FreeNAS 11.3 Release Candidate 2 was released on January 14th of 2020. My system right here is running FreeNAS 11.3 RC2, been up for three days. It's January 17th and I loaded it when it came out three days ago. Now I started in 11.3 Beta, moved it to RC1, moved it to RC2 as the updates have come out and this server is one of them I actually use for all my video editing. It's not exactly something I would consider but kind of is production for my company, but I guess in terms of YouTube, it's definitely production and I haven't had any problems with it. Actually this entire beta has been very very smooth. I haven't really run into any major problems. This is running on a just so you know super micro system, it's a CPU E5 2620 and connected with a couple 10 gig Chelsea IO network cards and that then interfaces over to my lab server that I do a lot of videos on that's running Zen Orchestra. I've got it set up on both iSCSI connections and on NFS. So if you go over here to storage, here it is lab NFS and Dozer SCSI, both of them are called Dozer. That is the name given to this machine. So what's new in 11.3? So 11.3 overall has a lot of great new features and this is one of them that I think is wonderful. The whole ACL manager, so I talked about this when I first did the video on this. It's gotten much more extensive for each release candidate as we get closer to final release with this. They've done a great job and this is where some people spend a lot of time getting confused is how ACLs work inside of FreeNAS. And a lot of times I've had people where they present an iSCSI extent to a Windows server. That's a way you can use the FreeAS as a backend storage, but then have Windows take care of all the permissions and all the things so you have to worry about nothing. You can also integrate Active Directory into with a Windows server and have Active Directory here and have Windows take care of those permissions. Or you can build users, go here to storage, pools, and I have this particular folder here called In the Shadows and we're going to go ahead and edit the ACLs on it. And you can see how the new access control list looks. It's really nice and it lets you break down groups versus users and add ACL items and apply those permissions recursively. So it's a lot more extensive than it was previously. That being said, it offers quite a bit more dynamic options when it comes to setting these up. Now, I want to say Windows from level one text when he was doing the video that I actually watched where him and Gavir's Nexus were setting up a new server. He said that he wished that SMB shadow copies were enabled by default. And they are now. He said that talking about another system, but he said he wished more Samba systems did this and they've actually done a nice job of integration. Now this was built into FreeNAS before, but they've done some polish on it. And SMB shadow copies are now enabled by default for new shares. No snapshots will only show up in Windows previous tab if the snapshot used size shows changes to the file. And this is important. So Windows users are then able to pretend, so to speak, on a share. Windows thinks it's a volume shadow copy. When reality is you've set up a snapshot. Let's talk about that in action. We did a test and we go over here to periodic snapshots and we have this thing that says in the shadows. Let's look at what that does. Edit. I have a snapshot that runs 0, 15, 30, 45. So it's running constantly every 15 minutes. And the way snapshots work, I've got videos on this. They only will cause a storage change or take up space when there's something different between the snapshots. So it's not like you are creating this massive amount of data. It's only the different changes. This is one of the big advantages CFS has and one of the reasons I really like CFS. Well, let's talk about what that looks like in Windows. So you set that up. You set up a share and here we are. We have this test share and it's called in the shadows. And we can go over here and we're going to click on restore previous versions. And we have a 645 because I mess with the data sum and move some files around at 515 and 5. I've done this over time prepping for this video. And now we can see only the changes. Then there's not one for 530 because the data wasn't different. There's not one for 545. And there's not one between 6 and 645 because once again the data wasn't different. But how does it work in test? Well, we can go here and let's say the user goes, whoops, I deleted two items. How do I get those back? Well, they're here and they can restore previous versions. And let's look at the 645 version. So we're going to go ahead and open the 645 version. And then we can do things like drag the one file back in. Yeah, yeah, we know they might be harmful. And now we have the one file back. So that allowed them to, you know, not call the text support and able to restore it. Now what happens if they do something more catastrophic? Well, let's do this. Let's go here and just like purge it all. They just, oops, the entire folder out of existence. Or maybe they all have a .crypto extension on there. Either one of those is a real challenge for IT departments to restore those quickly. Now that being said about crypto locker, the volume shadow copy is part of what gets attacked and the crypto locker provided they have admin privileges. Well, even if they have admin privileges in this case, provided they don't have admin privileges that are also on free NAS, this actually would allow them to easily restore because the user does have permission to view but not to go backwards and purge the different snapshots. So when they go to restore a previous version, let's go ahead and restore the 645 version here. It just turned seven, so now there's another one. There's a blank version on there. We can go ahead and restore those right back there. Because these aren't really volume shadow copies. These are actually snapshots being presented to Windows as a volume shadow copy. And when we go here to open these, it will not let me delete them. They have any type of delete permissions. I'm hitting delete, delete, delete, delete, delete, nothing. So the user, even if they were an admin on this particular machine and they do have read write permission to this folder because the snapshots are immutable because they're controlled by the free NAS server, they can't actually screw these up. So they can restore different versions of all the files that they're looking for. And of course the other question would be does this work on the system itself in terms of restore previous version of file? Yes, because we just restored it, I don't think there's a previous version, but there should be of this one. Okay, it doesn't see any, because I don't think there are any previous versions of those files I only did deleting. But you get the idea. They're able to restore previous version, which is obviously great and wonderful for your clients or yourself. If something happens to the PC, you can make sure it's all working good. Now, something else to talk about is the SCSI wizard, iSCSI wizard. They did an update on that. So a couple of things we have, the way the wizard works now is just literally a few clicks. So I'm going to run over here, and that's why I said I had it working fine. I actually used the wizard, deleted the drives and everything out of the iSCSI, and it worked perfectly fine. I had no problems with it using the wizard to create it and it reattached. For I do you have a volume, a Z-val ready for it. So we're going to go over here to iSCSI and show you what the wizard looks like. Now the first thing I will comment when you do the wizard, it does not say this, but if you use capital letters and you get to the end, it brings you back to the beginning and says don't use capital letters. It will let you go next once. So let's go here. But it won't give you the error until the end. It does probably use some input validation there. So use lowercase letters and they have it defined here. So is it a VMware? Is it a Zen server one? Is it legacy OS, modern OS? And so you have a couple of templates and just a couple of settings to make it coherent for what you want to do or optimize I should say for what you want to do. So that's definitely a great feature right there that they've added. Now one quick note because I wanted to highlight this, this is something I ran into in RTFM, save the day. If you don't follow this order, you start creating the snapshots but didn't create the Samosher or created the Samosher and then started creating the snapshots, that makes a difference because the periodic snapshot test to be created at least one snapshot before creating the SMB share. If not, you have to restart Samosher. So I was confused while they weren't showing up when I first started testing and then restarting Samosher fixed it. Just a side note of if you start a snapshot process you may have to restart Samosher but if you did it beforehand then created the Samosher, no problems and stop start Samosher is all you have to do inside of there to make that work. Other than that, I haven't had any problems with it. Like I said, it's worked really well. I don't want to recreate the entire pool. So that is not something I did but it does have a large pool creation assistance. I want to play with that. I want to get something with a whole lot of drives in it so I can walk through that. It's kind of cool that they helped to automate the way it does repeated VDev layouts because there's different strategies you may want to use when setting up a large pool of not just putting everything in one but creating a series of VDev to make up the pool for different optimization. ZFS performance optimizations across the board from any different workloads. One thing about this when you do the upgrading you're going from the stable version 11.2 to the release candidate version 11.3 it will ask if you'd like to upgrade your ZFS pool. One thing to note and it warns you about this by the way is that is a one-way operation. So it is a slightly newer version of the ZFS when they do these optimizations and they change it but that also stops you from going back.  We're going to go over here to boot environment. Here is the initial install and I've talked about this before where you can just go through and you want to activate a previous version. The way each new version of FreeNAS installs you can reactivate and restart the slice so to speak. So it creates a series of it like essentially boot partitions and you can reactivate a previous one as needed in order to do that. This particular machine I did reload on 1228 that's why there's not any really old previous versions and I usually get rid of a lot of the old stuff so that's why there's a default install, initial install. I'd actually backed up and restore it to do some more testing. I may work on a video and ask a few people to ask me about how you go through and do something like restore and reboot of a FreeNAS and the most important thing I tell people is please, please, please back everything up and they've also done a nice job here so when you save the config export pull encryption keys with this. So you can get the keys it was two places before they're putting it down looks like to one place which is great because if you do encrypted pools and I do you never know what I'm saving on there and I don't want to have to worry about whether or not it's encrypted so I always encrypt because a penalty for performance isn't really there for encryption therefore always make sure you back up the pool because I've had people say hey I don't have that key and I lost my pool. I'm sorry that's exactly how this was designed it's unbreakable encryption so there's no rebuilding that data back but I've also this is pseudo production for me because I use my videos on here I do still replicate and it's still replicating to the old version of FreeNAS perfectly fine they've done a great job with replication and that is something that I'll be doing a video on it because they've actually made it easier to replicate between systems and it actually was able to I went ahead and deleted the replication I had set up because it did give an error when I tried to import the previous replications and I said delete them and replicate again it had no problem replicating using the wizard that they have now it seemed to work fine even though the other one's running an older version of FreeNAS it seemed to be completely compatible so that was good to hear but I will be updating all of my systems to the latest version once it comes fully out and you know it's working and of course we test and ours and then we move it out and upgrade our clients so my impressions of FreeNAS 11 RC2 have been great I love all these different features that they're adding on there I like to see the progress on the project and of course I will be diving in more because they're working a lot on the plugins because they're breaking out the plugins that are supported by system versus the plugins from the community that way people and they've got an entire roadmap people are going to start writing their own plugins and make it easier to distribute the plugins and add more to it so they're doing more around the framework on there so we're probably going to see from the community especially a lot more plugins and things like that that are coming so awesome and thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you'd like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to laurancesystems.com fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on if you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com where we can carry on the discussion about this video other videos other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos they're accepted right there on our forums which are free also if you'd like to help the channel out in other ways head over to our affiliate page we have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again thanks for watching and see you next time


It's like NAR for example, coming out and saying there's more listings than there are agents. Okay, what kind of message is that? What is that sending to agents? What's up everybody? Ricky Karuth here. Welcome back to my channel. So today I want to talk about my prediction of the real estate market and what I think is one of the greatest opportunities that we've ever seen coming soon and how you can capitalize. Before I get into all that, I want to give you a full disclosure here that there's only 97 free tickets left to the Miami event that's going to be June 30th. This is going to be off the chain. After all the tickets are gone in the next day or so, I don't want you to say, Ricky I wish you would have told me about the Miami event. I didn't know about the Miami event. Guys, the tickets are free. The link is in the description. Go to zerodediamond.com backslash events and if you can't go to Miami, that's okay. I just opened up Charleston. Charleston is available. That's going to be August 12th and I'm opening up more as we go along. I'm planning on Dallas, Nashville, Vegas, okay. I am more and more and more to come. So the zerodediamond tour is in full effect. We're doing this and I'm coming to a city near you. When you guys have been loving my free book giveaways, I gave away 10 copies of lists to last, how to survive every real estate market crash. The next video that I did like this, I gave away 10 copies of zerodediamond, how to survive every real estate market crash. I'm signing these books and mailing them to you for absolutely free. Okay. And I want to give away five and five this time, five zerodediamond books and five lists to last books. All you have to do, like, comment, subscribe, hit the bell and I'm going to pick 10 winners over the next 24 hours. Let's go. Now the market is on absolute fire right now. Of course it has been. Everybody knows that. That's not new to anyone. Everybody is full aware that the market is complete insanity right now. It has been for several months. Where it's going, nobody really knows, but I'm going to give you my prediction of what I think. Now, one thing that I do not like seeing in the market right now is all the negativity from certain agents. There's a group of agents who are positive and who are really closing a lot of deals and then there's a group of agents over here who are very negative about the market and saying how tough it is and making all these excuses. I don't know if you realize this or not, but 90% of agents who get into this business do not make it in the business. They go back to their nine to five. Okay. If you're one of these agents who are making excuses and finding ways and being negative about the market and really blaming outside forces for the reasons why you're not succeeding, chances are you're in the 90% of agents who will not make it in this business. Okay. You've got to be in the top 10% just to barely squeeze by in this business. That's what I want for you. I want you to be in that top 10% so you've got to quit making excuses. You've got to start trying to find solutions. That's what I want to talk to you about today.  Hey, I get it. There's a lot of media out there that's being negative and they're putting all these things in your head that's creating this situation where you feel like you're drowning here, that there's no way for you to succeed because they're showing you the wrong stuff. It's like NAR, for example, coming out and saying there's more listings than there are agents, but for now just realize that's the absolute wrong message to be sending out on a mainstream media platform. But for now, just realize that we're in a very low inventory, high demand, low interest rate market right now. Will this last? No, it's not going to last. How long is this going to last? I don't know, but there's a few things I can tell you. The first thing I can tell you is that as a real estate agent, none of this matters. No outside forces matter for your success whatsoever. Closings will happen every day for the rest of your life regardless of what the market does. So what is all this matter? It doesn't matter if prices are up or down, where supply and demand is, where interest rates are, so on and so forth. None of that matters. If closings are happening every day and we get paid per transaction in the form of a commission, then why does any of this matter? Our job is not at that point to worry about the market, so on and so forth. Our job is literally just to help the people who are buying and selling at any given day. And teaching you these very simple strategies is what I do best. This is how I've built my business and this is how I want you to build your business. If this is your first time seeing me and you're new to this channel, go to zero to diamond dot com right now, completely free, download the 90 day action plan, get to work, and hit me on Instagram if you have any questions. And I will help you through whatever the problem is.  I don't think any real estate agent should pay for coaching. Should you maybe pay a one time fee for access to a certain person you want to talk to and have questions? Sure, maybe if they're on a super high celebrity status level and it's just going to take some money to buy their time, to spend some time with them, sure. Paying an ongoing fee is absolutely insanity. I'm trying to save the industry from paying for coaching on a recurring basis. I'm also trying to save you money by saying, hey guys, don't pay for leads, right? Don't pay for leads, these online leads, these lead generation sources that are sending you the worst bottom of the barrel leads for the highest possible price. Let's get away from those two scenarios and let me save you thousands of dollars every month. Now I think that we are headed for euphoria for real estate agents. I think there's going to be this moment, okay? It's going to be a 30 to 90 day window, let's say, right? Maybe 30 to 60 days. I don't know how big this window is going to be, but it's going to be a massive, massive euphoric situation for real estate agents. The market prices are just skyrocketing, okay? We're seeing signs of a little bit of leveling out in some markets right now as we speak. As I talk to agents all over the country, they're telling me that they're not getting as many multiple offers. They're not getting as many multiple offers as they were, say, a month ago. So that tells me, huh, something's happening. I've even had a couple of buyers write a contract and then rescind their offer saying, hey, the market's too high. I'm just not feeling good about buying this property. I think we're going to see more and more of that as we move forward, as the market continues to explode here. But what I honestly think that when that time comes, that undetermined time comes when the market does officially level out and you have sellers who have been dying to sell. There's so much pent up demand right now for sellers to sell. Sellers want to upgrade, okay? This is just natural, okay? This is mother nature, if you will. People just want to upgrade. It's in our human nature. So they want to upgrade, but they can't because there's nothing to buy and they can't sell what they have and try to buy something because the market's too crazy. Their chances are very low if they will get, even get a property and even get what they want, okay? But unless it's a unique situation where you know a builder and you work out a deal and you have somebody build a house or you get lucky or something along those lines, most people are not going to be able to take what they have, sell it, and then buy what they want. So there's a lot of sellers just sitting on the sideline, so they can't replace what they have and they're scared they're going to leave money on the table because prices are going up so much, which by the way, guys, doesn't matter whatsoever when you're trading for another property unless there's a huge price difference. So when you're trading apples to apples here, it doesn't really matter if you sell and buy when the market's high because what you buy is going to be higher if it's low, what everybody's going to be lower. You're going to lose money when you sell here, you're going to make money when you buy at the lower price, vice versa. It doesn't really matter because you're buying right back into the same market at any given time. The problem right now is inventory and that creates a very unique dynamic here in the market and something we haven't really seen a whole lot of. We've seen a little bit of this back in 2003 and four. Back in 2003 and four, this is a very slim market. The difference is lending regulations. Lending regulations are so much tougher right now.  They weren't checking income at all. And what were you doing as the pizza boy? Borrowing a million dollars. Well, you were buying a property for a million dollars to try to sell that property for 1.2 when it's really worth about 600. So most of your buyers back during that time were speculative buyers buying to flip. Now, everyone's an end user. Most of the buyers today are end users. There's a few flippers, but the percentages are so overwhelmingly the other way. You know, they're making sure that people can afford these houses. Now, as things change and the affordability, you know, of these houses go up and, you know, interest rates start to creep up. You know, there's going to be some dynamics that change the market moving forward, okay? And this is where euphoria is going to happen. This is what I predict here for real estate agents. And you got to be ready for this, okay? If you're the agent who is following my program and you're developing these relationships, you're not worried about, oh, how many deals we're getting. You're worried about how many people we're creating relationships with and putting into our database, sending this weekly email and building personal brand for the future. If you're that type of agent, building your personal brand, what's going to happen is you have all the relationships in place, okay? There's a lot of seller pent up demand for sellers to sell. What's going to happen is as we see the market level out officially, if interest rates go up some or who knows what's going to happen. Nobody really knows what triggers. Nobody's, you know, you can try to predict what's going to trigger the market to shift, but nobody really knows exactly what's going to make it shift. Let's just say, for example, interest rates go up and everybody's going to realize it at the same time that boom, we've hit the top of the market. Now what do we do? Okay, well all this seller pent up demand, they're going to realize it all at the once and they're going to say, oh man, I got to sell it right now, you know, since we're at the top and before it goes down and all this stuff. And we're going to get flooded with listings. Okay, we're going to get flooded with listings. Who's going to get those listings? We are, the zero to diamond agents are going to get all those listings because we have all the relationships in place. They're going to call us. We're the one that's been building rapport. We're the one that's been there for them. Okay, we're the one that's letting them know who we are, what we do and we're here to help. Making calls and developing these relationships to prepare for this earthquake that is about to happen, guys. So I'm excited about it. I've been kind of thinking about this for a while. I've set it on a couple of videos. I wanted to share it on a specific video today for you just so you could understand the entire thought process behind this. Please let me know if you have any questions whatsoever. You can shoot a comment or hit me up on Instagram and let me know what you think. Also, I'm going to post a video below how to get listings in today's markets and also old expired scripts. Okay, I'm going to do those two videos below that will really help you go after and develop these relationships and really make it happen, build your business, build that foundation. And let's get it. See you on the next video.


Why we do what we do the testimonies that you just seen We play testimonies not just for the sake of testimonies We play for this we don't play only for the sake of you receiving faith and being encouraged Which this is a big part because you don't know You know Louisa's favorite line is that you don't know what to ask for unless you know what's available, right? You don't know to ask for healing if you don't know if it's available Unless you see that God can heal from all kinds of sicknesses and all kinds of diseases that God can come through in any kind of Situation that God can save any kind of a person you will not have faith and Perseverance and hope to believe for your case or for the case of your relatives friends or people that you're praying for so Testimonies that we play to have a two-fold kind of a twofold Meaning or reason why we do it first is that so your faith can be built So when you encounter a hardship in your life when you encounter troubles in your life You have faith to believe that God has done it for that person God has done it for that person and that person at that Person he can do it for me. I'm no different and second reason why we play such a testimonies is So that we could have a clear vision and clear sight of where we're going and how we're gonna get there So that we concede a clearly what the vision of our church and what we're going for we are not just going for Just to have a regular church service just to do from 10 to 12 10 to whatever and Do our church mark and just leave We are striving we are believing we are going for For greater things and these are the things that we see these are the things that we're going for We are going for to see people getting healed every single service people being set free every single service people getting saved Every single service that in curable diseases every single service that we have will be healed Well, people will be set free from all kinds of nightmares all kinds of difficulties in their life And people will receive breakthrough and will live in the blessings of God that has that he has for us This is the reason why we watch such a testimony so that we can Align ourselves to the will of God so that we can just so that make sure that over time We don't lose our focus on our vision and that we strive to get where God has in store for us a man church the vision of our church Immediate vision of our church is to see a thousand people in our church is to see that on Sundays We have three or four different three four five different flows that our services will start on a nine eleven at one And then an evening service so that we see many people Many people saved in our church and I want us to keep that in mind I want us to keep that vision I want us to see that we will have right now as we have 20 30 home groups that we will get to the place in The new term that we're gonna have 300 home groups that it's not gonna be just one board barely filled But we're gonna have five or six boards that can be filled With leaders with strong men and women of faith people that have a vision people that have a fire people that have Compassion people that love God and love people. This is our vision church And this is where we're going and this vision requires you it requires your involvement It requires your dedication this vision does not work without you and me And so but a long-term vision a long-term vision says we're gonna see our church being tens of thousands of people We're gonna see we're gonna have a big great building and not only that going beyond ourselves This is not gonna be just a church, but this is a movement that we're working towards We will see many many pastors rise up in this place leaders rise up in this place worship leaders rise up in this place That I will go into different cities Different states even different countries open the churches and continue on the mission and the call of God that God has Not just for a church, but for all the churches and for the movement that God has in store for our lives amen I want to tell you that this vision requires you it requires your involvement It requires your passion your love for God and your love for people You have to understand that this vision is not for the sake of vision This vision is not for the sake of good news church and because pastor was silly and pastor Lord came up with such ambitious vision So we all have to get on board for it this vision is is there because This vision is big and great and this vision requires all of us because there is a demand for this vision It's not because we want to achieve fame and glory that all comes as a response to the call and to the vision Just like there is a demand for medicine and doctors This is it's a it's a given. It's inevitable demand that you can't just escape The world has a shortage of medicine and good doctors So there is a demand today in this world For people like you and me they can rise and answer the call of God to begin to mentor people begin to witness Begin to share the gospel begin to pray for people begin to cast out demons Begin to help people in their life in their situation. You have to understand that everything big Starts little don't be intimidated by the size of your home group Don't be intimidated by the size of our church Don't be intimidated by the size of your beginnings because every great Man and women of God started with small started in significant every great company in the world today that we see Started out of garage started out of the basement started small. Don't be afraid to start small You might have a great vision burning in your heart. You might have These dreams and visions and even that wishful thinking to become someone great, but you say how am I gonna achieve it? How how am I gonna get that? There is no way. I'm in nobody. I don't have the connections I can't do this that I don't have these certain skills You have to not be afraid of a big vision of great goals because Everything great everything big starts with little say everything big starts with little and so if we answer the call of God in our lives God will arrange our way for us to achieve the things that he has called us to achieve. Amen. I want us to look at four stages of personhood and We're gonna talk more a bit about you becoming a mentor you becoming a leader You taking a step to become an answer to this world to the demand that this world has first stage that we see in life is a stage of a baby One thing about baby a characteristic about babies a baby is completely dependent on its parents the baby is Completely dependent and needs to be taken care of There are people here and we were gonna discuss this four stages There are people here that are in these four categories There are people here that just barely got saved and they're really they're really babies in a Christian walk with God and their Relationship with God and they need to be taken care of they need spiritual parents They need spiritual guidance. They need to be spoon fed if I can say that They need to be guided and we need people God requires people God needs those people that will take on That responsibility of being a parents and taking a baby and maybe if you just came to church and you feel like oh man There's so much to learn so many things to do, you know, it gets intimidated You see people that know so much. Don't you worry about it? It's normal to start off as a baby. It would be weird if a person got you know of a child is born and starts running around that just Pray for deliverance so The point is that it's okay to start out the baby. It's okay to start out being needy It's okay to start out being dependent on somebody. So if you got saved here recently Last couple weeks a month or so You first thing that you need to do is you need to find spiritual parents meaning you need to find leaders You need to find mentors you need to get plugged in in the home group So that you can begin to grow in God you can begin to grow in character You begin to grow in your destiny that God has for you. Amen second stage is youth Youth we can characterize youth is that they're starting to take care of themselves But they still need to be watched over Youth sometimes they get rebellious. They're trying to discover who they are youth is a stage and a season in life Where character gets developed? So as you're gonna begin to grow in God Those those of us that home group leaders those of us are gonna become leaders We have to understand that as person gets stronger in Christ they go through school of leaders They get that our job as who as as home group leaders our job is mentors Is not to just abandon them after three or four months that they got saved and feel like oh They got it all together finally they got the basic doctrines of the Christianity You know they learn how to pray a little bit they learn how to read the Bible and just abandon them No, we need to be just like parents of the youth They they take on a little bit different role and they teach them how the teachers teenagers how to start taking care of themselves How to begin to be more independent and and they guide them they watch over them now They don't control every step of their way, but they guide them and watch over them This is a stage where their character begins developing and so maybe some of you on that stage where you feel like you know Your your your mistakes are being pointed out every single day every time you meet with your leader You know there's new thing that you got to work on be patient You have to go through this stage where your character is being developed This is stage of youth where you are growing they're growing pains involved Third stage is a stage where you become a man or become an adult This is stage is where you become independent When you become completely independent and you can begin to take care of yourself now a your your leader and your pastor Doesn't have to remind you. Hey make sure you read the Bible. He doesn't have to remind you. Hey make sure that you spend Make sure you spend time in prayer make sure you tithe make sure you Reach out to others you become a person that you are able to take care of yourself You are an independent person and you are a person that is able to provide for yourself and so I Want to speak to those people and I know we have quite a few those people that find themselves in this category You've been coming to church for six months or longer And you kind of game to the place or for most part you don't need to be reminded to read your Bible You don't need to be reminded to pray You don't need to be reminded to come to church. You kind of got those things down. You already somewhat independent you already on your own begin to pick up some different books you listen to different podcasts and You are able to take care of yourself and congratulations. You've gotten mature. You've gotten to this point There's more growth for you to do. This is not the last stage But I want to talk to those people and I want to encourage you and I want to challenge you to go to the next step Next step is fatherhood or father being a father This is a step when you're able to take care of yourself and not only that you are able to take care of others See all of us in life We grow up physically we Physically we go through these stages and So is physically so is spirits and mentally we also Must go through these stages and sometimes it's sad to see where person physically Gets to the stage of fatherhood But they're still acting like a child emotionally mentally There's they haven't grown they haven't gone through the stage where they matured when they allowed people to work on their character They have not even become a man where they can begin to take care of themselves and they become but they're already Physically they're already fathers and it's devastating people suffer family suffers kids suffer because Because of these things because a father plays more video games than the child himself Okay, that just shows that they that a person has not Develop hasn't gone through the stages and so these qualities don't really necessarily relate to our age Because a person can be in their youth in their teenagers, but they can already be mentoring somebody they could ready can be helping somebody to get To get stronger with God to challenge them So these don't necessarily relate to the age they relate to emotional mental and spiritual development and so Those of us that are have been in a church Coming to church or you've been Christian for some time and maybe you came from another church and and you know You feel like this is your home This is a place where you can be plugged in be involved I challenge you and I encourage you and I implore you is that let's begin to move from stage to stage Let's begin to come from a stage of youth into an adulthood into manhood Let's begin to if you're on that stage, let's not stop there. Let's go further Let's begin to help people to get to the place where they're at What where you're at? You know a lot of the biggest excuse people have Those that have been coming to church for some time for six months or a little bit longer And they already got a little bit established in their walk with God the biggest excuse people have is well I don't know as much as pastor Vlad as pastor was still I don't know as much as these leaders I don't have answers to everything. I don't feel like I'm qualified The thing is is that you don't have to be qualified and what is qualification really we constantly growing All you need to do is to be to help people to get to the level at least where you're at If God sets you free from drugs help other people share your testimony Help them to get to the place help them to guide them in the direction where where God can use you to help them to Be set free from drugs. God sets you free from certain addictions from low self-esteem God God healed you God helps you to abandon your bad friends a bad company and Now your life is progressing going and moving forward Help others to do that and as you help others to do that God will put people in your way. God will challenge you God will give you grace to grow up and to move on to the next stage in life a Lot of times people come To me and sometimes people that especially those that been in church for some time they come and say well I have been I feel like I'm stuck I feel like I can't pray. I feel like I can't read the Bible. There's no motivation. I can't Move forward and just feel like I'm just stuck in my relationship with God usually the answer is and And I begin to point out to them is that you stop serving you stop helping others to grow in Jesus You you lost the passion to help others to grow up and begin to Get to the place where you at and I challenge them to begin to serve once again to begin to find people That they can put a life into and next thing you know they're next thing You know that I hear the reports from them is that you know, they got their passion back They got their excitement for life back. They got their prayer life back They got their motivation to read the Bible to begin to you know Just just this life and fulfillment came in life It's because when we get stuck at the youth level or we get stuck in a place where we just became mature It's all about us. We will quickly begin to stagnate and regress. We're gonna get to Go backwards But if we're gonna go further if we're gonna go into the fatherhood stage when we begin to pour our lives out We will receive a deep satisfaction and God will help us in our lives. Amen The the references for scriptures, I'm just gonna put up on the screen and you guys can take a look at them at home It's John 17 from 6 to 19 our You don't have those okay, John so if you can write it down John 17 for verses 6 to 19 and first Samuel 1 21 through 22 so first scripture is a prayer of Jesus It's right before Jesus is gonna be crucified and be leave this earth Jesus is praying for his disciples and Jesus is saying to the father that I have kept all of them that you've gave me That I have done everything that I can I revealed my Revealed you to them. I've given what you've given me. I gave it to them. I Know all of us here that we want to be like Jesus. We want to mimic Jesus. We want to Be more like Jesus. This is the goal of Christianity really. This is the goal of us Christians is to be more like Jesus And here we see Jesus is about to leave this earth and he's praying to the father said father.  I'm giving them. I'm wondering today that Most of us are already and we're able we have things that God has given us Can we pray the same pray that Jesus prayed and said Jesus Everything that you've given me you given me a revelation. I shared it with somebody you given me a testimony.  I shared it with somebody God I pray for this and this and this person because I've done all that I can I've shared the gospel with them Could you please take him and do what you can do now with them? This is the goal of us as a Christian every single day to be able to be able to come to God say God Yesterday I've done all that I can I've talked to this person. I've talked to that person I disciple this person I consolidated these people in my home group Could you now please do what I can't do? Could you please now touch them? Could you please lead them? Could you please change their lives? We must do what we have to do. You have to understand a discipleship and mentorship is not up to Jesus It's up to us Jesus said therefore go and make Disciples of all nation. He didn't say that go and I'll make the disciples and you take care of them. No, it's an opposite You go make the disciples and then like Jesus says God I've done everything you can here there for you Here are there for your service our job as Christians is to raise other people up to become a mentor become a leader Raise people up and then present them to Jesus say Jesus. I've done everything you can now Please use them for your service and then we see Jesus leaves disciples They kind of backslide a bit, but they kind of find their way back and now we are where we are at because Jesus poured into the 12 and now Christianity is the largest religion in the world don't underestimate small beginnings every person That you come in contact impact their life somebody said that When you come in contact with a person leave them better than you found them so In the scripture second scripture of Samuel is that when God when Hannah she was Bearing and she didn't have a child and she asked God God if you give me a child I'll dedicate it for you, but interesting thing is that first she and verse 21 and 22 First she raised the child to a certain age and then she gave it to God for the service When new believers come to church when new people get saved It's our responsibility to nurse them to raise them up to make them disciples and so that they can be of service to God It's our responsibility say it's my responsibility Say it's my responsibility to raise a disciple for Jesus Now for things for reasons why we should take on a role of mentorship Why we should be a leader? Why we should have a home group and why we should impact and pour our lives into people first reason Number one is that there is a great need for you. There is a demand for people Like you yes you the one that still has issues. Yes, you the one that still has Some mistakes that you're making. Yes, you the unperfect one the one that you feel like it's not qualified Jesus Sorry, not Jesus the world and Jesus has a need of you Matthew 937 says the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few It's not that There's not enough people to be saved. It's not that enough people there is not enough people to be impacted Jesus said it's ready. It's it's it's actually desperately asking wanting He said it's just not enough people that say yes, Lord here I am send me and go and do the job First reason why we must become mentors why we must become people that take on a fatherhood role and begin to mentor important To others is because this world is sick and dying This world is corrupt. There's sin abounds in this world There is pain and suffering and you have the answer.  It will depend some lives of people would depend on us Whether they're gonna be for eternity with God or eternity condemned without God It's our responsibility. It's my job and it's your job and God is looking for people like you and me to answer the call Reason number two is that we owe it to God Apostle Paul says in Romans chapter 1 from verse 14 and 16 he says that I am in debt To preach the gospel to Gentiles and to Jews Why Paul why do you say that you're in debt? It's because he realized That God saved him That without God he was nobody and that God by his mercy reached out and changed his life And he says how can I not? Do the same thing and return the favor what God did for me? Think about it. Somebody went out of their way to reach you Somebody went out of their way to pray for you. Somebody went out of their way to invite you to church Somebody went out of their way To bless you to speak a good word for you. It's your responsibility to return that favor It's your responsibility. God saved you by his grace. You owe it to God and you owe it to people. You're in debt to Priest the gospel number three Life is too short and eternity is way too long Bible says in Matthew 6 19 In 20 do not stir up the treasures on this earth because this treasure thieves can rob it more Moth can eat it Anything can happen with it But stir up treasures in heaven which nobody can steal from you. You have to understand regardless. It's all good It's all good that we are striving and reaching To achieve best things in life to live in a great house big house expensive house to have a nice car To have great things in life It's all good and God wants to help us with it It's all good to have really nice things to dress really nicely to have prestige in life to have influence and and and have Great influence in life. It's all those all of these things are great and God desires us to have those things He wants us to be on top and not the bottom.  You know give it to me later Lend to the nations and to never borrow It's God's desires for us to be in the top, but you have to understand we have to keep the main thing is the main thing We have to keep the perspective We have to understand that this life is way too short and this life is not even a dot on a scale on a line compares to eternity We have to understand is that when they bury us six feet under We can't take our family with us. We can't take our kids with us.  We can't take nothing with us only the things That we've done for christ and the things that we've done for people that will count at the end When we stand at the white throne of God, and we begin to receive our rewards What is god gonna say to us?  Whatever we do in life Whatever try to achieve in life. We're all gonna leave you behind and we must focus on the main things and And our point number four It protects our life and attracts blessings to God Blessings of God and Psalm 41 one and two says this God blesses those who are kind to the poor and helpless He helps them out in their own troubles. He protects them and keeps them alive He publicly honors them and destroys the powers of their enemy a lot of people want to quote this promise for their life and And and and oh God's gonna help me to defeat my enemies God's gonna honor me God's gonna do all these great things But you have to understand a lot of the promises of God are only for those That answer is called Only for those that begin to put others Before themselves only for those that that say yes, lord I'm gonna be an answer to those that are dying to those that are struggling to those that are poor To those that don't have anything to eat. I'm gonna mean answer to those that are sick I'm gonna mean answers for those that are oppressed and possessed by demons This promise of great blessings of God is to those that answer the call I want to tell you is that every person that genuinely goes after God serves God and serves people Every person that genuinely cares and serves other people is never in shame Bible says I never have seen righteousness for sakin and his children begging for bread There is provision in the call of God. There's a provision and blessing protection And honor when we live for God and live for people When we begin to take care of God's business God's kingdom God begins to arrange our ways somehow somewhere just things come together, you know There was a there's a there's one man in the village. He wasn't He wasn't any, you know, he was just a simple man He was a farmer and but everybody knew him and everybody liked him because everywhere he go He would fix things. He would come to your house and he would swing the door Or in the house or um gate door and he would hear a squeak So he would come and oil it up and and make sure it doesn't squeak He would see something broken. He'd see a fence broken. He'd come and fix the fence He wouldn't even ask people for their permission. He would just he would be just a kind of a man going around Places and fixing things and doing what he can He was a very simple man didn't have much that he could offer but he offered whatever he could offer It was his skill at one moment in his life something happened that his house caught on fire and All his possessions and everything got burned And so that man was devastated But because he invested his life in the other people the whole village came together and they built him a house They bought all the things that was burned down And they restored him and he had bigger Bigger house better things new things in the house. They bought him a car And he was better off before than he was after why? Because he chose all his life. He was investing other people I want to tell you when you invest into people when you invest into the kingdom of god with your finances With your skill with your time with your effort with your smile with which is which is words of hope to others Whatever you so you shall reap god says god cannot be mocked You know, I remember the story of and I've shared that and I just kind of quickly mention the story of of my parents You know, um when we were in russia's missionaries My dad opened a rehab center for people because there's a big epidemic going on with drugs and all kinds of things Back there and we opened our home and we hosted those drug addicts as they were recovered. They stole from us They literally cleaned their house out multiple times Um and some people got set free some didn't some ran off. Uh, they were just using us But uh, you know revinding 15 years later We in our family we got a big devastation, you know, my my My brother david those of you that know his story. He got straight on drugs and he just you know, he went Completely south, you know, he to the point he started using drugs that he lost his mind He would talk to himself. He forgot how to write. He forgot how to tie his shoes I had to tie his shoes and one time when I was taking his to court and he couldn't even sign a paper On the in the court where he had to sign off because he completely forgot all these things drugs messed him up so bad You know, and it seemed like god, what is all this? God, what happened to all those things when we helped all these people god What happened what happened, you know, what happened to those? Prayers that we prayed for these drug addicts this time We took him in our house and we we fed them we clothed them and and they stole from us They robbed us and we still took care of them god What happened to all these times, you know, it seemed like almost seemed like all of those things were forgotten But it was not you know, god used the man completely that would never even think 14 years ago Some men from Africa that took on my brother david as his own son. He prayed for him. He mentored him He set him free by god's grace and returned him home a year later completely sane completely normal When people hear his stories, they don't even believe it because he doesn't even look anything like that person he was This is exactly the scripture comes who says that That what I just read from psalm that god blesses those who are kind to the poor and helpless He helps them out in their own troubles.  He will rescue us. He'll rescue those that'll rescue others.  This is what I've done for you I lived for eternity. I didn't live just for temporary things. Amen


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Hey, I just wanna show you a recent thing that I've been poking around. So I work for a nonprofit called Akshara Foundation, and they do a lot of stuff around schools in Karnataka. So I'm part of this project called the Karnataka Learning Partnership. And we had this map portal for a long time, which was using Google Maps and it sucked big time. So recently I sort of rewrote the whole thing using some of the new stuff. So what you see here is actually a very interesting JavaScript library called leaflet, leaflet.js. What it does is it takes maps on the web and on any kinds of other display. It performs really well. It displays maps properly. It'll let you add custom control. So one of the things that you can do here is, all right, it doesn't seem to be... Okay, so, and this is staging, so I don't know whether something goes wrong. So it clusters the markers according to the zoom level. Then turns pretty slow. And you can do things like this. Like you can add custom controls and say, I wanna see, go there. So it picks up stuff in the particular area that you wanna see and things like that. And it does a pretty good search as well. It uses the Google API. The search is right now optimized for Bangalore because we don't have a lot of data about the schools in the other states. It should work. Yeah, so yeah, that's pretty much it. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.