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We have the... There we go. Don't do it that quick. Where are you? We have the Pound trading at $122. The Yen is out here at $132. And the Euro is at $103. It's off that low, man. The bottom line, it was par that was there. $101 the Euro. You're going to go to Italy. You're going to go to Europe, folks. Get those Euros right now, man, because this dollar wants a lot lower price. Now, let's talk about the CPI. Okay? The bottom line is that, you know, this print came in, came in a little less than the market was waiting for. And then, you know, bottom line, the market likes it. It goes topside. So what you had inside here, okay, it was just slightly lower, too, by the way, okay? You're talking about the consumer price index increased 8.5% from a year earlier. You know, coming down from 9.1. Okay? So you got to basically, you know, 6.1%, right? You had the CPI, you know, bottom line, you know, which strips out the volatile food and energy. I mean, it's the core. The core which strips out the food and energy. Bottom line rose 3.10 to 1% from June and 5.9 from the year before. Now, when you start going through some of these numbers, folks, okay? What's really cool to look at is this. If we come down here. Okay, so full, gasoline, of course, we knew gasoline was coming down. That's down 7.7%. That's a monster number on the way down, okay? That's the most since April of 2020. Utility price is down 3.6%. Food up 10.9. That's a big one. There's no doubt about that.  We know that the shelter cost had gone up dramatically, folks, okay? So, shelter cost rose 5.10 to 1% from June and 5.7% from last year. That's the most since 1991. That being said, what you're going to see next is you're going to see that hotel prices actually fell 3.2%. They fell, my take is that what you're going to actually see here inside of the shelter cost, because housing is getting softer, that's going to get softer. So that's going to be the next thing, and that's a very big part of it, that you're going to see flattening out. And that's going to make a difference on a longer-term basis. Now, my take is that it's not going to make a difference in the aspect of, you know, the Fed raising rates. It is, however, you can see it through the market. It is an aspect that the people want to buy the market because they're looking out and watch this here. So let's go, I'm going to put the yield curve up so you can see this baby out. So if you're watching Tiger TV, what you're going to see here, the very top, this is the yield curve. You hear a lot about it, but this is how it works, right? So you get the two-year, three-year, five-year, seven-year, ten-year, 30-year, right? Well, you can see on the two-year, this is the most of the number on the two-year. It's amazing actually. The two-year is 3.2%. The three-year is 3.1%, so it inverts right away, right away. The five-year is 2.9%, the seven-year is 2.8%, the ten-year is 2.7%, and then 30 is 3%. So what that generates, folks, is that you are going to have bottom line, you know, softer economy.  You'll get a softer economy, but the market is betting on that within the next couple years, the bottom line, these rates are going to stabilize. And I suspect what's going to end up happening is that when you get a rate structure that is going up very quick, most times, folks, okay, it really takes almost a year to about a year and a quarter, a year and a half to really hit. Now, the rate hits immediately. That's not what I'm talking about. What I'm talking about, as it makes its way through the economy, as it hits, you find out who has strength and who has weakness inside businesses, inside households, inside all of it. And that's where I think we're at right now.  This is the smock that's going to blow some minds, man.  Yeah, it's a fast acceleration. If we get, I think it's 68 million shares I'm looking far out here. What's that one? That's 79 million. Yeah, 68. 68 million. And you might not get it. You know, you might not get it out here today. We need 20 million. We'll see how this shakes out. Now, if you get that, then you have an ABC structure up to 431. And 431 brings you all the way over to, let me see this, 435. Well, it brings you, yeah, somewhere into the swing point from May 4th. Now, and the X100 is a different animal. As I brought up when I was doing the update, this is a little dangerous. And what's dangerous about it is this, and you've probably heard me say this many times. When you actually have a good day and you're driving into a swing and you can't take the swing out, it's like, okay, this is kind of, you know, the swing we're talking about here is that 326.47. Now, you're going to have more volume than that and that confounds it even a little bit more. So this is something to keep your eye on, man. 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So it looks like whatever Disney's going to say after the close, this thing wants to go higher. If we take a look at the Revenue wise what they're looking for is 21 billion folks and they want to bring 95 cents to the bottom line. We go inside the NVX 100. We take a look at the strength versus the weakness inside the NVX. You have Z scale up 10 and a half percent. Crowd strikes up 7.3 quarters. You got DocuSign up 7 and Datadogs up 6.9 Taken away from it. JD.com is off 2.2. You have Dollar Tree down 1.6 Vertex Pharmaceuticals off 1 and Pinduoduo is off 6 tenths of 1 percent. What is pretty wild is that you have the Fed fund rate and then you have of course all the Fed governors. The Federal Reserve Governor of Minneapolis Neil Cascari he flipped from one side to the other. Now he did this a good three or four months ago, easy.  Now he's really the largest hawk. He is looking we'll find out first he's a voting member but he's looking that he wants to see the benchmark rate so let's bring this up. So we bring the Fed rate we're at 2.5 to 2.7 I think right now. Now 2.25 to 2.50 it's the middle one right here that's where they always have an upper and lower band. So he's looking that by the end of this year so let's see it's never going to get there. So I don't know let's see so he's looking for 3.9 by the end of this year and 4.4 at the end of 2023 we can see 4.4 between 3.9 that's no big deal but from 2.5 to 3.9 is one and a half okay so now let's look at the meetings so the meetings they can do that pretty easy actually because when you're talking meetings it's September and then November and December yeah there's three meetings left if they did a half a point each one yeah that'll get it there but see actually we need to do the math on that too it's pretty cool because they can definitely do a half a point each time but a half a point each time folks you know it's not the end of the world that's the real bottom line particularly if in fact the public meaning whether it's the hedge funds and the trust funds and states and governments keep buying the 10 year and that 10 year wants to keep going higher that is going to basically keep rates lower that's going to keep rates lower that you and I have to pay that's the real bottom line that's how that baby does shake up if we go take a look at the higher volume equities out here let's take a close call on volume it looks like we might get it I'll pull up the NYC in a second you got advanced micro up about three and a half dollars you got videos up 10 you got Apple up 390 Amazon is up 470 you get Bank of America up buck 25 Tesla oh let's go look at Tesla Tesla the bottom line is that Musk has sold billions sold 6.9 billion and the bottom line is he's saying he's selling it to avoid a fire sale the bottom line folks is that he is very slick there's no doubt about it and that's also telling me though too and smart move no doubt about it let's go over to the twitter because if we take a look at twitter he's saying he's selling it just in case he doesn't have to do a fire sale on twitter if the case goes against him what you have here I suspect number one that the case is going to go against him which is going to be a heads up like beyond belief and we'll see where the rest of it shakes out twitter doesn't have any volume up here man it's going higher there's nothing there right now right now you're 10 dollars below so let's just look at this for a second because when you actually pull this and look at the aspect of the amount of money that twitter shareholders would make if this comes across it's pretty extraordinary man I mean you're talking about they have uh 765 million shares and the bio price is 10 dollars more expensive than we are right now so you know right now the market's still very shaky as to is this deal going to go through you know we'll see whether he doesn't negotiate its elements more than likely the way that this normally would come down is that you could do a negotiation settlement that would cost a billions not just the one billion takeoff both of the law firms are huge there's no doubt about that the law firms the price that they're paying 100 million probably there was one article when this first was coming out that this case itself check this out this case itself will keep on both sides it'll keep the like assistant attorneys there's not interns they're real attorneys but they just started it will keep them busy going right up to this October date 16, 18, 20 hours a date that's how dramatic it's going to be and it's only going to be a five day trial so right now Twitter is saying that they only need three days to basically say what they want to say and so you know and we'll see how it's going to shake out but I suspect he's going to probably get stuck with it let's go take a look at the GDX okay and we had divergence out here and what the divergence is today is that you have the dollar down big and gold still can't move you know GDX needs more volume you know Neumann is the big dog and the drag inside the GDX inside the HUI inside the XAU and you can see Neumann can still kind of get out of his way what has happened is it looks to me like Barrick has come off the low bottom line you got a little juice off Barrick, Barrick's the second line just waiting you know we'll see what can get more juice right now Barrick's trading sideways you down five cents in Barrick we'll see where that baby can shake out there's no doubt that when you have this type of divergence normally what ends up happening this gold contract is going to catch up with them big time because the break in the dollar is a monster break downtown that's a reality out here in spades let's go take a look at the NQs the NQs are making a backup to the top let's see what kind of volume we have on this move ok so there we go ok so last time we were up here last peak had 10,600 contracts last ten minute bar was 6,700 we are six minutes into this bar and we're at 5,000 it's not going to make it stay right there folks show them our back if you want to take advantage of this sector now is the time to subscribe to my gold report the gold report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold which 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not that yeah it is yeah it is so on the spy it's the same benchmark as that NDX the benchmark there is at 10-20 this morning so the high of that is 4189 you know and that's game that's game here coming into the close man so this is going to be intriguing and what we are going to be able to tell like the last 10 minutes and the S&P was 20,000 contracts that peak has 22 let's go into the NQs and take a look at the NQs so NQs right now bring that down ok so 982 is the high we just hit 981-75 we just hit yeah we did 982 right there so the 982-75 has 10,600 we just did 8,100 so it doesn't have the juice right now to break it it's going to get interesting man so let's shake out so then we are going to go back to that same 10-20 bar is that it? yeah the 10-20 bar there the top of that is 290 not having quite a way down from here but that's game that's game right there we put this across whoops not that one right there whoops there that's game down there man we are going to shake out silver let's go take a look at the silver market out here let's see where are you ok so silver 59,000 contracts yeah so this is silver is acting better than gold right now you know the bottom line is that silver is an ABC up too on Monday bottom line you broke the B point we had 68,000 contracts you are going into 58 you got an ABC structure up there inside of the silver market if we go take a look at a few of the silver stocks let's take a look at pan-american silver first hasn't held price you are up a little EXK I'll tell you it's always wild folks when EXK is actually down 4 cents so let's go to heckler when the dollar gets smoked like this and gold isn't up it's always like ok man normally what you would hear me actually say is that ok what's going to be wrong meaning is the dollar not wrong but what's going to spin around is it going to be the dollar that spins around meaning flip right around and go higher or is it going to be gold that flips higher well my take is that it's going to be gold and the reason being is that you could see how the first break that we had on the dollar bottom line got us underneath this benchmark that benchmark the benchmark we're talking about now is the 106 792 so it oscillated around that benchmark and then just bottom line couldn't handle it and then what we did is that this morning is that you broke and you broke with conviction break with conviction in the equity market or in the futures market my definition would be wide price spread accelerated volume and the currency market you don't have volume so bottom line is just a wide break with a wide price break if we go to the euro we take a look at the euro just the opposite side we take a look at the euro here you're going to see the euro bottom line took out its consolidation too it went to 102 now the low of the euro was 99.52 bottom line if you're going overseas if you're going to Europe folks this is go get those euros because if this break so picture this is saying we'll just do this the opposite way watch this this is cool so go like this go like this you're going to see the euro saying now go to 111 now 111 that's 10% man that's 10% when you talk on currencies you know and what's so cool about that trade there is that if you're actually going to Europe the bottom line is that let's say spending 5 grand, 2 grand, 10 grand whatever that is you change it well you know you're going to spend that anyway right so now you get euros that's the first spot if you go on vacation awesome if you don't go on vacation you know if the dollar goes where I think it's going to go you just get more money at period that's what it comes down to and that's how it does work looking at all different types of currencies you know if we go over to let's go to the Canadian dollar right now so we take a look at the Canadian dollar Canadian dollar is trading 127 and you're going to see this is a lot of movement too no doubt there you go so that's getting stronger bottom line this thing peaked out it looks like 132 and you know this hasn't broken you know this is still a consolidation but that being said it looks like the Canadian dollar wants to go to 125 yeah 125 you know so let's go to the yen let's see what this yen is doing okay so the yen's at 132 98 that's a nice break too see yeah this is this is going to get wild man and what I mean by this is going to get wild inside of the gold market because there's no doubt that if you're a fundamentalist right you'd be going out of your mind right now into the aspect of you know why is gold down when the doll is down 1100 ticks okay that that's saying that guess what bottom line you know something's wrong let's go over to the oil market so this this market's going to get really intriguing and this is why first let's take a look at where we are so okay so we're at 9156 see the the driving meaning not driving driving in our car okay but price wise when the dollar gets weaker these commodities get stronger so this very well may hold in number one there's a lot of volume well we hit a low with 350,000 you're at 335 right now if this dollar you know stays down tomorrow which I guess it will well I think it will okay and I guess the bottom line is that you can get some juice inside the oil market again that's where this old wild card is going to come in because most times what you see is this so picture gold is held up unbelievably with the dollar being so high oil bottom line you know back down in a monster way and oils back it out because you know bottom line is not as much demand that being said as that dollar keeps getting lower guess what it can put more impetus for higher price inside of the commodity market that's just how it goes man the bottom line you know because the euro is going to be worth more money the end is going to be worth more money I mean against the US dollar and all oil almost 98% of the oil is priced in dollars Dow industrial is right now at 495 and as except 349 it's a piece up 83 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514 as except about 352 you get the s&p's up 85 let's go into the composite and take a little while I don't want to do first we're going to go to the volumes first okay so inside the NYSE we're dealing with 538 that means that we're still only going to do like 850 man it's not that's for a big day like today that's not monster volume if we go into the composite we take a look at the composite you're at 4.2 that's going to be shot that's going to be shot volume in the composite the composites weak I know we're going right for the highs right now but bottom line is that this let me see okay so the high of Monday was 855 look at this we're at it right now 850.98 it's trying to take it out let me do this again so the volume on Monday we're looking for and on Monday we did 5.1 billion we're not going to do it man so we'll see whether the composite can get the price we're not going to get the volume if we go to the cues we take a look at the cues we're talking about the aspect on the cues that you know it couldn't handle this swing point meaning the swing point that we're talking about here is that 326.47 we hit 325.92 you have 43 million shares traded that's like volume man that's the bottom line you know we had we last week we pushed 30 million then you failed at 44 we went south yesterday with 2039 and that was a lesson I mean that's a lesson you know yesterday we were talking about you were down with 39 you're coming into 53 it's like okay man this thing wants to pop you get that and we'll see where this is going to shake out meaning is it going to close at the high of the day and is it going to get this 326.47 the 326.47 is crucial so pitch out this and this I know this is like it's so subtle and you know bottom line meaning that as you're coming into I think it just took it out actually let's go look at this again okay because what ends up happening is that we're just going to surge just broke the highs and we're old three so 47 it's at the 326 46 cents so we'll see what we get that 46 cents that's what it comes down to the after the close out here you are going to have Disney coming out you know bottom lines that we had a bunch of them come out last night and was it ruled we put this into the high of volume equities here we had here it is the box come out that was up 62 cents no big deal there Palantir come out that is trading up 35 cents this here this is so intriguing because you talk about going forward this is what's so crazy about this equity folks okay let me put this this still has a 92 PE going forward man that's about as intense as you can get particularly because it was a spike high of 45 it traded quite a bit of 29 to 29 as a high volume low is 643 the high of that low is 825 that might have tested 833 yeah it did we want to see something cool this is pretty cool so I talked a lot about the contests the highs of the lows you had volume there of 422 million look at this if we go back to that 17th of June 17th of June you only did 192 million rejected versus 402 now what we haven't got yet is a sign of strength and that's so low that's what you need you need that wide price spread accelerated volume in order to basically get to a higher price and the NQs are doing it right now as I'm speaking let's go see if the S&Ps are also up 87 right now I think that's also a high for the day might as well print 100 if you're going to print 87 yeah we just took it out so 47 we're at 7 minutes high 4212 at 61,000 contracts we came into that with 27,000 yeah this is just a test of the high right now that's what this is 4212 that's in the S&P NQs this definitely blew away the high and we'll just see if we can handle it and stay there so the consolidation that the prior high there was 10,000 contracts we're at 7 minutes into this bar and you have 8,000 so that's going to do 10,000 you know I suspect you're not going to be able to hold the price though that's what I suspect is going to happen we'll see how this shakes out coming into the close let's go into the trend for a second because the amount of buying out here 57 let me take a look at the tick for a second so if we take a look at the tick look at this oh my god look at that and hey this is pretty cool man so check this out so right where we are right now folks let me show you something this tick just came in at plus 1866 now what happens is that you actually didn't want to see a tick that dramatic so pitch it all day one tick came in at 1852 that was at I don't know this isn't I have this intraday no that's not intraday okay let me get this intraday one second the tick number is right I just wanted to bring it intraday let's see what time that came in and make sure it's not the open it doesn't matter so what happens you kind of count the open on a tick that's how it works out folks so the tick is a yeah only 1321 1321 is not a large tick meaning specifically that when you're going up like this okay if you get a very large tick let's picture we got that 1850 tick and that wasn't the opening tick that would tell you that bottom line it cannot sustain itself and that would be basically pulling back and it pulls back pretty quick by the way when something like that happens let's go to DraftKings D, N, D, K, N, G D, K, N, G so we look at okay so DraftKings up 136 those $9 high 64 okay yeah this is a big ABC up let's see so approximately 17 what do you get about 4 bucks because you're 21 yeah I almost hit it but yeah this looks to me like it wants to go to the 2126 that's the next stop stay right there folks we'll come right back we have the Dow, Dow Industries right now trading up 489 NASDAQ is up 352 S&P's are up 83 we'll come right back the technology around us is changing every day with so much happening it can seem impossible to keep up with all the information David White's investment newsletter the Technology Insider is designed to give you all the information you need to understand the technology that shapes today's markets and 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but you can see here let me show you this thing because the way this is set up here you got you're right at ice yeah you're at ice man in a big way so you can make the case I can make this case here that you really should have come in with volume like about 100 million so this is going to get intriguing because if we waffle around this again bottom line is that you can come back down the other side of that that's your S&P NDX 100 we take a look at the NDX I believe it hit that number that we were looking for 326 47 oh my god see it still didn't man this is pretty cool this is sick so the NDX folks okay particularly you know when you come off a bottom and you're going up and you have a good day and you can't take out this swing like we're taking out this is telling me that we're going to get a slight pullback here man because the way that the NDX actually charged higher also it should have been able to basically take out the 326 47 we got the 326 23 you've only done 45 million chairs we did 44 million that day bottom line should have done it and you know we'll see how this is going to shake out but I suspect that one of the targets that brought up can you jump the ice you can we're laying right across there for four or five days most of the time you have the ice a little bit longer you know always remember folks the back and claw your heart out the book and run you over and thank god there's always another trade health, happiness and prosperity have a great night folks have a safe night come back and visit Tommy tomorrow morning kicks us off 9 o'clock in the morning great show look at him folks


I'm the author of Malignan Sir Flava, Narcissism Revisited. Today we will discuss the complex relationship between the narcissist and his money. When the narcissist has money, he can exercise his sadistic urges freely and with little fear of repercussions. Money shields the narcissist from life itself. From the inevitable outcomes of his own actions. Money insulates the narcissist warmly and safely, like a benevolent blanket, like a mother's goodnight kiss. Yes, money is undoubtedly a love substitute. Money allows the narcissist to be his ugly, corrupt and dilapidated self. Money buys him absolution, his own friendship, forgiveness and acceptance. Without money in the bank, the narcissist feels denuded. But with money in the bank, he feels at ease with himself, free, arrogantly soaring supreme above the unwashed contemptible masses of people. The narcissist can always find people poorer than himself, a cause for great disdain, bunchlessness and inevitable arrogance. The narcissist rarely uses money to buy, corrupt or intimidate as opposed to common knowledge or common fiction. Many narcissists wear tattered 15-year-old clothes, they have no car, no house, no property. It is so even when they are wealthy. Money has nothing to do with the narcissist's physical needs or with his social interactions. Narcissists rarely deploy money in order to acquire status or to impress others. Some narcissists even frighten their money. They hoard it, they accumulate it, and like the proverbial miser, they count it daily and in the dark. Yes, money can be translated into status. Yes, it can endow and bestow upon the narcissist's power. All this is true. But more importantly, money is a license to sin. It is a narcissistic permit, a promise, and it's fulfillment all at once. Money unleashes the beast in the narcissist, and with abandon encourages it, seduces it, and seduces the narcissist as well to be himself, unmitigated self. Some narcissists are not tight-fisted. Some of them are generous, contributing to charitable donations, altruistic evidence. Some narcissists spend money, lavishly. Conspicuous consumption, profligacy even, restaurants, trips abroad, five-star hotels, books, health products. Some narcissists buy gifts. Some narcissists speculate, lose and win hundreds of thousands of dollars, gamble with stock exchanges and in casinos. But all of them, all narcissists, are insatiable. They always want more. They always lose the little that they have. They always grieve for it. They always seek to replenish it. But they do all this not for the love of money, not for looker. They don't use money to gratify their selves or to cater to their own needs. The narcissist does not crave money, nor does he care for money as money. The narcissist craves the power that money bestows on him. As I said, the license to dare, to flare, to conquer, to oppose, to resist, to taunt, to torment. In all his relationships, the narcissist is either the vanquished or the vanquisher, either the haughty master or his object slave, either the dominant or the submissive. The narcissist interacts along the up and down axis rather than along the left and right one. The narcissist's world is rigidly hierarchical and abusively stratified. When the narcissist is submissive, he is contemptibly so. When he is domineering, he is contemptuously so. The narcissist's life is a pendulum, swinging between being oppressed and being the oppressor. To subjugate another person, one must be capricious, unscrupulous, ruthless, obsessive, hateful, vindictive, and penetrating. One must spot the cracks of vulnerability, the crumbling foundations of susceptibility, the pains, the trigger mechanisms, the Pavlovian reactions of hate and fear and hope and anger.  Money liberates the mind of the narcissist. It endows the narcissist with the tranquility, detachment and incisiveness of a natural scientist. With his mind free of the quotidian of the daily needs and worries, the narcissist can concentrate on attaining the desired position on top. Dreaded, avoided, feared, or agitated, in love. Yet in all, in every case, every case, deferred, obeyed.  Harps on their failures compares them to their betters and mocks their incompetence, hypocrisy and cupidity. The narcissist disguises these sadistic pursuits in socially acceptable garb. But once you get close to him, he draws the dagger and in it goes. He casts himself in the role of a brave, incorruptible iconoclast for instance. A fighter for social justice for a better future, for more efficiency, for good causes, a benevolent benefactor, an altruist, a charitable person, a donator. But it is all about his sadistic urges. Really, it's all about death, not life. Still, antagonising and alienating his potential benefactors is a pleasure that the narcissist cannot afford. On an empty purse, he cannot antagonise and alienate the sources of supply unless he can buy, purchase alternatives. When he is impoverished, the narcissist is altruism a body, the best of friends, the most caring of tutors.  The narcissist adheres, he obeys, he succumbs, he agrees all heartedly, he praises, he condones, he idolises and applause when he is poor. He is then the perfect audience, an admirer, a naturalator, a woman, an amoeba, a zelig-like chameleon, a spineless, adaptable form, slithery, flexibility itself. To behave in this way is unbearable to the narcissist in the long run. And this is why he is addicted to money, hence his addiction to money. Money is the freedom, the freedom not to behave this way, the freedom not to be altruistic, not to succumb, not to be submissive, to disagree, to criticize, to humiliate, to taunt, to torment, to torture, to frighten, the ability to say goodbye, with the knowledge that your money will buy you the alternative sources of supply that you always need because you are a junkie. It is the narcissist evolutionary ladder from slime to the sublime, and from there a small step to mastery.


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspyscasewrakes.com with a pack of allure hockey 2019-2020 upper deck allure hockey one-pack break number eight With a hit parade hockey spots being given away So we're gonna do the break itself first and then at the end of the break will Rerandomize those 31 names and the top 12 will get a spot in a parade hockey That's coming up in a separate video right after this so big. Thanks and good luck to these people right here Appreciate it. There the teams are here all teams are in Let's roll it. Let's randomize it four and a three seven times for each list. This is break first as always one two six And seventh and final time After seven we've got patrick down to ryan and then seven times for the teams one two three six and Seventh and final time after seven times we've got the blackhawks down to the predators All right, so here's the first half of the list. I'm not going to read off all these names, but It's just a little pack break anyway Let's just dive right into the break and let's print and rip. Good luck.  Well, there you have it Who has the oilers oilers adam cuperman you'll get that conor mcdavid card and the Blake lasote ryan h with the kings okay so now Let's snag everybody's names Put them into a blank list new list new dice Let's roll it. Let's randomize it three and a two five times top 12 after five. Good luck one two three four And fifth and final time after five times. Thanks everyone right here for getting into the action. Congrats to matt philip three ryan's A fourth ryan a fifth ryan Matt josh adam ryan and josh.  Look at that.  That's one two three four five six. You got half Half half of the spots that we were giving away. There you go. That's how it works sometimes Joe for jazby's case rakes.com. We'll see you for the hit parade break. Bye. Bye


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How does a torch cell work? This is a normal torch cell, not rechargeable. This one is rechargeable. How is it possible to get electricity out of a lemon? This is electrochemistry. And it all comes down to the standard electropotential table. At first glance, this table looks quite intimidating, but there is sense behind it. Let me just talk to you very quickly about an approach to the teaching of chemistry in general. For any student studying chemistry, it's potentially a minefield because there are thousands of different chemicals and elements. And so potentially they've got to learn thousands and thousands of different chemical reactions in possible tasks. But really the way in which scientists go about studying chemistry is that they will look at the various reactions and try and look for patterns in what they see. And then once they get that pattern, they will try and formulate a general rule and then use that general rule to predict the behavior of other chemicals. So largely our job as a science teacher as a chemistry teacher is to try and help students to find these patterns of behavior in what they see. For example, if I were to bite this lemon, it would be very sour. And because I'm a chemist, I know, ah, sour, that means acidic. And immediately I'll tell you a whole lot of things about the behavior of this lemon and its juice. I know it'll turn litmus paper red. I know that it will, if I mix it with bicarbonate and soda, it will give off bubbles, carbon dioxide, et cetera, et cetera. I'll tell you that before I go and do it because there are various patterns that we've observed about sour substances. We call them acids. So it's looking for patterns that really is what chemistry teaching is all about. The periodic table up there is the biggest pattern of them all. It's a fantastic piece of work. And by simply knowing and understanding that table, you can predict thousands of behaviors and properties of different elements and chemicals and formulas and that sort of thing simply by using that pattern in the form of a table. This activity is based on exactly what we see here. The lemon is able to produce electricity because I've taken two different metals, copper and zinc, and I've put them into an electrolyte. And if ever you take two different metals in an electrolyte, you can generate electricity. I'll get a certain amount of volts out of it. This table has got various half reactions and next to it positive negative potentials. So if we take different metals from here, we should be able to get cells set up. So what I've done is I've collected a whole lot of metals together. Right, so we've got all our different metals. Those are electrodes. All we need is a bit of electrolyte. Electrolyte, well, I'm going to use some table salt. I've already put that table salt into some water. So I've got a salt solution here and we then pour that electrolyte, sodium chloride solution into the tissue paper. So that all those metals are lying in an electrolyte. Right, now we're going to connect these metals and see what kind of potential they develop. And for that we need a voltmeter. I've got a multimeter here. Now we know that for this standard electrode potential series, hydrogen is used as the reference point. It's given a value of zero volts. We can't use hydrogen here because it's a gas. It's very difficult to set up a hydrogen electrode. But we can choose one of the metals as our reference point and you measure the potential of every other one to that. So I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose lead, which is closest to hydrogen as my reference point, and see what kind of voltage we get out of that. Okay, I'm going to put the positive electrode on the lead and then against zinc, 460 millivolts. Gold, negative, 600, about 600 millivolts. So in other words, we're now going into negative territory. We then record this in a table. We've used the lead electrode as our reference and those are the different metals and these are the results that we got in volts. And that is very much what we see here. So it's very easy now for you to move your discussion from what you've found practically to this. These values of course are your standard electrode potential and we're not working under standard conditions here, clearly. So it's quite easy to explain why we haven't got the right values, but really all we're trying to show them is where did this table originate? Another very important part of your teaching is how do you make this come alive for the students? What sort of things can we talk about that will make it relevant in their lives? Well, the obvious one is galvanizing, where you galvanize iron to protect it against rust. So the iron is coated with a very thin layer of zinc. Another one that a lot of people don't know about, they call this tin. Well, tin is non-magnetic and there's my iron. It's magnetic. Actually, this isn't tin. This is actually iron that's been coated with tin. It's galvanized so that it stops the iron from rusting. So those tins that you're throwing away, you're actually throwing away iron. And finally, as always, I invite you to send in any comments, questions, comments you might have via the website in the comments section or on my email address and I will respond to you.


A sitting of the House of Assembly is scheduled for Tuesday May 4, 2021, with papers to be laid by the Honourable Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Growth, Job Creation, External Affairs and the Public Service, and the Honourable Minister for Commerce, Industry, Enterprise Development and Consumer Affairs. The House will also consider a motion for Parliament to further extend the state of emergency. The proposed extension is for an additional period of five months, commencing from the 17th day of May 2021 and ending on the 16th day of October 2021. In accordance with Section 176 of the Constitution of St. Lucia, Cap 1.01, St. Lucia has been under state of emergency approved by Parliament that commends on the 11th of February 2021 and ending on the 16th of May 2021. A number of bills are also down for consideration, including counter-trafficking amendments and tourism stimulus and investment amendments. Tuesday's sitting is scheduled to commence at 10am. The sitting of the Senate is scheduled for Thursday May 6, 2021, at 10am. In keeping with the protocols established for the management of COVID-19, members of the public will not be allowed in the chamber gallery during the sittings. The public can view the live proceedings on the National Television Network, NTN, Channel 122 and Government of St. Lucia Facebook page and YouTube channel.


to convey in not only this episode but prior episodes about the relationship of salvation by faith and sanctification, holy living. There's an exegetical basis to it. It's not just something I'd like to hear or I'd like to say. It derives from the text. We can't lose sight of God's role in this, but we don't want to either usurp God's role or diminish our own to the point where we have no role at all. But when we talk about role, it's responding to God again in this passage with abundant thankfulness, realizing that if we live like he wants us to, he will do things internally to us. He will change us. He will barring language from Romans now. He will make sure that we are conformed to the image of his Son and not the image of the world. So God has a definite role here. You know, we more or less need to stay out of his way. You know, approach it that way. It's not about earning enough brownie points so that God decides he still loves us. I've said it many times. I just want you to know and hopefully see a little bit, and this is a very cursory kind of look at it, that that kind of thinking derives from the text. It's about the text. It's not what you want to hear. It's about the text. So, you know, let me just, you know, come down to where we were at in our previous episode on Colossians. We'll link this one to that one. You received Christ, you rooted in him as a result. Okay, therefore God will continue to build you up and establish you. You know, the only potential problem with this, going back to our previous episode, Colossians 1-23, all these things are going to be true. Because you received Christ, you were rooted by an external force, i.e., God, it's passive. Having been rooted in Christ, you will therefore be built up, it's passive. You will be established, it's passive. Again, God is the primary actor in both of those things. And your response, you know, you're abounding, active in thankfulness. All of that's going to happen. And now I'm going to quote Colossians 1-23, if indeed, you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not being moved, not, again, that's passive as well, Colossians 1-23, not being shifted, not being moved from the hope of the gospel that you heard. Again, it still goes back to you must believe. It's believing loyalty, you must believe. And if you believe, if you cooperate with God, if you believe, and if you want to, if you're trying to imitate the Lord, you're trying to do what your Savior and your Master says, God will do these things in you. He will produce fruit from your life. He will build you up and establish you. These things will happen. Your life will change. God will work in it, but you have to keep believing. That's really your primary role. Why else would you obey what God tells you to do or to avoid? In other words, why else would you repent of this or that sin and do this or that thing or abstain from this or that thing? Why else would you do it? If you believe that the gospel really is what it says it is, if it really does result in eternal life, you really are forgiven. If you really believe these things and then the same God who offered you that salvation says, well, I want you to be like me. I want your character to be in alignment with my character. I want you to imitate my son and the way he lived here. Do you believe the same God telling you to do those things? And when he says, now, if you do this, it's going to improve you from the inside out. You're going to become a better person if we can use that vernacular. You're going to become conformed with the image of his son. You're going to be vessels that I can use to further the kingdom. All these things that we've talked about in relationship with sanctification. The only way you do that, if you realize you can't earn God's love because he loved you before you ever even had the first thought of any of this stuff. He loved you, quote, while you were yet a sinner, while you were an enemy. If you realize that, then your motivation for living a certain way can't be to earn heaven. So then what is it?  It's returning love. It's also being useful to him because you want other people to be part of this.  Again, there's lots of reasons to live a certain way. One of them is not keeping God happy with you. We're convincing him to love you. And that's where people get trapped. That's where you'll meet a lot of Christians who are trapped. They become uncertain about God's disposition to them because they turned it into a works thing. It's sinister. It's bad theology and it's sinister in the sense that it will produce misery. It will produce internal conflict all the time. So again, hopefully we're seeing that on the basis of the text. We need to think about the relationship of these concepts, these things, in a certain way that Paul is actually angling. He's trying to get you the reader to think in certain ways about these things. If we move to verse 8, all that stuff about, hey, you received Christ, now you need to walk in him. Having been planted, having been rooted, God did that when you received Christ. And then you're in there now, you're in Christ, and using a planting metaphor now, the normal expectation is that you will progressively grow. But God's in that too. God will establish you.  Your job is to abound in thankfulness. That's your motivation for essentially staying out of God's way, not resisting the Spirit, not surrendering yourself to sin, all this kind of stuff. God's going to produce wonderful things in you back to Colossians 1.23. If indeed you continue in the faith, stable and steadfast, not shifting or not being shifted, not being moved, get the passive in there. From the hope of the gospel that you heard, all that makes sense in light of what he says next in Colossians 2.8. You're going to see Paul's really still concerned about you continuing, the Colossians continuing in the faith. He says in verse 8, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ. So again, it's obvious that Paul has a concern about the Colossians. Will they continue in the faith? If they do, God will produce a wonderful work in you, but will they do that? Will they be moved by something? Will they be moved away from the hope of the gospel to something else? And it comes out here in verse 8, see to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world and not according to Christ. Don't believe something else. Don't be shifted.   Don't be moved away from the hope of the gospel. Don't listen to philosophy and empty deceit that accords with human tradition that is somehow put forth or stimulated by or put out there instigated by elemental spirits. Now, if you move away, you risk not being built up and established in the faith, say it in reverse. You have to continue in the faith. In other words, philosophy and empty deceit that Paul warns about can lead to unbelief. Paul's saying, you gotta look out for that. Don't be moved. Put still another way, Colossians needed to continue in faith to grow. Just as they received Christ in faith, they needed to walk in faith. They needed to believe that God would do these things in their lives if they just got out of the way, if they didn't sin, if they didn't go off and do these other things. If they didn't stop believing, they needed to have the same faith. Paul is linking sanctification and salvation by virtue of the concept of faith. If Paul was standing there in front of the Colossians or whatever, I can imagine him saying, look, live now in faith. Keep believing and live accordingly. God will establish you. He will build you up. He will sanctify you. He will produce in you what he wants to produce. He will use you as he wants to if you believe and keep believing. Now, what's behind Paul's concern? What's the deal with philosophy and empty deceit? What's the relationship of those things and throw in the elemental spirits of the world? What's he talking about here?  It's philosophy. It refers to human wisdom just generally, and not any particular philosopher or Greek philosopher or something like that. It's just human wisdom generally. Here, because he's writing the Colossians, it certainly has something to do with the false teaching of his opponents in Colossae. We've talked about the Colossian heresy and how that can have pagan elements, Gentile elements. It could also derive from mystical Judaism later. We're actually getting into the material now where scholars have looked at what Paul says and really seen through the whole of Colossians that it has something to do with the worship of angels or the elevation of angels to certain status or something like that. Paul crosses into that territory here with the word Stoikeia, the elemental spirits. Now, if you've read Unseen Realm, you're going to know what my take is on this. I might as well just quote a little bit from Unseen Realm. I wrote that Stoikeia, that lemma can refer to one of four things. One, it can refer to basic principles of religious teaching in a Jewish context, the law. Two, it can refer to the rudimentary substances of the physical world, earth, wind, fire, water, that kind of thing. Three, it can refer to celestial deities, divine beings up in the heavens somewhere. And fourth, it can be spiritual beings more generically. The term is used in Greek literature for any of those four things. The last two, celestial deities or astral deities versus spiritual beings in general. There's a bit of a distinction there, but one's a subset of the other. Now, I have a footnote in Unseen Realm. If you're looking for a good source for this, if you have the Intervarsity Dictionary of Paul and his letters, I recommend the articles by Dan Reid, R-E-I-D. He wrote the one on Elemental Spirits. I think he wrote the one on rulers and authorities and dominions and thrones and stuff like that as well. Dan is not one to shy away from the supernatural implications of this, so I recommend his articles there. In the book, the way he breaks some of these things down, I give him a nod for that. Back to what I wrote in Unseen Realm, Paul's use of the term in Galatians 4 and later in this chapter, Colossians 2, 20 through 23, seemed to transcend Jewish laws. In other words, he's not just talking about legalism, Jewish legalism. Though I'd say that's partly in play in Galatians 4, at least in part of the passage, but I would say, again, here in Colossians, what he's thinking about transcends that. It transcends mere human tradition. In Colossians 2, 15, Paul clearly uses the language of hostile evil spirits. He refers to the rulers and authorities, which elsewhere in Ephesians, remember Ephesians and Colossians are these twin epistles, they share thematically related content. Ephesians 1, 21 is a pretty clear reference again to rulers and dominions in heavenly places and again the spirit world. Of course, you have Ephesians 6, 12, the principalities and powers. Ephesians 3, 10 is another reference. Paul uses rulers and authorities terms of spiritual beings very clearly, and he uses those same terms here in Colossians 2, 15, which we'll get to next time in another episode on Colossians, but he uses it there, but it's in the same paragraph as his reference here to elemental spirits in his letter here in Colossians 2, verse 8. Again, my take is that we can't restrict the language here to just Jewish legalism. There's something else going on here because Paul is going to talk about being forgiven for our trespasses and how all of that disarms the rulers and authorities and all that kind of stuff. There's some cosmic significance here. There's some cosmic flavoring to it that we can't ignore. I don't want to get into my whole treatment of stoikaia in unseen realm, but hopefully this gives you an idea. Since Paul, in the letter to the Colossians, like other letters, he's speaking to both Jews and Gentiles, he might be using a particular term that a Gentile here would think one thing and a Jewish here would think another, but even if that's the case, because of Jewish mysticism and, of course, because of pagan religion, supernatural beings are on the table when Paul uses this terminology, and I would say certainly in the way he uses it. There's something going on here about that. He's concerned that the Colossians are swallowing. Whatever he's concerned might move them away from the gospel. It involves supernatural evil spirits, and so that's just part of the picture. You're going to read, again, if you're a student of scripture, some people use the podcast episodes and then they drill down in different resources. You're going to come across articles and whatnot that will try to isolate the stoikaia to something that's not supernatural. It's very common, even with evangelicals who are supposed to be predisposed to supernatural belief system. As I said at the beginning of Unseen Realm, in many cases, even evangelicals, even people who claim to have a supernatural worldview and a high view of scripture will do all they can to not see the supernatural in certain places. This is just one of those. Again, they try to wipe it off the table. My caution to you, again, because of the reasons I just talked about, and of course, lots of backgrounding in Unseen Realms, don't do that. Don't do that. You're going to be missing the point. I think here, let me just give you one example of this. There are some commentators and Colossians will say, well, what Paul's talking about here with the stoikaia is really just, it's not Jewish legalism. That's kind of obvious. There's more here than that. But he's talking about the elements of the world, earth, wind, fire, and water. That's all he means. Don't fall victim to some sort of weird nature worship or something like that. Again, Paul is not confronting pantheism or nature worship. It goes well beyond that. It's an unnecessary conclusion to draw. And I would say, and here's the point I want listeners to catch, going that direction amounts to ignoring or being ignorant of or denying the Jewish context to even the basic elements, earth, wind, fire, and water, believe it or not, in mystical Judaism and certain Second Temple texts, pseudographical texts. You can find passages that let us know that some Jews presumed the elements were in some way associated with supernatural beings. So it doesn't do you any good to retreat to the elements of the world as in Paul's going after nature worship here. It doesn't do you any good because in both Gentile circles and Jewish circles, the elements of the world were thought to be somehow controlled or empowered or under the supervision of supernatural beings. You can't get away from the supernatural. I guess you can. You just ignore it. But if you're trying to honor context, you can't just wipe sort of the supernatural flavor of a word like stoikeya off the table. Some passages are more clear than others, but there are going to be occasions where people want to do that because, well, we can't go there because that's just kind of, that's too weird. And then you get into the conversation like, well, what's so normal about the virgin birth? That's the conversation they don't want to have. So let me give you a few examples of how even in, again, a Second Temple Jewish context, you get this notion of supernatural beings that have some association with the fundamental elements of the world as they were understood at the time. Jubilees 2-2. Actually, it's going to be verse 2. Yeah, okay, well, we can just, we can just isolate it to verse 2. It's long enough. This is what it says. For on the first day, he, God, created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which minister before him. Here's the list. The angels of the presence, the angels of sanctification, the angels of the spirit of fire, the angels of the spirit of the winds, the angels of the spirit of the clouds and darkness and snow and hail and frost, the angels of resoundings of thunder and lightning, the angels of the spirits of cold and heat and winter and springtime and harvest and summer and all the spirits of his creatures which are in heaven and on earth. And he created the abysses and darkness, both evening and night and light, both dawn and daylight, which he prepared in the knowledge of his heart. That's Jubilees 2-2. Here's a passage from Enoch, first Enoch 60. This is going to be verses 11 and 12. That passage reads as follows. Then the other angel who was going with me, Enoch is talking here, was showing me the hidden things, what is first and last in heaven, above it, beneath the earth, in the depth, in the extreme ends of heaven, the extent of heaven, the storerooms of the winds, how the winds are divided, how they are weighed, how the winds divide and dissipate, the openings of the winds, each according to the strength of its wind, the power of the light of the moon and how it is the right amount, the divisions of the stars, each according to its nomenclature and all the subdivisions. It's interesting because it suggests that those things are controlled by some intelligence. But I would suggest combine that little passage, first Enoch 60, 11, 12 with this one, first Enoch 43, first four verses say this. And I saw other lightnings in the stars of heaven and I saw how he called them each by their respective names, and they obeyed him. And I saw the impartial scales for the purpose of balancing their lights at their widest areas, and their natures are as follows, their revolutions produce lightning, and in number they are as many as the angels. They keep their faith each one according to their names. And I asked the angel who was going with me and had shown me these secret things. What are these things? And he said to me, the Lord of the Spirits has shown you the prototype of each one of them. These are the names of the holy ones who dwell upon the earth and believe in the name of the Lord of the Spirits forever and ever. First Enoch 80, another passage will throw this in verses six through eight says, many of the chiefs of the stars shall make errors in respect to the orders given to them. They shall change their courses and functions and not appear during the seasons which have been prescribed for them. All the orders of the stars shall harden in disposition against the sinners and the conscience of those that dwell upon the earth. They, the stars, shall err against them, the sinners, and modify all their courses. Then they, the sinners, shall err and take them, the stars, to be gods.  Now what's interesting about that passage is it seems to affirm and deny in the same breath the notion that these natural forces are divine beings. I say seems because I think the best way to read this is that the writer is warning readers, who he refers to as sinners, of taking these forces and the supernatural beings that are in charge of them as gods, as deities, as things to be worshipped. Enoch, again the writer of first Enoch, would be very much opposed to the worship of anything invisible or visible in heaven or on earth other than the true God. I think his concern, again, is treating them as gods, i.e. bowing down and worshiping to them. Of course, that's a biblical injunction as well. You shall not bow down to the host of heaven and so on and so forth. You get these passages that, again, there are different ways you could take them and read them, but I think a common denominator idea is that ancient people, these are Jewish writers here, Jewish or pagan, had some notion and it varied. It had some notion that what was going on in the heavens and the natural world was either, again, related to or empowered by or supervised by or whatever, the invisible world. Here we have in this last passage an Enoch and injunction to not worship them. I think that's what Paul is concerned about. If we take that back to Colossians, we could actually read Paul's statement about not being deceived, not being moved away from the gospel by philosophy and empty thinking, empty deceit, this human wisdom of what kind, because again, he uses the reference to Stoichae there. Don't be fooled into thinking that your Lord is anything other than Jesus. There it is in one sentence. Don't be deceived into thinking your Lord is anyone or anything other than Jesus.  Jesus is the one that you should be living like. He's the one that should be the focus of your attention and your worship. Do not be moved because we're going to hit other things besides Stoichae. Again, they believe it's a spectrum of belief, how much divinity to assign here and what the role of divinity is with the natural world. Again, there's more than one view of this in ancient Judaism and even in paganism for that matter, but they didn't divorce the supernatural from the question again in their context that they thought there was some relationship there. But regardless of what the relationship is, Paul is saying, look, it's bad theology to elevate any of that, any of it to the level of Jesus. This is why he's going to follow verse 8 with verse 9. For in Jesus, the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. Especially if he's trying to give a poke in the eye to Jewish opponents at Colossae who are into this Jewish mysticism stuff. Again, this goes back to our discussion of the Colossian heresy. Especially then he's saying, look, the God that you guys say is in command ultimately of all of this and all of these other beings, that God dwells bodily in Jesus. When he was on earth, it's the incarnation, dwelt bodily, but even now, again, we're going to talk about the language of Colossians 2 and 9 next time. It's a reference to the incarnation. After the resurrection, it's going to be an emphasis on the sameness of essence, sameness of being between Jesus and God. You can't claim to be honoring God the most high and putting Jesus underneath these things or even underneath God, because he is God. He's hitting, again, this heresy in very specific ways that his audience, they're going to catch the drift. They're going to catch the language. We need to put ourselves into their worldview to understand the trajectory of Paul's messaging, really what he's trying to hit at and what he really needs to address here. I'm going to wrap up the episode with two quotations here that I think are pretty good. Done in his commentary, his new international Greek text commentary or Greek Testament commentary on Colossians says this. He quotes 1st Enoch 75.1. He brings that into the discussion. I'll start with that. This is in Done. He quotes 1st Enoch 75.1, the leaders of the chiefs of thousands who are in charge of all the stars, and then 2nd Enoch 4.1, the rulers of the stellar orders, the angels who govern the stars. Testament of Abraham, the archangel Puruel, who has authority over fire. He's just given you some references. Then he says 1st Enoch 18, 14 through 16, also speaks of stars bound and imprisoned for their transgression. Of course, that's a reference to the Watchers. And the Greek fragment of Jubilee's 2.8 links the placings of the stars with the Stoikeia. We might also note that some fragmentary horoscopes have been discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. 4Q186, 4Q Messiah and Aramaic, that one of the ways in which Hellenistic Jewish apologists sought to commend Judaism was by presenting the Jewish patriarchs as discoverers of astrology, and that Josephus could describe the Pharisees and Essenes in particular as believers in fate, and could even claim Josephus did that the Essenes prayed to the sun. That's from Josephus' Wars of the Jews 2.128. I actually think Don overstates that passage a little bit. But anyway, Don, he's assembled these passages from 2nd Temple text, and I'll go back to what he says, that when Josephus and these other writers again are commending Judaism, they're saying these things and referencing these passages and these ideas because they want Judaism to sort of be on a par with secular Hellenistic Greek thought. I mean, you'll actually read texts that have Abraham as a master astrologer, for instance, that kind of thing. They weren't afraid of this kind of thinking is the point. But of course, Paul's warning is that, look, you Jews, maybe you're quoting this to my my Colossian believers here. Maybe you're quoting some of this stuff to them. Maybe you're getting them a little bit too interested and enamored with lesser supernatural beings. The message that I want you to get fixed in your mind, you Judaizers and you Colossians who have received Christ is very simple. The only Lord is Jesus. There is no higher authority. There is no higher figure. So you don't stay in the faith by shifting your allegiance to something else. That's what Paul doesn't want them to happen. And again, we can sort of read between the lines if we know some of this other material that predated the church in Colossae that Jews during the Second Temple period were well aware of. And again, could be quoting and spouting off and going into a church like Colossae and saying, look it, looky here. You guys need to be believing this and maybe you need to put your faith in or watch out for or honor or worship, something else going on here. Or this whole talk about Jesus. Well, Jesus wasn't one of these guys. He was just a man who lived in Nazareth and he got crucified and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If you're looking for some supernatural figure to honor, look around, look at the heavens, look at the skies and God is in control of all this. Just forget about Jesus. It's not that you have to even worship the stars or anything like that. We don't need to go that far.  And Paul is saying, Jesus not only measures up, he is preeminent. Again, this is why he goes from this subject matter to verse nine. In him, the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily. There's a reason Paul says that. There's something he's leading up to with that statement, to nip in the bud. And it's this kind of stuff, you know. So again, scholars aren't completely sure, obviously, what the Colossian heresy is, but it involves this kind of stuff at the very least. That much is none. I'll end with this quote from O'Brien, his word biblical commentary and Colossians here. He says this, it is probable that in the syncretistic teaching being advocated at Colossae, these Stoicaea were grouped with the angels and seen as controlling the heavenly realm and man's access to God's presence. I would add, or his destiny, fate, back to O'Brien. One way they could be placated, they, again, these Stoicaea could be placated, was by rigorously subduing the flesh. See, Colossians is going to get into asceticism later in this chapter and in other places. O'Brien is suggesting, one way these Stoicaea were, you know, were placated or honored was by rigorously subduing the flesh so as to gain visionary experiences of the heavenly dimension and to participate in their angelic liturgy. You know, let me stop there. If you've ever, this is shamanism. You know, shamans in, I'm hoping many of you are familiar with, but these, you know, witch doctors and whatnot, these, these, there are people who, who actually either through asceticism or they inflict pain upon themselves to produce an altered state to get access to the higher realities or they take drugs. Okay. In the ancient world, asceticism was, was a big way of doing this.  So O'Brien is suggesting, maybe this is in the picture because in Colossians 218, again, we'll, we'll get there at some point. Paul says, let no one disqualify you insisting on asceticism and worship of angels going on in detail about visions. So again, this could very well be, you know, O'Brien is, is tracking on this and we'll get to it in the next episode. But he, let me just finish his quote. He says, you know, so don't, don't be thinking they can be placated by all this asceticism by this again, producing these altered states, having these visions by this, the devotees gained fullness of salvation or so they thought they reached the divine presence and attain the esoteric knowledge which accompanied such visions. Christ had in effect become just another intermediary between God and man. That's the end of his quote, or I would say, or even less. In other words, if Jesus couldn't promise this, these visions, these altered states, it'd be very easy for mystical, you know, Jews and even pagans to say, well, you know, looking over here, we've had this experience, at least these amazing things we've seen. You know, Jesus was just a man. He's just a man. You got crucified. That's just unfortunate. Okay. But you need to be thinking about either these other entities, or again, just, just forget about Jesus. You can, you can have some of this spectacular supernatural stuff we're selling here metaphorically. You can, you can have these divine encounters that we have and that we know you'd like to have, but Jesus isn't going to get that for you. Again, Paul's message is just real simple. Don't be deceived. Don't be deceived. You know, don't follow after these ideas, because in him, in Jesus, as well as the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and you're in him, do that math. Okay. So again, we'll get into more of this in the next time, but we've only hit three verses in this episode, but there's a lot of stuff here to think about. And hopefully in this episode, you saw a little bit about how scholars ask certain questions about certain passages. And then once again, the importance of reading between the lines, i.e. reading what is said in the text against its own original backdrop. In this case, mystical Judaism and all this angelic stuff lurking in the background. Mike, easier said than done to not be deceived, because I look around and that's all I see is people. Yeah. The experience stuff is a powerful motivator, but it's not new. Yeah. So if you haven't read Unseen Realm, go out and get it now. Please go read the book, please. But all right, Mike, did you mention that we'd get through the rest of Chapter 2 next week? Yeah, I think there's a good possibility we will get through Chapter 2 next week. All right, that sounds good. All right. Well, I just want to thank everybody for listening to the Naked Bible Podcast. God bless. Thanks for listening to the Naked Bible Podcast. To support this podcast, visit www.nakedbibleblog.com. To learn more about Dr. Heizer's other websites and blogs, go to www.ermsh.com.


Is your day too structured? For most people, I think that is true. So I want to talk in this video about how we can have some structure, but not veering into that area where our day is overly structured, because that can be unhelpful, as we'll talk about. Ideally what we're looking for is a balance between structure or discipline, you could even call it, and spontaneity. Those are the two masculine, feminine energies that we're trying to kind of integrate or find cooperation between. In terms of our day, our goals or even our self-parenting or our productivity, whatever you want to call it, I have found that many, many people are really way too oriented or stuck in the masculine aspect, which is to be overly structured. This looks like a lot of planning, a lot of detailed planning, a lot of... Like you'll notice there could be a timetable then it's from when they wake up to when they go to sleep. Everything is sort of regimented and laid out plan, right? Now, what I have found is I can understand where that comes from because planning itself is really a coping strategy. It's designed to kind of help us relax usually if we feel overwhelmed. It's that need to find a fine order. We go to plans. However, I have noticed almost invariably, to be honest, really, the vast majority of those plans fail to materialize in action. And the real kicker with that is that you can also have this experience of guilt when those things are not done. Those plans are not adhered to. So, and there's also the big problem with that is there's no room for spontaneity. And spontaneity in our culture is something that is really not understood at all in terms of the psychological benefits of it and it's really undervalued. It's underestimated. We think that spontaneity is spontaneity. That's kind of a nice sound idea. It's a bit childish. Maybe it's first, maybe whenever I retire, I'll be spontaneous. That's a big mistake because spontaneity can make us incredibly effective in our life. It's really essential. So what I advocate for is because these overly rigid masculine thing tends not to work. It breaks down anyway. We have to incorporate the spontaneity or the feminine aspect too. Now, what we're looking for is a balance between. So is it a 50-50 balance where half of my day is structured or half of my day is more spontaneous with less rules? I've actually found that we need some structure but way less than we think. And I'm not just speaking from personal experience here. I'm speaking from having tried this and worked through this with clients and gotten feedback. It's actually kind of that 80-20 thing again, you know, that distribution, that 80-20 thing of 20% of our day being structured or goal-oriented or maybe even planned or has an agenda around it. And then 80% of the day have been more spontaneous open. Now, the thing people misunderstand about the spontaneous aspect of our day. Spontaneity doesn't necessarily mean doing nothing. It just means there's no agenda. It means an openness to feel into a more intuitive operating system that's going to direct your behavior and your decision-making as opposed to rigid rules or that are laid out first like this. Now, without the masculine, let's say we fail to follow through with the masculine part. The feminine part, the spontaneous part will be less effective, much less so. So I'm not saying we throw out the masculine part at all here. I'm saying we need both to cooperate with each other. Now, when we have that and we adhere to the masculine part and we actually follow through with that and it should be doable and manageable because it's going to be way less than we usually think. We usually demand it ourselves, this 20%. When that is a tier two and that's met, this spontaneity opens up and we become way more open to this intuitive guiding decision-making process. And so today's video is really about questions to ask yourself, are my days overly structured? Or you can even ask yourself, are my days completely lacking structure entirely, which is another sort of mistake. We do need some structure. And then you could ask yourself the question, what's the balance between the masculine and feminine, the structured spontaneity, the spontaneous part of my day like? And what would it be like if I was to play around with maybe reducing the structured part, still having it, but maybe reducing it, and being more open to stepping into the intuitive spontaneity? Because I found that to be way more effective in general. So guys, I hope that's useful. Don't underestimate the effectiveness that you will have in your performance, in your goals, in meeting your needs. When you're operating from that spontaneous, you can call it mindset or that frame. I found it to be really life-changing. I hope that was a useful, insightful video. And if you enjoyed it, you found it useful, helps me a lot if you can like the video. Or if you haven't already, if you subscribe to this channel, it helps me reach more people. And thank you everybody who has liked and subscribed to this channel. It means a lot to me and it's greatly appreciated.


We are in July so we are like in the second half of 2019 and guys made a list. I don't know, guys made a list at the beginning we are Tuna Kuangasu sites so energetic so we make a list, resolution list so and there's always this desire in all of us. All of us have a desire to change so we either want to change physically, emotionally, we want to improve on our finances, we want to start new businesses, we want to grow spiritually, it's just our nature, it's our we have that desire to change and some of us usually make a list at the beginning of the apple, up to December 31st tuna saikia na maze to make a list, we're going to move houses, we're going to grow spiritually, we're going to begin new businesses, we are going to as in we make what I mean is just we make a list of things that we want to see changing and experiencing new things in our life and uh and I know you and me we made resolutions, I also did a mega resolution at the beginning of the year and my question to you on this day are you there yet, are you there yet with the resolution, did you implement them? So we remain we remain in the same place okay sorry but my question is like are you there yet or are you still in the same position like yesterday so so if God has put that desire in us because I know I believe it's God who put that desire in us to change he also also does not want us to remain in the same place for instance Abraham before Abraham was called Abraham when God found him and called him he was Abraham even changed his name you see he did not remember the same he changed from Abraham to Abraham before that before before he changed to Abraham as he was called Abraham he was an idol worshiper and we read today that Abraham was the father of faith so he changed and grew spiritually he continued walking in the Lord that's why he's referred to as father of faith so here are the things you can do not remain the same because you cannot do not allow just do not allow yourself to remain the same on the same position because we need to experience that change because change brings rest okay do not allow yourself to remain the same place and the same position so this is a call this morning this afternoon these are called for you and me to move on to change to implement those resolutions that we made and how can you do that we can do that by rising up right now rising up right now and do something different because they say a foolish person does the same thing over and over again and expects change you cannot change if you do the same thing over and over again so do something different if you're used to walking running for that morning run because you want to lose some weight if you're used or you want to keep fit if you're used to walking running like four kilometers about you go an extra mile go five and notice the difference also also set realistic resolution the one that you can handle can manage you cannot just set resolutions and you hey at up here when I say I'm used to making 10 K per week in this business but I want to make one million per week that's not possible so make resolution that are very realistic and you can actually achieve them so also also ask for support they say if you want to walk faster walk alone but if you want to walk further walk with someone so ask for support I get accountability partner get a friend ask for support from your parents from your friends for people around you that always there are people who are just willing to support you so ask for support and also go an extra mile I've spoken about this go an extra mile don't just ease there and do the same thing over and over and expect different results go an extra mile do something different isn't just do something different and I know making resolution is just a matter of the renewal of your mind if you read romance chapter 12 verse 2 it says do not conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewal of your mind nothing else renewal of your mind you can make resolution at any point of the year guys make resolution at their birthday so you can make resolution at any point of your life see olazima pale 31st december and the second week of january you've forgotten about them you can make at any point of your life all that matters is your mind your state of mind if you can encourage yourself and keep on reminding yourself everybody that I made resolution I need to implement them okay and finally evaluate your progress very important evaluate keep on evaluating your process your progress so after two months or after two weeks it doesn't matter how how often you evaluate just evaluate yourself after a few few months a few days keep on go back and check your lists how far have you gone with the resolution how far are you so so that you can if you see kama mekwama you you improve on those things on mistakes you made so keep on evaluating yourself la lafu do not be how on yourself when you have made no progress at all see last Sunday I shared my resolution in 2018 so the entire 2018 I was just flat there was no change in me so do not be hard on yourself I wasn't I didn't beat myself up that I haven't transformed or changed in any way of my life I did not beat myself up I encouraged myself I was like 2019 there's still room for change so I kept on praying and they say the Holy Spirit is there to enable us the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit does the work it's supposed to do so you need the Holy Spirit or pray to God always make a list evaluate yourself and pray to God and all those resolution change of mind they will be implemented I love commit commit all your plans to the Lord commit all the plans like in the book of Proverbs chapter 16 verse 3 which says commit to the Lord whatever you do and He will establish the let's commit all plans to the Lord it doesn't matter which time of the year you make those those resolution as much as you implement them and commit them to the Lord they will be established hope you've been encouraged and let's not stop this conversation you attended Nepali Facebook we talked to each other let's speak to each other on Facebook JC Sarko show keep on sending your resolution as much tell us how you've been your progress so far and we encourage each other nix situmali zgesho apu