I'll begin at verse one, I'll read to verse five, and we're looking at what is called principles for giving, and you'll be seeing this as we go through this chapter. Second Corinthians chapter nine, beginning at verse one, reading to verse five, Paul writes, now concerning the ministry to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you, for I know your willingness about which I boast of you to the Macedonians, that a Kaia was ready a year ago, and your zeal has stirred up the majority, yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that as I said you may be ready, lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared, we not to mention you, should be ashamed of this confident boasting, therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time and to prepare your generous gift beforehand, which you had previously promised that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation. So what we have here in chapter nine is Paul returning to his encouragement for the Corinthians to give their offering. He's basically saying it's time for you to demonstrate your love for them. It's time for you to demonstrate your sincere care for your family in Christ, because you see that's what the Bible teaches us as believers to do, to sincerely care for others, and we are to meet the needs of those who have genuine and urgent needs. When Paul was writing to a pastor by the name of Titus in chapter three, verse eight, Paul said, this is a faithful saying, and these things I will that you affirm constantly, that those who have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable to men, and so Christians are to be known to maintain the good works, and part of the good works that we maintain is care for those in need. Now they've openly stated that they were going to help, and so Paul is simply saying it's time for you to do so, and he's instructing the church, and that's what we find here in chapter nine, a continuation of that theme that we have already looked at in chapter eight, and so he begins in verse one of chapter nine by writing, now concerning, notice the ministry, the ministry to the saints. Now he's used this phrase, ministering before. He said that in chapter eight, verse four, notice how he had said, imploring us with much urgency that we would receive the gift and the fellowship of the ministering to the saints. So he's already used that term ministering to the saints. He's speaking of the ministry. Ministering is a Greek word that speaks of serving, supporting, or of relieving, or bringing relief. So ministering to the saints is speaking of rendering financial aid to the church, the church was needy, and so that's what he's speaking about when he says that they're to be ministering to the saints. He's speaking of giving financial aid to those in need in the church. It was speaking of delivering a financial offering to the church in Jerusalem. Now often when we think of ministering to people, we think of praying for them, or teaching them, encouraging, exhorting them. We think of having conversation with them, guiding them, counseling them, and those are all practical aspects of ministering, and that's generally what we think about. We think about praying for them, we think about teaching them, and of course teaching them and praying for them, encouraging them, exhorting them, and counseling them. All of that is ministering, and we do that because we want to strengthen their spirits and we want to encourage them with hope, but we need to remember that ministry is not simply those things, it includes other things, and it includes the meeting of physical needs, because meeting somebody's physical need is also ministering. In James chapter 2, verses 15 through 17, James said, if a brother or sister is naked in destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what is a profit? Thus also, faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. It's one thing for me to say, be warmed and filled, may God be with you. It's another thing to practically meet the need, and you see that in scripture, both old and new. And so in their giving of their physical needs to the church in need, ministry is occurring, and they're carrying in a practical way. It's one of the ways that God's love is revealed to his children. In Galatians chapter 6, verse 10, Paul said to the churches of Galatia, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith. And so he's speaking, concerning meeting the needs of those who are needed in the church of Jerusalem. And as he's writing that, he says it again, verse one, concerning the ministry to the saints. He continues by saying this, it is superfluous for me to write to you. And when's the last time you use the word superfluous, except for right now? It's not one of the words that we use very often. It's a word we can use. It simply means unnecessary. It's unnecessary for me to say this or to any further than I am. I don't have to. It's superfluous. It's unnecessary to say this more plainly. And so I'm trying to be as plain as I can, basically, as what he's saying, because he goes on in verse two to say, for I know your willingness about which I boast of you to the Macedonians that Achaea was ready a year ago and your zeal has stirred up the majority. So notice with me, he speaks of Macedonia. He speaks of Achaea. Again, if you were looking at a map of Greece and you see that if you're looking at Greece, Greece actually has a southern section and a northern section. The southern section was called Achaea. And you would take the southern section and you would go up to what is called an isthmus.  And to the north would be called Macedonia. And that's basically what he's speaking about. He's speaking about a geographic location. He's talking about northern Greece. He's talking about southern Greece. I spend a month in Greece when I was 25 years old. I actually celebrated my 25th anniversary in Thessalonica when I was in Greece. And so I've been there at this isthmus. I've seen the ruins of Corinth and gone into Athens and all the rest of that. And so he's speaking concerning that. He's speaking concerning how he was boasting of the Corinthians to the Macedonians. And he had said to them in verse 2, Achaea, which is a southern region, Achaea was ready a year ago and your zeal has stirred up the majority. So he said, I was boasting of how you were ready to minister a year ago. And their desire to help had touched Paul deeply. And he had spoken of that to the Macedonians. Now earlier we had already seen that he had used the Macedonians as an example to them. But now he says that he has used them as an example to the Macedonians. He said in verse 2, your zeal has stirred up the majority. You've had the effect on them of being a great example of faith and sacrifice. Your zeal has produced a response in them. As I mentioned to you once out of Hebrews 10, 24, how the writer said, let us consider one another in order to stir up loving good works. That's what you've done. Your example has provoked them. You've been a great example of love. You've been a good example of good works. And I can use you as an example. I can say, this church is great. These churches are doing wonderful things. I can say that because I use you as an example to stir up others to follow your example. And that's what he's saying. So in verse 3 he goes on to say, yet I have sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this respect, that as I said, you may be ready lest if some Macedonians come with me and find you unprepared. We, not to mention you, should be ashamed of this confident boasting. You see zeal is one thing but making good on your promise is another. I've already told you, prepare your gift and be ready because he wanted them to have the money set apart and ready to be transported. So in the first letter, 1 Corinthians 16, he had said in verses 1 and 2 about the collection for the Lord's people, do what I told the Galatian churches to do on the first day of every week. Each one of you should set aside a sum of money in keeping with your income, saving it up so that when I come no collection will have to be made. So he's already said this. He's already said, I want you to have your gift prepared. And I want you to follow through with the promises that you made almost a year ago. And I don't want to have you embarrassed in front of people that when they show up, as he said in verse 4, find you unprepared, he said, you should be ashamed and I'd be ashamed of this confident boasting too. I don't want to be embarrassed by the fact that you haven't made good on your promises. And here I am speaking about how wonderful you are so I don't want you to be embarrassed and I certainly don't want to be embarrassed myself because I've been speaking about you and bragging about you to other people. So Titus and the team are arriving before Paul is going to arrive and he wants everything to be ready before he comes to Corinth. And so with this in mind he's saying it's good for you to complete what you began a year ago. You see, Macedonians may come with me and what will they think if you're not ready? It would embarrass you. It will embarrass me. After all, I've been bragging about you to them. In verse 5, therefore I thought it necessary to exhort the brethren to go to you ahead of time and prepare your generous gift beforehand which you had previously promised that it may be ready as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation. Now I want you to see something and just take a moment to point this out but this is what you would call the administrative side of ministry. He's saying things need to be prepared and prepare those things in advance. If you were behind the scenes in any church service you know and you're not serving here if you came as a visitor or a member of the church who isn't presently serving you might get the idea that everything just happens on its own but obviously it doesn't. Everything is prepared in advance. Everything is you know if you were here for service and some of you sometimes come for a service you'll know this already. Our worship team is already up here before services begin. They're already up here and they're practicing, they're preparing, they're going through their list of songs that we're going to be worshiping through that day. Everything you have people out in the foyer area, you have people in the parking lot, you have people all around and they're preparing because the church doesn't just happen. It's not like that. The church is prepared and there needs to be a preparation and so he's simply saying that this is just principle. He's saying don't be in a rush to complete what you should have already had done and as he's saying that in verse five notice how he says prepare your bountiful gift beforehand which you had previously promised. Your bountiful gift which you previously promised. Bountiful. Your bountiful gift speaks of a generous gift. It's speaking of a benefit that's been bestowed upon someone. So it's now a matter of them keeping their word, a word that they voluntarily promised, they voluntarily gave. Notice it's given as a matter of generosity and not as a grudging obligation, not a grudging obligation. Generosity speaks of desire born out of love for God. It's spontaneous. Proverbs 22 9 says he who has the generous eye will be blessed for he gives of his bread to the poor. But a grudging obligation speaks of a greedy desire to keep, to hold for yourself. You should rejoice to care for others. You shouldn't be trying to find a way to keep things for yourself. This is important because giving reflects the knowledge of what God has done for us. It denotes honest maturity. It reveals faith and it reveals godly priorities and therefore the Lord would have us to be generous because in a moment we're going to see why we should be. But the fact is Paul is explaining to them that they should have things prepared. It should be organized. I wrote to you and was expecting something to be done about a year ago and now they're on their way to pick this up and so have it ready. Be organized and administrative properly and I want you to have it ready and it should be generous. You've had a full year to prepare so that when they come you won't be embarrassed because you were unprepared and I won't be embarrassed because I've been bragging about you. And so this is what he's speaking about and he's speaking of this doing it as a matter of generosity not in a grudging way. But verse six this I say he who's so sparingly will also reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. So what I'm going to do here is I'm going to give us some principles of giving because Paul is teaching the Corinthians these principles. Notice in verse six how he says he who's so sparingly will also reap sparingly. He who sows bountifully will reap bountifully. So to illustrate how a person gives and the attitude we should have Paul uses a farming illustration and it's a picture that's intended to illustrate faith-filled dependence. The the farmer knows a few things for sure one a farmer knows that he doesn't have control over the weather but he also won't sow seed where it has no chance of producing a crop. He's not going to throw his seed on ground that will not produce. In my backyard at my home I have a section on the side of my house that I have planted plants there that that will not grow. Nothing grows there not even weeds so that's a blessing in disguise when I think about it. But it doesn't nothing grow it's very very few things can grow there. I have some trees that actually took root but I put some ground cover on it and it all died. I've put other kinds of plants and they die it's just bad and so you know I won't throw a seed I won't put something in a portion of land that isn't going to produce it would just be a waste and so a farmer isn't going to sow seed where it has no chance of producing a crop. The farmer also knows that when he sows seed he's doing his part but as he sows that seed he assumes that the seed is going to actually grow. So his sowing seed is an act of faith it's an act of faith that it's going to grow but it's also an act of faith that it's going to rain because he's going to rely on the weather and he has no control over the weather. He can throw the seed but it doesn't mean that the seed will germinate and it doesn't mean that that it's going to rain and he knows that and one of the things that the Jewish farmers knew is that they had to rely on the rain. Now remember all the way back in their history the nation of Israel God had told the the nation that if they were faithful to him he would provide rain for them he would provide what is called the early rain as well as the latter rain. He had said to them you have been in captivity in Egypt and in Egypt there is the mighty Nile River and all the irrigation needs and various other needs are met by that one mighty river but he said I'm going to take you to a land a land that doesn't have a mighty river because the nation of Israel has the Jordan River and the Jordan River is not a large river at all so he says I'm taking you from a place that has this immense river that provides all the water I'm going to bring you to a land that has no river that can do that the Jordan River and so what you're going to do is you're going to learn to rely on me to provide for you because rain is going to be a symbol of my provision and my grace to you in Deuteronomy 1114 God said to the nation I will give you the rain for your land in its season the early rain and the latter rain that you may gather in your grain your new wine and your oil so they're going to be sowing their seed but they're going to be dependent on God they're going to be sowing their seed and they're going to be praying that God will cause it to rain now after sowing the seed there was little more for them to do then to simply wait on the rain and this they were to do and they did it with a certain attitude they would they would wait on the rain patiently and expectantly in James chapter five or seven it says therefore be patient brethren until the coming of the Lord see how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth waiting patiently for it until it receives their early and latter rain and so when they would sow their seed they would patiently and expectantly wait for the rain to come so that the seed would germinate and they'd be able to harvest their crop and so their seed was actually sown in faith by throwing out the seed they were actually acting out their faith now the practical application of this because the context that Paul is using this is related to finances and he's saying that they need to be generous in their giving to help those in Jerusalem so the context here is very basic when you sow your financial seed there's an element of faith that God will bring in fruit and when the farmer throws the seed it can appear that he's throwing it away those of you who've gone outside and you've taken seed they can use those little those little machines that spread the seed the seed spreader you can do it by hand whatever you do I've done both I can kill seed by hand or with a machine just as easily but when you do that when you go out you see it spreading and if it's on the on the ground before you put any topping or whatever when you when you when you spread the seed it can see it seems like you're throwing it away it could appear that way and that's the whole thing and when you give your gifts to the Lord it can appear that you're just giving it away or throwing it away that's the whole point you're sowing seed and sometimes when you're sowing the seed you may seem to think that oh where's this going and what's it going to do but when your your seed is sown in faith and that's what he's telling the Corinthians when the seed is sown in faith the Lord produces a crop in melancholy 3 verse 10 in the old testament it says bring all the tides into the storehouse that that there may be food in my house and try me now in this day at the Lord of hosts if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it in the old testament this is the only place that I found in scripture that ever says to try God or test him it's the only place and it's related to them bringing their offering to him and he's saying bring your offering in faith to me and see if I won't open the windows of heaven and care for you so it's an act of faith it may seem like you're throwing your money away but you're trusting the Lord to provide and that's the lesson that's the principle that Paul would be teaching us through the Corinthians he also points out and notice this the second thing he points out that it only makes sense to be generous in giving why because if a farmer only sows a few seeds he reaps a very sparse crop if you only throw a little out you're only going to get a little in return is what it would be saying again he's so he who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly he who sows boundably will also reap boundably so it only makes sense to be generous and again he's already spoken about that in verse five when he spoke of their generosity he's already spoken to them and he's saying it simply makes sense to to sow seeds many seeds so that you can reap many benefits that the Lord will bless you with in Proverbs 11 24 there is one who scatters yet increases more and there is one who withholds more than is right but it leads to poverty so to give financially is sowing into the kingdom of God it's a spiritual act of faith and if you desire blessings from the Lord Paul would say do you not withhold from the Lord in Proverbs 3 9 and 10 honor the Lord with your possessions with the first fruits of all your increase so your barns will be filled with plenty your vats will overflow with new wine now notice verse 7 let each one give as he purposes in his heart not grudgingly or of necessity for God loves a cheerful giver so we encourage his proportion to giving based on a decision of the heart over the years I've had people approach me on this subject and they've asked me and they've said to me I want to give to the Lord but I don't know what model to use what model is there should I tithe and I've said to them as I'll say to us now in this study that the principle of the tithe is an interesting principle because when you look under the law of Moses people didn't simply give 10 percent because the word tithe speaks of a tenth it speaks of a tenth in the way that people would give 10 percent to the Lord but under the law people didn't give only 10 percent when you look in the old testament book of numbers for example chapter 18 verses 21 through 24 those verses say that 10 percent is to go towards the support of ministry the Levites then when you look in the the book of Deuteronomy chapter 12 it says 10 percent goes towards the support of religious feasts the festivals then you look at Deuteronomy 14 28 and 29 and it says every third year 10 percent is given as welfare for widows and orphans so you're looking at 30 percent in every three years Exodus 30 verses 11 through 16 speaks of a mandatory offering of a half shekel for the upkeep of the temple and if you said well I really can't afford to give so I'm gonna I'm gonna keep some of it for myself that was called borrowing the tithe and Leviticus 27 31 says if a man wants at all to redeem any of his tithes he shall add one fifth to it so if you borrowed from what you were to give to the Lord you gave him a 20 percent interest on that and so how do you give to each to the Lord well it would seem here notice verse 7 that each one is to give as he purposes in his heart so each has the responsibility to decide how much they desire to give some have small resources they give what would be considered relatively little others have great resources and they give what would be considered great amounts but it's been said the heart of giving begins with the giving of the heart we saw in 2nd Corinthians chapter 8 verse 5 how the Macedonians first gave themselves to the Lord and that's where true giving originates when you read your bible there's a man we're all familiar with his name was King David and King David's a good example of someone who gave from a heart of love for God David loved the Lord he wanted to build a house for him David lived in a home but the Lord's ark was in a tent and he didn't feel good about it so in 1st Chronicles 22 verse 5 David said Solomon my son is young and inexperienced and the house to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly magnificent famous and glorious throughout all countries I will now make preparation for it so David made abundant preparations before his death later David revealed the amount of his personal contribution to the building of the temple when he said in 1st Chronicles 29 3 through 5 more moreover because I have set my affection on the house of my God I have given to the house of my God over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house my own special treasure of gold and silver then he gives us the amount 3000 talents of gold which is equivalent to around nine billion dollars 7000 talents of refined silver which is 20 about 20 million dollars to overlay the walls of the houses the gold for things of gold silver for things of silver and for all kinds of work to be done by the hands of craftsmen so he gave a huge contribution because he loved the Lord and Paul tells us in verse 7 that God loves a cheerful or a joyous giver and that described David because in 1st Chronicles 29 17 David prayed I know also my God that you test the heart and have pleasure and uprightness as for me in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things and now with joy I have seen your people who are present here to offer willingly to you you see the mature christian finds giving to the Lord a joyful experience it's a genuine pleasure that takes time to learn let's see how I how did I see this workout well when my children were small and it was Christmas I wanted to teach them the lesson it's more blessed to give than to receive and so as they were small we would celebrate Easter rather I'm sorry Christmas Eve would celebrate with my kids and Marie and me and each one of the children had one gift that they could open on Christmas Eve and what we would do is I would read out of Luke chapter 2 the Christmas story and I would share with them a devotion and they would be seated there with their little gift that because I let them choose which one they would want to open on that night and they'd be sitting there almost shaking with anticipation I want to open this up and you can see it they would be almost vibrating and there's a vibration and I tell Marie stop vibrating in front of the kids they're going to get the wrong idea but the kids would hold on they would be holding on to the gift I would read Luke and then I would pray and then I would say to them we're not going to open these gifts at the same time each one of you will open your gift individually and we would change it maybe from the oldest to the youngest and the next time the youngest to the oldest and then we would switch it up and I'd say I want you to watch them open their gifts so that you can see the joy that they have as they receive it and so we would do that of course little kids they're not you know they would say they're oh that's wonderful but they're not interested they're really not when I began to see the change in them was when they grew older then they got to the point where they actually had picked out the gift they gave it to the to their sibling and they watched the face as their sister or brother opened it up and when they started having joy at seeing the other receive then I began to think I was teaching them the proper way to have more joy in giving than in receiving and that's something we learn over time if we still are the person who thinks Christmas is our birthday we've made a mistake in our theology because it's a celebration of gift giving of how God gave his gift to us and when we learn that when we get the joy of doing that then that shows us as maturing I can still remember when Marie and I were first married I went to uh excuse me a flea market you know and and I and I yeah we didn't have much money and so I went to a flea market and and you get some good deals it doesn't matter if one leg's a little longer than the other as long as you kind of lead like that but I bought all I I still remember I bought bright red pants bright green pants bright yellow pants and then I bought this big thing of perfume I made a gallon for three bucks what a deal you know so I'm thinking you know and I remember giving these gifts to Marie and and she didn't appreciate them and so now my gift to her is to take her out so she can pick her own gifts out because she's a lot happier that way but I started learning early in our relationship that the real joy was to see a joy in that person as you gave to them and and that's how it is in Christian giving it is more blessed to give than to receive in Christian giving and that's what Paul is speaking about he's speaking about the joy of generosity to give bountifully to somebody else because you're doing something in the name of Christ and blessing them and that's how it works and that's what God would have us to know God desires us to do that he desires us to give in such a way that we're able to minister to the people and and and God will God will also take care of us again in verses eight and nine God is able to make all grace abound towards you that you always having all sufficiency and all things may have an abundance for every good work as it is written he has dispersed abroad he's given to the poor his righteousness endures forever so God promises to supply your material needs and will make it possible for you to continue giving somebody said he will bless the increase of those who give cheerfully that they may have not an excess so they can live in selfish luxury but the sufficiency with which all genuine believers ought to be content again a generous man will prosper and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed he says now verse 10 may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food supply and multiply the seed you've sown and increase the fruits of your righteousness while you are enriched in everything for all liberality which causes thanksgiving through us to God so God has supplied seed to the sower and God is the one who has blessed you in the first place you're simply giving out of what he has first given to you in first chronicles 29 14 we read who am I and who are my people that we should be able to offer so willingly as this for all things come from you and of your own we have given you again when my children were learning to give as small kids they didn't have jobs and so Marie would give them an allowance out of my pocket and then the children would give me a gift and they would say oh i wish i could give you more daddy and i said no this is fine because i paid for it so no this is fine they didn't give me anything out of their own sweat and blood, toil, work, creativity they gave it to me out of mind and that's how it works and that's the whole point what do you have that you didn't first receive and if you first receive then why do you glory Paul said as if you hadn't if God is the one who owns all things that the cattle in a thousand hills belong to him and all of that if the earth is the Lord's then then who am I to say i'm giving to you out of my substance in fact what i am is a steward of his substance and so what i gave to him is what was just said i gave to him out of what already belonged to him i gave to him what he gave to me and i gave it in return so Paul prays that God will continue to give them finances that can be used for the Lord it's interesting how he uses words like supply and multiply increase enriched liberality thanksgiving may he keep blessing you that you may keep giving to others and his cause verse 12 for the administration of this service not only supplies the needs of the saints but also is abounding through many thanksgivings to God while through the proof of this ministry they glorify God for the obedience of your confession to the gospel of Christ and for your liberal generous sharing with them and all men so he closes with a word concerning practical fruit of giving it not only supplies the needs of the saints it abounds in blessings to those who give the result will be that they will glorify God for supplying their needs because of their faith and obedience it's a tangible evidence of the unity of the church as the Gentiles are caring for the Jewish brethren and he says in verse 14 by their prayer for you who long for you because of the exceeding grace of God in you he's saying because of your gracious giving to them prayers have been lifted up on your behalf they're going to be blessed so much by your help that you will be lifted up in prayer and they will be grateful and then he says this and i'm going to spend a moment talking to you about this as we're about to close notice verse 15 how he says it thanks be to God for his indescribable gift indescribable we all know what that word means indescribable something that is indescribable it's just we don't have the words to communicate now he's speaking about Jesus Christ he's saying thank God for his indescribable gift thank God for Jesus Christ thank God for what Jesus has done for you remember in chapter 8 verse 9 how it said you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich yet for your sakes he became poor that you through his poverty might become rich thank God for the indescribable love of Christ now here's the thing and this is what i think that this study i want to close with this illustration to try and help us understand something about giving and i'm going to use a very that's the word a natural illustration to try and bring a spiritual meaning to this thank God for his indescribable gift as a young man i met a young woman i was teaching a bible study my brother had gotten saved he needed discipling i lived in norwalk he lived in ontario he got saved august 4th 1974 and i watched to see whether he would go to church and he wouldn't he wasn't going to church so by september the beginning of september i was concerned for my older brother he wasn't being discipled so my sister madeline and i begin to drive from norwalk to ontario and he had a little apartment right off of hold in san antonio by the park and so i started teaching frank september october as i'm teaching him he's inviting work friends people he he he knew from the job and one day a young woman walks in and she sits down and she listens to the bible study a couple weeks later she gives her heart to christ and as i had my first conversation with this woman marie i i like her immediately but she doesn't know christ and so she comes to faith in christ two weeks later through my sister madeline who brings her to faith in the lord begins to attend the bible studies faithfully we begin to date now i know her i know where as a person i know a little bit about her she talks to me after after bible studies on monday night i know her a little bit but i want to know her better so i am attracted to her i like her and i ask her out as i ask her out i get to know her a little bit better just by talking before you know it we're we're going out on a weekly basis before you know it uh is an exclusive relationship she doesn't date any other guys and i i hadn't been dating any any girls anyway so it was a good thing for me and so she's just going out with me but we're talking and now we're spending hours and before you know it the the the the relationship is growing i'm learning things about her i'm developing relationship with her i'm i'm hearing the things of of how she grew up i'm i'm learning things about her family i'm learning things about her wants the things that she likes the things that she doesn't like the things that are important to her the things that aren't all right well our very first date our very first conversation as we're going on i still remember as we're talking and she says i need to let you know something and i said what is that she says my name is marie it's not mary it's not maria it's marie that's the first thing she told me so what is my name for her today maria and so she also says if i get stung by a bee get me to a hospital immediately because i'll go into shock those are the first two things i remember on our first date that she told me my name is marie and take me to the doctor that was it and so over time we get to know each other over time i hear what it was like for her as a little girl growing up here in chino i hear stories from her i i i i learned things about her and guess what over time i start seeing her differently over time i begin to ask myself could you be with this girl over time i hold her hand over time i give her our first kiss over time i ask her to marry me and i'm learning all these things about her and then we get married and then a year goes by and i'm learning more five years go by i'm learning more 10 years go by i'm learning more 15 20 25 30 40 plus years go by i'm learning more i'm learning more i'm learning more about this woman and my love for her is growing and growing and growing and guess what that's what happens when you're walking with christ you get saved at first he's just your savior you don't even know what's going to happen in time with him but over time he blesses you over time he he he works in your life over time you go through pain you go through sorrow you go through tears you go through disappointment you go through illnesses you go through loss you go through so much and he's always there and he never lets you down and he always holds you up and he he loves you and you learn that you learn more about him and more about him it's not the same as when you were quote unquote dating him it is now a relationship that is deep it's lasting it's understanding and you now have a love for him and let me tell you something what happened over time is his love for you and his grace towards you and his goodness to you and his provision for you and his being there for you he never leaves you he never forsakes you he walks through the valley of the shadow of death with you you fear no evil he is with you you can do the impossible for all things are possible with god you learn that i can do all things through christ who strengthens me you learn these things and he becomes indescribable indescribable he gets to the point in your life where you can't put into words what he means to you what jesus means to you what he's done for you how he's loved you how he's provided for you how you have been on your face in your bedroom crying out god i don't have two nickels to rub together i don't know how i'm gonna pay these bills and then you go to the mail as i have and you open up a letter that's unsigned there's no return address and i open it up and there's a check there for two hundred dollars and i needed that so bad and i put it in front of my wife and i said my god shall supply my god is able i know he is he is indescribable thank god for his indescribable gift jesus christ how can i out give him how can i out give him how can i grudgingly hold on to what i think is mine when in fact all that i have came from him that's what paul is teaching us in this passage corinthians you only have because he gave he doesn't want your grudging obligation he wants your cheerful heart because he became poor took upon himself human flesh dwelt amongst man died on a cross was placed in a borrowed tomb but he rose the third day and he gave you life and he poured his spirit into you and he's provided for you every step of the way thank god for his indescribable gift thank god for his son jesus and so when you give to the lord you give with joy because he first gave to you and those of us who hold back from him perhaps you haven't been spending enough time with the one who loved you so much that he gave everything up for you perhaps you just haven't spent time with them to realize yet that you have all that you need in him and he will provide you with all that you need as god come through in your life he's come through in mine he continues to do that because my god is faithful that's a fact that's a fact my god shall supply all my need he doesn't supply all my greed he supplies all my need and i have learned so have you many of you contentment it comes through spiritual things it comes through relational things contentment doesn't come because i have a nice home thank god that i do it doesn't come because i can drive a car a nice car thank god i can but those things have not given me satisfaction they haven't what gives me satisfaction it's him it's him it's when i've been on my face many times crying out to god for my son for my daughter for my friends for my mom for my dad for my brother for my sisters for my church for my wife god in jesus name god in jesus name he comes through and he delivers me and i'm never alone he's always with me so i give to him because he first gave to me and paul is saying Corinthians you've had a year you could have and should have prepared i expect you to be generous when they show up don't embarrass yourself and don't embarrass me because i've been bragging about you and i know god's working in you so be generous because your brother need generosity right now they need your help so help them and don't forget don't forget what god did for you because what god did for you is the basis of all that you do for others thank god for his indescribable indescribable describable gift jesus christ beloved if god so loved us we also ought to love one another


easy Can you tell me if it's going to be a good day or not? It's going to be a Magnificent day. Weiner you agree? Yes, what do you say? Very nice. Very nice. You can go inside now. My mom isn't saying Doesn't matter that I'm out here. I think it is going to be a magnificent day Sleep gunking your eyes still man So it's first thing in the morning. What is today Wednesday? They're gonna take the pick up into work today because it's supposed to be thunder showers today So no motorcycle today, but it's still gonna be a good day, right? No motorcycle today. Nope Thunder showers look pretty probable for this afternoon. They're gonna start right around four o'clock and end around six o'clock So exactly the time I'd be riding home, of course. That's the perfect time for a thunderstorm Well, I let trucker Josh ride his motorcycle Whatever, it's okay. Don't need to ride in every day Though it would be nice The farmers need some rain too, so we won't complain like I've said before I kind of like food So we got to keep the farmers happy they make our food. I'm headed up to Arberg today Got to be there in the morning. So No time to waste. Oh, it's starting to rain now already. Oh, well, it's a good thing. I Don't mind riding in like a light rain, but it's gonna be thunder showers and pouring rain I'd rather not I still need to go and buy like Waterproof gear. I have like the windbreaker and some line jeans and stuff and I need to get the Water like the chaps or something that'll keep me drier But either way even if I had that I don't really want to be riding in pouring rain It's it's dangerous on the bike not only because it's slippery. I don't got windshield wipers on my glasses It's hard to see in a light rain. I don't mind. I'll tough it out. It's a little cold I'll dress warmer, but pouring rain is one time when I'm probably not I want to ride all right Let's go to Arberg. I'm gonna grab my trailer. I gotta get a step-deck roll tight Seattle's a little rough when she's cold. I know She's okay though. She's okay All right step-deck roll tight. Here we go trailer 412. We're taking this all the way up to Arberg I'm in a little bit of a rush. So I'll talk to you once we're moving off we go dirty windshield and all It's that kind of day. It's a Wednesday. What? so we went past that Where our geese friends usually hang out and I haven't seen him in a while. I'm getting kind of worried and We passed that little pond and the ducks look like they have retaken it That has changed hands numerous times in the past few weeks. I Keep missing all the battles Must be getting Pretty intense because the geese are gone now and the ducks are back. I'm on team goose there I mean my buddy Wilbert Been living there all spring and now he's gone. I don't know if I should intervene or not On behalf of the geese Reclaim it for the for the geese. I don't know as of today The ducks have control of the pond. I haven't watched my past videos You have no idea what I'm talking about. I guess you just have to go back and catch up Pass my geese friends there and they have this nice little pond They were swimming around and one day I noticed all the geese were gone and the ducks were in the pond but no geese And then about a week later I went past and all the ducks were gone, but the geese were back in the pond No ducks Now the ducks are back. I guess we'll see What happens overnight who's got control of it tomorrow? I have no idea really what I'm picking up yet But I do have like I showed you the step deck behind me So it's probably going to be a higher freight than usual That's usually why I would need a lower deck to leave more space in there But probably gonna be one of the big ones and they want me there earlier in the morning Which means it's probably going to take a little longer to load me So that makes sense they want to get a little bit of a head start on it Nice to see my friends up there again. Anyway, I really like the shippers that That are that load me up there friendly people Become friends of mine kind of catch up see what they've been up to you haven't been up there in like a week at least You know when they said it was gonna rain this afternoon I was kind of doubtful because it's been sunny all day Times now just after one o'clock. I'm on my way back and Sure enough clouds come out of nowhere Looks like it's gonna rain. I guess it's a good thing. I didn't ride in today Just after two o'clock between two and two thirty. Thank you for answering a question that nobody asked you I got my coffee lights Camera action, they're gonna get us to do yet. I mean at two o'clock There is still some time in the day to get some stuff done What is that every now and you guys hear that every now and then whenever I make a corner I hear a big clunk Coming from under the hood I've looked you know, I can't figure out what it is and the shops looked at it something keeps Bumping around we'll figure it out yet. I Guess that road doesn't really go to anywhere doesn't so dead end over there. There needs a Wash really badly for one hour from the yard too long here is about well pretty much exactly halfway to Arbor My regular stop if I need to grab fuel I can always grab fuel there I don't need it today though straight south now You can see by all the flags here at this so that the wind is coming from the west Which is usually where it comes from but if it changes and comes from the north, you know the cold weather's coming And if it comes from the south, you know that warm weather is coming in very rarely comes from the east right, you know sometimes We'll call it gravy Gravy I got a van trailer behind me. That's what we call gravy Let's see make sure the tire's all about air. I don't need those two, but just double check Double check double check air air air Lights are working that light is off. That's good. It's very good Check out the back. What's going on back here? Signal lights are working. It has a license plate. It's a license plate light working It's up there Those lights are working Let's see what's inside shall we do you think it'll be clean? Not bad Not perfect, but I would say that it is clean you can tell that it's been swept Uh-huh, uh-huh not ready to pick up food grade items, but good thing. We're not picking up food grade items We're just picking up some pallets. This is perfect Thank you drivers For sweeping out your trailers. I really do appreciate that saves me time walks in properly mudflaps are in place Wheel seals are not leaking as we go past here You know all the regular stuff lights Blinky lights are working lights are working She's got her skirt on her. That's good because it's very inappropriate to not have a skirt Cover her up My tires won't back here too lovely wunderbar very nice Very nice. I didn't hear any air leaks Old rusty peter Just got to run into Winnipeg here who they pick up a load and come back. It's nothing to be really excited about but i'm excited Why not?  I don't know.  You can go closer. He won't bite I'm pretty sure. I mean She's got flashy lights I forgot about the construction on this road remind me to take the other way back We're turning onto Watt Street here for those of you who care On the way back, we'll just go straight across and take Watt which turns into uh, is it archable? All right, I'll just go down that way and we'll go around The bridge looks a little low here, but we can make it underneath of course I should have been a little bit quicker my arch nemesis One of them It's funny because brit and I are talking about buying bicycles But we're not going to be those cyclists. Don't worry. Don't worry You know what I'm talking about. You know exactly who I'm talking about when I say those cyclists You won't see us taking up the whole lane And you most definitely won't see us Cycling down the highway in the lane those cyclists Nobody likes those cyclists Our goal is to not be that Don't you just love it? You know when the highways like 100 kilometers an hour or 60 miles an hour or higher And there's a bicycle right in the center of the lane putting along Doesn't that just ruin your day every single time? Because legally they're allowed to be there Logically they have no place there, right? Am I right? Am I wrong? What they're thinking like that's just asking to get hurt And in town they always say well it's safer to ride on the roads Well, I ask you this question one second. Let me figure out where the siren's coming from I might have to wait Where's the siren? Continue our cyclist conversation. You know it's safer to ride on the roads gas or whatever. Okay I say it's safer for the cyclists to be on the sidewalks with the pedestrians But they're like, well, what if they hit a pedestrian truck of josh? That's awful Yeah, well, what if they get hit by a car? Isn't that worse?  There's got to be at least a few cyclists that are just like angrily typing in my comment section right now Just keyboards on fire. I don't know what you have to say justify it Why is it safer to be on the road with the cars? Then on the sidewalk with the pedestrians If I was on a bicycle, I would much rather Or if I was a pedestrian, I would much rather get hit by a bicycle than being on a bicycle getting hit by a car I I digress. I think you get my point Here's the school zone can't forget 30 kilometers an hour So one thing I take seriously is school zones wherever there's kids It makes me quite upset when I see people speeding through school zones Out on the highway. I'm like, ah man, you shouldn't be going that fast, you know, blah, blah, blah But if you speed through a school zone, we're gonna have problems Backer in backer in Sneak right on in here. Just gotta sneak right on in Right in between that trailer and the wall sneak right in I didn't mix up it. Yeah, there it is. Just take out a traffic light Actually, well the traffic light was still standing but his trailer got taken out He was trying to turn right. Uh, I'm facing this way, right? He was turning That way to go that way there's a narrow road and he made the corner way too tight and I'm like, okay Well, he's gonna have to stop him back up. It's kind of funny. Oh, well, he'll back up He's gonna stop. He'll stop. He's not stopping. He's speeding up He's sped up Wasn't watching his trailer. I'll tell those watching him in his window. He was right there Nails the pole his trailer flies over Pole's still standing but there's damage on the side of his trailer for sure He just keeps driving just pulled into where I uh pulled out of the same driveway the same place some people some people Did you not notice that did you not feel that? You just hit a pole man. Your trailer is messed up So they just kept going like nothing happened.  You have to take responsibility. You can't just keep driving A thousand people saw you do that man I couldn't believe any and I honk him because he's coming past me this way, right? He's going now. He just turned on to the road his trailer bounced off the pole. He comes past me And I honk to let him know if he didn't feel that that he hit the pole. He should have felt that And he looks at me and goes like what what do you want? What do you want? Wondering what you're doing. You're lucky. It wasn't a kid sitting there You know it's these people they don't pay attention. He wasn't even watching his trailer hit the pole He didn't even look back and the trailer skipped right over. He had to feel that No way he didn't felt sitting there on the corner of the street Talking about things that make me upset. That's one of the things that make me upset bad drivers Well, it turns out I could have taken the bike to work anyway, so that's disappointing Next time if it's like a 50 chance or less Of rain, I'm just gonna take the bike I'm not freaking a little wet. I just Thunder storms. I thought it was gonna pour didn't even rain. The weatherman was wrong Absolutely wrong it drizzled for like 10 seconds. I guess Technically he was right. It did rain for 10 seconds That's it for today. Uh gotta go to bed and do it all over again tomorrow We'll see you then. What is tomorrow thursday almost friday? Uh, that'll put a smile on anybody's face I'll see you then. Don't forget to subscribe


Here's a good one which is worse which is where slavery or Jim Crow?   Yeah the thing about Jim Crow is like this This fake reality Yeah, that we're free and Yeah, I mean I don't even know how to answer this. I mean when people say slavery ended whatever years ago I always go no slavery ended. I count Jim Crow as part of slavery. Yeah, as far as I'm concerned slavery ended in 1975 That's when I'm like, okay I'm black. I kind of have some shot of Making this thing work. It ain't the playing field is not equal, but they are avenues and caves of success I can go into 75 The thing is ten years after my birth.  Mm-hmm. Yeah Yeah, it's like oh we got guys.   Mm-hmm.  It's ridiculous how intricate it was.  It's mean. It's just mean


so sorry I must have drifted off how rude of me I wanted to ask you a favor about this crystal ball sorry I'm getting ahead of myself perhaps I should start from the beginning all right I'll carry on then my father Calda Russia was once a really famous fortune teller lost treasure missing people there was nothing the great Calda Russia couldn't help people with but then one day he lost his powers all of a sudden nothing he foretold turned out to be true anymore it's probably because he stopped using a real crystal ball this glass ball isn't Valentina what is going on here how many times have I told you not to touch my crystal ball what aren't you that boy from the pub what brings you here never mind I do not know what my daughter has asked you but you can forget it I do not need your help I am fine as I am I am going to bed Valentina say your farewells and show our young visitor to the door I'm sorry about my father but whatever he says he's the one who's really suffering since he lost his powers that's why I wanted to ask you this favor can you find him a crystal ball one that's big enough to bring back his powers of course you want what was I thinking I'm just a stranger to you after all I'm so sorry I suppose my dream was just that a dream and nothing more imbecile she told you all right and you still turned her down your head boy if this Calda Russia gets his own powers back we can have him look into his crystal ball for us he'll be able to tell us where that hateful Dormegus is what were you thinking of turning her down like that get back into town and tell her your help go on go


An enormous chunk is absent, not only from our own human history, but also from the history of our planet, the two extent of which, according to the considerable collection of uparts gathered over the years, was filled with the flourish of vast technological developments by many civilizations. This, although somehow missing from academic teachings, the reasons for this absence are deep and far reaching. Religious institutions, scientific theory, yet the unfortunate root of all these motivations, seemingly fueling this orchestrated ignorance, is money. Certain theories are attached to substantially profitable endeavors. Therefore, academia is very unlikely to budge, even when confronted with evidence to prove they are wrong. They simply profit from the continuation of a lie. One of our most compelling defenses for our accusation, and the evidence we feel most condemning of academia's ignorance to this obvious truth, is the highly complex, clearly advanced, seemingly impossible ruins found all over Earth attributed by these said institutions to the most convenient recent ancestor. Not only do many of these structures still evade explanation today, but all of these so-called experts undoubtedly handsomely pay to paint specific pictures of the past fall silent in unison when asked to provide explanations to their claims, not only how our modern ancestors built the palaces we share on our channel, but also why they never recorded such tasks, anywhere within any of their substantial writings, or indeed artistic, illustrative documentation of their lives. Indeed, found drenching the structures they claim as their own, yet, apparently, not able of building. One of the most amazing, recently realized examples is undoubtedly Quailab, a site we recently explored, and although the site has been known to the modern man for many centuries, it has taken aircraft photography and a keen observer to actually realize the truly astonishing task that Quailab actually was. Originally thought to be a walled fortress, an astonishing ruin from the ground alone, yet viewing the site from the sky shows that not only was an enormous natural plateau artificially walled off, but the entire back of the fortress was amazingly backfilled with Earth. The city of Sincunsan, within modern-day Mexico, once had a population of between 25,000 and 30,000. However, when the Spanish arrived in the 1520s, the conquest virtually decimated the population of the city. This clear evidence of how easily civilizations come and go, yet academia remains deliberately oblivious of this fact. The extraordinarily circular structures found within the city, claimed to be pyramids, have merely been ignored and assumed to have been the work of these once-decimated modern inhabitants, completely ignoring not only the astonishingly precise stonework, but also the fact that, just like Quailab, the site contains astonishing earthworking created with unbelievable precision, and like Quailab, containing circular structures. Was this site once built by the same people? An incredible site, one which demands astute and honest research. Our mission over the next few videos is to demonstrate why certain individuals that are currently attempting to claim ancient ruins we so often share on our channel, where the work of academia's claimed constructors are not only vastly incorrect, but that they are also being selectively ignorant. We intend to demonstrate the reasons why this explanation, as to their origins, is a virtual impossibility, and also prove the level of advanced knowledge needed to construct them evades even our modern civilization. Roman and Greek civilizations undoubtedly contributed tremendous amounts to modern life, be it their technologies or building techniques, architectural designs and ideas incorporated into structures that have survived millennia. However, there are many anomalous aspects of their academically claimed ruins that not only demonstrate unbelievable skill and precision, but are so advanced as to evade our own current understanding. One of these defining characteristics is undoubtedly polygonal masonry. Randomly shaped, or possibly cast stones, with some, for example, found within Saxe Huaman, reaching far into hundreds of tons, masterfully fitted together, constructed into walls and fortresses, with no utilization of mortars.  These stone walls are a demonstration of what can be achieved if one had an astonishing intellect, and indeed, stone-building capabilities. These walls simply evade modern human explanation. No modern or indeed any of the well-studied ancient civilizations have ever demonstrated anything even near to the levels of refinement exhibited within these ancient walls, found all over the globe, yet ignored by academics the world over. How can certain individuals claim that academia's tale of events be accurate, yet seemingly overlook such astonishing feats of ancient engineering? How can one be expected to believe that the cultures currently claimed as having been responsible for such constructions did indeed complete such tasks, when they are, in reality, too advanced in undertaking even for our own modern civilization, as such continuing to evade explanation? We feel that many of these individuals are merely towing a line rather than attempting to unravel that which they perceive as enigmatic and considerably controversial to their current supposed viewpoint. We feel there is no excuse for a diligent researcher to overlook these achievements when investigating such sites, or indeed attempting to unravel the secrets of our past. We also feel that if one attempts to explain away such sites, or merely overlook such features in favor of academic explanation, it is an indication of conspiratorial motives rather than that of an honest purveyor of discoveries. There are many unexplained features of the ancient world, many of which we intend to share over the coming videos, and if one merely wishes to convey an illusion of all knowing, they are soon to become unstuck, just like the academia they so mindlessly follow, and we so vehemently disagree with. Due to these deliberate twisting of the facts, they are undoubtedly highly compelling. Many people are aware of the archaeological site known as Gobekli Tepe, an astonishing site of clearly great antiquity, a site like many others which dot our earth, which displays a far more sophisticated understanding construction and living practices to that of which would be publicly accepted by much of modern academia. Instead, it is often more favored to merely ignore such data as abnormalities, or it seems, if possible, to lock such controversies away from inquisitive minds deep within archives or underwater. And our next site is no exception. Although Gobekli Tepe has become a synonymous candidate for evidence of a once highly advanced ancient civilization which once flourished here on our planet, it is not the only site to be found within the area or even the most astonishing. Known as Norsen Tepe, this is the real gem of archaeological turkey, and yet just like Waffle Rock, a site we have previously covered on our channel, located within the US, it lay at the bottom of a man-made dam, submerged deliberately and conveniently very shortly after some highly controversial discoveries were beginning to be made at the site. An enormous mounded fort, designed and shaped with a purpose of providing a sophisticated living quarters when the site was excavated, it was found that no less than 40 inhabitations were present within the strata. Excavations were conducted between 1968 and 1974 by the German Archaeological Institute. Archaeologists, led by Harold Hopmann, the Heidelberg Professor of Prehistory and Early History, found considerable evidence to suggest that many of the later inhabitants of this sophisticated fort were themselves highly advanced, seemingly preserving many mysterious items left by many as yet unknown people. Why a government would make the move to flood such a location remains a subject of debate, and one which has led some to accuse the Mexican government of being complicit in the cover-up of a highly advanced ancient civilization which once lived here on earth. The fieldwork was finished by 1974. Shortly thereafter, the construction of the quiband dam works began, rising the water level and submerging the site away from prying eyes. Who built Norse and Tepe? Why did they build it? It seems this fort has remained impenetrable since the day it was built, even successfully keeping out the elements for untold millennia, preserving untold treasures from a bygone era, treasures which seemingly shone too bright a light for some to bear. What kind of controversial archaeology is Norse and Tepe protecting? What are these government's bodies attempting to hide? These are questions which must be answered. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. Thanks for watching guys, and until next time, take care. One such structure is known as the Maidens Tower, the oldest structure within the city of Baku in Iran. Many legends surround the origins of this structure, with vastly varying claims to its age. Some believe it is a mere 800 years old, while others attest to it being far more than 2000. Many supposed specialists have examined the structure, yet interestingly, they all seem to come to different conclusions regarding its original purpose. Some say that it was a lighthouse, some say it was a fortress or a burial chamber. Yet the most interesting explanations of its origins are found within the legends found within the local community. It is said that an ancient king once fell in love with his own daughter and built the tower due to his strange, incestuous devotion for her. He promised his daughter that if she were to marry him, he would give or build her anything if she were to agree. So, she requested he build the tower. She supposedly visited the build regularly and consistently gave advice and her opinion on how she wanted the construction completed. Once it was built, it was the most reinforced, strongest building in all the land, yet instead of keeping her promise, she climbed to the top of the building and threw herself into the sea, presumably to escape the proposition given to her by her father. Yet, regardless of legends, the mystery as to the true origins of the tower or indeed its age remains a complete mystery. I feel that upon close examination of the structure, it has been masterfully reinforced and renovated at numerous times within its long life. With the original stonework being of a tiny scale, yet much of the structure has been reinforced and built upon, most likely for several different strategical reasons throughout the millennia. It is indeed possible that the original structure is many thousands of years old, yet due to the reconstruction seen upon it by numerous groups using numerous techniques, it has predictably resulted in the many specialists who have examined it, coming to different conclusions as to its original purpose. Interestingly, academic geologists have argued that it was constructed during the 9th and 15th century. This was due to the receding of the Caspian Sea, making it possible for the town to grow around it. Yet, could the legends of the king's daughter plunging into the sea be true? With the tower originally having been built upon the shores of the sea? It seems we may never know. However, there are many other towers which dot the earth with origins that are equally enigmatic. Some in particular are found deep within the Himalayas, known as star towers, and for obvious reasons not only is their construction a baffling ancient feet due to their geographical locations, but the original purpose of these towers is a complete mystery, escaping explanation, baffling of all who have ventured to them to study their build and characteristics in depth. Mostly located in Kham, Qingtang, and Kongpo, which are provinces of pre-modern Tibet, they were first described during the Ming dynasty, around 1368. With carbon dating by Frederick Deragon apparently showing they were built approximately 500-1800 years ago. Yet these datings are so vast and vague, I postulate that they too may have experienced several conservation efforts, and have been reconstructed or reinforced on several occasions throughout the eons. Actually being relics of a lost civilization whose original purpose has become lost, just like the civilizations who use them. Who built these mysterious structures? Why did they build them? Are they, as I suspect, far older than academia would ever admit to them being? In reality, being consistently regenerated relics of a lost civilization that throughout their lives have fortunately been reinforced and renovated throughout antiquity? We find such structures, their unknown age, and indeed their mysterious origins highly compelling. The megalithic side of Gornaya Shoria is undoubtedly one of, if not the most incredible ancient site on earth. Found upon the Shoria Mountains in southern Siberia, it is a place that has long been argued by influential academics and funded geologists as merely being a natural formation, which simply by chance appears to have once been an artificially constructed site. The reason for this denial of any artificial origins is unquestionably due to the size of some of the stones which make up the site, with the heaviest that academics have noted reaching far into several thousand tons in weight. This would make it the largest megalithic site discovered in the world if one could find any compelling evidence of the site once having an artificially constructed origin. Additionally, if proved to have an artificial origin, the erosion present on such enormous blocks would be indicative of a civilization which existed many many millennia ago. Russian media, along with many other funded outlets and institutions, by default, have to deny that these stones could ever have been created via artificial means. This is due to the long-attested timeline for man, and the subsequent protection of the true past of our species, a timeline which spans much further into the past than currently claimed, one which I am systematically uncovering upon my channel. Popular news outlets have regularly presented articles written by Russian scientists who, predictably, concluded that this rock formation be the result of geological processes associated with the intense weathering of the rock, comprising mountain sharia. Both tectonic forces acting on deeply buried bedrock and pressure release that occurs within near-surface bedrock uplifted the eroded stones, which they claim that this supposedly commonly forms rectangular block-like rock formations that consist of jointed rocks. However, as the site has become more and more well-known, within circles not bound by the chains of mainstream academic funding, and thus free to investigate the idea of the area indeed once having been artificially created, evidence of this incredible reality. Compelling characteristics of this ancient site has recently been discovered which I feel is overwhelming evidence of the site indeed once having been an ancient settlement. This reality, although simply impossible for any loyal academic to admit to, is one that these recently discovered stones proves beyond doubt not only were these stones clearly cut using lost ancient stone-cutting technology, but has left a signature mark upon the stone, uncannily similar to that in which I have named the Cyclopean civilization. The same signature tool marks can be found upon the unfinished obelisk of Aswan Egypt and also the most important link I feel I have ever researched, Bosda caves, which has not only been academically admitted as the ancient quarry for the stones of Heron, but due to the most peculiar design of these blocks has enabled me to link the site to not only Gornayashoria but countless other seemingly impossible as yet unexplained ancient ruins all over the globe. These blocks found at the site are not only of an enormous scale but are undoubtedly artificially cut using some form of stone-cutting technology created by a lost civilization. These stones, I feel, not only prove the site's artificial origins but due to the pattern left by the tools which worked them into the shape that they are today was built by the same civilization responsible for Baalbek, which also contains stones which are well over a thousand tons in weight, the unfinished obelisk which is also well over a thousand tons. Yet this site is unquestionably now the largest currently recognized to still be in existence here upon our planet, with only the megaliths of Yangshan quarry that unfortunately were left unliberated topping them in weight, with the largest at the quarry reaching far over the 16,000 tons mark. Yet the site has still not been fully explored, so there is a high chance that some of the stone in Gornayashoria may even top that of the blocks of Yangshan quarry. These stones are unquestionably an incredible valuable find and regardless of academia's deliberate ignorance in regards to such discoveries has finally vindicated all those claimed as fringe researchers as having been right on the money with their astonishing claims of it once having been man-made, a claim now proven to be a reality. Not only is Gornayashoria one of the most incredible sites on earth, but it is unquestionably highly compelling. If you enjoy our content, if you think our battle worthy, please help us to continue our voyage of discovery in unraveling the mysteries of history. Links to donate can be found within the description. Without you, we cannot survive. Thank you.


Hello everyone, my name is Dilip Pratapsin Shakavath, I have secured all Indiraing 72 in civil services examination 2018 and today I am here to discuss the economic survey with you and in this video I will do a detailed analysis of the economic survey so that becomes helpful for the candidates who will be appearing in the main examination of 2019. So the first chapter is private investment as the key driver of growth, jobs, exports and demand. So this is the first chapter of the economic survey and in the first chapter itself the economic survey this year has mentioned the vision of the Indian economy going forward for the next decade or so. So the first important objective of the economic survey is to show the growth path for India to make it a $5 trillion economy by the year 2024-25 and then it has also mentioned a growth target of 8% per annum which needs to be achieved every year to make India a $5 trillion economy by the year 2025. So this is the first thing which is given in the chapter 1. Moving forward for achieving this target a virtuous cycle is required. The traditional norm of economics is about equilibrium that there are policies, there is a government and there are some institutes which are running in the market which generate profits and it becomes the GDP. And after the global financial crisis this model has been taken down by many economists and the work on behavioral economists has been taken up. So in this sense a virtuous cycle has been emphasized by the economic survey this year in which it will be based upon increasing the savings of the population which will in turn turn into investments and then it will turn into exports and job creation. So this will be a virtuous cycle in which the growth of the nation will increase the GDP will increase subsequently and that will convert into more jobs for the people, more productivity for the people, more money for the people and hence the target of $5 trillion economy can be achieved by this way. Now for a self-sustaining virtuous cycle the economic survey has mentioned a 5-pronged approach. The first being it presents data as a public good as a public good data can be used in various levels to make use of it in a manner in which the resources are efficiently utilized and the products which are made for the people in general are targeted in the right manner. So a best example of this is the Aadhaar scheme the Jandan, Aadhaar and Mobile Trinity is working very well in India to make the subsidies go to the right people. So data is a public good can be utilized by the markets then second approach is emphasizing legal reforms. Now legal reforms are also very necessary for ease of doing business as in India we have more than 3 crore cases in the courts which are pending. So the third thing is policy consistency. Now policy consistency is always important to drive that confidence from the markets which will help savings then investments and then growth. So this is again very important fourth approach which is mentioned by the economic survey is applying behavioral economics. Now behavioral economics is also known as NUG economics in which the public behavior is NUG towards a favorable behavior to generate certain outcome. So we will come to this later in the chapter 2 of the economic survey. Going forward the fifth approach mentioned by the economic surveys focus on policies that nourish MSMEs to create more jobs and become more productive, reduce the cost of capital and rationalize the risk return trade off for investments. So now focus on MSMEs has been there because MSMEs are those jobs which can be worked upon and these can turn into very productive giants which not only give the production to the economy but also create more number of jobs and a lot of employment is generated by the means of their growth. So this is again very important. Now going forward in the first chapter last 5 years achievements have also been mentioned in which various reforms have been taken over the government. Now these are important in the sense for the main examination because these become the very important areas in from which the questions can be asked or some of the government schemes or programs and initiatives can be mentioned by the candidates in the main examination. So the first thing is that India has recently become 6th largest economy and it shows that India is moving towards macroeconomic stability and going forward it will also be able to achieve the 5 trillion dollar economic target also. So this is a significant achievement you have achieved in the past 5 years. Then again inflation has been in control. We have seen in the last 5 years due to policy consistency and due to the efforts by the central bank of India and the government the inflation has been kept in control in the band which has been mentioned by the RBI itself that is 4 percentage plus minus 2 percentage points. So the next thing is that we are moving towards macroeconomic stability, financial stability. The FRBM Act has been revised and committee was, NKCN committee was set up its recommendations were also accepted by the government and we are now moving towards fiscal discipline as well. So and some other initiatives are the Aadhaar Act of 2016 by which we are able to provide subsidies to the people and they are targeted in a better manner the loopholes and the leakages are being washed out in the subsequent implementation of the schemes. The second important area where the government has focused is the Jandhan Yojana, Pradhan Mandiri Jandhan Yojana in which financial inclusion has happened in real terms. More than 40 crore Jandhan accounts have been opened for the people especially women. So it provides financial inclusion to the people, money goes to the people and that money is saved which is in turn converts into investment. So this again is a significant development. On the infrastructure front electricity has reached every village, the Pradhan Mandiri rural electrification scheme has succeeded and the target has been achieved. Then again national highways, air connectivity through the Rodan scheme all have been emphasized and really we are moving very fast in the infrastructure domain which is again very important to provide more and more jobs and to provide supports to the firms to reach the markets etc. Then on the federalism front we have our country has progressed a significant development is the 14 finance commission recommendation which were accepted which has increased this divisible pool of taxes for states to 42% from the earlier 32%. So this is again a significant development and also due to the implementation of GST and due to the proper functioning of the GST council a proper cooperative federalism culture has been created in the country which can serve as a model for other schemes to be implemented. So this again is very important and the last important reform which the government has taken up is the insolvency and bankruptcy code which was brought out in 2016 and has presently resolved loans up to 4 lakh crore amount. So this is again a very significant achievement which has been done by the government. So some of the initiatives which have been mentioned in the economic survey a candidate must make a note of it which can be used in the main examination. Now in the third section of this chapter of the economic survey a blueprint for growth and jobs have been mentioned by the economic side. The first point in this is emphasizing growth which I already talked about growth target of 8% has been targeted. Then the second thing is the virtue cycle view. Now the virtue cycle view is taken from the economies of the Southeast Asian countries as well as China where the focus was mainly on investments which again in turn turn into productive firms which again in turn created jobs and then again a positive spiral in which the country benefited, the people benefited and the GDP increased and increased and increased. So this is again very important. Then again a very important thing is jobs. Now in India we are facing a jobless growth scenario. So for that also investments are very important and those investments if they are done in the MSME sector it will be more productive, more jobs will be created in the rural areas. People do not have to travel to the urban centers and as we know in rural areas the job distance is much widened as compared to the urban areas. So in that sense also this is very important. So and moving forward in the virtue cycle exports become very, very important. Now exports in India are increasing at a very slow pace and in India we have a trade deficit with many of the countries. So export is one domain in which we have an untapped potential, we have a favorable demographic dividend and hence exports can become another source of growth for India because we have untapped markets like in the African region, in the Southeast Asian region, even in the European Union we have untapped markets where India can move forward and in this also MSME sectors must be trained to make them export oriented. Now the next section of this chapter is going beyond the economics of equilibrium in the blueprint. Now as we have mentioned earlier we are moving towards a virtue cycle, a virtue cycle have been emphasized by the economic survey which will only come up when we save more and when we invest more. So for that there has to be many things have to be taken care of and money should go into the hands of the people who will in turn invest this and make the enterprises productive. Next is the navigating a world of constant disclurium. It requires three elements basically. The first is a very clear vision that what we need to achieve. Second is a general strategy to achieve the vision. A strategy must be laid out, the strategy can be a three-prong strategy like the Nithya Aayu Action Agenda and then we have a strategy for 2022. So that can also be taken up and the third is we must have the flexibility and the willingness to continuously recalibrate it in response to some unanticipated situations like any financial crisis or there are NPAs in the banks. So for that we must be ready to recalibrate it, the our policies in the right direction. So in this sense, this chapter in totality it points towards some of the very specific domains which I will mention that change in the modeling approaches, modeling from a equilibrium to a virtual cycle and then we have some behavioral insights going forward. We must move towards nudge economics, motivate people towards favorable behavior which will in turn turn into productivity. Then we have measurements of new concepts like job creation. We need to have specific data for job creation which we are lacking currently. Then we must have micro data also so that we can analyze the job creation scenario in India which can again turn productive and help the enterprises to target people for creating more jobs. Then we also must focus on sustainable development because in India we are also facing dangers of climate change as well. Then the fifth thing is distributions using technology to administer welfare programs effectively and thereby reduce inequality. Now welfare programs like MG Narega can be really made very effective if you use technology like the information and communication technology which can be helped for timely release of payments to the workers. So in this way technology can be used in the social welfare schemes so that it can come more productive, people can benefit more and more. So in this way we have covered the chapter one and the chapter one is very important because it provides a complete blueprint of the Indian economy which again becomes very important source for making questions for the examiners in the general studies, paper three economic exception. So we have covered this thing in our video, in this video and thank you very much. Have a nice day. Subscribe to our channel and click on the bell icon to get latest updates on upcoming videos.


So the thing to remember is that rational expressions are essentially fractions with polynomial numerators and denominators. And what that means is that every rule that we use for the arithmetic of fractions can also be applied to the arithmetic of rational expressions. So, for example, when we add or subtract fractions, as long as they have the same denominator, we keep the common denominator and add or subtract the numerators. So as long as our denominator polynomial isn't zero, if I'm going to add or subtract rational expressions, I'll add or subtract the numerators. Likewise, I can take any fraction and multiply numerator and denominator by the same number, and I can take a rational expression and multiply numerator and denominator by the same quantity. So, for example, let's add and maybe simplify if possible. So, since our denominators are the same, we can add the numerators, and that gets us x squared plus nine. We could try to simplify. So remember, a factor only matters if it's a common factor, and so the only simplification that's going to be possible is if our numerator has a factor of x minus three. And so we can check to see if x minus three is a factor of the numerator. So the question you've got to ask yourself is, is x squared plus nine equal to x minus three times something? If it is, the other factor must be x minus three. But if we expand out the right hand side, we see it doesn't work. So this means that x squared plus nine might factor, but any factorization we get won't be useful, so we'll leave it. How about a subtraction? Since the denominators are the same, we can subtract the numerators. Now we should be a little bit careful here. This is going to be x squared minus the quantity six x minus eight, which will be... Again, it's possible this may simplify, but we only need to check to see if x minus two is a factor of the numerator. So can the numerator be written as x minus two times something? Well the only possibility for the something is x minus four. We check it out, and we see that the factorization does work. And so our numerator is x minus two times x minus four. We can remove the common factor and be left with our final answer, x minus four. Or we can do this, and since our denominators are the same, we can add the numerators. Wait a minute, these are not actually the same. x minus nine is not identical to nine minus x. But here's a useful property to remember. Minus quantity a minus b is the same as b minus a. And what that means is that I can reverse the order of a subtraction by multiplying by negative one. So in our fraction, let's multiply numerator and denominator by negative one. That gives us negative ten as our numerator and reverses the order of the denominator. And now they have the same denominator. So we can add the numerators. We'll try to simplify. We'll see if x minus nine is a factor of the numerator. Can we write five x minus ten as x minus nine times something? And you should convince yourself that no matter what we put inside this parentheses, we will never be able to get five x minus ten. So even if the numerator factors, it's not going to be useful to find that factorization. And we might as well just leave our answer in this form.