Over the last few Monday mysteries, we have been looking into disappearances and vanishings from state parks. Of course, if you look back on our Monday mystery playlist, some of the cases we've covered have been quite old. But the last few cases we covered have been modern. And today we're going to be covering a modern case. A case of a young 22-year-old boy who went missing in Washington. But before we go any further, you know what to do. Please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. As always, a very, very special thank you to all of our producers and our patrons on Esoteric Atlanta. Unfortunately, I'm still in the same situation where for some reason when I go into my patron account, I cannot pull up your names or your email addresses. I am getting notified that I'm getting new patrons and producers and I am so, so grateful to you guys. But if you have not heard from me, that's why for some reason my account is not giving me access to any of your information for me to reach out to you or for me to be able to create a credit roll, which I really like to do in my videos when it's just me talking is to give that credit roll with your names on it because without you, like seriously, this channel would not exist. I am pretty much a one-woman show and so your support means the absolute world to me. For a while, I thought not being able to see the people, my patrons and my producers was just a glitch in the system, but it's still that way. And so I did have Stephanie and Taylor pull some cards on it just to see what's going on. And it does look like there is something happening with the platform, maybe some rearranging going on. We know that's happening with a lot of these big platforms. So hopefully that will clear up soon. However, despite what's going on with patron behind the scenes, I am going to try to find somebody in my personal life to see if they can go into my account and figure out if there's a way for me to retrieve that information that I'm missing so that I can reach out to you guys and I can create a credit roll. If you're watching and you have a patron account as well and you're experiencing the same thing, please let me know in the comment section below and please let me know if you know how to rectify the situation because it's really frustrating me that I can't get access to your information. I really, really want to be in contact with my patrons and my producers. All right, with that being said, welcome to Esoteric Atlanta. My name is Bryce and today on Mystery Monday, we're going to be talking about the disappearance of Jacob Gray. Okay guys, just a little heads up before we get into Jacob's story. I am so excited because my friend, your friend, our friend Liz from TikTok is going to be coming back on the channel this week.  And so I can't wait to catch up with her this week and hear about everything she's been doing and everything that she has learned. I know you guys always loved it when Liz came on and so that's something to be looking forward to this week. I do have on one of her sweatshirts from her Etsy shop. This is the sweatshirt that says born for a time as this. Of course that comes from the Bible verse from the book of Esther where it is said perhaps you were born for a time such as this, something we all are learning about our timeline right now. And I'm telling you ever since I wore this sweatshirt, I don't think I've actually taken it off because it's so freaking comfortable. I will put a link to her Etsy shop down in the description box below. I'm going to try to keep the sweatshirt on while I film this episode but it is getting a little bit warm. So if I take it off, if you see my clothes change, that's why. I do want to also say that covering these vanished and missing and sometimes deceased people on Mystery Monday is something that is sometimes a little bit hard for me because I don't want this story to be as quote unquote entertainment. I want us to really honor the people who have passed and use their lives and their passing as a way for us to try to understand what is actually going on in these national parks. My heart truly breaks for every person who has gone missing and especially for their family and the loved ones that they have left behind. Hopefully by covering these cases, their lives have not been lived in vain. Hopefully through their stories, we can be shown glimpses of the truth of what is really going on in our world. For example, with Jacob Gray's story, I learned something that I didn't know or maybe didn't know I know. It came as a shock when I was looking through some of the files that national parks here in the United States act almost as sovereign countries themselves. That was wild to me. I had no idea that these national parks actually exist within their own boundaries and therefore the laws and the rules are different when it comes to handling missing people. This is why in a lot of these vanishing cases, the national park has to request assistance from local police departments or from the National Guard or for any type of a volunteer service that is functioning outside of the park. It's because the park itself is considered its own sovereign territory. As a taxpayer, this kind of makes me a little bit upset because from what I understand, some of our taxes do go to the functioning and the funding of some of these national government-owned state parks that now I've learned act as their own country anyway. So a lot of shady, shady, shady stuff going on. And hopefully this type of bureaucracy won't follow us into the new earth. I don't think it can follow us into the new earth. And hopefully we will become wiser about why some of these areas of the earth are marked off as national parks. I think anybody on this channel knows as well as I know that there is more to it than just marking off some land to keep it natural. I think we all know and speculate that there's something else that is happening on these properties. Jacob Gray was a 22 year old boy from Santa Cruz, California. Growing up in Santa Cruz, Jacob was very athletic and from what I understand, he came from a pretty athletic family. He spent a lot of his childhood out in nature, surfing, scuba diving, all that kind of stuff that you do when you come from a coastal town. From what I understand, Jacob himself was a very, very strong swimmer which is important to remember when we get into his actual disappearance. Four years before Jacob disappeared in 2017, his parents divorced. Now, I come from divorced parents myself. I think a lot of us have gone through that and that can be quite taxing on the children. And from what I learned, Jacob himself had a very, very hard time with his parents divorced. Now, this is important for two reasons. One, this is going to come up later on when the body is discovered. People are going to speculate that Jacob himself was struggling with depression and maybe he himself was the culprit behind his own passing. However, I don't really think that's so given the circumstances of how his body was found which we will get to. And I do think that as a lot of us have gone through our own parents divorce, yes, it's depressing, yes, it does cause trauma, yes, it can cause some PTSD, but it's not something that people can't handle. And just because somebody is struggling with mental health over a situation in their life does not necessarily mean that they are going to then take their life. As I researched this case, his depression over his parents divorced seemed just like an easy, easy, easy reason for what actually happened to him and probably something that the nefarious people that I believe were associated with his passing clung to in order to take the attention off of them. The second reason why it's important to understand the circumstances behind Jacob's parents divorce is because that is why Jacob was up in Port Townsend, Washington where he vanished. According to my research, Jacob's grandmother lived up in Port Townsend, Washington and Jacob decided to go up there to kind of have a moment of reprise to enjoy the nature and to figure out his life. 22 years old to me is so freaking young. I've read before that they want to up the age of adolescence to 23 years old and I actually very much agree with that because people in their early 20s to me are no different than teenagers in a lot of way. They're still growing. Their brain hasn't finished developing and I do think it's an awesome opportunity when young kids such as Jacob can take advantage of being in a different town, work odd jobs and just enjoy their lives for a little bit before taking on a more serious career. Jacob also was preparing for a cross country trip according to his mother. Jacob had decided that he was going to pedal bike his way across the United States to get to Vermont where his older brother Micah was stationed with the National Guard. Jacob estimated that it would take him about two years to actually cross the terrain on a bike. He had planned to stop along the way and work odd jobs and really just enjoy the journey. I mean, after all as cheesy as it is, it's not about the destination. It's always about the journey. And what a huge undertaking that would be for Jacob. I can't imagine the satisfaction one would feel when they completed such a journey as pedal biking your way across the United States. It seems that before Jacob was going to attempt to take this cross country adventure, he was doing little trips in order to prepare. Makes sense, right? You wouldn't just decide to pedal your bike across the country without actually training for such a task as that. And what a better place to train than in the outdoor elements of Washington State. In fact, Jacob had built two cartons, two milk cartons attached to his bike in order to carry all of his supplies. And when he left on April 5th of 2017 to go on a little bit of an excursion, he had both these milk cartons attached to his bicycle with all of his supplies on him. Jacob was heading to camp at the Olympic National Park. Now another important thing to note is that for this excursion, Jacob did leave his cell phone at his grandmother's house. Again, this was 2017, not that long ago. And I don't know many 22-year-olds or 32-year-olds or 42-year-olds at that, that would actually purposely leave their cell phone at their grandmother's house and not have it with them while going on this excursion. Perhaps Jacob was very consciously aware of what he was doing. And perhaps he was trying to take a few days just to get his thoughts collected to train and to prepare for this journey across the United States. On April 6th, the very next day of 2017, passers-by noticed that Jacob's bike and his supplies had been abandoned on Solduck Hot Springs Road. Ranger John Bowie was the first to notice the abandoned bike, but when he went to go inspect the bike, it appeared that Jacob had literally just left his bike there and was possibly down at the waterfront to collect more water. In fact, the bike was left nearly 40 feet from the edge of the river. Now, as I said, it appeared to the Ranger that Jacob or whoever owned this bike. I don't know if you knew it was Jacob at this point. It appeared to have just kind of left it as is because he did have a tarp placed over his belongings like he was just trying to protect his belongings while he stepped away for a moment. The only odd thing about what the Ranger noticed was there were arrows from bow and arrows in the ground around Jacob's belonging. However, it appears that Jacob was the one who owned the bow and arrows. In fact, later on, we would see an inventory of everything that Jacob had on him.  Jacob was protecting his belongings while he had ventured out. This was not abnormal for this area. And on top of that, nothing was wrong with the bike. It wasn't like he had just abandoned his bike because something had happened to it. He was perhaps trying to find someone to help him. No, everything seemed to be in place. Again, the only odd thing about this scene was the four arrows that had been shot into the ground around the bike. There's also one other odd thing about this scene, but we won't learn about that until later on. By the next day, April 7th of 2017, the bike and the tarp and everything was still as it was. And so at this point, the Park Ranger decided to snoop around a little bit.  While looking through Jacob's belonging, he did find a list of all of Jacob's relatives with their phone numbers attached. Now, I will remind you that Jacob did not bring his cell phone with him on this excursion. However, again, he did have a piece of paper with numbers on them to his family members. None of this screams depression and someone trying to take their own lives to me. If you were trying to go out and take your own life, why would you then have a piece of paper with your loved ones' phone numbers on them for an obvious case of emergency if you needed to get in touch with them? Why would you also be bringing food with you and supplies for camping if you were just going to end it all right there at that national park? The whole depression, the whole narrative that he potentially took himself out just does not sit with me in this story whatsoever. Again, not only do I believe that there are nefarious actions happening in these national parks, but none of the evidence points to him planning on doing that. The first person that the ranger called was Mallory, Jacob's sister. Jacob's sister then told the ranger to get in touch with her parents down in Santa Cruz. Obviously, immediately after they were notified that their son's belongings had been abandoned by the side of the road, both the parents and Mallory, the sister, came up to Port Townsend, Washington to help with the search. The family arrived by April 11. And from my research, it is noted that Randy, Jacob's father, was one of the most active members of the search and rescue to find his son. He brought his wetsuit, he brought all of his supplies to be able to scope through the area on his own. Again, as I said in the beginning, Jacob did come from a very athletic family who knew how to work nature. Now, as I said, the bike was parked about 40 feet from the river. And so the ranger assumed that Jacob had gone down to the river to collect more water. The ranger did notice that it appeared that somebody had been at the riverfront and had potentially slipped in. However, it appeared that whoever had slipped into the river had gotten themself out again. Now, again, as I said in the beginning, Jacob was known to be a very strong swimmer. Growing up on the Pacific Coast himself, surfing, doing all the water sports, he himself was not a stranger to the power of water. From what I read, Jacob would have known when to float with the current and when to push back against the current. And again, it did appear that somebody had gotten hit. If he had slipped in, it looked like there was actual evidence that somebody had pulled themselves out of the water. However, when biologists would be pulled in to examine this case, they speculated that it might not have been Jacob at all who slipped into the water and pulled themselves out. They speculated that this could have been an otter or, in fact, a mountain lion. On April 12th, volunteers from the Olympic Mountain Rescue were brought in to look at the scene. And they discovered that someone, potentially Jacob, had switched out their shoes. It appeared that Jacob originally had his hiking boots on, but at his bike, his hiking boots had been switched out for running shoes that he had brought with him as well. This is very, very, very strange. If we're looking at the possibility that Jacob had gone down to the riverfront. Now, Washington State is not known to be a place of sunshine. Washington State is a very, very rainy state. It's very gray. Again, think of Seattle. This is just what it's known for. And so for Jacob to walk downhill to the river, while the weather was a little bit cold and rainy, after all this was April, he would not have put on his running shoes. Running shoes, even though there are treads on running shoes, they're not made for this type of terrain. But what is made for this type of terrain are hiking boots. So why would Jacob, someone who obviously knew at least a little bit about what he was doing, seeing that he had two sets of shoes, change out his hiking boots for his running shoes to go downhill in mud and in rain to get to the water? It doesn't make sense. It's not adding up. By April 15, the local sheriff office was called in to assist in the search. They did try to interview people that possibly saw Jacob, but most of the witnesses who saw Jacob only saw him in passing. And so therefore, their testimony, according to the sheriff's department, was not considered credible. Around this time, the sheriff's department and the Rangers did take the official inventory of everything left by the side of the road, where they eventually moved everything into a boat house near Crescent Lake. Much to the confusion of people tied to this story, around this time biologists were called in to scan the banks of the river for any signs of Jacob. They went about 12 miles down the river. Now, this was strange because there are people who are trained to be rescue divers. These are people that are actually, again, trained to dive into the rivers of Washington State in the weather and the terrain and be able to look for missing people. Why?  The biologists basically could look at the log and tell you what type of animal passed by it. And so needless to say, after the biologists scanned 12 miles down the lake, Randy, Jacob's father, himself put on his wetsuit and went behind them because this just makes no sense. Not only that, but the National Guard actually contacted the State Park to volunteer to send a helicopter overhead to see what they could see. And if they had allowed this to happen, we might have known what happened to Jacob a lot sooner than we eventually will know what happened to Jacob. And this all had to do with Jacob's brother, Micah, who was over in Vermont stationed with a Coast Guard. And so he was himself trying to call in favors to get volunteer teams to come in and help search for his baby brother, but the park declined. A bit like the Jared Atadero case, where there was a decline from help from people who genuinely wanted to help. These are not people being paid to do this. They are volunteering, but yet the park is declining. They even brought cadaver dogs and the cadaver dogs did hit on some things. And this kind of told everybody that they were going to be looking for a body at this point. Now, the active search for Jacob only lasted about a week, maybe a little bit over a week when the park decided to downgrade his search to what is called a passive search. Basically what this means is they were not going to continue looking for Jacob unless there was a reason to look for Jacob. Like in case some evidence were to appear in the park, that would give them reason to need to go try to look for Jacob again. So basically they were not going to be looking for Jacob. A lot of the park rangers had a suspicion that maybe Jacob had drowned. The Pacific Coast line is about 78 miles from where Jacob's bike was found. However, according to even the biologist, there's just no way that he would have been pulled out to the ocean, especially again since he was very, very, very well-quipped to handle the water. Jacob's father, Randy, ended up closing his business down in Santa Cruz and basically spending the next 16 months going back and forth between Santa Cruz and Washington. He ended up becoming pretty good friends with a man named Derek Rands who is a notorious Bigfoot hunter. So this could be another theory as to what happened to Jacob because the Pacific Northwest is notoriously a place where Bigfoot is spotted. And according to the Cassiopeans, just a little side note, Bigfoot is like the pets of the weird other world veil. Like Bigfoot would be like our dog. Like they think Bigfoot is like this adorable little pet. Anyway, just something interesting to share with you guys from the Cassiopean board regarding Bigfoot. We have Bigfoot sightings down here in Georgia as well because we're at the base of the Appalachian Mountains. So there are some Bigfoot museums here too. But this Derek guy, he kind of was known for his obsession with Bigfoot. In fact, he had also been on TV shows talking about his research and his hunting of the Bigfoot. He had a place called The Barn which allegedly is like a museum for Bigfoot and he did offer Randy, Jacob's father, The Barn as a place for him to sleep and live while he was continuing his search for his son. Basically by himself, seeing that the National Park was kind of done looking for Jacob. On August 10th of 2018, a group of biologists traveled 5,300 feet above sea level at Ho Mountain to be able to study some of the wildlife out there. Ho Lake, which is on top of the mountain, is about 15 miles from where Jacob's bike had been abandoned. And much to their surprise, when they got to the lake, they discovered the remains of a young boy. The boy did appear to be Jacob because his wallet was on him. But the body wouldn't be formally ID'd as Jacob Gray until his dental records were examined. Now this is where the mystery gets even more, I guess, mysterious. Now again, Jacob went missing in April. April here in Georgia is quite humid and hot, but in Washington it's still very cold and perhaps a little bit snowy. Especially at the beginning of April, especially on the date that Jacob went missing because the date that Jacob went missing, there would be no way for him to make it to the top of this mountain because there were avalanches. Like no way he could have actually made it to the top of this mountain. So how did his body end up there? Many people speculated that he actually died of hypothermia, which would make sense because it is cold, but again, he would not have been able to make it to Ho Lake at this time of year. And even his death certificate still claims that his passing is inconclusive. I am very happy that the family of Jacob Gray does now have their closure. They're able to put Jacob to rest and hopefully try to recover and deal with the trauma of losing a child and a brother. But I do hope as we move into a time of justice that the truth of Jacob's passing will become known. That there will be justice for whatever was done to this young 22 year old boy who had his whole life ahead of him. As always, I would love to hear your thoughts and your opinions down in the comment section below. Thank you guys so much for sitting through this episode today. I hope that you're having a wonderful start to your week. I know that people are feeling very frustrated and very antsy right now with the timeline that we're in. But just know that it is always darkest before the dawn. Keep your head held high. Know that you were born for such a time as this and you yourself are a badass. Oh, and again, I've gotten so many people commenting about my opening song. That song is my friend Josh's song and there is actually a link down in the description box below. It's always there. If you want to listen to the full song or purchase the full song, it's down there in the description box. I thank you so much for your compliments. I know that makes Josh very, very happy. So many people tell me that they dance to the opening song and that's super awesome. I'm glad that it brings you joy and I know that Josh will be very happy to know that it brings you joy as well. If you want to help out an artist here in Atlanta and a friend of mine, his song, the full song, again, down in the description box below. Alright guys, have a wonderful day and I will talk to you soon. Bye.


Sup y'all! Sup! So, this is the first attempt from the other day. As you can see, it's shifted a little bit, but I don't mind that because I like it when clear things go over, colorty things, so you have that soft look. Not bad, not bad. Hey guys, hey, hi, how are ya? Thank you for joining. Thank you for the thumbs. If you're new, I'm Erica. Jeff's over there. My typical co-star is right there in his fan glory. I don't know what he's chewing on. So yeah, this is from the last one. What do you guys think? Should I keep this blue in there or sup? Maybe I should. I think I probably should. Anyways, I'm going to do another one of those. Today. Didn't have time to set up our computer situation and all those cameras, so yeah, we're just going to do it on this one. Peace, peace. So, hey, hi, hello everyone. Alright, so I went ahead and mixed up my resin. This is Stone Coat Art Coat. It's my favorite for every reason ever. Among my most favorite things about it is the two hour working time, the heat resistance up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, the glass is super awesome finish, and the UV resistance is bananas. You can get it from my website. So yeah, Art is Still Death. Or it is leveling around down here. Girl Cat. So yeah, Art is Still Death. You can find it or at Stone Coat's website. StoneCoatCounterTops.com and use our code Y-A-L-L, all caps. No punctuation or a discount. Brr, brr, brr, brr. So what do you guys think? I probably am, but what do you guys think? I did not hit this with enough heat yesterday. We got bubbles. Keep this color or no? Keep it. Keep it? I don't know. Keep it? I would do a dirty pour with that so that it does stand out so it doesn't get over taken. Okay. Oh, he's in his spot. Hands is. Keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it, keep it. Keep it? Well, I am so glad that all of you guys are here. I love the ribbons from Tiny Dirty Pour. Same. I'm going to do more ribbons in this one. So I went ahead and mixed up my resin before we started the live stream. I'm going to do not black. For sure we're going to need our turquoise luster from just resin and Cognito Shane. Yup. Shane is just awesome Shane. Shane Shane. All right.  I don't ever get to see my finished dream pieces. I always do them and then nothing. I've been using stone coat with just resin titanium to make waves. The cells always go away. I've been at the long working time any suggestions. Juliet, I was having that problem as well. You can let your white set up a bit like an hour with art coat and then use it. That's what I have to do when I use art coat for my waves. Otherwise I just use just resin diamond coat, which I also carry in my shop. So this is, I don't know if it's in camera, just resin turquoise luster. Super nice color. I'm going to need more of that for sure. We're going to do some Thornton shimmer. Thorntini shimmer. You have a Thornton shimmer. Thorntini. I'm sorry Denise. That does sound crazy. So this one is color passions Thornton shimmer. The client wants all blues and turquoises and golds and silvers. So that's what we're going to do. All right, cool, cool, cool. Mix some blue moon from Resinart. What's up, Sue? Y'all have some crazy dreams. I want to do more pieces with this color. I don't think it is celebrated enough. What do you guys think? What's up, Tim? All right, I'm also going to do Tea Tiny Gold. The gold I'm using is Color of Sessions Rich Gold Shimmer. Look at that melted lava goodness. Ooh, ah, lovely, lovely. Now I need some abalone shell. This is super sparkly. I love it. If you don't mix this in slow, like most Micas, it's just going to look like a fairy farted in your room and it's just going to be everywhere.  Can I? Can I? Channel Hercules. Like a champ. Gains. This color is Dark Turquoise from Color of Session. It has been one of my favorite colors that they have since its invention. It's very nice. Super dark until it goes next to a lighter color and then it's like, what? That's exactly what happens. You can kind of see what color it's going to be up on the edges of the cup. I like having flat colors as well as bright colors in my pieces and we're going to need some white. This will be the conclusion of all 10 ounces. So if I need any more of a color, I'm just going to have to hire Jessica to mix some more of them. I'm pulling all of your favorites, Lisa. Who's that Valerie? So thank you all for watching. Please subscribe. Share a video. Leave me a thumb. Help us grow our channel. This color is L'orese Angel White. I guess I should put a lid on this. Is that Melissa? This white is super nice and opaque. I actually wanted some Bondi so I'm going to go ahead and mix up a couple more ounces. It's going to be way more than what's going to... No, no, Bowie. Bowie? Don't you jump. Bowie.  Calm down, boys. Let's do just four more ounces. Erica, is you make on the table the barrel sound? I don't know what that means. Sound okay? No, I'm not using a mic. What's the difference? It stands up. Every time I place something down, you get a funny sound. That's strange. I'm on my phone and the mic is not on. Yeah, it must be a vibration coming through the arm. I'll be more mindful of that braille. I know it's super boring to watch someone mix resin so apologies for that. So in the meantime, what are you guys watching from today? What does it be? It's like sonar. I feel like you're always at work. A red sofa, nice, nice. I keep forgetting that parts of Australia are in a lockdown again. That's awesome, Susan. What are you going to be making? Two Brisbane people. Nice. I think your battleship... I don't even know what that means, but I'm sorry. Indiana. Nice. Thank you guys so much for tuning in and hanging out with me today. If you have any questions about resin or anything else that we create, then put it back in the box and send it back. Oh, the sound. I got you. I got you. I got you. I have to say that this is probably good enough because this is boring for all of youns. Are you maybe off of lockdown tomorrow night? Oh, yeah. Bondi. So this is Bondi Tint from Color Obsession. I did three drops. It will always be translucent, but I can make the shade lighter or darker depending on how many drops of color I put into my cup. Hey, Gwen.  That's okay. With big hair. I have this fire glass on the website as well, but you can get it from Amazon. You'll probably get it from a windshield repair place. I think since this is on around, I'm going to shape this kind of funky. I'm not exactly sure how yet, but in my head I just decided. I'm going out here at the glass before I add the resin so that it's easy for me to remove if I don't like it. But if I have resin down, then doing this would be a little bit more difficult. I just want a thin line, but I don't want a rainbow, so I'm trying to make it not a rainbow by giving it a little bit of movement. I don't think I like that shape either, so let's do that. We're talking about cupcakes. Welcome. We were in here a little bit, but we're glad you're here now. Do we like that? I think we like that. Okay. Now, I need to add color. I don't have my reference up, so I'm just going to wing it. I always like to put gold right on the edge of my glass. I'm not sure why that is, but it is. Some of it gets on the glass. It's fine. Go, go, cool. Tight, tight, tight. All good. Now, duty. I'm going to start with a dirty pour so that the colors don't move quite as much. This is a little bit big. I'm not going to use that much resin.  But I don't have any cups this size, so work with what you got. Yeah? Yeah. So let's do some blue. We're going to need some quarantine shimmer. Let's brighten it up with some gold. Dark turquoise. Turquoise luster. And some of this, because why not? All right. You want to borrow some of your, yes, can you bring them over? Thanks. Just going to give it a quick swirl around. Cool, cool. Bea, I'm going to do the thing. I'm scared. The dirty pour, should I put it in here or out here? Feel like out here. I would do one, you know, like out here. A little kind of big. And then one here. I know. I still love you though. It's okay. I'm making it work with the tiny stream. And what I'm going to do is fill this in a little bit with the dark turquoise. Yours aren't perfect, right? Great. So now I'm just using my finger to fill in this void so that this resin will just scooch up and match where our glass line is. Because it's going to want to flow to level off at an eighth inch. So if I just do this, it'll start flowing outward as well up to that point. In fact, I could do this with the translucent and make this all move outward a little bit. Because when you pour resin, it's going to pour out higher than an eighth inch. So it's going to want to move so that it levels out. It's looking good. It's looking good, people. It's looking good. Okay. Will you give us a sound? What do you want? I was going to see if you'll put both of them. Thank you. Tell me. Tell me. Let me see. Tell me. Up there? Second? I'm just creating my lines with my finger so that the resin can fill in those areas. Cool. B, what do you think so far? Of my this? I don't know. I was going to do a white and a this. Nice little follow it. You want me to do it in the blue or on the outside? I concur. I'm just going to pop a little bit of bubbles to see what we're looking like. You don't want to create any movements. Just some bubble pops. Okay. But now this is getting kind of blobby because it's trying to settle. I'm going to try to motivate it into the shape that I want by running my finger where I'm going to allow it to flow. So like that. And now while I'm working on this this will kind of take over that area. Let's do a white line. I don't know if you guys noticed, but I never pour my resin all the way up to the line of the color that's in front of it because then it will end up with too much resin on our piece. And it will just roll off. So add your color and then push them to match. What color do you think we should do next? Turquoise Luster? Me too. And let's do some translucent or Bondi. Just a little bit. Just a little something. And we'll do the dark turquoise. I'll give you a close-up in just a moment. There's going to be way too much resin on this piece but that's okay. I'll live with it. How are you doing? Trying to push dark turquoise up into the glass as much as I can and then I'm going to have to run some more of it in there in a minute anyways. Not right now. This is basically filled in all of those areas. I think we need a white line to kind of balance out all of these deep blue colors. Let's do an abalone shell. I think I'm going to run just a thin line of dark turquoise through that actually. Oh no lockdown for you. Awesome. Match up these colors. We transfer a little bit of the one color into the next one. Nature isn't perfect. I personally had freak out moments where I'm like, is that supposed to be there? But, yeah. Dark turquoise. I hope you guys that are in lockdown get some like work release or something. I think I'm only going to have room for one more color. Maybe two. Because it's going to end up pushing everything out that way. It's a vamp. You Dallas resident you. Going to be the last color. Watch by tomorrow. A lot of this Thornton shimmer that's on the edge is going to get pushed out. Now I need to put a little bit of dark turquoise just here on the edge. Actually I shouldn't even do that. I should just use my this. And this putting the clear on at this point is going to push out some of the colors. That's fine. It'll create interesting movements. Make sure I have all the raw spots covered. Which I believe we do. Sounds good. Menominal. Checking on baby news. Too much heat because that will create too much movement. The hotter you get your resin, the thinner it will be so. Jeff said that he thinks I should do a white line up in here. I concur. Got you Joe. I'll make sure that resin's in there. Double lined it right there. To make it a choice. Just got Eric's shimmer all over my gloves. Now everything is Eric's shimmer. I can't say that's a bad thing. But are you talking to me? There's a here. So yeah. That's what I can do on this layer. So I'm going to yeah the dark blue is an awesome color.  Literally always. Question it. I'm interested to see how this piece settles out because of all of the color all of the resin I have on here. The lots. I know it's going to move. I know it's going to shift. I'm sorry glitter glass. But also fire glass. You all know what I'm saying. So now I'm going to show you guys what we are looking like. No I'm not. Where is this? Do you know where that maltone refill is? I thought we got a I know but we went to the store the other day and Jeff I thought got some but apparently I am mistaken. So I'm going to just use our Montana a little bit.  I'm just adding that silver in some spots. I'm not really sure why I'm only doing some spots but I feel like it'll be better. You guys ever do that?  I do all the time. I hope I'm not alone. So I didn't let the propellant work its way out so I'm going to have some blooming where it's coming into the resin. That's okay. I will just bye Donna. Your studio is giving me a facelift. That's so fun. I'm just going to work where it's come off into the resin so that it doesn't look quite as starred bloom. I don't know. Words are hard. You all know what I'm trying to do. Some people like those blooms which is perfectly fine. Some of it through brighten it up in some areas. Who forgot to hit the like button? Sorry about that. No boon. I'm on my phone it just notified me I'm down to 24% so apparently when that happens it freezes. Fun facts for everyone. No Bowie. Bowie is all I can do for this piece right now. I'm going to do a second layer promise tomorrow wherein we add some glitter lines. Here's a close up Let me do the trick too much way too much still too much. My goodness. Hold on. My phone's about to die. This is the one from yesterday I'll probably wake up some of the Micas like I did on this one but less wavy and more in order. We'll do the glitter part tomorrow because as you can see it kind of melts into other things. So yeah tune in tomorrow to see what we're up to.  Who's right here? I'm not her. Looking good baby. That girl's up here like what can I get into? Anyways y'all. Thanks for watching. Hope to see you guys tomorrow where we do part two of this video. If you create something amazing tag us in any social media ever we'd love to see. We are artists till death pretty much everywhere. And yeah be kind to one another. You never know what someone's going through. So you don't have to I'm not going to yell because Cujo anyways see y'all tomorrow


All right, here we are, 1 Timothy chapter 3. We're going to be looking today at the qualifications of leadership as it pertains to the office of deacon. And so let's begin reading at verse 8. I'll read to verse 16. We'll get into our study. 1 Timothy chapter 3, beginning at verse 8, reading to verse 16. Paul writes, likewise deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money, holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. But let these also first be tested, then let them serve as deacons being found blameless. Likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things. Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. For those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.  But if I'm delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. And without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory. And so what we're looking at is the selection of church leaders. Paul has been instructing this young man, Timothy, concerning this and has been giving to him the qualifications of church leadership. He especially last time we were together was speaking to them concerning the elder, the role of the elder and the qualifications of the elder. Because what had happened is unqualified elders had been placed in leadership and they were in reality harming the church. So because of this, Paul gave Timothy a list of qualifications for spiritual leadership. And when you look at those 16 different qualities that he speaks about, you'll notice with me that they are not only simply spiritual in sense that it's a holy spirit who is working within them. But actually there are what you would call moral qualifications, moral qualifications as well as spiritual giftedness. You see, there are moral qualifications because the work of a minister is a moral work and God has always used men of integrity, men of purity and men of moral virtue to lead his people. And these are the qualities that denote a person of spiritual maturity. So Paul is speaking to Timothy and he's saying to Timothy to be wise and selective in appointing leadership. That's why in 1st Timothy 522 he says, do not lay hands on anyone hastily. Because the work of ministry is so important, be very careful that you don't just because you have a need, put somebody into a ministry. It's been rightly said it's a lot easier to place someone in leadership than to remove them. You know, there are times that a pastor might see somebody who seems to have potential, who seems to have spiritual gifts and capacities that would make the church a better place. So he sees the potential and he approaches that person and he says, you know I've been considering you for a while, I've been thinking and to be a blessing to have you if you'd served along with us for a while and I'd like to see whether God may or may not have placed you in ministry here.  He really knows how to select godly men. He selected me honey, I'm so humbled. Three months later he has to remove them and suddenly Moses becomes Satan. I mean they don't appreciate that, they get upset. So I've taught people and I've learned my own lessons this way, do not lay hands on anyone hastily. Don't put somebody in a leadership position without first proving them. And Paul's going to be speaking about that in just a moment. You see elders are selected on the basis of love for the Lord as well as mature spiritual lives. They're not to be novices. They need to have a track record of consistency. And so as we saw the pastoral leader was to be a man of giftedness as well as character. And as I mentioned a moment ago, Paul listed around 16 qualities that he should possess to qualify as an elder. So after speaking concerning the elders, Paul now turns his attention to the selection of deacons. And I want you to notice something, I was just reading through these verses related to the deacon. Notice with me that the standard for deacons is not inferior to those of an elder. Elders and deacons have different functions, but the qualifications for those positions are very similar. And that's because church leadership is of highest importance. The only difference between the two seems to be what is found in verse two, where an elder is to be able to teach. And you don't really see that qualification for a deacon. Now when you look at deacons, the word deacon and related root words occur around a hundred times in the New Testament. Ordinarily the word deaconess is translated to serve or service. It was originally a word that would be used concerning table waiters. It's only here in this passage, as well as Philippians one verse one, that the word is used to refer to what is called the office of a deacon. You see what happens is as the church grows, there's a growing need to organize. And so elders and deacons work together caring for the spiritual as well as the practical concerns. You know when your church first begins, it may have a small group of people. When our church first began, we had about 25 to 30 people. And so there wasn't a lot of need for what you would call a deacon, because we basically were able to do everything and I didn't need a whole lot of help. So there were some who were with us helping, but we didn't need to establish even more roles and greater and deeper roles and all. I mean, when we had our first breakfast that we had, I can still remember our first breakfast, we didn't have men's breakfast and women's breakfast, we just had breakfast. And we'd invite the whole church and the whole church could fit in a small area because we only had 30 people, 40 people coming. But after a while, the church began to grow. And as the church began to grow, there were more needs that were in existence that one or two or three people couldn't handle. So you have to begin to look for those who are qualified to do some of the practical work of the ministry. And that's what Paul's talking about here. He's speaking concerning those who can do practical things in ministry. You see, the elders and the deacons worked together, caring for the spiritual as well as the practical concerns of the church. Deacons generally carry out tasks that have been assigned to them by elders. Now, when you look into the New Testament, the role of the deacon began early in the history of the church. In the book of Acts in chapter six, Acts six records their origin, gives us insight into their importance because deacons originated at a time when the church was undergoing rapid growth. By the book of Acts chapter six, it's estimated that the church had grown to around 20,000 members. So during this time, many of the believers had actually become impoverished and were finding themselves in financial need. So in order to minister to those of financial need, the general fund had been established. You see, in Acts chapter two, verses 44 and 45, that all the believers were together and had everything in common, selling their possessions and goods they gave to anyone as he had need. In Acts 4, 34 and 35, it says there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time, those who owned land, lands or houses, sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet and it was distributed to anyone as he had need. So there was need, there was a need in the church. But what was taking place with the rapid growth is there was some neglect that was occurring. It was inevitable that neglect would happen. So what happens by the time you get to Acts chapter six is within the church, two groups had formed. They had what are called the Hellenists and they had what were called the Hebrews. The Hellenists were those who were not born. They were Jews who were not born in Israel. Their language as well as their culture was Greek. And they were considered by the Hebrews as second class Israelites. And so what you see in Acts chapter six is a racial and cultural animosity that occurred. Many of the Hellenists had been converted during the Pentecost outpouring. They had remained and were serving in the church. They were learning from the apostles. The others were retirees from other lands and they were living out their last days in Israel. But the problem related to the Hellenist widows, they were neglected due to partiality. And that reached the ears of the apostles and they immediately dealt with it. Again, when you're looking at Acts chapter six, it says in verse two that they stated, it's not desirable for us to leave God's word and serve tables. It's not desirable for us to leave our priorities of ministry which the word of God and prayer and become managers to have to step out the different distractions and the church brush fires, if you will. And so this problem, this problem got the attention of the apostles. Their time in the word was jeopardized because of church business. You see, their ministry priority is to teach and preach the word of God and to pray. They're not about to go around stepping out problems. So with the problem came the origin of deacons. The deacons would take care of these kinds of things. They were to be people that the church knew and they were selected by the church. And what happens is the apostles confirmed their decision. But these people were to select qualified men. So when you look again in Acts six and you see the qualities of these men, they were to have good reputations.  They were filled with faith in Jesus and they were to minister in the power of the Holy Spirit. So that's how it began. Well, that took place in around 34 through 36 AD. So 28 years later, the office of deacon continues to exist. And deacons continue providing for spiritual as well as practical ministry in the church. And so Paul is speaking concerning leadership. He spoke earlier in the first seven verses of the qualities of an elder, a pastor teacher. And now he begins to speak concerning the deacons. Notice verse eight. He says, likewise, deacons must be reverent, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy for money. Deacons, they're to be reverent. The word reverent combines the attributes of dignity and sober-mindedness. They're supposed to be what we used to call stately. They're dignified. They're people that have strong moral qualities as well as maturity. They're the individuals that you look at and you can respect. They're to be people of spiritual maturity and moral character, because that is what attracts people and gives them the ability to lead. Now this is difficult. I was thinking about this today. We're living in a time, 2017, in a time when the idea of dignity and regarding people as examples of spiritual maturity, well, just in general, the idea of treating people who are older with respect is kind of lost on the generation that we're living in today. I don't mind telling you that I'm older than Methuselah. So I grew up in a time when my parents taught me to respect those who are older than me. Many of you did, too. Perhaps you still are of that nature. I was taught that. For me, for example, even as a kid, especially as a kid, when an older woman would walk into the room, older woman meaning my mom's age and above, when an older woman would walk into the room and I'd be six, seven, 10 years old, whatever, my mom said, whenever a woman walks in, stand and show them respect. To this day, when a woman walks in the room, if I'm meeting somebody who I haven't met before or whatever and don't know them, the first thing I do is I stand. I always do, pastor or no. And I stand for ladies. So when a woman walks in, I'll stand for ladies. You should do that. I was taught to do that. We didn't call my parents' friends by their first name. We knew their first name. We knew their names. Of course, Isabel, Johnny, whatever. We knew their names. But unless they gave you permission, you didn't use their name. You called them by their last name. That's how it was. Because the Old Testament says rise in the presence of the agent. This is actually a biblical model for respect for those who are older. And so the elder, those who were older, actually wanted your respect so they would act in a dignified way around you, even in common culture. Even in common culture. If you, back in, we'll say 30 years ago, 40 years ago, if you as an older person went into a doctor's office, for example, and you went and signed in, the person at the desk would call you by your last name. They would say, Mr. Rosales, how are you? They didn't use my first name. Just the other day, I had to go to the doctor for an appointment I went in. And there's this young woman, probably in her 20s or whatever. How you doing, David? The pastor comes in, how you doing, David? No, I'm not insulted, that's my name. But there was a time when even business protocol regarded people and gave them a show of respect because of their age. And so this kind of teaching may fall on your ears in a deaf way. You may not understand the value of it. Because unfortunately, there are numbers of people who are in ministry who don't act dignified. They don't act respectable. They wanna be your buddy more than they wanna be an elder or a deacon.  But in ministry, respect is everything because you're representing the kingdom of God and the people ought to know you're so reminded about that and that's what Paul's telling Timothy. He said the same kind of thing concerning the elders. That he is saying now concerning the deacons. And he says that there to be people who are, well, they're reverent. They have a spiritual maturity. They have a moral character. That's the quality that causes both young and old to honor and respect them. Deacons are not to be silly. They're not to be flippant because they see serving the Lord is sacred. And because he is reverent, he doesn't make light of serious matters. In other words, you can go to him for counsel or advice and they're gonna take it seriously. They're not gonna trivialize it. Now that doesn't mean that they don't laugh or it doesn't mean that they have no joy. It simply means that that's the kind of person that you can respect and trust. And so one, they're supposed to be reverent. Two, he says not double-tongued. Not double-tongued.  Not double-tongued. He doesn't say one thing to one person and something else to someone else. That speaks of consistency and integrity. You see people who say one thing to this person and then one thing to that person, two different things, they're usually caught when they do that. It's simple dishonesty. And a deacon is not to be a person who says something over here and then changes his mind over there. That shows to us integrity and consistency. Third, he's not to be preoccupied or given. He's not to be given to much wine. He doesn't allow wine to influence him. He's not attached to drinking. Now this attachment to drinking, I'll speak about it for a moment. This attachment to drinking actually reveals the heart of a person because someone who is not willing to forgo perceived freedom is not suited for spiritual leadership. If the deacon insists on drinking, though it stumbles other people, he's not qualified to lead. Why is that? Well, because his insistence of pleasing himself reveals a lack of love for other people. The most basic characteristic of a Christian, ask yourself, what is it that Jesus said, by this all men shall know that you are my disciples? What is it that Jesus said? He said, if you have love, one for another. What is the great commandment in the law?  So the mark of a believer, the mark of a Christian has always been love for God and love for others. And this love for God is what motivates their activity to other people. Thus, if I do something that causes one of my sheep to stumble, I'm not showing them love. If I'm a person in the church and I want the role of spiritual leader, but I enjoy my wine, even if it's called Christian Brothers, if I enjoy my wine more than I am concerned with their scruples, with their concerns, I'm revealing that I don't have love for them. My freedoms end where their concerns and their ability to be stumbled begins. And when you look for a leader in the church, you look for somebody who loves people and won't stumble them, they're not given to wine. To be more concerned with our own freedoms at the expense of others is simply wrong. In Romans 14, 13, Paul said, let us not judge one another anymore, but rather resolve this, not to put a stumbling block or a cause to fall in our brother's way. So when you look for a leader, he is not to be someone who is given over to wine. He's not to be a person who has given to much wine. He goes on, verse eight, a deacon is not to be greedy. That word greedy speaks of a fondness of dishonest gain. He's not to use his position to make a profit off of trusting believers. Remember originally the deacons were placed over the finances to care for widows. That means that he'd have access to the funds and could pilfer them, he could steal them if he wanted to.  And because he's not greedy, people can trust him. He doesn't encourage people to give them gifts. He doesn't tell people, I need money. He's not gonna do that. He trusts the Lord. I remember a story my own pastor gave years ago now, Pastor Chuck Smith, about a guest speaker who was at his church and the guest speaker got up and was having a series of evening services and all in one night as he got up, he was up there at the pulpit and he began to pray like this. He said, Lord, you know that I appreciate all that you've done and I thank you for all that you're doing. And I thank you that you provide. And I would just say to you even now that I need a pair of shoes and you know that I wear size eight and a half and I really could use a brown pair. Thank you, Jesus, hallelujah, amen. And the next day somebody comes and gives a pair of shoes, brown, eight and a half to this guy and the guy stands up behind the pulpit saying, oh, praise you, Jesus, thank you, Lord, for providing my shoes for me. And Chuck said, you ought to thank the people who gave you that. That wasn't the Lord.  That's one of the reasons I love Pastor Chuck. He was pretty straight. But that's the bottom line, now isn't it? I mean, it would be easy to get up there and say, oh, you know, it would be need if and I wish I could. But a deacon, neither a deacon by the way or verse three, neither at Nalder where it says in verse three, not greedy for money. Neither one is to be after people's income. That's a mark of a false teacher.  You devour widows' houses and for a pretense, make long prayers. Therefore, you will receive greater condemnation. You devour widows' houses. During the time of Christ, a widow would approach and ask someone to pray for them and would give them a gift. And the more they gave, the longer the prayer. It was an act of hypocrisy that Jesus spoke about concerning that. And so he's saying a deacon is not to be greedy. A deacon instead is to be heavenly minded. And that would be because he even has a personal generosity that is fueled by his own faith. And he can be an example of somebody who's not hungry for money. In verse nine, he says, holding the mystery of the faith with a pure conscience. The word holding speaks of holding tightly, grasping or possessing. That is revealing commitment to the gospel. He holds tightly to what is called the mystery of the faith. He does so with a clean conscience. A clean conscience reveals that he is completely loyal to God. He's a man who is thoroughly committed to Christ. He has moral integrity. His conscience is cleansed by the blood of Christ, avoids offense towards God as well as men. But he says in verse 10, but let these also first be proved. You need to be tested. He must be unaccused by anyone before they begin serving and he needs to remain unaccused after he has been serving. He's to be found according to verse 10, blameless. They can withstand scrutiny and be found without reproach. They're to live morally spotless lives capable of impartial examination. And so he's speaking about the kinds of men who should lead and now they bring the wife in. In verse 11, likewise, their wives must be reverent, not slanderous, temperate, and faithful in all things.  She needs to be reverent. When it uses the word reverent again, they are to have godly lives. They're to be models to the other ladies in the fellowship. They're to have dignity. They're to be sober minded. They're to be what we would call stately. Verse 11 says they're not slanderers. A slanderer is a false accuser or gossip. She's going to hear things that should not be repeated. And thus she needs to be someone who doesn't take what she's hearing and tell other people about it. She's to be temperate. That means she's calm of spirit and she's to be faithful in all things. In other words, she's to be ready on all occasions to do good and to care for others. He says in verse 12, let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well. And like I mentioned last time, that's not one wife at a time. That is a lover of one woman. Why? Again, because in ministry, it's easy for you to be tempted to be with somebody else. And so a man who has this kind of dignity in these qualifications is also to be a man who has eyes only for one woman. And that would be his wife. He's also to take care of the children. They're to manage their children and manage their finances responsibly. Now as that happens, verse 13, those who have served well as deacons obtain for themselves a good standing and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. Going back to Acts chapter six, there were seven different deacons that are mentioned and two of those deacons, one is named Stephen and the other is Philip. And you will see them later on in the book of Acts because Stephen, one of the original deacons, also became the first martyr in the church. Philip is referred to as the only one by name who's called an evangelist. And so you see that these two people as deacons still had a tremendous ministry that the Lord gave to them and they were looked at as being very, very useful in the hands of the Lord. They were people that had great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus. And then finally in verse 14, these things I write to you though I hope to come to you shortly, but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of the truth. We'll look at that for just a moment. This is why I'm writing if you said. I'm writing to teach you how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God. Listen Timothy, you're in the city of Ephesus. The city of Ephesus is known for a variety of things including its idolatry and its sorcery, its occultism.  You're living in a place that is absolutely dark.  But Timothy, you have teachers that have entered in that have raised up to become people of prestige and honor who are actually preaching and teaching things that are incorrect because that's happening. You're undermining the work of God by allowing unqualified people to serve.  That you understand that it's the people of God gathering together to worship their father. That you're a family in the things of God and that as a family grows, there needs to be organization. There needs to be a way that the family works together. So what you need is you need elders. You need elders who are qualified morally because they're gonna be tempted to fail in so many areas. So make sure that they're qualified.  So make sure that these are people that are qualified and also you're gonna have deacons. Now the spiritual leaders who are able to teach, apt to teach, they're gonna divide the word of God and they're gonna communicate these things to the church. But you need people who are there who are also qualified theologically that are very practical in what they can do. And so as you have these practical individuals there they're gonna be able to carry out the work of ministry because you need to understand that the church is really God's house and it ought to be run in a certain way. And so though I hope to come to you shortly, if I'm delayed, he said in verse 15, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which notice is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. And so this is what the church is. This is what you need to know. These are the things you need to be aware of. You see Timothy, you need to be developing consistency in your walk with the Lord because that's gonna cause you to be a minister that people will respect. In chapter four, verse 12, he says it like this. He says, let no one despise your youth but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Timothy, they're looking for a template.  And as you're that model, select men around you who also have that kind of model life so that people can see them and realize that Christianity means something. And so you're gonna be a leader worthy of respect if you do these things. But I wanna share with you, he's saying, some things about the church. First, I want you to notice in verse 15 that it's the church of the living God. And so notice he says the church of the living God. In other words, God owns the church. God paid for it. The church doesn't belong to Timothy. It doesn't belong to the elders. It doesn't belong to the deacons. It doesn't belong to the people. The church belongs to its God. God owns the church. Many years ago now, I performed a wedding over 30, 30 some years ago. I performed a wedding.  Thank you, a thank you gift. So he gave me a card. I'll never forget it. Thank you for performing my wedding as he's shaking my hand there at the church. And he hands me a card. And I said, well, thank you. And it was an envelope and it was kind of bulky. So I took it home and I remember opening it up to see what the card said. And it was actually a letter. It was a seven page letter outlining every bad thing I do in the church. Yeah. Yeah, that was sweet. Seven pages. And I'll never forget thinking when he wrote this, he said, sir, you do not own the church. Jesus does. And I still remember that. And I spoke to him afterwards and had a conversation with him before I killed him. And but you see the book of Acts chapter 20 verse 28 says this. Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to shepherd the church of God which he purchased with his own blood. So when Paul is speaking here, he said it is the church of God. Never forget the church isn't yours. You didn't pay for it. You didn't earn it. It isn't yours. Remember that they keep your eyes in the proper places when you're minister. These are God's sheep. Love them for God's sake. So when it's the church of the living God, secondly, God is the living God as opposed to dead idols. There used to be a bumper sticker that said because atheists were saying God is dead. And I still remember in the 70s a bumper sticker that said my God is alive. My God is not dead. Sorry about yours. But we have the church of the living God. Our God is alive and active. You see in the midst of idolatry the church worships the living and active God. In Jeremiah 10, verse 10, it reads the Lord is the true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. Third, the church of the living God is the pillar and ground of the truth. So pillars held up the roof and the ground speaks of foundation or support for the pillars. The church of the living God is the pillar and ground of the truth. The truth is divine revelation, especially revealed in the gospel. So the church is a foundation and pillar that supports the truth of God. The church has the divine responsibility of upholding the truth of God's word. The church does not invent truth nor does it add to it and nor does it take away from it. The church is intended by God to simply present it. And that's what Bible teachers are supposed to do. We're living in a time when pastors are aware of the fact that many of those who come to church get bored easily. We're living in a time when people are expecting some form of entertainment 24-7. I mean, there was a time when we understood that church was a place where we met with God. But today's generation needs to be reminded and perhaps even retaught that when you come to hear the word of God, it's God himself through his word, speaking by his spirit to our hearts to transform us. And so we're not coming to a show. We're not coming to a theater. We're not coming to a play. We're coming to hear God's word so our lives can be transformed to conform into the image of Christ so that we can take this word out of these four walls and we can impact a world that's going to hell without Jesus Christ. And the pastor needs to understand that the church is a pillar and ground of the truth that you're not gonna find it in People Magazine.  You're gonna see it only in the word of God. And that's why the pastor has to remain faithful to the teaching of God's word and to resist the temptation to become the popular celebrity in his own pulpit. God has called us to speak the truth. And the truth is found in his word. And that's what he's saying. The church is the pillar and ground of the truth.  That's why you give the word of God to people. That's why you teach it line upon line. That's why you go verse by verse, word by word, chapter by chapter, book by book so that the people will understand the ways of God. So they'll understand that there is a God who is alive. There's a God who actually intervenes in our life. There's a God who directs our footsteps. There's a God who loves us. There's a God who empowers us. There's a God who is with us. There's a God who will never leave us.  There's a God worthy of worshiping. That comes through the word of God. That's how that comes. It comes no other way. And that's why we need to, even as pastors, remember that because we're aware of the fact. We know that people walk in. We know they have a 10 minute attention span. We know that they have their phone out and they're texting somebody almost done. Be there in a minute, looking forward. We know that. We already know that. And you can be tempted to wanna entertain. You could be tempted to want to catch their attention by doing something spectacular. Guess what? Jesus Christ is spectacular. Jesus Christ in his word is powerful. That's what changes lives. And we need to remember that. And that's what he's speaking about here. He says you need to remember that the church that the living God is the pillar and ground of the truth. And we have the responsibility of upholding and teaching God's word. In Psalm 119, 160, the entirety of your word is truth. Jesus in John 17, 17 prayed and said, sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. And that's what God's word is. It is the truth of God to our hearts. And then he closes here in verse 16, without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory. God's word produces godliness. Great is the mystery of godliness. God's word produces godliness in the believer who is being conformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the very essence of true godliness. And we are being conformed into his image. He says that God was manifested in the flesh. We know scripture teaches that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. Jesus is the invisible God made visible. Hebrews 1 3 says Jesus is the brightness of his glory and the express image of his person. He said he was justified in the spirit. He was resurrected by the spirit's activity, vindicating his words. In Romans 1 4, Paul said Jesus was declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is what validated all of his claims. Keep that in mind because this Jewish rabbi taught many things that the rabbis of his day were saying. He said many things that others would have agreed with. They had a problem though with the fact that he said things that were beyond them. He said things like he was gonna come back. He was gonna die, be buried, be resurrected, descend to heaven and return. Now that's kind of a crazy thing when you think about it. That a rabbi is saying that he's gonna die, be buried and resurrected, ascend into heaven and then return visibly. If he had not been resurrected, then everything he ever taught should be suspect. It's been said either as a lunatic, a liar or the Lord. Because the things that Jesus said were incredible. A young girl around the ages, between the ages of 12 and 14, goes and visits a relative in another place in returns and she's engaged to be married. She comes back and she tells her espoused husband I'm pregnant and the husband spirals. And he starts to think how am I gonna be able to put her away privately? I don't wanna bring shame to her and because she has done this, she is actually liable for the death penalty.  Become pregnant, it was a capital offense and so Joseph is thinking how am I gonna put her away? Divorce her privately. I don't wanna bring shame to her. I certainly don't wanna enact the death penalty because we're told he was a righteous man and he thought in these things. The angel appears to him and says, don't be afraid to take Mary, your wife because that holy thing that has been conceived of her is by the spirit of God and Emmanuel will be with you, God will be with you. Well, come on now. Mary gives birth, she raises a son in a village of Nazareth. Northern Galilee was regarded in a different kind of way. Nazareth was regarded as not one of the places that you would be proud to come from. As a matter of fact, one of Jesus' disciples asked the question, can anything good come out of Nazareth? It's just not known for being a good place. Messiahs don't come out of Nazareth. Come and see, he's told and he discovers Jesus and so Nazareth didn't have a good reputation and so there's Mary in a small village and she's pregnant and she, you know, it's just not a good scene altogether. But she gives birth to Jesus as her other children but all along, even later in the ministry of Jesus, Jesus is speaking concerning his father and his opponents say, we have one father, even God, we haven't been born illegitimately. So that reputation of Christ being an illegitimate child continued until his 33rd year. It didn't disappear, it was brought up to him by his opponents. We have a father who's yours. Mary keeps these things to herself, the scripture says, and she ponders them. The thing she sees that her son Jesus is doing but her reputation is that she got pregnant out of wedlock and there's no doubt that there's gossip around the little village that Joseph out of kindness married this woman who didn't deserve it, right? That's the way small minds think and then Jesus when they is going through the city carrying a cross and then Jesus one day is placed on a cross and he's crucified between two thieves and there's a mother there watching and there's a disciple named John. Jesus looking down from the cross says, woman, behold your son, not saying look at me but he's pointed to John and he says to John, behold your mother, I'm entrusted the care of my mother into your hand, John. Then he breathes his last dismissing his spirit father into thy hands, I commit my spirit and he dies. And as far as the world is concerned, Mary gave birth to Jesus and he was illegitimate until three days later. And then the resurrection and her words were demonstrated to be true. He is the son of God by the power of the resurrection.  Seen by angels from visits to Joseph and Mary angelic visitations throughout his ministry angels were involved. But this was especially noted at his resurrection when an angel rolled away the stone preached among the Gentiles. You shall receive power after that the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the uttermost part of the earth. And the Gentiles were welcomed in to a relationship with God, preached among the Gentiles believed on in the world through the preaching of the gospel that goes out from Pentecost until this day, received up in glory. In his ascension, he was seated at the right hand of God in Acts one verse nine. It says when he had spoken these things while they watched he was taken up a cloud received him out of their sight. So he was raised from the dead has a glorious risen body ascended to heaven in a cloud was received by his father is that his right hand crowned with glory and honor is glorified with the glory he had with them before the world was. And so he breaks into this, this creedal statement of what it means to be a believer that our God was manifested in the flesh. He was resurrected, seen by angels, preached among Gentiles. He's believed on in the world received up in glory. And we as his brothers and sisters, we as children of God worship the one true God through Jesus Christ our Lord and our savior who is worthy of being worshiped and worthy of praise for he has loved us and he has given himself for us. And if that isn't something we rejoice in, I don't know who it is. Jesus Christ loves you.


Do not promote other people's content even if you have their permission. Reaction videos are okay where you comment on the original video. YouTube clarified their monetization policies with better examples that you need to know to keep from getting demonetized or YPP suspended. The link to this article is down there in the description below. I will go over the key ones that you need to be aware of. You cannot monetize collections of songs from different artists, even if you have their permission. The key used to be if you have permission it's okay, not anymore. Do not create long play videos of people's music even if they've told you it's okay. Do not promote other people's content even if you have their permission. These are all of these Fortnite compilations where you're getting clips from different streamers and you are just putting them into a long play video even if you have their permission that is not allowed and will get you demonetized when YouTube catches it. When are these allowed? When you only use clips for a critical review which means you add human commentary over top of other people's content or music. Think of a movie review channel where they show clips of a full length movie but they add their critical review as their human commentary over top of those clips. That's okay. You can do dubbing. Take a scene from a movie where you've rewritten the dialogue and changed the voiceover. That's okay. Replays of sports tournaments like eSports where you explain the special moves a competitor did to succeed or fail again a different kind of review with human commentary. Reaction videos are okay where you comment on the original video just saying hey guys let's watch the latest music video from Rihanna. Watching watching. That's not okay. What is okay is if you say oh she did an amazing thing there did you see that dance move and then you continue reacting to the video add human commentary don't make it silent. Your facial expressions are not enough. The key question is is your video a substitute for the original? Can someone not watch the original after watching your video? If the answer is yes then you violate fair use guidelines. Your video needs to be transformative and unique so that someone watching your video will still want to watch the original if you're doing a reaction video or covering a sport event or doing a movie review they'll still want to watch the original footage if they really like that content. Your own videos also need to be unique and different from each other otherwise you will fall into the repetitious content reason to get demonetized. It basically says viewers must be able to spot differences between videos on the same channel. Don't create videos that look so similar that if you watch one it's like watching your other videos each has to have some unique and transformative value. These rules come from the AdSense program policies which are in addition to the youtube policies around an imperative of originality which simply means content must be unique. Some level of repetition is allowed for example if you use the same intro and outro for your videos but the bulk of your content is different that's okay because the majority of your video is unique. You can have similar content where each video talks specifically about the qualities of the subject you're featuring. Again as long as there's enough unique elements it's okay and you can have short clips of similar objects edited together where you explain how they're connected. The key is explaining adding narrative to your video. Examples of what is not allowed include songs modified to change the pitch or speed but are otherwise identical to the original. Don't just speed up the song and call it something new that's not allowed. Do not create similar repetitive content or mindless content with low educational value. Don't have blue, green, red, purple, yellow, ball and repeat over and over that's mindless repetitive kids content. Many of the kids channels were demonetized because of that but it's not only for kids content anything that just feels like it's dumping content on youtube that's mindless or repetitive is not allowed to be monetized. Guys make every video count youtube will find content that is just farmed or mass produced and demonetize it. Don't use image slide shows or scrolling text with minimal or no narrative I've seen many examples of this like top 10 richest people in the world. Number one Jeff Bezos he's got the most money in text. Bill Gates number two he's the second richest person in the world in text. You have to add human commentary over those types of videos where you're showing photos and describing what is special about that person in that photo before you could have monetized it with just text but that is no longer allowed according to youtube's content quality guidelines. Remember youtube updates their policies from time to time and you have to stay current if you have old videos that used to be monetizable but are no longer you have to delete them and re upload them with things that apply to the new rules like human commentary. Those are the points I found most interesting from this article youtube updated it back in january 2020 with these more clear examples. 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Hey guys, how's it going? Tommy are you there?  Is that the John Mitchell? Good morning. Good morning. Yeah, let's see Vlad. Are you there Christian or Doug? I don't see Mike's on you guys yet Hey ginger. Hey Doug, how are you? It'll just be me today Colin has another appointment. Okay Doug you're the coffee for sec. Yeah, good morning. Good morning. Mr. Mark Hey, Doug. Hey Bala, are you there? Yeah, I'm there. Yeah. Is this your first time in the meeting? I apologize. Oh, yeah So, yeah, I was not joining from long time. Actually, I joined after a long time Okay, so you should be an attendee list then. Okay. Good. No, I may not be there an attendee list It was very initially I joined. Okay. We'll come to you if you want to be associated with them So actually I'm from USC University of Southern California. I'm a graduate student. Okay, cool. Well, welcome Thanks. Hey, Doug. This is Vlad. I know I like yep. I gotcha Excuse me. Actually in my name in the last there's one letter missing. It's P-A-T-I P-A-T-O. Thank you very much. Sorry for that. Yeah. No, no, I apologize Hey Doug, this is Varun. Hey Varun, how's it going? Good, good Hey Doug Christian here. Hey Christian, welcome. So hopefully this is actually gonna be a very quick call for semi-selfish reasons There's a CNCF phone call going on at the same time that I know some of us would like to join But on the positive side, we actually don't have a lot of the agenda. So No workout. Okay Let's see Vladimir you there Good morning. Good morning. Hey, Mohammed Hey, how's it going? Good Hi, Eric, you there All right, Ian, are you there? Oh, no, Mike. Yeah, Ian. Oh, there we go. Ian. Are you there? Ian, you're off here Hello, I'm here. Hello. All right. Let's see Clemens. Are you there? I Am There's someone else went flying by that's me, Doug. Oh, it's Neil. Neil got it Yeah, that's it. That's what I was thinking of but then I also noticed Tim. Are you there? I'm here Hey, if anybody is interested in Knative, just see what there's a meeting going on Right now, not that you should leave this meeting, but when this meeting's over you can join that one talking about the governance of Knative and The link is in the chat if you guys are interested. All right, good. Just one more minute. They'll get started David, are you there? Mr. Baldwin? Oh Doug a long time. Yeah, it's been a while. Hey My schedule has changed so I have time again. Oh, cool. Just as we finished up. That's good Well for cloud events anyway, I know yeah Okay, Ryan Horn, are you there? Yes, I am. Is this your first time? I apologize if it's not I was in the The meeting the week before last so Okay, so you should be there anyway, so I don't need to ask you. Yeah, cool All right, it's three after why don't we go ahead and get started? Okay, so as I was saying earlier for those of you late join late It's gonna be probably a very short call Not a whole lot on the agenda, but also some of us would like to join the Knative Governance call is kind of going on now because it's kind of a hot topic for quite a few of us So let's see how quickly we can go through this stuff Community time so anybody have anything from the community they would like to bring up. All right moving forward Well from the broader community, let me say congratulations to all of you folks on getting to 1.0. Yeah, cool. Thank you And yes, congratulations to everybody very exciting So we expect any day now, right? AWS is going to announce support for it, right, right? Yes Just a poke on you a little Tim after your issue that you opened up a while ago All right moving forward SDK I Don't think there anything to report there. I think too exciting happened last week other than There I think there is a PR out there from Fabio looking for some LGTMs for upgrading to 1.0 for the job at SDK. That's good All right So is the is the SDK meeting immediately after this or when is that it's normally right after this But I don't think we have one scheduled for this week We do every other week, so I know just don't check but I think it's scheduled for next week. Let's talk check Yes, it's next week. Okay, cool. I'll join that one then. Okay, cool All right KubeCon San Diego Okay, so we do have the speakers lined up for our two sessions. Hopefully everybody who's speaking knows about it If you're unsure check out the session doc. It's listed here What we'd like to do is get a nearly complete rough draft of the presentation Done by next week So that the working group has a chance to look it over and make any changes before The event itself so if you are speaking, please try to get a as a complete draft as you can done by next week They are in PowerPoint format if you haven't trouble getting to it. Let me know I'm not quite sure how Google Drive works with PowerPoint in terms of walking or updating stuff like that. It's a little funky Also, we are gonna be doing the airport demo again. I would like the obviously everybody wants to upgrade to 1.0 of the spec What I'm going to do is this weekend update and the infrastructure from my side to 1.0 So things may break if your code doesn't support 1.0 yet If you have any concerns with doing that Please ping me you're or mention it now, but I would like to try to upgrade the infrastructure this weekend So people can start updating their code Okay, also we are planning doing a face-to-face meeting Yeah, I will send out an invite for the meeting It's gonna be Wednesday, November 20th at 2 30 if you are planning on joining Please add your name to the list here just so we have a rough idea how many people are gonna be there Okay, and obviously if you have agenda topics you want to add beyond these two Please go ahead and add that to the list everybody should have right access Okay We would I remember some phone call Google us were having talking about stuff We talked about possibly doing some sort of celebration kind of thing If nothing else maybe at least get together for drinks or something afterwards just to meet and greet everybody and celebrate You know Scott events go to 1.0 Nothing formalized yet, but what I'll probably do is add a link or add some information here If you're interested in joining some sort of celebration so we get a list of people who I could pick a place to go to I'll add that to the doc Okay, anything about coupon that I'm forgetting to mention that you want to bring up. All right, cool All right workflow haven't heard a lot from workflow. However, there has been actually Excuse me that has been actually quite a bit of activity going on in there We had two at least two other people I believe from red hat to a really taken interest in this recently So there's been a lot of activity there and as a result We look we kind of need to figure out what we're going to do with the workflow going forward in particular There's been a lot of push from that group to actually make it a standalone project and they'd like to actually Propose a new project to the to see going forward However, at the same time of as I mentioned that it is a relatively small group people So what we'd like to have happen on next week's call Kathy would like to discuss the next steps for the project itself and and like I said possibly taking a to see But also find out what other companies might be interested in rejoining the effort since it seemed to you know die down a little So please over the next week or so Go back to respective companies to see if you guys as a company or even as individuals are interested in working on the project So we get a sense of the level activity at interest from the group Because that may actually influence how we go forward In terms of you know approaching the toc So as I said not a whole lot to mention here on this call Other than I did want to mention that Kathy is going to be sort of updating us on what's going on there And what her next steps or her plans for next steps are going to be So if you're interested in that, you know, think about it and be prepared to mention your interests on next week's call Okay Any questions about the workflow stuff Hey, this is ryan. Uh, where can I read more about that? Just because I'm not familiar with that effort Yeah, um, if you actually go to the serverless working group github repo under cncf. I'll make this a link after the call Um, but there's great. Yeah from the main read me there. There should be a link to the workflow doc. It's just under that Gabriel Okay, thank you. Yep All right Uh, let's see. We have no prs. We had one come in with just a very minor typo. I did accept that pr It's just a one letter change. Um, obviously nothing worthy of Thinking about any release yet. So nothing much in there I was 1.0. I haven't noticed any changes to either these docs in terms of things to talk about So nothing needs to be mentioned And to be honest, um, I haven't had a chance to give any deep thinking about it. I don't know whether anybody else has We obviously could use the time on this call to talk about it. Um But given I haven't seen any activity I mean I've inclined to think most people have basically been taking the week off and People may actually be waiting for the face to face a kukon. So let me just sort of pause there and open it up Does anybody want to discuss those topics now? Do you want to wait for kukon? How do you guys like to proceed on this? I can confirm I'm waiting for kukon. Okay Yeah, me too. Okay Okay In that case Is there any objection then to assuming that we aren't going to do anything on these calls until kukon itself That way I can just remove from the agenda and that could help actually determine whether we cancel any calls between now and kukon because If we have no pressing engagements or pressing topics, then we may end up canceling calls So any objection to waiting to talk about next steps for kukon? Okay, if you guys will not be attending or if any of you will not be attending kukon And you want to get some thoughts out there? Please Put your comments in these two docs. The docs are not just there for listing Uh, the high level topics, but if you want to have a discussion about it, please add your comments to that doc itself There's no reason not to use that for that Or if you want to send an email, that's fine as well, obviously Okay Issue discussion nothing changed on these and nothing discussed there definitely no prs And I think that's it for the agenda Are there any other top? Yeah, I'm a fear of vacation too. Um, are there any other topics people like to bring up for discussion today? Okay, in that case, uh, alan are you there? I think they really you're the way the person that joined the call Okay, I don't see a mic for him anybody else I missed for attendee list Okay, um in that case Thank you all for joining and we'll talk again next week Please go back and check with your companies if you're interested in the workflow stuff So Kathy has a sense of the participation rate Um, a quick question for you clements What's your etn updating the slide deck just because I've had people ping me They're interested in looking at it sooner rather than later Uh, I will do that on monday and tuesday Okay, cool. Okay. Cool. Thank you very much All right, last chance any other topic from anybody or anybody for the agenda or for the attendee list All right, cool. Okay. Thank you guys very much. Talk again next week Okay, thank you. Thanks guys. Thank you. Bye. Thank you. Bye. Bye