Now the Cleveland Browns as a franchise and also the fans They are known for a lot of things You can call them a lot of different names But one thing is especially when it comes to certain aspects of the team one thing that you can never call into question is their commitment and When I say that especially regarding the fans They've obviously been through a lot of losing And while it has gotten a little bit over the past couple of years They have still endured a lot of losing throughout the years A lot of pain and I know that a lot of them have almost become numb to it But one thing that you can question about the fans is their commitment to the team as fans Because despite losing despite the 0 and 16 seasons despite the 1 and 15 see despite all of that They continue to show up at every single Game now the Cleveland Browns as a franchise They showed that same commitment When it came to Miles Garrett Now we all remember the situation last season when Miles Garrett got into the altercation with one Mason Rudolph And that whole thing just got ugly. I remember watching it and I just I couldn't believe it. I thought that I was almost dreaming It reminded me of the the famous Detroit Pistons And I think they were going against the Pacers just that whole brawl with Ryan our test and I think Jermaine O'Neill got involved just that whole thing And I remember watching that live and I was like I thought I was I had just woken up from a nap too So I thought I was still sleeping But they were just unreal events But the Browns they they showed a commitment to one Miles Garrett Because they have been around Miles Garrett. They know the type of person Miles Garrett is and again when you hear this guy speak Miles Garrett it's like to set him off. It seems like it would literally take everything something just really crazy to set him off But that situation is in the past. He's already served his Suspension and it ended up being I think six games because I know he was just suspended indefinitely for the remainder of the season But that's that Miles Garrett when he is on the field and when he was on the field, we all know that Miles Garrett is he is one of the best players in the NFL especially on defense Miles Garrett is something serious He is amazing at what he does And he will continue to get even better Somebody asked me a question from subscriber A few days ago and they asked me who do I think the second best player in the afc north is after Lamar Jackson My answer was Miles Garrett Was Miles Garrett his impact on the game. Um just his speed his strength his smarts all of that He is amazing at what he does So the browns they know that he's amazing at what he does. I mean, they've been watching him for years first hand So when this news came out about the browns already being engaged in contract extension talks with one Miles Garrett I was like, okay That makes sense But Miles Garrett apparently he has two years remaining on his deal So some people could be like, no, no, why rush? There's no rush. You don't have to do anything right now Take your time cleveland because you still have Miles Garrett under contract for this and next season So with him still being under contract that does give you some time That gives you some time to work out a deal with Miles Garrett That gives you some time to really come to an agreement that's good for both parties Both for the franchise and both for miles and for Miles Garrett So one of the reasons though because again, there's some people that question and they'll be like No, we don't need to do anything yet and just because they are engaged in contract talks with Miles Garrett It does not mean that anything is imminent. It does not mean that anything is going to come of it yet It just means that the process has begun And that's always a good thing when it's when it starts early rather than late Especially when it comes to a cornerstone player for your franchise But with Miles Garrett, I think one of the biggest reasons that cleveland has begun contract talks with him Early two years early rather than two years late Is because of the money And what I mean when I say that is that there's going to be another pass rusher That resets the market and every single day Every single week And especially once the season starts Oh Miles Garrett His price is going to go up and up and up And then if this pass rusher comes to an agreement on an extension with his team Then Miles Garrett, he's gonna have to get paid more than them because of the way the market works And then if this other pass rusher, he gets and ends up getting a new deal. Oh miles Garrett. He's gonna have to exceed that too So I can understand why cleveland will want to come to an agreement with miles Garrett early rather than late So they can determine what the market is going to be Because miles Garrett if he resets the market then cleveland can be in control of that They can be in control of just exactly how he resets the market if they come to an agreement with him now rather than later Because if they wait Again somebody else is going to get a deal And that deal is going to go through the roof and then cleveland they will lose that control Over the resetting of the market as far as pass rushes are concerned They'll lose that just like that as soon as that deal is announced boom Okay Talks got to start all over with miles Garrett because that will be the new floor Whatever that pass rusher gets paid that will be the floor for miles Garrett talks So Cleveland I Completely understand why they're starting to do things now and this was a big part miles Garrett Baker mayfield um, you got you got other players as well nick chubb will be coming up in a couple years, but And you got denser ward Well, he got a little while greedy Williams. Obviously it was a rookie last year. So he got a little while But anyway, my point is that one of the reasons a lot of us wondered, um, especially last year Where's cleveland getting all this money? How are they signing all these people?  But a lot of browns fans put me on they said well The reason that we are able to make all these moves where we're signing a lot of these guys to these short-term deals So we're not committed to them for the long haul But we can do this now because baker mayfield. He's still on his rookie deal Chubb still on his rookie deal Miles Garrett still on his rookie deal You have these players that are still on their rookie deals and they just drafted the uh, the the left tackle I forget his name is a jedrick ellis. I don't quote me on that. I can't remember off the top of my head So he'll be on his rookie deal obviously for the next five years But the other players their names are more meaningful for this argument um, but so they They have all these players that they didn't have to fork up the big cash to yet Of course, they're paying old dale beckham jr. The big money and javis lander. He's getting paid As well, but as far as their quarterback who takes up a huge chunk, you know, these quarterbacks take up everything with that salary cap They haven't had to make that move yet They haven't had to make that make him Get his bread yet He's obviously getting breakers. He's not born overall pick, but when it comes time to resign who So they haven't had to do that So since cleveland and a lot of their cornerstone players have not had to get paid yet Then cleveland has been able to afford to be able to make all these crazy moves every single offseason but now uh times are ticking Time is ticking So with them engaging in contract extension talks with miles geared I think that is an a plus move from the browns. But again, remember that every day that passes Every single day that passes every game that passes every sack that he gets every pressure that he causes Every tackle every force fumble any picks any of that The price is going up So cleveland You better get on it You better get on it. And again, they they have time that is bought Because they have two years left on his deal. So they got time But again, if you wait a year, which you can If you wait a year and think about this too, what if the salary cap goes down? Because there won't be as many fans in the stands this year. Well, so far We'll see if anything changes But for now, there won't be as many fans in the stands as there was so All the revenue that the nfl makes It is it's going to take a little loss this year It's still gonna make plenty of money But it's not going to be as much money as they would have made because that that fan game they experience is just different And they make a lot of money off of that Each team has at least At least 16 games At least So that's 16 games with fans in the stadium They buying memorabilia. They buying paraphernalia. They buying jerseys. They buying this they buying hats. They buying food all the concession stands And I mean the tickets alone So All that oh, that's a lot of money Just on game the game they experience But it is nothing like it so with that being said uh the the salary cap could possibly go down So then you have this god miles Garrett who is now one year left on his deal And the salary cap is going down Uh, so now it puts you in even more of a bind Things could get very tricky with this This is not there is no easy solution for this But you got to understand why cleveland is trying to do this now Rather than later So I get it Anyway You see what happens with good old Garrett Mr. Miles It's going down. I love y'all team keeper clean. I appreciate y'all And i'm out


Respected viewers, brothers and sisters in Islam, As-salamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh Welcome to the second episode as we celebrate the birth anniversary of one of the greatest ladies in Islam and the Ahlul Bayt, alayhim As-salam. There is no other than Lady Zaynah, peace and blessings be upon her for this reason. I would like to congratulate you my dear viewers, as well as the master of our time, may Allah hasten his reappearance Imam Mehdi and the Ahlul Bayt, alayhim As-salam and of course our pious scholars on this very auspicious occasion. For the dear viewers who didn't get the chance to view yesterday's episode, you can log into our YouTube channel at Imam Hussain 3TV and you can also follow us on Facebook also at Imam Hussain 3TV. Now yesterday I touched upon the early life of Lady Zaynah and the circumstances of her upbringing at such a young age. This great personality, this great personality's character reflected the best attributes of those who were surrounding her, of those who brought her up. In sincerity she was likened to her grandmother, Khadija, peace be upon her. In chastity and modesty she was likened to her mother Fatima al-Zahra, in eloquence she was likened to her father Ali ibn Abi Talib peace and blessings be upon him and in forbearance and patience and in bravery and tranquility of the heart she was likened to her two brothers Imam Al-Hasan and Imam Al-Hussain, alayhim as-salam. From this we get to realize how Lady Zaynab alayhim as-salam received the elevated status that came to be because she belonged to the tree of infallibility and in the house where the Quran descended and of course the environment that she grew up in enabled her to reach the great and to reach the great levels that she reached throughout her life up until ashura and post ashura although she lost her mother at the age of five a very young age for a child to lose two individuals at a very young age her grandfather Rasulullah the greatest being to ever walk this planet and days or weeks after she loses her mother imagine what goes on in the mind of this very young child and of course I'm going to repeat what I said yesterday it is a very blessed and happy occasion but yet from day one we do see like it's history and it's critics we do see Zaynab alayhim as-salam although it's a happy occasion you know it's it's her birthday but yet even at some people's birthdays people remember their legacy what they did what did they go through in order to make the people realize the great character or the great personality of such people so we're going through the life of lady Zaynab alayhim to show the entire world although she needs no Ahmed Ali to introduce or needs no one else to introduce her or to talk about her Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala and the Ahlul Bayt have brought her together with the Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam Mam Zaynab abdina as we inshallah get the touch upon later on we'll see how he addresses his aunt Zaynab but although at a young age her mother passing away and her grandfather passing away at the age of five or so it did not stop her from taking the exemplary qualities of her mother Fatim Tzarra alayhim as-salam some may ask how how does Zaynab resemble Fatim Tzarra peace be upon them both well if we go through the books of history we'll find that whether Sunni or Shia any any source any Islamic source any Islamic book you'll find this written that's just the same as Fatim Tzarra alayhim stood in the face of those who stole her rights in the mosque of Rasulullah her father and demanded her rights in in terms of Fedek and in regards of other other things she stood up made took a stand and this is a woman now they're saying woman are oppressed i mean go look through history and you'll find how the woman of Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam should be the role models Fatim Tzarra took that stand Ya Ali Bqalib was present but she took that stand to set a model for women the same way that Fatim Tzarra stood Zaynab too won the caravan of Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam arrived at the palaces of Ibn Ziyad and Yazid in Kufa and Sham we see Zaynab alayhim as-salam taking a stand and demanding the rights of Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam and defending the imams of her time defending Imam Hussein and defending the two imams that were present in Kufa and Sham Imam Zayn al-Abideen and Imam Muhammad al-Baqir peace be upon them them both are imams and Imam Sajjad when an Imam is present and non-Imam cannot speak on behalf of the Imam but Ya Zaynab alayhim as-salam had the elevated status where she stood up in front of Yazid and made her stand as scholars and as the Imam say that yes of course Imam Hussain alayhim made the ultimate stand and no one comes to the sacrifice of Imam Hussain but yet Zaynab the stand of Zaynab is what made Imam Hussain the sacrifice of Imam Hussain eternal because if it wasn't for her Imam Hussain would have seen Karbala as we mentioned yesterday but however a model woman for all generations lady Zaynab alayhim as-salam one of her claims to fame was that her profound knowledge and wisdom of Islam although she never attended any school go through history she did not she was not taught by anyone she would go up around Rasulullah and Fatim al-Zara'im and Ali bin Al-Talib where else would you get the knowledge from now we seek the knowledge from Ahl al-Bait but this individual got it directly from them and that's what's beautiful about Lady Zaynab alayhim as-salam and she did not she was not taught in Islamic law in Quranic memorization interpretation of the Quran nor any other matters of faith Zaynab alayhim as-salam was that self-taught individual where the most distinguished title that Imam Zaynab alayhim as-salam the fourth Imam of Ahl al-Bait gives her he says you are a scholar where no one has taught you can we comprehend this idea aunt you are a scholar without anyone teaching you this is why Zaynab alayhim as-salam is considered as an authority as we inshallah get the touch upon a very important book but in fact we find that this message goes out to our dear sisters that if we wanted to become a better society a better community we must keep in our mind one thing that our dear sisters cannot hold back their abilities Zaynab alayhim as-salam during the time where Ali ibn abi talib her father was the Khalifa at that time she did not stop she did not stay at home as a matter of fact she established courses and lessons on what on Quranic interpretation of the Quran teaching the Quranic memorization jurisprudence for the ladies it wasn't that men were teaching the women it is women teaching the women and that's what's so important about ladies Zaynab alayhim as-salam it's that she set that example for me for my sisters for anyone out there that in order to become a very successful individual one must make an ultimate stand to continue his legacy to leave something behind when you ask everyone what is your wish he says I some people say I wish to be remembered all the time well in order to do so lady Zaynab alayhim whenever ashura whenever Imam al-Hussain is mentioned Zaynab automatically has to be mentioned because she took that stand so it's very important for us as followers Ahlul Bayt as people who think that Ahlul Bayt impact our lives Ahlul Bayt have an influence ladies Zaynab has an influence on our life thus as I mentioned rather than teach than than men teaching the women women began to teach women so before the break I would like to say something is that we should never let our ladies hold back their abilities of course there are certain things which are forbidden but certain things like teaching the Quran if our dear sisters have the ability to teach the Quran to teach narrations of Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam something regarding Islam of course never hold back because Zaynab and which lady in our time right now is compared to Zaynab as a matter of fact in history other than Fatimah Bizzara as compared to Zaynab no one yet she made the ultimate stand but before we continue I would like to take a short break and we'll be back shortly so stay tuned respected viewers brothers and sisters once again as-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuhu inshaAllah enjoyed the information you're provided with during the reports but back to our discussion before the break I touch upon some of the things that happened if you will during the life of Lady Zaynab alayhim as-salam and once again I do congratulate you my dear viewers as well as the Imam of our time Imam Mehdi Mallahisyn's reappearance to our prize scholars and to the Ahlul Bayt for the birth of Lady Zaynab alayhim as-salam and we are rejoicing but one this part of the episode I would like to dedicate it to talking about a book that has summarized some of the attributes of Lady Zaynab alayhim as-salam this book is by Noor al-Din al-Jaza'iri khasaas al-Zaynabi of the attributes of Lady Zaynab this book is one of the important books if someone wants to touch upon the life of Lady Zaynab look at her attributes or learn inshaAllah this book will be translated and in your future to English but you can pick this up at any bookstore that are present you know in in Iraq or in probably the Islamic countries that sell such books but and it's also provided online so you can check this book out but anyways this book just gives amazing attributes of how Lady Zaynab lived her life who did she resemble and who did she be representative of inshaAllah get to touch upon some of the attributes but one of the attributes is the truthful one as-saddiqa if one was to look at the titles that were given to Fatim t-Zahra alayhim as-salam what would realize this title being given given to Fatim t-Zahra peace and blessings be upon her yet we find the imams of Ahl al-Bayt alayhim as-salam giving this title to Zaynab alayhim as-saddiqa the truthful one and honestly how would Zaynab truthful one would ask if you were to look at what happened before on and after the day of aishura you will find that Zaynab is truthful to the path of Ahl al-Bayt and truthfulness is the attribute and the characteristic of the messengers of the successors of the ones developed Allah SWT separated their body and their soul for Allah SWT left everything for Allah and this is how we find Zaynab alayhim as-salam another one is very interesting when you always do ziyaratu about Fadil al-Abbas imam al-Husayn the Ahl al-Bayt imams of Ahl al-Bayt and the prophets we say as-salamu alaykum ya awliya Allah peace be upon you or the vice-gerents or the authorities which Allah have placed on earth now imam as-saddiqa alayhim as-salam is also mentioned in this book he says that Zaynab is also waliya to Allah an authority which Allah SWT placed on earth authority over who I mean don't the imams have the authority over everything yes but Zaynab alayhim as-salam was also given just like vaatam to zahra be some blessings be upon her and if you really go through these attributes there are lots in this book but if you go through some imam you will find the exact same merits and characteristics of Zaynab which resemble Fadim al-Zahra alayhim as-salam it's amazing to read this book but anyways one of the authorities which Allah SWT placed on this earth some would ask how before the break I touched upon it and yesterday's episode I touched upon it as well an authority over everyone if one was to study the life of Zaynab after ashura post ashura you will find the speech of Zaynab at the palace of ibn ziyad and the speech of Zaynab at the palace of Yazid and she spoke there was an blind man who was walking in the streets of kufa and he asked the people around him he says is that ali ibn abi talib speaking they said no that's his daughter Zaynab they recognize who that was they said that was Zaynab they felt like this individual has authority which she did she had authority over everyone because of the way because of her eloquence and the way that she spoke she resembled imam ali ibn talib she resembled her mother her brother imam al-Hussain the ahl al-bayt and prophet Muhammad so mentioning and it's a beautiful how the imam puts it ladies Zaynab alayhim as-salam is one of the authorities which Allah has placed on this earth and we find that through her devotion to Allah SWT we found that through her dedication to the ahl al-bayt and to the imam of our of her time imam al-Hussain peace and blessings be upon him another characteristic another attribute if you will of ladies Zaynab is that the she is the beloved granddaughter the beloved one to al-Mustafa who is al-Mustafa it is prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam the beloved granddaughter of Rasulullah why of course she was the first granddaughter but yet that doesn't mean anything when it comes to the ahl al-bayt but yet Zaynab alayhi as-salam had the will of Fatima al-Zahra and who was Fatima sallallahu alayhi wa sallam was the mother of her father because Fatima al-Zahra completed Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam when we hear the narration ya Muhammad laulak maa qalaktul aflak or Muhammad if it wasn't for you I would not have created the universe and if it wasn't for Ali I would not have created you and if it wasn't for Fatima I would not have created you both we find the elevated status of Fatima al-Zahra this is why the first daughter to Fatima was beloved to Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa alayhi wa sallam so we find how important the link is between Zaynab alayhi as-salam and prophet Muhammad and her reverence resembled Rasulullah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam after all but after what is the next characteristic it's her representing Fatima al-Zahra alayhi sallam after the martyrdom of her mother Imam al-Hasan and Imam al-Hussain alayhim sallam states that no lady resembled our mother Fatima in her worship and modesty and chastity like our sister Zaynab she represented Fatima al-Zahra alayhi as-salam in her actions in her modesty in everything that she did being a housewife like her mother standing up for the truth like her mother defending Ahlul Bayt like her mother being that perfect role model also like her mother so what should we do is be like Zaynab be like Ahlul Bayt alayhim as-salam this goes off with my dear sisters to take this and it's not a shame to say that Zaynab is our role model it's an honor to say that I take Zaynab as a role model because Zaynab resembles truthfulness Zaynab resembles freedom Zaynab as of right now what is going on around the world a lot of people are saying always keep your voice up don't be quiet about injustice who was the first one not the first one but who did that who made the ultimate stand right now if anyone has the sword to their neck the majority would not say the truth it's unfortunate but Zaynab alayhi as-salam all the odds were against them but yet she still stood up and said the right word in front of the tyrants of her time she did not hesitate to defend Zaynab deen when they were about to kill him she did not hesitate to run around to gather the children after no she was that courageous individual that's why one of the merits in this book also it's the al shujaa the brave the courageous one it's very important to touch upon these merits because they really fulfill our needs they really fulfill what we need to do as Muslims it gives us the courage I mean right now motivation is key if you want to drive you have to have motivation so an individual anything that you do something how it has to motivate you towards that thing and what should motivate us to get closer to Allah is Ahl al Bayt alayhi as-salam keeping them as our role models continuing on with her representing Fatim al-Zahra alayhi as-salam and this should be a lesson for me for my dear sisters is how to always obey the man of the house how to always be the individual that always pleased her husband and Fatim al-Zahra alayhi as-salam was that individual who Ali ibn Abi Talib alayhi as-salam would tell her I hope I did not do something although Ali would never do a thing but yet they reached that place or they reached that status where one completes the other and Zaynab alayhi as-salam should inspire us to become better husbands to become from my dear viewers and my dear sisters to become better wives and to become better sisters to their brothers to motivate your brothers another attribute another characteristic is a reliable source in transmitting hadith Zaynab alayhi as-salam when you hear the events of Karbala when you hear some a lot of narrations and unfortunate not a lot of people touch upon the narrations by Zaynab alayhi as-salam and the establishment that she had for women in kufa it's unfortunate but yet when you always mention ashura we say Zaynab said this Zaynab said that she was a reliable source of hadith of narration of transmitting hadith so we should take that in into always being truthful and that's one of her attributes is as-saddiqa but i would like to conclude with one short story regarding the miracle that happened in the late 60s this is very well known in Lebanon in southern Lebanon everywhere Lebanon if you go to ask about this you'll find how famous the story is but one another attribute is the gate of fulfillment this is only granted to the individuals of Allah swt chooses Allah swt chose Zaynab to be one of the doors one of the gates of fulfillment and trust me for the people that have went to Zaynab alayhi as-salam they will see how their wishes their desires anything they request from Allah through the right of Zaynab will be granted as i mentioned in the late 60s an old lady could not walk long story short so they gathered a caravan to go visit from Lebanon to go visit Damascus the shrine of Zaynab alayhi as-salam so everyone got ready she comes to her brother she can't walk she can't see she can't do anything the lady scribbled so she goes to her brother she says i'm gonna hire two women to carry me to the holy shrine of Zaynab her brother says no no no no just see each Zaynab call upon Zaynab and she will fulfill your desires she will fulfill anything that you wish for so this individual at night on that night this individual began to recite what happened on ashura and the calamities that befell Zaynab and began to cry until she went to sleep this person woke up for the morning prayer fajr prayer and honestly when people hear this they think it's a lie we're making up nonsense no this is very well known as i mentioned very famous story in Lebanon this person woke up in the morning so we'll get ready for for prayers and she sees a lady who is calling her name her hand is out and she's telling her to stand up this person this person is astonished the old lady she says i cannot stand up she says i am Zaynab i am the one you have been beseeching Allah through all night and remembering me all night and i promise you whoever remembers me i will remember him so she keeps on repeating to her stand up until this person held the hand of Zaynab and stood up and she went to the holy shrine walking can we comprehend this idea that Zaynab alayhis salam is an authority placed by Allah on this earth can we comprehend the idea that Zaynab is a gate of fulfillment that whoever wants their desires to be fulfilled their wishes to be fulfilled visit Zaynab alayhis salam for she is one of the gates the fulfillment she is one of the gates to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala lastly i would like to ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala through the right of Zaynab to hasten the reappearance of our beloved imam imam el-mehdi mi Allah hasten his reappearance and to bless everyone and to keep Zaynab in our mind and keep her as our role models lastly i would like to thank you very much for tuning in tonight


Welcome back after the break, just before we went for our break, we were looking at chapter 8, fellowship, how it's important for us to, you know, as people who are part of the kingdom of God, as people who are part of the body of Christ. It's not just important for us to build our own visions, the calling that God has given to us, our own local church, but we need to be kingdom minded, have a kingdom mindset, where we're using our own vision calling or, you know, if God has given us a Christian organization to start, or a church to start, how we can use, you know, that to bring about a unity and oneness with all the other Christian organization and churches in our city, coming together in oneness and unity for city transformation, which is what is God's heart, God has not called us to work in isolation, even though he's given us different functions, different callings, different visions, but he's given all of that in the context of, you know, in the context of kingdom, the kingdom of God. That's why when Jesus came, you know, he taught parables and every time that he, he said a parable, he said the kingdom of God is like, okay, so he was not teaching us to just build our own ministries, our own kingdoms, but it was to, is to build the kingdom of God. So whatever we are doing, whether we're part of a local church, you know, we need to see how our local church can come together with other churches, other believers in our city, you know, in unity and oneness in fellowship of the spirit, so that we can build the body of Christ together as one and together as one, we can, you know, impact our city and transform our city because there is power in unity. There's the power of God that flows mightily and powerfully when believers come together in unity and oneness and our city can be transformed, we can see God moving in a mighty way in our city. Okay, so we were talking on that, in that framework. So even as we come together as believers in building God's kingdom, we need to respect other skips and anointings and ministries. There can be different churches worship or have different forms, styles of worship. You know, some of them can be very quiet, there's no clapping of hands. I remember the church that I come from, you know, if somebody does something good or the children sing a song, nobody claps. If you clap, you know, it's considered as something that is very wrong.  Okay, one or two songs when we worship, there is clapping of hands. Otherwise, usually there's no clapping of hands. So, you know, some of them have that form of worship. Some churches where there's always shouting, hallelujah, praise the Lord. People are dancing, singing, praising. Things are very loud, the speaker is loud. There is the whole way of worship is very dramatic, very exciting, very energetic. And then there are other styles of worship where there is clapping of hands, there is raising up, there is sun, but then, you know, there is more constrained kind of a form of worship. So, you know, all of us from different denominations, different backgrounds, the churches that we come from, we have different forms or styles of worship. But, you know, it's not that we complain about others or we look down on others or, you know, we criticize. We just need to celebrate how God works, you know, God works through variety. He's a very creative God. He brings, there is variety and diversity in the ministry that God has placed us in the body of Christ. Different people worship different ways, different styles. So we just need to celebrate what God is doing in each and others, each one of our lives. So, you know, just enjoy it, celebrate it, don't criticize it, you know, don't make fun of it, because our style is different from other people's style of worship or forms of worship. The other thing is, don't judge an other man's servant. Matthew chapter 7 verses 1 to 5 and Romans chapter 14 verses 4 and verses 10 to 12. So can somebody read that please? Matthew 7, 1 to 5, judge not that you be not judged. For with the judgment you judge, you will be judged. And with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you. And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove the speck from your eye and look, a plank is in your own eye. Hippocrates, first remove the plank from your own eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Thank you, Sri Ralla. We see in John chapter 7 verse 24 says, do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment. And Romans chapter 14, Paul is saying, who are you to judge another man's servant? To his own master, he stands a false, indeed he will be made to stand, for God is able to make him stand. So why do you judge your brother? And he goes on to say, for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of God. And each one has to give an account to God for how he spent his life. So here basically we are asked not to judge because God is the righteous judge. He is the one who is to judge. And we are also not to judge another man's servant because to his own master he stands a false. It means we are not to judge anyone because God is the judge. He is the one they are answerable to. So there are many men and women of God who get into some wrong lifestyles, habits, get into wrong teachings, wrong doctrines. When this happens, don't judge, don't condemn, don't pass any judgment on them. Don't criticize them. Don't use your pulpit or don't gossip or backbite about them. What we need to do is just pray for them, uphold them in prayer. Sometimes just making this as a prayer request can become like a way to criticize them or put them down. But even as you present somebody else's weakness or somebody else's shortcoming, some leaders falling down. Don't use that prayer request to portray what they have done or how they have fallen or how sad it is. But just say let's pray for a man of God in our city who I know who has got into adultery or the church is divided because of false teaching. Just let's pray for that man of God that God would speak, that spirit of God would work in their heart. So when you have a genuine interest that they've gone away from God's ways and Satan has had a foothold in their life and the kingdom of God is being destroyed. The kingdom of God is being broken. Lives are being destroyed. Many believers, lives are being destroyed. And you're just crying out to God. God works, he moves, he answers such a prayer. So don't judge them or criticize them or avoid talking about it. But what we can do is pray for them, learn from their mistakes what they have done. And if we have built a relationship with that minister of God, together with other ministers in the cities of senior leaders, you can look at ways how you can restore them, build them up, establish them in the ways of the Lord. But as you do that, continue to respect them for who they are, that they are ministers of God for the nointing that they have on their lives. You can learn from David's life even though David was running away from Saul. There were two instances when he could have killed King Saul, but he let him go because he knew that he was the Lord's anointed and he cannot speak against the Lord's anointed. He cannot touch the Lord's anointed. See, that is the kind of reverence that we need to hold towards men and women of God in our city. They might not be theologically sound or well-trained like you and I are, or they cannot be flowing in all the gifts of the Spirit like you and I are. Or they might be outdated in what they are doing, but we still respect them for who they are and what they are nointing on their lives and that God's calling on their life and respect them for who they are. Do not gossip, but be your brother's keeper. So there are references here from Proverbs. Can somebody read that, please? There are three references given there. One of you read Proverbs 7.13, Proverbs 17.9 and 1 Corinthians 10.24. Can somebody read that? Anyone's willing to read it? Proverbs 11.13. Okay, go ahead. Sorry. Proverbs 11.13. A tale-bearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter. Proverbs 79. He who covers a transgression, seek love, but he who repeats a matter separates friends. 1 Corinthians 10.24. Let no one seek his own, but each one the other's well-being. Thank you, Nina. So here we see that we had asked to not seek our own well-being, but others well-being. And when you're talking about how important it is for ministers of God, servants of Christ, believers in the city to establish relationships with people from other ministries, other churches, how important it is for us to establish a good relationship where we're sharing our hearts, where we're not just coming together to discuss about a certain issue as going on with churches or the Christians, but just being transparent, sharing our hearts, our weaknesses, our struggles as ministers of God. And when other ministers do that, concealed a matter, don't go and talk about it to other ministers, men and women of God, other believers. Don't speak it out in your church, because that is going to bring about division and disunity in the body of Christ. But even as you hear about another person's and other minister's weaknesses, their struggles, their challenges, just pray for them. Keep it confidential, don't gossip about it. Talk about the good things that are there in other people. Yes, people can have their own faults, their own weaknesses, but talk about the good things about other believers, about other ministers, about other men and women of God. Keep quiet about their failures. Because even if you have to use that to teach other people, you can talk about the weakness, but don't say this person in this church, this ministry leader, he's going through this weakness and this is what we can learn and all of that. But you can just take the weakness and say there is a minister of God going through this problem, so what do we learn about it? You can use it as an example, and also like I said, there are fellow ministers who can join together to restore another minister of God. Just imagine the impact it can have on the church, on the organization, on the body of Christ and the believers. Sadly, there are many pastors who fall away. The sheep get left out. There's division, they're confused. People even go away from their faith, they believe in Jesus Christ because the church is broken. There is division in the church and it's a very sad thing to hear, but other fellow believers and ministers, if they come together, just build up this pastor, this church who's going through difficulty. Just imagine the immense goodness it has in the body of Christ, in the kingdom of God. Even as we correct one another, help each other, do it in gentleness and in love because it says here in Proverbs 17 verse 9, when we cover somebody else's faults, not speak about it, cover it means not that we don't address it. We address it, but when we don't gossip about it, speak about it in a criticizing way, we're actually loving that person, we care for that person and we're wanting their own well-being. The next thing is, as we go about building God's kingdom, don't sow discord. There are six things that God hates, Proverbs 6 verse 16 and 19, an important verse to read, so can somebody read that please? Proverbs 6 verse 16 and 19. These six things the Lord hates, he has seven iron abomination to him, a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies and one who sows discord among brethren. Thank you, Rin. So here we see that, you know, sowing discord among brethren is something that is totally detestable in God's sight.  So what do we need to do is when we see another brother caught in a sin or on a fence, something that is wrong, we resolve it with him lovingly in a gentle way. You know, speak the truth in love, Ephesians chapter 4, it says, speak the truth in Ephesians 4, 16, speak the truth in love. You know, and don't go and talk about this person to others, tell what the person has done, the weaknesses, because that can also bring in discord and strife. You know, sometimes what we do is, you know, not in a way that we're gossiping or we can just basically tell, okay, be careful of that teacher or be careful of that pastor or be careful of that minister of God. Or when you're new to the church, you know, or new to a Bible study group, they can somebody who can say, be careful of that person, be careful of that family, don't join with them.  So what you're doing is before that person can, you are actually, you know, you have seen that person through your own lens. Okay. And when you see that person to that own lens, you are actually, you know, sharing what you are seeing in your own narrow view with somebody else. And you are cutting down their, you know, relationship with this person with B or C. And you are, you know, maybe, you know, the one who's come new can have a good relationship with B and C, because the way you are thinking with your narrowed mind, narrowed mindset, they are more broader, you know, they can get along with B and C very well. But by you communicating, you know, be careful, don't this one, don't that one, they are like this, they did this, you know, they can come to this extent where they can do this and that to you. You know, what you're doing, you are actually breaking down the relationship, bringing about this unity, and your perspective can be so wrong of that person, of B and C. Your perspective can be very narrow, and can be so wrong, and you are actually stopping other people from relating with B and C. So, you know, if you have a perspective about somebody, you must keep your perspective. We must keep our perspective to ourselves, because that is my perspective. That's what I feel is what I think, you know, we can be wrong, how we perceive and see other people's B and C's behavior, the way they do things. We might have misunderstood their way of reacting, their way of doing things, but we can't make a judgment on others based on, you know, what the way that we see it. So when you are actually sharing, you are passing on your lens, your very narrowed lens to the other person, and they are also going to begin seeing that person with that narrowed lens. And, you know, that's very, very sad, and it's happened so many times. It's very disappointing, it's very heartbreaking for B and C, and also, you know, it's bringing about strife and this unity in the church. So, you know, keep silent about when you're talking about others, just highlight people's positive nature, what they're good at. If there's something that's their weakness, something that you can't stand, something that you can't get along, you know, don't talk about it. It's good for you to go and work along with that person. If you're not able to go and work along with that person, you know, just let it be at that, but don't gossip about that person. Don't pass on your opinions to others. And you do, you know, your hate builds up, division builds up in the group, whether it's the family, whether it's in the, you know, between spouse and the parents and the children, whether it's in the body of Christ, whether it's in the workplace where we're working or the Christian organization where we're ministering to, don't do that. Okay, don't talk about the negatives about the person. Don't stop anyone from relating with somebody else. Be careful what you say. And even if you have to guide somebody, guide them in the right proper way that is God-honoring. Okay. The last, the last two points, fellowship is life transformation. You know, just imagine I was just talking about how if, you know, all of us together as believers in a city come together, all Christian organizations, local churches, pastors, leaders come together, trying to bring about city transformation, building up the city, building up the kingdom of God together.  And that is the example, that's what we see in the early church. Now, the early church, we see that, you know, there was mighty signs, miracles and wonders that happened that even the, you know, shadow of Peter, the handkerchief or the apron that Paul used. You know, when they used it and touched people who were sick, people were healed.  Why is it not happening today in our churches is not because, you know, the gifts of the spirit are not in operation or not manifested, or the Holy Spirit is not powerfully working amongst us. No, we are in the last days and it says, you know, the prophecy in Joel in Acts chapter two, it also says last days, you know, God says I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh, there will be visions and dreams and all of that. So we are in the last days and which means the word of God says there will be mighty signs, miracles and wonders, but if you're not able to see it. And we're seeing, we have seen it more in the book of Acts, we read about it in the book of Acts, the early church. It's because the early church was so united, there was oneness.  Also, there was, you know, all of them used to come pool their resources and they used to feed the widows, the poor in the church. Stephen was one of them was, you know, overseeing this responsibility in the body of Christ. So it was just one body of Christ, all of them pooling their resources, their wealth, their time together. And that is why we see such a great move of God in the early church.  Every stronghold in our city will be broken, corruption will be broken, suicide will be broken, rapes will stop, pornography will come to an end. That is the power of God that works together just when we all operate with a kingdom mindset, a kingdom culture, and working together as one body of Christ. The last thing in this chapter is there are no superheroes. You know, Paul is writing to the church at Rome, he's in Romans chapter 12 verse 16, it says be of the same mind toward one another, do not set your mind on high things but associate the humble, do not be wise in your own opinions. God is not impressed with the size of our ministry, the number of people who are in our church, our degrees, our qualifications, our reputations, you know, the fan following that we have. God is not even impressed with the degrees that we get, but he's impressed when we work towards kingdom building, oneness, unity, fellowship, you know, and all of us just coming together and standing on the same level just praising God, worshipping him, you know, there is where the grace of God, the power of God is manifested very, very powerfully. And we need to remember that, you know, we are all earthen business, like I said, and it's just the power and the anointing that's the presence of the power of the Holy Spirit that is manifested in and through our lives. So it's not us, it's not us doing the miracles, the science miracles and wonders. It's not us when we speak that people's lives are transparent that they are accepting Jesus, they are baptized in the Holy Spirit, but it's because of the power of the Holy Spirit that is working in and through our lives. And it's a work of the Holy Spirit in the person's life who is ministering to them. Okay, so that is the end of chapter eight. I'd like you all to remember this. You learn more about this, about kingdom building and kingdom of God in the second year, first semester, that time you can learn more about how we can, you know, what we need to do to build God's kingdom and how important it is for us to have a mindset of being a kingdom builder, more than just pursuing our own visions and calling and function that God has given to us. Okay, any questions on chapter eight? Any questions on chapter eight? Okay, no questions? No? Okay. Okay, there's no questions. We'll move on to chapter nine. Pasta, do you have one question, Pasta? Yes, sure. So you were talking about the oneness and growing together and oneness and, you know, about the discord and things that we say sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly it can be. I'm concerned even when it comes to a close-knit family and now like the extended family is going to a different church.  So what is the right attitude of my heart and mind to accept that people in spite of knowing what they are doing is not right according to God, but somehow now God has touched me. And I was perfect or I am perfect. Even now I am not perfect, but what is my right heart attitude towards them, Pasta? Thank you. Good question. Yes, that's a struggle. See, sometimes when we're going to a spirit-filled church, we're growing the things of God, we're moving from one level of understanding of God's truths is revelation moving to the next level. And we sometimes have a burden for our family members that sometimes all that they're doing is just like a ritual. It's meaningless. They're not able to see things. They're not able to grow the things of God. But we can't blame them because the church that they're going to or the fellowship that they are in, what they are taught is what they learn. Right? What they are taught is what they learn. So for example, for me also when I came from a mainline church, my mainline church was, you know, build people strongly in evangelism, in visions, in the faith, you know, in the scripture, very scripture-based, solid scripture teaching that we have. And I've grown in my understanding of God's Word and my faith from the church that I've been brought up and I'm thankful to them, even as a child, you know, upbringing, the Sunday School VPS, everything was so good, so solid foundation. And I'm able to use what I learned, what I received, what I saw, implement that now, even as I'm doing children's ministry. But yes, the church then teaches about the work of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the, the fruit of the Spirit was taught, but the gifts of the Holy Spirit that we can't move in science, medicals and wonders, all that was not taught. But, you know, even we, there's no one speaking in tongues and baptism of the Holy Spirit, all that I learned after, even not even in Bible college was not taught to us. We didn't have a subject on Holy Spirit, baptism of the Holy Spirit and all of those things, though it was an evangelical college and we had students come all over India, one of the famous Bible colleges. But we did not have anything, any teaching about the Holy Spirit that gives the Holy Spirit, nothing like that. It's all I learned after I came to APC. So, you know, I have a lot of my uncles and my cousins who are very, you know, regular churchgoers, read the Bible, pray, do everything. Of course, then they also live their lives to honouring God and pleasing God. But when it comes to some of these areas where they're so innocent, sometimes doing things like, you know, it really does not matter to God if you do this or you don't do that. And some rituals that they keep and things like that. But we slowly, you know, very lovingly, when they ask us, why aren't you doing it? Then we tell them, you know, this is what scripture teaches us, this is what the Word of God. Because if we say, okay, this is not right, this is not what we should not be doing, this is what our church is saying, then it will put them off. But always what we need to, how we can teach people is show them from the Word of God. So, what the Word of God says, the Word of God says this, and, you know, then they say, okay, you know, the Word of God says this in this place. So, what do you mean? So, you know, you can always say that, you know, always you need to look at scripture in the, interpret scripture in the entirety of the whole context of the rest of scripture. So, what are the scripture passages talking about this? Why is this writer writing this in what context? So, when you explain to them, you know, it's actually not we telling them or we talking, but it's the Holy Spirit who works in them. Okay, that's what Paul tells Timothy, don't argue, don't fight, because there's a lot of false teachings, wrong teachings, doctrines that were in the church in Ephesus where Tim Young Timothy was, you know, Paul had stationed him there to look after those churches there. And Paul says, don't argue, don't fight, don't argue with words, because arguing with words, fighting, striping is not going to bring any result, because the end result will just be division, will just be strife.  And so he says, you know, do that. And when you teach the doctrine, the undefiled word of God, unpolluted word of God, just teach it, you know, that the word will speak for itself. The Spirit of God will work in the lives of people. So he's telling Timothy, don't go and argue with all of these Jewish people who come from the Jewish faith. They become Christians now, they're bringing in all their Jewish faiths, rituals, circumcision, Jewish fables, myths, and they're telling the Gentiles, you have to incorporate all of these things, then only your salvation is counted, you're made righteous in God's sight. But Paul is saying, don't go and argue and fight with them because the end result is going to be fruitless. It's just going to cause division. What you need to do is preach and teach the undefiled, the unpolluted word of God, teach the word in season and out of season, you know, correctly admonish the word of God. And when you do that, the word will speak for itself. That means he's saying the Holy Spirit is the one who will work, will make the truth known because Jesus says, you know, John chapter 17, the word is truth and the truth will set people free. So what we can do is, you know, just pray for them, ask God to give us opportunities where we can speak to them, and just share from God's word and just leave it at that. Don't force, don't argue, and just pray and the Holy Spirit will just work in and through their lives. Did that help? Jaichun? Yes, Pastor, it was very helpful. The same situation that I was going through and God answered through you. Thank you. Oh, sorry, I didn't read that in the song. Thank you. Okay. So is your name Jaichun or because Jaichun Jewel, I thought was a man's name but... My name is pronounced as Jackim. It is one of the pillars in Solomon's temple. So Boaz, the other one is Jackim. So spelling all the versions, J, C, H, and C, H is thickness K, and most of them have this doubt. So from school... Okay, so I pronounce it as Jackim. Yes, Jackim. Jackim, Jackim. Okay. Thank you for asking. Okay, Jackim, nice to know you and hear your voice after... I mean, at least towards the end of the class, get to know one student is a great joy. Thank you. Yes. Okay, we'll move on to Chapter 9 if no one has any questions. Okay. Money, something that is... All of us are very, very excited about interested. Some of us are not interested in money. Some of us say we spend money but we don't know how much we spend. We don't keep account. Some of us, money is not very important. For some of us, money is very, very interesting, is very important, and it's okay. You know, because the Word of God says that money is...is money evil? What does the Word of God say? Does it say that money is evil? What is your idea? No. Okay, Prabhu says no. Thank you, Prabhu. First Timothy, Chapter 6, verse 10 says, the love of money is the root of all evil. Okay, so money by itself is not evil. God also looks for productivity. How much we multiply what he's given to us, and that is what we look at. You know, the parables that we just saw, the parable of the Good Stuart in Matthew, Chapter 25. God is looking for multiplication. He's looking for interest. He's looking for doubling of the money. So there are two or three parables based on that. So, you know, money is not evil, but the love for money is the root of all evil. So sometimes when we start off in our ministry, you know, yes, money becomes very important because how are we going to run the ministry? How are we going to do the work? How are we going to provide for people who are volunteering or serving? Or even as a church, you know, the money is very important because we have to run the church, whether it's paying the rent or the light bill or paying the staff or providing for people. So, yes, money is important, but, you know, sometimes being in ministry, we can end up being money-minded, where we're constantly thinking about money, about how we need to get money to, you know, meet all the resources. Or we can also get money-minded to the end where we are in a church where the church is doing well in terms of finances, but we're looking at how we can get, raise up more money so that we can do bigger things or greater things or, you know. But in Christian ministry, we need to keep our focus on the Lord, on His call, and we need to take our attention of money because God will provide. It's not that we don't care about it. We don't bother about it or we're not good stewards. We need to be good stewards of the resources God has given to us. It does not mean that we don't keep, you know, accountable for the money that comes in. We have to be accountable. We have to keep proper accounts of every money that comes in, every money that is spent. We need to make that accounts, you know, transparent so anybody in our church, anybody at any time can see it. We need to be accountable even to the government in terms of our income tax, you know, filing our income tax as a church, keeping things open, transparent so the government can also see, you know, they cannot just, you know, raid us and then comes out of the news and then, you know, it just brings such a heartbreak for believers who are in the church who are being contributing and also to the body of Christ. So at APC, you know, the finances, the financial statements are very open at the end of the year. The whole finances of the whole year, what came in, how they spent it, what was spent in various areas is just there. Anyone in the church can go have a look. It's accessible for anybody and everybody. Anyone can raise questions. Why was so much spent on this, so much spent on that, what you did for this. So, you know, if anyone asks us any questions, we're here to answer them, keep them. That should how it should be when we run our own ministries, our own churches that, you know, we focus on the Lord but be transparent, keep accounts, keep very clear and honest and there should be honesty and integrity in handling of money. You know, sometimes we can get easily slip into the love of money and how do we know that, you know, when money begins to control us, some of the things is that we're constantly thinking of money. Okay, how do we know that money begins to control us as overtaking our thoughts, decisions is when we're constantly thinking of money. You know, sometimes where we go and preach minister with church, which place, you know, we are thinking about or we decide that based on the amount of money that we are going to get as a gift. So if a big church in a big city calls us, we are ready to go.  So if our decisions of where we go and speak and minister to who we are going to minister to is based on money, then, you know, we're controlled by money. The other areas where we can sense that we're being controlled by money is, you know, if how much I praise and celebrate God is in proportion to the offering that we get. Sometimes we give import more importance to people who give bigger offering. You know, we give them prominent places, leadership roles, talk about them after church, which is around them meeting them speaking to them, visiting only them. But, you know, churches, people from believers in our churches or ministries or people we know who are from poor backgrounds, low backgrounds. We know that they're not going to contribute much. We don't associate much with them, talk with them much or even relate with them or visit them.   You know, we compromise on our integrity just to make a little more money just to get in more finances, whether it's ministry or in the church, which is wrong. Also as an indicator that we are controlled by money.  We associate with them so that we can in turn receive some kind of monetary benefits from them. It's another indicator that, you know, our minds are being controlled by the love of money and we are becoming more carnal. We're feeding our carnal nature than our spirit filled nature. Don't do things because of money. You know, some people think that they see Christian ministry as an easy way of, you know, getting money. An easy job, whether just to have to, you know, preach a sermon on Sunday and, you know, do a Bible study or a ministry. And then the rest of the week just meeting people, just going to different congregation members, which is a good thing because you go and get good, you know, stuff to eat snacks or dinner or lunch.  So, you know, people get into ministry with this whole idea that, you know, it's a very easy vocation, a very easy job where you everything is taken care of, children's education is taken care.  But that should not become our motive for getting into ministry or doing ministry because some people even see ministry as a business where, you know, we can be, we can associate with foreign mission organizations or, you know, foreign churches where they send a lot of money and, you know, we see people who do that, ministers of God who are very rich living lavish lifestyles. You know, that is very, very wrong. Sometimes, you know, some churches, you know, connect with overseas ministries and then they get financial support from them, which is okay. But, you know, we have our own resources and our own city, which is good enough to support our own city. But sometimes these ministers can collaborate with foreign ministries and misuse the money that comes in because they are so naive. They do not know what, how you're using your money, how you're wasting the money, misusing the money. And they're just sending in the money resources, but you are just using it for your own lavish lifestyle living and, you know, doing things that you shouldn't be doing. You know, some people are also in the habit of inviting overseas speakers or having, you know, crusades for overseas ministers or worship teams. They offer to, you know, host conferences or crusades for them. And in the process, you know, if the whole sound system just costs two lakhs, you know, the person can put four lakhs because they know that, you know, these people are not going to come and investigate everything. So there is a huge, you know, robbing of funds, stealing of funds, just on this whole context of inviting people from overseas to do crusades and conferences here and cheating them. Sometimes also people can start charitable organizations, Christian organizations, and, you know, they can collect funds, which they don't spend for the orphanage or for the orphans, but most of the money is spent on them. Very little is spent towards the orphans. And that is also, you know, doing things in a dishonest way on the con in the whole framework of the context of Christian ministry. And that is not honoring in God's sight. And we need to know, you know, what God says in the book of Numbers, I think it's Numbers 3223. God says, your sin will find you out. So sometimes when we do these things, we think, you know, nobody will know, we can just make some good money and we can enjoy life and things like that. But, you know, God says your sin will find you out. Even in Akin's context, you know, Akin, when he robbed, he thought nobody knew about it. But God saw it and his sin was revealed in front of the whole Israelite community and he was here and his whole family was told to death. Okay. So when we serve God, we need to always be mindful of this, that we are serving a holy God. People might not be watching how you spend your time, how you spend the resources that God has given to you, the money God is watching.  And when God acts, no one can stop him. The other thing is we need to remember that when we use whatever money that for ministry, it's tight money. It's the money that people are giving into God's work, it belongs to God. And so we have so much more accountable and responsible. So even from the day one that I have been in ministry, whatever I do, how I spend my time, how I work, putting the office hours, you know, with sincerity, honesty, preparing for various things, doing my responsibility. I always remember that I am like my salary is from tight money and that I'm accountable to God. Maybe nobody is watching me what I'm doing, how I'm preparing, you know, my work, but God is watching.  And we see that even the context of the tabernacle and the temple, you know, so live with that fear and reverence is always very, very important to keep in mind. Okay. Sometimes, you know, yes, there can be cases where, you know, we need foreign funding, we can ask but be genuine, honest about it. You know, sometimes there are poor people in poor situations who need to be ministered to, to be forgiven into financially. We can support them, you know, richer churches can take care of the poorer churches, richer churches can contribute, rich churches in the city can help the poor churches in the villages to start off and help them, enable them, build them up on how to, you know, get resources from their own, the places where they are ministering. Because I believe that, you know, India is not a poor country, whether it's the city or villages, you know, we can be self sufficient. We actually don't need foreign finances or foreign funding to help build the ministries or support the ministries here in our own nation or in our own cities. We'll stop here. I just have one more minute. Any questions will continue with this on Friday. Friday, I'll take the two hours and then the last hour as well, Pasadayanas. If you finish it in the first two hours, then we need not continue in the third hour. Okay. But thank you so much, all of you for joining class today. Anyone has any questions? Okay, no questions. So there are no questions. Thank you in-person students, Jack, Chiv Kumar, Prabhu, Samuel, and Karen for joining class. Have a blessed day and a blessed week ahead and I will see you all on Friday. Thank you.


Hey, welcome back to the Patch and Switch Consultancy digital guide to Microsoft Ignite, the end-user guide today. We're breaking away from the normal. I need to talk about something that I am significantly going to miss by having the digital Microsoft Ignite experience and that's the hotel Wi-Fi. So when you're at home and you want to have just that slowed-down dodgy connection just to make you feel like that you're in Microsoft Ignite, I've got one pro tip. Banned teenagers. Oh. Yes. Nothing dreams bandwidth faster than teenagers. You got a bandwidth teenagers that's going to be either photo uploads from Snapchat or it's going to be TikTok videos or some kind of multi-streaming to multiple devices. We should make some cash advice to make that better. So I've got one for you. If you haven't done so already, you might want to go off and do a cable upgrade or downgrade because I was doing some research for some stuff and I found this particular cable here inside of my area. If you're using one of these, this will guarantee you an excellent Wi-Fi experience even if you're using this because obviously I don't believe this one's up to code and the worst part is this one is missing the little tiny clicker thingy that keeps it inside the computer. So get one of these. Oh, without the clippy thing, there's bits going to fall out all over the floor. So you definitely will have that hotel internet experience. You got it.  The quality of service. Create a new zone and put that slider all the way down to the left so that you get as little bandwidth as possible. So all of this pixelated digital edition of Microsoft at night brought to you by the official patch and switch hotel Wi-Fi guide. That's right. And hey, listen, in all seriousness, if you want the full experience from the digital Microsoft Ignite, head on over to myignite.microsoft.com. Make sure that you are registered so that you get access to everything that the conference has to offer. And if you like more of these tips and tricks or in this case, I don't know what we call them, head on over to the blog post listed below. We've got more to come, more videos. Thanks for tuning in.


The second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, around a 12, getting underway on Sunday night in Las Vegas, where we had the South 0.400 in, it's a very different race. And we've had the past couple of weeks here in the first round of the playoffs because those were all 750 horsepower tracks, this one 550, this one a bit shorter than those races. And it's the top 12 drivers being playoff drivers as opposed to the top 16 in the starting order. So a lot to discuss for today, a lot to break down. We'll let you know optimal strategy to this race and my favorite drivers in each salary tier based on the salaries over at FanDuel.com. Welcome on into the Heat Check Fantasy podcast powered by Number Fire. That's right here on the FanDuel podcast network and NumberFire.com. My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for NumberFire.com here to break down Sunday's South 0.400 lock is at 7 p.m. on Sunday. So you've got time to fill out lineups. You can do them right now, but also after you fill out your NFL lineups, just boop on over, check out some NASCAR ones as well before you do your Sunday night single game slates. Check out the South 0.400 again lock at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday night out in Las Vegas. We're going to break down everything you got to know for this race in just one second at first. Hey soccer fans, this season FanDuel and Captain Morgan are teaming up to give you a one-of-a-con soccer contest. Introducing Captain Morgan's soccer pick-up, a weekly fantasy contest that is entirely free to play. The contest is simple. All you got to do is make quick predictions for Saturday games this soccer season. You'll win free points for each correct pick and compete for a chance to win $3,000 in prizes every single week. Head over to FanDuel and enter the Captain Morgan soccer pick-up today. 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While you're there, leave us a rating and review as well. Let's take a look at the track breakdown for this week. And as I mentioned, things are a bit different than they were last week in Bristol because for the first round, I went pretty much all in on having three playoff drivers in each lineup because I wanted to soak up the laps led. We could get a little bit of place differential juice too because there were 16 drivers in the playoffs as opposed to 12. This week, I think three is an option, but two is our minimum. And I think it'll probably want to be my baseline for this week. The reason two is the minimum is that there are still a lot of laps to be led in this race. There are 267 laps, which is 26.7 FanDuel points for laps led this week. And that's plenty. In a situation where I want two lap leaders in each lineup, those lap leaders are very likely to be playoff drivers because the top 10 drivers in my model's projected average running position are all still playoff drivers. That means that they're starting inside the top 12 spots and they still have the playoff drivers at the front here. So all the playoff drivers are in the top 15 in projected average running position. So you want lap leaders. Those lap leaders are very likely to be playoff drivers. That's why I'm at a baseline of two. And that did play out well in last year's playoff race at Las Vegas, which was also in the round of 12. There we had two playoff drivers in the perfect FanDuel lineup and it's exactly what you'd expect. So the anecdote lines up and we do see a play out in practice. I do think you have leeway to get three in some lineups. I don't think it'll be my baseline again, but you can get three in some because last year's race was very different from this year. Ryan Blaney was not in the round of 12 last year because he was terrible. Richmond and Darlington could not advance, but entering Las Vegas, he ranked fourth in my model entering that race. He was one of the non playoff drivers who made the perfect lineup there. This year, there's no Blaney type guy because again, there are no non playoff drivers in the top 10 of my model's projected average running position. So there's just less place differential to be had among the mid and upper tier guys, which means a larger percentage of the points scored in this race will come from finishing position and lap sled that favors playoff drivers. So I do think that my default will be two playoff drivers, but I'm going to have three in some lineups two just to soak up good finishes, et cetera, et cetera. As far as the value plays go, you can get a bit of place differential there. Nothing too crazy. Like we're not stacking the back, but you can get some there. Kurt Busch starting back in 20th. He is a recent winner here, one on a mile and a half track this year. Chris Busch is starting 25th. He ranks 16th in my model. Last year's perfect lineup had no driver starting lower than 20th in it, but I can see that changing this year, whether it be Busch, Buscher, Bubba Wallace, guys like that. I think they could all be Ricky Sinau's junior. Those guys could all be contention to change that this year. The starting order just broke different for that one than it did for this one. The ripple effect is felt both here and with the studs. Basically, you want to prioritize the best finishers for this race, both for studs and for value, which is why I'm okay going with three playoff drivers in some lineups. If I'm selling up for good finishes, those are the guys who are most likely to get them. Then if you can get good finishes from place differential and place differential from the value place, take that. I just wouldn't force it. I think that we do have some options there, but don't like go out of your way to get place differential. Just take it if it's available to you. Put a heavy emphasis on finishing position when deciding who you want to lean on this week. When trying to identify finishing position, you can almost ignore the path through races. I say almost like my model does ignore the path through races like entirely. All those races took place in a different horsepower package. This is the 550 horsepower package. That was the 750. It's a very different set of drivers you expect to contend this week than what we had last week. I'll be looking most heavily at the one and a half mile tracks. That is all the 550 races except for Michigan and Pocono. I do have Michigan in there because it is the most recent race at a 550 horsepower track. It's also one that took place after Hendrick Motorsport's got reprimanded for having weird noses on their car. So I do care about it. They still ran well there. Byron is fast. Larson was fast. So it's fine. Elliott was fast too. So I do have it in there, but I would prioritize looking at the mile and a half tracks and seeing what drivers have done there. And that does mean basically ignoring what we saw the past three weeks. So to recap here, I want at least two playoff drivers in every lineup. I have some leeway to go three. My baseline will be two, but I will go three at times for the value plays except place differential if you can get it. But don't force it. I do think we can get some guys here who do fit that. And finally, when you're trying to select your drivers lean on what they've done on the mile and a half tracks to decide who will be fast on Sunday. So that is our strategy for this week and what we want to emphasize. Let's use all that and decide our favorite drivers in each salary tier based on the salaries over at Fandall.com starting off with the elite tier that is Kyle Larson at $14,500 through Chase Elliott at $12,500. I'll be aggressive with Kyle Larson here. Just want to be flat out with that. My wind simulations adore him. They have never been as high of a driver as they are on Kyle Larson this week. His wind odds in my simulations are 29%. That is very high. That means his outright odds should be around plus 240. He's plus 260 at Fandall. He's longer elsewhere from a betting perspective. Bet him somewhere else. I bet him at plus 300 last night. You can still get better numbers than that. I just don't have access to those. So go back Kyle Larson outside of Fandall. But I think for DFS just go hard at him. Larson has led 836 laps on the mile and a half tracks this year. Nobody else has led more than 152. He's got 680 something more laps led than anybody else in the sport this year on these tracks. And that doesn't even include the All-Star Race, which was also at a mile and a half track. I'm going to be heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy on Larson, even at $14,500. I know he'll be popular, but I will be overweight. I can almost guarantee you that for this week. Number two is Kyle Busch for sure, even though he's salary is $13,500. I will say though that if I run like super rudimentary projections for this late, these are the top four drivers in the field. I will likely have one of these four drivers in every single lineup. I prefer Busch over the others for two reasons. The first one is outside of Larson. Busch has been the guy to beat on the mile and a half tracks this year. He has five top fives and six races. He also won at Pocono, which is not a mile and a half, but it is $550. He was on the podium for four of those races. One in Kansas, nearly won the second Atlanta race. That's a big thing for liking Busch. The second thing is that he's starting 10th, so there is some place differential juice there. So Busch is number two. I'm going to rank this tier Larson one, Kyle Busch two, Chase Elliott three and Denny Hamlin four, but I do like all of them a lot. So if I decide to go with a two playoff driver build, it'll likely be two guys in this range. I don't mind the mid range or the second tier, but this range is really, really good. Speaking of that second tier that is Martin Truex Jr. at $12,000 through Alex Bowman at 10,000, the second tier not as juicy as the first, but if you want to go more balanced, I do like two guys here quite a bit. The problem is that they're both starting in the top three spots after Kyle Larson. So those two guys are William Byron and Ryan Blaney. Byron is starting third. Blaney is starting second. Byron almost won Michigan and probably should have. It's the most recent race in this package. Blaney actually did win that race thanks to an assist from Kyle Bush from the late race restart. Blaney also won Atlanta. He was top five in the second Atlanta race and in the first Vegas race. Byron went homestead. He was fourth in Charlottes, ran well in the All-Star race. Between these two guys, I prefer Blaney. He just has better overall form recently. Like Byron had a weird summer. I think the Michigan race was encouraging, but weird summer, Blaney was awesome. So slight preference for Blaney. Byron's great though because these two guys are starting right at the front, they don't pair well together. I do like them a lot individually though, especially in lineups with Kyle Bush or Chase Elliott where they can scoop some place differential points. So if I don't have Larson in there, I might be pretty heavy on Blaney and Byron for this week. I'm gonna rank this tier Blaney one, Byron two, Alex Bowman three, Martin Truex, Junior four. Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano are pretty tough cells for me given their lack of speed on the mile and a half tracks. They've led a combined 19 laps on these tracks this year. I have led as many laps as Kevin Harvick on these tracks. So I think to me the second tier pretty far below that first tier, but of this tier, Blaney and Byron are the two standouts and do look pretty good if you want to go a bit more balanced with your build. The mid-range is Brad Keselowski at $9,700 through Matthew Benedetto at $8,000. This tier does include two playoff drivers in Keselowski and Christopher Bell, but Keselowski lame duck driver at Penske and probably is not getting the best equipment slash information. So conspiracy theory, maybe, but I don't really want to go to Brad Keselowski. Bell has been awful on the mile and a half tracks. So my favorite guys in this year are actually three non-playoff drivers in Kurt Busch, Tyler Reddick and Austin Dillon. Busch is starting 20th. So he's got some place differential upside there. He won Atlanta earlier this year. He was also fourth in Michigan. So the speed of recently on the mile and a half has been there. He also did a good car in the first Atlanta race, but crashed there. He's a recent winner in Las Vegas. This is his home tracks, a little narrative there for Kurt Busch. I've got him right first in this tier. Second is Austin Dillon by a hair over Tyler Reddick. It is pretty clear that RCR, which is both Dillon and Reddick has prioritized the mile and a half tracks, which they should because it's likely the strength of their two drivers. Dillon finished sixth in Atlanta, 10th in Kansas, sixth in Charlotte. He ranks 11th in my model. He will start 15th, $8,200. So he's a core play, cash game play, very much in on Austin Dillon. Reddick could be a core play too. He has two top fives on mile and a half tracks. One of those was at Homestead. One was in Atlanta. And those are both tracks with heavy tire falloff and Vegas is not, but Reddick did do well in Kansas and Charlotte too. I have him a smidge below Dillon, but both those guys will be staples to me. I'm going to rank this year. Kurt Busch won Austin Dillon 2, Tyler Reddick 3, Matt DiBenedetto 4, less upside for him than Dillon and Reddick, but his finishing potential is fine. And he's also $8,000. Then I'll get into a bell and keselowski after that. Bell did finish seventh in the first Vegas race. So maybe I should be higher on him, but like they just haven't done a lot on these tracks this year. So tougher for me to get super jazzed about Bell, given they seem to have prioritized these 750 tracks. The value tier is Ross Chastain at $7,700 through Daniel Suarez at $6,500. As mentioned before, Chris Buscher ranks 16th in my model, but will start 25th. So he will be a core play for me at $7,000. Buscher has led more laps on the mile and out tracks this year than Chase Elliott and Martin Truex Jr. He has more top tens than Joey Logano, Kurt Busch and Chris Trebel. And most of that has come at tracks with heavier tire falloff, but he also finished eighth in Charlotte. So if we're looking at the drivers do my the most exposure this week, Buscher might be one outside of Kyle Larson. What could go wrong? I do think that he is, he's worthy of that. So Chris Buscher to me, a staple in cash games, tournaments, doesn't matter, Chris Buscher, the dude this week. I'm also down for Ricky Tana Jr. at $6,700. Sandhouse is starting 20 seconds. He has no top 10 yet at the mile and out tracks, but he's been top 13 four times. So at least knocking on the door. If you get that at $6,700 from the 20 second starting spot, you're pretty happy. He is volatile. Again, Ricky is his nickname. So, you know, keep that in mind, but I'm very okay with saving salary here on Sandhouse. So I'm going to rank this to your Buscher one, Sandhouse two, two, Ross Chastain three. Chastain hasn't had as much speed in the 550 tracks in the 750s. So yeah, just whatever. I'll put him behind Buscher and Sandhouse, but you can still definitely justify at least some Chastain this week. The punting tier is Bubba Wallace at $6,200 on down, and this is a great week to go to Bubba Wallace. He's starting 21st at $6,200. His 550 speed has been pretty good recently. He had top 15 average running positions in both Atlanta and Charlotte. The rest of this tier has four top 15 average running positions combined at mile and a half tracks this year. Bubba Wallace has two. So he can get the job done. He ranks 20th in projected average running position, which is better than Eric Amarola and Chase Briscoe in the tier above him. So I do like Bubba Wallace quite a bit as a big time salary saver. I will take some swipes that Ryan Newman as well. He's starting 29th at $5,500. He had good runs in Atlanta and Homestead. Both those are heavier tire falloff tracks. He just hasn't been competitive recently. Seems like he might be shutting things down as the season goes along. That's why I prefer Bubba, even though my numbers prefer Newman. Both those guys are viable, but prefer Bubba over Newman because it seems like Bubba is still pushing pretty hard. I'm gonna rank this to your Bubba one, Newman two, Cole Custer three. He's the one of the guy I'd be super inclined to consider here. I know Eric Jones ran well here back in the spring, but hasn't had a lot of speed since then. He does get some stuff from the Reddick and Dylan's team. So maybe I should be higher on him, but like it's a it's a tougher self for me for sure. So to me, Bubba Newman, the two punting options, maybe Cole Custer, maybe Eric Jones, but I think it's pretty easily those top two guys for me. Let's finish up with Winpix. We had Larson last week that went well. So we'll just go back to the well with Kyle Larson once again. Again, I have no one else above, I guess Kyle Larson is at 10.1%, but like he's the only guy above 10% outside of Larson at 29.3% to win this week based on my simulation. So he's Larson this week. Just go Kyle Larson for sure. The guy with a salary of $10,000 or lower with the highest win odds in my simulations is Kurt Busch. He is actually, I guess, yeah, it is Kurt Busch. Is it? No, it's not. I lied. Okay. So if we go 10,000 or lower, it's Alex Bowman at $10,000 on the button. Could go there or I could go Kurt Busch. Let's go Bowman. It'll probably be a playoff driver. I glossed over when I sorted by a win odds. So Alex Bowman is at 4.9% to win based on my simulation. So if we go at $10,000 or lower, Alex Bowman wants to get in the nod. So we'll make that the call. We'll go all in on Hendrick with Larson and Bowman being the win picks for Las Vegas. That is all that we have here for today on the Heat Check Fantasy podcast, but plenty more stuff coming up here on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast. He'd actually already posted on the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast. In addition to the week three DFS NFL preview, we have a UFC preview via Austin Swain. You can check that out by searching for the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. MLB DFS podcast for Friday is posted as well. So you have NFL, UFC, MLB and NASCAR all up in the feed for your consumption for Friday and this weekend. Find that by searching for the Number Fire Daily Fantasy podcast feed. Hit subscribe and leave a rating interview if you like what you hear. If you've got questions for me, I am on Twitter at Jim Sonnis, J-I-M-S-A-N-N-E-S. You can also follow the FanDuel Podcast Network at FanDuel Podcast. Big thank you to Everett for tuning in for this week. Good luck to you on Sunday night. Enjoy the race and we'll talk to you once again next week for Talladega. This has been the Heat Check Fantasy podcast powered by Number Fire.