What is up my cranky crew these are for CrankGameplays and today we are in a game called A Good Gardener by Ian Endsley and Carter Lodwick It just looked like a really peaceful game. I found it on itch. Yo, it's just a good gardener Hopefully a good gardener, but we're a gardener and the less. How do I start? It seems super nice super peaceful and that's sort of what I wanted to play right now It's a nice peaceful game for a Saturday morning. Good morning. Good morning You've got quite the schnaz. I'll be supervising you during your time here. The soil within these walls is fertile and ready for use You can find seeds in the seed box over there on the table Okay, I shouldn't have to say that it is important you are careful not to waste the seeds You should water the planted seeds once per day after that probably best that you retire to your quarters This should be how your efforts are directed from here on out Sorry for my directness. I believe we will get along fine Okay, so here's the seeds All right, I can't really look down all that much the seed box Two seeds two one one. I'm gonna take one Oh I should probably Okay, I should probably find some sort of shovel spire a nice little thing to dig a hole with or am I just using my grabbers That's the question. Am I just using my quarters? All right. Well, how do I how do I like dig a hole or anything? Or do I just go for it? You know what even though it might cost me a seed. I'm gonna just go for it. I'm gonna just go for it guys Where do I plant? Toss them on down. Oh My god, okay. Okay. Let me grab some seeds. Let me grab some more seeds Put one over here. Just toss it on down. Let's water. Whoop. Okay. So I watered that one How about this one? Oh, give it all the sustenance it needs Wonderful wonderful. We've got them all Okay, let's put it away And those are all the seeds that we have, right? Yep. Okay. Well, let's retire to our quarters There's nothing else for us to do. We've been the best gardener that we could possibly be right. I believe so. Oh Why is it more ominous today? It's raining. It's so nice. All right, so I don't have any more seeds Is it possible for me to? To uh Okay, so I don't need to water these guys because it's raining That's kind of nice guys mother nature is doing our work for us.  What's the plants grow? So nice Seeds Okay, why is this kind of weird? Like why why do I feel like something is about to happen? We've got more seeds. Okay, put you here Put Is that all the seeds that I have? I thought that I had like six seeds Seed box Okay Okay, well do I need to water it? No Well, there's not much more I can do here guys. It's not much more I can do because you know I Mean can we clean up the garden a little bit because it is looking a little a little run down Am I planting seeds because it's like the apocalypse and we need you know, I wonder I Wonder okay, so a bird Did you eat the seed shoot get away bird wait a bird You pesky pesky bird Okay first things first let's grab these new seeds and grab these new seeds plant-scent seeds Gotta make sure that the Birds don't get to them. We've only got the one.  How do I get rid of the bird? Is there a gun here? Do we have a Maybe What is this gonna grow into those look like green onions? Huh? Maybe a little bit of green onion See, I can't progress If these boys keep taking my seed We got a couple different guys See there's no way that they can eat all of them, right? There's no way Okay, good good good good good. I didn't waste the seed. Okay, but by the birds eating my seeds Does that mean that I'm wasting the seeds? Cuz boy, oh boy, I hope not because that's not my fault the seed mafia is gonna come after me They're gonna get me There will be nothing that I can do we need to make sure that all these are watered. I Guess I can't water it anymore because I think I did it for the day All right. Well what now? Do we do we hang around for a sec? I don't want the birds to come back Where are the birds? What's through this door? Can I get through the door?  Hopefully They won't be here.  I will. Oh, did I water the little weed? I think I did water the little weed. That's kind of cute That's kind of cute guys All right, I'm not gonna water anything in that spot anymore or plant anything in that spot Oh Shit know these They were here the seeds were here all along I didn't waste any seeds. Oh my gosh, it's Christmas all over again bird I Had my revenge planned against you, but you didn't do anything wrong. I'm so sorry bird I am so sorry That I wronged you like this. Oh my god. I feel terrible guys. I feel terrible. I almost ended that bird's life Little bit of patience goes a long way guys back to my quarters I go What will happen? Once these trees grow look at this. Oh Look at this. So I'm gonna do something I'm gonna I'm gonna grab my seeds. How many seeds do I get grab grab these boys right here? Toss them down good toss all these all these seeds down do the watering. We will do so much watering Ready now it's time I don't have enough water. Oh No, oh No, I don't have enough water. Do I have to wait until it's rain? Oh, I think I do please Mother nature you've been so wonderful to me. Please let it rain in the night. I Need my crops to grow.  It's a wonderful day guys. It's a wonderful day. Good night. Good night my sweet sweet plants, please Maybe the goal this game is to grow a plant. You're here. Well, uh, hold on sir I'll I'll get to you in a second. I would love to water my Gonna get my babies what they need There now it's time to talk to the man. Hello. Hmm not that it should matter to you But we keep track of your progress. Actually There is the official record. I have my own tally's It's important that those under my supervision are properly accounted for Crop should be harvested tonight Probably goes without saying that you should stay in your quarters while they work Okay, anything else Okay, well, I guess I'll go back to my quarters. I gotta give me a package Beans Jack in the beads stuff Alright All right.  All right. Well, I'll stay in my quarters while they work.  What if we come out in the night and they're being mysterious? Oh, why is it so sad here? No, they took away my plants. I Don't like it. Why did they take it away?  All right, let's give these guys some new water. We're gonna be running out of water pretty soon All right, I think we got everything so let's put this back there I guess We have another package no I don't like how it gets kind of dark, you know, will mother major grace us with No water today Whoa, dude, that's a sick plan. It looks like an act. I have a feeling that those are gonna be Harvested sometime soon. I don't have any more water left. All right. I'm so sorry. My pretty is maybe mother nature will grant us with the gift of water tonight. I Shall do hope so I Grab those seeds Hopefully tonight the divine mother will grant us Let's go back to our quarters, then it's all our hard days work There we go. No rain again. Oh, no, we've got no water He's a shame, isn't it? Jeepers Wait, that's a block Like you can get rid of the weeds. I did not know that That's so cool. All right. Well, let's do some weedin guys For a beautiful little plant I think that's all the room that we have There are more seeds in here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, there's no water.  Well, that's all we've got today. So we'll Sit and save and watch our plants grow until the morning bright I wonder if there's an end to this game. No, I think about it. I'm like, I'll be stuff that happens What if it's just repetitive every single day? I'm actually gonna save some seeds Because we've got so many plants growing right now that like I just don't really think I think there's There's a little too much going on. So that noise sounds like a plane overhead or something This is the apocalypse. We've got our stuff. I think we're just gonna water those plants for a bit. Let the seeds pick up because We've got way too many plants going on right now and and not enough water sometimes. Wonderful. Wonderful This is just wonderful. A bomb? Dude, is that gonna explode?  Yeah, and I feel like these plants are growing pretty damn tall I feel like the man should be back soon. We've got four seeds. Yeah All right, that's all of them. That is all of them Let's go back.  He is with the bomb plant Another fine crop you've grown. I don't have much to say today. Don't mind. I will stay posted here for the rest of the afternoon You should pretend I'm not here. We've got a hole. He's watching me. Oh, this one is a plumbus Okay, all right. I've got no more water in the next day I don't know if there's an end to this game. There's so many plants away Is there an end to this game? I honestly Wouldn't tell you I'm gonna plant all these seeds. I don't have water do I?  I might die. Please let it rain down upon us I don't know if planting here is a good idea because I just planted a bunch of seeds I don't got any water though. So I'm just gonna head out. Here comes the rain. Oh, yes We've got we've got plenty all right guys. Well, I don't I don't know what else to do You know if they're I don't know if there is an end to this game There might not be Because I think Which is kind of super peaceful and nice see what happens, but oh the man is back Hello, sir. I've got many plans. You've done very well so far not to say that you've exceeded my expectations My many deserters are less cooperative deserters You smell that very fresh out here, isn't it some ways? You're very lucky Earlier I misspoke didn't mean to imply that you are lacking in any ability Just that I see my expectations very high or set my expectations very high He's back again the next day. I don't like to discuss events that may happen For instance possible futures are almost certain Inevitabilities especially in times like this no blow mentality.  I guess we don't have to talk about anything You know if there's something going on though that maybe I should be aware of something that will affect my little plan to lose I have some news. You should be interested your exceptional effort in your circumstances Fourth class don't know anyone who has received this particular honor feel proud. I would I think we'll hang beside it I will hang it beside your quarters Middle I have arranged for a formal exhibition take place tomorrow in the a.m. Now turn to work Congratulations. Well, okay. We got ourselves. I'm so excited to see this exhibition It'll be cool Maybe or maybe it'll be super lame someone coming and talking about leaves. I still have no water, okay? I Don't see it beside me in the quarters, but whatever All right today is the day of the exhibition. There's my award.  I'm very excited to have been able to arrange this formal exhibition for you Senior cadet has accompanied me today to demonstrate their ability with your weapons with with my weapons Are we making weapons? They agree that you provide the highest quality weapons in this end of the front when they're sent to the front your weapons We'll help them defend themselves the quality for weapons probably account for saving many lives I do not say that lightly now if you wouldn't mind take a seat Okay I'm gonna take a seat. This is not what I was expecting at all. This is a lot and then my plants are good at potentially Defending you and maybe killing enemies and stuff. Are we the good guys or are we the bad guys though? I don't like that the drums are picking up. I really hate that actually that's one of my least favorite things is when things slowly rise I hate it, but you're over there now super good That was crazy dude Congrats I feel inspired now. I feel like saying that I'm ready to pick up and ship out myself. Well We all have our place. Look at that. We'll go to the front. I will return to my office You will be here. It is interesting to see you. It is interesting. You ended up here You haven't run you wouldn't have been doing such fine work Some things just tumble into place. Well, we should be off soon finish up turn in Okay, well, I still don't have any water so I'm just gonna go What a what no water. I can't do anything Right, yeah, no, I don't have any water. I Can do nothing so I just believe I guess Rain time Rain time. Oh, dude. Everything's suffering. Everything is suffering. I've got nothing I've got a whole lot of nothing here. It is mother's rain Thank you so much mama, I appreciate your rain and down on us today He's back again. What is in your hand? Sure. Why you today? I should say it's been very fortunate for me to have you as a supervisee Not only to have your effort to pass all the other weapons manufactured in this reason region But I enjoy my time Hope you've grown to feel at home here. Maybe after all this actually I don't want to talk about that Talk about what? Maybe after this what late last night me and Karen got very very Ineviated sometimes it happens. You know Sard Sometimes it happens. See you tomorrow. Maybe I want to know what you were talking about I want to know your secrets Sard. Man has returned. What have you man? We're not really supposed to divulge much information I'm going to presume you will keep this to yourself past 36 hours We have won three different battles against two enemies Sustained minor casualties 466 casualties. That's a lot though That is just under 13 casually shout casualties an hour compare that to the estimated 9,000 enemy troops slain this rate this book could be ended before the end of this summer That'd be fantastic news I think I not seem like our world tends towards making sense We can usually count on numbers like again my dear boy Hmm actually have a lot of things I have a lot of things I would like to know about you. I've read your background file of course, so I may Know that you couldn't answer my questions even if I ask I'd like to know that it was like that I that it was like for you But I would like to know what it was like before what it was like for you before the war Jesus, what is your family what your family was like? Where did they go your plant? Did you grow plants before all this? What kind of plant also always been curious about your arm. It's amazing How well you have done here one day find a way for us to communicate both ways. I mean but now I appreciate that you listen What about my arm? Did something happen with my arm?  I can be honest with you I feel like I can't hasn't been a very good year for me either Not that I want to compare I understand that my situation cannot be worse than yours Sometimes I'm trapped in a personal hell. It's hard for me to see past the flame that surrounds me And I think of this garden you have you have such a beautiful garden Sorry when I'm not able to return here Probably be very sorry, and you're not able to return. Are you gonna go away for a long time? I'm worried about you sir. What if that was the last seed? What if he's not able to Bring us back seeds anymore. No, that'll be so sad. He's the only person that I talked to Other than that one katana guy that came back to one time He's not bringing seeds and I hear Bunchots just like smoking stuff.  I can do is pluck weeds Hope this little guy grows. He's the last one everything else's weeds Okay, let's go to sleep Let's see what happens.  Let's just go back to our quarters Everything's gonna be fine. Everything's gonna be a okay. We're gonna wake up tomorrow and everything's gonna be right. It's rain Yeah, guys look right is what you doing? Stop you there halt tell him halt halt Who is he ask him? Who are you? I have nothing to say to you He says he won't speak ask him what he's doing with this door. What's behind the door? Nothing It has always been locked. Tell him to open it open it. I don't have a key. He says he can't Ask him nicely and point your gun at him open it, please. We we don't use this one never have he says I don't have time for playing games. Please just shoot him Kill him or in the leg There's nothing out here to show you everyone has left.  I'm tired. I have a hang. I'm sorry about that, sir You shouldn't try to understand that there's no one else.   I Can't do anything I thought that was just gonna be a game about gardening, but no no no sir. It's a game about war Keeper All right guys. Well, I'm gonna end this one here If you'd like to check out this game for yourself, it's really cool in the game. I will leave it in the Low so Hope you enjoyed you did make sure to slap that like button right in the face I will see you guys


Thank you gosh I get tired out just hearing all that stuff man alive well I want to tell you I'm going to start out like this I love Calvary chapels you guys are fabulous I've spoken at Calvary chapels all over the country and also in the UK and every time I go I meet a passive parcel of people that just love Jesus they're overflowing with Christ very committed and it's just fabulous to be with you in fact you most of you probably don't know this but I became a Christian almost 49 years ago September 28th 1973 and that was a Friday night and two weeks later the very first church that I crossed the threshold of was Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa hey now that wasn't my home church at the time but I went up there for a conference and I actually was in a conference it was a concert you know they had the Friday night's concerts during Jesus movement all of that stuff and that explosion of the Jesus movement that Chuck Smith and Calvary chapels were so central to and it was just magnificent now to show that God has a kind of a sense of humor the irony is in that same building that holds 2,000 people for the last six or seven years in the last week in the September stand a reason has been hosting a youth conference and actually before the government interfered with our attendance we had 2,600 students on campus there at our apologetics conference that we call reality so wow there were more kids that we were able to put into that chapel in in their gym than were there that night that I first attended so I am absolutely awed by that what God has done and also what he continues to do through the Calvary chapels all over the world so it's really a treat for me to talk with you you guys here and incidentally I did a conference yesterday in apologetics and we sold out almost all the books and then discovered another box of books that were underneath the table so if you tried to get a hold of the tactics book a game plan for discussing your Christian convictions and you weren't able to we still have about 20 more on the table out in the back so you can grab it on your way out if you like to or you can grab it if you don't want it either that would be fine with me a number of years ago when Bruce Jenner walked across the stage there in that blue gown and received the Arthur Ashe Award for courage at standard reason we began getting a lot of emails from Christians who were confused and so my staff began to press me about why don't we do a video where you respond to the Bruce Jenner issue and the broader issue of gender dysphoria etc and I I said well why why do we need to do that because it seems to me the issues are fairly clear but it turned out more and more Christians in our broader standard reason community were asking about this and wondering and seemed confused so I went ahead and I made the video and it was a very simple principle that I offered them and what I said was Bruce Jenner tragically is confused Bruce Jenner is a broken human being that will be broken for the rest of his life it's a terrible circumstance for him Bruce Jenner is confused Hollywood is confused the educational establishment is confused they're all confused but that doesn't mean that we need to be confused but lately I've been mystified not just about confusion on that issue but mystified by what appears to be a trend of confusion by a lot of people within the body of Christ on a number of different issues these are these are people who identify themselves as Christians but are are completely comfortable with the idea that some people believe in other religions and that's just fine Jesus is their way of salvation but other people have their way of salvation that's okay they tend to be sexually active especially a single persons it's not a problem to them they are generally gay affirming and gay friendly and I don't mean just friendly to gays that's totally appropriate but they are affirming of the lifestyle it's not troublesome to them alternate sexualities no problem and they're consequently okay with same sex marriage and they tend to be pro-choice as well so there are these with now I'm talking about within the body of Christ people who identify as Christians and these are all these things that they're going along with with I see it's like what they're hanging out and all these critical issues and they believe just like everyone else outside of the church believes and I'll tell you why this troubles me I'm distressed because they've fallen into a trap that the apostle Paul warned about in Colossians 2 Paul says do not be taken captive by philosophy an empty deception now he's not talking about philosophy in general I have a master's degree in philosophy it's helped me tremendously as a follower of Christ he's not concerned with the discipline of philosophies concerned with something else do not be taken captive by philosophy and empty deception according to the traditions of men according to the elementary principles of the world rather than according to Christ in other words what he's saying is there's basically two ways to look at the world you could look at it Jesus way or every other way man's way characteristically and human beings get it wrong especially on the critical issues but way the ways that they get it wrong are appealing they are satisfying there's social pressures that entice us to go along with it and Paul says don't be taken captive don't be taken captive have your guard up be careful and I'm kind of mystified by this whole trend because with regards to these issues and more there's actually no good reason biblically for the confusion because scripture speaks with clarity on these issues I understand there are a lot of theological issues we have differences of opinion on the age of the earth the book of revelation sovereignty free will all kinds of things that are legitimate areas of discussion and maybe some uncertainty among Christians we knock it around we still all get around we all get along but on these issues these aren't ambiguous these aren't gray areas I mean the fact is on a host of culturally charged moral and spiritual issues faithfulness for Christians is not theologically complicated faithfulness is not theologically complicated and that's the title of this talk and I think it's a really lousy title not in clever about it all right but it's apt it's appropriate because people are confused why are they confused and I think there's two reasons here one of them is that there are many who claim to be Christians who are foundering on fundamentals because they don't know the fundamentals they just are not biblically literate they are not taught how to understand the Bible in their context which by the way I think is a strength of Calvary chapels you guys get it verse by verse by verse you don't do all these topical stuff you do these books you know in chapters you get it and so that protects you but there are a lot of people that don't do that they pick and choose and they find the things that sound good to them and they misunderstand it much of the time no theological depth but there's another reason too it's not just that they're untutored in the basics but a lot of Christians and especially those of the younger generation sadly care more about what their friends think about them than what Jesus thinks about them now each of these failings the lack of spiritual depth and caring too much about what other people think individually are dangerous but in combination they are spiritually deadly so I want to talk about those five things that I think Christians unfortunately are confused about today and I want to erase the confusion what I'm not going to do is I'm not going to do apologetics here that is I'm not going to talk to you about how you as a follower of Christ can make sense of these ideas to the rest of the world that's a different project I just want to show you from the text from scripture that the bible is not ambiguous on these concepts all right and hopefully maybe some of the clarity that I offer from the text will lessen the confusion and maybe breed some courage and some of you that are just a little bit frightened about facing the culture which by the way I understand completely it's tough out there and so the temptation is to hide or maybe modify our views with other people a little bit instead of simply standing tall doesn't mean we have to go out and start fights with people that's not what I'm talking about I'm just talking about being faithful in our own convictions about what the bible teaches is actually true in these controversial areas so let's start first things first and I'm going to talk about Jesus and salvation and that Jesus of Nazareth is necessary or I should to be more specific putting your trust in him is necessary to escape the judgment of God for your rebellion and crimes against him is gospel bedrock it is the foundation of Christianity if we remove the idea of Jesus being the only way of salvation there is nothing left if Jesus is just our flavor if it's like try and see if you like him if you don't like him try something else maybe like that but I like Jesus Jesus didn't come here so that you would like him God came down from heaven to rescue you from the wrath you deserve for breaking his law now that's pretty unvarnished I'm just making it clear that is all through the scriptures unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins he who believes is not judged but he who does not believe the wrath of God abides on him that's Jesus this is serious business and sometimes we talk about it like yeah well we all know we all messed up you didn't mess up you've rebelled every single day of your life against the holy sovereign of the universe and by the way I'm with you in that we all have we didn't just mess up and Jesus came to rescue us that's why he said I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father but through me that's not ambiguous and if you think it is that statement at the end of his ministry John 14 6 how about this what he said at the beginning enter through the narrow gate pretty straightforward for the gate is wide the way is broad that leads to destruction strong word Jesus meek and mild that leads to destruction and there are many who enter through that gate but the gate is small in the way is narrow that leads to life and there are few who find it you see Jesus wasn't a pluralist you never notice that all these other religions want to get Jesus on their team they all want to make Jesus Jesus the prophet of Allah or Jesus one of the many gods in Hinduism or or an avatar or new age avatars they all want Jesus on their team Jesus doesn't want to be in anybody else's team all who came before me are thieves and robbers you didn't have any respect for that why because he understood what reality was like by the way it wasn't just Jesus who said these things but those who Jesus trained to follow after him right after Pentecost within a couple of months of Jesus being crucified Peter's out there preaching the gospel and he's telling Jews now keep in mind these are really religious people they got their own religion why don't we leave them alone because they're not safe from God even in their own religion why because they've rejected the Messiah that God has provided for their forgiveness and so Peter says there just so there's no confusion about this fellas there is salvation and none other for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved and if you don't like it lump it well it's kind of a paraphrase but he does say something like that and you have to decide whether it's right to obey God rather than we can't stop speaking that which we've seen and heard by the way it's interesting what Peter this in Acts chapter 4 Peter doesn't say we cannot stop talking about our faith he didn't use that language nowadays of course it's very easy to dismiss Christians faith their belief well you have your little leap that and what Peter says Peter says we cannot stop speaking about what we have seen and what we have heard and of course largely what they communicated was the resurrection of Christ in other words they were offering evidence they weren't offering just their feelings of faith just a little aside the apologetics angle and this kind of claim you can find throughout the text actually it's the other reason we have a little red booklet get it online we sold a bunch of them yesterday they're all gone it's called Jesus the only way 100 verses you know there's a hundred verses in the New Testament that teach that Jesus is the only way there are nine lines of argument that the New Testament pursues on that personal issue is that controversial sure this is probably the most annoying thing for non-christians regarding Christians you think you guys are right yeah we do that's what Jesus said and if I followed Jesus then I say what Jesus said on important issues but there's a reason for it it wasn't bigotry it wasn't hate it wasn't narrow-mindedness it wasn't intolerance there's a reason why Jesus said he was the only way and the reason is he's the only one who solved the problem let me say it again it's really important the reason Jesus is the only way is because he's the only one who solved the problem singular problems like this problem of evil often have singular solutions if you're in medicine you know what i'm talking about even if you're not in medicine you know what i'm talking about it's common sense some problems are so deep and so bad that there's not a plethora of different options for you there's one option get the operation or die your choice maybe that's what the doctor will say because that's reality same thing here you don't want jesus all right i get it you're going to stand before him and give an account for your life and guess what that's not going to be a pretty picture because he's got this book and he's going to open this book and you know what's in the book every single thing you ever did wrong it's right there revelation 20 i call it the books of death he's making a list and he's checking it twice he doesn't miss anything and what you're going to get is perfect justice which is punishment for everything you've done wrong and god misses nothing now there's an alternative and he offers it he offers it now not them and the offer now is perfect mercy forgiveness for everything you've ever done wrong and god misses nothing it's up to you then there it is choose this day you want life or you want death it's up to you either jesus pays for your sins or you do that's the calculus controversial yeah confusing absolutely not it's right there in black and white there's only one answer to the philippine jailers question what must i do to be saved paul gave it believe in the lord jesus and you will be saved simple straightforward uncomplicated unambiguous don't be confused number one okay two i'm going to start this section introduce a little few statistics that you might not have thought about on september 11 2001 which by the way you have to be 25 years or older to even have a recollection of that isn't that amazing because i know for some of you this is like it happened yesterday 2977 people were murdered in one day by muslim terrorists here's something you don't know more than that 2977 more lives than that have been taken every single day for almost 50 years since row versus wade through abortion i want you to think about 21 316 9 11 days of death back to back in america there are 388 000 blacks black africans who were enslaved over two and a half centuries americans killed that many children through abortion in 109 days and i can go on and on with comparisons i realize that scripture does not address abortion directly but it does weigh in decisively and so i want to sketch that out for you i think the issue of abortion falls under a broader biblical injunction it's the sixth commandment you shall not murder now there's a reason we should murder and it comes before the law in genesis chapter nine verse six if man sheds man's blood then by man his blood shall be shed so that's capital punishment for in the image of god god created man so right there in genesis nine after the flood we have a declaration of capital punishment for murder because human beings are really special they are made in the image of god and by the way that idea goes all the way back to the first chapter that god created them in human beings in his image because we are image bearers we have transcendent value and our lives are infinitely valuable and ought to be protected so here's our question with regards to abortion our unborn human beings also image bearers in the sense that god was referring to in genesis okay that's our question or maybe another way of putting it is in god's eyes and this is what we're trying to figure out from god's perspective now in god's eyes our humans before they are born the very same individuals as they are after they are born because after they're born if they're protected by the six sixth amendment i'm sorry the sixth commandment and they are the same ones before they are born they should be protected in the same way because they're the same individuals just in a different location still made in the image of god now that's our question and i want to answer that question biblically because you may be surprised to discover that scripture does give a definitive answer to that question that is clear unambiguous and decisive taking you look in your bibles to luke chapter one now you might wonder why is he going to the birth narratives to talk about abortion because normally we go to the old testament in proverbs or in psalms or something like that you know forget about that that's too ambiguous i want to give you a rock solid biblical argument regarding this issue that's why i'm going to the birth narratives in the luke chapter one we have zacharias first going in the temple receiving a revelation that he is going to bear a son who will be a forerunner to the messiah and that son will be filled with the holy spirit while still where it is mother's womb and then we see mary actually elizabeth does conceive and then six months later mary is visited by gabriel and she has promised a miraculous conception and she conceives jesus she's told that elizabeth also is pregnant and so she goes to see elizabeth now remember elizabeth is in her second trimester six month mary is in her first trimester when mary and elizabeth greets something amazing happens and it's recorded in luke 141 through 44 when elizabeth heard mary's greeting the baby wait the what the baby no doubt right leaped in her womb this is elizabeth's baby and elizabeth was filled with the holy spirit now who is this baby this is the baby that was prophesied to zacharias who would be filled with the holy spirit while what still in his mother's womb this is a fulfillment of that and she cried out with a loud voice and said to mary blessed are you among women and blessed is the fruit of your womb the what fruit of your womb what's that keep reading and how has it happened to me that the mother of my lord not the future mother the mother of my lord according to elizabeth filled with the spirit what is the fruit of mary's womb the lord and who is that the lord jesus how is it that the mother of my lord would come to me for behold when the sound of your greeting reached my ears the baby leaped in my womb for joy okay watch this mary comes to elizabeth mary calls out to elizabeth elizabeth here's the words the baby john leaps in her womb for joy for being in the presence of the lord jesus omg now we usually say g for gosh but wait a minute no it's omg like the capital g oh my god that's why john was jumping for joy he was in the presence of god in the person of jesus so my question again john the fetus filled with the holy spirit leaping with joy in the presence of the embryo jesus were john the baptist and jesus the same cells before they were born as they were after they're born of course according to god's word they were that means if mary or elizabeth would have had an abortion then mary or elizabeth would have killed jesus or john not a future jesus or john not a possible jesus or john not a potential jesus or god they would have killed jesus and john therefore abortion is a violation of the sixth commandment abortion is murder in god's eyes now i have to add something here because i'd be a fool if i thought there weren't dozens of people in this room that have not been directly and personally affected by abortion in their life and so i want you to understand two things first of all i want to i want you all to understand the gravity of this issue and for those who have whatever experience with that i am not going to protect you right now i would not be doing you a service if i did and maybe you're feeling really bad about the first thing the point i made that's why i want you to hear the second thing is murder forgivable absolutely sol was a murderer i mean sol of tarsus he was the greatest of sinners he said but was forgiven so that this would demonstrate how the mercy of god towards others i have a favorite psalm verse that is going to be on my tombstone i've said it so many times publicly and on the air that my wife can't miss it everybody's going to be mad because they've heard me say this psalm 130 verses three and four and there it says and you want to think about this no matter what your background it says lord if you would mark iniquity if you're keeping track who could stand oh lord who could stand if god is keeping track of my sins i have no hope that was the point i made a few moments ago and then the psalm says but there is forgiveness with you so that you might be phrased is there guilt yes there's guilt we're all guilty of one thing or another some more than others but enough to result in our everlasting separation from god and that's why mercy is necessary for all of us and it's available even for those who have taken the lives of other human beings mercy forgiveness so that god would be praised do not be confused the culture is confused there's no need for you to be confused on this this takes me to the next issue but i want to start out this way by acknowledging or noting that there's something that everybody knows about the world no matter how uh where they live or when they lived everybody knows that the world is broken we call this problem call this the problem of evil we all know that something is wrong with the world but it wasn't always like that there was a time before the world was broken when god had made the world a particular way and everything was just the way it's supposed to be and it was all working together just so before the darkness before the evil descended and genesis tells us the way that world was the way god formed it so that we would flourish as human beings a world that he called very very good and here's what we read in genesis 127 and 28 god created man in his own image in the image of god he created him that's what we were talking about a moment ago male and female he created them full stop pay attention male and female he created them god blessed them and god said to them be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth i want you to notice that in god's world sex is binary this is not politically correct but it is reality by the way you do not need to have a bible to know this everybody has known this for thousands and thousands of years because that is the way human beings can be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth right i feel embarrassed to even talk like this because it's so obvious i feel silly but this is the culture is really confused on this now there is a sliver of the population on almost infinitesimally small sliver that struggles genuinely with gender dysphoria it is virtually non-existent but it is there and it is tragic these are people who need to be loved and cared for and graciously treated but it's not a condition to be encouraged yet in this culture that whole thing has become a cause celeb right and now it is a what's called a social contagion it is a fad and it is being encouraged all over the country not just by hollywood but by our entire educational system from the top to the bottom la usd it's all built in right now in all their curriculum it's not just in the academy it's in kender garden what business has the government in sexualizing our children down to kender garden this is political indoctrination there is no excuse for it and you know who are really really mad about this you'll never believe it bill marr you know bill marr the comedian politically incorrect he's not a leftist he's a liberal he's not a christian he'd unlike christians but he is hopping mad about this at about a month or five weeks ago some of you might have seen it he did a 10 minute or whatever rant and it was really funny you can find it on youtube it's not hard to find me just say just go and type in bill marr rance against lgbtq or something like that and you're going to get it and it's funny but he's saying it like it is and everybody's laughing because it's so obvious and what he is saying is we are experimenting on our children sexually and we should not be doing that so this is a very big issue right now in culture but it's important for you to see that even though there's confusion in the culture there's not a confusion in the scripture every male in the bible is called a he every female is called a she sex is binary by the way there's no difference between a physical sex and a in a in a sense of psychological gender and scripture they are synonyms because they're synonyms in reality i had a conversation i'm always a little reluctant to say this but it makes a point i'm having a conversation with the pastor i was back on the east coast with the pastor is driving me to church and his 14 year old daughter is in the back seat we're talking about this back and forth and i'm just saying it's so obvious that gender is binary sex is binary and the gal 14 year old gal in the back seat pipes up and she said yeah i just tell my friends to check your pants now it's a little course and i don't mean to be disrespectful at all but it does make the point that even a 14 year old can figure it out because it's obvious and again you don't need a bible to know this god's plan is that men and women were made both physically and emotionally different from each other in order to fit together in a complementary way a suitable helpmate this is a good plan it's not a bad plan it's a good plan things can get a little rough a little bit in that relationship i get it but it's a good plan it it promotes human flourishing and when we go against god's good plan then we don't flourish scripture is not ambiguous or unclear on this which is why no one christian or otherwise has been confused for thousands of years gender is not fluid in the way that people say it is imaginations are fluid not gender okay google says 50 genders well why not a hundred why not a thousand again i i please understand i'm not trying to be disrespectful to people who disagree with me i'm just i'm making an appeal in on the one hand to common sense and on the other hand two followers of christ to the text this is not hard don't be confused now binary sexuality is also key to understanding god's purpose for something else that culture has been confused about and i want to point you to matthew 19 verse four and five so you can mark that and turn there if you like because jesus was asked a question about marriage actually was asked a question about divorce so he gave a he answered the question about divorce by giving a characterization of what god intended marriage to be he doesn't just deal with the problem he says let's go back to the beginning let's go back to where god set the whole thing up the system that god made that he called good that was for the purpose of human flourishing and here's what he says to the Pharisees who raised the issue or actually kind of trying to trap him a little bit because there is a provision in the mosaic covenant for divorce meant to protect the woman but it's there because of the hardness of heart of the men this is what jesus is saying but from the beginning it hasn't been that way now listen to his words have you not read okay let's pause for a minute have you not read so there's a chastisement right out of the gate here because these are religious folk that are supposed to know better because right in the very beginning the basic plan is laid out so there's a sense in which with regards to the the confusion in our culture about the nature of marriage jesus could say to the culture at least to the church have you not read have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female binary sexuality and he said for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother binary sexuality and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh that sex by the way they leave they cleave become one flesh implicitly actually it's like stronger than implicit sex is for marriage for that union so let me sum up jesus understanding of marriage here in a very easy way to remember it here's what he said one man with one woman becoming one flesh for one lifetime one man with one woman becoming one flesh for one lifetime now what's curious about this formula which is a summary of what jesus just said is that it covers all the alternate sexualities people say well jesus never said anything about homosexuality we actually don't know that because most of what jesus said isn't recorded what you could say is well jesus we don't have any record of what jesus said about homosexuality but come on he's a Torah observant Jew you think he's really going to march in a pro-gay parade i mean this is not realistic and again i'm not being disparaging but think i'm just thinking of jesus you know he told the woman caught in adultery go and sin no more he didn't say that's a good alternative sexuality but in that statement every single thing that the bible prohibits is excluded the bible prohibits adultery it prohibits fornication it prohibits homosexuality and it prohibits bestiality all of those four things are sex with someone other than your lifelong spouse do you ever figure that out it's all right there in jesus words it's all captured he he does it all in one shot now there's a reason why marriage is restricted or that's not even the right word jesus not does not restrict marriage what he does is tell us what marriage is so that anything else is not a marriage now just for clarity's sake and i've been writing on this for 20 years long before a berger fell supreme court decision 2015 trying to figure out a way to make sense of this to people because everybody had their different ideas about what marriage is first thing i want you to see is that no same-sex couple has ever been prohibited from cohabiting together having sex together now that was used to be illegal a long time ago but i mean just generally in this era having sex together walking down the aisle together pledging their troth until death do them part kind of thing setting up housekeeping all the liberties that same heterosexual couples had same sex couples had the liberties they could do all of that now what they didn't get is the recognition that their relationship was the same as a heterosexual relationship and there was a reason why they didn't get the recognition because they're not the same well we love each other marriage is about love really ask any married couple it's not about love love may be the reason that you got married it isn't the reason for your union but there is a reason why cultures characteristically have privileged and protected heterosexual marriage okay and here's the reason why it took me a long time to work these words out to cover all the pushback there's a reason why i gotta find it here so i get it all right the reason why is that as a group as a rule there are exceptions by nature it's the way bodies work and i'd say by design so i'm throwing in the divine element but you don't even need that to make the point as a group as a role by nature long-term monogamous heterosexual marriages produce the next generation and culture cares about that and this is why they protect it with laws and they privilege it same sex unions don't do that they don't provide that for culture there's no reason to privilege it and there's certainly no reason to say that it's the same as because it's not the same and what a burger fell did in scotus in 2015 is they made marriage into nothing but names on a piece of paper that's all it is it's just names on paper that's all it is and of course when you take an axe to a critical foundation of civilization you're only going to get trouble one of the supreme court justice during the discussion in 2015 said you know what maybe we should slow down a little bit because the idea of same-sex marriage isn't even as old as the cell phone maybe people in the past had a good idea about things and i think they're right there's nothing ambiguous about jesus view there's nothing ambiguous about the scriptures view culture is confused don't you be confused and this being to the last point i have to move quickly on this one because we're almost out of time but according to jesus in marriage a man cleaves to and becomes one flesh with a woman his wife their physical bodies are joined in a deep and profound sexual union of body and soul and that's the good plan of god this is why paul says in first carinthians that you shouldn't get involved in with a harlot because your body is a temple of the spirit now most christians frankly misunderstand that they think well my body is a temple if your body is a temple of the spirit why you make it into a pizza hut you know that kind of thing well it's not talking about physical health it's not talking about your diet it has nothing to do with that the way your physical body is physically has nothing to do with your spirituality if that were the case every sick person would be a bad temple that's silly paul is talking about something else he said you do not join that body with a harlot because when you become joined with her you become one flesh with her and you are a temple of the spirit that means you're joining your spiritual union with christ with a harlot don't do it that's the rationale there and unfortunately in our culture right now it's an anything ghost culture well here's what i want you to see this is the main thing i'm going to talk about homosexuality in just a minute but i want you to see this is symptomatic of a larger concern god made sex for a particular purpose in a function a certain way so that it would be safe and it would allow for our flourishing i just got to do a sidebar here we got this is the last service right my flight doesn't leave till wednesday anyway so yesterday i got a text yesterday i got a text from my son who is a 40 year old er nurse so he stays on top all the medical stuff the text was from the new was a piece from the new england journal of medicine nejm they just did a big study on the monkey pod virus the new thing that is sweeping the world this is the new catastrophe what did they find 98 percent of those who have monkey pod virus are homosexuals or bisexual men 98 percent guess what no women no women that suggests that maybe two percent we're lying but this is going to be the new deal you know the sky is falling government is going to come in and lay down i could be wrong about this but you know i just have a sense this is what's coming but it's what it's it's because of behavior that is inconsistent with god's plan for human flourishing that this disease is now coming upon us in any way the point is is that god made a plan and all of these variations are violation of the plan so any of these variations whether it's homosexuality or whether it's adultery or whether it's for fornication or whether it's bestiality i mean these are the group it's a way of saying no to god no no no no no no i want what i want i'm going to do it my way now i'm going to look at homosexuality i'm going to look at one verse because this is characteristic of this this refusal to do things god's way and this is precisely what paul says in romans chapter one so you can turn there now i'm reading out the new american standard bible and i'm using the new american standard because there was a nuance of translation that some of the other translations do not get and it creates confusion and ambiguity so i'm going to read to you from chapter one verse 26 and 27 but let's step back a little bit look what's going on there in the last half of chapter one of romans paul is talking about the revelation of god to all of humanity so not not everybody knows about jesus but everybody knows about the father this is what paul is saying it's obvious but what what is the response of sinful human beings they suppress the truth with unrighteous motives they don't want god they're going to suppress it they're going to worship the creature rather than the creator and one of the ways they do this is in their sexual behavior and what's kind of interesting paul says when they push away from god to do their own thing god pushes them away from him you get that those phrases he gave them over he's not causing them to do it he's releasing his restraints so they can just they can stew in it but when he does that what is the characteristic well they are sexual pardon the word perversion this is i'm using the word advisedly it's it is a perversion of god's perfect plan and it's it's not just one kind of it's all these other prohibited sexualities are a perversion of the plan but he looks specifically at homosexuality and it does mention lesbianism too it's the only place in the bible where it's mentioned romans chapter one so let me read these verses 26 and 27 god gave them over to degrading passions notice how he characterizes it these are degrading passions the men abandon the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another they abandon the natural function now this is where the ambiguity comes up in some of the translations the word function there is the greek word creases creases means function paul is talking about plumbing he is not talking about natural unnatural desires he is talking about the way god made the bodies to fit together and paul is saying god made a woman to satisfy a man sexually they fit together they function that way well and men said no and burned in their desire towards one another and women said no and burned in their desire toward one another all of this is saying no to god's plan and since the natural desires go with natural functions the sexual passion that exchanges the natural function of sex for an unnatural function is what paul calls a degrading passion and it's not just homosexuality it says white scripture has nothing positive to say about homosexuality it has nothing positive to say about adultery it has nothing positive to say about fornication it has nothing positive to say about bestiality these are not part of god's purpose and here's paul's sobering summary and this is to the church you find in first carinthians chapter 6 verses 9 and 10 do you not know sounds like jesus right have you not read do you not know wait a minute wake up carinthians that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of god and then he goes on with a list of sins so i got ellipses in my own citation here because i'm just looking at the sexual things he mentions because that's my point right now but there's a lot of other things you can read it for yourself verse 9 and 10 of chapter 6 but here's my short version focusing on the sex do not be deceived neither fornicators a fornicator is somebody who is having sex outside of marriage and neither partner is married to anyone people who live together are fornicators if they're not married that's what paul's talking about here do not be deceived neither fornicators nor adulterers no homosexuals will inherit the kingdom of god if this is your lifestyle paul says you are on the outside you are not in the inside this isn't workspace salvation he's saying you are living just like the world that's because you are like the world spiritually it's an indicative another way of putting is if you're living like hell you're probably going there this is a strong exhortation by paul about the lifestyle of people or the Corinthian church it's just not right but it's interesting he follows just like i did a few moments ago we're saying this is where some of you were like but you have been washed you have been cleansed there's a way out of this and it's by the grace of god it's a willingness to say i am a christian and i am going to follow jesus because i love jesus and so i'm gonna do that he tells me the things that he tells me to do and so i'm going to stop doing the things that i want to do and i'm going to live the way he wants me to live that's being a follower of jesus and by the way that is what gives us the confidence that we're really in the lord that's what james is talking about jame james chapter two you talk about your faith you show me your faith without your works i'll show you my faith by the way that i live god's solution for satisfying our sexual appetites is marriage this is not popular right now and it's not easy even for married people and everybody who's married out there you know exactly what i'm talking about not a panacea it is like magic you got to work at that relationship but that's where it's supposed to be done because that's a safe place for it to happen for the rest of your lives and it's also safe for kids so let me close with a i hope to be a sobering image i want you to turn to mark chapter 15 verse 15 now this is a passion narrative jesus is on trial pilot is there trying him and he does not want to execute jesus because he knows jesus is is innocent his wife has been crabbing at him she's been having dreams don't mess with this guy but he's got a job to do and so he's trying to think of a way out he knows that the jewish leaders are are are angry because they're they're jealous of jesus and he says all right this is the time of year where i let somebody go i got jesus i got barabbas who do you want he's hoping they're going to say jesus but what happened is the religious leaders had already worked up the mob to call for barabbas and that's who they call for and pilot says well what what should i do with jesus and the crowd says crucify him mark 15 verse 15 says this market wishing to please the crowd wishing to please the crowd he released barabbas and had jesus scourged and crucified dear friends many in christianum today are taking their cues from pilot they are more concerned with satisfying the crowd than being faithful to jesus they champion the criminal and turn their back on their savior don't let it be you the culture is confused don't you be confused faithfulness to our lord is not theologically complicated father we thank you


Who are some free agents that could immediately improve the Ravens? Do people expect more from Ravens receiver Miles Boykin just because of his body type? The Ravens have still been having a bit of trouble with their past rush, so should they look to the player that just got reinstated, David Irving, to give them a boost? So these and more questions on this episode of NFL Questions from subscribers. So YouTube Team Keep It Clean what's going on the same grave and here with another video another episode of NFL Questions from subscribers the game day edition. Now a question from subscribers is a series where you can ask me any NFL question you want to based off of any NFL team and we answer in the video just like this. Now if you want to be part of NFL Questions from subscribers send me an email to teamkeepitclean at gmail.com. 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you just got to let her know hit her up and tell her in Gravenville Ascension she got you so let's get into these questions man let's do it first question came from my boy Jarvis Fowler shout out to my guy man he said if we do make a trade for alignment wide receiver or pass rusher what picks or players do you see getting shipped out well uh picks you know that famous fifth round pick you are you already know what that is but as far as I mean so the the picks can fluctuate but players I could see possibly being traded unfortunately Justice Hill Justice Hill uh maybe a Chris Moore um just because I'm just thinking of guys that just really have not been being used at all uh special team guys um possibly guys with some more uh quote-unquote significance I am not sure I'm really not sure because it seems like Ravens just need everybody that they have man it seems like they need everybody that they've been using um they really do so I don't know just the business side of me would say maybe Gus Edwards that would be unfortunate that would be very upset um I would be happy for him but I don't know man I just feel like they feel like they have so many people that are not trading and I don't see them trading judo I don't see them trading him I don't see them resigning him this year but I also don't see them trading him so I mean with EDC you just never know you pull somebody out of hat and be like hey you're going you being included in this deal so you appreciate you thank you for everything but you're gone but I just I don't really see anybody like that where it would be like a shocker that this person gets traded I don't see anybody like that being traded anybody of a certain status so to speak I don't like to say that but I don't see a majority of the roster not majority of the roster but a lot of the guys that we see every sunday out there playing a lot I just I don't see any of them getting moved man because you with Bowser you can't move Bowser because that's your best pass rusher but so maybe Bowser but yeah that's that's our best pass rusher right now so I really don't know who I don't know I have no clue who will get moved but those those the only two that I feel like would definitely be looked at first would be people like Justice Hill Chris Moore other than that I really can't think of anybody next question came from my guy Michael B he said a engraving hope you're doing well uh I'm a young Ravens fan been a fan since old seven I got two deep issues that uh combined into one and I think you're gonna understand the idea and even agree all right let's see uh he said I think we should fire wink or bring in someone else and demote him I think he should have been fired after the Chief's game think about this Andy Reed is a play calling god my home's historically is great versus the Blitz and they have six six possession receiver for over the middle who's six six on the unless you're talking about Travis Kelsey but besides him who's six six but they have a six six receiver for over the middle every time or every receiver they have can take the top off a defense at a moment's notice uh pair that with Pat my home's Russell Wilson like mobility and three backs that are beyond capable of either lining up in the slot or catching out of the backfield and can take any screen to the house on any given play now does that sound like someone you would want to blitz now this part I feel like he should be fired for is the fact that other teams in the league most recently Chargers Texans Patriots Raiders all got the memo not to blitz him obviously degree of success varies but for some reason wink after playing the Chiefs two straight years in the seasons prior in two years worth of film study are still willing and went and pulled out that gimmicky blitz and got torched up and it's so frustrating that was so frustrating is that even during the game the commentators even said they noticed the Ravens did better when they just drop back in coverage and wink still didn't notice it that's in my humble opinion is a man worried about his ego and doesn't adjust according to the opponent week to week he just brings the blitz and hopes that it works and when it doesn't it's ugly so yeah it has been ugly I wouldn't say fire or wink I would say just ride the season out with him it's like it got really bad like really bad that was just one game now now where are you seeing fire wink when they got what seven sacks on the bingles uh well I mean I guess you are because you you sent this uh today um oh it's your Saturday when I'm recording this uh so I guess so but but wink is it's that what would I say about wink all the time man he's in a tough spot because his pass rush can't do anything they haven't been they haven't been doing anything so he's forced to end up blitzing all these corners these linebackers different people with different places to try to generate some pass rush and I understand his goal he was trying to generate some pass rush on Patrick Mahomes and it rarely worked sometimes it did a tiny tiny amount but most of the time it didn't so you got to make adjustments you got to just yeah I'd say pull them back for a little bit pull back the reins um and and hold back on the blitz for a little bit and and one thing with wink one thing I've seen with this defense while overall they have been they've been good haven't been great they've been good uh if you grade in all five games together they've been they've been good um but the thing with them is that they they have to start really accounting for players a lot better because if you see a player just going off on you all then the chief's game was the worst chief's game was the absolute worst because Clyde Edwards Alaya he kept catching passes out of the backfield and entire first half I'm like okay they'll adjust second half he's doing the same thing and Travis Kelsey was wide open the entire game so that was frustrating it just it was just that game was just bad for the defense because they were all over the place the communication was poor uh it was just a terrible effort but I would I disagree with the the fire in him right now and you said I feel like the scheme has to change I've been noticing a problem even with Dean P's reckless blitzing versus the wrong teams I think DC's get an understandable higher ego boost when they dial up a great blitz so a game plan that rattles a QB like last week versus Joe Burrow uh my problem with the Ravens and their notorious exotic blitz packages is that they give up easy screens and plays over the middle of the field my bigger problem is that it only works for it only works versus young QB's journeymen backups and teams are really bad offensive lines hmm or QB's who hold the ball too long now Joe Burrow and uh Deshaun Watson um I've seen this defense time and time again get called up by vets who don't even got to be great just experienced enough to see through their fake complexity of the Ravens blitz scheme uh we make excuses for them by saying there's no password so they they have to artificially create pressure and get it uh oh and I get it corners can't cover forever but let them earn their money we have in my opinion the best or second best secondary in the league so let Marlon and Marketson company earn their money isn't that what you pay them for versus people like Mahomes or other good to great quarterbacks I think it's way smarter to simply rush five to six occasionally and let's see if the White House can beat all DB's that we paid good money for that's a good point it all just depends on the game though it all depends on the game then he said I'm all I'm actually okay with blitz and it's just the way that we do it that seems dumb like you're trying to look cute and outsmart people but but all you're doing is hurting yourself Ravens fans will see that 27 three versus Bengals are upcoming Eagles game and think it works but forget what happened the last two Chiefs games well I don't think anybody forgetting about that but you know some some people probably do but you know we on here we don't we don't uh we we definitely talked about how with the Chiefs game um with the Chiefs game or actually with the with the Bengals game and with the Washington game which happened both happened after the Chiefs game the pass rush ain't fixed it's not fixed now it's a good thing that the Ravens were taking advantage of those bad teams and those bad offensive line but the pass rush certainly ain't fixed so we still got some work to do on that but anyway um he said uh or even 2018 versus Saints and Panthers if you remember if you know you know ironically the game before the Saints and Panthers beat us we sacked Marcus Mihajota seven times you get the trend here if the opposition has a competent old line or has a QB with a real IQ then it's pretty easy to beat um so it certainly has been frustrating uh with the uh the blitz the pass rush it's been tough um but they just trying to create pressure and yeah it does usually work better on younger more inexperienced quarterbacks but you gotta try to get pressure on everybody and that's what the Ravens want they want pressure they want that pressure they want they want these QBs that they're going up against to get hit to get rattled to get flustered and all that and it's like but if you just sit back and just let your front four if you just rush three or four and you just have the corner backs drop back that's cool with that but if the quarterback got all the time in the world yeah I got to say what you're saying you're gonna earn that money but at the same time the quarterback got all the time in the world just sitting back there waiting oh is he open oh he ain't open here does he open yeah oh no he ain't open let me just wait a little bit longer I mean just waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting waiting and we still ain't getting no pressure somebody eventually gonna come over somebody eventually gonna come over because the cornerbacks they can't cover forever um so Ravens I think is just more of a personnel issue it's more of a personnel issue um now what you said about the screens that's big because Ravens have been getting eaten alive by these screens eating alive and that's in every game where teams use the screens against them they are eating eating alive every just about every time the Chiefs of course they always just kill the Ravens with that but the Washington football they were really getting the Ravens with that man they were getting them bad with that one now the Bengals game they defended a little bit better but again that's the Bengals that's the Bengals so now we'll see how they do today against the the Philadelphia Eagles that's just gonna be something to watch out for see how this defense does against them but I know you're gonna be watching extra heavy extra close and probably extra agitated too next question came from a boy Jonathan D he said first and foremost I want to give you a shout out for always providing great content I've been watching you for almost two years now and this is by far the best uh I've seen so keep up the great work here I appreciate it Jonathan thank you my question is I know the team is still lacking in wide receiver right guard and edge rusher and tight end and the front office is looking for big splash trades now why haven't they looked in free agency because I've looked and I've seen some notable names on there for example right guard Larry Wolford Josh Klein Kyle Long all three are good at run blocking and experience wide receiver Muhammad Sunoo Taylor Gabriel Quincy Annua all three are good at working the middle of the field uh edge rusher Cameron Wake Clay Matthews Toriel Suggs greatest setting edge and situational pass rush tight ends Delaney Walker Charles Clay Ed Dixon great third down and they can move the chain if it was up to me I would get Larry Wolford make him an immediate starter uh Taylor Gabriel to stretch the field and work the slot with Duvenay well that's one that a lot of people been talking not a lot of people but a few people been talking about Taylor Gabriel bring some more speed on here and really open up that field because they I'm so tired of talking about that man but edge rusher clay Matthews rotate them in with Bowser and Ferguson since Wink is sending everyone look at he on the same page as my guy from before tight end Charles Clay he's a great blocker and can be a situational third down stretch the field and seam route tight end what are your thoughts and again thanks for the great content I appreciate it man um I I agree I could see some of these things going down like right God man we just did the video that came out yesterday I'm talking about the Raven's most important position that they need to improve me and I really do believe that that position is right God and really just the offensive line as a whole they need to get that offensive line set man they got to get it set because that's been the biggest problem this entire season so far the offensive line um Larry Warford he was what he get cut from the saints I believe and nobody picked him up still I thought he got picked up already but I guess not um wire receiver again Taylor Gabriel I think Quincy and new one got like a neck injury or something like that I don't he's a free agent but I don't think he's healthy uh Mohammed snow he's healthy but yeah so um it's just these are some good options especially the Laney Walker I thought the Laney Walker would have got picked up by now and I mean he's sitting out there he knows Greg Roman's offensive scheme he got experience with it and he got experience in the league too and you know Ravens they're missing that third tight end man you can't tell me no uh no otherwise man they are missing that third tight end big time so uh a lot of these that you said they they make sense next question came from my boy uh Louis he said hey what's up in Gravenhopal as well got a bit of a long one for you it's a two-part question he said number one do you think that people expect more from Miles Boykin solely because of his body type ah I say this because when you look at similar similarly built receivers like DK Metcalf he is way outperforming our similarly built receiver when you see DK Metcalf a tall wide body receiver doing the things he's doing in Seattle then take a look at our tall wide body receiver I feel like people can't help but wonder why Boykin can't do the same thing I think oh that's that's a part of it because of his frame because that's the first thing that so many people talk about is including me I say man it's dude 6465 and he got he got the frame he could be boxing people out going for the jump balls but what people have seen from that is just that lack of a being aggressive that lack of aggression like gonna attack the football going to get it but we don't see that from him so it's been very frustrating as Ravens fans and we just hoping that something can click out for both him and Lamar to where they can be in tune together because that's another big part of it as well and other people have talked about that they feel like Miles Boykin may have possibly checked out of the game because I know my guy Enonic mentioned it in his question from subscribers that Miles Boykin may be going through practice and whatnot he may be catching some passes in practice but then every time game comes around it's like nothing nothing gets thrown in his way and so he's not getting an opportunity so he might he may be like man what's the what's even the point and that would be unfortunate but it could be possible so hopefully that's not the case and then you said question two do you think something happened to Lamar before his injury that caused him to miss practice I say this though I say this because even though I know he is fast he still looks like he is half a half step slower in terms of putting his effort in running comparing his agility speed and overall looseness from last year to this year you can obviously see it's not the same I feel like something happened way before his announced injury that kept him from practice and with how the Ravens like to play with that injury list I wouldn't put it past him to announce any nagging injury that Lamar might be dealing with yeah that's something that some other people been thinking of too maybe he's dealing with another injury that they just they're not trying to disclose because they know if um they know if they disclose an injury they know teams would attack it they know teams they the teams would be all over that they will be all over that if uh if Lamar had an injury so they I'm sure they wouldn't want to even make mention of it because it's like oh man if he got an injury that he's dealing with and that could explain a lot why the Ravens have been passing so much that could explain part of it but if he's dealing with an injury then that could be very scary um if they put it out there and then teams they start gunning for him because this football is a nasty league and you know people like to do that so if he did have an injury that would definitely explain some more things that have been going on and the last question on this episode of question from subscribers came from my boy Sean C he said hey this is Sean my question is knowing that the Ravens are in the market for a pass rusher what do you think about David Irving David Irving just got reinstated by the NFL and he's now a free agent he just turned 27 and there's a great pass rusher who was a pretty good run stopper as well I think the Ravens should go out and sign him he would take a cheap deal and it would help the Ravens pass rush out tremendously he's six seven two 82 and has a wingspan of seven uh feet five inches Ravens nation what do you guys think it kind of hurt put him on a practice squad your brain meant for a workout see how he is see what type of shape he's in and if you like him you can put him on a practice squad then call him up for game day we talked about this in the live stream that we did um a couple days ago uh this exact scenario so yeah it ain't like you're gonna have to come in so much money to him you can sign him to the practice squad and then boom you call him up for a game they see how he is and and if he if he's like really good to go then you can call him up to the active roster and then he could be on a team for good then so it could be a simple like simple solution if he looks good if you bring him in for a workout first and if he looks good then boom hey you want to practice squad my friend and then once once you activate him for that first game day and if he's looking apart you try him again for a second game day and you can even protect them because you can protect four people on the practice squad every week so if he looks that good you can protect them so nobody can steal him off your practice squad and then if he looks that great then say hey welcome to the team