Live from the Javits Center in New York City, it's theCUBE, covering Inforum 2017. Brought to you by Inforum. We are wrapping up the CUBE's day two coverage of conference here in New York City at Inforum. My name is Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Dave Vellante. We're joined by Dan Bernhardt. He is the Inforur Vice President of Communications. Thanks so much for joining us. Yes, thank you for having me. Thank you for being here two days in the river. It's been a lot of fun. We've had a great time. So yeah, congratulations. It's been a hugely successful conference. A lot of buzz. Recap it for us. What's been most exciting for you? Sure, this was our second year having Inforum in New York, which is our hometown. I think it was a more exciting conference than last year. We unveiled some incredible development updates led by Coleman, our AI offering, which is an incredible announcement for us, as well as networked cloud suites, which takes the functionality from our GT Nexus commerce network and bakes it into our cloud suites, the mission critical industry cloud suites that we offer on the Amazon Web Services Cloud. Those were really exciting developments, as well as some other announcements we made with regard to product. And then in addition to product, we had a lot of customer momentum that we shared. Last year, we had customers like Whole Foods and Travis Perkins up here. We continued the momentum with big enterprise customers making big bets on Infor, led by Koch Industries, who invested more than $2 billion this year in Inforum and are now modernizing their human resources and their financial operations with Infor Cloud Suite. Moving to the cloud HR for 130,000 employees at Koch Industries, which is an incredible achievement for the product and for cloud HR. And that's very exciting, as well as other companies like Footlocker, which are recognized with the Innovation Award for our Progressmakers Award. They're using talent science, data science to power their employees at each, not to power their employees, but to drive their employees towards greater productivity and greater happiness because they've got the right people in the right fit for Footlocker. That's very exciting. And of course, Bank of America, our customer of the year, which uses our HR solutions for their workforce, which obviously is exceptionally large. Yeah, so it was a great ceremony this morning with a lot of recognition. So let's talk a little bit more about Coleman. This was the big product announcement, really the first product in AI for Infor. Tell us a little bit about the building blocks. For certain. We have a couple of AI offerings now, like predictive hotel pricing, predictive demand and assortment planning in retail. But we have been building towards Coleman and what we consider the age of networked intelligence for multiple years. Since we architected Infor Cloud Suite to run mission-critical ERP in the cloud, we developed the capability of having data, mission-critical data that really runs a business for manufacturing, finance, distribution, core functions in the cloud on AWS, which gives us hyperscale compute power to crunch incredible data. So that really became possible once we moved Cloud Suite in 2014. And then in 2015, we acquired GT Nexus, which is a commerce network that brings in the 80% of enterprise data that lies outside the four walls among suppliers and logistics providers and banks. That unified that into the cloud suite and brought that data in and we're able to crunch that using the compute power of AWS. And then last year at Infor and we announced the acquisition of Predictix, which is a predictive solutions for retail. And when building those Predictix was making such groundbreaking development in the area of machine learning, but they spun off a separate group called Logic Box just to focus on machine learning. And Infor invested heavily, we didn't talk a lot about Logic Box, but that was going to deliver a lot of the capabilities along with Amazon's developments with Lex and Alexa to enable Coleman to come to reality. So we were able then to acquire Burst a few months ago, versus a BI platform that takes and harmonizes the data that comes across cloud suite and GT Nexus in a digestible form that with the machine learning power from Logic Box can power Coleman. So now we have AI that's pervasive underneath the application making decisions, recommending advice so that people can maximize their potential at work, not have to do more menial tasks like search and gather, which McKinsey has shown can take 20% of your work week, just looking for the information and gathering the information to make decisions. Now you can say Coleman, get me this information. And Coleman is able to return that information to you instantly and let you make decisions, which is a very, very exciting breakthrough. So there's a lot there. When you and I talked prior to this show, I was kind of looking for, okay, what's going to be new and different. And one of the things you said was we're really going to have a focus on innovation. So in previous Inforums, it's really been about to me anyway. We do a lot of really hard work. And we're hearing a lot about acquisitions, certainly AI and Coleman, how those acquisitions come together with your, what Duncan Engel calls the layer cake, the wedding cake stack, the strategy stack, I call it. So do you feel like you've achieved those objectives of messaging that innovation and what's the reaction been from the customer base? Without a doubt. I wouldn't characterize anything that we said last year is not innovative. We announced H&L digital, our digital transformation arm, which is doing some incredible custom projects like for the Brooklyn Nets, essentially money balling the NBA. Look forward to seeing that in next season a little bit and then more in the season to come. Some big projects with Travis Perkins and with some other customers, care.com that were mentioned. But this year, we're unveiling Coleman, which takes a lot of pieces, as Duncan said, sort of the wedding cake and puts them together. This has been in development for years and now we're able to unveil it. And we've chosen to name it Coleman in honor of Catherine Coleman Johnson, one of the ladies whose life was told in the movie Hidden Figures. And she was a pioneer African-American woman in STEM, which is an important cause for us. In four years ago, when we were in New Orleans, unveiled the Infor Education Alliance program so that we can invest in increasing STEM education among young people. All young people with a particular focus on minorities and women to increase the ranks of underrepresented communities in the technology industry. So this Coleman not only pays honor to Catherine Johnson the person, but also to her mission to increase the number of people that are choosing careers in STEM, which as we have shown is the future of work for human beings. So talk a little bit more about enforced commitment to increasing numbers, to increasing not only STEM education, but as you said, increasing the number of women and minorities who go into STEM careers. Certainly, Pam Murphy, who's our chief operating officer, this has been an incredibly important cause to her, as well as Charles Phillips, our CEO. We launched the Women's Infor Network win several years ago, and that's had some incredible results in helping to increase the number of women at Infor. Many years ago, I think it was Google that first released their diversity report, and it drew a lot of attention to how many women and how many minorities are in technology. And they got a lot of heat, because it was about 30, 35% of their workforce was female. And then as other companies started rolling out their diversity report, it was a consistent number between 30 to 35%. And what we identified from that was not that women are not getting the jobs, it's that there aren't as many women pursuing careers in this type of field. Yes, so in order to do that, we need to provide an environment that nurtures some of the specific needs that women have, and that we're promoting education. So we formed the WIN program to do that first task, and this year on International Women's Day in early March, we were able to show some of the results that came from that, particularly in senior positions, SVP, VP, and director level positions at Infor. Some have risen 60% the number of women in those roles since we launched the Women's Infor Network just a couple of years ago. And then we launched the Education Alliance program, we've partnered with institutions like CUNY, the City University of New York, the New York Urban League, and universities now across the globe. We've got them in India, in Thailand, in China, in South Korea to help increase the number of people who are pursuing careers in STEM. We've also sponsored PBS series and Girls Who Code. We have a hackathon going on here at Inforum with a bunch of young people who are building sort of add-on apps and widgets that could accompany Infor. We're investing a lot in the growth of STEM education in the next generation. And by the way, those numbers that you mentioned for Google and others at around 30, 34%, that's much better than the industry average. So they're doing quote-unquote well and still far below the 50%, which is what you would think, based on population, it would be. So I mean, I think the average is around, or the actual number is around 17% in the technology business. And then the other thing I would add is Amazon, I believe, was pretty forthcoming about its compensation, you know. SalesForce really started it at Mark Benioff. And they got a lot of heat for it. But its transparency was really at the starting point, right? Exactly. It was clear really early for companies like SalesForce and Amazon and Google and Infor that this was not something that we needed to create talking points about. We were going to need to affect real change and that was going to take investment and time. And thankfully with leadership, like Charles Phillips, our CEO and Mark Benioff, we're making investments to help make sure that the next generation of every human, but particularly women and minorities that are underrepresented right now in technology have those skills that will be needed in the years to come. Right, you have to start with a benchmark and then know where you're moving from. Absolutely, just like if you're starting a project to transform your business, where do you want to go and what are the steps that are going to help you get there? Speaking of transforming your business, there's another big trend is digital transformation. So now that we are nearing the end of day two of this conference, what are you hearing from customers about this jaunting, sometimes painful process that they must endure, but really they must endure it in order to stay alive and to thrive? Without a doubt, disruption is happening in every industry that we're seeing and customers across all of the industries that Infor serves like manufacturing, healthcare, retail distribution. They are thinking about how do we survive in the new economy when everything is digital, when every company needs to be a technology company and we are working with our customers to help first modernize their systems. You can't be held back by old technology. You need to move to the cloud to get the flexibility and the agility that can adapt to changing business conditions and disruptions. No longer do you have years to adapt to things. They're happening overnight. You must have flexible solutions to do that. So we have a lot of customers. We just had a panel with Travis Perkins and with pilot flying Jay who was on the cube earlier talking about how their and Koch Industries are our primary investor now, talking about how they're re-architecting their IT infrastructure to give them that agility so they can start thinking about what sort of projects could open up new streams of revenue. How could we do something else that we never thought of but now we have the capability to do digitally that could be the future of our business and it's really exciting to have all the CIOs and SBPs of technology, VPs of technology that are here at Inforum talking about what they're doing and how they're imagining their business. It's really incredible to get a peek at what they're doing. You know, we were talking to Debbie earlier. One of the interesting things that my takeaways on the digital transformation is, you always say digital is data and then what we talked about was the ability to traverse industry value chains not just vertically but horizontally. Amazon buying Whole Foods is a perfect example. Amazon's a content company. Apple's getting into financial services. I wonder if you could comment on your thoughts on because you're so deep into micro verticals and what Debbie said was, well, I gave a consumer package good example to a process manufacturing company and they were like, what are you talking about? And then she said, look, let me connect the dots. And the light bulbs went off and they said, wow, we could take that CPG example and apply it. So I wonder when we talk about digital transformation, if you see or can foresee your advantage in micro verticals as translating across those verticals. Without a doubt, we talk about it as adjacent innovation. And Charles points back to an example way back from the creation of Venetian glass and how that led to additional businesses and industries like eyeglasses and fire preparedness. And we look at it that way for certain. We dive very deep into key industries but when we look at them holistically across and we say, oh, this is happening within the retail industry, we can identify key functionality that might make change the industry of disruption, I'm not disruption, distribution, might disrupt the distribution industry and we can apply the lessons learned by having that industry specialization into other industries and help them realize potential that they weren't aware of before because we uncovered it in one place. That's happening an awful lot with what we do with retail and assortment planning and healthcare. We run 70% of the large hospitals in the US and we're learning a lot from retail in how we might help hospitals move more quickly. When you are managing life and death situations, if you are planning assortment or inventory for those key supplies within a hospital and you can make even small adjustments that can have huge impact on patient care. So that's one of the benefits of our industry first strategy and the adjacent innovation that we cultivate there. I know we're not even finished in forum 2017, but we must look ahead to 2018. Talk a little bit about what your goals for next year's conference are. For sure, you're correct, we're not finished yet within forum, I know everyone here is really excited about Bruno Mars. Right, playing tonight. It was entertaining tonight, but we are looking forward to next year's conference as well. We're already talking about some of the innovative things that we'll announce and the customer journeys that are beginning now which we'd like to unveil there. We are going to be moving the conference from New York. We're going to move to Washington, D.C. in late September, September 24th to 27th in Washington, D.C., which we're very excited about to let our customers, they come back every year to learn more. We had 7,000 people attending this year. We want to give them a little bit of a variety while still making sure that they can reach with one stop from Europe and from Asia because customers are traveling from all over the world, but we're very excited to see the growth that will be shared this year. For instance, if you look at the sponsors, we had our primary SI partner, AVAP, was a platinum partner last year. In addition to AVAP this year, we were joined by Accenture and Deloitte, Capgemini, Grant Thornton, all of whom have built in four practices over the last 12 months because there's so much momentum over our solutions, but that is a revenue opportunity for them that they want to take advantage of. And the momentum is just going to keep on going. Next year in September, so I'll see you in September. Yeah, thank you very much. I appreciate you guys being here with us for the third year and the second year row in New York and I look forward to it. Thank you, thank you. I'm Rebecca Knight for Dave Vellante. We will have more from Inforum 2017 in a bit.


Hello, my name is Nico Tripsovich. I'm with the Archeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley. Welcome to our practical workshop series. Today I'll be describing how to create a site grid in QGIS3. Site grids are widely used by archaeologists for a variety of things. One thing we do with them is create a regular sampling interval for something like shovel test pits or for artifact surface analysis. Another use is laying out site grid excavation units, and finally they're also used for laying out the squares and rectangles that are used in geophysical survey. So today's workshop I'll be describing how to lay out a site grid and shift it and rotate it according to the needs in the field, and also how to export the resulting coordinates into comma separated values tables so that you can import that into a field instrument like a RTK GNSS unit or a total station, something precise enough to then be used in stakeout mode to locate those grid markers in the field so that you can then drop pin flags and use them in your field work. So let's go ahead and get started in QGIS3. I'm just pointing out that I'm in metric coordinates in this projection and coordinate system, now at 83 epoch 2011 UTM 10 North, and these are meters and UTM zones and north not decimal degrees. And that's important because we're going to be doing metric measurements and we need to be using metric units. So here we have a site datum and then sort of simulating in a situation where we've already got a site datum that we're going to try to work with. And we have some structure at the site like these roads and we're going to create a site grid using the vector creation tools here. So there's two tool sets that can create grids. There's a series of points which will create a series of points either regularly or at random offset. And this is useful if you need to create say exactly 100 points for sampling purposes, but in most cases the create grid tool is more useful for archaeologists. In both cases, you'll want to have a area delimited for the grid creation, that is, you need to specify what area gets graded out. And so we'll begin by creating a polygon here in our demo polys layer, making it editable. And I'm going to create a new polygon. And I'm going to demonstrate the use of this tools of advanced digitizing P. This is only available if you're using projected coordinates, metric coordinates like the UTM. I'm going to enable advanced digitizing, and I'll show you how this works so you will create the study area by clicking in one of the corners, and then with advanced digitizing tools you can use these keyboard shortcuts on the side. So you don't interrupt your digitizing task so I'm going to hit the D key and specify that I want the northern edge of my study area to be 80 meters, like type 80 press return, and that now limits my movement to 80 meters anywhere in these directions. 80 meters in any direction. And then I'll click to drop the first vertex. And now I want to go 100 meters south so once again I'm going to click D and type 100, and I can go 100 meters south. You may notice that it sort of snaps to that, that 180 degree southern direction. That's because I have these common angle selected so that helps you to make right angle shapes. So I've clicked once there now I want to go 80 meters to the left, so I'm going to type 80. And guides me over to here. And then the last one's easy because it's already there, click again and right click and type study area. So we have an area that we can get out. Let's go ahead and create the grid with grid types you can choose points lines rectangles diamonds or hexagons. On this web page here I've got the demo, the documentation is pulled up showing what the diamonds and hexagons look like. Let's go ahead and create a point grid and we'll put it inside this grid extent now there's three ways to determine the grid extent one is to just draw a rectangle on the screen. The second is to use the map canvas extent which is essentially the active window here so you zoom in and fill your map window with the grid and the third way if you need a more specific polygon is to choose it from an existing layer so we're going to go ahead and use the one we just created. We're going to start with spacing 10 meters, 10 meters, and it's using the same projected coordinate system. Close. There it is. Now the first thing I'd like to show you here is that it's not that any. This grid is a virtual layer temporary scratch layer, so it doesn't really exist in on your drive so if you want to save it, you should right click and say, make permanent. What I'd like to mention is that here on the attribute table, the coordinates are provided based on our original grid. We currently see but if we change this grid at all these are no longer accurate so I'll show you at the end here how to update this attribute table after we move this grid around a little bit. One thing that frequently comes up is that you'd like your grid to conform with some existing stuff going on at the site such as a site data and you've already created a site data and you want your grid to originate from the site great data and have regular intervals from that point so let's shift this grid in order to match our existing site data so I've got snapping turned on. I'm going to choose the grid, make it editable, select the whole thing. So, and then I'll use this move features tool. And I'll choose one of them. And you can't see all of them so it's warning you can't see all the features are currently moving. And then I'll just click here and snapping turned on so it's really easy to shift it. The second thing that sometimes comes up is that you want your grid to pivot to match features at the site such as this road or architecture like a wall or building foundations. So in order to pivot the grid, you could use the rotate features tool and we've still got all our points selected when you choose the rotate features tool this little red plus years right in the center of your object. And in this case we don't want to pivot around there we want to pivot around the data. You almost always want to pivot around the data. So this is a useful skill for adjusting these kind of rotations. This sometimes comes up with total station points as well. This is a useful skill for adjusting points around the data. You hold down the control key and click it moves that red plus right to wherever you click. Now it's because of snapping it's exactly on the data. So I'm going to go ahead and click and click. I clicked once and I'm moving and now you can see that it's going to line up with the road if I put it right like so. There. So, now we have a grid that aligns with the road that begins with this. And the one final issue that I mentioned earlier is that the grid coordinates that are provided in this attribute table are based on that original grid that was created initially by the create grid function. So these are no longer accurate because we've moved and rotated the grid points. So why don't we go ahead and delete those. We're just going to delete all these. They're not accurate anymore. And we'll create current ones using the field calculator. So we're going to, we've got them all selected. And we're going to make a northern field. It should be decimal or full precision. You can even add additional points, but this is already some centimeter. And under geometry, there's a X and a Y function. Here. So, northeens moving north south. That's change in Y, right? We'll just do dollar sign Y. Now we get all our northern. And likewise, we're going to want it. Easteens. So we'll go ahead and make an Easteens field. Decimal degrees and this will be dollar sign X. And the final thing I'd like to mention about this is one thing that can be very useful is to export these to a high precision GPS unit, such as RTK P and SS we have an M lid and our M lid accepts points from the software using comma separated values. So what I would do is save this out as a CSV. And I could upload it to our M lid right click like this exports. And I would export it as a CSV. And then the reach view software in the case of M lid provides a stakeout function. So then what I can do is go out there and navigate to these points and drop a flag. Other way. So stakeout guides you, you know, it tells you, you need to move certain number of centimeters in any direction to match this point in our RTK system is roughly two centimeters in our region here in northern California. So that's pretty accurate, better than tape and compass. The, the other thing you might do at this point is to create a name field and name your grid. So let's say you're, you know, you're going to lay out now excavation grids or geophysical grids you could, you can name the corners of your, of your grid by selecting them. And then in the attribute table, you'll call this one say northeast grid a northeast. You could go ahead and label the important points in your grid that you'd like to then stake out in the RTK GPS software and it will guide you to your grid that you created virtually in QGS. I'll follow up on this workshop tutorial with another one on using these with geophysical data.


harps with the speed of light a cloud of dust in a hearty high old silver the lone ranger in the early days of the western united states the mass brighter the planes led the fight for law and order in a few sections the new territory he found able sheriffs to assist him but for the most part he fought alone against overwhelming odds nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of justice return with us now to those thrilling days when the west was young from out of the past from the thundering hoof beats of the great horse silver the lone ranger rides again holland shack several miles from concho city was the home of jug daggett his wife heady and the thin undernourished boy of 16 whom they call their son jug was known to the district as a drunkard a bully in a petty thief his wife pale and silent lived in constant fear of her husband and the boy billy knew little but harsh commands and worked too much for his strength one afternoon jug lurching to his feet roared at his wife well said no good kid 20 back from town what's that well popular didn't you hear me a sniveling fool then answer up when I'm talking to you just the boy been gone hardly now yet so now you're gonna argue with me huh think you're gonna give me some of your lip and I didn't mean I'll show folks around here who's boss get out from underfoot so there is a fine time to be showing up what are you going to do with that we're watching you'll see no jug no leave the boy be he never will you get out of my way please and serve him right honest I did don't you lie to me you took it time of purpose I came out I'll teach you to take advantage when I sent you to town don't hit me please where's that whiskey I sent you for well I couldn't get it mr. Phelps said you'd have to pay him what you're on first so you take an hour to get to town and back and don't even fetch what I sent you for I couldn't help it you're getting more worthless all the time come on to hold on I got on saddle come here you're you're gonna hit me I'll give you a lick and you'll remember the day and day oh don't don't you still please please don't hit me please yeah it'll snub and hold that whip before I use it on you what's that you said I'll take that you masked man you listen to me you mental and pull cat I'll break you in two for that come ahead I'll show you get him don't leave me out of take that he was just lucky I'm wedding this time oh she knocked him down mr. they knocked him down you hit him plenty hard you're not satisfied get your feet you'll pay for that hey don't throw you as far as I want I didn't but if I had it wouldn't have been more than you deserve now clear off don't shoot again on your way you'll be sorry for this one moment well I've heard about you before jug I've heard about the way you treat your wife and son what business is that yours I'll give you some advice you're likely planning on getting even with them after Tonto and I are gone if you are don't we won't be gone so far we can't return I'm either one of them and I'll make this county too hot to hold you you just can't eat your own affairs and leave me be geez stranger you sure can't hit and that draw yours boy I was just about the fastest I ever seen did you hurt your son take nothing only I guess if you hadn't come he'd attend me good gosh how'd you get here well I'll see in you Tonto and I saw it was going on from the road we left our mounts on the other side of the house so we wouldn't give warning about our approach oh your name is Billy isn't it uh-huh think you could remember something Billy sure I could stranger Tonto and I have a camp not far from here and oh bother look for it you won't find it but either you or your mother need help yeah signal us we'll come at once you mean if Pog gets gets mean again yes well he will all right stranger you forget what happened and he'll blame me for it well but how I signal you now let's see you probably wouldn't have time to build a fire you don't pack a gun I'll tell you what I could do yes Pog eats a spare gun hit on the top shelf of the cupboard it's always loaded to I could signal you with that fire three shots you'll be able to hear him we will is over his house stranger yes Billy are are you and Tonto wanted by the law real bad we are not wanted at all but you're wearing a mask for reasons of my own here boy honest to gosh you ain't crooks no Billy why well because well I think you're swell and I sure wouldn't want the law to get you how do you want to win the place for the lone ranger and Tonto had made camp was less than a mile from Daggett Shack could only be reached through a maze of dry Arroyo however it would have been impossible to find unless one knew the trail beforehand when they reached camp they drew rain but the mask man did not dismount well there's a what's going on oh me me cook grub eat if you're hungry Kimosabi I'm riding on huh what do I've been thinking over what just happened Tonto like boy father him no good I saw the woman watching us from a window while we were there me see you too I wonder if you noticed what I did what that Billy didn't resemble either one nothing anyway and boy is good stuff in him Tonto if it were allowed to develop what you think they're not the people who should have the authority to raise the youngster like that it's not fair to him you will write I'm calling on the sheriff I'd like to know more about jugs past it's possible he'll suggest a way to take Billy out of jugs hands oh you're not right to town they're dangerous I'll have to do it Tonto and me right to we promise Billy protection one of us must stay here in case he signals but you don't worry Kimosabi it'll be dark by the time I reach concho I'll be on guard and if possible I'll get the sheriff where he's alone no you'll not take chance I won't you have my word and while I'm going I'll be alert for a signal sooner or later a juggle break out again I mean listen good I'll see you later you hurry you want to go over Bob Roper the sheriff of concho city was an unusual man for the position young wealthy and well educated he had chosen to be a lawman because of a tragedy that had struck his family while he was still a boy living him with a burning hatred for criminals early that evening he wrote the link of concho city's main street keeping a watchful eye on the town's bustling activity at the end of the street he rained out stopping where the night shadows met the lights cast from the numerous cafes oh boy funny going on in town funny chances for trouble I'd better stick around who said that I did where are you here in these three sure right over here out of the life I think you've heard of me Bob I want to know at least we're both fighting for the same thing while you're a mask wait get your hands on it there's no need to slap brother I'm not an outlaw don't try to tell me there is there a law against wearing a mask now you've got the drop on me what are you after information what information concerning jug daggett his son his wife why because I've taken an interest in the boy because I'm convinced the boy should be given a new home you're lying careful no crooked one information for a reason like that what's behind this I've told you the truth you were friend of jugs no an enemy I never saw him before this afternoon well gunner no gun you get no information from me until I hear straight talk now let's have it what's your game I study silver study there old fellow we got him what was it a snake your horse disturbed him you've got him at the very first shop and with only moonlight to shoot by a lucky shot and you called your horse silver right do you travel with an Indian name and matchy I have an Indian friend but his name is Tata you gave the right answer let me look at the cartridges in that gun take it silver I said I thought you'd heard of me the loan ranger yes loan ranger for ten years I've hoped to meet you and when I do I must take you for an outlaw I've heard of you too many times you have you brought the law to Contra City you couldn't do that without getting a reputation I'll be a lawman as long as there's an outlaw alive that needs Jalen I wondered about that wondered when your father died he left you the largest ranch in the region you could have managed the ranch sold it and taken life easy you didn't either you ran for sheriff put a foreman in charge of your property and that's right why your pay is poor the work is dangerous why should you choose this sort of a life because it was time we had a sheriff around here that could enforce law and order I see I'm not bragging there's plenty other good men in the county but none of them would take the job they had their ranches and they figured they could protect them they figured they didn't need any help from a sheriff it was you who put an end to wrestling my first job was to get everybody working together when all the honest men in the district are united then a crew doesn't stand a chance Paul told me that those were almost his last words did you promise your father to run for sheriff no not exactly but I thought about it a lot and that's the only way I figured I could get the job done satisfied you've answered my question but I'm still wondering what about from the way you talk you sound as if you're fighting for more than law and order I am I'm getting even for what for what the outlaws around here did to my family your mother and father once there was four of us you mean that you had a sister or a brother that was killed by killed or maybe he was we never found him anyway a brother yeah I had a brother kidnapped before he was a year old I know it killed my mother my father searched for the boy right up to the day died and found no clue to his disappearance nothing but one thing is sure loan ranger is if I ever meet the man or men responsible Lord help the curtain falls on the first act of our loan ranger story before the next exciting scenes please permit us to pause for just a few moments that same evening had a dagger lay sleepless on her bed Judge Daggett had failed to appear since his encounter with a loan ranger Billy had retired to his own small room divided from hers by a flimsy partition it seemed to heavy as she lay there her eyes wide open and fixed blankly upon the ceiling it must be almost morning in reality however when finally she arose and slipped a wrapper around her thin shoulders it was scarcely midnight she moved quietly toward the door of Billy's room Billy Billy that's you mom were you sleeping some what's the matter I I've got to talk to you Billy she ma you sound funny that masked man huh that masked man was here this afternoon one may just leave you be you you don't know who he is to you gosh no didn't did you like him oh golly when I'm full-grown I want to be just like him was you watching ma did you see how slick he grabbed you shooting iron Quillikers faster than you could wink almost listen Billy huh just move over a bit so I can sit down I've got to talk to you sure yeah you won't tell junk about this will you Billy of course not ma what is it something I've been thinking about for a long long time it it's something terrible that happened once but I've thought and thought about though sometimes I was afraid I'd go clean out of my head well was it something you done ma no Billy something done by somebody else something I didn't know about at the time but but I found out after a long time after and ever since it's been on my mind something awful she now I just can't stand it no longer but but I don't know who to tell well can't you tell me ma not not just yet it didn't have to be somebody else sure for over why don't you tell him I couldn't Billy you you wouldn't understand huh sometimes son went when you've loved somebody a terrible lot even when you find out he's bad and mean and he's done things he should be made to pay for what you just don't have the heart to make him do it you're talking so funny ma I thought maybe I could tell that mess man about it and and the law wouldn't have to know why sure you can could you find him no but I know how to make him come here you do Billy we got signals fixed up between us and everything you just sit right there I'll go so you scheming Brad Pa double cross a little sneak you won't get me and what you blasted wealth you're hot in the late hands on in the yellow liver Kyle I'll show you what are you doing you'll see what yeah yeah you bet it ain't there you took it away talk it signal a mess man huh thought I didn't hear this came you fixed up your blabber and sneak that guns right here in my belt stay away from me come here oh no to my arm pick up that kind of defeat there I can't pick it up I got it don't twist my arm please please get back in your room he'll stay in there to play go he ain't harm just do anything you want to me but let him go fix the both of you for good and all last you leave go me go kick me where oh my head look what you've done you've built that kerosene all over the floor which is just what I aim to do what do you mean it means I've stood for all the double cross and blabbering I'm gonna I'm gonna close your mouth neither one he is gonna squeal on me you just wait till the masked man hears about this shut up I'll get that ombre to you're seeing of these shutters are still natal tight I'm sick and tired of your whining fed up on you and this well always trying to get me you've been drink what if I have you're out of your head you ain't yourself what I am is none of your business where you going Jack hey the kerosene don't drop that match of the kerosene I'll catch a fire it ain't that just too bad wait what you get back the lone ranger had returned to camp and told Tonto of his conversation with Bob Roper Contro City's young sheriff so Tonto that explains why Bob Roper would rather hunt down criminals and manage his property hmm and to learn more about jug daggett what that jug has always been a petty thief he was born and raised in this section was no good from the start number the ranchers in this section suspected him of butchering their cattle and when he could he sold the hives also then catch him Bob's father did oh but he punished jug in his own way without turning him over to the law whatever it was I've never learned however it must have been very effective Bob says jug left the district at that time and didn't return for almost five years when he came back he brought a wife and child with him and boy belong to him I don't think so what do you think I tried to question Bob without letting him suspect what I was getting at I believe I succeeded I learned that jug disappeared at just about the same time the child was kidnapped you think jug take him there's certainly a reason to think so the theft of the child was spite work not for ransom no money was ever demanded for the child's return oh and jug hated Bob's father jug could have taken the child married that woman and another part of the country and returned again without anyone suspecting the child hadn't been born while he was gone in fact I'm positive that's just what did happen the woman would have feared jug too much ever to talk even if she knew the truth not right that's just the kind of revenge a man of jugs type would like to return with a child of the man he felt had injured him and mistreat the child without fear of discovery him he bad fellow there's one thing more that makes me think that's what happened what that give Billy the right kind of care let him fill out a bit and he'd look enough like young Bob Roper to be his twin why other people are not see that they took both of them for granted they never had reason to suspect jug wasn't Billy's father so they never questioned it what we do I'm going to find jugs wife I think she can be induced to talk and if she can you look what fire he glow that fires in the direction of a good check huh come on hold the saddles on a cinchup we're writing an hour later jug daggett reigned him his lathered horse in front of the cottage where Bob Roper made his home in town chef hi there Roper opener who jug chef you gotta hurry climbing your clothes hurry up with you drunk again no I ain't drunk my house is a fire what's that my wife and boy are both trapped inside man you must be crazy I ain't crazy I'm telling you the honest truth I seen the fire I heard him yell inside I tried him to get him out but I couldn't do something before I go clean crazy your wife and Billy were inside that check they were I tell you and you didn't get them out I couldn't I couldn't do a thing you ought to be strung up to the nearest tree come inside I'll be with you in just 10 seconds Bob dressed as fast as he could hurried outside saddle his mouth and raced with jug toward the shack it was three hours before the two men returned to Conchill City they were tired and dirty their clothes covered with ashes but jug in spite of his wariness was protesting loudly why do I have to go to your office with you why can't I just find some place to go to sleep and get some rest because I want a statement I'll give it to you tomorrow you'll give it to me tonight I've already told you everything I know you still got some things to explain what things you swore you hit Billy and your wife inside the shack when it was burning I did there was no sign of them you know that we searched everywhere the shack burned down yes but they weren't in it and I thought there was and if they weren't there how did the fire start you say you were returning from town when you first saw it I was and you couldn't have started it they weren't there they couldn't have how should I know how it started that isn't all where are they now I'll call it ain't you chef ain't it up to you to figure them things out you can't handle your job say so and I'll go to somebody who can I figured to make out all right here we are you can tell me everything you know about this I'll write it down then you can sign it seems like a lot of blame foolishness to me your opinion wasn't ain't a man got no rights you've got rights you've also got obligations what are you doing with them keys I'm going to lock the door of course it's already unlocked so I ain't even closed tight that's funny I was sure I locked up we don't like this lamp there now we'll surprise the CS young the lone ranger what he called you mister never mind that Billy stand where you are stand still on the next shuttleby dead center come here he was too running away you locked me in my house and you set it a fire so as we'd burn and you was running because you knew I'd tell you that the truth it is total nice all the fire rode to the shack and got the boy and the woman out just in time that place had been saturated with kerosene it ain't neither he's saying that just to get me in bed he's making the whole thing up jug your word against the masked man's isn't worth a thing I never keep an eye on the fellow Bob he's guilty of more than setting fire to that shack he knows the game's up what do you mean your wife is in the next room resting jug she has no reason to keep your secrets any longer and I happen to know the whole truth about Billy and who he really is wait no that stranger jug kidnapped the child from your parents Bob Billy here is that child and I can prove it she talked she went to blab and just like a note she would I wish she had been burned I wish she'd burned the kid along with the 30s you rock notes make oh gee sheriff you hit almost as hard as the masked man he's out cold lone ranger tell me the truth is this boy here my brother is he you heard jug admitted Billy golly stranger I never heard ma say that she isn't your mother's son and she didn't say it she refused to tell me what I suspected to be the truth because I wouldn't promise not to turn jug over to the law some women are like that Billy loyal no matter what they suffer I had to trick jug into admitting the truth so jug is the man I was after all the time and I never knew it right come to her wait don't punish the woman Bob she had no partner scheme I won't of course I won't but I'd like if you want to know why jug hated your father Bob take a look where jug shirt has been torn away shirt good lord branded branded front and back and it's my father's old brand turd is a copyrighted feature of the lone ranger incorporated


Here we go, 2 Timothy chapter 2, verses 15 through 19. The apostle Paul writes, Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness. And the message will spread like cancer. Hamanists and philetists are of this sort who have strayed concerning the truth, saying that the resurrection has already passed, and they overthrow the faith of some. Nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal, the Lord knows those who are His, and let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Now Paul is giving this young pastor Timothy instructions, concerning the truth of the gospel message. And he's been telling him to keep a firm grasp on it. And he also, when we looked at verse 2 of chapter 2, he had also said to commit this to others who are able to do so also. So it's important to exhort Timothy to teach the word. And it's important for Paul to exhort him to equip the leaders. And in order for Timothy, and in order for the leaders to be able to be faithful and successful in the things that they're doing, they need a firm grasp on the message. They need to have a thorough knowledge of the truth, because when they have a developed thorough knowledge of the truth, it helps them to recognize error. And so with that in mind, Paul has consistently been instructing Timothy to faithfully teach the Ephesians. We know that Timothy is the pastor of the church there in the city of Ephesus. And so Paul is instructing Timothy to faithfully teach those people, teach the Ephesians. Now we've seen this as we've gone through 1 Timothy. We see that as we've entered into 2 Timothy. Now what's interesting to me as I develop an introduction, a foundation here, what's interesting to note is that Paul had written a letter, Paul personally had written a letter to the church of Ephesus. And he had done so a few years prior to him writing 2 Timothy here. And in that book, Paul personally instructed the church concerning their need for teaching. Paul knew that error would creep in. He knew that attacks would occur on the church, and he knew that attacks would come from the outside as well as from the inside. And that's inevitable. There will always be attacks on truth. There'll be attacks on the truth that the church teaches. Sometimes they're outsiders, but oftentimes they're people who rise up from within. And so Paul had already written concerning that, and he had told the church why it's important to hold fast to the truth. In Ephesians chapter 4 verses 11 through 14, Paul writes, he, speaking of Jesus, he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers for the equipment of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we should no longer be children tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. But speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into him who is ahead Christ. So he's already written that. He's already said that the church of Ephesus has already received instruction from the apostle himself, concerning the need for doctrine, concerning the need for teaching, and even said that God has in a spiritual way gifted the church with apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastors and teachers for the equipment of the saints for the work of ministry, in order that they might instruct you so that you no longer remain a child, driven to and fro by every wind of doctrine, but actually that you'd be rooted, grounded in the things of the Lord, and that way you would be safeguarded against deception. He's already said that. What's interesting is Paul's letter that was sent to the church of Ephesus more than likely was read to that church by the pastor, which means that Timothy more than likely is the one who read the letter of Ephesians to the Ephesians himself. And so he's already instructed through Paul's writings. Now Paul is specifically speaking to him as the pastor to continue being the teacher of that church. Timothy has taken the things that he heard from Paul and he is imparting to them what he received himself. We saw that in verse two, and Paul had said, the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses commit these to faithful men. And so Timothy is simply doing what he's been instructed to do. He's teaching them. You see, when they're armed with the truth, they will be equipped to be able to not only recognize the error, but to refute it with Scripture. And that's why Paul commands Timothy to remind them of these things. Notice verse 14, how he had said here in chapter two, remind them of these things, charging them before the Lord, not to strive about words to no prophet to the ruin of the years. He said, you need to remind them. That's why Paul commanded Timothy to remind them. He is to constantly remind the ministers and the church of the essentials of the faith. Why is that? Because that will safeguard them from being taken captive by false teachers, because false teachers are entering in and rising up from amongst them and their undermining faith and the corrupting the walk of the believers. So a diligent teacher is to equip believers with correct and clear doctrine. And that's how God safeguards the church from error. That's how he develops maturity of faith. When I got saved, I wanted to make sure that my beliefs were built on something more than opinion or tradition. I wanted to make sure that my religious faith, my beliefs were built on something beyond what somebody was telling me. I wanted to have biblical faith. And so from the very beginning, I realized that in order for me to be able to walk in truth, I needed to know the truth, because Jesus said, it's his truth that sets us free. So from the beginning, I began the quest of trying to learn the things that would safeguard me and make me an effective Christian. And a diligent teacher is the one who is supposed to be training people to do that. That's how again, God safeguards the church from error. And that's how he develops maturity of faith. So Paul is encouraging Timothy to remind them of the essentials. Timothy is to command the church not to strive about words that do not profit. He's to solemnly charge them before the Lord. And he says, I want you to clearly command them about this, bad teaching will not deepen your faith. What bad teaching really will do is it will undermine it. And so the empty arguments distract the minds of the members of the congregation and that eventually will shape the church into a group of very shallow argumentative disputers. And that's what Paul is warning him about. That's why he said that they are not to strive about words to no profit. Why? Because it ruins the hearers. It isn't something that's edifying. It just is distracting. He's saying that the hearers of this garbage, the spiritual garbage, would ultimately have unsettled minds. Their faith wouldn't be rooted. Their faith wouldn't be grounded. And fruit would cease being produced. We have to be aware of that in these days that we're living because people have a tendency now as a people, as a generation, as Americans. There is a tendency of believing what makes me feel good. Has nothing to do with my thinking process. It has nothing to do with me taking this proposition here and comparing it with this proposition and then coming to a settled understanding of what really is true. It's just if I feel good when I'm hearing it, if I like the person who's speaking it, it must be true. And so that isn't something new. That's human nature. And Paul was speaking about that from the beginning. He's saying, listen, bad teaching unsettles minds.  Their faith isn't gonna be rooted. Their faith isn't gonna be grounded. Fruit that is good is not gonna be produced. It actually subverts people. It ruins them. And what is happening is they're gonna be turned away from the simplicity or the purity of the faith. Somebody once said, this would destroy their steadiness in the faith, drawing them into factions, the fruit of which is nothing but envy and contentions and different opinions in matters of faith. So Timothy, you're to be a model of a proper teacher. The false teachers are undermining believers, but Timothy, you're to edify the believer. Now, how is he gonna do that? What was Timothy and his fellow elders to do in the face of this invasion? How would the church know that its leadership is approved by the Lord? Well, their work was to teach and influence the church to avoid vain and useless things. How are they gonna do that? Well, verse 15, he tells us, be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. This is how it happens.  Discipline yourself and endeavor to present yourself as approved to God. Diligence is a zealous persistence to accomplish a particular objective. You are to be diligent to seek to please God. That's where it begins. Be diligent to present yourself approved. In other words, put your heart into pleasing the Lord. Now when he says, be diligent to present yourself approved to God, the word approved is an interesting word. The word approved literally means to be acceptable. It means to have been tried and proven to be genuine. Somebody wrote concerning this word. In the ancient world, there was no banking system as we know it today. No paper money. All money was made from metal, heated until liquid, poured into molds and allowed to cool. When the coins were cooled it was necessary to smooth off the uneven edges. The coins were comparatively soft and of course many people shaved them closely. In one century more than 80 laws were passed in Athens to stop the practice of shaving down the coins then in circulation. But some money changers were men of integrity who would accept no counterfeit money. They were men of honor who put only genuine full-weighted money into circulation and such men were called dokemos, which means approved. That's what he's saying. He's saying you need to be the genuine thing, the real deal and approval results from being tried by God and proven genuine in your faith and in your love. So Timothy and his fellow ministers, the artist sincerely pursue the Lord in their ministry, their men of faith, their men of integrity, they're to be consistently presenting what is true. The apostle Paul knew about that. You see, Paul had been accused of many things including being accused of changing the message to suit his purposes. When you read your Bibles and you read 2 Corinthians, it's been said that 2 Corinthians is a book that the apostle Paul wrote that is his most open-hearted letter. And I believe that is true. There are very tender things that Paul says in that book that speaks to anybody who reads it but especially would speak to a pastor like myself. He says though I love you, he says though the more I love you, the less loved I am by you. He had so many heartfelt concerns for that church but they would accuse him. It's interesting when you read, I have noted no less than 24 accusations in 2 Corinthians, 24 accusations that the apostle Paul dealt with in his ministry in one book. And I'll give you an instance of it in 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 17. When you read this verse, you need to understand that he's actually answering an accusation. And in response to accusations, he will give his, he'll make a statement and in 2 Corinthians 2 17, it was an accusation that he was changing the message to suit his personal desires. There will always be people who will say that. There will always be people who will say to the pastor, you're just preaching that because it suits your personal desire. You taught on giving today because you want more money. They'll say things like that to you. And that's because when people get convicted, they have a tendency of lashing out at the person who spoke to them. They think that it's the person who's doing that.  I had a lady who came up to me after a church service once who said to me, what you had to say really applied to my son. And I said, oh, okay. She said, and he was here with me today. And I said, oh, that's good. She says, well, she goes next time, don't say those kinds of things. And I thought, okay, right to me and tell me what I'm supposed to say. But the Holy Spirit, how would I know? I didn't even know the lady, let alone her son. But people will say, oh, you said it for this reason or you want that from us. And people will always call into question, especially today, the heart and motives of the minister. Well, that's nothing new. The apostle Paul dealt with that. And again, 24 times in 2 Corinthians, he actually had to explain certain things. And one of those things was that his message was changed to suit his personal desires. But he said, in 2 Corinthians 2, 17, he said, we are not as so many peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as from God, we speak in the sight of God in Christ. We don't peddle. The word peddle means to change it for personal profit. We're not changing the gospel to somehow personally benefit from this. He said, we do so when we preach, we do so with sincerity. That's from God. And that's how we speak. We speak as in the sight of God in Christ. And so Paul is saying that that's the heart of a minister. He said, be a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. I mentioned that the word ashamed was used various times in this letter. In chapter one, verse eight, Paul told Timothy not to be ashamed of the testimony of the Lord or of him. In chapter one, verse 12, Paul made it clear that he was not ashamed of his calling in ministry. Chapter one, verse 16, he said, anisophorous was not ashamed of Paul's imprisonment. So now Paul tells Timothy that by diligently pursuing the Lord, he will not be ashamed. The word ashamed, we know that word. It means humiliated or embarrassed. By diligently seeking to honor the Lord, you will have no cause for shame. Diligence will prevent unfaithfulness, unskillfulness, lukewarmness and laziness. As a diligent workman, rightly divide the word of truth. When he says rightly divide, the word means cut straight. The thought is to present the Bible clearly, truthfully, without error, and with an exactness which cannot be refuted. Timothy, be a conscientious workman, properly dividing the word of God. And in doing so, you will give them what they're able to understand and you will enable them to grow spiritually. To faithfully handle the word of God requires that the word of God be thoroughly taught. You do not simply give the parts that are so attractive to hear. The promise is in the words of comfort and encouragement and then leave out the rest of scripture. There are whole ministries that are built on just saying the things that make people feel good, but that's not really giving them a full meal. My grandkids, one in particular, likes sweets. I mean, she likes sweets. I have found wrappers of sweets that she has dropped behind the couch. And when you move the couch to clean, there's all these candy wrappers. She's so stinking cute, my little tub. I love her, but she does that. She comes over and she'll say to her grandma, can I have some gum? And grandma, well, of course, I'll buy you a gum store if you want it. I mean, that's grandma. But then we find out that she's not supposed to have gum because she puts it in her hair. Well, we didn't know that. So we were celebrating Marie's birthday recently and here's the family and she likes pink bubble gum ice cream. And so that we only had one cone of it and it was hers. But her mother says, you can't have that.  And as she's there, I walk in there. What's the matter, baby? I want the ice cream, but my mother says, he's got gum and I can have gum. Oh, really? This is my house.  Well, dad, she puts it in her hair and I say, okay, can we remove the gum from the ice cream? She says, you wanna work at it, you can do it. So Marie and I get these forks and we're pulling out all the gum and I don't realize it, but my daughter is moved by that and she takes a picture and puts it on her Instagram and out it goes and it says these people have spoiled my daughter, you know? Well, it's true and I don't care, I don't care. But here's the thing, you know? What I'm trying to do is get her all sugared up so she can pay back her mother all the grief she gave to me. That's just, there's wisdom in this. But you know what, she loves gum, she loves sweet. She would eat that all day long, but guess what, that's not good for her and there are a lot of believers who are the same way. Just give me the sweet, but wait a minute, in order to have balance, there's also sour. There are things here that I like, let's talk about the blessings of God, let's talk about the encouragement. Of course I need that, I wanna walk out encouraged but at the same time, there are warnings in scripture that are just as valuable and sometimes it would seem even more so for the moment than the blessing because that warning helps me right now that leads to receiving that blessing and that's why it's important for us to go through the whole counsel of God. That's why the apostle Paul would tell the Ephesian elders that he didn't shun to declare into them the entire counsel of God, the A to the Z, the Alpha to the Omega, the blessings and the warnings. I gave you it all so that you would be equipped. When Paul was speaking to the Ephesian elders there, who came to meet him in the city of Miletus and he was given last words to them, Timothy would have been part of that group more than likely at least. He shared with them in Acts 20 verses 18 through 21 and these again were the Ephesian elders, he said to them, you know from the first day that I came to Asia in one manner, I always lived among you serving the Lord with all humility, with many tears and trials which happened to me by the plotting of the Jews. How I kept back nothing, that was helpful but proclaimed it to you and taught you publicly and from house to house, testifying to Jews and also to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. I kept back nothing that was helpful to you. That's the key to being a workman that needs not to be ashamed. Timothy, give him the whole council. Now as you're doing this, Timothy take into consideration the spiritual maturity or the spiritual state of the people that you're speaking to. Because as you're sharing, you may be speaking with those who don't have a relationship with God because in every church service, there are people who believe perhaps that they're saved who in fact are not. There are people who've come sometimes who know that they're not, they're simply invited guests or perhaps they're on their spiritual quest and the journey they're looking and so there are people that are in every meeting like this who don't have a relationship. So take into consideration the people that you're speaking to. So unbelievers need to hear the salvation that's offered in Jesus Christ. Make sure that the message you give explains the need of salvation. It explains that need. We're lost sinners in need of a relationship with God through Christ. Explain that. It's kind of like what Paul did in Acts 19 verse 8 how that Paul went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading concerning the things of the kingdom of God. He was speaking to people who did not know Christ and yet he went to reasoning and to persuade in that particular place in that synagogue. Now when you look at believers it's been broken down to really basically three stages of growth. In 1 John chapter two verses 12 through 14 John said it like this.  I write to you fathers because you have known him who's from the beginning. I write to you young men because you have overcome the wicked one.  I've written to you fathers because you have known him who's from the beginning. I have written to you young men because you are strong. The word of God abides in you and you have overcome the wicked one.  Little children know that their sins are forgiven because of Jesus Christ. Little children know that they now have access to God. They know him as their father. Prior to that they didn't but that's really the beginning. To know that their sins are forgiven and they have a relationship but God is really the beginning and that's why they refer to as little children. You know certain things. Once I was lost, now I'm found. Once I was blind, now I see. Once I didn't hear, now I can hear. Once I didn't care, now I care. I was going to hell, now I'm going to heaven. You know basic things and that's why he would say that to them. You know that your sins are forgiven because of Jesus Christ. This is your foundation. You have access to God and you can now call him your father but he speaks of the young men. The young men are described as warriors and these men have been battle tested and these men have been victorious. This has occurred because the word of God abides in them and he said, and because of that you have overcome. You are strong to fight.  You are the young men. You are warriors. Then he speaks to the fathers. The fathers are those who over the years have developed a settled knowledge of God. They've known the Lord for a long time. They have a deep and mature relationship with the Lord and that's why it's interesting how he puts it with them. He simply makes it very clear that they have a settled knowledge of the Lord. Fathers, you've known him who's from the beginning. Fathers, he says, I've written to you because you have a relationship with the Lord. You've known him who's from the beginning. Somebody gets saved. When you go through your time of maturing and as you're growing a little bit, yes, a newborn baby, you desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby. And you begin to become equipped. You begin to realize there's truth and there's error. And you begin to say, these things matter. This is something that takes some time. It's not something that you might automatically think because in a lot of ways, you're not really sure of what you really know. You just know certain things. I remember when I first got saved. I mean, I'm talking about a week or two, maybe three at the most in the Lord. Brand new Christian. A friend of mine was having a guy who was doing some work to his house and the guy came in, was working. I'm a brand new believer. I know very little and I was told, you ought to share your faith. So I did. I didn't know anything. Again, once I was last time I found, I really don't know anything other than that. New believer, I'm a little child and I asked him. I said, do you know the Lord? Because I was taught that you ought to ask. So I did. Do you know the Lord? Well, he goes, I have religious faith. I said, oh, really? No, I don't know what that means. Oh, really? What kind do you have? I'm interested. And I am, I'm interested. He goes, I believe I'm part of the self-realization fellowship. I had never even heard of that. Never heard of it. I mean, why would I? I was a doper until I got saved three weeks before. What do I know about self-realization? I thought self-realization happened when we dropped acid. What do I know? I didn't know any of that. See, and that was my, that's a fact. And you guys, if you're old, you know that. If you're not old, let me tell you. You know, we were introduced to higher consciousness through acid. See, so for me, I was, who do I know? You know, I thought you got that through being loaded or doing TM or something. I didn't know. So now I'm talking to this guy. He says, I'm with the self-realization fellowship. And I said, I haven't got a clue what that is. I said, what is that? And he says, it's a Hinduistic this and that. And he begins to share with me. And he said, but what do you believe? What do you believe? He says, I believe that all the great masters were giving the same message. Now we're talking about 40 some years ago. This message is still, it's happening now even more so then than then. People accepted more now than they did then. He's spiritual. And so I said, you believe in all the teachers? He goes, yeah, I said, like, ooh. You know, Krishna and Buddha and Muhammad and Jesus. Now he's a Jesus. I know who he is. I don't know who these other guys are. So I said, really? I said, do you believe? I'm just having a conversation. So I said, really? He goes, yeah. I said, do you believe everything they said, all of them? He goes, yeah, that's self-realization. I said, the things that Jesus said, you believe? He goes, yeah. I said, when Jesus said, I am the way, the truth and the life, no man comes to the Father, but by me, how can you believe the Buddhas and the Muhammad's and the others? How do you do that? How's that work? Because I was like curious. I wasn't even smart enough to be arguing. I just couldn't figure it out. I said, you know, somehow that doesn't make sense to me. I don't want to argue with you. He tells me that. I don't want to argue with me, with you. I say, I'm not arguing. That doesn't make sense. It didn't then, it doesn't now. It didn't then, and it doesn't now. They're mutually exclusive claims.  That's it. That's the bottom line, see? And that's what we preach because that's what he teaches. The enthusiastic, overwhelming applause is almost driving me off of this stage. But with that said, it's true. It's just bottom line. And see, the bottom line also is that we have grown from childhood, from being the little children. And you begin to take the sword of the spirit. And you begin to use the shield of faith and the helmet of salvation. Your feet are shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace. And your loins are girded by truth. And you wear the breastplate of righteousness. And you go to battle with the Word of God. That's your spiritual equipment. The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but our mighty in God, to the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations. Every, I think, that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bring it into subjection, bring it into captivity, every thought into the obedience of Christ. And that's what we do by knowing the Word of God. And so you've gone out. And guess what? You've had victories. You have battled. You may not even realize you're in a battle when you're in the battle, but you stand. Because having done all, you stand. And you stand victorious. And you say, hey, the Lord moved in this. How exciting is this to see how God moved? And that's what he's saying when he says, you young men. He said, you advanced from childhood. You know that you have a relationship with God. And you have battled the enemy. And you've been victorious. He says, the Word of God is strong in you. And you've had victory. And now he says, and you older men, there's something about being older in your faith in Christ. And you just settled. My mom used to say it like this. She used to say, I know that I know that I know. I said, Mom, I know that you're repeating yourself. No, I know that I know that I know. What does that mean? I have a settled conviction that these things are true. And so you can't argue me out of my faith in Christ. You can't. You can't. Even if you had this incredible argument that said, God isn't real, you can't. I have this settled thing as a father in the Lord. No, I know him who's from the beginning. You can say anything you want, but you can't shake me from that. And that's a father. And that's what he's saying. You began as a child. You moved into that adulthood where you got into battles and you saw God move. That has settled in your soul. So there you just have known him who's from the beginning. And so whenever you're teaching the Word, he's telling Timothy, remember that there are levels of maturity.  You persuade them, share with them, testify, give the Word. There are babies in there, just God saved. Maybe a week, two weeks, three weeks. They don't understand what you're saying. They don't get it. They're not about to go out and have a steak.  Let's give this to little David. Try this pops. No, no, he had to have milk. But after a while, his teeth came in, and now that boy eats steak. He likes it. But that's what happens, right? You grow. And that's what he's saying. There are people in every church service who don't know the Lord, who are new in the Lord, who are fighting battles with God on their side and then settled with their faith. And that's what you have to take into consideration when you're teaching the Word of God. Literally teach them. There are young believers who need the milk of the Word. And then there are those who are of solid belief. Hebrews 514, solid food is for the mature who by constant use have trained themselves to distinguish good from evil. You give milk to the babies and meat to the mature. That's how it works. So be thorough. Be thorough as you teach. Be filled with God's spirit. As you teach, Timothy, do so with authority. Exercise wisdom. Be humble. Be gentle. Salt your words with grace. And let those who are being taught know that you love them. False teachers mishandle God's Word. They're careless in what they say. But a true workman is careful. Careful in what he says. Careful in how he lives. Careful in how he teaches. He handles the Word of God with reverence. He presents it correctly, properly, and accurately. So he says, be diligent. Be diligent. Be diligent in your pursuit of the Lord that you might be approved by him. Remember 2 Corinthians 10, 18, for not he who commends himself is approved, whom the Lord commends. And secondly, be a workman who does not need to be ashamed. Be someone who works diligently and accurately and painstakingly as you teach the truth. Like Paul in 2 Corinthians 4, 2 said, we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the Word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. So what else for you to do? Verse 16, shun profane and idle babblings. Why? They will increase to more ungodliness. Vain and profane babblings are worldly human opinions and what is called empty chatter. The word shun means to stand a great distance away. It means to avoid it completely. Take a different route. You see, error produces ungodly lives because error will appeal to the carnal nature. And the result of that is gonna produce division. Bad teaching will always produce badly lived lives by those who practice the teachings. And it has a way of spreading. Notice verse 17, their message will spread like cancer. Aminias and Phyleteus are of this sort who have strayed concerning the truth saying that the resurrection's already passed and they overthrow the faith of some. It spreads like cancer. A while back now, I've been a few years, now I notice on my nose that it was bleeding on the tip of my nose. There was blood. And so I moved it off and I thought somehow I must have somehow scratched my nose without knowing. I didn't think about it. A week or two later, it hasn't healed. A month later, it has like, it's not even really a scab, it's like skin had grown on it, but it wasn't healed and I started, so I told my wife, I said, you know, I think I probably oughta go in the doctor. And she said, okay. So months later, I see it again as neither one of us did anything about it. She was only thinking of my insurance, but that's another story. So we finally went in and I had the doctor take a sample of it and then he got back to me and said, it's cancer, but it's a slow moving one. No need for you to be concerned. And I said, great. So I wasn't for months. So we're talking about probably a year and a half or two years up to that. So I finally say, well, I probably oughta have something done. Well, when I went in to have something done, it was over four hours of surgery. I had to go in for a treatment four or five different times where they sliced me from my forehead, straight down the bridge of my nose, removed a large portion because the cancer spreads. And pretending it doesn't, doesn't stop it from spreading. And eventually you end up having surgery that you didn't want to have. So one, if there's anybody in here who's getting little spots in your body, you might have liked to be in the sun, but the sun didn't like you. And you might have liked being out there. We used to use baby oil and iodine and I would put on olive oil just because I liked the Mediterranean smell. I mean, and that's what my doctor said. He said, you liked the sun. Do you know, my friends make fun of me because I'm so white, but during the summer that I could put a chocolate bar on my stomach and it would blend in. That's how dark I get in the sun. I loved the sun. I would be in it every day, went to the beach, hitchhiked all the time, spent time in the sun. He said, you loved the sun, didn't you? I said, yeah, the sun didn't love you because you've got all of these things and those things. So if you have anything, take it from me, take it from a father, go, have it taken care of. Because it's not worth the hours that I had to go through and the discomfort that you go through just saying, be aware of that, but cancer spreads. It may not appear to be, but it is. It doesn't go away by itself and it destroys what it comes into contact with. Keep that in mind. And that's, Paul is saying, bad doctrine.  Some people get bored because, oh, I don't want to hear that. It is the way to make you healthy. That's what God's word does to us. It's not entertaining enough, really. Well, next time a false teacher comes to your door, take out the tambourine, sing, our God is an awesome God, and see how that works. Because that isn't going to keep you from error, see? And that's what Paul's telling Timothy. Timothy, there are people from the outside and people even from the inside who are rising up, drawing people after themselves. Don't forget that I warned you for the space of over three years that this would take place and it has, and it has. You have these men who have arisen, and what they're doing is they're spreading their false teaching. You see that today on the internet. You see it on television. It's broadcast on the radio. There are CDs, magazines, books, and these teachings are infectious, they're malicious, and they destroy. Now, in this context, they have false teachers, and they're saying that the final resurrection occurred. Two of them are named first, Hamanias and Phyletus. This is the only place that you see the man Phyletus mentioned, by the way, but you saw Hamanias before in First Timothy chapter one. Hamanias had not repented from his error. He was actually excommunicated from the church, but he hadn't repented from his error, and he's still influencing other people, and Paul mentions him and says that this is one who has strayed. He's deviated from the truth. He's an unrepentant false teacher, and he's continuing to influence people, and the people are still influenced by him even though he is a false teacher. I've already warned you, he said, and here it is. Now, when you think of this man here, he more than likely had a bit of a charisma about him, he was charming, he was influential, interesting, probably eloquent, because those things very often are used to establish the success of a false teacher. He's using Christian language, he's using scripture, he's speaking of the resurrection. Paul had removed him under excommunication, but he's still influencing people. Why is that? The people didn't submit to the command to distance themselves from him. They did not see the value of truth and the poison of error. Paul had said in 1st Timothy 120, he said, he spoke of Hymenas and Alexander, whom he says, I delivered to Satan that they may learn not to blaspheme. He had been excommunicated, he had been removed, and yet the people weren't willing to distance themselves. They didn't see the value of truth, and they didn't see the danger of error. They more than likely just really loved this guy. That's how it works, by the way. But I like him, and I think that you're harsh and unloving by saying things about this guy, whom I like. I watch him on TV, he edifies me, he builds me up, I get so much out of his message.  How come you have to speak down on other people? Well, Paul, you have just made a mistake because you mentioned Hymenas and Philatis, and you also mentioned a man named Alexander.  Really? Or are you in love with the church and truth? And you want that church to be protected. Which is it? Is he a hater of people or a lover of God? And so he warns them. You see, it's not unloving to warn people to stay away from bad teaching and to avoid bad teachers. As a matter of fact, it's our responsibility as pastor teachers to do that. Romans 16, verse 17 says, I urge you brethren, note those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you learned, avoid them. When he says note those, mark those, it simply means keep your eye on them because they're the ones who walk in and they got that shady little thing going where you'll see them and they're off in the corner and they're talking to people. And when you walk up to see how you're doing, they get quiet, kind of look at you sideways glances. I've had that.  What are you doing? Nothing. When in fact, they're lying. They're lying to my people and I've caught them. They come in sometimes, they leave them in the pews. Little things. We have people come in and throw things away. They put them on windshields in the parking lot. You say sometimes, how come you have parking lot attendance? I know how to park my car. I'm sure you do. But there are people who come from outside sometimes onto our parking lot and start putting their brochures and things on your windshield. We caught them. So we have people out there who see that when it takes place so they can pull them and they'll bring that to me so I can see what is it that somebody's doing. They've come into our bookstore and done that.  And when we confront them, they call me a hater. And guess what? I do. I do hate.    So yeah, I'm a hater. I'm a hater of lies, but I'm a lover of truth. I'm a lover of you and I will do that. That's what we do. That's what we do. And that's biblical. That's what happens. And so he's saying these things matter. Undermining faith by teaching that the resurrection has occurred is just giving some form of error concerning the resurrection. But what is happening in verse 18? They overthrow the faith of some. And that again is the fruit of bad teaching, the destruction of faith. In chapter one, verse 19 of 1 Timothy, Paul spoke of having faith and a good conscience, which some having rejected concerning the faith suffered shipwreck. So finally he says, and we'll close with verse 19, nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands having this seal, the Lord knows those who are His and let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. False teaching produces false security. Some had received the error and were deceived into believing that they were saved but had embraced error. It is truth that sets you free. Clinging to error, even though sincerely, still results in eternal condemnation. Matthew 7, 21 through 23, Jesus said it, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven. But he who does the will of my Father in heaven, many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name? Done many wonders in your name. I will declare to them I never knew you, depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. You see, the Lord knows those who are His. That's the solid foundation. He knows who belongs to Him. 1 Corinthians 8, 3 says, if anyone loves God, this one is known by Him. So he says, let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. People argue all the time saying, I can live a sinful life and still love God. But the fact is, is when you love God, you depart from iniquity. When you're in love with the Lord, you don't make excuse for sin. When you make excuse for sin, I like the way someone once said it, it's like kissing the tip of the spear that was plunged into the side of Jesus Christ. When you say you love Him and love sin, you can't love both. You have to love one. And so he'd say, depart from iniquity. Don't use sin as your way of life and then say it's okay because of God's grace. God's grace wasn't given to me to continue in sin. God's grace was given to me at great cost to be freed from it, depart from iniquity.


Mae'r ddechrau yng Nghymru wedi Gwein Barry yw Canterbury Christ Church University. Gwein, rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o'r projekte i'r i-borrow, sy'n cael ei ddweud o'r ddweud o Gwein. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o Gwein? Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o Gwein. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o Gwein. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o Gwein. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o Gwein. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o'r cyfeiraint i'r i-borrow y projekte. Y projekte eraill wedi gwneud y Ffaze 2 a'r Gysgr Intervailol Ionaiseol Cymraeth. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud y 2009, Cymraeth Fawr, ac rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o'r ond o'r cyflwyno hwnnw o'r 2010. Rydyn ni'n cael ei ddweud o'r projekte. cyd-dyniad yng nghylchedd ar y cyd-dyniad yn fawr drifiwr ar gyfer y dyniad. Felly, mae'r cyd-dyniad yn bach o'r ddwylo, ac mae'r cyd-dyniad yn ddwylo chi'n gweld cyd-dyniad ac oedd am y ddweud ar gynllun o'r cyd-dyniad yn yr unig, ac mae'r cyd-dyniad yn ein gweithio o'i gwirio ar y cyd-dyniad a'u gwirio ar y cyd-dyniad history and named to create a large 35 million pound library and student building and key to this with the provision of ICT for student news. All this is what you can see on the fourth floor. Augustine House has approximately 12,000 square metres of open-plan space that's been used for library critical students services, flexible learning space has been broken to zones such as quiet area or group study area. Yn ddweud o'r cyffredin o'r teres, dyn nhw'n cafes, y 500 seit, ddechrau cyflwyno cyflwno ym mhwysgol, gyda'r ddechrau, o'r ddweud o'r ddwylliant o'r cyfnod. Yn ddweud o'r ddweud, mae'n ddweud y tenchol a'r ddweud o'r awgwyr. Mae'r concepta i bod yn bwysig Menchwyddiol yn dweud o 100 dynion iawn mewn cwmpaith yn Gwyllgor Rydw i Ddoearol i'u bwysig, hanrydd ei lawr i ddoeithio llwyth gyda hynny. Yn dod bod yn ein gwirionedd yn ddoeithio Gwyllgor Rydw i Ddoeithol yno yna. Ac mae'r cyffredinog yma yn ystod o'r 1,000 netbook ar y cemento 5 Giulioóa ddydd gyda 8gb microbyn. Mae'r cyffredinol eiffydd o Nein ac dim cyfwyr yma, at y time windows 7 wasnt available, but would have been the better option. The net books made use of the edrym wireless system to connect to Microsoft's terminal server 2008. This meant we were able to deliver core student software like Microsoft Office Suite, Internet Explorer, SPSS, et cetera, using Microsoft's application virtualization, and students were able to connect to their network and their profile quite easily. As well as that, we embedded a radio frequency identification tag that allowed us to track the movement of the network within Augusting House, which would hope to tell us something about the learner footprint, and I should be revisiting this notion of learner footprint a bit later on. It was clear that the location tracking on its own would not provide us with what was going on pedagogically inside that building in terms of the mobile device that's been used and the learning spaces that were being occupied. So when Augusting House opened its doors to students and staff in September 2009, we resorted to some good old-fashioned research methodologies such as surveys, interviews and observations. As a slight aside, I just want to say that due to a technical glitch with our building security system, we weren't able to make the iBorrow networks available to anybody at that time. So what you see here is a very fortuitous opportunity to observe how students are using the Augusting House without the iBorrow networks. And as you can see, there's lots of red areas indicating where students are sat at fixed desktop PCs, and we have a smattering of yellow areas where students have bought their own laptops. The iBorrow network then became available to students and staff to use in November 2009. So now we can compare this slide with the previous slide. We still have lots of people sat at the fixed desktop PCs. We still have a smattering of yellow boxes where people bought their own laptops. And now we have a proliferation of green boxes indicating iBorrow usage, which not only sort of indicates the take-up, but also more importantly how the space is being used. It's being used quite widely. I mentioned about the learner footprint, and just to explain a bit about that, we use location tracking data. Supplemental of that, we use anonymised student demographic data, so it covers things like age, gender, the course they're taking, how long they've been on that course and so on and so forth. And we take snapshots every five minutes, so we've got 200 netbooks every five minutes in a day. We're collecting something like 57,000 records, which is quite mind blowing. Anyway, so we're collecting this data to sort of try and get a sense of the learner footprint and try and gain some insight about how students are using spaces with the netbooks and how long they spend in those spaces. So here's an example of that kind of data we are collecting. It's also used quite widely across the disciplines, more than others. Again, this could be down to how students or rather tutors engage with the building and how the students are being encouraged. Also subjects like education and health have placements, so they don't feature quite highly in there. This is an interesting slide that shows you how students are using the netbooks. We were sort of expecting them to be doing an awful lot of social networking, but as you can see there's an awful lot of work and learning going on, and interestingly the blackboard, RVLE, doesn't feature quite highly in there. Some views about the students, about the netbooks as you can see. Flexibility has been the key success factor that has facilitated better group work and collaboration. We have to take the rough of this move, and it's clear that most students would prefer to work on desktop because that's where they do real work, as they like to call it. For some, the site of the netbook had proved to be an issue. Finally, the last slide, all our technical project evaluation reports can be found on the IBO website along with links to our project blog, Flickr site, and the presentation that we made during our national conference in March 2010. Thank you for listening. Thanks, Ryan.