With that, let's have our first preacher come up, Brother Benjamin. I just want to thank the Lord and Pastor Bernardsky for allowing me to preach tonight. The title of my sermon, excuse me, is called Making a Covenant with Your Ears, right? So this sermon is mainly geared towards the men of the church because it's the men to have to go out every single day to make a living for the family or for themselves. And we have to deal with stuff that we shouldn't have to listen to on a, sometimes on a daily basis. You know, I've talked to multiple people already and just kind of, not necessarily for getting sermon ideas, but just to see how other people are dealing with this kind of thing. I've already heard multiple stories that people do tend to hear a lot of off stuff at work. And so the whole reason for the sermon is that, so you know how to deal with that kind of a thing. And of course this applies to the women too, but mostly to the men because we have to be out there in a secular world every single day, listening to, unfortunately, having to listen to discussing things and how to put an end to that basically is how this sermon is going to go. So the first verse I want to direct you guys to is Job 31.1. Job 31.1. I'll just give you guys a second to turn there. So Job 31.1 says, I made a covenant with my eyes. Why then should I think upon a maid? Right? So he made a covenant with his eyes so that nothing would enter into his eyes to get to his heart. Right? And so the same way we need to make a covenant with our ears, that nothing gets in our ears that doesn't need to be there. Because this kind of thing is, I take it very seriously because once it gets into your ears it gets into your heart and then who knows where it goes from there. And this is especially important for the men that are married because if it gets into your heart it can get to the weaker vessels in the home. Right? Your children, your wife, whatever, you're that stop gate, you know, that kind of stops that kind of thing from happening, gets into the within the gates so to speak. So the main thing is that when we're at work sometimes we have to deal with people that are worldly, secular people and sometimes they say really off things. Right? And so we just need to know how to how to deal with that kind of thing when it happens. One of the first points I want to make is that when they say things to you that might come might be a little disgusting, a little filthy. I don't want to get into any details here because I don't think it's appropriate.  You need to take that as an attack on your mind. Whether they know they're doing it or not, whether they're they've planned it or whatever the case is, you need to just take that as an attack on your mind. Right? And it could end up defiling your mind and causing you to think all kinds of weird stuff or whatever ends up getting into your heart. So the second point I want to make is that you need to guard your mind and guard it like a bank vault. Right? Nothing gets in, nothing gets out without your permission. Right? And so one story that I had at work, I was asked to tell somebody something. Right? I was asked to talk to, ask somebody a question, and I asked somebody to help me ask that question. And the guy ended up telling me to ask him something weird. It wasn't super, super weird or whatever, but it was still kind of weird. It's like, why would you even ask somebody to say that? Right? And so an easy way to deal with that kind of thing is just straight up let them know that you're not going to put up with that. Right? He told me something to tell somebody else. I said, I wasn't going to do that. I didn't, it was via text, right? Via chatter or chat. And I didn't tell him, haha, LOL, that's funny. No, I said, I will definitely not be saying that. Right? I made it known to him right away. I'm not going to put up with that. Right? That was the first time. And then he ended up saying something again later and whatever. It wasn't a huge deal, but I personally, I need to give a bit of a bit grace because I can be very sharp about that kind of thing. So I need to sort of pull the reins back. So I get people grace, right? We need to give people grace. And but at the same time, we need to let them know that we're not going to put up with that because that can enter your mind and then enter into your heart and enter into your Christian life and derail your whole Christian life. And we don't want that, right? And like I said, it's especially important for the men of the church because we're out there dealing with worldly people on a daily basis. Whether we like it or not, that's just kind of what we have to deal with. And confronting others. So let's turn to Galatians 2.11. Galatians 2.11. So Galatians 2.11. And this is going to be like a very practical sermon. Galatians 2.11 says, but when Peter was come to Antioch, I would stood him to the face because he was to blame. He was to be blamed. And so the whole point I'm trying to get at here is that if somebody tells you something weird and they keep doing it, you need to just withstand them to the face, right? You don't let them keep doing it over and over and over, walking over you because your values and what you believe in, your Christian values are more important than anything. Even more important than your job. If you have to deal with that kind of thing on a daily basis and nothing is changing, I would just say get a new job. It's not worth it to keep working that job and having to deal with all these disgusting things that people are saying on a daily basis, day in, day out. Eventually, unfortunately, that stuff can go into your ears and leak into your heart, right? So we want to make a covenant with our ears and make sure that we stop things from entering our ears within as much as we can control ourselves. We can obviously go out and talk to people. For instance, if somebody is having a conversation in another room, you don't just barge into that conversation because they said something off, right? If they say something to you directly, at that point you need to say something. Don't just let it continue, don't let it fly over and over again. You need to make a point that it's not okay. And as far as confronting people, confronting people, as far as that goes, it's kind of the same thing like when it comes to soul winning. Some people are very timid at the door. Some people don't like confrontation. So one piece of advice, I want to get people that have that kind of hesitation when dealing with conflicting situations is just learn to love it, right? You have to learn to love it, get used to it. I'm not saying go out there and start problems with people and start problems where they don't need to be, where they don't need to be. But you just need to learn how to love confrontations with people and same thing when it goes to soul winning. Sometimes you have to have confrontational soul winning, same thing at work, right? You have to be able to put people through. You have to be able to have uncomfortable conversations with people, right? And never let it be said of a man that he's not able to have an uncomfortable conversation with people, right?  You know, we go to a great church, we read the Bible daily, we should be able to have the boldness to God and talk to people or go tell people, you're not going to cross those lines. Not going to happen, right? And let it be known. And who cares what they say at work or whatever, it doesn't matter, right? You're working for Christ, you're not working for the boss anyways, ultimately. So just, yeah, learn how to confront people, don't be shy. Obviously, you know, I think it's Romans 12a team says, if it be possible, as much as lie within you, live peaceably with all men. So don't go with starting problems where they don't need to be started.  I'm not going to put up with it, right? We have to deal with this on a daily basis. So in another way to deal with this kind of thing is just to use silence, right? Personally, one thing I love to do with people to say weird stuff is just silence. What that does is it gives them a chance to think about what they just said.  What I just said.  And, you know, that's a pretty good way to deal with stuff. And then eventually they get the hint, right? At that point, you might need to be a little sharper. And that's where I kind of need to reel myself in a bit, because I can be very sharp with people. So I try to give them grace. But at some point, you got to put your foot down. You can't just let this stuff keep happening over and over at work, right? It's an attack on your mind, and you should take it as such. Don't take that kind of thing lightly. And the last thing I wanted to say before I close is just this whole sermon, it was a short sermon, and I hope there was a few practical things that will work for you. But none of this is going to make any difference if you're not sensitive to sin to begin with. If you just let things happen, you just joke with people about simple discussing things, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you do. You're going to continue to let those attacks happen on you, and you're not even going to understand why your heart's turning wicked and hard, right? So the last verse I want to bring up is Proverbs 14 and 9, fool doesn't make a mock at sin.  Don't go along with it. When they start joking with you and they start talking about sexual things or whatever, don't go along with it. You put a stop to that right there when it happens. Otherwise, they're going to keep doing it. And ultimately, that affects your heart. So you make a covenant with your ears. Don't allow that stuff to happen. Don't cut that off at the source if you can. Make a covenant with your ears so that this stuff doesn't enter into your heart. Just pray. Father, thank you for allowing me to preach here. I just pray that the next preacher would be given edifying sermon for the rest of us, and I pray that you would bless the fellowship and our New Year's Lord. Thank you for everything you do. In Jesus's name, amen. Good evening, everyone, and please open your Bible to 2 Corinthians chapter 9. First of all, I would like to thank Pastor for this opportunity to preach. 2 Corinthians chapter 9. The title of my sermon tonight is God Loved a Cheerful Giver.  Of course, God wants us to have other Christian attributes like being faithful, honest, hardworking, and so on. But this is the only quality of a person that the Bible specifically says what God loves about a person. Because one of God's nature is to give. For God so loved the world that he gave, his only begotten Son. Our human nature is to receive and giving sometimes is difficult. Please turn to 2 Samuel chapter 23. 2 Samuel chapter 23. If we want to be a special person in God's eyes or have his favor on us, we should strive to have these characteristics of being a cheerful giver. King Saul and King David are both anointed by God, but King David is very special in God's eyes. And why is that? Because being a cheerful giver or being selfless is one of King's David's special attributes. 2 Samuel chapter 23 verse 14 says, And David was then in unhold, and the garrison of the Philistine was then in Bethlehem, and David longed and said, Oh, that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate. And the three mighty men break through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David. Nevertheless, he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this. Is not this the blood of the man that went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it. These things did these three mighty men. Folks, giving is not always about money. David's men were determined and sacrificed their lives to get David a drink of water from the midst of their enemies. Instead of drinking the water for his own pleasure, David gave the water to God. And these three mighty men also displayed their selfless characteristics. That's why they were close to King David. Speaking of a drinking water, this reminds me of Brother George from Verity Baptist Church that came to join last year's summer church hike. We hiked to the Mist Falls in King's Canyon, and halfway of the hike, me and my wife ran out of water. And Brother George offered to get us water. He went down on a steep cliff, maybe it's about 25 feet, you know, drop to the lake. And he also had a great opportunity to see in close proximity this mama bear and her two cubs. That must be an adrenaline rush experience. Having a cheerful giver attributes is noticeable. In this church, there are men and women that are special to me and my family because they have this quality. And if we as human being can see this special quality in them, how much more with God that can see the heart and not just the deeds. These men and women are definitely special in God's eyes. Please turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 8. 2 Corinthians chapter 8. Through God's Word and the examples of Jesus Christ and other people around us, we can practice and develop a cheerful giving attitude. 2 Corinthians chapter 8, verse 5. And this they did, not as we hope, but first gave their own selves to the Lord and unto us by the will of God. Please turn to Luke chapter 22. Luke chapter 22. The first thing that the Corinthians did was they gave their own selves to serve the Lord, to serve in the church. In our society, the person that's being served are highly esteemed or respected, but in the eyes of God, it's the other way around. The one that's serving is more honorable. Luke 22, verse 27. For whether it's greater, he that's seated at me or he that's served, it's not he that's seated at me, but I am among you as he that's served. Jesus, the God of the universe, lowered himself to serve us. When we give ourselves and commit to serving God, that is a sacrifice. An offering that is pleasing to God. If we want to practice what the Corinthians did, we have to give ourselves to God by serving the church. Please turn to Romans chapter 12, Romans chapter 12. People with this cheerful giver quality oftentimes are serving in the church. We know that there are many people that are generous giver. People give millions and millions of dollars, but not everyone that is generous in giving serve God. Romans 12, chapter one. I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, wholly acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. A living sacrifice is something that we give up or offer ourselves in serving God. This is our reasonable service. The sacrifice that is suitable that's acceptable to him. Please turn to Psalm 101. Psalm 101. Being involved in serving God is the best thing that we could ever do in our lives. This service keeps us close to God and earn eternal rewards. Psalm 101 verse six. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me. He that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. Please turn to Revelation 22 at the end of the Bible. Serving God in the church is just a preparation for our everlasting service. Soul winning is great. Soul winning is a great work. It is a great work that we can do here. Don't get me wrong, but it only lasts here on earth. There's no soul winning in heaven. Revelation 22 verse three. And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the lamp shall be in it, and his servant shall serve him. Skip to verse 12. And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me. To give every man according to his work shall be. Prepare yourselves for the new year on how to serve God. There's no work that is small in his eyes. The most important thing is your heart is cheerful in doing that work. For God loveth a cheerful giver. Let's pray. Father, thank you, Lord, for today. Thank you, Lord, for this church. Please bless and bless the rest of the preachers tonight. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Brother Max, put your Romans chapter seven, please. Romans chapter seven. And thank you, pastor, for these men's preaching nights are really great already.  So Romans chapter seven. And what I want to preach about this evening is the battle between the spirit and the flesh. Again, going into the new year, we want to start the new year off on the right foot. And you've got this battle going on because we're all saved here tonight. I hope we've got the Holy Spirit and you've got the flesh and they're warring against one another. And I want to show you what this battle looks like and how we can, you know, feed the spirit and walk in the spirit so we can win this, win this battle. So look at Romans seven, look at Romans seven, look down at verse 14. It says, for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For that which I do, I allow not. For what I would, that do I not. But what I hate, that do I. If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me, that is in my flesh dwelleth no good thing, for to will is present with me. But how to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I would, I do not. But the evil which I would not, that do I. Now if I do that I would not. It is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law that when I would do good, evil is present with me. So this is the battle that we're in, this is the struggle that we're in, and Paul goes back and forth, and it sounds a lot like, you know, what I don't want to do, I do, and what I want to do, I don't do, but to just break it all down, that's what it simply is, is Paul saying, we've got this struggle. The spirit wants to do one thing, the flesh wants to do another thing, and we're constantly going back and forth. And what we want to do is feed the spirit. And an old pastor of mine said, it's kind of like two dogs, and whichever dog you feed is the one that's going to be stronger and is going to win this battle. So you need to feed the spirit and not the flesh in this war. And this is a dangerous war. Look, flip one chapter over to Romans 8. One chapter over to Romans 8. This is important because this can really affect our lives, not just our Christian lives, but this can this can destroy our lives. Look at Romans 8 13. It says Romans 8 verse 13 says, for if you live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if you through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. So there again is saying the deeds of the body of the flesh, the things of this world, the carnal things, those are the things that lead to destruction. Those are the things that don't profit versus when you're in the spirit and you don't live in the flesh and you walk in the spirit, you have life. Look a few verses back at Romans 8 5 says, for they that are after the flesh do mine the things of the flesh, but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit. For to be carnal minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Again, it's just a super stark contrast, right? You've got the flesh and it just straight up says, you know, for to be carnal minded and walk in the flesh is death, right? Versus to be spiritually minded to walk in the spirit is life and peace. So this is what we're confronted with and we have both options. Christians, because we're saved by grace through faith, you have the ability to 100% just walk in the flesh and never read your Bible and never go to church and never sing a hymn or do anything that would cause you to walk in the spirit or live in the spirit. You can 100% follow the flesh or you can walk in the spirit and you can follow the Lord. And this is a big struggle and obviously we all struggle with the flesh in different ways and different people have different problems with that, but this is an important battle because we let the flesh win. If you feed the flesh, if you don't walk in the spirit, if you don't renew your mind, you start to lose this battle and you start to lose your Christian life. And I'm going to read you 1 John 2. You go back one chapter to Romans 7. Go back to Romans 7 if you would, but 1 John 2 15 says, Love not the world, neither the things of the world. If any man loved the world, the love of the Father is not in him for all that is in the world. The lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father, but is of the world. You all know that verse and what it's saying is the flesh has less power over you. You don't love the things of this world. The things of this world, you know, covetousness, all these different things, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the pride of life, those are the things that are going to pull you away from your walk with God.  Those are the things that are going to cause you to lose this battle between the spirit and the flesh. And so don't heed the things of this world. And what I want to show you now, now that we kind of see this battle, right? And Paul talks a lot about this more. You can read Romans 7 and Romans 8 if you want, you know, more scripture on this. But let's look at Romans 7 verse 22. Now that you've kind of seen what the battle is between the spirit and the flesh, how can we win this? How can we walk in the spirit? How can we, you know, improve our spiritual lives so that we're not falling into the flesh? We'll look at Romans 7 22. It says, verse 22 says, for I delight in the law of God after the inward man, but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. A wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death. I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin. So this is a really profound couple of verses, I think, because when I was when I was reading this, I realized in verse 22, it starts off by saying the law of God. And then Paul basically says, oh wretched man that I am, how am I going to escape this? How do I escape the flesh? And then the next verse he says, I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. He gives us the answer. And then it says, so then with my mind, with the mind, I myself serve the law of God. So he brings the law of God up again. But this is because Jesus is the word. When we serve him, when we do what the Bible says, when we follow what God has told us, we're serving Christ, but we're also serving the law, is what Paul's saying. And because of that, we're walking in the spirit and and not fulfilling the lust of the flesh. And notice again, it said at the beginning it said, warring against the law of my mind. So the law and the Bible and God's word is warring against our members, the flesh, sin, all of that. And they're contrary one to another. And we need to walk in newness of life. We need to serve Jesus Christ and serve and follow God's laws. And that's what helps us win this battle. That's the only way you can't do this. This isn't some physical battle, obviously. But it's only done through walking the spirit. Galatians five, and I've probably already quoted parts of this book, Galatians five 15 says, this I say then walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh for the flesh lusted against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary the one to the other so that you cannot do the things that you would. Right? It's the same thing Paul was saying back in Romans seven that you got both. It would be easy. It would be easy if the Christian life, the minute you got saved, you just lost all desire for sin and you only had the Holy Spirit. That would be easy because then we'd all be in church every day and it would be perfect because we wouldn't have the desire to sin still. But because we have both, they're contrary one to the other as Galatians five says, so it gives us the answer again, walk in the spirit. Walk in the spirit, you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. And piggybacking off what brother Benjamin said in his sermon, if foul language is coming out of your mouth, you're not walking the spirit. If you're joining in with all of this garbage that people are saying at work, that's not walking the spirit. You need to be separate. God says, come out from among them and be separate. And you need to walk in the spirit and not just give yourself to whatever everybody else is saying, just as a side note there. But that's really the key. That's really the key. And in conclusion, I'll read you Romans 12, 2 says, and be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So going into the new year, we want to start this out. We want to start the new year out, walking the spirit, not walking the flesh. You want to think about the bad habits you've got, and you want to put those away. You want to think of the good habits you want to have, like Pastor said, and build those up, work on those, create goals for that. A great one is the nine chapters a day challenge, because there's no better way to renew your mind to walk in the spirit than to get in God's word and listen to what he wants for you, what he wants for your life, and what he's asking you to do. So do the nine chapters a day challenge, starting tomorrow, and start the new year off, walking the spirit, not walking in the flesh, because we have this battle, and you're going to have this battle all the way until the day you die. None of us are going to reach sinless perfection or anything. So you have to fight this battle, and the only way you can do it is through God's word, through Jesus Christ, through being in church, through immersing yourself in the things of God, not the things of the world. So let's close in prayer. Heavenly Father, thank you for this opportunity. I pray that you bless the next preacher and bless all the fellowship this evening. Jesus' name. Garrett. All right, go ahead and turn to first Samuel chapter five, first Samuel chapter number five. So just to kind of catch up to this story I'm having you turn to, stay there by the way, I'll keep you there for the whole sermon. But the context is Israel right now is being ruled by Samuel who is the last judge. So right now this is right before the kings, the time of the kings began, and Israel goes to war with the Philistines and their big mistake they do is they decide to take the Ark of the Covenant into battle with them. And the problem with this is that not necessarily that they took it into battle in the same way as if someone was to hang maybe a cross or a necklace in their car, that's not necessarily wrong. But what was wrong is they relied on it as if the ark itself gave them some sort of supernatural power to save them. Like someone who hangs that cross in their car thinks that that's magically going to keep them from getting into accident or keep them from being hurt. And God is upset about this and he actually punches them terribly for this. Just to explain this in the chapter before, a man explained to the high priest what was going on and he said, quote, Israel has fled before the Philistines and there have also been a great slaughter among the people and the Ark of God has taken. So the Philistines actually take the Ark and what ensues is a nearly humorous story where we see the Philistines have the Ark and God's angry at the Philistines because they're even more wicked nation and then they're mistreating the Ark, they're not treating it the right way either. So God continues to punish them and curse them essentially and they for the life of them can just not figure out what is going on. And I think this is something we can do in our life. I think one of the greatest human biases is we can see everyone's fault but our own. Theodore Roosevelt once said, if you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of trouble you wouldn't sit for a month. So I want to explain here when we see damage happening in our life, how do we know it's God trying to get our attention? How do we know it's a mistake that we're making? So the title of the sermon this evening is this, how to tell when God wants his Ark back? How to tell when God wants his Ark back?  Let's see what they do with the Ark first. The Philistines took the Ark of God and brought it from Ebenezer unto Ashton. When the Philistines took the Ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, their false God, and set it by Dagon. And when they have Ashton rose on early in the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the Ark of the Lord. And they took Dagon and set him up in his place again.   Verse 4, And when they rose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the Ark of the Lord. And the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold. Only the stump of Dagon was left to him.  So they still can't figure it out. So they're like, okay, let's at least take it out of the room. Let's move it somewhere else. I'm going to read you this to get this point across. Leviticus 26, stay there. Leviticus 26, 27 through 30 says this. And if you will not for all this hearken unto me, but will walk contrary unto me, God says, then I will walk contrary also to you in fury, and I, even I will chastise you seven times for your sins.  So three, I want to give you three indications that the damage in your life is God chastising you. They're all literated. The first one this evening is this, the damage is consistent. Here you see the Philistines, God punish them again and again in the same way. God was upset over something very specific. In the same way as Leviticus, God's upset over something very specific. It's the idols. It's the high places.  It's going to be consistent. So that may be an indication that the damage in your life is consistent. One area of your life keeps failing and falling apart. You may want to check that. Look at verse six, verse 75. The second in this evening is this, the second indication is the damage is collateral. The damage is collateral. Other people who are not involved in this and bystanders are being hurt by your problems. Verse six, but the hand of the Lord was heavy upon them, the Vastod. This is the whole city. And he destroyed them. You know, we laugh at the story because we're going to read about emeralds and silly punishments like that. But you got to realize people died here. This was very serious. And he smote them with emeralds, even Ashton and the coast they're up. So people died not just in, not just the emeralds, but also people died in the whole coast. And when the men of Ashton saw that it was so, they said the Ark of God of Israel shall not abide with us. So they're kind of getting it. For his hand is sore upon us and upon Dagon or God. Notice there's something God wants from them very specific. He wants his Ark back. And they're getting closer to this realization. And we're just going to skip ahead because they go and they send it to Gath and then all the people in Gath die and get emeralds. And then they send it over here. And pretty soon they still can't figure out what they're supposed to do. But no one wants the Ark. They're realizing it's something with this Ark. Verse nine, it was so after they had carried it about the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction. And he smote the men of the city, both small and great. And they had emeralds in their secret parts. Verse nine, it says the people of Ekron say they have brought about the Ark of God of Israel to us, excuse me, to slay us and our people. So they realize it's something with the Ark and they're just passing it from city to city. But a lot of innocent bystanders are getting hurt. And that's just the people who decided to do this. I want you to notice. And this is one thing about sin is that sin can end up hurting a lot of innocent bystanders. A lot of people in your life who did not commit that sin, just because they're around you or associated with you, they can be hurt as well. This reminds me of the story in Numbers where you had people some wicked men were fell against Moses.   And you need to move or you're going to be swallowed up with them. So this is just a nature of sin. So look, if you keep finding the damage in your life often becoming collateral, you might want to take a look at yourself. Is there something God wants back? Is there something specific God wants from you? So we're looking at this evening at how to tell if God wants his Ark back? Is there something in our life? Is there a reason that God is God punishing us or chastising us for some reason? Well, first, is the damage consistent? Second, is it collateral? Here's the third indication and maybe the biggest one, the damage is out of control. Look at 1 Samuel 5 verse 11. Here after people have died, after people are diseased, they finally get it verse 11. So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines. They have an emergency meeting with all their government leaders and said, send away the Ark of God and let it go again into its own place. Why? That it slays us not into our people. For there is a deadly destruction throughout all the city, the hand of God was very heavy there. So finally, much like with us sometimes, only after completely losing control of the situation did they get it. Ezra 9.6 through 7, I want to just read to you, says this. This is Ezra kind of praying to God and confessing the sins of the nation. He says and said, oh my God, I am ashamed and blushed to lift up my face to be my God. For our iniquities are increased over our head and our trespasses growing up under the heavens. Since the days of our fathers, have we been in a great trespass under this day? For our iniquities have we, our kings and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings and the lands, to the sword, to the captivity, into the spoil, into confusion of face, as it is this day. Same thing with Israel. They didn't realize their mistake until they had lost control, until they were in Babylon, until they were yay, returning from Babylon. When they had no power and they completely lost control, then they finally realized, maybe God wants his ark back. This reminds me of if you're trying to, this reminds me of if I'm at work or something and I'm trying to get a bolt loose, you know, first you start off with the normal size wrench and if that bolt won't come loose, I don't just give up, you know, what do you do? Then you get a bigger wrench, then you get a bigger wrench and then you get the grinder, then you get the blow torch and you know, it's going to come off and so if we do not understand if God kind of nudges us a little bit and we're not getting it. Okay, maybe the first time God just tips Dagon over, but now he's going to start damaging stuff. Now Dagon's going to be beheaded. Now people are going to get hurt. Now other people are going to get hurt and the damage is going to get worse and worse until we finally get it. So look, just in conclusion this evening, how do I know in my life if God wants his ark back? Well, let's just try to recognize this chastisement before it gets completely out of hand and if we can do so and we can be successful in doing this, we'll save ourselves a lot of trouble. Let's pray. Dear Lord, thank you for the story and for Samuel God and the lessons from it. Thank you for this men's preaching night in this church. I'm pretty blessed the next preacher and Jesus' name we pray. Amen. But with Trevor. All right, please turn your Bibles to Luke chapter 16. I want to start off saying thank you for this opportunity to preach. I always love these men's preaching nights as well. Luke chapter 16, we'll look down at the story Lazarus. I want to point something out. The title of the sermon is Remembering in Heaven and that actually comes from a song in our hymnals from John R. Rice. So it's kind of coined after that idea. When we read through this passage in Luke 16, it kind of reminded me of that a couple of days ago. So I wanted to go through that. Psalm 90 in verse nine tells us we spend our years as a tale that is told and it was interesting over Christmastime. My wife and I were talking about this yesterday and this morning on the way to church. But for Christmastime, we had some family videos like old family videos from my grandparents and great grandparents, generations that were taken from like the 40s, 50s and 60s and even into the 70s that were kind of compiled onto a DVD and all the old home movies and stuff like that. And so we got to we got to sit down and kind of watch through some of those the first time my dad had seen that in a long time. His dad had passed away when he was really young 13. So he got to see old pictures of him when he was a kid and my dad when he was a kid. So it's cool to kind of look through and see, you know, what life was like back then, what they did, the things that they did. And it was interesting looking through that we kind of noticed, wow, look at they all had these old neat cars that we call old today, but they were, you know, new models, late model cars. And it kind of puts things in perspective as far as all those cars are probably not here anymore. All those cars are in the junkyard, all the clothes that they're wearing is in the junkyard, all the things that they were doing. It had pictures and videos of them doing stuff at work, doing things, having horses, having cars, having, you know, different things that they were busy with throughout the day. It was just a day to day, life shot video. All those things aren't there anymore, right? We live our years as a as a tale that is told what's going to be told of our tale when we're not here anymore, especially with this new year. Look down at Luke chapter 16, let's go through, let's start at verse 19. There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores and designed to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels in Abraham's bosom. He made it to heaven. The rich man also died and was buried.  And he cried and said, Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I'm tormented in this flame. He sees his position. He realizes he's without hope and he wants some type of relief. But Abraham said, verse 25, son, remember that thou and thy lifetime receivest thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and thou art tormented. Abraham says, sorry, you're kind of stuck. You're not going anywhere. Verse 26 is what I want to point out. It says, and beside all this, between us and you, there is a great gulf fixed. So that they which would pass from hence to you cannot, neither can they pass to us which would come from hence, from thence, excuse me. So the last part of that verse, neither can they pass to us. People in hell, he's talking to Lazarus, or excuse me, he's talking to the rich man, that would come from hence, from thence. So the people in hell, they're wanting to come from hell. They're wanting to come from hell to heaven, right? When it says would come, that's not talking about they are going to come. No, it's that they desire to come, right? They that will be rich, as somebody who desires to be rich, these people would come from hell to heaven. That's what their desire is. But notice the first part of that verse. So that they which would pass from hence, from here, from where Abraham is from heaven, to you cannot. They would pass. They would like to go and maybe trade places with somebody in hell. Can you imagine as a father, or you have a loved one or a family member, and you're saved, and you don't tell them how to get saved, and they die, and they go to hell, and these people in this story, this is a story, this isn't a parable, this is a story, this happened, these people can see from heaven, they can see the people in hell, and vice versa, right? They're talking. I don't know if this applies to everybody, or if it's just this particular story, but it sounds like it's everybody. And they can see this. And he's saying that the people that are in heaven, like Brother Jeff said, there's no soul winning in heaven. There's no soul winning once we die. That's it. We can be servants of Christ, we can live in Christ's glory and in heaven, but there's no more soul winning that we can do. It's easy when we talk about the new year and the things that we did over the last year, and the things that we have to look forward to this next year, the goals that we set, how we want to, maybe for our health, or for our work lives, or for our personal lives, or better our marriage, or increase our Bible reading, increase our church attendance, things like that. Those are good goals to have, and oftentimes even good goals that we can have. The Bible talks about in 1 Corinthians 3, it talks about every man's work shall be made manifest, and for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire, and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is. Talking about if it was work that had no eternal value, those works are wood, hay, and stubble, it says in that chapter, versus the things that have eternal value, gold, silver, precious stones. It can be easy, especially in America, to get sidetracked with the temporary things. Even things that are good, you know, as men, we're called to provide for our family, we're called to work, like we're working for Christ, we're called to do the best that we can, and work heartily, do it with our whole heart, but we out not less, those things take precedent and override the things that actually do matter, the eternal things that matter. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter 4. You know, in our spiritual life, and this was talked about this evening already, Matthew 13 and 22, I'll read for you while you're turning to 2 Corinthians 4. Talking about the parable of the sower, he also that receives seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word, and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becomeeth unfruitful. I believe this man is saved, it talks about him hearing the word in another passage that says that he receive it, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke it, and it becomes unfruitful. God forbid that that be said of us, you know, maybe when we are in heaven looking down, if this guy, this parable of the sower, he may be in that condition where he would trade places with somebody in hell, but he can't. That time has passed. 2 Corinthians 4, look down to verse 17, 17 and 18, it says, for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal. The things that we see, the things that we're busy with, the things that we saw in that video, and it was neat to see that, you know, kind of see history and see, oh, that's what he looked like in different things. It's fun to think back and to reminisce about things in our lives, but the things that we see, all the things around us, they're temporal, they're temporary. The Bible says in 1 Timothy 6, for we brought nothing into this world and it is certain we can carry nothing out. Job said, naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither, right? This is all we have is what we're doing. All the things that we can take with us to heaven are the eternal things, not the temporary things. So yes, we have to work in this world and we have to provide for our families and we have to clothe ourselves and we have to get to and from work and to and from church and we have to have a job and we have to have all these things, a roof over our heads, provide for our families and so forth, but we ought not make those things a priority, right? The Bible talks about idols in our life, anything that would take the place of God in our lives. And whatever is in the place of God, he's going to destroy it, right? Moses in the golden calf, he stamped it to powder and made him drink of it, right? God's going to do that with idols that we put over him in our lives.  The song, Remembering in Heaven, I want to read for you just one of the one of the verses of it. It's number 68 in your hymn, it's a really neat song. John R. Rice again, he wrote it, says, should I in the glory remember a loved one, one who walked by my side but is lost and outside? If I'd never begged him to trust in the Savior in heaven, I'd sit down and cry. Jesus's blood paid my ransom and I'm bound for heaven, but what will I think when remembering in heaven? It's got some really neat verses, that one really, really kind of hits home. We're only here for a little time, right? Our life is a blip. And if we think, you know, my wife we were talking this morning on the way to church a hundred years from now, if the rapture doesn't happen, if a hundred years from now, all the things that we do in our day-to-day lives will be gone. What is the only thing that will be remaining is the number on the back of that bulletin. The souls that we're saved when we go out and exercise our Christian faith. That's what has eternal value. And while we may make New Year's resolutions and goals for this next year, let's make sure we keep the main thing, the main thing. There's no soul winning in heaven. Let's remember that when we get to heaven, we don't want to be remembering and having regrets from here on earth. Let's pray. Dear Lord, thank you for this church, Lord. Thank you for the men, women, and children, families in this church, Lord. We pray that you would be with the next preacher. Bless the fellowship and the food this evening. In your name we pray. Amen. Brother Luke. All right, guys. I want to thank God and thank Holy Fast Baptist Church. Thank Pastor Pizarnski and all you guys for being here.  I'm calling this sermon is the mental price. So we often think about the physical price that Jesus Christ paid. We think about him discerning into hell and conquering that and overcoming it and death and all that, but we don't often think about the emotional price that was also paid there. So I'm going to start here at Luke 22 and Luke 22, 41 through 44, it says, And he was withdrawn from them about a stone's cast and kneeled down and prayed, saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but thine be done. And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. And as sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Now, some of you might know this, some of you might not, but this is like an actual condition, you know, where somebody could sweat blood. It's called a, it's called hematodrosis. There's other names for it, but it's, you know, relatively pretty similar. But hematodrosis is the one I wrote down and I have a couple snippets from some articles right here. This is from medical news today. It says, hematodrosis is a rare condition that causes a person to sweat blood. It may happen as a result of physical or psychological stress. Over here, National Institutes of Health said, It may occur in an individual who is suffering from extreme levels of stress. And then it also mentioned fear and intense mental contemplation are the most frequent causes. So fear and intense mental contemplation. You could see in Matthew 26, Matthew 26, verses 37 and 39. Right here it says, And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. Then saith he unto them, My soul's exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Terri ye here and watch with me. And he went a little further and fell on his face and prayed saying, Oh, my father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou will. And Mark chapter 14 is actually pretty close, almost, almost verbatim the same account here. But you see Jesus fallen on his face. He's exceeding sorrowful. He's, and Luke had said that he was in agony. And he's not, he's not in any physical pain yet. So what, what is this agony? This agony is mental pain. This is psychological. This is emotional pain, you know, that he's going through right here. Second Corinthians 521. Second Corinthians 521. Second Corinthians 521 says, For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. So Jesus Christ knew no sin. He was perfect. He was the Son of God, manifest in flesh, you know what I'm saying? He was the Word of God, manifest in flesh. He was, he was God, you know what I'm saying? Obviously separate from the Father, you know what I mean? His own person, but God nonetheless. And he knew no sin. He was perfect. But he was made sin. He was made to be sin for us. You know what I mean?  And oftentimes I think about, and you know, some, some of you who might have been saved later in life might relate, but often think about the guilt and shame of past mistakes you did, things that you did in ignorance, things that you did in unbelief. But nevertheless, we can't forget it. You know what I mean? It's still there. And that weight sometimes, when we think about that could be heavy. But it's, it's nothing compared to what the Son of God felt mentally, because he was perfect. He didn't do any of that. None of that guilt, none of that shame was his. Yet he bore it. You know what I mean? And he didn't just bore it on the, bear it on the cross. He bore it in his mind and his heart. And he was exceeding sorrowful. He showed us humanity and, and those accounts in those three gospel accounts in Gethsemane, how, you know, he knew what he was going to have to pay. And part of him, that human part was like, I don't know if I could follow through with that. I don't know if, I don't know if, I don't know if I want to pay that price. You know what I'm saying? But he did it. Thank God he did it. You know what I mean? Thank Jesus Christ, he did it. 1 Peter 2, 22, the 24, it also mentions, says here, who did no sin, neither was Gile found in his mouth. Gile is like deceitfulness, right? Who when he was reviled, reviled not again. When he suffered, he threatened not, but committed himself to him that judges righteously. Who his own self, bear our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins should live unto righteousness by whose stripes he were healed. So again, you know, we're told he had no sin. He knew no sin, not even, there was no Gile and even in his speech, there was nothing deceitful about Jesus Christ. He was perfect all the way through and through, you know what I mean? And 1 John 3, 5 says, and you know that he was manifested to take away our sins and in him is no sin. So again, no sin, Jesus was perfect. He was perfect. He was God, he was God here, you know what I mean? And he paid that price, not just physically, not just what he went through on the cross, being mocked, beaten, spat on, crucified, nailed to a cross, you know, hanging there, pierced in his side, not just the descent to hell, then coming back up, you know what I mean? Triumphant, but also mentally, knowing what he was going to go through, knowing the price he was going to have to pay, knowing that none of that guilt, none of that shame, none of that was his, yet he was going to take it anyway. You know what I mean? So 1 Peter 3, 18, it says, for Christ also hath once suffered four sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. I often think about what an unfair trade.  You know what I mean? It's not a fair trade. He was worth much more than every man and woman to ever live on this earth, and I just think, you know, how merciful, how good he is for doing what he did and knowing that price, right out the gate, what he was going to have to do. Even before he started creation, you know, he declared the end from the beginning, he knew what he was going to have to do, he knew that he gave us that free will, but because he gave us that free will, he was going to have real love back, real thankfulness when we give thanks to God. That's genuine. We're not automatons. We're not robots. We're not forced to love him. He gave us that. He gave us that free will, you know what I'm saying? He gave us the gifts of eternal life as well when we didn't deserve it, the just for the unjust. And I just pray that you all remember that it wasn't just physical, it wasn't just spiritual, but it was also a mental thing for him. So the next time you feel the weight of your past or the weight of whatever it may be, just remember that Christ paid it all. You know what I mean? But let's close in prayer. Lord, we thank you for today. We thank you for the opportunity to be here and to have fellowship with like-minded Christians and each other. And we're thankful that we made it through another year with clothes on our backs and able-bodied and able to continue providing for our families and taking care of one another. And I pray that you bless the next preacher and just keep us all healthy for this next year, Lord. In Christ Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Oh, I think I was the last guy. Amen. I love the Bible.  This was a great thing to do on New Year's Eve. And we just, you know, walk in the spirit. There's your New Year's resolution. Walk in the spirit in 2024. And I mean, just listen to the preaching that you just heard. Walk in the spirit because it's the least you can do for Jesus Christ. It's our reasonable service, as Brother Jeff said.   How many times have we gone to Luke chapter 16? And I have never thought about, you know, the guys or the people in heaven thinking about like, oh, why would they want to go there? And it's because there's going to be people there that they don't want to see there. And it's just such a profound point. And that brought me to James chapter two, thinking about, you know, our faith without works, there's plenty of Christians are going to have faith without works in 2024. But that matters to the profit of others. That means you'll profit no one in your Christian life. And I've said that at the door to people, people think that works, you know, oh, you're not saved by work. So what's the big deal? You're saying I don't have to do any works.  Is that a big deal to you?  Many of them won't be saved. You'll realize when you're in heaven, that you should have preached in the gospel, when you're watching them, not in heaven in hell. I mean, it's a big deal.  Walking in the spirit, not listening to things, not defiling our hearts, setting our hearts on the right things. It's everything that we should be doing. And it's if that's the things that we should be setting our goals towards in 2024. And I just thank the guys tonight for just, I just love listening to preaching. I mean, I don't get to listen to as much preaching as I used to. And I don't watch a lot of preaching online. I just really appreciate this. And I really, really am thankful for this church, for the men of the church, for the edifying sermons tonight. I just, I'm looking forward to tonight, looking forward to the fellowship and, you know, losing to Jeff and all that. And hope that we all have a good time. I think we're going to have another song, right? Let's have another song and close the service with that. Thank you guys. And God bless y'all.


Bob Trossett here, courtside with head coach Jackie Boswell after a big time victory. How do you evaluate your team's response? You guys came out a little bit flat in the first quarter. How about after that? Well, I thought our defense was really tough today. And we scheduled this game because we want to know what it's like to play back-to-back teams that are really, really good this weekend, because that's what we hope to be facing in March at the NCAA tournament. So this weekend was designed this way on purpose. And so I think we're a little tired and a little sore and beat up. So I'm really happy with the way we responded on the defense then, because we know we're going to have an offensive droughts like that, but nothing can stop our defense. And I thought we converted 28 points on the turnovers, and I thought that was the key to tonight's game. The girls must have eaten really well on Thursday at Thanksgiving. What led to this type of victory coming out during a break where you could have come out flat? Well, I think we've learned a lot over the past couple of weeks. Our motto is this year, we just want to learn every day. We want to get better every day. And I think they've really taken that to heart. So we've just tried to focus. And we wanted to carry over what we did yesterday and fix some of the things that we didn't do very well yesterday and capitalize. And I thought we did that. I thought they've really focused today in film and walk through. And I thought they did a great job. I'm really proud of them. We're going to speak to her momentarily. She really led your offense tonight and opened up a lot of opportunities. That's Sarah Tarbert. How do you evaluate her performance? Well, in the third quarter, I heard her get up. And she's like, come on, guys. Let's just hang in there and stay tough. And coaches, we kind of looked at each other. And we're like, well, she's about ready to take over. And I think she had six straight points after that. But I thought she did another really good job too. She had seven steals. So again, on the defensive end, she really played her part along with, I think, 12 rebounds or whatever rebounds she had. So she's tough to stop. And I thought we did a good job of putting a lot of pressure on them and making them tired in the end. And then she was able to capitalize off of that and keep going. Your thoughts heading into this Wednesday's contest versus Albright? Well, I think we're ready. I mean, we got a couple more days to plan for them. But I do think that these four games in the preseason got us ready for conference play. Thank you, coach. Happy holidays to you and the squad. Thank you, too. All right, guys, back to you. We'll see you on Wednesday versus Albright.


Can you guys hear me? Presenting on punctate inner core adopathy, coming from St. George University. Hi, so my name's Saibu Ngarim from St. George University. So my presentation is on a case report for rare disease called punctate inner core adopathy, which I saw in a patient in Dr. Shakur's and Dr. Otali's clinic. So I didn't see the patient on her initial presentation, but I still did see the patient for her follow-up. So the story is that when she initially came, she said, let me go back. So the history is she's a 20-year-old female with sudden loss of vision in her right eye. So her HPA is that two nights ago before coming to the clinic, she was watching a movie and she noticed some fuzzy spot in her vision and she just shrugged off saying, okay, just nighttime, so it'll go away. However, when she woke up in the morning, it was still there. So then she decided to come to the hospital and she was referred to the U.R.I.D.A. clinic. So, and she referred the spot as fuzzy and the center of her vision in the upper right eye, but it's stable in such times. There's not increasing, not such stable. And she denies any pain, any flores in her eyes, any flashes of light. But she did say that a few months ago she had a recent episode of bronchitis which she had to take Z-Pack and it resolved after that. But she denies any other recent infections, any history of STDs, any recent travel. So going on, patient did have Raynaud's phenomena, but it was resolved and they didn't find any lupus antibodies for that, so it was idiopathic. And she did have knee pain, but it was because of sports. Her family history is non-contributory. Her social, she's a biomedical engineering student. She works as an RA on campus and she also works in a lab. Patient was single and she did not smoke, she did not drink, she denies any illicit drug use. So the history is still, it can't really guess what's happening. So on her physical, with her corrective lenses, her OD is 2025, our OS is 2020, her external examination is normal, her slit-lap examination is normal, no floaters, no signs of any anterior chamber inflammation. On her fundus, her left eye is normal, but her right eye, the abnormality is there's a subretinal fluid over the macula which explains her central loss of vision. And also they found some small white dots in the superior temporal region near the fovea. So refractory, obviously without the glasses, she's highly myopic, but her oral labs, like we went through all TB, circuitosis, syphilis, everything were normal. So no infectious causes for a contributor here. So her labs and imaging, so obviously her left eye is normal, but her right eye, if you see there, there's some inflammation, some edema, and there's some few white spots there. So that's abnormal. So we did a red-free fundus for better contrast and also to better provide a baseline retinal vasculature.  So autofluorescence image, you see hypofluorescent right there, her left eye is again normal. So fluorescent angiography, right here you can see there's early hypofluorescence, if you look at the time, it's 18 seconds, which is indicated as coradiline vascular membrane, and her left eye is again normal, doesn't show those spots, it's also 36 seconds. And if you go further, for the right eye, the bar has become fuzzy and it's hyperfluorescent, and all of this is diagnostic of coradiline vascular membrane. So we know she has coradiline vascular membrane, so we don't know what's causing it. And if you look at the OCT, so if you look at the layer, it is ganglion layer, neurofibre layer, inner plexiform, inner and nuclear, outer plexiform, outer nuclear, external limiting membrane. And this if you see is there's a loss of RPR layer and also there's sub-retinol fluid there, some retinol fluid there, and also there's a loss of EZ layer, which is inner and outer photoreceptor layer. So all of this is again, confirms coradiline vascular membrane. So the cause of this is no mystery if you read my first slide, which is PIC. But the other differentials we need to keep in mind is bird shots, multifocal, and then histoplasmosis, and MWDS. So we did find that she has PIC, I'll tell you why. So to tell a brief thing about, brief introduction on PIC. So PIC is generally considered part of the White Dot syndromes and it's very rare. I think it was first described by Wadskay and even he found 20 patients and they usually found it in like myopic, Caucasian young females. And they really don't have many anti-inflammatory like floaters in each signs of arthritis. But they also complain, it's usually bilateral, but in this patient it's unilateral. And the symptoms is exactly how the patient is described. There's a loss of central visual acuity, photopsia, and central scotoma, what the patient had. And PIC is usually a benign disease, but the reason for vision loss is the coradiline vascular membrane as is in this patient. So the etiology, since it's so rare, we don't know what causes it, but they're looking at, there's several papers which are read, said there's possible familiar predisposition to autoimmune inflammatory processes, even though she really doesn't have any family history, but maybe Reynard's phenomena could be part of it. And they found that there's increased coradil thickness during that acute phase and there's a reduced coradil thickness during the regression of PIC. So possibly that could be point to some causes, but still the etiology is unknown, why PIC happens. So the imaging, coming back to the same picture I showed you before. So from what I read, during the active phase of PIC, there's an RPE elevation and there's a loss of PR layer, which you can see right there. That's active during the active phase of PIC. And during the inactive phase, the PR layer restored again, right there. It's restored. So there you see the loss, there it comes back again. So the treatment, from the papers I read, the best treatment is a Vastin or any anti-VAGF injections for the long-term treatment. And they found that the patients, the base visual accuracy like returned to from 3.2 to 6 in 12 months and they found no recurrence of PIC. And in some case, they also had visual acuity like returned to 10 or 10. So that's pretty good. And the other treatment options include oral steroids where the treatment recovery was from one over 10 to 6.7. Usually they start around 60 milligrams and they taper to six to eight weeks. And however, this is not preferred because of the systemic effects of steroids. So this anti-VAGF is more preferred. And the other treatments they looked at was laser photo coagulation, photodynamic therapy, sub-macular surgery, mycophenylate, it's mostly if the patient had like recurrent PIC, active, active recurrent PIC. So the other thing was, while I was reading, it was really hard to differentiate between other white dots syndromes and PIC. So I made a chart. So from what I found is that in PIC, it's usually young females and myopic like I already told you. And multifocal coriditis, it's usually more 30s to 40s. And the histoplasmosis, presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome is usually an immune to compromised patients who live in endemic areas like Ohio, Mississippi, from what I know, U.S.M.A. And then MEDWS is also usually in 15 to 20s. And bird shots is usually in older patients. And vitritis symptoms is usually only mostly present in multifocal and bird shots, but it's not present in the other three disease, what other three diseases I'm telling you. And then clinical course, PIC is acute, like how the patient presented, she had acute loss of vision. And also MEDWS also has acute loss of vision. Well, multifocal is more chronic and usually recurs. And then bird shots also usually chronic and it also recurs. And plasma, again, the histoplasmosis is usually an immune to compromised and this patient was not immune to compromised. And looking at the fundus, you see like the PIC is usually, it's not extensively like, it's not, you don't see extensive retinal and like fundal retinal involvement, like multifocal, you see so many white dots here. And histoplasmosis, you see some pigments and but it's still hard to differentiate. You have to look at the history. And then MEDWS, usually I was, when I was reading the papers, they said it doesn't usually involve fovea and it has a granular appearance compared to the clean white spots you see. And bird shots is usually peripheral. And it looks like bird shots, I guess. And so based on this, it's hard.  And based on all those factors, you should be able to diagnose which is which, but still it's hard. So back to the patient. So the patient received two A-Vasht intervascular injections one week apart and she was followed every three months. And she didn't have any recurrence. And again, to compare on her initial presentation before the intervascular anti-VEGF injections, you see the loss of basement PR layer and you see some fluid here. So after the nine months from the latest OCT, what I saw, you see again, so you see the PR layer is visible. I mean, there's still some abnormality, but you see the PR layer came back and which shows that she didn't have active PIC and she isn't remissioned. So again, this is the latest one from her thing. And this is the photograph of her initial visit. So you can see it's resolved but still there's the white colored spots in long hair folia. So the conclusion is PIC is considered to be a part of the white dot syndrome and usually affects the young Caucasian myopic females. And the vision changes secondary to CNE. And PIC can be differentiated from what I told you, it's young myopic women. They don't really have any anterior chamber inflammation and it's a relatively focal involvement of the retina usually in the center, fovea macula. And out of all the treatment options they looked at, it's usually the anti-VAGF is the most preferred to treat patients with PIC. So that's my case report from what I saw. And this is references. Any questions? No, thank you, go ahead. Yeah, it's the week apart. Yeah, I saw it was like she had a January 16th and then she had a second one January 23rd.


Hello students, I am Dr. Bhagyaj Deshmukh, Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Valchin Institute of Technology, Saulabu. This session is on design of spur gear. At the end of this session, you will be able to determine the condition for maximum power transmission of spur gear. You can recall the concept of beam strength. The beam strength is given by SB equals MB sigma BY, where SB is the beam strength of the gear tooth in Newton. Sigma B is the permissible bending stress in Newton per mm square. Weir strength SW equals BQ dP dash K, where SW is the weir strength of the gear tooth in Newton. Sigma C is the surface endurance strength of the material in Newton per mm square. Q equals 2 ZG upon ZG minus ZP, where ZG is the number of teeth on gear, ZP is the number of teeth on pinion and it gives you the ratio factor K. It is given as 0.16 BHN upon 100 the bracket square.  In this case, C is the deformation factor, E is the sum of the error in pinion and gear respectively, B is the phase width and PT is the tangential force and V is the pitch line velocity. Dynamic load is also given by the spots equation PD equals E NP ZP BE R1 R2 divided by 2530 square root of R1 square plus R2 square, where PD is the dynamic load, E is again the sum of errors between two bashing teeth, NP is the speed of pinion in rpm, R1 and R2 are the pitch circle radii of the pinion and gear respectively. Recall maxima and minima, you have studied it earlier years. To obtain the maximum value of a given function, what you did? Derivative of the function, you have derived the equation, derivative it and equate it to 0 in order to get the maxima. Can we use it for the maximum power transmitted by gear design? Let us see how we can do it. The spur gear can be designed to transmit maximum power. There are typical assumptions for this derivation. The failure occurs due to pitting and wear strength is the criteria of design. It is the assumption, we do not consider that the failure happens due to bending, rather it is assumed that the failure occurs due to pitting and wear strength is the criteria of design. The service factor CS and the factor of safety are considered as 1. Then how to begin with? The effective load P effective is given as P effective equals CS PT plus PD. This is the exact estimation of the dynamic load and P effective. P effective is also given as P effective equals SW into FS. We have two equations of P effective. As per the assumptions, we know that CS equals 1 and factor of safety equals 1. This equation becomes as CS equals 1, P effective equals PT plus PD. As the factor of safety is 1, this equation is simplified and P effective equals SW. From these two equations, we can say that SW equals PT plus PD or in other words my interest should be PT that equals SW minus PD. Now the dynamic load, we know that by the spots equation PD equals E NP ZP BR1 R2 divided by 2 phi 3 0 square root of R1 square plus R2 square if the pair of gear is steel material. If you check this equation E ZP BR1 R2 2 phi 3 0 this square root term all contributes to a constant C1, variable is NP therefore PD equals C1 NP. Tangential force we have already calculated it as PT equals SW minus PD. If I put this value of PD in the equation of tangential force I can get PT equals SW minus C1 NP. Then if I want to get the power I need to get the torque but right now I have only the force tangential force torque MT is given as PT into dP dash by 2. I can use this equation MT equals put the value of PT this value SW minus C1 NP dP dash divided by 2 torque we have obtained then power equals kilowatt that equals 2 pi NP MT upon 60 into 10 to the power 6. Here I need to put the value of torque if I put this value of torque the equation of power is obtained like this I am going to simplify this equation I am taking out the terms which can be represented as constant outside rearranging the terms for NP the maximum power capacity I need to find out how the equation of power I need to differentiate this equation. If I differentiate and equate this equation to 0 I can get the condition for maximum power transmission. The equation is differentiated and equated to 0 SW minus C1 to NP equals 0 I can get from this differentiation if I rearrange the terms SW minus 2 PD equals 0 if I simplify and rearrange the terms SW equals 2 PD. In other words PT equals PD equals SW by 2 this is the condition for maximum power transmission by a spur gear pair thank you.


When the narcissist enjoys seeing you in pain. When the narcissist enjoys seeing you in pain This is a sign that you are not dealing with a lower spectrum narcissist This is a sign that you may be dealing with a sadistic Malignant narcissist someone who derives pleasure from inflicting pain suffering or Humiliation on other people Someone who wants to cause you to experience highly unpleasant physical sensations Someone who wants to make you feel ashamed and foolish By injuring your dignity and pride These are traits of the sadistic malignant narcissist All narcissists are self-absorbed and lack empathy But not all of them are malignant The difference with the malignant narcissist Is that they will intentionally inflict pain suffering or humiliation on you and derive pleasure from this It gives them a feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment They may even derive sexual gratification from committing these acts They may also humiliate you publicly to achieve a sense of power over you to have the capacity or ability To direct or influence your behavior and the course of events Their motivation for doing this is often their own feelings of powerlessness insecurity pain discomfort and unfulfillment a Person can be self-absorbed and have narcissistic traits But they are not a malignant narcissist if they've hurt you and feel bad for you If they can self-reflect and feel guilt That means they still have empathy they feel bad for hurting you Narcissists will damage people when trying to achieve a result or goal If that's what they have to do The difference with the malignant narcissist is that it gives them pleasure It gives them a feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment The malignant narcissist might apologize for their actions, but if they were really sorry for what they did They would be trying their best to not repeat those actions Sometimes the narcissist may appear to show feelings of guilt As though they are sorry for what they did But really they are just sorry that they got caught They don't feel sorry for you They feel sorry for themselves If someone is really sorry for how they had treated you and they don't want to continue hurting you They will be motivated and have the desire To want to change their behaviors They will want to make you happy and avoid hurting you again Malignant narcissism is a combination of narcissistic personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder It is not someone who is shy Interverted or vulnerable It is not someone who hides from other people The malignant narcissist is against social norms They believe that they are above any rules or laws They believe that the rules or laws do not apply to them. They can be very aggressive Even without provocation Which often results in hostile or violent behavior. They can often come across as being intelligent charming emotional kind caring people They can be very misleading and manipulative They will give an appearance or impression Which is different from who they really are They might act as though they don't like to witness your pain or displeasure But you may notice clues or signs that they do You may notice that they repeat the same actions or behaviors That they know are going to hurt you Because they enjoy your pain They enjoy your displeasure It gives them a feeling of satisfaction and enjoyment Thank you for watching I hope this video resonated with you Please like comment share and subscribe Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos If you would like to donate My PayPal links in the video description Coaching Inquiries you can email me at narksoverecoaching.com Check out the merchandise in the narksovere store Where you can purchase your own narksovere teacher tank top or mug The link is in the video description Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon