for Jesus Christ. I want to share with you a word that I have on my heart for us. If you have your Bible, let's go to John chapter 5 verse 3 says the following. In these, it's talking about pool of Bethesda, in these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. And then whoever stepped in first after the stirring of the water was made well of whatever disease he had. Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity 38 years. And I want us to jump to the Old Testament book of Joshua chapter 9 verse 14. Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions but they did not ask the counsel of the Lord. Pray this prayer out loud after me. Say, Lord Jesus, open my heart to your word. Lord Jesus, open my heart to your spirit. Lord Jesus, open my heart to your faith. Amen. Once again, I want to welcome everybody who came here today. I see some new faces. It's so wonderful to see you. Somebody told me before the service that they started to come when I left. But they were really surprised to be here. And so for those of you who started to come when I wasn't here, I welcome you. I hope that you stay in our church and bring a lot of your friends and all of your family in Jesus' state. Amen. Amen, amen. And so we love, I love our church. I love our leaders. I love everybody. And so it's been a really, really a sad moment to miss our church. But I'm really, really happy to see everybody here in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen, amen, amen. Let's give Jesus a round of applause for our church, for wonderful pastors, for all the visitors that are here. I want to share with you today about in a pool of Bethesda in John chapter 5 that we have read. There was this pool that had five entry points. And the Bible says that there was nothing magical about the water. Yes, this water was significant. But what was really significant is that certain times the angel of God will come into this water, stood it up. And after the water was stirred, anybody who jumps in the pool immediately gets healed of any problem they had. I mean, it almost sounds like a Hollywood movie. Like the one they made about something flying out of the earth into a certain place and you get healed under a certain machine. And so it almost sounds like a magical, it almost sounds like it's not real. That a place, that a water is there, a pool, and then the angel of water gets stirred and you jump in and you get healed of any sickness you've ever had. And you get completely healed, but you only can do it once when the water is stirred. Now we've ministered our pastor many times different messages from the scripture. And so I have, and many more times we will do because this is a significant, very significant moment in the Bible. But do they want to share about something else from the scripture? The word of God, there's two words in Greek language for the word of God. One is logos and the second one is Reima. Logos is the word that was written. It's the general scripture.  A specific, for a specific moment of your life and it changes your life completely. Logos is like this water in the pool. It's wonderful. It's genuine. It's real. It's truthful. It makes you clean when you get into it. It makes you wet when you get into it. The word is power. But something happens when the spirit of God makes the same word of God that before you read and it made you clean and wet. The Holy Spirit makes this word come alive. The same Bible, the same verse, but it comes alive. Something happens. It makes you whole. The logos makes you wet. Reima makes you whole. Information of the Bible is what makes us know the Bible more. Know about God more. Know about our faith more. Know about doctrine more. Be more equipped. Be more this and that. But when something happens, when Holy Spirit takes this word and he makes it alive. We become completely different people. We become whole and we become healed and we become completely changed. Can somebody say amen? There's a difference between Reima and logos. Dr. Yankee Cho who is the pastor of the largest church in the world. Shared in his story in one of his books about walking on water. How some people walk on water when God told them to do so. And this happened before in the Bible. Jesus walked on water. Now Chris Angel and some other guys over there on TV, they tried to pretend to walk on water. Jesus actually walked on water. And so what happened is some people took his book about walking by faith and walking on water. And there was 14 of them and decided to walk on water. And they drowned. And they wrote to Dr. Yankee Cho and they said, See, people took your book and they tried to do what you said in your book and it didn't work. He says, I didn't say to walk on water. Jesus walked on water. He says, the problem is they had logos. Now Reima. He says, and between these two is a life and death issue. Israel has a Reima to go through the Red Sea. Egyptians for them, it's a logos. It's not from God and they go through it and they die, but Israel goes through it and they live. The point is this, is we must understand a Christian life really depends not on knowing the Bible, but on knowing the God of the Bible through the Bible. The Christian life depends not on knowing information of the Bible, but allowing the Holy Spirit to make that Bible become a revelation to us and for our lives to be dramatically changed by that. Without revelation, we cannot have revival. And revelation is not you understanding Greek, Latin, and Hebrew. Revelation is not when you can finally discover if Adam had a belly button or not. Revelation is not when you can find a secret, a polyptych, or some other code in the Bible where certain things mean certain things and add certain numbers and you found a revelation. Means you found something that everybody else thinks is purely confusing. Revelation is not something out of this world. Revelation is the same water that you see every day you walk into, get stirred and you walk in it as you walked before, except before it made you wet and now it made you whole. The same verse shuts up a fire inside and it shuts up so big inside that it changes your world and you're trying to tell everybody of what you read there and they're like, yes, I read that too. It made me wet and you're saying, but it made me whole. That is a revelation and that revelation is what brings revival because that means Holy Spirit is speaking. The Bible says in 1 Samuel chapter 3 verse 1, it says that in the days of Samuel when he ministered to the priest Eli, the word of the Lord was rare and there was no widespread revelation. In those days there was spiritual deadness, not because Torah wasn't there, not because 10 commandments wasn't there, not because the pool wasn't there, the sick were there, the people were hurting and the law was there, the Moses was there but what wasn't there and there was not a lot of stirring because it's the stirring that brings revival. It's not the Bible and the bookstores, it's this becoming alive in the lives of people only through the Holy Ghost that brings the revival and holiness and conviction in our lives. Somebody say amen. Without Holy Spirit, this book, we must understand three times in the Bible, three very key moments that most of us use for the word of God, for example in Romans chapter 10 verse 17 it says faith comes by the word and the word of God and many people say the faith comes from the Bible, faith comes from the word of God but if you read it in Hebrew and I didn't, I just simply read people who read in Hebrew and this is what they say in Romans chapter 10, it does not say faith comes from logos it says faith comes from Reima, could it be? No wonder you may say I read the Bible, my faith is not fueled, my faith doesn't jump out when I read it. Why? Because you and I are reading the Bible in English but in order to have Reima you must read the Bible in the Holy Spirit Holy Spirit makes the Bible becomes alive and makes it a revelation and it jumps faith inside without Holy Spirit but with a good commentary and with a good dictionary and with a good translation the Bible makes you clean and wet but it doesn't make you whole and changed faith comes from Reima, not logos the second verse we always quote is Matthew chapter 4 verse 4 where Jesus said men shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God that word word of God in that context means Reima which means the word of God that feeds us is the word of God that's Reima not logos we all agree how many times you read the Bible and it didn't feed you but bored you let's be very honest because the Bible in itself without Holy Spirit is a collection of books poetry, psalms, proverbs, history, some good teaching and some wonderful things that are all inspired by God but without Holy Spirit it's not going to feed you only Reima feed you can somebody say amen another verse that all of us we know is the word of God is a sword of the spirit and that word in the Hebrew over there is also or whatever language it's in it's Reima it's not logos that means the word that I fight with is the word that is not just information but it's a revelation inside of me it becomes real it's a revelation from what I've shared there's nothing much new to you that you have not heard before if you have been faithfully attending our church the purpose of me sharing this and why I read the second verse of Joshua is Joshua and I'm going to tie these two things together Joshua one day sees people coming and they look really old they look like they've been on a journey for a long time they're dressed their clothes are worn out their wine skins are worn out their bread is really old and they come and they say that we are ambassadors from afar we've heard about your God and we've come to pay homage and to pay respect to you and we want to make a contract and a covenant with you because we are from afar and we want to honor your God and Joshua says oh really can you prove that you are from afar they said oh yes look at our clothes our clothes are worn out they're so old look at our bread we've taken it when it was fresh and it's so old it has mold in it look at our wine skins they're cracked they're gone look at us I mean we look so worn out and beaten down and the Bible says that Joshua looks at all of that and says okay you must be ambassadors and he says this and he did not ask the counsel of the Lord what is the point here Joshua has no revelation in his situation and therefore he gets misled, deceived, and ruled by his situation when we don't walk with the revelation of God we are doomed to be ruled by the situation of life can I hear an amen let me say that again and I want you to say this out loud after me say if I don't walk say it loud say if I don't walk in the revelation of God I am doomed to be ruled by my situation if you don't walk in the revelation of God you will be doomed to live by your situation Satan will use your situation to drive his agenda into your mind he will take your sickness and he will say look at this it's a proof you're gonna die he gonna take your disappointment and say look at this bread it proves you're an ambassador but you're not he will take this and says it proves that ever things will work out in your life and you will say you're right, you have a point I've tried 10 times and it didn't work why try 11 he will take this and to confirm that and without revelation we will base our faith and base everything that we have on what we hear and what we speak and what our situation tells us and if Joshua would have in that moment paused and says thank you for telling me that you are from a far country thank you for showing me the bread and showing me the clothes and showing me all of these things but I need to get a second report to confirm what you're saying I need to get along with God and I need to ask God I know that your evidence is beyond verdict your evidence is so convincing but I'm a man of God I'm a spiritual man I don't trust my eyes I trust my God because my God is bigger than what I see and they may look at him and say Joshua you're insane isn't this enough Joshua says yes it will be enough if you don't have a God but I have a God who looks beyond clothes and who looks beyond wine skins and who looks beyond all of that and he knows what's beyond that and I need to talk to him ask God for the revelation and he left being completely disappointed by his situation Satan will use a situation to mislead you to misguide you he will use a sickness to tell you God doesn't love you he will use a disappointment to tell you you will never make it and he will always connect certain things and if we don't have a revelation and we will look at the fact where is the rest of the people and we will be coming to the conclusion based on what we see or one service we come and we see everything packed and we will come to the conclusion based on what we see everything about our life is going to be one thing we make decisions we come to conclusions based on what we see and what we hear and what we feel and what our circumstances look like and those are the people who will be like Joshua three days later biting his tongue and says I wish I would have known but it was too late today is the day we don't live by what we see we don't live by what we hear we don't live by what we feel we live by what God says if hell is breaking loose in your life and Satan is whispering and says you're not going to make it and he brought the evidence and he brings clothes and he says this proves that you are an ambassador say Satan this proves this is clothes this has nothing to do with who I am the old clothes and them proved that the clothes were old but they did not prove they were ambassadors the clothes have nothing to do with what they were saying the things we go through have nothing to do with where we are headed to the things we are facing have nothing to do with what God has a plan for our lives T.P. Joshua says you can never know someone's future by looking at their present because a man of revelation is not moved by what he sees by what he feels or what he hears or what circumstances looks like he is moved by the risen God he created what I see and he can change what I see and I have to get a second report from him can somebody say amen can somebody say praise the Lord can somebody say praise the Lord put your hands together for Jesus Christ we are in this place today we must have a revelation about our situation a revelation is what God says a revelation is not what I feel a revelation is not what you see a revelation is not even what the doctor says a revelation is what God says about a particular situation and in that revelation is our victory if we don't have a revelation and if you get a raise you have a praise report but the next day if the tire goes flat you have a nervous breakdown everything is up and down everything is based on the mood everything is based on how I feel everything is based on how things are going financially and everything we are not going to feel anything bad but there is a difference between being driven by your feelings and there is a difference between being driven by this is what God says and I stake my life at it and I am not going to trust what I see or what I hear if it conflicts with the word of God if I do not have a revelation I am doomed to live by my situation and my situation will betray me mislead me, defeat me lie me, hit me in the back and make fun of me and spit in my face it did that to Joshua who was spiritual man of God it will do that to me and it will do that to you it will do that to everybody it will make us miserable and pitiful and then God will look at us and say you did not trust me because it will make us not trust in God but today you must, you and I must obtain a revelation from God concerning your situation and a revelation from God is simple do not prove what the devil said a revelation from God is simple Satan will use our situation to tell us we are not loved by God we do not have a destiny, we do not have a plan and we need to tell Satan back Satan, you are a liar if your lips move you are lying I know you are lying when your lips are moving and right now your lips are moving you are father of lies it means there is nothing good comes out and nothing true comes out from your mouth and therefore I reject those things and Satan will say but look, look and you say this has nothing to do with what you are saying because what you are saying is you are manipulating the evidence for your lies but this has nothing to do with what you are saying this can be changed by the God I serve a revelation causes us not to be ruled by our situation actually a revelation will cause us to change our situation can somebody say amen a revelation will cause us to change our situation by the glory of God God doesn't change our life first He changes us first He changes a revelation inside first and then everything there changes can somebody say praise the Lord somebody say praise the Lord we must understand God is always in control God will never leave us and we should never live by our feelings I had a very interesting experience it was in spiritual in Ukraine we stayed in this really beautiful really expensive apartment my aunt's apartment we we cooked eggs boiled eggs the only problem is we did not turn off the stove we left to the conference and nine hours later we realized we did not eat our eggs and then we realized we most likely didn't even turn off the stove so the first thing in my mind is I have memories of some other people and burned the whole house my wife has memories of her neighbors in Russia who did that and burned the whole house and so in the train we're thinking it's been nine hours our phones don't work there and we're like oh my goodness we just went to this expensive place and if somebody even finds out we might have burned the whole place in the next second the moment we thought those thoughts we went from happy being in Ukraine to suicide because in my mind the only thing I'm thinking if the whole house burned down it's on 23rd floor and it's worth about 300 something thousand dollars we're not going to be able to pay I mean it's over for us the rest of our life we're going to have to pay that off so I'm like Lord let the train get off of the trails and take us to heaven so we're literally I mean we're thinking there and I told my wife I was like okay I'm like baby it's not going to happen I'm like I know there's nothing about it that's wrong about what we're saying and what we're feeling because number one in that apartment we were bringing an offering in Ukraine and it was a very large offering and it was there and I said Lord we'll never allow an egg to kill the offering I said I had this piece I'm like secondly it's a very expensive apartment and all the appliances they have there they have something in those appliances and I know that turn off the eggs after 30 minutes when they realize the owners forgot about the eggs I never knew about the stuff that even exists but I told her and even though inside of me I was really worried but I had a very very weird piece and I was like nothing's going to work out everything's going to be fine nothing bad is going to happen and well my wife was a lot more worried than I was we got out of the train and we see the apartment already and so you know and I'm expecting smoke I don't see smoke so I'm like maybe it's already gone you know and so we started to run toward the apartment but while we're running one thing in my heart I have is this is that there's no way it's not going to burn there's no way it's going to burn everything's going to be fine we walk in we don't see no fire trucks nothing we walk into the apartment we don't see any smoke and we go and yes it's true our eggs are on the stove and they're still being warmed up the water did not evaporate and while it was being cooked for 10 hours and now I understand if this story gets to my end I will never ever come close to any of her houses it's fine but one thing I've learned from that to me it was a spiritual experience you have no idea how stressful and draining emotionally those 15 minutes were and in that moment I had to make one decision is this is not to trust my feelings something deep inside I knew it can't God I've been through worse and God always saw me through he will never let this happen to me you've been through something worse than what you're going through and it looks so big and you got through whatever you're facing now is not as big and God will see you through your situation will mislead you if you don't live by revelation we must have a revelation in Jesus mighty name because somebody say amen guys this new year that we are walking into I want you to just remind you a few things I want us to have revelation on one thing that I want us to have revelation on this year is have a revelation about prayer and relationship with Holy Spirit we all understand we need to pray there's a difference when a prayer and a prayer as communication with Holy Spirit becomes a revelation means it hits you the light comes up it dawns on you you begin to pray differently I think this is what started to happen to me for the past 5-6 months but really really started to happen to me for the last 3 months where prayer became a revelation I've always was I was known to be a praying man but for the past few years when a prayer becomes a routine when a prayer becomes a duty it makes you wet it makes you clean but it doesn't make you whole when prayer becomes a revelation means you go into a prayer closet to have communion with Holy Spirit to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit and sometimes I found out that prayer can be so boring so hard when you pray wrongly when you come and you're trying to stir yourself up and something I've been doing hearing from other people is sometimes before coming to prayer I will sit in a prayer room and actually I will turn on a sermon and listen to that sermon in my prayer room until something jumps inside for me to pray if I don't feel like praying I don't pray because God's not gonna hear it I'm not gonna hear it I'm gonna waste my time and get depressed because you leave you feel sometimes you walk into a prayer room and God walked out the moment you walked in and nobody benefits from that prayer and so when the revelation of prayer hits you don't just simply come and clock out as though God holds a clock in heaven says okay 30 minutes you got it but you walk in and you prepare your heart even if it takes 90% of your prayer time to prepare your heart so that your prayer can be something that comes from your spirit that connects with God you must have a revelation about prayer this coming year I want us to set a discipline for one of us in here who want to see the presence of God move to spend at least one hour with Holy Spirit in your prayer room every day I heard that from Pastor Vladimir Montian from Ukraine on the business meeting he was talking to businessmen and some of those businessmen were really really busy well business and businessmen business and business go together businessmen are busy because they have business businessmen he says you must spend at least one hour in prayer every single day and well on the table that we were sitting there were a lady who owned the restaurant another guy owned a coal station another person owned some trains and they're like oh we're busy and Montian rebuked them and he said as a businessman he says you need to spend at least one hour in prayer and you will begin to notice a change in your business but this is what he says that really hit me he says if prayer and relationship with Holy Spirit and prayer is not a revelation to you he says you won't do that consistently he says you will do that right now for next week and after that you stop he says it has to be a revelation not maybe too deep that you're like I'm gonna pray but if something just just hits you I must spend time with the Holy Spirit and Montian he always does it really wise he gets one of his businessman gets him up who gives $1 million a year the ministry and about $50,000 a month he gives a month and then $1 million a year and he asks him he says you're a very busy businessman everybody knows you and you're very wealthy and you give so much money away can you tell us why is it important to spend one hour with the Holy Spirit and all of these businessman who make $5,000 a month okay I wanna listen and he says I have so many projects if I just begin to mention some of you will have a brain freeze but he says every single day I spend one hour with the Holy Spirit as a businessman and he starts sharing different stories how he drove by a field and Holy Spirit quickens and says this is the field you should build lots on he says Lord I've called that owner he could sell that field he never wanted to give that field and he even cost me out and hang up on me and he said and the Holy Spirit told him call him again he calls him and this owner as though he had a brand new heart he says of course we would love to sell it to you he says where you've been I've been looking for you and he starts sharing story after story when Holy Spirit when the real estate market crashed in Ukraine he says I want you to print 5000 flyers and stamp them on one street one particular street he says I did that and I start selling 60 70% more than anybody else in Kiev one of the top businessmen in Kiev spends one hour with the Holy Spirit you are not a top businessman in tri-cities you will be if you spend time with the Holy Spirit and this coming year you and I make a decision spending time Holy Spirit is not your dad your mom or even your pastor he is the God of Universe and if anybody knows anything about life love or money it's gonna be him we must have a revelation of prayer I'm not talking about reading prayer I'm not talking about praying to Virgin Mary or Virgin some other virgin I am talking about praying and fellowshiping with the one called the Holy Spirit I'm not talking about even reciting Lord's Prayer and just doing this and leaving I'm not talking about religious routine I'm talking about getting in the room and talking and fellowshiping with the Holy Spirit and if you walk in and you don't feel it turn on a city turn on a sermon get something your heart stirred and then you pray so when you walk out you walk out like a giant you may be this tall or you walk out like a giant because you talk to the Holy Spirit because somebody say man the second revelation we must have this coming year and we must have a revelation you've heard this so many times in our church and that is this the reality of the spiritual world our pastor preached on it so many times he taught about it and some of you for some of us spiritual world is a water that makes you wet he's like yeah I know demons exist we see them on the prayer line they manifest and they're kind of weird and yeah this demon is stronger than the other one and everything but the revelation the curses are real they can destroy people's lives it must become a reality without this revelation our cell groups cannot grow this coming year without this revelation as cell leaders this needs to sink in and the prophet Jesus says get into our blood are we demon hunters? No but at the same time we must understand we cannot effectively minister to people and have a successful life if there is someone somewhere stealing things and we're simply living being oblivious and being completely ignorant of the truth that the whole world lays under a sway of satan spiritual world must become a reality for us where we come to service and we honor God we welcome the Holy Spirit we do in our services and we don't beg God for anything we praise Him for everything and we fight the devil because God did not steal your health God did not steal your joy God did not steal nothing from you God took not a dime from you satan did and you need to go against him in Jesus name because somebody say amen the third revelation that we must have this coming year is the revelation about evangelism about evangelism and about souls we are coming to a place where we are going to see people saved every single service and more than just two or three people I was reading Mantian's book this morning when he started the church 10 years ago in Nipropetrovsk the particular city in Ukraine and the church grew to 130 people in 18 months and after that the church stopped growing and he went for he brought this revivalist who had many weeks of revival in his church and after those great revivals his church shrunk so those revivals made him so depressed and he started to seek the face of God on how to see people saved how to see people come to Jesus Christ because he said I don't want to be a pastor people don't get saved he went for 21 days to pray and fast and after 21 days God gave him 20 things he needs to do with church and one of those 20 those things were about evangelism how they should evangelize one of the things they used to evangelize is kind of like how we used to do with flyers on the streets with big banners or six posters big posters like maybe seven feet away from each other and so people would drive and you know we waved our flyers at people and gave them and nobody would come and if people would come our services were so socially awkward and we were socially awkward people would get freaked out even cold or something like that because it was just very... we were not open to people we were afraid of people and people were of course afraid of us where we are headed evangelism and bringing people to Christ and being okay with sinners and not being freaked out when they confess their sins has to become norm for us in Jesus name we evangelized through TV on Monday night in Pasco a lady who was sitting next to us a chair from us she says you look very familiar I was like I think I do my name is Vlad I look like Vlad and she says no we watch your shows every single week and I just want to let you know those shows have been really building my Christian faith and I was like praise be to God all of that is great but the evangelism we're talking about it's not evangelism that somebody edits a man or local channel and it puts it over there it's the evangelism you and I do personally for people who do not know Jesus Christ and somebody say amen and this revelation must hit us that each person in here has to become a person who wins other people to Jesus Christ by bringing them to Christ bringing them to church and having them serve Jesus Christ in Jesus name can somebody say amen next thing is that there must be a revelation about cell groups there must be a revelation about cell groups I already mentioned about people who get saved or people who get delivered and they don't stick around and I mentioned that we are going to have cell groups starting next month I really want all of us to make a decision to be in a cell group all of you to make a decision to have a cell group some of you you need to make a goal to have two cell groups because some of you are single and some of you you can have three cell groups when I went to Ukraine I found out one bishop he had three cell groups during one week and had many churches that he was overseeing and cell groups one of the main worship pastors over there in Ukraine who leads worship and everybody knows him because he's always on the screen he has about three cell groups on Skype every single week and he has two or three churches that he also oversees I was like you guys are nuts people have over here we are trying to squeeze up time for one cell group and people have time for two or three cell groups every one of us must realize God wants you to have your own cell group during this coming year in Jesus name amen you can do that for the glory of God and one more revelation that I think we will need to really grasp is the revelation about sacrifice a sacrifice sacrificial giving most of our leaders were aware that when we went to Ukraine we went there too to give a sacrificial gift and sow a seed into a ministry of Pastor Vladimir Muntian and the purpose for that is that personally me and my wife we feel a huge obligation as pastors raising us up and giving us the opportunity to minister we want to see people saved in our church on a big scale delivered not just through anointing water but through regular services and in the cell groups and we see that happening in the ministry over there where we visited what deliverance happened in the services the brother pastor Vladimir gets up gets a microphone exactly what happened in Weizmann's revival people right away manifestations crazy deliverances, crazy healings and that's exactly what we want to see here on our cell groups for the glory of God and we felt like it was appropriate for us for the savings the one that we were wanting to build another duplex and to find some more money and literally to just sow all of that into that ministry it was a large amount the moment that thought entered into my mind two months ago I almost thought I was going crazy and so I told my wife thinking that she would think I am going crazy and she says I have been having the same thoughts I'm like okay we're both going crazy and I'm like this is insane this is not wise why would you want to do that and by the grace of God we did that but even before that I was supposed to go on a mission trip in Tanzania and instead of going I decided to just simply send the money the money that it would take me to go $2,000 or something and our own vacation that we've had saved up for next year in Mexico well those tickets got given away to other people some people have traveling right now some are going to come here for those money and we really felt like that for us some of you know me personally and you know that for me it's very easy to save money I will not eat but I will save money I will starve but I'm a saver and if I look at people don't save money I sometimes like I look at them and I'm like man you got issues but for me to be extravagantly generous I'm talking about like crazy generous we have people like that in our church many of them but I wasn't one of them I was more of like the wise guy and I always said I'm wise but in reality I was scared I think and I didn't have a revelation until the revelation hit my heart that I want to see people saved God gave his son he didn't give $10,000 he didn't give him Mercedes he gave his own baby to be ripped on the cross by pieces nailed and for more than 6 hours hang there and a scorching sun of Jerusalem and cry for help and had him die so that I can be saved everything or anything I can sacrifice for the cause of other people to be saved pales in comparison with that sacrifice Jesus gave for me and I know that this coming year if I am going to live like that you all going to live like that too for the glory of God and the easier for some of you it's easy because you don't have anything and it's easier to give when you don't have anything because you just give your heart but then when you start having something you have to lay down on the altar for the cause of Christ you have to be willing to open your house so new people on Sunday can come not just your family who you know they will not disturb and they will not spill coffee on your carpet because they've spilled before and you punished them are we talking about everybody who can come in to our homes buy food welcome people we will live like that we will see a revival these are the revelations that we want to establish in our lives I know that some of you as you hearing this it's scratching your heart it's a small fire protected guarded and it's going to grow into something bigger and something better


The Ministry of Health and Wellness is reporting a reduction in the total number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases over the last few weeks. There was also a reduction in the number of persons with respiratory illness, reduced admissions at the respiratory hospital, and reduced numbers accessing care at the clinics. The daily infection rate for the past week was 3.2 per 100,000 per day and an average of 6 cases per day. The majority of the cases continue to be seen in the southern region of the island and Bamondo and Grosile in the north. Health officials continue to manage outbreaks emanating from social activities. Chief Medical Officer Dr Sharon Belmar George says the Ministry is continuing surveillance and testing on a daily basis. While the Ministry notes the reduction in cases, there has been an increase in the cases of the British variant of COVID-19 on island. The Ministry of Health and Wellness has recently received new results from the Caribbean Public Health Agency in relation to gene sequencing for variants of concern. We have noted 19 more cases of the British variant in country, bringing the total number of British variants diagnosed in country 241. All of the new cases are nationals. The majority of the variants are from Bamondo, Grosile and Castries. The samples sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency are sequenced to detect all of the possible variants, but the British variant is the only one which has been detected in St Lucia thus far. We would like to continue to alert the public that we are still in a very vulnerable position based on the high risk of introduction of COVID-19 and the other variants of concern from developed countries and neighboring Martinique and transmission in country due to poor compliance to protocols. We note the increase in social activities across the island, especially on weekends and the general relaxation of the public health measures. We continue to advise the public to remain vigilant and adhere to the protocols at a putting place to keep us safe. Dr. Belmar George urges the public to continue regular hand washing, wear face masks in public places, avoid crowds and persons with respiratory symptoms and keep frequently touched so this is clean. The CMO also encourages nationals to get vaccinated. Vaccination remains the most effective public health measure in managing infectious diseases. The AstraZeneca vaccine has been proven to be safe and effective in protecting persons from developing COVID-19 in severe forms, complications, hospitalizations and death. We continue to urge the public to access the various sites to get immunized at the soonest. The vaccine is available free of charge to the public at many venues on a daily basis. As of yesterday, June 13, 2021, a total of 29,655 persons have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 20,589 have received the second dose. Please encourage your family and friends to get immunized so we can all be protected. Over the last 14 days, 91 new cases were recorded and at news time today there were 97 active cases in country.


I would like to welcome all of you to the very first lecture of this course on multi-phase flows and what I would like to do today is basically give you an overview of the entire course so that you know exactly what you are in store for. Now this is an advanced level course and I have been teaching this course for the last four or five years. The contents of this course have actually evolved over these four years primarily with inputs from students and I think now the course is in a shape where there is a lot of fundamental scientific approach which is being emphasized. The very first time I offered this course it was following the classical book of Wallace and Wally and there the emphasis was on using some kind of empirical correlations to calculate quantities like pressure drop when you have a multi-phase flow pattern. Now there is hardly any of that we are going to be doing in this course. The idea is that those are concepts which you can quite easily pick up on your own should you have very strong fundamentals and keeping that in mind this course has gone through a complete overhaul. Clearly when you are talking about so this is the first lecture on this course multi-phase flows clearly when you talk about a multi-phase flow system you have a system where there is more than one phase okay and so we have more than one phase usually it is more than one fluid phase. So it could be for example it could be the flow of two immiscible liquids an organic liquid and an aqueous liquid. So for example it could be water plus toluene two liquids or it could be flow of liquid and a gas. For example it could be carbon dioxide and a gas stream containing carbon dioxide and maybe an aqueous stream containing sodium hydroxide solution. So these days you know carbon dioxide the oxide sequestration is extremely important talked about and so you have a situation where people want to remove carbon dioxide coming from process plants and one way to do that is to absorb it in a solution of sodium hydroxide. So you have a gas stream and a liquid stream which have to be in contact for this to occur. You can have other situations where you are talking about extraction of maybe some impurities from one liquid phase to another and in that case you have two liquid phases flowing together and that could be an example of a water and a toluene mixture flowing for example. You could of course have a solid phase as also being one of the phases. So you could have we could have a gas solid multi phase flow as in a packed bed reactor or a fluidized bed reactor. So here one of the things that happens is the solid particles can be for example catalytic and they are the sites over which the chemical reaction takes place. The reactants are usually in the gaseous phase. So if you are talking about a chemical reaction of the kind where sulfur dioxide gets converted to sulfur trioxide this is a reversible reaction and this takes place on a catalyst of vanadium pentoxide that is my catalyst. So this occurs in a packed bed reactor where you have solid particles on which vanadium pentoxide is deposited. These particles are porous and the vanadium pentoxide is deposited on the inner surfaces of the pores. The reaction takes place on the site of the catalyst and sulfur dioxide and air are actually latent. They diffuse into the particle reaction takes place and the product is formed. So here is an example of a multi phase flow where you have a solid particle and you have a gas phase. There are other examples for example in the field of catalytic cracking where fluidized bed reactors are used where the solid particles are not stationary but they are also moving in my reactor. So the entire reactor is in a fluidized state, the fluid phase is moving and the solid phase is also moving. So that would be an example of a fluidized bed reactor. So what I am just trying to tell you is that there are several situations in the chemical processing industry wherein multi phase flows do occur and that is basically by way of trying to motivate you for you know going through with this course and seeing how the concepts that you are going to be learning in this course can be used for analyzing some of these processes, some of these systems and see if you can get a better understanding so that we can possibly improve the performance of these systems. So these are examples where multi phase flows occur and you could also have a system where you have all the 3 phases present, a gas phase, a liquid phase and a solid phase and an example of that would be actually a trickle bed reactor. Here all 3 phases are present and one industrial process in which a trickle bed reactor is used in today is the hydro desulphurization in the petroleum industry. So the name suggests what you want to do is you want to remove the sulfur compounds present in your crude oil and one way to do this is to react this with hydrogen. So the hydrogen reacts with the sulfur compounds and produces hydrogen sulfide. Now the sulfur compounds are therefore eliminated from the feed stream of the crude and what you get is petrol after the refining step with a very, very, very low sulfur content.  So you do not want to pollute the atmosphere by burning these sulfur containing compounds the thiophenes, the mercaptans etc., okay. So you want to remove them right at the refinery stage itself and the way this occurs is you have again a catalyst pellet, we have a catalyst and this is the solid phase. The sulfur containing compound, this is the liquid phase and the hydrogen is the gas phase. Again the reaction has to take place in a porous solid particle, so I am just drawing a random network of pores, so these are my pores and that is my catalyst particle, okay. The catalyst is deposited like I told you earlier on the surface of these pores which we can assume to be cylindrical. The sulfur containing compound, the crude oil is or the fraction of crude oil, diesel sometimes you are only processing diesel or sometimes you are only processing petrol is going to be flowing around this catalyst particle. So this is your liquid stream and the hydrogen gas is going to be present outside, okay. So this is your liquid stream and this could be diesel for example. What we want is both diesel and hydrogen should reach the site of the catalyst for the reaction to occur and here in order for that to take place, these pores have to be very small so that the liquid can enter the pore through basically capillary action. I want the concentration of hydrogen to be as high as possible at the site of the catalyst. In order for the concentration of hydrogen to be very high, I must have a very low resistance to the path of the hydrogen so that the concentration difference is very low. So one way to ensure that the path of the resistance to the flow of hydrogen is very low is to make sure that this film of liquid which is flowing around the catalyst particle is very thin. If the film is very thick then hydrogen would have to diffuse to a longer distance and therefore the resistance would be much higher. So what is done in industry is you make sure that you have a very thin film. In other words, the liquid is basically trickling over the surface of the catalyst particle. So the trickling over the surface of the catalyst particle ensures that there is a thin film and ensures that the concentration of the hydrogen is very high at the surface of the pore and you have an effective reaction. So this is an example of gas liquid solid system where a very important process takes place okay and this basic insight of wanting to have a very high concentration of hydrogen in the surface of the catalyst particle has told us what should be the relative flow rates that we need for the liquid phase and the gas phase okay. Now one of the objectives which an engineer has is to understand questions like what is going to be the pressure drop in a system where there is more than one fluid phase flowing. Now if you want a quick answer you can possibly use the ideas from the single phase flows that you have studied and try to adapt them to the multi phase flow context. For instance if you have a 2 phase flow okay of a liquid liquid system you may be able to calculate things like an effective density and an effective viscosity for the 2 phase mixture. So you may take a weighted average of the density and the viscosity and treat it as a pseudo homogeneous fluid as a single phase fluid and then use whatever knowledge you have about calculating pressure drops for single phase systems use these average properties and estimate the pressure drop. Now this is one way by which you can try to solve the problem of course the basic assumption of whether the weighted average is going to work or not is not something which we can know a priori. So what you would do is you would get an estimate and then you would actually do an experiment and see if this estimate is accurate to what you are actually finding in an experiment that could be a mismatch or that could be a match but there is no guarantee that there would be a match because you have made an approximation. So what we want to do is we want to see if we can get away from this kind of an ad hoc approach this kind of a semi empirical approach. So the semi empiricism comes because of this ad hocism that has basically been used in addressing this question and can we go for something more fundamental okay. Let me just go back one second and to this problem of this packed bed reactors and maybe even to the problem of the trickle bed reactor where the solid is in a stationary phase. So typically if you want to calculate the pressure drop you would calculate the pressure drop using the Ergun's relationship in a packed bed reactor okay. Now but that only gives you an idea of the macroscopic phenomena the pressure drop versus the flow rate or the velocity of the system. What you want to do is possibly get a more detail insight about what is exactly happening in the system and that is going to be the focus of this course. So by way of motivation for processes where multi phase flow systems exist I have just given you these examples okay and what I am going to tell you now is as far as this course is concerned we will adopt a more fundamental approach analyzing problems. In particular we are not going to be using any correlations at all in this course although we have a very complex problem with multi phase systems we will not be using any correlations. So for example to give you an idea of the liquid-liquid flow problem that we mentioned earlier in the context of extraction there are different possible flow regimes in a liquid-liquid flow system. So for example you could have the liquids in a tube flowing side by side or you could have drops of one liquid flowing in suspended in another liquid or you could have big slugs one liquid you know flowing in a periodic manner with the other phase in between these slugs. So there are different possible flow regimes one is I am just giving you some examples one is the stratified flow and here the fluids flow side by side. So if you have a pipe or a channel you will have phase 1 here and have phase 2 here that is an example of a stratified flow you could have a slug flow here you would have slugs of one fluid and this is a second fluid and then you have another slug of the first fluid and this is a second fluid. So the one represents one of the fluid phases could be toluene two represents another fluid phase could be water okay and you have these slugs which are all of a uniform size you know surrounded by the aqueous phase which is the continuous phase. So basically this is a dispersed phase this is a discontinuous phase because one slug of let us say the organic phase and this is the aqueous phase. The organic phase is the discontinuous phase and the aqueous phase is the continuous phase and then this basically depends upon the material of your pipe. So if you have glass then glass is weighted by water and so there is a possibility for the continuous phase to be the aqueous phase. Now you could also when I talk about slug what I mean is that the slug occupies almost the entire cross section of the pipe. So this is my pipe this is the cross section of my pipe okay and here this is the cross section of my pipe. The slug occupies the entire cross section of the pipe and there is going to be a very thin film which is going to exist between the wall of the slug and the wall of the pipe. So this is a thin film and I think I will just talk about one more flow regime. The droplet flow regime where we have drops of one liquid another. So here we have this pipe and we have drops and this is your maybe an organic phase and this is your continuous or aqueous phase. The difference between the droplet flow and the slug flow is that the size of the disperse phase. Here the size of the disperse phase is much smaller than the size of the channel okay. The size of the disperse phase in the slug flow occupies the is comparable to the size of the channel. Here the size of the disperse phase the organic phase is much smaller than the size of the channel. Now one of the questions which we want to know is we want to be able to predict on the basis of the properties and the operating conditions things like the flow rate. What is going to be the flow regime present in my system, in my channel, in my pipe. In the past what people have done is they have done extensive experimental investigations and they have depicted the different flow regimes in something like a two dimensional parameter meter space. So for example for a given combination of liquids and for a given pipe diameter you could find out for different combinations of the flow rates. What is going to be the pattern of the flow okay. So if you have a very, very low flow rate of the organic phase and high flow rate of the aqueous phase you might expect something like a droplet flow okay. So this is in the low organic largest thing. As you keep increasing the organic phase flow rate you might want to go towards or you might observe a transition from a droplet flow regime to a slug flow regime and if you want to increase the flow rates further you would get a stratified flow regime. So basically what I am trying to tell you is for a given combination of liquids which means the properties of the liquids are fixed the density and the viscosity.  This is the region where I am going to get a slug flow regime. This is the region where I am going to get a stratified flow regime. But this is just to illustrate the idea okay. So please do not take this figure for you know being actually observed in experiment. This is just to tell you that there are boundaries in this parameter space which demarcate the different flow regimes okay. So the question now is okay I can do this experimentally. Is it possible for me to determine these boundaries, determine these changes in the flow patterns using some kind of a theoretical framework and the answer is yes and what you are going to learn in this course is basically this theoretical framework which helps you understand not only the answer to this question but a whole bunch of questions which are going to be of a similar nature okay. So our objective is to see if I can predict this boundary where the transition occurs from one flow regime to another okay and just to tell you how we are going to do it we are going to do this by looking at what is called the stability of a particular flow okay. So the theoretical framework developed will help us understand and predict the boundary or transition from one flow pattern to another okay. So as far as this course is concerned our focus is mainly on getting both a physical understanding as well as applying mathematics to get a quantitative understanding of the particular system. So when we talk about physical understanding I am talking about you know analyzing a specific problem and talking about the physics of that problem. The mathematics and the mathematical framework that we are going to be establishing is sufficiently general. So that you can actually apply this mathematical framework to any system and only thing is the inferences are going to be different for different systems because the physics is going to be different. So one of the things we are going to focus on in this course is both the mathematical approach as well as the physical understanding. You need to have both and normally what happens is when you do your math courses you learn a lot of the mathematical techniques you do not see what the relevant physics is. When you do a physical problem you possibly are applying a very specific technique and you do not realize how general it is the mathematical technique that you are using. So you are going to learn not only mathematical techniques which are sufficiently general but you are also going to be applying these techniques to a host of problems which will arise in the context of engineering and so that you can actually see applications of whatever you are learning okay. So we will use both a physical and a mathematical approach to analyze a system okay. So these go hand in hand as a result since we want to do both mathematics as well as physics, both mathematics as well as physics we are going to be focusing mainly on trying to keep the model as simple as possible retain all the important physics so that we can develop a much better understanding of the problem, physical understanding of the problem and look for analytical or semi analytical solutions which are not computationally intensive. So I am trying to get the best of both worlds, I am trying to get the best of both worlds in the sense I am trying to get quantitative information by doing mathematics, I am trying to deepen my understanding of the physical problem by retaining important physics throwing out all the not important effects okay and this helps me focus on what I think is important physically and the mathematics gives me quantitative results and since I have thrown out all the unwanted physics I can possibly aspire to get analytical or semi analytical solutions so that my reliance on the computers on computationally intensive methods is actually reduced okay. So there is a completely different approach here as compared to what people in classical computational fluid mechanics use, we focus on getting the best of both worlds retain the important physics, simplify the equations okay then solve the equations analytically so we do not have computationally intensive approach. This is as opposed to computational fluid dynamics because multiphase flows can also be analyzed using CFD techniques okay CFD computational fluid dynamics usually invokes the solution of detailed equations. So this is a computationally intensive approach as a result of which the physical understanding that we may get is lost. So usually when people are using computationally intensive approaches they may be going towards software packages and the software packages if used properly would give you accurate results if you do not use them properly you may get erroneous results and it would be very difficult for you to find out if the results coming from these packages are indeed right. One of the things you are going to do in the course is come up with solutions for physical problems under some circumstances, under some limiting circumstances. So these solutions are going to be analytical. What you can do is you can verify these analytical solutions using the computational packages that are available and see if the results coming from the computational packages are indeed the same as what you get from your analytical solutions. So what I am trying to advocate here is that the computational fluid dynamic packages like fluent definitely have the virtues and are important but one should be very careful in using these packages because if you do not use these packages carefully you are going to get erroneous results. Definitely you would get results okay you would get some velocity fields you would get some pressure fields but you need to develop the ability to make sure that the results that are coming are right you need to be able to you know figure out if those results are indeed accurate whether they are actually worth their weight in gold. To do this you may want to run the same package under some simplifying situations like may be very low Reynolds numbers so that the turbulence is eliminated then you would be able to possibly get an analytical solution like your laminar flow the parabolic velocity profile in a pipe see if the computational package gives you the same parabolic velocity profile. So under low Reynolds numbers if it does then when you actually use the same package for high Reynolds number flows you have more confidence. So that of course was a very simplistic example but you could have situations which are more complicated wherein the getting an analytical solution something analogous to your parabolic velocity profile is very important to validate results coming from computational packages. So and that is the reason why we in this course are going to actually use this kind of a two pronged attack trying to simplify equations concentrate on important physics try to get the simplified equations solve them in an analytical manner and if you cannot solve them analytically at least solve them numerically but not very computationally intensive and get results. So you would therefore in this course necessarily get to a point where you would have to solve some of the problems writing programs in some of these packages like MATLAB or Mathematica or Maple or Fortran whatever suits you okay. So as far as this particular course is concerned this is what we are going to be doing we are going to be looking at situations simplifying the equations and retain the important physics and try to answer important questions which are of engineering interest like can you predict the transition from one flow regime to another flow regime are you in a position where you can predict how you can go from the droplet flow to the slug flow or from the slug flow to the stratified flow. If you can predict this then you can actually validate that using experiments if you are not in a position to do experiments then you can possibly predict validate this particular prediction of this boundary by doing computations on a package like fluent okay and see if the results of your prediction are indeed validated by the computational experiments on the computer so coming to a little bit of the details of this course we would in fact mainly be talking about laminar flows focus is on laminar flows okay and we would look at doing a small recap for just to make sure that this course is self consistent so we would recap the governing equations of the fluid flow and I am going to do this in the context of using things like the Reynolds transport theorem and see how we can get the Navier Stokes equation. One of the important challenges that you are going to face when you are solving multiphase flow problems is in analyzing boundary conditions when you have a change from a stratified flow to a slug flow the boundary itself is going to change normally what you are used to is solving problems where the boundary is fixed the boundary does not change. Now we want to be in a position to be able to track how the interface the boundary between 2 liquids is actually going to change with time and position so we need to the interface how does it evolve with time and space and you are used to using boundary conditions of a particular kind continuity of velocity continuity of tangential stresses and in the past what you have done is you not worry too much of the existence of the surface tension along the interface. Now the presence of the surface tension is actually going to modify these classical boundary conditions that you are used to for example if you have a curved interface there is going to be a pressure gradient and the normal stresses are not going to be balanced because the surface tension force is present at the interface. If there is a concentration gradient of let us say a surfactant along an interface the surface tension is going to vary along the interface there is going to be a gradient of the surface tension and this is going to also cause a inequality between of the tangential stresses across the interface. So these generalizations to the existence of a surface tension to the existence of a surface tension gradient to the existence of a curvature of the interface and how the boundary conditions are formulated in this scenario is what we are going to talk about okay and that is extremely important. So how to include surface tension, surface tension gradients the curvature of the interface. Finally and this is possibly the application part where we are going to talk about the application methods like perturbation theory and linear stability analysis to specific problems. Now I spoke about you know getting analytical solutions and what we are doing when you talk about analytical solutions is we use this simplified equations here we use this general equations which we simplify depending upon a specific problem and use this perturbation approach and the linear stability approach where you actually convert a bunch of non-linear equations to linear equations and then try to analyze them. The idea is that linear equations is something which we all know how to analyze using things like Laplace transform using things like Fourier transform okay and we can hope to get analytical solutions and get insight. So that is basically the focus of the course what the perturbation theory tells you is it helps you construct approximate solutions which are analytical okay and what we do is we exploit the presence of things like small parameters in the space in the operating condition you know governing equations and I can actually construct solutions so this the perturbation theory helps construct approximate solutions okay and the linear stability can be found by solving the linearized equations. So I think at the end of the course what I expect is that the students what I have actually gotten enough knowledge that when they go to the library and pick up a journal and look at a paper they will be in a position to be able to derive those equations and to be able to understand what this paper is talking about to understand the physics explained in the paper to understand the mathematics explained in the paper and to be able to do research in this area and I think the course itself will consist of in class exams where we will be testing your fundamental knowledge that you gained in this course will have computer assignments where we will you know make you solve problems on the computer and of course a final exam which would again test your fundamental knowledge thank you very much.


Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time. But unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, then we are not a complete person. Which room of the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual? Which room are you rarely in? And why?


One, two, shoot. Winner, winner, chicken dinner. We're going to let youth go before beauty. Ha-ha. We're here in fleeting time. Worked two years for this movie. It's going to go off. We sold out two shows. Can't wait. It's going to be a great night. Ben Oregon's favorite song, Ben. There was maybe one before this. But I definitely robbed this one when I was just a little guy. I was like six years old when I first trapped him for the first time. So we'd go up on the weekends with the mom and my brothers. And it turned into this like big family bonding thing. Then once we got a little bit older, started like taking a little more serious, started doing contests. I think I did my first contest. I was like eight years old. The first time I had ever learned of who Ben Ferguson was was by actually watching the Burton Smalls video that had come out. It was just so funny to see him ride and he has this big goofy smile and you could just tell he loves snowboarding. Started off like USA SA contest. Had like some success when I was super young and then you get a little bit older and you kind of get lost. And then eventually I hit a little girl's spurt, went through puberty and started like actually being good at like riding halfpipe and going big and kind of like fell in love with it as well. Ben Kamen Ferguson. What can he do? He just showed his mom, Jen, cheering him on. Ben's shift, he's over that side. I think I had been out at X-Games shooting for Snowboarder Mag and Ben podiumed in one of the pipe events. And then I get a call from Travis Rice about coming out to film with him and I'm tripping. I was invited to go film for the fourth phase. Up into that time, like it was that's it, that's all. And the art of flight, I was for like 20, 19, something like that. Like, you know, like I'm a pretty young kid.  I remember calling him up, ringing him and he was, I think he was just going into X-Games.  Ben and I hadn't slept really at all. Maybe an hour or two max. The spot we're going just happens to also be one of like the most burly entrances into the back country where you have to do like multiple super aggressive hill climbs. I remember Ben just dropping in and cracking like a beautiful method. And that kind of set them depressive for the next three weeks. I had reception up at the ridge and I know Ben's parents were worried about him. I don't think I ever told him this but I called his dad from the ridge and was like, he's good. He got his first shot. We're ready to go. And his dad was mad relieved. I ended up staying on that crew for a couple weeks and filming some stuff. I was super stoked to film and given the opportunity to learn from the best and be a part of a pretty huge production. That month was like the first time we really got to spend ample time in the back country together. I mean he showed up, like some of the clips he got for fourth phase still, I mean still completely A plus worthy. The time I spent filming with Travis for the fourth phase was an insane learning experience and kind of like a baptism by fire into what back country snowboarding is.  Like how to just put your head down and grind and like if you want something to happen you can make it happen. It's just how much effort you want to put in. And that was a real takeaway from like being out there with those guys. I think he was really impactful for Ben's career to sort of show up in that sense. Following that he had for sure in the respect of Travis and that crew and was clearly going to move forward into more projects with that type of caliber attached to them. For me I don't think I process my decisions that hard. I just think like this is what I want to do I'm going to go do that. I did kind of stop competing that being the only thing I did and was ready to like move on and learn a bunch about filming in the back country and doing that whole thing. Joy was right after the Olympics for me and I had never really dedicated 100% of my time to a snowboard film yet so this was like the first one that I was going to do. So coming into joy there definitely was a lot of pressure like I'm doing a project with two of the best snowboarders in the world like Red Gerard and Sage Kotzenberg. We were in Jackson Hole in Travis's little dojo.   So we ended up hitting it and Sage got a trick and then he just started lapping me and I was on a full like battle to land this front 1080 and finally got it and sometimes when you watch that stuff on footage it doesn't really like translate as well but being there in the moment I know for myself hitting it that was like one of the craziest jumps I've ever hit to this day. It was gnarly but we did it and we filmed some amazing stuff I think and made a great movie. There's a couple underlying themes there that kind of go along with the vibe of fleeting time. One is like take advantage of your time you know the clock is always ticking time is a hard thing for people to even define all you have is time but it's passing by so use it wisely. I think this two year movie that Ben's been working on for fleeting time has been a massive part a lot of work has gone into it big movies like that aren't really happening as much anymore in snowboarding just takes the right person to be able to make their own film. It takes so much to be ringleader. What I wanted to make was a snowboard movie like the ones that I grew up watching you wanted to get nostalgic in a way and I think the way to do that is to look at those projects that you were you know inspired by and try to emulate that and try to hold it to the same standards that those dudes film in those movies help themselves too. We filmed the whole first year for fleeting time and I definitely did it when we were filming I think it was in Jackson Hole before the first natural selection contest I definitely messed my knee up and then rode on it all year got it checked out at the end of the year and the surgeon is like you got to fix it now otherwise it's just going to get worse. It was like August and I got the surgery was on crutches for six weeks being on the sidelines for that long not being able to walk for that long and then thinking about like getting back into it and what that was going to take like I was willing to put the work in and that's all I focused on but it was like pretty nerve-wracking and I knew I had this two year project and I was just in the middle of it and I had to like continue to bust ass for this next year to like really drive me into like getting healthy and getting ready for the winter. Awesome. I think without this jump we'd be kind of hurting for you know some of that heavier content that you want to live in a snowboard movie. We had the whole crew, the whole crew helped build it which is amazing like when you got a crew that'll dig for you that's key like you need that for me like I did a trick on this that I had never done before and straight up Red like coached me through it he was yelling flip it while I'm flying through the air and it ended up working and I landed on my feet and I don't know it was an awesome session What's it like having your name on a full feature? Having your name on a full feature is a little stressful honestly this is my movie like I kind of got to step up and I kind of got to take responsibility and I got to work hard to make this thing good because otherwise like what are you doing?


Today, we're going to be looking at the Louis Vuitton Air Force One designed by Virgil Abloh, RIP a legend. I'm excited to get into this shoe, and you guys already know, just based off of the background where we're at, we're at Untied LA, and you know they always got some bangers for us, and I had to come out and see this shoe in person. So let's go ahead and crack this box open and see what's inside. Oh yeah, wait a minute. Before we crack this box open, if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ, and this is the DNA show. On this channel, I love breaking down sneakers, giving you guys in-depth reviews, especially on rare stuff like this. So if you haven't already, consider subscribing, joining the fam, and we're on our road to a million subscribers, and you could be the next one to get us there. Now let's crack open the box. All right, so this is going to be similar to the other ones that we have shown on the channel before, and all over throughout the box, we're going to have that monogram Louis Vuitton print, and then you're going to have the lid that lifts up right here on the front end, and on the center of the lid right here, you have a big white Nike swoosh.  Why do they always do two pairs of white laces? Never really sure. I thought maybe it would be an alternate color that maybe matches with the sneaker, but hey, I don't know, they got their own design process. Next up right here, you have a leather strip that looks like a Nike swoosh that loops around this little tab right here, and it has the same monogram print on that with the brown leather, and you have Louis Vuitton air with the Nike swoosh here printed on there. Now, additional, you have two sets of dust bags right here, one for each shoe, and on the bottom end of it, it says Louis Vuitton air, and it has that little leather patch right there, something that you might see on the tongue of the sneaker as well. Now for the part that everybody has been waiting for, oh, we got the shoe. So before we start breaking down all the styles, cuts, and materials of the sneaker, you know what we gotta do first. We gotta talk about the history. So the Nike Air Force One has been around for 40 years, and with this being the 40 year anniversary, it only made sense for them to do a collaboration with a special brand like Louis Vuitton and Virgil Abro to create this Air Force One pack. Now because of the value of this sneaker, I'm sure not everybody's gonna actually be able to complete the entire set. We will see some people do it online eventually, but I know as of right now, this is gonna be a sneaker that a lot of people are just hoping to at least get their hands on one pair of. There are nine different colorways that were available to the VICs, and this is the current time right now where we're seeing a lot of the different clients that purchase things from Louis Vuitton, getting their shoes in the mail, and now everybody's kind of flexing them on the internet. So now that you guys know a little bit about the sneaker, let's go ahead and start from the bottom and work our way up. Starting with the outsole, as you can see right here, you have your classic all black Air Force One outsole. Now, you know what I'm saying? It's not all black on the upper, so I think that's okay to the public, you know what I'm saying? If they did an all black version, we might have to watch out. I know they did a suede version, I don't know. Maybe that's the one that everybody doesn't want. We shall see what everybody thinks in the comment section. And then your signature Virgil air branding just above that with the white text right here. Now going to the upper, oh, the upper. There is definitely a lot of mixtures of materials, colors and dope design aspects to the sneaker. So we definitely need to take our time breaking this shoe down part by part. And hopefully I can give you guys some good detail shots along the way. So starting around the mudguard and vamp area of the sneaker on the toe cap right here, you have that chrome vibe with the Louis Vuitton monogram print all throughout. And this thing is shining like crazy. Hopefully the light can show you guys some differences and I'll show you a different look with these outside as well, just how they shine in a different lighting. Now when it comes to the swoosh, the mid panel and the eyes stays around the top of the foot, those are going to be a black suede Louis Vuitton monogram embossed print right here.  Now here comes some of the thumb parts in the mix ups on these two shoes. They are similar, but different at the same time. The sock liner is purple on both of these. The tongue is actually purple on the left foot and it's green on the right foot. Now going behind the tongues on these two shoes, you are going to have a yellow mesh behind there. But now when it comes to the uppers, this is where the mix up kind of switches around as well. Now you have a purple suede on the right foot all the way around on the back end and I am loving this look. And then the chrome LV right there. These things look crazy. Now when it comes to the other side, it's almost giving me that go ducks vibe. You got the yellow suede with the green leather tab on the back end with the Louis Vuitton Paris. And it's a whole different switch up. So it's interesting to see how they mixed up the two colors between the two shoes and they didn't go exactly identical with the matching yet they are very similar at the same time. So I don't know, let me know what you guys think. I'll put them side by side as well. Do you guys like the purple back more or do you like the yellow back more? I like the purple, that's just me. But the yellow ain't that bad either. If they did both shoes with the purple and the yellow tab on the back, oh, that'd be crazy. Now going to the insoles of these sneakers, they definitely gonna have some cool details as well. And I gotta pull these out so you guys can see because this is, like I said, when it comes to high quality materials, details, attention to details with all the different add-ons to the sneakers and stuff, these are the little things that sneaker heads particularly really love. But looking at the top of it, you got a purple insole with the Nike swoosh right here. And then on the back end, you've got this ingrained kind of embossed Louis Vuitton Paris just behind that. And I think that's a cool detail. But one thing that's even better than that is the all over monogram print right here on the bottom of the foot right here. This is just crazy. When we talk about details on every single aspect of the sneaker from the tip of the laces to the all the way at the bottom of the shoe inside of an area that you don't even see because you never take the insole out, all those little details make this shoe even better just because of it. Now, is this the best Air Force one ever? And can I name a lot of GRs that could potentially be better than these simply because of color blocking and all that stuff? Yes, but at the same time, when it comes to quality, attention to details and all those other factors, they definitely did a really good job. And on that topic, I personally like this red colorway the most. I think it's, I know very simple and all those other things, but I think they did a really good job with this and I do like the materials, but they did it like, I don't know, the suede and everything is really nice. I just, I like this pair a little bit more. I don't know. Let me know what you guys think down below in the comment section. And speaking of that topic, I'm also interested to see if you guys think this shoe is fire or trash. So I'll always post a poll on my Instagram story to see what everybody else thinks. If you haven't already, make sure you follow me on IG so you can participate in the polls and see all the results here on the channel. So basically I asked the people a simple question, is it shoe fire or is it shoe trash? Now, if I had to pick, I probably would say fire, but I wouldn't be all gung-ho for the talent show. I would still be in it, but I just wouldn't be going crazy about them. I think they're pretty dope. You know, I like the whole aspect of the shoe, but I would be able to, if I could, I would choose other colorways from the nine colorways compared to these. Either way, this is what the people said, 66% of the people said fire and 34% of the people said trash. So right there, that's telling me enough. A lot of people still like the sneaker. I know some of the results are a little bit higher on the other colorways, just based off of the previous reviews. And again, if you want to see more in-depth looks at the other colorways on the channel, I have them here. I'll try to link them down below or at the end of this video so you guys can check them out as well. So you kind of got my opinions of it. We've seen the results of everybody else. Now it's time for you to shine down below in the comment section. Let me know what you guys think about this shoe. Are you guys ever interested in trying to add something like this to your collection? Do you think the price point is too high when it comes to the retail value, especially when it comes to the resale? We're seeing prices vary. I think they're all over the place right now, but we're seeing prices vary from anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, who depends on the size, the color, who you're asking, all these different things. At the end of the day, the shoes are very expensive. And I know this is something that may not be everybody's cup of tea. So I'm just interested to hear you guys' perspectives. Me personally, I want to make sure that I add at least one of these into my collection. I feel like it only makes sense with me being a sneaker head and loving all these things and having one of the dopest Air Force ones drop in a long time. I think it only makes sense. I got to find a pair. It's going to be really hard to get a size 13s, especially because you know how it goes. They just barely be making my size. So especially when it comes to a drop like this, the chances are going to be very slim. I might have to just get something for a display. I don't know. We'll see how it goes. So I hope you guys enjoyed this. If you guys want to see anything else, make sure you guys check out all the links down below for the other reviews. And if you haven't already, make sure you check out Untied LA. The link is down below for their website and use the discount code DNAShow that'll get you free shipping on any of your orders. I'll see you guys in another one. And yeah, I got to go. See you. Yo, if you enjoyed this video and want to grow your collection or make extra money on the side, I built a VIP mastermind that will teach you everything that I've learned about growing my sneaker collection over the past 15 years. This will also give you access to the DNA fam in my VIP community, where we talk about investing outside of sneakers. And don't worry. 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