Good morning, everybody. You guys doing good? Man, what a privilege it is to gather together, to worship together, to look at God's word together. I was talking to a friend of mine this last week who's a missionary in Asia, and he was talking about how in Asia and Algeria and some other places, China, where they've actually recently knocked down church buildings that the church was gathering in have posted sealed notifications from the government on the door that churches cannot meet together anymore. They've taken people's Bibles away from them, and still those churches are thriving and growing and loving Jesus and gathering together. And the reason why I bring that up is I think sometimes you and I could do really well to have reminders about how blessed we are to freely gather, to worship God, and to actually own our own copies of Scripture. So if you have your Bibles, take it out this morning. Honor it, treasure it, love it. I know that we live in a country where we stick them in hotel drawers and download them onto our smartphone devices, and however we gotta do it to get it, but we should always have a deep appreciation and honor for the word of God, and the privilege that we have of always getting together and worshiping with other saints. So, so glad to see you guys this morning, looking forward to seeing everybody tonight as part of Team Radiant at our gathering at 5 p.m. We're gonna pray together, we're gonna share vision for what God is about ready to do in Radiant Church. So if you're part of Team Radiant, look forward to seeing you tonight. Look with me at Ephesians chapter six, Ephesians chapter six. Title of the message this morning is arm yourself. Arm yourself. And this is a continuation of our battle series as we're looking at the subject of spiritual warfare. Look with me here, beginning in verse number 13. Paul writes this. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand, stand therefore having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness and shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish the flaming darts of the evil one, and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God praying at all times in the spirit with all prayer and supplication. So as we've said at the beginning of every message, this entire series, let's do it again. The Christian life is not like a battle. The Christian life, it is a battle. There is no demilitarized zone if you are a follower of Jesus. You can't wave the white flag and say, I'm like Switzerland. I don't wanna be in the fight. Can't we all get along?  Sometimes the way that you make peace is you have to win battles. And the way that we step into the peace of God is we have to turn our back on the enemy and towards our face, turn our face towards the Lord. And the other thing that we've said in this entire series of this, that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood. People are not our enemies, but we are wrestling against principalities and powers and spiritual hosts of wickedness. So our enemy is not people. It's not people that look like us. It's not people that are different from us. It's not people that think they're our enemy. How many know in this world there will be people, even if you say they're not your enemy, they will say, no, I'm your enemy. But we see from an eternal perspective, when we say, even when they say that they're our enemy, we say, well, you might wanna be my enemy, but you see, Jesus called me to love my enemies and to pray for those who persecute me and spitefully use me. So I'm going to wrestle in the spiritual battle that is being fought in the heavenlies so that God is able to rescue those who self-identify as my physical enemies on this earth so they can find freedom like I found freedom. Like 14 people think that's a good idea and kind of nodded and the rest of us are like, I don't get that, I wanna fight. Listen, if you're a fighter, it's good, but you gotta fight the right battles. You gotta fight the right enemy. We gotta know the battlefields that we are engaged in. And let me just communicate this because we need to know this, that every believer, whether you like it or not, you are in a spiritual battle. You have a Jesus-sized target on your back. Jesus said, you are either for me or you are against me. There's no in the middle, there's no demilitarized zone. And there are several different battlefields that every single one of us find ourselves engaged in a battle in. Number one, the first battlefield that you are engaged in is your flesh. It's your old sinful human nature. The Bible calls it flesh. It's not talking about physical flesh and blood. It's not your body is not the enemy. This physical body someday will be redeemed by Jesus when he returns at resurrection. This mortal body will put on immortality. But when the Bible is talking about flesh, it's talking about, I think the NIV says it's your sinful human nature.  When you get born again and you are saved and you become a Christian because you've repented of your sins and placed your trust in Jesus, your spirit is saved. The inside of you, the deepest part of who you are, that's the part that's recreated in the image of God. Your heart becomes the Holy of Holies where the Holy Spirit dwells. But you still live in a flesh and blood reality and connected to that is you have an old sinful human nature. That's the part of you where temptation dwells. That's the part of you that has appetites and urges to do things that are contrary to the word of God. That's the part of you where you say, I know God says that, but I think my way is better. That's where pride gets elevated. And you know, that's the first battlefield that all of us engage in on a regular basis. It's the battle for giving dominance to the Holy Spirit and actually crucifying the flesh. It's what Paul meant when he said this in Galatians 2.20. I am crucified with Christ. And it is no longer I that live, but Jesus now lives in me and through me. And the life I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me. What does Jesus, or does Paul mean when he says I'm crucified and I don't live anymore? He means I've taken the old me, the old Paul, the fleshly me, and I've let Jesus win the battle. How many know that you're gonna fight the battle of the flesh almost every single day of your life? Because the flesh is a reality. It's a part of you that says I love Jesus, but I want my way. Anybody ever thought that? Nobody? I'm in a holy church. Can I just tell you all about your pastor for a minute? My flesh is loud. My flesh is like I want what I want and it thinks things. Sometimes it doubts things. Sometimes it wrestles with what God says and that's a battlefield.  You are fighting against a way of thinking, a mindset, a grid, a construct, a foundation that is built on values, belief systems, priorities, pure pressure. It's like a matrix that the Bible calls the world's system. Now, John 3.16 says that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. So we love the world as far as the people that are in it because the people that are in this world are actually slaves to sin and the world's constructs that is under the control of Satan that Jesus, the Son of God, came to redeem out so that we would no longer be slaves, we would become sons in the kingdom of God. So we're in this world, God loves the world, so why shouldn't we love the world? Because there's a difference between the people in the world and the actual system and reality of the world. First John chapter two says this, do not love the world or the things that are in it for all that is in the world is not of the Father, it is the lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes and the pride of life and none of these things are from the Father and all of these things are fading away. In other words, the kingdom is coming. But it says don't love the world, lust of the eyes, lust of the flesh, pride of life. We live in a world system that is, if you could see it, the invisibility of it, it's like steel girders building this broken and fallen world. It's why we have the problems, the systemic issues. It's why we have the spiritual battles that are going on because we're living in a world that right now is under the sway of the evil one. He's called the God of this world, the God of this age, the devil. And we're living in a world even though we are not of this world. How many of you have ever seen like on National Geographic channel, they have these shows on aliens. Anybody ever watched those shows on aliens?  I've watched them. And they talk about ancient aliens.  It's Christians.  Your citizenship is in heaven, according to Philippians chapter three. Second Corinthians says that you're an ambassador of Christ. Where is Christ? He's in heaven.  Jesus, when he was standing before a pilot, said that if my kingdom were of this world, then my followers would take up arms and they would fight. But my kingdom is not of this world. If his kingdom isn't of this world, that means your kingdom isn't of this world. We are aliens, we are strangers, we are not of this world. So the next time you look in the mirror, realize you're looking at an alien. Your front room is area 51 because you are from the kingdom of God. You're not of this world, but you're in this world. And we gotta win the battle against the spirit of this world so that we walk in the fullness of the kingdom of God. Third battlefield that we fight against is the devil himself. Jesus described the devil in John chapter 10.  There is a real devil. There are real demons. He is a created being by God. He is not God's equal. He fell, he was thrown out of heaven because pride and arrogance and rebellion were found in him. There's coming a day when God is going to judge the devil and put him away along with all the other demons.  And his greatest tactic is convincing human beings that he does not exist. Oh, he's not real. That's just an old fairy tale. You know, there's no devil. Well, Jesus dealt with the devil. Jesus confronted the devil. Jesus cast out the devil. The devil is a very real spiritual entity. And just because you don't believe in him doesn't stop him from working in your life. You can say, oh, you want, well, I don't believe in the devil. I'm boycotting the devil. Well, guess what? It doesn't mean he's gonna leave you alone. Satan doesn't go, wow, they don't believe in us anymore. So let's move on down the road to Africa where there's still, you know, super naturalists or let's go to India or let's, you know, let's go to South America where they still believe in supernatural things. In America, they don't put up with us. Guess what? He doesn't need your permission. He's camouflaged in a whole lot of other things. And that is the third battlefield. Now, let me ask you a question. Has anybody who's listening to me ever shown up at an event in which you were dressed inappropriately for? If you ever shown up at like a restaurant where there's like, excuse me, sir, you have to wear a jacket. And so we just happened to have one and it's 14 sizes too big for you and it's plaid.  He showed up in a T-shirt and jeans. But now he has a plaid tweed size 52 jacket on. And have you ever shown up at a Halloween party that was a non-costume Halloween party? You showed up and you're in your Spider-Man tights and nobody else is dressed in an outfit and may happen to you this week, I don't know. Have you ever shown up at that? Jane and I were at a wedding one time where somebody showed up wearing a white dress.  Even I know that.  To assume that your life is meant to be a country club when in reality it's a battlefield.  What's gonna happen when you walk out onto the battlefield?  When we take the battle casually, we end up a casualty. We have got to put on the armor of God. That's what Paul's talking about here. Putting on the full armor of God so that we can stand against the enemy so that we'll be able to stand firm in the evil day. Make no mistake about it, we are living in evil days. If you wanna be able to stand firm, if you wanna win the war, if you wanna stand strong against the strategies and the schemes of the enemy on any one of these three battlefields, you've gotta have the armor of God on. You've gotta be dressed appropriately. What's interesting is that Paul wrote this of all of this teaching about the armor of God. He wrote it most likely from jail. See, Paul was arrested multiple times but he was in jail for a lengthy period of time for one cause. Was it theft? No, was it murder? No. Was Paul arrested and jailed because he did something illegal? Yes, what did he do that was so bad that caused him to be arrested and put in chains? Well, what he did in the first century in the midst of the Roman Empire is he preached Jesus Christ as king. He said this, Jesus is Lord. We all say that because that's something that's common to say in church. We sing it. I want everybody to say it with me. No matter where you are, just say it out loud. Say, Jesus is Lord. Go ahead. Jesus is Lord. I'm gonna say it one more time. Say, Jesus is Lord. Jesus is Lord. Now we say that and we write it under our eyes in our football makeup or whatever guys do and we put it on billboards, but do you know that in first century if you would have said that to the wrong person that could send you to jail? Because it was a politically subversive statement. In Rome, there was a belief that Caesar was called in fact there are coins that are minted that say Caesar is the savior of the world. That the message of the Roman Imperial Army was Pax Romana, which meant the peace of Rome. They believed that when their soldiers and their armies went and conquered lands they were bringing peace with them. The message that was announced in a community when the Roman army was coming was called the gospel. Somebody would come and proclaim good news. Rome is about ready to come in and conquer you and bring their culture with them. And if you lived in a Roman province like in modern or an ancient Turkey they would actually have bronze busts of heads and shoulders of the emperor that you would burn incense to and you had to make a declaration to get a business license and it said, Caesar is Lord. You did that, they stamped your papers, you could do business, you could be, whatever the case might be. The only people in the empire that refused to do that were Christians. And Paul turned it around and he says, let me tell you who's Lord, Jesus is Lord. And when he preached that, you read the book of Acts it says that they preached another king. It was a subversive message. That's why Paul got sent to prison.  He's trying to find a way to communicate to believers about the darkness that they are enduring, the persecution they are going through, the loss that they are feeling, the fear that is crippling to them. And he's trying to get through to them about we're engaged in a spiritual battle. How do we need to prepare ourselves? And he looks and most likely he's within two to three feet away from a Roman soldier who's watching guard over him. A Roman soldier is the most intimidating soldier of his day. The Roman army was the most intimidating, most powerful, authoritative military machine that the world had ever seen. They had warfare down to a science. And here Paul is in jail, chained to a wall for preaching the gospel and he looks up as he's trying to write the Holy Spirit, grabs a hole in his heart and says, tell him to put the full armor of God on. Not the armor of a Roman soldier, but the armor of God. And he looks at the soldier that's next to him and he says, that's exactly it. And then he writes under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, not just to them but to us even to this day, about the importance of armoring up, of arming ourselves for the battle that we're engaged in. And he starts this list by talking about the belt of truth. Look at how he says, therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand. And then he says, having fastened on the belt of truth. The belt of truth. Here's where Paul starts. He's looking at the soldier and he starts at the belt. And it's interesting to me that he starts with the belt because that's not where most of us would start. But Paul understood the significance of the belt. I actually like the King James translation better here. I know it's old and archaic, but that, I mean, sometimes old and ancient and archaic just has some teeth to it. He says, gird up your loins. I'm gonna try that on for size. It's really politically nice to just say, put your belt of truth down. No, I like, gird up, gird yourself with the belt of truth, gird up your loins. We don't use that kind of language in our day, but maybe we need to. Because the loins was actually the abdominal part of a human where it was believed that your seat of your personality and your affections was held. That's why if you've ever read the King James Bible or grew up hearing the King James that talks about the bowels of your affections. Ha, write that in your next Valentine card to your wife, honey, my bowels are filled with affection towards you. It'll thrill her heart. They believed that the heart, the center of a person was actually in their bowels, your kidneys, your liver. That's why when you read Proverbs and it talks about an arrow penetrating your liver, it's talking about literally taking your life, your essence. Peter uses the same type of language about girding up the loins of your mind, talking about the center of your affections. That's why Paul starts here. It's at the center of your being, we need to put on the most important pivotal piece of armor, which is this girdle, this belt, that a soldier wore that protected the abdominals, of which every other piece of the fixed armor, the breastplate of righteousness and even the boots are connected. It becomes the lynchpin, the anchor by which everything else is connected. Even a shield would be latched to it so that you could lift it up. And if you had to let go of it, it would just hang. The sword would be put into the belt of truth. The boots were connected all the way up into the girdle.   But when a soldier went into battle, he put this whole contraption on a girdle, a belt of truth, so that all of it would be held together and it would be bunched up so he was free to move, free to fight and not be encumbered. That's what Paul starts here with, belt of truth. You see, a belt has a lot more to do with functionality than just looks. I know in art today, belts just are kind of a afterthought. They're kind of a fashion statement. Ladies, you guys will put on belts. They're not even attached to anything. It's like, just shift them and got it over here and we've got beaded belts and braided belts and we've got like star-skinned hutch belts. When I was a kid, there was two rules in my stepdad when you dress. Number one, you tuck your shirt in at all times. Even to this day, it's always like, why are your shirts always untucked? So you just always tucked your shirt in. He was military. Second thing is if it has belt loops, you wear a belt. So my swimsuit had belt loops. So I had a swimsuit that had belt loops and I had one of those elastic belts with the magnet buckles. You guys remember those? That I had to wear with my swimsuit. My friends were always like, why are you wearing a belt? Cause it's got loops. The belt Paul is writing about is called the belt of truth. It's called the belt of truth. It protects the center of our being and it's which all the other pieces of armor connect to. That's why Paul starts here. The importance of truth. What's he talking about? He's not just talking about philosophical truth. He's talking about foundational truth by which we build everything else in our life. You see all these pieces of armor that Paul's talking about have to do with our minds just like in 1 Peter where it says, gird up the loins of your mind. I love this particular scripture. 1 Peter 4 once is since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourself with the same way of thinking, with the same mind. So it has all of these pieces of armor have to do with our mind, with our attitude, with our posture, which the way that we see the world, the way that we live our lives, they're not just physical pieces. What I don't want you doing is tomorrow getting on Amazon and ordering literal pieces of Roman centurion armor, getting dressed in the morning and going to work and it's like I'm a Christian and I got my armor on. You will be safe from physical attack, but you will still be vulnerable to demonic attack. Now this is armor that has to do with our heart, with our belief systems, with the foundations of our life. That's why he starts at the place called truth. Gird yourself up, protect who you are and set a foundation so that all the other attitudes and the things that you need to arm yourself with are steady, are fixed, are in place. And he says this belt is, we've got to make a determination that truth is going to be the belt that we wrap ourselves in and steady ourselves with. Listen to what Jesus had to say about truth. John 8 verse 32 through 33, he says, if you abide in my truth or in my word, if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth and the truth will. Jesus said this, if you abide in my word, then you are truly my disciples. Notice Jesus didn't say, if you pray a prayer, if you go to church, if you sing a couple songs, if you have a devotional on your iPhone, he says, no, if you abide in my word, what's he talking about? He's talking about his word that this is truth. He says, if you abide in this, you are my disciple and then you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. You see, it's not just knowing the Bible, but it's submitting our lives. It's abiding in his word, abiding in Jesus who is the living word that causes us to be his disciple. Because here's what happens in every facet of our life. When we see something that we immerse ourselves into because we see value in it, we become a student of that thing and the more you become a student of that thing, it begins to shape you and affect the way that you see the world, see yourself and how you make decisions and ultimately it will lead you down a path and that path will either lead to freedom or it will lead to bondage. A doctor starts off with a desire to be a medical doctor. So he goes and gets his pre-rex, but then a doctor has to go and do a residency where they actually apply what they've learned and another doctor who's further down the road who's actually an MD, takes a resident and says, now let's take this information that you have and let me show you how to apply it and to make sure that it's true. To prove it out, to see the good, to see when you diagnose somebody like this and you treat them like this and you do it for long enough, then it brings healing in their life. So now it's gone from textbook to practical and practice and ultimately you come to a place where the fruit of it is that you've now become the teacher and you know how in any situation to apply knowledge and make it truth that produces health. Now Jesus said, if you wanna be my disciple, my student, then you'll bide in my word. In other words, you get into God's word and you immerse yourself in this. This is God's word, this is God's truth. Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life. When we immerse ourselves in God's thoughts, in God's word, not for the sake of just theological arguments, but we actually take that and then we begin to follow the living Jesus in a daily relationship where he shows us application and we submit to that. And then he shows us another truth out of his word and we begin to apply that and we submit to that. That's when Jesus said you'll be my disciples and when you're my disciple, you'll know the truth and the truth will set you free. Now a doctor when he's in college also takes math classes and science classes but he doesn't become an expert and he doesn't become a doctor in math or in science. He becomes an expert in the thing he gives us focus to. My concern is that we as followers of Jesus Christ are mastering other disciplines or being taught by other teachers and we're giving cursory attention and diligence to the one who wants us to be his disciple. Listen, let me tell you one of your pastor's prayers. This is my prayer on a daily basis. As I do this thing, I've talked about it before where it's like physically or spiritually, I x-ray my heart and I sit in the presence of God and I say, God, I do not want to be a professional preacher in an amateur disciple and I appraise my life and I say, Lord, if people from the outside or some other source from the outside was to take all the evidence of my life, the decisions I make, the words I say, the way I spend my time, the way I spend my resources, how I instruct other people, how I love my wife, how I raise my kids. If all of that evidence were to be put together and formulated, what kind of truth would it be and would it look like you? Or would somebody take all of that stuff and add it all up? The values, the things I say I believe, the way I live my life, would they add that up and would they deduct that I am a disciple of somebody else or of something else?  He lives his life for pleasure, he puts self first and he takes no thought about eternity. You see, if that's what people say, then I'm not really a disciple of Jesus. I might believe in Jesus, but I'm just like a doctor who's taken math classes, I'm not majoring in Jesus. It's possible for us to come to Jesus, to come to church and we minor in Jesus, but we're majoring in other things. Jesus said, if you want to put the belt of truth on, if you want to win the battle, then you got to abide in his word. Think about all the things we saturate ourselves in. Has anybody in here ever, I mean, because we live in the internet age, have you ever Googled something on YouTube that's like a conspiracy theory and just got sucked into it, like Bigfoot? Has anybody ever done this before?  Have you ever done this? Nobody? Okay, just me. Totally intrigued by Bigfoot, by the way. So I'm like, and there's all these sightings and things and then as soon as that video's done, it leads to another one and another one and another one. Mixing in, you can order books. I've done it on Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster and all kinds of stuff like this and you get sucked into it. It's amazing how you can saturate yourself with something to where, in the middle of a conversation, because you know that you've done this, you're at dinner with somebody and somebody brings up Bigfoot and all of a sudden all the stuff that you've taken in, go, hey, well, wait a second, before you dismiss Bigfoot, do you realize that in Alaska they found a footprint that looks human and it's like 18 inches long, nobody has an 18 inch foot, they've done a diagnosis and everybody's looking at you like, how do you know this? And why do you know this? You only do things that you've immersed yourself in. Have we immersed ourselves in Jesus? Have we immersed ourselves? That's what Jesus means when he says, abide in my word and you will be my disciples and then you will know the truth. Let me tell you what truth is. Truth is the outcome of wisdom applied. Truth is the application of wisdom that has been applied. When we take God's word and we actually walk it out, then we step into truth and it says, and truth sets us free. But there are a lot of things if you become a disciple of them, if you strap them on, they are not truth. They are not the gospel, they are not Jesus and you will see the fruit of what those things produce but instead of you knowing the truth, you will know bondage and the bondage will take you captive. There are a lot of things in this world, beloved, that wanna take you captive and they look good and they say, hey, make this your truth. Immerse yourself in this, become a student of this. And if you do it, you will see the fruit of that thing when it comes to an end. We have this thing called the gospel, which is good news, it's powerful. Paul said, I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. We can use this gospel for protection. It's a gift that God has given to us. It's truth that is foundational in our life. But we are the ones who've gotta put it on because let me just tell you this morning, there are some things that only God can do for you. How many know that there's some things only God can do? You need a miracle in your life, only God can do that. You can't manufacture a miracle. You can want a miracle, you can need a miracle but only God can do a miracle. That's the definition of a miracle. How many know that you can't save yourself? You better know that, you can't save you. You are lost in your sins far away from God but when you were weak and without strength in that moment God sent Jesus into the world and salvation is the free gift of God. You can't earn it, you can't save yourself. Only God can do that. You can't change yourself. Philippians chapter one says, he who began a good work in you, salvation will be faithful to complete it until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ which means when God starts genuinely in your heart he will be the one who faithfully finishes it in your life. He will sanctify you, make you like Jesus. So we cooperate with that. So there's some things only God can do but let me tell you there's some things only you can do. There's some things only you can do. Only you can obey. You make that decision. Only you can arm yourself. He says, arm yourself. Take up the armor of God. Number one, put on the belt of truth. Number two, the breastplate of righteousness. Breastplate of righteousness. What is a breastplate of righteousness? Well, a soldier would put it on, hardened leather and wood and steel with the insignia of the Roman Empire in the center of it. You strapped it over your shoulders and it hooked into the belt of truth.  Protect, keep your heart pumping. And he calls it the breastplate of righteousness. That is our position in Christ. Second Corinthians chapter five verse 21 says this. It's talking about what took place on the cross. A great exchange took place. It says that God made him, Jesus, who knew no sin to become sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ. A great exchange took place on the cross. Jesus who knew no sin. What do you think about that? God in the flesh, Jesus was tempted as a human in every way that you and I can be tempted. Hebrews says that we do not have a high priest who is not sympathetic and aware of our weaknesses. He knows our weaknesses. Jesus was tempted. It's easy to look at Jesus and say, well, he wasn't, it wasn't real temptation. No, it was, he hungered. Do you know that Jesus felt betrayal but he didn't get offended? Jesus felt hunger, but he didn't give in to his appetites. Jesus was tempted with power but he didn't surrender or take the shortcut. Jesus was mocked, ridiculed, but he didn't choose vengeance. He was sinless. Jesus knew nothing of shame or guilt or what it meant to be separated from the Father ever in eternity past and even in his physical life as a man who is also fully God. He never knew what it was like to have a moment of separation from the heart of the Father, never. He did not know the weight and the guilt of shame. He didn't know that when he was on the cross, completely innocent, the Bible says that God put all of our sin, our shame, our death sentence, our judgments.  And it was the first time that he ever felt distance, separation, shame. He cried out, Father, my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It says that in Hebrews, it was for the joy that was set before him that he endured the shame.  Our sin, our guilt was put on him. But when the Father turned away from him, turned his face away from Jesus, who had become sin, just think about that. Your sin, every human being's sin past, present, and future was put on Jesus in one moment. And the Father who's holy turned away, but when he sees you and I now, he doesn't see us through the lens of our shame and our sin and our guilt. Things that we've done wrong. He doesn't see us through our fears. He doesn't see us through our doubt and unbelief. See, the Bible says that he who knew no sin became sin for us so that we might become the righteousness of God and Jesus Christ. Jesus, when he was on the cross, willingly surrendered his right standing before God. His righteousness, his purity, his innocence was given to us if we believe by faith in Jesus. If we make him the Lord of our lives, we don't stand before God with any of our stuff anymore. That was on Jesus. Now we stand before God in robes of white, pure, spotless innocence. And when God the Father sees you now, he doesn't see your last mistake or any of your mistakes. He sees the blood of Jesus. He looks at you just like he looked at Jesus, the Son for all eternity. He sees you right before him. Because Jesus paid all, all to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. The breastplate of righteousness is every day we get up and we put that on anchor to the truth because the only reason we believe that is because God's truth says it's true and we choose to believe that over our circumstances. We choose to believe that we're right with God over the temptations that we're facing. We choose to say my identity is not found in my sin or my temptation. I am in Christ. I am beloved. I am accepted. I am predestined towards good works. I am a child of God. I am clean. I am spotless. And we put on that breastplate of righteousness so that we can withstand against the onslaught of the tempter. We withstand against the onslaught of our past. We withstand against the voices of this age that try and deem us as something other than that. We put on the breastplate of righteousness and we say I am right before God because of what Jesus accomplished on the cross. That's how you win the battle. My God, I'm gonna preach myself happy today. Guys, he's so good. We're not just like preaching theory. This is real. God, would you open up our eyes? See this as reality. You realize this world has been lied to. It's like the world's been pulled over people's eyes. Kanye West, I mean, everybody today is probably talking about that. But you know what?  So I love the fact that God has encountered Kanye West. It's not because, hey, now we're legit because we got a celebrity. No, it's because he is a walking testimony of at this point in his journey saying I am uncompromisingly choosing Jesus and I'm not gonna back down. I'm not gonna let culture shape me. I'm not gonna let somebody criticize me. I love the fact God takes somebody like that, pulls them out of darkness, puts them into the light, gives them a spotlight and they use it to declare that Jesus is king. But can I tell you something? God doesn't need a Kanye to declare the goodness of God. He's got you. What are you saying? If you could put out an album today, what would your album be? What would be the lyrics of your life? What would be the way that you would respond to the criticism, to the hashtags? What would be the lyrics of your life? Come on, we got a melody to sing. We have a song that's in our heart. We have a testimony to give. It's the power of God. We got to armor up, church. We got to armor up with the grace and the goodness of the Lord. He is here. I want to invite you to stand with me all over this room, all over wherever you are today watching. Would you bow your heads with me in the presence of our good God? Lord, today, help us to suit up, to walk in the spirit, not in the flesh. To walk by faith, not by sight. To prepare ourselves, knowing that the enemy will attack, but we don't fight for a victory. Today, in Jesus, we fight from a place of victory. We're already victorious. We're constantly being led forth in the triumph of Jesus. Lord, help us to remember who we are in you. Help us to keep our eyes on you, the author and the finisher of our faith. Jesus, thank you for your word. It is truth. Thank you for the righteousness that we have, not because of our works, but because of your grace. Lord, help us to walk in this world is light in the midst of darkness, as hope in the midst of hopelessness, as bearers and tellers of truth. Today, I want to invite our prayer ministry team and make their way down to the front, all across the front. And I want you to keep your heads bowed and your eyes closed for just one more moment. Because it seems in these moments of stillness is where God speaks to us the most. And today, there's two particular groups of people I want to address. Number one is, if you're here today and being honest with yourself, you know that you've never surrendered and personally invited Jesus Christ to be your Lord and your personal savior. Today, it's time for you to surrender to God, repent of your sins, acknowledge Jesus' Lord, and invite him to come in and save you. He will. You don't have to earn it today. He's waiting for you to receive it. Acknowledge your need of him to repent, which means to say, God, I've been living for myself and that's wrong and I'm sorry, I'm gonna change, I surrender, come in, save me, wash me, cleanse me, give me a new heart. Today, you may be here and you've never done that. Today is the beginning of a journey for you to walk with God. And in a moment, when everybody's dismissing, I'm gonna invite you to come down to one of our prayer partners and just tell him, just say today, today I need to acknowledge Jesus. I need a relationship with God and we'll pray with you. We believe that God will save each and every one who calls on his name. Second is this, you're already a believer today.  Jesus feel overwhelmed, you feel hopeless.  Today, you don't have to take it. God opens a window called prayer where we're able to reach in to the house of our father and receive from him whatever we need. If it's healing today, he's a healer. Freedom from an addiction, a bondage today, he's a deliverer. It's a miracle, he's a way maker. If it's hope, if it's peace, he has all of those things. Today I'm gonna pray and I'm gonna dismiss and when I do today, if you need prayer for anything, we're just gonna open the altars, you come. If you need to receive Christ, you come. You need prayer, you come and receive prayer. Lord today, fill us with joy, fill us with hope.  Jesus meet us in this place of prayer today. And Lord as we leave this building, as we walk out of this service, pray that you would unite our hearts. In fact, would you just grab hold of the hands of the person next to you? You don't even need to know them. It's fine. I promise, they don't have cooties. We're one in the spirit. Lord, I pray and we pray for the person whose hands we're holding today. Lord, we need one another. Strengthen us, equip us, unite us. So we leave today, Lord, help us to be the gospel in human flesh for other people to see and hear and know you. We pray this in Jesus' name. Amen, amen.  Come forward if you desire prayer this morning.


KIC K calm we are live you can come join us if you want if not that's cool Just leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification buzz Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK if we happen to go live and you miss it This is where you can catch it if it's anything good We had three fails so far at this so It's interesting Don't forget we got a patreon. This is an up-to-date list of everything that's on there and and We got merch if you want to participate in merch Here it is. I'm not begging You can if you want to or if you don't it's okay This is Scar City news Late with Leighton stone killer chases victim Golem Sadiq was zombie knife on CCTV Okay, I'm gonna play devil's advocate Don't nobody chase somebody down the street on a bicycle With a zombie knife for no reason. What did golem do or was this just like a dude that was just On a spree like what happened? Let me let's just watch This is the scar city studios YouTube channel Please don't forget to like comment share and subscribe I really appreciate you joining me today And this is a follow-up to a story that I covered last year on August the 6th It was a murder that occurred in Leighton stone and the victim was named as 18 year old Gulam Sadiq He was stabbed with a zombie fantasy knife that was bought so people actually use these to go in and out and unalive people Like this is this is overly gruesome Like some gotta be going on in your head mentally to put take this out and put it in somebody on social media Repeatedly Imad Mia 18 years old from the West Midlands He lived on Solihull Road was convicted of the murder at the Al Bayley on the 4th of April and this week He has been sentenced. Thank you to Dave Nathan for his previous coverage from the 22 years minimum Seen that showed the scene where he'll be out at 40 With plenty of life to live Gulam had collapsed outside the restaurants on the high street He had suffered multiple stab wounds and he was stabbed in the public place It's only now a year later that the prosecution of release the footage of Imad Mia Carrying the weapon just before the murder and also chasing the victim down He was sentenced to lose crown court with one count of murder to serve a minimum of 19 years And the second count is possession of a minimum 19 years. I see I'll be nice. I said 21 22 or something He's gonna get out in his 30s. He's still gonna be in the prime of his life Bladed article which he will serve 12 months detention to serve concurrently DCI Linda Bradley for the Met Specialist crime unit said This is one of those rare cases where we'd never be able to establish the complete motive for the crime Maya said that he had diminished responsibility and he only admitted manslaughter But we proved that he was carefully planning and also buying weapons online and his actions throughout the day were not random acts of violence He had planned this and this was a very deliberate murder The team quickly identified him and arrested him and uncovered his attempts to obtain the knife He used in the attack they had to ask why this weapon was being sold online the police said in the court case I can see no justification for any reasonable member of this knife is literally made of the same stuff Thor's hammer is was forged out of in that dying star with the with the with the with the with the with the With the dude up there It was a big short person Like my dude ain't silty like what exactly do you use this for in real life? But what is the real-life application to a to a to a Thor sword? What is that society that would want to purchase these items? His mother Kalinda Parvan said gulam was brutally murdered in broad daylight Brandy, that's funny. That's funny that you asked that I'm gonna talk to you. I'll address it after this. It's only and he was very close to our family home There are no words to describe our pain and our loss and the wretched feeling that I have every single day Knowing that he would never return gulam was very popular Compassionate and great fun He was always the center of attention and very much liked by family friends and teachers that he was acquainted with He had so much to offer and a very kind and gentle heart He was very known for his cheeky looks respect for elders and good mannerisms and was known as a very polite kid in the local area The court heard the killer who was 17 at the time tried to obtain a knife using false ID online on Saturday the 23rd of July 2022 Mia attempted to buy a 15-inch Rambo knife from a website He provided a false name with a fake driving license and the vendor realized the identity was fake and the order was rejected Why don't they like why didn't the okay? I guess that's a lot of responsibility We couldn't on the delivery person the people the vendor but like he should have like reported them like, yo There's somebody blah blah blah trying to you know, I'm saying I Don't know how much it would have done with the Met police Third on Sunday the 24th of July 2022 He placed another order for two knives from a different website This was a fantasy Spartan sword blackout version with serrated blade. It was a two-piece set Again, he provided a false name and also driving license This time it was accepted and the knives were shipped to his address in the Sully Hull area The knives could not be delivered and he was left at a local post office But there was no record that they were ever collected But the knives that he used to kill Gulam Sadiq were exactly the same as the ones that he had tried to purchase But so this is a two-man job then somebody in the post office. No, bro Yeah, ship them to a random house. They'll send them to the post office and then just come pick them up I got you if times Mia traveled from Birmingham to London on the 4th of August 2022 And he's believed he was in possession of at least one of those knives It was on Sunday the 6th of August 2022 that the fateful attack took place Mia took a train to Stratford where he hired a bike and made his way to Layton stone where we were seen cycling around by a number of Witnesses looking he's spinning the block on a On a city bike It was a sunny day But Mia had his hood up and he was wearing gloves and had his face concealed by a surgical mask How many people call the police on this? This is this is suspicious as hell He on a city bike with surgical gloves a hoodie on and 90 degree weather Like that's just like if I seen somebody in Chicago in the middle of the summer like this I was a red flag go in the house or be prepared for what's about to happen Insta is this a person? Oh, no, that's a duck Mia made his way to the street where 18 year old Gulam Sadiq lived and he waited there When mr. Sadiq arrived he was on bicycle and Mia took out the knife and Gulam cycled off Maya continued to chase Gulam and this time with the knife in hand and when Gulam returned a short time later He chased him and stabbed him in the back Mia then went to the Gulam cycled off Maya continued to chase Gulam and this time with the knife in hand and when Gulam returned a short time later He chased him and stabbed him in the back Gulam was young I don't understand so he But he was on foot at this moment in time chased him while he was on a bike Got away and then he came back cuz you know he wanted to go home And he was still there waiting Mia then went to the bike that he'd used and cycled off Gulam managed to find a restaurant on the high road in Layton stone But then he fell over and died at the scene so wait He ran him down on foot While he was on a bicycle These a listen y'all athletic killers. That's crazy That's crazy to me Police were called at quarter past two and the 6th of August and they found the men RIP and with multiple stab wounds But there was nothing that could do to save him a special post Morton took place on the 9th of August at Haringey mortuary and the cause of death was sharp-forced trauma to the back Consistent with a blade at all such as a knife. The wound was 15 centimeters in depth and it appears to Gulam's heart An immediate investigation was launched by the Metropolitan Police and this has led to the conviction that we have seen today the police through the back that mean it went through a Lot of bonus to get there managed to trace the hire bike that he was using and they found that Mia Had paid for using his own bank card The clothing Mia was wearing while traveling was also visible and matched what they saw at the scene of the crime On Tuesday the 9th of August 2022 police officers located Mia in Warsaw and arrested him on suspicion of murder He was interviewed and made no comment to any of the questions at court he admitted manslaughter but denied murder So this story definitely goes to show the dangers that are posed by weapons that can be purchased online By teenagers young people they now get sold on social media pages Where these children can obtain fantasy swords and all sorts of bizarre weapons that have no real purpose Apart from to murder somebody brutally So resting piece to Gulam city can I don't condone none of that Really appreciate you following the story of the past year and this update and I really want to hear what people have to say in the Comments, please don't forget to like comment share and subscribe and I mean that's crazy man. Hello Like he said man, let me know what y'all think of the comments man because that's crazy Of all like what is that every like I understand it was a fantasy knife. It's not really meant to like You just supposed to have it and be like, oh, I think I'm cool Type, you know I'm saying But come on girl There need to be more rigor rigor rigorous Background or make sure who y'all I don't know man till I leave a like comment. I'm gone


Dear learners, welcome to the third and the last part of the video on Unit 3 that is Functions of Management of the Course Principles of Management and Organization behavior of BBA program of Krishna Kanto-Hondikore State of University. In this part we will discuss about the management skills that are needed at the various levels of management and we will also discuss about the Indian management styles and traditions. So let's now discuss about the concepts with the PowerPoint presentation. So dear learners, what we are going to discuss in this video is that we will discuss about the managerial skills at various levels of management. We will also discuss about the Indian management styles and traditions. So these are the two concepts that we will go through in this video session and with this we will come to the end of Unit 3 that is the functions of management of the course principles of management and organization behavior. So let's start with the management skills at various levels. So the nature of the job becomes increasingly complex at each higher level because of the increase in the scope of authority and responsibility and therefore each higher level requires increased knowledge, broader perspective and greater skills. Management jobs are different from other jobs. It involves the obligation to make prudent use of human and material resources. It requires sound judgment to handle complex situation and further the nature of the job becomes more complex. So for the purpose of analysis, skills required for a manager are classified under three different heads or you can say skills that are technical skills, human skills and conceptual skills. These skills are exhibited in the figure that I have put in the PowerPoint presentation here. Let us now discuss the skills in this PowerPoint presentation. So here you will see that technical skill refers to the ability to use the tools, equipments, procedures, techniques and knowledge of a specialized field, the activity to use specific knowledge, methods and techniques in performing work. So the technical skills is primarily concerned with the ways of doing the things and it implies proficiency in a specific field of activity. Technical skills are most important at the lower level of management that we have seen in our previous slide and because by the nature their job involves supervision of the workers and effective supervision and coordination of the work of the subordinates therefore depends on the technical skill possessed by the lower level managers. And any supervisors without the sound knowledge of the job cannot make an effective supervision. So if we give an example then the president of an oil company does not need to know much about the technical details of drilling of for oil or how to refine it. So now let us discuss about human skills. The human skill is the ability to understand, motivate and get along with the other people. The skills is essential at every levels of management though within the organization and but is particularly important at the lower levels of management where the supervisors are frequent contact with the operating personals. Human skills are primarily concerned with persons as contrasted with the things when a man is highly skilled in employee relations he is aware of the attitudes, assumptions and believes and recognizes their limitations as well as their usefulness. He or she accepts as an important fact of the life and existence of the viewpoints and feelings different from his own, his or her own. So thus human skills refers to that ability of a manager who work effectively as a group member and to build cooperative efforts in the team he leads, he or she leads and it is the ability to work with and understand and motivate people. Now let us discuss about the conceptual skills. Conceptual skills are the mental ability to coordinate and integrate the organization's interest and activities. It refers to the ability to see the big picture like the conceptual skills also called as design and problem solving skills. It involves the ability to see the organization and the various components of it as a whole to understand how its various parts and functions look together and to foresee how changes in any one of these may affect all the others. So conceptual skills extend to visualizing the relations of the organization to an industry, to the community and to the political and economical social forces of the nation as a whole and even to the forces which operates beyond the national boundaries. It is the creative force within the organization and a high degree of conceptual skills help in analyzing the environment and in identifying the opportunities and threats. So the three types of skills discussed so far that we have discussed are not mutually exclusive in other words management jobs always requires all the three skills but in different proportion depending upon the levels of management. So there is a gradual shift in the emphasis from the bottom to the top of the pyramid of the management levels of management. The technical skills and human skills are always in great demand at the lower level of management for it is there the productive processes and operations are carried out and the need of conceptual skills is greatest at the top levels of management and obviously the top managers are not often involved in the direct application of the specific methods and procedures and techniques compared to those at the lower levels of management. Now let us discuss about the Indian management style and tradition. If there can be British style in management, American style or Japanese style then why not an Indian style of management or to be more specific is there any Indian styles of management. So when we look in a larger perspective the traditional Rajasthani carpenters then Bujrati women wound skills at the handicraft the wood covers of Karnataka show remarkable excellence in their work and production. We can take an example of our own silk industry at Kualkuchi and the Muradabad brassware workers are exporting their products though they may not aware of the modern concepts but then how they are doing this. So the legit pauper run by the Indian women or the Udupi hotels or Oyo are other examples. We call this Indian ethos as the true spirit of indigenous management techniques which is expressed in the cases that I have discussed by the Indian supervisors and workers. There is excellence in India and we noticed this excellence searched for indigenous styles of management and then incorporated the concepts of Vedanta and yoga to give this a new shape. And side by side we experimented with this technique in modern industries both public and private sector companies. We call this Indian ethos in management because first we learned this method from the common Indian workers like farmers carpenters artisans and above all the Indian women and secondly the Vedantic concepts and yoga practices are incorporated. This techniques the Indian ethos in management was applied and discussed in many companies and the result was very encouraging and more and more management consultants and teachers are you know joining this movement and more and more companies are showing keen interest in this. So there are signs that business is moving towards a unified global theory of management and the practice of management and global competitiveness is driven by the new technology. Visionary managers are needed to provide directions that are increasingly multi-cultural workforce that responds quickly to the customers and that demand low-cost quality products and services. So dear learners we have discussed about the major skills that are needed at the various levels of management when we have also discussed about the Indian management styles and with these two concepts we have come to the end of this part of unit 3 that is functions of management and also we have come to the end of the unit that is unit 3 functions of management. So in the unit 3 that is functions of management we discussed the various concepts related to the functions of management briefly though like planning, organizing, staffing, controlling, organizing, then budgeting, reporting, we discussed here we discussed about management skills at various levels and Indian management styles and traditions and hope this video has given you some idea about the concepts and thank you so much for watching this video thank you.


Good afternoon, Asperger's Legion. Welcome back to another video. Today we're going to be talking about mental health once again, something that is very close to my heart, and not in a good way. I hate it. It's horrible. Mental health, illness, disorders are one of the most difficult things to deal with on this planet in this first world society that we live in, and today I'm going to be talking about depression. I've been through all sorts of different levels of feeling terrible, and I want to give you guys an idea of the different severities of my mood, because obviously I can't speak for every single person out there, but I will do my best to describe how it feels, how it looks on the outside, the type of thoughts that go through your head, the type of behaviours that you can expect, the motivation, the energy, all of that stuff. Hopefully it will help other people understand what depression is about. All coming up in the video, unfiltered as usual, and honest, brutally, truthfully honest. So, in our society, we have a lot of misconceptions around depression. Sure, a lot of people may understand what it is, and how difficult it can be for someone, and the consequences of untreated, long-term, severe depression. And I honestly don't think that people have a good idea of what it looks like, what the different levels are. It's very difficult to try and describe what having very little serotonin feels like. I'll be going all the way from dysphoria to mild, moderate, and then severe depression, based on an account of my own life. Dysphoria, starting at the beginning. It really can just be described as having brown coloured glasses, if you know what I mean. It's almost like everything in life has a negative spin on it. Good things that happen to you. You know, they always have an aspect of negative emotion associated with it.  All of those kind of phrases are very much associated with dysphoria for me. It doesn't always have to be a verbal thing, it doesn't always have to be your interactions with people. You don't need to express how you feel for it to exist within you. You could go about and be very happy and positive and try and bring people up, but inside always have that niggly, annoying thought in the back of your mind that nothing's as good as it seems, and everything's gonna go bad.  If you're having a bad day and you've had a bad day at work, possibly it can be amplified. There are a lot of peaks and troughs in any sort of mood disorder, so even if in general you have this sort of dysphoric outlook on life and this dysphoric feelings and those symptoms and those feelings and behaviors can be amplified in a trough when you feel particularly bad or something bad's happened around you, and you may feel fairly good and fairly okay on a peak. And to be honest that's pretty much the same with all of the levels, the severities.  From the outside, dysphoria can, what most people who really don't understand mental health, really don't understand what depression is about and think that they've been depressed in the past and actually haven't, that's what they think depression feels like. They think it's just, oh you've got a bit of, you know, brown colour glasses, you're feeling a bit under the weather. That's what they think all depression is about and whether it doesn't matter how severe it is, it's always the same, it's always dysphoria. And the reason that people, you know, like, God forbid, self-harm and hurt themselves and shut themselves away from the world is because they're weak, because that's what those kind of people think, and it's not like that. Sure there may be some dysphoric, weak people in the world, but I think those people are extremely rare and in the most cases the actions and the torment and the shutting yourself away can be attributed to more severe depression. Mild depression. I feel like mild is a very silly name to call a mood disorder because if you get diagnosed with mild depression you're not going to be very happy, are you? You're not going to feel like the doctors really understand what's going on. Quite honestly, mild depression can be horrible and bad, and the thing with these sort of severity scales, the ones that are used in GPs and used at psychologists and psychiatrists is that it's based on your symptoms, based on notable symptoms, based on what you say rather than how you feel. So I'm just going to go off how you feel. Mild depression is marked by a considerable dull feeling in the back of your mind.  You don't feel like you have any energy to get up in the morning, you don't feel like you're getting anything from your efforts, you don't feel like there's a point to anything.  Any sort of escapism is very much, you know, it starts when you are mildly depressed. In my mind, when I'm mildly depressed. It may be a lot harder to smile, it may be a lot harder to laugh, it may take you a considerable amount of time to get into a social occasion, you may have to spend an hour or two before you start to actually feel the atmosphere that other people are creating around you, otherwise you just feel like you're in some little isolated bubble where you just don't quite feel what everybody else is feeling. It does put a dampener on the emotions that you feel, you do feel numb, but you don't feel so numb that you can't cry or get upset or feel intense emotion. It doesn't completely block out any source of happiness or positivity, it just makes it a lot harder to get that. You may find that you get some symptoms of dissociation now and again when you're feeling particularly bad when you're in those troughs and you may even feel happy or you may just feel dysphoric when you're in a peak, from my experience of course. I'm gonna say that for everything, but I think it's worth mentioning. You may stop doing as much self care, you may not shower as much, you may forget your medications a little now and again, you may feel the need to push people away, you may feel the need to distance yourself from the world a little bit now and again.  Now let's talk about moderate depression.  Well in reality moderate depression is actually hell, it's horrible. Moderate depression comes with a lot more isolation, a lot of people will take to self harming, whether it's, you know, going outside in the cold with less layers than you would have expected most people to go out with just to feel something, you may listen to a sad song over and over again, not being able to reach that point at which you can let your emotion out and cry and be cathartic and let it out and get rid of it, you'll find yourself pushing people away a lot. You're likely to isolate yourself, you're likely to ignore messages, you're likely to put stuff off heavily. When I am moderately depressed, I eat a lot. So I'm not quite at the point where I'm so ridden and so sparse of any positive emotion that food doesn't help. So I binge a lot when I'm in that sort of stage, not always of course. A lot of it is time bound, depends on how long you feel like that. After a while it's going to be difficult to keep up a healthy diet and keep up yourself care and take care of yourself. You may find that you will be a lot more selfish, not in a bad way because it really requires a lot of energy to deal with and because of that you may feel like others may feel like you are neglecting them.   You'll find that time goes by so quickly that you can blink and then hours have gone by. You'll stay on watching videos on your phone even though you don't enjoy it. You'll find yourself sleeping in even though you're starting to feel anxious because the day is going by and you feel like you need to do something to feel better but you just stay in bed because you don't see the point. You can know that things are good for you and know that things will help but it doesn't feel like it will. There's less positive emotion attributed to things that you can do to help yourself, it doesn't feel like they will help you.  It feels like you're trying to carry a weight on your shoulders.  You may take sick bays, you may procrastinate heavily even if it's something that you love. You'll never feel like people really get you. You'll feel like you're alone, even more alone when you're around people. Positive music will start to really grate on you, really annoy you, eat away at you, it'll make you feel worse, you don't understand how someone could feel good. It's usually the point at which people start to notice, you know, I'll have a lot less energy, I'll have a lot less desire to communicate and talk to people. The only real way that I can get myself out of these states is just to escape. It feels like your body's in pain, your mind's in pain, your existence is pain. I think I know that Rick and Morty t-shirt, but that's what it feels like. You just don't like anything, you don't want anything. Even the positives, no way near, match the negatives. There's not a lot of ways that you can deal with it on your own. And then in a lot of cases you need other people to lift you out of it and you need other people to support you. You can do it by yourself, but it's such an uphill struggle, it feels like you're pushing an iron ball up the side of a mountain. Every time you let it slip, you just fall hundreds of metres down the hill and get crushed by the boulder on the way down. You've got to keep on top of it and it's tiring. Severe depression. Now that sounds very much like people are taking you seriously in comparison to mild depression or moderate depression. Severe depression.  You can't feel any positive thing. Some things that uplift you and bring you joy and make life worth it despite all the pain, you can't feel that anymore. When I'm teaching I can go into class and see those kids that bring joy to my day and make me feel like I'm helping them. Watching them smile and laugh, you don't feel anything from it. It destroys any positive emotion.   You can't function, you can't work, you can't interact with anybody.  You can't, like the positive emotion with eating or anything like that is just so far removed that you don't want to eat. Because it doesn't give you any measurable pleasure, you might as well just not eat. It's like being in a comatose. You can injure yourself and look at it and it could be horrific and it could be a horrible injury but you'd still feel like it's not real, you'd still feel. You wouldn't feel anything from it, you'd be in pain but you'd be so far gone from the pain that it just doesn't seem as bad.  You're not to feel any anxiety when I'm in those states, you don't feel any hurry, you don't feel any importance on anything.  From the outside, severe depression looks a little bit like you're tired, really, really tired.  You feel like someone's ripped out your heart, obviously in a metaphorical sense but you feel like it's black and it's covered in tar and you feel like it's ice cold. And to be honest the only things that stopped me from getting into those states are medication. It maybe puts me in the range of mild to moderate on a more regular basis. Severe depression, quite honestly, I'm trying not to be too horrible with my words but it feels like how you would feel if everyone that you knew and love have just gone. Every good thing in your life has gone.  You don't see any light in the end of the tunnel, it's just a black hole. I hope that my list, my account of how levels of depression feel for me of course has helped in some way. Maybe you can empathise with some of the things that I've said, some of the feelings and behaviours and thoughts and how you look from the outside. The only thing that I can do is explain and explain in words and give concepts and ideas but although I can give you ways of trying to understand it, there's no way that I can express what the pain of depression feels like. It's almost impossible. It's different for everybody but the only thing that you can do is ask questions, ask them how bad it is but just being open and just listening is the best way and it helps them as well. So that pretty much finishes the video. When I am in these moods, it sounds like a funny little, when I'm in one of those moods, I think it's very important to listen to other people and listen to their experiences rather than read upon symptoms and take tests. It's a lot about feelings and sometimes those tests don't reflect just how bad or good you feel. It's very subjective and it's not easily measurable. Keep pushing on, find a meaning, find a light in the end of the tunnel, no matter how hard it is and push forward and make steps towards that light and stay strong. As cheesy as that sounds, hope you guys are doing good and I'll see you in the next video. See you later.


Hello, thank you, everyone, for joining this session. My topic is based on the user's model to do the usability testing. OK, before talking usability testing, I'd like to ask a commonplace question about what's the user experience? Yeah, that is a definition from the AI group. User experience encompasses all aspects of the end-user's interaction with the company as service and product. Recently, we all hear one discussion about the experience and the service and the product. So I think from the definition, we can get an answer. Experience includes the service and the product. And experience is personal and subjective. So it affects by our past experience, our personal preference, and our mood, and any other things. So user experience is subjective feeling. So sometimes it depends on some external factors. So from that, we can see such as how a human begins their days to their shadows and to their mood, and so on. Yeah, from here, we can see experience is so much conflict. So that is the question why we need to measure user experience. That is a quote from James. James is a famous writer. He read a sentence about measurement as a first step that leads to control and eventually to improvement. If you can't measure something, then you can't improve something. So I think they say there are a lot of reasons to measure the user experience. But I think this is the most important one. Why we need to measure user experience? We need to find out the usability issues and then fix them. So that is also another reason you need to identify and quite fine and communication the user experience with your stakeholder. Yeah, and then this is a great process to give you a clear position. What are you doing and how well are you in? And also another thing is the compacted advanced stage. So what we did, so what we measure the user experience, we did the usability testing. The challenge for designer and for product manager, what we face is not the marketing and new technologies as how human work. Yeah, as how human work. What users say and what users do is sometimes totally different. So the only way to verify is to do the testing. So usability testing is not just a task list for the product requirements. It's also a convincing support for your design decision. So I'd like to know how many people did the usability at the fall. Yeah, OK, got two. Thank you. Yeah, so I'd like to quick through how to do the usability testing. This is a template designed by my team. Yeah, we use this template to do the usability testing plan. So you can see the template. For example, you need to find out some participants. Who is the user or who is the participant. And the second one, you need to prepare some things. For example, hardware software or applications and some meeting rooms. Also, you need to prepare some conference meeting because you need someone to watch your usability testing. For example, you interview the user, but you want some people, some powerful people to see this usability. Because some users doing a task is not like what they designed. So you want some people to see. So you need to set up a conference meeting, let the watcher online to watch the things. So this is our template. So from the usability testing, we can see some people can't finish a task. So we can see the task on that part. It means the task is usable. So user can do something. But if user can finish a task, how do you know the user like it? How do you know the user like the design process, like the task workflow? So we want to know deep things about the emotion. So we want users to love it. And in the usability metrics, we have some data for the objective. For example, you can get the data, completed rating, or errors, or time on task, and so on. But how do you know the satisfaction? Yeah, the satisfaction is also one purpose for the usability. So we have to do measure the satisfaction. There are two categories. This category means we can do the task level satisfaction measurement. It means when user finish a task, you can give a questionnaire or one measurement for the user satisfaction in user testing as a post-task questionnaire or rating. This is a much more effective way to get the satisfaction. It can give us the diagnostic information for the usability issues. And also can give us immediately user satisfaction. And the next is task level satisfaction measurement. I will talk about it later. And the task level satisfaction, I think all kind of questionnaires is attempted to get and quantify how easily or how difficult is the task. So I list some questionnaires here because they are all effective and popular. And they can affect you to measure the user satisfaction. The first one is ASQ, after the narrow questionnaire. In this questionnaire, we can go through questions. The picture is much more small. I will read it. The first question is, I'm satisfied with the easy of completing this task. The first question is focused on easy to use. OK, the second question is focused on time. I'm satisfied with the amount of time it took me to finish this task. So the second question is focused on, I'm satisfied with the support information. So this is three questions in this questionnaire. I can use the likelihood, the likelihood question time. The user can read from strongly disagree and to strongly agree. And ASQ is commonly used. And so many researchers have supported this questionnaire as acceptable for his, because it's sensibility and reliability. So in our usability testing, we also use this as our satisfaction measurement. The next is NASA task load in dust. This questionnaire is also a widely used, subjective, multi-manual access to assessment tools for rate-perceived workload, to rate a task or a system or team effect or any other things about the performance. This questionnaire is divided in two parts. The first part is six questions. The sixth question is focused on the mental, physical, and time, performance, effort, and frustration. There is six questions. The user will rate this sixth question from every question how different measurements. For example, the first question is from very low to very high. And the user will rate it. This is the first part for the questionnaire. And after that, the second part is user to weight. User to weight the sixth factor. Which one is most important? For example, you can see this picture. User to weight the performance at five. The number is larger than the priority is higher. So user to weight the performance is the most important for user. So based on the weight, we can get a weighted rating. So you can get a number about this task. The next questionnaire is UME. This is a little complex. Firstly, you need to tell the participant the task difficulty definition. For example, you let user to perform a simple task. For example, let user simple to click the search icon. For example, this task as a baseline task. You set this baseline task as 10. So in the next user did the task, we will compare with the baseline task. For example, if user finish the task, they think the task is twice difficult as the baseline. So he or she need to type 20 in this input box. So yeah, this is UME. It is a little difficult for user sometimes. For user need to measure, how is twice difficult? How is half difficult? So sometimes it is difficult for user. This is UME. And the next questionnaire is subjective, might or effort questionnaire. This questionnaire has none labels. It's much more easier than UME. And also, this questionnaire has an open ending. The none labels from not at all hard to do, to immediately hard to do. So user need to pick up one label from this questionnaire. For example, the questionnaire should be asked, how do you think this task? So user maybe pick up one label. So this questionnaire is much more easier than the last one. And this one is as a simple, easy questionnaire. They just ask one question, only one question. All real, this task was, how do you think from very difficult to very easy? This also uses the likelihood question type three scale. So from the three scale, user need to pick up one. We also suggest to use this one, because it is short. It is short, and user easy to finish this task. And also easy to response. Yeah, from the third scale, I will pick up one. So it is easier to administer. Also easier to scroll. So it is easy for user, and it is easy for the minister. So we can easily to get the result, and the user can also need to easy to do the response. Yeah, when we finish the questionnaire, we get a lot of numbers. For example, this table, yeah, for example, from the task one to task 12, we can get 12 data. From this number, what we can get? What do we do with these numbers? Task file, yeah. Task file seems to have some problems. So it can immediately flag a difficult task. Task file, compared with other tasks, the score is very low. It's just only a 63% percentage. So from this task, first from the number, we can get a very difficult task. Then the goal of the usability is to find a problem and then fix them. So the first thing, finding the issues we get, we can see the task file have some problems. So we need to roll back to do some in the utubule. When you're doing the user testing, you interview the users. So you need to figure out the task file problems. After the task level questionnaire, we need to do another category questionnaire. It's based on all the tasks. For example, user finishes all the tasks. Then in the end of this session, we want to know our real impression about this projector, usability, and experience. So this is the task level satisfaction measurement. Yeah. There are also some questionnaires. The first one is SUS system usability scales. There are 10 questions. One interesting is the Yiyun road and the other road. It has a totally different feeling. For example, you can see the first one is I think I would like to use this system frankly. The second one is I found the system necessary complex. So it has a different feeling. So when we're doing the results analysis, we need to switch the score because the question is from strongly disagree to strongly agree. The next questionnaire is SuperQ. It has 12 questions. But this questionnaire is all focused on the same feeling, all about the usability, credible, and visual opinions. Also uses a lack of the question time from strongly disagree to strongly agree. And in the last question, we can see it looks like an NPS. So what's the NPS? The NPS is the night promoter school. It is not necessary put this kind of question in this category because it's not just for the task level satisfaction measurement. It is popular and effective for user experience and satisfaction. I will list some screenshots. For example, the Slack and the JIRA. I think some people can got this survey questions. Website or mobile phones. OK, there are another questions, another examples. This question is, how likely are you to recommend this projector to a friend or co-worker? User will rate from 0 to 10. Sometimes some projector use from 1 to 10. So from the NPS, we can break out the response to three chunks. The first one, if user rate the score from 9 to 10, then it is a promoter. So these are your happiness and loyalty customer. They are very likely to promote your projector to others. So we can put the promoter as our administrative address on our website. And another group is the passive. If user rates from 7 to 8, then this customer are happy. But maybe not unlikely to reference this projector to others. Maybe they just think, not bad. Yeah, just like that. And the next group is distractors. The distractors are customers that are not happy and sometimes can be dangerous for your brand because they will spend navigation reviews and messages. So yeah, looks like that person. Sorry, I don't like it. Bye-bye. Looks like this one. So we need to figure out the problems and to fix them. So we're doing the usability. The first and the biggest thing that what we do is need to find the problem, then we need to fix them. And last, what we did with the numbers. For example, we got the NPRS numbers. How did we do? I think it's important to note, we got this number. It's not necessary to compare with your competitors. We need to compare with ourselves because this number is just tracking how well we are doing for our project to yourself. So for example, in this chart, for example, in the first time usability, I got four. And the next time maybe get a file, then it is much more better. So there is not only one way to measure usability. So there are a few different things, a few different metrics to measure our usability. Satisfaction, just only one. We need to also use the other metrics. For example, the success rate or errors or time on task of these metrics. And I have introduced so many questionnaires. I think you don't need everyone. You just pick up one from each category and start measuring your satisfaction for your project. OK? That's all from me. Thank you. I'm thinking they make the emotion that you have anything. That's what you asked them. Yeah. The questionnaire is focused on when you're doing the interview. So you will ask users look like this question. And when you're asking the questions, you can get their feelings. How they do or think your project or something else. Yeah, for the task level, I think the question is it looks like, I see you kill. How do you think this question? How do you think this task? And for the project, I think it looks like the NPS is how do you likely to recommend this website? Yeah, this question is focused on as to measure the user's experience and satisfaction. Answer your question. Yeah, I'm just thinking of how you know what the feature specifically is about, I mean, do it task by task. Yeah. Sometimes, maybe by thing, like, I don't know. Why do people like that? Yeah, I think it's like, do you think that's like, useful to each individual task being easier to do? Yeah, I think. I never got it. Yeah, yeah. It's been quite cute. I knew your question. I think this is another testing about the desirable. Do you like want to use these things? Yeah, I think this is before the product development and before the product planning to do these things, this testing. This is about the desirable. Yeah. OK, thank you. You guys have tried to use facial expression to measure or satisfaction, or kind of like, you know, emotion, right? Fish. I think that the user-based testing is focused on all kinds of products, all kinds of technologies. I think what you said is emotion in user-based testing. Right? For example, if some users are not happy, you can see it's not happy with this project.  Is it going? Yeah, yeah. So do you guys capture facial expressions, or maybe in like, voice? Yeah, sure. Yeah, sure. The emotion is too much. Yeah. We have a technology called micro-emotion. So users face have some different face or something else they not like or are happy. I think we can watch these things and let them think aloud, decide what they are thinking. So we can catch this information. So you guys actually use it? Yeah, yeah, sure. In usability, we should watch the emotions from the users. Is there like any open source? Oh, we don't use any technology. We just saw the user's emotions. Yeah. Yeah, this is Michael. Oh, yeah. OK. And you like to take notes during the session, or how do you write down, not notes about what's going on, or how do you? I think when we watch this emotion as not to write or something weird, we just ask the users. And we also have a recording for the usability, for a review in the later. Yeah, I'm wondering how you are in life. So I think that as a question, can you actually have the emotion? So if you can look at the person by as a person, they hate it, or they are frustrated, or they love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then you are making a lot of numbers. Yeah. It makes a lot of sense if you want to see progress. How do you turn those observations of our emotion into numbers, or do you know anything? Currently, we haven't connected the emotions on these results, on these numbers. So we just. Maybe I can just use the words. You don't have to have a number. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's like my talkers. And using machine learning to analyze special expression, maybe it's too expensive for the course, maybe you don't have so much out of it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just asking, what is the state of the art right now? Yeah, it's still a quality research, right? So there will be a right report. And we keep testing pretty well for us to see for ourselves how to say that users are. And that you don't need more than that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Back in itself, it's a lot of work. So it's not only about numbers, although it's great, because it's very open. We get the question, how do we measure? So it was a great example of how to measure. On the other side, it's not only about numbers, right? It's more of a qualitative research. Thank you very much.