We continue our verse by verse study here in the gospel of Luke. We'll begin reading together at verse 31 We'll read to verse 35 and then we'll move on into verse 36 and conclude at verse 50 So let's begin here in Luke chapter 7 at verse 31, and I will read to verse 35 and we'll get into our study Luke writes in chapter 7 verse 31 the Lord said To what then shall I liken the men of this generation and what are they like? They're like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another Saying we played the flute for you and you didn't dance We mourned to you and you did not weep For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine and you say he has a demon The son of man has come eating and drinking and you say look a glutton and a wine bibber a friend of tax collectors and sinners But wisdom is justified by all her children what the Lord Jesus Christ is dealing with in the passage before us is criticism and Judgment you see he has just confirmed the ministry of John the Baptist and He now has to address a growing attitude of this critical spirit and judgmental heart and and all and so that's what he begins to do in verse 31 Now as he begins in verse 31 He uses a common teaching technique The way he begins when he says to what then shall I like in the men of this generation and what are they like is Actually a common technique used during this time to introduce a parable or some other illustration and so that's what he's about to do and so he begins to do so by pointing out that there's a generation that is having a certain response to his work and his word and So he says how can I compare this generation? What is this unbelieving generation like to what can I compare it and he says they're like like like children who object to everything that their Playmates want to do He says they're like in verse 32 children sitting in the marketplace These children are spoken of as being in the Agora or the marketplace And so while the the parents are going about on their business the children obviously would find something to do and they would play with other children and What he's mentioning here when he speaks in verse 32 of playing the flute for you and you didn't dance or mourning to you And you didn't weep those were common children's games during the time of Christ what we today might say playing wedding or playing Funeral that's what they were doing. Those are games at that time. And so his point is nothing. That's done is ever satisfactory for them There there's always something wrong and it causes a dissatisfaction for them because some people can never see any good in anything and so these are Unsatisfied fickle people is the point he's making and so when he says let me liken it into children playing in the marketplace common games but They're unsatisfied as they play together and he uses that to illustrate John the Baptist notice verse 33 for John the Baptist came Neither eating bread nor drinking wine and you said he has a demon So Jesus applies the first portion of his illustrations of the people's reaction to John We played the flute for you and you didn't dance See he's saying John came neither eating nor drinking. He led an austere lifestyle John did not live in a lavish way. He was known for his spiritual discipline Matthew tells us in chapter 3 verse 4 concerning him that his clothes were made of camels here He had a leather belt around his waist and his food was locusts wild honey So that caused people problem and so their responses for him was well This man's austere lifestyle really speaks concerning the fact that he's got a demon which in some ways that term He's got a demon is another way of saying he's crazy. This guy's crazy the way that he lives So his his discipline the discipline of his godly lifestyle caused them problems Because normally when somebody sold out the discipline of their lifestyle can cause carnal people problems That's just normal. They said that kind of thing about Jesus in Mark chapter 3 verses 20 and 21 When Jesus entered a house a crowd gathered his disciples were not even able to eat and when his family heard about this They went it went to take charge of him They said he's out of his mind when when somebody is serving the Lord God with all that's within them There will always be people who see their discipline as a sign of them being Overly zealous or too fanatic or a bit crazy.  I can't handle him as a Jesus freak She preferred him to be a loadie and a drunk She said I can handle that but I don't like what he's become and there are quite a number of people who think just like that And so the witness of John's devotion convicted those who saw him and they couldn't remain simply spectators They were convicted by his commitment John wouldn't dance to their tune so he's got to be crazy and Then he gives the second illustration which applies to Jesus in verse 34 He says the son of man has come eating and drinking you say look a glutton and a whine-bibber a friend of tax collectors and sinners Well, Jesus lived a normal pattern of the average Jewish man. He ate and drank like others did His failing to them when he's not devoted enough Now the bottom line is very simply this if you want to find fault you can find fault with anyone You can even find fault with Jesus Christ himself if you want to if you want to inspect sin closely enough or If you want to think that people who don't agree with the things that you do are very sinful and you can find Something wrong with God himself and that's what was taking place here They said that Jesus Christ wasn't devoted and yet John was but he's crazy So what's Jesus's response verse 35 wisdom is justified by all her children The fruit of the Pharisees in the way that they think the way that they act Well, their fruit can be compared to the fruit that's produced by the ministry of Jesus Christ and when you compare the loving compassionate Merciful touch of God in somebody's life that transforms them into loving compassionate and merciful people when you compare the touch of God in somebody's life with religious legalism from the Pharisees perspective who may have been able to to comb the world to make one follower of their particular lifestyle, but making them twice the child of hell that they themselves are when they would Change somebody's life. It wasn't for the better. It was always for the worse Jesus said just check out the children or look at the fruit and you're going to be able to make a judge As to whether or not judgment as to whether or not my ministry is good and from God or not And so moving into verse 36 continuing One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him And he went to the Pharisees house and sat down to eat behold a Woman in the city who was a sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisees house brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil and stood at his feet behind him Weeping and she began to wash his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head And she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil now When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he spoke to himself saying and this man if you were a prophet would know Who and what manner of woman this is who's touching him for Jesus's sinner Jesus answered and said to him Simon I have something to say to you. He said teacher say it There was a certain creditor who had two debtors one owed 500 denarii the other 50 and when they had nothing with which to repay He freely forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him more Simon answered and said I suppose the one whom he forgave more and he said to him you've rightly judged Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon. Do you see this woman? I Entered your house You gave me no water for my feet, but she has washed my feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head You gave me no kiss. This woman has not ceased to kiss my feet since the time I came in You did not anoint my head with oil But this woman has anointed my feet with fragrant oil Therefore I say to you her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much But to whom little is forgiven the same loves little and he said to her your sins are forgiven and Those who sat at the table with them began to say to themselves. Who is this who even forgives sins? Then he said to the woman your faith has saved you Go in peace This is one of my favorite passages in the whole Bible for some reason and I'm not quite sure why I'm attracted to sinful women Just look at Marie. No, I'm a Jack. She didn't hear that. Don't tell her No, I I See women in the Bible that are touched by the grace of God and for some reason that speaks to my heart very very deeply it does We have a woman at the well a woman who had had Five men that she called husband and a man she was living with and I'm attracted to the grace of God as God shows her such wonderful grace. I think of the woman who was caught in sexual sin and and and dragged before Jesus Christ in front of Witnesses and how she was treated in and Jesus's response paraphrased when he says The one here who has no sin let him be the first to cast a stone at her I'm attracted to to God's mercy. I guess and and because I I frankly I take the side of those women when I see how they're being treated and and and and it moves my heart I have found three women in the New Testament that actually have had tremendous impact in that way And this happens to be one of those chapters that that gives us one of those instances This is the woman who was a great sinner a notorious sinner And so what we see here is we see Simon a Pharisee. We see a sinner and we see a savior We see those three here in this one story We see Simon we see a sinner and we see a savior and as we look at this What we're really seeing is Jesus Christ once again being presented to us as the forgiver of sins and When you look at the Lord Jesus Christ you have to ask yourself What is the motivator of his forgiveness and one of the chief motivators of his forgiveness of our sins is Simply his great love for us his great love for us now How do we know that well the Bible makes that clear in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 4 and 5? Because they're Paul said because of his great love for us God who is rich in mercy Made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. It is by grace you have been saved Because of his great love for us God who is rich in mercy made us alive And so we see Jesus as a forgiver of sins and that's what we're going to be seeing here in this passage now Notice how it says in verse 36 that that one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him I've mentioned this to you before perhaps you knew it reading the Bible the word Pharisee there literally means separated one That's what the word Pharisee means the separated ones the Pharisees were a small religious group with tremendous influence Historians state that they numbered somewhere around six thousand with the majority of them occupying positions in the city of Jerusalem and They had a tremendous amount of influence during the time of Jesus Christ. There were two main religious groups During the time of Jesus that you'll read when you read in the Bible you read of them You you read of the Pharisees and you read of the Sadducees The Sadducees and the Pharisees have contrasting histories Sadducees basically began About a hundred and fifty or so years before Christ and The Sadducees were really what you would call a Hellenized or a Grecianized or paganized Jews Who basically had combined the Greek philosophy with Jewish theology and therefore did a kind of a hybrid faith that was very much culturally attuned to their times and So they denied things like spirits angels They denied the resurrection and all they were the what we would today Probably say were the liberals in the religious camp now the Pharisees on the other hand would have been the extreme conservatives They were the ones who were the separated ones because when the when the Sadducees began to to become More known in all and to have great influence while the Pharisees made sure that they that they Separated from that and so at first there their origin was was not necessarily bad in and of itself They wanted to keep pure in the things of God but over time they were hardened into their traditions and and ultimately Lost the real purpose of being separated to God because they stopped loving people They they stopped seeing people as important in all and and their rules and their regulations began to dominate And that's why that's why they very often will be in conflict with Christ That's why they get upset at him for healing on the Sabbath because for them the concern over somebody's health was not as great as the Keeping of their understanding of the law and if Jesus did a work on the Sabbath Then he ought to be stoned for doing so because that's a blasphemous thing to do because you're breaking God's law And you're teaching others to do it and and so from their perspective They were right and Jesus was wrong now Simon is a Pharisee and As a Pharisee, he's a conservative Religious man and he's invited Jesus Christ to dinner now. I want you to see how it says in verse 36 one of the Pharisees asked him Now the word asked when you look at the New Testament the New Testament is written in the Greek language The word is coin a Greek coin a speaking of the common language during the time So when you look at this the New Testament being Greek You look into the word asked there and you can actually find that that's a strong Greek word that literally means to beg or to compel In other words, this is not just a simple request It wasn't like you were talking to one of your friends and you said, you know, we ought to grab some lunch sometime Because we can do that you can see one of the friends you have here at church And you say you know what haven't talked to her for a while, you know next week Why don't we get together if you're able to you know, we do that all the time This isn't what he's doing what he's doing is he's begging him. He's insisting He's pleading He's saying I want you to come and I won't take no for an answer So this is the attitude that you find here with this man by the name of Simon Simon really wants Jesus to come but you know what he doesn't have to beg him to do that because Luke has already revealed that Jesus is willing to spend time with people and yet Simon's insistent that he comes to his home for a meal Now many people want to know what would be the motivation of this? Why would Simon compel him? Why would Simon beg him insist demand? Why would he want him to come to his house? There are various reasons perhaps one could be curiosity Why would he invite him? Maybe he had curiosity Jesus's fame has touched him and perhaps what that has done is it's it's caused him to be curious about Jesus and And and to want to know Something about him and so if I invite him over to my house to have a meal with me I'll have an opportunity to speak to him and gain some information I'm curious about him and you know what the Lord uses curiosity He does it all the time I've spoken to you about this before I've shared with you how people can get saved in the the most odd ways and and years ago when we were having a an Easter service here a Woman was driving by and that on Sunday She's driving by and she sees the cars that are are you know backed up and pulling in and and she's not from around here so She pulls into line, you know Some people just have to get into lines and and she she pulls into the line and and she goes up to the front gate over here and She asks one of our our guys there. Is this a yard sale? She thought she was going to a yard sale and and the guy goes no This isn't a yard sale. It's a church service. She's oh, it's a church. He said yeah Yeah, and she said really yeah, you ought to you had a park and Go on in and hear what's being said and you know she did and when I gave the invitation she came for it So she came out of curiosity thinking she was going to a yard sale and ended up going to the kingdom of God You know and that God uses curiosity, you know Remember in in in John chapter 3 verses 1 and 2 Remember a man by the name of Nicodemus how that Nicodemus came to Jesus by night and said into him master We know that thou art a teacher come from God For no man can do the works that thou doest unless God is with him See he came to Jesus by night to speak to him because he was concerned and curious about the things that Jesus was doing and Jesus at that time was able to lead him into the kingdom. So curiosity. Yes possibly how about courtesy? Could it be simple courtesy because it was a Jewish custom at that time to invite visiting rabbis and It's possible that just out of out of courtesy. He invited Jesus to his house and again some people get saved out of courtesy That's how I got saved friend of mine said to me. I've invited you to go here. You can't say no and out of courtesy I went with him and I got saved that day courtesy. How about collecting celebrities There are people who do that, you know, they want to know the up-and-coming person And because he's a religious individual It's very possible that he wanted to collect this new rabbi as one of his His friends and all because some people some people like to drop names Some people like to speak concerning the people that they know a lot of people become popular by extension by simply saying oh Yes, I have a friend who is this way or is this person and they borrow the status It's possible that it was a collector of celebrities, but I think that it was criticism I think that he invited Jesus over so that he could find something about him So that he could say something about him. We've already seen this in chapter 6 We saw it verse 7 in Luke 6 verse 7 where it says the scribes and Pharisees watched him Whether he would heal on the Sabbath day that they might find Accusation against him. I suspect and I think I think so rightly as we see this is going to pan out in just a moment That he actually had him there that he might criticize him Some people look for opportunity to criticize I Have it here all the time. It's just the way churches are People will come and they'll find something they don't like they'll find something that they just I've had people You know say the oddest things and and over time I've discovered that some people simply do like to criticize They they don't like conviction and therefore they're going to find something wrong With the church and that happens quite often and that's pretty much normal criticism I've told you this before I wasn't going to share it because I've said it to you more than once But I'll say it again because it's one of my stories that I kind of like so I repeat the ones I like frankly how that I had gone to buy a van and and the car salesman was sitting in the passenger Seat as I was driving and and my kids were in the back and Marie was in the back seat as this Car salesman's next to me and and I drive off the lot there and as I'm driving the van Wanting to know whether or not I have an ability to buy a van he asks me what do you do for a living and Any anytime somebody asked me that question. I just kind of you know, okay, here we go Let's see what he does and so I said I'm a pastor Now let's see And he thinks for a moment. I'm sure he was selecting his words carefully and he says oh you're a pastor Pastors are thieves. I wondered how he knew me, you know Yeah, he says pastors are thieves I'm driving. I'm thinking that's not going to make a sale. I mean calling me a thief I think what an odd thing to say and I got my family in the in the van and and you're telling me I'm a thief and I just how odd is this and so I'm just driving and and and yeah pastors are thieves and I looked at him I said they are he goes. Yes, so he's pretty sure I was a thief and I go well I said to him Do you know that there are 500,000 pastors in the United States? He said no, I didn't know that I Said yeah, and I guarantee you the overwhelming majority of them are honest God-fearing men love the Lord and they're not thieves He goes well, you may be right.  Are you? You're honest aren't you? He goes. Yes, sir. I am I Said good, and I'm an honest pastor. It's nice to meet you You know some people will will just they just look to criticize and then they do and they don't know you from from Adam But they're going to criticize I suspect that that's what's taking place here I suspect that he brought the Lord Jesus there to find something wrong with him And you'll see why in just a moment now in verse 37 he goes on and says behold Now when he says and behold that word behold there is to cause us to See that this is unusual Behold a woman in the city who was a sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at the table in the Pharisees house Brought an alabaster flask of fragrant oil and stood at his feet behind him weeping She began to wash his feet with her tears wiped them with the hair of her head And she kissed his feet and anointed them with the fragrant oil now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this He spoke to himself saying this man if you were a prophet would know who and what manner of woman This is who was touching him. She's a sinner and so women at that time were normally not present at this kind of a meal and The fact that she was well known and as a matter of fact He simply speaks of her as being a sinner when he says this woman who is a sinner she's a notorious sinner and She's a prostitute and what has happened is this prostitute has entered the home uninvited Interestingly enough notice with me that she remains unnamed it doesn't say her name though She was well known everybody knew who she was now Luke could have said the woman's name He could have said and whatever her name was walked into the room I love the grace of God because he doesn't want this woman to be remembered for her past sins That's why she's left unnamed Because her name should be protected because her sins have been washed away And so she's an unnamed woman there protecting her because this story has been read now for 2,000 years That God doesn't want her to be remembered because of her sins because her sins have been doubt with the psalmist in Psalm 103 Verses 11 through 13 says as the heavens are high above the earth So great is his mercy toward those who fear him as far as the east is from the west so far has he removed our Transgressions from us as a father pities his children so the Lord pities those who fear him And so God has removed our sins from us as far as the east is from the west if I start on an Equator on a globe and I start going north. I eventually hit the apex I'm north and then I eventually come back and I go down south But if I go from the east to the west it doesn't matter the east in the west will never ever Touch because I start out east and I'll always go east if I start out west I'll always go west and so he doesn't say as far as the north is from the south He says as far as the east is from the west to give us an attitude or an idea of Infinity God will separate our sins from us forever, and they'll never be remembered again Now this woman Must have been impressed with Jesus's approachable compassionate ministry She saw his mercy It's very very possible that she had heard how he had eaten with Levi Matthew Levi and his friends because Luke has already said in chapter 5 That people had spoken concerning that and the question had been asked Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners and Jesus answered and said to them Those who do well those who are well do not need a physician, but those who are sick I haven't come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance. It's very possible that she's heard of this one Who is merciful and compassionate the thing that I love about Jesus so very much though I have to be honest with you is that he is Approachable He's approachable Now Jesus as a typical Jew would be at during that day is reclining at meal They would recline at low couches. They would rest on their left elbow Stretched away from the table and with the right hand would take and eat from the table And so the sandals that are normally worn have been removed and his feet are stretched out Now as typical of Jewish women and you see this with this woman here She has in verse 37 an alabaster flask of fragrant oil And so as typical of Jewish women there was a flask of perfume that's hanging around her necks And so she approaches Jesus and as she begins to walk towards him She begins to sob convulsively now Obviously Every one of us when we go to restaurants and all Every one of us Know that there's that that that table noise that the talking all around you It's just you know, that's the way it is and people are talking and usually it'll you'll rise for a while Then it's low and rises and so there's table noise conversation going on But I can't help but believe that as she enters into this space where they're eating That people begin to notice that she's coming in one It's a woman and two she's a notorious sinner And and so this is highly unusual and people begin to get quiet as she walks in and as she's walking in you can Almost hear the the conversational noise dying down to to no noise at all And now it's dead silent and ask yourself how you would feel if you were walking into a room with people Speaking in the moment you step in everything is silent every eye is upon you and that's what's taking place and So she's looking around the room for the place where them the guest of honor would be and she sees Jesus there and as she sees him She just breaks and The tears begin to flow and they begin to just pour out of her eyes And she's standing over the Lord Jesus Christ and as she's standing over him sobbing the tears that have formed are now Beginning to drip off of her chin and and she sees them as as they are now dripping on to his feet And as she sees them dripping on to his feet She sees the dust and and the moisture now that that that is making it obvious that his feet are still dusty And as a result of that she bends down and as she bends down her hair is undone And she reaches out and she begins to take her hair and she begins to wipe the feet of her master and as she does So the love that she has is so overwhelming that she begins to kiss his feet in in Submitted obedient love for him and it's a pure love that she has for Jesus, but Simon doesn't think so because she's a prostitute and What he sees her doing frankly is plying her trade and as he sees her doing that it disturbs him you know Sometimes sometimes churches have to beg people to serve We we don't we don't believe that that's necessary We don't beg people to serve you want to know why we don't have to Because when people are in love with the Lord they find ways to serve they want to serve when you love the Lord You know you can always beg people and there will always be somebody who as a result of being asked or begged We'll do something but the purest worship and the purest service is from the heart of gratitude and that's what you see here You see this woman humbling herself James 410 says humble yourselves and the side of the Lord he'll lift you up and You see her kissing in an anointing Jesus's feet with that fragrant oil because it's revealing once again her love for him or gratitude I remember when when Jesus healed the mother-in-law of the Apostle Peter It's recorded in Mark chapter 1 verse 31 how the Bible says that when Jesus healed her She served them and that's what happens when the Lord reaches you and and touches you now Simon is there and notice the Bible in verse 39 says When when the Pharisee who invited him saw this he spoke to himself saying This man if he were a prophet would know who in what manner of woman this is who's touching him She's a sinner any blind man can see what she is it you don't have to be a prophet to see this and understand this you know and you know you can There are places that that I have traveled and I'll be walking on my way somewhere and There'll be prostitutes and you'll see them They don't wear signs You know hi. I'm a prostitute. They don't wear signs But do you know their prostitutes? They might call out to you.  I mean that has happened in my life newer times. I've seen prostitutes You know, of course, I guess every adult Has seen people who have given themselves You know and that's that's what he's saying. He's saying if this man were a prophet He'd know who in what manner a woman this isn't touching him. She's a sinner I mean, it's real obvious that this person that is touching him now remember Pharisees separated ones Do not want to be touched by the unclean as a matter of fact according to Jewish law If somebody who is not kosher or somebody who is ceremonially unclean touches you you become unclean too And so they're watching that and they're saying now the only reason that Jesus doesn't mind this woman touching him It's because he's unclean himself and that's how rigid he is and and that's how he's thinking I've heard that this man is a prophet But this is obvious proof that he's not It's interesting to me that Simon's thought is revealed because notice how it says in verse 39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he spoke to himself. He's not saying this out loud This isn't something that's being recorded. This is something that the Lord told his apostles later on what he was thinking is this Now as that's taken place Simon's thoughts have been revealed to Jesus and and also to us and and so in verse 40 Jesus answered Even though the guy wasn't speaking to him Jesus answered and said to him Simon I Have something to say to you And he said teachers say it now when you read this and you just read teachers say it It just seems like a natural flow right in reality. That's a very a very rude response to Jesus Christ He was being short with him say it That's what he's doing. It's it's like he's so disgusted. He doesn't even want to talk to the man. So it's like You know, that's the attitude of Simon say it. What do you want to say? Now Jesus begins to minister and He does so through a story Certain creditor who had two debtors one owed 500 Denarii the other 50 when they had nothing with which to repay He freely forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him the most who loves him more? You see When Jesus begins to speak about that he speaks about real-life situations You know Simon is so caught up with outer appearance that he doesn't see the heart of people Because outer appearance doesn't always reveal the heart You know, it's it to me It's kind of funny to even use illustrations like this because it's so far removed from so many people You know our congregation has people who who are younger people who wouldn't even understand some of the illustrations I use so I look out there for some gray hair so I can use this illustration And that was what was going on when I got saved Hippies can't know the Lord they can't know God their hair is too long. They don't wear shoes They can't possibly know God look at the way they are. I Was talking yesterday to Chuck and K Smith. We were at the pastors conference and and Marie was there for a meeting she's She meets with K and all and and we were at the pastors conference And so my wife and I and and Chuck and Kay and some others were at a table visiting and all and and we were talking about The old old days in the in the movement and all and and a young man comes walking up this young guys Maybe 21 or 22 years old and he's wearing puka shells. You guys know what puka shells are? Good, I got something to Puka shells and I look at him and I say you you're wearing your puka.   I had this when I met her I thought I was so cool You know and I had my my marinata dove and I had the shells and and it was like her life's quest for me to stop wearing those And so I said you know and Ray goes oh, yeah, I thought he looked so goofy with those I didn't like them and K said where did you buy them and I said well I actually I made them you know you used to go to these little shops And you'd buy these little shells and you'd get some dental floss and you tie it up And yeah, I said and that's what I did and so we're kind of laughing about that and K says you know I can still remember I can stand she's gonna turn 80 years old this month She says I can still remember when we would go out there in Huntington Beach Chuck and I and we would see the hippie kids and they would walk past and I would cry and We would pray for these hippies that God would touch them And you know how it is in the Calvary Ministries a lot of the hippies that that K and Chuck would pray for Are now not just pastoring but pastoring blessed churches Some of the largest churches in the United States are being pastored by Hippie kids that K used to pray for but but the church at that time the church The normal, you know church uh-uh if you come in here and you're barefooted We don't want you in here I can still remember the story of because we would go barefooted I went to church barefooted all the time didn't wear shoes I would wear slacks and a shirt a dress shirt and I'd go barefooted I mean that's just the way it was I still to the day I wear shoes if you don't mind me telling you twice a week That's it man. You know, I wear flip-flops You know because I just I don't remember, you know, I've been wearing flip-flops for 40 some years You know, I just die anyway So if we if we if we came walking in which we did, you know We would come barefooted just constantly and there was a time when some of the guys there at Calvary Costa Mesa put up a sign that said no shoes no entrance and because the hippies were coming in and they had just put new carpet in and They were gonna bring their their greasy feet that were you know filled with dirt and all and dirty up our carpets And so they put up a sign no no no shoes and no entrance But Chuck the pastor had gotten there early and he found the sign and he took it down and And he called the guys over and he said if a new carpet keeps a single kid from coming in here Let's rip out the carpet and just have concrete floors Because we're not going to keep kids from coming to Christ. Listen, that's what I was raised with because that's Christian, you see But today we have to be very careful that we don't kind of just bring it up to the 21st century and say they got piercings They can't possibly know Jesus They got tattoos. Oh my god. They antichrist. They have got to be antichrist You know because be careful be careful Be careful Because if some kid sits next to you with these his hair all otter or her her, you know earrings everywhere, you know And and and I I I happen to Know I happen to love those kids, you know frankly because they're kids that when God gets hold of their heart man They're not afraid of anything, you know, you know part of the reason why we we who were hippie kids You know, we were so used by God as we didn't care So you didn't like me so what who cares who cares?   I'm not going to throw a bunch of spikes in my head You know and and all of that, you know, that's not my thing But when I see those kids talking to other kids that look just like them What's the difference between that and when I as a long hair would speak to other long hairs? What's the difference? They're trying to reach Their own kids who relate to them who won't listen to some old goof like me Who may listen to this kid? Because you look at him and you say you're like me, but there's something different about you And I I learned a long time ago that the lord has a way of cleaning up the fish after he catches it We're so busy saying oh here comes a fish. We need to clean up here Take those things out. Oh metal detectors being being being let's get all that off of them No No And so The bible is very clear the lord doesn't look at things like man looks at because because man looks at the outer appearance But god well god looks at the heart and and so that's why jesus is speaking to him That's why he gives to him this this this story here And and and he's he's making it very very clear That uh in this story that neither one of these people had money to pay the debt Notice one owes 500 denari the other 50, but he says When they had nothing with which to repay he freely forgave them both neither one of them had enough money to pay the debt So neither the self-righteous Pharisee Nor this sin bound woman have the ability to pay the debt And then in verse 44 now this to me is very very important Because this is something you can miss He turned to the woman But he says to simon Do you see this woman? I underscore that That's a great question Do you see This woman the answer is no i i don't see a woman to be crass if i may for a moment all simon sees as a prostitute I don't see no i Don't see a person I don't see a little girl Who was born like other little girls in a society that valued marriage and fidelity over a lifetime No, I don't see a girl whose whole life was given over to the hope of one day Marrying somebody and burying children and being the most valuable person society has which is a mother raising a godly generation Simon didn't see that All simon saw was a whore That's all he saw And that's why jesus has to say do you see her have you looked at her This and every person in this room has a testimony and and if we were to actually say what our real testimony was We might scare the person next to us What we really were and what we could really be if jesus hadn't come into our life We could scare the person next to us because we only give the sanitized versions of what we were really like We only say the things that are acceptable in public Because we don't want people to know what we thought just yesterday or last night or just a moment ago We don't want people to know what our hearts really like And so what we have a tendency of doing is looking on the outer appearance. Are they clean? Do they smell okay? Do you know then i'll talk to them? They're all right But we stopped looking into people's eyes a long time ago. And so simon You're not a very good judge of character Because you're not even looking at this woman. You're not even really looking at her. You don't understand what her life has been all about You don't know What it was like for her to be used. You don't know what it was like for her to be hurt You don't know what moved her into the lifestyle that she has all you can see Is that she's not like you and as a result of that You think i'm bad for loving her You think i'm bad for loving her that means it's me If we're ever going to be used by the lord we have to look at people We have to learn to look at one another And and and we have to realize that they all have stories every one of us do So he says you see this woman I and by the way, he's saying this in front of everybody because it's just absolutely stone silent And so he's actually dressing down simon in front of witnesses And he goes on i entered into your house. You gave me no water for my feet She washed my feet with her tears wiped them with the hair of her head.  I come in with dusty feet Normally a servant will wash the feet of a guest. You didn't do that You didn't give me a kiss of greeting This woman kissed my feet You didn't anoint my head with oil because it's hot And it's just another custom showing graciousness But she anointed my feet with fragrant oil the things that you refuse to do Even though you were basically culturally obligated to do so because that's a sign of a good host But because you disdained me because you didn't respect me because you were looking for something that you could find Wrong with me. So you didn't extend any of those common courtesies to me the things that you did for other people You didn't do for me. Well, look what she did for me and you want to talk about Love you want to talk about forgiveness you see When simon said in verse 43 at the question Which of them will love him more found in verse 42 and he said I suppose the one whom he forgave more Again that I suppose Is another contemptible response. It's a disrespectful thing It's another way of saying it's quite obvious But jesus uses that because he wants to demonstrate that simon and this woman both needed a savior And that's why he says in verse 47 therefore I say to you her sins which are many are forgiven for she loved much But to whom little is forgiven the same loves little I asked the lord a long time ago To please help me never forget Never to go back and never to long for But help me never to forget What my life was like without him helped me never to forget that I I am afraid I I do not want to get to the point Where I can actually say I don't understand how they could do that I don't want to get there. I don't ever want to be able to say I don't understand how you could do that Because Because without christ I could do pretty much anything that's wrong I need him. I need his restraining power. I need his Him in my life and you see and I I don't want to go there But years ago I can still remember How um I was around Christians I was going to bible college and I was fellowshiping in a church. It wasn't a calvary chapel ministry It was a different church And and and I sensed there's something missing in my group of friends and And I started getting to the point where I I I just there's something missing here and and and I I believe very strongly that I can be impacted by my Friendships and I started seeing the flame that I at one time had burning in my heart I saw it starting to go out and I started getting concerned about it and And I I didn't know what it was until it finally hit me It finally hit me the friends that I had and they're good friends by the way And I loved them very much and I'm not knocking my friends. I loved them but I was wondering what was happening to me and I noticed they didn't ever share their faith. I noticed that they were People who were starting to experiment with drinking and stuff things that I had been pulled out of a long time before And now they're going out wanting to drink their beers because they turned 21 And and and we can drink you know God's grace is sufficient and and and for me I couldn't do that because I had spent years doing that already and I thought it was a wasted life And finally this this is the passage that the Lord used in my life To to to give me an understanding the way that Jesus said To whom little is forgiven the same loves little You see Simon didn't realize How much he needed forgiveness he didn't have a conscious need for it And therefore he didn't have love And therefore received no forgiveness because his self evaluation precluded him from recognizing a need for forgiveness And his indifference to Jesus demonstrated that there was no love of God in him Because the bible says he who does not love doesn't know God for God is love He didn't know the Lord He was just religious And I I prayed as I was putting this study together That we as a fellowship Will not become A church that forgets where we came from You see Jesus forgave her of sins. That's what it says in verse 48. Your sins are forgiven Now when he says your sins are forgiven your sins have already been forgiven It would give us to a belief that she had already had that forgiveness that already entered in by faith And Jesus is just confirming that but there are people who sat at the table and they began to say Who is this who even forgives sins? What kind of man is this? Who is this? Well, the answer is this is the one who can forgive sins and that's why he says your faith has saved you go in peace My wife and I were listening to A song by casting crown Casting crowns today. It's does anybody hear her? I'm sure you've heard this song and the words does anybody hear her Can anybody see or does anybody even know she's going down today under the shadow of our steeple With all the lost and lonely people Searching for the hope that's tucked away in you and me. Does anybody hear her? Can anybody see? She's yearning for shelter and affection that she never found at home. She's searching for a hero to ride in To ride in and save the day And in walks her prince charming and he knows just what to say Momentary lapse of reason and she gives herself away If judgment looms under every steeple If lofty glances from lofty people Can't see can't see past her scarlet letter And we never even met her I was talking to marie today about that song because we heard it And I said this to her and I'll repeat it out loud to you I said that's not true with our fellowship That's not true with our church I said I actually have a problem with this song because our church isn't that way and I don't know any churches that are Because I honestly believe that if we have people coming in here who are broken that you would love them I believe that I believe you would accept them. I believe you'd put your armor on them and minister to them. I've seen it I know you will But may we always do that May we never get Like a simon And we start just seeing the outer appearance and don't see the hearts. May we never be like that Maybe may we always remember where we came from And what we were saved out of And what we would be without him And and may as we draw closer to the lord may we see more and more of his wonderful merciful compassionate love And our unworthiness Because if I can see how unworthy I am of his love Then I'll serve him all the days of my life Not expecting anything Because that's what I was saved to do Is to serve him Because he laid down his life for me And I will serve him gladly Because I keep remembering What I was without him But I also see what I've become Because of him


Okay, this is the test problem that I gave in class. And I've already set up part of the thing just to save some time. So here I have a spacecraft going near an asteroid, okay? So they give this distance is 1200 kilometers, they give the speed of the satellite, and they give the volume, oh I raised part of it, oh I didn't, I squared. The volume of the asteroid and the mass, well they give the density, so I calculate the mass, I don't want to spend time on that. Okay, so then they say estimate the change in momentum. Well first of all, let's just sketch the trajectory, you know this thing is clearly as it comes by it's going to do something like that, right? It's going to get bent towards the asteroid, the asteroid won't move as much because they have the same force on it but it's very massive, okay? So let's estimate that, you know this is an estimate problem and you're going to have to pick some things here. And I know you feel uncomfortable doing that, I know, but you have to do that, okay? And so there's not just one right answer here, there's a right method, but you could do it a lot of different ways. So what I did was I said okay, the spacecraft's going pretty fast. So there's going to, and the, when it's really far away from the asteroid it's not going to be interacting with it very much, only when it's close will be, and the strongest interaction will be when it's within this 1200 kilometers, okay? So if I knew this, I could say f net equals delta P over delta T, can I calculate the net force? Well, I can calculate it right there, it's going to actually change over here but not too much. Can I calculate delta T? I can, well I can get an estimate for it and that's what I'm going to do.  And so for the net force I'm going to use the gravitational force right there, okay? Which is not correct, but it's good enough because it's not going to change that much over this whole time. And then for the time I'm going to assume it's going at a constant velocity across this. I'm going to pick, if it's 1200 kilometers far from it, I'm going to pick a distance of 1200 kilometers just randomly mostly, okay? Just so I can say, okay that's the time over which it's going to act. You could pick a shorter interval and that'd be acceptable too. Really we're just getting a rough estimation here and then if we want to do it better we'd do it in a different way. So let's first find this delta T. So if I say the average, the speed is 10 to the fourth meters per second, it's going to be delta S over delta T. And if delta S is 1.2 or 1200 kilometers, so I can solve for delta T, delta T is going to be equal to delta S, 1200 times 10 to the third meters over 10 to the fourth meters per second, so that's going to be 120 seconds. So now I have my time, okay? Now for the gravitational force, let's just calculate this as the gravitational force right here. It's going to be FG equals G mass of the spacecraft mass of the asteroid I'll call Matilda over R squared and then it's going to be in this case 0, negative 1, 0, right? Because it's going in the negative x direction but that's not too important here. Okay, so I have everything I need right there. So I can just say 6.67 times 10 to the negative 11th Newton's meter squared, I'm sorry, kilogram squared meter squared, that's G. The mass of the spacecraft is 805, I gave that. The mass of Matilda I just calculated before is 8.75 times 10 to the 17th kilograms. And then R is going to be 1.2 times 10 to the third, fourth, sixth meters squared, okay? And then that's the magnitude, I'll write it as FG because it asked for, estimate the change momentum, okay? So it doesn't say not as a magnitude, so I'll give it the real way, okay? Let's see, let me put this in my calculator, 6.67 times 10 to the negative 11th times 805 times 8.75 times 10 to the 17th divided by 1.2 times 10 to the sixth quantity squared and I get 0.033 Newton's. Now go ahead and leave that, 0 negative 1, 0, that makes it a vector, okay? So I don't have to do that. So now delta P is just going to be this times delta T, delta T is 120, I should be able to do that in my head but you know we're in a hurry, you just can't do these things, 3, 3, so I get 3.96, so delta P is going to be 0 negative 3.96, 0 kilogram meters per second. So that's my change momentum as it passes by here, okay? So and just look at the initial momentum, the initial magnitude momentum is 8 times 10 to the sixth kilogram meters per second and the change is a small amount here. So this assumption is okay, right? Because it's not going down that much compared to the way it was going before, so I'm probably okay. So it's a small change momentum but really this is important because if we know, if we can actually measure the change momentum of the spacecraft, one of the things that can do is give us an estimate for the mass of the asteroid. So, okay.


So everyone so today is Monday phase the first day trading of February If this is kind of like the first video that you guys are watching What I like to do is I do a video watch list every Monday, and then I do a recap of my trades every Monday on YouTube live Before I get started if you are new to trading or curious about trading or just stumbled upon trading or MIC I won't let you guys know about a free two-hour webinar that me and Bao put together This is for the brand-new trader that doesn't know anything about the market. It is available at my investing club.co I'm gonna put the link in the description. This is a webinar with limited seating every week So there's a finite amount of room that we can give out. So that's number one number two is If you have any questions about MIC or joining MIC We've given Tosh a cell phone number out to everyone He's one the head mentors and head moderators at MIC His phone number is gonna be in the description of the video to text him. Don't call him. He's not gonna pick up if you call him So yeah, if you guys have any questions, you can hit them up there So let's talk about trading today, right? So what I like to do is every time I do one of these recaps I want to walk you guys through my morning process my morning routine so that you guys could pick parts of my Process out and apply it to your own, right? So trading the way you create your trading process is it is different for every single human because every Single human is built differently, right? So bow and I although we trade the same All we trade the same stocks and although we have the same entries usually we have two totally totally different personalities Which leads to our trading being totally totally different, right? So let me kind of walk you through what my process is like every single morning, right? So Sunday your process always starts the day before my opinion. So today's Monday So yesterday Sunday was Super Bowl Sunday. I made it my duty not to overeat And not to over drink so that I do not feel groggy and fat in the morning I just want to keep it clear not really do anything. So as a trader We have to remember that this is a job, right? This is a business You don't want to show up to work hungover in the morning I mean you could probably do it but chances are you're gonna be less productive So on Sundays, I'm making my job to not drink not party not overeat not do anything I go to bed at 9 p.m. I sleep early so that I could wake up Monday or fresh because what ends up happening is Mondays are My statistically worse performing days because I am so excited and so anxious to trade after the weekend that my entries are always too early So because of that, I like to slow down on Mondays, right? So something that I want to talk about is the importance of Kind of pre-planning your trades and the importance of having a watch us, right? So and I see we kind of simplified everything, right? So we MIC evolves as The members kind of start evolving as well, right? So let me give you an example when MIC first started my watch list was a very simple basic text format watch list I Posted the tickers that I was interested in and I posted the plans I was interested in right and then it got to the point where I Felt like I should be doing more. I felt like I should be helping more So then we created the video watch list and I think the video watch is the single most useful thing that we have at MIC You guys still hear me, I think I cut out for a second Just give like a thumbs up or a heads up if you guys can hear me Yes, no, okay. Cool. Cool. Sorry. Um, so The reason why the video watch list is so revolutionary and so helpful is because of this right is because of this We are basically giving you guys the areas of interest We are showing you guys what the stocks and play are so not only do not have to look to what stocks are in play We are telling you which stocks are in play and we're giving you a plan on them Right. We're giving you the ideal entries and the ideal exits that I am personally looking for every single morning So if my ideal entry on a stock is to short at 650 and that's in my watch list Nine times out of ten if it gets to 650 I'm gonna be shorting it I give you a detailed plan every single morning and that's actually one of the most important things about trading So in trading if you show up and you just try to wing it. So there are a lot of furus and Pumpers that like to show up 10 minutes before the market opens or five minutes before the market opens Or I even know some that show up one minute before the market opens and to me That is the telltale signal that you are in the wrong community, right? So my goal is I am at the desk at six or seven in the morning preparing for the morning I am trying to gather as much information as humanly possible So that I can have an edge against the person that's waking up at 9 20 in the morning So what I do is every single morning I plan my trades every single morning I put my watch list out for the members so that they could Understand and then I put out a video watch list so that they could understand my mindset So they could reverse engineer why I'm looking for these specific levels what I am interested in So essentially we are taking the guesswork out of trading with these watch lists every single morning We are making it so that you guys have a detailed plan And all you have to do is follow the plan And what most people like to do is they like to create a plan in the morning themselves Right because we teach our members how to fish. We don't like to hand them fish They create their plan themselves and then in the morning They compare their plan with my watch list to see if they are on the right track And then they ask me questions if they have any questions So in the morning every single morning I'm planning my trades I'm planning what I'm going to do if the stock goes in my favor What am I going to do if the stock goes against me and what is my profit target and what is my exit So let's fast forward into trading today, right? So this morning BIMI was a stock that I was interested in The reason why I was interested in this is because it pushed pre market And it started to fail and it went red pre market So that to me was a signal that the stock was a little bit weaker than usual That was a signal to me that said, all right, if this stock bounces, I want to attack So I basically plan my trades on it I want to short around 580 or $6 in the morning with a stop above the previous day's high Which was Friday's highs and that's kind of what happened. So fast forward to the morning. I shorted some at 5 75 80 I think it was I posted my chart In the room and I ended up covering for 520 or 530 made 55 cents a share. Great That was only a starter size. I couldn't get size. I was not comfortable Right and then what ended up happening is the stock started to bounce So as the stock started to bounce I found myself getting over anxious I found myself having the Monday syndrome, right? I found myself Trying to get back into early. So What ended up happening is I got back in towards the 580 levels And my stop was around 620, right?  It always sucks stopping out But I always tell myself that it's for a reason, right? There's a reason I made this pound the soap for mine So I stopped out at 620. I lost I think 40 or 50 cents So I basically lost my morning trade plus more Because I was more sized because I felt more comfortable with the setup So I covered the stock at 620 and I went and I started looking at other trades because other stocks were still setting up Uh, I forgot to stock with a Anyone could write it here. I'll mention it But I started shorting the stock with a as it was under vwap made some money back there And then when I look back the stock went the bi mi stock went from 620 where I covered to 7 dollars, right? It went all the way up to 7 dollars. So here I am now happy that I covered at 620 Here I am excited that I kept my loss so small And then because my mind was sharp because I was able to take the stock early I started shorting 7 dollars. I started shorting 7 dollars. I got top tick and I covered at 650. So now Now not only did I make back that loss? I made a profit on it as well I made an extra hundred dollar profit But if I did not stop out if I was stubborn I would have lost money and that's the lesson for today as well is that whenever you're making a plan, right? You're only as good Your plan is only good if you are following it, right? So in the morning when I put out my plan and If I did not stick to it, I would have been a loser today, right? Instead, I stuck to my plan I stopped out. I resorted when the entry was more ideal. I made back my money. That was it.  Like you really never know the types of opportunities that you're going to have in the morning and Something that like he's always Interesting to me and always important to me is that every time that I pre-planned my trade. I'm a winner Every single time I pre-planned. I'm a winner My losses occur from stocks that I don't plan for My losses occur from stocks that are randomly popping in the day And I just react to trade it rather than creating a plan to trade it So that's something that I want to mention to you guys as well is use the resources We have at mic to your advantage, right? Use the watchlist to help you prepare Use all the videos to help you get educated all these little nuances and all these little tidbits on what you need to become a consistently profitable trader, right so I want to give you some more examples of What I was kind of looking for today Let me see that a stock you guys wrote it down ARTL. So ARTL was another stock that was a little bit interesting to me So let me kind of give you guys my thought process on that stock and how I traded it So ARTL was a brand new stock that popped up this morning It was a low float stock a company that bow and myself could buy if we really wanted to And anytime there's a company that bow or myself could buy it is not a short with size, right? That is something that is always dangerous because you never know who could lock up the flow and buy it So coming into the morning. I told myself I am not interested in sizing into that stock because of how dangerous it could be because I know That someone could buy up the flow and just squeeze everyone Haven't right so In the morning my plan was always the same So we have something called the 30% rule at m-i-c And what that means is you are only allowed to use 30% of your size as the stock is on front side The reason why I kind of created this rule is because that's what helped my trading personally I found myself getting into early on these stocks because of FOMO because I was too overeager So I created a rule for myself. I created a process for myself to protect me from this And what I did on that stock today is I basically shorted three bullets I gave myself three entries of 10% each entry and I told myself I'm going to give myself three tries at this Uh, I'm going to scale in based on what the chart is telling me and if I'm wrong I'm only going to have a minuscule loss And if I'm right, I'm going to have a minuscule win too But at least that's going to be able to cure my FOMO at least that's going to make me feel more comfortable in the setup Because if now I cover and it bounces it fails. I could size them more larger. So Coming into the morning. I shorted the stock. I think I had like a I can't even remember what my average was. I showed it in the in m-i-c in the chart recaps channel But basically what the point of that trade was my first 30% trade I made money on and then as the stock failed. I think it went to 240s or 250s under vwap Uh, as it went to 240 or 250 under vwap I shorted some more a little bit larger size As I felt more comfortable with the risk and I covered and I moved on So that stock today was my biggest winner of the day I made like $1,000 on it or $1,100 on it Whereas all the other stocks that were moving didn't give me much of an opportunity Didn't give me much of an entry So I could not size them so every single day I am looking to only get larger positions on Of trades that are setting up the way I like it to so Something I've been mentioning to the members as well, which I think is going to be very very useful Is again get a notepad out for this get a post-it note or something like that But you should never be in max size on a trade if you are not already green on the setup So let me explain that so let's say for example the stock is at $4 And you have a short position at $4.20 so you're now in the green 20 cents So let that be the number one.  This is okay Now I have the ability to size in and get in larger Right because I am already green on the stock That doesn't mean that as soon as you're green on the stock blindly fucking bull those into your size It just says that okay now you have the ability to size in larger if the stock bounces and fails Right so use that as your signal right use you being green in that stock as your signal to get in larger Right because you never want to be in full size on the stock you are losing on You never want to be full size on a front side stock You never want to be full size when you are down on a stock You only want to use full size when you are already in the green and that's what we call adding to a winner Theoretically it feels like you're ruining your average when you're adding lower But because the chart is already set because your risk is already set It's actually less risky when the stock is broken down to add lower You guys understand that? So these are the little lessons. These are the little things that you guys have to pick up on These are the little things that we talk about and try to educate you guys on every single day, right? so Again, the reason why MIc works the reason why our members are consistently profitable reason why We are kind of churning out Traders that are giving it back to like they're finding profit and they're helping other members too is because they understand that The amount of work that you put in is directly correlated with how much money you make in the stock market, right? So there's going to be people that only watch one video a day There's going to be people that watch only one video a week There's going to be people that join and expect to make a shitload of money And the truth of the matter is is if you are putting in the work And you are watching the videos and you are asking questions and participating in all the webinars And showing up to the weekend q&a's and all this stuff. Yeah, it's not easy.  He's starting to be a surgeon He's been in school for eight years, right? He's been in school for eight years He's going to become a surgeon. I think officially in like two or three months So he's at the end of his track or at the end of his path right now in school So What I always want to mention to people is as traders We are able to make more than doctors and lawyers and engineers working a tenth of the time, right?  Working less than them by not studying our asses off first, right? How are we not doing that first? So for example understand this, right In trading I only trade the first hour of the day I trade for one hour of the day and that's where I make my money in january I made $40,000 after fees trading the first hour of the day But to get to that point, you know what it took? It took me to educate myself It took me to learn 10 hours a day and took me to learn by myself because back then mic didn't exist I had to just figure this shit out with the help of bow But the point is is that before I got to this process or before I got to this place of making All my money in one hour It took eight to 10 hours of studying every single day before to get to this point So if a surgeon needs eight years to get his degree, how can you expect to get your trading degree in eight days, right? That's why that's why mic is so special It's because the people that join are dedicated Those are the ones that are putting in the work to understand everything The reason why we have so many annual members and so many lifetime Members because they realize it's not going to take you one month to become a successful trader It's probably not even going to take you two months to become a successful trader But if you invest a long term into yourself by becoming an annual member or whatever the hell it is You are giving yourself the best chance to succeed, right? You are not going to become a consistently profitable trader in one month. I doubt it unless you're an oracle unless you're a prodigy Sure, but I haven't seen that yet, right? I haven't seen that yet, but if you are putting in the work You will understand it So use that as an example Remember if you want to make more than a doctor or lawyer or surgeon Right working a tenth of the time You better be careful and you better be sure that you are putting in the work to do that because my friend Dan Is working at the hospital 15 hours a day bro 15 hours a day. He's working and me I'm in my underwear working one hour a day and making more money than him, right? So to be able to sustain that to be able to maintain that I have to put in the work so that no one else beats me and that's the mindset that you have to have You want to make more than a doctor? You want to make more than a lawyer? You want to make more than a ceo? No problem because no problem all possible, right? There's months that I've made 150,000. There's months that I've made 200,000 Um, I think there was a month in january that I made a shitload of money to I keep I don't even remember the numbers anymore But the point is that it is all possible. It's just there's a step to get there first Right understand that you have to put in that 10 hour day first to be able to only work one hour a day And then when you get it it's just like an ATM machine, right? It's like an ATM machine last month. I made 40 grand Essentially working one hour man one hour and that was a slow month, right? That was a slow month and that's the point.  I see the like counter go up here But you guys want to ask me any questions you want to open this up to q&a for a little bit It's all possible guys. It's all possible. Remember if you want to make more than all these people Then you have to put in the work What happens on the day the cops came uh, what happened? So I think I mentioned the story but for those that don't know I got pulled over walking Walking on the street here Some neighbor said that there was a suspicious a suspicious person walking outside with a selfie stick So I had one cop come and pull me over and then before I knew what the entire police force was at my house There was four cop cars and eight cops Uh, basically, I don't know what they thought I was doing But I was basically like, yeah, I live here. So they came to my house Uh, while I was getting my license, they were looking at my cars Uh, and we were just bullshitting about cars. So now the entire police force in my town knows who I am They know the crazy guy walking around with a selfie stick and then I'm not trouble And yeah, turns out they're all color guys Uh, if I ever see them again, I'm going to offer them a lifetime membership that I see Describe your nail and bail and how fast you react. So, um, The best way that I found myself becoming successful in the stock market was by doing less work, right? So let me that's kind of counterintuitive to what I was saying But what I mean is that whenever I am green on a stock whenever I make money on a stock Or whenever I make a large amount of money very quickly on the stock What I like to do personally is I like to cut myself off today Now, why do I do that the reason why I cut myself off is because as myself I am Armenian So I am a little bit Middle Eastern So because of that, I think it's in our blood to be gamblers So I find myself gambling away my gains after I make them very easily because my brain cannot compute that money to the real world As fast So what I ended up used to doing is making thousands and thousands of dollars a day only to gamble it away midday And now what I found myself doing is whenever I make a large amount of money or whenever I make money easily Uh, I lock myself up from myself so that I do not lose the money that I made Because the worst thing that you could do is be green on the day in the morning and give it back trading midday So what I've learned about myself again, everyone has a very different personality Is the midday is when I like to when I lose the most amount of money based on my statistics But there are members in m.i.c. There are a very a lot of long biased members in m.i.c That trade after the first hour they specifically wait for 10 30 zombie times and then they go long So there are strategies for everyone in m.i.c The point is that you have to find which strategy fits your personality And once you do once you stick to it you turn into a james davon tom diesel All these people that have become consistently profitable in less than one year You know it takes traders years and years and years to become consistently profitable Except at m.i.c. You get in less than a year Mike i'm so glad I joined m.i.c. The first day in chat. You guys are great. Thanks, man Uh, I am interested in joining m.i.c. Did the videos provide a roadmap of where to start and on a certain path? Yes, so as soon as you join I have something called the video library curriculum This is a video that tells you which videos to watch in which order and we're also actually working on something Unique for annual members, which is coming out soon. This is going to be a brand new trading dvd That's going to be free for annual members. If anyone else wants to buy They can buy We're going to include it with our annual members and basically this dvd Is going to it's going to be your way of learning how to go from a day trader That doesn't know anything about trading stocks to placing your first live trade in less than six hours So we're creating an accelerated course for all the lazy people out there that just want to watch one video And then after they watch that video, they could dive deeper into the video library on more specific topics that we have So that's something that we're working on as well. That's for annual members Um, so I think that's it guys. I'm going to wrap it up unless there's any other questions Uh, if you did not see my video from earlier today It is the free video watch list that I think everyone should take a look at and we'll take it from there Oh some questions. Let me let me answer some of these questions When a low-hanging fruit doesn't reach your lines, how do you go about trading them? I don't trade them if they don't get to my lines. What is the biggest share size you trade in your career 120,000 shares short Uh, I still have some boroughs. I recommend the best broker in the business The only broker that I personally use is cobra trading and they give misc members, uh, 25 off commissions I'm not promoting laziness. I know that humans are lazy, right?  At least know what to do first and then if it's not for you, so be it But at least you have an accelerated course that is helping you learn rather than watching, you know 600 700 videos first, right? Let let us give you the fundamental base first and then we'll take it from there But that's it guys. So I am going to wrap this up Uh, again, please watch my video watch list from earlier this morning. Uh, if you missed it I put that out usually every single day for members And thank you guys. Let me know, uh What you guys think if you guys have any questions what I like to do is I personally myself alex I go through the youtube comments every single day and I am the one that is responding to your comments every single day So please leave a comment. Let me know what you thought about the video And remember if you have any questions about m.i.c. You could text tosh using the number in the description And thanks. Have a good day everyone