1 Peter chapter 2 verses 4 through 12 We'll look at verses 4 through 8 introduce our subject and get into our study today living stones Beginning at verse 4 reading to verse 8 the apostle Peter writes coming to him as to a living stone Rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious you also as living stones Are being built up a spiritual house a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ Therefore it is also contained in the scripture Behold I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone elect precious and he who believes on him will by no means Be put to shame Therefore to you who believe he is precious, but to those who are disobedient The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone and a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense They stumble being disobedient to the word to which they also were appointed now Peter has been pointing out in first Peter especially the last few verses prior to to chapter 2 verse 4 He's been pointing out that believers are those who have purified their souls through obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ How can an individual be cleansed? How can an individual have a new life? Well the psalmist said Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way then he says by taking heed there too according to thy word And so the way that you are purified is through belief in the gospel of Jesus Christ The way that you have a right standing with God is not because you're religious. It's not because you had Certain rituals performed on you as a child It isn't because you were one of those kids who were always in Sunday school and Attended church all of your life The way that you got right with God is you heard a message called the gospel of Jesus Christ a Message that declares to us that we were at war with God That we were hostily in opposition to him by nature. We were children of wrath and So the only thing awaiting us was judgment the wrath of God Abides on the ones who reject Jesus Christ. We read in John 3 36 and so God did something about that He removed his wrath from us by placing his wrath on his son Jesus Christ Jesus is the Substitutionary death. He is the one who made atonement for us. He's the one who satisfied the righteous Indignation and wrath of his father. He is our propitiation And he did so by voluntarily taken upon himself human flesh dwelling amongst men Allowing them to behold his glory the glory is the only begotten Son of God full of grace and full of truth And he took upon himself my sin when he died on a cross He poured out his blood in order to make atonement for us blood being the cost of redemptions Buy me out of the marketplace of sin This is all contained in a message of reconciliation That is called the gospel the gospel literally means good news The gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news of what God has done through Jesus Christ So I became right with God. I purified my soul Not because mama took me to a small church outside of alvera street that every person in this room is probably familiar with it's called a little plaza church and Baptized me at the age of four months. That is not what got me right with God I didn't get right with God by going through my first communion classes either and I did not get right with God When I received my confirmation I read I got right with God when I was 20 years old and I heard the gospel of Jesus Christ a gospel of reconciliation a Gospel which it's declared that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself and I was called to something called repentance where I Changed my mind metanoia means to change your mind I changed my mind concerning my lifestyle and what it means or what it takes for me to get right with God And I agreed with him when he said the way you become right with me is through accepting Christ and what he has done for you You receive him as Lord and Savior and you're washed by his blood. That's what we've been looking at in first Peter now When that happens there are certain things that happen one of those things is because I've been purified through the blood of Christ And received the gospel of Jesus. I Begin to obey what the gospel has to say and one of the things that Demonstrates that I actually believe is that I have something called love and Peter has been speaking about having a fervent love For one another and so there's an intensity of love that you actually have for the body of Christ It is a complete kind of love It's a it's a deep love and so we have been purified But we also now are loving one another now if I'm really beginning to love one another Then there are going to be things that I no longer do to somebody else And we saw that already in chapter 2 we begin to lay aside certain things certain ways of life things that we thought were normal And and just who we are we begin to put those things aside because these are the things that wound others and therefore We don't want to wound somebody else and destroyed the life of the body of Christ So I lay these things aside. I lay aside like we saw last time malice Malice is that ill will that destroys fellowship. I lay aside guile Guile is deceit. It's that acting on ulterior motives It's pretending to be somebody's friend all along collecting information about them that I can use against them later on. That's guile I lay aside the hypocrisy which is insincerity. It's a pretense. It's deception I lay aside envy envies that inward attitude behind hypocrisy and guile is usually associated with party strife And I lay aside evil speaking which is slander and gossip. I stop criticizing people behind their backs All of these as we pointed out last time our sins that destroy Christian community What God wants us to have is open and loving communication He wants us to have truth that binds us together in him That only becomes possible if we are as newborn babes Desiring the sincere milk of the word that we may grow thereby if indeed we tasted that the Lord is gracious That's how that works. You see and so what we're looking at is looking at the life of a Christian We want to be doers of the word not heroes only deceiving ourselves as James said in chapter 1 verse 22 We want to be people who not only know the word of God, but we want to know the God of the word That's why in John 5 39 Jesus speaking to opponents said to them You search the scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life and these are they which speak concerning me You search the scriptures that word search is a Greek word that literally means you ransack And we know the word ransack if we use it in this illustrative form Which is you came home your house has been broken into you walk into the front room and Everything's turned upside down you go into your bedroom your whole bedroom has been messed with your your your mattress has been Pulled off the bed all the dresser drawers have been poured out That's that you say my house has been burglarized, but the word that better describes it is it's been ransacked It's been searched thoroughly and Jesus was speaking to his opponents, and he said you search the scriptures You ransacked God's word because in the scriptures you believe you have eternal life But you're missing the whole point that they're directing your attention to me You wouldn't come to me that you may have life And so the scripture it's more for us than just to know the scripture is something for us to obey The scripture is something that we can know through faith and obey and that gives to Jesus opportunity to manifest himself to us And so if God really has grabbed hold of my life, it's going to be a transformed life I'm going to love with purity therefore. I'll put aside the malice and everything else and I'll learn to love People I'll learn to live in unity with one another which is greatly pleasing to the Lord And so it all is going to be hinged on love faith and obedience It's like what tozer said when he said our Lord told his disciples that love and obedience were organically united The final test of love Is obedience and so this is what we've been looking at in 1st Peter now beginning at verse 4 He continues by saying coming to him as to a living stone rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious Coming to the Lord is a phrase that as Christians we use when we speak concerning how we got saved I can still remember when I would speak to people and they would ask me when did you come to the Lord And that was just another way that's christianese for how did you get saved? When did you get saved and so he's speaking concerning the fact that he's writing to people who have come to the Lord These are christians he's speaking to these are people who heard the gospel message And they're the ones who received the invitation that was given in that message God desires to have relationship with man And throughout your bible from genesis to revelation you find god giving invitation to man All the way back in genesis chapter 3 when god asked adam adam, where are you? It's not that that god didn't know where adam was. I mean adam had such a great You know hiding place. He had a fig leaf. I mean that kept god That's the fig leaf. I can't see you. Where are you? It wasn't cosmic hide and seek When god was speaking to adam and said adam, where are you? He basically simply saying I'm giving you an opportunity To confess your sin so you can be reconciled to me because I know exactly what you did Oh, we you know we heard you as you were coming through the garden and we hit ourselves because we were naked Well, who told you you were naked? That's just an opportunity It's an invitation on the part of god to adam as he calls out in that garden with a broken heart When you read the book of genesis and the question is formed there adam Where are you? You might it might do you some good to to understand that That that the impact of that of that phrase is not an angry Arresting officer looking for a criminal that they desire to take to jail But it's rather the voice of a heartbroken father who has lost a son that he loves with all of his heart It's a tear in the voice of god that you have when he asks the question. Where are you?  You see a period or a comma Whatever You go through it from chapter one you go into chapter two You're only going to find those kinds of punctuations and the first question mark you ever find Is found in the mouth of satan himself and the first question you find in the bible Is this hath god said so the very first question that you have in scripture is satan questioning god's veracity The first question you ever find in the bible is satan calling into question the word of god Which he continues to do by the way to this day and the second question is god saying adam. Where are you? First question has god said second question. Where are you? Now that you've listened to the voice of satan. Where are you? Now that you have denied me and have rejected my word. What has it gotten you? You see invitations from genesis all the way to revelation where the spirit and the bride say come invitations Any but if any man desired to come after me let him take up his cross daily and follow me Jesus says Any man desire that word desire speaks of a personal impulse something i have within myself a desire to follow him And jesus gives an invitation come pick up your cross follow me So you see that from genesis through revelation? And here we have this knowledge that we have actually come to god because god has called us to himself Isaiah 45 22 says look to me and be saved all you ends of the earth for i am god and there is no other Jesus and matthew 11 28 through 30 says come unto me All you who labor and are heavy laden i will give you rest Take my yoke upon you learn from me for i am gentle and lowly in heart And you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy my burden is light Invitation after invitation given by the lord come to me and so he's speaking concerning that coming to him So you responded to his invitation coming to him notice as to a living stone living So when we see the word living there, we know that he is alive He's a living stone.  So he's the living stone In john 11 verse 25 we have a story there where jesus is Is coming to minister to the family of a man named lazarus as well as to raise lazarus from the dead And as he comes into town lazarus already being dead Jesus encounters his sister a woman by the name of martha And martha is in grief and jesus speaks to her and says to her I am the resurrection and the life He who believes in me though he may die he shall live In revelation 118 i am he who lives and was dead and behold i am alive forevermore Amen, and i have the keys of hades and of death He is the living not only the living the one who was alive, but he is the living stone That stone is the foundation on which the church is built And on which it must rest Now notice with me as we look at this he was rejected indeed by men rejected People rejected him as he walked the face of the earth I mean john tells us in john 110 and 11 He was in the world and though the world was made through him the world didn't recognize him He came to that which was his own but his own did not receive him The world rejected jesus the world rejected jesus then And it was the cause of him being put on across it was the reason they was actually crucified because they rejected him In mathieu chapter 27 verses 20 through 22 Jesus is standing before a pilot and it says the chief priests and elders Persuaded the multitudes that they should ask for barabas and destroyed jesus The governor answered and said to them Which of the two do you want me to release to you? They said barabas Pilate said to them what then shall I do with jesus who's called the christ They all said to him let him be crucified The world rejected the lord jesus christ then and rejects the lord jesus christ now Continues to do so continues to say he's not enough or he's not what I need They hear the claims of the gospel the word of god is it spoken clearly and they just reject him They did it then they do it now But though people rejected him the bible says though indeed he was rejected by men he was chosen by god and he's precious So god chose for jesus to be the savior of the world Though despised and rejected by men jesus as the sacrifice for a lost world Is infinitely honorable in the sight of god because he is precious Because he is preeminent. He's held in honor because he is prized and the father loves the sun But it's interesting how it says god chose for jesus to be the savior of the world He didn't choose anyone else to be the savior of the world.   We are called the priesthood of the believer So we have immediate access to god we serve god in a personal way And we minister to other people There's no need for us though as priests to offer up dead sacrifices You see in the priesthood during the time of christ They offered up dead sacrifices, but we don't have to offer up dead sacrifices because jesus is the sacrifice Hebrews 9 27 and 28 says it's appointed for men to die once but after this the judgment So christ was offered once to bear the sins of many So now we as believers have the ability to offer living sacrifices and we do so of praise of service and gratitude To god for what he's done my encouragement to you by the way as I make this point is this Spend some time with the lord Spend some alone time with god Enjoy his presence go outside if you can get away from your kids for a while Or get away from the noise or whatever of the home Go outside sit down by yourself make a habit of that If you can do that at night, it's a good thing too. If you do that early in the morning, that's great But as you step outside Look up at the stars and begin to wonder at the amazing creation of god Begin to think even as the psalmist said what is man that thou art mindful of him or the son of man that thou should consider him What am I Compared to how great you are even as I look at the universe it screams out the glory of god because It reveals the immensity of the creative power and activity of god To look around and to see these things and to realize that god you created all these things and you Love me it ought to cause you to be grateful Instead of sitting down saying what you don't have and making a list of the things that you wish you had Instead of doing that Why not sit down and say god? Look at all you have given to me You've given to me a family You've given to me friends You've given to me and you can begin to list the things that matter to you You know you don't need to say oh by the way you gave me this but I don't really want that Can you take it back what you need to do is you need to just list the things that are a blessing Thank you god for if you're married. Thank you god for my my my spouse. Thank you for a husband. Thank you for a wife If you have children, uh, it's a little harder, but thank you god for the kids Thank you for the children. If you're a grandparent, it's not hard at all Thank you for these babies Thank you for my friends Thank you for people who call me up in the middle of the night and say to me are you okay? I've been praying for you Thank you for people who share my burdens with me People that I can speak my heart to who don't reject me but can say i'm with you in this Thank you for people who've been alongside of me in so many different ways and so many different things jesus Thank you for them. Thank you for the church that I get to go to Thank you for the worship team that helps me to learn to praise god You can thank god for so many things Or you can sit there dissatisfied about all the bad breaks you've had in life What we learn to do is offer up spiritual sacrifices to god And we thank him and we praise him and we glorify him because he indeed has been good to us You we have this earth and maybe it's not too much Maybe you don't like what you've got right now, but you've got heaven waiting for you You've got heaven waiting for you You have a place that you're going to go that that that the streets are made of gold That the walls are precious stones That that there's no need for light because the glory of god is going to illuminate It's going to be so incredible when you're there You're not going to sit down and say but man i wanted that new computer and and and that new ipad came out Just before i died and i really wanted that I promise you you're not going to do that I promise you I promise you when you see the face of jesus christ when you have a chance to look in his eyes And you get to see the one who wept for you in the garden I promise you you're not going to be thinking of the bad breaks you had on earth You're not going to be thinking of your health problems You're not going to think of the bills that you had you're not going to be thinking of any of that You're just going to be swallowed up in glory and your health and all of that It doesn't matter anymore because i get to see you and i just want to say thank you for what you've done for me I love you jesus that's what's going to happen And we need to understand that You see the lord jesus christ has given us great blessings in hebrus 13 15 through 16 It says therefore let him Let therefore by him let us continually offer the sacrifice of praise to god That is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name Do not forget to do good and to share with others for with such sacrifices god is pleased He goes on in verse 6 and he says therefore it is also contained in scripture behold I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone elect precious and he who believes on him will by no means be put to shame therefore To you who believe he is precious But to those who are disobedient The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone and a stone is stumbling and a rock of offense They stumble being disobedient to the word to which they were appointed Now when he begins to quote he's he's referring to old testament passage is like like the book of isiah chapter 28 verse 16 To psalm 118 verse 22 isiah chapter 8 verse 14 And he's speaking of this chief cornerstone. He's speaking of jesus christ who is the chief foundation stone Upon whom the entire church is built And he's making the point those who refuse jesus are revealed as those who stumble over him Like a stone that is in the middle of a road that they're walking on And they're walking in by the way darkness There is a stone in the middle of the road as they're walking In their darkness that they stumble over And he says that they are disobedient, which I find very interesting in verse 7 to those who are disobedient. That's an interesting word Because when he speaks of them being disobedient that is a word that can Uh connotate or can note to not allow yourself to be persuaded To refuse to believe to withhold belief voluntarily It's it's a sense of knowing to do right but choosing not to do it Because I don't want to Because I don't want jesus christ Because if I follow jesus christ, I'm not going to have the fun of all these hangovers And venereal diseases. Look what I'm missing out on Man, I don't want to Listen There's so many commercials that we've seen on tv Where you have these young people are so cool and so hip the hipsters So cool so hip. They're at the bar. They're drinking all the beer. Not one of them has beer guts Not one of them does big old Beer gut. Well, I still have a 34 inch waist. Yeah, that's because you're wearing it on your thighs not around your waist Come on. Give me a break You know if they got up and they told you what really happens if you get addicted to alcohol If they told you you're going to lose your family.   Would they If they said I've been told you what a hangover really is like But it's really like to wake up in your own vomit Which I've done many times at my age. I still remember it I still remember being put in jail. I drank three bottles of wine. I was 16 years old We went to a market on front street in norwalk And my friend bill who later became a police officer and I We both stole three bottles of very cheap wine Got very very drunk We're put in the sheriff's substation in norwalk. Some of you know that well You've been there plenty and I'm on the floor Because I can't move I'm so drunk. I'm paralyzed And bill is seated on a bench above me vomited on my face Yes, and I'm saying Stop at bill And he's saying I can't I remember that very well Hearing a sheriff say guys you got to see this And here comes these guys as bill's Vomiting all over my face man. I miss those days Oh, how I wish I could wake up in a pool of vomit one more time.  I mean, that's what your life led you to one form or another isn't it waking up saying what did I do last night? And who's after me? Why did I do that? How'd I get this? How this happened to me? You know I was an alcoholic from the time I was around 16 till I was 20 I woke up in a lot of backyards not knowing how I got there. I woke up in my car more than once with vomit all around me my own I know what that's all about. I know what it's like to do that And the world does not tell you that's what you're going to get Satan tells you you're really missing out man.  You'd be enjoying yourself really Really? That's a lie from satan I can put my head on a pillow at night wake up the next morning with no guilt No regret and only joy because of what god has done in my life that comes through jesus christ That comes through the power of the gospel And so god has done a work in us and and I don't want to refuse him I don't want to refuse to be persuaded.  We've been rescued from idolatry and ungodly Superstition and we now walk in the light of jesus christ and we tell people that we share With people that we tell him how good god has been to us and what he has done in our life How grateful we are and we bring his praises to the people Our purpose is to bring glory and praise to god That's how god intends to reveal to people his plan of salvation. He does so through you through the church Isaiah 43 21 says this people have I formed for myself they shall show forth my praises So we do because he called us out of darkness into his light We've been saved through god's word and god's spirit working together And he has brought us to himself. We one time lived in spiritual darkness. That was The environment that we grew up in spiritual darkness But now we have the light of life In Colossians 113 it says he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness brought us into the kingdom of the sun whom he loves You see at one time we were not A people we didn't belong to him, but now we are the people of god At one time we had not obtained mercy, but now when jesus christ we have And he closes by saying in verses 11 and 12 beloved i beg you as sojourners And pilgrims abstained from fleshly lusts which war against the soul Having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles that When they speak against you as evil doers they may By your good works which they observe glorify god in the day of visitation Now upon first reading you might not Realize this but can you see in verse 11 when he says i beg you i beseech you i implore you This humility and broken heart of the apostle peter there Why do you have to beg me to abstain from fleshly lusts? Because the danger is is that you don't Because the danger is is because you yield and can easily yield to the The lust of your own flesh the desires for pleasure today Because the world is constantly pounding at the door Trying to get you to do things that you shouldn't do and you can yield to those things I was sharing on wednesday night For those of you who are with me You'll remember this hopefully I was sharing on wednesday night how that We are the temple of the spirit of god And the spirit of god dwells in us So I used an illustration I said What do you think you'd feel like and I spoke in general as I am right now What do you think you would feel like if you came we'll say during the week You came into the foyer here in this church building sanctuary structure And you heard noise coming from in this room So you swing the doors open And as you're looking in here you got the strobes going You have a group up here singing some of the contemporary rap songs that are going on Some of the songs that go on that are so filled with anger and profanity And you hear that and you see in the front there are people they're dancing You look in the side into the pews and there are people making out and doing other kinds of things They're in the pews You look off into the corner and you see a bar set up and In people selling drinks And I asked the wednesday night group I asked them Would that bother you? I can ask the same question right now to us as a group right now I'd say would it bother you and I know the answer the answer would be of course So I asked them I said would that bother you you walked in there's all this music going on There are all these people dancing over there. There are people Involved in a variety of things in the pews. There's a bar over there. Somebody's selling drinks. Does that bother you? Yes, it bothers me and I asked why Why would it bother you and then they started responding because it's disrespectful to god It's not right. This place has been set apart for god I said that's all reasonable This is just a building This is just four walls That's all this is I said it's bad for that to take place here But it's not bad when believers go to bars pick up girls have sex with them and do all of that That's okay But it's not okay if it's in this building something's wrong.  They didn't want to answer that question But it's true How come How come that's okay? It is not okay. Jesus christ the spirit of god dwells in me I am his temple. Therefore. I will abstain from fleshly lust that war against my soul Why because I have been called out of darkness into his light. Therefore. I will walk in the light.   You're heaven bound.  You're just passing through Live like that and the world will see that kind of life and will say truly god is amongst you Your lives have been changed in the day of visitation They'll only be able to speak of what god did in the church That's what peter wants us to live like and I would say amen to that Can you say amen to that amen to that may god work in us in that capacity


Ladies and gentlemen silent Mike back with another video today. We're going to be talking about squatting with different leverages Different height, and we got my man-dime friend here fast Vingy's Kai if any of you have tuned in to twitch I do stream multiple times a week silent Mike on twitch fast Vingy's Kai here is one of my main teammates on Call of Duty Apex fortnight whatever we're playing And Kyle is a professional baseball player drafted in the third round to the Rangers a pitcher And he is six five He's currently in the rehab process. He messed up his shoulder had a couple surgeries pretty bad And so he may go play baseball again. He may not but he also just loves training So him and I have been friends for a couple years now But we've never trained together and he wants to really get more serious about a strength conditioning for life And potentially coming back in the sport And so I didn't know what to think coming down. I was like all right I've worked with a lot of pro athletes mostly football players some baseball a lot of basketball just because that's my background and Some rugby some of them have been tall. I've worked with multiple basketball players over six foot But a lot of them although they're very coordinated and move really well They just tend not to lift as good because they don't put the hours into that even though their body control Their motor patterns their mind muscle connection is really really good being high-level collegiate or professional athletes often They're just not taught proper squat mechanics and they don't practice them enough So they move poorly plus Although I think that's tall people can clearly squat really well and there's examples across the board But a couple of my personal examples are Casey Johnson daddy long legs an old training partner from super training of mine Who's six four six five and then storm cloud Dan store?  Could you help me out with my form and I was present pleasantly surprised his Squat forms actually really really good. I had him on the safety squat bar just to kind of save his shoulder although he's cleared to move that shoulder throw and Progress in the gym how he likes. I just figured look if you ever do want to play baseball again There's no reason to wrench under a straight barbell no reason to put that torque on the shoulder The biggest things with a taller person is often their legs are longer So we have to find a way to hit depth with getting kind of our femurs out of the way And what most people automatically go to is oh well then also squat super super super wide You know kind of like a geared powerlifter and kick my knees way out But also issue is when you're really really tall often not always But often we don't have that mobility in our hips either So to go really wide stance and still get our knee over our midfoot or over our second toe at the bottom of the squat It's just not possible. We're just doing kind of a side-by-side here with my dumpy lumpy self And honestly when you see Kyle in the squat next to me He moves very similar to me one thing that may help Kyle is kind of loosened up the ankles the calves a little bit Because his heels do move slightly when he squats But the general cues and form are going to be the same kind of break at the knees and the hips Put the barbell where it doesn't hurt if you're a powerlifter eventually We'll try to go to a low bar position But to start it doesn't really matter safety squat bar is great for a bunch of beginners Just because you don't have to worry about where the barbell is and we're just trying to get general length Legs stimulus and growth and strength and move some weight around in the gym So then it can hopefully help you create more power on the you know track court baseball diamond Whatever it is that you play So again Kyle's ankles kind of internally rotate a little bit there He loses a little bit of stability in the ankle and the knee so we could use some small heels Or we'll just work on that ankle over time But overall his forms really good one thing that something is he's not ever been taught or used to is how to breathe embrace So next time I work with them will probably throw a belt on there We'll throw a belt on there nice and loose actually probably a finger Loose so you could shove a whole hand in there and then teach them how to breathe embrace into that belt I gave them some cues on this day how to breathe embrace But sometimes having an external cue or an external tool that you can really feel the belt pushing against yourself And you can mentally tell yourself to breathe into that belt will help in the long run and that'll obviously keep his back safe And allow him to lift more Weights over time. I'm actually about to head to the gym right now a little bit of leg day Be sure to give this thing a thumbs up subscribe at more training footage on the way comment below What kind of videos you want to see what questions you have on towel guys in the gym short guys in the gym fat guys Skinny girls in the gym whatever you want to know we're gonna provide and I'll catch you guys in the next one


What's up everybody on the mangoos you are awesome at the day. I tried a little something different I built Boris all green and played a touch more aggressive than I normally do I was hoping that the extra health combined with his passive would allow me to Still deal a lot of damage, but remain really tanky early game after playing this This was fun. I had a lot of fun with it But after playing this I think I prefer to build a few red items first They're just to help with quick kills for ganks and for jungle clear, but this was a fun experiment I'll also be inserting my own commentary into this ones to just kind of explain some things about fault a little better to you guys and Talk through some of my decision-making during this game. Please hit that like button if you enjoy this one, but uh, let's get into it Oh, really? Yeah, he went king and hunter.  I Get extra range now. I started off leveling up my right click which allows me to pass through minions And perform a double swipe. That's just for jungle clear after that I level up my Q which is his sniff sniff ability that gives him movement speed towards the target and attack speed whenever he hits them And I use that for ganking speaking of which the subrog is pushed pretty far forward So we're gonna go over there and see if we can help our clown out That is a radiant pulse that I put down that detects words your regular words don't detect enemy words The radiant pulse does so the several does not know that we're here and we're going to go in after him enemy has been slain L.A. gang successfully I see that this green buff is about to spawn the side buffs spawn or shrines as they call them spawn at three minutes So I'm just I'm not going to take this I'm going to get this low for our quang to come get this will help Him dominate his lane Whoever controls the green buff and the off lane is usually whoever wins that off lane So it's nice to get calling that early green buff. I'm also going to come over here and try and get this blue buff Hello for our Gideon, but I think our Gideon backs here. I suppose I should explain the green buff gives you Health and mana regen the blue buff gives you mana regen and extra experience Come over to the other blue buff because it's preferable if I get one blue buff and the mid laner gets the other blue buff Their Boris was attacking it I'm going to go ahead and put some shots on it Hopefully we can bait him in and our Gideon is there to assist. We're going to attack this Boris He's getting extremely low use my Q now the morgash comes in I make a decision here a conscious decision to beat back the morgash and then let our Gideon get that Boris I'm not sure if that was the best decision I could have made but it worked out for us in the end Let me guys know what you would have done right there. If you would have kept pursuing the Boris or Turned on the morgash like I did Now that our Gideon has one blue buff. I'm going to come over here I already had this one low anyway and take this blue buff so that's going to give me a level advantage level advantage Is really important and fault Maybe even more so in the early game than than item builds at this point in the game I really hadn't shown any love to our duo lane and I really need to go over there and gank but I As I was coming over to gank they pushed them back a lot So I didn't want to risk going in so I decided to get this gold buff low for our carry I am queued with the twin Blasoria. I'm sure I've said that name wrong, but um Yeah, I'm just gonna try and get this gold buff low for him, but then the enemy Boris comes in ruins my day I I decided to go To he's he's not being very aggressive.  I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. Oh They just dive into the tower Those guys were so like they really wanted to get me our giddy in his Going hard on that Boris Now upon re-watching this I realized that it need to but I swiped through those minions to try and take the aggro off The giddy and is what I was doing right there Slay. Oh, I got stuck inside minions Big mistake on my part there I initiated with my ultimate because I thought that if I ulted in and then right-click that he would just be dead I thought that would be the end of it ended up chasing him into his tower getting stuck behind minions story of my life Has been slain Now at this point raptor comes up at eight minutes Nobody has taken raptor and it's really valuable for the favor you get three favor whenever you kill raptor So I really wanted to force this kill they'll go into the tower got to him blast Fortunately, I do end up taking a lot of damage more from these minions in the Muriel than the actual tower Kind of beef up on the Muriel posture up knock her back a little bit. Yeah, she's trying to bait me under the tower I'm not gonna take that bait So I still want to get the raptor like that's really important that we do that so I'll go ahead and Kind of him and all about it. I start the back, but I do have my smite That's on my one that does give me health back whenever I smite a jungle minion So we can still do raptor, but our duo lane is kind of messing around with more and guess Which I mean she's more guess is very dangerous in this match.  If I didn't take that one second of tower hit I wouldn't have died. He's gonna die one more time You can get him you can get him. Yeah, the enemy more gash hurts a lot I'm gonna outplayed like mad right there got way too thirsty for kills and ended up giving several some stacks and two buffs They're going for wraps. I'm coming. He backed off. Blast is dead Their Boris is up. It's been slayed. Whoo. That was a little close. I'm gonna get these raptors now Yeah It must be Warden They are yeah been slayed the several once peace. I don't think he does If you can root him Yes, thank you It's been slayed This was about the dumbest decision.  I often do I had activated my smite and didn't realize it So I wasn't able to use abilities because it was waiting for me to target with spite Oh, no, is your um Yeah, damn you're old she'll I has been slain.  Oh, they just gave up Yay We're two for two brother We are two for two That's gonna be it for me for a little bit though.


everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with the Stock Swash and I'm doing a Christmas in July Golden Gap course special. Again, it's July more than half way through the year. It's hard to believe that Christmas is in less than six months. I don't know where this year has gone. It's gone extremely fast. Before you know it, it'll be Halloween. And this is sometimes how it is. You know, we've had a very interesting year this year in 2022 for markets. I don't think anyone, you know, rewind a year ago, 12 months ago, last July. I don't think anyone could have anticipated the prices of oil right now, the prices of food, the rate of inflation, the way that interest rates have gone up and the way the market has sold off this year. Personally, I'm very happy about the opportunity we've had in the market. We've had a lot of opportunity to make money to the downside shorting. That's been beneficial again, but you have to pick the right things to short and you got to get the right timing. And of course, this is what you would learn in my class. If you're interested and you want to sign up, email me at Melissa, the stockswish.com. You can call me at 929-3200-GAAP. You can follow me on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or Skype. So again, like I was saying, it's been a great year for 2022 to make money. There's been a lot of opportunity, but like any other year, you have to know what to do. I personally prefer to short. I like to short. That means equity trade short to the downside. And then we do puts. We buy puts. Puts is a short. It's an option. And again, it depends what you want to do. If you want to do day trades, fine. If you want to do options, fine. I like doing both for various reasons because the options, you can get the overnight moves. But if you don't have time to trade in the morning, the options are for you. If you do want to trade in the morning and be in that quick, you can do the day trades and you don't have to do the options. But I teach my class on how to find the gaps. It's a rating system to find the best gap to train every day to the downside. So we're shorting. It's a 26 point rating system. People come to me. They want to learn a strategy. I've been doing this now. I created the system myself since I started trading, which is in 2008. It's really hard to believe it's 14 years. It took me three years to figure out what I'm doing now. And again, of course, I'm much, much better at what I do now than I was 14 years ago. So time and experience really has helped me become really a great trader. And actually, I'm very good at predicting market movements and stock movements. But if you come and you want to learn from me, the benefit is you're going to learn it for yourself. You can be in the room. Again, I'm offering that as part of the Christmas and July special. I'm going to go over in a minute, but you're going to learn what to do yourself. You want to trade on your own? You can. You don't have to be in the room. I think people like to support system of the room on a daily basis, but it's not necessary. You'll learn in the class what to do. And remember, when you're spending money on a course on education, it's for your own benefit. It's for you. You're trying to improve yourself. You're trying to improve your trading. You're trying to improve your life and your financial situation by learning something new. It's just the same way as if you went to school and you got a graduate to get a better job so you can make more money. People forget and I don't know why after a certain age, people don't want to learn anymore. That's simply not the way to go about thinking. It's it's it's good to learn. It's good to exercise your brain and my classes full on anyone will tell you that it's full on two days. Again, it's 14 hours in a weekend. I teach it once a month. And when I do offers like this, you're really going to take advantage of them because I try to do bonuses to help people. So that's a beautiful Santa. Look at that. So the Christmas in July Golden Gap course special is signed up by Friday, July 15. And the price of the class is $6,999. Everyone pays the same. You sign up for the Golden Gap course by July 15 and receive the following free. The stocks will show live trading room through the end of 2022. The gap options newsletter subscription through the end of 2022. That's an email goes to your email their live room. You have to be there live and two free one hour one on one mentoring sessions with me on Skype. We can do this after the class. If you need help, if you have questions, I think this is beneficial for people. And again, you know, you can just ask me questions. And if you want to sign up, you can email me at Melissa the stocks will start calm. As soon as you sign up, you can join the room, you can start with a newsletter. It just emailed me for the forms you have until July 15. And then the class is July 23 and 24. I'll go over that in a little bit. But it is about picking the right stock to trade each day. I call it chunking it out because we're looking for the fast moves. I take calculated risk. I'm going through the rating system. And this is what you're going to learn in the class. We're not doing anything. If something doesn't rate good. I'm very thoughtful about my process. I get up early in the morning and look in the pre market to determine what stock I want to trade and go through the rating system. The more time I spend in the prep, actually, the more money I make in the live day and usually the faster I'm done. I don't want us to all day trading for six and a half hours a day. Again, there's too many things that can spoil your trades with economic data news coming out. And particularly in the summer, I find that the summer is the best time to trade fast to get in and out. I like to do that all year long, but really in the summer because you have what's called the summer dull drums late in the afternoon after 12 o'clock, you don't need trading all day. And really, once you make the money in the morning, you should be in and out and done. This is a nice chart. I have to look at when the next earnings are on target and again, earning season starts next week. Why is that important? Because you get a lot of gaps in earning season, lots and lots of gaps. And that is actually very important if you want to make money and learn my system because the more gaps you have, the more trades you can take, not just day trades, but options too. So we did a day trade in this. I'm going to go back and show it to you. This was we, this was an equity trade. We did not share this too, but the equity trade was we shorted it at 140.85 stock was 140.190. 2,800 shares was the risk of 2,940. Exit was 139.65. This is a nice trade. Profit was 3,360. Expect if you're taking an equity trade, turn it over one. Your risk of 1,000 make 1,000, which 2,000 make 2,000. Now, here's what we did. Again, this was in the one minute. So stock close your gap down and fell. We ended up taking it a little late in here. I say, wait, wait for me, but we didn't get the first drop. We did it here and then we got the drop. It was a nice move. Again, momentum, a buck, a dollar, what you can pull out of something in and out fast in and out in the morning. That was an equity trade. Okay, you could have done an option in this, but I usually don't do options in five minutes. We did do options in this. We've done a lot, but in this particular day, this trade here is an equity trade. Okay, then just to show you what one of the newsletters looks like. This was a trade we did at the QQQ.  This comes to your email. This was sent on 628. It was the 292Qs that expired or that expired this Friday, but you should be out of this if you did it. Of course, you could still be in it theoretically, but again, the trade went, it went pretty big. So it was on the 28th. 292s called it, got the drop, drop, drop. Again, we're still underneath the strike in this. This trade would still be positive. I don't know what it'd be worth today to look at it. Today's July 6th, but when you get a move like this, you take the trade, you chunk it out. You could get out here. You could get out here. You could get out here. Boom. I think it's good to get out for a holiday weekend. Remember, we were closed Monday, but theoretically, you could still be in this. Anyways, it costs $575. 15 contracts was a risk of $8625 for an advanced trader risk sold at $16, profit $15,375. This is already, if you already got out of it, into that drop, which was last week before the holiday. Return and investment 178% was a great trade. Again, catching them at the right time and getting that move is how I'm able to get these wonderful return and investments. It was a nice call. So I didn't call this in the pre-market, even though I usually do most of them a little bit later, but perfect timing at the drop. Boom. It was a really nice one. And again, the newsletters go to your email. You get them. You take them in live time if you want to take the trade. But the whole idea about trading fast, particularly, and I think options when we're doing the weeklies are fast, to be honest with you, but in the day and trades in and out quick, that is important. That is important because you could be done. You book the money. Your job is to make the money.  Of course you can. Your risk will just be less. It will be smaller than if you have a large account. No matter what you have a big account or large account, you still have to know what you're doing. If you had a million dollars in an account, you'll lose it all if you don't know what to do. So learning and having the right knowledge is critical for your success and very important. It is about making money, but I try to have fun while doing it. You know, we talk in the room and we go over things in the room and I try to make it a happy environment. It is very focused, though. We're focused on making money. We're focused on one thing a day. We book it, then we talk and I teach and that's it. I mean, some days the room is open in less than 30 minutes and we're done. But if you want to work for yourself, if this is really something that you want to do, you have to take it upon yourself to learn what to do. And if you come to me and do the class, the process is a golden gap, 26 points. You will learn the checklist. That's the meat and potatoes of everything I do and that's what I teach in the golden gap course. So the dates for July 23rd and 24th, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern time. Class tuition is $69.99. If you want to trade this earnings season, which is all in July and August, it starts next week. You can get in. This is the class you want to do. This is the time that you can make money. And then of course with the fall earnings season too, but you would be able to get started and get going here this month. Remember summer is a great time to trade. Think about what I said and definitely, definitely think about the Christmas special. The Christmas and July special is good through July 15th. You must email me for forms if you want to sign up. And if you have questions, you can email me too. Have a great night, everyone.


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Our final grouping that we're going to look at is the differences between teaching monolingual and multilingual classes. Firstly, we should define what we mean by these two things. Monolingual students are a group of students that all have the same native language, and typically that's taught in the country. So an example of that could be the teaching of English to Thai students in Thailand. The chances are that the vast majority of your class will all speak Thai, so they all have the same L1. The difference with a multilingual class is that the students will have a range of first languages, so they have different L1s. An example there may be the teaching of English to a group of students in an English-speaking country, for example in England. Whether your class is monolingual or multilingual, it brings with it a range of advantages and disadvantages. So let's have a look at what some of those could be. So let's have a run through the advantages first of all for the monolingual and the multilingual classes. For a monolingual class, because they all come from the same country and speak the same language, they're going to have some common difficulties. This is an advantage as the teacher because we can work on those common difficulties with the whole class. Secondly, because they're all from the same country, they will be culturally similar. And finally, another advantage with the monolingual class is that they can actually help each other in their native language. What potential disadvantages are there with having a monolingual class? Well secondly, they can help each other in their L1 and whilst this may be okay at the lower levels, say up to pre-intermediate, and in fact it can often actually be more effective to allow them to do so, at the higher levels we should be discouraging that. So the fact that they are able to talk to each other in their L1, we should try and discourage that at the higher levels. Secondly, they will have less natural exposure to L2 as a monolingual class. If you remember we said an example of a monolingual class was teaching English to Thai students in Thailand. They're going to have less natural exposure to the English language in Thailand than they would in England. So what about the multilingual class? What are some of the advantages of teaching those? One of the advantages is that they have no common language. They come from different countries throughout the world and they all speak a different first language. So the fact that they have no common language is actually an advantage to us because their only common language in that situation is therefore going to be English. Another advantage of a multilingual class because they come from different countries throughout the world, they will have a large variety of experiences and those experiences can be used within our classroom. Another advantage that the multilingual class will have is because they're learning the language in an English-speaking country, they are going to have more exposure to that English language. Some of the disadvantages, well here we have the fact that they have common difficulties. Within the multilingual class it's a disadvantage. So some students may find some concepts very easy because it's closer to their native language than others and therefore there are no common difficulties. So we may be having to explain to a particular type of student from a particular country about certain things that the whole class is okay with. And finally, one potential disadvantage if we're not careful is that because they come from different ethnic backgrounds we need to be very, very careful to be culturally aware of what we're doing within the classroom.


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Hey guys, it's Jess and welcome back to my channel. So, being Friday, it's that time of the week again. It's time for this week's question of the week video. And like I always say guys, if you have any study related questions or just any questions that you want me to answer, then feel free to leave them in the comment box below or send them through on my social media at Twitter and Instagram. You can find me at studywithjess if you're not already following me. But onto today's question of the week. Today's question comes from Alice and she asks the following. So Alice writes in saying, Hey Jess, have you ever doubted yourself when it came to your studies? If so, how did you become more confident? Lots of love Alice. Alice, yeah, I did actually. If I think back to my first year of university, I was really used to getting A pluses when I finished high school and being at the top of the class or somewhere near the top of the class. And then when I got into uni, I went to be more like a B, B plus, sometimes even C student. And that first year, it was really challenging for me because yeah, I did doubt in my abilities. As a student, I wondered, maybe I'm not that smart, maybe I'm not an academic. And it really did take a toll on my own self-confidence. But I think that, look, I'm proud to say that eventually it did all work out. But I think that the reason that I had that problem was because transitioning from high school into university, all of the assignments that we were given, they were very new to me. The marking criteria was really different to what I was used to as well. I didn't ever know how to write a lab report for psychology and having to do that as one of the core assignments or key assignments for the year, that was also pretty tough. And then there was also the fact that I was taking a whole new subject called statistics. Love that. So actually no, statistics and I are now friends since fourth year when it finally clicked. Glad to say. But yeah, it was really hard because there were all these new skills that I had to learn. And I feel like we all have this tendency at some point, whether it's in our studies or life in general, that we doubt in our abilities if when we try something for the first time, we're very impatient and we assume that either we're good at it or we're not. And if you start trying and you're not very good, that you're probably not gonna get better or you won't be that much better.  But it's really not the case.  So be proactive and know that you can improve in your skills. Now something that I've said, I think in one of my talks that I gave to some students a while backwards, I asked a lot of them, do they see their skills as fixed or dynamic? So if you see your skills as fixed, it means how we're born, that's just how we're gonna be. If you try and play basketball and you're no good, you're just not gonna be good at basketball or if you enroll in a statistics unit and you're not very good, then you're never gonna be good at statistics. Or do you see it as dynamic? Do you see it as you can improve in your skills and it just takes time, practice and perseverance? So the blood, sweat and tears guys, that's what I'm talking about because that's really the case. If you don't seem to be doing well at something at the moment, it doesn't mean you're not good at it. It doesn't mean that you can't get better at it. It just means you have to keep trying and you might need to try some other ways to improve as well. So one quote that I love to use, and this is actually a courtesy of my dad about a year ago. He said to me, just when things don't go right, go left. So the whole idea is if things aren't working for you, try another approach. Don't give up because it's not that you're not good enough. It's just that you might need a little bit more time. You might need to have some more practice. So remember when I was at uni, I would meet with my tutors and lecturers. I would really rely heavily on the feedback. I would look at the feedback, take that on board and then meet with my tutor again to discuss the feedback. I really nag them a lot. I was a very demanding student, I think. But yeah, I just really wanted to improve in my grades and that's how I did it. So making sure that you don't have a fixed mindset but that you see your skills as dynamic and being very proactive. So think about what you can do and don't sit and wallow and have an extended pity party for yourself if you're not good at something. You can get better, so go and get better at it and enjoy that you have this opportunity to learn and acquire new skills and see it in a positive light and don't take it personally. Don't say that you're not good at something and have this defeatist attitude. So I hope that that answers your question today, Alice. And if you guys find this video helpful, then please thumbs up, just let me know. And like I said, make sure to send through your study questions. You can leave them down below or also send them through on social media. Just follow me at studywithjess on Twitter and Instagram. Also, if you guys want to check out some previous videos, click the cards up over there. I know I always point to the screen. I will place the cards up there. And also if you want to check out my study skills book The High School Survival Guide, that will be linked down below as well. Anyway, until Monday when I see you for brain food, have a very happy and productive weekend. Bye.