Good morning everyone. Thank you for joining class and welcome to class. We'll begin with a word of prayer so can one of you please lead us in prayer and the person who's going to lead us in prayer can also pray for Charles father who's admitted in hospital. He's having ulcers and low blood sugar and dementia so pray for discernment for the doctors even as they treat him and above all pray for supernatural healing to flow through his body for God's peace upon him and Charles and his family and relatives as well. So can some of you please lead us in prayer please? Sure Asha thank you so much. George and we pray for divine miracles and healing taking place in his body God. I pray for God as we said as we lay our hands Lord they shall be recovered by faith Lord we lay our hands on Charles God Stephen God but he is killed in Jesus name but you are believing for a miracle of good Lord I pray that you will be dead 2,000 years ago and your blood can heal any kind of disease that's there any kind of new virus or any kind of thing or and I trust you right now for healing and miracles and I pray a peace over his family Lord I pray that nothing shall strike by them night or day or evening Jesus but everything will be all we pray some sign to God over their family protection, healing, restoration everything Jesus name is declared by the man Amen. Amen thank you so much Asha okay please continue to all of you can pray for Charles dad he's lived in hospital with low blood sugar and ulcers and dementia so just pray for healing okay we learn we're looking at the book of Romans Paul's episode to the church at Rome we've come to Romans chapter 9 and you know today's chapter verses 9 10 11 is going to be very interesting because it focuses on a different theme we'll have a lot of questions so just a little request all of you to listen carefully understand and just maybe wait till the end of the class where I can give you time after I've explained everything then you can if you still have any questions you can please feel free to ask okay so let's begin with the Romans chapter 9 is talking about God's choosing now you know Paul the possible having brought us to this point of just that we are justified with God and our identification who we are in Christ and how we overcome and live the victorious life in the midst of suffering he's spoken to us about all of these things now it's very interesting that in chapters 9 to 11 he focuses on a totally different theme we know that at the church at Rome they were Jews and Gentiles so his focus in chapters 9 to 11 is what is God doing with the Jews okay these are the very these are very unique chapters Paul does not discuss about this at length like he explains here or discusses here anywhere else in his episodes of course in one or two episodes he just talks about it in one or two verses but here you know as he explains or you know he discusses this in details in chapters 9 to 11 about what is God doing with the Jews but in the other episodes one or two episodes which he just makes a passing statement and just one or two verses but here he's just concentrating three chapters at a major portion of his letter to the church at Rome about what God is doing with the Jews so what God is doing with the Jews with the Jewish people and it's very interesting how Paul presents this truth to us you know the question you know that is in the heart and mind of Jews or the Gentiles has God abandoned the Jews because of the church who are now his people you know who he predestined to be conformed to the image of his son so the church basically now is God's people his chosen people who he has predestined to be the image of his son because now since he's chosen the church has he abandoned the people that he chose as his nation to be the modern nation among all the nations of the world the people that he chose among all the other peoples of the world so has he abandoned them for the church and then the other question that you know Paul is trying to answer this also or look at is what should be the church's attitude towards the Jewish people now some of the people you know they left Judaism and they embraced Jesus Christ they're still wondering you know I'm following Jesus who is a Jew and a descendant of Abraham like I or we all are descendants of Abraham we also believe in Jesus as a messiah and we are part of the church we are called we are justified but what about the other Jews who have not believed what does God doing with the rest of the Jews who have not believed who have not accepted Jesus were not part of the church who have not been justified and the whole idea of predestination that we spoke about a little in chapter 8 comes up again in in these chapters and in these chapters 9 to 11 are pretty strong chapters in addressing predestination because you know God chooses the Jewish people ahead of time he's called Abraham he's given him a promise and given him the promises of blessings and you know God did all of this even before the church came into existence but now since the earth had churches come into existence and they are the chosen people of God they received the blessings the promises the covenants that are made is theirs also now so what about the Jews okay what how does the church relate to the Jews what happens to the plan of God and how is God going to you know fulfill his plan because here is you know we see the Old Testament is the the the Easter lights of the Jews of the chosen people and when we come to the New Testament we see the church is given the keys of authority God's chosen people who he has chosen to be confirmed with the image of his son then what happens to you know all the promises that he's spoken about the chosen nation the chosen people group the the Jews where do they stand now where did they come in this picture what is God trying to what is God's plan what is he trying to fulfill how and how is he going to go about doing this so in chapters 9 to 11 Paul is addressing about the Jews and what is God going to do with them so it's very interesting so we will just look at it I know you'll have a lot of questions so you know just listen to carefully and then by the end of the class you can raise up all your questions if you still have any doubts okay so verse one Paul says I tell I tell the truth in Christ I'm not lying my conscious also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit verse two he says that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart it was three he says what I could wish that I myself would have cursed from Christ for my brethren my countrymen according to the flesh was four and five who are Israelites to whom pertain the adoption the glory the covenants the giving of the law sorry the service of God and the promises of whom are the fathers and from whom according to the flesh Christ came who is overall and eternally blessed God amen so in verse one Paul is saying I tell the truth in Christ so that means he's saying I want to share something that is in my heart you know he's just basically unburdening his heart he's saying his heart is filled with sorrow and continual grief why is his heart filled with sorrow and continual grief what is he unburdening his or sharing from his heart what is there in his heart his heart that was burdened as for his people he longs for his people the Jews the chosen people of God you know he longs for them to come to Christ and he says for I could if for I could wish that I myself would have cursed from Christ for my brethren my countrymen according to the flesh now you know very strong words that he's using he's literally saying you know I don't mind going to hell as long as my Jewish brothers you know can come to Jesus and that is the burden that he's carrying in his heart so very strong what he's saying it's okay if I go to hell it's okay if I'm a curse go to hell if as long as you know my Jewish brothers come to know Jesus Christ they come to the faith they believe in Jesus Christ so this is a burden he's carrying for the Jews and this verse you know saying that he says you know he's carrying this grief and continual sorrow shows how much desire and longing he has for his people you know the Jews to come to know Christ and you know is that you know the same sorrow and grief that we carry in our hearts for our own people group for our own families family members who are lost or you know the nation that we come from or the country that we come from the place that we come from you know is our hearts so burdened grieved you know sorrowful that people are lost and the time of Jesus's second coming is so soon is at hand and you know they'll be lost for eternity and I think it's important that you know we are burdened about people who are lost just like you know Paul was so filled with sorrow and grief and similar to Moses you know as we read in Exodus chapter 32 verses 31 and 32 he was he said you know he was willing to have his name blotted out of the of God's book so that Israel could be forgiven I mean that's the heart that Moses carried for his people you know remember at one point of time he didn't even want to go you know and go to Egypt and do what God was calling him to do what the burning bullshit so many excuses but here when he got into that shoes of that of being a leader you know he he does not want to quit there are times when God says you know take Moses you take the people and go my presence is not going with you and we know how Moses vice got back into the picture and you know he talks to God and tells reminds him of the promises that he made and and God comes back and he says okay I'll come along with you you know uh so we see that Moses does not quit he does not give up is such a heart for this people group that he's leading even though these people group this group of people have been so annoying grumbling murmuring complaining but we see that you know Moses stands in the gap and intercedes so here as well you know Paul says in verse one he says my conscience bears witness with the holy spirit so here we see that you know his conscience and the the con and the holy spirit bear witness okay so his conscience bears witness and the holy spirit also bears witness so what is our conscience our conscience is basically the voice of our own spirit it's our inner voice our conscious conscience has been pre-programmed by God to know what is right and is wrong and we also know that it's not only our conscience but the holy spirit also bears witness in our spirit man okay so there are two that is bearing witness one is our conscience and the holy spirit the holy spirit also bears you know witness in our spirit man you know by giving us a red signal or the green signal the red signal is when you know there's anxiety there's worry there's restlessness there's tightening in our spirit binding in our spirit man then we know the holy spirit is telling us through these emotions that it's not the right time to venture out not the right time to do not the right person to interact with this is not something that you should be going ahead with but if he sends peace it's a way that the holy spirit tells us okay go ahead you know you can do it you know he gives us a piece so that is the inner witness of the holy spirit and it's wonderful you know when our conscience you know bears witness and the holy spirit also bears witness when both of these are in agreement you know when my spirit is in complete agreement with the holy spirit testifying jointly about something you know it's wonderful and it it makes the conviction much more stronger you know it brings about stronger conviction complete assurance there's a good togetherness about the matter and you know and we feel that you know the confidence to go ahead and do what god wants us to do because we have the inner witness of the holy spirit and also our conscience is bearing witness and our conscience can come to that place where it's in it's in tune with the with the holy spirit with our spirit man is when our conscience are pure set when our lives are pure our motives are pure when our lives are set aside for god is when our conscience is also pure and that's when it can also bear witness along with the holy spirit both are in total agreement it's going to be just so powerful it just brings about strong conviction complete assurance and togetherness and so here we see in this case you know Paul's conscience and the best witness and the inner witness of the holy spirit also is bearing witness in this case it's about his heart for the Jewish people so we can just feel his burden that even as he talks about his grief and sorrow for his own people yes we know that Paul was appointed to preach the gospel to the Gentiles and he's doing that he's been faithful to his call and we know that he has been faithful but you know still he has a heart and a burden for his own people the Jews so Paul is basically setting up things for what he's going to say Paul is actually basically meaning here to say that you know yes I'm an apostle you know by choice willingly I chose to become a born servant yes I'm a preacher to the Gentiles I'm called by God to preach the Gentiles but I'm also a Jew okay so he's saying I'm an apostle to the church of Jesus Christ and but I'm also a Jew you know I have a great heart for my own people so he's basically positioning himself because he's going to be talking the next three chapters about the Jews and the church and he wants to make his position on his stand very very clear he's trying to you know tell yes I'm a apostle I'm a by choice I've chosen myself to be a born servant of Christ Jesus I also know that I have a calling to the Gentiles but hey I stand in this position here I'm a Jew I'm a born Jew and hence I have a burden for my own people so he's trying to make his position clear so that what he's going to be mentioning or talking about or writing about in the next three chapters will know people have a great clarity about his stand and his position and in verse four he says you know who are the Israelites the Israelites the Jewish people theirs is the adoption that means God chose the Jews the Israelites among all the nations of the world among all the peoples of the world to be his chosen people to be his chosen nation and it was to them that he revealed his glory they saw his glory you know the glory of the 10 plagues in Egypt the parting of the Red Sea the water from the rocks the manna the quail the way he fought the battles for them the way he gave them the promised land so you know they experienced his glory they were the ones who were the recipients of receiving the law they were the ones who received the covenants though it's given to Abraham the mosaic covenant theirs was the promises you know God was going to fulfill the promises through the station of Israel and theirs was the priesthood as well the service of God was talking about the priesthood so you know all of these things you know God gave to the people of Israel but Paul later on you know not the chapter nine later on he goes on to say that these blessings were now passed on to the Gentiles but yes they've passed on to the Gentiles but he's starting off from where God started where did God start he started with the Jewish people and he gave them all of this okay and was finally says you know the Jewish people also came from the fathers their fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob and you know they also consider David as as well as one of their four fathers and it says in the line of all of them you know the line of Jewish race Jesus in the natural came from this race came from this nation he was born as a Jew so the the Jews or the Israelites were so privileged okay because they had all of these things you know the promises the covenants the glory the adoption has been children of God to be chosen theirs where their fathers Abraham Isaac Jacob and David as well and through this lineage Jesus Christ the Savior of the world was also born came from this race from this nation and then he says you know Christ Christ came who is overall the eternally blessed God so he calls Jesus Christ not how he calls Jesus Christ there he calls him as the eternally blessed God so when people ask us can they show me in the Bible where does it show that you know Jesus Christ is God so here we can easily show because it says who came according to the flesh Christ came according to the flesh in the Jewish race has born the Jewish race but he is eternally blessed God so this is one of the places that we can point to them to show that he is eternally God and he's eternally blessed God because it's mentioned here who Jesus Christ is okay now going on to verses 6 to verse 13 can somebody read that please verses 6 to 13 slowly and clearly for us somebody verses 6 to 13 but it is not as though the word of God has failed and not all who are descended from Israel belongs to Israel and not all are children of everyone because they are his offspring but two Isaac's children are offspring of me this means that it is not the children of the flesh or the children of God but the children of the promise that come to us as offspring for this is what the promise said about this time next year I will return and Sarah should have a son and not only so but also when Rebecca had conceived a children by one month our forefather Isaac though they were not yet born and have been done nothing either good or bad in order that God's purpose of election may continue not because of works but because of him who calls she was told the older will serve the younger as it is written verse 13 as is written Jacob I have loved but he so I have hated okay thank you very much Asha okay in you know these are a little controversial verses to you know understand and to discern but I'll just explain it and then if you have any doubts maybe we can I can explain even the the verses you know from verse 14 to 18 and then we can take up any questions because they are all interlinked okay so he was six you know Paul is saying but it's not that the word of God has taken no effect for they are not all Israel who are of Israel so says God chose the nation of Israel yes he spoke wonderful things to them he gave them wonderful promises but what God has spoken about them you know is it wasted or ineffective no it's not wasted it's not ineffective it still holds so in verse 7 he says nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham but in Isaac your seed shall be called so he explains that not everyone who is a Jew in the natural was what God was referring to when he says that you know they are they would be the sons of promise or they will they will be children who will inherit the promise so what Paul is basically saying here is not that everyone who was a Jew in the natural was born as a Jew or Jewish parents to the Jewish race what what God was referring to as in Isaac your seed shall be called or you know they will they be called as children because they're the seed of Abraham but he goes on to say that you know God wasn't talking about natural people but the children of promise so they are the ones who are the real descendants that God was speaking of so who are these children of promise the children of promise here are he's talking about believers both Jews and Gentiles so what basically Paul is saying here is that you know when when God said that you know the children nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham but in Isaac your seed shall be called he says not all children means not all those who are born of the Jewish race in the natural what was what was what God was referring to as the children of promise but he was basically referring to those who would be children of promise who put their faith in Jesus Christ so it's not just Jews by natural birth but it's also here talking about children of promise as referring to believers both Jews and Gentiles and so he says in Isaac your seed shall be called so God wasn't talking of natural people but children of promise who are the ones who are the real descendants that God was speaking of and who are these real descendants that God is speaking of are those who put their faith in Jesus Christ and he says at this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son so we see that God gave a promise to Abraham and Sarah that they will have a son and you know Paul is just presenting a thought here and he says not only this but you know think about this as well you know he says he's talking about Isaac and he's talking about Rebecca here and he's talking about their children and even before Esau and Jacob were born you know God is actually predetermining things for them he's speaking about them he's speaking of them he says the old shall serve the younger Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated okay he says older the older shall serve the younger Jacob I have loved but Esau I have it hated so even before the children were born and could have any say you know God says the older shall serve the younger and he says that Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated now this is what he refers to in verse 11 now verse 11 is actually the big words he says for the children not yet being born not having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to the election might stand not by not a works but of him who calls so God's predetermined purpose in this case he's already selected Jacob and here we see his selection is not based on works because he says not on works but of him who calls but it was according to the call of God so God selected you know Jacob over Esau according to his purpose and his calling and he you know was the one who chose the person now when we look back at what God says here you know the older shall serve the younger Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated you know this was it looks like you know that God has already selected you know God has already planned ahead of time and since God already selects or God already plans ahead of time then we don't have anything to say okay you know we just go with God what God wants to do because he's already decided in his head he's already planned in his head but we know that this is not true from the rest of scripture okay so how do we interpret this you know this verse in the light of what he says in the rest of other scripture now we know in the rest of other scripture you know we always need to interpret scripture in the light of other scripture so in other scripture we also see the rest of scripture that you know God has given man the free will to choose okay we see that right in the garden of Eden okay when God created Adam and Eve but he gave them an own mind he gave them a will to choose he told them what to choose and what not to choose but he gave them a free will so even as we read these chapters in verses chapters 9 to chapter 11 of Romans we need to see it in the light of you know of you know of the rest of scripture God has revealed to us in the rest of scripture the rest of scripture we see that you know God has given man the free will to choose and if you don't see these chapters in the light of you know what God has revealed that he has given man the free will to choose we will most likely come away with this idea that God has already decided everything you know we are just like puppets God just uses us to fulfill his purpose and each one is already predetermined to do something the choices that they make you know we should not come away with the start we shouldn't read all of this with blinders on but we need to read this in the light of other scriptures the light of other scriptures we see that man has the free moral will to choose for example Adam and Eve now we know that God created Adam and Eve he told them what the tree not to eat not to eat from and the rest of the trees that they can eat from but God when Adam and Eve chose to eat from the tree that God asked them not to do to eat from you know God did not predetermine Adam and Eve's choice we need to get that right okay God did not predetermine Adam and Eve's choice he did not predetermine that you know they would go and choose this they would go and sin and this obey him okay so this was not a predetermined choice of God but it was Adam's choice it was Adam who made the choice he had two options in front of him but you know he was the one who made the choice said God know that he's going to make the choice yes God knew beforehand that he's going to make the choice and he also had another plan to come into motion but it was not God who predetermined Adam's choice so let's take another example like Moses you know Moses when he struck the rock twice God not asking to strike the rock like he asked him previously asked him to speak to the rock and he struck the rock twice you know we know that he sinned against God he disobeyed God he dishonored God in in the eyes of the Israelites and what was the result the consequences of that they could not enter the promised land just like Adam and Eve they forfeited their privilege of you know living in the garden of sorry to live in the garden of Eden and also to have dominion over the earth so did God you know predetermine Adam's or Moses's choice no it was Moses who was angry got angry and who struck the rock twice it was not God who predetermined the choice for him so we need to understand these chapters chapters 9 to chapters 11 in the light of what I just said that you know God has given us a free moral will to choose he's given man a free moral will to choose so Paul is saying here you know yes there is a purpose of God for Jacob and Esau but in God's predetermined purpose he already said that the older will serve the younger okay so by stating this he's not predetermining that choices he's only stating ahead of time what that choices are going to be because he knows what Esau is going to choose that he's going to sell his birthright just for a bowl of you know soup or broth you know just because he was so hungry that he even doesn't care for his spiritual birthright he does not have any you know he does not have any honor or respect and consider his birthright as a worthless thing that he's willing to sell it for a bowl of soup but we see that you know even though Jacob was a crafty man so to say he was not right he was not perfect but he was somebody who pursued God's heart pursued the plan of God he wanted his spiritual inheritance and so here by stating by God saying that you know the older shall serve the younger it's not that God is making the choice for them or he's predetermined you know what they're going to do but he's already or he's predetermined that choices but he already knows beforehand you know what choices they're going to make what choice Esau is going to make what choice Jacob is going to make and what he's doing here is he's basically you know just stating that choice and you know he's only stating ahead of time what their choices were going to be but God is equally opened to both of them okay and because of these choices that he stated ahead of time he knows you know who is going to choose him who is not going to choose him and hence he says that he would love one and hate the other now when it says now he he will hate the other we also need to remember and you know when we need to interpret this the light of scripture we know that when John says God is love when God is love he cannot have hate if he has hate in him he has sin in him and he cannot be God he's not perfect okay so hate it means just that he did not you know he did not like the choice or he did not go with the choice that Esau had made but why did God say Jacob I have love but Esau I have hated if we read about this this incident in Hebrews chapter 12 verses 15 to 17 he says lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau who for one muscle of food sold his birthright for you know that afterward when he wanted to inherit the blessing he was rejected for he found no place for repentance though he sorted diligently with tears so look at the harsh words or the strong words the writer of Hebrews refers to Esau he refers to him as a fornicator and profane man now you know what was Esau's mistake right he he comes from hunting he's famished he's extremely hungry hungry so hungry that you know he just just wants so food something to eat immediately and you know that Jacob uses the opportunity and tells him to give his birthright to him and you know we see that you know he just wanting to give up his birthright for you know just for a bowl of soup okay so here is a man who's living for immediate gratification of his flesh has no word for his for spiritual calling spiritual standing spiritual inheritance whereas we see Jacob was not a perfect man he cheated his brother he cheated his father he ran away and his basically the word Jacob even means cheater but in spite of all his imperfections he had a heart towards God okay Esau was willing to sell or give away everything that God had on his life you know it was God's calling as the older what God called him for his life the inheritance the promises that was going to be passed on from generation to generation he was going to inherit it but he had no significance for that he had no worth for that he had he did not look at it as something that's valuable and he gave up everything just for a bowl of soup or just for a meal so Jacob was not perfect but he sorted God you know he wanted the spiritual inheritance the birthright we also see later in we read in Genesis chapter 32 that he engaged with God he was not willing to let go of God you know until God blessed him and we see that you know ultimately he receives his blessing and his name is changed to from Jacob to Israel so he we see his spiritual pursuit for God and that is what touched the heart of God in spite of his character flaws and he engaged with God and he got what he wanted so here God knowing ahead of time what that choice is that these two young people are going to make hence God says you know he says that older shall serve the younger and Jacob I have loved but he saw I have hated I just you know and love means I love the choice that he made but I hate the choice that you know or detest the choice that or saddened by the choice that Esau has made so God says this based on full knowledge and not on predetermining that individual choices so you need to you know remember this this is not something that he predetermined their choices to be or he did not predetermined that they are going to you choose this and you choose that but it was his full knowledge that he knew ahead of time that you know what Jacob is going to choose and what we saw is going to choose so if we say that God predetermined their choices then Esau could have turned around and told God God you predetermined my choice you are to be blamed okay and we see no Paul later on talking about this on this whole aspect he talks about the analogy of a porter and clay you know the porter in this instance you know porter in the natural if you look the porter makes the clay the clay has no say in what kind of shape or object the porter is going to make but in our instance we are it's different you know we have the porter who is called we are the clay but we as a clay God has not made us mere puppets or as dumb beings but he's given us a mind he's given us a will to choose and we have a say and God respects our other choices that we make okay remember in chapter one we read that you know even though God has revealed himself in creation that you know the creation reveals the invisible attributes of God his divine power and his Godhead but still you know people even though having a knowledge of this they still chose to give in to you know lustful evil desires and worshiping gods that are no gods and what does it say Paul says you know God Paul says in chapter one God gave them up to their deprived mind that means God gave them up to the choices that they make this is your choice go ahead you choose and you know so he's not somebody who treats us like puppets but he you know we read there in Romans chapter one he gave them up to their own choices so here also he gave up he sought to make his own choice he gave Jacob to make his own choice so he continues on in verses 14 to 18 where he says what shall we say then is that unrighteousness with God certainly not for he says to Moses I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion verse 16 he says so then it's not of him who wills not of him who runs but of God who shows mercy verse 17 for the scripture says to to the pharaoh for this very purpose I have raised you up that I may show my power in you and that my name may be declared in all the earth verse 18 says therefore he has mercy on whom he wills and whom he wills he hardens so Paul is continuing with this discussion and he's bringing about a few more examples here about pharaoh and about what he tells Moses but in verse 14 he says you know he asks a question again he brings you know he follows the same style what he's doing in the book of Romans asking these rhetorical questions where he answers has the question and gives the answer himself so Paul is saying asking a question that you and I would be inclined to ask after reading the previous verses where it says is God being unjust and he chooses somebody you know he loves some he hates others and you know he says no certainly not that's not who God is but here he says you know I will have but you know God speaks to Moses and so Paul is saying you know God says I will have mercy on whom ever I will have mercy and I will I have compassion on whom ever I will have compassion now you know when we read this we need to understand that you know his mercy God's mercy and compassion are extended on everyone like it says in Psalm so we need to interpret this scripture you know Romans chapter 9 verse 15 you know not thinking that you know God has mercy on some he does not have mercy on the others he shows compassion on some he doesn't show compassion on others when we're saying this we're believing this we're saying God is partial and it says in God's word that you know God says I am not partial I'm not a partial God I show no partiality you know for Paul himself says for God there is no June or Greek male or female all are one before him so when we read this we need to read it and also interpret it in the light of the rest of scripture he says here that you know in in Psalms chapter 1.5 verses 9 to 10 it says the Lord is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his work so no mark the words there the Lord is good to all okay and his tender mercies are over all his works the Lord is gracious and slow to anger okay and so we know that God's mercy and compassion is extended to everyone and so we need to understand God's mercy and compassion not as being selective and partial God is not selective and partial in his expression of being merciful and compassion compassionate but his mercy and compassion are extended to everyone but okay his mercy and compassion begins to work in the lives of those who choose to receive it now God's mercy and compassion is for everyone just like you know his eternal life is for everyone he died on the cross for everyone but you know those who believe in him also love the world you know he loved the world that he gave his only son for everyone in the world but says those who but whoever believes in him will not perish but have eternal life so the same principle works here God is gracious and compassionate and loving and merciful to everyone but his mercy and compassion begins to work in the lives of those who receive it and here in this context when what Paul is talking about is specifically in the life of Jacob now what happened in Jacob's life was God's grace and compassion but it was not selective or partial care and compassion it was because he opened his life to you know receive God's compassion and his mercy so we need to interpret this you know this verse that you know God says I will show mercy on whom I want to show mercy show compassion on whom I want to show compassion in the light of other scripture that God is compassionate gracious to all but it is those who you know open up or receive his compassion and his mercy it's in depth those people like that his compassion and his mercy really works so in verse 16 of chapter 9 he says so then it's not of him who wills nor of him who runs but of God who shows mercy so here the focus is not on the person who's making the choice or saying yes to God you know and opening their lives to receiving his mercy in this instance Jacob you know yes Jacob made the right choice he ran with what pleased God but we can't say Jacob was the hero you know it was still because God extended his mercy and grace or his compassion towards him why did God extend this mercy and compassion towards him is because he opened up his life he came to that place where he was willing to receive God's mercy compassion and his blessing okay remember when he wrestles with the angel God and he says I will not let you go till you bless me so he was basically you know wanting his spiritual inheritance spiritual birthright he wanted that he was opening himself up to God's mercy compassion and his blessing okay whereas we see that you know Esau was close to that okay he was not he was not open to the things of God and when he was open it was very late he had already lost his blessing his inheritance his birthright so is God being unfair no it's because of the choices that each one of them made and he did not predetermine their choice but he foreknew the choices that they're going to make so just so before we close we look at verse 17 where it says but scripture says a pharaoh for this very purpose God says you know telling pharaoh for this very purpose I have raised you up that I may show my power in you and that my name may be declared in all the earth okay and then verse 9 18 therefore he has mercy on whom he wills and whom he wills he harbors so God raised pharaoh you know through whom God chose to fulfill his purpose and show his path did God you know did God harden his heart or did God you know did the pharaoh harden his heart okay but scripture as we read says pharaoh hardened his heart and it also says that God hardened pharaoh's heart okay so the whole question is did God harden his heart you know to disobey God or to go against him or not to be willing to yield or to let the people go um how did pharaoh harden his heart so what does scripture say scripture says that pharaoh hardened his heart and God also hardened pharaoh's heart so if God hardened pharaoh's heart then you know pharaoh is not to be blamed so how do we understand this again we understand it in the light of the rest of scripture like I just said we in Romans 1 you know we read that God gave them up to their deprived deprived minds you know we know that God did not make their minds as deprived minds he did not you know he did not predetermine that they will choose other gods but we see that you know people made their own choice and we also see that God did not prevent them from going that way he let them you know he let them go into their depraved mind to do what their depraved mind wants to do and it led to every kind of evil behavior and action so here we must understand it in this scripture passage of verses 17 and 18 in the rest of other scripture as well you know so here we see that you know yes pharaoh chose to harden his heart so as pharaoh chose to harden his own heart God let him you know go his way he said okay want to choose to harden your heart you don't want to obey you don't want to give in that's fine so God allowed him to go his own way to harden his heart and you know he chose pharaoh chose to harden his heart to the god that moses was talking about the miracles moses was doing in the name of God pharaoh said I don't care you know I'm stronger and bigger than your God so since pharaoh chose to harden his his own heart God let him do it and that is what you know scripture means when it says that God you know harden pharaoh's heart that means that doesn't mean God hardened his heart it means that God just let him be hard hearted he just let him make his own choice he let him just pursue his hard heartedness you know to think he's bigger and stronger than God that he does not care it does not mean that God hardened his heart because pharaoh who chose to harden his heart was just God who allowed him to make his own choices so as pharaoh chose you know to harden his heart it only God it only gave an opportunity for God to display his greatness and his power so even if pharaoh would not have hardened his heart with respect of that God could have just still shown his greatness and power you know but here you know that was pharaoh's choice he chose it was not God's choice for him but we see that you know God used this opportunity to display his greatness and his power and therefore he says I have mercy on whom he wills and whom he will see hardens which means that's not God saying that I will have mercy on some and I will harden some people's heart no it's he's basically saying I know who's going to choose uh you know my mercy and I'm going I know who's going to harden their hearts and I'm just going to let them choose to make their own choices but those who you know open their hearts and their lives to my mercy and compassion I will show my mercy and compassion those who choose to harden their hearts you know they will experience their own the repercussions of their own choices and they will live out the repercussions of their own choices okay we stop here anyone has any questions sorry I took a little extra time anyone has any questions we're able to understand okay okay anyone else any questions any doubts okay if there's no questions any doubts and it is clear for all of you praise God that you understood it and yeah we'll meet on Friday we'll continue with the rest of the verses in chapter nine sorry for taking three minutes of that extra time 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Hello and welcome this is Dr. Michael Gregor live from my treadmill Here to answer any and all questions you may have I Did a Facebook live earlier today and doing YouTube now We'll do this every month for those of you unfamiliar with my work every year I read through every issue of every English language nutrition journal in the world so busy folks like you Don't have to I think follow the most interesting most groundbreaking most practical findings into new videos and articles upload every day to my Website nutrition facts or everything on the website is free There are no ads no commercial No corporate sponsorships strictly not commercial not selling anything just put it up as a public service as a labor of love as a tribute to my grandmother who is the reason that I went into medicine and Practice lifestyle medicine to this day Let me start at the top, and I will go through the questions and hopefully get to yours Paul asked are there any health concerns associated with drinking water from plastic bottles? Yes, there are if you look at there are both microbiological Concerns as well as chemical concerns. So for example From polycarbonate plastic if you search on nutrition facts that are for the word for the letters BPA You will see Videos about some of these plastics chemicals also on the fowlates start spell with a P P T H AL ATES Check out those or just type in plastics or plastic into nutrition facts that organ will search bar all my videos have come up And you can enjoy Lance ass. How do I prevent? water intoxication If I don't solve my foods If So hi bonnet dream is is you can actually wash out the electrolytes in your system if you exercise intensely sweat a lot and are just drinking pure water The concern was that wait a second don't have to add salt to my food as if for millions of years of evolution We had salt shakers sitting there No need to add salt to food But we should but if you are Excessively exercising you need to replete your electrolytes. That's the whole kind of Gatorade thing you can do it a lot healthier than just drinking sugar water by Eating actual food like fruit And so we should get all our sodium from natural sources not from salt shaker not from processed Which you do not have to take a bag of potato chips on your bike rides Seabird asks I am requesting an option to see Spanish subtitles absolutely in fact We have Spanish subtitles on hundreds of videos people don't realize that if you do a search for videos on nutrition facts or There's language options. You can say I just want to see the ones with Polish subtitles or Russian subtitles or You know the Italian subtitles and Spanish is actually our most common one We've got hundreds of videos already translated. We have a whole team of translation volunteers You actually can be one of those if you'd like to help out We're actually going to convert the entire site into Spanish So not just the subtitles for all the videos, but like all the wording on the sites It'll be like a little flag, you know, you go to some websites and there's like you can choose your language Well, it's gonna be same thing nutrition facts or where you can see it in English You can see the entire site in Spanish And then we're gonna move to other languages to broaden the Number of people that can have access to this life changing life saving information But right now you can access those Spanish subtitles by just doing a Search on nutrition facts that are work and then clicking the Spanish language button All right, Laura asked come on it. I've been diagnosed with a thrombus a clot takes warfare in every day to maintain an Are there vegetarians that is guaranteed reversal without anticoagulants? Absolutely not you need anti if you have Excessively clotting blood for whatever reason or if you have a heart valve or any kind of internal Hardware that could cause your blood to clot Although there is There are there's basically what's called salicylic acid which is kind of the active ingredient in aspirin found in plant foods Not just in willow bark or is originally Harvested from and so people eating plant-based diets, particularly eating spicy plant-based diets There's a lot of salicylates in spices like cumin You will have blood levels of aspirin Which rival that of people actually taking a baby aspirin a small dose aspirin pill every day Even though you're not on aspirin you have the same aspirin doses in your body That may actually been be beneficial in terms of reducing Heart disease risk Stroke risk certain types of stroke risk as well as cancer risk And I've got a bunch of videos coming up on aspirin and cancer But that's not your blood would not be thin enough to prevent clots if you have some excessive clotting disorder And so if your physician wants your own kumitan then you need to To remain on kumitan as long and just make sure that you they titrate the greens consumption You dark green leafy vegetable consumption is not a kumitan That's basically kumitan is a vitamin K poison and so if you eat a lot of vitamin K You need to up your dose to keep them in line All right Okay, Lance Okay Lance is just making some comments. That's good. Okay. I'm gonna keep going down I Don't know how to pronounce a Jo a with a little thing on it. Oh, sorry The the city has an exam with 289 people on grounds for milliliter of B12. Is that a healthy level? You Assuming those of the units I'm familiar with Yes, that would be fine But you still would want to take the question is should continue to take bottom B12 Of course, you should a 2,500 micrograms once a week of cyanobulamins probably all you or anyone should need And you say well, wait a second one of my levels are fine Well, they won't be fine for long if you don't get a regular reliable source of vitamin B12 I Sarah read an article from a nutrigenomics company saying that your genes determine whether or not Animal or plant-based omega-3s are good for you all omega-3s are originally plant-based And are then created by animals such as yourselves when you eat them There may be polymorphisms, but which means kind of gene variations in Delta-6 desaturates enzymes the elongation enzymes, but and so one may want to take a Preformed the long chain of make a three Fadi has a supplement. I've got a bunch of videos new videos about that. So check it out a Vitamin Lindsay says what do I think about intermittent fasting?  I keep saying that but I do and It's actually a really complex topic And but I will be talking about all the variations of intermittent fasting water only fasting Timing duration meals all sorts of good stuff. It's all coming out. It's not that I'm trying to keep anything from you I just haven't read all the science yet. There's tremendous load hundreds of new articles and so I want to make sure I have a sense of where they're going just Doing kind of a light reading, but I want to do a deep dive before I Before I synthesize all the available science Alright Michael good name as if you take a DHA EPA supplement How much ALA should you get every day as it's still important to keep an omega-6 to make a three ratio four to one? So If you're already getting pre I mean so the reason one wants to keep their ratio Relatively low of mega six to mega threes is To kind of facilitate your body's elongation the short chain of mega threes found in flaxseeds and walnuts Into the long chain versions But so do you still need to do that if you're taking um, you know, and do you need to get a source of Availa like flaxseeds or walnuts or hemp nuts or chia seeds if you're already taking that and my answer is Yes to both but not for the reason one might think so I mean what's the recommendation to About a mega six ratio. It's stay away from junkie of vegetables like Cornell safflower oil sunflower oil and cotton seed oil so you'd still want to do that regardless for all sorts of reasons and Why so do you not have to take flaxseeds now if you're getting a preform source of DHA will make a three-star the only reason we eat Super-healthy foods like flaxseeds and walnuts they have other health-prone and compounds for example flaxseeds have these anti-cancer lignan compounds Which you know you would be missing out on so I'd still stick with my daily doesn't recommendation to get a tablespoon of ground flaxseeds Every day for the other health benefits Priscilla talked about BPA at the beginning Sereno are their plant foods that reverse posture orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and small fiber neuropathy I Do not know of any But if you do a Pub med cert if you got pub med dot gov gov That's the database the National Library of Medicine Largest medical library in the world and you type in whatever syndrome that you're interested in and the word diet or foods or such and Studies come up. I'd be happy to look at them Send them my way. I will dig them up. And if there's something interesting useful for others. I will Make a video about it and share with others Alright Steve what foods would I recommend for a toddler to have on a daily basis? Oh, like a daily dozen toddler version. That's a good idea. I should come up with that Until I do though, I would encourage you to check out wonderful sources like anything Brenda Davis has written or read Mangles has written they both done wonderful books and chapters on Feeding healthy diets to infants and small children Um Christine and Amos has any research on diet and macular degeneration Very certain there is I just haven't looked at it yet. I haven't got to my latest eye folder Studies I could actually look at it now, but it would take some time But if there is I realize that's an issue that a lot of people deal with and will definitely do any videos on Any new exciting developments in that area? David asked what foods increase stamina and energy. I need more than a caffeine jolt well The question is I mean you should as a healthy person Have lots of stamina energy and if you don't if you're tired fatigue then instead of Caffeine like jolts or other stimulants that you can certainly try you treat the cause you're not getting enough sleep Do you have a endocrinological hormonal issue or? Anemia there's all sorts of things that can make people kind of drag and tired so you should get diagnosed So you can go to for example plant-based docs.com find somebody who knows a clue about nutrition and treating the cause of lifestyle medicine Treating the cause of disease and then you shouldn't need to have any kind of jolt in your life because life Will be jolt enough All right Any session any suggestions on rosacea lots of typical kind of medical Suggestions, but in terms of dietary suggestions. I don't think I've even have a let me see if I even have a Folder on rosacea. I don't think so because I haven't seen any videos Nope so I haven't seen any articles come by but I have a It's called a patent PubMed alert on rosacea and died Meaning you can set up a search in PubMed.gov a National Library of Medicine site such that even if there isn't any articles Currently on what you're interested in you can sign up for an email alert to get a an email anytime Anywhere in the world and peer-reviewed scientific literature a study is published on your topic So sign up on anything you're interested in if something comes by send it my way and I will get it for you Interpreted for you and if has broad applicability Do a video about it? all right Steve Oz is there any evidence that a vegan diet can affect testosterone production? Yes and I've got a video about that coming up in the next nine weeks Available now actually you can get a sneak peek of all the next nine weeks Actually about ten weeks of videos coming on nutrition facts.org I just released an email blast on Tuesday two days ago if you did not get that email You're not subscribed to my free newsletter. So feel free to subscribe if you want and And you and so the video is coming up and you can see it now streaming and video As well and that's all that information is in the email blast Which will come out next week on as a blog on the site, but if you want to see it now you should subscribe Okay David asks talk to Oprah Getting your own TV show send doctor Oz I was actually on a doctor Oz once which was Very neat talking about TMAO trimethylene oxide and the carnitine and cold ink connection Would love to do more And so yeah, the more people I can reach about evidence-based nutrition the better Danielle asked about FOD maps and another hot research topic I'll be doing a series of videos about but have yet to read the I've collected them We have a team of volunteer article retrievers You can be one too by signing up by clicking on the volunteer opportunities button and nutrition facts.org. We are Retrieving about 1700 articles Every week now categorizing so I have a Massive FOD maps folder, but I have yet to read all the articles and make a series of videos about them So I will let you know Catwoman XwX Ass is corn healthy. Well Foods aren't healthy or unhealthy. They are healthier or less healthy, right? So cool is corn healthy compared to what? Well, it's corn healthy compared to most things. Yeah I would choose yellow corn or even better purple or blue corn But yeah corn in the cotton It's how most people eat corn, which is the problem Like tortilla chips bad You know deep-fried, you know taco shells bad, but eating corn on the cob or that's delicious wonderful Of course, you're not slobbering butter on it. What I do is I do hot sauce and black pepper but Do however you like or you can sprinkle some some balsamic vinegar. That's also yummy, too. Or at least yummy to me All right, how much? Oh? Vitamin K1 K2 Videos about that coming up. No audio. Are people really not hearing audio? I There's a note saying there's no audio. I'm hoping people are hearing audio. Otherwise, there'd be lots of I don't know Let me know if you are not hearing any audio Here I'm gonna scroll down to the bottom. Oh someone hears me Okay. All right, so okay I Scroll down to comments and other people say I can hear you so I guess we do have audio Okay, so I'm scrolling back up to try to not lose my place Where am I? Oh darn it Okay, I lost my place. All right, so I'm just gonna Scroll down in the middle of comments and start answering more way where I left off. Oh boy. They're scrolling fast. Okay I've got does from bloke guy asked us freezing whole foods Now someone's calling me hopefully that's not in regards to the YouTube channel It'll have to go to voicemail. Does freezing whole foods like potato rice and beans ruin nutritional benefits?  So we're stuck with chickpeas, but that's fine Big, you know over the weekend do a big pot of beans and then you can freeze it and a nice little serving-sized containers and then you know throwing stuff throughout the week. That's a great idea bloke guy The vegan animator asked us eating carbs make it harder to lose fat. We have to I mean carbs as Dr. Katz David Katz likes to say carbs are lollipops or lentils You can't really talk about carbs.  I excuse my Facebook in fact, let me look Because I don't want to get that wrong PCOS Yes, Paulie. Oh, here we go treating Paul. I have a video coming up soon Actually, you can watch it right now streaming in the new DVD But if not, you can just wait for it to pop up for free on nutrition facts or but I can give you I can read it right now Okay Plus as your very yeah, you have blah blah, so I basically give the intro talk about How to prevent it, but we want how to treat it, right?  All right the glycotoxins to smoke not only increase risk of heart disease and cancer, but also The problems with PCOS, and so of course you'd want to stay away from other high glycotoxin foods like Like meat that is cooked with high heat such as broiling searing frying, etc And then oh so basically a low AGE diet I think that's what this video is coming out with and you're like wait a second What is an AGE what is a glycotoxin just type that into nutrition facts dot org and you can learn all about Advanced glycation end product so eating a low AGE diet evidently Can help with PCOS as this video coming up soon on nutrition facts will tell you all with all the primary sources, of course All right S O's Turk Oz Turk asks what do I think about nut and seed butter for fit people who want to lose a Bit more body fat and build muscle. Well, I I Nut and seed butters I encourage people to eat nuts and seeds every day as part of a daily dozen Checklist of foods I encourage people to get into their daily diet and get a free app iPhone Android Dr. Various daily dozen and so yes, I think you should eat it but Not to necessarily Lose body fat and build muscle but just as a as a nutritious food You know the way to build muscle is resistance exercise Alright That vegan surgeon Asks, do you have to buy whole flaxseeds or are milled flaxseeds? Okay? What if they aren't they oxidized they're milled before eating and the answer is no You can you can if you you can grind flaxseeds live in an airtight container on your kitchen counting I didn't refrigerate it for months without significant oxidation Which is quite remarkable. I think the reason people have that the sense is because Flaxseed oil oxidizes very rapidly. You have to keep it in the fridge. Even then it oxidizes really rapidly goes rancid but You know, it's it's isolated. It's fractionated From the flaxseeds itself the ground flaxseeds flaxseeds are packed with antioxidants to keep that very unstable Omega-3 fats safe and And so again, that's why we eat whole foods because it becomes as a package deal to keep the Make three fantasies marks that you so you can buy them free mill you can mill them yourself Whatever you want to do.  I've got a video about kereginin Get out Bottom line. I think for people that have Gastrointestinal inflammation may want to stay away from it Okay, whoa My so many cuts so many questions In my screen keeps keeps scrolling up and so I so I'm about to read something and then disappears. Okay. Um, Well keep scrolling. Okay, so Vin Bailey s. How do you five date? Oh? Okay, hold on stop scrolling. Okay. Sorry about that Okay, Matthew Hello, my wife has been on a whole food plant-based diet for months and her nasal polyps are shrinking But her nose is still stuffy does she need surgery to get rid of them or where they clear up on their own, you know I Well, so nasal polyps can form these kind of little fingers in your nose It's an inflammatory reaction So it may be that could explain why an anti-inflammatory diet whole plant foods could cause them to shrink Unfortunately, there's no data. I've never I've not so I mean that I guess it shouldn't surprise us But I've never seen actually published and so I don't know what the course of the natural history Kind of of the disease would be on a healthy diet And so I don't know you'll have to tell me if they're getting better One might want to forestall surgery to see if they continue to get better And then if they plateau reconsidered the surgical option It's very kind of typically a very quick outpatient type surgery But there's always risk of bleeding and so you don't want to do surgery unless you absolutely need to so if they're shrinking I'd consider talking to your Doctor about holding off to see if they go away completely All right Lance vegan strong says soy increases estrogen levels and so men should avoid it.  That's not a question How oh wow, that's a great question from Alex. How do you reduce the million tour? I And you do that by decreasing your leucine intake got a bunch of videos on tour just type in to our And you can talk and you can see all the dietary intervention is to To suppress the kind of engine of aging enzyme tour What are my thoughts on our current system of cancer donations of Asks Chris. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. You mean organizations that That solicit donations. There's good organizations. There's bad organizations probably my favorite and if you wanted to donate to a cancer charity I like the American Institute for cancer research They seem to be doing more kind of diet related Research than other bodies like national cancer or not the national cancer Institute the That's a other big cancer charity. Anyway, I like a ICR The best of the current options available Rubin asked what's the best nutrition diet for losing a large amount of weight you eat a healthy diet, right because Diets by definition don't work because you well you can because you don't need a diet need a lifestyle otherwise You just gain it right back.  So you need to develop a lifestyle change You need to eat healthy healthfully on which is a diet packed With whole plant foods like fruits vegetables whole grains legumes like beans peas split peas lentils Nuts and seeds or some spices mushrooms basically real food the growths out of ground Those are our healthiest juices while decreasing our healthiest choices while decreasing intake of Meat eggs dairy and junk food those of that would be the healthiest way to control one's weight And you stick with that because it would also control one's chronic disease risk All right Um How to now so Carson asks how to naturally increase hematocrit level through foods So matric is kind of a blood count level better to look at hemoglobin actually But they again, how do you do anything?  So for example, check out my ginger video talking about decreasing Excessive menstrual blood loss though that may not be a problem Or if you aren't menstruating Um, okay I'm going to scroll down. Oh my god. We already out of time. That's crazy I am so sorry Thanks so much for joining us for another Q&A I probably got to like it like I don't know 10% they just keep scrolling up I will be doing new live Q&A's every month Facebook and YouTube. Hopefully I'll get to your questions eventually You can always come to the website come to nutrition facts door and ask a question in the comments below any video We have moderates volunteer moderators that actually, you know have like they take they they schedule like two-hour blocks Where it's like you're in charge of checking out the the comments and helping answer questions and helping people and and so if you have a Nutrition or medical background and we'd like to be a moderator and actually help out. We would love that Click on volunteer opportunities at the bottom of the web page at bottom of nutrition facts or and if you Want that knowledge you can ask a question on the website and they should be able to help you and if you ask a question Three hours later. There's another moderator on there who may give you another answer. Hopefully that helps Hopefully all this work helps you and your family to live long healthy lives. Thank you so much until next time Bye bye


Palliative care really encompasses hospice care, comfort care, paint management. It's not only for the dying patient, it's also for enhancing the quality of life of all patients. It's sort of everything that you're already doing in medicine every day and then adding, trying to figure out the nuances of who a person is, how they come to their own decision, what their goals are, what their understanding is, what their expectations are. It's something that's been around for many years, but it's finally starting to, I think, gain a lot more acceptance and especially now with Fairfield U, we're really honing in on how important it is. We should be having conversations with our patients about their wishes and what they would want out of their life and what quality of life means to them. Instead of us telling them what we think they should be doing, we're finally asking them what do they want. The education at Fairfield has always been very holistic and not just focused on the disease but on the patient, the family and the whole network of caring. I think that, to me, speaks a lot to the Jesuit philosophy and being able to be there for my patient. There's not a day that goes by that I do not feel that I made a difference in somebody's life and I can't possibly put into words how powerful that really is.


Folks, welcome to best stock charts for the new trading week. This is Bob Desmond and what we're gonna talk about this week are, how was our week last week? One, two, what stocks do we like moving into the new trading week? And to kick things off, I wanna talk about tomorrow night, Sunday night, Sunday night futures live. And what we're gonna be talking about in particular tomorrow night on Sunday night futures live, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time are, yes, the opening price action of the futures. We'll be talking about the economic data coming out this coming week. And for members, if you're watching this, I already posted the week ahead commentary in the members area, go check it out. But the two charts I'm going to wanna really hone in on, and there's probably gonna be more, are the reasons why I want to look to lean to the short side of this market. We do have a hedge on our positions, yet we are still net long of the market. Favoring more so now emerging markets, commodities, gold stocks, we started rebuilding the week before last. And the reason why it can be summed up in two charts. This one here, I wanna go over this in greater detail with the meaning of what this means and what the outcome is once we revert to the norms. But this is the M2 money supply. And did you know that 21% of all dollars in existence, right here, right now, were printed in 2020? So you may be asking, where's the hyperinflation? This blue line is telling you the reason why. We're gonna talk about this tomorrow night. And the reason why you need to be looking at gold, silver, the miners right here, right now. And the reason why you need to start looking to the short side, not right now, seasonally strong period of time, we're gonna remain net long for now, but we're gonna be positioning ourselves to the short side, probably net short, going into 2021, give or take a few weeks. So this chart here is the call options volume. And you could see that the amount of optimism, vis-a-vis the purchase of call options is completely insane. The put call ratio is so completely broken. I can't put it into words. In short, we have a market that is extremely overbought in terms of valuation, not necessarily technically per se, but in terms of valuation, we're very overbought, very expensive, and the level of complacency out there is unsustainable. All we need now is a pin to bust that bubble. So join us tomorrow night, 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, link below, enter your email address in only one of multiple areas where you can enter your email address if you want the five most powerful candlesticks tutorial I put out, enter your email address once and you'll still get alerted 15 minutes prior that it was going live tomorrow night. Otherwise, click the bell button, subscribe to the channel and you'll get notified when we go live. Don't forget to leave a comment after you get done watching me now. Our week last week was good. We did very, very well with our emerging market trades. We did very, very well with our gold mining trade which we sold most of several weeks ago before the big sell-off. We began buying back the week before last right at the lows of the week, the GDXJ with a 47 handle right at the lows of the week. We sold Facebook for profit this past week. I didn't want to sell it but the price action was dueling poorly plus they are being now sued for discrimination by the DOJ and I'm glad I did because Friday it pulled back. So it will remain long right now but we are building short positions. So more to come there. So the first stock I want to go over using Trendspider, they're a sponsor linked below 35% off is Twilio and in the members area, I'll have posted the price target entry point at which we are going to want to look to get long of Twilio. So what we're doing right now is I'm going to set up an alert here. I want to get notified. This is a weekly chart, Twilio. I just want to get notified if we retest support and we'll keep it active for the week. Let's reduce sensitivity a bit. So Twilio last week, it broke out the prior week. Last week we did a retest of the breakout point, very solid week. We're going to be looking to buy. Daily chart, daily chart looking very good. I'm not going to be the least bit surprised to see a breakout on Monday. So I want to get notified of a breakout on Twilio above resistance Trendspider will alert me. I'm good to go here. So I have two alerts set. I want to get notified down here at support. If in fact we pull back and or if we break out then I want to either open a position or add to a position on a successful breakout. So Twilio looking very, very good. And yes, this is number one question I'm asked. Do I send out alerts? Yes, we send out alerts on the buy when we add more and when we sell always 100% alerts a set. So the next chart up is BR. This is a financial broad ridge financial weekly chart. Now here's the value of automated trend lines.  So I think that this is going to be fairly resistance to breakout of why? It's because we kind of already did breakout last week above resistance. So I think that we will get a continuation breakout here. I would want to test the position meaning I would only want to put on a small position then add on the breakout if I'm right. That way if I have to stop out, it's a very small loss. I don't have to worry. I'm not going to lose sleep about it. So we have a alert that can be set here. I want to get notified if we break through and we'll keep it active for the week. And there we go. Set it and forget it. RSI looking very good. In fact, I would like to know if we happen to pull back and retest the support level, the breakout point. Yet again, you don't know, maybe Monday morning, it'll be a rocky morning for the markets. And that'll be an opportunity to open up a trade at a support level where our risk reward is very favorable. And then if we happen to break out, then we can add more to that trade. And there we go. Our weekly alert to set off, set up, I should say. Now look at the daily chart here. Again, the power of automated trend lines, folks. There you go. Click of a button. You can see that we broke out. So I'm going to set up a third alert here. It's not as significant of an alert. I want to keep sensitivity very low. I want to get notified if we break through touch or bounce because if we break through, then I'll stay aware of whether or not we are at or near this lower band to support. This is not an exact science. So that's like an early warning indicator. We may just pull back, retest daily support and then proceed up higher. So a very good looking chart. We're very bullish. RSI broke out confirming the breakout on price. Good stuff. The last shot up is going to be ISRG, intuitive surgical. And we'll go to the weekly chart. And you could see that we have a very nice breakout. Very nice. We are not at all time highs, but we are close. So what we'd be looking for here is one of two things. One, simply a breakout. And two, there's our alert set. And two, do we pull back and retest the weekly breakout point? Again, this is my favorite risk reward entry point. Having a retest. We'll keep some sensitivity on there. And there you go. Weekly setups are in place, meaning alerts. Daily chart, beautiful day on Friday. RSI is rising, nothing not to like here. So in short, we remain bullish on the market. I believe that as each passing day goes by, the market becomes far more riskier because we are on very, very thin ice. And whatever is going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back, the downside is just going to be horrific. That doesn't mean there's not gonna be money to be made. There's gonna be a ton of money to be made, but you need to be positioned accordingly.  Did you notice the U.S. dollar last week? Hammered, multi-year lows. What does that mean? You want to start looking at gold, gold stock, silver. Silver up, huge last week. This is the market sending you signals. Get ready. It's not time to short yet, or to be net short. You can always throw on a hedge. But I think after the first of the new year, all bets are off. Path of lease resistance is gonna change and change like that. Everybody have a great remainder of your weekend? Don't forget, join us tomorrow night. 6 p.m. for Sunday Night Futures Live. 6 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Link below to get alerted. 15 minutes prior to it was going live. And smash that like button, leave a comment, and what else? Subscribe. Take care, folks. Be well.


Ukraine is fighting for its existence. As the Ukrainian army gears up on military drones, deadly missiles like this next-generation light anti-armor weapon or N-Law, and armored vehicles such as this M2 Bradley, one of the fastest IFVs out there armed with the terrifyingly accurate M242-25mm autocannon, they seem to be doing a pretty good job of fighting off Putin's aggressive attempts to take over their homeland. A really good job. Wait, could Ukraine actually win this war? And what will happen if they do? According to military experts and an increasingly nervous Putin, Ukraine's victory in this war is possible, maybe even probable. Let's find out why, starting with the here and now. At this point, everybody is waiting for spring, especially the lion-hearted Ukrainian army. Why? Well, the war, mostly confined to the country's eastern-most Donbas region, has been characterized by winter sieges in and around devastated cityscapes like Solodar and Bakhmut. These battles have been inconclusive for both sides. It's a controlled situation, one Ukrainian unit commander remarked. Sometimes it's really better to take a step back than after that to make a counter-attack and crush the enemy. Each day we're destroying enemy positions. People are tired, but their hearts are burning still. We have work to do.  Ukraine has a plan, and it starts with tanks. Right now, Ukraine and Russia are both using the winter months to rest and resupply their exhausted troops, injecting new soldiers into the fight ahead of larger-scale operations slated for the spring. With some officials claiming Russia will soon thrust its 300,000 new conscripts into an imminent new offensive, Ukraine is earnestly preparing its own defensive lines, from which it can repel the Russian assault and, with time, stage its own sweeping counter-offensive using newly donated main battle tanks. Ukraine's list of successes is already long and continues to grow. It won the Battle of Kyiv, defended Mikhailyev, and kept the Russians out of Odessa. After steadily pushing the Russians eastward throughout the summer, it staged brilliant campaigns to liberate Kharkiv and Kherson. If Ukraine's future counter-offensives manage to repeat the outcome of those conducted in 2022, victory could be right around the corner. But victory can take many forms. What would it ultimately look like for Ukraine? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been clear that victory for him means a full restoration of its territory as it existed before Russia's invasion, even if it means that Russia continues its illegal occupation of Crimea, the rocky Black Sea peninsula that would be incredibly difficult to liberate by military force. If Ukraine's fighting power continues to grow, there are two likely operational scenarios for how the war might end. The first is the most likely, something policy analysts have called winning small. In this outcome, Ukrainian forces essentially succeed in restoring the status quo that existed before Russia launched its attack in February, expelling all Russian forces east of the Dnieper River, securing its access to the Black Sea, and even possibly breaking Russia's land bridge to Crimea.  And Ukraine's got all of that, and then some. Kiev's use of first-rate Western intelligence has been beyond impressive. Its integration of what can only be described as a huge variety of Western firearms and other weapon systems, from Haimars to harm missiles and how it's as alike, has been nothing short of peerless. Its dogged determination and commitment to fighting the long fight has seen them break down Russian morale, force new waves of Russian conscription, and make many tactical gains from the little means at their disposal. Will all of this be enough to win back what is rightfully Ukraine's? Hopefully, far from an outcome that might induce a trigger-happy Putin to resort to nuclear escalation, the winning small scenario would nevertheless signal the potential for smaller and militarily weaker states to repel aggressive, neo-imperial neighbors. Given the relatively limited territorial constraints in the winning small victory scenario, you can probably imagine the scope of its winning big counterpart. In this scenario, the war ends entirely on Ukraine's terms, meaning that the liberation of Crimea and even parts of the Donbas Russia held for eight years prior to its 2022 invasion would be back on the table. What would need to happen for Ukraine to fully claim the championship belt? For starters, it would have to answer a line of lingering questions regarding its combat potential to win big. They'd have to attack, not defend, significant swathes of land, some of it predominantly accessible only amphibiously in the case of Crimea. Russia would doggedly cling to these stolen possessions, legitimizing symbols of Putin's waning great power status in the eyes of the world. In a Foreign Affairs article discussing these outcomes, Liana Fix and Michael Kimmich argued that the stars would have to truly align for a wholesale defeat of Russia. A lightning victory for Ukraine, one battle building upon another, Russian supply lines disintegrating, and Ukrainian morale driving its soldiers unstoppably forward. At the same time, the Russian army would have to collapse in retreat, strategy would give way to the emotions of individual soldiers as panic took hold. Regardless of which version of Ukraine's victory would ultimately play out, one thing's for sure, things wouldn't end there. The consequences of a Ukrainian victory would be far-reaching, regardless of the scale. Russian defeat would bring nearly unbearable national shame. Raging Russian hardliners will push Putin to deploy everything in his power to salvage something from his special military operation. But everything may not be enough. As the infamy of defeats spreads throughout Russia, a population long shielded from the truth of Putin's war by the Kremlin's venomous cast of propagandists will become aware of the desperate state of affairs. Discontent could ferment into open rebellion. Rebellion could spawn revolution. Can Putin hold onto his power? On the flip side, Ukrainian victory would not only vindicate the billions of dollars in aid and material donated by the West, it would signal Ukraine's reliability and resilience as a partner and possible ally. Could Ukraine officially join NATO and the EU? Would these decisions force a desperate Russia into out-and-out nuclear war? Before we explore these possibilities further, we should be clear that even if Ukraine wins small, the conflict would be unlikely to actually end. Forecasting his country's future, President Zelensky has argued that Ukrainians everywhere would need to remain vigilant and prepared for decades of perpetual conflict, likening Ukraine to Israel in its full-time orientation towards self-defense. Sean of his conventional military power, Putin or whoever is in control of Russia after Ukraine emerges victorious, would almost assuredly seek to use every other option at their disposal to make life miserable for Ukraine. This is Russia's MO. Cyber attacks and propaganda will target Ukrainian elections, disinformation campaigns will undermine specific political candidates, the Kremlin deems dangerous. Perhaps the biggest question associated with the possible Ukrainian victory is whether Vladimir Putin's authoritarian regime can survive outright defeat at all. After two decades of escalatory and obsessive expansionist behavior, he's now staked everything on Ukraine, promises to Putin's ardent followers of new found global prestige, prosperity and the enshrinement of a Neo-Soviet Russian bloc to counter NATO in the West in the highly anticipated event of a Russian victory have all but faded. Russian defeat would sound the death knell to Putin's lofty aspirations and could usher in complete disintegration of his political support system. Political loyalty from his inner circle has thus far enabled Putin to retain control over all facets of Russian society. Ukrainian victories have already exposed cracks in his tight-knit hierarchy. Certain members have voiced their discontent over the course of the war. Ramzan Kadyrov, leader of the Chechen Republic, was among them last November when he openly criticized Russia's military leadership after a slew of battlefield setbacks. Yevgeny Prigazin, leader of the Wagner Group, a private paramilitary organization, agreed with Kadyrov, a sign of unraveling support sure to be exacerbated by future Ukrainian success. Putin's downfall would have severe repercussions. Political chaos would result from his ousting, and the ensuing highly contested power struggle would divide Russian society to the core. There is a chance a new strongman might take his place, likely a Kremlin insider. Their rise would result in similar actions among Western nations to try and limit their economic, political and social influence. That said, there is a chance the downfall of Putin's regime could result in the appointment of a far more conciliatory leader, one more inclined to repair Russia's damaged relationship with its neighbors and the rest of the world. The subsequent easing of sanctions could help stabilize an economy that struggles more with each passing month. Plenty of historical examples from past Russian military failures indicate that Russian defeat would result in some sort of seismic political shift. Russian defeats to Japan in 1905, the Central Powers in 1917, and Afghanistan in 1979 generated significant political pushback, even revolutionary change. Who's to say the same might not happen if Russia loses this war too? Let's talk about another possible post-war scenario. What if Ukraine officially becomes Europe's Eastern frontier? Yep, we're talking about EU NATO integration. An enduring characteristic of the conflict thus far has been Ukraine's increasing alignment with the West on political, military and economic matters. Zelensky knows his country's future hinges on his ability to extract as much material aid from sympathetic onlookers around the globe and in times of serious crisis he has proven himself an adept fundraiser and motivator. Zelensky is also playing the long game. The only way Ukraine can ever feel fully safe from Russian aggression is if it receives the full support and backing of the NATO alliance, and the only way it can get that is if it becomes a NATO member itself. This was once considered a pipe dream, an absolutely impossible scenario. A red line NATO would not cross. Before 2022, Ukrainian membership in the Transatlantic Alliance was considered far too threatening to Russian security interests. Ukraine actually applied for limited membership in 2008, but the application was postponed during the election of its next president, Yiktyana Kovic, who opted to keep Ukraine out of NATO. But then Russia invaded in 2014, painting itself as the aggressor and Ukraine as a victim. Ever since, Ukraine has framed itself as a perfect NATO candidate, and after their performance against Russia so far, it's sort of hard to disagree. Last year changed everything. NATO countries are now donating weapon systems and equipment in fast quantities. As Ukraine becomes more proficient on these systems, they will become even more interoperable with Western partners, bolstering their case for membership. Last September, Ukraine officially applied to join NATO with public support at an all-time high. Today, more than 85% of Ukrainians see it in their country's best interest to join the alliance. Membership hinges on many factors. Though nine NATO members have voiced their desire for Ukraine to join, it is almost certain the alliance will not accept Ukraine's application while they are currently at war, as doing so would oblige each NATO country to deploy forces to Ukraine itself. An escalatory step those countries' political leaders would be leery to take. The prospect of Ukraine joining NATO remains the third rail of international politics, one journalist noted. Touching the issue can leave you burned. Instead, they'll continue supporting Ukraine materially until it emerges victorious and then come to a unanimous decision on NATO membership. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has claimed the most immediate and urgent task is to ensure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign independent democratic nation of Europe. If it did win the war, Ukraine will have silenced the doubters over its worthiness to join NATO. Having done more fighting against a peer adversary than every NATO member combined, fast-tracking Ukraine into the multinational body would make logical sense, if anything to deter Russia from ever trying to invade the country again. Here's another likely outcome of Ukraine winning the war. Russia suffers a total and humiliating political and economic collapse. Ukraine is already marching down the path toward democratic prosperity, an outcome that would be accelerated in victory. Ukraine's heroic fight has united the West in support against Russia. Consequently, Ukraine has come to enjoy its closest diplomatic relationships with Western officials in the country's history. Zelensky has travelled all over the world garnering support in their fight for freedom, inspiring audiences and leaders whose countries have waged similar struggles against oppression. Just as likely as it is for Russia's political and economic system to shatter in the wake of a Ukrainian victory, Ukraine's democracy would likely flourish. On February 28th, 2022, just a few days after Russia's invasion, Ukraine officially applied to join the European Union. At a recent EU-Ukraine summit, the first to take place on Ukrainian soil, Ukraine expressed interest in securing EU membership within a tight two-year timetable. Most EU members know this proposal is wishful thinking, with French President Emmanuel Macron claiming it will be decades before Ukraine joins, likening their case to those of Serbia, Turkey and Montenegro, who are still waiting for membership. But most people would have dismissed Poland's chances of ever joining the EU when it was locked in its own struggle for freedom in the 1980s. Within a decade after the disillusion of the Soviet Union, Poland officially joined NATO in 1999 and the EU several years later. Other Baltic states have a similar trajectory, all of them support Ukraine's membership for obvious reasons. EU nations fear Ukrainian membership will dilute their own powers and perks. With Ukraine and Poland boasting a combined population of 80 million, there is a sense they could team up to rival Germany as a political force in the European Council, or become an excessive drain on the EU budget. Nobody can deny, however, Ukraine's eagerness to align itself with the West. Of course, nothing speaks louder than victory. If the process to join the EU is merit-based, Ukraine will continue to strive to meet each of the EU Commission's conditions. It will become easier once it can focus more of its energies inward on rebuilding, ousting corruption, and reforming its democratic system after years of warfare. So, what does it all boil down to? The outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine is sure to have massive consequences for the entire globe. These outcomes hinge on whether Ukraine wins big or wins small, assuming it wins at all. But if victory is on the cards, does that mean the end of Putin's political future? Might NATO or EU membership be in the offing for Ukraine? Will victory herald an even greater embrace of Western values among everyday Ukrainians? What do you think? Let us know in the comments, and don't forget to subscribe for more military analysis from Military Experts.


Australia is one of the few countries that uses compulsory preferential voting for our elections. But what is it? Let's look at how it works in the House of Representatives. On your green ballot paper, you must rank all the candidates, otherwise your vote won't be counted. Number one for your first choice, number two for your second choice and so on. When the votes are tallyed, if no candidate obtains more than 50% of first preference votes, then the one with the lowest number of votes is eliminated. The votes for that candidate are then distributed amongst the remaining candidates, according to second preferences. If there is still no one with a simple majority, the second last candidate is eliminated and their votes are redistributed as well. This continues until a candidate achieves a simple majority. The idea is that preferential voting results in an elected candidate who more closely represents the will of the people. So when you're voting, consider how your preferences might flow, as that could have a big impact on who gets elected.