Hey everybody if I might have your attention I'm really glad that you're here whether you know it or not I believe with all of my heart that this is a divine intersection for every single one of you and I believe that the Lord specifically has designed and purposed that you would be here and my hope is as we progress you're going to see that more and more. I want to compliment the spirit of God. I want to compliment God in his faithfulness and I want to remind you of course we have just come through Easter and we were reminded in the resurrection of Jesus that it was the Holy Spirit who rose him from the dead the scripture says so the same spirit who hovered over the chaos before creation who hovering is a maternal expression and brought order and brought light and brought life that same spirit then who spoke to the prophets throughout the Old Testament and spoke through kings that same spirit who was foretold in the description of David's branch or chute that came up that same spirit who came upon Jesus at his baptism that same spirit who led Jesus into the wilderness where he defeated the lives of the enemy that same spirit that brought Jesus then to the synagogue and he read in the synagogue the spirit of the Lord is upon me the same spirit who Jesus breathed on his disciples and said receive the Holy Spirit the same spirit who came upon the disciples at Pentecost filled them so that now that spirit would change the chaos and the darkness and the confusion in the hearts of people that same spirit who rose Jesus from the dead is in this room with us today. This is important for you to understand as we progress into a grasping of a potential new way of doing things that invites the spirit of the living God into your life and into the life of your church your fellowship your family who is this guy up here yelling at you my name is Les Beacham I am the lead pastor at Lifegate Church in Omaha Nebraska our website is lifegate.church if you want to creep us okay lifegate.church the church is 47 years old we are a life-giving spirit filled and we are a presence drawn church which is very similar as we're in association with radiant church I've been there 35 years I've been the pastor the lead pastor for 26 of those years and we have gone through everything you can imagine with regard to the expressions of the Holy Spirit we've had the wonderful we've had the powerful we've had the creepy we've had the weird we've had the balanced we've had the controlling and as you might guess none of those really had to do with the Holy Spirit but they had to do with the human spirit and so we have had expressions of the Spirit's ministry and welcomed them all 47 of those years and so it's important for you to understand that probably you have some of these expressions as well when I first came to Lifegate Church it wasn't Lifegate it was Trinity Church interdenominational interdenominational we were birthed in the charismatic movement and we are a church split to encourage you we've reconciled since then and we're closest friends with our mother church that we split from years before but that only after great great up evil and great pain to many many people and so in the midst of that we've always welcomed the Holy Spirit and hopefully you're at this conference because at least you're curious about him you may be welcoming him you may be cautious about him and I began by emphasizing that same Spirit that's made the difference from creation until now and I emphasized is one who hovers and this is important hover is found three times in the Bible once in Genesis chapter one verse one and the other two times it has to do with protection and especially the care of an eagle caring for its fledgling as it learns how to fly that's why I said it's nurturing it's even motherlike this expression of the Spirit of the living God and that's important as we see the expressions of this beautiful person the third person of the Godhead expressing himself in the local church and understanding how to do that when I first came to Trinity the primary expression was every Sunday someone interrupted worship during worship and spoke in a tongue then someone interrupted worship as the worship tried to reboot and catch a lift again and then they'd have a prophecy and then someone else would have a word and then someone would sing a song and it was usually off key and not enhancing to the worship but God spoke at those times and I would say this I want to be very careful and honoring I would say 20 percent of those times there was movement there and about 80 percent there was confusion and it was difficult and you couldn't hear the person and it went on and on and on that was challenging for me my wife as a discerner of spirits was very confused by this and very concerned about the genuineness of what was happening in the services now one of the best expressions of the prophetic was when we dedicated babies every baby at lifegate church we seek the Lord for a prophetic word a word of destiny for them we write it down and that is on their certificate and when we dedicate them we pray anything that's true of that word would be fulfilled my children have received that we've prayed for thousands of children and we've seen over and over again how God uses this in the parents life and in the child's life as well of course you always have the prophetic at retreats it's welcome there at prayer meeting someone would have a word and we would have the setting that's the best setting for the prophetic and that's in a group where if it's a newer believer and they have a prophetic word you're able to say to them I think that that's not quite right but your heart is really good let's keep seeking the Lord and so those were expressions in our fellowship now every single one of you has a story everyone has a background my wife's background was really believing all the gifts had ended now that we have the bible according to this theology a sensational style theology in 1st Corinthians chapter 13 the perfect has come and we don't need that which is not perfect prophecy tongues etc and the perfect is the word of God if you've not heard that theological position that is a very widespread position so you have that side once you have the bible just do what it says except those things where it's prophecy because this is on the only prophecy now and I'm not I'm not against those individuals but I find that that is not very biblical on the other side everything is prophecy and you know these individuals that eventuates to a place where you don't get married unless I seek God and I tell you that this is the one and that was a very popular expression and it still exists if you're in that church please run from that church because I don't believe that that is what God's design is and what is really pleasing to him so I want to introduce to you in addition to baby dedications in addition to those ministering at the front who in our church must be trained to hear the voice of God must be trained to lead people into the kingdom must be trained to help individuals receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit must be trained to listen to God and to discern whether or not what God is saying is for them to intercede about for them to share with the individual or not to and in our church when you've been trained in all those ways you get a name tag and so we urge people if someone wants to lay hands on you and prophesy over you in the entryway and they don't have a name tag we give you permission to say I don't know you I don't know some of you are wrestling with this right now and it's okay in a room this size you're saying well listen if God says to give a word you need to give a word and I want to say in response to that if God has set elders and a pastor and a fellowship and they say don't give a word in the entryway don't give a word because it has to do with unity and authority that God wants to express now I said earlier there is a new possibility for your churches to contemplate now we had this whole potpourri and then when I became senior pastor 26 years ago and I said if you're going to prophesy in this this sounds kind of negative it's it really this is going to get really really positive okay so it sounds kind of negative it does to me at least I'm not liking this right now and I haven't spoken it yet so hang on with me all right would you do that okay wow and so when I became senior pastor and I said if you're going to prophesy we welcome it but you have to go to a mic the prophet said then you ruin our inspiration now we're a 1400 seat sanctuary and someone's prophesy and people can't say amen because they're way back in the corner but they refuse to use a mic now this is just some individuals and then we said you need to clear it with an elder we don't we don't want to do that so you've had those any of you had those battles okay are you that person okay all right so in 2009 after we've gone through great upheaval great challenges as a church we were introduced to a model of prophetic expression from pastor tom lane of gateway church now how many of you know tom lane okay tom lane met the lord in our church before I was a pastor and then he moved to Texas and so we've had this relationship with tom a very close relationship for years and he introduced us to prophetic presbytery would you say that prophetic presbytery how many of you really don't have much of an idea of what that really is may I see your hands I'm so glad you're here that's why you're here all right everybody prophetic presbytery all right first of all you need to know prophetic presbytery is a model of prophetic expression to the local church which I believe is expanding and is something that radiant embraces fully as a matter of fact as we define what a presbyter is you need to know pastor lee is one of the most sought after presbyters in churches doing prophetic presbytery now I'm going to try to teach it may not be too cool but it will be informative but before I do that I want to share a word as I asked God yesterday do you have a word for this group and he said I do now I'm going to share a word that I believe God has given me you need to discern and test the word don't just receive it but when God impresses us with something and I'm under the authority of this house I want to be faithful to share it with you here's what I heard you've been asking and wondering and seeking God inspired curiosity wondering is there another way is there a better way is there a fresh way for God's people to hear the voice of God receive encouragement comfort strengthening of God without confusion without theatrics or hurtful baggage exposure or control do I have to give up on hearing a current word for fear of old scars wounds and abuses I've sustained God ordained curiosity God orchestrated this appointment for this season for you and for God's people God says I'm doing a new thing in my house that my people might be healed empowered and commissioned and that many on the way to God may experience God's voice and be astonished by love arrested by hope drawn to the sun to his life and to his freedom scheduled for you prepared for you a new wine skin for a new wine don't be afraid God is still speaking come receive and become his carriers his mouthpieces his counselors of the testimony of Jesus okay let that just settle in God ordained curiosity he's giving to you he gave it to you before we walked in can any of you receive that Lord confirm the impression of your word we've just said there's a wide span radiant is not becoming presbyterian you need to know that we're going to start by answering what does presbytery mean now many of you know this but we read in 1st Timothy chapter 4 verse 14 neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery and so he's talking to Timothy he says you've received a gift don't neglect it remember spiritual gifts and spiritual experiences can atrophy if they are neglected and not cultivated if they're not fanned if they're not fed so he says don't neglect this one that you received through the laying on of the hands the impartation through the presbytery we read in the niv presbytery is the body of elders and so we realize this presbytery comes from the greek word presbyterian which is translated elders that's very simple a presbyter is an elder somewhere in a local church so presbytery is a council of elders with emphasis upon maturity of judgment more than mere age there are many churches that have been birthed especially when when the when russia opened up decades ago and these pastors and elders were late teenagers early 20s but it has to do with god's anointing and the wisdom now i'm going to define prophetic presbytery and then i hope to unpack it this is a high holy weekend in the life of lifegate it is coming in june here at radiant and it is a high holy weekend several days that spill into the new week where the emphasis is god come and speak to us as a people and as individuals so watch the definition here it's thick it's meaty but i'm going to unpack it prophetic presbytery is a time set apart in the life of the local church where a team of seasoned elders who are gifted prophetically seek god for his heart and prophetic message for three different groups selected individuals or candidates couples or individuals those he impresses upon their hearts out in the congregation and the church as a whole for the strengthening encouragement and comfort now let me unpack this briefly i first want to start with you've already seen it how many of you saw pastor wane drain give a word to this church and this conference how many saw that what you just saw was an elder wane who is a seasoned veteran having planted and led a church in russellville arkansas for many years who god has given gifted prophetically to the point where he is a mouthpiece in the nations a prophet so to speak and he sought the lord and the lord impressed him to stand up in front of everybody and proclaim a word that he believes is from god's heart to encourage strengthen and comfort this conference were any of you encouraged by his word any of you strengthened in the weariness of what you do that god was giving you hope so you see that is the purpose you just saw the third aspect of the prophetic presbytery which is a word for the church as a whole for the strengthening encouragement and comfort of that church now when we have prophetic presbytery i'm going to break this down that's one of the high points if god gives a word to the presbyter about your church and what's happening in your church it's a great great encouragement so we set apart this weekend we ask for those we know who are gifted prophetically one of our presbyters is tom lane another of our presbyters is wane drain another of our presbyters is lee comings why do you have three because you have three separate individuals who you give to them candidates and what we'd say is this is couple one all the way up to couple 24 or individual 24 would you seek god and ask him what he wants to say to comfort strengthen and encourage this couple so lee seeks god for each couple and tom and wane and then when we have presbytery in a service we'll have one to three couples come and one couple at a time or individual don't please don't hear couples it's individuals are couples and they will sit on the platform lee will sit here tom will sit here and wane will sit here and one at a time they'll go up they'll smile at the couple usually the couple's nervous out of their brain and they will share just like i did with this room what they believe god is saying to encourage them then lee will get up and the people in the room will be shocked because they will say surely they read one another's notes no the author is the same and that's the reality and what happens is they share this word it's recorded those in the congregation have a good idea who these people are they're shouting they're excited and then the couple barely remembers one thing that was said it's kind of like if you're married the message at your wedding is the most wasted message in the world it's the most wasted for you except your funeral you don't even hear that one and so but that's why we say go back and watch it because it was really good and so what we do is we record that we transcribe it and then a mature leader sits down with this couple and walks through the entire word because the words that are shared they have a timing to them number one number two the word that is shared you know when god prophesies over you god doesn't look on the outside he looks on the inside he judges no one according to the flesh he sees your spirit so those of us who are pastors and the candidates are up there and we know the one candidate he's not really that good of a person and the presbyter is saying and god loves you and he has this destiny and you're like oh shoot and i'm not really frustrated me until i sat down with the presbyters and they said no no we're not we're not describing what they are in this moment we're describing the destiny of god in them and that which is dormant that which has been tamped down that which has been harmed or whatever else we're describing that so that it might ignite their hearts and god would release power through his holy spirit so a prophetic presbytery is in our case we have a saturday night service we have sunday morning all services the presbyters are prophesying we have sunday night we have monday morning to lunchtime and tuesday morning to lunchtime or in the evening so that gives you a picture of the weekend it is one of the most sought after most exciting most desired things we do because after we have the candidates then what we will do is we will turn to the congregation and we will give them words of knowledge so during presbytery the presbyters during worship are watching you and they are looking in the spirit to see if god wants to say something and so as they do that then we'll spend 15 to 30 minutes and we'll say would you stand what's your name and then we will say i believe the lord is saying this to you it's recorded because you've just gone deaf and uh sort of and you go back and listen and you're encouraged and so we do that and the congregation is greatly encouraged and then by the end of the time usually there's a word for the church now i want to unpack a few other thoughts and then we'll get to a place where we can ask questions the first thing is we just saw what prophetic presbytery is how many would say um i still can't see this meeting thing it doesn't make any sense would you say that it doesn't make any sense to me okay i'm good are you ashamed to raise your hand okay how many of you say i think this makes sense i think it makes sense okay all right it's starting to make sense so you're having services where you've had people that they're praying and they're fasting or whatever saying god i look forward to hearing what you're saying and we're praying for the presbyter and uh then they get up and and they share these things and then they share words and season or words of knowledge and i'll unpack words and season what that means okay next why prophetic presbytery here's the first reason god wants to speak to you and he wants to speak through you now listen yes he's spoken through his word but his word is not a manual that you're trying to follow everything so you can have a good life you just heard that that's not what it's about it's about his glory it's about his tabernacle on earth expressed through you and so the reason we have a prophetic presbytery is because god has spoken in the bible and he's continuing to speak through the prophetic gift now this is important so he wants to speak to you remember moses when the elders the 70 received the prophetic gift remember in the old testament jesus expressed the spirit by coming upon you but he didn't dwell in you yet okay and two were out in the camp and they were prophesying josh who says they're out there prophesying you want me to correct them moses said and i love this this is the image that you and i get to live right now but moses replied are you jealous for my sake i wish that all of the lord's people were prophets and that the lord would put his spirit on them now listen everybody that was the intention of god that is your experience and prophetic presbytery is an example for you to watch that this can really happen in you and through you that's a big deal without having the name badge of prophet or presbyter in the same way jesus modeled these things and in john chapter 14 what did he say these things will you do also and greater things will you do because i go to my father and if i go to my father who will he send the holy spirit and so god's design is to speak to you but then he wants to speak through you and so we see this at pentecost when it says that god will speak through his sons and daughters his male servants and female servants he is speaking right now god wants to speak to this world and give it life and hope i was at a restaurant last night my waiter's name is nick i said nick before you leave and get my order would is we love god and we always pray for our meal is there anything that we could pray for you because our god answers prayer he said let me think yes my girlfriend and i my girlfriend and i were moving to ithica and in new york i think that's it and this is scary for me and so he became vulnerable at that moment because of god speaking through me if you haven't ever done that do that don't dare do that unless you tip them 20 plus percent and and i mean that seriously don't don't give god a bad reputation so he wants to speak through you win all the time he wants to express it we read in first crethage chapter 14 it says this follow the way of love in other words don't you dare to do anything unless the love of god is compelling you and then it says this zealously desire the spiritual gifts now here's here's what he's saying be filled with the love of god and then be filled with the power and the tools of god he says zealously zealotase zealous earnestly passionately we just heard it desire the spiritual gifts but especially that you might prophesy so what we're saying in prophetic presbytery we're holding up this gift is very significant and god wants it widespread in his body why it is the breath of god through the people of god prophecy is the breath of god through you as you're compelled by love so why prophetic presbytery god still wants to speak he is speaking he speaks predominantly through his word and through then his words spoken through you and spoken through me and god is faithful if we would be zealous for him i'm so dependent upon god speaking and yet there's a continuum there are some who predominantly say god told me rather than it is written you know when you tell the devil god told me he's not really impressed as much as he is written when you say it's written it's settled when god told me it it's mixed with me and but this isn't mixed with me does that make sense to you and so but i'm saying this because of the um imbalance of some once this reality that you can hear from god in the word beyond the word never in opposition to the word they become people who tell everyone god told me this and i'm telling you this rather than god speaking through his word and we want to be cautious of that and so why at our church are we not giving everyone a free-for-all pass go and share with everyone not you don't talk with your family or whatever you know because we we want you to know there are boundaries here have you ever thought about this first Corinthians chapter 12 through 14 is one of the most interesting realities it is all written because of the tendency of the body of christ to be enamored with gifts and misuse them the Corinthian church was a mess they were immoral they were fighting they were disunified and god still gave them gifts you know what i do the same thing with my grandchildren they can be honoree they're never really honoree they can be disunified i'm still giving them gifts and i never take my gifts back from them but first christians 14 is written because they have imbalance in the gifts the first imbalance is not having love in its proper place the second imbalance is raising some impression you have above the word of god the third imbalance is focusing on you rather than on jesus and so those are things not in your notes but they are for free here's the second reason say it again boy i forgot what i said reminding the first imbalance is not emphasizing the word of god but emphasizing my word the second imbalance thank you the first one is love the first imbalance is anything that you do that it's not motivated by love and then the second is when you exalt what you've been impressed over the word of god not even an opposition to the word of god god told you to break up with this person for example and the third imbalance is exalting yourself above god himself by emphasizing you're the carrier the big carrier of the word of god i'll try to remember what i say it just kind of comes out of me if that makes sense okay here's the second reason why prophetic presbytery everyone is in need of strengthening comfort and encouragement from the word of god and we get this from first Corinthians 14 but the one who prophesies speaks to people speaks to people for their strengthening they're encouraging and they're comforting let me ask you a question let's just be real transparent how many of you need strength in an area of your life for your feeling weak right now how many are facing sorrow loss or confusion and you would appreciate the comfort of god directly addressed to you okay so we see that there's a need for strength and comfort how many of you you know you're supposed to be going this way with regard to intercession or whatever else but if god encouraged you directly it wouldn't mean something to you now look at this this is this room filled with spirit filled believers can you imagine the waiters the waitresses the person you work out next to what they need they don't have any identity in christ they don't have the indwelling holy spirit they don't have any of that i was at a table at a fundraiser for teen challenge this dear woman was across the table she was in calving season right now and the weather isn't good and we had tornado warnings that night but she also is an advocate in the courts for young people in desperate straits but she also is a primary reporter for the newspaper but she also loves god you could tell she was working at this thing taking pictures and whatnot she was a grandma's age and the spirit of god said tell her my handprint is on her and i'm using her in every situation it's just a it's just an impression and it's like why me what if i'm wrong and what what if that doesn't incur i don't i don't deal with what ifs anymore i've done this too long and afterwards i said excuse me sometimes god does this and i think this may be him notice that did you catch that don't hesitate to use may i think this may be him i just want you to know his hand is on you everything and her face just melts and and the tears well up in her eyes and she says you don't you don't have any idea how much that that means to me you have no idea don't exalt the prophetic into something super duper spiritual realize where does god want the prophetic everywhere you go so why do we have prophetic presbytery to show you a balanced expression that's not kooky and doesn't focus on flamboyance and so everyone needs these strengthening these encouraging and comforting and so some people are still stuck though in the old testament and prophecy equals conviction confrontation and exposure i mean you've got whole passages of this and so we find ourselves saying i love the prophetic i want to everyone wants to hear from god they they just do but i'm afraid of getting slapped in the process pastor less if you're prophetic and you asked me to stand and you say to me god wants you to know the secret things in your heart he's going to bring out right now in front of all these people to motivate you to change and to repent you know what i think you should do get up and leave as quickly as possible because that i don't believe well that's what happened in the old testament do you realize in the old testament none of them had the spirit of god in them do you realize the spirit of god is hard at work right now to convict the world of sin righteousness and judgment so he's doing that and you're loving them you are not the holy spirit and so get over the habit of having to tell those who've embraced an identity that is not biblical get over the habit of having to tell them every time you're around them show them how much you love them yeah but you know they they may not realize their sin whatever sin it is you know what they know what the bible they do individuals know what the bible saying to a great extent our rule is to love people if jesus didn't come to get him who are you condemning them you know bar now survey shows that christians are seen as extreme and they are hypocritical and they're not loving they're known for what they're against rather than known for what they're for and prophetic presbytery is here to say god is here to strengthen and to encourage and to comfort and everyone needs this what should people expect the candidates should expect to see how god sees them and what he has for them not just who they are but who they are becoming how he sees i i had a word for a gal in our church one of the pastor's wife she always sits in the back and the word was god is moving you from the back to the front from a place of listening to the place of speaking and she was like i don't i don't know if i want that you know that's not my favorite prophetic word but i said be encouraged it's gonna it's gonna draw up in you a wellspring that has been in you but has been covered up she became our women's pastor now she is our adult ministries pastor over seven campuses and her husband i am succeeding my role to in a year and so that word is a basis for her to say god you were preparing me beforehand so i wouldn't die in the process and you were showing me this so the candidates experience that how do you select the candidates i pray i ask all the departments and the campus pastors who they think but at the end of the day i pray and i say i think this should be it i do it in community i hear god best in community and i think you do also i hear him best in community and so i will select people usually who are serving and people know well that's just kind of the club isn't it no if i put a stranger on the platform and we prophesy and you don't know that person you'll have a hard time saying amen and so we put them there so the whole body can see ago they don't know anything about that person this is incredible one of our presbyters came and our pastor who's succeeding me is from Georgia he's a georgia bulldog fan and all of that and the pastor gets up and says when i look at you i'm reminded of a bulldog and it's like how do you even know these things well they don't the lord knows these things so they should expect that and then everybody should expect god to speak to them either through a word in season a word in season this is rooted in proverbs 15 23 and it says a man hath joy by the answer of his mouth and a word spoken in due season how good it is now are you a king james guy less no but some of these words we want the message says the right word at the right time beautiful and i can't tell you the number of times we give words in season and we say this any word that's shared that leaps in your heart and you're tempted to say oh god would you just say that to me he just has now here's why faith helped me with this faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of see we always get that wrong doesn't say that it says hearing by the word of christ a ramitas christoi why is that important you can read this word and not get a word but when you read this word and it leaps in you that is a word from christ it's a ramitas christoi christ is the word but you can read the word without the word being in liven a rama expression so when someone's hearing a word in season and it leaps in them we tell them we call that a ricochet word i gave it to you but it and if you feel that in your spirit receive it as a ramitas christoi and let that leap inside of you and receive it fully so what's happening is the body of christ now they know a lot of the people out there but a lot of them they don't but when they see their face as a word is given and they melt and they cry and they're moved and all that when they see that they they say god is here and often it's the unbeliever who's there for the very first time who god gives a word to the presbyter to give to them and it is utterly incredible so the people should all expect a word from god so you've got a whole weekend where every session you come with the anticipation god speak to me whether it's directly or not it doesn't matter and god is speaking not in opposition to his word always in conjuncts and all those things and the people are deeply deeply encouraged so through the candidate speaking there through a word in season god speaking to you through that through a presbyter who speaks to you those things are so powerful and then through a prophetic team member well what if i didn't get a ricochet word and what if when they talk to the candidates it didn't relate to me we're concerned about us aren't we we are then we have trained a prophetic team we've walked them through a course of study that helps them learn to listen for the voice of god they practice prophesying over one another kind of Bethelisk if you know what i mean and they learn this and they are prepared so at the end of each of the presbytery sessions they cover the front and they will stay as long as they need so everyone can receive a word from god so you've got candidates you've got words in season you've got ricochet words or ramitas christoi then you have a prophetic team and then you have the same thing happening for the children and they're being prophesied over pastor wane drain it comes out in september god still speaks to children and so he and tom lane have written the book this is the gold standard for me in understanding prophecy god still speaks it's in the bookstore if i'm not mistaken tom lane wane drain and it's emphasizing this reality that god wants our lives to be characterized by first the presence of god second the love of god third the voice of god the people of god stand apart and moses said if you don't go with us how will the nations know that you are god and so god is in manual he's with you you're seeking him his presence which is primarily expressed in love follow the way of love nothing matters if you don't love why don't you just stop and sit in a chair until the love of god comes on you all right there are too many christians who are claiming to be and the love of god is not compelling them how does the love of god compel you remind yourself deeply of what jesus has done for you don't ever forget what you used to be like and how god has changed you and when you remember that and that you can't do anything without him and his love because jesus said i can't do any are you convinced yet you can't do anything you convince you can't convince anyone you can't change anyone but if god is with you he'll do those things through you and so you have those groups of people who are impacted and then you have another group you have people online you have people who watch this later and they're impacted and so you might say i can see why you do prophetic presbytery i have a list of things then god will speak to the church what to instruct god's people to do prepare for i'm gonna let you read that list pray prepare don't take god's word to be frustrated because it's not happening right now god says there's a time for this vision wait for it god's gonna move on that and i want you to know that this whole process has changed us our people look forward to it we choose new candidates every year the presbyters have no idea who they are until we're in worship and we say that's candidate number one over there that's candidate number two over there and it utterly utterly changes the body of christ and sets a gold standard for the prophetic from which they work from after prophetic presbytery we have classes on prophecy so people can learn how to do this in their family in their life etc we have the book he still speaks and then we carefully help people to not get out of bounds spiritual gifts and people are a notorious combination for going too far in one way or the other if they're not mature in love if they're infatuated with the gifts and here's what we say in our fellowship and then i'm going to shift and then shift again spiritual gifts are like a campfire the word of god are the stones around the campfire to keep the fire in bounds and if you move the stones that campfire burn the forest down but if you keep them there occasionally an ember jumps out the answer to the ember jumping out is not to pour a bucket of water on the fire many churches because of the misuse of gifts say we don't do that around here some of you it's like we don't do any tongues around here because it got out of bounds but what we do is we take the tongs of love we pick that ember up and we put it back in the fire and we say god help that person help us to process this and we're trusting you for this okay stick with me you're gonna have questions but i want to give you a couple words that i sought lord the lord for and uh if you're in here and you have been hurt by the prophetic would you raise your hand you've been hurt by someone who prophesied over you don't be afraid okay i see your hands you know it's even hard to raise your hand do you know that okay this works for you all and there may be more over here the tongue has the power of life and death something spoken to you that claimed to be god's voice wasn't you need to hear that from me right now it's so powerful the greatest abuse is spiritual abuse and when someone says god is saying this to you and he's not it it messes you up and so i'm here to say in looking you in the eyes this was not god and then it killed a dream a vision a destiny and god has sent me to declare to you all lazarus come forth from those things that died and be unwrapped with the hands and hearts of faith be resurrected listen come alive again can you receive that good okay i want to shift here stick with me you in the back row with a little white um yeah you what's your name mason that's a neat name here's what i believe the lord's saying to you if this is really real you're saying lord if it's really real say something to me i'm not sure how much more i can take you're saying how long i can hang on jesus says get ready everything's about to shift in your life does make any sense to you good you can hang on longer okay in this room there are barren wombs barren hearts and barren relationships you thought you would you raise your hand barren wombs barren hearts barren relationships okay ready i'm opening up right now and releasing a miraculous conception in you right now of life receive it in these areas in your womb i speak to your womb and i say conceive now in jesus name in your heart in your relationships receive it for god's conceiving right in this room right now just receive that right now yeah rich would you stand i know rich but i believe this works for you he says you're a guardian of the flock you've guarded them wealth from wolves and after your great losses you've resolved to leave none vulnerable you're a good pastor and a good undershepard of the master's flock it's time to welcome his voice with wisdom and care to forget the past wounds and receive new life and victory from god's own heart the to those that you have charge over to care for he's here to shepherd his flock through you at a whole new level amen amen okay there's someone here saying shoo this is not what i expected this thing to be i want this so bad and some of you are frustrated because you're i'm not the pastor now there's a manual as you leave that will go through all the protocol that radion has laid out for what how do you select a candidate how do you contact them how do you care for your presbyters all those things will answer for you but you're saying here i want this so bad i want it for our church lord how are you going to do this and i want it for me if that's you would you raise your hand okay this is the word for you all if you receive this class is about to begin come find your seat at his feet let's start with john chapter 10 my sheep hear my voice and follow me i'm going to teach you to hear my voice and then to teach others as well your tuition is already paid on the cross it's time for you to grow risk failing follow and then speak raise your hand if that was you father i pray the full tuition that has been paid for them now lord they'd receive it i pray you'd put a dream in them a desire in them that would be fulfilled this year or next year or the next year whenever that lord they would be a source of encouragement to their pastor or as the pastor and they'd begin a journey now now of the school of jesus and the spirit of god and that lord the prophetic voice of god would rise up in their life their family and in their church lord i pray for that release now in the mighty name of jesus amen amen can you applaud the lord everybody yes yes yes yes yes yes oh god is so faithful we're so dependent upon him okay we're going to take a few questions i know we're right on time and those food lines are huge but there's some food that's worth waiting for and so we'll take a few questions all questions are welcome yes yes they do the candidate as you read the manual they've been pursued several weeks in advance so their friends can know and they're praying for them but we keep the candidates away from the presbyters especially if they're a main pastor and then we just show them there but the candidates have been praying that's real important yes yes yes we do we uh no no i'm sorry we schedule it after it's happened so that it works for everyone that might be a wise thing to schedule it ahead of time uh we do with the candidates they all follow through yep they do mm-hmm yes uh say if the person says something that is abusive and um incorrect uh the political way to answer is i don't receive that i don't believe that's the lord please stop talking to me if they don't stop talking to you then you go to someone in authority in your church and say they continue to come and say my wife is an idiot and that the lord is telling them and you know listen everybody i've been at this too long to put up with kooky people and here's one of the most dysfunctional emotionally unhealthy things christian do i love christians i am one they they use god to avoid god and often they say to you what they're projecting from their own life okay another couple questions yes okay she said how often do you do the presbytery every year we found if we did it every other year it was too long people were hungry and we wanted that model because every church has a churn rate people move and all that so at least once a year okay at a good time when people can be there okay if a person says i believe i have a word for the lord we say well here what we want to ask you to do is write that word down and give it to one of our pastors or elders and they'll evaluate it in other words no one has the authority to turn the service except those who've been recognized by the eldership to lead the service if a person's really spiritual they'll write it down and they'll give it to you and then here's what they'll do if the ups man comes to your house delivers you hand it he hands it to you and they say well i'm coming in and you say well why because i want to see you open the package the prophetic's role is not to open the package it's to deliver the package and so don't listen everybody don't put up with that in john prominsky's seminar he's giving it right now you can get the notes from that he's talking about the prophetic and how do you relate to prophetic people people can be very prophetically gifted but very immature and we don't reject them we help mature them another couple questions when god gives you something to the person it's going to be confirmation to that person i will say in many cases yes in some cases they're shocked and it takes time for that to happen in the case of my daughter who's been sober for two years now after about eight years of terrible addiction suicide she received words from wane drain nine years ago they're being confirmed now so you're right yep mm-hmm yes the best response is you know what i wish i had a word for people all the time the best that i can give you right now without praying about that is that you are loved with an everlasting love that your identity is rooted in the beloved son of jesus and that is an identity proclamation that's rooted in the word of god better to say you know what i don't right now you seek the lord and ask him for a word and here's one of the most important questions god is there one word you want to give to me we do that in our restoration process to teach people how to listen to god most people want you to listen to god for them and god wants all of us to listen why he wants to speak to everybody and so don't explain too much help them in this process okay a couple other questions are these helpful anyone else yes please this is really good to ask the guests when they come again or they're coming in do they do any teaching we usually select one to give the message of the weekend it's always about prophetic presbytery now you could guess there are all kinds of angles to it because we have new people we want to proclaim that we don't always do that but then these guys and gals we have both men and women they're they're on task you could just think you're in a service you're giving words and season you have these candidate words they don't always have all of them they go back to the room they're seeking so that's a long answer we don't give them any other responsibilities and we give them space that's good other couple questions has this been helpful do you understand that the spirit who raised christ from the dead lives in you to love through you to speak through you holy spirit do this in your people in the mighty name of Jesus amen


selecting best regressor model. Suppose you have a problem with large number of regressors and one response variable, having large number of regressors you may wonder whether some of them are irrelevant for the response variable. And whether those irrelevant regressor variables can be removed from the model without affecting the model predictive power. So, by the best regression model in multiple linear regression setup, we mean a model that can explain the variability in y and at the same time it includes as few regressors as possible. Because you know more regressors in a model, if you have more regressors in the model then greater the cost of collecting the data and also the cost for the maintenance increases. Well, so the known algorithms for selecting the best regression model, they are basically classified into two classes. One is called all possible regression approach and the other one is called sequential selection. So, in all possible regression approach what we did is that if you have a problem with K minus 1 regressors, then you consider all the two to the power of K minus 1 linear models. And the next step is that we feed those models and we evaluate them with respect to some criteria. So, the criteria could be the coefficient of multiple determination which is called you know R square. The criteria could be MS residual, it could be adjusted coefficient of multiple determination that I am going to talk about this one today. And also it could be the Malo's statistics that is denoted by C P. Let me talk about the criteria for evaluating the subset regression model, one criteria is residual mean square. So, we denoted by MS residual. So, what we observed in the last class is that SS residual P by this one we mean that the residual sum of square for a model involving P minus 1 regressors. So, this one decreases as the number of regressors, but the same is not necessarily true for MS residual. So, MS residual may increase if you increase the number of regressors also that is what we observed in the last class. Now, well what is MS residual? MS residual is MS residual associated with the model involving P minus 1 regressors is equal to SS residual P by N minus P and of course, you know lower value of MS residual P indicates better fit. So, now we will what we will do is that we will plot MS residual minimum MS residual against. So, the P is the number of unknown parameters in the model and we will plot minimum MS residual along the y axis right. So, what we do is that see given a P all possible models with P minus 1 regressors are evaluated and the model giving minimum MS residual P is tabulated. So, to explain this one let me recall my one example we discussed in the last class. So, we will be considering the same example the hold a cement data. So, here we have four regressors and one response variable. So, here k is equal to k minus 1 is equal to 4 k minus 1 denotes the number of. So, here k minus 1 is equal to 4. So, k minus 1 stands for the number of regressors well and then what we do is that we write down the models all possible models. So, here this is the model I said with no regressors. So, the number of regressor variable is equal to 0 here equal to 0 here. So, that is why P is the number of unknown. So, there is only one unknown that is the intercept. So, P is equal to 1 for this model. Now, these are the model involving one regressor or we will say that these are called one regressor model that is why P equal to 2 because the number of unknowns for these models is equal to 2. These are the model with involving two regressors that is why P equal to 3 and these are the model involving three regressors and P is equal to 4 and this is the full model involving all the four regressor variables that is why P is equal to 5. And then first we write down all possible models and then we take one model and we fit that model. That is what we did in the last class.  Here is the ANOVA table for the first model and similarly you have to do you have to do the same job for all possible for all the 16 possible models. Now, what is the MS residual here? The MS residual for this model is 115.1. So, that is mentioned in the last class. Here the MS residual for this model is 115.06 more precisely and similarly you fit the second model you get the ANOVA table you find out the MS residual value. So, this way you compute the MS residual value for all the models involving one regressor for all the models involved in two regressor variables. These are the MS residual and similarly for the other models also you compute the MS residual value. Now, what we do is that you know the minimum MS residual value in this class is 80.1. So, you compute the MS residual value 0.35. So, we tabulate this one and the minimum in this class is 5.7. So, we will tabulate this one in our in this graph here. So, for p equal to 1 p equal to 2 3 4 3 4 3 4 3 5 well for p equal to 1 that means there is no p equal to 1 means this model no regressor the MS residual value is 2 2 6. So, suppose this is 10 20 30 and then it is you know may be 200 here. So, for p equal to 1 it is 2 2 6. So, somewhere here now for p equal to for p equal to 1 for p equal to 1 it is 2 2 6 for p equal to 2 it is 80 point for p equal to 2 it is 80.35. So, you plot somewhere here I am not very particular about this scaling. Now, for p equal to 3 it is 5.7. So, somewhere here for p equal to 4 for p equal to 4 it is the minimum 1 is 5.33. So, for p equal to 4 it is the minimum 1 is 5.33 and for p equal to 5 it is 5.98 this is 5.33 and. So, what happen here is that this value is for MS residual 3 is equal to 5.7 MS residual 3 is equal to 5.7 MS residual 3 is equal to 4 for p equal to 4 it is 5.33 and MS residual 5 for p equal to 5 it is 5.98. So, what happens here is that initially you know initially MS residual decreases and then it stabilize for some time and then it may increase also. So, here it is increasing little bit from 5.33 to 5.98. So, this you know because for SS residual it is not true SS residual is always a decreasing function, but that the same is not true for the SS residual sorry the same is not true for MS residual. So, it may increase also. So, if the newly added regression variable is not relevant to the response variable then the reduction in SS regression is not sufficient to compensate the 1 degree of freedom loss in the denominator that is why MS residual increases also for some time. So, what we do here? So, the we choose a value p such that MS residual p is almost equal to the MS residual for the full model or we choose a value of p such that value of p where MS residual p turns. So, here this is not true for the full model these are the I mean selection criteria either you choose a p in fact it is a number of regressors in the regression model p minus 1. So, you choose a p such that the MS residual p is almost close to the MS residual for the full model otherwise you choose a p such that from that point MS residual p turns upward. So, here you can see that MS residual decreases till p equal to 4 and then it turns upward because for 5 it is again the value is more than the value for p equal to 4. So, here it turns upward. So, here you can choose p equal to 4 the meaning of this one is that. So, this MS residual criteria suggest that you go for the model involving the regressor x 1, x 2, x 4 also you know this other two models like the model involving x 1, x 2, x 3 and the model involving x 1, x 2, x 3 and x 4 they have also you know the comparable value of MS residual. So, either you can go for this model or the these two models and if you want if you prefer you know the model with two variables then of course, you have to go for the model with which involves x 1 and x 2. So, this is how we evaluate the model using the MS residual criteria. Now next we are going to talk about one more criteria that is called adjusted coefficient of multiple determination and this one is denoted by R. So, let me just recall R square, R square is the coefficient of multiple determination which is equal to SS regression by SS total and this one is equal to if I is this one is equal to 1 minus SS residual by SST.  Now what we know is that this is residual p always decreases as p increases. So, from here you can say that this implies this test statement implies that coefficient of determination R square p this always increases as p increases. So, from here you know we can say that R square p or R square is not a good measure of the quality of fit. Let me explain why because see who is the whether the newly inserted or newly included regressor variable is relevant to the model or not irrespective of that fact whatever regressor variable you include SS residual always decreases and R square always increases with the when the number of regressors increases number of regressor variable is number of regressor variable increases. So, that is why you know R square is R square cannot distinguish between whether the newly added regressor variable is relevant for the model or it is irrelevant for the model. So, that is why R square is or R square or SS residual is not a good measure to check the quality of fit. Well, so that is why what we define is that we introduce adjusted coefficient of multiple determination. So, what is that this R p bar square this is the adjusted coefficient of R p bar square coefficient of multiple determination the only difference is that this here you know we replace this SS residual p by MS residual by MS residual p and here we replace the SST by MS and then this can be written as now this adjusted you know R square can be written in terms of R square. So, this one is equal to 1 minus what is MS residual when there are p minus 1 regressors in the model I can write that as SS residual by the degree of freedom N minus p. So, this is nothing but MS residual p right. Now, what is SST sorry MST MST is nothing but SST by the degree of freedom is N minus 1. So, this one is equal to 1 minus N minus 1 by the N minus p into SS residual p by SST and this one is nothing but you know 1 minus R square. So, this can be written as 1 minus N minus 1 by N minus p 1 minus R p square and since you know here we have replaced the SS residual by MS residual as I said before that MS residual will not necessarily always decrease as p increases. So, here from there you can say that now R p square you can observe that R p is equal to 1 minus R p square. R p square bar square value will not necessarily increases with the addition of any regressor. So, that is why this adjusted coefficient of multiple determination it is a better measure than the usual R square. Now, let me just illustrate for this model how to how to get this adjusted coefficient of multiple determination. We have the fitted model and unavoidable for the first model well then what is the adjusted coefficient of multiple determination for this model. So, there p equal to for this model y equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x 1 plus epsilon. So, here number of unknowns is equal to 2. So, p equal to 2 so basically I am computing R 2 bar square for this model for this specific model. So, this one is equal to 1 minus N minus 1 that is 13 minus 1 12 by N minus p N is equal to 13 for that you know hold cement data. So, N minus p is equal to 11 and 1 minus R square R 2 square. So, what is the value of this R 2 square the value was 53.4 53.4 percent. So, basically this one is nothing, but this one is nothing, but 0.534. So, R 2 square is nothing, but R 2 square is nothing, but S S regression by S S total which is equal to 1450 by 2715 please refer my previous class. So, this one is equal to 0.534. So, this value is equal to 1 minus 12 by 11 1 minus 0.534 which is going to be equal to 0.492. So, this way so this value of the adjusted coefficient of multiple determination for the first model is 0.49. So, here is I am writing in percent so it is instead of 0.492 I am writing 49.2 percent. So, similarly you feed the second model you get the value of adjusted coefficient of multiple determination. Similarly, you do for all the model here and for all the model involving three regressors and four regressors these are the value. So, what we do is that we plot coefficient of adjusted coefficient of multiple determination against the value of p. So, here also you all possible models with p minus 1 regressors evaluated model giving maximum r p bar square is tabulated. So, of course, you know higher value of adjusted coefficient of multiple determinations indicates better fit that is why we consider the maximum value from each class r p bar square. So, we consider the maximum value from each class r p bar square. So, what we know is that the maximum 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 3, 4, 5 and let me put 20, 40, 60, 80, 100. Let me have the values. So, r p equal to 1 when p equal to 1 the value is equal to 0. When p equal to 2 the maximum value is 64.5 when p equal to 3 the maximum value is 97.5. When p equal to 4 the maximum value is 97.6 and here 97.3. So, basically we will tabulate these values. So, for 0 p equal to 1 it is 0 for 0 for p equal to 2 it is 64.5. So, somewhere here for p equal to 3 the value is 97.5. So, it is somewhere here for p equal to 4 the value is 97.6 it is 97.6 and for p equal to 5 it is 97.3. So, here you can see it is not necessarily it is always increasing it can this value of adjusted r p square can decrease also sometime well. So, it suggest that the selection criteria is that you select a p where r p square reaches maximum. So, this is the value of what according to this coefficient of multiple determination among the two regressor models this one is the best the model involving x 1 and x 2 and among the three regressors model both are good you know see I mean all three are good model involving x 1, x 2, x 3, x 1, x 2, x 4, x 1, x 3 and x 4 they all have a very high value of adjusted coefficient of multiple determination right and see the difference here it is 97.6 and for the two model for the two regressor variable model the value is 97.5. So, there is a little gain in terms of this adjusted coefficient of multiple determination if you add one more variable with this say if you add x 3 with this model then the value is getting increased by 0.1. So, before it was 95.97.5 now if you add you know along with x 1, x 2 if you add either 3 or 4 they the increase is not that significant. So, I mean I personally I will go for this model you know x 1 the model with two variables x 1 and x 2 that is enough because there is no significant increase in the value of the adjusted coefficient of multiple determination if you add one more regressor variable here well next we will be talking about one more criteria that is called mallows statistic it is denoted by C p. So, this statistic measures the overall bias or mean square error in the fitted model. So, by the mean square error is measured by this one this one is y i hat minus y this one y i hat is the i th fitted value right and what is e y this is the expected response this is the expected response for the regression I mean the for the regression model I mean the full model regression and the difference. So, the difference between the fitted value and the expected value is the error you square it. So, it becomes square error and then the mean is you know you take the mean means expected value of this one well and this is for the i th observation you do you sum it over i equal to 1 to n and this one is standardized by dividing it by the sigma square well. So, this is called the mean square error and it can be proved that the mean square error is this quantity can be estimated by s s residual for the model for the model involving p minus 1 regressors by m s residual and this is for the full model of course, minus n plus and this one is denoted by see I am not I am not going into the detail of this you know how to get why c p is a is an estimate of this mean square error that is all. Now, here we need to observe something like a first one is this m s residual is computed using all the regressors in the model and s s residual p is computed for a model with only p minus 1 regressors. So, we know about this notation now what we need to observe something here what is the value of c p for the full model. So, here is the definition I mean here is the expression for c p now well let me write again c p equal to s s residual when the model involving for the model involving p minus 1 regressors and this is m s residual for the full model minus n plus 2 p and p is the number of m s residual. Unknown parameters in the model now when p equal to k that means the number of the number of regressors regressors in the model in the model is k minus 1. So, when if p equal to k then of course s s residual p is s s residual for the full model. Then what is the value of c p when p equal to k that means what is the value of c k.  Then what is the value of c p when p equal to k that means what is the value of c k. So, c k is for the full model c k is s s residual you can write in bracket k that means the s s residual in fact for the full model by m s residual minus n plus 2 k. So, here this is nothing but n minus k minus n plus 2 k which is equal to well. So, what we observed is that for p equal to k c k equal to k that means the full model the c k value is close to I mean is in fact it is c k value is equal to k. And you can you can note that the low c p value indicates better fit better fit. So, our selection criteria for you know for the model here is that of course a small value of c p is desirable. And also the c p should be close to I mean c p is small mean it is close to p. If c p is equal to p that means the model involving p minus 1 regressors is almost equivalent to the full model. Let me illustrate this Malo statistics using our example first. So, for p equal to 2 I will calculate the c p value for p equal to 2 that means I am considering the model y equal to beta naught plus beta 1 x 1 plus epsilon here p equal to 2. So, I will compute c 2 c 2 is I said it is s s residual 2 by m s residual minus n plus 2 into p. So, 2 into 2. So, this one is nothing but 1 2 6 5 this is the s s 1 plus 1 2 6 5 this is the s s residual by m s residual no do not take this m s residual this m s residual for the full model well where is the full model this one is the here is the full model. And you take this m s residual value. So, this is the m s residual for the full model. So, you take so s s residual 2 by 5.98 which is the m s residual for the full model minus 13 plus 4 which is equal to 202.53 right. So, this is the c p value 202.53 this is the 202.5 is the c p value for this model. Similarly, you get the unavoidable for the second model and compute the c p value. So, these are the c p values for model involving 1 regressors and 2 regressors. And these are the c p values for the model involving 3 regressors and 4 regressors. So, I said that you know the smaller value of c p or low value of c p indicates better feed and also it should be close to p. So, here you can see that this the 3 model this 3 models involving x 1, x 2, x 3, x 1, x 2, x 4 and x 1, x 3, x 4 they are acceptable under the c p criteria. Because these values are small I mean specially 3.02 is small 1 and low c p value indicates better feed. So, among these models you know this one is the best one, but all 3 are acceptable because they are reasonably small and also close to p. Now, here see there is no the small c p is here 138, but of course it is very far from 2. So, this is not acceptable according to the c p criteria. Now, for 2 variable case or model involving 2 regressors this one is the small 1 2.68 and also it is very close to 3. So, the model which involves x 1 and x 2 is the small c p. It is best one in I mean it is a good acceptable model in terms of the c p criteria. Well, so here you know again you can draw the graph of you can plot c p against p. So, here is the p along the x axis and you plot minimum c p along the y axis. So, 1 2 3 4 5 6 and here also write 1 2 3 4 5 6 you know I because I want to draw this line c p equal to 3. So, for p equal to 1 the value is something 138. So, it will be somewhere here for p equal to 2 sorry for p equal to 2 it is 138. So, for p equal to 2 it is 138 for p equal to 1 it is for p equal to 1 it is 4 4 2 and for p equal to 2 it is 138. So, for p equal to 1 it is somewhere here and for p equal to 3 it is 2.6. So, it is below the line 2.6 here for p equal to 4 for p equal to 4 minimum is 3.02 and for p equal to 5 it is 5 for p equal to 4 it is 3.02. So, it is somewhere here and for p equal to 5 it is 5. So, you can see if you draw you join them. So, the selection criteria is that you choose a p small value of c p which is close to p are desirable. So, from this graph you can say that I mean for p equal to 3 the value is equal to 2.6. So, among the two regressor model this one is the best in terms of the c p criteria and among the three regressors models all three are acceptable in terms of the c p criteria and overall if you see you know all the there are we talked about different criteria for evaluating the model. If you combine them now you know for the two variable model it appears that the model involving x 1 and x 2 is the best one with respect to all the criteria and among the three regressor models this one is of course, it is good with respect to all the criteria. So, this is how you know we write down all the models involving maximum k minus 1 regressors and then we feed them and we evaluate them in terms of using some criteria and we choose the best model out of the all possible models. Thank you very much.


Coming up on DTNS, Google redesigns Google pay to be much, much more. Apple knocks its rev share on apps down to 15 percent for everyone, but the big players and robot wolves defend a Japanese town against bears. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, November 18th, 2020 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood. I'm Sarah Lane. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chains joining us today. We're very happy to have founder of five by five, Dan Benjamin on the show. Welcome. Thank you. Great to be here. Thanks for having me back on. Oh, it's good to have you back, man. It's been way too long. We were just having a good time talking to Dan about VCRs and Tiktok. That's right. I show up on the show and we talk about 40 year old technology. It's lovely. It was a good time. You can get that expanded conversation on our expanded show. Good day, Internet. Become a member at patreon.com slash DTNS. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. The U.S. FCC has voted to open additional spectrum for Wi-Fi use. This is an addition to the 1200 megahertz of spectrum in the six gigahertz band, which opened in April. The additional 45 megahertz of spectrum just voted on is around the 5.9 gigahertz band and was set aside 20 years ago for vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to infrastructure transmission, but hasn't been used much. When devices are updated to support the additional bands, it will help increase speed and reliability. Firefox 83 is out with an HTTPS only mode built right in. You don't have to use an extension anymore. When turned on, the browser will automatically try to connect you to websites securely, even if the link you typed or clicked is not HTTPS. If a secure version is not available, Firefox will warn you and ask permission to continue. Users can turn that feature on in Firefox's privacy and security preferences. Firefox 83 also added pinch to zoom for Windows touchscreen devices. Chrome 87 will prioritize active tabs to reduce CPU usage by five times. If you're a Chrome user, you might be cheering about that. Google also promises that Chrome will now use less power and memory. Chrome is also getting tab search starting on Chromebooks. The president of the United States terminated the position of Christopher Krebs, who headed the Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency, or CESA. Last Friday, CESA issued a report finding, quote, no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised. SoundCloud announced it will add blue checkmarks next to artists that it has verified. The company says it's adding the checkmarks to help well-known artists stand out and maintain their authenticity and to help listeners identify those artists more easily. Any artist can request verification from their settings. And it's so authentic, I can hear the blue check mark in this guy. All right, let's talk a little more about a new social media app to keep your eye on. If you've been wondering what's next after TikTok, maybe it's ad-free French social media app, Ubo. They've gone from 25 million users in December last year to 40 million, according to details released along with the latest round of funding. Ubo does not let you follow people or like contact, a content, but you can't add friends. So there's a little bit of following, but it's not like on Twitter or even on TikTok. Instead, you join rooms based on a topic like a games or politics. And then you live stream from your phone into that room and just chat with other users about things you have common interests in. Users can pay extra for features like boosting your profile or boosting your stream. Ubo is working on partnerships with YouTube to integrate video contents. You could just watch YouTube videos along with other people and Snap to use Snap's camera kit for lenses within Ubo as well. Why Ubo? Dan, what do you think the chances are this is the next big thing? I don't know, Tom, it sits weird with me. The whole fact that you can't follow people because I guess what their focus is on interest. So you said this is a thing I'm interested in and I want to join this room and I want to hang out with the people that are in the room. But you're all chatting and it's video chat, but you're chatting with strangers. Maybe they're your friend. I don't know. This doesn't appeal that much to me. But I mean, who knows? It's when I remember when Instagram first came out with stories, I was like, well, it's not really my thing. And now I love stories. I use them all the time. So who knows? It kind of reminds me of the video version of Clubhouse. If you're not familiar with Clubhouse and Twitter is apparently working on a Clubhouse feature of its own. It is the idea that you get into a room with a bunch of people who are talking. There's sort of a moderator.  But that's not video. That's audio only. I'm not a huge fan of Clubhouse because it's just it feels like it needs more moderation than it has. But the idea of saying, hmm, I'm in the mood to talk about horses today. Let's see if you Bose got a, you know, some sort of horse chat going on. And I don't maybe a friend of mine is in that video chat. Maybe not. But people who care about the stuff that I care about are in that video chat. To me, Dan, I'm with you. I'm like, oh, God, video chatting. I mean, that's asking a lot of me. But I think more and more people are getting used to that, especially if you look at the fact that Yubo has grown so much since December, just goes to show you that people are home wanting to connect with other people and see them. Yeah, maybe three people who even prior to 2020 just stayed in their in their studios going out of the wrong wrong target for Yubo. But I get what they're going for. And there does seem to be a trend, like you say, with Clubhouse. There was even a language app that I was seeing the other day that was about getting into rooms with strangers and conversing in the language you're trying to to learn. There's this backlash against speaking to a mass amount of people at once and more of like, hey, why don't you find people who you just want to talk to directly when you're talking to people directly? You're less likely to be hostile. You're you're less likely to troll and people will less likely to troll you. They have a lot of things in Yubo to kind of, you know, handle moderation and complaints and all of that. But it does seem like this is the next trend. Whether Yubo is the one to catch it or not, it does seem like the trend is smaller groups talking about shared interests rather than the sort of like post your thing to the world situation. Well, here's a familiar name that we haven't talked about on this show in a while. Former Yahoo CEO, Marissa Meyer, also former Google executive, along with her longtime colleague, Enrique Munoz Torres, have launched a company called Sunshine. First product is Sunshine Contacts. This is an iOS app for managing contacts. It's available by Invite in Beta, at least for now, Android version still in development. The company previously operated under the name Lumi Labs, which we have talked about on the show before, Sunshine plans to develop and release other products involving group communication, event planning, family sharing, and scheduling. Yeah, I think this is getting a lot of attention because it's got Marissa Meyer and it's being billed as her comeback as Fast Company says. But that said, the idea of creating sort of a suite of organizational apps for personal use, not for enterprise use, not for business use is an interesting take. Is there anything to this besides, hey, this is Marissa Meyer's thing, Dan, do you think? You know, Tom, you're right. I mean, Marissa Meyer is super smart. She knows what she's doing. She's had such a great track record. And you have to think that if this is her comeback, this is the thing that she's focusing on, then there has to be more to it than what the article talks about. Because for me, like, like, I don't know about you guys, but like the buzz on the streets always about like contact management. Like that's the big thing of like one of the organizational things, but at the same time, like, it's contacts. Is this really a thing? Like they're really, we need a new app for that. So it makes me think that there's a lot more behind the scenes that she's thinking about.  So, but it'll be really interesting to see. And I like the name Sunshine. She's always been good at that. So. Yeah, I, I, I struggled to, you know, this is an iOS app for now, right? And, you know, it's, it's in beta. So there's obviously work to be done. But I think, okay, what's wrong with if I'm looking up Dan Benjamin in my contacts on iOS, like what's wrong with the information that I have for him? Well, nothing, but it's also, you know, it's a little long on the tooth. As far as you got a name, you might be able to update a profile photo, you know, iOS will ask me to do that periodically. You might merge a couple phone numbers, you know, into a contact, but it's been doing the same thing for quite some time. So it, it, it may be one of those categories that we all go, I mean, okay, how are you going to make it better? And they have some great ideas. Yeah. I mean, it's something that's definitely we have so many organizational apps. We have so many to do apps. We have so many calendar apps. And when it comes to contacts, you know, maybe they're building a contact centric world or something like that, that could be kind of interesting. It kind of goes with the, you know, the personal media empire and the, and not to use this awful term of personal brand, but like it, maybe it's building off of that kind of a concept. And, you know, maybe connecting in a weird way to you Bo in the sense of like, you're forming new groups and this leads you to find new people. I don't know. There's got to be something. Yeah. I mean, maybe it's that context feels like an easy thing that everybody understands. And if you make it look nicer, it might turn some heads, whereas the real value would be the organizational apps out there like Slack and Microsoft Office are meant for the office. And if they make something that is for you to use on your own when you're not using it for work, I could see some advantages. They're like, yeah, you don't need all that stuff. You don't need that metaphor. We've got the meta. If they have the metaphor, then that could be compelling me. Yeah, especially because I think some of the solutions that it's sort of seems like Sunshine is dancing around is event based. If there are 10 people that I know I'm going to see for my birthday in a week, then maybe we're all going to be on a group text or something. If there if there is a contact layer that can that can sort of be built into my life to somehow make it easier and not necessarily be calendar oriented, because again, that still sort of tends to skew work. It'll be interesting. Google launched a redesigned version of Google pay for Android and iOS in the U.S. It has a lot of new stuff in it. It is not just paying by tap on Android or peer-to-peer on both iOS and Android. Although it still has that there are three new tabs pay is the one that has the tap to pay and the peer-to-peer pay. And then there's two other tabs explore and insights. Now the pay has those expected features, but also adds in functions like transaction history that looks kind of like a chat metaphor. Explore is a tab that will contain deals and discounts. If you opt into it, it will customize those based on your transaction history. If it knows you're buying certain kinds of things, it'll offer you discounts for those. If you don't opt into that, it'll just give you generic discounts that Google offers to everybody. The other tab is insights. That one lets you connect your bank account to get a searchable overview of your finances. So kind of like mint or something like that. You can also approve pay to look through Gmail and Google photos. You have to opt in to all this stuff, but if you do, it can look through Gmail and photos for receipts and then just automatically bring those into your insights tab. That's not all. Coming in 2021, Google will partner with banks to offer checking and saving accounts inside Google pay. Apparently they've got about 11 banks on board. They hope to have more by next year. Google has decided it was a good idea to call this new banking service Plex, which is also another product. But I guess they're not the same product. So by trademark law, they could do that. Google says it will not share transaction history with any other part of Google, whether you approve it or not. They're not even going to ask. They'll say we're not going to target ads with this stuff. Access to your data for searching and analysis requires you to opt in and it will use strong encryption when it does send that to the server for analysis. You can also opt into a three month trial of transaction analysis that will end unless you respond yes to a prompt. That way you don't have to remember to turn it off. You can say let me try it for three months. And if I like it, I'll keep doing the analysis. So Google really trying to say like, yes, we know you're freaked out by privacy, but this Google product is going to work really hard to keep your data private. But we do need a little bit of access to do the kinds of analysis that a mint or another service would do. I'd love to know how many iOS users use Google Pay. I don't because, well, if I'm in a store and Google Pay is limited on iOS, right? It's online transactions only or peer to peer. You know, if I don't know, I forget my wallet or for whatever reason I want to use my phone to tap, I'm going to use Apple Pay because I've got an iPhone. But I, and then if I need to send Tom, you know, 15 bucks for drinks that last Friday night, I might use Venmo or maybe PayPal or maybe Cash App. I mean, there are a lot of options. I know Android users are extremely familiar with Google Pay, formerly Android Pay, but I wonder how many iOS users are using it and how often because it is still limited. Sarah, I totally agree with you and that was exactly what I was thinking.  You know what they're asking for? Venmo all the time. And I had to get a Venmo account. The personal trainer, the haircut, the, you know, everybody's using Venmo. So they're not just competing with Apple Pay, like you said. They're competing with all of these different apps and it really does seem like people in the services group are hardcore on Venmo for whatever reason. So this, they have a lot of competition in this space. Well, I think that's why it's smart to kind of move towards becoming a super app, to say like, well, you might not want to use Google Pay because you use Venmo, but you can manage your finances in here and you can get deals and you can do shopping someday in here. And I could see this thing, if it does catch on this part of it, growing and growing and growing to be more like a WeChat is or an Alipay is in the future. And I think that's maybe why they're doing that is like, we can't compete with Venmo on a one-to-one basis. So we have to offer more and they're Google. They can do that. I think that's, you know, the part of people saying Google's opening a bank now. I mean, it's really just a layer on top of a bank that you might already use that ends up being a partner with Google Pay and it will probably get more banks down the road. It's something where it's like, okay, if I have this particular participating bank and I'm in Google Pay anyway, now I can kind of deal with my bank account rather than dipping out and going to that bank's own standalone app. The bank gets your service either way. So it's advantageous to the bank and it's advantageous to Google because then, yeah, again, I might be like, well, sometimes I get like cool discounts if I hang out in Google Pay a little bit more and I can do all this other stuff. Well, and the bank might not have its own app anymore. This may become its app, which means they drive more. Right, yeah, and they save a little development money as well. Hey, folks, if you've got thoughts on this or any of the stories we talk about, we've got a bunch of other listeners who are thinking like you or maybe not thinking exactly like you, but they want to talk about this stuff. Join conversation in our Discord by linking to a Patreon account at Patreon.com slash DTNS. Oh, a tiny little story you may have not heard of today. Apple announced that the App Store Small Business Program starting January 1st, 2021, will let developers who earn less than $1 million in annual sales over a year apply for reduced commission rate where Apple will only take 15% instead of the 30% of sales that it has up until now. Once you reach $1 million per year, your rate goes up to 30% from then onwards. Even if you don't make a lot of money the next year, you're still paying 30 at that point. Sensor Tower estimates that 98% of developers will qualify for the reduced rate. Those developers, though, make up 5% of total Apple Store revenue. More details about applications and processes will be released in December. Yeah, so Epic and Spotify, as you might have guessed, have already protested against this because they won't benefit from it. They think it's Apple trying to divide developers against their cause by giving the developers that make less money a better rate. And it is odd. Usually what happens is when your bigger customers get big, you give them a discount because they can handle more stuff. The benefit of paying for the App Store is less because they can do more on their own. Apple's turning that on its head possibly because they don't let you do your own stuff. They don't let you run your own payments to say, like, we'll make it easier to get in the door. And then when you start making more, then we'll take a bigger cut. Most people seem to be positive about this, though. Yeah, Tom, I mean, I think you're exactly right. Overall, for the smaller developer, they've got to feel good about this. They are getting a discounted rate and they're thinking, wouldn't making over a million dollars in revenue in the App Store be a great problem to have? Like, I want that problem. And at that point, let me be disgruntled about having to pay twice as much in commission to Apple. But at the same time, you know, and Sensor Tower, as you guys read, says 98% of developers are going to qualify for this. I think it might even be 99.9%. I mean, how many apps are there that are making over a million dollars? None of the app developers that I know make anywhere near that. They're usually, the app developers are thrilled if they can do that app full-time. Like, that's how big of a gap there is between the average iOS developer who's saying, I hope I can pay my rent this month working just on my app compared to companies that are like, well, we'll pay 30%, I guess. We're 1.5 million now, no big. Like, there's a huge, huge gap in between those. And this is just, it's fascinating to me because just like you said, Tom, you know, I'm very familiar in the work that I do. Often we're dealing with bandwidth costs, right? And generally speaking, the more bandwidth you use, the better your rate. So this is flipped exactly the way that you said, but it's just like you said, helping the small, I guess that ostensibly Apple is trying to help small businesses attain that higher level. So that remains to be seen if this will work that way, but good for the indie developer, I think. It's also Apple saying, listen, a vast majority of our developers will benefit from this, but we don't really lose out on much because you're not making us any money anyway, you know? It's just those 5% of the big guys, we're not gonna change your rules. But if anybody's looking into, you know, Apple in some sort of unfair competition way as far as the app store goes, the company can now say, I mean, look at, you know, how much we've reduced rates for the huge majority of people who are in our ecosystem. We've just helped 98% of all of our developers. Yeah, I think they really should have trolled Epic because what Epic does with its Unreal Engine and they do this because they want to encourage adoption. Apple doesn't really have an adoption problem, but with Unreal Engine, they say, look, everybody can use it for free until you make a million dollars and then we start taking a percentage because you're making enough money off of it. Apple's just like, forget the 15%, just been like, it's now nothing. It's nothing until you make a million dollars. They would have lost 5% of their revenue and they would have gained lots of argument points against Epic. And a lot of people who want to make $900,000 a year. Yeah, and just keep it right there. It's only 5% of the app store revenue, not of Apple's revenue. Well, that's a great point, yeah. And the app store is not the big part of Apple's revenue either. I mean, it makes them some money, but so it's like it's 5% of a percent, you know? So I don't know offhand, I should know this about what the total percent of app store revenue is, but for Apple, this is a drop in the bucket. Yeah, absolutely. All right, Twitter product lead Kvan Bakepour has been answering people who are saying, why are you giving us fleets when you should be giving us an edit button or better ways to stop misinformation? And one person among the things they were asking asked for a dislike button to the platform and Bakepour responded, among other things that he said, the company is exploring adding a dislike button to its platform. He says the priority now is minimizing the spread of inauthentic behavior, better harassment reporting tools and cracking down on misinformation. But yeah, he did say we're exploring that. Twitter previously let users report tweets that they didn't like, but other users didn't see a tally of that number. It wasn't like you had a thumbs down with a number by it. Yeah, the only real comparison I can make is YouTube videos, you know?  It's usually many more likes than down, depending on the video. But this is something that I know Facebook went explored at some point years ago and kind of went like too negative, right?  But I do like the idea of a dislike button somehow factoring into Twitter, trying to go after the much bigger problem of harassment and misinformation and bots and all of that. If they can figure out how to sort of crowd source some of these answers, along with the algorithms, of course, that might not be a bad thing. I totally agree. And, you know, I'm gonna give Twitter this idea. They can have this. They can run with it. But in the past, when you could report tweets that you didn't like, there wouldn't, you know, the idea of showing like you had mentioned on YouTube how you can see likes and dislikes, you see a number. If there was a way to obscure the number and almost show like a mood emoji of like, people seem to like this, people seem to not like this, that's almost better because, and maybe even if it was, if they're show, again, Twitter can have this, that I'm not gonna charge them for it. But they could compare how many people are liking something versus how many people are disliking it to kind of show the overall quality of the tweet. That's a very compelling to me because if there's a tweet that has, that is harassing or has disinformation and a lot of more people dislike it than like it, then the tweet's kind of like a eh, you know, but if everyone's generally liking it, you know, it helps put that into perspective. Something like that really does make sense and it's so hard because there is a lot of negativity out there and it's very easy for people to be negative. This might give some kind of, you know, I guess incentive to be nicer. Yeah, yeah, I love that. Take away the like number too. Just give me the mood. Give me the mood. Yeah, 12 moods. They can have that. Twitter is a mood. It's a whole mood. It is a mood. Speaking of moods, I don't know if it's a good one or a bad one, but the Japanese town Takikawa, if you're not familiar, it's on the northern island of Hokkaido, has deployed two robots, two robots for now, that look like wolves and they're designed to scare away bears and they appear to be working. Now you might say bears, what? Yeah, after bears were found roaming neighborhoods back in September and in fact, there were some attacks on people. City officials decided to try out the monster wolf. It's a robot that has four legs, a shaggy body, a blonde mane, red glowing eyes. Really reminds me of the nothing from the never ending story. If you're as old as I am to know what I'm talking about. Yes. When it detects motion, moves its head, flashes lights, emits sounds ranging from wolfish howling and machinery noises, things bears don't like apparently. Otaseki, which makes the robots, has sold about 70 units since 2018. The real Japanese wolf, which was real but was haunted to extinction more than a century ago, is not around anymore but maybe the bears didn't get that memo. Or maybe they did and when they go into Hokkaido and they see these robots, they're like, oh my gosh, they're back. Right, it's like an instinctual genetic memory of the wolves and did you guys look at the picture of this robot wolf? Oh, it's terrifying. I mean, it's it's horrifying. It looks like a like a really high quality like Halloween automaton decoration type thing. And I mean, like you would think this is exactly what a bear would not want to see when it came into town. So I think this is great. Like, what do you tell the kids?  It's just to keep the bears from eating you. Don't worry. I imagined it more of like a free roaming. It looks like it's a mounted on something. But I imagined it was like running around on its own. You know, that would have been even better. Yeah. And it doesn't really even have pause. It has like metal poles coming out. Right. Because it's kind of up elevated and it's just kind of, I think it's meant to move around from a distance. It does appear to be solar powered though. I mean, do you think that the bears will become desensitized to this over time, the way that like pigeons do at the like Tom at a Rudy's where they're, you know, they have like the fake owl. And after a while, they're like, let's roost on the owl. That's fine. A scarecrow covered in birds. I took a picture of a pigeon sitting on the little spikes that they put on top of stuff. Like it had just accommodated like, it's not that uncomfortable. It's like acupuncture. So yeah, I do wonder if that's where we end up, if they get used to it. And if so, is there a way to change it up? So because they are robotic, because they're, I don't know if there's so much robotic as animatronic from the looks out of it, but you could change their behavior a little bit. All right, folks, let's check out the mail bag. What do we got in there, Sarah? We got something from Pat who wrote in about our Amazon pharmacy story from yesterday. Pat says, if you're interested in more background in the future of pharmacy and the changes in the profession, I recommend grassrootsrph.com. Just filling prescriptions, no longer the main focus. I don't really see a tech angle to this, but I thought I would pass it along. The young man running that site is the Pharmacy Advancement Fellow at the Ohio State University, and he's my son. That's cool. Yeah, I haven't had a chance to look around at the site yet, but I liked that a member of our audience is like, oh, by the way, more information, and it's my boy. So that's cool. Thank you, Pat, for sending that along. Thanks, Pat, and thanks to everybody who sends us questions, comments, cool stories like Pat's. If you have one of your own, feedback at dailytechnewshow.com is where to send that email. Want to shout out patrons at our master and grandmaster levels, including Steve, Aya Darula, Chris Allen, and Mike Aikens. Also, big, big thanks to Dan Benjamin for being with us today. 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