He is NO. I can't even eat. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm just thinking about that clip. That is an absolutely hilarious clip. I don't listen.  I don't care where you are. That was hilarious. That was all foolish, the guy jumping the pool. I've never seen a guy, listen, I've seen the preacher take his jacket and whirl it at people, but I've never seen the people take their jacket and throw it at the preacher that just took the cake. Clearly though, that's mocking God. Clearly that's mocking the service. Clearly that's not having a reverence for the service, for what you're in. When you think about the founding of the church, when you think about how the people were when they found out, when they understood internally that there was salvation for them, one, when they found that they needed salvation, but then two, to find out that there is actually salvation and they don't have to die. They were grateful. And you see the true gospel when it's actually administered and the spirit being poured out, you see people coming in droves. Well, we don't see that now. Sometimes we might see people coming, but sometimes it's not for the right reasons. And so we wanna talk about one, why people mock God, obviously, but we're gonna get to really what that is. There are people that mock God, one because they don't know that they are. They have no clue. I'm sure that people do some of these goofy things, these silly things, and don't realize that they are mocking God. Then there are those that do mock God. They know what they're doing and they just don't care. So before we even get into those, they are those that are, as a matter of fact, as Paul says that they are deceived but also being deceived. Now we'll deal with that in that particular scripture in just a little bit before we go. I wanna deal with, excuse me, with the actual churches themselves. Before we go, I wanna look at why churches do so. I wanna look at what or who the church is or who and what the church is for. And that will kind of help us to understand why do people mock God? Now there is a question on the floor and I've heard people make statements about it. And I think for the most part, a lot of people, I wouldn't say for the most part, but there are a lot that get this answer wrong because of how they're thinking. Again, the reason for the bad thinking or the wrong thinking, I shouldn't say bad thinking, is typically because of there's some pushback. There's pushback to what we just saw in the first clip, some foolishness. And there's pushback to when we see the seeker sensitive, the seeker friendly churches, such as Elevation Church, Stephen Furti, such as Mike Tide's church, Transformation Church, some of these churches where they kind of placate the entire services, revolving around bringing in people and making them feel at home versus making them feel convicted in their sins. And that's not what you wanna do because it's hard to get people to give. It's hard to get people to come and to be a part of something when they feel bad, at least that is in their mind. But one of the better things that you can find out about a hospital is not that they're gonna tell you something bad. Remember, a lot of men avoid going to the doctor because they feel like, when I go, I'm gonna find something bad. Well, that's because in most cases, a lot of men simply wait too long and they've got another friend or other friend, another friend, cousins, brothers, family members who are also male who waited too long. And when they went to the doctor, they went and found some bad news. But you don't mind going if, even if you were to find some bad news, there'll be some good news there in it. Namely, there's a cure for whatever's by them. There's been something on my elbow. I've got a pain in my back, what have you? Rather than ignoring it, I go in and I'm hoping that there's gonna be some good news. Well, that will bring people and keep people. As a matter of fact, it will cause the people that are coming, the brand new people, to also go and tell you, you wanna create what they call raving fans. People are gonna tell other people about the goodness, how wonderful this church was and there were no flashing lights, there were no gimmicks, there were no borderline strippers, there were no pyrotechnics and anything like that. This was a place where it just felt at home and it wasn't even the people there that made me feel at home. Obviously, what people are making you feel at home when you go to a church, but you just want to be in a place where you can really let it just be you and God. So what I wanna do is, I wanna answer this question, deal with this issue, who is the church for? Do we think the church is for the unbeliever or is the church for the believer? Well, it can't be just for the unbeliever, only who would answer that question, but is it for the believer only or is it for the believer as well as the unbeliever? Who is the church for? And again, we have this issue because there are people who do goofy things in an attempt to try to lure in unbelievers. Well, you'd be surprised at the fact that the Bible does not say who it's for. Now, let me just, let's first deal with this. When we say the church, do we mean the body of believers or do we mean the building that the church believers go to and have the service? Obviously, we're not necessarily just talking specifically about the building, but when we say we have church or we're going to church, we're not talking about going and hanging out with a bunch of other Christians. We're talking about meeting up at a specific location where there is a pastor, there's music, there's a place to sit. So we're talking about a building where the believers are at. But if we say it's for the believers, then we might have an issue. If you say it's for the believers only, then are you sure that everybody that's there is a believer? And if everybody's not there, who is a believer, everybody that's there is a believer, or is not sorry, it's not a believer, then what do we do with the unbelievers there? You don't put them out. You don't change your tune. Do you keep giving the word? And so I think it'd be wrong to take that stance.   Well, let me just say this first of all.  Truth be told, there are a lot of believers who need you to bring it down a little bit as well. That's just what it is, because there are just as many believers who need to learn and grow in the scriptures as some of the unbelievers. As a matter of fact, sometimes we find that the unbelievers might know the scriptures better than some of the believers. What is the body for? The body, the church, the gathering, the gathering or the assembly? Put up Paul. The writer of Hebrew says, do not neglect the assembling together. This word for a church's eclesia means congregation, assembly, a gathering. And so do not neglect or forsake the gathering. Who is the gathering for? Well, the gathering is for everybody. We don't find a scripture that says it's just for the believer. We don't find a scripture that says it's for the believer and unbeliever. It is the gathering. Now, the body, the actual body, obviously that's only made up of actual Christians. You have to be an actual believer. And I don't mean the person who says they're a Christian because there are people who call themselves a Christian and aren't. There are people who call themselves believers who we take in and treat as believers but God knows better. God knows that they actually are not believers. Are you with me? And so what we're trying to do is we're trying to get as many people as possible to hear the word of God.  As a matter of fact, when we look at the pattern of the believers in Acts, we see this in Acts 237. He says, and now when they heard this, they were pierced at the heart and Peter said to them and the rest of the apostles. So he's speaking to a lot of non-believers at this point. And he goes on and tells them the actual gospel repent each one of you and be baptized. If we drop down, I believe it's a verse 47. They were all together eating their meals together and the sincerity of heart all on one accord, praising God and having favor with all the people, having favor with not the believers but also the non-believers, regular people. And what was happening, the Lord was adding to their numbers daily those who were being saved. So it wasn't just the save people in Acts who were coming together. It was the saved as well as the unsaved. But what they did not do that we tend to do nowadays is they did not water down the word. They did not diminish the importance of one speaking about their sin and their need for a savior and then obviously too, highlighting the savior. That's important because today people do not like to highlight the savior. They would instead wanna highlight themselves. We'll talk about that just a little bit. But there also must need be the preaching that mankind in his own state is on his way to hell. That's the bad news. As a matter of fact, that's just the news. That's just how it is. But the good news comes where we say that there is a remedy for that. And we also notice that there needs to be some sort of decorum and some sort of protocol because here we have Paul speaking about, now he's not speaking about unbelievers or the church service specifically. Actually take it back, he actually is. He actually is speaking about the entire church service. But notice what he says. In chapter, chapter 14 and 1 Corinthians, you know, let's start in verse 23. He says, therefore, if the whole church, that is this body, this gathering, the assembly, if they come together and all speak in languages, now we're not talking about tongues today, but if they come in there speaking in tongues and languages and an ungifted or an unbeliever enters, meaning guess what? An unbeliever will come in. They're not shocked at this, this is just what's gonna happen. If they will come in, will they not say that you are mad? And so he gives it kind of an order of how things ought to be in terms of everybody wants to have a song. Someone has a word, someone has a revelation. So when you guys always have something special to say, why can't the word be special? So what does Paul say? Let everything be done decently and in order. All the arguing, all of this, all of that or whatever, some of you ladies, hey, be quiet. You people here who have all these different gifts to show, sit down, let everything done decently and in order. And so in an orderly church, there will be unbelievers that will show up as well. So the fact of the matter is, the church, whether you wanna say it's the building or even if it's the gathering of the believers, the gathering of the believers is also for the unbeliever to show up. How in the world are they gonna hear it? Cause let's be honest guys, in our churches, how many people in the church are gonna get up, especially collectively and go out and share the gospel. The greatest opportunity that many cases that people have to hear the gospel is when they come to hear it at the church, at the church meeting, when the gathering's together and we're bringing and breaking the word. Which is why at that moment, you need to make sure the word is being preached. It's not high wire acts and trapeze artists and fire and this and that. It's not the Grammys, it's not some well put together show. No, it can't be that. Because when they see that, they'll think to myself, well, listen, it was just a few hours ago, I just saw that where I was, either at the theater, at the club, the concert, what have you. Why did I come here? Well, I came here to feel good about myself and you guys are making me feel good about myself. You're not making me feel bad. We don't want that. We want them to come and actually hear the word. So to answer the first portion of this is the church for believers or unbelievers. It's for everybody. Anybody on the planet that wants to come in the doors, we want them in and we wanna give them. Because think about it. Who do you want at the hospital?  Could you imagine if there were only sick people at the hospital? I mean, the doctors, the nurses as well. Everybody there was sick. No, well, we're not talking about the doctors and nurses. We're talking about the people that come in that need help. Only sick people there. Well, no, there are also some well people there. Some people that are there to get a checkup to make sure they're doing the right things and so forth, you have that going on as well at a hospital. And so at the church, we want the people who are growing there, the people who are not growing, that they've been brought there. And we want to show them how it is to be. We wanna go out and reach the people who are not saved. We wanna go out and reach the people who are saved, who are at a church where they should not be. That leaves us in the next part for it. Why do we have so many churches where people should not be? Because I'm one, we used to say we don't want to take people away from a church because the greatest amount of movement inside of the church is going from one church to the next church. We'd rather bring in new members. And that's true, we do want new members. But I'm also of the belief that we also want people to move from other churches to this church or another church. Why? We don't want them going from a good church to another good church unless they happen to move. We want them going from one of these weird churches, one of these churches that are just in bad doctrine and they have been indoctrinated badly. There are these men out there that believe that they have this gift that they, instead of Jesus, being the highlight there, they're not the highlight, these are the highlight, they are. They'll say it's the Holy Spirit. They'll tell everyone it's the Holy Spirit, but they want you to believe it's the Holy Spirit in them and then watch me. As a matter of fact, if you all watch me close enough and if you believe me, don't believe the word. Don't put that Bible down. As a matter of fact, we don't want you to have your Bible. I tell you what we'll do. We'll just put it on the screen. And even then we might put it in translation where maybe it's a paraphrase translation, maybe it is, and I don't have a problem with the NIV or NLT, I really don't. But maybe it's a thought for thought and so a person can't actually really get into it. And so what do we want you to do? We want you to listen to me. Listen to me, no expository preaching here. Nope, expository preaching, what is that? Rather what I want you to do instead.  By the way, I don't know if you've been told this. I don't know if you've been told this or not, but if you haven't, let me go into it. I don't believe in impartation, but let me impart something to you. It is okay while you're at church to read and to check the pastor or the person up on stage. It's okay to double check what they're saying with the scriptures. It's okay, I give you permission. I just imparted that to you, which I don't have the right to do so. I don't have the right to do it in this, but I'm just letting you know, you can take your own Bible and actually read it for yourself. Isn't that a concept? You remember back in the day, you all remember back in the day when we went to church and we actually had a handheld Bible that was leather-bound or someplace that was hard back. It had literal pages on the inside. Do you remember pages? It had literal pages on the inside and you open up, it had ink on it. It had ink on it. Sometimes they had like the little gold leaflings around it and if you use it enough, the little gold or silver on the outside would kind of vanish.  Do you remember that? Now what do we have? We have it. Here's my Bible. I wish to word with you today. Hold your Bible up and declare this to the Lord. That's what it is now. So I'm not against that. I'm not against you taking your, using your cell phone and using that with the scriptures because those are wonderful. But it is good though. It is good to know your way around the Bible. As a matter of fact, I highly recommend you doing so. I highly recommend you getting an actual Bible, one that you can turn pages and just be able to thumb through it, know where, if someone says, this is in 1 Corinthians, you just have an idea. Your fingers just automatically know. Just, it's there about, I don't have to look at it. I just have an idea. So when I open it, I don't open it. I'm in Genesis, trying to go to 1 Corinthians. That's to have an idea where it is. If I know, if I turn to Obadiah, Oba what? Who in the world is that? Well, no, he's a prophet in the Bible. No, you're lying to me. No, seriously, seriously. There's an Obadiah in your Bible. What about Nahum? What about these books? I think you're lying to me, Corey. No, I'm not lying to you. No, turn the book, turn to Lamentations. Lemonware? No, no, no, no, could not be. Or throw them a real curve. Throw them Song of Solomon or Song of Songs. Well, which one is it? So just get used to having your Bible because what are you gonna do if you don't have your phone? But God help us if the service goes down or I'm sorry, if our battery isn't charged up and I can't read my Bible. I'm sorry, Lord, I don't have my, I didn't charge up. Forgive me, forgive me, Father. Do something goofy to make yourself feel better. Be familiar with your Bible. You know, it used to be though, we used to have a Bible everywhere. You'd have a Bible at your house. You have a Bible in the front room.   How many of you all still have your Bible on your dashboard or in the back? Today they don't have to make cars like that to where you can put them in the back window. But that's how we used to do. You made sure there was a Bible somewhere. It's okay to have your Bible in the church. It really is. Because what it does is it keeps you from running into jokers who'll tell you that they have the power and they can, I know I'm part of this gift to you, this understanding of you, but these guys really believe they are actually imparting something to you because it's all about them. They can tell you that they can do things like blow on you or wave on you. And because you don't know your scriptures, you don't even realize they're mocking God, you'll fall for it. And when I say fall for it, I mean fall for it literally. Here. You're gonna walk over here. Lift your hands. Her belly. Okay. Lift your hands. It dropped. What do you think about those people? Not the people that are doing it. Not this fake apostle, Jonathan Ferguson. No, not about him. What about the people? We'll talk about the Jonathan Ferguson's of the world, but what about the people that are falling? They, yeah, yeah. You saw that to the extra, extra, extra tight jeans. I think it's blasphemous. I don't know what's more blasphemous than falling down or him in those spandex type jeans. I don't know what's happening there. I really don't. That's the problem. We need to fix that. There's a problem with men in America. Let me just say this now, guys. Not to depart too much off of this, but there is a problem in America with men wearing clothes that look like, if I thought a woman would have wore this 20 years ago, then it's still clothes pertaining to a woman. I don't care what you put, what name brand you put on. I don't care who's wearing it. I'm sorry. That's just me. And Vance Johnson, I thank you for what you just said. Look what he just said. Look what Vance Johnson just said. He says they are being deceived. You know why I thank you for saying that, brother? The reason why I thank you for saying this is because it's literally the script I'm going to. The Bible says in 2 Timothy 3,13, by the way, isn't that what smart Christians do? We're kind of on the same wavelength. I know the rest of you guys are thinking the same thing too. Why? Because you're smart Christians. You're smart Christians. The Bible says, Paul says, 1st, 13, he says, but evil men and imposters will proceed. He said, from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. He said they will proceed from bad to worse. So it's not going to get better. No, it's not going to get better. It's going to get worse and worse. Or as some of the kids in our public school education system say, it's going to get worser and worse. So he says it's going to go from badder to worser. Deceiving and being deceived. You, however, continuing the things that you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them. Well, in our case, we're learning from the Word of God from obviously the mouths and the writings of these apostles who it was God breathed on them. And so we don't listen. Don't, in our modern vernacular, don't trip. Don't trip. Now he's not the only one. Obviously this is all over the place where people are saying they're going to do this under the power of the Holy Spirit. But they don't have that power, do they?   Now every hand lifted across every campus right now on the count of three, I'm going to release the new wine of the Holy Spirit to intoxicate you. We are a... Well, sir, you don't have that ability to release anything. The best that you can do, the only thing that you can release is the words of the Bible. That's it. You can say that. You can open up the Bible and then whatever it says, you can say it. Now, if you have been so prepared, you can expound on it. You can give an expository teaching or preaching. You can preach the word of God in such a way that is only if you know it. Have you ever seen someone who knows something and they can tell you five, 10, 15 different ways about that same thing? They can tell you a story about that thing because they know it inside and out. That's the way a pastor should be. But instead, we've got people who are deceived. People who are deceived and are being deceived. Now, I don't know if, because there are some pastors, some preachers who say some of these things because they have been deceived. And then what do they do? Well, they in turn deceive people. Listen, even, because it's not just in church where people are deceived and deceiving others. I mean, there are some people who, let's think of, let's think of some things that people are deceived about and are deceiving others.  I don't know what's happening. I don't know what's happening in America, but people who are still putting salt on grits. There are people out there that literally do that. You've got some people, believe it or not, that put ketchup once they open it in the refrigerator. Ketchup goes in the, it stays warm. You got people, I don't know who these people are. These must be some immigrants. I don't know where they came from who are, who listen and talk on the phone on Android and not iPhones. Don't know what's happening. These people are deceived and they are deceiving others. They're leaving people astray and we'll pray for them. There is salvation for them, but these other people who are deceived and being deceived, you do realize that, listen, God does have a punishment in store for them. Let's go to the Old Testament, first of all. No, I'm sorry, let's go to Revelation. Let's go to Revelation. Yeah, some of you guys, I see some of you guys in the chat need some prayer. I see what's happening.  You got somebody, see, I see someone who likes cold ketchup. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. I'll pray for you. I'll pray for you. Some of you guys just don't, just don't get it, but it's okay. You are probably younger, you probably like soy milk or oat milk or almond milk or grass milk or whatever. It's okay though, it's okay. Put your head on the screen and let me pray for you. Did you say what is grits? Wait a minute, wait a minute, wow, wow. It's not that you're not saved, it's that you're not an American. That's what it is, you're not an American, but it's okay, it's okay. Welcome to the country. Welcome to the country. I don't know what's happening here. Don't know what's happening, but listen, we're gonna help you out here. Our job is to help you out here. So you salt on grits people, you cold ketchup, enjoyed people, we'll pray for you afterwards. But this is what God says for the rest of the people. Look what he says about them in Revelation, and on verse nine, verse, where am I at? There it is, verse nine. Speaking about the end, these people are going to die. They're going to die. Because you don't get a chance to say, you know what, Lord, I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was being deceived. He'll say, wait a second, I literally gave you the word. And here's what his word is gonna be for them at the end. He says, and they came upon the broad plane of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved, this last great war, that's not gonna really be a war, and fire came down from heaven and devoured them. These are the deceived people. And the devil who deceived them, see, just because you were deceived, doesn't mean that there's no penalty. Remember, Eve, the Bible says, was deceived, but there was still a penalty for her. The devil deceived them, verse 10, and he himself was thrown into the lake of fire, of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are also, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever. So it doesn't matter how you got to your heresy if you did it intentionally or unintentionally, because the one thing that you and I all have in common is the Bible. We can go back and look at, I don't care if it's King James, verse, new King James, ESV, NASV, NIV, NLT, I don't care what it is, you've got the word of God. I do care if it's a passion, toss that out. If it's the passion Bible and your couch is, you know what, even if your couch is leaning a little bit, don't even use that. No, toss it out, toss it out. But use what he gave you. We have it in the exact same measure, the exact same measure. So therefore you don't have to, listen to legit, the passion is more than garbage.  I would rather have garbage than, at least you can recycle that. So make sure you use your word. Do not let someone else tell you what's in the word. Because how would that work? You go before the Lord and he tells you, he tells you that it was there. He said, well, he told me it said this, but it's literally there for you to look and read for yourself. And so for that reason, you need to make sure that you are beholding to the word. Now, because you've got people who are trying to tell you, trying to show you that there's something, there's this thing that's going around that where they want you to think that they're so special and people are just not being wise or discerning when they hear this. Twist it around and get it to say what you want it. You make Bible say a thing you want it to. When I read in the Bible where he says I am, I just smile and say yes, I am too.  You know what the Bible calls you?   Twist it around and get it to say what you want it. You make Bible say anything you want it to. Let's make Jesse. Make him in our image. Let's make him in our likeness.  That's what he's saying about us now. Like right now you're looking at a person who is not just a person. Somehow God is in me and there's a sense in which I am like God and man all at once. No, no you're not. You're not a God or a man. No, what you are is a man. But you say these things so that you can get over them with people because they're not looking at you as though you're God but they're looking at you as though you have tapped into your Godhood and you can do these different things. You can call things that are not as though they were. Well, again, we're bothered by that but do you know what God says about this? Let me just take you to Psalm 74. Let's read a couple passages. He says in verse 8, 74, 8, Psalms 74, 8 he says, they said in their heart, let us completely subdue them. They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land. We do not see our signs. There is no longer any prophet nor is there among us who knows how long. There's a problem going on and we don't have really adequate leadership. Verse 10 says, how long, oh God, will the adversary revile? How long is this gonna keep going God and the enemies burn your name forever? How long God, why do you withdraw your hand, even your right hand from with your bosom, destroy them?  So his point is God isn't gone. He does see what's happening. He's not deaf to it. What God is really doing, essentially he's just allowing some of these things to happen. First of all, he's allowing them what's happening. God is storing up wrath for a lot of people. God is storing up wrath for a lot of people and they simply don't know it. By the way, Michael, thank you for the super chat as well as Chayun Cat. Thank you also as well for the super chat. I appreciate that. God is not oblivious to what's going on. As a matter of fact, what's the famous pastor that we do know? He says this in Galatians 6, 6, starting in verse 6. He says, the one who is taught, the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. Let me say that again. The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. So what do you share? Well, obviously things, but guess what you know about the word yourself. Look what he says. Do not be deceived. You, people who are hearing, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. God is not mocked. God is not mocked by anyone. But God, it looks like they're mocking you. Listen, you say God is not mocked. Lord, sure seems like it. It sure seems like these people that are putting on these theatrical plays that are abomination and blasphemy in your name and doing all these different things, scantily clad women and scantily clad men are up here and we're not hearing the scriptures. It sure seems like you're being mocked and then you got these guys running around here telling everybody that they're gods. It sure seems like it. Do not be deceived. God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life. Now, let me explain this. Let me break it down a little bit. I'm thoroughly familiar with some of this. Yes, I am. How do I know so? Well, because I know what it's like to sow to the flesh. Thankfully, there is forgiveness and there's growth. You all do now. I'm not a gardener. Listen, I don't have a green thumb, can't plant much of anything. Although I do know how to, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I take it back. I am a gardener. I'm a gardener, so are you. I know how to plant, so you know how to plant. I'm telling you how I know so. First of all, let's just deal with the rules of the govern gardening and planting or sowing and reaping. Let's deal with the rules first. The rule is this. Whatever you plant or whatever you sow, the seed, let's say it's this small, when it grows, what you're gonna reap from what you plant is not gonna be this small seed. You do not plant, I don't know, pick a seed, a carrot seed, corn, are there corn seeds? I don't know, a corn seed, a tomato seed. Whatever seeds you plant, it's this small. But what are you gonna reap? That same small seed or a small, a very tiny tomato? No, what you're gonna reap is something a lot bigger.  You are going to reap a whole lot of it. If you plant something godly, you're gonna reap a whole lot more than you planted.  Now, I've gotta seed this, because it's just, again, I tell you guys that I've got these different screens in my eyes and stuff moving and stuff, beeping and this and that or whatever. And I've got an eye right there on a camera. I got one eye over that screen. I got one eye on this screen over there, just in case I got my eye on the phone in case the moderators tell me, hey, Corey, slow it down. I got my eye on the scripture and I got my eye on the chat. My good eye is the one on the chat right now because I see someone that says, hello from small town, America, Indiana. Sounds like, and he might know what I'm talking about, John Cougar Mellon can. Some of you guys don't know who that is. Yeah, John Cougar Mellon, yeah. I was born in a small town. That's above some of you city folk head, especially you young folk. Y'all don't know, good music, babe. I'm kidding. I just happen to say, hey brother, how you doing from a great state of Indiana? I'm around, how are you as well as we are?  Good song.  Focus, you too, Corey, focus. But whatever you plant, it's coming back. It's just coming back a lot bigger. And so these people, it could be just like God was taking time. Think about this for a second. Just like God was taking time to bring you something to reap your reward. Remember he said, be not weary and well-doing. Don't get weary and well-doing. As a matter of fact, he says, actually in verse nine, let's go ahead and read that. He says, let us not lose heart in doing good for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. So we're going to reap it at some point in time. We're going to reap, it may not come when we want it, but it's going to come in the future, maybe the distant future, maybe the near future. Well, if we're gonna reap what we have sown in a good way, those who are sowing destructive doctrines, they're gonna reap that. Now, do we pray for them to hurry up and reap it? No, what we do pray is for them to actually find the truth, which is why we keep preaching the truth. And maybe they don't learn, maybe they don't succumb. There will be someone. That's why we want to keep preaching the truth. We want to keep making sure that people don't fall to some of this stuff, because somebody is, how many of us, I'm one that used to listen to these kind of people. Matter of fact, this guy right here, I thought he was so funny. I thought he was so smart. I thought he was so godly. But then at the same point in time, I was still only a year or two in the word, but he was on TV. I thought he was special. And I would hear him say stuff about how he is God himself. Now, this is one of the more blasphemous statements that he said. He said a lot of bunch of blasphemous things as well too. But when you see it, I don't have to tell you who he is. You're probably thinking who it might be because there are some guys, they're just elite. You got some elite deceivers out there. You got some elite mockers out there. I mean some people that this guy, he might not be the biggest blasphemer. He might not be the biggest mocker, but he's in the top two, top three, top five at least. And he's also on board with him and us being gods. In nine, I want to read verse six. For unto us, I say in nine verse six, for unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given. And the government shall be upon his shoulders and his name shall be called wonderful. Counselor, the mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince of peace. Yet the book of Ephesians, chapter five verse one says, be there for imitators of God as dear children. So when I look at Isaiah nine, six, where is the government now? Now you gotta be special to do this. You have to be special to just take a, take just a regular passage and twist it to mean you. To take any passage, listen, say what you want to say. Say what you want to say, but Jesse Duplantis has a gift. The man is gifted. Now he's gifted by his father, the devil, but he's gifted. He has the ability to take a passage that no one could see what he sees and in turn, spin it to make it about him. Look how he spends his passage to be about him. It's on us. The government of the world is on mankind. And because we're made in God's image and in God's likeness, you can call us wonderful. Counselor, mighty God, Christ in us, the everlasting father, whoo, the prince of peace. That's what it means to be the gift. Yeah. So that's us. That's us. What's the point is him. I mean, this is the guy that talks about how many chandeliers he's got, his chandeliers cost more than most folks home. Most folks home, that's him. And so there's this belief that we are guys. We have the power to call those things that are not as though they were tapped into this power. And if you don't understand how to do it, if you don't know how to do it, then just simply pay me. I'll help you to do it or just tap into my power. Just follow me. Now you'll probably get broke doing so. You'll die broke without ever seeing the power, but at least you tried. And at least I got rich off of it. But he's not the only one. Because now what we're seeing guys is just this not dumbing down of the word, but this just tearing it apart to where anybody can be a God. And it doesn't really matter what type of God. As a matter of fact, you get to define God. And what's happening is, from people who don't even necessarily know or think that this person might be some sort of mocking person, some sort of scoff or some sort of deceiver, because he seems to say the right words. I played this before, but I want to play this off as possible. There's a lot of folks that still watch this guy, listen to this guy, follow this guy. This is Noel Jones. And listen to what he says about God, who determines who God is. And what God has done is, since no one of us has it all, he has fixed it so that each one of us can have an idiosyncratic concept of who he is. It is critical to understand that each one of us creates God. It is your thoughts of God who makes God your God. Each one of us creates God. It's your thoughts of God that makes God God. This is where you can say, that guy is not saved. We tend to want to wait a little bit, give us some more evidence to see for us to make the statement that, no, you're not God. I mean, that you're not saved.  You are not a Christian. Can't be, because no Christian says that. But let's finish listening to him and say some more silly stuff. And nobody can duplicate or imitate. So that's why we have to share. Every individual in here interprets their calling. Now, mother's interpretation of her calling is not within what we call the norm. Mother's interpretation of her calling is that she is the only begotten daughter. That's her interpretation of her calling. But you don't judge a tree by its branches. You judge a tree by its fruit. This was a, let me see if I can find this also. I have something in here. This was, I don't have it. Yep, I'm not, well, since I don't have it, I'm not gonna play it. But this was him speaking on behalf of this lady named Hock Jahan Moon. Hock Jahan Moon. I think that's what I'm saying. I think I'm saying her name right. She believes that she is the only begotten daughter of God.  And this is her way and he's validated it. Because of her gifts, she's brought us together. So she has, she is being used by God. And then you got folks that go to Bishop Noel Jones Church and the choirs on fire and they're jamming and we feel, ooh, we sweated. And ooh, child, and we have church. And meanwhile, everyone else is deceived and being deceived. And then you don't have folks who wanna be just, wanna be just like him, wanna wanna be just like him. And what will they do? They'll open the church up and do the exact same thing because it's working for him. Answer this question. And that says, when a pastor or preacher is teaching in error of God's work, at what point does a believer need to determine error from Paul's teaching approach? Okay, that's a good question. First of all, every pastor is going to preach something in error, every pastor, every preacher is going to, is going to say something wrong, except me. Obviously we're not talking about me. We're talking about them. I don't get it wrong. They get it right.  I get it right. That's the mindset of a preacher. And then when the preacher gets it wrong, I didn't get it wrong. You just misunderstood it. I want you, first of all, before you listen to his words, I want you to see if you can listen to it and see his heart because the pastor who could never be wrong, who could never make, you know, everybody does something wrong. Everybody does something wrong and thinks that it's right. That's just it. And sometimes, and by the way, because you do something wrong and think it's right, that doesn't necessarily mean that you are a bad person or that you may necessarily be in sin or anything like that or whatever, it just happens. I'm used, again, going back, going back. For example, if your pastor puts salt on his grits, he doesn't know better. Is he in sin? No, he just doesn't know any better. I get that. I get that. How do you determine, though, if what he's doing is just erroneous or if it's sinful or if it's black? Well, one, the intention. I would say this anytime, anytime, that you think that something is wrong, you should be able to approach your pastor. Now, it's not your fault that the church has 10,000 members. If he's not approachable, then go to another church. If you can't get some time with the person who is shepherding you, because there's no shepherd who doesn't want to see about the needs of the sheep. And so it may be that he's a good shepherd for everybody else and not for you. So leave. There's plenty of good shepherds out there. So go to the pastor and say, hey, listen, I have an issue. Maybe you don't need to go to the pastor. Maybe you can go to an elder first. And if they don't explain it adequately, well, then keep going up. You put sugar on your grits. Yes, that's what good Christian people do. What are you doing, Leela? What are you doing? All Christians put sugar. Do y'all know, by the way, I have to say this. I have to say this. Too legit says sugar is white poison. Yes, but it's good poison. Now, if you blaspheme sugar one more time, too legit, you're getting banned. I'm gonna ban you. I'm gonna send you over to Marcus right now, kid. But do you know I had a... I'll never forget I was, we were being babysit. My mother had a neighbor who used to babysit me and my brother. And first of all, these are bad people for a lot of other reasons. But the key indication that they were bad, the key indication that they were bad, when she would give us rice in the morning for breakfast, my mother would pay for her to feed us. She would give us, give her the rice and the sugar and the butter and so on. Cause you also put butter and sugar on your rice unless it's smothered with some grease and some chicken or something like that. I mean, some gravy, that's different. That's different. Then you don't have to put sugar and butter, but just regular rice for breakfast, sugar and butter.  Yes, that, yes, yes, that was horrible. That was horrible of her.  She beat her.  She was rough. Now, she didn't beat her for the rice, but I like to think that that's why she did giving us rice with no butter and sugar. You don't put, no, you don't, no. Nothing, that's just, I pray that she repented them. I do, I do. I pray that she repented, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord. Oh Lord, please, please Diana, don't do that. Did you just, oh Lord. Diana, all right, I'm praying for you. I'm praying for your husband. No, that's what I'm praying for. I'm praying for your husband and your kids. I'm praying for your husband and your kids, but anyway, that's what Christians do. Is it Lila or Layla? That's what Christians do. We put sugar. So God gave us sugar to put on grits. So, anyway, getting back to this though, but there are people that are gonna believe this stuff and eat it up because it sounds good because they're not reading it. And your job is to go to a pastor, hey, I disagree or I'm not sure. Now, obviously, your approach matters. Pastor, you're wrong. I can tell you what you're wrong.  I'm confused. My whole issue with tongues came about because I was trying to figure out, and I believed the pastor. It just wasn't making sense for me. It wasn't making any sense for me. And so I kept going and kept asking and kept asking and just what you're saying, it and lining up. Now, there are gonna be some things that you disagree with your pastor that may not be something that would cause you to leave. I would say the church loved the church and they believed in tithes. I did not. Okay, it did affect what I was giving. I didn't title it tithe. I just, because I guess what? If you put it down as offering, I'm pretty sure the church will still accept it. I'm pretty sure they will still accept it. There are some things that are worth fighting over and speaking over now if they become too legalistic and now we're adhering to all the laws. So I hope that helps. But anyway, going back to this, because we've got people who are trying to be friendly with the world, who are trying to make the rest of the world comfortable, they can kind of do things their own way. You're gonna see more and more of this kind of either us being gods or even us following different types of gods. Because God then always, you all realize it's only us Christians that are beholden to for the most part, God being a man. There are people that, yeah, we can be God or we can have different gods and one of the guys we can have or the God is a woman. Don't believe me, but a good buddy down here down the street from me actually, Freddie Haynes. We decided you may try to suppress us and hold us down, but we got too much John Lewis in us. We got too much Amelia Boynton in us. We've got too much Martin King in us. We've got Ella Baker in us and we who believe in freedom will not rest until it comes and we popped up into our mother God's hand. We said we popped up into our mother God's hand. Now he was on, he is more political than anything else. He is pro black through and through, not really a pastor. He's just a civil rights leader who happens to be in a building that they call a church. It's not a church, it's a social club, but that's a whole other story about that church. But then the same that he make is that popped up into our mother God's hands. And people buy that and eat it because he was sounding good. He was moving, he was sweating. Cameron says, what is a woman? What is a woman? We don't know here in America because now we think we do know. We think we know, but obviously, and I know your point that you're getting it, obviously, whatever we say, we're wrong. Yes, and he is angry. Well, I take it back. He's actually not that angry. He really isn't that angry. I've had the occasion to be with him on some things. And so what I say about him, I say from personal experience, go back and watch the video. What was it? Well, oh, Woke and Wicked, because he is woke and wicked. And I don't even, I don't tell half the story about his brother, just, and clearly he's not a believer, clearly. It doesn't take much, but now does he use the Bible? Does he use the Bible to say what he's trying to say? Sure. He absolutely uses the Bible to trick people. He wants to be seen as something. He wants to be something. He wants to be somebody. And that's where a lot of these people, this is why not going to, why do we have people in churches that mock God? There's an easy way to know this. Simple. It's about us. It's about me. Why do churches mock God? Because the mocking starts from the top on down. When you go to Stephen Verdeck's church, who says, I am God Almighty. When you go to Elevation Church with, you don't know what they believe from day to day. When you go to a Potter's house, when you go to, even if you go to Smile and Joel's church, it's still about me. It's about me doing things, getting things. It's about me. Want to be seen as somebody. As a matter of fact, all we have to do is go and look at the scriptures. Here's an example about someone who it's about him. In Acts eight, chapter eight verse nine, there was a man named Simon who formerly, look what it says, was practicing magic in the city and astonishing people of Samaria claiming to be someone great. This is him saying so. This is him, not them claiming him to be someone great. It's him claiming to be someone great. And then what we notice is, here comes Philip and the people hear the word of God. So we juxtapose, big word, it took me a while to figure out what this word meant, but we juxtapose Philip and Simon's actions. Simon was astonishing people. He was claiming to be something special and they were astonished. But then here comes Philip. Philip didn't come with a smoke machine. Philip didn't come with pyrotechnics. Philip didn't come with a tight leather pants on. Philip didn't come with people pretending to be on the cross. Philip didn't come with any of these spectacles. What Philip came was preaching the word. That's what Philip did. Philip goes down there and he's giving them the gospel and what does it say in verse 12? He says, as he's doing so, he says, but when they believed Philip, what was Philip preaching? Philip was preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus. They were being baptized, men and women alike. Even Simon himself believed. Now we know because of the 10th of the verb that the belief that he has is not the pistol one, high pistol one, he was not the believing. He believed and will know about how his belief was different than the believing ones in a second. But even him stopping to acknowledge that, he at least even this person who thought he was something gave mental assent to the fact that what this guy is saying is right. And oh, by the way, he sees the very same people that were being astonished by him now going to this guy, Philip, who did not come with trickery or as we say, trickeration. He didn't come with any sleight of hand. Paul said that he, I didn't come, I didn't speak to you with any sort of cunning words or anything like that. I'm just giving you the word straight and raw, baby. Give it to you like it is, plain and pure. The true raw word as it is, I don't have to put anything on top of it. I don't have to put makeup on it. I don't have to pour syrup on it. I don't have to put sugar or salt on it. Just give it to you like it is. And what were they doing? They were now listening. Why? Because that is the power of Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Some of these people who wanna put on these shows, who wanna mock God, they are ashamed of the gospel. Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel. Why? Because it is the power of God unto salvation. For the Jews and for the Gentiles and anybody else that got left out, by the way, you say Jews and Gentiles as everybody, but that's all it took. And so at that moment, it looked like Philip believed, but then if we go on, if we go on down after going to verse 17 and they began, this is when Peter and John come down and they lay hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. Verse 17, they began laying their hands on them and they were receiving the Holy Spirit. Now when Simon saw the Spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money saying, give this authority to me as well. Give me this power to me as well so that everyone whom I may lay my hands on may receive the Holy Spirit. Peter says, may your silver perish with you.   And may your silver go there with you because you thought you could obtain the gift of God with money. You have no part or portion in this matter for your heart is not right before God. Therefore, repent of this wickedness. Now I'll leave that there, but here we've got two people with different approaches, Philip and then Simon. If you want to win people over, you don't need any gimmicks. You don't need any of that.  If you love this world, you cannot love God. That cannot be. That's like saying, hey, I love my wife and I love my girlfriend. No, you don't. I love my husband and I love my boyfriend. No, you don't. No, you do not. You cannot love the world and God at the same time. You simply cannot. Now, if you want to be friends with the world, the Bible tells us this, that if you are friends with the world, that means that it means hostility on your part towards God. And if you have hostility on your part towards God, I promise you, God will return the favor in kindness. As a matter of fact, not in kind, 10 fold, 100 fold. So therefore, therefore, therefore it would behoove you not to have this desire to please the world. So when people go to these churches, the reason, the biggest reason why you see God being mocked is because they are playing to the world, not to God.  I don't care about this. I don't care about that. I just care about God. But look at how you are. Look at what you're doing. Because now you're hearing more and more people saying that it doesn't matter what the word says, everything that God wants you to know it in the word. Who says that? Somebody who doesn't care about the word. Someone who doesn't care about the word. And so he says, God is not mocked. What they sow, they will reap. But you remember what you were told. Did I read James four? I did read James four four. Carol put that in. I didn't even realize, I didn't even realize I clicked the thing. I forgot there was James four four. I'm sorry guys. James four four is what I just read. But these guys are smart. The deceivers and the deceit. The deceivers are smart because they know that, as Paul said, cause they read their Bible, Paul said that the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine. And they'll have itching ears. Well, listen, if they got itching ears, then me, as a good marketing strategist, I must market myself as a person to scratch these ears or tickle these ears. That's how I'm gonna, that's how I'm gonna make mine because Paul says that they see the gospel as a means of gain. When he says for us, the gospel itself is great game. Salvation itself is great game. And so there are these people that are out there like it, but he says to us, preach the word. Preach the word. Preach the word. Teach, reprove, rebuke. I don't know why I always struggle with reprove. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with all wrongs suffering. That's our job. That's our goal. Ladies and gentlemen, there are going to be more and more transformation churches. There are going to be more and more Potter's Houses. That's CDJ's church. There are gonna be more and more Lakewood churches. That's Joe Lowstein church. That's his church. There are going to be more and more Elevation Churches. That's Stephen Fertig's church. There are going to be more and more of these types of churches and they're gonna grow and grow and grow and grow. Well, what do you do? Well, one, don't have a faint heart. Understand that's how it is. One is how it's always been. Don't be under the illusion that the world was always a Christian world. It was never a Christian world. Yeah, you know what, Ben? You said that. You said, reprove is not in our lexicon today, but it's still, you're right. We are not allowed. We are not allowed to prove the facts. We know that because we can't tell someone, hey, you can't be a, listen, you have XY chromosome. It is literally impossible for you to ever need a Tampax. But we've got Dylan Mulvaney, who is now being sponsored by Tampax. How in the world is that even possible?  He's also gotta deal with Nike to market sports bras. Now, not that I'm checking Dylan out. I'm not checking his dude out, but he has absolutely no need for a sports bra. But this is where we are. And like Bill said, if we try to, yeah, Sheila, if we try to reprove, what are we? Homophobic, transphobic, everything else phobic. We are on the wrong side of history. We are all these different things, but I'm sorry. And someone asked me the other day, why in the world, Corey, would you do the video on what's happening with Bud Light? Because we need to take notice. We need to do the same thing. We, they have upset a lot of people with putting Dylan Mulvaney on this thing, just, and so they just said, all right, fine.    We're just not gonna buy you. And so that's one way to reprove them. But for us, how do you reprove the people in the church? Well, a couple of ways.  With the word, and then leave them. If they won't get right, and then rebuking. Y'all do realize rebuking is biblical. The problem is today, we don't like, we don't like that reprove is a mean word. Rebuke is a meaner word. And then we get so tired, so we don't wanna exhort them, and we don't wanna do so patiently. Meaning, keep doing it. Because how long, how long did it take for you to hear the word and then grow in it? How long? I heard the, you know what? I heard the word when I was, I didn't come out saved, but when I was two, I put my toddler things away and heeded the voice of the Lord. The Lord called me while I was just walking, could barely talk, but the Lord called me three times like the prophet, like Sam and I said, yes, Lord. Yeah, no. Took us a long time to actually succumb to the word. It took us a while to get right. That's how it is. That's how it is. And so we should do the same thing. The problem is we get what you don't wanna do is, and I'm not gonna do it, you don't give up. Right or wrong, I do not give up on people quickly. Unless you're just dangerous. Listen, if you got a knife in the gun and telling me to back up, I'm backing up.  My bad brother, I'm backing up. But I don't normally, I don't get, if someone is just out there, just rough, hard to handle, just blip.  Listen, if Big Arkansas, if I can talk him down and he was the bully in prison, then I'll work with you, cause God worked with me. In that jail cell in those shackles, God worked with me. And so I'd be wrong. Matter of fact, I'd be hypocritical to give up on you. I really would. I would be a horrible Christian to give up on somebody who needs someone to exhort them and to do so with all long suffering. Come on, you can do this. Don't go on, you messed up again. But I still love you. What kind of a church were I think that was from the first clip? I don't, a wacky one. You know what? I wanna say it was probably first Baptist of Chernobyl cause these folks got some serious nuclear, some exposure to some nuclear material. These people were crazy. I have no idea. I don't know. It was an older clip, but, and I had never seen it before, but I just thought that was just weird. It was, again, that was a funny clip. That was the funniest, that takes the cake. But, amen, amen. Bill, you keep sitting them. Encourage one another with these words. You mean my words though? You know what? My words and the Bible, both of them. Sheila says, show it again. Do you want me to show it? She says, okay. She says, show it again. I don't know if I should show it again, Sheila. Cause it's just, we're trying to be serious here, Sheila. And if I show the clip again, we can't be serious. We can't be, there's no way, there's no way, I'm looking at something. That's funny. That's funny. Because I saw that come across. Let me go ahead and play this so I can recover. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. That's hilarious. That is hilarious. My father left some more to buy, but the bridegroom comes and we have gone with him. I will be by your chair, but his shoulder will be by your side. His day, the night's relation will be by your side. Finish, and that's fine. That's what's up. That was loud so good. Take your own herself. I was trying to figure out which part was the craziest part, the guy jumping into the baptismal, or at the end, the guy taking his jacket and throwing it, it doesn't matter. There, wonderful. Wonderful. That wasn't Rodney Howard Brown level stuff. It really was. Yeah, I'm gonna guess Pentecostal as well They might not be though who know who knows they might listen wouldn't that be something we find out they were if they were Baptist if they were Presbyterian like okay, the spirit the spirit caught them Thank You a Renee for the Super Sticker the spirit caught a hold of them. So but what what do we do? We can laugh at it and on the other stuff The the really really agreed to stuff because first that's that sport. That's funny That sport that's funny, but what about the stuff that that is because guys here's and let me just just Be serious for a second. There is there are some There are some People out there that their goal is themselves and they're good at what they do They are smart they're clever and Their only means or their only goal is To turn you into their means for game And they'll do so with twisting the scriptures, which is why we call this stuff out The stuff that we see in black and white and they violate that we call it out You have to Why because at the end of every heresy there is a soul At the end of every heresy there is a soul and so guess what we're gonna do We are going to Fight for that particular soul Now we can't change anybody We can't make anybody get right all we can do is all we can do which is what we should do. Hey, man I ask you thank you first. I appreciate that so guys Stay diligent Don't get this hard when you see all of this stuff. You're gonna see you're gonna see more You're gonna see them take down every single piece of sound doctor that we hold to You're gonna see them come at whatever you think is a is a key doctrine for the church They'll attack it If you see a doctrine or a belief in the church growing It's not of God. He's not bringing us new doctrine He's not bringing us anything new. He's giving us What we have he doesn't need anything new what do you what we have what he has works and so because of that We should stay vigilant to the word that we actually have we should say tether to the actual word God as he says is not mocked What what is some? Let me read Good or bad They're gonna tear down the deity of Christ They're gonna tear down salvation itself the need for it. There's many ways to God They're gonna tear down an awful lot of things that we hold daily and that I even require for salvation So guys that's the reason why we have People in church Mocking God they're already mocking God outside But we've got people in church that are also mocking God and that is the reason why It's an issue because somebody's actually suffering from it. So guys I want to thank you for your time I look forward to seeing you guys again on tomorrow. God bless you and be safe


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It's the quietest model We use it many times a day and so that makes a difference and it looks awesome in our kitchen And I'd really miss the timer. I watched that timer. I set that timer It helps me multitask in the kitchen and then the eight ounce I didn't think I was gonna use it that much But we really do I use all of my dressings I make in there Otherwise you end up having to make quite a bit of dressing balsamic vinaigrette our caesar Our ranch dressing all in the eight ounce. I made all of our baby food for our kid in there I steamed a bunch of veggies And used the eight ounce because I wasn't sure if he was gonna like anything So I wanted to make a small amount and then also we make our peanut sauce in there for our sprinkles And that is an awesome use of that eight ounce container So I'm gonna make Lenny add this to his video because I don't feel like he was excited enough about the a 3500 And I am and I'm really the one that uses it the most in the kitchen Here's what I know the touch buttons touch on off touchpulse. They're really good. They haven't been anything but responsive And surprisingly durable. They even respond if there's a drop of water on there And that goes for program buttons as well as the plus and minus So increase the count and decrease the count and that also makes the front of the a 3500 pretty easy to clean It's just kind of one swipe, especially if you compare it to its predecessor the pro 750 There's more cracks and crevices in between the switches. So really easy to clean The only thing I would say is for demonstration purposes if you're using this thing backwards If you have it in front of you like this and you're kind of doing this It's a little tougher to do Then just kind of pulling the switches. So if you've seen any of our videos and it's like, uh It doesn't really work. Well, that's because there's nothing to feel So this is not good if you have any visual Impairment if you're an individual with visual disabilities This is not a good fit for you like on a keyboard where there's a little Scratch so you know where the d or the k is I think None of that here noise. This is still the quietest machine that we've ever had I've been appreciating the responsive programming the ability for the machine to recognize what containers on it if you're making hot soup or Our case so for example, and you put the low profile 64 ounce container and you hit the soup setting It's gonna say five and a half minutes But if you put the 48 ounce container pop it on It'll say the soup setting is going to take seven and a half minutes And then if you put the eight ounce Container the little bowl on here. It's going to say no no We don't do soup setting with this container because there is no vent So I can definitely appreciate the responsive programs to the container that's on this machine the variable speed dial I've really gotten to become fond of the variable speed dial. So this is a never ending I don't know really how you describe Continuous flow. So it's not a mechanical Control of the variable speeds. It's actually digital. So you could spin this forever and when you turn it back on It'll be a one you can feel some So it's not just a free flowing. It's kind of like a It's really easy to use especially in the mornings, for example When we're making green juice started on one for a few seconds Let it kind of catch everything pull everything down and then I just flick it to 10 Also nice I appreciate the counter counting up when you're just using variable speed to tell you how long you've been blending I know with our green juice we make it for about a minute and 20 seconds to really get everything mixed And so I'll head over to the sink and wash the dish or two look over my shoulder a minute and 20 seconds Okay, now it's time to go back down to one to slow things down to get some of those air bubbles out We're good to go and then also the countdown timer. So if you're using a program the smoothie setting or the soup a soup setting Nice to know. Okay. There's it's been running for a long time. We only have a minute left It's kind of a nice little status update Like if you're waiting for the train and you see, oh, there's a train coming in two minutes It's just kind of reassuring to know that the wait is Ending soon. I will say there was some initial resistance To the clear lid because it's just it's a different material than the the the rubber lid from its predecessor Hmm Okay, all right. So we should talk about this The clear lid is a little trickier to clean. It's a little more rigid And then also there's this rubber kind of seal around it And you kind of have to take it off to get some of the schmutz off of it. Can you see? That's a thing I did not realize that that stuff kind of builds up in there not ideal, but I I have gotten fond of the click And so has our little guy he likes taking the container and going click You can see this container is not completely shiny new like a lot of the machines that we show in demo That's because this has gotten two years of daily or multiple times a day used They get like this in another video We'll show how to kind of get this off But if you if you want to avoid some of this cloudy build up Make sure to dry your container after you clean it immediately every time if someone took away this machine They were like, yeah, we're taking away your ascent and we're putting a class machine on your counter Here's what I would miss. I would miss the dial I would miss the ability to use the eight ounce container I would miss the the click Of the lid. I would miss the look. I would miss the timer the digital up the digital down I would miss the full integration with the perfect blend scale and app Oh, and this this is what I would miss about the container See this thing this little notch. This was brought to our attention When we first saw this in like two and a half years ago It's like, yeah, this container is new. It's got the clear lid. It's got the click And it's got this notch this notch is new and it's exclusive to these ascent series smart system containers It makes for a smoother pour a smoother flow. Can you see this right here? It's a little thing, but I would miss that If someone took away my ascent series and threw a classic pack in my counter and if you appreciate videos like this Updates about machines two years later hit that thumbs up button subscribe to our channel if you haven't already Thank you so much for watching and we will see you in the next one Hopefully


Hi everybody, Joe for Jaspy's casebreaks.com coming at you with a dual case break of the Jaspy exclusive hip parade basketball pretty nice, so we worked with hip parade to to curate this collection of cards here and Delivering it to you. I think at a pretty good price point for a dual case break. It's not too bad Let's randomize you a team big. Thanks everybody here not only for getting your spot straight up But congrats again to the people who won spots In those two fillers that we did there is another dual case break available right now if you want to check it out Jaspy's case breaks calm if you missed out this time don't miss out next time All 30 teams are in Let's go. Let's roll it. Let's randomize names and teams one into two three times easy one two and three Danny down to Casey one and two three times for the teams one two and three We got the Bulls down to the Minnesota Timberwolves Now remember folks all the hits in here some are graded some aren't some are old stuff new stuff The wide range of hits so trade at your own risk Danny You have the Bulls bend with the Atlanta Hawks bury with the Nugget Steve with the Hornets Jonah with the Spurs Jesse with the Thunder Emory with the Rockets Danny with the Mavs Louie with the Lakers Darrell with the Lakers about to tip off right now Lakers at Knicks Darrell calves Jimmy with the Jazz Yancy with the Warriors Terry with the Clippers Greg. You got the Knicks Mark Raptors and Trailblazers Yancy with the Magic Adrian with the Pacers Michael wizards Casey pelicans Dayton Celtics Chad with the Kings Louis last Bob Mojo Memphis Grizzlies Kenny with the Sun's Mike with the heat Charles with the Bucks Terry with the Nets Brett with the Pistons Casey with the Sixers and the Minnesota Timberwolves Let's sort this alphabetically by team And we're gonna pause the video when we come back We're gonna see if there's any trades and then we'll have the break to ground be right back All right, welcome back folks. There was a lot of trade chatter But in the end no deals are done. So here is the final printout hot off the presses This is our first dual case break of hit parade basketball Oh, this is yeah, it's about to be some fire in here. So All the first responders have to be alerted Thanks, everybody for getting into it. We have another dual case break up on the site right now So if you want to run this back, I would be happy to do so. We also have a hit parade Um, jaspy exclusive football version on jaspy's case breaks.com if you want to check that out Speaking of basketball, my Lakers are on the road LeBron James suspended for a game for uh for that swipe into Isaiah Stewart's face leaving The eye uh that cheek area bloody I think Isaiah Stewart got a couple games too. I mean he was his rage was uncontrollable So he got suspended he got suspended for that A lot of fines being thrown around Let's now hear the Lakers at the garden without uh without LeBron and I think I think Anthony Davis is playing but he's under the weather non-covid illness A little bit of the flu as he was saying but he's out there They just tipped off I think nicks have been struggling a little bit and Lakers haven't really clicked just yet. So This could be a important game to get right for both of these teams. All right Good luck everybody. First one out of the gate is Kobe from 1996 SP basketball PSA 9 Kobe Bryant Premier prospects, that's really cool. RIP Kobe Bryant Nice area's high school stats right there. Nice rookie card for Louie and the Lakers That's awesome. All right Next box Thanks for hanging with me on a Tuesday boys and girls appreciate it Another graded card. It's Zion Williamson from 2019 2020 Panini prism basketball just base version not a silver but still cool uh edges uh corners and surface a 9 5 And centering is a 10 and centering has been notoriously difficult On these prism cards, but you got a 10 on that one pelicans That will be for Casey All right, nice start now. We just got to get Because I am back on the court I'm playing all right. We've got Impressionist Inc Carl Malone for the jazz that's 19 out of 75 from uh 2020 2021 court Kings basketball Jimmy and the jazz What's going on here? Nicks on a opening the game 10-nothing Come on. Come on Lakers Nicks off to a 10 point start 10 10-0 start next one Is a bull 2018 panini Donner's optic basketball Hall dominator signature PSA 10 the worm Dennis Rodman Danny with the bulls tried to trade couldn't trade mojo 32 out of 40 There's former teammate scottie pipin making a lot of noise A lot of uh, a lot of michael jordan slander I'm trying to sell some books. I guess next is Tyrese maxi 15 out of 88 rookie on-card auto out of impeccable Nice one for the Sixers Casey in philadelphia Getting a lot of minutes I'm playing well. I want to say another graded card And it's wow nice from 2012 panini hoops Damian Lillard PSA 9 That's rookie Damian Lillard. That's awesome. That will be uh for portland mark Got randomized portland With a spot that he won in a filler next one out of the gate is national treasures basketball paul pierce autograph 10 out of 25 For my rivals the Celtics Dayton Got a spot straight up got randomized the Celtics ended up with the paul pierce It's pretty strong next up another graded card And it's more Celtics larry bird elegance jersey and on-card auto 7 out of 25 That's a 9 10 No sub grades here, but it's pretty nice Dayton with the Celtics. It looks like we have a Fox in the box the erin fox From chronicles basketball 17 out of 25 Sacramento kings that's going to be for chad In fact, we have chronicles basketball pre-orders for the latest version in the store right now jaspy's casegrades.com Get your teams now. We'll break that tomorrow. All right next up Is rookie roll call michael porter jr. 9 10 From 18 19 certified basketball Centering edges a 9 5 corn doesn't serve as a 9 the auto a 10 Denver that's for barry david tried to trade couldn't trade mojo But wait, there's more another case nice dual case break I feel like most of you are going to get into a couple of these breaks anyway So may as well get into the next dual case break on jaspy's case breaks.com Go and get it another 10 boxes In this dual case break 20 total. There's reggie miller prism autograph on card autograph nice pacers adrian tried to trade couldn't trade mojo Thanks reggie miller next up Is john stockton nice john stockton we saw his teammate earlier carl malone jimmy in the jazz So a couple old school guys to start things off Next is kevin garnett k g specter basketball 27 out of 49 celtics edition going to Dayton Love that specter hoops look Yeah, there was a lot of stockton to malone calls tj. That's for sure Hey, here is for the sixers markel folds 44 out of 99 three-color patch and autograph rookie auto out of noir basketball This might be one to hang on to kasey with the sixers He's battling some unfortunate injuries, but I feel like he was kind of creeping creeping back to What is uh, what is what people originally thought his ceiling was going to be? Yancy, what's going on? Yeah, you got the warriors here And maybe we'll find a stef curry in here. That'd be nice All right next is Chris middleton 16 out of 99 Rookie chris middleton. That's right back when he was a piston. This is from 2012 2013 NT basketball Detroit That's going to be for bret and detroit. No graded card out of this case yet. Here's the second half Oh, here's our first graded card from this case It is tyler hero psa 9 From 2019 select basketball gold wave parallel premier level And that is for mike sonnich. Miami heat. There you go, mike Won that spot in a filler got randomized the heat got a nice card next up Is alexi pokasevsky 84 out of 88 Rookie auto impeccable basketball That's jesse with the okc thunder Three boxes to go You have here we've got Oh, this is nice from contenders draft picks basketball. That's luka donchich That's awesome. That's danny with dallas That that that set probably came out before he even played a A single minute in the nba back when people are like who's this guy gonna be this guy's gonna be worth anything All right, next up Another great card here rated rookie on card auto diandre eighton phoenix sons Sons have been playing some good basketball to start the season. That's going to go to kenny And phoenix by the time I get to phoenix, she'll be rising Last one It's another fox in the box from 2019 panini prison basketball deer and fox penmanship autograph. That's psa nine sack town Chad with sacramento There you go. There you have it ladies and gentlemen. I'm joe for jasmiescasebreaks.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us We've got another dual caser in the store. Let's get another one of these done tonight I'll see you next time for the next one jasmiescasebreaks.com


It was good old Queen Victoria that ended up making the modern Christmas as we know it, common practice. Before Queen Victoria, the English hadn't quite taken to the tradition of Christmas trees. But after Victoria married her German husband Albert in 1941, the Queen embraced the practice. The Queen would also hang Christmas present on branches to make her husband happy. And not long after, the people followed suit. By 1942, you could find ads for Christmas trees and gift giving. In December 1844, an illustrated book, The Christmas Tree, described all about the origins of Christmas trees and how to properly put them up in your home. And in 1846, Queen Victoria was sketched with her family standing around a Christmas tree. This article and its description about how the family had various Christmas trees around Windsor Castle skyrocketed the use of Christmas trees in Britain. By 1906, a charity was set up so even orphaned children could also partake of a Christmas tree.


Hi everyone, I'm very happy, very pleased to be able to talk to you today. It's a new role for me. I'm now here talking to you as the owner and founder of Allotropia. We're a very young company, so it's even more important to be here on stage and I will start with the keynote talking a little bit about the new company. As an aside, you see that, or maybe you even hear that in the background. We're here in Hamburg, hosted by a housing project. Thanks for having us with a small group of German hackers, a few more to come in the next two days. And we're trying this hybrid thing for the first time. It didn't quite work out for the first try for this talk, so I hope it's getting better and we're learning and improving as we go. Okay, so without further ado, let's start. Quick introduction, who we are. We are based in Hamburg, just started January this year, so start up for a young company. And we are a spin-off of CIB, my former company, so we essentially just took the free and open source people there, the team, spun out a new company and are now exclusively focused on free and open source software. Leadership team myself and my former boss, LeBrandtner, was also a co-investor in the new company. Our team right now is a core team of seven people, certified LeBrandtner developers, collectively more than 70 years of experience with a code base. And we do pretty much everything from core development and C++ over to Java, Python, basic, including training for other developers for extension or integration development. We do deployments, migrations, we are active in the standardization landscape, so we do mostly ODF, but also a bit of OXML standards work. And we do all this, yeah, whatever you have to do to be regarded as modern in terms of DevOps and secure development processes. Our partners, that's why we're here, why we're able to work and provide what we can, because we have strong partners, first and foremost, CIB, the kind of parent company or co-investor, still partner for sales and for consulting, mostly for scaling up if there's a need, the workforce, pretty solid old medium-sized company in Germany based in Munich, 23 million turnover, 2019, more than 180 employees, and doing everything that is in the area of document management, recently also with AI support. Second partner, I'm very happy about that, Collabora, Michael already mentioned it. Very important partnership for us for being able to have a full feature offering in the product scape for online and mobile, and also having a product and technology partnership, and I'm quite happy that that works out for that area. Beyond that, we have partners for trainings and migrations, most, if not all of them, from the divided liberal office ecosystem, most of them also certified. So what are we offering? What is actually our business model, which is first and predominantly liberal office consulting? So it's the classic, you have a free product or open source product, and you offer services around that like consultancy, bug fixing, future development, support trainings, and that's what we do, and also long term support. The second product we have is an LTS version, which is still under the CIB brand, which is well established under TDF license, and we have desktop version for Windows and Linux with volume license agreements, and we do custom and bespoke changes in that branch. And of course, which is the major point, we do regular security updates on that version. Additionally, that version is also available in the Windows Store, if you like to buy that. Beyond that, we are members or affiliated with a number of organizations. The most important I'd like to list here is open source business alliance, which is the German speaking areas, a lobby organization. We are OASIS member and some sponsoring one editor in the ODFTC. And last, but definitely not least, we are affiliated in very, very many ways with liberal office and the document foundation. I'm on the board. Other people are contributing code standardization work, other things, both in their paid and in their spare time, and we're also members of the advisory board of the document foundation. Right. So that's in all briefness, a quick walkthrough to what Allotropia is doing. I'm not alone. I'm here, and I'm very proud with a team of wonderful people, and some of them here, some of them still coming. Many of them will have talks over the conference, so you can see them on stage either or as prerecorded, but then chat with them in the coming three days. You know all of them. It's Michael, it's Jan Marek, it's Samuel, it's Asili, it's Armin, and a number of more to come there in the next time, so we're actually growing and hiring for selective positions. Okay, but since I'm not here to sell the company to you, it's mostly just to introduce you to what we're doing. Let me instead use the time and spend a few minutes and a few moments on personal thoughts while I have the stage. Because with the new role here and a bit of time to reflect and also with discussions we had on the board and discussions we had in the community, I came to think about what it means to be LibreOffice, what it means to be being involved with that code base and with that project for so very many years, and there have been many for me. So, I started back in the day, it's almost, it's a bit more than 20 years ago, I started in spring 2001 at San Microsystems working on OpenOffice, and I've been purely engineering nothing much else. So I was a paid engineer working on the code base and talking to community people, learning, learned about their worries and their problems and their challenges, and also getting quite some insight into how a big corporation works that sponsors an open source project. I moved on to SUSE then, where my responsibilities also grew into standards work, but also still mostly engineering, but I was suddenly on the other side of the fence. So I was in a comparatively small team, I had to talk to this big Sun team and trying to get my code changes accepted. And, yeah, it was interesting because it was quite different and things that I saw, I didn't see as a problem before in the Sun role, I didn't notice actually there are a problem if you are in a different role. And then I moved on again inside SUSE, so I stopped being paid for doing liberal office work, and instead was contributing in my free time, and it was in my paid time I was doing other open source work. So there was another change in perspective when suddenly I learned what it means to have very limited time at your hands, and not having the liberty and the privilege to contribute all your paid time. And then again, some change came and I moved to CAB and was again, well, not really being paid, so I had to earn, I was leading a team of liberal office developers, I had to earn the money, mostly to pay for the team. So again, different perspectives and different roles and I was growing into sales and marketing and other areas. And then finally, with the start of this year, I founded my own company and I'm now really responsible for getting the money in to pay the people. And so the newest, the latest change was more that of an investor, so taking on money, taking life savings, founding a company, hiring people, paying them to work on open office and liberal office. And again, a change in perspective and again, surprising insights into problems that I didn't notice were problems before. So bottom line, what I think I'm trying to get across here is that the perspectives matter greatly. And everybody has a bias, everybody, and then it includes me. So take whatever I say here, whatever I'm telling you with a big grain of salt. It's hard to imagine or it's actually, it's not easy to walk a mile into some other person's shoes. And I think with the experience, with the past experience that I made, it's worthwhile to assume best intentions on the other side. It's probably fair to say that almost everybody who's working in this community is working as of today is working here and still around because they care a lot about your office. They also might care about their personal income, they might care about their investments, but at least one of the motivators clearly is that people care about liberal office. Very seldomly things are purely evil. I would rather venture the guess that they're never purely evil, but just things, decisions, ways to do things really differ depending on your role that you're in. And if you find something weird that I'm doing or that my team is doing, then assume that's there for a reason and not because we want to annoy someone or because we're doing something nefarious. And then maybe let's, instead of people being upset and not talking, let's just get into a talk. Good. So to condense that a little bit into something perhaps more tangible. From my experience, what are volunteers doing broadly? So this is more like for the investors and the employees and the staff people among the audience here. Put yourself, try to put yourself into the shoes of a volunteer. What are, what is the driving there? What is the problem? Usually broadly don't want to say that's always the case. There's always exceptions to that rule, but broadly volunteers have very limited time at their hands. So what they tend to do is something that is usually not massive, or if it's a massive change, then it's a change they can do bit by bit, little by little, because there's only so much you can do with a complex code base. And just a few hours in the evening, you can't do the level of rework, the level of refactoring, given the same education, the same capabilities, the same smartness, compared to somebody who's doing that eight, nine, 10 hours every day. So that's kind of natural selection now, what volunteers tend to do, what it's important work, and it's work that, on the other hand, most of the paid developers, at least historically didn't do, because there was no business reason, for example, to do it. So all the cleanups, all the improvements, all the smaller changes that might not get the paying customer to do them. Those are wonderful things that our volunteers are doing. On the other hand, the way that the volunteers work, of course, for the paid developers, or for those, or perhaps for TDF as an organization, there's always this, will this volunteer be still around the next year? Will the massive change this person has been doing in their spare time and now once merged, once that lands, will that person still be around and maintain that in half a year or in a year's time, or fix the bugs, inevitable regressions. And that's this tension there that builds up, why sometimes there's pushback in the review for a massive change, or why somebody thinks that it should be a bit more polished, or it should be, it's too risky to merge as one large atomic change and rather once it's split down and easily reversible, if necessary. And on the other hand, the volunteers perhaps being frustrated by the scope base still being so complex and the build still taking so long and all the spare time energy being sapped by those silly obstacles and they really don't want to have fun and be productive. Paid contributors. I mean, most of the time they, they, you would expect they do what they're told to do. So what the employer or their customers is paying them to do. But as I said, that's probably for almost everybody active in liberal office. Most of the, I would say, or all the paid contributors are also volunteers, because they, most of them contribute and there's bad time they go well beyond what what I would expect from an employee in answering questions, helping, helping volunteers, reviewing codes, talking nicely about liberal office and really working much more than than they're paid for. So, and then they're frustrated if they're just put into this, this bucket of, oh, you're just, you're just a paid person and kind of not a not a true volunteer. And, and I think we're not not treating them fairly when we do that. And on the other hand, of course, they are in a privileged position. So when, when talking to volunteers and assuming that those people would perhaps have the same time and and could could invest the same amount of work into publishing their code as they can themselves like expecting the same standards, it's perhaps equally problematic and off putting for a volunteer. So again, try to put yourself into the other person's shoes, change perspective, try to understand what the other person thinks or drives. At least investors to some extent that that's what I am so I put significant amounts of money into this. So, why am I here, is it just for the money, or am I just a very charitable person and I don't want. To see my life savings back. Well, in reality, it's for me, almost exclusively, I can deeply about the project and the people and open source. That's the only way for me to continue what I did before, perhaps on a different level with a bit more control and say, and what I do and how I do it and when I do it and with whom. So, I'm definitely not here for the money beyond the fact that of course I have a family who needs to eat. And that's my motivation. I'm pretty sure that's that's kind of similar to a lot of people who put money into into open source and especially who put money into liberal office development. But it's not exclusively so we had contributors who were probably venture capital driven, and they were purely for the return of investment, which is fair enough. And at the end of the day, that's how the world works. And at the end of the day, if it's not worthwhile. Putting your money there then perhaps something is wrong with the project if there's no future if there's nothing that can be gained from it. And again, but of course, again, then the perspective changes and you realize that if a lot of money is at stake, that perhaps a few decisions a few things, how you do that, or when you do that, or what you expect in return when you, when you do something actually changes as well. So again, I'm asking for a bit of understanding that with a change in role, perhaps a few things are more important for me than there were before. But I do promise that I will try to remember the different roles I've been in. And if I forget, please remind me. Okay, so that's all from that bet. And I think the most important I save the last is some please all of you do enjoy liberal office conference. I will. I hope that we can meet each other in person again the next year. Yeah, let's be careful with each other. Let's stay safe and healthy. I wish you all the wonderful conference. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for your words. I really understand you since I am my own, let's say, from, you know, 2022 years, not that big, but anyway, I can partly understand your worries and I'm with you and I really share your words. Then, anyway, there are seven minutes left. And I'm watching if there are any questions but I can't at the moment see any questions in the in the chat room, the chart of the room one, nor in the main chart. So I invite anyone who may want to to prompt a question to do it now, possibly on room one shot. I don't know if there are questions from the audience there. I heard someone screaming.  We're in the chat space here. I see a question, not in the right place, but by the way, the question is, if the company name means something from Colin, the company name. Yes, absolutely. It's kind of a, it's not a real world, but it's some, it's some, it's a made of word, but it's some related to allotropes, which is some way of chemical elements to exist in very different shapes or forms. So, so I really like that idea. And there's also this this this buckyball on the, there was the buckyball on the second slide. Let me quickly call this up. So for example, carbon comes in different, different forms that essentially it's the same element, but it has very, very different chemical and physical characteristics. For example, diamonds, that's carbon graphite, that's carbon as well. And buckyballs is also carbon, which is really what LibreOffice code base also shows. So you find LibreOffice in so very many different shapes or forms. Sometimes you don't even recognize it, but it's included in the, in the product or in the software.  So I like that metaphor. So that's where the name came from. And by the way, I guess it is not a coincidence that the language is C and the carbon is C as well, the very same symbol. Yeah, I'm sure we can, we can spin a lot of stories around that. So the good thing with those metaphors is that they're quite malleable. And if they're abstract enough, you find, you find lots of connections. But yes, absolutely. C++ that's in there. Indeed. I can't remember in chemical, it should be for the linking possibilities of carbon. So C++ should be C++++ to be chemical equivalent, but jokes apart.


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Kentucky Derby is coming up. Horse name? Sports nickname. First up, Smarty Jones. Horse name. That's a horse name. Yeah, nice. Big Baby. Big Baby Juan Davis. Yep. Coco Crisp. Sports nickname. Cleveland Guardian Legends. Cleveland Guardian Legends. Hot Rod Charlie. Uh, horse. Oh, you're good at this. I didn't think I would. Cowboy Cow. That is, I believe, a horse again. A horse name. Hoop Jr. Sports nickname. Horse name. Little Ball of Hate. Little Ball of Hate. Sports nickname. Yes, hockey. For real? Yes.