So we're in John chapter 4 and John chapter 4 is the beginning of a very well-known story in the Bible, a very well-known encounter with Jesus, with the woman at the well and more specifically the Samaritan woman at the well. And I want to show you tonight how hopefully we can come away tonight kind of realizing this story. It's interesting. This story gives us a lot of context and a lot of explanations on some things that are actually happening in the world today, happening in the Middle East right now. And this story hopefully can give us some context, not about what's happening there, but more on how we should take these things and how we should look at these things. It's very confusing. You can find almost any narrative that you want on what's happening in the world today, especially when it comes to the situation in the Middle East in this area of modern-day Israel or the Palestinian areas and things like that. But let's look at this story and we'll see if we can figure out, just from the words of Jesus, he gives us some context on what's important and what's not here. Look at verse number one. So Jesus is heading to Galilee. Look at verse number one. It says, When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus had made and baptized more disciples than John, and then we get a little bit more context. We kind of talked about this already. We get some more context in verse number two that it wasn't Jesus actually putting his hands on people and baptizing. It was his disciples doing it. But again, I'm not going to preach this again, but you have basically had the baptism of John happening and then the baptism of Jesus happening. And then John explained that we need to transition to that. Jesus must increase. We've already talked about that. He left Judea at verse number three and departed again into Galilee. Verse number four says, And he must needs go through Samaria. And all that means is that, you know, he's in Judea. He left Judea, which is in the south. And then the next territory that he gets to is Samaria. And then after Samaria, he gets into Galilee. Remember that Jesus is from Galilee. He's from this area north of Samaria, which is a little bit ironic in itself. Maybe I'll explain that a little bit later, but especially when you see what this Samaritan woman says, but basically Samaria was this area that kind of used to be, it's kind of the remnant of the northern kingdom of Israel, if you want to think about it that way. So what happened with the northern kingdom of Israel was they were carried away about 160, 170 years before the lower kingdom of Judah was taken into captivity. First of all, there's a difference there, okay? So the lower kingdom of Judah was taken into captivity for 70 years by the Babylonian Empire then becoming the Persian Empire. But 160 years prior to that, the ten tribes of the northern kingdom were basically wiped out. The Assyrians came in and they basically mixed in with these people. There was no captivity. It was just like, you're Assyrian now. And now these Samaritans are this mixed people. And the Jews are, well, I mean, it's basically modern day racism, if you want to think about it that way. The Jews just didn't want to have anything to do with these Samaritans because they were of mixed people with the Gentiles basically, all right? So they weren't considered to be Israelites or Jews anymore after this Assyrian thing happened. They're called Samaritans, okay? And there's a real divide here and you can see that with what this woman says to Jesus. So that being said, Jesus on his way to Galilee, he's got to go through Samaria, all right? Look at verse number five. One cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sikar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being worried with his journey, sat thus on the well and it was about the sixth hour. So whenever you see this hours type thing, you just add from 6 a.m. So it's about noon here, okay? Verse number seven. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Now he's in Samaria and a Samaritan woman comes to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink, for his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat, again, not buy beef, to buy food, okay, to buy, you know, things to eat. Then saith the woman to Samaria under him, How is it that thou being a Jew asketh drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.   And so she's surprised that Jesus, you know, was even speaking to her. Okay, look at verse number 10. Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From which hast thou that living water? Still again, Jesus is using here, he is using the same, you know, he's using the same picture of the bread of life here. He's using that same thing as we need to drink water, and we, you can't just drink water, you know, once in your life.  Jesus is saying, hey, you're going to get, drink this water, you'll never have to drink again. He's, he's referring to salvation of him being the Messiah. Look at verse number 12, art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well and drank there of himself, and his children his cattle.  Verse 13, Jesus answered and said to her, whosoever drink of this water shall thirst again. Talking about the water of the well, but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. The exact same picture here of the bread of life. Look at verse number 15. The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw, still applying it to actual water.  The woman answered and said, I have no husband, and Jesus saith unto her, thou hast well said, I have no husband, for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou hast is not thy husband, and thou say it's in that sets thou truly.  You're in fornication. So basically, what does Jesus do here? Jesus, number one, he's showing her a miracle here. That's the first thing he's doing. He's showing her a miracle so she understands. And if you look down, actually if you look down, the miracle works. Because if you look down to verse number 39 of chapter 4, the Bible says, when this woman goes and she says, here's a man, he came and he told me, he told me everything about my life. In verse 39, some people actually believed just because of this fact. They believed on Jesus. Look at verse 39. And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him. What does that mean? It means they trusted him. They believed he was the Messiah. See, these people were Samaritans, but they were waiting for a Messiah. They were waiting for the Messiah, just like the Jews were. And here, this is a super important story in the Bible. Because this is the first time that the gospel goes to the Gentiles right here. This is the first time that we see that in the Bible. So many of the Samaritans believed on this miracle that Jesus did. But you know what else Jesus was doing? You know what else Jesus was doing with this lady? He was doing the exact same thing that we do when we go out soul-winning. You know what he did? He's saying, for all have sinned. This is what Jesus is telling this woman. Go back to John chapter 3 in verse number 17.  Jesus doesn't care about fornication. It doesn't matter. Jesus didn't care about any of this stuff. He didn't judge. No, Jesus is just saying he is pointing out her sin. Why? Because Jesus is there to save. He is there to save the world. That's Jesus' purpose, is to come to save the world. Look at verse number 17 of John chapter 3. Right after the most famous verse in the Bible, the Bible says, for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. So Jesus wasn't there to pass the law onto this lady, but he does tell her about her sin to show her her need for salvation. Because nobody can get saved unless they understand that they are a sinner in need of salvation.  That's what we start out with that point. When we go out soul-winning, just like Jesus did, here. It's not that Jesus doesn't care about sin. He literally points out her sin to her. But what he's doing is trying to point out that he is the Messiah that she needs because of her sin. Go back to John chapter 4. John chapter 4.   I mean, you'd be like, whoa. I mean, you'd be like, that's a miracle. The woman said unto him, sir, I perceive that thou are a prophet.  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. So this lady right away, it's so interesting here, but she points out that she's like, OK, you're clearly a prophet, but she's saying that the difference between the Jews and the Samaritans is that in Samaria, she's talking about Mount Gerasim here. If you remember Mount Gerasim and Mount Ebal from Deuteronomy chapter 27, where Moses stands in the valley and there's blessings on Mount Gerasim and curses on Mount Ebal, these are the two mountains. One was in Judah and one was in Samaria. Moses stood in the middle. Well, the Samaritans, their holy place, became this Mount Gerasim, the mountain that this woman is talking about. She's saying, we worship in this mountain because why that? Because that's a place that they had that was within their borders that had spiritual significance to them. In Judah, of course, where do they worship in Judah? They worshiped in Jerusalem in the temple. So she's saying, look, you say that we should worship in Jerusalem, and we say that we should worship in the mountain. And she's literally comparing that to whether which one is right with God or not on where they actually worship. Yet she's looking for the Messiah just like the Jews were looking for a Messiah. But she's obsessed with the place. Isn't that interesting? That even at this time, men were fighting over where the right place to worship is? You say, when did this start? Well, I mean, here we are. In Jesus' time, it's already starting now. Well, I mean, how's Jesus going to get around this? What's he going to say to this lady who's obsessed with, oh, in order to worship God correctly, we must be in this mountain. And you say we must be in Jerusalem. This is like a divide that we can't solve. What are we going to do? Look at verse number 21. Jesus, I bet you we could solve the Middle East crisis tonight through the words of Jesus. Let's try it. Look at verse number 21. Jesus said unto her, woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. Jesus literally says to her, he doesn't say, no, you're wrong, Samaritan, I am the Christ, you should be at Jerusalem. You know what he says? He says the time will come. He's like the hour cometh, when it doesn't matter whether you worship in this mountain or at Jerusalem. You'll worship neither in this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem. Look at verse 22. Ye worship ye know not what. We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. So first of all, in verse number 21, before I cut that one up, in verse number 21, you know what Jesus is basically saying to her, the place is not important. That's what he's saying. Let's go to verse number 22. And then we're gonna look back at that in just a few minutes. But look at verse number 22, it says, ye worship ye know not what. We know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews.  He is talking about where salvation comes from. Where does salvation come from? What is the only way to salvation? It is through Jesus Christ. That's the only way. Jesus Christ came from the line of Judah, from the tribe of Judah, from the line of David. Turn to 2 Samuel chapter seven. He is simply talking about the messianic promise given to King David right here. That's all he is talking about. Look at verse number 16 of 2 Samuel chapter seven. Let's look at what Jesus meant by salvation is of the Jews. It says in verse 16, and thine house and thy kingdom. So what happened up to this point? I don't wanna read the whole chapter, of 2 Samuel chapter seven, but David wanted to build the house of God. David wanted to build the temple, and of course the temple isn't built yet. It's still a tabernacle. David feels bad that there's not a temple. He wants to build the temple. So he starts putting the materials together and getting everything ready to go to build the temple. God sends Nathan the prophet to David, and he says that because of the blood that you shed, your son is gonna build the temple. Your son is gonna build the temple. I'm gonna have mercy on him. He's gonna be a great king. He's gonna build this temple. But then in verse number 16, it's kind of, I mean, you hate to say it's not a consolation prize, but God makes this great promise to David in verse number 16. It says thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee. Thy throne shall be established forever. According to all these words, according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David. This is the messianic prophecy that God gives to David. God literally says to David, the Messiah is going to come from you. The only way, turn to Luke chapter one. The only way for David's kingdom to be established forever into eternity is if the Christ, the Messiah, comes in that line somewhere. Look at Luke chapter one and look at verse 31. Luke chapter one, look at verse number 31. So David was of the tribe of Judah. You know, he was a Jew, if you wanna call it that. And Jesus literally says salvation is of the Jews because that's exactly where Jesus came from, from that tribe. Not in the sense that it's important that he's of some genealogy except for the fact that God made this promise. That's the only reason it's important. It's because God promised David that the Messiah would come from his line of kings that come after him or it calls it before him. Look at verse number 31 of Luke chapter one. And behold, this is the angel talking to Mary.  And he shall be great and he shall be called the Son of the highest. The Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father, David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever in his kingdom there shall be no end. That is how, I mean, God kind of goes up to David who wants to build the temple. And he's like, look, you're not gonna build the temple. Your son's gonna do that. But here's this thing that's much greater. He gives to David. He's like, because you were a man after my own heart. This is why I believe, of course, that God blessed David so greatly with this great blessing upon the next future generations of his family. I mean, God blessed, I mean, that's a sermon I've preached before, but God blessed generation after generation after generation after generation of people messing up in David's family for David's sake. Because God stopped the Lord so hard with his heart. Look, that is such a motivation for us as Christians that we should be seeking the Lord daily. We should be churning our heart towards the Lord. There's something spiritual in our lives that we don't like or we're pushing up against God for something in our lives. We really need to think about that because there is huge blessings that we are leaving on the table. You just look at what God did for thousands of years after David, because of David, for David's sake. Kings that were eight generations down the line, God granted them mercy for David's sake. It was such a great blessing. And this defect that Jesus Christ came from David's family. So salvation is of the Jews means that God was simply fulfilling his promise to David. That's it. Look at John chapter four in verse number 13. So again, literally the Samaritan woman at the well is the first real proof that salvation is available to the Gentiles too. Salvation is out there for people that are not Jews. And it's such a great proof because not only was she not a Jew, these were people that the Jews despised. The Jews couldn't stand these people. They wouldn't even talk to these people. Look at verse number 23. And in the next breath, Jesus says this. Now remember back in verse number 21, in verse number 21, where Jesus saying to her, woman, believe me, the hour cometh. So Jesus says in verse number 21, the hour's coming. He's saying the time is coming when the place doesn't matter where you worship. Jesus says the time is coming. But look at, I mean, the time wasn't that long. Look at verse 23. He says, but the hour cometh and now is. He's like, oh, by the way, it's now. It's right now. When the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth. For the Father seeketh such to worship him. So look at those two words there, spirit and in truth. Look at verse number 24. God is a spirit. And they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. This is what I wanna focus on tonight, right here. This is as far as we're gonna get in John chapter four. I wanna look at what Jesus meant by these words that he repeats whenever things are repeated in the Bible, we should pay extra attention. Jesus says the place doesn't matter because the time cometh, by the way, that time is now when people are gonna worship me in spirit and in truth. He says, God is a spirit.  So maybe we can just solve the Middle East crisis right here tonight through the words of Jesus. So first of all, let's look at what the first part of this is. We're gonna look at spirit and truth tonight. What was Jesus talking about? He's saying men were gonna worship in spirit. What Jesus was saying is they're gonna worship Jesus in spirit versus in a place.  Look, he's saying the place is not important. Jerusalem, I mean just Jerusalem, the city that this lady brings up, there has been wars over Jerusalem for millennia. I mean from the time of Jesus himself to, I mean up to there's been, I mean just think of the great war with the Romans against the Jews in, you know, 67 to 73 or whatever they call it, the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. There's a great war then. Then these great wars with the Muslims started about 600 AD where the Muslims came in and you know, they just had this empire. Then the Crusades, remember the Crusades, everyone blames that one on the Christians. But what'd you have there?  Why? So they could be in Jerusalem. So they could be, they could take over the holy land in Jerusalem. See all these Crusades of these big battles. I mean that went on for like 300 years. The Crusades. Where the Catholics were coming in and trying to push out the Muslims that had come in hundreds of years earlier and just battling over what? Over the holy land, over this place. Why didn't they just read the Bible? Why didn't they just, I mean, I mean, it's not, I mean we're talking about like words of Jesus. We have a red letter Bible. These are red words. Jesus saying, no, I mean the Samaritan woman literally said, oh, you know, you should be in, you know, you say we should be in Jerusalem. Jesus didn't say, you would think that all the wars will be caused if Jesus said, yeah, you should be in Jerusalem. But Jesus is saying, no, you need to worship in spirit. You need to worship in spirit. He's saying, the place doesn't matter.  And now the stuff that, you say, oh, the man this is crazy, this stuff's going on today. This stuff's the thing going on today has been going on for over 100 years. The same two groups fighting over what? Jerusalem, the Holy Land, over 100 years. You say, didn't it start in 1948? No, it started after World War I. It started after World War I. And there's just been battle after battle after battle after battle over these true groups, the Muslims and the Jews. Then in 1948, the UN says, hey, you know, by the way, a lot of people don't realize, and I'm not gonna try to get too political tonight, but a lot of people don't realize in 1948, there were supposed to be two states. There's supposed to be a Palestinian state and Israeli state. Just kind of forgot about the Palestinian one. And so the Jews were pretty much, if you remember a man named David Ben-Gurion, he's literally on record saying that back in the, I don't know if it was the 20s or the 30s, basically saying, yeah, we know there's gonna be a Palestinian state, but that's just something that we're just gonna take over anyway. So they weren't gonna take that seriously, even if it did come into play. I mean, he was the first prime minister of Israel, and this is what he was saying. So look, this has been going on for over a hundred years. He says, this is crazy what's going on now.  It's a terrible thing. It's a terrible thing for innocent people to be being killed on both sides of the thing, folks. But the point is, this is not something that is new. I mean, look, Bible, it's interesting. You won't find Bible-believing Christians fighting over any holy ground. Why? Because I believe what Jesus said, that's why. Because I worship the Lord. I worship the Father in spirit. These holy grounds, these sites, these historical things, you know what they are? They're stationary relics. That's what they are. I have no desire to visit this hellscape that is the Middle East. None.  It's not gonna do anything for your faith. I've had a King James Bible right in front of me. Man, man, right. I've got the words of Jesus right in front of me. You know what? More Christians should open up the Word of God and then maybe they would feel the same way. Maybe they would get some clarity on what's actually happening in this world. These places mean nothing, words of Jesus. Man. So what does it matter to us? Turn to Hebrews chapter 10, verse number 25. Places mean nothing. We don't need to go to church. We can have house church. I can just get myself together and my kids in the living room and we can have house church that way, except the Bible tells you to go to church. Man. We hate to ruin Christians' lives with the Bible, but more people need to open it. Look at Hebrews chapter 10 and verse number 25. The Bible says, look at verse 24. It says, let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works. Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. So if you just attach that to verse number 24, you know what that shows? Yeah, you are commanded to go to church. You are commanded to go to a, what is a church? It is a local assembly of believers. You're commanded to go to church, but you know what? You coming to church is you considering your brothers and sisters in Christ. Why? As the manner of some is, this is the house church I don't need to go to. This is every person in America right here. As the manner of every person in America, including saved Christians. As the manner of some is, but exhorting one another. This is saying that together going to church, having a local assembly, there is no universal church. It's a lie. I was taught the lie for over 30 years of my life of the universal church. Jesus loves the church. The holy universal, holy Catholic church, Catholic means universal, that's all that means. There is no universal church. Every single time you see the word church in the Bible, it's talking about a local assembly. Why in the world wouldn't Jesus have said in Revelation chapter two, Revelation chapter three, here's what I have to say to the church. No, he says, here's what you say to the church at Ephesus. Here's what you say to the church at Laodicea. Here's what you say to this church, and that church, and this church. Local churches. He's talking about local assemblies of believers.  A church, in Revelation chapter two, Revelation chapter three, Jesus literally says, what churches will have candlesticks will actually, which what that means is which churches will actually be churches and which will not be churches. That's why those chapters are in the Bible for us. You're like, why would Jesus put that in the Bible where he's just chewing out these churches? Because he wants us to be able to look at that advice, look at that direction that he's giving those churches so we can look at it and say, oh man, not going to that church, because that was not even a church anymore. When Jesus says you better get right, better not be lukewarm, better be doing the first works, or I will come quickly and remove that candlestick. Remove the candlestick means you won't be a church. A church, not part of the church, is like I will take the candlestick away. And it goes into all these things in Revelation chapter two, Revelation chapter three. That's so we can look at churches today and realize which churches are churches. It's important, but that's where we should be. And look, there's churches in all kinds of places. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what city it's in, what hill it's on. What matters is what it's doing and what it's not doing. What it's preaching, what it's not preaching. That's what matters. Is it doing what Jesus says that it should do? Is the man of God standing up and preaching the word of God? That's what matters. That's a church and that's where Christians need to be. It doesn't matter what valley or hill it's on. Nothing to do with it. It doesn't matter how nice the building is. It doesn't matter what color the carpet is.  That means nothing. We have gold plated anything. You know, we don't have, never gonna happen. But I mean, the place doesn't matter. You just need to be in a real church. What's the second thing? What's the second thing Jesus talks about? So, most importantly, you need to be in spirit. Not the place. Not the place. But the most important thing is the truth. Turn to Acts chapter 20. Turn to Acts chapter 20. So, a church that has and says the truth. Look at Acts chapter 20 in verse number 27. This is just such a great example that Paul gives us towards the end of his ministry before he heads over to Rome. He says, as he leaves these people, he's gone on these missionary journeys to all these Gentile churches in Macedonia, in Ephesus, in, you know, all over Thessalonica. He's just gone all over. He's gone three times to all these islands. He's been shipwrecked multiple times. And you know what he says before he heads off to Rome? He says, in verse number 27, he says, I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. You know what he says? He's like, you know what? I told you the whole truth. He's like, I know I'm not gonna see you again, but my conscience is clear. I've told you the whole truth. So look, in truth means, yes, that we're preaching the correct gospel, number one. That we're preaching Jesus. We're preaching the right Jesus. We're preaching the correct gospel. We're preaching that, you know, it is by faith, by grace through faith, not of works. We are not preaching this workspace salvation that is 99% of churches out there today. We are preaching the correct gospel. And not only that, just as Paul said, we are preaching here the whole counsel of God, the whole thing. Because even churches, you even find a rare Christian church today that's got the gospel correct, they definitely don't have the second one correct. There's so many things that they're not saying. They're not gonna preach against the homos. They're not gonna preach against the culture of the day. They're not gonna preach against, you know, all the wicked stuff that's going on in our country today because they're afraid, they're afraid of their own people, they're afraid of the country, they're afraid of everything. Even if they do have the correct gospel. So look, you need to find the truth. It's not the place, you need to find a church wherever that place is that has the right spirit that's following the word of God and is preaching the whole word of God. That's what Jesus is telling the Samaritan woman here. Now here's the irony. Look, and here's another thing. Yeah, it's hard to come by a church like ours today. That's just preaching everything in the Bible.  It's not really hard for me to preach against the world. Like that's not really an issue for me. But you know, I mean, you get into some places in the Bible, especially when we're doing chapter by chapter, you know, studies and things and you get to some stuff and you're like, oh man, I can't believe I'm gonna get up and preach this to the people but you know what? It's in there, so I have to. It's like, you just, you can't hold back because that's what people do. That's what pastors today, too, do. But you know what? It's interesting because as we will have the truth in our lives, look, the truth is hard to come by today. Just in general. The truth is very hard to come by today. But you know what? The Bible truth isn't. The Bible's truth is here. And what I wanna show you tonight and I'm hoping I'm already showing you this but if you know the Bible, if you know the truths of what Jesus said that's important and what is not important, so many other truths will be opened up to you. You will understand so much better of things that are happening in the world. If you're looking for the truth by watching news, you're in trouble. I don't care what news you're watching because no matter what happens, what event that happens, who blew up what or who was involved in what or whatever, look, you can find totally opposite parts of that narrative everywhere you go. And it's more likely that the majority of the answers that you're gonna see today are actually wrong. That's the environment that we're in, in this country, in this culture. Unfortunately. So look, we should be very thankful that we're in a church that you're encouraged to read the Bible, that you're encouraged to listen to Bible preaching, you're encouraged to study the Bible for yourselves, you're supposed to turn to these verses and look, you're supposed to take notes, you're supposed to read these chapters before we study these things, you're supposed to read the Bible every single day on your own.  And if you actually then apply that anyway and just do what the Bible, do what the truth of the Bible tells you to do, your life is going to change drastically. Because you have access to the truth in a world where the truth is scarce, my friends. I mean, the truth is scarce today. So be thankful, be thankful that you get so much truth even though it hurts sometimes. Even though maybe there's some days when you don't really wanna hear it. Be thankful that you have it because if you don't have it, you're lost. You're lost, not only would you be spiritually lost if you didn't have the truth of the gospel, if you didn't have the guiding truth of God's word, you'd be lost in your marriage, you'd be lost raising your kids, you'd be lost in your life. You'd be lost as a man, you'd be lost as a woman. You'd be lost as a kid. These kids out there, they have no chance in this environment. I feel so bad for these kids. My kids aren't in public school. My kids, you know, aren't out in the world. But you know what, we go out so many and we see kids. I mean, we met some really nice kids today and they wanna hear the gospel. And we also met a five-year-old who opened the door for us and his parents weren't home.  Kids stand in the door, they're open. No, they're not home. I feel bad for these kids today. What chance do they have? What chance do they have without the Bible? What chance do they have without parents that are gonna teach them the Bible? Look, we should always have that heart towards people that don't have the same opportunities that you have. That's why you have to be a soul winner.  We have to do it. Here's the irony, let me close on this. Here's the irony of the people fighting today in the Middle East. Here's the irony, according to what Jesus said that we should be worshiping in spirit and truth. The people fighting in the Middle East today have neither spirit nor truth. They have neither one. And yeah, here they are. I mean, one thing that God is clear about in the Bible is God does not care about these earthly things.  I'm gonna read for you Titus chapter three in verse number nine. The Bible says, but avoid foolish questions. You're going to 1 Timothy chapter one, you're gonna look at verse number four. God does not care about these earthly things. We already talked about relics and idols. These are just stationary, bigger, larger, more acreage idols.  People are getting killed all the time for them. It's ridiculous. They don't have, look, it's not in spirit or truth. That's the bad part of it. Neither side's correct when it comes to worshiping God the way he wants to be worshiped or who he is. Look at Titus chapter three in verse number nine. The Bible says, no, you're going to 1 Timothy four. Titus three nine says, but avoid foolish questions and what, and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are what? Unprofitable and vain.  It's literally based on like nothing but genealogies. I mean, how are people okay with that? What does the Bible say? It says that's unprofitable and vain. I mean, this woke culture is okay.  It's like, what in the world? You know, it's weird. Look at 1 Timothy chapter one in verse number four. It says, neither get heat to fables and endless genealogies. Which what? What did genealogies solve? Look, folks, genealogies do nothing. Genealogies do nothing. The only purpose of genealogies in the Bible was back in the Old Testament it was to divide up the land. That's over. That's all done. The land was like a covenant which is a deal. If you do this, you can keep the land. If you don't do this, you can't keep the land. That's another story in itself. That deal was over thousands of years ago, folks. When they got carried away into Assyria and the Babylonian captivity and then the Romans. I mean, it's like, hello? God told them that you wouldn't be in the land if you didn't obey me. The Christ came and they killed him. That's like the opposite of obeying God. So the only point of genealogies was dividing the land and fulfilling David's messianic prophecy that God gave him. That's it. And then God knew that we would be obsessed or man would be obsessed with genealogies as the Pharisees even of Jesus' time were. And so he literally says in the Bible multiple times, forget about genealogies. It means nothing. Genealogies mean nothing. It's just to show you the line of Christ, folks, that God fulfilled his prophecy. Turn to Romans chapter nine. Let me give you some real irony tonight. Look at Romans chapter nine. Romans chapter nine, look at verse number one. Romans chapter nine, look at verse number one. The Bible says this. It says, and I say truth in Christ, I lie not. My conscience also bearing the witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh. This is Paul. Paul? Paul was a Jew. He was of the tribe of Benjamin. So Paul was, you know, an Israelite. And he's saying, it burdens him. Look, this is a great soul winner example right here too. It burdens him that more of his kinsmen did not accept Christ.  I wish, he's like, I would give up my own salvation for theirs. Look, obviously you can't do that. But he's just giving such an, he's giving this extreme example of how he just would give anything for them to be saved. And then he says kinsmen according to the flesh. Make sure, you know, he realized he puts that in there. Who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and of the service of God and of the promises, talking about the flesh there. Is kinsmen according to the flesh? Who's are the fathers of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came? Again, there's the Davidic messianic prophecy right there. Saying that concerning the flesh Christ came. That means it came in the line of David. In the line of the tribe of Judah that David was from. Overall, God bless forever, amen. Look at verse number six though. Not as though the word of God had taken none effect for they are not all Israel which are of, which are of Israel. You're like, what does he mean by that? Then verse number seven he says, because they are the seed of Abraham, neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children. So he's saying that just because they're of the seed of Abraham, they're not all children of Abraham. You're like, what? Like, what's he talking about? But in Isaac, shall thy seed be called? So he's kind of using the example of how like, even at Abraham it's split into Ishmael and Isaac, but then he explains it even further in a spiritual sense in verse number eight. He says, that is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God. Hello, how do Christians miss that? Man. He's saying, you know what he's saying there? Genealogy means nothing. That's right. Nothing. Who you're related to means nothing. But what does mean something, Paul? Well, let's keep reading. But the children of the promise are counted for the seed. Turn to Galatians chapter three. You're like, who are their children of the promise? So the seed of Abraham is not of the flesh. It's the children of the promise, whatever that means. Turn to Galatians chapter three. Let's see if we can decode this incredibly complicated doctrine in the Bible. Look at verse number 24 of Galatians chapter three. Galatians chapter three, verse 27. The Bible says, for as many of you, we're looking for who the children of the promise are here. For as many of you have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. We're talking about people who have clearly been saved through Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. What's he saying? Genealogies mean nothing. There's neither bond nor free. Neither is there male nor female. For you're all one in Christ Jesus. He's not saying that there's not people that come from Jews, people that are Greeks, people that, you know, there's people. No, it's neither male nor female. He's saying those things don't matter. He's saying those things don't matter. For we are all, those things don't matter in what sense, Paul. He's saying, for we are all one in Christ Jesus. And if he be Christ, then ye are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the what, the promise.  Give you some irony tonight is this. We are Israel. The only ones who are actually Israel, the children of God, the children of the promise, the children of the heir, the children of Christ, are the only ones that are not fighting over Israel. Define irony. You say why? Because we worship in spirit and truth. That's why. Not some temple in some specific place. Spirit and truth. As a matter of fact, our place must needs be all the world. Why? Because all the world doesn't have the truth. And it was designed that the children, the heirs of that promise would be the ones that would take forth that promise, that spirit, that truth to the world. How can you do that when we're gonna sit and fight over some birthplace of Jesus' cousin or something? How can you do that? How can you do that?  How can you do that? No, it's because we're not supposed to do that. It's like we are Israel. We shouldn't care about the places. And we are the ones that are supposed to take the truth to the world. That's it. That's why the place doesn't matter. The place can't matter. It's just an idol. The place. So I pray for all the people that are suffering, all the people that are getting killed over this, they're getting killed over something that doesn't matter. And you know, once you get past the religious part of it, I'm not saying that there's not real grievances there. I'm not getting into that in this sermon, but the point is this has nothing to do with Jesus Christ because none of those people on either side have the truth. And they all need the truth.  And that's through Jesus Christ. Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer.


I think today went really well. We've been working really hard on everything that we've been doing. The last week of practices, I'm not going to lie, they've been really rough. We've had to change a lot of things. We've had to take down a lot of things. But the main priority in all of this is keeping them safe and keeping them happy. So we're excited that we're able to go out and perform everything that we did today so that we can continue to build on the skills and the scores that we got today to keep scoring better and scoring higher and doing better every meet from here on out. Something that I feel like they struggle with a lot and I have no idea why is them being confident in their skills and confident in themselves. So I really wanted to use today as almost like proving a point that they are some of the strongest individuals I've ever met in my entire life. They are some of the most athletic athletes I've ever coached and I really just want them to know how good they are and know that they are prepared for anything I'm asking of them and anything that they want to do, they can do. So from here on out it's just to keep them calm, keep them confident and keep enjoying what we're doing and like I said getting better every meet scoring higher every meet and improving week by week. I don't know if people realize how hard that is and not physically. Physically they can go through it probably three times in a row but mentally and making sure that you're staying calm and you're remembering all of your technique and you're remembering the counts and you're remembering what skill you're doing, it's 99% mental to do the team routine like that and I've told them that all week you are 1,000% physically capable of doing everything in this and more but the mental part is something that is hard and that takes time and that takes practice so I think the more that we do that and the more that we compete it going back to what I said earlier we'll be able to add on things every week and get better every week especially in that team routine. That will hopefully go up at least 10 points by the end of the year just in start value based on the more that they do it and the more comfortable they are with it. Thank you for everybody that came, it was a really good crowd. My girls were really excited to come out and see everybody here all their friends and family and students so thank you for everybody for putting on a really good meet for us.


What's up everybody, JZ here for jazbeasecasebreaks.com We just sold out 2023 Panini Magali baseball first off the line edition guys One box break, random division number three guys and again six total spots Everybody gets a random division in the MLB and here we go guys so again We'll click the dice roll and it is a six and a one seven times We got one two three four five six and seven Six and a one seven times seven times Dennis down to Garrett And then of course seven times on the division Al central Al East West and then same thing with the NO And it was a seven one two three four five six seven Seven times seven seven seven AL West down to the NL central Let's see how you guys matched up So Dennis you have the AL West Garrett with the AL East Chad with the NL West Dennis with the NO East Jeremy Perot with the AL central and then Garrett with the NL central If you guys want to trade you guys a quick trade window if you guys want I'll probably also go print out this sheet really quick too Actually I can't print it out here. Let me go grab it really quick guys Hey, what's up chat dude, I forgot to hit you up man. I was fucking I was in your hood I don't know if you were in Oregon, but I want to go visit my cousin in Portland He was in a Hillsborough I Also to in the meantime, I could probably post up another one of these again guys we have six boxes here So we'll choose a box right here One two three four five six, we'll do a little dice roll One go to the top box here They get his first vote Again is first off the line Don hook Five out of nine and Brooklyn Dodgers going to the NL West trying to trade couldn't trade Mojo Chad It's about to give away this old-school relic right here Brooklyn Dodger All right, we got Nick Gonzalez for Pittsburgh daddy's 33 at a 99 patch autograph for the pirates Let me actually pull the MLB Divisors because sometimes I get a little lost Divisions I want to say pirates are with the Cardinals in them, right? So Yes NL central NL central that is going to Garrett and Can Griffey junior relic 14 out of 25 to the Seattle Mariners a L West what? Yeah, were they good nebulas? One case we had like over 10 black goals three nebulas and three I've been getting a lot I only did 10 bucks so far. I got like four black goals already. Yeah, but yeah, they they're pretty the other No, they're pretty gracious with it though Prospect patch autographs pink Going Robert Hassel Let me See what that's out of here Robert Hassel. That's Washington Nationals and It is going to be a Pink out of eight pink There you go, and then Washington Nationals of course part of the NL East Which is going to Dennis our next one? Ricky Titan for Toronto Nice patch autograph there that is for the Blue jays and AL East and last one here is going to be nice out for lick 23 out of 49 patch autograph for the Milwaukee Brewers the brew crew Which of course is going to the NL central and NL central is Garrett And just like that guys there you go So very nice box there and then we have another five boxes we can do so I'll post up another one right now You guys want to run one back later tonight at some point Jaspies case breaks.com guys. Thank you


what's going on guys it's your boy dpj here today with another Destiny video and today we're going to recap on some of the new info which came out of podcasts from Game Informer where Ben Hansen and Matt Miller of Game Informer interviewed Rise of Iron's director Chris Barrett and exclusive producer Scott Taylor the podcast was actually pretty good and you will find it linked in the video description if you do you want to check the whole thing out it was just under an hour so let's just get straight into the info and what we learned from this podcast well first off three of coins will go unchanged many people thought they would receive a nerf of some kind while a certain few although it was confirmed ages back that they weren't going anywhere a certain few people did think they will be removed I actually think they're a good thing because they help a lot of people who can't do on the game for 15 hours a day for them exotics so to me it's a good thing that they're staying and they're going unchanged now if you are a grimoire or I kind of am I just need to remain in PvP wins private matches will progress your weapon grimoire and daily banties quests and weaknesses though cannot be completed through private matches now for me daily banties are used for leveling up gear and getting that rep doing them in private matches does mean people can basically boost to get them done does this really affect anything well it does and it don't it's basically free rep and free XP what do you think about this let me know down below in that comment section now moving on faction packages will give you a choice between weapons and armor this is great for people like me who have all the gear one could possibly need and need weapons I actually love this idea although weapons will still drop random at least you'll be getting a weapon when you rank up that faction if that's what you want moving on now sir will sell ornaments but like most of his gear it will rotate each week ornaments through there though will sell for silver dust silver dust comes from radiant treasures basically how chroma gear now if dismantled gives you chroma I think this will be the same for ornaments from them radiant treasure packages I'm guessing if you dismantle an ornament of some kind you'll get silver dust which can be used to purchase ornaments from sir you can also use silver dust with eververse then the gear is being raised but there was no word on specific numbers gunsmith gear has been raised in level as well but there was no word on any new gear available from the gunsmith I think it's just gonna be the same old same odd but just a razor like level trials of a size gear currently available will not drop post rise of iron so if there's a certain game you want or need now is the time to get grinding well actually the weekend to reset day old raids such just a vault of glass and Protoss end will not be upgraded for rise of iron but they did say it's something they do talk about and could happen within 2017 this in my opinion is such a long awaited I mean I can't imagine a day where water glass will be relevant again that will be absolutely epic moving on and there is a new secret within foul winters peak that has not been announced quite yet but the secret could be a million different things does it reward you in any way who knows I'm guessing that's got something to do with the bowels because I did see something on a stream quite a while back about ringing bells in a certain order will do something specific so whether or not it would choose somehow who knows there's no mention whether or not hoarding exotic engrams would be creeped into your three exotics so hold on to them if you've got them and your 335 as you've got nothing to lose there will be new achievements and trophies for us to seek out as well as new grimoire cards the mighty phone will go unchanged from what it is now so the year three phone will basically be identical to the phone in its current state when used in normal PVP there will be new strike specific loot which I cannot wait to find out what they are because the more PVP content we get and to work towards is better in my opinion the exotic kiosks will feature spaces for all new exotics both armor and weapons and finally the rise of iron will be released to AM Pacific time so that's around 10 a.m. UK time which is great for me and people like me but for people who work and study may have to phone in sick that day remember it's Tuesday the 20th of September so book that day off right now for me this shit just needs to hurry the fuck up and drop I mean I'm desperate for new PvE content I really am but I'm quite looking forward to the changes within PvP as well and after playing a new game or supremacy I can say I'm looking forward to that as well but guys I hope you enjoyed the new info if you did do drop a like I'd appreciate the support and I'll catch you guys on that next one


So the first step in finding the density of an irregular object is to weigh that irregular object So here is our irregular object. As you can see it is quite irregular It's actually the spigot from one of the lab sinks. So it would be hard to measure specifically the volume of this thing and then Subsequently the density so we're going to figure out how to do that in a couple of steps So first thing you want to do Let's put a weight boat on your balance Tear your balance or zero it out And then weigh your irregular object. So you can see the irregular object weighs 41.80 grams. So we're going to use that mass measurement to eventually figure out the density now we're going to Figure out what the volume of this regular object is


John Carlo how difficult is it in that situation with the game on the line to not expand the zone and wait for a pitch that you can hit Yeah, I did expand on one pitch. Well, you know, you get you get three in that situation So it's really it's really about being calm and knowing he has to come to me And get a good pitch to hit. Do you like coming up in those situations with the game on the line? Oh, yeah Oh, yeah, that's it. That's everything you work for that's uh, that's the highest competition in the world and in the biggest moment So, uh, you know, it's always good to have a challenge like that Glaver hit his first home run of the season Was it nice to see him get his power stroke back a little bit and how much do you think that was weighing on him? Oh, yeah, oh, yeah, two huge hits yesterday for us by Glaver and then You know things like that happen today. He's got his first homer and it's gonna continue to go up from here Overall, how do you evaluate this home stand and is there a different feel in that clubhouse right now? These are two huge wins Especially with the long day yesterday and in the getaway day today into into an off day So and a series win as well. So


The pitching options for today in Daily Fantasy Baseball are better in the sense that there are more guys You know are like legitimate big leaguers guys You'd want to use on a typical slate for DFS The problem is that those quote-unquote legitimate options are all guys who have some sort of big red flag And it's a wide range of red flags to whether it be pitch counts Effectiveness arm fatigue like we got a long list of things that are ailing these guys prevent them from being one clear Cut-top option for today in DFS So our job today is to navigate those red flags navigate those downsides and decide which guys are best option for DFS And how can we pivot and take advantage of what could be a pretty volatile slate welcome on into the solo shop That's right here on the fan dual podcast network and number fire comm my name is Jim Sonnis I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire comm here to break down a Tuesdays at nine a game the main slate with Vox ever 705 for two night over on a fan dual calm There is some weather to note for today over in Anaheim for the Marlins and angels winds are out to right at 16 miles per hour It's close to being a crosswind. So Check back on that later on but I would be fine giving bats a slight bump tonight worth noting though again Temperature around 74 in Anaheim not as hot as it was last week There is a decent chance of rain in Minneapolis for the twins and Dodgers Winds are in from right at 12 miles per hour and the temperature is 52 degrees The wind might be blocked by the big parking garage out there, but there's also like this big mezzanine out there So I wouldn't be shocked if it actually does play a role I downgrade bats in Minneapolis if that game plays mostly due to the temperature more so than the wind in Arizona First pitch temperature is just 71 degrees for the Diamondbacks and Astros So it's not a downgrade relative to all parks because it's about the same as them But it is a downgrade from typical Arizona where it's not as much an advantage as it usually would be Finally, it is just 48 degrees in San Francisco for the Giants and Padres So downgrade hitters there as well We'll break down the pitching options for today in just one segment first a quick reminder to make sure you are subscribed to the Number of Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed wherever you get your podcasts run up a podcast Spotify Stitcher Google podcasts You name it you can find us there while you're there leave us a rating and review as well our PGA podcast for today Leave it later than usual. We typically record 10 a.m. We're new 3 p.m. Eastern today live on the Fandall YouTube page If you're watching YouTube right now, you can see I'm in the Fandall office in New York So we're here for some meetings to Brandon and I in person for the podcast for today for the first time ever So it should be a lot of fun 3 p.m. Eastern on the Fandall YouTube page and up on the Number of Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed After that, hey sports fans There is no better time than today to sign up for Fandall fantasy for users who have yet to make a deposit on Fandall fantasy You can deposit today to receive two free entries All you have to do is deposit a minimum of $10 into your Fandall DFS account And you will instantly be rewarded with two free vouchers. This is a limited time offer So be sure to deposit now and play for free head over to Fandall.com or download the Fandall fantasy app today Eligibility restrictions apply go to Fandall.com or download the Fandall app for more details Pitching preview for this Tuesday main sleigh. You Darvish is the highest salary pitch on Fandall checking in at $9700 we got Dakota Hudson at $9,500 Luis Garcia is 86 Patrick Sandoval 84 and you say kikuchi is $8,000 rounding out the top group now the top option for me today is you Darvish I want to note though that this is a very risky move and for Darvish because everyone's risky The risk here is due to the matchup. He's facing the Giants and they are a very good offense. They have a 118 WRC plus versus righties since the start of the last year based on their current active roster They got a lot of power too. So I don't want to use pitchers facing them. It's a downside They will strike out though They have a 24% strikeout rate versus righties, which is the second highest mark on this slate And we know Darvish is stretched out because last week in his debut. He went 92 pitches Now he did get yanked with a no-hitter, which means that 92 was probably his like absolute limit I'm projecting Darvish for 95 for tonight. He wasn't overly sharp in that first game He walked four guys compared to just three strikeouts across six innings. So that could be a cause for concern So there are kind of like one and a half red flags with Darvish That's another reason why you could pivot off of him if you get the sense that Darvish will be prohibitively popular for tonight. I just think that he is the highest upside option of this group Which is always going to be my preference for DFS gunning for upside So I do see reasons to pivot and I will not talk you out of it But straight up just looking at things straight up you Darvish is the top option for today So he is number one, but you do have leeway to pivot There are some interesting pivot options available as well One of those could be Patrick Sandoval the problem is Sandoval is also risky just for different reasons I do still like him against the Marlins and the reason for concern with Sandoval is health Because he was originally scheduled to start last Friday and that got pushed back to today He said it was due to arm fatigue That's not what you want to hear ever Especially right at the start of the season Sandoval was stretched out back in the spring He went 77 pitches in his final spring outing. So I am still projecting him at 85 for right now I just think it's worth noting that there is cause for concern with the arm fatigue and it does Prevent me from you know going cuckoo for him on this slate The good thing is that the rest of the profile is very good for Sandoval He is facing the Marlins They are a high strikeout team against lefties with a 24% strikeout rate and just a 173 ISO Sandoval had a 27% strikeout rate over his final eight starts last year when he was throwing a slider more And he also did keep bad at balls and check So Sandoval is a very good pitcher and if not for the fatigue issues I would be in very much in and want to be high on him probably higher than Darvish for today But I just can't I got to proceed with some caution here because of the arm issues So Sandoval is still a good option one. I will turn to but just know as with Darvish There are some very real risks here Now with so much risk on this slate we can afford to take swipes on assumptions try to Take some swings on by low spots And I think there are a couple spots we're doing so we'll talk about one in things to watch My favorite guy for tonight doing this is Jesus Lizardo Lizardo is facing the Angels, which is not a bad matchup for a lefty just a 1 69 ISO against lefties The 22% strikeout rate is about average. So Those two aspects are acceptable and Lizardo Is kind of fun. He he did show promise last year after the trade He started to increase his curveball usage over his final nine starts last year It is classified as a slider on pitch info, but kind of looks more like a curveball So we'll go with that but across those nine starts with more breaking pitches. He had a 23% strikeout rate That gets your curiosity, but he threw that pitch a ton this spring He threw it 48% of the time in a start back on march 27th And he had good velocity and he got a good number of widths That gets your attention. He is $7100 and it's a slate fully devoid of safety So you might as well shoot for the fences and see what happens I think Lizardo counts for a quote-unquote shoot for the fences type of play I'll be happy to use him when lowering my exposure to Darvish and Sandoval. So to me I think that Lizardo Worth the swipe for today based on the promise he showed this spring based on his prospect pedigree And based on what he showed at the end of last year as well So pitching for today very tough lot of risk and you got to be okay with that But I do think there are some good options despite that so our stacking goes It's probably boring to say to stack the astros against Madison bumgarner, but Sometimes boring is boring for a reason and it's because it's right So the astros are the top stack of the day for me bumgarner Let up just one run in his first start this year and you know, that's fine But that's deceptive It was because he walked four batters in the third inning and then got yanked That was not a good showing and that came against the Padres which are a much worse offense than the astros Against lefties the astros a 190 iso against lefties plenty of fly balls minimal strikeouts That should give bumgarner some pretty big issues here His strikeout rate is down to 18 percent over his past nine starts with his curve usage down His slide ball rate allowed is 45 percent I don't think that specific formula low strikeout high fly ball rates will work against this offense So I will be heavy on the astros here if you go with someone like Lizardo You can afford to be a bit chalkier with his stack So I do think the astros work out pretty well here The good thing with the astros is that we can stack them without it being Fully boring they got a lot of young guys or at least fresh faces who are legit options for DFS The last time they faced a lefty they had both Jose Siri and Jeremy Pena in the top of the order Siri's not young, but he's fun because he's new He had a the first time they faced a lefty. I'd expect him down there probably again Pena his hit seventh and second I think they're both very fun. Siri is $2,000 Pena $2,300 I'm expecting probably a seven eight type spot in the batting order for those two but Keeps things fresh saves salary allows you to get to the studs in this team So the astros can still be fun despite the fact we've been stacking them for what feels like forever at this point Now back in opening day One of the teams I did not stack was the cardinals and that burned me because they were kind of like the key to that slate I'm not going to make that mistake again here on Tuesday. I think they're a pretty good option Against Daniel Lynch. The big thing is that Lynch is a lefty and the cardinals torch lefties They have a 127 WRC plus against lefties by their non pitchers since the start of last year and Lynch Really did struggle in his first season with the Royals. He can get whiffs. I know that for sure But he had just an 18 strikeout rate last year It did go up to 20 percent over his final 10 starts When he was throwing more sliders, but Even a 20 mark if we assume he sticks at that going forward is not great He had some rough batted ball data too with a 43 hard hit rate allowed and a 40 fly ball, right? And those are numbers we can stack against especially with a lineup this powerful like st. Louis's Weather's good in st. Louis 73 degrees for today So this is a stack that really checks all the boxes for me The fun thing is You really can't go wrong with whoever you use on this team because the cardinals right now have 13 non pitchers on their active roster Only five of those 13 have an ISO lower than 200 against lefties Since the start of last year the guys above that eight guys Paul Goldschmidt, Tyler O'Neill, Noah Naranado Albert Pouls. Yes Albert Pouls, Yadir Molina, Tommy Edmond, Harrison Bader and Lars Neutbar in a very small sample And when you've got eight legitimate options plus a couple others who are close and are still good options, too That's phenomenal. Uh, so the cardinals are high salaried. You're not Getting a discount here by any means, but if you use Lizardo, you've got the the coin to get there for sure So I think that they're very worth it and the cardinals and the Azzar make a very fun high upside top two stacks for today in DFS Our third stack is malleable depending on what happens Uh with the Orioles starter for today, so we'll check back on that and things to watch but for right now Let's go with uh the Rangers over in texas today You got the Rockies and Rangers and I think you can stack either side here with the Rockies facing martin pares Rangers getting Chad cool We're going to focus in the Rangers here, but the Rockies are in play as well against Paris Cool is back in the rotation after losing his spot last year He made 14 starts before he got that demotion and his skill interactive era was 5.10 strikeout rate of 20 percent with a 12 percent walk rate and You know, you can see why he lost the spot in the rotation He's getting another shot this year, but it's mostly because the team doesn't have a lot of great options We saw cool really struggled during the spring. So It's likely best for us to expect him to struggle once again if this were 2021 I might not care uh because the rangers offense was so bad But there are a lot better now with Corey seager marcus semian mitch garver all in town So they're not an elite offense, but they are Palatable they are competent and that is a big improvement from where they were last year So there's enough here where I am okay stacking them against cool in this spot Most of cool struggles last year came with lefties So that's where I would lean hardest with this rangers team obviously that puts you towards core seager But I also do like brad miller here miller's batting leadoff for the rangers typically He has a 250 iso against righties since the start of last year a lot of hard contact Plenty of fly balls. I remember last year the Phillies whenever he was in the lineup He was like an auto start versus a righties 2700 dollars So I would say seager and miller are you two building blocks for this team? In which should be a pretty fun spot as they face cool for a two day Let's finish up here with things to watch going back to one more picture I do want to eventually take some swipes at alex cob. He pitched. Well at the end of last year and apparently he was Hitting 97 on the gun this spring Just not sure if now is the time to do so just yet. I've got cob projected for 70 pitches Not convinced. He's stretched out just yet. So I do want to see what he's got I'm just not sure if I'll get there today Due to pitch count. So it's kind of like an evaluation start, you know You watch cob see what he does and decide going forward if he's someone you want to use for dfs I mentioned before the Orioles not sure who they will start for today There's a pretty good chance that we'll want to stack the brewers against them The two most likely options for the Orioles seem to be Spencer Watkins and alexander wells wells really struggled last year let up a lot of hard contact And the same thing with Watkins who actually had worse results than Watkins to go with it Or then well, so the brewers Pretty likely to wind up as one of the top three stacks. I just can't quite put them there right now not knowing whom they're going to face so Astros awesome cardinals awesome brewers likely awesome and then most likely the Rangers in that fourth spot one more team I'd consider For stacking or two more teams I'd consider would be the twins and Dodgers The problem is that weather is legitimately bad for hitting the twins face andra heaney the Dodgers face chris archer and both Those guys give up a ton of hard contact. So both offenses very good offenses, too We'd set to downgrade them due to the weather and when I've got great options like the astros cardinals and likely brewers It's hard for me to justify going with a team in less than ideal weather so I will be okay stacking them, but I want to make sure I am ranking them below The brewers below the astros and below the cardinals because those are more pristine situations Whereas this one is a very good matchup, but not the best weather Let's finish up here with some homerun calls for today The boring one will be Tyler O'Neill his numbers versus lefties are stupid. He's facing lynch Let's say a lot of fly balls and a lot of hard contact. I think you just don't overthink this one You lock him in go from there. So the boring homerun call will be Tyler O'Neill the fun one You could push back on this being fun because he hit fleet off of brad miller would be my fun one because You know, he's he's a lower salary guy $2,700 not a guy you think of as like the uh, The superstar within this rangers team right now So Tyler O'Neill and brad miller the official homerun calls for today. Hopefully I don't jinx as much as I jinxed Danny Jansen by Making him the homerun call yesterday before he was placed on the il That is all that we have here for today on the solo shot But as mentioned we had pga coming up later on today 3 p.m on the fangirl youtube page and up on the number fire daily fantasy podcast feed after that So go make sure you're subscribed and if you like what you hear leave us a rating and review as well If you've got questions for me, I am on twitter at jim sonnis j i m s a n n e s You can also follow the fan dual podcast network at fan dual podcast big Thank you to everyone for tuning in. Good luck to you with your dfs lineup source night We'll talk to you once again tomorrow to get you sad for wednesday's slate This has been the solo shot right here on the fan dual podcast network


How was this problem that you did on Bellwork? How was that different from the other order of operation problems that we've been working on? How is that different, Asia? Because you're having, like, instead of doing the work, you're having to pick which one you're into. Instead of actually doing the work, you had to pick what you would do to find the answer. That's a little different than what we've been working on, right? Yesterday it just said evaluate numerical expressions. Today we're also going to work on writing them. I think all of you can follow PEMDAS, but today we're going to actually work on applying some of this a little differently. In my sixth grade classroom today, we worked in stations to reinforce order of operations and how to solve numerical expressions. My students have been working on this skill previously for a couple of days, and today we were using more of application skills in showing their knowledge of solving numerical expressions. Your first station is error analysis. We do this a lot. We find the errors or mistakes that are made in a problem. We've really been focusing on the difference between mistakes and errors lately because in math mistakes are made more often because we rush and because we want to be finished and because we want to be the fastest, which is just kind of human nature, but as a teacher I have to know the difference between is a student just working too fast or is a student actually not understanding what to do or what comes next. So for me it's been an important difference to be able to make between the two. What's the difference in a mistake and an error? I feel you have to provide an environment where it's safe to make mistakes. Students don't usually come in feeling super confident in their math skills, so I want them to know that it's okay to make errors. What order do I work this to make this true? This is probably one of the most difficult stations you're going to deal with today and I'll be available to help you, okay? Don't get discouraged. That's why we do these activities where we're interacting and kind of giving feedback to one another because I want them to know everything you do is not assessed for accuracy. It's okay that you're making these errors now so that when you are assessed for accuracy you'll be prepared. Your instructions are on here. It says solve a problem, rotate your paper and Kendall will check John's work. What would be the polite way to let John know he has done something incorrectly? Not like some of us like to do, some of us like to say, that's wrong. You did that wrong. We typically work in stations usually once a week or once every couple weeks it allows the students to engage with one another, it builds cooperative learning sometimes when I can't maybe explain or give feedback, the students they respond well to one another so it gives them some opportunities to hear from their peers and just learn how to work well with others and build social skills. Okay so how could you figure out how many cookies that is all together? In anything that we do in the classroom I try to be there and I try to give positive feedback even if I am critiquing something that they're working on I try to do it in a positive way. I think it's a culture that you build up and you model the type of students you want to build and create. You just tried that first so you kind of just tried a set around something to see if it gave you that answer I think that's perfect. I help students solve problems by using the mathematical practices that we've been taught. It's really helped me reflect on my teaching practices and so we focus on those a lot just being persistent just persevering when something is difficult that's what I feel like stations help with a lot. What did Adam and Ellie do that tells me I have to do? And I'm always available I'm just available for questions. I want to help guide them to the right place when they're struggling. No your second one is on a different card. So often we give them work to do and if they don't understand the directions they certainly aren't going to do the work correctly so just making sure they understand what's asked of them. I want you to have time to work with each station even if you don't get finished with all three but make sure you're putting them all back in the sleeve and then pass them on.