hand them everything that they possibly need. Let's even hand them drugs. It's the opposite of what the Bible teaches. And you will never end up being able to fix somebody that is lazy and unthankful with that. Husbands, this is a bad one. And this is something that I still try to get better at. You're like, I appreciate when I'm wife. I'm thankful for my wife. And I feel that right here, but I never do anything to show it. Men are a little bit different in this case where men will go to work and we will do things and we will get the praise of men. We will have people at work say, good job. We will have people at work say, you did a good job and I'm gonna give you a promotion. And we'll have people say, oh, I have the respect of all these people that I work with because I'm good at my job. I work hard, I show up early, I stay late, and we'll get some praise from that. We need to show our wives that we are thankful. We need to show it. How do we show it? Well, first you could say thank you to your wife. You could do things for your wife. This is why men, they're too logical sometimes. Like my wife doesn't need flowers. She has lots of flowers. She's got a garden with flowers in it. There's flowers around the house. Why does my wife need flowers? Because if I bring my wife flowers, that shows her that I'm thankful in my heart for her. It's not that she needs the flowers. It's not like us. I'm like, I need a wrench. I don't have a wrench. The flowers show thankfulness. This is just one example. Take your wife out to dinner. Why? Because I'm thankful for what you do. It's a way to show thankfulness. You wanna have a good relationship. You better show thankfulness in your life. See, many times men, we are thankful, like in here, but we just get so busy and we get so focused on our lives and we never show the thankfulness. Our wives need to see that and really what that'll show them is that we love them. It will show that we do appreciate them. We do appreciate the fact that I have a stay-at-home mom that's staying home, teaching my children the Bible, taking care of this next generation. You know what? There's nobody around.  That's my job as the husband to do. So don't forget to do that. You should do that constantly for your wife. Show your thankfulness to her. Tell her. Tell her how much you appreciate what she does. When she, when you see progress with the kids, point it out. Point it out to the kids.  You need to show these kids what they have. Teach them to be outwardly thankful to their mother. Wives, how many times when your husband gets up at five o'clock in the morning to go out and slay dragons all day in this world, do you get up with him and see him off and say, I appreciate what you do? You know what that will do? That will show him that you are thankful. He probably knows, he probably has the head knowledge that you appreciate what he does. But you know what? You should tell him. You should tell him. You should do things to show him that you are thankful for what he does. Turn to Proverbs chapter five. Actually, turn to, I'm sorry, that's a mistake. Turn to Proverbs chapter 18. Proverbs chapter 18.   Unthankful people. And Proverbs chapter five and verse number 15, the Bible says, drink water is on thy own cistern and running water is on thy own well. The Bible is pretty strict, folks, on who deserves help. It's, you know, the Bible is like widows over 60 that have been married one time that have served the Lord and have a good report. So look, if someone does something nice for you or gives you something, you should be thankful because you definitely don't deserve it. That's what the Bible is teaching there.  You don't deserve people to just keep helping you in helping you in helping you. Be thankful. How do I do that?  Proverbs chapter 18, look at verse number 24, the Bible says, this is a man that has friends must show himself friendly. And there's a friend that stick it closer than a brother. I mean, remember to be nice back to those that are nice to you. That's another way of showing that you're thankful.  These are simple things.  Somebody takes you to dinner, take them to dinner.  You, look, you should keep score with your friends unless you just wanna be this person that has friends, which means people just do things for me. But the Bible is saying in Proverbs 18, you should show yourself a friend. Be a friend, just because you have friends. This is the thing in a church. Like, people are gonna be your friend. I mean, like, we love you. Like somebody that's in this church that's not doing things right, that's maybe got, you know, things a little backwards and they need a lot of help. Look, people are gonna help you. They're gonna show you that they're your friend. But you know what?  It shows that, why? It shows you're thankful. That's what it shows. Turn to 1 John chapter four. 1 John chapter four. I mean, honestly, this is how Jesus treated us. You know, this is how Jesus treated us and the whole idea of the Christian life is that we are to show thankfulness back towards God for what Christ did for us. And that's ultimately the model here, folks. In 1 John chapter four, in verse number 19, the Bible says, it says, we love him, why? Why do we love Jesus? By, what is loving Jesus? We're actually, we're gonna define that in great detail tonight. What it means to love the Lord. What it means to love Jesus Christ. We're gonna get into that in great detail tonight. What that phrase actually means. But I mean, God said, if you love me, keep my commandments.  Why do we do that? Because he first loved us. Why in the world?  Yes. Because I'm not saved by what I do or what I don't do. I'm saved through Jesus Christ. But why do I come to church three times a week? Why do I go out soul winning and try to get as many people saved as I possibly can? Why do I try to get sin out of my life? Why do we try to live this Christian life? Why do we sit here and listen to the Bible preached every Sunday, every Wednesday, and try to fix these things in our life? Why do we do it? It's not to get ourselves to heaven, 0%. We do it because he first loved us. We do it because I don't know about you, but I'm thankful that I'm saved.  And that's why I love Christ. Loving meaning, nodding like some butterfly feeling or some lust feeling as they've defined love today. But loving meaning, I actually do what I'm supposed to do. Loving meaning, reading the Bible, following the Bible, showing God that I love him by listening to what he tells me to do. And it shows what? It shows that I'm thankful to the God that saved me. When I deserved none of it.   I mean, what more do you need? What more motivation do you need to be thankful to the Lord? But people need motivation because why? Because they take their salvation for granted. And that's what Romans chapter six is talking about. Paul's saying, you're not going to hell, but don't forget that. Don't forget that that's where you deserve to go. Don't forget that you should follow the Lord. Don't take grace for granted. Be thankful. Well, be thankful in your life. Say thank you, but more important than that, be thankful to people. Be thankful to your brothers and sisters in Christ. When people do things for you, be thankful and show that you're thankful back towards them. Let's bow our heads and have a word of praise.


Education and high-quality content is out of reach for many people in different parts of the world due to the constraints of time, space, and economics. However, with mobile technology, subway commutes, air travels, or waiting for an appointment can become virtual mini-classrooms. Arlington Public News interviewed Qualcomm's Senior Director of Business Development, Mouhab Ramsees, about the technology that Qualcomm develops and the ways it can be used to improve education through connectivity. My name is Mouhab Ramsees and I'm Senior Director for Business Development, covering the area or responsible for the area of Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia. We are mainly a wireless technology development company, so our core business is technology. Our core business is developing advanced technologies for wireless. Connectivity is changing many industries in our lives. We asked how Qualcomm technologies could affect the education industry. Education is part of the industry that can really make maximum benefit of the connectivity because the quality of education depends not only on what happens inside the classroom, but also a big part of it happens outside the classroom. What connectivity can provide education with is the possibility to connect in any place. So when you're at school, you can have access to specific material. When you're outside, you can have access to other material. There's so many things that can be done on the education side. At the end, I'm not saying that I like books, I like printed books. I'm not saying that will disappear, but I think that will be optimized and kind of enriched with so many interactive content that will be empowered by connectivity. The world is changing today considerably because of connectivity, because of everything connected. And sometimes we do the mistake of looking at technology as a luxury. Education is the same. It's not really quality of education, it's not a luxury. It's what we need today to create a healthy environment and a healthy society where jobs are created in a more efficient way. And I think this is the challenge that we are trying to overcome. Mobility isn't the only technology that is improving education. We asked Qualcomm about future technologies, like augmented reality, that may affect education as well. Augmented reality is based on mixing reality with imagination or with the non-reality with the virtual world. The camera or the smartphone will recognize this specific shape and then it will trigger some sort of action. There are some applications already using augmented reality for education. I think it can really enhance the education experience. You see the word apple, for example, talk about apple, the fruit. And then the apple pops up in a 3D format to the students so they will know exactly what is an apple. And that's just a very basic example of how it can help. This is Lauren Alacondra with Arlington Public News.


Christian life is like climbing up the mountain. Sometimes it's challenging and difficult. Jesus said those who follow Me must deny themselves, pick up their cross and follow Me. The path is narrow and the track could be difficult. You don't slide up the mountain, you climb the mountain. Fasting is one of those things that we do that denies our flesh, humbles us, but it puts God on the throne in our life. As we start 2024, let's start this year right. Let's start it with God. The Bible says this in the beginning, God, anytime God is in your beginning, he starts to move powerfully and blesses the rest of the year. I want to invite you to this extended period of seeking God through prayer and fasting. From January 8th till January 28th, we will take time as a church to see God's face in prayer and fasting. You can fast complete fast, just water, no food. You can fast like Daniel's fast or you eat some food or you can do partial one where you just do from six to six, six in the morning to six in the evening. Or if you're pregnant nursing your child or maybe you're in medication, we encourage you not to fast food, but maybe fast other things like media, TV or something else.


I'll start by asking a few that came to my mind. Or maybe just commenting. I think one of the things about milk supplements is that it's not only about the nutrition, but there is a cultural aspect to it. Like you said, there's a convenience aspect to it. There's an aspirational aspect to it. And I think when you buy a product or are able to buy a product off the shelf and give it to your child, it somehow is way cooler than roasting and grinding and putting in one dabba for yourself. It somehow speaks to an aspirational lifestyle which I think is now taken pretty deep root in our culture. It was not like that. But I think a lot of people think that that's the best way to be. And I think that's why. Yeah, that's what we saw with Brian. I mean, that's why I even reached out to Zainab for this talk, which is because people, of a certain socioeconomic status, want to spend money for the health of their loved ones, but they don't necessarily check what's in it because it's just difficult. It's deliberately made difficult to read. It's really fine print. How much information are you going to go through? You're just gonna be standing in the supermarket looking at it. And honestly, the websites that I've seen, like Amazon doesn't give the ingredients list for, and sure, there's incomplete information online, they'll give you, some will give you the ingredients, some will just give you the nutrition chart, and it just goes on from there. It's difficult and it's mathematically challenging. That means for me, it is. No, it is, it is. In fact, as you were going through some of the numbers and what it is with milk and what it is without milk, and I won't say I'm terrible with numbers, but I found myself getting lost and glazing over as when I was like, oh, okay. I mean, can I pull out my calculator? And usually when you're at a shop, that's not really exactly what you're going to be doing looking at that chart. But yeah, and some of the claims, sorry, it turns around, but some of the claims are based on 100 John, some of the claims are based on per serving of 250 ml of milk, some of the claims are based on just the scoopfuls. It's just, I mean, it's whatever is convenient and looks the best, but it's not standardized. True, true. I think there are a few questions, but can I maybe give my first question to start it with? Sure. You know, one of the things I take away from this is that knowing, done a little bit of reading in the area of nutrition and I'm no expert by any standard, but one of the things I have learned is that sugar is something we all should be extremely wary of. And India today is known in various parts as the diabetes capital of the world. If you're not there already, yes. And if you're not there already, we are getting there very fast. The numbers that is very scary. And if we are feeding our children and our elderly with huge doses of sugar. In various forms, that's the thing. It's not sugar by law.  Multidactyl is not sugar by law. Multidactyl is not sugar by law, but it's still, it has a higher glycemic index.  Even though it says sugar free. Yeah. So if you can just maybe tell us what are the things to look out for that say sugar, but we don't really know that they may be sugar. And these are things that we should be aware of that if there is one, two, three, four, five, they may say sugar at the end so much percent or so much grams. But other than that, there are all these other elements of sugar as well. So if you can just name a few that we should keep that are commonly used that we should sort of be aware of. If it says hydrolyzed cornstarch, if it says maltodextrin, if it says no sugar added, go to the nutrition table. If it just says sugar, you know, if there is, so the label that I've put online is different from the label, the children's label over here where they don't disclose the sugar. And you can, if you don't see sugar in the ingredient list, go to the nutrition label. By law, they're supposed to let you know how much added sugar there is. But also remember that the added sugar is just and just sucrose. It's nothing else. We know that there are a lot of sugars that spike your blood sugar. I mean, that's the reason why diabetics is told not to eat too much fruit in the first place but fruit, sugar and fructose, right? It's glucose and fructose. So added sugar just means sucrose. You have to remember that table sugar is equal to sucrose, is equal to added sugar.  These are also things that will spike your blood sugar that will cause you to gain weight. And also, in addition, you will also have laxative effect on your body. However, those are in larger amounts. So if you're having pre-serving the day, you will experience a laxative effect. But it does draw water out from large intestines and sure for a specific reason has these because seniors are very concerned about bowel movements and it's something of a relief for them to have regular bowel movements. Understand that there are alternatives to the fiber, the high fiber content that is provided by these supplements. There is psyllium husk that you can just take right away, you know, right off the bat, it costs 190 rupees for 200 grams.  It's enough, it's healthier. And it will provide you a much better source of gut health and it's a much better insoluble fiber to have. Insoluble fiber to have. So if things to answer your question in short is if it says no sugar or no sugar added, be very suspicious, check the nutrition label, check the ingredients and understand that something that is like a hydrolyzed starch, whether it's a hydrolyzed rice starch or a wheat starch or a corn starch, it still, your body doesn't differentiate. It'll still end up being glucose, it'll still spike your blood sugar, it'll still cause you to gain weight. Okay, so Kunal has two, three questions here. I'll start with the first one. He says, why is this being marketed to women specially? All those ingredients seem generic and good for all genders. It is generic, it is good for all genders, but women specifically because they have a higher requirement of calcium. Now, this is for women and not pregnant women per se, which is what Brian had bought for his wife, but for women, the danger of osteoporosis is higher and this comes as a result of lesser vitamin D, I guess because of lesser outdoor activity and lesser outdoor exposure, but lower vitamin D means that the calcium that you are ingesting does not get absorbed and then to compensate, the body takes calcium from the bones and makes your bones weaker, which will result in osteoporosis at some point and women are much more prone to osteoporosis than men. So it's being marketed to women as something that is a bone health supplement. Okay, also, yeah, okay. Then Kunal asks another question. He says, where to get malted drinks apart from these drinks? Malted drinks, well, you can just buy malt powder on Dine if you like and then you do have to look at co-ops in Bangalore, I think this is Kunal Vaidenathan. So in Bangalore, you have Navadarshanam, you have Buffalo Bag, you can speak to a variety of co-ops who are, I mean, Ragi is now being touted as such a healthy food which is cheap and not water intensive and hardy and mineral dense with regards to calcium. You can get it from most co-ops now. You just have to do a little bit of the research. If you want, I'll put together a PDF for sources and a couple of online purchases you can make with regards to this. But honestly, in the search for malt, if you're going to consume maltodextrin, hydrolyzed corn solids and a whole bunch of sugar and some emulsifiers and some artificial, this thing is better to not have the malt.  You can get your multivitamins, you can get your protein, you can get your vitamins, sorry, your minerals as well from other sources of food. Malt is not the be-all and end-all of it. It's not something that is necessary for absolute health and nutrition because it's coming packaged with a whole bunch of stuff and you don't want in your body. So why would you want to go after it? Okay, one last question from Kunal speaking of necessity and then we'll have Shraddha, maybe she can ask her question herself. I'll probably need some help to get her to be able to ask that question. But I'll just ask Kunal's question. He says, is having milk required in adulthood? And I think that's a great question. It's something that you hear both sides of the story. He says, I've heard somewhere that milk is only useful in babyhood and later most can't digest milk. Now your thoughts on that? So this will be some opinion, not very much fact because I don't have the resources to back it up at this point of time. So Kunal will only be able to get my opinion on this. Milk is not necessary. Milk is something that is, you can replace it with a variety of other foods but you have to be very conscious of what milk provides you from a nutritional perspective whether it's the vitamin D, whether it's the calcium, whether it's the vitamin A from the fat. Take a look at what milk provides you and you can break that down and you can get other sources for it. Like vitamin A you can get from or beta-carotene you can get from orange fruits and vegetables like your mangoes and your carrots and other orange or red plant sources.  We'll also have some amount of vitamin D but the best place to get vitamin D is to actually get exposure, sunlight exposure, mid-day sunlight exposure, 10 to 30 minutes. With regards to the fats, you can replace them with plant fats. In my opinion, milk is not necessary but it does provide a convenient package with regards to nutrition. Adults don't need it, babies, again, this is controversial. I would rather not get into it without actually citing sources and I don't have those on hand. I can get back to you on this though. I can do research on both sides of the story and give you my opinion again and give you the resources to make up your own mind. Okay, great, that's very helpful. Okay, is it possible to have Shraddha ask for question? Amog? Yeah, I just promoted Shraddha to a panelist and Shraddha, you can now unmute yourself and ask the question. Yeah, so it was an excellent presentation, first of all. Thank you. Hi, Shraddha. Hi, hi. So I'm a food regulatory professional but basically I'm not really aware of the nutrition community as such. So I see a lot of nutritionists themselves recommending because if I go to nutritionists for a diet plan, say for a weight loss, so they just imbibe the supplements into the diet, into their diet chart that they give me. So just wanted to ask what is the level of awareness within the nutrition community on these supplements and do they need any specific training to read those food labels before they can actually start prescribing to their clients is my question. Sure. So I would recommend that if you are going to go to a professional to basically regulate your food for whatever reason, whether it be for reasons of health, whether it be reasons for weight loss or whether it be food allergies or food intolerances, there is a body in India which regulates the dietitians. It's an authority, it's called the IDA that is the Indian Dietetics Association. You do have to pass an exam. You do have to have a professional degree in nutrition which is either a BSC or a BSC and MSC and on top of that you do have to pass an exam and they do have updated curriculum on a regular basis with which you can update your knowledge. The IDA also has a database of dietitians city-wise and state-wise that you can go to and these are the professionals you should be consulting with regards to your diet chart for whatever reason that you do consult. Do they need to know with regards to food labeling, not to the extent that food regulatory professionals need to because they have food regulatory professionals have to enforce certain laws that are in place and those laws can be changed but they do need to know how to read a food label. They do need to know what the ingredients are capable of doing within the body, how they're metabolized or are the end results and they do need to know how to monitor the effect of that on your body because not everybody's body or physiology metabolizes ingredients the same way. There was a Nobel Prize nominated or Nobel Prize winning study that was done by the Nutritional Institute in Tel Aviv with regards to comparing different types of foods and how they react in different bodies or how they metabolize in different bodies if you standardize all the other parameters and it was an interesting study, I'll link you to it if I can catch up with you later and what it showed was that people who would have the same cookie, somebody's blood sugar would spike and crash and somebody's blood sugar would just raise a little bit and then plateau. So personalized nutrition is a real thing and responsible dieticians whose names and numbers you can access from the IDA do know about this and will monitor your health and your body's response to different types of foods to see what is best for you. Does that answer your question? With regards to supplements and them putting in supplements if they're not, like I said, even professionals are susceptible to the shiny principle display panel versus a ton of fine print that I find difficult to read. Not everybody dives in so deep. So you do need to find a professional who dives in deep and understands every aspect of both the nutrition label as well as the ingredients list and as well as the claims that are being made which allows them to go back to the study and take a look. So it's a little bit of a long answer but I hope it comprehensively answers your question, Shalta. Yes, yeah, perfect. That was very helpful. Okay, thanks, Huda. Zainab just asked me to give my opinion on Kunal's question and I think it's got to do with whether milk is necessary for adulthood or not. I am not an expert in nutrition so my opinion is entirely based on my experience of milk consumption and my likes and my dislikes. What I do know is that milk is one of the foods that is simultaneously high in sugar and in fats and sugar and fats are a deadly combination. Your tongue just loves that. So one can really want a lot of that but at the same time I feel sugar and fat together can create a lot of metabolic movement that may not always be good for. I found in my case, it's not very, it doesn't work for me. I mean, foods that don't combine high carbs and high fats are something that I have found to be good for me in terms of digestion and how I feel about it. I don't feel bloated and stuff like that. So milk is not something I would personally drink as an adult. As a child, I suppose they have better metabolic or faster metabolic rates and it can be consumed or processed easier by them but I also believe that fermented milk like curds and whey and stuff like that contains everything that milk has but it is a lot easier to digest and I think the sugars have been sort of processed by the microbes so they are easier on the body but that is my non-expert opinion on this so I'll leave it at that. Even my opinion is a non-expert opinion, Yogita. It's just that I have a little bit more experience with regards to food and I do like diving deep into research papers and I do keep myself updated with MOOCs, those are massively open online courses which are provided by a variety of universities. It's fantastic, the kind of knowledge that you can upgrade yourself, upgrade so that you're more aware of things. With regards to fermented milk, I would like to make a note over here. I was severely lactose intolerant in my 20s. I'm 38 now. And it took a sustained drinking regimen of kefir milk. Kefir is, are you aware of what kefir is? I've heard of kefir. Yeah, so kefir is basically a collection of bacteria and fungi in a matrix which ferments milk and it was first found in the Caucasus mountains and it's a very traditional, very old drink. You can't synthesize kefir grains. You can only pass them down. They're still trying in Russia but we haven't gotten that complexity of microbial and basically your flora and fauna of that drink. Kefir is a symbioted versus a probiotic now a symbiote basically is something that provides both fiber as well as the bacteria to help ferment and metabolize and digest certain foods. And I'm a big proponent of kefir milk, but you're right. Any fermented foods are much better for your gut, especially if they're fermented in the correct manner. You do have to make sure that you don't fall sick. Some people tend to ferment and then they see some mold and they still drink it and it causes a lot of damage to your system versus trying to make it better. Gut health is a whole other topic by itself and you can go on for hours and hours but I will leave it at just that. I agree with you. If you're going to have milk, have fermented milk for the most part. It will tremendously help your gut health. It will tremendously help aid in digestion as well and it will allow the nutrition that is available in milk to be a lot more bioavailable. Plus the sugars that are in milk are almost completely gone when they're fermented, especially with kefir. With curd, there is still some amount of lactose which is the sugar in milk. But it's much, much lesser than it is in regular plain old milk. Okay, so thanks for that. Then we have a question from Lorraine. She says, can you suggest something wholesome we can create at home minus milk? I suppose we have one answer here with kefir but maybe some other things that can be made that can be easily made at home if you have any suggestions which does not involve milk. I would say the same thing again, Lorraine.  You can have them with milk. You can have them with cashew milk which is a lot better for the environment and has a lower carbon footprint than almond milk. And it does not have any residue left behind. Basically just soak cashews and water overnight, grind them down to a fine liquid and then you can add your malt to it and you're fine. Goa has a lot of cashews by the way. Lorraine is from Goa. So, cashew milk is much, although it does have a little bit more sugar and it does have more carbon hydrates than almond milk, it's significantly better for you. And it's locally grown. Try and eat what's local to you. Yes, that is always a good idea. Okay. Cashew milk can also be fermented to make cheese and yeah. So, you can also do that. So experiment, it's something that you can do at home. It's an exciting experiment and cashew milk is really delicious.  You can have it with a little cocoa as well and you'll sort it. All right. Do we have any more questions from YouTube or from elsewhere? No, no. Yugita, we don't. We could wrap up the session. Okay, so that was really actually a good session. Lots to learn from me as well. And I think on my part, the biggest takeaway, I noted two things. One of the things you said, Huda Pran, is that be suspicious of all labels. Like go in there thinking, I don't trust what you're saying. I'm gonna look at this more closely. So I think that's a good, healthy approach to have. Especially if they have those little superscripts like that C over here. The women's thing is just hilarious to me because you know, it has this one over here, there's two, there's three, there's four, there's five and then at the back of it as well, there's multiple of those. And then for children, you have something like these plus plus symbols and this little arrow over here as well. Compared to those who did not. If they say something like that and they have all these little superscripts, go down and see what they're talking about. Because when you say, Horlicks versus a non fortified beverage, it could just mean water. And of course, something with vitamin D and calcium and phosphorus and all these vitamins and minerals is going to be better for you than water. In certain cases, water is really good for you but it definitely doesn't have the vitamins and minerals that is present in this fortified beverage powder. And so adding to that, I think one more thing that I realized with what you've told us is that, especially with the Navadarshanam package was that if you can't understand what the ingredient is, I would stray clear of it. Like when there is malted, you know, one, two, three and I know what these ingredients are, I can pronounce the names. I think I would be comfortable eating those things. But the minute you get into Fracto-Oli saccharides and all, I mean, I don't know if I pronounced that right, but there are all these names that you find hard to pronounce and you don't understand them. I would sort of stay clear of those unless I absolutely know what they mean. It is to go with things that have fewer ingredients. I'll give a small example with chocolates. I love chocolates. You pick up a regular commercial bar of chocolate and you'll find like with these milk things, the first two, three ingredients talk about chocolate, but then it breaks down into a bunch of chemical soundings. It reminds me of my chemistry classes from way back when and I'm like, okay, what is all of this? As opposed to you take one of these artisanal bars of chocolate and you find, yes, they are more expensive, but there'll be like three or there'll be four ingredients and they're all things you can pronounce and things you understand that can be associated with chocolate. So that's the other thing I take away that keep it simple. And if you don't understand what it says, stay away from it. I'm actually going to provide a counterpoint to this and I'm going to say that evolve, educate yourself. If you can't understand or if you can't pronounce this thing, go look for it on the internet, but don't go to Healthline or WebMD or these websites that break it down for you and dump it down for you. Go to the places where they publish the papers just put in those three keywords or put in that and put in milk supplements. Like say for example, put in hydrolyzed corn solids and put in milk supplements. You will get scientifically published papers and you just need to read the abstract which is written in very simple English for you to at least understand what it does and where it comes from. So although you can still clear of a variety of things, I'm coming at it from a researcher's point of view. So I do, there are some friendly things that are also hard to pronounce. And what I would like to do is I would like people to just have better critical thinking when it comes to food labels. Can't understand it, take a photo of it, go back, read about it. It'll take five minutes. That's a great idea. Ask someone who can. That's a great idea. Any final closing comments from Zena? Anything you'd like to add? No, not really. Thanks both Yogita and Huda for doing this on a Sunday. Let's see if the world changes post-pandemic since this is what we've been discussing just before the session started.  We have one by Shuba Ardas who's gonna tell us why microwaves are very handy and he's going to talk about it from the point of view of water molecules and fat molecules. And he's really gonna teach us how to do a chocolate mousse or a chocolate cake in nine minutes. Now, I mean, we've got a demo that's all of what we discussed in the session. But yes, please indulge yourselves. This is on the 20th of September.  There is one that will be held on the last Friday of September which will be on why diets fail. So I think we really have a trail going from this. And yeah, I mean, have a good rest of the Sunday and the rest of the week. And let's see if the world changes next week. On that note, goodbye and good luck. And thanks once again, Yogita and Huda for doing this. Thanks. Thank you. Goodbye. Good night.


Oh, that's a bigger fish Come back to the channel everybody. Hey, we are back from the mountains. We are back from trout fishing and elk hunting Deep in the musty woods of Colorado and we're back in Texas at Guggen HQ It's very empty right now.  They're on their way We're getting ready to do a whole nother Guggen week. A lot has gone on Since I have left and something that came in that we are going to explore switching gears Is doing some bass fishing and this month's mystery tackle box is here I never even got to fire a fire narrow.  I want to let an arrow loose I didn't get to do it all week. It's okay. I still had a major successful hunt personally learning growth But here's the deal. I thought it'd be fun to fling an arrow at the box and See to do a little mystery challenge with the mystery tackle box and see which lure the arrow lands on and that is going to Be the lure I'm going to be challenged with fit. I got to learn how to fish again You also this truly is going to be a challenge and obviously today's video is sponsored by the company mystery tackle box long time partner of the channel long time supporter of the Guggen's and myself and if you guys Want to get signed up with them? Go show some support over there And you don't even have to show support just get some great lures inside of a box delivered to your door Starting as low as five dollars a month using the code Mondo one of my favorite words owners say it again Mondo and you can get signed up and start getting these things set to you and if you're already a subscriber to mystery tackle box Thank you and good on you. You already know you get value packaged into the box multiple different kinds of lures selected for the time of season that's going to work best for the specific species you're going after and They bundle it all together and that's how you get such a great price. So you're saving money. You're getting greatness It's like fish mess in a box. In fact Carl says happiness in a box. What's in here? I don't know It's a mystery. That's the whole point. You don't really know so it is fun to try different things new lures that you may have Never tried what we're going to do is we're going to sit this right up here Probably put it in a little bit better position than that and then I'm going to shoot this with an arrow Which ever lure it lands on It's going to be what I'm going to have to Fish with today, but this is going to determine a lot By the way, look at this to Skeeter FX's over here. There's Lunkers TVs. Here's mine Little twins little brothers over here and then why bam there's another one sitting next to my truck And I would dare to say this is Hector Rodriguez's boat. What a beautiful Specimen it is. What an amazing place to hang out kind of weird being in the woods all week and really not having much and Going back to like basic survival skills And then now I'm like just loaded with the the best top-of-the-line fishing equipment to lures everything So spoiled in the fishing game. Let's go fling an arrow to find out our fishing fate And I hope it's not some like little drop shot or something like that I hope it's something just with some shoulders on it. Throw up Chick-fil-a Arnold Palmer for good luck. I think so. It's tasty. What a beautiful segue to transition back into bass fishing Doing an arrow that I never got to shoot As part of the video just a beautiful segue. I mean Really just it deserves a thumbs up 30 yards. What do you think? I'm a little happy with the trigger there premature release We'll see what I got in here. Let's just take things out as I see them cowboy riding a crank bait That's pretty cool. Looks like we got some Mustad ultra lock Five-ought size hooks for big creature baits or worms or something like that nice quality Mustad hooks. We got some little swim baits here. These are big bites I believe that is a cane thumper if my fishing industry memory serves me correctly Yapa frog by Lunker Hunt. It's kind of like a wobbling sort of front the old-school abrogasts Who I can't remember the name dad gum help me out in the comments But it basically it wobbles on top. Oh a three-eight ounce black and blue jig Why didn't I hit that one that guy? That's one of my favorite movies all the time crawl Z by Z-man and We oh my gosh. We also have a really nice crank bait the MTB exclusive y'all so this is a top like Top surface wake bait balsa very nice and the last thing in here that I have stabbed a hole in Is the works? This is our selection for the day. This is the BioSpawn Exo ribbon So it's a ribbon tail worm seven inch. I can work with this baby Jigs and worms some of my favorite lures to fish year-round and this is a nice Compact size. We're gonna probably put a three sixteenths or a quarter ounce Tungsten weight on there with a little four-ot offset worm hook and we're just going We can fish this a variety of different places, so I feel pretty good about this choice y'all He didn't give me an help, but you got me a good lure to fish with today Fresh off the hunting game hard did not do a little recon just shoreline recon Before I head out into the the main part of the lake here. I've seen a lot of Different species and bait species up in the shallows and bluegill just loving some shade loving little pieces of brush and things around the bank small bass Kind of in there intermixed Seen Gizzard shad and things like that. So that tells me that these bass are not afraid to be shallow right now if they have some cover If they have some shade definitely possible. I don't I don't think I should try to go find some offshore things I don't know. That's just off the bat. That is one thing I could look for to catch fish a midday You know, it's 214 probably the worst time of day to be fishing right now, but I will as the day goes on I will get me a bass or two Almost dad gonna buy a spawnworm Remember how to put the trolling motor in Wabam a little weird being on my boat deck right now After fishing on the shoreline up the mountains Still remember how to do a worm right though got that thing Texas rigged That is on a 516 sound suede. I also have it rigged on a shaky head componentry I'm gonna start off just kind of close To where I launched deep water close by like 60 feet With some docks that have some shade on them with deep water. That's a it's a logical Thing to go to here. Oh my gosh, what's happening? Look at look at the shad being absolutely annihilated over here. Oh Hang on a second What is that all about? Oh, man, they're rushing them like right on the bank This is not a this is not a worm technique. There's got to be some fish on this bank though bust and bait Boy, that is deep. That is really deep there fish this worm Down the edge of this thing if if there's anything that is attacking bait on that shoreline. There's got to be some bass that are Kind of taking advantage of this frenzy that's going on This might be better suited for the shaky head to that little wakebait that's in the box, too. That'll be good But I have Destiny is giving me the worm The worms it's good for right now. I got a bite.  No, it's it's a spotted bass, maybe Got you you are a spotted bass Man, what a pretty fish. Well, you could tell the spotted bass They're rapid grabbers first fish Just my babies a little guy there goal accomplished already not the size but Got her done took me a second on that hooks out. I was like, there's a bite. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, there's another bite.  It's like 95 Basically what this is right here is just a ledge And Then that's good for midday tough conditions. Just have to get one that's a little aggressive to come after the worm I think probably the key area is gonna be these docks, but I just want to give this little bank of run. It's got good cover on it I'm fishing this setup on braid This is 20 pound Guggen Squad 8 strand. I've got a fluorocarbon leader on here 12 pound There's one. Oh I think we got a largey What's water clarity looks good right now? I got him a little deeper Yeah Just your good old-fashioned fat large mouth Yes, sir Nice healthy beautiful fish hooked right in the top of the lip where you would expect and he got that little Biospone ribbit tailworm in his mouth Wanted it by boom Nice fish. Okay friend back into the deeps literally You were down there. Good fight, sir Fish was not on a dock. It was just in the deep water So it had some shade cooler water always has more oxygen So that's just a basic need that they need right now I like it on the shaky head rig pretty nasty. So I'm gonna rig another one up and keep her going I'm seeing some fish surface like Random in deep water coming all the way up top which Tells me the water system is a little funky got marking fish deep, but they're they're feeding up high like That just tells me that they could be in a lot of places Which goes along with what I said at the beginning of the video. It's just tough months to fish break down You got to just be open-minded So I'm gonna focus on some docks now try to get some quality largemouth and not break off right there on the back corner Hello Water level down deep dock Oh my gosh is littered with shad. I could see them Shad are there's millions on Oh gosh, I think I just had a fish. Oh my gosh. Yeah, there's like millions of shad down there Oh, gosh got him. He came up out of that school. There was another one with it. What came up out of that school of shad Are you joking me? He swam up and ate that worm While it was swimming. Oh my gosh. That was crazy So they definitely were under this dock But they might have been suspended while I was swimming up Chased it bit it. I gave him a second to eat it. There's a little one. There was a bigger one behind it Dang man, that was cool. It's one thing about a ribbon tail. Sometimes they'll they'll hit it while it's just swimming It's kind of nice when I only have one lure to fish just focus on it Oh got another little spotted bass with a teammate with him I think that is what is down there. Oh gosh. There's three more with them Just for fun.  Well, it came out There was I thought one and then there's two more The spotted bass they tend to run in teams That one did not come off the dock so the two The two bites that have been smaller spotted bass They've been just kind of open rock areas and then the large mouth have been uh, a little bit deep.  I got a nice Had one chasing. You still got that guy with you man. There was like a three pounder with this guy I think he's a largey I think I still I think I see something down there I did not think that I was going to be double dangling like this but We are in the situation where it's just happening. You know, that's a largey there Oh, not a bad one. What was my worm? There was a tree Down there and I was working through it And I got multiple bites when I got up to the top I kind of jigged it and then that guy ate it and there was a nice one following it So I'm just gonna go ahead and fire out With the texas rig style Into this tree Try to fish the end of it Just work my way through it This little worm is getting it done y'all It's just so many ways you can fish it. I'm fishing it Texas rig and shaky head slow, but Um, I'm kind of making bottom contact you could fish it weightless little swim hook Oh, there's a bite only I cannot believe I missed him. I just saw one come up My bare eyes Got it. Oh, that's a bigger fish Yeah, oh god, that's a giant. Oh my god.  Oh my god.  He was a giant God dang I knew there was a good fish on that tree. I saw that three pounder follow up that That two pounder and I was like, oh man, I better throw back in there And I was working it through those limbs. I finally hit the right limb and it just boom And it started swimming directly at me and I was trying to catch up The whole time that was a big fish. That was like a six pound fish Oh, there's a gizzard shad being chased Just being destroyed And so here's the dilemma with youtube. I wanted to get That slow motion jump. I know my gopro was pointing right at and I was like, oh, that'd be cool If there's a big jump right here and it was a mega jump bigger than what I was expecting I was kind of expecting a wall or that stick pounder just came straight out That's why you gotta smash the like button.  Hey, I still got it.   I hooked Literally he would have just chomped you in one bite. It's my next cast y'all Wada activity around here, especially on the shady sides Just came around on the sunny side of me I may have to come back and fish that little magical Little fish are are deeper, you know, they're in that 12 to 16 zone There's one underneath the dock Spotted bass What's going on with you? Where's that fight at? It's supposed to be a spite Fighting spotted bass. Oh, man. I wish we had big spotted bass in Texas. That's about The average one Finally woke up there Folks, I had to do it. I had to do it.  See if I can catch a little mess DOS Okay, broke a couple lures off deep those suckers were like 35 foot down But I couldn't pass up the opportunity to go after one of the most electrical golden crispies There is the crappie Just a great afternoon. Got a couple of fish in the well for a little lunch tomorrow Had the opportunity to put my hands on a bohemath Didn't quite land it but still got to see the jump and the awesomeness And I'm probably going to get a couple more bites before I head in Oh got it Got him on the clutch on the stop Oh I just had to do it Had to fire out a lipless Because I keep doing this deal Come here, buddy. These are largemouth that are schooling.  Maybe not Got them triple grips on you largemouth Schooling Okay, let that fish go. So this bait will become a essential part of the tackle box As we head into fall But we're starting to see the signs right now Giant ball of shad right here just getting worked on Buddy's fish. They're sitting below it. I'm sure the crappier housing these things as well Can actually see the school of bass Right there They're off to my right. Here's the huge ball of shad There is the school of bass There's quite a few of them Little good luck die angle I started today's video saying I'm gonna I'm gonna fish like mid-depth to shallow because That looks like and then I end up Fishing so deep The conditions are changing and the fish are changing. They're like taking a pause I figured they'd be schooling like crazy right now Maybe say Is that fish? What is happening right here? I don't know Wow, I thought I had Bertha McGee there I got it off. Would you believe it? Okay, this is my last cast of the day Really didn't go where I wanted it to about 10 feet right, but it'll do Let's take this hat off Served me. Well, it's such a scorcher day coming from just delicious beautiful mild weather to very hot Am I getting the bite right now? Yes, I got a fish! Last cast, baby Oh, yeah God, you gotta love it. You've got to love it, man Y'all I am not kidding you That Is what I'm gonna end on last cast gave it a lucky dango You know, I gotta sniff you You're not a big one where we're gonna let you go If you like this format, let me know I kind of enjoyed that challenge Just picking something randomly and then focusing on it It really like makes you stay in tune, you know, I love fishing worms But if it would have been like a crankbait something I'm less good at fishing it probably would have helped me a lot, you know It's a really Just focus on that bait for you know half a day or whatever I don't know. I've been out here for like three and a half hours Pretty good dango. Let's not forget about that hog that came up and just rashed around. It's just good times, man Y'all I love fishing. I love every category of fishing I just do I just do I know a lot of you do too. I appreciate you being here Hey, if you want to show some support for this channel We do a couple of things for me. 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So team keeping clean huge update with the Baltimore Ravens, especially regarding Kyle Hamilton and a lot of other stuff that we got to talk about too, but let's start off with our guy, Hammy. Now we watched yesterday's game and we saw Kyle Hamilton leave the field with an injury, didn't come back on the field, but then end up leaving the field again and then he was declared out for the rest of the game. And they said he was declared out with a knee injury. So that had a lot of people freaking out as I completely understand. Cause that's Kyle Hamilton, he one of the best players, not only on the defense, but one of the best players on the team like straight up. And Raven's got a lot of really good players, but Kyle Hamilton has been amazing in his second year. He has been holding it down, but let's just read the report on his injury and exactly what it is. This from Jordan Schultz and this actually came out a little bit before John Harbaugh's pressing. He said Raven safety, Kyle Hamilton suffered a grade one MCL sprain during Sundays when over the rounds, sources tell Bleacher report, expect Baltimore to proceed cautiously, but Hamilton shouldn't miss much time, if any. So that is great news. Now, obviously not great news that he's hurt, but the significance or the lack of significance with his injury, that's a beautiful thing because this could have been a lot worse, but it's not, especially at this time of the year. So the part where he said, Hamilton shouldn't miss much time, if any. If me, just my opinion, I don't know anything, no plugs, no sources, no connects. I'm an NFL outsider. I would think that Hamilton would miss this game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, the Sunday night football, and then be back for the 49ers game. Now, of course, this week, starting on Wednesday, when they start practicing, then we'll know a lot more. We'll see if he's out there on a practice field, but I wouldn't expect them, the Ravens to travel Lawrence this thing. And I mean, they're two different injuries, obviously, but I don't think the Ravens would throw Kyle Hamilton right back out there. Now, while the Jaguars in a much different situation than the Ravens, I don't think they would do that, especially how they've been operating with injuries this year. They've been proceeding with a lot more caution. So that's a good thing. So we are very happy that Kyle Hamilton's injury was not severe. It is not season ending. It is not an extremely bad one. I mean, any injury is bad, but this is an injury that they can sustain, man, that they can hold it down while Kyle Hamilton is out, and he shouldn't be out for too long. Now, speaking of Kyle Hamilton being out, Ken McCusick, film study Ravens, he put up this stat. He said the Ravens allowed the Rams 4.1 yards per play when Kyle Hamilton was on the field. It's like, okay, it's pretty good. That's really good. That defense was holding it down. They were pretty good. But when Kyle Hamilton was off the field, they allowed 7.7 yards per play. So the amount of yards per play almost doubled when Kyle Hamilton was not on the field. If you thought Kyle Hamilton was not a baller, if you thought Kyle Hamilton's impact was lacking, if you thought Kyle Hamilton is not a playmaker, oh, you are incredibly wrong. But shout out to Kyle Hamilton. I'm looking forward to seeing how he does when he comes back and how the Baltimore Ravens defense does as a whole when he comes back as well. Now, we got a lot more to talk about. But first, before we get into it, make sure, cause I know y'all like dressing up y'all cars with your rims and your wheels and your rims and wheels. So you can do that at powerhousewills.com and they are taking care of you because if you use code TKIC5, you get 5% off of all orders under $1,000.  Now, don't try to mix and match the code. Don't try to use the 10% code for 10% off of an order under 1,000. Don't try to do that cause it ain't gonna work.   Now, some other news. The challenge that hardball threw that had a lot of people scratching their heads when the Marcus Robinson, former Baltimore Raven, by the way, he caught that touchdown in the end zone and hardball threw a challenge flag. And then they said that he was challenging if the Marcus Robinson stepped out of bounds.  They're like, and hardball doesn't have some rough challenges over the years. And I'm like, man, hardball, like what are you doing? How is this, what's going on in your head to where you're challenging that? And he wasn't even like close to stepping out of bounds, but hardball said that there was a method to his madness. He said that the reason why he threw that challenge flag was to give the Baltimore Ravens more time to prepare for the Rams two-point conversion. So I'm like, all right, cool, hardball. If that's what it was, then all right, nice. Cause it was basically like calling a timeout. It was basically that because they spent all that time looking over it and whatnot, then they came back and they was like, oh, well, this not a play that can be challenged, but since he threw the challenge, then the Ravens will lose the timeout. But there was a lot of time that went past when he threw the challenge. So that ended up working out in hardball's favor and the Ravens, yeah, they did stop the two-point conversion. They did. So his plan worked. So I guess hardball, instead of thinking that he was a mad man, for that play, he was a genius. So shout out to the Haws for that. Now, Ronnie Stanley. Ronnie Stanley and his, I was about to say his first game back, but he hadn't missed any time before this or right before this. So in Ronnie Stanley's first game back from the buy week, we were all hoping, we know that he had been struggling. Ronnie Stanley had a lot of rough moments throughout this season, but in his first game back, then pass protection, he did an excellent job. He did a phenomenal job. He played, in pass protection, he only allowed one pressure in 44 snaps. No sacks, only one pressure. That's it, one pressure. Now, it got kind of weird toward the end of the game because we saw Pat McCary out there and we hadn't heard about a Ronnie Stanley injury. Then we saw Daniel Philelli out there. We hadn't heard about a Morgan Moses injury. So hardball talked about it today and he said it was actually the offensive line coach's idea that they switch those guys out so they could be extra fresh, especially toward the end of the game. As far as Ronnie Stanley and Morgan Moses, they had been dealing with their own injuries prior to the game. So I was like, okay, that is quite a strategy there, especially when the offensive line, in my opinion, that's somewhere where you need cohesion. You need to be in one accord. So to be flipping guys out, especially at the tackle positions, that's a lot, but that shows that you got a lot of trust in those guys who are the backups to come in and get the job done. And they obviously did it because everything worked because the Ravens won. So shout out to that. Now, this team, you see a lot of moments where I feel like this team is selfless. The players are selfless. They're looking out for each other. They are really about team camaraderie.  And that is something that's really, really special. Excuse me, and when you have that on a team, you got to appreciate it. And with Zay Flours, Nelson Aguilor, before the Zay Flours touchdown, which was on 3rd and 17th, like after all of that full of more Jackson to come out and throw that perfect pass and Zay Flours to catch it. Like for all of that to happen, the way that it did was amazing. But anyway, before that Zay Flours touchdown, Nelson Aguilor, he actually told Lamar Jackson that he felt like the safety would follow him and that that would end up freeing up Zay Flours. So Nelson Aguilor, a wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens.  Zay Flours, he'll get his. Oh, there, Beckham, Jr., he get his now and then. And of course, as the season has gone along, ever since that Seattle Seahawks touchdown, he's been more and more involved every week.  It's like that consistently. So for Nelson Aguilor, being in the position that he's in, I'm sure he'll be like, no, I want the ball at the end of the game. I wanna be the one that makes the play. The game-winning touchdown, well, what we thought could have been a game-winning touchdown, I wanna be the one to do it. But he's out here looking out for, not only another receiver, but a rookie. A rookie wide receiver. And another thing too, like, Nelson Aguilor, he could have been thinking about the future, like, oh, I'm only on a one-year deal. This could be my last year. And with the Baltimore Ravens, I need to get as much as I possibly can for me. And I get it, because it's business. It's business, but at the same time, with him looking out for Zay Flours, somebody who's set to be with the Baltimore Ravens for a while, that says a lot about him and his character. So shout out to Nelson Aguilor for that. Now, speaking of selfless, Rashad Bateman. Now, Rashad Bateman is somebody who I envisioned going into this season. I thought that he was going to be the number one wide receiver, but it just hasn't worked out like that, unfortunately. But Rashad Bateman, you could think that Rashad Bateman would be upset. You could think that Rashad Bateman, that even though his numbers aren't looking like he probably envisioned them this season, you could think that he would be like just frustrated and whatnot. And he could be those things, but at the same time, it's all about how you deal with it. He could be lashing out. He could go on Twitter or whatnot. It'd be like, oh man, I ain't getting no targets or I can only control what I can control. Or he could go put up a lyric to a Drake or J. Cole song or something like that, and then allow people to decipher exactly what it means. But he ain't do none of that. And yesterday really showed that he's all about the team. Because my guy, Justin, by the way, on Twitter, he put this up and he said, I think it's time for Bateman and the Ravens to mutually part ways. Now I didn't ask him why he put that up, but I would assume because Rashad Bateman just hasn't been getting the target shed that we would have thought that he would get. He hasn't been just making it happen for the Baltimore Ravens like we thought he would this year. But for whatever reason, he put that up. But Rashad Bateman, he caught wind of that and he responded. He said, all right now, I've been messing with you. Chill out. And he put a laugh in emoji. He said, God's timing. And he said, we are winning. We're winning. So Rashad Bateman letting it be known like, look, no, I ain't with none of that. And I mess with you. But the only thing I care about right now is that we're winning. The Baltimore Ravens are winning. And he just laughed it off. And then my guy, Justin, by the way, he said, my fault, bro, just been trying to see you get your bag. And Rashad Bateman responded to that too. He said, let these dummies keep their opinion. Flock up 100,000. 100,000. So Rashad Bateman letting it be known like, look, I'm, why he probably does want it. I'm sure he wants his numbers. We know he wants his numbers. But the team is winning. And Rashad Bateman letting it be known like, hey, that's what matters the most to me. That's what I care about the most, the fact that the Baltimore Ravens are winning. And that is a beautiful thing from Rashad Bateman. So shout out to Bateman. And we still hoping that he continues to get more and more opportunities that especially on them deep balls, because Rashad Bateman been making some plays happen. He been getting open now. Just to go back to the first deep ball that was intended for Rashad Bateman. Initially, when it was live, I thought Rashad Bateman slowed up. And I'm like, ah, he slowed up, man, what happened? Then I saw the replay. Then I thought, oh, Lamar overthrew it.  But they showed the whole all 22. And Rashad Bateman, he actually did slow up a little bit mid-router or whatnot. He slowed up and then he sped up and then he slowed up again, but anyway. So, but it's all good. They'll end up getting, and like I said yesterday, it's so important that they continue to take the shots downfield because you will never get it if you don't keep trying. But I know eventually it's gonna happen. Yesterday was a big sign that they are on their way. They just gotta build off of that, man, they really do. Now, my guy Justin, by the way, the same tweet we talking about, but Lamar Jackson, he actually jumped in too. Again, the tweet said, I think it's time for Bateman and the Ravens to mutually part ways.  And then he said, my hashtag, mine your business, love you though. So Lamar Jackson was a little, not even really a jab, you know, it's a playful jab. You know, Lamar, he wasn't serious with that. He's just joking around. But I did appreciate Lamar chiming in with that and just holding it down for Rashad Bateman too, man. Cause I'm sure Lamar like, look, no, no, no, no. I ain't trying to lose no more of my good wire receivers. No, I ain't trying to lose nobody, man. So don't even start talking about that. Don't put it in people's mind. Don't put it in people's head that Rashad Bateman and the Ravens need to mutually part ways cause I want Rashad Bateman to stay.