The Christian exercise. Why? Why do we labor and strive? Because we trust the living God from whom those promises come. Pointing back to the promises again. Because he is the savior of all men, especially of those who believe. You see the flow of the argument here? The flow of the statement. For various reasons, some people want to take the faithful saying that is worthy of all acceptance in verse 9 and have that point forward to that which comes after in verse 10, right? For several reasons. Similar to, we see the argument in chapter 1 verse 15. The faithful saying that Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. We see another faithful statement in chapter 3 verse 1. This is a faithful saying. If a man desires the position of a bishop, he desires a good thing. But here, for several other reasons. Reflecting back on the pronoun this. This is a faithful saying. What is a faithful saying? Points back to its antecedent in godliness. Exercise yourself toward godliness. The labor and striving of verse 10. Pointing back to the point of exercising yourself toward godliness in verse 8. A trusting God. Trusting in the living God for his promises. Pointing back to the promises that we see in verse 8. And particularly the flow of the statement here and how that harmonizes together. There's more to it than just that. But that's why we would look at verse 9. This is a faithful saying. Worthy of all acceptance. As pointing back to that which was said in verse 8. That being said, you can't go wrong either way. How many statements in scripture are you familiar with that are not faithful? There's none. They're all faithful. How many passages in scripture are not worthy of all acceptance? There are none. They're all worthy of acceptance. So you can't go wrong here. But footnote for this. In our Bible study, we'd have to take Bible study. We'd have to make progress in our study of God's word. In moving on from milk to solid food. From milk to meat. We've got to begin making observations in the text. Observing the text. Interpreting the text and applying the text. And so I encourage you. I exhort you to study deeply. If we're going to take in a healthy diet of God's word. We've got to move on from the milk and on to the meat. And so that takes work. That takes diligence. If you're going to do good observation of this text as you study through it. Then one of those observations that's going to come up is going to be the question. What is this faithful saying referring to? Does it refer to verse 8? Or does it refer to verse 10? And you study and you think. And you're pointed to other passages of scripture. That'll inform your understanding of that. And you'll come to a decision. The purpose of that work is so that you can rightly interpret the word of God. So that you can rightly apply the word of God to your life. It's good to read scripture. And it's good to study the scripture. Study the Bible. The right way to avoid error. The right way to avoid or to keep from falling into this false teaching. This error that is permeating the church at Ephesus. Is to be precise with the text. To be careful with how you handle the word of God. And in that we are to be a diligent worker. Right? Not ashamed. Rightly handling. Rightly dividing the word of God. Now Paul is explaining here and all that. That there is a heavenly promise. There's a heavenly promise to godliness. A promise for this life and the life to come. But there is a difficult and strenuous earthly work that must be done. And the reason that we enter into that strenuous work is because we trust God. We trust the living God. So let's break down this text. We're in first Timothy chapter 4. Looking beginning at verse 10. He begins 4 to this end. In your observation of the text you have to ask what is this pointing to? For what end? Or for what reason? For the reason of godliness. And the promise is just referenced in verse 8. He goes on to say 4 to this end we both labor and suffer reproach. That word labor there is copioman. It means hard labor. There's no way around it. Hard diligent labor. Labor to the point of exhaustion. And with that suffer reproach the manuscript evidence supports a derivative there for agonizomai. It's where we get our word agonize. Strive. So we have hard labor to the point of exhaustion and strive agonize. It emphasizes here the wearisome nature of the Christian life. The wearisome nature of Christian work. That's in the present tense. It means it is ongoing. Christian life is a life of an ongoing present active life of hard labor to the point of exhaustion and agonizing, striving. And Paul knew well what it meant to labor and strive for the Lord. At the end of his life Paul said to me that I have fought the good fight. What are you talking about fight Paul? Christian life is a fight? Yes. Yes it's a fight. And he says I have run. I have finished my race. Christian life. Again back to that Christian athleticism. It is a race. It's a fight. Colossians 1, 29 says this. To this end Paul says I also labor. Striving according to his working. This is the same words right? Labor, striving, toil. Striving according to his working which works in me mightily. At the same time that you labor for the Lord the Lord is laboring in you to do into will according to his good pleasure. But we are to strive and the Lord works in us. In 1st Corinthians chapter 4 verse 12 the Bible says in we labor. Working with our own hands. Being reviled we bless. Being persecuted we endure. That's the Christian life. I remember witnessing to someone in their driveway not too long ago. Just could not get over the fact that the Christian life was a life of effort. And it was just this let go and let God mentality. Where I don't do anything. God does everything. And the fact that I don't do anything. God's grace just covers all of that. I just go to God for forgiveness. This is not a right biblical understanding of the work of God. The labor of God. The life of the Christian. 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23. Paul talks about labors more abundant. Paul talks about being beaten. 40 stripes minus one. Right whipped. He was once stoned. Shipwrecked. In constant peril. In sleeplessness. In hunger. In thirst. He says there in wearisome. In weariness. And in toil. And all of that over concern for the churches. Paul was in labor for the Lord. And doesn't Paul. You see that in Scripture throughout the Bible. That Paul in laboring was always concerned that his labor would be in vain. Sometimes compared it to childbirth. That his laboring for them would be in vain. If they didn't repent and turn to Christ. If Christ wasn't rooted and grounded in them. Always concerned. All that agonizing. All that exhaustion. If done in vain would be for nothing. But our labor in the Lord is not in vain. Amen. Amen. It is a slow laborious work over a lifetime. This is not a sprint. The Christian life is a marathon. It is a slow laborious work over a lifetime. Charles Spurgeon tells a story of running into a little girl working. He says this. A poor woman had a supply of coal laid at her door by a charitable neighbor.  So I said to the child, do you expect to get all that coal in with that little shovel? And she was quite confused at my question, Spurgeon said. But her answer was very striking. Yes, sir, if I work long enough. You see the point? Humble worker, Spurgeon says, make up for your want of ability by abundant continuance in well-doing. And your life work will not be trivial. Sometimes we have the misconception that all our labor for the Lord needs to be some grand and glorious work. It's just faithfulness, faithfulness in little things over time. The laborious work of the Christian over the extent of the Christian life until the Lord takes you home. And it is a glorious work. And it's all that word. Humble worker, make up for your want of ability by abundant continuance in well-doing. And your life work will not be trivial. The repetition of small efforts will affect more than the occasional use of great talents. Seriously, when you consider the Christian life, when you consider impending death, when you consider impending death, the death of others, your death, shouldn't we cultivate an eternal perspective with respect to the diligence with which we pursue labor for the Lord? Is there any other reason but an eternal reason to labor and work and toil in this life? The Lord gives us the greatest reasons, gives us the greatest hope. Only one life will soon be passed. Only what's done for Christ will last. Many, many, many labor in this life and toil for nothing more than fleeting temporary pleasures. No thought given whatsoever to their eternal destiny and laying up for themselves treasure in heaven. Those things that will not rot, that rust will not destroy. In all their labor and toil there is no gain. Paul says to Timothy that godliness with contentment is great gain, amen. Word of labor for the Lord. Ecclesiastes chapter 1 verse 14 says this, I've seen all the works that are done under the sun and indeed all is vanity and grasping for the wind. All the work done under the sun, vanity, grasping for the wind. Ecclesiastes chapter 6 verse 7, all the labor of man is for his mouth and yet his soul is not satisfied. It's vanity. Turn to Ecclesiastes chapter 2. Let me give you another example of this. Ecclesiastes chapter 2, just after Proverbs. Ecclesiastes chapter 2. And here Solomon, wisest and richest man on the earth, seeking to indulge himself in a little experiment. Many in their work, many today, seek to simply satisfy their earthly desires, simply to indulge themselves to gain some temporary satisfaction. Here Solomon had all the resource, everything he needed to be able to indulge his every desire and he labored to that end, right, labored to do that. Look at Ecclesiastes chapter 2, the beginning in verse 9, verse 9. So here Solomon said, I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me. Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure. Solomon's wealth allowed this for himself. He didn't withhold anything from himself. He had all the wealth, now think about it. Not many that are wealthy, well no one, wealthy like Solomon was wealthy. All that wealth, you just provide for yourself, your own indulgent. The next boat, the bigger house, the nicer car, whatever it is, you're just providing for yourself, your own self-indulgence. And Solomon goes on to say at the end of verse 10, for my heart rejoiced in all my labor. You can gain satisfaction, joy if you will, from those things. That is by the grace of God to you. God's common grace in allowing you to enjoy the fruits of your labor. But here Solomon had the sense of satisfaction, of rejoicing in all that wealth and all that could supply for a temporary, fleeting self-indulgence. His heart rejoiced in all his labor. Now the value of that, what is the value of that? We'll go on to hear, the value of that is nothing. It is worthless because it is fleeting and temporary. This was a reward from all my labor, he says in verse 10, verse 11. Then I looked at all the works that my hands had done. And on the labor in which I had toiled, indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun. You can have everything. You can be wealthy beyond your imagination. You can have all that Solomon had and enjoy, even rejoice in your heart over the temporary satisfaction that that gives you and there is no real gain. There's no real value. It is vanity and grasping for the wind at the end of the day. Because this life is fleeting. This life is a vapor. It pops up for a moment and vanishes away with time. There was no profit here under the sun. Verse 12. So I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can a man do who succeeds the king only what he has already done? In other words, Solomon sets out on this experiment of his to indulge himself. He has everything. All the wealth that he can imagine, all the wealth that he needs. And so who can exceed the king in this? He can only be matched. This is the experiment that Solomon is running, verse 13. Then as a result of this, right, thinking through it. You think through it this morning. You think about what you are doing that lasts for eternity. And that what you are doing to just build bigger barns for yourself. Think about the meaning of your life, the purpose for your life. That what you labor and toil and strive for. Does it have real lasting eternal value? Or with everything else in this world, is it just going to be burned up in the end as wood, hay and stubble? Will it be as gold and precious stones, right? Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. The wise man's eyes, verse 14, are in his head. But the fool walks in darkness. Yet I myself perceive that the same event happens to them all. What event is that? Death.  Death comes to the rich and to the poor. Death comes to the active, the working and the lazy. Death comes. Death comes. The same event happens to them all. Verse 15. So I said in my heart, as it happens to the fool, it also happens to me. And why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, this also is vanity. You see Solomon's thinking here. You see the train of the argument, the progression of the argument. Verse 16. For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever. Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. And how does a wise man die as the fool? Remember hearing in the news, not long ago, Steve Jobs' death. Steve Jobs had an impact on the world. Has he not? Everyone's account, you know, what he did impacts the world as we know it today. And what will happen to it? It'll burn up with everything else. His work, because it wasn't of eternal value, will be wood, hay and stubble, like the rest, and he takes place in the same place next to the fool at his death. What eternal significance are we working for? What are we doing with our lives? This is vanity. It is grasping for the wind. Look at verse 17. Therefore Solomon said, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me for all is vanity and grasping for the wind. Because it is temporarily minded, earthly minded, of no eternal significance, right? Not eternally minded. Reminds me of John 12, verse 25. He who loves his life will what? Will lose it.  He who hates his life in this world will what? Will keep it, keep it to eternal life. I imagine that Jesus Christ, thinking of these words, and Ecclesiastes even, as he said those things in John 12. He who loves his life will lose it.  Verse 18. Solomon goes on, then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun because I must leave it to the man who will come after me.  Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Verse 20. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun for there is a man whose labor is with wisdom and knowledge and skill yet he must leave his heritage to a man who is not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun? The answer to that question is nothing. Nothing. You can toil and strive and work for all those things on this side of eternity that bring you temporal joy.  And in the end it is vanity and grasping for the wind. There is nothing that lasts.  We all will stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Verse 23. For all his days are sorrowful and his work burdensome. Even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity. Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. Again, that is the grace of God. In this earth as the Lord in his grace and in his mercy gives you another breath. Take a breath. It's the grace of God to you. It's the grace of God to you. And we can in this life enjoy in some temporary way the satisfaction of the labor of our hands. It's the grace of God to you. You might as well enjoy it. Listen, if that's the way you're going to live, apart from Christ, apart from laboring in the Lord's vineyard for those things that have eternal significance, then it is your best life now. You're not going to have the best life to come. Enjoy it now. It's the grace of God that you can. This also I saw was from the hand of God. Verse 25. For who can eat or who can have enjoyment more than I, considering all that Solomon has? Verse 26. For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in his sight, but to the sinner, he gives the work of gathering and collecting that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind. It all comes down in Solomon's thinking and in the thinking of the Christian. The chief end of man, the purpose, Ecclesiastes 12, to fear God and to keep his commandments. Amen. That has eternal significance. Back in 1 Timothy, people live to enjoy this life only. They strive and they labor to build bigger and bigger barns. Listen to this parable that Christ preaches in Luke chapter 12. Listen to this. He spoke a parable to them saying, The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully and he thought within himself saying, What shall I do since I have no room to store my crops? He said, I'll do this. I'll pull down my barns and build greater. And there I will store all my crops and all my goods and I'll say to my soul, So you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease. Drink and be merry. Does that describe your life? Does that describe, Man, I've just got to grow my nest egg. Got to grow my 401k. Got to get to the next car, the next house. The next pleasure so that I can indulge myself. The next paycheck so that I can consume it on my lusts. Is that the direction of your life? Is that the motive of your heart? Is that how you live despite what you say? Where are you this morning? God said to him, verse 20, Fool! You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided? So is he, Christ says, who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God. Only one life will soon be passed. It's only what's done for Christ that will last. So what should be the motivation, the mindset for the Christian concerning labor, concerning work, concerning toil? We're to strive, agonize. We're to work to the point of exhaustion in the Lord's vineyard. What should be our attitude toward that? Why should we labor and toil and strive and strain to be a good worker for the Lord? To be a diligent worker? To be a faithful slave, as the Bible says. What draws out this work ethic in the Christian? What draws it out? Verse 10, back in 1 Timothy chapter 4. For to this end, we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the savior of all men, especially of those who believe. That word trust there, very interesting word. It's the word El Pizo. It means I hope. It means hope. We have fixed our hope on the living God because we hope, we trust in the living God, not on a dead idol, right? Not on the dead idol. This is the living God because he is the living God because Jesus Christ was risen from the dead and conquered death. God in Christ secures a promise for us for the life that now is and for that life which is to come because we hope in the living God our hope, as Peter says, is a living hope. 1 Peter chapter 1, verse 3. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Is your hope a living hope? Is it a vibrant, active, working, laboring, striving, toiling hope? Is it a hope that engenders in you, that draws out that Christian work ethic for the Lord? Is it a living hope? This is trusting in God. This is faith in Christ. Hope being a product of faith and hope in the promises of God. What fear cannot do? What external conformity cannot do? What hypocrisy cannot do? What fake, aesthetic, mindless, ritualistic religion cannot do? Hope and faith in Christ can. If you'll put your hope and faith in him. Hope in the power of the Holy Spirit is what draws out this labor. What draws out this motivation for labor and toil and striving and exercising yourself toward Godliness in the Christian life. It's hope in Christ, faith in Christ that draws that out, that motivates that. Motivates our labor along with love, gratefulness, thankfulness in our hearts to Christ. Hope draws out great anticipation for Godliness. Hope draws out great anticipation for holiness without which no one will see the Lord. It's hope that draws out fervent service, fervent labor. Listen to this from Paul in Acts 26. Paul, the life, the service, the labor for the Lord. As a result of that labor and as a result of the persecution that Paul was under goes to stand before a grippa, king of grippa. In Acts chapter 26, listen to what Paul says. Paul stands to give testimony before king of grippa and he says, and now I stand in verse 6 and am judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers. To this promise, our 12 tribes earnestly serving God night and day hope to attain. Why? Why were they serving God night and day? Because they hoped in the promises of God. Why was Paul standing before king of grippa? Because he hoped in the promises of God. Why did he endure the affliction? Why did he endure the persecution? Because of hope in the promises of God. It's because of hope. Night and day they hope to attain. For this hope's sake, king of grippa, I am accused by the Jews. Are you struggling in your service to the Lord? Where's your hope? Are you apathetic, indifferent? Are you wallowing in self-indulgence? Where is your hope? Where's the hope of His coming? Have you lost an excitement or a zeal in your service to the Lord? Have you lost that fervor, that earnestness, that diligence that is the fruit of genuine repentance? Have you lost that? Where is your hope? Have you lost a fervency in laboring for the living God? If you have, then in some way, in some manner, you have lost sight, some sense of the hope for that life which now is and that which is to come. You must inform your hope. You must hope in Christ. Romans 5 says that hope is a product of patience and character poured out in your heart by the Holy Spirit. Are you walking under the control of the Holy Spirit? If you're walking according to the flesh, you will quench your hope. How can you hope if you're in the flesh? How can you hope if you're not walking by faith in Christ according to the Spirit? You must walk according to the Spirit. Romans 15, verse 4 says that hope comes, and listen, right along the line with what we're talking about, hope comes from a healthy diet of God's Word. For whatever things were written before, were written for our learning in verse 4, it says, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope that comes through the patience and the comfort of the Scriptures. Are you neglecting a daily diet of God's Word? If you're neglecting a daily diet of God's Word, then your hope will be weak or nonexistent. Hope in Christ is a byproduct of faith. Romans 15, verse 13 says, now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that's faith, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Hope in Christ is a byproduct of faith. Are you lacking faithfulness in evangelism? Are you weak when it comes to evangelism? Do you shy away from those opportunities in sin, disobeying the Lord, not sharing the Gospel? Where is your hope in Christ? 2 Corinthians 3, verse 12 says, therefore, since we have such hope, we use great boldness of speech. Hope will inform and empower your evangelism. Are you weak in evangelism? Hope in Christ.  Are you cold toward the praise of God? Psalm 71, verse 14 says, but I will hope continually and will praise you yet more and more. Or worship is informed by hope. Are you struggling in your battle with sin? Are you apathetic or indifferent in the battle? Are you suffering defeat? Examine yourself. Where is your hope? 1 John 3, verse 3, and everyone who has this hope in him purifies himself just as he is pure. Hope will help you in the battle. Are you waiting around for God to do something? You're not going to take that step of action yourself. You're not going to step out in fervent, diligent service of the Lord and labor for the Lord. You're waiting for the Lord to do something in you. Sitting around waiting for the Lord to give you a sign, some experience, some whatever to do a work in you. The Bible would say, act in hope. Romans 8, 25 says, we are eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body, for we were saved in this hope. But hope that is seen is not hope. For why does one still hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. Don't wait around to see some reason for your hope. Hope, because the Lord has said it to be true. Hope in Christ. Our hope in Christ even produces perseverance, patience. We eagerly wait for it. Romans 8, 25 says with perseverance, waiting for the hope that is to be revealed. This is the kind of hope that is the product of genuine saving faith. This is the hope that abides in Christ regardless of circumstances. Going gets tough. You don't know where that next check is coming from. You don't know how the next meal is going on the table. Marriage is rocky. Difficulty with the kids. Hard time at work. Cars breaking down. Whatever it is. This is the kind of hope that perseveres despite circumstances. That's someone that you love. You're pouring your heart and soul into them to share the gospel with them. They're just as hard hearted as they always are as they always have been. Hope in Christ. Hebrews 6, verse 19 says this hope we have as an anchor for the soul both sure and steadfast. Think about Aaron. When Nadav and Abihu brought strange fire before the Lord. His sons and the Lord killed them. What did Aaron do? How did Aaron respond? Aaron had a job to do. Aaron worked in the temple and Aaron continued on the work. He had to. He had to. He continued working. Hoping in God. Are you going to make excuses for why you don't? Paul despite all the beatings, despite the shipwreck, despite the stoning, despite all the persecution just continues in hope serving the Lord. What excuse do you have for not? It's too hot outside? What are you going to say? What's going to fly before God when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ? Allow hope in Christ to inform your service, your diligence for the Lord. With a flow of blood that just hoped that if she could stretch out just touch the hem of his garment that she'd be healed. Hope in Christ. Are you struggling with sin? Are you losing in the battle? Hope in Christ. Faith in Christ. To hope in anything else is idolatry. To hope in circumstances is idolatry. To hope in the next check a relative helping out. Hope in that scratch off thing. It's idolatry. It's idolatry.  Your hope is in any of that prayer is your hope. I love this prayer. There is none all good as thou art God. With thee I can live without other things, for thou art God all sufficient. Can you say that? With thee I can live without other things for thou art God all sufficient. And the glory, peace, rest, and joy of the world is a creaturely perishing thing in comparison with thee. Help me to know that he who hopes for nothing but thee and for all things only for thee hopes truly. That I must place all my happiness in holiness and godliness, right? Place all my happiness in that godliness if I hope to be filled with all grace. Convince me God that I can have no peace at death nor hope that I should go to Christ unless I intend to do his will and have his fullness why I live while I live. You can have no hope that you'll go to Christ unless your hope and faith in Christ drives you to do his will and to live wholeheartedly for him. It's interesting in 1 Timothy 4 that in the event or in the case that you may feel alone in that you may feel like the struggle you're all by yourself, right? And no one goes through this but me no one's ever endured this but me woe is me, right? Unless you feel as though you're alone in that battle Paul uses a very important little word look at verse 10 for to this end, we we both labor and sufferer approach because we we trust in the living God who is the savior of all men a little word we we've got a church, a church family brothers and sisters who love you who care for you who will encourage you and exhort you who will stir you up to love and good works it's we together what does Ephesians 4 verse 4 say there is one body and one spirit just as you were called in one hope, one hope that's the hope of the Christian the wicked have no hope their hope is a vain wicked devilish hope at best Job chapter 8 verse 13 says the hope of the hypocrite shall perish Job 11 the eyes of the wicked will fail and they shall not escape and their hope loss of life Ephesians chapter 2 says that the wicked are strangers from the promise and without hope in the world no hope for the wicked no hope for the wicked where is your hope this morning think about it for a moment where is your hope don't be deceived by your own lying words examine your heart where is your hope this morning are you hoping that it will all work out in the end because you are a good person that is a vain and empty hope hoping that the Lord will just forgive you while you continue in your rebellion in your hard-hearted wicked self-indulgence living life for yourself that is a vain lying and deceiving hope if you are not consumed if you are not consumed whole heart, whole mind all your strength, all your soul consumed with hope in the person and work of Jesus Christ then you have a vain empty lying deceiving hope consumed with hope in the mercy and grace of God in Christ that's where your hope needs to be if your hope isn't the hope that flows from faith that hope that drives you drives your life produces godliness, produces obedience to the commands of Christ that all your hope is in vain you have no hope do you hope for heaven while harboring lust in your heart do you hope for heaven while you harbor unforgiveness in your heart anger in your heart do you hope for heaven while all of your temporal enjoyments are wrapped up in the trappings of this wicked world that is an empty vain false hope there's no love or delight in your heart for the word of God such that you actually invest in studying the word of God there's no burden in your heart for evangelizing the lost there's no hatred in your heart for the sin that caused our Lord to suffer there's no hunger or thirst for the righteousness that is demanded by God do you hope for heaven and you don't see yourself as wicked or how holy God is you hope for heaven and you've never mourned over your sin you've never really turned from your sin you still enjoy the pleasures of your sin you plan to go back to your sin provision for the flesh even though you know it offends God do you hope for heaven even though God has never radically changed your life you've never been born again do you hope for heaven even though your hope for heaven includes all kinds of hopes except the hope that Christ will be there welcoming you is your heaven your idea of heaven a christless heaven you have no hope you have a wicked baseless devilish hope at best and the longer that you persist in that kind of hope you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath and the righteous revelation of the judgment of God turn to Christ and live hope only in him he secured our hope the promises of God in him are yes and amen in Christ when it is hopeless for you to live a life that is pleasing to God listen if you're outside of Christ it's hopeless for you hopeless for you to live a life that is pleasing to God when you come to grips with the hopelessness of that come to grips with the fact that Jesus Christ lived a perfectly sinless life fulfilling the righteous demands of God and in him there is hope that you can apply his righteousness to your own wretched bankrupt account that in him you can be made righteous before God so that you can stand before a holy and just God not a God who is going to wink at sin or sweep sin under the rug or turn a blind eye to sin a God who is just in condemning sin who will judge sin who will exact payment for every sin will you pay for that yourself or will you have the savior will you have Christ pay it for you the only way is for you to turn from your sin to trust in Christ buried risen again on the third day according to the scriptures God in the flesh who died as a substitute for those that would turn from their sin and place their faith and trust and reliance and hope in Christ if you don't turn from your sin again fully with all your life hoping and trusting in him now and you will one day suffer one of the greatest torments of hell one of the greatest torments of an everlasting hell an eternal hell is the utter hopelessness of it when you've set out and you've burned for a million years you've only just begun it's hopeless there is no escape there's no escape there's two options heaven with hope realized in Christ or hell and it's utter and eternal hopelessness God offer his offer extends to all for to this end verse 10 we both labor strive because we trust we hope in the living God this is the savior of all men especially of those who believe this is our God God despite all of those pagan gods those wicked false lying God in light of all of the gods of the wicked false religions of this world is the only God and in that sense he is God the savior of all men there is no other savior universalism that all men are saved there are many many many who will go to hell 2nd Thessalonians chapter 1 verse 7 says the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ these shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power in contradiction to the antics I mean the popes a false statement about atheists all you have to do is obey your conscience and you'll be right with God and go to heaven wicked lies from satan the lie of a wicked one hope in Christ there are many who will go to hell we're to understand this God as being the savior of all men in exactly the same way that we discussed in chapter 2 verse 6 where Jesus Christ has said to have given himself as a ransom for all does God actually save all? no there are many who go to hell does Jesus Christ actually ransom all? no there are many who go to hell in chapter 2 verse 5 there is emphasis there that there is only one savior for all men there is one mediator one mediator between God and men the man Christ Jesus God here is the only savior for all men in that sense savior of all of them as opposed to all of those other false gods who are no saviors at all regardless of who you are regardless of what you believe whether you're the pope or that atheist God is the only savior that you can look to for salvation in Christ there is no other he is the only savior for all men this is further clarified by the word melista in greek especially there savior of all men especially of those who believe meaning namely particularly doesn't really fit if you're familiar with all kinds of interpretation there really doesn't fit God is the savior of all kinds of men all kinds of plumbers and cpa's and presidents and whoever especially those who believe God is the savior God is the only savior but especially praise God for those who believe saying that only believers number one will be saved that said is it your belief that saves you or God's grace it's God's grace that saves God doesn't choose you based on your belief based on your faith he chooses you for salvation based on his grace in other words as opposed to Arminianism typical in a lot of churches and chronic about producing cheap grace or easy because it's a false theology God doesn't look down the quarter of time and choose you based on your belief God writes the script of time and chooses exclusively based on his grace in other words it's for knowledge not for sight as the scripture plainly teaches back to being precise with the text a theology is all mixed up because there's no precision with the text of scripture your belief does not accomplish your salvation the grace of God in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ accomplishes your salvation faith is not the ground of your salvation it's the means Christ is the ground of your salvation Ephesians chapter 1 verses 3 through 6 blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ just as he chose us in him when before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to himself according to our belief according to a free act of our will no but according to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of our free will to the praise and the glory of our decision to follow him to the praise and the glory of our choice no to the praise of the glory of his grace by which he made us accepted in the beloved so that God may be glorified in all things in this again back in verse 10 he applies this he ties this labor this grace of God this hope ties it directly to the gospel this is where our labor is to be look in 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse 10 for to this end we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the savior of all men especially those who believe tying it to the gospel really quickly turn with me to 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 why is it got to listen faster 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 look at verse 9 alright we labor we labor the Lord calls us to labor we're to hope in Christ to motivate that labor we labor why do we labor look at verse 9 therefore we make it our aim whether present or absent to be well pleasing to him that's one reason we labor to be well pleasing to him why because we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to see the things done in the body according to what he has done whether good or bad that's a good reason to labor we're going to stand before him to be pleasing to him here's another reason verse 11 knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we persuade men Paul and his labor us in our labor there's reward both for himself and reward eternal benefit to the lost we want to be accepted of him to hear those words well done good and faithful slave to be well pleasing in his sight but also knowing the terror of the Lord there's an eternal benefit to the lost it goes back to our purpose in chapter 4 verse 16 that if we continue in these things you'll save both yourself and those who hear you to be well pleasing to God and to be of eternal benefit to the lost we must preach the gospel and Paul wraps up this paragraph or this section with these words these things command and teach command there a very strong military word came to be known as an authoritative statement an announcement a command but it's command and teach if you instruct the brethren in these things you'll be a good minister of Jesus Christ it's command and teach it has to be here a combination of both we can have just blind commands in scripture the Lord is gracious we always have reasons for commands we always have instruction that supports the command right it's grace from God to have the why that motivates obedience to the commands of God so all commands have reasoning behind them we're to command and we're to teach with that but it is wrong listen now it is wrong to teach and not command the church by and large does today there are no commands from thus sayeth the Lord there's a bunch of what they would call teaching and most of that doesn't come from the word of God we are to command and we're to teach we're not only to teach and not command it is wrong to sit in a church and never feel conviction the Lord Jesus Christ commands you this way and you aren't doing it what will you say to the Lord you must have application command the Bible is not a book of helpful advice self-help tips you know little colloquialisms to live a blessed happy life the Bible is a book of word of the Lord full of commands full of good instruction good doctrine how do we speak teach and command with authority can't do that on your own you can only do that with the authority that is derived from God himself through his word we're to teach we're to construct from the word of God the word of God is authoritative and from the word of God we both can teach and command regardless of your youth regardless of your timidity regardless of your weakness we're studying pastor Timothy a little bit here as we go through first Timothy regardless of how inadequate you may feel regardless of where you're at regardless of your circumstances if you're in Christ listen to the law and to the testimony you must teach and command from the word of God you must instruct from the word of God you must inform your own understanding from the word of God you've got to have diet with that diet of God's word you have to exercise yourself toward godliness and with diet exercising yourself toward godliness you'll become more godly and you are to be at work in the Lord's vineyard and we're to do all that in hope he who plows in hope should or he who plows should plow in in hope get a good diet of God's word exercise yourself toward godliness be hard at work in his vineyard do it all in hope with hope in Christ and you'll be a good servant of the Lord Jesus Christ amen amen let's pray Father in heaven we're thank you for this time and your word God thank you for the instruction that we have from this beautiful passage God and just thank you for the exhortation thank you Lord that you both command and teach help us to be faithful by the strength supplied in your spirit God to do the same to be faithful in your work God to be motivated by hope in Christ and God we pray break through the wicked concrete around our hearts sometimes that hope is to one degree another smothered out or corrupted or covered up by God please sanctify us cleanse us Lord empower us strengthen us by your spirit we believe God help our unbelief help us Lord again by the strength supplied in your spirit to follow you fervently for your glory God for the advance of your kingdom knowing as you say in verse 16 we say both ourselves and those who hear us Lord that to be well pleasing to you the terror of the Lord we persuade God both understanding the kindness and severity of God we love you Lord we thank you God for Christ and thank you for your spirit we hope and trust in you we know Lord that you are faithful to your promises all glory praise and honor be to you in Jesus name we pray Amen


Nicholas Light how does he die off himself because your forger doesn't exist in the real world before I die I wanted to check out episode 14 of spy family So it makes me feel more lonely and more envious of Lloyd forger. So this is my last video. Enjoy. I Don't want to see that again. I want to see this again Yeah, I want to see that again Oh Yeah, I actually like this more than the first intro now. I feel like it fits the vibe of a show more.     Give me his name right now. Where's my head?  That's what we're gonna have a problem I want to rip your throat out. You told the dog to do that I will do it. I'll get on all fours pounce on you and rip your throat out of my mouth do it after the dog That was the next level Bond He said It's my new puppy. It's mr. Broerff He's hiding a bomb under all that fat.    I'll use my disney princess Yeah, one looked like Connie from attack on time Damn mr.  Would you trust her? It's a code of face stealing spirit from avatar to last airbender. I would not trust her Is this what happened when Lloyd dies the sky turns black Oh this show went from here to here I love how they're dressed for the season as if it takes place in the real world with us She's She whispered at him. I can't wish your eyes.   Borf All right, mommy She has those animate hands out look like she's running like this.   We're gonna see more of her I still can't get over that Barbie's on their team over here. This is a perfect disguise Oh Light them up That's why your belongs in the FBI Put her in there. She does more work than the cox.  That's a rip his tongue out What boy just appear by smoke bomb This dude's living my dream right now. He's living my dream. I don't care if I'm tired of it I can't see anything. He's living my dream. He got stepped on by the handler. He's getting manhandled I ain't about him. But for her Whoa You know what is this speech I have chills right now That was one of the best speeches I've heard Oh my god, the way she runs down that have you ever Seen your your partner's flesh on a wall nearby Have you ever got hit by a bus? Have you ever got ran the train on and murdered at the same time? Like she went down that list That was dope man. It shows you her experience. Just one single speech Dispose of me Damn that was good No, come here dog I have something for you He looks like he's just sitting there listening to music I wrote you in my depth though. Why aren't you dying? Oh, I'm so happy I found this show Oh Come on, mr. Dog, I love how little iron is on her own mission with force That makes my heart happy. They're all doing their own thing Damn, what happened to school? Is this normally happening at least some people are stunned. They're like, why is this girl riding a bear in the middle of the city?  Oh my god. You gotta put him on a diet when you get him This is too much cuteness. I don't think I can handle this. I don't think I can handle this guys Thank you very much She's so smart.  It's over Kaiju fight. Come on.   I'll write your name twice He lost his eyes again. I feel bad for the doggy. I better not see no dog flesh on the walls Dogs in a blob like a firework watch Look how smart she is She did her little anime run. She's taking after mommy look at her This dog is tired. I wonder if they really got a dog in the studio for remorse. They're actually a guy and they're going like I could be a dog. I think I could do that Yeah, bud We would add an early end to spy family if he didn't bark right there He's so fat Bro, she shouldn't be anywhere near this Oh my gosh, she's putting on gloves. Was she gonna read the bomb's minds? Don't touch anything. It's just the end of spy family. Is she about to die? Wait, I bet bond knows how to disarm it. Yo, this is tense man.  What's she gonna do with that? Damn Lloyd's taking the backseat this season so far.  She points at it. No I wouldn't want to lay a fart on the train bro. This guy would know exactly who did it Stop it. My message is Oh, goodbye, Lloyd Man, why is my heart racing? I thought he's not gonna die What is this show Great to have your music back. Look at him.  I knew that was gonna happen I think it is a message. She says no wait, this is the dubbed version Why doesn't it say no in Japanese? What Lloyd knows every language now?  Would he age 40 years?  He looks like a Skeletor now Wait, was that even Lloyd? Oh, that wasn't Lloyd. I was like, wait a minute There's my theme Damn Lloyd is like a real investigator spy this season We're seeing more of that side I wouldn't trust anybody with a name like that He probably touched his children. Anya don't step foot by him He's back.  He looks like Ganon Does that mean the car's gonna blow up? Is the limo better blow up? Is the limo better blow up? What are you doing? Thank god, isn't it the hole in the room? I got worried. I thought what I said was gonna come true.   How many times are you gonna fall for this?  I don't know who's Lloyd anymore. I know he's Being the man. I know that's him, but still you never know. You never know He could be Anya.   That's like a real car chase.  Could I carry grenades in my pocket in japan? I mean, this isn't monolith of japan, baby germany, but still Man that looks like a real car. You saw the way it bounced. I know that's CGI probably But I didn't know they were used to CGI. I don't think they used it in the first season Oh, you gotta put your arms out, man.  Oh if I have I met down in the alley I'm going Don't I don't want to hit a dog. Look he's striking. Oh my god.   Can my dog do that? Why do you have to reveal yourself to the dog?  That better be the dog. That was a fun episode I had fun with that one. I like seeing Lloyd on a mission like that In season one, it was more of him being the parent and he had like his little missions on the side He was trying to balance that but I feel like this season. There's a balance.   I'm nervous for next week.  The dog had a bomb strap to him. So I don't know where they're going with this. Anyways Yeah, how'd you guys feel about the episode? Let me know down below. Are you a borf enthusiast? Are you partnered the borf fan club like I am? His name is Brian. Don't call him the boy. His name's borf. You know how guy's name is is Henry But but they call him Jay for some reason. Yeah. Well, this is the same situation. I'm calling bond borf I almost forgot.  So hopefully this video gets uploaded. Good night


But he ain't in the neighborhood. Yeah, he's not out of the neighborhood should Grew up in in the mall hung out with dudes went to Linwood High School went to college Played football came back start doing security. He never was an active gang member. Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one It was there. He was brought on by Reggie, right? So this is Pacoima dudes all of them is short.  He just ran over Terry No, it was an accident Terry was trying to help him was it was an unfortunate accident But everything was against you the murder case against media mogul should night the truck backs up Hits one man seconds later The truck comes back and wow. He had to go while America said thumbs down on him and he didn't have the Acumen he didn't have the common sense to lay low Yeah, and sometimes you just got to lay low let things just go over Well, what and just bring me up to date on the story like when he ran over Terry Was it that he was trying to stop him from going somewhere. What was it about? No, he he got into a situation with bone him and this dude bone got into a situation and She was in fear of his life and He backed this car backed his truck up when he backed his truck up Terry jumped out the car to help him and When she was seeing something that Shug him he put the car in drive and came and Terry ran trying and slipped and failed and went up under the car the truck backs up hits one man seconds later The truck comes back and and he ran over the top of him. He didn't never see never saw Terry Wow, it was never intentional But he didn't use the advice that It should have been should have snitched so he should have snitched but he here is he really out of gang member He's trying to keep it 100 He didn't wait a minute.  No, he's not a gang member So he wasn't a bullet he was he was from it was from the mob, but he's not a mob gang member Explain that to a person who don't know Just like brother said that he's from the neighborhood, but he ain't in the name. Yeah, he's not out of the neighborhood should Grew up in in the mob Hung out with dudes went to Linwood High School went to college played football came back start doing security He never was an active gang member But did he used to wear red all the time and he patrol that portrayed the image.   Do you think of him as a gang member of him, but that's an illusion Yeah, we on boss talk one-on-one


Item No. SCP-4715 Object Class Keter Special Containment Procedures SCP-4715 has been contained in the containment complex within Area-4715-23. Area-4715-23 is an underground compound located 315 meters below sea level at an undisclosed location within Canada's sticking region, chosen for both its distance from the nearest city and proximity to LOI-517-SIGMA. Stocks of materials required for Procedure-4715-Waiting Moon are to be maintained on-site. The containment complex consists of two 20x30x20m cells, environmentally regulated, in order to simulate a mid-plasticine climate, seasonally between –10 and 5°C. A central observation and security laboratory oversees both chambers.  In addition to visual observation, throughout each cell, video, motion sensing, and thermal security cameras have been installed for remote observation of the subject, and will release concentrated breves into ferritox and aerosol sprays should SCP-4715 reach containment. Aerosol will continue to be sprayed until it has been driven back to an acceptable proximity to the containment chambers, or until manually shut off by site command. The personnel prove incapable of preventing SCP-4715 from exiting area 4715-23. Detonation of the on-site thermal barrack weapon is authorized. Following this, recontainment of SCP-4715 must be carried out before it is able to fully recover. Procedure-4715-Waiting Moon Procedure-4715-Waiting Moon is a ritual that must be performed on the full moon of each month, and requires the use of one D-class personnel, 60kg of red meat, a hand-woven wicker basket, and human blood. The shaman must be anointed with human blood, and then place the meat within the wicker basket. No other personnel may carry out this task. The shaman will proceed to enter the containment chamber holding SCP-4715 and place the meat on the ground before SCP-4715, arranging it so that it matches the designs depicted in Document 4715-Waiting Moon-04. They will then prostrate themselves before the basket and recite the phrase, this we offer for your continued torpor, flesh of your time, blood of my blood. The shaman must remain prostrate, and continue reciting the phrase until SCP-4715 has consumed the entirety of the meat. After consuming the meat, SCP-4715 may or may not kill and consume the shaman, but doing so does not indicate a failure of the procedure. Should the shaman survive, they are to retrieve the basket and exit the containment chamber. Failure to perform procedure 4715-Waiting Moon results in an exponential increase in aggression from SCP-4715, characterized by a marked increase in attempts to breach containment. To date, ████████ of these attempts have been successful. The continued use of surviving shaman have been approved by Area Director Roberts, along with reward, punitive, and incentive programs among the D-class population held on site, in an effort to ensure the continued success of procedure 4715-Waiting Moon. The chambers must be cleaned following the performance of procedure 4715-Waiting Moon each month. While this takes place, SCP-4715 is to be transferred to the adjacent chamber. During this time, any observed damage is to be repaired, and other required maintenance carried out. With the exception of preventing a breach of containment, interaction with SCP-4715 is strictly limited to D-class personnel, performing procedure 4715-Waiting Moon. Unless actively attempting to breach containment, no physical harm or actions insinuating aggressive intent may be inflicted upon the subject. In the event of a containment breach, all fire is to be concentrated on its head, with as much force as possible in order to render unconscious, or comatose before it grows too large to recontain. Description SCP-4715 is a large hexapodal mammalian carnivore with chimeric morphology, standing at a minimum height of 5.2 meters and weighing approximately 2,300 kilograms. Genetic analysis has been inconsistent, showing traces of modern wildlife as well as myosine Pleistocene era, and anomalous animals such as SCP- ██████. It has a robust frame and a vaguely feline skull, with a carnivorous dental structure. Forward set eyes, and a stout muzzle. Of note are a pair of large, backward-swept horns, which are not present in any member of carnivora. Its primary forelimbs are long and end proportionately large hands with seven digits, each with a large semi-retractable claw. Its secondary forelimbs are multi-jointed and significantly longer, terminating in three heavily clawed digits. Its hind legs appear ursine, and its tail is long and muscular, acting like a tripod for balance when standing on its hind legs. SCP-4715 is highly aggressive, and has been observed attempting to attack most sapient life it has encountered. However, when observed in situ, it appears disinterested in most other fauna. It has never been observed hunting or pursuing other organisms, and large fauna avoids SCP-4715 instinctively fleeing from its scent. SCP-4715 displays a level of intelligence, roughly on par with that of a chimpanzee, pan-troglydides, and displays a particular aptitude for the fashioning and usage of tools as weapons. This behavior is not limited to primitive weaponry, as evidenced by its redirection of anti-aircraft weaponry during incident 4715-1944-J. Beyond these applications, SCP-4715 is highly intuitive, able to accurately read the emotional and mental state of sapient entities around it. In the event that SCP-4715 perceives an entity intending to harm another, including itself, it will rapidly gain mass proportional to the number of such entities. The source of new mass gained during these episodes is unknown. The most egregious breach saw SCP-4715 reach a height of approximately 24 meters, and a weight approaching an estimated 56,000 kg. But depictions and recovered historic artifacts suggest the potential to grow larger, given sufficient exposure to situations of conflict. This effect reverses quickly as soon as SCP-4715 can no longer sense the harmful intentions of others, and it radiates intense heat as its mass decreases. SCP-4715 has been observed attempting to draw unemboldened individuals in the states of conflict in order to increase its biomass, and often displays fascination and attraction toward states of conflict between sapient beings. SCP-4715's physiology grants it exceptional speed and strength. Additionally, it has proven highly resistant to most forms of conventional weaponry and physical trauma. It possesses reasonably consistent internal systems, largely indistinguishable from other large connexious mammals. But testing has shown that it does not require any form of nutrition to survive. It is resistant to most toxins, both artificial and naturally produced, as well as radiation and caustic or acidic chemical exposure. Resistance produced beneath the dermis provides fur and skin flame-retardant qualities, providing it resistance to temperatures in excess of 1600 and below negative 150 degrees centigrade. The most reliable method of control appears to be lachrymatory agents and capsaicinoids, which it appears to have no particular resistance to. In addition to SCP-4715's considerable natural durability, the creature has proven able to regrow significant amounts of lost tissue, up to and including limbs that have been lost in violent encounters. Repair and regeneration of injuries and trauma will always spread outward from the central nervous system, and it will take longer to repair the more significant it is. As an example, a four limb lost during initial containment of the specimen was fully regrown within seven days. To date, nothing has proven capable of causing damage to SCP-4715's cranium, vertebral column, or central nervous system, and nothing has proven capable of neutralizing its capacity for regeneration. Addendum 4715-1 The existence of SCP-4715 was confirmed by Foundation in October 1916, following Event 4715-WWI-1916. But there is evidence suggesting its origin dates back significantly further in history. Recovered documents originating from various groups of interest, historical artifacts and archaeological finds suggest that SCP-4715 has existed in its present form for the majority of human history. The following is a brief catalog of selected notable documents pertaining to the pre-foundation history of SCP-4715. A complete list of collected documents can be seen and document SCP-4715-HD07. Historic Documentation SCP-4715-19-R Description SCP-4715-56-R is a series of Roman frescoes discovered in a ruined subterranean Roman structure, located below Istanbul, Turkey, on May 15, 1980. They depict a sequence of events involving Roman soldiers, engaging in battle against Sasanian forces. The following fresco shows SCP-4715 engaging both forces, and the final fresco shows the Roman soldiers appeasing SCP-4715 with large stalks of meat. Relevant Details This is the earliest known modern depiction of religious behavior around SCP-4715. Historic Documentation SCP-4715-36H Description SCP-4715-361-H is the designation of a series of proto-human cave paintings discovered in the Ardeche region of France on October 27, 2005. These consist of imagery of SCP-4715 engaging in attacks upon humanoid figures, with many examples being surrounded by skulls and other symbolic imagery. Radiocarbon dating places the origin of these paintings as being approximately 32,000 to 30,000 years before present. Relevant Details The example pictured is believed to depict SCP-4715 engaging in an intimidation display. It is not known what this display was directed towards, as the cave wall immediately beside its painting had since been destroyed. Relevant Documentation SCP-4715-238 Description SCP-4715-238 is a large wood carving measuring 5 meters by 2 meters by 0.4 meters, originating from mid-14th century Prussia. It depicts 16 mounted teutonic knights engaging in a calvary charge against SCP-4715. This is one of the earliest known depictions of SCP-4715's size-altering effect known. If the scale of this depiction is correct, it depicts SCP-4715 being 9.4 meters in height while engaging 16 mounted knights, which is consistent with the size change displayed in modern observations. An engraving translated to read, Banishing of the Beast from the Earth, is present beneath the image. SCP-4715-238 was originally sent to Site-19 via a carrier service on December 5th, 1981 and included a note reading, Dear Sir or Madam, Knowledge is power, and we have observed your organization gathering resources in order to learn more about the subject of this carving. Given your most operandi, we believe that in providing this historic artifact free of charge, you may be able to successfully contain this creature and put a stop to its disruptive activities. Your sincerely, Nigel Tenzington-Evers, Marshall Carter and DarkLLP. Historic Documentation, SCP-4715-379-B Description Journal belonging to one way Zemin, a Chinese farmer displaced by the Taiping Rebellion between 1850 and 1864, who observed and sketched what he described as a monster emerging from a large pile of battlefield casualties and proceeding to move at speed in the direction of Nanjing. SCP-4715-379-B was confiscated from an archaeological team who discovered it, while researching the rebellion. Relevant Details The following is a translated passage from SCP-4715-379-B. After the village was massacred and the soldiers moved on, there were many bodies still clinging to earthly possessions that could be of great aid to my family. Waiting for the cover of nightfall, the smell was even worse than usual for a massacred town, and it seemed in the light of the setting sun that the sea of corpses stretched as far as the eye could see. Then, from the tallest of the piles of the dead came a monster. It burst forth from the dead like a great fish from the sea, and its bellow was so evil it could not possibly come from a godly creature. It shook the blood from its midnight hair and flibbed with haste to Nanjing. Addendum 4715-2 Notice from the Foundation Records and Information Security Administration. The following file is level 4-1000 classified. Any attempt to access this file without level 4-1000 authorization will be logged and will lead to disciplinary action. Dr. Stephen Roberts, Area Director 4715-23 Area Director Statement As much as it is the job of the Foundation to know all there is to know about the objects we contain, it has always been accepted that there is a great deal more that we don't know. After all, how are we supposed to explain how a box that plays with the laws of physics could possibly exist, or to know the motivations of an obscene and corrosive old man who hunts people for sport? How are we to understand the origins of a monster that has existed at least as long as humanity? Well, in that last case, a recent discovery has opened a new avenue that has allowed us to better understand not only the origins of SCP-4715, but also how to better contain it. This discovery is LOI-517-SIGMA, and has proven invaluable at not only broadening our knowledge of SCP-4715, but also in providing many of the current containment procedures implemented today. It is important to remember that without the knowledge obtained from this site, we would likely still be trying to contain 4715 with automated gunfire and having the withstand containment breaches every few years. The following document is a brief overview of LOI-517-SIGMA, including details on a number of notable artifacts pertaining to SCP-4715 discovered within the area. Dr. Stephen Roberts, Area Director 4715-23 An overview on location of interest 517-SIGMA and notable items contained within. LOI-517-SIGMA was first discovered by civilian outdoor endures in 2009, who later informed the University of British Columbia of its location, describing some kind of shiny bunker or Egyptian Colosseum in some caves lit up by shiny plants. While the University politely dismissed these claims, Foundation operatives were sent to investigate the area. The cave's entrance was located, and an exploration revealed a structure built in a large cavern deep within the system. Investigation revealed this structure was a long-abandoned endowment entrance to an organic complex of similar construction to SCP-2932, located approximately 900 meters below sea level. This complex had been determined to have served a similar function as the aforementioned location, albeit on a smaller scale, and focused on the containment of SCP-4715. There are minimal signs of damage to any of the structures, and the organic devices within are alive and powered but inactive. A substructure at the bottom of the complex has been confirmed as once housing SCP-4715, and is constructed from indestructible plant material inscribed with various designs, bearing similarity to those found in various occult manuscripts and cave paintings. The structure features multiple redundant doors and linked security features, all of which are inactive. Rooms throughout the rest of the complex appear to be focused on providing research, administrative and residential functionality, and show no sign of habitation. Throughout the complex are multiple images and descriptions of SCP-4715, depicting it engaging numerous instances of the original owners of LOI-517-SIGMA. See Document Alpha-1596-1000 for more information, and other unidentified entities in combat in a manner largely inconsistent with modern-day observation, though some depictions show SCP-4715 significantly larger than any previously recorded size. It is unknown if this is due to the artistic interpretations being inaccurate, or if SCP-4715 can indeed reach even larger sizes. Beyond those pertaining to containment, there are two notable sources of documentation regarding SCP-4715 located within LOI-517-SIGMA that may shed some light on the possible origin of the subject. These have been translated from images provided to SCP-2932-A, who told Foundation personality that it was unaware of this location, citing its quote, lack of omniscient, unquote. Document 4715-1000-H-40 Description Document 4715-1000-H-40 was found carved above the access ports on the structure, compromising the containment chamber formally housing SCP-4715. The text is well preserved, but sections have been rendered incomprehensible by large scratches obscuring the writing. Eligible, lingering price of overthrowing those that came before. A demon born of blood and war, illegible, the bloodiest night, where illegible children and fail like indiscriminately. Allegible wept and watched as loved ones turned to light. Eligible and from atrocity was born abomination. Our fault, illegible, their fault. Allegible slaughter of thousands, but was thrown down and legible remain, incarcerated for endless rotation. Note, it is hypothesized that this information was carved into the containment structure as a failsafe in the event of power outage, rather than stored in organic devices similar to those found elsewhere in the structure. Document 4715-1000-A-7 Description Unlike other documents recovered within LOI-517-SIGMA, Document 4715-1000-A-7 has been painted onto a wall in a recently discovered room within the complex, beside a large organic mechanism, with various interfaces. It is presumed that this device controlled the security or power of the complex. The day the flowers bloomed was long ago now. Our shining cities are gone. The surviving children turned to beast of the earth. We are gone now. The children of the sun have turned our weapons upon themselves, and they sleep in the night. They do not of the demon born from war, and cast aside any tool that could turn aside its fury. Endless rotation ends now. May the hairless usurper suffer at its hands, and pay for their transgression. To any child of the night who finds my message, know that I have committed this crime to avenge our demise. You will not forgive me. Notes Along with this message, the skeleton of an SCP-1000 instance was discovered resting on the floor of the room, with a hole in its skull. Analysis and radiocarbon dating of the skull suggests that the individual killed itself 34,000 to 33,000 years before present.


What is up guys, Karma Medic here and welcome back to another dose. If you're new to the channel, hi my name is Nasser and I'm now a fourth year medical student studying at King's College London. In today's video, I want to go through a couple of questions live on camera in preparation for an upcoming medical school exam that I have. Quick disclaimer, I am by no means claiming that everything I say in this video is going to be correct. I just think that some people might find some value from watching somebody else go through questions and watching their thinking process, have the extractive piece of information and how they go about answering the question. Now a lot of people, when answering pass paper questions, they use them as a method of testing their knowledge and not really as an actual source of information or learning. Personally, I like using a question bank as a learning resource in itself. And so as I go through the questions, I'm going to be taking notes on why I got a question right and why I got a question wrong. And one information I think is going to be important in the future. And I'm going to be doing all of that over here on the right hand side using Notion. I've got an entire video on how I use Notion to take notes like this. You can check it out somewhere over here. Anyways, without further ado, let's get right into the questions. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76 world man. 76amoca. 72 world man. 74 world man. 74 world man. 74 world man. 75 world man. 75 world man. 72 world man. We should a think functions. We should a think function. Wi Wi Wi Type St А. 75 World mussae Law and Ethics, or did I have a MISC Death Certification? Okay, let me move that, draw X, copy that here. So as I've come to know from my friends who are currently doctors, writing death certificates is a important job of an F1. So I should know quite a lot about it. Yep, that was exactly my reasoning for why I didn't put aspiration in your mind. Let me make sure I write down the thing that made me answer this question correctly, the line of thinking that helped me ask this question, which is line 1A. Next question. I'm giving this answer by saying what's wrong with it. I don't understand what's wrong with it. General Higgs and his joints are going to be on top of each other condition. Okay. So immediately when I hear both his father and grandfather died of a liver condition, I'm thinking of some sort of hereditary condition involving the liver. And when I hear it's having problem achieving an erection, this immediately makes me think of hemochromatosis, which is answer C over here. So hemochromatosis, let's see if I got this right first. Okay, hemochromatosis, you have an overload of iron and the body doesn't know where to put it. So it gets stored in the liver, gets stored in the brain, and some doesn't get stored there. It gets pushed to deliver to the brain and it can go to the testicles as well, causing problems with erectile dysfunction. So now I want to find my hemochromatosis notes and add anything onto that that's missing. So under gastro hemochromatosis, hemochromatosis. All right, copy paste the notes and then write down sort of the most important thing. So So now I want to highlight and make bold important piece of information. So bronze skin pigmentation is usually a big clue but wasn't present in this question. Where's the side of action of fursomide? Wow, direct recall question. Fursomide is a loop diuretic. So it's in the loop of Henley. Now the ascending or the descending loop of Henley. So on the way down, you take out all of the, oh gosh, I should really know this off by heart. There's tons and tons of water. So the action of fursomide is going to be not there on the ascending loop. Thank God, I should really, really know that off my heart. Okay, so let's go to pharmacology and let's go to where we talk about diuretics. It should be pharmacology, not pharmacy, pharmacology. This brings me back to first year. Yep, seriously, I haven't studied this piece of information in so long. Nah, don't Google the questions, guys. Don't Google the questions. Take an educated guess. All right, next. What is the most likely diagnosis? Pete's seven-year-old won't have a sense for the three months. Otherwise, normal appearance. Fibromyalgia, unlikely. Lumbar nerve root compression, don't think presents like this. Osteoarthritis, very possible, especially with the narrowing of the joint space. Greater trochanteric pain syndrome. That sounds like it could be reasonable. Meralgia, pyroesthetica, literally never heard of before, but pyroesthetica, pyroesthesis, loss of sensory innervation, which doesn't sound like this, or sensory feeling, which is not what this person is describing, they're describing pain. So between osteoarthritis and greater trochanteric pain syndrome, what's gonna help us differentiate between these two? Three-month history of right side hip pain that came on spontaneously. That doesn't really sound like osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is quite progressive. It's gonna be worse on the outside, which is where the greater trochanter is, isn't it? On the hip bone, on the femur, it's gonna be worse on the outside of the hip, particularly bad at night, when she lies on that side. That's making me think it's not osteoarthritis. I'm gonna go with greater trochanteric pain syndrome. Let's see. Correct. It's another preferred term for trochanteric birthitis. Okay, so what made me know this was greater trochanteric pain syndrome? That's what I want to write down and focus on here. Osteoarthritis is less likely given the palpable nature. Good. And the short duration of symptoms. Good, good. Both things that I thought about. Yeah, the comments are a laugh. They definitely make studying a lot easier. The problem with checking the comments is sometimes you can spend longer getting involved in the comments and reading people's beef and funny things instead of actually answering questions. What action would you take? 33-year-old woman. What's important for this question? Woman who is pregnant and has had exposure to varicella zoster virus. So the cut-off is at 20 weeks gestation. Before 20 weeks gestation, we want to give immediate immunoglobulin, okay? Which is this, varicella zoster immunoglobulin because the risk of congenital varicella zoster virus syndrome is very high and that can have really poor effects on the child once they get born. If it's after 20 weeks, then we want to wait, I think, seven days before commencing either this immunoglobulin or an antiviral, so like a cycle of your comments. Chickenpox exposure in pregnancy under 20 weeks. If not immune, give the immunoglobulin. That's it. What is the most likely diagnosis? All right, so a lot of information here. So P and C antibodies are associated with rheumatoid arthritis, ulcerative colitis and... Wec... Neurons, granulomatosis? No, that's C-anca. Wecner's granulomatosis is C-anca. P-anca is chirgstrouse. Oh, great, they haven't used the epitomes. I think that's Wecner's. I think this one is Wecner's. Wecner's, which I remember as Wecner's for the C-anca, but so that means it's not this. So I think it's this one. Granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Chirgstrouse is P-anca associated. And the way I remember chirgstrouse is PAPS, PAPS blue ribbon beer. And I remember eosinophilic beer or something like that. So I'm gonna go with the eosinophilic. Yes, okay. Let me show you guys that real quick. So if I go to my USM at least step one notes and I search for dirty medicine, and then I go to C-anca. One, two, three, four, five, six, six, seven, eight. Vascularities, here they are. All right, so chirgstrouse syndrome. Eosinophilic, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, which I remember as PAPS, PAPS blue ribbon beer. Chugstrouse syndrome, chug an eosinophilic beer. What a memory association. Anyways, so that's why it was this. I need a better way of remembering this without the actual names, so let's focus on that now. So Wecner's, the normal name, has a big G in the middle, Wecner's. So immediately it's gonna start with granulomatosis. I'm not sure how to get your G in the right direction. So I do have a G in the middle. Here's my G in the right direction. Very strange associations, but sometimes you need those in medicine. Diagnosis of Lycan planus is suspected. Very big, remember that. What is the word? Lycan planus. Yeah, I definitely don't know this. Honestly, I just don't know. So I need to answer the question, get it wrong, and then learn from there. So, topical quabetosone butyrate. So let's learn about Lycan planus. There we go, in the term question. Of course, the answer is steroids. Would have probably been a better guess. What's the most appropriate next step? You're reviewing a patient with COB. So, if I remember correctly. Are there asthmatic features or features suggestive of steroid responsiveness? So Saba and then Laba plus Lama, which is here. Laba plus Lama, okay. So if there is steroid responsiveness, then it's inhaled corticosteroids, ECG. Business. ECG shows the following. What do we see here? Very, very high R-waves. Probably indicating it's a hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, H-O-C-M, there we go. Yeah, it's a classic presentation. Young, healthy fit person who has these really big R-waves on the ECG, I'm just gonna show you. That's always the next question. Which one symptoms is least consistent with the diagnosis of irritable bowel syndrome? Didn't know about mucus in the stool though. Passage of mucus, okay. Let's highlight that and make sure I remember it for next time. Make it red. Passage of mucus is normally, I guess. Which one happened regarding anticoag? I want to say it's six months. Orphan should be continued indefinitely as this is his second episode of AF. And yes, risk factors for stroke, age and hypertension. Next. Which of the following is the biggest risk factor for malignant otitis external? ENT, man. ENT, honestly, no, sure. I'm gonna guess and try and learn diabetes and malitis. Malignant otitis external. It's most common in patients with type. All right, Lee, very common. All right. Been on a bit of a rough stretch here. Three wrong in a row. All right, let's get that percentage up. Urine dipstick shows both blood and white blood cells. What's the best treatment? A 20-year-old woman who is 16 weeks pregnant presents with pain, passing urine and an irritating rash. Okay, so we're thinking urine and tract infection. So hematuria, okay. Is telling me that this infection has reached further up into the body than just the vulva, okay. Clotrimazole is for fungal infection. Cephalexin, this is Cephtriaxone. Is a cephalosporin, viral, viral fungal. Cicular rash actually sounds quite viral to me. Even though I'm not sure what this is specifically referring to. I'm gonna go with oral, because it sounds quite serious. Okay, the way I deduce the answer to that question is that this rash didn't sound very fungal and these are both treatments for fungus. They're both ketoconazoles. And then cephalexin is a cephtriaxone which you would give for a bacterial infection. It didn't really sound very bacterial because of the vesicular rash. That's what made me think either human papillomavirus or herpes oblique virus. And then oral is used when you have a more serious infection as opposed to topical. So that's why I wanted the oral. Next. First of all, medications could be a cause of her pulmonary fibrosis. You're viewing the 40-year-old female genart practice as a new diagnosis of pulmonary fibrosis, okay. Medication history. Nitro furan toin. Disoprolol, warfarin, salbutamol, and halar. And calcium with coleg calciferol. This is a beta blocker which I do not recall causes pulmonary fibrosis, warfarin. I also don't recall. That's salbutamol, no. Calcium with vitamin D. So I'm gonna cause pulmonary fibrosis. I don't think so. Nitro furan toin is a treatment for a urinary tract infection. Let's find out. Nitro furan toin. Somehow I knew this piece of information. Nitro furan toin, drugs causing lung fibrosis. I was thinking along the lines of chemotherapeutic drugs like bleomycin and buesulfan. But yeah, nitro furan toin. Did not know that. Don't think so. Don't think so. All right. What's the most like diagnosis? 26 year old. Pelvic pain and smelly discharge. Why don't you tell me? Describe the discharge to me. Since she has had the HPV vaccine, I'm gonna go with this is not cervical cancer. She's also quite young. So I'm gonna eliminate that. Cotopic pregnancy, worsening dull pelvic pain. That is not how a cotopic pregnancy presents. It's much more acute and much more severe pain. Pelvic inflammatory disease is definitely possible. Dull pelvic pain, smelly discharge. Definitely possible endometriosis. Doesn't really present like this. Increased pain during menstruation. Doesn't present like this. Inflammatory bowel disease. No. That would not cause the smelly discharge. Yeah. Gonna go with PID. She's young, probably sexually active. Nice. Pelvic family disease most likely was vision. Pelvic duration. Planetary GPA. Pains not severe. Smelly discharge. STI. Next question. Tonero loan, who is an intervener's heroin user. Contribute, which one of them complains? Both names are as a result of her drug use. Teasures. No. Osteoporosis. Peptic ulcer disease. No. Schizophrenia. Venous thrombol embolism. Intervenous heroin user. This is not so. Yeah. I'm gonna go with VT. Upward misuse. Schizophrenia is not going to be caused by that. There is such a thing as drug induced psychosis, but that's not the same schizophrenia. What's more important advice to give? You receive a letter from the endocrinologist on our website. Yes, that rings a very strong bell. This is for the risk of neutropenia. I believe that can come with taking carbimazole. That rings a very strong bell. So I'm gonna go with that. Any granulocytosis. Yes, okay. So carbimazole. That's a long one. What's the most important symptom evaluating this patient? 24-year-old man. So weight loss, fatigue, and a lump in the testicle. Not good. No pathological history, no regular medication. It's actually active. It's not drink alcohol or smoke, okay. No other symptoms other than large, non-tender, left testicle. I'm gonna start with that right. There's no palpable lymphatic alchemy and no gynecomastia. Okay. So this definitely sounds like a testicular tumor. It's called lymphatic alchemy as a marker. First line investigation of a testicular mass is an ultrasound reproduction. Reproductive. I'm really annoyed I got that wrong. I should definitely have gotten that right. It's got oncology, testicular cancer. Ultrasound is first line. I've written it down before. It's getting close to two, which is what I mean, nor usually have lunch, and I'm quite hungry. So how many questions do we have here, 18? I'll do 19 and 20, and then we'll stop. What is this? 34-year-old man. This rash definitely rings a bell. It was something like a yellow waxy rash on the soles of the feet. That rings a bell. Karate derma. What a random, random thing. Reactive arthritis features. Karate derma, blenoragica. I know I've written this down before. I remember it. Karate derma. There it is. Karate derma, blenoragica. Waxy yellow soles. I remember that. Final question. What treatment should be initiated? Five-year-old boy. The panic membrane's not visible due to debris. What's the debris? Why have there been so many E&T questions during this session? I'm gonna go with that. Great. Childless classic symptoms of a tyrosis. They're not like cause after swimming on holiday. Okay guys, I think I'm gonna end this here. I'm really hungry, and I can hear Nor preparing lunch in the kitchen. So we got a score of 70%, which isn't great. It's not too bad either. It's just fine. I've definitely learned quite a few things when answering the questions today, and I hope you have as well. If you did enjoy this video, don't forget to leave a like on it, and also subscribe to my channel to see more content from me in the future, and I'll catch you guys in the next one. Peace. But to start, touch the lens too much there.