Okay, so I think we'll go ahead and get started. We do have a very small group today, so please feel free at any point to stop and ask questions in the chat. Make sure you direct your chat to everybody that way the whole whole group today can see any questions and we'll make sure to address any of those questions that come up since we do have such a small team today. So welcome. Good morning or afternoon depending on where you are. This is our fall hypothesis workshop on using multimedia and tags and annotations. The goal for today is that you will walk away from this workshop knowing how to add images videos hyperlinks tags to your annotations and feel empowered to utilize those types of multimedia and your assignments with students. So let's actually start with introductions. If you don't mind using the chat to tell us your name what school you're from, what your discipline is and whether or not you have any prior experience with hypothesis that would be fantastic. I will start us off. My name is Jessica Fuller. I'm located just outside of Portland, Oregon. I'm a former English language arts teacher at the high school level who did not have hypothesis in my class, although I wish that I had. And so I would love to hear what your experiences today's workshop is geared more towards folks who have a little bit of experience with hypothesis we're not going to dive in and do a deep explanation of how to use the tool from ground zero. Feel free as we're going along today to pull up your own LMS. And if you have a hypothesis enabled reading available and you want to follow along with what I'm showing as we walk through the different types of multimedia could be really useful to to try it alongside me on your own monitor on the side if you're able to do that. Welcome Jessica. Awesome. Welcome Greg. Yes, Greg and I have been in a workshop together previously happy to have you here, both of you. Fantastic. Thanks so much. All right, so we're going to talk a little bit as we get started about what hypothesis is and what it accomplishes in the classroom what's the value it brings to your teaching into students. And I'm actually going to launch a poll. Just a second here. I want to know what do you struggle with most when it comes to students reading so you should see this poll appear on your screen so what's the thing that you find most challenging as an instructor. When students are reading is it challenging to know whether or not they did the reading figuring out within most or least understood getting them to discuss the reading actively putting them to main ideas and concepts. Making them to make connections, something else or maybe you actually don't struggle with this at all. So if you don't mind taking a moment and just letting us know what the thing is that you find most challenging as an instructor. So it looks like universally, I'll share these results with you getting students to discuss the reading actively is the biggest challenge. I'm going to relate to that certainly in my experience as an instructor myself. So our goal today then is that you'll walk away feeling like hypothesis is going to help you accomplish that better. So we say that there are three tenets of hypothesis basically hypothesis helps make reading more active visible and social so we're talking about getting students to discuss the reading more deeply and better. Actually into all three of these categories so the first kind of note that we hear from instructors using the tool is that students who are using hypothesis are becoming more active in their reading they're engaging more deeply with the reading they're reading more carefully. They are lingering on the text and exploring bits of text in a more in depth way than they would otherwise. Because when you're asking them to socially annotate something, you are, you know, prompting them to find pieces of the text that speak to them in one way or another and to engage with each other with that text. So hypothesis in that same way is making making their reading visible to you as an instructor so making it clear to you where they're having questions what they're excited about. Maybe what they're getting confused about and you're also able to see the kinds of reactions they're having as they're engaging with each other, which is the third tenet of hypothesis is that hypothesis also makes reading social. So not only are students reading the text more deeply. And they're also collaborating with each other and so they're thinking is being shared with each other so hypothesis come becomes a new place for students actually to relate to each other and to see each other thinking. I really like this quote from the student at Plymouth State who says hypothesis is my literary Facebook. When I'm reading it sometimes wonder am I crazy. Does anyone actually understand this with this brilliant tool I know I'm not alone. So we have some resources for you here in the deck, please feel free to come back to these. We love to share resources with our schools and with our partners. And so we have resources that are both for students to use if you want to use them in your classroom and give them to students in terms of guides for how to annotate well what are the different kinds of annotations you can make with hypothesis. We also have resources made for instructors so example assignments. Examples of resource pages and ways you might use the tool in your classroom so feel please do feel free to take a look at any of these resources at any point in the future. All right.  My second question pop up for you. I know we, we work with lots of different LMS is I see we've got a canvas very cool. So today again we're not going to dive into the technicalities of how to actually set up an assignment, but I'll go ahead and share results. We've got canvas and D2L here today which is great. Stop sharing that. So hypothesis integrates with a wide variety of different LMS is and regardless of which LMS you use the great thing about hypothesis is that students are just signed into it automatically when they access your reading. So the experience for them is is seamless and so regardless of the LMS you use what we're going to go over today applies to all LMS is so when it comes to using multimedia and tags. The process for doing these things is going to be the same. So if you want to take a moment now to go ahead and open up a hypothesis enabled reading in your own LMS. And so you can follow along with me I think that's a great idea if you're the kind of person who can't do two things that want super well, no worries. You can always feel free to come back to the slide deck as there are instructions here in the slide deck for you as well. So here are resources for you depending on which LMS you use. We have all sorts of how to guys and how to set up assignments. How to grade, etc. We have a really extensive knowledge base that's fantastic so these are all links to areas of our knowledge base with resources for the different LMS is so please feel free to make use of these. And again, feel free to put questions in the chat at any point. We are here for you so let us know if you have any questions that come up as we get started. Okay, so we're going to start by talking about using multimedia and annotations. Why would you do it so. What are some benefits to students for inviting them to use multimedia. The benefits are many. So, first of all, inviting students to use different kinds of media in their annotations does kind of support student choice. So it gives them agency and deciding what content they find interesting or giving them different options for ways to relate to the reading. So it can help motivate students in that way. It can also just make reading more interesting and more engaging when you're asking them to find images or find video. It brings reading to life in a new and interesting way, especially if you're reading maybe a more academic text or something that's not going to have images or maybe be harder for students to access or understand in many ways. Bringing in images, video, gifts, et cetera, helps kind of liven up or make the story or the text feel more alive for students. It does also help them develop creative thinking skills. There's all sorts of different activities you can do with multimedia and helping or encouraging students to think more creatively as they're annotating. And then the final point here is that it helps turn things that are abstract or maybe dry into something very concrete. So if you have an image that helps illustrate something abstract in the article that can really help students understand that that content better. So what kinds of things can you put in an annotation. So, obviously, students will typically annotate with text. This is how they're having conversations with each other that can reply to each other's annotations with text. But these are the different kinds of multimedia that can be added with hypothesis so hyperlinks and we're going to go over how to add each of these things. Tags, we will talk about tags in a moment here emojis sorry that word is hidden under an emoji here but you can do emojis with hypothesis. You can add images you can add gifts videos. And if you are a math instructor you can actually do latex equations in the annotation sidebar as well. So we also have guides that are linked here for how to add these different kinds of images and videos but I'm going to do step by step and show you how to do each of these things as well. All right, so we're going to start actually by talking about adding hyperlinks. Hyperlinks can be useful to add, because when students are having a conversation it helps them show potentially where they got their information. So they can link to another page on the internet and say like, I did my work I found this information and here's where I found it and then other students can use that URL potentially to also go check out other resources connected pages that also relate to the conversation that's happening. So it's sort of like a bibliographical note you can use within your annotation. And I'm going to actually back out of my slide deck here and go into a hypothesis enabled reading that I have here. It looks very dull right now because there's no annotations on it. But I'm going to show you how you would add a hyperlink so I have this web page here it's just our hypothesis main landing page, and I'm just going to grab the URL by copying it. And if I go to make an annotation here. I'm just going to select some text. And then over here there's this chain icon so this is where I would insert a hyperlink so to insert my link I'm just going to click that icon. And it's going to put this little bit of formatting in here for me and mark down language and nicely it has highlighted in blue the spot where I'm supposed to insert my hyperlink so because I've copied it for my other page all I'm going to do is hit control be on my computer. To replace that highlighted link with the URL I want to use. And then in these brackets here I can actually type the text that I want to have display when my link appears so I'm going to say this is hypothesis annotation tool. I always use this preview button so when you're doing kind of fancier things and inserting multimedia in hypothesis. It can be helpful to make sure that your formatting is correct before you actually post. So, feel free to use the preview to make sure that it looks like what you wanted before you post it. And I'm going to actually just add a tag here hyperlink. And I'm going to post. So there you go. It's pretty simple and the kind of formatting for adding different kinds of multimedia is going to be similar as we move through each of these. So yeah you'll click the icon for what you want and it will highlight in blue for you the thing that you need to replace with your actual content. So, and again, please feel free to ask in the chat if you need me to slow down or show anything again happy to do that. So next is adding images. And I like this gift I find this to be helpful so it's very similar to adding the link. You start by clicking the image button here, and it will give you again a little bit of markdown language. And you're going to insert the URL to an image so any content you use in an annotation and hypothesis has to live somewhere on the internet. So you can't, for example, post a photo that lives on your computer like on your desktop. It does have to be an image from the web and you're going to insert the URL, the image address for that image. So again I'm going to hop out of the slide deck and we'll go back into the reading. Actually, pardon me here. Let's start actually let's say I wanted to use an image of books. And I wanted to insert an image of books within my annotation. Here is the steps for what I would do to use that image so this is a Google image search I just searched for books and clicked on images here. The first thing I want to do is actually pull the image URL so what I'm going to do is actually hover over an image. So I'm just right clicking on it with my mouse if you're using a Mac you can also click with two fingers or I believe you can command click to get this little menu. And then the thing you want to do is copy image address. So you don't want to copy the link address you want the actual address to the image itself so I'm going to click copy image address and then I'm going to go back to my annotations. And again going to make an annotation here click annotate. I'm going to click the image button I realize this might be very small for you but I'm going to click the button to insert an image. And again so it's highlighted in blue for me the place that I need to insert my URL so I'm going to click paste. And then if I click preview it shows me there's my nice image and I'm going to actually use a tag again. I'm going to tag it with the word image and click post. Any questions about that so far. All right we'll keep going but please do let me know if any questions come up. All right so gifts, gifts are fun. It may be helpful for you to let students know if you do or don't want them to utilize gifts I know that this kind of takes takes the conversation in a more fun direction, which can be great. If you don't want students to use them you might just say you know we prefer this discussion be purely text based. If you do want them to use them, it's helpful to let students know ahead of time like what you want them to do what kind of content do you want them to bring to the assignment and why. So, adding a gift is actually the same process is adding an image you're going to use the same image button, we don't have a separate gift button. And then you're going to take your URL that points to the gift and insert it in the space where you would typically use the image. And I see a question from mark with images are there any copyright issues we need to consider. So my understanding of this is that actually, because you're, you're not taking the image and bringing it to a different place like you're not bringing it into hypothesis, all you're doing is actually posting a link that points to the image in its original location, which means that it would not actually infringe copyright because you're just saying, this is the image that lives at this URL, and students can can refer back to that URL if they needed to find the original source for that image. But other hypothesis folks let me know if you have a better, more thorough answer on that than I just gave. That's a great question mark thank you. Okay, so let's show how to add a gift. So, I personally use giffy.com to grab any gifts. I know there's various places students might find these. So, let's say, if I'm starting from the beginning I want to add a gift I would start by going here, for example. I'm going to use this cute panda rolling around in my annotation so if I click on the panda. I'm going to click on share. And copy the gift link right here, which I have done. I'm now going to go back to my annotation and annotate very meaningfully today. I'm going to select my word that I actually want to annotate and I'm going to use the image icon again. I'm going to paste in that gift URL that I just copied I'm going to preview it just to make sure it looks like I want. Just go ahead and tag it. And post. So pretty straightforward if you know where to go to get your gifts. Yeah, could be best to ask students to add the source or for citation for the image for where they found it. All right. Next is video and video is actually the easiest type of multimedia to add to an annotation because you don't actually have to use any of these buttons at all all you do is actually add the URL to the video if you're using YouTube or Vimeo. It's pretty simple hard to get it wrong with this one. So if I have I have this helpful video on how to OCR a text to use for hypothesis. I'm actually just going to grab the URL from up here. Copy. We'll just create a new annotation. Just going to paste it right in. And it just embeds it directly into the annotation. Tag it. And post. Pretty straightforward there. I heard this great idea actually of, I think it was a French instructor that was having students read French text and then actually annotate in French and create videos of themselves speaking in French. And then using those videos within the annotations to have an asynchronous conversation in French with each other basically, which I think is so cool. Obviously does take extra technology for students to be able to record themselves, which we're not going to talk about today, but I love that that idea for one way to utilize video in in foreign language, reading and writing and speaking, pretty cool. All right, any questions before we move on pop back to our slide deck here. So now we're going to talk about tags. Tags are great. There's so many different things you can do with them. They're useful for getting students to like reflect on what they're doing while they're annotating they're useful to just categorize. Thinking and categorize annotations and they're useful if you're asking your students to read multiple texts throughout your course to kind of connect the dots. When you're tracking a certain theme or idea or topic across multiple texts, you can use tags as a way to mark places in the different readings that all kind of relate to that same theme or idea or subject. It's also a way students can connect to other students who are tracking the same things or the same topics because as we'll see in a second, you can search for tags, either within a single assignment, or you can actually use the notebook to search for tags across multiple assignments, and then we'll look at the notebook actually later in the webinar. It's useful if you're asking students to like categorize different elements of a text or find a theme, for example. You could ask them to use a theme tag to mark a passage that in one way or another highlights what they see as the theme of that particular piece or you could ask them to tag like your metaphor or whatever it is you're wanting them to look for as they're reading. So within the annotation sidebar you can search for tags, and I'll show you how to do that actually but I'm going to do that in a different assignment here that has more student annotations. Let's use this one. I'm going to load this. This one I think has more. More comments so, for example, you could ask your students to tag questions that they have with a question tag, and then you can search for if I type in tag and then putting quotes question here. All my own annotations typical. So it's going to show you any annotation that contains that particular tag. So here I used a simile tag you could also look for every annotation that contains that simile tag. You can you don't even have to use this formatting to search for tags you can also just search for the word. To easily pull these up our search tools pretty good and pretty powerful and can easily help you find these things. Back here. So, let's say you've had your students annotate you've created several readings in your course they're using tags they're using multimedia. We want to take a moment to talk about another feature of hypothesis that is sometimes not known about or not utilized kind of tucked away it's a hidden gem. And that is the notebook. And the notebook is something that you can access. When you have your hypothesis enabled reading open you access it by clicking on this little icon of a person. And you'll get a drop down menu that will have open notebook listed in the bottom. And I'll show you this in a moment, but when you have the notebook open it's going to show you every annotation in your entire course so it's going to show annotations across multiple readings all of the readings. And we'll sort them in reverse chronological order, and there will be a drop down where you can see each students annotations again and again it's going to show all annotations across all readings. So you could either look at everything that the whole class is done or you could zone in on one person. This can be helpful for example. If you're wanting students to, maybe at the end of the course reflect back on their thinking and potentially come up with an outline for a paper. Because what we'll see here is, is their thoughts as they relate to very specific places in the text so as you're building a paper, you know, I remember back to my own learning experience it was always challenging to have to think back in time and try to text quotations that I could use for a paper, because it's like oh I know I had all these thoughts on the reading but like I don't remember anymore, like what the, what the reading was like what page was that on what was the actual quote that I found interesting. So with this notebook, you're easily able to help students refer back to their own thinking on very specific places in the text they've already thought about previously in the course. So, let's look at what that looks like we'll go to this one actually so to get to the notebook you're going to click this little person icon up here. Oh no worries great thanks for joining. You're going to click the person icon and then click open notebook so if you have your own reading open on your side feel free to follow along with me, click open notebook. If, however, you don't have like annotations in the course or in your reading you won't see very much here. So, here these are all the annotations that have happened in this course that I have set up here in my little demo course I can scroll down and see them all. And then up in the top here is a drop down where I could see you know all of the contributions from unique students in my class so all students have access to the notebook it looks the same regardless of whether you're a student or an instructor. So if I click on Becky I can see all of the things Becky contributed throughout the course, including replies to other annotations here. So, Becky could use this then to start building an outline, seeing the particular places in the text that she had thoughts and comments. Any questions about the notebook or how to get to it. If so, let us know in the chat. Okay, so I wanted to leave some time for folks to think about how you might utilize multimedia or tagging or the notebook in your own teaching.  You could bring multimedia or tagging into that reading. What's an activity you could use to ask students to annotate in a more creative or multimedia type way. And I would love to hear thoughts if people are comfortable sharing in the chat any ideas that are coming to mind. We would love to hear from you question from Jessica because the image video gift etc is online what happens if the original owner deletes the online image will it still show up on the article. That is a great question and other folks should correct me if I'm wrong but it would I believe the content will no longer show in hypothesis either because it's just linking directly to that content as it exists online but I don't know if I said or let me know if I have that wrong. Because we're not hosting it so we're not bringing it into hypothesis in any other way, it would disappear if that content disappears from the web. Yeah, if the file is deleted there's no way for us to show it but that's a great question. So if you have ideas or thoughts, please do let us know in the chat, or not. I hope is that this content today helped kind of stimulate your thinking and creativity in terms of different ways to ask students to bring in different kind of content into their thinking as they are doing the reading for your class. I'll give us just like a minute here. To think about this. And yeah, please also feel free to ask questions if you have any, these have been good questions today. I'm actually going to launch a poll. I'm going to ask how are you feeling about using hypothesis so think about this in terms of how are you feeling about using hypothesis with multimedia.  I'm feeling really excited, intrigued but maybe you're not sure how you would use it or some other feeling love to hear kind of what what you're feeling at this point in the workshop. I'll go ahead and share these results looks like yeah we have folks who think they'll be okay with some practice excellent. That's what we like to hear. I wanted to close off our webinar today by pointing you towards resources, because once you dive in and are actually trying any of this out if you do have questions, or even just want someone to bounce ideas off of just know that we as the hypothesis success team are here to help you be successful that's, that's our job that's what we're excited about. If you want more ideas or more thoughts just know we have plenty of them we meet with lots of instructors who share their amazing ideas with us and so we love to share those ideas back out to other folks. Because we do work with many partner institutions as you can see on this slide, who share all sorts of cool content with us. So if you do ever need technical support this link will take you to our wonderful knowledge base that is so thorough I use it myself all the time because it's so helpful. We offer support to instructors and staff and students if they run into issues using the tool, which doesn't happen often. But if it does just know this is our support email address you can feel free to use. The pedagogical support is really what we as the folks who are here on the webinar today are excited to help you with. So we are here to meet with you one on one if you would like. We do one on one instructional design consultations we can help you set up your assignments. We can help you generate new ideas for how you could maybe use multimedia in your particular course for whatever discipline you teach in. There are all sorts of guides, again, you can utilize. And then we do offer webinars and workshops for your school in particular so if you would like us to come and do a workshop just for folks at your particular institution. That's what we love to do. We can customize those to whatever content is going to be most helpful for the folks that you work with. And then we have two amazing kind of ongoing workshops and video type series that I like to talk about last and that is liquid margins and our partner workshops. So this link to liquid margins it'll take you to a web page where you can see all of the past episodes of liquid margins which is our video show. What we do is once per month we will actually have kind of a panel discussion type video show with various partners talking about social annotation across the disciplines and in all sorts of different contexts and for different purposes and it is fantastic. If you need ideas or inspiration, please feel free to check out liquid margins because it's amazing. And then we also run a weekly partner workshop every Tuesday at 10 am Pacific time. And this is a workshop that anyone at your institution is welcome to join and just come to on a weekly basis we vary the content week by week. If you click this link you can see a list of what our upcoming workshops are like this one you're at today obviously is a partner workshop so we do them on all sorts of different subjects like creative ways to use the tool we will do intro ones for using hypothesis and different elements as well. So this is the email address for our success team. Please feel free to use this you can also if you know who your success manager is you can email them at any time as well. And let us know if you have any final questions. We can hang out for a few minutes if there are additional things you want to chat about, or questions about the tool generally or anything at all, and let us know. Thank you so much for joining today that's all we have for today. 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I want you to open your Bible with me to Ezekiel chapter 47 and verse 1. Then he brought me back to the door of the temple and there was water flowing from under the threshold of the temple toward the east, for the front of the temple faced east. The water was flowing from under the right side of the temple south of the altar. So this is speaking of a vision that Ezekiel is having of what's going to happen in the future. He's seeing a vision of this temple and from the temple the water is flowing towards east. Now for those of us who don't live in that part of the world, east, west, north doesn't mean much, doesn't mean much. But east is flowing, the temple, the water is flowing toward east, it actually is flowing toward the Dead Sea. In 2017, me and my wife, as well as quite a few people from Hungry Gen, we had a chance to actually go visit Israel. I would encourage every person to visit Israel. And when we went to visit Israel, not only I was surprised with how small Israel is, but we get a chance to go to the Dead Sea. And this is us at the Dead Sea. And then in the Dead Sea, it's interesting because it's one of the most saltiest place on the planet, 30 miles long, 9 miles wide. The shoreline is 1300 below sea level. So it is actually the lowest point on earth. 7 million tons of water evaporates every day. The salt content is 10 times saltier than the oceans in the world. It's so salty that only bacteria can survive there. You can float, but there is no freshness in there. Nothing lives there. Nothing, no fish, no plants. Everything is dead. So we actually tried it. It's very difficult to drown there because it's so much saltiness that is there. And if you have any kind of scar or any kind of a wound, it will hurt so bad. And so we went in there, just had a blast, had a wonderful time. And this prophetic picture that I say that is equally seeing is the water is flowing from the temple toward the east.  It's flowing toward the sea. When it says in here, the sea, it's talking about the Dead Sea. And then one day, the day is coming when the Messiah is coming, there will be a temple. And that God will actually revive, I believe, that Dead Sea. And it will no longer be dead. But I want to use the symbol of this today to talk about another temple that we're now waiting to be built in Israel. But God has already built in you. We are temples of the Holy Ghost. Can somebody say amen? We are not tombs of tradition, religion, and only good experiences. The Bible calls Christians the temple of the Holy Spirit. This does not mean that just because we are spiritual temple, that there will not be the third temple built in Jerusalem. We believe that there will be a third physical temple built in Jerusalem. And the Antichrist will defile that temple. And the Lord Jesus Christ will come and he will destroy the Antichrist. He will destroy the Antichrist armies. And Jesus will sit in that temple and he will be glorified. But until that time, the Bible makes it very clear that today we are the temples of the Holy Spirit. Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit. The danger that we have as the temple of the Holy Spirit is to become tombs of religion. When Jesus was on this earth, he rebuked the Pharisees and he called them white washed tombs. Now what is the difference between a temple and a tomb? A tomb holds something that used to be alive. A temple hosts someone that is alive. God. Tombs are religious people that remember times when they loved God more than they love him today.  A tomb is when you live your life always looking back because your best days were behind you. And you're just remembering the good old days. But those good old days are no longer now and in the future everything is always in the past. Oh, I remember when I was sixteen and I encountered God. I went to that summer camp and in that summer camp, man, the Holy Ghost filled me. I spoke in tongues. I was on fire for God. I read three, four, five pages of the Bible every single day. I woke up at five o'clock, man. I was on fire. I led my friends to Jesus. I was Jesus. Hashtag Jesus. Freak! But now, of course, I became a domesticated, calculated, balanced Christian. You know who you are? A tomb. And every Sunday I wash my tomb. I polish it so that I look good to the outside world, but I feel dead on the inside. I don't have a vision anymore.  I'm not burning anymore. I lose battle with the blankets every morning. Meaning I sleep instead of praying. I feast instead of fasting. I don't evangelize. No, the world is evangelizing to me. And instead of me winning my friends for Jesus, now I sing. And I am literally being conformed to this womb. Oh, man, oh, I can tell you some good old days that I had with God.  You became a tomb. Water doesn't flow from tombs. Stench comes out of tombs. Water only flows from temples. And my goal today is not to condemn you, but to quicken you and to wake you up and to tell you your spiritual best days are not when you were 16. They're supposed to be now. Your best year with God is supposed to be now. And you're going to come to Hungary, Jen, because God wants to quicken your best spiritual year. Not your best financial year, but spiritual year is now. And as your spiritual year, spiritual month is best now. You will see God will take care of your finances. God will take care of your family. God will take care of other things in your life. Can somebody give God a clap offering? Yesterday's manna is today's maggots. Yesterday's manna has maggots. God gave Israel manna every day. But there was one principle there. You can't live on yesterday's manna. You can't serve God only on yesterday's experiences. You got to have fresh manna every day. Fresh word from God regularly. Burning for God regularly.  Any fireplace that used to have fire only has ashes. We are not full of ashes.  And fire is not hype. Fire is not enthusiasm. Fire is a deep commitment and a drive to love Jesus.  One prophet said, this is a fire.  It's when you're burning.   Like smoke is coming out of you. Why? Because you're hot. Come on, somebody. We need to redefine what it means to be hot. It's to be on fire for God. It's to be burning for Jesus.  I don't want to talk about what I did when I was 15 and 14 years of age coming to prayer, pressing in, putting flyers over my high school because God doesn't want me to live on yesterday's manna. He doesn't want me to live on yesterday's vision. Yesterday's victories. He wants to give new victories today. New mercies today. New breakthrough today. Fresh vision today. New revival today. Can somebody give God some praise right now? I want to remind you that if Abraham would have lived on yesterday's word, he would have killed his son. Let me say that again. If Abraham would have lived on yesterday's word, he would have killed his son. God told Abraham, offer your son as a sacrifice. He goes for a three-day journey. Prince his son, if Abraham would have said, well, great, God spoke three days ago. I don't need to have a current, consistent relationship with God today. Why? I heard God before. I don't need to hear God today. He would have killed his son. Jesus says, Matthew 4.4, he says, men shall not live by bread alone. But by every word, look at this, that proceeds, it doesn't say proceed it. Proceeds, meaning God still speaks today. Still speaks today. God, not like the cessation is believed, that stop speaking, stop moving. That's not our God. Yesterday, today, and forever the same. He still moves today. If you're breathing, God wants to speak. He still leads today. He still does miracles today. He still answers prayer today. God still has things proceeding from his mouth. And the man lives by the word that is proceeding right now from God's mouth. We are a church that want to see God today. Want to hear God today. Live on fire today. Live passionate today. Have our past sacrifices today. Not 10 years ago. Have our greatest commitment to the Lord today. Not 5 years ago. Because yesterday's manna stinks. Because Pharisees, when Jesus came, revival broke out. Of course, it didn't look like the revival they were used to. What Pharisees only had is what God used to do. And they rejected the God in front of them that wanted to do things now. That's why Jesus called them tombs. They only had and celebrated honored revival of yesterday. Criticized revival of today. And they hoped and secretly wished for God to send revival one day. God is bringing revival now. You can be a part of it. Or you can live based on what God said, oh, in that old grandma's church that I used to go, oh, when I was in the village, when we grew up, you know, that's great. What God did with Moses was great. But Moses is dead. You're alive. God appointed you for this time and for this generation. And the Lord has not abandoned his church. The Lord is still moving in his church.  The temples of the Holy Ghost and live on what God wants to do today. Come on somebody. The best breakthroughs. You see what's happening with people today. When they're giving, God is giving breakthrough. When they're praying, God is giving breakthrough. That could be happening to you today.  You might not have your best year with your finances. But you can have the best year with God. Oh, but I did that. I tried that. The previous church. Leave that alone. Don't have your memories bigger than your dreams. Don't have your hurts bigger than your hope. Don't have your fear bigger than your faith.   And they're like lots wife going forward looking backwards. This is what he did to me. This is what she did to me. It's not fair. And you're no longer progressing. Why? Because you're stuck in the past. Get unstuck. Your best days are right ahead of you. Everything that you went through we stopped living when we got hurt. We're only existing. And then 20 years later they bury us. But for those 20 years we simply wasted air. Don't waste your life. Live. Dream. Don't just exist. You owe it to everybody around you. You were saved by God.  Don't waste your years. But so that you will lay your years down and see your best years with God. Maybe if you're looking back at this year and this has been the hardest year you couldn't control that. But you decide whether it will be your best year spiritually. And it starts with this one decision. I will not live based on what God used to do. I will live to see what God will do in my life. I'm not too old. I'm not too young. I didn't fail too much. I am not too uneducated. No, I am the right person for this season and my God will use me. If he can use Vlad, he can use me. If he can use her, he can use me. If he can use Moses, he can use me. But I'm a temple, not a tomb. Say this with me. Say I'm the temple. Not a tomb. The second thing I want to highlight is out of the temple came the river. See the moment you begin to live of what God is doing now and you get involved, get engaged with it river will start to flow. If you live off yesterday's blessing and you get stuck in there and keep remembering, we need to remember good old days, don't get me wrong. We need to thank God for those good old days. We need to take faith from those places.  That means that all of what God used to do is to motivate us so God can do more now. God is always moving forward. God is not stuck in the past. God is always progressing not necessarily that God is improving and changing but progressing in this world by using people and moving further all the time with every generation. And this is our generation and this is our time. And God wants to do greater things that he used to do but we must understand is the water flows from the temple when you become a person who says this is going to be my best year spiritually I am going to pray, I am going to fast I am going to give, I am going to focus on making this my best year spiritually God will take care of the stuff that is your best year in other areas of your life. But something will happen right away, the water will flow. What I love about the Holy Spirit is the Holy Spirit is a river not a pool the Holy Spirit is not a reservoir. The Holy Spirit is not a pond the Holy Spirit is not a jacuzzi the Holy Spirit is a river. The water flows from the temple. Jesus said in John chapter 4, John chapter 7 he says out of your belly will flow rivers of living water few things you need to keep in mind write this down, the river has a flow a reservoir is a storage unit if you feel like your life has lost a flow please understand something is broken because the Holy Spirit does not make monuments out of us he makes a movement out of us when the Holy Spirit comes a flow comes into your life you feel like there is a flow it doesn't mean you always feel there is a success but you feel that there is a flow in your life something is flowing, you are not stuck because he is flowing reservoirs are stuck rivers produce life reservoirs produce death rivers produce they promote life reservoir squashes life number 3 rivers have banks rivers are not tsunamis when we are believing for revival when we are standing for revival what some people have an idea for revival is this it's not a river but a tsunami tsunami destroys everything in its wake it's waves caused by volcanic interruptions from underground and these big waves come and they not just fill water with the city with water they destroy everything hungry jen is not a place where we are praying or contending for a tsunami meaning a revival will destroys our schedule a revival we just some people have this idea if real revival comes we will never sleep we will just be in worship service 24-7 that's a tsunami a lot of water but everything dead afterwards what we are believing is for river what does this river do has banks you see columbia river it promotes life if the tsunami will come all of us will be dead all of our houses will be destroyed that river it creates gives water to irrigation it helps with trees it helps with plantation the river of Ezekiel chapter 47 the bible says the trees were made alive the fish were made alive there was a sense of life that came with it and this river had banks the idea that god wants to cause a revival where all the banks are washed importance of family is removed importance of influencing our society is removed the importance of good sleep is removed we don't have time to eat is removed all the banks are washed and instead we just have this big flood that is not a biblical revival why because god doesn't want to violate his own mandate he gave to men which is to rule the planet are there moments where revivals come to certain churches 3-4 years non-stop short services 100% we are not praying for that we don't we want a river that prints life and has banks not a river we control but a river that prints life a river that causes us to live our Christian life in revival where a revival is not a Sunday night meeting but a revival is a lifestyle where we win souls we make disciples we run businesses that honor God we give we elevate the revival in our society as well we go into our schools river had banks so the version of revival for hungry Jen is not a service to every single day the version of revival is that we raise servants that live for God every single day river has banks we are not praying for a tsunami we are praying and walking in the river come on somebody river enters the sea this river started very small at the bottom of the temple at the door of the temple it came out of the temple into the dead sea but it was slow progression I want you to notice the river flowed out of the temple it didn't flow into the temple what does this tell me real revival is not when we get everybody to church real revival is when we get the whole church to everybody real revival is go into all the world and make disciples of all nations real revival is now when all the world comes to church real revival is when the church stops being a destination but it's a gas station because in the traditional version of revival where we get everybody to come to church and it's all about a full time minister on the stage that version of revival is not complete it's very important but it's not complete biblical version is the water flowing from the temple and the further this water gets the deeper it gets away from the temple churches have become aquariums of exotic fish we fish in the bathtub meaning it's all about getting people to church but the biblical mandate is to change our world by being transformed first by God river flows into the sea which means revival in the church has to become a reformation in the society and I want you to write this down put it somewhere on your fridge revival in the church has to lead to transformation in the society if a revival in the church does not wipe away the drugs on the street we're missing something if the revival in the church does not enter the school system we're missing something if the revival in the church does now reduce the amount of crime that is happening on Friday night we are missing something if revival in the church does not affect the fact that people are killing their babies and that does not get decreased or brought down we're missing something now some people go in and say we don't need revival in the church we just need to change the society they preach social gospel but God's model has always been if my people call by my name God has always been if they humble, if they pray if they get water flowing from the temple I will heal their land God's model has always been to revive the church and that the revived church will begin to buy default and intention reform the society which means that the church isn't trying to pull people from business from school, from media but to say now that you are changed be the salt and the light in your workplace minister is not the one with the microphone minister is the one that has a purpose and you can have a purpose in your business you can have a purpose as a mom raising your children you can bring reformation to this society when you live in revival in your heart thank you for that golf club golf club amen revival in the church leads to reformation in the society reformation in the society without revival is just enforcing laws and rules revival is not top down it's down up Jesus didn't go in trying to change the kings he changed the hearts and send those people into the world and as more people got changed they started to occupy positions of politics media education business and everywhere they went they started to affect those areas with the saltiness of a Christ changed life and instead of pulling away people from the marketplace we draw people to revival in the church in the small groups, in prayer but we don't live in revival we live from revival and bring the revival reformation why does it need to become a reformation because this earth does not belong to the devil God created the heavens of heavens belong to God the earth is given to the sons of men this earth belongs to God's children and God wants us to spread the fame of his name not by force but by lifestyle by the preaching of the good news and the living of the good news everywhere we go we're not running from schools we're going into schools we're not waiting on our suitcases still for the rapture no, we are working with God to see a revival break out in our homes in our lives we're not asking people quit your business and become a full time minister that's what God called you yes we're encouraging you no, we think your business and minister to your business influence for God's kingdom for your business because everyone is called to be a minister even those without a spotlight microphone in the stage can somebody say amen I'll give you an example America has experienced those things there was a Fiji revival even though it was short lived it started as a political violence in Fiji around the year 2000 Fijians stay looted and burned in stores raped women, injured many there was an outbreak of violence there's this guy that was elected Lassignera and I think I mispronounced his name wrong he was elected and he was born again Christian he saw the racism and the conflict that was happening in his nation, the violence he came to the pastors and he says I want you pastors to stop bickering and fighting because pastors also denominations were fighting he says I want you to unite together so that we can see revival in the nation knowing that revival in the church brings reformation in society pastors started to get together pray and fast this guy who was elected as a president his opponent was a Hindu Indian opponent but he lost the election so this new president born again organizes a national meeting where he washes the feet of his opponent right in front of everyone because his opponent was from Indian descent and Fiji they were attacking Indian people and he was calling for repentance even though he won the election he was calling his nation to repentance and even doing reconciliation night on the Christianity he should chose his presidential office not as a place to push religion but to push godly values in his nation churches started to organize prayer meetings in villages and 3, 4, 5, 7 days fast things in villages it spread like wildfire for repentance and for revival people started getting saved idols were being burned they would hold bible studies every single night confessing their sin they burned 13,864 plantations of marihuana they burned about 11 million worth of drugs they burned idols this started to spread in such a way where coral reef in the river in the village of Rukuwa came back to life and actually fish came back it takes hundreds of years for coral reef to grow it happened overnight when the villages started to repent so the nature that grows for the redemption of the sons of god started to experience reformation because revival hit the village revival came to the people please understand this world needs a revived church this world does not need a dead church this world does not need a church that just has big buildings but doesn't have a big heart this world does not need a church that only remembers what god used to do and is no longer doing anything when the church gets revived the world gets reformed in the documentary Let the Sea Resound George Orris Jr said these healing both in the land and in people started to happen in villages of Fiji one village forefather killed and ate a missionary that's one of the things they used to do is they used to eat people there so they would kill and eat this missionary when the village got saved they found out that that was what their ancestors did they paid for the ticket of the victim descendants from England to come back to that village so that they can ask for forgiveness God started bringing reconciliation in September 20, 2003 over 100,000 people 10% of the nation gathered for Rehard Bonke's crusade in that nation when this repentance when this revival started with Christians revival doesn't wait for the white house to change revival waits for your house to change it's not the white house that controls the destiny it's the white throne that controls the destiny and you have access to it God didn't say if Joe Biden, God says if my people God didn't say if Donald Trump becomes a president, God says if my people begin to humble themselves and pray meaning you hold the key to the revival in your home you hold the key to the revival in this church you hold the key to the change in your society and that key my friend is bending your knees before God not staring in front of a TV show or a football game, but getting up early pressing into God, praying because water flows from the temple and when this water flows from the temple it goes to the Dead Sea God was revival not to stop in the church flow into the church but flow out of the church into the society into the school system into the media into the business world into the political arena every arena but make no mistake the change doesn't come from there the change comes from here the change comes from the Holy Spirit and it comes from here you can't impose godliness yeah the laws have to be made to protect and restrain evil but restraining evil doesn't deliver people from evil prisons don't change criminals prisons execute punishment and that's necessary it's justice God teaches that but what brings change is the gospel of Jesus Christ what brings change is the blood of Jesus Christ is the power of the Holy Spirit it's not laws it's not legislation and it's not somebody in high office and it's not a dollar it's the gospel but this gospel shouldn't stay there it has to flow out into the Dead Sea so the first thing we are not tombs we are temples meaning we're not gonna live based on what God used to do the best year spiritually we're gonna experience that now number two the Holy Spirit wants to flow out the Holy Spirit wants to create a river a revival a flow in our life out from here into there not from there into here the model that so many people have the traditional model of the church is this you're truly revived if you faithfully attend church give and go to a small group and that's good giving faithful attendance is important but that water doesn't flow in it flows out Jesus is gonna say if you believe in me the rivers will flow in He says the rivers will flow out so revival let's redefine revival too I'm going to church too I am walking away now from the church filled with the Holy Spirit to live for Jesus' purpose in this world why? because this world belongs to God right now it's occupied by the Prince of Air but he has already expiration date the guy is not staying here for long he's already been defeated and disarmed he's already counting there's a countdown it's been said the bomb is gonna go off and the bomb is gonna hit his face not yours the end of age is his part not ours that's not the end of the world God's gonna make this world new and we're gonna rule and reign with Christ it's the devil's broad the devil's reign is coming to an end we are in the enemy occupied territory but Jesus is already the king and we're waging war we're sabotaging his kingdom and we're not afraid of it why? because our king has already defeated the devil demons, hell and grave and he is coming back lastly the river grows fuller as it goes further I want you to notice how the river increases how do we see greater increase of the anointing miracles and revival in our church the river did not increase at the temple the further it got from the temple it got wider gradually got deeper 1,000 cubits is 1,700 feet so every 1,700 feet there was a gradual increase of the river but I want you to notice in which direction the river increased the river increased as the man walked in the direction of the lowest point on earth the river increased as the man walked in the direction of the dead sea the most deadest place on earth as you walk in that direction the river gradually increases it started with ankles then it went to the knees and then a waist and then it couldn't swim anymore the river gradually increased as we go to the lowest point on the planet the secret to not only maintaining God's anointing on this house but growing it is this it's not in our speed it's in our direction when the lost people when winning the lost is the department of the church instead of the direction of the church we will not maintain the anointing when the most important thing in the church becomes making sure we are in the right direction what is that direction but we want to be in God's will well I can tell you where God's will is headed if God wills that nobody perishes but everybody comes to the knowledge of Jesus Christ God's will God's river God's direction you will receive power to make your witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria in the Alts of the Earth God made it very clear my direction where my power will flow where my gifts will flow where my glory will flow where my provision will flow is the Dead Sea if you stay in that direction you will always be in my power you will always be in my anointing and I promise you I'll increase it gradually I'll expand it gradually every 1,700 feet you will begin to see an increase as you get closer and closer to more people getting saved I will begin to increase the amount of miracles and more salvation more healings more reconciliation more homes being rebuilt for God direction is very important hungry jen has a direction that direction is to win souls and to make disciples our mission is that everything else is not sacred how we do that vision and mission can change one thing doesn't change is that mission when this church was started it wasn't started as an aquarium of exotic Slavic fish it wasn't started to preserve tradition it was started to save the lost when we didn't speak English didn't understand the culture and we're still on welfare we just came as refugees here that vision was made very clear from the beginning that vision scared people because how can you do that in the United States this won't work this was 20 years ago you're sitting here today because the church had the direction which means my comfort your convenience is not priority this church exists for the reason for which Jesus came bled and died maturity is defined not by how much gifts you have but how close you are to the reason Jesus came on this earth for do you live for that purpose our giving is toward the direction then your building is for that purpose going into school is for that purpose everything has to some way shape and form go to the dead sea deliverance is for that purpose salvation is for that purpose healing is for that purpose cell groups is for that purpose destiny training is for that purpose it's not a purpose unto itself it has a point and the point is the direction that God has set in His word we can change the direction the river is not moving because I'm telling it where to move I have to follow the flow where the river is moving and God made it very clear the river is moving to the point of the lowest point on the planet broken, hurting, lost backsliding people who don't know Jesus are the reason Jesus came it's the reason why He died and it's the reason He gave us the Holy Ghost it's the reason He gave us the church and it's the reason God will give us whatever we need to get to the lowest point on the planet as long as hungry Jen keeps salvation of people the most important thing and is willing to make whatever sacrifices whatever changes we need to make to see more and more people come to Jesus Christ we will never lack the anointing of God we will have the amount that we need for the assignment that God has given we'll be praying for more, 100% but it's not so we can be powerful it's so that we can fulfill our purpose we give an example of just few people that are secular secular people who have lived that as saving people Chen Xi is called an angel of nangjing there was this bridge in China and the China actually has the most has more deaths by suicide than any country in the world nangjing jenxi river bridge is actually the most popular site for suicides on record they actually beat the San Francisco bridge so this is China is the most country that has the most suicide this bridge is the top place for the suicides in the world in 2003 Chen Xi saved a man's life after grabbing him from the railing and tackling him to the ground he would actually drive taxi and see people jump sometimes stop his taxi run across a four lane highway grabbing somebody from ending their life after this incident in 2003 he actually every weekend for 18 years appeared to scout two mile length of this metal expense talking to hundreds of people thinking about taking their lives this wasn't a nonprofit this wasn't a job it's just on his day off he took a whole day 18 years to talk to anybody that's walking on this bridge in case they're planning to end their life in fact few years after that he built a small house next to the entrance of the bridge where he lived for the past 11 years as of 2021 he saved 412 people he rescues one person every two weeks when they asked him a question he said this in the past I didn't have the ability to protect myself to save other people the people I wasn't able to save returned to haunt me in my dreams this is not a job and I don't think he's a Christian he simply saw people ending their life and refused to be careless about it and said I want to do something to save somebody's life dedicated his weekends today he's called the angel of that bridge and the angel of that river let me tell you about Don Richie he's in Australia Don Richie is called the angel of the gap the gap is an ocean cliff at Sydney is a popular visitor destination that has gained infant it became infamous as a suicide spot for the years it's estimated that about 50 people end their lives there every single year Don Richie was a seaman in Royal Australian Navy in the Sydney he worked in insurance since 1964 he has saved 160 people though his family says he's saved over 400 he says I was a salesman for most of my life and I sold them life this is how he would save people he lives next to the cliff he would come to people standing there he would know why they are there most likely not to observe the view but to end their life the second question he would ask is why don't you come and have a cup of tea he says more than not quiet approach worked though on some occasions I risked my whole life by physically restraining the more determined for making their final leap afterwards he would invite them back into his house for a cup of tea and a chat occasionally they would return years later to thank him for saving their life he said this my ambition has always been to just let them away from the edge to buy them time to give them the opportunity to reflect and give them the chance to realize that things might look better than next morning he said this you can't just sit there and watch them you've got to try and save them a simple conversation 400 people he passed away already my question today for us we in each way in our own way are all living next to the bridge where the most deaths happen every day you are living next to a cliff where every day somebody steps into the abyss into the unknown into the lake of fire you're living there you're working there you're drinking coffee there you're getting your degree there my desire today isn't to guilt trip anybody my desire is this is to refocus you and I that we live with intention and not being cold callous, blind or deaf to the cries and the plight of the people around us in the church the direction of every Christian is to live for the purpose Jesus died for Jesus died so that every person can encounter the love of God he gave his life for that all he asks us he doesn't ask you to die for people he's saying could you live for that which I died for could you live with intention with the purpose because life without purpose has no point on the September 1976 on his usual 12 mile run with his brother Kammo because when we were driving by this they told us because I've heard about the story I've never seen it until I was there in Armenia and it's confirmed to be true on his 12 mile run with his brother a trolley bus carrying 92 people fell into the side of freezing water that bus was about 80 feet offshore and 33 feet deep so when Shavar saw that as a champion who wins these competitions in swimming he quickly responded by jumping into the water he would spend 30 to 35 seconds for each person that he would save he pulled 20 people and only 20 survived he had so much glass and dirt inside that he swallowed because even getting in there he had to break the back window of the bus with his legs and it was freezing cold water and so he got a lot of stuff into his lungs he actually went unconscious and went into a coma for 40 days after that he never performed again in his life in fact, few years later he did exactly same thing in Moscow jumping into a burning building and rescuing people and then end up again in an ER for days they interviewed him after few years because nobody knew about this until the newspapers came out that he saved this many people they interviewed him and they said so tell me about that day when you were going through this stuff rescuing people his brother would resuscitate them on the shore and he would go in take 20 seconds pull one out and then bring them in pull one out and the last time he brought one person he collapsed and they had to admit him to ER for 40 days he was unconscious he could not save so many lives I knew that I could only save so many lives I was afraid to make a mistake it was so dark down there that I could barely see anything during one of my dives I accidentally grabbed a seat instead of a passenger I could have saved a life instead that seat still haunts me in my nightmares now it's for us to be witnesses and to live with intention it's for people to be saved it's for people to be rescued there's some things we can do it starts with the souls of our feet that speaks of winning souls for Jesus feet meaning where we go be intentional about who you talk to every person is fighting a battle you don't know we're not offering religion we're offering life and hope we're offering life so walk with your feet this week walk in the river meaning live a life of prayer but walk start with your feet the river has to hit your ankles meaning where you and I if you really want to start experiencing greater anointing live with intention don't just do life live with intention after that it has to hit your knees this means when we lead somebody to Jesus we gotta help them to stay connected to a life group we gotta connect with them you can't just lead them to the Lord and leave them alone like that the only children they get left in a hospital and don't come home are the six children God doesn't want six children he wants children that have a home have a home group a life group somebody that they're connected to somebody that consolidates them follows up on them the third thing is that we have to then disciple them do for them and then discipleship is now they're learning how to fast how to witness to other people they go through destiny training they get empowered now to be disciple makers but God has one more stage he wants every Christian who becomes a brand new Christian gets followed up, gets disciple to become a disciple maker and that's when when we all begin to do that we will get to a place we can't walk anymore we're gonna have to swim this is what statistics says 10,000 people every month will win the world in 60,000 years but a pastor who wins two people every month and teaches them to do the same will win the world in 30 months which tells me win, follow up, disciple and then release them that is biblical way of us to churn believers into disciples disciples into disciple makers you might not feel like being a leader that is not the point the point is that can you love somebody can you care for somebody can you follow up on somebody can you open your mouth and talk to somebody about Jesus when they say yes could you put them in your prayer list and pray them through could you bring them to your small group could you sign them up for destiny training could you encourage them to become disciple makers for God somebody say amen say I will win souls I will make disciples who will make disciples this is Jesus' strategy Jesus didn't tell us go into all the world and make decisions he didn't say go into all the world and ask people to raise their hand and pray a sinner's prayer he says go into all the world and I want you to win I want you to pray them through I want you to disciple and for them to make more disciples and do that in every nation this is not just about building a bigger church it's about building better bigger people to win souls and make disciples do you see that poster every believer a disciple maker but I'm not called to do that are you a believer I don't know if I'm educated enough have you noticed that when you have children when you get married and you have children you don't have a certificate on how to have children you just have love and when you got love you got them babies even a lot of you you got children and you're still a child yourself an act like a child immature, broke but it doesn't matter you got love and you got children yet when we become Christians some of us we say no I cannot spiritually help other people to come to know Jesus why I need 20 years to be in the church you didn't say I need to be 20 years to be married before I have children no some of you got it right away children before you got married Lord have mercy that's another sermon for another day we're going to leave that right now but right now what I want to encourage you is this is that none of us disqualify ourselves from having children just because we quote unquote don't have a degree in it we don't have a lot of finances no we're in love we want to see a family and then we get them kids we grow they change us we change their diapers they change our attitude we begin to grow in that we mature we make mistakes but we love those kiddos they grow up they have their own family that's exactly how God wants spiritual family to be every Christian being a believer who becomes a disciple who becomes a disciple maker and the river grows as we all go not just a pastor in a sermon once a year but the whole church moves in a direction we go to the life class we go to the destiny training we go to cell groups and we go about our life winning souls and making disciples why is that important so the church can get bigger no so hell can get empty so Jesus can slap that devil and say I want not only on the cross but all of your spoil I will take back what you stole from my kingdom why because my children full of the Holy Ghost will go into the enemy's camp and take back what the enemy has stolen and we will see thousands locally and millions globally we will see our conferences at the Yoda center we will not be a church that has home groups we're gonna be a church of home groups we are not gonna be a cruise ship but everybody's there for pleasure and few people serve we will be a warship that has a mission and every hand is on the deck our income today will become our tide tomorrow we are not just gonna be adding more services we're gonna be adding more campuses okay most of you are like whoa what is that because God is gonna spread his kingdom and he's gonna move forward we're gonna see the music come out of this house that's not gonna come out because our musicians are pud heads like a lot of musicians are but because our musicians when souls make disciples pray fast and see God and you will feel the aroma being released in this house the books that will become New York best seller for the glory of God people will be trying to figure out how did that happen out of that tri-series and nobody knows them and nobody signed them up but there will be a favor and the grace of God because the river increases when we go to the Dead Sea when we build our bread when we build our name somebody rise to your feet and give God some praise right now


What's up, everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. And welcome back to the Black Mirror Season 4 playlist. And in this video, we're going to talk about the overarching theme of consciousness in Black Mirror. This is a topic that I absolutely love because I'm somebody who is really into meditation, as well as Buddhist philosophy. So in season 4, quite a few episodes actually touch on the topic of consciousness. It kicks it off pretty much in episode one, the USS Callister, where, by the way, if you haven't watched any of these episodes yet or even episode one, turn this video off, come back. Actually, if you haven't watched the season yet and you're worried about spoilers, go away, come back. All right, but anyways, in USS Callister, pretty much it is about a video game designer and coder who is the CTO of the company. And he's kind of a shy, laid-back dude. And he's very awkward, like typical nerd. And what he does is he has his own mod of the game at home. And what he does is he transfers the consciousness of people into his own modded version of the game, where he basically is God and he runs the whole show. He tortures people who don't play along with him. And when you think about it, the idea of consciousness is you being transported somewhere else, right? So these people are waking up in a game and wondering what the hell is going on. And they realize what's happening. But is it really them? And that goes into a deeper conversation of who are we? Who am I? Right. Some of the other episodes that touch on consciousness is the hang the DJ episode, where it's pretty much about a dating app, but this dating app and I really want to rewatch this episode and watch some other video breakdowns of it. But what it looks like this dating app does is it transfers your consciousness into this app to find you the perfect match. It runs you through a bunch of simulations with other people and they have a 99.8% success rate, but it engages and figures out how you would react to different people and in different situations, falling in love, heartbreak and things like that. The next episode that does this quite a bit is the season finale, which is Black Museum. Black Museum is an episode that kind of has like three mini episodes in one. And two of them are about transferring consciousness.  She's in a coma. If you haven't watched my other video on this episode, click in the info card above. But anyways, she's in a coma and they transfer her consciousness into Jack, right? That is her baby daddy.  She can talk to him. She can feel and experience everything that he does. And Jack can actually hear what she's saying. In the third part of Black Museum, they bring back consciousness to talk about this guy who was convicted of murder, murder, maybe wrongfully. We don't know.  And what we end up finding out is that this consciousness is then put into a simulation where people get to come to Black Museum and basically make this guy relive over and over and over his electrocution and some sick and twisted stuff. But what's interesting about this is just the whole idea of self. So if any of you are familiar with Buddhist philosophy, you've probably heard of non self. And this is something that's just always fascinated me. I'm currently reading a book, which I will put in the description below. It's called Waking Up by Sam Harris. And basically it's a book about the difference between spirituality and religion, how to be spiritual without being religious, which is what I am in this book, you know, and in other books that I've read about this idea of self and non self is just always fascinating to me. And anytime somebody really articulates it well, my mind literally just blows up, right? Because this idea of self and who we are, this ownership that we have, we have this kind of false idea that we are some kind of CEO of our own mind and our body and all these things. But a question I'll ask you right now is where do thoughts come from? Because if we're in control, if we're the CEO, if we're the king or queen of our own mind, how come so many thoughts come through our head that we didn't conjure up, right? When I'm sitting there at work and I get distracted by something, or when I'm sitting there having a conversation with somebody and I can't stop thinking about what I have to do later, where are these thoughts coming from? Who am I? And where does the I begin and end, right? Like this is my skin, these are my organs, right? But am I in control of them? My organs, you know, for example, my digestive system, it's doing its thing automatically based on system set up in my body, right? Now, one of the best parts of waking up that I've read so far is when it talks about this thought experiment from a British philosopher named Derek Parfit, right? And what Derek Parfit talks about is this idea, this thought experiment of you can, you can teleport to Mars, okay? You hit this little button, you teleport to Mars, your friends have told you about it, they're on Mars and they're like, yeah, man, it works. You teleport straight there. So you're like, okay, cool, I'll do that. So you teleport to Mars. Every part about you teleport to Mars, your thoughts, your experiences, your, your memories, all these things, your wants, your desires, everything. But there's one little catch.  Kind of crazy, right? So some of you would sit there and kind of second guess this and say, would I really want to do this teleportation? And that brings up an interesting question. Who are you? Are you the one on earth or this other duplicate of you that's been created on Mars? Is that the you because of psychological continuity?  Which one is you? Are they both you? So when thinking about it in this context, let's talk about the episode USS Callister real quick, one of the ways that the main character kind of keeps these people hostage is not only through torturing them, but his business partner out on the outside world, Walton, he threatens him by bringing his son's consciousness into the game.  And what he does is he makes the guy watch as he hits the airlock and his son flies out into space and he dies a terrible death. Right? So one of the reasons that Walton keeps playing along is because he doesn't want his son to have to go through that experience again. But this brings up that question. Who is his son? Right? I'm very interested. One of the, one of the things that I would love to see is like, how would a, how would somebody who follows Buddhist philosophy react in that situation? Right? Because somebody who understands that the self is something that's constantly changing and nothing, you know, very tangible, that is not actually his son. It's basically a simulation. Right? One of the things that Derek Parfit talks about with this psychological continuity of, you know, that is our idea of self is that we're not the same as we were even five minutes ago. We're constantly changing this idea of self, this, this static thing that always stays the same. It's not, we're constantly changed by our thoughts, but mainly our experiences. Right?  Right? When you persevere, when you get through something difficult, you are different than you were before that experience happened. So the self is something that is constantly changing. Now let's talk a little bit about the other episode, Black Museum. Right? So one of the things that happens in the third story of Black Museum is that the prisoners consciousness is transferred into this simulation where he keeps getting electrocuted over and over and over again and he's suffering. And even the people who come through there and pull that switch, they get to keep a little keepsake and watch this guy suffer over and over again. Now, in all of these, in all of these talking about consciousness, what's interesting is, and when you dive into this thing about who are we and what is this idea of self, there to this day, science cannot find where the self actually is in the brain. And I'm not going to go into that because I love black mirror and just the sci-fi ideas of it, but the brain is a series of systems and neurons and all these other things working together and constantly changing. For example, we have trillions of neurons in our brain, and they're constantly growing, changing, creating new ones based on our personal experiences. Then there are different parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus. That is the part of the brain that stores our memories, right? Now let's think about the idea of pain, what the guy in black museum was going through. How can one experience pain if they have no nerves, right? Because the nerves are what send signals to your brain, the amygdala to trigger the fight, flight or freeze mechanism, right? So that's something interesting to think about, too. And one of the, one of the interesting topics that they brought up in this was in the second part of black museum, when Carrie gets transferred first to Jack and then to this stuffed animal. And they talk about how the ACLU cracked down and said you can't quote unquote kill Carrie because unless they have ability to have five or more emotions, it's not right to kill this person. And when Carrie is transferred into this stuffed animal, she only has two emotions. And this is something that's just interesting and not much about mental health or anything, but something that I took away from this is, you know, just thinking about it like what rights would a consciousness have, right? Because Carrie technically died, her physical body died when she was transferred over to Jack. So that brings up the other topic of what is consciousness? What is the idea of self? Is it the psychological continuity or is it the physical continuity of a person, right?  Like what is a person? Is it their physical being, being alive, operating on its own or even with the assistance of machines or is it a certain amount of brain activity, right? But anyways, anyways, I know this, this video is a little bit deeper than some of the other ones I go to, but I'm always really excited when I get to talk about the Buddhist philosophy of non-self and something that I will touch on real quick just because at the rewired soul, we're here to talk about mental health is when you start detaching yourself from this idea of self, which is interesting because we talk about you, I, him, her, right? But anyways, is detaching yourself from these, these thoughts that we have, these troubling thoughts, those of you who struggle with depression, these are these my thoughts, these thoughts tend to think themselves, right? If you have struggled with anxiety, these fears, sometimes irrational fears, right? Are these really mind if they're coming out of nowhere? And what meditation helps us do? And what understanding the idea of non-self does? It helps me sit back and watch. I get to watch it like I'm watching a movie rather than being the person inside the movie.  But anyways, like I said, in the description down below, I'm going to link you to the book by Sam Harris called Waking Up, great book if you want to check it out. But you know what? I'm feeling a little bit great. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to link some of my other favorite books, just about Buddhist philosophy and the idea of non-self. So if this is the kind of stuff that interests you, if you're like really into philosophy and stuff like that, check out some of the books, they'll be in the description. I will also link you over to the rewired soul page where I have a whole list of my recommended readings. So if you're a reader like I am and you want to check them out, go on, click one of those links, check some of those out. But anyways, have you watched season four of Black Mirror yet? What are your thoughts on consciousness? I would love to know your thoughts. 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