Live from Austin, Texas, it's theCUBE, covering Dell EMC World 2016, brought to you by Dell EMC. Now, here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back to Dell EMC World, everybody. Chad Sackich is here, he's the president of the Converged Solutions Division at Dell EMC. Good friend of theCUBE, it's great to see you again, man. It's good to see you, Dave, Stu. How's life, fellas? Life's good, it's good, you're traveling around like crazy.  You know, I'll be a slightly less energizer bunny version of myself. I am sick as a dog, but energized by all the awesomeness that I see here, not only at theCUBE, of course, but everything going on at Dell EMC World, which is great. Well, so, very exciting times for the industry generally, but specifically for Dell EMC and you. You got a new role, relatively new role, and that's not so new, but so talk about from your organization specifically and how the merger or acquisition has affected that. So, what did you eat for dinner last night? Salad with shrimp. And were you here at the hotel? You ordered it from a menu, right? Yes. Was it a good salad with shrimp? It was really good, excellent. Austin, good food. And you had a fixed set of choices and it came out and it was nicely delivered, right? It was a good solution, yes. Fantastic. I didn't want to cook. More and more customers are realizing that while it's fun to cook a meal every once in a while, that if you're not in the business of cooking meals, it's very nice to be able to have something that you just order off a menu. I'd pay extra for that. In fact, many customers do. Frankly, between that realization, the trend towards SaaS, as well as public cloud IaaS, is making it clear to customers, don't waste time, money, and effort on the things that aren't uniquely you. And frankly, every customer doesn't deploy vSphere or Hyper-V in some radically different way. So the trend towards converge and hyperconverge platforms, turnkey IaaS, turnkey PaaS platforms is overwhelming. It's the biggest growth part of our business. And then being able to give customers an on-ramp if they're not ready to go there the whole way with solutions that are maybe not fully engineered but de-risked is a way for them to get on that journey and realize, frankly, you know what? I want more of this, just order stuff off of the menu so I can actually focus on doing what makes me a better bank, a better hospital, a better retail. Of course, then there's my Italian aunt who say, why buy sauce from the jar when you can spend a week making it, freeze it, and then eat it for a year. So there's still those pokes out there. It's a dying art. It really is. But you still serve those, so chefs. If you look at the entirety of Dell EMC and Dell Technologies, there are many, many more humans, innovations, dollars spent still in the ingredients, building better storage products, better servers, better networking, better virtualization in VMware, better software development tools in Cloud Foundry and in Pivotal, then there isn't converged platforms and solutions. We're still a smaller but increasingly important part of the business. So yeah, I mean, the reality is that many customers still are building their own meals. What is changing though, Dave, and this is a, Wikibon has done their own research that validates this is, that is declining. And it's declining as people are realizing that they have better things to do with their time and their money. Excluding your aunt and your uncle that make their own sauce. You know where we stand on this, Chad. We think the industry forecast are low in terms of the percent that's going to be converged by the end of the decade. We think it's going to be much higher than what we've seen. And look, I jump out of bed every day, sick or not. My team jumps out of bed every day sick or not because we're passionate about basically getting customers to stop building things that they should instead consume, which is a simplification. It forces some difficult decisions because there's always people inside those customers that say, hey, this is a risk for me, my value and all that stuff. But inevitably what we're really giving them is an opportunity to do something that's more differentiated, right? And we got to do that across multiple stacks. We're clearly going to do it with VMware. We're clearly going to do it with Pivotal. But we got to do a ton and we already do with Microsoft, with Red Hat, with the container ecosystem. It's a big, exciting world out there. All right, Stu, I know you're dying to jump in. This is your wheelhouse. Yeah, absolutely. So Chad, we know that Michael saw converge and hyper-converge as one of the biggest reasons that Dell and EMC would be better together. Yep. Okay, I think, what's the thing I heard? You know, the power of two is one of the key messages of the week here. So now, we've been talking to you since you took this job. It's there. September 7th came, you're one company. So tell us, you know, what's the power of two? What's good? What have you done? What are you still left to do? So I've been sufficiently public about this that I can tiptoe around an announcement that will come out tomorrow. Tomorrow. But look, in HCI, something that is fascinating and it wasn't really evident to me until we became HCI powerhouse under our own right. VxRail has been wildly successful. We've gone from in at the end of Q2, you know, 1700 nodes, roughly four nodes per appliance. Now it's 3,800 nodes at the end of Q3. That's a 123% quarter on quarter growth. I learned something fascinating, which is that while the value of the offer and what makes up the offer, a lot of it is software. The majority of it is software. Trying to be in that business without a wicked awesome, as they would say in Boston, x86 server supply chain is really, really hard. And again, people are like, I don't get that. Well, when you have customers in Nigeria, in Timbuktu, in Paris, and in Beijing, and they all want to have slightly different variations, and they want to have the latest technology inside those platforms, trying to do that through an arms-length ODM relationship doesn't work. So, we've already done a couple of things that are public. We did the Scale.io ready node. That has a massive effect on the ability to bring in the latest flash, latest Broadwell, and lower the cost entry and top scaling mark of what we do with Scale.io. Awesome. We already actually have made a VX rack with PowerEdge quotable. There's one other HCI thing that isn't yet there, which if you tune in tomorrow. You might hear about VX Rail. What? No. Well, I mean, it's something that starts in a VX and hyper-converged. I don't know what you're talking about, buddy. What's the top-selling HCI solution that EMC, Dell EMC sells today, Chad? I don't know what you're talking about. Look, it's had great momentum, great response. It's a fascinating, I think, lesson, actually not just for me personally, but I think for a lot of the part of the company, where basically we listen closely on what didn't work, went back to the start, and basically have built what is one of the fastest growing products that I've ever seen in my life. So, I mean, Chad, I wrote about a year ago that Dell at the end of the day, we've talked about Cisco for years, Chad. At the end of the day, Cisco mostly cares about selling core switching. Michael has big aspirations and a lot of things for the company, but if he can sell more servers, that's goodness for him. And if you look at the converge and hyper-converged space, he's got a lot of horses in this race, especially in HCI. You've got your VX Rail, you've got your friends at Nutanix, which is the booth sitting right behind you here, which I think you were at their headquarters with your arms around two of the chief executives there. You saw some good tweets there. Even, you know, SimpliVity's base configuration uses Dell servers, you know, Pivot 3 uses Dell servers. There's a lot of options out there for Dell, you know, on the server side, Dell EMC to win. Of course, I know you want VX Rail to be the lead horse there. I want customers to be happy, number one. I think that if they've standardized on vSphere, which is some subset of the market, it's a large proportion of the market, I think that they offer the Dell EMC and VMware built together in VX Rail and VX Rack SDC is the best. However, there are customers that don't want that. They want to either not have VMware, in other words, they actively do not want VMware, or there are customers that really, really need hypervisor choice. And I'm happy to say that Dell EMC XC, which is done in partnership with our friends at Nutanix, is also wildly successful. I think that the mistake that sometimes people think is they think it's zero sum game. It's not. The HCI market is still early, nascent and growing. The primary competition against HCI is business as usual, more than anything else. Is this software defined storage stuff ready for prime time? That sort of thing, right? And it's actually quite interesting. I mean, Dell EMC XC is roughly just over a quarter of the overall Nutanix customer base by count. And growing like wildfire. So I think you're right. I mean, there's multiple ways for us to help our customers. There's ways where we add little value, some value. There's ways that we add some moderate amount of value. There's ways that we add high amounts of value. We're going to do all of those. And that's good. Yeah, so you know that zero sum game comment is interesting. I mean, at the macro level, the IT business is not quite a zero sum game, but it's getting there. You got to gain share to grow dramatically. What's your share gain strategy? You're right at the macro. If you zoom way, way, way out, the $2.7 trillion of enterprise IT in all forms, everything, that's actually still growing. The portion of it that is shrinking is classic on-premises IT. Classic, right? It's shrinking because workloads are going to SaaS, which means we have to win to the SaaS providers. But that represents a business model challenge, because it's a different business model selling to a sales force than to selling to 100,000 people who are deploying ERP. It's moving to public clouds and hyper-scaled cloud players. It's moving to people running cloud native apps on those public cloud models. The proportion that is there that is shrinking has got islands of awesome, right? So it's shrinking at about a negative 2% cagger, right? And I think it's an interesting time to see everyone's got to take strategies on what to do when that is the case. There's a subset of it that is the server market, a subset that's the storage market, a subset that's the networking market. Those are all shrinking standalone within them there's islands of goodness. All flash arrays, for example, within the $70 billion storage market is a growth area in a place where we're at about 40% share, which is 10% higher than where we are anywhere else and higher than the next top three. However, the island of CI is growing at about 20 to 40% cagger. And the island of HCI, which is still smaller still, is growing at about 150%. In CI, we're already at 50%. In HCI, our aspiration is to be 60 or 70% of the market, right? So as on-premises enterprise business is challenged, there's great opportunities for us to help more customers gain market share, deliver a more holistic offer, at the same time that we win by selling to the SPs and to the SaaS providers. Well, the FC's always done that well. I mean, a lot of companies, they get into that vortex. The FC's somehow always been able to get the new stuff big enough and growing fast enough to offset the decline in the old stuff. It's a... How? I've spent a lot of time thinking about this because as much as I'm a nerd, a geek and a technologist, and that's my root DNA. And you are? And I mean that with... Thank you. I mean that with love. Nerds of the World Unite. As I continue to basically expand in my career and learn and grow from other human beings, culture is such a potent force. And we're blessed to have a culture which is pragmatic, right? So we don't kid ourselves when we're behind. So there's a hazard when you're a leader that you can delude yourself when things start to go sideways. So the first thing you need to have is a willingness to go, hey, what we're doing isn't working. And a fierce amount of paranoia where we tend to overreact to potential threats and challenges. Now sometimes we don't get it right on the first go, but there's been very few times where I think we've been asleep at the wheel. And we're not always first. We try to be, but very rapidly you can see what we've done in the all-flash market. You can see what we're doing in the software-defined market. You can see what we're doing inside the hyper-converged market. We created the conversion for structure market. And then it's not just the stuff that you would normally associate with us. Cloud Foundry, would you say it's doing well? And you feel frank, you can answer however you'd like. In pockets, it's doing very well. And it's an emergent space. And it's got some big backers. Huge backers, customers dig it. It's great. What people don't realize is Cloud Foundry was born as a small project within VMware. And it went through multiple phases and variations before eventually we rallied a whole company, pivotal around it. Right? Right. Well, interesting point just to follow up on that. When we talk about cloud. Yep. We used to argue that I don't want to just take a full hypervisor and throw it in a cloud. That's one of the reasons why VMware created Cloud Foundry. Yet, last week, VMware made an announcement with Amazon to take bare metal servers, put full hypervisors in there. You know, it seems counter to what we've been talking about on how I should build a cloud. So I'm curious, your reaction. The first time that I talked about it with Raghu and with Ray O'Farrell at VMware, my colleagues, my respected colleagues, I was like, guys, this is a terrible idea. Just being very honest, right?  I'm like, okay, explain it to me. The first reason I was wrong was that I thought that it was an IaaS on an IaaS. Right. Right? In other words, I thought that they were going to take the STDC and Cloud Foundation stack and deploy it on top of EC2, EBS, you know, and basically creating two layers of abstraction, which in essence do a similar function. Doesn't make a lot of sense. Just natively. As I got exposed to actually how they were doing it, it started to go, wait a second, basically an on-premises infrastructure stack like VXRAC, SCC and VXRAIL has got a certain economic strength and weakness. Like if I've made it super easy for a customer to acquire a VXRAIL, they can have it, they can order it and it'll be there in seven days. And then the process of installing it takes minutes. And if they wanted to add more, they could easily add more. That is pretty darn elastic relative to traditional infrastructure. However, it's even more elastic if you say, it's already out there and I can go and I can just deploy it inside an infrastructure which is sitting there in the public cloud. And the reality of it is that in that sense, what they've done with AWS and SoftLayer, they are emulating hardware, right? So it's completely natural for VMware in the same way that they sit on top of servers and networks and storage thingamabobs, that they sit on top of servers, networks and storage thingamabobs that are not on-premises.  However, there's truckloads of workloads that are not that elastic. And I think the answer to get them as easy, as a fundamentally transformational operate is converge and hyperconverge infrastructure on-prem. I think that that's where the world is gonna, that's where the puck is going as a Canadian would say. Yeah, and your description makes a lot of sense to me, the way you just described that. I still think, I know what you think about this, Stu and Chad is, it also makes sense to take that cloud stack and put it on-prem on a hyperconverged infrastructure. So what Azure Stack is doing is smart. And we do that today with VXRAC, SDDC and EHC. We do it with Cloud Foundry with NHC. I can tell you, I'm very excited to take the great stuff that Dell has been doing with Microsoft. So the precursor to the Microsoft Azure Stack was CPS. Doing great, we've got customers. There's more customers with Dell and Microsoft doing that today than anyone else. You can bet your bottom dollar that we are going to lean in heavily into mass together with Microsoft. If it's not a zero sum game, that's a game you want to play. And if you think about VXRAC, SDDC and the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud being our VMware opinionated stack with SoftLayer and AWS running Cloud Foundation as the public extension, you can bet your bottom dollar, there will be a VXRAC Azure Stack with a Azure public cloud extension, just like we're already doing with CPS. Chad, I can't let you go without asking you the Cisco question. Dell EMC together now, VBlock, VXBlock, I know it's a robust business, but there's got to be a little bit of tension there. I saw the video between Chuck Robbins and Michael Dell and that's good, but with all the hyperconverged stuff coming, VMware, Microsoft, everything you're doing there, UCS versus PowerEdge, what's the response? So first things first, customers, if anyone's watching that is thinking about this question, the first thing you need to understand and hear from me is you have nothing to worry about. Our partnership is solid as a rock with Cisco. Our commitment to them is solid and their commitment to us is solid. We are their single largest customer in a sense. I think that's a lot of people don't understand the nature of the VBlock and VXBlock business is that they are an OEM to us. I struggle to imagine a scenario where they wouldn't happily take our hundreds of millions of dollars that we spend being their single largest OEM source for UCS business where they would say, no, I'm not interested in doing that anymore. In other words, it's fundamentally sound for business and structural reasons, not just alliance squishy reasons. Making money. It's real, and by the way, it's a huge business with 6,000 customers who love it and are happy and it's growing, it's 20 to 40% per annum. So I said it once, I'll say it again, rule number one of business, don't punch your customer in the face, right? So keep doing what you're doing, which is good. The second thing I'll just say that will make it pretty clear is, and I'm trying to figure out how to do this in political soundbite land, which is not my forte, right? Who's the number one server vendor on the planet? From Revenue or Units? HP Revenue, Dell Units, Dell Units, right? So basically, by the way, who's number one in blades? From Cisco, yeah, Cisco. So who's number two in blades? From a unit standpoint? Unit and Revenue. Revenue? HP is, yeah, absolutely. How are these statements all simultaneously true? Well, it's because the server market is big and broad and wide and sometimes system architectures are a better fit for blades, sometimes they're a better fit for modular, sometimes they're a better fit for rack mount, and each one of those has a sweet spot in a system level design. When you have a thing which has a SAM, it biases towards blades. Sure, and it's because there's an external storage thing. You know what's like that? A VX block. Why would we make an incredibly compelling, competitive offer with an OEM ingredient less compelling or competitive? Conversely, why wouldn't we take PowerEdge and make our hyperconverge portfolio which doesn't have an array and therefore biases towards rack mount and modular and heavily leverage that? And I think it's because people don't think of it and go, when you're buying converged or hyperconverged, the server component is an ingredient. And when you eat a meal, that great salad with shrimp, did you think and decompose it and go, well, I think that this is a marvelous iceberg lettuce. Oh, I mixed it all up. That's right. When you're eating the meal, you care about how the whole meal comes together. And frankly, Cisco and UCS makes great V blocks. PowerEdge is going to make incredible VX rail and VX rack systems. Well, it's been a great partnership. As has the partnership with you, Chad. Thanks for coming on. You win the prize for the biggest crowd today. Hey, yo, everybody. So thanks for coming on theCUBE. It's great to see you again. Thanks, everybody. Feel better. Thanks, dude. All right, keep right there, but we'll be back to wrap. This is day one at Dell EMC World 2016, right back.


In today's video, I was sent a giant collection box for free. What's up guys, we're back with another epic collection video, and this time I didn't buy it. Cameron actually sent me a collection just because he's a fan of the collection videos. Before we actually get into that, we do have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this Heavy Storm BCCG 10. I actually gave this away in another video, then the guy won it and I lost it. I couldn't find it, so I sent him something else because I couldn't find this and then I was cleaning up recently and I found this. So I found it again like a year later after I lost it. So it's up for giveaway again.  I mean, I don't even know what to say. I don't even know what it is, but it's pretty amazing because, you know, collection didn't even buy it. He was like, no, I don't want you to have to buy it. You just take it. So let's open it up and see what he gave us. All right. This thing's really large. So I'm going to open up over here. I really, he sent me a couple things that were in here, but I tried not to look at them recently, so I don't remember. I know there are a couple of nice cards though. It's not cutting open very well.  That's what's happening right now. All right. I got it. That took a little bit more work than I was expecting, but I got. All right.  You just threw it in there. This deck box has seen better days. That's for sure. We'll start with this one. What we got some sort of dragon logo. I don't know this logo off the top of my head. Maybe it's nothing, but I'm pretty sure it's probably something. He said he had a couple of decks from back when he played. I think it was 2013, 2014 era. So let's see. Okay. Okay. I think he mentioned these two. He said, and no, I don't know who signed these. So if you guys know who signed these, maybe we could figure it out with the power of the internet, you know, somebody recognizes this from back in the day. We don't really know who it was. He prefaced it with like parentheses and no, I don't know who signed that card. So I don't know who that is. Crystal Wing Syncro. Wait. Okay. 2013, 2014 got to get into 2016 at least because the Crystal Wing Syncro came out in 2016. So I think he said 13 to 14. Didn't he? Okay. Not true. He actually said he placed top 64 at Nats in 2013, 2014. So he might have played a little bit after that, but he had a pretty successful, you know, Nats. I mean, top 64 is pretty amazing. So Cameron was a stud back then. Okay. We have a best dweller. Cyber, what? That's crazy. I mean, sometimes they'll get these random old fusions. That's random that that's in there, but I assume that there was a use for it in this deck. You guys can let me know as I'm not the, you know, most experienced duelist. Let's say that we have a beret. We have a beret. We have another beret. So car curries. Obviously, we have the number 38 star eater ultimate rare first dead. That's nice. Number 11, big eye. Okay. This is a pretty cool deck. Whenever I receive like full decks, I usually like to keep them as full decks. I don't really like opening them, especially since he sent us this and like we're not having to buy it or anything like that. Usually then I'm like, okay, I gotta, you know, sell it or whatever. Here, I'm probably just going to keep this in a memory of Cameron in his epic success with it, I guess. Okay. Maybe not. This was not 2013, 14 when he placed top 64, but I'm guessing this was a pretty good deck as well. Drake, a sack was crazy. When did that drink a sack about like 2013? I think was the original print. Naturia breed beast is really crazy. We have nirvana high paladin. I don't know if I've ever seen this card. I've heard the name. I don't know if I'm by scene. I mean, like had it personally interesting. It's from the dark illusion. Yeah, I didn't have not opened a lot of that set. So that's interesting. We have red eyes, flurry, middle dragon, gold version than another beret. So interesting how the extra deck is like, it might be sorted by rarity. Okay. Not quite because those are at the front because it's weird because like the berets and the beretos are not together and they're, they're just all over the place. So that's interesting. That's the extra deck. We got desynchro, regeki, gold rare. Look, these old gold rares, I like them. They're pretty cool. Desynchros as well. Karakuri strategist. Maybe I'll just keep this together and try to learn how to play it. I don't know. I don't know what, if this is a format, people are actually playing though. What year is this? 2016, something like that. Karakuri, maybe a little bit after that. Hypo. We have solar wind jammer. We've got cyber dragon dual terminal. That's pretty cool. DT01, DT01, Maxi. Whoa. Maxi? Wait, I thought this has been banned for forever. When was this not banned? Upstart, god. I'm just confused now. Is that a signature as well? I'm confused. I don't know what that is. Soul charge. Iron call. Have I ever seen this card? Hidden arsenal. Probably didn't pay attention to it if it's hidden arsenal. Iron call. What does it do? Control machine monster. Target one, level four, lower machine type monster. Your graveyard, special summon, that target. Plexer and negate, destroy it to the end of the battle phase. Okay. So that's good for bringing them back and sink rowing or exceeding with a machine type. That makes sense. Instifusion, I'm guessing that's what the cyber source is for. Another instant fusion. Look at the astral pack six. Okay, I don't know if I've ever seen an instant fusion from astral pack six. Dual genesis, e-tellies, rares. We've got another ulti. A lot of ultis on the curry curry stuff. That's pretty nice. Anti-spell, all different rarities. We've got dual terminal. That one looks more like the new dual terminal, the hidden arsenal version. Anti-spell fragrance. That's the common from turbo pack two. Super from OTS one. They're just all over the place. Majesty's fiend. A foreign dark hole. First edition. Is that say sea? What is that? French Canadian or something? I don't know what sea is. LDD I thought was Spanish or Portuguese, but I don't know what sea stands for. Let me know in the comments. That's interesting. I don't know if I've ever seen one of those. It's all I'm scolding. Mistake. I have pulled one of those before. A couple of mistakes and an unwavering bond. Okay, that's pretty cool to go back into an unknown era for me, but I mean, I don't remember which era it is. I'm guessing it has to be at least 2016. So I would guess 2016, 2017 in there, but I feel like I don't even remember car or curry ever being mentioned as being good. So I'm not really sure because I came back in 2019 really to like have any sort of familiarity with the TCG and really it was really the 2020, 2021 before I knew what the Meadow was. Not that I really know what the Meadow was, but I kind of do. Okay, next deck. This might be the Nats one. This is the same kind of deck box. I had a blue version of this ultra pro. I love these deck boxes back in the day, but they do not age well. They get super sticky and I get stuff all over them, which obviously happened here. I got rid of my old one, but kept my deck out of it, obviously. But yeah, these do not age well. They're cool. When you first get them, then they get too sticky and gross and like attract all this stuff. So is there no extra deck? Interesting. No extra deck in this deck. So this is the PK deck you was talking about. I guess this was the 2013 one. I didn't realize Phantom Knights were that old. Are they that old? Flying Sea. Wait, what, what, what's that? Is this Weera? I can't think of it. I don't know. And it's a common. So it's not like a side set. That's got to be a main set, right? Well, maybe. Okay. Gondarla. Oh, here's the extra deck. It's just, maybe this is a side deck. I don't know. Mecha Beast. We have the, okay. Phantom Knights, or not Phantom Knights, sorry. Burning Abyss. Burning Abyss was Gold Series and Secrets of Eternity, right? Secrets of Eternity. I thought was 2015. So maybe he was just off on his years potentially. Number 47. We have number 30. Phantom Knights of Silent Boots. Weera. What is Weera? Oh, what is it? Oh, I should know this. I'm so disappointed. Okay. Yeah. There's the Gold Series versions of the Burning Abyss. I just can't, I can't keep reading those. Interrupted Kaiju Slumber. Got the Kaiju's out there. Thunder King, the Lightning Strike Kaiju. A lot of Kaiju's in this deck. Farfa. There you go, Farfa. A couple of those. We have Ragged Gloves. We have Skarm. We have, I don't even know how to say that guy's name. Skarm again. And, uh, man, is this really a, how many cards is this? Okay. I just double checked what he said. This is a deconstructed deck. So this is probably just like a lot of the, he pulled out a lot of those staples and stuff. And then the other one he said he tested with that Karakuri deck and, you know, it didn't really do anything. So that makes more sense. I was like, this is not a 40 card deck here. That makes sense. Deconstructed deck. All right. He also sent two binders, which he said they told me the order to go in. So I'm guessing they're going to be getting more and more exciting, which are already pretty cool so far. I didn't set up the binder viewing thing. So we're just going to do it old school. Okay. We have, all right, nothing too crazy there. I'm guessing that there'll be some nice stuff. They're ready. Okay. Secret Rare's, Mystical Space Typhoon. Probably just some staples in here. The Yusinju's. Those were big in dual links for a little bit. Kage Tsukage's a great card. We have the Kaiju's. More of those. A token. I don't know what that is. ARG Circuit Series. That's what that is. Okay. Kinga Boyo. These were like, for a while, for a hot minute, they were like five, 10 bucks. They might still be around there. We are a little bit less than that, but Goyo Defender. Zen mains. What is this? Just a regular old timeout. All right. That's just a sleeve, no test print or anything like that. We have a Monster Reborn. Mass change number two. Is that a starter deck? Yugi Monster Reborn. That's pretty cool. We have Tyrant Red Dragon Archfiend. There's more Phantom Knight Swords. So some of his Phantom Knight stuff is in here. The Gozen matches. The Wiretaps. The Full House. More MST, but not in the same spot. That's interesting. Call of the Haunted. Another sleeve, probably in there. We have more of the stuff from the Gold Series. There we go. A little Star Wars action right there. Sorry for the glare. I'm doing my best. We've got some more Gold Series Cosmo stuff. Got Cosmo Solar Trooper. We have a Cosmo Delta Shuffle. There's a lot of Cosmos around this area. Okay. Old school stuff. We've got the Dark Witch. Cyber Jar. Puppet plants like Five Geyser, I think. Skull Servant. Beaver Warrior. Look at those Five Beaver Warriors. Sangan. From a magical library. It's kind of funny that Beaver Warrior is in here. Card Ejector. Valkyrian. That's a pretty cool old school card. Magical Scientist. Pot of Desires. That's a pretty new one. You know, in 2017 I think it was released. No, no, no. This was released in Dark Illusion. So that might be 2016 actually. Pot of Extrav. What was that? Oh, that's Rarity. I think you might have opened some Rarity collection it looked like. So we got a little Rarity collection. Fun. That's nice. Speaking of, a lot more Rarity collection stuff in here. Very cool. Very, very cool. More Rarity collection. So we have seen a lot of these cards recently. Well, all of them. We have a video. If you guys have not seen my entire Rarity collection binder, go check it out. Okay, more of that. So, you know, we've seen this stuff. It's all, it's all good stuff, but we've seen it. Very, very cool.  I don't want you guys to get bored. You know, you've seen a lot of Rarity collection. I mean, I know most people are not really tired of Rarity collection yet. It's just so good. I'm just going to gloss over some of the stuff. Okay, Master Pendulum. It's a little bit different. Okay, the, this is the Core Token. If you get the Dock's version of this, apparently it's really expensive. They're like 15 bucks or something like that. Because there was only a European print. We've opened that before. Metapholes stuff. So some Metapholes cards. This is definitely a player's binder. You know, it's got some, there's playable stuff, some staples, stuff like that. Cyber Dragon Infinity from Bosch. That's a secret. That's really cool. Cyber Dragon Infinity First Dead. That's really, really awesome. Thousand Eyes Restrict from Pharaoh's Servant. Beautiful. Monster Gate. Oh, Lord, I don't know why those are upside down. You don't have to let me know in the comments. You guys might know. Little bit of Extradect, Black Rose. Solemn Strikes are in here. That's pretty nice. Secret Rares. Those are definitely like decent Bosch. I think it's the original print too. Cypher and Gear Alpha. Cypher and Gear Driver. Delta. Circuit. Where's the gammas at? Okay. Interesting. Maybe we saw those earlier. Infernoid Decatron. Infernoid. Anonk. Anonku. I don't know. And then another Strike. So he's got a playset of Strikes in here. That's really, really nice. All right. Final Binder. Cameron. Very awesome. Super excited to see what's inside. Let's get to it. Here we go. This one feels like there's more cards in here. Sephira. Another Cyber Dragon Infinity. That's pretty cool. That's an Unlimb. The Naturia. That looks like a Grotto from Pokemon. Oh, we got a couple of Ghost Shares. They're haunt in mind, but still, Gors is really cool. An Ultimate Tour Guide. What in the world? Holy, that's an English copy too. Time out. We got to look at this. And by the way, I don't know if you see that too. Solemn Warning. Oh my goodness. Whoa. Wasn't expecting this in here. He may have actually told me this and I missed it, but I'm assuming he didn't tell everything for the, because he likes the collections and we usually like to go through blind. So he probably didn't tell me all the good stuff. I don't think I've ever owned this card. This will be going into the personal collection because Cameron is insane, dude. That's actually a really good condition too. I know people hate when I do that. I take them out of the old sleeve, put them in a penny sleeve, but when it's been sitting in the same sleeve for a long time, it's a little icky, you know, for me just because I'm like super weird about sleeves and I put them in penny sleeve so I don't like ding any corners or anything like that. That is insane. Oh my goodness. I'll be checking that out again later. Also a B.P.T. Dark Magician, which isn't even in a sleeve. That's such a sweet card. Not great condition, but a sweet card. All right, solid warning. We have an ultimate rare. That is incredible from D-Rap. It's in on them, but who cares? Like that is, I think we invested in one of these. Didn't we? No, we invested in. No, maybe it was a warning. Can't remember. That is a really cool card. These cards are in good condition too. It's like, they look really good. All right, and speaking of foreign tour guides, there's one right there. There's Gors right there. That's amazing. There's, uh, let's see, First Ed Legendary Collection, Yu-Gi's Road is nice. I mean, all this stuff is really cool. A dimensional picture. This was 20 bucks. I didn't got a reprint recently. Still really nice. What a cool collection, man. This is Horn of Heaven, Time Space Trap Hole, Bujinki Amaterasu. Oh, do I need that in First Ed? Secret, maybe? Probably on limbs that I actually need, but I might need that card in all. Baxia Secret? Oh, it's not the Duelist Alliance, but still good. I thought it was Duelist Alliance. That'd be the original print. That also comes in Ulty, I think. Vanity's Emptiness. That's beautiful. 5D is actually a pretty nice print of it. Alien Warrior Ulty's, that's pretty cool. More Ulty's, Utopia Roots. We've got the Noble Knight's guy, whatever his name is. Artoria Geass, I don't know. You're not as pendulum. Oh, this guy, we always pull this guy out of Lord Attack Yon Galaxy. Still really cool, Ultimate Rear as well. And Twister, out of stock. Man, this is definitely, I see why I wanted this one to be last. Prohibition's very nice. Really, really cool binder. Just a great binder. Oh, what is this? Oh, the JMP version. That's sweet. Another jump, but like the second version, I think? I can't remember the order of those. There's a lot of cards. I think there's like multiples of some of these in there. Spectral Sword. I like the Shiranui. It's cool stuff. Skill Drain. It used to be big. Got a lot of reprints. Still cool. What? What version is this? That looks like a German. The DE, I think, is German. For all the German fans out there, we have Gameseo, we have Miracle Fusion. Very nice. Really nice stuff here.  Abysspher. I remember we bought a collection a long time ago, like a $4,000 collection. We made a video, had a bunch of these abysspheres in it, abyss stuff. That was a really fun collection that I remember fondly. Okay, we have Fog Knight, or Fog Blade, I should say. The Tarantula, the reprint of the prize card. I remember this from Dual Links. Yeah, I'm playing Dual Links again. I know, I know. We have Effect Valor. There's a lot of cards in here too. This is not like a, this binder is not empty. More, okay, we're back to more of the gold stuff that he had in the other binder. So, this is probably more, he probably opened a lot of this gold, it seems like, or at least he bought a lot of singles from it, either way. More soup, man. This is sweet. There's more mails, mails. That's what I was trying to think of earlier, that I got a lot of out of that one collection. Okay, Rivalry. Very cool. For Ben Chalice. Gold Lockbirds. Those are hollows. That's pretty good. We have Pot of Awesome. The legend is awesome. Okay, very cool. Raider Raptor, we're almost to the end here. Oh, man, more Ulties. A lot more Ulties. First of all, we got Sheba Warrior. Very awesome. Another Ultie here. These are all Ulties. Lots of Ultimate Rares. We got another Twister. That must have been a good card. Lightning Jadori, Naruto. A Divine Wrath. That's pretty cool. Oh, wow, Phoenix Wing Windblast. It looks like it's not in great condition. That's still a good card. And a First-in-Agent Berry Dragon. Ultimate Rare. Wow, okay. And then, of course, Deck Devastation Virus, or Crush Card Virus. Different card, Crush Card Virus. I get them confused, but Crush Card, this is the Kaiba one. Actually, they built their Kaiba, aren't they? This is the Legend- Duelist Pack Kaiba. That's what I'm trying to say. Okay, I figured it out. So huge shout out to Cameron. That is a really awesome collection that he sent us. I mean, I don't even remember. I think someone sent us a free collection like three or four years ago. This is the last time this happened. It doesn't happen often because, I mean, most people aren't just going to do that. So, it's really, really kind of him. And I appreciate him supporting me by doing that. I'm definitely going to keep some of those big cards in my collection. So, shout out to Cameron. I really appreciate you supporting the channel with the video and the collection as well. I'm glad you enjoy the other collection videos, and hopefully other people will enjoy yours today. And if you guys enjoyed the video, don't forget to subscribe to the channel. 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This morning we are looking at the title of the lesson is Building a Theology of the Glory of God. And for starters, this is a very, for lack of a better word, challenging, daunting task. We're talking about systematically arriving at a doctrine of the glory of God. And the glory of God, as you've seen over the last several weeks through the Bible, is multifaceted and is used in many different ways and contexts and has a depth and complexity to it that makes it, in a sense, impossible to truly systematize. I read an author and he was saying it's like wading out into the ocean and trying to, with just where you are, understand the ocean and say you know how deep it is and how far it is and how much volume it is and what its chemical makeup is. However, it is good that we labor to come up with systematics as long as we stick to the Word of God. So if you would grab your hand out, I wanted to just review it briefly with you and then we'll go into the first point. It's building a theology of God because it's an ongoing process. You know, that's a, when you say building, running, anything with ING on the end, it gives that sense of continuing. So this is something that we ought to be continuing. We're aiming towards a theology. We're not saying we have arrived at a systematic theology of the glory of God because of how vast it is. And the primary question we're asking if you look on your handout is how do we build a systematic theology of the glory of God? Right now we're transitioning in our Glory of God series from biblical theology to systematic theology. And I want to show you a pyramid I want to draw on the board in a minute. But just, let's go through just the main point so you know where we're headed with this lesson. And it's going to be three parts. So I'll be here the next two weeks as well continuing on this. But first let's review the biblical theology that we've been through to get our mind back into those areas that we've covered so that we can kind of look at the landscape as a whole. And then from there let's work towards developing a summary definition of the multiple biblical meanings of God's glory. So we want to labor insofar as we can see from Scripture we're able to compile all the meanings and senses and definitions we've gained of the glory of God. And then try to summarize it. So that's what the second point will be attempting to do. And the third point is understanding this will be future lesson probably next week. Understanding how God's glory relates to God himself. So once you get a statement and a definition that is laboring to get a summary of all these different meanings. Now we have to understand what this is communicating to us about God himself. Is it one attribute? Is it all of his attributes? Is it his presence? Is it his shining radiant light upon others? What is the glory of God and how does it relate to him? So that's where a lot of systematic theology is done in that category when you're trying to relate things to one another. And also previous with the definition. And then the fourth point we're going to be considering expressions of God's glory and important truths. So we've seen the God's glory displayed like at the tabernacle or the temple or at Mount Sinai with Moses or the burning bush. And then on into the New Testament with Jesus Christ and the signs and his birth and his transfiguration, his second coming which is prophesied, his death and resurrection and then on into the epistles. But when we say considering expressions of God's glory and important truths, we're considering God's glory and how it relates to or informs other theology. We say that God is transcendent and God is imminent. How does God's glory accomplishing both of those simultaneously? How is it relating to those? How is God self-sufficient and full and yet receives glory? How is it that God is unique and alone God and he will give his glory to another and yet he shares his glory with creatures? And then looking at how God is particular in the way he reveals his glory in creation and in redemptive history with a certain people and yet he's also simultaneously universal in certain ways. So when we're considering the expressions of God's glory and his important truths, that's what we're going to be looking at and that's also coming. And then the confession part is just a reminder of the doctrine of God, a couple important paragraphs on the doctrine of God and then of the last judgment because even if you read there 32-2, God's purpose for appointing this day, that's the day of judgment, is to manifest the glory of his mercy and eternal salvation and of his justice. God reveals his glory and his glory being the goal of all things and that confession paragraph was given to help us remind us of that too because we're trying to get a big picture so we're looking at the doctrine of God kind of at the beginning and the foundation of everything but we're also looking at the consummation of things and the outworking of his glory. And then there's some questions related to today's lessons. I'll update more information on this handout and send it out again with different or updated questions. And there's some memory verses there and a primary text, Exodus 34, 6, and 7. It's bringing together multiple things about the glory of God. That's why it is a primary text and then the catechism questions is to help remind us of things related to the doctrine of God and our relation to him as image bearers. Okay, any questions thus far? I know that I'm just briefly mentioning the handout and what we're attempting to begin now. All right, I wanted to show you this pyramid real quick. I don't know if you've ever seen this, but this is the theological pyramid so to speak. It's a helpful diagram when you're thinking about building a theology from the Bible on whatever the Bible is revealing. And what you start with is the proper canon. Can you imagine trying to build what we ought to believe and what we ought to do from the wrong source, like including the apocrypha? How now we've cut out or undercut all this other work because we began with the wrong foundation. So you begin with the canon and then the hermeneutics proper. It has a general term and just means the science and art of interpretation, but proper or narrow definition of it is the study of the principles of interpretation. It's kind of like the rules of the game. Somebody can tell you the rules of chess that doesn't make you a good chess player, but you at least you know the principles that you're supposed to play with. That's what this is, the right principles for interpreting scripture. Thank you. So we get that from the Bible because the Bible interprets itself. And then you do exegesis. So when you have the right principles of interpretation, you go to specific text or specific groups of texts and you do a grammatical historical interpretation of that in its original context with its original audience and author, as well as a theological interpretation because God is not, is also the author of it. So God is revealing something of himself in his Bible and we need to consider the theology that he's revealing even in our exegesis. Biblical theology though is looking at the work of our exegesis across the canon. So as you work through a book of the Bible and then you progress and Revelation's progressive, right? Well, you work from Genesis. Let's say we're studying justification by faith. Well, Genesis reveals things about justification by faith. So we go do exegesis and Genesis on all those texts that might deal with that. But that is going to progressively grow and develop in the canon. So as we walk and walk down the canon into future Revelation, we're going to find out what it meant here and what it meant here in Romans and what it meant here. Now we have kind of walked the path of the Bible in a biblical fashion and once we've got that, then we labor to take a step back and look at all of the work that has been done in our theology with working through it exegesis step by step through the Bible along with the story of the Bible, redemptive history. And now we want to systematize it. And that means like, topically, what does the Bible reveal as a whole in its various aspects and perspectives on this doctrine looking at all this biblical theology we've done? And can we make summary statements about the theology on that matter that we can say the whole Bible teaches this? And then once you know your systematics on a theology, you practice it. And I know that that can seem like daunting, but this is the proper way. And of course, we practice right after we're born again. It's not like we had to go get everything to know how to practice because the Spirit illuminates us, but we do need to constantly have our practical theology built on good interpretation. And this is a pyramid to help remind of priority. And why I brought that up is this is where we are. So where we've been in the lessons is really right here. We've been in this region when Noel and Pastor Michael and Jerome and everybody's been teaching. They've been teaching you biblical theology. If you think about it, we went through the Old Testament. We went through the Synoptic Gospels. We went through Acts and then Paul. And of course, the brothers were having to do exegesis at home and they probably were sharing some of the exegesis in the middle of their biblical theology. And then their exegesis is built on their hermeneutics. But what you're getting taught was the biblical theology. Now we have transitioned into this. Any questions about that? Is that helpful? Okay, that's good news. So let's go to the review and I try to consider how much time this could take and should take. I'm really planning on just jet flyby for time's sake because you have those handouts, you have those lessons recorded. And I know not everybody here has been through every lesson and has got to participate in them all, but this class is not to repeat that. It's just to remind you and review. So let's just look at each one of these in a couple of minutes. And the glory of God in the Old Testament, if you remember, the vocabulary was K-Bod, K-Bod. And it meant heaviness or weightiness. It was a common Hebrew word used and got translated into the word glory. And we see God's glory revealed in various ways in the Old Testament. We see it with Moses at Mount Sinai. We see it in the Tabernacle where the Shekinah glory. We see it in the children of Israel being delivered from Egypt. We see it with the Ark and that's back to the Tabernacle where the God is seated on the mercy seat. And what is a predominant theme in the Old Testament was God's present with his people. So anybody wants to add there that they remember about that? In the synoptics, we moved and focused in on Jesus Christ. And God's glory was revealed in Greek in the word doxa, which really largely took on the meaning of the K-Bod because in the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament, they would use the word doxa in place of the Hebrew K-Bod, or K-Bod. And even though doxa had its meaning among Greek users, because the authors that translated the Hebrew into Greek are translating the K-Bod into doxa, that doxa took on a biblical sense. So it does carry with it that heaviness and that weightiness that the K-Bod originally meant. But it has a variety of meanings. It can mean the condition of being bright, a state of being magnificent, or greatness, which is kind of like K-Bod honor. You can be honoring somebody, giving them glory. And it can be a reference to a transcendent being deserving of honor. God. You had just asked, can you remember anything from the Old Testament? And I had to think about it for a second, but something that has stuck out, and I don't know if you want to speak to it, or maybe just an affirmation, if you have seen the same thing. As you're now talking about the synoptic Gospels and the Lord Jesus Christ and Him being the radiance of the glory of God, in the Old Testament, Noelle was showing us how glory was associated with the voice of the Lord, or the word of the Lord. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. And it's interesting that the Son, God the Son, Jesus Christ, He's also referred to as the word. The word became flesh and dwelt among us. And then through Paul and through the other New Testament epistles, the message of the gospel is the message of the glory of God in the face of Jesus. So it's a glorious message. Jesus Christ is the word who is the glory and radiance of the Father. And in the Old Testament, His word or His voice, His speech is associated with power and glory. So it's just talking about biblical theology and a biblical theology of the glory of God and how the Bible's teaching on glory expands and progresses. It's just really interesting to see those connections between glory and the voice, message, word of the Lord. Thank you. I'm glad that you answered. And anybody else that wants to share more too, that's why I asked and amen. Yeah, we can see that Jesus is the fulfillment of many things and is the word of God. Anybody else that think of anything they want to add with the Old Testament? All right. The next was the New Testament with the synoptics. And there's that word, doxa, that we were looking at in its various uses. We saw it in the birth of Christ. So if you'll remember that God's glory was revealed at the birth of Christ, that the shepherds were greatly afraid when they came into a manifestation of God's glory. And it says that God's glory is shown around them. We remember that the angel of the Lord and the heavenly host said that they were bringing good news or good tidings. And they said glory to God in the highest. So there's this revelation of God's glory in the Messiah coming and it being good news for men, which we know is the Gospel. And Simeon described Christ and the salvation that comes by him as a light into the Gentiles and the glory of Israel. And then we see the incarnation itself as a whole, how God reveals his glory by condescending and humbling himself, becoming a man. God, a very God, one person in two distinct natures. And that is a marvel. And we can see and remember as the Old Testament prophesied that the Lord would come and send his chosen one, here we see it is the Son of God. And then we see God's glory revealed in the Transfiguration, where Jesus' clothes and appearance changed before Peter, James, and John. And then we see Moses and Elijah, who also appear in a form of glory. And then we hear the Father speaking from the cloud, the glorious cloud. And he said, this is my son. And we were reminded that all these Transfiguration events or all this going on at the Transfiguration is to point towards him being the hope of the believer, him being who we need to trust, hear him. And then also God's glory is going to be revealed in the second coming of Christ. He says that he's going to come in the glory of his Father, and he's going to sit on the throne of his glory, and his works will reveal the glory of God. And John, we saw that God's glory was revealed in the person of Jesus Christ. So we took a look there with all the emphasis in John on who is this chosen one. When we say he is the Son of God, what do we mean? God's glory is revealed in Jesus Christ, and he is the express image of his person because he is the eternally begotten Son of God. And we see that the glory of God is Trinitarian, and that God the Father glorifies the Son, the Son the Father, the Father the Spirit, the Spirit the Father, the Spirit the Son. So we need to remember as we were looking at our Biblical theology that the glory of God is Trinitarian. And then also God's glory was revealed to us in all these signs that John lined up. He turned water into wine. He healed the nobleman's son. He heals the lame man at the pole, and he feeds 5,000. He walks on water, heals the blind man from birth, raises Lazarus from the dead. And the purpose of these signs was that those who hear might believe. So you can see God who is this God. He is the God who performs miracles, supernatural works through his Son that you sinners, us sinners, might be saved, and that in and of itself is the glory of God. He's the initiator, the savior, the sovereign. He's the only good one. And Acts, we saw the same verbs or that same word in its different forms. Dachsa, or Dachsazo, glory and glorify. Stephen mentioning the God of glory. And then Dachsazo, Jesus glorified by God in the healing of the lame beggar. The people glorify God for the lame beggar being healed. So we can see that God's glory being manifest in healing somebody actually causes people to glorify him. So when we're putting our systematics together, we need to consider in what way should we include this reciprocation. God's glory is revealed in the Holy Spirit's powerful witness of Christ. God's glory is in the Holy Spirit's worldwide witness. So we see this powerful witness, but we also see the scope going worldwide. God's glory is jealously guarded. So Ananias and Sapphira seek their own glory and are struck dead. Herod refuses to give God the glory. And he's, what was it, eaten by worms? That was Acts. And we saw an Acts too with the Holy Spirit that Jesus has ascended. And he sent the Spirit and through the apostles, the glory of God is manifest in them through the works of the apostles and the preaching of all the disciples. In Paul's epistles, we were reminded of the Old Testament roots of Paul's understanding of glory. And we saw that Paul had this unique or extraordinary experience of his own salvation when he encountered with Jesus and the glory of God. And that actually had a, remember Pastor Michael teaching on this, a large impact in his communication of the gospel. And Paul is a minister and preacher of the gospel. So the glory of God is revealed in the gospel. So we need to remember that, as we were looking at Paul's epistles, that the focus was on the gospel of Jesus Christ. That the gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ as the wisdom of God, the glory of Christ, it's rich with glory and it's central to Paul's theology. In that gospel, Paul would remind of those two states of Christ, his humiliation and his exaltation. If you will remember that. His humiliation was his time of being in the likeness of sinful flesh and humbling himself and suffering even to the point of death. And his exaltation beginning at his resurrection was him coming forth out of the grave with the first fruits of a glorified body, which is our forerunner. He is the first fruits of our own resurrection. And we see that particularly Jesus Christ is the glory image of God. So we need to behold him as we consider the glory of God in Paul and then knowing how Paul is looking back over the Old Testament, seeing Christ come and him soon to come again. Paul is already doing a lot of systematics for us by telling us that it centers on the gospel and that Jesus Christ particularly is who we need to look at to see the glory of God in his image. And also we know that God's glory will conform us into that image of Christ. So as he is the express image of God, God through him is bringing us into conformity to that same image. And then in the general epistles we saw that with James God's glory is in a living and working faith. So we remember that Jesus is the Lord of glory and I remember James warning against false faith. God is glorified in us and by us and will accomplish his work through us by a working faith. And we must remember that our Lord is impartial. And Peter is God's glory is revealed in joyful suffering and submission and service. See now we're getting into the church. So as we're looking at these different aspects of God's glory in our biblical theology, we can see how it's got this pattern of redemptive history of promise and typology with Israel and pointing forward to a presence of God dwelling with his people and the voice of God. And then here comes the New Testament and everything that God prophesied about the Messiah comes to pass. And now we're seeing the church. God's glory revealed through the church particularly in joyful suffering, submission and service. And God's glory is going to be revealed above his rivals, above false teachers. It overcomes and in Jude we must contend earnestly for the faith. So going on in Hebrews, I'm just reminding of these things. We saw in Hebrews a focus on Jesus Christ's priesthood. And particularly God has spoken through his son. He is the radiance of the Father's glory and the exact imprint of the Father. He's been crowned with glory and honor and he's the apostle and our high priest. So there's again an emphasis on Jesus Christ and these offices that he carries as our mediator and our theology of the glory of God needs to consider that. And then first John through third John, we see that fellowship with the fathers through the son and it's the outworking of glory in the Christian. And then Noel taught last week about the revelation of Jesus Christ and how God's glory was revealed and Jesus' message to the seven churches. He's the glory of the one who was pierced and God's glory was revealed in God's judgment of the unbelieving world. God's glory is revealed in the events surrounding Jesus' return and it's revealed in the eternal state with the new Jerusalem. So that's a review and whenever you're doing a systematic theology to whatever degree and extent you've had the time to go through the Bible and look at what the Bible teaches on this matter, whatever it is that you happen to be studying. It's good before you begin to try to summarize things or relate things to one another to look at the forest now because you've been looking at all these individual trees. Now you need to take a step back. So let's go to the second point. But before I get into that, are there any questions at this point or anything anybody wants to add or thoughts that they were thinking about as I was sharing that? It's humbling when you see how much revelation there is around the glory of God. God's glory is in every aspect of systematic theology. Whatever topic you choose, whether it be eschatology, the incarnation, the church, creation, it's in every area. When we consider redemptive history, we see God's glory working itself out in redemptive history. When we consider the person of God, we see God's glory referencing specific attributes. We see God's glory being the name of God, the majestic glory. We see God getting the word glory describing His whole summary of His attributes. And we see God's glory revealing itself, outworking and manifesting itself, and God saving and performing supernatural sovereign works that are called His glory. Then we see His people reciprocating and it's called glorifying God. So when we start to think about glory of God and we consider all these various ways of theology and looking at theology, we realize the glory of God is everywhere and it's not an easy responsibility. Josh? Yeah, I was just, as we were going through this summary, just thinking about various scriptures. So to kind of piggyback on, sorry, just had to use that phrase, piggyback what Pastor Mike was saying about the Word and how God reveals Himself and makes manifest Himself His glory known. So Gospel of John, just thinking about a couple of passages, like in John chapter 1, talking about how He beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten, full of grace and full of truth, and how you mentioned the Trinitarian aspect. There's various passages in John that talk about the relationship between the Father and the Son, but also the Holy Spirit. And you have chapters 14, 15, and 16 and how the relationship between the Father and Son is brought out even more so in his high priestly prayer in chapter 17 of John. And then all the various signs and how you mentioned those signs were done so that we can believe that He is the Son and have eternal life. I think that's in chapter 20 or 21 towards the end. And then also, I'm not going to go through all these things, but just thinking about Paul's epistles and how Paul there's that theme of the old man and the new man and how we're born to this world as the first Adam, but we're brought in newness of life to look like the resurrected, the last and perfect Adam, or the second Adam, I forget the exact language of Paul, but also the glory. So you have 2 Corinthians chapter 3, how he beheld the glory and how we move from one glory to the next. 2 Corinthians chapter 3 into chapter 4, but also Paul brings up the end, the eschaton, how this whole creation cries out in glory in Romans chapter 8. And then you also mentioned Christ and how Paul talks about the different states of humiliation, exaltation. And that made me think of Philippians chapter 2 where you see Christ humbling and then being exalted. So I just wanted to share my thoughts. Amen. Thank you. Yeah, and it's good to also continue to tie our thoughts even if we trust they're accurate, continue to tie them back to Scripture. Yes. I just wanted to say one thing. I was really encouraged through our study to see or really to not see that gold dust falling from the ceiling or people rolling around on the ground is a manifestation of the glory of God. So if any of you are ever tempted to think that there's a possibility, those things that you see on YouTube, just remember we went through the Bible and we thought about the glory of God extensively and there is nothing of gold dust falling from the ceiling or people rolling around on the ground as a manifestation of the glory of God. Yeah. There's a little bit of a history there too with Luther and he had what was called the theology of the cross and he spoke against those who had a theology of glory. And what I'm saying when I say the theology of glory, it can be confusing when you hear that. But there were people who thought God could be known and communed with through his supernatural works. And they emphasized and they philosophized about God and sought to come to know him through his works and through his general revelation and it sounded when I was reading it very rational whereas it wasn't gospel centered and Luther would speak against that and say Christianity is not a theology of merely doctrine or academia and it's not something that is obtained by experience. Like if like Pastor Michael was saying, do we have a supernatural experience when we're born again? Yes. So please don't get me wrong there. But there's a difference in those who have this idea of how God is known and communed with when they consider not the heart change by the spirit but other works of God whether in history or ones they believe to be current whereas he would say the theology of the cross is where you come to know God and would focus on Jesus Christ in that way. So if you ever hear that the theology of glory being spoken against in some book you know it's not what we've been focusing on and it's a misuse of communion with God, obedience to God and how we come to know God but you made me think of it when he was talking about it. So let's go to the next point and it's developing a summary definition of multiple biblical meanings of God's glory so as we were looking at the biblical theology and all these instances of this word glory and this concept of God's glory in the ways that we did look and recognize we've got different senses here, different meanings, different contexts and now we can line up all those meanings and ask the question is there a way to summarize this either in a statement or in a definition that would be able to bring those things together so that we might be able to think about them as a whole and if you will remember before we get to that definition that the primary biblical vocabulary that we utilized to develop our biblical theology was K-Bode and Doxa and we've gone over those meanings if you will remember too they were used as adjectives, as nouns and as verbs so an adjective is like what color coat is this? It's a blue coat that's an adjective modifying the noun of coat so when we said the glorious God it's an adjective describing God so those words were used in a way that would modify or inform us, describe something about God and use as nouns the glory of God itself as its own entity in some sense and then glorify God as a verb so we looked at that in the use of K-Bode and Doxa and we remember those general meanings you know K-Bode as weightiness, heaviness to the abundance and majesty and splendor of God and Doxa has some various nuances we saw it's really hard though I've even grown a little bit more with my understanding of dictionaries like dictionaries they're trying to give you what they see predominant meanings are in the Bible but the ultimate ruler for a meaning of a word in the Bible is the context so when you start looking at some words like I will come in my father's glory that's very rich we're talking about him being the eternal son of God we're talking about him coming as a mediator we're talking about him coming in works to judge and to save and power so we might go to the dictionary say which one which one it's a combination and what tells us it's a combination it's the context and we compare that context and we understand it to other revelations of the glory of God so anyways I'm giving you those dictionary definitions you know Doxa carried some in the B-dag which is a Greek dictionary of the meaning of the condition of being bright or another definition a state of being magnificent greatness and splendor honor and a transcendent being deserving of honor so in considering and remembering that vocabulary we want to remind ourselves again of the usage of those words and coming up with a definition and then what we did is we went to the Bible to look at the usage of those words and we came up with some various meanings of the words in our biblical theology and I don't presume to say this list is exhaustive but let's look at multiple meanings that we saw in there before we try to come up with a system go to 2 Peter 117 and I'm going to read these fairly quickly for he received from God or yeah that's 117 2 Peter 117 for he received from God the father honor and glory when such a voice came to him from the excellent glory so here we see the word glory if you remember carries the sense of a designation of God it's actually describing or designating himself as glory from the majestic glory we heard a voice which came from the excellent glory a voice came to him from the excellent glory this is my beloved son we know that's the father the next another sense turned to Psalm 24 and even if we didn't look at these specific texts as we went along these senses I believe were captured in our teaching and these verses are just to remind us of those and to try to isolate them so that we can relate them and in verse 7 lift up your heads oh you gates and be lifted up you everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in so that he is the king of what of glory and that is a description of an internal characteristic of him or an attribute or a summary of his attributes I would say it's a summary there but we see that word glory getting used to reference something internal about God his nature and you remember Stephen in Acts 7 he calls him the God of glory who came to Abraham and now let's go to Exodus 16-7 and I'll read it 6 from starting from the quote at evening you shall know that the Lord has brought you out of the land of Egypt and in the morning you shall see the glory of the Lord for he hears your complaints against the Lord but what are we that you complain against us also Moses said this shall be seen when the Lord gives you meat to eat in the evening and then if you'll skip to verse 10 now it came to pass as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel that they look toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud so the glory of the Lord appearing in the cloud is a manifestation of his presence so when we're speaking here we're talking about God dwelling in some sense among his people if you look at Exodus 33 verse 14 and he said my presence will go with you and I will give you rest then he said to him if your presence does not go with us do not bring us up from here and then if you look at 18 and he said please show me your glory and he says I will make all my goodness pass before you and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you so he wants to see he knows God is going to go his presence will go with them and he wants to see the glory of God so we can see here that in some sense when he's making his goodness pass before him there's a presence of God there and he declares and proclaims the name of the Lord to him and we also see that the glory is a reference to the attributes of God here so it has this here the sense of God dwelling and also a revelation that his glory is a summary of his attributes and in John 2.11 we see the display of God's attributes perfections or persons or person this beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee and manifested his glory and his disciples believed in him so glory if you remember takes on this sense of displaying something of God particularly here with turning water into wine his sovereign power over creation and the ultimate goal so we see this is interesting go to John 11 verse 4 another sense or meaning is John 11.4 with Lazarus when Jesus heard that he said the sickness is not unto death but for the glory of God what's the purpose the goal it's that the son may be glorified through it so we need to consider and weave into our understanding of a summary definition of the glory of God that not only does it is a reference to his nature and a summary of his attributes and a reference to his dwelling and these other things and his very name but it's also a reference to his purposes so we need to have an understanding of God's glory that that terminates in him so to speak and I'll just read the others and then read that definition and we'll pick up with how we came to that definition like next time so also we didn't get to look at it but heaven itself is called glory and consummated and it's the consummated experience of God's presence and also the appropriate response to God in the form of worship and obedience is to glorify him and we can look at that to how people are praising God or glorifying God when he does things so this was I think the best summary that I've been able to find thus far so I put it in here the triune God who is glorious displays his glory so it begins with who he is internally and it moves from there to a display of it and the display of it is largely through his creation his image bearers his providence and his redemptive acts and as he displays and manifests his glory his people respond by glorifying him and then God receives that glory and through uniting his people to Christ shares his glory with them and all of this to his glory so we'll see how those various reviews and the senses were brought together to come up with that definition next time and then we'll go into the next point from there we have two more lessons any questions alright let's pray father in heaven I praise you we praise you for this sufficient word and even the blessing of living in this age and being able to hold the completed canon and have a clear view of Christ by the Spirit I pray that our theology of your glory will continue to grow and we would be humbled to see our inability to comprehend the incomprehensible and cling to what you have revealed help us to bring it together as is fitting and appropriate and not go into areas where we ought not Lord help us to trust you and not be like philosophers without faith but to be like children who diligently study your word and faith Amen