The title of our sermon this morning is Undivided Devotion. Undivided Devotion. And this is part 4, our fourth sermon in this brief series on 2 Corinthians chapter 6 verse 11 through chapter 7 verse 3. Now as we have looked through our study together of 2 Corinthians, it's no mystery to us if you've been here and paying attention to the sermons through 2 Corinthians. It's no mystery whatsoever that there are significant problems in Corinth. Significant problems. Paul realizes that we see it on the pages of scripture. Paul sees this church on a very dangerous and a very slippery slope. In the same way that we find certainly here as examples to us, examples like Corinth in the New Testament, these churches that are on a dangerous and on a slippery slope, we know you and I, don't we, that the genuine Christian can be found at times on a dangerous slippery slope. We need reminders. We need exhortation. We need teaching. We need instruction. We need correction. We need rebuke. We need encouragement. We need comfort. We need the Word of God. We need God working on us to keep us preserved along the path of blessing. But Paul sees this church now on a very dangerous and slippery slope. They've been ravaged by sin, ravaged by division. This church seemingly tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine it would seem. False teachers, opponents of Paul, opponents of the gospel, enemies of the cross of Christ are in the church at Corinth and they threaten to pull the church apart at the seams. Paul had warned of these wolves, warned them night and day with tears, even an emphasis that wolves would creep in after his departure and would seek to distract or just pull away disciples to themselves. So Paul, knowing this in sorrow and anguish, is deeply distressed about the condition of this church. At the same time that these wolves in Corinth are spreading false accusations against Paul, spreading their false doctrine, Paul remains determined and resolved to faithfully preach the Word of God to the church, convincing, rebuking, exhorting with all long suffering and teaching. He doesn't try to appease them or win them with things that they merely want to hear, but Paul demonstrates great love for them by telling them what they need to hear. Sometimes the truths that we need to hear are painful. Often the truths that we need to hear are painful truths. Paul demonstrates great love to them in this, telling them what they need to hear. That patient persevering faithfulness on the part of Paul has now begun in Corinth to bear fruit and that's what it does, doesn't it? When we preach the truth of God's Word, that truth by virtue of the work of the Spirit of God in the heart of every believer begins to bear fruit. The Word of God does not return void, amen? So in Corinth, as you would expect, the Word of God preached among genuine believers, you would expect that as the Word of God is preached among genuine believers, there would be fruit from it. The people of God would heed the Word of God. They would repent and turn from their sin. They would turn to Christ in new obedience. They would worship and praise in joy, in love. You would expect that it would bear fruit. However, through it all, Paul realizes that although the Corinthians are beginning to bear fruit, the Corinthians are beginning to turn a corner, Paul realizes that his relationship with the Corinthian church has been strained. Paul's teaching has taken its toll. The heart of the Corinthians toward Paul has been constrained, been restricted. Where lawlessness abounds, the heart grows cold. Love grows cold. Now, not at all. This did not happen at all upon Paul's part. On Paul's part, his great affection for them is more than evident. It's their affections for him that have waned. So Paul then calls them to restore the relationship. He calls them to reconciliation with himself. And as he calls them to reconciliation with himself, Paul is really calling them to reconciliation with the gospel, reconciliation with the Lord himself. He calls them to open their hearts to him once again in chapter 6, verse 11. Oh, Corinthians, he says, we have spoken openly to you. We've given you what you need. We've told you what you've needed to hear. We've been wide open with you. Our heart, in fact, is wide open. You're not restricted by us in verse 12, but you are restricted by your own affections. Now in return for the same, I speak as the children, you also be open. It's for their good that their relationship with Paul, that their relationship with the gospel, that their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, that their relationship with the Word of God, so to speak, is for their own good that that relationship is fully reconciled. Paul is preaching the Word of God to them. Paul's an apostle of the Word Jesus Christ. And in Paul, they have apostolic preaching in their presence, so to speak, through his letters, through his words. You and I have apostolic preaching in our presence this morning, don't we? From the Word of God, we hear Paul's words here from 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 to us. He's preaching the Word of God to them, and he's preaching the Word of God to us. As soon as Paul calls them then to open their hearts to him in verse 13, Paul then calls them to holiness in response to that in verse 14. There's no mistaking the clear connection in the Bible here between our love for the Lord, our love for the Lord's Word, our love for the Lord's people, our love for the Lord's apostle, our love for the Lord's text here. There's no mistaking that clear connection in the Bible between love for that and our own personal holiness. If you're here this morning, and maybe this text over the last three sermons, you're arguing with the text, you're arguing with the implications, you're arguing with the applications, you're arguing with the interpretation, you're arguing with Paul in the text of Scripture, that would say more about your own personal holiness, obviously, than it would about anything to do with Paul or God's Word or our preaching here, right? There's a connection between our love for the Lord, our love for God's Word, our love for God's people, and our own personal holiness. I would venture to say that those here who are heeding the Word of God preach, if you love of the Word of God, you love the Lord, you love the Lord's people, then there is a connection between that love for God's Word, that love for the Lord, that love for the Lord's people, and your own personal holiness, where lawlessness abounds, love grows cold. Now remember our twofold definition of holiness. If we think about holiness, one part of that definition is separation from sin, separation from this world, set apart from sin, set apart from this world. The other side of that, two-sided coin, you could say, is set apart to God, set apart to his kingdom, set apart to his cause, set apart to his Word, set apart to him. Now Paul begins in verse 14, after calling us to Godward affections in verses 11 through 13, Paul calls us now to separate from unrighteous influences in this world. He calls us to disunion with the godless. Look at verse 14. Paul says then, do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? What communion has light with darkness? What accord has Christ with volile? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? So by virtue of his new heart, by virtue of God's spirit within him, the desire and pursuit of a genuine believer in relation to sin, in relation to evil, in relation to wickedness, whether it's a person or whether it's a thing, by virtue of his new heart and God's spirit within him, the desire and pursuit of a genuine believer is to separate himself from it, to separate himself from evil, to separate himself from wickedness, to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness. Now Paul repeats the same exhortation again in verse 17. He says, therefore, verse 17, come out from among them, be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. With respect to our twofold definition then of holiness, Paul reminds us that we must be set apart from sin because we are set apart to the Lord. Look at verse 16, the second half of the verse there. Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Why? For because you are the temple of the living God. As God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God. They shall be my people. Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean and I will receive you. I will be a father to you. You shall be to me my sons and my daughters, says the Lord Almighty. So disunion with the Godless, as we've seen, is necessary. Disunion with the Godless is required. Disunion with the Godless is expected considering our communion with God in Christ. God calls us to himself and by virtue of God saving us to himself, we must separate from sin, separate from this wicked world to him. Now that glorious truth that we, God's people in verse 16, are now the dwelling place of God in the spirit, leads Paul then back once again to his call for holiness, his call for separation, and the subject of our study this morning in chapter seven, verse one. Paul calls us to disunion with the Godless. He calls us to communion with God and now he calls us to a devotion to godliness or a devotion to holiness. Look at chapter seven, verse one. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Now in chapter seven, verse one, I want you to consider with me the motivation and the means through which we are called to devote ourselves to godliness, the motivation and the means through which we are called to devote ourselves to godliness or to devote ourselves to holiness. The title of our sermon is undivided devotion, right? That is an undivided devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ, undivided to the devotion to his kingdom, to his cause, to his purposes, undivided devotion now to godliness. That is the calling upon every Christian believer, every believer, every disciple of Christ is called to an undivided devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ and by implication then and by command from the word of God, an undivided devotion to godliness. Look with me first at the motivation that we have for that in chapter seven, verse one, right? The Lord doesn't leave us without glorious motivation, without beautiful reasons why. We have the best motivations imaginable. In fact, they are apart from his spirit, unimaginable. They're so glorious. We have glorious motivation. The Paul begins by connecting chapter seven, verse one with the verses, but particularly the promises that come before it. Notice the word therefore. Wherever you see a therefore, you got to look back and see what it's there for, right? Chapter seven, verse one, therefore having present tense, present possession. It is ours now, right? Therefore having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves. So according to Paul now, chapter seven, verse one, according to Paul, what's our motivation? These promises, right? These promises. My brother was talking about this morning and the call to worship. These promises are our motivation, glorious motivation. Specifically, it's the promises that we've seen in verses 16 to 18. The pronoun these in chapter seven, verse one refers back to the old testament promises specifically mentioned in verses 16 to 18, verse 16. What's the promise there? God has said, I will dwell in them and walk among them. I will be their God. They shall be my people. We saw last Lord's day. That is a glorious promise, a glorious promise and a glorious hope. Chapter six, verse 17, the promise there, I will receive you. God will gather us to himself. He's already begun that good work. He will gather us to himself. He will welcome us, you could say, as some translations do, I will receive you the promise in verse 18. I will be a father to you and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. So among the many promises of God to those who turn from their sin and entrust themselves to Christ are the promises, verses 16 through 18, that God will dwell with us, that God will receive. He will welcome us to himself and that God will be a father to us. Amazing, isn't it? The last Lord's day, we trace these promises through the Old Testament into the New Testament to see how Paul saw them as ultimately fulfilled in the church. They are promises here dealing specifically with God's presence, among God's presence with or his relationship to his people. Remember with me, we've seen many promises to this effect in the Old Testament, moving into the New Testament. Genesis three mentions how Adam and Eve heard the sound of the Lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day. Can you imagine, right? He met with and spoke with Adam in the garden. An amazing fellowship with God, that amazing fellowship with God broken then by sin, broken by sin. God met with Abraham. Abraham was called a friend of God in James chapter two. In Exodus chapter 13, the Lord goes before the people in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night signifying or symbolizing his presence among the people. In Exodus chapter 33, the Lord, it says there, spoke with Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. That's beautiful, right? The shekinah of God's glory fills the tabernacle in the wilderness, in the eyesight of the people of God around the tabernacle. It would later fill the temple as the divine presence is said to dwell among them. In John chapter one verse 14, the word became flesh, Emmanuel, right? God with us, where the word tabernacled or dwelt among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And then when the Lord Jesus Christ departs this earth by means of his cross and he ascends into heaven after the resurrection, he sends the helper, the spirit of God. And God, by his spirit, once again tabernacles or dwells in the midst of his people. How does he do that now? He does that through his church. He tabernacles or dwells in the midst of his people now in his church in dwelling his people. So in 2 Corinthians chapter six verses 16 through 18 then, Paul references God's promised presence from Moses and the law in Leviticus chapter 26 verse 11 where the Lord says, I will set my tabernacle among you. My soul shall not abhor you.  Immediate referent point to that promise is made at the construction of the tabernacle in the wilderness. We see a fulfillment of that promise in our age as he builds living stones, a spiritual house, stone by living stone upon living stone, bringing in his elect into the church. And we'll see it ultimately in the new heavens and the new earth in the vision of John, right as John saw the new Jerusalem descending out of heaven as a bride adorned for her husband, needing no temple. Why? Because God and the lamb are its temple. Now he references God's promised presence from Ezekiel 37 also verse 26 where the Lord says this, Moreover, I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. I will establish them and we'll multiply them and I will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore. This is the promise of God's presence among his people. He says my tabernacle also shall be with them. Indeed, I will be their God and they shall be my people. The nations also will know that I the Lord sanctify or set apart Israel when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore. Paul also takes these promises and he says in 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 16 that these promises, these promises are given to us. They're given to Israel and they're given to us. They're fulfilled in Israel and they're fulfilled in us. They're fulfilled 2nd Corinthians 6 verse 16. They're fulfilled to us. So why is that, Paul? Why would Paul say that?  You are the temple of the living God. God dwells within his people by his spirit today. God dwells among his church until that day when John hears that voice in Revelation 21 3. Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men. He will dwell with them. They shall be his people.  God will be with his people in that day, in that way.  There shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying. There shall be no more pain for the former things have passed away. And considering these promises, right? By repentant faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, if you will turn from your sin and entrust yourself to him following the Lord Jesus Christ by faith, far from placing us under the wrath of hell, the wrath that we deserve because of our sin, rather than being cast out of his presence into outer darkness where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, God, the Holy One, God, the just one, the one who dwells in unapproachable light promises to his people, I will receive you. That's amazing. God, Holy God, will receive you and I, but he receives you and I in him, in Christ.  I will welcome you. It's like the loving father that stood on the path as the prodigal son is running, the father runs out to meet him. The prodigal son is coming up the path, he embraces him, puts his robe on him, puts a ring on his finger, and killed the fatted calf in celebration. The Lord receives us.  God says, I will welcome you. When you feel alone, you're never alone. You're never alone. God promises I will receive you. We have that promise. Therefore, having these promises, Paul says, right? That is a present possession. God in Christ receives us.  When you were formerly an enemy of God, you are now an adopted son or daughter of the king. You were made accepted in the beloved, born again by a spirit adopted into the household of God, not mere subjects of the king, though that in and of itself would be glorious just to be subjects of the king, right? Just to be slaves in the household of our God. We are sons and daughters, sons and daughters. Incidentally, these promises, beautiful and glorious promises made to Israel in the Old Testament to Israel. So how is it then? How is it that Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter six, verses 16 to 18, then says that they are fulfilled in the church? How are these promises fulfilled in the church? The church is the temple of the living God. How are these promises fulfilled in us? Paul says in Romans chapter two, verse 28. Listen, he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh, but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter whose praise is not from men, but from God. He would say later in Galatians chapter three, verse seven, therefore, know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. You could say, as Paul does, only those who are of faith are sons of God. Only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham. And the scripture for seeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preach the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying in you, all the nations shall be blessed. So then, those who are of faith are blessed, blessed with salvation, blessed with new births, blessed with adoption, blessed with these glorious promises in believing Abraham or with believing Abraham in Christ. So then, we come to grips with Paul's text here. And we consider these promises, we consider Paul's statement that we have them present position, present position. So having these glorious promises, beloved, what do we then do? What is our response? What do we do? The blessings of God are matchless. The riches of God's mercy are exceedingly great. What do we do? Well, Paul tells us, come out from among them, verse 17, be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean. We are to flee to him. We're to follow him. We're to obey him. We're to live for him. Paul says, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. Now notice with me, with respect to chapter 7, verse 1, Paul does not say, he doesn't say, cleanse yourselves from all filthiness so that you can inherit the promises. He does not say, cleanse yourself, yourself from all filthiness so that you can become his sons and daughters. No, no, right? Cleanse yourself in order to get these promises. No, since we have them, right? Since these promises, these great realities are true of you, are true to you, therefore then let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. That's what distinguishes Christianity from every other false religion in the world. You're to get something from God, right? It's tragic to think about it, isn't it? The devoted Catholic, the one devoted to his theology, the devoted Mormon, the devoted Jehovah's Witness, the devoted Muslim, pick any false religion. That one labors and works and does in order from God in order to earn these blessings. Blessings so glorious, so matchlessly superlative, can't put enough adjectives together, right? So glorious, I keep coming back to that word, right? So glorious that there's no amount of human effort conceivable that could earn such glory and yet they believe that by doing this and doing that and doing this and doing that, doing the other thing, this work, this sacrament, this mass, this thing, I'm going to earn those promises? No, that's where the glory of Jesus Christ comes. The Lord Jesus Christ is the glorious one who was able to earn those promises, earn those blessings. His own shed blood, his own perfect life is the only merit we can bleed to have them in him. He is the one who earns them, do you see? Just thoughtlessly impossible to think that we could earn favor with God through our works. That's why, why, why Catholicism, Mormonism, Job's witness, that false theology counts the cross of Christ as a common thing, negates the cross because they seek to attain to a righteousness of their own by works of the law. And righteousness will not be attained through works of any law, only through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Since we have these promises, since we have them by faith in Christ, therefore, brother, sister, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness. In the Bible, in the scriptures, right, there's this indicative imperative relationship. We're given commands, but those commands always coming on the foundation of glorious promises. We have imperatives. The Lord certainly gives us commands and he tells us the one who loves me will be the one who obeys my commands, right? We are to obey the commands of the Lord Jesus Christ. But those commands given to us on a bedrock of indicative statements of fact, right? Those imperatives, those commands given to us on a foundation of glorious promises, glorious indicatives. And so we are holy, then we are set apart to him to be holy. Why? Because we have such glorious promises because God himself will dwell with us and God will dwell among us and we will be his people and he will be our God. We are holy. We're set apart to him. So Paul says now, be holy. These promises too are assumed in the text to be more than sufficient to that end, right? Having these promises, we have them. These promises then are sufficient that we should turn from our sin, trust them by faith and pursue sanctification, cleansing ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. These promises are sufficient motivation to be separated from sin. Not, right? That's how it differs also from false religion, not in some cold, heartless, ritualistic way, right? I'm going to crawl up every step to the altar, kissing each step as I go, saying this ritualistic little prayer and believing that as I do these things, I'm going to inherit one day the promises of God and get a reward from him. No. That's not how that works. That's cold. That's this external ritualism. No. It's by virtue of the promise that we have God's spirit dwelling within us. We have the presence of God with us, his people and loving him, right? And cherishing that promise, cherishing that reality, we then turn in love to obey him, to cleanse ourselves, to pursue our sanctification, to obey him, to perfect holiness. It's through fellowship with the living God, not through formalism, not through external ritual, not through bare, cold, heartless obedience, but through loving, heart-faith-filled obedience, right? That's not burdensome to his people because of these glorious motivations. You have these promises, you have these motivations, so in no way, then, is that burdensome to the Christian. That's his delight, right? That becomes our joy because of who he is and what he's done for us, the promises that we have in him. It's our delight. There'll be those often that will characterize, what they're doing is they're characterizing, they're preaching God's word, or they're characterizing God's word, essentially, as a list of do's and don'ts, as a burdensome checklist of do this and don't do that. What a wicked and deplorable impugning of God's holy, righteous, loving, and just commands. We do these things because we love the Lord our God. We do these things because he died for me and rose again. I, therefore, am resolved that I will no longer live for myself. The life which I now live in the flesh, I resolve to live for him because he died and gave his life for me. And yet people want to reduce even Paul's exhortations here to obey the Lord. Pursue your sanctification. Give all diligence to cleanse yourselves. Why? Because of these precious promises. We have these promises. Paul would later say, nevertheless, the solid foundation of God stands, having this seal. The Lord knows those who are his and let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity.  Let's connect this, right? This expectation that God's temple would be holy. Let's connect this with an illustration from the Old Testament. Turn with me to Ezekiel chapter 8. Ezekiel chapter 8. And I want you to see in Ezekiel chapter 8 the expectation that God has for his temple, his dwelling place. If God is to dwell among his people, with his people, in a covenant relationship with them, then God has an expectation that his temple will be holy. Now what we see in Ezekiel chapter 8 is a tragic scene as we come to verse one. So it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month of the fifth day of the month, as Ezekiel sat in his house with the elders of Judah sitting before me, that the hand of the Lord fell upon me there. And I looked. There was a likeness like the appearance of fire from the appearance of his waist and downward fire and from his waist and upward like the appearance of brightness, like the color of amber. He stretched out the form of a hand and took me by a lock of my hair and by the spirit lifted me up between the earth and heaven and brought me in visions to God, visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the north gate of the inner court where the seat of the image of jealousy was, which provokes to jealousy. Essentially grabs Ezekiel by the scruff of his neck and takes him into a vision of the temple. And in the temple, the temple of God, the temple where God's presence is said to dwell between the cherubim, there in the temple is the seat of the image of jealousy. What that is is an idol. This is idolatry. An idol is set up, a wicked false idol set up in the temple of God and that idol provokes to jealousy, provokes God to jealousy here. And behold, verse four, the glory of the God of Israel was there like the vision that I saw in the plane. This is a glory, the glory of God's presence that obviously the people entirely ignored. They neglected the glory of God's presence to the point that they then ignored the glory of God's presence. And now to the point where they're doing things, blasphemous things against opposing God's presence, they actually set up an idol in the temple, right? It leads to blasphemous idolatry. So he said, verse five, Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north. So I lifted my eyes toward the north and there north of the altar gate was this image of jealousy in the entrance. Furthermore, he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they're doing? Do you see the great abominations that the house of Israel commits here to make me go far away from my sanctuary? Notice what he says, to make me go far away from my sanctuary. That sanctuary is to be holy. And through their idolatry, they are in essence forcing God out of the sanctuary, forcing God's presence away from them, so to speak, right? That turn again, he says to Ezekiel, and you will see greater abominations. Verse seven. So he brought me to the door of the court and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall. And he said to me, Son of man, dig into the wall. And when I dug into the wall, there was a door. And he said to me, go in, see the wicked abominations which they are doing there. And so I went in and saw there every sort of creeping thing, abominable beast and all the idols of the house of Israel. These aren't the idols of the nations any longer. These are the idols of the house of Israel. They're portrayed all around on the walls, and they're stood before them 70 men of the elders of the house of Israel. And in their midst stood Jazzaniah, the son of Shaffan. Now, if we understand this correctly, Jazzaniah is the son of Shaffan, the one who read the book of the law to good King Josiah, when great reforms were carried out in Jerusalem to restore the worship of God's people. And here his son, one generation removed, is in wicked, deplorable idolatry.  Then he said to me verse 12, Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark? Every man in the room of his idols, for they say, the Lord does not see us. The Lord has forsaken the land. What you think that you do in the dark, God sees. What you think you do within an enclosed room, God sees. What you think you quote unquote get away with. There's no quote unquote getting away with it. God sees. Look at chapter nine verse one.  Suddenly six men came from the direction of the upper gate, which faces north, each with his battle axe in his hand. One man among them was clothed with linen and had a writer's inkhorn at his side, and they went in and stood beside the bronze altar. Listen to this in verse three. The glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the cherub where it had been to the threshold of the temple is a sign, a harbinger of things to come. He called on the man clothed with linen who had the writer's inkhorn at his side and said to him, go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, put a mark on the forehead of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within it. To the others, he said in my hearing, go after him through the city and kill. Do not let your eyes spare nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women, but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark and begin at my sanctuary. The Bible says that judgment will begin at the household of God. So they began with the elders who were before the temple, and he said to them, defile the temple, fill the courts with the slain, go out, and they went out and killed in the city. Look at verse nine. Then he said to me, the iniquity of the house of Israel in Judah is exceedingly great. Land is full of bloodshed, the city full of perversity, for they say the Lord has forsaken the land and the Lord does not see. Like Solomon says, because the judgment of God is not exacted against wickedness or against sin immediately, the thoughts and intents of men's heart is only to commit wickedness, to commit iniquity. They presume or assume that he does not see them. As for me, verse 10, my eye will neither spare nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head. Just then the man clothed with linen, who had the ink corn at his side reported back and said, I've done as you've commanded me. Look at chapter 10, verse four, verse three, verse three. Now the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple when the man went in and the cloud, this is the shekinah cloud, God's glory, the cloud filled the inner court. Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, paused over the threshold of the temple, and the house was filled with the cloud and the court now was filled with the brightness of the Lord's glory. Look at chapter 10, verse 18. Then the glory of the Lord departed from the threshold of the temple. You see the progression, don't you? Because they weren't sanctifying God's name as holy, because they weren't sanctifying the sanctuary as holy, because they had not cleansed it. In fact, they hadn't only not cleansed it, they had filled it with iniquity.  God's spirit, God, is departing the temple. God's departing the temple. Look at verse 17, chapter 11, verse 17. God understands that apart from his work, apart from his spirit, salvation, redemption, is impossible. It is impossible for there to be any motion, any work on a part of man, to save or to sanctify himself. God must do that work. So he comes to chapter 11, verse 17, therefore say, thus says the Lord God. This is what I'll do, God says. I will gather you from the peoples, assemble you from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel, and they will go there and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there. Then I will give them one heart and I will put a new spirit within them and take the stoning heart of their flesh out and give them a heart of flesh. You see, God's promise of his presence, God's promise of restoration comes with the preaching of the new covenant. I'll take out your heart of stone. I will give you a heart of flesh. I will indwell you with my spirit. Verse 20, so that they may walk in my statutes and keep my judgments and do them. They shall be my people. I will be their God.  So verse 22, the cherubim then lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel was high above them, and the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city and stood on the mountain, which is on the east side of the spirit of the city. Then the spirit took me up and brought me in a vision by the spirit of God into Caldea to those who were in captivity. The spirit of God, the presence of God, departs the temple. God has an expectation. God has an expectation, a requirement that his temple be sanctified, that his temple be set apart, that his temple be holy. So back in 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verse 2 then, 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, having the promise of God's presence in us and with us and among us, for we are the temple of the living God, having God's spirit, his presence with us, beloved, let us then cleanse the temple. Do you see? Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness and the fear of God. Why? Because God is holy. Because God is holy. We then are to purify ourselves as the temple of the living God. We do that, beloved, having these promises with the motivation of these promises. So, it makes a connection with me, right? Supported, strengthened, grounded in the promises of God to dwell with us, to be our God, to be a father to us, motivated by those promises, motivated by the current fulfillment of those promises and motivated by the hope of its future and ultimate fulfillment in the new heavens and the new earth. Based upon that indicative, we diligently and earnestly pursue the imperative. Let us cleanse ourselves. Verb there is subjunctive, acting as an imperative. So, while fixing our gaze upon these things, right? While fixing our gaze upon the promises, while drawing strength from them, while drawing motivation from them, while emboldening our faith through them, we are to give ourselves devotedly to a process, a process of sanctification, a process of perfecting holiness and the fear of God. Paul says in 1 Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse 3, that this is the will of God for us, right? This is the will of God for us, our sanctification. The promises are given to fuel action. The promises are given to fire effort, to fire devotion, not to negate our action. We don't have these promises and having them, we say to ourselves, ah, now I can just rest in these promises. Let go and let God, right?  No, no. The promises are to fuel our effort. The promises are to fuel diligent, earnest work and labor until our glorification is complete. The will of God for us is our sanctification. To rest on these promises and presume to do nothing is to turn the grace of God into licentiousness, right? It's to receive the grace of God in vain. It's to have a form of godliness, but to deny its power. Turn with me to 2 Peter, chapter 1, 2 Peter, chapter 1. I want you to see another example of Paul's point in 2 Corinthians, which is 2 Peter, chapter 1, and look there beginning at verse 2, makes the same point Peter does that Paul makes. 2 Peter, chapter 1, verse 2. Peter says grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. Notice there that grace and peace is multiplied in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. So when someone says, when someone says, I'd rather not do this study in the Bible, just tell me what I can do to be a better mom. I'd rather not do this study in the Bible. Just tell me what I need to do to be a better husband. Listen, you're going to be a better mom. You're going to be a better husband by knowing him from his word. Grace and peace multiply to you in the knowledge of God. Where does that knowledge come from? It comes from the word of God and of Jesus our Lord. As verse 3, his divine power has given to us all things, all things that pertain to life and godliness. His divine power has given us all these things. How do we then experience that? How do we experience that? Through verse 3, what? The knowledge of him. We experience that divine power and all those things that have given to us that pertain to life and godliness. How do we experience them? Through the knowledge of him who called us, the effectual call, right, who called us by glory and virtue. Through the knowledge of him. How do I know him through his word? Studying, meditating on, memorizing, thinking about, right, studying his word. The revelation of himself to us, the whole counsel of his word. We grow in our knowledge of him. And as we grow into our knowledge of him, that knowledge or that sight of him, so to speak, in the word of God, transforms us into his image. We become sanctified. We become more like him. We behold his glory on the pages of the scriptures, so to speak, glory as of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth. And as we behold his glory in the word of God, we become like him. That means we become better mothers, better fathers, better husbands, right, better wives. We become better employees, better students. We become more like Christ. So through the knowledge of him who called us by glory and virtue, it's by that glory and virtue, verse four, by which have been given to us. So by his glory, by his excellence, by his virtue, the Lord Jesus Christ secures these glorious promises, says verse four, by which glory and virtue have been given to us perfect tense. They have been given a perfect tense, communicates an ongoing state of reality that is important to us, right. These promises have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises so that through these promises, you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, partakers of the divine nature. In other words, we share in, we fellowship with the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust, having been set apart from that corruption by his work through these exceedingly great and precious promises. And then here it is, verse five, but also for this very reason, verse five, having these precious promises, having received all things that pertain to life and godliness, giving all diligence, says there, meaning maximum effort toward our sanctification, maximum effort toward living for Christ, he says, add to your faith virtue, add to your faith knowledge, to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to godliness, brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, love, with maximum effort, with all diligence. Four, verse eight, if these things are yours and abound, you will neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who lacks these things is short-sighted even to blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. The way that you assure your heart that you are a partaker of the divine nature and have received all things that pertain to life and godliness is by giving all diligence such that these fruits are yours and abound. Do you see? If these are yours and abound, you'll be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he who lacks these things is short-sighted even to blindness and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. Therefore, verse 10, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble. For so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Interesting, he goes on in verse 12. Notice this with me. For this reason, Paul says, I will not be negligent to remind you always of these things. All I hear is do this and do that. All I hear is work harder, serve more, be more faithful, be more diligent. Do, do, do, work, work, work. And Paul says, for this reason, I'll not be negligent to remind you always, always of these things, even though you know and are established in the present truth. Paul says, yes, verse 13. I think it's right as long as I'm in this tent to stir you up by reminding you, knowing that shortly I must put off my tent, just as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me. Back in 2 Corinthians, chapter 7. Chapter 7, verse 1. Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. We've noted the motivation for holiness, for an undivided devotion to godliness. What's the means by which we pursue it? One means by which we pursue it is verse 1 cleansing ourselves. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. Again, we don't labor to cleanse ourselves in order to get the promises of God, not in order to be accepted in the beloved because we've already, we already have been accepted in the beloved. We already have the promises of God. We cleanse ourselves because we have those promises. We already have been from there in verse 1. Cleanse ourselves from all filthiness, speaks of separation, speaks of being set apart from, to be clear from sin, clear from wickedness. Paul in Romans chapter 13, verse 12 says, the night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. And what is Paul calling us to in chapter 7, verse 1? This, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness or the word all there communicates exactly what Paul is calling us to. All points to the scope of our endeavor, the scope of our efforts. Entire separation from all sin. Entire separation from all sin. I'm not saying that's possible this side of our glorification, possible this side of eternity, but that's what we're called to. And your maximum diligent earnest effort should show that that's your aim, right? That that's your goal. He's calling for total destruction in the Christian life of all sin. Mortification of all filthiness. The word is malusmos means defilement. Separate yourself from, eradicate and totally destroy anything that defiles. Listen. This is the goal and aim and pursuit of every person who wants to be saved. No, I'm going to do this. I'm going to clean my act up in order to be saved. I just got to go to church. I need to start reading my Bible and need to start doing these things so that somehow I'm going to be right with God and earn some. No, no, no. This is the goal and aim and pursuit of every single genuine Christian, right? Every genuine Christian is never partial. It is all filthiness. Cleanse yourself from all filthiness. That work is never done. It is never done. You don't get to my age and think to yourself, well, now I can take it easy. No. In fact, the labor just feels that much harder the farther you work at it, the more that you go, right? The work is never done. Notice that he doesn't say, notice that he doesn't say, let us wait on God to cleanse us. Let us wait on God to work in us and through us to do and to will according to his good pleasure. He doesn't say that. This is not passive. The Christian life is in no way a passive life. This is active. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness. The Christian life begins, doesn't it, with a radical and decisive break with sin. When a genuine Christian is saved, when God redeems them, he causes them to be born again by a spirit. The genuine Christian now born again a God spirit is separated from sin set apart to God. The power of sin in his life is broken. He is no longer on a choke chain of Satan, right? He's no longer Satan's lackey. He's no longer a lackey to his flesh. He's no longer under the dominion of sin to do its will. That power of sin has been broken. And now that one who's been born again of God's spirit can do works of righteousness. He can turn from sin and put his faith in Christ. He can stop that wickedness, right? The power of sin has been broken. The penalty for sin has been paid, praise God. And through a process now of sanctification, God separates us more and more each day from the presence of sin in our lives. That's the work being referenced here is that process of separation from the presence of sin. Now that's where we start, right? The Christian life begins there, a radical and decisive break with sin. But the Christian life doesn't end there. That's the beginning. What entails now after that radical break with sin is a radical warfare against all of it that remains. And that radical warfare takes place until the end of your life.  And there at the cross you are washed. You are cleansed of all your iniquity.  The hymn says, Nothing in my hands I bring, Simply to thy cross I cling, Naked, come to thee for dress, Helpless, look to thee for grace, Foul, I to thy fountain fly, Wash me, Savior, or I die. But that same hymn, that same thought then marks the life of every genuine believer. You come again and again to the Lord Jesus Christ by faith. Say, Lord, help me to overcome this sin. Lord, sanctify me. Set me apart more and more and more to your will, to your cause. The Christian life continues with radical warfare against all remaining sin. Paul says that all remaining sin is of the flesh and spirit. Let us cleanse ourselves of all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. In other words, of the whole person, of the whole person, the flesh, things that you do in the flesh, presenting your members as members of unrighteousness that is filthiness in your flesh, using your tongue to say ungodly things, using your members to do ungodly works, we're to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh, we're to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the spirit, every sinful thought, every sinful desire, every sinful inclination, every sinful feeling, every sinful imagination, every sinful emotion, every sinful God-denying idolatry, every sinful God-denying discouragement, we're to cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. By considering the glorious gifts that we've been given, considering the glorious promises that we have in Christ, considering the glorious state in which we find ourselves, our glorious position, that effort, that life is the joy and delight of every true believer, every true Christian. So one means we cleanse ourselves. The next means is that we perfect holiness. We perfect holiness. How do we perfect holiness? Paul says here, in the fear of God, the word perfecting there points to the process. We are perfecting holiness in the fear of God. In other words, that work is not done. Philippians chapter 2 verse 12, therefore my beloved, as you've always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling in the fear of God, Paul would say. Why? Because it is God who works in you both the will and to do for his good pleasure, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. More on this as the Lord will allow it another time. Paul, having exhorted us, comes back to his original expectation that we saw in verse 11 and chapter 7 verse 2. And he says, listen, open your heart to us. Open your heart. Heed our loving instruction this morning. Listen, brother, sister, open your heart to God's word. Open your heart to God's correction, God's instruction. Heed Paul's word here. Paul says we've wronged no one. Everything that he's given us is good and for our necessary edification. He says we've corrupted no one. We've cheated no one. Paul here is worthy of more than a mere superficial relationship. God's word worthy of more than a passing superficial relationship. It deserves our entire attention. It deserves our concerted effort. It deserves our full affection. Paul says I do not say this to condemn verse 3.  Paul says we're knitted together. Our futures are intertwined, so to speak. Our hearts knitted together in Christ. We share one faith, one baptism, one spirit, don't we? And so for that reason, brothers and sisters exhort one another. For that reason, we stand and we preach God's word to you. For that reason, we take time to study God's word, to study eschatology, to study Daniel or to study Ezra or to study whatever book of the Bible we decided to study during our small groups or on Sunday nights or on Sunday mornings to preach first by verse through the Lord's word to you. Our hearts are knitted together, yours and mine. Our destinies are intertwined, brother and sister. And so heed, let's let us together heed God's word. Let us heed God's instruction. Let us with maximum effort apply ourselves to the diligent pursuit of cleansing ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and the spirit. And let us, brother and sister, perfect holiness in the fear of God. We have glorious promises on which we base this work and glorious promises to look forward to, don't we? I'll praise honor and glory to the one who's given us these promises to the one who calls us out of darkness into his marvelous light. Let's pray.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648. Hi everyone, Basil Chapman, Tiger Technicians Hour. This is the Tuesday, the 22nd of March edition and what we're looking at is the Dow. It's up 272 points and 34,826. Look at this remarkable move. From the low that was made on the 14th, that wasn't the low, I'm just saying from this particular low, the 32,272 low was the February 24th low and then ran up quickly to the 34,100, Paul's Back Shopped into 32,578 and then kind of stalls and for four days it goes sideways and usually that's the fifth day that is I mentioned. The fifth day is really important to subscribe to my opening call. One of the reasons why we went long a week ago that was Tuesday morning before the open was just there was, look at that, look, they're just on the pure technicals. This is where the stochastic is at its move from under 20% to about 37% so it's rising. The on-balance volume had only just made a V-shaped pattern was about to turn up but the MACD, you see the histogram, these vertical lines right here, that's the distance between the nine-period differential, the green line of the MACD, the moving average convergence divergence and the slow moving average of 26-period exponential moving average and you can see the moving and it seemed to me there was a really good chance that the MACD would flip positive and within a very quick time the nine-period, the pink nine-period moving average on the steady chart would finally get a chance to cross positive and if it did that the way the markets were looking regardless of the bad news out there there could be a really quick turn to the upside but in this particular congestion pattern it's really tough to say that you're not going to go back into the rectangle and stall at their 34,100 because that also coincided with the down channel, the mini down channel that I call, the chap wait inside track repellent and then a propellant zone. Well we went beautifully up on Tuesday, we pulled back just a tan early morning and it ran and closed almost at the high, did the very same thing the next day, did the very same thing the next day, Monday made a new recovery high in leg C, pulls back, kind of a modest move when you think that Boeing got slammed, Salesforce.com got slammed, when Home Depot had about a 10-11 point down move, I mean this is, it was quite remarkable action especially in the environment we're in, especially with rates we'll get to that in a moment, so powering above the 200-period moving average making the 34,350 area key support now in the short term was really important and in today again, even after yesterday's stalling action, we've made another leg to the upside, leg C continues. Now this is where the other Chapman Wave techniques come in. The MACD has expanded, I love the expansiveness when the 9 soars above the 14, or in this case the 9 goes above, the 9-period differential of the MACD soars above the 26-period, the red 26-period moving average, the histogram still expanding, the 9-period moving average has gone sharply above the 14-period moving average to confirm a bi-mode that we had gotten to last Thursday, I think it was, and the stochastics at 96%, I mean that is fabulous and hopefully flattening out. If it flattens out, that's another good side. So all of this against the backdrop that we've got is really helping the weekly and the monthly. I wanted to spend a little time on this just to show you the same thing happened in almost all the other key indices, but even more importantly, look at the way the weekly chart has now improved. The histogram is finally in the weekly chart of the MACD start, that's a 0% line, has started to improve, it's still very, very ugly, but that V-shape turnaround in the weekly chart on the unbalanced volume and the stochastic in the 32% area, I would have preferred to see 38% to 42% right now, but the week has only just begun, so let's give it the whole week. And this leg B was so important to push away so that the 9p moving average can start to get close to the 14p moving average. And here's the monthly chart, remember I've been talking about this for a long time, I said under all these conditions is it even possible to dream, to even think that this really is a peak B at 4818.62 in the monthly chart? I still have to say it's a peak B, but everything about the action from the other monthly charts says let's see if this can continue because so far this is fabulous action, just 4818 down to 4114, 700 points in the monthly chart of the S&P as of this very second I'm really impressed, comes Friday I might say, uh-oh, what a pity we were doing so well and now we're failing again, but at this particular point I couldn't even dream that this would happen, what I said was, chapter with Roman Cantal of January saw the halfway mark taken out in the WIC, so that made February really important, that took out and went under the 14p moving average, now we've had another almost chapter with Roman Cantal for February and yet we haven't taken out the left side, the low that is, of 4114 in fact we're running up towards the upper part of the closing price of last month so far I just, it's hard to believe that with everything that's going on, with Crude or we'll get to that, let's get to it right now so you've got the QQQ, so key support this week for the S&P is in the 4380s, QQQ NDX100 trading vehicle, this is trading from a higher 408.71 in November, slumped down to a double bottom at 317.45, now it's taken a nice turn to the upside, Magdi's at 91%, that's terrific Magdi's strong, the Stochastic's at 91%, on balance volume is lagging, but you see this little gray line here in the Dady Char that is the RSI, the relative strength index, and that is so far moving up and that's good, and the monthly chart is bumping up against the 14 period moving average, it broke down below it back in, I think that was, I think it was generally the 7th, week of the 7th, we plummeted from 402 to 378 went under the 9 period moving average, under the 14 period moving average and we haven't been able to break above it and hold since last week we broke above the red, the pink 9 period moving average and this week we're testing the 14, it's starting to improve, the histogram's improving but there's a lot of work to be done, alright let's get to the IWM I'd like to add some things that I didn't look at in great detail yesterday IWM is also in legs C, the Russell 2000, nice move up I'd say if we can get to the 20950 area, there's a chance we're going to try for the 200 period moving average of 211.90 we'll see if that happens, this is improving all around we haven't broken out, it's still in the rectangle formation, lowercase h goes to the lowercase m and then you have to watch for the cup formation in the travelling methodology to just break and see the price sharp above the most obvious arched level and that goes down to 10th of February at 109.25, I'll be back in a moment 1010. 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TFNN airs live financial content streamed live on TFNN.com and TFNN's YouTube channel with Tiger TV live every market day from 8.30am to 4pm eastern for free. Each host is an experienced trader and gives their take on the market while taking calls and questions live from around the world. From the moment the market opens until the closing bell sounds, Tiger TV has eight different shows with expert hosts to help you make the right moves with your money. Watch online at TFNN.com or on TFNN's YouTube channel and become the investor you were born to be TFNN. Educating investors. At 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> Hi folks, so just a real short term, let me show you something that's going on. In the one minute e-mini chart, this is the e-contract. It's got a peak D, but the technicals are still holding really well, but it is a peak D in the day in the one minute chart. It is a peak E in the two minute chart. It is a peak while the leg E until this five minute chart is completed and a leg F in the ten minute chart and that says this is exactly where you would expect some kind of a digestive phase in the very short term on the e-mini to take place. But I tell you what is really important, look at this ten minute chart right here. It made a peak D, made a beautiful couple, I don't know how many of these formations we've seen over the last couple of days, about a week. It went to a peak D, pulls back. I decided I would just continue that notation as alphabetically E and F, but this F really should be F slash C, alternate count because look how strong look how strong the mag D, the moving averages of the second run. So this is like forming an M formation with the first arch right there, there's another arch coming up. The stochastic is flat at 94%, remember I love the flats. Every book, every technical analysis book you get calls it overboard over 80% in the stochastic and oversold when it comes down below 20%. I say no that is just completely the wrong way to look at it. You want to see that, look what happens with the price, look here in the e-mini, it could be anything, right here when the e-mini went above 80% at 24 this morning eastern time, look how long it held before the mag D broke down sorry the stochastic went under 80% and yet if you use the technique that I've developed over the years look at the way this green line still would have kept you in the trade right up until then for three bars and you went out and you went back in and you would be, and you had to wait. So I say no, holding above 80% is very positive going under says you got to be careful, holding under 20% is very negative and as long as you hold under 20% it means that the prices should continue lower. So I decided that I'm in this particular instance I'm using the 10 minute because look at yesterday how the 10 minute chart would have kept you in this trade way longer than you could ever have imagined. Let me go back here, this is yesterday alright this is my show, alright here we go from where we would do, stop, right here stop, thank you, right there it went back to L long at 9.30 in the morning on the 18, oh that was the 18, sorry that was the 18 that was on Friday, and look what happened, it held beautifully all the way then it went pink, okay, and then yesterday so that was at 9am and that chart moved up and then it took it down and plummeted, and then what happened is it held pink and it held this 200 period moving average, look at this 200 period moving average what fantastic support is that and yeah we are once again and as it broke above at 2.10 on the 22nd that is 2.10 this morning it went green and it stayed green except for that brief little moment at the bank and it was still flat within a trading range so all I can say is the surprise, pleasant surprise, was that yesterday was a pullback that was just seeing the market drag down because of Home Depot etc and today with Nike starting off up 6 or 7 points from last night's earnings report, congratulations Dan with Dan, you were talking about that potential move to the upside, this is really nice action that we are seeing, I suspect that for the Dow quite a bit of this is being done now, we might see the others move higher, okay I had it down, oh I should not have put the down arrow there, the down arrow is coming up now I think I'm just going to, the reason why I shouldn't have these, it was still green even though the bank turned down stochastic, I should have waited for the second move up and then to see where they're not held, anyway, so this could be E and this could be F and then we do it here in the chapter of notation just to show you, some people say can you just do some of that live so we can see what you're doing, this is 1 minute is at peak E the 2 minute is at peak F, we could have recycled them according to F for now and it's an E in the 5 minute chart and F slash C in the 10 minute chart, so I'll ask you back to our story, a question came in I didn't just solve it, I did gold, let me just do gold one more time gold is down 15 points at 1914, I think gold is in a digestive phase, I do think it's in play for this phase because gold is the basically the icon for geopolitical nervousness a fear factor, just like the VIX is, where's the VIX right now 30 index is down, right on the 200 period exponential, moving average twice in the last month is being the trigger to move powerfully up, we'll see what happens here, but it's at 22.98 and the 20s is still very high, it means that fund managers are still buying it, most importantly though, it's had a tremendous pullback it did not use last week to scream into the 40 area, 37.79 was the high, 24th of January, 38.94 was the high, so it's pulling back in a cup formation within the rectangle, 20 should be good support and then we'll see if there's some kind of a pullback in the market, so I've done almost everything I want you to do now, BRK.B It's a question you asked me yesterday, I spent a little time, I said, Berkshire Hathaway Buffets, Warren Buffets, basically this is the company that he's had, it was about 40 50 years and under this umbrella of Berkshire Hathaway he's got all these other companies, but what's fantastic about Buffets is that he isn't just buying the stock, you know there are a lot of fund managers, a lot of people out in the business that buy just the stock and he owns shares, they do not own companies, Buffet owns companies as well as shares and as a result he's a player in the field, he's not so, he's not a bystander, but at this point maybe other people are helping him, but absolutely I just have to say, as everybody used to talk about Peter Lynch as one of the great innovators in that, he always said I like to be able to buy companies that I actually use in my daily life, that's one way to look at it, believe me you can have companies that you use in your daily life and they can go from 100 to $5, so it's how you do that, but when you're running the companies, that is something, and to be at an all-time high right now in the B shares at $353.55 that's fantastic, so the question came in from one of our dentists who likes longer-term positions, should I buy, I actually thought you had it, I guess you don't, if you haven't got Berkshire Hathaway and this is a long-term position, I'm going to say just get your foot in the door, just right here at an all-time high you would never do that with other stocks, but with Berkshire Hathaway, looking ahead I'm just going to say, in your particular instance, the risk is $12.50, because if it breaks under the $3.4335 level it can have it even longer time now, but I just say as a company, in your particular type of portfolio, I think this is something to consider. I'll be back in a moment, Basil Chapman, that was a 181 recipes of what you like there. 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Get your copy of the art of timing the trade charts today by visiting TFNN.com This segment is brought to you by Think or Swim. For more information just click the Think or Swim banner on the front page of TFNN.com Hello folks, we're back and gosh what a bunch of questions I had during the break. So one is coin, do I add to coin? Say I add. So I don't want to forget about these others that I've just written up. So let me just write them down. That was one. So I really forgot the other one that I was going to do. It doesn't matter. Alright, there you go. So coin is Coinbase Global Inc. Cryptocurrency Excuse me. You see how it's lagging It's bumping into the resistance here in the Chapman Wave inside the Palin Zone. The weekly chart looks terrible. Monthly chart looks terrible. If I put them together and I go to GBTC which we still have just a little bit of and we've had just massive gains and we just haven't been in other than trying to attempt a small buys and different things and different products in the cryptocurrency area see GBTC which is Bitcoin Investment Trust is acting quite nicely here. It's not great and if you look at the ones I look at which Mara is the other one, Mara is what? Marathon Digital Holdings. That's a much better daily chart but look at the weekly chart. It's just flat. So the BTC, Bitcoin is moving very nicely at the moment but it's all within a rectangle formation. So really made the BPC all very much underneath the previous high. I think that Bitcoin is going to fail in about another day or two. It's going to bump into resistance then pull back and then it might have made a higher support level of cushion and then it could start a bigger move to the upside. So I'm not ruling it out. I'm just saying I don't know if I would want to add to coin right now although I do see very good support. It's at 185 in the 170s. If it goes into the 172 area it's fading. At this particular point it really should be doing much much better. My thinking right here is there's one that we've used but you're not going to use it because you're looking at a bigger type portfolio. There's one that's very low price that does the same thing as the others but it's only trading in the $5-$6 area. I'd much rather put that to work and be prepared to get a smaller portfolio gain but a nice gain from that particular instrument and at this particular point I'm just thinking that I'm having a tough time saying add to coin. That's all in your analysis you might think it's going to go higher you could be right. I'm just saying I don't see it unless I would rather buy a break at 185 I'd rather see it. What can I say it just could be such a quick seven point drop but it could be just a three or four point gain before anything special happens. I'm just stepping aside. Sorry to add a leg B up. Oh that's exactly that's what I was going to say that that's another way that I would look at it. I'd rather add if it's showing strength but then your risk becomes a little greater because if it goes to a B but then it starts to pull back because Bitcoin is pulling back then if anything and you want to add I'd add right here 185.77 and in this particular instance 85.99 I'd have about a four point stop as simple as that. I'm prepared to lose four points very small at 185 that's two percent three percent on another add-on position but that's all I would do. So that's what I'm going to say right now. If you are going to do it I do it right now because this is the momentum that we need and most of the indices are now in leg C so you should get a pullback and then still go to a higher leg D so that'll help because Bitcoin in a way is starting to be a little bit more like an equity rather than one of the one of the extraneous safety factors in the terms of the whole currency smorgasbord of individual positions that you can have. Okay next thing is and look PKG. Thank you Jumbilie and the Den. Yeah this is one that I can't remember did we have it. It's been such a busy time I'm trying to think I think we missed it. I had it on the list and I wanted it Packaging Corps of America. So here's my quandary if I'm looking at Packaging Corporation of America PKG and it's trading at an all-time high let me just double check I believe it's an all-time high yes a way way all-time high at an all-time high at 155 what's with that I remember years ago was at a New Year's party and a good friend of mine who was in the Staples business before he was brought out I was saying packaging man packaging I can just tell you now when packaging is doing well the market is doing well the whole economy is doing well when packaging was doing bad bad at that particular point that's just not a good sign at all and here it is packaging company of America is at an all-time high SLX the steel sector not an all-time high but a major recovery high 67.12 do you understand why I'm saying that there's something else that's going on here that is different to what is being spoken about and that there are underlying aspects that I look at look at CTAS this is Cintas it had an all-time high the 460 area it slumps down to the 350s it pops over the 200 pre-moving averages into the 300s drops to the 385 area and now it's trading at 395 it's not breaking down it is off in the monthly chart you're looking at it off and I have to call this a peak B it is off the all-time high but still holding really well and this is overalls uniforms, rentals I wonder what URI is doing I haven't looked at that for a while but I've lost all my notation oh yeah how many thousand times have I notated URI than all the years I mean this is one I've followed closely forever and it makes a high in the 418 area drops to the 283ish and now it's at 352 look at that candle so you know there's just something going wrong here because if this is going to be a major bear market which a lot of people are talking about this is not the action that you'd see at least in my experience 40-50 years looking at markets I just this is very so far this is acting very well that's all I can say there's something wrong with this picture if it is to be a huge bearish bearish bearish outlook so CTS earnings this week out tomorrow in the morning okay we're watching CTS but in the daily chart it had a successful fluctuation into peak A peak B peak C minus comes all the way down holes goes to peak A peak B this has to be called DE so this is still acting really well the daily chart flat stochastic at 95% I just I'm waiting to see what the units and we put that in so this is URI which is United Rentals I mean if ever the rental business was doing badly you'd have to say just be careful out there but it's doing very well and CTS is what we're going to be looking at so 394 if some CTS regardless of earnings is able to close on Friday above 400 to me that'll be at least a decent sign saying overall it's uniforms and rentals coming back a little bit but if it starts to tumble and closes under 380 I'm going to have to say I'll rethink your the status Are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the Bay Area including the surrounding St. Petersburg Tampa and Clearwater markets Tiger Real Estate LLC is a firm that has extensive experience in the Tampa Bay Area whether you're looking to sell your current property for maximum value or you're in the market for a second home or investment property Tiger Realty has the experience across all areas of real estate in the Tampa Bay Area to help buyers and sellers make the most informed decisions across all price levels from the price you should be paying per square foot in certain up and coming areas to the type of cash flow investment properties are capable of creating Tiger Real Estate can help you make the best decision when it comes to all areas of the market before you make one of the biggest decisions of your financial future call Tiger Real Estate LLC today at<PHONE_NUMBER> or email us at tiger at TFNN.com That's<PHONE_NUMBER> Call us today The technology around us is changing every day With so much happening, it can seem impossible to keep up with all the information David White's investment newsletter, The Technology Insider is designed to give you all the information you need to understand the technology that shapes today's markets and tomorrow's future David White has made his living staying on the cutting edge of technology His weekly newsletter will give you specific recommendations for valued tech stocks as well as entry prices target prices and stops to set for each trade Dave delivers his weekly newsletters every Friday with updates throughout the week You can get The Technology Insider at TFNN.com for only $37.50 Sign up for David's newsletter, The Technology Insider and get an inside look at everything the technology sector has to offer Try it risk-free today with our 30-day money-back guarantee TFNN, Educating Investors Biotech is booming, but for how long? 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Shopify I'll tap that into the den Shopify Goes down from 1762 in November to 510 Just over a week ago And then spirals to 780 510 to 780, 200 points I mean, this is... 270 points That's like a 50% That is huge So what we are looking at here Is that coming off lows The percentage gain If you get it towards the low Is absolutely fabulous So I like that very much Something like a square They don't call it a square anymore It's called Block Inc Come on, give me a break Stay with your name I hate that Google is Google It ain't Alphabet What's that got to do with things? So anyway, 82 to 143 in square From the low that was made around about the 24th of Feb But it was at 289 It was still cut in half So the percentage gain Off a bottom is fantastic So these are very nice gains So John Deere reveals fully autonomous tractor at the CES 2022 conference Wow So dear, which we own We've owned it now since early last week Trading at Ooh! Trading hit 436 this morning 16 of 767 At an all-time high There's a chapter with stoke leg formation The breakout This breakout now looks more like a propeller shaft I don't know how much longer it can go up like this But the MACD is really strong Stochastic said 93% in the daily Only 81% in the weekly chart The MACD is strong And the monthly chart is good With a stochastic at 76% So the price is moving Up to the price Automated That is a big deal Yeah Thank you G7 and the Den I hope so We'll see So now let's go on to a couple of things That are really important So Baba coming off the low This is a Chinese company What is it? Chinese Google or something like that Ali Baba And now you've got FXI The Chinese Amazon Whatever it is Coming off the 26th area And FXI Trading at 33 right now 7 points 30% gain and nothing to sneeze at It was the FXI The large-cap China ETF Was it 54-33 Thank you GT And the other thing that you had mentioned was Boeing Boeing calls A good action in the Boeing calls Boeing is up to 188.87 Boeing is a mystery Because Boeing Self-inflicted Terrible wounds with that Unbelievably To have gone Through what they went through When their planes were crashing When the max was crashing And not almost immediately Do something about it Something way before Of course looking back everybody looks perfect Because it's 2020 hindsight But they used to be Integrity was BA Boeing was integrity And now they've lost that part of it It's really important How do they get it back So the crash that happened could be Just piloted there It could be anything we don't know We won't know for a while But most importantly Is it's big move down Or would it be the trigger to see Everything moving up It's really hard to say They just keep on having these Look at this channel in the weekly charge You know I love to draw channels With the temporary insight track Repellence and propellant zones Well look at this Since it made its peak D high In the monthly chart So the weekly chart back in The week of the 19th of March The channel down channel I mean beautiful because it's a channel That's what I mean The chart the fact that it's going down But it's been within this range And the MacD's pulled back The histogram's kind of flattening out But the week the stochastic is down below 22% on balance volume It's just very weak This is a weekly chart And all I can say is It's taken time It's not in price Down to 150 No 167 So that is a big number But not when you think that it had a low Back in March of 2020 Around number 89 Oh you remember that And there was someone in the den Who said she just told the father to buy it I think that she got 89.50% I mean she was like Within a fraction of the low And It's just a spectacular Entry point I can't remember who it was One of our den is back there Yeah so 89 runs all the way to 250s and then it comes back So in price It's been just time rather than Time and price a little bit of price But mostly it's time digesting All I can say is that You might miss the low But when eventually Stars to break above this Tap away inside track Repel and zone And then trades above it Just time alone is going to get you Just moving into July or no it'll be more than It'll be about July late July We'll move you out of this down channel Just time will do it I'm saying with price movement If there is For a whole week two weeks For two weeks growing stars to trade Six to 241 I think that's the That's going to be the move that starts A much bigger move to the At least Towards the 300 level So you're going to have to wait but that's the way I'm looking at it. Okay there are a couple of things That we're going to have to look at here because I had Questions come in and I didn't get to them I wrote it down Yes a whole bunch of questions came in What about six Again I spoke about it yesterday Six is in fact six flags entertainment We're not back in it I should have got back into it I think this is the move that has the chance To move nicely going into spring-summer This is six flags entertainment SIX up 49 cents 44.26 It's in leg C If you are interested in it I would start my position right now That is if you haven't Taken any position at all Most importantly This is one where I don't usually do this I'm going to say you need a very wide Stop 44 I'd even give it a stop just initially At 40 that's 10% For this initial position If it doesn't pull back Further than 43 Or even 42.5 But it's still so straight close to 46 I think this could be the move that takes it Towards The big resistance in the rectangle Formation which is at 47 But I think it's I think it's starting it's move right now So that is six flags Entertainment Because of 271 Sharpening your skills as An investor is like getting better At playing a musical instrument You have to practice sure But you also need excellent Instruction from experts At TFNN you'll get advice From the authority and technical Market analysis And it's not just dry tedious text either TFNN airs live Financial content streamed live On TFNN.com And TFNN's YouTube channel With Tiger TV Live every market day From 8.30 am to 4.00 pm eastern For free Each host is an experienced trader And gives their take on the market While taking calls and questions live Until the closing bell sounds Tiger TV has eight different shows With expert hosts to help you make The right moves with your money Watch online at TFNN.com Or on TFNN's YouTube channel And become the investor you were born to be TFNN Educating Investors You might think that if you want To be successful at trading in the stock market You're going to need a crystal ball After all it's impossible to predict the future right? 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I am Sam Vaknin and I am the author of Malignant Self-Love, Narcissism Revisited. There are two types of narcissists, Stingy and Meen, and those who are compulsive givers. Most narcissists feel abused and exploited when they have to pay money in order to satisfy the needs and wishes of their so-called nearest and dearest. But the compulsive givers are different. To all appearances, the compulsive giver is an altruistic, empathic and caring person. But in reality, he or she is a people pleaser and a codependent. The compulsive giver is trapped in a narrative of his own confabulation. He tells himself that his nearest and dearest need him because they are poor or inexperienced, young or lacking in intelligence and good looks. In other words, he tells himself that the recipients of his handouts are inferior to him. In this sense, compulsive giving is a kind, a variant of pathological narcissism where the giver feels superior. In reality, it is the compulsive giver who coerces, cajoles and tempts people around him to avail themselves of his services or his money. He forces himself on the recipients of his ostentatious larges. He forces the beneficiaries of his generosity and magnanimity to play the role. He is unable to deny anyone their wishes or requests, even when these are not explicit or expressed and are the mere figments of his own neediness and grandiose imagination. Rehabitably, such a person, the compulsive giver, develops unrealistic expectations. He feels that people should be immensely grateful to him and that their gratitude should translate into a kind of obsequiousness. Internally, the compulsive giver rages against the lack of reciprocity he perceives in his relationships with family, friends and colleagues. He mutely castigates everyone around him for being so ungenerous and so ungrateful. To the compulsive giver, giving is perceived as a sacrifice, and taking is always a form of exploitation. Thus, the compulsive giver gives without grace, always with visible strings attached. No wonder he is frustrated and often aggressive. In psychological jargon, we would say that the compulsive giver has alloplastic defenses with an external locus of control. This simply means that the compulsive giver relies on input from people around him to regulate his fluctuating sense of self-worth, his precarious self-esteem and his ever-shifting moods. It also means that he blames the world for his failures. Compulsive giver feels imprisoned in a hostile and mystifying universe, entirely unable to influence events, circumstances and outcomes. Compulsive giver thus avoids assuming responsibility for the consequences of his actions. Yet it is important to realize that the compulsive giver cherishes and relishes his self-conferred victimhood, and he nurtures his grudges by maintaining a meticulous accounting of everything he gives and everything he receives. It's a kind of a psychological ledger. This mental operation of masochistic bookkeeping is a background process of which compulsive givers are sometimes completely unaware. The compulsive giver is likely to vehemently deny such meanness and narrow-mindedness. He is an artist of projective identification. Compulsive giver manipulates his closest into behaving exactly the way he expects him to. He keeps lying to them and telling them that the act of giving is the only reward that he seeks. All the while, he secretly yearns for reciprocity. He rejects any attempt to rob him of his sacrificial status, and so he won't accept gifts or money, and he avoids being the recipient or beneficiary of held or even compliments.  He uses them to prove to himself that his nearest and dearest are nasty ingrates. He says, had they wanted to give me a present or to help me, they would have insisted on it. They would have ignored my protestations. His worst fears and suspicions are thus confirmed yet again. And gradually, people get tired and exhausted by his behavior, and they fall into line. They begin to feel that they are the ones who are doing the compulsive giver a favor by succumbing to his endless and overwinning charity. What can we do, they sigh. It means so much to him, and he has put so much effort into it. I just couldn't say no. I had to take what was not offered. The roles are thus reversed, and everyone is happy. The beneficiary is benefit, and the compulsive giver goes on feeling that the world is unjust, that people are self-centered exploitors. He always suspected that to be the truth, and their behavior confirms it once and for all.