If you've watched my videos in the past then you know one of the things I talk about a lot is the left's ability to rationalize just about anything and how that makes them pretty dangerous. This is exactly the kind of thing I'm talking about. I've been saying for years that it won't be long before they're trying to round us all up or worse. These people want to rid themselves of all political opposition and they're increasingly willing to promote violence and assault against anybody to the right of Karl Marx. Yesterday on the view, co-host Joy Behar claimed that Republicans are breaking the law by allegedly shielding Trump and that they should quote all be thrown in jail. That's right, Joy Behar wants to round up all of her political opposition and throw them in jail simply because they oppose Democrat efforts to impeach Trump. This is an unbelievable corrupt president, corrupt administration and the Republican party is right behind him and they all should be thrown into jail as far as I'm concerned. How about that roaring audience applause? This is exactly what I'm talking about when I say that they can rationalize anything. I'm sure that in their heads it makes perfect sense just to lock up anybody that you disagree with politically. That's why they claim we're all Russian bots who want to destroy democracy and why they say we want to destroy the planet and oppress anybody who isn't white. It's all just a justification for the censorship and the violence they want to impose on us. Make no mistake, the left is becoming increasingly extreme and we're already seeing those left-wingers with power lock down the flow of information on the internet and censoring their opposition. We're also seeing it on university campuses where conservatives are kept from speaking because left-wingers will inevitably show up and use violence to shut it all down. There's a name that we have for that and I can't quite think of what it is. It's on the tip of my tongue. We're also seeing it in Hollywood where they're actively promoting violence against conservatives and painting anybody with conservative ideals as a far-right Nazi or a white supremacist. Again, this is all part of their rationalization for using violence. They have to turn us into the worst monsters that they can imagine in order to justify their actions. The same thing's happening in the media where anybody who doesn't toe the line is labeled far-right propaganda and is attacked as a threat to democracy. A lot of people I think bear responsibility for creating this hateful climate. Think about the right-wing media machine especially Fox News. Now we're even seeing corporations and businesses actively promoting the use of violence against anybody they disagree with. This beer company thought it would be hip and cool to incite their followers to use bricks against people that they deem fascist. After posting these threats of violence, they hilariously complained on Twitter that people were sending them threats. Again, the lack of self-awareness here is real. Even Burger King saw fit to tweet out their support for throwing milkshakes at people that they disagree with. Sure, throwing a milkshake isn't brutal, but it's still a salt. Even this elderly veteran isn't safe from these attacks.  I wonder if Burger King would be okay with people buying milkshakes and then throwing them at their employees, or perhaps their corporate leadership. I have a sneaking suspicion that their opinions of throwing milkshakes would suddenly change. Protesters in Britain have weaponized the milkshake. I'm sure it feels great. I'm sure people love the feeling and the pictures fly around the world. Again, not to constantly repeat myself, but do any of these people ever consider their standards flipped around on them? Do these people think it would be funny if someone ran up and threw an unknown substance on them? Of course, if this were the other way around, the reporting would be slightly different. It's found that far-right plots and attacks outnumber Islamist incidents by almost two to one. Seriously, it's like they're all programmed with the prime directive of it's always different when we do it. You don't come and we subpoenaed you. If I see you rolling down the street in the car, I'm supposed to take you to jail. Are we in some alternate dimension where Eric Holder, Obama's self-labeled wingman, didn't ignore Congressional subpoenas to testify in regards to Operation Fast and Furious? So strange that Whoopi had no opinion of that when it happened. At least I did an extensive search for any quote relating to Eric Holder ignoring the subpoenas and I couldn't find a single thing. In fact, you'll be hard-pressed to find any negative media coverage of that. What you will find is the media and the Democrats coordinating on attacking Republicans as performing theater. When Republicans tried to hold Eric Holder in contempt for ignoring those subpoenas, Democrats walked out of the vote. At the time, CNN actually went after the few Democrats that didn't walk out and began accusing them of being NRA stooges. Straight to this, why'd you go against your party? The White House called this vote a political stunt. You went ahead and voted in favor of contempt. Why? So the National Rifle Association, they said today's vote, they're gonna look at it when giving letter grades. No, you got an A on the last scorecard and I know they've given you about $19,350. You see, when a Democrat ignores a Congressional subpoena, the media accuses the Republicans of pulling a political stunt to hold the AG in contempt. But when the rolls are reversed, the media takes the side of Democrats and contradicts their previous position. My point here is that once again, Democrats and the media want to hold Republicans to these standards that they never intend to hold themselves to. It's a rigged game and because of that, we have to continue refusing to play that game. Remember this CNN clip, the next time you see the media or Democrats raging about Republicans and Trump evading the law. Their only agenda at this point is to rid themselves of all political opposition, one way or the other, and clearly they're willing to go all the way. Turn off your TV and let me watch these fools so you don't have to.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. Trading Hour with your host, David White. Call now toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, David White. And welcome all to another exciting edition of the Power Trading Hour with me, your beloved and squeezibly soft host. As always, we like to come to you at this time. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. And about every day. So what do we have? A fairly light volume day. We're down seven, maybe eight points on the S&P cash. But is there any juice? We didn't have any on the way up. But guess what? We don't have any on the way down. Just 3.4 billion shares on the CBOE consolidated tape. Let me update that just to make sure it's right. It's right. 3.4 billion shares. So if you wanted volume off the top, you didn't get it. If you wanted volume at the top, you didn't get it. And generally that means that we're probably settling into some kind of doldrums. And you've got to be ready when the wind comes. But unfortunately, it always takes a bit of time. Options, as we showed yesterday. Did I bring that up? I think maybe I should. I'll go ahead and show this. There it is. Let's go ahead and, OK, it's Thursday. There's the S&Ps. OK. Options market makers continue to kind of try to move up what they think or the expiration range. This one's kind of a little bit over exaggerated. But basically, you've got about maybe $150 million difference from where we're at now to where the absolute worst case is on the spy options. They pretty much moved from about $220 to $247 yesterday. And what generally happens is these will just track in as you go higher. But you want first to add about 20 to 40 points to the S&P cash. So 2 to 4 points on the S&P are on the spies themselves. So that kind of gets you up. If you were talking 25 on the spies, then you're talking 250 on the spies. You're talking 254, 255. And that's because of the short positions that kind of offset it. So we're just kind of hanging up here. There isn't a lot of volume. Could we kind of move down a little bit? Could we go up a little bit? We could. But it's kind of like playing a hand of cards where two-of-a-kind beats face high, and three-of-a-kind beats two-of-a-kind even if they're aces. And so when you're looking at what moves stuff in the market, the first thing that you generally want to go to is you don't want to be short a quiet market. They've said that since, I think, I read somewhere that they were saying that in 1910. So it's nothing new. That is that markets that right now are moving a quarter of a percent or an eighth of a percent. What are we? Yeah, we're a quarter percent on the S&P cash today. That's pretty much flat, statistically meaningless.  Now maybe you get lucky. Maybe the war starts or something like that if you're short. But until you make a fairly decent signal, I found it better to be hands off than hands on. As they like to say, Larry says in the morning, rather be out wishing you were in than in wishing you were out. And that's kind of the difference between speculation, intelligent speculation and gambling. And it took me a while to understand that. In fact, that's one of the passages I love best out of reminiscence of a stock operator from Edwin LeFevre, which was really Jesse Livermore, a nom de poum, as they like to say. But he said what the the hardest part was figuring out what the difference between gambling and speculation. And in gambling, you just put your money down and hope that everything works out. Intelligent speculation, you use at least some idea of having an edge in the market. And that edge is probably asymmetric, i.e., if you're wrong, you're going to lose $1. If you're right, you win $3 or $5 or $10. The idea is to always know that you can lose a little and sometimes you make a lot. Anyway, for $150 million, are you going to move $50 or $100 billion worth of stocks? You're probably not. But a year ago, it was $500 million. And you could see the difference from $500 million to maybe $100 million as they moved the market around. Now, if they're lucky, they get $100 million, or in this case, the worst case is $150 million, off of where we're at now. If they ran it down, they're just not going to be that much money. They aren't putting that much money at risk anymore in the options because they are getting killed. But it does tell us basically where they think that there is no lower price to be add. And right now, that's right around $250 million on the spies. So if you're expecting 200 points down in the next week, option market makers are pretty much betting that you're wrong on that. They do tend to be the best traders on all of Wall Street in any kind of endeavor, whether it's commodities or anything else. Kind of the guys that set the odds in Las Vegas for the football games, those guys are the best that they can find and they make a lot of money. But as we look at a very light volume market, like I said, I'm not going to get too excited about making a decision about being long or short. My guess is by the end of the day, we probably go end up being flat on the S&Ps. Now, thousands down 25 at the moment, NASDAQ's down 41. Could have been a lot worse after the Iwago earnings call last night, but I don't think that they are representative of that market. And there is some news that I think you want to hang on for with me and Tom O'Brien at 330. That's going to tell you maybe something a little different than people aren't talking about just yet, but we'll be talking about next week in the space that Iwago is in. Other things of note, that's probably it. We might have a week of nothing but going sideways. 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We've got John from Philadelphia on the blower. How are you doing today, John? Hey, David. David, I am doing very well. Clearly not making any money trading the S&P futures this week, given as quite as it is, but doing well nonetheless. I wanted to discuss further with you the action of the S&P, the SPY ETF in the futures, and ask you a question. First, thank you for sharing the signals you're getting from the options market. But anyway, just by way of history, I've done a little look and see, going back to 2012, each and every year in June, since that time, and of course, this would be the ninth year, starting with and including 2012, the month of June was a quiet month in each one of those years. Sometimes there were some lower lows in June than the preceding May, such as has been the case here this year with that low down at that 2730 level on June 3rd, the Monday, and then reversal up. But in each and every year since, June was either flat to higher, and July was either flat to higher as well. So we're running eight consecutive years with that type of pattern. This is the ninth year, and of course, only time will tell if that pattern repeats, namely flat to higher June, and likewise, flat to higher July. But I wanted to share that with you, so we've got a string going here, going into the ninth year. And now looking at the behavior that you showed with the options market, I found it striking, and you pointed this on your discussion 10 minutes ago, but I found it highly striking that the options market makers, the options sellers, were not pinpointing a tight price range for the S&P to close on options expiry, which of course is Friday the 21st. Can you share with us your speculation as to what has changed in the market character and the behavior of those market makers and options sellers, and their willingness to commit capital because for months and months, quarters and quarters, that group of market participants had regularly put their capital to work. Pinpoint, or in effect, pinpointing a fairly tight target range for an S&P to close at upon the quad-witch, such as not the case today, so their behavior has changed. I'm wondering if you would share with us what you think has changed for them, that group. I think that a combination of high-frequency trading and news-driven trading, I think that there were a lot of fundamentalists in years past, but if you're always moving the cheese, the rats don't know where to go. And if you've got something, the economy, which is not so much driven on fundamentals and how much people are buying, the thought of how much they're gonna buy next month if a trade deal does or doesn't go through, if this law or that law doesn't get passed. And I think what's truly happened is that they've decided to go risk off a year ago, there was about 450 million dollars that on either side of the options curve. Now we're down around 1.5 billion, excuse me, 150 million. So for what they, the worst-case scenario for options holders would be 245 or so on the spies. That would be the most amount of people would lose. Now, I think in past, a lot of people were using options to hedge their positions. And now it looks like a lot more people are using a more active approach using futures. So I think part of the movement is that you can trade futures 24 hours a day pretty much, but options you can't. And I think a big change from last year to this year is that it's so news-driven that no one wants to have anything like options, which are far cheaper than the futures, if you're wrong, to be in. So I think we've got a fundamental shift out of computers constantly hedging 24-7 now instead of options that in years past, we'll just hedge our position with some options and that'll be it. I think that may be pushed by option market makers who also are not selling as many options as they used to because, again, headline risk means that they can't get out in the middle of the night. Right? And they've got that risk throughout expiration.  I'm sorry to interrupt. I was saying two things. Thank you for sharing that line of thinking. And in parting, just wanted to ask if there's anything that's on your radar screen at all that would suggest the next seven, eight weeks. In other words, the remainder of June into July would happen to be different than the preceding eight consecutive years in which the month of June was flat to higher and quiet. That's everything I see is basically what you said until both fun buying and the G20 meeting when I guess the president and Chinese communist president meet somewhere around the 29th. And I think I'm getting the kind of feeling that everybody's kind of decided that the positions either in or out. And that's it. We're just gonna wait and see what happens at that meeting. So we may be in the doldrums. And of course, with a lot of individual stocks being highly short and light volume, we can see a lot of action. I think maybe some of that we're seeing in some of these IPOs that are running away. It's that kind of happens at euphoric markets and euphoric markets with no volume. That is that everybody's looking to make a dime. So they go gambling on the new IPOs or the till raise or the other stuff. But just the IPOs of the last week or so or two that have run to the moon kind of make you think that that's another good sign of them not being able to make money in the regular markets. David, thanks so much. You bet. We'll talk a little bit more when we come back. Jim's and Claire had a theory and we'll bring that up when we come back after some history at the bottom of the hour. Path of least resistance is David White's daily trading newsletter. And if you're looking for active trading ideas, then now's a perfect time for a 30 day free trial to this powerful daily trading advisory service. David uses his years of trading experience to offer his subscribers his trading ideas each morning in his path of least resistance newsletter. Using a combination of equity trades along with options, David keeps his subscribers up to date with all pertinent market information with intraday afternoon updates when warranted. 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This segment is brought to you by Think or Swim. For more information, just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com. The Art of Timing the Trade Charts On this day in 1822, Charles Babbage unveils his design for a machine he called the Difference Engine, the first example of a mechanical computing machine. The British government funded the building of the Difference Engine, but it was never completed, which Babbage actually never completed too. However, Babbage is designed for the difference engine is later analytical engines for future designs of working mechanical computers. 1991, a working Difference Engine was constructed using Babbage's plans that proved his designs would have worked. And I think I saw it, I wanna say in 2002 or 2005, I went into a museum and saw the completed one, quite a work of art, because basically back then he didn't have a lot of great machines. He had a lot of clockmakers and watchmakers that knew how to make fine gears, but everything was handmade. But when we think about computing, we think about today, but they had the ability to make it. They just didn't have the desire or drive to finish it. I'm thinking he got sick. I can't remember the story, but yeah, they had computers. And of course, that computer they found off the coast of Greece, there isn't much different than this that calculated where the stars would be. I'm trying to remember the name of it. It's like begins with an A, but it was a quite a complex computer. And from time to time, I guess we do kind of lose our way for technology. And I think that one was a couple of hundred years or maybe 500 BC and made all out of brass and they brought it up and figured it all out, but mechanical computers been around for a long time. Could you focus on market participants? This is going to be like Y2K where we get to the end of the month and nothing happens. And my answer to that is no, I think we've got a binary outcome of whether or not they shake hands or they spit at each other. Because I don't think that there's a lot of room in between. The president of China can't look weak because if he does, there are a lot of people that wanted, I mean, any communist country, there's always people wanting to put, that are taking care of your back, want to put a knife in it. And a lot of times they're more worried about that than any kind of success. One of the reasons why communism does not work and never has in all of the 6,000 years of recorded history and yes, they're communists back 6,000 years ago, but you know what? It's, there's just not a lot to actually hang your hat on but I do think it will be a pivotal moment in this year's trading. So I just don't see a lot of middle ground where they kind of shake hands and kind of agree. I think we're either getting tariffs or we're gonna get some kind of agreement to go forward. Of course, right now it's tough to get news out of China because if you actually reported the truth, you probably get thrown in jail. Here we can't report the truth because they don't want to. There they can't because they'll get thrown in jail. Here they're lauded for their fake news. But what can we do other than that? I think that's it. But everything that I see, even the options in the next month signal that everybody thinks we're gonna hover here for a while and you know, consolidation kind of good does help. Another question and we'll get on to some other stuff and that is what I think about Larry Ellison of Oracle and his competition. He was very much like Ted Turner. Ted Turner liked to, especially before about 1990, loved to race his America cup shot and would notoriously hang off the back of it drunk as a skunk, mooning, flipping people off, berating them drunk on the back of the America's cup as he soundly beat them. They used to call them the mouth of the South. Without the alcohol or profanities, Ellison is kind of the same thing. He liked to taunt his competitors in the marketplace. He thought that that set them off balance and part of what he did was a complete discipline of the art of war from Shenzu. What is that about? I think like 1000 BC or something or 2000 BC forever and a time ago. He actually lives in a kind of a replica house and grounds of a kind of a feudal Japanese warlord kind of thing, but very big into the art of war and the sayings and understanding of how to compete and pretty much responsible for the whole art of war. I don't know if you'd call it phenomena, but certainly in business, people studying it went a long way. But yeah, he was always interested in distracting you while he was going on and doing something else, but he wanted to win at all costs. But I think that's about it. Okay, what else do we have? Oh, go back and check in with the markets already in progress over most of TFNN if I can actually find them. There we go. Okay, so we're off four and a half. Like I said, I suspect that we're just playing around here and could we break out on better news? We could, but I'm just suspecting that 2,900 comes next Friday and if you're gonna make any money, it's gonna be in individual stocks. Got a first question of the day from my email is about GLD and it rolling over here today. And if I have any thoughts about it.  This is the second retest of the 15.6 million share high. That was at 127.21 on February 20th. You got into it on the seventh of this month with 8.2 million shares. Today you spiked it yet again and closing below it on 7.5 million shares so far. So you might have just slightly more volume. Energy is just a little, it's not horrible from this but everything continues to say that for the most part we're probably in a trading range in gold and the longer this goes on, the bigger the bounce is going to be when it does break out but yeah. I mean, you didn't have the volume this morning. 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Now you kind of go on sideways. This thing probably consolidates out. I've been thinking for a while that if there's a sector that looks like it's underperformed over the last few years, it certainly was the IBB. And normally after a couple of years of underperforming, they outperform back again. And I think the theory, or not the theory, but the theme of the rest of the year is going to be sector rotation. There's a lot going on in tech and most of it is bad. Most of it's self-inflicted. I don't know how much we're going to talk about it with Tom and at 330. But most of the Big Fang stocks have decided that they've got a real problem. And instead of face it, they're just going to ignore it and go blindly forward. But I just can't imagine that it's going to be profitable for them long-term. But man, we'll talk a little bit more about that at 330. What else do we have happening? We want to look at, got a quick question about Microsoft. Is that telling us anything? One of the things that companies not doing, that Microsoft's not doing that everybody else is, is getting knee deep in ethical or even political issues. Microsoft's been able to stay extremely far away from it. Where Google employees has said that they will not work for the United States government and anything that the government does is evil. We don't want anything to do with it, even after winning contracts and giving those folks a job. That's great. They can go work somewhere else, I guess. But more than willing to work for the Chinese and other nefarious evil. You've got to look at Google and Facebook and the culture around those as toxic. Pinterest, if you're not familiar this week, I'm going to say Hitler Youth is the kindest way to talk about them. Labeling Bible verses is pornography because they don't like Christians. You get that kind of stuff going on and around and in your company and it's just toxic for the price. Microsoft has avoided that. I think a great deal is because they're not in Silicon Valley. I think that there's an echo chamber there that is extremely non-productive. They're not worried so much about what new product they have. They all have monopolies and they're more important with virtue signaling and trying to act more important for the people next to them. In fact, it's devolved into something that is bad as high school clicks where you have the jocks and the other people that run around and of course everybody is just as horrible as they can be at 17 and 18. They don't know much about their life and that's what it's become. Silicon Valley has become the high school of people that really don't think a whole lot and act poorly when it comes to ethics. The evolution, that's about it. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox on that one but it's just sad and sick to see what those folks have done and as a old saying is, absolute power corrupts absolutely and that is kind of what we've got and a rejection of all reality which is kind of interesting to me. Okay, what else do we have? Let's take a look at Amazon. Amazon, even though taking some flak this year, AMZN, also not in Silicon Valley has been able to avoid a lot of the same thing and that is getting involved in basically Silicon Valley politics to exclude government contracts and other folks that would actually want to give them money. So Amazon's been able to pick those jobs up. Also, Microsoft has been able to pick those jobs up and again, we're not in the right or wrong business. We're in the higher or lower business and of course that means that if you're turning down $10 billion contracts with the government where you know those checks are gonna come, that's a lot of tough business to turn away at the door because all your programmers kind of hate the United States or the government or anything else. But Amazon continues to hang around 1900. All of these guys probably except Microsoft have antitrust issues. Microsoft has done a very good job. My guess is in five years, Microsoft will have antitrust issues just like the rest. They just have kind of come up in the last few years where a lot of these guys have been fighting for new and higher profits and were able to have an economy maybe with some of those ethics. Somebody in the den saying what we all know once we get old. I was so smart at 19, it was when I got older that I got dumber. Yeah, everybody thinks they know it all. And as my dad used to say, you'll understand taxes after your first paycheck. So there's something about that. Okay, what else do we have? Amazon, take a quick look at Netflix. Again, I was looking at options fairly hard last night. I didn't see a lot. You're down on fairly light volume going back into the June 3rd low on Netflix. That had almost eight million shares. Today you got four million shares. So unless we get a ton of volume or some news out here, there's just not much going on and it's quiet. And again, I'm going to say that the old chestnuts around the stock market are there generally for a reason. And that reason is they probably mean something. And that is do not be short a quiet market. Wait for the activity. Wait for the blow off top. If you miss it, you miss it. But again, you'd rather be out of the market wishing you were in than in the market wishing you were out. Two, what else do we have? Okay, you gap down on semiconductors, but again, no volume out here. Like I said, so far this consolidation does not look bad. 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And until they get rid of that guy and get into somebody that's a little bit more Jim Kirk than Dr. Spock is what I'm waiting for. They've got a lot of great products and maybe they continue to move and even get a little bit going. But I just don't think, when we're talking about competitors, they look at it as a spreadsheet. I think that there's some kind of desire in a poker player that you don't get in an account. And that's what you need. Leading a big corporation is a poker player, not the CFO who's really got to be grounded in truth and reality, hopefully. And that's it. Anything else? It's just been a quiet week. I don't know what else you can say. At least you've had a lot of noise in the market from the news, but you just haven't had a lot. Oh, what was I talking about with Jim Sinclair? Jim Sinclair came on Tom's show a while back and said that the best thing for gold was markets that are going sideways. And maybe that's why we've had kind of a nice little pop this week. 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All right greetings James P. Madonna here at Dunkin Donuts on Main Street in Lodi, New Jersey. I want to give a shout out to Commodore Jeff Sambello. Now this is very interesting. Why on earth and what is the significance of putting bananas right in the front of the counter where customers that come into Dunkin Donuts would place their order and they have bananas right over the logo right over the Dunkin Donuts logo within reach where people can grab the bananas. What is the significance of frigging bananas in the Dunkin Donuts and why is it in the front and why is it placed so people have easy access. What connection do bananas that have easy that where customers can grab them what what connection do these bananas have with getting donuts and coffee and ice coffee and breakfast sandwiches.  Whose idea was that? Was it corporate? What decision? Who made this decision? Why are there bananas there? I'm just curious all right you jabronis.


What up you guys so I got a question from a viewer so we're gonna talk about that, right? Okay, cool So he writes hey Lloyd I'm writing because I'm lonely and haven't been able to achieve my potential in life and with women I Am so worried about rejection and don't want to grow up looking back on my life knowing that I could have done better How can I avoid thinking like this and not end up an old man full of regrets and alone? cool So I get this question probably about a Couple times a week something like that or maybe there's a comment in there on our YouTube video Yeah, get that all the time This is pretty common and it's a very real fear that a lot of guys feel you know What happens when you grow up or if when you a lot of you are growing up right now What happens when you get old and you look back on your life and you start thinking God, you know I wish I had done this or I wish I had asked that girl out or You know, I wish I had spent more time doing X Y Z Okay, basically you live a life. That's full of regret and for me This fear was so powerful That it really drove me to accomplish a lot of the stuff that I did It still drives me. It's still something that I think about You know like when I'm on my deathbed I want to be at peace knowing that I did everything That I could do in life and for me with a lot of my insecurities with a lot of my issues with women and with dating I knew that that was going to be at the forefront of what I was trying to do and for a lot of my clients That's a big thing too. You know I asked them like hey Let's say you know you come through my program or you sorry you don't come through my program You don't really figure this part of your life out. How do you think that's gonna make you feel? And I'll for a lot of guys. It's like, you know, I probably won't be happy I probably will live a life full of regrets probably gonna you know have a tough time having the will to live You know This is a very important area for a lot of guys. It's you know, literally their happiness How happy they're gonna be later on in life?  My name is Lloyd She's like I got a boyfriend. She walks away You know I can go back to your friends stings a little bit. Okay, you know what really stings What really stings is the pain of you know being alone Getting into a marriage. That's just not fulfilling for you where the woman doesn't respect you Maybe she cheats on you and now she's got a like She takes half your stuff takes the kids whatever it is now you're 55 and you're divorced Okay, and by the way, if you're 55 and divorced, it's Definitely not older like 55 is not a bad age for a guy. You still do really really well I have plenty clients here in my program ever done that but think about how that would feel This thing is gonna be a lot more for that than it would be for the other situations. Okay getting rejected is fine Dude getting rejected as part of life any successful person who's ever done anything deals with a lot of rejection But it's worth it in the end because that's how you get successful Too many guys let their fear of rejection prevent them from doing the things that they need to do I don't have very many regrets in my life. Yes, I have some I've made mistakes I've done things that I wish I hadn't I've you know Not taken opportunities that were presented to me But I don't have very many of those because I have gone out and I have failed Continuously again and again and again trying to do something trying to do trying to do trying to make it And when I kept trying I learned and I did at least I was going out there and doing those things Okay There's a scene in House of Cards I don't know if you remember this but he's basically trying to pass a bill in the Senate and He knows the bill is like has fierce opposition No one wants it to go through but it's like his only chance to maintain the presidency and he's like I know this bill will probably get killed in the house.  It's also kind of a rejection. Thank god. I'm not doing that job anymore I'm doing this Okay, I have a lot of failures I've failed time and time again and I will continue to do that.  It's fine. Everybody goes through this process Anyone who has done anything in their life to be successful has been met with failure time and time again Michael Jordan has so many quotes about this every successful person talks about this And you know what when they can rest on their bed when they're about to die They know they can look back at their life and said hey, you know I did good I did what I was supposed to do And yeah, sure sometimes the pain is temporary, but the sting and the like the of regret that that eats at your soul Man that eats at who you are as a man as a human being As as someone who lives on this planet I feel it very strongly And so I use that fear to take action Taking action Is the biggest threat to anxiety there is So once you start getting up there and doing that You're gonna start to be a lot a lot less anxious Stop asking yourself why and start asking yourself how start asking yourself. What can I do right now? How can I do this rather than why am I feeling so regretful? Why what happens if you know, I don't I go through life when I don't do that Okay You have a decision you can do this and that's why I came out with With the approaching system you guys to give you the opportunity to start doing this Do the assignments in the approaching system and I guarantee you you're not going to be thinking about Oh, I wish I would have taken more of my opportunities. It's there for you. I show you exactly how to do it There's a section on approaching there's a section on conversation sexual escalation all the stuff that you need all right So yeah Cool, and if you're not going to get it do at least get out there and start taking action Are you guys? Thanks for watching tomorrow. 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let's pray and then we'll get started. Let's pray. Let's look to the Lord at this time. Father, we thank you that you are ever-present, that you're always there and you are with us today, Lord. And even as we look into your Word, Father God, I pray that, Spirit of God, that you will open our eyes to see the truth that's in Scripture. And I just pray that you will enable us, empower us, Lord, to be doers of your Word, Father God. Enable us to apply what we see, what we learn. God, what you teach us in our daily lives, Father God.  We pray that you'll continue to lead us and reveal great and wonderful things that are there in your Word that only you can reveal to our hearts, God. And we just want to give you all the praise.  I pray that you'll be with each and every person here. And I pray, God, that you will work out every challenge that is in their lives, Lord. And I just pray that you'll give them hearts and minds to look to you and to focus on you and your Word, God. We thank you. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Okay, so one Corinthians. So we're going to be looking at first and second Corinthians in the coming days. And this first we look at one Corinthians and that's the note that we've uploaded also. So you can take a look at it and follow through. So it's going to be a verse by verse study. I can say that it's, it's going to be very interesting. And even as we go verse by verse, I'm sure that the Lord will reveal wonderful things. We want to look at some of the words that are there. We're going to look at the historical background of the episode. So definitely it's going to be a meaningful time as we journey through Corinthians, right? So, so let's get started. If you have your notes, you can open up and follow through. Okay. So we see, we read about this place, Corinth, we see Paul writes two epistles to the Corinthians. And in, in Corinthians, we see that a lot of instructions, right? Paul writes a lot of instructions. He gives certain revelations about his own experience that we see in second Corinthians. We see he writes about his own experience. He writes about how a church should function. And we see all those, all those principles that he, Paul, laying down in, in the book of Corinthians in both the epistles. So it's, it's quite valuable for a person who is getting trained for ministry, because Paul writes from a lot of experience and by the wisdom and revelation of the Holy Spirit. And he writes to the church, and he sees certain things not in place. And he writes to them. And he says, Okay, this is how it should be. And so on. Okay, so we start right at the beginning. If you look at the city, okay, the place Corinth, Corinth is, we see that it was ancient city, city that is a port city. And it is, it was established by Julius Caesar on an ancient site in a BC, BC 44. Right. So it became the capital of the Roman province of Acaya, and a lot of renovation, a lot of rebuilding, but really a thriving place, a place that was thriving during Paul's time, commercially, okay, which means there was a lot of business, a lot of trade that was happening. So it was, it was thriving. And also, it had a multicultural kind of a population there. And we also, when we, when we read, we see that it was also a place, when you read about Corinth, you see that it was also a place which had, which was hedonistic, in the sense, you know, they were very, it was a very permissive society, a permissive society, meaning that they were quite liberal in their views with regard to their sexuality, with regard to their worship. They had, they worshiped, for example, they worshiped Aphrodite, they had temples of worship for these two deities, deities that is Apollo and Aphrodite. And Aphrodite was supposed to be a goddess of Greek goddess of love. So they had this temple built on the highest place on the land known as Acro Corinth, built on a hill. And it had, it was supposed to be a place of, where people went and they were also, you know, they were having all kinds of immoral activities as part of worship. So you can imagine the kind of place it was, the kind of culture and the kind of values that people had, right? So, so that, that was the kind of place to which Paul went and he established the church. So when we, when we study about, you know, when we read about all this, then we are really able to appreciate the kind of ministry and the kind of work that the Holy Spirit inspired Paul to do in such a place. You know, many, many times we look at, you know, our own cities and our own cultures and we say, you know, can God do something, can, can really, can, can people be saved in this kind of an environment? You know, we, we think about all that. But when we look at Corinth, we see that it was what you would call a sin city, you know, very permissive culture, very immoral lifestyles, very values and everything, very, very, very different, very moral, very permissive, right? And in such a place, Paul goes and he establishes the church right there. Okay, so let's read through some portion of scripture from the book of Acts, right? So Corinth is mentioned in the book of Acts as one of the places that Paul travels to and stays there and establishes the church. Okay, so when we read Acts chapter 15, that is where we read about Paul's second missionary journey. Okay, so Acts 15 and maybe we should look at verse 36, right? So I'm just going to read through a few verses here and mention a few things and then move on. Okay, skip a few verses also. So Acts chapter 15, if you have your Bibles, verse 36. Okay, so then after some days, Paul said to Barnabas, let us go back and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord and see how they are doing. Okay, so that's how the whole missionary journey starts. So he has this discussion with Barnabas and he says, okay, let's go. Barnabas wanted to take John Mark and Paul was against taking John Mark because John Mark was, of course, Barnabas is a relative nephew and John Mark actually, if you read the verse before that, you see that he left. He actually left them on their mission and they do go on their first missionary journey. So he didn't continue with them. So Paul was actually against taking John Mark. So they had this argument and then Barnabas and John Mark leave separately. They go to Cyprus and Paul takes Silas and they go on their second missionary journey. Okay, so let me just present a map of the second missionary journey. Okay, just a minute. You can see that, I think. Right, so we see from Antioch. So Antioch is where they start. So you see that on the right hand side corner Antioch in Syria and then they start the journey. So Paul and Silas, they travel from there. Okay, so chapter 16, Acts chapter 16, we read about Paul and Silas traveling from Antioch going to Derby and in Derby Paul meets Timothy. He hears about Timothy and has a good reputation. So this is what is written about Timothy, the son of a certain Jewish woman who believed that his father was Greek. He was well spoken of by the brethren who were at and Iconium. Okay, so you see Lystra and Iconium close to Derby on the right hand side corner. You see that Derby, then Lystra, then Iconium. So Timothy was from Derby and these are all places which are close to Derby. So they knew about the people in Iconium and Lystra knew about Timothy. So they go through these cities, they talk to the people and just before this they had the Council, Jerusalem Council, people to the Gentile churches. They had actually written the letter saying that, okay, this is what you need to do. You don't need to be circumcised. You don't need to keep the law of Moses and then, so that letter which was given, they went and announced that, they taught that and they moved on. Okay, so we see that they go to the Galatian region, then they go to Truas and then from there to Neopolis and from there to Philippi. So we see all that mentioned in the Acts chapter 16. As we go through Acts chapter 16, then we see that we know about that incident in Philippi where they were jailed and there was an earthquake and the jailer and his family gets saved and so on. So we read that in Acts chapter 16 and that happens in Philippi. From Philippi, we read this in chapter 17 of the Book of Acts. They move on to Amphipolis and Apollonia, then they come to Thessalonica. You see those places. Philippi, Amphipolis, Apollonia, Thessalonica. In Thessalonica also they go and they preach in the synagogues and there's some persecution and from there they move to Berea. Now in Acts chapter 17, you read about people in Berea where they heard the message. I hope you can hear me. Yeah, so from Berea, he goes on to Athens and from Athens to Corinth. Okay, so let's read chapter 17 and verse 16. Okay, so verse 16, he's in Athens and he's actually waiting for Timothy and Silas to join him. Okay, because there's a lot of persecution happening right from Philippi, Thessalonica and Paul is actually sent onward. So he sails and comes on to this place, Athens and he's waiting for Timothy and Silas to join him. Okay, let me just, okay. Oh, you want this slide to be there in the stream? Sure, yeah. Sure, I can do that. Okay, so they come to Athens and we read about in chapter 17 and verse 16 onwards, we read about what happens in Athens. Okay, so Paul has this, he meets this, he comes to the place, he is provoked, we see that the city is given over to idols and so he goes and he of course goes and reasoned with the Jews and the synagogue and also in the marketplace. He talks to them, he engages with them and then shares the gospel to them and so on. So from there, he moves on to Corinth. Okay, so in Corinth, he meets Priscilla and Achila. Okay, if you look at Acts chapter 18 and verse two, we see that he found a certain Jew named Achila, born in Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had commanded all the Jews to depart from Rome and he came to them and they were of the same trade, they were all tent makers, so they kind of rejoined them and he worked alongside them and he would also go to the synagogues, share the gospel and every Sabbath he would do that and then Silas and Timothy, they come, they join Paul and Paul testifies everywhere that Jesus is the Christ. Okay, so he faces opposition and from there he moves on. So in Corinth, verse 11, okay, Acts chapter 18 and verse 11, we see that he continued there for about a year and a half. So a year and six months, he is there in Corinth and he's teaching. Okay, let's read about that, the kind of ministry that he did in Corinth. Okay, let's read from verse five, Acts chapter 18 and verse five. Okay, we see Silas and Timothy had come from Macedonia, Paul was compelled by the Spirit and testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.  From now on, I will go to the Gentiles and he departed from there and entered the house of a certain man named Justice, one who worshiped God, whose house was next door to the synagogue. Then, Christmas, the ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his household and many of the Corinthians, hearing, believed and were baptized. Now the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision. Do not be afraid but speak and do not keep silent for I am with you and no one will attack you to hurt you for I have many people in this city. So the Lord was specifically, he has this encounter with the Lord and the Lord encourages him and gives him that instruction.  So he's encouraged verse 11 and he continued there a year and six months teaching the word of God among them. When Galio was proconsul of Akhaya, the Jews, then we read about some confusion that happened there, the persecution that happened there and so on. But Paul continues to stay there verse 18. So Paul still remained a good while, then he took leave of the brethren and sailed for Syria and Priscilla and Akhila were with him. So from there he moves on to Syria and then from there he goes to Centuria and then comes to Ephesus. Now at Ephesus he again ministers there but he spends a short time there in Ephesus and from there he goes to Caesarea and then goes to another Antioch. Antioch and Caesarea and then goes on to Galatia and so on. So he moves on but we see that he comes to Ephesus again Acts chapter 19. When Apollos is at Corinth, Paul having passed to the upper regions came to Ephesus and finding some disciples, then he talks to them about the Holy Spirit, he prays with them and they get filled with the Spirit and so on. So we read that in Ephesus he was there for about two and a half years almost three years. He is there in Ephesus and it is from Ephesus that Paul writes the letter to the Corinthians. So he gets news about what is happening in Corinth and then he writes. So he is actually in Ephesus when he writes the letter to the Corinthians. So we see that Paul writes from Ephesus, he writes to the this first episode to the Corinthians was written from Paul to the Corinthian church in Ephesus. Now Paul also addresses a few things here as he writes to the Corinthian church and as we read through chapters one we see you know the based on what he is actually writing, what he is teaching, what he is setting right, we are able to understand the kind of issues or the kind of problems or the challenges that the church has been having. So when we read through we also understand that Paul spent about 18 months in Corinth and in those 18 months the church had really become a very vibrant church. We get to see that also because based on what he is actually teaching them, he is teaching them about the gifts we will read about that. He is teaching them about the gifts, he is teaching them about how to properly administer the gifts and the proper foundation for the gifts and so on. So we see that in those 18 months the church had actually moved from just by believing in the Lord Jesus to really he had actually taught them about the baptism of the Holy Spirit, he had taught them about the use of the gifts and many of them were moving in the gifts so we read about all that. So we also know that even though it was a vibrant church it had challenges, it had problems. It had problems like division, like people were one against the other. It had problems like of a very grave nature in the sense that there were people living immoral lifestyles and particularly one person continuing to live a immoral life and then he addresses that and it admonishes and also we read that he has to take a very difficult decision to put that person out of the fellowship of the church. So we read all about that. So from this I just wanted to share that whenever we see Paul addressing certain things we know that this church has that particular challenge or is going through that thing or maybe some kind of difficulty of that nature and that is why Paul is writing to address it. So let's move on to the first chapter of Corinthians and so this was probably written around AD 58 or AD 59 and the timeline is that probably around, see he was there in Ephesus for about three and a half years here about one and a half years so maybe about even about seven years after establishing the church. So these are just approximations so we don't know the exact dates or exact timeline but these are approximately it could be around this time so AD 58, AD 59 is when he addresses, he writes the letter and so he's writing the letter from Ephesus. So let's look at chapter one chapter one verse one. So what I'll do is I'll read the verse and then we'll talk about it and then move on to the next verse and talk a little more about that okay. So verse one okay Paul called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God and Sostenus our brother to the church of God which is at Corinth to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be saints with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ okay so so Paul identifies himself as the author at the beginning of the letter you know normally when we write letters in our day and time we would sign off right we would we would of course address the people who were to whom we are writing like suppose I were to write a letter to Thomas I would say hello Thomas the audio Thomas how are you and then at the end of the letter I would say you know okay regards best regards or sincerely and I would put my name there so we see that you know this is the way in which these epistles were written where the author most of the times more author would identify you know oneself right in the greetings itself so so here Paul is saying Paul called to be an apostle through the will of God and Sostenus our brother so he also mentions Sostenus who's another person who's with him and and if we see here Sostenus is also most likely right he was the person who was mentioned in Acts chapter 18 and verse 17 so Acts chapter 18 and verse 17 we read about you know most probably it was the same Sostenus okay so because it's a church at Corinth right so verse 17 Acts chapter 18 and verse 17 says then all the Greek took Sostenus the ruler of the synagogue and beat him before the judgment seat but Galio took no notice of these things so you know there was this confusion there was this persecution because the Jews all rose up they were very envious of the ministry of Paul and so on so Sostenus is mentioned there as a ruler as one of the leaders of the synagogue there so most probably this Sostenus that Paul is referring to could be the same person maybe this person became member of of Paul's ministry team and traveled with Paul we don't know most likely right so Sostenus is mentioned there so Paul along with Sostenus so he says he's called to be an apostle right so Apostolus which means a sent one called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God so it's not something that he took up when we read about Paul we know that it's not something that he took up on his own it's not some venture that he said oh it's a great idea but he was called right through his encounter on the road to Damascus we know that he was called he was prepared by the Lord for this for this calling the calling was given by the Lord so we learn we understand something about ministry about the call and that it is the will of God right whether he calls us to be an apostle prophet evangelist pastor teacher or you know not necessarily the five-fold ministry but maybe in the marketplace whatever it is it is the the will of God right it is a plan and purpose of God it's not something that we take for ourselves it's not something that we we decide of our own it is the will and purpose of God okay so what else do we see we see that he's writing to the church at Corinth okay and the word used there is ecclesia okay ecclesia meaning the sent out ones to the church at Corinth it's the ecclesia the ones who are called out okay not sent out sorry the ones who are called out and who gather together for a purpose okay so so when we look at again just to remind ourselves ecclesia the church it does not mean the physical place but the people of God because he's writing to the believers the church at Corinth the ecclesia at Corinth okay and he also mentions who are those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus okay set apart in Christ Jesus the the Greek word that he uses there is Haggidzo meaning set apart consecrated okay and called to be saints meaning the set apart ones Haggios he uses the word Haggios called to be saints okay so another clarification there is that you know many times we use the word saints as a title right he is a saint of God she is a saint of God saints are the word saint is used as a title a title and sometimes in the you know in a in a different background like a catholic church it's definitely used as a as a title and it's something that that is given or conferred by the pope and so on right but yeah originally you know if you look at the meaning of saints it's just means it just means that saints are the set apart ones the ones who are set apart consecrated okay so his his call is addressing the letter to the church the believers at Corinth to those who are sanctified set apart in Christ Jesus with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours so saying it's not confined just for Corinth but to the saints right who in every place call on the name of the Lord Jesus so which means that even in our day and time today it is applicable for us so the truth in this epistle in this scripture is applicable for us as well okay right so call to be said let's read verse 3 grace you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ now this was a typical greeting if you look at you know second Corinthians if you see Paul has the same kind of greetings it was a typical way by which he greeted the people you know second Corinthians verse 2 grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ Galatians grace to you and peace from God our Father the Lord Jesus Christ if you look at Ephesians again grace to you and so you see that this was a typical way of Paul greeting the believers but also the fact that this grace and peace was something that had that had really made a mark in his life or he had received a revelation about the grace of God about the peace that comes from God so he was just declaring it over the people to whoever he was writing to he would say okay let the grace of God grace to you and peace from God how may you experience the grace and the Greek word Charis okay which means divine favor divine enablement right and also divine character and of course gifts okay so four things favor from God divine enablement or empowering by the Holy Spirit divine empowerment it also means divine character divine virtues values character and divine gifts right so it's an it's an all-in-compassing word just like sozo right when we talk about salvation sozo which means healing forgiveness prosperity deliverance and so on so Charis which talks about the grace of God which talks about the enablement of God the gifts of God and the favor from God and so he's saying grace to you and peace peace meaning Irene Irene harmony and security and safety and prosperity and and total well-being you know something like Shalom not exactly that but similar to that because Shalom is a Hebrew word and Irene is a Greek word so he's declaring this and let it be to you in the from our father and the Lord Jesus Christ okay so so this is what the greeting that he starts off with okay so let's read from verse four four to nine okay I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus that you were enriched in everything by him in all utterance and all knowledge even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you so that you come short in no gift eagerly waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ who will also confirm you to the end that you may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ our Lord okay so he is uh he's thanking God he was for saying I thank my God concerning you for the grace which was given to you by Christ Jesus okay and he says I thank my God always concerning you which means that you know he he just didn't plant the church and then move but he was actually praying for them he was thanking God for them the believers at Corinth you know maybe the leaders that he spent time he spent a time about one and a half years with them so they were in there they were in his thoughts they were in his prayers and he would thank the Lord for them and he says you know I thank always concerning you and and also he also talks about the grace of God which was given to them by the Lord Jesus Christ there is so we need to talk about something you know that there is the general grace of God okay the grace of God the carous which is given for all of us as believers you know we receive this unmerited favor from God we receive this the enablement from God right but also we need to know that there is that special grace of God which is given to us in order to fulfill the call of God okay maybe because the call of God is different for each of us as believers and God's grace is specific to that call for for example if you look at Romans 12 and verse 13 okay let's quickly turn there Romans 12 and verse 3 sorry Romans 12 and verse 3 um the Paul writes and he says for I say through the grace given to me to everyone who is among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think but to think soberly as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith so he's here referring to himself his ministry and he's saying that through the grace given to me through this grace that was given to me I to everyone you know I say to everyone I address everyone and I'm saying that you know do not think yourself highly more highly than you ought to right we think soberly right he says this in a several other places also like if you look at Ephesians 3 and verse 3 Ephesians 3 and verse 3 um how that by revelation he made known to me the mystery as I've all as I've briefly written already so Paul was actually used by God in a special way to write two-thirds of the New Testament right of scripture so the foundation doctrines and so on and and revelation about the cross and the grace of God and and all that God used him so there was this special grace that was available on Paul that he wrote this there was grace available or released by God upon his life to go to the Gentiles just as there was a specific grace upon Peter to go to the Jews right so so we need to understand that there is the general grace and the special specific grace of God and so to enable us to do what we have been called to do so he's talking about that he always says I always thank God concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you so he saying I'm aware of the grace of God I recognize the grace of God which has been given to you and I want to I want I thank God always verse 5 that you were enriched in everything by him in all utterance and all knowledge okay so so Paul is saying that you were actually made you were enriched or you were made wealthy and he's referring to all the spiritual wealth and the material wealth and it was all because of the grace of God and it was all because of the Lord Jesus and he's saying that you know the the utterance and the knowledge and everything that that they had later we see in in 12 13 14 chapters 12 13 and 14 you see that Paul writing about the gifts right so probably the the way he's saying the utterance maybe he's referring to the gifts there it could be that because he also says that you know that they come short in no gift right versus six and so on so so Paul is saying you know he's saying he's thanking God because they were enriched in everything enriched in all knowledge enriched in all utterance and and and saying that you know in verses six he says even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you right the fact that the evidence that was given the evidence that Christ is Lord was confirmed in you there was test that the the testimony of Christ the gospel of Christ that came to the evidence was actually confirmed in you right make firm established and secure in you right so that in the sense that you saw it you saw that it was true you saw that it was it was confirmed it was established and there were seven he says that so that you come short in no gift okay so the gospel of God the gospel of Christ it was preached they received it and they were enriched in all knowledge and utterance and the gospel of Christ the gospel came with power and came with demonstration of the Holy Spirit and verse seven he says so that you come short in no gift okay so so we we we see that they had no lack when it came to spiritual knowledge when it came to spiritual experience of the Holy Spirit okay they came short in no gift is what he mentions here and see some of the things that we need to understand is that the Corinthian church had a lot of problems okay they had a lot of challenges immaturity division you know fighting and and Paul you know later he writes he calls them you know I I could not speak to you as a mature people but I had to speak to you as babes because you are carnal so they had all these challenges but we see that they did have the manifestation of the Holy Spirit that is these gifts and and they moved powerfully in it there and all of them they came short in no gift meaning they know they they pursued they received and they moved in it so so the thing is not for us not to be confused you know we a person can be gifted a group of people can be moving in the gifts and at the same time there can be immaturity as well okay so we know that the gifts of God are received by faith right and when it comes to character you know it's an everyday choice it's an everyday decision that it's it's a choice that we make to obey God to obey his instructions and it's a moment by moment day to day thing okay so how we live our lives and two neat and both needs to go hand in hand both need to go hand in hand right we we will read later and I'm sure you know it's just a reiteration of what you know already Paul writes and he says pursue love and desire spiritual gifts spiritual gifts referring to the you know gifts of grace and which is freely given pursue love loving God loving people character right it talks about the character so one on one side is talking about the gifts of the spirit on the other side is talking about the fruit of the Holy Spirit and both we need pursue love desire spiritual gifts okay so the fact is that well there could be maturity but that should not stop us from pursuing both right pursuing love of God and the gifts okay so then verse nine God is faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of his son Jesus Christ all Lord so we have been called as people as followers of Christ we have been called first of all we have been called into the fellowship of God uh cohenonia you know to share to to be with to uh to pour out our hearts um so that is what we have called to you know that friendship that partnership that closeness for each one of us for every believer okay this is for every believer we have been called for that we've been called to that and it is the right and privilege of every believer because God is a faithful God and this faithful God has invited us to this place okay one thing that we um okay so the question is is it possible that they could have gifts even when they are not mature yet so this this group of people is a classic example of that they were carnal as we are going to read now um they were carnal and yet they were gifted right so it is possible so when we see people of God when we see churches moving in the gifts and yet uh you know having these problems uh of immaturity uh that that just means that they need to move consciously and uh be mature in Christ okay so that doesn't mean that I need to leave out the other thing and hold on to one thing we need both okay so yes it is possible Prince it is possible for people to you know just go after the things of God the power the gifts and because you receive by faith and God is a faithful God he does give um but he expects us to grow in Christ's likeness and come to a place of maturity of being uh like like Jesus that is right okay so he's called us into this fellowship first and foremost you know we're not yes we are you know one thing to note is that he's called us to this fellowship uh with the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit we are called to that fellowship first and foremost and then the fellowship with people okay so this is a fellowship that we are called to this is a fellowship that we can enjoy this is a fellowship that we are invited to and uses that word quinonia okay which means communion or sharing friendship partnership okay so it's wonderful to know that God has called us for this partnership that God has called us for this friendship that he has called us for this close friendship it's available for us he's invited us to this okay okay um let's uh move on to verse 10 um okay any questions before we probably will end this session um with this but any any questions from what we have read so far um from the verses that we have seen so far any are there any questions any doubts any clarifications okay uh if there's nothing okay if there's anything you can always put it in the chat right okay so let's look at to uh let's just read through verses 10 to 17 and um let's let's read through those verses now I plead with you brethren by this by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all speak the same thing and that there be no divisions among you but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment for it has been declared to me concerning you my brethren by those of Chloe's household that there are contentions among you now I say this that each of you says I am of Paul or I am of or I am of Apollos or I am of Cephas or I am of Christ is Christ divided was Paul crucified for you or were you baptized in the name of Paul I thank God that I baptized none of you except Christmas and Gaius lest anyone should say that I had baptized in my own name yes I also baptized the household of stiffness besides I do not know whether I baptize any other for Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel not with words of wisdom lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect okay so here when we read through the verses we get the first glimpse of what was the challenge what was actually going on in the church so we see the church all mentioning that it was brilliant I mean brilliant in a sense a thriving vibrant church he says you come short in no gift you are enriched in all knowledge and on all utterance and he's thanking God for the grace of God that was given to them okay and here he starts by addressing them and he's requesting them he says you know I plead with you okay it's a very strong word I plead with you I urge you right he's is literally begging them okay so we'll take a break and when we come back we'll continue with from verse 10 okay so we'll take a break now


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Welcome to JSA TV, the use room for tech and telecom professionals. And JSA Radio, your voice for tech and telecom on iHeart Radio. I'm Jamie Scott of the Tire of JSA. Joining me here today, I'm very honored to say we have Ms. Amy Shabanik, she's the exchange director for telecom exchange and CEO exchange. Amy, welcome to JSA TV. Hi, Jamie. Thanks so much for having me. I'm happy to be here. We're happy to have you here. And, you know, we've heard a lot about telecom exchange in the recent years. And now, just in the last few months, we're hearing about this text 2.0. Can you tell us what is text 2.0 and how is that different from telecom exchange? Absolutely. So telecom exchange has been around for over eight years as a leading industry event. But in this past year, we've decided to really change the events to better suit our growing industry. So this event is very forward thinking. It's a new standard for collaboration and networking. So text 2.0 is and how it's different from telecom exchange is it's really we're right sizing the event. We're putting the right people in the room to drive the right conversations and collaborations that we can drive change and look at the future of the tech and telecom industry and as a community make it better and really work together to make it better. So unlike any other event that's out here, we're really pushing for change and really striving to make sure that we come together and agree upon this. And how can we do this? So what we do is we put together the max four roundtables and everybody in the room is invited to be a part of the conversation. So yes, they're still a moderator and they're still panelists up there who are driving the conversation, but everybody in the room is hopefully contributing. So that as a group at the end of the roundtable, we discuss where the topic is where it kind of sits in the industry now and what needs to happen and the result being three to five accountable action items that we get behind that we agree upon. And again, this is a room full of decision makers. So all of these decision makers are in this room. They're saying yes stamp of approval. Let's how can we do this and how can we make changes. So and this is not something that is unattainable, right? So we're not asking to change the world and one event we're taking bite sized, many items that we can just one step at a time keep moving forward. And so at the end, we gather these accountable action items and we put them into a manifesto. And then we have a selfless passionate committee chair from the industry that stands behind that that manifesto develops a committee and helps make ensure that over the next 12 months, we accomplish as many of these items that we can. So we launched this event for the first time in New York in back in June, and it was very well received highly successful. And I'm very excited to see how this continues to grow and and evolve and really again as a community having everyone get behind it and be supporters. So we're really excited for text LA, which is our second text 2.0 event on November 6 and 7 and at the Clinton Paloma house of Beverly Hills. So really looking forward to that event as well. Wow. Okay. So I heard you are doing an event that is hyper focused on changing the industry the next in three to five action items per round table for the next 12 months ahead, driven by thought leaders, decision makers in that room. I love what I'm hearing. And I also hear New York was happened in June. Now LA come November this fall. Why LA? So, you know, LA is really it's a major gateway for networks, you know, with key carrier hotels and data centers located in LA, and of course up and down the West Coast. And then as well as the Trans Pacific connectivity, to Hawaii and Asia Pacific. And of course when you think West Coast, the huge bandwidth traffic consumption from the West Coast content and cloud providers, the OTT all located in LA, and as well as the media and broadcast companies. And LA, you know, it's an expensive city. So historically, it's been neglected by telecom event producers, but it's so critical for our network infrastructure. So we decided that, you know, it's a new great place to meet. And being from Chicago, I personally can't complain about California sun during November. So it's definitely a draw and we are really looking forward to it. Yeah, I love that. Of course, sometime in November is always needed for many of us who don't live out in the West Coast already. But but also I love this idea of connecting where the networks are literally located and where people are one cross connect away and these big carrier hotel towns like LA, New York. So I see where you guys are going. That's that's an interesting model. And certainly, you know, it's a it's a difference. It's a marked difference in the events that we're seeing these days in the telecom and tech space, you know, I mean, I think a lot of a lot of events are just completely different. This is perhaps a response to what you're seeing currently in the event space here.  So it's, you know, what that does is it drives your competitors into the same space. So, you know, what we do with techs is we look at the entire ecosystem. So we get multiple voices and perspectives all up and down the OSI stack. So data center and our operators, dark and lit fiber providers, hosting security providers, and the concept players and large enterprise network operators that are driving the traffic spikes. Plus, another other events, really, they don't promote their attendee lists like we do. So ahead of time, we provide an opportunity for our attendees to have access to the other attendees that are attending our event via our app. So, you know, we've always historically been industry matchmakers. But this, you know, our latest app and online system is really the most innovative and data driven. And we give you the opportunity to walk into the event and know that you have a prospect meeting set up. So that really ensures that you are getting the most out of your event investment. Yeah, I love that as, as a way to tell my CFO, hey, I already have these prospect meetings in my calendar in their calendar. And we're just going to go ahead and rock it out. That's, it's definitely easier to sign off on that, that flight and expense bill than, than just going to walk the floor. So I love that you guys do that. And I'm glad you kept that essential one on one networking part, you know, from previous telecom exchange event models to today. So that's great to hear.  Can you provide us perhaps some best tips for event marketing today? I know, I know there's a lot of things that we look for as, as network operators, as carriers, as data center operators. What are the events that we need to be looking out for? What is some qualifications that these events really should have when it comes for me to lay down a couple of dollars and invest in my brand at these events? Can you give us some guidance there? Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, my top three, I'll say, I'll narrow it down to three, although I'm sure I could give you a top 10 list very easily here, because, you know, I think that there's so much to be gained from these, these events, especially the, the great ones such as, you know, text 2.0. But, you know, my top three, I would have to say is the ability to meet one-on-one. You know, you have to be able to meet with prospects and customers, partners. It's, it's not just about being in a room full of your peers, you know, which, and again, it's then it becomes the same from event to event to event. If you're meeting with just your peers, the same people and same talking heads, you know, we need to make sure that you're, there's different, the ability to have different people and network and meet new people and again, potential business opportunities. So again, that's a classic mistake. I feel like a lot of event producers in our industry make filling their room full of peers, but that doesn't enable opportunity. The second tip I have is the ability to connect to media, to be able to promote your breaking news if you wish.  And third and definitely not last is the ability to be viewed as a thought leader. I think it's important to really let your voice be heard and, you know, be helping to drive the agenda for the coming months ahead and, you know, not just not to be backseat, but to be active, right, to be one of the people that your voice is being heard amongst the industry. And so all of these things, these top three things is what the thought process behind Text 2.0 as we sat and said, you know, what are the best things? What are, you know, what could people really invest their brand into? And we came up with it, you know, a list and we made sure that Text 2.0 was a part of that, that, that bill. So I would, you know, investing in your brand will, through Text 2.0 is something that we wanted to make sure that people, you know, gain the most from. And so here we are looking forward to LA, looking forward to LA and providing that opportunity to companies. Yeah. And I just love your tips, you know, ability to connect with your prospects, your customers, your partners, not just your peers, but to connect with your media and be a thought leader, drive that conversation. And that's really sort of a nice lead into talking about CEO exchange. Can you tell us a little bit about what is CEO exchange and how does that further drive that Text 2.0 message? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely. So CEO exchange is an online 24-7 meeting platform, again, for C-level. So we've taken Text 2.0 and that, that thought process of making it decision makers. And we've taken it and we've put it into an app. So it was, it's the same online meeting system as you see for our events. And we've created that so it's all year round. It's not just on an event by event basis. So it continues that conversation so we can continue to talk to each other about how the industry is moving, how it's changing, how it's developing. We can always make sure we can post on there about educational papers, you know, staying in front of the trends, really. And again, it's the right people in there. So it allows you to network and meet people through, via this platform throughout the year. And again, what it does then as well is it takes what we talk about at Text 2.0 and it allows us to continue it. So it bridges that gap. So we, we don't just go, okay, in June we're talking about these roundtables. In November we're talking about these roundtables. And then in between months they get forgotten. We want to make sure that they stay relevant, that we continue to drive this change by staying on the forefront of the industry. And so we decided to create CEO exchange so we can again bridge that gap and just make sure that, you know, we build our community and we all stand behind the mission of us trying to invoke change. That's so critical. I often see these spikes that happen right during these key events in our industry where we're all jazzed up, we're at the worlds, we just got back from PTC, IGW, telecom exchange would have you, and then all of a sudden, you know, it's just goes right back into business as usual. And we forget about all those great connections and conversations. Maybe we reconnected the next year in the next event. But it's this like up and down spike. And I always wonder, gosh, if our industry could talk more, communicate more in between those events, that there would be more of us stepping up, you know, stairway to heaven type of approach versus these spikes that that can feel like we're not actually getting anywhere. So I love this idea, Amy. Okay, so JSA TV watchers out there. Two things to check out. The telecom exchange.com and for CEO exchange, what is it, Amy? The CEO exchange.net. The CEO exchange.net. Well, wonderful, Amy, as always, to talk with you. And thank you for all your insight. And thank you viewers for tuning in to JSA TV and JSA Radio. Happy networking.