Glenn Clark here at the Mustang Classic where a big win today for Amherst 1913 over the number two team in the country Dennis and coach Thompson. It's good to see you first of all Congratulations on a really big win. It was a thrilling game as good as advertised for everybody that came out How was your team able to stand toe to toe with the number two team in the country and kind of really take it to Early going and hold on from there. Yeah, I mean, I thought we did come out very well in the first quarter You know certainly going up big early helped I Thought the face-off stripe for us, you know Dillon Fennazo is as good as advertised Because I think their kid is very good, too You know, I also think we're pretty good lacrosse team You know Dennis and certainly is a very good lacrosse team But you know, we're just figuring out who we are right now and and I think we're pretty good You know, I really like the way we rode the ball tonight Denison you know had a little bit of a tough time clearing it which I'm sure they'll they'll take care of but You know, I thought the face-offs. I thought the ground ball play and the riding You know, that's sort of our identity. Yeah, so we just were us tonight and and we did a nice job of being us So I'm proud of the guys. That's for sure.  Oh, how are they able to click the way that they've been clicking this season? Yeah, I think it all starts with our transition midfielders You know guys like Jimmy McAfee guys like Ian Cadish guys like Jordan Sanford They really get us going and we play in the unsettled so so well You know and certainly Evan Wolfe and Colin Minikis and John coffee attack the balls in there stick a lot And so, you know, we really let the guys go And let them play and really try and let them be as creative as we can and you know When we when we win ground balls off the deck that also helps us You know come up with three on twos and four on threes and two on ones And and so, you know, we're better in six on six this year But you know, we're still having a lot of fun and unsettled to I know you've been making goalie changes this season But you made another one there in the third quarter and while Mitchell didn't see a lot When they started to make a little bit of a run in the fourth that one save They made on Petrov on the extra man when Petrov was wide open I thought that was a really really big save there in the fourth quarter it was and especially for his confidence You know, I I think we're still that's one of the ways. We're still trying to figure out who we are Yeah, it's for us. It's still, you know less than a month into the season and about actually a month exactly now And and so we're still trying to figure out who's gonna jump and who's gonna take that starting goal tending role for us And you know Cam has had these really great games and Gibb has had these really good quarters And and so, you know tonight I agree with you I thought Cam in the third and end of the third in the fourth quarter was just seeing it much Better and and I really love the bounce back from him. I really loved it Well, the reward for knocking off the number two team in the country is you get to celebrate for all of 30 seconds And then prepare for oh just the number one team in the country as you turn around tomorrow to face RIT What an opportunity, you know a couple year or a couple months ago when this when this schedule came out and coach canabine Released this schedule, you know, you thought alright RIT and Dennis and they're gonna be top 10 teams Certainly, I'm not sure. I thought they're gonna be one and two and and you know I've got a lot of respect for coach caravan and I've got a lot of respect for coach Coon in the way They run their programs and and so you know, we're certainly ready to to get back after it tomorrow and one thing I know is the pace of the play tomorrow Will be pretty fast, you know the over-under on shots. I don't know you give me a hundred and twenty shots I'm not sure what I'm taking so I really am looking forward to tomorrow's game. It should be a lot of fun coach Congratulations on a big win tonight and best of luck tomorrow, right? Thanks very much again Amherst gets the big 1913 win over Dennis and I'm Glenn Clark for go mustang sports comm


I feel a great responsibility to the projects I do. I'm in service of those projects. They're not mine. Once they begin, they are something else that I'm working for. And I have to serve them diligently and rigorously, or they won't get done. And they won't get done as well as they could get done. And even when I push myself as far as possible and have done everything that I physically can do to get them done, they're still not as far as they could have gone. There's a place you can get to, I think, after many, many years of making things that I hope I get to one day where you're so efficient and economical in the period of time that you're working that you actually don't have to work that hard. At the stage I'm at, I've got to work really hard to make good work. You've got to keep going. And hope that you'll be allowed to keep going. Hope that your physical vessel is in shape enough to keep you going. Hope that your mental state is good enough to keep you going. You've got to take care of yourself so you can keep it up. The work I do is enormous amounts of travel and physical exertion, essentially. You've got to take care of yourself. If you're really, truly in service of your projects, you can't be a drug addict because you can't make your work. You can't do things that you might want to do because you won't get your work done. You can't go out all night. You can't... Rigger means committing to something and being honest about how you get the best out of yourself. Not working is bad for creative people. Creativity is the movement from one place to another. I think a lot of people would argue this, but I really feel that creativity is transformation. Doing the dishes is creative.  That's a creative act. And that feeling occurs in that space in the same way as making a painting if you allow yourself that.  It's not separate from you. Your life is your work. And I think the more little beats that you find that feeling in, the more comfortable you get with that feeling and the more you recognize how to get that feeling. Creativity has become this coveted club. They're creative, they're not. This idea that creativity is governed by visual artists or musicians... I don't know. I think that's a terrible thing. I think that creativity is something that we all get. And we all get to play in. Every single person in the world gets to play in that space. And I think that the less we think about the delineation between creative people and non-creative people, the better our world might be. Creativity is not bound by the visual and, you know, auditory arts. It's something else. It's a feeling that occurs, I think, when there's a transformation. When something starts one way and becomes something else. I think that's what creativity is.


Good morning class. This morning we will talk about emotions. Now we get different types of emotions. The first emotion we are going to talk about is love. Now the emotion love is when we care about someone or when we like being in this person's company. Now I have the word for you and this is how we spell it. As you can see this is the word love. Now the next thing I want you to do is can you show me if you can show me love? Can you show me love? How do you show me love? Another common emotion is sadness. Now when we are sad we are usually unhappy or we are depressed. Then you say my heart aches or my heart is sore. That is how it is spelled. Can you say the word? Sadness. Now I want to see you showing me sadness. Another emotion class is surprise. Now when we are surprised we realize something that we did not expect. Meaning we are happy to see someone. The following emotion is shock. Now shock is an unpleasant realization. The first one I am going to show you. This is how surprise is spelled. Can you say the word? Surprise.  Surprise. Surprise. This is how we spell shock. Say the word? Shock. Very good. My next word or my next emotion is or. Now we don't usually use this emotion but I am going to explain it. Now or when you use the emotion or the expression or is when you are impressed in what you see or what somebody did. Then you say the word or. This is how it is spelled. Can you say it? Oh. My next emotion. Class is confusion. Now when you are confused you do not understand what is happening or what is being said then you are confused. Remember when you do not understand something or when you do not understand what is happening you are confused. This is how we spell the word. Can you say the word? Confusion. Very good. Now show me confusion. What does this word say? Happiness. Now happiness means a joyful feeling. Now being joyful say the word again. Happiness. Let's try again. You remember you are happy now say the word as you feel it. Very good. Next emotion is pride. Now pride means when you are proud of something that you did. For example you passed English with an A then you feel proud. But now this word is spelled pride. Can you say the word? Pride. Now show me. Remember you got an A for English. Our last emotion that I am going to talk about is loneliness. Now loneliness means when you think you do not have friends or when you feel abandoned. You are all alone. And this is how we spell the word loneliness. Can you say the word? Loneliness. Now you think you have no friends. How will you look like? Class now we are going to do something fun.  Now I am going to give you a few minutes to use this clay and shape it into an emotion. These emotions that we did this morning I want you to shape this ball of clay into any emotion you would like to shape it. The creation that you have made with that clay I want you to show it to each and every one of us in class and then I want you to tell us why you made that creation. Meaning why you made that emotion that your clay represents. Just put up your hand if you want to tell us. This is a happy face. I am happy because I can sit in the class and do my work and when I am finished with school support my mom. The sad face because my mom died. This is a sad face. I made this face because I feel everything is same. This is a happy face. I made it because I have everything in life that I wish for. Yes I made this face. The face is surprised. I made it because I feel surprised. My mother buy me a new bike. Now through all your creations I can see that you understood what I have explained to you about emotions and some of you are really very creative. Viewers welcome to program 3 in our English video learning series for grade 6. From the hard up educational multimedia project in Namibia our lesson today is about poems specifically how poets express emotions in poems and how we respond to those poems. We hope that by the end of this lesson you will be able to understand and respond to key aspects expressed in poems. Give short but detailed descriptions of 2 to 3 characters in the text and respond to attitudes and emotions expressed by the poet by role playing. Enjoy the program with us. There is not much that I can do. I have no money that is quite my own. I spoke up a birding child, a little boy with a guitar at the station before the train came in. But I can play my guitar to you in a nice wonders and good nature. Give me one minute. Time's up. We have to go. Come. Move your feet. Pick up the pace. You wait here. Feed or hear a poem. We listen to it according to our own individual experiences in life. Look at this learn. They do not yet know which poem the teacher is going to read to them. But they will listen to it each and everyone according to his or her life experiences. The effect the poem will have on them depends on how the story in the poem makes them relate or think back to similar things in their own life. Different people are affected differently by the same poem read to them. Let's see what happens. Klaus, now I am going to read an interesting poem to you. The title of this poem is at the railway station Upway and the person who wrote it was Thomas Hardy. I will try to listen carefully. There is not much I can do for I have no money that is quite my own.  What is the matter Innocent? I feel sad. Really? And why is that? Yes. Innocent blessed that Rambler would have said they are quite poor in his house. I think he said because he thinks he is like that boy.  I am sorry to hear that Innocent. Can we continue? Are you okay? Yes Rose. The station before the train came in. But I can play my guitar to you and a nice one. Tiss and good in tone. But you Elaine, at the same time Innocent is sad. You are smiling. How come? You look so poor. You don't expect him to play That's right. It is easy to be impressed by the strength of soul. Peter, you look sad. When you think of the boy how do you feel? I also feel that I am the boy. Not because he is poor or he plays the guitar. I think he is just lonely like me. Yes. I can understand that. The poet expresses a feeling of loneliness.


So here the all-winner you're launching a new R58 Android 2-in-1 solution so what are we looking at here? So as you can see here is a G1 tablet based on all-in-it R58 is processed at a higher frequency. So it's a special also UI a little bit for productivity here you have some apps coming out of the launcher right here and it's smooth but then it opens up in full screen and the buttons on this side also. So this is a CPU only for for work only for productivity it's targeted to this market right? Yeah. So is similar to this one? Yeah, similar to Octa-core A83 but at higher frequency. So this is also Octa-core A7 the power VR544 and this is the same here but now it's higher frequency. So we have 2 GHz and 600 megahertz for the GPU and you're talking about the Android for work. So it could be good for Android for work kind of stuff and so launching perhaps device like this. What are you showing here? It's just a roadmap. So there might be double OS? It's the name of the OS. It's just Android right? Yes just Android but maybe a Microsoft Windows 10. Windows 10 could also run on this CPU? Maybe. Alright and there we have it right here that is R58 is ready right now to ship in these kinds of devices. So it's not totally high-end but it's it's affordable Octa-core but with enough performance.


And that's my seven tips for sale success. Phil, it feels a little cold. I don't think the audience likes me. Really? Why is that? Well, I'm not getting any feedback. For all I know, I could be talking to myself. Well, webinars are great because it actually saves you time and travel. It increases your accessibility and your reach with your audience. But the trade-off is you don't get to feel the vibe of the audience. So perhaps it's like being a TV news reader, and instead of talking one to many, you think about it as talking one to one. That's right. Mike, I think you need my three tips to translate your presenting. Awesomeness. Integrate webinars. Awesomeness. Is that a word? Not really. I just made it up, but it sounds good. Tip one, you've got to have a good dynamic, which means you've got to keep your presentation moving to compensate for that extra distance between you and your audience. Tip number two, you need to put in a bit of extra planning. So things like understanding your audience and actually building your PowerPoint slides properly. That way you make sure you have that extra dynamic. Now you can have elements of spontaneity in your webinar, but you can't go in and expect to wing the whole thing. TV newsreaders wouldn't wing it, would they? No, and I'm glad that analogy works for you. That's great. Tip number three, don't throw out endless pieces of information because you can do death by PowerPoint in webinars as well. So just concentrate on a couple of key points and put extra detail and colour around each one. So it's just like the TV news where the TV newsreader reads the headlines and then the story, rather than just the headline. Yeah, keep working that analogy, it's really you. Thanks, Phil. Now when you're doing webinars, your audience has a lot of potential distractions. For example, 90% of Redback's clients admit to checking their emails while they're on a webinar. So as a presenter, you've got to work extra hard to keep them engaged. So, Mike, what were my three tips again? Keep your presentation moving. Do effective planning to make sure that happens and don't deliver death by PowerPoint. Awesome. So you've mastered the basics now and you're well on your way to becoming a webinar pro. Ah, yes, and always read like a TV newsreader. Phil, I suppose that means that webinar presenters could be wearing anything underneath the desk, couldn't they? Yeah, Mike, I think it's time we moved on from that newsreader thing for both of our sakes. Yeah, you're right.


Hi, this is Stu Miniman with wikibond.org, the cube on the ground at all the big events in Silicon Valley here at Moscone West, where Intel developer Forum 2014 is going on. And joining me for this segment is Chris Ptene McMonagall, who's with the Alliances Group at Intel. Can you tell us a little bit about your role at Intel? Yeah, I work in our communications and storage infrastructure group. And I work with our ecosystem of storage software partners, primarily ISVs, but also some OEMs as well. Alright, well Christine, of course, Intel works with all the storage companies because pretty much today, storage runs on Intel-based hardware. That's right. So there's some news this week that we want to cover though. Intel co-led a round of funding for a company named Maxta, which we are familiar with. It's known as a hyperconverged player. So can you tell us a little bit about, you know, why is Intel investing in Maxta? Yeah, we find these types of solutions very interesting. As soon as you're loading compute and storage onto the same server, you see even more demand for performance. So clearly that's a good fit for Intel and our processors and our other components that we sell into storage systems. And then on top of that we see Maxta as an early instantiation of software defined storage as well. And we see that as, you know, where the industry is heading. And we have a strong vision for the future on software defined storage. And Maxta's well aligned with that. Great. So Christine, when we think about, you know, how server advancements have happened, Intel's constantly coming out with, you know, the new generation. So Grantly just came out, which of course gives us, you know, there's more performance, there's more things we can do with it. And that of course gives opportunity for things like the software defined storage solutions of Maxta. So can you give us, what is the update with Grantly? Yeah, we launched the Grantly platform yesterday and Grantly is a great platform for storage. It's really going to deliver some of the capabilities that are needed for today's and tomorrow's next generation storage platforms. And as part of the launch, that included our newest generation of the Xeon processor, the Xeon E5 V3. And in addition to that, it also included our newest generation of SSDs, the P3,700 series, which are using the brand new NVM Express interface, which really streamlines communications with the CPU for a dramatic boost in performance. And in top of that, we've got our 40 gigabit ethernet support as well. So all of those can come together and support a great storage platform. And Maxta is one of our partners aligned time to market on this platform. They've been testing out Grantly versus the previous generation Romly platform. They've seen some significant performance gains, about 40%, for example, on the number of exchange users that can be supported on a server. All right, so we definitely are seeing new architectures that are being able to be driven by these new technologies, higher performing processors, lower latency, high performance networks all coming together to really redefine the way the storage industry is coming. You know, what else should our watchers be looking at down the road in this space from Intel and the storage partnerships? You know, we come out with great new features in each generation. We've actually got storage capabilities built into the Xeon CPUs now, specifically for storage. In addition to that, we've got a great optimization library called ISA-L that helps optimize a lot of common storage instructions, such as D-dupe and compression and encryption, and allows people to really improve the performance on those types of capabilities, all of which can help dramatically reduce the amount of capacity required in your storage system. So we're seeing a lot of demand for this kind of intelligence in storage today to help counteract the dramatic growth in data. All right, well, Christine, I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule here at IDF to share with us everything going on here. New architectures, new capabilities, always driving the next generation of technology. So this is Stu Miniman with theCUBE on the Ground from IDF 2014 at Moscone in San Francisco.


Welcome back to theCUBE's coverage here in New York City. I'm John Furrier, host of theCUBE. Wall-to-wall coverage is part of MongoDB's local events. This is the inaugural kickoff of a 20 city plus tour where they're going out to the street where the developers are bringing it back to the people, it's where the developers are. And we've got two great guests here. We've got Andrew Davidson, SVP Senior Vice President of Products at MongoDB and Steven Orban, VP of Migration at Google Cloud. Guys, great to see you. Steve, great to see you again. Give alumni here. John, always a pleasure. Thanks for having me. Thanks for coming back on. All right, let's get into it. You guys got some news, congratulations. Google, MongoDB working together. Andrew, what's the news? Ton of good news for you, John. Good to be here. You know, I'll tell you.  A lot of news is resonating with developers. I think the most exciting thing of the day is Atlas Vector Search, launching it to public preview. You know, there's a great time with generative AI which of course we're excited to talk about with our Google partnership. But also the public announcement of our private preview for our stream processing capability, bringing that wonderful richness for developers of the power of the document model to date in motion and just unifying and making it easier to build elegant real-time applications. Also the general availability of our relational migrator, lowering the activation energy required to modernize off those legacy relational databases and move to a modern posture on MongoDB. And so many other announcements too. I mean, it's just, I'm so excited about it all. I'm seeing great resonance out there.  MongoDB owns the developer experience whether in the dorm room or the board room. You got the same motion. I'm writing software. And as you get better and bigger, you're impacting more critical systems. You got to think like a system thing. You got to start designing stuff. And then when you get into the open source and scales like you guys are, now you're impacting the enterprise with the data platform. It's not new. It's been around for years. It's just a total trajectory up to now the gen AI which is like the tailwind of Epic proportion. Totally. And you guys are perfectly positioned for this. Yeah, no, I like the way you described it as the dorm room and the board room.  Do you focus on the sort of buttoned up enterprise developer in the bank? Or do you focus on that hoodie wearing developer in the dorm? And the good news is they're essentially the same person. Maybe the enterprise developer isn't going to be using what the hoodie wearing developer is building with right now. But they're sure as heck going to be doing so in their hackathons and they're having those hackathons. That's how they're staying ahead of the curve. And so the key priority for us is to find out what's the commonality? What's the superset for both of those types of personas? That's the top priority. And that's our North Star. It always has been from the very beginning as a developer to the platform. Let's talk about the relationship with Google.  Right now we're in a world of developers that's trying to figure out how to build these general AI apps. They're data apps. Data is a critical part of the application, not just some department organizing content and building dashboards. You have a key ingredient to the application, but it's also got to run. So you got to learn how to build them, know how to build them, get it right, then run it. So if you got to get good enough to run, but also the playbook, like say in MongoDB to run it, this is the genitive AI opportunity right now. Every single alpha developer who sees opportunity is going to go run fast and create value fast. You got to set that up. What is your gen AI strategy in the ecosystem? So we're super excited first of all about the partnership we have with MongoDB and kind of like you said with the developer and the hoodie or the enterprise developer. Well, my wife asked me, do you want pizza or chicken wings? For did I say, why choose? You should just be able to kind of have both. So we're super excited about the partnership that we've been building on for a long time, frankly, but now with some of the announcements we made today around Mongo deploying some of our generative AI capabilities within their systems, it really sort of makes it even more accessible for developers of all ranges. So just to highlight a couple of the use cases we're working on together, the obvious one that everybody thinks about is chatbots and customer service. So now when customers want to ask MongoDB a question, they're going to be able to have a chatbot like experience on the website that again has a lot of the Google Cloud vertex AI capabilities underneath. I think one of the things that is also really kind of helping this be more approachable technology for developers is how they're also, Mongo's also developing a way to take natural human language and translate that into MongoDB queries using some of our vertex AI capabilities. And MongoDB is already a very easy to use database that developers love, but sometimes when they want to create a complex query that they may have not had to do before, having a natural language interface to do that is super special. So from our perspective, we're committed to creating the most open and innovative ecosystem that includes partnerships at every layer of the stack, which I can talk a little bit more as the conversation progresses, but having partners like MongoDB on the forefront of that's amazing. I'd love to first congratulate you on the news. The word language has come up a lot, large language models, training languages. Before we get into that, can you take a minute just to explain what is the vertex product for developers, what's the positioning of it, why would they be interested in using it? Happy to do that. So we think of the, at Google, we think of kind of our generative AI strategy in two main camps at Google broadly. We have consumer use cases, which we have our bar product for, and that's for consumers, our Gmail customers, for example, who want to help planning a trip, or writing a song, or writing some sort of essay, or help with sort of like a consumer-based question. And then for the enterprise use case, we have a lot of, all of our enterprise customers really want to be able to take advantage of these generative AI capabilities, but be able to continue to have control and security around their data and their own intellectual property. So what our Vertex AI platform allows these developers and companies to do is to take, think of them as copies almost of our large language models, and then tune and adapt them with their own data and their own inferences, and then make them available as APIs inside their own products. So that's essentially what Mongo did as example to create the translation layer between natural language and their queries, and that's what all of our enterprise customers are asking, because they want to be able to use these large language models, but do it atop their own data, and a way where that data is not shared back with the model owner. Yeah, and that's good for their IP rights, and the vector search stuff that you guys are working on, that ties in, because it's native to Mongo platforms. Is that right? Yeah, so if you want to build one of these expert system chatbot type use cases, you're going to have to have that large language model in the mix, so you can take advantage of Vertex for that. You're also going to have to have these inference endpoints where you summarize your own custom knowledge with numeric vectors, and vector search allows you to use those numeric vectors to find relevant meaning to what the user is prompting you for, and to feed that into the large language model to get a cogent response back. It's this wonderful loop, and at its core, it's not just vector, it's vectors that allow you to quickly find the appropriate operational data. So we think it's just such an obvious expansion to have your operational data store also support vectors. It's a perfectly rational thing to add to our developer data platform, and those software applications are going to be able to store so much metadata about this. What kinds of responses are people getting? Who's doing what? Is it something that they wanted to see? Is it useful? Is it not? And this allows you to continue to have that loop of training. And by the way, I just want to call out, for us to be able to partner so deeply with Google on this, I mean, talking about the real first movers in this space, just think about some of the seminal moments where we all realized what was coming when DeepMind demonstrated that go, the machine was going to win it go. We didn't think that was coming for decades. I mean, each step of the way, I know Google's doing things that we haven't even seen yet. I can't even imagine that Steve can't talk about. And so it's exciting to be part of it. And they know data, they understand data, they understand open source, understand software. They have a lot of language stuff. I mean, the feeling is mutual for sure. Andrew, we appreciate sort of you being such a early adopting first mover in a lot of these places. But for me personally, it's just a super exciting place to be. It's the reason I joined Google is I could see how far ahead they were in analytics and AI in particular. And you don't have to look too far back in 2017. Several Google scientists collaborated on the attention is all you need paper. Look it up if you haven't read about it already, but that's where the transformer model science was invented, which is now underpinning all of these generative AI models that we see today. No doubt Google's got a treasure trove of brains, talent, and expertise, and data, and code. And now the next question as we get kind of our toe in the water with AI, I pipe aside, it's a real legit trend. People are going to start integrating. This is a big topic here at the event, integrations. The integration with you guys, you got the vector database with you guys in vertex. That's going to be a big deal, integrating. You know a little bit about that. You guys do, how do people integrate? As they think about what might be down the road as they start investing in building out AI apps, ML AI, and running it on an AI ops. What are the integration touchpoints? What do you guys think? How do you frame that? How do people think about going down this new Cambrian explosion? Yeah, I'll take a shot at that one. To me, this is, there's another way to ask that question. You can flip it on its head and say, what are the appropriate abstractions that you're going to compose with and combine together to take advantage of this next boom, this Cambrian explosion that's happening. And I would argue, we've been moving towards this moment for years that you want to be able to have something that services all of your operational data. You want to build anything platform for operational data. And that's what we conceptualize ourselves as with this developer data platform. We want to be at this layer of the stack that's really focused on the data. The software that the data interacts with, excuse me, the data that the software interacts with. Guess what, the software stack, that's where all the integration points happen. New frameworks, new stacks. You know, we announced partnerships with Langchain and Huggingface and others today, all of whom allow us with an open source framework to plug and play with Vertex and others. And so I think we're just at the beginning here. We're going to see new trends, new frameworks, new stacks emerge. And it's absolutely the name of the game here that's going to be open composable. So Huggingface is the embedding model piece of it? Huggingface is the place in which you can find off-the-shelf models to play with and operationalize them in any number of services, yes. Langchain is a popular framework for kind of doing that loop of generative AI, large language model, writing your code, prompting it all the way through. There's other players, Lama Index and many others. All kinds of LLM ops coming quickly. 100%. I mean, one of the funnest parts about working in this space and this moment in time is that the use cases are so diverse and there's so many of them. One of the most challenging parts about working in this space at this time is that the use cases are so abroad and sometimes people have trouble wrapping their heads around them. So, you know, we spend a lot of time with our partners to try to help make those use cases much more real for our customers by putting them in context of other tools like MongoDB. And you're seeing the signals in the market. You guys have an incentive for 25K in credits. So, there's a lot of evangelizing, getting people understanding the playbook which is get building. Yeah. Okay. And don't worry about the other stuff. Just get in there and let the universe take care of itself because this is what people make mistakes in these early markets. They overthink it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, not just get building, but get in there and share what you're doing. We're all, this is a massive new movement. People are learning how to build in new ways and they need to share that with other people. You know, I was speaking to a customer of ours that's pretty far along using generative, actually generative accelerated a roadmap they were already on. And they had described building an entire domain specific language to be able to express the essentially the software agents that they do. And without that language, how could they test new versions without being confident that it wouldn't potentially do something problematic or unexpected? So you realize we have to develop entirely new paradigms for testing and thinking about this. It's just the beginning. Well guys, thanks for coming on. I do think there's going to be these new use cases that might emerge. My final question is kind of out there. You can decide how you want to answer it. I believe there's going to be some use cases that are going to be unthought of before that are now gettable with some of the configuration changes in the enablement coming with AI. Stuff that could come out of left field that was never insights that were never around before or product market fit opportunities might emerge from developers playing over here and all of a sudden, boom, something happens. What some of the things that you guys think about that might emerge? Because I just see that the value creation with AI is being so fast. Yeah. I think we're here today already, John. I think we're seeing that unravel right before our eyes right now. I'll give you an example that I'm super excited about. You have a lot of companies who have, for a long period of time in their particular industry domain, been collecting lots and lots of different data. So let's say you have a legal database or a news database or a financial database that has a lot of context-specific information that a lot of these companies have had to write their own very complicated query languages around to kind of trove through all that data. Now what we're seeing with things like enterprise search is those are able to not just be indexed very quickly using sort of search capabilities, but also summarized.  Not only could you get all the policy documents with search, but you could summarize why which policy might be better than the other with natural language in a way that a human who maybe isn't an expert and doesn't have the time to go troving through 100 policy documents that might make up that summarization. And I think it's just, we're going to see that across every different industry and there's going to be some extraordinary transformation. It's a different kind of data extraction. For example, someone could say, what does Stephen mean by his comment on the cube? That you can't type that into a search engine. It has to go through our linguistic language via our large transcript. So domain-specific data, if you have data, that's the value, right? Totally, and I think oftentimes we can over-rotate in a sense into data, but where's the data born? It's born in software, or in our case here, on this wonderful program. And so, if we look at empowering new experiences, you're asking, what's coming? What's coming is, we're just at the beginning. Right now we're seeing these relatively slow, human-centric chatbot experiences, for example. That's cool, let's just start. But imagine the layered software on software, machine-to-machine, sophisticated applications that are coming, the versatility, scale, performance requirements of all of those, it's going to be extremely exciting. You know, Dave Vellante, we're going to end because we're going to know for time again, again, this is unconscious and great. Dave Vellante, I debate on our podcast all the time, and we're going to do it again tomorrow. Every inflection point, someone's disrupted out of the business. Mainframe's got booted, mini-computers by the PC, but now we're in a market where agility is an equal opportunity employer. You don't have to be an old guard to be disrupted. You can be back in the game like a startup. So there could be a young Steve Jobs, 20-something-year-old Bill in AI apps, the next Bill Gates now in the industry. Yeah, the barrier to entry. And still the big guy can still win, too. Yeah, the barrier to entry for disruptive transformational tech is so low right now. What an exciting time to be alive. You can pivot if you're big, and you can disrupt if you're small. So the dilemma, is it a disruptive enabler or a sustainable enabler? Interesting question for another time. Steve, great to see you. Thanks for coming on. You guys are great. Andrew, thanks so much. With the head of product, and we got Google on theCUBE here, breaking it down, the future of AI is going to be about the data, domain data, building the app, software is the key, and running it on the cloud is going to happen. It's theCUBE coverage. We'll be back with more after this short break.


Good night guys, it's Avi here, and I'm with my mate Veronica. What are we doing Rods? We're getting into nature. We're getting into nature. Haha, yeah, I got us a special guest She's gonna help us get our game on point. So whoo, and stay tuned all right So do you actually know where we're going right now? Let me just open up maps. I don't think we have signal Okay, guys, so we made it and as promised I have my special guest here a real BC park ranger Elise Okay, Elise you need to be honest with me here I've been using my hashtags and promoting you guys like crazy. Have you seen it? I can't say that I have but I am really excited to talk to you about day hiking today So Elise let's talk hiking. What do we need to know? There's some work You have to do before you even get to a park you should check our website since parks can change day to day season to season We've got web pages for each specific park with up-to-date information Didn't know that something to remember from the next time and in BC The weather can change really rapidly whether you're on the coast in the mountains or anywhere in between It's important to note that the higher you go in elevation in the mountains You're gonna experience very different weather than at lower elevations or you could just sort by reason on Instagram to check All that stuff out what you see on social media isn't always the reality So it's really important to make sure you do extra research as well So let's talk hiking. Okay, not quite yet There's a lot of important things we need to do before you even get in the car to go hiking The first thing you need to do is make sure you leave your hiking plans with a responsible friend Let them know where you're going and when you're expected to be home even if it's for a short day hike It's one of the most important things you can do to make sure you make it home safe at the end of the day That's actually a really good point, but I haven't had cell service for like two hours What if I'm bringing a dog? Good question. Our furry friends are allowed in some parks, but not all and if they are allowed They'll be required to be on a leash. This is for the safety of your dog for yourself For other visitors as well as the environment. All right. It's overhiking just one more thing And I promise it's one of the most important. Make sure you pack the essentials think of these as your survival essentials What would you need to have with you if you were on the trail longer or even overnight? and We are ready to talk about hiking Millions of people visit BC parks each year and some parks are busier than others It's important to note that if you are going to be visiting a busy park during peak times You should be prepared for crowds.  I mean, I'm not planning on feeding any bears, but I have seen people feeding adorable birds So we're about the cuter. I'm not gonna mow you animals Although it's tempting to feed cute animals like gray jays or chipmunks human food is really unhealthy for them And fed animals are more likely to be preyed upon So we've talked about pollution like garbage, but let's quickly talk about noise pollution People don't just come to parks for the sites. They also come for the sounds of nature One of the rules Oh For like doing your business. Yeah, like if nature's cool in where should it be falling? Oh Gotcha Well, if you're near an outhouse, that's your ideal choice and remember It's always handy to have an extra roll of toilet paper just in case and just remember the outhouse is not a place for your Garbage just number one number two and toilet paper. That's it. Can I can I borrow yours? I was gonna ask to borrow yours And if you really need to go when an outhouse isn't around just make sure you're far enough away from trails camp sites and most importantly water Make sure you dig a hole four inches wide and six to eight inches deep when you're finished Make sure you cover it up and pack out your toilet paper Make sure when you get home to check in with that friend to let them know you've made it home safe and sound Well guys, I don't know about you by learned a lot today. Oh totally and I think we've definitely upped our game Don't you think you're both well on your way You


As humans, we kind of naturally gravitate towards some sort of guiding framework or principles that we establish through our laws and through our societal expectations and things. And the truth is that in communications, it's no different. We have some founding principles and guiding principles that we use in communication and that are important for us to understand as communicators. So in this video, we'll take a look at a few of those. So starting with the idea that communication can be intentional or unintentional. Sometimes we communicate exactly what we wish to communicate. We say what we intend to say in our nonverbal behaviors match our expressed language. At other times, though, we send messages that we didn't intend to communicate. We may say something without thinking about it first or do something without thinking about it first and then we regret it afterwards. Or we may say the right things, but our facial expression gives away our true feelings. The one thing we cannot do is not communicate. All behavior has communicative value. Anything we say or don't say or do or don't do will be interpreted by the other person or people involved. We're always communicating something whether we intend to or not. Next, communication is irreversible. Once we've expressed something, either verbally or nonverbally, it cannot be fully taken back. We can apologize and ask the other person to forget we said or did that and they may even agree to do so. But once it's out there, it's out there and cannot be completely erased. Communication is also unrepeatable. There's a proverb credited to Heraclitus that says no man ever steps in the same river twice for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. The point Heraclitus is making here is that even if you step in a river and then you step back out and then step back in again immediately afterwards, it's not the same river because the water you touched before is now moved downstream. Neither are you the same person because you have an expectation of what's coming and when you step in because you've done it before. This is inherently true in communication. We can say the exact same thing and maybe even express it in the exact same way but we can never fully repeat the same circumstances in context. Imagine a couple who's been together for many decades, 50 years or more. How many times do you suppose they've said I love you? Over the many thousands of times that they've said I love you to one another, do you think that the intention behind that has always been the same and that the feeling behind that is exactly the same as it has been every other time? No, of course not. These are people who have lived and they've changed and they've grown together and they've experienced joy and loss and all of these things during their time together so every time they say I love you it's a little bit different because they've both lived a little bit more and shared a little bit more now. I want to be clear this does not mean I'm not saying that when they say it one time or another that it means more or less than any other time or that it gets more or less meaningful over time. I'm just saying that it is inherently different each time we say it and that's true for all communication. Our circumstances change, we change as people and so our communication is unrepeatable because of that. Communication also has content and relational dimensions so basically this is getting at the principle that there's what's being said and then there's the underlying underlying meaning that goes along with it. Let's say for example imagine that you ask someone that you work with if they'd like to do something with you that weekend. Unfortunately they are not available and they say so but there are lots of different ways that they can say the same words right? So imagine your co-worker says this with a tone and facial expressions that seem to indicate that they are really sorry that they can't go with you. You get the impression that an invitation and for another time would be welcomed. On the other hand they could say the exact same thing using the exact same words but with nonverbal behaviors that gave a clear indication that they won't be joining you this Saturday or any other Saturday. They're using the exact same words in each of these scenarios but the implications are very different. This illustrates the different dimensions of communication. The content dimension is the bottom line of the message. They're not going to be able to do anything with you this Saturday. The relational dimension of the message however is used to signal contextual clues about how we feel about the message or about the other person or about the situation in general. As you can imagine both the content and relational dimensions are very important and should be considered by both communicator A and communicator B so anybody either party involved in that communication scenario. The final principle that we'll discuss is this. People give communication its meaning. We have a tendency to give words a lot of power and this is not completely off base because words can carry great meaning. However the simple truth is that words themselves have no meaning. The meaning they carry is only significant because of the shared understanding that people have for what those words represent. The language is symbolic meaning that is simply representative of an idea. The same is true for anything in terms of communication value, communicative value. We see this illustrated here in that the only difference between these two notes is our belief that one has more value than the other. In reality both the legitimate US government backed $100 bill and the $100 bill that you would find in your monopoly game are just pieces of paper illustrated with ink and images. The US bill uses a special kind of paper and ink and design but it's not imbued with any magical powers. What gives that bill its value and relative worth is our shared understanding of what it represents. If all of the legal US money went up in smoke one day we could just as easily switch to the monopoly bills so long as we all agreed that that was now the legal tender and this is basically what it's worth. This is the essence of communication. Words, images, gestures, facial expressions, all of it. They all have meaning but only through the shared understanding of the meaning that people assign to them. Again these principles kind of establish a framework for us. It's like looking at at a house that's being built. We have the framing here right but there's still lots to to go on there. We still need to put on the the drywall to cover things in and the roof and the and then we decorate things inside but these principles of communication give us the framework on which we can continue to build our understanding of communication. If you have questions about this or anything else related to the foundational principles of communication please feel free to email me. I'd love to hear from you and in the meantime I hope that you will give these some thought and be able to recognize them as we see them at work in communication in our daily lives.


Amen. So Luke chapter 10, there's a lot going on in Luke chapter 10. It's a long chapter, but we're going to focus on the story that we see right at the end of Luke chapter 10. Of course, the difference between stories and parables is that this is just historically what happened to Jesus in Luke chapter 10. And also at the end, we see this story between him and these two ladies that are commonly referenced in the Gospels. We're going to look down at Luke chapter 10 in verse number 38, and let's just reread this couple verses here and then we'll look at what we're going to talk about this morning. The Bible says in verse 38, it says, Now it came to pass as they went that they entered into a certain village and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word. But Martha was covered about much serving and came to him and said, Lord, does that now care about my sister that my sister has left me to serve alone? Bid her therefore that she helped me. So the situation is Jesus is in this house and he is speaking as he speaks and he talks. He's giving doctrine. He's giving the word of God. And here you have these two ladies. One of the ladies is preparing things, getting things ready, being hospitable. And the other lady is just sitting there and listening to Jesus. And Jesus answered and said on her in verse 41, it says, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful and Mary hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her. So this could be a little bit of a confusing story if you don't really put in context who Jesus is. But basically you have one lady that's working really hard. And what is she doing? She's working hard to be hospitable. And this could be a sermon in itself. Hospitality is hard work. When somebody has you over to their house, they are working hard for you. I always think about that when my wife has a Thanksgiving meal or something like that. It's like the ladies are busy. They're working. They're being hospitable. They're taking things in and out of the oven. And they're keeping things clean. And they're cleaning things off the table and serving other courses. It's hard work to be hospitable. And you know, people, they put a lot of labor into that. They put a lot of, you know, people that invite you over to their house to put labor and money into you. So you should appreciate that, first of all. But second of all, here you have Martha being hospitable. And the Bible says that we should be hospitable. You know, that's something that's a qualification of a pastor is to be given to hospitality.  You don't like being hospitable to people. You would rather people just leave you alone. Well, hey, that's fine. But, you know, it's not, probably the ministry is not for you. Okay? But she's doing a good thing. And Jesus kind of rebukes her here a little bit. And we're going to look at the details of why he does that, because her sister is not helping. She's being hospitable. And Jesus says that Mary, the one that is not helping, has chosen the good part. So we're going to look at why this is and why, you know, Martha was so stressed out. The title of the sermon this morning is Becoming Weary in the Christian Life. You know, this can, what's happening to Martha here is a risk and a danger to all of us in our Christian lives of just becoming weary in the Christian life. So we're going to look at what Jesus says to Martha and apply that to our own lives and make sure we don't ever find ourselves in the situation or with the heart that Martha has here. And if we do, we can quickly recognize it and correct it. All right? So let's look at why Jesus, I'm going to give you four points this morning on why Jesus said that Mary was doing the good thing and Martha was not doing the good thing. All right? Turn to Philippians chapter four or just look at the front of your bulletin. It's actually the verse of the week.  Look how much work I'm doing. The first thing Jesus says, you're turning to Philippians 4-6. I'm going to read for you verse number 41 of Luke chapter 10. Jesus said, He answered and said unto her Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many things. So He says that she's being careful about many things. Now the careful in the Bible and the careful in Philippians chapter 4 is not really the careful that we would think about. It's kind of used in a different context. Look down at Philippians chapter 4 in verse number 6 where the Bible says this. So the first point is this. Martha was careful about too many things. That's the first point. Look at Philippians 4-6. The Bible says be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your request be made known unto God. This is not talking about like don't stand on top of a ladder on the top step. This is not talking about like don't, you know, don't forget gun safety at the range or whatever. That's not what this is saying. This is talking about, you just have to look at the actual word itself. It's saying be careful for nothing. It's saying I don't want to use careful to divine careful. So I'm trying to like think you know verbally here, but it's saying don't care too much about things. You know, be careful about what you care about. About the things that you're putting your attention into. So the Bible in Philippians 4-6 is saying you shouldn't be all stressed out and worried about all these different things. Instead, just rely on the Lord. That's what the Bible is saying in Philippians 4-6. And so what was Martha doing? She was, she was worried. She was troubled, Jesus says. She was hurrying about, and she was being hospitable. And again, hospitality is hard work. Everybody knows this. I'm not dismissing that, but what Jesus is saying to her is Martha, some things are more important. Jesus is pointing out that Martha was simply allowing non-spiritual things to trouble the spiritual things. And that is what he is calling her out on.  It will take away your spiritual life. I mean, look, you have to worry about non- spiritual things. You have to go out in the world, but they should not take precedent over the spiritual things. This is what Jesus is saying. I mean, look, a simple example is just going to work. Like, men have a job and they go to work. This is something that is good that they do. They are supposed to provide for their family. This is a command from the Bible. But it's impossible, it would be impossible if you just got completely wrapped up in your work life and your job and all these different things to have a spiritual life. This is a big challenge for men, by the way.  I was driving with my family. I got called out on this one just driving in the car the other day. I don't know where we were driving.  I just made some comment. You're kind of thinking things and sometimes you say it out loud when it's just your family.  I kind of said, I said, that would be a fun job.  I kind of made that comment. Right? Right away, the kids in the back seat were like, yeah, but dad, you couldn't go to church if you had that job. I'm like, okay, it was just a general comment. It wasn't going to go be a fireman. The point that they were saying is right away, they realized, look, there's a lot of jobs out there where you will not be able to have a spiritual life.  There will be times. There will be times when you are presented with opportunities that will make you more money. I promise you. But it will sap and take away your spiritual life. Every single man will have that presented to him at some point. There's a lot of people. Oh, but I could make more. What in the world are you talking about? This is what Jesus is saying to Martha. He's saying the things in the world, hey, these are good things that you're doing, but the things in the world can't rob your spiritual life. Don't get to the point where you're like, oh, I need to work for my family. I need to support my family. And the only way I can do that is by not having a spiritual life.  You can't ignore the good things to pick up the things that are not important or not as important. Yes, you have duties, but you must fulfill those duties. And look, God will provide a way for you to fulfill those duties while not ignoring him, not sacrificing him. There are many jobs out there where it would be impossible to have a spiritual life. And just some general comments I made. I'm glad my kids realized that because my boys, whether they're working now or not, one is, one is not. Every single one of them, both of them will have that presented to them as well. And I want them to recognize it. Oh, man, look at all that money I could make there. Oh, look at that career path I could have there, but I can't have a spiritual life done thought done even thinking about it. That's how it needs to be. Is this God's will for my life that I would go into this field or whatever, but I can't go to church and I can't bring my family to church, and I can't lead my family the way, then no, it's not God's will. This is not rocket surgery. That's what Jesus is saying. You got to pay the bills. You got to pay the bills, but God will provide a way to do it where you don't have to sacrifice him, where you don't have to sacrifice your spiritual leadership in your family. I mean, it's the same thing. Look, this is the same thing for ladies. Yes, you have to keep the home. That's not, and look, everyone thinks that's such a small thing today. No, it's a real thing. That's a real job. You have to, you have to keep, somebody has to keep the home. Somebody has to take care of and teach the kids. That's a real thing. Turn to Matthew chapter six. Somebody has to take care of things, but you can't let those things overwhelm you as Martha did to the point where you forget about the good, the best thing, the spiritual things. You just can't be too careful about the things in this world. Look at Matthew chapter six. Look at verse number 24. The Bible talks a lot about this. We can spend a lot of time on just this one point. Look at verse number 24 of Matthew chapter six. You just can't be too careful. You can't care too much about the things in the world. You have to keep things in perspective. Look at Matthew 6 24. No man can serve two masters for either hate the one and love the other or else he holds to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. The Bible here is saying, look, you should be able to recognize when this happens.  I'm caring a little bit too much about this. I'm caring a little bit too much about this new thing that I'm into. This is the point of Sundays, by the way. This is the point of Sundays. This is the point of midweek service. Why do Baptists have midweek service? So, you know, you can just have a little bit of a spiritual dose in the middle of the week so you don't start caring too much about the world. You know, you can have that, you know, that reminder at midweek to be like, oh yeah, this is what we're doing. This is the point of everything. Just have that spiritual reminder. I even have like this issue writing sermons in my family could testify to this, but where I write sermons, the computer I write sermons is out in our kind of in our living room. If you have ever seen where my computer is, it's not like often some corner of the house or whatever. It's kind of out in the living room and I write most of my sermons very early in the morning. And the reason I do that is because if there's anything going on around me, it is very hard for me to like just really focus in on the sermon. This is a small example of this. I mean my wife will tell you like if the washing machine or the dryer which is right behind me in the room behind us is ever running, it's just so distracting. I'm just like, well I'm done writing sermons now.  It's like I'm done. I'm done. But the point is is that this is the world in our spiritual life. You have to remember that the noise around us in the world that we have to be in that is not the point. That is not the big picture.  You know what, it's why you should read your Bible during the week. You know, I don't just rely on Sundays and Wednesdays. You should be in your Bible all week listening to what? The voice of God. You should be listening to the voice of God during the week. That'll help silence the noise. And then you know what, apply that to your life. You should look at things. Jeff and I were talking about this yesterday, out soul winning. You should, it's one of the cool things about being in your Bible and understanding the Bible and just, you know, having a spiritual life is that when you see things in the world and you see things going around, going on in the world, you and you're in the Word of God and you're listening to the voice of God. You know what you do? You look at it, you look at everything through the lens of the voice of God. It's really cool. I mean, like, we don't have to like what's going on, but at least I know, at least I can look at it through that lens. That's why I like this book that we're reading and that we're studying through on Sunday nights. It's not a religious book, but it's really neat when you start applying the Bible on top of it. It's really neat. What makes it super interesting is when you read something like that through the lens of somebody that knows what the Bible says and you can take biblical lessons from it. Always using the Bible as our guide, of course, but look if you can stay in God's Word, you'll start to see the things in the world not as noise, but you'll start to see them through the lens of the Bible. The last thing you want to start doing is looking at having your life. The Bible gets smaller and looking at life through like the lens of what everybody else is looking through. That's a disaster. That's why you have to stay in the Word of God. You have to stay, keep that spiritual life on top. You just keep that spiritual perspective in your life and it's just, it would drive you nuts otherwise. I don't know how other people do it, but it is driving people nuts. Let's go back to Martha. Actually, go to go to Mark chapter four. Go to Mark chapter four. Let's look at one more verse related to that. Mark chapter four. This is what the Bible is talking about in Mark chapter four in the parable of the sower where it says, this is exactly what can happen. So I have like an arrow in Mark chapter four and verse number 19 to Philippians chapter four and verse number six, but this just kind of rounds it out right here. It says, and these are they which are sown among thorns such as hear the Word. So they hear the Word of God. There's people that hear the Word of God. But the what? The cares. You see that? The cares. These people are too careful about what? They care too much about the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches, the lust of other things entering in, choke the Word and it becomes unfruitful. So this is the danger. If you become too careful, if you're not looking at the world through the spirit, the lens of the Bible, and instead you're starting to actually care too much about that, about you know just getting more money or just having more success out in you know whether it be a career or whatever it is. The cares of the world.  That is what the Bible is saying and that is what Martha was dealing with here. She was letting the the little tedious things choke out the literal Word of God.  But the same thing is a danger to us. Go back to Luke chapter 10. Actually go to John chapter 11. Let's go to John chapter 11. So let's go back to Martha. Let's go back to Martha. So that's the first thing. The first thing is the cares of the world will choke your spiritual life. Here's the second one. She was too used to Jesus. She was too used to Jesus. She was too comfortable being around Jesus. And to understand this, you have to understand who Mary and Martha actually were. If you're in John chapter 11, who were Mary and Martha? So you had these two sisters. And there's actually a family here. There's a family here that Jesus was very close to. So Jesus was very friendly and had a good relationship with this entire family. Look at John chapter 11 verse number one. Who were Mary and Martha? So Martha, Martha at the point of Luke chapter 10, when she's doing all the cooking and all these things, she had kind of lost the whole Jesus Christ is in my house whole thing. Mary still had that. Mary is down at Jesus' feet just hanging on every word. But Martha, she was kind of, she was too used to Jesus. She was taking Jesus for granted at this point. Who were Mary and Martha? Look at John 11 verse number one. Now a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany. Very famous story in the Bible. The town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary was anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair whose brother Lazarus was sick. So here we see that Mary, Martha and Lazarus, they're all, their brother and his two sisters is what you have here. In John chapter 12 of course he's, verse number two is talking about a story. You know in John chapter 12 where Mary, you know this happens later where Mary anoints Jesus. And then of course this is where Judas is like, we've got a sold that. We're like I could have took the money is what he was really trying to say. Look at verse number three. Therefore, so Lazarus is sick. Therefore a sister sent unto him saying Lord behold he whom thou lovest is sick. Look at verse number 17 for sake of time. So Jesus kind of waits around. Here's Lazarus is sick and he doesn't really rush there right away. All right. And when Jesus came he found that he had lain in the grave four days already. So he had already died. So Lazarus was sick. Jesus didn't really rush to get there and he said oh you know kind of get there when I get there. Lazarus dies. Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem about 15 furlongs off and many of the Jews came to Mary and Martha to comfort them concerning their brother. Then Martha as soon as she heard Jesus was coming went and met him. But Mary sat still in the house. Then Martha said unto Jesus Lord if thou hath been here my brother had not died. So she's saying you know he's dead now. You know in Jesus he didn't rush there and but look at verse number 35. The shortest verse in the whole Bible right here by the way. The Bible says Jesus wept. So what does this show you? First of all this shows you the humanity of Christ. But it shows you that Jesus was very close to these people. Jesus was had a good relationship with Lazarus and Mary and Martha. Then said the Jews behold how he loved him. So the point is this they were friendly with each other and Martha was just she had gotten too used to being around Jesus at this point. Look at go to 2nd Peter chapter 3. Go to 2nd Peter chapter 3. They were close friends. She was used to seeing Jesus. She was used to hearing Jesus. So the point is you can't get too comfortable in this Christian life. You can't get used to this Christian life. And here's a problem that many people have in the Christian life. There's no cruise control in the Christian life. You know everyone's like oh you know self-driving cars. There's no self-driving Christian life where you just you're like I'm good now I'm just going to hit hit self-driving mode and everything's just going to take care of itself. There is no point like that in the Christian life. Growth in the Christian life can't stop. Because of growth in the Christian life stops this backsliding will begin right away. You have to always be growing. Look at 2nd Peter chapter 3. Look at verse number 18. The Bible says this it says but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ to him be the glory both now and forever. Amen. So Peter is you know closing his letter and he's saying grow. He's like make sure you're growing. That's his that's his final you know closing in you know this chapter here he says look don't get used to this keep growing. Keep growing in your Christian life. Keep growing in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ because if you get used to your Christian life if you get sick of the routine of your Christian life look you have to understand that everything is riding on your Christian life remaining stable and the only way to have it remain stable is to keep growing is to continually grow. Your family's growth depends on you continuing growing. Just think of the world the world out there the salvation of the individuals in the world depends on you as an individual keeping growing and not getting used to your Christian life not getting tired of your Christian life the only way to keep it stable is to keep it growing that's the trick of the Christian life it's never going to be this thing where you can just take the hands off the wheel and just say I don't care what song you heard you know you have to keep growing in this Christian life you have to keep reading and look James chapter one verse some rates says a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. You can't be one of these people that just wants a new thing every year or every two years they just they have to change I mean this is a terrible disease to have as a person that you just have to have something new and something different and you know you just have to change everything every year and a half you know this is the people that have the friend of the month or friend of the year or whatever it is they can not just remain stable but your Christian life will not work if this is you so if you have this problem and you just can't keep in this Christian life this is why you see people that are in the Christian life for a year or two and then they just have to go into something else does that mean that they're not saved no it's it's like there's plenty of same people who aren't living the Christian life folks salvation doesn't have anything to do with how you're living it has to do with what you believe what you've trusted in go back to Luke chapter 10 don't take this Christian life granted you have to keep growing everyone depends on it everyone in your life and your family and your church is depending on you continually growing in the Christian life go back to Luke chapter 10 let's look at the third one Luke chapter 10 let's look at the third one look at verse number 39 the bible says and she had a sister called Mary which also sat at Jesus' feet and heard his word but Martha was covered about with much serving and came to him and said Lord thus thou not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone bid her therefore that she helped me so here you have Jesus speaking the word he you have the word speaking the word and she not focused on it it shows you that Martha the third was this she lost sight of the larger mission she lost sight Jesus was there and he was talking about what is Jesus always talking about to the disciples he's talking about the kingdom of heaven the larger mission he's trying to prepare the disciples and everyone he talked to about the larger mission here yes things need to be done you know it's the same thing here there's lots of things that need to be done here constantly week in week out day in day out the the church needs to be cleaned like again and again and again and again I mean it's a tedious difficult process it just keeps repeating again and again and again there's no magic button on the wall queen church someone has to come and do those things the bulletins need to be created the bulletins need to be folded the follow-ups need to be done the maps need to be created the ministry all has all these tedious things that need to be done and look they're repetitive things they're like oh it's the same thing I did last week it's the same thing I did the week before that but we have to remember that and look I have to remember this too that while those things while tedious those are not the the larger mission they're in support of the larger mission and we can never forget that go to Romans chapter 14 actually you go to Romans chapter 10 I'll read for you Romans chapter 14 Romans 14 7 says this it says for the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but righteousness and peace and joy in the holy ghost the kingdom of god it's not the things around us in this world it's not the food that we're eating you know that's kind of what martha needed to hear kind of you know the the kingdom of god martha is not meat and drink the word of god is being spoken in this house whether you're doing all those things in the kitchen or not the important thing is the word of god the important thing the kingdom of god so to let the larger mission be derailed to let the larger mission be derailed by the tedious things is is counterproductive it's it's silly that's what jesus was telling her look at roman chapter 10 see here's what you have to realize this church notice how I didn't say the church this church it facilitates discipleship that that's what this church does this church jesus christ's church it facilitates people doing what growing in grace as second peter chapter three says we should do that's the point of this church is to grow christians through the word of god look at roman chapter 10 in verse number 14 so we're here to facilitate christians growing look at verse number 14 it says how then shall they call on him and who they have not believed and how shall they believe in him of who they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher so the bible here is telling us why we need disciples why do we need disciples because we need people to preach the word of god we need people to go out and preach the gospel to the world to all nations we need people to go out and do that and the people aren't going to be able to understand it if they just like look at it themselves because this is the design in verse number 14 that god has laid forth he needs people to tell people he needs disciples this is why this is the ultimate reason why we need disciples just because you're saved doesn't mean you're going to be a disciple no you have to get certain things out of your life and getting certain things in your life in order to become a disciple so not everybody's going to be a disciple that's unfortunate but that's the that's the truth people need to call people need to believe and call on the word that's the goal and they're not going to be able to do that the bible is telling us here unless disciples go out and preach the word of god turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 2 you see this bible this bible right here this bible is not pride and prejudice this bible is not a novel it is not a book that somebody can just pick up and read and understand it is a spiritual book that can only be understood by the spiritual this is the problem this is why we are necessary this is why you need to continue growing one of the reasons other people besides yourself are depending on you continuing to grow look at 1st Corinthians chapter 2 and verse number 12 now we have received not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of god that we might know the things that are freely given to us of god so when you are saved something literally happens when you get saved when you trust on jesus christ the holy spirit is put inside you you are indwelled with the holy spirit you are sealed by that holy spirit you are a temple of the holy spirit the holy spirit it doesn't mean you're filled with the holy spirit but you have just you have that down payment that earnest put inside you the minute you get saved the moment you get saved you have the holy spirit dwelling inside you it is that is how someone who is saved can understand this book look at let's keep reading the things which also we speak not in words which man's wisdom teacheth but what's the holy ghost teacheth comparing spiritual things with spiritual if you did not have the holy ghost in you you could not understand the bible verse 14 but the natural man receiveeth not the things of the spirit of god for there are foolishness unto him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned but he that is spiritual judges all things and yet himself is judged of no man because he's saved for who hath known the mind of the lord that he may instruct him but we have the mind of christ how do we have the mind of christ because we have the holy spirit inside us so this is how this is the mechanics of it folks this is why we have to go out and explain the gospel to people using what using the word of god but we have to go out and explain the gospel to people because on their own they can't understand it this is the mechanics of it somebody can't sit down i mean look i there are many people out there that you will go and you will knock on their door and they're not saving they're like oh the bible i've read it i don't believe a single one of them not one it is one of the biggest lies that is told out there oh i've read the bible now because you know what i used to be unsaved and i like to read and i could never get through the bible not even close a novel is about a hundred thousand words typically somewhere longer you know like lord of the rings or whatever the bible is 780 thousand words give or take you know a thousand or whatever you're telling me you're going to sit down and you're going to read something that is the the length of 10 novels and you're not going to understand what you're reading no way i've tried to read it i've read Genesis chapter one like a hundred times before i was 15 just trying to like in one of the mysteries of my life one of the biggest mysteries of my life i've never been in my 20s being unsaved being like i wonder if i'll ever know what the bible says i wonder if i'll ever know this book was a mystery to me and i tried to read it many times i remember i had i had a new king james when i was growing up it was my bible and i had it for for decades and i had this bible and i tried and tried and tried so somebody that i knock on their door they're not saying they're like oh i've read the bible i don't believe it for a minute i don't tell them that i'm not trying to be rude to people but i don't believe for a minute you're going to sit down and read a book that is 10 times longer than most novels and not understand what you're reading i just don't believe it no one would read a book that they can't make sense of but the point is this people need us to explain it to them that's the mechanics of how god designed it he wants us in this fight i understand why he did it he needs us to be disciples to be growing to be spiritual to want to care about the lost look you'll lose if you care if you're too careful about the things in the world another thing you'll lose is you won't just lose the desire for the spiritual things you won't just lose the desire for spiritual songs and hymns you won't lose that that's why if you listen to a bunch of worldly garbage music you won't want to listen to hymns but if you quit you get that garbage out of your life then you'll start to enjoy the hymns it's a perfect proof of what i'm talking about you won't just lose the desire for the spiritual things like coming to church and fellowshiping with people at church you will actually lose the desire you will lose the heart for the lost so that's a good test too that's a good measuring stick for a christian are you growing in your christian life are you losing that concern for the lost soul winning times come around and you're like look we've all had days like that give me a break if you're being honest with yourself we've all had days where soul winning seems like work where soul winning seems tedious but you know what you need to do a check on yourself when that happens because you're like why don't i have that concern for the lost in my heart what's going on here am i being too careful about something am i missing something am i paying too much attention to something in my life that's choking this out look that's you gotta you gotta be comparing you gotta be measuring yourself on a weekly daily basis if that's happening to you or you just wake up one day and your spiritual life is just dead the mission the design is for the saved to explain the gospel to people using god's word that's what the design that god has laid forth is to what to add to the kingdom of heaven that's the mission and that's how it works to disciple people into church so what here's here's the here's the mission folks to go out and explain the word of god to people using the word of god and then get people saved have them have that holy spirit so now they can learn the word of god they can grow as a disciple and guess what they can start learning and reading and applying the bible to their life and guess what they can become profitable they can become fruitful they can get other people saved you see how this goes it's supposed to be like a snowball did you know that two and a half percent of the united states adult population is an independent baptist two and a half percent of the adult population should be should be saved if if they're in a good church i mean i think it's probably more like one and a half percent i mean that's saved from what i've seen out there but whatever that's what the stats will say about how many independent baptists are out there do you know that baptist just baptist in general is the is the second largest religion in the united states a lot of people don't know that there's a lot of baptists in the united states the only one that beats it out at that point is the catholic church if every single saved person in united states you want to talk about how to fix the united states newsflash it's not trump if every single saved person in the united states would go out and get one person a year saved and then those people would start growing in grace and growing in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ and then they would go out the next year and get another person saved you know the vast majority united states would be saved in like five years you want to talk about how to fix the united states go soliding but these independent baptists are not soliding anymore i was i went to a independent baptist church website yesterday and it's in clovis and i won't even mention the church's name i i'm sure i mean i couldn't find out the name of the pastor i'm looking through the website and you get to all these different points on the website and it's just like you got to log in got to log in got to log in nothing on what they believe no soul winning this is the problem saved people are doing nothing saved people have lost sight of the mission saved people are cooking turkeys and having cookie dinners look we're gonna have cookies but we're also soul winning we're also doing the first works i like turkey i like cookies but soul winning is the key because it is the design for the kingdom of heaven to grow see here i mean you hear all this oh it's just like soul winning soul winning soul winning soul winning that's all you ever hear about because that's the point that's the main mission folks and to let the tedious things like martha was doing derail the main mission she was losing sight of it and the same thing can happen to us turn to first peter chapter one first peter chapter or second peter chapter one sorry second peter chapter one the bible says in verse number five talking about just the importance of adding to your faith and your growth look at this in verse number five it says and beside this giving all diligence diligence you know what diligence means it means consistency over time you can't be consistent for a week and call that diligence diligence means you are consistent all the time you are not this you know thing of the year thing of the month person add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge and to knowledge temperance to temperance patience to patience godliness and to godliness brotherly kindness and to brotherly kindness charity you see the growth happening here for if these things be in you and abound they make you that you shall neither be barren nor what if you're growing you will be what you will not be nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our lord jesus christ the bible is saying if you grow you will be fruitful the bible here is talking in second peter chapter one about your mission will be fulfilled you will be out there and you will be growing the kingdom of heaven on earth that is the whole point that is the mission go back to luke chapter 10 luke chapter 10 go back to martho item number four is this item number four is this item number four is this you say that you know the the christian life the christian life is man it's it's it's complicated it's not complicated it may not be easy the christian life but it is not complicated and jesus explains that right here he says one thing is needful that's what he says what he is talking about is the word of god is that one thing the word of god is the one thing that is needful and from it flows everything it's all we really need all we really need is the word of god and to follow the word of god that's it the christian life it may not be easy for people to do that and they may get hung up but it is very simple just know the word of god learn the word of god grow in the knowledge of our lord and savior jesus christ and then just apply those things follow those things in our life that's not salvation that's the christian life though and it it it's very simple in it look it's easy to get weary it's easy to get worn out in the christian life which is why this lesson is in the bible it's easy to get used to things but you have to keep the noise in perspective you have to keep growing today you know i had a i had a thought this morning when i was thinking i was going through this sermon i was just thinking about it and i was just thinking about not taking things for granted and and i just had this overwhelming thought this morning when going over this sermon and i was just thinking that you know there's so much good is what i was thinking there's so much good and i i looked up at the screen in my office and i saw the church i saw the kids there it just i saw the men i saw the husbands i saw the fathers i saw the single guys too don't worry i saw the ladies i saw these mothers that are that are raising their children in the lord i saw these men that are leading their families in the lord and i thought man don't ever get used to this i thought to myself i thought about just i always get you know really reflective in december and i just thought about the the year and i just thought it just it's so good it's so good you know don't ever this is why the bible says in ecclesiastes chapter seven that it's better to go into the house of morning than the house of feasting because when you're in the house of morning you look at the little things like small stupid little things but when you're in the house of feasting and things are good you have this tendency in your life to make a big thing out of small things and to focus too much on the small things but when you're in the house of morning so you know what i want to be in the good times i'm thinking myself this morning i want to be in the good times and i want to not take for granted i want to not focus on things don't matter and i don't want to get used to the people in the church i said god forgive me if i've ever taken these people for granted in my heart even and i know i have and i just i just overwhelming feeling you hit me this morning do not take your christian life for granted it is everything don't make god have to put you in the house of morning for you to see the good things around you i want to be in the house of feasting and i want to have the good things and i want to look at this church and the mission it is doing and the people that are in it and i want to just praise god and thank god for all the good all the time don't ever take it for granted don't you take these people for granted don't you take these kids for granted john's always up here crawling on the pulpit all the time he's probably going to be a pastor i don't know i'm just kidding but i mean my god if we've ever taken it for granted is what i thought forgive me for that we don't ever want to do it remember the bible and applying the bible that's the one thing don't let the bible set you that's the danger of your christian life don't hear the bible and let it upset you don't hear the bible and get upset at me but get upset at me before you get upset at what god wrote apply it whether you like it or not apply it it's god's words it's not mine who am i that's why we're turning all these verses all the time these aren't my words that's all you have to do in this christian life is know what god's words are and put them into application in your life it's all we need to do to succeed in all of this let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer