Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. St. Lucien's encouraged to never forget the price paid for their freedoms. A move to address the critical concern of the citrus sub-sector is underway, and more young people attain national vocational qualification certification. People around the world gather in November to pay tribute to the courageous souls that served nobly during the World Wars. The observance of remembrance day in the Commonwealth realm is punctuated by the traditional military parade and subsequent formal ceremonies. On Sunday, November 10, St. Lucien's were encouraged to never forget the price that was paid so we could enjoy the freedom that we do today. Some 359 St. Lucien's were among the over 15,000 West Indians who were enlisted in the British Army to fight the First World War, where 36 died in action. Many more were enlisted in World War II, and 26 of those died in action. A handful of these veterans are still alive, including President of the Ex-Service League, Haines Cyril, who turned 98 on November 11, 2019. Remembrance Day is one of the most important days in the year for the veterans of both World Wars. It is the day we honour our young men and women who did not come back from the wars. We do this by wearing a red poppy, which is very important to us now. Acting Prime Minister Honourable Guy Joseph hopes that people everywhere will learn from past wars and will resolve to show greater love towards each other so peace can reign. The world is bent towards war in so many places today. Leaders make decisions sometimes that is causing people to be in conflict and in the mood of war when it is not really necessary. Our world is in turmoil. We do not know what is happening tomorrow. But the fact remains that as long as we are here, each one of us can contribute to the peace, the safety and security of where we live. The British and French governments remain grateful for the service given by these men and women during the two World Wars. We remember for peace. They were willing to sacrifice their tomorrow for our today. In doing so, they changed the world for better and for all. Their legacy is peace, freedom and democracy. Not theoretical concepts of interest only to academics or historians. They are instead the very building blocks of the societies in which we live, work and love. I am deeply convinced that we have a duty to remember. To remember in order to pay tribute to those who fought, were injured or died for us to be free. To remember also to avoid history repeating itself. The more years go by, the more the new generations need to learn what happened in those many dark moments of history. And they must pass on that knowledge to their descending relatives. Remembrance Day included the laying of ceremonial reefs at the War Memorial at the Derrick Walcott Square, the George V Park and the Commonwealth War Grave Cemetery. The annual reunion of the St. Lucia branch of the Royal Commonwealth Ex-Service League took place at Government House. Move to address the critical concern of the citrus stop sector is underway as research and development technicians in the Ministry of Agriculture hosted a training exercise for local citrus farmers and horticulturists. Amanda Faye Clark tells us more. This is Wang Long Bing, the yellow dragon disease of the citrus greening disease as it's being called in Senusha. It is one of the most serious citrus plant diseases raging havoc on the citrus industries of the world. For local research and development officials, their focus is on equiping citrus farmers and horticulturists on the island with the technical skills to easily identify and manage the effect of the disease. Speaking at a closing ceremony for the Capacity Building and Management of Citrus Greening Training Workshop, the Deputy Director of Agriculture Services, Barry Innocent says this week's exercise was a timely move to initiate long-term actions in protecting the citrus sub-sector. He has called on all certified trainees to immediately employ the strategies learned in the daily management of the farms and businesses. The knowledge transferred in this workshop in identification and management of citrus greening plus certification of citrus nurseries is a tool of power.  You can take the knowledge gained and do nothing with it or you can take the knowledge gained, apply it and make a difference. Eco-representative to the eastern Caribbean states, Greg Rawlin says his organization is pleased with the success of this week's activity as stakeholders have been exposed to a number of relevant topics including early detection, control and management, effect identification and understanding the citrus greening disease cycle. One strategic move he adds was to engage the expertise of a citrus protection officer attached to the Ministry of Agriculture in Jamaica to facilitate the training. This he explains was appropriate to allow participants to not only learn the best management practices of citrus greening but also to explore and anticipate what setbacks can occur when the protocol is not fully established. Eco stands ready to continue working with you. I hope this workshop is not just a one-off activity but is the beginning of what will be a continuous process of partnership, collaboration between the stakeholders here in St. Lucia including the Ministry of Agriculture. We are going to be working very closely with Ms. Hannah Romain who is the head of the Plant Protection Services so that we can build upon this activity and take it to the next level. Alfred Barrett, Corp Protection Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture in Jamaica and facilitator of the citrus greening training workshop says he applauds the dedication of the IECA and the Ministry of Agriculture in ensuring that the exercise address the concerns and possible challenges the local sector may face in putting together a program of learning activities that brought trainees face-to-face with the lessons. I believe that citrus greening is indeed one of the most devilish species of citrus as I said and it is going to be a game changer. Those who are willing to change and adopt like that bird that we spoke about are going to survive. Those are the citrus industries that are going to exist. Anybody who will continue to do what they are going to do, you have five to ten more years and then you will combine citrus from those who are like that bird who decided to change. The Ministry of Agriculture and the IECA will continue to work on safeguarding the local citrus industry and as such will take decisive actions to train stakeholders and augment the performance of citrus farmers. From the Ministry of Agriculture, this is Amanda Fey-Clock. The Technical Education and Vocational Education and Training Unit recently held a presentation exercise at the Cass Trees Comprehensive Secondary School for participants in national vocational qualification, certification program at the school. Anisa Antuan reports. Through the Technical Vocational Education and Training Unit, students of the Cass Trees Comprehensive Secondary School were rewarded for their hard work as restaurant service providers. Principal of the Cass Trees Comprehensive Secondary School, Marva Daniel, expressed gratitude to the Technical Vocational Education and Training Unit, TVET, for providing this opportunity. The establishment of technical and vocational education and training is a fundamental part of our nation's attempt to build its people. And this curriculum at CCSS affords our students the opportunity to enhance productivity and of course to become more empowered, positioned and employable and obviously thus reducing most of the economic duress within the families, the communities and of course our country. Culver Samuel Education Officer at the TVET Unit encouraged students to continuously educate and certify themselves. You now are in a position that is unique in some ways. The world now is moving towards skills development because 80% of the jobs in the world require some skill and only 75% of those jobs can be accessed because most of us are not skilled. If people talk about skills gap and unemployment and stuff, but while they're saying that a number of employers are telling you, we have vacancies, but there is not at this point a close enough link between employment and training and that's one of the things that we're moving to do at this particular point in time. The presentation to participants of the National Vocational Qualification Certification Program took place on Wednesday, November 6th, 2019. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. And this is the NTR Nightly. Please stay with us. One of the eight universally recognized rights of the consumer is the right to satisfaction of basic needs. This means that every consumer has the right to basic goods and services that guarantee survival. This right includes adequate food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education, water and sanitation. Welcome back. In keeping with changes in international oil prices and government's application, the modified market passed through petroleum pricing mechanism. The retail price of gasoline and LPG 20, 22 and 100 pound cylinders has changed. The retail price of kerosene and diesel remains unchanged. The price changes take effect from Monday, November 11th, 2019. Gasoline decreased from $13.28 to $13.24. Diesel remains at $13.37 per gallon. Kerosene remains unchanged at $8.12 per gallon. The 20 pound LPG cylinder increased from $31.38 to $32.01. The 22 pound cylinder moves from $34.79 to $35.49. And the 100 pound cylinder is now... Patches of low level moisture drifting along the easterly wind flow will cause a few cloudy periods and showers over the northern portion of the region during the next 24 hours. A weak tropical wave located a few hundred miles east of the Lesser Antilles is moving westward near 15 miles per hour or 24 kilometers per hour. This wave is expected to cause cloudiness, showers and possibly thunderstorms over the southern Windward Islands from Tuesday. Tropical cyclone formation is not expected over the tropical Atlantic during the next five days. Tides for castries harbor, high at 2.41 pm, low at 9.11 pm. Tides for Viewfort Bay, high at 3.48 pm, low at 10.38 pm. Seas moderate to locally rough with waves and north easterly to easterly swells 5 to 7 feet or 1.5 to 2.1 meters. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to brisk winds and rough seas. The sun will rise Tuesday at 6.02 am. And that brings us to the end of the NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7 pm with a repeat at 7 am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the San Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I'm Nisha Char.


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Ken just showed us how learning sciences can help improve education and how we can embed that inside of software. But ultimately right now educational software has not mastered the art of teaching. And I believe that we and our world deserve no less than black belt ninja teaching. How can we do this by learning to improve learning? Well what does this involve? We need to think about the educational needs. We need students to become scientists and leaders and for this they need rich educational experiences. But unfortunately we just don't have the resources to give all learners these type of experiences in the traditional way through things like personalized tutoring or individual intention. Now current educational technology is trying to address this gap through things like virtual chemistry labs or avatar debates. But it's falling short. Why? Well can you imagine a teacher that has to try to understand their students by pouring through data logs trying to hunt for subtle signs of learning? That's kind of where we are right now. So this is the first opportunity to improve learning. We can use machine learning algorithms to take the data that's generated as students do things like play an educational game and use it to automatically predict student progress and goals. This is going to transform the capability of these types of educational tools which are so richly needed. For example students offer working groups and we're going to hear from Justine how important that is. But when they work in groups it's really hard for us to tell how the students are doing. But what we showed is that by looking at how say a pair of students interact with a chemistry tutor we can automatically predict things like post test performance. Okay so we're starting to have techniques and tools to try to uncover even open-ended learning tools and to predict student progress. But is that sufficient? Is measurement alone enough? If we can accurately predict that a student's about to drop out or fail are we satisfied? Of course not. What we need to do is change education so that students don't fail. This means that we're going to need to move beyond prediction of performance to excellent education. And this is going to require us to develop tools that can take the data that's generated and use it to automatically give new types of strategies. We're going to have to move to powerful pedagogy and we're going to need to be able to have things that efficiently scale up to thousands of students data. Now doing so doesn't seem trivial. Historically the way we improve education is we run a classroom experiment comparing just two instructional strategies. But Ken just told you there are over 200 trillion instructional strategies and doing pairwise comparison of these would take us centuries. But what if instead we could run millions of student experiments in parallel? What we've developed is algorithms to take data from a single classroom study and use it to efficiently evaluate many different potential strategies. This allows us to do things like optimize games like refraction where students learn how to put to slice and dice different laser beams in order to feed spaceships. What was the result? We improved engagement and concept completion by 30%. Okay now speaking of strategies I'm going to ask you a question. If you wanted your high schooler to learn calculus from an excellent teacher or the best textbook from 1999 which would you pick? I'm guessing it's going to be the teacher. And this is likely in part because you're hoping that that teacher has been learning and improving the way they teach over time compared to the textbook which is still exactly the same as the year it was issued. Now unfortunately right now educational technology is much more like the textbook than a teacher. It's a static resource that requires manual intervention to change just like this wooden pencil. But what if we could have more diligent software? Software that actually learns over time just like a teacher. How could we do this? Well think about it when you use a web search. Internet companies use algorithms to automatically identify which of those ads generate the most revenue. And I think we need to demand similar excellence from our educational software. We can use the same ideas to try to figure out over time which is the best pedological activity to give a student. Leading to better learning instead of just better profit. So think about this in the context of an educational game. There are often many different parameters we need to set. Things like how long until we have a timeout. And so we can use these ideas to automatically set these parameters allowing these tools like battleship number line to get better and better over time. The key idea is that we can use machine learning to close the loop between data and instruction. Allowing us to increasingly develop better and better pedagogical strategies. This new software will continue to get better and better at teaching as it interacts with more students by learning to improve learning. So these examples suggest a path forward that we can use things like learning sciences and machine learning to create truly mastery software. And in doing so it's going to allow us to transform learning not just in the classroom but during on the job training and lead to a better world for all of us. Thank you.


Well, D.L. Moody was an evangelist, and he loved to talk about Jesus Christ. And back in the day when Moody preached, he would get hecklers. And so people would heckle D.L. Moody, they'd say things, and they'd write him notes. And he was preaching at a campaign, and as he walked into the auditorium, someone handed him a note, and he thought it was just going to be an announcement. So he waited to get to the very front, and he stood up and he looked at the note.  But Moody was quick on his feet, and he said, this is most unusual. I've just been handed a message, which consists of but one word, the word fool. I repeat, this is most unusual. I have often heard of those who have written letters and forgotten to sign their names. But this is the first time I've ever heard of anyone who signed his name and forgot to write the letter. And no kidding, then D.L. Moody changed his sermon to the text, the fool has said in his heart, there's no God. America evangelicalism, and in the West, is going through a foolish state, and that is, the fool has said in his heart, I'm not a sinner. You don't understand, I have a disease, I have an illness, I have a syndrome, I have someone else or something else to blame. When man is seen as good, you don't really need biblical grace. When man is seen as not as bad as the Bible portrays him or her to be, then something less than biblical grace is needed to save, to redeem, to justify. But the other way, since man is spiritually depraved, only God's grace will suffice. When grace is cheap and man is good, what's the church to do? If you've got the wrong diagnosis, then you don't have the right cure. J.C. Ryle said, listen, there are very few errors in false doctrines of which the beginning may be traced to unsound views of the corruption of human nature. When people struggle with theological issues, it almost always goes back to sin and depravity, and what does the Bible teach about those? In other words, if you get depravity wrong, you get everything wrong. And if you understand depravity, then you realize, oh, this will help me in evangelism because I can't talk someone into the gospel and believe in it. I just have to proclaim. It'll help you with your praise life when you think, I realize who I was before God saved me. I realize what I have now in Christ and the result is, and the difference is, joy, versus what does the world say? You deserve this, and what does the word deliver? World deliver. This, and the difference is depression and sadness. But when you get depravity right, everything falls into place. And so this morning we're going to look at cheap grace and the doctrine of total depravity, our radical corruption. If grace is cheap, you don't really need the biblical view of depravity. But we're going to look today at Romans chapter five as we work through this issue of depravity. The Westminster Confession says, man, by his fall into a state of sin, has holy WH lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation. In other words, you can't make yourself a sheep. In other words, everything's affected. Our mind's affected by the fall, our will, our emotions. There's no island of righteousness, our will that's not affected. Everything is affected. As the comic strip says, we have met the enemy, and the enemy is us. Now total depravity does not mean utter depravity, that everybody's as bad as they could be, right? Abortion doctors are nice to their wives. Hitler spared a priest when the priest begged for his life. Even in the Bible, Acts 28, on the island of Malta, the natives, Paul said, showed us extraordinary kindness. Even unbelieving natives can do kind of things. But total depravity means whole depravity. That is not total as bad as you could be, but total with respect to every aspect of our person and being is affected by the fall. That conscience will heart. It extends to all totally. As Jonathan Gershner said, for the unbeliever there's always room for deprovement. We're not as bad as we could be. We could be worse, but we are as blind as a cyclops with our one eye poked out. Positively stated, we cannot please the Lord on our own. Dear Abbey, I'm forty-four and would like to meet a man my age with no bad habits. Signed rose, dear rose, so would I. There is nothing in us as natural men and women that can commend us to God and have him save us, to earn merit. And we believe in total depravity. We lock our doors. We close our windows. We have keys. Security systems. We don't just have promises. We have to have a contract. But this is a humbling doctrine, and lots of people don't want to study total depravity because it humbles us. We don't know the one hundredth part of sin that clings to our soul, John Calvin said. Winston Churchill, he didn't really like Clement Attlee, his rival. He hardly said anything nice about him, so his friends were surprised one day when he said, Clement Attlee is a very humble man. And then Churchill had that twinkle in his eye like he normally does, and he said, of course, he's got a lot to be humble about. In New England we have something called the New England Primer. It was in the 1700s that it was made to cataclyse children, and it went through the alphabet, A, B, C, D, all the way through to teach the doctrines in the Bible. For instance, B, heaven to find the Bible mind. If you'd like to know heaven, it's in the Bible. C, Christ crucified for sinners died. D, the deluge drowned the earth around. Y, while youth do cheer, death may be near. X, Xerxes must die, and so must you and I. But my favorite all-time one that leads me into Romans chapter five this morning, A, in Adam's fall we sinned all. The key to understanding depravity in my mind is the fall, and so we're going to go through Romans chapter five this morning so we can get federal representation, understanding the fall. We would all know that we are sinners, but why are we sinners? What was the original sin?  We need a new word. We need a new term. We need to coin a new phrase and Sproul said, I think we need to call ourselves imputationalists. I love the idea it just doesn't, maybe it rolls off the tongue better in Spanish, I don't know. Hi, I'm an imputationalist. So we're going to look at Romans chapter five today with the doctrine of imputation. And here's what I want. I want you to see depravity at its origin, and then I want you to say that makes my salvation sweeter. If I realize how bad I really was, and then to know the riches I have now in Christ Jesus, the difference should be praise and thanksgiving and a wonder that God would save people like us. Now Romans chapter five verses one to 11, it's a wonderful passage. I'm not going to read it, but basically it teaches that salvation is by justification through faith alone. And it gives us the benefits of justification. So when God declares someone righteous based on the work of Christ Jesus, it is by grace alone through faith alone through Jesus alone. He doesn't make us righteous in the doctrine of justification. He declares us like a gavel in my home church study. I have a desk with computers set up, and I have a gavel sitting there that my wife got at some flea market or someplace, antique auction. And I have that gavel there to remind me that it's not that I'm made better in justification, but that God looks at me and even though he sees every sin I've ever committed and will ever commit, based on his son's work, he takes the gavel and even though Satan says I'm guilty, I really am guilty. The world thinks I'm guilty, but in God's eyes because I'm covered with the righteous robes of Christ Jesus, that gavel goes down not guilty. Sometimes when I watch those real court scenes and the person enters the plea and they're sitting there and the jury comes back and all rise and I just think if I was there and they were going to judge me to life sentence for the rest of my life and guys are swallowing hard, guilty or not guilty, and the gavel goes down and the thing is I am guilty, but the gavel comes down and says I'm not guilty. It's amazing. And so Paul is writing in Romans chapter 5 saying that salvation is through one man, Jesus alone. Think about our world today. How can salvation be through one person? You can't get there other ways, but salvation is through one person alone. How can one person's work affect so many? How can Jesus save people who were born before he was virgin born? How can Jesus save people when he was alive and how can Jesus save people two thousand, three thousand, four thousand years later if the Lord tarries? How can one man's life affect so many? That's Romans chapter 5, 1-11. So Paul says, let me tell you how one man's actions affect so many by going back to Adam. And that's where we move into Romans chapter 5, verses 12 through 21 with the representative nature of Christ saving work. In other words, salvation by representation isn't a new concept because representation goes all the way back to the fall. One man representing us. Jesus Christ, one man saves. That should be nothing new because we're not just talking about the last Adam, Jesus. Let's take a look at the first Adam. And by the way, his work is far better Jesus's work than the first Adam. His more excellent work is going to be shown by Paul. And it's not against the law at all. It lines up perfectly with God's instruction. Federal representation by Jesus isn't new. It's not novel, it's not unusual, verses 12 through 14. Let's take a look at this passage and I was told this. Here's a little inside secret. I was told in seminary that if you'd like to be a good theologian, when your Bible opens naturally and normally, for those of you that still carry those things called Bibles and you don't have electronics scrolling down, when you open up your Bible normally and naturally, it should open up to Romans 5. This is the key chapter right here. So when I heard that, I was too proud to do it in school. So when I went home and I was like, Romans 5, this is it. Not because I'm preaching it, but because of what it contains. Romans chapter 5, when you get the fall down, then depravity falls into place. For me, when you say the fall where I live, they think of autumn colors in New England. What's the fall? People don't understand the fall anymore. Federal representation by Jesus isn't new and it's not novel because we've got the federal head Adam and the federal head Jesus, the first Adam, not the second Adam, but the last Adam Jesus. Romans 5, 12, therefore, you're gonna see a correlation between the acts of Adam and the acts of Christ and they both affect people one negatively, one positively. Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sin. Representation isn't new. It goes all the way back to Adam. The Puritans called Adam a public person. A public person, meaning he was going to be on probation in the garden and what he did affected the public, affected other people. This one man's work affected other people. Even though they weren't there, they didn't earn it, they didn't merit it, but God is going to use representation to affect other people because soon enough we're gonna see Jesus is the last representative. In God's wisdom, Adam is going to stand there as our legal representative in the garden and what he does will affect us. Not what Eve does, Eve actually sinned first. That wasn't credited to anyone's account. And right now you're probably saying to yourself, okay, I get credit for what Adam did because you go back to Romans 5, 12, what does it mean at the end there? Because all sin, that's the issue. That's where the fight is with Christians today. What does it mean because all sinned? How can we all sin in Adam? And I want you to just get this before we look at the text. I want you to think of symmetry. And I want you to think of what Adam did and what Jesus did, and there's going to be symmetry. And I hate to tip my hand early, but I'll do it anyway. Adam, what he did, you weren't there and God gave you credit for the sin. God gave everyone credit for the sin. Everybody got credit for Adam's sin. All sinned when Adam sinned. How can that work? I wasn't there, I didn't earn it, I didn't deserve it, I didn't merit it. Something's not right, there's a representative. I didn't pick him to be my representative. By the way, I think you would pick him to be a representative. We'll talk about that in a second. But there's a symmetry because soon you're gonna realize with Jesus, I didn't earn my salvation at the cross, I didn't merit it, and what Jesus did as my representative was credited to me and I wasn't there earning anything. I think you're gonna come to love federal representation, the first Adam and the last Adam. But what does it mean that all sinned? This is the battleground. Well, there's different options. Let me give you option one. It's the Pelagian view. The Pelagian view, because all sinned, well, you're born and then you personally fall. You just sin on your own. Everyone has their own personal fall. So Adam's sin is, it just gives us an example. It's by imitation that we sin. We look at Adam and therefore we sin because we imitate Adam. Now think symmetry again. If you look at Adam and then sin because of Adam's bad example, now you look at Jesus who didn't sin and do you get saved by looking at his good example? See, the symmetry falls apart. Following Christ's good example will not lead you to life. By the way, why does a baby die following Adam's bad example? More about that in a moment. We can't be saved by our own righteousness. By the way, if Adam is our bad example, then how did Adam sin? What was his bad example? So this Pelagian view doesn't work. Option two is hereditary depravity. Some people think because all sinned means that we have a physical connection to Adam. I'm a sinner because my father was a sinner because my grandfather was a sinner and that's all true but how did it start? Am I guilty of Adam's sin or not? Yes, I inherited a corrupt nature from my father but does Adam's sin get credited in my account? All sin, is it natural corruption? But when you look at the passage here, quickly it's one trust pass, one trust pass, one trust pass. I'm not even getting credit for all of Adam's sins. I don't get credit for a second sin, his third sin, his 500th sin. I'm just getting credit for his first hereditary depravity messes things up. One sin of Adam. When you look at Romans chapter five verses 12 and following, here's what you're gonna see. One sin, one sin, one transgression, one, one, one. One sin of Adam affects everyone. How is that? Now of course I'm a sinner because my father is a sinner but I'm going back to Adam. What's going on with Adam? The best option is federal representation. Oh there's another option too but we're not gonna go over that in the seminal option. Federal representation. Adam was my representative and when he sinned, God counted that sin to every person who has ever been born except for Christ. Let me show you some of these one acts. Verse 15 please, Romans 5, 15. The one act of Adam brings condemnation because he's our federal head. Think federal, think imputation, think singular. But the free gift is not like the transgression 5, 15 for if by the one transgression or if by the transgression, verse 16, tucked right there in the middle, the judgment arose from one transgression. Verse 17, for if by the transgression of the one, verse 18, as through one transgression, verse 19, through the one man's disobedience, the many were made sinners. This is called immediate imputation, solidarity that we have with Adam as a federal representative. God chose Adam to be your representative. That's why it's wrong when you say when does mankind really become sinful? That's a wrong question to ask because God as one commentator says eternally contemplates every person as sinful because of Adam's sin. John Murray, because all sin, that's where the battleground is. I'm actually glad Adam was my representative because otherwise every one of us would have to be on probation and Adam was older in terms of his faculties. We'd have to be tested when we first were born as babies. Adam was in a perfect place. Adam had a lot riding on it as a representative. We would fall much faster. God has ordained this, that Adam is the first head, the first representative. Actually to use a language that comes alive in my mind, Thomas Goodwin, the Puritan said, every man is hanging on Adam's girdle. I never thought I'd say girdle from the pulpit ever. And just preach him as they come. God credits Adam's sin to every person and as a consequence people have sinful nature. One transgression of Adam brings death and condemnation. And by the way, since Adam was my representative, I'm still gonna be looking soon to another person who could be my representative. I've got the one representative, God's ordained that and there's another representative that God has ordained as well. I'll put it this way.  And the answer is because Adam's sin was imputed to your account. And as a consequence, then you sinned. Two Adams influence the world. You say, yeah, but wait a second, federal representation, I don't know if I like. The curse of Canaan fell on all his children. This is the way God works. Sins of the fathers implicate the children. Visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation, 10 commandments. When Pharaoh sinned, all of Egypt was affected. When David sinned, all of Israel was affected. Federal representation. And by the way, we live in what kind of government? Do you have senators here in Florida? Two senators maybe? And they represent you. And when they vote, you vote by imputation, binding. I did find it interesting that in 1941, when we declared war on Japan in December, one person in the US Congress, the first lady Congress person, Jeanette Rankin said no. But you know what? She said no to the war, but as a US Senator, US citizen rather, she voted yes for the war when the federal government voted yes for war. Binding implications for all. So it is with Adam's disobedience. Therefore, let me read the verse again. Just as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin and so death spread to all men because all sinned. How can all people sin because of federal representation? And it's answering the question, how can Jesus one man save many? Well, Adam one man condemned all, Jesus one man can save many. The all wise God determining through imputation by God's own free will. And what does Paul do? Think about this big picture for a second. The Jews are always running back to Moses. The Jews are always running back to Abraham. Father Abraham, he's our father in Judaism and kind of myopically looking at Judaism and what Paul does is he takes them back past Moses, past Abraham, all the way to Adam.  One man affects many people. This is just, I mean, who writes this? American atheist journal. Christianity has fought, still fights and will fight science to the desperate end over evolution. Because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus's earthly life was supposedly made necessary. Destroy Adam and Eve and original sin and in the rubble you will find the very sorry remains of the Son of God. The American atheist journal said, if Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing. Do you want to know why there's attack on Adam now via evolution? Because if you can get rid of the first Adam, you have no need for the last Adam, Christ Jesus. And then Paul gives a little parenthesis in verses 13 through 17, resuming with the main thought down in verse 18. See, he'll pick it back up again in verse 18. So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all. But right now he's going to go on a little parenthesis saying that there's solidarity in the human family. When Eve sinned nothing happened, but as one man said, when Adam sinned all hell broke loose. One person said, sin is not found in the apple in the tree, but on the pear on the ground. It's funny, but it's not true because it's Adam, not the pear, Adam. And when you think of the fall and this tree and this fruit that they're not supposed to indulge in, medieval times said, oh, that was the sex act. Some people say, well, it's fruit that ferments and then you get drunk and so they got drunk. It was a test of man's obedience and dependence on God. It was a test of faith. It was a test of belief. It was a test of do you trust what God says are not. I like the old country preacher who said, Adam used to take his boys to the entrance of the Garden of Eden to show them what sin did. And he'd take his boys there and he would point in the garden and say, take a good look in there boys. That's where your ma ate us out of house and home. But it's not true. It's Adam's sin imputed to our account. You say, well, that's not fair. That just shows us how depraved we really are when God of the universe doesn't run the universe the way we want. Friends, I'm happy Adam was my representative because I would have sinned sooner. I think we've already got together in a congregational vote and said, we all want to vote for a representative. Who do we vote for? Pastor Mike, he's out for sure. Pastor Mark, he's better than Pastor Mike but he's out for sure. Who else is going to be nominated? Do I hear a second Roberts rules of order and the list goes on? We would all come together and say, God of anyone who could be our representative, let's pick Adam. G.S. Bishop said, the race must either have stood in full grown man with a full orb intellect or stood as babies each entering his probation in the twilight of self consciousness. And by the way, if Adam would have made it, if Adam would have lived for 70 years, let's say in probation and fulfill the laws of God and walk by faith and trust, we'd be singing now praise Adam from whom all blessings flow, but he fell. James Boy said, Adam was possessed of his full faculties which were undoubtedly superior to our own. He had a perfect companion and lived in a perfect environment. But as Hosea 6.7 says, like Adam, Israel has transgressed against his covenant. Moses tells us what happened in the garden historically, Paul tells us what happened in the garden theologically. Imputation of Adam's sin to all those who would ever be born except for Jesus. The one man's first offense.  Let's read verse 13. For until the law sin was in the world but sin is not imputed where there's no law. Well, wait a second, between the time of Adam and Moses there's no mosaic law.  Answer, Adam broke the law and you got credit for it. You weren't given the imputation of mosaic law broken because there was no mosaic law.  There's an earlier law broken. Adam broke the law and I got credit for it by federal representation, verse 14. Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses. Ever ask why a baby dies? They don't sin aggressively, purposely, but they've been affected by the fall through Adam's imputation. Even over those who sinning was not like the transgression of Adam who has a type of the one who was to come. I'm certain if I was in the garden I would have sinned sooner and I'm certain that I'm certainly glad I have a last Adam who's my new representative. How are people saved through the act of another via imputation? Crediting, what does imputation mean? It means to credit, it means to reckon, it means to put to my account. Representation is not novel and Paul goes on further in verses 15 through 19 to say it's greater through Jesus than it was through Adam. It's not novel and it's greater through Jesus the last Adam. Take a look at verses 15 and following verse 15. He makes the same point multiple times in all these contrasts. Christ's doing more for his people but the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man, Jesus Christ, abounded for many.  It's called Interpretive Outline of Romans by Steele and Thomas. I don't know if you have that here but you should order it. If I have one book on Romans, oh, it could be Doug Moe, it could be Shreiner, it could be John Murray, it could be S. Lewis Johnson. But this is the one I want and it's about that big. Interpretive Outline of Romans and you can just stash that in your Bible. Here's what Steele and Thomas said. The works of the two differ in that Christ did much more for his people than just to remove the imputed guilt of Adam's one sin. He also made complete satisfaction for all their personal sins and in addition imputes to them perfect righteousness as a free gift causing them to reign in life. The one man Adam sins and affects all but Jesus, his work, takes care of all the sins of all the let whoever were born and he gives us his own righteousness to cloak a sin. That's the much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of God abounded for many. Verse 16, and the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. Adam was dealing with this one act of sin and disobedience. Our Lord's act involved many sins, thousands, millions. The free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation but the free gift, look at the contrast, following many trespasses brought justification. Which representative did a greater job, a more grandiose job, lavish a grace more? Adam or Jesus, we know the answer. I love this passage because it just makes me stop and kind of go slowly. I'll give you a key to Bible study. Here's hermeneutics 101, read slowly. We're so busy, gotta read my Bible, speed reading. I got five chapters and I missed yesterday so I gotta read another five. I'm all for reading the Bible any year. If you understand it, if you don't understand it, it doesn't mean anything.  I'm just gonna settle in with my same Bible and just say, okay Lord show me what's going on and I wanna get this. Verse 17, for if because of one man's trespass, that is the one trespass, death reigned through that one man. Here's another much more. Preachers love these much mores from the lesser to the greater, from Adam to Jesus. Much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness. Did you get that? The abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ. I like representation. Oh, Adam, what he did got credited to my account. I wasn't earning it, I didn't deserve it, I didn't merit it but I've got a greater gift than not just for me but everyone else. I didn't deserve that work of Christ. I didn't merit it, I could never earn it but I get it and that was affecting people but this affects more people. I like representation, I like federal governments. Free gift of righteousness, reigns through one man. Oh, now big picture, Romans five. Justification through faith alone, Romans five, one to 11. One man saves. How can one man's actions affect a bunch of people? Answer, Adam. Verse 18, therefore, as one trespass, see the one, the one, the one. You didn't get credit for Adam's second sins, third sins, fifth sin, hundredth sin. The one trespass led to condemnation for all men. So one act of righteousness, there's another kind of imputation. There's another kind of imputation where God imputes to the sinner's credit something that he didn't deserve or she didn't merit. So one act of righteousness, perfect righteousness, leads to justification and life for all men. If you don't listen to S. Louis Johnson, I think you should. And he said here, when a father strikes oil, the children get rich. And we have hit a gusher in the last Adam. Men are justified on the ground of imputation, just like we're condemned by the result of imputation. And Jesus is our representative who gives himself as our substitute. Jesus was our substitute, but he was also our representative. I just haven't tried to roll off my mouth as much as I can.  The acts differ in a degree. Adam's lesser Jesus greater, but the point is they were acts of another. The acts of another determine my eternal condemnation. If it wasn't for the last Adam and the last Adam undid what the first Adam did. Much more. I'm gonna read verse 18 again. Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men. Now there's different ways to look at this. Shriner would say it's possible that his whole life, Jesus' whole life is in view. Cranfield said Paul meant not just his atoning death, but the obedience of his life as a whole. His loving God with all his heart and soul and mind and strength and his neighbor with complete sincerity, which is the righteous conduct God's law requires. Robert Peterson says it's the lifelong act of Jesus culminating in the cross. Everything Jesus did summarized by one act of righteousness, just put together his life, his death, his representation, his substitution, everything put together, one act of righteousness. All unified. Of course, culminating at the cross, Philippians 2, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on the cross. Jesus was born under law, lived under law, and how can we separate what Jesus did on earth and his crucifixion, so Paul just lumps them all together, obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Verse 19, for as by the one man's disobedience, see all the singulars again, the many were made sinners. So by the one man's obedience, the many will be made, are classified by declaration, are constituted as righteous. Your identity is either found in Adam or in Christ, but Adam doesn't have the last word if you'll look to Christ through repentance and faith.  Bobnich said the cross is the culmination of the whole life of Christ's obedience. One act, the text doesn't even say one act, but it's implied. Calvin said, here's the translation, therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon men under justification of life. Two men, two acts, two results, imputation. Can you imagine God credits to our account, perfect righteousness? You know, we say justification a lot and the children have their definition just as if I've never sinned. You know, we have these little cute things. We say faith, forsaking all I trust him. Good, but how about justification just as if I've never sinned? Well, that just brings me back to neutral. How about when I'm declared righteous based on the work of Christ Jesus who's a better representative than Adam? God declares me righteous and it's not just as if I've never sinned. God will see me as if I never ever did sin, will sin, and that God sees me as I perfectly kept all of God's requirements in his law, in his word, and God sees me as perfectly obeying. That's why I get this. People say, well, I sinned today, God must love me less. Is that what you think? Well, I sinned today, I'm loveless by God. If you're seen through Christ's righteousness, God can't love you less. I'll put it the other way, it doesn't sound as good, but for the sake of effect, God can't love you more because he loves you as much as he loves his son. Now, should we sin? No, may it never be. But when you do sin, I can put it this way. My kids sin, well, sorry, when they sinned, they're Kim's kids. You're kids. But when our kids sin, I don't say you're no longer an Abendroth, because I love you.  I have no sin in my account because Jesus paid for it at Calvary. And I have all Christ's righteousness cloaked over me, and so when God sees me, he sees his son. And so when I sin, I don't get loved less. Jesus, the perfect, holy, spotless lamb, escaped the sin of Adam, was not tainted with it. John Flavill said, because he came into the world in an extraordinary way. Now the birth of Christ was on this wise when his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together, she was found with child of the holy ghost. That means if you look to Christ by faith, through repentance, trusting in his representative work and his substitutionary work confirmed by the resurrection, you are as justified as you could ever be. You're as justified as every other person in this room who are all justified to the same degree. All believers are justified alike. There's no degrees of grace in justification. Can't say, well, my friend, he's more justified than I am. My wife's more justified than I am. The Virgin Mary, after she looked to Christ through faith, was just as justified as Mary Magdalene was justified. Oh, there might be a weak faith person, an immature person, but they're still justified just the same. By the way, think about justification for a minute. When Jesus justifies us, it's a perfect thing. It lasts forever. Can you become unjustified? Of course you can't become unjustified because it's a fixed, permanent thing. Today you say I'm a Peter, but you know what, maybe I'll fall into sin and tomorrow I'll be a Judas. The doctrine of justification prevents that because it's Christ's work as representative. It's not what I do. It's not what I did. When I read about men praising God for justification, listen to Thomas Watson. Because of justification, because you have a greater representative than Adam, you have Jesus as your representative, here's what Thomas Watson says. Adore the infinite wisdom and goodness of God that found out a way to justify us by rich grace and precious blood. We were all involved in guilt. None of us could plead not guilty. And being guilty, we lay under a sentence of death. Now that the judge himself should find out a way to justify us and the creditor himself can try a way to have the debt paid and not to stress the debtor, should fill us with wonder and love. The angels admire the mystery of free grace in this new way of justifying lost men and the apostle cries out, oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. What's the last time you said, God, the wisdom that you have, creating this eternal plan of redemption. I thank you that Adam was my representative because I have a greater representative now, Christ Jesus. Isaiah 53 says, make many to be accounted righteous and he shall bear their iniquities. Now sometimes Luther was very abrupt and sometimes Luther said kind of insulting things. There is actually a website. It's called something like Luther's insults. And so you just click it and it gives you one of his insults to people as he was arguing for divine grace and arguing for the bondage of the will. And so you just click on it and it says, insult me again. And you click on it, it's a new insult from Luther. And so he just was kind of tough and he was vulgar sometimes in his language. And he was usually overstating things. He'd say crazy things like, if God's word tells me to go across the street and eat dung, I would rush over to do it and do it with joy. I think maybe he was a youth teacher at the time, said that. So he's always doing this hyperbolic overstated language. But then for emphasis he says, all right, when it comes to justification by faith alone, one man's acts can determine the eternal life of many. Jesus Christ, I get credited for his righteousness. Jesus got credited for my sin. God confirmed it by raising him from the dead and Luther said to explain this, it was a fortunate exchange. A fortunate exchange. Two garden scenes. One garden scene with Adam falling. Another garden scene saying, Lord God, I'll do it if it's your will. I'll go to the cross. Obedience of Christ Jesus. Cheap grace these days is denying the active obedience of Christ's righteousness. And when seminaries fire men because they deny the active obedience of Christ being imputed to our account. When seminaries fire men because these men only teach forgiveness. Jesus just paid for our sins. But his life didn't matter. When men teach that essentially you can just have Jesus come down from heaven on good Friday, die on Friday, be raised three days later and go to heaven and that would capture salvation. When seminaries fire men like that, I say praise the Lord. You need to be fired. You should have been fired a long time ago. Christ obeying the Father. Putting his will above his own. Choosing to die. Ramifications for the whole human race. His life mattered. What one man does affects many and Jesus did fulfill the law righteously. Verse 20 and 21. Just so people don't think we missed out on Moses jumping straight over Moses, over Abraham all the way back to Adam. Paul wants to make sure everyone gets it. You can be a Jew and revere Moses and we know he's a significant figure. But just to make sure you understand that Paul's not saying the law didn't matter it says here in verse 20 and 21. Now the law came in to increase the trespass but where sin increase grace abounded all the more. So that as sin reigned in death grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. The law had various purposes but one purpose was that the transgression might increase. 1 Corinthians 1.30 says but by his doing you are in Christ Jesus who became to us wisdom from God that is righteousness, sanctification and redemption. So what kind of takeaways can I give you as we wrap up session one? Number one, the glories of Christ salvation are exalted when you see yourself as the Bible portrays you. In other words when I realize that I'm dead in my trespasses and sin I offer nothing to God my spiritual condition is dead. When my spiritual condition is by the way has anybody here been to Niagara Falls? Some have. It's pretty awesome isn't it?  Bring your dog up to the precipice of Niagara Falls Canadian side's better.     The splendor, the majesty. And by the way if a dog doesn't see that then a cat would be absolutely 10 times worse. I know dogs don't have souls but cats have demons that's the last time I checked. I'm alive physically before I'm saved but I'm like a dog at Niagara Falls. I don't see the wonder, I don't see the majesty, I don't see the grandeur of Christ Jesus the savior. I'm dead and so then when God makes me alive he quickens me, he redeems me, he reconciles me, he makes propitiation for me in my place all through Jesus. Then as when you say, oh Niagara Falls except it's not the Falls it's who God is. I was not seeking God. No one seeks after God and God found me. Don't ever put on your bumper sticker ever again. I found it. Some of us are old enough to remember that. My mom used to have one of those. I remember driving to school with my mother. She'd listened to Chuck Swindall and Jimmy Swiger one after another. I found it on the bumper sticker. Now if it's in quotations because it's God speaking about finding the elect, I'm with ya. It's all reader response. What does it mean to you? It means to me God found me. I once was lost but now I'm found. I was lost because God credited Adam's sin to my account. He's the God of the universe. He can do whatever he wants and God loves representation because he knew because the eternal councils of the triune God there'd be another representative and where Adam failed Jesus succeeded and we got credit for Adam's sin and for those who trust in Christ Jesus' substitutionary death and representative life confirmed by the resurrection we get credit for Christ's righteousness. No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him. Could you ever say this to yourself? I've come to Jesus without the power of the Holy Spirit. That's why when you get to heaven I don't think you're gonna be fist bumping God saying we did it. What we did is we were in Adam and we sinned in Adam. That's what we did. Thomas Erskine wrote something called the Arminian's address. Arise ye dead Arminia's cries. Arise ye dead in sin. Unstop your ears.  A new life begin.  Why will ye die? Quicken and make your spirit's whole to life eternal fly. Erskine wrote a response. Deluded seer. But man will lie still as senseless stone. And you yourself stand fooling by till both are quite undone. Unless almighty power be moved by God's free will, not thine, to quicken both and make his love on both your hearts to shine. Who can make the clean out of the unclean? Job chapter 14. When you think of representation, you should say I'm glad. I have a representative Adam, but I have a greater representative who determined my eternal standing and that is in Christ Jesus.  Let's pray. Father in heaven, we are very thankful this morning. Although we were bound in the chains of sin and shackles of disobedience and following the spirit that works in the sons of disobedience, but God being rich in mercy. Thank you for saving us by grace. And it wasn't cheap at all. It was costly. It cost you the best, your son Christ Jesus. And we're thankful this morning that you're wise and in your wisdom, you had Adam stand for us.  We're so thankful that while the world might lie in the power of the evil one, we are of God. We are in Christ Jesus and have all the blessings of Christ Jesus credited to our account. We didn't deserve it. We didn't earn it, but your son in his love and by your own love have determined to make it so. And so I pray for Cornerstone. I pray for the visitors here that you would undergird them and that you would let them understand depravity not to roll around in it forever, but to think with Paul in Romans 6. Thanks be to God though you were slaves to sin, you've now become obedient from the heart. Thank you Father for a great salvation in Jesus' name.


Another butte going in the well Hey guys welcome on back to the channel today, we are looking at Spawning crappie. So this is this is one of my favorite times of the year because we got bass up in the shallows Top water shirts getting good You start to get some fish moving off you got fry garters and all that stuff Meanwhile crappie are just doing their thing typically on videos. You're watching me catching crappie And most everybody we're out there fishing Brush we're out in deep water using the electronics and all that but this this is the time here where you can literally go up on the bank You can walk around the bank and catch crappie. I'm fishing out of the boat today I was just kind of cruising through here and I Was talking to a guy just walking around and that's like you catching anything. He's like, yeah, I'm catching some crappie I'm trying to catch bass and that just told me everything. I needed to know I was like Well, I'm breaking out the crappie jigs and I'm going crappie fishing right here So this time of year crappie are going to try to find anything Hard they can spawn on bass and very similar, but it's gonna be stumps. It's gonna be shallow brush trees Something that's gonna have some protection I'm gonna rig up two rigs. I'm gonna have one for just kind of working the jig I may rig up a bobber rig as well, but crappie spawn in a swarm technique It's just one female tons of males and it's like whatever is getting in the zone They're gonna eat it. So it's all about just getting it in that zone keeping it there and getting one to attack. So Slip bobbers like this. You can use a little bobber rig and you can just float it over that area That works extremely well. I like that feel that thump. So I've got Just a jighead rigged on here with the plastic So I'm gonna be using some of our plastics that we're working on For the goog and crappie. Let's go get some Crappie fishing I'm using a really light rod This is kind of this is one of our rods. We're working on here for for crappie pan fish a light rod literally a light There's light and there's ultra light medium lights. This is a light. So for the slip rig. I'm just gonna put one of It's one of our little bobber stops right here slip that on the line Then I'm going to feed my line through cork So you kind of adjust that depending on where you think the depth fish is I think they're gonna be you know about two Foot gear Then I'm gonna take one of these really light weights. This is a 16 pounds Go all the way down to 130 second They're really shallow Snip that Okay, really hard to beat natural Look at that little batty That's a little Little dangle bug still working on sizes, but that right there. It's just That's an irresistible cricket Bobber hangs in the water.  So that's for a little quicker action So this is like a backwater marina type area. This is marinas are always good for any type of Spawning fish, you know, and they provide a lot of protection and usually there's some man-made Features to it that enhance You know the structure so there's a lot of rip rap, you know, there's there's walkways.  That's pretty good It's like a little minnow swimming through. Oh, there's one. Oh my gosh, absolute thump I mean smoked it.  We're gonna try to throw that cork rig in the exact same spot I think I got bit see if that bobber will dip down there. There it goes Go a bit like immediately Try to do a little bit more dissecting here with a bobber Bite got him.  Oh There goes. Oh Losing them right here. Mm-hmm. There we go. Take it easy Right up there on the cork rig decent black crappie So what that's allowing me to do is keep that bait up there in the shallow. It's just a little bit longer Actually a lot longer Got to be 10 inches 10 and a half Why bam on the cork rig another one clone Just a male clone. Check these guys here. They're almost 11 Pretty good. Oh in nest over here I just missed throwing the moving bait. He's already getting another bite. Yeah, there it goes Little guy. I think just slamming this rig though Yeah, you're about the same it will let you go. Look at that Mmm juicy fruit Got him under that tree Trifted it under the tree For the big Chinaz Berry Mmm That was cool. That was something that I just can't do with a regular jig Drifting it up under the tree fish. There you go. I'll coat it up. These fish are That was tiny. We'll let him go. Oh Man, I've got some fish under it. I see them like see their tail There he goes. Come on That fish like crept up under it Followed it. You're so dark right now. I could see you Camouflage was not working dude You're gonna fry up so nice Okay, so the cork method Pretty effective here You know once you find the fish But biggest one in the live all right now It's coming on the mover the swim bait Got him. Mmm. A little better guys. I don't know what it is Getting the better ones On the swim bait for sure. Look at that one. And it's gone gone gone That one's keeper. It's not a hook set with the crappie. Hmm. It's just Get pressure on them.  That's a largemouth Yep, it's a spot of bass actually They're the ones that tear your baits up. This is a bait that I'm probably not gonna throw in the brush piles That much, you know, it's usually I'm just right on top of them. Don't need much tail movement at all Sometimes they don't like tail movement But right now they like it a lot All right, let's do some damage shallow buddy So the way I'm working this jig is I'm just Trying to keep it right off the bottom This bank set a 45 degree angle Where these rocks are set up so? Throwing it kind of close to the bank. I'm sitting in 15 foot here And then I'm just working that rod tip up Letting it sink work it up just jigging it As it falls that tail is kicking it There's one Feel better. He's down there a little deeper. Yeah, right at 10 You could also just parallel the bank staying the strike zone a little better, but This bank's pretty steep. I think there's some crappie that are kind of roaming A little bit deeper, so I'm gonna work it Just work it down God, I love fishing like this. They just jump the line The line just flinches on you and you just kind of took it Just took a better one So black crappie they're a little smaller But they are Then they usually live like shallower around shallower cover Another butte going in the well All right See if we can get another one here We are Spanking them spanking a lot of little ones Oh goodness Just smacked me around that's a good one Line just flinched That is a white crappie. There we go Got one different one in the mix And a lot of times they'll hybridize so you'll have Uh black crappie white crappie and you'll get hybrids and the hybrids are actually Pretty big All right thrown all the way As far as we can up there Another hit. Oh goodness Runner Boy you Felt like a three pound bass for a second Had it sideways Little boy gosh Just cracking them guys This is a big naster here Cracking them on the saucy It looks like hybrid Really interesting So it's got the vertical bars But it's also got these black specks down here. So I believe this one is a hybrid Quite a small hybrid hybrids are cool.  Oh that fish just spit out.   It hits the back of their throat and that's that exhilarating thump that you feel When a bass bites a jig That'll up so much. So same thing on this We're just using a light rod What are you 10 and a half 11 10 and a half let you go So much fun.   There's really two ways to control Your the speed of your fall on your jig So you can increase your weight or you can Lighten up your trailer and it goes the opposite way. So If you want to lighten up your fall, you can add a bigger trailer. So this tail has a lot of Water pull And with that 16th ounce head it's just barely Going to sink down there, but it's got a lot of tail movement. So It's going to make it real good for just swimming in the shallows real shallow So once you figure out Where you're getting a couple bites, I mean even if you get one bite Take a look at the bank remember what tree it is or what whatever's on the bank And throw to that exact same spot again. It's bobbing time Lobbing bandido time the wind situation here. Oh bopped got him a little cleanup Little cleanup work with the bobber Keeper for sure Looks like another high boot. I'll switch it up. Oh, I've got some more. I've got some more sauce. He's just in a Color Big doing Go on man. They're sucking this. Oh Sucking this saucy down Okay, I think I got a bit three times right there black crappy You little is uh, that is going tattooed On the arm right just like it In like another month I know I said I was gonna do that like two years ago, but uh, it's gonna happen There's a little bonus crappie as I was idling out here saw this Just main link bank Just the main link bank or not a main link, but it's inside Inside of the uh, the pocket it's got rocks on it. So I thought I'd just make a couple of A couple little rando cast with the saucy Wop bam Right there on the bank come here, sir This is just I mean, I'm just going down the bank here Smash these there could be one that just Sneaks his way up there by that brush Yep Come here, baby. Oh, you're a good one.  I may have to get right up on the bank. Oh, there's one That cast I went all the way to the bank with it.  It's three pounder pretty nice See bud my gosh, it's a huge bass the sausage gets it's all of five pounder I'm about to go into the rocks. This is insane be fight I'm just out here trying to catch a crappie dude. Why you gotta mess with me like that? Why you gotta mess with me? I swear y'all I love I really love crappie fishing For a lot of reasons, but one of my favorite reasons is that Bass and crappie live in the same The same type environments look at that bass that little saucy Just down the hatch When they're that big on a rod that small it just feels like Just feels like weight good hard fight on that little rod Appreciate you and you up here eating crappie garden fry. You look pretty healthy. You might just be up here eating shad Little nose tickle and off she goes I kind of want to end it on that fish just because it's so funny But we'll give it another cast or two Just that right there that little nugget right there a lot of A lot of plastics you get that are the small they just don't swim. They don't swim good at all this one Our engineer Isaac nailed it. I got another bass.  I got another one. This one's a crappie This fishing is so good. I wish you guys were here Crazy is a good one Good one to end on don't want to stop but my buddy's about to be here and I got to go meet him Going Into the box. Well guys, I'm just gonna say it. I think this is my favorite day On the water so far this year. I've caught three nine pounders so far This season, but This is my favorite time when everything is full swing fish are hitting the bank And you know, I'm out here crappie fishing catching bass. That is what I'm in my 100 happy dangle place right there. So again, 16 ounce jigs That's a really good way when you're fishing up in the shallows If you guys want to do the cork rig, this is especially good If if you've got some tree overhangs or something You're fishing the bank or even out of a boat that you just can't You can't really get your lure under and swim it through effectively. Maybe they want it a little slower If you throw this just around the cover let it sink to the right depth adjust that bobber stop Up and down just depending on the depth where you think the bottom is where the fish are sitting This is a really good way to target them. Hope you guys learned something from today's crappie catch I obviously had a blast. I love days like this Especially when I can catch fish and teach you guys something that I'm picking up little things as I'm fishing and talking about it. So Just good stuff Smash that like button. Please subscribe if you haven't already comment Comment comment the youtube algorithms. 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This ball is bold Coley just kind of edges it past the slip like oh, no But watch the closing speed on head here as he tracks this down. It's pretty far away from him He doesn't care chase and chase and chase in and gets there stops it from hitting the boundary picks it up throws it in Saves a run now. He can't touch the ball and the boundary at the same time Otherwise, it's automatically four runs.  He's got to pick that thing up And go just in the nick of time saves a run you guys didn't watch that This is everything else you missed that you never planned on watching from last week Let's stay in Australia for actually their country's most popular sport the AFL This is the opening match between the Richmond Tigers and the Carlton Blues They always play the opening match and 88,000 fans were in attendance, which is nuts Now Carlton is the team in black and white and they're picking the ball up now hitting around out of bounds They're leading with two minutes to go The other team the Tigers they need six points, which is a goal which is between the uprights But they don't get that now watch this this slip right here See that little slip this guy takes if he this guy kicks the ball if you kick the ball and your teammate catches it You get a free kick on uncontested kick so you can just shoot and score Everyone has to just watch you do it and they can't defend it So if they get this and he all he slips if he didn't slip and he caught that Carlton probably kicks another goal and then it's probably their game that slip was super costly But now with a minute 22 left the Tigers are bringing the ball upfield. This is a big goal kick downfield You have to bounce it every 15 meters I think you can't just run with it the whole time and he catches it So now he's like get off me dude get off me guys like I'm trying I'm trying It wasn't really trying cuz stepped over him and he gets a free kick and now he kicks it to this guy So this guy gets a free kick and he's gonna try and put it in nice range for the goal Tom Lynch comes up with the catch. That's as big as the slip I talked about earlier because that is a contested catch. They're trying to make sure he doesn't catch it He gets up higher than everyone comes down with the ball clean now He gets an uncontested kick and he can get it through the middle uprights a goal Which is worth six which would tie it? And he does and it's huge because he actually blew it in the playoffs at the end of last season I believe so everyone's excited.  Oh Man get out. Let's get out of that. Okay, so 15 seconds left. Is anything gonna happen is someone gonna win this match? Bouncing around bouncing around hot potato big ol kick big ol kick Oh, no, he couldn't catch it if he caught it. He went out of care No, they end up in a tie they end up in a tie to start the season and by I guess this is an exciting tie they're like They shake hands they're like wow what a match what a match. See you next time All right enough with Australian sports. Let's get back to the US Major league cricket just had their draft the six teams Rosters are set as the season is gonna start in July now It's kind of a micro season to start they're gonna run a tournament each team will play five games there'll be playoffs 15 games between the six teams the six teams are now you got to figure out who you're rooting for you have the Seattle Orcas, okay, you have the Washington Freedom you have the San Francisco Unicorns you have the Los Angeles Knight riders now the Knight riders the Texas team which are the Super Kings and the New York team Am I New York they're owned by owners of IPL Indian cricket team So they're the same name so you have the Knight riders the Knight riders are in a bunch of different leagues Cuz the same owner same with the Super Kings They're in the IPL and other leagues and MI New York is a really weird name MI is the Mumbai Indians, but they just get called MI. So it's like Mumbai Indians New York. It's kind of weird It would be like if Steinbrenner it would be like if the Steinbrenners started a baseball team in Mumbai and they were called the NY Y Mumbai NY Y Mumbai New York Yankees Mumbai Mumbai Indians New York. So yeah, that's kind of confusing But I think they're they're hoping that Mumbai Indians fans are fans of the New York team Anyway, I have my team. I want to know who I'm a fan of I Unfortunately because I don't think I love their name, but the roster they're draft. I got a root form Consider me a San Francisco Unicorn fan want to know why because they have three guys that I have played Blitzball with they've got Corey Anderson who Swung and missed at that curve in the warehouse and then took that curve for a strike and then boom He's from New Zealand. He's fun. He is a unicorn. They also got Liam Plunkett from England Swings and miss at that high fastball for me and they have Smith Patel who was really fun to mess around with in the warehouse. He was Competitive he didn't like swinging missing. Oh, don't throw him low Jimmy. Don't throw him low They just smack them. They got cricket swings. So the San Francisco unicorns drafted three guys that were in the warehouse Here's Corey just dicing me up because I don't know how to hit a cricket ball. It's scary as hell I'll work on it. We'll get better. That's all I can do unless I quit and then I'd then I'd just be the same I don't think I can get worse. Oh Jake got got to now each team has a mixture of International players players that have been playing in the US for a while each team had to have one player under 23 as kind of like the rookie on the team to bring up the next generation And then you have to play out of the starting 11 You have to play five domestic players because you're trying to grow cricket in the US But you get to play six international players and there's some really big names In international cricket coming to the US to be part of this tournament Aaron Finch He's on the unicorns captain team Australia He's a unicorn stoinus Marcus Stoinus currently Team Australia. He's a unicorn. You got Quinton de cock. He just set a record He got a hundred versus the West Indies in a crazy match. He's on the orcas same with We find it. Let me find it the orcas also have Aaron Jones. He came to the warehouse as well So maybe I'm an orca fan as well. I don't know. There's still more names That are coming to be part of MLC and some of these players are gonna be part of major league cricket Also, they're gonna be part of the next ball-in-play league in the warehouse on our channel. I'm very excited about that I don't know who's coming one of them will be part of team baggage as team baggage is part of the ball-in-play League, so I got a potential teammate on the board here, and I don't know who it is I'm excited for this. I understand if you're confused.  It's not gonna work. Well, maybe tune in and try it out because it can be fun So MLC had their draft and I am a unicorn fan We had a tie in the first segment of the AFL match And now we have Colgate and Lafayette tied at nine in this lacrosse match Lafayette needs the win ten seconds left seven seconds left Nick Rossi with the ball looking for a pass looking for a Pass shit. I got to take it myself spin move.  They're gonna dog pile number 22 is gonna turn around to his teammate and be like guys be cool Be cool. Let's not make this dangerous. He's at the bottom of the pile We don't want him to get hurt, but people don't listen the people jump on the top of the dog pile That's how you can tell they've never been on the bottom. They've never scored the goal Looking number four here right on top.   It's thank you. You're dead. Yeah, I'm on number eight. Oh man Just stinks to be down there. He's all lifeless his legs are just flailing around like Wizard of Oz. He gets up Number 44 number four Congratulations, you did it. You did it. Okay. I know I know I catch rubber. Okay. Thank you, dude I catch my breath. Nice job. Nice job 47 comes 14 comes 46 tons of fours across the board Here's 44 again. Like I got to do my handshake with you. Bum. Oh, okay. Thanks, man. Thanks. Nice goal. Nice goal Yeah, thanks. Thanks. Don't know if it was worth it down there, but good job. Good job, Nick game winner for Lafayette and The final segment we're gonna go to six nations rug being you're probably thinking you just did rug Be no, that was the AFL. This is way different. This is the six nations rug Be I talked about this in the opening match on a things you missed a little bit ago Well, now the six nations tournament is complete and Ireland went undefeated They beat Wales 34 to 10. They beat France 32 to 19. They beat Italy 34 to 20 They beat Scotland 22 to 7 and they beat England 29 to 16 Ireland now has five six nations title championships and three six nations grand slam Titles, how about that? They secured the championship in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. Wouldn't you know it? James Lowe I was at coach ball games Sandlot, his name is James Lowe and well James Lowe and Mack Hansen were the leaders for Ireland in tries Johnny Sexton led in conversions and penalty goals and Hugo Keegan Hugo Keegan led in meters made so Ireland went five and oh 27 points coming in first place Italy did the opposite They went oh and five only got one point a sad one point for Italy Bomber and there you go. That was everything you missed that you never planned on watching. Thank you very much Please subscribe to the channel like comment all of that if you're enjoying these as well as the breakdowns Which will be coming out more regularly as MLB season is about to start and IPL season Fan of the week. Who do you got last week? I believe B1 this week. It is a B See D. I don't know if I did my hands, right? You let me know Comment make sure that you believe in it when you leave the comment. Thanks. See you later. Goodbye. Go unicorns


You know if I'm not around for 24 hours, this whole thing is going to turn into a dadgum shitshow. You realize that right, ma'am?  Hey, I might have to take tomorrow off. You're gonna run.  You're gonna run.   Hello? Whoa.    Yeah. Mr. On the hell of a shift brother as expected