Welcome to my talk. My name is Thorsten Dibich and I want to talk today about OpenEMS. And most importantly, of course, what it is, actually, because I'm not sure if you are familiar with it or not. Let's see if this works. Doesn't look like it. Okay, so here's the outline of the talk, so I will start talking about what it actually is. A little bit about the interface, because that is, I guess, most important for the most people in this room.  So what is OpenEMS? So OpenEMS is a free solver, of course, for electric magnetic fields. So you have magnetic fields, electric fields. And what you can do with that is you can simulate RF devices. For example, antennas or filters, transmission lines, everything like this. Also radar cross-sections of devices, even up to optical devices. So if you have an optical device, you can also do that. Everything that's pretty much electromagnetic is possible. OpenEMS uses the FT-TD method, which stands for finer differences in time domain, because if you look at the Maxwell equations, it's pretty much only derivatives in time and in space. And what you can do is you can just model this into a computer using finite differences. And if you do it one time step after another, then you have these finite differences in time domain, and that's what this method is. I'm not going to go into more details about this method. There's lots of information out there. It's actually very basic or very fundamental method, which is well known for, I don't know, 50 years already. OpenEMS uses an Octave or MATLAB interface. So you have a scripting interface, which can be very low level, so you can do very basic stuff with it, or it has a lot of functions that are very high level. I will show this in a moment. That is the interface. There's also a Python interface, but which one is very young yet, so it's not complete. And unfortunately also only for Linux at this time. So Linux and Windows are fully supported, except for the Python interface yet. What's also important, I think, is that the user has a full control over the simulation. That's not available, for example, in a lot of other tools, that you can really control everything about the simulation. And what I find very important, and the most users find very important, it has a lot of tutorials and examples, so you can have a look. Maybe this antenna, I take it and take it as a baseline for what I want to do. It always helps a lot, I think. Here's a very long list about a few features I won't go into every aspect. Which is important, this first one, maybe it's in Cartesian and cylindrical coordinates, fully three-dimensional. So I think cylindrical coordinates, FT-TDI, I think this is the only tool available at all, commercially or free. But, of course, 99% of the people are only interested in Cartesian coordinates. But the cylindrical coordinates are actually the reason why it exists in the first place, because when I wanted to do what I wanted to do, I needed to do it in cylindrical coordinates, and there was none. So I had to do this, and that's the reason why it exists in the first place. You can create models with cubes, cylinders, polygons and all those primitives, if you want to, but you can also import other CID data, mostly in STL format, for example, for three-dimensional models. You can have SMD, lumped elements like resistors, capacitors, can include it already in the simulation. There's a small circuit simulator included as an octave, pretty much functionality, very basic, but you can also export a touchstone included in your favorite circuit simulator, if you want to. It has support for human body models. Again, that's what I needed at the time. You can have dispersive materials, which means frequency-dependent materials, to some extent. You can have a look at all the fields in time domain and at certain frequencies if you dump them onto your disk, which you have to be careful to not fill it in no time. You can do remote simulation, so you can set up your simulation on your computer and send the working task over the internet to wherever you want to to get the results back later, which is also very nice. What would a typical script working script look like? Usually you have some header, some constants and everything. You have your FTTD setup part. What pulse do I want to set up for excitation? And what is the boundary conditions? Then you talk about the CID model, so I import some structure or I define it myself using the interface. And then you set up your FTTD mesh, which is, I think, the most important step but also the one with the most experience needed because I think the CID part, it's clear, it's easy, but to get the meshing right is important and difficult. You have to have experience there. You set up maybe some dumps that you want to do, so your fields, what you want to record. You run the simulation and you do your post-processing and figure creation, but I think the best way is I will quickly show it, a very simple example. It's one of the tutorials. I hope you can read it. Maybe I can increase this a little bit and I can't, but you can see here in the top part there are some setups. As I said, some constants defined here and then you have here the FTTD setup with your pulse, which pulse you want to set up your boundary conditions. Then here you can see I set up the mesh. Again, this is a tutorial that is also online, so you can have a closer look at it if you want to. The important part is the smooth mesh lines that you have a smooth mesh. Then down here is pretty much the part where you set up your structure. So you can see I define a material, which is the Rogers material substrate, and I define it as a box, which is just a cube pretty much for my substrate, and that's it already. So I have my substrate, and here I define a metal, which is going to be my trace, and then I have my MSL ports, which is doing the very high level. So you're doing the trace of the line, it's doing the excitation, it takes care of the voltage and current probes, and all that is included here. Of course, you have to read a little bit how this interface works, but then it's really one line, and again, because of all the tutorials, it's usually, oh, where did you do it? Oh, there, and I can see how it works. That's how you do it usually. I set up some dumps. This is this part here, and then I write the file and have my tool to view the structure, and then I run it. And here in the bottom part, I have only the plotting. So this is a small filter, it's 90 lines of Python code documentation, and if you just run this script, then you can see first of, you can see the structure. This is the tool to view it. You can see here your line, and if you look from top, let me hide the Rogers material, and you can also see a little bit the mesh, how it is more dense for your line and a little bit less dense in the surrounding, but you also have to make sure there are enough lines in the free space for the wave. So at least 15 lines per wavelength is kind of the rule of thumb here, but where there's more detail, you need more lines. And if you close this one, then it will run. So you can see a few information here. So the time step is 0.2 round about picoseconds, a very small time step, of course. The excitation is about 0.8 nanoseconds, because it's a 7 gigahertz pulse. It's very short, of course. And then you can see that it's running. It should be around 40 seconds here. What you can see, the excitation is about 5,000 time steps. So it's already done now. And so now the energy should go down. It has to, of course, dissipate somewhere. And once it's dissipated, the simulation stops, and OpenEMS will create a figure. So now it's close to minus 50 dB, so the energy is very low now. And it's finished. Then you get the S-parameters. So you can see that, for example, here it's 3.6 gigahertz. This filter is completely blocking everything. And if you use another tool, ParaView, then you can even visualize how that would look. So you see the wave hitting this stop, and it's going to be reflected partially, of course, only. And again, it repeats on a loop here. So that's what it would look like. So you can have really deep insight what is going on. This is, of course, a very simple example. No, let's start again. No. Okay. Some more examples maybe. This is a simple antenna, a patch antenna, very basic. You see the radiation pattern here. And this blue, no, this colorful ball here, showing which direction it's radiating. You can do the same thing in cylindrical coordinates. So you see it's bent because it's in cylindrical shape. You can do helix antennas, for example. You have a metal base plate and just a wire wound it around some substrate, maybe some, yeah. And then you get a pattern like this. Or if that's not enough gain for your Wi-Fi antenna, you can do it 4 by 4. And then you have 16 elements, so you can gain high-directivity Wi-Fi antenna if you want. So you can simulate that. Or maybe an example. Again, the reason why OpenEMX exists because I wanted to do magnetic resonance imaging antenna design. And so you can see an example of very simple loop coils to use for an MRI. So you can create magnetic fields with those at 300 megahertz to get MRI images. And what OpenEMX can do is, of course, for example, look at the SAR. So the specific absorption rate. So red or white means hot. So more energy is being absorbed by the tissue. And darker means less energy is absorbed. You can actually see that the skull bones here is darker because it's less conductive. So it absorbs less heat. While the skin is closer to the antenna, it absorbs more. Or here even the spinal fluid is more conductive, so it absorbs more. You can even see the differences between the different grey matter and white matter of your brain, for example. So you can do this simulation as well. But maybe for you, more interesting is also PCB antennas. A simple example here. This USB dongle from Texas Instrument, I think. I modeled it after the specifications you can see the OpenEMX model. Of course, all the PCB part is a bit sketchy. It's only a metal plate here in my example. But what I could conform is, for example, that this target frequency of Wi-Fi networks, but it also showed very clearly that the matching of the antennas highly dependent on the size of the PCB have pretty much everything. So it's important to do a simulation, in my opinion, because you will need a matching network. You see here one. Because you have to match your antenna. Otherwise, it will not work as good as it should be. And so simulations like this is important. And that brings me to the second part of this talk, which is interfacing. So what I mean by this? We have this electric magnetic solver, OpenEMX, for example. And you all know a lot of PCB editors, designers. And it would be nice to combine those, I think. So you have the capability to simulate trace PCB antennas, to simulate filters, transmission lines, for example, like in this example from a spectrum analyzer, where you see a lot of filter here, would be nice to just put an export to OpenEMX, for example, and do a simulation and it doesn't work in the frequency I want. But the problem is that this link between these two worlds, electromagnetic simulation and PCB simulation or PCB design, in my opinion, is very weak and that could be improved on. There are some tools that already do this or try to do this. So the first one I want to introduce here is Hype2Math, which is quite a long time ago already, that it was developed and is still active supported. So it converges the hyperlink format, which is a commercial format, into a script that OpenEMX can run. So whatever packages can export this format, you can use this tool to convert it to OpenEMX pretty much. There are also a few examples with it, so you can see how it works. It's already shipped with OpenEMX, so if you download it, it's already included. There is this PCB R&D editor, which is also a PCB editor. These guys are also working on an exporter to OpenEMX. So I will show that in a moment also. And then there's also a very young, very new project PCB model gen, which is a user that created this one, posted on the OpenEMX forum. I haven't looked at it too closely yet, but it looks very promising. The idea is to import or to convert keycard PCB files to use with OpenEMX. But again, maybe the keycard guys should have a closer look at it and see how it works. And of course, I will also try to have a closer look at it. Some examples from these tools. For example, Hype To Mud. This is a hairpin filter. You can see already the exported model to OpenEMX. You can see the results on the right. If you look at the mesh closely, you can see that here's a bit dense mesh here too. But here in the middle, it could be a little bit denser. And so you can see that, well, the frequency is of course okay, but it's a little bit not sharp, so as it should be, I think. In the next example, it's the same example, but used PCB R&D to do the export. The mesh is not shown, but I had a look at the mesh, and that one looked very nice. And you can already see the difference. It's the same frequency, but it looks already a bit better. So you have very nice flat plateau there that looks very good. So it already works to some extent. That is very good. But the ultimate goal, of course, the dream, let's say, would be to have the capability to design your PCB in KeyCAD or whatever favorite tool you want, maybe enrich it with some 3D models, like housing or whatever you want. Combine those into an OpenEMX model, do your RF simulation and from what you've learned there maybe go back to your design or maybe you first plug in a circuit simulation with Cooks or whatever circuit simulator you want to use and maybe then go back to your design and somehow iterate through here to really get your device to do what you want and to give it the best performance possible. Yeah, the project status. So OpenEMX is around for 10 years now and it's quite mature, I would say. It has a lot of advanced FTT features, like dispersive models, cylindrical coordinates and human body models. I don't know if any other free software can have the human body models included too. The human body models, of course, are not freely available, so you have to have a license to have those. But for example, if you do research, that's usually not an issue. If you do commercial work, it's a little bit more difficult to get them, but if you do research for example, public funded research, it's usually not a problem to get them. There's of course, as in every free open source project, there's always something to do. My to-do list very high up is to improve the documentation and to extend it also to get the Python interface a little bit more finished and usable. And of course, continue what I've just talked about, this interfacing to other tools like EDA tools and CUT tools to get that working a little bit better. And of course, always open for new features in FTTD or maybe improvements in terms of the speed of the engine. That's all, of course, very nice. In any case, here's a really further reading, so a lot of pages you can look at. OpenMSDE would be the first place to look at to download the software to get instructions how to install it. On Linux, it's pretty much instructions how to compile the source code. On Windows, it's just a zip file extracted, you're done. The forum, if you have questions or want support, I try to always answer questions within 24 hours, something like this. Usually I get it done that fast. But in any case, it's free, it's open source, so give it a try, run a tutorial, run an example, and with that, thank you for your attention. Questions? What would it take if I want to extract a full board? I have to label all the parts and run the extraction and match it or how would it approach? The question would be how to export the structure and what do you need? You want to extract this category matrix for a full board, for instance, and we see the integrity analysis, the relationship between the pins. The question is what do you have to do if you want to have a full board with all pins and everything exported and analyzed? The first thing is, of course, to extract your model. Let's clear all the traces, for example, as polygons and substrates is easy. Then what you need to do is for each pin, let's say you have to have a port, and this port one has to be excited or the other has to be passive like port one, S3 one, S4 one, and so on. Then you have to excite all the other ones, like port two, and then you get port S12, 22, and so on. So you have to iterate through all of these ports. That's what you have to do. If you have one port, that's one simulation. If you have two ports, that's already two simulations and so on. Of course, you can define, okay, I'm not interested in the excitation of that port, so you can keep it passive all the time. You can reduce it, but that's pretty much export your structure and then put ports wherever you need them and do the simulations. Then you can export a touchstone, for example, with all this information and run it in your circuit simulator, for example. Yeah? Can it be misused for thermal simulation? Have it been used for thermal simulation? No. I think it could be, the question was can you use it for thermal simulation? It's not included. No. Particularly at the SAR, so you would have the information how to heat up your structure, for example, but there's no thermal solver included. No. The question is if it supports lossy materials like ferrites. It supports losses. Yes. Either by just applying conductivity to the structure or by using the dispersive models. Ferrites is a different story because it's quite complicated. If you don't have a hysteresis, it's possible, which is non-linear. So if it's linear material, yes, you can do it. So you have magnetic materials with losses. And you can, of course, also use dispersive models for a drudder or a d-bye or anything like this, but not with hysteresis. That's not possible. Everything that's linear, yes, everything that's non-linear, no. Back there is one. The human body models are not the question is about the human body models, where to get them and if you can purchase them or if they are included. They are, of course, not included. You have to get them from wherever you exist. The Ithiat Zurich, for example, has a lot of human body models and you can make a contract and NDA. I don't know what's required, again, it's a long time ago, so that you can get what OpenMMS comes with is, for example, a tool that can convert these models, can read them and convert them into a model that OpenMMS can understand. Pretty much a voxelized HDF-5 file that you can read, which you can create yourself if you want to, so you could create your own body model if you like. But there's a tool to convert it. It's not included. That would not be allowed, no. You have to get them from somewhere else. So the question... Yeah, the question is if there is a visualization tool to cut through your fields and your data and so on. What I use is this software, ParaView which is also open source. It uses VTK and has a QT GUI. You can do millions of filters if you go up here. It's already, this is a warp filter and a calculator. So you have this list of filters that you can... So you can do everything that I think you can do everything what you want. The tool is very complicated, but for me it was clear I don't want to redo something that's already that nice. So this tool has its own learning curve for sure, but I'm pretty sure you can do everything your heart would desire. You can do everything like, the question is, is there a more high level interface to do arrays and phase shifting and stuff like this. Since it's a scripting interface, it's very easy. If you have one antenna and you want an array, you make one or two, four loops with your antenna or your PCB for your antenna inside and then you have your array. And if you want to have a phase shift for each of these arrays, then in this loop you define the time delay for each and every port and then you have your phase array pretty much. You cannot do a phase in time domain because it's time domain, but you have a time shift which is translated pretty much for one frequency in a corresponding frequency or a phase shift. Perhaps a weird question, but I'm working on this fencing system with your fence, so you hit somebody and I wonder if can I use this tool to simulate how a signal would propagate from one person to the sword to a second person. The question is, while fencing you mean if somebody walks through an EM signal a sword and you try to hit somebody and he has his body conducting and could you use this tool to simulate your help in the... So the question is if you have RF sword and you touch somebody with it can you simulate that? Interesting question. Yes, I think so. It depends on the frequency of the signal. FTTD is not very accurate for very low frequencies, so I don't know which frequency you are thinking about, but if everything is very large you can also go down the frequency a little bit, but it highly depends on the frequency of course, and including the entire body model with everything in the mesh that's not going to be a fast simulation let's say like this, it's going to take a couple of hours to simulate I guess, it depends. Does it also work for lightsabers? Lightsabers. You can do optics with it, yes? Again? How low you can get with the frequency? It depends on the size of the model. You have to remember that the time step depends on the mesh, the mesh depends on your structure, so if your structure is very detailed the mesh is very fine, the time step is very small, and if you have a small time step and a very low frequency, low frequency means long pulse and then you have to simulate very very long so that all depends on one another. You can of course, like this one, I used a pulse with 7 gigahertz bandwidth so DC was included but if you would analyze at that very low frequencies the resolution is not very good because you don't have very much data there. You get some results but the accuracy is not as detailed, let's say.


Live from Las Vegas, it's theCUBE, covering HPE Discover 2017, brought to you by Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live in Las Vegas for HPE Discover 2017. This is Silicon Angles, the CUBE, it's our flagship program. We go out to the events and extract the signal from the noise. I'm John Furrier, the co-founder and co-CEO of Silicon Angles with my co-founder and co-CEO Dave Vellante with Wikibon and our next guest is Alon Andrioli, who's the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the DCIG, the Data Center Infrastructure Group at HPE. Great to see you, welcome back to theCUBE. Thank you, it's a pleasure to be here again. Great show, you guys have a lot of great innovations. Notable was the Analyst Press Conference that you were feeling all the questions around the buzz around Gen 10 and all the action you guys are putting inside the new servers from security to all the innovation that's happening. Pretty great opportunity. And the true private cloud numbers coming out of Wikibon are showing fastest growth is cloud on-prem. This points to significant opportunities. Your thoughts? Yeah, well, the need for compute is clearly growing and it will continue to grow forever. What we see is that the compute points are also expanding, so it can be on-prem, it can be off-prem, it can be in the edge. And on-prem, there is a bit of a revolution which is coming from the experience of the public cloud. And so private clouds are becoming very, very fancy. So you see on-prem compute basically turning into two families, very specialized for high performance computing, for mission critical, for AI and others. So things that are really very critical to the business. And then for all the other workloads, they need flexibility like a public cloud, but on-prem because they can keep control, they want to mimic the agility and they want to have the same economic level. So we are playing on both fronts. We are doing very well on the specialized front with HPC acquisition of SDI and so on. And we are making a breakthrough on the private cloud with Synology and soon with the new stack. So the whole notion of DevOps and cloud has opened up the doors and certainly you guys have been very clear with the simplicity message. Big data is a big part of the application process. Cloud providers, multiple clouds. So this right-mixed conversation is what Meg is putting out there is a nice message. And what you're saying is, hey, the on-prem is not going anywhere and we have the data to prove it, but you look at the big clients, they want the control. What is the conversation that you're having when they say, hey, I need more capabilities? Obviously high-performance computing, powering AI and machine learning was seeing obviously those things. But on the business model side, what are the customers asking from you for solutions? What are the key things that they want from HPE right now? What is that? In terms of economy control? Solutions, they're top priorities. When they sit down and say, well, you know, I need more compute. Okay, what does that mean? What specifically are you building for customers to help them with the digital transformation to simplify the business model of on-prem with cloud and to deal with the multi-cloud world? So they believe that the management of the mix between the different alternatives that they have right now is certainly a complexity and they rely on us to take this complexity away. So we are very bullish about the project, Newstack, because we think that this will allow data to be managed across the different horizons in the data center across multi-clouds and with more and more data being created and eventually computed at the edge. So these three horizons together make intelligent distributed computing, which will be more self-tuning, which will be extreme data analytics, and ultimately this will allow customers to manage data seamlessly across everything. We think that this is kind of strategically where customers want to be. Then the way they get there depends. Some customers have a view which is just modernization of what they have right now. Some of the customers want to be more dramatic and run everything they have as if it was a seamless cloud.  Most of the customers, I was looking at what is actually making the public cloud, more than 50% are born from the cloud. There are people who never had a data center and may never have one until they grow up, because then when they grow up, they need one. That's what we have learned. For control, economy, expands, that's a cloud cliff. So more than half of the public cloud customers never had a data center. About 15%, 15, 16% of the customers of the public cloud are consumers. And then you have a small surge, which are enterprises. So that's the first thing to realize, right? The move of the enterprise is still pretty small. I was discussing with the largest system integrator in Germany yesterday. And their view is a German perspective, because here in the U.S. we have a tendency to believe that everything is public cloud or will be. The German view is totally different, for instance. So I think we have gone through a cycle, which has been public cloud heavy in terms of Markham, where the market believed that public cloud was going to be everything. And we are now landing in a reality zone where this mix is an opportunity for the customers. There are some trivial workloads that can go on the public cloud, but we see that on-trend remains basically what people are doing. That last point's really important, because you said, well, let's maybe third as enterprises in the public cloud. If you look and feel the workloads that are going to the public cloud, it's not the core of enterprise IT workloads. So what I believe is that we are thinking it the wrong way when we're thinking public cloud and which workload goes there. The workloads are not going to the public cloud, is that a lot of the workloads that used to be run on-prem are now coming from the cloud. SAS. Right. That's different. That is very different. So customers are not deciding what is on-prem or off-prem. They are now looking at software packages that come from the cloud, like Salesforce or others.  So it's more and more specialized. And then they have a variety of applications that don't come from the cloud that they will run on their public cloud. This is why I see these two typo topologies if you want of specialized, super compute and data centric, and then very fluid. And this is where synergy plays so well because synergy allows this fluidity of pools of resources and you can basically adjust to the various applications that you have. Oh, this is classic early adopter kind of behavior. You mentioned the SAS coming in and being influenced because they're easy to get into, right? You can get some subscription and get some value. But then I think the true private cloud is interesting to me because what it really shows to extend your point is that the business models are changing for the agility piece. That's the DevOps. So as you see IT consumption changing to cloud-like or true private cloud, essentially that is an OPEX business model. So the business transformation is now where the rubber hits the road for what digital is. So to me, we see that dynamic. So with that being said, what aspects of HP take advantage of? You mentioned synergy. What else do you guys have cooking up? What's out there that customers are using to turn the knob and go faster on the acceleration? But customers, I wouldn't like us to look at customers only as being enterprises because as more and more business is being generated from the cloud, people who do business from the cloud, whether they are enterprise service providers or software providers or business born from the cloud, these people also acquire technology and they have need for services and they acquire infrastructure. So this is a segment of the market where we're going to double down in the future. So we are looking, we call them like tier two, tier three, because the very large ones have a tendency to try to build their own things. But- Service providers, basically.  Also demand technology and support from people like us. So we are going to expand our cloud line strategy. We are going to offer open systems and be very aggressive there, both for compute, storage and for networking. And so there are kind of two parallel market, if you want, more and more. There is a market of completely open systems.  We call them for the cloud, cloud line, which is now a multi-billion dollar business for us. And then you have the people who want products that offer a lot of value that are differentiated like synergy, like ProLiant, like Blade Systems, like TripR, like Nimble and so on. And obviously we are doubling down on this as well with our acquisitions and on development like Gen10. So the narrative from Hewlett Packard Enterprise and some of your, all of your competitors is, you know, hybrid is the reality, fair enough. That's for sure. And we agree. But there is an aspect of zero sum game here and that the markets at the macro level are not, you know, growing like they used to. So market share becomes very, very important. You put up a slide on your keynote, 81 straight quarters of leadership. Now, we all know that you can play games with the numbers, but the most important metric we would argue is revenue share, right? If you're number one in revenue, that's the true mark of leadership. So you've had 81 straight quarters of leadership as we've just defined leadership. That's 20 years. In this quarter we had leadership and next quarter I think we will have leadership as well. But you know, we are not looking at market share for the sake of market share. We want to bring value to our customers and to our shareholders. So if there is moving forward a part of the market that does not yield value for either party, we may not want to measure our market share against that because we may not define this as being our own market. But so far, we are leading the overall market in compute. We are now a strong number two in storage with the acquisition of Nimble and we are happy to be there. But our strategy is not being number one for the sake of being number one. Right, but- Well, Jay's point, I'm very critical on this. I've been written about it and again, I may be overstepping my boundaries here, but I believe that if we're going to a new era of modern computing, the old metrics don't apply because everyone seems to be number one at something. I mean, I'll go to so many shows so I go to day where I'm number one in this. So the question is, if the old is shifting to a new model and it's horizontally scalable, vertically specialized kind of marketplace, which you guys are addressing with some of your tech, what are the metrics? So that we are asking ourselves the question, what should be the benchmark standard? So I have a strong point of view and I was discussing with it and it's last night we had dinner and I've had the same point of view for the last couple of years. The history of the market is to measure by product category. Rack, powers, old flash arrays, disk arrays, mixer arrays, and so on. I think that this is really my worldview. It doesn't matter. The decisions that customers are making are, what is my specialized computing, which includes computing, storage, networking? What is my specialized data center, basically? What is my private cloud? Then what is my consumption of IT coming from service providers? And therefore you have the service provider market which itself can be separated into different segments. That's the way to measure the business. So I want to be leader in specialized compute. I want to be leader in private cloud because this is what enterprise will be consuming. I want, and basically we already leaders there, but I want to continue to be leader in providing gear to service providers who have decided to rely on partners to build their data centers and not build them themselves. We want, this makes sense because then you look at the market differently. You're not looking at lack or tariff, density to optimize, whatever you're saying, okay. What is a service provider going to need in the future? What is going to be specialized computing in the future? What is going to be a private cloud in the future? Once you have covered that, what is going to be compute at the edge in the future? And what do you need to orchestrate all the data? These are the clusters of the market that matters. They are the one we are pursuing and they are the ones of which we will be the leaders moving forward. 100% agree with you. I would also add, by the way, I agree with you, 100%. And I would even amplify by saying you could be building something new like a server, chip, silicon, security. That has no category. So how does that relate to the thing? Well, seniority has no category. Right. You know. It's horizontally scalable. So again, you could be number one, two or three by the old categories, but be holistically number one in the market. So I think it's more, you know, it's more categories of business outcomes. Like specialized high performance, you know, flexibility, agility of a private cloud and so on. I think that's, you know, so if you make a parallel with the car industry, you could say, is the market like diesel engine or gas engine or electric engine, or is it like sport cars, SUVs or whatever? I want us to look at SUVs and sport cars. How do we do the best SUV? How do we do the best sports car versus, you know, the components, this technical view of it's a rack or it's a tower? How do you add the most value for customers that is profitable for shareholders? At the end of the day, when we have our argument in our office about this on the research side, we say, look, at the end of the day, let's identify some of these new categories, measurement points, but customers and revenue can't lie. If you have customers, here it is, number of customers. And so the problem then is to measure it. Once you have defined what is the right metrics, can you measure it, right? And so unfortunately, the analyst today cannot measure the market, the where it has evolved. So we are still looking at rack and towers and so on and I think this is the wrong. Okay, so talk about the hot thing that we like is the root of trust product, the silicon thing that's called the root of trust, you know, with the firmware thing. This seems to be getting a lot of buzz to show. It's innovation. We had some independent testers on with your guys on the Gen10 sites and this is pretty impressive. Thoughts on, is this the kind of direction you continue to go with? What's your thoughts on this security? Yeah, we think security is super important and you open the newspaper or the TV today and you see what's happening. It's quite amazing, including today, what's happening today here in the US. So it's incidental that we're coming just today with our new generation of compute but it's taken two years of interviews with customers to really understand what's most important to them and the risk of cyber threat has turned enormous and I think that you have been interviewing experts from the FBI and so on during this session who came here and helped us to build this solution and I think we're coming at the right time with the right solution that will take a few years to our competitors to try to match that and they will go in this direction because that's the only way technically you can do it. It's at the silicon level. So you basically have unique encoding on your server in silicon and the firmware always compare itself throughout the whole life cycle of the server even before the server is finally built to this root of trust. I think we've done this extremely well. I'm very, very proud of our engineer. And it's been validated against the NIST NIST security standards so congratulations on that. And these are the most stringent standards in the industry, right? It's pretty impressive. I mean, this has been a trend that we've been seeing the silicon angle, no pun intended. It's interesting, it's always on securities come up in the past, people want that. And with IoT the support, the attack vectors can be sealed up pretty well. And so our edge line products will have ILO 5 and so they will also have access to this technology. Great innovation. Elan, thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate you sharing the insight. I'll give you a final word here. Share with the audience something you think they should know about HPE right now that they may not know about. I know the messaging is pretty simple. You got the nice messaging, but going beyond the messaging, what would you like to share with the audience about your group and HPE's innovation coming out of Discover 2017? You feel the buzz here. You can see, I think we have never been in such a focus and clear position. We exactly know the businesses we are pursuing, the hybrid IT, make it simpler, and the edge and the service to make it happen. We are just crystal clear. But when you put the tree together, you get to this dimension of intelligent distributed computing. And this is a market that we will lead in the future. Also, we are such a strong and stable company. We will have over 12 billion dollars of cash net in our balance sheet by the end of next month. And this put us in a position to continue to double down on these bets we have made for the future of the market. So we are very, very confident that we are in a great spot. And frankly, it's great now because it feels like we are starting to be at destination. The last 18 months, we separated from some of our legacy friends. And now not only are we on our own, but we have a super clear strategy moving forward. We are proving that we're implementing it with the six acquisitions that we have made over the last few months, and more in the pipeline, continuing to deliver the capability to integrate this acquisition and the capability to continue to motivate our customers to be with us. And the spotlight is on you guys. We'll be tracking it. Thanks for coming on theCUBE. Really appreciate it. Senior Vice President, General Manager of the Data Center Infrastructure Groups, sharing his opinion here on what's happening and where's it going in the future for HPE. We're back with more live coverage for theCUBE here in Las Vegas after the short break. I'm John Furrier with Dave Vellante. We'll be right back. Stay with us.


The first shot is a laces strike and I've talked about this a lot before. The biggest thing is you really want to focus on flexing this foot, making it really firm, really strong. If you have a weak ankle, your toes aren't pointing down, your foot's not flexed, you're not going to have a very strong shot because your foot's going to come through the ball and it's going to create backspin because when you're hitting it, your foot is loose. When you go through the ball, you want to be really strong. You want to keep those toes down, keep that ankle locked, really strong foot. You're trying to strike through the center of the ball, it helps if your planning foot is beside the ball, your toes of this foot pointing towards the net and you really want to fall through straight through the center of the ball, fall through to your target. So if I want to go to the right, my foot should end up going through the right. If I want to go to the left, I should go to the left. If I want to go straight, try to make your foot go straight, but the biggest thing is you keep that foot flexed, locked ankle, strike through the center of the ball.  But I'm trying to hit the ball on the side to create spin, okay? And the only way you're going to do that is hitting here on the corner of the ball to create that spin. If you're not getting spin, you're probably hitting it to center on the ball and it's just going forward. If you want it to curl, you have to hit it more on the outside to create that spin on the ball. So similar to the last shot, curl with the inside, this is curl with the outside of the foot. So here you have to learn to hit the ball with the outside of your foot. Before we were hitting it right here, now we're hitting it right here on the outside of the boot, okay? And it really helps if you lock your ankles again, remember that firm shot we had with the laces, it's the same thing except this time you're hitting it on the side. Okay, I want to hit, I want to hit on the outside of the ball again, not right in the middle, hit on the outside of the ball to create this spin like that, okay? It's going to feel weird in the beginning because especially on your weaker foot, your ankle isn't as strong. So you need to learn to flex that ankle, you want to hit it on the outside and create that spin. This shot here is what I'm calling a compose finish and I'm sure you experienced a lot.  We try to strike it as hard as we can or we try to over complicate the shot but when really all you need to do when you have enough time in front of the goal, you can keep a calm mind. All you need to do is pass that ball into the corner, just like a normal pass, okay?  Don't make it any harder than it has to be. You don't have to always rip the ball as hard as you can. If you can just find the corner, pass it in the corner, you'll make it a lot easier for yourself and a lot harder for the goalkeeper. This shot is a chip shot, a traditional chip shot, so basically you're thinking about jamming your toes under the ball right in the center of the ball, okay? And what that's going to do is going to create the ball to go high very quickly because I'm getting under it. If your laces shots are too high, it's probably because you're doing that. You're hitting here and your toes are coming up through the ball, okay? So with a chip, you want to chip under the ball, okay? You want to help to get your planning foot beside the ball. Again, point your toes where you want to go. If you want to go this way, point it like that. If you want to go more that way, I'm going to point that way. Okay, if I want to go straight, I'm going to point my toes straight. Again, I'm going to chip underneath the ball. It is a scoop chip. So this one, or I'm going to call it a messy chip because he's so good at it. It's when you're really close to goal, you don't have any room.  You've got to get the ball to go up and down really quick. So instead of jamming your toes under the ball, this one you're scooping.  So you want to get under the ball and scoop it up. Now you may feel that when you scoop, your tendency is to go across your body. So I think it helps if you aim a little more on the inside of the ball. Okay, you'll scoop right up. But again, just like anything, it's going to take practice to figure out what's the right technique. But I'm getting under the ball and I'm scooping it right over the keeper.


suspense and the producer of radios outstanding theater of thrills the master of mystery and adventure William N. Robson it is a cliche of murder that the killer always returns to the scene of his crime but we know of no recorded instance in which the victim has returned to the scene of his demise however we come as close as we can in the upcoming story we have contrived to produce a reasonable facsimile of the corpse with some startlingly unpredictable results listen listen then as miss Vanessa Brown stars in vamp till dead which begins in exactly one minute do you know the Social Security benefits to which you will be entitled when you separate from the service and take a civilian job here's a tip from Social Security disabled workers at any age up to 65 can now look forward to monthly Social Security benefits unfortunately not all severely disabled workers are aware of the possibility of cash disability benefits for younger workers and their dependents illness or accident may strike at any age disability while young often causes the greatest economic hardship with a growing family to be cared for for this reason Congress has improved Social Security protection against loss of income and offers disability insurance benefits with no age limitations to find out more about the protection you have under Social Security right to Social Security Department 15 Hollywood 28 California and now till dead starring Miss Vanessa Brown a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense your first name what did you say it was Amy Mr. Gentry Amy Amy Amy Amy yes yes yes and are you a good secretary Amy you have all of my recommendations Mr. Gentry I mailed them to you a week ago oh yes yes yes yes to be sure I must have looked at them or I wouldn't have hired you and had you come all the way from New York now would I do you think you'll like it here in this big house working for me I hope so sir tell me what do you think of me I beg your pardon me how do I strike you what am I a gentle person a wit a profound talent a buffoon tell me I'd be interested in your opinion I've only known you were half hour Mr. Gentry well then I'll tell you I'm a writer Amy do you know what it means to have a million words inside of you and not to be able to let them out no sir it's an utter horror and that's the way it's been with me for more than a year but now I'm ready to go back to work again and release those million words and it'll be your job to take them down I'll do my best not going to be easy very demanding Amy I understand Mr. Gentry the cook's name is Jenny she'll help you find your way around the house and for heaven's sake call me Paul not Mr. Gentry yes Paul that's better Amy I feel it helps if people adjust to new situations as quickly as possible have you heard about my wife no sir I haven't well you will so I'll tell you people around here say that I killed Mrs. Gentry good night Amy I ran upstairs to my room I could still hear him laughing even after I closed the door and then finally he stopped and I was lying across my bed when I was aware that someone was standing beside me he's like that child you mustn't mind who are you I'm Jenny the cook oh oh yes but but somehow you don't don't look like a cook my dear I find more inspiration in cooking meals for a great writer like Paul Gentry than I ever found in the 23 years I taught high school English I say now don't let him upset you he really doesn't mean it he can be as gentle as he is harsh no one really understands him did did did Mrs. Gentry understand him no she didn't she never made an attempt there's a question in your eyes Amy yes was she murdered yes in that little guest cottage down by the brook you can see it from this window how how how did it happen it was almost a year ago they argued over something trivial at dinner the flowers on the table Mrs. Gentry ran out of the house a few minutes later I could hear her playing the piano in the cottage some little tune that always infuriated him the next morning her body was found slumped over the piano her neck was broken and and people think there was no evidence against mr. Gentry no proof only hearsay and talk I see now now there's a question in your eyes yes Amy this information doesn't seem to disturb you and that puzzles me because along with that this there's something about you what about your appearance my dear really it's quite remarkable how much you resemble Isabel Gentry for the next three weeks I took dictation from morning until night there was quantity certainly but the quality was poor the book was going badly and then one afternoon when I walked into his study there was another man standing there beside Paul Amy Amy this is Al Pender Al's a reporter on the local paper he tried his best to have me indicted for murder oh how do you do mr. Pender I'm glad to meet you Amy I've just dropped in to interview mr. Gentry about his new book you see Amy I'm a celebrity they interview me about my new book why don't you tell him all about it I wouldn't want the responsibility Paul you can tell him how bad it is as well as I can oh no Paul I couldn't possibly say that about it what could you say about it anything worthwhile no the drop dies the withdrawal Isabel used to react the same way when I became angry with her do I do I remind you of her yes yes you remind me of Isabel of all the things in her that stopped me from writing how do you like that Pender there's a story for you to print you want me to print it Gentry I kill you if you did I'm sorry if I remind you of Isabel Paul are you way me are you really no I don't think you are I don't think you are at all huh you've been like this very long I'd rather not say mr. Pender Amy did you know that no one in town would take this job yes still you came here yes he killed his wife everyone knows it it was never proved no no because of a technicality you know he's right you do look a great deal like Isabel and that means you're in danger here he's crazy he might actually come to think of you as Isabel I want him to think of me as Isabel in every way possible every day every minute there must be some way to prove he killed her see why are you so interested who are you anyway I'm Isabel Gentry's sister the second act of suspense continues in one minute this is Johnny Baker with communism on the spot here's another case that illustrates the worthlessness of Soviet constitutional guarantees on one Thursday morning in 1940 Soviet workers were told about the change to the eight-hour day and the seven-day week just the day before workers had completed a seven-hour day part of the five-day week established under the 1936 Constitution but now they were suddenly required to work 21 extra hours a week they knew it was impossible for the Constitution to have been amended since amendments must be approved by the Supreme Soviet which wasn't even in session they could therefore only conclude that this was another arbitrary violation by the government of a Constitution that held far from sacred and now we continue with act two of vamp till dead starring Miss Vanessa Brown a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense yes I am the sister of the woman Paul Gentry was accused of murdering I was abroad during their courtship and marriage we had never met so it was simple for me to begin my campaign I began to do everything the way I had remembered Isabelle I wore her favorite perfume I held my head to one side and smile the way she used to I started using her expressions in my speech I wasn't sure whether I was torturing him or he was torturing himself but I was certain he began to think of me as Isabelle and then I began visiting the guest cottage where she was murdered and playing the piano at which she died I didn't notice you come in Jenny what are you doing here in this cottage practicing must you practice that what do you mean that's the tune she used to play I told you he hated it oh I forgot and you're here you're wearing it the way she used to am I don't you see what you're doing to him what he hardly spends an hour a day writing now it's just like it was when she was alive there was something about her that killed his inspiration instead of creating he only wanted to destroy now you're doing the same thing to him me but I only want to help him there's only one way you can do that how leave but he needs me you're not helping you're hindering always reminding him of her any why do you stay oh I'm like his desk or the chair he sits on just a piece of furniture doing a job he doesn't think about me one way or the other oh someday I'll see him get back to writing the way he used to you mean without her yes do you think he killed her Jenny oh that's something I I don't dare think about Amy in the days that followed Paul's work went from bad to worse and so did his temper he was unmanageable most of the time it would slump in his chair drinking and staring at me just staring staring staring staring knew he was almost ready to break the day he went into a rage and he started throwing things around his study I left the house walked down to the guest cottage sat down at the piano and started to play was this it I wondered the trap be sprung now and long to wait I heard the door slowly open and I continued playing first move would have to be his surprise you yes I brought you something a gun what for well if you won't be sensible and leave this place then you need it for your own protection I can handle my situation without a gun can you that man is out of his mind the first time he comes that you let him have it everybody in this town knows about him look no jury would ever convict you I came here to get proof that Paul Gentry killed my sister I want him to pay for it legally but it seems to me that you want me to be judge jury and executioner oh no no listen now I'm going to tell you something Isabel used to write to me and she was pretty frank she told me about a newspaper man she was interested in could you be that man yes now is it because you loved Isabel that you wanted to see her murder a court or would you just like to sacrifice Paul Gentry because he was married to the woman that you wanted and are you aware that this property belongs to me what are you doing on it talking to her what does it look like Paul Paul please how many times do I have to tell you to leave my wife alone your wife just a minute you get up my property while you can still walk and Isabel you get back up to the house where you belong I ran back to the house up to my room a moment later I heard his heavy steps coming up the stairway before I could do anything he was standing in my doorway Isabel Isabel why did you make me do it why why did you do it Paul I couldn't help myself with those men all the time especially Pender Amy Isabel's dead your Amy why do you keep making me think that you're Isabel why you're imagining it Paul oh Amy why don't you leave here while it's safe I think it is safe Paul you aren't afraid of me the way you were that first night you aren't afraid of what I might do to you no Paul I'm not afraid if you really want me to go I will but I'd rather stay I want to be close to you closer to you than anybody in this world has ever been I don't want you to go Amy ever I love you I know I want you to marry me of course of course Paul ever since Isabel died I've wanted to be your wife act three of suspense follows in one minute this is Johnny Baker with communism on the spot the communists insist that Soviet citizens enjoy basic freedoms under their constitution in theory the Soviet constitution does promise freedom civil liberties and justice under law these are however merely paper guarantees which carried little weight for the same constitution also declares that these freedoms are to be exercised in conformity with the interests of the working people and in order to strengthen the socialist system the communist party as the vanguard of the people decides what these interests are it interprets the constitution as it sees fit it thus turns out that the rules of the party not the constitution are the supreme law of the land and now we continue with that three of vamp till dead starring Miss Vanessa Brown a tale well calculated to keep you in suspense next day we were married quietly by the justice of the peace surely this bait would spring the trap surely my sister's murderer would attempt to kill the woman who so closely resembled her and now replaced her that night I dressed for dinner in the perfect image of my sister and Paul greeted me as I expected him to Isabelle you never looked more beautiful well thank you Paul your chair thank you you may serve Jenny yes sir oh Jenny use the large soup bowls please for Isabelle I understand I know you prefer them darling um yes there's something wrong Isabelle Paul I just noticed you have carnations on the table why yes you know I don't like carnations Paul I don't like them at all Isabelle they were all I could get I'm afraid you'll have to like look I don't have to like anything have Jenny take them off the table now I see here you'll either get rid of them or I won't eat dinner with you you hear me then don't eat dinner with me my dear I'd like it better that way and I won't have to look at your bored critical face all the time it was rude and cruel but I had to know I had to act the same way Isabelle had acted for it was just a year ago tonight she had been murdered and then I was in the cottage where did it happen sitting at the piano playing her tune I sat there waiting I knew I would hear steps first and then a door but I heard nothing I heard the steps Amy Amy are you all right are you all right Amy yes I'll yes Linda stay where you are I'll blow your head off I always knew it was you who killed Isabelle are you refused to run away with you are you wrong Gentry it wasn't me look Paul Paul darling she was the one Jenny Jenny I had to knock her out she tried to kill Amy the same way she killed Isabelle she was afraid Amy was going to take you away from her oh Amy Amy darling Paul do you do you know who I am who I really am yes I know you're not Isabelle I've known all along I had to pretend because you pretended forgive me please forgive me it's all over my darling end it yes yes Paul it's over Isabelle is truly dead suspense in which Miss Vanessa Brown starred in Vamp Till Dead written by E. Jack Newman and John Michael Hayes suspense is produced and directed by William and Robeson in a moment the names of tonight's players this is Johnny Baker with communism on the spot a few words now on the position of the family under communism in Soviet society the family has been reduced to a kind of machine for producing workers Soviet leaders have deprived families of the right to educate their children and have minimized the influence of family life by drawing women into the labor force the institution of the family is looked on as part of the machinery for producing what are designated as obedient disciplined communists to accomplish this the role of the parents has been taken over by the schools by youth organizations and by the establishment of boarding schools the final aim of the party is evidently the education of all children away from the family supporting Miss Vanessa Brown in Vamp Till Dead were Jeanette Nolan, Ben Wright and Norm Alden listen listen again next week when we bring you Jack Carson starring in Miss Fire another tale well calculated to keep you in suspense suspense has been brought to you through the worldwide facilities of the United States armed forces radio and television service


But today we're in Luke chapter 3. Let's begin reading together here in Luke chapter 3 at verse 19. I'll read verse 19 and 20, and we'll get into our study. Luke chapter 3, beginning at verse 19, reading to verse 20. Luke writes, but Herod the tetrarch being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, also added this, above all, that he shut John up in prison. Now, as we've been looking at the life of John the Baptist, John is an incredibly bold, very courageous man, a man of God.  According to Luke chapter 1, verse 17, he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just to make ready of people prepared for the Lord.  And so we saw that he waited. He waited there in the wilderness for 30 years, and finally we saw that he had received his call to preach.  He was armed with a message, and he went out, and he went out preaching righteousness. His message, as we have seen it, was fairly basic. He was saying, repent, turn to God, and if you do so, God will receive you. Now that's a general message you find in the New Testament. You see it through the old into the new, but that's repeated in various ways in various books of the Bible. Repent, turn to God, God will receive you. In 2 Corinthians, for example, chapter 6, verse 17, Paul said, come out from among them and be separate, sayeth the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, and I will receive you.  And this message has been echoing. It's echoing from the wilderness all the way to a palace. Everyone is being called to repent. The Pharisees and the Sadducees, the scribe, the peasant, the priest, the king, all are being called to repentance. The message that was given at that time is a timeless message, because people today are still being called to the same thing, to repent and turn to the Lord. The church actually has been ordered to proclaim repentance, even when that message of repentance in our generation seems outdated. Yet as we've been studying the book of Ephesians in chapter five, verses 11 and 12, we have read how Paul had said to the church, have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them, for it is shameful even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret. And so our responsibility is like John's, to have courage and conviction, to walk in the spirit, and to be willing to speak an unpopular, sometimes even regarded outdated message, a message to a people, at least in our time, that would sometimes appear to not really care. As we look at the life of John, John was not a respecter of persons. And so ultimately, John went so far as to even confront a political leader by the name of Herod. Herod is spoken of here in verse 19 in Luke chapter three, and he's called Herod the tetrarch. Now this Herod that we're looking at is Herod Antipas, and he was the son of a man known as Herod the Great. He's referred to here as Herod the tetrarch. That word tetrarch is a general title for a political official. The word properly signifies a person who rules over a fourth part of a country. But it was used in a general sense also. It could be used by Jewish writers when they refer to a governor or even a king. You see, after the death of his father, who was Herod the Great, Rome divided Herod's kingdom among three of his sons, including Archelaus, who we see in Matthew chapter two, verse 22, and Philip, his half-brother, who is mentioned in this passage. And so we see here that he's referring to, in verse 19, Herod the tetrarch. But notice what he says here. Herod the tetrarch being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother, Philip's wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done, also added this, above all, that he shut John up in prison. And so he was rebuked. Notice this, verse 19, Herod was rebuked. Herod the tetrarch being rebuked by him. That word rebuked means to be corrected or admonished. It speaks of revealing someone's fault. It even can be used in a way that would demand somebody to give an explanation. And so what we see here right from the beginning is that Herod had been rebuked or corrected, admonished. Herod had been admonished by John, corrected because of his sin. Now, I should hasten to add very briefly here that Herod could receive rebuk from John because John had a life that gave him the ability to give a rebuke. This is a man who is walking in the Spirit of God. This is a man who was completely committed and sold out. This is a man who was godly, who was a righteous man. And so because he had those qualifications, he also had the ability to rebuke somebody. I think it's very difficult when somebody is not walking in the ways of the Lord, when they take it upon themselves to rebuke and correct somebody else. You know, when they're not walking in the Spirit, when they're walking in the flesh.  You know, and I've seen that happen. You know, when they're doing something wrong themselves, yet correcting somebody else, it just doesn't work, does it? Because people immediately look right past that and they say, what gives you the right to correct me when you've got so many things going on in your own life?   Why don't you look at your own life? And so John, John was able to do that. John was able to bring a word of correction because John was a spiritually mature person walking in the ways of the Lord. In the book of Romans, in chapter 15, verse 14, Paul said, I myself am confident concerning you, my brethren, that you also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to admonish one another. You are good and you are knowledgeable of the things of the Lord, which qualifies you to be able to admonish, to rebuke, to correct, to bring somebody into line. So, if I'm gonna take it upon myself or I feel that I am inclined towards bringing a word of correction, it would probably be wise if I make sure that my life is okay too. And John's life lines up. John is able to bring this word of rebuke and it was out in the wilderness, echoing all the way into the government. Now, it's obvious that John had confronted Herod about his sins because that led to his being arrested and incarcerated. Notice verse 20, he shut John up in prison. So, it's obvious that he has been confronting him. Now, Mark tells us what was taking place. If you'd like, you can turn with me briefly to Mark's Gospel, chapter six. And let me show you something there found in verses 17 through 20. If you'd like to join me there. Mark chapter six, verses 17 through 20. Mark is the Gospel directly to your left. One over. Mark chapter six, verses 17 through 20. John obviously confronted Herod about his sin and this led to him being arrested and incarcerated. Mark six, 17 through 20 says, Herod himself had sinned and laid hold of John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, for he had married her. For John had said to Herod, it's not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. Therefore, Herodias held it against him and wanted to kill him, but she could not. For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just and holy man and he protected him. And when he heard him, he did many things and heard him gladly. Now, I find it interesting to notice that it says in verse 20, when he heard him, he did many things and heard him gladly. In other words, he did many of the things that John spoke of, but he wasn't willing to fully commit himself. He listened gladly to what John had to say. He might have even appreciated some of the things that he was hearing. There are people who go to churches. Just like this. And there are many things that they hear from a pulpit just like this one here that they agree with. They'll listen carefully and they'll say, yeah, I agree with that. Yep, I agree with that. Herod was of that stripe. He would listen to him. He did many of the things. He would hear him gladly, but he might have done many of the things, but he wasn't willing to do all the things. And so, I'm certain that he appreciated much of what he was hearing, but that reminds me of something Ezekiel says in Ezekiel 33 verse 32 in the Old Testament where God speaking to a prophet by the name of Ezekiel said to him, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument. They hear your words, but they do not do them. And so, Herod was the kind of guy apparently would hear some of the things that John had to say and appreciate it. He agreed with those things. He said, that's right. That's what this nation really needs. We need these kinds of things. And this is a guy who says the things that they should be said. He's a courageous guy. He's a man's man. He's a person I can respect. And so, that's what's taking place. He's listening carefully. He's hearing him gladly. He'd even do many of the things that John spoke of, but he wasn't doing all the things that John spoke of. He wasn't willing to do so. Now, especially wasn't willing to do the things that he spoke of concerning marriage. You see, back in Luke chapter three, verse 19, I want you to notice something. I want you to notice that Luke refers to Herodias as his brother Philip's wife. Notice that. Herod the tetrarch being rebuked by him concerning Herodias, his brother Philip's wife. Notice how he put that. He calls him his brother Philip's wife because they were living in a state of adultery. History records that Herod had stolen Herodias from his brother Philip while he was on a visit to the city of Rome. And in order for him to marry her, he had to first divorce the woman he was presently married to. And as he got a divorce from the woman he had been presently married to, he divorced her for unbiblical reasons. And that divorce that he had was what would be called today a divorce of convenience. And a divorce of convenience having no biblical reference to or no permission given through scripture is the sin of adultery. It gets you into the sin of adultery. How do we know that? Well, if you take notes, Mark chapter 10, verses 11 and 12, Jesus speaking, whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. If a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. In other words, a man or a woman who lightly dismisses a marriage partner and remarries is committing adultery. God had commanded the nation of Israel in what is called the Seventh Commandment found in the book of Exodus chapter 20 verse 14 to not commit adultery. And yet Herod had done so. And John is repeatedly bringing this to his attention. He is saying to him, it is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife. You have broken God's commandment. Now John is preaching and he's preaching with conviction. He's preaching with courage. He's preaching without a sense of respect of persons. And it didn't matter to him that Herod was offended. It didn't matter to him that Herodius was offended by him.  If there's anything we need today, I would say we need to have believers who are willing to do what is right in the sight of the Lord. I believe very strongly that what God wants to do is that God wants to fill the pulpits of America with ministers who actually fear him and are actually willing to teach what is true. In second Chronicles 16 verse nine, the Bible says the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to him. And John had a heart like that. And God is looking for people like that. People who are willing to say my heart is loyal to you and I will do what you command me to do. It isn't easy to do that. It isn't easy to stand up and say this is true and that is not true. But when you say Lord, here am I, use me. Lord, fill me with your spirit. Father, I wanna have a hunger for righteousness. I'm willing to be counted for you.  Why, because there are so few people today that I encounter who are sold out like that or are committed like that or are willing to stand up and be counted like that. When I first got saved, I started asking the Lord to give me a spine, give me a backbone. I wanna be willing to stand up for you and to speak for you. I want to have courage. I wanna have that confidence. I wanna have boldness. I wanna speak truth as if it is truth. I wanna hold fast to it and practice it and I wanna communicate it. And I can still remember coming from the background I came out of being a hippie and all.  Everything is cool, everything's fine. You don't wanna have strong opinions that are gonna cause other people to be uncomfortable. And so I actually had the opposite mindset than I have today. At that time I was an extreme, today I'd be referred to as just a liberal kind of person. I didn't really care as long as you didn't bother me.  And then I got saved. And as I began to read the Bible over the years I began to realize that God says certain things are true and some things are false. Some things are right and some things are wrong. And I can still remember at an early Christian age saying to the Lord, give me an ability, the Lord to speak the truth. And I went to Bible college for a year and then I took a year from Bible college and went to a secular university. And I can still remember being in classes where the professor had a certain opinion that I differed with and that I thought was biblically incorrect and asking the Lord, give me wisdom, give me an ability to speak, give me the courage to stand up and to say what is true regardless of how it makes me look and regardless of how people are gonna respond to me. And I began to pray like that. And I said, Lord, if I can't live my Christianity out in a classroom then I really can't live it out anywhere. Now can I? And so I asked him, please give me boldness and courage. Please help me to hold fast to what is true. And may I really believe that it is true and may I speak as if it is true and may I live as if it is true. And I can still remember that very well. I remember in one particular class that I was at that the professor had stated to us at the beginning of the school year that every one of us was gonna be assigned a word and that we were gonna have to give an impromptu speech using that word as our foundational concept and all. And several classes went by and I had yet to be called and it's not an easy thing to stand up in front of a classroom and to share. And I was in my mid-20s at that time, early 20s, probably about 23 years old, 24 at the oldest. And I can remember. And it finally got to my time and remember with me that I had been doing drugs since I was 15 and I was saved at the age of 20 and went in the military for two years, spent one year in Bible college and was just learning the Bible myself as I was learning to teach and give it out. I was also being equipped by the word of God and now I'm in a secular college and my professor has his earned degrees and students around there are probably brighter than I and I can still remember as he said, I'm gonna give you a word that I prayed. I said, Lord, well, whatever you have for me, just may I be courageous. And so it was my turn and he finally said, David, it's your turn. He said, come on up in front of the class and I came walking up in front of the class and some of you may know this but the number one fear most Americans deal with is the fear of speaking in public. And I can remember standing there and him saying to me the word that you are to share on is the word freedom. And so I was to give an impromptu speech of a few minutes and I still remember the basics of that because I said to them something like this, when you say the word freedom, I think of freedom that comes from God, a freedom that God gives to a man or a woman when they commit their heart to Jesus Christ and he sets them free from their sin. Jesus said, you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free and I've committed my heart to Jesus Christ and I've been set free and even as he said in his word, I am free indeed. And I began to preach to the class and I had asked the Lord, just give me the courage to do those kinds of things. Listen, it isn't easy to do that but you need to hold fast to what is true and you need to say, God, fill me with your spirit. I believe this word is true. I believe you set people free from their sin and I remember after sharing that with them the class was rather quiet because they weren't used to being preached to it at a secular college and the professor said, you know, you don't say very much but when you open your mouth, you say quite a bit and I took that as a compliment and I sat down and I have been doing that since before that but also ever since. My encouragement to you is to tell the Lord, I know that you are looking to and fro throughout this earth. You wanna show yourself strong on behalf of someone who's heart is completely loyal to you and Lord, I wanna be that person. I wanna be that one like Isaiah when he saw the Lord and he says and he was high and he was lifted up and his train filled the temple and the glory was just incredible and he said, as I was there and I saw this vision of God's holiness and the seraphim who were there who were saying, holy, holy, holy and then the question came out, who will go for me and Isaiah had stated, I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell amongst the people of unclean lips but one of the angels took some coal that was in an altar and pressed it against his lips and purified him and God then said to him, go. I told the Lord a long time ago I would like to be like an Isaiah. I realized that my words will never ever be as clear, as eloquent, as powerful, as God's word, as God is but Lord, I would ask that you would use me. I encourage you to do the same thing. I believe with all of my heart that there are people in this room that God wants to use in magnificent ways. He wants to use you to touch lives because you have an environment, you have a place that you can minister in that Billy Graham will never show up in, Greg Laurie will never show up in. Thank God, Raul Reese will never show up in. You have a workplace, you have a family, you have a school, you have a neighborhood that you have been placed strategically in to be used by Jesus Christ. So why not put your head on the pillow tonight and say, God, here am I, send me. Here am I, use me. I wanna be used by you, Lord. Why not? What a thrilling thing to be used by the Lord. And so he preached, he preached with conviction, he preached with courage, he didn't have a respect of persons. He said, it is not lawful for you to have your brother Philip's wife. You have committed adultery in that you have taken her, you have divorced your wife with no biblical reason, you have married her, and that is wrong. Not only is it adultery, but it was also incest. Herodias was the daughter of his half-brother, Aristobulus, and that made his wife his niece. And Leviticus 18, verse six, it says, no one is to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. And so sexual sin was being reproved, and it was being reproved consistently. And the conviction that was being experienced could have led Herod to repentance. Listen, there are times when you go through the Bible as we do and you try and find application, there are times that you may be in a Bible city here and something that is said may get you really upset. I'd be really surprised, but sometimes it happens. Sometimes people get so angry because they're so convicted. But instead of seeing it as the mercy of the Lord saying to you, this area needs to change in order that I might be able to bless you and you might be able to worship me in spirit and truth. Instead of doing that, a lot of people reject that. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 29, verse one, he who is often rebuked and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy. When the Lord speaks to you, allow God to have his way in your life. Don't argue with him, don't resist him, yield to him. Now you see, in the case of Herod, instead of repenting, he hardened his heart. And as a result, according to verse 20, he put John in prison. Now, in Matthew 14, verses three through five, Matthew says, Herod laid hold of John and bound him, put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because John had sent to him, it's not lawful for you to have her. Although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude because they counted him as a prophet. He listened to him gladly, and yet he also had a desire just to silence the one who was speaking out against him. There's a man by the name of Samuel Bregel. He was one of the early leaders of the Salvation Army. And he was writing concerning the way to spiritual leadership, and he said it this way. He said, it's not won by promotion, but by many prayers and tears. It is attained by confession of sin, and much heart searching and humbling before God. By self-surrender, a courageous sacrifice of every idol, a bold, deathless, uncompromising and uncomplaining embracing of the cross, and by an eternal, unfaltering looking into Jesus crucified. It is not gained by seeking great things for ourselves, but rather, like Paul, by counting those things that are gained to us as a loss for Christ. That is a great price. But it must be unflinchingly paid by him who would be not merely un nominal, but a real spiritual leader of men, a leader whose power is recognized and felt in heaven, on earth, and in hell. That was the kind of man that John was, a man who had unflinching courage.  Now, when all the people were baptized, it came to pass that Jesus also was baptized, and while he prayed, the heaven was open. And the Holy Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven which said, you are my beloved son, in you I am well pleased. Now, at this point, as we look at the baptism of Jesus, two questions immediately come to mind. One, how did John react when he had baptized Jesus? How did John react when he baptized Jesus? Because obviously, verse 21 comes prior to John being imprisoned. So how had he reacted? We'll look at that in a moment. And second, why did Jesus allow himself to be baptized in the first place? Well, Matthew supplies the answer for us. If you take notes, it's found in Matthew chapter three, verses 13 through 15. He says, Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John, but John tried to deter him saying, I need to be baptized by you. And do you come to me? Jesus replied, let it be so now. It is proper for us to do this, to fulfill all righteousness, and John consented. Now, John was used to baptizing, but he was baptizing sinners. The Bible tells us in Matthew chapter three, verse five, that all were being baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins. But here comes Jesus, and this is a man with no sins to confess. And so what is John going to do? Well, initially, according to what we've read, he tries to deter Jesus from being baptized. In other words, when he sees Jesus coming to him, he responds with humility. He recognizes that Jesus is the one that should baptize John, not John baptizing Jesus.  He had earlier stated, I can't even stoop down and unloose his sandal. Now, when he had said that, when he had pointed that out to us, and I believe he pointed that out here in chapter three, verse 16, I baptize you with water, but one mightier than I is coming whose sandal strap I'm not worthy to unloose. He was very humble. You need to know that Hebrew slaves were not allowed to remove a master's sandals. Only a son or a student would be permitted to do so. And so he was humble. He was saying, I'm not even able to do that. I'm not of that league. But Jesus made it clear, and I want to point out that his being baptized is going to fulfill all righteousness. Now, how does Jesus' being baptized fulfill all righteousness? How's that going to work? Well, one, when he receives baptism, it identified him. When Jesus received water baptism, it identified him as Messiah. John had said, there is one coming after me who is mightier than I. He didn't identify the one by name. He didn't say Jesus is coming and he's Messiah because initially he didn't even know that Jesus was Messiah. He says that in John 1.32 through 34, when he says, I saw the Spirit come down from heaven as a dove and remain on him, I would not have known him except the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, the man on whom you see the Spirit coming and remain on is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit. I have seen and I testified this is the Son of God. So one, he's being identified as Messiah through the baptism. Two, Jesus is placing a seal of approval on John's ministry because John was the one who was to go forth proclaiming a message that would draw people to Messiah. And so when he came to be baptized, he was actually authenticating him as a messenger of God. And then three, in receiving water baptism, Jesus identified himself with sinful man. That is something that I bless the Lord for. He identifies with me. Remember that John came preaching repentance and they would confess their sins as they were being water baptized. In other words, they were recognizing that they were cut off from God as strange from him by sin. And so the washing of the water was a demonstration of repentance as they were being prepared to receive Messiah who was to come. Jesus, in coming and receiving water baptism, is saying to us, I am being identified with you. Though I don't have sin as you do, yet I identify completely with you. And so as our high priest, his baptism is a demonstration of our sinfulness and need for a mediator. If you take notes, Hebrews chapter two, verses 14 and 15, since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is the devil, and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. Jesus Christ's incarnation intended to set us free. Jesus Christ came as our mediator in order that we might know that we have a God who fully understands us, a God who identifies with us, a God who suffers along with us if you will. And so that's why when you take your needs to the Lord and you say to him, God, nobody else understands, that's why you can go to Jesus Christ and he can say to you, I do. I understand. A fourth thing is Jesus's baptism was a symbol of his death and resurrection. Whenever we do water baptisms here, I quote out of Romans chapter six. And in Romans chapter six, verse four, Paul said we are buried with him by baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. When Jesus Christ was baptized, it was symbolic of his death and his burial and his resurrection. Listen, when we go into the water here and we have water baptism and we do so through full immersion, I like to present to the people this, when you go into the water and go underneath, that's a picture of death and burial. But when you come out of the water, that's a picture of your resurrection. So you are crucified in Christ, nevertheless you live. What happens is you're identifying with his death, burial and resurrection. So it's symbolic of that for us. And so as this is taking place, the Holy Spirit now descended in bodily form like a dove upon him and a voice came from heaven which said you are my beloved son and you I am well pleased. And so the Holy Spirit descends. You see in the Old Testament, prophets, priests, kings were all anointed to consecrate them to service to God. And so as a man, he was anointed for service. His humanity required strength that only the Spirit could supply. The Bible in Isaiah 61 verse one says, the Spirit of the Lord is on me because the Lord has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted to proclaim freedom for the captives and a release from darkness for the prisoners. Jesus was anointed for service. In Acts 10, 37 and 38, you know what happened throughout Judea, beginning in Galilee after the baptism that John preached. Now God anointed Jesus of Nazareth, the Holy Spirit in power and how he went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil because God was with him. And so when the Lord Jesus Christ received water baptism, that's an anointing for service. He's going forth in the power of the Spirit of God to do the work that God has called him to do. And then at that point, a voice from heaven cries out and speaks and it says to him you are my beloved son in you I am well pleased. God declares Jesus to be his unique son and that Jesus brings pleasure to him. My son David is going to school right now and I'm very proud of him. So I'll use him as an example. And he's in a class, that's a speech class in college and he's writing papers. And so he recently wrote a paper on creation versus evolution. And he asked me to read it and I did today. And as I was reading his paper and let me boast if I may, you know he's getting an A in the class and I'm very, very proud of him. And I was reading that but what really, really made me more proud in my son in whom I'm well pleased was that he was openly speaking about God created the heavens and the earth. There's no evidence that speaks otherwise. I've been taught to believe the word of God is the word of God and until somebody can prove that it's not, then I'm holding fast to it. And he's going to a secular college, he's not going to a Christian college. And I was proud of him and he came into the room and he said, well dad what did you think about the paper? And I said I want you to know some things and I want you to know I read it and I'm proud of you. I'm proud of you. And I am because it takes a certain amount of courage to be willing to stand up and say this is what I believe. This is what I've been taught. This is what God's word says. And as a father I look at my son and I can say this about all of my children to be honest with you, I can say this about them. I can say, you know, you're my beloved children and in you I am well pleased.  But there's just something about seeing the relationship between Jesus and his father. That his father would speak from heaven and make it very evident that's my boy and I love him and I'm extremely pleased with him. Isaiah 42, one says, behold my servant whom I uphold, my elect one in whom my soul delights. I have put my spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the Gentiles. Jesus said in John 829, he who sent me is with me, the father has not left me alone, for I do always those things that please him. I wanna be the person and I am that person that pleases my father is what Jesus was saying. And so Jesus Christ is that lamb unblemished and spotless who is perfectly acceptable and is pleasing to the father. And so as I look at the Lord Jesus Christ, I can't help but apply this to myself and I say to him, Lord I want to be somebody that you are pleased with too. I wanna live a life that is evidenced that I have been bought with a price. I wanna glorify you with my body and my spirit which belong to you. I wanna hear one day the words well done, my good and my faithful servant. I wanna hear you say enter into the joy of the Lord that has been prepared for you from the foundation of the world. I want him to speak those words over me and you know what fact is he can and he does because in the Lord Jesus Christ we have received the righteousness of God in him. We've also received the power of the Holy Spirit enabling us to obey him and he has given to us his word that he has etched onto the tablets of our heart. He gives us the ability to perform that which he desires and he also gives to us within our own heart a willingness to do those things. This all comes from him.  And then you got to that point where you started saying things to the Lord like, God I just need more of you, I want more of you.  And then you began to say, Lord you have given me so many things I want to share with other people, I'm a little nervous, I'm a bit afraid, but the Lord gives you his word and he says open your mouth and I will fill it.  Lord I've been reading the scripture out of the abundance of my heart, may I speak forth those things that you have given to me. You have deposited, you have treasured your word within me, I have esteemed your word as being more necessary than my daily food, I have meditated on these things daily and I ask now that you would just use me to your glory that I might speak forth your word with conviction, power, with an honesty so that there's an integrity related to those things that I'm saying but Father in Jesus' name I know that I fail but in you I am more than a conqueror therefore I thank you for the forgiveness that you give to me, I ask that you use me for your glory and when you give me opportunity I will speak and if nobody else will Lord, I'm gonna be the one who is willing to do so even if I feel like a fool after doing that and you wanna know something?   Just sow those seeds guys, be willing to do so stand up and be counted for Christ and watch what God will do in your life. Ask him to anoint you with his spirit, look at guys like John the Baptist and others, so many others in scripture that were willing to stand up and be counted and join the group and watch what the Lord will do with you and who knows five years from now, 10 years from now what God will have done such mighty things through you should the Lord tarry. My encouragement to you is walk in his spirit, be open, be anointed and be used by him.


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