Because you really don't need a prophet to come and tell you that murder is forbidden It is part of the human nature You really don't need a prophet to come and tell you that lying is forbidden It's part of the human nature You really don't need a prophet to come and tell you backbiting is forbidden because it's part of the human nature That is why they are recognized to be the cardinal sins الدنوب الكبائر However on the other hand there are laws that can be changed updated and abrogated What are those laws? Laws such as for example the concept of fasting بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم يا أيها الذين آمنوا كتب عليكم الصيام كما كتب على الذين من قبلكم لعلكم تتقون Oh you people fasting has been prescribed on to you similarly as it was prescribed on to the nations before you Fasting was prescribed upon the Jews Fasting was prescribed upon the Christians Fasting was prescribed upon the people of Nooh The people of Abraham However in a different form The Prophet Muhammad came and updated the laws in regards to الصيام or fasting Likewise the laws in regards to marriage Are laws that have been updated We know previous to Islam A man can have as many wives as he wants But Islam came and limited the number to four With the restriction of عدالة Justice to apply justice amongst all wives Similarly another law that has been updated Is the law of inheritance And religions prior to Islam A woman would not inherit But Islam came and allocated an inheritance For the female gender Now with that said We have an extremely important principle And the Islamic jurisprudence What is this principle that I'm about to introduce This principle is known as the concept of إستصحاب The presumption of continuity What is the presumption of continuity The presumption of continuity states That if I am at a state of certainty Nothing can revoke the state of certainty Unless with another certainty Therefore a doubt can never come And remove certainty What do I mean I mean for example at 10 AM You have وضوء 12 PM you want to pray ضهر عن عصر 1 PM you want to pray ضهر عن عصر You have certainty that you did وضوء at 10 Now it's 12 now it's 1 Do I still have وضوء I have شك I had يقين that I did وضوء Now I have شك Do I still have my وضوء Or do I not What do I do I presume the continuity of my وضوء Therefore I never remove my certainty with doubt Another example We have an Imam that prays the جمع prayer He is عادل Therefore we pray behind him Just therefore we pray behind him Because the Imam of the جمع and the prayers has to be عادل So we are sure of his عدالة Then one week after the Friday prayers He says brothers sisters Insha'Allah this week I will go on a vacation to Vegas And insha'Allah we'll come next week So next week you come through the door And you see Mawlana is looking very handsome Is looking very comfortable Is he still عادل I have doubt What did he do in Vegas You had certainty that he was He was what عادل Now you have شك Is he still عادل or not What do you do You presume the continuity of his عدالة You presume the continuity of his justice The state of عدالة Therefore you pray behind him This notion of the presumption of continuity Or is the Sahab Is number one derived through Derived through reason Intellect Someone tells you hey I'll meet you up at my house Tonight at 8 You don't say well Did this guy change his house since last week No You automatically presume the continuity Of the fact that his house is there I'm just gonna drive there If it were to change No Also الإمام الصادق صلوات الله عليه And a very famous And a very famous tradition States to one of his companions Don't ever abrogate Your state of certainty With check Or with doubt Now that said We have a very famous scholar By the name of الأخند الخراساني Who has come forward and stated We are certain that a person By the name of Jesus was there And he had a set of laws We are certain that a person By the name of Noah was there With a set of laws We are certain that a person By the name of Jesus Moses Was there with a set of laws Therefore those laws Are still applicable Until we know that those laws Have been updated, changed Or abrogated And it's A principle by using logic He also refers to the verse That I began my lecture with An extremely controversial verse What does the verse say صورة المائدة Chapter 6 verse 90 They are the ones that Has guided Therefore seek their guidance The ayah referring to previous prophets Basically the verse states The prophet Muhammad يا رسول الله Noah Jesus Moses Abraham Were the guided ones Therefore follow their footsteps Follow their guidelines This is the first Of the first portion Of the ayah that I spoke of Chapter 6 verse 90 The second تفسير Of this portion of the verse Has stated no رصول الله صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم إسخاتم الأنبياء إسخاتم الأنبياء Therefore his religion is the most Complete religion And if he has the most Complete laws It is irrelevant For the complete to follow What was incomplete prior to him Therefore the verse is really Not speaking of legal issues But the verse is indeed Referring to metaphysical And spiritual aspects What do I mean Meaning يا رسول الله You're going through hardship today Prophets prior to you Also went through hardship الله before this verse Before the verse 90 of Chapter 6 Mentioned 18 prophets In صورة الأنعام نوح آدم أيوب صالح لوط 18 prophets As soon as he finished the mention Of 18 prophets He said يا رسول الله They are the guided ones Seek an example In their guidance Meaning يا رسول الله When you are impatient When you face difficulty Remember the patience of أيوب You all know the story of أيوب A prophet that had 11 sons And they all died He had wealth He lost his wealth He had health He lost his health He lost everything To a point that tradition Say his wife had to sell her hair In order to bring a loft of bread To feed the prophet أيوب And all this time أيوب kept saying So يا رسول الله When you experience such difficulty Consolidate yourself With the example of أيوب يا رسول الله When people mock you And they call you a liar And they call you a magician Consolidate yourself And seek comfort And the remembrance of نوح How so? نوح was building an ark Where? It was in no shape or form In close proximity of an ocean It was far away from an ocean So imagine what he had to go through نوح you're building this ark for what? How are you going to take it to the water? Making fun of him every single day Accusing him of insanity every single day يا رسول الله You shall go through the same thing See comfort in the example of نوح That's the second تفسير The third تفسير Is the تفسير of those who attribute themselves To the school of سنة The school of the companions Take a look at the تفسير Of 690 of الإمام القرطبي The number one مفسر Of this particular school The school of the صحابة He states That رسول الله Was inflicted by magic for 40 days So every time he went to صلا To perform the prayers And he wanted to recite قل هو الله أحد He would instead of saying قل هو الله أحد He would say قل اللات and عزا He would mention the name of the idols Of the كعبة He couldn't He couldn't He couldn't really help it Every time he wanted to say قل هو الله أحد The magicians had taken over him So he would say قل اللات and عزا Not just that He also further states That رسول الله Through magic Was so confused to the point Where he didn't know If he was a prophet or not He was constantly doubting Am I a prophet? Am I not a prophet? What's going on? Am I going to be able To deliver this message? Am I not going to deliver this message? So Allah told him محمد Relax Those The prophets that I just mentioned They all went through the same thing So you seek in their example Remain steadfast Remain strong The reason why I started with the three principles Of the Abrahamic faiths Is to tell you How dangerous this ideology is Goes directly against A common principle Shared by all the Abrahamic faiths The principle Of prophethood Now imagine We believe in the practice That there is a prophet But this prophet Instead of praying In normal prayers He speaks of the name Of the idols of Quraish And one day He comes to you And he tells you That I'm a prophet The next day he says Wait a minute I have doubt Am I a prophet or not? And this is In the تفسير Of the Quran But then What surprises me Is that they become upset When the prophet Is portrayed In such a manner In a movie Go look at your own books Go look at how You are portraying The prophet Muhammad Then come out And stand and say Well this movie was Disrespectful For 1400 years And fortunately The prophet has been Disrespected And I'm going to talk About this In an entire lecture The fourth تفسير Of the first portion Of this ayah States That when Allah States يا رسول الله Seek comfort In the story Of Abraham And Noah And Saleh And Isa And Musa He's actually Speaking to the Muslims From then And that point And time And until today That seek Comfort In the story Of for example The Maryam Allah sent down An entire chapter And titled Mary So that The Muslims Read Of the difficulties Of Mary And they get inspired Muslim women Had no inspiration So Allah Sent them A chapter Mary Seek the example Of Mary And be inspired Allah Gives them The example Of the Muslims To be inspired Allah Gives them The example Of The seven sleepers Of the cave For the Muslims To be inspired This is the first portion The second portion States قل أسألكم عليه أجر Why? The first states Tell them يا رسول الله I ask you For no reward I ask for No reward What so ever For this Is a universal Message For this Is a universal Message That's it The verse is done Why was this verse Revealed The second portion The second portion Was revealed Because The Arabs Accused رسول الله And this accusation Remains until now That رسول الله Was trying to start A business To make money So Allah Tells him يا رسول الله It is forbidden For you to take money As a reward For delivering The final message Tell them This is a universal Message For everyone So why are you coming And telling me We want to give you money We're not going to accept Money from anyone This is in Surat Surat what? Chapter 6 Is what? Huh? An'am Surat An'am Verse 90 An'am An'am Is sent down Where? In Mecca It's the longest Chapter Sent down This verse Was later Unabrogated How so? When رسول الله Went from Mecca To Medina When he went to Medina Aus and Khazraj Were two tribes They came to رسول الله Said يا رسول الله We the Aus And the Khazraj For 300 years Were killing One another Except In the sacred months In the sacred months They would drop the weapons Amongst the months Was what? محرم الحرام They dropped the weapons Other than that They killed each other For 300 years Over what?  How can we thank you? Chapter 42 صورة شورا Verse 23 42 23 All of you have memorized What's sent down قل لا أسألكم عليه أجراء Tell them يا رسول الله I ask you for no reward Except Meaning there is one way For you to repay me There is not two ways Or three ways Or ten ways To repay رسول الله Tell them There is no way To repay me Except with the following لا أسألكم عليه أجراء إلا المودة في القرباء Except for the love For the kinship Except that love For my family Now let me tell you How many years We've spent quoting this verse Hearing about this verse Memorizing this verse Yet we don't know The essence of this verse How can you ever know The magnitude And appreciate the magnitude Of this verse If you don't know The fact that this verse Happens to me Amongst the Abrahamic Principles It happens to be An abrogated verse And it happens to be A verse That dictates Onto all of the Muslims That you must repay رسول الله It's not an option You must be thankful Towards رسول الله And the only way for you to do that Is through the following The love for the kinship المودة للقرباء Many Muslims They tell you We love her a bit We love her a bit The ayah doesn't ask for love The ayah asks for مودة For those who speak Arabic Or are familiar with Arabic There's a difference between محبة and مودة مودة is love For you to love مودة is for you to show your love Let me ask you a simple question brothers Today In the mosques in Morocco Tunisia Mecca Medina Riyadh Is there a mention of Ahl al-Bayt? Is there a mention of Hussain ibn Ali? Is there a mention of his sacrifice? No They claim that we love Ahl al-Bayt But there is no mention Furthermore I'd like to say this Furthermore they accuse the followers of Ahl al-Bayt With شرك Because they are applying the Quran Because I say this with full confidence That the followers of Ahl al-Bayt Are the only ones The Shi'a are the only ones Applying this verse today They are the ones that wear the black for Hussain They are the ones that shed tears for Hussain They are the ones that have a remembrance of Fatima Ali Hussain and Hussain And the time of their remembrance Yet While they are applying the Quran While they are following the Requirements of the Quran They are accused to be Foreigners to Islam Isn't it unfortunate? That today Every single Muslim Must thank Rasool Allah For delivering the message And the only way for us to Show our gratitude to Allah To Rasool Allah Through the love for his kinship Let me ask you Today many people around the world Were upset about this movie So they try to show their gratitude Towards the Prophet To show their love towards the Prophet Allah tells you this is the way to show your love Allah tells you this is the only way Not through building Burning buildings Or burning flags Or protesting This is the only way You want to tell Rasool Allah You love him Show your love for his أهل البيت When it comes to this verse This particular verse There is one individual that needs to be examined Truly A forgotten character In Al-Makhzumiyah Al-Qurashiyah In Al-Makhzumiyah Al-Qurashiyah Was married To the cousin of the Prophet When they got married After a couple of years They migrated from Mecca To Abyssinia And Abyssinia they had a son By the name of Salama Soon after Salama was born The pagan Arabs They came to Abu Salama And his wife Um Salama And they told them That look We've made Muhammad the governor The Muslims now Are no longer prosecuted So come back To the Arabian Peninsula So Abu Salama Um Salaman Salama returned to Mecca They saw no The situation has gone worse So Abu Salama decided He's going to take his family And they're going to migrate to Medina While they were migrating to Medina Um Salama's family Came and took Um Salama And Salama And they told her husband You took her once to Abyssinia It was enough Go on your own So Abu Salama Poor guy He went by himself to Medina Several years later I'm making this long story Very short Several years later Um Salama And Salama went to Medina Her husband Abu Salama Abdul-A'la Fought in Badr And he was killed in Uhud He was killed in Uhud Therefore When you go and visit The companions of Uhud Amongst the people That is buried in Uhud Is whom Abu Salama Abdul-A'la After the martyrdom Of Abu Salama Salama came to Rasool Allah Crying and mourning Rasool Allah said to him Salama I would like for you to marry Fatima The daughter of Hamza Hamza was also martyred in And where Uhud Insha'Allah Tonight you go and you Rest well Tomorrow before you come You take the energy drinks Because the lectures Will keep getting tougher and tougher So Rasool Allah Told Abu Salama Told Salama Salama you will marry Fatima The daughter of Hamza So Salama married The daughter of Hamza Fatima And he continued to tell Rasool Allah يا رسول الله Marry my mother I want you to marry my mother Now my mother has no one At that time While his mother was 35 years old Rasool Allah Married Um Salama Insha'Allah The wife of Rasool Allah Um Salama Umm Al-Mu'mineen Um Salama plays A viral role In transferring Hadith Of Rasool Allah In regards to the love To the kinship Meaning in Muslim When you refer to صحيح Muslim And you refer to حديث الكساء Narrated by Imam Muslim It's narrated by Um Salama When you refer to For example المستدرك على صحيحين When you refer to مدفن رسول الله And his family And the love for the family You find Um Salama is extremely vocal Um Salama Gave her بيعة To Imam Ali And after Imam Ali To Imam Hassan And after Imam Hassan To Imam Hussein And after Imam Hussein To Imam Ali يبن الحسين You never hear about Um Salama You hear about other wives But Um Salama no You never hear about her When you go to Hajj You always find them Quoting from other wives But you never find them Quoting from Um Salama One of the hadiths That she brings to us Is the hadith of the departure Of Hussein Ibn Ali From Medina She says Hussein came to me He said to me أمه Um Salama It's going to be a long journey She said automatically I said to him Hussein Come and hug me Hug me She said I embraced him I smelled his scent I cried I said Hussein I'd like to remind you When you were a baby When you were a baby One day you walked Into the presence Of Rasool Allah While Rasool Allah Was resting And Rasool Allah Began to play with you I went out And came back I saw Rasool Allah Shedding tears His entire beard Is full with his tears I said to him يا رسول الله What is it that makes you cry? He said um Salama جبرائيل Just descended on to me Bringing me from the clay Of Karbala The sand of Karbala Telling me That my grandson Hussein Will be killed In that soil On that soil Um Salama Take this dust When this dust Turns into blood Know that Hussein Has been murdered in Karbala Imam Hussein Told her هو كما أخبرك جد رسول الله Indeed it is Which my grandfather Has told you Um Salama Keep the dust الله أكبر الله أكبر Then Imam Hussein We can get the lights Imam Hussein Had a daughter By the name of Fatima The first thing that Imam Hussein did Was he told um Salama Um Salama I want to keep My daughter Fatima Who is ill With you in Medina Imam Hussein Said his goodbyes To his daughter Fatima العليلة And as soon as He said his goodbyes To Fatima العليلة He walked away Suddenly he heard His daughter calling out يا أبتا يا أبا عبدالله Oh father Hussein Do not leave me And she began to cry Imam Hussein Told her Oh daughter Fatima Don't cry You are with your grandmother Um Salama She said to him Oh father Now that you are Leaving me All by myself In Medina At least leave My brother عليون الأصغر With me عبدالله Imam Hussein Told her Oh Fatima عبدالله Your brother Has a task In this journey الله أكبر Tonight To remind ourselves Of the arrival Of the camp Of Hussein Towards Karbala But before we Arrive to Karbala Let us depart Towards Karbala Let us all go With our souls Our body And our minds Towards the city of Karbala We stand in front Of the shrine Of Hussein We say to him يا سيدنا وما All the lovers of Hussein Please tonight Do not remain silent يا سيدنا وما إنا تود وستشفعنا وانتوصلنا بك ما شاء الله ما شاء الله يا حسين Take a glance At this Majlis يا The third time At the desert His horse would not move يا با عبدالله Change this horse once Twice Three times Some narration Say Abu-Abad For six consecutive times Then he looked And he said مس محاد Of this land He said They said indeed يا أبا عبدالله It's called Karbala He raised أبا عبدالله الحسين camped in Karbala He put the tents Of Benny Hashim He put the tents Of Abel Fazl He put his own tent The tent of the woman And the tent of Ansar And the tent of a man That insha'Allah Will speak of in the next Upcoming night He was coming later By the name of حبيب المظاهر Then he took The hands of عليون الأكبر He took the hands Of his brother أبا الفاضل And he told them Come with me Towards the Euphrates He said أخاه يا ته السن عليون الأكبر He said علي My son This is the location Where you will fall Now If you guys Want to leave حسين Then leave حسين today Because There is a death That is unescapable They saw أبا الفضل العباس His hands shaking Crying That you are Shaking You are liars Of Karbala I want to say this And conclude Imagine What went through To Um Salama When she suddenly Saw on the tent Of محرام That clay Turned into a boy And they kept crying Until قتل الحزا جسم ملوم In Karbala The body is in Karbala And Let's raise our hands To the Almighty الله سبحانه وتعالى Those tears For حسين are precious Those tears For أبا عبد الله الحسين إن شاء الله Will be a shield Of protection In the day of judgment Let us raise Our hands Ten times Brothers and sisters With the loudest of your voices I said this yesterday I said if Allah Glances at this Majlis Where every single one of us Has gone to him desperately Where every single one of us Has gone to him with pure intentions Where every single one of us Know that he is the only one That can give us our حجات Then every single one of us Will walk out of here with our حجات أما يجيب المضطر مضطر As a person that is desperate نسألك الله وندعوك بسمك العظيم الأعظم الأعظم الأعظم الأعزل أجل الأكرام يا الله نسألك ونقسم عليك من محمد وعلي وفاطم والحسن والحسين والتسعة المعصومين من درية الحسين يا الله يجب علينا أن أتساعد من هذا التوارج مع إعلقتك يا الله بجلس تماما لقوم toothp력 يا الله بجلس تماما بجلس تماما بجلس تماما لقوم المعلوم في جلس يا الله المشارك Sunday في محاولة يُنسُظ مولانا صاحب الزمان وإلى أرواح المؤمنين والمؤمنات


in spirit, in faith, in purity. Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things. Give yourself entirely to them. That your progress may be evident to all. Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them. For in doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you. Amen. Thank you, brother. Let's pray together. Father in heaven, we acknowledge the authority of your word and we joyfully God submit ourselves under that authority. Praise you, God. Thank you for revealing your word to us. I pray that you would attend the preaching of your word with your spirit. God enable us by your spirit to apply these truths to our heart and live for you by them. God, that you'd be glorified in this. There's anyone here, Lord, that isn't saved? I pray, Lord, that you would crush them over their sin or that you would show them the excellencies of Christ and save them for your worship and for your praise. I thank you, Lord, for this time of study. Pray that you'd be pleased in it in Jesus' name. Amen. You may be seated. Sermon title is Building an Effective Personal Ministry. Building an Effective Personal Ministry. And we have been working through steadily, slowly but surely, through this paragraph, 1 Timothy chapter four, verses 12 to 16, this is a power-packed paragraph. There's a lot in it. And today, I believe that we're gonna finish this paragraph. We've got a lot of ground to cover, and I talk fast already, so you're gonna have to listen quick. I would encourage you, as if you're taking notes, that you would evangelize a court stenographer or evangelize someone who knows shorthand so that you can have someone take notes for you if you like. We just have a lot of ground to cover, and there's just a lot in this paragraph. It's a wonderful, wonderful paragraph of Scripture, and it has been a joy for me. I hope it's been a joy to you to work through this and a blessing to you. The Bible says, Paul says to Timothy here in this paragraph, let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word, in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity, till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. Meditate on these things. Give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all, and take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them for in doing this, you will save both yourself and those who hear you. Dr. Howard Hendricks, many of you may recognize that name, tells a story about the time that he saw a young reporter interview Bud Wilkinson. At that time, Bud Wilkinson was the head football coach at Oklahoma, and so the reporter enthusiastically asked, Coach Wilkinson, tell us what contribution collegiate football has made toward physical fitness in America, that time as it is today.  And so he was stunned when Wilkinson replied to him, I don't believe that football has made any contribution to physical fitness in America. So what do you mean? Ask the dumbfounded reporter. I define football, replied Wilkinson, as 22 men on the field desperately needing rest and 50,000 people in the stands desperately needing exercise. But then Wilkinson followed that statement up with what a description of the local church today. I think about that for a moment, that's a tragic description, that's a sad description, but also we have to concede that it is largely today a true description. Now that's of the professing church. We need to put that qualifier in there. The true church of Jesus Christ made up of genuinely saved believers is a working, thriving, healthy, working, laboring, striving church. These are professing churches. And many professing Christians who attend church today really attend as no more than a glorified spectator. And if you were to watch college football on a Saturday, you'll find that most of the spectators in those stands watching a football game are far more zealous for their cause than most professing Christians are today for theirs. We cannot allow this mindset to prevail. As we've been working through the paragraph verses six through 11 and now from 12 to 16 here in 1st Timothy chapter four, you've got to allow the word of God to inform your understanding of this and to change your thinking, okay? We can, we can come to a text like this and we can listen to the high standard here commanded by Paul, commanded by the Lord. And we can think to ourselves, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it. I got it, I got it, I got it. You know, we've been listening to three and four exhortations about wholehearted and giving ourselves in time. I got it, I got it. And go on about our lives. It's like, no, no, no, wait a minute. Let it sink in, allow it to change your thinking and then allow it to change your life. The Christian life is a work of ministry. It is a whole sold, wholehearted investment in the work of Christ. Every Christian, God's word clearly commands that every Christian is involved in the work of the ministry and oftentimes in churches today, that's not a popular thing to preach. And in many cases in a vast majority of churches, you come to church and the purpose of the sermon maybe is just to make you feel good before you walk out. It's not what we're gonna do here. We're gonna speak the truth out of God's word and you should feel, as I do studying this, you should feel convicted. You should feel motivated, charged up to work and to serve the Lord in the way that the Lord has commanded, the way that the Lord has charged. And here we have a very high standard being called for. There is no special class in Christianity called the clergy. We are all saved into full-time ministry. We've all been given God-given gifts that we are to employ in the work of the ministry and we need to fulfill the ministry. We need to build into our lives an effective personal ministry for the Lord. And that's what's being commanded here certainly to Timothy, but also to everyone who's a Christian. And the scripture is very clear on that. As Paul says to Timothy in chapter one, verse 18, this charge I commit to you, son Timothy, I entrust you with this charge, Timothy. And then the Lord says to you through the pages of scripture, when he saves you into his body, he says, this charge I commit to you. I entrust to you, Jack. I entrust to you, Jay. I entrust to you, Josue. I entrust to you, Brian. He entrusts it to us. He entrusts us. He gives us the stewardship of having a ministry among God's people and among the lost for him. Every Christian is charged with having a personal ministry. You need to understand that this is not optional. This is not something that you volunteer for. The Lord isn't calling volunteers. We are, as the Bible describes, slaves, bondservants of Jesus Christ. Now, for the Christian, this is not a burden. It's not burdensome, it's a joy. For the Christian with a new heart and the spirit of God and dwelling them, this is a joy to enter into that labor for the Lord. But certainly, as much as it is a joy, it will be the priority of a Christian's life. In 2 Timothy, chapter two, verse four, Paul says this, no one engaged in this warfare, and see how he describes it. Describes it there as warfare. No one engaged in this warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. In other words, we have temporal things that we're involved in in this life, but all of them are a part of our ministry to the Lord. We're not to be entangled with earthly mindedness, if you will, we're to be entangled with heavenly mindedness. We're to be entangled with the affairs of the life which is to come and serve the Lord in that respect. In Romans chapter 12, verse two, the Bible says, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice.  I have left this world behind and I am serving my Lord until he calls me home, right? We are to be a living sacrifice. It goes on to say, holy, acceptable to God, which is your exceptional service. So what it says? No, no, no, which is your reasonable service. It's just your duty to do. And in thinking about that, just your reasonable service, remember Christ in Luke 17.10, where Jesus says when you have done everything you were told to do, you should say we are unprofitable servants. We have only done what was our duty to do. That's the Christian life and the Christian service. So why? Now why would you commit your life? Why would you invest yourself so wholeheartedly, so whole sold in this hard work of the ministry? Well, and one answer to that question is because the Lord has commanded it. And is that reason enough? Amen, that's reason enough. The Lord says it, and so I do it. And that settles it, right? But there are many glorious reasons. We'll talk about those as we work through this passage. If you're a Christian, the great driving desire of your heart is to live in a way that is well pleasing to him. So live in a way that is well pleasing to him. If you're lost, you've never been born again. If you've never been given a new heart in Christ, then the fruit of that will be evident in your life. You'll obey your excuses more than you will obey the Lord. That fruit will be evident. You obey to look good on the outside, in front of men.  There's no real love or affection or zeal for Christ in the heart. And we're gonna look at some other great and glorious reasons to devote yourself to this as we work through the text. The Bible teaches that we must build an effective personal ministry. As we've said, the components of this are very basic, but very profound, and we are to invest ourselves in them. One, we got from verse 12, that we are to maintain an exemplary life. He says to Timothy, let no one despise your youth, but be an example to the believers in word and conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Unless we forget, this is a command, an imperative command from Paul to Timothy and down through the ages to us. Our second point was that we are to devote ourselves to scripture. We saw that in verse 13, till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, another imperative command. Point three, we've all been given gifts when we were saved into the body. We are to employ those gifts and cultivate our God-given gifts for the work of the ministry. We see that in verse 14. Don't neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership. That's not normative today. When the Lord saves you, he, especially and purposefully, very sovereignly and providentially, gives you gifts by which you will serve the body of Christ in a miraculous, very specific way, such that if you don't employ your gifts, some work or some person is being neglected. We're not to neglect our gift. But today, point four on your notes, this ministry, we are to pursue with uncompromising devotion and we see that in verse 15. Here, Paul says to Timothy, meditate on these things. Give yourself entirely to them that your progress may be evident to all. So first now, the uncompromising devotion commanded in verse 15 is to be given to these things. And we see these things throughout scripture. Certainly, that these things refers to everything in this letter to Timothy, everything that Paul's talked about. Certainly for us today, that these things is everything written in the Word of God. We are to give ourselves entirely to these things. But now we see that these things in several places, even here, within our own context. Look at chapter three, just one page over. Look at verse 14. These things, Paul says, I write to you, though I hope to come to you shortly. Look at chapter four, verse six. If you instruct the brethren in these things, you'll be a good minister of Jesus Christ. Down in verse 11, these things command and teach. And here in our context, meditate on these things. Paul uses that often. Here, certainly, everything to do with this letter, but specifically now, these things being referred to are those things that we see here in this paragraph from verses 12 to 16. We are to be devoted to, in an uncompromising way, the building blocks that we see in verses 12 to 16 of building an effective personal ministry. We're to be devoted to being an example. Means we've got to be devoted to our personal life, our character. We've got to be devoted to holy living. We're to be devoted to giving attention to the reading, to exhortation, to doctrine, to be invested in the Word of God. And then third, we are to be devoted to employing our gifts in the work of the ministry. We are to meditate on these things, give ourselves entirely to them. So we're to pursue with uncompromising devotion these things. Now, the uncompromising devotion commanded here in verse 15 is described from two perspectives. We also see this as a good communication device that's used throughout Scripture as a way of emphasizing something. So if you really want to emphasize something or you want to make a strong point, you want to press it upon your hearer if you want to give it weight, right? You want to lend importance to a statement or stress it, see what I'm doing? That's what Paul is doing here. He's lending emphasis, he's stressing the point by looking at it from two different perspectives. He uses two strongly word imperative commands to do that, to describe the level of devotion that is required here. One, meditate on these things. Melatao is the word. It means to practice, to take pains with, to keep thinking about.  But this word in Greek doesn't carry the sense of simply thinking about it. It means taking action. You ponder it, you keep it in your mind, but while it's in your mind, you take action on it. You actually practice it. So now think about it for a moment. You study, you ponder, all right? You use all of your mental capacity, your concentration, and then you think about these things, the these things Paul is talking about. With that, if you will, isn't there, if we're gonna put this into action, there's a planning that's going on. There's a strategizing, there's a thinking through how I'm going to do this, how I'm gonna implement this, how this is gonna work out. This is not flying by the seat of your pants. This is a working it out in your head so that I can implement it in my ministry. When it says meditate on these things, this is the sense that this clause carries. We're not just to think about it, we're to plan. We're to strategize, we're to work it out and then we're to put it into practice and we're to live it. When it says meditate on these things, that's what it's communicating here. Now, this is present active, which means it's an ongoing continuous action. It's a habit of your life. It's just a way of life to you.  That's what's being commanded, that you go to work on it. And that, if you will, goes back to that continuous athletic imagery, doesn't it, that we talked about in verses six through 11, that Christian athleticism of putting these things into place. So, you think, you strategize, how do I become a good example on the job? What can I do? How can I be intentional in my evangelism to make sure that I'm being faithful to the Lord with a great commission? How can I work daily devotions into my life such that I'm consistent with those? How do I raise up my kids in the nurture and admonition of the Lord? How do I edify my wife, edify my husband? How do I do these things? And it's often, right, can't we get into a habit or get into a rut where we sort of just get caught up in the flow of life and we don't think about these things. We don't ponder how we're going to serve the Lord. We don't put those things into practice because we don't think deeply about them.  That the Christian life for most professing Christians is just, okay, well, I show up on Sunday morning at 11. That's not the Christian life. That is unbiblical. It's not what the Christian life is because we are to think and ponder and concentrate. We have a ministry that the Lord has saved us to that we're to put into practice. So again, meditate on these things, plan, strategize, work it out, I've often heard. There's a lot to be done in there. Ministry's hard work. How do I get all this done with the time that I've got? You gotta think through it, plan, strategize. How can I work this out so that I'm faithful to the Lord? While you're doing that, you know that the Lord does not pit family against ministry or ministry against your husband or your wife or your husband or wife against evangelism. Those things aren't pitted against each other. They're together. We're to be faithful in all of these things. And so it takes concentration. It takes working it out. It takes planning. It takes scheduling. It takes self-discipline. It takes hard work. But that's what we're to do. And that's the ministry. So what does this look like in a practical way? The second perspective here that Paul gives, he says at the end of verse 15, he says, giving yourself partially to them. So he says, no, giving yourself mostly to them. No, giving yourself entirely to them. This is all over scripture, isn't it? Sometimes feel like a broken record. We come back to the same points. Praise God for that. Because sometimes I feel like I have a three-foot mound of concrete in my head that someone's got to drill before I get the point, you know? So the Lord is very gracious at reminding and reminding and reminding and reminding because sometimes even thick-headed guys like me will finally get it. The Lord reminds us of this on a regular basis. We are to give ourselves entirely to these things. So once again, we're back to whole-sold commitment.  Full immersion. It's literally in the Greek here, what it's saying is in them in these things, you be is what it says. We're to be in them. That's giving yourself entirely to them. It's another present active, which means a continuous way of life. These things, in a sense, are to be as frontlets between your eyes, constantly thinking, constantly worked out. As one commentator said, as a fish is made for water, as a bird is made for the sky, as a worm for the earth, we are to be in them. It's like the Lord just takes you and submerses you in water, you're wet. You're just in it. We're to be in these things all the time. Now it's easy, isn't it? To think of a full-time pastor as being in them entirely all the time. But this is not just for the full-time pastor. Remember, there is no clergy split, different classes of Christians. We're all in full-time ministry. This has application for all of us. And so when it says we're to be entirely given to them and entirely in them, think about it. You have a ministry on your job.  You may go to work to be an engineer. You may go to work to be a teacher.   You have a ministry on the job. And that ministry is to be an excellent example, excellent example of a Christian. To serve the Lord on the job by doing everything as unto the Lord. Whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God, right? So you have a ministry on that job. Whatever the Lord has you doing, you are the Lord's workman. You're the Lord's testimony. You're the Lord's example. You have a ministry at your home.  You have a ministry at your home to serve the Lord and do all to the glory of God as it pertains to your kids, as it pertains to your spouse. You're to serve the Lord with your finances. You've been given a stewardship over how you spend your resources.  How do you approach your classes, your classwork? Are you doing that to the glory of God? It's not the teacher, ultimately, that you're working for. You're in ministry for the Lord and in your classwork, you're working for the Lord. And you're in ministry for that. The Christian, and listen, every Christian, this is not some other class. I know we're inundated in this country, inundated around the world with other examples that aren't this standard. But listen, they're unbiblical. This is the Christian. The Christian is to be single-minded in their devotion to the Lord. Not double-minded, as James says in chapter one, unstable in all his ways, but single-minded. And you can see what this would look like in a man who is in the role of a pastor, like young Timothy here. But you should also be able to see what this looks like in the life of a Christian who has an effective personal ministry for the Lord. And that's what we're to do. See your work as a ministry for the Lord and be a great example. You're to be absorbed with the word of God in personal study, in your thought. You're to meditate on these things. You're to pray without ceasing, as Paul says. In constant communion with the Lord about everything that goes on in your life. And that has to be cultivated and worked out. You need to be always evangelizing. Scripture clearly says that we're to share the gospel with every creature. We're always to be teaching, always exhorting, always discipling our wife or kids, lost neighbor, a co-worker, family, friends. We're to be heavenly minded with a heavenly perspective, not earthly minded. As you go about your work, your job, and home, at school, wherever, we're to have an eternal perspective. We're to have a heavenly perspective on those things. Always looking at those things through the filter of God's sovereignty and God's providence. Knowing that the Lord, even through difficulty, is working all things out for our good. It's just that constant heavenly mindedness. We're to have an eternal perspective. Always, always, always on the job. And what is on the job? It's ministry for the Lord. That's what you've been saved to, always on the job. Even rest is seen as a blessing from God, isn't it? That you can worship and praise Him for. We took a little vacation, praise you, God, thank you. It just doesn't need, rest, you know. All of that is a worthy motivation for worship, motivation for praise, always on the job. In other words, as a Christian, and it's important to understand, you can't compartmentalize your Christian life. On Monday through Friday, from eight to five, I'm an engineer. On Tuesday and Thursday, at night, I'm a student. And on Sunday, from 11th to 12th, I'm a Christian. You can't compartmentalize our Christian life that way. It's just not as the Bible intends it. You cannot be a worker during the day, a TV junkie at night, a husband some of the time, and a Christian one day a week. A Christian is full-time ministry, 24-7, 365 days out of the year, right?  Now, let me ask you, a Christian's in the room, with a little Christian experience under your belt.  You feel like when you're praying, the God is right there. That you're witnessing every time you get a chance. The witness, that your devotions have been so soul-enriching. You feel like you'll never sin again. You've had such victory over sin that week. It's just like, man, it's been a great week in the Lord. Have you had a week like that before? Yeah, right? We are most happy, most content, most enriched when we are fully invested like that in the Lord's work, aren't we? And aren't you most miserable, most discontented, most discouraged, most downtrodden when you are being overrun by your sin or overrun by the world? This is for our good. This is a standard that we're to attain to. J.C. Ryle said this, to have this clear conscience, you gotta understand that kind of life leads to a pure, clean, clear conscience with the Lord. To have this clear conscience is clearly bound up with high aims, high motives, a high standard of ministerial life and practice. I am quite sure, he says, that the more we give ourselves wholly to the work of ministry, the more inward happiness, the greater sense of the light of God's countenance are we likely to enjoy. Aren't you thankful that the Lord has given us a high standard?  Don't worry about it, just do the best you can. You know, send it up over here if you want to. I know it's hard. No, the Lord gives us a high standard and we are to press on and attain to that standard. It's not perfection, but it's certainly better be the direction of your life if you're a Christian. And it's supposed to be hard work. It's supposed to take diligent effort. It's supposed to require of us strenuous self-discipline. It's supposed to be a high standard. There's a great example of this that I want you to see. Turn with me to Philippians chapter two. Philippians chapter two. And I love this. The example in Philippians chapter two of Epaphroditus. I tell you, you know, the old Western notion of when I go out in a blaze of glory and Christians can attest to that and say, amen, I don't go out serving the Lord in a blaze of glory, guns firing, you know?  Just went up, went with the Lord to wear us out. And here we see an example of that with Epaphroditus. That we're to be working. And the Lord gives us many examples. But I love this in Philippians chapter two. Look down in verse 25, verse 25. Here Paul says of Epaphroditus, I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus my brother, fellow worker and fellow soldier. Gotta get that thinking into our heads. The Christian life is a life of a soldier. It is a warfare. It's a battle. We're to be engaged in. It's a life and death struggle, okay? Fellow soldier. But he says, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need since he was longing for you. Listen to the heart of this brother. He was longing for you all and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick. So here's Epaphroditus. He's distressed because they are distressed that he's sick. It's like he's concerned about them being concerned about him. He's a great brother. Verse 27, for indeed he was sick, almost unto death, but God had mercy on him and not only on him, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. This brother was valuable to the work. Don't you want to be valuable to the Lord and the work? God, please use us in that way. I want to be valuable in the work. It's like, remember the old phrase and I can't remember who said it off and off my head, but when my feet hit the ground in the morning, I want Satan to know. It's like, I want to be so enwrapped in the work, man, and charging the kingdom of darkness that Satan knows who you are, you know? It says in verse 28, therefore I sent him the more eagerly that when you see him again, you may rejoice and I may be less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness and hold such men in esteem. Well, that's true, right? Those brothers, those sisters that just faithfully serve the Lord, we should hold them in esteem. They're faithful examples. It points back to that issue that Paul mentions to Timothy in verse 12 that we're to be an example, we're to be an example. He goes on to say here, because for the work of Christ, he came close to death, not regarding his life in order to supply what was lacking in your service toward me. Well, that is a faithful ministry for the Lord to the point of death. And you know, lest we talk to cavalierly about these things, we see certainly many examples in scripture, but many examples throughout church history of just that, the brothers and sisters.    You, just like Elijah, are a man.  We're in a war and we're in a ministry and we're to give ourselves entirely. Would you give yourself entirely if it meant that you went to the stake for the truth of God? If you went to jail, time's coming. I read an article last week where a brother was talking about religious liberty and he was talking to a group, an apostate group, a false group, a heretical group, and he said, listen, we may not go to heaven together, but we may go to jail together. Those days are coming. Will you take a stand? Will you invest yourself entirely in these things? It may look like a high standard. And many, when they look at a high standard, they think to themselves that, okay, the standard is just too unattainable. It's just too lofty, it's too high for me. And so they use the loftiness of the standard and their own inability as a way to excuse not trying at all, as a way to excuse sin. And let me exhort you, you cannot find in scripture any excuse for sin. It becomes an excuse for why they don't just obey the straightforward commands of the Lord. You're to obey. You're to obey and you're to obey from the heart. The standard that is set here is sure to give yourself entirely, entirely. That is the standard. You really must be all in. And if you're not all in, you're not in. There is no half-hearted class of Christians. Carnal Christianity is a heresy. There is no half-hearted Christian. And we've talked about this before, but there is no middle ground. Please understand. In scripture, people are described as saved or lost.  There is God's way and there is every other way. There are children of the devil and then there are sons and daughters of the kingdom. There are good fish and bad fish, wheat and tares. There are wise virgins and foolish virgins. In other words, there are true Christians and there are false Christians. There is good fruit and there is bad fruit. There were trees in the garden that were allowed and there was a tree that was forbidden. There is life and death, dark and light. There is true and false. There is wisdom and foolishness. There is the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. There is eternal life and there is destruction. There are those who gather with him and those who scatter abroad. There was Mount Gerizim, the Mount of Blessing and Mount Ebel, the Mount of Cursing. There are those who are lost, who are of the world and those who are saved, who are merely in the world for now.  There are those who live on the rock and those that have built their life on nothing more than sand. There are those that merely say, Lord, Lord and there are those who do the will of the Father who will be saved. There is a narrow road and there is a broad road. There are those who shrink back to perdition and there are those who persevere to the end and are saved. There is one name under heaven, given among men by which we must be saved. There is one mediator between God and men. There is one way, one truth, one life. There is no middle ground, right? If you are God's people, then you are a people of one thing. One thing that is ministry for the Lord. Christ said, no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God. Christ said, come and follow me. So one responded, first let me go bury my father. He said, let the dead bury their own dead. You come and preach the kingdom. This is a people of one thing, wholehearted commitment. Isn't that what being a Christian is from the pages of scripture? First John chapter three verse seven begins this way.  Please don't let anyone deceive you. Hear the word of God on this issue. He who makes an ongoing habit or practice or way of life that is righteous is righteous just as he is righteous. But he who makes an ongoing habit or a practice or a way of life that is sin is of the devil because the devil is sin from the beginning. Whoever has been born of God does not make a practice of sin for God's seed remains in him and he cannot make a practice of sin because he has been born of God. In modern evangelicalism, when by and large churches and preachers boil down or water down the gospel taking the miracle power of God out of the gospel there is no miracle power of life transformation. They boil the gospel down to nothing more than a decision that you make and as a result people live the way they've always lived and yet call themselves a Christian and then you've gotta make excuses for that. Well, I don't know why their life hasn't changed. Maybe they're a carnal Christian, right? It's not how it works. You cannot make a practice of sin because when the Lord saves a person he miraculously changes their life. Miraculously changes their heart such that John can say this and not be a liar. He cannot make a practice of sin because he has been born of God. And many in their lives betray that truth by calling themselves a Christian and yet continuing to live in their sin. Simply an error. The Christian looks back at the Lord saving him and sees the Lord saving him as a rescue. As a rescue out of sin. A rescue from sin and death. They don't see the works that they have done. They see the work that the Lord has done in them and they turn and trust Christ. They see the triumph of Christ over their wickedness. They see a new heart. They see a new nature. They see new desires.  This is the life. This is the transformation of a genuine Christian and it is a wholehearted turn to the Lordship of Jesus Christ turning to trust him. Turning to trust him alone for salvation. If you're not then you'll face the fierceness of God's wrath and you'll pay for sin. John says again that if we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we'd lie and do not practice the truth. Do you wanna be forgiven? Do you wanna be cleansed of sin? Do you wanna turn the life that you've made a complete wreck of give that to the Lord and allow him to work in you and through you as he created you to do and you need to walk in the light turn from your sin, put your faith in Christ and allow the Lord to change you. If you're lost, the standard that we're talking about you can't attain this high standard yourself. You must trust Christ alone for his righteousness. If you're a Christian, you can't attain this high standard for yourself. You must trust Christ alone for his righteousness. I believe it was Spurgeon who said may we look to the great chief shepherd, the great pattern in whose steps we are to walk. May we abide in him and never trifle. May we hold on our way looking to ourselves, looking to our own works, looking to our own strength, our own efforts. No, looking to Jesus by faith in him keeping clear of this world, its pleasures and its follies, carrying nothing for the world's frowns and not much moved by the world's smiles. Looking forward to that day when the great shepherd shall give to all who have done his work and preached his gospel, a crown of glory that does not fade away. The more that we have the mind of Christ, the more we shall understand what it is to give ourselves wholly, entirely to these things.  You must be diligent in making progress. And that's Paul's next point to Timothy. There's a purpose for this. We're to be given to these things entirely. He says, so that your progress may be evident to all. Now we're not perfect, we haven't yet attained to that. The Lord will make us perfect one day, praise God. But we press on to make progress. Now in this exhortation, this command to make progress, there's a positive aspect to this. There's also a negative aspect and there's a warning. Now let's do the bad news first. You've got a negative aspect to this. We see negative progress all the time, don't we? We see negative progress here in our context in these letters to Timothy. Look at second Timothy, chapter two. Let's take a look at this. You can make progress in the wrong direction and if you're making progress in the wrong direction, there's a reason for it. You simply need to correct what you're doing. Second Timothy, chapter two. Look now I'm beginning at verse 14. We see some negative progress here. Second Timothy, chapter two, verse 14. Remind them, Paul says of these things. Here is these things again, right? Charging them before the Lord, not to strive about words to no prophets. Okay, that's the cause and here's the progress. To the ruin of the hearers. So if you're not giving yourself entirely to scripture, if you're not investing yourself in the reading, the exhortation of the doctrine, and you are investing yourself in things that are of no prophet, then you'll make progress toward the ruin of your spiritual life. You'll make progress the wrong direction. Don't strive about words to no prophet, to the ruin of the hearers. Look at verse 15. Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Verse 16. But shun profane and idle babblings for they will increase to more and more ungodliness. If you involve yourself in profane and idle babblings, words of no prophet, then you're gonna make progress, you're gonna make progress toward ungodliness, right? That's just that simple. Verse 17. Their message, that message will spread like cancer. You wanna make progress towards spiritual cancer, well listen, give heed to their message. But if you wanna make progress that is evident to all in a godly direction, then give yourself entirely to these other things. Here, Hymenaeus and Phylides of this sort gives us an example who strayed concerning the truth, saying the resurrection has already passed. They overthrow the faith of some because people were devoting themselves to Hymenaeus instead of devoting themselves to the word of God. This is progress in the wrong direction. Look at chapter three, just drop down chapter three. And look at beginning in verse six. Here Paul says, for of this sort, are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women, loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. You know, you can make negative progress, you could also make no progress at all. And there's a reason that you don't make progress or there's a reason that you make progress in the wrong direction. You gotta identify that and you gotta do something about it. Paul says, give yourself entirely to these things, to the reading, to the exhortation, to doctrine. Give yourself entirely to living a holy life, entirely to the word of God. Here, if you're learning and not able to come to the knowledge of the truth, you're not learning the Bible. You're not living the Bible. You're not putting these things into practice and you're making progress the wrong direction. Another example, drop down to verse 13. Verse 13, same chapter. Here, evil men and imposters, they're making progress, they're gonna grow worse and worse. Deceiving and being deceived, what does he say? But you, but you must continue in these things, right? These things which you have learned and been assured of knowing from whom you've learned them and that from childhood, you've known the holy scriptures which were able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus. Got to make progress. You can't be making progress in the wrong direction. There can also be no progress, which is also progress in the wrong direction. You gotta make a change there. If you're not making progress in the Lord, examine yourself in this for a moment. Think, examine your life, where you're at. Are you making progress for the Lord? Sometimes a Christian can make such small progress or little progress that it sometimes is imperceptible. But there will be progress. You'll be able to see progress over time. Ask your brother, ask a sister. It's gonna be evident to someone. There's gonna be progress and there's gonna be growth if you're giving yourself to the Christian life the way that the Lord commands you to. If you're making no progress, there is a problem. And it's a cause for great concern. Be concerned. Be fearful over this. Are you making progress? It means one of two things. It means one that you're lost or it means that you aren't doing these things here that Paul's commanding. You're not giving yourself to them. Are you making progress? None of us, right? If we're honest with ourselves or making the progress we wanna make. I feel like I'm in the way of progress. A lot of the time, we wanna make progress for the Lord. We wanna live for the Lord wholeheartedly. But by the grace of God, it's not by our own efforts. It's by the grace of God, we'll see some progress. Won't we? That's what the scripture's saying. So examine yourself in this. Is there progress in your Christian life? The positive aspect, we see the negative aspect of this. There's also a positive aspect that your progress may be evident to all. Maybe obvious to all, okay? It means that Timothy here wasn't perfect but he was making progress. That's a great grace, isn't it? Great encouragement. We don't have to be perfect. We're not perfect yet, but we must be making progress. And his progress and our progress must be evident, must be obvious. Philippians 3, verse 12. Paul says, not that I've already attained or am already perfected, but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. We press on. In distinction to the false teaching that was going on, write doctrine, obeyed faithfully from the heart in the enabling power of the spirit of God will produce growth. It will produce progress. On the authority of God's word, I'm gonna make you a promise to that. The scripture says it and it is true. Write doctrine, obeyed faithfully from the heart in the enabling power of the spirit of God will produce growth, will produce progress. Examine yourself. Have you made evident progress? The word of God wielded in the believer's life by the spirit of God is effective. It is efficacious. It will have an impact in your life. You will grow into your ministry. You will. So go back to the, we said in the beginning, right? These things are very basic, but they are very profound. You gotta do the basics. It's not rocket surgery. You gotta read the Bible. You gotta do it from the heart and let the Bible change you, transform your life. Allow the spirit of God to work in you. Get yourself working in the ministry. Lord doesn't steer a parked car. You gotta get moving.  There's a warning here in this too, John Wooden. Boy, a lot of sports analogies in the sermon today. Just got on that trend, I guess. John Wooden, old basketball coach, said don't mistake activity for achievement. You can get yourself busy, right? But you can get yourself busy with the wrong heart. Get yourself busy with the wrong mindset. Get yourself busy for the applause of men, the approval of men and you, all your activity can be nothing more than just polishing the outside of the cup. You've got to do this with the right heart and the right attitude. It is a joy to the Christian. So make sure you just have to constantly remind yourself of that. You're in a church that is a serving church like this is. A fellowshiping, a loving, a working church like this is. Gotta constantly remind yourself of that. We are in the Lord's vineyard working for him because we love him. Because he is our Lord. Because look what he did for me. I don't want to serve him forever for what he did for us. The word here for progress is procapé. Not sac passe. Somebody says nabule, procapé. It's the progress there. It's a military term. It's a military term used for an advancing army. It's a military term. It's the force of an advancing army. That's what we're to be. We're to be an advancing force in our Christian life. Again, this carries the sense of a diligent effort against opposition. We're to press forward despite obstacles, especially those obstacles that rise up in our own flesh and our own minds. You don't arrive with all the skills in place. You've got barbed wire to go through, walls to climb, trenches to go through.  There must be discipline and it's gonna be work. There's no success or true effectiveness in a personal ministry aside from hard disciplined work. The standards are so high. Let me encourage you with this. The Lord who commands these standards also knows that you'll never attain to them on your own. The Lord knows that and yet when we depend on him, when we press forward in his strength and yield ourselves to the spirit of God, we will accomplish in him what we could never accomplish in our own strength. Never. We're going to fall short but this is a high standard and we are to press on to attain to it. So the purpose here to be making progress that is evident to all because we make it our aim to be well pleasing to him. Very quickly, second Corinthians chapter five verse nine says this, therefore we make it our aim whether present or absent to be well pleasing to him. We don't have time to turn there but that we make it our aim, we have is our goal. It's our life's ambition to be well pleasing to him. This is not worldly or self-centered ambition. The word there is philatime, oh my, philatime, oh my. It's a compound word love and to honor. In other words, we are to love that which is honoring to God such that we pursue it. It becomes our goal. We are pursuing the lovely, honorable thing to be well pleasing to him. It's the highest aim, the Christian's prevailing goal, the Christian's prevailing ambition is to be marked by the pursuit of that which is honoring to God. We make it our aim to be well pleasing to him. It's interesting there that it says whether present or absent. Think about for a moment. Whether present means here on the earth to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. So absent there means in heaven with him. Whether it's here or whether you're in your eternal rest in heaven with the Lord, we make the same aim. We have the same aim. We have the same goal. Think about what you'll do in heaven, worshiping him and serving him for all eternity with great joy in your heart. It's our same goal here. We're to live for the Lord with the same aim here whether present or absent. We make it our aim, our ambition to be well pleasing to him. For, the Bible says, we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what he's done, whether good or bad. This isn't judgment of sin, but every Christian will go before the judgment seat of Christ. Sin has already been judged. Where was it judged? On the cross. Praise God, been done away with. But here, it says we go to judgment. There's a word there for judgment used in the Greek called Bema. And Bema is a word that is for steps that rise to a platform. And so think about the Bema judgment of Christ as steps rising to a platform. This again, goes back to that athletic imagery. The athletes that would climb the steps to a platform where they receive their rewards. This is an evaluation of sorts where the Lord, you'll stand before the Lord and the Lord will pass a verdict if you will or a sentence on what you've done. Whether your life was, in here, again the word is whether good or bad, that word for bad, is not kakos or funeros, meaning evil, or meaning sinful, it's phallos, meaning worthless. If your life, your life's work is worthless, or if you'll receive a reward, it's the Lord in that sense, looking at whether what you've done with your service is precious stones or whether it's wood, hay, and stubble. It's our aim, it's our great joy to pursue precious stones, right? Such that when we stand before the Lord and give, there's a tremendous accountability here, right? That we're all going to face, we're all gonna be there. There's a tremendous accountability and we wanna hear well done, good and faithful slave. First Corinthians four, Paul says it's a small thing. Whether I'm judged by you, I don't even judge myself, he says. Basically he says, I really don't care what you think. The Lord is my judge and he knows that we'll stand before the judge. Revelation 22 is similar here in verse 12. He says, behold, Christ says, I'm coming quickly and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work. We make it our aim to be well pleasing to him. In conclusion, verse 16, take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this, you'll save both yourself and those who hear you. This is not a work's righteousness. This is not salvation by works. It is evidence of a salvation that works. This is speaking here of the perseverance of the saints, the perseverance in fruits of faith that the genuine Christian will produce through their life if they're a genuine Christian. It demands a constant state of vigilance, a constant state of watchfulness. This is addressed to sloth. It's addressed to laziness and indifference. This demands work. And here, this is a future. We'll save, looking forward to a final fulfillment of all that salvation means, all that salvation entails. God alone saves. But isn't it an amazing joy, amazing blessing that we can be used by God as a means by which he does his work to save sinners?  It's a glorious blessing. In the words of James too, it's not salvation by works, but it's a salvation that gives evidence of itself, affirms itself in good works. And it's the perseverance in these things that marks true faith.  I pray that it's a charge to you. Let's get out there and do the work of the ministry that the Lord has given us to do. Serve in the way that the Lord has commanded us to serve. And let's be spent for the Lord to see the Lord work mightily through that.  And if you're not a Christian, this is what you were created for. This is what the Lord put you on this earth to be and to do. Be redeemed to that work by the blood of the Lamb. Turn from this worthless existence as a rebel against God. Turn from that, put your faith and trust in Christ and serve Him with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, all your strength, all the time. And the Lord will give you such joy, forgiven of your sin. Pardon, a child of God. Listen, you're not a child of God if you're outside his kingdom. You become a child of God. He'll give you heaven and a glorious purpose to life. Need to be saved. And there's no greater blessing. Turn to Christ and live, right? Let's pray. Father in heaven, thank you for this time together. God, thank you for these dear brothers and sisters and these sweet people here. I'm just so grateful to you, Lord, to be able to serve you with them. God, charge us up to greater and greater faithfulness. God, greater and greater maturity in your word. Greater, greater deal of love and affection and zeal for you in our hearts that motivates this great ministry, Lord, that you've given us. And may we see it as a great ministry. God, may we see it as a great sin to neglect it, Lord, and help us to live for you. We know we can't do it in our own strength. God, and we rejoice that it's in your strength. In our weakness, you are made strong and, Lord, be mighty in us for your glory. To the ends for which you created us, God, to worship you, to praise you, to serve you for the good of your people, for the furtherance of the gospel, and for your eternal praise and worship. We pray all these things in the blessed name of our great God and savior, Jesus Christ, amen.


Augustine goes on to examine my people who speak the truth are often hated for it, a situation we see often today. Why then does the truth give birth to hatred? And why do people take for an enemy your man who preaches the truth? It must be that this is how they love the truth, they love something else, and they want what they love to be the truth, and because they do not want to be deceived, they do not want to be convinced that they are wrong. So they hate the truth because of the thing they love in truth's place. They love the truth when it gives them light, but they hate it when it rebukes them, because they do not want to be deceived, but they do want to deceive others. They love truth when it shows itself to them, but they hate it when it shows them to themselves.


Welcome to JSA TV and JSA podcast, the newsroom for tech, telecom and data center professionals. I'm Buffy Harriketis, coming to you from Channel Partners 2022 in fabulous Las Vegas. And joining me today is Cori Cohen, Vice President of Marketing for MetTel. Cori, welcome to JSA TV. Buffy, is that how you say your last name? I'm just kidding. Yes, I'm so happy to be here. Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. Cori, you're such a veteran industry professional, especially when it comes to the channel and marketing. My dear friend, it's so good to see you here in Vegas again. Hi, I love seeing you.  And I'm, you know, in a jean jacket. Hi. Hi. I'm here.  Wouldn't you agree? Yeah, the energy was electric in November. And now it's still there because people are just so happy to like be connected to people again and be out and about with the world. And without the mask mandate, I mean, it's kind of great. I mean, it's also dangerous, but it's great. Well, we're definitely trying to keep safe here in Vegas. But let's talk a little bit more about your role at MetTel. So you recently joined MetTel, one of my favorite organizations in the whole entire world. And I was so happy to see that you joined MetTel. Tell us a little bit more about your role and what you're doing to develop and even grow and enhance their channel program. Well, to say I'm thrilled to be at MetTel is like an understatement. I've been working with the crew, the MetTel family for the last like seven years. And so it was a really natural fit when they called on me to lead channel marketing. And honestly, it's home. Like it feels like home. I can tell you, since I started, the channel, so the majority of business actually at MetTel is channel. And as true as that is, the channel team was divided into like three different teams. And it was really, to say it was a little confusing to work with MetTel is also an understatement. So when I came on board, I think I actually was maybe a catalyst for unifying the program. So now we have one channel team. Tim Hanley is channel chief and we have a fabulous, fabulous leadership team. Jake Aranao, he's kind of like our executive sponsor for channel. We have Dave Mitchell, who's VP of channel sales and Dave Dixon, who's VP of channel ops, channel sales ops. And an incredible, very tenured. You and I were just talking about that at tenured sales team. And from a marketing perspective, they've spent many years sort of building out their services, which I'll talk about in a second. And so my whole job is building up this channel marketing team and promoting the heck out of MetTel. Well, congrats to you, Corey, for joining such a wonderful organization. And congrats to MetTel for having you.  Can you tell me a little bit more about some of the new solutions that MetTel has offering?  This is, and this is, when I was doing my listening tour, meaning like calling up partners and saying like, what are you selling with MetTel? What do you need more of? How can I fully support you? The resounding answer was kind of like, you know, MetTel could do a better job of communicating with us, which, yeah, that's why I was hired. I agree. And so I think a lot of people know MetTel, 25, six years in business, as an aggregator. And honestly, that's not, that was the backbone and it developed into a whole practice of POTS transformation. We are the only US-based company on Gartner's Magic Leader. We're a leader in their Magic Quadrant for managed network services. Our SD-WAN Sassy solution is, you know, honestly, I think the best platform, it's proprietary network. And I think it's the best in the industry.  And that's true. I mean, such a leader in the mobility space for so many years. But you mentioned Sassy. So it's like one of the hottest acronyms out there. Do you wanna talk a little bit about Sassy? I mean, no. Am I an engineer? And also like, what is Sassy? It's so nebulous. Like, it's like cloud. No, I mean, listen, I think that selling Sassy is, it's a concept at this point, more than an actual product. We are building out that product as part of our SD-WAN entire holistic network approach. But you can't have, I mean, SD-WAN is a secure, it's a secure network to begin with. We layer, and I'm not the best person to talk about this. Like I'm not a solution engineer, but we layer Fortinet within our network. And when you're talking about Sassy, you're talking about like zero trust networking and you're talking about, you know, secure gateways and firewalls. And I think that as a concept rolling out, you know, secure edge is something that everyone, I mean, we all have, we all have end points that need to be managed. And I think that it's, at this point, we need to figure out how to make money on it. I mean, making money in the channel is definitely at the forefront for sure. Let's talk a little bit more about Metta's mobility solution set. Yeah, that I can talk about all day. So the way, I think it's a fair assumption. I think it's a fair, a safe thing to say that like business has changed because of the pandemic. Like I think we can safely say that. Gartner came out with the prediction that for the next, I don't even know how many years, but from now until who knows forever, it's a 50-50 split, 50% in office, 50% at home. And business no longer is like wireline versus wireless. It's like a holistic approach to your entire network, but also your mobility program. And like I said, we have endpoints everywhere. They need to be managed and secured always. So the mobility program with Gartner, we created a program called Mobile Device as a Service. So Mdass, which we're actually debuting here at Channel Partners. And Mobility Device as a Service is awesome, if I could say so myself. Basically, managing mobility, enterprise mobility is complex, right? You have equipment, software, ancillary services like MDM and device protection, break fix, recycling. And then you have staging and kidding. And we actually take all of that and we roll it into one solution and we provide devices. So this is actually something else, and I'm sorry I'm talking so long, but this is actually something that came up in my discussions with partners. We're one of a few carriers that have like a very large, a rather large federal government contract. And a lot of partners don't actually necessarily understand how that benefits them. It actually very much benefits Channel Partners. Here's why. First of all, security and compliance, rigorous testing in order to be on a government contract, you actually need to prove that. Number two, we have to have, as part of government mandate, we have to have US based support, customer support 24-7, which we do. And third, we have to, from a mobility standpoint, have to have warehouses with like 20,000 plus devices like on hand at any moment, at any given time. You don't know when FEMA needs whatever. And frankly, we're dealing with a chip shortage, but that has nothing on us, I guess, because we have to have that on hand. So when it comes to an Amazon-like experience where you can purchase and order devices and data, and then we stage, we kit, we drop ship to your employees anywhere at their home. And we have break fix, 10% of the spend is recovered through someone leans over and drops their iPhone or whatever and it breaks. We send it out the next night, the next day, and everything from secure wipe and clean to vice recycling. And now I've bored you to death with mobility. You could never be bored with mobility because it is the future of the landscape here, especially with the remote workforce, the hybrid environment that we're in.  Cory, what are some of your predictions for the future when it comes to the channel specifically? Video case studies and just further interactive ways to showcase success and rather than traditional prospecting if you will. So I think that's the future. Yeah, video case studies from Metel are coming soon because the best vice president of channel marketing, Cory Cohen is here with us live at Channel Partners 2022. Cory, where can viewers go to find out more about Metel? You know what, it's metel.net, M-E-T-T-E-L.net. And I look forward to seeing you and hearing from you. Cory, it was such a pleasure having you on JSA TV. Thank you so much for joining us and viewers, thank you for tuning in to another exciting episode of JSA TV at Channel Partners 2022. Happy channel networking.


Well, combining flat-shaped pieces with elements of relief structures, an Aikenart area artist has created a unique style. James Bazzura causes mixed media pieces, pictorial sculptures. Melmeyer reports in this week's In Focus. I just love art and I love the world of emotions. James Bazzura has moved around from New York to Colorado and now to Minnesota. History from the different areas he has lived in inspires him. History in general, culture is really fascinating and draws me into a lot of things and a lot of the artwork I do. He uses this inspiration to tell stories on shaped wood pieces with a wide array of materials. Some of these pieces have turquoise on them and pipe stone. There's a little bit of gold leaf. His work appears from afar to be flat until you get a little closer. I call it two and a half dimensions, not really two dimensions, not always three. Some of his pieces used race parts or insets. These have insets to tell a story. And some things there's carved figures and there's pipe stone figures, there's some turquoise in them. When this all comes together, Bazzura has created a one-of-a-kind mixed media art form he calls. Pictorial sculpture, it has some elements of sculpture and visual art. In these pieces he tells local lore. I call it sort of micro regionalism. You know this piece here is from the mansion, the Callahan Mansion in Longmont, Colorado. And in this scene the teacup shows a town with a new library. You could say it's the fruits of knowledge. Those are the kind of things that combined it. And they get me going and energize me to do these things. The details and complexity are the key components of his work. And you might see the larger figures at once, but the smaller things support a different sort of narrative and take into a combine so several stories are going on at once. People can come see James's work here at the Beanery until the end of January. In Aiken with This Week's in Focus, I'm Al Meyer, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What is it called? The program is called the Native Law Center Summer Program, formerly known as the PLSNP. And what are the age groups or the target audience? It is for students who have an undergraduate degree, so usually it would be in the 22 kind of age range and higher. It is a graduate program, so it's not a direct entry. And what is the aim of the program? The summer program was created to increase the number of indigenous people studying and practicing law in Canada, and it is an eight-week summer course that occurs prior to the student entering law school in the fall. And what is the program intended to do, like the learning objectives? The program teaches students first-year property law, and as well it teaches the skills that they need to be successful in law school. So legal writing, legal analysis, and how to brief cases, write legal memos. So how do you measure the success of your program? Well we measure the success of the program in a couple of different ways. One thing is by the enrollment. We see that the enrollment has gone up over the years. In 2011 we had 28 students in the program. Last year we had 47, so there is a growing demand. We also, most of the law schools in Canada accept our program for credit, so that, and they will, almost all the law schools in Canada do send students to our program, sometimes as a prerequisite for them to attend law school. So that's an important piece. But also, I think one of the, what we would say across Canada, we estimate that about 75% of the Aboriginal lawyers or Indigenous lawyers started their educational career at the summer program, and program alumni have gone on to become lawyers, judges, government officials, professors, and also pursue further academic studies in law. And for example, the current president of First Nations University of Canada, Dr. Mark Dockstader, attended the summer program prior to going to law school at Osgoode. One thing though, in regards to the success of our program alumni, it's important to note that our ability to monitor how many students have advanced onwards in legal education and beyond, it's difficult for us to really track that because of privacy legislation, and so we right now are just monitoring it, monitoring the development of our alumni as best we can through actual personal contact with alumni, such as the interviewer's cousin, like we seek out people who have gone through the program and then connect with them and ask them to then connect with us. But we do know that a lot of our alumni are very successful, which is really gratifying for us. What is Indigenous education? It's a broad question, and there's a number of ways you could approach it. I think Indigenous education is any form of communicating knowledge that involves Indigenous students or Indigenous knowledge keepers or faculty, or involves the transmission of Indigenous knowledge itself, traditional knowledge. It can kind of approach it in terms of the participants in the endeavor or the actual kind of knowledge. And so I see Indigenous education kind of in those two, kind of potentially being aspects of those two dimensions, but a form of decolonized education I would say will be one where the institution respects Indigenous traditional knowledge, includes it within the curriculum, and whether the students or the teachers are Indigenous or not. So it's paying respect to that source of knowledge in terms of education. How would you define the word Indigenous, Tom? I would define Indigenous as people who existed prior to the assertion of authority by a colonizer. So Indigenous peoples in North America would be First Nations, Métis, and any Indigenous group that existed prior to Canadian authority exerting and forcefully assuming authority over that territory. Is this a term Indigenous, one that you would normally use? Increasingly so, in my situation, being in the lawyer while aware of the other legal terms that the Canadian government has applied to Indigenous people without their consent in most cases. So I use Indigenous because it's consistent with the international language, in particular referencing the United Nations Declaration. And so I want to identify with that more positive standard of Indigenous rights rather than aboriginal, which is based on the Constitution, which has identified rights that are less than those of the Declaration, for example. I prefer Indigenous for those reasons, although I think we need to be increasingly more specific as to what people we are, like if rather than using these catch-all and Indigenous phrases or kind of aboriginal phrases, we should refer to our nations themselves, the Kree, the Naiti, you know, the Dakota. What is your vision for the future of Indigenous education? I would like to see Indigenous education be inclusive of Indigenous knowledge. I'd like to see Indigenous peoples in places of authority, in positions of authority, and in educational institutions. I'd like to see the treaties and their treaty right to education be manifest more significantly in terms of governance authority of educational institutions. So that would mean, for example, in the university here, you would have an Indigenous component to the governance authority, not just the Senate or the Board of Governors, but you'd also have, say, an elders council or something, but with real authority, not just in an advisory role. So to me, that's decolonizing, and anything short of that is just kind of indigenizing in the kind of just getting Indigenous peoples in the system isn't enough. So what, can you think of any types of information that if you had now, it would help to achieve your vision? In terms of the program, I think it would be useful for us, right, Kathleen, to have more data from law schools about graduates, aboriginal graduates, and more data from the law societies about aboriginal graduates, and their success rate in article, and data on their career path. I think it would be very useful for us administering the summer program to have that kind of data, and for law schools to be more open to sharing that data with us right now. They're not very open to doing that, and so we struggle with trying to understand the statistics of how many aboriginal graduates are in the country, for example. We don't really know. Very good. We have a good idea, but we don't know the exact numbers. So aside from the programs in which you are personally involved, what information do you have on other Indigenous education programs in Canada? Well I know at the University of Victoria, they've just started a joint JID program, so it'll be a, maybe you can speak to it a bit more, but it's very exciting. Yeah, it's a pretty important initiative in the sense that the program will teach Indigenous peoples' laws as well as Canadian common law, so it'll have components with respect to Coast Salish law, probably mostly sent British Columbia kind of oriented Indigenous peoples' laws, Coast Salish, and other peoples from that area. And the students who go through that four-year program will not only have a degree in common law, but also a degree in Indigenous peoples' law, so that's pretty significant. Here at the College of Law, we'll be introducing a new course next year called Quist-Castasson, which means kind of setting things right, the reconciliation course really, that the TRC said in a call to action that all law schools should include in their curriculum, so the College of Law is introducing that course next year here. And other law schools are too as well to some degree, but there still is a fair bit of work in terms of recognizing Indigenous peoples' laws as a valid source of law in Canada, but the Native Law Center is working on promoting Indigenous law, both in terms of research and then encouraging the law schools to be more inclusive of Indigenous law traditions. So that's pretty much all the questions that I have, but is there anything else you guys would like to add? One of the, I meant to bring this up as the idea of talking about programs of excellence in education or Indigenous education, the program, the summer program that we have, when it began in 1973, there were only four Indigenous lawyers and five Indigenous law students in Canada, and within the first 20 years, we had 373 alumni come through the program and go on to law school, and by 2011, a total of 832 alumni had gone through our program and graduated from law school. Now we have a bit of a gap in our information from 2011 to today, but we do know to date, like as of 2017, 1,635 Indigenous students have attended the Native Law Center summer program. We just don't know how many of those have went on to successfully complete law school. One thing is sometimes people realize by doing the summer program that they don't want to go to law school, like they just realize it's not for them. That's important because law school is a three-year commitment, and it's good to know right off the hop if it's not for you and it isn't for everyone. So we don't consider that to be a failure or anything, but so when we say we've had to date 1,635 alumni to go through the program, we estimate probably 85% of them would have gone on to law school, but that's where we need more information so we could actually say for sure how many went on to go to law school, graduate, how many went on and got their articles, how many are practicing lawyers, how many went on maybe to post-graduate studies. That's one thing that we are working towards. Yeah, and the program has been quite successful in that respect, and even other disciplines like nursing and medical schools have approached us to see how they can model a program similar to ours to increase the number of students attending those disciplines in education. So it's been around a while and people know that it's actually accomplished a significant impact in the number of lawyers who are Indigenous in Canada, so it acts as a model. And I think one thing too, which I didn't kind of highlight is one of the really important pieces of the summer program is that it does serve to create a really strong bond, kind of a professional bond within the people who go through the program. So we have, say, last year, 47 students attending the program. They would have come from all across Canada, and once they were done here at the U of S, the native law center, they would go to their respective law schools across Canada. But we know that these friendships that are formed in the summer actually are maintained throughout the career of the law student and then the professional, which is pretty exciting because it creates a very strong kinship group. Which you see in the Indigenous Bar Association, which they will join usually. So the alumni are also very much connected, usually, to the Indigenous Bar Association, which is a national association of Indigenous lawyers, judges, and law students, and so they meet annually. In fact, their annual assembly will be here in Saskatoon in the fall. And we hope to have an alumni reunion event as well in conjunction with the conference.


Hello and welcome to the session. My name is Mansi and I'm going to help you with the following question. The question says evaluate the following definite integral that is integral to secant square x plus x cube plus 2 dx where lower limit of integration is 0 and upper limit of integration is pi by 4. So let us start with the solution to this question. Now the integral given to us is 0 to pi by 4 here the limit goes from 0 to pi by 4 to secant square x plus x cube plus 2 dx. Now on separating these three integrants we can write it as limit goes from 0 to pi by 4 to secant square x dx plus integral x cube dx where limit goes from 0 to pi by 4 plus integral 2 dx where limit goes from 0 to pi by 4. Now we see that integral of secant square x is tan x so we have 2 tan x here limit goes from 0 to pi by 4 plus integral x cube dx is x 4 by 4 x raise to power 4 by 4 here also limit goes from 0 to pi by 4 plus here we have 2 x where limit goes from 0 to pi by 4. Now this is equal to 2 into tan pi by 4 minus tan 0 plus here we will have pi by 4 the whole raise to power 4 minus 0 this whole multiplied by 1 by 4 plus 2 into pi by 4 minus 0 this is equal to now tan pi by 4 is 1 so 2 into 1 minus tan 0 is 0 plus 1 by 4 into pi raise to power 4 divided by 256 plus pi by 2 because 2 gets cancelled with 4 to give a 2 here now we have this this can be written as 2 plus pi by 2 plus pi raise to power 4 by 1024. So our answer to this question is pi raise to power 4 divided by 1024 plus pi by 2 plus 2 I hope that you understood the question and enjoyed the session have a good day.


What's up guys welcome to today's video today I'm gonna be sharing with you guys how to cut this long bob haircut using a razor We're also gonna mix it up with a little bit of scissor action as well. Hope you guys enjoy Let me know if you have any questions in the comments below. Let's get started.  We'll cut that later now to start the haircut slight diagonal forward partings Comb the rest of the hair over slide your clip up in there And then you can start working the razor from top to bottom cutting that nice shattered line Now the thing I love most about cutting with a razor especially the tri razor Which you guys see me cutting with now is that it's gonna give it a nice soft edge And then we can go through with our scissor later and create a blunt edge for the outer perimeter So just working that line keep taking your diagonal forward partings and sliding that razor down to create that soft feel All right, so you'll notice as I finish up the back everything that I've done in the back section is brought it straight back to me And now I'm gonna go through with the tip of my scissor and create a nice blunt edge on this haircut Now we're gonna move on to the right hand side We're gonna do the same exact thing working top to bottom taking those slight diagonal forward sections And we'll just work our way all the way through the back.  It's gonna push a ton of length into the front This is a great haircut for those clients that want something different But are afraid to change too much keeps the length in the front of their haircut But adds a little bit of fun something a little bit different in the back of their head So we're gonna do the same thing on the right side to finish it off and then we'll start our blow dry All right guys, so now I'm going with my texture scissor This is just gonna soften that edge a little bit more based on your elevation You can decide how much weight you actually want to keep in this bob for me I want to leave a little extra weight, but I still Hallie's got some thick hair So I want to go in and just soften it a bit and then go through again Detailing with the tip of my scissor creating even more of a blunt edge on this haircut You can see how all these different tools the tri razor the Mizutani scissors how all of them go together to really create This look so you get that blunt edge, but you also get the softness from the razor It's one of my favorite things to do. Hope you guys like it Let me know in the comments below if you like this technique if you're gonna try it Make sure you tag me on Instagram at free salon education I can't wait to see what you guys create and if you want to pick up a tri razor check out our website shop FSE comm you can get it right on there a little slide cutting with the scissor to finish it off Love this haircut. Hope you guys do too. Make sure you subscribe to the channel and I'll see you guys on the next video All right guys, and if you liked anything you saw on this video including the tri razor go to our shop shop FSE comm you can pick up a tri razor the scissors combs clips everything I used in the video You can pick up there and just for making it this far Let me know in the comments below that you made it and use the code made it at checkout And I'll give you 10% off your order of $100 or more. Thank you so much for watching. I'll see you on the next video