SEGA GAAAAAAA DRUNK! Anything and everything to do with the Super Nintendo has always been my main hobby ever since its launch in North America back in 1991, so as a result of that, I ended up missing out on a ton of other stuff that was around at the same time. Thanks to this channel project thing that I've been doing the past several years, I have a convenient excuse to dive into a lot of those games for the first time, so I thought, hey, maybe it might be useful to give some perspective on the best games the Genesis has to offer from the viewpoint of someone without any kind of nostalgia for the games, just looking at them from a bit of a modern viewpoint based on how they've held up over time. Yeah, I've done some videos like this before, but hey, people like lists, and when putting this one together, I had a really, really tough time picking out the best games, and many sleepless nights and tears were shed when certain games were left off. Alright, maybe not, but still, it's tough to leave outstanding games like Rystar, X-Men 2, Musha, Beyond Oasis, and many others off of this video. Of course, that doesn't mean I think that they're bad games, obviously, just that I think that these 13 are better. 13. Alien Soldier. This is the game I had the toughest time deciding on whether or not should be on this video because it can be a pretty inaccessible game for some people. The controls are a bit weird. You choose four weapons out of 60Us, A selects the weapon, B shoots, and C jumps. While you can change your shooting mode from free range to fixed by pressing down and A at the same time, you can also press the B button twice at the right time to turn enemy projectiles into health, and there's also a dash attack, you can hover, put all this together and it can be pretty tough to get the hang of. But once you do, this game is friggin' incredible.  Alien Soldier was only released in cartridge form in Japan and PAL territories, and it was only made available in North America via the Sega channel, but if you want to play it today, it's on the Sega Ages Collection, Vol. 25, and on Steam as well for like a dollar, so what are you waiting for? Go check this one out. 12. NHL 94.  NHL 94 was revolutionary at the time, and it remains one of the most popular retro games to this day. It's an excellent multiplayer game, it's easy to get the hang of with fast, responsive, and immediate controls, and you don't even need to be into hockey to enjoy it. The controls here are almost like shoot-em-up controls, where you're dodging and juking your way past your opponent, avoiding hits while trying to deliver your own, all while trying to sneak the puck past the goaltender. NHL 94 continues to be the standard by which all other sports games are measured. 11. Pirate's Gold. I admit I'm a little biased towards this game, because when I first sat down to play it a few years ago, I was expecting something pretty lousy. I mean, it's a home console port of a pretty massive PC game.  It's an open-world exploration game where you can trade goods, recruit a crew for your ship, capture cities, duel other captains, seek out buried treasure, and lots of other stuff. It's surprisingly flexible in allowing the player to choose what they want to do and how they want to play, and it's done in a very player-friendly way, making things reasonably easy to figure out. Pirate's Gold is one of those games where if you sit down to play it, you better make sure you've got a few hours free, because it's really hard to put down. 10. Herzog's Vi. This game is way ahead of its time. It combines a bunch of different genres and game styles. We got shoot-'em-up mechanics. We got top-down run-and-gun stuff. We got real-time strategy. You can transform from a fighter jet to a mech. You can have combat units created and order them to attack the enemy base, and you can either play against the computer or against a second player. The action here is really fast, with no pauses to think about anything. You just gotta make your decisions and keep moving. Herzog's Vi is a great example of a game that's totally unique to the Genesis alone. There's nothing else on any other 16-bit console that can compare to this one. 9. And the same could be said about Thunder Force IV, a horizontal-scrolling shoot-'em-up that's arguably the best of its kind on the Genesis, and that's saying something because there are tons of great shooters in this library. You've got ten levels total, although you can play the first four in whatever order you'd like. You collect tons of different weapons, you can flip between at will, but really, this is just really well-made and a very well-balanced game. The balance of speed is perfect while keeping the game challenging, the visuals are great, the soundtrack is awesome, and in a nice bonus, you can even move the screen up and down to reveal more of the world you're destroying. It's always a tough call to pick the best shoot-'em-up on the Genesis, but my go-to is Thunder Force IV. 8. Castlevania Bloodlines, one of the very best action platformers on the Sega Genesis. You get two playable characters, one with a traditional Castlevania whip, but one with a spear, and what really stands out here is the level design. There's six levels, but they may differ depending on which character you choose, and some of the settings here are just awesome, as you can see. Bloodlines does a great job pushing the Genesis to its limits, like this tower that slowly rocks back and forth, or these spinning platforms that eventually lead to this cool-ass-looking boss fight, and of course, the usual Castlevania motif is represented as well, where you have to climb through a clock tower. Even if you don't usually dig Castlevania, Bloodlines is still a must-play. 7. Fantasy Star IV. Here's a turn-based RPG that can hang with the very best of its era. If this game were released for the Super Nintendo, you could easily argue that it belongs in the top five, along with the likes of Final Fantasy VI, Earthbound, Mario RPG, and Chrono Trigger. So, what makes this game stand out along the likes of those names? For me, it's the sheer scope of the story. Your planet somehow got reduced to a desert, with monsters popping up everywhere, and it's up to you and your party to figure out what the heck has happened, and how to stop it. The way the story is told through manga-style panels makes this game appear from a visual sense, unlike any other 16-bit game, and the soundtrack here adds a ton to the experience. The combat is great too, always keeping things interesting with up to five party members, allowing you to learn up to 14 combination techniques. If you dig science fiction and turn-based role-playing games, Fantasy Star IV is an absolute must-play. 6. Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Some might think this is a little low, but we'll get to that later. This is just a classic case of a sequel doing everything it should to improve on the original game. Now, the original Sonic isn't on this list, but it's still a pretty dang good game. But Sonic 2 took that game's strengths and made them the focus of this game, like building the levels around Sonic's speed, making the player rely on Twitch controls and memorization. Some people try and approach Sonic like it's a Mario game, where you try and hop and bop your way, picking your spots and taking your time, and that's not really how classic Sonic games work. Here, it's a bit more about being able to explore and find hidden areas without losing your momentum, and it kind of reminds me a little bit of Donkey Kong Country 2. But yeah, Sonic 2 is a perfect case of a game where the more you play, the better you get, and the more fun it is. 5. Streets of Rage 2, easily one of the best beat-'em-ups ever made because it's got the best control scheme of any beat-'em-up ever. Yeah, Streets of Rage 2 has a lot going for it, from the visuals to the atmosphere to the soundtrack, but what makes this game as good as it is is its layers of complexity. When you first play this one, you'll see you've got your usual punches, kicks, jumping attacks, and weapons, but the further you get, you'll be able to intuitively figure out all this other stuff that you can do. There's combos, throws, and enough suplexes here to make Brock Lesnar blush. And in addition to that, there's four playable characters here that all play differently, lending this game a ton of replay value. Make no mistake, Streets of Rage 2 is THE total package. 4. Shinobi 3 Return of the Ninja Master. If there's any kind of game I love playing, it's an action platformer where your character is overpowered to the gills with tons of moves, abilities, and special weapons, and can absolutely crush all enemies before them. That's what Shinobi 3 is all about. There's just so many different attacks you can unleash at any time, like a sword dash, a mid-air dash, plus you can scale walls, and unlike its predecessor, there's no one-hit deaths here. You have a life bar, so you can take tons of chances to try all sorts of crazy stuff. The level design does a great job complementing your abilities, even throwing in some goofy stages like being able to ride a horse and even surf. Shinobi 3 is just plain fun. It's as simple as that. 3. Shining Force 2. This game was given the unenviable task of simplifying and streamlining something as detailed and complex as a strategic turn-based RPG, but it managed to pull it off brilliantly. This game manages to be a perfect introduction for someone that's always wanted to try this kind of game, while still providing plenty of substance and meat on the bone, so to speak, for any veteran strategy RPG player. You can end up with as many as 28 people in your party, everything from warriors to archers to knights to wizards, all that good stuff, and the game pulls it off, keeping the pace relatively brisk without overwhelming the player with too many options. Shining Force 2 is brilliantly balanced and designed, and everyone should try it out at least once. 2. Sonic 3. You know what I said about Sonic 2? Well, that goes for Sonic 3 as well. This game takes everything from its predecessor, fills in even more detail, and extra areas to explore adds little touches like allowing Tails to fly for a bit, adds some new power-ups like a fire shield, which makes you immune to fire, an electric shield which acts like a ring magnet and allows Sonic to double jump, and a water shield that gives you unlimited air underwater. There's a new special stage that's even better than what's featured in Sonic 2, and the level design stays consistent overall so there's no huge changes, only minor tweaks and additions that make the game that much more fun to play. In addition to all that, you can also plug a Sonic 3 cart into the Sonic & Knuckles cart, which unlocks a ton of extra stuff. Sonic 3 is a great time, and it would be the best Genesis game ever if it weren't 4. 1. Gunstar Heroes. I mean, when you're doing a list of the best Sega Genesis games, it would feel almost criminal not to pick a game made by Treasure. They did such an incredible job developing titles for Sega, everything from Dynamite Heady to the aforementioned Alien Soldier, and I mean they even made a McDonald's game for God's sake, and it's actually really good. But yeah, Gunstar Heroes in particular is an absolutely exhilarating playthrough, and the reason I picked it for number one is because it takes full advantage of everything the Genesis does well. We've got massive explosions, huge boss sprites, tons of speed, tons of gameplay variety, creative level design, and when I think of Sega Genesis, I think of the visuals this game brings to mind. This game is a masterpiece from both the technical and design standpoint, plus it's just plain fun. I mean, you get four different weapons, and you can combine any two to create your own weapon, which creates some unique shot types that lend themselves well to each part of the game, depending on where you are.  I've beaten it three times now, and you know what? I think I'll go play it again right now. Alright, I want to thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


What is going on everybody? It's Stas here. Welcome back to another video. So in today's video, just like always, we're going to be doing an overall market update, taking a look at the Dow Jones, the S&P 500, and the NASDAQ. We're going to be doing a trading update as well, talking about what I personally did today on the 29th of May in 2019, as well as taking a look at some other stocks and ETFs that I'm personally watching, ones that I'm keeping my eyes on here towards the end of May and heading into the month of June in 2019. But before we do get into the topics of today's video, all I ask from you guys out there, the subscribers, the viewers, if you enjoy the content, feel free to go down below and hit that like button. It really supports me and supports the channel in general. And if you're actually new to the channel, I have two links down below in the description box. If you want to stay further connected with our community, the StriveSmart community, one of them being the Discord group chat and the other one being the Facebook group, both of those being 100% free of charge. So let's hop right into it, guys. The S&P 500, the 500 largest publicly traded companies in the United States, ended up closing the day down $19.37, down 0.7%, continuing this downwards trend that it's been on over the past couple of weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average ended up closing the day down 221 points, down 0.87%, doing a bit worse than the S&P 500.  But mind you, this is the future. If we're looking on the one day, one minute so we can see the performance of the index today, take a look. From 9.30 a.m. Eastern Standard, roughly at about $72.30. We ended up closing down at about, let's see, $72.30. And we ended up closing at about $72.21. So it was a slight red day for the NASDAQ. So across the major markets, guys, yet again another red day, the selling off continues. That's been in play over the past couple of weeks. For those of you guys that have been paying attention to the markets, we know ever since Trump sent out that tariff tweet on Sunday a couple of Sundays ago, it was like four or five weeks ago at this point, I believe it was four weeks. I think it was in the beginning of May. The markets have been tumbling. And in yesterday's video, I talked about how the $2,800 level for the S&P 500 was a very, very important and critical level of support for the index. And what happened today, guys? Well, we broke that level. We closed the day. As you can see here, the price at about $2,783 for the S&P 500. We broke that level again, like I said, $2,800. And now we're trading in this range from $2,730 being the next support that I'm personally seeing, and the $2,800 level of resistance. So we're in the 70-80 point window right now for the S&P 500. Judging on some smaller time frame charts, you can see week after week, again, we're closing lower and lower. This chart really just shows us the downtrend on a closer basis. This is the all-time high here at $2,954. And since then, guys, it's just been down, down, down, moving averages, simple moving averages have been acting as resistance levels. We're noticing the bearish cross of the 50 S&P crossing below the 180 S&P. And today, we ended up pushing to a lower low at about $2,766, which is actually about 17 points lower from where we ended up closing at. So the closing price of the S&P is actually good compared to how low it actually ended up getting today. We actually got pretty ugly towards the middle of the day here. We gapped down. We saw the pre-market futures were red. We gapped down. We saw that little run up, then we got rejected and we just started to push down even lower. And that's where we made that lower low. And from there, $2,766, we rebounded quite nicely on the SPX going on that 17-point run. So at this point, guys, I'm just watching and seeing what the S&P is going to do. Are we going to continue pushing down maybe test $2,730? I think that is possible here over the next couple of weeks. Do I think it's going to happen this week? Probably not unless we get an extreme, extreme red day either tomorrow or Friday. But I personally think at this point, and a lot of people out there in our community, in the Discord group, we're talking about how the S&P might see a rebound day or two rebound days. Because we notice here, every time we've pushed to a lower low, just take a look at what happened last time we did this. Or we could start from the previous time we did it as well. So we fell from $2,890 down to about $2,832. We made that low and we rebounded for a day after that. We pushed to a low and we rebounded for one and then two days before pushing to that next low. So now it seems like we're consolidating. This could be tomorrow or Friday. This could be a point in time where we rebound again and then test that 50SMA on a 20-day or rather the 10-day 30-minute chart. So keep that in mind. We may potentially see that rebound if this trend follows what it's been doing over the past couple of weeks. But nothing like that is set in stone. No one really knows it's going to happen. But I'm most likely or most definitely rather going to be watching the pre-market futures to see what they are telling me. So for example, if we wake up tomorrow morning and we see the S&P futures are down another 10, 15 points, that would tell me during my analysis that we're gapping down again and we might see another red day. But let's say they're up 10 points, they're up 15 points, that would really push me to believing that we might be rebounding. So that's kind of what I'm watching for the S&P 500. The Dow Jones here on the 184-hour chart, we're noticing how we actually ended up holding the $25,000 level of support. If you guys were watching the Dow today, it got down to a point where I believe it was down 400 points at the worst point of today, again during the middle of today's session. And at that point, I believe we were actually below the $25,000 price level. You can see here we got to as low as $24,930. So we were actually 70 points below that level of support that we're currently holding again because we saw that nice little push up towards the end of the day on the Dow. But nonetheless, we're trading now, just like I talked about in yesterday's video, we're trading in the range between $25,000 and $25,500. And at this point in time, if we do break the $25,000 level of support, I personally think it's going to happen eventually. Am I saying it's going to happen tomorrow or the next day? I'm not definitively saying that because I think we could potentially have a bounce back or two bounce back days here. But eventually, I do think we're going to sell off. But once we do, if we do sell off here and break below the $25,000 level, if I bring out my little handy-dandy support resistance tool here, if we look at some of the next levels we could potentially be going to, the next level might be $24,500. So if we break $25,000, keep an eye on the next support roughly between $24,500 and about $24,600. And just like the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average on the smaller timeframe charts, it's showing a lot of the same patterns. We've been selling off lower lows, lower highs, getting rejected by simple moving averages here. We're noticing the bearish cross. And just like the S&P, we notice how every time that we've bottomed out at a lower low, we've ended up rebounding for either a day or a couple of days. Just take a look at this, guys. Lower low, rebound. Lower low, rebound. Lower low, rebound. Lower low, rebound. Lower low, we rebounded for a couple of days. We pushed to a lower low again today, like I said, at $24,938. And now we're slowly starting the rebound. So is this rebound going to continue tomorrow? That's what I'm looking for. Again, the futures are going to tell me that. And let's say we do pop up 50-100 points in the pre-market futures for the Dow. And we slowly start to truck up here. The 50 S&P is what I'm going to be looking for as a rejection zone for the Dow. And from there, we may be seeing the continuation of the sell-off. So that's pretty much it for the Dow Jones. Nothing crazy here. Again, it's just been read over the past couple of weeks. This week, in particular, it's been read as well. Just a lot of the same guys, to be honest here. So the NASDAQ ended up pushing a bit lower today as well. We're noticing the futures are nicely trending up right now. We're noticing some green candlesticks forming here on top of what level of support is this. Give me a second, guys. Let's see. This level is at around $7,200, which used to be a resistance back in the beginning of March and back in the beginning of November in 2018, as well as the beginning of December. So actually, I've put this as probably the most critical level of support right now for the NASDAQ. Because if we end up breaking these levels and start pushing down to the low, low 7,000 level, and maybe into the high $6,000 level, like $6,800, $6,900, we're going to be in levels, or at levels, rather, that we haven't been in since this crash that we saw or the big sell-off that we saw in the October to November month and during that rebound period in January and February, guys. So keep an eye on the $7,200 level for the NASDAQ, the $7,000 level, too. This general area we're in is super important in my eyes for the NASDAQ. And if we're looking here on the 20-day one hour, a lot of the same, just like the S&P and the Dow. We're seeing the bearish cross here, the 50 S&A crossing below the 180 S&A. The S&As are acting as resistance levels with really no sign that we are going to reverse and see a bullish move in the NASDAQ. And I got a question, I believe yesterday in the comment section, I didn't reply to the comment yet, but I believe the comment was something like, do you think the NASDAQ is going to go to all-time highs before a trade deal is reached? And I'm not going to sit here and predict that, right? But I personally, based off my personal opinion and my understanding of these technicals, at this point, we're downtrending. And until we see a bullish break, I don't really think we're going to head to those all-time highs again, and especially with the pressure that the stock market, the economy, this trade war is putting everything under. It's putting everything under a ton of pressure. And to be honest, if we don't get a trade deal, I think the markets are going to continue to drop until we either get some more clarity on a trade deal or until we come to a trade agreement. If we come to a trade agreement, I think that would be a huge positive catalyst for the entire stock market. But I'm not personally seeing that right now because every time we've gotten a deadline for the trade deal, it's been pushed back. It's been pushed back. It's been pushed back. And I just think a lot of that is going to continue to happen here. It seems like Trump is obviously hard-headed, the president of China, he's hard-headed as well. Them two together, I don't know if they're going to come to a deal. No one really knows. But I'm just playing it by ear, guys. Of course, paying attention to everything that's going on is super, super important. So that's pretty much it for the overall market update here. I would love to know what you guys have to say about the markets. Do you think we're going to continue this push to the downside? Do you think markets, stocks are bound to recover? I would love to know what you guys have to think. Drop a comment down below. So what did I end up doing today in terms of my trading? Well, I ended up trading TVIX today. TVIX is an ETF.  And this is a volatility ETF. It trades on the VIX and it trades and it goes up in price when the overall markets are volatile and heading in the downward direction. We noticed the VIX today ended up going up 40 cents at the close here. It was up 2.29%. But we can see at the peak, it was at $19. So we saw some pretty good volatility during this time period. And this is exactly when I ended up trading TVIX. And take a look at the market here as well. The VIX moves inverse to the S&P 500 in a way. We noticed how we gapped down in the morning. The futures were red, which told me that, okay, today might be another red day. That was the first light bulb. That was the first hint that I personally saw. And then we started to see a consolidation and a slow rebound in the S&P. And then once we started to get to where we ended up opening on the S&P, which was roughly where we got rejected at set $27.90, we started to sell off again. And at this point, I noticed the VIX was starting to spike up. Just take a look at this time correlation here at 10.30 AM. Take a look at what the VIX was doing at 10.30 AM. It was kind of bottoming out at this point. And it started to spike up aggressively. And again, the markets were selling off at this particular time. And that opened up my eyeballs. The light bulb went in my head. TVIX might be the play right here. So this is when I ended up just getting into TVIX. As the markets continued to sell off and as the VIX continued to spike, ended up getting into TVIX at about, I believe, like $24.45. And this was kind of just a, my thought process behind this was for it to fill the gap, profit on the gap filled here. And again, the VIX S&P, they were, the S&P was selling off. The VIX was spiking. These were a couple of different things that were confirming my trade here in TVIX. So we got the sell-off from $25 at the open down to about $24. Again, I got in roughly at about $24.40. And I ended up just riding it up a bit. I didn't fill the entire gap because if I did wait for the entire gap to be filled, I would have made 4%. But I made roughly half of that. So today, I made about 2% on my trade in TVIX. It almost got up. I believe I sold a little bit under $25 here. It was around like $24.90, $24.95. And that's pretty much it for the day today, guys. A lot of the time, I get questions, are you trading stocks all day? Are you hopping in and out of stocks all day? And a lot of the time, guys, I'm either doing one or two or three trades. I'm not one of these guys that's just hopping in and out, in and out, in and out. I like taking my profits and then stopping for the day, right? Because I'm sure a lot of you guys have experienced this where you end up hopping into a trade. You make, let's say, 2%. And then you start to get greedy, right? You want to go to the next one and make more money. But let's say the next one you go into, you end up losing money, right? Let's say you lose that profit you made on the first trade. And now you're in this pattern where I made money. I lost a little bit of money. Okay, let me go and try to make the money back. And then you're in this pattern where you're hopping in and out and you do five, six, seven, eight trades. This is something that I used to do, I'll be honest, but I've been avoiding doing that recently, right? Just like on Friday, I ended up taking a loss on drip. I did not try and revenge trade. I did not try and try to recoup those losses. I just stopped trading for the day. That's something that I do all the time, right? There are sometimes when I'm guilty, when I do trade or over-trade, I guess, but that is a very small amount of the time, guys. So, took my profits today, 2%. Could I have tried and traded more? Sure, I could have, but again, I take my profits and I run. That's all I did today, guys. So, let me know in the comments section, what did you end up trading today? So, let's talk about some stocks, some movement of stocks here, the Fang stock. Let's go over some, the crude oil, the natural gases, gold. Let's just talk about some of these very quickly. What am I personally watching? And we'll end off the video. So, Apple stock today has continued to drop. We saw the run up, the 179, the push down of 176, lower high at 178, and we're kind of in a wedge right now, right? You notice how on the intraday chart, we're kind of in this little wedge. So, tomorrow, I'll be excited to see which way are we going to go? Are we going to pop out? Are we going to sell off, right? Let's say tomorrow, we end up having that bounce back day in the markets. We might see a run up to 180 on Apple, but if we continue to sell off, this one's most likely going to sell off as well. And a lot of people look at Apple as one of the main stocks that kind of determine how the market is doing in a sense, right? It's not the main stock, but it's one of the stocks that people look at to determine how the market is doing. And we've noticed how bad Apple has been performing, from 215 down to 177, guys. And it's just a bunch of the same, right? We're getting rejected by the moving averages here, the bearish cross. We keep dropping and dropping and dropping, right? Some of the other fang stocks here, you know, Facebook was down $2 today, down about 1%, we're seeing the bearish cross here. The 50 SMA is acting as a resistance. This one seems to me, from a technical basis, it's continuing to sell off here. You know, if we're looking at Google, right? You're seeing a lot of the same. We had a 2%, almost a 2% loss today in Google stock, down about $17 per share here. You're noticing Netflix is dropping back into the 340s right now. It was down about $6 today, down about 1.58%. Another one that was up yesterday was AMD, and AMD ended up dropping 3% today, like we talked about in yesterday's video. The $30 level, the $29 to $30 level over the past couple of weeks here on AMD stock has been a very weak level for AMD. And quite frankly, it's been a strong resistance, right?  Not no joke, every single time. Look at this.  It continues to sell off. But now we're noticing how, again, we sold off, but we're actually seeing some price consolidation at a higher low from the previous here. So could this be a point in time where AMD does end up, you know, maybe recovering and bouncing and potentially filling the gap up back up to 2930, maybe 2940? Only time will tell, but I'm personally waiting to see if that does end up happening, right? Because we can see, you know, it lost about 4-5% in terms of the value here in the stock. And again, we're seeing the consolidation. This could be a potential day trade over the next couple of days if it does end up playing out, right? If we do end up getting back out of this level of resistance at about 2840, maybe into the 2850 level, that's a point in time where I'm interested in playing AMD. So let's talk about some other, you know, futures here that we follow, the gold futures, they're currently down about $2 right now, down about 0.16%.  Looking to see if we end up breaking out of the $1,300 level, that could be good for Jnug, which is a bull ETF that we trade on this channel, which goes up when gold is going up in price. We saw crude oil today, had a pretty decent bounce back day, but overall the trend is downwards. We're noticing the bearish cross, the 50 SMAs crossing below the 180 SMA here, you know, potentially tomorrow if we start to get up and we retest that 50 SMA, we start to get rejected. You know, DWT could be a very good play, which is an ETF that goes up whenever crude oil is selling off. So I'm watching that rejection zone on crude oil. If we get the confirmation of the rejection, DWT can be very good. And we can already see the margin of profit being opened here. Keep an eye if we trade down to the 50 SMA support on the 184-hour chart. This could be a bounce zone and a nice entry on DWT. So LABU and LABD, those are another combo of inverse ETFs that I personally trade sometimes, not as frequently as these other ones, but it's still worth watching in my opinion because they trade on SPS, IBI, this S&P Biotechnology Select Industry Index. And whenever this index is selling off like it has been, LABD, which is the bear ETF, it goes up in price. So the fact that we're still trending below the 50 SMA, 50 SMAs acting as a resistance here, the downtrend is still intact. So tomorrow, let's say market's dropped. Let's say that scenario ends up playing out. SPS, IBI starts to drop as well. LABD will be a very, very good play. And again, we can see what the price action is looking like pre-market hours. But let's say we get a bullish pop here on SPS, IBI. We break out of the 50 SMA resistance. LABU, the inverse to LABD, which goes up whenever SPS, IBI is going up and pretty much just moves in the same direction. LABU might be the good play tomorrow. So these are all ones that I'm just keeping my eyes on today, guys. Of course, TVIX, I'm watching that one as well as volatility continues to spike up as markets continue to be iffy selling off. This is one that I always watch in these situations, guys, in this type of market. And for all you long-term viewers, you know that, right? So SQQQQ is another one that I'm personally watching and did pretty well today, up $1.02, 2.43% in the green today. And this one trades on the NASDAQ 100. Based on the NASDAQ, whenever the NASDAQ is going down, SQQQ is going up in price at a 3X rate that the NASDAQ is going down. So NASDAQ goes down 1%. SQQQQ will be up 3%. So this is one that I'm watching. And the inverse is TQQQ, 3Qs. This one goes up when the NASDAQ is going up at a 3X rate. So let's say the NASDAQ is up 1% one day, TQQQ is going to be up 3% roughly on that same day. And this is going to be one that I'm watching for a potential market bounce tomorrow. So as you guys notice, I have a bunch of different stocks and ETFs that I watch for every single market scenario, right? For the bear side and for the bull side. And this is what has led to my success as a trader. I always have some options for both sides of the spectrum, right? I'm not always just making money when the markets are going up. I'm also making money when the markets are going down. And that's super, super important in trading stocks, right? Because a lot of people say, and this is kind of, I've found this to be true, that the market, it falls like three times as quick as it goes up, guys. Take a look at this, right? On the three-year one-week chart. Oh, not on TQQQ. Let's take a look at the SPX very quickly before I end off this video. Just take a look at the SPX, right? It rose from 2620 all the way up to 2900. How long did that take? That took about a couple of months here, like five, six months. And then it tanked from 2900 all the way down to 2300 in literally the matter of two months. So that just goes to show that it falls a lot quicker than it goes up. And I figured I'd just mention that. I'm sure a lot of you guys already know that. And the point of that is you can make money on both sides, right? On the downside, on the upside, you should always have a plan. And remember, don't just trade any of these stocks, any of these ETFs. Don't buy anything in the stock market based off of my opinion. You have to understand the risks that's involved. You have to understand all these things for yourself to make a sound and informed decision for yourself. And this will lead to your success in the stock market. So I hope you guys enjoyed this video. If you did, feel free to go down below and hit that like button. It really supports me. It supports the channel in general. Drop a comment. Let me know how you guys ended up doing today. I would love to know and subscribe to the channel if you haven't done so already. And I actually uploaded a video earlier today talking about two value stocks that I'm personally looking to swing trade. So go check out that video if you have time. After this one, I promise you'll find some value in that one as well. So I hope you guys enjoy your night. I'll catch you all in the next video. Peace out.


So guys we are back with another how divers to video and today guys we have a saucy one Some brand new Weapon gameplay unreleased weapons that are coming to the game some brand new gameplay on them We're also going to check out guys. What's more or less confirmed weapon customization full weapon Customization in how diverse to how cool does that sound when it seems as though from the data mine files and these leaks That that is going to be a thing going forward. Let's go. How's it going guys? My name is DPJ and the winner of yesterday's 2100 super credits giveaway is seen on screen now If this is you hit me up on my discord now Do you guys want to win 2100 super credits or a copy of this game? Well, it's simple drop a like on this video Liberate the video then massive thumbs up make sure you are served with those post notifications turned on and drop a Comment down below when it will be picked and announced and tomorrow's how diverse to videos Okay So let's get into it guys and like I said we have some things to go through and first things first We have some brand new weapon gameplay now. Somebody's look absolutely Incredible we'll talk a little bit about each individual weapon and I'll link the source down below because there's plenty of footage on These are like 10 minutes plus for each weapon. I'm going to showcase that much too Yeah, but we'll just talk a little bit about the weapon where you're seeing gameplay of it in the background Okay, so the first one guys we have the adjudicator So the adjudicator you're seeing gameplay of the unscreen now thanks to mouse TTV over on the how diverse the leaks read it now. This is a brand new Marksman rifle. It's called the BR 14 adjudicator and what it stays is an accurate armor penetrating rifle the BR 14 adjudicator Delivers righteous judgment to medium-sized enemies who it's restrictive magazine limits its effectiveness against large Groups a weapon traits medium armor penetration. You can see it stats there an 18 damage Capacity is 25 recalls 50 and finally with that 550 fire rate So yeah the gameplay I've seen unscreen now now I actually do enjoy much more rifle so the most part in many other games It's my goal to in this one if I hadn't well in how diverse if I hadn't fallen in love with shotguns I'd probably still be using a marksman rifle. I actually do like the look of this thing now Obviously until you get your own hands on it and you can feel it for yourselves It's hard to judge a weapon, but to me it looks quite good. It looks quite powerful It's doing all the things a marksman should if you if you pair this with the right kind of gameplay style You can actually set up and be quite monstrous with this kind of thing. So yeah, I'm actually liking a look of it So yes, you adjudicator a gameplay You'll see him right now on the screen and if you want to check out the full footage you'll see it linked down below Okay, so next up guys, we have the truth whisperer now This is a weapon. We actually saw an image of quite a while back I haven't seen gameplay of it as of right now, but we have it again Thanks to mass TTV over on how drivers leaks already. So this is an assault rifle But they're well great thing about this thing is it's got a belt in Supressor so you can see stats on screen now and a little bit of description on it the ar 48 truth whisperer It's a sort rifle a silenced assault rifle They're built in supressor which won't alert distant targets to the user's position This would be very very very handy indeed guys really would weapon traits light armor penetrating Stats proceed those fixed five to that damage a capacity of 30 recoil of 30 and a fire rate of 750 So yes, so gameplay this you'll see an unscrew now and again guys if you want to check out the full gameplay footage You'll see that link down below, but this is the weapon Definitely peaks my interest.  So what do you think about this? And let me know down below guys Next up people we have the exploding Crossbow again, thanks to mouse TTV So the CB9 exploding crossbow is a weapon many many people are interested in me myself Included now crossbows in this game obviously require a certain play start and I'll touch words about that But looking at gameplay of this thing It does seem like it's a little weak and a weaker side But I think because of the explosion and being able to hit multiple targets at the same time It's kind of balancing itself out I feel but we're seeing it right here guys are a little bit of a description on it the explosive CB9 exploding crossbow fires powerful exploding balls which do maximum damage upon direct impact Gravity must be accounted for when aiming six weapon traits explosive obviously stats damage of 150 capacity of five We call it 35 So yeah looking at the gameplay of it. I'm not sure it's gonna be my goal to I won't lie I'll give it a try But we will see guys we will see but yes the exploding crossbow for anybody who's interested in gameplay of it You'll see in that on screen now Okay, so next up guys you have the R36 Eruptor so the R36 eruptor you've seen a little bit of gameplay of this on screen now does not much of this about like 20 seconds of it if that this is another Exploding weapon much like the crossbow but this in my opinion looks way better. So a little bit of details on this The R36 eruptor this bolt action rifle fires jet-assisted shells And that explode shrapnel in all directions upon impact not recommended for close quarters use We've seen its weapon traits and medium armor penetrating stats 230 net damage which is potent capacity of five really color 75 and fire at 25 So it's a lot slower than the crossbow in regards to how quick it fires But it's way way more powerful and looking at the gameplay on it guys.   But yes, there's not much again We can go off a little bit of gameplay until we get out on hands on it until we play that ourselves We can't really finalize a decision on it. I'm the same as you guys I like to try things before I actually make my mind up. So, yeah, okay So lastly for today's guys, we have another leak another day of mind. Well vitals from mouse TTV on a full Weapon customization system in this game. Yes, you heard that, right? They seen there the actual day of my files on screen now He states weapons can freely change ammunition type magazine size internal accessories muzzle scope slings paintings etc And we've seen a ton of details and a ton of weapons where it seems as though these will be Customizable now we saw a little bit on this last week But now we see more and more files in the game coming with every single patch It's only a matter of time now that I feel that we will be able to customize certain weapons If not all weapons in this game, which is something I massively Massively stand behind being unique in your own weapon and being able to customize your own weapon So it plays to your play style is a massive Massive plus to me. I don't think anyone's gonna disagree with this I don't think anyone would prefer to know it weapons over ones You can customize and make your own Hey, if you're the kind of person who does like that, you know weapon You don't like to customize let us know actually don't don't let us know don't let us know I think you'll be roasted, but yes guys a full weapon customization system leak is the latest and greatest Surrounding this game guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out If you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys. I will see you on that next one


The contributing factors as to what makes a specific area popular to live in depends on many different things. Location plays a very big part in where we choose to call home. Today we have our property expert Simon Bray, CEO of Private Property in the studio, to talk us through the most popular areas in South Africa. Simon, great to have you on the show this morning and it's all about location. What do you say makes the most popular areas? Well, it's an interesting thing. Private Property has all of the property on the market at any one time on its website. So we get to see a lot of these different properties and listings from across the country. When we talk about popularity though, we don't talk about it in terms of fashionable or the hottest spot or anything like that. The word popular for us is actually how many people are looking for property in that particular area at this time. So we take all the listings, we divide it by all the views that we're seeing on those particular listings and we come up with this kind of popularity score for suburbs. And it's quite interesting because you see areas pop up that you may not usually think about, but it's obviously where the market really has demand. Yeah, it's all about where the demand is and on your website, which areas have been the most popular? Well, what's interesting, I mean obviously khao ting is the bulk of the popularity. A lot of people looking to move into khao ting or move around within khao ting so some of the big names pop up there. But some interesting names in Western Cape and Khaizaden as well. Soweto is our most popular suburb on the site and that's really an interesting story because you're seeing that affordable market really grow in South Africa and so we're seeing the value in that end of the market really get excited. And what other areas in the khao ting region has been deemed popular and why do you think it's been like that? I think it's sticking with this theme of affordability. The economic situation in the country is a little bit pressurised. People are looking for the next step in their housing journey, but they're looking very much for affordability. So areas like Northcliffe, which is a more traditional suburb in Joburg, and Rosebank Parktown, some of the older homes, they very much invoke at the moment a lot of people in those types of areas who are looking for property at the moment. And in the Western Cape, which areas would you say has been very popular? Well, I mean, that's also interesting. Not names that you would usually think of. You think of City Bowl or something like that and that gets a lot of attention, but the Cape Flats actually is the most in-demand area in the Cape region and I think that's largely because there just isn't enough stock there. Not enough new development, new listings coming onto the market to see the supplier start to catch up with the demand that's out there. And the traditional suburbs in the Cape obviously do very well. You've got the leafy southern suburbs, it's always very much in demand. Goodwood, Parrow, those areas, still great affordability in that market so people are really interested in them. And if you're interested in those types of suburbs and it's that affordable market that you're looking at, you really have to get on the website, you have to sign up for email alerts, you have to make sure that you know about all the listings first because there is just that much demand happening in that sector. Yes, and when it is such a, like you said, it's a popular area, wouldn't that increase the prices of the property? You would think so, but I think half the reason people are looking is because the prices are perhaps not as high as some of the other areas, but certainly over time demand drives the prices up. OK, and not excluding KZN, which property, well, which areas would you say are the most popular? KZN is fascinating actually. What's happened recently is a lot of businesses have moved out of the city centre and they've moved into the north. Nodes like Amschlanger and Belita are really growing, particularly from a commercial property point of view. So Durban's inner city is actually one of the more in-demand residential areas now on the site. You're seeing a lot of those big buildings being converted into flat blocks and so that's driving a resurgence in the Durban property market and that's a very popular part of Durban. I never would have thought that Durban Centre would become the popular place. Well, thank you Simon for sharing all of that. It's great having you on the Expresso Show. It was great to be here, thanks. Now whether you are looking to rent or buy, Private Property can help you find a home for everyone. Simply log on to the website privateproperty.co.z and let the journey begin. They also offer a great service where you can find out all about the different neighbourhoods in our country to help you with your decision.


You may be seated our sermon title this morning is fight the good fight of faith Fight the good fight of faith and our text is 1st Timothy chapter 6 And we're gonna be looking at this paragraph that runs from verse 11 through verse 16 fight the good fight of faith in a complicated drama Lasting more than 15 years William Duke of Normandy was now in the precipice of war with England The English throne recently vacated by the death of Edward the Confessor in January of 1066 AD Was now in the hands of a rival William believed that the throne of England was his by right and it became clear that he would have to take it by force The military campaign later named the Norman conquest had as its strategic goal The overthrow of Harold the 2nd the very powerful English Earl of Wessex and the Subjection of the English Isles to Norman control William later to be named William the Conqueror was positioning himself to rule an empire Now having gained support from the papacy and from the Norman aristocracy William assembled the force of troops and ships and made preparations for his invasion while Harold was occupied Defending England against the Viking invasion from the north William crossed the channel making landfall in the south near Pevency on September 28 1066 Upon news of the assault Harold rushed south to face William at Hastings arriving at dawn on October 14th Now William was known for his courage and known for his superior combat strategy With respect to his courage William positioned himself in the battle at the front of the fight in full armor urging on his troops at one point a cry arose in the ranks that William had died in battle and That the army began to lose heart and so William at the front lines removed his helmet Road up and down on the very front of the battle lines yelling I live I live fight on and we shall conquer yet it was William during the battle at Hastings who Utilized the strategy called a tactical retreat Retreating from your enemy Stringing them out and fighting them as you go in order to gain more favorable ground against them It was William on this invasion who instituted castle building as a Strategy for medieval warfare most famous of his Mott and Bailey castles being the Tower of London and Due to the courage of the Norman invader and superior military tactics Harold with nearly half of his force was killed in battle The remaining English troops were scattered by nightfall William the Conqueror was crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day in 1066 Now it's a parent from history William was also a wicked man and had done many wicked things and just like all men Both small and great he will one day stand before God in judgment at the great white throne to give an account for his life But in an argument here from the lesser to the greater if a conquering king embattled in a sinful campaign would employ great courage and well devised strategy in the agonizing pursuit of a perishable crown and How much more those fighting the good fight of faith and battled in a glorious campaign Armed with weapons mighty in God for the pulling down of strongholds should employ Great courage and well devised strategy in the pursuit of an imperishable crown Paul personally charges Timothy now in verses 6 through 11 to fight the good fight of faith Then praise God We are not left without a glorious Reasons for great courage. We're not left without Glorious reasons for great perseverance without glorious reasons for a great striving in a great fight And powerful strategies for claiming a great victory that has already been won on our behalf in Christ Blessed is the man who endures for he will receive the crown of life Which the Lord has promised to those who love him Now in our passage today We're going to examine this good fight of faith good fight of faith from four different aspects of the battle One aspect we'll look at a tactical retreat in verse 11 Fighting the good fight of faith requires the use of a tactical retreat fleeing the enemy while fighting to gain advantage Point two we're going to look at a strategic offensive from verse 11 a strategic offensive This strategic offensive is defined as an aggressive projection of force in order to gain an objective in order to achieve a tactical goal or to shift the balance of power a Strategic offensive then point three we're going to look at the Christian campaign in verse 12 campaign refers to a large scale long duration strategy toward a strategic goal Then lastly in point four we're going to see the Christians Strategic goal. This is the desired end of ongoing combat operations You'll need all for these perspectives in fighting the good fight of faith Let's take one a tactical retreat in verse 11 Paul begins to Timothy But you oh man of God flee these things now the use of a tactical retreat in battle is Ultimately a strategy to defeat your enemy It may appear as though to be a retreat but its whole purpose is to string your enemy out to chop them down to Divide and conquer as you retreat your enemy breaks line and pursues as the enemy pursues He is strung out into smaller and smaller offensive units in which you are more able to fight as you pull back Into a stronger position against them a good military strategy strategists Must know when to pull back. He's got to know when he needs to Retreat and what dangers he must avoid and a tactical retreat is often needed in fighting a good fight of faith Sometimes you need to flee and here in verse 11 you oh man of God flee these things Now Paul begins in verse 11 and each section each section of this small clause is Significant is significant. He begins in verse 11, but you Martin Lloyd-Jones once said he was thankful for the butts in the Bible there are many butts in the Bible And he was thankful for him here this but beginning verse 11 Alerts Timothy and alerts us to a glaring obvious contrast. There's a great contrast here each time Timothy gets a but you it's followed by a Description of the enemy and that kind of ministry that kind of ministerial work that Timothy is to avoid and he's to avoid it like the plague He's showing here a contrast now between true and false showing a contrast to Timothy between Godly ministry that Timothy is to have and the ungodly false teachers and the ungodly effect of their teaching Second Timothy 3 for example Paul says evil men and imposters will grow worse and worse Deceiving and being deceived but you Timothy you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of In second Timothy chapter 4 the time will come when they'll not endure sound doctrine But according to their own desires because they have itching ears They're gonna heap up for themselves teachers and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables But you you be watchful in all things Timothy endure afflictions Do the work of an evangelist and fulfill your ministry that but you is for me and you too? poet That but you is for me and you too.  Oh Man of God would that not be strengthening and empowering and emboldening to you as well Have Paul the Apostle call you a man of God a woman of God And if Paul walked up to me and addressed me like that, I'd be like, where is my sword? Right now. Let's go out and fight to fight now. You could be 130 pounds soaking wet and You when your trainer comes up to you and says something like that You will feel like a sumo wrestler Like Martin Luther, right Martin Luther though devils all the world should fill all eager to devour us We tremble not we fear no ill. They shall not overpower us This world's prince may still scowl fierce as he will he can harm us none He's judged the deed is done one little word can fell him And that is the mighty fortress of our God and we could crank that up and listen to that Soldiers fighting the good fight of faith all day By referring to Timothy that way. He's throwing him in you understand with all the great heroes of the faith That word man of God used of heroes in the faith in the Old Testament those words man of God used Only here in the New Testament of Timothy He's throwing him in with the great heroes of the faith used of Moses The man of God in Deuteronomy 33 used of Samuel the man of God in first Samuel chapter 9 Used of David the man of God in the Amaya chapter 12 used of Elijah the man of God in first Kings 17 Used of Elisha the man of God in second Kings chapter 4 Though Timothy is in some good company here, isn't he man of God? Don't you want those words to be said of you? man of God woman of God Hebrews 12 says this therefore We also in chapter 11 is a great heroes of the faith chapter in the Bible and all those Heroes of the faith listed out in a great company in a great list in a great hall of heroes in Hebrews chapter 11 And then Hebrews chapter 12 begins therefore we also Since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses Let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily ensnares us and let us run with Endurance the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith Who for the joy that was set before him? Endured the cross Despising the shame and he has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God Well, how a testimony like this allow a testimony like this to get you fired up to fight the good fight of faith. Amen. Oh man of God Hebrews chapter 11 men of God through faith subdued Kingdoms men of God through faith worked righteousness men of God through faith Stopped the mouths of lions. They quenched the violence of fire They escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness. They were made strong They became valiant in battle and they turned to flight armies Oh, man of God cry out like Elisha Lord. Give me a double portion, right? Gonna fight this good fight of faith These words. Oh, man of God were to have that same effect here on Timothy That was the effect that these words would have had this is the effect that Paul Intended in calling Timothy. Oh, man of God. They were to give him courage Courage in the face of difficulty strength in the face of great opposition in Ephesus like Moses to Joshua in chapter 1 Moses said be strong Joshua and of good courage Do not be afraid nor be dismayed for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go We see that promise fulfilled on the pages of scripture time and time and time again That if you will endure that if you will take a step into that good warfare and Battle yourself in the good fight of faith that the Lord will be with you The Lord will go before you Lord will his presence with you will fight for you will stand with you Will empower you enable you Undergird you as you fight the good fight of faith the Lord promises to put himself there in the fray right there with you He is to fight and Timothy looking through the pages of scripture through the the pages of his own history the history of the Israelites All through the pages of scripture sees that time and time and time again Do you not think that emboldens him for what he's facing in Ephesus? Listen?   You must understand This is a spiritual fight, and you need spiritual weapons and the Lord here is giving one to Timothy this encouragement This emboldenment make Timothy want to charge hell with a squirt gun just those words in your Christian life You are to fight you are to battle and you're to battle against sin You're to battle against persecution you're to battle against false doctrine you're to battle for the truth of God as a Component of the pillar and truth of God to display the truth of God to display Christ and him crucified You've got to battle the weakness of your own flesh Got to battle the the opposition of this wicked world You have to be in the fight fighting the good fight of faith And he says to this man of God and it seems at the moment when he says it that it's contradictory to what he just said it just seems in Opposition to encouraging Timothy in the fight. He says flee these things flee these things What are the these things in verse 11 that Timmy is Timothy is to flee He's the flee everything described in verses three through ten that the false teachers were doing flee Timothy flee sin flee error Flee this wicked false doctrine.  You know a few of those flee those people Don't put yourself under the influence of people of depraved minds They are deprived of the truth flee them Flee those desiring to get rich by fleecing the flock of God. This is in verse 11 here a Tactical retreat Timothy's to avoid at all cost Doing what they do listen in the battle. You cannot underestimate the power of the enemy You can't underestimate the influence of one false teacher You can't underestimate the influence of one false doctrine You can't subject yourself to that wickedness. You must flee How many thinking themselves to be strong go into the fray in ignorance and in false presumptuous boldness and find themselves shipwreck on the rocks just days later How many how many have we seen fall?  We're to flee that trend that temptation This fleeing here is a continuous fleeing. It's a present tense word. It's an ongoing fleeing. It's a constant fleeing It's a lifelong way of life fleeing Don't ever put yourself under the influence of false teaching or sin get out of dodge You can fight on your way out the door But be on your way out the door there many times where even the strongest of us must flee now think about this for a moment There are times when even the strongest among us must flee remember David God said of David that he was a godly man innocent all matters except for that incident with Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite a Godly man and David fell when he should have fleed Remember David Joseph fled didn't he and in Joseph's fleeing that saved him from Potiphar's wife and Genesis 39 In 2nd Timothy 2 Paul charges Timothy to flee youthful us We're told to flee sexual immorality in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 verse 18 Listen, don't have anything to do with it Every instance every notion every hint of sexual immorality you take off running from that sin There's other battles to fight don't stand and fight that one at that point you just get out of there Flee sexual immorality. We're to flee from idolatry in 1st Corinthians chapter 10 verse 14 There will be other times Other times when you're forced to stand and fight against temptation you find yourself in a circumstance We're all of a sudden without your prior knowledge. It's there in your face It's there the hook this the snare is laid out before you the temptation is set before you And that's when you have to fight You're forced to fight and you need to be prepared with the weapons that you have from the word of God and the spirit of God to fight But every other time you oh man of God a woman of God flee temptation It is the fleeing of temptation that Strengthens you for battle when you need to turn and fight It's the fleeing of temptation that Secures you against that sin that teaches you how to flee the temptation that presents Strengthens you for the battle when you have to fight listen. Don't trivialize or Marginalize the destructive influence of just one temptation just one sin Flee that sin just flee in order to flee you've got to go all the way back upstream Against that sin whatever it is Find out its source know how to possess your own vessel You go back upstream against that sin you find out where that sin first begins and that's when you start fleeing Every instance every hint every beginning you learn to flee at that point know yourself You've got to know yourself and this is a tactical retreat This tactical retreat is to help you as Romans 8 says to put to death By the spirit the deeds of the flesh the deeds of the body and this tactical retreat is in the great wisdom of God a Strategy to help you win in the battle against sin It is a strategy know when you must flee and many Christians Thinking that they're somehow going to Strengthen themselves against the fight against sexual immorality for example Don't do anything about their environment Don't do anything about the influences that are around them Don't do anything about the influences that would seek to devour them in that sin they Stand in the midst of that temptation in the midst of that bait rich Environment thinking they will stand against it or thinking that they will learn how to stand against it And what they'll do is they'll learn how to fail and they'll fail and they'll fail and they'll fail and pretty soon You come to be enslaved by that sin The Bible doesn't tell you to stand in the midst of that temptation in a fight. The Bible tells you to flee flee flee if you're Enslaved by sexual immorality if you are enslaved by anger if you are enslaved by bitterness if you are enslaved by the schemes of the wicked one The way to fight that is at every appearance without Compromise man of God woman of God you flee you've got to fight Here's some of those today.   And use godly wisdom use godly strategy Know how to possess your own vessel and flee These are not worldly weapons that you just Devise on your own. This is not gritting it out in your own power. This is a spiritual warfare You are to avail yourself of spiritual weapons It is the only way that you'll be victorious The reason that it's the only way you'll be victorious is because God in the fight will have victory It's victorious by his spirit if you put to death the deeds of the body by your effort No, if you put to death the deeds of the body by his spirit you will live Learn to despise it turn to Christ and trust Christ alone look to Christ by faith And he will give you the strength to flee Some of you making provision even now in your minds in your minds now you're making provision today to go back to your sin Just have not separated yourself from it You have not fled from it time and time and time again And now even now you were enslaved to the point that when you leave this place making provision for your sin You will go right back to it And if you are using the weapons of this world the weapons of your own flesh you will But listen listen you don't have to In God there are weapons that are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds. Do you believe it? There are many today Simply do not believe that those who practice unrighteousness will not inherit the kingdom of God And so they just as a lackey as a lap dog just return to their sin time and time and time again Are you apathetic toward God? That is a wicked sin repent today and flee that sin Are you indifferent toward the things of God? That is a wicked sin repent of that sin and turn to Christ today Stir yourself up to holy warfare using the weapons mighty in God to pull down that stronghold in your life Keep going back to the sin and back to the sin and back to the sin You need to despise it and turn to Christ hate the sin and flee James says flee he says resist the devil and the devil will flee from you praise God You must stand in Christ and resist the devil Why will you not fight? Many cases it's just simply unbelief Somehow you don't believe you don't believe that God's weapons are mighty Maybe you don't believe that you have access to them. Listen. That is a lack of faith Look to Christ look to the cross and claim your weapon Take up the sword and fight like mr. Great Heart you fight with a sword of the spirit until it cleaves to your arm And becomes a part of you you're to fight the good fight of faith When you find yourself tempted take up the sword of the spirit put on the full armor of God and Flee that sin and pursue righteousness fighting all the way as you go You can in Christ It'll be Christ that has the victory So many don't understand the mighty weapons that they have trust the Lord Trust the Lord Don't make provision for your sin flee even today now Right now Repent Resolve in your heart to turn from your sin Repent and put your faith and trust in Christ to help you wage Help you fight the good fight of faith and press on for him Endure to the end and be saved The Lord will give you strength his spirit will give you power When you flee when you flee in this strategic this tactical retreat you're turning from that sin You're fleeing that great temptation and in turning and fleeing that great temptation. You are turning to pursue righteousness You're not turning to pursue other sin. You're turning to pursue fruits of the faith righteousness godliness faith love patience gentleness and In this point two on your notes. There is here a strategic offensive a strategic offensive With putting off that old man Fleeing that old man fleeing that sin You are putting on the new man. You're putting on righteousness Don't allow one sin to take the place of another when you flee one sin and leave a vacuum there behind that room Nicely cleaned out. Don't let another sin come in and take its place put in its place righteousness pursue genuine fruits of faith Fighting the good fight of faith Doesn't only consist in fleeing sin. It involves a strategic offensive to pursue fruits of faith Now strategic offensive is defined as an aggressive projection of force To gain an objective to achieve a tactical goal or to shift the balance of power And here we are shifting the balance of power from sin and temptation Shifting the balance of power to righteousness to Christ to those weapons to our armor You're gonna have to work for it. It is an aggressive projection of force there are many who call themselves Christians that Fight like a figure skater Fight like a ballerina Listen, you've got a wage mighty warfare and fight like a sumo wrestler Fight like a ninja warrior You've got a fight that fighting now is to gain an objective the objective is these fruits of Consistency these fruits of righteousness fruits of holiness of life. That's your tactical goal here You need to shift the balance of power shift the balance of power from wickedness to righteousness Shift the balance of power from being enslaved to your sin to being slaves of Christ You got to shift the balance of power Ephesians chapter 4 in verse 22 says put off Concerning your former conduct the old man which grows corrupt Do you understand your old man grows corrupt you're to put off that old man that old wicked those old wicked principles in your members according to deceitful lusts and You are to be renewed in the spirit of your mind and that you put on the new man Paul says to the church at Ephesus which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness Colossians 3 that's the same principle putting off and putting on and this must be an ongoing contrast in your life between fleeing the tactical retreat from sin and Pursuing their strategic offensive for righteousness And both of these are imperative commands Paul here is commanding us to this fight Both of these are present tense, which means this is ongoing. It is consistent continuous It's a way of life for the Christian If you do one without the other think about it now if you do one without the other There's a vacuum that's left in its place and vacuums are quickly filled in other words if you employ tactics to flee from sin without Pursuing aggressively without aggressively pursuing righteousness Then the split the space left where that sin used to be will only be filled by another sin It's like the man who's learned in his own flesh to deny himself alcohol But now he's an angry meant mean-spirited jerk, right? It's the woman who has fled being rebellious with her husband, but now she is bitter and resentful It's that out of the frying pan and into the fire It's like an amusement park ride one gets off and another one just gets on and the thing just keeps going round and round When you flee sin You must replace that sin with the fruits of genuine saving faith You must replace that sin with fruits of genuine saving faith and that begins with righteousness Here in verse 12 it begins with righteousness Now the Christian has already been justified already been declared righteous before God Romans 3 21 says that we've been justified freely by his grace so the Christian Also stands in righteousness as a cry in Christ the righteousness of Christ as a free gift when God looks at us He doesn't see our unrighteousness our filthy rags. He sees the righteousness of his son We are justified we stand in righteousness in the imputed Righteousness of Christ and we are seen as righteous by God So does the Christian then need to pursue righteousness? Why would it say here to pursue righteousness? Yes, the Christian needs to pursue righteousness. This is practical righteousness there is a Positional righteousness. We are made righteous declared righteous Imputed with righteousness at salvation and yet we must pursue practical righteousness conformity to Christ First John chapter 2 verse 29 says that we are to practice righteousness if we are born of God Luke chapter 1 verse 75 says that we are to live in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life Titus chapter 2 verse 12 says that we are to live righteously Romans chapter 6 says that our members are to be instruments of righteousness In 2 Timothy 3 verse 16 explains that scripture is good for instruction in righteousness Galatians chapter 5 Practical righteousness is the fruit of having the Holy Spirit in you if you're a Christian you have the Holy Spirit in dwelling you If you see no fruits of the Spirit if you have not the Spirit Paul says you are none of his As some of you may be deceived You look at your own life, and you think that you're doing good The Bible says that you are not righteous The Bible says that even your good works that you think are good They are as filthy rags to God. You must turn from sin You must turn from self righteousness and obtain the righteousness that is from Christ through faith You must put your faith in Christ Others of you are trusting in your righteous works that you're saying you look at your performance You look at what you're doing you look at how you are living the so-called Christian life and you are trusting in what you're doing as Assurance as grounds of your salvation if you are putting your faith in how you're living your life That is the definition of self-righteousness You pursue righteousness through faith in Christ Christ it is no longer I who live, but you who live in me. I live this life by faith Righteousness and godliness together are evidence of genuine saving faith You're to cry out For righteousness that only comes from God through faith in Christ It is a damning damning damning self-righteousness that will send you to hell Next he then says to pursue pursue meaning to hasten after to run after to press on for godliness Godliness you're not to pursue these things in weakness. You're to pursue these in power You're not to pursue these with a satisfied Mushi Limp-Risted weak manner you're to pursue these in power you're to pursue these Militaristically you're to pursue these in force you're to press on for them You are to as if take them by force take them in violence You're to pursue hasten after press on for godliness Again godliness here is the conduct the outward Evidence that a genuine transformational work has taken place in your heart It is evidence of genuine saving faith. Do you see an evidence of God's work in your heart? Do you see godliness right now with all that you know of scripture with all that we're saying? Do you have a picture in your mind of what genuine godliness looks like you have that image that picture? What is a godly man look like? When Paul says to Timothy, oh man of God, what does Timothy look like? What is that picture of godliness and how do you match up? Put yourself now on the other side compare and contrast We need to pursue That Understanding from God's word of righteousness. We need to pursue that understanding from God's word of godliness That evidence of the transformational work of the spirit in our heart We're to pursue godliness Righteousness and godliness together that pair or a picture of the outward conduct that is Consistently a picture of what it is to be a citizen of the kingdom of God Next you're to pursue faith and love the ultimate book in Christian virtues faith and love This is faithfulness in your Christian life and it's love for your neighbor Faith and love and finally you're to pursue you're to press on for Patience and gentleness and we see the word patience in scripture. This word patience here is a compound word made up of under and Remain here patience remaining under remaining under what? Remaining under Christ by faith Remaining in faith remaining fighting the good fight of faith Persevering being preserved and persevering enduring to the end this points to a resolved determined Endurance in the fight Listen this life in such a short life It is here one day gone the next you don't have the luxury of taking a respite from battle You just don't have it. You cannot check out At the moment that you begin to check out you place yourself on a downgrade You place yourself on a slippery slope and one day you will Seem to wake from your lethargy and you'll look at the the scope of your fall at the distance of your fall And you will be ashamed You'll be hopeless you'll be in despair over how far you have retreated You cannot slip from the fight You cannot indulge yourself with a a relaxed moment and allow yourself to be swept in the current of this world Down the river in your sin. You've got to press on in the battle How many how many times have you I have when you've come across a difficult circumstance? Something that's just hard at the end of that circumstance. It's as if you just you put your shield down And you just for a moment as if taking a deep breath you check out of the fight You don't press on in fervency obeying the Lord. You don't press on in service You don't press on in the great commission fighting the good fight of faith You don't press on in loving the brothers You don't press on in assembling yourselves together under the preaching of God's word And you are swept away by the the current of this world Having loved this present rest Demis has forsaken me and love with this present world that you may forsake Christ Don't presume that you're not one of those three soils in Matthew chapter 13 For the love of this world for the love of money for the love of wealth for the love of riches for the love of leisure for the Love of pleasure reject Christ And it may be after one after two after ten years that you fully and finally reveal yourself as a hardened soil You need to pursue Perseverance need to pursue Endurance hang in there in the fight if you have retreated Ground if you've lost ground to the enemy Scratch and claw your way back in the power of the spirit through faith in Christ and regain that territory Don't allow yourself to be swept back You must fight the good fight of faith This resolved endurance this resolved determination holds out long Under difficulty and listen it is a learned battle skill When you endured you produce endurance When you persevere you produce in you the character of persevering in fight When you've stayed in there when you've hung in there when you've pressed forward when you've been tested by that difficulty And you come out on the other side of that battle having persevered through the battle It teaches you perseverance It teaches you endurance by the power of the spirit you learn to just be consistent How many of you have felt as though I just don't have the the self-control just don't have the discipline Listen you have to wage war Holy warfare to put consistency Self-control Discipline into your daily Christian warfare and trust me Christian from the word of God you do that and you will learn To persevere when that trial comes along that difficulty that battle you won't be found retreating from the Lord You'll be found standing strong in the spirit fighting just like you always have It's amazing to me when we find fight difficulties when something happens when we're in the middle of a battle And you look around you look to the right you look to the left and you see those once Embattled brothers standing right there in the trench with you because they'll not be pushed back They'll stand there with the sword of the spirit and fight we go through difficulty And I see the same faces that have stood there through those difficulties and fought with me and we're in that warfare together There's also those that you look to your right and left in the middle of the battle and they're not there anymore Because they've got themselves out of the back into that trench and they're running They can't be relied upon There must be factions and difficulties in trial in warfare so that those who are tested may be recognized among us You need to stand and fight This Christian life is not a spectator sport You can't just sit back and enjoy your life and watch while everybody else plays Christian You've got to get in the battle Build patience. This is a the endurance that is needed for a long hard military campaign And if the Lord tarries and we go through one battle after another and we're sitting here together 30 years from now 40 years from now. I want to look and see my brothers in the trench right there with me We have to pursue with dogged consistency the endurance that is needed for a long hard military campaign And with that you produce gentleness as carries the sense this word gentleness here carries the sense of being gentle During trial being gentle during suffering during difficulty You just have that gentle spirit that resolved Spirit that listen we trust in the Lord our trust is in the Lord the Lord is sovereign It's both remaining steadfast trusting God's will steadfast while doing God's will with the right heart attitude with the right spirit Listen this pursuit this pursuit is a consecration of your entire life To this battle it's a consecration of all that you are to Christ To the service of God. This is not easy not easy Putting off putting on is not easy If you're fighting the battle as if it is you need to wake up It's not easy fleeing sin and pursuing righteousness is where the battle rages. That is the front line Taking a stand for the faith is where the spiritual warfare is raging That's why we need to understand point three. We need to understand that we are in a Christian campaign a campaign 12 says fight the good fight of faith. We've seen the command for a tactical retreat We've seen the command to go on the offensive and pursue fruits of the spirit here in verse 12 is the command for combat operations This is a description of the Christian campaign a campaign refers to a large scale Long duration strategy toward a strategic goal Sounds like the Christian life, doesn't it? It's a long duration Strategy there should be a strategy in place for accomplishing a strategic goal Paul told Timothy in chapter one wades the good warfare. It's the same concept here The word that best describes the nature of this combat is the word fight. I don't need to From the word we get agonize Agony it's a present tense ongoing imperative. It's a continuous way of life It's contending or struggling with great effort against difficulties or dangers It's striving after something with great zeal with great Fervency it is taking it as if by force the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and violent take it by force Take it by warfare take it by zeal It carries the sense of an outward engagement or fight as well as the inward Striving the inward turmoil the inward distress the inward agony that goes along with it It's the same word used in chapter 4 verse 10 of this letter for to this end We both labor and suffer reproach labor and strive labor and toil And it is a good fight intrinsically good Here this good fight is the fight of the faith in the original language. There's a direct article there It's not simply faith. It is the faith. This is doctrine This is those doctrines of the faith once for all delivered to the saints. This is orthodox Christianity This is to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints These are from chapter 6 verse 3 the wholesome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ Again the Bible here Joins together in verse 11 the two things in Scripture that can never be torn apart both life and doctrine Press on toward right living pursue righteousness and to pursue the faith Life and doctrine like peas and carrots right like peanut butter and jelly cookies and milk They cannot go apart They're connected doctrine without fervency in living it and in obeying it is dead Orthodoxy, that's true of your Christian life If you're here, and you're learning doctrine, you certainly will in a biblical church that preaches and teaches God's word You're gonna learn doctrine but if you're learning that doctrine it isn't having a persistent consistent Defect on your fervency and zeal and obedience and service to the Lord then to a degree you are dead orthodox already dead orthodoxy together, this is light and heat Life without doctrine is like a wild mysticism a reckless faith with no center We are to battle both with and for the truth now the truth in a sense doesn't need to be Defended Spurgeon said defend the Bible I would have soon defend a lion. How do you defend a lion you unchain it and it will defend itself But we're to be in battle we're to be in battle with the truth and for the truth There are those who assault the truth. There are those who have no understanding of the truth There are those who need the truth. They need the gospel. They need the Savior There are those who assault the truth. They need to be stood against You're to defend the truth in that sense And wherever the battle rages the quote goes There the loyalty of the soldier is proven and to be steady on all the battlefield besides that one point is mere flight and Disgrace if he flinches at that one point The battle rages today at the point of easy believism the battle rages today at the point of legalism The battle rages today at the point of evangelism The battle rages today for right doctrine. There are so many assaults on the faith. Are you waging war? Ask yourself How are you fighting? Fight for yourself as well Calvin said Christ calls all his servants to warfare It calls us to warfare because point for we have a glorious a glorious strategic goal a glorious strategic goal look at verse 12 halfway through lay Hold on eternal life to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses Lay hold. It's a singular point Lay hold this here is not a progression. It is a full and final Grasping a full and final holding lay hold on eternal life This is looking forward to the end of the war the war our great goal our victory in Christ There's one sense in which here is seeing the Christian life In which you have eternal life and in which you must lay hold of eternal life Another Perspective there's a perspective in which you were to fight the good fight of faith in order to lay hold of eternal life Paul said in Philippians chapter 3 verse 12 Not that I have already attained or am already perfected But I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me Well, that's a powerful statement. Isn't it not? Lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of me Eternal life is both a present possession and a future hope for the Christian And the word for lay hold here is a word that means again. It means again with a violent force Lay hold to seize upon it.  You don't float to heaven on flowery beds of ease While your brothers and sisters have sailed through bloody seas You must lay hold on eternal life That victory all Christians are Effectually and particularly called to Called here to which you were also called is a second person second person singular for you grammar guys It means that the gospel here the the the victory in Christ is something to which Timothy particularly Timothy Individually is Effectually called by God. It is not a it's not the general call the gospel that goes out to all This is a very specific a very particular a very individual and Effectual call to Timothy if you are in Christ It is very particular a very individual a very personal call to you That you will lay hold on eternal life This is a particular call. We know there's a general call to the gospel. There is something different here This is the doctrine of effectual calling Hopefully we'll have time next week to get into what that means But he was called he was called and he confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses Most likely at Timothy's baptism. It began the fight he was called by God Effectually called Caused to be born again by God's spirit and the battle began the battle began called by God's spirit Given an inheritance in heaven Empowered by God's spirit to fight the good fight of faith and Timothy will certainly if he perseveres lay whole Upon that for which Christ laid hold of him. This is confession of the good fight of faith Confession of the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. This is the beginning of the battle for Timothy Where did it begin for you? Where did it begin for you? since the onslaught of The battle that is rage since that point how much ground have you given up? How much ground have you gained? Where are you in the fight? Have you retreated to your tent? Or are you still in the trench waging holy warfare? Against the forces of the enemy against your flesh against this world Will you answer God's call to fight the good fight of faith? Will it be said of you? Oh man of God Will it be said of you a woman of God? Will you fight? Will you awaken yourself out of that sinful lethargy and get yourself engaged in warfare? Will you link arms with your brothers in arms and fight? The battle is not for a lazy man not for a lazy woman It's not for an undisciplined Or lacking in self-control It takes strategy It takes great effort It takes wisdom It takes weapons that are not of this world It takes the Lord and his spirit and his strength and his power It takes faith in Christ It takes belief in all that God has promised It takes violence force effort zeal fervency Will you wake up? Will you fight? These are not platitudes this calls you to a decision Calls you to a response You will you fight? If you do not you're already standing on a slippery slope that leads to perdition and destruction The longer that you go will you fight stronger? The longer that you press on will you learn that perseverance? The longer that you go the older that you are the longer that the Lord preserves you in the faith Will you press will you take it by force? This is Timothy and his charge from Paul To pursue with fervency and zeal that for which Christ has laid hold of him We must fight if you have no power to fight Cry out to God for mercy Cry out to God God be merciful to me the sinner I'm not in the fight the good fight of faith because I am an enemy of God by my wicked works God save me and put me in the battle on the right side Cry out to God let's pray Father in heaven Or thank you for the weapons that you've provided for us that are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds God strengthen us for battle may it be said of us God well done good and faithful slave That may it be well described of us that we are men and women of God in the battle Pursuing that for which Christ laid hold of us by faith in him For your glory It's for our eternal good God, but for your worship for your praise Victory is yours May we be trophies of that victory God for your worship forevermore. We love you And it's Christ's name that we pray amen


Stakeholders have condemned the negative impact high turnover rates of lawmakers can have in the last lecture if not urgently addressed and nipped in the board. Lawmakers and others were on ground to discuss on this year's House of Representatives Press call week, themed high turnover of lawmakers' impact and way forward. Plus, if Emmanuel Higene completes three reports. A notable trend in the nation's democratic system since the Fourth Republic is a high rate of turnover of lawmakers in both chambers of the National Assembly. From 1999 till date, the rate had increased tremendously with a number set to soar from 130 lawmakers in the House of Representatives in 2019. Chairperson House of Representatives Press call, Ms Grace E.K. says the call chose DCS team as a way of strengthening the nation's legislature in the current democratic dispensation. In the course of our reportage, we have worked with keen interest individuals who have contributed their quota in promoting legislative system and chose to honor them today. These individuals have distinguished themselves in building and sourcing democracy in their own way. The House of Representatives Press call will continue to work towards promoting good governance, be objective, who will be balanced and fair in reporting parliamentary activities as we look forward to the 2023 general elections. Speaker after speaker says it is an unfortunate trend which has hampered the growth and innovation in the nation's democratic system. Why? You are not looking at the experience, you are not looking at the competencies. It is not about inability to perform, but probably because if it is not fine enough. Until the public perceive legislature as serving the interests of the public, above a space of primitive accumulation of wealth, the fierce competition to replace the legislature at every turn of generation will continue on average. The high turnover of lawmakers' length is negative impact on performance of the legislature. It includes erosion of legislative stability and institutional memory to an increase in the budget for capacity building of new legislators, manpower and competence. It takes a while for a newly elected legislator to master the art and act of lawmaking, oversight and representation, which are co-responsibilities integrated therein. Collectively, these factors have contributed to weakening the legislature in the current democratic order where the legislature is the supreme organ. They blame the overbearing attitude of state governors while calling for the financial and political autonomy of the local, state and federal legislature. The domineering nature of the executive determine what's those, who does what, when and how. They want to determine not only those who constitute the executive, but also the legislature. The development is not only anti-democracy, but ingenious to the development of independent legislature, capable of owning the executive to account. The event ended with an award for outstanding lawmakers and staff of the National Legislative Assembly. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.