Welcome everyone to leveraging S-Bombs software build materials for ICS security. Looking forward to sharing some of this material and content with you guys. I appreciate everyone taking some time out of their day during DEF CON and this virtualized experience that we're all going through together. And I just really appreciate you guys attending this. So kind of jump into things. First off, just by way of introduction, my name is Tom Pace. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Netrise. We are a startup that is focused on providing visibility to a class of devices that has historically not had very good visibility within them. So things like IoT, ICS, networking devices, embedded systems, medical devices, things of that nature. So prior to that, I was the Global Vice President of Enterprise Solutions at SILANCE where I traveled the world, basically helping clients solve problems related to product services, direct research, all manner of things. During that time also I handled a ton of incident response engagements, specifically on many regarding ransomware. So that garnered me a bunch of attention and I ended up getting interviewed on 60 Minutes for some of the work that I did there, which was a really cool and fun experience. Prior to that, I worked at the Department of Energy doing industrial control system security and other security engineering things. And then before that I worked at a bank and then prior to that I was in the Marine Corps where I spent most of my time in the Middle East doing not cyber security things, essentially. So I've also done a bunch of things at RSA, Black Hat, other conferences of the like. So speaking of my time in Iraq actually, it's always fun to share a picture of me and Chuck Norris over there in 2007. So it wasn't also bad. It's a much, much younger and youthful looking version of myself. So from an agenda perspective, what is a software bill of materials, then we'll go into market trends that are driving software bill of materials like why now, why isn't important now. What what things have happened that are driving this adoption in need device risks associated with not having a software bill of materials for risks that could be reduced by having one attacks that that have occurred and attack types. And then we'll move into identifying and discussing the value proposition to use cases that software bill of materials can can provide. How do we generate the in consumer S bomb. The challenges associated with such and then what do I do once I have one. So, jump into it. The software bill materials is basically a complete formally structured list of components libraries modules that are required to build, which essentially would mean compile and link a given piece of software in the various supply chain relationships between them. And so in the bottom left to you can see the relationships of the ACME application, where you basically have you know bingo buffer or Bob's browser, Carol's compression engine things like that this is an example. This is used by the NTIA, which is a part of the Department of Commerce that has really been spearheading the software bill of materials working group of which I've been a member for roughly eight months or so. They're doing amazing work, and it's a really exciting thing that they that they've done there and what they've done for the community in general. So, on the right hand side here you see basically a an adaptation of a ingredients label for for food that that could could be modeled for software.  Imagine a scenario where you have a peanut allergy as an example, and you go into a bakery and basically ask the baker hey, I have this severe peanut allergy. I need to know if any of this cake that I want to buy or cookies or whatever have been made within the vicinity of peanuts or something like that she had like a very intense allergy, and then basically not being able to tell you. So you have you now have to basically make the decision on whether or not you're going to accept the risk of purchasing this this baked good and putting your your health at risk. Well, that's essentially the state of affairs that we are in from a software perspective. Now, all companies aren't don't have that problem to that extent, but generally speaking, software bill materials are not available for or distributed to the great for the great majority of software that is that is created. So, and this provides a bunch of problems which will kind of dive into. So, these are things that we do have a bill of materials for food, obviously, nutrition labels ingredients. So, you know, the various sizes and dosages of different things hardware. So this these are the this is the bill of materials for a red wagon. So it has all the components parts required. And then also chemicals now this is this is less of a specific list of ingredients for chemicals but it is a, hey, here are the things that you need to be aware of. But if this happens to you from a prevention reporting storage disposal perspective, it has here are the hazards associated with this. And so you, these would basically, you could think about these as potentially like from a comparison perspective vulnerabilities associated with the software component from the chemicals perspective. So these are all examples of things that we have a list of ingredients, a list of risks a list of harms, potentially associated with different things in our lives. But what we don't have this for in many cases are our software and even less so for industrial control systems, operational technology, things like that. So the things that are driving and providing critical functionality for critical infrastructure and oil and gas and power and utilities and things like that are are especially deficient in this realm. So this one is more important, having a bill of materials for a red wagon, or having a bill of materials for a programmable logic controller. It's obviously a, you know, facetious question, but as you can see, we do have a bill of materials for a red wagon and we don't for a programmable logic controller in many cases, and that's a problem. So, diving into the market drivers and trends, why do s bombs matter and why now. The executive order that recently came out, which was a huge step in the right direction direction from software bill of materials perspective. Has the has the phrase s bomb mentioned 11 times operational technology is specifically called out. It also highlights various use cases of a software bill of materials vulnerability and license analysis risk management use cases centralized storage and distribution of software bill of materials, so that you can do things like a higher level analysis and have all this data in one place. 5G deployment and adoption is a huge driver here. We're talking about a significant increase in overall telecommunications infrastructure that we're going to need visibility into. And that we traditionally don't have visibility into. So smart cities are are going to be heavily reliant on this and we know that there is a enormous push for that kind of technology in cities. The infrastructure alone here is is enormous to to to even just rolled out 5G from a like cell phone perspective, let alone all of the other things that people want to do from a from a smart cities perspective. So, the other problem here is the adoption from 5G is going to be much faster than than 4G because there's a higher desire to gain the additional technical capabilities that 5G can provide. So, that's going to increase a huge attack surface that then currently exists. I already kind of mentioned smart cities, but the idea here is right. This is a, the problem you have here is there's a adoption and time to market are really are almost certainly going to supersede security requirements. And that becomes less of an issue if we have software bill materials and we have all this data available to us that can provide us insight into things that are going on. So, if we are going to get things to market really quick and ignore security, at least at the beginning, at least we have visibility in these things. Digitization of manufacturing like we are here, digital manufacturing exists, obviously the this combination of cyber physical systems is a common trend that that's being discussed very often. But once again, security is kind of viewed as an afterthought here, even though we all know how important it is. So, security is hard, baking these things into the, into the build pipeline is hard. This isn't a discussion necessarily that all of these things are like the easiest things in the world, but it is important to highlight that these things are incredibly important. The manufacturing environment impacts that that can potentially occur are huge here. I mean you have something like the colonial gas pipeline which was not the OT infrastructure was not compromised. But the OT infrastructure was made on available as a result of it compromised and that dovetails into the last bullet there about it and OT convergence. So, even though the OT environment was not particularly, we're not specifically compromised in that attack, it was still made on available, which clearly violates the CIA try add specifically availability. So, these kind of issues are becoming more and more common, and we can't really, you know, allow these kind of things to keep happening, otherwise, not having the East Coast be able to get gasoline and other oil based products is obviously a pretty big problem. Legal regulatory and compliance issues so there's a huge push here from a legal compliance perspective. You have the IOT cybersecurity improvement act that got signed into law in December of 2020. You have the FDA using the underwriters laboratory standard 2900-1, which is a standard for medical devices which can also be used for other device types well. You have a handful of NIST special publications that that approach the like either IOT or firmware specifically or other kinds of device types and in specific environments in which this is a problem. And then you have international standards standards as well like ISO, IEC and Enisa as well. So, from a device risk perspective, how are the market trends driving the risk of maintaining our current approach to buy security now we talked about this a bit already in terms of like more devices and things like that but let's dive into a couple specific examples. So, a real lack of visibility here now if we're talking about firmware specifically which is, I think fair to say the overwhelming set of software that needs that we need visibility and a software bill materials for especially related to ICS and operational technology. So, the firmware and the devices that are being powered by firmware that are running these devices are often treated as a black box. So, does a device exist and where does it exist or common use cases. That's important obviously that's why that's the critical security control number one. This ignores the risk within the device itself. So, it's great if we know where devices and what it is and all of that, but we also need to understand what's on the inside. So we've been approaching this problem from an outside in we now we also need to approach this problem from an inside out also fully updated firmware that's perfectly patched does not always indicate it is without risk. Whereas if you look at something like windows. If you do have a fully patch windows operating system that does provide you a reasonable like modicum of security like you can say, hey, all of the vulnerabilities that are at least known have been patched on my windows operating system now that doesn't prevent you from having to run for days and all of those other things of course, but for for these kinds of devices they're not even given that luxury, meaning there could be a litany of vulnerabilities that are very old, you know, five 10 years old known as N days. And those are not patched and maintained in the same way as like a windows operating system and there's lots of reasons for that, but not having visibility into that is a big problem. So we have to deal with materials, passing the risk to the Smith to the manufacturer. I have, I talked to a lot of people who mentioned to me hey we're, we're, we're passing the risk off to the manufacturer. Just to be totally frank, no, no you're not. If you buy a device in or using that device if you buy anything, anything in the world, you have just chosen to accept that risk to go back to the, the example around going into the bakery. If you buy that cupcake and I have a peanut allergy and there's peanuts in it or whatever.  I get sick. I chose to accept the risk. So this idea that we're passing the risk off to the manufacturer is just totally false. It's just, it's not what's happening. And we need to just stop saying that it is. And this to compare again to Microsoft. And no one says, Hey, we're just relying on Microsoft to make sure that nothing bad happens here. We spend millions of dollars installing agent after agent after agent on these operating systems to provide visibility, provide telemetry, and give us an idea of the overall risk posture of a given computer. But we don't do the same thing for these kinds of devices now you can't install agents on all these devices and things like that, but there are things that you can do. But that's, that's, that's the important piece. So this just kind of highlights what I kind of just mentioned around traditional endpoints versus I CSM points this is not an exhaustive list and either column, but the point being, you have a lot more options to provide a lot more visibility on a traditional endpoint than you do an industrial control system endpoint. So, like I mentioned, most of the analysis is done from a network layer perspective of outside in. You have limited options and technical capabilities for endpoint telemetry because you, you, a lot of these devices just can't even support an agent infrequent updates patch cycles whereas on traditional endpoints you have a million opportunities to gain visibility as, as everybody, you know, as everybody obviously knows. So, here's another example that something I experienced, while I was working at Department of Energy. And one of the things I was tasked with was determining the impact of vulnerabilities such as shell shock heart bleed others. We had no visibility into into our own devices, no proactive announcements about what was happening. I had to reach out to, you know, all of the vendors that were that were running various device types with within the environment. And it took a long time to even get answers that were somewhat confident, not even perfectly confident, which was another problem. I have, I have the opportunity to talk with a handful of people who were on the front lines of this from a manufacturer perspective, and one anecdote I received was from a very large OTCS manufacturer that they had to email 635 people internally to ascertain, you know, where specific versions of, you know, an open SSL binary was being utilized. So, needless to say, that is a, that is a not scalable approach, and makes makes dealing with this problem, even, even more challenging. So, an inability to answer are we affected which piggybacks on that. So, if, if we determine a vulnerability exists a set of credentials exist an expired certificate is there whatever it is, we don't have like a repeatable consistent process to determine if you're affected. Answering questions can be hard, right, companies acquired don't have an inventory. So this is something that we can help solve manufacturers have the same problem as the end user. They're not. Most manufacturers don't own their entire supply chain, they are relying on other third party vendors for components and hardware and software and open source things just like other people. So, they actually have the same problem as the end user in many cases, which is an important thing to notate. The organizations have 30 plus vendors, they're probably conservative. So, being able to manage all this is time consuming, not comprehensive and not done in a way that that really scales. So there's no continuous monitoring or analysis, which, which is, I suppose fairly obvious, if we don't have visibility into things. We have no way to continuously monitor and analyze them. So, what you'll see is a lot of organizations will do this via a consulting engagement, which is not continuous not comprehensive and only focus on really what's outlined in a statement of work. So, aspects that need to be continuously monitored here in no particular order vulnerability identification compliance risk tracking the ability to just ask questions of this data. So, here's a particular example with related to a Siemens vulnerability that came out in April of 2020 that highlights that this continuous monitoring and analysis is not occur. So, the device notice date is April of 2020. The vulnerability release date is from August of 2018. This is what I mentioned as an end date like this is not a zero day this is not a new vulnerability. This is an old vulnerability that is just identified. And it was related to the kernel version. So this is 609 days that at risk devices were running critical functions. So, this was not a difficult piece of analysis that needed to be conducted. You, you identify the kernel version, and you look up that kernel version against the national vulnerability database I mean it couldn't be simpler. And something as simple as that just is not occurring.  And just a, you know, as a result of these risks that exists, it's like, okay, so we have risk. Great. What are, are there actually attacks happening as a result. The answer is obviously yes. So pathway one is you have a targeted supply chain malware attacker or not necessarily even malware but putting in like a backdoor, which isn't necessarily a malicious binary but could just be like hard coded credentials in a configuration file or something like that. And this is a great example of this recently, obviously, a targeted device vulnerability attack. This is the most common I think, based on what we've seen. You have like the Mariah botnet you have Ripple 20, you have all of these various device vulnerabilities from from code that is running on these different kinds of devices. And then you have the infiltration of it networks across the OTR gap. So you had, you had the municipal water system where they were able to, you know, compromise some things and, and get access to like the chemicals and whatnot. And then you also have, as I mentioned previously, the colonial gas pipeline issue. So how can software build materials help. So shining a light on this device risk is really what we're what we're after. From a value proposition, you know, we can reduce unplanned and unscheduled work, reduce code bloat adequately understand dependencies within broader projects, comply with license obligations, monitor components for vulnerabilities, obviously, end of life awareness, make code easier to review, maintain a blacklist of band components, which is super important, especially for things like high assurance environments, provide software build materials to customers for that transparency. For example, if you have an identification, you can build this software build materials into your third party risk. So now instead of relying on like a paper based questionnaire that's always like questionable and the amount of value that's providing. We can now actually have a data driven approach to to doing third party risk management for the software that we're procuring from these vendors. And then compliance here. And so I love this. So, like, as bomb flower on the right hand side that highlights different use cases around supply chain software development, software vulnerabilities compliance, all these different pieces apart so there's a lot of, a lot of good use cases here for this data once we have it. So it's the it's kind of an age old tail. Once we get the visibility once we get the data, we can, we can extrapolate that and solve a ton of problems downstream. So as bomb generation and consumption. There's a lot of software development tools that can create as bombs for you easily. As you're building code, going back and creating a small for something that's already been done is just a much more challenging proposition most of the time.  And if you go look at like Cyclone DX as an example, they have an entire page dedicated to tools that can be used to generate software build materials that can be used to generate them from Cyclone DX to SPDX format. There are tons of opportunities here to make this much easier on yourself on the right hand side you see this is a set of the use cases that can be that are basically a part of the Cyclone DX standard. So, and whatever ones you can fill in great whatever ones you can't, you know, prioritize them based on the needs of what your customers are asking for. This is similar to like the food label piece I talked about earlier, where it's like here's the contents but not necessarily like the recipe recipe or proprietary blend, which is would be a problem. So from a challenges perspective here, you know, a software build materials is not is not a panacea. We're not solving all the problems. It's another set of data that we can leverage to help identify risk, provide visibility and reduce the likelihood of a problem happening and allows us to be more proactive in terms of identifying risk and mitigating or eliminating it as best we can. So, this is not a preventative security control, right. All security controls don't need to be preventative. So, if you don't have visibility into something, you definitely aren't going to be able to prevent it. So, it's important to get this visibility first, and then hopefully something from the data that we can gather here can be integrated with or tied into something else that can help prevent, you know, some malicious activity from occurring. I mean, it's important to realize right, you know, security logs, the logs in general aren't preventative vulnerability scans are not preventative data lakes are not preventative Sims are not preventative, but we all have them, we all spend a ton of money on them. And so, all we're trying. All that is really mentioning here is getting the data for these kind of devices is probably more important in most cases than some of the other devices that we're getting data for so let's do it. So, the equipment is a challenge right, you might only have compiled code. So, access to source might not be possible for a million different reasons. And so component identification and things like that can be really challenging when it comes to generating a software bill of materials here, but it doesn't need to be perfect right perfect is the enemy of good. So, it's important to make steps, or take steps, iterate, iterate, iterate, make things better over time. And if something can't be perfect that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.  That's what we want to do here is basically give visibility give people a set of glasses that allows them to see what's going on within these devices serving critical functions in their environment. And so it's possible, we can do it. So some misconceptions about a software bill of materials I think are worth highlighting here. Am I providing a roadmap to the attacker. Operating under the assumption that attackers can't acquire this data on their own is just, just, I mean, just totally inaccurate. In reality what we're doing here is not providing a roadmap for the defender. So we're making that we're putting roadblocks in front of the defender, whereas the attacker can go get this data. So it's actually the opposite of this. So let's level this playing field some step. Is this intellectual property disclosure the answer this is no, we're not providing proprietary source code or anything like that. These software components are just a piece of the puzzle that that allow, you know, organizations to identify risk and and understand what they need to defend and what they have. So this awareness allows manufacturers to address unknown licensing commitments. It allows them to address these issues in a proactive manner not reactive gives them the visibility to make good decisions ahead of time through fees or more favorable terms. It also helps the end users and clients and show that they have compliant things. So it's kind of a win win win for everybody from that perspective. So first off from billing materials now what's so a bunch of things we can do here as I mentioned once we have this data, the use cases for it are pretty infinite enrichment of the data with other sources, third party sources, vulnerability data threat intelligence data, things like showed and like what you name it operationalize the data, we can send this data to a sim. For triaging we can we can make it part of our vulnerability management process, we can integrate this data with a sore platform, we can integrate this data if we're the manufacturer into like our CI CD pipeline. You know, if a critical vulnerability is identified then open JIRA issue, whatever I mean the logic we can think of and build out is, you know, you know, a lot. But make decisions based on visibility that was previously impossible or incredibly difficult to ascertain is, is, is the biggest one. So, adding additional monitoring to this device do a vulnerability, push back on manufacturer for lack of license compliance, third party risk management, data driven insights for lifecycle management, segment a device or a class of devices, you now have data to drive better decision making regarding these kinds of devices, and that's what we're really after. So, this is what you can do once this is done. So I appreciate everybody taking some time to to attend this talk, I hope it was helpful and informative. I will be on the discord server answering questions as this goes live. So please reach out if you have any questions. I guess I should have put my contact information here, but you can reach out to me at thomas dot pace th o m a s dot p a c e at net rise dot io net r i s e dot io. Once again, thank you very much. I appreciate it and I look forward to speaking with you during the discord conversation. Thanks.


God has been creating me in my ministry, which has been somewhat of a late-comer, a late-bloomer, because I didn't accept a call until I was beyond six careers. And so the Lord has used me as a change agent in many ways to go and minister to the poor, to help those who are lost, to bring to the fold life, renewed life. And so over these past years that I've been serving, I've had the opportunity to serve in the urban community, at the same time serve in cross-cultural appointments, where I've had a vision that all of God's people should indeed be together as one. I'm often reminded of the Pentecost and how all of God's people came together and spoke many languages and all understood one another because of the Holy Spirit. And so my hope for this time and throughout my journey is that this will come to fruition here on earth. One of the ways that God has been creating over the course of my ministry has been admissions. Although I have long had a passion for prison ministry and ministries for the homeless, being ordained has given me ways to live into those and other mission opportunities. I've been blessed to be part of Kairos Outside, a ministry for women who have a loved one in prison or who have themselves been in prison. And then through the dedicated work of Reverend Holly Bandell and Lady to Craig Jacobs, First Plano is a member of Family Promise in Collin County. And I've been privileged to spend the night on many of our rotations with these families and see both their ordinariness, any of us might be in their shoes, and also their extraordinary dedication and flexibility as they get back on their feet. We and I have been blessed through these and other outreach opportunities that enable us to see the world beyond us and attend to the needs of those who are hurting, whether physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually. After graduating from seminary and doing an internship and spending three years as an associate pastor, I thought that I was really ready and knew everything there was to know about being a pastor. When I arrived in Maybank, my first pastorate, it took less than 48 hours for me to realize that I didn't know come from Sycambe. Over the next 40 years, God used countless laypeople in each of the churches where I served to show me how to live as a Christian and then how also to be a caring pastor. So my advice to any of you who are beginning your ministry, watch, listen, and learn from the laypeople in each of the churches you serve. After about six months of phone calls to Bill Crouch back in 1994, 1995, asking him if he had a church that I could be assigned to, he told me he did. It was a church of misfits, he said, you'll fit right in. And it was that kind of church, Richland United Methodist Church, but gloriously so. During eight years there, at what became Cornerstone, we sold two church campuses and built a new church at a third location. And for one who was most happy walking amongst the wildflower fields, now I finish in Mesquite, a community, a microcosm of America itself, undergoing rapid demographic and cultural change, frustrating and fascinating both, because God is in that change, just as God is in each of us. And in the spaces between us, that knowledge affects the way that I see everything and everyone. The light is in all things, all people. God's been creating in me ministry from the very beginning, sending me wonderful people, laity, clergy friends, like Roger Morris, who was a large German in my first church, always sat on the third row in front of the pulpit and fell asleep every Sunday, my first year in preaching. And I was determined, I was determined to keep him awake, and by the end of the second year I was doing that. But other wonderful people, laity, clergy friends like Jordan Grooms, mentors like Ted Dotts, have been sent by God to help shape me in the ministry that I do. And I continue with that, paying that forward as a part of the life that I live in ministry. The people of God, the people of God, we come in with our little bit of knowledge thinking we're going to show them the way of faith, and the truth of the matter is that they show us again and again and again. So I have seen God working repeatedly and consistently and continuously through the lives of the people that I have been blessed to call to serve for churches over 20 years, and God has never failed to teach me through them what a life of following Christ is like. Well, when you ask about how God's been creating in me in my ministry, I have to say, God had to start with raw material. It was 51 years ago when I was a junior in high school that I began to serve my first church, and then over the next two or three years I served several other small rural churches. I was never happier in that setting. And then I moved to the big city of Dallas to go to seminary, and that's when God opened my eyes to the plight of poverty and people who lived in marginalized communities. So I had the joy of working in what was then called the East Dallas Cooperative Parish with John Thornberg and Bill Bryant and others, and it was just such a great time. Then I went from there to an affluent growing suburb of Flower Mound and to Pastor Treach, and I was there for almost 18 years, and then I went from there onto the conference office to become a bureaucrat for Jesus and help start new churches in the North Texas Conference and help with revitalization. So I guess when I look back I realize I didn't know what the heck I was supposed to do, any place I went to do it. It just took God's creativity and a lot of loving lay people and the churches who helped shape me and mold me and raise me up and be patient with me and forgive me for all the mess ups that I made as their pastor. God has been creating in my ministry even before my birth by sending a young pastor, Reverend H. Grady May to his very first church, College Mount in 1916. Years later in the neighborhood I grew up in, a family invited me to go to church. They not only invited me, they took me with them, even out to eat afterwards. That family was the grandson of H. Grady May. Now there have been other people in my ministry that have greatly affected me, like John Poe Hensley, Fred Durham and Reverend Linwood John Roberson. He had a vision of 12 youth who would be called into the ministry. I was one of the first of those 12. Later on it was Dr. Gordon Cassad of Walnut Hill United Methodist Church who put me back on the road of licensed ministry. I'm ending my ministry with that same church that H. Grady May began his ministry, College Mount United Methodist Church. After 29 years I indeed believe God has called me into such a great ministry of touching people's lives and their touching mind in so many ways. It's a very odd thing to find oneself standing at that strange place where active ministry meets the retired relationship. So now as I look back at the diversity of the settings and the unique challenges and opportunities of those places to which I have been appointed and those communities to which my family has lovingly gone, I can only praise God with a heart of deep gratitude and with a profound hope that I have not only heard but also tried faithfully to live into my understanding of ministry as loving God by loving others in God's name. As doing justice, loving kindness and walking humbly with God, God's presence with me and gifts to me have changed my life in ways beyond my ability to name or number. But I do know that the change has been transformative. As a kid from a small town on the western edge of the conference, has now spent his entire adult life 47 years under appointment by the North Texas Conference. To places we once called foreign but learned to love as home. To settings in all four districts of the annual conference and even on the conference staff and in the Episcopal office. So to the question then of how God has been creating in me over the course of my ministry, I think I simply want to say that God has been creating in me a wideness for God's mercy and that in whatever small ways I have been privileged to share that good news with others. In my ministry I have learned several things. I need to say I am learning several things because you never quit learning, hopefully you never quit learning. But God has been teaching me that whenever something really seems to be a tragic thing happening, something unexpected and looks like it's going to be just a complete disaster, don't panic. Just wait and start looking because something wonderful is about to happen. And God's going to do the most amazing kind of things and there's going to be transformation in the situation and in me. This is a wonderful lesson that it applies everywhere and every part of your life and every part of your ministry because God is the one that does the transformation. God used some very lonely decision points when I had to decide which way to go so often I'd be in prayer and God would be nowhere nearby. And I found if I took the world denying path, God would meet me around the corner and lead me into great life and great ministry. So I found out that God was creating me by a call that was a yes after a yes after a yes. And that still continues. One of the biggest yeses was in 1983 because of reading Luke's Gospel and Sojourner's Magazine and also wanting to be an urban person and realizing that being an easy middle class person in America was not the Gospel life for me. I asked for an inner city church and the district superintendent said he could still hear my feet on the stairs when that appointment was made. I didn't even make it to my car. That was a big change and through all of this creating of God and active God in my call and ministry, I've been trying to answer the question we ask all those interns at the end of their evaluation. What is your theology of ministry? I had to make up a word to make mine. As a minister, I'm the story keeper. I don't live the strongest discipleship story, but I'm near the lay people who do in the theological education, which belongs not to me, but to the church helps me polish their story of faith and then link it to the old, old story, especially in communion. So I'm the story keeper. My ministry has been a journey of self-discovery, some of that through introspection, some of it in connection with others and most of it in the context of work in the local church. I've come to know myself better, what my gifts and graces are and have grown in my relationship with God and for me that is all a part of growing into the new creation God is creating within me and leading me toward. A certain and much utilized prayer of confession in our worship around these parts when taken out of confessional language and used for in positive, more positive language would say something like this, let us love and let us love and do our God's will. Let us receive and live out of our Christ's law of grace and let us hear and respond to the cry of the needy and I think expressed like that that sets the stage for any consideration I do about what, how God over these years has been creating new things in me, kingdom things in me and I think the word or the idea I would use is that God's great work I think in that in my life and in ministry has been becoming more and more a builder of bridges and less and an erector of walls.


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So if you're in Matthew chapter one, I'm going to share with you a Christmas Eve service obviously seeing it's not Christmas Day tomorrow, I'll be doing a service out of Luke's gospel But today I just want to share some things related to the birth of Christ that we find here in Matthew in chapter 1 verses 18 through 25 So allow me to read to you and we'll get into our evening study that we're having here on Christmas Eve Matthew writes Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows After his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together She was found with child of the Holy Spirit Joseph her husband being a just man and not wanting to make her a public example Was minded to put her away secretly But while he thought about these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream Saying Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife For that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit and she will bring forth the son You shall call his name Jesus for he will save his people from their sins So all this was done that it might be fulfilled Which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying behold the virgin shall be with child and bear a son and They shall call his name Immanuel which is translated God with us Then Joseph being aroused from sleep did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife Did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn son. He called his name Jesus So Matthew Begins his account of the birth of Jesus with a simple introduction These are the events surrounding the birth of Jesus Christ the savior of mankind So I want to begin by giving a very basic introduction I begin by noting that this account is written in a historical narrative fashion That's because it's written as an account of the acts of God. This is not written as a fable. It's not written as a myth This is to be understood as a historic account It's intended to come communicate to us actual events In 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 16 the Apostle said we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power And and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ We were eyewitnesses of his majesty and so there are those today who believe that the Christmas story is simply that it's a myth It's a fable it's only a story But you need to understand when you read your Bible that the Bible is not presenting the birth of Christ as a fable or story Or a myth it is written as a historic account of actual facts Things that actually happened and so the point that Peter was making in the point that I'm beginning with is it's not a myth It's a fact and and the Apostle Peter later on was to write and say we are eyewitnesses of the glory of God incarnate So the gospel is true. It's not a Greek myth. It's not a mystery religion It is a true account of things that took place When you begin to read your Bible and you begin in the Old Testament You're gonna find that the Old Testament is filled with many prophecies concerning Messiah You see in the very first book of the Bible in the book of Genesis chapter 3 verse 15 How now that particular verse tells us that he will be born of a woman That he will reconcile people to God and that he will crush evil at the cost of his own life When you look at 2nd Samuel chapter 7 verses 12 and 13 as well as verse 16 It says to us that he'll be a descendant of David. He'll establish a permanent kingdom in Micah chapter 5 verse 2 the the prophet said he will be born in Bethlehem Isaiah 714 tells us he will be born of a virgin Isaiah 9 verse 6 tells us his name is wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father prince of peace and so when you read your Bible, you'll see that it's a historic account You also see that the things of Christ were actually fulfilling over 300 specific prophecies that related to the Messiah and God had determined to rescue lost mankind and God determined to do that through a son by his by the name of Jesus And and that was something his plan that was revealed over the years It was revealed if you will piecemeal to his servants the prophets Now when you read your Bible once again the prophets of the Old Testament never understood the full implication of their own Messages their own writings were were mysteriously held from them in 1st Peter 1 12 again The Apostle said to them it was revealed that not to themselves, but to us They were ministering the things which now have been reported to you Through those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven things which angels desired to look into So even the writers at that time didn't have the full knowledge of how this was going to take place They were simply inspired by God to write down certain things over the the history of the Old Testament that were given to us Images glimpses and words concerning a Messiah that Jesus was was going to be that that God was going to send for us You see the thought that God would take upon himself human flesh was beyond human comprehension We've been so callous by sin and by the world and the way the world is that that sometimes we may lose The wonder of such an event that God himself would take upon himself Human flesh and we've been so callous that we don't even realize what a wonder that really is but the angels are not callous The wonder of God taken upon human flesh is beyond their imagination These these were things which angels desired to look into they didn't understand it But God had made a promise God had made a promise a fallen man You see when Adam fell in the Garden of Eden God made his first promise to rescue us I read a moment ago mentioned Genesis 3 15.  He said will come He will come by woman. He will come by woman alone without the involvement of a man Somebody said the address is not to Adam and Eve, but to Eve It was in consequence of this purpose of God that Jesus Christ was born of a virgin This and this alone is what is implied in the promise of the seed of the woman Rusing the head of the serpent and so Matthew here in this chapter is led by the Spirit of God to record the events Of his birth in a factual way and he does it by giving us details and we'll look at that and Take apart this passage a little bit at a time notice again in verse 18 It says after his mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph before they came together And so we're introduced to this young virgin a woman named Mary This woman was engaged to a carpenter by the name of Joseph Bible commentators make the point of of letting us know that Mary was very young She was probably somewhere around 14 years of age 14 years of age maybe 15 she was a very godly young woman 14 year old and very godly Now having raised four Children through their teenage years. I had four teenagers at the same time I can tell you what a miracle it was for Mary to be so godly at 14 You know when they're small and they're young They have so many decisions that they're making There are so many insecurities that they have and very often they're their Insecurities their immaturities and indecisiveness concerning life and everything very often those kinds of things cloud their judgment But Mary at the age of around 14 had an opportunity to make a decision That wasn't simply going to affect her alone. It was a decision that a 14 year old was going to make That was going to affect every human being That would be born it would affect the entire human race forever When you look in Luke and I'm not saying you should turn there But if you take notes it's found in Luke 126 through 38 in Luke 126 through 38 Those verses tell us that an angel by the name of Gabriel had been sent to speak to her in the city of Nazareth And as he approached her he told her rejoice because she is highly favorite of the Lord He said the Lord is with you and you are blessed among women This angel went on to say fear not you have found favor with God You will conceive bring forth the son you shall name him Jesus He will be the son of the highest the throne of David will be his and when this Conversation has taken place this young woman is overwhelmed and she said how can these things be seen that I have not known a man seeing that I'm a virgin and Luke 135 the angel replied the Holy Spirit will come upon you the power of the highest will overshadow you Therefore also that holy one who was to be born will be called the son of God and Luke 138 her response Was simply behold the maid servant of the Lord let it be to me according to your word young woman 14 years old hearing this amazing Proclamation through this angel She listens carefully. How is it possible that I a virgin could have a child? I have not known a man No, the Holy Spirit is going to be get life in your womb This will be Jesus the Savior the Son of God and her response let it be to me according to your word Now as we know in Scripture, we just read about it. Mary was betrothed to a man. This man's name is Joseph Hebrew marriage customs involved two stages. They had what is called the betrothal and then they had the actual marriage ceremony When a person was betrothed espoused That was as good as being married But there was a time between the actual betrothal and the marriage ceremony But in between that time, which usually was up to a year. They were regarded as a married couple Somebody wrote a marriage contract was made and sealed by what was called a dowry It was paid by the groom's father The price was based on the value of the bride The engagement was an indefinite period of time normally around a year and served as a probationary period to test the faithfulness of the bride During this period the groom and bride had very little social contact They were legally married, but they didn't consummate the marriage until after the wedding itself And that's what's being said in verse 18 when it says before they came together She was found with child of the Holy Spirit So that emphasizes the fact that Joseph and Mary had no intimate relations Mary's virginity was an important evidence of her godliness and her purity and that's why Mary's pregnancy is carefully presented as miraculous Well as this is taking place. She's found with child verse 19 Joseph her husband being a just man not wanting to make her a Public example was minded to put her away secretly so Joseph Regarded as the husband of this young woman Mary Has become aware of the fact that Mary is pregnant and I can't imagine what he went through. I can't imagine the emotions that Joseph must have experienced For a woman to become pregnant prior to being Married was a great sin in the Jewish community. She would have been Ostracized not only that it was a sin that was condemned very strictly in scripture and the penalty for Mary Having relations with another man was capital punishment She stood to be able to be executed for it In Deuteronomy in the Old Testament book of Deuteronomy chapter 22 verses 23 and 24 it reads If a man happens to meet in a town of virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her You shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death the girl Because she was in a town and didn't scream for help and the man because he violated another man's wife You must purge the evil from among you Joseph quite obviously was certain that That Mary had been with another man Luke 156 tells us that Mary had left the city of Nazareth a small village Some say may have had as few as 50 inhabitants no more than 200 is a small village She had left Nazareth for three months and gone to visit her cousin Elizabeth and she had come back pregnant and So it's quite obvious Something had taken place and noticed with me again How verse 19 says Joseph her husband being a just man not wanting to make her a public example was minded to put away Secretly now he knew she could be put to death But he thought I want to take the more compassionate route He could put her away He could divorce her privately secretly and and this would save her from the shame and it would save her from The harm that could come to her So that gives us insight I want to speak about this for just a moment because often we we look at at all of this from from Mary's perspective But let's take a moment to think of Joseph's perspective It gives us insight it gives us man insight into how a righteous man responds to something like that The Bible makes it clear. He chose to exercise a gracious route. He was saving her life sparing her He was showing her compassion. He was giving her mercy and that gives to me insight as I was reading this and began to think about this It gives me insight into how a righteous man responds It gives me insight into why God would would choose Joseph to raise Jesus Because this compassion and this mercy would be how he raised Jesus the son of God He would be raised by a man of mercy and righteousness and compassion And that's how Jesus was was raised and that's how Joseph would raise him That's the environment that the Jesus would be raised in he'd be raised with a very holy and godly mom and a very righteous father a Compassionate and a merciful and a loving man So this compassion and mercy would have been the environment that Jesus was raised in it also revealed Joseph's willingness to share a life of shame with Mary Because in taking her as his wife She would not live down The the town gossip and belief that she had violated and had had a Relationship with another man and Joseph took her and married her out of pity Some would think it would be a marvel to most because that just doesn't happen But Joseph was willing to share in the shame that they would be trying to thrust upon her because he Knew that his wife was pure even when the world didn't and the idea that that that Jesus Was raised in such a way and all and and that his mother had a reputation Well, we think of what happened in in the Gospel of John when Jesus was speaking to some who were in Accusation against him and they said we have we have not been born these people said we haven't been born a fornication We have one father even God What they were saying is we're not like you you were born out of fornication Remember, this is a small town a small town girl probably had a great reputation amongst the people People would speak concerning Mary. What a wonderful young woman. What a pure young woman. What an innocent young woman What a godly young woman and Then you know how top town gossip is well, I thought she was something she obviously isn't I thought she was so good all this time she's a party girl and That's kind of how it would have been she leaves. She's out of her parents site for a while. She gets knocked up That's what they would have been saying about her. She comes back and look how she shamed Joseph They might have given Joseph some respect, but it would have been a wonder that this man would have married a woman like that But Joseph was a righteous man not a self-righteous man You know the Bible tells us very clearly that that that mercy and truth have met together in righteousness and peace have kissed He was compassionate. He was merciful and that is the visible evidence of true godliness You see true religion is always evidenced by genuine compassion True religion a real walk with God is always evidenced by a compassionate loving spirit and instead of reacting he took his hurt and he took his concern to the Lord and Psalm 40 verse 1 the psalmist said I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to me and heard my cry And so this is what's taking place He's minded to put her away secretly verse 20 But while he thought about these things behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream saying boo. No saying Wake up Joseph.  It was spinning But it also gives to us insight into where our comfort in hard times comes from it comes from heaven It took the intervention of the Lord to bring comfort into the broken heart of this man Joseph Notice how in verse 20 the angel calls him Joseph's son of David So that's intended to remind him that he is of David's lineage This is fulfilling a promise that God had made to King David in 2nd Samuel 7 verses 12 and 13 Where God said when your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers I will set up your seed after you who will come from your body. I will establish his kingdom He shall build a house for my name. I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever in verse 16 He went on to say your house in your kingdom shall be established forever before you your throne shall be established forever That was a messianic prophecy that the that the Messiah would reign and rule forever off of the David from David's throne He says here do not be afraid in other words stop being afraid Joseph was troubled about what he should do if I take her as wife. She has another man and I'll be taken a woman who doesn't love me, but it's loved by someone else. I don't know what to do But if I divorce her she could come under severe penalty because she's really looked at under law as an adulteress And so this is what he's been puzzling over and this is what he's been concerned about But the angels words bring him comfort they encourage him and take her he says take her and cherish her She's done nothing wrong. You can entrust yourself to her completely Take her cherish honor her and see her for what she is see her as a pure vessel The pure vessel that she's always been Because God is in control The child has been conceived through the agency of the Holy Spirit Again remember Mary's question to Gabriel. How will this be since I'm a virgin the angel answered The Holy Spirit will come upon you the power the most high will overshadow you So the holy one to be born will be called the son of God Well verse 21 says she'll bring forth a son. You'll call his name Jesus Jesus in the Hebrew Jehoshua Jehovah is salvation and Jehovah is salvation. He will save his people From their sins again that fulfills Genesis 3 15 I mentioned a moment ago over 300 specific prophecies are fulfilled in the life and ministry of this one child You see a Virgin shall be with child and bear a son. His name is Jesus. He's God in the flesh He's God with us He is God who has come to save us from our sins There's so much Confusion in our world today There's a lot of evil but much of the evil that is really by scripture declared to be and actually identified as evil Is looked at his son simply common culture or just that the way that it is and the Bible doesn't Look at sin and make excuse for it The Bible is very clear about it and speaks concerning it as well as the penalty for it the wages of sin the scripture says is death and So there's none righteous. No not one There's not one person who ever lived who can say I am free from my sin Not a single person the only one who ever could was Jesus himself and so because we're sinners We're in the dilemma.  We beheld his glory Full of grace and truth God took upon himself human flesh. He came in order that he might rescue us that he might save us from our sin In Romans 5 18 and 19 as as through one man's offenses Offense judgment came to all men resulting in condemnation even so through one man one man's righteous act The free gift came to all men Resulting in justification of life for as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners So also by one man's obedience many will be made righteous so God loving the world gave his son and Christmas is celebrating the reality of the fact that God loved us and took upon himself flesh and dwelt amongst us and understands us Jesus Christ according to Isaiah 53 is that wounded healer. He's aware of the things that we go through There's nothing that that I go through that he's not familiar with he was tempted in every way such as I but he was without sin He understands loneliness. He understands a broken heart. He understands rejection He understands all of those things because he was a man who was rejected and lonely himself Even in the night that he was just before his death He was in that in that garden praying and he was saying, you know, my God my God why has thou forsaken me? When he died on that cross He didn't do it for his own sin. He did it for us and and when we read the Bible We need to understand that that Christmas and I think we believers do already know this but Christmas isn't a celebration for us It's not our birthday. It's a celebration of the reality of Christ who came to save us from our sin That's what it is and and that's why we need to hear that message. We need to understand that Jesus is God in human flesh Philippians 2 6 through 8 speaking of Jesus said who being in the form of God did not consider it Robbery to be equal with God but made himself of no reputation Taken the form of a bond servant coming in the likeness of men being found in appearance as a man He humbled himself became obedient to the point of death even the death of the cross as we celebrate tomorrow and we celebrate the reality of the birth of our messiah Jesus was placed in a manger But he was also placed on a cross.   I need to know who he truly is and so the gospel teaches us how to worship God and It's not by works of righteousness, which we do or efforts on our part It's in the submission of and the yielding of and the asking of forgiveness for what we've done in opposition to him It's the hostility that I have lived a lifetime in Because I am in hostile opposition to God But what God has done is he is he has conquered on that cross and Jesus was about to die and he said It is finished. He was speaking concerning the fact that what God had called him to do was about to be completed He was dying as a voluntary sacrifice on the cross, but it wasn't simply the death that justifies us It's the awareness of the resurrection that gives us life And so we're identified with Jesus Christ So Jesus took upon himself human flesh and we celebrate that in his birth But he took him he took our sins upon him when he died on the cross and we celebrate that at Easter And as this resurrected lord Whoever lives to make intercession for us This resurrected lord has called us to give our faith and our hearts to him To worship him why because god is with us Because we yielded ourselves to him because he yielded his life for us And he is the one who crushes the head of the serpent And that was what was taking place and joseph was there and he was pondering. What am I going to do? You know, I I don't want her to to be penalized, but I I I can't I can't take her as my wife And and that's why the angel says don't be afraid to do that No, this one that is to be born of this this woman is god's own son. It is god with you And then finally verse 24 joseph being aroused from sleep Did as the angel of the lord commanded him and and took to him his wife Didn't know her till she had brought forth her firstborn son And he called his name jesus This reveals his faith as his as it does his obedience God spoke joseph obeyed. He didn't completely understand But he did what he was told He married her Before witnesses, which is the custom of that day. He took her as his wife. He married her before witnesses He received the blessing of a priest He had a marriage feast and a celebration And he took her to the home. He had prepared for her. He married her The bible makes it clear He said he did as the angel of the lord commanded And he took to him his wife. He did all of those things He had his marriage celebration. He had his his feast. He had everything And he loved her The neighbors would have seen great grace on his part Because of what he did was unheard of and the scripture says he knew her not Until after jesus was born he didn't he didn't have personal intimate relations with her until after the birth of christ But this child This child that will celebrate his birth tomorrow and look at passage that relates to that This child jesus didn't stay a child Jesus grew to be a man Jesus grew to be the man who would lay down his life for us He is the savior of the world And we all need What he has to offer us Have you ever have you ever opened up your christmas presents like you'll do tomorrow and perhaps some of you have already been cheating and doing it tonight Have you ever opened up a present That made you eternally satisfied to the point where you never want to get another present again Have you ever had one of those? This is it don't buy me anything else. This is all i'll ever want I've discovered that's not true with my kids and it ends up been true with me My children would open up those presents and they always did the same thing was so cute They'd always open them up and they go oh just what I wanted then they grab another box They'd open that up Just what I wanted then they'd open up another box the many boxes they got then they say let's go to grandma's They always have more over there They never were satisfied Never the eyes of man never are satisfied There's never anything that we have on earth that satisfies us completely until The day comes when you are finally empty and you're finally saying i've i've tried it all i've done it all I have no purpose. I have no goals. I have no joy. I have no peace I have nothing and that's when the greatest present was given to you when you said god be merciful to me I'm a sinner and your heart was surprised by the joy that god gives to you because you're now right with god My sins are forgiven My name is in the lambs book of life, you know, i'm just passing through i'm gonna go to heaven I'm i'm this is not my home And every day is one day closer to being with the lord who loved you and laid his life down for you That's why christians celebrate christmas not because we're pagans But because we have joy in our heart for god has broken into this darkness And enlightened our darkened consciences by giving us the power of the holy spirit and forgiveness of sins And that comes from being a christian It wasn't a ritual of any sort that i went through it wasn't by going through certain classes It wasn't by having certain sacraments for me what it became was what scripture says god be merciful to me I'm a sinner god wash me and cleanse me and give me a new life I'm sick of being sick. I need you and when god came into my life 49 years ago this friday i gave my heart to jesus christ 49 years ago at the age of 20 I gave up and i said i can't do this anymore. I'm tired of the alcohol and tired of the drugs I'm tired of the relationship. I just need peace and he need hope and he need forgiveness I can't take it anymore and i said god be merciful to me I'm a sinner and he was and he forgave me of all my sins. He cleansed me of all my unrighteousness He wrote my name in his book of life and he has blessed me in ways that are immeasurable And I don't need christmas presents. I have jesus christ the reason for this season. He is my savior And that's what we all need And if you don't have that If christmas is just another holiday that you go through and you're bored in Thinking about where am I going to go and have some drinks later on or whatever Now jesus christ said I'll give you wine new wine Because you know what I had enough of the old But now he's given me the new and I've never had a holy ghost hangover in my life And I've never wondered what did I do was I crazy who's after me after walking with the lord and worshiping him No, I haven't because you know why because when god when god comes into your life He feels every empty portion of it and he overwhelms you with his goodness And that is one of the reasons why I love him and I worship him not just christmas I worship him every day because he is worthy of worship every single day He is the savior not just on christmas But every day because he's our savior isn't he he is our lord and he's the reason for us To be alive and if you don't know him you can


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another video. But before I get started with the subject of this video, I want to give a huge shout out to my sponsor toyhacks.com. Toyhacks is a company that provides upgrade decals for modern transformer figures along with reproduction decals for the vintage ones. While visiting Toyhacks, make sure and check out the Toyhacks Armory to see their line of Transformers weaponry in multiple collars. And toy stages for awesome display backdrops. Each purchase from Toyhacks earns you Robocents that you can use for future purchases. You can check your balance anytime in your cart. Toyhacks is a company run by collectors for collectors. So make sure and check out toyhacks.com and tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another Transformers review. And this is going to be a quick one because I have just got to show you guys this awesome KO Megatron that I picked up at TFCon. I believe it was Saturday night down in the hotel lobby. Some guests were bringing down totes of Transformers to sell. And it was actually a channel member from my channel RicoRedStar had a box of Transformers and he's like, hey, any Transformer in here, $10. So I'm looking through the box and I see this guy and I'm like, what is this? And he says, oh, I think it's a KO version of a Cyberverse Megatron. So I picked him up and my first thought was, wow, this guy is heavy.  And man, you don't see that much anymore. And this guy just looks awesome. Now after I got him home and I took him out and looked at him a little bit more, I don't think he's as much of a KO of a Cyberverse Megatron. But he reminds me more of this Dollar General Megatron that is actually kind of a piece of crap compared to this one right here. I mean, this guy is sweet. Great head sculpt, great paint applications. I love the rivets there on the helmet, the painted eyes. He has a white face, which actually goes really good against all that chrome. I mean, look how he catches the light. This guy is awesome. Very unique and weird looking Decepticon logo right there. You just know he's going to get a Toy Hacks decal. I mean, he just looks really good. I do wish that his cannon right here had that same silver paint as the rest of the figure. It's kind of dull, you know, compared to the rest of the bot, but it is what it is. I mean, this guy just looks great, lots of details and really, really impressive. Now articulation for the figure, the head is not on a ball joint, but it can do a complete 360. The arms can go up, down. There is an elbow bend and elbow rotation, but it is really, really tight. And it makes me a little nervous with the joints because it's a clip. And if you're any familiar with G1 Transformers and clip joints, they usually break. So not a big fan of those. There is no wrist rotation. Now the fusion cannon here, I do like that it can flip over so it looks like he's holding it as a gun. That's pretty slick. Of course it rotates there. It could also spin around. It's on a ball joint. No waist rotation. Legs can go full. I did not even notice that. Ratchets. I've had this guy for three days. I guess I've never moved the legs forward. You can't go wrong with ratchet. So you got ratchets right there. Legs can go up and in. There is a knee bend and that's on a soft ratchet. And there's really, there's ankle tilt, but it kind of, you have to bring down this part of the leg too. So it's kind of there. So yeah, this guy is slick. I really like him. So now let's take a look at him in tank mode and to transform him. It's really simple. You're going to separate the shoulders here. And this actually is going to make the chest pop out and away from the main body. Now what you want to do is bring this cannon down and then rotate this around. So really tight joints and got this hole right there. You want to line up. There's a peg here. So get everything lined up just right. Because, let me see, you're bringing this up and around in this. There we go. Because what you want to do is there's a peg right there on the cannon. That's going to peg into his hand here. And then you're going to tab this together here. So there you have the turret. And now for the legs, you just split the legs apart, fold the feet in or the foot in rather. So you've got this going on and then just collapse these onto themselves. Let's make sure the little chest area is lifted up.  And peg it together here on the front. And there you have Megatron in tank mode. That is a really cool looking tank. Very futuristic. I like the prongs right there on the front. Lots of great molded details. Of course, the tracks don't move. There are wheels underneath. And he actually, he rolls pretty good. Once again, he's got a dull turret compared to the great paint applications here on the body. But it is what it is. And plus you can see his fists. I do not like how the gun or the turret looks here up top with that big open space. But still for 10 bucks, I'm not going to complain at all. I am really happy with this figure. Of course, the turret can rotate. It does get a little stuck in places, but it can do a complete 360. So there you go. There is the KO Megatron from something. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is the KO Metal Chest Megatron with Generation 1 Megatron. Dollar General Megatron. Kingdom Core Class Megatron. And Siege Megatron. I couldn't be happier with this KO Metal Chest Megatron. I just absolutely love this figure. Such an awesome bot. That was part of a random find. Big shout out to Rika Redstar for selling me this guy. I've never seen this thing before. I've never heard of this thing before. But man, I am so glad to have it in my collection. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like. Don't forget to subscribe. And don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Also, big shout out to all my current channel members because it's support like yours that keep this channel growing. Once again, guys, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah!