Thank you. And thanks for the introduction. Yeah, my name is Felix Arns and we're gonna talk about tackling performance in the WordPress ecosystem at scale We're not gonna really do that right now because it might take a while But we're gonna look into what it takes what it takes to get to that Yeah, you already heard a little bit about me. I am a WordPress co-committer. I've been a WordPress co-committer for about six years now I'm also musician movie geek And I'm passionate about web performance in general I'm also an optimist which I think you sometimes have to be when especially when you want to optimize performance in an Open source CMS like WordPress You can find me mostly under my full name on social media, but in WordPress. It's Flixos 90 But let's get started now. So why do we need to care about performance? WordPress sites are slow like sometimes that's low But I mean probably heard that before so what does what does it really mean? It's I want to really emphasize that this is just not empty complaints like we can look at some facts You may be familiar with core web vitals or short CWV already, but I'm just gonna quickly recap what they are so core web vitals are comprised of three key metrics that represent different aspects of performance And those names may seem a bit hard to parse But actually what's behind that behind them is not that complex to understand. So First LCP is basically how the how fast the page loads I think that is what a lot of us really think about what is web performance and while one may argue that It's maybe the most important of all of these but it's I want to really highlight that it's not the only thing that matters for performance So LCP is how fast the page loads The other two are FID and CLS FID first input delay is essentially how fast the web page responds to user interactions So for example when you scroll down When you scroll just when you scroll down and it lacks or when you click something and it only reacts after two seconds like That would be a bad FID And CLS is how stable the layout is Cumulative layout shift that sounds a bit complicated, but it's it's basically how it's basically about that Page elements should not move Unexpectedly without which means basically without any user interaction So this is easily outlined with an example You've probably all had this experience somewhere where you on your phone and maybe the connection is not so good Or maybe the website is just really terrible and you want to click a button But just as you click on the button it shifts down and you click on something else often an ad So that is that is what really makes for bad CLS score So Each of these metrics has some thresholds defines for which we are which which values are considered good or poor But I but there's also the overall co-op vitals assessment It really it only it has a site only passes the overall co-op vitals assessment if all three values are good So you can just have like I don't know fast loading website to have to get good core web vitals It has to be good and across all of these three to have a great performance and great user experience So how are WordPress sites doing in that regard the answer is you guess it not that good To be fair WordPress has a great FID passing rate and CLS is okay But LCP so loading performance, which is one of the most important aspects Especially when just when you're just land on a website. It's really not good looking that good Seeing the 35 percent here basically means that 65 percent of all WordPress sites out there Load their main content too slowly To provide a good user experience and we've probably heard before that that's one of the that's one of the causes that people that that leads people to leave your website before they even Start browsing your content and you lose potential clients potential customers So yeah, the 35 percent here is really is really one of the main things we need to focus on when we WordPress performance Because of these three metrics LCP is also really the main one that drags down overall co-op vitals Passing rate, which is only at twenty eight point four percent on mobile as of July this year On desktop, it's only marginally better with thirty two percent point three percent To provide a bit more context where this data comes from it is sourced from HTTP archive and the Chrome UX report both of which are public data sets that Anybody can query you can explore all of that data yourself And yeah, one of the good entry points is the CWV tech dot report URL here. That's linked That's essentially where all this exact data comes from But the whole data sets there are public and yeah, so I also another thing I also want to highlight is briefly looking at other CMS's the passing rate that there is first of all the LCP metric is Generally the one that is the worst so that's not only a WordPress problem to be fair But WordPress is even compared to other CMS is particularly They are scoring low in that in that one and For example, I want to highlight one thing to highlight is a typo three for example has an overall CWV passing rate of around sixty percent. So that's like more than double the one of WordPress So with this background, let's now look at what WordPress has been doing recently in that regard And what we need to focus on and to improve the situation You may or may have not heard about the WordPress performance team, which is a relatively new team The WordPress performance team is a dedicated working group to tackle monitoring This is essentially our mission statement to tackle monitoring enhancing and promoting performance in WordPress core and its surrounding ecosystem The team was kick-started in late 2021 and a collaborative effort It's spearheaded by different contributors from various companies including Google Which was where I work Yoast 10 up XWP where other companies involved in that and we got support from the community right away Like there were a ton of super excited comments on this first proposal post And shortly after we started having weekly slack meetings, which we've had ever since and Then earlier in 2022 we established the performance lab plugin, which is a new yeah a relative new plugin Which I'll tell you more about in just a bit Then after a few months of the successful collaboration The team was really formally established as an official part of the WordPress project in July So there is now we have now our own website make.wordpress.org performance This is going to really be the entry point for everything around its team It's currently heavily being worked on so there is not that much content yet But bookmark this already if you're interested. This is the best. This will be the best way to get started So what are the goals of the WordPress performance team? It can be broken down into three things First we want to improve performance at scale through WordPress core enhancements and fixes so While such efforts They often take really long because of all the backward compatibility of edge and edge cases that we need to consider It also means anything that we can land in WordPress core. It goes to every WordPress site in the whole world Those that update at least In addition we want to work on tools that make it easier for developers to be out to monitor performance and to make decisions Based on performance metrics, so that's both for the development of core plugins and themes But also for yeah when your code is used in the production in production sites in the wild so there's there's so-called lap metrics, which is where it be essentially when you run under the experiment and you You let's say you code your develop if and what you think is a perform an enhancement And then you have to compare how it's be working before and after that's kind of a lap test But then you also need to look once you have launched this thing or maybe made it in a beta put it in a beta testing plugin or something how it's really performing across at scale like across websites and that's where Yeah tools is like especially tools like HDP archive or Or the Chrome user experience reports can be helpful So The last point is just yeah, we want to generally raise more awareness of performance during development and Yeah, like other general security areas like security and accessibility performance needs to really be an integral part of all phases of development Let's look into each of these three in a little bit more depth So the primary project that the WordPress performance team has been working on is the performance lab plug-in, which I already mentioned before This is not your regular performance plug-in though. It's It is effectively a beta testing plug, which is for performance related feature projects so what or has for a long time had this concept of feature projects and Yeah, we have is that you've essentially established this plug-in to make it easier to work on any performance-related feature plug-ins Projects which are included in this plug-in as modules as individual modules So it's essentially a bundle of different performance features that each of which we hope to eventually get into WordPress core and Yeah, you've I learned this is similar to for example if you've used jetpack before like you have individual modules in that a single plug-in Yeah, and by having all this in a single plug-in it makes it easier to maintain from a development perspective But it also makes it easier for end users to test because they just have to Install this one plug-in and they don't have to keep up with all the other things that are happening in WordPress core And which plugins are possibly there? And it also makes it easier to monitor performance Because we've built infrastructure into this plug-in which for example Outputs a Metagenerator tag similar to WordPress so that we can use tools like datasets like HTTP archive to Compare and assess performance in the from sites that use this plug-in So that leads us to the making decision making metric-based decisions This is a key aspect where we as our ecosystem have a lot to learn The WordPress ecosystem has a tendency to decide things on like arbitrary beliefs and experiences like this 80% rule, but we really know whether 80% of the sites Like will need this feature or not And and we have sometimes we don't really have a way in WordPress to get this information because of the lack of telemetry Which is perfectly fine But we also have to be honest with ourselves like saying doing xyd xyz will improve performance Doesn't necessarily mean that it will actually improve performance. So When with performance, we are in a unique position to make metric-based decisions because we have certain these we have tools available we have datasets available and Yeah, the performance team is we really want to work on making this more Accessible I guess to the to the WordPress ecosystem and We also want to start writing documentation on how you can for example use how you can query HTTP archive to to get Specific metrics that you're interested in for a certain feature that you may be building Yeah, as mentioned before all these tools they are publicly available so You should you should have documentation for this very soon So anybody of you can also start using that and then this aspect of being making metric-based decisions is No important thing that I would love for us to embrace more as a community But there are other in my other ways where we can increase increase performance awareness for example members of the performance team recently Yeah, including myself started proposing a WordPress performance checker a plug-in checker and The plug-in like you may have heard that there is already a theme check tool. It has been out there for years so theme developers can use this tool to find violations in their code to scan their code for problems and while this is somewhat more complicated for plugins because plugins can kind of do anything they want we do think there is there is definitely value in this and we also do think that this is possible to to build and If we have a plug-in checker we can assess we can we can basically warn and inform developers as they're Developing their plugins about Potential issues relating security accessibility, but of course also performance So that's something that we want to really kickstart very soon Other than that we also there are other ideas what we could do for example There is already a security section in the plug-in developer handbook, but there is no performance section So maybe there's also a lot of documentation where we can help plug-in developers to learn more about those best practices To end this section about the WordPress performance team. I'd just like to highlight some of the Greater WordPress core projects that the team has been currently working on Using on all of these how are part of the performance lab plug-in. So that is used as a testing vehicle To highlight one of them just just this week actually we got the latest what the uploads feature committed to WordPress core And based on yeah data from the Chrome UX report. This will help Almost 80% of WordPress sites out there to improve the LCP metric by using that more progressive web P image format Okay, so much for the current progress of the WordPress performance team, but let's now focus up on a bit more long-term thinking here It's great that we now have the performance team But to be truly successful in improving performance at scale We must understand the challenges of our ecosystem and we need a shift in mindset to think about the performance in work Some of this may not be new to you But let me highlight the four challenges we have in our WordPress ecosystem when it comes to performance first WordPress and most open other or most other open source cms is for that matter They are distributed so you can host them anywhere and while there is a number of Hosts out there and it's more and more. They're more and more hosts out there that Optimized specifically for WordPress. That's always still the one-way optimization like WordPress itself still has to work on any host out there, so yeah, this way This way you basically yeah, that makes it really hard because you have to satisfy a ton of edge cases and what if Certain hosts may not support the best latest technology and this is always a big challenge to advance performance in WordPress The second challenge though, which is more specific to our ecosystem is the lack of quality assurance So the plug-in and theme repository is there essentially a free-for-all and that is great while that is great to have Especially like it's great to have no no unnecessary roadblocks in your way, especially when you're new WordPress developer But there is the fact that yeah, you have there's basically little to no control and not even Assessment on quality so that means it leads to two problems as a developer You just don't learn about anything like you don't improve you don't you don't find out that your product plug-in may have problems And then as an end user you have basically no idea how you can Yeah, what how you can assess a plug-in like if you want to find a plug-in for a certain purpose And then you have 20 different plugins to choose from you Don't really know which one of these is good and which one isn't That also then indirectly leads to the third challenge Many WordPress plugins and sometimes even themes Compete against each other simply by the number of features that they offer That results then in bloated solutions, which makes performance even worse or at least even harder to get good performance And then due to the lack of quality criteria for plugins and themes That are shown to end users. That's really the only thing that end users can look at and I Understand if you're plug-in developer today that Yeah, this this is maybe the way to get to get users to get potential customers But we also I this is also really this is how the WordPress ecosystem works today But I think we need to shift there like we should we need to focus more on Yeah, quality assessment and then last but not least there is just the sheer size of the WordPress ecosystem I don't even know anymore at this point. How many like plugins and themes there are but it's It's definitely more than 60,000 just on WordPress org alone And then even think about all those other market places that there are outside of WordPress org So this ecosystem size of WordPress simply scales all the other three problems to massive dimensions So what can we do about all that? Mentioned we need to educate developers on performance best practices and this that the performance team has already started focusing on We also need to establish quality guidelines and enforcing them would of course be a great potential goal But even encouraging them would be great start This then also relates to the first through the third point here We need to make performance and incentive that is worth focusing on for plug-in and theme developers I know that enforcing I mean while while I I personally I would be open to enforcing certain quality guidelines But that can be seen as somewhat controversial in the ecosystem So while enforcing may be a bit of a stretch I think we could still yeah, we could still Reward plug-ins and themes that do the right thing for example There could be a badging system in in the plug-in and theme repositories for plug-ins or themes that yeah Follow certain like follow certain best practices And then this way it would help site owners make a more educated decision One which plug into truth for a certain use case and at the same time it would give the plug-in and theme developers Yeah, it would allow them to also To improve that to improve their plug-ins to a essentially to eventually also get these patches But the most important point which I want to highlight in this session is the last one here automating performance fixes All of the other three points they are important But I think this one it takes just special priority especially because the massive because of the massive ecosystem that is word plus Realistically the number of word plus plugins and themes is so extremely large that no matter how much we educate Encourage quality guidelines and make performance and incentive we can only get so far because Even if we went all the way in with With the word plus plug-in and theme repositories for example think about all those infamous third-party marketplaces which may not do that and then These efforts may be completely remained ignored and but still deals some of these marketplaces have plug-ins and themes that are widely used and We have to be also be honest with ourselves like how many of the word press developers and Out of around the world. Do we think really read? WordPress org regularly or follow the best practices like I'm all of us here probably do but There are so many there are so many developers out there that will not know about any of what we're doing here. So We need to really Yeah, we need to really find ways to in wordpress to fix perform in wordpress core in A way that does not require all of these 10,000 of plugins to use a certain API or just opt into a certain behavior Basically, we need to enhance wordpress core that it Fixes the mistakes that the plug-in or theme developer make So this may sound crazy, but I'd like to think that I like us to think about that a little bit more we can indeed get quite far by Investing in all of the different ways to improve performance that I've mentioned who knows maybe we can get to like a 40 50 Maybe even 60 percent CWP passing rate eventually But having core identify and solve performance problems out of the box Is what I think Maybe the only way to get to even higher numbers than that like to the 70 80 90 I mean 100 percent is a bit of stretch, but you get what I mean So let's look into this idea a bit more a First principle we should start doing is wherever possible use smart defaults When we think about defaults today, we tend to automatically gravitate towards a single default value But it does not have to be just a single value We could instead add logic to compute a dynamic default value based on certain heuristics For example When we introduced lazy loading in wordpress 5.5 We initially went with that more naive approach where the default for lazy loading an image was simply true Like every in every content image was lazy loaded out of the box And then we advised theme developers to customize the behavior based on the theme layout because one thing that is One thing that is discouraged is to lazy load images which are in the initial viewport but then Of course, not every theme in the world will adopt this will take care of this So after some time after we launched this we noticed that there was a regression in LCP actually This feature was launched. Of course, it had up still other benefits To have lazy loading, but the LCP metric itself partially regressed because of this feature And that was because of this default being simply true And we basically left it to theme developers to fix it to to adjust it based on their theme layout so We then did several analysis with different ideas on how we could set some Dead default value dynamically and we compared them to find one that works reliable Reliable yet scale so we come we we wrote we wrote a different patches and We compared them across a hundred different themes hundred different of the most popular themes to see kind of what which one works best across all of them and then that one was shipped in wordpress 5.9 and essentially now that means It it's now doing the right thing without requiring developers or site owners to intervene When implementing those smart kinds of defaults Captain we have to keep in mind though that they still are defaults and they still have some room for improvement Even when yeah, when we tested this with like hundred themes There was an improvement for for most of them with the version that we eventually went with But there were other also a few themes which maybe have more unique layouts that were not That would not benefit from this so they are and in any case There always needs to be a way for an individual developer to go in and maybe optimize even more for their specific site so Really, I want to call out that even though smart defaults. They should remain defaults So and because they are based on logic It may just need to be require a bit more thinking on how you can make these overriding because it's not just a single value Sometimes it may help introducing an extra filter for example with lazy loading Then we introduced this filter there with where you can control for every individual image whether it should be lazy loaded or not So this way in eventually the developer can go in and has full control to make this even more optimal for their site I mentioned before that we did some analysis to find a good heuristic, but yeah, let's be real It's unlikely even for smart defaults to cover every possible use case out there so we should be focusing on the following two points like the default logic it should Notable performance improvement for the vast majority of sites think about maybe at least 70 per 70 or 80 percent of WordPress sites But then the remaining WordPress sites, of course, they could still be optimized further But it would probably require manual optimization because they behave in two specific Yeah, two edge. Maybe yeah, two unique in edge case ways that we can't address it in a universal way but the main thing about if for those sites is For at least those should they should not see a performance regression So whenever we built something like this and they find a heuristic We need to make sure we find a heuristic that Improves it for the majority, but for the ones that it doesn't improve keeps it at the level that it was before So to define a heuristic that satisfies these requirements It is critical to validate the behavior than afterwards also on real-world sites and using field metrics from tools like the Chrome UX report One of the biggest challenges with these smart defaults today, though Is that WordPress content is generated on the server side in PHP? This means we have no idea on how that content is interpreted and loaded on the client side And we also don't have any reliable information on certain aspects like the viewport size so That has been also a significant drawback in this lazy loading effort because the word pass cut It's about the viewport which image should not be lazy loaded So we but we could only use the server site to make some guess Basically about it and that's why we needed to do this this whole analysis. So Let's say a WordPress user publishes a new publishes a new page today and then several users visit this page It's published where WordPress simply serves the page from the server side at its best capacity But probably not fully optimized Let's dream here for a moment Imagine we had a mechanism there like some background script that ran in the front end of the WordPress site to gather relevant client heuristics and then this data could be sent to the rest API to a new WordPress rest API endpoint where it would be processed and then stored in the word pass database then subsequent requests For subsequent requests WordPress could use this information to serve the page content in an optimized way This may sound crazy and of course there would be several complexity involved in this like around security around Around storage about the different viewports. So responsiveness But I also think what that here would enable for WordPress and all sites out there It's would be massive like many so many So many different optimization techniques for a performance require a client awareness like critical CSS deferring JavaScript resource prioritization in general But also lazy loading images like I already said it could be optimized even more with that Just to give you a few examples I told you I'm an optimist But I truly believe that we can achieve something like this not next month and maybe not even next year But I think we can work towards it from now on Of course this requires a mind shift We need to really try things and we need to also be prepared for failures But we must also must avoid shutting down those types of ideas before they even attempted I'd love for you to think about these ideas and paradigms further Let's start focusing more on ways that we can fix things in core out of the box without Requiring every plug-in and theme developer to be out to you to use a certain API What I really want to convey is APIs should still be part of the solution But they should not be the full solution Especially in regards to the last point. Let's brainstorm this further I'd love to hear your ideas about that. Of course also your concerns We need that too, but let's just not go into this like yeah, there's no way we can get this into WordPress core We need to think big like like that big I hope I was able to Spark some inspiration for you with those concepts if any of this resonates you with you, please help us in the performance team There are many ways to support the efforts of the performance team and Really I want to emphasize right now is only the beginning so anybody is that contributes can really help Shape the team and the roadmap So going forward the best entry point like I already mentioned before is the make WordPress org slash performance website You will find you already find links here to everything else that's relevant to contributing to the team and very soon You will find a fully fledged comprehensive handbook with documentation including onboarding One of the best ways to familiarize yourself with the processes is to participate in our weekly slack chats They happen every Tuesday at 15 UTC which is eight in the morning West Coast time so get up early, please We also have the word press slash performance a repository in GitHub Which is home to the performance lab plug-in development But also that repository use for any kinds of discussions on issues around other aspects of the performance team as well So here you can really contribute and to your to our feature projects, but you can also propose your new ideas and Last but not least, please test the performance plug-in performance lab plug-in And provide feedback on the individual modules So whether you can you can do that through the word press support forums reviews or even by reporting box on GitHub directly So even if you cannot Commit directly to contributing to the team or if you're unsure where to start This is the excellent way just testing the plug-in is an excellent way to support the performance team And it can also be an entry point for more. I'd love to see you around in the performance team But also today, let's chat more if you're interested in any of this And I'm also going to be at the contributor day tomorrow We're gonna have an area there where we're gonna work on word press performance So please join the contributor day if you're interested as well and help us. Yeah to move things forward That's it. Thank you We have ten minutes for questions and we're also taking questions from the chat Yes so I worked with four web finals quite a bit and We're very aware of how that works Our clients have those metrics However, it also seems like at the same time there's two separate rules for people like there's people that are All that stuff And I don't feel like Like there's a certain threshold where it just doesn't make a difference On how terrible your performance is You're still gonna rank higher Just kind of curious how that conversation happens or at Google or penalizing those people who really do have like authority, but I mean You search chicken recipes. I can guarantee you with the number one thing on there doesn't pass They're just terrible Performance, and I'm curious how that happens. How that how that discussion happens so let me see if we can understand what you're asking which is how come there's a discrepancy between what Google says About performance in terms of how it affects your ranking Versus what we see in the wild in an actual search Okay, Felix I I can't really speak much to that because I'm I'm not part of in I'm not involved in this piece at all like Google search or the ranking so From out like I'm more I'm I'm for me for my perspective. It's really cold white vitals are a way to measure performance and and Yeah, for me the goal to get good cold white vitals would be to get a good user experience Of course it does affect Ranking somehow, but I have no idea how Better I mean there are I'm sure there are there are people are talking about this It's just not it's just people in other teams of Google Okay, and we have a question from the chat So Scott brim Says he's in a debate with others about WordPress performance And he's looking for either a link to your slides so he can reference those or some written materials that you might be able to share Okay, so Scott brim is looking for links to share Where he can get your resources I yeah, I will definitely publish the slides Just be a later today Probably in the next hour and I share link on my Twitter profile Probably then so if you look at Felix Arons on Twitter then you you should find that okay, and then we had someone Okay, I'll have you next and there was a lady over here on my left Yes Okay, so how would a development team get started with performance is that what you asked Yeah, I think so at the I think one of the good ways to start is You could have I just be asked specifically about a plug-in for example. Yeah. Yeah, so if you You could have you could install the plug-in on some test site and configure it with Yeah, with different content and I don't know of course a plug-in could do whatever whatever But you could basically have maybe even have multiple test sites with different configurations of the same plug-in which so and then you can You can test though test test these pages with tools like a web page test or page speed insights to see Yeah, where are the where where are the violations and From there, of course when you want one a little one thing that may be a little complex there is to figure out Is it is this problem from from your plug-in or is it from WordPress core? But in general if you the main thing there is that you would need to test this on a site where it's only your plug-in and maybe a Super minimal theme which has nothing in it so that the theme would not affect performance Okay, and our questioner from over here Maybe I Think I mean I yeah, I think that's something that Yeah, if I'm I'm person not that familiar with yeah with AI but we But I think there yeah, if there is people that would contribute to the performance team Who have more of this background knowledge there? I would be super excited about that because I do think there is definitely a lot of opportunities for it Okay, and over here I I do actually yes not know about this right now, but you can come to the Google booth later, and I'm sure somebody there will know Okay Do you think it would be helpful or distracting to put performance measurement feedback in terms of environmental impact in terms of incentivizing people Towards trying to make their sites faster Sorry, can you can say the first part of it during a website takes energy? There's an environmental impact to that the internet itself is a major source of carbon emissions globally Do you think that highlighting that in the way that we talk about performance might be a way to incentivize? more people to take this seriously or Do you think that would be a distraction? I Mean I definitely don't think it would be distraction. I think it could definitely Yeah, definitely help incentivize performance Second and then we'll take third row and then the chat But Hmm, I mean That does sound more like a plug-in team perform issue Yeah, yeah, yeah, I Think right right I I Mean I don't have a spontaneous idea about this right now, but I think that Yeah, I mean that would be that would definitely be worth looking into I I guess I would Yeah, I'm struggling right now with the idea of Because that's so deeply in the in the code base you kind of need to scan the code base of the plug-in to find certain problems there So I don't know how you would then automatically fix the code base of the plug-in or something maybe Okay, third row Between the word press for plug-ins What from a site developers point of view what should you be looking for to optimize just from that Overall view what is the what is the worst offender for For those core web vitals. What's the what's the first thing you should look for in terms of what's taken too much time I Think that varies a lot on different case-by-case basis So I think that's where it's best to use one of these tools to run is run it over your site and see what is what are the worst Problems according to this like web page test page the insights again are two of those tools that I would recommend there And we are at time. Thank you very much Hope to see you tomorrow contributor day and the social tonight And we'll be back here in 15 minutes for the next top


Let's take a moment to pray. Then we will get started today. Could somebody please lead us in prayer this morning? Who would like to pray? All right. I'll pray. Please go ahead, Kennedy. I have any further? Thank you for this opportunity given to ask to come into your presence, to learn your words. I commit everybody, in the mighty power of your hands, over whatever we are going to learn, and give you what you are going to learn. Thank you for this word, because it gives us a deeper meaning of what we should do and what we should learn. I commit everybody, in the presence of the Almighty, in the name of the Son Jesus Christ, amen. Amen. Amen. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for connecting to the class. BC 209, our course on holiness. So in this final section, what we have been doing is talking about overcoming, specifically, how do we overcome the flesh, the world, and the devil so that we can pursue God's call to holiness on our lives? So God has called each of us to holiness. He is a holy God. He has sanctified us. He has made us holy. But now that has to be worked out in our daily life here on Earth. And we are living in a world where there's so much of sin and all kinds of evil around us. So the big question for us is, how do we live holy practically as we go through this life on Earth? How do we do it? And so we said there are three main areas of challenges, the flesh, the world, and the devil. They are trying to pull us down. And so we spent some time talking about overcoming the flesh, how there are the desires of the flesh that are there in this natural body. But we must learn to overcome it with the word of God and the strength and the power that comes from the Holy Spirit. And so we talked about that and we talked about some practical things that we can do to take care of ourselves. Like I said I was mentioning on Monday, the Bible says, make no provision for the flesh. That means don't give the flesh any chance. Don't give it any opportunity. And so we have to think like that. We have to, in all our planning and as we go about our daily work and daily lives, think like that. I shouldn't put myself in a place where the flesh can raise up its head and overpower me in some way and pull me down. I shouldn't put myself in those kinds of situations. So make no provision for the flesh. So these are practical things that we can do as we go about our journey through life. Today, we want to go into the next part, which is overcoming the world. Overcoming the world. So we want to talk about that and address some of the challenges we face and how do we overcome the world. So I'm going to go ahead, share the notes. And all right. So overcoming the world. So what are the challenges we face as believers as we live in this world? So we know the whole world. The Bible says the whole world lies in the control or under the influence of the wicked one. First on chapter 5, verse 19, John writes, as you know, the whole world is under the control of the wicked one as Satan's influencing so much that's going on in the world around us. So how do we, let me just make sure, first on 5, yeah, 19. So how do we overcome the world? So if you want to break it down, we could say, look, broadly speaking, there are these three areas of challenges we face. One is worldly influences and attractions. Second is the cares and the pressures of this world. And third, there are the troubles, the persecutions, or you could say the hardships, the trials, and the tribulations that are in the world. All of these come against the believer. And none of us are exempt from it, meaning as long as we are alive in this world, we will face these things. It's just part of journeying through this world. We will face it. But the good thing is we can overcome it. We can live victorious over these things. If we understand and if we apply what the Bible teaches us. So let's talk about each of these and then talk about what can we do to overcome the world. So worldly influences and attractions. We feel the pull and the pressure of the influence, the attraction of the world. What are some examples we can think of? Do you want to share, anybody? Let's just imagine we were all sitting in the same classroom. It would be very easy to have some discussions. So when we were sitting in the same classroom, I would definitely ask people to share. So what are some of the worldly pressures, influences we face, examples? What do you think? Money, yeah? We face the pressure, the influence. We see other people, they're making so much money. That must have made you so much money. That must have made you so much money. So the influence is there. What else do we face? Family issues. Family issues. So what was that again? Family issues. Oh, family. OK, yes, yes. Family pressures, peer pressure, Divya said, wrong influences of friends. So we face worldly influences and attractions. Sometimes you have a car. And then there is, oh, why can't I have that kind of a car, a bigger car, a better car, a more luxurious car, whatever. Or we have a house. And then, oh, why can't I have a bigger house? We're going to have so many, so many influences and so many attractions in the world. It comes through us, to so many ways, through the news and social media. And yeah, I'm seeing what all of you are sharing. Very good. Through even the mobile phones, news and social media. So the worldly influences, worldly attractions, come on us. So you have clothes and some of that. Why can't you have better clothes or some more fancy looking clothes? Or I'm not against, if you have the money to buy good clothes, by all means, buy the clothes you want. But the thing is, if you give in to the pressure, and we talk about the pressure, the worldly influence, the worldly attractions, the need for, yeah, Christopher says, the power, the need for, you know, being and having control over people, influence over people, power, position, title, fame. Yeah, so a lot of these kinds of things, you know, we all feel, I mean, different ones of us in different stages of life will feel different things. But all these things are there, that are there. And the believer, the child of God, also faces these things. Yeah, just because you're a child of God, just because we are believers, doesn't mean these worldly influences and worldly attractions are not there. You know, it's there. We face it. So we must learn, learn how to, you know, live it torious over these things. So there are these worldly influences and attractions. I think about this, you know, this is a very interesting statement that the Apostle Paul made about one of his co-workers. His name was Demus. Yeah, in Philemon chapter 124, Paul refers to Demus as his fellow worker, his co-worker, hey, you know, he mentions all his co-workers, you know, and he mentions Demus. But then in the last episode that he wrote, the Apostle Paul wrote, this is what he had to say. He said, Demus has forsaken me, having loved this present world and has departed. Now, can you imagine, this is Paul's last episode, 2 Timothy chapter 4. He wrote this just before he died, before he was martyrs. And this is closing remarks, these final words. And he says, you know, Demus, who was one of his co-workers, he has forsaken, he left the team. But why did he leave the team? Not because he had some other problem, but he left the team because he loved this present world and he has departed. That's a very tragic statement to make about a fellow worker in the ministry, that he would leave the ministry because he loved this present world. So you can see how strong the pull of this world must have been that one of the co-workers of the great apostle Paul was pulled back into the world. So we have to be careful, we have to be careful. So the Bible tells us that we must keep ourselves unspotted from the world.  You don't let the dirt, the filth and all of that, let it don't let it just slap itself on you. You keep ourselves unspotted from the world. If people should see, here's a child of God and they are above this world.  They are not tainted. This is a child of God. People should see that. That is a mark of difference between a child of God and somebody who is living in the world. The child of God should be unspotted. Their garments should not be dirtied by the moral corruption, the decay, the evil that's in the world. Now, the good news is that God has given to us all things that we need for life and godliness through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue. For everything we need for life and a godly living. For godliness means to live godly. So he has given to us. Notice the past tense. He has given to us by his power through the knowledge of him that is through our knowing the Lord who called us to glory and virtue. He's given to us everything so that by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that means God has given to us his word, great and precious promises, that through these we may be partakers of the divine nature. So we share in the divine nature of God having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. So this is the life of the believer. What is it? The believer is able to escape. That means to live free from the corruption that is in the world through lust. So there is moral decay in the world because of evil desire. Lust means evil desire. So in the world, there is corruption, moral decay, because of all the evil desires. But for the believer, God has given to us everything that we need to live the life and godliness to live in this world and to live godly in this world. Because we know him who called us to glory and virtue. And he has given us great and precious promises. He's given us his word so that through the word, we can enjoy the, we can be living the divine nature and escape the corruption that's in the world. So it is possible for us as believers to live in this world, we are in this world, all around us, there is the influence, that is the attraction. But it is possible if we make use of what God has given to us. See, if you don't use it, then we will get pulled out. But God has given everything we need to live godly. He's given us great and precious promises. But we got to use them. And if you don't use that, then we can let the influence of this world overpower us. And in his second episode, Peter, in kind of a sad way, talks about some people who, in the beginning, they escaped the pollutions of the world. That means they came out of all the filth and the dirt of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. But very sadly, they get back into it. They are again entangled in them and overcome by them. This is a very sad thing. And their end is worse than the beginning. So Peter mentions, hey, be careful because you and I, we don't want to be part of this group. We start out by coming to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.  Then our end is worse than the beginning. But we don't want to be part of that. We want to learn how to live victorious over the world, overcoming the influences and attractions. Or like James says, stay unsupported from the world. How do we do that? You must learn. We are going to learn. Second part of our challenge in the world is cares, responsibilities, pressures, stresses, we face in the book. And this is real. Again, this is something we all face. We all face it. Like I think Kennedy mentioned, yeah, we face, OK, you're married.  You have a job. There are pressures on the job. Responsibilities on the job. Stress on the job. There could be financial stress. There could be all kinds of stress or expectations from people around us, the cares and the pressures, things that are pushing down upon us. And every believer faces it. And Jesus warned us about this in the parable of the Sower. And we all know this. He said, you know, some seeds fall among thorns. Now, what are the thorns? What are the thorns represent? Jesus went on to explain. He said, the thorns actually represent the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches and desire for other things. So that's what the thorns represent, the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches. The desires or the attractions of other things. So it's the world. So the world can actually choke the word if they are allowed to enter into the life of the believer. So we hear the word of God. So Sunday after Sunday, you go to church, hear the word of God. And maybe sometimes during the week, you can listen to sermons, listen to that. Now, read the Bible, all of that. But then if we don't keep the cares of this world, the things of this world, the pleasures of this world outside, we don't keep it away. It could come in and it'll choke the word. So sometimes we can become overburdened by the cares of this world. So we can mention some of the cares of this world like we already did in 1 Corinthians 7, the Apostle Paul is writing about the married person. He says, the married person has to handle the responsibilities of the home, of the marriage. The wife has to take care of, I mean, see how she can minister to her husband. The husband has to see how he can minister to the wife. And then they have the family. You've got to take care of your family, of course. And all of those things are there, you know. And we have to be careful that while these are responsibilities we have to fulfill, we can't avoid it.  And then what happens? The world has overpowered the believer. So there are influences and attractions. There are cares and responsibilities. And the Bible teaches us to cast all our care upon it. Yeah, that is, yeah, we face these pressures but we have to put it on the Lord. And then the third aspect that we all face from the world is troubles and persecutions. Now, again, there could be so many different kinds of things, troubles, yeah, there are the storms of life that come. For example, you know, the example, let's say, the last couple of years there was a pandemic. And then it impacted people everywhere. So depending, of course, depending on the kind of jobs that people had, depending on the kind of industries they were working on, many industries, many workplaces had to close because they couldn't continue business. So that impacted the people working there. And you know, people faced hardships. It was unexpected, but it affected so many people. And so there could be these unexpected challenges. Sometimes companies close down. Sometimes people lose their jobs for other reasons. Or there could be all kinds of troubles. You know, there could be, I don't know, there could be political problems. There could be, what do you call it, weather problems, you know, tornadoes, cyclones, storms, this, that, all kinds of things. So there are all kinds of difficulty, troubles in the world. And sometimes we even face oppositions and persecutions because of our faith. We may face it in school, college, in the workplace, and so on. So believers face this, right? Troubles and persecutions, hardships. And Jesus warned us. You know, in John 1633, he said, in the world, you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. So in the world, you will have tribulation. As long as we're in the world, these things will happen. It's not like we will not face these things. But he has shown us that he has overcome and therefore we too can overcome as we follow what he's taught us. So how do we live as overcomeists over the well-learned influences and attractions, over the cares and the pressures, the troubles and persecutions? How do we live as overcomeists through these things? We can't make these things go away. Sometimes we, for example, people think, OK, if I go into a monastery or live somewhere in a very remote place, I won't face worldly influences and attractions. Well, possibly to some extent, if people isolate themselves maybe, but there are still responsibilities. There are still cares. There are still things they will have to deal with even inside a monastery or wherever. It's not like everything is gone. There are responsibilities. So what are practical things the Bible teaches us to do? We'll focus on four biblical instructions. The first one, the Bible teaches us, is that we as believers, and these are for instructions for believers. The first instruction is that we must set our affections on things above, and we'll talk about how we apply each of these. Second, we must stay sanctified by the word and the spirit. You will find the word and the spirit. These two things are common in all areas. So when we talk about flesh, we mention, use the word of God, dip it in the Holy Spirit. When we talk about the world, same thing, the word of God and the spirit. When we talk about the devil, same thing, the word of God and the spirit. So the word of God and the spirit is common. This is how we live. Number three, we live by faith in God and with a renewed mind. So we must learn to live like this, live differently. And number four, this is the practical side. We have to be spiritually minded, but we also have to be earthly wise. We'll talk about these things. So number one is to set our affections or desires on things above. So what does that mean? We can put it in many ways. Jesus said, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things will be added to you. So it doesn't mean that I shouldn't want to have or desire for the things in the world, meaning if you want to have a home or a decent place to live or those things. It's not wrong to desire it. But our primary desire, every affection is on things above. Seek first the kingdom of God. So that's priority. He says, first, God's kingdom. Then all these other things will be added to you. You know what we need for life? Of course, you need money. You need a place to live. You need a means of transport. All those things will be added to you. Don't worry about it. But first, seek first the kingdom. Or Paul put it like this in Colossians chapter 3. It says, if you are raised with Christ, seek those things which are above. Seek after heavenly things. Desire first and foremost for the things of God, because that's where our life is. And we have been raised with Christ and we are at the right hand of God. So first and foremost, desire those things which are of God. How do we do it? Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died and your life is sitting with Christ in God. So this is talking about where our affections should be, where our desires should be, where our priorities should be, our mind on things above. Seek those things which are above. So what does it mean? We must pursue, yearn for things that are above. We direct our mind and seek for things that are above. We strive for those things. So that's our priority. That's where our affection is. So what is the thing that we really want? Most, God, I want your kingdom. I want to please your heart. I want to be pleasing to you.  I want things which are above that's priority. Now, there's nothing wrong if we also attend to natural things.  You would desire to get a job, a good job. You would desire to make a good salary. You would desire to have a good place to live, good clothes to wear. There's nothing wrong with those desires. But those desires are in the right place, meaning they come, people are like this. But your foremost desire is things which are above. God, my heart is on you. I want to do your will. And all these other things, of course, I will enjoy them. They're good things, but they're all serving a higher purpose, which is the kingdom of God, which is doing the will of God for my life, which is pleasing the heart of God, which is glorifying God. So in your studies, in your career, in your job, in your finances, in your home, in the clothes you wear, in everything, all these other things are only serving a higher purpose, which is pleasing the heart of God. So while we do have these goals and these desires, they don't control us. They don't control us. So for example, John writes in 1 John 2, 16 and 17, he says, love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, they're not of the Father, but they're of the world. And the world is passing away in the lust thereof, but he who does the will of God will abide forever. He says, don't love the world. See, the world offers the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. So that's what it attracts your eyes. It appeals to your evil desires of the flesh. It appeals to our pride, our sense of achievement, and all those things. That's what the world is trying to attack. But he says, don't love those things. Because it's all passing away, it's going away. It's here and gone, it's here and gone. But he who does the will of God, he abides. So our focus is on doing the will of God, right? So the first thing is, where is our affections? What are the things that really please you? What are your real desires? The desire for the things of God must be more than the natural goals that we pursue. So we have to understand this, right? It's not wrong to have practical goals, like finishing education, all those practical things like I just mentioned. It's not wrong, but those are in a, they're all serving a higher purpose. They're all connected to a greater desire, which is to please the heart of God, do the will of God, seek first the kingdom. Our affections are set on things above, right? Or James chapter four was four, I think we referenced it last class, you know, where David brought that question up. If any man is a friend of the world, he's an enemy of God, excuse me. So I can't have friendship with the world. So my friendship is with God. And of course I engage with the world because we live in it and we have to practically get things done. So we engage with the world, but our friendship is with God. Our friendship is not with the world. That means our affections, our desires are in the things of God. The world, we practically engage to do the things we have to do, right? The apostle Paul put it like this and I like these scriptures in Galatians two and Galatians six. Paul says, I have been crucified with Christ. I have been crucified with Christ. It's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. And the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. So Paul is saying, you know what? I died with Christ, I died. So it's no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. I just think about, take some time to think about that.  I crucified with Christ. So it's no longer I, but it's Christ living in me. That means everything about me now is subject to and it's coming out of and it's centered around Christ. Christ is living in me. So his desires are being expressed through me. His priorities are expressed through me. Christ lives in me. And he says, but of course it's Paul living, right? It doesn't mean that Jesus came in and kicked Paul out. That's not, that's not, it's Paul living, but Paul is living in such a way that it is Christ living in him. And he says, I live by faith in the Son of God. So how do I do this? How do I practically live out Christ in me and live by faith in the Son of God? Another in the same in Epistle to Galatians, Paul says, you know, I will not boast in anything except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ by whom the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. So think about this. He's living in this world, but the world is dead. He's dead to the world and the world is dead to him. That means, yeah, I know there are all these things in the world, but I'm not after it. I'm not after it. I know those things are there. I know I can achieve things. If we engage in the world and we can be very successful, we can make a lot of money. We can have position, power, influence, fame, success. Sure, we can, but that's not what we're living after. The world is crucified to me, I to the world. And that doesn't mean if God has called it to be a businessman, he shouldn't be a successful businessman or whatever you're doing. You do it, but that itself is not what consumes us. And the world is crucified to me, I to the world, yeah. So the cross, the cross is a place of separation, separates us from the world.  That means every day I'm living separated because I'm carrying my cross daily. The cross is a place of separation. And every day I'm living separated from the world. Now, how do we practically live it out? You know, does it mean we all have to quit our jobs and we all have to, you know, or forsake living in this world? And what do we do? No, each one of us have to do what God's called us to do. Some may be called to be business people. Some may be called to engage with the world in various ways. And while we do that, we are trusting in the living God. We're not trusting in the riches or the success or the accomplishments or the position, the power, the influence. We're not trusting in that, but our trust is in the living God.  We will have different things that we can enjoy. Some may enjoy, you know, success as businessmen. Some may enjoy, you know, power, position, money, wealth. Okay, God's given it to you. Enjoy it. And we are also rich in good works. That means we use that to bless others. We use what God has given to us to help others, right? So that's the mindset here, that I'm in this world, but the world is not gonna control me. I'm an overcomer. I'm gonna do my first and foremost affection is on God. And according to what God has given to each of us, whatever he's called us to do, we do it. Our trust is always in God, not on the wealth or the money or the power, the position or the fame. We enjoy what he's given to us, it's nice, but we use what he's given to us to bless other lives, to serve the purpose of the kingdom.  That's a gift of God, that you enjoy your labor, the good of all your labor. So there's nothing wrong if you enjoy your working. You enjoy the good, the fruit of your labor. That's a gift of God, right? So what must we do? First of all, is our affections are set on God, on the things of God, while we pursue whatever God has given to each of us, you know? So I remember when I was running my business, I'll just say a little bit and then I'll open up time for questions. So, you know, I spent about 18 years or so, something like that, yeah, working in the IT industry. I was working in the US and then moved back to India and started my own business while we were pioneering the church. And so I've stayed, you know, during that time, I traveled to different countries, traveled through many countries in Europe, traveled through the Pacific, traveled through North America. So I stayed in some of the best hotels, you know, like big seven-star hotels. But it didn't bother me. So I stayed and said, God, thank you. I have the opportunity, I'm here on business, so, you know, companies pay the money, pay for this. It's okay, I'll stay and enjoy it. But it doesn't change who I am. I'm still a child of God, I'm still a minister of God. I could stay in a seven-star hotel, it doesn't matter. You know, it's fine. But, you know, I remember one particular year, in the beginning of the month or so, I was staying in this fancy hotel in Australia, came back to India, I went on a missions trip and I was like some remote part of India and I was staying in some tiny village. So I said, God, I'm fine, it doesn't matter to me. For me, I am serving God. When I was on business, I was staying in one of the best hotels that was there. I'm here going to preach and I'm staying in a remote village in a small little room, it's fine. I don't know, it doesn't matter to me, I'm fine. I'm serving God, that's all. Makes no difference, you know. So, our affections are not on the money, the, you know, all that. So, you know, when at one point in the business, things were going really well, we were making good money and so on. And then I, I hit a point where I had to, you know, I had to stop my business and I had to focus completely on the ministry. And my salary went down 35% in one month. You know, so you can imagine, I was doing the business, earning all that money and then I said, okay, now that things happen, I have to stop, I have to focus on the church and the ministry, okay, I have to make the change. But that also meant that when you're in the church, you're working for the church. The church, you know, we're not gonna pay the same kind of salary that you would pay when you're running a IT business. So, my salary went down 35%, that's okay. That's okay, you know, God has been faithful.  I know that if I was working in the IT industry, I could be making six times, seven times more than what I'm making now, being a pastor and doing what I'm doing. I may be working just the same amount if I was in the IT industry, but I could be making seven times more. But this is where God wants me to be. This is what I'm gonna do and I'm the happiest person. So it doesn't make a difference because our affections are certain things about. So it doesn't bother me, you know. It doesn't bother that, you know, I could be driving a big car like that, but I'm, you know, but I still have a decent car, I'm happy, I live in a decent place and you're happy.  What is important, you know? For us, the important thing is to do the will of God, is to be pleasing to God, is to do the things he called us to do. That's what matters, that's what satisfies our heart. Of course, there are a lot of things that we could pursue and we could achieve and we could be very successful and do this and do that, but, you know, our affections, first thing, our affections, our desires are set on things about. So when that, when you and I get that right, then these things don't matter at all. It doesn't matter, you know? The influence, the pressure of the world, all those things will be around you, but it just doesn't affect you. Why? Because you've made a choice to put your affection on things above, okay? So we got a pause here. I didn't give you time for questions. We just have three minutes left. I guess we'll have to take up questions next week, but anything very quickly. Y'all with me so far? Yes, but... Okay. Yeah, so I just want to seek some advice.  And in my case, it looks like if all the money I'm trying to save, I'm trying to use it on ministry and trying to help people. And even with what I have, it's not even enough to support the work we are doing and all the... So sometimes I feel like you are here and there is nothing to show off. That is, if I go back home, there is no savings and all the money has been invested into ministry. So is it wise to continue like that? Or I suggest that it's challenging when it comes to working so hard and you have to also get more time for ministry as well as the money that you are saving to, it goes back to the ministry. So in that case, as a young guy who is not married, who is supposed to save up some money and you are here with the kingdom of God and there is nothing you can hold on back home. What should be my advice? Should there be a balance between what I'm saving? And if I don't put my money into what we are doing to, it looks as if the two will not go anywhere. So what is financial advice to me? Okay, I'll just make a statement now, but let's talk about it again on Monday. We will need a little bit more time on this, but here's the thing. We have to be wise. And so that's the fourth point we're going to be talking about. That is we have to be spiritually minded, but earthly wise, right? So that's the balance we must have. We have to be spiritually minded, but also earthly wise. So part of living on the earth, living in this world means that you need to save money to do whatever you have to do for life. Now, of course, there's nothing in a example, example. So I'm trying to be quick as time's up already. You have another class. So you earn some money, you put a certain amount into the work of the ministry, you will have your expenses, which you have to, of course, pay your bills every month. And then you set aside some money to save for yourself in the future, whatever. So you need to plan like that. Okay, we'll talk more on this next week. Abraham, just bring this question up again on Monday so we can address it in a little bit more detail, okay? We will stop now because I don't want to take time from your next class. You need to go for your break and, okay. Okay. So let's close here so that you can go for your break and then we'll continue this next week. Could somebody please close in prayer and then we'll go. Somebody could pray and we'll dismiss. Please go, I should come up. Thank you. Precious Father, we thank you and praise you for this wonderful morning which are given to us by God. We pray that Father God, every word what we receive to God, let it deeply rooted in us of God, Master. We pray that Father, let the cares of this world and the worries of this world should not shock it, but not teach us, God, Master, to set our desires of Father God on you, to fulfill our God, Master, your will. That should be our aim and our goal in our life for God, Master. We pray that Father, let these words of Father God let it be able to preserve in our soul, in our heart, in our mind in such a way that it always, Lord, Master, energize us of Father God to move further when we face those challenges, when we be tempted to worry, Lord, Master, let these words of Father God strengthen us to overcome those challenges, overcome those situations of Father God so that we can continue to fulfill the will of God. We can continue to carry the cross what you have given to us, God. We thank you for your servant of God, Father God, bless him using mightly, bless his health, bless his life of Father God, all the glory, honor and praises belongs to you alone in Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. Thank you, Pastor. Amen. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. We'll continue this on Monday. God bless. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, God bless. Thank you, everyone. Thank you.


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I'm from Tamil Nadu Food Grind Medicine Association a member of 5000 members across Actually, we have many problems in this food industry in regard of goods and service tax act when That was there in Tamil Nadu more than 589 products were an Exempted after the rollout of this new tax regime GST Everything has come into that tax structures Say if it is going to be many food essential commodities like rice wheat Pulsars grains and floors of the serals are all Suffering tax when it is branded and Unregistered brand it goes under 0% so it is nil rated if it is branded then it suffers 5% So without brand how could a customer will know that and how it could be marketed and For this registration and unregistration the disparity arises on the product and not on the Other other commodity one single commodity, but the disparity of taxes if it is branded It is 5% if it is unbranded. It is 0% So he was talking about on goods and service taxes and I'm talking about on single commodity the tax structures differs Simultaneously if it is going to be marketed on unregistered brand. We are supposed to file an affidavit Stating that we are going to forgo our brand and not going to have any Challenges on the own brand so these are the toughest time Which we are facing on developing our brand and people are saying that Give vocal for local and make in India and other things but still this brand Commodities are not able to get Promoted but I find that Thank you much everybody in this room is against the current GST formulation would that be fair Everybody is against it Like I'm a gsd. That's what I thought that are good Got it. Yeah, I don't agree. No, everyone is against nobody is nobody is there for it So so you can imagine that it cannot be correct if the entire small and medium industry is against it It cannot be a correct thing The next one will be from J. James tacked Yeah, put safety standards James once we I'll come into activity. Yes, sir, and we have a detailed representation for you. James Hello Raghuji You're going to call it. Oh, yeah, we've been sorry. We're not gonna. I'll wait here. Oh, yeah, we're going to call it I'm a good shit you know room Micro group Yes, yes, what about the government announces From a further MSME people these micro people are not getting the benefits One then how to control raw material prices Increase raw material price in the present situation The third one is they Need to remove penalty in GST due to COVID situation So I mean I would agree I would I would agree with Under COVID situation that we should have certain provisions that make GST More benign and I would happily I can happily raise it in Parliament And we can also Tell the government and put pressure on the government for that you want to you want to tell him in Tamil So now saying that under COVID situation, we would happily Put pressure on the government and raise it in Parliament that we should Make the GST more benign No, we can do it we can do it sad in Tamil So I just want to substantiate what he said we are very much plagued by the raw material prices and recent I'll just read out one thing JSW steel reported a jump of over 1300 percent in its consolidated net profit to 2669 crore for the December 2020 quarter. So only the corporates are making money and we are left in the lurch Nobody's addressed this issue. So many representations have gone from here to the government through various sources but nobody has addressed This finally and their own minister Nitin Gadkari has He has been written letters to the he's been writing letters to the Prime Minister But so far no action has been taken on it. That's what he was meaning. I can also Help you and try and raise it for you if you want Tell him in Tamil sir. I want you to ask him to speak in the Parliament Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you This will be the last question From Gokul Das KG group welcome, Raagulji In spite of large number of educational institutions in Coimbatore and in the country still lack of Employability skills How do you think we can change that? well huge part of the reason we have Currently We have an Unemployment problem So even if we have skilled people We don't know where to put them So the first the first thing that we need to do is we need to start the Economy once again, and we need to start the economic engine which is jammed, right? Our education system is not designed for Business our education system does not is not practical our education system is theoretical so There is no linkage between our education system and the business system and the industrial system so we should Link the education system to the industrial system to the business system without that linkage We will always be training people who will be useless for you do you do you have the ability to go to universities to Advise universities on what small and medium businesses need from their employees You don't so that linkage is critical linkage between our education system and business system, you know I was in a a Meeting external affairs meeting about Foreign relations it is the same problem in foreign relations if you look at our bureaucrats They have no understanding of commercials. They have no understanding of business. They have understanding of bureaucracy But they do not understand What business requires it is exactly the same with our education system or They do not have an understanding what the business people need So we have to bring that into the education system. So one last and final question from spinning association Let him do it and I will come to you. Sorry. It's here from spinning associate report. Where? Good after Mr. Bravo G. Good up. See I'm representing South India spinners association Mainly on spinning sector Say they we have the MSME category now Same a micro small and medium, but after the new loss has come the divisions are like that Micro is only to turn on around five crores for the small is 50 crores and the medium has gone up to 250 crores So when the government announces something any scheme for MSME micro is only five crores They are not able to reach because the medium is 250 big differences there So we case you to represent to the government is a segregate micro and small in one category and Medium and separate the other ways the funds what we get from the government or bank alerts goes to a medium sector totally and Regarding the power sector Less than one hc hc consumers mostly MSME mills are in the hc consumers We have to buy in IEX you have to have one more than one megawatt So now we want to have to be irrespective of the hc consumers can participate in the IEX So it'll be benefit for the all the hc consumers for the power power thing and we want to cap for a Some not micro and small that is our main request if you can you give it to me in writing? You give it to me in writing and I'll also I'll also do something about us. There is a big difference between a micro and medium and We want to control the raw material Because the as of the quarter is the main concerns of spinning mills its control 40% by cotton corporation of India It's a buying of the Indian cotton. It's about 40% CCA buys so every day the CCA increase the prices So we want the CC at least to maintain the prices for 15 days one month is good But at least they can meet in about 15 days now even the exporters are blaming the spinning mills We are increasing price because the CCA is increasing the price on daily basis So we need the control of the raw material because it's a government buying price already bought which is bought only They are selling you know they're buying and selling The CCA buys the cotton the season and sells in the daily basis. We want to control the prices on monthly basis So this is a thing. Thank you. Thank you You want to ask that? Thank you. Good afternoon, Raghulji Like you have come from Delhi. I have come from Chennai for you Thank you. I am not a single person talking to you. I am representing consortium of Indian associations which is over 350,000 industries What are we witnessing? I've been a three and a half decade entrepreneur What are we witnessing today in this country? We moved from skill India digital India make in India at Manipur and finally ended where? fund India What is fund India FDA? We are opening asking others to give and money into us Where are we and sick to see the entrepreneur surviving? Out of seven crore entrepreneurs MSMEs 30% are almost dead What is the 3% 2.1 crore? The 2.1 crore gives job for almost 20 crore of people They are not bothered the ECGL a scheme came for 45 lakhs beneficiary out of seven and a half crores Where are we? We are seeing only the balance 60% and saying green shoots. I am seeing shooting myself as an entrepreneur How are we progressing? What answer will I give to my children? Entrepreneur you ask them. We are facing three young problems money manpower material Banks are chasing NBFCs are chasing. We are not able to open a newspaper today Every page has got only about auction sale notice position notice big people are getting shaved We are being shaved You are the only voice for us. Don't forget it micro industries 98% in this country 98% is the micro industries Micro industries must have a separate ministry. We cannot be combined with 100 crore company turnover I am talking micro as a self-employed people. We are losing them today. The dream of a startup is shattered Today we have seen We are we are not able to raise our voice. We are not able to express ourselves. We are not being heard We are not a big being able to convey our pains an Entrepreneur can never ever cry openly Remember that if I cry openly nobody will trust me. Nobody will give me business. No no employee will stay with me I don't hire people with just money. I hire people from my heart and love. I Build this nation. I have built this nation for 35 years today. I see wherever I go. I'm telling you, Mr. Rahul I'm representing consortium of Indian Association People are painfully crying Please raise it. Please speak for us. Thank you for coming to Coimbatore. Thank you for hearing me out Thank you. Thank you very much So, thank you Very much for coming here. It was a honor and a pleasure for me to talk to you. I am absolutely convinced that Without strengthening small and medium industry We are not going to be successful as a country So I am committed to supporting you Working with you and raising your issues. I know we are not in government right now But please do feel free to come to me. I can raise things even if I'm in opposition and I will help you whether I'm in opposition or in government But I believe that you are central to this country and the success of this country. Thank you very much Thank You, Raghuji Very Orgale So, you know, I know In the meet at and put on the go in


This is this is something I'm excited about and I think y'all I think y'all are gonna be very excited as well so this announcement I have is For this NFL season, I will be partnering up with FanDuel now Here's how this is gonna operate and work. Okay There's gonna be contests that we are gonna be able to play together as a community and y'all can try and play With and what and against me sort of Where you can win cash prizes stuff like that You know FanDuel credit and and some more stuff too. I'm oh, you know a little bit We're gonna now a lot of you know I'm in Florida, right? So I can't do I'm not doing just to be clear. I'm not doing I'm not talking like You know the online sports betting because I can't do that I do the one where you make picks and you have the What's the word I'm looking for guys? guys the the Whips you know the word I'm trying to think of it's not the Yeah, DFS. Thank you.  All right, so What we're gonna do is we're gonna put some custom odd boosts on a couple of them And there's gonna be free to play DFS contest and it's gonna be based on Wait, okay. I have to read this hang on There's gonna be free to play DFS contest for you guys and it's gonna be based on the scoring of my warzone streams I didn't even know that one. Well, I even know that one That's cool We're gonna do a lot of really cool stuff with the partnership. Um, and obviously I just want to be clear, too We're gonna be paying attention to what you guys enjoy doing as well So we're gonna be trying to get feedback from the community as well, right? This is kind of like a cool little thing We're gonna be doing together. So a lot of you know I did something like I was doing this last year already and I would usually talk to y'all as well You guys remember last year when I was doing that And so to have fan duel, you know approach me and basically said you want to partner up for the NFL season. I was like Hell yeah, can I swear whips? Um, can I swear?  It's fun And we already did it on stream together anyways, you know, and I mean so Now here I'm so this I want to make sure I get this part, right? The the first the first part that was just kind of like me announcing it. Oh wait, do you guys see that pinned? Okay, everyone everyone stop for a second stop the pinned comment by whips. Does it look it's different now Is it fan duel based? Yes, or do you have to? Refresh you have to refresh. Oh an update is automatically so that if you click that whips What is that? Where does that take them right now? I want to make sure I get this right It is fandal. Okay, and whips that link takes them to Okay, I'm gonna get into that right now. Got it. So this is perfect perfect transition. So that pinned link right there, okay? Here's how we're kicking this off. We have a DFS contest set for you guys with a 20,000 in total of cash prizes 2000 in cash to the first place and the pricing is teared down from there First place is also gonna get some Tim that some Tim the tap man merch on my next drop Okay, what so basically we're doing this DFS contest together whoever takes first two grand and Merch on my next merch drop you get you get merch as well.  Don't get me wrong That's I mean almost a quarter of a television, but you know, you guys get the point now the link doesn't work whips whips oh He changed it click the new one it works now guys do it again. If it okay my bad, okay? I guess I guess it's working now. Just click it. Okay, everyone guys, please Okay And just you guys know too if you've done stuff like this before I'm sure you know But some people might be new to Fandall and kind of what it is But there's some contests where you can enter multiple. This is gonna be one. Okay one entry Five bucks to enter all right if you head to fan duel comm slash shim a tap man correct whips Right there that's okay, you can make an account there and then you can kind of If you don't have an account you can draft your lineup there if you've never played DFS It's just a one-day fantasy league. Okay, this isn't like just to be clear This isn't a full-on and I'll kind of show this because we're I'm gonna make a lineup with y'all like right now okay this isn't a long like This is on one one game literally we're gonna really ease into this because some of you might not have done it It was some of you You're probably very good at it. Hey, bro. If you're good. Can you just let me you know just take it easy All right guys. Um, so basically it's a one-game off and so this week We're gonna do it around the Sunday night football game, which is Rams versus Bears. All right, so um You're gonna pick your lineup select players who you think do will do well that night and So I guess I can just kind of show this part, right? Essentially, let me go to my own link here fan dual comm slash Tim the tap man Perfect. It worked. Okay, so if you are looking at fan dual Hold on them hold on a minute if you So this is this is kind of what a lot of you if you made the account you're staring at here. All right this And just to be clear you can do this on your phone. You don't have to do this on your computer There's a fan dual app. You could do all this there. All right, and um, I miss a whips. Can you figure this out? There's a wait for them to get to this on their phone, right? correct Doc needs my help tell doc. I'm announcing the fan dual partnership, and I'm like five minutes. I'm almost there. Okay Nice balance. Thanks, man. Yeah Don't worry about it, dude. Okay. I lost some last night Guys, please Okay Thank you. Nice balance. Thank you. Thanks guys if they go to the upcoming tab after they sign up through the link Okay, that's what whips just said. Hopefully that makes sense to you guys. Okay, so Everyone starts with this right here 60 thousand dollar salary. Okay, which basically means you can pick one two three four five players Okay And they are worth a certain salary based kind of on how good they are or projected to do for example Andy Dalton is the bear's quarterback So he's probably someone that's gonna have a lot of points because points are based on touchdowns Rushing yards, um, you know catches that whole thing. Okay, so like for and the MVP Whoever you put in that slot gets 1.5 times the points So you really want to focus on who you're gonna put in your MVP spot me personally I'm a firm believer of a running back or a wide receiver up there Okay, so for me I'm gonna go Montgomery as my The the MVP for for the team I'm gonna make okay And then So then it kind of here's where this gets interesting, right? That he's worth 13 thousand dollars now. I have 47 thousand dollars left. Okay So it's like this is where you kind of got to Pick and choose who you think is gonna do well My question to you chat Do we think Andy Dalton is gonna stay in am I sure about that fandal? Are you trying to doubt me? Hey? I I am very good at what I do. Okay Please I'm practically the best I've never lost My here my question is gonna be Is Andy Dalton gonna play or is it crazy to try and play just in field throw? I I personally think me personally. I think the field is a better quarterback straight up Everyone is just gonna pick the opposite of me probably anyways because you all believe I'm cursed, right? Yeah Am I gonna get Andy Dalton, dude? Oh, this doesn't feel right I'm not taking Stafford. I can't do it. Am I gonna take Stafford? He's so expensive bro 16,000. I think I have to So now my average is 10,000 a player What happens is bro There's always like a pick that you can get it's like a sleeper like people won't expect them to do Well, that's the hardest part for me like when I build these things I always think about that and that's the hardest pick for me Hands down There's a couple people like I really want Cooper Cooper cup as well He's very good and I think he's gonna do really well but I now it's like I I got two people left that I can do 10,000 10,000 dollars each because I got 20 20 grand left I think in this regarding I think Tyler Higbee Is gonna have a really good game And now I have 11,500 So one thing you'll notice is you're picking from both teams, right? So like I have Montgomery As a running back from bears and then everyone else right now is rams, you know I think I love Alan Robinson I think he's very good I mean you guys are saying Mooney, but he's questionable. Do you see this cue right here? That means he's questionable, which they have down here Mooney Someone said digs guys. This is only for the bears and rams game guys. We're easing into this. All right We're doing a sunday night game And it's and it's bears and rams. I think I'm going I have to go Alan Robinson, right? so then I think that so like this is an example of What you would do and once again you click the link up top make your fan to account five dollars to enter first place has taken two grand along with submerge for me and um This is what you do and then you then you enter the lineup and you're in it And I'm entering that right there great lineup So after you enter it you're in there. How many how many people are in this already whips. Can I see that somehow? Oh, you can invite your friends to this too. It's kind of lit How many how many of you are in this already? Homie, there's 267 of you already in here. Hey yo chat low key. Okay I'm gonna win that I have the best I I have the best team straight up. I'm gonna win So once again, I'm excited to be working with fan dual man And if you go to fan dual dot com slash him a tab man You'll you'll see the tip of tab man 20,000 season opener You can do what I just did and your lineup and um, well, you know what we're gonna be doing is basically every week We're gonna have some dfs contest And uh, and I'm gonna like be building my lineup on stream with you guys I'm kind of showing you all that which like I said if you were here last football season Y'all know I did that already anyway. So it was kind of it's a really cool opportunity, man I'm really happy to do it. So do all that you how many people can enter a total? 4,700 of you and while just you understand while I was just talking it went up another hundred So try and get in as fast as you can Um, you know because once it's capped it's going to be capped. So us only Whips I actually don't know Because I mean I live in the us us only I I'm assuming But I actually don't know I I think I think it is But I actually have no idea does anyone here do use this outside of america I think it's us only north north america was just checked north america. So