Broadway's My Beat, from Times Square to Columbus Circle, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomest mile in the world. Broadway's My Beat, with Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover. On the days before Christmas, Broadway dances along to carols that flow from sequined loudspeakers. The kids mash their noses against the plate glass, lick it and watch. And it's all there, the mechanical clown, the tin man dancing a jig on a tin box, the toy army precisely to scale with the latest equipment mechanized. And eyes are bright with desire and hope. It's the one time in the year when odds are better that dreams will come true. So make a wish on a neon star. And in the short time before Christmas, creatures were stirring at police headquarters. There's the patter of tired feet and the sound of manly giggles as little gifts are hidden in desk drawers or poured into Dixie cups or slipped under the police blocker. And in my office, my strong right arm Sergeant Geno Tartaglia. Ask it pretty late, Geno. A couple more hours you can go home and finish decorating your Christmas tree. Indeed, indeed. Getting a lot of nice things this year, Geno? Oh, many's are things, Danny. I guess my old cockles should be warmed. Yeah, but they're not. Oh, something wrong, Geno? What I want most for Christmas, Danny, I'm not going to get. I'm going to get nicks and knacks and an electric shaver and handkerchiefs and socks and ties and a curved cavity pipe to smoke my troubles away. Sounds like a pretty full Christmas to me, Geno. Ah, humbug. Danny, what I want most is to go out and solve a crime. To meet face-to-face the sultry sirens, the hardened criminals, and to solve them the way you do. To go out on a case with you, my fondest wish for Christmas. Oh, police headquarters that fall apart without you, Geno.  Yeah, indeed, indeed. Ah, just thought I'd let you know that's all. Ah, well... I'm going downstairs for some coffee. I'll be back, sir. Roger. Ah, face it, Geno. Oh, you're stuck at a desk. Sergeant Geno Tataglia speaking. Yes. Yes. Yeah, right away. Hey, Danny. Yeah, what's the matter, Geno? I haven't gotten my coffee yet. Coffee? At a time like this? Buddy Malpod and there do well millionaire. What? What about him? What about him? He has been slugged. Let's go, Geno. Did you say, let's... Of course, on a case like this, I'll need you, Geno. Come on. This is his house, Danny. Let's go. Yeah. Stand aside, Danny. No. We can go in now, Danny. Geno. Yeah? We could have run the bell. Who's got time? You're coming? For here, Geno. Back of the sofa. Take a note, Danny. Yes, Sergeant. Buddy Malpod, the unconscious, there do well millionaire. Battled and gorged on the super-acidipal region of the cranium. Back of the skull, Danny. Slugged on the super-acidipal, a virus assailant unknown. From the size of the lump on Buddy Malpod's head to four refined head, conclude that said lump was administered by a blunt weapon three millimeters by five of the irregular contour and lead pipe consistency. You got that, Danny? Yes, Sergeant. Hold it. I got a P.S. To wit, luxurious apartment of said near do well millionaire, one Buddy Malpod, ransacked and left in disarray. P.P.S., the butler of said household will have his work cut out for him. Shall I phone it in now, Sergeant? Don't move. The drapes just moved. All right. You, behind those drapes. Out. With your hands crass behind your neck. Out. Good evening, gentlemen. Good evening, Danny. It can't be. It can't be what, Geno? This man, this hider behind drapes. It can't be. Are you? It is he. Danny, may I present Mike Shreck, the bald-headed miracle detector from Philadelphia. Merry Christmas, gentlemen. Merry Christmas to you, Mike Shreck. I assume you gentlemen are of the police of the city? I present to you, sir, Lieutenant Danny Clover and myself, Sergeant Geno Tataglia. Tataglia, eh? That name has a familiar ring. Perhaps because I was an innocent abroad on the guided in the footsteps of Mike Shreck tour in Philadelphia last summer. I blew myself to it with my vacation money. It's not for that, I remember you, sir. It's for the word that has come to me that you are indeed the brains behind the brains of the New York police force. Oh, come now, Mr. Shreck. You mustn't believe all of me. Oh, I could have used you, sir, on my famed widow Chalcedony's case. When having trailed the Desperado across the 1.83 miles of the Philadelphia Camden Bridge, I was caught in the seductive toils. The machine gun brain of the man, Danny. The memory for details. To have made a part of him the size of the Philadelphia Camden Bridge. Gentlemen, enough of nostalgia to work. It was I who phoned this into you. Being now on the trail of Lance Lash, master criminal of them all, I was led to this place only to find Buddy Malpaw, the ne'er-do-well millionaire. Oh, but Hush, the man is coming around. What happened, man? Tell us what happened. You are... Gently, sir. You are among friends. We're from the police, Mr. Malpaw. Try to tell us what happened. Well, try, fellows. I had a rain such a pleasant evening. A date with Rima-9. Oh, not the Rima-9 from Bolivia, but the Miss Rima-9 who was staying at the Stacey Arms. Go on, Mr. Malpaw. Rima was to meet me here at 9.30. However, at precisely at 9, the doorbell rang. I went to open it. There was no one there. No one? No one. A prank, I thought. I started back into the department. Suddenly, the pain, the awful pain screaming through my skull was no prank, I assure you. No, it... Where is it? Where is it? Where is what, Mr. Malpaw? It's gone. It was here in this case. It's gone. What's gone, Mr. Malpaw? I prized it more than the jewel scimitar of Genghis Khan. The jewel scimitar of Genghis Khan? The jewel... What's going on here, Sergeant? Read your notes, man. Read your notes. And watch the Sergeant as he considers the attitude of the distressed man, the desolation of him, the Sergeant's compassion, understanding, the most precious thing of Malpaw's life. The jewel scimitar of Genghis Khan was gone now, vanished, lost, strayed, stolen, parlorined. The Sergeant's gentleness, the knowledge of it caught up with Malpaw, took hold, displaced everything until it was only emptiness, void, vacuum, space, nothing. And finally the ne'er-do-well millionaire's rejection of it. And turn now, Sergeant Otaglia nods sagely, open the door for him, and leave. Going out of the stacy arms in the clerk of the desk lifts a corner of his lip and an eyebrow when the Sergeant mentions the name of a woman he wants to see. The long ride up on the elevator walked down the carpeted corridor, the sprig of Christmas holly of the brass door knocker. This time we'll knock, Danny. Hi, fellas. Please come in. You'll forgive the way I look. We're from police, Miss Nynne. Yeah, we got some questions to ask you. A piece of fine wear I picked up at Cote d'Azur. I always wear it at this hour. It's a wishing hour. You may call me Rima. I'm Gino. He's Danny. It's about Buddy Malpaw, Miss Nynne. Yeah. He was beaten and robbed this evening. You may sit here beside me if you wish.  Didn't you have a date with Mr. Malpaw this evening? Yes, I did at 9.30. That checks, Sergeant. What time did you get to the Malpaw mansion? At 9.30. I rang the bell and rang it. No one answered. I was so disappointed with an educational evening like that inside. Educational? Buddy was going to show me the jeweled scimitar of Genghis Khan. The real one, not the replica. Oh, there's a replica? At the museum of Far Eastern lore, I often go there in my idle moments and browse around the Far Eastern things.  Please go on. That's how I met Buddy at the museum. Fate plays strange tricks, doesn't it, Gino? Yeah. Now, if you'll pardon me, fellas, I must change. Well, go right ahead. We'll just make ourselves comfortable. Let's go, Gino. We are sorry, Mr. Zoe, that we have made you open your museum to us at such a late hour. It is always a pleasure, Sergeant, to indulge the whims of the cultured, though they be policemen. Thank you, Mr. Zoe. They're not at all. And here, gentlemen, looming above you is the statue of a fabulous terrorizer, Genghis Khan. Cloth in the cap of Tibetan fair, the jeweled garland of brocade of picking silk, all of it donated to us most generously by Buddy Malpar to complete our Far Eastern collection. And the sword in his hands. A replica, only I hear, replica of the jeweled scimitar of Genghis Khan. And Mr. Malpar's generosity dissolved when it reached him. Tell us about the scimitar, Mr. Zoe. We're the deepest of pleasure. Genghis tore it from the wounded hands of Jella Ledin, his arching with her enemy, Danny. Then, for centuries, it was lost. Three centuries, Danny, vanished to reappear again in the Renaissance as an ornament worn about the slim waist of the little creature Borgia. Danny, if this scimitar were real, Mr. Zoe, how much would it be worth? Conservatively. Conservatively? Half a million dollars. Give a little, take a little. Half a million, huh? That's all we need to know. Let's go, Danny. Yeah. And to you, Mr. Zoe, many thanks, and merry, merry Christmas. And to you, sir. The same. Half a million bucks, Danny. No wonder Mr. Malpar and their do well millionaires. Do you know? Hit the ground! Hit the ground! Danny! Danny! Oh, oh! Jean, old, you're, you're... Yeah, help me, Danny. I've been, I've been shocked. You are listening to Broadway's My Beach, written by Morton Fine and David Friedkin, and starring Lurie Thor as Detective Danny Clover. It's so delightful it's become a Christmas tradition with Amos and Andy. Tomorrow night, again, Amos will be heard explaining the meaning of the Christmas spirit to his little daughter, Arbadella. It wouldn't be Yuletide without this special bid Amos and Andy contribute to the season's atmosphere, so be sure to hear it again over most of these same CBS radio stations tomorrow night on Amos and Andy. As the winds move to the place of the years dying, the Mazda's and Broadway's translux arrange themselves in merry thoughts. Suitable for Christmas past, Christmas present, Christmas future, Broadway walks by, glances up, smiles, hurries to buy the last minute gift for the last minute friend. Crosby sings the tune that's in your heart. The corner Santa Claus winks and the golden girl stops you, asks which way to Gimbal's, invites you to come along and show her.  Danny, Danny, I've been shocked. Oh, no. I must have been dreaming. Where was I? Oh, yeah, I was shocked. There you are, Sergeant, as good as new. My thanks, Dr. Sinski. May I say something, Gino? Indeed you may. I've been privileged to attend many courageous men, but you, Gino, no other way I can say it. I stand in humility before you. Ah, Dr. Sinski, you shouldn't say those things. He's right, Gino. I'm only saying what all of us feel. We've already initiated proceedings for an award for bravery beyond the call of duty. Danny, Dr. Sinski, dear true friends, I know that what the... May I? Go right ahead, son. Thank you. Sergeant Gino Cattaglia speaking. Yes, yes. Yes, that was my shriek. Evil has come to him. Get me a squad car. But Gino, you... A head, Danny, a squad car. I got more. The door's locked, Gino. One side. Half to you, Danny. Mr. Shrek, what happened to you? Lancelash. The master criminal of the mall? I give the devil his due. You haven't told us what happened, Mr. Shrek. Gentlemen, please, you help me up. Of course. Now, be gentle with him, Danny. Over here on the bed. Now, tell us about it. Friends, I feel I have failed you. Oh, don't talk like that. After all, how many people have come face to face with Lancelash and lived to tell about it? Give the devil his due. Yes. Now, would you mind telling us what happened? I came here to my rooms. Sparsely furnished, you'll admit, but the way I like it, nowhere below is to distract my attention. I needed to think. I knew I was once again a half in the trail of Lancelash. I came from the ends of the earth. Listen to the man, Danny. We had met. Lancelash and I. The last time on the lonely Isle Maricius, when we battled hand-to-hand on top of old Farfang and the volcano. Yeah, I know, but what happened tonight? Has this my one before I retired? I looked under my bed, gentlemen, and there he was, Lancelash. So you got under two and started a fight with him, huh? Yes, yes, it was nip and tuck under there, but if the devil his due... Why did he come here, Mr. Shrek? I thought I had the dual scimitar of Genghis Khan. Unless you know, gentlemen, I have not. Has he... Would you mind, Sergeant? Oh, of course. Yes. Yes. Yes. How do you like that, Danny? Like what? Riemann Nine. The Sultry Siren? Yeah, she was picked up on a disorderly conduct charge. And you know what she had with her?  Open it, Danny. Well, Riemann, what have you to say for yourself? This, you... Take it easy, Riemann. Just relax. Kicking will get you nowhere. A wild campaign. Yeah, all of you. That's for you. Easy, girl. Easy. That's it. That's a good girl. That's a baby. You have strong arms, Sergeant. Don't take them away.  Why were you doing that, Miss Nine? They tell you about me banging in their empty heads together till they rang out the season's greetings. They mentioned it. Now you tell us why you did all that and right before Christmas. You know why. That piece of mail order carving knife masquerading is the jeweled scimitar of Genghis Khan. Not the genuine article, huh? Not the genuine article, huh? He says... It was a fake! Don't scream, Angel. You were all nearby. Okay, so it was a fake, Miss Nine. Where'd you get it? What's that got to do? Only this. You rang Buddy Malpo's bell at nine last night.  Now you're hurt because it's a fake. Charges pile up, huh, Sergeant? A sore theft? Indeed they do, Riemann. Book me for anything you want, lover. To bring in that woman-beating cab driver. Huh? The cab driver. I get in this cab. Tell him to give me the airport. Now, hurry. Why should I stay in this lonesome town when what I had in my hands was worth half a million? What I had in my hands... Go on. So Cabby tilts his cap to me. I see the union label. I figure he's friendly, trustworthy, loyal. I make chit-chat with him when... Wham! Bang! He turns onto a side street. He grabs me by the throat, wrestles me for the scimitar. He looks at it and breaks it over my head. And you'd know who he was. Who he really was. Not... not... None other. Lance Lash, the master criminal of them all.  Oh, there, there. Don't think about it. You can let her go now, Gino. Read your notes, man. Just read your notes. And leave there. Go away. Find a place at police headquarters and close the door to the outside. Think about it, you and Sergeant Tataglia. Put it down and add it up. It doesn't come out. So Sergeant Tataglia puts it down and adds it up. And it comes out.  I can't believe it. I just cannot believe it. You better believe it, Mr. Sawick, because that's the only way it makes sense. That's right. If the scimitar stolen from Buddy Malpar was a phony, then the one the statue of Genghis Khan was holding is the real one. The ingeniousness of the man Malpar. What better way to keep his treasure safe than to put it before the eyes of the world? We want to see again, Mr. Sawick. Of course, of course you do. This way, this way. Ah, this is very gratifying to me, you know, this publicity. From all walks of life, now drop in to catch a peek of the statue of Genghis Khan holding the scimitar. And just ten minutes ago, I had to warn a cab driver to keep hands on. A cab driver? Yes. Interesting fellow, too. Interesting face. We better hurry, Danny. Yeah. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, yeah. Now, look, look. I don't understand. Genghis Khan. He's dressed like a cab driver. He's holding a city guidebook in his hand. The scimitar is gone. It's impossible. Maybe, but it's happened. The cab driver chains closed. Maybe we can catch him, Danny. Yeah. And maybe that man's sitting on the step sign. Let's ask him. Hey. Hey, mister. Hello.  I guess I did. I've been sitting here for the last hour. Did you notice anything strange about any of them, the way one of them was dressed? Let me see now. This man had on a fur cap and a brocade robe. He was carrying a scimitar. Oh, sure, I saw him. I didn't pay him no mind, though. I just figured he was from California. Let's go, Gino. Danny. Danny, I think I got it. Got what? Get in the car and I'll tell you all about it. Oh, where are we going? To see Mike Shrek, the bold-headed miracle detector from Philadelphia. I think we're at trail's end. It's Lieutenant Clover, Mr. Shrek, and Sergeant Otaglia. I'll be with you in a minute. We're still waiting, Mr. Shrek. Come in. Come in. I was just tidying up. Going someplace, Mr. Shrek? Back to Philadelphia. I'm afraid... Afraid Lancelash has outwitted me again. Oh, has he now? Yes, but I'll get him. After the holidays. Sit down, Mr. Shrek. Tell us how you're going to get Lancelash. Well, I'm going to the Congo after the holidays. Oh. I mean, why are you going to do that, Mr. Shrek? Rumor has already drifted up from the belt of the sudden appearance of the long-nost emerald eye of the goddess Osiris. If I know Lancelash, that's where he'll be after the holidays. He will, Willie. Let me ask you a question, Mr. Shrek. That's your surface. How long did you say the Philadelphia Camden Bridge was? 1.83 miles. See? Why did I tell you, Danny? Go ahead, Gene. I'll correct him. The length of the Philadelphia Camden Bridge is 1.81 miles. Did you hear me, Mr. Shrek? I heard you. Mike Shrek would never make an error like that. Oh. Lancelash, the master criminal of them all, I presume. At your service, gentlemen. Look in the closet, Danny. Right. It's here, all right. The costume of Genghis Khan. And, of course, you left the disguise of the cab driver at the museum. My compliments to you, sir. You came to the house of Buddy Malapar after the Simitaw was stolen. You traced it to Rima-9. The disguise is a cab driver. You found her with it making her flight. You discovered it was a fake. That is correct. Of course you know what happened then. I deduced the same thing you did. That the genuine Simitaw was at the museum. Where is it now, Mr. Lash? Where is it? It is here. Watch out, Geno. You'll cut you to pieces. I'll take them, Danny. Lance. Don't. Don't. Say, Uncle. Uncle. Uncle. Look, Danny, see? I removed this bald-headed toupee. And what do we have? A full head of hair.  Come on, come on. Huh? You fell asleep, Geno. Huh? Yeah. Yeah, I must have dosed. No calls, huh? Yeah, from... No. No calls. What's the matter with you, Geno? Danny. Yeah? I had a dream, Danny. I was a big hero. I went out on a case with you. A dream, huh? I want to tell you something, Geno. Why? When something happens to you, something real, then it's over. You know what you have left? Memory. Yeah, Danny. That's right. When a dream's over, you can remember it. You have the same thing. A memory. That's all anything is, Geno. A memory. Then I got my Christmas wish, huh, Danny? Sure you did. Go on, hold on. Sure. Merry Christmas, Danny. Merry Christmas, Geno. Bells ring out on Broadway, and the horns blow, and there's laughter. The translux spells out peace on earth, goodwill to men. You read it, and believe it, because it's Christmas time, the time we're believing in miracles. The crowd pushes you along, and you're part of it. It makes you happy. It's Broadway, the gaudiest, the most violent, the lonesomeest mile in the world. Broadway, My Beat. Broadway's My Beat stars Larry Thor as Detective Danny Clover, with Charles Calvin as Tartaglia, and Jack Krushan as Muggevin. The program was produced and directed by Elliot Lewis, with musical score composed and conducted by Alexander Courage. In tonight's story, Lamont Johnson was heard as Mike Shreck, Georgia Ellis as Rima Nine, Howard McNear as Mr. Zorick, and George Neese as Buddy Malpaw. 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Welcome everyone to the class on Ministers Foundation. Good to see all of you online students. Thank you for joining class. Welcome to all our in-person students as well. Thank you. And also to our e-learning students who will be listening to this lecture later on. We'll begin class. So before we begin, can one of you please lead us in prayer? Can I ask one of the online students to lead us in prayer please? Can you please unmute your mics and lead us in prayer please? Father God, we come before you this morning. We want to worship you. We want to thank and praise you for who you are and what you do for us Lord. We thank and praise you for this day. We thank you for your faithfulness Lord. Your mercies are new every day Lord. Thank you for this opportunity that you've given each one of us to come before your holy presence Lord. To come before you, to come and learn from your word. Lord, we commit the session into your hands Lord Holy Spirit. We ask your presence here. We ask that you would anoint our teacher this morning and let your words flow through her Lord. We thank and praise you for the session. We pray for everyone in the class, the in-person online students and all of us Lord. We pray that our spiritual minds would be open, that our understanding would be open to receive from what you have to teach us Lord. Thank and praise you Lord and we pray your blessings in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Thank you Sonia. Good to hear your voice. Missed seeing you two weeks at church. Good to hear your voice. Yeah, good to hear last week, Pastor. Okay, so today we'll continue with study of the Publication Code of Honor. We'll be studying chapter 5 all about preaching. How many of you like to preach? Good. Good number of you. How about that? Okay. Okay, we can see some thumbs up. So good to see some of you like to preach. Okay, why do you think we give so much of priority to teaching God's Word? Why so much of priority given to teaching God's Word or what happens when God's Word is preached? Encourage people. Okay. What happens when God's Word is preached? You all can unmute your mics and answer. People are saved. Thank you Lucy. It's a command of Jesus. Yes. Okay, anything else? Faith is increased. Yes. To correctly divide the Word of God to understand accurately. Okay, we help people understand God's Word when God's Truth is correctly thought. Yes. Okay, so people are edified. People preaching helps us transform the lives of people. Okay, and helps them to learn more about the Kingdom of God. Thank you, Andrew. Helps in salvation for the unsaved. Yes. Daniel says the character of God can be portrayed. Yes. All right. People also receive healing and also receive deliverance. People are saved. Right. And people are established in the Word of God. Okay. Deepu says giving deeper true knowledge of God. Yes, people come to a deeper truth of the knowledge of God who God is. Sanjay says God's Word is alive and active. It's the same yesterday, today and forever. Amen. Okay, so people are established in the Word of God. What happens when people are established in the Word of God? What happens when people are established? When we preach, we say people are established in the Word of God. What happens when people are established in the Word of God? They become more firm and stable in their faith, in their maturity, in their work with God. Okay, people grow deeper. Yes, deeper in their faith, in their work with God. Also, they are not, spiritual growth happens. Yes, John Resi, they spiritually grow. Akka says we are better equipped to handle day-to-day life. Yes, very true. Anything else? An important thing is people are not driven away by all false doctrines and false teachings, right? There's so much of false doctrines, false teachings, people can easily get carried away. That's why preaching of God's word is so important. Now, those of us who preach God's word, is it more a privilege or more a responsibility? What do you think? Yes, it's more a, preaching God's word is more a responsibility than just a privilege, right? It's more a responsibility. Thank you Akkil and Lucy and Daniel for your response. You know, it's not just a fancy position, but it's something that, yes, like Akka says, it's a calling. It's a higher calling and it's also a willingness to live by that higher calling, right? Because when we preach and teach, we are more accountable, right? To God and to man and people look at us and we fall short of what we preach and teach. They will point fingers at us. That's not give credibility to the word of God, what we are preaching and teaching. And people will not want to listen to any of our messages and sermons because of our lifestyle, because we are not living what we are preaching ourselves. And also, those of us who preach will be, what does the word of God says? James chapter three verse one, what does it say? Those of us who preach God's word, there will be stricter measures of judgment for us. So when God judges us, there will be stricter measures which he's going to use. So that should not stop us. Should that stop us from preaching God's word? So we say, oh, I don't want to preach God's word because God is going to judge me in most stricter ways and stricter measures. Should that stop us? No, because it's a command. Like I think John said, it's a command. Preaching is a command that we need to obey. So look at what Paul says to Titus. He leaves Titus, a very young man in the island of Crete, and to look oversee the churches there at Crete. And look at what he says to Titus, or writes to Titus in Titus chapter two verse seven and eight. Can somebody read that please? Titus chapter two verse seven and eight. Intermediate sister. Yes, go ahead sister, get rude. Yeah. In all things showing yourself to be a pattern of good works in doctrine showing integrity, reverence and incorruptibility. Sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing able to say of you. Yes. So here Paul is telling Timothy that the standard we maintain in the ministry of teaching God's word. So this is standard, a high standard that we have to maintain and how we teach God's word. So the first thing what he says is, what is he saying showing? What should we show? Good work. First one is integrity. Yes, we need to show integrity. What does the meaning of integrity? Which means we need to teach God's word in truth without any error, without any mistakes. Okay, and we need to teach the pure word of God, not mix God's word with some philosophies with some, you know, stories and fables and myths and philosophies. But we need to teach the pure word of God in its pure sense. Okay. The next one is integrity. Next one, reverence. How do you teach God's word in reverence? Reverence is the fear of God. Sorry, sister. Reverence is fear of God. Yeah, the fear of God. So when we are preaching and teaching God's word, we don't use it very lightly, very cheaply. In a sense, we just don't say, you know, we don't read a scripture passage. And sometimes we see, you know, some people when they preach, they read a scripture passage, but nothing will come out of that scripture passage. It will just be about where they went, what ministry they did, what they, how they ministered, what happened or some stories or some things that happened.  Okay, so what we need to do is we need to, when we teach God's word, not just teach it very lightly, casually, you know, just to feel, be cool in front of people, just to feel, look nice in front of people, just to feel accepted. And sometimes we can use, you know, big, big words, you know, styles that we use, and all of those things, all of those are important, illustrations are important. Also the style that we speak, everything adds to our preaching is all very important, but we should not, you know, get carried away in that where people are not given reverence to God's word. Okay, so when we teach, we need to give them a reverence and all that God's word is a truth, we need to uphold God's word with truth and with reverence. The next one, what's the next one? In the list, incorruptibility, okay? Incorruptibility means we don't corrupt the word of God, how can we corrupt the word of God? When we preach, how can we corrupt God's word? With false doctrines. False doctrines, yes. And when we preach and we are not working according to what we preach. Yes, when we preach and teach and we don't practice it in our own lives, okay? So we can, we can preach messages which make people very excited, you know, feel good, feel comfortable, feel happy, you know, all of that and they will just enjoy the message but ask them what they learn from God's word, there'll be nothing.  No. So when we preach God's word, we can use all of these stories, illustrations and all of those to enhance the truth in God's word but the main message, the main need, the center of it should be God's word and that should be you and you can use illustrations to explain the truth from God's word but always going back to the word of God, okay? So, and then the last one is, what is the last one? Paul tells Titus, it sounds speech. Yes, you know, means in the way that we speak, we must be blameless when we preach and teach so that people don't find fault in what we are preaching and teaching and even in our own lives, okay? Now, what should motivate us to preach and teach God's word? What motivates us to preach and teach God's word? What is a motivation? What should be our motivation in preaching and teaching God's word? Should be to impart the truths and revelations in God's word and what should be our motivation even as we preach and teach, what should we look for? Yeah, but people's lives will be transformed, life transformation, okay? So a motivation should not be to impress people. A motivation should be that people's life, that yes, to impact the life of people. Thank you, Daniel. Okay. And so we should make sure that we don't dilute the word of God with just philosophies, nice popular thoughts, you know, and all of those things, but stay true to ministering the uncompromised and the undiluted word of God, okay? Okay. Now, when you teach God's word, sometimes it's easy to talk about, you know, specific topics like love, faith, grace, you know, hope, what are the some of the famous easy topics that we always choose? Forgiveness, love, yes. Sorry. Blessings, prosperity, healing, okay, yes. All of those things are something that we can, you know, very easy to teach. But what are some of the difficult topics that we find challenging or difficult to teach and preach in church? Or to, you know, people, something that brings correction, yes.  How to make sacrifices, obedience, you know, personal character, and all of these are some challenging topics. So should we speak about these things? Holiness, yes. Angeline says holiness, Akhil says salvation and repentance. Should we speak these topics? Yes. Okay. When we speak these topics, how should we speak these topics? Or how should we preach these topics? With love, okay. What else? In a gentle way, right, yes. How can we be gentle? Not being judgmental, not condemning people, not putting down people, you know. But we need to teach them with the goodness of God. Paul says in Romans, the goodness of God leads to repentance, okay. Akhil says we need to preach and teach with boldness and clarity and give reference, not just reference, but references to God's word. Thank you, Akhil. And Daniel says first we must experience these topics. That means we must live it out, yes, important. Okay. And also we need to teach it in a non-condemning, non-judgmental way, but in love. Okay. And also with the goodness of God, because Romans Paul says the goodness of God leads to repentance. Okay. So that must be very, very important. And also when we are teaching these topics, we don't portray ourselves as preaching down on people. That means I am perfect. I have done all of these things. Hey, you people, you listen, you'll need to do it. No. We need to come to a level ground. We're saying, hey, even I used to struggle with these things. I went through these challenges. I also found these difficult. But, you know, we are here with God's grace to, you know, learn and to help each other. Okay. Now, Paul writing to Timothy in second Timothy chapter two was 15. Can somebody read that, please? Second Timothy chapter two was 15. Second Timothy chapter two was 15. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Yes. Amen. Thank you. So here we see that Paul is writing to Timothy and he says that you should rightly divide the word of truth. What does it mean to rightly divide the word of truth? What it means to rightly divide the word of truth? Does it mean divide the word of truth? It means look at what it says in the Old Testament and New Testament. What God says or what Jesus says. What does it mean to rightly divide the word of truth? It means we need to break it down. Yeah, Akhil says we need to put it in context. Yes. Thank you. Also, we need to, you know, break it down, make it simpler. You know, simplify the truth, interpret it, make it understandable for people. You know, without diluting it or mixing it with other things. Okay, the philosophies of this world or, you know, some things that, you know, generally we just know, but not diluting it. Okay. And also we need to not be very careful that we don't, you know, preach based on our own understanding and our own imaginations when we are preaching and teaching. It's important when we read the word of God that we use the tools of biblical interpretation and we just don't take one verse and preach it from that. But we need to look at that verse in context. Who wrote it? To whom was it written? Why was it written? What culture? What context? What is the reason? You know, which kind of audience, where, which place? Okay. So the conflicts we need, yes, like Akhil says, we need to put things in the context. We need to read, understand. And also we need to interpret that scripture in the light of the rest of scripture, the whole of scripture. So for example, people have taken various verses from the Bible and they have misinterpreted it. So one can be, you know, that, you know, where it says Paul says various prophecies they will seize. So people say now there is only the early church, there was the gifts of the spirit were manifest nowadays. You know, we don't have to think about manifesting the gifts of the baptism of the Holy Spirit because it sees, but that is misinterpretation. Okay. Also, women have to be supposed as women have to be silent in church. They cannot preach or teach.  So we need to understand those verses in context. So we need to be very careful when we are interpreting scripture. We need to interpret that scripture in the rest of on the light of the rest of other scripture, the whole word of God. What does this word mean? What is Jesus saying here? What is God saying here in the light of the rest of scripture? Okay. So when you are invited to preach and teach, or you are many of you, some of you must be pastors, when you are in, you know, wanting to preach and teach, how do you choose the topics? Suppose you're a pastor and you're preaching and teaching in your church, how do you choose your topic for that month or for the year, or you're invited somewhere and you want to preach and teach how do you choose which passage what you have to preach. Any thoughts? First, you will pray. Ask God what to very good. Ask God what you have to preach. Okay. Why is it important to ask God what you have to preach? Why can't you just preach what you have been learning, what God has been teaching you, or what you think is going to be really a good, your good message. Pull out one good message of yours and preach and teach that. Or something on love because you're very confident of preaching that topic. Why is it important for you to listen to what God is saying? Akhil says God's message to God's people is better and effective when we do what God says. Yes. Because actually God knows what is the need of that congregation or that group that you are ministering or preaching to.  Okay. So God will tell you the topic. He will lead you to the scripture passage. Okay. John bless. He says he knows about people at the right time what they want. Yes. What they need. What so when we are sensitive to what God is leading us, you know, and we preach what people need, then people are going to listen to you. Okay. So when we are teaching or teaching people what they felt need is people will connect with you. They won't eat. They won't just walk away from church, but they'll listen because hey, this person is teaching or teaching me what I really am going through what I really need. So it's important to listen to the Holy Spirit. So even in your Bible college when you are, you know, some of you get turns to preach here in the morning in your devotion, ask God, you know, what you want to what he wants to impart to the rest of the other students. Okay.  Now, we are all excited to, you know, receive new revelations and truths from God's word. Yes or no, you know, when we receive new revelations and truths from God's word is very important for us. You know, to, it's very nice for us to preach and teach that as well and to share it with others. But when you receive new revelations, what do, how do we act on it before we preach and teach that what should we do? We learned right about when you receive prophecies when you hear from God's word. Remember inner witness voice of the Holy Spirit stirring in your heart. What are some of the things that we need to do when you receive a new revelation? Yeah, you need to validate it. Thank you, Lucy. You need to validate it. How do you validate it? What are the two primary ways you validate? You check with the word of God. Thank you, Lucy. Sorry, get rude. We need confirmation. Confirmation from whom? Confirmation from the Holy Spirit. Yes, thank you. And thank you, Lucy. Yes, you need to go back to the word of God, see what revelation truth you're receiving is correct with the rest of the whole scripture. And also with the inner witness of the Holy Spirit. Ask the Holy Spirit to impart the truth for you. Because when a Holy Spirit is actually revealing God's word. He's a teacher, right? He's the one who's inspired all the authors in the Bible to write everything that they have written. So we have a great teacher living inside us. And who is that? The Holy Spirit. Yes. So he teaches us the truth. So, you know, when he reveals the truth to us, you know, when he reveals something to us, he will reveal according to God's word and not and also that is in line with what God wants us to know. So we need to sometimes we can even think what we are receiving mentally or emotionally. We think it's the Holy Spirit speaking. So we need to validate it with God's word and also with the manifest word of God. Who is the manifest word of God? Who is the manifest word of God? Who became flesh? Who became flesh? Jesus. A lot of Jesus. Yes. Thank you, God. Jesus Christ. Thank you, Lucy. It's Jesus, the word that became flesh. So we should also look at it in the, you know, in the light of what Jesus has preached and taught and how he has lived his life. Okay. Now, sometimes when you find something is incorrect or you're not sure, you can always go to, you know, men and women of God who are strong in the word of God and receive from them and ask them to, help you with the revelation that you've received is correct. Okay. We also need to stay current and avoid theological digressions when preaching and teaching. You know, we need to stay with the present current move of God. Okay. For example, in the 1900s, when there was the Azusa street revival, you know, there was a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit, which gave rise to the Pentecostal movement. Okay.  Okay. So nowadays, do we have to carry or press in for a long time to be baptized in the Holy Spirit? What do you think? No, you know, sometimes when we just have the baptism of Holy Spirit after church service, we just pray for people. They just, you know, flow in, they start speaking in tongues. They just baptize. And also people just flow in the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Right. But earlier they had to press. Okay. But nowadays, you know, we don't have to do that. Okay. Another example we can look from God's word is a man called Apollos. Apollos was, you know, a very learned man, a man who was very mighty in scripture. You knew God's word. Scripture means I'm talking about Old Testament. Okay. He was very well versed in the Old Testament. He was very eloquent in his speaking. He was to preach and teach in the synagogues, but he only used to preach and teach from the Old Testament scripture right up to the baptism of John. But he was very powerful in his teaching and he loved God very much. So you know this couple, Aquila and Priscilla. Yes. You know, people, this couple was very, very powerful in building churches and ministry. You know, they heard Apollos and they realized that, hey, he knows only Pash to an extent the truth right up to John the Baptist. So they called him and they spoke to him about Jesus, his teaching and about the baptism on the Holy Spirit. And we see that, you know, Apollos received it and he again started mighty preaching and teaching. So sometimes, you know, we can look in the past, move of God, but we also need to be, we need to know what is the present of God where God is. Yes, Paul, you have a question. I think Paul is in the wrong class. He's not supposed to be in this class. Okay. So, you know, we see that we need to be current with the move of God, knowing what God is releasing in the world today. So what is the move of God in the world today? What do you think is the move of God in our world today? What do you think God is doing? What is the move of God? Online students, what's the move of God, the current move of God? Salvation, sister, repentance, reconciliation, encountering, having encounter with God. Yes. Salvation has always been there, but I think it's more a revival. Yes. Thank you, Sanjay. Yes, an encountering. Thank you, Lucy. Yes, being filled with the Holy Spirit, you know, moving in signs and wonders because nowadays there's so much of a rise of religions and their teaching and their philosophies. So people want to know the truth from, which is the truth? Who's the true and living God? So, you know, our preaching and teaching should be attested with science, miracles and wonders. And we are in the last days. Yes, Andrew says Joel 228. So, you know, time when there's an outpouring of God's Spirit, there'll be dreams and visions and, you know, the move of the Holy Spirit, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, mightily moving so that people can operate in these gifts. Okay. So, also it's important for us when we're teaching God's word that we teach it in light of the rest of the truth in God's word in scripture. Now, sometimes if we overemphasize the truth, you know, it gives more importance than what God or scripture wants us to give importance to. So, what do I mean by that? Okay, for example, if we overemphasize blessing and prosperity. Okay, we're talking only blessing and prosperity without balancing it with sacrifice, giving and contentment. Then that is overemphasizing blessing and prosperity.  We overemphasize grace without emphasizing Godly living purity and responsibility. That means our response that we need to also be pure, though we have the grace of God, we need to live in holiness and purity, which means we are not dividing the word of God correctly. Okay, also when we dilute the word of God by saying that salvation is not just to grace by faith but also through other ways is meeting people astray. Okay, you know, when we are just focusing on, you know, on the science miracles and wonders without telling people that, hey, science miracles and wonders will follow when, when will science miracles and wonders follow or when can we flow in mighty science miracles and wonders or when can we flow in the gifts of the Spirit? When can we flow in the gifts of the Spirit or when can the gifts of the Spirit be manifested in our lives? Hello, when can the gifts of the Spirit be manifested in our lives? Or when can we see a great move of the gifts of the Spirit being? Yes, Sanjay says, when we seek his kingdom first and his righteousness, yes, when we seek intimacy with God. Remember chapter one, we talked about our personal life. We said that our ministry is an overflow with our time in the secret place with God. The more we are intimate with God in the secret place seeking God, you know, pursuing him more, that's when we can flow mightily. The anointing is greater, the power is greater, there's life transformation, there's a move of God we can flow mightily in science gifts and wonders. Also, sometimes we overemphasize prophecy. Remember we study the chapter on prophecy in receiving God's guidance. All of you, yes. Andrew says personal relationship with God our teacher, yes. Okay, so we learned about prophecy, right? So sometimes prophetic words can also be tainted with, you know, the person's own knowledge because of their own weaknesses or whatever. So it's important we test prophecies. Okay, we learned that. So sometimes we can get so caught up in just prophesying without teaching people the right way of prophesying is clearly hearing from God and we hear from God when we are very close and intimate with him. Okay, so all of these teachings which we are doing, we should not overemphasize while missing out the truth that is there. So even as we preach and teach grace and prophecy and flowing and gifts and performing mighty science miracles and wonders, there needs to be a balanced view, which means we need to speak that in the light of the rest of scripture and what is our responsibility. Okay. And there is, you know, sometimes when there is a wrong doctrine that is happening in our city and people in our church or Bible study group and you're the leader and they're only talking about this. What do you do as a leader or as a pastor or as a Bible study group in the Bible study group of the Bible study people are just talking about this prayer fellowship you know they're just talking about the false teaching the doctrine that is happening and they are rushing to this place that place or as a pastor you're hearing this. So how do you handle this? Should you preach the false teaching from the doctrine from the pulpit? Why? Why shouldn't you preach it? Some people what they do is they start preaching and teaching about the false teaching and doctrine. They said, Hey, we are I'm hearing all this from you people. Some of you are going to that preacher that place that crusade. You're listening to the messages from this man of God was teaching all these wrong doctrines. What happens when you preach and teach the wrong doctrine that is happening in your city or town and the nation from the pulpit. What happens? Is it important for us to teach those wrong doctrines or talk about those wrong doctrines? Can we have some answers? Yes or no? Some of you are unsure. We shouldn't preach and teach. Sanjay says it's like the blind leading the blind. No, no, it's wrong. Why is it wrong? Okay, you need to preach and teach according to the word of God. Because when you preach and teach the false doctrine, you're giving people more excitement. Some of them who don't know will go and listen or they will go and they will want to find out. And some of them who are weak in their faith, what will happen? They will get carried away. So you unnecessarily given publicity advertisements. You know, so what should you do instead? Yes, we have called to preach and preach the truth as Jesus did. Andrew says, Andrew not disciple Andrew, but student Andrew from online class. We call to preach and teach the truth that Jesus did. Yes. So when you hear false doctrines and false teachings and you're listening to that, what should you do is you should look at the false doctrines and you should look at what is the corresponding truth in the word of God and you need to teach the truth. So what happens when you teach people the truth? They will be able to apply the truth when they are faced with the wrong. Okay, that's a pastor said this in the Bible study, we start study this. So this teacher saying this, the word of God is saying this, that means what they are saying is wrong. So don't publicize about by talking about the false doctrine, teach the truth. Okay, so should we also when we preach and teach should we use the pulpit and God given time to preach and teach God's word to flatter people to get money or to sell promotion. No, but we see some of them do this right. Some of them preach and teach prosperity and blessings that you know and we tell them that they have to give more into the church put more money. You know, as tides as offering. And then after your preaching, you take a special offering and you know you tell people that you have to give according to what God's word as you have received. And if people don't give next Sunday, your preaching will be about God's wrath, God's judgment, not heeding to God's word. Okay, so that is wrong. Don't use the pulpit, you know, to get more money to promote yourself how great how good how nice you are, but you need to teach God's word, even if you are sharing from the pulpit as an example as a personal example of what God did through your life. You need to be careful on how you're saying it so that God can receive the glory and not saying it in a way that you know you're promoting yourself. Okay, so everything what we do, not just what we see we think how we live, even our preaching even our teaching should be out of a pure motive out of a clean heart to glorify God, and to actually preach and teach what God is doing. So that we can encourage people, and even as you share your life stories with people do it in a way that will give God the glory and people will want to say hey, this pastor was able to do she was able to do he was able to do why not me. So it should motivate people. Okay, the next thing is don't give the devil the pulpit time. What does it mean. Okay, before that Daniel says ma'am what can we do if someone uses a pulpit for preaching wrong word of God. What we can do is, you know, we can go to that preacher and maybe, you know, maybe take two or three along others along with you would testify to the fact, you know, and tell them, you know, tell them what they have spoken, and don't do it in a way that you're going to judge them or condemn them, but tell them, you know, this is what God's word says the rest of scripture says so what do you think what do you think is the truth, you know, and, you know, if the person is willing to accept it's good if they're not willing to accept. Don't argue, don't fight with them, you know, just pray for them that the Holy Spirit would reveal the truth to them. Also, another thing we can do is we can pray before we go and ask the Holy Spirit to minister to them. Does that help Daniel? Thank you. Good question. Okay, what do we mean by don't give the devil pulpit time. Does the devil want pulpit time? Does the devil want to preach and preach? Yeah, so one is saying yes. Yes. So how do we give the devil pulpit time? Andrew says to boast about ourselves, keeping ourselves high then doing the work which God has given us. Instead of lifting up God, we try to put ourselves higher. Yes, yes, Nelson, you want to say something? Maybe if you're giving someone time to preach and pulpit and instead of talking God's word is going in personal life means maybe he's promoting his business and other things than word. Yes, promoting their own business. Lucy says, you know, don't use your pulpit for other things than God's word. Sometimes, you know, people have used the pulpit and the word of God to teach and get against people who are talking about them. They were gossip or there's a division. There's one group talking against the pastor or against the leader and they are wanting to tell them all that you have kept in your mind what you want to give them and you don't have an occasion to do it. You use a pulpit time. Do you think that is right? No, that is wrong, right? You know, you want people to give more money in the offering. You use the pulpit time. You know, you want to speak ill of others. You know, that's not the right time to do it. You want to get back to people not using the pulpit time for that.  We use the pulpit which is wrong. Okay, pulpit is a place where God's word is to be taught in holiness and reverence and in awe. Okay, look at what the people did when, you know, when Nehemiah went to build the walls of Jerusalem. After building the walls of Jerusalem, you know, the Ezra, you know, he opens the book of the law and when he opens the book of the law, you know, what do the people do? Yes, they bow down. They all stood up. They lifted their hands. They bowed their heads and even some of them even felt prostrate. That was the awe and reverence for God's word and it's important for us as teachers, whether you're Sunday school teacher, youth teacher, you know, reading a Bible study, prayer group, a pastor, it's important for us to hold God's word in deep reverence and to draw people when you're preaching and teaching, not to yourself, but to the to God, the nature of God, the attributes of God, to his truth, you know, so that people can fall in love with God's word. You know why people don't read God's word most often? Because they find God's word boring. Some of them don't read it because they don't understand the mysteries, the revelations, the prophecies. So use the perfect time to preach and teach and, you know, help them to fall in love with God's word. A true minister says just above the point, do not cause division and offense in the body. The true minister of God is one who desires that the Lord alone be glorified and nothing of self be promoted. Okay, so even as some of you have said that you love to preach and teach, even as all of us are called to preach and teach, it's important that, you know, we follow these guidelines that we have just heard, and use the perfect time to, you know, preach and teach the truth and the revelations from God's word. Any questions before we go for our break? Yes, can you pass the mic to him please? We just have one minute, so. I saw this matter on Twitter. Actually what Sam Baba, some Hindu Baba, he said something about Christians. So when Pastor is there, particularly from his last six, seven meetings on Sunday, he's continuously giving reply from the scripture to that Baba. And that debate is going from both sides. So is it right or wrong? I think instead of highlighting what the Baba is saying, so that people, then people will think, oh, what the Baba is saying is also the son, so this preacher is teaching about him. So he might be having some food. So let's listen to what the Baba is saying. And some of them are weak in their faith or immature or still growing in their faith. They can be led away by the Baba because, you know, even one has, you know, can overpower them in their thinking. So what the preacher should do instead of retaliating and fighting and arguing what the Baba is saying, he can just talk the truth from God's word. Instead of focusing and saying, this is what Baba said, this is what God's word is saying, you can just teach the truth. People are very smart. They can apply the truth for themselves and understand the truth for themselves. So mainly what we should do? We just ignore them or what? So we're not ignoring them, right? We're not ignoring the Baba. We're listening to what the wrong things that he's saying. But we are talking about the truth from God's word and we're teaching the truth and we are educating the people on the truth in God's word.  That is what we need to do when we preach and preach. Okay, thank you everyone for joining class. Have a good break. See you after the break.


Life is about constant evolution. Always better today than we were yesterday. Welcome to the Only Easy Day was Yesterday. I'm your host Scott Williams. And today we're going to be talking about what it's like to be a Navy SEAL. And our guest today is Lieutenant Jay. Welcome. Thanks. Thanks for having me, Scott. Thanks for coming and sharing with us your experience. To kind of just begin this, let's begin at the beginning, right? Let's talk about your origin story for NSW. Where were you in your life when you decided to come into this community? Yeah, actually, I started pretty young. I'm from a small town in North Carolina. My stepfather was a football coach there in North Carolina. And he coached a SEAL team member, Josh Harris. He was actually a SEAL team member killed in Afghanistan in 2008. So when I was younger, I'd heard about the SEAL teams and the fun action, how it sounded like a good time. And then when I was, I think roughly 14, is when Josh was killed. And I went to his funeral and saw just the brotherhood, camaraderie. All of his team members and teammates come together in just the way they were talking about him and just hearing about their work they'd done together and just the brotherhood that they had and shared really interested me at a young age and influenced me to pursue becoming a Navy SEAL. From that, that led me towards the Naval Academy. So played sports in high school, football, and pole vaulted. And through pole vaulting, I was able to really get my foot in the door at the Naval Academy, actually. So I got recruited by them to come pole vault there. And then while at the Academy, I went through the process. They have a pretty streamlined process for getting into NSW from the Naval Academy. So that process looks like there's a screener your junior year. And then after that screener, you come out to SOAS, which they're still running today. And then after SOAS, I got selected to come to Buds. And that's the SEAL officer assessment and selection, which we've talked about pretty frequently in most recent episodes. And once you got into the pipeline, what would you say was the most crucial aspect of getting through training for you? I think the most crucial aspect for me was really my, which you're told this a lot in the beginning phases of Buds and prep, or Buds orientation when it was at the before. And Buds orientation was developing your Y, which I'd never really thought about it much. But I had developed my Y. I knew why I wanted to be a SEAL. So I think it was in the tough moments of going through the training pipeline, just remembering that, and developing that mental toughness. To be honest with you, it's hard to reflect totally on how I was getting through it. But I would like to say that that's what kept driving me forward. I had an interesting experience with first phase where, so I really had to do first phase three times, which is really the grinder. It's the first introduction into the SEAL pipeline. Doing that three times really took me digging deep. And at the time, I was pretty frustrated in having a hard time dealing with that. And now reflecting back on that, I'm very grateful that I was able to do it three times and really develop myself even more in my mental capacity to endure through that process.  That's a term that people use around here. But from a personal point of view, what does that mean to you? What was your mental toughness? Interesting question, because I think I now have a different answer than I would have had for you then. My answer now in reflecting upon my time in the training pipeline would be a sense of presence. Being able to not think about the next evolution, the next day, how much time you had ahead of you in the pipeline. And I think a valuable thing that happens in Buds that you don't really notice is happening at the time.  You're not focusing on all the pain to come, I guess you could say. It's just all, and I was talking to a friend the other day, and a guy went through Buds with him. We were saying, man, it's really nice in Buds in a way because it's the most present I've ever been. Really, just in that moment with your buddies, just getting through the evolution together and that teamwork camaraderie and that sense of presences. I think that ability to focus, just on the task at hand, and it's an invaluable skill that you learn. Not only that applies to Buds, but as you go to the teams and even anywhere else, you'll find yourself in life. Yeah, so your focus is on the here and now. It's not the regrets about the past. It's not the worries about the future. You're too busy for that.  You have to focus on what is happening to you right now. Yes. That's what you're saying? Yes, and I think the toughest part about that is, which makes it an element of mental toughness for me, is the ability to focus on the here and now. I don't know if you ever tried your hand at like meditating or anything like that, it's really hard to just focus on where I am right now and just clear your head of all the thoughts of all the other stuff that you could be thinking about, especially in Buds, in a place where it's like tomorrow is another hard day. It's another tough day ahead. So not focusing on like the next surf immersion or anything like that. Beyond Buds, and I've heard a lot of team guys say this, that in some respects, the team life is actually harder than Buds. The challenges that they've had to face on deployments were more difficult than Buds. How do you see it? I agree with that. I think it's always, again, you're in the day at hand, right? Buds is in the past. It's hard to really look at the past and think about how challenging it was versus I think today, because retrospect kind of makes it seem easier than it may have been at the moment. So I think the challenge at the team is maintaining that sense of focus and presence. And you're working long hours. The expectation is high. In order to be a good teammate, in my opinion, you need to have that 100% focus on the task at hand. And it comes to that switch of, in Buds, your only thing you have to focus on is Buds. That's it.  You might have bills to pay, all these other things. You've got it you're thinking about. But to be only able to make that a separate entity from your present moment and being able to focus on bringing 100% to your platoon, to your teammates every single day can be really challenging, especially when there's a lot of work. It almost feels like more work than there's time to get done on deployment. But being able to know and trust that your buddy's doing 100% of his job and you're doing 100% of your job. So collectively, it is challenging to have that focus at all times. And it is exhausting. Yeah, 100% involvement. It doesn't seem like that leaves much room for things like a family life or a personal life outside of the teams. What's been your experience with that? I've experienced it being both challenging and rewarding. I think it is a challenge to be able to separate that home life. But at the same time, I found it more difficult to find myself focusing on anything other than the task at hand in the platoon life. So because, I mean, I'll be honest, it's a lot of fun. The job is a lot of fun. You're around your buddies all day. You're doing a really fun job with really fun training, really exciting mission at hand. So I found it more difficult to focus on home life. So I think the challenge for me more was being able to delineate between, OK, I've done all my work for the day and I can now have to switch off to try and focus on home life things. But I think it teaches you a lot about, I mean, that's an invaluable skill. You can bring that to anywhere in the world. You can bring the ability to dedicate yourself 100% to what you're doing, which actually makes you more efficient and then be able to switch over to the other thing and not have, again, it's that sense of presence. It's that ability to focus on the task at hand without thinking about your bills, thinking about your wife, thinking about your dog at home, whatever it may be. We call that compartmentalizing. Yes. I think that's where the challenge comes in. Yeah. Well, you were talking about having fun in the teams and aside from deployments, what are some of the fun moments in training that you can talk about? Man, all of it. Even the bad times, I mean, I wouldn't even call them bad times. The tough times of starting out in first phase, it's really challenging. But now reflecting back on it was a lot of fun. And it's fun to remember all those, because you're going through it with your buddies. So it may have been really challenging, but that really builds camaraderie. And it builds trust in a group of people that you just met. So that aspect being a lot of fun. And then, obviously, when you get to the more, when you've made it further along in the pipeline and the more shooting explosives, jumping, diving, all of that stuff, I mean, I think if you're the kind of person that's looking to come to this community, you already know all those things exist and look forward to them. And then once you're doing them, it is very exciting. It's cool to put on your gear for the first time, to go do some dives or to jump out of a plane for the first time. It's all really exciting in adrenaline rush. And I couldn't tell you what would be the most fun. I think it's just all collectively been just a really exciting, great time for me. And I think most guys in the teams would agree that it's one of the best jobs in the world because you really are just having a really exciting time. But again, it requires that sense of focus, that you have to be in the moment so you can do all those things correctly and be efficient at them. Sea, air, land. After you got in the teams, which part of those was your favorite? I got to say, air. I really enjoy jumping. I found myself doing it in the civilian sector now just for fun. But my last platoon ended up being on our dive element, where we just had an extra, I can't remember, few weeks of diving. And at first, I wasn't that excited about it because it's not like your recreational diving in clear waters, fun time. It's pitch black. Can't see anything. Staring at a compass or staring at nothing. The bio loom in the water rush past your face as you're swimming. And I found myself at the beginning of that dive block being not that excited about four hour long dives, but towards the middle end, I found myself really enjoying it and finding a place of, honestly, it's just force meditation, like you have nothing else to do. So you're just kind of just a little bit sensory deprived. Yes. It's almost like a float tank, you could say. Just nothing going on. You're just kicking, going, making your turns. Not if you're driving. If you're the person who is navigating, it's a little more pressure. But even that's fun, because you have this task at hand, and you're just focusing 100% on that. Water tends to be a little cold in places, right? It can be cold. You know, actually, I dove in some colder waters in other places overseas, and I found the equipment they give us, the equipment they take care of us. So the equipment you're using is typically well suited for what the environment you're in. So I haven't ever found myself being, I would say, like miserable cold or anything like that. And I have heard stories of teammates having experiences where they have been extremely cold on dives and stuff like that, but I haven't really found myself being too overwhelmed by the elements on dives specifically. So broadly speaking, in your career so far, where have the teams taken you? What parts of the world, let's just say? So the teams so far, I'm not exactly sure what I can say. I would say. Without naming countries, broad areas of the world. So I've been over in Europe, and I've been over in Africa. Both fun experiences for me. It really was an opportunity to see some places that I'd never, I wouldn't imagine I'd ever gone to otherwise, and also be very down and in to the not the, I would say, tourist attraction of that area, just down in like working with partner forces, getting to know, actually no soft element people who are in other countries and just understanding their culture better, which has been really exciting. And I think that offers a lot of perspective to just an individual to understand other countries and other places. Yeah, I know when I deployed that, when I got out and just kind of went among the people wherever I was that it really opened up my mind. And I started thinking about like, hey, they're just like us. I mean, they want the same basic things, be left alone in peace, eat, have a job to provide for their families and just live their own lives. Generally how people are everywhere I find, despite any language or culture differences, it all comes down to the basics. So let's talk a little bit about, because I get this question, what kind of supporting resources are there in Naval Special Warfare for family members, like while you're on deployment? Are they left alone to fend for themselves? Do they have like a spouses group or is there anything that you can tell us about that? My experience, what I will say about the SEAL community is it's very, it is a community. It's tight-knit. My buddy's wife is friends with my other buddy's wife, you know, like my wife's friends with their wife, their friends, and they all will end up hanging out while we're on deployment. And it does become like, it does create a friend group of just a like experience for the family members. And it's just a solid community of our people, taking care of our people, right? No one's isolated left behind, that kind of thing. I can't say no one's isolated left behind, but I can say that there is a lot of resource and a lot of availability and opportunity for spouses and family members to come together and it's because we do hang out, like outside of work, like I was on the East Coast and I found it just being like a lot of all the guys from my, or a good amount of the guys from my platoon and other platoons alike would hang out and when we would hang out, we'd all have our significant others with us and then when they were, and they would hang out with each other. So then when we're on deployment, they found themselves also hanging out and being able to just have a similar lifestyle of having their partner gone, doing the job. Yeah. Let me switch gears a little bit.  So for those guys out there who are thinking about joining the community as a SEAL officer, what can you tell them about what it's like? Yeah, what I would say is one, it is a, I would argue one of the best opportunities for personal development, for anyone looking to, one, an exciting place to work and to grow themselves as an individual in their own personal development. So, I mean, we can talk about mental toughness and work ethic and all the other great skills that I've learned. But the question was, one more time. What is it like for a junior officer in the teams? And is this something in your experience so far that you think would be career enhancing or even an advantage when you decide to get out and go into maybe corporate world or whatever? Yeah. For me personally, I couldn't imagine that I would make it to the heights of personal development that I have made it to without doing this job. I think it has offered me such an opportunity to put me in, I guess the other way I'd say it is like in a box, really. And it was in parameters of from age. I mean, I could even start at the Naval Academy because I went to the Naval Academy wanting to become a SEAL. So starting my career at the Naval Academy and then as a SEAL, it's put me in a community of like-minded individuals who are seeking to be the best they can be at whatever that is they are doing. It's very, and being surrounded by that, you find a mentorship that I don't think you could really find anywhere else. You find a lot of, like all the skills translate is what I guess what I'm trying to say is like all of the skills when it comes to working hard at work, focus, giving it your best effort and really being dedicated to what it is you are doing and yourself and your perspective around what's your brain, I guess what you bring to the table. Yeah, so I just don't think that I could have made it to where I am today without it. I think it has set me up for whatever it is I choose to do, I know with a great deal of confidence that I can do it. I know that because of doing this job and setting a goal and achieving that goal and being surrounded by mentors and just a job that requires you to be very focused, it has set me up to with skills that I will be able to translate anywhere. The SEAL teams also sent me to grad school. So I did my first platoon and then they sent me to grad school and obviously I was opposed to that at the time. I just wanted to do, I just wanted to be in the job and then again, anything you do offers perspective. So it was a great deal of perspective there that they gave me, almost forced upon me that I am now grateful for. And like that, there's many opportunities. I find there's lots of opportunities for leadership, especially as a junior officer and I think on the enlisted side just as much. I'm maybe even more, I would say, especially as a newer team member, as a new guy. I feel like everyone's kind of in the same boat of trying to just take care of their job but also finding opportunities where you're in charge of something, like you're gonna be in charge of something, it may be just like supply officer or supply LPA or something like that. But I find myself in the process of potentially getting out here in the near future and I find myself wanting to start a company of my own, starting on profit and with the focus on something I actually did in my last platoon, it was winter warfare. So like, would that be in the focus and my love for snow sports? I find it, I've learned the ability to not only just be focused on the task at hand and really like that work ethic that was required but also I think a lot of it is the confidence that you gain in the SEAL teams and that confidence is invaluable because I think any of us can relate to wanting to do something and that voice in the back of your head, trying to talk you out of it. I think I learned a lot in the SEAL teams about how to quiet that voice and just have confidence in my abilities and myself and just put that next step, the step in front of the next step in front of the next step to just keep moving forward one piece at a time. And again, that skill you learned in Buds at the beginning is just being in the moment, taking care of what you need to take care of there and then taking care of the next step. So I find, I haven't had the ability to translate it totally yet to the civilian sector, I'm looking forward to doing it. And I know that because of this, the shaping that I have from being in the SEAL teams, it will set me up for success in the future when it comes to doing something on my own and having the confidence to do something and the work ethic to do something that would be required. And to build a team that will be efficient at accomplishing that task. Wow, that sounds great. The keys to unlocking success, confidence, shutting up that voice that tells you that maybe you can't do it and being in the present and having the confidence to go after the team, go after the task at hand and be able to work with the team to accomplish that. Wow, so there you have it. Thanks, Lieutenant Jay, for joining us today on the only easy day it was yesterday. We'll have another podcast soon. We'll dive in more into team life and what the SEAL and SWIC are really doing. Thank you. Once again, my name's Scott Williams and this was the only easy day it was yesterday. Thanks, Scott. There's nowhere to hide in Hell with Jets.


Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. This is project number three of my Easter series 2019 and this is a triple egg dome carrier something like that anyway. I'm not sure exactly what I'll call it yet but these are cabri's cream eggs. I don't know if these are available worldwide I'm not quite sure I'd love to know. Anyway in the UK these are hugely popular all year round really but they are just sold in their millions during Easter. You can buy them in packs of five, you can buy them on their own, you can buy them as part of a bigger Easter egg kind of pack. I bought the pack I bought two packs of five and then I can do three of these and then have one to eat for myself so I just thought it was a nice way and a very inexpensive way to you know give these as a gift in this lovely little holder so you can carry it like so it's just got this acetate dome.  So really simple to do you could pop any of this side this size egg in there. I have obviously these aren't traditional Easter colors as such but they are the colors that match the eggs so yeah that's what we're going to make so as I said really easy quick as well and you don't need much so I've got my ribbon to finish there that's my little handle and some tiny dinky little brads let me just show you how small they were. I found these little gold ones right at the bottom of my jar but they are the smallest brads but worked really nicely I don't know if you actually noticed them just on the bottoms of the handle there. So you need a piece that's four by seven and a half I know this only goes up to six and something but I know I cut this to seven and a half and then what you want to do is on all four sides is you want to score it half an inch and one inch okay then rotate it again half an inch and one inch just do that on all four sides okay so that's what you should have with all these score lines. This little piece here for the handle this is optional you might not even want to have a handle because it does look nice just as a nice little carrier or kind of case as such without the handle this is three eighths of an inch by six and a quarter and then for that base mat that it all sits on this is two and three eighths of an inch by six you don't need to score or do anything with that and then you want a piece of acetate that is oh gosh I can't even see it let me just pop this underneath just so I can see the measurements it's five and a half by six okay and that's a piece of acetate this is just the crafter's companion really thin acetate you want something that's going to not be too bulky and actually you want something that's not going to ping off or even though that's stuck with red tape if you've got a really strong acetate it will naturally want to go back to its straight you know original form whereas if you've got something that's really soft that isn't going to pull away so in this case you don't want a really strong acetate you want quite a flimsy acetate okay so first of all before you fold and burnish all of your score lines on this piece you want a circle die that's going to be roughly if you're using the same size cream eggs as me then you're going to want a circle die that is one and a quarter okay in diameter roughly that shape now the egg will sit in it but it won't completely touch the bottom and that's why I added the foam adhesive just to kind of allow it to be able to stick to something now if you've got a circle that's slightly bigger than that I would die cut it on a piece of rough paper first and sit your egg in it you want it to be able to hit or come through it's hard to explain you want it to sit inside that circle by half an inch so that you see what I mean this is half an inch here so if it sits half an inch down it's going to hit the bottom of this and you can just put some you know a glue dot or something because mine was slightly above it I've padded it out with them some foam adhesive which you'll see me do so that's the size I'm using if you've got slightly bigger than fine if you go too big it will just wobble about in the circle you don't want to be able to see the circle you can't see it just the eggs just sat nicely in there okay you don't want to be able to look inside it right so I've just got my big shot here and what you want to do is you're going to die cut three circles within the large rectangle in the middle okay so ignore all your lines you'll have this big rectangle and the easiest way to do it is first we'll start from the middle so I'm going to I've got a magnetic base plate and sometimes it does move your dies now if you want to get your ruler out you can I am just going to eyeball this because I've done that's my second one now I think I know where I am with it so that looks about right so I'm going to run that one through first okay so that's my first circle die cut and then you want to go either side of it again keeping a nice equal distance from that score line and to this circle here so just move that around a bit until I'm happy that's about right remember it always cuts slightly shorter than the actual full width of the die that looks about right there run that one through and then the last one you just want to do at the other end so again line it up make sure it's all nice and even equal sides and get that one die cut okay so that's now what you should have so next you can burn a shirt you may need to go in score some of those lines again because they you know each die machine's different um this has almost got rid of them but I can just about see them so yeah it's just having the score lines there makes it easy for you to line up where to put those circles if you don't look the other way around and done the circles first you're going to have to measure in everything so it's not so it's easier to do it that way so just fold and burnished all of those score lines and next you just want to cut where you've got these four squares here just like we would do with a reinforced lid or box you're going to cut down both of those pass the first score line down to the second these outer two you're going to remove completely and then just remove that top one so you're left with this tab okay and then just tidy off your all your edges here so just take little wedges off like so okay and go across this one here again cut nice and neatly down those two remove the two outer squares remove that top square and then again just take little wedges off of all of the sides okay so that's what you have flip the whole thing around and repeat that okay next you want to add some tape and it's easiest to do this now while it's flat rather than when it's all together so you want to add tape along all of the four sides don't go over the tabs because i'm going to be using wet glue to stick them together if you don't have any wet glue then i would just run your sticky tape right across there okay once you see what i'm doing it's easier to do this rather than when it's put together because you want to make sure that this is all stuck down and you're able to push down on it while it's flat once you put it together it's quite difficult well it's not to work it's just fiddly and then all right i'm just using a thin tape here it's only it's a small gift and it's not you know you don't need to go over the top with it like so now i'm going to bring in my wet glue pop it on these four tabs do one at a time so do that one first bring it down and bring this side one over and just make sure that you get a nice right angle there don't worry about this tape it's just easiest to put that on before we stick these sides down i'm just going to let that stick okay and then go to the next one pop a little bit of glue on bring it down and under and bring around the sides there and again and then do the same on this end okay and then if you it's up to you bring in the longer sides and then if you just pop a little bit of glue just at the ends there just to kind of tack those bits down there you're going to stick everything down in a second but if you pop it down like that and then just go in with something that you can push down in the corners and that way you'll know that you're getting that actually stuck down properly like so and then again this end here just pop a little bit of glue just on the tops there and then fold that over flip it upside down and just stick that out next we can bring in the base here and i'm going to pop glue you can use double sided tape all the way down here okay and then you just want to stick this down making sure it sits perfectly so that you have equal border on all four sides and again just using this i'm just going to go in and i can go over all that card inside making sure it's all nicely stuck down okay so that's now what you should have okay so now we want to stick these in so i've got my three cream eggs and i've just got some double sided pads here and what i find is if you just fold it in half and stick them together so this is the nice smooth piece on the outside and then peel that off peel just one half off like so and just stick it just roughly in the middle of that like so this is only because mine don't if i pop that in now it just it sits in there perfectly but it doesn't it would just fall out so like i said if you've got a slightly bigger circle there's enough room still to fit those three in even if you go slightly larger you just won't have so much of a gap you know a space here and that you can fill the egg hit the bottom then that's fine you just need to put a glue dot there and then it'll just hold it in place but because i'm just slightly free from it's actually touching the bottom by me just adding this like little foam sticky pad there it just lifts it up enough for then the egg to stick to so i'm just doing three of them folding them in half and then just sticking them there like so now because this obviously is is a case so it's actually completely enclosed the idea is is that they can take them out from the sides there and then once they've eaten one from each side they can just take out the middle one so or they can rip into it i mean again i'm not precious with things like that i don't mind it you know people want to rip it up rip it up you know enjoy it so now i want to make sure that you can see yeah that's better i'll put that one there actually like so um so that was the one that's down a little low and then i'm going to pop that one in the middle because that one really stands out and that one down the end there so now if i bring it up you can see how they look next you need your piece of acetate so the five and a half inch length is what's going to stick along this side wrap over and then stick on the back okay so with the five and a half facing you i'm going to use my grid here maybe if i bring in this red piece here what you want to do this is if you want to add the handle you might not want to this is six inches here so i'm just going to pop my ruler on top here and come down and at the three inch marker i know that that's the center here we've just got some sticky on that now after rub that off in a minute so this invisible line here is three inches that's the middle now roughly again i'm eyeballing all of this you might want to measure it all but there in there is where i want to pop two holes so i'm just using my screw punch by x-cut so there's one and i'm just going to go along give you the second one so i've completely eyeballed that but that is basically what you want you can see there so halfway along i'm putting the two holes mine are roughly two inches apart okay and um it's easy again to do that now rather than when you've done that so i'm just going to clean so i know just spray some surgical spirit it's a perfect way to clean off any sticky marks i use it to clean my mats use it in all kinds of things so it's brilliant but it removes anything sticky brilliantly okay so i've got a nice clean sheet of acetate okay so then what you want to do is with your little handle here i don't know if i gave the scoring measurements this is six and a quarter by three eight you just want to score it half an inch at each end so half and half okay and then just fold that over like so and then if you just probably should have done that before just curl it all and then fold those bits out and that's how you're going to get your handle okay again it's entirely up to you how big you want that to be and then i'm going to bring this piece back in again with those little brads and also just add some extra kind of strength to it i'm just popping some double-sided tape on the back of each of those tabs so the brad is actually decorative as well as obviously you know holding the handle in place but this just keeps all the the card actually stuck to the acetate so just make sure it's all stuck down like so and then just to help start it off i'm just going to poke a hole in the middle of this kind of little tab here this rectangle so just a little hole like so and then again on the other side like so and then if you take the backing off and you just want to stick it again with the five inch five and a half inch side facing you my two holes are there again let me bring in it's easier for you to see when i bring this in here and then i'm going to stick that now right over that circle that i've already punched just so the little circle you know it's slightly tacked down so i know that that's in the place that i want it to be and then i'm just going to remove the backing from here and again just stick that one down and then i can pop through both of my brads and it's just so much easier to do this before you stick it all down because you've got the eggs all in the way and stuff okay so you can see there and now when that curls over the handle will be nice and centered okay so now we just need to attach this so if you just remove the tape in fact yeah i'll do the front first because then if anything goes wrong at least it's hidden at the back so take the front one off and then just kind of lean it away from you and you want to make sure the acetate sits on the red card in my case right flush at the bottom and then lines up with either side of this yellow piece just make sure that's all stuck down like so and then i'm going to pop it on this side and just remove the backing and that's what i was meant to do as well but it doesn't matter i'll show you in a moment we should have put some sticky tape on the ends of the acetate so what i would say is before you stick the acetate down is run some double sided tape on the outer sides the same size that the same side that the handles on put some tape at the very edge because now when you see what we've got to do you understand why i said to stick the tape down before because now we need to put some tape back over this acetate again so yeah just always watch the tutorial through first and then you'll be able to see what you want to do so now you should have this all stuck down and you should have double tape here here here and here and now that's for me to attach my ribbon so i've got this nice yellow here and i'm going to start from i'm just going to make sure that's nice and neat i'm going to keep that bit in a minute you'll see why so first of all i'm going to take my backing off of the front that's it there and start from the middle because i'm going to cover this with a bow now if you're not going to put a bow on the front then do start this at the back okay because this is the join so i'm going to start in the middle there and just go along there and then take the backing off outside again follow that along so if you are a little bit off with your acetate or if there's anything that you're not happy with maybe the folds on the tray this is good to use the ribbon because it will cover all of that up you can see there that just covers up all the corners and everything so and obviously makes it look nice and pretty and then i can finish off now and i'm just going to roughly hover that there so i can see i need to cut that i just cleaned these scissors yesterday and already they are full of sticky and pop that on there so i'm going to cover that with a bow so again some more yellow i always use way too much but i'd rather have too much than not enough okay and then this little bit here i am going to very carefully cut it i'm just going to seal off the ends there and then i'm going to stick that over that join and then the bow over that so just kind of conceals everything and there's my bow so it was a little bit big i might move that one down but if i hold that one there you can see two of them how cute are they so there you have it guys two really lovely little triple egg cases or holders or something i'm not sure exactly what i'm going to call them yet but i really like them i think they make an inexpensive chocolate look like a really lovely gift so i hope you like it i hope you've been inspired i hope you're enjoying what i'm making for this year's easter series so far and i'll be back again on wednesday with another tutorial thanks for watching bye