Today we're in chapter 5 here in Galatians. We're going to be looking at verses 1 through 12. Let's begin reading together at verse 1. I'll read to verse 12, and we'll get into our study. Galatians chapter 5, beginning at verse 1, reading to verse 12. Paul writes, Stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which Christ has made us free. And do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage. Indeed, I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised that he's a debtor to keep the whole law. You become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law. You have fallen from grace. For we, through the Spirit, eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love. You ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind.  And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution than the offense of the cross is ceased? I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off. Paul has been reminding, as we get into this study, Paul has been reminding the glations of an important lesson. And that lesson, obviously, as he's been given that lesson to them from chapter one to this point here, is that they're not under the bondage of the Jewish law. They have been made free through faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is a fulfillment of the law. Jesus was the one who took every jot, every tittle. He's the one who fulfilled it all. It was all fulfilled in him. And so what we, as Christians, do is we trust in the one who is able to do all that we cannot do. The law calls for perfect obedience. And cursed is the one who does not keep the entire law. And so not a single one of us in this room, no human being outside of Jesus Christ, has ever lived, who could fully satisfy the righteous demands of the law of God. As we've already seen, the law of God was a school master. It was a tutor. It was intended to take the student and deposit them at the feet of the teacher. And the law of God was intended to awaken and to us an awareness that I was unable to live the life that I wanted to live or on occasion may desire to live. I didn't have the ability within me to do that. I needed help. I needed a savior. And so Paul has been emphasizing the grace of God all through the book of Galatians. And he's been speaking concerning false teachers who have entered in who are enslaving these Galatians, these Gentiles, though there are some Jews amongst them, who are enslaving them by attempting to bring them into the law of Moses and demanding that they fulfill it, that they obey it, that they wear the yoke of it, that they receive circumcision and all. And that's what he's been speaking about. And so what Paul wants them to do is live into liberty, that freedom, that freedom that comes through faith in Jesus Christ. And so that's how he begins here in verse 1, when he says, stand fast, therefore, in the liberty by which Christ has made us free. And do not be entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Stand fast. When he says stand fast, therefore, in the liberty, the term stand fast literally means keep on standing. Be persevering. Remain planted. Be steadfast and immovable in that freedom that Christ gives to you. Remain free since Jesus Christ is a one who set you free. Don't get caught up trying to become super spiritual into and to make yourself good before God. Don't get caught up with trying to keep laws and ordinances and commands by men. Don't get caught up doing that, he's saying to them. Remain free in Jesus Christ and stand fast in that. Remain planted firmly in the freedom you have, the freedom you have over the domination of sin, the freedom you have from the fear of death, the freedom you have from the upcoming judgment. Remain steadfast in the liberty that you have, the freedom you've been set free from the spiritual captivity of Satan. Remain strong in the joy of grace, the joy of grace that overcomes the demands of the law. Remain strong in those things. I can't help but encourage all of us in this room to do that. Do not get caught up trying to make ourselves into something. But to discipline ourselves into the elements of holiness, pursue the things that make for peace. But to remember who's going to fulfill that work in us, it's the Lord Jesus Christ. He gave you the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit remains in you and it bides with you.  And it's all by grace, guys. It's all by the grace of God, not by works of righteousness which we have done. According to His mercy, He saved us by the washing of regeneration, by the renewing of the Holy Spirit. And so He's saying, I want you to remain fast, stand fast in the liberty in that freedom by which Christ has made us free. And He says, do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.  When He says, do not be entangled, that word entangled is the simple word that speaks of being ensnared by a trap. Don't be trapped. Don't be entrapped. These false teachers called the Judaizers are trying to lasso the Galatians for the old yoke of Judaism. And some Jewish believers were being tempted to return to the Jewish law. They had been set free. But because the arguments were so convincing and because there were certain things that they found appealing in the law, the Jewish believers were returning or being tempted to return to that yoke of bondage. And the Gentiles were being seduced to go to it. And so Paul says, no, you need to begin to understand that it's the freedom that Christ gave to you that really is the joyful thing about being a believer. Jesus came to set us free from this yoke that produces bondage. And He gave us a life of grace through faith in Him. Remember in Matthew chapter 11, if you take notes that's found in Matthew 11, 28 through 30. Remember there how Jesus said, come to me all you who labor and are heavy laden, I will give you rest.  Learn from me. For I am gentle and lowly in heart. And you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy. My burden, He said, is light. My yoke is easy. My burden is light. So when Jesus said, take my yoke upon you, that was a rabbinical term representing the sum total of obligations that a person must take upon himself. The Jews knew that word yoke because they had the yoke of the law. They had the yoke of the commandments. Yoke of the kingdom of heaven. That yoke had become legalism. And it had stolen any freedom that they might have experienced and produced bondage. So Jesus is simply saying, I can set you free. I could set you free from the ritual bondage of the ritual law. I can do what multitudes of sacrifices cannot accomplish. I can give you freedom through grace. Perhaps some of you have been with me on a Sunday night when I've mentioned this, but it seems that every pseudo-Christian cult emphasizes the same kinds of things, guys. It works righteousness. It's if you work hard, you can enter into the kingdom of heaven. And I mentioned in one of the evening studies on Sunday night how that as a younger believer, two young men came to my house. They were Mormons and they were speaking to me about their faith and I began to speak to them and I was a young believer, but I asked them some questions and we were having a discussion and I asked them, what do you have to offer me that I don't already have? What do you have to give to me that I don't have in Jesus Christ? And so I told them, I said, listen, I have freedom from sin. I have the power of the Holy Spirit. I've got a relationship with God through Jesus Christ. My name is written in the Lamb's Book of Life. I'm gonna go to heaven. What do you have to offer me that I don't already have? And I'll never forget this young man's response. He said, we have the priesthood. And I said, I have Jesus Christ who is my high priest. He ever lives to make intercession for me. You don't have anything that I need and that's the bottom line. I have and you have in Christ everything you need.  And when you understand that, you can live in the freedom that comes through a relationship with Him. You no longer have to beat yourself up trying to do something to make God love you. Many of us have been to places where we've seen people who have done those kinds of things trying to make God love them. I've been to the churches not only in Mexico City but in the Philippines where those poor people will get on their knees and will crawl sometimes for blocks, sometimes for miles till their knees are all torn up and bloodied. We've seen those who've taken the whips and flagellated themselves crying out for God to hear them and the blood pouring down from their backs. And all of that work and all of that attempt to get the attention of God when God has already given His attention to them, when He's a Father who loves them, who will listen to them when they cry if they would only cry out for mercy, He'll hear them and He gives His grace to them. And it breaks my heart. It breaks my heart to see these young men riding their bikes, trying to get people to believe something that really isn't true. Would to God that we had the same zeal for the truth that they have for an error, that we would be willing to take of our own substance and pay for our own trips and live for two years and to preach a message. Would to God that more 18 and 19 year olds in this church had a mission heart for the truth. But unfortunately a lot of these, well these little Mormon kids, these young boys, they're preaching things that aren't true. They're in a yoke of bondage, guys. They're in a yoke of bondage. We got saved. Jesus set us free. We have the power of the Holy Spirit. We stand fast in that. Remain strong in that. Remain immovable in that. Hold fast to that. This liberty that Christ has given to us. And so that's what Paul is speaking about here and that's why in verse two he says, indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. Now notice how he says indeed I, Paul. When he says I, Paul, he's speaking with what would be called an authority, an apostolic authority. He's saying what I'm about to say has tremendous importance. So listen very carefully, he is saying, and understand and this is what he's saying. If you are circumcised, you render Jesus's sacrificial death and resurrection useless because you are saying that you do not need him. Turn your Bibles quickly to chapter two. You're in Galatians and let me cross reference that with chapter two verses 20 and 21. You're saying you don't need him but he had already said in verse 20 and 21 of chapter two, I've been crucified with Christ. It is 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. I do not set aside the grace of God for if righteousness comes through the law then Christ died in vain. Jesus died in vain. If you could make yourself righteous through obedience to the law, that's what Paul was saying. He said I'm crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live. I recognize myself to be on the cross with Jesus because Jesus died for me.  So if you think circumcision will gain you any merit, he's saying you're wrong. Why? Well Jesus' atoning death is sufficient. Circumcision cannot benefit you beyond what is already provided for you in him.  And all I need and all you really need is a relationship with him to be connected to him. Now as he's speaking here, you need to remember a couple of things. As is true, every time the Word is opened up in a church service like this, you have basically at least two groups that are there. You have the unsaved. You have people in church services, every time we have a church service there are people who admit that they don't have a relationship with God. You have the unsaved. And so he would be speaking to those who are unsaved. He'd be saying to think that circumcision will benefit you, ultimately will leave you doomed. But when he's speaking to the saved, he's saying to think that circumcision is profitable is to quench the work of grace in your life. If you believe that you need to go into the law, then what you're gonna do is you're gonna keep yourself from growing spiritually because you're gonna try to add your works to the grace of God and thus you're gonna quench the Holy Spirit.  And so that's his argument. Verse three, he says, I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised, that he's a debtor to keep the whole law. To live under any part of the law as a way of getting right necessitates obeying all of the law. To obey part of the law is to disobey that part that is not obeyed. Therefore, that makes you guilty. It's like what James says in chapter two, verse 10, when he says whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. You might be thinking, you know, I used to, I'm probably speaking to myself right now. I used to think that God graded on the curve, kind of like a percentage point sort of like that. I figured he had 10 commandments and so if I kept most of them, I probably had a good chance of getting into heaven. Well, when you're seven years old, how much sinning do you really have opportunity to do? And that's pretty much when I memorized the 10 commandments I was seven years old. You really don't have that much sinning opportunities, at least not that deep. There's no sinner like an old sinner, you know. I remember hearing of a little boy's testimony, he said, he was giving his testimony, he was around seven, he says, before I came to Christ, I was a terrible sinner. And you think of it that for a minute, it's almost sweet, as a matter of fact it is, the gentleness of his little heart to think that he was a terrible sinner and all of that, but you get the point, you know. So when you're seven years old, how much bad can you really, really do? But you live long enough, you start doing some real bad things, don't you? And so for me, I thought, well, you know, there are 10 commandments and I'll try and keep them and one by one, I broke those commandments. And by the time I was 20, the only one that I honestly thought I hadn't broken was, thou shalt not kill. At that point, up to that point, I hadn't killed anybody. So I started hoping that perhaps the Lord would just give me some mercy, you know, because I could come in and say, look it, you know, one out of 10 really isn't that bad. I really thought that, I really did. And then I read the Bible and after getting saved, I was reading the Bible and Jesus began to speak about murder and he began to speak about adultery and he was speaking of it being the condition of the heart, which is really a reflection of a nature, a nature that is sinful. And I began to understand some things about that and realized that by keeping the law or trying to be obedient or holding faster, thinking that perhaps I can keep a few of those commandments and do well and God is gonna permit me into the heaven because I tried. I came to realize that all have sinned, fall short of the glory of God, there's none righteous, no, not one. It's appointed unto men to die once and after this, the judgment and there was really no hope for me without Jesus Christ. And when I came to realize that because of Jesus, I could enter into heaven and what I needed to do is trust in him, well that mattered. You see, because if you break one law, you're guilty of breaking them all and I didn't know it at that time. And so as Paul is speaking here, he's saying, listen, if you're circumcised, Christ will not profit you because you're trusting in yourself and not him.  So he goes on into verse four and says, you've become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law, you, he says, have fallen from grace. Now, two words and then I'm gonna develop this with you. The first word is estranged. When he says you have become estranged, that word estranged means to be separated or loosed from, separated or loosed from. The word fallen means to lose one's grasp on something. So when he says you've become estranged from Christ and you've fallen from grace, what he's saying is you cannot live by grace and the law simultaneously. You can't. To be justified by the law would be to reject the grace of God. Now again, when he says you are fallen from grace, what does that mean? Falling from grace. Well, there are two basic aspects that we can look at. Again, there are non-believers, non-Christians who are there in the church services and as they're there in that church, and they could be there by the way, not for a week or a month, they could be there. Sometimes they're there for years. Sometimes people are not Christians and they're there for years. We've had people in this church who've received the Lord, who've answered an invitation that I've gotten to speak to afterwards who have told me, and this blows my mind, but they have told me that they have been in this church for years. Sometimes I believe one of them said something like he'd been in the church for almost 10 years and had been coming for that long.  He said, for all these years, and I'd hear your message and he said, and I'd hear what you said from the Bible and he said, I'd listen and I would listen and I just never responded. There are people that do that. They can be in the church for years. They can see the Lord move. They can even clap when somebody goes forward. They can sing songs with a lot of emotion. They may even say, yeah, I believe in Christ and all, but in reality, they're not trusting him. They're not trusting him. They're not saved. There are a lot of people like that. There are a lot of people like that. I see that more commonly now than almost anytime before. That people who go to church, it blows my mind. They go to church, but they don't really know the Lord. They really don't. They don't have a strong relationship with God. And so that's not uncommon. That was taken place during the time of the Galatians. So there are non-Christians there in the church services. They've seen the Lord move. They perhaps have professed a faith in him, but they've never really trusted him. They've been exposed to grace. They've been exposed to grace, but they've never embraced it themselves. They may have a shallow theory of what it is, but they've never personally embraced it before I got saved at the age of 20. If you'd have given me a quiz, if you'd have given me a quiz and you'd have asked things like, do you believe the Bible is God's word? I just said yes. If you'd have said do you believe that there is a God who is revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit? I just said yes. If you'd have said do you believe that there is a heaven? I just said yes. If you'd have said do you believe there's a hell, I probably would have said I'm not sure about that. What did Jesus Christ do? If you asked me, I would have said he came and did miracles and died on a cross. If you'd have asked me, why did he die on the cross? I'd have looked at you said, and I'd have said something like, because people needed him because we're sinners and he died, do you believe that he was buried? Yes. Do you believe he was resurrected from the dead on the third day? I'd have said of course, that's what Easter's all about.  Yeah, I believe all of that. I would have answered your questions in the right way. Even while I'm smoking a joint, and that's the truth. I got in an argument with my cousin who was a Jehovah's Witnesses about who God is and we were arguing about God and the church and faith as we were getting loaded together. We did those kinds of things. I didn't have a problem doing that. And if you'd have told me it's wrong for you to drink or it's wrong for you to do that, I just said that's your opinion and that's none of your business. Just like most people that I've encountered who don't know the Lord will do. And I could have and did on occasion go to church. Didn't look any different than anybody else. I knew when to stand. I knew when to sit down in our church. I knew when to kneel. I knew when to do all those things. I was trained to do that. But I didn't have a saving knowledge of God. I could answer most of the questions and any evangelical question that was asked by any Christian I could have answered pretty much to their satisfaction because I was trained and I was capable of sharing those things. I was able to be acquainted with grace. I was acquainted with how God can work. I believed in miracles. I believed in angels. I believed in all of those things and I was unsaved because I never personally embraced it. There are people in church exactly like that. One of those groups is being spoken of here. They have a shallow understanding in theory but no personal reception of the grace of God. Now for Christians it would refer to moving from a place that God will work you in, work in you. It's a way of saying, you have fallen from grace is another way of saying is you removing yourself from the place where God can move through you.  When you talk about the grace of God, let me give you something here that might be of help to some. When you talk about the grace of God, always remember this. The word grace means unmerited favor but what grace is, it is a revelation of the essential nature of God. Grace is a revelation of the essential nature of God. It's a revelation of what God really is all about.  In first John in chapter four verses seven and eight, John writes, beloved, let us love one another for love is of God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. He says whoever does not love does not know God because, he said, God is love. Grace is a demonstration of the essential nature of God.  Do you believe that tonight? I hope you do, I hope you do.   Just this last week I was sharing out of Deuteronomy when the Lord in chapter five there in the book of Deuteronomy said, oh, that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands always so that it might go well with them and with their children forever, that they would fear me, that their hearts would be inclined towards me white so that their lives might be blessed so it might go well with them. God wants to bless our lives. I hope we grab that tonight.   He is essentially love and he wants to pour out his love on you and he does that through his grace. He pours his grace out on you and because he desires to bless, he makes a provision for us to receive his blessing and he does that through his grace. Grace is the source of salvation and grace is the source of blessings for those whom the Lord loves. In John 1.16 it says, from the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another. God wants to pour his blessings out on us and we're so busy sometimes trying to make ourselves deserve it. Friend of mine many years ago now, probably close to 40 years ago, and I was speaking and as I was sharing with him, I was trying to explain to him the little that I knew about the love of God and his name is Nick and I said, Nick, I said, as a good friend can with somebody that you've been friends with a long time, I was open with him and I said, Nicky, I said, when are you gonna give your heart to the Lord? When are you gonna give your heart to Jesus? And he looked at me and he said, you know, I think about that. He said, I think I'll give my heart to him when I'm good enough. And I looked at him and I said, Nicky, you're an idolater. And he didn't really appreciate that, but it was true. I said, Nicky, you're an idolater. What do you mean? I said, I said, man, you can't make yourself good enough for God. You're creating your own religion.  Nicky, God doesn't work that way. God has already done what is necessary and what you need to do is confess your need for him and come to him as you are. He can work within you and by his power transform you.  You'll never be able to do that. It requires the work from God. Whenever you try to make yourself good enough for God, you will fail. You're doomed to failure. You can't. But when you yield yourself to the Lord and say, God, would you work in me? God can have the freedom to do that work in you and through faith, you just simply obey and do those things which he commands. You read the word and it says, learn to love one another. And you say, Lord, that command by itself is gonna take a lifetime to learn to love you and love one another. It's gonna take a lifetime. But as you endeavor to do that, as you pursue him on a daily basis, as you say in the morning, God, work in me today, help me to love you, help me to love others, God does that. God begins to move in your life and you begin to change over time. You encounter some friends who may have known you in the old days and they say, what happened to you? And you say, what do you mean? Because something obviously has happened to you that they're noticing that you probably don't even see. But they see it and they ask, what happened to you? How come your life has changed? What's going on inside of you? And you simply say, you know what? I gave my heart to the Lord, man, I've been born again.  I never really thought of it like that, but yeah, I'm a believer, I believe in God, I believe in Jesus. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the mercy of God, I believe in the grace of God. Yeah, I guess I am, I'm born againer. I never really thought about that, but that's what I am, yes. And God works in you and it's all because of grace and God wants to bless you and he does it through his grace. Ephesians 1.7 says, in him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins in accordance with the riches of God's grace. So Paul is warning here, relating to grace and he's saying, Christians, if you attempt to serve God through the observation of the law, well this is gonna result in you being ineffective and ultimately God will shelve you because you will not be useful to him. You're no longer walking in grace. He says in verse five, for we through the Spirit eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness by faith. For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything but faith working through love. The Judaizers were placing their hope on a righteousness that's based on works of the law, not by faith in God. But Christians rely on the finished work of Jesus on the cross. And I want you to see how he says in verse six, faith working through love. Any true faith is gonna always have works, but it's always gonna be in love. The things that you do are gonna be love for people, love for God. They're gonna be demonstrating your true faith, but you'll always have works that accompany true faith. And then finally he says, you ran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion does not come from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. When he asks the question, who hindered you from obeying the truth, he already knows. He wants them to grab hold of it. Who's hindering you? He wants them to figure it out for themselves. Who is hindering us? The false teachers. Who's hindering us? The guys who've crept in and have taken us captive. Who's hindering us in our run with the Lord? The people who have been putting us under bondage. He wants them to know that. Listen, one of the things that's very hard in ministry is when you're talking to somebody and you're sharing with them and you're wanting them to see something in scripture and they just don't see it. They can't see it. I can't tell you how many conversations I've had with people over time where we'll look at the scripture and what does that say? And they just don't see it. There's like blinders over their eyes. One of the things that blesses you is when the person you're speaking to says, I see that. Now it makes sense. I've been, and when they do that, there's hope. I can't tell you how many personal conversations over the years I've had as not only as a minister of the gospel, but as a Christian who I've had conversations with people and I'll point the scripture out and I'll say, this is what it says and the first thing they do is they'll say, yeah, but how about? Because they really don't want to see that. I guess because they just refuse to see it. They don't want to see it. And the Holy Spirit may be convicting them but they're not gonna listen and they don't. That's why Paul is saying to them, who hindered you? He wants them to be able to say, the ones who've hindered us are the false teachers who've crept in and taken as captive. He wants them to be able to say that. And then he goes on in verse eight and says, this persuasion doesn't come from him who calls you. This persuasion to step into the law and away from grace isn't coming from God because any teaching that draws you away from truth cannot be the truth. Here's something for you, a genuine teacher would rather die than knowingly preach falsely concerning Jesus Christ.  Does that mean that people who are genuine don't make mistakes as they're teaching? No, we all make mistakes. Everybody, no matter how long they've been teaching, we aren't really always 100% as accurate as we would like to be. It reminds me of Isaiah.  The entire chapter is filled with woes unto the people. So he's already out there preaching.  He goes on and on and on throughout chapter five and he says, woe, woe, woe. But when you get into chapter six, it's interesting because in chapter six of Isaiah he says in the day that in the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord and he was high and he was lifted up and his train filled the temple and he begins to describe this experience he had with God and how that there were these angelic beings there that he saw with wings that cover their eyes, wings that cover their feet, wings that they flew with. He's given these incredible descriptions and as he's there and the Lord begins to speak and says, who's gonna go for us? Who can I send? He knew that he was a man, he said, of unclean lips and I dwell, Isaiah said, amongst a people with unclean lips. What are you talking about?   Is that what you're saying, unclean lips? You know, there are those who say, you know, he was a profane prophet, he cussed. No, what was Isaiah saying? Isaiah was saying, I've been preaching about you but I haven't given the complete accurate words that could show how great and mighty and powerful you are. And what is interesting is the angel takes a burning coal and places it on the lips of Isaiah, purifying him and giving to him the ability to speak forth the word of God with that purity. But he said, I'm a man who has unclean lips and I dwell amongst a people of unclean lips. There have been many times that I as a pastor pretty much do it almost every time. When I leave the pulpit and I consider the study, I always wish that I could change some things in it. I always do. I always wish that it were more accurate, more Christ centered, more biblical, more solid. That's just the way it really is. Because when you take the word and you hand it to people, well, like I said, a genuine teacher would rather die than preach falsely concerning the Lord. In 1 Thessalonians chapter two verses three and four, Paul said, for the appeal we make does not spring from error or impure motives, nor are we trying to trick you. On the contrary, we speak as men approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel. We are not trying to please men, but God who tests our hearts. When my kids were younger and they were getting their driver's license, just teaching them to drive was really scary. I would take them into abandoned parking lots and I'd say, okay, drive around in here. And they'd speed up and hit the brakes and all of that and I hired people to teach them to drive. I couldn't do it.  I know better than that, I've been with them. Yeah, they can survive, but I wouldn't really say they're very good drivers. Somebody else says that I didn't. But you know what they did? They wanted to drive my car. They wanted me to give them the keys to my car. Are you kidding me? No. Dad, I got my license. Can I go to my friend's house? No. Dad, really, I, no. Drive your mother's car.   And you say, you know, go to the speed limit, stop at all the stop signs, make sure you stop at the red, you know? Everything, you can have it for this long. We hand them keys to a car, right? That's what blows my mind about the Lord because he gave to you and he gave to me the keys to the kingdom of God. And the keys to the kingdom of God are a lot more valuable than the keys to a car. Here I am, trembling as I hand the keys to my kid to take a ride. He's only gonna go three miles. He's gonna come back in an hour. The Lord God handed you the keys to the kingdom. Now think about that for a minute. You wanna talk about grace. Think about that for a minute. God handed you the keys to the kingdom. He said, these are the only keys that are gonna be usable for people to go to heaven. It's called the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And we have the encouragement by God to take these keys to present the Gospel, open doors, and see people enter in. And if we don't understand that, then we need to start. Because God gave to me this incredible gift, this ability to talk about Jesus Christ. And so he says, you need to understand that. Speak the truth. Those who are coming and are changing the Gospel, this persuasion doesn't come from the Lord because it's altering the Gospel. He says, in verse nine, a little leaven leavens the whole lump. The fruit of this deception is you're contaminating the church with sin. You put a little yeast in some dough. It just takes a little bit for it to actually permeate the entire lump of dough. Leaven in Scripture is a type of sin. And it's a picture of how sin permeates and how sin contaminates. And he's saying that this, even a small amount of error, is gonna contaminate the work of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He goes on and he says, in verse 10, I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind. But he who troubles you shall bear his judgment whoever he is. And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, why do I still suffer persecution? Then the offense of the cross is ceased. I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off. Couple of things as we're about to close. When Paul was preaching the Gospel, there were those who were saying that he continued to preach the law. But Paul was making it very clear that if I continued preaching the law, then why am I suffering persecution? Why are people still upset and why am I beaten and why am I run out of town and why are these things happening to me? You see, in 1 Corinthians 1.23, he said, we preach Christ crucified to the Jews a stumbling block and to the Greeks foolishness. But to those who are called both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. Paul was saying, though they're telling you that I am continuing to preach the law, I'm not. I'm preaching the grace of God. And I suffer for doing so. And if I was not preaching the truth, I would no longer be persecuted. But in verse 12, he says something that it could pass you by if you don't look at it carefully. When he says, I could wish that those who trouble you would even cut themselves off. Guys, that is an extremely powerful statement made by the apostle Paul. Let me give you two applications as I'm about to close. One, when he says that they would cut themselves off, one way to look at that would be a wish that the false teachers would receive the fullness of God's judgment.  Jeremiah 44 verse 11 says, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, behold, I will set my face against you for catastrophe and for cutting off all Judah. So he's saying on the one hand, those who are bothering you, I would like to see judgment come upon them. That's a very powerful pronouncement. But second, and this I find even more interesting, especially in its context, remember in verse two, indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing. Here's something for you to think about. There was a cult during the time of the writing of the book of Galatians. It's the cult of Sybil. Sybil was the earth mother. Sybil was a fertility goddess. She had a lot of followers during that time and one of the things that was really interesting about her followers is the male followers voluntarily would castrate themselves, themselves because they were the most fanatic followers of Sybil. The Galatians would have been aware of this particular cult as Sybil. And so when Paul is saying that they would cut themselves off, it would be another way of saying, why do you just cut off your foreskin? Why don't you show yourself to be as strongly devoted to your beliefs as a cult of Sybil?  Now, people say, could Paul really say something like that? That sounds mean, doesn't it? I mean, could you picture him on a Christian television program? Well, Paul, what do you think should be done? I think they should castrate themselves. Do you think that would go over good?  I don't think so. How many letters do you think he'd get for saying something like that? Do you think that some of these TV shows would have John the Baptist on more than once? I rather doubt it. I really do because the message of repentance is such a cutting message. Now, so some people will say, is it possible that Paul actually would have that strong a feeling? Well, we need to remember something. Remember with me in chapter four, verse 19. Remember what he had said, my little children for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you? Paul had something that a lot of people don't understand even to this day. He had a deep, powerful, lasting love for Jesus Christ, his truth, and the body of Christ. And I do believe that it is very possible that when Paul was speaking and saying, why don't you show your devotion that he was using irony there in order to establish his point to say if you wanna talk about being zealous for your beliefs, well, there are pagans who are even more zealous than you are.   Very powerful thing to be saying, but when you understand the love that Paul would have for God and the love he had for the truth, no, he's not saying they should do that. What he's suggesting is by contrast, if you wanna get into some kind of works orientation, then you better look at the ones who are most work oriented and see the things that they're willing to do for their faith and understand that God's grace, being what it is, should be valued above all things because it doesn't drive you to do the things that pagan beliefs will drive you to do. God's grace just draws you to a relationship with Jesus and gives you freedom and liberty in him. Why not enjoy God's grace rather than get caught up with the law and the bondage that comes through that?


So, welcome to the second chat where I'm watching the talk for today. And the beginning of the talk is Darren from both Census and For The Do. Awesome. Thank you so much. Hello, everyone. Can you all hear me okay in the back? Does this work? So, my name is Darren Frankel. I work at Enterprise Blockchain. What that means is I work to partner and consult with large enterprises on developing blockchain-based solutions to supplement their businesses. I work with governments. I work with regulators. I work with private entities. And so what I want to talk to you today is a little bit about kind of what I do in this space. But the biggest thing I want to actually talk about today is the need for talent and why I want people to start thinking beyond cryptocurrencies. And so, when people think of blockchain, what do most people think of? So, most people, of course, will think of Bitcoin, will think of cryptocurrencies. Now, this isn't surprising. In fact, this is very important as part of the blockchain ecosystem. But when you actually think about blockchain, you shouldn't think beyond them. A lot of people think about the markets. They'll think about trading. They'll think about how they can buy the dips, sell up the highs. They'll think about ICOs, how to launch their own token, bring in funds, raise money for their own projects. They'll think about bubbles. They'll think about the environment that we're in, the surplus of funding and the discrepancy between projects and money flowing into the ecosystem. And of course, some people still talk about hackers, how Bitcoin, how cryptocurrencies and how blockchain are the tools of the illicit. So, what I want people to start thinking about more and more, and what I talk about with my clients is thinking beyond that. What should you be thinking about with blockchain? And what I think about is this. I think about development teams, hard at work, designers, teams looking to actually build the future of our infrastructure. It's very important that we start to think more about how we take this technology and build on top of it, instead of just how we leverage the financial aspects of the system. To me, blockchain is more about communities, it's about community building, bringing people into your ecosystem, helping them to, helping adoption with the projects that you're building helps solve their problems and build on top. It's about late nights at the office. It's about working on projects that you feel drive a significant impact in the community around you, working with your team to build some really amazing tools. It's about open-source platforms, open-source software, how many commits you have on your project, how many developers are engaged, how many people are watching your projects. Finally, it's about building something new and connecting the world around us. When I look at blockchain, I really think about us living in a new era of open platforms and open innovation. Over time, what we've seen is actually the development of open innovation within and around corporate development. In my world, I come from the background of technology consulting. It used to be in order to build technology, in order to build our business, everything has to be done and invented here. And as we progressed, a great example is General Electric. Jack Welsh, one of the first things that he did when he came into General Electric was, he said, or he eliminated what is called NIH or not invented here syndrome. They started to open up to the idea that I can actually leverage the tools and technologies that are developed by the community and my ecosystem and bring it into my environment. We're seeing the next phase of that where individuals and small teams can actually start to innovate and build platforms, build these open networks and platforms, and leverage their own communities as well. So what I want to say is, everyone knows how to hold them. Everyone knows how to buy and hold cryptocurrencies. But what's really, really difficult, not everyone knows how to build them. Not everyone knows how to build platforms that actually drive impact, that actually do something with this technology. And this is how we create value. So that's what I want you to keep in mind as I'm going through this, and as you're listening to the talks the rest of the day, is not about how you come in, you trade, how you make money off of cryptocurrency, but how you build something of value, how you contribute to this ecosystem. So why does blockchain matter? Why does decentralization matter? So where it all began is, of course, in 2008, 2009, with the collapse of the financial system. So Lehman Brothers is the famous example, a company with over 600 billion dollars in assets disappeared overnight. This is in large part due to the risky behavior of these large corporate entities, these centralized systems. They essentially acted more like hedge funds than they did like banks. They were taking very, very risky bets with consumer money in order to meet their own needs. And eventually this caused the collapse of the existing financial system, leading to bailouts, leading to a lot of regulatory action. I think what's important to know about these types of experiences is it's not just, you know, it's not just, oh, you know what, I want to feel like I have more control. I have more value over my own life. It's actually having that control. Thousands of millions and millions of people lost their homes, lost their jobs as a result of this type of, this collapse. And this is all due to centralized parties abusing their power, abusing their positions. Facebook is a more recent one. Facebook currently, when I log onto the Facebook platform, I'm not, it's not my Facebook page. Everything that goes onto Facebook belongs to Facebook. My information, my friends, my pictures, my birth date, all that information is on Facebook's platform. When I talk to my friend, I'm actually sending a message to Facebook who then routes that message to my friend on my behalf. It's all still Facebook's data, Facebook's information, Facebook's platform. And what we've seen most recently with Cambridge Analytica is what happens when a central party with this amount of power, this amount of information actually abuses their position and then uses that data to help malicious actors actually gain control over society. In the case of Cambridge Analytica, they helped by collecting 50 million user, excuse me, 50 million users' data using that to actually create politically targeted ads and influence elections. Now this, again, is another example of these large parties taking seemingly small positions with the information and the centralized power they have but greatly impacting people's lives. The last one that I want to talk about is actually something that maybe some of you are aware of when Star Wars, excuse me, when the Star Wars franchise was bought by Disney. So Star Wars is a huge phenomenon, a huge cult following, which is amazing. I love Star Wars and I'm sure many of you here do too. Many people invest their very livelihoods in the characters and the stories they create, their games, their movies, their comic books, their novels all based around Star Wars. When Disney came in and bought the Star Wars franchise, what they actually did was bought the rights to the entire series. So your lives that were dedicated to this entire storyline to the characters that you followed for your entire life that maybe you contributed to, now became under the control of Disney, who then kicked all that information out and decided, this is core canon, these storylines we see as part of the Star Wars universe, these guys, not so much. People who invested their entire lives in what they loved on these stories just had them simply thrown away. So to me, decentralization means taking power back over our own lives. And so this means things like, so what are we building to actually take our power back? So with the company I work with, we are working on a product called U-Port. U-Port is a self sovereign digital identity. It's a way for you to actually own the information about your own life.  This is what we're doing with U-Port is looking at how you can actually own your own medical record, rather than having to go from a doctor to an insurance provider to another facility, actually creating a digital record that I possess, that I control, that I disclose information to each one of those parties and maintain as whole. If I walk to a border crossing, if I'm trying to enter a new country, disclosing elements of my passport, the ability to prove that I have a right to come into this country, my visa is valid, without disclosing elements of private data. Maybe I don't need to reveal my birth date. Maybe I don't need to reveal my social security number if I have other services I'm accessing. Akasha is a very interesting project, creating a decentralized social network to take on Facebook, to take on LinkedIn, to take on Twitter. These networks that rely on central storage and monetization of data at the expense of consumers, working to actually give consumers their own data back so they can then create their own networks and create their own value. And probably one of my favorite projects is this project called Solarius and why bring up Star Wars. Solarius is creating what is called a trans-media franchise owned by the creators, owned by each and every one of you. If you invest your lives in a story, if you invest your lives in a character, whether it's creation or adaptation or producing brand new content, you can contribute that content to the Solarius universe. You can then build on top, you can own a piece of that character, you can own rights to it. And those characters will live on forever, just like the platform underneath. So these are all great cases for individuals, but that's not the only thing that Blockchain is great for. Blockchain is also great for enterprises, and this is what I do on a daily basis. So how I got into this space was through supply chain. It's incredibly important through our supply chains today to know where our food comes from. And it's not so much because it feels good knowing, oh, this food is organic, this food is GMO free. It's not about feeling good. It's about on the other end of the supply chain giving people the basic human rights that they deserve. Why, when I go to the store, does this pound of shrimp cost $2 less than that pound? What is the reason for that? What happens in the background? So what a team working on a project called Viant is doing is actually creating the basic structure to create an immutable record of supply chain provenance. So when a piece of shrimp is fished out of an ocean or fished out of a farm, I can track that as it moves to the supply chain and I can know where it was caught. I can know that it was produced in sustainable conditions. I can know it was produced ethically and legally. And these are very, very important things for deciding what we as consumers do with our money. JP Morgan is working on a platform called Quorum, a fork of the Ethereum platform. This is all open source and free to use. They're actually using this to create better financial infrastructure to lower the risk of financial institutions as they go through their daily business. One of the prime motivations in this space is something called, excuse me, is real-time settlement. Why real-time settlement is important because it lowers risk. The reason why your credit card costs a couple percent is because of the risk associated the credit cards are taking by fronting the money on your behalf. What this does, what real-time settlement does is it ensures that assets once processed are settled immediately, lowering that risk and allowing financial institutions to provide you services at much lower rates. And one of the projects here in Singapore is with the Monetary Authority, which is really setting an example for central banks globally. They're actually looking at taking a very powerful existing system, the RTGS system here in Singapore and creating a system where banks can settle directly with each other, real-time gross settlement with each other, with the Monetary Authority taking a passive stance on allowing them to interact but not taking an active stance on having to process each one of these payments. They're lowering the cost of their own services. They're lowering the reliance on a single party in order to create a more efficient financial system here for Singapore and beyond. I think blockchain has really spurred a lot of things, but one of the greatest aspects of blockchain is the amount of collaboration we are seeing in industry. So the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, which this is a fraction of the members part of that alliance today, has over 200 members. It's a mix of startups, it's a mix of corporates, it's a mix of governments, all working together to establish the standards for using blockchain technology and enterprise. We are working specifically with a few of these companies on developing standards for supply chains, establishing standards for lending. Because of this technology, we're seeing just a new approach to business. These are my boundaries, this is my business. How are we as an industry going to come together and actually change the way we do business with each other on our and our consumers' behalf? And lastly, the Brooklyn Project is working to actually establish responsible token standards so that the tokens that enter the marketplace are done so responsibly to protect both investors, consumers alike. So this is a group of companies looking to basically reinvent the token launch and ICO process that is an act of self-regulation before being regulated. So why should you get started building on blockchain?  Perhaps you are looking for a way to jump into industry, you're looking for a new edge. There are hundreds if not thousands of companies looking for blockchain experts ready to hire people who know these skills, know how to code on blockchain and develop blockchain applications. Maybe it's because it's an open frontier, there's a lot of opportunity in front of you. There's so much infrastructure, there's so many products that still need to be built and that there's little there that's preventing you from actually being a leader in the space. Or maybe you want to create something entirely new, create something that has impact. So how do you start building? So this is one way. I highly recommend downloading Truffle. Truffle is a development framework that will allow you to very, very quickly spin up a test environment and start building the blockchain apps. It will take a lot of the complexities of the Ethereum network and move it behind the scenes so that you're able to start coding apps very, very quickly. Then I recommend that you dive into their Ethereum overview and their Pet Shop tutorial or any of the tutorials on their web page. This will give you a first insight into how this technology works, what makes it different and actually a real-life example of implementing it yourself. Next, create a wallet, download MetaMask, buy a small amount of cryptocurrency, transfer it, test with it, play with it, understand how it works, why it's important, why security matters, why these things matter in the blockchain ecosystem. Participate in a hackathon. Come to events like these. Meet people. Work on interesting projects with them. Try your skills. Improve. And finally, keep learning and keep exploring. Although things like Truffle are great ways to get started, it's not everything. You need to understand more of what goes on under the hood and there's a vibrant community out there online that can help you understand more of what's going on in this ecosystem. Steam it, Reddit, Stack Overflow and GitHub are all great places to get into some of these projects and learn what other teams are building. And finally, find a team and start building yourselves. This is a team of my buddies who have actually gone together and started to build a real estate blockchain solution.  Thank you very much and happy building.


Can you please tell us a little bit more about where you come from and maybe also a little bit about this Movement for democratic change here in Zimbabwe. Oh, thank you so much. It's a great pleasure to be here My name is Douglas Monzora. I am the secretary general of the movement for democratic change Which is the main opposition party in Zimbabwe. We are hoping to form the next government I am a lawyer by profession. I I started law at the University of Zimbabwe. I joined the politics in 1988 fighting against the one-party state in Zimbabwe Joined quite a number of political parties for purposes as a young person to fight against the one-party state dictatorship As a result of my fight Against the one-party state. I have been arrested and detained by the authorities a record 34 times Thank god. I'm alive and I am here to tell the story I was lucky enough to be appointed the co-chairperson of the constitution making by the prime minister then Mr. Mokensangrai, who is the president of my party To it was an honor to be asked to write a constitution for your country And when we were doing that project I My eyes were opened To the fact that it is not what I want that matters to everyone And that as as human beings we must be very we must be able to accommodate others There are other interest groups there and when you are doing a constitution It's a basically a concordance of discordant forces within society and That the first important thing as a constitution maker is to put yourself out of the equation And look at society A better view of society and the various interest groups that are there Knowing that each interest is as important to the person who holds it As your interest in something else Um, unfortunately after the crafting of the new constitution which was successful Well before the crafting of the new constitution The finishing of the new constitution the the the the promulgation of the new constitution It was taken to referendum Which was a yes or no vote whether the people of zimbabwe were going to say yes to the constitution Historically zimbabwe has always voted no in a referendum and everybody thought it would be a question of deja vu And if the zimbabwe's were going to vote yes, we were going to make history And counted down to the referendum my colleagues and I Were afraid that history will repeat itself Fortunately for us zimbabwe's voted 95 percent For the constitution and we became the first Group of people to do something which went to a referendum of which the result was positive It was a very humbling experience indeed regrettably, uh, I lost my my my my seat in the ensuing election in 2013 And ever since I I I'm in opposition I rose from being an ordinary card carry member of the of the party Into being the spokesperson of the party in 2011 three years later. I was elected the secretary general of the movement and Right now. I have not gone back to teaching. I am running a small private practice Called the monzereta associates where I've got five partners in the law fair


Suppose you're here, but you don't have a body. Whether this satsang is two hours or two millennia, would it matter to you? Only because you have a body, two hours happen. If you did not have a body, this is for two thousand years, what's the problem? So only because of your physicality, time exists, isn't it? Only because you have a physical structure, time exists in your experience. If there was no physical body, what is time to you? The same goes for space also. If you had no body, what size dress would you need? Minus… only because there's a body, space, isn't it? If you did not have a body, how many people could we have for satsang in this hall? Is there a limit I'm asking? No. So only because you're identified with your physical nature, time and space is a reality for you. Otherwise, both wouldn't exist. So, is it a concept? It is not a concept, it is a reality of existence. Can we experience it? Anything that's real can be experienced. Even falsehood can be experienced, you know this? It's happening. In so many ways it's happening, isn't it? Things which are not true are true in your mind. There's a classic example. In the yogic… this thing in the Yogi Sutras himself, Patanjali himself uses the example. Suppose we take a rope and throw it on you and say snake.  You may even die of a heart attack. Yes, even falsehood, that which does not exist, you can experience. Such is the beauty of creation. Even that which does not exist, you can experience. Why would you be denied the ability to experience that which does exist? You definitely can. It is just that you have to disengage a little bit from your personal entertainment. That is, that which does not exist is dominating right now. Things that don't exist in the universe are happening in your mind and they're going about as if it's a reality. It's just badly made movies which are going on, that's all. What's happening in your mind is just bad cinema, isn't it? Not well directed. So, because of your engagement with that, you… this question comes up. Can we experience reality? Reality is the only thing you can experience, isn't it? But creation is so generous, it is willing to allow you to experience even that which does not exist. Fantastic, isn't it?


What's going on everyone? Sam here with Layton Sports Guards. We're ripping 2022 Bowman Draft Jumbo 8 Box full case break number seven random team style. Here's a look again at your random results. As always you can find these on the website under the results tab as well as the link in chat. Good luck everybody. 40 pound case of Bowman Draft. Roodle man. Later. Plenty of group break spots with Forest tonight as well. Forest will be starting at 5 p.m. Eastern time. You're already about about two hours from now. So show Forest some love. The Subaru Forest there. What's that? That's another group of them. Right. Got Desert Suns. I was just going to say that Desert Suns. Desert Suns is a classic. Cutter coffee. First auto. Nice one there for the Red Sox. Congrats, Boston. Do you have a Spider-Man water bottle? I feel like you own one of those. I feel like you may own one of those. I don't. I promise. I'd like to have one. Explains a lot. 23.  True blue of Carson Palmquist. Jake's boy for 150. Cutter coffee again. Red Sox sweeping this time to 250 on the purple. Here you go Boston. Steve G with two hits right off the bat. Congrats Steve. It's not super cold actually in Florida. Surprisingly not super cold yet Connor. It will. It will get cold but right now it's not too too bad. It's like manageable. Is this how cold is it supposed to get? Oh wow. Ricardo Cabrera. Reds. Guarantee the over and under of people in my family saying you brought the cold weather with you when you came up here. I mean we'll probably have Christmas with like between 15 and 20 people. I'll take an over of seven. Yeah honestly. There's Ryan Rittered 499. Why didn't you keep it down there? I love families. Oh yeah. Negative 4 in Kentucky. Really? Freezing in Georgia. Yeah Georgia's cold too. Someone was saying it was like 18 degrees in Georgia. Wow. I know Bo. Bo H one of our like regulars on the YouTube and switch. He's from Georgia. There's Mason Barnett. That's for the Royals first auto. Congrats Ferhan. Only 60. That is chilly. Minus 40 in Montana yesterday. Oh my goodness. Negative two in Missouri with four inches of snow. PA is supposed to be like negative 40 tonight.  What is going on? Daniel Cueva. Somebody's slamming the doorbell now. It's your boy. Kevin Elkintar out of 250 but that guy needs help. It's your boy Don. I don't know this case yet. We did hit a holiday to a 199 auto in the last case as well as a Kumar Rocker purple auto to 250. So a couple big hits so far. Everybody hide your group orders Donnie's here. Absolutely we don't stop at. Do you know the drill? That's my let's let's stop acting like a toddler. What are you three? What are you three? What are you ordering? Grilled cheese? Ready? I'm going to make one of fours when he comes in. Not guaranteed this is going to be his reaction. Ready? Yeah dude. It's good. Have you ever tried it? Yeah dude. It's good. I pulled a couple of Dylan Leskos. Yes. Shade that smack. Thank you man. I think 460 we have on a box on these for jumbo and it's like somewhere in the 600s for super jumbo I believe. 460 jumbo 720 super jumbo. 460 for a jumbo. Yeah we pulled a base auto and a green auto last uh last case. Not out of this case yet. Let's go. No no Jake's top loading. Donnie is not top. When Donnie's just here to sort and ship I believe. I am not Donnie. I would not mess up a piece of word. Promise. Not forget the ranch. Michael Hernandez the 250. He knows. Dominic Keegan the raise. Yeah when Donnie's top loading for me at some point I'll have him explain the whole situation. At least give him a chance to defend himself. We can get him in here right now. I'll take some. Okay buddy. I will. Got. Did we get an auto out of that first stack? Interesting. That's weird. Oh well. On to the next one. You like that forest impression. That was amazing. We got a gold. One min show. So one fifth. We've got gold. Auto is Drew Gilbert. 20 out of 50 for the Astros. Nice one there Houston. Carla W. There you go Carla. What are you gonna say? That was like the perfect like exactly how he sounds. When he comes in we gotta see if he likes that. Yeah dude. Yeah dude. It's good. Have you ever tried it? Oh is that? Yerlin. Confidant. Confidant. Not first though. I couldn't tell you what was on the TV for the last five hours. Florida versus Utah. Oh Florida versus Utah. That's right. Okay never mind. I could tell you. Thanks for the reminder. Good you're not focused on the TV. Breaking? Oh yeah. We're addicted to breaking.  That's a nice car man. Any gold auto is gonna be fired out of this. That's true. Not gonna lie. There's not a lot of places that only serve hot dogs. That's true. That's true. Paul was trying to defend hot dogs today too and I wasn't having it at five. But but okay. You go to five guys to have a really good burger. Yes exactly. Don't go to have a hot dog. That's true. You certainly don't go to get a grilled cheese. No that is awful. Okay. Children's baby. What are you three? So we're stealing the shams done here. Oh yeah. Three. There's sky blue paper to 499. Kenya Huggins.  Yeah I agree with that. I didn't even know they had grilled cheese on their menu to be honest. I don't look at the case menu. It's for when you're three. Kevin Perrata base first auto. I saw in their Mets. Congrats Vincent W. J-Dogs is the only hot dog place. Someone said they make a grilled cheese burger at five guys. I highly recommend it. See that's different though. What? Grilled cheese burger. Like basically like a patty melt essentially. Oh it is a thing. That sounds pretty good actually. Like I would get that. I never knew they had it. That I would get. That's okay. That's because you have burger. That's burger though. Yes you have the main part. Two beef patties in topping sandwich between two grilled cheese sandwiches. Yeah there you go. That's better. Huh. There's sunny Dishara and green Yasser Mercedes to 99. Oh it's only available at limited places. And last pack here guys. Needs out I was hoping it was. I guess just make a note on the sales sheet. Missing one auto. In box too. Okay. That's chrome dust is killing me. It is weird. Maybe we'll have an extra. Hopefully. Is. Hey thanks for all the gift thing there Zach.  It does have all the components of the pizza. Like if you dip a grilled cheese into tomato soup. Could be. No. It could be. That's uh I would in my eyes know. You're okay there. That's a soup and sandwich. True. But I can see how someone could could try to argue that is a pizza. In my opinion it's not. Jared McKenzie 340 out of 499 refractor auto for the nationals. Nah I can't. Because it's two separate components. Yeah. And they aren't made together that's a thing. Correct. Like if you put tomato soup on a grilled cheese sandwich. Like in it somehow. Then kind of yes. Like if you made tomato soup part of the sandwich. Other than dipping it. Yeah. Yes. Customary and air sauce is like thick. True. It's not like a soup. True. So funny when Sean was reading off on Forrest and Wayne said they get grilled cheese from five guys. He just goes he's just shaking. I said he goes it's grown man. We're in grilled cheese off so off a menu. Bread and cheese. It's true. It's true. It's grown man. I mean there are places that serve. Grilled cheese but like the next level. Yeah. Which I would accept. Like I'm not even going to say I would never order a grilled cheese. No. No it doesn't. It's like a gourmet one. No no. Yeah no. It's just five guys that's really bread and cheese on a grill. Yeah. Wait Jeremy Pena autographs do we have. I don't know we probably have some in the shop. I don't own any personally. Yeah I was going to say I don't think there's any out there right now. Again you wouldn't know better than anybody. There's yeast and more about the 499 sky blue paper. True blue denser Guzman to 150. And base auto Tyler Schweitzer for the White Sox. Nido Nido. There you go neaks. Feeling good man. Yeah I know that's big. That's big time. Especially right now.  What else what's up. Where's the blue right there in the pink. That's good. I'm glad I'm glad you're able to go neaks. That's awesome dude. Trey Sweeney on the aqua. Not aqua sky blue from. Come on baby be an auto. Give us an auto. Give us a purple auto why not. Why not us why not now. It is Dillon de Lucia. Purple auto 132 out of 250 for the Guardians. Grats on that Clevelanda. Josh S. Oh printing plate. One of one Walter Ford. Nice one there that's going to the Mariners. Congrats Seattle. Actual Cyan. Printing plate cool. First one of those I pulled this year. Paper green Eric Brown Jr. to 99. Green speckle for the brew crew. Kyle Menzardo another future Jake shirt jersey. Oh thanks. Thank you. Is it a grilled cheese pizza? Yes. No ranch. Grilled cheese from five guys. Grilled cheese from five guys pizza no ranch. He told Donnie coming here real quick. Want to hear my my forest impression really quick? We were talking about I was like when forest comes in here I'm going to make one of them for getting grilled cheese at five guys and this is what he's going to say. Yeah dude it's good have you ever tried it? Yeah that's what I say. See there you go. This is exactly what I mean. Why wouldn't I say that? Yeah dude it's good. It is good. I feel I'm not saying I'm like I'm gonna go there like I can't wait to get me a grilled cheese. Come on guys. Little hot dogs are fire there. I've been at five guys in like two years. Really? I don't know. The cheddar bacon dogs get a couple of those. They're fire. But you can put everything on too. You can put onions and put like whatever you put on the burger you can put on that. So it makes it pretty, pretty baller. All right. See he's making a case. Slowly talking me into it I gotta be honest. Making a case for it. Yeah that's what I say. What do you mean? Why would I not say that? What do I mean? Yeah. That's Simon Juan to 50. This break I think was $130 a spot. True Blue, Cole Young to 150. Yeah one team or combo team per spot. Yes principle. Yeah there's I think 28 spots for the break and there's two combo spots. So the Yankees and the White Sox are one combo and the Marlins and the Phillies. There's Deandre Smith base rookie auto. Base first auto for the Mechs. There's a Aqua or Sky Blue Hayden Dunhurst the 499 on the paper for the Royals. Edison Paulino on the Aqua Chrome. Refractor Auto Landon Sims the 499. Diamond Mechs. There's your Donny De Los Santos for the Pirates on the White Spackle. Purple Robert Ocel to 250. And Douglas Hodo the third. 188 out of 199 on the Aqua Lava. That does not sound like a real name. Douglas Hodo the third. Sounds like a Star Wars name. Douglas Hodo. It's that that wasn't a real card I don't think. I don't think that card truly exists. That sounds like a Harry Potter character like someone in the Lord of the Rings. What's up? I can look like a Star Wars.  Watch out for the Astha at one point. Give me all the Hodo's. Redemption is Bowman and Victor Autograph Red Parallel. Max Muncie going to the A's. Nice one there Oakland. David S. Grats on that. That'll be the five right there. Max Muncie. That's pretty cool. I don't know, bow to be honest. Yonkyl Fernandez the 150. They did his picture kind of dirty in this one. Not that holy. No, no holiday got screwed. Blue Mason Wynn not numbered. There was a redemption for like a first then yeah, but Muncie's been been through a few, a few bowmans now. Aqua Lava Jason Dominguez for the Inks. And Green Victor Medeiros 40 out of 99 for the Angels. This one there L.A. Not familiar? Yeah, say I played him here. Did you really? Yeah. Will you play? Is there any MLBers you could think of you played against? Oh yeah. Who? Reese Hines. We play against the IMG national team. Eddie's Leonard. Pretty much every single one of those guys was drafted. Yeah, who's the best like the most notable? Or like you were in like the same conference for like... I'd say that team for sure. That's it. This is everybody. Well, there's like, there's Reese Hines. I don't think I know who else was playing. Sterling Thompson, base auto first for the Rockies. Clark Elliott, that is White Speckle for the A's. Got Dandy DeAndrade. And Purple Nick York to 250. My rocker on the refractor. Played against Jayrod and Jeremy Pena in the minors. Nice. Jayce Jung to 499. What team were you on? You played on Trayvon Walker's team bow?  That's awesome.  Yeah, really. Guys getting drafted for the minors and stuff. Reese Hines is the most notable name. Reese Hines, yeah. We're a team right now. Since it's Natty. One of the picture that started against us is on the... Poojit or on the Dodgers now. It is, that's nasty. We got a team that was drafted by the Poojits and then traded. Traded. That's awesome bow. That's so cool man. Elijah Green, there he is. Base auto for the Nationals, congrats Nats. Chuck S, there you go buddy. Nice green. There's Samuel Munoz, white speckle. Oh that's just going to be from like Wisconsin or something. You know, it's not going to pull the one of one Nessie. Out of what? You're going to be watching me pull the Nessie one of one? That'd be insane. And the Mbappe one of one. And the Ronaldo one of one. There's Dylan Ray to 75. Here to jump up. It's so crazy. For Donnie Toplode again, everyone in chat is just going to wreck him. Oh yeah. Willie Vazquez, it's at 1.99. Is Donnie Toplode tonight? Yeah, I'll just check next time he does. Oh yeah, yeah. Oh no, Sean's Toplode tonight. So I wonder why is that like 7am? Yeah, I know. What do you do with him? He's like, I'm just going to go pretty much home and grab myself to go to the airport. I'm like, that's all you can do. Right, honestly. Sleeping for an hour is a negative at that point. Yeah, it might as well not. Purple Tanner Schoble to 250. Dustin Harris and Victor Autograph, 7 out of 99. There's some scratches and stuff on that. We'll send an empty box and wrapper with a ranger. Sorry about that ranger. What's up? Maybe you didn't know where you're from. From Miami. I thought we played their school, I guess. What kind of pizza do you get for us? There's a Bianca, there's this one that has like pepperoni, garlic, and ricotta. Oh.  Oh. But the pepperoni and the Bianca are going to be the final ones. Okay. I'll do some scouting. 7-Eleven. Nice heat lamp pizza. I would not be bragging if I brought you guys 7-Eleven pizza. Dylan, or sunny day, she are. It's a 9-Eleven. What kind of pizza do you get? It's pizza. It's out there. Oh yeah. That's what I would say if I got you. You can't do your loss. 7-Eleven pizza. It's a dough with some. It's legally pizza, all right. We're even pushing it on legally. It's almost food, okay? Somewhat counts. Passes. Passes, right. They serve it in public schools. It's fun. True. Yeah, true. What's up, Bronx? Bronx Breaks. Refractor Alex Freeman, autographed to 499 for the Dodgers. It's the second Freeman we pulled this break. What up, what up? How you doing, man? There's Ivan Melendez, the 499. That's good. I'm out of exhaustion too. Happy holidays to you too. Thanks, man.  Thank you, Bronx. Happy holidays. I'm about to be exhausted tomorrow, dude. I'll wake up. How much you're playing? Oh, it's eight. No, nine. But we have to, I mean, I have to get to the airport super early since Christmas Eve. Yeah. So it's a super travel day. So I'm scheduling an Uber for five tomorrow. Five-thirty, five-thirty. Get there at six and just try to get through security. Sleep like a baby on the plane, though. Travel after you. What's up? You still have to travel after me? Yes, somewhat. My parents are picking us up. So it's like a 20-minute drive from the airport, 25-minute drive. Thank you. I appreciate it, Randy. I'm not looking forward to it, dude. We're just flying from Florida to Connecticut. So it's like two-hour flight, two-and-a-half hour flight. It's not terrible, but it's going to be annoying. Colson Montgomery to 499. Victor Scott, the second for the Cardinals on the base auto. Yeah, I'll be napping for sure. I'll be napping for sure. I can assure you of that. Air apparent, Brooks Lee, 32 out of 50 on the gold. Nice one there for the twins. Cramping up here already. Orange. Come on, baby. Come on, be big. Give us an orange auto, too. I don't think it's an auto. Yeah, we do have a blue behind it. So it's not going to be an auto, but it's going to be an orange. True orange up and Joyce for the angels. Nice one there on the chrome. That's sick. Then we've got blue wave auto. Victor Scott, 68 out of 150. Two Victor Scots in this box. Congrats, Cardinals. Yeah, true. I know of him. You know of him. Gotcha. Jackson Chorio, nice one there. It's a 150 on the Invicta Atomic. Like a hundred of them. Yeah, orange is numbered to 25. Principal to 25. I'm going to take that orange back after this pack really quick, too. I'm just going to show the back of it. I forgot to say what it was numbered to. Brandon Barrera. So that is numbered nine of 25. Nine of 25. Orange. Thanks, Jake. Just pulled the orange jacks the holiday of that, which was nasty. The base. Yeah, that thing was disgusting. I would do 101. Reving as high as 105. That's sickening, dude. It's too fast. There's Michael Kennedy. For the Pirates, base auto not numbered. So we didn't go three for three with Victor Scott currently. Pack of box seven, then runs the last box of the break, everybody. Samuel Zavala. Sky blue paper, 499. All right, last box of the morning, guys. Good luck, everybody. Forrest's looking on spots, too. Oh, good. Update series, they're both sold out. Nice. Yeah, Forrest is slowly but surely getting his spots sold out. Thank you, guys. Good-looking spots, for sure. Yeah, we're doing breaks. Oh, I've been ripping since 11. 11 a.m. And then Forrest is coming in at night. He's going until 5. All right, it's going until probably 2 a.m. tonight. All right, here we go. Two paper, Simon Juan to 150. There's Jet Williams. Nice one there. 163 out of 199 for the Mets. Congrats, Mets. Solid card, for sure. Christian Maccaro. Blue. Gabriel Hughes. White speckle not numbered for the Rockies. We've got Green Jack Branigan to 99 for the Pirates. And Refractor Drew Gilbert. 323 out of 499, going to the Stroze on the Auto. There is Bill and Ray. Aqua to 199. Mace. Last couple packs here. Last stack. Should have our auto on top here. Redemption, it looks like. It's always not a bad site. It's going to be, uh, Brooks Lee. Chrome prospect, autograph, Purple Refractor. Boom. Going to the twins. There you go. Satinori, why? Congrats, man. Nice one there. We'll get that mag for you. How long have I been collecting Dino? Pretty much my whole life, since I was like 6 years old. I would say give or take. Been really like hardcore collecting since about 2013. Like doing social media stuff with it. Like my own card account, all that kind of stuff. But I've been like collecting ever since I was a kid. There's Cole Young, nice one there. Purple Paper to 250. There's Reggie Crawford Blue. Purple, uh, Leonardo Balcazar to 250 on the Chrome. Like Favorite cards or top three cards in general? Like value-ized junk. My favorites are anything my Ravens. So probably my, I have like the Ray Lewis, Ed Reid, and Jamal Lewis, one-on-one from Flawless. Like Triple Shield. Couple Ray Lewis autos I really like. Gutierrez. Bass and bass. That'll do it for the break, guys. Do a quick recap here. What's up, Joha? How you doing, buddy? We've got printing plates of Walter Ford for the Mariners. Max Muncie and Victor Parallel for the A's. Bass is Michael Kennedy Pirates. Victor Scott Cardinals. Elijah Green for the Nationals. I appreciate that, man. Sterling Thompson Rockies. DeAndre Smith Metz. Tyler Schweitzer White Sox. Kevin Perotta Metz. Mason Barnett for the Royals. Cutter Coffee Red Sox. Now our fractures to 499. Drew Gilbert Astros. Jared Mackenzie Nats. Landon Sims Diamondbacks. Alex Freeland for the Dodgers. Purple to 250. Dylan DeLusia. Guardians. Cutter Coffee Red Sox. Teal Lava to 199. Jet Williams Metz. Douglas Hodo, the third for the Orioles. Jeez, man. Blues to 150. Blue Wave Victor Scott. Dustin Harris Invicta Otto for the Rangers. Victor Moretos. Green to 99. Angels. Gold Drew Gilbert to 50 for the Astros. And then we have a Brooks Lee Refractor. Purple Parallel. Going to the twins. That'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Next up is we're done. So, force will be alive in a little bit.