All right, so hello everyone. Good afternoon. I'm Tiffany Bennett. I'm part of Moodle HQ Where I work as the customer life cycle specialist in the Moodle cloud team So today I'm going to be sharing the short presentation on empowering lifelong learning with Moodle cloud supporting educators and enhancing the Moodle ecosystem So I have been working for Moodle for just over eight months now and in my somewhat unique specialized role I've had to focus on a few things in learning about Moodle cloud when I started So I've had to look at Moodle cloud through the lens of a Moodle cloud customer, not just a user I've had to get clear on how Moodle cloud is different to say Moodle LMS and Moodle workplace and also who a Moodle cloud customer is as opposed to someone who works with a partner to get their Moodle product And I've also had to understand how Moodle cloud fits into what I call the Moodle ecosystem So all of these learnings have inspired me to put together this presentation And I'm hopeful that by the end of it, you'll have a better understanding on How Moodle cloud is empowering lifelong learning Who is a Moodle cloud plan customer and how Moodle cloud enhances the Moodle ecosystem And I also wanted to note that throughout this presentation I mentioned Moodle cloud in lots of places But I'm always specifically talking about the Moodle cloud standard plans offering So how does Moodle cloud empower lifelong learning So I believe Moodle cloud plans empower lifelong learning by providing an affordable and easy accessible platform that supports continuous education and skill development to people all of all ages all over the world But what sets Moodle cloud apart from other Moodle products and services is how affordable it is You know, you can get started today with a plan from in Australia dollars, 180 dollars a year So it's very affordable It's also the minimal tech expertise that is needed to get set up and manage the site And also how quick and easy it is to get a Moodle cloud site ready for learners to use But it's also all the other things that people love about Moodle. It's accessible. It's easy for you learners to use It's collaborative. It's versatile secure and compliant and I'm sure there's lots of many of the benefits as well, but they You know, what Moodle cloud plans do do is it ticks a lot of boxes for individual educators small businesses startups and small non-for-profits and NGOs who want to deliver online learning But I think it's important to remember that not every prospect who is looking for an LMS wants custom development or professional learning design or Even understands what self-hosting versus cloud-based hosting is You know, some have a very very small budget and so they're looking for something very affordable Some need an LMS quick like today or tomorrow Some only have a very small number of learners, you know, they've only got 10 or 15 people that they want to deliver a course to Some are only getting start just getting started delivering online learning and they don't even know what a good LMS is yet Some need a short-term solution. So maybe they're only going to be running online courses for six months or so and Some have never used Moodle LMS. So they just want to give it a try It's also important to note that Moodle Cloud is used by lots and lots of different educators Micro-businesses and NFP organizations that would have had to find another product To fit their budget and their resources if Moodle Cloud wasn't available So who is the Moodle Cloud plan customer? So what we know is currently we have just over 7,700 active paid plan subscriptions and in the past 12 months so from August last year to the end of July this year. We had over 80,600 free trials started So that's a lot of different people from all over the world who are using Moodle Cloud either through trialling it or using it through a paid plan Our market research data and new data that we're starting to capture from our sign-up process also tells us that approximately 50% of our customers and trialists are using Moodle Cloud to teach students Approximately 26% to train staff and the rest are either using it to sell online courses or for personal reasons or that magical other option that we don't know what that is and 51% of new trialists also shared with us that they've never used Moodle before so this is sort of interesting data that we weren't expecting and It's interesting that there's that many new trialists that are being introduced to Moodle through Moodle Cloud So now I'm going to introduce you to three different Moodle Cloud customers. They aren't made up personas These are real customers although I have changed the names and a few identifying details And so they're just to let you see the type of people or customer who is Who has chosen Moodle Cloud to deliver their online learning? So first up, let's meet Reg. Reg is a retired teacher who is setting up a homeschooling program for his local church And he wants to use Moodle Cloud for to deliver his online subjects So Reg chose Moodle Cloud because for many years as a teacher He used Moodle and he had a positive experience using it And so this is why he decided it was the perfect fit for this project He also knew how easy it was for his learners to use and because he already had a basic understanding of how to use Moodle and Manage courses and everything Next up meet Brenda. Brenda is the CEO of a non-for-profit organization Who manages the delivery of intervention programs for people charged with or convicted of a specific criminal offense? Her organization has used Moodle Cloud for seven years and in that time approximately 1,500 people have been enrolled in their courses. So it's only around 200 to 250 people who go through their courses every year Now they chose Moodle Cloud because of the usability and also how robust the system our platform is You know, she shared that in seven years. They've only had to contact customers support once Plus they really like the ability to capture the data needed to know if their programs are actually working and Lastly meet Paulina Paulina is a teaching coordinator for an online certification course that educates physicians on a Specialized diagnostic method for an early detection of a specific type of cancer Now they only have 35 to 40 doctors enrolled in the courses every year, but while they're only teaching a small number of Learners they're delivering very very important Training that is upskilling our medical professionals so she shared that they chose Moodle Cloud because it was the ability to incorporate lectures and forum discussions and scheduled assessments as well as being able to allow the Physicians to review the content and the classes and participate in forums when it suited their time schedule So as you can see from meeting Reg Brenda and Paulina Moodle Cloud's down and plans are servicing a type of customer That's probably unlikely to engage with a Moodle partner at this stage of their their journey They want an LMS. There's very Affordable very easy to use and set up doesn't require them to be tech experts and delivers a positive experience for their learners And this is what Moodle Cloud provides and it's what keeps them as a Moodle user So the final thing I wanted to share is how I see Moodle Cloud enhances the Moodle ecosystem So how I've come to understand it is the Moodle ecosystem is a comprehensive and Interconnected network of tools services and communities centered around the Moodle learning management system It's made up of Moodle LMS Moodle workplace Moodle Cloud Moodle plug-ins Moodle net Moodle app Moodle Academy Moodle partners and the Moodle communities Hopefully I haven't missed any there through these various individual components The Moodle ecosystem provides an holistic and adaptable solution for online education that empowers both educators and learners worldwide So I wanted I believe that Moodle Cloud supports the Moodle ecosystem in the following three ways Firstly it introduces new customers and users and adopters to Moodle Specifically through its lower barrier of entry so by providing an affordable simplified product Moodle Cloud encourages more educators trainers and organizations to adopt Moodle as their LMS which increases our user base It's also the simplified setup That brings in new customers. It's easy for small organizations or new startups to get started with Moodle and discover if it's right for their needs and Also the market visibility of Moodle Cloud helps to bring in new customers as well so more potential customers become aware of Moodle and Aware of our capabilities and our features and consider it for their online education needs What we do know that is that every new Moodle customer or user is someone who could potentially down the track engage with other parts of the ecosystem and Also introduce more users to Moodle. The second way it supports the Moodle ecosystem is it retains Moodlers you know Moodlers from time to time may change their role and Maybe they need to adopt a new LMS Specifically maybe one that's more affordable or more simplified at certain times and Moodle Cloud enables them to keep using Moodle rather than needing to switch and learn another platform It also retains Moodlers by helping them to preserve their content so Moodlers often have invested a lot of time or resources in creating courses and Using Moodle Cloud it allows them to store their course content and continue to use it how they wish It also retains Moodlers by showcasing the latest version of Moodle LMS So Moodle Cloud offers a really convenient way for Moodlers to experience and learn about the newest Moodle LMS features and updates So someone who's invested the time in learning Moodle and sees themselves as a Moodler We know that ideally they don't want to change to another product and have to learn another product And lastly the third way that Moodle Cloud supports the Moodle ecosystem is it is a standalone leading LMS solution you know through the advocacy of Moodle Cloud users it supports the Moodle brand with loyal customers who often advocate Moodle And even if they never move on to working with a partner or getting a more customized site They're often the ones who are telling other people about Moodle and their positive experience of Moodle The user feedback we get from our customers is really valuable and Us at Moodle HQ we use our Moodle Cloud customer feedback as a really important part of future product development And finally the success stories No Moodle Cloud customers contribute to case studies and testimonials that support our marketing and also inspire confidence in Moodle So moving forward there as I can see it There's only positives that can come from Moodle Cloud empowering continuing to empower lifelong learning and playing an important part in enhancing the Moodle ecosystem. I Wanted to highlight a few things that I believe that would be really good to focus on moving forward And the first one is growing the Moodle Cloud customers Moodle knowledge and expertise So how can we turn them into a true Moodler and keep them engaged in learning how to use Moodle? Also supporting our customers journey in being online educators and delivering quality innovative Engaging online learning. You know, how can we provide resources that they need to upskill and grow as online learners? educators and Also, I think it's really important if we're moving forward to expand on our vision for Moodle Cloud How can we further grow our market presence and introduce more individual educators or small organizations? to Moodle So I hope that this has provided you with maybe a new insight into Moodle Cloud or you've learned something new about The Moodle Cloud product or possibly has changed your perspective just a little bit about Moodle Cloud I did want to close with that It'd be great if let's embrace the possibilities of Moodle Cloud and also the really valuable role that it does play in the Moodle ecosystem. Thank you


What's good Josh the bull rocks back again with another video. So I wanted to make this commentary style video to talk about my thoughts and opinions on Roman Reigns Versus Brock Lesnar at WWE day one the first pay-per-view of the new year and I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not as excited as I Probably should be do I think it will be an enjoyable match? Yes I do, but I'm just not really that hype for it and I'm gonna list the reasons why I'm not as hyped as I should be for First things first the way they got to this match was very convoluted I know they had a battle royale over the top battle royale where it seemingly looked like Jeff Hardy Had won the match but ultimately Sami Zayn used some heel-like tactics and was able to win the match overall And he was supposed to be the number one contender for Roman Reigns title Then they announced Brock suspension has been lifted up obviously, and he'll be appearing on SmackDown So he shows up on SmackDown I want to say yeah, he shows up last week on SmackDown and He's basically about to address Roman and Sami Zayn comes out there and he bullied Sami Zayn into using his opportunity to face Roman Reigns for the universal championship then later on the show As Sami Zayn comes out there to get ready for his match Brock Lesnar Proceeds to beat the crap out of him Beats the crap out of him Then Roman comes out there and pretty much I want to say Finished the scraps it wasn't much he ends up tapping out Sami Zayn I mean after he's already received f5s and suplexes It wasn't much for him to have to do anyway now I wasn't even watching SmackDown at the time, but one of the one of the subscribers was telling me what was going on and basically They were just showing promo packages For Monday Night Raw until like four minutes before the show was gonna go off I'm like yo, what the the hell is this? I'm glad I didn't watch that. That's that's kind of lame That's kind of trashy. So I'm glad I didn't watch none of that, but ultimately Brock Lesnar did that to Get a one-on-one match with Roman Reigns at WWE one. Here's the thing about continuity It helps build a show helps keep it together to keep it concise It helps you, you know suspending disbelief I'm just trying to figure out how someone can literally attack management attack officials pay a fine Come back from suspension Only to wreak havoc in the main event scene and nobody do anything No one saves Sammy. He was just out there to fend for himself and Then he gets a title opportunity At the beginning of the year just like that Stuff like that You pick up on Sometimes we as wrestling fans we let it slide because we know that it's it's for a better match Like with the John Cena thing you can say the same thing John Cena came back and end up just facing Roman But we know the story behind that and we know why that was to happen And I was gonna be the better match for SummerSlam John Cena didn't really have to do anything and I get it But in this situation is one of those things where it's like it's kind of blatant because I yo He just destroyed people not too long ago and now he's back in the main event scene Now not to say that Brock wasn't going to be in the main event scene once again This is Brock Lesnar, but it's the way he got there. What was the point of having the battle royal tournament? The battle royal Battle royal match the over the top battle royal tell me what was the point in that if Ultimately Brock was gonna be the guy to face Roman on the very first paper year to year Tell me what was the point if someone can legitimately tell me what was the point in that whole battle royal I Would literally be very surprised if you could make it make sense because you can't make that make sense for me personally so Once that happened it was a pretty much a done deal Once he came back and how they booked it and how they set it up It was a done deal that this was the route that they wanted to go it kind of sucks because I was really hoping Jeff Gets his opportunity at Roman before Brock came back just to really you know have a fresh new matchup I think that would have been a cool fresh matchup for WWE day one comment down below Let me know if you guys would have been okay with Roman versus Jeff Act for the first pay review of the year something fresh or something different comment down below. Let me know but um Yeah, I'm for me personally. It's just like okay. We're going with this match. This is the match They want to go with there's reports saying this is not gonna be the only match They have there's gonna be a series of matches Potentially with them so I'm willing to guess they will have another one They will be facing off against each other at WrestleMania of the next year and I do believe I think they're gonna try to get Drew McIntyre into the mix So it'll be a triple threat match But here's the thing the issue that I'm having with this is I don't want to see Roman beat Brock again But he has to cheat to win that I don't want to see I don't If he's not winning clean then there's no point, but I get it. They're trying to extend the feud So there's a good chance. He's gonna win by cheating That's that's the way they're booking. He's he's not dropping the title at the first of the year He's not dropping it. So and they're not gonna have Brock less than to lose clean Which I think they should because that would help Roman So it's like if Brock's not losing clean Romans are winning clean or is he losing the match? So they're gonna have him cheat to win again Which will prompt maybe brought to get into the Royal Rumble to try to face them again And then what they do then What they do then if they do involve drew Drew will probably eat the pen and then it's just like okay So he's got like three opportunities three opportunities. He's still lost all three times Like I I get it. They want to keep Brock looking strong, but Brock can take a clean loss to Roman There's nothing wrong with that especially this version of Roman That's all I'm saying man. It's just it feels redundant it feels like the same thing we just saw at Crown Jewel, so we're gonna see the same thing here. I don't I honestly don't want to see that Will I be entertained? Sure, but it's gonna be like, yeah For the first match of the year Like it could have been something fresh something new. It's a new year I don't I'm not as interested in seeing Brock versus Roman because I have a feeling it's gonna probably end the same way With Roman cheating to win in order for them to keep this few going He may go Brock will probably enter in the Royal Rumble I can see Brock winning the Royal Rumble facing Roman again, and I'd still see Roman retaining I would be so shocked If they have Roman drop Anytime soon. I'm just being honest, especially to Brock because it doesn't Him he needs Roman needs to belt It all his gimmick only works right now if he is the champion He needs that title still It's just they need to build up other opponents outside of Brock Lesnar for Roman to legitimately facing that we can buy into that Maybe he can do it. You know what I'm saying? So I don't know man. I want to get your thoughts on opinions on that. I know Somebody may comment old wrestling fans are never satisfied and to an extent you're right, but I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna give my opinion on certain stuff and my opinion on this upcoming matches. I'm not really too enthused about it. I'm I'm really not And I should be I do think it will be enjoyable, but I'm not as excited to see this match again Knowing that it's probably going to end the same way. Now if he wins clean, then that's awesome That's cool. Sign me up. If he doesn't win clean, then it is what it is Um, and then we'll probably see them go at it once again at wrestling opinion So comment down below. Let me know you guys excited for this match at day one or you guys kind of indifferent You think it should be somebody else? And who do you think would be a better opponent for Roman interface at wwe day one if you had the option to choose if you're not really excited for the Brock Lesnar Uh match Brock Lesnar versus Roman Reigns again match for wwe day one, but I appreciate all the love and support row two Seven k appreciate y'all can't get with me. See y'all next week. Peace


Hi, everybody. All ready? Good afternoon. My name is Ashish, and I'm from Aave Networks with my colleague Praveen. I'm the open stack architect at Aave Networks. Welcome to the session. So we're going to talk about some elastic LBAS, real-time visibility and analytics, some cool demos, and we have some drawing going on at our booth right after this presentation that we'll talk about. So what is Aave Networks? We're going to spend a couple of minutes on what Aave Networks is and then right away go into the demos. What is Aave Networks? Aave Networks is the next-gen ADC, load balancer, with integrated analytics. Okay? So let me tell you a little bit more about that. It's a full-featured ADC. So unlike the reference implementation, which doesn't have most many of the features, it's a full ADC, L4, L7, high-performance SSL with perfect forward secrecy, and acceleration. Okay? Good. You know what ADC is. What's next-gen about it? ADC is a load balancer. It's a fancy name for load balancer. What's next-gen about our solution? First of all, it's 100% software, no appliance. Industry's first distributed architecture with automatic scale-out, HA, and a single point of control and management with full REST API-based integration. Okay? And then we are beyond ADC. We're called badass. Beyond application delivery is a service. We have some stickers out of the way if you want them, because we do visibility in analytics. No agents, no monitoring fabrics, all in line, end-to-end visibility from users to applications, and everything in between. All right. Let's step into how it works. What is the distributed architecture? The brain of the system is the AD controller. It runs as a clustered set of VMs or containers. As NOAA clients, it runs inside OpenStack. It's not outside. It's fully integrated with OpenStack. It has a centralized policy engine and single point of configuration. The controller is what one integrates with OpenStack components, NOAA, Neutron, Elbas, Keystone, and Glance. And it automatically manages the lifecycle of micro-ADCs or the service engines, which are what it spins up as a VM or a container again with application affinity in mind. So it spins up these service engines on demand in the right tenant. They provide load balancing and data collection services. On top of the AV controller is our AV UI based on the REST API. Or you can configure and manage everything through Horizon. All right. So without further ado, Praveen, can we talk about how an OpenStack admin use AV solution? So thanks, Ashish. So I'm going to show how a user would use the AV load balancing as a service. So from the user's perspective, they would just need to invoke the Elbas APIs. So our controller exposes both REST APIs. And we have, as Ashish showed, we have an Elbas plugin from where the Elbas API calls our proxy to the AV controller. So let me switch to our regular Horizon UI. And I'm a user in this tenant. And I have these two servers, server one and server two, to which I want load balance my traffic to. Like any other load balancer, I would go to basically the load balancers tab. I would create a pool. So let's create a pool, a demo pool. And in the provider list, so we'll pick up the AV as the provider for this load balancer, the instance that we want to create. And we do the regular choosing the subnet, a protocol. I want an HTTPS application. So I'd like to go with that. A round robin as the way to load balance. I created the pool. And now we'll add the members to the pool. Have these two back in servers. And again, I would like to use the SSL HTTPS for my application to make it secure. So probably while it's working on, I noticed that you configured SSL. Now Horizon itself doesn't support SSL certificate. So are we going to show some SSL certificate also? Yes. So let me, as usual, this is, OK. Good. There. So as you mentioned, the Horizon doesn't, like the stock reference implementation of Horizon doesn't have the SSL certificates. And we chose to do an HTTPS application. So let me finish the HTTP configuring the WIP too. And I'll show how we will do enable certificates for this. All right. For this application. Sounds good. OK. I got everything. Right. OK. So as you were asking about SSL, Elbas version 1 API didn't have any support for certificates. The Elbas version 2 has it, but the current Horizon reference implementation doesn't have any support. So we implemented a patch for the Horizon. So we can support certificates. OK. And all these certificates tab does is you can upload certificates to via Horizon. As a user, I don't need to go to any other UI or do anything else. I can go to this certificate tab. Yeah. I can add my own certificate so that that gets used by the load balancer to terminate the SSL handshakes. Sounds good. Now, by the way, this extension to Horizon is something that we have. It's made available in public in our public repo, and we'll upstream that as well. But we believe it's very important to have end to end SSL with Elbas. And so that's what we have done. So Praveen is uploading key and certificate for the load balancer. OK. So there, I have added the certificate. OK. And one of the other extensions this extra package does is create one more link in the load balancer tab so that we can associate a certificate with the... With the WIP. WIP that we just created. Sounds good. OK. So we have a full end to end SSL application all created through Horizon UI with a custom certificate that I want to use for my application. And this is possible with the AVI solution. OK. So now this has the... OK. Let's see. All right. Let's have a demo. God have some problem. That's fine. Let's continue the way. It might be mostly likely the horizon error. Let's see. So we created the WIP through Horizon dashboard. Can we actually see this in action that what did AVI controller do at this point? So at this point, the AVI controller, we have created the virtual IP. So at this point, all the Elbas API calls have been sent to the AVI controller. OK. So the AVI controller, let me go back to the picture. So the AVI controller, so as you see on the left-hand side, all the Elbas API calls made, they are sent. The Elbas configuration is sent to the AVI controller. AVI controller talks NOAA and Neutron APIs to bring up new service engine instances to implement the load balancer instance. Got it. That sees a service engine and the network topology. Yeah. So you can see that in this. So in this case, you can see that we automatically spin up new service engines. Right there. And that's the one that's going to implement the load balancing service. Got it. And we automatically create these service engines on demand as needed based on what's the amount of throughput that you have or what's the amount of CPU utilization. And if you have a lot of virtual services you are creating, then you will have a lot more service engines. Sounds good. And these are all configurable. You can place limits in the AVI. You can place these limits pertinent. And even in site tenant, you can create multiple categories of service engine groups and say these are gold applications that I want to have. These are platinum and create different levels of limits for them. Can we run some traffic and see that what's going on? And maybe we can also show the AVI UI for people who are not familiar with to see how it looks like on that. Okay. Let me switch to the AVI UI. Okay. It's over here. I have to switch to a tenant? Oh, yes. You need to go to the right tenant. Because see, AVI inherits the multi-tenancy from Keystone. So whatever tenant that you created, the service engine to whip in, that's a tenant that this whip will be available. So we got in the right tenant. And here we have the whip created. Yes. So we have the whip created and it shows all the status information about the whip to say that everything is nice. Let's run some traffic. Okay. And then we'll go a little deeper into the AVI UI about what this end-to-end timing diagram is in just a minute. Okay. So I'm going to open a client and let's log into it. All right. Check something is getting cut off, but that's okay. Okay. Let me pull it into the middle. Don't worry about that. Okay. Let's continue with the traffic. Okay. Minus K. HTTPS. 192.168.100. Sorry. T.100. Probably I have... All right. How about we run some ongoing traffic? Okay. Because in addition to the SSL, what we also want to show you is auto-scaling capabilities, right? So as the traffic goes up automatically, we spin up new service engines on demand so that we can increase the traffic. So if we can show some ongoing traffic that triggers the creation of the next service engine. So you're looking for the whip? Yeah. All right. Let's see. We're going to create a new whip. Okay. I see. Because I think the load balancer doesn't have it in the database. All right. Okay. So while we do that, a couple of key features of the AV solution is, one is auto-scale that we're going to talk about. We saw that we did SSL. We also have full HA. So we have active, active HA that we're going to show, which means we kill one instance of the load balancer, non-destructive, the traffic continues. All right. So let's go back to the... My horizon comes back up. Yeah. How about we show some visibility while that comes up if you want to go to that? So a key feature of AV solution is end to end visibility. So while we bring up the horizon again, let me show you the end to end visibility. So let me go to the analytics page. All right. All right. And let's make sure that the data loads. There you go. So as you can see here on the screen, what you see at the top is an end to end timing diagram. What that tells you is that what is the latency breakdown between end clients, like your mobile phone or your laptop, to the load balancer. Load balancer, the backend pool server that's processing the service, processing the request, and the application processing time itself. So without any agents, without any span ports, we're able to give you the end to end breakdown of latency instantly in real time, as well as on an average basis. So for example, in this case, the client latency is 34 milliseconds round trip. The server RTT is minimal. Let me get to another data point which has... Here, right here. The server latency is, in this case, it's right on the same host, so it's two milliseconds or even less many times. The application processing time is about 40 milliseconds. So we differentiate between what it takes on the network versus what the application takes, and then the data transfer time, and the round trip latency of 80 milliseconds. This is something unique to the industry that only we provide, and this is very important for as the migratory applications to open stack. This is a key feature that you need. Additionally, we have a big data analytics engine that captures all the HTTP logs. So for example, I am going to configure not just significant logs, but what we have called non-significant logs. As you can see here in the color coded fashion, we have a bunch of HTTP transactions, and I can break open one of them and show you that in this particular transaction came from, in this case, an iPad running mobile Safari in iOS from US with a particular IP address. It took about 40 milliseconds to hit the load balancer. Then it hit the backend server with a particular IP address. It took only one millisecond. It looked for a PNG file. In this case, this is the ur it was looking for. And the application, it was probably cached, so it came back quickly, and the data transfer time was less than a millisecond. So I can do needle in the haystack kind of analytics just as being a load balancer. I can do other cool things like I can see a bunch of 404s here. So I click on a 404. Let me click again properly. And in this case, let me just search here as a 404. I just search 404. It's going to show me anything that matches the 404 error code. So I have a bunch of these 404 error codes. I can say things like, okay, what are these 404s coming from? What locations are these 404 IP transactions coming from? And I can see what locations of the clients are getting these requests. I can do things like, who are my iOS clients or iPhone clients? And I can just search for iPhone, and it shows me only iPhone transactions as soon as it shows up. So for example, in this case, if I open this one up, this particular person came from Mexico on an iPhone. So just being an inline load balancer, we're able to give you this type of analytics. Furthermore, we use this analytics to drive load balancing. So for example, we measure CPU utilization. We measure latency, throughput, and so on. And based on that, we can actually autoscale out. So let me show that autoscale capabilities in progress. Let me go to a dashboard. And let me open up a VIP. In this case, for the purpose of the demo, so that I can do it easily, I'm going to show you in a manual basis. So if I open up my dashboard, I can see that I have one VM up there serving my load balancer capability. So there's only single VM. It's running about 380 megabits per second of traffic. I'm going to scale out. I'm just going to click the button called scale out. At this point, we're creating a new service engine, new VM, putting in the right network. Load balancing, the load balancer. And instantaneously, you will see that the second VM has come up, part of the load balancing infrastructure, and the traffic is starting shooting up. This, for the purpose of the demo, I showed you manually. You can try this to CPU utilization, number of connections per request, throughput, whatever you want. Additionally, not just scale out the load balancer itself, you can scale out the backend application. So we have a retail customers who need Black Friday or Cyber Monday kind of environments. They can trigger and open stack a heat resource request or another environment, any other request to scale out the application VMs. Again, when the traffic goes down, you can scale back in your infrastructure instantaneously. All right. Any questions so far? We have about three minutes to go. Any questions on what you see, what you would like to see? We have more demos on our booth. And what we didn't talk about is a little bit of a multi-tenancy, but here is a slide that we can show you. So Praveen, in this case, what is the purpose of showing a controller in one tenant and service engineer in the other tenant? Yes. So this is a typical deployment scenario for enterprises and cloud service providers. So as Ashish mentioned in our system, everything is, runs as software virtual machines. So our controller is a virtual machine that, as an admin, you typically deploy it as a regular VM in one of the service tenants. And whenever a user comes and instantiates a load balancer, then the service engines, the SES, as we have shown in the horizon picture, show up. They basically get spun up in the user tenants context. Again, this is one deployment model because these are all regular VMs. We have several deployment models where an admin can choose to have all the service engines spun up in a separate service tenant so that nothing is visible to the users in the regular tenant. Now, here we are showing that these SES, they get spun up and each of the tenant's SES are in their own context. So we provide very strong tenant isolation. All the traffic belonging to one tenant, they're not shared with other tenant's traffic if you want to. Like, we have other modes where you can let that sharing happen to. And the other important aspect here is the automation. So a common pain point that we see from our customer is that the app admin doesn't want to create a ticket just to create a whip. So in this case, an app admin has an access control to the controller to spin up its own service engines or create own whips, which will get created in our own tenant. 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Works, meat for repentance. Now it's very important going into this that you don't confuse Paul's works, meat for repentance with John the Baptist's fruits, meat for repentance. A lot of people get those two things confused. So they'll quote John the Baptist as saying works, meat, but John the Baptist didn't say works. He said fruit, and fruit is not work. Fruit is the product of work. So don't get those two things confused. So when I say works, meat for repentance, I'm not referring to John the Baptist's preaching. I am, of course, referring to what Paul said in Acts chapter 26. And so it's in verse 20 of this chapter that it says, But, referring to Paul, showed first onto them of Damascus and at Jerusalem and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God and do works, meat for repentance. And so this is an example of repentance and works accompanying each other. Now previously in the series, when we've looked at, for example, Mark 115, repent and believe the gospel, we see that belief was the context. There's no works paired for repentance. In this instance, we do have works paired with repentance. It'd be pretty hard to argue otherwise. So this is the verse that has potential to cause some confusion for some of the brethren. So people in defense of grace might try and answer this in various ways. For example, he was just telling people to live holy lives so that they would lead other people to Christ. Or, you know, it's just about living out your identity in Christ. Or they might say that repentance in this verse is not really about salvation. Well, it will hopefully make more sense in the video. Obviously, this is a verse that legalists use to prove that repentance does have to have works if it is genuine. So the first thing that I want to point out, as I always do, is that it doesn't actually say repent of your sins. There is no mention of sin in this verse.  Well, if it does, you are probably reading the new living translation of this verse, which does actually say repent of their sins. Or, although it's far less likely, you could be reading the clear word translation, which is actually not a translation. It's a paraphrase written to support Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, which sadly I have to pay for because I couldn't find an online version. The money grabbers don't want God's word to go out freely, apparently. And besides other liberties that they take with this verse, as you can see there on the screen, they also say repent of their sins in this translation. These are just two translations that I know of that do this. Most Bibles, such as the NIV, the ESV, or the New King James, they will just say repent in this verse because the Greek does not have of their sins. You can look up the verse on Bible Hub and look at all the Greek words that were translated into English. You won't find any Greek word representing sin or its synonyms. There are other Bible translations which also take liberties in this verse to still promote the idea of repenting of sins or reforming your life. But this subject really does need its own video at some point in the series, so I'm not going to labor on that particular issue in this video. So we could end the video right there. The verse does not say of your sins. So if people will use this verse to teach repent of sins, or even that it proves that repent means to turn from sin because of the word works, well then they are proving that repenting of sins for salvation is a works-based salvation. Otherwise, why would they go to this verse at all? So according to the King James Bible and the underlying Greek, this verse does say repent, but it does not say of your sins. Anybody who claims that repenting of sins is not work salvation has no right whatsoever to use this verse to promote their doctrine because it does mention works, but it does not mention sins. Paul does not mention the doing of sins during this dialogue in Acts chapter 26. He only mentions the forgiveness of sins. Very similar to Acts chapter 2 and 3. The assertion that Paul's works meet for repentance is about turning from sin is utter conjecture. In this dialogue, Paul does not specify what these works meet for repentance are. He didn't make it clear that he meant turning from sin. He could have been preaching about other works such as, for example, preaching the gospel or searching the scriptures or praying with other believers and planting church fellowships who were you to say that he didn't mean those things instead. Before we study Paul's message, then, we need to ask ourselves the question. Are these works necessary for repentance? Or do they prove genuine repentance? Or, you know, is repentance genuine if it doesn't include these works being accompanied? In the King James, there is a separation of the repentance and the works in that Paul lists them with conjunctions. However, there is a discrepancy here because modern Bibles don't actually include the conjunction before works. Now, as I mentioned, modern Bibles do seem to be taking a lot of liberties with this verse and butchering it, but there is something to be said for the way that some of the more accurate translations render the ending of this verse, such as in the ESV, repent and turn to God performing deeds. So this is considered to be more faithful to the Greek, according to people that apparently understand these things, because in the Greek, there are only three conjunctions, which I've painted in green for you on the screen there, whereas in the King James, we actually have four conjunctions. So the King James puts in an extra conjunction and strangely doesn't italicise it, but if you look at an interlinear Bible, you will see that the Greek order of words is so different from the English. It's not like you can just translate it word for word anyway, because it wouldn't make any grammatical sense in English. So there could be some justification as to why the King James Bible translated it this way. So as I've stated before in this series, I don't speak Greek, so I can't really contend for the King James and criticise the ESV. I don't think we can easily argue that the ESV is wrong, per se, but it could leave us confused because the present continual tense makes it look like these deeds are a part of the repentance itself, rather than something that ought to accompany repentance. And again, a lot of modern Bibles that are not as formally equivalent as the ESV or the New King James, they take so many liberties with this verse and deliberately mistranslate it to say that the works themselves are the repentance. But again, I'll have to cover that in another video. Let's just get some background before we study the scriptures. In Chapter 25, Paul was falsely accused by Jews and the high priest himself had made complaints against Paul to the authorities. Festus, willing to do the Jews pleasure, suggested to bring Paul to Jerusalem to be tried, but Paul appealed to be tried in Caesarea. King Agrippa is summoned to judge over this matter, so in Acts 26, Agrippa enables Paul to defend himself against the accusations of the Jews at Jerusalem. So Paul's opening statement here, in verse 2, is that he is answering for himself to Agrippa, who appears to be familiar with Jewish customs and questions. Let's get one thing straight here. Paul was not preaching repentance in Acts 26. I have known false prophets and their pet goats use this passage as an example of Paul preaching repentance, but he wasn't. He was defending himself to King Agrippa, referring back to something that happened between himself and other people at Jerusalem and Damascus some time before this, and we'll wind back to when this happened earlier in the book of Acts later. Between verses 4 and 5, Paul points out that he was a Pharisee since his youth from the very strictest sect of the Jewish religion. But then in verses 6 and 7, he now has the hope of the promise that was given to the 12th tribes, or you might paraphrase that and say Old Testament Jews perhaps, and yet he is being accused by the Jews for this hope's sake. So we see what Paul was explaining here. Jesus is the Holy One that was promised to the Old Covenant Jews. Jesus came, and this has already happened in the past now, so Paul now hopes in that promise, yet he is being persecuted by the Jews for the one that they should have been hoping for. In verses 8 and 9, Paul then alludes to the resurrection of Christ, arguing that the resurrection should not be that incredible for God to do, yet Paul himself liked the Jews that persecuted him, once did things that were contrary to the name of Jesus, and he's about to explain what these things were in the next verse. So in verses 10 and 11, he points out that he himself once persecuted believers and preachers of Jesus as he is now being persecuted by other Jews. Between verses 12 to 16, he recounts his journey to Damascus, whereby he heard Jesus' voice and quotes things said between them. This is a recall of what happened in Acts chapter 9, so we will also need to review this chapter as well to understand chapter 26. Now, interestingly, in verses 17 to 18, we do have some dialogue that's not actually available from chapter 9, and this is crucial dialogue here, because this is the closest thing in Acts chapter 26 that we have to define Paul's message of repentance that he is describing, that Jesus sent Paul to preach to the Gentiles that he has previously persecuted, and see that he was being told to preach, to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, from the power of Satan onto God, receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them, which are sanctified in faith that is in me. So this is how Paul is defining his message of repentance to the Gentiles before a gripper and fester, people that were in darkness and under the power of Satan, that they should repent towards the light and turn to God for the forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those that are sanctified by faith in Christ. Now, legalists might assert that, well, it does say turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan onto God, so this means turn from sin, because if you sin, you're still in darkness and still under the power of Satan. But this is begging the question, in other words, asserting the facts without evidence. Because just as the legalists say, well, it means turn from sin, we could just say, well, it means change what you believe. What you believe is currently keeping you in darkness, and what you believe is keeping you under the power of Satan, and the sanctified are by faith. But I would also be begging the question, because you can't ascertain the definition of those things from that verse alone. So what exactly does Paul mean by these terms then? Acts chapter 26 doesn't seem to make it very clear. Well, we do get some hints about it from later in this chapter, and we will refer back to previous chapters in Acts that tie in with this when we carry on reading. So Paul explains that he was not disobedient to the vision. So the vision led him to go to Damascus and to Jerusalem, where he would preach to repent, turn to God, and do works meet for repentance. So Paul was then persecuted by the Jews for what he was preaching in verse 21. Then in verse 22 he said that he was witnessing nothing more other than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come. So it's the times, the events, and the person that these prophets were pointing us to that Paul is witnessing about. And in verse 23 this is what he was witnessing, that Christ should suffer and that he should be the first to rise from the dead and should show light unto the people and to the Gentiles. This is the phraseology that was used in verse 17, when he talked about opening their eyes and turning from darkness to light. They are being shown light and verse 18 open their eyes, turn from darkness to light. This is the light that Paul was showing them, Christ suffering onto death and resurrection. So this is giving us a clue about what Paul meant here. He came to show the people and the Gentiles the light, that it was Christ who suffered and was the first to rise from the dead. He was the one that Moses and the prophets were pointing us to. So Paul was sent to preach that message so as to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light. Turn them towards the Christ who suffered and rose again. Notice that he doesn't say, hey the Son of God came down and he was entirely without sin and he kept preaching repentance all the time and warning of God's wrath to come. So I was sent to open their eyes and turn them from darkness and repent of their sins. That's not what Paul said. So in verses 24 to 25, Thestas accuses Paul of being mad in a loud voice. Paul rejects this obviously. And so in verses 26 to 28 we read, for the king knoweth of these things, before whom I also speak freely, for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him, for this thing was not done in a corner. King Agrippa, believe you the prophets, I know that you believe. Then Agrippa said unto Paul, almost you persuade me to be a Christian. Now some people might be thinking, well what about when Jesus said, if you would have believed Moses and the prophets, you would have believed me. King Agrippa is a sort of an almost but not quite. So how can Paul say that he believed the prophets? Well if we want to get all technical and specific and theological, then sure we could kind of argue in a roundabout way that he didn't believe the prophets maybe. And we can have that kind of discussion round a table. But that's sort of Christian philosophizing. Paul is just really being practical here. He knows that to some extent at least, Agrippa appears to have some awareness and some faith or belief of some kind in Old Testament prophets. Paul is then pointing him to these events, Christ's suffering and rising again, because he is the one that Moses and the prophets were pointing Agrippa towards. And as Paul said, none of these things are hidden or done in a corner. This has all happened publicly. Agrippa ought to have some awareness of these things. And so the chapter comes to an end. Paul wishes that they would hear him and be together as he is, which is perhaps a euphemism for being part of the brotherhood. They then sat and talked between themselves, and we don't have any more dialogue recorded. So we're not sure if Agrippa was truly persuaded. Maybe he was an almost but not quite. But in any case, they don't really find anything wrong with what Paul said. Notice how they didn't say, hey Paul, you've been screaming in the streets preaching against sin.  We're going to have to arrest you. Now I'm sure that's what these streets screaming bozos like Jesse Morel wishes would have happened. It would certainly stroke their ego, wouldn't it? But it didn't happen. That's not what they were accusing enough. So now that we've got that out of the way, we need to rewind. Acts chapter nine is what Paul is referring back to, because this is where he had that heavenly vision that he was speaking about in this chapter. And he met with the Lord and then he went down to Jerusalem and Damascus to preach. So that will give us some indication of his message of repentance being recalled in chapter 26. Between verses one and nine of chapter nine is where Paul or Saul saw the vision of the Lord on his journey near Damascus. Notice something very interesting between verses four and five. Jesus questions Paul about persecuting him. Why persecute you, me? And Paul actually reflects on this in Galatians chapter one, saying that he used to persecute the church, but then God called him by grace and revealed the Son. And so notice then Paul asked Jesus what to do in verse six. And notice what Jesus said, Arise and go into the city and it shall be told to you what you must do. And what really grinds my gears about this passage is that even though Paul had been sinning by persecuting the church, Jesus forgot to tell him to repent of his sins to be saved first. Surely that is the first thing that Paul must do. Paul liked to tell the Galatians church about how he was called by God's grace after persecuting the church, but seems to miss out talking about his sackcloth and ashes repentant lifestyle. Too many people love to preach grace and don't like to preach repentance from sin these days. So between verses seven to fourteen, Paul journeys to Damascus, meeting with Ananias, who had to pray about it, fearing the persecution of Saul. Ananias then met with Paul in verses 17 to 18, and Paul was filled with the Holy Ghost and was baptized. But wait a second. Ananias also forgot to tell Paul to repent of his sins. Oh, I can't believe this. No wonder Paul preached about sinning in the flesh in Roman seven and loved to talk about grace all the time. He never completed his repentance from sins. Maybe the Hebrew roots movement is right. We ought to totally reject Paul's apostleship. And so in verses 19 and 20, he received the meat. He was strengthened. Then he was certain days with the disciples that were in Damascus, and straight away he preached repentance in the synagogues that they should turn from their iniquities. Oh wait, that's not what Paul preached. He actually preached Christ in the synagogues that he is the Son of God. Carry on in verse 21 of the people were amazed that somebody who previously persecuted the church is now preaching alongside them. And in doing so, he confounded the Jews at Damascus by proving that this is the very Christ. He doesn't say he confounded the Jews by pointing out all of their unrepentant sins. We then read that the Jews took counsel to kill him.  We have seen absolutely no evidence whatsoever so far that Paul preached Hellfire damnation message against sin to the Jews. We have seen that he preached Christ. That is the reason why he was persecuted. He was not being persecuted for being a street screaming bozo at a pride parade. I know that's what Jesse Morellon gave the street preacher wishes would have happened, but it wasn't. You then carry on reading towards the end of the chapter. Paul goes to Jerusalem. The other disciples were initially afraid of him, but then they realized he had seen the Lord and preached the name of Jesus at Damascus. And while he was going in and out of Jerusalem, he spoke boldly in the name of Jesus, disputing against the Greeks. Once again, it mentions the name of Jesus, but doesn't mention any message of repentance from sin. After this, we don't really hear about Paul for another two chapters at which point he's no longer at Jerusalem. He was at Tarsus. So we've had no repent of sins message so far. The only thing Paul has preached about that we know of in Jerusalem and Damascus is Christ. So we can't even use the story from chapter 9 that Paul was recording in chapter 26 to interpret works meet for repentance because we've got nothing to go on from this story. He doesn't tell us what these works were. But then you might wonder, what about Acts chapter 22? Before and similarly to chapter 26, Paul also recalled the chapter 9 story in chapter 22. Let's take a brief look. So in chapter 22 between verses 113, Paul recalls what we have read. He went to Damascus, saw the Lord, went blind, met Ananias, received his sight again. And Paul recalls some dialogue with Ananias that we don't get from chapter 9. Ananias points out that God has chosen him to know the will of God, see the just one, and hear his voice. And this is for a purpose, that Paul shall be his witness onto men of what you have seen and heard. Now then, why is this important? Inevitably when you listen to these repent of sins to be saved types, maybe not so much the Calvinists or the Reform types, but particularly the Arminianists and Pentecostals and Sinless Perfectionists particularly. They like to emphasise their testimony when they give the Gospel about how they've turned from all of their sins and they've given everything up to Jesus. This was of course a notable theme in my recently published documentary. And we saw how these people exalt themselves and their, hey, look at me and my repentance, self-exalting preaching. But you can see a stark difference between how repent of sins preachers give their testimony. It's always about themselves and their accomplishments and I turned from all my sins and I surrendered my life and it's always really poetic and dramatic and sensational. Yet Paul was to be a witness of all the things he saw and heard. What did he see in here? Well, having previously been a persecutor of the Church, the Lord revealed himself to Paul and then sent Paul to go and preach Jesus. And that's exactly what Paul did. There was no mention of turning his life around or getting on his knees and praying for three hours every day until he reached a place of full surrender. He was just called and sent to preach Christ and he said it using a fairly mundane choice of words. Moving on then, Paul recalls how Ananias baptized him and washed away his sins, calling on the name of the Lord. Ananias did not ask Paul to prove the fruits of his repentance to make sure his repentance was genuine. Ananias did not fruit inspect Paul. Hearing the voice of God, he already knew that Paul was chosen for his purpose to preach Christ and instruct Paul to be baptized because there was no reason for delay. Now, this video is not meant to address the whole controversies of whether water baptism is required for salvation or the whole verbal asking to be saved issue that's a bit of a hot potato at the moment. But many legalists, they take statements like wash away your sins or cleanse us from our sins and redefine it as meaning you've stopped sinning now or you sin less now because you have changed lifestyle. But again, this is begging the question, asserting that that's what cleansing sin means without any evidence that that's what it means. There were examples in the Psalms where David uses this terminology about being cleansed from sin or washed from sin, but he's still sinned after he prayed those prayers. Between verses 17 to 21, Paul describes how he used to persecute those that believed on the Christ, yet now he himself was called to preach which as the Jews would persecute him also, possibly more so, he was sent instead to the Gentiles in verse 21. So once again, we have no context on this chapter to define what these works meet for repentance are that legalists love to bang on about all the time. The Bible doesn't even define what Paul was talking about when he made this statement, it seems to be so unimportant in the grand scheme of things. When we look at the clear dialogue available to us about what Paul did preach, we can see that he preached Christ. We can't see that he preached a transformed lifestyle of complete and total surrender. Even his testimony is about Jesus calling him to preach Jesus, not about his radically altered lifestyle. So the most context we have available for the message of repentance is that Paul preached Christ, not lifestyle change. The Bible doesn't tell us what these works meet for repentance were, but it must be in this sentence for a reason though. Remember that Paul is defending himself to secular judges because he was being falsely accused because he knew of the Jewish customs and questions and he was an expert in these things, yet he was preaching Christ who was promised to the Jews, yet they rejected him, the one that God had promised to them. So all he's really doing in this chapter is he's simply explaining to a gripper a summation of what happened at Damascus and at Jerusalem. So in essence we could argue that what he's saying here is, look, a gripper. I am a Jew. I'm being persecuted by the Jews for preaching the one that God has promised and sent to my persecutors. All I did was go around telling them to turn to Christ and do works meet for repentance.  I know that's what Jesse Morrell wishes I would have said, but I didn't. I didn't tell them that our true king is here so let's all rise up and take over the land and overthrow the Roman emperor so that this guy can rule over the Roman empire and be the new king. Again, that's not what I said to those people. I didn't tell them to start a riot and free themselves from the yoke of the Roman authorities. I wasn't causing any deliberate disturbance to the peace. I just told people to repent towards this Jesus the Christ, turn towards him and do works meet for repentance. So that's really the substance of what he was saying, that he wasn't going around causing trouble or deliberately rattling people's cages. The Jews are just making much ado about nothing. Let's now look at how this verse is worded. He instructed them to do works that are meet for repentance. Another way of wording this might be works befitting for repentance, works appropriate for repentance. It would be meaningless to do these works without the repentance. If one hasn't repented, there is no point to these works. If one has repented, then there must be a point to these works because they are meet for those who have repented. This is why it's works meet for repentance, works that are appropriate and applicable to such persons who have repented. If you haven't repented, no point in asking you to do these works. If you have repented, well then it would be a good idea for you to do these works. Okay, so perhaps you're thinking, well what kinds of works and meet for people who have repented because the Bible still hasn't told us what these are. It's perfectly plausible that alongside some of the works that Paul may have told people to do, that he could have included turning from sins in some cases, or at least an instruction to start doing some good that they weren't doing before. Now again, some modern translation to the Bible butcher this verse to make the works the repentance itself, so that the works are the cause of all the precursor to repentance. Whereas the King James is giving us quite the opposite impression, it's works are an afterthought. So once the repentance is complete, then we can consider these works that are appropriate for repentance. Many legalists might say that the works are an inevitable result of repentance, but if that were so, Paul wouldn't even need to tell them to do works meet for repentance. The fact that Paul needs to specifically tell them implies that it is not inevitable or automatic. But if we just stick to the simple King James Bible's translation, those works are meet or befitting or appropriate for people who have repented. Now let's just say for the sake of argument that among the works that Paul did instruct repenting converts to do, he told some of them to turn from various sins, let's just say that he did for the sake of argument. This is perfectly reasonable because like Paul says in 2 Timothy 2 19, let everyone who names the name of Christ depart from iniquity. Who is being told to depart from iniquity? Those that name the name of Christ. So this implies that such people are already naming Christ. These are not prospective or potential converts or sinners who have yet to be saved. This is already built on the premise that the Lord already knows those who belong to him. They ought to be the ones who name the name of Christ and so therefore let those people depart from their iniquity. So let me ask you this, do you name the name of Christ? You who's watching my video. If you say yes I do, well okay then, depart from your iniquity, do works meet for repentance? But if you're listening and saying well no I don't name the name of Christ, well don't bother then, don't depart from iniquity, don't waste your time doing works meet for repentance, why bother?  This just shows why these street screaming bozos are so ridiculous because if people walk away from you screaming and yelling and they're not interested in believing the gospel, what's the point in you standing there telling them to turn from their sins or do works meet for repentance? What difference is it going to make? You know there's nothing more time wasting and pointless than attending some death metal concert or some LGBT pride parade screaming repent of your sins, it doesn't matter what they do, it's a waste of time.  It doesn't make any difference whatsoever whether they do those things or don't do those things. As I have already stressed, we cannot conclusively say what works Paul commanded of them. But there are plenty of perfectly plausible examples and highly likely scenarios we could propose of the kind of works that Paul may have commanded. Not that those works are some kind of precursor to repentance, nor that they are necessarily proof of genuine repentance but at the very least are meat or befitting or appropriate for repentance. Now in my personal opinion and I stress a point of making this because opinions are not infallible and I could be wrong but given the premise that Paul could be persecuted by much of the Jewish populace for preaching Christ in Jerusalem and Damascus and Jesus had already warned the disciples about this before his own death when he sent them out to preach two by two at various towns and we have seen this previously in the series when looking at deny self and the unrepentant cities. Paul probably instructed them to do works somehow in relation to this. For example, don't persecute those who preach Christ, welcome them and receive them. The disciples were likewise previously instructed abide at those houses that would receive them and publicly profess your belief calling upon the name of the Lord in the presence of other believers and be baptized as Ananias also told Paul to do after previously being concerned about how Paul had persecuted the saints prior. So Paul getting baptized and calling upon the Lord with a verbal confession before men if you like proves to the saints that were afraid of him that know he is actually on our side now. Jesus also commented on how Jews would be afraid of his name being preached and afraid to confess him before men because of being put at variance with their family members and communities. We've seen that previously in the series. But we're quite disconnected from Paul's circumstances in this day and age so let me give you an example that's perhaps more modern and more relatable. You may remember brother James from the documentary and from a standalone interview that I published on my channel. Well we've done door-to-door soul-winning together at The Does and he usually does most of the talking because he can talk for England and I'm not really a big talker outside of my videos anyway. I'm not really very good at improv so we tend to leave James to do most of the talking. So what James would do is if someone at The Door was seemingly receptive at the house we'll give the royal gospel, right? You know it's believe, it's buy faith and that works, it's Christ who died for us, etc etc etc. and then at the end of his presentation he'll say you know if the person seems really receptive and it seems like they accept the testimony of Christ that we've brought to them we'll give them some extra information and instructions for edification and in some cases that might include doing some works or turning from sins. So James might say okay look here's the Bible we encourage you to start reading it here's some online material that you can find for more edification check that out and he might say hey maybe one day you might like to come with us and go preaching door-to-door with us one day and get other people saved so you see how we're encouraging them to do works and there was one time where somebody had a Buddha statue on the shelf so you know it might be that maybe if they've been previously a Catholic or whatever you might want to confront them about some idol in the house or something but he only gets to that stage after he's already established that the gospel is without works so we've already got them to understand that it's by grace it's not by works it's by believing after they've understood that then we can say hey start doing this and hey check this out and hey maybe one day you'd like to do this with us and hey maybe that's not a good idea so hopefully you see then how his preaching works meet for repentance not works for repentance works that are appropriate for repentance but repentance itself is without works and we've already made that very very clear if we encounter somebody at the door who's a Christ hating atheist we're not going to tell them to start reading the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and find a local church to start cleaning up their life because we don't really give a damn whether they do those things or not it makes no difference whatsoever and if they reject Jesus turning from those things or doing those things is not going to help them anyway and actually I'd rather the unsaved people who hate God didn't go to church because I don't want to fellowship with these people but obviously if somebody is receptive but maybe hesitant or curious for more information well then we might just give them more information rather than just bombarding them with stuff to start doing so it really just depends on who you're dealing with so in conclusion yes Paul preached works meet for repentance not that works are required for repentance or that they necessarily prove genuine repentance but that these works are relevant and appropriate for such people who have repented or maybe might repent the Bible does not consider it an important enough subject to directly tell us what those works were that Paul was talking about obviously false prophets just pluck and cherry pick random verses and make their own definition but the Bible doesn't tell us directly the closest definition we can find to his preaching on repentance was about Jesus not about you and yet again we keep seeing this in the series it's perfectly plausible that salvation is by grace not requiring any works at all that repentance is a turning of faith to the Savior without any proof of lifestyle change yet at the same time it is appropriate to teach those who have repented to do certain works for their edification and because it's meet for them to do so for example that others may see their good works and glorify God good works are in of themselves good as long as they are decoupled from salvation because grace excludes works just because many of you watching this may have been hurt by work salvation in the past this does not mean that you need to be afraid of works in of themselves or afraid of provoking fellow believers to do good works as part of holding fast the profession of our faith as Hebrews describes look the Bible is in exhaustive it contains lots of information it deals with many subjects not all of them are about how to be saved so yes we understand that grace is without works but that doesn't mean that it's wrong to preach doing good works the disciples did that themselves this is no nonsense Christianity reminding you that nowhere in the Bible does it say repent of your sins to be saved


So there are lots of ways to live together. For critters to live together, we are certainly not individuals. Like we have an entire, I don't know, like ecosystem of critters living on us and in us and within us and with us. And a parasite, let's just make a list of the ways to live together, live together. And perhaps it is not, perhaps it is a Freudian slip that I say love together. Because we can have parasitism and that's good for one party and bad for another party. We can have mutualism. I'm going to make my list because in a mutualistic partnership, dude, that's good for both parties. And then you have commensalism. And in this case, commensalism is good for one party and whatever, whatever for the other party. It doesn't hurt the other party, but it doesn't really help the other party. So these are ways that critters can live together. Now, we're going to focus in on the parasites because the parasites are bad for one party, but they're really good for the other party. So let's look at our walkway.  It infects male crabs and female crabs and it goes into the crab and it produces a little crabby egg sac. It looks just like the crab's own egg sac and it takes over the crab's brain so that the crab thinks that it made its own egg sac. The little barnacle goes in and says, hey, look at that cool egg sac you made. You're so awesome. You're such a good mom taking care of that egg sac so well and the crab is like, oh yeah, look at me. Taking care of my eggs because I'm such a good mom even if it's a boy. It will take care of its eggs and that little barnacle is like, dude, this is awesome.  That worked great. Meanwhile, the crab, no benefit for the crab because the crab spent all that energy and didn't get any of its own babies out of the mix. Kind of cold-blooded. How about this one? Okay, this is a parasitic fungus. I actually found one of these, I think, on one of the CR windows in a lecture hall. I took a picture of it because I was so excited. Okay, so this fungus infects a fly and the fungus grows into the fly's brain and takes over the fly brain. Now, just think about that. Just think about that alone. Here comes a fungus and it gets into your brain and it takes over your brain and it makes the brain say to the fly, I feel like climbing to a really high place at dusk and hanging from the really high place by my proboscis. What? Like it's a little sucker thing. And so it does. It has this parasite that makes it go, it comes up into like a tree and hang by a branch from its proboscis at dusk when the sun is going down. And then, you know what the parasite has it do? Explode. What?  This is what it looks like. It explodes. And there are fungal spores that get spread. It explodes. So look at all those spores. And if it's high enough in the air, then the explosion spreads all those fungal spores all over the place. This is a terrible situation for the fly. The fly is a done deal. Sorry, man. But for the fungus, it's up high. All the spores get spread on the wind. This is a brilliant strategy for the fungus. How did this even happen? That's incredible. Here's another one. This is a kind of fluke that infects a snail and goes into the snail's eyes. And part of this fluke's life cycle has to take place. Part of it's in the snail, but part of it is in a bird. And so this fluke infects a snail and makes its eyes like be huge. These are normal snail eyes.  The snails are pretty shy about their fashion statements. This one has been infected by flukes and it has like holy bull's eye eyeballs, really. And who can see those really well? The birds. So the bird is like, oh, look it, I see a snail. I totally am going to eat that one. Having no idea that it just ate a whole herd of parasites inside the snail. That's absolutely awesome. Now this thing looks rather boring. This is actually another fluke, but listen to this story. This is unbelievable. Okay, so this guy, that is a little fluke that infects a cow. And the cow poops out fluke eggs into its poop.   So it eats the eggs and it now has the fluke eggs inside of it. And then the eggs hatch and the eggs produce these little wormy things. Like the babies come out and they're these little wormy things and they're irritating. And so the snail makes these slime balls and I get rid of like, oh, I'm itchy, I don't know why.   You've got to be kidding me. An ant comes along and eats the slime ball. It's like, dude, this is awesome. The ant takes over the, I mean, the fluke takes over the ant brain. The ant goes and clips itself to the top of a piece of grass and who eats it. And now the fluke is inside the cow where it lays its eggs. They get dumped out in the cow doodoo and the whole thing happens again.  How about this one? Oh, my gosh, and this is nothing. Like, these are just a few of my favorite parasites. This guy is a crustacean that lives in the ocean that infects fish. And it gets, the fish is like, ooh, that looks like a tasty little crustacean. Like, eats the crustacean. I mean, that thing looks like it would be tasty fish food. But then that thing is like a psychopath critter and it bites off the fish's tongue. It eats the fish's tongue and then it becomes the fish's tongue. It like hangs out inside the fish in the tongue position. The fish is like, dude, my tongue feels kind of weird, but I don't really know what happened. I'm just going to keep on doing my thing. I don't know what I did to make my tongue feel this way. It proceeds to eat all the regular food that it's going to eat.  Oh, my gosh, this guy, this is a horsehair worm that infects the grasshopper, takes over its brain. Are you seeing some common themes here for parasite strategies? Takes over its brain, makes the grasshopper say, oh, I really feel like drowning myself. Who's this good for? The grasshopper drowns itself in the water. And when it dies in the water, that horsehair worm lets its eggs out in the water and then the next stage of its life cycle can take place. But it takes over the brain and causes the fish to, I mean, the grasshopper to do this really like self-destructive thing. I mean, really. And then I don't really know what this thing does. All I know is that it lives in the anal cavity of a sea cucumber. Okay, I mean, I guess it's safe in there. I suppose, you know, poop has a lot of energy in it. So I suppose that could be advantageous to just hang out there and, you know, get snacks passing by you often. I don't know. Parasites, like you could do an entire class just on parasite strategies. That is awesome. All right, my friends, have I never mind. Sex and parasites and genetic diversity all of this sets us up, number one, to tie up in a nice little bundle the whole concept of meiosis, mitosis, and heredity and gives us kind of a bouncing point to dive into some exciting work with evolution and the production, the processes that result in the genetic diversity that is so valuable. It's been lovely. One of my favorite lectures ever. I'll see you later.