All right, over there in Philippians chapter number three, went down, if you will, at verse number 17. This is going to be our verse to start off the sermon this evening. In Philippians 3, verse 17, the Bible says this, Brethren, be followers together of me and mark them, which walks so as you have us for in a sample. So Paul here is saying that you should point out the people in your life. You should identify the people in your life who are your good examples. He's saying follow me, follow people like me. And he kind of says the opposite in verse 18. He says, well, why would we follow good examples and why would we want to make sure we're following people like you, Paul, who are doing the right thing and doing what we're supposed to do? Here's why verse 18, he says, for many walk, of whom I've told you often and now tell you even weeping.  So what Paul is saying here in verse 19 is there are some people who are enemies of the cross. They are enemies of the gospel. They are enemies of the truth. They are enemies of everything we stand for here at this church. Turn to 2 Timothy 2, 2 Timothy 4, sorry, 2 Timothy chapter 4. And whether it's in your personal life or maybe even at work or at church, especially out soul-winning, you're going to notice that some people don't mind the things of God. I'm just talking about unsaved people. Just the unsaved people out there. Some people don't mind the things of God. Maybe some people don't agree or some people really don't like what we're saying.  But there's these other people who it's not just that they don't like the truth or they don't really agree with what we're saying, they absolutely hate it. These are the people Paul is talking about and the people we're going to be talking about in the sermon tonight. You're there in 2 Timothy 4, look at verse 14. 2 Timothy 4, 14. There Paul says, Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil. The Lord award him according to his works of whom be thou where also. For he hath, don't miss this, greatly withstood our words. Most people, they may not like you or they may annoy them what you stand for and they may not agree with you, but there's these other people who will greatly withstand our words. And like I said, it's a different class of people. And before we get into the sermon, let me make this disclaimer.  It's not meant to be a checklist for you to say, oh, well this person doesn't like me, so therefore they're a reprobate. Or this person was annoyed at me, therefore they're a reprobate. That's not the goal of the sermon. The title of the sermon tonight is The Enemies of the Cross. And I just want to look at three different ways from the Bible that are very true today. Three ways that enemies of the cross will try to stop the truth, that they will try to hinder the truth from spreading in an application at the end of how we can respond to it. Turn to Acts 13 and 6. So let's just get right into it tonight. First tonight, enemies of the cross will try to stop the truth from being heard. Enemies of the cross will try to stop it from being heard. Here they're in Acts 13.6. There the Bible says, and when they had gone through the Isle onto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus. And let me just pause here. This isn't what I'm going to read about in these verses here, but this is a good example of why you can't just use this as a checklist on who's a reprobate. Later in this story, we're going to find out that this Bar-Jesus, who's later called Elimus, he was a reprobate. The Bible makes that clear.  Do you know there's other people in Acts who were a sorcerer, and were a Jew, and were a false prophet, and got saved, and were baptized? And maybe they had some issues at first, because of their background, but you can't always use this just to go deciding with your own understanding who's a reprobate. Verse 7, it keeps talking about this sorcerer, which was with the deputy of the country, Sergio Paulus, a prudent man who called for Barnabas and Saul in desire to hear the word of God. So there's this deputy there with this sorcerer, and he wants to hear the word of God. He's receptive to it, he wants to hear what Paul and his team of missionaries have to say. I'm sure at this point in the book of Acts they've been kind of already causing a scene, and people know about them, and he wants to hear the word of God. He's open to it. But Elimus the sorcerer, for so is his name by interpretation, withstood them. Say why? Why would Elimus care? Why would he want to stop? Why would he have any problem? Why would he withstand Paul? What's his issue? Why would he care? Here's why, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. You see, people like this, one way the enemies of the cross will try to attack the truth or stop the truth is they're going to stop it from being heard. They're going to stop it from spreading so people can't hear it. That's exactly what Elimus is doing here. He's seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.  So this guy was a reprobate. Thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord. And now behold, thou hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.  Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed. So the deputy did get saved, believing, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. Now in Paul and his company, loose from pathos, they came to Perga and Panphilia, and John departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. Turn to Acts 19. This is exactly what one main thing, and even today, this is what people will do. Enemies of the cross, they'll try to stop the truth from spreading.  They'll try to stop other people from hearing it. This is why I think sometimes when you're giving the gospel, when you're giving the gospel to a group, there's that one person, there's that one person that's trying to distract everybody else and keep other people away from hearing the gospel in the Philippines. One thing that, more than one people had happened to them is they'd be giving the gospel to a group of maybe five or six people, and there'd be a sodomite in the group. And it's funny, because the sodomite's always the one trying to cause distractions, sodomite that's always trying to turn other people away and keep people from hearing the word of God, right? And that is what they will do. They're in Acts 19. The Bible says this, after these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit when he had passed through Macedonia and Ikea to go to Jerusalem saying, after I have been there, I must also see Rome. So he went into Macedonia, so he sent into Macedonia two of them that ministered unto him to Motheus and Erastus, but he himself stayed in Asia for a season. Verse 23, in the same time there also arose no small stir about that way. So we're going to kind of read about a ruckus that happened here. Verse 24, for a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen, whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation. We'll just pause there. So there's this man named Demetrius, and what he does, what his trade is and what he makes money off of, is making altars and shrines for this false god Diana of this area therein. And so he got this Paul going around telling people that there are no false gods, and that's obviously affecting his business. So he gets all the other men like him who do the same thing, and he talks to them. Verse 25, whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation and said, Demetrius, you know that by this craft we have our wealth. He's saying this is how we make our money. Moreover, you see and hear that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that there be no gods which are made with hands. So that not only our craft is in danger to be said and not, but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia in the world worshipeth. So he's saying if this Paul guy keeps going and keeps spreading what he's saying and keeps convincing more people, we're going to go broke. This is how we make our money by making alters for this God. And let's see what he does. Verse 28, when they heard these sayings, so he goes and he gets all these other guys fired up, they were full of wrath and cried out saying great is Diana of the Ephesians. And this Paul guy can't keep doing this or we're in trouble. What do they do? They try to cause a distraction and keep people from hearing the word of God. Verse 29, in the whole city, because they're going around just shouting great is Diana of the Ephesians, great is Diana of the Ephesians. And the whole city was filled with confusion. People didn't even know what was going on. And having caught Gaius and Aristachus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions and travel, they rushed forward. But when they knew that he was a Jew, notice this, notice what they caused to happen, all with one voice about the space of two hours, cried out, great is Diana of the Ephesians.  And the whole city is just confused and this isn't the only time the Book of Acts has happened.  They're trying to stop the truth from spreading. That's why they did this. They were trying to stop it from getting to more people. You don't have to turn there, but while you're going to Galatians 5, I'll read you Luke 1152. Luke 1152 says, Woe unto you, lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You enter not in yourselves and then they were entering in you hindered.    You're trying to stop other people from hearing the truth. Galatians 5-7 says this, you did run well. Who did hinder you? You're saying who slowed you down? Who stopped you? That you should not obey the truth. Because this doesn't only apply to stopping people from hearing the gospel, but this can you all here tonight are saved. This can be trying to stop you from obeying the truth.  And we need to make sure we're watching out for that. And we are aware of what these enemies of the cross are trying to do to us. Let's take a break from Acts. Turn to Nehemiah 4. Nehemiah 4. So the context of Nehemiah is Nehemiah is going back to Jerusalem to build the walls. And you see both in Ezra and in Nehemiah they had a lot of opposition from the same people. But you see people didn't like what they were doing. People realized they were trying to do this work. In their case it was their rebuilding Jerusalem, rebuilding the walls, rebuilding the temple. And they didn't like to see this going on. Nehemiah 4 look at verse 11 there the Bible says this and our adversaries said they shall not know neither see till we come in the midst of the problem. Why? And cause the work to cease. You see in this church this church here in Fresno and other churches who do the same thing people there is a work going on here on Thursday evening there will be a work going on here. And on Sunday morning there will be a work going on here on Sunday evening Sunday afternoon Saturday morning there is a work going on here that may not it may not be is out there destination and when people see this work going on they are going to promise you this they are going to try to cause the work to cease there are people out there who hate work like this and they hate what we are doing here and they are going to try to do anything and like I said we are not talking about the people who just maybe don't agree with us or aren't Christian we are just talking about people who hate it we are talking about people who are trying to cause the work to cease turn to Acts 5 Acts chapter 5 Acts chapter 5 this is our chapter for this morning says I'll start reading verse number 12 says, And by the hands of the apostles were many signs of wonders wrought among the people and they were all with one accord and saw them as porch and of the rest there is no man joined himself to them but the people magnified them and the believers to the Lord multitudes both of men and women. So things are going great in Jerusalem. There's this new church. It's going great. People are getting saved. They have favor with all the people there. I mean, just people getting saved left and right. It's this giant revival that's going on in Jerusalem. Great things are being done. Skip down to verse 17. All these verses we're skipping are basically just verses of all the things they're doing, of all the lives they're changing and all the work that they're doing there. Acts 5 verse 17. Then the high priest rose up. Uh-oh. Then the high priest rose up and all that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, and were filled with indignation. Again, same thing. When there's a work going on, when great things are being done for God, they're going to be people that are going to be full of wrath, that are going to be filled with indignation. Verse 18, and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison. The angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them forth and said, go, stand and speak in the temple to the people, all the words of this life. The angel came and got them out of the prison and said, keep going. Go do the same exact thing you're doing when they grabbed you and threw you in prison. And when they heard that, they entered into the temple and taught. But the high priest came and all that were with him and called the council together. They're all getting ready to have this little trial for the apostles that they think are still locked up in prison. And all the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought. So they sent someone to go to the prison to bring them out. They're all gathered together in verse 22. But when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told saying, the prison truly found we shut with all safety and the keeper standing without before the doors. But when we had opened, we found no man within. So they're saying, we went to the prison, all the guards were there and they were everything was all locked up. We opened the door and they're gone. And normally when people escape from prison, they go, you know, they hide somewhere in the middle of nowhere or they, they go into hiding or they try to get away. They try to make sure that that they're not found. These guys come back and say, they're gone. You know, where do they go? We don't know where they went. Here's where they're at. I love anyone who says the Bible is boring or doesn't have humor has never read the Bible. Verse 24, now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priest heard these things, they doubted of them, where into this would grow. See, they're just, they don't want to spread. They don't want more people to hear it. Verse 25, I love this verse, then came one and told them saying, behold, the men whom he put in prisoner standing in the temple and teaching the people. They're saying, they're back in the temple teaching the people doing exactly what they were doing yesterday when you threw them in the prison. Right? Verse 26, then went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence for they feared the people, lest they should have been stoned. And when they had brought them, they set them before the council and the high priest asked of them, saying, did not we directly command you? What do they want? What do they want from the apostles? What did they command them? What is it they wanted from them that you should not, they should not teach in this name.  Look, keep reading verse 28, behold, he has filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Exactly. That's the goal. Our goal here should be to fill Fresno with the gospel, saturate it as much as possible. And what they're telling them is, we told you not to do it anymore.  We told you to not keep spreading this. And they're, they're frustrated. What are they frustrated at? What are they mad at? They're mad that this truth has spread all across Jerusalem. That is what these people are trying to stop. Verse 29, amazing verse, then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, we ought to obey God rather than men. So turn to Luke 23. So first tonight I said, enemies of the cross will try to stop the truth from being heard. They're going to try to stop it from being, from, from spreading. They don't want people to hear it. They're going to try to hinder people. They're going to try to stop people from hearing it. Second tonight, enemies of the cross will attack those spreading it. You're there in Luke 23, verse one. So this is, of course, talking about Jesus Christ when he has been, he's, he's about to be crucified and the multitude has, or the multitude has taken him and they're taking him to pilot. He's already gone through Caiaphas, the high priest. Now they're taking him to pilot because he can't just grab somebody and say, hey, we want to kill this guy. And the whole multitude of them arose and led him unto pilot and they began to accuse him. It's like I said, they needed a reason saying, we found this fellow perverting the nation and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar saying that he himself is Christ a king. Now they're not even, they're not even stretching something Jesus said. They're just flat out lying, right? How do you accuse somebody who is innocent and perfect? You just lie about them, right? And that's what they did.  And it was funny about this is Jesus actually said the exact opposite. Isn't that true? Someone will preach a sermon and someone will say something and they'll make it clear what they said, but the world that just take that five second snippet be like, see, see, this is what he believed. This is what he says, right? This is what they're going to try to do because how do you accuse somebody who never did anything wrong? You have to take them out of context. You have to lie about them because they never did anything wrong. And it's funny. I'll just read you Luke 20, 25, because Jesus said it so many different ways. He said it. There's tons of verses where he said it. He told people the opposite. He told people to pay their taxes. Luke 20, 25 says, and he said unto them render therefore unto Caesar the things which be Caesar, and unto God the things which be God's. He was always telling people to pay their taxes. This was just a flat out lie. You don't have to turn there. Turn to Jeremiah 26. While you're turning to Jeremiah 26, I'm going to read to you Mark 14, 55. The Bible says, in the chief priests and all the council sought for witness against Jesus to put him to death, and found none. Here's what they had to do. For many, they're false witness against him, but their witness agree not together. Because they're all lying about him and saying false things and they're just not making sense and they're contradicting each other. Because, of course not, he was innocent.  But Jesus was not the only example. He was far from the only example in the Bible of this. Jeremiah 26, verse 8, here's an Old Testament example. Now it came to pass when Jeremiah had made an end to speaking all that the Lord commanded him to speak unto all the people that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying thou shalt surely die. Jeremiah had a very hard message. His whole, pretty much the entire book of Jeremiah is dedicated to him just preaching on this one event. It's the destruction of Judah. It's the fact that the captivity would come and he's preaching this and he's telling them, it's not a very pleasant message. It's not very uplifting.  They're not going to spare anybody. Young, old, him that stoop for age, they're going to kill everybody. They're going to destroy everything and look at people's reaction and all the people took him. Well, let's go a few words before that and that the priests and the prophets, all the religious people, right? All the people who are supposed to be standing up for the Word of God and all the people took him saying, thou shalt surely die.  And they're mixed up in that too, right? Verse 9, why is thou prophesied in the name of the Lord saying, this house shall be like Shiloh and this house shall be desolate without any habitant and all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord. When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house under the house of the Lord and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the Lord's house. Verse 11, then the priests and the prophets then spake the priests and the prophets under the princes and to all the people saying, this man is worthy to die for he has prophesied against this city as ye have heard in our years. What do people do when they want to stop the truth? Well, they try to stop people from hearing it but they're going to try to stop those spreading it. They're going to try to attack the people who are preaching it. Turn to Jeremiah 1, you're already there. Jeremiah 110. Jeremiah 110 is one of my favorite verses because it shows that preaching and preaching the whole word of God is not all just, you know, happy things. It's not all just what you want to hear. Sometimes there are some harsh things of all. Jeremiah 110. Here's God when he called Jeremiah. See, I have this day set over the nations and over the kingdoms to do what?  See, it's not preaching when someone preaches the whole word of God, when Brother Jared gets up and preaches to you the word of God, don't expect it all just to be building and planting. Now that's part of it and there's going to be building and planting but before you can build and before you can plant you need to rip some things down first. Right?  Don't be surprised when he rips things down and he tears things down and people attack him for it. Because those same people that want to stop the truth from spreading are going to turn right around to the people spreading it and attack them. It's just going to happen. Think about Elijah. There's so many examples of the Bible. We could go on and on and on. Elijah, right? When he went and he did something for God and he killed the false prophets, what happened? Then Jezebel was after his life, right? She went after him because he was doing great things. He was a threat so she was after him. What about Micaiah? If you remember when Ahab and Jeroboam are about to go out to battle at Ramoth Gilead, Ahab has all these prophets, you know, many, many prophets and they're telling him, oh, God's with you and you can go ahead and do it and God's going to fight for you. All these, you know, many Joelsteins, you know, God's with you. Nothing, nothing's going to happen.  And Micaiah comes and it's funny because when Micaiah, we don't have time to turn there but when Micaiah went there and someone actually told him saying, hey, just, just, just speak what all the other prophets say, right? Just, just, just say what they say and everything will be fine. He said, you want what God tells me to speak, that will I speak. And, and when, what happens when he does that? He gets up and he says to Ahab, King of Israel, he says, you're going to die and you're going to, Israel is going to be scattered. And what happens? He says, he says, get him out of here, put him in prison, right? What about all the, all the other countless prophets in the Old Testament when they'd stand up to a king and what about Zachariah when he stood up to Joash and he stood up to him? He killed him and all the sons. And this is, this is what happens when someone is doing something great for God, when someone is, they're not only going to try to stop what you're doing, they're not just going to try to stop what you believe, they're going to try to stop you. They're going to try to stop the individuals who are spreading it. What about Paul? Turn to Acts 16, 16. Poor Paul. We could go to so many examples of people after Paul. We're not even going to read the example of when they tried it, when they stoned him and almost killed him. Acts 16. Acts 16, verse 16, there the Bible says, and it came to pass as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us, which brought her master as much gain by Suze saying the same followed Paul and us and cried saying these men are the servants of the Most High God which show unto us the way of salvation. And she, this she did many days, but Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out that same hour. So Paul basically casts out a devil. People don't like this, verse 19. And when her master saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas and drew them, the individuals who were spreading the truth, into the marketplace, unto the rulers, and brought them to the magistrate, magistrate saying these men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city. And again, what do you do when you're trying to, when you're trying to convict someone who's innocent? You gotta lie about them. Verse 21, And teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive. He's breaking the law, neither to observe being Romans. Is that true? Were they teaching people to break the law? Were they teaching people to do things contrary to the law? No. Well, apparently it doesn't matter. No one saw if that went to see if that was true or not. Because verse 22, And the multitude rolls up together against them, and the magistrates rent off their clothes and command it to beat them for something they didn't even do. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in stocks. Turn to Acts 21, 28. Acts 21, 28.  There's always a purpose. You say, when Paul and Silas were beaten for something they didn't do and thrown into prison and there's many stripes laid upon them, maybe they were thinking, what's the point of this? What's the purpose of this?  What's the reason for this? Well, you know that same jailer who threw them into prison? Do any of you quote Acts 16, 30 out soul winning and brought them out and said, sir, is what must I do to be saved? And they said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved in thy house. That's the jailer right here. It is this jailer right here who later ended up getting saved as a result of them being here. And so there's always a purpose to persecution and tribulation. And they're in Acts 21. This is one of my favorite stories in the book of Acts. Acts 21, 28. It's going to seem like we're kind of jumping into the middle of the story, but verse 28, crying out, men of Israel help. This is the man that teaches all men everywhere against this people in the law and this place and further brought Greeks also into the temple and have polluted this holy place. So basically what happens is Paul had returned to Jerusalem. He went into the temple. He wasn't even preaching. He just went in there to worship. He wasn't even preaching to anybody or anything like that. It was just, he was just going in there. It wasn't causing the scene or anything. In long story short, someone turned around and said, it's you. And they realized who it was. And basically, it's the same thing in Ephesus. They basically cause a big scene crying out, men of Israel help. This is the man that teaches all men everywhere against the people. Verse 29, for they had seen him before with him in the city of trophomess and Ephesians, whom they suppose that Paul brought into the temple. So someone recognized him from some other city, verse 30, and all the city was moved. It shows you how much they hated Paul. You know, someone looks and realizes it's him and the entire city just instantly goes into chaos. And all the city was moved and the people ran together and they took Paul and drew him out of the temple and forth with the doors were shut.   Tidings came onto the chief captain of the band that old Jerusalem was in an uproar who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down onto them. And when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul. So the Romans go down with the soldiers and they basically save his life before he dies. They're beating him. They're trying to kill him. And then the chief captain came near and took him and commanded him to be bound with two chains and demanded who he was and what he had done. I told my coworker what I believed and I think I heard their feelings. Local Paul went through. Someone recognized him. Someone who had seen him in one of the other cities recognized him and he almost dies. The whole city, everybody in the whole city instantly is in an uproar. Everything's turned upside down. But this persecution is nothing to anything we face, right? Of course the Romans come down and the chief captain comes and saves his life and he doesn't only get what's going on. He just sees like the entire city beating this one guy. So he assumes there's something he did wrong. He bounced him with chains. Verse 34, and some cried one thing, some another among the multitude. And when he could not know for certainty for the tumult, people are just crying so many things and yelling so much. He doesn't even know what's going on. He commanded him to be carried into the castle when he came upon upon the stairs. So it was that he was born of the soldiers for the violence of the people for the multitude of the people followed after crying away with him. And as Paul was to be led into the castle, he said under the chief captain, may I speak into the who say, canst thou speak Greek? So the the soldier here is about to say something to Paul and it shows what the people were telling. Here's what the people, the story that people are spreading around about Paul to get him in trouble. Art though not the Egyptian, which before these days made us an uproar and led us out into the wilderness for four thousand men that were murderers. He's saying that you know that's what people are telling me. Are you the guy who like you like led four thousand murderers into the wilderness? Is that was that you? This is how much they're lying about him and how much they're just they're they're doing anything to stop not just what he's saying not just the truth but the individual who is who's making such an impact. They're not gonna have just a problem what you say they're gonna have a problem with you turn to Matthew 27. Matthew chapter number 27. First tonight I said enemies of the cross will try to stop the truth from being heard. Second tonight I said enemies of the cross will try to attack those spreading it.  Third tonight enemies of the cross will stir up the majority. You may have already kind of noticed it with the stories we're looking at but one common theme is is is there you see there's not everybody who just completely hates the Bible but those few people see those few people those few reprobates or people just who hate the Bible who hate the Word of God they're not enough to make an impact against you.  They have to turn everybody else against you. How else could so few people cause a ruckus they have to get everyone else involved. If they're Matthew 27 look at verse 20 but the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask for Abbas and destroy Jesus. The chief priests and the elders they weren't enough to try to convince Pilate that this innocent man should be put to death because Paul didn't want to have Jesus put to death. Paul was pretty convinced or Pilate was pretty convinced sorry that Jesus was innocent that he didn't do anything wrong. Paul Pilate wasn't saved but he knew Jesus was innocent so this group of chief priests and elders they weren't enough to try to convince Pilate to put Jesus to death so look what they had to do and persuaded the multitude. That's how you end up that's why you read it's the multitude's crying out crucify him just because the chief priests went up and stirred people up. Turn to Acts 13. Acts 13 42. You don't turn there but while you're going to Acts Mark 15 11 says it's a parallel passage it says but the chief priests moved the people that he should rather release Barabbas unto them saying concept they're just going around trying to stir everybody up to turn them against the man of God. In Acts 13 42 the Bible says this and when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue the Gentiles be sought that these words might be preached unto them the next Sabbath. So Paul and his team of missionaries and the group of people who are with him they're in Antioch of Pisidia and Paul's preaching in the synagogue and he preaches this great sermon and everyone loves it. Everyone's receptive to God everyone likes it and they want Paul to come back and preach again. Verse 43. Now when the congregation was broken up many of the Jews in religious proselytes followed Paul and Barabbas who speaking to them persuaded them to continue in the grace of God. So everyone does is it has favor with them and they want them to come back next week and preach more but when the Jews saw the multitudes they were filled with envy and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barabbas waxed bold and said it was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you but seeing he put it from you and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life. Low we turn to the Gentiles. So this is a side note I always love this phrase here because you know people who mostly people who just don't go soul-winning they'll say oh well you can't who are you to judge people's salvation? Who are you to go and decide who's saved and who's not? Who are you to judge when it comes to people's salvation? Look when we go soul-winning when we go out trying to find out if people are saved so we can preach in the gospel we're not judging anybody they're judging themselves worthy or unworthy of everlasting life.  We don't we don't go and we ask people and realize that they're not saved that doesn't that's not what condemns them to hell. What judges somebody unworthy and what condemns somebody is what they believe and what they decide to believe. Verse 47, for so hath the Lord commanded us saying I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles that thou should be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. When the Gentiles heard this they were glad. See most people when you go out when you preach in the gospel and you get them saved they think it's a good thing and they like it and most people don't have you know they may maybe they won't they'll be like oh I'm cooking ramen noodles and I'm busy or you know I got something going on but most people aren't just going to hit you for just because you're out the door with the Bible in their hand. I remember one time in Sacramento I was I was with soul-winning with Moses a friend of mine and this is an uncommon story I'm sure this has happened to many of you here something like this and we were soul-winning and I knocked on the door and a guy opened the door and I said hi we're from Verdi Baptist Church just inviting people to church and he saw the Bible in my hand he said is that a Bible? I said yeah that's that's a Bible and he's like have a good day let's shut the door.  Everybody loves what they're saying everybody's with Paul the whole the whole city wants him to come back next the next Sabbath and preach unto preach the word of God to them and everybody just loves them and everything is going great for them so what do they do here's what they have to do verse 50 but the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women and the chief men of the city and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them out of their cults when Verdi had their protest in 2016 a lot of people weren't even sodomites they were just sympathizers because you just need to stir everybody up you don't necessarily need the when persecution comes it's not always just from the the the reprobates and the haters of God it's all it's them that small group and all the people they stirred up right because it's they're not enough right they're not enough I one pastor one pastor I heard put it this way I was kind of stuck with me he was talking about the sodomites and they said they're a minority but they're a loud minority you say well how they're only one or two percent how do they how do they cause such persecution from people they stir everybody else up and they depend on that they did the the chief priest they depended on everybody else they stirred up to crucify Jesus these people here depended on all the people they stirred up to persecute Paul verse 51 but they shook off the dust of their feet against them and came unto Iconium and the disciples were filled with joy and with the Holy Ghost it's the same exact thing today nothing's changed just just a few people who stir up the whole internet right who stir up the whole city to cause persecution so let's keep reading in Acts 14 let's just continue into the next chapter this is a major theme and even just the book of Acts and it came to pass in Iconium so they they just shook off the dust of their feet they went into the next city in Iconium and it came to pass in Iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spake that a great multitude both of the Jews and also the Greeks believe same thing they go into another city every people get saved it's like it's a soul winning marathon in Iconium everything's going great but the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil affected against the brethren see that's all they have to do they just have to stir people up so don't be surprised when a family member or a friend of yours or a co-worker who really doesn't like what you stand for goes and stirs everybody else up it turns everybody else against you and and that's why that's another reason you can't just go you gotta be careful in who you call a reprobate because if five people in your workplace or something don't like you and they're against you and they're persecuting you for what you believe which is is rare today it's they're probably just what if they were just stirred up by one person right not everybody when when the when these Jews here would turn an entire city against Paul the whole city wasn't a bunch of reprobates right it would have been wrong for it would Paul would have been wrong if he just went and said oh they're all persecuting me they all hate what i'm saying they're all reprobates no that's because they stir everybody else up right there's tons of stories like this you don't have to turn there by act 17 3 act 17 13 says but when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached to Paul preached up Paul at Berea they came through there also and stirred up the people acts 21 27 we already read this but says and when the seven days were almost ended the Jews which were of Asia and they when they saw him in the temple stirred up all the people and laid hands on him and another one acts 6 12 says and they started the people and the elders in the scribes and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council so all that to say don't be surprised when that happens to you and don't don't go calling everybody a reprobate because the last thing you want to do is just call it unsaved person a reprobate because when you sign someone off as a reprobate you're not going to try to give them the gospel right you don't want to take someone who might get saved later on and and just never give them the gospel because you just were mad and you thought that they're a reprobate right so just use them to sermon of course turn to Romans 12 17 so we talked about we're talking about enemies of the cross and ways that they're going to try to stop the truth and first we looked at how enemies of the cross will try to stop the truth from being heard they're going to try to stop from spreading second we looked at how enemies of the cross will try to attack the individuals they're going to try to not just attack what they're saying but they're going to attack the actual people third we looked at how enemies of the cross will stir up everybody else and they'll stir up the multitude before we end the sermon tonight I just like to give a quick application how do we respond to it right when this the when these things happen to us and we realize they're going to happen to us in the future because it's what the bible says how do we respond I mean obviously we keep preaching the word of god and we keep we keep doing what god has command commanded us but you know sometimes when people attack you or they persecute you there's something deep inside that kind of flares up and you get angry and you want you just you just you get angry at that we need to understand this kind application for the sermon tonight we need to understand that vengeance is not ours because god is going to eventually set it straight either in acts 1217 the bible says recompense to no man evil for evil whether they're saved or they're unsaved or they're a reprobate recompense to no man evil for evil provide all provide things honest in the site of all men if it be possible as much as life in you live peaceably with all men you say how does that work with someone's unsaved and they're attacking me or even they're a reprobate and they're attacking me how do I recompense to no man evil for evil here's why dearly beloved avenge not yourselves but rather give place into wrath for it is written here's why vengeance is mine I will repay say it the lord Paul say you know what you don't need to worry you don't need to depend to depend on recompensing evil to evil here's why god vengeance is gods and and here's the thing if I could choose either myself or god to avenge myself I'll take god any day because god will do a more righteous job god will do a better job right we don't need to take vengeance into our own hands the verse 20 therefore find enemy hunger feed him if he thirsts give him drink for in doing thou shall he calls a fire on his head be not overcome of evil but overcome evil with good when someone attacks you or what you believe or what you stand for like I said I get it you know you you that thing deep inside of you flares up and you want to you get want to come back and you and you want to you want to strike back but turn to 2nd Timothy 2 14 let's see what Paul said 2nd Timothy I'm sorry 2nd Timothy 2 4 there is no 2nd Timothy 2 14 if I have you turn to 2nd Timothy 2 14 I have the wrong bible 2nd Timothy 2 4 while you're turning there I'm going to read you Deuteronomy 32 35 this is god talking he says to me belong in vengeance and recompense their foot he's talking about their enemies he's saying their foot shall slide in due time he's saying don't worry about avenging yourself don't worry about getting all worked up he said to me belong in vengeance and recompense their foot shall slide in due time for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make haste he says don't worry they're gonna I'll make sure they get what I get what they deserve they're in 2nd Timothy 2nd Timothy 4 this is where we'll end tonight Alexander we already read this Alexander the copper Smith did me much evil so what do we do when people do as much evil what whether they're reprimanded or they're just unsaved what do we do what did Paul say the Lord warned him according to his works so let God take care of it probably deal with it God will set it straight he'll avenge me I don't need to worry about it God will take care of it that's exactly what Paul's saying and I think it's funny because you know here Paul's at the end of his life let's just keep reading verse 15 of whom thou be thou where also for he hath greatly withstood our words and my first answer no man stood with me but all men first took me I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge and you know you're reading 2nd Timothy 4 and it's kind of the end of Paul's life and he's saying you know I I went through a lot and I fought a good fight and I finished my course and he kind of at this point he's kind of talking about all the people who betrayed him and well Luke's with me this guy betrayed me and this guy first took me and you know you you'd you'd you'd think you'd ask you know don't you want revenge Paul aren't you angry Paul aren't you hurt Paul by all the fellow believers that stabbed you in the back and the people who has stood you wouldn't aren't you mad Paul don't you want revenge Paul here's how he got through it here's how he settled in his mind verse 17 and that was standing the Lord stood with me and striking me because it doesn't it doesn't matter what other people say it doesn't matter what's going on in your life whether it's persecution or anything else or any other hard time that's going on it shouldn't matter because verse 17 notwithstanding the Lord stood with me and strengthened me that by me the preaching might be fully known that all the Gentiles might hear and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion in verse 18 and the Lord shall deliver me this this is how he got through it this is how he got and I'm sure it hurt and I'm sure there was a lot of frustration and hurt when people stabbed him in the back but this is what got him through it verse 18 and the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work he's not denying that the evil things happened to him and he's not denying that people didn't hurt him and turn against him and attack him his whole entire life but the point he's trying to make is that God delivered him and will deliver them through it all anyway so it doesn't matter and the Lord should deliver me from every evil work and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom to whom be glory forever and ever amen see that's what that's how Paul got through it and you know when you realize that and and when we realize that when persecution comes or even maybe not persecution just hard times when this comes when we get this idea that when we when we understand that it's up to God and God's going to get us through it and vengeance isn't ours we don't have to worry about it God reward them according to their works nothing else really matters right it's a guarantee it's basically a guarantee that everything is going to turn out great right so when people try to stop the truth from being heard and when people try to attack you as the individual who's spreading the truth and believes the truth and when they try to stir up the multitude against you just let's just remember that vengeance isn't ours God will take care of it and we really don't have to worry about a thing let's pray dear Lord thank you for this idea in the Bible God thank you for these these stories in the Bible God that show us how these people work God and and giving us even just an application on how to deal with it not just telling us what they do but how to deal with them and and thank you for delivering us through everything God no matter what whatever happens God is always going to be on our side and thank you for being with us God and help us just remember that no matter what happens we're on the winning side in Jesus precious name we pray amen


Hello everybody! This video will show you how to recover an unsaved, damaged or lost Microsoft Word document, Microsoft Excel worksheet or PowerPoint presentation. This video will be useful in case you closed document by accident and forgot to save it. There was a software failure, or the laptop battery went flat before you could save a document, or if you run into an error when trying to open a document, worksheet or presentation. I will demonstrate document recovery with the example of Microsoft Word, but these steps will be the same for Excel and PowerPoint. Many of us know that any program in the Microsoft Office package offers to save the original document or an autosaved version of the file which was closed suddenly. Such file will open automatically in the Document Recovery section after the program is started again. To recover such a file, click on the arrow next to the recovered file in the Document Recovery pane and select Open or Save, or just click on it. But this method is good only if a Microsoft Office program was closed unexpectedly. It may happen if the computer shuts down or there is a power cut. Please note, Word, Excel or PowerPoint suggest recovering files only at the first restart of the program after an emergency shutdown. That is, if you open Word, close it and then open it again, it will not offer you anything. That is why I recommend to save everything you need at the first start of the program after the shutdown. What should you do if you close a document without saving it? For example, I have a document I have been working on. I close it. When asked to save changes, I click Don't Save as if accidentally. With that, I understand I was wrong, so I open the document again to see that the last changes are gone. To recover them, go to the tab File, Info, find the section Manage Document, Manage Workbook in Excel or Manage Presentation in PowerPoint. I can see that the version of my document closed without saving is shown there. If there are several elements on the list and you don't know which one to save, then have a look at the date and time when autosave documents were created. It will help you to understand which file to recover. If you see several versions of the same file, it may be better to open the latest one because it is likely to have the last changes. I click on it and I can see it is the actual unsaved version of the document. Click Restore. The previously unsaved document, an Excel worksheet or PowerPoint presentation is now restored. Please note that to be able to restore unsaved documents, the program should have autosave settings activated. By default, they are activated in all Microsoft Office programs and to check them go to File, Options, Save. Make sure that Save documents section has checked boxes next to Keep the last autosaved version if I close without saving, and Save auto-recover information every by default. The option is 10 minutes, but I recommend the minimal setting 1 minute. If your computer shut down or is started when working with the document, worksheet or a presentation, or you haven't restored the document offered by the program, and after you open it again, there is no option to recover it. There is another way to restore a document. To do it, go to File, Options and Save. In the section Save documents, worldbooks or presentations, find the auto-recover file location. This is the folder where all autosaved files of an open application are saved. Go there, to do it, copy the path to the folder and insert it into the Windows File Manager. The folder that opens contains all copies of files created as a result of autosaving. Their names have the word autosaved. There are also copies of unsaved files, the names of which have the word unsaved. You can find the necessary file by name and date. You can open such unsaved or autosaved files with the same program that created them – Word, Excel or PowerPoint. So you open the last autosaved copy of the file, restore, ok. The file has been restored. If you haven't found the necessary files of the unsaved or autosaved document, worksheet or presentation in the auto-recover folder, you can also try restoring them with Hetman Partition Recovery. You may not find them in the set folder, because the autosave file or an unsaved document copy were created a long time ago, and the program may have deleted them already. To recover them, run Hetman Partition Recovery. Use it to scan the disk containing the auto-recover data. By default, it is disk C. Your fast scan doesn't help you to find the necessary files. Use full analysis for your disk. When it is over, select Find File by clicking on a corresponding icon in the Programs menu. And after that, find the necessary files by their extension. Please note that autosave files and copies of unsaved files have the following extensions. For Word, it is ASD. For Excel, Excel, SB. For PowerPoint, PPT. You will find these extensions in the description for this video. So select the necessary files and send them to Recover List. After that, click Recover and specify recovery settings. Ready? The files have been recovered. After that, you can open them and see if they are the ones you needed to recover. If your document, worksheet or presentation is damaged after a computer failure or after the work of Hetman Partition Recovery and you see an arrow in opening it, here is how you can fix the problem. Start the Microsoft Office program. In our case, it is Word. Open other documents, browse. In the menu on the right, select Recover Text from any file. Select the damaged file. In the appearing menu, select Open and Repair. And then, save the recovered file to a convenient location. If you liked this video, click the Like button below and subscribe to our channel to see more. Ask questions in your comments, we will answer everyone. Thank you for watching and good luck.


back to a new episode with my friend Andrew Coussel from Valor Accounting Services. Andrew, how are you today? I'm very well. How are you doing, Leo? I'm very well, very well. How is London? London's not bad. It's gloomy but it's not raining, which is good. Nice, that's always, always a positive, always a positive. Fantastic. Well, thanks for jumping on again with us and today we're going to be talking about hiring staff. Well, that is probably one of my favorite topics and one that I get asked on a regular basis from coaches who want to bring on staff to even grow and scale their business. So over to you, Andrew. Talk to us a little bit about what we're going to discuss today. Yeah, brilliant. So essentially, we're going to be talking about just the basics of what does it mean to hire staff, when to hire, different scenarios around that, and the different types of staff that you may hire in your sports coaching business. Then we're going to look at the more the accounting aspects and then the financial aspects of hiring staff. So start off with just the when to hire. So I guess there's going to be a number of different scenarios along the stage of business you're at. Now, for most businesses, they are going to probably experience hiring staff when they're off sick, they're on holiday, they need cover. So that would be one of the occasions where that would happen and it won't happen too often, but it will happen. Now, another one would be if you want to hire a certain member of staff which has a specific skill set, which you don't have, that could offer a more of a more of a rounded service package could compliment what your what your sports coaching business does. And just to provide different level of service as well to your clients. Another one would be expanding the business, business growth. You want your sports coaching business to get bigger. And by doing that, it does mean you have to hire additional staff to you to achieve that goal. Another one would be off season. For example, if you want to prepare and you want to train staff for peak seasons, for example, when it's very, very busy and you want to hire maybe an assistant coach during those peak seasons, you may want to hire them at the off season, especially if they're just starting out. So that gives you a bit of time to prepare them to train them up. We'll see you talk a bit more about that as well later on. And another one as well, which a lot of business owners do especially starting out struggle with is they just want to focus on other areas of the business. So there we go. Yeah, like that. So essentially, for those watching when we're talking about hiring, okay, it's not just hiring an assistant coach, right? We're talking about you can hire maybe a receptionist. I want to do your admin, social media. Okay, so it's not just specifically when to hire an assistant coach. Am I right, Andrew? You know what, that's it because it's about you as a business owner when you've got your, when you're just running it yourself, you may want to hire, and we're going to actually talking about it now, but you may want to hire other members of staff to increase your capacity on the pitch. So going on to that is first of all, we're going to look at different types of staff that you can hire on the pitch. And first one is maybe a replacement. Maybe you want to take a step back from the business and work on other areas. Or maybe you want to compliment your, you know, level of service by hiring a, for example, if you're a football coach, you may want to hire a coach that specializes in goalkeeping, potentially, you know, maybe you want to do a masterclass and maybe hire them on a one off occasion, you know, and also you may want to hire an assistant coach as well. And we can talk, obviously we'll talk a bit more about like hiring an apprentice as well. That can be quite beneficial, especially when starting out. And then we talk about off the pitch. Now, as Leo said, you may want to, you're going to be doing a lot of things as much as, you know, you may be passionate about delivering the level of service to your, to your clients on the pitch. There's going to be other things you're going to be doing. There's going to be the account side, the tax side, you may have to hire a bookkeeper, an accountant, some contract them out. Admin, there's might be a lot of admin that you might need to do. So you might need to hire a virtual admin or an in-house admin. You may want to have a business coach, a mentoring coach, for example, to help you scale your business. You may want to hire someone to do your marketing, because that as well can take a lot of time. Oh, you might want to just hire someone to help recruit for players, for example. Yeah, so there's definitely, you know, different reasons to hire different types of staff. Yeah, it's a good point you made, especially when you're talking about different areas of expertise, because last week I had a conversation with a coach who's in soccer as well, soccer football, and currently he's working, so he's running the business by himself. He's got 150 kids that he trains on a weekly basis, but he's doing it all by himself. So he's doing the admin, he's doing the coaching, and I said to him, you know, man, you're doing really well, but it's going to get to a point where you're going to get burned out, because you're doing just too much. So hopefully I'm definitely going to send him this video to watch, but that's something, you know, 150 players is great. It's a really good business, but it gets to a point where you're like, right, bring someone in to at least do the admin work, right, the reaching out to parents or the sending out emails, or to do the social media content, because he was at a point where he was doing everything by himself. Yeah, yeah, and that's, it is so true, because it really depends on what the business owner wants to do. It could be something that they're happy with the level of turnover they're getting, their income, but they just want to free up a bit more time, and hiring someone off the pitch may help do that. You know, it's not all about expanding for growth. It can just be, you know, having a bit more peace of mind within your business, you know? So yeah, okay. Now we're going to be looking a little bit, touching on the accounting aspects of hiring staff, because especially when starting out as a sports coaching, you know, as a sports coaching business, you don't really, are you going to hire a full-time employee? You know, that's why that can be quite overwhelming, you know? And so what I would say for, you know, sports coaches that want to try out, and this really does come into when, you know, you're off sick or you're on holiday, you may just want to subcontract a coach that is maybe does, maybe has their own business, maybe has a full-time job or doesn't have a part-time job, and subcontract them out, see how they're doing, right? Because you don't have to be tied down to having to set up a payroll system, because that's what essentially happens when you have a, you know, an employee, whether it be an apprentice, a full-time or a part-time employee, you have to set them up on a PAYE system, which is called Pay As You Earn system, and it's the payroll system we have here in the UK, and you have to have that set up if you want to have an employee working for you. However, if you want to first, like, subcontract sports coaches, you don't have to do that, because essentially what would be the agreement would be they would maybe work one or two days during the week and see how it goes and what they would do, they'll just invoice you for the amount of time that's worked, you know? So that can be a good start to getting into starting to employ someone, because that you may want to employ them full-time, you know, it's a good trial period, because another thing as well when you start getting into employing other people is, you know, there's HR gets involved, you have to kind of, you have to, you know, create an employment contract, you know, there's certain clauses in there, so subcontracting can be a good middle ground before getting to hiring an employee, you know, full-time, for example. Nice, I like that. So going to your point on subcontracting, because this is a question I get asked a lot, so with subcontracting, essentially the coach invoices you or sends you the invoice, you pay them and then they are in charge or it's their responsibility to then file their own taxes, right? Yeah, that's correct. So they're essentially depending on their circumstance, as I said, if they are a business owner themselves, they may be, they would send out invoices anyway to their clients. Okay. And what they will be doing is just sending you an invoice, same sort of thing, if they were in full-time employment in another, you know, company or another business, they would do the same thing, but as you said, they will be filing their own taxes separately, yeah. Okay, brilliant. Okay, now we get to the last bit, which is more of the financial aspects of hiring staff and the reasons around that. So you may want to hire staff to grow your business. Now, this is an interesting one, because it is very much case-by-case basis in terms of the business. Even if you're a sports coach, every business is different, because you're going to have different sources of income. You're going to have different income, you know, models in terms of you're going to be charging a monthly membership. Are you going to be charging one off?  Are you doing online? There's a number of things. However, just to generalize a little bit, it is about identifying, okay, you want to, how does hiring someone contribute to your increased revenue? And with that, that's why it's very, very important when you want to grow is it can be, there is going to be an element of risk in anything, whether you're, you know, doing a marketing campaign and you're investing money in that, you want to see a return on your investment. Now, a good way of doing that is obviously monitoring that and doing as much research as possible. Whereas when you're hiring staff, there's going to be a number of different factors here. The other factor as well is time management. You know, you've got to see if you're going to be hiring a sports coach to take over what you're doing, what does that mean to you as a business owner? That means you can maybe spend more time on other areas of the business. And that's probably your goal. Or maybe you want to spend time doing more income generating activities, for example, maybe online coaching, merchandising as well. And this is where it's very important to sit down with, you know, a business coach in that field to discuss these things. And also another one is scalability, because if you're taking on more staff, that means that you can increase your capacity, which means you can take on additional clients. That may take time. So you've got to understand that there's going to be a time where you may not generate as many clients first because you've just started out and that might tie in with the marketing side as well. So a good strategy allows you to minimize that risk of hiring that extra staff member and making sure you get a maximum return on investment. Does that make sense? Yep. No, I like it. And also going back to where you were talking about maybe focusing on other areas, it could be a case where you want to spend more time with your family as well. So you bring someone in to kind of run it for you. Because that's also another thing that's really some coaches really struggle with. They're running so many sessions and then they don't end up having any time for themselves or for their family or doing things away from work. They're so in the business that it gets to a point that you can essentially long term burn out. And I've seen it with coaches. They end up hating what they're doing because there's no escape from it. They become kind of trapped. So yeah, it's building systems where you can bring in coaches to do some of your sessions or do the admin work like you said. Yeah, exactly. I think and that's such an important point. It is about, it is really starting with the goals of the business owner. What do they want to achieve? Because from that you can start doing things like, as you said, you can take a step back from the business, spend more time with family. Or if you want to grow the business, spend more time on other areas, you may want to focus on business development and that can take time. And maybe you want to, another thing as well is it's all interlinked. You may want to have a sports coach, a mentor to help you with that. But you need that time to do it in the first place. Correct. Yeah, yeah, completely agree. Fantastic, Andrew. Well, anything else before we wrap up? That is it. That is it in a nutshell. Nice. That's brilliant. Thanks again, Andrew, for coming on here and sharing your expertise with our audience. If you need to contact either Andrew or myself, we're going to put all the links at the bottom so you can do that. But thanks again, Andrew. And I look forward to our next chat. Thank you.


So we have an intuitive understanding and acceptance that muscle size is related to muscle strength. And so we look at these men here and we probably, most of us except for maybe me, would be pretty convinced that any one of these fellows would probably beat me in an arm wrestling match. I am pretty competitive and scrappy, and it might be a little bit of a battle, but unfortunately my muscles are not that big. And we know that the size of a muscle is generally associated with its strength. So the question that we would ask is, why do muscles get big?  And if I were a chilling human who didn't know anything, I'd probably go, dude, you just make more cells. Make more myofibers and that will bulk up your muscles so that someday I could look like that. So guess what? That's not true. When you are born out of your awesome mama's belly, you have all the myofibers that you're ever going to have. Now I had a conversation with actually two different classes this week. Why? I guess we're all talking about muscles. Regarding my small 10-year-old son, and I made the assertion that my small 10-year-old son will never be a buff stud. Like it just isn't going to happen.  How can you say stuff like that? That's terrible. And I was like, I'm not being mean. Like it just, it's the way it is. And when we look at muscle anatomy, we realize that yeah, there are some people who are born with more muscle fibers than other people. So if one human cannot grow more muscle cells in their muscle, but obviously, holy crud, we can grow our muscles to be bigger. And even my little slime who can't ever look like that without some chemical assistance, which we all know we'll try to avoid, even he can make his little muscles bigger if he works them out. So how do they get bigger? Well, let's go figure that out. Muscle fibers get bigger in diameter and they add myofibrils. Look, let's write that down. Her to increase muscle size. And we associate muscle size with muscle strength and we'll talk about why that is in a second. To increase muscle size, we increase myofibrils. Myofibrils. Do I do that every time I write the word myofibril? This is a myofibril. Here's another one. Here's another one.  Remember my little analogy here of spaghetti noodles from the last lab, lecture, whatever, whatever I'm doing right now, nobody knows. Remember how the organization of my thick and thin filaments gives me this stripy look. Each one of these pieces of spaghetti that I have colored on, that was such a fun activity. Each one of them is a bundle of myofilaments. So this is one myofibril. And do you agree that if I take this myofibril and I add another myofibril? Uh-oh, look, I got another one. Look what just happened to my diameter of my muscle. It got huge. How'd that happen?  We need to respond to that and get bigger. So we're going to build more myofibrils. Now if you think about it, myofibrils are just proteins, myofilaments. So we're adding more myofilaments as well. But are we adding more muscle cells? No. The next question that I want you to think about is, okay, awesome, we added more myofibrils. It made our muscle organ bigger. But why is that associated with more strength? How is it possible that more myofibrils mean more strength? Well, to get there, we need to look, we need to remind ourselves about how the myofilaments are overlapping each other and how they're actually set up inside the myofibril. And remember that our thick filaments here, these purple things, have all those little heads and the heads grab a hold of the thin filaments and pull the z-lines in my sarcomere, pull the z-lines closer together and shorten the muscle. Now think about this a second. If you had more myosin heads, if you had more contractile proteins to grab actin and pull, grab the thin filaments and shorten the sarcomere, the more myosin that you have doing that, the more tension you can generate by that muscle, the heavier the muscle is going to be, the heavier things you can pick up. If you think about adding in more and more and more, it's almost like adding in more people in a tug-of-war battle. If you have more hands, like each one of these little things is somebody's hands reaching out and grabbing the rope in a tug-of-war battle, war of the worlds, the more people you get on that rope, the more tension you can generate, the more likely you are to win, win. That's something that you should probably be comfortable explaining. That would be an awesome short answer question. What is muscle strength? How does your body change to make you stronger? This is actually all under hormonal control. And also there's some mechanical stuff in the muscle itself that feeds back. The muscle tissue can be damaged and that feeds back and says, whoa, we need more bigger, stronger myofibrils. So let's just build more of those things. And you need lots of protein so that you can go through protein synthesis to build more myofilaments. How are you? I think I should show you a picture of the muscles. They went, that my son will build up. Never mind, they're cubing muscles. Did you know that those exist?  And somewhere I had a picture of thumb muscle anatomy to indicate that, yes, we have other muscles that we can work out and make very strong. Okay, my children are very cool. Don't worry, I'm not a bad mom. No, I'm not. Okay, I'll be right back and we'll talk a little bit more about what happens here in the sarcomere.


5 reasons why the narcissist won't move on. 5 reasons why they won't detach from you. 5 reasons why they won't get on with their lives. In many situations the narcissist would just discard you. Once they've lined up another source of supply they would just disappear. But this doesn't always happen. There are situations where the narcissist won't move on and there are reasons for this. One or more of these reasons may apply to your situation. One, they're not finished with you. The narcissist won't move on because they're not done with you yet. They realize that you still have more to give. They realize that you have more energy or money. They understand that you still have something to offer them. The narcissist will milk you like a cow. They will try to get as much out of you as possible. Often in an unfair and dishonest way. They won't move on because they're jealous. They believe that you have what belongs to them. They have a strong sense of entitlement. And they are fiercely protective of their possessions.  They understand that you have a lot to offer.   With everything that you've worked hard for. With all of the special and nice things that you're going to enjoy. And then you're just going to shell or that with someone else. This is what dominates the narcissist's mind when they think of you moving on without them. And that is why they can't move on. They can't stand the thought of you taking everything that they feel entitled to. Everything that they feel is rightfully theirs. They don't consider all of the hard work you put in to be the person that you are today. They don't consider all of the trials and tribulations you had to go through. All they see is the finished package. And they won't settle for a piece of the pie. They want everything you've got from the moment they saw you. In their minds you belong to them. They see you as their property. They see you as something that exists to meet their needs. And that is why they won't move on. That is why they're still holding on to you. It's not because they value you as a person. It's because they just want everything you have.  Someone who will value you. Someone who will be able to revel in and make the most of everything that you are. Two, they're struggling to replace you. The narcissist is going to have difficulty moving on if they haven't found your replacement. And if you were their grade A source of supply it's going to be very difficult for them to replace you. It's going to be very difficult for them to find someone with the same qualities and abilities that you have. The same level of attractiveness or the same amount of money. Some of these narcissists are also sociopathic or psychopathic. They're not going to settle for less than what they think they deserve. So they will wait until they find something that is up to their desire and standard and while they're waiting they will hold on to you. They will try to get something out of you. They will try to get to re-engage with them. But it's not because they care about you. It's not because they want to be with you. It's just because you're the highest grade of supply that they can find at that moment in time. Once they manage to find something that is even remotely close to what they're looking for you won't hear from them again. And in many situations they will just settle for less. They will settle for whatever they can find. They see it as though anyone who doesn't know what they're really about is going to be a better alternative. Free. They think you still want them. The narcissists won't move on if they think you still want them. If they think you're still susceptible to them manipulation as long as they think they can get something out of it they will stick around but they can often be very delusional. You may want nothing to do with them but it's like they just don't seem to get it. They're very arrogant and audacious. They have an exaggerated sense of their own abilities and importance. They can't see how someone could not want them. In their minds they are everything you should want. So even if you reject them they might still continue returning to you. They might still try to come back. Narcissists don't take no for an answer. If they want something they believe they should have it. You're just a shiny object to them.  They don't care about anything beneath that. They can't even have a genuine conversation with you. They won't even take the time to get to know you as a person because none of that matters to them. All they care about is what you can give to them or how you can make them feel but if they think you still want them they will keep returning to you. They will keep coming back as long as they think they still have a chance for their image of reputation. There is nothing more important to a narcissist than their image of reputation. It is everything to the narcissist. They will do whatever it takes to maintain it. In some situations their image of reputation may be affected if they leave you. People might see them in a different way. They might see it as though they've abandoned you. Maybe the narcissist wants to maintain this image as a family man or as a loyal wife or girlfriend. So even though they might want to move on they believe that it is in their best interest to stay. They don't want to ruin their image of reputation. They don't want people to view them differently. So this is another reason why the narcissist won't move on. 5. They want to punish you. The narcissist will often keep returning to you because they want revenge. They want to harm you in return for an injury or wrong that they believe they have suffered at your hands. When the narcissist experiences a narcissistic injury they can't just let it go. They will often hold it against you for the breath of their lives. They will hold a grudge against you. They will be very bitter and resentful and whenever they return to you it's only to belittle you. It's only to make you feel like you're less of a person because that's exactly how they felt when you rejected them. That's exactly how they felt when they experienced a narcissistic injury and they don't know how to let it go. It consumes them. It dominates their minds and since they don't self-reflect the only way for them to deal with it is by returning to you by tearing you down because that makes them feel better about themselves. They make them feel like maybe they haven't been defeated after all. Their false sense of power comes from putting people beneath them rather than from generating it from within. They can't generate anything from within. That is why they are so dependent on you. That is why they won't move on. Those are the five reasons why the narcissist won't move on. In any situation they won't move on because they want something from you. They're getting something out of it by staying. They feel like you're going to take something away from them even if it doesn't rightfully belong to them. They have a strong sense of entitlement. They feel entitled to you and they have difficulty letting go. I hope that these five reasons have been helpful to you. I hope that they have helped you to understand why the narcissist won't move on. Thank you for watching. Please like, comment, share and subscribe and I will talk to you in another video very soon.


Good morning, and thank you very much for coming. So we are releasing the results of the international patent activity in the international patent system for last year. And there are only three things that I shall say. And then I'll ask Cast and Fink, chief economist, to perhaps make a comment also. The first is that worldwide the decline is 4.5%. So the number of international patent applications went down by 4.5% across the world. And I suppose the thing to notice about that is that this is a smaller decline than what we here has happened at the national level, indicating, in other words, that in making choices, companies seem to have favored their inadvertent commerce best inventions, that is those for which they're going to seek international protection. The second thing I would say is that the impact of the crisis has been, as we, I think, all know now, very uneven across the world. And you will see from the press release that in the case of Northeast Asia, the number of international patent applications coming out of China rose by 30%, 29.7%, which is an extraordinary result. From Japan, however, also, the number of international patent applications rose by 3.6%, and from the Republic of Korea, the number rose by 2.1%. So this confirms a trend that we have seen consistently over the last five years in particular. But the trend continues despite the economic crisis. And interestingly, China moved past France to become the fifth largest filer of international patent applications. So it is, as you will see from annex 2. Yes, it's the United States first, Japan second, Germany third, Republic of Korea fourth, and China fifth. And interestingly, you have, therefore, three Northeast Asian countries in the top five filers, Japan, the Republic of Korea, and China. And when you go to the companies, and you see what is happening in respect of companies filings, and this is annex 3, in the top 20 companies, you have four from the United States, six from Japan, one from China, three from Germany, two from the Republic of Korea, and four from other EU than Germany. So overall, what you get is four from the United States, out of the top 24 from the United States, nine from Asia, and seven from Europe. So it's quite interesting evolution that we're seeing. And I didn't mention, and it's the last thing I'll say, that as opposed to the maintenance of numbers of international patent applications or, indeed, great increase in the case of China, Japan, and the Republic of Korea, what you find elsewhere in the world is that the United States went down by 11.4%. So the number of international patent applications filed out of the United States declined by 11.4%. In Germany, it went down similarly 11.2%. In Canada, 11.7%. Also, you have more details in the press release itself, as well as in the annex, which we can compare to the particular countries. But it's quite significant. And I'd like to now hand over for your questions, if I may, hand over to Carsten, who can say a word about this, too. Good morning to everyone. I maybe just like to say one or two things. Certainly, this is the first decline that we have seen in PCT filings, in its over 30-year history. So certainly, that is a significant event. It is not entirely surprising, given the depth of the economic downturn that we have seen associated with the financial crisis. But certainly, this has been something that has been unprecedented in the history of the PCT system. That said, I think there are reasons to be hopeful looking into the future. Certainly, I think by now we know that what has been going on in the global economy is not a repeat of the Great Depression of the 1930s. I would argue that, in part, due to the monetary and fiscal stimulus programs that you have seen, you have seen global economic recovery. Last month, the International Monetary Fund revised upwards its outlook for global economic growth by three-quarter of a percentage point, predicting global growth of about 4%, and that compares to negative growth in 2009. There are obvious differences. Most of the growth in 2010 is expected to come from emerging economies. The International Monetary Fund predicts about 2% growth in the advanced economies and about 6% growth in the emerging economies. And there is a great amount of uncertainty attached to the global economic outlook, not least because of the phase out of some of the government stimulus programs we have seen and the fact that autonomous private sector demand is still not showing much signs of picking up. I think as far as what we expect for this year's PCT filings are concerned, I think we can be reasonably optimistic that there will be a modest recovery, but again, there is a great amount of uncertainty attached to it. On the one hand, there are indications that research and development expenditures or investments have fallen last year. And one would expect that to find its way into PCT filings. On the other hand, there are also indications that some of the firms that held back with patent filings last year, partly because they were constrained in cash flows, may come forward with additional filings in 2010. So there are certainly reasons to be optimistic, but I think we would say cautiously optimistic about what will happen this year.


Hey everybody today, we're gonna talk about the alien 3d monthly mystery box This is my wife Lindsay and she's gonna help me unbox this My name is Jim and this is Lindsay and this is the edge of tech So like I said today, we're gonna check out the alien 3d monthly mystery box So we met Josh at Murph and he was awesome I'll put the description in the link below of the interview we did at Murph with him But we decided we were gonna buy one of the monthly mystery boxes and check it out and this is it may the fourth be with you So this is the May mystery box and it is Obviously Star Wars related and it says may the fourth be with you right on the front So they call it the UFO box the unidentified filament objects box a bunch of cool stuff about this box You get at least four 20 meter samples of filament in every box You get a surprise 3d printer related product in every box and you get a bonus project That you're gonna do every month if you do the full UFO box You also get codes and savings that you won't find anywhere else for filament and other things That's what Josh told us while we're at Murph. So that was pretty awesome Also one person that subscribes every month actually gets what they call the mothership box And that is everything that comes in this box plus bonus stuff I think this month is a bond tech extruder and that's awesome You can also do just the filament box from alien 3d Which comes with the four 20 meter samples or at least at least four 20 meter samples, but I think we should open this thing up Yes, let's open it So let's get those scissors. I'll let you do it My lovely wife has great cutting skills That's not okay. You can cut that part out We just cut the tape and we're gonna open the box up. So go ahead All right Sweet so I'm gonna just show the box real quick and as you can see kind of the filament is sitting right on top right here It looks like we got at least four 20 I think it was 20 meter samples So we'll pull that all out in just one second, but it's pretty cool how it's all boxed in here I really like the box this thing comes in especially with the Star Wars thing I'm I think I'm gonna keep this so What we got is a Xyla Xyla tech PLA bronze That's the first one Thank you The next thing we got is a matter hackers It is a MH build series silver. That's a really cool silver The next thing we got is Prusa research It's a PETG and it's the Carmen red that's gonna be a really pretty it's like a translucent red with sparkles and the last filament it looks like we got was Hopefully I'm saying this right tall man 3d and it's a tea glaze industrial transparent blue It doesn't say what top what style filament if it's PLA or PETG or anything like that It just says Tea glaze industrial transparent blue, but I tell you this blue is really awesome I don't know if you guys can see it out there But it is awesome We also got the flyer for this month, which is the UFO forciified and It actually tells you about what came in this month's stuff It thanks you and it has a bonus project, which we're gonna get to on the back It's a Princess Leia egg. What's in it? So a princess Leia egg came inside and It is candy Nice Princess Leia egg with candy. We'll take it. I take it Hold on to that just for a second Let's see what it says we got here. Oh Sweet so it looks like according to the brochure here this month's Accessory is a folding photo studio light box with an LED light and a USB cable. So apparently This is a full light box that you can take pictures in When you get it set up it does say that the mothership prize was a Bontek extruder, which is really cool and The bonus project this month. Oh So the bonus project this month is night light sabers You should get the two night lights. There you go. Yeah, right that the colors make sense with the translucent So you get the two night lights and you can print them with a red and the blue filament that came in the box, which is awesome so there's multiple versions and you just have to go on and grab the instructions and you get the two Translucent colors, which is pretty dang awesome. It looks like we're going to be turning These into like night light sabers, which will be awesome. So stay tuned for that. We got some cool stuff This I really like the colors the bronze. That's a really sweet filament that bronze. I can't wait to print something with that in the silver So we'll have to make that and maybe what we'll do is we'll do a follow-up video with the night lights sabers in action Which will be awesome, but everything that came in the box. It's really cool to get some Filaments it's really cool to get a light box to take pictures with so when we do our prints we'll be able to put our prints in there and take some really cool pictures and The project is going to be awesome to do as well So we went through everything we opened our first alien 3d monthly mystery box and I highly suggest it This is pretty awesome. You really get some cool stuff. The cool thing is this was only 36 bucks You get everything you see here plus the project and that included shipping So I thought that was really cool because a lot of the boxes I looked at don't include the shipping so you pay for the filament and then you pay for the shipping as well But there is a filament only box that you can do Straight from alien 3d as well and you just get the filaments. They send as well, which is at least four or 20 meter samples But that's pretty cool. Anything you want to add? I'm excited to make some night light sabers night late sabers are gonna be awesome.  It'll be really fun to print with so anyways, we went through this. I hope you had fun I hope you learned something about the alien 3d mystery box today and as always keep printing Hey everybody if you liked the video give that thumbs up if you want to see more click that subscribe button below And as always if you want to be notified the next great video that comes out click the little bell over here I really appreciate you guys watching and definitely you want to check out this alien 3d monthly mystery box


What's up everybody, Jason here for Jasper's casebreaks.com. We're giving away ten spots in Cup Hockey 17-18 with this 1920 UD Allure Hockey one-pack break number 19 Random teams so again 31 total spots guys everybody gets a random team in the NHL No veteran base commons will ship but we'll rip open the pack to distribute the hits out and at the end of the break We'll take all 31 Couser names one through ten get a spot each in the Cup Hockey three box round teams break So here's the dice roll here's the Couser names from Mike Tower down to Sean Maddock And you got ducks down to the Jets Boom roll it Four and a three seven times good luck So it's just for the randomizer first with a break one two three four five six Seven Seven times Sean Mac down to Timothy three seven times Blue jagged down to the Leafs all right again stick to what you got guys no trades But I'll quickly show you guys what you guys have There's a lot of different steves in this one.  I was gonna confuse her now. This should be really That's just a mistake waiting to happen honestly We hardly you know Not perfectly we do mistakes here once in a while But the most common mistakes that we usually do is like Send it to the wrong Steve or like send it to like customer with the same last name But the first name is different vice versa, you know And then when cuss when there's legit a couple customers that we have legit have the same first and last name But they're totally different states and have no relationship to each other that is the crazy part Because then it's like What are we supposed to do there? How are we supposed to know that those two different ones?  You do blink It's over All right dice roller customer names Roll Three times one or two good luck one Two Timothy D Mac Sean Timothy Steve Burch Andrew Timothy Brandon Steve Wright and William. There you go Congratulations three times Top ten get in appreciate it guys Unfortunately from 11 to 31 not in but another way to win is on the website. It's our last one to unlock the break Appreciate it guys. Jasper's case breaks.com