بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته الحمد لله رب العالمين والصلاة والسلام علي سيدنا محمد وعلى آله وصحبه ومن تبعهم بإحسان إلى يوم الدين أما بعد كما هذه المملكة سوف يأتي إلى مجموعة بالنسبة بأنها مجموعة ومملكة نبقى سبحانه وتعالى فهو يقوم إلى أمام يوم المعدودات ومملكة مملكة ومالكة نصف مملكة ومالكة كما تأتي إلى تقوى ومالكة وماذا هو نصف مملكة من الله سبحانه وتعالى كل ما نحاول في هذا المملك يوجد من المملكات كل ذلك هو أن نصف مملكة ومن فقد نحن يمكننا أن نصف مملكة في قاعدة مملكة التي يوجدنا فإن we are amongst those who are the winners and those who are successful وإن لم نكن نصف مملكة فهو ليس فتاة because all it takes is one sincere moment, literally a sincere moment, to remember Allah سبحانه و تعالى Allah reminds us Ask Allah سبحانه و تعالى silently with lots of humility Find that one moment with Allah سبحانه و تعالى and all will be good Insha'Allah So there's a few things first of all As we close these nights We've been reminded again and again Let us increase our ذكر of اللهم إنك عفوه تحب العفوة فعفو أني Oh Allah إنك عفوه You are the one who forgives تحب العفوة You love to forgive So forgive me Make this dua in any language عائشة رضي الله عنها Narrates this from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم And it's been narrated that سفيان ثوري who writes For me, dua in this night is better than prayer Now that doesn't mean that he wouldn't pray It would just mean that he personally would find A certain satisfaction in dua That he would not find in prayer On this specific night Right? So whatever it is that we do Waking up a little early for سحور So that we can get in our تهجد Whatever it is extra that we can do During these nights Let's make it count Let's have a few more nights left We're almost there And insha'Allah The blessing is with Allah سبحانه وتعالى Also keeping in mind That no one No one should end this month With a feeling of guilt No one should end this month Feeling that what they have done Has not been accepted No one should end this month Feeling that this Ramadan Was not a good Ramadan Or this Ramadan was a bad Ramadan There's no such thing as a bad Ramadan There's no such thing as not a good Ramadan There's no such thing as my actions Have not been accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى Though we are reminded that there would be people As I mentioned earlier Who would make dua for six months after Ramadan For Allah to accept their عبادة of their Ramadan But that means insha'Allah That Allah will accept our عبادة And we don't want anyone to end this month This month of the blessed month of Ramadan This beautiful month of Ramadan Thinking that my actions weren't accepted I wasn't able to go to the masjid So I didn't get my extra rewards That I wasn't able to host people for iftar So I won't get that extra reward Whatever actions that we have been able to do In the past That we haven't been able to do this month Should not be a reason For us to think that this was not a good Ramadan This was not a fulfilling Ramadan Simply because we weren't able to do those actions And we would have Had we had the ability to do so Insha'Allah We have a reward with Allah سبحانه وتعالى Without even doing them And the fact that we want to do them And we aren't able to do them Then insha'Allah There's an increase in our reward With Allah سبحانه وتعالى Do not underestimate the power of Allah Do not underestimate the mercy Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى This is not a time to be having Negative thoughts about Allah This is a time about having Positive thoughts about Allah سبحانه وتعالى The mercy of Allah سبحانه وتعالى The acceptance from Allah سبحانه وتعالى And this is what leads us Into our Eid This is what leads us into our Eid It's been mentioned Abdullah Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما Narrates And we want to talk about رمضان We don't know when it will be Naturally moonsighting So whatever Whichever night it is Abdullah Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما Narrates That the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم Said That if thought on each night In Ramadan Hundreds of thousands of individuals Are freed from the fire of hell But on Friday That many people are freed Every moment And when the last night Of Ramadan arrives Allah سبحانه وتعالى Freezes and forgives The amount of people That He has freed And forgiven During the course Of the entire month So if If Just in case We haven't made it into That list All we gotta do is Get that last moment Of Ramadan That last day If tonight is the Sighting of the moon Then make sure That we are While we make arrangements To sight the moon And fulfill that sunnah But let us Make sure That we spend a few moments Alone With Allah سبحانه وتعالى Ask him for forgiveness Allah will not allow Any believer Who asks him for forgiveness To not be forgiven During this blessed month All we have to do Is ask And if it's not That night And if we Complete 30 nights Then of course We know for a fact That عيد will be The next day Then on the 30th Night evening of Ramadan Before Salat المغرب Make dua To Allah سبحانه وتعالى For the acceptance Of our deeds Right For the acceptance Of our deeds For forgiveness For a blessed future That may Allah سبحانه وتعالى Relieve the Ummah Relieve the entire Earth With the difficulty That it happens to be Going through Right Asking Allah سبحانه وتعالى And as we're talking About dua And as all of us Make dua In our homes With our families With our children With our parents I ask you to keep Me and my family In your blessed Dua As well So keep in mind That the nights of عيد Right Are considered to be Nights of عبادة And worship Right These are nights Of عبادة And worship The prophet It's been narrated That the prophet Although Ramadan would technically Be over At the time of Maghrib He wouldn't go home He would remain In the masjid Go directly To the And then proceed To his home From there Who ever stands In prayer In the nights of عيد For the pleasure Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى His heart Will not die On the day All the hearts Will die In other words If we can Take a few moments On the night of عيد After عشاء Just as we have been Praying Every day And we have been Making to Hajj Every day If we can take a few Moments And pray a few Extra ركع Allah سبحانه وتعالى And cause And allow Our hearts To always Be alive Always be Conscious Aware Of Allah سبحانه وتعالى Aware Of our Surroundings Aware Right Of The reality Of this life Aware Of the importance Of the hereafter In Sha Allah Mu'ad ibn جبل رضي الله Is narrated Is narrated That the prophetFor the one Who keeps Five nights alive The night of ترويillah The night of عرافة The night of أضع Hope Can Rock Aud أكد If we Haven't built AlFithl Although An obligation Bot في الم makeup مقاتل المقارنة لكن نعرف نقول مقاطل مقارنة في دولار لكن تقوم بأعطة كثير من الأشياء لو you can give more please go ahead and do so also it seems like عيدة this year may be very very very very unique and very very different rather than be sad about it honestly let us be grateful that we are alive let us be grateful that we are healthy let us be grateful that we have شلتر let us be grateful that we have people that love us let us be grateful that we have had this entire month of Ramadan let us be grateful that we have been able to fast let us be grateful that if we haven't been able to fast we've been able to give the Fidia right we've been able to give the Fidia that lengthy حديث you know an individual made a mistake had to give a kaffara comes to the Prophet ﷺ and the Prophet ﷺ gives him all these options in the end right he couldn't fulfill any of the options not even given charity and when dates were brought in charity the Prophet ﷺ asked for him and said give this to that man so he can give these dates in charity and he responds to the Prophet ﷺ he says oh messenger of God give this to a family that's poorer than my family so let us be grateful that for those of us that haven't been able to fast we were able to give the Fidia there's so much to be grateful for there's so much to celebrate right I just received word from someone who says that all of a sudden they've lost eyesight in one of their eyes subhan Allah let us we have so much to be grateful for yes yes unfortunately we cannot celebrate with the community at the masjid or at the fairgrounds or at some large hall where we have all dressed up and we're with our family and friends and saying to be a lot of and so on and so forth I get that I totally understand that we're totally going to miss that this Ramadan and this is going to go down in history like never before but let us insha'Allah be grateful for all that which we have and I'm going to recommend especially parents of young children make it a celebration decorate your homes buy please please for the sake of Allah because this Ramadan and has been so difficult for all of us let us buy gifts for our children let's buy some nice gifts for our children let them remember that it was that one that was so difficult that I was able to you know I my parents got me something that I had wanted for such a long time if Allah has blessed you with the opportunity be grateful and buy beautiful gifts for your children and and decorate your homes and and make this one of celebration because we want we want to make sure that we celebrate from the bottom of our hearts and we remain in a state of gratitude to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala say ya Allah despite all the difficulty you've given us so much and we want to be grateful today and we want to celebrate please dress up if you wish to buy new clothes please buy new clothes please dress up and then when Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala allows us the opportunity once again to see each other meet each other greet each other hug each other and have dinner with each other we will do that insha'Allah we will make قضاء of our Eid not the Eid prayer but قضاء of the celebration of our Eid we will insha'Allah whenever we can with our MCC community insha'Allah we and and you know all the other surrounding communities that you know live or more San Ramon and everyone else insha'Allah we will collectively celebrate we'll have an Eid celebration insha'Allah all of us and we will celebrate and we will eat good food and we will smile and we will laugh but let us make this Eid a blessed one for all of us insha'Allah we pray to Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala for the acceptance of this beautiful month of Ramadan and and let us ask Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala to forgive us in this month and to be to become pleased with us and to remain pleased with us and allow us to be to be in his blessings and allow us to keep all of the blessings that he has given to us and not take away anything away from us and allow us to have حلال sustenance and increase our sustenance and give شفات to those who are ill I know there's many people in the in the tri city community or tri valley community that are very near and dear to my heart who are very very ill may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala bless all of you and all of us our parents and our elder ones with شفاء and عافية and blessings and happiness and may Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala make this Ramadan a beautiful a beautiful one for all of us and a beautiful Eid for all of us with that said a little a few days in advance insha'Allah عيدكم مبارك عيد مبارك to all of you كل عام وانتم بخير please keep me and those near and dear to me in my in your دعاز and you will all be in mind جزاكم الله خيرا بارك الله فيكم السلام عليكم ورحمة الله تعالى وبركاته


What's going on, everyone? Sam here with late sports card driven 23 tops Allen and Ginner baseball hobby 12 box full case break number nine pick your team style read off the list for names on our teams Brian H. Blue Jays Cameron C. Rangers Chen Z cardinals Christian G Padres Chun Wei W. Nine MLB spa David C with the Diamondbacks and Orioles Don B. Yanks Eric C. Astros Glenn W. Braves HG Reds Marlins Athletics Jacob C with the twins Mariners White Sox Brewers Phillies Giants and Dodgers Jacob thanks for selling us out actually Jacob P with the Dodgers so Jacob C twins Mariners White Sox Brewers Phillies Giants Jacob P with the Dodgers Jason R with the Rays Jerry B. Metz Johnny A. Nationals Kazuma M with the Royals Lynn M Red Sox Michael F. Guardians Ryan T. Cubs Songla S. Angels Todd R. Tigers Wayne P. Rockies and Young K. with the Pirates. It's good luck here everybody. Let's do it again. Bowman Chrome teams really mark down man really mark down. There is your link teams are heavily discounted. Let's get after man. See what we got in Ginner. Make sure this is Ginner. I now honestly though. Here we go. Oh boy. Oh boy. Uh oversized rip card. That's the biggest one. Yeah. I don't I think it's Bobby Witt I believe I remember correctly. It's been like one or two. Yeah. Did we rip it? No. Unfortunately. It's a rip card.  It's like a Russian doll until you get something. There's Todd Helsing jersey. You end up with a little miniature like it's this big. And then inside of the very last one it's like an eyelash of George Washington. Some shorts and pastes. Oh my god. Some of those DNA cards. Get all the way to the end. Hey George Washington. Hurray on base. Unreal. Like I said guys teams are way on sale. Say Bryce Young that went flying there. Todd Hilton action to start us off here on the joys. That's a foil filigree of Chris Bryant. Rocky's doing well in the first first couple of packs now which is awesome. Congrats to the rocks. The rocks. Hashtag Rocktober. Ozzy Albees. That's the only reason I root for the Rockies in like 2018. That their hashtag for the left is Rocktober. I think that's cool. I like that. So far and a ukulele. On to the next. Got a Chris Fowler on the relic card. Nice one there for the non MLB spot. Chris Fowler. Base and base. Got our jumbo oversize on the line and do this first but for the Dodgers it is Mookie Betts oversize box topper. Nice one there. Nothing too too special about that one. Pretty much just gonna be your we got I think we got an auto already. No we got a rip card. It is Brandon Nemo. Congrats to the Mets. First rip card of the break. You only get like two or three of these a case if we're lucky. There we go to New York. Congrats on that. Let us know what you do on the rip card. That is a fudge. Nice. Save room for dessert. Get down with that. Chuck nasty on the mini. Never go wrong with a little bit of fudge. No. No, no, no, no, no. That is a Christopher Morrell.  Shoot Jerry you do have the bats don't you? Oh man that is pretty awesome. I will. I mean if you want I will. I would say just uh we'll do it at the end just confirm with the order number. I don't know how to rip a rip card. I've never done it. It's so it's from the top right there. Oh and then you pull the tab and rip it down. Gotcha. Jerry shoot just uh yeah just drop your order number in chat if that's cool and yeah we can do it why not. Just remind me to that it's gonna be a black of Drew Waters full-time hockey in there. Rod Karoo nice one there and base. Oh I know dude we pulled it on release today bro. I remember that. Yeah you were here for either top voting that I believe. What's up Chad? Hey what's up Chad? The message is like a couple seconds quicker than I do.  Definitely. I'd almost rather have you like do it too so you could like not not necessarily like experience it but like so you have like the satisfaction almost of just ripping the rip card which is awesome. That's great. You know what's really cool and those that I've seen is the wood the one-of-one wood parallel it's kind of like in uh uh triple threads. The sheet auto would be sick man. The sheet auto would be sick. That's going to the Phylls is oversized boxed hopper. I was talking about there. Yeah. Got a framed mini relic coming up here and it's gonna be a Derek Jeter. Nice there we go Yanks. Captain. A Capitan nice one there. KB and snorkeling fun in the sun. Just walked away from the Steelers. I don't know if Mates and Rudolph is necessarily the answer though that's the only thing. Who's gonna start now in place of Pickett because Pickett's gonna miss I think they said Pickett's gonna miss a little bit of time with that knee injury but what's what's who who's who's there now uh well Jason Worth it's quite the uh quite the nostalgia name right there. Yeah you have another rip card? No we have an auto. Mini-framed auto. Rookie of Michael Harris. Nice one Braves. Congrats. There you go Atlanta. Awesome man. Take a Michael Harris auto. Not too shabby right exactly. Only in Oakland at the Coliseum. That's the post season horror. Wow. That's the wood. One of one hand numbered for the athletics. We are just talking about this dude. Hand numbered Seth Brown. One of one. Hell yeah man. Let's go. Wow. Dude that's sweet. Who's got Oakland? Dude that's freaking cool man. We are just talking about this in the last box. Oakland is HG. Congrats HG. On the hand numbered one of one wood mini. Oh that's sweet dude. That is so sweet.  You got one.  Like I saw the Riley Green on Facebook I think or maybe on that was weird dude. Oh that's right that's Mitch Trebisky I forgot about him. Yeah I saw the Riley Green on I think on Instagram yesterday.  Tony Gwyn missed their Padre statue in Petco. Or are they still Petco or no anymore? Yeah no they're still Petco. I'm still pissed. Maybe my buddy went to San Diego when I was like a freshman in college and they were gone. They weren't there. They were on the road. Carolina O'Connor so they didn't even get to go to Petco. They were going to go to Petco so bad to see a game. So because how many times are you going to be able to say being from Connecticut. Yeah man I went to I saw Padre's name you know unless they were visiting somewhere. True. Foyle, Filigree's, Vladdy Jr. I swung there for the Blue Geese, Abreu and Baze. Unless they're visiting the Mets essentially. Yeah Mets socks or yanks really is the only shots you have there. That is a Zion Clark on the black border mini. Juan Soto. Juan Soto. Jeremy Pena. One of one is so sick. So freaking cool bro. Baze and Baze. Especially that it's wood. Yeah that's like the coolest part dude. Just being grained and all. It's like yeah. Nicest thing. That's what I'm saying Michael. That's what I'm saying dude. I've heard nothing but really good things about Petco Park. Like Petco is gorgeous. It's a gorgeous state of everybody says that it's like yeah no I think that's true Travis. I think that's true. Like a hardcore Ginter fan would know that but that sounds right. Yeah. Just a little bit of existence. Let's go Timmy.  But yeah I've heard nothing but really good. Like people it's it's like almost always ranked in like the top 10 ball parks in the in the country is Petco. My god I'd love to go to Petco. Kyle Gordon, a tiktoker. I'm the only person I drive myself. I'd probably never go to California. And like probably just that aspect of it. I'd go there just that's cool. Adam Lefko on like the Thai relic it looks like. Nice one there congrats non MLB spot at the Lefko and the Chris Fowler. That's a cool relic dude. I'd love to find that tie. Yeah right. Just just to get just to get it. Sarah Lange's nice one there. It's in a nice part of town too. Yeah. Yup. Yup. That's a hunt. That's true too. That's cool. Yeah that makes it a little bit better. Yeah even more like exciting. We are down to 20 to go in the next break 20 and 21 everybody. 21 on both mosaic nine nine and 23. That is 22 go again all teams are marked down. 22 go everybody. All marked down. Huh? What does that most improve last night? First career game with two touchdown passes. Yeah no interceptions. That's not great. That's not great at all. All right oversized box top. We'll start with that is going to be for the Seattle Mariners. Think you know who that's going to be. Mr. Julio Rodriguez. Grats on that. Grats on that Seattle doing Comic Con. Yeah I've heard the San Diego Comic Con is like the best one in the country too. That's like the Comic Con to go to. Brandon Nimmo. Nice one there again. Metz on the back card this time. Got the Nimmo rip card and the Nimmo back card. Just need a Nimmo auto and we've done the trifecta. That's an auto. Come on. That is looks like a non baseball. Again dude. Let's go man. Hell yeah. Non MLB spot. Yeah. Wemby number two on the year.  Killing it. Heck yeah man. Let's go. That's awesome. Victor Wemenyama again on the Framed Mini Auto. Again that is number two on the year. What a couple of bangers for autos we've got so far. Harris and now Wemby. Yeah we still I have nine boxes to go after this. Pittsburgh only in. Hit a one of one. Wood mini. Yeah this is a good case dude. This is a good we're cooking right now. Hold on let them cook. That is a black mini border rod Karoo. Yeah it's a great case again here man. Yeah good vibes today for sure. We got teams marked down in Bowman Chrome. Teams marked way down in Bowman Chrome like I said it's like the cheapest we've had Bowman Chrome like ever basically since the product's been out. Hey Garen and base so definitely recommend taking a look at those. There are some very good deals to be had in there. In terms of like certain teams you pull one prospect auto and your spot is paid out. Paid out in more. Meek Mill mini nice one there.  Two mag cards in the first three boxes unbelievable. I know honestly why not dude. Ropa vieja. Anti the peas in Ropa vieja though. Anti the peas. There's Nestor Cortez foil filigree. Not a pee guy. Can't wait for him to come back next year. Yeah me too. We need a we need a full healthy team Nestor. I mean he's like a potential top of the rotation guy behind Cole obviously. Hopefully he's a number two starter. I don't see if as long as like the season started when and everybody was healthy and at their best I think he would be in our rotation. And then probably King. Schmidt. Well I'd probably go Rodan three. You still have to let Rodan pitch with the money we're paying him. Doesn't matter. Same way field RIP. Yeah Rodan was a waste of money but I'd go probably it'd probably be then Rodan and then King and then probably Schmidt yeah.  I don't know what's going on there honestly. Mentally we don't know. Mentally right. Christian Kossis mini. Randy Johnson big unit. Big unit. Jim Edmonds black frame mini. Black border mini not framed. Got a mini framed relic coming up and it's going to be of Robbie Devers going to the Red Sox. Congrats. Ballston. Very nice. Very nice. The mini stuck to the back. It is Mandy Bell. Mandy Bell. Rare stuff. The diamond. The immaculate inning. Yeah Sammy we hit a Wemby auto and we had a one on one wood mini. We had a Wemby auto and a one of one hand number. One of one mini. Wood mini. John DiMaggio. The voice of Menger. Yep. Yes he is. And the voice of Jake the dog. There's Trace Herner mini. And the voice of Rico the Penguin. Yes. From multiple Madagascar movies. Yeah. Yeah and the Geo Relic too. The Geo Relic is nothing to scoff at. Oh nice. Got one of the uh that's cool. Aaron Judge nice one there. Congrats there. Yinks. Feels like this case would kind of have a cut auto as well dude. That'd be awesome.  If we had a cut now and miss the Rogers cut. That's what we need. Uh Lubaub on the relic. Nice one there. White Sox. Backed relic of Lubaub. I feel like if we get a miss the Rogers. If anybody gets that I might have to talk. Uh Casey Webb. That's cool with the uh shirt relic with a little anchor on it. That's cool. Uh goes to the non MLB spots. Goes to the non MLB spots. We sell 31 spots in Ginter Bricks and one gets all of the non MLB cards. It's generally the most expensive spot and the spot that has gone first. Yeah almost always. Yeah and the Michael Harris too. I forgot about the Michael Harris. Like unreal dude. Um only in Seattle. That is uh. Save girl? T-Mobile. That's what it was. I think the Ranger spot gets to envy. Um I think it used it was safe go at one point. That is uh Ivan Herrera. I'm thinking King's deal is those man. Yeah I know. I know. Honestly. That is Lenin so so many. All the pleasure man. I know. I know we lost some good ones this year. We lost Wayno, Frankie and Miggy. Brandon Marsh. Well, Greggy hasn't said anything. Still I'd imagine he's probably. I feel like just him personally he's going to just go out one more time because he wants to go out on top. Maybe uh I wouldn't it wouldn't shock me. I'll do the base. Trust me he's the worst. He's the worst guy on the baseball. Yeah he's awesome. I love you. I love Frankie. Just having that the person he is. Yeah Ian Rappaport and Garrett Cole as an astral. Yeah to foil filigree of Mr. Wade Boggs for the race. Right who knows what he's going to do or say. There's a story of him. Like some guys like I just went up to Zach Granky and asked it like before the game and asked to be signed my ball and he just took it and threw it into the stands and he's the guy's like I asked him why'd you do that and he goes I don't know I thought it'd be funny. Oh yeah he was laughing at it too. He's like yeah that's him. I love that dude that story was so funny. That's Ethan Small. Black Mini. No I like the story with him that like how we just like one day just disappeared. Yeah. And just became a trash guy like literally. Yep. I don't know where it's like I don't want to do this for the rest of my time. Honestly. And everybody was like why. Tony Gwynmini. It's the Padre. Again everybody teams marked way down in Bowman Chrome. 20 to go. That is 40-40 season. Rarest of the diamond. Not so rare anymore with the new Bulls but. 40-70 season. That's going to be the new rarest of the time. That is another Lubbob. Two Lubbob's in this box. Nice one there on the rope. Yeah we'll finish right there. Yeah that's kind of nice honestly. I've got an auto. Who's that? Mike that is 8 of 10. Mike Mayhan CEO of Fanatics Collectibles. Wow. Whoa. That's awesome dude. That's actually cool. That's actually. Wow. Forgot about that. Those are super short printed man the employees. Mike Mayhan CEO of Fanatics Collectible.  I'd say you can mag that one. Yeah. Let me see what the odds on that are. I think this is a quiz case. This is like kind of a wild case dude. Let me look that up really quick. Tops Allen. I know the employees are super super super short printed. Yeah many employee one in 31,000 hobby packs. Good. We'll take that dude. That's number to 10 right there yeah. That's wild. That's wild. Yeah Mike Mayhan dude. That's sick.  Probably like one of the bigger employee names too. Yeah exactly. 20 to go everybody. That is not bro. This is a great case man.  Is he really? Hell yeah. Jacob the Grom. I swung there for the Rangers on the Oversize box. Nick Ladolo for the Reds jersey card. Yeah. Not MLB spot is broken dude. I think it's Chun Wei has the not MLB in this case. That is a Luis Arias for the Marlins on the jersey card. Yeah this is the best case I've ripped so far in terms of what's come out of it. Like that's insanity. It's three magged cards out of not even halfway to the case of Ginzer. This is insane man. Insane. Whoa. Yeah 20 to go on the next one. Teams are all heavily marked on down. Let's get that sold out. Call us Rodanmini. Yeah man imagine like at the Nero now or like a Kevin Hart dude or a Meek Mill. Well baby any of the huge non MLB names would be sick. I'd be down for a Nero. I'd be very down for a Nero. Max Schweezer. Hey what's up Luis? How you doing buddy? Oswald Parazzo. I think the Fred Rogers. God that'd be so sick. That alone would be just because the Nostalgia. We grew up with them. Absolutely. There's an inaction of Corbin Burns on the short print. Nice one there. For last and base. Yeah the pickleball players the Annaly Waters and the Tyson MacGuffin that dual auto sells extremely high. Here in class right now Luis. There we go. Hell yeah. It's not Luis's class. If you don't have one thing I don't I don't miss right there. It's having to be in class. Do not miss that one bit. Vidal Bruhan. Don't miss college classes at all. Josh Young. Foil filigree. There you go Cameron. Nice one there. On the rookie. I like those foil filigrees. Those look kind of sweet. Dogface 420. Freshman area. Yeah Freshman area 2-2 bad. That is Ripken. Foil filigree for the Orioles. Yes sir. Ironman. Tramansini. Hoodie Allen the musician. A couple of years too late on having Hoodie Allen in this product I will be honest. Yeah. A few years too late on that one. That would have been like really cool in like 2015. He was at his peak. Well you know probably the price of him at his peak. Was way too much. Way too much. That was probably very very factual. It was a cranky mini. You gotta play the long and not the short. True. This is a nutty case. Ooh gummy bears. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No that's not that's not Hoodie Allen. No that's Hoodie Allen was the one we pulled. Whit Merrifield. But like musician. What are you saying about Woody Allen? That's yeah. Nice one there for the Blue Jays. Quit Merrifield. Whitley Merrifield. Scoot Henderson. And bass. And last pack of box five there. Cool. What's up? Some cool. Yep. Might put in so much emphasis on the H. It's whip. Whip. Say cool. Cool whip. Whip. Cool whip. Cool whip. Cool whip. Again guys. A 20 to go. It's Woody Allen. Would one of one would be cool. Oh Woody Woody. Yeah right. Honestly though. Geez man. I think it's still 20 to go. Let me make sure. Nope. 19 to go. 19 to go everybody. Not team to go. We are into the teams now on Bowman Chrome. Again all the teams are marked way down. I mean teams that sometimes are like $5 off or like $20 off. Teams are 10. A minimum of $10 off every single team. Next. Teams are heavily, heavily discounted. Heavily discounted. Yes. Thanks for the follow there Eric. Yeah it's a Mookie Betts. Nice one there. Another Mookie Betts jumbo box stopper. We need to cut this one now man. Yeah after this. This case wants to be like this. Listen. Come on with the cut. Yeah why not dude. Yeah why not. Why the hell not here. That is a Christian Yelch. That's game used for sure. Going to the brew crew. Dirty dirty. Brew crew one of the last team steak. A nice one there. Supposed to lose yesterday. Allow the mayors to win the west. We've got a who is that? That is Jim Bintliff. Three of 25. Baseball mud supplier. That's right. He's the guy who does the Mississippi mud that you rub on the baseballs. Dude that's awesome. Hell yeah. It's a 25.  Eight of 25. Jim Bintliff. Hell yeah. Baseball mud supplier. You're the guy that makes it happen. Yeah pretty much. That's wild dude. That is cool. I'd say wild auto. Chocolate mousse. Baseball mud supplier. That is a black mini. Black border mini. Mandy Bell and base. Yeah only half a case in. Exactly Timmy. Asturian Ruiz mini. Broke the break the rookie stolen bases right there. I think he did right. I think he might have done it. I think he did. Tom Schwartz. Hashtag scandiball. Vendor pump rules.  Oh yeah. I'm trolling Sean today. I'm hardcore trolling Sean today. Literally. Is Christian Walker all to join. Like Mosaic choice wouldn't be bad I would say Luis. Mosaic choice is pretty top notch. I just wander. Yeah we're trolling Sean tonight for sure. 200%. Well filigree Albert Puholz. That's move on. Black border mini.  I'm so amped to troll Sean. I hope you've walked in with the Dolphin's chain tail. Just take it off with it. It's like just take it off. That is base of the destinations. Miguel Vargas. And I was hoping that like the build put up like a 70 a 60 or 70 spot on them. Proud of a nuts. I would. Top ratio. Only the choice makes the choice makes her ain't bad. Choice makes her ain't bad for sure. Kodai Senga mini. A rookie couple had two minis. You'll see that happen every now and then even in hobby you'll see that happen every now and then like we'll get like two minis in one pack and then we'll get nothing like get no minis in another pack but yeah average is out generally to about two one. Will Clark but yeah like even in a hobby like one or two three four times a case you'll see that happen. That is Tristan Koss this mini. Rookie for the Red Sox. Christopher Morrell. Player Warren Jersey for the Cubs. Congrats on that. Nice one there. Cubbies. Rushman rookie mini or mini rookie. Oswald Paraza and a Trump base. Have a go on Luis. Nice. Only in Chicago that's Wrigley going to the Cubs with the Ivy. I like the oversize. I like those oversize that have the only in the stadiums. That'd be a really cool one to get like signed by people. You know what I mean? Get like the whole trying like the whole Cubs team. Yeah like the 2016 World Series. Yeah. I mean that'd be like impossible but it's a cool thought. Jim Tomek for the Guardians. Nice one there on the framed mini relic. Congrats on that one. All right. Got Paul with the twins. Jacob with the Tigers. Charles with the Phillies and 49 and 50 and the Marlins and 50. And Brian with the Angels. So thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate that. More teams gone in the next bowman chrome. Allen Wrench. Kind of like 15 to go or so in that 15 or 16. Got another auto. That is a rookie of Ezekiel Tovar. Going to the Rockies. Congrats on that. It's auto what number five? Yeah. Fifth auto. Nice one there. See if we can keep getting some more here man. Oh yeah. Let's keep moving. If we can get like for the rest of the boxes at least one box. That'd be crack. There's Clayton Kershaw. That would be absolutely cracked. I mean I wouldn't put it past that at this point. Yeah. That's this and base. That's bad though. Like I think Belichick is such a great coach but it really does go to show how much Brady meant. Yeah. Even though you developed him it's like bruise and base. Still he did a lot. Oh yeah. To make sure your lung is used to slip by it. Right. That's Kevin Hart. Foil, filigree. Nice one, non-MLB. Take that all day long. Robert De Niro. Chuck Nasty. Black Mini. Yeah, I think he signed a one-year extension. I think next year will be his last. He signed a one-year extension with Colorado. I think to stay there. Cookie is nice. Well, he still reads those. He still reads that too. Yeah. That's one thing you can't say about me. I won't let him play too. It's not like. I know honestly Belichick's finally feeling the pain. Every other franchise in the NFL felt during their reign. The reign of supremacy over everybody. Another lubeb. Third lubeb, really. Congrats, White Sox. Nice one there. And two pitchfribs. Yeah. And a bat, which is kind of cool. Yeah. Soon you'll be able to put the other hole in before. Yeah, true. Honestly, might as well at that point. Only at San Fran, McCubbyCube. I'm seeing people jump off their kayaks trying to get balls. It's so funny. All right, let me drop you guys a link for the next one again real quick. True. 15 and 18 to go on both Bum and Kromes now. Officially under 20 to go on each of our baseball breaks that still remain. 15 to go. We are halfway sold out. All teams marked out. Yeah. Like the Guardians are there. Well been Francisca's super has not been claimed yet. To my knowledge at least. Again, that could change daily. They can. They can. But still, even if you buy the Mariner, even if you buy, even if you buy the Guardians and hit the Francisca and it's claimed already, that's still a huge card. It's still a massive card in this product. That is Bobby Witt Jr. Oversized. Blakes now. I swung there. No, I did not. I did not. I saw it on my feed, but I didn't watch it. Now another rip card of Carlos Rodan to 199. God, how fast I would rip this card. Congrats, Don. Nice one there. I think I would like ruin the card inside because I'd be so mad like tearing it open. Yeah. I just like destroy the car that's inside. Allen Adele. Oh, the pain. Yeah, this is a nutty case, bro. Byron Buxton. I swung there. That is Jorge Mateo and see we can do Cameron Carlos Pena. It's a name right there too. Yeah, I will tell me. I love I love Ian's videos. I always make sure to watch them every week. I do too. I like I have or if I would say I have, but it's it. That's why I like, I can't like plan for it. But like, if I ever hit a card that I know is going to make it, I just want to look at the camera and be like, hello if sports cards on that one. It's like, hello. Baltimore only at Camden for that one. I want to have some sort of funny, like funny thing while I'm calling the head out that can go on the on the top 10 as well. Yeah. Devers and base Smith. That is Kenley Jansen. Now you can kind of tell where you're going to place on the top 10. Yeah. Theoretically. Yes, you can. Theoretically. Yes, you can. At least unclaimed. Yes, yes, unclaimed supers for sure. No, that's the that's the thing for sure. Nick is you always hit the monsters when you're not expecting it. Yeah, absolutely. Always happens. So it's like a surprise. Just like, right. Right. Exactly. Exactly. That's the best one. Nice. That I can be a bad day to be a cheesecake. New York style. Yes. All the way. Grover's. I could get down with it. If they're like, hey, we're known for the cheesecake with our strawberries on it. I'll be like, give me the juniors in New York, juniors in New York. Okay. I'm not now brother. Come on, man. You would not. You can't call yourself between. I'm not a true. I'm not a true. I've been to New York more times than I could count. But you haven't been there. I haven't been there now. Because well, what I'll always do is like, whenever I go because like all my body, like my body's living Queens. So like, we'll just go do stuff in Queens. You know what I mean? We don't do like the, I'm not not saying junior to the foresty spot either. But you know how you know how New Yorkers are. They're like, oh, my local place is the best place out there. So like, that's we always end up at somebody's local place. Meek Mill, Black Mini Meek Mill, Hoodie Allen. So Hoodie Allen has the, by any other name as well. Got a mini framed relic. Fred McGriff, the crime dog, going to the Braves. Nice one there. Congrats on that. And that's a Goldie going to the Caddals. That is Matt Olson. Nice one there for the Braves. Oh yeah. It's just a matter of what exactly. I mean, eventually it happens all the time. Randy Rosa Reina for the Rays. Nice one there. Sushi, nice. A bang with sushi for sure. I'm a big food person, but I'm not into sushi. Not a sushi guy.  There's really no, it's not like, eh, I kind of like it. I used to be the same way. So like, not, not like sushi at all. And then I tried it a couple of times and Javier Assad. It's a matter of finding a role that you really like. That's not how it's done. No, I could, I could say that. Yeah. They're just factual. That's factual. But I mean, if you're not a sushi fan, you're not a sushi fan for sure. I get it a hundred percent. But my parents hate it because they're like, oh, it's a bit rough. It creeps me out. I'm like, yeah, I'm a sushi guy. Spicy yellowtail, man. Linen Sosa and base. Avoid sushi. Yes. That is true. That is facts. Jardo, like we got pretty decent sushi down here, not sashimi. Rolls of cooked ingredients. Just the sashimi. No, thank you. I feel that, Michael. I feel that. Like if you get like, stealing second, third in home in one appearance, rarest of the time. So Joshua, how you doing, buddy? Yeah, if you, I think I agree with that. If you're a landlocked state, I probably would advise against it. Like if you're in the Midwest, I would probably advise against sushi. Because that's not fresh. That's important. Yes. And you know, it's coming from somewhere else. Yes. And it's probably some days old. Maybe a week. Tuna marlin, shark shrimp. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's us down here. Yeah. Nester Cortez. We got a lot of good fish down here. Yeah, we do. For sure. I love fish, dude. Big fish guy. Here, Sheffield is a Padre. Yeah, I miss going fishing, man. Indiana sushi sounds like another word for food poisoning. Edwin Diaz and base. Indiana sushi sounds like just put, don't eat, please. Yeah, honestly, that doesn't sound good. Eat at your own risk. Yeah. Like Midwest, I will give it to you. Midwest has a lot of good food out there, man.  But yeah, sushi I would probably not go with. Just snowballs in North Dakota. Just rice wraps and snowballs in it. That's a mini. Looks different, but I'm just going to go ahead and sleeve that one because it's not like a headshot. It looks like an inaction mini, but I didn't say it on it. Yeah, on it. No kidding though, Michael. No kidding. Liam Hendricks and base. Nice. We got a framed mini relic. That is going to be Yari Molina. Go into the Cardinals. Nice one there. St. Louis. Yari. Peking duck. Hell yeah. What's up? We're getting old, man. Who really are? When you start seeing like all the guys that you grew up with. Yeah, that are retired now. Not good. Not good. Agreed. Derrard Robinson. Chulis. Base. Bradley, that's what the Pistons in number 12. Thank you, buddy. See how we're looking on this next break here, everybody. We are at 15 to go. Still 15 and 18. Good teams still on the board, everybody. 15 to go. Let's get that sold on out, everybody. Hell yeah. Yes, yes, it is. I would say it might be. Because we're about to go, what, fifth week? Yeah, they're one and three. Yeah. That's Jacob DeGrom. I will say that I think if you, I don't, they should have not played Joe Burrow. No. I think they rushed Joe Burrow back. I think, I think the calf, they tried so hard. I think they're just trying so hard to like say that it's not as bad as they think it is. Old-time hockey. Nice one there for the non MLB spot. Relic card. Tampa Bay. The Raids. Touch tank. Probably, yeah. Most likely. It was kind of funny. He was opening a box of this on TikTok Live the other day. Yeah. Another Andy Chavez. Again, I don't, I'm assuming it's not anything since we pulled two of them now. So one of them is sleeve just in case though. That is a Austin Riley again, not again, but for the Braves. Again, for the Braves. Nice one there. Again, 15 to go and Bowman Chrome breaking next. Teams are way marked down, man. Plenty of big cards to chase. You've got your unclaimed super fractures, of course, which is awesome. So definitely check that out. Lot of really good deals, man. The best deals we've had on Bowman Chrome teams so far. Best teams we've had. The best deals we had on Bowman Chrome. Peeking duck. It wasn't such a bot I would. Yeah. Something said, have a birthday bot already. I don't think so. What's up? No, Chris did. Like literally just did. As soon as like the notification came in as I was like like reading everything. I got the bot too. That's the problem. It's just bot lobby out there. It's really a bot lobby out there. No, not a bad look overall. Michael Toglia. Black mini. Foil filigree of Nina O'Brien. Alan Test. Only by any other name. Jefferson White. In action, Clayton Kershaw almost went by that. Nice one there. Congrats to the Bowders. And those are like one or two a case. Give or take. Sometimes three. Sometimes one. Generally about two though. Our fence. Had that one in the Corbin Burns. That is a Ryan Mountcastle bat card going to the Orioles. Got the Baltimore. Baltimore. Only at Cleveland at Progressive. I always get that mixed up with what's it called the White Sox stadium. I don't even know what the White Sox stadium is, but I always think it is. Nina O'Brien. Black border mini. It was a guaranteed rate. Is that Chicago? I forget honestly. Hashtag Orioles magic. You know it, Trev.  We've got Matthew with the A's in both. Thank you, Matthew. Kenny with the Cardinals in Finest. Down to 14. Guaranteed is a gotcha. 14 to go now, everybody. Let's get that filled on up. Number 49 at 14 to go. Like I said, teams are hella marked down. Clayton Kershaw. Oversize box pop up. Got framed. Mini relic. Uh, Mookie Bats. Nice. Mookie Stuff. I would say does really well because obviously it's not signed since 2013. So it's, uh, game you stuff always does well. Okay. See Dodgers. Couser had a grand slam. Wow. Geez. I did not see that. No. We got auto. That is rookie auto of Zekeal Doran. There you go, Cameron. We got you, buddy. I saw him there on the auto for the Rangers. There we go. Framed mini auto. Congrats, man. Zekeal Doran auto. Take it. I know that's kind of nuts, dude. That's kind of wild. Go Cameron. Hell yeah, dude. True. Yes. That's one of the biggest ones, dude. That is a huge one. I think Pac-Man, he opened a case of this. I think he pulled one. Yeah, sweet, dude. Yeah, this is a good case, man. Volpe mini rookie. Good God. This is insane. Insane case overall. Adley Rare. So the Diamond 4 home run game. Rapport mini framed auto. That's pretty sick. That's pretty sick. Yeah, I did a personal the other day on when we were here was, um, I pulled Will Benson. Willie May is a nice one there, which wasn't the best of all time, but I pulled, uh, Otani Jersey. Yeah, Nadal Kraft is big, little baby. Yeah. Wemby, Meek Mill, DeNiro, Nadal, and the Pickleballs, and the Fanatics employees. Yeah. The Fanatics one was dope, dude. Yeah, the Fanatics employee one is dope. Yeah, I'm going to show that to Rich after. I don't see if he knows him. Yeah. And then that's just not MLB guys. You know what I mean? Then you got MLB guys, too. Uh, we've got a case of NT. We've got a case of NT at the end, uh, for football, like Khoisha, but, uh, outside of that, no, it's just baseball and, uh, some basketball. Fred Lin, foil filigree for the Red Sox. Yeah. Plus, of course, cut signatures. Yeah. Cutsick are huge. That is Francisco Alvarez. Uh, yes, but I know we're getting more in. I'm pretty sure we're getting more in for, uh, mosaic football. So, Andre Ethier at the main right now. That is Matt Kemper. Yeah, Alec Bohm. Nice one there for the Illies. Yeah. JFK is a big one. Obviously Warhol. One, uh, so Andy Warhol, Rosa Parks, Mark Twain got pulled as well. Those are cool, honestly. Warhol, Parks, and one more already pulled. Two Kraft autos were hit. Wow. That's nuts. Yeah. JFK is huge. Corbin Carroll. Yeah, the Rosa Parks would be sweet. The Rosa Parks would be really freaking cool. There's Chadwick Boseman. He's in this, too, which is sick. Yeah. He was in, uh, Five Star as well. It's Corbin Carroll. Him and, uh, him, Paul Walker, and Coby all had autos. That's nice. That's really sweet. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I'd love to see the Fred, the Mr. Rogers, dude. Although for us to pull Fred Rogers. I know. I would too, man. That would be sick. I think you and I would both freak out. Yeah, we would. Oh, nice. RMZ out of 25. That's pretty cool. Auto. That's nice, dude. That's awesome. That is a one soda. All right. We've got Jeremy with the nuggets in Mosaic and Optic. And I don't know who else bought stuff because all the emails got deleted. But thank you guys. I know Gary was in there. A few other people also picking spots up. So thank you all. Appreciate that very much. Let's see if I can see the trash. Yes, I can. Thank you there. Gary with the White Sox. Michael Z with the D-Backs and Finest. And Alex with the Cardinals in both breaks. And Jeremy, that's, like I said, had the nuggets as well. So thank you there. Matthew, we already said thank you to. So perfect. Awesome. I was able to say thank you to everybody. We are down to one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. 12 to go, everybody. Breaks next. All teams marked down. All teams are marked way down, everybody.  We've got our hot box, Story of Ruiz, Steel Hall, Bun B. We saw the Bob Roth's collab info. Yeah, that's pretty sick, dude. Really? Orban Carol. Yeah. I'm forgetting what, but what was it in again, Travis? Cole Reagan's rookie. Air Nola. Leagues. Fiction ships. Separate release. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. That's pretty cool, man. I remember seeing it briefly on something. I didn't really read what it was about, though. Bryce Thurang. We missed the mini in that first pack, so there it is. And that's one. That should be cool, especially Bob Roth. Yeah, I know. That's like, that's just a man, dude. Roshan, Bite of Blue, Building Sandcastles, Nolan Gorman, only at Kansas City, at Cuffman, Matt Olsen, Black Border Mini, Trish and Cossus. There's Tommy Edmond going to the Cardinals on the Juicy Card. Dude, another auto. Are you kidding me? Unbelievable. Come on. Something, dude. It is. Looks like a baseball player, Jeremy Pena. Nice, congrats, Astros. Dude, how many autos is that? Give us a final count of autos in this case. Yeah, seven. Wow, seven autos in this case. That is the most I pulled out of one case this year. Cavendizio for the Blue Jets on the game of Juicy. Josh Young, Hotbox Mini, or Hotbox Rookie. That is Allendale, or Allen Adale. Yeah, this is a great case, man. That is Rafael Palmero, Riley Greene, a Patrick Wisdom. Yeah, this year that's the most I pulled out of a case, a one case, single case of Ginzer, is seven. That's pretty sweet. And they were good ones. They were really good ones. Then in the Sosa, Schnell, Josh Young, again. He's going to be, he's going to take off, hopefully in the full scene. Gunnar Henderson, Young. Yeah. Yeah, I hope so. He's good, man. Tim Mad Max is coming back, so you know. Grayson Rodriguez. Still the Rangers, young man. True, Anthony Richardson. Gunnar Henderson, Rookie. And base. All right, quick recap here, everybody. Oh, thanks, sir. We have Ripguards, Carlos Rodan, and Brandon Emma, both in the New York team. It's up, Mitchell. We had Jerseys, Cavendizio, Tommy Edmond, Alec Baum, Mookie Betts, Ryan Mountcastle, Austin Riley, Old Time Hockey, Yadir Molina, Randy Rosarena, Matt Olson, Fred McGriff, Blake Snell, Lubab, Jim Tome, Christopher Morel, Christian Yelich, Whit Merrifield, Luis Arias, Nicoladolo, Lubab, Casey Webb, Lubab again, Robbie Devers, Brandon Nemo, Adam Lefko, Derek Jeter, Chris Fowler, and Todd Hilton. Autos and Magg Cards, we had Jeremy Pena. No, I agree with that. I completely agree with that, Travis. Jeremy Pena, Ezekiel Doran, Ezekiel Tovar, Michael Harris, that is Jim Bintliff. We had the one of one wood of, was that Seth Brown, Victor Wembenyama Otto, and then to 10, Mark Mayhan, the CEO of Fanatics Collections. I'll do it for the break, guys. Thanks again for the fill. Coming up next is Bowman Chrome.


The new WordPress editor, and we've done a talk on this, I think I did one a few months ago on this, which is up on the engineers.sg site, but actually it might be easier if I just mirror this, so I'm not looking at that screen. So if you just go to WordPress.org or Google WordPress Gutenberg demo, this is essentially a public version of the editor as it kind of sits, so you don't have to necessarily install it on your site. You can go have a look and play around with this and kind of see the live version. So this is the editor that's coming to WordPress in 5.0, which is probably looking at around December at this stage. And if you've seen probably recently on your WordPress site with the 4.9.8 update, there's a big banner that comes in and says, you know, would you like to try Gutenberg or would you like to keep the classic editor? And so this is essentially what happens once you install it. A brief overview is that everything's now going to be broken down into blocks. So this is essentially a header block. So you can change this and then you have here just a normal paragraph text block, which you can change the layout of. You can, you know, move the direction of that up or down. So things are now broken into those blocks. So we have a header block here or title block essentially in this area. And if I then wanted to add, let's say, a header block or change the image block, I can do that there or I can create a new block over on this side. And let's say I want to bring through a quote. So that's a little quote section. And then, you know, you can make that bold or do any of your sort of editing that way as well. Going back up to the top, this is an image section, an image block. And then there's left, right, a line or a full width image, which is new. So you can break out of your, so your website might be 12,000 pixels wide and you can break that image out into full width, which wasn't working the last time we did a demo. Or you can go back and that just centers the image within your content area. So it just makes kind of publishing a lot easier if you're publishing, you know, nice, nice full width images and things, or you can break it out a little bit further. It doesn't go the full width. You can do wide width as well, or you can sort of change the block type. If you want a whole gallery in there, you could bring out and then pick in additional images and that will create a gallery directly for you. And if we switch that back to that demo version, you can then on that side, sorry, you can move things up and down. So I move the quote up, I can then move that down again and drag and drop things that way. I think on this side over here, there's a settings window. So if I was looking at the quote section, there's a couple of advanced items there. For example, if I had a class called blue, I could add that in and then the CSS would allow me to change that background to blue and the text to white. Something like that makes it a lot easier. There's some other options here which are for the complete document which is the page. You can set the featured image, you can set the excerpt and you can turn on and off as well. So if we then look back on the image itself, I can write the caption for that image here. I could link it to a media file and attachment page and you can change from advanced things here by applying a CSS class as well to that gallery. If it was an image itself, I'd be able to link that specifically to a URL but since we changed it to a gallery block, it doesn't give me that option anymore. As you scroll down, you see there's some basic options here. So this is a gallery, we have four GIFs and then we have some titles, captions under those sections as well. So you can change your crop, you can change your columns. So it just gives the WordPress experience a bit more control rather than just dealing with a normal HTML editor which doesn't really provide you that much of an experience. There's some button styles, some other paragraph styles, some spacing styles. So as you can see up in this corner here, it's a gallery quote paragraph, some audio cover images, you can bring in files. There's some common blocks which is what we're looking for, sub headers, videos, some formatting things if you wanted to bring in some code or you had some custom HTML. There's a table module but I think at the moment, last time we tested it, it was only a four by four, a two by two table. You can do another one. It's not that advanced yet but that stuff will come with more time and more development. There's some columns, so that's in beta as well. Page break spaces and you can kind of play around with this or you can bring in widgets and other things that you've installed. So if you wanted to bring through your latest posts, obviously there's no posts on this one so nothing will be shown. Or if you had any embeds, so this is kind of new. It's a lot easier just to grab Twitter, YouTube, Facebook. You don't have to necessarily go and grab their embed code. It's using O embed so all you'd need to do is grab your Instagram URL, pop that in there and it will embed that directly into your site. So it's a lot easier to share that type of information across your site. There's quite a few there. The strength I guess in coming time around this is developing custom blocks and you'll see that there'll be plugins developed that will extend this further to make it a lot more usable for you. But at the moment it's kind of just mainly being used for posts. I'm not sure if it's default on pages as well. But you can change those settings around and then if you have custom post types with books, music or whatever, there's a little bit of code that you can use to bring that through as well. So if you have a look at that WordPress.org process, Gutenberg, you can check that out. Or if you go into your site, you can go through and install that directly and play around with it. It's at a stage now that it's stable enough to be used. There's still more development coming, but it's coming thick and fast. So if you're looking at kind of playing this space a lot further then it's something to invest a little bit of time into because it's definitely coming and it'll make a lot of changes and a lot of this kind of content editing experience a lot better on WordPress, especially once they kind of nail a few other the bigger bugs. It has integrations with things like Yoast SEO and things like that. Instead of the normal WordPress page will give you an editing window then a whole bunch of gray space at the bottom. Your SEO plug-ins and things like that will just come out as a block that will be displayed at the bottom of the page, the same with custom fields and things like that. So it just gives you a lot more control. I'm nowhere an expert but I'll take some questions if anyone has any. Otherwise, we're all good. Alright, thanks guys. We'll mingle around for a bit.


Good morning everyone. Good morning to the students online as well. Let's just begin this time with a word of prayer and we'll start with our session. Father, we thank You for this time Lord. We thank You for Your presence in our lives. We thank You for just teaching us, being with us Lord. You're teaching us Your Word and even as we study together, God, that Your Word minister to each of our hearts. Lord, we pray that Your Word will be like a good seed planted in our hearts, Lord, to bear fruit in our lives. We thank You so much for this opportunity Lord. We thank You that Your Holy Spirit is there with us to give us the wisdom, the understanding that we need of God and thank You Father. We give You all the praise, we give You all the glory in Jesus' name. We pray. Amen. Alright, we've been talking about teacher and lastly we've finished the teacher practical keys to doing the ministry of the teacher. Let's get into chapter 9. Let's look at the third aspect that is the pastor. So firstly we look at the five-fold ministry. We saw the main difference between the ministry gift and the ministry function. We saw that the five-fold ministry is there for everyone and each one of us can flow in all of these gifts that God has given us. And first we look at the ministry of the evangelist. We saw that all of us are called to evangelize to minister. Jesus gave us the responsibility to do that and He just didn't say, okay, go do it. But He gave us His Holy Spirit to strengthen us, to empower us. And even as we evangelize, we come up with new strategies, ideas, use the tools that are available now to evangelize. Then we looked at the teacher. Jesus said the most beautiful example as a teacher. We must be prepared. We must know how to, most importantly, even as we prepare to teach, we must develop the ability to teach. And it's something that comes over time. There are failures that will have mistakes that we will make, but we learn from them and we continue to grow. Here's a very important point that we've been talking about even as a teacher is that we need to look at God's Word and we need to be students of the Word of God. Which means we need to really dive into different aspects of God's Word. So for example, if you're teaching about the Old Testament, you have to get into a little bit of geography, a little bit of history. You've got to get into those things, those intricate details. And that enables you to come up with good allegories, illustrations while you're teaching. Jesus did that. He spoke in parables. He caught the attention of people. He spoke in hyper bowls. He spoke in different stories. So even as we teach, maybe some of us may get opportunities when we go back, your pastor may say, hey, why don't you teach the gifts of the Holy Spirit? So you need to develop the ability. Come up with, if you're teaching youth, for example, you have to come up with some kind of stories, illustrations to bring a point now. Very important is don't come up with some random story. You're talking about Holy Spirit, don't talk about levitical offerings and try to connect them. It's not going to work. So even as you prepare and you give these examples, make sure it connects with each other. So teaching is very interesting. It really empowers us even as we prepare, we begin to understand, we begin to learn. And even now, after so many years of teaching, I learn so much. And all of us, even as we get opportunities, don't look at it as, oh man, I have to go and teach. Look at it as an opportunity to learn. So let's go to chapter nine. We'll talk about the pastor. Now the pastor is I think one of the most famous, you know, among the five-fold function, they say, okay, the pastors, we have the most number of pastors. And how did this word pastor come into being? So Paul is, and the apostle Paul is writing it, he's looking at the pastor as a shepherd. If you look at a shepherd, what is the work of a shepherd to lead the sheep? Yes, protecting, caring, to oversee. So when we look at the word shepherd, it's derived from this word, the aspects of a shepherd. Now a shepherd is somebody who knows his sheep. So no shepherd is going to say, hey, man, there's a wolf there. What am I going to do? The wolf is going to come and eat the sheep. No shepherd is going to stand and say, what do I do? He is going to do something or the other. And it's interesting that Jesus says, computing his ministry, what does he say? I am the good shepherd. So why did he say good shepherd? So we'll talk about that later on, right? So the basic or the most important responsibility of a pastor is to shepherd to look after, to care for. Imagine a shepherd that's looking after a sheep and says, hey, you know, the sheep, he takes the sheep, he takes them for grazing, they eat, and then the shepherd comes back home and says, find your way back. He's not going to do that, nor is the shepherd going to say, okay, whenever there's some grass, okay, whatever is there, let me just take them there. No, he's going to look for the right place and for the right territory to get the good grass for the sheep. Now I read about this in the book of Psalms and Psalms, right? What does David say? He, the Lord is my, he leads me. Yeah. Now here's the interesting thing. During that time, and I read about this article, it's wonderful. During those days, it was not like what we see now, there's grass everywhere. I remember that it was, it's a deserted area, right?  So the sheep were completely dependent on the shepherd to get that little grass. You know what the shepherd does? It said that the shepherd would go out, would search for places usually at the bottom of mountains, right? Or at the back and in the sides of these mountains would be plants, right? And plants and good herbs. They were not like how we have it here right now, right? It was not like that. During those times, right? So usually the shepherd, what he'd do, he'd go, he'll do and research. Here's some good grass, here's some good grass. And the shepherd will lead the sheep, right? And that's what God, that's what David meant because he knew what the shepherd is. He knew it was not easy to find grass. Now it's easy to find grass everywhere. During that time it wasn't. So he's saying, the Lord is my shepherd and he will lead me to the right places, right? So what is it that Jesus set as an example of a shepherd? Nowhere in the Bible has his disciples called him pastor or anything because it wasn't the functions were not yet there. But we see the attributes of a pastor in the life of Jesus, the attributes of a shepherd. Jesus himself said, I am the good shepherd. So let's look at these verses. Maybe each one of us can open to one verse each. Matthew chapter 26 was 31. Somebody else can open to Hebrew studying 20 and first Peter 2, 25 and chapter 5 verse 4. Let's read those three verses. Matthew 26, 31. Then Jesus said to them, all of you will be made to stumble because of me this night. For it is written, I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. So Jesus is what? He's predicting Peter's denial. He's predicting his death. What does it say there? Then Jesus told them, this very night you will all fall away on account of me for it is written. I will strike the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. Did that happen? After Jesus, when Jesus was dying, how many people were pledging allegiance to Jesus? Approximately. This before Jesus died, how many people were saying, oh Jesus, how many people were probably following him? Thousands? Thousands of people? Then what happened to them? We all went away. The shepherd was struck, Jesus was struck, he says, the sheep of the flock will be scattered. The disciples themselves scattered and then they had to come back, regroup and... So I will strike the shepherd. Jesus is talking about himself as the shepherd. Let's go to Hebrews 13 and 20. Now may the God of peace, who brought up our Lord Jesus from the dead, a great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant? May the God of peace through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep. So here in the book of Hebrews, he's trying to bring this comparison between what was there in the old covenant and what is there in the new covenant. And he's saying, hey, we were far away, but through the blood, through the blood of this shepherd, we have been brought close up. Okay, let's read 1 Peter 2.25. 1 Peter 2.25, for you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the shepherd and overseer of your souls. This is a very common verse. For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the shepherd, the overseer of your souls. Right? So one of the... I think you must have heard this many a times. One of the most unique or not unique, but one of the characteristics of a sheep is going astray. You don't have to tell them. They know how to go astray. By nature, they are built to go astray. We've got a couple of them here. If they want food, I'm sure they'll come, whoever's there here will just, you know, lead them and get them. After that, where are they? They're gone. They're not around, their stomach is full, they go astray. So Paul, Peter is referring to the people you're saying, like sheep, we've gone astray. But we are returning back to the shepherd, the keeper, the overseer of our soul. Again, third time referring to Jesus as the shepherd. Right? 5-4. When the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the unfounding crown of glory. Again, when the chief shepherd returns. Now it's interesting, right? All of these verses talking about the shepherd, talking about Jesus is saying, here in this portion, the previous chapter, if you look at the previous chapters, Peter is talking to the believers and saying, this is how you have to live. When you live as a believer, these are the rules that you have to follow to have a holy life. Right? And he also talks about persecution. As a Christian, these are sufferings that you will go through. But even after the suffering, you have a chief shepherd. Right? What does it say there? The chief shepherd, and when the chief shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory, which will never fade away. And there are plenty of verses all through the New Testament talking about Jesus as the shepherd. Now John chapter 10, 1 through 29, let's just look at what it says. We may not read the whole thing, but let's just take a few passages from here. And I'll probably read a few of them. Pick up from here, right? So again, Jesus is talking about the shepherd and the, and his flock, right? Okay, verse two, the man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. The watchman opens the gate for him and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all of his own, he goes on ahead of them. And his sheep follow him because they know his voice. Look at verse five, but they will never follow a stranger. In fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice. Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was, what he was telling them. Right? So you see here, how many of you have read about sheep? Do you know what the shepherd does? I think I mentioned this before, maybe in the first semester. You know what the shepherd does? When a shepherd is taking the sheep, right? He's always for grazing, for food. He's always right in front because he knows the sheep will follow. But after the sheep has eaten, what does the shepherd do? He's right at the back. Why? Because it's very easy to go astray. And David the psalmist says, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Right? So you've seen the shepherd's staff, right? Everyone's seen the shepherd's staff? So what does the shepherd do? He holds the shepherd and he keeps pulling it. And then once it doesn't listen, he turns it and gives one whack. Right? And the sheep goes back inside quietly. He's trying to hide from the shepherd. Is that whack needed? Yes. Very much needed. See, three or four times the shepherd is going on pulling it. Come on, don't go. You're going to end up going somewhere else. And then I can't come running, searching for you. Right? So you come back. Come back. This is adamant. No, I'll go this way. One whack. Right? It comes back to its place. Right? Now after the whack, also some sheep will say, no, I want to go. Then the shepherd will try his best. Don't go, don't go. Right? He will try his best to protect. This is what, you know, we see here in what, you know, what Jesus is saying here. He says verse three, the watchman opens, he calls his own sheep by name and he leads them out. Doesn't mean he's got pet names for each of the sheep.  They recognize the shepherd's voice. Right? Picture this. This is a room that is closed right now. What if, you know, maybe one of your parents come outside and they call your name? How many of you will recognize that you'll say, hey, it's a voice that I remember. What is he doing here? Yes? Imagine my dad just comes here and says, Paul, I know it's my dad because I've heard that Paul a million times in my house. I just know his voice. I don't have to, I don't have to think who's that I will know. Right? Secondly, what he's doing here. That is the second question, but I will know. Right? The same way the shepherd, the sheep know the shepherd's voice. Right? When a sheep is grazing and have you seen those? I think I saw, I showed one video sometime back. I don't know if I have that video. Maybe next week I'll get that video. The shepherd and there's, there was this whole empty land and somebody's taking this video. Right? I'll show to you maybe next week. This is empty land just like what we see here and there are sheep everywhere. And there were two shepherds. Right? One shepherd is calling sheep. None of them are bothered. The sheep are just looking and continuing to eat. But the moment the shepherd of this sheep started calling, they all ran and came to the shepherd. Both were shepherds. Right? Both had a way of calling the sheep. But the problem was this shepherd was not the right shepherd for that sheep. Right? So they know the voice. In the national, they know. Imagine in the spiritual, Jesus is saying, I am the good shepherd. So we as a sheep, will the shepherd speak to us? He will speak to us. Will the shepherd, will we know that it is his voice? Right? We should know. Now, if we don't know, that means we haven't spoken much to the shepherd. Hey, the shepherd is there, but I haven't spoken to him much. I'm not able to recognize his voice. Many times people ask, how do I know that this is God? Common question. Right? How do I know that it is God speaking to me? How do I know that it is not my own feeling? The shepherd's voice is leading. We will understand it if we are a sheep. Right? So look at a few aspects here. First one, the shepherd speaks. No shepherd is going to sign language to the sheep. I imagine that or imagine the shepherd is just standing there and saying, when will the sheep come? He'll stand the whole day. They will sleep there also. It will not come. He has to call it. Only then the shepherd will come. Right? So the sheep will come. So the shepherd speaks to each one of us. When we are praying, when we are reading God's Word, God will speak. Is Jesus the shepherd? Yes, we saw. He is the chief shepherd, the overseer of our soul. He will speak. It's just that we have to get into his territory. Get into his presence. Say, God speak to me. Right? Two, the shepherd knows. This is a challenge that we all face as believers. All of us. Right? Sometimes we have plans. We make plans. Those plans don't go as the way we want it to. Right? All of a sudden there's a change. And we say, God, why? Why is this happening? Common thing. Right? All of us have gone through it. I have gone through it too. Right? God, why? I thought this is the way that we should, you know, looks good. But it's very important that as sheep and as believers, we align ourselves to what God is doing. Align ourselves to the will of God. The book of Proverbs says, trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. And Isaiah says, my thoughts are not like your thoughts. Our ways are not like your ways. Because my ways of thinking is way higher than what you think. You may think small. I'm thinking big. You may think this way, but I'm thinking a different way. You may think, okay, ministry may be like this, but I'm thinking for you, it's like this. Have you ever wondered why is it that people in ministry is built? This, for example, why is it that certain people go through so much of persecution and some of us don't go through anything? Everything is so smooth in ministry. Right? Now it's not that God loves us more and, you know, causing let them go through problem. No, there's a certain kind of way that certain kind of leading that God has. He knows what is best. Right? So even in our lives, question to be asked is God, these are plans that I've made. These are things I want to do. Will you lead me? Help me to know your plan. Help me to know your purposes. Right?  What do I do after that? God, which church is going to call me or which pastor is going to call me, which minister is going to call me to preach? We may have a lot of thoughts, but he knows how to lead you. Now the shepherd knows, but the sheep must be sensitive to hear. What happens to us as believers sometimes is God is speaking to us, but our mind is crowded. There are so many thoughts. How many of you, when you start praying, say, okay, thank you, Jesus for this beautiful day. And then all of a sudden, what else for breakfast? And then you think about the classroom, you think about, because the mind is that it's designed that way. There's nothing wrong. Right? When we pray, when we go to God's presence, it's normal that our thoughts can go wandering. It's a normal thing. Right? Sometimes you'll fall asleep and you'll be wondering where was I in the prayer? Which prayer? Right? All these things are normal. But as we continue to grow, that's why, you know, we need to mature in the things of God. As we continue to pray, as we continue to grow, we must understand that I need to get into God's presence. I need to tune my mind. I need to tune my thinking. I need to transform my thinking. Right? The enemy may say, hey, you're sleepy.  Think about that. Be still in his presence. Being still is not always physical. Right? You can walk around.  But you can sit in one place and pray, but your mind is not still. Physically still, mentally, you're all over the place. Right? Now, remember that for us, when we get into God's presence, right? When we want to know him, we need to surrender. We need to say, God, you are the shepherd. We are the sheep. And I must be willing to hear your voice. And when we hear his voice, we will be able to follow. Let's pick up a few from here, right? He says, I tell you the truth. Verse seven, I tell you the truth. I am the gate for the sheep. All who ever come before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me will be saved. Look at verse 11, very emphatic verses. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. The man runs away because he's a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. Self-explanatory. Verse 14, I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep and my sheep know me. It was 15. Just as the father knows me and I know the father, I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also, talking about the Gentiles. Look at that, very emphatic verse 14. I know my sheep and my sheep know me. Do you know your shepherd? Because the shepherd knows you. The shepherd knows us. Do we know the shepherd? That's a question that we must ask. So the shepherd knows, how do I get to know what is his will for me? How do I get into his presence? How do I align myself? It's very important that we learn to align ourselves to God's presence, to God's leading. There will be times when God will bring things in our life. You may feel, hey man, I'm not prepared for this, but we align ourselves. We align ourselves. We say, okay. When I got into ministry, I never thought of it. I thought, okay, I'll go back and work in the corporate sector. But when I joined, I was really excited. But then there was so much I wanted to do. But I was just doing one thing. Going and visiting people in hospitals. It was a very small thing. But I enjoyed it. God, I want to do so much more. I want some more opportunities. And every time I would pray, God would minister to me. Many times, I wanted to just say, hey, let me just do something else. But God would minister. Go back to God's presence. And say, God speak to me. And every time God would speak, it was not like the heavens opened and God spoke. He spoke through his word. And God was very annoying and encouragement. Continue, Paul. I know what I have for you. Just stay strong. I know this is a season that you're going through. I know it is not something that you want to do. But I need you to do it. So that this testing, the perseverance, your perseverance is strong. Paul writes about it as well. He takes us perseverance and character, character, hope. And there's so much that God does through these testings and training that we need.  But know his will for your life. Begin to seek God. Ask God. Speak to me. Hold on to that verse. It's very simple. And these are verses I hold on to. As a shepherd, Lord, you will speak. You're not going to see which is a black sheep, which is a white sheep, which is the sheep, which is glimping and which is the sheen. You will speak to your sheep. Are we broken? Are we perfect? No. But he will speak. So resolve that in your heart. My God, you will speak. Every morning when you wake up and when you wake up go to God's presence and say, God, speak to me in your own special way, you speak to me. Right? Three, the shepherd leads. We saw that, right? He leads us. Some says, the shepherd leads us in the parts of righteousness for his namesake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me. So David is writing this in a difficult season. He's saying, even though I walk through these valley of the shadow of death, was David in the valley of the shadow of death? He was not only in the shadow, he was in death almost. He was going to die anytime. He was going to be killed anytime. His life was so uncertain. Only after Saul passed away. He moved on. Only after he died was David's life at peace. Even when he had about 400 soldiers with him before becoming the king, he was still very weary. Saul can come anytime, attack him. But David is saying, he leads me in the parts of righteousness. Even if I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, even he leads me in the in a quiet pasture or by a gentle stream. He's the shepherd of my soul. So when God leads us, sometimes it's very hard to understand and follow it. But we must we must obey it. We must say, okay God, wherever you're leading me, help me to trust in you. It's like this, you're blindfold yourself.  Will you be scared?  You'll say, I'll blindfold one night. I'll keep the other one open. Why? It's still not yet. You've not yet built that trust to that person. The shepherd leads us. If we trust in him, we will follow him. He will obey him in all his ways. There are so many stories I can share when I remember I was in Bible college. One day I was praying and God said, I want you to pray in the evenings. I said, God, after college, during those days college would be morning, one hour lunch, afternoon sessions, two sessions in the afternoon. So we finished at about four o'clock. Four to five was worship and prayer and so by the time you go you're so tired. One day God spoke to me and said, you pray in the evening. I said, nobody's praying. I want to play cricket, play football or something. I want to rest. How many of you want to rest after college? Obviously, right? You've got so much going in the whole day and you just want to rest. I said, no, God, I can't do this.  Evening also you're saying, what is this? I said, no. And it kept bothering me. So I didn't do it for about two weeks or eventually I asked one of my friends, I said, hey, why don't we pray in the evening? He said, hey, no, I want to be fresh and I pray. I like morning prayer. He said, okay, we'll sit. So I remember in the hostel, I would sit alone and begin to read. Everyone was watching me, all the boys. We had some 20, 25 boys in the hostel, right? Huge place. All of them were watching me. What is this guy doing? So I'll be reading the word and then I'll start praying. I would all be walking around saying, what are you doing? I'm playing cricket. Obviously, I'm praying. So then they would be come, we'll go play and so much of distraction. I'll say, God. So then what happened was I prayed. I said, God, there's a single room on top. Give me that room. Evan, I will pray. I don't always disturb them. So just a couple of weeks later, there was a problem with the tiles of that room that I was staying in. So they needed to repair the whole thing. So Paul, you go up and stay in two weeks. And I knew God was serious about it. So come back home. Six o'clock. Six thirty, start prayer. So we would pray alone. And I remember saying, God, this is not fair. It's not fair. It's too tiring. Everyone are enjoying. Everyone doing whatever they want. They have tea, they have biscuits and all. They're enjoying tea time. They're all going to, I'm here. There's being in this room. I called the minister. I did that. I remember doing that for the entire from the second semester onwards till the end. So from seven to nine and then nine I would go have dinner and then just go to sleep. Same routine 4 in the morning. Wake up. So that is the reason I never speak to anyone in college. Don't talk to me. Because I was just so, there were times I was so tired. I just feel like it's too much that's happening. I just wanted to sleep. So then Sundays I would come and rest. But I thank God because those times really encouraged me. Those times really empowered and strengthened my inner man. It helped me to understand so much that those opening the way God works the way God leads us. It just helped me so much. So there are sacrifices that God will make us do. When he wants to achieve something in us there are sacrifices. It's how we take it. We can look at it as I don't want to do this. Or we can look at it as God for you. It's a choice. That's all I would say. It's a choice. So for example now we are pastors. Nobody is going to question me. Nobody is going to ask me. Did you pray? Did you read your Bible? Who is going to ask? Nobody will ask. I will call this the last. Nobody will ask. Nobody will ask. But I know the value of being in God's presence. Because everything that we do in ministry flows out of that time in God's presence. It's not the gifts and talents are good. But when it's anointed there's power in that. So go back to God. Ask him to lead. He will lead us. Next point. The shepherd sacrifices for his sheep. Did Jesus sacrifice for his sheep? Not just a few things. He sacrificed his entire life. He gave his life for us. And here it's saying a hired servant will run away when the wolf comes. But the real shepherd will be willing to face the wolves, the lions, the bears, willing to face them because he's willing to sacrifice his life on the lion. What did David say? To King Saul.    Can you picture that? This is David. Maybe 13, 14 years old. Right? 12? Was he 12 when Goliath happened? Yeah, maybe 12 years old. Sorry, I'm not sure of the age but we can look it up later.  No rifle and all. With my own hands, I've killed that versus put so casually there. I've killed a lion and the bear in my own hands. So he's done that many times. Right? So he was willing to sacrifice his life for the she. Jesus is willing to do that. He's done it. He's willing to do it now also. There are sacrifices we have to make because he has done the greatest sacrifice for us. Right? The shepherd cares and protects the sheep. He cares for us. As a shepherd, he cares for us. Now, what is the role translate all of this that we are doing? These are the roles of a pastor. If we are shepherding a church, if we are a pastor of the church these are things we must do. Right? He cares and protects for the sheep. Jesus cares for us. He protects us. Right? What does he say in Psalms 91? I've set my angels in charge of you. Right? No weapon fashioned against you shall prosper. A thousand may fall at your left. Ten thousand in your right. It shall not come near you. Right? All of this is protection. And so as shepherds even we must you know maybe going further some of you may become pastors care and protect your sheep. And we talk about roles and responsibilities of shepherds in the next lesson. But this is just a few characteristics that the shepherd cares and protects for his sheep. The shepherd gathers the sheep brings them together. So the shepherd does not say go away from here. Don't come here. He gathers the sheep. He brings them together. So how can we translate this here? The Lord will never reject us for what we do. The Lord will never say you are not obeying my commandments you are living in sin go away. No. He welcomes us into his presence at all times. He gathers us. Someone says he is gathered in the praises of his people. He inhabits in the praises. He comes in. And when we pray, when we seek God when we look to him he gathers us. Some of the verses say like an eagle gathers its eagles. And powers is the eagles with its wings. He gathers. So when we go to God's presence pushing us away. But as a shepherd he gathers us. He calls us in. He draws us into his presence. Let's read Mark chapter 6 and verse 34. And Jesus when he came out saw great multitude and was moved with compassion for them because they were like sheep not having a shepherd. So he began to teach them many things. When Jesus saw the people he was moved with compassion sheep without shepherd. What happens with sheep without shepherd? They go astray. They don't understand what's happening. They are not aligned to what they have to do. And imagine this. Jesus is looking at these thousands of people and saying they don't have a shepherd. They don't have anybody to lead them. They don't have anybody to guide them. There are so called shepherds, the Pharisees but they are not good shepherds. They are not doing what the shepherd must do. And his heart was moved with compassion for the people because they were just lost. They had no idea. They had no idea that they are seeing the Messiah that they've been waiting for. Jesus himself says in his military he says what you people are seeing the prophets in the old desired to see you are seeing it but you don't understand it. Like sheep without understanding. And so Jesus was compassionate. His heart was moved because these people had no leader. So if we look at it that God has a design for all of us as believers. He has designed churches. He has designed leaders. He has designed pastors to be there. Of course we know he's our chief shepherd but he's also appointed shepherds over seers all across this world for the church. He's appointed them. And as shepherds these are things that we must do. We must know that the shepherd speaks the shepherd knows the shepherd leads. The shepherd sacrifices. He cares and protects. The shepherd gathers his people. Right. I just look at a few texts here from the shepherd in the Old Testament. Numbers 27 15 to 23 and maybe we can also look at Jeremiah 315. Numbers 27 15 to 23. Let the Lord say let the Lord gather the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation who may go up before them and go in before them who may lead them out and bring them in that the congregation of the Lord may not be like she would which have no shepherd. And the Lord said to Moses take Joshua the son of men with you a man in whom is a spirit and lay your hands on him set him before a lazer, the priest and the congregation and inaugurate him in their sight and you shall give some of your authority to him that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient. He shall stand before the lazer the priest who shall inquire before the Lord for him by the judgment of the urn. At his word they shall go out and at his word they shall come in. He and all the children of Israel with him all the congregation. So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and set him before the lazer, the priest and before all the congregation and he laid his hands on him and inaugurated him just as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses. What a picture this is, no? There's Moses Moses, there's Joshua. It's like an induction service that's happening. Moses is there, Joshua is there God is telling Moses take Joshua take Elijah all the people gather everyone and I like those words used here. It says here in verse 19, make him stand before Elijah the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in the presence. Commission Remember we have commissioning service that's what it is here. Commissioning service, right? Permission him before the people. So let the people know that this person is now the leader because it goes on here. He says he uses the word give verse 20, give him some of your authority so that the whole Israelite community will obey him. Give him some of your authority, meaning place on him authority that people will obey him. So again, you'll see the role of a shepherd and you see the role of leaders here. Let's read one more verse. We don't have time but Jeremiah 3.15 and then we'll close Jeremiah chapter 3 and verse 15 Jeremiah 3.15 and I will give you shepherds according to my heart who will feed you with knowledge and understanding 3.15, did you read that? Jeremiah 3.15, then I will give you shepherds after my own heart who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. So again, we see a lot of references of the shepherd so when Jesus is talking about the shepherd and in the Old Testament, the shepherd the reference is still the same the reference, the attributes is that they have leadership, they have qualities of being a leader and these are things that these are attributes or responsibilities. We look at more responsibilities next class but these are attributes that a leader should have and follow. We'll stop here. We'll pick up from next class. We'll look at responsibilities and rewards of a pastor. Thank you so much. Thank you everyone online. Have a great day. God bless.