Right guys, this is a special one big Trent Williams number 14 on the list of the NFL's top 100 players in 2022 The first defeat sorry the first offensive lineman the first lineman possibly ever to achieve the exclusive Madden rating of 99 I think we'll get into that plus more we will look at his stats. We'll look at his, you know stellar career I think it's been going for about bloody 15 odd years either way guys Three minutes and 20 seconds are the best Trent Williams. I love this man.   Come and collected, you know just I Assume he's like this off the field and I assume he just turns it on somehow When he gets on the field all that and more will we reveal guys Trent Williams number 14 on the list? Let's go. You're the highest ranked office of linemen ever ever.  Oh I mean, he did do well as a ventriloquist.  I mean damn Yeah, I'm gonna bleep that out. All right. She I mean because but yeah, that's that's dope That's dope as hell. Hell yeah, absolutely Where was he last year though? Oh, yeah Okay, if y'all don't run anything I say run this Office of tackles aren't good. They quarterbacks just get the ball off that But uh, Trent Williams, Trent Williams. I'd say Trent Williams. Trent Williams is absolutely best at it. Big fan of Trent Please big Trent toughest offensive line when you went up against this year Trent Williams, you can't move the guy He's a fridge. I was going against Trent Williams the first four plays of the game And I told him because I said a mobile fridge. Hey, my moves aren't working Let's switch sides and I said that right in front of Trent and Trent kind of Oh, mate. Trent Williams just a glass heater. He really is I'll tell you what it's okay As an offensive lineman like this guy right blocking for the passer Is one thing but actually getting up to speed and blocking for a run play Is just something totally different and that is where the real smackdown gets laid Still one of the most athletic and fluid athletes at that position that I've personally ever seen What is he 30? He's 34, right? Trent Williams had a great year for the Niners. So he might be my My number two. I think just like the place he made the impact he made in that run game, you know for the Niners Who's number one actually come to think of it? We did see Debo Samuel recently and I'm thinking I'm thinking a lot of those yards that he got along the ground at least where uh, that could be due to this guy On my list It's flat and simple just like that I'll tell you what he is just cool karmic elected He's so he Hey, no holding penalties as well. That's a guy who doesn't want To cause a penalty This is an offensive tackle in the backfield and just watch how they're using Trent Williams Big mic. Oh, what he's lining up at fullback Now he goes in motion goes across the formation toss play to Mitchell behind Trent Oh, no, you have a guy who understands the game as well as he does Who copped that?  He paved the way and it scares a defense. It's an absolute bulldozer Why is it Trent Williams Because he can move and at the end of the day, we've got to look at his stats before the video's over. So let's do that Trent Williams is 34 years of age to line 19th 1988 six foot five 320 pounds of the best Oklahoma from 2006 to 2009 and got picked up in the first round of the 2010 draft with pick number four five years before No, sorry I'm gonna say yeah five years before I took notice of the league and eight years before I actually started following it Wowie I've only known him really as a 49er, but he did play for washington from 2010 to 2019 He's been at the 49ers since 2020 One first team all-pro selection in 2021 one second team all-pro selection in 2015 nine time pro bowler though 2012 13 14 15 16 17 18 missed it in 2019 2020 and 2021. Oh well Runs a 488 40-yard dash at six foot five and 320 odd pounds uh runs a 10-yard split at 172 a 20-yard split at 287 a 20-yard shuttle at 463 And a three cone drill at seven six four 34 and a half inches on the vertical jump nine foot five on the broad jump and 23 reps on the bench I'm gonna say that the vertical jump is certainly That's ridiculous at that at that size. That's absolutely fucked Um in a word, but I'm gonna say I would have expected him to get maybe Well, maybe five or so more more reps on the bench But I am gonna say once again that uh, you know 13 years in the league he came in as a rookie Uh and and put up those numbers. I'm gonna say he'd probably do 35 reps Now and if he couldn't I'd be very very surprised What do we got here? Let's talk deals. Let's talk deals. He was drafted fourth overall by the by the by the redskins and agreed to a six year six This is a rookie deal guys six year 60 million dollar contract on july 30th 2010 You don't see that often You don't see that often at all in 2019 Three years ago. He had some sort of some sort of cancer on his head That was removed It was first noticed in 2013 Uh with him claiming that the redskins medical staff told him it was not serious at the time He did not report the team's mandatory mini mini camp reportedly Reportedly demanded to be released or traded over how the team's medical staff handle handled the situation back then. That's big man That's big So we got it removed in 2019 six years later after the redskins failed to trade him before the trade deadline in 2019 He was reinstated on october 30th 2019. However, williams failed to pass A pre physical exam a physical exam as he experienced discomfort with his helmet due to his scalp having post surgical saunas, which I mean is to be expected Which resulted in the redskins placing him on the non football injury list in march 2020 He and his agent were granted permission to seek a trade to another team. Well Just goes to show a He was never really happy from 2013 onwards, but He's come to a team. He's come to a successful team who've gone deep in the playoffs both years So uh april 25th 2020 was traded to the san francisco 49ers and um Let's have a look at this. Oh my I saw this last year. I've said this before I'll say it again on march 23rd 2021. He signed a six year 138 million dollar contract extension with 49ers making him the highest paid offensive lineman in the nfl I mean need we say more? Look at him. Look at him. Look at this Look at this absolute beast six foot five 320 pounds I'd say 330 after a good meal. This guy is Yeah It looks as if he's still running a 488 40r dash with the way that he he came across the um The um, yeah, let's watch that again. Actually is you can do special things like line Ain't no one's stopping that a defense Why are they mostly in the giant offensive line? That is extremely scary. And why is it Trent Williams? Yeah, not a full back play It's more than just the wrecking ball An absolute wrecking ball, bro.  There's the wrongs out of that.  Oh my god, he could take out two guys in the open field. He's just overly dominant It's almost like everything that Trent does it is like that is not real Like did he really just do it and he does it the ability he has in space to redirect to close and finish Elite That was against Vaughn Miller, by the way Well, I think the one fortunate thing for Trent is is that he's a ridiculous athlete.  Forget about pancake. That's an absolute body slam. I can do the things that he does Oh, look at the pace look at him go I'm just gonna go for top top five next year. That was the opposite side of the ball. Yeah, it is pretty good. I'm gonna top that though Shit, I wouldn't be surprised man You take the 49ers to the Super Bowl You're gonna be top 10 either way guys. I don't know why on earth. I've done this but uh, they've actually just told me Who the number one is that's Tom Brady and that's that's not something I wanted to know. Um, what's happened here? What have they done? Hang on they go 16 15 14 then they go to one Oh nfl pick up your game, mate Pick up your game Well, I can't say I'm disappointed but what I will say is that in the next video we look at this guy Sorry is your this happy fella Josh Allen, so I'm going to leave it there. 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Serapsus National Assembly won't Scott to stop lawmakers from taking delivery of 57.6 billion Naira 360 SUVs and Nigeria escapes 11.5 billion dollars habitual fine in UK I am Borla Orba and this Explore Politics The socio-economic rights and accountability project Serap has filed the legal action before the federal court in Lagos against the National Assembly asking the court to stop the house of representatives from procuring and taking delivery of 360 sports utility vehicles SUVs worth 57.6 billion Naira for its members pending the airing and determination of the application for injunction filed by the administration Serap's applications for interim and interlocutory injunction followed reports that the lawmakers are set to procure and take delivery of 360 units of sports utility vehicles each of which would cost taxpayers at least 160 million Naira joining me to discuss this is Oluwadari A. Kola Wale deputy director socio-economic rights and accountability project Serap Mr. Kola Wale good evening and welcome to Plus Politics thank you very much for having me so you want to give us what instructs this application for injunction by Serap against the National Assembly or the house of representatives taking old or taking delivery of these sports utility vehicles what instructs it welcome back we really want to thank you for being patient with us it was a bit of a technical glitch Mr. Kola Wale are you there yes i am thank you very much we would really like you to recap what we were saying earlier on because the line was so bad there was no coherent understanding of what we were trying to to tell the public okay thank you very much i was starting the point about Serap's position on the proposed plan of the National Assembly as the news made around at that time that the National Assembly the plans to spend billions of Naira to acquire what has been standard what can we really be called the luxury vehicles and this again is a background of growing poverty rising inflation and rising unemployment occasion primarily by the rule of petroleum subsidy and so we put out a statement there calling on the National Assembly leadership of the National Assembly to stop the proposed plan and that failed and so we had to go to court while the matter was pending a court we also heard that the statement was credited to the spokesperson of the National Assembly of the plans of the National Assembly not only going ahead to procure the vehicles but to begin a phased delivery of receiving the vehicles and so we have to go about court to file for our lawyers to file applications for injunction which essentially means that the court should stop for the actions of the National Assembly pending when the substantive suit like that is the suit will file for the court to determine the legality of the actions of the National Assembly is determined by the ordinary is this suit against the entirety of the National Assembly or a particular chamber of the bicameral legislature who houses that constitute National Assembly the Senate and the House of Representatives and the two principal officers of course are sending me need a representative capacity for the whole members of the National Assembly because the vehicles have been procured for the use of the members of the National Assembly and ordinary these should not be the kind of issue that should end up in court now these naturally should not be what should what should be about the National Assembly should be focused on this time and really if we have political or public office holders who really believe in the rule of law and the principles of democracy actions are not to be taken on matters that have been submitted to the court for determination this again is an indication of the malfeasance in governance and the misuse of democratic principles or call them a be use of democratic principles by those in the political office and eventually we are looking forward to the court determined in this in favor of Nigerians how would you want to respond to the fact that some people are basically saying this is somewhat of an exhibitionistic move by by syrup because syrup all knows that ultimately these people would ultimately get to use the or get to buy the kind of vehicles that they desire irrespective of whatever may be the ash realities of the Nigerians of economic milieu how would you respond to that what's that not be true and i could not know where that will be coming from perhaps that statement could come from citizens that either become skeptical or cynical of the democratic process it might also come from citizens who are perhaps lost hopes in democracy but we as a legal advocacy organization believe in the judiciary and would believe the rule of law and that is why the subject matters like this to the court in a terrorist to the principles of constitutional basis that gives the judiciary the powers to determine ultimately the rights and obligations of Nigerians visa v government and even determine the rights of arms of government between one another and that takes me to to a very fundamental question what indeed powers those of you in syrup given the fact that the the general political environment itself could be very disillusioning and yet you people are still monster the fortitude of character to challenge those that you believe deliberately abusing the the constitution and the architecture of good governance what powers you what inspires people like you especially when you're doing this problem is not that you're making money from it and yet you know there are no better defenders of the Nigerian constitution that i know today than an organization such as yours what powers you guys perhaps it's the same spirit that drives Nigerians to go out to register at mass every election cycle sometimes knowing that the sometimes they may not eventually get their pbcs ever spending hours in the sun and it's right and sometimes actually that their votes may not that is the perception by the way but people still go about to do this and we still engage in advocacy such as conversations like this to encourage people to do that it is the same spirit that drives us to continue to take steps to old government to account because we understand the basis of democracy that democracy means as as part of the many things that democracy means it is the power of the people to participate and participation does not stop and name with voting at elections it does not mean that every action of government cannot be challenged and what we do is to go to court to submit to court for the judiciary known as the last of our common man to determine the rights of obligations for the people in this instance and what about the courts we are bound by it and that is how we've gone to court and the court sometimes it agree with us and we abide by it and sometimes also most times i must say it agrees with us and they put it and those in public offices end up not obeying these judgments of court but we cannot afford to give up we cannot that is part of the that is the basis of democratic practice that is where we are they also talk how would you then respond to the fact that the central argument of the national assembly and indeed some members particularly members of the labor party who whilst refusing to akin to the billions of the chairman of the party is that you know what we need these vehicles as tools to to undertake our work are you in any way shape or form saying that they shouldn't they should not get the real the the requisite tools they need to to get to do the work it's very important to understand and that what underscores the work we do in sarab is advocacy for good confidence of course within the thresholds of transpiration and accountability and that is devoid of of politics the tribe of religion or other sentiments so you're expecting of many of the political party that is involved these advocacy is directed every member of the national assembly you of course by the office is representing constituencies in Nigeria which are made up of Nigerian citizens so no matter the political affiliation of those in the national assembly spending this morning in the interest of less than 500 people and not be justifiable and this is within the context of growing poverty and this is just a mismanagement of public resources which is a direct conflict with the oath of office that each of the members of the national assembly are strong to uphold it is also in a breach of the code of conduct of public officer that applies to every public officer in Nigeria including the president and the members of the national assembly and that is right focus is not for citizens to hold this individual to account so is it the amount that you have issues with or the fact that they are getting vehicles that will help lubricate the machinery of how the best serve Nigerians we need to we need to get the niceties of this well enough is it the amount the price tag of each of the sport utility vehicle or that you really don't want them to get any vehicle at this juncture no no no it is not about the vehicles it is about the cost attached to the overall cost of these vehicles and when you do the cost benefit analysis what is the gain of spending so much for less than 500 people that is injurious to so many Nigerians team last comes the Nigerian big roof statistics have listed out millions of Nigerians over 100 million Nigerians are poor couldn't cut these funds be used for projects that would really help Nigerians that would be a benefit to Nigerians and these are huge money 557.6 billion there it could build hospitals it could build roads this could ensure that Nigerian children get quality affordable education the number of thousands after school children is growing it is 20 million as we speak i really i really have to play i really have to play the devils advocate not so much because i love doing that but i really have to let you get to hear some of the arguments that people supporting the national assembly have also preferred they saying you know what at the end of the day they would have to go oversight budgetary allocations they would have to go oversight do their oversight functions and they need to go in reliable vehicles and if this is the price of of that particular brand a model of vehicle why should they not get it out the sticker and then really the conversation we should be having now is out and these individual members of the national assembly justifying this spending to the members of their constituencies i would really love to see a site where each of these members these members individually they go to their constituencies and they tell the people of their constituencies which of course they may join because it's not six are there to explain to them that we are spending fifth over fifty billionaire to buy vehicles for ourselves against the background of poverty that they also see and this is also with the context of an amnesty it should be added by the president that has called and are still calling on Nigerians to sacrifice to pay the price for the common good so is there any can these be seen as a step as leadership by example is does these action on national enemies show any willingness or commitment to the ideals of beats so let me let me also re-ask some of the some of the pro-national assembly cynics line this is bad belly these boys know they are they they don't this is bad belagio so some are saying how would you respond to to that it's looking like some Nigerians are really resigned themselves to to the fact that they may be so important that even when an organization such as yours is out there trying to fight the corner of the public the disillusionment is so it's so profound that they don't really believe it will amount to anything you have referred to two different classes of people there are those who perhaps the society due to whatever perspectives they share that this is the good action that they are entitled to to that to that position which is why this is in court and there are also people that you have referred to that perhaps do not really enjoy the state of affairs do not think this is the right step in the part of the national assembly but they have resigned themselves to them they have become pessimistic they've become cynical and that has made as freeze any kind of action in on the apart these is not good for democracy every election cycle i next spend millions billions of nair as part of his public advocacy to encourage Nigerians to go out and vote which is just a totally part of the democratic process because governance is a continuum people continue to engage in government by participating participation also means sometimes criticizing the actions of government which is why citizens must understand the importance of democracy to know that the democracy does not stop at them making political choices about who to vote or who not to vote for democracy continues with them engaging with government saying what they want desizing actions of government praising government where they can and that also means holding those in public office to account in this instant we believe itself that this penny is not justifiable it is against the law and we if we have cities we have lots of cities who also believe this this is why this is the public interest lawsuit and we're entitled to this position and we're not only holding it to ourselves we're subject to the court for the court to look at these actions look at the laws we are and determine who is right and wrong in this instance and so citizens feel to hold the opinions but ultimately they cause with the timing in the public interest whether the actions to be must answer in this instance can be said to be lawful and justifiable just wanting to play the devil's advocate again let's just say why should i appear to be playing so well i think i just have a job to do and i may even understand you know the difficulty i'm going through emotionally and intellectually having to to do this but somebody has to ask the question now some may also say okay ultimately if sarah if sarah gets a good positive pronouncement by the court what would ultimately stop these people from just tweaking the model and going for another model that may even be be more you know cost wise than the one that sarah has probably successfully gotten them to to dump how would you respond to that and that is why it is advocacy is not against the choice of vehicles it is about the spending and of course we understand that the spending will naturally inform the type of vehicles that they should buy and that is why even the fiscal responsibility act is very clear on the obligations of ministries department and agencies and public institutions in the use of public funds in this instance what is the cost benefit analysis of purchasing these vehicles when they gain okay if you're against if you're against one and sixty million naira per unit you know per vehicle that's possibly the vehicle if you're against that what's the reasonable amount that you as a member of syrup and a strategist in syrup what amount would be reasonable to somebody like you i am not an expert in cars i cannot advise us to the type of brands was to the spending perhaps looking in what and are they not made in the union vehicles that would cost less that would not only mean contributing to the economy of our own homegrown industries and they are not vehicles that can solve these purposes and that is why the question i'm asking is what is the process that has gone into deciding into this choice that he has taken in that has taken cognizance of the public interest and that is why this is not about the private interest of the legislators and the legislators explain to the girls what is the process how did they arrive at the choice of these vehicles and the amount and did they consider at all the public interest of these vehicles that they considered locally manufactured vehicles what are the pros and cons how did they arrive at this choice and we are saying all these can be argued within the context of this truth and also in the court public opinion i was once on on a radio program and i was you know proceeding just like you doing now that it ought to be incumbent on representatives of the people using vehicles especially vehicles assembled or made in Nigeria and somebody called into that live program and said do you also use those vehicles and you see i was a bit kind of you know what i mean i wouldn't quite ask you that directly but how many of us you can you can't answer that is why sometimes it we need to understand public office is a sacrifice these are individuals that have pulled them out because they wanted to say i don't forget because it's not a requirement of being a member of the national assembly it's not that easy and the process of being a member of the national assembly is not also easy you have to scale the various orders in your political party you have to be accepted by the INEC you are nominated then you go to the campaigns then you are you go to elections it's a process that shows individuals that commented to public office and that is why you see the code of conduct for public officers in the constitution is not binding on me it's not binding on you it is binding on public officers because they are put themselves out to serve they must conform to those rules and they can draft the constitution they draft on the constitution accept me like if you are a public officer this is the minimum threshold of conduct that you should do i didn't swear any oath of office as a private citizen but if i take up any public office today i will swear the oath of office and i must abide by it so get the rules applied to a private citizen those not applied to a public officer the law is clear in this regard which is why we hold them to a doubt using the instrumentality of the law to what i think what the law says and in this instance the code of conduct for public officers the oath of office they took is very clear as to the considerations they should have for every action they take whether in the lawmaking process or for any action that contributes to that process they must always think of their interests of one hand and the interests of the public that they should to serve on the other hand and this action of allocating more than 50 billion lira to buy vehicles for themselves in the face of great poverty in the land it's not justifiable and not be said to pass the threshold of acting in the public interest that is a fantastic place to leave it mr kolawale we really want to appreciate you for guesting on the show today thank you for the illumination you've given on this subject to a viewing public thank you thank you very much so well it's been a pleasure we go on a short break now when we back we take out another interesting issue


And now, for your U.S. Army Europe spotlight. Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, visited soldiers, military families and teachers at the Joint Multinational Training Command in Grafenvere, Germany. I was honored to have lunch with many of our soldiers and then I met with teachers from DOD and heard their stories and what they're doing with students and how they're making it easier for students to transition into the classroom and out of the classroom in some of their best practices. Dr. Biden and the First Lady have spearheaded initiatives which focus on employment, education, wellness and public awareness in regards to military communities. We wanted to come together and find a way to honor the sacrifices that our military families and our military make. We've tried to make life easier for military children and then in turn making it easier for their parents.


Hi I'm Premier Christy Clark. I'm also the MLA for Vancouver Point Gray and I want to take a moment to talk about how important the Kits Coast Guard base is in my riding and how important it is to all of the lower mainland. The federal decision to close the Kits Coast Guard base was disappointing to say the least and the recent decision to relocate to an inshore boat at Stanley Park still leaves us with a dangerous drop in service for eight months of the year. Our swimmers, boaters and our ports expect the federal government to keep BC's harbors safe. That's why we're asking them to reconsider the decision to close the base. My government is planning to balance the budget this spring so I understand the importance of controlling spending and keeping costs down but not when lives are put at risk. For the safety of British Columbians the federal government must find the funding to keep the Kits Coast Guard station open and to keep Vancouver family safe. My government is not going to give up this fight. We're going to continue to press to keep the Coast Guard base open in Kitsilano so that they can continue to do what they do best and that save lives. Thanks.


Well, the title of our sermon this evening is the Conquest of Compromise, the Conquest of Compromise. We're in Judges chapter one verses 22 through 36 and it's our joy this evening, our privilege to come back to the book of Judges for the word of God this evening. And if you remember our context in the faithfulness to His promise, God has given the promised land of Canaan to the children of Israel under the military leadership of Joshua. As we see in Judges chapter one verse one, Joshua has since died and now the nation of Israel is tasked with dispossessing the people who currently inhabit the land and possessing the allotments of land given by promise to each of the tribes. In order to do this now, Israel is to trust the Lord, to put their faith in him and there to obey his word, taking the land by faith. The Lord would be victorious, but he would be victorious through the faith of his people. Victory will only come by faith and the power of God. Now Canaanites now who currently live in the land and all the people groups, the various people groups that fall under that generic label of Canaanites, are all under the judgment of God for their wickedness. God had placed them under a ban. The Canaanites were an abomination to God and now the nation of Israelite is the tip of the spear, so to speak. They are the instruments of the Lord's retribution against this wicked people. All those nations placed under the law of harem or destruction and by God's just, His righteous, His holy, His good decree, those nations are to be utterly destroyed for purposes which we'll see this evening. Now if you remember in your study of the Old Testament, the 12 tribes of Israel all descend from, they take their names from the 12 sons of Jacob, the 12 sons of Israel as he's known. Each of the 12 tribes are given an inheritance of the land of Canaan with a couple of notable exceptions. If you check the list as you work through the land grants in the book of Joshua, the first exception that you'll find in the book of Joshua is the tribe of Levi. Now Numbers 18, the Lord had separated the Levites to himself for the work of the tabernacle and he gave the Levites in response to their work or for their work, he gave the Levites the tithe of the nation. So the Levites weren't given an inheritance with the other tribes, they were to work in the tabernacle and God gave the Levites the tithe of the nation for their work. The Lord said to Levi, I am your portion, I am your inheritance among the children of Israel. So the Levites aren't included in that list of land grants given in the land of Canaan. The second exception, if you check that list of allotments, the second exception you'll find is the tribe of Joseph. Joseph didn't have a tribe named after him. Joseph instead had two sons and tribes were named after his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. And instead of seeing a land grant given to Joseph, we see a land grant allotments given to both his sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, the two sons of Joseph. The house of Joseph is referenced in verse 22 in our text as a synonym here specifically for Ephraim. Ephraim was the tribe that went up against Bethel, formerly Luz, Ephraim was the tribe that took it. Now the history behind this, I think is really important for our text, really important for us to consider. So let's take a look at that history back in Genesis chapter 48. Turn there with me to Genesis chapter 48. You'll see a bit of this history that leads up to this land allotment and the tribe of Ephraim going up against Bethel, formerly Luz. Genesis chapter 48, and if you remember now in Genesis 48, Jacob, or Israel, the patriarch of the 12 tribes is old, Jacob is sick and he's nearing death. And so they call for Joseph to let him know that his father is taken ill and is going to die. So Joseph at the beginning of chapter 48 takes his two sons, his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim that were born to Asenath, his Egyptian wife, and he brought these two sons, born to an Egyptian wife, to Jacob. Now the word Manasseh, the name Manasseh comes from a word meaning to forget, to forget. And because God had blessed Joseph with forgetting all the sorrow and affliction that he had faced from his family in his homeland, Joseph names his first child to forget, Manasseh. His second son named Ephraim, the word meaning fruitful. And emphasizing specifically, it could be taken future, specifically emphasizing a future fruitfulness. And we know Joseph was very fruitful in the land of Egypt. God blessed Joseph. So Joseph, in naming his second son Ephraim, praises God for the prosperity he enjoyed in Egypt, but also does so in faith, right, expecting future blessing or looking forward to future blessings from the Lord for greater blessings coming later, right? And notice, notice, in this, in Egypt, with an Egyptian wife, Joseph doesn't forget the Lord. He gives both of his sons Hebrew names, Manasseh and Ephraim are Hebrew names. Joseph also looks forward in faith, trusting the Lord for greater blessings, greater future blessings. That's the reason for his name of Ephraim meaning fruitful or future fruitfulness. All right, so then look at verse three with me, Genesis, chapter 48, verse three. So then Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me where? At Luz, right? We recognize the name of that city. That's the city that comes to be known as Bethel. We see that in our text in Judges chapter one. My God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me instead to me. Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you.  If you remember when that took place, right, Jacob comes to Bethel, formerly Luz. And that's where we see the account in Genesis 28 of Jacob's ladder, Jacob wrestling with God through the night and the Lord blesses him and the Lord reiterates the covenant that God made with Abraham that he reiterated with Isaac. He also reiterates with Jacob there in Bethel. And so if you take that, this land had been given to Jacob back in Genesis chapter 28, the Canaanites now in Luz are squatters. The land doesn't belong to them. The land has been given to Jacob, been given specifically to Jacob's descendants, right? God promises Jacob reiterating that Abrahamic covenant. He says to Jacob, your descendant shall be as the dust of the earth in your seed. All the families of the earth shall be blessed. God said to Jacob, behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go. And I will bring you back to this land for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you, right? So God makes Jacob a promise. Now, Genesis 48, thinking ahead, thinking ahead to God's fulfillment of this promise, Jacob turns to his son, Joseph in verse five. And Jacob says, and now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt are mine. As Reuben and Simeon, Reuben, the firstborn, as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. If you keep reading in Genesis 48, what you find there is an adoption ceremony. This is an old fashioned, old Testament adoption ceremony. Jacob has in mind adopting Ephraim and Manasseh. The two sons of Joseph, Jacob is going to adopt them himself and give them, Ephraim and Manasseh, an equal share of God's promised inheritance with their uncles. That's pretty amazing, isn't it? Right? The two sons of Joseph, his grandsons, not just an equal share between them, okay, between them, but also the double portion given to the firstborn that will now go to Joseph through his two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh. That makes you think, right? The faithfulness of God to his word. Reuben is taken out of that position. Now the firstborn portion goes to the two sons of Joseph. Manasseh was not forgotten, even though his name might suggest otherwise, and Ephraim was made abundantly fruitful. Now, all this is done in state. You think about Genesis 48 and you think about Judges chapter one. Jacob, where is Jacob when he adopts Ephraim and Manasseh? He's in exile in Egypt. Has he received the land yet? No. It's all given by promise by the word of God. So Jacob has nothing at this point. He's really got no inheritance yet to give other than the word of God's promise to him. And he's living in his as an exile in Egypt. But he has the promise of God, right? He has the promise of God. So Joseph here is trusting in the promise. His sons grow up trusting in the promise. They're standing here before Jacob trusting in the promise. And Jacob gives it by faith, trusting in the promises of God. Joseph and his sons receive it by faith, trusting in the promises of God. OK, pretty amazing, right? The promises of God are sure and steadfast. They are inviolable, unassailable. What God says is what will come to pass, right? And Jacob, Joseph, his sons believe that. And so this is all happening according to faith in what God has said. So now what happens then? What happens? Well, we see the power, the faithfulness of God in working out the promise then. God's purposes, God's plans are in accord with God's decree, God's word. And God works out the promise. The nation of Israel grows in the womb of Egypt in the iron furnace, right?  God brings them in and through the wilderness now to the promised land. The land has been conquered by faith under the leadership of Joshua. God has given it to them. All this has come to pass. All this has come to pass according to God's word. Not one word of it has failed and look at all that he has done for them. And so now standing on the precipice of possessing their allotted territory, their inheritance, they are now charged with going in and taking it. If there was ever a people, right? If there was ever a people who should trust the Lord, surely it was Ephraim, right? Of all that God had promised, all that has come to pass. Surely Ephraim should trust the Lord. So what do they do? Look at Judges chapter one, back in Judges chapter one and look at verse 22, where the house of Joseph, now specifically Ephraim, is the one that this house of Joseph is used synonymously or as an umbrella name for Ephraim here. The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel and the Lord was with them. They went up by faith and the Lord was with them. So the house of Joseph sent men to spy out Bethel. The name of the city was formerly lose. So here it is now. We're talking about the land that has been promised by God. This is their promised inheritance. And all of God's word has come to pass. What's required now of Ephraim, but to go in and possess it, put the people under a ban as God has commanded, but to trust God and obey God, obey Him according to His word, dispossess the people and take possession of their inheritance. And what we see here in verse 23 is not unusual, is it? Them sending spies to Bethel or spies into lose. We see spies sent into Jericho, don't we? We saw spies sent into the Promised Land. They come back with a faithless, unbelieving, bad report. We also see spies sent into Jericho. Look at verse 24, then. So when the spies then saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, please show us the entrance of the city and we will show you mercy. Word there has said mercy, loving kindness. They obviously knew where the main entrance was. It wasn't hard to find the main entrance of the city. This was certainly a better way into the city or a secretive way into the city. Sounding even more like Jericho at this point, isn't it? Drawing some parallels between this attack on the city of Bethel and the siege of Jericho. So they send out spies. The spies meet up with an ordinary citizen of the country, not unlike Rahab in Jericho. Right? The person decides to help them in exchange for his life, in exchange for the safety of his family, not unlike Rahab and her family. So notice at the end of verse 24, though, the spies actually use covenant language with this idolatrous, hittite man from the city of Luz. They say we will show you has said we will show you mercy, loving kindness or covenant keeping mercy. This was covenant keeping language that Israel was exceedingly familiar with. Why? Because God had used it with them. My God had entered into covenant with them. They appear in verse 24. What appears to happen here is that they make a covenant with this idolatrous man who is under the ban. Interesting, we have to see what happens with that, right? But it doesn't look like it's all on the up and up. There's a problem here that begins in verse 24. Look at verse 25. So this man, he shows them the entrance to the city and they struck the city with the edge of the sword, but they let the man and all his family go. It's actually sounding a little bit more like a Gibbianite treaty, doesn't it? Right? Making a treaty with the Gibbianites that they weren't authorized to make. But notice some striking differences here in verse 25. Between this man and Rahab. The promise of the spies to Rahab. You remember the story of the assault of Jericho. The promises of the spies to Rahab only follow upon Rahab's testimony of all that God had done. Only upon Rahab's acknowledgment that God alone is God of heaven and earth. Turn there with me a few pages back to Joshua chapter two. And let's look at that together, Joshua chapter two. I want us to draw a distinction here, some contrast between the assault or the siege of Jericho and this assault on the city of Bethel and this idolatrous man in verse 25. Look at Joshua chapter two. Look there beginning at verse eight. Right at verse eight, the spies came to the city, city of Jericho. Rahab greets them, listen to what is said. Now, before they lay down in verse eight, she came up to them, the spies on the roof and said to the men. I know that the Lord has given you the land that the terror of you has fallen on us and that all the inhabitants of the land are faint hearted because of you. For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. And as soon as we heard these things, our hearts melted. Neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you for the Lord, your God. He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. That is a testimony of who God is from the lips of Rahab, the harlot. Right. She's acknowledging the God of heaven. Now, therefore, verse 12, I beg you, Rahab says, swear to me by the Lord. Now she's making oaths in the Lord's name since I have shown you kindness that you also will show kindness to my father's house and give me a true token and spare my father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters and all that they have and deliver our lives from death. What is she about to do? She's about to trust these men specifically. She's about to trust the Lord. So the men answered her our lives for yours. If none of you tells this business of ours and it shall be when the Lord has given us the land that we will deal kindly and truly with you. And she let them down by a rope through a window for her house was on the city wall, she dwelt on the wall and she said to them, get to the mountain. Let the pursuers of meet you hide there three days until the pursuers have returned afterward, you may go your way. So let's draw a contrast then between what we see with Rahab and Joshua chapter two and what we see with a man from Luz and judges chapter one. The man from Luz gives no testimony of faith. There's no testimony of faith. Rahab is in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews chapter 11, right? She is a living testimony of faith at this point. Rahab trusted in the kindness and mercy of God, the God of heaven and earth. This man made no such confession, right? No commitment to follow the one true and living God of Israel. Rahab, at the time that they're taking Luz, Rahab and all of her family is living in Israel with the children of Israel, right? Rahab is still with them to this very day. In fact, look at verse 26, judges chapter one, verse 26. This man, after the assault on Bethel, this man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, called its name, what? Luz. It's like whack-a-mole.  Called its name Luz, which is its name to this very day. What we find in Judges chapter one and here specifically in verse 26 in actuality is that the mandate, the command, the word of God has been disobeyed, has been disobeyed. The man is allowed to go his way. The man is allowed to continue living as a Hittite. Rahab doesn't live any longer as a Gentile, does she? She's brought into the people of God. This man continues to live as a Hittite. The physical city of Luz was taken, but the spiritual Canaanite continues to flourish. You see, Luz just pops up in another place to plague the Israelites another day. In this Luz becomes a symbol or becomes a foreboding and ominous symbol of compromise and we see increasing compromise here, don't we? The survivor of Bezek, if you remember that from chapter one, that and I, Bezek loses his thumbs, loses his big toes, loses his kingdom, eventually loses his life. This man gets a relocation package, right? He goes off to another place, plants the city by the same name, continues living as a Hittite. What do we see here? We see compromise, we see disobedience, we see faithlessness, not a meticulous faithfulness to obey the word of God. The dark clouds of compromise are gathering, half-hearted devotion to the word of God. And listen, when you when you partially obey God, you entirely disobey God, right? The consequences, as we'll see in the history of Israel, are absolutely devastating, devastating. The consequences of their compromise are devastating. What was the word that they had disobeyed? What was the word of God to them? We've talked about that before as the law of harem or committing them to destruction. Let's look at that in context in Deuteronomy chapter seven. Let's look at the actual text. Deuteronomy chapter seven, what was the word that God had specifically given to them? Deuteronomy chapter seven, look beginning in verse one, where the Bible reads, when the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to possess and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Gurgoshites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Parasites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations, greater and mightier than you, in other words, they're going to take that land by faith in the power of God, not on their own strength. These nations were mightier than they were. Verse two, and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you, who is it that delivers them? The Lord their God delivers them.  You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them, nor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son, for they will turn your sons away from following me to serve other gods.  What do we see in Israel's history? We see exactly that, right? Exactly that. Exactly what the Lord says will happen is exactly what does happen. But thus you shall deal with them.   Why? Verse six, because you are a holy people, consecrated, separated to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. They were to obey their God. Drop down to verse 12, drop down to verse 12. Then it shall come to pass. Because you listen to these judgments, what would be the blessing on their obedience? Because you listen to these judgments and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the mercy which he swore to your fathers, and he will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will also bless the fruit of your womb, the fruit of your land, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the increase of your cattle, the offspring of your flock in the land of which he swore to your fathers to give you. You shall be blessed above all peoples. There shall not be a male or female baron among you or among your livestock.    He says it, it'll be a snare. This has got to be done by faith. Again, these are nations mightier and greater than they are. They can't do it in their own strength, right? They can't do it in their own strength. Now think about that with me, for example, the applications in our own Christian life are myriad, aren't they? Situations that you come up against that you can't do anything about. It is outside your power, outside your wisdom, outside your ability, outside your strength to manage. What are you to do, Christian brother, Christian sister?  You're to cast yourself upon him in faith and trust him for the results. Right? We're to do this by faith. We have victory through faith. We prosper through faith. The Lord blesses through faith. What happens to them? Verse 17, if you should stay in your heart, these nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them? Listen, you shall not be afraid of them, but you shall remember well what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. Right? Doesn't Romans chapter nine say that God raised up Pharaoh so that his power might be shown in him, right? God shows his power, shows himself to be strong and faithful. We just need to trust him, right? We need to trust him. Verse 19, the great trials with your eyes saw the signs and the wonders, the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the Lord your God brought you out. So shall the Lord your God do to all the people of whom you are afraid. Moreover, the Lord your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left who hide themselves from you are destroyed. Who's going to win the battle? God is. What are they responsible for doing? Just obeying him in faith. Trust him. Obey him. The Lord will take care of everything else. Verse 21, you shall not be terrified of them. For the Lord your God, the great and awesome God is among you.  You will be unable to destroy them at once, let the beast of the field become too numerous for you.  No one shall be able to stand against you until you have destroyed them. You shall burn the carved image of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it for yourselves, let's you be snared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God, nor shall you bring an abomination into your house. Let's you be doomed to destruction like it. You shall utterly detest it and utterly deport it for it is an accursed thing. It's powerful, isn't it? God, giving them direct instruction, do this, and I will take care of everything else. Just obey me, trust me, right? Well, what happens back in Judges chapter one? God commands the Israelites to take the land and to drive out their enemies. The Israelites are obligated to obey that command, and they are to trust the Lord by faith with the results. However, it is very clear, very clear that there will be no obedience, there will be no victory. They will not drive out the inhabitants of the land, nor will they possess it apart from faith in God's promises, faith in God's word, as it is for us today. Apart from him, how much can you do? Absolutely nothing. All that you think you're doing amounts to absolutely nothing. What you think you're accomplishing is absolutely nothing. Right? All that we do that is worth anything is accomplished through faith, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. We must trust him. Apart from faith, victory will not come. Now, the enemies that they face are fearsome. They're fearsome, they're brutal, stronger than they are. It's going to take faith, and that's going to take a courageous, a strong faith. Joshua tells the people, doesn't he? Be strong and of great courage, right? It will take an unquestioning commitment to the word of God. It's not going to be easy, but it's not meant to be easy. Right? The difficulties that we face, the adversity that we face is to, as the Lord often says, test our faith. Not because he doesn't know it to be real or genuine, but because we don't know it to be real or genuine. We need to be tested. We need to trust him and learn to trust him. How do we learn to trust him by facing difficulty, by facing adversity? Paul, right in 2 Corinthians, chapter one, talks about a trial that was so burdensome, it was too burdensome for them to bear. They despaired even of life itself. And what was the purpose of that trial, Paul said there? It was so that they would learn to trust not in themselves, but in God who raises the dead, right? We need to trust the Lord. It's not going to be easy. It's meant to be a testament of faith. So where do God's people turn? When they face fearsome foes, fearsome and unbeatable foes, they turn to faith in the Lord. Hebrews describes those who through faith, listen, subdued kingdoms, worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword. Out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, turned to fight the armies of the aliens. That's what they accomplished through faith, what the Lord accomplished through their faith. The children of Israel will never take the land of Canaan unless they first take God at his word. You will never take your enemies unless you first take God at his word. We see the clouds gathering, the darkness of compromise is spreading. We continue to see increasing compromise in Judges, Chapter One of Storm is coming, right? So back in Judges, Chapter One, Verse 27 now. Did Manasseh, the brother of Ephraim, did Manasseh fare any better than his brother? Look at Verse 27. However, Manasseh did not drive out the inhabitants of Bet-Shan and its villages, or Ta'anak and its villages, or the inhabitants of Dor and its villages, or the inhabitants of Yubelim and its villages, or the inhabitants of Megiddo and its villages, for the Canaanites were determined to dwell in that land. Well, of course, the Canaanites were determined to dwell in the land, weren't they? The determination of the Canaanites to live in the land was obviously greater than the determination of Manasseh to obey the word of God. Shameful, isn't it? Manasseh disobeys the mandate, outright disobedience of God's word. Verse 28. Now, it came to pass then when Israel was strong that they put the Canaanites under tribute. What should they have done with the Canaanites? They should have put the Canaanites under the ban. But what do they do instead? They put the Canaanites under tribute, forced labor. But did not completely drive them out. Israel disobeyed the word of God. Seems to them at the time probably right that it makes good sense to put them under tribute. We've got all this free labor now is going to be good for our economy. We can make them work. We're going to take taxes from them. Might have made sense to the Israelites. Worldly wisdom would say, let's put them under tribute. Let's put them to work. Worldly wisdom is not God's wisdom. God's wisdom is always right, amen. And they disobey God. And the consequences of their compromise are devastating, absolutely devastating. Verse 29. Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites who dwelt in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. Nor did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Ketron or the inhabitants of Nahalol. And so the Canaanites dwelt among them and they were put under tribute. They were not put under the ban. They were put under tribute. Verse 31. Nor did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Acho or the inhabitants of Sidon or of Aklav or of Akziv or of Helva or of Afik or Rehav. And so the Asherites, listen to this, dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land or they did not drive them out. Now, the Asherites at this point aren't even considered now to be the inhabitants of the land. You notice that shifts in verse 32? The inhabitants of the land continue to be the Canaanites. The Asherites simply move in and live among them now. Verse 33. Nor did Nastili drive out the inhabitants of Bet Shemesh or the inhabitants of Bet Anat, but they dwelt among the Canaanites in the inhabitants of the land. Nevertheless, the inhabitants of Bet Shemesh and Bet Anat were put under tribute to them. It's interesting. You think about those two names, the two names of those cities, right? Bet Shemesh means House of the Sun. Specifically means House of the Sun God. They worshiped the Sun God in Bet Shemesh. Bet Anat means House of Anat. Anat was a Canaanite fertility goddess thought to be the lover of Baal. So they worshiped the goddess Anat in the House of Anat. You can see, can't you? How the Israelites compromise now, how these idolatrous people who remain in the land become snares to the Israelites later. You know, for all those that would say, as we've talked about, in the cruelty of God to just kill these people like this, to wipe them out, right? Men, women, children, livestock, the cruelty of God. How cruel is that in the Old Testament for Israel to go in to be charged with killing all these people? How cruel you consider for a moment the absolute abhorrent and devastating consequences on God's people against God's name and in God's sight, whom they sin. The one who created us, right? The one who made us in his image and you have these walking abominations in the land that he's given to his people, sinning in the ways that they sin, making their children walk through the fire to Moloch, not only making their children walk through the fire to Moloch, but then in staring the Israelites. So the Israelites themselves, the people of God caused their children to walk through the fire to Moloch, an abominable false God, right? Abhorrent, absurd. They snare the people of God in their idolatry.  Listen, one day judgment will come and there will be torment eternally for all those who reject the one true and living God of Israel, right? Judgment will come. This is a foreshadowing of that judgment. It's a foreshadowing of that judgment. The Israelites, though, they don't realize the far reaching consequences of their disobedience. And so often we don't either, do we? We face decisions, important decisions on a regular basis in our lives. Our responsibility, not knowing what the future holds, God doesn't tell us the future in every case, right? In our circumstances, we often don't know what the results of our decisions, what the results of our actions will be. God knows. So what are we to do as Christians, brothers, sisters? What are we to do? We're to trust the Lord. We're to put our faith and trust in Him. He knows the results. And so we entrust ourselves to Him in those important decisions in every decision of life, every decision, right? You don't know what the consequences of a compromised decision will be. Your own soul is precious. Husbands, you make a decision for your family, the soul of your wife, the soul of your children is their precious. Precious in the sight of God should be precious to you. Don't make compromises with this world and make a decision that will have consequences for them later down the road because you were foolish, right? Husbands, you're responsible for your wife. You're responsible for your family. Wives don't make compromise, foolish, sinful decisions. Why? Because the lives of your children are affected by your decisions, by what you do. Trust in the Lord, right? It's not just you. You are important. Also, consider your own soul, fear God and consider the souls of those around you. The decisions that we make have consequences. Don't compromise, don't play with sin. Trust the Lord, even when it's hard. Listen, especially when it's hard, right? Because those circumstances seem out of your control. That's when you should trust in the Lord, most of all, right? Not try to take matters into your own hands. Don't do it. Be faithful to the Lord and he will care for you, right? Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and what? All these other things will come to you. The Lord knows what you need before you even ask him. We must trust the Lord. These Israelites don't realize the far reaching consequences of their decisions. It can affect them, will affect them, can affect you, may affect you for generations, right? By the time we get to the report concerning the tribe of Dan, the Amorites are driving them out of the land. Look at verse 34. So the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountains for they would not allow them to come down into the valley. And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Harris and Aijalan and in Sha'albeem. Yet when the strength of the house of Joseph became greater, they were put under tribute. Now, the boundary of the Amorites was from the ascent of Akraveem from Salah and upward. You notice in these verses the conquest of compromise. It's supposed to be supposed to be that the Israelites go in and possess the land. And by worldly standards, anybody who takes a sort of a general look at this sounds like at first blush, they're doing a pretty good job, right? They go in, they move in, they take the land, not perfectly. They still got Canaanites in the land, but they're taking it city by city by city. By worldly standards, it may look OK on the surface. We know far better, don't we? At the same time, the Israelites are supposed to be going in conquest, taking the land we see, not the conquest of Israel, the conquest of compromise. Verse 30, the Canaanites are living among the Israelites. Verse 32, the Israelites now living among the Canaanites. In verse 34, the Canaanites are driving the Israelites out of the land to see a progression, knowing the enemy appears to be conquered. They have them enforced labor, have them paying taxes. But what's the problem? What's the problem? The problem is that we know the history of Israel that follows. We can read our Bibles, right? These things are written for our admonition upon whom the end of the ages has come. We see, don't we, the utter devastation that leads to a division in the nation. We see the destruction of their cities. We see the exile of the people of God. God had clearly revealed his word to them. They simply didn't believe him. And so they did not obey him. When it comes to difficult decisions, even listen, when it comes to easy decisions and you don't obey the Lord, when we're not meticulously faithful to his word, you can say what you want to say. You can make whatever excuse you come up with, right? It's this circumstance and this circumstance. You don't know how hard I've got it. You can make whatever excuse you want to make. The bottom line is you do not trust God. You're not putting your faith in him. You're not following him by faith. It doesn't matter what the circumstances are.  You see our responsibility. Isn't it a glorious responsibility that we get to trust the living God, the God of the universe, the one who holds the universe in his hands. Our very lives are in his hands. We trust in him. All powerful, immutable, unchangeable, eternal, his unassailable, unenviable word is true. His promises are sure and he is the one in whom we put our trust. He will never let us down, right? He will never abandon his people. So when you make excuses, when making excuses for not obeying him, it's just because we don't believe him. We don't trust him. We haven't put our faith in him. That's simply all that it is. They didn't believe him and so they did not obey him. One commentator said this. He said, instead of reshaping the world after the image of Yahweh's will, that was the responsibility that God had given to Israel, his people. The glory of God was to cover the earth as the waters cover the sea and is becoming increasingly obvious that will never happen through the physical nation of Israel, right? They are supposed to go into the world, reshape the world, the image of the world after Yahweh's will. They live in and with the world. And before long, they have taken on the characteristics of the world. Instead of making this the land of the people of God, they become like the people of the land. This not only explains why the ages of the judges turned out to be so dark, but also serves as a permanent reminder of the deadly consequences of compromise and disobedience to all who claim to be the people of God. Brothers and sisters, we cannot compromise. We cannot disobey the Lord. We must put our faith and our trust in him when he calls us to obey him. We trust him to know that that is good and right and holy and just. We should agree with it in our inner man that it is holy, just and good. And we should trust him and go out in delight in obedience to him. Why? Because it's for his glory. And whatever is for his glory is for our good. God works out all things together for the good of those who love him, love him, right? We obey him, we trust him. God gives us such good and precious promises. We have no reason to act in our own self will. We have no reason not to trust him, not to obey him. We have every reason to act in faith, trusting the Lord for his faithfulness to all that he has promised to do. We see, don't we, a picture of God's everlasting, unchangeable, inviolable faithfulness all over the pages of scripture. Do we not? And if you're in Christ, you've seen his faithfulness to you in your own life repeatedly now. Have you not? That he is true to his word. We must act. We must live in faith. Let faith then fuel your obedience to him. Faith should fuel our obedience. God's word would say, right, read your Bible, study, pray every day. Let the word of God be your delight, delight in it day and night.  Worldly wisdom, worldly wisdom might say, listen, you don't have time for that. You are so busy today, you've got so many things on your to do list. Faith says, I don't have time not to. That's what faith says. That's what faith says, right? God's word says, give generously to the work of the Lord. Give generously.  Isn't that what God's word says? Worldly wisdom would say, well, you can't afford to do that. How much of your income are you giving to the church? Faith says, I can't afford not to, right? That's what faith says. God's word says, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. Worldly wisdom might say, I can't do that right now, Lord, you know how difficult my circumstances are. I've got too many needs that need to be met. Faith says, I can't do anything but that because the Lord is the one who provides for me everything that I need. Don't compromise. Don't be faithless. Don't be unbelieving. God is gracious and merciful. His loving kindness poured out on his people who trust him, who believe in him, who love him, who obey his commands. We have every reason to trust the Lord and absolutely no rational reason not to. Amen. All praise, honor and glory to the one who is worthy, the worthy object of our faith. Let's pray. Father in heaven, Lord, we praise you, worship you, thank you, Lord, for your faithfulness, for your promises, for your word. They are precious to us. And Lord, we believe you, we trust you, we entrust ourselves to you. We thank you, Lord, for your faithfulness. Thank you for the precious promises that you have given us in Christ. I pray that there's anyone here. Who's still living for themselves, still living in their sin. God, that you would show them how foolish it is to live for themselves. They would trust you for your covenant faithfulness, your word, the work that you have done, the person in work of our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself, Lord, I pray that they would look to him by faith and be saved. I pray that my brothers and sisters, me or that we together would follow you whole, heartedly by faith, that we would not compromise with worldliness, that we would not compromise with the temptations that rise up in our flesh to turn away from you, but that we would be believing, that we would be faithful, putting our faith and trust in your promises and obeying your word, knowing that that is good. And Lord, I pray that you, Spirit of God, would strengthen us to do that, that you would, in great mercy, condescend to make us walk according to your statutes and judgments and to keep them, preserve us, Lord, strengthen us for what lies ahead, grow, build, cultivate, mature our faith in you and help us, Lord. We need you apart from you. We acknowledge we can do nothing. Help us, Lord, to learn from these examples and your word and thank you for them. We love you in Jesus' name. Amen.


Some gymnastic sniper at home versus Alexandria first. We have Abby Dorn on the vault, and she'll stick the landing here for the Warriors. Next up it's Brooklyn Jones also on the vault. Makes that look way too easy. Nice landing for the ladies in blue. Then to the uneven bars, Rachel Moore, he's getting it done as an eighth grader. Spinning, twirling, lands there for the high score. And finally we have Helen Knudsen. She puts the exclamation point on the event with this landing and routine. Reynard goes on to beat Alexandria by just under 10 points. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.


What's up guys, I'm let's fly RC and today we are going to build my new frame the outlaw each country has their own rules about Drones, but almost every country has this threshold of 250 grams under which certain rules don't apply to the drone You can basically get away with a lot more with a lightweight drone So of course that means you could just fly micro drones, but here at rotor riot We like to fly five inch freestyle drones So I wanted to design a frame that was light enough to fly under the radar But still give you that five inch freestyle experience now This frame can be set up in multiple different ways using different batteries different prop configurations and Even carry an action camera in certain configurations and still be under 250 grams first though Unfortunately, we don't have any extra parts laying around so we're gonna have to pull this guy apart and put it back together So your outlaw frame is gonna come with a three millimeter bottom plate a two millimeter top plate screws for the stack and Standoffs and a couple of screws to mount the standoffs You'll also need four motors and we have two different KV variants depending on whether you want to go with a 4s battery or a 6s battery We're gonna have the 1700 KV motor for the 6s or the 3000 KV motor for the 4s We are using the seal racing toothpick flight controller ESC all-in-one combo for this build to save as much weight as possible You're in an XT30 lead with just the right length of wire everything in this build makes a huge difference in weight Down to the props down to the amount of wire length and down to the amount of solder you put on Every single gram counts in this build because I put it as close to 250 grams as possible Any little thing that you do on this build might put it over 250 grams You might have to take something off down to the amount of tape that you put on the arms to hold the wires down So we're gonna go over everything and try to do the best we can to keep it as close to 250 grams as possible This frame uses the shark bite digital HD system so that we can have a nice Beautiful HD video signal on a very very lightweight frame one of the greatest things about the shark bite system is that it's insanely lightweight So this is actually a shark bite that I've already Mounted an axi antenna on and put it through the 3d printed mount You want to lose you want to use a little bit of goop right here on the connection That's why I haven't taken it off because I don't want to have to redo that glue The little goop right here keeps this from popping off when you're flying around and crashing into stuff the shark bite system also comes with a run cam camera and I've already mounted up the 3d printed mounts in a in that configuration You're gonna want to do that as well ahead of time I have multiple different 3d print mounts for different action cameras as well I'll have one for the insta 360 go one for the insta 360 go to and for the SMO camera from beta FPV So depending on which battery configuration you go with I have three different battery options that I Tried with this system. I've run the 450 milliamp hour 4s battery by tattoo And this 450 milliamp battery by tattoo is perfect for an action camera It allows you just enough power to have a nice three or four minute flight with an action camera like we would in a regular FPV flight of our typical five inch drones the 650 works with some configurations that are a little bit too heavy For example, if you built it just a little bit too heavy You can use a 650 milliamp hour battery instead of the 850 that I used for the non Action camera build and that'll make up a couple of grams if you need it The shark bite system comes with a capacitor and you can either use this capacitor or not depending on whether you need to save a Grammar to it's a good idea to use a capacitor I totally recommend using the capacitor because shark bite recommends it for voltage spikes And it'll keep you from accidentally damaging your VTX if you get a really hard voltage spike We're gonna be using the RxSR receiver from FR sky in this build You can also use a spectrum receiver as long as it fits into the same size and weight Configuration in order to use crossfire You'll probably have to use their lighter weight antenna on this build because the immortal T is gonna be a little bit too heavy for this build on this bill We're gonna be using the 3000 kV variant of the T motor 2004 motor and that's going to give us the right kV for a 4s setup So there's two different prop configurations I used in this build There's the Gemfan 5130 tri-blade and the Gemfan 5126 Bi-blade prop the bi-blade props actually weigh about a gram less than the Tri-blades so if you need to save a couple grams you can sometimes go with a bi-blade Some people like the flight characteristics of a bi-blade better Some people like the flight characteristics with tri-blade better these things were Insanely fast and if you need to tame it down a little bit maybe going down to a bi-blade It'll give you more of that regular five inch feel so the tools you need for this build are the 1.5 millimeter hex driver pair of wire cutters some solder soldering iron maybe some tweezers a little bit of heat shrink some zip ties and a Few miscellaneous screws that should come with the kit all right to begin this build We're going to go ahead and install the gummies into this frame because it's a unibody frame I wanted to make sure we didn't get any bad vibrations into the flight controller So I went ahead and designed it with holes in the frame that are perfectly designed to allow these gummies to go through And that will help to isolate the flight controller a little bit more from the frame vibrations Getting these little guys in is a little bit of a challenge, but it's not that bad Just kind of push them through the hole be careful not to tear them I just kind of use the 1.5 millimeter driver to push it through from the back side and that helps just be careful Not to tear it when you're doing it be very gentle so you don't tear the gummy on the way through Okay, so after you have your gummies installed you can start to install the stack screws These are M2 stack screws that are metal and you just kind of slide them through the gummy Just like that so the receiver is actually going to be going underneath the flight controller So we're going to want to put that on next this little rectangular section right here is Where the receiver is going to be mounted and so this will be the front of the frame and this will be the back of the frame So we're going to take a little tiny piece of double-sided tape The smallest piece of double-sided tape that'll actually hold it down to save weight And we're going to mount this rxsr receiver right here So the wires will go underneath the bottom of the flight controller. Let's take a little tiny piece of tape There we go, we'll just stick this guy down right about there Pull these wires forward here because they're going to go under the bottom of the flight control board All right now that we've got our receiver mounted we can put our flight control board in place We're going to place it with the usb port facing backwards It's really really tight You're going to have to have a really thin usb port if you're going to try to squeeze that in after the fact If you're using the xsr receiver from frsky We're going to be using these three pads here that are soldered for our power ground and signal lead All right, so this goes channel one five volt ground So we'll go ahead and hook our yellow lead over here and then we're going to have five volts in the middle and ground over there So you want to go ahead and tend the wires and tend the pads get a nice shiny solder joint when you're done All right, so i'm just inspecting my solder joints to make sure that nothing's touching All these electronics are very small So you want to make sure that you don't have any solder bridges jumping any of these little tiny components together Or the thing won't work when you're finished So now that that's done i'm just going to go ahead and tuck these wires up under the flight control board So that nothing is sticking out and it's nice and clean There we go. So the next step in this build is to go ahead and install the motors Let's go ahead and put one motor on each arm using the provided screws that come with the motors So the shorter screws that come with the motor should be a five millimeter m2 screw Just in case production changes over time Trying to let you know what these are And the m6 screw is what you're going to be using for the prop When you're screwing these in make sure that these screws don't come too far through the motor and touch the windings The front of the motor is more vulnerable than the back of the motor because of these wires that are coming out here They do pass right over the screw holes And if you're not careful you can damage these wires here these screws here should be the perfect length to where I don't have to worry about it And I can tell on the back here because I don't see the screw Popping through the back of the motor here, which means that the screw is not going to make contact with any of the wires So what you want to do is go ahead and just get these screws in kind of loose Once you have all four screws in then you can torque them down But don't go too crazy when the screws are loose the motors able to be moved around a little bit It'll keep you from accidentally cross threading these screws since they're so small It's really easy to cross thread them and it's really easy to over tighten them Just go ahead and tighten them down snug and repeat that process for the other three motors All right So the next step in this process is we want to go ahead and cut these motor wires to length These motors on this particular build are already cut to length because I just took it apart But when you're building this you're going to need to cut these motor wires yourself And I'm probably going to trim a little bit of fat off of this build as well in the process because These are just a little bit too long and I can trim a little bit of fat off of there a little bit of weight Before I do that I'm going to go ahead and put some electrical tape on the wires to keep them from moving around and keep everything clean You can either go crazy on the electrical tape like I did in our episode So that we didn't end up chopping the wires up with the props or you can be very very minimalist and Save as much weight as possible like I'm going to do here so I'm actually laying the tape out on the table and I'm going to end up slicing the tape into smaller pieces so that I can conserve as much weight as possible I'm going to cut six total strips so that I have two left over for the antenna right here on the receiver We're going to put two extra pieces of tape right here in here for the antenna We're going to wait until later to do that. All right So the next thing you want to do is just line your motor wires up Leaving a tiny bit of slack on each one these right here.   It's going to kind of push these wires down In place make it look clean and we'll move on to the next ones. So repeat this process for the other three motors Trimming off as much fat as possible But make sure you leave a little bit of slack just in case you have to go back and do some repairs in the future Make sure to clean your solder tip as often as possible keeps your solder Looking pretty and shiny and fresh If you have any problems like this where the solder pops up and creates a little peak Just go ahead and desolder it and retain both surfaces with fresh solder And you'll get a much better result. Look at that. That's beautiful Now this particular flight control board ended up in the water in our episode of The outlaw. So if there's anything that looks a little bit out of place here It's probably not seal racing's fault. So keep that in mind I'm not sure if that's glue holding that capacitor down right there or if that's Corrosion for being in the water pretty much everything was still working after this thing dried Out. So that's a pretty good testimony to this setup. I'm not going to push these motor wires over into this corner yet Because I still need to solder up my power and ground over here. So we're just going to kind of leave these guys Set aside like that in the meantime So at this stage now, I think we're ready to go ahead and wire up our power and ground wires Now I've cut these to about an inch and a half length. I've got my positive lead Just a little bit longer about four millimeters longer than my negative lead So that way when I do mount it up and I wrap it through The strap it ends up being in the right orientation. Whenever you solder these onto the xt 30 connector Round means ground. That's a little rhyme that I remember to help me remember which one goes on which side So the square lead is where your positive wire goes and the round side is where your negative lead goes You should probably use some heat shrink too, but to save weight You know, I didn't do it. It's it's fine You got to look really closely because it's really small and hard to see Tiny negative right there. That's almost microscopic. You got to have these really cool glasses to see it But that's where the negative goes on the right and the positive goes on my left So we're going to go ahead and put our positive and negative leads on the board here In this orientation here since this is going to have multiple connections I'm going to go ahead and put it just a little bit more solder on the top to create like a ball That's going to help me to put the capacitor And any other parts that might need to have positive and negative connected to them I think I'm going to have three positives and three negatives on this particular board So I'm just going to create a little bit of extra solder On the top So it'll give me something to attach to later. So now that I've got the power leads in place. I'm going to go ahead and slide these remaining Motor wires over so that everything looks clean and tight and tidy and pretty and beautiful All right, so this capacitor just barely fits in the frame So if you're going to put this on you have to be mindful of the fact that it could hit the prop If you're not careful how you're installing the capacitor. Like I said, this is a step that I recommend I've only had a problem with these vtx's shorting out on much bigger builds uh like Full-sized five inch quads, but Because I've had a couple of them go bad because we didn't put this capacitor on I'm going to go ahead and put the capacitor on this build just in case so that way I'm being ultra protective of it So I'm going to slide this capacitor Up under the wires so that they're very very close to their mounting point Because I need this to be as close to the arm as possible The white stripe over here is the negative side of the capacitor You need to make sure that's on the right side when you're putting it on So now I'm going to use my tools here to get everything in place And just solder that guy on and then I'll work on the positive section in a minute All right Now I'm going to bend this capacitor a little bit without breaking it get that positively where I want it to be Be mindful of the gummy so that you don't end up restricting your Ability to put another gummy on top of that gummy because we're going to end up putting another gummy on top of that one And make sure you're not bridging anything else together at the same time There we go. That was fun. All right, so I'm going to double check all my connections and make sure that everything Is tight and clean and nothing is bridging out and I'm going to push this capacitor down As far as I can get it to go without breaking off the wires these wires are fragile So you got to be a little bit careful with them and I just kind of route the power lead this direction And I might even put a zip tie or a piece of tape on this to hold it down in place once the bill is complete So that way it doesn't end up coming up and getting hit by the prop So the next step we're going to go ahead and put some zip ties on the arms to allow us to get these wires from the receiver Mounted in place so that they don't get chopped up by the props I'm going to go ahead and put them up through this hole here actually I'm going to go down through the hole because I want the zip tie to exit on the bottom and We're going to go ahead and also secure the wires in place at the same time while we're doing this If you put the zip tie on in this orientation And you cinch it down Just right it'll actually come out underneath the frame rather than on top of the frame Kind of point it down a little bit towards the ground It'll help to keep it out of the props and then we're going to run this wire up under These other wires and we're going to heat shrink it to that zip tie You can use the other zip tie to push it under if you need to and that'll help you get it underneath the wires This is actually a method that I've seen joshua barbell do many many times and I've been doing it for a long time as well And it's been my favorite method of keeping the receiver wires from getting chopped up by the props So I'll just go ahead and put that there cut the zip tie to the right length It's a little bit longer than your receiver wire and slide a piece of heat shrink over and Heat shrink it down and repeat that process on the other side All right. And so with our last two pieces of tape here We're going to go ahead and wrap them around the receiver wires here just to keep those out of the way And keep them out of the props Careful of that to go over your holes there or you won't have any way to mount your standoffs in the future Okay, so the next step we're going to go ahead and wire up the vtx or the shark bite digital fpv system Then the shark bite digital fpv system has four wires that need to be connected So we're going to need a ground power tx and rx Okay, so we're going to use these four pads for our Wires on our flight controller. We're going to have ground tx 6 rx 6 and positive We're going to connect to those four points with our four wires And then we'll connect them up to the shark bite system afterwards So I want to go ahead and solder these up with the wires facing inward And the hardest one to reach is going to be the tx pads So we're going to go ahead and wire up the green wire to the tx pad first So I'll get you some nice short pieces of wire here about that length And we'll go ahead and tin it up and attach it to the flight control board We're going to go ahead and put our blue onto the rx pad There we go and our ground on the ground pad Pause is a little bit more tricky because you have to try to get it on top of that ball that we created earlier There we go Now we've got our four wires on the flight control board. We're going to go and solder them on to the vtx We're going to tin these four pads right here. We've got ground voltage rx and tx We're going to put this in order from black red green and blue because blacks are ground Reds are voltage green is our rx and blue is our tx This one's real fun because right next to that connector be careful on this last one So you don't melt that connector not that we're using it for anything, but it doesn't always smell so good Here we go This is going to be positioned on the frame with the camera connector facing forward and the antenna facing backwards But before we put this down, we're going to need to put some gummies in between To space it up from the flight control board We're also going to want to put our camera cable on and our antenna wire Because if you put the camera cable on here, you can actually slide a zip tie up through the frame here And grab on to the camera cable so that it never comes disconnected from the vtx So if you put this on there and squeeze it down with your thumb just kind of get it lined up As best as you can these connectors are very very Sensitive but you get it you can get it lined up just right and you'll hear it click in place When you have it right just don't push down too hard and break the connections You'll feel it if you get it right and then once you have that in place You can put a little tiny zip tie up through these holes if you want to lock it down in place I'm not going to put them on this particular bill just to save some weight But if you wanted to you can run a zip tie right up through that hole there Bring it down here and cinch it in place and it'll keep this from moving out of place We didn't have this camera connector come off. So I'm not too worried about it But in some situations you might do a little more crashing It might be a good idea to go ahead and have that zip tie in place For now, I'm going to go ahead and put the spacer gummies in between the flight controller And the vtx There we go So one set of gummies should be perfect To keep all the parts from touching the flight control board because what you want What you want to try to avoid is having anything touching from the vtx to the flight control board that might cause any vibrations One set of gummies is the perfect distance to give me about two millimeters between the plastic connector back here and The usb port All right, so the next step I'm going to go ahead and put these four nylon nuts in place to hold our vtx and keep it from moving around And then after that we'll go ahead and put our standoffs on go ahead and use my 1.5 millimeter hex to go ahead and tighten these down Don't go too crazy. They don't need to be super tight But just tighten up to where they're not going to come loose If you tighten them too tight, you'll be pulling the two boards too close together and then they'll end up touching Like we're trying to avoid just about like that Now we're going to go ahead and put our four standoffs in place With the four screws provided with the frame We've got four holes in the frame to mount our standoffs one two three four All right. Now once we have a rear standoffs in place We should be able to just slide our antenna 3d print right over top of the back standoffs And they're locked in place. Make sure to secure your ufl connector with a little bit of shugu or I don't know if I'd recommend hot glue hot glue might damage the electronics on the board But shugu works really good for this it locks it in place Some people use liquid electrical tape if you can't find shugu But I prefer the shugu just because it's a little bit more solid when it's dry Keeps that connector from popping off when you're flying around because you don't want to damage your vtx by not having an antenna connected to it All right, and since we're on this step. We might as well go ahead and put our camera in place Now your 3d prints are not going to be molded into this shape yet They're just going to be flat pieces of tpu You're going to have to kind of pinch them and bend them into this shape And then once you have them bent like that and your camera at Appropriate angle you can just slide them over top of the standoffs just like this Slide the camera down And it'll just kind of pop into place But before you push it too far down make sure you have your camera connector onto the back of the camera Just like this And snap it in place Now I also recommend putting some of this shugu on the back of the camera as well because the one major problem That we've had with these is that these camera cables do come off really easily So if you put a little bit more of that shugu on top of the camera Uh, you'll keep that camera cable from popping off and crashes and just slide it down like that and it fits beautifully Like a glove So the smo camera comes with this cable And if you want to be able to start and stop recording with a switch on your transmitter you can actually wire this up to power ground and a UART connector with this yellow lead and then whenever you flip a switch on your transmitter It'll actually start recording by the flip of a switch. It's really cool I soldered this up to one of the pads and the flight controller there That we're not going to use it in this build just because we're trying to give you a quick rundown on how to do the build Uh, but if you want to go ahead and wire that up you can hook up positive and negative This yellow wire is going to go on the board right here And this white connector right here will just plug right into the side of the camera and Give you power for the camera and the ability to control the start and stop of the recording If we're done with this build, you're just a couple grams off and you want to run an action camera The insta 360 go is just a few grams lighter than the smo camera Maybe you can make up a couple grams there by using a different action camera so the last part of this build is to put on the top plate And this top plate is different than what the final revision is going to be The final top plate should have two holes in the top right here And that's going to allow you to put a zip tie through the top plate To mount on the 3d printed mounts that I have created for different action camera setups I will have a 3d printed mount for the smo camera I'll also have one for the insta 360 go the old and new insta 360 go We'll have both insta 360 mounts available in the rotor right store if you want to pick those up We'll put these four screws in the top plate, and I'm just putting these screws in loosely I'll tighten them when I'm done. It helps me to line everything up properly Sometimes we need to torque one down. It doesn't want to line up to the rest of them I'll put a final torque on all four of these Don't go crazy. You don't have to make it too tight And the last little bit is to put on a little tiny battery pad and a battery strap And like I said before down to the battery strap every gram matters in this build Put a little tiny piece of battery pad down to hold our battery keep it from sliding around And our very lightweight battery strap We got to install our props and this build's ready to go So you can choose from two different kinds of props as I was saying before You can use either the bi-blade props Or the tri-blade props Depending on what your desires are for this machine And whether you want it to go crazy or whether you want it to fly a long range You can do a lot of different things with this quad and have a great time And so these four props weigh Approximately 13 grams all together as a whole And the bi-blade props only weigh 10 grams So you can save yourself an extra two grams if you need them just by running bi-blades over tri-blades So these props have adapters you have to put these adapters in first if you're going to use The m2 screws to mount them and they're kind of a pan the butt to deal with Each motor needs two screws per prop. These are six millimeter m2s I just kind of put the screw in there and turn the motor around until I find the hole and it makes it easy We're going to go ahead and put the battery on so we can get the weight All right, so with no action camera and a medium-sized battery. We are at 227 We have plenty of grams to spare with a medium-sized battery with a larger battery It'll be right at 250 grams maybe a couple grams over or a couple grams under depending on how you build it I've built them a bunch of different times and sometimes i'm one or two grams over sometimes i'm one or two grams under Like I said, it's depending on how how you build it and how stringent you are with wire length and the amount of solder you're using The heaviness of your battery strap all those things come into play when you're talking about how much weight this thing is But anyway with a 650 milliamp hour 4 s you should get a six minute flight time on this quad With an 850 milliamp battery. We were getting seven and eight minute flight times And with a 450 milliamp hour battery with a action camera attached We were still getting three to four minute flight times out of this quad So it's really good really efficient and you can have a lot of fun with it I hope you guys really enjoy this build. Thank you for watching and we'll see you guys next time