I don't know if this is on purpose Look at that Wow I'm Lavi And I'm Oli And this is our hero Bumblebee Together we are attempting a Guinness World Record to become the youngest pair to circumnavigate the globe by motorcycle Join us for season 3 here in South America It's just six in the morning and we decided to have breakfast in bed Good morning world Welcome back to the channel It's day number 200 on our circumnavigation around the globe by motorcycle We are here in the town of Baruery in the greater Sao Paulo area where we've been staying for the last few days with our wonderful friend Jairo He's been really great to us especially because we both got a little bit sick and he took really good care of us He made us some food and he was checking up on us We had time to edit some videos and that's really really cool Thank you so much But now it's time to continue our way south So let me show you guys where we're going to be riding today Okay, so we are here in Baruery in the greater Sao Paulo area and today we are going to be continuing our way south south south south south all the way to reach Curitiba Yes, today we are going to try something we have never tried before which is to ride 400 kilometers our longest day ever Luckily it's just 6.20 in the morning Our navigation said it will take us 5 hours and 30 minutes So better hit the road, let's go See what we just found on Olissu Little butterflies What are we going to do with them? So we decided to put them safely on Jairo's window Okay, let's see Hopefully they will survive Wow, they're moving around I really don't know what's going on but it's another creature on Olissu Yeah, it's the same It's starting the process Oh, it's the same See, it's already Oh wow, sorry buddy Exactly, go with your brothers It's time to get fired up Oh yeah So we have a bit of a crazy start on Jairo's driveway which has a big massive hill in front Okay, let's try to take on this hill nice and easy Thank you very much Ready to hit the road Bye, see you guys Bye bye guys, bye bye Back on the road Wow, this is the first time I've seen 250 miles to distance Oh yes Here's where we saw the capybara You want to say hello? And he is big and so cute So cute That guy was massive, yes Wow, he was so cool Such a beautiful neighborhood that Jairo lives in It's got so many trees around and it's so quiet and really, really beautiful Good morning Okay Bye bye Bye Back on the road This area here is so hilly And it looks like we are sort of on the top of the hill at the moment Nice riding in the morning The sun is just up since an hour It will be a hot day today Well, look here We've got a beetle following a bus That's some beautiful VW classic energy happening in front of us right now Wow I'm not sure why but here in Brazil there seems to be so many of these cars, old VWs and look at them, they just look beautiful There's another one coming from this side Yeah, look Nice You just want to buy them convert them and live in them It was definitely a crazy visit to visit Jairro after a long time being in contact already Yeah, he's been following the channel since we were on our cycling trip from Johnna Grotes to Land's End So it was really, really nice to see him after all this time Absolutely amazing And he took us in to downtown Sao Paulo to a place called Paulista Avenue Sao Paulo for all of people Yes life music, the whole way and it feels like a little bit like the love parade even in Berlin It was just crazy It's like a festival every Sunday there insane So our journey today pretty much consists of one main road that connects Sao Paulo and Curitiba and that is the BR 116 We later found out that this road is nicknamed the highway of death due to its high number of accidents and is one of the most dangerous roads in the world. The Sao Paulo-Curitiba section of the highway is perhaps the most dangerous So first we just have to get out of the greater Sao Paulo area and then we'll be jumping on that road for a long time Okay, we are heading on to the BR 116 the road that is going to take us out of greater Sao Paulo and towards the next city of Curitiba and already my GPS says stay on this road for 188 miles At the moment it looks still very populated and there are some traffic jams ahead Oh yeah, we still have definitely some busyness to come before we get out into the countryside Yeah, it was just crazy to see the suburbs of Sao Paulo The Sao Paulo area is just exploding outwards Yeah, it's just growing and growing and Jairro told us that originally it was just Sao Paulo and then there were like other cities right and left people are building and building and everything is just fusing together, this is the reason that so many people are living now in this area, Sao Paulo and around, this is the reason that Sao Paulo is that big Got a payage coming up Okie dokie, I have my cash ready This time I am prepared Good morning Thank you So how much was the payage? It was about 40 cents Sorry, 40 pennies In English you say pennies, hey? We say pence Oh, pence 40 pence If you say 40 pennies then a penny is a one pence coin So if you say 40 pennies it is actually 40 pence but what it means is 40 individual pennies Yeah, that's funny The payage cost 40 English pennies We are finally getting out of greater Sao Paulo getting out into the countryside our surroundings have turned from buildings to trees and that's what we like to see It is a little bit annoying to take such a big road to reach our next destination but we had to decide between one day riding and getting there or probably two or three days riding and taking smaller roads Yeah, I mean we waited in Rio for our bike to arrive for a long time We were originally quoted around four to five weeks for the shipping and as you guys know it took almost three months before we could actually hit the roads in Brazil We have to catch up a little bit of time and that means sometimes taking the big road But anyway, it will be interesting to see how we feel at the end of the day because it will be definitely our longest ride 400 kilometers Let's see how you're doing all here I think our chain we have to get oil on it motorcyclists Okay Oh my god Have a look over here Look at the way that these guys have levelled out their trunk That's crazy I have no idea how they got that on top of those rocks That's skillful We also heard our chain rattling quite a lot so I think it's time for some lubrication Yeah, we were supposed to do it like a few days ago, but before God So, we do it now We do it now What's that looking? Looped up and ready to go There's quite a lot of banana production in this area We've seen on the side of the road quite a lot of fields dedicated to bananas Look over here Yes, a sea of banana trees When we were living in Cairns, Australia we shopped some banana trees as well because actually they're growing they're producing some fruits and then you have to chop them and then a new banana tree is growing out of them Every year is a whole new tree that has to grow That's crazy, no? The stem is actually just very soft and leafy It's not like a hard wood or anything like this It's very soft We can also see quite a lot of papaya trees like over there in between the forest Nice Look at this queue Wow There's a big traffic jam on the other side here You can see endless cars waiting Wow, I sure hope that doesn't happen to our side There are really beautiful hilly landscapes now Look at this And there's still some bananas Yes, and you can see some of the trees are flowering at the moment So you can see the yellow patches on the hills It's quite cool It's really pretty We are 3 hours 45 minutes into our journey for today and we have driven so far 140 miles and 99 miles left So it's a very successful day today Yeah, it's only 20 past 11 so we haven't even reached midday Yeah, it's a miracle And if the fast road is not so busy it's actually really enjoyable as well because you have some nice views you get some wind to cool you down a little bit because we're having 33 degrees at the moment The sunshine is pretty strong on us but yeah, the wind is helping a little bit So we just stopped for break number 2 and there's like a self-service buffet in there so I got some little treats some chips, some deep fried courgettes Look at this Look at that That looks incredible Yeah, it's really common here in Brazil that people are getting lunch at these self-service restaurants and there you pay actually it depends how much gram and what type of food it is This one cost only about £2 for the plate and I got a couple of cheese muffins as well which were like 50 cents or something so overall quite a cheap little buffet lunch Bon appetit Hola, bon dia Obrigado It looks like they're doing some burning hills around this area because we can see quite a lot of smoke Oh my god, just here on the side of the road as well, have a look Crazy, it's just burning here I don't know if this is on purpose Look at that Yeah, wow, that was crazy just on the side of the road here Crazy fire Yeah, I didn't see anyone like there to control it so it could have been just like a wildfire Wow, so I just saw the sign to say that we have entered our third state in Brazil Paraná Yes Goodbye Sao Paulo Goodbye Time to explore our next state Yeah, and what an entrance This is like a state park here as well, it feels like they are welcoming you in like hello, look at the nature we have to show you 7999 9 8000 Just stopping for some fuel for a second time today and I think that's the first time we've ever used a whole tank of fuel I think it's so cool with the stickers here Oh nice, look at that Yeah Everyone's stickers How many people have stickers? We don't have stickers Maybe we should have stickers Yeah, would be cool, hey? A gasoline comune completar Obrigado So this fuel is 5.1 Heales which is about 85 pence I guess That's quite good, isn't it? That is quite good Still don't know if we can use ethanol Maybe if you guys know in the comments if we can use ethanol I don't know We could save another 20 cents It's cheaper, but I'm not sure I really don't know if we can put that in So for now we'll stick with gasolina Yeah Juiced up and ready to go 48 miles to go Good day Good day Obrigado Well, this is a surprise It's starting to rain I did not expect that Literally 20 minutes ago it was nice and sunny Hopefully it's just one cloud Yeah Quick, right away from the cloud And we only have 15 miles to go to reach platitiba No, go away rain, go away We have only 6 miles to go But it's looking super dark and scary now and the wind is really picked up It looks like a storm is coming in and it's like literally blue skies no more than an hour ago I think we missed our opportunity by about 10 minutes Oh my god I mean this is now ridiculous I mean if you want we can just wait a minute Yeah Oh man We're just going to stop here for a sec We have to wrap up our go-pros to try and save them from the rain Good evening guys We had a bit of a break in the weather here So we quickly got Bumblebee to the accommodation which is here and it is actually a little apartment Look at this I left Lavi behind over where we were before So it's just me here No, I'm just kidding She is here Lavi's feeling a little bit sick so she's actually lying down in bed So we'll do the vlog from the bed Shall we? Yes There we go Because Olli was sick for the past 3 days He gave it to me and now I'm sick and now I will give it him back But we did make it here despite the crazy, crazy rain Wait, we made it here, what? Happy and alive And we completed our longest ride on the bike off the trip so far which is about 400 kilometers or 260 miles pretty crazy It's a long way for us We have exciting plans here in Curitiba We have arrived But we'll tell you guys about those plans in the next episode Yes, that's it from us today We hope you enjoyed the episode If so, please give us a thumbs up Subscribe to the channel Share the video with your friends and family Comments below We will see you next time Good morning My water bottle was just rolling off down in the car park


Five years ago when I was doing my PhD, none of the data was available. There were lots of problems. Nobody knew how to work with it. And we come to a point now where we can present our work from multiple countries at international conferences and there's really something to be proud of. So tax administrative data can be sensitive and it can be large and it needs to be taken or treated with care and sensitivity and requires researchers to come in and support and work with the revenue authority to produce research that's relevant to them and can be informing policy. Our work with the Zambian Revenue Authority on VAT and tax gap research have given them an insight into the research that can be done with tax administrative data. The research is always going to be collaborative. So it's always hand in hand with the revenue authority researcher, with somebody in the Ministry of Finance. Part of the story is not that we always do the research ourselves. Part of the story is that we empower researchers within the country, within the revenue authority to be able to produce their own work. And it's definitely a cascading effect, learning from your neighbour. It's a lot of south-south collaboration. You can take learnings from one country and actually replicate that work somewhere else. What I want to see is young people get involved in research in their own country. They know the context better than I do and they'll know how to take it forward within their structures and their contexts.


We delivered the only place in Canada that's done so our fifth consecutive balanced budget We've gone from ninth to first in job creation in Canada We have the lowest unemployment rate in Canada, which is the first time that's happened in our province since 1976 and All of those numbers are great But one of the things that we are also alone in is Having our fiscal fundamentals in place. We are standing alone in Canada With respect to a healthy budget and a healthy budget surplus. So over the next three years We are investing 2.7 billion dollars in hospitals and other health infrastructure two billion dollars in schools 4.5 billion dollars in transportation infrastructure and almost two billion dollars in affordable housing It's a billion dollars in tax relief for middle-class people in British Columbia in balanced budget 2017


Hello! My name is Milica. I live in Italy and I have completed a 120-hour TIF course. So now I'm teaching English to children in a summer camp here in my town in Italy.


Hi students, we are talking about mergers and acquisitions and because we are concerned with human resource issues in the international context, so we are concerned about how human resource issues and human resource management takes place in mergers and acquisitions. You would remember that we have defined mergers and acquisitions as two different processes and in that you have intra-merger HR challenges in mergers and intra-acquisition HR challenges in acquisitions. Basically in merger, the two companies come together as equal partners and in acquisition, one company completely takes over the other smaller company. Whatever is the case, whether it is merger or it is acquisition, two companies, that means two entities, two organizational cultures, two set of people who have worked separately in a unit previously, they are coming together. So the issue is that of organizational integration. Now organizational integration has been defined as two aspects of integration. One is task integration and the second one is human integration. Task integration is that two companies are working separately. If they come together, they form a new company, they have to integrate the tasks that they were doing, the jobs that they were doing separately, now they will be doing it together. So it is possible that an organization was only selling a particular product but a multinational comes from outside and then they start production and then sale and distribution of those products which they were already just selling. So the production which was taking place somewhere else, now the multinational comes over and starts producing in the country as well. So in that case, the task integration would be integration of the processes of the firm which is, but it is going to be integration of two different type of processes. It is also possible that they are going for large-scale production, they were producing at smaller scales but now they are merged together and they are producing, going to be producing at a larger scale but doing the same thing. In that case, it would be task integration of similar type. That is task integration that what you used to do, you have to do it together, so how do you perform those tasks and how do you integrate them. Now human integration is another aspect, human integration is coming together of two sets of people working in two different organizational cultures, maybe in two different countries and when they come together, they are supposed to be now working together as one entity. So that means that they are going to be sharing the space, they will be sharing the roles, they will be sharing the leadership.  Human integration is particularly in one study, it was defined by five factors, number one was visibility and continuity of leadership, that the leadership which was already existing in the prior firms, when there was human integration, so the visibility of that leadership and its continuity, the new firms, they consider your leaders as leaders, they see them, they are visible to them and they continue their leadership roles, that is something which is an aspect of task integration. Then communication processes during integration, how communication takes place, if there are language barriers, then how do you overcome them and then your communication style will obviously be different in both companies, so how do you merge those communication styles, it is possible that more emails communicate through people, in the other companies, over skype or on phone calls, so you have to integrate all these processes, communication processes. Then what type of integrating mechanisms are being used, so how do you cancel your employees, you give them orientation or you just put them on work and leave them alone, and then the acquired personnel retained which you live with, some people, obviously when there are merger or acquisitions, then many people have to leave the company, but you have to do the retained management, so acquired personnel retained and voluntary personnel loss, that people who voluntarily, they are not called to leave, but because they are not comfortable in the new setup or they are getting better opportunities, so they voluntarily leave the organization, so how do you manage that and how do you fill up those positions and roles, that is also an aspect of human integration. Now human integration and task integration, they take place in two phases, task integration takes place at the first level, when you start working together, then first you try to understand the work and you integrate it about the work, so when you start working together, then gradually your cultures and your communication and your human entities also start mixing up, obviously when you start working on something, then first you start understanding the work, then you go towards human integration, but when human integration happens, cultures match, they mix up, so in that situation, then more task integration is achieved, then you start working in a better way, so task integration first, then human integration, then that leads to synergies in task integration. Now there are four different possibilities and combinations in which this integration would take place, there could be level of task integration high and low and level of human integration high and low, now it is possible that a firm starts from both low levels and then it goes towards high level of task integration and moving towards a low level of human integration and then goes for successful acquisition, now there could be the other side in which there could be, it could move towards high level of human integration, but low level of task integration, but then it moves towards successful acquisition, the ideal path is that human integration and task integration go side by side, if one is present, for example if there is high task integration and low human integration, there will be operational synergies achieved at the expense of employees, so your task has been learned, your task has been integrated, but human integration has not happened, culture has not been integrated, so at the cost of the employees satisfaction and all those things, you achieve that synergy on the cost, on the other hand if you have a higher level of human integration and low level of task integration, in such a situation when your cultures have also become mixed up, you sit together, but you are not working, so in such a situation your satisfied employees are, but there are no operational synergies achieved, for a successful integration there has to be a balance between human integration and task integration, so when both of these things they happen side by side, the synergy of merger and acquisition is achieved successfully.


But tonight we're in Luke chapter 2, let's look together at these verses before us. I'm going to pick up here at verse 39, and I'll just read verses 39 and 40, and then we'll get into our study as we continue our verse by verse study here in the book of Luke in chapter 2, beginning at verse 39. Luke writes, So when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him. Now when you look at verse 39, I want you to notice something, and I'm going to start laying some things out for you, but I want you to notice something in verse 39. This is one of the reasons why I'm blessed to know that we have more than one gospel, because you can take the accounts that are given to us in gospels like Luke, and you can compare them with the other gospel accounts, and you can actually get a better chronology. What you see in verse 39 makes it seem as if they immediately had left after the dedication of Christ there in the temple. It makes it seem like they immediately left, and notice how it reads there, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth after they had performed all of these things. And so what all of these things obviously refers to what we had seen last time were together in the verses that preceded these verses, but the fact is that's not the actual case. Matthew chapter 2 gives us an account there and actually gives us more information, because initially in chapter 2 of Matthew gives us the visit of the Magi, and we know that initially Joseph and Mary remained in Bethlehem, and they took up residence in the city, and the Magi came and brought them gifts. And so I'd like you to turn with me for a moment to Matthew chapter 2 so I can fill in some things, because as you're turning to Matthew chapter 2, it says again in verse 39, when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee. So it gives you an impression that they immediately had returned, but that's not the actual case. There are things that took place that Matthew records. Now in chapter 2 of the gospel of Matthew, the Magi came. These men from the east came in order that they might worship the Lord Jesus Christ. We know that these Magi brought gifts with them in order that they might present them to the king. And so as the Magi came bringing gifts, they approached the king at that time, his name being Herod, in order that they might determine what time this special appearance of the star had taken place. Now Herod wanted to know concerning that, he wanted to speak to them relating to that, because he had a desire to actually eliminate the one who had been born king of the Jews, because Herod was one of these who protected his own throne. Herod was a very evil man. Herod killed his wife, Maryam. He killed his sons. He was a man who was murderous to keep the throne and the power. So when the Magi came saying that they wanted to come to worship the one who had been born king, when they came, he thought, well, because he had been appointed the king by Rome, that there was somebody who had the actual claim to the throne. And because of that, he was very upset and wanted to have Jesus put to death. Notice with me in chapter 2, verse 8, it says, he sent them to Bethlehem, and he said, Go and search diligently for the young child, and when you have found him, bring back that word to me, that I may come and worship him also. So he determined the time and the approximate age of Jesus Christ, and sends them there with really the desire for them to bring back information to tell him exactly where Jesus is, so that he might do something deliberately to take his life. Notice verse 11, it says, when they came into the house, they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshiped him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented gifts to him, gold, frankincense and myrrh, then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way. Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying, Arise, take the young child and his mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet saying, out of Egypt I have called my son. And so by combining Luke with Matthew, we can piece this picture together. After Jesus was born in Bethlehem, Joseph and Mary take up temporary residence in the city. They live in Bethlehem for up to two years. Because and I want you to notice this, this reason I turned you here, because Jesus is referred to in this passage as a young child. The Greek word for young child, as we translate by two words, young child, actually speaks of an infant from recent birth all the way up to toddler age. That's what gives us insight into Herod's desire to actually eliminate all children two years of age and under. It's because Jesus could have been anywhere from small to up to two years of age, which tells us that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, his family remained there for some time. Up to two years, the Magi from the east came bringing their gifts. They go to the king Herod and they say, we have come to worship the one who has been born, king. Herod sends to his scribes, his religious leadership, and says, where is the Messiah supposed to be born? They begin to investigate the ancient scriptures and discover that Micah had stated it would be in Bethlehem. Once he ascertains where the Messiah was to be born from scripture, he tells him to go to Bethlehem. This is where he'll find him, but come back and let me know where he's at so that I might come and worship him. His intent, obviously, is to kill the one who will take his power from him. The Lord speaks to the Magi and lets them know you don't go back to him, return home another way. As he's waited for them, they don't return and he realizes that they have decided not to return, and therefore he's upset about this. But through all of this, ultimately Jesus and his family go off into Egypt. Now picking up at verse 19 in the same chapter, it says, when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, take the young child and his mother and go to the land of Israel for those who sought the young child's life are dead. When he arose, took the young child and his mother and came into the land of Israel. But when he heard that Archelaus was raining over Judea, instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee and he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth, that it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the prophets, he shall be called Nazarene. And so turning back to Luke, they live in an unnamed location in Egypt. Ultimately being told to return. As Joseph and Mary and the young child are returning, their intent is to go back to Bethlehem. There's probable good reason for that, one of it being, one reason being that in Nazareth, where they're from, Mary was not respected because she had become pregnant prior to marriage. So it would seem that Joseph's intent was simply to return to Bethlehem. But the Lord said, no, that's not where you're going to be. You need to go back up into Nazareth. Sometimes the Lord will send you back to the place you came from to be a testimony in that place, even though it would be more comfortable to be somewhere else. Sometimes he'll send you back there because that's where Jesus was intended to grow up. Now when it says he shall be called a Nazarene, there's a lot of talk about what that means. Some would say that it's in reference to the fact that those in Nazareth were regarded as being less cultured and intellectual than those down south. Down south in Jerusalem, you have the temple. And in the temple, if you lived close by it, you could go to temple quite often. You also had the opportunity to hear some of the finest rabbis, the rabbinic teachings of your day. So the people who lived up in the Galilee region would be what we today might refer to. I don't know if we even use this term anymore, it used to be used. They were called hicks. They'd say, these people are backwoods types. They're intellectual bumpkins. They're not close to the center of intelligentsia. They live up to the north, up in the north, whereas we live down here in the south. We're closer to the temple, closer to the rabbis. We're much more religious. And so the Nazarenes were actually, the people lived up in Nazareth were actually looked at as being less cultured and less intellectual than those who lived down south. But the Lord had a reason for sending him up there because he wanted him to be raised in that area. Now, I want to continue on by looking here in chapter 2 of Luke and picking up again in verse 39 and 40, but I'm going to give you some more things and then we'll move into verse 41. I'll read verse 39 again and go into 40. It says, when they performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth. And the child grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him. I want you to see something because in verses 39 and 40 and then moving on to verse 41, you actually find a gap of several years because when you get into verse 41 down, actually verse 42, it tells us that Jesus was 12 years old. So what you have, and this I thought this is interesting today, maybe you will if you don't bear with me, there are no accounts in Scripture of the events of the life of Christ for several years. For several years. I mean, we know that he's probably somewhere around two years of age or so, but you have a gap of no less than 10 years between verse 40 and verse 42. So what I find interesting about this is after Jesus Christ died, was buried and was resurrected. There were myths that began circulating concerning him. There are actually hundreds of myths that have been chronicled. But some of the myths were speaking about events in the life of Jesus as a child. There are some who believe that Jesus as a child actually went to various places and learned various things. I've heard stories of Jesus going to India to sit under the Indian masters so that he might gain esoteric knowledge.  One of them is called Pseudomathu. The other one is called the Gospel of Thomas. There's a variety of others like that. And as I was preparing this, I began to think how interesting it is that there have been stories that are actually documented. I wrote something down for you just to show you what I'm talking about because these are myths about Jesus' childhood. For example, the Gospel of Pseudomathu recorded something.  And immediately at this command the palm bent down to the feet of the blessed Mary and they gathered from its fruit and they all refreshed themselves. The apocryphal Gospel of Thomas in chapter 2 verse 1 says that Jesus made soft clay and modeled 12 sparrows from it. And it says, Jesus clapped his hands and cried to the sparrows, be gone, and the sparrows flew off chirping. So there were stories like this about Jesus doing miracles that were already being circulated. What is interesting is, and this I found interesting, is the Koran, the book that the Muslim uses, actually used Thomas, the Gospel of Thomas, which is a discredited gospel. They used the Gospel of Thomas and took something from it and in Surah 5, 110, it says, by my leave you, Jesus, fashioned the shape of a bird out of clay, breathed into it and it became by my leave a bird. And so what you end up with is the Koran quoting sources that actually are not biblically correct. In Surah 19, 30 and 31, it says, when Jesus was a baby, it says, the child spoke out, I am a servant of Allah. He has given me the book and he has appointed me a prophet and he has made me blessed wherever I go. I don't know if you know this, but the Koran teaches that Jesus was a Muslim and that he actually was under the inspiration of Allah. He was a prophet of the Muslim faith. I don't know if you know that or not. You find that in the Koran. Actually, I didn't quote all of Surah 19, 30 and 31 because it goes on to say that he gives gifts and he makes prayers in the Muslim fashion. And so what he had done, what Muhammad did is he had heard stories from traders who had come through where he lived and he began to collect those and he wrote them down and presented them even in the Koran as being word of God. What the reality is, is this is from the Gospel of Thomas and other myths that were being circulated. The whole point of me telling you this is so that you might realize that what you really have is you have silent years in the life of Jesus Christ. There have been tons of people who have tried to say oh, he did this and he went there, but none of that is recorded in Scripture. Now, as a Christian, the only thing I can do is hold to the primary source. The primary source is the Word of God. Anytime you get caught up with anything else, you're gonna have some problems. When you're in the Word of God, when you remain close to it and you study it and you use it to cross reference itself, you're gonna remain safe. But when you begin to pick up stories from other sources, that's when you find error and that's where you have contradiction. That's the reason why I took the time to try to take you to Matthew to say a few things about this so that you might know that by taking Scripture and comparing it with Scripture, you can find the truth of the matter. But if you go outside and pick up other sources, you're always gonna find yourself in error. What we have here is a picture of Jesus Christ growing and he grows in a normal way. I wanna show you some things that I think we can apply. In verse 40 it says, Jesus grew and became strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and the grace of God was upon him. What we see here very simply is this. Jesus grew physically. Speaking of him being an infant into young adulthood at the age of 12, a young boy growing into manhood, he grew physically. Notice it says he grew strong in spirit. When it says he grew strong in spirit, it speaks of his character. We'll look at that in just a moment. It says that he was filled with wisdom and it also says the grace of God was upon him. Now as you look at this, this is what God intends for us as well as what he did in the life of his own son. I want you to see this with me tonight. Growing strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom and the grace of God being upon him is something that can happen to us. We can grow, obviously we grow physically. I don't even wanna speak concerning that. What I'm talking about is being strong in spirit, filled with wisdom and walking in the grace of God. That's Jesus Christ. That's what Luke is pointing out to us. But what's interesting to me about that is it's something that he would have for us too. When it speaks of growing strong in spirit, that speaks of his moral character. It gives to us an insight into Jesus' integrity. In other words, if I'm gonna grow in integrity, if I, as a person, by making application, knowing that Jesus did this, how would that be effective in my life? What Jesus did is as he grew, and you'll see this in a moment, as he grew in knowledge and understanding, it's simply putting into practice what you know and what you believe. And let me tell you something. There's a difference between knowing and believing. Because when you know something, that can be simply information. Believing is putting into practice what I know. And when I put into practice what I know, I'm gonna grow in my moral character. In other words, there are people who know more than they do. Now all of us, it's true for all of us, we all know more than we do. We all have more training than we actually put into practice yesterday. As we were leaving Spain, there was a situation, a difficulty, and some of the guys, when they got into the van, were saying, you know, boy, that really upset me.  Sometimes we may be angry, we ought to refrain ourselves from letting, you know, letting that be vented. We need to have more self-control. And later on, and there wasn't anything bad that happened, they were just sharing with me. I said, you know, we need to do that.    That's how it works. Sometimes when you think, well, he's on a trip, that's what I'm doing. That's what happens. And so we talk about that because you get tired. You get very, very tired. Well, yesterday we leave, and that's what's happening. So we're having a little difficulty, and I say, oh, you know what? And I turn to this guy, and I say, you know, it's always at the very end of the trip that I have my problems. And so we got on the plane there in Malaga. We fly into London's two and a half hour flight. We were there for a couple hours, and then you have an 11 hour flight to get home. We finally get home last night at seven or eight o'clock at night. I got home, but my luggage didn't. And so we stand there at the carousel for about 30 minutes waiting to see if the bags are going to come. They're not there. And I walk up to one of the fellas who works there, and I said, we can't find our bags.  They have that. Your bags didn't come. And I look at them, and I said, I can't believe this. Why? And everything I had been telling the guys in the morning right in front of me, right there. And I said, I can't believe he says, how would I know? And I looked at him, and I said, you're right. I said, I'm so sorry. I said, I'm just tired and frustrated. Forgive me.   Why'd you do that? You know, and it's always that way. You can know. I mean, I know. But when it comes down to it, my flesh is, you know, sin lies at the door. You know, looking for opportunity to be expressed. I remember on one occasion I was flying out somewhere, and we went to Ontario. My wife and I were there. We sat there and waited for our plane. It was supposed to be loading. So I'm thinking, how come they're not giving a loading call? So I go up to the desk and I say, excuse me. We've been waiting for our flight to be called. It hasn't been called. Oh, well, that's because your flight was canceled. I said, what? Your flight was canceled. And you're going to have to go downstairs. Now I'm thinking, oh, man, you know, we've been here for all this time, et cetera. I go downstairs and I'm fuming. Now you won't really know that. Marie knows I am. You know, Marie knows I'm fuming. I'm standing there in line going, I can't believe this. And we had to go to Los Angeles. And here we are in Ontario and I'm going to be late and I'm fuming. And so I walk up to the desk there and the lady behind the counter looks at me and she says, a ticket, please. And I hand her the ticket. I'm not saying anything. I'm just thinking, Lord, I can't believe that. She looks. David Rosas, oh, I listened to you on K-Wave. And I said, oh, I'll praise the Lord.    I mean, the Lord, poor Marie, she said that. No, that was me.  I mean, you get me every time, every time you get me.  Jesus was somebody who never had that breaking connection, ever. Jesus always walked in that way. That's why I need a savior. That's why I need a savior. But I see in this passage here that I can grow in spirit and I can become better than I am. In Proverbs 20, verse seven, the Bible says, the righteous man walks in his integrity and his children are blessed after him. So Jesus grew strong in spirit. Also, it's interesting, it says he was filled with wisdom. And it says he grew stronger, was filled with wisdom. That being filled with wisdom includes intellectual development. It's interesting to note that Jesus Christ was fully human as well as fully God. Being fully human, he actually obtained information in the normal way that you and I do. The normal way, which comes through study. It comes through prayer and it came through meditation and memorization. Jesus Christ, in other words, when he was born, was given information the way that you as a baby and to adulthood have been given. The way that I have, he obtained information. And yet, when you read the words of Jesus Christ, you see that he mastered Scripture because he quoted from the Law of Moses, from Isaiah, from Jeremiah, from the Book of Daniel, the Psalms, Malachi. There are a variety of places that you see Jesus quoting Scripture and giving explanation. Sometimes you may think, in other words, that Jesus was born being the word incarnate that he automatically knew all of these things because he was the one who inspired all of these things. And yet, from a human perspective, he obtained information the way you and I did, which means that he spent time studying and pursuing and growing in that way. That's what the Scripture is saying. I want you to see it. The child grew and became strong in spirit filled with wisdom. And so Jesus spent time, trying to tell you. He spent time in the Word of God, the way that you and the way that I do. Jesus spoke at least three languages. We know that he spoke Hebrew, obviously, because he quoted from the Hebrew. We know that he spoke the common language of his day, which was Aramaic. And we also know that Jesus spoke Greek. And so he spoke three languages. He obtained those languages in the normal way. I've told you this before. My son, David, when he was in high school, one day approached me and said, Dad, I've been praying that God would give me the gift of tongues. And I thought, well, that's an interesting thing. My son has never shown an interest in something like that before. And I thought, oh, really? And I said, really, son? Yeah. He goes, I'm asking God to give me a gift of tongues. And I'm thinking, really, why? And he says, and you know what else? I'm asking him to give me Spanish. And I said, Spanish? Well, it turns out that he wasn't doing well in his Spanish class in high school. And he thought that God, if he prayed, would give him the Spanish language. And I said, son, it just doesn't work that way. But I did tell him this. I said, listen, I think that's a prayer God's going to answer. And he got very excited. He said, really, Dad, you think God will give me with Spanish? I said, I think he will. All you need to do is study, you know, spend some time working on the language. You'll get it, son. But if you think he's going to unscrew the top of your head off and drop Spanish into your head, it doesn't work that way. Sometimes we think that may work that way. It doesn't. Listen, when I first got saved, I had heard that you could learn in your sleep. And I wanted to have the Bible read to me at night when I was sleeping so that I would subconsciously be gaining knowledge of God. It does not work that way. So the Lord Jesus Christ actually spent time pursuing the Word of God. And that's what we do, too. And notice also, it says, the grace of God was upon him. God's grace was upon him, leading him, directing him. He walked in the grace. It was motivated by the grace of God. In 2 Peter, the Bible tells us in chapter 3, verse 18, grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And so Jesus Christ had great grace upon him, but we also have the grace of God upon us. So much so that the grace of God will work within us to give us the ability to be a tremendous testimony of his goodness to the world. In the Book of Acts, in chapter 3, there's a story about Peter and John going to the temple during the hour of prayer. And as they're about to enter into the gate called Beautiful, there's a man who's laying there who's crippled. And the man looking up at Peter when Peter says to him, look upon us, look at us. The man looking up, intending to receive or expecting to receive something from Peter, Peter looking back down at the man and says, silver and gold, have I none? But such as I have, I give unto you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, I say unto you, rise to your feet and walk. And the Bible tells us that Peter reaching down, takes them by the hand, and begins to lift him. As he begins to lift the man, the man receives strength in his ankle bones, his knees and his hips, and he has instantaneous balance. He begins to walk. The Bible says he begins to leap and he begins to praise God. And I don't want to, I shouldn't speed past that. Walking, leaping. You know, you can walk, babies learn to walk, but to jump requires a lot of strength and balance.  That doesn't happen because you have to develop balance and strength and coordination of radio, other things. But when Jesus Christ does a work, as he did in this man's life, the man was instantaneously healed, to the point that people began to gather around, seeing this man who had been there begging for so long. And as they saw that, Peter had an opportunity to preach and he begins to say, men of history, why do you look upon us as if by our own goodness we caused this man to walk and to be healed, as you see here is this day. And they began to minister the Word of God. As they did so, a number of people became convicted and wanted to receive crisis as their savior and all. And it got the religious leaders incredibly upset and so they put them in jail and they wanted to deal with them. And ultimately what happens, and it's recorded in Acts, ultimately they just recognized that they had been with Jesus and in the time that they spent with Jesus they were able to see that these men, though they were unlearned, had actually been with the master who taught them these things. And the grace of God began to show through their life and so ultimately in Acts 4.33 it says, with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all. I believe very strongly that we as believers can grow stronger in spirit, we can be filled with wisdom and the grace of God can be upon us. And that's what I'm encouraging you to tonight. As you saw the Lord Jesus Christ, you know, it's a simple statement. He grew up, he gained in these areas. It's a picture of what God can do in us too. Now this is taking place verse 41. His parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. And when he was 12 years old they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the Feast. When they had finished the days as they returned the boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem and Joseph and his mother did not know it. But supposing him to have been in the company they went a day's journey and sought him among their relatives and acquaintances. So when they didn't find him they returned to Jerusalem seeking him. Now so it was that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers both listening to them and asking them questions. And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. So when they saw him they were amazed and his mother said to him son why have you done this to us? Look your father and I have sought you anxiously and he said to them why is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be about my father's business but they did not understand the statement which he spoke to them. Then he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. But his mother kept all these things in her heart and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men. The nation of Israel the men of Israel were given a mandatory requirement to be in the city of Jerusalem three times during the course of the year. There were three major festivals that they would go and they would celebrate. They normally would go to celebrate the Passover the Pentecost and the Feast of Tabernacles and you find that in the book of Exodus chapter 23. Those are mandatory for the males to attend. As religious and devout Jews both Joseph and Mary had the habit of going during this time in the season and that's what it's saying here when it speaks in verse 41 of the Feast of Passover. So as they went up to celebrate the Peace of Passover something incredible happened. What happens is they have finished they have finished the days according to verse 43. They finished the days and they returned leaving after doing Passover and they would continue with another week's celebration as they were returning in verse 43 the boy Jesus lingered behind in Jerusalem but Joseph and his mother didn't know it supposing him to have been in the company they went a day's journey. So what would happen is if we were travelling from the north, Nazareth being about 55, 60 miles or so to the north of Jerusalem often we would travel with friends and family in a caravan and the women would go on a little bit ahead and they would walk behind and as the men were walking behind the men would just visit amongst themselves and the women would be there visiting amongst themselves and they'd have the kids with them and then they would end camp. When they got together to camp that's when they began looking for Jesus but they can't find him he's not with any of the friends and he's not with any of the relatives so they have already gone a full day's journey so now they have to return because they spent another day searching well it takes another day to get back then they go into the third day and they're looking for Jesus Christ and so what they ultimately do is as they're looking everywhere for them you can imagine for a moment if you were a dad or a mom and you have a 12 year old that's missing you can imagine the panic that would go on in your heart at that moment and the city is filled with many pilgrims and you get greatly concerned and that's what's taking place and they can't find him it says in verse 46 so it was that after three days they found him in the temple sitting in the midst of the teachers both listening to them and asking them questions now after the festivals the doctors of the law the rabbis would actually sit around in the open and they would discuss theology and as these eminent professors of the law would gather the people were given the freedom at that time to come and to just sit amongst them I don't know if we have anything that's equivalent to that to be honest with you it would be kind of it would be kind of like Calvary Chapel having a pastor's conference we have our pastor's conferences where the senior pastors from all over the United States will gather and we have that every year in June and so there'll be hundreds of pastors and the pastors gather together and we receive teaching and all of that and we have fellowship it would be kind of like you as a person who serves the Lord but are not in pastoral ministry you being able to come and there's pastor Chuck and some of the people that have influenced your life that you respect and it would be like Chuck and several of the guys just around talking and sharing but you're interested in what they're talking about because you love the Lord and you'd like to gain some insights and have some questions I'd like to ask and it'd be great to ask pastor Chuck these questions and so at a certain point you know they would turn and say is there anything that you would like to ask and you have your opportunity at that time to say you know I was just wondering about this that's what would take place and so the people would come they would sit amongst the doctors of theology and the theologians would speak amongst themselves and these were the eminent ones these were the ones who had great learning and knowledge and you need to understand that during the day of Jesus theology was looked at as being the queen of science it was the it was the premier thing that you could know that you were greatly respected because you knew God and you knew God's word and you really esteemed these rabbis and these are the people who are they have forgotten more than a person ordinarily can learn in a lifetime these are brilliant people and that's what's taking place but amongst them is a 12 year old Jesus and Jesus is there and I want you to see what's taking place it says in verse 46 again so it was that after three days sitting in the midst of the teachers both listening to them and asking them questions now remember with me I'm going to develop something with you Jesus according to what we were just reading in verse 40 Jesus grew strong in spirit in wisdom and in the grace of God his being in the temple doing what he's doing is an evidence of that how many 12 year olds do we know who would find and I pray that if you have a 12 year old that he or she is like this but how many 12 year olds do we know who would actually prefer being in a theological discussion than playing Game Boy or something I mean how many do you really know like that how many are there like that that if they had an option between playing their video games or talking to a pastor and asking their spiritual questions how many do we really know like that and let me tell you they're very few and so that's where Jesus is at the age of 12 which gives me insight into his hunger for the things of God the Bible tells us in Psalm 27 verse 8 when you said seek my face your face Lord I will seek that was Jesus when you said seek my face my heart said I will seek your face that's my desire that's a premier hunger of my heart Jeremiah 1516 says your words were found I ate them your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart I am called by your name oh Lord God of hosts my desire is to know you you have a heart like that God will satisfy your desire if you desire the things of the Lord God will give you the desire of your heart you make that determination that I will pursue you Lord I will find you as I seek you and you will open up my eyes to understand wondrous things from your law God will do that in your life see the problem I think that many of us have is we have our eyes set on too many things there are too many distractions for me and so what happens I don't know that I always love him with all of my heart Jesus undoubtedly had this incredible hunger for the things of his father so where is he going to be he is going to be in his father's house that's where he is going to be there is that hunger to be with him there is that hunger to be around the things of the Lord I was gone for several days as you know I haven't seen my grandson Josiah I come into the office today and my daughter comes in and I hear a pounding on my door you know a pounding on the door and I open the door because I know who it is and I open the door and here comes my grandson running into the room and jumps into my arms and I swing him around and I kiss his face and I'm so happy to see him because I love him so much and I miss him so much when you said seek my face your face oh Lord I will seek I understand that I understand that connection I want to be close to the Lord the way my Josiah missed Papa and I would call and I would say hi baby how are you and he'd say two things are you still in Spain and are you coming home tomorrow are you still in Spain Papa are you coming home tomorrow so Corrine said he missed me terribly and I see that I see that now if my grandson wants to come just to be held by Papa for a little while I want to be like that with the Lord I want that in my heart and that's how Jesus was for him to you know I would I would I rejoice and I was blessed and and looked forward to just being in the house of the Lord and so that's the heart of Jesus Christ but I want you to see something else Jesus is seated there in their midst notice how it says both listening to them and asking them questions now the word listening listening to them and asking them questions the word listening means to consider what is being said it speaks of perceiving comprehending understanding in other words Jesus listened carefully and perceived what they're saying once again there needs to be something within you deep calling unto deep something within you that says even if I don't understand it right now I want to understand this I want to understand this I want to perceive so I listened very carefully so that I might hear what's being said so that I might understand well that's what Jesus was doing Jesus was listening and as they spoke the word of God he was carefully weighing what they were saying that's what it means when it says he was listening but the statements that they're making would then provoke him to ask questions and I want you to see something here and I'll say it briefly but when it says in verse 46 into verse 47 both listening to them and asking them questions all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers part of the way that you see an intelligence in somebody is the kinds of questions they ask the kinds of questions they ask especially as they're growing older can give to you a perception of the depth of that person and when Jesus was asking questions of them it was the response so what they were saying so as they would say something Jesus would respond with a question well how is it how is it that and they were I'll put it like this there are times that I have spoken to a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old and they usually have some very general questions did Adam and Eve have belly buttons some very general questions do you ever think about that one? they did because when they were finished God poked them in the stomach said you're done but anyway they have some general but when they begin to ask perceptive questions like in the book of Ezekiel chapter 38 that kind of question is a lot more it shows a lot more inquisitiveness and intelligence and it causes me to take a step back and say I'm dealing with somebody who really thinks and listens and you respect that because you see a degree of intelligence and wisdom in this person that you're not used to seeing so the kinds of questions you ask very often shows the depth of your walk with God so when Jesus is speaking and listening to them and as he listens he would then respond and they were amazed at the depth of this 12-year-old as he's asking these questions of them they were astonished according to verse 47 at his understanding and his answers they were unable to answer his questions but when they questioned him he answered theirs and amazed them as a matter of fact not only at the age of 12 but all through the rest of his life in John chapter 7 verse 15 Jesus was dealing with some people and the Jews marveled saying how does this man know letters having never studied how does this man know the ancient scriptures having never gone to any of our seminaries having never gone to any of our programs he's not associated with us in this way but with God's word how did he gain this understanding listen, if you spend time in the word of God you will be amazed at how you can amaze other people just from your knowledge of Scripture you'll be surprised at how many people have been in church for many years who don't know the Bible and if you study the word of God you may even amaze people and that's what Jesus did now remember Luke had told us that Jesus grew in wisdom and upon him in Isaiah chapter 50 verses 4 and 5 Isaiah writes the Lord God has given me the tongue of the learned that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary he awakens me morning by morning he awakens my ear to hear as the learned the Lord God has opened my ear I was not rebellious nor did I turn away that's a messianic Scripture speaking of the Messiah Jesus when we were in college I was going to Azusa Pacific University a number of years ago taking a class there and Jeff Johnson and I were in a particular class Jeff Johnson is a pastor of Calvary Chapel of Downey and he and I were seated in this class and we were in this class with several other pastors now this was many years ago I was in my 30s at that time and as we were there in class we had an older pastor who had been in the ministry for many years and over 30 years in ministry and he pastured a fellowship in the area there in Azusa and I remember he finally after several weeks of class he finally turned and he looked at Jeff and he looked at me and he said I just want to ask a question and it was in the class and so he said I just want to ask a question and and the professor Dr. Grant said okay and so he turns and looks at Jeff and me and he says I just want to know why and Jeff and I were seated next to each other so I remember looking at Jeff and looking back at him and I said why what? He said I just want to know why your churches grow and I looked at him and we didn't have an answer for him you know we didn't have an answer for him I don't know why but I know now because the grace of God is upon you because God's grace is what does the work and this man wanted some technique he wanted to know what is it that you do give me five things that I can do so my church can grow we had no clue about that we just looked at him neither Jeff nor I had an answer for him because you know what it's God's grace and yet it still causes people to marvel it still does it still causes people to look and say how come something's happening over there you know what it is it's the grace of God it always will be and so as the Lord was ministering there the grace of God now as this is taking place they're being amazed when they saw him they were amazed now his mother said to him son this is like mom isn't it why have you done this to us look your father and I have sought you anxiously and he said to them why is it that you sought me did you not know that I must be about my father's business but you've forgotten who I am one when you say my father was looking for me Joseph's not my father if you're wondering if you're wondering if I'm with my father the answer is yes I am with my father in his house so the first thing you should have done if you are wondering where I am is you should have come directly to where I meet with my father which is here was Jesus being disrespectful to his mother is this a sin no of course not he's speaking respectfully but he's also speaking to her as her teacher you need to understand you gave birth to me but I'm your teacher I'm your leader I'm your messiah and you'll see this in a moment I'll read this it says he went down with them that his mother kept all these things in her heart and Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men mom I am obedient to you as a son I honor my mother as the scripture says but when it comes down to the priorities of the kingdom of God I must be about my father's business I have been called this is what Jesus is saying with a purpose and the purpose is to bring the glory of God to earth I am the ministry that my father has given to me if you wanted to know where I am the first thing you should have done is thought where would I be and the answer would be in my father's house so rather than you being worried which by the way you didn't have to be rather than being worried you should have automatically known where I would be I'm here I'm here in my father's house to marry his mother to think about that to begin to treasure those things in her heart because she needed to remember through his entire life who he was and what he had come to do she needed to be reminded of that now finally spiritual understanding sometimes comes mentally as a matter of fact normally does I mentioned this to you and I'll close with this thought one of my favorite scriptures is found in John's Gospel chapter 13 verse 7 I've quoted this to you numerous times you're familiar with it already but let me close with it it's a portion of scripture where Jesus washes the feet of his disciples and has he has come to the feet of the apostle Peter that he might wash the apostle Peter's feet and as he's speaking to Peter he says to him what I am doing you do not understand now but you will understand later I believe that God does works that we may not understand at that moment this is what we're seeing here Mary does not understand all that's going on but spiritual knowledge sometimes comes over time maybe in a bible study today hearing something that doesn't apply to you right now but it will later on I'll give you one last example when I do studies on marriage and the family there are people who are single out there who are saying this doesn't apply to me I'm not married listen if you take your notes and you pray and you seek the Lord through some of the things that I'm trying to teach you when you get married oh now I see that you know you don't have any kids right now and you want kids why? but say you do if you hear enough bible studies about doing devotions and praying and if you bring those things into your heart they may not be applicable right now but they will be then there are things that you know now in your head that you're going to know through experience later on isn't that true? that's how we learn you know I read a book on driving a car but I didn't know how to do it until I climbed behind the wheel and scared my dad half to death then I began to learn how to drive I learned by reading and by watching see I could read about driving and I sat next to my dad all my life watching my dad and my mom drive and I could talk to you about oh that's the steering wheel the accelerator and that's the brake and you know all of that I could talk to you about that I knew very little about it until I sat behind the wheel and I began to drive myself then I began to learn it's like when I taught Marie my wife how to use a stick shift you know boy wasn't that fun you know because I would say honey I'd say put the clutch in that thing on the third pedal over there the clutch put it all the way down let the clutch out slowly put the accelerator bang bang bang you're bouncing down the street you know stop okay start again and she knew and she'd done it before but she had forgotten how but to talk it through and to do it those are two different things and spiritually you learn a lot of things if you study the Bible guys you learn a lot of information but there's a difference between transformation and transformation and transformation comes through assimilation because as you take this and put it into your heart and then begin to practice now you transform now you grow so it's one thing for me to say I love you it's another thing for me to be getting put off by something you're doing and then having at that point to say God love isn't a feeling love is a decision help me to do the right thing here because that's the loving thing to do because right now I'm getting irritated and frustrated and so it's one thing to sit over and espresso talking about how everybody needs love it's another thing when somebody's irritating you and you want to lash out because they're bothering you and that's when you take what God has taught you and that's when you put it into practice and it doesn't always feel good but it's the right thing to do and you go home feeling better about doing the right thing leaving that person in the hands of the Lord so he can deal with them as he will there are spiritual things you learn sitting in Bible studies and you hit then you leave and God gives you opportunity to put it into practice and that's when you begin to understand Mary saw many things in the life of her son that she would treasure in her heart and think about wondering about what kind of person I'm raising she treasured these things and she thought on these things and ultimately she began to understand these things and that's how it works in our spiritual life


Everybody for us here. We got the quintuple case 2023 bowman draft choice number two Hello, Mike is sicky Find those results anytime a late sports cards.com. Let's go ahead and get started and cramps on choice Blow it. Yeah. We'll see you later, Mike All right, here we go. I'm just gonna open all the cases. Oh Mike's okay for now. Okay. All right, Mike Shawn is a young chrome. What are you? All right, that's it. You know what? I might do myself. Oh Mike's sinky. Yeah, Shawn didn't like him on the dolphin. So yeah, it's gonna be fire If I do that then the other way that the opposite way I do believe that illegal to get a math He seems like a math lead. There we go Quinn couple case. Let's do it. Maxie's beast. All right. Here we go Ultimate mega rip and just stack all stack all the slider boxes. Let me get some thin sleeves Purple up first. It's gonna be nice Braves Hurston Waldrop auto That's a good one there for Atlanta Hurston Waldrop. I'll ask there you go Kyle. Nice start Gold shimmer first bowman Paul Skeens Big card. Heck yeah buckos the pirates Who had him Steve see Skeens gold shimmer right off the rip. I don't do that'll do After that is base auto first bowman Quinn McDaniel giants will go by case by the way, so we know where we're at Although a choice. I'm not sure it really matters because really we had a You got a case with a lot of big cards. So I think choice is just kind of an And amount of boxes Alrighty Sabin Zabaios Braves first woman base auto Choice to 150 first woman autograph Kate Denton Rockies 137 of 150 and base autograph is Reds Hunter Holland Insert auto coming the last insert autograph cold Emerson Number to 99 Seattle. That's sweet. Go Seattle number 24 of 99 Free fire Blue wave now nice first auto to 150 Maui Ohuna Giants Giants doing well here a couple autos so far Maui Ohuna Giants Carla and the Mariners with a mariner Waming there you go waming with the Emerson before that and a base first woman autograph is Homer Bush, Jr. for the Padres Padres Homer Bush, Jr. Gold shimmer Elyon Soto very nice hit Nationals First woman autograph That's awesome there and that's 38 of 50 Shimmer Soto True blue Well, nice true blue. Come on. Nice true blue Travis Honeyman cardinals 120 out of 150 solid Kurt asked with the cardinals and Choice out of the 150 mariners here Brock Rodden Mariners doing well so far. That's for sure 136 of 150 Choice again here Austin Trusser first woman autograph for the Mets Numbered 117 of 150 Guardians base first woman autograph Christian Napstick and another purple here Purple first woman Rockies color match auto Cole Carrick. That's really cool man. 180 out of 250 Nice Carrick for Barry and the Rockies That's pretty sweet Purple Carrick color match and Last box of case one green lava Trey Morgan first woman autograph going to the rays Trey Morgan 74 of 99 Gold shimmer again, dude 20 of 50 Elyon Soto Grats Nats again Soto to 50 an orange wave now. It's a really good first case isn't Orioles first woman auto Jackson bowmeester 18 of 25 color match Baltimore That's pretty sweet. This is for There we go Kirk Kirk with the O's. I believe he's one little brother Base first woman autograph Tigers max Anderson blue wave first woman auto Tampa Bay Brayden Taylor 93 of 150 Tampa Nice Brayden Taylor base first woman auto now pirates Garrett Forrester these highlights I'm gonna watch it out of Caleb Houston. Why didn't they black jump got destroyed big-time poster? Poor things doesn't even play it. Oh, yeah, not great not great first woman autograph Michael Carrick O'Cubbs Choice first woman auto Hunter Holland for the Reds 117 of 150 and a base autograph White Sox Grant Taylor. All right CJ Kayfish Choice first woman autograph Guardians solid Kayfus 51 of 150 Then a base auto Enrique Bradfield Baltimore. It's a nice one for Kirk Orange wave to man Solid stuff building up here slow a long ways to go guys Mariners Teddy McGraw base auto Mariners another they hit so much. Yeah, man. So I'm saying Good thing I got some rest the past couple days First woman auto Royals Spencer Nivens orange wave First woman auto Cubs Michael Carrick O It's a good one Cubs two of 25 Carrick O for Carla and the Cubs and blue wave First auto Hunter Haas rays raised doing real well 71 of 150 Gold up first tier Cole Miller. That's cool in there gold shimmer first woman autograph for the A's 45 of 50 shimmer blue wave again First woman autograph a Yankees Rock Rizio nice 96 of 150 Yankees who did who did Vlad Vlad juniors brother sign with I forgot I honestly forget Green first woman autograph Diamondbacks Grayson hit hit 67 and 99 See some nice color coming up. We need to pull a super again First woman autograph Matt Sauston Trosser. That's right. Vlad a junior son Not Vlad a junior son by juniors of the brother Vlad seniors other son sign with the Mets for a good deal like a solid deal to he'd be a He'd be a decent chase. I would think first woman purple auto and your pink me for the Nats 228 to 250 I wonder if they'll be in 24 Bowman or going to Chrome Pink me Nats orange wave Come on. No one McLean nice one Mets three of 25 gorgeous color match Jeffrey H with the Mets Heck yeah, Jeffrey. Oh, Jeffrey will appreciate that one Ninety-first overall pick good one there two cases down See you find hits for everybody here Hopefully we do hopefully everybody gets at least a hit choice first woman auto angels Alberto Rios 88 of 150 solid one angels Base now autographed Nazan Zanatello Red Sox Zanatello Red Sox and Green Lava first woman autograph Hurston a wall drip 53 of 99. That's a really nice hit for Atlanta Kyle S Get down and Magda free a Kyle nice wall drip Yeah, let's pull the 12 of 50. Let's do that I'm sure the I'm sure any P with the Nationals would be all right with that too or literally any break Especially since it'd be an auto choice here. I would like to pull a Brady auto Is that greedy pulling that Otani tonight than wanted to pull the 12 50 Brady? No All right, so let's pull it Grayson hit first woman autograph for the Diamondbacks Yeah, I haven't seen any Instagram comments. Let's see if we get loaded boxes regionally. So yeah, what happened all those guys? Yeah, I don't know dude I don't know what happened to him Refractor first woman autograph pirate Zander Moot.  That was not a big breaker Choice first auto Jay Bashir's Padres one of nine of 150 Jay Bashir's Padres, I know a legal discussing these experiences About what I don't know. I know he's got him We didn't hit at least a red in this in this five case, or I hope I hope we hit at least a red that'd be cool Rockies base cold caragato this time more orange orange wave again First woman auto Philly's Trace on Walton nice 18 to 25 That's a Sam's guy in this class Trace on Walton every nice hit for the Phillies TJ Walton as he signs as he goes by I think everyone off that a breaker got that hit that breakers ruining the hobby That's what everybody says. It's crazy, dude First woman autograph Rockies cold carrag whole carrag again for the Rockies Sorry They've been saying breakers people have been saying breakers were ruining the hobby since breakers have been around Yeah, breaking is a large part of where the hobby is now and why so many people are into it It's definitely it's definitely a piece of it For sure first woman autograph Royals Carson Rock a fourth day Exactly, even if it's a small breaker the guy pulled it and people are right on that's not fair dude That dude alone congrats to that guy for pulling that car congrats to whoever hit a crash that guy for pulling it That's awesome Gold shimmer first woman autograph Cubs Michael Caracow One of 50 another cubbies another Caracola numbered. That's what I say First woman autograph Reds Ty Floyd as long as the breaker treats customers right and is fair like Like what else what else is there? I don't know. I don't think there's any It's not a Sam when I saw the post that who pulled it. I was like, I don't even know who that is Didn't that happen with Salas super I remember the salsa actually, I don't know Luke Kishal twins first woman base autograph Got a choice first woman autograph Austin Trosser for the Mets 115 to 150 and a true blue first woman autograph Mariners rock rod and nice 28 of 150 and monstrous get pulled out of retail at the time, too Obviously that is frequently they literally state pack-offs and stuff like top top at least tops does like opinion He doesn't necessarily do pack-offs, but there have been big-time one-of-ones and stuff like that pulled out of Pulled out of retail boxes You can pull debut patches out of tops chrome update retail a nice braiding Taylor Green lava now raise killing at this point 32 of 99. Yeah, wasn't the magic the macjones one of one was prison retail. Yep It happens do it happens. Oh Magnet Taylor, sorry. Let's try to find the raise you had him and grads again raise Evan grads again Evan Base first auto Seth Keener for the White Sox White Sox a Choice first woman autograph Mets Nolan McLean Five of 150 That's doing pretty well here It was so maybe still chance for a howke. All right last couple cases Good for the kid that pulled it Very good Like this will never happen again, so yeah, let's just take Gold shimmer first woman autograph is Carson Rocco Forte for the Royals Bird of 49 of 50 Rocco Forte But Rocka Forte go KC second round a nice gold shimmer true green This first woman autograph brand of winnaker for the twins twins coming coming on strong now a lot of us recently We always get told we're Forget all the cases We went through a ton of this Refractor first woman auto for the Astros cam Fisher. It's like confirmation bias for a lot of people I think they like project that out to other people like CCC like one big card like CCC We haven't pulled a debut patch. No, we did not pull it. We we only have like Two cases of hobby chrome update left out like we didn't pull a new patch not a single one Yeah, it's exactly that illegal if it's not one thing in this if it's in this industry It's another thing like it'll be a different thing the goalposts will get moved every time so is what it is Man, we appreciate y'all sticking with us trusting us Do our best to earn that trust? every time Rocky's first woman base auto is Kate Denton One nice color coming up here a lot of oranges in this we need a red we need a red though red or a super first auto Mariners Tai Pete Mariners doing super well Always hit think they hit them the most frequently as far as like like pretty good names Because Tai Pete was a first Emerson is a big chase rod in his solid There's another one they have that's decent too and orange wave again. Come on now big time Astros cam Fisher That's pretty good one of 25 There you go. Stroze color match keeping it going See your first Star Wars Yeah, I gotta stay awake strive Stay awake Yeah, we Break a little later tonight because we moved two case from last night tonight I haven't moved one from tonight to tomorrow Who'd have been here till like God knows when if we kept all of it First woman base auto Giants again Maui Ohuna another Maui Blue wave first bowman autograph Guardians Alex Clemmy 70 of 150 Lemmy base auto here is Bryce Eldridge Giants that's you're looking for Congrats Carla very good break Bryce Eldridge Gold wave Grant Taylor first woman autograph White Sox 10 of 50 got a refractor first woman autograph Colt Emerson. That's pretty big to 25 of 499 Holy cow Seattle cleaning up for now. Congrats again. Waming another orange wave. Let's see a monster Jacob Gonzalez 22 of 25. That's big Jacob Gonzalez for the White Sox Barry with the White Sox Ding ding ding that's the cards you're looking for 22 of 25 we'll get that in a mag now Centering is off on this one. Noticeably though.  So many of those I get something like he's getting old quick. Yeah It's like as big as tiger now Holy like 15 or something Gold shimmer nice guardians Kristen Napchick first bowman auto 21 of 50 base autograph first bowman Alberto Rios for the angels Get off me That's funny. I love it and a choice first bowman autograph is Jonah Cox for the A's 138 of 150 This kid's getting me a problem my bad So he's gonna sign with live for like 100 million Charlie's name. Yeah, yeah, that's the only reason tiger still playing.  Oh, they're gonna get it in before this afternoon It might not even be Choice auto 150 lead better raise. What's up, Brandon base autograph first bowman and Quinn McDaniel for the Giants Gold shimmer first bowman autograph of Eric Badanti brewers. That's really sick 17 of 50 brewers Eric s Magda for you, buddy That's awesome, man All right, last case Sparkle Twain's Brandon winnaker to 71 first woman autograph.   Just doesn't even make sense first one autograph Justin Reimer for the Red Sox He pulled a Shohei Otani gold-plated redemption that was for a one-of-one Batting glove and hat relic auto personal from his personal collection Versailles Reimer Red Sox like insane from definitive. Yeah gold shimmer first woman autograph saving Zabaios for the Braves Braves again here 2350. What's up, John? I was not just Jonathan. No way someone's smiling that day. He's a DK sandwich No, we can go rewatch it the pull itself is just wild Sean and I are just like I could leave it I still can't believe it do it win lanes. I've never seen lane like that before He was like confused but like a mage Caraco again cubs it's like Indiana Jones.  We need to hit one of those monster names for somebody and The base auto of Colton lead better raise have like seven auto 78 autos now Well, there was a masatakeyoshita Nike swoosh definitive RPA in the same case five of definitive Oh the one the one that was the red. That's the one of one. Yeah, that's why I was like Yeah, that's why I'm like this is a freaking insane. Oh, I didn't know there was one of one That's why I was like I was like, what do we do? We pulled out of that from here It might be the two biggest cards we pulled out of that product from First one out of green Jackson bowmeester for the Orioles Boemester 99 Oh, I only know Tanya like that could overshadow that Yoshida choice first auto to 150 leon soto No Brady so far for the for the Nats, but you got a bunch of sodos. It's been it's been good. It's been good And a base autograph here be shears for the Padres come on last three boxes Give us something sweet here. Well, let's get the let's get the Tigers or the or the Rangers a Lankford or a Clark Come on Mike.  There wasn't a CUNY to five as well. Yeah Yeah, yeah, the case was the case is good without those cards Green Lava first woman autograph is Clemmie for the Guardians. Yeah, the triple Max. Oh, yeah, you just 99 The green here first auto Paul Wilson Tigers 47 of 99 All right, orange. Come on. Come on orange wave first auto Tigers Max Anderson 14 of 25 Good hit Tigers there Been cool to be Clark, but hey orange wave first auto pretty good. That's a couple True blue TJ Walton first woman autograph Number no 150. He only said really well a couple of nice Waltons That's wild Mike that's sick though man. Congrats. That card's a gorgeous Jumbo laundry tag on that trout green lava leavenson Cardinals 96 or 99 Forgot you're gonna get a laundry tag trout. Hey Yeah, that was random, too, wasn't it and a blue wave First woman autograph for the Yankees rocker is yo again 14104 of 150. Yep Almanac Monday nights personals Almanac So they'll rip in order of the way they're placed like regular person will start whenever I have it on the schedule It's already up there though.  I would think that they finish it shouldn't take more than three hours, so It shouldn't especially so some people are it's like the it's not the box It's like a tear away bag and then like some people have ordered multiple. So Bo Mester choice auto 250 for the Orioles You guys got salmon Sean rip in those for you Let's go Monday nights Bo Mester there. I can launch something look forward to on a Monday. Yeah First auto pirates Garrett Forester, and we got a gold on the back. Come on gold Gold shimmer come on gold shimmer first auto Jacob Gonzalez again. Wow white socks 15 of 50 This one's much better center than the orange Grats again to Barry Big time Gonzalez is we're gonna recap now guys And helpful choice case. Yeah, I missed some of the big names there, but some spots did very very well Still great color and choice Hey guys, um Almanac, I would imagine probably I don't know. We didn't really make a big deal of it. We didn't want to like Go crazy with the because every time we announce it they sells out so fast I already gets a chance at it. So we try to just not do that this time. So Hey good karma. Hey, that's good. Don't Mike. All right. I'm gonna go pretty quick through this recap pretty quick here Forester, Beshears, Ledbetter, Caraco, Reimer, McDaniel, Rios, Eldridge, Ahuna, Pete Denton, Fisher Refractor, Keener, Kishal, Floyd, Rocco Forte, Karrig, Karrig, Refractor Muth, Hit, Zanatello, Trusser, Nivens, McGraw, Radfield, Grant Taylor, Caraco, Forester, Anderson, Napchick, Homer Bush, Holland, Sabios, and McDaniel Numbered cards already, geez Um, Pinkney, Karrig, Waldrip, Rodden, Beshears, Caefus, Rios, Ledbetter, Trusser, McLean, Soto, Bowmeister, Jonah Cox, Xander Muth, Hunter Holland, Denton, Trusser, True Blue of Honeyman Hey appreciate you for joining Barry made off pretty well Regio, Haas, Rodden, Clemmie, Walton, Regio, not nice Regio there, Ahuna, Clemmie, Wilson, Winnecker, Hit, Bowmeister, Levinson, Morgan, Winnecker, Sparkle Got Soto twice on the Gold Shimmers, dude. Good stuff for the Nats No braids, but that'll do just fine Uh, Rocco Forte, Caraco, Taylor, Sabios, Napchick, Miller, Bowmeister, Fisher, Anderson, Caraco again, another nice Caraco, everything else is in a mag Gonzales Gold Shimmer, Natanti Gold Shimmer, Gonzales Orange Wave, Refractor, Colt Emerson Green Lava, Braden, Taylor, Orange Wave, T.J. Walton Green Lava, Waldrop, Orange Wave, McLean, Metz Blue Wave, Braden, Taylor, Colt Emerson, Insert Auto, and a Gold Shimmer, Paul Skeens, that's sick Thanks again everybody, Star Wars coming up


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The month of May is observed as Blindness Awareness Month, where increased attention is focused on the successes, challenges, and strides of the blind and visually impaired segment of the population. The theme for this year's Blindness Awareness Month is, I am more than what you see. For years, Braille has been the only form of direct access to the written word for persons living with blindness. The Senusia Blind Welfare Association, SLBWA, in its thrust for inclusion, resilience and increased opportunities for its members, organized a week-long ICT training program to build competencies while equipping its members with the added tools for employment and job creation. Anthony Avril is the Executive Director of the SLBWA. The computer technology has suddenly opened the world in many ways so that we can communicate with people who can't read Braille but that they can read regular print. So this is where the computer gives an advantage to us. The SLBWA advocates for the inclusion of everyone, regardless of their visual status, and thus has embraced the opportunity afforded through ICT to balance the playing field for its members. Of course, there is always a constraint of resources so that we can have the regular ICT teachers because we have to provide the access not just to school children but also to those who are interested in continuing education, interest-reading employment. And you know these days, online employment has become one of the ways to go to many of our persons due to no fault of theirs would be some restricted and homebound. We want to expose many, many, many more and we also want to do it in the south of the island as well. Lance Prosper was the tutor for the ICT training session at the SLBWA. He is currently the IT teacher at the Dame Pullard Primary School. He said though it was challenging to teach computer skills to low vision and blind persons, he was impressed with how quickly they picked up the tips and techniques he taught. And this programme should show that this is something that should be implemented fully because those persons with disabilities are able to navigate the computer and this programme it really shows how much they should be introduced to ICT at an early level. The World Health Organization estimates that over 2.2 billion people globally are impacted by some form of visual impairment or blindness. This includes everyone who wears some form of corrective lenses. Nina Theophilus is a member of the SLBWA who participated in the computer training. She advocates for increased opportunities for blind and visually impaired persons. I don't think that persons with blind and visual impairment keep their self back. I think that people don't give blind and visually impaired persons a chance to show what we can do or what we can learn because not because we can't do it the same way that visual persons can that doesn't mean that we cannot learn to do it differently. So I don't think that we keep our self back. I think persons don't give people with blind or visual impairment a chance to learn something new. John Joseph expresses appreciation for being included in the ICT training programme and hopes for increased opportunities for persons like himself. I would use a typewriter in a secretarial school as an attendant too but to literally use a computer is my first time. It's my first time and that programme, honestly, from my heart I love it. The ICT training was organised for both basic and advanced participants. The Executive Director of the SLBWA encourages persons to share their time and skills to make a positive impact on the lives of persons living with blindness and visual impairment. For the National Competitiveness and Productivity Council, Glenn Simon reporting.