Wanted to wait to make this video until the Ravens made a corresponding move, but haven't seen anything yet and I gave it a little while So we up now, but anyway, YouTube team keep it clean They the Ravens placed God Tyree Phillips on injured reserve and it's most likely gonna end this season It hasn't been anything confirmed, but it's probably gonna end up ending his season The Ravens their injured reserve has been busy. It's been very very very busy Now they all gonna get some guys back from injured reserve like a Nick Boyle like a Rashad Bateman like a Miles Boykin But then you got a lot of guys that went there and they're gonna be there for the entire year like Auguste Edwards Justice Hill JK Dobbins LJ Ford Marcus Peters. Oh my goodness. It's just that that sounds so bad when you say it out loud And you start listing people anyway in a surprise move That I'm still I'm trying to understand and maybe y'all can help me understand this because I I literally don't understand it at all Unless they're gonna be doing some maneuvering They released Trent Trent and cannon So Trent and cannon last night He looked good on the one carry that he got he looked comfortable He looked explosive and it was like man He he looked like the the next best running back after Tyson Williams Tyson Williams he looked good as a runner, but the Ravens are like, you know what he's looking good as a runner. We're up No more Tyson Williams Give him two second half carries give him one second half catch. All right. That's enough from him Some people saying he was banged up I was thinking when he did that fumble on the sideline, maybe hardball was like hardball probably gave him that come in I don't know what it was. I don't know why they just completely stopped with Tyson Williams And it's crazy because our Latavius Murray end up getting more carries than Tyson Williams. He did and I know that Ravens, they don't typically like to go with the young guys at certain positions and whatnot They don't like to typically go with the young guys over the veterans and whatnot But that that whole thing just blew my mind. But anyway We're Trent and cannon. He looked good on special teams, man He looked good on special teams So the only thing the only way this this can possibly make sense because right now I believe they have four Open roster spots because they had two going in going into the game last night and now they've opened up two more So the only thing I can think of is that they will be elevating Levy on bail Somebody who will be good and pass protection as was Latavius Murray now neither one of the two is like really explosive Like a Tyson Williams or Trent and cannon was but they'll be better in press protection But anyway, I would think that one of the spots will go to Levy on bail and then maybe they maybe they put Trent and cannon on a practice squad and Cuz I just I don't know and not to say you can't replace that on special teams, but I Don't know that one just threw me for a loop. It just threw me for a loop So I just I don't know. I don't know what to think of it The Ravens, I know a lot of people just up in arms over the offensive line A lot of people been getting on Alejandro Villanueva Ronnie Stanley that he didn't look good last night either But the Ravens and I know some people been talking about old could the Ravens possibly trade for somebody could they sign somebody? What can they do? But their options are like they're limited now. They did restructure Malin Humphrey's contract early today So that cleared up some cap space. I'm not sure exactly how much And they did some restructuring to somebody else deal a few days ago, too To get some more money. I forget who it was though So Ravens they they trying to have a little more pocket change. So maybe they're thinking of something Whatever that is. I'm lost right now. I have no clue what they are doing, but everything should reveal itself Sooner or later So we just got to be patient with it. I appreciate y'all checking out the post game thoughts video. Thank you for watching that But we had a lot to say when I was recording and just talking I did not realize it was going on that long It was like a live streaming video ended up being like 45 minutes long But we covered everything that we wanted to talk about from that game So anyway, I when we find out what these corresponding moves are gonna be y'all know I'll let you know I appreciate y'all and I am going to get back to teaching Carter His first grade again shout out the home school. We out


Dear students, my name is Mohamad Asad and today we are going to perform an experiment named as fermentation of sugar. Fermentation of sugars can be performed by using different microorganisms like bacteria and fungus. But today we are going to perform sugar fermentation by using yeast. So before going into the detail of experiment, I would like to give you a brief introduction regarding fermentation, starting with the very basic definition of fermentation. Fermentation is basically the mass-culturing of microorganisms. It's a very old process which has been used by human being for a long time for the production of different products like bread, alcohol, wine, curd, pickle and many others. So let me introduce you with the chemical and apparatus which we will use in this experiment. We will use 4 glass flasks of 250 ml capacity. Then we will use sugar, yeast, distilled water, a glass-maring cylinder, tripod stand along with a spirit lamp, balloons and a lighter. So in the very first step, we will add 50 ml of distilled water in all these 4 flasks with the help of a maring cylinder. Now after adding the water in flask A, we will add 5 g of sugar which we have already weighed. In flask B, we will add 2.5 g of yeast. In flask C, we will add 2.5 g of yeast along with 5 g of sugar. And the same we will perform with flask D, that we will add 2.5 g of yeast and 5 g of sugars. Now after adding all these chemicals to the flask, we will take flask C and put it on a spirit lamp in order to boil this solution. We will gently shake the flask, we will boil this solution. So after boiling the solution present in flask C, we have also cooled it down on room temperature. We will put back flask C on its position and now we will cover all the flasks with the help of balloons. Now after covering these flasks with the help of balloons, we will incubate these flasks at least for 12 to 24 hours so that the reaction can complete. So after passing 12 hours, we will have such a situation. So before I explain the results, I will explain the principle behind the sugar fermentation. Basically when sugar and yeast react with each other, sugar get broken into CO2 and alcohol. CO2 tries to come out of the flask and it trapped into balloons. Now what happened with flask A? Basically in flask A, we had water and sugar. There was no yeast in flask A due to which reaction couldn't complete now. In flask B, we had yeast but we didn't add sugar due to which here again reaction remained incomplete. In flask C, we have sugar along with yeast but even then there had been no reaction observed. The reason behind is that you remember we have wild flask C during setting the assembly of this experiment. In flask D, you can see the balloon of flask D has been blown. The reason is in flask D, all the optimum conditions for the fermentation of sugar were maintained and when yeast break down the sugar as I have already told you, it makes alcohol and CO2. CO2 tried to come out of this flask and as we have covered this flask with the help of balloon that CO2 trapped in this balloon. This blowing of this balloon reflects that a complete reaction of fermentation has been occurred in this flask. In the end, students never forget to take basic precaution while performing any experiment like wearing of gloves and wearing of lab coat. Thank you.


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Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and musician. Franklin began her career singing Gospel at her father, Minister C. L. Franklin's Church as a child. In 1960, at the age of 18, Franklin embarked on a secular career, recording for Columbia Records but only achieving modest success. Following her signing to Atlantic Records in 1967, Franklin achieved commercial acclaim and success with songs such as Respect, You Make Me Feel Like, A Natural Woman and Think. These hits and more helped her to gain the title The Queen of Soul by the end of the 1960s decade. Franklin eventually recorded a total of 112 charted singles on Billboard, including 77 Hot 100 Entries, 17 Top 10 Pop Singles, 100 R&B Entries and 20 No. 1 R&B Singles, becoming the most charted female artist in the charts history. Franklin also recorded acclaimed albums such as I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You, Lady Soul, Young, Gifted and Black and Amazing Grace before experiencing problems with her record company by the mid-1970s. After her father was shot in 1979, Franklin left Atlantic and signed with A Wrist Records, finding success with her part in the film The Blues Brothers and with the albums Jump to It and Who's Zoomin' Who. In 1998, Franklin won international acclaim for singing the opera Aria Nessun Dorma, at the Grammys of that year replacing Luciano Pavarotti. Later that same year, she scored her final top 40 recording with A Rose Is Still a Rose. Franklin's other popular and well-known hits include Rock Steady, Something He Can Feel, From the Soundtrack to the 1976 film Sparkle, Jump to It, Freeway of Love, Who's Zoomin' Who, Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves, I Knew You Were Waiting, For Me, With George Michael, It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be, With Whitney Houston, And A Remake of the Rolling Stones Song Jumpin' Jack Flash. Franklin has won a total of 18 Grammy Awards and is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Franklin has been honoured throughout her career including a 1987 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in which she became the first female performer to be inducted. She was inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. In August 2012, Franklin was inducted into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Franklin is listed in at least two all-time lists on Rolling Stone magazine, including the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, in which she placed No. 9, and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time, in which she placed No. 1. Early Life Aretha Louise Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee, the daughter of Barbara, Nay Sigars, and Clarence Lavon Franklin. Her father, who went by the nickname, Cl, was an itinerant preacher originally from Shelby, Mississippi, while her mother was an accomplished piano player and vocalist. Alongside Franklin, her parents had three other children while both Cl and Barbara had children from outside their marriage. The family relocated to Buffalo, New York when Franklin was two. Before her fifth birthday, Cl Franklin permanently relocated the family to Detroit, Michigan where he took over the pastor'ship of New Bethel Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan. Franklin's parents had a troubled marriage due to stories of Cl Franklin's philandering and in 1948, they separated, with Barbara relocating back to Buffalo with her son, Vaughn, from a previous relationship. According to a story to popular notion, Franklin's mother did not abandon her children, not only would Franklin recall seeing her mother in Buffalo during the summer, Barbara also frequently visited her children in Detroit. Franklin's mother died on March 7, 1952, before Franklin's tenth birthday. Several women, including Franklin's grandmother Rachel, and Mahalia Jackson took turns helping with the children at the Franklin home. During this time, Franklin learned how to play piano by ear. Franklin's father's emotionally driven sermons resulted in him being known as the man with the a million-dollar voice and earning thousands of dollars for sermons in various churches across the country. Franklin's celebrity led to his home being visited by various celebrities including gospel musicians Clara Ward, James Cleveland and early caravans members Albertina Walker and Inez Andrews as well as Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke. Music Career Beginnings Just after her mother's death, Franklin began singing solos at New Bethel, debuting with the hymn, Jesus, Be a Fence Around Me. Four years later, when Franklin was 14, her father began managing her, bringing her on the road with him during his so-called Gospel caravan tours for her to perform in various churches. He helped his daughter get signed to her first recording deal with JVB Records, where her first album, Songs of Faith, was issued in 1956. Two singles were released to gospel radio stations including Never Grow Old and Precious Lord, Take My Hand. Franklin sometimes traveled with the caravans and the soul stirrers during this time and developed a crush on Sam Cooke, who was then singing with the soul stirrers before his secular career. After turning 18, Franklin confided to her father that she aspired to follow Sam Cooke to record pop music. Serving as her manager, C.L. agreed to the move and helped to produce a two-song demo that soon was brought to the attention of Columbia Records, who agreed to sign her in 1960. Franklin was signed as a 5% artist. During this period, Franklin would be coached by choreographer Chali Atkins to prepare for her pop performances. Before signing with Columbia, Sam Cooke tried to persuade Franklin's father to have his label, R.C.A. Signed Franklin. He had also been courted by local record label owner Barry Gordy to sign Franklin and her elder sister Irma to his Tamla label. Franklin's father felt the label was not established enough yet. Franklin's first Columbia single, Today I Sing the Blues was issued in September 1960 and later reached the top 10 of the Hot Rhythm and Blues Sellers chart. Initial success In January 1961, Columbia issued Franklin's first secular album, Aretha, with the Ray Bryant combo. The album featured her first single to chart the Billboard Hot 100, Won't Be Long, which also peaked at No. 7 on the Rand B chart. Mostly produced by Clyde Otis, Franklin's Columbia recordings saw her recording in diverse genres such as standards, vocal jazz, blues, doo-wop, and rhythm and blues. Before the year was out, Franklin scored her first top 40 single with her rendition of the standard, Rock A By Your Baby with a Dixie Melody, which also included the Rand B hit, Operation Heartbreak, on its B side. Rock A By became her first international hit, reaching the top 40 in Australia and Canada. By the end of 1961, Franklin was named as a New Star Female Vocalist in Downbeat Magazine. In 1962, Columbia issued two more albums, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin and The Tender, The Moving, The Swinging Aretha Franklin, the latter of which charted No. 69 on the Billboard Pop LPS chart. By 1964, Franklin began recording more pop music, reaching the top 10 on the Rand B chart with The Ballad, Running Out of Fools in early 1965. She had two Rand B-charted singles in 1965 and 1966 with the songs One Step Ahead and Cry Like a Baby while also reaching the easy listening charts with The Ballads You Made Me Love You and, No, No, I'm Losing You. By the mid-1960s, Franklin was netting $100,000 from countless performances in nightclubs and theaters. Also during that period, Franklin appeared on rock and roll shows such as Hollywood A Go-Go and Shindig. However, it was argued that Franklin's potential was neglected at the label. Columbia executive John H. Hammond later said he felt Columbia did not understand Franklin's early gospel background and failed to bring that aspect out further during her Columbia period. Commercial Success In January 1967, choosing not to renew her Columbia contract after six years with the company, Franklin signed to Atlantic Records. That month, she traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama to record at Fame Studios to record the song, I Never Loved a Man, The Way I Love You, in front of the musicians of the famed Muscle Shoals rhythm section.The song was later issued that February and shot up to No. 1 on the Rand B chart, while also peaking at No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Franklin her first top 10 pop single. The song's B-side, Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, reached the Rand B top 40, peaking at No. 37. In April, Atlantic issued her frenetic version of Otis Redding's Respect, which shot to No. 1 on both the Rand B and Pop charts and later became her signature song and was later hailed as a civil rights and feminist anthem. Franklin's debut Atlantic album, I Never Loved a Man, The Way I Love You, also became commercially successful, later going gold. Franklin scored two more top 10 singles in 1967 including Baby I Love You and, You Make Me Feel Like A, Natural Woman. Franklin's report with producer Jerry Wexler helped in the creation of the majority of Franklin's peak recordings with Atlantic. In 1968, she issued the top selling albums, Lady Soul and Aretha Now, which included some of Franklin's most popular hit singles including Chain of Fools, Ain't No Way, Think and I Say a Little Prayer. In February 1968, Franklin earned the first two of her Grammys including the debut category for Best Female Rand B Vocal Performance. On February 16, 1968, Franklin was honored with a day in her honor and was greeted by longtime friend Martin Luther King, Jr. who gave her the SCLC Drum Beat Award for Musicians just two months before his death. In June 1968, she appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Franklin's success expanded during the early 1970s in which she recorded top 10 singles such as Spanish Harlem, Rock Steady and Daydreaming as well as the acclaimed albums, Spirit in the Dark, Young, Gifted and Black and her gospel album, Amazing Grace, which sold over 2 million copies. In 1971, Franklin became the first Rand B performer to headline Fillmore West, later recording the live album, Aretha Live at Fillmore West. Franklin's career began to experience problems while recording the album, Hey Now Hey, The Other Side of the Sky, which featured production from Quincy Jones. Despite the success of the single, Angel, the album bombed upon its release in 1973. Franklin continued having Rand B success with songs such as Until You Come Back to Me and I'm in Love but by 1975, her albums and songs were no longer top sellers. After Jerry Wexler left Atlantic for Warner Bros. records in 1976, Franklin worked on the soundtrack to the film, Sparkle, with Curtis Mayfield. The album yielded Franklin's final top 40 hit of the decade, Something He Can Feel, which also peaked at number one on the Rand B chart. Franklin's follow-up albums for Atlantic including Sweet Passion, Almighty Fire and La Diva bombed on the charts and in 1979, Franklin opted to leave the company. Later years. In 1980, after leaving Atlantic records, Franklin signed with Clive Davis Arista Records and that same year gave a command performance at the Royal Albert Hall in front of Queen Elizabeth. Franklin also made an acclaimed guest role as a waitress in the comedy musical, The Blues Brothers. Franklin's first Arista album, Aretha, featured the number three Rand B hit, United Together and her Grammy-nominated cover of Otis Redding's I Can't Turn You Loose. The follow-up, 1981's Love All The Hurt Away, included her famed duet of the title track with George Benson while the album also included her Grammy-winning cover of Sam and Dave's Hold On, I'm Common. Franklin returned to the gold standard for the first time in seven years with the album, Jump to It. Its title track was her first top 40 single on the pop charts in six years. In 1985, inspired by her desire to have a younger sound in her music, her fifth Arista album, Who's Zoomin' Who, became her first album to be certified platinum, after selling well over a million copies, thanks to the hits, Free Way of Love, the title track and Another Night. The following years Aretha's album nearly matched this success with the hit singles Jump and Jack Flash, Jimmy Lee and I Knew You Were Waiting for Me, her international number one duet with George Michael. During that period, Franklin provided vocals to the theme songs of the shows, A Different World and Together. In 1987, she issued her third gospel album, One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, which was recorded at her late father's new Bethel Church, followed by Through the Storm in 1989. Franklin's 1991 album, What You See Is What You Sweat, flopped on the charts. Franklin returned to the charts in 1993 with the dance song A Deeper Love and returned to the top 40 with the song Willing to Forgive in 1994. In 1998, Franklin returned to the top 40 with the Lauren Hill produced song, A Rose Is Still a Rose, later issuing the album of the same name, which went gold. That same year, Franklin earned international acclaim for her performance of Nessun Dorma at the Grammy Awards. Her final Aretha album, So Damn Happy, was released in 2003 and featured the Grammy-winning song, Wonderful. In 2004, Franklin announced that she was leaving Aretha after over 20 years with the label. To complete her Arista obligations, Franklin issued the duets compilation album, Jewels in the Crown, All-Star Duets with the Queen, in 2007. The following year, she issued the holiday album, This Christmas, Aretha, on DMI Records. Franklin performed the star-spangled banner with Aaron Neville and Dr. John for Super Bowl XL, held in her hometown of Detroit in February 2006. She later made international headlines for performing My Country Tis of the at-President Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony with her church hat becoming a popular topic online. In 2010, Franklin accepted an honorary degree from Yale University. In 2011, under her own label, Aretha's Records, she issued the album, Aretha, A Woman Falling Out of Love. As of 2014, Franklin is now signed under RCA Records, controller of the Arista catalog and a sister label to Columbia via Sony Music Entertainment, and is currently working again with Clive Davis. A new album is in the works with producers Babyface and Danger Mouse planning to work with Franklin. On September 29, 2014, Franklin performed to a standing ovation, with Sissy Houston as backup, a compilation of Adele's Rolling in the Deep and Ain't No Mountain High Enough on The Late Show with David Letterman. Franklin's cover of Rolling in the Deep would be featured among nine other songs in her first RCA release, Aretha Franklin Sings the Great Diva Classics, released on October 21, 2014. In October 2014 Franklin became the first woman to have 100 songs on Billboard's HotRandB Slash Hip-Hop Songs chart with the success of her cover of Adele's Rolling in the Deep, which debuted at number 47 on the chart. In December 2015 Franklin gave an acclaimed performance of, You Make Me Feel Like, A Natural Woman at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors during the section for Honoree Carol King, who Sio wrote the song. During the bridge of the song, Ms. Franklin dropped her fur coat to the stage, for which the audience rewarded her with a mid-performance standing ovation. Music Style and Image Franklin has often been described as a great singer and musician due to vocal flexibility, interpretive intelligence, skillful piano playing, her ear, her experience. Franklin's voice has been described as being a powerful mezzo-soprano voice and has been praised for her arrangements and interpretations of other artists' hit songs. Of describing Franklin's voice as a youngster on her first album, Songs of Faith, released when she was just 14, Jerry Wexler explained that Franklin's voice was not that of a child but rather of an ecstatic hire-a-fant. Franklin's image went through rapid changes throughout her career. During the 1960s, Franklin was known for wearing bouffant hairdos and extravagant dresses that were sometimes embellished with either mink fur or feathers. In the 1970s, embracing her roots, Franklin briefly wore an afro and the afrocentric-styled clothing admired by her peers. In the mid-1970s, after dropping weight, Franklin began wearing more fitted attire. By the 1980s, she had settled on wearing evening gowns and extravagant dresses. Personal Life After being raised in Detroit, Franklin relocated to New York City in the 1960s, where she lived until moving to Los Angeles in the mid-1970s. She eventually settled in Encino, Los Angeles where she lived until 1982. She then returned to the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to be close to her ailing father and siblings. Franklin maintains a residence there to this day. Following an incident in 1984, she has cited a fear of flying that has prevented her from traveling overseas. She has performed only in North America since then. The mother of four sons, Franklin gave birth to her first son, Clarence, shortly after she turned 14. Her first two sons' fathers have never been identified. While Franklin was pursuing her career and hanging out with friends, Franklin's grandmother Rachel and sister Irma took turns raising the children. Franklin's third child, Ted White, Jr., was born in 1964 and is known professionally as Teddy Richards. He has provided guitar backing for his mother's band during live concerts. Franklin has married twice. She married Ted White in 1961, despite objections from her father. After a contentious marriage that involved domestic violence, she divorced White in 1969. She then married her second husband, actor Glenn Turman, on April 11, 1978 at her father's church. By marrying Turman, Franklin became stepmother of Turman's three children from a previous marriage. Franklin and Turman separated in 1982 after Franklin returned to Michigan from California, and they divorced in 1984. At one point, Franklin had plans to walk down the aisle with longtime companion Willie Wilkerson. Franklin and Wilkerson had had two previous engagements stretching back to 1988. Franklin eventually called the 2012 engagement off. Franklin's sisters Irma and Carolyn were professional musicians as well and spent years performing background vocals on Franklin's recordings. Following Franklin's divorce from Ted White, her brother Cecil became her manager, and maintained that position until his death from lung cancer on December 26, 1989. Sister Carolyn died the previous year in April 1988 from breast cancer, while eldest sister Irma passed from throat cancer in September 2002. Franklin's half-brother Vaughn died two months after Irma in late 2002. Half-sister Carl Kelly, Nay Jennings, born 1940, is still alive at 74. Kelly is Cecil Franklin's daughter by Mildred Jennings, a then-12-year-old congregant of New Salem Baptist Church in Memphis, where Cecil was pastor. Franklin was performing at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, on June 10, 1979, when her father Cecil was shot twice at Point Blank Range in his Detroit home. After six months at Henry Ford Hospital, still in a state of coma, Cecil was moved back to his home with 24-hour nursing care. Aretha moved back to Detroit in late 1982 to assist with the care of her father, who died at Detroit's New Light Nursing Home on July 27, 1984. Some of her music business friends have included Dionne Warwick, Mavis Staples and Sissy Houston, who began singing with Franklin as members of the Sweet Inspirations. Sissy sang background on Franklin's classic hit Ain't No Way. Franklin first met Sissy's daughter, Whitney, in the early 1970s. She was made Whitney's honorary aunt, and Whitney often referred to her as Auntie Rhee. Whitney died on February 11, 2012. Franklin stated she was surprised by her death.She had initially planned to perform at Houston's Memorial Service on February 18, but her representative claimed that Franklin suffered a leg spasm and was unable to attend. In response to criticism of her non-attendance, she stated, �God knows I wanted to be there, but I couldn�t.� Franklin is a registered Democrat. In 2014, she was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Arts from Harvard University for her contributions to music. Weight issues and health problems Franklin dealt with weight issues for years. In 1974, she dropped during a crash diet and maintained her new weight until the end of the decade. Franklin again lost the weight in the early 1990s before gaining some back. A former chain smoker who struggled with alcoholism, she quit smoking in 1992. Franklin admitted in 1994 that her smoking was �messing with my voice,� but after quitting smoking she said later, in 2003, that her weight ballooned. In 2010, Franklin cancelled a number of concerts after she decided to have surgery for an undisclosed tumor.Discussing the surgery in 2011, she quoted her doctor as saying it would add 15-20 years to her life. She denied that the ailment had anything to do with pancreatic cancer, as it was rumored. On May 19, 2011 Aretha Franklin had her comeback show in the Chicago Theater. In May 2013, Franklin cancelled two performances to deal with an undisclosed medical treatment. Later in the same month, Franklin cancelled three more concerts in June and planned to return to perform in July. However, a July 27 show in Clarkston, Michigan was cancelled due to continued medical treatment. In addition, Franklin cancelled an appearance at an MLB luncheon in Chicago honoring her commitment to civil rights on an August 24 date. She also cancelled a September 21 performance in Atlanta due to her health recovery. During a phone interview with the Associated Press in late August, 2013 Franklin stated that she had �a miraculous recovery� from her undisclosed illness but had to cancel shows and appearances until she was at 100% health, stating she was 85% healed. Franklin has since returned to live performing, including a 2013 Christmas concert at Detroit�s Motor City Casino. She launched a multi-city tour beginning the summer of 2014, starting with a June 14 performance in New York at the Radio City Music Hall. Legacy Franklin received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1979, had her voice declared a Michigan natural resource in 1985, and became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Nares awarded her a Grammy Legend Award in 1991, then the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1994. Franklin was a Kennedy Center honoree in 1994, recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, and was bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. Franklin became the second woman inducted to the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. She was the 2008 Musi Cares person of the year, performing at the Grammys days later. Following news of Franklin�s surgery and recovery in February 2011, the Grammys ceremony paid tribute to the singer with a medley of her classics performed by Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and Yolanda Adams. That same year she was ranked among the Billboard Hot 100 all-time top artists, and ranked first on the Rolling Stone list of greatest singers of all time. Inducted to the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2012, Franklin has been described as �the voice of the civil rights movement, the voice of black America and a symbol of black equality�. American history wells up when Aretha sings, President Obama explained his emotional response to her performance of �a natural woman� at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors. Nobody embodies more fully the connection between the African-American spiritual, the blues, Rand B, rock and roll the way that hardship and sorrow were transformed into something full of beauty and vitality and hope. Honorary degrees Franklin received an honorary degree from Harvard University in 2014, as well as honorary doctorates in music from Princeton University, 2012, Yale University, 2010, Berkeley College of Music, 2006, New England Conservatory of Music, 1995, and University of Michigan, 1987. Franklin was granted an honorary doctor of humane letters by Wayne State University in 1990 and an honorary doctor of log by Bethune Cookman College in 1975.


Everybody forced here hoping 2023 leaf metal pop century 12 box case number three random hit style We will type in the hits as we go along here and random off the end to see who's gonna get what thanks everybody for joining And good luck 32 to go in the next one now Yeah, somebody asked a question on twitch and I will type in the random and then After what was it like prime minute? Maybe two two minutes? It was like four minutes Just wasn't watching chat. Good luck everybody. Good luck y'all four hits per box first up is a John O'Hurley auto Number one of 12 John O'Hurley next up is a Britt Eklund auto perfectly cast Britt Eklund auto two of seven a brandy Roderick auto So it's number five of 15 brandy Roderick. I think we'll top the Chuck Norris 101 You never know and oh, that's pretty cool a Molly ringwalled auto Molly ringwalled numbered One of one One of one Molly ringwalled auto in the first box of the case. 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Give me some of your thoughts A john hater auto 12 by 12 This is a really really good case I really hate the font on these because I can't read how to spell out her name Denise and then richards nise Not with the c. Yeah, the font on those is terrible. I have trouble reading it too D n i s d e n i s I think that either way as long as as long as it says denise richards in some form We will know who it is Oh, there we go td garden muse ticket stub From 2019 I saw them on that tour actually Muse simulation theory tour. Yeah I saw them in tampa kind of neat A Morgan fairchild auto one of three Yeah, you I like this stuff is too much. It's too fun to not join guys. There's spots in the next one still It's at 23 to go now. Morgan fairchild Here's a link for you Yeah, muse is fantastic. Love seeing them would would definitely recommend seeing muse All right. Next up is a printing plate auto Who's this? Of michael oakief one of one printed by auto michael oakief Dang 07 man. 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Amen. All right. First Corinthians chapter 5. Okay. My sermons here. That's good Sermon notes. That's a recurring dream. You guys will have to ask pastor.  I won't expose them here But a recurring dream that I've always had as far as you know, when you preach a lot You know, you'll start to have these recurring dreams and one that I've always had that's just happened to me I don't know probably a dozen times is that I'm preaching and then halfway through the sermon pastor Comes up and he's like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.  So let's go ahead and get started first Corinthians chapter 5 We're gonna get something a little bit different in first Corinthians chapter 5 Then you would normally look at in this. This is kind of a good chapter for Church discipline things that are allowed in the church things are not allowed in the church What I want to focus on and I'm just going to use this as kind of a segue into the sermon It's not really going to be what the sermon is about but look down at verse number 9 and verse number 10 The Bible says I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators. Okay, we get that right? We understand that but then verse number 10 says this it says yet Not all together with the fornicators of this world or with the covetous or extortioners Ridolators for then must you needs go out of the world and then it goes in and it gives in verse number 11 Of course, you know those things that aren't to be allowed in the church Right, but in verse number 10 It's saying that there's a reason that verse number 11 says if anyone be called a brother do these things because it's saying like look If you would have to stay away from these types of people like you couldn't even go out in the world You couldn't even go out there, you know You couldn't so it's talking about just a brother things that are allowed in the church not you know People just out in the world otherwise you you would just have the need to not even go out in the world We'd all have to like move to you know North Dakota or something and hide from people, right? So it's saying you know We're gonna have to learn to deal with this type of thing and I'm actually gonna talk about that in quite some detail in a couple of weeks, but I just want to give you a segue To you know what I'm gonna talk about this morning. I had a guy that I worked with so we're especially guys Need to understand verse number 10 because guys are out in the world, you know ladies wives, you know They're lucky in this sense that they don't have to go out in that as much as the guys But us guys we're gonna have to deal with people in the world We're gonna have to deal with unsafe people out there I had a guy at work about a year and a half ago Maybe a year ago. I worked with this guy quite a bit and we worked pretty close together We were pretty close together. He was very good at what he did and you know I appreciated that about him, but look this guy like he wasn't religious at all. He was a nice guy He was a nice guy. He had a family. He was a normal Person. He was not religious. He was not saved and he's probably not gonna get saved And you're gonna meet a lot of people in your life like that That you know just there, you know, I guess you know I kind of looked at him and I just kind of figured I figured he's too good at what he does You know, he's too good at his job if that makes sense He's too good at what he does to pay attention to some of the things that he he knew that I paid attention to And he knew that you know, I spent time on he knew that I was You know involved in the church here He found out and you know, I didn't really announce that to people at work and things but you know people know people find out about you and you know, I talked with this guy and You know, he's like, oh, you know, you're involved in the church there He's like, oh, you know, so are you that are you the pastor of the church and I'm like and I'm like no, you know No, I'm not the pastor, you know, and he's like, you know, cuz let me he could understand that You know, if you're the pastor he's he's not a religious guy But that was something that he could understand like no, I'm not the pastor Then I explained like it's a church plant of a of a Baptist church in Sacramento And then he you know dies glaze over and and he doesn't really understand What he's talking about but he knew that I was I was involved in this ministry in town And he kind of knew that I spent a lot of time here And I spent a lot of time and thought and effort on this and look he just didn't really get it He didn't understand it. He wasn't rude about it. He just didn't understand, you know He said to me at one point. He's like, I don't understand why you you spend so much time on that You know and look I had no problems with this guy. He had no problem with me We worked very well together. We did some great things together. It's just he just didn't he just didn't get it He didn't understand why I put so much effort in that, you know, and I never really I never really I kind of knew You know where he was at spiritually and I never really said much to him about it You know, I kind of kept it short But I have thought a lot about that question since that time, you know, what is what is my motivation?  I want to give the answer to that guy's question You know, if you'll give me a few minutes of your time, you know, I'll tell you where I'm at I'll tell you where my motivation was why the time and energy to put into this effort here was actually fairly easy to do and Hopefully you can take these points of motivation and you can use them in your own life And you can use them to drive your Christian life. So you say, you know, what is it? What motivates you is it a is it a nice building, you know, is it is that what you're after, you know And it's like, you know, not obviously that's not it, you know I mean, I mean if we need if at some point we need a bigger building I suppose we'll get a that would be a good problem to have and We'll get a bigger building as a matter of fact. I'm thankful for this building is as old and you know The carpet used to be white. We just eaten so many tiger blood snow cones in here that that's not I'm just kidding But I mean look, this is a maybe we'll move out of this area at some point, you know Get in a better area. I mean, you know that the battle I've had with the bums downtown here has been epic Okay, I mean, and it's lucky, you know, I've said this before but it's lucky I was raised on a farm pitching manure because some of the things that I've cleaned up around here It's I never would have thought I never would have thought when my dad would clean out the corrals every single year And I would have to go with a pitchfork and rubber boots for like six weeks on these piles of manure and spread the manure So you get the tractor up on the manure piles and and till it into that into the tree rows And I never thought that that was preparing me for for a moment like this You know, but now I look back on that and I appreciate it. I'm like, you know dad. Thank you. Thank you for that But look, it's obviously it's not the building. Yeah, how about the attendance? How about is it the attendance? Am I concerned about the attendance am I driven for the attendance? You know that over the last two years That is the number one question I've been asked The number one question I've been asked is how many people you running there? How many people are coming to church there? Look, I get it. That's important and I'm going to get into why that number is actually important You know a little bit in a few minutes, but really I'm happy with the people that we have, you know, I mean, you know Garrett even said that last night We walked in the house and Garrett's like man if the church never grows and we just have these people He's like that would be great. I'm like I agree, but you know, we still are gonna allow visitors Okay, but the point is I mean, that's not my main drive either My main drive is is not numbers. I'm not sitting there looking at the numbers every week and being like, oh man You know, look, we just do what we're supposed to do and God will handle the numbers I mean, that's the way I've always felt about that always. I'm not even the slightest bit concerned About the numbers and guess what we've grown We've almost doubled in size since we've been here through all the The the garbage that we've had to go through in the last especially the last year and a half We're growing. We're a growing ministry How about how about this one? How about social media? Is that is that does that drive me? Here's the thing I don't know how many of you know me that well, but I hate social media Yeah, I mean I hate it.  How do you handle being so busy? I hand it's really easy.    Okay, and here I have and I'm not gonna mention the people's names And I'll mention you know it's a letter from a couple in Pennsylvania And I hope they don't mind I'm gonna read one and a half sentences out of the letter This is right before the big day yesterday, and I get this letter and it says I just want to send you this letter of encouragement As the day of your ordination draws closer It says Man, this is not good that I'm getting into this right now It says we are blessed by your sermons, and we thank God for the technology that brings you into our home So okay, you know maybe it's to a fault and I've overcorrected and I pegged the needle on that one But still it's not social media that does not drive me Okay, sometimes I think the less people know who I am the better it would be for my family But look so I made a list for you all this morning I made a list of three things and I made a list of three things about what motivates me here and what I'm all about here And I hope that this list matches Your list as well. It's a testimonial of sorts I'll give you this morning So here's the thing about this list though this list as far as you set goals in your life It's a weird list because I mean I like to set goals and you should learn to set goals And then what I do is I set a goal and I achieve that goal. That's that's what you should do in your life But here's the thing about this particular list. It's it's kind of a list of motivational goals But none of them can be completely achieved I mean you think it's kind of depressing But it's really not but none of these goals that I'm gonna list for you this morning can be completely achieved In your life I'm gonna start from the easy ones. There's only three. I'm gonna start from the easiest and go to the hardest So let's let's begin the first one is this mistakes mistakes motivate me Turn to Psalm 119 look I've made some mistakes in my life Maybe I can help people make less Is a is a motivation for me Through I mean look through my experience is number one of mistakes that I've made and but especially Especially through God's word Maybe we can we can avoid Some things in our lives there. You know what the the Bible says they're they're avoidable Look at Psalm 119 I could read the whole chapter for you I just picked a couple verses the Bible says in verse number five. It says all that my ways were directed To keep thy statutes Then I shall not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Look, this is preaching right here It's like all that my ways were directed all that somebody was was telling me to do what the Bible says Well, that's preaching right there All that my ways were directed. That's you reading the Bible right there That your ways were directed, you know a lot of people they read the Bible and they're like, okay You know the Bible says this but then it helps to have somebody come up and just scream at you And direct your ways So why so why why do you need your ways directed so you won't be ashamed?  This is my comfort in my affliction That thy word hath quickened me verse 51 The proud have had me in greatly in derision yet. Have I not declined from my law? Look God's law saves us But it also makes us strong when people are putting us down when people are attacking us When people are pushing on us when they're putting pressure on us. It's God's word That keeps us strong in that time. It's the preaching of God's word turn to Hebrews chapter 4. Why why is it? Why does it have that effect? Why does it have that effect go to Hebrews chapter 4? Look, and I can tell you I can tell you that that this goal that this goal is already working here This one's already working in this church look at Hebrews 4 12 Why is it working? Why is it working? I can tell you it's not because of me. I Could tell you it's not because I'm some great orator. I Could tell you it as you know look here's why it's working look at verse number 12 of Hebrews 4 for the word of God is quick and powerful and Sharper than any two-edged sword piercing even to the dividing of thunder of soul and spirit and the joints and marrow and The discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart look this word of God is so powerful. It will move your flesh Is what the Bible is saying Look, I can already see this goal being achieved. That's that's encouraging That's encouraging. It's working, but you said oh, but you can't achieve this goal completely But guess what it works for some but not all It works for some and not all look I I'm encouraged in my life that I can help some people to to hear the word of God And I can preach and yell the word of God and I can I can help people through preaching I can help people through personal advice that by the way I get from the word of God It's not like I'm some brilliant person that just knows what to do in every scenario No, I know what the Bible says and that's what I'm gonna tell you what to do So but look here's the thing some people just insist on making their own mistakes Well, I've been that person.   I'm gonna go in there. I'm like, okay, but no, that's a hole. You don't want to go in there. They're like, no I'm going in the hole.   I'm okay.    That's a motivation to me right there. That's a small one. That's the smallest one What's the second one? The second one is the gospel You're like this one the gospel better be on the list Here's the thing and here's what we really need the numbers for turn to Ephesians shout We're just look at the front of your bulletin Here's what we really need the numbers for we need an army because we're in a battle Ephesians chapter 6 or the front of your bulletin in verse number 12 says for we wrestle not against flesh and blood But against principle principalities and powers against the rulers of the darkness in this world against spiritual wickedness in high places We've been studying through the book of Joshua. It's a lot of battles big armies like physical actual armies and battles, you know, they're fighting They're fighting a physical war with people, but it's surprisingly similar as a matter of fact It's exactly similar because we're fighting a spiritual war for people Is what we're doing and Jesus even talked about this and that's why we need an army We need an army Turn to Matthew chapter 26. We're in a spiritual war for people. We're not fighting for land We're not fighting a physical wrestling match against people. We're look It's the spiritual wickedness that we're fighting It's the rulers. It's the powers and it's the spiritual wickedness that Exists there with the rulers and with the powers. That's what we're fighting and that's where we need the army It's not against flesh and blood Even Peter misunderstood this even Peter got this one wrong because I understand it gets you angry Peter got angry look at verse 20 verse 51 of Matthew 26 Peter misunderstood this for a brief moment. What kind of battle we were to fight here? Look at Matthew 26 and verse 51 the Bible says and behold One of them which were with Jesus Stretched out his hand and drew a sword and struck a servant of the high priest and smote off his ear We know from John 18 that this was actually Peter look at verse 52 Then Jesus said on him put up again I saw it into its place for they that take the sword shall perish Wish with the sword. He Jesus is saying to Peter here.  Would that have been the best spend for Peter's life? Think about that Jesus knew turned to 2 Timothy chapter 2 Jesus knew where he needed Peter and what kind of battle he needed them to fight and I'm glad those guys fought it I'm glad those guys fought it and we're still fighting it today Look at 2 Timothy chapter 2, but we do need an army We do need an army. It's funny because this old this army needs to have the exact and I'm going to show you it needs to have The exact same attributes as the Old Testament army, so it's a it's a spiritual war versus a physical war But it needs to have the same attributes Don't miss that Look at look at 1st Timothy or 2nd Timothy chapter 2 look at verse number 3 2nd Timothy chapter 2 and look at verse number 3 the Bible says thou therefore endure hardness So you got to be tough The Bible says you can't be a wimp. You can't be somebody who's afraid of everything.  What as a good soldier of Jesus Christ No, no man then he gets into more detail. He says no man that warth and Tango with himself with the affairs of this life that it may please him who have chosen him to be a soldier turned to do to Rami chapter 20 By the way, this army this army. Here's one. Here's the first similarity The first similarity is Jesus Christ is the commander of this army in the New Testament He's the commander of our army and he was also in Joshua chapter 5 the commander of the army in the Old Testament same same commander So not only do you need to be strong you need to be able to endure hardness But you not to be able to be preoccupied with other things it says in the New Testament in 2nd Timothy chapter 2 But look at Deuteronomy chapter 20 talking about the actual army that's going to fight the physical war look what the Bible says It's talking about you know giving them advice like hey when you go into battle here's here's what you're going to need and what you're Going to not need look at verse 20 and verse number 5 I'm sorry chapter 20 of Deuteronomy and verse number 5 and the officers shall speak under the people saying What man is there that hath built a new house look they're recruiting here.  What man is there that had built a new house and if not dedicated it let him go and return to his house Let's he die in battle and another man dedicate it Verse 6 and what man is he that have planted a vineyard that hath not eaten of it Let him also go and return unto his house lest he die in battle and another man eat of it And what man is there that had betrothed the wife and had not taken her let him go and return to his house Let's he die in battle and another man take her verse number 8 This is your enduring hardness right here verse number 8 and the officers shall speak further under the people There's even more things that they have to look for and they shall say what man is there that is fearful and faint hearted Let him go and return unto his house lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart So that's interesting there, but first of all it matches perfectly second Timothy chapter 2 Saying we can't have any cowards here, and it's interesting the last part of verse number 8 is like You know we don't want a bunch of fearful people here because look that spreads Like we don't want to we don't an army, you know where we bring in a few cowards and pretty soon everybody's a coward Is that that's what's that that's what'll happen? Look at the spies They came back and they're like those people are huge We're like grasshoppers and everybody was like this. It's spread amongst everyone Look, they didn't want people fighting alongside them Whose minds were on their houses their property or even their new wife The Bible says it's exactly the same turn to Luke chapter 14. It's exactly the same as the New Testament army And Jesus talked about it quite a bit actually look at Luke chapter 14 and verse number 16 Luke chapter 14 and verse number 16 The Bible says Then he said unto him a certain man made a great supper and bade many and he sent his servant supper to the time to sing Supper time to them that were bidden saying come for all things are now ready And they all with one consent began to make excuse the first said unto him I bought a piece of ground and I must needs go and see it. I pray they have me excused another said I bought five yoke of oxen and I go to prove them I pray they have me excused another said I've married a wife and therefore I can't come look These are the same I get that this has got application to salvation, but these are the same Excuses that people gave to not coming to this marriage the property the work the wife or you could even take that into family This comply to us as well This is the same reason that you know, we don't have as many people as we need to Fight this aren't with this army. We don't have enough people in this army Well, when you think about the army that we are building to carry the gospel. These are the main roadblocks right here The same roadblocks as in the Old Testament you think about it think about it What it's because people are pursuing this stuff. What are they pursuing? They're pursuing I Mean this is the stuff that people will throw their whole life away on the things that I just listed to you They're pursuing work They're pursuing their work. I mean think about this one works both ways. I Mean they're pursuing they're too into their work. They're pursuing that they're too into a career They don't have time for anything spiritual my my colleague Just pursuing work the Christian can do that as well you could pursue work so much That you have no time for anything spiritual and be completely saved Happens all the time, you know, this one works two ways. There's two sides of this coin Maybe you know you have somebody just doesn't want to work. They're like allergic to work Lots of people like that too, but guess what in Ephesians chapter 4 it says the work of the ministry The ministry's work How about your wife or even family? I mean look that derails people That messes people up that stops people from joining the army that one thing right there property houses the vineyard People obsess over that stuff to the point where they will not join the army And here's the thing we can't have we could never have an army that was effective for carrying the gospel if We brought these people in and that's all they cared about it wouldn't work They were just fearful and all they cared about was worldly things. They just wouldn't work It would ruin the goodness of the army that we had I Guess there's nothing new under the Sun, you know, it not only stops people from joining the army these things It was the same thing that they were concerned about in the Old Testament with the physical army fighting the physical war but look Second Timothy chapter 2 it says that people will get entangled with these things And it'll destroy the effectiveness of our army turn to Matthew chapter 19 turn to Matthew chapter 19 Matthew chapter 19 look at verse number 29, but Jesus addresses this he addresses this he understands that if you have an army That's gonna carry the gospel.  Look at verse 29 That's why Jesus says in everyone that forsake at houses or brethren or sisters. I mean you've seen a pattern here Or father or mother or wife or children or lands For my name's sake because look if you're gonna join the army, that's what you have to do If you're gonna join the army if it's gonna be an effective army This is what the people the soldiers in the army are gonna have to do they're gonna have to forsake these things Jesus knew it Jesus knew it. Look what he says. They shall receive a hundred fold And she'll inherit everlasting life everlasting life not and she'll inherit everlasting life See how I just an inflection on a word can change doctrine You won't see you have to work to get saved. No They'll receive a hundred fold along with their everlasting life folks So look, I mean if we do this effectively if we build this army Effectively look and here this kind of the point this kind of that the motivating point of this goal right here Is if we build this army effectively and that's it's never it's never really been about the numbers to me It's been more about the the army being ready to do the right thing It's about the army having forsaken these things, I mean is that wrong is that not what I've been preaching for the last 300 sermons I Mean it just it's about forsaking these things so we can have this army Well, and then once we get that army. I wonder how many people we can get saved. I Mean I wonder how effective we can actually be You know back to my second point of you know when the battle heats up When the battle heats up, you know, it's about the gospel You're gonna need that hardness But here's here's the thing here's the thing about that second point that the one word gospel Here's the thing about the gospel. Here's the thing your life is probably gonna get tough at some point You know life is life is peaks and valleys That's just the way it is. It's probably gonna get tough at some point But as tough as it gets if you're in this army, here's the thing the gospel is always your fallback position You say I don't understand What you're saying? Here's the thing you need to understand this. I'm gonna explain it to you as best I can The gospel is my fallback position. What does that mean? It's it's what has driven my decisions for the last six years the gospel You say what do you mean? Okay? Well, what do you mean decisions? Well the decision to to move to, California It's a big decision Decision to move to California. Okay, give up a career give up a business move to California. You're like, ah like ah It's a lot of it's a lot of decisions to make. Oh, but the gospel Like, okay, that's the other decision to change jobs. Ah Oh, but the gospel That's it. That's the fallback That's the fallback when you have doubts in your life the decision to move we got a good church and it you know There's like the best ever in Sacramento It's like I'll always remember those years there. It was awesome. I Mean the best friends ever the best church ever the best pastor. I mean no offense I mean, but you know, I mean everything was great there and moved to Fresno Move to Fresno. Oh But the gospel It's always the fallback position. Are you getting it? Are you getting it? How about how about change jobs again? Oh Ah, oh, but the gospel Look if moving to Fresno was to get one person saved it'd be worth it Think about that when you go soul-winning Think about that when you go to church if the goal of your life is to get one more person saved It's worth it It's worth giving up all the houses and the land and the cars and the whatever To get one person saved But instead it was hundreds of people in Fresno that have been saved 18 just yesterday look I saw grown men cry yesterday Literally the gospel that's why That's why that is the point look but we'll never fully achieve Because most people don't want it So we got to go and we got to dig we got to find the people that want it we got to go get them It takes work. It takes hardness It takes enduring that it takes an army that's made of the right things In that army What the army needs when you read about those battles and you read about those people in the Old Testament? That's exactly what you have to have It's the same But we'll never fully achieve it not even close on this one not even close Like I said brother Stucky figured 98% unsaved. No, I think he was 99. I was 98 because I was the pessimist But look most people aren't gonna they're not gonna want it So that's a tough goal But it's a worthy goal and guess what the gospel the gospel will keep you grounded because whenever you have doubts about Anything in your life. It's always true It's always true and it's always your job To carry it. It's always your job to be that ambassador. It's it's your fallback no matter what's going on No matter what's going on in your life good times bad times. It's it's sad, but the good times usually is when we forget about it It's when the good times come is when we're like yeah, I'm taking a sabbatical from the army you think it'd be the other way around But it's not God blesses your life, and that's when you say you know what I'm going on leave for a while Or I'm going AWOL for a while happens all the time But the gospel is your fallback Folks, what's the third one? I told you these goals.  What could be harder than trying to go out and get 99% of the world to accept Something that they don't want What could be harder than that? Well, here's the next one that motivates me and this is the last one. I'm going to list this evening. Maybe Maybe we can raise a godly next generation This is a big one This is a big one and it's funny because it's not funny, but it's it's one It's one that not many people in the Bible achieved. I mean it's depressing When you look at the great men of the Bible and you look at this goal Most of them failed, but what if we can do it? What if we can do it? Look here's the thing. I'm already seeing that too. I'm an expert at trends I'm an expert. I can see trends of things. It's just I don't know. It's just 20 years of looking for trends I can see trends and let me tell you something. I got five years of data now. I Got five years of data points on this one. I Came to Verity Baptist Church in 2016 and look many kids since I've been here a lot of them are here today Many kids when I got to California. They're just kids They're just little kids And you're like does it work is this goal achievable is this whole idea that we're doing is it is you know I get it. We talk about it a lot, but does it work? Look, I seen just kids five years ago, and now they are adults serving the Lord on their own accord How's that for a trend? It's working these look forget about what you hear on Social media or whatever that is real It's happening It's happening, and we are and you are watching it happen You are seeing it happen. It's God's word working in their lives Is what it is and that motivates me That is a great motivation to me watching the word of God produce The next generation and this next generation that comes up. They pay no attention to the status quo Status quo is powerful the status quo is ruining 99% of people in this country And yet these kids are Bucking that status quo. That's the trend that I see That's the data points that I put together. That's what I'm saying. What guess what that's what I'm seeing here That's what I'm seeing here It pains me to think it pains me to think on this goal that we might not achieve it fully, but we probably won't We may lose some here or there, you know this guy a guy I talked to yesterday I come up to him and you know we're soul winning and I ask him the question He's sitting on his porch on his front lawn and ask him You know I'm talking to him about you know eternal life and if he wants to know if he's going to heaven He's like no, but I want my kids to go to heaven You're like, okay That's a completely natural feeling that you would want your kids to go to heaven. Let me help you with that You know, let me help you with that and then I want it. I want to show him the Bible That show that I can show him how he can get to heaven Because he's more concerned about his kids, but hey, we got to focus on you for a minute And then we'll get to your kids And you know, I don't know I don't know if I could have said something different or what but the guy just had the guy They just had no interest. I mean talk about just like a twisted logic a Twisted reality, but here's the thing folks.  It's not gonna work folks that look this guy didn't have a clue, but you you should know that You should know that like I'm gonna jump in that hole. I'm just gonna go in there.  You don't care about yourself. Do you care about your kids? What maybe that'll motivate people Motivates me.     I'm like me Every time any any father that's worth anything would say me, but that's not how it works That's not how God designed salvation You can't just trade places with people. This isn't the Catholic Church You can't write somebody a check Look you got to get saved and then you got to walk it because that's how you get the next generation in it Look that motivates me That motivates me because it's look it's hard It's hard to do that's why so many people fail at it So there you have it folks. I mean, it's not complicated It's not complicated the things that that motivate me here, you know preach the Bible Teach people how to do this life, right? God gives us all the directions number two train train the wards army to preach the gospel to the lost And then raise a next generation of god Fearing children. That's what drives me. I mean You say, you know At the end of the day, that's it for me. You're like, man, that seems too simple But here's the thing at the end of the day. It's really about just spending this life in a worthy cause That that's it to steal a quote from taty Roosevelt But I mean that that's and and that's it. That's all it is It's pretty simple But it's hard It's simple, but it's hard To spend this life in a worthy cause, but the thing is folks.  I want to thank them for their hard work And their their sacrifices that they've made.   I'm rough around the edges. She's the sandpaper Think about it that way and you know, you ever seen that you ever seen that bumper sticker of of People that you know some guys got this bumper sticker and says I love my wife You know the bumper sticker I'm talking about it. Am I the only one to seen it?  Anniversary time was last year was this year better than last year? And if every year just keeps getting better I think I think you're doing something right world class World class I would have failed if it was for her so many things So many things I want to thank the church family I got in the car on wednesday night With ashley and garret and the first thing that they said to me Was our church family is awesome It's so generous So spirit-filled I'm sorry. I mean, look, there's there's a lot of words. They're gonna be said today. There aren't the words There aren't the words. I'm so excited For the future with this group of people. There's no group. Look, there's no group And I mean this from that from the bottom of my heart. There is no group That I would rather face the future with Than you all let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer