Amen. So John chapter 7. So last week we looked at kind of the whole theme of the chapter which is there after Jesus. He goes up to the feast here or down. I guess you know they say you know he goes down in elevation but he goes up in elevation but down south to Jerusalem to the feast and they try to kill him. They're trying to they're coming after him. We talked about last week how they're after Jesus because he was good and that's the same reason that people will hate us if we do good. We're never going to be good but Jesus was good and that's why if we follow him people will be upset at us for doing good. It was no different in Jesus's time. So in John chapter 7 we're going to start in verse number 36 and I'm going to preach through just four verses tonight and just kind of explain what Jesus says here in John chapter 36 from 36 through verse number 40. We're going to cut that up but I just want I really like verse number 31 just as an introduction. It says many of the people believed on him and said when Christ cometh we do more miracles than these which this man had done. They're basically saying like this must be him. This must be the Christ. It's like is somebody else going to come and do better greater things? I don't think so. So they believed on him for those reasons and that's why you know Jesus did those miracles to prove that he was God. But look down to verse number 36 if you would. Let's look at what Jesus is saying here in these four verses. The people said what manner is this that he said you shall seek me and shall not find me and where I am the other ye cannot come. In the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink. So this is a very similar type of statement that Jesus said to the woman at the well when he said you know she's drawing actual water and again we see Jesus is using this figure of speech here. She's drawing actual water and he says I'll give you living water and you'll never thirst again and of course she doesn't understand right away what he's talking about. But look at verse number 38. Jesus kind of adds on to that statement from the woman at the well in verse number 38 where he says he that believeth on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. Now isn't that talking about a literal river flowing out of your belly here okay that's not what Jesus is talking about. Generally what is he talking about? In verse number 38 he's saying that this is going to happen to people who believe on me. So what is he saying here? So what happens when someone believes on or trusts on Jesus or trusts Jesus it means that they are saved that they are given eternal life at that point. So a general term or a general way of saying verse number 38 when he says out of his belly shall flow living rivers of living water generally he's talking about salvation here. He's talking about someone that is being saved. I'm going to talk specifically what he's talking about is kind of the point of this sermon but look down at verse number 39 for a little bit more context in John chapter 7. So again he says rivers of living water that's not talking about literal rivers you know that's not you know I don't think anyone's made a weird doctrine out of that but they probably have. But he's talking about salvation okay so in verse number 38 he's talking about somebody that believes on Jesus is going to have this figurative thing happen to them. This rivers of living water. Now in verse number 39 he gives us a little bit more specific detail about verse 38 he says but this spake key of the Spirit talking about the Holy Spirit here which they that believe on him should receive. So again people that believe on Jesus are saved are granted eternal life but what Jesus is doing here and I'm sure not many people are catching this because they don't have the whole Bible with them at the time and we're actually very lucky to be able to look at the words of Jesus and study them back and understand the exact details of what he's actually talking about here but he's saying they that believe on him should receive. So he's talking about now he gives us some more detail what does he do? He gives us more detail about salvation here. He's giving us kind of the mechanics of salvation he's saying people that believe on him so people that are saved are going to receive this Spirit they're going to receive the Holy Spirit but then he says for the Holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified. So that can be a little confusing in verse number 39 he's saying people that believe on Jesus are going to you know they have the Spirit but then he says but the Spirit hasn't been given yet. So what are we what are we talking about here? Look at verse number 40 it says many of the people therefore when they heard this saying said of a truth this is the prophet. Turn to first Corinthians chapter 6 so I'm going to explain these really these three verses really I'm sorry these two verses to you verse number 38 and verse number 39 in the next few minutes that's kind of going to be the purpose of the sermon tonight as a matter of fact the title of the sermon is the purpose of the Holy Spirit the purpose of the Holy Spirit really what we're going to look at first is the mechanics of your salvation you say what do you mean I'm going to talk about like how your salvation works well you say well from my perspective all I did was trust on Jesus and then it worked but yes but how does God accomplish that how does God accomplish passing you from death to life that's what we're going to talk about this evening and I'm going to show you the purpose of the Holy Spirit not only in your salvation but in your Christian life as well look at first Corinthians chapter 6 and look at verse number 19 this was a super important verse for us in the last few years look at verse number 19 of first Corinthians chapter 6 the Bible says what know you not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you which you have of God and you are not your own so the Bible here is saying we're talking about the purpose of the Holy Spirit tonight and first of all I want to talk about the purpose of the Holy Spirit in your salvation what part does the Holy Spirit play in you being passed from death to eternal life when you trusted on Jesus in that moment in that moment that you believed on Jesus or trusted on Jesus the Bible here is saying in first Corinthians 6 he's talking obviously to saved people here he's saying that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit meaning the body of a saved person contains the Holy Spirit so the Holy Spirit is within a saved person is what the Bible is teaching us here it's saying it's a temple of the Holy Ghost which is what which is in you that literally the Holy Spirit is in you which you have of God where did it come from from God okay and he are not your own so look this was an important verse when people were out there trying to force you know you to put things in your body that you didn't want to put in your body you know this was one of the things that the Christian could you know rightly write down and say look my body is not my own I'm a temple of the Holy Spirit I belong to God I can you know you can't force me to this was a definite Romans 13 situation where you have an authority telling you you know take this shot or whatever and you're saying no this body is mine as a Christian this body is a temple of the Holy Ghost and I you know I can't put something that it violates my Christian faith to put something that is unclean in this temple of God now this also should make you rethink you know going out and abusing your body you know just personally I mean you know obviously you know we like this verse in certain situations but when it comes to you know getting free from sin and walking away from sin in your life and not you know doing horrible things with your body you know it puts it in kind of a different context when you realize that you know you're walking around as a temple of the Holy Ghost and this is why the Bible says we'll talk about a little later you can actually upset the Holy Ghost that's within you all right turn to Ephesians chapter one so you contain inside of you if you are saved you contain the Holy Spirit we're looking at the mechanics first of your salvation looking at the mechanics of your salvation look at Ephesians chapter one and look at verse number ten so the question is if the Holy Spirit is inside me and it's inside you how did it get there how did it get there we know it came from God how did that work isn't it nice that you look the God doesn't have to tell us any of these things he doesn't have to tell us the mechanics of how you saved you could have just he could have just said John chapter three and that would have been it he didn't have to tell us all these details but he is telling us all these details and the reason that he's telling us all these details is because the Holy Spirit is not only important in your salvation but it's also important in your Christian life we're going to talk about that this evening so it's in you the Holy Spirit is inside you if you're saved how did it get there look at verse number 10 of Ephesians chapter one the Bible says that in that in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather okay let me just explain what that means because we said a crazy word there dispensation of the fullness of times it means that when God decided it was right for Jesus to come it's really complicated let's create a whole new denomination of Christianity just on that one word okay anyway the dispensation of the fullness of times meaning that time is now the time is ready it's it's time for you know this is God works on this it's just like you know the the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full it's exactly the same type of statement meaning the the wicked people of the promised land they have not you know provoked God to wrath enough yet during Abraham's time but God was just telling Abraham what was going to happen 400 some years into the future that's it then that time is going to be full in the fullness of times and look you want to know why God chose when to send Jesus at this exact time when that meant that the time was full let's ask God when we get to heaven I mean it's not that important it's important to know that Jesus came at this time and that was the time that God chose the time was full Jesus came at this time that's all we need to know all right we don't have to make up all kinds of weird stuff just because you know just because all right and the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven which are on earth even in him in whom also we have obtained an inheritance this is talking about the the inheritance of our salvation being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worked all things after the council of his own will okay that again you know it is the will of God that all men be saved okay so every single person who's ever been born their their destiny according to the will of God is that they would be saved that they would believe on Jesus does that does everyone fulfill their destiny no is that God's fault no God did everything and he wants all men to be saved the Bible is very clear about this our priests extensively about this and you know this idea that some people were you know people see are predestined and they're like oh some people are predestined to be saved and so it's nowhere in the Bible everybody is predestined for salvation according to the will of God it is not you know God's desire that any would go to hell that any would not believe on his son John 640 the will of the father is that you would believe on the son that's the will of God for everyone not everyone is going to realize that destiny look I got news for you not every saved believer is going to fulfill the predestination that God has for them as a matter of fact zero will fulfill it perfectly the predestination of the believers is that you would get saved and then you would you would live a Christian life and be conformed to to Christ and we're all going to fall short of that all right not the point of the sermon look at verse number 12 that we should be to the praise of his glory who first trusted in Christ we're talking about saved people here in whom ye again he's talking to a group of saved people in whom ye also trusted after that she heard the word of truth that what's the word of truth the gospel of your salvation this is like this is super important in Ephesians chapter one of verse 13 it's it's the verse that explains that believing on Jesus is not believing Jesus existed or believing that you know Jesus died on the cross even it's trusting on that it's not all I believe look I was Lutheran my entire life and there was never a time since I was a conscious person that you know since I was five six seven years old and up from you know five to thirty something or whenever I got saved there was never a time where I didn't believe Jesus died on the cross for my sins but I was just as unsaved as somebody who never even heard of Jesus it's trusting on that and that's why this verse these verses are so important it is about trusting on Christ look I could trust on Jesus but I also believe I have to no no no that's not trusting on Jesus you must trust completely on Jesus a hundred percent or zero or zero now what happens when you do that after that you heard the word of truth the gospel of your salvation in whom also after you believed ye were what sealed now he tells us how it works now he explains how the mechanics of your salvation works he says after you believe you were sealed with that holy spirit of promise look you're sealed with it that's what it's used for that's what it's used for in your and that's how it got inside you it's inside you to seal you it keeps you it's it's a promise of eternal security is what it is it just like the bible teaches in all other places about eternal security you can't become unsaved because are you stronger than god the holy spirit is god the holy spirit is what seals you you are not some strong man that can break that seal of the holy spirit I mean what is the promise well you believe on the sun you have everlasting life that is the promise and the holy spirit seals you unto that promise that's why verse 13 is just such a great such a great verse in the bible now look there's a lot of people that believe in workspace salvation that say and I sort of believe this at one time in in my 20s I think when I think back on it but there's some people that believe they get around the eternal life thing by saying oh yeah but eternal life begins when you die physically the only problem with that is the bible the only problem with that is you know many verses in the bible john 3 36 being one of them he that believed on the sun half everlasting life like right now doesn't say you're going to get it whenever you pass away physically it says you half everlasting life but also the very next verse that we're going to look at here look at verse number 14 so the holy spirit we're talking about the purpose of the holy spirit tonight and the first purpose is in the mechanical mechanical you know what I'm saying with mechanical it's just how your salvation works through the holy spirit it seals you it seals you unto the promise of everlasting life now a lot of people that say well maybe everlasting life starts after you die they have a lot of problems with verse 14 because it says which what is which the holy spirit that seals you in verse 13 is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory so what the bible here is saying is that god gives you that seal that guaranteed promise of eternal life at the moment you believe at the moment you trust and you're sealed at that point until so he covers that time period he literally covers the time period from the time you get saved to the time you physically die is there any detail that's not in the bible I mean does god have to give us that detail he could have just been like john 3 36 that's it believe it that's the way it is but instead he just gives us this great detail for all these people would be like well maybe no he's saying you're sealed and it's the earnest it's it's the down payment he gives you an earnest like a like an earnest payment to to what to to get the possession for you to lock that possession for you he says he does that with the holy spirit gives you that seal until the redemption tell he comes back to raise you in that first resurrection unto your glorified self unto the praise of his glory so he's literally telling you how he keeps you eternally secure from the moment of john 3 36 from the moment you trust in jesus so you believe on jesus you're sealed with the holy spirit which is that is the down payment that secures you and then you are resurrected to glory that's how the holy spirit works in your salvation now go back to john chapter 38 and look at john chapter 7 and verse number 38 john chapter 7 and look at verse number 38 so i said generally verse number 38 was talking about salvation or everlasting life but now specifically you can see what he is talking about in the very first part of verse number 39 he says but this he spake of the spirit which they that believe on him should receive stop that's what i was just talking about when he's talking about the holy spirit that's what you are going to receive when you believe on him when you get saved Ephesians chapter 1 turn to ezekiel chapter 47 and we're gonna now we're gonna look at the second part of jesus's statement but if you write in your bible you just circle or just circle or make a line before that colon there it says that's what he's talking about he's talking about Ephesians chapter 1 10 through 14 is what he's talking about in the very first part of verse number 39 but now in the last part of verse this one verse is so deep and you can just see that it just went over everybody's head that he was talking to at this time but look at verse the last part of verse number 39 as you're turning to ezekiel chapter 47 i'm gonna show you something really cool in ezekiel chapter 47 all right look at verse the last part of verse 39 jesus says it says or the bible says for the holy spirit was the holy ghost now verse number 39 is not jesus speaking it is the narrator of the bible is the it is literally the holy spirit speaking it is literally the holy spirit explaining itself to us all right and look i'm glad that those parentheses in verse 39 are there because it gives us a lot of context of what jesus is talking about in verse number 38 when he talks about those rivers of living water look at the last part of the verse as you're turning to ezekiel chapter 47 the holy spirit or the bible says this for the holy spirit was not yet given because that jesus was not yet glorified so there's two things there's two things here there's the holy spirit that you are given when you're saved and then there's another giving so to speak of the holy spirit that has not yet happened okay you're guaranteed the first one if you're saved you're not guaranteed the second one if you're saved the second one depends on you and to get a better understanding of what jesus is talking about the last part of verse number 39 i know we're getting getting deep here but just follow me if you to get a deeper understanding of what jesus is talking about the last part of verse 39 he's talking about these rivers of living waters that are flowing out of you so yes he was talking about salvation but he was also talking about the holy spirit that is given at a later time look at ezekiel chapter 47 ezekiel chapter 47 is describing ezekiel's temple and i'm not even going to give my opinion on what that is tonight but i want to show you something interesting about this temple and about the description of something that is happening in and around ezekiel's temple look at verse number one and let's just read for a few verses here talking about ezekiel's temple here afterward he brought me again into the door of the house and behold waters issued here we go we got water out of it from under the threshold of the house eastward for the forefront of the house stood toward the east and the waters came down from under the right side of the house at the south side of the altar talking about this this temple that it doesn't exist at this time okay then brought me he brought me out of the way of the gate northward and led me about the way without under the utter utter i can't read tonight for some reason out of the way without unto the utter gate by the way that look at eastward that's a hard sentence okay that's not the easiest sentence to read read that one 10 times fast and behold there ran out waters on the right side so here we see waters are running out of this temple and when the man that had a line in his hand went forth eastward he measured a thousand cubits and brought me through the waters and the waters were to the ankles so the water's not that deep okay at this point now look at verse four he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters the waters were to the knees it's getting deeper and again he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters were to the loins now they were up to his waist afterward he measured a thousand and it was a river that i could not pass over. For the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. This river was too strong, it was too large, and it was too powerful to be crossed over by a man." Does that sound familiar? Does that sound familiar to the same type of living water, the same type of spirit that we see that this seal in Ephesians chapter 1? Now look at verse number 6. Then he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this? Then he brought me and caused me to return to the brink of the river. Look at verse 7. When I returned, behold, that the bank of the river were many trees on one side and on the other. Then he said unto me, These waters issue out towards the east country and go down into the desert and go into the sea, which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. So these waters go everywhere. Now look at verse number 9. And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth which moveth wither. So not everything that liveth and moveth where the waters are. Look at the next verse. Whithersoever the river shall come shall live. And there shall be a very great multitude of fish because these waters shall come wither, for they shall be healed. And everything shall live whether the river cometh. This powerful river, this river that cannot be passed by man, cannot be crossed by man, it will bring life wherever it goes. Isn't that a beautiful picture of salvation? That's a beautiful picture of salvation. And now that you see how the Holy Spirit is used in salvation, you can see how Jesus was explaining in verse number 38, what he was really explaining specifically was this is how the Holy Spirit is going to work for you. When he's talking about those rivers of living water, Jesus is talking about the work that the Holy Spirit is going to do in salvation and beyond salvation. Look at verse number 10. I mean there's just life everywhere. There's just life everywhere that this river goes.  Their fish shall be according to their kinds as the fish of the great sea exceeding many. But in the Myre places, verse number 11, thereof shall not be healed. They shall be given to salt. I'll go back to that one in a few minutes. But I mean basically saying this water is not going to be received everywhere is what he's saying about in verse number 11. It's going to be stagnant in places. It's not going to be flowing everywhere. But beyond, look at verse number 12. And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side. Now look at this. This river, this powerful uncrossable river that brings life everywhere it goes, this is what is on both sides of that river. Everything that that river touches. It says shall grow all trees for meat whose leaves shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed. It shall bring forth new fruit according to his months because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary and the fruit thereof shall be for meat and the leaf thereof for medicine. What the Bible is saying here in Ezekiel chapter 47 and especially verse number 12 is explaining the last half of John chapter 7 and verse number 39. He is saying where these waters flow freely they will bring life and they will be very fruitful. Go to Galatians chapter 5 verse number 22. The Holy Spirit is what Jesus is explaining. He's saying the Holy Spirit if followed, if allowed to flow and not kept stagnant, the Holy Spirit if followed will be fruitful. The Holy Spirit is what brings the fruit. The Holy Spirit is what brings the life and the Holy Spirit is what brings the fruit. The river, the river of living water. Look at Galatians 5.22. Again the Bible just completely just backs up but yeah the Bible was written by a bunch of different people. Give me a break. Look at this. Look at Galatians 5.22. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance against such there is no law. Look you may not be able to tell. You may not be able to tell if all people are saved and look sometimes I get it but you know it's difficult to tell if some people are saved. I mean we try to find out if people are saved when we go out soul winning so we can know if we need to give somebody the Gospel or not but look the fruit of the Spirit is a good outward indication. Turn to Romans chapter 8. Turn to Romans chapter 8 and I'm not look I'm not trying to get like you know mystical about this but I mean the fruit of the Spirit and this Spirit within saved people is a real thing and it is I'm sorry but it is recognizable. Look at Romans chapter 8 and look at verse number 14. Romans chapter 8 and verse number 14 the Bible says this it says for many as are led by the Spirit of God. This is the second half of verse 39. Not only are these people saved but they are allowing themselves to be led by that Spirit in them. As many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God for you have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear. So he's trying to convince people to let this Spirit that is in them hey you're a son of God you have the Spirit in there let it lead. Don't receive the Spirit of bondage which is this this he's talking about following the flesh. Don't just voluntarily put yourself back into slavery to sin is what he's saying because nothing sin is no power over you once you're saved because why because you're sealed let it lead you but you have received the Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba father Ephesians chapter 1 verse 13 you've been adopted with that Spirit that the Spirit that sealed you is the Spirit of adoption it's the mechanics of your adoption. Now look at verse 16 the Spirit itself bear witness with our Spirit that we are the children of God now look I I think that you know you can extrapolate this to believe and like I said don't get I'm not trying to get mystical or weird about it but when the Bible here is saying that this Spirit the Holy Spirit bears witness with our Spirit and guess what I have the same Spirit inside me that you have inside you and that Spirit will bear witness with itself so I mean when you like talk to somebody that claims Jesus but they're just super nasty and they're upset that you're even at their door and you're like there's somebody there's somebody walking down the street with a Bible and they're like yeah we're Christians get out of here you're just like I'm not trying to pass you know God's judgment here but you know it's like that's Spirit there's no spirit connection there you know I'm not seeing you know that that kindred Holy Spirit that you know somebody that claims it just shows you that look folks we know this everyone that claims Jesus is not saved so how could that be that someone that claims to be a Christian is yelling at somebody and calling you know there's one specific church in town where we like all you several people we've met from their church literally like kick us out of their neighborhood we're Christians get out of here we're just preaching the gospel to people we're not trying to take people away get out of here with that stuff you're just like what's going on what's going on with that Christian there's no you know there's no spirit connection there go back to verse number 39 verse number 39 and let's look at that last half let's look at what Jesus was talking about that the Holy Spirit is not yet given actually turn to Luke chapter 12 you know Luke verse 39 is talking about you know he talks about first the Spirit that is given to people that believe on him and then he says the Holy Ghost or the Holy Spirit has not yet been given what is he talking about what he's talking about specifically the first time this happens in the Bible is in Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost when they're baptized with the Holy Spirit or they are filled with the Holy Spirit same thing in the Bible all right being filled with the Holy Spirit the baptism of the Holy Spirit please let's not go and create a whole new weird religion where we redefine baptism and you know take Acts 2 38 and we'll take that one verse and misinterpret that one verse and then we'll create a whole false religion on that one verse that throws the rest of the Bible right out the window well we're in one verse and then but we can't use any of the other Bible now now that we've wrecked this one verse turn to Luke chapter 12 so Jesus is talking about the day of Pentecost after he has been resurrected after not only his resurrection but he has been ascended he has ascended to heaven and after Jesus is gone the very first thing is the Holy Spirit comes upon the they already have the Holy Spirit with them but they're baptized with the Holy Spirit they are filled with the Holy Spirit and they do this great miracle of speaking all these different languages to do what to have a purpose to preach the gospel I mean Jesus didn't just go and just do a bunch of magic tricks that he didn't do like card tricks he healed people he did miracles that meant something these guys had the Holy Spirit fill them and they spoke in all these different languages were all these different people from all these different nations were in Jerusalem and they perform this great miracle took for what purpose to get people saved to preach the gospel look at Luke chapter 12 we see another example of this the Holy Spirit kind of God promises us that the Holy Spirit will help us to you is that the only time no the exact same promises are available to us look at verse number 11 of Luke chapter 12 the Bible tells us when you know a specific case where the Holy Spirit will fill us and come upon us I mean this is an extreme situation but you look it's very relevant and I'm glad and there's a reason that God told the disciples this because many of them were going to go through this look at verse number 11 it says when they bring you into the synagogues and under the magistrates and powers take you no thought how or what thing you shall answer or what you shall say for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what you ought to say the Bible here is saying look this is something that I've thought about I don't know if you've thought about this before but and I know it's kind of hard to think about this with you know the society that we live in and we kind of kind of live in a free country sort of and we're not really persecuted for our faith but there's a lot of history on Christians being tortured and being put through the worst possible scenarios you can possibly think of and when they're being put through those scenarios you know what they're being asked to do when they're being put through that terrible pain and that terrible torture they're being asked to deny Christ they're being asked to deny Christ now what does it matter if they deny Christ are they gonna lose their salvation no they're not gonna lose their salvation but it would kind of matter for the people around them it would kind of matter for the witnesses that are watching these scenarios and if you read documented accounts of the martyrs some of the greatest stories of the Christian faith are martyrs in their last moments you say how can that be and look I've read a lot of these things a lot of them are in the martyrs mirror and a lot of that's what I love reading the most is the statements that these men and women make when they're being tortured to death when they're being burned to death or whatever is happening to them because they make these great profound statements and honestly I would worry myself that if I was put into some extreme duress like that obviously you would like to be killed quickly if you're gonna be killed for Christ beheading is pretty good when you've read a lot of these stories but I would worry that I would say something that would discourage people around me discourage people around me but God gives us this great promise here God gives us this great promises hey when that happens this was gonna happen to you and look every single one of the disciples except John died a horrible death and they tried to kill John according to secular history they tried to boil in oil but God miraculously saved him that's not in the Bible but that's in several history books several history accounts and then they banished him to the island of Patmos God kept him alive but many of these men all of these men went through terrible suffering and terrible death and they all profess Christ to the end so it's a nice promise that the Holy Spirit gives us when we look at these men to be like I don't know if I could do that I don't know if I'm brave enough for that I'm looking tough enough for that the Holy Spirit says I got you the Holy Spirit says in that time in that moment I will just I will I will give you the words to say you won't have to worry about crying out or screaming out you're like a like a coward or a baby or whatever and no one would even blame a human being for screaming out for mercy or in situations like that no one would even blame it but you know what actually happens is when those men and their congregations are around them as they're burning and they just and they're trying to offer the person burning water and all this when the person says no no water for me the Lord Jesus Christ will have me in just a moment and they say all these great professions of faith you know what that does that that fills the people outside that see that with the Spirit it gives people hope that there's this great you know it's a great witness to people that's why the Hebrews 11 is talking about the faith chapter is so surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses Hebrew 12 it's like if they can do it and look but we have this promise and then guess what turn to act 7 we actually then you ask why does God give us such great detail about what happened to Stephen because God is literally demonstrating to us in Acts chapter 7 how Luke chapter 12 is going to work because in Acts chapter 7 we see the first person the first Christian that is killed that is the detailed account of the first Christian that's killed is is the deacon Stephen and look look at Acts chapter 7 of verse 54 we get this great sermon from Stephen that we studied through and we studied the book of Acts and look at verse 54 he preaches look folks these are ordinary people these are ordinary people and he gets up and he preaches this great sermon so much so the look at this when they heard these things after his sermon verse 54 of Acts 7 they were cut to the heart and they gnashed on him with their teeth look when you preach a sermon that is so powerful that everyone wants to kill you that was a good sermon okay when you got a bunch of evil people if it's you know there's a crowd of evil people and I would want to preach a sermon that was so Spirit filled that they all wanted to kill me then I'm like yes I did my job look at verse 55 how do you do it how do you do it look at verse 55 but he what being full of the Holy Ghost looked up that is exactly what God promised in Luke 12 11 I will fill you with the Holy Ghost and I will give you the words to say and then in Acts chapter 6 and Acts chapter 7 he literally shows us how he does it he being full of the Holy Ghost looked up steadfastly into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing on the right hand of God I always like to think that Jesus stood up for Stephen there because Jesus sits on the right hand of God so look folks here's what I'm trying to get at this evening here's I'm trying to get at this evening and I want to really focus on the last part of verse 39 now if you look back at Acts chapter 6 what I really want to get you to understand as a saved believer who's a temple of the Holy Ghost who is sealed by the Holy Ghost is that you have the Holy Spirit in you why not use it don't leave that one on the table you know the fruit of the Spirit is available to every saved person if you look back at Acts chapter 6 and verse number 8 look what Stephen was doing Stephen well he was full of the Holy Ghost before he even got in trouble look what he was doing in verse 8 it says Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles amongst among the people look before he was filled with it to speak the river was already flowing out of him he was already out there doing great wonders just doing great things he was full of faith and power so look you have two choices in your Christian life turn to 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 you have two choices in your Christian life you can either grieve the Holy Spirit that is in you you can either go against the Holy Spirit that is in you upset the Holy Spirit you can let it stagnate you go fill up and in your your your polluted temple that is you know and turn it into a marsh or you can let it flow out of you as it wants to do in verse the 1st Thessalonians 5 look at verse 19 the Bible says this I mean it gives such a great example a great picture of what the Holy Spirit is it says quench not the Spirit the Holy Spirit inside you is this river it's this fire it's saying don't put it out it wants to to flow out of you so how do I not quench the Spirit is the next question we'll just read the next four verses what it says don't quench not the Spirit despise not prophesying you know what that means read the Bible listen to the Bible despise not preaching when you hear preaching preached that maybe you don't like despise it not if it's in the Bible despise it not and then look verse number 20 applies directly to verse 21 because you can't do verse 21 if you don't do number 20 in verse number 20 it says despise not prophesying so you're reading the Bible you're listening to the Bible and then guess what you can prove all things what does that mean that means every single thing that somebody teaches or you read you compare it to the Bible you look at it through the lens of the Bible I am so glad that I have the lens of the Bible you have no chance in this world today if you don't have the lens of the Bible I mean there's some things that are ridiculous and a complete clown circus out there but a lot of things are just very confusing and I'm glad that you can just look at everything through the lens of the Bible and then when you find something that's good hang on to it hold fast to it look at verse 22 we're talking about how to quench not quench the spirit like literally verse 19 is telling you the main goal in verse 20 21 22 are telling you how to achieve that goal and then it says this abstain from all appearance of evil say what does that what does that mean that that's telling you God's standards for separation right there it's saying what do you mean abstain from all appearance what about doing it no it's it's talking about the high standard of coming out from among them it's talking about the high standard it's saying not only don't do evil it's like don't even be don't even appear to be doing evil it's talking about you know like these people they're like I'm gonna go to the bar but I'm not gonna drink I mean that's a silly example for us but I mean just people that are like I'm gonna hang out with a bunch of idiots that are they're doing bad things you know what's gonna happen if you hang out with a bunch of idiots you're gonna appear like an idiot and the Bible saying abstain from all appearance of evil it's saying don't be anywhere near it is what the Bible is talking about here it's just it's showing you God's high standards of separation so look follow the Holy Spirit and let it flow from you instead of quenching it that's the second choice the first choice is quench it don't separate from anything don't separate from sin just don't you know get into all kinds of trouble you'll quench the Spirit within you you will see it you will feel it happen you will quench the Spirit within you look it's not gonna make you unsealed but you will quench it from flowing out of you and be and doing what causing all those trees to grow in the banks and create all that fruit in your life as the Holy Spirit flows out of you it creates fruit everywhere it goes and it will stop all of that but the second question the second choice is is just follow the Spirit I mean doesn't this seem so easy doesn't it seem so easy if we didn't have any distractions around us and all we could hear was the Spirit within us it would be easy but it's the distractions and it's the noise of everything around us look but when it boils down to it folks it really comes down to this it's it's like it's the choice for the Christian I'm talking about now it's the choice of a worthless life versus a life of great faith and power I mean who would choose the worthless life yet that's what we do when we're quenching the Spirit in our lives anyone who is saved can do this Galatians 5 25 right when it after it talks about the fruit of the Spirit says if we live in the Spirit let us also what you live in the Spirit if you're saved you live in the Spirit we're just saying if we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit and then that Spirit will flow out of you and and do what it'll create new fruit this is a choice in your Christian life see a lot of people they think a lot of people think turn to 2nd Timothy chapter 2 turn to 2nd Timothy chapter number 2 a lot of people think that you know I'm not that smart I'm not that important I'm not that great of anything really but you know I can't do great things you know it's true you're not that great and I'm sure there's plenty of people who are smarter than you there's plenty of people who are smarter than me but guess what you are a vessel of the Spirit within you look at 2nd Timothy chapter number 2 2nd Timothy chapter number 2 I can't remember where I was going to go here I can't remember the verse I was going to go to there but it's talking to you know it's talking about how you know we are a we're a vessel of the Holy Spirit you know we should be a clean vessel unto honor and we should not be a vessel you know unto should not be a corrupted vessel so the Holy thing that the Bible says this it says you know if you think that I can't be used to do great things it's kind of back to the point that I'm trying to make if you think that God can't use you to do great things why do you think that he used such ordinary people in the Bible to do these great things he used ordinary people you are just a vessel of the Spirit within you you aren't great you aren't great you are nothing special so why not follow something that is greater than you remember we did this sermon series I did this sermon series just on 1st Corinthians chapter 1 in verse number 27 actually turned to 1st Corinthians chapter 1 and look at verse number 27 where God uses you know the foolish things of this world to confound the wise that's the first part of that verse and that's what I preach that whole sermon series on how God takes these powerful people these rich people the kings the the CEOs these uber powerful people in this world and he just he just turns them into fools he's got them all out there and you've got these people that have got an IQ of 170 something and they spend their whole life chasing aliens they spend their whole life talking about things that aren't real it's because God is confounding the wise but what is the last part of that verse then you know what it says it says he uses the weak things of the world guess what that's you he uses the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty so what he's saying is he's going to confound the people that think they're powerful he's going to turn them into fools and make them chase foolish things he's going to use the weakest people to do the mightiest works how is he going to do that through the Holy Spirit that's how if you allow the Holy Spirit to do that look this is great news for any person that is just wondering like what in the world you got all these people out there trying to make themselves great they're just going to be confounded into foolish things when you know when all they have to do is is just get saved and then follow what God has already given them and guess what they'll they'll just they'll have great faith and power and they'll do great signs and wonders great exploits as the book of Daniel says I mean think about getting somebody saved you could somebody that's passed from eternal death to eternal life by you I mean that's a how's that not a miracle how's that not a miracle that you know you some weak person has just its verse number 21 I just saw it if man therefore purge him from these he shall be a vessel on honor sanctified and meet for the master's use and prepared unto every good work you purge yourself from the garbage and now you're a vessel of the Holy Spirit that God can actually use that's what the Bible is saying there but look how's it not a miracle of some weak poor not that smart person going out and preaching the gospel getting somebody saved that's a great miracle how's it not a miracle that children today if raised according to what the Bible says and the word of God will not only get saved but able to be able to live a great Christian life where they will grow up to be adults that now serve the Lord under their own free will under their own power of the Holy Spirit that is now within them that's that's a great wonder that no matter how bad this world gets that is still possible how is it possible that when all the other marriages out there are thriving or not thriving but falling apart just because of you know money and loss and all these other things of the world that your marriage can thrive if you listen to what the Bible says you follow the spirit within you your wife follows the spirit within her and your relationship can just thrive and thrive and thrive these are miracles and wonders and signs is what these are I mean God in 2 Timothy chapter 2 in verse number 21 is just saying you know all you know what he's saying there he's saying just give me something to work with and like you're not going to do the work you're not going to do the work I mean a good a good check on yourself is you know you're like am I a spirit fielder am I not well when you go out soul winning to perform those great signs and wonders and do that great miracle of hopefully getting someone saved are you excited to go talk to somebody are you excited to knock the next we're like I hope I can talk to somebody today hope I can get out there and have a conversation at least have a conversation with somebody at least go out and you know do you get somebody say to know but at least I got to give the gospel to somebody but that's the person that's filled with the spirit some of this is going out there just because like they want to check it off their list that's somebody that's not filled with the spirit I pray every single time that I come up to preach that I would be filled with the spirit I pray that God would would use me to do what to be super smart and super clever and super funny so you're all entertained or whatever no that I would just have the ability to teach this word to you that that's being filled with the spirit and being excited to do so I don't want to you know be up here like that's not filled with the spirit I should be excited to preach the gospel you should be excited to read God's word you should read God's word and and and just be you just take your time reading it when you see something in God's word that makes you the reminds you of something else in God's what you should be excited about that means you're filled with the spirit that's the spirit working with you as you study the word God look the point is that this is a huge tool that a lot of Christians leave on the table every single person God the Bible is filled with weak and underperforming and and not as smart as everybody else men and women who God used to do great things because it's God's glory that he wants to show and not our glory if he used the most powerful people and the most powerful everybody everywhere we could see yeah that came with super powerful that's why he won that battle and God's like no no no you only get a couple hundred people because I want people to know that I won the battle but the point is that is us Gideon's army is us let God win some battles all we have to do is clean up the vessel and give God something to work with so that's John chapter 7 verse 38 and verse 39 the Holy Spirit and how it should work in your life let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer


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Yeah Hello everybody We only have 30 minutes and I heard that we have a couple of slides to go through No, we may have some information in these slides as well. You may be interested So this is our wrap-up ceremony for today, but we are not closing the conference because Tonight there is trivia night and Just to make it clear if you are attending first time there is extra points if you are like You know, there are all kinds of goodies so make sure you pick your team and not just the usuals, okay? Yeah, there's some really good prices that you can win and it's a lot of fun and Also tomorrow is contribution day so yes And It's the first time that we sold out the contribution room and need to increase the capacity in the contribution room So that's an achievement. Thank you So we'll have we'll have stuff for first-timers who've never contributed to Drupal You will learn about the tools in the process if you contributed before about need issues or help with making progress with issues Then we have mentored contribution if you want to be involved with one of the initiatives Then the general contribution is there and you can also set up your own initiative table at the general contribution So and you get food you get food as well Yes, but let's look at a group photo right coffee. So Wow, there's a lot of us here So how many how many were we here today? How many how many checked in gubbler? So we were 1168 people at Drupal Karn Prague And we have a little video for you to show of how this went All right, thank you Dan and everybody else who has been taking photos So there's one more special thing that happened today. Yeah, we had the women in Drupal Award and We had three categories Christina Surabi and Stella all got awarded these Women in Drupal Award that was sponsored by FFW for the first time and we've heard that this is going to be a tradition at Drupal Karn Europe. So let's make sure that we nominate everyone we know for next year. Yeah So we would like to thank all of the supporters of the Grants and Scholarships program for this conference that allows several attendees to be here that could make it otherwise We'd also like to thank our volunteers Which included the European Advisory Committee? So we have so many slides We have so many people to thank you So these are the ones who put together the program here who helped co-organizing the track cheerleads Then you have a track team people those who are counting who how many are in its room selected for our sessions for you There's the people that are mentoring that the first time workshops already and will be mentored tomorrow as well We would like to also thank all of our speakers who provided the amazing content for the conference We will not have a photo of each speaker We would like to thank all of our sponsors diamond sponsor aquea drop solid pantheon platform a sage or of all platinum sponsors And then the gold sponsors our gold sponsors as well as our silver sponsors all the module sponsors that supported the contribution days and other activities at the conference our media sponsors and Our other sponsors. We'd also like to thank whooni who was amazing Putting together this event Thank you all We've been working with them for more than a year now in this conference and will likely continue working on next year, but We're not allowed to tell you the next year yet, but he knows That's interesting. Yep. So we would also like to thank the triple association for all their support and all the work that they do for the community and If you are a triple association member the board election voting started yesterday, yes You should have received an email so take it out and and give in your vote, please Yeah, and Now let's talk about next year. Oh Exciting. Yeah. Okay. So what is going to happen next year? So next year Three of you will be at Drupalcon already because we had this game in the mobile app that you are collecting points throughout the conference And so the highest point winner gets a free registration for next year and that is Don't go Lovatic. Yes From in Trivo. Is he here? Are you here? Congratulations here. Are you here anywhere? No, okay, but good. We're gonna send you an email Yeah, Cooney will reach out with the details for the registration and The other two tickets that people could win and this point contest are Drawn among all the people who were collecting points So we are actually gonna pick a lot of people tonight today to get all kinds of Things so if your name gets announced, then please don't come up here because we don't have time for that Yeah, but we are gonna reach out to you afterwards. And so yeah, so let's see who wins the two tickets for next year Salman Haider Working oh We have another one And our final winner is So again, you will be contacted but now we have the passport contest how does that work actually and you will draw Many winners. So we've had all the people who visited all of the booths all of our exhibitors are in this ball here And now Betty will pick the winners. Okay first for three Acquia certification vouchers three three of them. Yes, one two three We start with The Drupal Viking Hilmar hot person Next one then we have send to the gundt-o-pally Okay, great We have Peter lots of it ski. Yeah Congrats, okay. These are three Acquia certification vouchers the next one Next one winner one gets three months supply of sustainably grown coffee from platformer sage. That's Mario Lopez Congrats So you will get your prices after this session so next up is 1x internet to tote bags and with some goodies Okay, that's Renato Gomez and Milan Corjano Nice Milan Corjano rats They don't have too many left. So next up is amazing. I owe 200 euros a Amazon gift card one of them that's Andre, yeah, I think it's a less name best early Andre The rats and now we have FFW you five backpacks Five yeah, I can't see anything Okay Hey, they're bad sick. Yeah, Peter Marco Santos Daniel Nicolov and Martha Marzak and then James Shields Rats Okay And then we have one person getting a bag with Slovenian goodies from agile drop Are we giving hints from next year or no? That is Salim Sada You want to drop now I know What are you doing so finally One year pro subscription to the back beaver cloud backups one winner the final winner is Alexandra Drago rats So So that's actually interesting. We have to we have to before we go to the where we are going maybe next year. Yeah So how many? Like we normally talk about the countries and we love your vision We were always talking about that How can we make this into your vision that you all are here with your flags because most attendees this year? Yeah, I'm coming from Germany Congrats, I think it was almost 200 people coming from Germany is that where next year's gonna be That could be But then we have number two United States Oh Thank you for coming all the way and then seeing you there in the backs of my view from United Kingdom, so And we can just surely tell you that this is not normally the results in the eurovision song contest So one of these countries is the answer to where we see you next year one of these countries because We see you next year in Pittsburgh, of course In the US so Call for speaker The call for speakers is already open and Application for volunteers for a speaker review committee are open So if you'd like to be involved in figuring out who's speaking in Pittsburgh now is the time to be Involved, but we are joking all the time about the next event and we're making these jokes. So Okay, so really like what about the next European event that he at least the one that we know of One that we know because there's always happening a lot of events in Europe there's one that we didn't know that much that we can actually announce it's gonna be In Vienna in the summer Yeah, so we have here the Austrian community. I know that you're all here. Thank you for taking this on Organizing one of the great events that we have here in Europe every year. Yeah, so meet there in hopefully July They are still booking the dates as we speak So it's gonna be in the summer. It's gonna be a lot of fun So, all right, but maybe okay. We man now joke dinner. Do you think do you? So Is it that really about what could Europe now?  No, I only know a little about it. So this guy here knows. Yes So this is Kretek. You all got to know him in the beginning and he's drinking beer from Prague and We are having a new mascot and Don't say anything if you know if you give this hints of something So, please take a seat because Kretek wants to have a word So I'm obviously speaking for Kretek because he can't say so Mads himself So dear mascot you are going to be going at least to Vienna that we know There's gonna maybe gonna go to Pittsburgh even That would be interesting like it was a challenge to take this person here with us But that's a little bit we can take it as a comfort animal though. Okay on the airplane Should we maybe so if you think about alcohol like beverages which we had here because Kretek was drinking that Maybe we should hint of like what what do you think that this would like drinking is it also beer? Because if it was beer, then it would be Germany, right? So what are we gonna give this one? Yeah, wine Okay, okay Still like so is it gonna be hungry then like I know there's a famous Hungarian no Anyway, let's see the video for next year and then you will know Opening ceremony we we joke that we only know a little about where the event is gonna be We actually We had we already said it in the opening ceremony We had here in the mascot that we don't have a name for yet But we presented it from little in the convention center, but that's gonna be greeting us She is here. So she was the one who actually brought this in here, you know, so you could have But we can we can never pull off any event and and again here to the local Drupal organizers from here Thank you so much for everything because we cannot do this with the help of the Drupal community in the country that we are going to yeah, so The Drupal friends team has of course like known this for a while, and they're taking over So Me again, yeah, hey I've been knowing this for a while.  Yeah But you know, we have a long-standing history of love between France and Drupal. Do you know first of all? Can I hear the Frenchies, please? Sorry Germans, but there's a lot of us too so So do you remember when was the last Drupal corn in France? Yeah, you're good Well, did you know that the website is still up? I Bet you didn't I don't know if you know this guy the Maître de Cérémonie Dries Pretty amazing looking, but I'm sorry to break it to you, but the conference is sold out But as a Frenchie, I was very interested to find this practical section about food Because I don't know if you're aware, but French people actually descend from hobbits We're always worried about second breakfast But then that's not the only event that happened in France, obviously we also had Drupal death days in 2015 I think some of you went there and Yeah In 2017 someone asked what's your favorite piece of conference swag and Well, Teodor said hands down the Drupal spoon You know in April this year Webchick asked the same question to Twitter and Twitter answered again The French swag is the best swag. I'm sorry. It has to do about food. So, you know, it's always useful So what about Next time then you will have to come to see Speaking about food, Lil is not only beautiful and rich in history and beautiful monuments They also have amazing food like the Welsh the Tartot Marouel muscles sugar pie and my favorite of course Waffles, you don't know these ones. I swear to you. These are amazing So enough with the food and this is the French board We will be working with Coney and the Drupal Association to ensure that you have the best experience possible When you come to France and we just can't wait to see you there. So, yeah Please a warm warm warm round of applause for our new Mascot and the organizing team that will make it happen next year. Thank you Okay, all right, so That was it for our closing session of wrap-up ceremony Let's see each other tonight at trivia and tomorrow on the contribution day. We will be there We already did the first selfie with the mascot So if you want to do a selfie and that's the time Thank you everyone for coming and we Really hope that you will have fun tonight and tomorrow in the contribution day. See you next year. Yeah. Thank you


Upcycle showdown. Me versus Kim. I took this old table and tried to breathe some new life into it. Kim took an old sign and tried to make it something new and made it into a tray. Oh, that's right. It's a big old tray. I'll show you how we did them. Right now. What is up? Welcome back. This week we're down to scraps. We're scrapping it. Not exactly, but I did find some things that I could repurpose. Remember this? Christmas time? Do you also remember that it's missing a number? So... A number. Quick, what number? Six. So I thought I could repurpose this board and do something new with it. And I had these leftover one by two frames from another project that went awry that I thought I could use as a frame for this board. Repurposed. And I am going to repurpose this table. It just sits in the corner of our craft room over there with like bills and things I don't want to deal with. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. And it's all... It's got, I don't know, it's got some stains. It's pretty beat up on the front of it. I don't know if you can see from there. You can see where Alan Wrench was sitting there for like a hundred years. Yeah. So I'm gonna paint it and paint it and throw some decorative something on top. I don't know yet. We're gonna find out. He's got some ideas. It's gonna look pretty cool. They're gonna kind of go together. Mine's a tray. His is a table. It's kind of a versus challenge. Oh, it's a versus challenge. My project, his project. All right, we'll have to see who made the better scrap. What are we doing here? Repurpose. Repurposed. Upsycle. Who upcycled the bestest? Project one, step one. Do you like that? I do. Ambidextrous. We're gonna get all this stuff off this board. This was like heat transfer vinyl. I don't know if it'll come off. I don't know if it'll come off, but guess what? It has a back side, so I could always turn it over if I need to. That comes right off. All right, here you want this. Oh, I can't use this side. It's got a whole bunch of holes in it. It's got a bunch of holes in it. All right, I still want to take the stuff off though. All right, step one, we paint the board. That's right.  And give her a paint. Step one, give her a sand. Yep. Step one. Sand it out. Sand it out. One step two. Now we paint. Very good. That was first tea. First tea. Step three. Now we're gonna lay down this big old stencil. We recently purchased a large format stencil cutter, so I'm able to create these 24 inch stencils now. You may have noticed in our store we have 60 inch stencils for welcome to our home now. That's because we have the new cutter over there. So let's see how this works. I'm excited. One full stencil. So what I'm thinking about doing, or what I've decided I'm going to do, is I'm going to do the damas print in this chocolate paint royal. It's like a navy blue, but it's not navy. It's royal. And then I think I'm going to do the center in this folk art home decor paint in Glacier, which is a light blue. So dark blue on the outside, light blue on the inside. Do we get it all? I don't know. I can't even tell on the cross side at this point. So here's what I learned with this stencil. It works great. It cut well and had all the detailed cuts. It went on beautifully. It just was a little pain to peel off. It didn't come off in one solid piece. So it was a little bit challenging to weed. I think that's because it was so intricate. Yes, but it turned out great. It kind of got into the green a little bit, but that's okay because I'm going to sand this. And I want this damas look to be real faded. So this is a kind of a dark, needy blue. I want to fade it out. You probably can't see. I'm going to hold it there for just a second so that you can see that hopefully see that I have sanded it quite a bit. Try to really make it distressed looking. I love the way it looks so far. I'm so excited. All right. Now what I was thinking is that I'm going to put a monogram in the center of my frame here with our last initial. We have these little one by twos that we salvage from some other project. And my pocket saw is a 24 inch board. Where's your mask? You want my mask? Your mask is in paint. Just going to hit it with a one and a quarter inch brad. The nail, not the guy. I'm going to give this tray some handles so you can actually carry Project number two. We're going to upcycle this table. We're just going to paint the legs. This navy color from chopped up. Yep. It's actually navy. I'm going to paint the top. This white chalk paint. Step two of project two. We've got to add the design. I'm going to get some racing stripes. Make it look. Using some more chalk paint. The same paint that I used on the legs. I'm trying to get a little bit out of the jar and do the stripes. Oh jeez. I forgot. They're so slow. Yeah, it's slow. I'm racing stripes. This thing's looking fast already. Look at that. He's zipping down the room. Add our design. Moment of truth. We're going to use this Mod Podge image transfer. And then I use these Avery labels. I pulled all printed with my inkjet printer on the shiny side where the labels were. Now we're going to see if it works. We're going to lay down the Mod Podge thin, thin layer. Then we're going to try to put our image down. Remember, when it's down, it's down. When it's down, it's down. You can't move it. You can't touch it. It's like wet ink. You just got to go in. Let it be. Let it be. Now just distress it. It would be okay. All right. Most of it came off the page. So we got so far. Smudgy. Smudgy. It's all right. I'll give it a quick little distress. So we got that's okay. Good. It looks good. I wanted the transfer to be a little better. It'll do. It'll do. It'll do. Who do you guys think won this showdown? I'm going to vote for Kim. Now your table looks great. I'm liking my transfer came out. Hers looks awesome. What do you guys think? Have you guys done any upcycling, recycling, repurposing? Show us what you got. Show us what you've done. You've been locked up. I'm sure you've done something. Yeah, exactly. Show us what you got. Give us a comment. If you're not yet subscribed, hit that like button. Give us a share. Don't forget to hit that bell to be notified of our new videos each week. And until next week, watch one of these videos over here. It'll keep you entertained for at least 12 minutes or so.


AI trades very similar to marijuana. Like, even Nvidia, when they were breaking out, the other AI stocks were gapping up 5%, 10%. By the end of the first day of Nvidia's big earning spike, the other stocks were red on the deck. I don't know how many people have actually acknowledged this publicly, but you're the reason why most of us are sitting here in this room right now. Your ability to market, your ability to attract people into day trading into the stock market is the reason why I'm sitting here right now, is the reason why I can't speak for others, but that's the reason why I'm sitting here. Had I never seen a Tim Sykes ad, I would never be sitting here right now. So how did you get into it and then how, what was it that clicked that all of a sudden you went, whoa, this could be so much more than what I just did? I mean, I'm Jewish for his gump. Like, things just happen. I'm not a smart man, but I know what trading is. It's crazy. Like, I, you know, there's a case that could be made that this is all like a simulation, because things just work out for me, even with my losses. And like, my losses helped me learn what not to do. You know, getting in a fight with Randall Lane, who was this big time magazine editor of Trader Monthly, and then he just ripped my name through all of his press friends. Like, when I first got started teaching the Reuters article after I talked to her for four hours and thought that she understood my story and the article title is failed hedge fund manager tries again on the internet and I'm like, the ups and the downs, like it's crazy, but I appreciate the downs and you learn from them. But I got started trading senior year of high school. I had surgery on my arm. I had Tommy John surgery. I was a tennis player couldn't play tennis anymore. I had surgery. They take something out of your other arm. They put it in this arm. I'm walking around with two casts.  And yeah, I can't do much. But this was 1999. The stock market was going crazy.  And I made roughly 100 grand senior year of high school, which was a lot. I'm from a small town in Connecticut freshman year in college. The first four months is when the NASDAQ went from 2000 to 5000. I grew the 100,000 into nearly a million freshman year.  I can't even drink beer. Like I'm downloading illegal movies from Merck in my freshman dorm room. Like I didn't deserve to make nearly a million dollars. Like what's going on? And you'll laugh. My number one strategy at the time, companies just added.com to their name and they would spike the three, four, five days in a row. Sportsman's guide opened my eyes. They sell camping gear. I think they're still around. I put out a press release. Sportsman's guide is now sportsman's guide.com. We're going to sell camping gear online three to 12 in a week, not even all at once. And I'm like, are you in the over and over again, like there was probably 500 different companies that added.com every single one of them double triple quadrupled. Market watch was an IPO before CBS bought them. That was like up 50,000%. Like it was stupid, but I was in the right place at the right time. A lot of people made a lot of money in 99 and 2000, but I learned short selling in 2001, 2002, because I realized that there were so many pump and dumps. And then I gravitated towards that. Not many people adapted. Most people never adapt. They find one hot strategy. And then they think that's it. Holdlers, for example. So when that stuff was going wild, how are you submitting orders? Are you using a gateway PC? I mean, this was old school. I was using CompuServe and AOL dial up modems. I remember there was the Y2K thing was going on. And I remember I went in, I had made like my first, I think it was like, maybe I made like 50,000. So I took my parents into New York to see a Broadway show. They had never seen a Broadway show. We didn't grow up with a lot of money. So it was a big thing. And there was a Y2K stock. I want to say it was like GR8, like great. Something's pouring like that. And everyone was afraid. Y2K, like all the computers were shut down. These Y2K stocks were surging. And I think I sold some before the Broadway show just in case. But I came back and it had gone from like 50 to like 118 in a day. And I was like pissed that I had sold some. And I was like, what? No, Accelerate. Accelerate with the eight at the end. Sorry.  Forgive me. But like, Well, you're doing pretty good for two decades. It comes back. Now, if you look at like a lot of companies say we're getting into crypto, or we're working with chat GPT, we're getting into AI. It's the same thing. A lot of companies were getting into the marijuana business. You see these kinds of hype cycles. If you compare Ebola stocks versus COVID stocks, it's very similar. COVID just actually went, you know, more than Ebola. Ebola never really took off. I blame myself for not taking advantage of monkeypox. I was like, monkeypox is such a joke. Those stocks fight again. And I should have realized that the joke could have been profitable. Did you guys bank on the monkeypox stocks? No, I missed that one. Which, which sector do you think is making the most headway right now? You know, do you think AI has the ability to be that sector that stays around?  And all of those and then the shippings and everything else. But do you think AI is that sector that much like .com, it's here to stay? Not all industries trade well. Marijuana stocks, for example, big boom. But when they were crashing, they didn't bounce. You know, I remember MMMFF, the craziest ticker, and it just dropped and it kept dropping. This was, you know, Jack Kellogg and Kyle Williams biggest loss of those days, because they dip bought and it just kept dropping. They sized in, they each lost six figures. I take very small trades.   You can trade as conservative or as aggressive as you want. But like AI trades very similar to marijuana. Like even Nvidia, when they were breaking out, the other AI stocks were gapping up 5, 10%. By the end of the first day of Nvidia's big earning spike, the other AI stocks were red on the day. It was very strange.  Some people say it's just the beginning of the AI revolution. There's a AI which keeps going. I was buying that in the sixes and selling it in the sevens. And I was like, yeah, now it's like, you know, double. Crushed it.  Yeah, exactly. I mean, I was happy just to win like to, I'm happy that there's like a hot sector 2022 there wasn't really much just like survival of the fittest. It was like the hunger games. Now it's just like, now AI is at least pushing stuff forward. But it's not, it's not as easy as crypto. You know, there's, there's some nuances. So I wouldn't be too aggressive right now. September and October are going to be very volatile. It would be cool if we come back to the year high, like I wouldn't want to be a short seller. Like I know a lot of short sellers, like their hearts are failing. They're going for weekly medical checkups.  And it's not like a prequel Gandalf. It's like, you shall not pass. I'm like, this is me, dude. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't be a short right now, but at the same time, like, I don't know if we're going to break out to new highs again, I just take it one trade one fad at a time. I'm just happy to be green. You know, I was green in 2022. I'm green in 2023. I donate all my trading profits to charity these days.   Like this is not the time to be aggressive. In 2020, 2021, I could not trade enough. I looked down at my fingers one time during the mania. And I was like, I don't have enough fingers to do all the trades that I want to do. And I was like cracking up. I would like wake up at two, three in the morning. I watched Tim Grittani's DVD trading tickers. And he has so much patience. And I had nightmares. And I was like stuck in this position. And I was like, it was like a short selling nightmare. And I was trying to have patience. I was trying to be like Tim Grittani. I don't even short sell anymore. My life has gotten much less stressful since that change. But I woke up at two in the morning and like, I was conflicted because Tim Grittani says have patience, but I was getting squeezed. And I was like, ah, and I woke up in a cold sweat. I don't sort of sell anymore. Thank God. Okay. It was just a nightmare. It was a bad dream. You just got to, you got to take the volatility. You got to adapt. If you want to trade small, if you want to donate, do it, you know, if you want to trade big and you, you want to be aggressive, I don't think that this is the right time.


Hello friends, welcome back to the channel. In today's video we've got an update in regards to the save data issues that a small minority of Pokemon Scholar and Violet players were experiencing after the latest 1.2.0 update. Now a few weeks ago we put a video up on the channel, we put a couple of videos up on the channel in regards to this save data issue where players were experiencing losing all of their save data completely after updating to 1.2.0. This was something that no one still to this day knows really what was causing it. It could have been the update itself, it could have been something with receiving the Zoroa or the DLC updates if you pre-ordered them. It could have been the Vivillon event that was happening between Pokemon Scholar and Violet compatibility with Pokemon Go. Who knows, but there was a combination of things that were happening to a very small minority of people and of course everyone that plays the game was quite concerned about it. Pokemon players don't have a cloud save data storage place where as saves are backed up, once the save data is corrupted that is it, you lose everything in your games and the thought of it is quite scary. Although it goes with saying that it is only happening or has happened to a very small, minute amount of players so the chances of it happening to you are very remote. But with that said, we have had on the back of it an update announced for late April which is addressing the walking weight iron leaves issues that players were experiencing getting the bad egg with that. And you would think with that update there will be some extra additional processes in there that will probably alleviate any issues going forward for players experiencing any of these save data issues. But on the back of that, if you have experienced the save data issues in your game and you've lost your save data, there is a really interesting case over on Twitter this was actually brought to my attention by Blains, the content creator who actually covered this already, but I want to cover it as well. So you as players know there is a route for recovering your save data. There was a Pokemon player over in Japan over on Twitter posted their experiences after experiencing their save data getting deleted in their games. You can see here Linbo 3 is their handle there. Gas Scarlet's save data was blown away. Why does it take so long to enter the poker portal? I thought I saved and restarted the software and this happened. I don't feel like I can fix it somehow. So this is initially when it happened. They were having issues getting into the poker portal and because of that they thought well let's save the game, restart it and hopefully that'll resolve it. They saved their game, they restarted their game. When they restarted they were presented with this screen and that was their save data corrupted. Subsequently from this situation they then went on to contact Nintendo support and then had their switch sent off to Nintendo to have a look at. Hopefully to get a repair on the console itself to recover the save data. A couple of weeks later after they sent their switch to Nintendo they received it back. Unfortunately the reported problem was not repaired as you can see here. The switch which had been sent to repair due to problem with the save data for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet could not be recognized. It was returned to me, nothing has changed. There was also a statement in the statement that said that recommended deleting the save data and starting over from the beginning. Isn't it bad to have a different response from Pokemon customer service? I think there was a bit of conflicting information between Nintendo customer service, Pokemon customer service to begin with. This all gets resolved though in the end so don't worry about that. I'm just telling the story here. As you can see they had their switch console returned and they still had the same issue with the save data and not booting up and being corrupt on their switch. This then led to further conversations with Nintendo customer service. As I say, story continues. They then contacted Nintendo support and then surprisingly I was able to provide save data from home. So Nintendo support had asked for them to provide the save data from their console itself. He was able to do this from home. He was able to do this going into the settings and doing things while on the phone to the customer service representative and it uploaded his save data to Nintendo who then were trying to repair it and recover that save data lost. So fast forward. So this is the 16th of March, a day after the console got returned. Fast forward two weeks later and you've got the conclusion here. So I received a call from Nintendo's customer service department and Scarlett's save data was successfully restored. It took about four weeks from the occurrence of the phenomenon but the data came back. I hope that the same symptom will be restored and if a new person who has the same phenomenon appears it will be dealt with quickly and you can see here that there must be something. Obviously it is all in Japanese. I can't really read it but from the story so far you're getting a picture of the save data was transferred to Nintendo. They've recovered the save data. They've then had a way for you to download it back onto your console from their servers. You've updated the game doing that and then you can see the end result here. They can boot into their game and they're able to access their save data again. So it was recovered. So real silver lining at the end of this that Nintendo and Pokemon are doing what they can to restore the save data. It is done on a individual by individual basis. Of course Nintendo aren't reaching out to players that are affected by this. People are going to, if you are affected, going to have to contact Nintendo help desk customer services to have this kind of help done in your games. But this is a good example of where you're going to be able to contact them and have the save data recovered so you can get all of your Pokemon playthrough back which is really, really encouraging. So like I said there is an update coming at the end of April which you would imagine hopefully there is a fix so this is not an issue anymore. But there is a way for you to get your save data back and I think as I said this is an update that's just going to be about more awareness about if you have been affected by it or if you are affected by it in the future. This is a route that you can go down and it isn't the end of the line if your save data gets deleted. You can go to Nintendo and they hopefully will have ways for you to be able to recover it. So like I said silver linings quick update video we've been covering the story. So this is why I wanted to put this video up today to let you know of this situation and a massive thank you to lindo3 who actually shared their whole journey through the start of losing their save data and then eventually getting it back and good work and big props to Nintendo and Pokemon for obviously working with them to recover that save data that is. For a lot of players quite an important thing because I know myself if I lost mine I would be devastated. So knowing that in the back of my mind if it does happen there is a potential route to get it back it makes me feel a bit better about going online which I hope it makes you all feel a little bit better about going into your games online and doing things normally in game without having the worry about losing that save data because this is a route where we can obviously go down and have things fixed and hopefully come the end of April with that new update it won't be an issue anymore. So I hope you've enjoyed the update friends if you have as always please subscribe to the channel to stay up to date with all of our Pokemon Scarlet and Violet content. Do drop a like as well because it really does help the channel out and I will see you all in another video very soon. Leave your comments let me know what you think about this down below. Till next time friends take care of yourselves and bye bye.


Thank you so yeah, it's my first time at this meetup so kind of new to everyone and Today, I'm just gonna talk about how got that destination with AWS And I'm not as technical as the rest of them because you know I'm supposed to be vendor agnostic I'm gonna share with you guys how we do AWS But first I'm just gonna do a little bit of promotion for those that who do not know gaff tech This is the long word government technology agency of Singapore If you shorten it to GTA It's a totally different acronym. So we don't do we don't want that. That's why gaff tech and our logo is moving. So yeah Because we're bold Formerly known as IDA right For those who know IDA we do a lot of things. So Now it's split gaff tech is a branch that actually does a lot of engineering and software development hardware stuff So right on top we are awesome and happy and we try to bring that culture to everyone We're hands-on a job. So we do, you know, software development and all that So a job con is by one of our directors All that good stuff. I know I don't have a lot of time. So I'm just gonna blast. Hey, this is me I was giving a workshop at he was there at high. This is my my office actually very open very like it's like software startup kind of environment And we also have autonomous wheelchair. So maybe Amazon can help with that So I never gets around Yes, a use case would be in the hospital when nurses are actually nursing the victim Sorry the patient So they don't want to spend the time to actually push from point A to point B because the hospital might be a little bit big So you just set it on the map for them on the wheelchair of the girl package Yeah, like a magic all in her phone So and our building is in hive sang crawler Same as Lucas firms and Disney so we can actually see I am I don't know why Marvel is there, but Apparently they invaded Disney. So yeah Me well, you're out if you are interested in me just a little bit of background About me. I went to SMU boy and race in Singapore But I went to CMU for my master's degree and kind of stayed there for a while cause I like it Then I came back to serve the nation dish So right now I wear many hats today. I'm wearing my AWS accounts Engineer head where I talk to you from a point of how we use AWS and other good stuff Also, I do make martial arts and self-defense if you hire me you get digital and physical defense. So I was a medic in SAF Yeah, so there you go Disclaimer anything I say here doesn't actually represent my organization you know Disclaimer, so I don't Singapore is a fine country, right? I can be fine by actually standing here and it's a nonsense So, yeah humor is necessary. So I like to be candid and less casual as you can see This is how I dress and go to work All right, let's get down business. So Traditionally, we use data centers, right? Everything is tight You want to deploy something you have to buy a rack or hardware Then you get engineers to the part of the software problem. So we all know why moving to the cloud is good Because also we have a shift in mindset. So the government is trying to be as agile as the industry. So therefore the We're we're using private cloud at first. We build our own cloud and that was kind of cost inefficient per se or slow then we now are exploring public cloud. So Keeping up with industry and it is actually happening, right? Where we are at high So other factors are because moving to public cloud because everyone's using the same, you know, compute resource is cheap You want to be prudent because we're using taxpayers money. So very efficient. It's very scalable ish some things aren't and Sometimes security we have to consider that and balance that depending on how much risk the organization can accept, right? And they are really cloudy Requirements when it comes to choosing a cloud provider because different providers, you know, provide different stuff And I really know what you know. I really hope you know what it doesn't mean Because Azure is another competitor and Google Cloud is yet another cloud competitor. So, right This slides actually indicates about If you're an idea of how many humans we have three kind of a three to five Engineers doing the administration of AWS the creation and the deletion the management that made so I you know Actually just managing accounts But above all that we have tens of other engineers who don't actually get to get so hands-on on the management. So That's that's my role, right? I used to do more of the actual development on the Like lambda and you see to s3 by now. I try to do more of the engineering So consult dating on the accounts and security and monitoring how they use the How how should we use it or how do we use it? It's you know, governed by cloud policies because we are in the government includes a lot of security compliance and operations requirements Like tens and thousands of pages. So I don't want to bore you with that. So I just summarize all this and This is exactly the key point If you think about it is data classification, right? Because everyone's data is stored with us Sensitive or not then we have classified or unclassified. So right now. We only can process unclassified Right like population traffic data things that are kind of public Those we use the clock a lot Other than that like your personal IC number, etc We we don't do it in AWS. We still do it the traditional way in our own data center, right? so we are looking into more ways to kind of a tokenize You guys have heard of organization Just trying to anonymize data. So it becomes more public rather than identifiable. Yeah all right, so it's not where Anyway Okay, so we use all these Did anyone catch the wine right on top We use all these data and actually did these services and those that are available in Singapore obviously right, we don't always get the services first at first launch because You're laughing at something because US East and US West always gets it first, right? And today I was supposed to talk about AWS Badge I did play around with it, but I didn't have too much time to go into technical details Maybe next time I found it pretty interesting. So have you seen the truck use the snowmobile? Yeah, I just we don't we don't use it It's not it's it's not available here. I don't know you actually have to submit a form to do that But but the top three are the are easy to S3 and ideas, which is really common because we are still pretty early in our deployment and usage of AWS, right? So the rest just basically plays a support role, but kind of is the backbone to Let's talk about the top three Like all Software shops we use softwares on top of AWS and those are common ones. We use the Alassian suit So everything sits on it we gain speed and agility Everybody knows that right? I don't have to go into too much details so The good thing is this line is kind of blurred now. So I sit right in the middle deaf ops So you manage development as well as ops all in one. So It's kind of where we are moving to it So this is also kind of our CI CD pipeline Nothing special. I mean you have seen it in a lot of deaf ops conference probably you put a code on one side You pipe it through We use telegram. So it's open source. It has spots. It actually tells us. Hey, you're built as fail or you're build is successful It comes out from the other end right also check It does our security scans and all that stuff integrated with our CI tools How do we actually deploy it so the CD part is kind of tough because we operate in a hybrid mode We can actually get pretty quick at a CI part All right, we can do all that built But then at the end you actually need humans who have clear clearance to go into the deployment center to deploy it and pass it in but It's no longer entirely in the agf environment right now kind of in a hybrid mode. So this is like kind of the overall No Maybe So I'm a security guy, so I use cloud trail a lot Which is like the first thing I turn on when I give somebody an account So from there you actually pipe it through S3 Set up all the cloud watch good stuff. You set your rules alerting. So whenever somebody is doing something kind of I Said rules so when they kind of trigger the rules, I get to know what they do and kind of tell them Hey From a education point of view, you know, we try not to enforce because that actually breaks our Openness culture right if you're enforcing me if you kind of like lock down and tied to a policy So but we're in the government There are some audits that we have to adhere to Things like that. So we can kind of just educate them say hey, don't open your security group part zero to six five three three five To slash zero because that's bad and attached it to all instance. So things like that. That's a Sure All right, Kibana dashboard AWS link this is by AWS themselves. I found it really useful. So thank you what you need to do is to put the Cloud formation stack into your confirmation and I think so it basically types of cloud trail all the way to a Kibana dashboard But like you said you know memory application thing that was interesting. So Once you get to this one. Yes, I am yeah, so I'm still kind of figuring it out Yeah Okay At least at least it makes my job easier rather than digging through culture Yes So it's really nice, it's all native to AWS and you don't you don't need to spend a whole lot of money on your SIEM Right like Splunk cost you a lot of money I Got it So also asset management one thing that I use like that for is to query all my assets within the account and write it to a flat file in S3 in CSV Telling me how many at this moment. How many C2 instances I have what are their ports open? what are the security groups and then I can find out what are the ports blah blah blah and Yeah, I am and how long have they been up? They've been up front and running for three years without patching Oh, okay, I need to take a little bit of things like that And then send an email to me notifying that they have done the job. So That's asset management for you in AWS 101 And this guy if you have time look at the The link that I provided he actually hacked lambda with the misconfigured permissions. It's kind of cool He managed to retrieve data from the RTS all the way to his console I don't have time to talk more, but Just be very careful about your permission that you put on your lambda function not not start up Yeah, I will share the slide so you guys can And one more thing about Something that I actually proposed is using a control plane pattern if you guys have heard of it. So These rectangles are actually one AWS account each So project A, B and C are at the bottom and the control account is at the top So there's nothing in a control account except for IEM users. So I log in as IEM user I get a temporary credentials in project A and I'm a admin By in project B and C I am an arrow. So I get temporary credentials. Why? One use case that I think of is in project A Things get compromised. What do you do? Do you? I don't know if your root key Your root access key gets compromised. This whole account is is gone, right? I have to wipe it. So that's our way of mitigating our risk containing our risk instead of having one account and many VPCs The root access key still can actually access all your VPC. So it's kind of a That's why we have the creation and deletion of accounts. That way we can manage those How much time do I have? Okay, so this is data.gov.sg our public one-stop government public data This is a blog post and this is a YouTube video. Palani, my co-worker, he went to 2016 AWS Summit and presented. This was from his slide. Not my credit. All his. He is the architect of all these so he Actually made this a development environment so they can rapidly test their code and deploy to data.gov.sg This is purely and highly hosted on AWS Nothing of the hybrid stuff because everything is public. Yeah, it's kind of cool Yeah, cloud is a long run So we will we are designing for scale and flexibility trying to be vendor-agnostic because we are the public sector Right experimenting with new cloud services is always exciting. But one thing that I would like to happen more is making people come for more DevOps meetups and education and also actually hands-on so This is just another funny slide that I have You guys get my humor Future users these are things that I want to implement in my organization just to save money manage secrets and Automation and all that good stuff. Oh, AWS. I really want this So you can help me with my Yes control control plane stuff. So one