Okay, ladies and gentlemen, closing up the night with an impromptu speech, so let me just give you a quick rundown. I think it was like 11 years ago, I met, I met our Paul, and we just started chatting and, and we kind of became friends, and I said to him, hey, you want to write a forward for a book on social engineering? And he's like, yeah, sure, let me read it. And he did. And he wrote a really, really great forward from my very first book, which you may have noticed that if you have read that book. We kind of kept in contact through the years. I'm super excited that our Paul is also one of the trainers that we have coming to the SE Village in Orlando in 2020. So I'm really excited about that because there's going to be a whole like three hour session on, on exactly the little teaser you're going to get here for 30 minutes. And it was just the other day he was texting and saying, we were texting each other like in Vegas. And he's like, I'm in Vegas. He's like, you want to hang out? I'm like, sure. Why don't you come and hang out with me on stage at DefCon? And that'd be kind of cool, right? So he is, so he's here. So please join me in welcoming our Paul Wilson from the Real Hustle in the UK. Thank you very much. Good afternoon. All right, warm group. Nice. Welcome. So this is kind of an impromptu thing. And I thought, what do I want to talk about? And usually when I do these talks, I spend a bit of time figuring out what the slides will be, creating a structure. But when you're in Vegas, most of the time is dedicated to drinking and gambling. And, you know, a couple of nights ago, really how this all happened was I was wondering, I was alone in my cell wondering, who do I know who would bail me out, return for a talk. One of the things that happened to me, I'm not a religious guy, if you are, that's perfectly okay. Not entirely sure if I believe that we're all in a simulation. Maybe we are. But part of the evidence I have that we might be is that somehow life allowed me to perform more cons and scams than any other human being in history. That doesn't mean I'm the greatest con artist in history, because the worst con artist in history would be the guy who has to perform more cons and scams than anybody in history. Because if you get good at something, you just keep doing it while it makes money, and eventually you get caught or you retire, right? That's what normally happens. What happened to me was I got really fascinated with this stuff when I was about eight years old. And I was exposed to magic and cons and scams pretty much at exactly the same time. And the fascination grew, and eventually as my understanding grew, the two kind of diverged. So I am a magician. I love magic. It's one of the things I spend a lot of my time doing. But I'm also fascinated with how cons, scams, and cheating methods work. And I'm a collector of these things. There are people who are serious experts that dedicate themselves to one particular type. Well, I like to explore everything. And a few years ago, we were involved with a movie. The movie starts with Esther Stallone and some other people. It was about cheating, the people we made the movie with. We went out to Hollywood.  And we had a show called The Take Down. The Take Down was myself and a bunch of friends. None of us were serious gamblers, so we were allowed, by the gaming control board, to go if the casino agreed and cheat for apparently real money on the casino floor. And my friends and I, we would always joke about it because none of us were professional gamblers or professional cheaters, but we were using methods that we always wanted to try. So somehow life allowed me to do that, which was really interesting. By the way, we used to call ourselves the gang who couldn't cheat straight because everything was the first time. We always went out there for the first time and sometimes we got caught and sometimes we didn't get caught. But the most interesting thing was the dialogue that we had afterwards with the casino staff and with the casino managers. Explaining what it was we were doing, why we were doing what we were doing. And amazingly, even though these guys had been going to seminars in the industry, we were somehow ahead of them. Now that's because we knew the right people. We had really interesting information. That led to me being asked to consult on a possible BBC show. I went over, we did a little video with a couple of people who were maybe going to be on the show. I ended up on the video saying, well, that's not how you do it. That's not what you would say. It would be like this. And the BBC said, you know, that guy's really good looking, but the fat guy looks like he knows what he's talking about. So I ended up with that job and we ended up doing a show called The Real Hustle. I know you've seen The Real Hustle. I think almost all of it is on the internet these days. And it started off the first series, you find out how it works. How do you go out there? How do you really do this? And the first rule we came up with, Alex and I really wrote the entire show. We would go through everything that we had seen and say, well, I want to try that scam. I want to try that scam. I don't want to try it. It was like Christmas for someone like me. This is where I began to believe, you know, maybe something's going on. How did I get this job? And I want to tell you a little bit, first of all, I'm going to tell you a little bit about what I did before that, a couple of things I did that I think are interesting and some of the things we did while we did that and some of the things I've done after. I was always interested enough to go out and try some things that I probably shouldn't have tried. For example, I like playing poker. I'm not the world's greatest poker player, so if there's a game after the show tonight, if you want to join me, I'm sure you've got a good chance. But I thought, you know, I'm learning all these moves, made it an opportunity just to try them.  I don't know what the card is. It's not really cheating. And I'm sure that would have worked in a court of law, but I never got caught, so we don't find out. And I would sometimes palm cards in a casino game just for a few seconds and then throw it back into the muck because I was sitting right beside the dealer. I was messing around with things like that. And then one night I ended up in a thing called the Jim Baxter game in Glasgow. Glasgow, if you don't, anybody here from Glasgow? No? Nope, just me. Okay. In Glasgow, it's quite a tough town. It was actually the murder capital of the world per capita at one point. We're very proud of that. I decided that this would be a great place to do some cheating. And the Jim Baxter game was interesting on a couple of things. First of all, they had decks of cards that had apparently been used for decades. So if you really were paying attention, you didn't have to mark the cards they were already marked. At one point, Jim, the guy running the game said to me, I need to buy some cards. I just don't know where to get them. And I said, well, this will happen. I've got some cards and I'll bring them in. And it took me about a week to mark them all, reseal the decks and then give them to him. And assuming that he kept those as long as he kept the other ones, they're probably still being played at that game right now. One night in that game, I was playing a guy called Steve M. I'm just going to give you a second name, Steve M. And everybody hated this guy because first of all, he was a great poker player.  Okay.  And it was just the worst guy. And that's my only real... Yeah, I cheated him. So here's how it worked. It was kind of like a very fast tournament structure. And you would play and play and play, and people would start gravitating to the other room where cash games were going as they were kicked out of the tournament. And we ended up together the last two people in a game of seven-card stud. Now, I can play hold them. I can tell you a lot about hold them. I really don't know very much about seven-card stud, but I was having the game of my life until I ended up against Steve. And I'm sitting with Steve and the deck is being passed. There is no dealer. The deck is being passed. It's been passed from him to me. And we've got a crowd of about 10 people watching to see what happens. And as we're playing, I've got the cards. I decide to figure out, you know, I wonder what the top card of the deck is. These cards are not marked. So I have a little peek. I look. And there's a card that's going to make my hand. I'm going to make a flush. Unfortunately, that card gets dealt to Steve. Unless I don't deal that card, instead I deal the second card down. This is called the second deal. And if you come and join us in February, you'll get to see what the second deal looks like. We'll do that at length. And it's a phenomenal move. It takes years of practice. It's not really supposed to be done when you're being watched by 10 other people. Okay? However, I got the little sneaky thing that I have to get to prepare for it. I got to the point where I was going to deal that last card. And I dealt the second. And I have to say it was one of the most beautiful deals of my life. Sailed across to him. Nobody suspected a thing. I dealt that flush card to myself. And I went all in. And he beat me with a full house. And if I had not actually gone, I would have gotten the card he got, which was also a card I needed for the flush. I would have beat him had I played honestly. So, here I am, the leader of the gang who can't cheat straight. That kind of experience actually taught me a really interesting lesson. I think if I had won that night, I'd probably be in jail right now, dead or both. And I started to think about, you know, maybe this is a really bad career move for me. And then I got involved with the movie. Then I got involved with the TV show. And then things changed. And when I started doing the TV show, I began to really understand how these things worked. Because at the beginning, it fooled me completely. When you read something in a book and you say, well, that's a very clever scam, but I would never fall for that. People would probably never fall for that today.  It's a very strange experience. One of the scams we pulled was right out of a book. I think it was either the Bunkle Book or Rich Uncle from Fiji, these little booklets you can buy. And there's a scam in there it's called The Bouncer. And what happens is in the modern version is we pulled up in a truck to a marketplace. And we opened up the back of the truck and we got all these boxes behind us. The boxes are full of product. And I bring out the first product. And I say, we've got these things, whatever they were. In fact, I think it was just some pens. But it was like a whole 20 pens. And we can sell these for five pounds. Who wants these for five pounds? Each one of these could be worth two pounds 50. Imagine if you gave these out at gifts. These would be great. We get a little crowd together. People buy them. Not everybody. Some people buy them. And I say, and this is exactly what's in the book. I say, all right, you've all got that for five pounds. Who's happy?  Who's happy? And all these people put their hands up. And I said, if they're happy, give them their money back. And we gave them all their five pounds back. And then I reached and I got a glass vase. I remember it was a piece of junk that we bought from somewhere. I bought this glass vase. And I said, look, it's crystal. Ding. Ten pounds. And they bought it. And now more people bought it. They bought it. We gave them the pens as well. So they hadn't bought the pens the first round. Now they got the pens and they got the vats. Ten pounds. We paid pennies for these things. And I said, if you're happy, put your hand up.  Give them their money back. And they all get their money back. We did the same again with something else. And finally we got to a watch. And the watch was 50 pounds. They all bought it. And I said, who's happy? And they said, we're happy. And by this point, they're shouting, we're happy. And I said, well, if you're happy, we're happy.  Now here's the bit that still gets me. So we drove back. Real hustle worked like this.  We absolutely did it for real. None of those people can act, okay? None of them are going to be able to act like they're genuinely shocked, or genuinely surprised, or genuinely upset. We really did it. But we were very clever about how long it took between them figuring out they lost all their money and us stepping in and saying, everything's okay, we're with the BBC. And I don't know what that is about that line, but it really, really works. Little aside, years later, in fact in the last season, we were filming in Scotland. As I said, Scotland's kind of an unusual place.   So if you're walking around with a camera lens, how much is that lens worth compared to the price of the camera? Bigger the lens, bigger the price, right? So you switch on the side, and if you grab it, turn it, you walk away, you've got thousands of pounds in your pocket. And the way we did this is we went up to tourists. The tourists were like walking around the mound in Edinburgh taking pictures of the castle and all this kind of stuff. And I would walk up and I would be bumped into by Polly, who was a girl who was working on the show in that series. And she would pretend to be lost. She'd show me a map and I'd say, excuse me, do you know where this is? She'd hold the map over the lens. I'd reach under, grab it, twist it, come away like that, right into the pocket, and I'd say maybe this guy knows, I don't really know where it, when I walk away. She'd walk away, he'd probably, and he did almost always because it was a guy we targeted, he'd watch her walk away for sad but obvious reasons. And then eventually he'd look down and realize he doesn't have a lens anymore. And it worked perfectly until one time Polly got the timing wrong, took this away, and he looked down and saw me holding his lens like this. And he grabs his camera. It was like a big Canon camera. And he is going to bury that camera in my face. There's no doubt in my mind. And I did this. I said, it's okay, I'm with the BBC. And a lot of people came out of a van, camera crew came over and to him it was like the Matrix had suddenly fallen apart. So that line really, really works. I'm with the BBC. So we pull all these scams and it's that distance between telling people they've been scammed and they're getting everything back and allowing them to have that moment of shock. That was a TV show. That was the thing we wanted to do. We didn't want to do it so that you were hurt or really upset. And we went back to those people that we had sold all that stuff to and we tried to give them the money back. And that was always a little difficult in some cases. We did a thing. If you ever want to be, especially in Europe, if you ever want to have an automatic position of authority, just go and buy one of those yellow fluorescent jackets and put it on. People automatically assume you're with somebody, you must know something and they'll do what you tell them or they'll ask you questions like, how do I get into there and you can do all sorts of things. And we did that one time by just putting an out of order sign on a parking meter in a really busy parking area. Out of order, please give the cash to the guy with the... And I stood there on a fluorescent jacket and we had runners who had to just go and get people and say, could you just stop the money you gave and we have to give it back to you. But I was so successful, we ran out of runners really quickly and so there's about a dozen people who came back and had tickets on their car with a message from us saying, please call the BBC because we're going to pay for your tickets. So it was always very difficult to do that. We went back and got those people and they've got their bags with all the junk that we've sold them. Now I guarantee there was less than three pounds worth of junk and that 50 pound back. Most of them didn't want to give it back because they really were happy. And it was the funny thing about that scam that I never really understood. They didn't feel like we conned them. They were just unhappy we didn't keep going. Right? And the reason for that is because in the back wall we had playstations and TVs and they thought we were going to keep going until we got to the playstations. So people are funny and they can be manipulated in very interesting ways and it's a system of nudging. It's how you confront people, how you come at people, depends on a lot of elements and how you play each person has to be adjusted depending on their personality and their situation. And understanding how to adapt to that is kind of what I learned in the real hustle without gaining a huge enormous criminal record. Empathy is one of the most powerful things you can use. You can of course attack somebody with a situation which makes them panic and they do something they shouldn't do. We did that all the time. But if you could gain empathy and you could get it back in return you could do almost anything that you wanted. So the scams that we did were always based on us trying to figure it out. But there's also things that even in the most outlandish of situations the craziest of ideas would work for us. So if you watch the shows, if you look up there's a model an actress called Caprice. She's American, she's very famous in the UK and she was one of our first celebrity guests so we decided to do a series where we would bring in celebrities and get them to pull the scams with us which was an absolutely idiotic idea but the audience liked it so we kept doing it. And Caprice came out and the scam was really very simple. We didn't do anything very complicated whether you just go into that shop over there and we're gonna have you pass over counterfeit money. But the system for doing it is actually pretty clever. You hand over a 50 you buy something for less than a 10 they give you a couple of 20s back and you switch to 20s and you say actually do you have 10s? And because that money seemed to come out of their till they never really examine it. Alright they just give the money over. All she had to do was buy a couple of DVDs. Underneath the DVDs were the counterfeit 20s. She took the 20s from here she took the DVDs which covered everything she held them and she took her other hand out with the other 20s and she had to say could have some 10s. We trained her how to do it that morning and then we sent her over. And she went with Jess. If you've seen the show Jess, a former model and very very good at hustle she went over with Caprice. The only thing I want to say about Jess is that Jess is really good at thinking on her feet and really good at looking after number one in these situations. Caprice got the money she took the DVDs the counterfeit cash and the woman behind the counter is looking at the DVDs where there's another couple of 20s just sticking out from underneath and she knows exactly what she did and she won't let her leave she's going to call the police. Now we can see all of this through the camera feed we have and we can also see Jess leave. She walks out the door and she doesn't even come back to where we are she leaves the entire situation she hears the word police we have to find her we have to call her Across the street there's a pub and in the pub is myself and Alex now this is our first celebrity scam it's absolutely the first one we've ever done and the situation is that our current producer who's never done the show before he has said well if you're going to meet this celebrity you should dress up in suits and ties we're like we're supposed to be on this looks like we're going for a job interview massive argument because we're on TV we're divas so we put the suit on we're on TV we meet her we tell her what to do we send her over and our stupid suits and then this thing happens and so Alex and I just don't think twice we both do exactly the same thing at exactly the same time we leave the pub and we walk over to the shop we walk in and I say hello we've been following these two girls who've been passing off counterfeit cash this is one right there and she said thank goodness you're here and I had just shown her a picture of my children she didn't look the situation just absolutely fed into what we were doing we not only actually got Caprice out of there we got more examples of the cash from her till the cash that she had given her oh this is another bad one right here we took that one as well and we walked out there's so many ways to really do this I could tell you stories forever I want to tell you my favorite scam is very very briefly everyone says what's your favorite scam the BBC used to be very afraid of what we did the reason for that is they were afraid that we were going to teach people how to be con artists I don't think there's really any truth in that because if you've got that in you you can't get it from watching TV but if you do have it in you there's a really good training course on the internet called the real hustle the truth is con artists already know how to con you and the reason they get away with it is because you don't know how they operate and you don't recognize it as a scam so we really got a lot of people telling the police that they recognize a scam because they'd seen it on the real hustle so we became part of a campaign called Scamnesty anything they saw that was maybe a scam like mail they would hand it over to the police we became the face of that I think that legitimizes what we did in all honesty but the BBC would be very careful about how we would refer to these scams so one of the things they said is that you know you can't trivialize this you know you have to always kind of apologize for what it is you're doing in a way as if it's a dangerous topic you can't say something like my favorite scam is so my favorite scam is something called the razzle and the razzle is a carnival game it's one of the greatest carnival games of all time because you can't possibly win but I can take every penny in your pocket with this game the game works like this there's a scoreboard and on that scoreboard there are a bunch of possible totals numbers like 44, 35, 24 and 29 which is an important one and you're gonna throw some marbles into a giant box in the box there are lots of little holes that the marbles can settle into these are all numbered when you do that I add up those numbers we look to see if the sum of those numbers is on the board and if it has a little point underneath it you win that point it could be 5 points, 2 points and if you get 10 points you win the big prize PlayStation, TV, Lamborghini the entire continent of America it doesn't really matter you don't have any chance of winning it but that big prize is what draws people in and they do get played at gun fairs quite often I don't know why but it does a lot of people get drawn in and the idea of the game is very simple you roll I count, you win and then you win again and you win again until you get closer and closer to that total of 10 but as you're playing not every round wins as you're playing you'll occasionally hit that 29 when you do that you have to double the bet so what starts off as a couple of pounds $32, $64 every time you hit 29 the most common number you're going to hit and it has a little thing that says HP which is house price so while we double the amount you have to play we also double the prizes so now you're playing for a PlayStation a TV, the Lamborghini, you're going to win all the Texas it's right up there doesn't really matter but we're giving you all these big prizes but you're getting closer and closer to that 10 and then you run out of money you have to run out of money when you're doubling the bets like that right when you run out of money I look around and say I've never seen this happen before but I'll tell you what I'll do you've lost about 300, 400 pounds I'm going to put that under that prize you can win that back and if you bring back another 400 pounds I'll give you 20 rolls to get that extra half point you're looking for and they always go to the ATM and they always come back I hold the score for 10 minutes when they come back I give them 20 rolls they count it all themselves and they have no chance of winning and they have no chance of winning for one simple thing and this is why it's a genius scam you can only get a winning score, one that gives you points you can only get that if I cheat on your behalf and miscount the number if I do that I can give you one of those numbers all the other ones are the ones you're going to get now it's billions and billions to one it could happen but not really because the numbers are spaced in a certain way so because of the psychology that works with that people are so certain that they're going to win that extra half point they cannot resist but go and get more money in Blackpool this was called Lucky Numbers it was a very popular holiday destination and they had to destroy the game well they had to make the game illegal because people would come for vacations for two weeks, lose all their money on the second day and literally be destitute for two weeks and it's too heavy a game possibly my second favorite will be this guy right here we don't really have enough time to do this properly this would normally be played for a longer period of time but some of you may have heard of this it's called Three Card Monty you may see it in Las Vegas believe it or not on those walkways outside the casinos you sometimes see guys setting up this game it's very unusual but it can happen in New York most people are aware of it so they target tourists in London you'll see it quite often and in Paris especially at the moment it seems to be going through our renaissance it's a game you'll see a lot it's a game with a rich history it's very very simple has anybody not seen this game before alright let me explain it so it started like this can you guys see these cards alright so if you can see that so what you have here is you have one two three Queen of Hearts you would mark one but that would make the game pretty confusing because people wouldn't really remember which one the marked one was so they changed the game a little bit the game was played with one two Queens and one Joker like this now the idea now is to follow the Joker but it's pretty hard to do most people can't actually follow that card so the game is played slightly differently now it's played with two Jokers and one Queen of Hearts watch really carefully some of you will know how this is done if I throw the cards around like this the idea is to follow that Queen I'm actually trying to show you a lot more than you would normally see I wouldn't turn the cards over quite so often as this most of you if you're watching know it's this card here right trying to help you guys it's really there one more time watch really carefully so you can see the Queen there like this any guesses middle? good guess now we'll go again one more time now here's how the game really works if I were to throw them around like this you wouldn't normally show that these cards were Jokers if you're really guessing most of you would guess the middle at this point right again the middle is where the card usually starts the problem with this game is even if you know how it works when it's being cheated if they get a smell of that in order to beat you all they have to do is stop cheating right now you can all see where the Queen is let me explain what would happen if we did this for real okay so if I were to take this card here put it here where would you say it was right now you would definitely say it was in the middle I'll slow it down one more time now look there's the card now you can clearly see there's a Joker there's another Joker some people may bet on this card here you're gonna hit a Joker here of course that's the Joker you all know where it is now right so the problem with this game is a lot of people think that you have no Queens at all sometimes you have three but I'm performing a switch and I'm gonna explain what the switch looks like the switch looks like this imagine I have the Queen in this hand which I do and I have the Joker in this hand I'm gonna throw the Queen when I throw the Queen it's not gonna land here instead I'm gonna drop this card okay it looks like this alright you get the idea now if we do that with all three cards look you know where the Queen is so there's the switch okay so you know it didn't actually go down it goes down like this you all of course know where the card is at this point some people think it's here something is here it's really right there just like that so how do you beat a game like this now guys have tried to beat the game now this guy's basically a theatrical mugger he's trying to steal your money okay so somebody may reach across and put a little bend in the card there like that can you see that so you can clearly see at this point where the Queen is so somebody would you guess where do you think the Queen is if you can see you can see the little bank card over here give you a clue it's not here there you go alright you're not very confident are you can you see the bend there see that little bend right here you don't really want to bet on that because it is possible to lose every single time this is probably my second favorite scam next year we're going to get together for the conference in February in Orlando we'll be doing a couple things first of all I will be organizing a trip to Disneyland so sign up now most importantly the kind of sleight of hand we're going to talk about is all the really cool stuff that beats casinos and beats poker games that stuff's really cool and you'll get a big kick out of it but what I'm also going to do is I'm going to apply some of that to some things that you may want to do in real life for example if someone asks you to remove the SD cards from your camera and hand it over to be confiscated I'm going to show you how to palm one and switch it in that action so nobody knows I'll bet you that's pretty handy what can you do with a USB stick what can you do what can you do with an entire laptop we're going to talk about how you can manage situations in order to hide things the way a magician might hide things just to protect your own information not to target anybody just to have the tools required to distract and gain an advantage in certain situations so that's what we're going to talk about in February I hope to see you all there I'm so sorry that we didn't have anything to show you other than a little bit of that I'm more sorry that none of you bet any money while we were doing that but more importantly thank you very much for watching take care


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Okay, good morning everyone. All right, so we're almost coming to the end of our study. So I think we met last three weeks back, right? It's been a long gap. So let's just do a quick review of where we started. I think we started with the chapter on praying for the unseen. Right, we talked about How Satan hinders the work of ministering the gospel. So every time we want to share the gospel, every time we want to be a testimony, the enemy hinders that because the enemy knows that the power of the gospel is able to change people's lives. We saw how the enemy binds people by blinding the minds of people. So many times we are talking to, you know, or sharing the gospel, but they don't accept it. Why? Because their mind is blinded. So in their mind, it's like, no, I cannot believe this. Who puts that blindness? It's the enemy, right? Second, we saw that the enemy holds people in bondage. Now, what is a bondage, right? When a sin is continually happening in our life, it becomes a bondage. Right, so I was in Rajasthan and in Charkhani and, you know, the moment we went there, the first day after the first session, there was a line of people and most of them were, you know, demon possessed. They were in bondage over years of people from other faiths. But what happens is they, you know, they partake in the other, you know, the other festivals and things they partake in food and the worship. And I saw, you know, the moment I saw them and they were all there, you could just feel that bondage, you know, many of these demons began to speak. They started saying, you know, this is what they do. This is why I'm here. This is why I'm not going to leave. You see the bondage, right? It stopped us, stops the people from believing the truth of the gospel. And, you know, when we went there many times, I've noticed this many times. Because of the anointing inside of us, demons don't come near us at times. Many times, you know, they would stand there and say, no, we won't come there. We will not come there. Why? Because of the anointing inside us. So the enemy has these ways. One, he blinds the minds of people. He holds people in bondage. And those bondages is not only for unbelievers. It can happen to us as believers as well. Sometimes we may say the wrong things or jealousy, pride, anger. If we continue to live in them, what will happen? What will happen? If you continue to live in sin, what happens? The bondage, right? If I continually get upset or angry with people, what's happening? It becomes a bondage. And the Bible says that it's not a fruit of the Holy Spirit, right? It is sin to be angry. It becomes a bondage, right? And so it's very important as believers. We understand that yesterday we spoke about it, right? The work of the cross has broken the bondage. Now that bondage can be a small bondage. It can be a bondage of, you know, over generations.  You will not live.  But you know the work of the devil, right? He brings intimidation. He brings fear. So all I said was, I rebuke that. I don't take what you're saying. You're cursed. You're broken. The work of the cross has, you know, this... And I didn't do anything. Many a place, many a times. They all came standing. Some of them came at midnight. They came bringing people who were possessed. And we prayed for them. This is a simple prayer. The bondages were broken. They came and said, I feel so... I feel peace. I feel a light. I feel, you know, this weight has been lifted off. Because of the work of the cross. Because we understand, okay, this is what the Holy Spirit can do. So it doesn't matter what kind of bondage people are in. No matter what the devil is binding them in. You and I have the authority to break it. Right? So I told this, the demon was standing. I was telling the demon, you can't do anything because there's a blood protection around my family. There's a blood protection around me. And he said, yes, there's somebody else also standing next to you. Please tell them to go. You know? Why? Because they cannot stand. The enemy cannot stand the work of the Holy Spirit. Right? But you and I must understand that. Now, if we don't understand it, we're going to look at, okay, see, this is what the enemy is doing. Our focus will be on the enemy. Oh, this guy has been in drugs for 20 years. This guy has been in bondage for 20 years. How is it going to, you know, remember who's inside? Right? So, thirdly, the enemy hinders the proclamation of the gospel. And every time you want to share the gospel with people, the enemy will stop us. So don't do it. It's not worth it. There's no time. It's not powerful. Who's going to believe you? You're not even anointed. All these lies, the enemy brings it to our mind. And we looked at the church's responsibility for us is to bring people from darkness to the light. The church has kingdom authority and God has given us spiritual weapons. And I think last class we talked about how God is sending us into the battlefield, but he's not saying, okay, you go fight. He's giving us weapons. We talked about it, right? Imagine a person in the army. He's wearing the entire guard. He's got his guns. He's got his equipment. Everything is there with him. He's sitting in the tent and saying, no, I will not go. I'm scared. That person would not be worthy to go into the battlefield. Right? So all the questions, hey, what is this?  You're ready to go. Why aren't you going? So remember that you and I, as we're ministering to people, we are the battlefield, but we must use the weapons. Paul writes to the Corinthians. What does he say? The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty in God. Right? So when you look at your weapons that you have, they're mighty in God. Right? So don't look at your gifts and your talents. That is secondary. The words say the weapons of our warfare are mighty in God. Right? So many of times we, you know, we used to travel. So one of the things I do is I always spend time, you know, additional time and prayer when we're going to minister to people. Why? Because we know that there's a spiritual fight happening. How do these demons know that I have two children? How do they know where I stay? How do they know things in the spirit? They know, right? But the weapons of our warfare might hear. Right? So when we understand that, whether they have demon possessed people or whether they're just unbelievers or friends or those who are not believe all that matter, you know that you have the weapons, but you have to use it. Right? So then we'll talk about bringing spiritual transformation. I think we stopped here. So how do we bring spiritual transformation? Right? What is spiritual transformation? Now, if you look at a certain region, you see that there's so much of, you know, maybe idol worship or work the enemy that's happening there. How can we bring spiritual transformation? We engage in prayer and worship and exercise our spiritual authority over the lost. We engage in prayer and worship. What does prayer do? What does worship do? It destroys the work of the devil. Right? When we're praying, there's a spiritual warfare. Right? And the works of the enemy is being destroyed. His grips are being loosened. Right? And even when we worship the atmosphere, the glory of the Lord, the presence of God brings a change. Right? So even you all, as you all are praying and worshiping in the morning, never make it a routine. Never say, okay, okay, wait a little prayer. Come on. Oh, drag yourself there. Okay, pray. Who's who's who's singing the songs? Oh, they say never have that attitude. If you have that attitude, stop. Go back and ask God, God restored. Restore. Change things in me because the more it becomes monotonous. You're doing things. We'll be doing things just it won't, there won't be any power in that. Right? I know, right? Because I've been part of Bible call is I know there's a routine. You get up, you do this, you do this. But one thing that I constantly said to myself was it may be a routine. But even in that routine, I want to see God working in my life. I want to see the presence of God ministering to me. Right? You go in with that desire, right? And remember, we cannot control people's choices. We cannot dictate their choices. We cannot manipulate people. Each person has their choice of accepting the gospel. Now, what is our responsibility? Right? We are ministering the gospel. We are sharing the gospel was their choice to accept it or not to accept it. We can control their choice. But we can pray for them. Say, God, remove that blindness. I'm going to go speak to this person. I'm going to go minister to this person. I'm going to go pray for healing. Do a supernatural work or let give me the wisdom to answer his questions the right way. This person has too many questions. How do I answer his questions? Now, if we go prepared, there's a difference. And when we go unprepared, there's a difference. So through prayer and exercising of spiritual authority, we can bring spiritual transformation in a person's life and in a certain place. I know we used to do this in early 2012. We went to different places in North India. We used to also go to a few places in South as well. So we used to have full night of worship. Right? And we went to this one city. I think it was Mysore. I'm not sure which city but I think it's Mysore. We went there and we thought we used to do 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. worship and prayer. So whole night worship and prayer. It used to be very strenuous but we used to always think, okay, will people come? So this one time we went to Mysore. And we have like, so six to six weeks, I think we should have like four worship leaders or three worship leaders. They used to lead like one and a half hours each. And then in between have prayer points, pray for those points. We should do it all the way till 6 a.m. So we went to Mysore once. We were setting up the speakers and all of that. Nobody's there in the hall. So we're doing 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. Nobody's come. We thought, oh man, what to do? It's almost 5.30. We've set up everything. Maybe two, three people have come. And then I remember as I was, I had to lead the first session that day. So I remember, we all went back and we were praying. And I remember thinking to myself, man, what if nobody comes? How will I lead? I mean, you have this feeling nobody's there on the stage. Initially, I used to think, oh, nobody's there. What worship will you do? But then I just sense the Holy Spirit saying, you do what you have come here to do. I will bring the people. I'm bringing a change in the city. We started the first song. I think it was three songs down the line. By the time we finished the three songs, it was maybe about 400 people in that place. And they had to call some people to put a tent outside and extra chairs and all of that. We ended the first session. We were about, I think, 500 people for a whole night prayer. Right now, it's easy for a day.  But imagine the whole night. And what happened was after that meeting, there was a spiritual change in that entire city. Pastors began to say, hey, we have to do something. In our city, we have to build our city up. We have to speak to our youth, minister to the youth. So there was this complete transformation in thinking there was this unity among pastors. There was all that, you know, disagreements. Everything went away. How did it happen? Just through prayer and worship. And even now, when in Mysore, we are in touch with few of them, all of them are doing a very good work. All pastors coming together. There's this feeling of unity. There's wonderful change that the churches in, especially the south of Karnataka, north of Karnataka are growing. The Kanada churches, the regional churches are growing. People are accepting the Lord, spiritual transformation. So expecting for that is very important. Sometimes the enemy brings these thoughts saying that, hey, it's not going to work out. What difference are you going to make? You can make a difference. Whether it's two, three of you, whether it's all 10, 20 of you, you can make a difference, right? So even as you pray, pray for the Lord to do his work towards the lost and then in spiritual warfare, establish the presence of God and through corporate worship and through exercising our spiritual authority to destroy what Satan is doing from hindering people to come to Christ. So prayer and worship, very important. Then again, the same things you can pray for the lost. Pray for God to ask and ask God for the city, for the region, ask God for people to be touched and transformed. Pray for the Holy Spirit to bring conviction into people's heart. What is conviction? When people are in sin, the Holy Spirit comes and convicts them of sin. Hey, this is wrong. You need to repent of these sins. Now, if you look through the scriptures, remember in the book of Acts, right? The first mess sermon that Peter spoke of at the Pentecost, what happened? The Bible says they were gripped in their heart. They were convicted. When Peter shared the message after the Pentecost, he said, this is what has happened. This is what you all did. You all have crucified the Son of God, but he has raised himself from the dead and this is his present, his power has come here, his Holy Spirit. So he's explaining the whole thing. What happened? There was a grip and thousands of people, we're not talking about hundreds or two, three people, thousands of people accepted that message of the cross. So when we talk about the Holy Spirit, he is like a wind. He can pour out, just move on people, whether it's two people, whether it's 2,000 people, he can just move about. So when you're praying for the city or you're praying for the region, you can expect the Holy Spirit, God, Holy Spirit, convict these people. Now, we may not see the fruit of it, but you're doing a work. You're probably sowing seeds in prayer. Now, remember God's kingdom is, it's a kingdom where all of us work together. One person sows the seed, one person waters it, another person sees the reward. But God makes it grow, another person sees the reward. So just because we are praying for, for example, this area, we may not see families coming into Christ, but you have sown the seed. You have asked the Holy Spirit, you're praying that the Holy Spirit will touch lives, convict people of sins. Now, nobody will know this.  That's okay. Right? Remember, your reward is in heaven. You've done what you have been asked to do. You will move upon people, bringing them to repentance and to the knowledge of the truth of God.  So these are just like prayer points, right? Ask God, God, open their spiritual eyes.  Let them get to hear your word and let them, let it touch their lives. And also you can pray, Lord, let them know the purposes they're calling in their life. These are simple things that we can pray for. Then we can pray, God, send forth your laborers who will share the gospel of Jesus. Now, we may not be in a position to go, right? But God can raise up laborers to go and minister to people, to share the gospel, right? Pray for God's power to be demonstrated with many signs and wonders. Ask God for supernatural encounters as we see in the book of Acts that will point them to Jesus. Asking God for supernatural signs, wonders and miracles. You know, the church in Iraq and the church in Iran, both these churches, the church is there. When I say church, it's different churches. People are having visitations of God, of the Lord Jesus. There are encounters where Jesus himself has come and revealed himself to them, saying, this is what you read, this is what you do. And through the whole pandemic, through television, many of them have accepted Christ. Many people in the Islamic faith have converted. How? Through signs, wonders and miracles.  They believe in Jesus. But after they receive the healing, sometimes they go back to what they were doing before. You know, now what happens is, you're opening the door back to the enemy. Whenever we go to North India and we minister, why are these people coming to church? They're believers. They've heard the gospel, they like the gospel. They like, oh, Jesus, or Meshwar, Acha hai, all that. But then what happens? A feast will come. So even when we went to Rajasthan, I asked them, see, they're all believers. But what's happening? Why are you like this? So they said, no, she goes, you know, to any feast they go, they eat the food that was offered to idols or they, you know, they're so used to the practices that they say, okay, let's just do it. It's okay once a year. No, let's partake of it. Now what's happening? They're opening the doors to the devil. And the devil comes, begins to work in their life. Right? So here's the thing. When we encounter the love of Christ, when we encounter who He is, we don't want to go back to other things. Why? We'll be opening doors to the enemy. And the enemy is ready to come and sit inside. If he finds one open door, he's willing to come. Right? So we must be very careful. Right? And even as we are praying, you say, God, give us supernatural signs and wonders. Right? How many of you over here have experienced a miracle, like maybe just healing or here in this place in BC? In Bible college? I'm asking about in Bible college here. Okay. It's good. So we need to be open to that. Right? Open to supernatural things of God. And if we don't know, we're not open to it, then how can we accept and pray for others for it? Right? So something is, I believe in, if I come up with my, you know, you should learn the drums. If I believe in playing the drums and it's good, then only I can tell Him. Right? Now, I'm not... So you're only not playing the drums. Why are you telling me to learn? Right? I can only give something that I know of. If I experience the supernatural and the manifestations of God, the supernatural work of God, only then I can encourage people, hey, why don't you do this? Now, I'm reading the Word of God. If I don't read the Word of God, I don't spend time meditating on the Word of God. How can I tell you to do it? Right? That's what Jesus says.  Yes or no? Right? So if you and I are to make an impact into people's lives, we have to first do, then teach. Right? But remember, even when as we do, we are doing it empowered by the Holy Spirit and when we are teaching, we are doing it empowered by the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit is the one who is touching lives. It's not about us. Right? He's using us. We are the tools that God is using. Right? So exercising spiritual authority to open prison doors, establish God's presence through praise and worship once again, declare Christ's finished work of the cross for salvation of souls in the city. On the basis of the cross, because of the power of the blood of Jesus and in the authority of Jesus' name, declare over power of darkness, over your city, over people, people who are in bondage, declare it. Now, how many of you or how many of us understand the cross? It's a question. Understand the power of the cross or is it just, okay, cross Jesus? Do we understand the cross? Yes or no? What is the cross? Tell me, you understand. Tell me, what is the cross? Plus sign. Is the power of God to salvation? Yeah, that's theology. Right? Tell me, what is the cross to you? When you think of the cross, what is it that comes to your mind? Sorry? Romans. Promise. Very good. Okay. Forgiveness, pure love. Very good. Redemption. Redemption. I will call the students. What else? It's your place, but Jesus is there. Okay. Okay. So that's all good, right? All theological, wonderful answers. But something, a picture in my mind, right?  It's a picture, right? It's a picture in my mind. Two pictures I have. One is that. The second picture is in Colossians. He made a public spectacle of his victory.  He didn't do that, right? Ephesians 4 says he went down to the lower parts. He preached the gospel.   It's nothing. Many people, you know, have asked me, hey, you're not scared of that. You were not scared at all. Why? Because the first thing that comes to my mind is the cross. What is the cross? Hey, Jesus has crushed the devil. So the person, the demon that's working inside him is already defeated. Right? Where's the victory for him? There's no victory. And I am his child. And Jesus has made a public spectacle. So all the demons here know that they are defeated. But they're just bringing fear, bringing doubt, bringing these thoughts. Right? So the way you look at the cross is very important. It's a place of power. It's a place of victory. All what you said is right. A place of love and forgiveness, redemption. But these should not just be words. Or redemption, love. It should be something in our spirit that when you walk your Christian life, you really experience it. You know, as Bible call students, it's very easy to, you know, take in everything.  All of a sudden you'll say, hey, man, I learned this, but then it's so different here. I learned about demonology, all these things. It's so different. I learned about end times, but it's so different. It's true. I told you, right? I got 100 on 100 in faith. I went there, front of the demon, I put zero. I was not able to. I was scared. I was literally scared. I didn't, I told those other, like my friends who are all from the villages, so they were used to it. They were saying, hey, Paul, what? It's nothing, demon. But for me, hey, demon, you know, I'm not used to it. I'm from Bangalore. Very less demon manifestations here. But they were used to it. Hey, they won't do anything, Paul. What is this? You're 100 on 100 faith. You're the best student in the class. You're getting scared of demons. I said, yes, it's true. I realized, hey, everything I know is here. Of course, I know Jesus. I knew that I'm a new creation, but everything was here, stored up. I was not able to release it in the spiritual. It was all over here, stored up. You tell me the verses, I will quote you the verses. All of Psalms 1, Psalms 19, Psalms 121, Psalms 100, I'll quote it. But front of the demon, I'm running. Doesn't make sense. So what I'm trying to say is what we read, what we understand, must be something of the spirit. That's when, when we release it, there will be an anointing. And the devils cannot stand. So it's not always, I was very bold and very strong, you know, from the deep. I was always scared. But over time, I prayed and I asked God, God, let me get a reality. And it's not a show, right? Make a reality. Because demons recognize the work of the devil recognize and the Holy Spirit recognizes us, right? So let's go into the next chapter, nurturing a new believer. So every time we are, you know, especially in pastoral ministry, we may see this, you know, new believers come into the church or even, you know, even in small groups, new believers come in. What must we do? Now, Paul is writing to the Corinthians. He says to them, you are still drinking milk. You should be eating the food of the word of God.  And so what must we do in nurturing a new believer? Here are a few stages, right? First one, teach God's truth. Everyone say that, teach God's truth. When a believer, new believer comes into ministry, don't go and open revelations. Jesus will come back again. We will stand with him. He'll get scared. He'll say, I don't want to stand in front of anybody. No. Teach the truth of God's word, the simple things. One, foundations, Holy Spirit, water baptism, the Lord's table, praise and worship, faith, just the basics. You start off with that. You give them material, share material. And then you can go to the higher levels. Why aren't we doing the third year subjects now for you guys? There's a reason, right? So next semester, you'll get end times. You'll have hermeneutics or homiletics and different subjects, right? Developing the soul. So these are, it's all through stages, right? And then, right? And then you go into training in spiritual disciplines. So personal time in prayer, personal reading of God's word, Godly living, repentance, holiness. Now the thing is, we must be doing this, right? Prayer, personal reading of God's word, Godly living. So you teach them that. Then you connect them with Christian fellowship, which is very important, right? For example, if you're a pastor and you've got a new believer coming into the church, you first teach them God's truth, tell them, hey, prayer is important, worship is important, Godly living is important. And then you connect them either to a small group, if they're already part of your church, or connect them to mature people in the church and get them to have fellowship. Fellowship is very important.  It can't be done, right? God always works in a team. The Lord Jesus Himself being God, what did He do? Chose 12 people. Then He chose 72 people. He said, go and preach. So God does not work arbitrarily. He doesn't work alone. He always works as a team. The Lord Jesus set that example for us, right? So build teams. Connect them to life groups, Christian fellowships. And then after that, echo them or disciple them to serve others, right? So you're taking them first from being just new believers. You're teaching them basic foundations, worship, prayer, faith, all of that.  Connect them to fellowship. And then you're training them to start ministering to others. You know what happened? This happened when I was, I think it was 2010. I was in Bible college. And I think it was first year. Yeah, I think it was first year. And you know, some people complained about me. It's a recording, no? Some people complained about me. Paul is making us get a good 5A. He showed it to everyone in the class. He's a class captain. I said, wait and then come there. I said, yeah, of course. What, you want me to pat your back and say, good job? No, right? If you've not done it, you've not done it. And so they said, no, you want to change the captain. See, I don't, it doesn't matter who's the captain. I'll still tell you. Okay, whoever is the captain, it doesn't matter to me. I will still tell you as long as you're here, you will have to do what is right. So they said, they went and they complained. It was in class, you know, they said. So I was sitting outside. And then we came back into class and said, okay, I knew they were going to complain. Because they told me they were going to complain. Then all the students thought, oh, now he's going to get nice. But what happened? He said, okay, that's okay. So he said, let's go to Ajmer. So he came out to me and he said, Paul, we'll go to Ajmer. I thought he's going to shout. He said, Paul, you come. I want to meet you. He said, Paul, let's go to Ajmer. I said, okay, what will I do? I don't know. So he said, we went. I was 23 years old. I went there and he was teaching. Oh, the whole day teaching. I was sitting there getting bored. Full day, right? Kingdom Builders. Bored in the sense, you know, I'm just sitting there the whole day. But all my classmates say, how come you went there? Then again, we went to another place. So, you know, at that young age, I used to go and sit. But one conference, I was, I think I was in second year that time. One of the pastors said, Paul, you teach. Now there are 400, 500 pastors sitting there. All are in, you know, 20 years, 30 years in ministry. He said, you teach one session. You've come at least three, four times to this conference. Were you listening in the conference? I don't know what you teach. I got very nervous. One hour session, I said, okay, I prepared for two hours. In case of urgency, I'll have some extra, you know. I was very nervous. And this was a gnazic. And it was after lunch. When I was full confident, I began to preach. 15 minutes, everything I could open. So within 20 minutes, the session is over. I was just saying, carry on. It's done, pastor. And I came back and I was so disappointed with myself. I said, man, how can I do this? I prepared for two hours, everything I've said in a hurry. I finished it in 20 minutes. I said I should never be a preacher. I should never be a teacher. I don't know why. I don't have an opportunity again. But over time, I learned and I thank God for those opportunities. Now, what am I trying to get at? There will be times when as believers, we have to give opportunities to others. We have to train up other people, disciple other people, give them opportunities. And when we do that, they really get to know and understand, hey, this is something that God has called me to. This is something that I can do. And so they'll be able to recognize. So new believers sometimes they don't understand what they should do. So you and I must be willing to give opportunities. Give them opportunities in weekend schools, workshops, mission themes, all these places. Then being a disciple maker, how Jesus discipled. He selected 12. He told them to be with him. They heard him. They saw him. He saw him in close proximity. So when you are ministering to people, let people see their lives, see your lives. He personally taught them beyond what he taught the crowd. He corrected them and he rebuked them. He helped them in their character. And he challenged them and he sent them out on assignments. So wonderful. I like that he corrected and rebuked and he dealt with their character issues. So correcting and rebuking again, there's a way of doing it. Yesterday we talked about it a little bit. There's a way to correct and love. There's a way to rebuke. Rebuke is a strong word, but there's a way that you can bring correction into people's lives. And as you grow in leadership, you will learn it. I've made hundreds of mistakes. Hundreds of mistakes. The best part is we learn from those mistakes. Like, hey, I should not have spoken like that. I should have said it this way. The same thing. I should have said it in a different tone or a different, you know, with a different pre-sex version. You know, people notice, as ministers have thought. You know, sometimes you get email, so your shirt button was open during preaching. They notice. They notice everything. So it's very important that we, in terms of discipling, you understand that, hey, I'm making, I'm training up somebody else for the sake of the gospel. Right? So importance of local church for discipleship. Some of the things we do is teaching from the pulpit. Of course, modeling in real life, life groups, basically small groups. Then we have one-on-one discipling. If people are interested, they can just, you know, be disciple, foundation classes, weekend schools, local church ministry. I think APC, we have a lot of local church, I mean, a lot of ministries within the church. And I think all of you are going to Central, you know, every week you're at Central. So serving in the sound and setup team and the other team. So learn as much as you can. Right? You know, what was my thing in Central? That time, Central was for 300 odd people. My job was to clean the chairs. Every chair had to do it. Because nowadays I think the chairs, is somebody doing it in Central? No. We were in another place and during the week, nobody used that place. So a lot of dust would settle in. So to clean that chair. So every week that was my thing. Then I got promotion from cleaning chairs. I went to a sharing team. Good morning. Please. I used to get so bored sometimes. What is this? You have to keep smiling. You can't stop smiling. Whoever comes here to smile. But I learned so much. I learned so much from all of this. Because all of these things build us up. Sometimes they look as if they are not important, but they are important. And now as I'm pastoring a church location, I understand, hey, our sharing should be there. Greeters should be at the door. So first thing, when I go to church, I make sure, okay, the volunteers are there for greeting. If they are not there, I will stand there. Because I've done it before. On worship evening we had few volunteers were there. Some of them were not there. Because we did sound and set up at Central, I was able to do it here. It was a training. Because I've cleaned the chairs at Central, we did it at East the other day. So it's all training, it's all part. Sometimes we think, okay, pastor will stand and preach. It's there. But then all of these things are training. And even as we are ministering to new believers, to people around us, we encourage them, hey, take part. It's okay. Maybe the most menial task. But when we do it, with the mindset that, hey, this is going to be beneficial for God's kingdom. I will definitely use you all. So engaging in evangelism, engaging in missions. And then there's youth retreats and so many other youth camps, church camps. These are ways of discipleship. And then overcoming practical challenges, again, there will be threats, there will be persecutions, there will be abandonment. People will threaten, people will persecute you for your faith. It's about overcoming inhibitions. Then obstacles, people may find obstacles from going to church. Cultural and religious practices that are challenges. Sometimes people may think, hey, I don't like the way this church does this or I don't like this practice in the church or that practice in the church. So we overcome all these small things. Marriage, Christian community. Sometimes in terms of marriage, there are different beliefs, different thoughts that people have. We look at what the Bible talks about marriage and we help people overcome practical challenges. There will be times when people say, hey, now is it okay to divorce because Moses said in the Old Testament you can divorce, give a letter of divorce. People come up and ask these questions even now. We must be able to answer these questions. Help them to overcome these practical challenges. Sometimes people come from different settings. They come from different towns, different backgrounds. Sometimes come from a brethren church. They don't believe in the Holy Spirit. They don't believe in the gifts of the Spirit. People don't believe in miracles. They don't believe in miracles. They believe that all of that stopped in the book of Acts. So all these things will come up. So we must be able to give good answers through the word of God. So we'll stop here. I think after this we have a couple of more. I think next week we can complete our portions. But here's what I want to say. In the study of all of this I would be really encouraged if each one of us truly understand our identity and in small ways begin to take that step of ministering to people. It could be somebody within your class itself. I would say, when I was in Bible knowledge, those two years were very lonely for me because I couldn't really talk to anybody and build good friendships. Go speak to people. Sometimes the mistake I made was I said, this person he didn't do well in his studies. Maybe he doesn't know. Or this person doesn't know English. Or this person, he's come from a village. He won't know what I'm going through. No. But towards the end of my second year I began to go and build each other up. Help each other. I would ask people, hey, you pray for me. You pray. This is the problem I'm going through. And I would allow people to minister to me and that way people began to be very open. So I know that we're seeing our faces every day but be open to ministering to each other. I'll say, okay, no, I'm like this. I'll be alone. Don't do that. Minister to each other. Bless each other. Pray for each other. Expect God to move. Amen. Okay, let's just close in a prayer. Father, we want to thank you for what you've done, what you're doing in our lives. We thank you, God, for the word and we want to thank you for all the good things that you have doing. We ask for your anointing. We ask Holy Spirit that you will empower us. Lord, even as we journey along with you, God, just studying and gaining knowledge and wisdom of God, I pray that you will teach us, God, to walk in your ways. Lord, we thank you. We thank you that we have the Holy Spirit inside us that will lead us and guide us, God. Lord, we pray for each and every student, Lord, even as they are learning of God, may the words, may your word just be rooted and grounded in their lives of God and I pray, God, that each one of them will recognize their calling and begin to work on their calling of God and just fulfill every plan and purpose that you have for their lives of God. Lord, we just pray for good relationships for Lord, your wisdom and everything that they're doing of God, even as they serve in church may your grace and your mercy and your strength be upon them of God. We thank you, Father. Lord, we just speak of blessing over each and every student here and I pray, God, that you will use them greatly for your kingdom of God, that you will open doors that you will minister to them, Lord, even as they pray and worship and seek your face of God. I pray, God, that you will open up the heavens and just pour out, Lord, a greater measure of your grace and anointing upon their lives. We thank you, God. We give you all the praise and glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you all. Thank you, everyone, for joining online. Have a great week.


Our next speaker is Sam Simone Lalanset, Dr. Lalanset is a cardiologist. Currently he's conducting critical ultrasound fellowship in your institution. I'm sure he's using full advantage of your mentorship. We'll start his pre-recorded lecture. I believe Dr. Lalanset will be available to answer questions at the end of our session. Thank you very much. Greetings everyone, my name is Jean-Samone Lalanset. I have completed my training with cardiology and I am currently a critical care fellow at the University of Montréal and Montreal Heart Institute. It is with great pleasure that I have accepted the invitation to discuss about the perioperative and clinical role of liver transplant of a girl ultrasound or more exactly, liver transgiastric abdominal ultrasound. I don't have any conflict of interest for this talk. The main objective of this talk will be to review abnormal IVC, hepatic vein and partal vein imaging using transgiastric abdominal ultrasound to understand the clinical significance of abnormal Doppler findings in the liver and to talk about the partal vein pulsatility index. Let's focus on IVC and hepatic veins. As Dr. Lalanset well explained in his presentation, IVC and hepatic veins you can be obtained from a transgiastric view by rotating the probe to the patient's right. Around 0° the IVC can be seen in short axis along with the three hepatic veins. Around 90° along axis of the IVC can be obtained with one of the hepatic veins. IVC and hepatic veins digust examination can be useful in many ways. Dynosis of rib ventricular systolic and diastolic dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension, assessment for IVC stenosis or obstruction in liver transplantation or transplantation, ECMO and artificial R, ruling out abdominal IVC tumor or thrombus when an abdominal compartment syndrome is suspected or intraoperative monitoring during renal cell carcinoma surgery involving the IVC. Looking at the size of the IVC and the hepatic vein flow may identify the mechanism of hemodynamic instability. The presence of a reduced means systemic venous pressure secondary to hypovolemia or a pure vasodilatatory shock. IVC will often be small and the hepatic vein flow will be normal or increased. There is increased resistance to venous return. The IVC will be distended if the obstruction is located at the junction of the IVC and right atrium or collapse if it is secondary to an abdominal compartment syndrome. However, in both cases, hepatic vein flow will be abnormal with greatly reduced velocities or even no flow. Finally, in the context of a cardiogenic etiology, IVC will be dilated. The hepatic vein flow will be abnormal with reduced systemic to deltic ratio and permanent at real reversal velocity. Now, let's see how it can be useful with real cases. Here is a 37 years old man who had a fountain procedure for congenital heart disease. He became unstable after winning from cardiopulmonary bypass. A view from the IVC was obtained before and after correction. A pulse-wave Doppler of the hepatic vein was mostly normal before cardiopulmonary bypass. But velocities were greatly reduced after. This finding in combination with a dilated IVC is compatible with the IVC stenosis post-fountain procedure. The possibility of an IVC obstruction or stenosis should always be verified after a procedure involving manipulation of the IVC. In brief, a shock state with a dilated IVC and increased resistance to venous return can result from an extrinsic process such as tamponade with RV and a ribatrium collapse, abdominal compartment syndrome when you have collapsed IVC and the free fluid, or from an intrinsic process. Think about it in any surgical procedure where the IVC has been manipulated. This is an example of a nitrogenic IVC stenosis. Note the reduction of flow before and after the correction. Here is another case. After a mildly complicated cardiac surgery, a 42 years old developed a refractory shock on post-op D3 in the ICU with tachycardia, acidosis, epoxemia, and increased abdominal pressure. As we can see, the IVC collapsed on the echography. On the CT scan performed on the other patient extended mesenteric ischemia with part of venous gas as present with secondary compression of both the IVC and ARTA, causing an abnormal compartment syndrome. In the yellow circle, we can see that both the ARTA and IVC are barely visible because of the massive compression in this case. IVC imaging can also be useful to identify problems, especially in at risk population. Here is a large mobile cloud scene on surface echography on a patient recently decandulated from ECMO. Up to 46% of patients develop venous thrombolabalic complication during or after ECMO therapy. It is important to recognize this complication as they can be devastating. Now let's go back to medical school with a review of the central venous waveform and how it translates on the hepatic vent flow. First, we use the EKG to localize C-stalli and diastalli. The atrial contraction happens shortly after the P-wave and corresponds to the A-wave of the right atrial pressure waveform. The same A-wave appears on the hepatic vent flow. The X-descent secondary atrial relaxation is located in C-stalli and corresponds to the S-wave on the hepatic vent flow. The venous return at the end of C-stalli raise the atrial pressure giving the A-wave on both the right atrial pressure waveform and the hepatic vent flow. Finally, the Y-descent secondary to cuspid valve propane is located during the diastalli. The D-wave is the hepatic vent flow equivalent. In case of increasing right atrial pressure, the X-wave will become blunted and the same thing will happen to the S-wave on the hepatic vent flow. The V-wave may become more permanent too. As our V-function deteriorates, now the progressive disappearance of the X-descent and the S-wave with a predominant D-wave. The hepatic veins offer a favorable angle for Doppler interrogation as you can see on picture A and are located really close to the IVC and right atrium as you can see during a surgical procedure on picture D. Consequently, it is a good place to evaluate the venous feeding of the right ventricle. Here on picture C, the Doppler tracing illustrates an abnormal SD ratio inferior to one compatible with a mild RV dysfunction. This case demonstrates how we can integrate all this information. This 73-year-old woman with heart failure secondary to mitral and truchuspid regurgitation was referred for mitral valve replacement and truchuspid valve replacement. On the top left corner, the stomach appears severely taken on T-gout secondary to venous congestive. On the monitor pulmonary hypertension is present as you can see on the yellow pulmonary artery curve. The central venous pressure is also elevated with predominant V-wave visible on the green curve. On the mid esophageal for chamber view, both atrium are dilated and RV dysfunction is present with an RV free wall strain of minus 15.7%. Accordingly, the hepatic vein Doppler is compatible with a CVR-TR and RV dysfunction as the S-wave is completely reverse. The IVC and the hepatic vein flow can also evolve as complications occur or therapeutic measures are taken and can be monitored during the case. This case of a 77-year-old man of Pancabage is a great example. After the induction, the patient was stable on norepinephrine and hepatic vein Doppler was normal with S and D ratio over one. During the procedure, the patient was hypotensive and required idols of norepinephrine. The hepatic vein Doppler show S-wave inversion compatible with CVR-RV dysfunction and the patient was successfully treated with ionotrope. Interestingly, at the end of surgery, the IVC, visible on the bottom right, started to collapse with increased hepatic flow velocity. The last Doppler signal was associated with visor dilatation because there were no blood vessels. A CVR vasoplegia secondary to the procedure was diagnosed and treated with vasopressor. This case emphasizes the importance to reassess the situation and ecographic data when the patient becomes unstable. Now let's talk about the portal vein. Starting from the IVC view, the right portal vein can often be viewed with an angle between 50 to 70 degrees and minor manipulation. The portal vein can be identified by its ecodance sheet and a typical laminar or monophasic velocity between 15 and 30 cm per second. Portal vein imaging has many applications. We can use it for monitoring right ventricle dysfunction associated with venous congesta, evaluation of response to medical treatment, abdominal compartment syndrome, mesenteric ischemia with portal venous air, hepatic artery and portal vein stenosis in liver transplantation. In this presentation, we will mainly focus on the two first points. Previously, we talked about the manifestation of RV failure on the right at a low pressure curve. We also talked about the equivalent on hepatic vent Doppler with S-blunting then reversal as the RV dysfunction progresses. As the venous congesta and secondary to RV dysfunction appear, the portal Doppler will become more and more positive. I will not address the hepatic Doppler in this talk as Dr. Bourbier-Souigny, who is an expert, will talk about it better than me in the next presentation. With the portal Doppler tracing, we can calculate the portal ventosatility or PVPI. The PVPI is the ratio of the difference between maximum velocity and minimum velocity and the maximum velocity. Now let's see how these notions are related to practice. This is a 34-year-old woman postcardiopulmonary bypass after a rose procedure. On the top corner, there are giant V-wave on the CVP curve. Those giant V-wave are also seen on the hepatic vent Doppler associated with S-blunting. The portal Doppler shows abnormal pulsatility associated also with giant V-wave. Dysamodynamic and ecographic findings are compatible with significant RV dysfunction and venous congestion and should be addressed. This other case of a 76-year-old woman postcabbage and mitral valve replacement is a great example of how we can integrate ecographic data to other clinical information. Even if the central venous pressure, the pulmonary artery pressure and the RV function were normal, before the cardiopulmonary bypass, she developed RV dysfunction with elevated diastolic RV pressure, abnormal portal Doppler and abnormal venous Doppler, hepatic main Doppler surgery. The transcranial Doppler signal indicates the presence of high-intensity transient signals compatible with arrombolitis also embolised in the right coronary artery and lead to post-op RV failure which was treated with ionotropic support. It is interesting to visualise the RV dysfunction in its consequences with ecography. However, it is also useful to use the ecographic to monitor the response to different interventions. As you can see in this case of a 22-year-old woman with a dark male tree-leaf ventricular with revised implantation. Before the procedure, she had pulmonary artery pretension, elevated central venous pressure and severe ventricular dysfunction. The portal Doppler is also markedly abnormal with severe venous congestion. The procedure was performed by Dr. Lamesh at the Montreal Heart Institute. She was treated two times with inhalated vessel dilatators namely merinone and epoprostenol. This mitigation helped with pulmonary pressure without major effect on systemic pressure as you can see on the left graph. The portal pulsatility was also reduced. After the procedure, normal flow was restored in the portal vein. Blood loss was a minor. She was with epinephrine and NO. Her flu balance was very negative with minus 3.4 liters with the help of hemophiltration and lassox. Consequently, she was extubated two hours post-op in the ICU in a stable condition. The prognostic value of the portal vein pulsatility has been studied by Dr. Dono and his team. In this article that includes 115 cardiac surgical patients and published in the British Journal of Anesthesia in 2019, they observed that abnormal portal or splendid vein pulsatility indicated artery dysfunction and post-op complication. In fact, for predicting post-op major complication, namely acute kidney injury, significant bleeding, surgical re-invention and death, after multivariable analysis, portal flu pulsatility after casual pulmonary bypass was the best predictor with a node ratio of 5.13 was better than systolic RV dysfunction. In addition to this, they also published the British Journal of Anesthesia in 2022. The association between portal Doppler pulsatility before and after cardiopulmonary bypass were assessed on 373 cardiac surgery patients. The outcomes were time on life support after surgery and major complications after surgery, major bleeding, re-invention, severe acute kidney injury, dead and prolonged mechanical ventilation. In this study, the presence of a portal pulsatility fraction over 50% or ppf50 before or after cardiopulmonary bypass was associated with a longer duration of life support. The presence of a ppf50 after cardiopulmonary bypass was also associated with a significantly higher rate of major complication of 4% versus 20.3%. In conclusion, TGAS can maximize the potential of the EE without additional costs. It can be a great tool for unstable patient, especially when the heart is normal. Portal eye pretension is highly pronostic before and after cardiac surgery and TGAS represents a new area of resurgent period operative anesthesia and critical care. Thank you for listening. Thanks to the symposium organization for the invitation. Don't hesitate to communicate with me if you have any questions. Special thanks to Dr. Daneu who is a great mentor and exceptional clinician and researcher, but mostly one of the kindest and most passionate colleagues. Thank you everyone. Thank you so much for excellent lecture. I'm sure it will provoke even more


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This patient named Mrs. Firoj Amin, she is my mother, he came from Bangladesh. We searched, I think her problem is a bulb problem and this bulb was damaged. And then in Bangladesh also we check up, then we confirm the bulb need to be replaced. That's why my brother is working there in Bangladesh Embassy in Delhi. And she searched in Delhi Police Hospital and India Police Hospital is the base for bulb replacement. She got this hospital. And Manipal Hospital and this hospital has a very good doctor. And she also talked with Dr. Mishra. It was a very good experience and a lot of surgery he has experienced. That's why my mother, she, he came from Bangladesh, my mother appointment, take appointment from Mishra. And then this doctor, when she saw her and then she also suggested yes that need to replacement the bulb. And then she admitted last 12th February and then 13th February success. And then now she was in, she is in very good condition. Today she will be discharged. She is now in good condition and this hospital is very good. I saw these services very well and food, accommodation, doctor and everything. I am really pleased.