Over the last year, DWM has become my go-to tiling window manager. It's the one that I've seemed to have settled on and used the most of the last year. Before that, it was I3, then I moved to DWM, and despite trying a whole bunch of other window managers, and I mean a whole bunch, DWM is the one that I keep coming back to. Over the last few months, I've had a few people ask me for tips on how to set up a suckless setup, and today that's what I'm going to show you is how to go about doing that. A few things you should know. First of all, this video is not universal.  Sorry about that. This video is not universal. I'm going to be installing this in Oracle Linux, which is based on Arch Linux, and it should work fairly well for anybody who's using Arch or a derivative of Arch, but if you're using Ubuntu or Debian or another operating system, this is not going to work for you, mainly because there are dependencies on those distributions that you only need to install before you can actually go through and build DWM or Sucklet or ST or Dmenu. So I have made a video in the past about how to do this on Ubuntu. I'll link that in the video description below and put the card up top if I remember how to do that. That video should still work just fine, but again, if you follow the one that's in this video, the tutorial is in this video, just know that it probably won't work unless you're on Arch or an Arch derivative. So let's go ahead and jump in, shall we? Now, I'm going to be doing this in a virtual machine and we're going to be doing this from XFCE. So it really doesn't matter what desktop environment you're in. When you do this, you could be on a TTY if you've just installed Arch Linux. It doesn't really matter. I just happen to have XFCE here installed. So that's what I'm going to be using. So the first thing you need to do is obviously install the program. So we're going to need a terminal and I'll zoom in here. This is a Lackardy and we'll make this full screen so you can actually see. So the first mistake people make is when they download DWM, they sometimes either download it in their home directory or they download it in their downloads folder and both of those are a mistake. And the reason why is because you delete things from those folders all the time or from those directories all the time I should say.  So the best place for this to be downloaded is in your .config file. So what I recommend you do, even if you're not going to be using all the programs, let's just say you're wanting to use ST, but you're not you're going to be using DWM. It doesn't matter no matter what combination of suckless programs you do download them in your .config slash suckless folder. So what I'm going to do is cd into .config and I'm going to make directory suckless and then I'm a cd into suckless and we'll clear the screen there and then we'll do an ls. You can just see there's nothing in here. So the next thing you have to do is make sure you have get installed. So do a sudo in this case Pacman dash s get and you also need a text editor Vim or any other text editor will work. Vim is just the best one fight me. These are already actually already installed so we can cancel that but just make sure that those two things are installed and those things are pretty much universal no matter what distribution you're doing this on because you'll need get in order to download these things. You'll need them in order to edit the configuration files. So let's go ahead and download them now. So the first thing you want to do is figure out what software you want and in this case I want DWM ST and D menu. So I'm going to do DWM first and I'm going to scroll down here to the where they have the commands you need now you could probably if you've done this often enough you'll have this memorized it's just get that suck list or slash DWM that's all it is and we'll just paste that and wait for that to clone and actually what we're waiting for that we'll go ahead and go grab ST as well. There's a there's a command down here for you to copy and paste again. It's just get that suck list or slash ST but copy and pasting is easier and as we all know easier is better. So we'll go ahead and get calling that as well now somebody asked me in a comment the other day whether or not you have to use ST and the answer that is no if you're going to use DWM you don't have to use ST but what you do have to do is go into your config.def.h file and make sure you put in there the terminal that you want to use. I'll show you that in a minute but I was thinking about that and I thought I'd answer that question. So I'm also going to do D menu here and D menu is under tools D menu and then we can just copy and paste this here okay and now if we do own LS we'll see we have D menu at DWM and ST. So now all we have to really do is make these things. So you'll want to make sure no matter what distribution you're on that you have make install now in an arch Linux you'll want to have a park package called base develop now on Arco here I already have that installed but if you've installed vanilla arch you'll want to make sure you have base develop installed that's pretty much universal it's pretty I even if you're not doing a suckless build you'll want to have base develop because it has make in it and you need make for any number of things it also has several other things in it obviously as well so what we're going to do first we're going to CD into DWM and we'll do an LS here now before I make this I'm going to actually show you how to not to use ST so if I them into config.def.h and let's say you didn't want to use ST you know what we do is we just scroll down here to the point where it defines the variable for the terminal which is right here this line right here and what you could do is just change this here from ST to a lacquerty if you have a lacquerty installer kitty you're going to have terminal whatever you want and then you just write and quit this and then what we can do is do make and then pseudo make install okay and that did just fine as long as it looks like this you're successful if it comes across as an error chances are the reason why you got an error is because you have missing dependencies because there are several distributions that don't come with the dependencies you need to actually get this installed and most usually DWM will actually go through in the second command here the pseudo make install will it will actually tell you what dependencies you need to install so in this case it works just fine so I'm going to actually CD back up a level into ST I'm going to go ahead and build ST but we'll use a lacquerty so what we'll do here is do make or excuse me yeah we'll do make and then pseudo make install now I know there are going to be other people out there that would do this a little bit differently you could do pseudo make clean install there are several ways to do this this is just the way that I've always done it and I'm going to do D menu as well so we do dot dot slash so the fact that first thing what I'm going to do is do pseudo Pacman dash RNS D menu I'm pretty sure that Arco comes with D menu pre installed so I'm going to actually go through and delete this because I want to make it myself and the reason why I want to have it as my own package that I've made myself is because then I can go through and patch it if I choose to do so if you have the one that's installed from the A you are you can easily patch it because every time it gets updated or whatever it's going to overwrite your configuration files and that's not a great thing so what I'm going to do here is to make actually what we need to do is CD dot dot slash D menu and then we can do make and then we'll do pseudo make stall now you'll notice up here that there are a couple errors in the first version is usually you can just go ahead and ignore those as long as it makes the second time fine usually that just means that there are things that are unused in the code but you could if you know enough C plus plus you could actually go through and fix those if you wanted to so what I'm going to do now is CD up to the home directory and we'll clear the screen now the next thing you'll want to do is ensure that DWM is part of your login manager so if you're using a login manager like SDDM or LightDM or LXDM or whatever it is you'll need to go through and do this next step if you're not using it if you're using an excellent RC file what you'll want to do is go through and put DWM exact DWM in your excellent RC file or you could just do start X slash bin slash DWM I believe that would work I'm using a display manager so I need to make do this next step so what I need to do is do CD slash user share X sessions again if we do an LX here we'll see the only thing that's in here right now is the XFC desktop so what I need to do is do pseudo touch DWM desktop and then I'm going to do pseudo pseudo if it will actually take my keyboard again pseudo VIM DWM desktop and then we need to go into insert mode and type the following you need to do desktop entry and then close the brackets and then encoding equals UTF dash 8 and then name equals DWM and then comment I don't think you actually need to put the comment in there but I've never actually tried it without so don't quote me on that okay and then exec this for sure you do need and you're going to be telling it what to exact when you select a choice and then the icon equals DWM and then the type equals X session it was like that okay and you got to make sure you do that the capitalizing there right and then I always leave a couple extra spaces at the end I don't know whether or not that's that's actually something that you need or not but I found sometimes in these types of entries if you don't leave that extra space at the end things just won't work so get out of exit out of insert mode right quick right quit this and we're good now hopefully we're at a position where we can log out and log into DWM so what I'm just going to go ahead and do that and we can actually close Firefox there close this and then log out now this is awesome I don't know why it's not showing up in the full screen but doesn't really matter we need to go down here now depending on what display manager you use this will be in a different place if you use GDM it'll be down here in the corner like underneath where my video is if you use light DM or I think I said they're wrong if you use GDM it'll be down here in the corner if you use light DM it will be up at the top probably somewhere in the bar and this is SDDM so it's right here and because I'm in a virtual machine SDDM does not always like it so especially when you're in full screen so I need to get out of full screen go back into full screen see if it will work now there we go now see how this has an option for DWM just select that and do TLC which is my password you know because everyone wanted to know my password it's okay it's strong and complicated but you're not supposed to tell everybody your password it's okay it's not the password I use it's horrible alright anyways so this is DWM and it worked just fine so what we need to do is do alt enter alt shift enter I think is the right one here and alt is going to be your super key and alt shift enter is to get to your terminal now I want to want to do is go through and get the right display resolution here so I'm going to do X render dash S 1920 by 1080 and that will get us full strain so we can clear that out now you have a full DWM suckless setup here if you want to use D menu it's alt P that gives us D menu up here at the top if you wanted to use ST you'd have to find this because remember we changed that but ST is here as well if you want to close something alt shift C closes the window alt shift C again alt shift X would take you out of DWM completely and that's your suckless setup that's how you do it now another thing I get asked is how to patch DWM and ST so the process for patching any suckless software is exactly the same so I'm just going to focus on DWM but just know that if you're going to add a patch to D to ST or D menu or surf or something like that the process is exactly the same so the first thing you want to do is actually go find yourself the patches that you want to do so I've already done this but I'll just show you where to find these so if you open up Firefox and you actually have to know how to spell Firefox in order to you know open it I don't I don't know if you know this or not you actually have to spell things right in order to launch them it's done so you'll get you want to do is go to suckless.org and then go to DWM and then patches and then just find the patches you want to do now basically what patches do is they add functionality right so what they're doing is adding code when you so let's just say you want to do this bar height one let's just say you wanted to you click on that and then you right click and they click save link as and you'll want to make sure this is in your DWM folder within the suckless folder in your dot config folder the directory folder directory I'm always going to make that mistake so you save this into that directory and then you would go through and go to your terminal and you just CD into dot config suckless DWM if you do an LS here you'll see that file that you just downloaded and then you can go through and patch that now I'm not going to patch that one in I have some other ones that I'm going to patch in so what I'm going to do is go into my downloads folder and do an LS here I want to move everything that starts with that diff or ends with that diff into tilde slash dot config suckless DWM okay and then we do an LS that should be empty okay good now close that now if we do an LS here I'll have the ones that I want to do added so what I'm going to do is show you how to patch it's very easy so we'll just do CD we'll do patch dash P1 and then that symbol what that symbol is I don't know I missed that day in school it's either the greater than or less than symbol I don't know you could tell me a hundred different times in the comments below I'm never going to remember so I'm just going to call it that symbol and then what you want to do is the path to the tag but because we're in the directory where the patch resides we just can type in the name of the patch so in this case we're going to do DWM dash per tag and then enter this is going to be a little bit different than all the other ones because per tag doesn't actually look normal if it comes out like this it succeeded so let's do another one do patch dash P1 and then we'll do DWM dash attach below basically what this will do is we'll make it so that this the window spawns on the right hand side of the the screen instead of the left hand side of the screen we'll hit that and enter oops you notice what I did there on I forgot that symbol so there were that sign I do that okay that succeeded and you can see how this looks different now this is what most patches will look like the hunk basically just means a block of code and you want to see all the blocks of code succeeded and in this case it did so I'm going to go ahead and do warp next I'm going to do patch dash P1 I'm not going to forget the symbol this time and do DWM dash warp that worked just fine and then I want to show you what happens when something fails so the reason why I pre downloaded these tags or these this particular selection of patches is because I know if I do it in this order this last one should fail and that way I can actually show you what to do when something fails so if I do patch dash P1 watch it succeed this time because it definitely failed last time and then the one we want to do is DWM dash vanity gaps it's always a pain in the butt so we hit this and look at that we have some failures so and we actually I do have fewer fewer failures this time that I did last time but that's okay it's all going to be the same so in this position what you want to do is take note of the file that it saved in this case it saved us a file called DWM dot C dot reject this tells us two things first it tells us what file we need to check and see what changes we need to make and it also tells us what file it failed for in this case it failed for DWM dot C so whatever changes it tells us to make in the dot reject file we need to make those changes in DWM dot C so I'm going to go ahead and then into DWM dot C dot reject okay and in this case we have to delete some code and we know we would need to delete it because here along the side you can see all these minus signs that means you need to delete if you added a if you had to add something it would be a plus so sometimes you'll see in a reject file you'll see pluses and minuses that means there are code blocks that you have to add and you have to subtract and you would have to go through and do each and every one of those it will only create one DWM dot C dash that reject file so sometimes there's going to be multiple changes you have to make in this file in this case we just have to go through and delete some stuff in DWM dot C so I'm going to open another terminal and I'm going to zoom in so you can see and I'm actually going to move this over actually don't have that patch installed in DWM by default you can't move something you know to the top of the stack it's the dumbest thing I mean seriously it's like that that's functionality that should be by default but it's okay I should be able to at least make this bigger which I can okay so we're going to cd into dot config if I can spell suckless if I can spell DWM if I can spell and we'll do an ls here now remember earlier I told you to delete config dot h right so remove config dot h that way any of these patches that I've made will make it a brand new config dot h with the new patches so we're going to do is them into DWM dot C and what we want to do is find the particular lines is telling us to delete in this case them has done us a favor because I've actually gone through and done this once and OBS stopped recording and I hate OBS and OBS needs to die not right now it can die after I'm done recording anyways them has remembered where I was before and basically what I wanted what I need to do is delete these lines here all the way to where it says so in this case we need to delete from void and title monitor asterisk them all the way down to right before void toggle bar so in this case we'll just go through and do this so we'll just keep going down using in visual mode until we get to void toggle bar and we'll let delete and then we'll hit dd to get rid of a couple of these extra spaces will right quit on that and we'll do make okay and we'll do pseudo make install and then enter password hi there Matt from the future here a couple things that I didn't cover in what I was just talking about two things first of all when a patch fails just know that it's not always DWM dot C I didn't really mention that I kind of implied that it was always DWM dot C that fails but every once in a while when you install the patch you'll have failures and other files as well that file that gets popped up when you get mentioned it fails so in this case it was DWM dot C dot reject or dot R AJ if you have other files that also have failures you can see those in that output as well so you might see config dot def dot H dot reject you might see one of the other ones just know that if you have rejects or you have failures in multiple files or in different files you'll have to correct each and every one of those failures in order for your patch to work so for example the time before when I did that patch before OBS crashed and everything made me sad I had two different failures I had one in config dot def dot H and I had the one that I corrected on camera that you just saw so I had to go through and actually correct both those now the reason why I didn't have that second one the second time was because I hadn't made any changes to config dot def dot H in this version of DWM because I'd had to delete DWM in order to rerecord stuff so that's the reason why I only had one failure but just know that it's possible for you to have failures in multiple files and you want to make sure you pay attention to those reject files because it's possible that you have more than one the second thing that I wanted to mention is that I didn't do this correctly okay after every single patch that you install you'll want to make and make install or make clean install whichever one you decide to do don't do as I did and go through install a whole bunch of patches and then rebuild your DWM configuration because the way I did it ended up working fine as you'll see here in a minute but it's possible that if you go through and install a whole bunch of patches and then make something it's possible that you'll have errors in your build in your when you go through and recompile and you don't necessarily know which patches the one that went through and you know caused you the problems because you've installed five or six patches so always do not what I do go through and install patch recompile reboot or log out and log back in make sure everything's hunky-dory before you go through and do another patch always do that I'm going to talk about later about making sure you back up after every single patch so make sure you pay attention all the way to the video before you start patching stuff because a lot of the stuff is very important and unfortunately I didn't go through and do this in the right order so I'm recording this much later while I'm editing and I was watching it's like Matt you're going to cause a lot of people a lot of problems if you don't tell them to be very careful in terms of how they go through and build their stuff so again just to reiterate make sure you build after every single patch and also pay attention to the end of the video because I'm going to talk about backing up your files before you make patches and stuff like that so back to past Matt as he continues on with the patching process and that's done so if I go through and do super shift Q and now and log out and then get myself interestingly enough I I made a mistake earlier I don't know if anybody caught it but I didn't realize it did I made changes to config.h instead of config.def.h when I changed my no I didn't oh you and I know what I did wrong remember I said OBS failed I didn't make my changes to the config.def.h to change the terminal and to change the my key bindings again because I actually had to go through and delete DWM and start over again so never mind me I know what I'm doing it's okay so we're going to do is X Rander to get my display resolution back 1920 by 10 oops by 1080 okay and then to zoom in ST it's super shift page up and we'll clear this out so so now that we're actually back in DWM and got things up and running again and we know that it works because we've logged out and log back in and everything's working fine that's how you patch and that's how you fix a patch when it fails you'll notice that you'll find your patches failing more as you add more patches so the what basically what patches do is they add and subtract code and that means that the code in DWM.C and config.def.h that code moves around to different lines right and sometimes those lines that are supposed to be there get deleted by patches that's what those diff files are they delete and add blocks of code and the more patches you add the more different your code is so that any new patches that you add are looking for code that is either in a different place than it used to be or should be by default or doesn't exist at all and that means that your patches will continue to fail more and more as you add more patches I've never gotten to the point where I can add more than seven or eight patches in a stock version of DWM now there is a DWM fork called flexopatch or something like that that will probably allow you to add more patches because it does some magic but if you're just building DWM the way I did you'll notice that once you get to seven or eight patches you're going to probably have reached your limit especially with patches that affect the bar because the bar has a ton of variables that set the width and the length of it and each patch kind of messes with that thing and changes the variables and the changes the variable names it's really kind of a mess so the more patches you use that affect the bar the more apt you are to find ones that fail especially ones that deal with color deal with transparency the alpha patch for example those things just fail all the time and you'll get to a point where even if you go through and manage to fix the patches manually like I just showed you how to do you'll get to a point where DWM just will stop working because the patch or you'll get to a point where your patches won't work and that's because you'll have patches that are just incompatible they'll never ever work together and there are many like that so if you can even if you've manually patched a patch in and it just won't take that means that you have some other patch there that's just they're just conflicting so the biggest tip I can give you is make sure you back up your files your DWM and your suckless files every time you make a change so a lot of people do this through get so you can go through and create a get repository for your suckless files and then every before you make a change push those files up to your get lab or you get hub that way if you've made a change to your DWM and you've made a patch and it doesn't work and it breaks things you can just pull that back down and go back to your old working configuration do this every time before you've made a patch change that way you always have one version of DWM or suckless or ST or DWM or D menu I can't talk that works that you know works if you don't want to use get just do a CP dash R on your suckless folder that I showed you how to make and save that somewhere else so you have a backup and do that every single time you make a change before you made the change that way like I said if something goes horribly terribly wrong you have a backup and you don't have to worry about going through and starting completely over I'm not very good at doing the backup thing on DWM I get really excited about the patches and then just go through and do pow patches or patches on patches on patches and eventually I regret it so don't be me do as I say not as I do I think that's what the way that goes anyways now I have to go figure out how to edit this video which is now in two parts so that's what I'm going to go do if this video has been uploaded you'll know I've 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Welcome back everyone. We have started talking about Saul's encounter with Jesus for the road to Damascus. So before we go ahead, I just thought we can quickly see about the last part that we discussed about Philip and his journey. This is how it looks. We have earlier seen that he was in Jerusalem and that he comes up to Samaria, from Samaria he is told to go to Gaza and so he comes here and this is where he meets the Ethiopian eunuch who was travelling out back from Jerusalem and the Ethiopian eunuch, you know from Jerusalem he must be going headed back for but here Philip meets the Ethiopian eunuch and obviously the Ethiopian eunuch went back to Africa and Philip continues his journey. So from here he was transported supernaturally to Azotes which we all wish, I don't know maybe in our ministry but it still happens so you never know whether one of us may experience that and he was supernaturally transported to Azotes and from there he goes around preaching the churches of Caesarea and that is how the map looks just for our clarity. Alright, now let's come back to the experience of Apostle Paul. So we talked about Jesus responding to the persecution of Saul and he says why are you persecuting me? But look at the response which Saul had, obviously he knew that this was something supernatural and so with awe and reverence he responds and says who are you Lord? That is the question which Saul has and he uses the term Lord because for a person like him to know in that moment that this is supernatural, this is beyond the normal occurrence in the natural world is something amazing because he recognized that this is God. Remember even Saul is about Jew so he had the fear of God in his heart so he responds to the voice saying who are you Lord and that Jesus who does not need any introduction is introducing himself. I think about the kindness of our God. God could have said how dare you ask who I am because I am the one who has created the entire universe but that was not his response. Instead when Paul wanted to know who the voice is, whose voice it was, Jesus responds and says I am Jesus who you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the God so the God's are like some sticks in which you have cattle and they would use certain sticks to guide their direction and those sticks would restrict the feet of the cattle and it was hard for them to come out of that or to resist the way it would work those sticks to indicate to the cattle which direction they need to go in and all that. So in a sense Jesus was telling him that you can't do your own thing. You can't resist what I am doing in people's lives as well as in your life because I am God at the end of the day. So that kind of language would have made sense to solve. I know that for us today we asked like what is the meaning of this, what is the insertion of God's and kicking against the God's but it's a restriction or you know some sort of I'm not getting the right word to really tell you but some extremely sharp stick which was used to get an ox going the way you wanted when flowing because that's what it is and Saul would have understood that language. So let's see what else happens here. The response of Saul is in reverence trembling and astonished. He asked Lord what do you want me to do? Wow, it sounds like acceptable, isn't it? The people when they heard the sermon of Peter that's how they responded and at this point earlier we saw in the previous chapter there was a person of great influence the Ethiopian Yuna who got touched and how in Acts chapter 9 it's a persecutor the most unlikely person that we would consider for you know forgiveness and salvation but God is God and he's touching the lives of all kinds of people and Paul obviously he's touched Paul is convinced in that encounter that Jesus is the Christ and so now you know he is asking God and Jesus Lord what do you want me to do? Him saying Lord itself is amazing because here is a persecutor he's even killing those who follow this Jesus and in a short moment he is using the term Lord to speak to Jesus. So Saul is touched, Saul is convinced, Saul is changed in that encounter on the road to Damascus. He had a different agenda but God changed the agenda of his entire life on that particular road and so we see that Saul is now willing to hear what God wants him to do and God instructs him arise and go into the city and you will be told what you must do. So again you see the direction of the Holy Spirit the direction of God in the entire book of Acts is something that we must desire for like wow these people are hearing from God, God is talking to different ones and right now it is Saul to whom God gives an instruction and says go into Damascus just go into the city you know I'll tell you what to do next but for now this is what I want you to do next step. So in our lives as I told us earlier sometimes we want to know the entire picture but how does God work? Maybe the next step is all that God thinks necessary to reveal to us and even for Saul it was just the next step and so now what happens we know that this was a real encounter because there were people who were with Saul who saw you know they sorry they didn't see anyone but they heard the voice so the voice which was speaking to Saul they heard it so if it was just Saul having some sort of a delusional experience imaginary you know encounter then we can blame you know Luke for it but Luke I already told us that he was a very detailed person in his accounting he was also like you know a doctor by profession so he didn't miss out on the important facts that he needs to tell the readers he's pointing out that whatever happened to Saul on the road to Damascus was not in his imagination it was real because there were people who were standing next to him who heard the voice but they did not see anyone okay so there were others who testified to what actually happened and they stood speechless also tells us that this was supernatural which the others could also testify to and then you know we see that when God spoke to Saul and met him in this way Saul he arose from the ground but one thing happened to him that he was not able to see any longer okay now we can all ask the question why is it that Saul became blind and there are so many explanations that people give they say that oh there was a bright light when he had the encounter and maybe that affected his eye now we don't know though all these things are speculations but one thing we know is that when he had that particular encounter when he arose he couldn't see and so he had to be led by hand into the city of Damascus and over there he was fasting for three days without sight and neither ate nor drank now again the question arises why was Paul fasting we can only have some speculation one thing is that about Saul we will see later on also that the Jewish tradition the Jewish customs are something that he had practiced his entire life so maybe at a time like this when he needed to show reverence to God the right thing to do was to fast and to seek the Lord while he waited for his eyes to be healed or he could have just fasted in and prayed repenting of his sins of how he was persecuting the Jews or you know he could have been asking God for a touch or a healing for his eye or direction for his life there's so much that could have actually gone on in Paul's heart and he would have chosen to fast and pray seek the Lord in those moments or it can just be that the encounter was overwhelming for him because it was super natural he never expected it you know how if God inter sort of intercepts in our lives and we were we were thinking of some grand plans but here is God just coming in you know intercepting our lives and showing us a different direction it can be such a jolt and so maybe he was just shocked that something like this has happened and he had a supernatural encounter and so you find that he goes into the seeking God mode he's fasting for three days he didn't eat anything he didn't drink anything that sounds like the fast of Esther you remember she also fasted three days no eating no drinking also so they didn't even drink water so this is like an Esther fasted dry fast that he went into now let's see God had told him that hey I will tell you once you go into the city of Tabascus now how does God actually minister to him let's start to read from verse 10 let's read till verse 19 yes go ahead is it now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias and to him the Lord said in a vision Ananias and he said here I am Lord so the Lord said to him arise and go to the street called straight and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus for behold he's praying and in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight then Ananias answered Lord I have heard from many about this man how much harm he has done to your saints in Jerusalem and here he has authority from the chief priest to bind all who call on your name but the Lord said to him go for he is a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles kings and the children of Israel for I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name's sake and Ananias went his way and entered the house and laying his hands on him he said brother Saul the Lord Jesus who appeared to you on the road as you came has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales and he received his sight at once and he arose and was baptized so when he had received what he was strengthened then Saul's Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus should I continue yes thank you Rosalind so we are looking at how God guided him in Damascus so now we are introduced to a man known as Ananias this is not the Ananias and Sapphira that Ananias that's a different Ananias who experienced a severe judgment in the time of great revival this Ananias is from Damascus he's a disciple it says that means he's a believer in the Lord Jesus and nothing more is mentioned about him therefore when we are only told that he's a disciple he's probably like an ordinary believer right so you just look at the ways in which God works God is reaching out to Ananias and from chapter 8 we are seeing the prophetic communication of God meaning how does God speak to people we saw how the angel came and told Philip go down you know go down to Gaza and then we saw how Philip receives how he received we don't know maybe the spirit he got that communication with God said okay go overtake the chariot right and then we saw the supernatural transportation now what's happening encounter Paul has an encounter on the road he hears a voice from heaven and all okay that's all done now coming to Ananias another picture here is that a vision a vision is is what he receives Ananias okay so the Lord is speaking to him in a vision and the Lord said in a vision Ananias how would you like that how would we like it you know we get a vision which God is saying Nancy or you know any one of us success or Jefina that means there is something very specific that God wants to tell us okay so how does Ananias respond thank God for people like Philip and Ananias they are responding positively and obediently maybe that's why God went to them isn't it so the response of Ananias here I am Lord yes present present promise it's living say in the class so he shows up and he says yes I'm available Lord please tell me what to do and the Lord said to him directions right everywhere arise and go so much work to do we can't afford to sit down and you know rest or sleep so exciting God is getting people on their toes and say come on get up you have to go here you have to go there do this do that so again there's a message to Ananias Paul Saul was told to come to Damascus now where is Ananias going arise go to the street called Strait and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus for behold he is praying this would have been a shock for Ananias I'll tell you why but you notice how God communicates so there's a vision in the vision there is an instruction but in the instruction there is a word of knowledge because Ananias is being told the address of a persecutor how would we like it you know in the vision we are the only ones we came to know where the persecutor is and God is telling us okay go here you know in India we have like fifth cross the seventh main road all that and the house may be MG road and go to house number 3322 okay if there is a house that please don't go but I'm just saying random right but what of knowledge how would Ananias know where to go you see God can give us specific information as well we just need to desire it it has happened in the book of Acts it's nothing you know great for God he can give very very specific information in this case it's an address so God gave Ananias Saul's address and very clearly who the Saul is not just any Saul Saul of Tarsus and I'm sending you to him because he's seeking me he's praying remember he was fasting isn't it so he's seeking me now and see how God is communicating in this situation he's saying now Saul has also been informed he saw in a vision a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him so that he might receive his sight so both sides God has communicated that this is what he intends to do Ananias get up go to this address meet Saul of Tarsus because you have to lay your hands on him and pray for him he will receive his sight okay now let's see what is the response of this obedient disciple who said yes here I am Lord okay Ananias what do you have to show us verse 13 how Ananias is trying to you know give God a justification he says Lord I have heard from many about this man you know how much harm he has done to your saints and Jerusalem and here he has authority from the chief priest to bite all who call on your name so he's telling God as if God doesn't know this assignment is dangerous Lord like in other words reconsider or pick someone else you know I I cannot jeopardize my own life you want me to go to this man who has come here with the agenda of persecuting killing oh why would somebody go and meet such a person so he's trying to tell God what God already knows okay sometimes we do that when God speaks to us we try to say are you sure is that my number or is it a wrong number like Lord what's happening but God says to Ananias I know what I'm doing okay go for he's a chosen vessel of mine to bear my name before Gentiles kings and the children of Israel but I will show him how many things he must suffer for my name sake in other words Jesus is saying this person is going to be a minister of God and you know his influences is great and he'll go through a lot for the kingdom of God so you don't worry so he's being convinced that now Saul of Tars is is no longer that persecutor but he is now a disciple or a believer you know beginning as a believer of course will become a disciple of the Lord Jesus so now that God has given him the assurance Ananias is okay so it was 17 he went his way and entered the house again that shows us how sensitive Ananias just like Philip was to the voice of God that he was convinced by what God showed him about this all of Tarsus and he goes whatever God told him in that instruction he does that he lays hands on him and he calls him brother Saul okay you know all these things are very minor but it shows us how people responded to the voice of God because it was very clear for them so for Ananias at this point it was no longer fear he first of all went and entered the house and he's calling the persecutor brother so apparently in you know those times when they used use our brother or brethren they're referring to other believers so by now Ananias is sure that Saul is a believer so he's a brother Saul the Lord Jesus appeared to you on the road as you came has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit okay and immediately what happens the scales fell off as something like scales falls off his eyes he received his sight and he arose and was baptized but we also know that he would have been filled with the Holy Spirit because that's why Ananias actually went there so what's happening in these moments three days ago you know he encountered God he's blind and he's a believer but he doesn't know what to do does he know about the vision for his life you know we don't know at this point whether he's clear on those matters but he's seeking the Lord okay you see even for Paul he needed to go through that growth step by step just because he was meant to be a mighty apostle God doesn't you know exempt him from the important truths of the word like you know we notice here that yes he needed healing for the blindness but he needed to be filled with the Holy Spirit okay and also he had to be baptized in water so both of those things actually happened and now Saul is a confirmed believer in the Lord Jesus others who hear about him at least other believers who would hear about may have heard about him would have a little bit of peace in their hearts knowing that okay finally you know this man has given his life to Jesus but what truth that I want to point out for us here is that like who did God pick to pray for baptism in the Holy Spirit for a mighty apostle what is the status of Ananias is he a prophet or is he some pastor or some teacher is a normal disciple ordinary believer exactly exactly so that's the point see for God no he uses anyone to minister to anyone and it's such a privilege to know that an ordinary disciple that's who God picked to minister to you know apostle Paul about who this half the course is about him but God picked an ordinary believer sometimes even in our lives right God we just tell us you go do this you go pray for someone go lay hand on someone don't worry too much about you know who that is what it's all about obedience and those little steps that we take to minister and similarly when it comes to you know we observe someone ministering maybe a child is praying for an adult and he must not stop them saying oh what can God do through this child God use Ananias to minister to Paul God can use anyone to minister to anyone and that is a reality which we see in scripture so at this point to be seen how Saul is now fine his vision is back he is baptized in the Holy Spirit he's baptized in water he's made his confession he's a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and what happens after that so we are told that he continued to stay in Damascus for a little more time when he was strengthened so he you know after fasting he broke his fast and went back to his regular eating and he was strengthened both physically and I'm sure spiritually other disciples would have strengthened him and taught him a couple of things about following Jesus and so he remained there now let's move on and let's see what happens to the ministry of Saul let's read from verse 20 to 22 priests but saw increased all the more in strength and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus proving that this Jesus is the Christ. Yeah thank you Rosalie so obviously we know that the call on Saul's life was to minister to many people we saw that right God spoke to Ananias and said you stand before kings so he was going to influence the influencers that's his call and notice how when we carry the call of God it stars us up to do what we are called to do okay and so Saul could sense it right from the start and apart from that his natural personality his natural training his natural background we know that he came from a very learned you know upbringing and no wonder he was part of the synagogue because you have to be very highly qualified to be a part of that group so even from his natural experiences and his personality he seems to be more of a leader he seems to be more of someone who steps out and goes for whatever they believe in and so immediately we are told so once now Saul is settled he's stronger physically and growing spiritually he starts to preach immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues and you also notice how synagogues are the places where the Jews gather right for learning for fellowship so in the synagogues he goes and he begins to preach but this time who is he preaching about he's preaching about the Son of God so that is a puzzling matter for everyone in the entire region because if you see somebody who hates Jesus loving Jesus overnight it's hard to accept very hard to accept and people were amazed and they were questioning they were saying isn't this the same person who was destroying those who believed in this name and now he's out preaching in that same name what's going on but scripture just tells us that he continued to do what God called him to do so you know when we carry the call of God in our lives you see those you see those you know like I don't know how to put it like embers maybe when we are even when we are young even when we don't have great opportunities the call of God stirs us up sometimes you know even we just begin to do what we are called to do and there will be a good amount of time before Paul can actually start to preach you know but right after his conversion we see that he's trying to step into the call that God has for his life and he continued to strengthen himself he went to the synagogues and it says confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus so that means he he probably got in got reasoning with Jews people asking him questions and he was able to answer those questions and show them why the Lord Jesus is the Messiah so he was proving that Jesus is the Messiah and it's understandable he came from a learned background so he was a very intellectual man he would have been able to just the way we saw you know others port from the scriptures he would have been able to port the scriptures really well to convince the Jews of the fact that Jesus is the Messiah so now let's move on what happens in verse 23 maybe we can read the entire stretch from verse 23 to verse 30 now after many days were passed the Jews plotted to kill him but the plot became known to Saul and they watched the gates day and night to kill him then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket Saul a Jerusalem and when Saul had come to Jerusalem he tried to join the disciples but they were all afraid of him and did not believe that he was a disciple but Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles and he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road and that he had spoken to him and how he had preached holy at Damascus in the name of Jesus he was with them at Jerusalem coming in and going out and he spoke holy in the name of Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists but they attempted to kill him when the brethren found out they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus. Yes thank you Rosalind so we're looking at how Paul is moving towards the call that God has for him we saw that he was going to the synagogues confounding the Jews proving that Jesus is the Christ but he may have felt the need to go to the place that it all began to Jerusalem we saw right we saw how ministry was coming out of Jerusalem so he may have thought if I go to Jerusalem meet the apostles I may have an opportunity to be trained by them or sit under their teaching and learn but he goes there he tries to join the disciples but what is the response they are also afraid of him and they're not able to believe how can a man like this who has persecuted the disciples now suddenly claimed to be a disciple so they don't receive him but remember Barnabas we talked about Barnabas earlier we said he was a son of encouragement and he was also from a pretty wealthy background so maybe Barnabas understood you know where Saul is coming from and he was the one who did this this work of how to say this but not really convince the apostles but to make a way for Saul because still that time he was not accepted even among the apostles but there was a man like Barnabas who who seems to be who seems to have this personality of hey everyone's important that you know we must we must care even for someone whom we are not able to accept so he seems to have that kind of a very accommodating personality and so a persecutor such as Paul he instead of shunning him away he says okay come let me do something for you I will take you to the apostles and he takes us all to the apostles and he tries to speak to them about everything that happened in Saul's life so that they can understand that now this man is a true disciple so once Barnabas did this bridging job they were accepting of him and they are told that he was with them at Jerusalem but later on you know some of the episodes that apostle Paul writes we'll notice that he was not there for a very long time he was there for a short duration so we can't even say that all the teachings that the apostles had they were able to impart it to him right away not at all he was there for a very short period of time and you know he continued to do the work that he knew to do so he went ahead and he started preaching about Jesus there were the Greeks speaking Jews the Hellenists who disputed with him we are told and things went so far that they disliked him to the extent of attempting to kill him okay so now it is quite clear for us that this man Saul is a disciple he's preaching Jesus to the extent that people are even wanting to kill him right so it's clear that Saul is a disciple and when the attempt to kill Saul happens by that time the believers in Jerusalem are convinced that this man is genuine and so they are willing to help him and they bring him down to Caesarea and they send him to Tarsus so Saul is originally from Tarsus and that's the place where they might have advised him to go back to for his own safety you know for a period of time so Saul tried to minister it was not easy but he managed to minister for a short period of time and he sent back to Tarsus so now what are some of the other things that take place so we look at that let's now go to verse 31 we can read all the way till verse 42 uh okay brother I'm sorry to interrupt you it's not very clear what you want to hear thank you so much for you know attempting to read would you like to continue or we can we can have another person asking are you hearing me now ah yes yes so much better so much better please go on okay thank you then the churches throughout all Judea Galilee and Samaria had peace and were edified and working in the fear of the Lord and in comfort of the Holy Spirit they were multiplied now it came to pass as Paul went through all the parts of the country that he also came down into the saints who dwelt in Lydia they there he found a certain man named Anias who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed and Peter said to him Anias Jesus the Christ hails you arise and make your bed then he arose immediately so all who dwelt at Lydia and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord at Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha which is translated Dorokas this woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did but it happened in those days that she that she became sick and died when they had washed her they laid her in the upper room and since Lydia was near Joppa the disciples had heard that Peter was there they sent two men to him empowering him not to delay in coming to them then Peter arose and went to them with them when he had come they brought him to the upper room and the and all the widows stood by him whipping showing the tunics and gametes with which Dorokas had made while she was with them but Peter put them all out and knelt down and prayed and turning to the body he said Tabitha arise and she opened her eyes and when she saw Peter she sat up then she gave then he gave his hand and lifted her up and when she had called and when he had called the the saints and the widows he presented her alive and it came it became known throughout all Joppa and many believed on on the road so it was that she stayed many days in Joppa with Simon Atana Amen. Wow so all the miracles are continuing on one hand we saw Philip believer doing ministry Ananias a believer doing ministry so though we are focusing on you know something that is happening in the life of one or two people there is so much more that's actually parallely going on in the Church of Jerusalem churches around surrounding in the surrounding regions so one thing is clear as as we read that the churches throughout all Judea Galilee Samaria had peace and were edified what else do we see walking in the fear of the Lord comfort of the Holy Spirit and they were multiplied so thriving churches existed in the region because of the ongoing ministry of various believers and various apostles and now another very notable figure is included which would be Apostle Paul who we will study about but in the overall picture the church is thriving or the body of Christ is thriving persecution or no persecution they are continuing to grow and God is you know reaching the hearts and lives of people now we will now see the focus shift to Peter and Peter is ministering in some regions we have names such as in the Sharon, Lidda, Joppa so these places where about 40 kilometers or 25 miles away from Jerusalem so then you know you know how far these apostles have actually gone and the work is thriving so they go to Lidda and there is a notable miracle a man called Annius who was wedded in eight years he is now restored back and you know Peter ministers to him and he says Jesus Christ heals you arise and make your bed so see how the healing is ministered in this case there is an instruction isn't it so it's not always the same we have to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit and Peter again being led by the Holy Spirit gives that right instruction at that time and commands healing and he says you need to arise make your bed and he arose immediately wow supernatural supernatural things are taking place around that region and people see the people who live there they see and they turn to the Lord so what is a property of miracles or healings deliverances what does it do to you know those who are seen these things manifest their hearts get stirred up towards God in this case very clearly Luke writes they turn to the Lord and they saw this eight year paralyzed man recover and next is a resurrection think about you know Peter's ministry he has gone to Lidda and you know he has ministered to this paralyzed man he must have thought okay time to take a holiday now I'm so tired you know God has done powerful things let's take rest but what happens right after right at Joppa there is a lady a very devout good lady known for good works but she became sick and died her name is Tabitha and what happens immediately you know the since Lidda was near Joppa and the disciples had heard that Peter was there they were like okay Peter we know you're in the neighborhood you better come here because there's another task for you and how would Peter have responded when the disciples came and said you know what there's a lady she just died and you're supposed to raise her from the dead can you come can you come quickly okay so this is the way Peter's ministry is going and a man full of faith okay he just goes to Joppa and there he's ready to minister even to somebody who is dead and he says Tabitha in El town prayed turning to the body he says Tabitha arise and under the miracle happens what is this resurrection she opened her eyes okay and when she saw Peter she sat up okay every region something amazing is going on and so we see that the church and the work of God is thriving so the passage there says I became known throughout all Joppa and many believed in the Lord so in this manner the God was actually causing the church to be very fruitful and we noticed that some of these places they were at two highways at that time Egypt and Syria highway Joppa and Jerusalem highway so you know in those regions as people came to know the Lord we're sure that you know the gospel would have spread further away from here as well so these are the notable works that God was doing in the midst of his people and then you know Peter stayed in the house of a man a tanner by the name of Simon there's something amazing that will take place you know even at during this state at Simon's house but we'll talk about that in the next class so let's just stop here if there's anything you want to talk share you can share if not we can just pray and close for today yeah so true no Zellie we are reading it and we are amazed I don't know how it was when it was actually happening and if you look at scripture even today we should be experiencing these amazing things okay so let's expect let's expect God to move powerfully in and through our lives and our churches shall we all close with a word of prayer I just request any one person to please go ahead unmute and pray please let's pray. Dear Heavenly Father we come to you under the name of Jesus we thank you for this day we thank you for the class that we had we thank you for the power of the Holy Spirit Jesus we thank you that you chose to dwell in us and you chose to move through us Jesus what are merry humans that you even think about us Lord but God you do you love this you gave your life for us God I just pray that as we are learning about the power of the Holy Spirit behind every disciple when we accept him the power of the Holy Spirit during the early churches God and as we are learning about it God I just pray that we will put it into practice we will seek you more we will keep your gospel as our priority in everything that we do on this life so that we can move powerfully for you we could raise a community of believers for you Jesus that the words we speak will be spoken at the right time that people could be touched and be and their souls could be saved for your kingdom Jesus we just pray that you will use us we are surrendering ourselves Jesus I surrender each and everyone in this class we are just surrendering ourselves we are humbling ourselves in your presence Jesus take us and use us for your kingdom Lord we keep you all the glory and honor in Jesus name we pray amen amen thank you thank you Triphina thank you everyone God bless you have a blessed weekend and I'll see you next week so bye fellow thank you