Well, today we're in Romans chapter 16. We're going to conclude our series here in the book of Romans by looking at verses 20 through 27. And so as we begin our study here in Romans chapter 16, I'm going to read verses 20 through 24. I'm going to give you a reminder of some of the things that we've looked at already in order to establish a context and then move on in through the rest of the chapter. And when you get to verses 21 through 24, that's going to just be just a few mentions because you're really not going to get a whole lot out of that by itself. And then we'll conclude by looking at verses 24 through 27. So let's begin reading at verse 20. I'll read to verse 24 and we'll get into our study. Romans chapter 16, beginning at verse 20, reading to verse 24, Paul writes, and the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, amen. Timothy, my fellow worker, and Lucius, Jason, and Sassapotter, my kinsmen, greet you. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you and the Lord. Gaius, my host, and the host of the whole church, greet you. Erastus, the treasurer of the city, greets you and Cordus, a brother. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, amen. And so he basically gives to us two benedictions. You see one of them in verse 20, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, and then you see it again in verse 24, two blessings or concluding blessings. But as we look at this, we see that Paul is concluding his letter, the letter that is called, what we call the epistle or the letter to the Romans. And in chapter 16, as we've been going through chapter 16, Paul has been extending his greetings to members of the church, and we saw that in the first several verses. And then last time we were together, we looked at verses 17 through 19, where Paul actually issued an exhortation, a warning concerning false teachers who had begun to infiltrate the Roman church. And so as we look at this, and as we've been looking at the book of Romans, I want you to remember those who have been with me since the beginning, that I mentioned as we began this particular study in Romans, I mentioned to you that the book of Romans has been referred to as Paul's systematic theology. Now, the words systematic theology, some of you may not be familiar with what that means. What is a systematic theology? So a systematic theology is a discipline of formulating a well-ordered, rational, united, and logical account of the Christian faith and beliefs. It's also called dogmatics. And so what Paul has been doing is he's been putting in order the faith of Christ, our religious beliefs, the essentials that every believer needs to hold fast to in order to qualify as a genuine Christian. And so throughout the book of Romans, Paul has clearly presented what are called the essentials of the Christian faith. And so from the very beginning, when we looked at the first three chapters, for example, he wrote concerning the sinful condition of all humanity. He also wrote concerning the need for salvation. He wrote concerning justification through faith alone, through Jesus alone. He wrote concerning the reason for Jesus dying on the cross, which was clearly presented as our means of salvation. He spoke of the process of sanctification, of God's work with the nation of Israel. He wrote concerning the spiritual gifts. He wrote concerning what is called body life or church life, our relationship to human government. And last time we're together, he spoke concerning the avoidance of bad doctrine, that we are to avoid being tainted by those who bring in bad teaching. And so as we've been looking at the book of Romans, we have seen that it is a systematic theology. And if you were to boil it down to an overall theme, it could be stated in a few words. Romans could be summarized by simply saying, the gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the just shall live by faith. And that's what we have seen as we've gone through the book of Romans. Now, he's been giving an exhaustive systematic teaching. And that means that because he's been giving this systematic teaching, that the church ought to be equipped to recognize false teaching. If you get into the word of God and the word of God gets into you, then when somebody brings something that is false, you're going to be able to discern or recognize it. That was the purpose of the book of Romans. So for those of us who have been through Romans from chapter one to chapter 16, if you've been able to be in the teachings, you ought to be now equipped to be able to essentially defend the faith because that's what Romans was established to do. And so the church is to be equipped to recognize when the false teacher enters in, by being properly taught, they now can examine the claims of others and they can determine whether those claims are true. Now, some people say, does that really matter? The Bible says, yes, it does. And some would say, but do we really have to be such judges of what people have to say? And the Bible would say, we must be. In 1st Thessalonians chapter five, verses 20 and 21, Paul said it like this. He said, do not scoff at prophecies, but test everything that is said, hold on to what is good. It's not that we reject the word of God being presented or someone speaking a word to our hearts through the spirit of God, but we're supposed to test those things, prove those things. How are you to do that? You do that by the power of the Holy Spirit, the discernment that God gives you, and you do it by God's word. You test those things to see whether those things are so. So all of this had led to Paul's command to note and avoid false teachers, which he had said in verse 17. You see, the message of the gospel is not just one message out of many messages. The message of what we call the gospel, the good news, is actually the one message that we are to hold fast to. And we're not to corrupt that message. It's a heavenly message in its origin. It needs to be held fast to. Paul would say that, he did say that in Galatians chapter one verses eight and nine, he said, but even if we are an angel from heaven should preach a gospel, other than the one we preach to you, let them be under God's curse. As we've already said, so now I say again, if anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let them be under God's curse. Now there's always been people proclaiming the way to God, but not telling the accurate truth. And sometimes the message that they give is appealing to the one listening and it's accepted as truth. But the Bible also says in Proverbs 14, 12, there's a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death. Jesus said it very clearly. He said, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the father, but by me. So the gospel is a message committed to mankind that must remain pure. It's a message that communicates most clearly how we can get to heaven. And therefore it needs to be held fast too. In Romans one, we saw this in verses 16 and 17 when we began our study, how that Paul had said, for I am not ashamed of this good news about Christ. It is God's powerful method of bringing all who believe it to heaven. This message was preached first to the Jews alone, but now everyone is invited to come to God in the same way. This good news tells us that God makes us ready for heaven, makes us right in God's sight. When we put our faith and trust in Christ to save us. This is accomplished from start to finish by faith. As the scripture says it, the man who finds life will find it through trusting God. And so Paul has been speaking concerning this, how that we are to hold fast to this message. It's not to be corrupted. And therefore we need to discern when someone is speaking to us, whether what they're saying lines up with what the Bible actually teaches. When we looked at verse 18, verse 18 gives the motives as well as the methods of the false teacher. He speaks concerning their carnal desires, which is their motives, as well as their polished lies, which was their methods. And so through personality and false promises, he said the innocent could be entrapped. And thus we need to be aware of that. But he had closed in verse 19 and spoke of their obedience. And it was through their faithful obedience that they would be preserved because they were clinging to what is true.  And if they were holding fast to what was true, it would protect their walk. And it would confound those who reject the gospel. So as he's been speaking about that, he moves into verse 20 and he continues by saying, and the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you, amen. Two things we'll notice. One, notice how he says the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly, the God of peace. Peace originates with God and God is the one who is called the God of peace. And it's his message of truth that provides the ability for us to actually have unity. So we have peace with God when we accept his gospel, we're reconciled to him. We can have peace with ourselves within ourselves because the fruit of a relationship with God will be peace. And we can also have peace with other people because when we're at peace with God producing peace within us, we can have peace with other people. This is all gonna come through the gospel because the gospel has been given to us by one who is referred to as the God of peace. And when God's peace is presented to us, it's presented in a way that is referred to as being truth. So truth is intended to unite those who have both embraced what is true. The truth, in other words, is intended to unite believers. When Paul was writing to the Philippians, he said, only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel. So we're to have a conduct, a lifestyle that is worthy of the gospel of peace. And so we can have peace with one another because we're united. In James, when James was speaking in chapter three, verses 17 and 18, he was speaking concerning this wisdom. And he said, the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable. Gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits without partiality and without hypocrisy. He goes on to say, now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. And so when you have a relationship with the God of peace and you're united in the word of God, then you sow peace amongst other people because the gospel brings peace.  He likes to produce conflict and that's Satan. And so discord and conflict, discord, conflict and division is going to be an earmark of his influence. So James says it like this, if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. And so the gospel is intended to unite us. False teachers come in to disrupt it, to create discord. Paul says, note them, have nothing to do with them, avoid them because the fruit of what they're going to do is going to be a disuniting of the body of Christ. And by the way he's saying, you will be under spiritual warfare for some time because spiritual warfare continues. And so he's speaking concerning this spiritual warfare. Now notice how he says the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. So the believer, the faithful believer is needing to be encouraged to know that spiritual war will come to an end. So what's going to happen? Eventually the spiritual war that we're battling in is going to come to an end. I was mentioning recently that just this last Friday, December 27th, I celebrated my 43rd year of coming to faith in Christ. I was 20 years old when I came to Christ and I came to faith in Christ December 27th, 1970. And I can still remember a few things about that. I can still remember that I was seated at a Maranatha concert, a Christian concert at the Hollywood Palladium. I remember that there was a speaker by the name of Arthur Blessed and that he was an evangelist and Arthur began to share the gospel and how that he gave an invitation and he asked people that if you want to give your heart to Christ and get right with the Lord, he said then you can do that. He said, you just need to stand up to your feet and proclaim that you desire to do so. And I remember as I was seated there amongst these 4,000 young people and they didn't provide chairs or benches or anything for us. We were hippies, we all sat on the carpet and I can remember as I was seated there on the carpet, I remember praying because I knew that I wasn't a Christian. Up to that point had you asked me whether I was a believer in Christ, I would have said I was. If you'd have asked me if I was a Christian, I would have said yes. If you'd have asked me, do you believe the Bible is God's word? I'd have said yes. If you asked me if there was such a place as heaven and if I believed that there was a place called heaven, I would say yes. The majority of the questions that you would ask me, I would answer in the affirmative because I agreed at least intellectually that these places existed and these things really were true. I just didn't embrace them personally but I actually thought that they were true and I actually thought that at that time that I really was a Christian, I just wasn't practicing my faith. And so that's why when people would talk to me about Jesus Christ, I would just smile at them and say, yeah, yeah, I already know that. I already know that. And in my mind I did, but in terms of did I ever embrace Christ as my Lord and Savior? Was I born again? Was I going to heaven? I didn't have any assurance of salvation whatsoever because I had never done that. So there I am seated amongst the people when the invitation is given and the spirit of God who convicts of sin, righteousness and judgment is convicting me that I am not saved. And so when Arthur Blessed says, if you want to receive Christ as your Lord and Savior stand to your feet, I remember very well praying within myself just saying, God, I know I need to stand up. I know I need to get saved, but I'm shy. I can't stand in front of people, you know that. But if somebody would stand with me, I would. And no sooner had that phrase gone through my mind, if someone would stand with me, I would. Arthur Blessed says, perhaps you're afraid to stand, but if somebody were to stand with you, would you stand? And my friend George Adams tapped me on the shoulder and said to me, David, if you want to stand, I'll stand with you. And that's how I got saved. And I know that's a remarkable story to some because that's not how it happens for everybody. I mean, I was praying and saying, if someone with a very direct request of God, if someone were to stand with me, and immediately the words hadn't ceased being formed in my mind when Arthur Blessed speaks and says exactly what I had prayed, I knew God heard that prayer and that's why I stood up and gave my heart to Christ. And I have to tell you it was exciting. And then I went home and first I went across the street and I spoke to some people about the Lord. I just gave my heart to Christ. Then I went to my house and I walked into the den and mom and dad Madeline and Becky were there watching TV and I said, mom, dad, Becky, Madeline, I love you, praise the Lord. And I walk out and my mom freaks out, my two sisters begin to follow me and my mom goes to her room and does a rosary because she's afraid that I've lost my mind and my sister Madeline is speaking to me, what happened to you? And I said, I gave my heart to Christ tonight and I changed and Madeline goes home and she gives her heart to the Lord that night. She was the first person to ever come to faith in Christ to my testimony and within three weeks, I've led my mom and my dad to Christ. Within a couple of years, my brother Frank comes to faith in Christ and I'm teaching a home Bible study at my brother's house in Ontario. I'm driving from Norwalk to Ontario in 1974 and as I'm doing that to teach a Bible study, he starts inviting friends from work and a young woman named Marie shows up at this Bible study and she doesn't know the Lord but two weeks later, my sister Madeline leads this young woman to Christ and then Marie needs discipling so desperately, I begin to date her and later on we get married and I'm still discipling her to this day. My sister Rebecca spends 27 years in the lesbian lifestyle but she commits her heart to Christ to the power of the gospel of Jesus and she's been serving the Lord since 1998 and I see what God can do through the word of God and yes, I think it's worthy of an applause. God is great. And so you go through these things, right?  And so when Paul makes this powerful statement here and it is a powerful statement, the God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly, I say, well praise the Lord, 43 years, that means it's sooner now than it was before, right? You're gonna do that Lord and the answer is yes, he is, he will take care of that. We have spiritual warfare. We have had battles, you have had battles as a believer in Christ. When you got saved and you entered into faith in Christ and you heard that message and the joy of the Lord came upon you and all and you thought that every day would be just a great day and then you discovered that there can be some very strenuous times in life and all of that and you begin to cry out, God, how long? God, how long? He says shortly, shortly you will have the victory ultimately, he will be crushed. We have spiritual victory. We are assured of spiritual victory through Jesus Christ. It's like what John said in first John 2, 14 where he said, I have written to you fathers because you've known him who is from the beginning. I have written to you young men because you are strong. The word of God abides in you. You have overcome the wicked one. He goes on in chapter five of first John verse four and he says, whatever is born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. And so it's a faith battle. So you wake up in the morning, you make sure your spiritual armor is on. Your feet are shot with the preparation of the gospel of peace. So your loins are girded with truth. You have the breastplate of righteousness. You have the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God. And you go out into battle, that's what it's like. But we are assured of victory. We have overcome through Jesus Christ. We are the winners, we're on the winning side. And we have this victory, but we are awaiting the permanent victory over the Lord. At this time, over the enemy. At this time, he's not completely subdued, but the time where he will be subdued completely is not that far off. Now how do we battle against this? Well, he says in verse 20, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. In the face of false teachers and attacks from the enemy, God's grace sustains us. Again, Romans five, one and two, therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. We are sustained by the grace of God. That's why the Psalmists could say, for you have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears and my feet from falling. The Lord is with us and by his grace, he sustains us. Now, as he's speaking concerning this, he moves quickly into his conclusion with greetings from fellow workers. In verse 21, he says, Timothy, my fellow worker, Lucius, Jason, and Saspater, my kinsmen, greet you. I, Tertius, who wrote this epistle, greet you in the Lord. Gaius, my host and the host of the whole church, greet you. Erastus, the treasure of the city, greet you. And Cortis, a brother. So he begins to mention several names. We're not going to spend time with them. We know the name Timothy because Timothy is mentioned quite often in scripture. He was a young man who was born to a Jewish mother and had Jewish heritage and he was well-schooled in scripture, but his father was not a Jew. And so Paul had actually been instrumental in Timothy coming to faith in Christ and Timothy became his protege. He became a young man that Paul mentored and ultimately, we know Timothy, he's found throughout the New Testament. Timothy became the pastor of a church in Ephesus and he received first Timothy and second Timothy as letters instructing him concerning how to be a pastor in a church. So we have Timothy. We also have Lucius. This person here is relatively unknown. There are various people wondering concerning him. Some say that this may be a reference to Luke because Luke and Lucius are basically the same name. Others say that he was related to Paul. Some say he may have been from a place called Cyrene. Acts chapter 13 mentions one name Lucius, but nothing is clearly known about him. You have Jason in sauce butter. He refers to them as kinsmen, so they're relatives. If not relatives, then they may be kinsmen according to his Hebrew heritage. Then you have the person that actually wrote out Romans. His name was Tertius. Paul dictated this letter to him and he mentions himself. You have Gaius and Gaius is Paul's host and the church met in Gaius's home in the city of Corinth. You have Arastus, who is the city treasurer of Corinth. He was a prominent man, politician. And you have Quartus. He's simply a brother. It could be the brother of Arastus or he may be made in reference to a brother in Christ. And then in verse 24, you get a second benediction when he says the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all, amen. And then he finally closes by saying this. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ. According to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began but now has been made manifest. And by the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all nations according to the commandment of the everlasting God for obedience to the faith to God alone wise. Be glory through Jesus Christ forever, amen. Notice how he closes. He's blessing God who is able to establish us through his word. The word establish speaks of us being firm and stable in a mental sense. We're rooted and settled in other words in the truth of this message. This is where I want to get as practical as I can. If somebody were to say what do you think is a great concern right now in the church? If David Rosales, if you have a concern at all about the body of Christ, not just in the local fellowship that you pass or just in general, what is the most concerned thing that you have? What is the most concerning feeling you have? It would be very quick. I'd be very quick to be able to state it. It's that a lot of people don't really have a relationship with God through the scriptures. They don't know the Bible. They don't spend time in the word of God. They don't have a close walk with them. My great concern is that the average Christian doesn't have what is called a devotion. The average Christian doesn't get up in the morning and spend time at all in the word of God. That the average Christian, as I know them, the average Christian basically just thinks they're too busy that they've got other things to do. And the idea of waking up and actually personally spending time in prayer and worship and meditation on the word of God to actually pick up the Bible and read a chapter or two and to think about what was said there and to pray and say, God, how can I do that today? You've given me insight into what it means to be a believer. Well, the average believer just doesn't do that. The average believer as I see it is a person who has the right language who's able to say, well, I was born again. I gave my heart to Christ. I've been regenerated. I did so on a certain time in a certain place and I'm saved and I'm going to heaven. That's the average believer. But when you begin to ask the average believer, can you give me some scripture as to why you believe this? Why do you know that you're born again? Can you tell me how that happened? I'm sad to say that in the church in the United States, overwhelmingly there are people who are incapable of doing that because overwhelmingly they're not in the word of God. So that concerns me. How can a person really speak with knowledge about the Lord if they're not spending time with him? If they're not praying and if they're not fellowshiping with him in worship and if they're not reading the word, how can they really have a relationship with him? How can they really know him? You have to spend time with the person to get to know him. We know that, don't we? My wife and I have a good marriage. The first date we ever had, I picked her up at her apartment at 11 o'clock in the morning. We had a double date and we took off for the whole day and then get back until one o'clock. So for 13 hours, Marie and I talked. And that's what we've been doing now for all of these years is we have talked and talked and talked for many years. And so I've gotten to know my wife. I can tell you that one of the first Christmases, I don't think it was the very first, it may have been the second. I can tell you that I didn't really know what kind of gifts she liked. And so I went out to buy her some Christmas presents and I went to a swap meet and I bought her all kinds of things. I mean, oh man, you can get all kinds of things. I got all kinds of pants and I got tops and I mean, I was loaded up and I only had to spend a hundred bucks. Did you know that you could buy a gallon of perfume for just like five dollars? I mean, and so I was all excited and I came home and I wrapped them all up and put the bow on the whole nine yards and I threw them under the tree and then I waited and I waited for her to open up those presents and then one after another, I got this look from her like, what red pants? What green pants? And she looked at me, what? This leg is longer than that one. Oh, no wonder it was so cheap. So I learned something. I learned that I'm not going to go buy her anything. But I do buy her one thing. I'll buy her a purse every year because I know how to select that because I've learned and I'll take her and she can select anything within a reason that she would like and I'm with her and part of the gift is just being with her when she purchases. So she can have what she wants and all of that, I've learned that but I will give her one gift. And so I only go shopping once a year for Christmas presents for only one person. It's for my wife. And so Anna, my daughter and I last week before Christmas went to go buy Maria purse and we went into the store that I usually buy her purses in and we go walking into the store and I know exactly where they have them and off Anna and I go and I'm standing there and I'm looking at all of these purses and I finally look at this one and I say, I know your mama like that. Oh, your mama like that. And Anna says, no, dad, don't get it. I said, no, no, no, your mom, dad, no, dad, don't touch it. No, your mom will like that purse. Dad, don't get it. So I get the purse and I look at it. It's got this soft leather. I mean, it's so soft. I say, oh, she liked this. She liked this. Yeah, dad, but leave it alone. No, she liked this. And I open it up. It was a Burberry. Okay, somebody knows what that, I don't know what that is. Burberry sounds like something you put on your bread with butter, you know, Burberry. A $1048. And I said, Anna, you're right. She'll hate this purse. She would, she would hate this purse. She wouldn't want this purse.  I mean, she'd love that one. She could see her makeup and everything. $1048, are you kidding me? So we have to keep looking and we finally find one. And Anna is saying, I think mama would like this, daddy. And I said, well, I don't know. I don't think so. I don't, well, I don't think so, Anna. No, I think she'd like this, daddy. Look, it's got this, I said, yeah, I know, but I know your mama likes certain things. And I don't, she'd like, Anna, it has tassels on it. And mama's not into tassels. And she goes, oh no, dad, it's the latest. You know, these tassels, they're cool. I said, yeah, I don't, no, I don't, oh, dad, you know, why not? I said, look, Anna, I said, okay, baby. I said, I want to get mama purse. And I said, everything else seems to work. It looks like it would work, except for those tassels. I'm telling you, mama doesn't like tassels. Oh, it's okay, it's the newest thing.  And I'm, yeah, okay.  And then I have the purse comes in this box and it has this little case that you put over it. So I take the purse out of the case and my son, David, had left some old tennis shoes in the house, so I put one of the shoes inside where the purse would go and wrapped it back up and gave it to mama for Christmas. So everybody's gifts have been open and we're seated there when I come on. I do this every year. She knows just wait, dad's going to get me a purse. And I come walking out with the box and she looks at me like, yeah, I knew.  What's this?  And then I laugh, ha, ha, ha. But after that's over, I handle the purse and that face is a face I remember some red pants from the swap meet. I knew it, I knew it. Oh, honey, thank you. I say, you don't like it. No, it's fine, fine, fine. That's not good. Fine, it's fine. No, it's not. Baby, you can take it back if you want. No, no, no, it's okay. Okay, fine, those are not good words. That's not, I love it. Oh, this is the best. No, it's just okay and fine. So I said, all right, look it. You can have it in, no, no, it's okay, okay, all right. Three or four hours later, which is the way it works with us, you don't really like that purse, do you? Well, the tassels, the tassels. I said, tassels are cool if you're a cowboy, right? But on a purse, no, no, I don't think so. She goes, yeah, she goes, I said, well, maybe, she says, maybe we can untie it. And I said, that's fine. So the whole point of that is this. Yeah, I bought her a purse and yeah, I knew she wouldn't like it and all of that. But how did I know she wouldn't necessarily like this? Spending time, getting to know her. Walking with her and seeing her eyes light up when she sees something that she likes. My mom, when I was growing up, could speak to me without a word.  They'd look at you with a look and you knew death is on the doorstep or you just know, it's that look. And when my mom and I used to talk, there were times when my mom wanted to distract my attention from her so that I could look at something else. And you know what she would do, the same thing that many of you experienced and perhaps do also. My mom would keep her face looking at me, but with her eyes, she'd look someplace else. So I knew I'm supposed to follow her gaze to see what she's looking at because she's directing my attention without calling attention to the fact that she's directing my attention somewhere.  I learned that a long time ago, all that means is this, if you're looking into the face of the Lord through his word, then whatever he's looking at, he will direct you to see the same thing. I learned that in a practical way by having a mom who would direct me with her looks or their gaze. Even if her face was facing me, her eyes were looking somewhere else and I knew she wanted me to see something other than her. And I learned this a long time ago that when you study the word of God, you actually get to see what God is looking at. And that's how you learn what is pleasing to him. I can all day long give him red pants and a purse with tassels and he didn't want them. He doesn't want them. Those are my good works. Those are my attempts. Those are my best efforts. But I'm not looking at what he's looking at. I'm not knowing his heart. And the way I get to know his heart is by being in his word. By being in his word. By reading it and saying, oh, he likes this and he doesn't like that. He wants this and he doesn't want that. That's how I learn. And I have learned how to love my wife and learning how to love my wife by fellowship with her and hearing what she has to say. Every husband in this room who has a good marriage knows exactly what I'm saying. It's not a sign of weakness for me to wanna please my wife. It's a love I have for her as long as this pleasing is within the framework of what is acceptable to the Lord. And that's how we do what we do. But how am I gonna know what my wife likes if I don't spend time with her? The Bible says, Peter said it this way, his husbands dwell with your wife according to knowledge. Make a study of your wife and you'll know the things that she's pleased with and the things she's not pleased with. Study her, spend a lifetime learning her. That's what we husbands do. Well, how am I gonna know what God likes or doesn't like if I don't spend time with him? How's that gonna happen? He equips me to do the things he likes by his word and by his spirit. I can get myself all emotional and try and do things in my own flesh and it doesn't work. I was watching the, I didn't watch the whole game. I never have. It was an SC game. I don't do that. It's kind of like a sin for me. But I know I have SC friends. Anyway, they were playing Fresno State. How many of you saw that game? So I know if I'm reaching anybody, okay. I'll talk to you, bro, okay. The Fresno State captain was getting all excited, right? Hey, we're gonna show respect. They're gonna learn, yah, yah, yah, yah, yah, and he's running around slapping hands. I love you guys. I love you guys, right? Yeah? Then they go get smeared by SC. They got wiped out, you know? And I was busing up. You can exhort people all day long, but if you don't equip them to win, they're gonna lose. I don't care how much you scream at them and yell at them and excite them. Yah, yah, yah, we're gonna go out. Yah, yah, yah, yah, yah. They're all beat up. They come out and stretchers at the end. Exhortation is kind of like that. I can stand up here all day long and say we need to do this and let's go do this and we got to do this and God can do this, but if we're not together on this, if we don't have the power of the spirit and the word of God with us, guiding and strengthening us, then you're gonna go out there going yah, and you're gonna just get all wiped out because the enemy's after you. But when we're united in the word and we're united in prayer and we're united in heart and we have proper doctrine, the exhortation isn't falling on deaf ears. It's actually equipping, encouraging people to do what God says we can do. But where does that come from? That comes from the word of God. And so Paul is making it clear, you are established in the gospel. You have taken this gospel, not only to your own heart, but you have taken it throughout the world, preaching this message of salvation. That's what he's talking about and that's why he's giving praise to God. Again, verse 25, to him who is able to establish you, according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which was kept secret since the world began, but now has been made manifest. And by the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all nations, according to the commandment of the everlasting God for obedience to the faith. So he's speaking concerning the fact that the Romans did not have a relationship with God because the Romans were Gentiles by and large. God had relationship with the nation of Israel but he welcomed the Gentile world in which was called a mystery in the book of Ephesians. The Gentile world in because the Gentiles, non Jews had no relationship with God. They were without God in the world and lost. But through the gospel, the Romans heard the message were brought into the family of God and this message that reached from Jerusalem to Rome is also to go throughout the whole world. And that's what were to be established on God's word. And so because that is true and this mystery has been revealed, the Romans are now in Christ and one with the Jews as believers in God through Jesus Christ through the preaching of the gospel they have now become heirs of God's promises. And for that he says in verse 27 to God alone wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever. Through Jesus Christ God revealed his great grace as well as his deep wisdom. It is this wise mind that divides such a tremendous plan for redemption and we praise God for it through these prophetic scriptures. That were written hundreds of years before the fact before Christ was born, these prophetic scriptures. I was mentioning and I'll close with this these prophetic scriptures that one of the things that helps us to understand the power of the word of God is a word of prophecy. And I was mentioning how that there was a particular professor. He's a professor emeritus from Westmont College, Peter Stoner. And that to illustrate the amazing prophetic element of scripture, he had mentioned that that there were some 456 prophecies related to Messiah. But he said, what are the chances of somebody fulfilling just eight of those prophecies? And so he had a class. They actually had many students who worked on this. These are people who worked in statistics. Then he presented his findings to a particular organization that is able to review the findings and to say where the errors are. And they said that his findings were correct. But he said the chances of one man fulfilling just eight of the prophecies that related to Messiah would be equivalent to a 10 with 17 zeros after it. To illustrate what that means, 10 to the 17th power, he said it would be equivalent to the entire state of Texas. Being, the entire state being filled two feet deep with silver dollars. The entire state, two feet deep with silver dollars. And somebody has especially marked silver dollar. And they go over Texas and wherever they feel like it, they release it. They just throw this marked silver dollar out. Then all of those silver dollars have to be stirred up till the one that was marked is hidden somewhere in the two feet deep silver dollars through the entire state of Texas.  And wherever he stops and reaches down into a pile of silver dollars and pulls it out, that is equivalent to 10 to the 17th power. The chances of one man fulfilling only eight of those prophecies, 10 to the 17th power. In other words, Jesus Christ, who fulfilled over eight, over 300 specific prophecies. It is incalculable that one man should have been able to do that, and yet he did. So when Paul is speaking here and he speaks concerning the prophetic scriptures, those are the scriptures we hold fast to. The word of God, because the word of God is God simply revealing to us what he already knows. That's prophecy. He's just letting you know what he already knows because God knows all things from the beginning to the end and all things in between.  And so these scriptures that prophesied Messiah to come are the same scriptures that we take to people to say he has come and he's coming again. And in order for you to know the Lord, it will come through you knowing his word as God speaks to you about who he is, he can draw you to himself. And that's the message that had reached out from Jerusalem, went to Rome and from Rome was still spreading to eventually one day it reached the United States. And we have been blessed and fortunate enough to embrace this same message that began 2000 years ago. A message that was given to us in the book of Romans.


Wait, who are you gonna ult in a line? Uh-oh. Boop, boop, boop, boop. I guess we needed a breather, bro. It was a fun time at Frankentons. It could be the last time it's ever here. So I guess we could have been the last people here. So, bye. Man, the soda was good. Let's go, baby. We're back. We're back. Not these guys. Not these guys.  You know, we should really do a series. What should it be about? I don't know. Maybe if we, like, sold things to one another. Or, or... we try to buy things before the other person. Smarter. Smarter. By bidding each other up. And then we duel afterwards. Oh, that sounds good. Cut out the duel part. I think it'd be fun. We're out here cracking packs early. And Cohen. Alright, we're starting it off hot. With the Starlight Rare. Where's the Maven's at? Oh, it's up to you, man. Are you feeling it or not? We'll just slow roll it. No pack tricks. Okay, okay, okay. We'll see if that works. Okay, is it gonna work? Is it gonna work? It's a bird. It's a blackbird, you know. Not bad, not bad. Alright, alright, nice. Nice looking good. Looking good. Neutrious. Cure elements. You're saving it for the end, right? Yeah. Saving it for the end? Okay, cool. Don't mend it. No, that's what'll make it appear. Yeah, okay, okay. More birds. More birds. You trying to play birds? Maybe. He's got a full roll there. Maybe. Alright, alright. Nice. Forces. Alright. Okay, okay, okay. Another super. You're supered up right now. Big super. Lots of super. Very super. Okay, we gotta turn this around. This is the time. All it takes is one, man. All it takes is one. And is this the one? No, you got shafted on the supers. That's alright though. Still got the coin. Say, oh yeah, let's see the coin. What'd you get? How many different coins are there? Only one way to find out. I don't know if this is the way, though. Oh, I'm doing that. Oh, that's pretty dope. He decided to go first. Big mistake. Look at this hand. Hey, Sean. What? How does it feel to lose a judgment dragon? It feels great, but you know, in what feels greater? This nice little nameshifted apo. That's a good way to change the subject, but judgment dragon was pretty clutched. This is neat. It is very neat. So his answer is he didn't like it. Wow. Pretty cool. Pretty cool. Here again. Let's go and get the counter on there. Day two. I barely did any videoing day one, so we're gonna make up for it today. Wealing and dealing. Exactly. Oh. About to do because everyone's playing, so I'm just gonna figure it out. I think Jobber is gonna be around to open a blue ice tin with soon, so we're probably gonna do that. But who knows? I'm gonna go check out the vendors, I think. Let's go see what they have. I'm gonna watch a mad season here. Really? All eyes are fully undrived in here. Nice. All right. I guess we're gonna do it. We're gonna sign this car.  Dying the card for Caleb. We've got young duelists coming up. It's looking good. Thanks, Caleb. Thank you. We just had Edwin come up and give us this. Epic try, buddy. Rocks nine tails. You want to be in it? All right. He wasn't so sure, but now he is. He saw it going. Now he wants to. Thank you very much, man. This is a cool card. Look at these bad boys. Well, girls, sheep, stuff. There's a bunch of different stuff in here. We got a lot of different field centers. It's nice. So you just do these custom and you just make them whatever you like or whatever. Any kind of designs on either like tokens or field centers, you know, people request some stuff. Yeah. I'm just gonna play, you know, Sword Soul and Adventure Tokens were really, really popular, so I made some designs for that. That's cool. Is there somewhere they can check you out? Yeah, we're on Lazy Day Tee on Instagram and then also on Etsy as well. All right. Go check them out if you guys think these look cool. There's even more in here. This pot of greed. There's a bunch of cool stuff in here. So if you want to get into it, go check them out on Instagram. We just picked up a Collector Rare first edition Tomb Chaos. Chaos Emperor Dragon. Sermon King. Hi. What's up, Sermon King? What's up? Made an epic deal. Very nice. Very cool. Maybe try and grade this thing. You wanted us to try and grade it, so we might try that. Let's try it. Let's try it. Tunnels. All right, let's do it. Three packs, three star lights. Let's do it. I'm feeling greedy today. Let's get the packs before we get four star lights per pack. Let's get 12 star lights. That was a rough opening. Embarrassing. That's all right. No pressure. What's the secret? How many cards? You have four from the back. All right. Yeah, just don't mess it up and put the star light at the front. No rucks, especially. Yeah, dude, no rucks. I've seen you do that. I've done it many, many times. What we got? What we got? Here it comes. Next. Come on. No, it's a dud. It's a dud. It's okay. That's all right. You know, it was greedy asking for three. Two, two, three. Look, if there's four in one pack, we're not going to be mad. Yeah, I mean, we'll break even. We'll break even. Yeah, we'll do okay if we do that. Oh, puffin. Prediction princess. Actually, I really like that deck. You've got to believe. Ooh. All right. This was an ultra. Ultra is an ultra. Not the right one. Not the right one. It's still an ultra. You're leading up. It's super ultra secret. Four star lights. Okay, I was like, I don't want secret. I want to skip that step. Yeah, I mean, I'll take a secret. And here it comes. The build up. It's time. Skip into the end. Oh, hey, two ultras. Two ultras. Two ultras. Hey, two out of three, though. That's all right. We have found a decent binder here. What's up, y'all? Spank's TCG here. Spank's TCG. Follow me for some content. Check him out. Because he has a couple of decent cards in here. Not many, but a couple. Yeah.  That's some cool stuff. Small stuff. Small stuff. Yeah, a little bulk, yeah. Best bulk of all time, you know. It's always nice when one of these comes by.  And you're like, oh yeah, this is what we're talking about. Look, the forbidden Yu-Gi-Oh card. There it is. We're making a trade. Oh, is that the Starlight Blackwing Dragon? You get the pixel there? We may or may not have not pulled it. Okay. No, I pulled this. No, you pulled it. I did it. I certainly did. Okay, we've got to change our, we're going to trade in one of those for this bad boy. Yeah. So we're picking up another Starlight today. That's amazing. You got anything you want to say? Uh, hi? We out here day three. Day three. We're not even going to the event. No, that's how you know it's going to be a good day. Frank and Sons, here we go. Just walking around. This random guy, right? Yeah, this weird accent dude. Where is he from? Yeah. The Netherlands. What? That's so weird. Who are you again? I'm Maxine. Oh, you're the guy who reacted to the Pawn Stars episode. Yeah. And you did that too. Yeah, today. What a copycat. Oh, man. No. What have I done? Oh, yeah. So you might be seeing a little bit more of this. You might be seeing a little bit more of this. You might be seeing a little bit more of this. Oh, yeah. So you might be seeing a little bit more of Maxine in another video. So keep an eye out for it. Go check out his channel as well. Thank you. Love you. Time for a B-roll. Always time. My vlogs are like 50% B-roll anyway. Would you be my B-roll? I would love to be your B-roll. I can be your B-roll. I can be your B-roll, baby. Trash B-roll? Oh, money B-roll?  Just like this really good B-roll. We literally have like every deck ever. The original is Georgia Dex. Literally insane. Oh, there's Jerry Klex too. Nice. Oh, look, Kyber. There he is. I'm sorry, Kyber. Forgot you, baby. The giant jar. Darth Maul. Jar Jar. A classic. Shout out to Jared Simpson for having terrible taste in movies. The last channel. Oh, it's the old one. I like didn't see it because it's like this. One of all the original starter decks. They got some open LOPs. And this is why. Insane. Just have DZ for now. Insane. You see this? You see all these packs? We just opened some of these. That was a weird set to open. I must have missed when Master Chief made it on the Wakers. This must have been a few years ago or something. Yeah, remember when he scored that amazing point? Yeah, that amazing point that he scored? Yeah, amazing points, you know. What did he kick that goal? We got into a little... We're not sure what year this structure that came out. So we're going to do a little game. What year do you think it was? I think 2004. I think it was 2005. So we're just going to see who's right. He's looking it up right now. I'm afraid you're right. Let's see. I don't know. It could be six. I don't know. It could be six, maybe. 2005. Was it January? January. Let's go. We barely squeaked it out. 2005 in January. Very nice. Look, the thick Charizard. Not real. What are you talking about? That is the realest thing I've seen. First edition. Certified. First edition. Come on. Sean. Hello. What's going on over there? Well, Roxxon fans. I've seen to spend a lot of money. How much longer until we can't even see you anymore?  Two minutes and 36 seconds. All right. We'll time you on that one. All right. Great. Who are you going to alter the line? Boop, boop, boop, boop. What? This is going to be a great title and thumbnail. That's all I could tell you. No, you need this. This is for the clickbait part. We want the Frankenzons. We want the Frankenzons. Ew. What? What just happened? Whoa. Whoa. I guess we needed a breather, bro. It was a fun time at Frankenzons. It could be the last time it's ever here. I guess we could have been the last people here. Bye.


Terima kasih kerana menonton. Semuanya semuanya kembali. Mungkin saya boleh mulakan sekarang. Nama saya Eric, atau Gao Xiang. Saya seorang penerbangan makanan. Pada hari ini, saya akan bercakap tentang logi api. Tapi saya akan modulasi logi sebagai permainan. Sebelum saya mulakan, saya dapat tahu... sesiapa yang bermain permainan ini? Baki Oha? sesiapa? Super Mario? Ya, jadi sesuatu yang sama. Tapi berdua berdua berada di platform NES. Tapi ini adalah satu permainan yang paling susah dalam permainan itu. Jadi permainan terlihat seperti ini. Sebenarnya, Rebid cuba menyelamatkan teman-teman dia. Jadi modulasi ini tentang logi. Jadi pertama, saya juga mahu tanya... berapa banyak penerbangan javascript? Bagus, banyak. Python? Ia masih ada sesuatu. Golong? Java? Okey. Jadi saya akan menyebabkan semua itu nanti. Semoga anda dapat menemukan sesuatu nanti. Bagaimana dengan logi? Saya cuba menyebabkan lagi. Berapa banyak penerbangan javascript pada aplikasi anda? Okey. Berapa banyak penerbangan javascript? Semuanya. Semuanya? Semuanya? Jadi logi adalah sebuah... pertanyaan yang menarik dan pertanyaan yang susah. Kerana... ada banyak penerbangan javascript. Dan logi dapat menjadi... menerbangan atau menerbangan. Dan... bagaimana anda boleh melakukan logi. Mungkin dalam bank anda mahu melakukan logi. Jadi... kebanyakan masa anda perlu memutuskan... apa yang anda mahu melakukan logi. Dan dalam kes api, seperti... bagaimana kita bercakap tentang api web, anda boleh mahu melakukan logi tentang kebanyakan anda. Jika anda menghubungi database, anda boleh mahu melakukan logi tentang... bagaimana kebanyakan anda? Dan... juga kebebasan anda. Jika... apabila salah berlaku, keadaan produsional anda boleh menggunakan logi... untuk membantu anda menerbangan kebanyakan. Dan untuk penerbangan, tentu saja... logi adalah untuk anda menerbangan kebanyakan. Saya rasa... pada masa terakhir, mereka telah menunjukkan... bagaimana anda melakukan logi... dengan reak natif juga. Jadi, mari kita mulakan permainan. Jadi permainan sebenarnya... mempunyai seleksi stage. Ia mempunyai 4 stage, yang adalah screen... green planet, bright planet, blue dan yellow. Dan kemudian, kami akan menerbangan penerbangan. Seperti yang saya mempunyai kepada anda, kami akan memasukkan... bahan seperti... stage. The first stage is JavaScript. But of course, there is no like... which one is easier, which one is harder, it's just mapping. And then the right will be Python. And the blue one will be Golang. And then the yellow one will be GVM. So for each of the top, my goal is... each of the part, my goal is to create a simple... web application. Just have two endpoints. One is... receiving the request, and then return a text. The second one is to return an error. So it's very simple, but along the way, what we want to learn is to... how to use the best practice of vlogging. So let's go to JavaScript first. So JavaScript, as we know, it has two parts. The first part will be browser environment, like here. So basically, I can just open my Chrome debugger. And then... in the console, I can just... just tap in anything, and then it will log for me. This is very simple, because in most of the browser, you already have your console API. And with the console API, you can log a lot of things, not even just text. It can also be a picture. So this can help the front-end developer. I'm sure it will be a good tool for front-end developer, right? And another best thing is if you're using Aglify, and then all the log information will be removed during the Aglify process. So this is very helpful. Another environment is the server environment. So nowadays, most of the developer will use Node.js, and there is also a console. But if you check the difference, there are some methods are missing, but both of them have the info, error, or log method, which is for you to output to... In the browser environment, you will output to your console. In the Node.js environment, you will output to your standard output. And most of the time, you may not only want to output to your standard output. You may want to output to, let's say, a file. And you may want to have multiple output destination. So you may want to use a framework. So in this case, I will choose a framework called vision. And then let's see how does it work. Just a moment. So, the code is on the GitHub and then now I'm starting a Node.js server. For most of the guys, you just run yum.start. Now I'm starting a express server. So let's try to call the tool endpoint I mentioned just now. As you can see, you return me a string here, which is spiky, the robot. This is one of the game corrector inside the game, which is saved after you complete the green planet. There is another one, which is error. Sorry, wrong one. So you will return you error here and if you notice the static code is 500. And let's go back to the server. As you can see here, it has output two of the logging. In this case, I'm just creating two information. One is ID, which is a UUID. So most of the time you may want to have an ID for what you are logging as a reference. And later, when I'm describing the boss, which is the diaper, you will use the ID as a tracing point when you are doing distributed logging. Now I stop the server. And as you can see, there is a log file. And the same thing is logged to the file. So how do we achieve that? The server is very simple. Most of you, I think if you have done Express, this is very familiar with you. But if you notice here, I have a logger, which I have two transport, which is like two output destination. One is to the console, one is to the file. In this case, if I'm getting from the green endpoint, then I will do an info log. If it's error, I will do an error log. So in this case, you can also use the console log which will direct to the standard output. But if you check back the log, the information log is the original information I put in and the level of the log and together the time span. But unfortunately, there is no line number here. So for me, I haven't figured out the way for JavaScript. So if anyone know, please let me know as well. So far so good, right? You can understand, right? So this is very simple. What we have learned, console.log is universal. You can use it on the browser. You can use it as the backend as well. So now we have saved the first corrector, which is a robot. Let's move on to Python. So for Python developers, you will know logging as the standard package, right? And you really want for this package, it's powerful than the JavaScript one because you can do more formatting and you have actually you have more control over it. So in this case, in this case, I create a flask server and then we can do the same thing. Let's switch to the curve. As you can see, the same output has written. This time is that i, which is the dot, the second corrector we are rescuing. So now it's the error page. Same thing, you will output to the console output. There is also a file which contains the same information. So at here beside the logging level plus the information we have added, it also has the line information. This is very helpful for you to debug your application. The server is also very simple. If you know flux, this will be very familiar with you as well. One thing to notice maybe there is a log format which will help you to define your logging information. And another thing I have noticed is that for the handler and the logger because flux itself has the logger you must set both of the level or else it will not log your information to your file. So now we have see another corrector what we have learnt the standard logging package is very good for Python at least compared to JavaScript I think. Ya. So Golang, just now who was the Golang developer? Cool. So does Golang itself standard has a logging framework but it's not very useful, right? Because it doesn't have the level and it doesn't have the other useful information as the others, right? I think Google has come out with this Google Go log, right? Ya. Ya, ya, ya. Ya, ya, ya. Correct, correct. So in this case I'm doing the same thing but I'm choosing the Google Golang logging framework. So let's say how it goes. So the server has studied as well. Let's do the same thing. Now we have saved Jenny, the cat. This is the error. Let's go back to the console. In this in this case the log is not redirect to the standard output. I'm not sure how the Golang framework can doing that because I'm just using the default information maybe some other can help me. So in this case how the Google Golang framework does is for each level of the information it create a file. In this case both your information log and error log will go to your information log file. In this case it also has the timing and your line number plus additional information you want to have here. So how did we achieve that? This will be very familiar to you as well. Basically we are studying a server. We have two handlers. One is the blue handler. One is the error handler. One thing to note here maybe is the Golang. The flush because if you don't flush it doesn't help you to push your logging information to the file. So now we have saved our third friend which is the cat. Actually there is a good blog here. The guy has talked about what is important to log and how the goal logging framework has been becoming better and better. So basically the idea is logging is very important but logging is very hard. Last Java developers. So how many logging frameworks do you think Java has? Anyone still using you tell the logging? Okay. So I'm not going to start over so I will not see which one is the favorite. But I think I'm actually coming from Java world. One of the best thing I can see from here is that the XML configuration because for previous ones most of the time when you want to change your logging to different location or different level you need to change your code. In this case just one XML that means I don't need to change my code. Just by changing the configuration in the logging configuration I can change what I want to log and where I want to log to. And also the level I want to start logging. But one problem I have fun during my personal use is you can only set one file to be logged to. It's very hard for you to like have different level to different files. Yeah. If anyone has found a solution to that please let me know as well. Yes. Yes. But yeah you can have same level different files but I want have different level for different files. Yeah. Yeah. It should be. The concept is that actually the XML level depending on different libraries there are different locus the locus the filter Yeah. Correct. The concept of different locus is that different. Yeah. Correct. That's come to my other question because most of the best practice is you want to have per class per logger. Right. For Java you really I think the standard is you have a private logger equal to your new class logger. Right. But like for some of the framework they already create a default logger for you and my personal how do I say my personal preference will be I will only have one logger helper class rather than each time. Maybe that's the reason the solution So in this case I choose play framework the Java version as an example it needs some loading because it's just compiling and then it's the same thing this time we save really and same thing the 500 status and the error So at here the console also output application In this case Java framework it doesn't only output the logger level and the line number and all that it also help you to log which track is actually using it's actually using in this case So we are using logback in this case this will be the example configuration Yeah So again we have save another team mates So now we have save all of our team mates let's face the boss which is how many of you familiar with diaper So basically it's a distributed logging framework from Google actually it's a paper the link is down step here this is one of the picture from the paper the key idea is just now when we are doing logging we are actually logging from one system but a lot of time like nowadays you are talking about micro services you will have multiple sub applications and there will be dependency from one application to another application So how do you find the linkage between when you are doing a REST call from one application to another one So one of the solution they have come out is with diaper the key idea will be I'm not really a good paper explainer but the key idea is you will have root span R3 basically it model the whole thing as a R3 and then each time you create a new request you will have a tracing ID and then you will append the ID the information as metadata to the next request so that the next request also have the information and then from the UI point of view you will view something like this which means this may be a whole request and then one of the small bar will be another sub request to another system So in this case you will have a lot of information to linkage where you have filled which system has filled rather than debugging individual information each individual system so this is very helpful and because stepper is from Google is not open source a lot of people are doing open source based on the paper so one of the one is from Twitter it's called Dampin and I think nowadays most of people will use this open tracing so I will do a simple example of open tracing so the example is not written by me but the idea is that we have web application actually has 3 end point the first end point is the entry point and then it will call one more another URL on the same server but because it's just as a simulation you can assume this one is calling to another system as well so I will just show you the demo first so basically the open tracing actually has 3 main component the first one is stepper which is the receiver of all your logging information and this is app dash which is for UI display because you want to know like just now the fancy UI you want to see and then for your code you will need to add some code to add the span and tracing ID so let's see this is an example app basically when you click this it's trying to call another end point and then you will try to call another end point so the result will be sorry will trace so this is the trace so basically as you can see just now it's calling dash home and dash home it will call service and then service will call async end point in this case home is the root and the service is actually waiting the home is waiting for service to finish but service will call async but async it doesn't wait until async finish so in this case it's a hierarchy of home is the parent of service service is parent of async but async the service doesn't need to wait until async finish so this but now this is only one application you can imagine if it's in a distributed system this can be very useful for you yep so that will be the open tracing which is quite easy set up as well you just need it has support for many languages let me open the it has support for at least all the languages I have mentioned just now Go, JavaScript, Java, Python Object C and C++ so this will be a good use case for you if you are building a micro service application so that will be the end of my talk any questions at least we beat the boss right ya, sure so how does open tracing is compared to Open ZMP or other distributed tracing sure the question is how is Open Tracing compared to other the other framework I have mentioned now if you notice here actually Open Tracing is using ZMP which is the other one I mentioned from Twitter because ZMP is actually you can see as a database or backend of the whole part the Open Tracing is a whole framework which contains of this and together with just now the UI which is called AppDash ya and plus the SDK or libraries you will use in your application ya any other questions or anyone want to right another language ya, sure so in your opinion which language is the easiest to do logging interesting that will be a tough question I'm like just now I have shared for single assistant because I'm coming from the Java and the XML logging is quite I will say quite standard and quite useful because you don't need to change code that is one of the best things you want to do so I will say maybe Java logging and it has a lot of options for you to choose from as well ya so if there is normal question I think that's the end of the day there are some links I will share the links and my code on the GitHub as well little after the so this this will be the GitHub link so I've only today there is only one speaker and that's the end so we are still looking for speakers but given the situation we might want to consider host the meet up as like two months every two months rather than every month until we get enough speakers so that ya so if you want to speak please send me an email or send me a meet up message and again thanks for DBS for providing food and venue for us ya so that's all ya thank you


Okay, very good morning. It is Friday 21st of February. So I hope everyone is well and I've got good news for you Sam is back and gonna be back on the microphone So I will stick to myself just going over the news headlines in general Fundamental view for the session ahead and then I will have Sam come on and he can look at some of the The charts more technically for this morning, but as per usual, let's just take a look at the general vibe at The European UK open sentiment a little bit dented from overnight obviously we had A bit of a downtick in US equities yesterday at around the European cash close kind of time Some people have just been talking to the the analyst desk about that and they were talking about some suggestion of rotation plays Few different reasons going around obviously the virus a bit of retracement consolidation given the push-up We've had this week in inequities. So not one specific kind of headline bumping things down But as I'm going to discuss I do think it's going to be quite an interesting end to the week For for kind of two reasons and I'll get into that in more detail But as you can see there gold remains elevated given the kind of gradual grind lower in Equity index future seen over nights and the DAX is already accession lows down over a hundred this morning And gold continues that acceleration and so we're trading up at around the R2 already this morning up at around 1638 I know people thought I was going slightly bonkers yesterday looking on the monthly charts back looking at 1650 1700 but you know, this is what I mean It doesn't gold is an asset that's very unique in a way and once there starts to become this Kind of flight to quality bid there's kind of no stopping it particularly when you know It's multi-year highs in which we'd be trading so the US 10 years already up 11 and a half ticks and that's a pretty impressive move for this time in the morning, so the T-note following suit and probably now going to find if anything a little bit of a floor of support around that R1 Did act very early in the European entrance as a bit of resistance But we've managed to just break above there as a little bit more weight has come in through the cash equity open here in mainland Europe FX markets not quite as busy as some of those other assets, but dollar index currently flat Obviously the euro's still hovering around that key 108 level and cable There's some key data coming out and the s1 does coincide here exactly to the tick with that the bottom end of that downward move that we had Yesterday afternoon to it. Well, let me that's the S&P. Excuse me. Let me just quickly shift over this chart Just I'm talking about the right product So with cable Yeah, we're just going to keep an eye on the low That kind of double-bottom from yesterday late morning early afternoon low that we had if we were to push through down through pivot Obviously data points coming out thick and fast throughout the morning will be quite key to whether or not that materializes so Quick look at then at the headlines because there is economic data of importance coming out throughout this morning And that is the flash February service and manufacturing PMIs the French numbers coming out in about 10 minutes Germany at 8 30 these will be potentially market moving. So We'll try and wrap that into this briefing But this is the truck kind of headline you're seeing this morning And I would say this is a little bit of a shift towards the point of it becoming a little bit more of a rethink for markets Particularly as we've said at these elevated levels and equities This is because now people are looking at the rate of how the Epidemic is spreading and multiplying outside of mainland China now if we just have a look here at the the kind of The live monitor by the John Johns Hopkins Institute You can see then that at the moment numbers outside of China remain relatively small You can see the total number of cases here on the left hand side out of the 2247 deaths only 11 so far have occurred Outside of mainland China. So that number is very small the World Health Organization still says the situation is manageable But warns that if countries don't take the situation more seriously The spread will become a wider global threat and hence then a pandemic in terms of the classification So the thing that you've seen here is the first step towards that which is more confirmed cases happening in other Geographic regions particularly South Korea in Japan within that region And so this is the kind of next evolution of which I think markets could be a little bit dented from sentiment and certainly I think that's what's a part of this risk-off move we're seeing this morning, but actually for me I think this was a really interesting headline this came out Late yesterday and it was the US government Expects China to honor its commitments to buy more US goods under a trade deal signed by the two countries Despite the fast-growing coronavirus outbreak according to a senior US official now one of the things that I've been saying quite a lot over the last two weeks is that Actually, one of the reasons I think behind the calmness if you like in reaction to the virus has been almost a de-escalation of potential confrontation of what has and is still one of the biggest risks to markets Which is the ongoing US-China trade war the thought being that because of the significant impact economically the US might give China a little bit of breathing room about the exercising of the Agreement for buying of large purchasing of agricultural goods as part of their upfront commitment in that trade deal now Here I think this is a little bit more aggressive from the Americans. They're basically saying We don't care even though you're having this problem with the virus You need to now, you know back it up and fulfill your commitments as part of the agreement that you signed and for me That's that reignites perhaps then a little bit more pressure on the confrontation side and for me given where equities have been and I think we are ripe for a bit of a pullback and earlier this morning. I'm not sure if you follow me on Twitter It's my hand all there But you know my view for today is it could get quite interesting and it's already kind of shaping up in that way Certainly the US will really be when they come in whether or not it does materialize But could this be the straw that breaks the camels back in a way that not just a little bit more Change now towards the multiplication of other cases outside of mainland China But with the US remaining pretty assertive Which I think is also a little bit of a shift in that a different direction Are we ripe for a bit of a Pullback inequities and already we can see we've seen some of that in Asia The one thing then that this continues to represent is you know, it's just such a you know in a medium term positioning It's such a good asset to be exposed to I mean this again is what's really fueling this gold move Is that you know the only way is kind of To become negative if you like with these news stories Earning season has kind of passed, but you know whether it's all those things we talked about yesterday from geopolitical tensions to the trade war to the virus It's just a lot of risks and particularly when an equity market is at all time highs in those conditions It is ripe for a bit of a pullback and that all of those metrics are just supportive For a further bid tone in that flights of quality move for gold. So, you know, could we see 1650 today? Sure, we could you know probability of that happening. I think I'm going to say it's quite likely I wouldn't want to just sit here now and just want to hit the high here right on the r2 because the moves are already being fairly Prevalent, but I'd want to see really going into the us session when volumes pick up and we go through the comics open How do equity markets behave Today on on the nizy I think it's going to be quite key on whether or not that materializes or not But yeah going into the end of the week just going to be interesting and and obviously the data coming out over the course of The session is going to be quite key and that being then I mean this is gold Um, the last time we had such a big blip in gold You've got to go back to the middle eastern the iran situation at the beginning of the year Otherwise we're heading for the biggest weekly gains in august of last year But the pmi data is going to be really key this morning and I'll quickly shift over to that because You know manufacturing activity Particularly german in europe is going to be very important Why well obviously it's a real key component not only for the german economy But for the eurozone's general performance overall and how much is that? You know supply chain being impeded by the nature of The virus and we've seen this in obviously chinese manufacturing activity, but how much is that for Reverberating across all these other countries globally, particularly those those that are very much based on manufacturing Exportation of their goods so The french numbers coming up shortly I'll probably cover that and hand over the sam in the next minute or so so that's Definitely going to keep an eye on the service number is expected at 51.3 the french manufacturing at 50 spot 7 So keep an eye on the euro bund and the dax the german number at half past now the german figure This is what it looked like last time. We actually were fairly robust albeit still in heavy contraction as we have been for the last 11 months essentially The reading actually pointed to the 13th straight month of contraction in the manufacturing sector For germany last time out But if you actually look at the numbers for the german figure Manufacturing is expected to remain fairly suppressed 44.8 a range of 43.8 to 46 The service number still in expansion for the time being That then leads us on into the the uk figures We have had a really quite stellar Performance a lot of uk data on the back of the kind of election bounce if you like Manufacturing last time out came right on basically flatlining at 50 It was the strongest readings reading those since last april And if you look at the service number, I mean that was so impressive The last reading in uk services. PMI was the strongest pace of expansion since september of 2018 And obviously a lot of these were Kind of relief and the borris bump on the majority conservative election we had at the end of last year the question is How sustainable is that really huge pop that we had last time? That was at 53 spot 9 the expectation for today Is that that does tail off a little bit? But look at the range on the uk service PMI It's huge if you're used to looking at these PMI data sets that breadth of range is pretty big 51.9 at the low to 56 on the high very rare that you see that type of Kind of distribution if you like in the the surveyed estimates We get the same from the us and that's going to be key philly fed obviously smashed it out park yesterday But we're going to get the market manufacturing flash PMI the us at 245 French number just coming out.  That's a badly expected 51 spot 3 And comes it at 51 spot 9. It's above the expected at 51 So kicking it is that manufacturing has slipped into contractionary territory at 49 spot 7 But quite below the expected 50 spot 7 Yeah, so you can see the the nature of the euro quite jumpy there on that data But the german number Could be well could well be the dealmaker for some of the early morning direction so on those Numbers that have come out, you know the manufacturing as they said contraction animus on expectations 49.7 The service number though did beat expectations at 52.6 And remember the french composition of their economy is not the german Mold if you like So hence the reason why you've had this blip of volatility in the euro But no committed move because one offsets the other where it's a little bit more uniform in germany There's much more emphasis on manufacturing. So that figure coming out in about 14 minutes All right, sam give you the nod now to come over The final part from me on the calendar that I just wanted to cover off was there's quite a few speakers today all very much Centred around the federal reserve and all happening this afternoon So here you can see feds catplan Uh, and it's really kicking off after the open on the nizy feds brainard feds querida feds bostic all speaking So do make sure you have your calendars in front of you and you're aware of those those speeches as well And then finally one thing to look out for well two things to look out for on the weekend The group of 20 finance ministers and central bank chiefs are meeting in riyadh salvia rabia starting tomorrow And key on the agenda of course is what do they say about their thoughts on the impact of the coronavirus? At this point in time and what are their efforts both fiscally and monetarily to support the global economy and then second Keep an eye out for my macro menu. I will tweet that from my twitter account on my handle below as per usual on sunday All right back by popular demand. I'll hand you back to mr. North And I wish you a good session ahead. Thanks very much It's just very well from this data. We could see it Hello, and good morning. Happy friday. We'll have a quick look over The mark if you're just seeing I was just checking equities Globally at the moment and they're all coming to A level support how big that's going to be I think the time will will tell it's got a got a feeling that this could be a a decent day opportunities around To bring up the dow which you can just see Just coming down to 29 000 on the futures. Just bring the pivots on as well You've got the the dax as well Just found support You can see right on one of those lows here It's going to be relatively choppy but the low that we had back on the 13th Just bail tested that and you're getting a decent push already I think to the upside where could The next area of selling come in or where would the bears want to defend really the Low that we broke through this morning just above the s1. You can see Basically yesterday's low. We found a bit of support initially then came back through I mean Yes, if I put this on the five minute, you can see we're just coming into an area now where there was Some lows, but you've got the data coming out all through The next well 11 minutes and then 41 minutes away for the european ones Whenever you want to get too involved right here. I'm not I'm not too sure I think probably better waiting for yesterday's lows the s&p You can see not the biggest move this morning That's uh from the open still down 20 points or so not far away from it's low from yesterday as well So stocks moving lower in asian trade But that's really their first areas of support now Where you'd expect a bit of a bounce and if the selling is to continue That's probably going to happen a bit later on maybe let this data to come out as well euro stocks Similar to the dax coupon iron yesterday's low. We put this on the 15 minute You can see just above that s1 would be the area where if I want to get short That's where I'd Where I'd look to to get in from from there Elsewhere let's have a quick look over at gold You can see just finding a bit of resistance around that That r2 probably we're putting this on the weekly chart now On the futures just drag that to the right hand side and you can start to see some of these levels that We of course haven't been at for for quite some time now 16 19 traded on the on the futures on the weekly It's a very key level. I just mark up just a bit above here. You've got the Lows from 2012 december 16 25. I know obviously on the the futures you can see where we're through that But just on the weekly On the 16 minutes, so for about on the weekly you can see there's quite a lot of resistance around here So just be a bit careful. Maybe if I put it onto the daily chart Move it along. Yeah, it's going to be hard to really pick out these longer term levels, but on the weekly Um, you know, I'm just going to pop this into the chat just to say We're not too far away from reaching up to to these points 1700 of course is is what's been talked about, you know a lot This week can we reach it and it seems like it's on the way there I think it's going to be an interesting friday to see where You know do people want to obviously carry any of this risk over Onto the to the weekend and it might help go get that boost to 16 15 and beyond today But like and we're saying it's not okay for just getting ready to To to click on buy right now because of course it's on the r2 It's price, you know could easily just drift a bit lowered to be identifying Different areas of support and different strategies to get in And you can see if you mark up the low I mean the higher the day and then previous high at 16 34 You therefore now got a five buck range where you've got no interest in really getting into that trade whatsoever Moving over to the currencies euro. It's getting a bit of a spike on on that data. Of course been Okay, the german numbers coming out in eight minutes So let's wait and see what happens there the resistance level Friday uh first day evenings high just being tested around 108 80 Some nice opportunities to have got short yesterday on that r1 You can see drifted down basically then all the way to the that low of the day What an area of support this point is around 108 today yesterday Wednesday and tuesday It just can't get that daily close below if we do obviously just be aware of the completion of McCron's gap If you're bullish, I think you're really going to want to see price get above The higher we have from yesterday because at the moment it's it's pretty range bound It's bang in the middle of that range at the moment. I know yesterday. We had a decent spike higher in early trade once we broke out the The trend here you can just see Just roughly that trend there little pop through came back into an area of resistance and then let's drift it down Again probably would remove that trend channel now. It's just got a bit too choppy So opportunity wise I'd be looking for obviously this data to To come out do its thing and then re re-evaluate from there I do like the idea of if we can come back up towards 108 30 ones for an area of short or Really the continuation lower. I know it's been a choppy area on those low So I wouldn't have too many goes it if it doesn't work But at the moment you would just say it's range bound over the last two complete trading days and then today as well So can we get that short higher up potentially looking for something like that? But the data could obviously change things there the pound reaching Let's put this on the daily Another one of those loads. It's been a topsy-turvy Month or year should we say for for the pound you can see just been Pushing higher then coming lower then it's finally broken out this mini range And then we come down to test Almost to the lows that we had back in november unbelievably So a couple three days in a row to the downside. I mean that is the The area of support where I think if we just mark this up as a bit of a zone You're going to have a lot of potential buyers to come in on on the the idea that we're You know quite a way off then the the higher that we had from last year brexit talks Obviously march may start to just weigh on things before then But that could be a good value area to look for those longs Up to towards, you know, the one sort of 30 frees 34 areas again That's all and certainly what an area where I'll be looking at and if it does go below 128 and stays there Well, that idea is certainly wrong and we can look to to drift down relatively quickly You would say to around 126 the next sort of key level So the pound not saying anything like that is going to happen to date I think just the the little bounce we're we're having here I think you've got the r1 which looks quite nice with all of yesterday's Highs as well. I think that's a good area to to look for a potential short And above that I don't necessarily think we can get there, but I'd like the look of a 129 60 to the downside The lows that we had not too long ago from the morning Around sort of 128 90. It was also the initial low at a similar time Yesterday quite an important level line in the sand that if we were to get below there You may be a bit more comfortable about these shorts coming in. So just below the pivot I think you'd want to to see cleared if you get on trend line as well You can see that's more of an area now just from yesterday evening's lows. So below 128 90 I like the idea of a short and they are one I'll be looking for that as well Of course if these euro numbers are fantastic, it's going to drag the This pair higher as money comes out of the dollar probably all be a briefly oil yesterday Let's put this on the 240 because it's it's hit the target that the balls would have would have wanted yesterday Certainly medium term wise anyway. You've got those highs that we had back from the 26 and 29th helped Let me just put those pivots on helped by you know a break above 52 50 Also 51 held as a good layer of support But that's that push to that level now and and if we have these these virus fears really starting to pick up well Gold oil, you would say has got to come down. So I'm not completely confident I mean I was this time yesterday that we're going to go and go and 58 could come in and then suddenly the market Got a bit spooked yesterday. So if I'm looking to get long oil again, you know, I was I took took some off Just under well probably about by the time I got out around 54 14 would have been the equivalent on the futures I'll be looking to see what happens around 52 63 as an area But would I be buying today holding over the weekend? Probably not I think the the sentiment at the moment does seem a bit to the downside for for riskier Markets keeping on this trend line. I don't necessarily think that goes today But the the bears would get excited and be looking for for shorts towards the low of the year if that was Took on any questions as usual. Please do let us know I think it could have the potential to be a relatively interesting day, but If this week has shown people anything it's have your ideas and wait for them regardless if the market is is moving In an aggressive manner. I hope you'll have a good trading date and an even better weekend ahead


U.S. officials say the U.S. and British militaries bond more than a dozen sites used by the Iranian-backed Houthis. The military targets included air defense and coastal radar sites, drone and missile storage and launching locations. President Joe Biden says the strikes were meant to demonstrate that the U.S. and its allies will not tolerate the militant group's ceaseless attacks on the Red Sea. Associated Press Reporter Tara Kopp explains that the strikes on the Houthi targets marked the first U.S. military response to what has been a persistent campaign of drone and missile attacks on commercial ships since the start of the Israel-Hamas War. What's significant and concerning here is that this is yet another front. The U.S. has been gravely concerned that the conflict between Israel and Hamas will not only spill over into the north and Lebanon, but stretch farther into the south. And the strikes against Yemen have been an option for weeks, but one that the Biden administration has been reluctant to execute because it does open yet another door and further widen this war. The Cupset, the Houthis say they are attacking the commercial ships in protest to Israel's relentless bombing campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. And they say they won't stop until Israel's war campaign stops. However, they have not retaliated since the U.S. and U.K. joint strike, so far, the Houthis have not responded. They issued warnings last night that they would would threaten the ships that engaged in this attack but we have not yet seen an attack to date, either on the ships in the Red Sea, the commercial vessels, or on the U.S. military bases in Iraq and Syria, Cupset. In the early hours Friday over Yemen, U.S. and U.K. warships and aircraft launched a massive retaliatory strike against Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen in response to relentless attacks on commercial vessels that have been trying to train to the Red Sea. The U.S. and U.K. warplanes targeted more than 16 locations with 60 different targets. These targets were things like air defense systems and radars and munitions depots. The very things that have enabled the Houthis to create a lot of danger for the commercial vessels that are trying to train to the Red Sea and get through the Suez Canal. These attacks, which have been going on for almost two months at this point, have really significantly affected how commercial trade moves to the area. The Houthis say they are attacking the commercial ships in protest to Israel's relentless bombing campaign in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians. And they say they won't stop until Israel's war campaign stops. The Houthis are an Iranian-backed militant group that came into power in Yemen in 2014, overthrowing the government. In the years since, Saudi Arabia has been launching attacks on them in a massive civil war that has left hundreds of thousands of MPM in these starving, hungry, injured. It's just been a devastating civil war there. What's significant and concerning here is that this is yet another front. The US has been gravely concerned that the conflict between Israel and Hamas will not only spill over into the North and Lebanon, but stretch farther into the South. And the strikes against Yemen have been an option for weeks, but one that the Biden administration has been reluctant to execute because it does open yet another door and further widen this war. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer late last month, remains in the hospital and actually gave the order to conduct these strikes from his room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. So far, the Houthis have not responded. They issued warnings last night that they would, that they would threaten the ships that engaged in this attack, but we have not yet seen an attack to date either on the ships in the Red Sea, the commercial vessels, or on the US military bases in Iraq and Syria. And it's quite possible that a response could be, while not coordinated between these different Iranian-backed groups, they could all seize on the opportunity and increase attacks on the US military personnel who are based in Iraq and Syria and the ships are still transiting the Red Sea.


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