Welcome everyone to the class on Romans. Praise the Lord and welcome Rosalind and Jefina. Thank you for joining us. We also want to welcome all our e-learning students who will be listening to this lecture later on. Welcome Celetoli, glad to have you in class this morning. Before we begin, let's just pause for a word of prayer and ask Jefina to lead us in prayer please. Heavenly Father, we come to you under the name of Jesus. We thank you for this day. We thank you for the class that we're about to have. We bless Celina, ma'am, and I bless all my classmates who are here, who are about to join and who will be listening to it later. As we are learning the deepest truths in the Bible, God, I just pray that you will help us open our mind and heart and listen to it and accept it in our heart and live by the word so that we can glorify you on this life, Jesus. Let everything that we learn help us to put into practice. Practice, Lord. We give you all the glory and honor in Jesus' name. I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jefina. So, on Friday, we began studying Romans chapter 8. We studied verses 1 to 10. Basically, Romans chapter 8 is a very beautiful chapter for us as believers, telling us how we need to live in the provision of the identification. We looked at our spiritual identification, our true identification, who we are in Romans chapter 5 and 6, the identification that God has made provision for us.  But Romans chapter 8 tells us how we need to walk in this experientially. And so, he, you know, goes on to talk about how, you know, the answer for us to overcome the deeds of the flesh or overcome the weakness in the flesh that he mentioned in Romans chapter 6 and 7. He says it is through the Holy Spirit. Okay. And he talks about, he differentiates between the law of sin and the law of the spirit of life. He also talks about how to live according to the flesh and how to live according to the spirit. He talks about how to be calmly minded, which is enmity with God, and how he talks about, you know, to be spiritually minded, which brings life and peace and is also something that we can please God when we are living in the spirit. Okay. So, these are the things that we looked at in verses 1 to 10. And he says that, you know, if we are in Christ, then our body is dead to sin.  Okay. But if we are living according to sin, then sin brings death and decay and every kind of corruption in our body. But he says the spirit of him who raised, but the spirit of life that is living in us helps us to live the life in the spirit or the God kind of life or the life that God has focused for us, his purchase for us on the cross. Okay. So, that was Romans chapter 8 verses 1 to 10 very briefly. Okay. So, going back to verse 10, he says, and if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit of life because of righteousness. So, in verse 9, he says the spirit of Christ is in you. And in verse 10, he says Christ is in you. So, here we basically see a new title for the Holy Spirit is called the spirit of Christ. It means all who Christ is to us is the Holy Spirit or who the Holy Spirit is to us. It means all who Christ is to us, the Holy Spirit is to you and to me. And the Holy Spirit brings Jesus to you and to me. So, in verse 10, he says Christ is in you. So, how is Christ in you and me? Christ is in you and me by his spirit. And he says if Christ is in you, he says the body is dead because of sin, which means if Christ is in us, so the Holy Spirit is in us, my body, you know, because of sin has, which has debt working with me. Sin has produced debt in my body. Sin has caused debt to work in my body. But if Christ is in me, you know, my body is dead because of sin. Okay. But the spirit is life because of righteousness, which means in my spirit, I have received the righteousness of God. Therefore, I have the life in the spirit or life from the Holy Spirit. Okay.  We will move on to verse 11 now. We will look and we will study verses 11 onwards today. So, again, somebody read verse 11, please. Somebody read verse 11. But the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you. He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in you. Now, this is my favorite verse and this is a very, very powerful verse. I don't know if you have spoken this verse over your life, but I've spoken this verse over my life and it is a very, very powerful verse.  So, here we see that verse 10 and 11 are connected. It says Christ is in you because the spirit of Christ is in you. Okay. It says sin has been working in our body. So, the body is dead or the body is dying. Not that it is dead in the sense that it is lifeless. That means, it just means that the body is dead means that the death has been working in our body. Okay. Death has been working in our body. That's why we say corruption, decay, frailty, weakness, sickness and that is why the body, he says, is dead. But he says the spirit is life. So, in your spirit, you have the life. Okay. You have the life of God in your spirit. So, in your body, because sin is at work, death is in work in us. But because the spirit of God is in us, God gives life to our mortal body. Okay. So, even though sin is at work in our body and death is at work in us, but because we have the spirit of God in us, you know, God gives life to our mortal body. So, our body is mortal.  But while we are living here on the earth because the spirit of God himself is living in you and me, you know, the spirit of life is in you and me. God is giving life to our mortal body. Amen. Okay. So, God is giving life to my death doomed body. Okay. And this connects us back to Romans chapter eight verse two. Okay. Remember we said when we're studying, we have to have the backward look and the forward look. Okay. So, this connects us back to Romans chapter eight verse two. He says, for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. Okay. So, he's saying that sin has been producing death in us. So, while our body is mortal and will die one day, the Holy Spirit is giving life to our mortal bodies. Okay. This is a and this is a scripture that is used for healing for our physical bodies. The spirit of life is giving life to my mortal body, which means every single cell in my body is happy and well because the spirit of life is giving life to every single cell in my body. Amen.  You know, I remember during COVID, one of our church members was extremely unwell, admitted in hospitals, his parameters were very, very vital parameters were not doing good. And the doctors, you know, the hospital, they tried their best. And one fine morning, you know, he was just lying there on the bed and, you know, the doctors came and they saw that his, his parameters of his vital organs was not doing well. And they were considering to shift him to Bello Hospital, which is a, a big hospital. So he knew that, you know, from their facial expressions and their talks and heard that, you know, we need to shift him to Bello knew that things were not going too well. He was very anxious. He was very, very worried. And so he messages pastor and pastor sends him this Romans chapter eight verse 11. And he says, when he was giving his testimony, he says that this is the first time he's reading this verse, and he realized how powerful this verse was. And when he says, when he just, you know, he's declared this verse over his life as a promise, he says immediately, there was such changes that happened, you know, his parameters where his vital organs were doing good. And slowly there was a lot of improvement and he came out of COVID, you know, my life. So I have spoken this verse over my life in various instances, various circumstances, spoken this over people I've seen really, so extremely powerful voice. So, you know, so going back to Romans chapter eight verse two, he says, you know, sin has been producing death in our bodies. So while our body is mortal and we die, you know, one day the Holy Spirit is going to give us life in this body. So this, you know, we can declare this as a healing verse for our physical bodies. The spirit of life is giving life to our mortal bodies and every cell in our body, every organ, every nerve, membrane tissue, you know, you name it, in our bodies, happy and well, because the spirit of life is giving life to every single cell in our body. And we need to acknowledge that. We need to acknowledge that the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, you know, has made me free from the law of sin and death. Okay. So you and I should expect that till our dying moments we want the life that is coming from the Holy Spirit to fill our body. So declare this verse over your life every day.  Can you, you can ask, can this be real? Yes, it can be real because this is God's word, we take him at his word, this is his promise because he says that the Holy Spirit is dwelling in me and the Holy Spirit that is dwelling in me is the spirit of life.  So we can choose to believe it or we can choose not to believe it. We can choose to, you know, accept it, choose not to accept it. We can choose to declare it as a promise, hold on to this promise and declare it. And you know, when we do that, when we declare this in faith, we can see God picking our mortal body through his spirit, through the Holy Spirit that dwells in me. Okay. Now, let's just take a small side journey and then we'll come back to Romans chapter eight verse 11. Let's look at second Corinthians chapter four verses ten to eleven. Can one of you please read second Corinthians chapter four verses ten to eight, please. Second Corinthians chapter four. Yes. Second Corinthians chapter four verses ten to eleven. Always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be shown in our body for we who live or constantly being handed over to death for Jesus sake so that the life of Jesus also may evidenced in our mortal body. Amen. So notice what Paul is saying here. He's saying the life of Jesus is manifested there in our mortal bodies, in our earthly body. Okay. So in the same passage he says that our outward man is perishing. He says, while this is happening at the same time, he's saying the life of Jesus is made visible in our mortal bodies. Amen. You know, we can say, you know, I am just working so hard for the kingdom of God, you know, my outward flesh, the body is kind of perishing, is going very, but at the same time what is happening, the life of Jesus is made visible in our mortal bodies and we must say, yes, Lord, you know, yes, let your life, the fullness of life, the zoe life, the God kind of life, let it be visible in my body. So Paul is saying, while we are suffering in our body, in the midst of that, the life of Jesus is also made visible. Amen. Okay. Let's look at another example in Acts chapter 14 verses 19 to 21, an amazing scripture passage. We can just ponder and, you know, receive some insights from it. This is all like a side tour that we're taking. We'll come back to Romans chapter 8 verse 11, but we are talking in line with what we're looking at in Romans chapter 8 verse 11. Can somebody please read Acts chapter 14 verses 19 to 21, please. Acts chapter 14, 19 to 21, then the Jews from Antioch and Locomium came there and heaven preceded the multitudes, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city supposing him to be dead. However, when the disciples gathered around him, he rose up and went into the city and the next day he departed with Burnambas to Derby. And when they had preached the gospel to that city and met many disciples, they returned to Lestra, Inconium and Antioch. Amen. Sorry, I couldn't hear that because my audio thing was muted, so I had to unmute it. Anyway, so did you read Acts 14, 19 to 21? Okay. Thank you. So here we see that, you know, Paul, thank you, Zealotoli. Paul is traveling to the districts of Galatia, which is the southern part of modern day Turkey. And there were many cities in Galatia, which is Antioch, Lestra, Derby, Inconium. And then some people stoned Paul and they dragged him out of the city supposing him to be dead.  Imagine stoning a person, he's badly hurt.  So he says, you know, we read in 2 Corinthians 4, 10 to 11, Paul says, you know, we are delivered to death for Jesus sake and we bear in our body the mark of Jesus Christ. So this is what he testifies in 2 Corinthians 4, verses 10 to 11. He says, Paul says, you know, I'm constantly being delivered to death for Jesus sake and in my body I bear the marks of Jesus Christ. That means all of these persecution that he is going through is there in his body. So, you know, coming back to Acts chapter 14, verse 19 to 21, it says when the believers came to Paul, you know, what happens? What do we read here? What do we read in the scripture? And the believers came to Paul, what happens? What does Paul do? He rose up and went into the city. Now, just imagine this.  And when the disciples come or the believers come, sorry, you know, he's able to rise up and walk into the city. Now, do you think that is humanly possible? He might be, you know, come back to conscience. He might become conscious of his environment and what is happening around him. He might come back to the state of being conscious. But, you know, he will not be able to rise up and walk again. They might have to put him on a stretcher or they might have to carry him into the city. But what happens is Paul himself, you know, rose up and walked into the city. And don't you think that is strange? And something else strange, even more strange than happens is the next day, what happens? What does what does scripture say? The next day, he and Barnabas left to Derby and they went preachy and made disciples and they came back to the same city. How is this humanly possible?  And in those days, you know, they didn't have, you know, flights and trains and cars to transport them. You know, just imagine this man was beaten, leapt footed. And what happens? The very next day, he goes, travels with Barnabas to Derby and he's preach, that's what he's preaching, he's not resting, he's preaching, and he's making disciples and he comes back to the same city. So this is humanly impossible. But what Paul is saying is he's saying, you know, like I quoted from 2 Corinthians 4, verses 10 to 11, he's saying, you know, we have been, we are delivered to death every day, we are bearing the marks of Jesus Christ in our body.  And that is why, you know, we can't explain what happened when when the disciples came around Paul, he was conscious, he stood up and he walks into the city, which is humanly impossible. And then the very next day, he travels and he goes into the next city and he's, he's preaching the gospel over there. Okay. So, you know, there is no other explanation, only explanation we can give, it had to be the life of God that brought about changes in his body, this mortal body, in his physical body, brought about such supernatural healing. I don't know how it must have happened. But whatever God did, if he enabled Paul to stand on his feet and go into the city and to travel the next day. Okay. So, coming back to Romans chapter 8 verse 11, you know, Paul writes, God quickens our mortal bodies through his spirit who dwells in us. And so I think when he's writing this, you know, of course, he's writing it through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. But also, I think he is speaking from his own experience, because there was numerous times when he was persecuted, when he was beaten, left for dead, you know, he bears the physical marks of persecution in his body. But you know, he has the life of Jesus that is working in him. That's so amazing. That's so powerful. So, when he's writing this in Romans chapter 8 verse 11, he knows what he is talking about. He knows that this God that he serves and the spirit of God that is in him is a life-giving spirit. God is giving him life in his mortal body. And through his spirit that is living in us, God is giving us life. Amen. It's such a powerful verse again. So, based on Romans chapter 8 verse 11, you know, I want us to expect the spirit of life to touch our mortal bodies.  Let your life be visible in my body, even though my outward man seems to be perishing, you know, results say this, doctors say this, but at the same time, you know, the life of Jesus is made visible in our mortal bodies. Amen. Okay. So, powerful words want you to hold on to this and declare it. So, even when you're ministering to people, you know, you can tell them that the Holy Spirit that is in them is there for a reason. Now, there are many other reasons why the Holy Spirit is in us, but one of the things he does is he gives life to our mortal bodies, or he weakens life in my mortal body through the life of the spirit that is there in us. So, you can pray when you're praying and ministering healing to people. You don't know what to say. You can say, God, touch their mortal bodies. You can say, God, touch my mortal bodies through the life of your spirit, give life to my body. Amen. Okay. So, that was the powerful verse Romans chapter eight verse 11.  We'll move on. Any questions anyone has? Any questions? Okay. There are no questions. We'll move on to verses 12 to 17. Can somebody please read verses 12 to 17, please? Verse 12. Therefore brethren, we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die. But if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live for as many as are led by the spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out Abba Father. The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God and if children then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer with him that we may also be glorified together. Amen. Thank you, Rosalind. So what is the conclusion to all that Paul has spoken so far? He says in verse 12, there four, which means Paul is saying, okay, I told you all this, so let's now sum it up. Okay. So we need to remember that Paul is speaking through the brethren. He's speaking to the believers and he says here that we are debtors not to the flesh to live according to the flesh. Okay. So he says when our flesh cries out for attention or when our flesh is craving for attention, you know, or when the flesh is crying out and being dominating and powerful, we need to turn the flesh that, hey, I don't owe you anything. Okay. I don't have to pay you any attention, so we don't have to give in to the desires and to the drives of the flesh. What's that he says for if you live according to the flesh, you will die. Okay. So note the word if. Okay.  So this is the same warning that Paul has mentioned earlier in the chapters and in his letter and he has mentioned this earlier and he's again reiterating this for us now. Then he says if by the spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. So the believers by the spirit, by the help of the Holy Spirit can put to death the deeds of the body, which means they can put to death the sinful evil desires of the body. And what is the result that they will live? Okay. So he's saying this is how believers live victorious over the flesh. And how do they live victorious over the flesh? It is by the power of the Holy Spirit. He says because the law of the spirit of life sets us free from the law of sin and death. So again, remember the law means the dominion, the power, the influence, the authority of the spirit sets us free, but the dominion, the power, the influence, the authority of sin produces death in us. That is the meaning of law. When you're talking about the law here, law of the spirit of life, law of sin is not talking about the Old Testament law. Verse 14, he says for as many as are led by the spirit of God, these are the sons of God. So he says all of us who are sons of God are led by the spirit of God. So if you are led by the flesh, then you are not led by the spirit. Okay. If you're not led by the flesh, but by the spirit, then, you know, the spirit produces life. But if you are led by the flesh, then you do what the flesh tells you. And ultimately it's going to produce death, which means it's going to produce corruption, decay, you know, weakness, all kinds of sickness and disease. So it says we are led by the spirit, which means that the Holy Spirit says whatever the Holy Spirit says, we do wherever he leads, we follow whatever he tells us, we obey him and we do what it asks us to do, which means we are in total subjection and submission to the Holy Spirit. Verse 14 he says for you to not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you receive the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out above Father. Now again, he's bringing a contrast here. He's talking about the spirit of bondage and the spirit of adoption. So the spirit of adoption is a spirit that puts us into captivity, okay, into bondage, into captivity, into slavery. But the spirit of adoption is the spirit that brings about sonship. And because we have the spirit of adoption, the Holy Spirit attests to us that we are sons and daughters of God, that we belong to God, that we are heirs of God, that we are co-heirs with God in his kingdom, you know, hence we can call God as above Father, okay, a more personal relationship that we can have with God. So above Father is something more personal because in the Old Testament we know that people did not have that kind of a personal relationship with God. They were more in fear of God, fear of his curse and fear of how he's going to smite them or how he's going to punish them. And also so much of fear of God that they would not even take the name of Yahweh on their lips, you know, or on their mouth, so they speak about it. So they had alternative names like Johova or Yahweh.  He's not just the God who's there to punish us, but gives us rules and regulations.  He's our Father, he's gracious, compassionate, merciful and forgiving and kind. Also we see a new title for the Holy Spirit here. What are the titles of the Holy Spirit given here? Spirit of life, Spirit of Christ and the Spirit of adoption. So in these verses that we saw, the preceding verses as well, we see new titles for the Holy Spirit. We see he's a spirit of life, the spirit of Christ that is verse 10. We see him as a spirit of Christ and also that he is a spirit of life. We read that in verse 10. And here we see that another new title is a spirit of adoption. So the Holy Spirit does not put us in bondage or slavery or does not keep us in fear. So anything that brings about bondage and slavery and fear is not from the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit brings us into this wonderful place where we have freedom, we have, we are liberated sons and daughters of the Most High God, amen. The spirit of adoption releases us to be the children of God, which means spirit of adoption means the Holy Spirit attests or tells us, hey, you know, that we are now brought from darkness to light. We are no longer slaves of Satan. We are now sons and daughters of the Most High God, we are heirs of God, co-heirs with Christ Jesus. And he reminds us of who we are in. The spirit of adoption releases us to be children of God. Okay. So this helps us understand what is the work of the Spirit and what is not the work of the Holy Spirit. Okay. So the Holy Spirit is a spirit of adoption. He liberates us. And if we are children, you know, we have this wonderful privilege of being heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus. Any questions so far before we move to verse 16? Any questions, any doubts? Okay. Verse 16 says, the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. Okay. And verse 15, he says, we have received the spirit of adoption by whom we cry out above Father. So how can we cry out above Father? Because the Spirit bears witness without spirit, which means the Holy Spirit bears witness in us spirit man. So, you know, he's unveiling to us the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. Paul is here unveiling the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. He says we are led by the spirit. And now he's saying that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, okay, or the sons and daughters of God. And he says the Spirit himself bears witness, which means the Spirit himself testifies or it means the Spirit himself is speaking affirmingly or the Spirit himself is speaking convincingly to us about who we are in Christ, what is our position in Christ or where we are brought out from and where what is our standing today. So he says the Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit, which means the Holy Spirit is testifying. The Holy Spirit is speaking affirmingly, speaking convincingly. And where is he communicating it to us? Where is the Holy Spirit communicating to us? He's communicating it to us in a spirit man. Okay. So here we see that, you know, the Holy Spirit does a lot of things. I've been reading this chapter, we've seen the Holy Spirit doing a lot of things. It says he's a law of the spirit of life that helps us to overcome the flesh. It says he's a spirit of life that gives life to my mortal body and also was leaven. We saw that and he says he's a spirit of life who leads me. Okay. So in Romans chapter 8 Paul is basically unveiling to us many different facets of the person and the world of the Holy Spirit. Okay. He's a spirit of life who speaks to me. He bears witness to my spirit. One of the, and one of that we see in verse 16, it says the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit, which means he's testifying, he's speaking, he's giving evidence, he's giving us conviction. And in this particular place, the witness or the conviction that he's giving to us is that we are the children of God. So if anyone asks you what is your birth certificate, you know, you can show them this as your birth certificate, which is your birth certificate. Romans chapter 8 verse 16, okay. Romans chapter 8 verse 16 says, you know, the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God. Okay. So that is your spiritual birth certificate. Okay. So the spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that the children of God. So you can see, I know that I'm a child of God because the Holy Spirit bears witness in my spirit. Okay. So basically in these verses, you know, Paul has been talking about the whole dimension of the life and the work of the Holy Spirit in the life of a believer. He's basically explained to us the work of the work of the spirit of life in us, the Holy Spirit. He says the Holy Spirit in us is giving us life. The life giving spirit sets us free from the law of sin and death. And the law of sin and death, what Paul refers to earlier in chapter seven. And he says that sin that controls the members of our body and that which is the byproduct of sin raining in our body, you know, we are spirit gives life to that the law of sin and death is done away with. And he says the Holy Spirit sets us free from the control of sin, the power of sin that controls our body and death, which is a byproduct of sin raining in our body. Okay. But however, Paul continues to say that we need to be spiritually minded, not carnally minded, because if we are spiritually minded, what is the result, life and peace. But if you are carnally minded, what is the result? Death. Okay. And then he mentions that the Holy Spirit in dwelling the believer helps us to put to death the sinful deeds of the body. So with the help of the Holy Spirit, he says we should be able to subdue sin and sinful deeds in our body. Okay. And then verses 16 and 17, he says everyone is a child of God, those who are led by the Holy Spirit are children of God. And the Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Okay. So if we are the children of God, you know, we have this wonderful privilege of being hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ. Okay. So let's look at verse 17, where it says, and if children then hairs, hairs of God, joint hairs with Christ, and if indeed we suck up with him, we will also be glorified together. He says, and if children, he puts us in the esteemed and in an honorable position that we are hairs, that we are hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ. So now Paul is using the kingdom of God, terminology. He's using kingdom terminology. And he says that, hey, you know, you and I are hairs, so we are successors. This is who we are. Who are we? We are hairs of God. We are joint hairs with Christ. So he says we share with Christ, we share everything with Christ. And even though we share everything with Christ, he does not mean that we are dating, he is dating, but all the benefits of what Christ has accomplished or what Christ has purchased for us or redeemed for us on the cross, that Paul has conveyed to us in chapters five, six, and seven. And he's saying, oh, this is what we share as a result of what Christ has done or Christ's work on the cross or what he's purchased for us on the cross. So he says we share in his righteousness because he has become righteousness to us. Or we share in his authority because he has raised us up and made us seated with the Father. So we are co-heirs with Christ Jesus. So this is what he has spoken to us in Romans chapter five, six, and seven. Now the latter part of verse 17, he says, if indeed we suffer with him, we will also be glorified together. So he says, if we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together, which means even if we suffer, we know that we will be glorified. Why? Because we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. So what is the suffering that Paul is mentioning here? You know, the suffering he's mentioning here is the suffering which he has already mentioned in verse 13, which is put to death the deeds of the body. So this is a suffering he's mentioning. He calls it a suffering because this is not easy to put into death the deeds of the body. It's not easy. So it's a kind of suffering that we are going through. So people suffer on the earth. They go through all kinds of suffering. They go through persecutions, challenges, hardships. But the suffering in verse 13 is not referring to hardships and challenges and persecution. But the suffering in verse 13 is to put to death the deeds of the body. Okay. Now, which is as a cross reference, go over to 1 Peter chapter 4, verses 1 and 2. Can somebody read that, please? 1 Peter chapter 2, verse 1 and 2. Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind. For he who has suffered in the flesh has seized from sin that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh for the lust of men, but for the will of God. Amen. Thank you, Rosalind. So here he's talking of a different kind of suffering. He's talking about suffering in the flesh that causes us to seize from sin. Okay. He says, hey, look at Jesus, how he suffered. So you also must be willing to suffer. So in this case, you're suffering because you are seizing from sin. Okay. So this is what he's saying that, you know, seizing means coming, you know, to an end, ending from sin or terminating sin or stopping from sin. But in Romans chapter 8 verse 17, you know, one of the aspects of suffering is putting to death the deeds of the flesh so that we can seize from sin. So he's saying, no, when you put to death the deeds of the flesh, that's when you can terminate sin. That's when you can stop sinning.  So he's saying, no, when you put to death the deeds of the body, it's going to only cause you, you know, to put, to come to an end to or seize from sin. So in Romans chapter 8 verse 17, you know, one of the aspects of suffering is to put to death the deeds of the flesh so that we can seize from sin. And Paul adds that if we suffer, we know that we will be glorified together. Okay. So this putting to death the deeds of the body is going to only cause us to be glorified together, which means to walk in glory of being a herald god and joint hairs with Christ. Okay. So what is the glory that he's talking about here? It means that, you know, the glory of being a herald god and joint hairs with Christ. So he's saying that, you know, putting to death the deeds of the body is going to only cause us, you know, to be glorified together, which means to walk in the glory of being a herald god and joint hairs with Christ. So how do we walk in this glory? We walk in this glory by being hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ, which is a glorious position. How do we all continue to walk in this glory? As if we suffer, we will be glorified together. Okay. So and what I'm saying is in the immediate context, of course, there is a future glory that we will enjoy, you know, where we would, you know, where there will be no suffering, there will be no pain, there will be no power of sin, there will be no sin at work. But here we see that if we suffer, you know, we will be glorified together. So for us to walk in the glory of being hairs of God and joint hairs of Christ, what do we need to do? We need to put to death the simple deeds of the body by the Holy Spirit. And that is the key. Okay. So that is the key. So you can ask, why are believers not able to live as hairs of God and joint hairs with Christ is because we are not willing to put to death the deeds of the body. Okay.  And he has also made us hairs of God and joint hairs of Jesus Christ. Okay. So all this is in the spiritual realm. This is our spiritual identity. But this is what we need to live out as a physical reality, as a physical experience, something that we need to make evident in our lives. And how do we do that? We need to be willing to put to death the sinful deeds of the body. Okay. We stop here and we'll continue on Friday. Anyone has any questions? Any questions? Okay. So we'll stop here just to reiterate, you know, just soak into Romans chapter eight verse 11, declare that God is giving life to your mortal body. And also that you need to put to death the sinful deeds of the body and the Holy Spirit is going to help you. Okay. Thank you, everyone. Have a good day and a good morning. Yes. Good morning, Abu Bakr. Good morning. Yes ma'am. Please ma'am, I mixed the assignment obviously because of the situation around our area here. So we don't normally have light all the time. So that is why you don't use to see me online. One minute Abu Bakr. Can I just stop this recording? So the e-learning students don't have to listen to this.


Now, I can tell you, as a dating coach, women come to me, for example, asking me to improve their online dating profile. And let me just share this with you. They will send me a profile that makes me almost want to barf, okay? And yet they think this is a high-quality profile. I can tell you, almost every woman thinks they presented a high-quality representation of themselves.  They get triggered like nobody's business, and they want to justify this poor presentation of themselves.


I had this opportunity to come speak about climate technology and investment and it's an interesting spread of people from both government and the market and I'm here to sort of speak on behalf of the market but also the early stage market mainly because climate change is such a complex problem and it requires a series of solutions not just one. I've met heads of state, I've met journalists, I've met ambassadors, I've met capital allocators, investors, it's been very fascinating I think that it's a wonderful global community and because I'm in Silicon Valley I don't get to do that all the time. I think the government and the market needs to work together because climate change is a complex problem and it requires a multitude of different solutions. If we can find ways to work together I think we'll solve the problem.


Hey, what's up guys, welcome to Training Reviews. So this is my very first what's in my camera bag 2020.  So let's start off with the case. It's a nice very well built large case from a company called Eve Case. And I'll be linking all of the things that come in this bag and this actual bag itself into the description below. So let's go ahead and open up the main compartment. There we go. So just starting off, I'm going to show you first. This is my camera. This is the Sony a7 III, which has a Sigma 24 to 70 DGDN Art Lens. And I'll have a link in the description for all of these items as well. And if I've reviewed any of these before, I'll link them to that YouTube video as well. So that's my camera there next to it. I have a little pocket here, which has my 35mm Sony Prime Lens as well. So nice little compartment there to keep my other lenses. So that's a very compact one. Next to that is a very nicely built Manfrotto tripod. So this is mainly for smartphones, but you can use this for my camera as well. So I use this when I just want to do a little bit of a macro photography on the desk or just want to use, utilize this and take pictures of close up objects, mainly for my YouTube videos. So I've created a little section here just for that. Coming on to this side here. Now there's a lot of stuff in here. Let me go ahead and pull this out. This is the FieldWorld F5 4K monitor that goes on top of DSLR and mirrorless cameras. So if you wanted to do recording on cameras that don't have a flip out screen to see yourself, then this is perfect for you. I have a review on this as well, so keep an eye on the link in the description below for that. Now this is connected to a HDMI to mini HDMI connector as well, just so that I can connect to my actual Sony A7 camera. It also has a dummy battery here to power outlet, so I can power the camera using this dummy battery, which is essentially just empty. So perfectly all set up there to see myself when I'm recording outdoors. Now to turn on that monitor you need a battery. So I bought this dual RAV power battery pack for the FieldWorld F5 monitor as well. So I'm storing that right there. Now there's a little compartment here. You can essentially fit a tablet in there as well, so I used to carry an iPad in there but I no longer need to. In here I've got a couple of things. I've got my Aputure LED pocket flashlight. So if I turn this on it's a very bright LED light as you can see here. It's so compact as the size of a credit card, so you can dim this as well. It's chargeable, no removable batteries, so I keep that in there. I also have a dual cold shoe mount as well, so if I want to connect maybe a microphone and that pocket LED light onto the top of my camera then I can do that. Or sometimes I connect the little FieldWorld F5 monitor as well and then have a microphone separately. So it gives me the options to expand a little bit. And then I also have my Sony camera strap as well for my mirrorless camera. Now let's go ahead and turn this around and show you what's in the hood. So these tiny little pockets I keep in here. My Rode Wireless Go microphones. So there's the transmitter and receiver set in each of these pockets as well. So I'll leave them there. It's the perfect size for that. Slot them in. And this little pouch here I keep all of my microphone related cables. So let me go ahead and show you what these are. So this is a microphone cable that is actually a spitter for your laptops. So if you want to use the headphone and the actual microphone then you can do it separately through here. So if I wanted to use for example the Rode Wireless Go on my MacBook then I will need to use this by putting this into the headphone jack. This is the Rode SC7 patch cable. It allows me to use my Rode Wireless Go with smartphones. So if you have an iPhone or an Android then you can connect that using this. And this is the standard microphone cable that came with the Rode Wireless Go to connect that to your cameras. And I also have some wind protection sleeves here and also a wired lavalier mic as well if I just wanted to use that rather than the wireless one. So that's all my microphone related cables which I'm storing in this pouch here. Right let's go over to the front. So in here we have a few items. I've got a microfiber cloth in each of these pouches here. So these are for cleaning my lens and for the sensors inside my camera. And then you also have another cleaning tissue paper kit here as well for lenses. So it's a slightly different material to the microfiber lens. There's a limited amount of these. So if you really wanted to keep your lens clear of any spots or marks then this is the way to go. So all my cleaning stuff is just there on the front. I have some more cleaning parts on the side pouches. So going on to the left hand side here. This is a cleaning solution that you spray onto your lens and clean it with the microfiber cloth. But there's also a couple of different things in the pouches here as well. I also have the Sony wireless remote which I connect to a Bluetooth so I can start and stop recording if I'm filming by myself. And there's also a cable that I've got in here. This is a cable for my gimbal and it's the Feiyu Tech AK2000S. This allows me to connect my camera to the gimbal without having to worry about any of the Bluetooth settings which may sometimes cut off. So that's a direct connection between the camera and the gimbal. Keep that in that pouch there. On the other side is a full set of cleaning equipment so you have the air blower and you have a couple of brushes as well to clean your lens which came with the set of the microfiber cloth there on the front. So that's the only thing I keep on the left hand side. You also have the additional pouch if you want to put anything in there as well. And last but not least is a zip at the back as well. So plenty of compartments in this camera bag. Here I've just got another separator so if I wanted to put this inside the main compartment maybe do another split then I can do that with this additional one here. So I'll just put that back there. You also have a little handle there so if you want to carry this on a suitcase for example then you can clip that on there and it's also comes with a carry strap which I've kept separately. So that's about it guys that's everything that comes in my camera bag 2020. Let me know if there's anything that you carry in your camera equipment bags that is not mentioned here and let everyone know down below. Now remember I'll put all of the links to everywhere I've purchased each individual item in this bag including the bag and if I reviewed any of these items separately in a different use of video I'll link that use of video next to the item links as well. So hopefully that was useful guys. If you like this video do give it a thumbs up. I hope you subscribe and I'll catch you guys at the next one. Take care.


All right, so in this video, I'm gonna show you five free strategies that you can use to get clients right now that me and my Students and my clients are still using and I'm also gonna show you again and remind you our entire sales process because I get this question Practically every day on hey, what's the next step after we reach out and what is the next step from there? If they are interested, what do we do? So I'm gonna talk about what to do after outreach We call it the discovery call and what to do after the discovery call the demo And if you want more details on to how we run these things and run these steps I'm gonna show you more about that as well. So let's jump right into the first step and this is the step It's it's probably the most important thing because you can't start reaching out to anybody unless you have this dialed in so Before you start doing any kind of outreach and I have tons of videos I'm picking vertical industries and niches to reach out to and ones that are still operating right now Even given the entire world situation, right? But you need to have some kind of offer and I call it your enticing offer, right? So you need to know what you are going to offer the people that you're reaching out to and ideally you want this I think in my opinion it should be a service tied to leads sales or growth The reason being is anything tied to lead sales or growth business owners. They want to make more money That's why they're in business So if you have a service that can help them generate more leads or make more sales or help them grow their companies That's always going to be easier to sell than something that's not tied to that, right? So have a service that's tied to lead sales or growth And if you guys want ideas I have made a ton of previous videos on services that I think are solid to start with just go with those right the proven services to offer now what you need from there is you also must have a clear outcome that you can speak to and You need to know what your service or your solution whatever it is that you've picked your service What outcome is it going to help your prospects or your market to get and you need to be able to speak very clearly to this? So an example is our services our core service for over two years has been linked done for your LinkedIn lead generation and done for your LinkedIn prospecting, right? So what is the outcome of that? Well When clients work with us a lot of the time they're not even using LinkedIn to generate leads So the outcome is they go from zero leads zero appointments per month to generating eight twelve or more appointments per month on LinkedIn so that is the outcome. It's a very clear outcome You go from zero to eight to twelve or more appointments per month So you want to make sure you can speak to this too many people will speak only about their product or service and not about the outcome That it helps them to get that's all the people care about is what is it going to get them? What is the result going to help them do? So you have to have a service tied to lead sales or growth You want to be able to have a clear outcome that you can speak to you and then also have deliverables mapped out that show How you will achieve that outcome? So if our outcome is eight to twelve appointments on link on LinkedIn per month How do we achieve that? What are the steps that we take those of the deliverables? So step number one is we optimize their profile and we do this by optimizing their headline and their summary for whatever Target market that our client is going after number two is we create them a messaging sequence That's designed to generate leads and generate appointments and get people interested in our clients solutions Step number three is we build a prospect list of people who fit our clients ideal client profile Right, whoever they're trying to target the markets that they're trying to target We build a list of those prospects in LinkedIn and step number four is we actually start to launch and manage the campaign So we launch the messages that we created we start connecting with people on LinkedIn we start sending them the messages and We get people who are interested in their service to respond back to our client, right? So those are the deliverables that help us to get the outcome of eight to twelve appointments per month And you need to be able to speak to all of this stuff to the outcome and the actual steps that you take before you Start reaching out to your market. Otherwise, you're not gonna really know or you're not gonna know what to say, right? When people ask you questions So you need to have your offer dialed in it should be some kind of service tied to lead sales or growth You need to have a clear outcome that when they use your service, what happens? What is the outcome and then also have deliverables mapped out on how you're going to achieve that outcome? Okay? Now let's talk about the actual ways to get clients. How do you actually start to reach out once you have your offer? How do you start to reach out? So The first place I want to zoom in here a little bit Is your warm network, right? I don't know why more people don't start here They just they want to go straight for cold traffic for some reason But your warm network is the easiest place to get clients your first few clients, especially if you have no experience yet Okay, so what you can do is just reach out once you have your offer reach out to your friends your family members colleague existing clients or previous clients and Ask them if they know anyone else that can benefit from your service or your offering, right? And chances are someone in your network whether a friend or a family or a friend of a friend or a family Like a friend of a family member or a friend of a colleague or a connection of a connection write a mutual connection Someone there's a good chance that someone's gonna know somebody who can benefit from what you have to offer, right? There's got to be somebody in your network in your expanded network Who is a some kind of small business owner or entrepreneur who can benefit from what you've got to offer, right? And all you got to do is go and ask it costs you nothing to do that You can write up an email you can send a message to your friends on social media on Facebook Just say hey, do you know anyone that can benefit from this kind of service? Do you know anyone that needs more leads or B2B leads in our case right on LinkedIn? So all you got to do is ask and you can offer Some kind of discount or incentive-based pricing in exchange for a case study or testimonial, right? So I get this question all the time as well What do you do if you don't have social proof go out and get it, right? If you can leverage the portfolios of your fulfillment provider, that's one way But the other way is just to go out and get testimonials, right? So offer your service at a discount in exchange for a case study or testimonial So I don't really recommend doing it for free or offering free trials because you want to have both parties with skin in the game So you want to at least charge the cost of the service plus a little bit more so that both parties are invested, right? Otherwise, you're gonna have one party who's the person that you're helping out They're not going to be invested in the service in making it a success, right? So you can go out reach out to your warm network offer them a steep discount incentive-based pricing in exchange for a case study or testimonial to help you build your confidence and your portfolio of results, right? Easy as that. Number two, social media outreach and this is also free completely free to do, right? You can go to Facebook. You can go to niche specific groups So let's say that you are targeting in our case SaaS companies. I would target SaaS groups I would join SaaS related groups I would start friend requesting people in those groups And then I would see engage with them a little bit and see if they'd be interested in having a conversation 15-minute discovery call about our service and how it can help them get a certain outcome or result Right Instagram. You can search niche specific hashtag. So you just go into the search bar Let's say you're targeting accountants, right? You can type in accountants or accountants accounting life I don't know what's related to that But if you type in accountants into Instagram, they're gonna give you dozens of suggestions of accounting related hashtags And all you got to do is follow those hashtags follow people in those hashtags that put those hashtags on their profile You can engage with their photos and then eventually send them a direct message and see if they'd be interested again in a 15-minute Discovery call to learn more about your service and how it can help them. Okay LinkedIn one of our favorite places we built an entire agency around this platform All you got to do is use their search they're built-in search filtering, right? Now I recommend if you're gonna do high-volume prospecting to upgrade to sales navigator, which is a paid platform I believe it's $70 a month now But if you are just doing lower level, maybe 10 10 15 people a day that you're reaching out to you You can use their built-in search filtering where you just search for people in your niche decision-makers in your niche and Connect with them and reach out to them see if they're engaged with them See if they're interested in learning more about what you have to offer again I keep saying this and how it can help them get a certain result. All right So that's social media outreach. There are other platforms, of course But these are the main ones the main three that we focus on as far as social media goes Okay, now the third place is cold email. Now, how do you actually find the emails of people for free? Well, the paid options of course are tools like find that lead if you're B2B or d7 lead finder If you are targeting local or small businesses These are paid platforms the tools here and it's you basically just tell them what you want and it'll build you a list of Prospects that fit your criteria. Now if you want to do it for free There are a couple of places that work very well for that number one actually more than a couple places But number one is just using Google, right? So type in Google. Let's say you're targeting lawyers You can type in lawyers in Seattle. I'm in Seattle I can type in lawyers in Seattle and I can just manual manually go through the search results and pull email addresses From people in the search results. That's one way number two is using directories, right? So all you to do is is Google. Let's say you're targeting again lawyers You can type in lawyer directories You're gonna find all these different websites where all these lawyers hang out that you can find their email addresses and Send them an email to see if they're interested in learning more about your service and how it can help them, right? Now for us specifically targeting the SaaS and startup industry We found a directory called Crunchbase and this is it's an awesome platform There's a free version and a paid version, but it's it's really only useful for you if you're targeting startups and SaaS companies But we used Crunchbase to find the email addresses and find and filter based on things like annual revenue on Funding amount on people who are like have a certain amount of funding from investors, right? Certain industries in the SaaS in the SaaS industry for the SaaS niche, right? So that's an example of a directory that we use is Crunchbase. You can also search up associations So back to the lawyer example type in lawyer associations I don't know what they have you can type in home remodeling association if you're targeting home remodellers any type of big Legit industry is gonna have an association built around it So all you to do is type in industry plus the word associations or the word directories You're gonna find dozens and dozens and hundreds thousands of search results of people in your niche And you can go and manually scrape their emails, okay? So that's cold email outreach. That's strategy number three. That's free to do or there is a free option number four is inbound so Free ways to do inbound. I there's of course, you know paid advertising, right? But inbound you could post social selling posts and these are posts on your social media profiles your Facebook your Instagram You're LinkedIn that are designed to share some kind of insights or you know client or customer testimonials or results Or strategies or tactics something that's value for your market for your connections and is designed to get them to come to you Right, so eventually you want people to reach out to you They say I they'll say I've seen your posts on LinkedIn or Facebook or wherever it is And I'd like to learn more about your service, right? So that's what we mean by inbound people are coming to us And if you're consistent with this on posting on your social media platforms once or twice a week or so Over time that's gonna compound you and have people reaching out to you wanting to learn more about how you can help them without you having to any kind of outreach There's also Facebook groups, right? If you're in these niche Pacific Facebook groups, you can make posts that are again The sharing a tip or some insights or some strategies or tactics or something that's going to help your market and get them interested in working with you Right now the trick to this is whatever you share whatever tip or trick or insider strategy that you share Should also tie back Also tie back to your solution whatever your services, right? So if I'm offering LinkedIn I don't want to be posting stuff about Google ads or Facebook ads, right or Content marketing, right? I want to be posting stuff about LinkedIn and LinkedIn lead generation, right? So that's the that's the trick is whenever you're making these posts on your social media profiles And this is great if you layer it on top of these other things, right? You want to make sure it ties back to your solution. Otherwise, what's the point, right? The fifth thing that you can do our video or voicemail drops now Full disclaimer voicemail drops. We haven't done a ton of this But we've seen a lot of people who target local and small business industries that see success with voicemail drops And there's a paid solution called sly broadcast that can help you do that Where you record a voicemail and you can call a bunch of numbers and of people in your niche And it'll send them a voicemail right without ringing and having them pick up So to go straight to the voicemail drop in the voicemail and they can call you back or email you to learn more about your service and jump on this discovery call Okay Now what we actually use what we love using is a video Chrome extension is a free Chrome extension called loom and what you can do is Film these short videos or short It's either like a we should do audits and we would also do just straight pitch videos to try and generate disappointment so a trick to do this is Whenever you're filming some kind of videos people love to see anything that's related to them themselves or their business So you want to have this this tool called loom it allows you to record your face and your screen So what you can do is have it on their website or their personal social media profile And it's way more likely to catch their eye because they can see themselves in the thumbnail of the video So you want to make sure when you're filming this loom video always have it on something that's related to them Don't have it on your website or your profile It needs to be on theirs their website their profile their social media pages and you're way more likely to get them to open that video Watch it and respond to it. Okay, so video voicemail drops. That's the fifth Free strategy that you can use sly broadcast is not free, but the video drops on loom are okay So these are the five strategies and they all have of course free free methods and paid methods But I just shared with you all the free methods that you can do and they're gonna take you nothing But your time they don't take you any money to do They're gonna just take you time out of your day and if you're consistent with it, you're gonna see results guaranteed So number one again warm network reach out to people that you already know and see if they know anyone or they themselves can benefit And then offer them a discount in exchange for a case study or testimony of working with you Number two is social media outreach and we like the big three of Facebook Instagram and LinkedIn for doing outreach Number three is cold email outreach and you can use tools paid options like find that lead if you're b2b or d7 lead finder if you are Targeting local or small businesses and you can also for free go and scrape directories and associations or Hire a VA to do that if you don't want to do it yourself Number four is inbound. So as you're building your network in the social media phase here You're connecting with people your friend requesting people on Facebook. What happens is you're going to continue to build your network oops, and what you can do is start to make these posts that Deliver value to your network and your audience right and you can do that through just posting Consistently on your Facebook your Instagram and your LinkedIn or you can post in Facebook groups and the fifth area is video and voicemail drops So the free option is using loom the paid option is if you are targeting local or small businesses using a voicemail Software like sly broadcast to do ringless voicemails Now the goal of all these strategies here right all these five strategies is not to get people to press the buy button right away You're not sending them to a link to buy now You are sending them to or you're trying to get them interested in a 15-minute call with you Right and the goal is called this 15 minute to 20 minute discovery call is to Qualify them to figure out if you guys are a fit to work together and if you can really help them There's going to be a lot of people that will respond to this that you can't actually help Right you want to make sure that you both are a fit to work together that they're in the right place in their business And that you actually have a service that can help them achieve their goals and their outcomes their desired outcomes Right so the goal of all these five strategies again is not to get that you should not be sending them any kind of buy button Or purchase page it should be to get them on a phone call with you okay now from that phone call Let's say that you decide you are a fit you qualify them you ask them some questions I have a video an entire video on the discovery call process I'm not going to go into that here just go to my youtube channel and watch that But let's say that you guys are qualified and you're fit to work together You're going to schedule a second call or you can do it right on that first call if you still have time And they're ready to do that you can perform a demo and the demo is to show them how your solution your service is Going to help them go from a painful situation that they discuss with you on this discovery call That's related to your service right to a pleasurable situation or a pleasurable outcome right so for example We're talking to these SaaS companies their pain is they don't have enough leads and they don't know what to do about it They don't know what channels are working They don't know how to get in touch with more of their target market That's their painful situation and because of that they're missing their sales goals. They're not hitting revenue targets Right that's that's pain the pleasure is they want to be hitting They want more leads who are interested in their software who are reaching out to them and they want more Customers on their their platform and they want to hit their sales targets and exceed that right so we're going to help Them get there from that painful situation No leads or an empty pipeline to a full pipeline of people who are interested in learning more about their solution Right so show them on this demo again focus on the outcome and not the service you want to show them how you can help them go from pain to pleasure and Show them the outcome of using your service and how it's the vehicle to help them go from pain to pleasure, right? If you want more details on this demo process, I get people asking me all the time to make a video on this I am not going to make a video on this demo process That's reserved for students and clients only if you want to see a peak though and have more details on how this act How we run this you can pick up my book in the description six-figure drop servicing. There's a link below It's five dollars and sixty cents. Okay, and you're gonna see you're gonna see basically everything here You're gonna see how to create an offer how to reach out on these five channels here How to run a discovery call and what a discovery call is and then also what our demo is and how we run that Okay, so if you guys want more details on that, please just go to the link below five dollars and sixty cents to buy my book It's fully guaranteed. I mean if you're gonna ask for a refund on a five dollar and sixty cent book Please don't buy it, but everything I've learned in my entire process of what I teach in my methodology is in that book Okay, so if you guys want more details on this then make sure you pick that up in the description below But that's it for this video. This is our entire sales process. This is it's not sexy. It's not glamorous But it works it's proven and everyone always wants that sexy shiny new tactic But it's really the fundamentals that's gonna get you far in this business and in any business in life, right? there's a Documentary right now with Michael Jordan called the last dance and it shocks me how much he focuses just on the fundamentals and Everyone always thinks he's this flashy person, but it really is about the fundamentals That's gonna get you to that next level, right? So if you can master things like creating enticing offers master outreach on these channels and being consistent with it Master discovery calls and learning and qualifying people to see if you're fit to work together And if you can help them solve a certain problem and then mastering and demos and demonstrations And how you can help them go from pain to pleasure and positioning your service and your solution as a vehicle to help them Get that to help them get a desired outcome, right? You mask these are fundamentals here, right creating offers doing outreach and getting clients and Learning more about your your market and seeing if you can help them, right? These are the fundamentals here So focus on this don't focus on some shiny new tactic or Facebook ads or Google ads before you've even validated that your business Is gonna work focus on the fundamentals here first before you move on to the tricky stuff, right? So that's it for this video I hope you guys like this give it a like if you did if you have any questions Comment below in the comment section But yeah, this is our sales process and these are five ways that you can get clients for free even right now That's still working that myself and my clients are using my students are using so I hope you guys got value out of this And I'll see you in the next video


From the SAP Center at San Jose, home of the San Jose Sharks. Extracting the signal from the noise. It's the Cube, covering HGST, Sports Data Silicon Valley. Brought to you by HGST. Now your hosts, John Burrier and Jeff Frisk. Okay, welcome back everyone. We are here live for the wrap up of Sports Data SV, Sports Data Silicon Valley. Hashtag Sports Data SV. I'm John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Engineering. Coach Jeff Frisk and now Stu Miniman, guest analyst at SiliconANGLE Media Research, wikibon.com, infrastructure cloud, big data analysts. Guys, I've learned a lot today, but the one thing I learned as Sports Data SV is a meme now on Twitter. There's Cube Gems up, if you could go to hashtag Cube Gems. Search on Twitter, hashtag Cube Gems. And you will see all the fantastic highlights that are already on the network. So we're pumping content out like it's nobody's business right now, Jeff. I love it. We've got to compete in real time. Just want to thank the audience here and HGST for sponsoring special presentation. I learned a ton. The first thing I learned is my favorite exclusive scoop is the NFL is tracking balls with RFIDs because of deflate gates, too. He told us, I brought it up as kind of a joking thing. No, he said, no, we are tracking RFIDs on the footballs. So there it is. Innovation off of Tom Brady deflate gate. So Jeff, what did you learn? Well, that was from Mike and I think it's so interesting what Deeper's doing and I love what Mike talks about kind of a very different philosophy around data. NFL's got more of a closed data. We're tracking it all. We'll let it out a little at a time for the fans, for the teams, et cetera. MLB, whether it was intentionally or not, basically said, we've got an open API to our data. We'll open it out to crowdsourcing.  Very different strategy. One is not right, one is not wrong, but I think that's pretty interesting. I also just love how the data, which was really a simple entertainment vehicle, the yellow stripe for the first down line, the markers on the NASCARs, is that Jeff Gordon or not, has now evolved into people saying, wow, there's a lot of value in this data. We can use it in a number of different ways. The instrumentation was for broadcasting purposes. That became an asset later on. It became an asset later on to be used in a number of different ways. I just love how the evolution changed over time. And even with this pitch tracker, Mike said they were doing that for years before they suddenly woke up and said, maybe we should do something with this. It goes back to a term we hear over and over and over at all the shows we get, which is this data exhaust. The data exhaust and no, you can't keep all the data exhausts. It's too expensive. We don't know what to do with it. Wow, how the world has changed with cheaper storage, better analytics. Don't throw any of the exhaust away. There's good stuff in there. The other reflection on this also is the approaches of the data. You mentioned they didn't know what to do with it and they got a competitive edge. Major League Baseball put pitch count outs as 2005 Mike was talking about and the money ball came out of that. Okay, so that was strategic. Take the NFL, siloed, hold the data. I don't like what the NFL is doing. I personally think it's a bad strategy. They hoard the data and release it out. MLB has a no policy rule for fiber optics, only no communications with fans. At some point, Jeff, the transparency and the data is going to bust out and the hoarding and the restrictions are going to go away. Yeah, and clearly MLB enterprises was broken out of MLB. They're so innovative. They're so ahead of the curve. When we talked to Bill years ago, the Giants had built their own app but then MLB took it over, they have a better app and now they've basically signed to deal with the NHL. So now the NHL can use the best cutting edge social platform available developed by the MLB to deliver better experience to their fans. This is a great point.  Do you buy or build? If you look at who invested in platforms, MLB advanced media units started in 2000 as a spin out of all the teams and they invested in streaming. They invested in the app for e-commerce and then mobile hit the scene. They were perfectly positioned to leverage the mobile revolution. I think that changed the game and everyone else playing catch up.  So that's what the sports teams are doing.  Then you next Levi Stadium started a company that does that. Why? Because there's efficiencies involved. So that's an interesting dynamic. What do you think about that? Yeah, clearly they got ahead of the curve but I think what's interesting about the intersection of tech and sports is the fact that these guys are competing live in real time in front of 70,000 live fans and millions if not billions of people on a Super Bowl Sunday watching them.  So the fact that they're now using all these big data tools, all these analytic tools, forget about the fan experience for a minute, just to get that little competitive edge. Even Stanford has, there's videos where even at Stanford, they're using the virtual reality practice for the quarterback to get reps. What did you see? What did you not see? What are you keying off of? I mean, I think the innovation is just tremendous in this never ending arms race to get the little competitive edge. It's fascinating. And also the future of eSports, you're going to start to see again the virtual reality thing you mentioned. But how does that apply to business too? You're out there right now. Is business ready for this kind of innovation with cloud, mobile and big data? Well, we're definitely at a renaissance with data really at the center of things. I mean, last week we covered on theCUBE that IBM bought the data from the Weather Channel. I mean, you think about just a huge amount of data and what IBM's going to be able to do with that. We've got so much data in sports and heck, weather's going to tie into it. For some of the sports here, I mean, not at all. So that elicits that to all the bookies doing the fan duels and all that. There's the intersection of all of these. I mean, it's been a real fun event here. I mean, it's great to hear from a crowd getting all excited about it. We've got the tech athletes, interspersing with the sports athletes. So, lots of opportunity with data and storage becomes critically important as it becomes more ubiquitous and cheaper. Jonathan Martinez from the Oakland Raiders, I thought said it well and I asked about Al Davis. I wanted to kind of find out what the new cultures of the Raiders, I like what he said. It's a commitment to excellence and a will to win. And that is an athletic thing. Jeff, Incorporate America now has that same vibe. At Oracle Open World, we saw them opening keynote. We had, there it was, the Warriors, the Golden State Warriors, why? Because they're winners. Correct. And why are they winning? Well, and you guys, what did you get? You got, Lekub came in and VC, he's funded a lot of tech startups. Management team, technology, technology, you know, and they were at a good level with their existing coach. They wanted to go another level up. They swapped out the coach. People thought they're crazy. Joe Lekub was booed, booed when he made the trade years ago, booed off his own floor. They weren't booing him at the parade last year, John. They weren't. Well, they had a winning team because they took fan experience beyond the actual sport itself. They made the celebrities of the stars. They had an economic tie-in with big data. Everything was integrated. Sounds like integrated stacks, too. That sounds like cloud. But at the end of the day, they got a win. And that's the one thing that the purity of sports is at the end of the day, for all the stats, for all the fan experience, there's a score on the board and you get a W or an L. And that's really all that matters. All the stuff is fun. These guys are really hyper-competitive. And you know, we all do our jobs. We're in meetings all day. We're out trying to do our thing. We don't have 70,000 people looking over our shoulder. Not yet. The queue hopes to get 70,000 people looking over our shoulder. Oh, that's true. Right now we have no one's in there. We have a fan's over here. How about a big thank you to HGST for an amazing event, great event. Oh, here they come. Here they come. Bring it on. All right. There we go. Great team. We are here. Way to the crowd. We have a whole group here. All right. Sports data SV. We're intersecting with sports and data for competitive advantage. Managing your fans. Managing your company. Managing your athletes. That's what corporate America's doing. This is theCUBE. Thanks for watching. It's a wrap here in the Shark Tank, the CUBE Tank here in Silicon Valley. We'll be right back. Thank you.


Okay, so this past week I took a four-day trip to London. We left on a Thursday morning and we took the train, we took this new like train line called LUMO trains. And what I've been hearing from people who actually live here is that LUMO trains is supposed to be this discounted ticket rail, which I guess it's not really that discounted, but at the end of the day, like it really wasn't that much. I think for round trip tickets, it was about like 40 pounds or $40, I don't remember. But so we had been planning this for about a month and we knew that we wanted to go in Christmas time and it was pretty easy to do because our academic schedules are like very loose and I would attribute some of that to COVID, but I think that's just kind of like how the system is here. So I missed one lecture while I was gone because all my tutorials were like sort of in the middle of the week. I actually could just watch the lecture when I got back because it's reported online. So for any students who are going to London, we stayed in a hostel by Tower Bridge called Wombats and this one had the best reviews out of all the hostels that we looked at, which is a really, it's a cheap option for students and it was really safe and you can look up reviews beforehand. This one was very highly rated for safety and it was in like a good location and we got there and there was like a waterfall shower. Like I swear to God, this place was actually like, I'm gonna put a picture, but it was literally nicer than like the dorm showers here. So it was very nice. One thing that I didn't know about hostels is you can actually book them like for like your gender. So we stayed in like an all-female room, which just takes a lot of the pressure off if you are gonna be staying with strangers and you are like a woman and you're, you know, solo traveling, just a little food for thought because that's not something that I actually knew that you could do. The first day we got there, we went to Burl Market, which is this really cool outdoor food market and they have just tons and tons of stalls. So before that, we crossed over Tower Bridge and we walked past the river market by Tower, river, no, is that what it's called? I think that's what it's called. It's like right by Tower Bridge and it's like one of the Christmas markets. It was so fun. We got some mulled wine, which they sell this literally everywhere in London and Edinburgh too. It's just like a huge thing here, which it's so fun and it's, it's so good. I wish we did that more in the US, but we don't really. And I'm gonna try and figure out a recipe to make it because it was so just like fun walking around with it. There were so many Christmas trees this weekend and Christmas lights. I thought that the US had, I've been to New York during Christmas a bunch and this was something different. Like I have never seen so much, so much Christmas explode in a city. And then that night we randomly ended up booking tickets to see Wicked. We looked up the prices the day of because we thought like, oh, maybe there's like some student discounts and we got tickets for, I think it was like $35, which if you have ever tried to go see a show in New York, I have seen Wicked a handful of times and like it is a special, special occasion because those tickets are so expensive. The theater is a, it's so much smaller than New York. I wanna say the Gershwin Theater is like, double the size of the one that we saw it in. The, I just, I literally just Googled how much our seats would have cost like in New York. And it was like, it's like the cheapest seats to see Wicked or like start like over $100, like discounted. Okay, so day two, we went to South Kensington and we went to breakfast at this place called Murials. I had been here before. It's just like a really cute restaurant. We sat in the window. We got some good people washing some excellent coffee. Then we walked down to the V&A, which I have been to before, but you could spend so many hours in there. There's so much to see. There's like fashion, jewelry, art from like so many different eras. Stained glass, window room, we went in there. Photography, the architecture stuff, like there's absolutely so much that you can see in there. After that, we went to Oxford and Regent Street, which are like two very sort of like famous streets in London for shopping. And there were so many Christmas lights. A lot of the stores here are like a little bit on the pricier end, but it's definitely worth just like going through and walking through all the stores and seeing it all lit up at night. We also went into the like famous department store, like I think it's called Liberty. It was in the new like Corella Deville movie with Emma Stone. And yeah, we went in there and it was crazy crowds. Like we had our mask on the whole time just like getting through the crowds, just like see it, but that it was very cool, definitely with it. And then on day three, we actually went to Notting Hill and we obviously knew about this because of the movie. We went to like the big market on Portobello Road. The market on Portobello Road is insane. So we started walking it and we started, I guess, like kind of in the middle of where it went. We walked about eight blocks of it and then we turned around and then when we got to the middle, we walked like maybe two more blocks and then we got to this other section that just like opened up like crazy.  And there's, you know, there stands for like art books, crafts, antiques, vintage clothes. There were so many vintage clothing places.  Yeah, so this is one of my favorite musicals. I've written so many papers about Phantom of the Opera and cats in college. Like I don't even, I don't know why, but it's like one of those topics that I just like fit into every class if I can. And then, yeah, before that, we walked around like having gardens and then we actually went back in the nighttime to see it all like lit up at night after our dinner. And it was really fun.  Yeah, it was just, it was a really good trip. So I definitely recommend all of the places that I mentioned so far and leave any other recommendations down below because I'm sure people would love to read that.