Alright, we're back. It's still the breakfast and plus TV Africa and time for first major conversation this morning. The returning officer for the Adamawa State Governorship Election, Professor Muhammad Mele. On Tuesday, he declared Governor Ahmadu Finturi, the winner of the State Governorship poll while Finturi secured a second term in office, having scored 430,861 votes to beat the rival of Progressive Congress candidate Aisha Dahiru, popularly known as Binani, who amassed 398,788 votes. Also on Tuesday, the Independent National Electoral Commission and Azure Electrical Empire said it had asked the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustafa, to draw the attention of the appointing authority. To the behaviour of the State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hulu Yanusa Ari, Finturi's victory took place 48 hours after Binani was controversially declared the Governor-elect by Yanusa Ari, the Resident Electoral Commissioner. Joining us for continued analysis on this concluded Adamawa Governorship elections, I'm glad to say we have two analysts on video link, Dr. Omoshila Deji, he's a political scientist, he joins us from an undisclosed location in Lagos and Abraham Great is a public affairs analyst, tuning in or joining us rather from Ottawa in Canada. Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. Good morning. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Thank you for the time. I'll start with you Abraham in Ottawa. I've been asking people this question I want to ask you guys. Describe the Adamawa election, the Governorship election in one word, what would that be? You know, Abraham Lincoln was saying that, you know, the ballot is not a gun, you know, the voters are for the people, the Nigerian democracy is maturing, but it doesn't appear that the politicians are maturing along with it. What do I mean by that is that every test that we see the democracy go through is something that matures the country or that should mature the country. So when we compare 1993 to 2003 and stuff like that, what we want to see is the fact that our institutions are now maturing. Well, what I found is that the politicians themselves, not a lot of them seems to be maturing, even the ones that are older, because the same mentality that they have of, you know, for example, the two basic things that affect how people behave in Nigeria is traditions and religion. And I think the two things play a great part in the Adamawa election. So give me your one word to describe the election. I describe the election as maybe the best word that I'll just use is immature. I wouldn't use any word that is too harsh because we need to know more of what happened in that election. So I see a lot of people making conclusions, blaming benignly, blaming inegedly. We need to see all the components of exactly what happened. And I'm very sure that tradition and religion also play a role in that election. You tell us more about that as we go on. Let me go over to you, Deji. How will you describe the Adamawa election? And maybe you can give us your one word. Welcome to describe the Adamawa election in one word. I'll use the word disgraceful. Disgraceful in the sense that you find the resident electoral commissioner who is supposed to know the limitations of his duties. Now for him to ask octravias to go ahead and declare the result of an election and the whole world was watching, that is disgraceful. Now disgraceful in the sense that you would also expect Ineq to have learned lessons from the fallouts of the presidential election, the gubernatorial election and of course the the main election itself that so that there would have been some good changes during the supplemental election. But that has not taken effect. So I would rate it disgraceful. Disgraceful again in the sense that the presidency and Ineq itself in terms of appointment. Now don't they do a total background check? How were they able to appoint persons of the such a questionable bias and character to such a sensitive office? What happens to the national assembly in terms of scrutiny? Again, that qualifies it to be disgraceful. Disgraceful again in the sense that when the false declaration was made by the resident electoral commissioner, you find the commissioner of police at the and the head of the DSS giving him protection. The commissioner of police not aware. Is it that he didn't break the electoral act at all? Is it that he didn't take his time to familiarize himself with the functions of the electorate, the electoral commissioner? Is it that he has so much incompetent men and aids that none of them had read that act and would have advised him accordingly seeing somebody that has spent so many years in service and has risen to an everywhere of being a commissioner of police that is disgraceful. The head of the DSS in that state it is disgraceful. Now for the citizens themselves that went all out to rejoice after the false declaration was made shows the low level of education, show the low level of electoral knowledge that again is disgraceful. Now for the APC humanitarian candidate herself, now she has been a senator before that means she should be conversant with the laws of the land, especially the law that guides an election that she is participating in. For her to have gone ahead, to read the acceptance speech as she did just a few minutes or hours after the false declaration was made, and for her to even rush to court to see the ratification of the court for a false process that is disgraceful. For a lawyer who advised her to go to court, whether because of you know country hard and of course they have one or two financial gains and all that that is disgraceful. All right. For the minister of state. All right. You may have succeeded to convince us and not confuse us that the election is disgraceful. I'll give you your one sentence to round it off. Okay. I just want to round up with someone we know that usually kind of like come on air, try to muscle the press, give some, you know, argument back and forth with the person of the minister of state, for labor, I think that's Pestos Guillermo. For him as a senior advocate of Nigeria, someone that you know you always claim good knowledge of the law, for him to have rushed to his tutor and you to congratulate someone that was falsely declared that is also disgraceful. All right. I'm going to go to some headlines and Abraham, I'll come back to you from last year. This one is from August 29, 2022.  Sometimes we forget easily in this country. 2023, Buhari under fire for appointing APC members as INEC Rex. August 23, same. August 23, how Buhari appointed APC party members as resident electoral commissioners. Another one, Nigerian Senate confirms alleged card carrying member ruling APC members. Now, of course, it's alleged and I was pointed out. I was pointed out. Over 70 CSOs are extended to reject nomination of APC members. Now, I don't have any of that information as to what are the actual card carry members. These are headlines from various papers I'm just quoting. This is September 2022. Sarah urges President Buhari to withdraw nomination of alleged APC members as INEC Rex. Do you think that some of these headlines, in fact, there's another one, withdraw list of nominees and consult council of state, Falana, that's sort of INEC Rex. Do you think that there's a relationship between these headlines and what we saw play out in our state governorship election? Definitely. You know, like I said earlier, Abraham Lincoln said that the bullet, the ballot is stronger than the bullet. We need to get to a point in Nigeria where the ballot is actually very strong. And you know that it cannot be manipulated that the secrecy of the electoral process would determine the integrity of the country and will increase the value of the country. So when people see our head and they are forewarning, you know, circumstances in which people could be compromised, that means the institution, maybe the legislatures need to pay attention to those kind of things. The judiciary also need to pay attention, but we're still at the state. That is why I use my word carefully. I could not be as emphatic as my colleague in the studio because of the fact that I only have a background in view. I was not there. So many day chiefs will be there and see things even more and I'm far away from where I am here. And I can see immature that the Nigerian democracy is maturing, but the people that are in it are immature. So the other thing about, you know, the headlines that you read is that we are also in a situation in Nigeria that people cry fouls almost for so many things that sometimes to actually know what the court, the way the court is going to rule, you don't even know if they have ruled right or not because people sometimes play every role in the book. So we have to also be careful to allow the judiciary to also do their jobs, but I see a gap that has not been properly filled. People have been identified to be in a position to be compromised and they have been let loose to just go like that. The process is immature. All right. Ayanek, as you've seen, has written to, because, you know, the talk has been about the wreck, what will happen to him, will he pay the maximum penalty, which includes an option of fine or imprisonment or both. Will he be sacked and all that?  And we can go through the electoral act and see what it says about, you know, appointment into the commission and all that. What do you think, Deji? Do you think that we've seen some of these characters get into such positions and do what they do because of the mode of appointment by, of the resident electoral commissioners, for instance? You think that's played a role in, you know, the things that we're hearing they're doing. You know, we can look at what happened in Ocean State before now. The man was transferred to Lagos State. There are still allegations, you know, of complicity and bias by the wreck in Lagos. Allegations, I repeat. We can go to River State. We can go to, of course, the Damawa State. There are other states around the country where wrecks have been accused of bias for, in favor of one party or the other. So what are your thoughts on the way they are pointed and if it plays a role in some of these allegations? Well, with the kind of, we now take it all for the kids that we play and the desperation of politicians to grab power, it is not unexpected that people with political bias, political affiliation, political loyalty would aspire to become officers of INEC, especially for sensitive positions. Now, it now goes on. The person appointing them and the person ratifying the process of the appointment, which is national assembly, the mutual proper scrutinized are done. And even when those are not done, when members of the public begin to scrutinize them and they begin to bring out maybe their images or something that shows their affiliation to any political party, any political party at all, then I think the process should have been stopped. So I'm not surprised that people of political bias will find their way because even if they don't want to, even if they are scared, politicians, and as we have it in this country, we give them the encouragement that it is possible and of course, let's try if you can sell to any such a person, eventually sales through the domination and screening process, the loyalty of such a person lies with whoever facilitated his or her appointment. And that is why we can see the desperation for the Adamaware because it is believed that he would have a kind of like a proud knowledge, a kind of like bad view of the result of the election before it is announced, it's a fact like a bad view. So for him to have gone ahead desperately, definitely he must have been listening to the voice of some of the powers that be that, okay, we can exploit the law. Once Alec has made a declaration, then it is only the court that can upturn it, but Alec in his wisdom has acted brightly by instantly saying, no, we are against this and this cannot stand up. For such action, what I think should be the consequence is being banned from political office itself, being banned from holding any appointed or electoral position in the country. Let me use the university system as an example.  And the university kind of like presumed that if you are forgiven, you will also cheat your way till you graduate. So the consequence for that is prostitution. I think we should kind of like involve that culture into our political system whereby if you act wrongly politically and especially if you are on duty as a politician for having to break your way, the court should not only upturn that election, there should be consequence for action. And one of those consequences should be like ban from whether elected or appointed position. That means you cannot contest and you cannot be appointed.  Now it is important because when corruption was becoming a major issue in China that imposed, if you are found corrupt, you will be executed. Whether we like it or not, political corruption, breaking and associated issues are major issues right now in the country. And we need to take drastic step. Politicians right now finding their way around the technology. But when they know that there are unbearable consequence, a used award, unbearable consequence for their actions, which is imprisonment and a life ban, it should be, I don't know yet option of fine, because if you look at the consequence, if you aid the emergence of a false candidate, it has an impact on governance development. And the way Nigeria is doing governance, you see a lot of our people suffering.  If you can get the recruitment process right, it will have an impact on performance and the overall development of the country as a whole. So it is important that we get that right. And again, I emphasize that the, for example, for the right electoral commissioner, even if the door is going to be made of people that commit such infraction afterwards, it should be their imprisonment and life ban from both elected and appointed positions. Digi is not holding back his punches at all. But I'll come back to Abraham. He's given his thoughts on this point, the issue, and especially when I asked about the mode of appointment and even removal of the resident electoral commissioners. And for the benefit of all of us, let's just go about the relevant portion of the electoral act to enter into a signed by President Mahalo Puhari. Section or clause six says that there is established sub one, says there's established in each state of the Federation, federal capital territory and the local government area, an office of the commission which shall perform such functions as maybe assigned to it by the commission. So the commission assigns the functions to the office in each state. What it goes on to say, the resident electoral subsection two of section six, a person appointed to the office of resident electoral commissioners shall be answerable to the commission and hold office for a term of five years renewable from the date rather of his appointment for another term of five years and no more. That's where Mike Igini had to leave. Now it says the resident electoral commissioner appointed under the constitution may only be removed by the president acting on an address supported by two-thirds majority of the Senate, praying that the resident electoral commissioner be so removed for inability to perform the functions of the office, whether arising from infamity of mind or body or any other cause or for misconduct. So we have to even go to the Senate to vote two-thirds majority. Subsection four says the appointment of resident electoral commissioner shall be in compliance with section 14 sub three of the constitutional federal program of Nigeria and section four of the federal character commission establishment etc act. So it's quite clear what the constitution says about the appointment. So what do you think about this mode of appointment and removal? You think it plays a role in all of this and do you think we need to change and if we do what or how should it be done or how should it be and what should it be changed to? Well I think this election 2023 gives opportunity for us to know that as much as we've made some amendment over the 2010 electoral act into the 2022 electoral act there are still gaps within the electoral act that can be strengthened. So you look for example from I think it's session 126 or there about that begin to talk about the fines and penalty for people in electoral practices there are not so much consequences for officials of INH who violate or who you solve or who mishandle the process that the process is not strong enough. So the more we strengthen the document the governing documents are the rules the guidance but you still have an aspect which is the implementation of those laws. In Nigeria it's not that we don't have sufficient laws we have them but the consequences are weak like that you were saying in China I mean in China for example you can't even steal a wallet because the consequences for stealing a wallet is so great you know I recall that there's a big corporation in Nigeria that was once duped by a corporation in China and I was there someone that I knew was dealing with the situation you know leasing on behalf of this big corporation in Nigeria and immediately this young man calling Paul I saw that the people were paying millions of dollars back to the telecommunication company that they have duped or they are they are all in and asking why would this be why would it be the consequences in China they can throw you from water they don't even need to go to God in some cases they would just throw you from 82 floor into the water and you are gone so we need to be sure that there are consequences for breaking set the laws in Nigeria and that those laws I mean those consequences are carried out now saying that let me end with this saying that I am not one I'm not a proponent of giving blanket judgment of looking over issues just from reading from what I've seen the news the Adamawa election like I started as an element that must be considered I am not totally now I am I'm not partisan in Nigeria but I choose candidate I support certain candidate and it may be in any party like just like I supported as you want to now the I am not 100% convinced that Benani 100% lost the election she's a woman who is running to be the first lady there will be a governor in Nigeria for her to come that close it says to me that the power that be we may not know the my practices and the anomalies that may have gone behind the scenes that have aroused agitation and that's why I know not agitation a lack of due process like and you know acceptance speech and stuff like that she was he's got a lot of the first mention she is at the point where she was trying to break record but desperately should not be included in it that's why I call it immaturity but she has the right to go to God you and I may not see what she sees so and the the job of the the red their job is to be able to administrate to manage the process to see so we would need to see their entire report we will need to see exactly what goes on not just to because she announced she did this we are all human being if you have been this is a franchise there are ways that you will react I am not especially if a woman like that who is not a christian is voted for unanimously by christians and if she's just about a 10,000 or something vote away from winning the election I do not want to underestimate what the power of the increment would have made the impact of that on the outcome of that election so you know as there may have been some rigging and she may have felt that she actually won the election that's why she did what she did it is not impossible that she won it is also not impossible that the result the result that was actually probably announced it is not impossible see nigeria elections and nigerian processes always have a playbook the the playbook were not privy to it and the entire process we also do not know so she might have lost the election and she might have won the election what i'm saying is that we cannot give a blanket judgment on her but we can give blanket judgment on an inek because clearly inek has violated his own processes okay so what you're saying is that the req may have also done what he did because he noticed that there was some hanky panky going on to deprive bin nanny of her victory probably no matter what the req not to see was right but you're trying to see deeper deeper to be to think critically as to the possible reasons why i did what he did that's why i studied law that's i don't see things i just don't see things for paid body i'm going to be able to look at every every component of the situation so the fact that she won the election and the req noticed or see the figure and notice what is going on that still does not give the right to the req to have announced because it is not in the during uh uh uh uh uh prudent of the of the of the req to announce yeah you said although but now you're saying that there may be some factors behind this that we we we're not seeing obviously i mean for for a woman in that state and let's remember that down from what i remember is there is there is seems to be some balance between christian and muslim that's why i say the role that religion i heard in some quarters also that it is impossible in fact some people came out publicly and said that it is impossible for a woman to be a governor in the northern part of nigeria and that means we have not really advanced if those things are there what role does the source kind of mindset what role does it play on the outcome of the election very important and interesting points you've raised um you pull some punches there even if you try not to um digi what are your thoughts on on this um maybe we are not thinking as deeply as we should to see the possible scenarios beyond the surface and he's raised some very interesting points your thoughts um if i can continue from where i've stopped it is not um it is not impossible that there might have been some on only on only alliance during the election in favor or against a particular candidate but i mean if we look at the nigerian political structure and um the the structure of the security agencies high neck and you know other sister agencies involved in the successful conduct of elections such alliance if any often favors the candidate of the party at the central that's the party of the national government which coincidentally in this case is binari now the the the president is a member of a party who appointed the um high neck um national chairman and the resident electoral commissioners so if there's going to be any alliance they will most likely have alliance with the abc because they would rather appoint a neutral person than to appoint somebody that they know as alliance with the pdp now i'm going to establish that now so if you look at this the way the um the election goes it is most likely that there's no on only alliance against binari and if there is there are forces within the system loyal to the abc that would have stopped such alliance so what i see in this is the ineffectiveness of our institutions when we continue to build the state around meh nigerian um sovereignty and authority today is built around as a person and when the president the let comes in the sovereignty and you know um institution of state is built around him it is what he says if if he says oh one in this place the chief of army staff you will not have the opportunity to confirm barry and say it is against the law because he wants to save his job so when we begin to have strong institutions if what happened in the united states during the election of donald trump happened in nigeria you won't find you know um anoshiba ju going to the national assembly to make sure touch election is ratified but he has no choice because he is bound by the institution of state else at the end of the day in my face imprisonment donald trump is still facing the consequence of the protest that he allegedly incited after the election so what is has taught from us as a country as a people is that we shouldn't build um our institutions around persons but we should have strong institution that will outlive whoever comes the state is higher than the citizen the office of the precedence is bigger than whoever occupies office of the governor um i-nec national commission i-nec national chairman another sensitive offices because why woman being we come and go those offices remains the state remains so long that those studies in this coming nangira will never say i am i have been president or if you like commander in chief or maybe um well go for me if you have a military government but nangira will always have a ceo a number one so if we build um uh the the sovereign institution of state around such a person when we have good people who find their office the state we enjoyed but when we have bad people people that are bound by ethnicity and religion people of questionable past and questionable character the state would suffer for it so we should begin to look at how we evolve as a people and look beyond now because people are watching you know um young kids are watching so how do you convince um um a a child aspiring to be the um head boy or head girl you know um in in this of our school that lose the election to just accept that okay you or she have lost so they are monumental consequences for our actions today as adults you so and we should begin to look at how to change the tune so that we can have a better society in the short and long run all right all right general before we can quickly stress something from what did you say yes hello yeah are you there yes please go on you can go sure i want to quickly just draw something from what did you say i want i want digi to also understand this with me again i i i i i give a balcony view of situation but does it matter in any case that there are negotiations between the two legacy parties in nigeria what do i mean by that do you know that the osho state election and the court case on the issues election as an impact on the outcome and the way that apc behaves on the general election especially uh uh on the election elsewhere so for example if apc realized that this woman probably won and if she has preponderance of evidence to suggest that she won the way they behave affects everything else the atmosphere in the country the other thing is that you know it was a no picking who won't say that these parties is apdcp you know there are negotiations that happens between these parties but i can't just be like to really make a decision just that somebody lost somebody they don't lose or what i've been unless i have all the facts in front of me maybe in the court of law or a proper investigation of what had happened it could have happened that they go to a point and say okay be dining you know well please we will offer you something else we know that you want but people will misread to read us if we want to fight this by all means this is going to be interpreted as this and that i am saying it again i'm going to reiterate if a woman come close to having a runoff in a northern country in nigeria if she has a runoff and also came close to a point of where some quarters are believing that she won i'm saying that that woman probably won the election you cannot have a woman come that close in an election in a country like ours and not give us some booze that woman should not be slack i call the process of announcing as immature but i think something a conspiracy of some sort may have gone on and some negotiation may have happened behind the back and this is not just me just fighting for binari this is me working at the maturing jobs in nigeria did you want to say something to that okay well um i'm thinking of uh i'm a part of um departure but i also have some some form of agreement with my brother you know you know tell well what i think for um binari i would have blocked the situation whereby when the results were polluted by ineg she eventually won that election you know but what we are that is clear right now except the court says otherwise and do not forget it is assumed that when ineg legitimately makes a declaration it is assumed that what ineg has done is right until the court says otherwise so right now based on the conduct of the election and the result polluted the candidate of the other party won so if binari at one or you know it is not it is not it is not good enough to say oh if somebody concludes in an election that as she's a woman a society evolved things will always change they will always be kind of like innovation in the mindset of people um maybe in 50 years 50 years ago nobody would have taught somebody on kenyan origin would have been the president of the united states in president in person of barak obama about 50 years ago nobody would have thought that someone of indian origin would be the prime minister you know um in a first country like the united kingdom so society evolves maybe nigella has evolved to that extent whereby you know when women are beginning to have their right to place in politics but almost is the dangerous word i almost passed doesn't mean you passed all right you feel all right almost is the consulatory word so if binari had almost won the election i would have thought this situation whereby at the end of the final position it is declared that she legitimately won and if she was truly winning then why do you rush thank you very much very important questions i think we have to have both of you back again to talk about this sometimes in this program but doctor emotional digi political scientists in legos abraham great um public affairs analysts in otawa canada um thank you so much for your time gentlemen i thoroughly enjoyed listening to both of you thank you for having me thank you digi thank you so much digi thank you brah yeah my pleasure all right up next we have sports stay with us


I'm Rebecca, welcome back to my channel for another video about stitches in the 18th century where we'd demonstrate and clarify how certain stitches were done. Today we're looking at two stitches that I see commonly confused with each other whenever one or the other comes up in conversation, especially on social media. When taught in person it's pretty easy to tell one from the other, so in this video we're going to get them side by side. First off it is really easy to see how and why they get confused when you're just dealing with words and not looking at actual examples. One is actually often called the stitch without a name. So mysterious and hardly helpful right? The other does seem to have a name but it's not in English, so when someone tries to ask about the nameless stitch the name of the other stitch comes up as a possible answer. But on social media answers range all over the place contradicting each other and leaving the uninitiated none the wiser. Quick top tip if anyone in a conversation about these stitches links to a Burnley and Trowbridge stitch tutorial on YouTube follow that lead. But even the good folks at B&T are constantly learning and updating and revising the information that they publish. In fact one of the stitches we're talking about in this video just got a name tweak recently on their website too. But back to the question, a stitch without a name huh? Amongst all the answers to that question one you'll invariably see pop up is this one. I'm not going to try to pronounce it because my French is really awful. And then someone may link to a lovely diagram showing how this is done in costume close-up. And when you read the text well you can see why people seize on this French name stitch as proof that the stitch with no name did in fact have a name. Except we're talking about two different things apples and oranges. These aren't so much stitches but construction techniques both without its own name in English written down in the period. The fact is one got recorded by Dittaro in French in the period the other did also get recorded but in the early 19th century and in Swedish. This is probably due in part to the fact that everyday clothing construction techniques in Nordic countries had tended to follow Germanic traditions not French ones. However both of these techniques are well represented in 18th century extents made in England. Both are construction techniques that join together separate pieces of fabric. Both neatly and quickly enclose all raw edges. Both were used continuously both before, during, and after the 18th century in men's tailoring. But for women's wear one fell out of use with the innovation of the Mantua in the late 17th century. So during the golden age of Mantua-based outer garments when gown bodices were folded and pleated but not cut this one technique wasn't really needed or used. However it emerged very dramatically in the third quarter of the 18th century with the arrival of seamed back gowns. Starting more or less with the pollinés and gaining traction and becoming absolutely rampant in quarterback gowns like the Italian gowns, the redding goes and an increasing assortment of curvy shaped gowns of the 1780s the 1790s and beyond. And when you look at how this technique works what it does then the fall and then rise in its usage totally makes sense. Most conveniently gowns constructed this way almost always also contain the other stitch. So we have two period correct and contemporaneous 18th century techniques together in one place. So I think seeing these together in one garment may help you remember how to if not exactly remember their names at least tell them apart and know when to use which. So let's start with the one that truly has no name in the period start with each piece let's call them bodice back pieces and arrange the fashion fabric and the lining line them up wrong sides together turn the seam allowances in towards each other so that the raw edges are tucked inside arrange the other piece that you're going to call about bodice back piece that's going to be joined to it the same way then bring all four pieces together with all the folded edges pointing up and flush with each other make sure the fashion fabric layers are on the inside so these layers for the two pieces are laying right sides together and the linings are on the outside secure your thread by drawing the needle up through the inside of the fold of the lining furthest away from you bring the needle out of that fold slightly to the side towards the fashion fabric of that same bodice piece then direct the needle towards you through the folds of the three layers of fabric coming out on the very outside of the lining layer that's facing you feel away at an angle and stitch back through all the folded layers except the lining layer you've just stitched through this creates a little whip over that folded over lining edge and this completes one stitch stitches are generally counted from one side as you work not full so think of a stitch as one complete cycle you go through the fabric or the fabric layers in one direction and return to the same position but advanced along the stitching line and this is one stitch so once you've carried through stitching like this first away from you at an angle and then back towards you at an angle each time hopping over the first fold folded edge and then coming through the remaining three carry on to the end of your seam now have two pieces of your bodice joined together if you're making a quarterback gown you'll have two more seams just like this to complete you'll start with one down the middle and then one seam to each side of it now bear in mind the side seams that join the back of the bodice to the bodice front is constructed differently those seams are fitting points and they may need to be adjusted or altered over the lifetime of the garment however this seaming stitch that you've just done is super strong it's as strong as any back stitch which you may find if you ever have to unpick one once your bodice is constructed then the other nameless stitch is what we see most typically used for all the outer edges so all around the neckline down the center front edges and around the bottom bodice edges up to the point where the bodice is joined to the skirt so here's that stitch this secures the lining inside the fashion fabric in a way that lets the bodice lie smoothly over the stays without letting the lining sag out and show you're only working one piece not joining it to another so this is a finishing technique not an assembly technique you start in a similar way you turn the seam allowances in for both your fashion fabric and your lining but this time fold the lining in just a little bit more so that the folded edge is offset against the folded edge of the fashion fabric this offset is small but does need to allow for the stitching to do its job so aim for at least an eighth of an inch but no more than quarter of an inch bring the needle up through the folded edge of the lining insert the needle through the fashion fabric through both layers of the fold so right to the outside taking a small stitch say two to three threads just above the folded edge of the lining where you can see it bring the needle back through the fashion fabric at an angle and then straight through the folded edge of the lining all in one smooth stroke at the same angle through all the layers of both folds coming out towards you and having advanced a longer stitching line this is one stitch the spacing for your stitching should be proportional to how far the stitch line is from the very outside edge of the fashion fabric so when viewed from the outside right side up you'll see short lines of stitching marching along at the same approximate interval as the distance they are from the edge let's go back to names obviously if we're trying to use historical names there's a lot of scope for uncertainty and confusion so for anyone starting out today in 18th century historical sewing since we're not trained from the ground up by period mantua makers but most often are relying on printed materials and online tutorials it's helpful if we know how others in our communities today are talking about what they do we see a variety of terms used to identify and clarify while trying not to veer into this tangled linguistic mystery of the past so is a method of putting in a lining in larkin and smith patterns it's called an underhand hem and you can kind of see that makes sense i've also seen historical patterns referred to it as an edge stitch or sometimes even a top stitch but with top stitch especially be aware that that just refers to the appearance of the end result it doesn't actually give you a clue as to how it's been done or what it does we have similar issues with the phrase prick stitch it kind of tells you what it looks like when you're done but not how to do it the other stitch the truly nameless seeming stitch and that is what bernie and trobridge are now calling this is the nameless seeming stitch in the american duchess guide to 18th century dress making they're calling it an english stitch that name is probably derived from abby cox's observations in english gowns that she studied i'll post a link to her blog about that in the description below at the heart of the uncertainties about names is the fact that mantra making in england was not documented into sewing manuals the skill set was taught in a practical setting so does on the job so to speak where an apprentice was given a specific task and taught how to do that one thing possibly with a variety of options that might come into play depending on the textile the end result was a trained skilled tradeswoman who when she needed to hem a skirt knew which stitch would work best and when she needed to hem a bodice front she knew an entirely different stitch that worked best for that and if she happened to do millinery then hem might mean one of a number of different things depending on the item being hemmed and what part of that item was being worked perhaps every technique did have its name that was used between workers in a shop but if that was the case it seems the distinctions and specific instructions or methods were not captured in writing in the period in any way that's meaningful and unambiguous for us today the only consistent record these mantra makers left is the garments they made some of which survive to be studied today and the study of extents reveals just how ingenious and varied some of these techniques were while others were remarkably uniform across time and geography but those are topics for future videos


Hey everyone, welcome to our horror night playing Resident Evil Revelations 2. I believe I have a shout out to Matthew Campos. I believe he is the one who purchased this game for us at Nintendo Prime. I have never played Resident Evil Revelations 2, I have only played the original Resident Evil Revelations on 3DS and I think on Wii U, there was a beginning cutscene thing and this is where it plopped me, so I don't remember how to play Resident Evil games, I don't know what's going on, I can't remember the name of the character. This is going to be fun. I've got some breadsticks here and my kick of energy, I don't know how long we're going to be streaming for tonight, I do have a lot of stuff I need to get to work wise, but I wanted to make sure I got the streaming so I am starting it a little early tonight. We're just going to head into it and see what happens. I have no idea how to play this game, it has been so long since I played a Resident Evil game. Zero experience with this one. I'm just exploring nooks and crannies, feel like I need a weapon or something. Things are going to get dicey, it's like a dodge technique. I don't see any weapons or anything I could pick up. I guess just follow the flashing light, okay so that's how you sprint. You guys can hear, I can't even hear the, I've lost my remote so I can't turn out my TV, I can't even hear what's happening. Actually I have an idea, I have an idea to actually fix it. I always forget that I have a mixer, I can just plug the audio into my mixer. Give me a second here, because I want to hear the game audio. It is what it is. I guess I'm not going to plug the audio into the mixer, because I realized if I plug it into the mixer you guys are going to hear it. So we're just going to go and go ahead and play the game. I can't really hear the audio for the game. Man, I really, hold on, I got a, I got one spot I could check for the remote. One second. Nope, I guess just no luck for me, no. Oh, you know. Oh, we're right about the game audio. One second. I can't plug it in through my mixer.  Sometimes I question how smart I am. Today, not very smart. Hey, now I can hear game audio. All right, keep forgetting that I can just plug my headphone directly into my TV. I hear that creepy sound in the background. Now here we go. Now let's get this bad boy going. Oh, snap. It's a lot of dead bodies. That's what it is. Hey, Derpy Mon, hey, Jack, Duo, Pickle Gaming, Justin Carter, Elizabeth Zachary, and Fire Soul. Welcome. Oh, creepy. I still don't have a weapon. Dude, the sounds in this game are so creepy. Is she coming? Okay, she's behind me. Oh, look, fresh blood. Did the fly buzzing in my headphones? It's like, it sounds like the fly is buzzing around my head. That's really cool. That's a cool sound. I still haven't found a weapon, though, which that worries me. I'm not having any sort of weapon yet. Oh, there's a weapon finally. So why? All right. Flashlight. Now here we go. Okay, it's a melee attack. You know what I mean? I have a weapon, which means there's probably some zombies or something coming up here. I have to go try to break the glass. Those participating experiments are the following rules. Subjects must be monitored 24 hours a day. Monitor the sensor for any changes, log status every 10 minutes, dispose of the subject showing signs of abnormality immediately. I'm not actually spooked. I mean, the sound, I'm just saying, they did a very good job with the sound profile. I'm not actually spooked yet. I've played Resident Evil Revelations. Oh, handgun ammo. Okay. So there's a handgun somewhere. I don't see it in here, though. Is this our first encounter? Hey lady, use your flashlight. Give me a hand, Moira. Oh, that sounds awesome. Oh, hey. Yeah, baby. Woo. Did we kill him? No, we didn't even kill him. Dang it. I got my heart pumping a little bit. There's someone else alive, someone here. Just push the dang thing. Come on. All right, we gotta do some more exploring. No, here we go. Hey, man, you Gonzalez. Uh, no special rules tonight. Just, you know, same old, same old Donations and whatnot for shots and blah, blah, blah. All right, let's uh Try to remember what I'm doing here. What was there anything about there? Pretty sure that chick is dead. I mean, I got a handgun ammo, but no handgun. She's still alive, huh? Probably prescripted. That's why she's probably still alive. Most of you in here. Wish I could control the dang flashlight. Here we go. There's gotta be something about. Okay, here we go. Here we go. Is the guy right on the other side? Is he on the other side? Oh, lovely. Oh, man. Tinnate, lead a goat. We are friends on your switch. Nice, man. My favorite horror movie. Oh, man. Mm, there's, mm. Mm, experiment. Okay. Don't have the key for that yet.  Someone's trying to play a game. You want to play a game? Oh, the Saw movies are so good. Open up. Come on. Okay, there's an herb in there. I gotta get in there. Can't open that door. Okay. Still don't even have a basic handgun yet. Oh, it's locked from the other side. Of course it is. Why wouldn't it be? I feel like, I feel like something's about to get real right now. I have no idea, Santino official. I've never played Resident Evil Revelations 2, so all I know is I'm getting, I know I'm about to get something about to happen. Something's about to go down right now. I've not played a horror game in so long. Woohoo, Ruby. Sapphire. Woohoo. Look a co-op. All right, here we go. Of course it does. There's dead bodies and stuff everywhere. Hey, a gun. Switch characters. Something's about to come at us. Okay. Windows. Stop it. All right. I don't see the key. I did look up. Okay, sure. I can't see that. Geez, I couldn't see it. Oh. Oh, this is going to be good. Headshot. Geez, I used almost all my ammo. Is she dead? She's dead, isn't she? Well, that didn't go well. That did not go well. I'm not as good as some more ammo. Where is she? Is she this way? Okay. Hold the equivalent to R1 to heal. I don't know what that, I have no idea what that means, manual. I don't, I have no idea what that means. I'm supposed to go up there. Okay. How are you alive? Yeah, dude, I'm holding. There's no healing happening. There is no healing at this point in the game. I have to get herbs and stuff. Oh, there's an herb in here. Geez. Oh, that did not go well. All right. I used the herb. I only have one herb. Well, I used it. I have no herbs now. Man, my aim is terrible. This is Resident Evil Revelations 2. It says on a remake. Oh, you are lucky, lady. It's this. This is Dodge. I know how to dodge.  Guys, I never claimed I'm good at video games. My heart's poundin', though. Hey, I only have two bullets in the shotgun, so. You need a gun too, Mora. You really don't. Sorry. I don't do firearms. Not after what happened. Maybe we can find you. No, I'll just be on flashlight duty or something. It's fine. I think there's something shiny there, but I can't make it out. Let me hit it with a flashlight. Crowbar? Lunt weapons. I can do blunt weapons. Save your ammo and use your knife for breaking boxes. Hey, Zach Rassunni. I have a blunt object. Can I break any of these boxes? What about this box? Shotgun ammo. Heck yeah. Can't break those. Okay. I saw that, right? Yeah, I saw it. How do I just shotgun ammo? All right. Here we go. What the f- Is quoting poetry? Are you afraid? You can tell me, taught.  Is this Saw? Oh, Edward Norton. Thank you so much, my man. Getting us started. Got an apple pie shot for you here. All right, back at it. Here we go. Thank you so much for your support. Detention center. Okay. So, does that make sense? This looks like a way out. Oh, puzzle. Okay. Oh, look, a spinning machine to death. I feel like I am in a Saw movie right now. Let me guess. Locked. Not locked. Let's take one home. Look at this machine. There's something stuck in it. The power must be off. Maybe there's a switch? Turniket? Okay. You can upgrade your exchanger weapons at the workbench. Okay, it's locked. I'll give you a boost. See if you can climb up. Okay. Here we go. Who would the cursor define the unlock point? The position unlock point can determine the color of the cursor and the controller's vibrator. A hint for unlock point is given on the first box. Handgun ammo case. Okay. This is intense. Don't think we're getting outside. Any time soon right now. So do I. Just one. There's more coming, aren't there? Dear mama, I don't know if you'll get to read this, but I need you. They call us experiments.  What is this? What is happening? It hurts so bad. Every day I'm scared. What's happening? I smile off these stuff. Oh, that's sad. That's sad. I don't care what the Discord is doing, man. Sometimes I feel like there's a disconnect between me and some of the people on Discord. It's a stream night. Every night I stream, I feel like they're doing their own thing.  Go do your own thing. I don't know. It's just a personal feeling I have. Because even in my other live streams, everyone else is playing Splatoon. Anytime I'm playing a non-multiplayer game, it's really weird. But you know what? It is what it is. People can do what they want. I am having a good time playing Resident Evil right now. I freaked the hell out. And it's not even that scary yet. Oh, here we go. Yeah, you're here for the stream. Exactly, man. Oh, hey, look.  And you will continually take damage. Use a tourniquet from the item screen to stop the bleeding. Yeah, baby, shots. Here we go. Cheers, Albert. This is getting intense. This is getting intense. Here we go. I thought I was going to die. Good thing I had a tourniquet, huh? Switch back to the handgun. Hey, L and ZR. Okay. So now I have a sub weapon, L and ZR. Okay, there's a key. Rusty key. Hey, nah, I get it. Oh, big bully. Big jelly 57. Big jelly 57. Here we go. The apple pie I'm for you, man. Thank you so much for your one dollar. Your one dollar sumo chat. All right. What's this? Her icon. Display is separated. Um, the icon will flash red if your partner is low on health. The icon will indicate the character's switching is not allowed. Man, here we go. Ow, big jelly 57. Thank you so much. I got your apple pie, man. Rocky Rococo. These are actually my kid's leftover breadsticks from dinner. Oh, hey. Well, that was fun. Well, that was fun. That should help. Oh, oh, yeah, that should help. Here we go. Running low on ammo. What the heck? What is that? I'm so low on ammo. Oh, big jelly again. Big jelly again. Just hit me with those one dollars, man. Hey, man, I appreciate it. Hit me with those one bucks, man. It's all good. Here we go. Oh, man. Big jelly 101. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Run, run, run, run. Yeah, I'm done. Oh, my God. That did not go well. Man, I have almost no ammo. Another one of those big guys. I know I got to run through the flamethrower, I'm sure. Okay. All right. See if we're ready for this. All right, here we go. Can I change the difficulty mode? Your body is too small, mate. Man, I don't even know how many, how many people are watching the streamer now? Let me look as she carries. Let me shrink her down a bit. Okay, 18. Watch, yes, not too bad. 17 for a horror game. You forgot to take the shot. What shot was I supposed to take? I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't take, I took the, I took the shot. The one that, oh, did I forget to take her? Play something else. Mr. Memes, that's not happening, baby. Not right now anyways. Here's what I can tell you. I have one other game.  But we probably got this game right here rocking for like another hour. At least.  Because that's going to be a separate stream from this one. Hi, bud. Goodbye, bud. And reload that. I have one bullet left in there, two in there. I do have my sub weapon I suppose I could use. I have no idea if it's 30 or 60. I assume 30. But I honestly don't know. Okay, come on. Let me get in. Let me get in. Let me get in. Let me get in. Let me get in. I am not doing good right now. I'm not, oh man. God, I don't know what to do. I don't have enough ammo. I mean, obviously I need to use my sub weapon better than I did. And I need to run through the flamethrower. I just... I'm having fun so far.  These survival horror games. It took me like two years to beat a... I could turn the flamethrower? Well, well now. That changes everything. The more you know, huh? The more you know, the flamethrower can be turned. Who knew? Who knew? Oh, and he got a free shot on me. FU too, man. Load my gun. Get that gear cog in here. All right, big jelly. Hold on. Hold on. After I die here, I'll do that shot. So, how do I turn it? I don't know how to... I gotta figure out how to turn that thing. That's too intense for me to take on otherwise. Woo! Thank you, big jelly. Got your shot in there. Hey, man. Later.  It's been fun, man. Oh, come on. Got this. We got this. Never give up. Never surrender. Never give up. Never surrender! Uh, I'm probably gonna totally give up and surrender. I can't give up. I gotta at least get past this part. So, open this up. We got a little friend right here. He's done. Reload the gun. Drop the gear. Okay. The proof on this bottle? The apple pie is, uh, 21% alcohol. 21%. Which for a dollar shot, that's not... I mean, that's pretty good. Most, most buck shots out there, like if you go to a bar, it's like, I have a bullet left. Yeah, baby. Mm-hmm. Ooh.  Love it. Love it. Oh, there was a little frame drop there. Ooh. A radio tower. Maybe we can send an SOS. Yeah, I'm sure. First off, I have no ammo. Well, maybe in here. Could use your help. Oh, that's one of those. Oh, I saw a customization kit. One bullet. Let's make it happen. Yeah. Yeah, baby.   Man, that lady likes to drop out bombs. Bitches in bones and granny swears. Love it. All right, let's explore in a little bit. I need to pick up some ammo somewhere. I made it here with one bullet. Actually, a quick load should probably be on shotgun. So? No. It's dead. You stay here. I'm going to go check it out. Oh. Yeah, we're splitting up. That's good. That's good. Me and my one bullet, we're going to take on the world. Orcas and I were taken here against our will. I don't know where. Baby woman is talking to us. Some kind of monsters. To kill the others is Moira's burden. Oh, of course it's an island. Hey, that was section one, apparently. Record achieved. Oh, that's teamwork. Sure. Miles will upload my one hour and 11 minute clear time. 81% accuracy. I'll take that. I got an S-rank on that. To me, four retries, though. What's the skill settings? Oh, man. Oh, hey. We had another dollar. Thank you. Hey, a boat. Now we get to start with him. Turn on subs. What are you talking about? I don't know what you're talking about. Turn on subs. Might be ending the stream here. I do have a second game I am streaming tonight. I didn't really announce it. But we'll see here. Because I'm probably not going to have the time here to finish up the second one if I want to get my next game in. Now you stay by the boat. I've got some grown up stuff to attend to. But I'll come back for you later, OK? Better have the keys to the boat. Ho! Oh, subtitles for the game. OK, he barely brings any ammo. What is it?  Oh, I got better guns, though. I got a magnum, yes. And then a, OK. You know, at least he brought some weapons. That's my melee weapon, not just a knife. All right. I think that's where we're going to end this stream. I'm going to set up for the next game I'm going to be doing here in about a half hour. Believe it or not, it's not a Switch game, but it's a game I want to come to Switch. We will talk about it when we stream. See you guys in a little bit. Thanks for tuning in to this scary, scary. Oh, all right.


I want to share with you today about worship, about costly sacrifice, because that's what we find in these verses. And so we'll begin at verse one. I'll read to verse eight, and we'll get into our study this morning. John chapter 12, beginning at verse one. John writes, then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. And there they made him a supper. And Martha served, but Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. And then Mary took a pound of very costly oil of spignard, anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair, and the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him, said, why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 denarii and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief and had the money box. He used to take what was put in it. But Jesus said, let her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial. For the poor you have with you always, but me you do not have always. And so what I'll do is I'll lay a foundation again and we'll move through our study. I'll come to a place of application in just a moment, but as we look at this, notice how it says in verse one, then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany. So Jesus is in a village called Bethany. It was a small village. It was two miles outside of the city of Jerusalem. And in this small city, several of his disciples lived there, including Martha and Mary and Lazarus, as well as this man mentioned in scripture, a man by the name of Simon. Now according to Matthew chapter 26, verse six, Jesus is in the home of a man called Simon the leper. Now Simon was a former leper who had been cleansed of his leprosy. Now how do we know that? How do we know that he was a former leper? Well, when you read the Old Testament, you discover that if he were still a leper, he would not have had a home in town. According to the Old Testament book of Leviticus chapter 13, verse 46, a leper is unclean and he shall dwell alone. His dwelling shall be outside the camp. And so Jesus is in the city of Bethany where Lazarus was who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead. There they made him a supper. That supper is being made in the home of a man by the name of Simon. Now when it says in verse two, they made him a supper. It made me think as I was on my way to church today, how often you see in scripture Jesus sitting down for a meal. He seems to do that quite often. As a matter of fact, he did so quite often to the point where people said this man is a glutton because he would be invited to go to somebody's house and he would often go. You see it in Luke 7, verse 36 where it says one of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him. You see it in Luke 11, 37 where it says as he spoke a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. And then you see it in Luke 5, verses 29 and 30 where it says Levi gave him a great feast in his own house and there were a great number of tax collectors and others who sat down with him. Their scribes and the Pharisees complained against his disciples, saying why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners? So Jesus would be invited and very often he would go and he would go often enough for people to say this man is a glutton because he would go and he would have fellowship with people. When Jesus would go to meal very often it was in order that he might minister to people. In this particular case, the supper is being given to him and it would more than likely be for one of two or both of these reasons. One, it would be because Jesus had cleansed Simon who was a leper and thus Simon could very well be giving him a meal in gratitude or two. It may be because Jesus had recently raised a man by the name of Lazarus from the dead and thus they were given to him a meal in gratitude for the raising of Lazarus. In any case, thankfulness is always a mark of a genuine believer. Of all the people on the face of the earth we have the most to be thankful for.  How great is your goodness, how good you have been and how good you are being to us and how good you will be in the future. So we're thankful because of the incredible blessings God has made available to us. When you read your Bible you see that the Lord has made many benefits available to believers. For example in 1 Corinthians chapter one verses five through seven Paul said in everything you are enriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge even as the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you so that you come behind in no gift waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He said in 2 Corinthians 521 he has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. In Ephesians 1 verse three he said praise me to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. In Colossians 2 verse 10 you have been given the faithfulness in Christ who is the head over every power and authority. And in 2 Peter 1 verse three his divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. We've received it all. We've been washed by the blood. Our name is written in the Lamb's book of life. We have the power of the Holy Spirit resident within us. God has blessed us in many ways and because of his goodness towards us we are thankful to him.  It provokes us not only to worship him alone but it also provokes us to worship him with others of like mind. In Colossians 3 16 and 17 it says let the word of Christ dwell in you richly and all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord and whatever you do in word or deed do all in the name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God the Father through him. You see that's the lifestyle of the believer and so what we have here is an example of someone worshiping Jesus with a thankful heart and we can witness the reaction of those who do not value worship because we're gonna see a contrast between how Jesus responds to Mary and the things that Judas has to say in just a moment. Now it says in verse two again, there they made him a supper. Martha served Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table with him. Mary took a pound of very costly oil as spikner anointed the feet of Jesus, wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Now I want you to notice this note how he describes Martha and Mary. Martha is serving and Mary is worshiping Jesus. In Luke's Gospel we have a story of a supper that was given for Jesus. It's found in Luke 10, 38 through 42 and in that passage Luke records how that Jesus came to the home of Martha. Her brother was there Lazarus as well as her sister Mary. Martha was the older sister and you can picture this in your mind's eye. It was a large supper because you have Jesus, you have his disciples. So Jesus with his disciples that's 13 people. You have Mary and you have Lazarus that's two more that's 15 people then Martha that's a home that's filled with no less than 16 people. And so you have Martha and she's in the kitchen. As Martha's in the kitchen she's beginning to work and as she's working she's looking if you will through the door and she sees her sister and her sister is there seated at the feet of Jesus. And so as a big sister she begins to get angry and she's thinking what is she doing over there when she should be in here with me?   It's Thanksgiving, it's Easter, it's Christmas. We've got all these guests but I don't mind banging pots and pans by myself in here. It's my service as unto them and the Lord. No, what she does is she walks in and I can almost see her with her hands on her hips looking at Jesus, tapping her toe, looking at Mary who's just there doe-eyed looking at Jesus as he's speaking and then Martha can't take it anymore and she says don't you care? She speaks to Jesus that way. Don't you care that my sister is over there left me to do all of this by myself and then she says tell her to get up and help me. Now listen, when you're frustrated with the things of the Lord in life around you're gonna start lecturing God which is what Martha did. Martha began to tell God what to do. None of us again would ever do that to him but she sure did because she's so bad. So she goes in there and she does that and then what is it that Jesus does? You could almost picture Jesus in your mind's eye for a moment when I see him kind of smiling at her and kind of shaking his head a bit.  Now he goes whiner. No, Martha, Martha. You're careful, you're so over-careful about so many things.  Your mind is distracted by many things. But one thing is important and your sister has chosen the better part. What's the better part? The better part is this, worship before you serve because if you're serving and not worshiping you're gonna get upset with God eventually and blame others.  So he said one thing is necessary. She's chosen the better part. What was that? Sitting at his feet, hearing his words, being prepared and then serving with a good heart. So we've seen that in the past and that's how Luke described Martha and Mary. Martha was serving and Mary was worshiping. It's interesting that Martha learned her lesson because you don't see a word of complaint here now from Martha at all. You just see that she's serving the Lord and you see that Mary is still doing the same. She is still worshiping Jesus Christ and that's what we're looking at here. We're seeing that Martha is still serving but she's doing this with a proper heart. You see it's important to understand that service is an expression of worship. Here's something for you. Always remember this. What you worship is what you serve. What you worship is what you're willing to sacrifice for and you will serve. How do we know that? Well remember the story again in Luke how that Jesus was being tempted by the tempter and it says in Luke chapter four verses five through eight that the devil led him up to a high place and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world and he said to him, I will give you all their authority and splendor for it has been given to me and I can give it to anyone I want to. So if you worship me, it will all be yours. Jesus answered, it is written, worship the Lord your God and serve him only. Worship and service are always combined and what you worship, you will serve and that's why the enemy said worship me because if you fall and worship me and I can give you the kingdoms you don't have to go to the cross, worship me. Jesus said, no, you worship God alone. Why? Because you serve God alone and so whatever it is you worship you find yourself serving. Worship of God will always be revealed to you, service to God as well as to mankind. That's because the Christian faith is expressed by actions or it's not real. In James 2.26 it says as a body without the spirit is dead so faith without works is dead. Now it's interesting again in verse two how John says that Lazarus was one of those who sat at the table. That's a subtle picture of the physical proof of his resurrection from the dead. He said he's alive, he's seated at a table and he's eating. Again there's probably around 17 people there that are being served. So you're seeing an act of generosity on the part of Simon in a similar way that we've seen acts of generosity and we'll see one in a moment on the part of Mary. It says that this is taking place, verse three. Mary took a pound of very costly oil, a spike nod, anointed the feet of Jesus, wiped his feet with her hair and the house was filled with a fragrance of the oil. I wanna share with you some elements of worship that we see here in this verse here. I wanna show you some things. The first thing I'll point out is it speaks concerning the spike nod. Spike nod was an aromatic herb imported from Arabia, India or the Far East. It was a costless, anointing oil of antiquity and was sold throughout the Roman Empire where it demanded a price that put it beyond any but the very wealthy. Mary had bought a flask of it containing 12 ounces and anointed Jesus. So it's an expression of thankfulness for raising Lazarus and in a heart of worship, she anoints him. Now notice in verse three, John says, she poured the costly perfume upon the feet of Jesus. But when you cross-reference that with Mark 14, 3, it reads that she poured the ointment upon his head. The anointing of the head was a distinction that was conferred upon a guest of honor. So combining Mark and John, we can see what she did.  And in doing this, she became a model of genuine worship. Her worship's an expression of love for Jesus and we can learn from it. So let me share with you a few of the elements of worship. First, notice with me that true worship of God is directed to Jesus and not others and not to anyone else. She didn't walk up to the disciples and anoint them. She didn't take this gift that she was giving to Jesus and spread it out amongst the others. She centered her worshipful attention on the one who deserves it. She gave her worship to Jesus. We're not called to worship anybody else. We're not called to worship other people. We're not called to worship other saints. We're not called to worship anybody other than God himself through Jesus Christ. And you see this in scripture in the book of Revelation when John, the revelator is speaking to an angel and he begins to fall to worship and the angel, the angel says, rise to your feet. You don't worship me, you worship God. Or when in Acts chapter 10, when Cornelius is sent for the apostle Peter and Peter enters into his house and Cornelius begins to give him worship and Peter says, rise to your feet. You don't worship me, I'm just a man. In scripture, you see that worship is always directed to God. And the first thing we see here is that in your giving, in your worshiping of the Lord, in your sacrifice, it's always to Jesus Christ. And she's not anointing the disciples. She's anointing him because he's the one giving up his life for the salvation of the world. You see the anointing, Jesus is called Jesus the Christ, the word Christ that speaks of the anointed one. And so his anointing as Messiah, this is a picture of the fact that he is our Messiah. And so she's anointing him. We'll look at that in a moment, a little bit further. But second, true worship is always founded upon willing sacrifice. Mary took a Roman pound, which was 12 ounces, and it was very costly oil of spikenard. When you look at verse five, it says that its value was 300 denarii. 300 denarii is equal to one year of revenue. Her gift was very expensive. But to her, he was well worth it because she loved him. Here's a point for you, what you value again, you will sacrifice for. And I see that people stand in line for all kinds of things. They'll stand in line for a movie. They wanna go see the latest Star Wars or whatever. They stand in line for that, sometimes for hours. They'll stand in line for concerts. They stand in line for plays. They stand in line for restaurants. They'll stand in line to buy tickets for sporting events. I saw a picture that I thought was humorous, but sad in some ways. It was a picture of people at a football game and they had their tarps over them and they were covered with snow. And the entire stadium is filled with people with snow on them as they're watching a football game and then they had a picture next to it of an empty church. What you sacrifice for is what you worship. And what you're willing to do for that demonstrates your heart. And so people will stand in line for hours for a lot of things. I was walking with my wife Marie. I was in purgatory. I was at a mall. And we were walking and as we were walking together, there was this line of people that went for a little bit of a distance and it was a little after 10 and as we were walking I said, I wonder what that is and it was by an Apple store and it was people who were standing in line to get the latest iteration of the iPhone. And I was watching them on their iPhones, texting people that they're about to buy a new phone and I thought, how interesting it is that they will stand in line just to be the first in their group to have a phone. They are willing to do anything if it has value to them. That's how it works. And so people will do the most amazing things for something that they want. There are those who don't understand that and they don't realize that in the act of worship and giving in the way that she is that it's actually doing something. I was taught that giving breaks my old nature's desire for self and in giving I become more like the Lord who gave. And so Mary's an example of someone whose gratitude is revealed by extravagance. Her worship was costly. There's an Old Testament story. It's found in 2 Chronicles chapter 21 where God had commanded David the king to build an altar to him, to the Lord. He was to build the altar on the threshing floor of a man named Ornon. And David came to Ornon and he told him that he wanted to pay full price for the property. And Ornon at first refused to sell it but told David, I'll just give it to you. And David's response is instructive. In 2 Chronicles 21, 24, King David said to Ornon, no, but I will surely buy it for the full price for I will not take what is yours for the Lord nor offer burnt offerings with that which costs me nothing. And there are people who offer the Lord things that cost them nothing. I remember hearing a man who was rejoicing because his cow had given birth to twin calves. And someone said, wow, that's amazing. What are you gonna do? You have twins. And he said, well, I'm gonna give one to the Lord and I'm gonna keep one for myself. A few days later, the same man came walking by his friend and this man with the twin calves looked very sad. And his friend says, why are you so sad? And the man shook his head and he said, the Lord's calf died. There's there are people. I'll let you think about that for a minute. The Lord's calf died. I will give to the Lord nothing that cost me nothing. That's the whole point. Hers was extravagant. It cost much and David had the same heart. He said, I will not offer the Lord burnt offerings without which cost me nothing. You see, proper worship of God can be costly but it is given with joy. In 2 Corinthians 9, verse seven, let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity for God loves a cheerful giver. A third thing we see in verse three is she wiped his feet with her hair. Genuine worship to the Lord is humble. When she let down her hair, that was the action of a house servant and a woman would not let her hair down in public. In her taking her hair down, she was humbling herself. It was an act of humiliation. Psalm 95 verse six says, come let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our maker. So true worship is always humble. And then fourth, the house was filled with a fragrance of the oil. Genuine worship produces a noticeable fragrance. Real worship cannot help but be noticed. You see, we don't worship the Lord to draw attention to ourself. We worship the Lord to give glory to him. We don't worship so that people look at us as we worship.   And so that's how you worship the Lord. Well, as this is taking place, verse four, one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, who would betray him said, why was this fragrant oil not sold for 300 Danari and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor, but because it was a thief and had the money box and he used to take what was put in it. Judas spoke out against Mary's extravagant offering. His heart was blinded by greed, but he pretended to care for the poor. And he revealed his heart when he made it clear he considered her worship a waste. It's interesting note with me how he couched his greed in charitable concern. He claims that the oil could have been sold, the revenue given to the needy. Well, Judas in his greed considered her worship useless. It was a waste of money. As a treasurer, he knew how much he could have sold it for. He could have stolen that money. This is a man who consistently robbed God and had no regret and had no shame. And if you're thinking that that happens only then, it's happened to this day. Even here on this campus, people have stolen trees on the church's campus. Think about that. I mean, we've seen when palm trees were planted, a dirt trail where somebody had dug out the palm tree, dragged it to their car or truck and threw it in there. And they say it's palm trees. Hard to believe. Rose bushes. When we planted rose bushes, we came in, they're gone. We've had purses stolen. So men, watch your purse. And we've had people go to the mailbox and take out things from the mailbox and white out the name and cash it for themselves. We've had people break in and steal computers. We've had them steal cars off the parking lot, which is one of the reasons we have people out there. They have stolen copper off of the lot when we were doing some building. They shoplifted the bookstore. We've caught them stealing bibles. Read Exodus 20, thou shalt not steal. But now they're doing that. You know, we were doing some work on Maple Street years ago when we were in Ontario.  And then he came in and he said, I said, what are you doing? He said, oh, I was just helping them load the window frames. I said, why? We're not having anything done to the windows. Some guy had come onto the lot and one of my assistants helped him steal it.  I can't believe it. I can't believe it. But they do it. They do it. We have caught them with a copy boxes in the parking lot, breaking them open to steal. So it isn't just Judas. It isn't just Judas.  And Judas was one just like that. Now, that attitude that you see with Judas here is an attitude that had been shared with others and influences. See, our attitudes and the things we say and believe can influence others to think in the same way. And they had, the men had been influenced by him. We see that in Matthew 26, eight and nine. It says when his disciples saw it, they were indignant saying, why this waste for this fragrant oil might have been sold for much and given to the poor. That's because Judas had so much influence that he provoked that. But John tells us it wasn't that he cared for the poor. He had the money box. He was the treasure. He would take what was in it. He was calculating his loss. And he's thinking, we're gonna sell that for 300 denarii, 300 days wages.  So as this is taking place, verse seven, Jesus said, let her alone. She has kept this for the day of my burial for the poor you have with you always. But me, you do not have always. She may have understood the nearness of his death. It's possible that she could see what his beloved disciples were refusing to see. You see, someone wrote it is normal. It was normal to embalm the dead with ointments and spices. Jesus suggests that the time of his death and burial were near. And that Mary had kept this ointment for such a purpose. Because she would not be able to make use of it at the time of his burial, she embalmed his body with it now beforehand. You see, the disciples did not want to embrace the fact of Jesus' impending death. So when Jesus would speak concerning his death, they often resisted what he was saying. And it would seem that Mary accepted what the others would not receive. His men didn't want to think of his death, but the Spirit moved her to anoint him. Notice in verse eight how it says, the poor you have with you always, but me you do not have always. He wasn't saying that we shouldn't care for the poor. In Mark 14 verse seven, you have the poor with you always whenever you wish you may do them good, but me you do not have always. His simple point is genuine love for the poor always begins with the love for him. If you want to do it right, you give in the name of Christ because God has moved in you to such a degree that you want to give to others who are in need. And that's why he says the poor will always be there and you can do good to them, but you need to remember I won't be with you. Why? Because he's going to the cross. I won't physically be with you in this manner. I'm going to the cross. You can always give to the poor, but this was done because I'm soon to die and that was the point he was making. Now in the end, our works are remembered by God. Jesus remembers both her works as well as the works of Judas. In Mark 14, eight and nine, it says she has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her. She's done what she could. She prepared me for my burial. Jesus was saying, I am the Lamb of God. I'm the one who takes away the sin of the world. So he's saying, I remember her works and even as we study this passage, she's remembered, but Judas is remembered too because he was a thief and he used to steal from the treasury. And he was a person who couldn't take the rebuke of Christ because in Mark 14, verse 10, after Jesus said that, Judas Iscariot, one of the 12, went to the chief priest to betray him to them. If I can't get the 300 denarii, I'll get 30 pieces of silver. I'm going to make something off of this man one way or another. If I can't get the money, that would have been my profit by stealing it out of the money box that I'll sell him out. And when Jesus convicted him, when Jesus said something to him in front of all, his pride got the best of him. His heart was hardened in his rejection of Christ and he went out and made plans to betray him. And that's exactly what he did. Now I want to bring an application here. The precious ointment found its true value when it was poured out. There are guys who like cars. I happen to like cars too. They'll buy a car, but they don't buy it to drive. They buy it to store. And so in a way, it's their own possession, but it's not really being used. It's not even, it's not something they drive. They just have it in a garage or store it somewhere. And so it may have value, but the value is really, it's in a personal way. There are things that we have that actually reveal their value in their use. How can I put that? Well, in Mark 14, verse three, it says, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on his head. As long as that oil was in the flask, it wasn't useful. It wasn't being used. Let me share something with you that may help some of you today. Let me bring an application. In 2 Corinthians 4-7, we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. The most valuable vessel is the broken one. The most valuable vessel in the hand of God will always be the broken one. Because when the vessel is broken, the oil will be poured out. If you wanna be used by the Lord, you will be broken. And there are many people who don't wanna be broken. They don't wanna believe or trust in a God that will break them. They don't wanna be that vessel that is shattered. They don't want the excellence of the power to come out of them. They wanna hold it. They wanna keep it. They wanna have a car that's in a garage that they can point to, but they don't want it to be used. And one of the things I learned about a long time ago is listen carefully. If you wanna be used by God, you will be broken by God. And I have shared this with you before about a man by the name of Jacob in the Old Testament. And Jacob, the name Jacob means sneaky. The name Jacob means supplanter. And when you read concerning this man, Jacob, you see that he was a supplanter and a sneaky man. And one day he encounters the angel of the Lord, which you know to be Jesus in pre-incarnation. And he encounters him and the scripture says that Jacob wrestled with the angel all night. And when the sun began to dawn and the sun began to rise the Bible says that the angel touched Jacob in the hip and he crippled him. He withered the muscle in his hip. And when he did that, he broke that man. God will break you. God cripples. There are times when God will break you. And what happened in his case is after this took place God said to him, you have been called Jacob but your name shall be called Israel. The name Jacob, supplanter and sneaky, the name Israel prints with God.  You will have wounds in your life that you will walk with a limp. But it's that limp that reminds you of where you met God. And if you wanna be deep with God you will go through deep things. And what the enemy has been implanting in the minds of people for centuries and it's here in our society now is if it costs, if it's painful, it's not worth it. But I have discovered the deeper knowledge that I have with the Lord has been when I've walked through the valley of the shadow of death because at that point I have found that I will fear no evil for he is with me. That's how it works. You go through tough times to discover I am not alone. He is with me. Jesus is praying now I'm alone and yet I'm not alone for you are with me. God does not forsake you. He walks with you. He carries you. He brings you through to the other side and he blesses you. But if you wanna keep that treasure in a vessel that's not broken, you will not know the depth of God. So you have to ask yourself, how much do I wanna know him? How deeply do I wanna go with him? If you wanna be used by the Lord all you need to do is say here in my Lord, send me. And you will discover that there will be painful times in your journey where you'll be so seemingly alone you'll be in your room sometimes and you'll be saying God I don't know what to do and that's where God will meet you in the most powerful way and that's where you'll say I know my God is alive. I know my God is with me. My God shall never forsake me. My God shall never leave me. He is with me. He carries me. He is my rod. He is my strength. He is my shield. He is my defender. He is with me. You gotta understand that because we're living in a time when people are not willing to take that step. They wanna be blessed as they're sitting on the couch playing Game Boy. But God says you need to get into the battle and there is a battle right now and you are gonna be wounded.    It always does until you realize that this is just part of the way that God fashions me into the image of Christ. He is the wounded healer. You will be wounded too. The vessel needs to be broken. It has to be because when she broke that vessel, the oil poured out and anointed Christ and you carry within you the excellence of the treasure and God says do you wanna be used? I'll break you. And you'll cry and you'll hurt and you'll wonder and you'll say why. And the Lord says cause I'm purifying you because you say you wanna serve me. I'm purifying you.  You're on holy ground. You haven't understood that yet. You're on holy ground. Oh there he is Lord send him. No Isaiah said here my Lord send me. Have you asked yourself why you may not be used right now the way you wanna be used? Have you yielded yourself to him? Have you said God here am I? I don't know what you wanna do but I do know this whatever it is it's good. And I know your plans are good and I wanna be in the center of your plans. And Lord if it takes a break in my life, break me Lord because not only do you break but you restore. Not only do you work in somebody's life so that there are things that are removed through fire but you also heal.  And a lot of people today will not take that journey. No I just wanna cruise through. But you know what?  I wanna be used by God. And that means that sometimes you're on the firing line. Sometimes it's like you're walking around with a bullseye in your chest and there are people that just and it feels that way. And you go and say what's going on Lord? I just asked I wanna serve you but Lord I'm having a tough time in my marriage. I'm having a tough time with my kids. I'm having a difficult time in my neighborhood. It just seems like the more closely I want it to be with you the more things seem to be and why wouldn't it? You see, any dead fish can float down a stream. It takes a living fish to go against it. And when you stand up and say there's a line in the sand by God's grace here I stand then expect opposition. You're not gonna be spoken well of. Jesus said what went to you when all men speak well of you? For thus they did for the false prophets. Now when you stand up and you say what is true about God, his kingdom, how to be saved. Even the church itself will come against you.   Pastor Chuck wasn't like that and anybody who says that didn't know Chuck. They didn't know him. Chuck would tell you direct. My pastor would tell you direct. That was how he was. People didn't know him that way I did and a lot of us did. Chuck was direct. Why, because he was sold out and he wanted soldiers next to him. Not people who wouldn't stand up and fight. He wanted men next to him and I wanted to be a man of God and I've been learning for all of these years I have never given to God anything that he hasn't blessed me many times over in return. You cannot out give God. God gives greatly. It's like that little girl who went to her grandfather and her grandfather said honey you can take some of this candy I got it and he had a bag and he held it out. He said just reach in and take it and she says now I'd rather you give me some grandpa and he says okay he sticks his hand in and hands her some candy and he says baby why didn't you just reach in and take it? She said because your hand is bigger than mine. Your hand is bigger than mine. I want the hand of the Lord to bless me not my own hand. And I ask the Lord and I still do and I do it all the time.  I want to be that broken vessel so that the excellence may pour out and you get all the glory. So that's just a little application to a story of a woman's love for God and how there are those who say what a great extravagant love and there are Judas's who say what a waste and I asked the Lord to help me to know which heart I have. Am I like Judas who thinks it's a waste or am I taking the Lord's commendation where he says this will be spoken of her because her love was great. What do you want to be? It's up to you.