We conclude the the fourth chapter so allow me to read to you at verse 14 reading to verse 16 And then what I'm gonna do is I'll go back to verse 11 through 13 and touch on a few things to lead us into verse 14 And then we'll conclude at verse 16 today But reading from verse 14 Hebrews chapter 4 the right of right scene then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the Heavens Jesus the son of God Let us hold fast our confession For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses But was in all points tempted as we are yet without sin Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need Now as I mentioned a moment ago last time we were together We concluded chapter 4 by looking at verses 11 through 13 I want to use those verses to lead us into verse 14 and to once again develop a context and an introduction So in verses 11 through 13 the writer had urged his readers to enter into the rest that God had prepared for them And he was making it very clear that there should be a singleness of heart and a Singleness of mind in order to enter that rest in other words He was saying we must enter in notice verse 11 how he says let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest And so when he says let us be diligent that word diligent speaks of exert exertion that that is something that we ought to have an Urgent desire for it is something that we should pursue single-mindedly Now Jesus exhorted his followers to that mentality all through his ministry I think that those who think that being a Christian is an easy life only think so because they're not Christians Because when you get saved you begin to understand that there really is a discipline of spirituality That is involved in pursuit of the Lord and entering into the kingdom of heaven isn't an automatic thing It's not something that just happens to everybody who tries to be good Entering into the kingdom of heaven is something that you do with a single-minded mentality. It's something that you pursue with exertion It's something that you greatly desire Not that you are going to be saved based on your works and efforts But because you have that diligence and that desire it demonstrates a true salvation has occurred It's something that you pursue with everything that you haven't and Jesus made it very clear that it wasn't an easy road Actually, it was a difficult one. Jesus spoke about being a gate in John chapter 10 verse 9 He said I am the gate and whoever enters through me will be saved So there's that single-minded pursuit of Jesus Christ who is the gate the entrance into the kingdom of God In Acts in chapter 4 verse 12 the Bible tells us salvation is found in no one else There's no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved And so when we read the Bible and all and we see the claims of Christ I said I am the way the truth and the life no man comes to the Father but by me Jesus was making some very strong strong declarations concerning himself and intended us to understand that and to pursue him Because there is a demand involved in the pursuit of God many choose an easier path And they attempt to save themselves through their own efforts I want you to remember that there are basically two religions on the face of the earth You need to remember that there are two basic religions on the face of the earth somebody immediately thinks no wait a minute There are so many different ones. How can you say there are two well? There are basically two there are gods and then there's the devils the devils comes in a variety of packages But God well his salvation comes to one person and that's Jesus Christ the Bible says in Proverbs 16 25 there's a way that seems right into a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death that path seems to be Appropriate it seems to be the right way But in the end you end up you end up lost You end up going in the wrong direction even when that path seemed to be the right one Jesus made it very clear that his path was a narrow one Remember with me in Matthew chapter 7 if you'd like you could turn there for a moment Just keep your place here in Hebrews Matthew chapter 7 And remember with me what Jesus taught us in verses 13 and 14 there in Matthew chapter 7 In Matthew 7 13 and 14 Jesus spoke concerning a narrow path He had said in Matthew 7 13 14 enter by the narrow gate For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction And there are many who go in by it Because he says narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life And there are few who find it That word narrow is a Greek word that means restricted When Jesus spoke of this narrow path he was speaking about a path that was demanding He was speaking about a path that was calling for self-denial that was the picture that he was using there The way of the cross Is demanding it's torturous. It's it's afflicted. It's it's cramped. It's narrow And entering into the kingdom of God is something that exacts a toll in other words sacrifice is necessary That's why Jesus said if any man will come after me let him deny himself take up his cross daily and follow me And so the picture of the pursuit of God is something that you you release all the burdens all the extra things the baggage That would keep you from entering and you release those things in order that you might pursue with full energy And so Jesus made it very clear that there are few who find it Now when he says that there are few who find this this way that leads to life And notice that he did say that there are few who find it That would imply that this this path needs to be sought for and sought for Diligently to find something speaks about looking for it. And there are a few who actually seek for it Diligently they don't pursue it. They don't look with all that they have within them And so there are a few who find it because few see the value of seeking for it in the first place That is again because people are normally seeking out an easier path When that is less demanding and requires less sacrifice But the bottom line is those who fail to seek the narrow way are going to the way of destruction when Jesus spoke of destruction That speaks of ruin or loss an exclusion from salvation and therefore if you're going to enter into his rest You enter in through Jesus Christ now back in Hebrews chapter 4 That's basically what we're looking at here We're looking at the fact that there are those who don't pursue they don't enter in And he was exhorting his his readers here to be diligent That's what he's meaning in chapter 4 verse 11 when he says let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest spiritual growth and spiritual Seeing the benefits of the pursuit of god is something that requires a lifetime of simple obedience and a pursuit of godliness it requires that And it's not really that difficult because i've discovered that you pursue the things that you want the most You pursue them with all of your heart when you want them that much That's the way it is and if you want to enter into the kingdom of god and be a mature believer Well, you just pursue that with everything that you have within you You do so because there's something to gain you have an entrance into eternal life and the joy that god gives to you with that That's something worthy of having and it's not something again that you're working for It's just something that you desire to have so you pursue that But the loss is eternal and so what we look for is we look for for the gain We look for the entrance into the kingdom We pursue that kingdom and jesus himself with all that is within us And we are diligent to enter that rest And that's what he said here in chapter 4 verse 11 Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience And so he had been using the children of israel as an example of those who failed to enter the rest Remember with me chapter 3 verse 19 Remember here in Hebrews 3 19 how he said they could not enter in because of unbelief And so that's the example that he uses to believers And he says you need to remember that the Israelites under moses failed to enter into the promised land Because they didn't believe so even Even so we do not trust in jesus may be tempted to return to and this is right into the Hebrews could be Tempted to return to the jewish religion and if you are tempted to return to the jewish religion because he has jewish readers here Then you need to understand you're in danger in danger of judgment There's an interesting scripture in 2nd peter chapter 2 verses 21 and 22. It's a very picturesque scripture Peter said For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness Then after they have known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them But it happened to them according to the true proverb The dog turned to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire He's saying you need to leave those things that you left behind and you need to pursue by faith Jesus christ that you might enter into his rest And so as he was saying that he began to speak concerning god's word Remember verse 12 in chapter 4 how he said the word of god is living and powerful Sharper than any two-edged sword Piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow And is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Now on the day of judgment when all stand before the lord God's word is going to open up or lay bare every heart and will reveal its contents It's we're going to be judged in other words based on on god's word and and how we responded to What jesus said in john 12 48 Jesus said the one who rejects me and and does not receive my words as one that judges him The word that i have spoken the same shall judge him in that day And so how did i respond to god's word and and the demands of christ? Did i receive what he had or did i reject and so it's god's word that is used in order to make that determination In verse 13 there is no creature hidden from his sight But all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give account All of this obviously is strong warning and he's wanting to remind the people that there is a cost to rejecting christ It's interesting how he says in verse 13. There's no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and open The word naked when he speaks of that Speaks of being exposed completely exposed completely uncovered The word open is an interesting picture and there it's actually used in three different ways in the greek language But it's a picture of somebody whose neck is being bent back It could be used in a picture of a sacrifice It can be used in a picture of A battle where a soldier has gotten the better of somebody and has bent their back completely Their neck completely back from the hair like that and they have a knife to their throat And that's the picture that you have right here. It could be a picture of of wrestling Where somebody has gotten hold of his opponent and has used a move to be able to expose the throat But it's all a picture of exposure and it's a picture of helplessness It's a picture of the fact that That that god is in control of all things and and we human beings rather than having some kind of mentality of being able to succeed in our efforts to To overwhelm him. We are the ones who actually are overwhelmed and conquered by god And so that's the picture that he wants us to see there's no creature hidden from his sight He sees everything all things are naked and open to the eyes of him to whom we must give an account So god sees everything Psalm 33 verses 13 and 14 says the lord looks from heaven He beholds all the sons of men from the place of his habitation He looks upon the inhabitants of the earth Proverbs 15 3 the eyes of the lord are in every place beholding the evil and the good Psalm 90 verse 8 you have said our iniquities before you are secret sins in the light of your countenance Everything is open and exposed not a single thing is hidden. He sees it all And that's just another picture of our of our being exposed before the lord and god knowing everything no matter what it is That we do god knowing it all and and i've said this to you in a variety of ways over the years how How sometimes we think that we can hide from the lord sometimes we could can Keep him from seeing some things but but that obviously never happens And i'd like to share with you the things that my grandson does and and i shared with you recently How he'll hide under a blanket but his feet will be exposed and and he thinks that you can't see him because he'll say Let's hide and but his feet are exposed and you see these big old feet hiding under the blanket He did that just the other day.  He does see there's not a thing that is hidden And so that's what we were looking at last time we were together and now we can move on into verse 14 And he continues by saying in verse 14 seeing then that we have a great high priest Who has passed through the heavens jesus the son of god let us hold fast our confession Seeing that jesus is our true high priest Let us hold fast to him This is the third time in in this book that he refers to jesus as a high priest We'll look at that in just a moment But he mentioned jesus as a high priest in chapter 2 verse 17 When he said he might be a merciful and faithful high priest He also said something of him being the high priest in chapter 3 verse 1 When he said consider the apostle and high priest of our confession christ jesus So this is the third time that he refers to jesus christ as being our great high priest And so all together in the book of hebrews he speaks of the office of the high priest In 16 passages In the old testament god established the office of what is called the high priest There are certain qualifications for the high priest and and we'll be seeing them as we go through The book of hebrews because he does mention many of these These qualifications but but he's a person according to chapter 5 verse 1 who offers gifts and sacrifices to god A second thing about him is he was called by god and not by man you see that in hebrews chapter 5 verse 4 He alone is the one who offers the highest sacrifice under the law of moses which is on the day of atonement You see that in leviticus chapter 16 According to hebrews 7 25 He is the one who mediates between god and man And according to numbers chapter 6 verses 22 and 20 through 27. He's the one who blesses the people of god This was an individual who would stand before the people and stand Representing god and he would stand before god representing the people He was the high priest and so jesus christ is referred to in that way And i want you to see what he says in verse 14. He says let us hold fast our confession Now when he says let us hold fast our confession there That's another way of him saying to us that you need to remain committed to christ Seeing that jesus is the true high priest hold fast to him Now it's interesting because he is emphasizing the responsibility Of a believer and i find this interesting because as i read the bible I see that there are things that god says that that he does and there are things that he says I'm supposed to do and and I have certain responsibilities that god has called me to And then there are things that god himself does on my behalf Now let me show you this in scripture turn with me to philippians chapter 2 I want to develop something with you very briefly here philippians chapter 2 And i'll show you verses 12 and 13 just to emphasize that there is a part that you play and there's a part that that god plays and we work this together God's part obviously is the key in the cardinal part, but we do have a responsibility I want to show you this in philippians chapter 2 verses 12 and 13 Notice this you'll see man's part and god's part in verse 12 philippians 2 Paul said therefore my beloved as you have always obeyed Not as in my presence only But now much more in my absence Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling you've always obeyed when i'm around But now that i'm absent that's the true test of your character It's one thing when you're the boss and you leave orders to the employees and you say I need you to do these things and have them done by such and so time And they say yes, sir and as long as you're there they're doing the work that they've been commanded to do But when you walk out of that room and they say is he gone yet and the answer is yeah He just drove away. Okay, and then you just begin to do whatever it is that you want to do Because you figure you've got a half hour or 40 minutes to goof off It's one thing to obey when somebody is standing there saying do this It's another thing when you have the maturity and responsibility to understand that you've got a role to play and therefore you do That regardless of anybody's watching you or not Well in salvation he says that he says you've always obeyed not as in my presence only But now much more in my absence and therefore work out your own salvation with fear and trembling now notice with me He didn't say work for your own salvation He said work out your salvation Salvation is something you've already entered into and therefore live a life demonstrating that you've been saved But I have a responsibility and that is to work out my own salvation And how do I do it? Well, I do it with fear and trembling But notice verse 13 for it is God who works in you both to will and to do for his good pleasure It's God who works in you both to want to and to ultimately be pleasurable to him It's God who does that work in you In other words my part is to simply obey His part is giving me the will to do that He puts that within me I'm I'm fascinated by The Pharisees in the new testament The Pharisees and you we've all read of the Pharisees. You're found they they're found in the in the gospels and in the book of Acts they're mentioned Often Jesus had These incredible opponents Called the Pharisees the Pharisees history is kind of muddled. It's very difficult to discover exactly where they came from And how this movement began But it more than likely began somewhere about 200 150 years before christ The greeks had entered into israel and as the greeks were conquering They began what is called the hellenization of israel what that simply means is they began to impose their culture On the nation of israel now the nation of israel recognized itself As being a nation that was set apart by god To shine as lights in a very dark world When the hellenizers came in and began to replace the Hebrew language with with greek and began to bring in their Their athletic games and began to bring in their the Philosophies and and they started to impose on them a variety of their cultural things The people began to absorb that some began to to actually hold fast to some of the greek thought And even the religious individuals began to do so and a sect of Judaism arose called the Sadducees the Sadducees began to Assimilate some of the greek thought and all and therefore began to deny things like the resurrection spirits and angels and things like that What they had what happened is they became the upper elite the the liberals of the society The philosophers and they began to embrace the hellenization process Well, there was another group of people who are very conservative And when they saw this taking place They said we don't want any part of this so they began to strain at the law They began to look at the law more closely and began to really hold fast to the things that they recognized and wanted to be separated from The hellenization process and therefore they were called Pharisees The the word Pharisee means the separated one And so they were separating from the greek process of bringing the worldliness into the nation And at first they were responding to that with a love for god and his word Ultimately though what happened is they began to take the commands of men And they began to make them equal to the commands of god and in doing so they began to undermine god's word and replace them with Man's process when that happened they became what we now call the Pharisee They became legalistic Jesus would speak to them very often and say things to them like you're like whitewashed tombs You're beautiful on the outside, but inside you're filled with decay He'd look at them and say you guys are hypocrites You you strain at gnats and you swallow camels And he would he would lay it on thick with them constantly because They would forbid people from entering into the kingdom of heaven by opposing jesus christ through their rules and their regulations Initially the Pharisees wanted to do something that was right But ultimately what they did is they replaced the word of god with man-made regulations And that's why jesus christ would speak to him in the harsh way that he did And that's why we would see in the new testament how god makes promises to us one of those promises Are that he is is that he will place his his law upon our hearts And so it's not just the outward observation It's not just the doing of the third certain things. It's the being of a certain person God wants to transform us from within and what he does is he takes his word and imparts it to you And he does it from inside There are reasons that you don't steal not just because you might get caught That's one of the lower reasons if I get caught, you know, therefore I don't steal You know, we teach our children don't steal because you get in trouble But if you live with that mentality all of your life, you really don't develop morally because The only thing that gives you permission to do something or not do something is going to be the law Therefore if the law permits something even if it's immoral you'll feel that it's okay to do it because the law permits that And that's what we see by the way in the americans society today if it's legal then it's okay And that's why you see that kind of mentality because they don't rise beyond that Christians have a higher law We have a law of conscience That's why when the lord gets hold of your heart it takes the word of the lord to direct you That's why famous stories like uh Sergeant elvin york come to mind where where he had become a christian and as a christian He reads the bible he reads the bible. It says thou shalt not kill He's drafted to go into the military, but he refuses to go in the reason He doesn't go in is based on the fact that god said i'm not to kill And so he goes in and determines that he can go in because jesus teaches him also in the word of god That you render into Caesar the things that are caesar and into god the things that are gods And what he does is he comes to realize that there are certain obligations that we have To the government because we're living under that authority that gives us permission to do certain things But he went to the law of conscience and the word of god to make a determination to do what was right And so that's how it works for us When god takes his law and places it on my heart I'm not committing adultery Because I love him his word is within me. I love my wife, but it's not something I desire to do It's because god is working in me both the will and to do It's god's word within me because I have received his word and it is written on the tablet of my heart That keeps me from doing the things that my flesh desires Very basic christian teaching But it's a place where a lot of people make the mistakes because what happens is we start to say well If I don't do these things then I'm better because then the average person because I don't do them and they do That's Pharisee is Phariseeism. That's legalism. That's not a righteous way to think I don't do these things because it's god who gives me the will or the desire not to do them And the desire to please him So one I work out my own salvation with fear and trembling But two for it is god who works in me both the will and to do God not only changes my will But he also gives me the ability to perform that which he's changing my will to conform to So whereas at one point I thought it would be all right to do a certain thing When I get the word of god in me and I fall in love with jesus christ I yield myself to him then I realize that one I have a responsibility I do a certain thing but two he gives me the power to be obedient to him to bring pleasure to him So turning on back to hebrus Jesus christ has come in order that he might give to us the ability To have relationship with god And what jesus christ is is he is our priest He's the one who represents me to god and represents god to me in the old testament You had the high priest who was selected by Amongst men by god who had these qualifications to offer the gifts and sacrifices and Mediate between god and men and all that and bring blessings to the people and that's what he's saying jesus is And so he speaks concerning him here in verse 14 And he says again seen then that we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens Jesus the son of god let us hold fast our confession. Let us remain true to him Let us remain committed to him. Let us hold firmly to him. Now notice. He says in verse 15 For we do not Have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses But was in all points tempted as we are Yet without sin His divinity didn't prevent him from experiencing our feelings our sorrows our emotions in our pains The son of god came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him Where he is You know when i was a new christian new christian meaning within the first few years of my walk with christ I can remember on numerous occasions and by the way I still do this on occasion, but I did it frequently when I was first saved When I was learning how to pray and learning how to trust in the lord I can I can remember I can remember almost verbatim A prayer because I prayed this prayer quite often in a variety of ways But I did pray this prayer quite often and basically it was simply this god you understand God you understand you know Exactly what I am feeling right now jesus. I know you do I have no doubt in my mind you understand I think one of the things that is very most important to me was to have somebody who understood me I don't know about you, but for me that was very important. I wanted somebody who understood me You know and going through girlfriend after girlfriend. I was so crazy. They never did understand me Ultimately, I realized that that's because I didn't understand myself either I can still remember getting arrested on one occasion and being taken to los angeles To the jail there in LA And calling up a friend of mine. I called his father up because I didn't want to call my dad So I called a friend of mine's father and I said can you come and bail me out get me out of here I was 18 years old. I was driving a Volkswagen 1965 Volkswagen. It was my dad's car. They didn't let me drive and I'd been drinking pretty much all night and I was speeding and and I actually pulled the Gear shifter out of the transmission You know, I was just so drunk. I slammed the gear and just pulled it right out of the transmission And so car wouldn't move. I was in fourth gear and it wouldn't go You know once I had to stop and so I couldn't get rolling and I was so drunk I I couldn't even feather it so that I could get the thing rolling and some guys pulled up behind me in a In a big old Pontiac Grand Prix I still remember an enormous car giant car and they were loaded on reds And I was on Pioneer Boulevard in Norwalk. I still remember some of this and they pulled up behind me They said can we help you and I said sure would you please and they said, yeah, what do you need? I said, can you get me rolling and they said okay And so they got their grand prix behind this Volkswagen of mine and and started pushing me and but they were so loaded They never stopped and so we were going down Pioneer Boulevard going towards Imperial Highway and at the last minute they stop And they sling shot me into the intersection going about 45 miles an hour And so I went flying into the intersection hitting the brakes and trying to make the turn which I didn't make So I hit a I hit a signal that was there in the island and smashed the car And then kind of like rolled over to the side of the road and I and I'm just standing there totally like wow What happened just now and and then a car pulls over as a girl friend of mine. She says David What are you doing? I says I'm going home. She said it doesn't appear that you are And a police officer a sheriff from the Norwalk substation pulled up behind me and he said do you stay in the car If you get out, I'm going to have to arrest you for being drunk in public Which didn't make sense to me even to this day.  So if I as long as I stay in this shell I'm okay but anyway, he said stay there and and but this girl was there and I wanted to look real cool So I climbed out of the car and before you know it I've got these cuffs on they've taken me to the Norwalk substation And I still remember being booked and and I was a punk You know, I had the long hair and one of the officers was speaking to me and said to me What are you a girl or are you a boy because when at that time if you had long hair, they'd make fun of you So he says what are you a girl or a boy and I looked at him and I said at your age If you have trouble distinguishing between male and female you're in trouble And he didn't appreciate that So he said Take off your glasses and then he sprayed me with mace. I do remember that very well Very painful experience and you learn some lessons through those things and they threw me in the drunk tank there And a few minutes later or maybe an hour or so later here comes these three guys that had given me a ride they got arrested for um for Being loaded in in all and the next morning I wake up and there they are and they still had reds on them So we dropped some reds and off we went to jail. I still remember that very well Well, not very well cloudedly But I do remember it going to jail and then now I'm being processed into the la jail And I call up my friend's dad Ed Ed soli. I said ed can you come and get me? And he said, uh, where are you? I said, I'm in los angeles. So what are you doing there? Well, I I'm um, I'm I'm arrested. I've been arrested And so he calls my dad And my dad comes to pick me up. I'll never forget that wonderful conversation with my dad He was pretty upset my dad didn't smoke but he had a pack of cigarettes and he went through half of that pack Taking me from uh from la to norwalk. I mean he just was chain smoking one after another He was so upset sent me to a psychiatrist to try and get me figured out which it didn't work um All of that to be saying this, you know It takes the holy spirit and the word of god a transformed life that comes through conversion to actually answer those questions for you Uh, it comes through a relationship with god It comes through the knowledge that there's somebody out there who understands you and and and so I was going through girl friends And I wanted them to understand me, but they did not understand me and I would try and tell them This is how I feel. This is what I want. These are the desires of my heart And you know at the age of 18 19 20 what girl wants to be shackled with those kinds of emotional problems And and so I got dumped right and left I never really understood why is because they didn't want to sign up to be dr. Phil to me You know, they they didn't want to be my therapist They wanted a normal relationship with somebody who'd like to go to the zoo once in a while rather than be a monkey You know, and and that's the way it worked, you know, and so when I finally met the lord That's where I began to understand That there is one person Who understands You know my precious marie whom I've been with for many years now To this day Doesn't understand me And you know what? That's okay Because I've never understood her either And we get along just fine with the things that we do understand But there is one person who does understand me And that's what I see here in verse 15 Jesus christ He is the one who who does sympathize with our weaknesses. He understands Why because he was in all points tempted as we are yet he did not give in to sin Jesus understands he understands weakness when he understands weakness is another way of saying he understands the limitations of humanity Jesus understands that's why that's why the bible will present to him there at the tomb of lazarus And how that They had come messengers had come and said to jesus the one whom you love lazarus He's sick unto the point of death And that's why jesus though he delayed for a while ultimately ends up going Asks where is he they take him to the tomb And as he sees the people around him weeping for the loss of this man that was so beloved by them That's why the bible gives us the shortest new testament verse where it simply says jesus wept And he was there weeping weeping at what sin does to humanity weeping at the loss these people are feeling He understands loss He's the one that when when people would approach him and and would say Lord, could you pray for my for my children? He was the one that when they would bring the babies to him that he would actually take them in his arms and hold him Hold the babies in and and and bless them He understood these kinds of things and and he loved the babies and all and that always has spoken to my heart To see the way he was jesus is the one who suffered hunger. He suffered thirst. He suffered fatigue He was rejected and ridiculed. He understands it all when people start talking to me about how bad they have it I I can't help but begin to wonder do they really have it as bad as jesus You see i'll be honest with you it sounds almost cruel in a way and perhaps some may interpret it as being cruel, but I just have never met anybody who suffered as much as he did I just haven't I mean I read the bible I see a man like joe, but joe is a man who has to be reprimanded by god because he was in error jesus was never in error ever He never did anything wrong. I mean if you take the bible literally in in that context as I do um Jesus is the only one who could ever ask the question which of you can convict me of sin He could say that to his own mother who here could speak to your mom and say mama Convict me of sin your mama. Wait a minute. She got a whole man. How old are you 30? Man, let where do you want to start? I mean we can start from the time you were a baby You know you were a strong-willed little brat and you still I mean she could go on and on and on Let's face it if you've got brothers and sisters You know they can they can they can point out quite a number of things that you've done Of course they can why because none of us is perfect. It makes sense to me There's only one person who was perfect and that's jesus and that's why he could stand before mom and say Can you convict me of sin?  He is without sin. So though he had humanity yet. He didn't give in to the temptation He understands He understands isaac 53 verses 3 through 5 reads that he was despised rejected by men A man of sorrows familiar with suffering Like one from whom men hide their faces. He was despised. We esteemed him not Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows Yet we considered him stricken by god smitten by him and afflicted But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities The punishment that brought us peace was upon him and by his stripes We are healed despised rejected a man of sorrows Jesus walked the dusty roads of israel. He was with the people spoke to them shared with them And ultimately was rejected by most of them. He understands And like I said a moment ago, especially as a young believer When I'd be by myself and I'd be crying out to the lord and I did that on occasion not every day but on occasion And I would cry out to the lord and sometimes a strong tears and I would say to him god Nobody seems to understand where I'm coming from I actually did and I still do find comfort in the lord jesus christ when this scripture tells me he does Understand listen next time you're whining and crying To god remember that he does understand you he absolutely absolutely does He suffered He suffered temptations as a man his human nature was a battleground yet. He never sinned He couldn't sin. He never sinned. He had no capacity to sin because he is perpetually victorious So if you want to talk to somebody who knows what sin's all about and what it costs What it exacts from a person he talked to him And that's because he's victorious over it and because he was victorious over it. He can lead you into victory also And that's what you do. You go to the one who never sinned and so what do I do? Well in verse 16 he says let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace That we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need God's throne of judgment has become a throne of grace And I can approach that throne with confidence and that is all Because of jesus christ I come to the throne of grace And as I do so I obtain mercy You see in the old testament the high priest would enter into the holy place yearly And he would come so and you'll see this as we go through Hebrews. He would come with blood representing the blood of sacrifice And he was the only one who had the right to enter into the holiest of places And he did so on a yearly basis on the day of atonement Bringing blood which made it possible for him to enter but he had to enter in through a veil He went in through a curtain a very thick curtain very heavy thick curtain But at jesus's death The curtain was rent. It was torn in the in the temple And it's interesting to note then when matthew speaks concerning that in the accounts of the gospel referring to this You see that that the veil was torn, but it was not torn from the bottom up. It was torn from the top down And as it was ripped and opened up that was symbolizing the way of entrance into the presence of god through the blood of christ Had now been made possible That's why I can with confidence in prayer Approach the throne and say Father on the basis of of the sacrifice of your son jesus christ I approach you asking for mercy Lord I realized you're the king of the universe And I don't have any right to access to you Unless you grant me that On occasion I've had the opportunity to go to the white house Some of you know that I've had opportunity on a few occasions to go and to have meetings with with representatives of the president or the president and so We've gone in and in order to get into access into the certain room that you'll be meeting with him You have to go through all kinds of hoops.  I go yeah, you know, we're playing like that But anyway, they allow people like us in there But we have to jump through all of these hoops to get in there and then finally They'll say ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states And then a door will swing open and you're right there next to him I mean There's only a hundred of us in the room or less and the door swings open and president bush will walk in You know get behind the podium just like this and I'm maybe 20 feet away from him and he begins to address us We had to jump through so many hoops To hear him speak So many hoops all these checks all this security all of the the fei agent standing there, you know secret service everywhere Watching every move that we make and yet he's saying we can come boldly to god's throne Now think about that for a minute think about that for a minute I mean in order to see the president you have to jump all through these hoops He says no all you need to do is have the blood of christ that washes you clean from all of your sin And you can come and have access to god himself through his blood And you can come with confidence And you can ask for mercy and he'll grant it to you why because you've been washed clean by jesus you have access to him He's understanding he knows you he knows what you've gone through and therefore when you petition him say god give me mercy I need help jesus because he was man understands the limitations of humanity Understands me and he says I forgive you and he can present me to his father He is my mediator who has washed me clean and made me acceptable to god That's why I don't want to go through religion to find him That's why the writer is saying be careful that you don't return to the jewish religion You've got so much in christ that you want to give up You can approach god the veil has been rent the way is open Come and speak to him.  The answer nothing I don't need anything else. I just need him And I can come through come through him with confidence With that sense that I know my dad's listening He's listening to what I have to say And that's the confidence we have we can approach the throne of grace and obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need


Your why is not an external search. It's an internal alignment. External things can help nudge you towards the awareness of your why, circumstances, events, suffering, pain, difficulty. All of that can help you wake up to your why, but all it's doing is waking you up to what you already had because you are born, every human is born with their why, with their life purpose inside them. But you have to get still long enough and frequent enough to hear it.


Yeah, you just did Yes, Jenny's gonna jump in on the Taylor Swift discussion with this. Sure good Some more than Mary. Yeah. Yeah, yeah So she will be around she's also got a comment on a couple of the headlines to release one just one Okay, everybody are ready Born ready. I was born ready. This is your captain speaking I'd like to take a moment to remind you that this show is brought to you by listeners like you who give value for value To show your support go to daily tech news show comm slash support We know you have a choice when it comes to getting your tech news and on behalf of the crew I thank you for choosing the daily tech news show This is the daily tech news for Monday June 22nd 2015 on top marriage joining me today Mr. Brecky Thomas and founder of the Psycon network of podcasts that you can find On your local internets. How's it going Brecky? Oh good. Good. How are you? I am good, man? It's been too long. Thanks for coming back. Hey, thanks for having me You're up late where you are you're in you're in Sweden, right? Sure. Sure. It's only 1030 in the okay That's not too bad. Thanks for staying up though past my bedtime, frankly We're gonna be talking about Music and the undue now. I've you know, what's funny is I've just agreed with that so much that I didn't even react I'm like, yeah, that's true. I'm really old we're gonna talk about music and Taylor Swift's undue influence on our lives and and the business model of Apple and our producer Jenny Josephson is going to Join us for that as well. Thank you for doing that Jenny I represent the outer rim of the Swiftopia verse the Swiftopia verse Swift are you a Swiftie? Do you consider yourself a Swiftie? Yes I'm just gonna say I'm one of the ones who it's too late for me, but I very much appreciate what she'll do for all our children Let us check out some headlines Google officially announced its new site called news lab today Justin Robert Young and I talked about a little bit last week TechCrunch reports that the goal of the program is to connect Journalists with programs data and other resources There will be tutorials and tips on the best practices when using Google products in reporting The site will also showcase Google's new media partnerships such as YouTube Newswire and other partnerships With Storify that we talked about last week I have one thing to say about this which is what struck me Much when I read this was Google gave us the world's information and maybe now They're realizing they need to tell us what to do with it in a responsible way because We could use a Nation full of certain a world full of citizen journalists. It's not a bad thing You think Google is looking at us saying you're holding that wrong here. Let me help you I mean maybe hurt yourself point that news away from you the world everyone getting a free lesson in in Reporting is not a bad thing and and it really does help in places where the media is so tightly controlled by the state and And you really do depend on citizen journalists who are now being given all these tools to broadcast and put their thoughts out there But it helps to actually Have a sense of how to do this if not objectively, which I think is gone by the wayside, but fairly yeah My thought when I saw this was this is Google reacting to the troubles They've been having in Europe particularly with news organizations and attempting to show that they're good folks on the side of journalism Brecky, what what is your take on this pretty much the same? I think this is Google just trying to create a new environment for news and other kinds of stories to flourish And obviously a platform that they control Yeah, and I and I don't think either one of you are wrong I think they're probably both there's elements of both in there and in the end I think it's like I was talking with Justin last week I think it's a net positive and and a good thing maybe as Justin said it won't have as much of an effect as they would hope But maybe well The Verge reports Sony is releasing the PlayStation 4 1 terabyte Ultimate player edition edition edition the updated machine will be 10% lighter use 8% less power and have a matte finish Instead of the glossy finish over the hard drive bay It'll release in Japan before the end of June and then come out July 15th in Europe and North America Sony also released changes to the PlayStation companion app for iOS and Android letting users redeem gift codes without having to turn on your PS4 That's handy and also display comments from viewers while you're streaming gameplay So you don't have to have them Cluttering up your screen you can just look down at your phone and have them any of this gear excite you brecky Not at all. No, not at least not a PlayStation fan, huh? Um Historically I have been but as of the past two or three years I mean this current generation and onwards basically I've been mobile only more or less ours tactical reports on documents leaked by Edward Snowden that show that the US National Security Administration the NSA and the UK's GCH Q attempted to subvert antivirus software in order to succeed in Attacks on intelligence targets. They largely took a couple of different approaches GCH Q attempted to reverse engineer antivirus software From Kaspersky labs among others and the NSA intercepted emails to Kaspersky containing malware samples And then use those samples to bolster their own network defenses as well as proposed reusing them to attack other intelligence targets is Anybody surprised at this point. I'm glad you said that because I I feel I'm getting a little dead inside It's it's bad that they're intercepting emails to Kaspersky. I have no no qualms about that I have no hesitation about that on the other hand spy agency trying to figure out how to use malware to place on a bad guy's computer It's sort of a gray area. I can't say I support it But it's it's using the tools available and it's certainly one of the less Shocking things out there. I guess the the worry is well Who are the bad guys and how did they define bad guys and it goes back to that whole issue of supervision? And and who gets to decide when they get to do these sorts of things, right? TechCrunch reports Docker Google Microsoft and Amazon are working with the Linux Foundation on the open container project a Standard for software containers Docker will contribute its container format and runtime to get the project started Containers if you don't know allow software to run on almost any server and the project will create a standard container I can then work with any runtime. So it doesn't matter whether it's from Docker core OS or somebody else If you're into containers by the way, it's hot stuff right now Then this is very exciting for you because this means you don't have to worry about the runtime environment If you're not into containers, those were just a bunch of random words that didn't make any sense to you. Hello Reuters reports 1,400 airline passengers were stranded at Warsaw's Chopin Airport Sunday when the flight plan system went down for five hours LOT airline spokesman Adrian Kabicki said the outage was due to a capacity attack essentially sounded like he was talking about a D DOS Raising the question among security researchers why the flight plan system was connected to a network That could allow for a D-DOS from the internet Brecky this one caught your eye. I know. Yeah, it did because Every time you use to hear a story about airport or airplane security, you immediately start wondering What about planes that are actually in the air? But apparently they were safe. This is only for the grounded planes The the flight plan system just wouldn't work for planes that were about to take off and so on But the ones already in the air were safe. Thank God Yeah, they couldn't file the flight plan, right? So they couldn't go through the proper procedures, but it didn't affect the operation of aircraft exactly. Yeah I I'm curious I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop on this one because that computer shouldn't be susceptible to a D-DOS attack I'm not an expert in aviation systems. So maybe there's a sneaky way they got in. Well, maybe somebody wants to work from home You know I'm often a proponent of working from home But air traffic controllers are one of those jobs that I think probably should be done in person at the office Yeah, I think so Sydney Morning Herald reports the Australian Senate passed the copyright amendment online infringement bill 2015 introduced into Parliament by communications minister Malcolm Turnbull 37 to 13 was the vote rights holders can request a judge issue in order to block a website if its primary purpose is Facilitating copyright infringement Australian internet providers Telstra, Optus and others would then need to comply with the judge's order by disabling access to the infringing location On the surface, this is one of the more reasonable Copyright enforcement acts it requires a judge to determine that a site was in violation and Then and only then is blocking issued however What is defined as primary purpose who bears the cost of the blocking is it blocking by IP address? Is it blocking by web address? How do you stop? Companies and and organizations who just shift to a new domain name a lot of questions around this don't you think oh Absolutely, I mean could you even argue that the pirate base primary purpose is facilitating copyright infringement It is what most people use it for but it's for anybody to upload anything It's it doesn't have a primary purpose except for sharing whatever well and other people would say oh It's very obviously the primary purpose is to take a fringe copyright. What are you talking about? Exactly And and so yeah, I I think you need a definition in there of primary purpose and how it's determined Before you can just let you're gonna see you're gonna see some random Determinations out here here in Sweden when we had the the entire pirate Bay court case What they did was they they started looking into how much in percentage of the bandwidth to and from the site was actually copyright infringement and how much wasn't and They they had some arbitrary limit so as long as it's above a certain percentage of copyright infringement Then you can assume the site is primarily aimed at copyright infringement, but again. It was all very arbitrary Yeah, well because with Kazaa if you remember way back in the day They were busted for inducement because they were saying hey come here and get free music, right? Pirate Bay is very careful about not saying that anywhere on the site The things that are listed on the front page are things that are frequently downloaded Which are often copyright infringing materials, but they aren't picking them editorially as far as I know It's an algorithm that just shows you what's most popular. So right It's a it's a tricky situation and and I'm sympathetic to the idea of saying hey You know, we want to stop people who are breaking the law I think you need better copyright laws to begin with though before you even get to this point And then you need to have very strict Enforcement of copyright infringement standards and you need to allow for fair use and safe harbor. It's just poorly conceived. That's your problem newly unsealed court documents by the Intercept reveal the US Justice Department won an order forcing Google to turn over more than a year's worth of Data from the Gmail account of Jacob Applebaum He was a tour developer who worked as a volunteer for WikiLeaks the order also prevented Google from notifying Applebaum about that order The Justice Department argued that Applebaum had no reasonable expectation of privacy They also asserted that journalists have no special privilege to resist compelled disclosure of Their records absent evidence that the government is acting in bad faith Google's attempt to overturn the gag order was denied by magistrate judge Ian I'm sorry Ivan D. Davis in February 2011 and denied on appeal in March 2011 For the first time we're actually hearing one of these things. Yeah, no, absolutely I followed a Jacob Applebaum on Twitter for a while and the stories that he tells about you know Just the kind of things that he has to endure at airports and so on the way that he you know Would copy things onto a USB stick and post it to him just because he knows it's gonna be taken from him at the airports Yeah This is a guy who I would imagine has taken advantage of a hidden volume in true crypt At some point or another with a really good reason versus the rest of us who might have tried it just you know for kicks He's living a much different life Hey guys, remember the emotional robot that Justin rubber young and I were talking about last week The one that was going on sale in Japan this past weekend Well seen at reports that soft banks pepper robot sold out a thousand robots in one minute Pepper if you remember cost a hundred ninety eight thousand yens around sixteen hundred bucks soft bank plans to produce a thousand units a month With the next batch plans for launch in Japan in July So for one minute a month, you'll be able to buy a pepper robot in the foreseeable future If you're confused about whether you can get Windows 10 for free as a preview user without upgrading from a previous genuine install Either go read the verges article by Tom Warren or listen up He made it very clear to me. He interprets Microsoft's python s-like pronouncements to mean the following Anybody who does a clean install of Windows 10? Preview edition and is in the preview program and then continues to agree to receive pre-release updates can keep using the OS for free For the foreseeable future Anybody else if you stop getting those pre-release updates We'll have to prove that they once had a genuine copy of Windows 7 or 8 If it was a clean install and if it wasn't a clean install, you're good. So there you go clean it cleared up any questions. No Good. All right Time for some news from you these come from our subreddit daily tech news showed at reddit comm captain kipper Sent us the news that Taylor Swift has changed the flow of time. I mean Singer-songwriter Taylor Swift wrote a super polite open letter to Apple on Sunday morning telling them that their plan To not pay artists during the three-month free trial period of the forthcoming Apple music program was quote shocking disappointing and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company and That she would be withholding her mega popular album 1989 from the service by Sunday evening Apple media chief Eddie Q announced on Twitter that Apple would pay artists an undisclosed amount per stream for listens during the free trial and All over the world glitter fell from the sky and enlightened citizens of the t-swift averse rejoiced We're out of the We're gonna talk about that more we should have I should have had this one at the end of the lineup because We're gonna talk about that in a second before that in a moment First of all Daniel H. Price 1986 submitted the Globe and Mail article on how US intelligence officials followed Chinese hackers for more than five years Then lost the trail last summer It is alleged that these same groups gained admin privileges in the networks at the US Office of Personnel Management the OPM If you remember that OPM suffered an attack that gained access to personnel records Much of the data was stored on lightly protected systems because of the cheap available storage space Pay for your security people. That's a look at the headlines All right, let's get into The effect of Taylor Swift on the universe Here's the timeline so Taylor posted her tumblr post very very politely worded however, the she did Assert that you should pay artists for the first for the free three months of the trial because She doesn't need the money. She said but lots of India new artists do and if their album came out during that period that someone is Free trialing it could definitely hurt them. She said she wrote I can support myself my band crew an entire management team by playing live shows Interesting phrasing. This is about the new artist or band that has just released their first single and will not be paid for its success so question one is Well, don't most even Indian small artists make their money off live shows Anyway by 8 29 p.m. Apple had bowed to her wishes Eddie Q Had Britain on Twitter Apple music will pay artists for streaming even during the customers free trial period He said he wrote we hear you Taylor Swift 13 and indie artists love Apple on 9 34 p.m Taylor Swift responded. I am elated and relieved. Thank you for your words of support today They listened to us so she didn't respond to any q. She was talking to her fans and essentially What happened was Eddie Q got up read that tumblr post in the morning called up Tim Cook and said, you know We had originally negotiated these deals based on paying them a higher royalty rate on an ongoing basis to compensate for this brief time And that was my speculation was that they made the deal with the music labels and said great We'll give you a higher percentage We'll give you 73 percent or 71 percent of the royalties instead of the standard 70 If you and you agree to give us three month free trials that we don't have to pay royalties on the label said great The artists not so excited about that. So brekkie This is this is an example of everything just all working out and Apple saying, ah, you know what? We got the cash to cover this Taylor's right. Let's help everybody out. It was just an honest mistake of negotiations What do you think is really going on here? I think to a certain extent that's exactly what this is I mean, this is it's not David versus Goliath here. It's it's Goliath versus Goliath Just two two separate organizations or a person and an organization Who has slightly different opinions on how to do things and Apple realizes that well, maybe Taylor Swift is right and I like Apple because they they are known to change their minds if they do something that they realize is not right they change their mind and This is apparently another one of those things. I'm still waiting for them to change the entire 70 30 model though I was really hoping for them to do that at WWDC and a lot of fellow developers were hoping for an 85 15 shifts But maybe that's for the future and maybe we'll see that happening in music first or something on those lines Maybe they should ask Taylor Swift to write a tubular post for them. Maybe maybe but but essentially I think this is a non-issue on the whole because These three months they are a trial period So it would make a little bit of sense for them to treat them slightly differently But it also makes a lot of sense for Apple to still pay the artists no matter if they're getting money from the users or not They can afford it now wired Has an article today that asserts that Taylor Swift is not only representative of the entire music industry But is queen of the internet Jordan Kirchiova wrote that. I know I've seen people say No matter what Taylor Swift says in her tumblr post she was doing this for herself She's holding back her album 1989 because she wants to make money off album sales and this was all just a bluff Jenny what do you think that's true? Um I think many things can be true at the same time. Let's put it that way. Yes, and uh, and but it's really consistent with Who Taylor Swift has been Since the beginning of her career, which by the way was at age 13 Um Because at this point if it seems like Taylor Swift has been created for the sole purpose of decimating traditional power structures That may be true. Like her dad was a financial advisor. She comes from a long line of like paternal bank presidents her mom was a marketing executive like It is possible that her mom is Sarah Connor and her dad was sent back in time to create a savior And who would neutralize apple net? You know what? I mean like she but in the more serious thing She had a record label deal a development contract at age 15 But rca wanted to wait until she was 18 to release her first album because that seemed like a good thing to do and it turns out Uh, she thought her time was running out at age 15 and wanted to go Uh go faster and so she went independent. She did what so many artists are Across all media including podcasting are doing nowadays, which is when a traditional power structure doesn't fit for them There's another option and so she signed with this fledgling record label. She drew she did everything herself She stuffed envelopes. She baked cookies. She created paintings for radio station programmers Which are probably now worth a lot of money Uh, and now here she is at age 25 the youngest woman ever to be included on forbs powerful women's list at 65 And frankly after today she's gonna jump 30 spaces She used my space to build a fan base She found a new market where there was not a developed market, which was new teen like teenage girls who liked country music Um, she associated personally with all of her fans for like four hours before and after con thing Concerts like you're looking at a consistent approach for her, which is if she doesn't like it She's not gonna stand for it. I don't know. I think it's fascinating Now yeneve the latin blogger wrote into us and said I believe taylor swift lost Yesterday and apple won big time they won in the pr by responding on twitter letting everyone know that they will pay the artist They have the money Uh the banks and and the banks to do it But now taylor swift must put her music where her mouth is and hand her music over to apple Now apple wins since they have her in their catalog, of course they don't yeah We haven't heard whether 1989, you know taylor swift's latest album will actually be in the apple music streaming service It's available for purchase on itunes, of course Uh and and I think that's what jenny was trying to say when she said well both can be true I believe it's very smart for taylor swift in her position with her predominance to hold back her album From streaming services in most cases because she will make more money off of it where not everybody who's as well known as her would So what this all comes down to me? is you know Is is this Is this just a bunch of pr battling or is this fundamental to the way music should operate? I kind of don't think it is. I don't think this really sets any kind of precedent. Do you brucky? No, no not at all. I mean taylor swift herself sets the president because back in november last year She pulled her music from spotify Save for I think one song that she allowed to stay on the site or on the on the service um, and I think this is just um It's partly pr of course She's gathering attention because she knows her albums will sell and she knows her concerts will sell So it's not a huge loss for her and it does drive a lot of um attention her way um I just hope that apple doesn't compensate this by just giving everybody a free album like they did with youtube Forcing everyone to have a free album. Yeah, I hope so I think what this suggests is that taylor swift has the world's most demographically valuable army And that she is not afraid to wield the sword of destiny to get what she wants And honestly is there any better lesson for young people of any gender? It doesn't matter which then that which is if you want What you want go out and get it do you know as long as it's you know morally You know not completely suspect, but you know go out and pursue your passion pursue your career Do what you want if the traditional power structure Is not right for you go another way and in that way I know people like to say she's just throwing temperature. She's just doing that But in another way, I think that is huge and amazing and I really can't wait to see what she does by the time She's 30. Yeah, you can say she's got nothing in her brain If you want, but I think the most interesting part Of this story has less to do with apple music or streaming models or royalty rights I'll take I'll take you at your word jenny the taylor means it when she says she's doing this for independent artists I think what taylor's really doing whether she knows it or not and it could be an addition to fighting for independent artists Is engaging with her fans She is a master at social media When when she went on to this tumblr blog that she used yesterday She immediately embraced a meme about her that was out there that a lot of people didn't even know if she was aware of or Or thought was good And and she went right into it. It was a it was a tumblr meme And and she took this not to the wall street journal like she did when she pulled her music off spotify She took it directly to the fans on tumblr. She spoke on twitter She is she is embracing The ways to communicate with her audience where her audience is and creating a legion Uh of followers that are at her back end command Uh, you know, it she was able to make apple Listen You could say maybe she made them change their mind It sounded like eddy q was saying we kind of had some doubts about this already because the independent artists had Uh posted a protest Uh blog earlier last week, right But that didn't change apple around what changed apple around was taylor swift and her huge audience speaking out And that that makes her a very powerful voice And of course immediately yesterday all the twitter jokes were like hey What else can we get tether swift to change international diplomacy? Yeah Uh, you know, you could joke about that and I don't think she can really have an effect on international diplomacy yet yet Shirley temple black didn't become an ambassador until she was you know in her 60s. So Uh, yeah, I don't Does anyone even know who that is? I know who that is Brecky, do you know who shirley temple is? Oh shirley temple is yes. Okay. Good. All right. Never mind take it back. Uh, but yeah, I I Think it is an example Of the power of the internet now being wielded by the power of a mainstream celebrity And I don't think we've seen it quite done in this way before do you guys? No, I think not not in this way. Yeah, I think she is like an independent artist at mega scale She's not really independent label wise anymore, but she is acting like an independent artist at at a A list celebrity musician scale. I think it's fascinating to watch. Yeah, it is Possibly just a weird hybrid of our times But I think there are lessons for not just musicians But but all kinds of people who create things on the internet and how she goes about this and how she really She relates directly to the fans very fast. What do you think? Are we getting a red ipod special edition? Red lipstick ipod classic. Ah, yeah You could have a james dean looking one as well All I know is that I really do think she is the childlike empress from the neverending story That's what take away from all of this. You've got to look at jenny's twitter picture at twitter.com Slash jennyj23, uh, and you will agree with her Also, she might be glad real and I hope she resists the ring agree our pick of the day comes from vance Uh disclosure vance is a huge fan of google things and his pick is android tv as they set that platform He says it has been adapted as the smart tv interface for a number of tv manufacturers like sony and sharp He likes the ui says while it is lacking an amazon prime app It makes up for that if you use google play music or videos And has the best youtube app going on a powerful voice search function as you would expect I'm not sure that google play music makes up for amazon prime fans But i'll give you that it does have a lot of other options nexus player is 79 bucks on amazon And while some find it a bit underpowered at the price you not only get the android tv Chromecast it could take advantage of that, uh, which roku can do casting amazon fire tv can do casting as well But that's a fair point He said i recently picked up the pricier invidia shield android tv and i'm very impressed so far and that is one That a lot of people have reviewed very favorably saying it's the best android tv device out there So there you go android tv not only the nexus player, but also the shield Android tv device. Thank you vance for sending that pick alone Do you have a media streamer you prefer brekkie? No, i just use the apple tv and stream most things from my local library So the apple tv is your prefer yeah, i guess yeah send your picks to feedback Send your picks to feedback at dailytechnewshow.com and you can find my picks at dailytechnewshow.com slash picks All right, we talked last week about amazon's announcement that as soon as they're allowed to And if that happens by the end of the year that would be by the end of the year They will start delivering packages by drones everyone's been speculating how best this would work amazon hasn't said a peep about how they would do it yet But we have a caller from iowa who thinks he's cracked it. Hello. I just wanted to weigh in a little bit on the amazon drone Thing um I think everybody's thinking about it all wrong When they're trying to figure out. Okay. How are they going to do this? I think that the best way that they're probably going to do this is You'll get an email saying hey your package is ready to deliver click this link to select the best delivery time You go to the link tell it. Okay. I'll be home between five and seven And then they will send the drone out with your package instead of trying to figure out how to Send it out and all that other stuff. So Just thought i'd weigh in on it. Thank you Now that's interesting depends on the drone flying time And I definitely I don't know if I like the windowing idea, but the idea that you could say Uh, okay, send it now. I'm home Kind of like that. No, yeah, sure. No, absolutely I mean it's a mood point because in a couple of years we'll have rfid chips implanted on our necks and the drones will find us Um, but until then this is a good stop cap Yeah, I I think uh, I think it's I don't think unfortunately, this is how they're going to do it though. No, I think it's an intriguing way of thinking about it Alan wrote in and said modern garage door openers like the ones since 1995 use rolling codes the same tech on a car's key fob We were talking about spoofing garage door openers last week It says basically it uses a random number generated to determine what code to allow entry with a plus minus range to compensate for Accidental pushes and multiple vehicles once a code has been accepted. It can no longer be used So garage doors are harder to spoof than you might think these days Well, Alan's right And yet For some reason I've never lived in a house that had a rolling code garage door opener You know, it's I have you guys Had a key fob for your garage door openers. Have you even lived in places with never had a garage? Yeah No, we we just use the good old classic key Yeah, and I've lived in plenty of places didn't have garage door openers either But the ones I did always had really old ones. So anyway, good point though, Alan About the key fob thing So if you are putting in a garage door opener Then you should definitely look into one like Alan's talking about not the old-fashioned kind And that is daily tech news show for monday. Thank you all for watching. Uh, thank you brekkie thomason You can find brekkie on the internet at brekkie thomason.com b-r-e-k-i-t-o-m-a-s-s-o-n and of course follow him on twitter at brekkie t b-r-e-k-i-t But psychon.net is where you really need to go and subscribe to all the shows All of the shows all at once Every single one. How are things going at psychon anything in particular you want to let folks know about? Well, we've just acquired two new shows the history files and game punting One of them is a history file a history show about just recent history the past four or five hundred years educational entertainment show and then game punting which is all about the Up-and-coming Kickstarter games mainly tabletop games. That's very really really cool. So find it's some gems. I would guess Absolutely And the history files is that just general history or or technology history or it's general history I mean the past couple of weeks. We've had everything from the magna carts to The rule of law versus the rule of king and stuff like that. That sounds awesome So psychon.net folks c s i c o n dot net Of course, jenny josephson the host of tell it anyway as well as the producer of the show Uh, but you should go to tell it anyway dot com and subscribe if you want to hear really good stories Because it's the most fun storytelling podcast i've ever listened to Aw, thanks tom and i'm not just saying that because she's right there and she will screw up my lineup if i don't know Show I listen to it. It's thursdays right? You usually come out on thursdays? Yeah, we try to make it out by thursday mornings. Um, we've been trying to do weekly. 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Yeah, swift defeats the nothing paid by apple I don't quite know what the last part means, but I do like tailor swift defeats the nothing Kick to the apple. I really like that one. That's I like swift justice has a very uh chuck norris feel to it. Yeah, it's the it's the leader. It's the leader sure it can punch you Someone had a really great one in the chat room that they didn't submit as a title, but it was so good Where was it? By the way, tom, have you seen Jurassic world yet? Yes, I have Do you want to talk about it next week? Uh, I coming weekend possibly. Yeah, sure I'll send you an email. Yeah, I have Well, I sunday. I can't saturday. I could Uh or next week. I don't have sort and lasers. So I've got a little more of my evening time Available, although that's bad for you probably As long as there's not too late. Yeah, maybe like monday morning though could work Um, I don't know. Yeah, just email me. I'll send you an email. Yeah, cool Because I'm looking for a second person to join me. I would rather so okay. Yeah Uh, I I liked it Yeah, yeah, not the best in the series, but no good not the best movie I've ever seen But you liked it even though it was kind of mediocre No, oh, I did that No, I haven't seen it yet. I'm just I'm just basing this off Your reaction or whatever I'm saying that it's not like uh when I saw mad max where I was like stunned I just really and I couldn't you know, I had a good time watching it Right. It's not the summer blockbuster. We hoped for but it's probably going to be one of the Top five summer movies if you go into it looking for like An experience you're not going to get that. I knew everything that was happening But it was really paced well and it was enjoyable chris pratt was enjoyable The dinosaurs look good. I don't know. I don't want to do the psychon episode before we do it though, but no no I'm just trying to get some people for the next couple of weeks and months Um scott is signed up for a civil war next year. Um, brian is going to be with me Wow, that's advanced Yeah, yeah, we we try to plan who's got star wars Um nobody yet You should have a death match like a podcasting fight to the death to figure out who gets to talk about star wars We had a thing back on scott con. Um, this is two years back. We had something called the death match of death and more death Where we had 64 characters from geek culture everything from, you know, yoda to wolverine to um Who mentioned you and so on wow And my two co-hosts would randomly pick one every single week and they would argue which one of them would win in a fight And the audience would vote and then it was basically a ladder match And wolverine won at the end. It was the final survivor the 64 had a man team claws, man Yep, it was him versus gandalf in the final fight Yeah, but it's really not his ante and ante him.  Would you rather Magneto was already out of the fight before we got there so Not to kick up a thing not to kick up a thing But what's stronger adamantium or vibranium? So that's one of those That's one of those things that gets really muddied in the marvel universe depending on which book you read supposedly vibranium that the stuff that the cap shields made of is Like almost impenetrable But I don't it's it's weird. It's it's I don't know I've never seen one where wolverine cuts to the shield yet No, what I remember is vibranium is more durable, but adamantium is harder Which just sounds like A lot of more durable Sounds like semantics to say from marvel writers. So they wouldn't yeah caught up in a weird conflict Of like oh no, you totally wrote it this way and now you screwed it up But yes adamantium can cut through vibranium, but um vibranium can shatter adamantium So it's you know Rock versus scissors versus paper. Don't drink dote smoke The question is what happens if wolverine tries to cut Thor's hammer Yeah, but see that's magic Like no one else to wait Who's the only other person to be able to pick up Thor's hammer besides Thor? Uh I thought if you picked up Thor's hammer you became Thor Well, yeah, depending on the Requirements of the plot at the time the storm has picked it up The chat room says that cap shield in the comics is adamantium vibranium alloy What they changed that they totally changed originally was originally vibranium They whatever I that's what that's one reason I don't know space age alloy Marvel and dc. Oh, I believe it's made out of retcon Why don't we just make it out of the macguffin Yeah, it's a retcon macguffin alloy That's why I refuse to read any dc or mobile book anymore Freckie you should have me and pop culture shows. I can pop culture it up with the best of them. Oh, absolutely I'm actually thinking of reviving the death match of death and more death at some point And just have a rotating schedule weekly where two people come in and they get a randomly assigned superhero or supervillain Cool You could have seasons, you know, you could play like a you know 20 game season and then have a play-offs at the end Sure, sure On how big your starting seed is I mean if you've got 32 characters Then it's 16 weeks just to narrow it down to 16 and then another eight weeks to narrow it down to eight and so on Go 64. Why not? Yeah. Yeah, just go full hard forever. Yeah to a two-year run the only What was it? Uh, so I think the um The best kind of matchup I've ever read about and believe it or not was a wizard magazine Uh, is where we remember bleak. Uh, it was gleeke from the wonder twins monkey. Yes Faces off after who is the monkey from uh, space ghost the one with jan and jay So those two those two simians faced off in a fight Was it I think though I thought that was the answer. No wait. No bleep not bleep, uh Gleep Gleep Then there's monkey bleep the monkey chim chim was from no chim chim was from speed racer Gleeke. I don't know. There's gleaks from superfront. Uh, dang it. I think it's blip. Blip. Blip. Yeah blip Blipping gleeke That was the best one gouchum says like an iron chef of super hero smackdown. What if you did an iron chef? That's horrible. I can't say that Had to do with monkeys. That's all no You can read all the emails No, after I read about that dog meat festival in china, you know, I bet those pictures still disturb me It's really just really disturbing. Yep. Like even if I'm not a pet guy and tom can Get past to that and I'm not a pet guy at all. Uh, the guys who looked at my dog once and said four drumsticks Bramper pause and said four drumsticks. That's actually true I'm starting to get sad a little better But it was all in good fun. I think it's because there's still a lot.  Yeah Uh, but uh, then it was like right up there next to you know, uh Negotiations over the greek debt Good fun. It's the first day in a while that I've Preferred to read about negotiations over the greek debt Actually today was a good day to start because it was actually quite nice the uh, the swedish um, general stock index went up 2.83 percent After a lot of concerns these past two weeks. Is that a solstice bump? Something on those lines. Yeah, the euphoria of like endless summers Our endless days of summer something on those lines. Yeah The swedish flag is now 109 years old Happy birthday flag a very intricate designed flag. I might like blue with a yellow cross Uh, so they think I guess they didn't come to a deal yet, but there there are positive steps. I take it They put a proposal out. They said, oh, we don't didn't have time to look at it yet.  Yeah, my reminder was just asking Thought that swift justice starring chuck norris And taylor swift. Yeah I think taylor gets first billing it could be like taylor swift is like his granddaughter And he has to she has to rescue him and he has to she has to Like relearn all his brownhouse kicks And whatever else that chuck norris does he's got the legs for it Swift justice was a upn tv series that aired for four months in 1996 starring james mccaffrey as a former nypd detective and navy seal getting kicked off the force handles the cases the police can't by becoming a private detective Isn't that isn't that kind of a variation on the equalizer? Isn't that kind of a variation on every cop slash detective television? Yeah Had it been done today. He wouldn't be a former detective He would be a former psychic or a former um, yeah, you know paleontologists or something I will confess the best version of that though is the 18 sure Because it's an ensemble cast the rest are usually just solo But when you have an ensemble it tends to make them more interesting Makes it more satisfying when your plan comes together Yes, and actually, you know what that was like the best like so night writer had kit and kit would save the day Airwolf had the helicopter But a team had let's build the thing and there was it was like the first diy show as a kid I ever watched even before this old house before MacGyver even before MacGyver It's like let's diy ourselves some explosives using coffee cans Gunpowder and some other stuff and we'll tape it together duct tape Just we didn't reboot the 18 Well, the last one the last reboot was very disappointing. Yeah. Yeah Had Bradley Cooper in it. Was that right? Yeah, Bradley Cooper, but they also had Liam Neeson as George for parts character Yeah, and Charlotte Copley. I mean you can never go wrong with Charlotte Copley. He was Murdoch And then he was uh, what's his name and uh What's the south that what's the what's the one with the south african aliens district district Just we didn't should reboot quantum leap. No, let it rest. No I want quantum leap more more you say that and you see it's like I don't need this I'm in a woman's body I want it today version of it I think You're what you're reacting to is the storytelling level of sophistication of the late 80s early 90s And what I would tell you is that many great concepts from those eras have been successfully rebooted into much more sophisticated Allegories of our time and I think like Well, it's not the right decade, but a one-battle-star galactic I you're making a distinction without a difference I'm telling you that the storytelling level of sophistication in the 70s in the 80s is is was very good for its time It was very good sophisticated time travel storytelling, but it could certainly use A reboot today with all the complex issues that television is able to capture if you're going to reboot time travelers move You need to reboot time train Have a voyager's to have a series about a time traveler who goes back in time and reboots television series the first time they air Isn't that netflix? I'm pretty sure the guys who run google are time travelers I I just I actually the more I think about that stupid joke the more I like this idea You could have a different show every week I like it. I mean like an anthology show like yeah, and you'll be rebooting those shows As their pilots are being produced It's somebody who's seen the whole run and that comes in and tries to correct all the mistakes Right No, you can't you know what that would make for a very I don't know I can't have anything too perfect Yeah, but that's the thing right can he really change? No, the course of the show that's the lesson. That's what scott bacula learned until he quantum leaped into enterprise Another favorite show of mine, which also had time travel He just didn't have an old guy as a hologram in ziggie. There's a good tie-in episode We find out that uh That uh, what was his name? No, no, not not sam kept an archer the captain archer actually got leaped into That would be great. I think that would be awesome I agree. That's my thing. I would get behind. Let's kick start it Star Trek quantum leap um directed by uh damon lindolf quantum star and it's all because of q Yes, or that or the weird guy from uh from enterprise who nobody liked I liked him the guy who was served as the sick on enterprise the guy who was like the future Guide who's like Yeah, one of them he died Yeah, they finally killed him off because his character just kept coming in and going doosas machina again You know, it's interesting that q ended up being what the holodeck was used for like Like the longest time in the next generation. He was just a plot vehicle to like, let's do something That's totally out of the ordinary And I never understood if you get locked in the holodeck, isn't there like an emergency push button that just says, okay Turn everything off. There is but it was malfunctioning roger. We tried pushing it and it didn't work. Something is wrong I mean, like if you had a carnival ride that couldn't like have an emergency shot People would like to okay. No one goes to this thing ever again until we fix it Yeah, the enterprise would would be in in uh, space dock for and then like if the holodeck's so amazing Why don't they just kidnap people they need to like like they're doing a diplomatic mission or whatever They just throw them in there and they give them some weird fantasy like fantasy island And they learn about the you know, they learn their lesson and they come out all like good Plum director Well, that's a spin-off series that's my star trek spin-off series Now we've we've produced several series for you Dear hollywood, please take these ideas and make them realities and then send us checks And I am out of the post I will go in the post. Thank you everyone. Uh, stay tuned for cord killers later on diamondclub.tv immediately following this episode of rebooting past series