The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes Toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Trader's Edge Now Steve Rhodes Good morning folks, welcome to the August 15th, the terrific Tuesday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host Steve Perseverance Rhodes who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day and let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. Now the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right, when you and I make that one little two by four shift it means we can find the gift. In every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now today you and I are going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what the bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I at just past 11 o'clock in the morning. I want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but even more important than that. And that's this, during this next 53 minutes I am here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone, dial on in at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now if you've got a question but you can't dial in, you can always send me an email. Send that early and send it off to Steve at TFNN.com. And inside the subject dating, please put radio show question. Of course if you're inside our Tigers Den, any ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on terrific Tuesday. Of course this is Tiger, financial news network. I'm Steve Rhodes, welcome to the show. Right now we've got all the US indices trading to the downside. Dow's down by 257, about 710, 710 for the S&P or 33, 610 for the NASDAQ 100 or 100 points. 810 for the Russell, that's a 15 point move. A little less than 1% for the semis, a 33 point move there. Trendy's down a little over 1%, 188 points to the downside. Gold is off $3, with silver being down 2 cents. Lights we could is off $1.47. Natural gas is down 13 cents, so 30 treasures off 8 ticks. Printed out at $1, 2014. Leading to charge dollar wise the upside, you've got NVIDIA up 7 bucks. Altar beauty's up 4, that's about 1% for Altar. AMGEN's up 4 bucks, 1.6% Insulate Corp. About 1.5%, 3 bucks there. Novo and Nordisk up 3 bucks. 1.76% there. The leader to the downside in the clubhouse is Altasource Asset Manager. Down 22 bucks, 67% move. Doesn't sound like they've done a great job managing assets. See, limited ADS is down 15 bucks, that's a 28% move. Blackrock down 2%, 14 bucks for solar off 5.5%, nearly 12 bucks in Broadcom. Now 1 to 3%, 1 to 3.10%, that's off $11 runes out there. So, let's begin, let's begin, let's begin where? Let's begin, let's begin by going over to the white background charts. Oh, I tell you where we're going to, yeah, let's go. Now, let's begin by taking a look at gold. Now let's take a look at the, let's take a look at components, three of the components of the US dollar index. That's where we're going to begin the day here. So, let's start off there. So, here we've got the Euro US dollar. We're looking at the daily timeframe out there. What we can see here is that yesterday price negated by the D point bottom. That formed here back on the Three River Morning Star. That was basically around August the 3rd. Price closed below that pattern, negated it. However, today, if we get another bullish reversal, can you don't see the chart? Boy, you should see the chart. That's weird. Thank you. I'll do that again. Let's change the windows one more time. Thank you, Mr. Bill. Screens. I didn't change. That's wild. Okay, so now you should see the Euro. You got the daily timeframe at present. It doesn't really matter what's at present, but at least it shows you where we're at. At present, we've got a bullish piercing candle. If we get a bullish reversal candle today, piercing candle, bearish engulfing, whatever it might be, then it would confirm another buy the D point pattern. If that unfolds, just like the last buy the D point pattern, the price will go target that oscillator and change line. That's currently printed 1.09. So you could get, and this is 51%, 52% of the US dollar index. If we get that turn here in the Euro, regardless of the patterns in the US dollar index, we're likely to see a top in the US dollar. But that's just the Euro. So the Euro has got a potential for a bottom today. You want to pay attention to that. Let's look at the next currency out here from a waiting standpoint. Well, it wasn't really the Great British Pound. Let's take a look at it anyways. The Great British Pound formed a buy the D point pattern. When it formed this bullish engulfing candle back here on August the 4th. Now, what price did last night, or what did yesterday, was it tested and rejected that bottom out there. So this buy the D point pattern remains in effect. You know the old saying, if you can't bust them to the downside, price is going to bust them to the upside. So the pound right now is putting weakness in the dollar as it approaches its oscillator and change line. That's currently printed 1.27. What I can share with you, if price closes above that, the Great British Pound will rally further against the US dollar. If we take a look at the Japanese yen, I should have that chart. Here we go. The Japanese yen needs a bearish reversal candle to confirm a sell the D point pattern. Now, we may or may not get that today. But if we do, then that will have a top. That will tell us that the US dollar index is going to weaken. So it's these, I could take it to the US dollar index charts, which I will the only chart that I can take you to. And if you listened to my segment with Tom yesterday, this is already information that you already know, but I don't have a daily topping pattern out there. Does that matter? It really doesn't. And the reason that it doesn't, because the underlying instruments are the ones that are going to really control what's going on. We just took a look at the yen, the Great British Pound, and the Euro out there, they represent 83% of the weighting. That is all we really need to take a look at out here. So watch the, you're going to watch the yen, the Great British Pound already is telling you it's headed higher. The yen could be telling us it's getting ready to move along. We want to see that bearish reversal candle. And the Euro just depends on the candle at the days, at day's end out there. So I'll switch back to the other charts just so we can finish off the dollar. And we'll take a look at actually the US dollar index. And the only chart here that helped me identify that there was a potential top, even though the daily said not so fast out here. And that was this. We're looking at the upper, now we're just going to look at the chart itself. I'm going to simply expand it out. And this is a weekly timeframe chart for the US dollar index. And what we can see is a very clear delineated declining tops pattern with price trading into its bearish structured profile zone. That zone is between 102.54 and 103.49. So only if the US dollar index were to close above 103.49 would that be signaling to you and I that it's getting ready to break out. But that's not what we're seeing. We take a look at the Euro, the yen and the pound out here. So it does make sense that we see the US dollar turned down. Where does it head to? We'll look at it from a profile standpoint and a trend line standpoint right now. I'd say that would be the lower end of the target. Should we get those turns in the other currency pairs? So that was a good place to start. The reason that was a good place to start is because at some point in time, somebody might say, well, Stevie, what about those TD nine count bottoms inside of gold and silver? They're there. Does it need a US dollar index to turn down? Not necessarily, but would it be helpful? Most likely it would be helpful out there, but those are two patterns that are in place. And those patterns remain in fact, unless gold closes below 1934, 20 and silver below 2241 and price there should continue to move higher. Okay, good. We flip the charts. We're doing good. Hey, as long as we're here, we can take a look at natural gas here. Natural gas just struggling at the top of that weekly profile. We got one daily close above that area that was back on August the 9th. We're, you know, it's a real key resistance zone. That by the way, that is up at $2.85. 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So with price below the bottom of the profile, maybe what this is going to go do is form a TD9 count bottom. Now in order to do that today, price needs to close below bar number four. So that first thing is going to be a close below 4144 today and tomorrow you would also need to see a close below 4146. And top of that, you've got to see a spike below bar number six. That low is 3820. If all of that unfolds between today, tomorrow, and Thursday out there, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, then you'll have a TD9 count bottom. Now the B point for an A to B equals CD was back here on July 27. Volume there was 16.8 million shares. When it was past, it was with 14 million shares lighter volume. So it set up an A to B but right now we're back kind of above the, well, we're not really above the B point just yet. So it's also possible if this doesn't go on to form a TD9 count bottom like it did a TD9 count top, then maybe it's the A to B equals CD pattern that is out there. It doesn't have that much further to go to at least get to the one-to-one area which looks like it's about the 35 90-ish type range. If price does do that John, then what you're looking for is you're looking then for a bullish reversal candle to confirm a Gartley buy pattern. The weekly chart looks bullish. There's no topping signal that I see. Well, let me just pull this back a little further in case there's an A to B CD pattern. And there's not one that I see that sticks out at me at least that's worthwhile for us to look at. Price remains above its green oscillator and change line and above the top of its profile actually form below price. That's a bullish message out here for Carvana. So at this stage it's really about the daily trying to find a bottom. It's below profile as we can't say that's a bottom. And I'd watch for either a TD9 count or a A to B will CD pattern out there. So I hope that helps you out John C with regard to CBNA. Mr. Bill inside the Tiger's Den, he wanted to take a look at the grain. So Mr. Bill what I need to do for that is we're going to switch over and take a look at my newsletter actually. So each morning newsletter subscribers you'll see in a moment I cover the soft commodities or I cover most of the soft commodities. Those soft commodities that I cover each day wheat, beans, corn, coffee, sugar and cocoa out there. So that's what we're showing on my screen out here. I need a different data feed to generate these charts and I don't want to close everything down that I've got open in order to do that. We can just come back here. Now the reason to come back here Mr. Bill we'll go take a look at the other charts as well. First we take a look at wheat out here. You're welcome John. We take a look at wheat. I don't know if it's trade below 607 right now or not, but that's a CD9 count breakout level. It was tested and rejected yesterday. Sometimes getting back to a breakout level can be a bottom. Is there a daily bottoming pattern? No there is not out here but you got price trading into a bottoming pattern. That was at Rogement Dominicator bottom back here in the May time frame. With regard to soybeans soybeans are just simply right now. I believe they are consolidated with inside their daily profile. I do not have a bottom pattern. Instead I've got an A to B equal CD to the downside but that hasn't taken hold just yet. With regard to corn it's testing its breakout level 474. I think with corn is if it closes below that 474 level I know it's trading below it this morning this could generate a very large A to B equal CD to the downside. The case of coffee it's working on bar number 8 today. It has a Rogement Dominicator signal that's been triggered. If it generates a bullish reversal candle then it will generate a Rogement Dominicator bottom. Short of that it could be a TD9 out bottom that forms between today and Thursday out there. We take a look at sugar. Sugar didn't really have a top but price pulled back it got back below the bottom of its profile. I don't have a good clear read on sugar other than to share with you at least as of this morning it was consolidating with inside its profiles. In the case of cocoa which has had just simply an amazing run out here it formed a TD9 count top it pulled back towards its breakout level it's likely rallying up to 3472 and if it can clear 3472 it's going to go attack its most recent highs out there. So that's what the soft commodity is using Stevie's tools out there. This is the other chart which has profiles most of the times they're the same but sometimes they're different. We use both out here we use all the data that we can and so I'll just simply leave you with this. Now we can see that cocoa is actually trading above the top of a new daily profile. So I don't recall where because I close that out where that oscillator change line was but if it's above that too then what that's telling you Mr. Bill is it's headed back to those highs out there. So hope that helps you out. The coffee here I know that's got a roadsman to indicator signal. Not a hammer candle just yet but it could turn into a hammer candle at day's end. So Mr. Bill I hope that that gave the information that you were looking for if it didn't and there's one specific grain that you need. Let me know and I'll do what I can to get you that information. Dan inside the Tiger's Den wanted to take a look at the KRE out here. So let's go take a look at that. That is the regional banking ETF and right now you've got Carvana that's going to show up and momentarily we'll switch that over and we should see the chart here for KRE. Now what Dan was interested in was the 30-minute chart. So let's pull that over here. It was interesting 30-minute profiles I believe. Well Dan I got bad news for you. The profiles are way above price. Now maybe that's good news. I think you were short if I'm not mistaken. So the profiles are way up at 47.51, 47.60, 47.87. What you really focused on I would say on a 30-minute chart would be the oscillator and chainsaw which is currently printed at 46.31. That's the next resistance level on a move higher. Now you know that that number is going to move up by pennies or what have you so you have to use that as a guideline if you will. Now that's on the 30-minute basis. Now the oscillator chainsaw is going to be wrong when I change this to a 15-minute chart of any profile. I'm just looking for some profiles that I can provide to Dan. There is a new profile that formed on a 10-minute basis. That 10-minute basis, the bottom and center are at the same price I believe. The bottom and center are at 45.75 so that's a strong support level. But right now 46 bucks even Stephen price is trading above that on a 15-minute basis and in five minutes of price close above that level that would say a further rally is likely out there. So that's what the 15-minute, that's what the 30-minute charts look like. As long as we're here let's go take a look at the daily, the weekly and the monthly. On a daily time frame we can see that price this formed a nice roadsman to indicator top price is now back, is now below the bottom of its daily profile. So the next price target area for us has us looking at the weekly chart. At a weekly chart Dan that level is down at the 43.58 area live quote okay so perfect so this is suggesting that it wants a lower price and again that price target I would say would be 43.58 to 41.57 and 41.57 would be or should be the area where price if this was just a counter trend move would find support because it's a bullish, it's a bearish structured profile and typically at the center is where counter trend rallies die. They end and then they continue their move higher out there so the KRE looks like it wants lower price Dan hope that that helps you out as well are there any other requests I don't believe there are let me just check my phone out here a lonely day for Stevo just a few requests let's see if we've got anything and the answer is we do not so now Steves on his own let's take a look at what we want to look at next I'm going to flip back here just simply to the main chart well you know we didn't talk about the equity markets so we really ought to do that so that's what we're going to do we come back from this break you know take a look at the ES the NQ we'll take a look at the Russell 2000 as well Steve Rhodes with TFNN we'll be right back as a precious metal gold is still king it continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market the US futures market and the Shanghai Gold Exchange the Gold report Tom O'Brien 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target the 4550 level that is top of its profile a TD nine count bottom is also going to complete inside of the NQ today it has new profile that formed right now the low of the pattern is yesterday's low let's assume that holds and it closed below fifteen oh twenty seventy five would negate that signal suggest lower price otherwise we should expect and anticipate that the NQ will rally up towards its oscillator and change line which really right near the top of its profile so fifteen five fifty one becomes the price target whoops that actually meant to do that now if we take a look at the Dow here the Dow has a sell the D point pattern with price trading sideways yes it's below profile but it's really been trading sideways ever since that pattern formed out there so it made it's down to the bottom of the consolidation while you've got a TD the ESMini the TD nine count bottom the NQ to TD nine count bottom and today bar number nine looks like you will complete for the Russell two thousand so it's going to confirm that pattern today it'll complete that pattern tomorrow the pattern has taken it back to its breakout level of 1906 out here so you've got the Russell two thousand it's also generating a bottom signal so that being the case if it's going to bottom what we certainly need to see is we need to see signals coming from the intraday charts let's move to those intraday charts let's begin with the NQ let's start with any bottom patterns that we see out here the bot first one comes from a fifteen minute chart this was five bar morning star candle so you've got a rogment to indicator bottom that is formed out here price should go target 15228 that's the top of his 15 minute profile the 30 minute chart is generated rogment to indicator bottom we can see that the oscillator and change on is really acted as resistance so two consecutive close above it and it right now is 15 we'll call it 15182 probably it close above that level two consecutive bars are going to suggest a rally the next double key level of resistance for it would be up at the 15259 level you take out 15259 that tells you the rally extends today the 60 minute chart has completed a TD9 count bottom it did as we came on the air at 11 that should that tells us that price should also target the oscillator and change line that's at 15213 we take a look at the two hour time frame chart I don't have anything there other than price a TD9 count top that took price back to support which was its structured profile area 15147 on a 240 minute chart it's got a nice rogment to indicator bottom price pulled back and tested support that's the oscillator and change line the same is true with the five hour time frame chart so what Stevie just shared with you is that the NQ is bottoming it's bottoming right here right now well maybe not right here right now but really not too long ago if we take a look at that 15 minute time frame chart is the bottom in look what I can share is that bottom pattern that TD9 count is going to complete today we could get a spike low lower than yesterday's low that's always a possibility but the inter-day charts here right now are saying sayonara well we don't have I don't believe we have in order for let's go take a look I'm going to change panels here so we don't screw this up me a moment we're going to go to a different screen just simply so we can take a look at the market breadth of data so the first level first area we're going to start is going to be the NASDAQ 100 we've got 32 above and 22 below remember that NASDAQ 100 chart on a 30 minute time frame generate a rogement dominicator bottom but also that oscillator and change on was a key level resistance so if this market breadth is going to prove itself to us it should take out that 15-182 level if it does that it suggests first there's a small battle of 15-202 and the big battle is at 15-259 let's take a look at the S&P 500 we better for the end NASDAQ if the S&P also had positive market breadth it may not at this stage here but let's take a look I just don't know but we're going to find out here momentarily 130 above 154 below so still sellers that are in control of the 30 minute we haven't taken a look at the 30 minute ES charts out there but I do believe it's more about the NQ than it is about the ES although they both need to be traveling in concert let's take a look at the other time frames that we have out here and those other time frames are the 60, 240 daily and the weekly let's change over to the NASDAQ 100 right we have on a 60 minute basis so 60 minute we've got bearish market breadth 240 we've got bullish on this 60 minutes 25 above 44 below remember we just completed that TD nine count bottom like those bottoms where it's a roadsman to mitigate her bottom or TD nine count bottom they're going to catch the bottom before market breadth turns but we do need to see this market breadth turn as price approaches that 15-213 level and especially 15-259 because that's going to be the key battle today on any higher now the 240 minute chart has positive market breadth and that chart that market breadth looks like this this has got 28 above 25 below so it's by a smidgen but remember on that 4 hour chart price it pulled back test and support that was a Saucer and change line so that was a bullish test out there so actually so market breadth is it's not all bullish across the board but it's got a pretty good start with the 30 and a 240 being bullish and the 60 slightly well a little bit more than slightly bearish out there now we didn't take a look let me do that let me switch over here take a look at the S&P 500 and for the S&P 500 we got market breadth data that says we are bullish on the 6 remember we were bearish on the we were bearish on the 30 we're basically a break even on the 60 as we can see and the 240 slightly bearish with 146 above 161 below so let's go take a look at the ES mini charts will change panels but get over there give me a moment here and we'll change the panels then we'll actually let me get the symbol going first before we change ES that's 23 so I can get the machine working and now we're going to go ahead and change screens out here give me a moment and the ES mini chart is populated anyways going to take just a bit because of everything I've got running in the background but what you'll see here on the ES mini the daily chart is accurate you've got that TD9 count bottom with the low coming in a couple days ago actually the lowest today okay we've got a newer low today so so far if today's low if we don't see a move lower then the key threshold level is going to be 44 58 50 price would need to close below that level in order to suggest that the TD9 count bottom has failed I'm waiting for the other charts here to populate but we can see the 30 minute chart much like the NQ formed a by erosement to indicator bottom 30 minute chart was a little bit slightly bearish as I recall price should go target 44 84 and 44 87 now the cool thing about the 30 minute profile is if it's only a counter trend moving the ES mini then we're price going to find resistance is where folks at the center of that bullish structured profile that price is closed below from one of the two consecutive sessions on the rally this morning where their price stop remember the body that candles yes and some price and at both 9 30 and 10 o'clock this morning 44 87 held 44 87 what's called 44 87 75 is called 44 88 if we get a close about 44 88 that's going to signal that there is a further rally coming with 45 0 1 being a likely price target 10 minute 15 minute chart turn that off 10 minute and 15 minute charts have but you've got a you have bottoms along the bottom path here 60 minutes got a TD9 count bottom 30 minutes got erosement to indicator bottom 15 minute 10 minute who somebody with the devil was asking Stevie for trades out here I can't provide you with more information than this with regard to what the market is communicating to us if we take a look at the 240 minute chart it has erosement to indicator bottom that bottom was tested here that is held you might even get another bullish reversal candle here do we need two roads meant to mitigate their bonds for the four hour time frame chart we do not a five hour chart it's rose meant to mitigate her bottom held as well I think the push lower for the day is done with it's over Steve Rhodes with TFN you're right you might think that if you want to be trading in the stock market you're going to need a crystal ball after all it's impossible to predict the future right like any endeavor in life before you decide it's impossible get some advice from the experts you might find that it's not so impossible after all for daily market overviews that give you direction on the key indices selective stocks and commodities subscribe to the opening call newsletter at TFNN.com the opening call newsletter is written by Basil Chapman creator of the trading 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back folks you got the dow down 249 sbs up 31 nasdaq 185 russles down 15 we take a look at the charts here for silver let me make sure we're on that page we are this is for diesel inside the tigers den so diesel let's start from what do you want to start with the monthly chart monthly chart month is not over but prices are at profile levels once you get back inside a profile level could be signaling to us once to make a move to the next area that would be 21 22 in the case of the weekly time frame chart if it price closes below this level right here this level is 22 34 this would trigger an A to B equal CD to the downside that 1893 area could become a target but right now prices just tested in prior swing point well we've got price on the daily basis testing a prior rogment to indicator bottom that happened on June 23rd out there you have a td9 count bottom that formed yesterday and as long as price does not close below that low that low by the way is 22 41 we should see price bounce up to at least 23 22 you get above that and you've got a further rally with 24 57 being that the price target now we get to the intraday charts 30 minute from the beautiful rose bit to indicator bottom price ran right into resistance up here at his td9 count breakout level that was at $2 and $22 and 73 and the 60 minute was a td9 count breakdown resistance level that held there's resistance but I was going to ask anybody out there know where the key resistance level is for silver today that's right we would say 22 73 we would know that if we didn't use the td9 count system out here we go to the two hour time frame chart price ran into resistance at the top of its bare structured profile area that's between 22 74 and 22 76 so 22 76 is going to be the P key battle ground if price gets above that the next battles are at the 22 84 and 22 99 level you clear that we're off to the races out there those are the charts for silver they've got a bottom in place right now diesel you're looking for trades it's there it's an easy reward risk now you got to close that trade out if you close below yesterday's low that's how you would trade it all right let's close out silver let's go take a look at lights we crude that was for John C inside the Tigers then we go take a look at lights we crew up that's not the charts for lights we crew but we'll get there here are the daily weekly monthly and intraday charts for lights we crewed so right now lights we crewed is testing support and support is that green oscillator and change line right in about 80 55 where we're trading the weekly had busted out of a consolidation pattern right now prices testing the bottom of its profile that holds then the then that what that will tell us is the consolidation is real now on a daily time frame this formed a rogment to Mindicator top it did that four days ago when it formed that bear sash candle that was on August 10 right now prices trading below the bottom of its profile 81 17 I would say John that a close but below 81 17 would signal to you and I that price wants to make a pullback to 74 52 the 30 minute chart may form by 12 noon may form a TD 9 count bottom in order to do that we need to see a spike below 80 40 and if we well you need to see a spike below 80 40 by 12 30 because the bottom could form on bar 8 or on bar number the bar number 9 to the bar following bar number 9 out there so watch this through 12 30 out there I know what you're looking for is maybe to cover your short position out here I think you have to keep a keen eye on the 30 minute and the 60 minute charts which are are generating now the 60 minute chart is going to form a TD 9 count bottom as we get to that 12 noon hour but it's that our afterwards that low can still take place by at 1pm so you should get some type of a bounce out here but the question is that just a counter trend move so you've got those short term time frame charts to be watching and observing pay attention those TD 9 counts you could take a snapshot of this right now on your screen so you'd have that data if you don't follow that system out there which you should follow the system because it's easy to figure out and I teach that to you so that's what I see when I take a look at lights we crew to get 81 17 is going to be the real important hurdle to be paying attention to of course one day close below it doesn't make a change in trend but a second day tomorrow what that's why we're watching those interday charts out there so that's what I see when I take a look at oil out there John C I hope that that helps you out and thanks for your request the next request coming in from Phil inside the Tigers dead Phil wants to take a look at Home Depot so let's get over to those Home Depot charts see what it is up to and Home Depot right now trading out at about 3 30 49 because of what I've got open I would likely have a little bit of a delay out there 3 30 31 is the last print this is consolidating with inside its daily profile it has a TD 9 count top that is simply led to a consolidation Phil and that consolidation range between 327 23 at 3 30 497 that's a daily time frame chart the weekly time frame chart has a TD 9 count top now we can see that it's oscillator and change line change colors about four weeks ago what that signals to you and I is price should pull back to that level but that is not going to happen unless we see two consecutive close below 327 23 and then if that happens then we get a pullback to 3 16 69 that's a daily TD 9 count breakout level and then it also lines up with that weekly oscillator and change line so you've got the top in place but support is held if we look at a week a monthly time frame chart for Home Depot just a good old fashion consolidation with inside of profiles it's bullish right now price trading above that green oscillator and change line so it's really going to be about the weekly and the daily chart out here and first say to start with you go with the daily now of course if this were to close above the TD 9 count top on a weekly basis that's 3 30 497 then this is off to the races to the upside so Phil I hope that provided you with the information that you were looking for and if not just to ping me again and we'll be happy to take a look at that next chart is for AMD that's from the golf guy and Michael W. I saw you reset me that question I forwarded an answer to you I sent and responded an answer to you so maybe check your junk mailbox because your question has been answered let's go take a look at the golf guys question and and the golf guy all that's Duncan Steve inside the tiger's den we take a look at AMD can you plug AMD into your system and see where it may be headed to say the next month or so well right now what we've got is a consolidation pattern so yesterday price pulled back almost to its breakout level didn't get all the way down there at 103 49 it has a TD 9 count bottom that's been tested that's a TD 9 count bottom from June 27 so the bottom has been holding but right now what you're taking a look at is price testing disaster and change line that's at the 112 40 level ideally you'd see it close above that if price does close above that then that would signal move up to the top of the consolidation with inside the profiles and that's at one nineteen forty one so I would say the trading range out here is one nineteen forty one at the highs and at the lows I'd say it's down at the breakout level 103 49 you can see that beautiful roads meant to mitigate her top TD 9 count bottom out here just a sideways move now that's the daily chart golf guy on a weekly time frame chart prices lost its momentum we know it's lost momentum because prices trading below the green oscillator and change line so a lower downside target here would be 100.93 what was it on the daily I should just let that open that was at 103 49 you're asking what's this likely to do during the next month at one twelve forty one words test right now that might release the information that we need to know if we get a rejection here then it says we probably head back lower and test either 10991 or get back to yesterday's lower preferably the 103 49 level on a monthly chart beautiful TD 9 count bottom just like you had on the weekly on the weekly chart so monthly and weekly you have those patterns out there price ran right in the smack dab resistance where was that the TD 9 count breakdown level right at one twenty five 67 so in summary what's AMD going to do for the next couple months maybe it's just this sideways move out here that's the best I've got for you Duncan Steve thanks much for taking the time to write in Steve Rhodes with TFN we'll be right back to close out the show if you're looking for potential trading setups in the stock market then rocket equities and options report as a newsletter you should try Tommy O'Brien delivers options and equity trades when the markets present them using a combination of fundamentals and technicals sign up for rocket equities and options report today with a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk for all the details and to start your subscription today visit the front page of TFNN dot com TFNN educating investors you might think that if you want to be successful at trading in the stock market you're going to need a 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top and bottom signals right now we're looking at bottom signals so we take a look at the daily time frame you can see that the spy had a Rosemont Dominicator top out there and now that has led to a TD nine count bottom I know it's a TD nine counter tells me that what it has done is it's met all the requirements so we've got a TD nine count bottom that's going to complete today inside the spy the same thing for the cues in the Russell 2000 bar number nine is going to complete today or is likely going to complete today so three of the four have got bottom patterns out there if we take a look at any also what I've got out here you can see the last TD nine count top if it's got a star next to it it tells you it's still active out there if we so what the number one sector the XLK is going to complete its TD nine count bottom pattern today here I've got the resistance levels or price targets you've got the oscillator and changeline on a daily time frame this tells you where price is likely 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We continue with Chapter 6, the only answer. Remember that the Holy Spirit is the answer, not the question. The ego always speaks first. It is capricious and does not mean its maker well. It believes, and correctly so, that its maker may withdraw his support from it at any moment. If it meant you well, it would be glad, as the Holy Spirit will be glad when he has brought you home, and you are no longer needing his guidance. The ego does not regard itself as part of you. Herein lies its primary error, the foundation of its whole thought system. When God created you, He made you part of Him. That is why attack within the kingdom is impossible. You made the ego without love, and so it does not love you. You could not remain within the kingdom without love, and since the kingdom is love, you believe that you are without it. This enables the ego to regard itself as separate and outside its maker, thus speaking for the part of your mind that believes you are separate and outside the mind of God. The ego then raised the first question that was ever asked, but one it can never answer. That question, what are you, was the beginning of doubt. The ego has never answered any question since, although it has raised a great many. The most inventive activities of the ego have never done more than obscure the question because you have the answer, and the ego is afraid of you. You cannot understand the conflict until you fully understand the basic fact that the ego cannot know anything. The Holy Spirit does not speak first, but He always answers. Everyone has called upon Him for help at one time or another, and in one way or another, and has been answered. Since the Holy Spirit answers truly, He answers for all time, which means that everyone has the answer now. The ego cannot hear the Holy Spirit, but it does believe that part of the mind that made it is against it. It interprets this as a justification for attacking its maker. It believes that the best defense is attack, and wants you to believe it. Unless you do believe it, you will not side with it, and the ego feels badly in need of allies, though not of brothers. Perceiving something alien to itself in your mind, the ego turns to the body as its ally because the body is not part of you. This makes the body the ego's friend. It is an alliance frankly based on separation. If you side with this alliance, you will be afraid because you are siding with an alliance of fear. The ego uses the body to conspire against your mind, and because the ego realizes that its enemy can end them both, merely by recognizing they are not part of you, they join in the attack together. This is perhaps the strangest perception of all, if you consider what it really involves. The ego, which is not real, attempts to persuade the mind, which is real, that the mind is the ego's learning device, and further that the body is more real than the mind is. No one in his right mind could possibly believe this, and no one in his right mind does believe it. Here, then, the one answer of the Holy Spirit to all the questions the ego raises.  Nothing else exists, and only this is real. You have chosen a sleep in which you have had bad dreams, but the sleep is not real, and God calls you to awaken. There will be nothing left of your dream when you hear him, because you will awaken. Your dreams contain many of the ego's symbols, and they have confused you. If that was only because you were asleep and did not know. When you wake, you will see the truth around you, and you will no longer believe in dreams, because they will have no reality for you. Yet the kingdom, and all that you have created there, will have great reality for you, because they are beautiful and true. In the kingdom where you are, and what you are, is perfectly certain. There is no doubt, because the first question was never asked. Having finally been wholly answered, it has never been. Being alone lives in the kingdom, where everything lives in God without question. The time spent on questioning in the dream has given way to creation and to its eternity.  But what was once certain in your mind has become only the ability for certainty. The introduction of abilities into being was the beginning of uncertainty, because abilities are potentials, not accomplishments. Your abilities are useless in the presence of God's accomplishments, and also of yours. Accomplishments are results that have been achieved. When they are perfect, abilities are meaningless. It is curious that the perfect must now be perfected. In fact, it is impossible. Remember, however, that when you put yourself in an impossible situation, you believe that the impossible is possible. Abilities must be developed before you can use them. This is not true of anything that God created, but it is the kindest solution possible for what you made. In an impossible situation, you can develop your abilities to the point where they can get you out of it. You have a guide to how to develop them, but you have no commander except yourself. This leaves you in charge of the kingdom with both a guide to find it and a means to keep it. You have a model to follow who will strengthen your command and never detract from it in any way. You therefore retain the central place in your imagined enslavement, which in itself demonstrates that you are not enslaved. You are in an impossible situation only because you think it is possible to be in one. You would be in an impossible situation if God showed you your perfection and proved to you that you were wrong. This would demonstrate that the perfect are inadequate to bring themselves to the awareness of their perfection, and thus side with the belief that those who have everything need help and are therefore helpless. This is the kind of, quote, reasoning in which the ego engages. God, who knows that his creations are perfect, does not affront them. This would be as impossible as the ego's notion that it has affronted him. That is why the Holy Spirit never commands. To command is to assume inequality, which the Holy Spirit demonstrates does not exist. Fidelity to premises is a law of mind, and everything God created is faithful to his laws. Fidelity to other laws is also possible, however, not because the laws are true, but because you made them. What would be gained if God proved to you that you have thought insanely? Can God lose his own certainty? I have frequently said that what you teach you are. Would you have God teach you that you have sinned? If he confronted the self you made with the truth he created for you, what could you be but afraid? You would doubt your right mind, which is the only place where you can find the sanity he gave you. God does not teach. To teach is to imply lack, which God knows is not there. God is not conflicted. Teaching aims had changed, but God created only the changeless. The separation was not a loss of perfection, but a failure in communication. A harsh and strident form of communication arose as the ego's voice. It could not shatter the peace of God, but it could shatter yours. God did not blot it out, because to eradicate it would be to attack it. Being questioned, he did not question. He merely gave the answer. His answer is your teacher. And from the workbook, lesson 40, I am blessed as a son of God. Today we will begin to assert some of the happy things to which you are entitled, being what you are. No long practice periods are required today, but very frequent short ones are necessary. Once every ten minutes would be highly desirable, and you are urged to attempt this schedule and to adhere to it whenever possible. If you forget, try again. If there are long interruptions, try again. Whenever you remember, try again. You need not close your eyes for the exercise periods, although you will probably find it more helpful if you do. However, you may be in a number of situations during the day when closing your eyes would not be feasible. Do not miss a practice period because of this. You can practice quite well under any circumstances if you really want to. Today's exercises take a little time and no effort.  One practice period might, for example, consist of the following. I am blessed as a son of God. I am happy, peaceful, loving, and contented. Another might take this form. I am blessed as a son of God. I am calm, quiet, assured, and confident.  I am blessed as a son of God. So today we sink inward into the blessing, into our sense of holiness, into the answer. The answer to the question that was the ego. The only answer, our true identity, and the correction of error. We must see that we have not known anything in relationship to this world. Today we open to humbleness and true humility. We realize that God created us as love, and in love there is no lack and no attack. Though the ego speaks first, the Holy Spirit always answers. And His answers are for all time, which means that everyone has the answer. Now we return that belief in separation, that part of our mind that believes there is something besides God, besides love. We return that now, give it to the Holy Spirit, sink deep into the blessing, sink deep into our true identity. Today we open to remember our certainty, our certainty that resides in God. We lay aside all abilities and potentialities, yielding our mind and awareness to certainty, to wholeness, resting in God, feeling the blessing as the Holy Son of God. So we practice today as we were instructed in this workbook lesson. We start with the lesson with eyes open or closed. I am blessed as a Son of God. I am whole, complete, loved at peace, in joy and certainty. I am blessed as a Son of God. Truly I am blessed as a Son of God.


Alright, we can get started. So we're in Acts chapter 16. We saw Paul and team in Philippi. We saw the ministry to women. One particular very rich lady gets saved. Lydia, she hosts them. Then now we saw how Paul cast out a spirit from a slave girl. Now moving on to what happened the reaction. See we always expect when there is supernatural demonstration of God's power some positive response is what we expect. Even in Acts 3 that's what they expected but what happened they were called in for interrogation. So unfortunate that for the man who was the master for the slave girl it was so sad that his his spiritual eyes were still blind and he was more worried about the financial loss that he had as compared to the demonstration of God's power. Okay, so you see how how things are and how unfortunate that that master couldn't understand what God was doing in the life of that slave girl. But thank God that she was delivered. God did something good for that that slave girl and she was free from that demon spirit. Now as a result of that loss the person experienced Paul and Silas are put into the prison. So it specifically says Paul and Silas. Now we may ask a question where is Timothy, where is Luke. Maybe they were outside on that day they would have told them you guys wait here we'll go and serve the Lord we'll do the ministry or maybe they were in another you know corner doing their work. But yeah it was Paul and Silas who actually ended up in the prison. So I shared about how they were in a prison situation they were in a tough situation at this point and you know later on Paul even writes to the the Philippians but even when he writes to the Philippians he's in prison. Okay and so the Paul's attitude is something that we must we must understand. Okay we must understand that being in like a situation of persecution was not a deterrent for him to trust in God. So it really depends on our motives for you know what we are expecting from the Lord. This was a tough situation but at the end of the day it was knowing God as Almighty worshipping him, honoring him no matter what. Okay and it's sort of pledging allegiance to the Gospel and the Lord Jesus Christ. That was how Paul and you know many of these early leaders, believers were, they were totally committed, totally committed. So while in Philippi he's in the prison when he writes to the Philippians he's in the prison right we'll see later on what kind of a prison situation that is but still he writes rejoice in the Lord always and again I say rejoice. So something very unique happens later on as they are in these inner prisons but notice I didn't read out the passage for us but there is one more detail in that passage that you know the magistrates, the magistrates brought them while putting them into the prison but this is one statement which they make and it's important for us to note it. So in verse 20 they said these men being Jews exceedingly trouble our city and they teach customs which are not lawful for us being Romans to receive or observe. So they now say that these men are Jews and they are teaching customs contrary to the Romans. Okay but one thing or one piece of information which these magistrates have missed is Paul is a Roman citizen. Okay they have just assumed that he's a Jew yes but he's probably not a Roman citizen. So later we'll see that being a Roman citizen came along with the rights that one could enjoy and it was not at all easy to be a Roman citizen either you need to be born into that citizenship or you know pay a hefty price to get that citizenship. So those who carried the Roman citizenship were privileged okay and they could not be just put into the prison just treated you know just accused and treated badly all that was not acceptable but these magistrates and their oversight they just thought how ordinary Jew let's put him in the prison because that's a mistake which they made and we'll see how that will affect them. So now we said that Paul and Silas are in the prison. Okay I want us to just visualize so I found a random picture now I don't know if theologically this picture is correct and all but somewhat it depicts what Paul and you know Silas would have looked like. So let us try to project it for you. Okay there you go so the description they were beaten their feet were put in stocks so you see that they can't get out they are handcuffed okay so can you imagine with me how their bodies must have felt can you imagine with me how afraid they could have been at that point okay and what could be there like in what what would we do if we found ourselves in this situation what would be what would be our self-talk or our prayer or what would be your self-talk what would be your prayer okay God give me strength very nice okay God deliver us very good I think mostly our prayers would be prayers for either for deliverance or maybe a little bit of complaint yeah yeah honest very honest John I was also thinking maybe I don't know about myself I may be able to say why Lord why me Lord you know these kind of prayers happen because you find yourself in this tough situation what did you go to do serve the Lord only no minister correctly by the power of the spirit now Paul could have asked the question God I wanted to go to Bithynia I told you but you told me to go to Macedonia I came because you told me to come here and now I'm in the prison like what is this what is going on so we could have like we can have all these questions and complaints in a situation like this but let's now see what is it that Paul and Silas are up to so even as you look at that picture there maybe I will quickly read out to us from verse 25 of act 16 but at midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were listening to them suddenly there was a great earthquake so that found it so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed and the keeper of the prison awaking from sleep and seeing the prison doors open supposing the prisoners had fled through his sword and was about to kill himself but Paul called with a loud voice saying do yourself no harm for we are all here then he called for a light ran in fell down trembling before Paul and Silas and he brought them out and said sirs what must I do to be saved so they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved you and your household then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house and he took them the same hour of the night and wash their stripes and immediately he and all his family were baptized now when he had brought them into his house he said food food before them and he rejoiced having believed in God with all his household so in a way what God has done is there is ministry waiting for Paul and Silas in the prison when they are so committed to God and available ministry doesn't stop even in the prison ministry is continuing but the attitude or the heart condition of Paul and Silas was such that in this situation of being bound and being in pain I just love that one phrase no it says but at midnight okay and a lot of preachers have used that to preach sermons but at midnight Paul and Silas it's a little midnight that's true but we can also you know look at this as sort of in English how we use figure of speech when we say midnight it's a it's a very dark time or a dark season of life so for Paul and Silas it was literally midnight and also in terms of their lives it was sort of the midnight hour but in our lives midnight hours what do we choose to do that's the question Paul and Silas amaze us because they were praying and singing hymns to God anybody would you like to pull out your guitar and you know strike the chord and sing one lie allowed worship song in the prison at midnight but that's what they were up to they their hearts were ready to worship God in any situation and how did they do it they did it so loudly that all the prisoners were listening to them and thank God you know we can also talk about the power of praise when we engage in praise you know chains were broken always set free we read that there was something like an earthquake the prison was shaken and not only where they set free but the Bible says in verse 26 everyone's chains were loosed so we can also look at it in a spiritual sense because we do have other passages in the Bible that talk about deliverance that comes through praise when we praise God there is a deliverance like Jehoshaphat remember they the army like they went in with worship they went in with praise and automatically you know there was a God set an ambush against the enemies and there was victory for Jehoshaphat so praise when people walk marched around the walls of Jericho praising God the walls came crashing down so there are other passages that support what happened here deliverance through praise and so we can take it as yes even in our lives in in the midnight hour when we praise the Lord there will be deliverance and there's so much more to that there was not just deliverance only for Paul and Silas everyone's chains were loosed how amazing everyone was touched by God's deliverance at that time and that was the way in which God really worked in the prison and look at the attitude of Paul and Silas they could have just run away you know like the moment our hands are free the moment the stocks are gone what would we do just cared of the prison immediately but they didn't do that okay because they had compassion for the jailer we read there that the jailer when he understood this is what has happened earthquake everybody is free so in that context we must understand that if a jailer is careless right then the authorities would ask for that jailer to be killed so he knew that if prisoners have run away he might as well kill kill himself because anyway that's what is going to happen the next day okay so he was going to kill himself but Paul having compassion and great boldness they didn't leave they didn't run away like cupboards in the situation but they call out to he calls out to the jailer and says don't do yourself any harm we're all here and that in itself right made this jailer change his heart or God touched him because of everything that had happened and you know directly you remember how we saw an axe chapter 2 they say what shall we do brethren they were cut to the heart what shall we do brethren so in the same manner he's asking sirs what must I do to be saved and very similar to Cornelius and his household Cornelius and his household were saved same way in that night we see that the jailer along with this household they are saved when you know the team Paul speaks to what have got to them and they were baptized it says okay same night they were immediately they were baptized and also the jailer and his family were very like they were they hosted Paul and Silas they were generous to Paul and Silas they were hospitable so they gave them food and they also washed their stripes so they were hurt isn't it so that they even washed and they treated Paul and Silas well or nicely okay so this is how the story ended so all this is happening in one night it's almost like a movie if somebody one of you intends to make the you know some creative piece about praise you can consider all in one night they put into the prison they praised they were delivered but then they minister to the jailer the whole family is saved and God moved powerfully even in the prison so the jailer and his family received ministry in the prison so Paul and Silas being in the prison was also not wasted in that sense right so we can trust God to keep working through us wherever we go we can be a blessing to the people now let's see what happens now we are in the daytime the night has passed all these events have taken place and the news now reaches the oh the magistrates they come and they seem to have made a decision regarding these two prisoners and they tell these people the jailer let those men go okay so that is their final conclusion the next day maybe the magistrates thought let's put them in the prison let's treat them badly let's scare them little bit intimidate them then they'll you know quiet and down and then they'll go back but the keeper or the jailer of the prison you know he reports he comes back he tells Paul and he says look the magistrates have sent to let you go so you can now leave go ahead you know this is your opportunity this is your official opportunity last night you know you got a supernatural opportunity which you didn't take but now you have the official opportunity you guys can go but Paul now you know he is infuriated because of the way that he and Silas have been treated remember I mentioned one more detail was that he was a Roman citizen so in verse 37 we see Paul said to them they have beaten us openly uncondemned Romans and have thrown us into prison and now do they put us out secretly no indeed let them come themselves and get us out so he gets infuriated and he's asking for justice he's asking for justice because the law was not followed or the process was not followed he says that see you can put somebody in the prison if they are condemned accusation is not good enough right like accusation has to be interrogated to find out whether they are truly guilty or not and once they are condemned okay you can put them in the prison but what did the magistrates to straight away they put them in the inner prisons Paul didn't like that he's like what is this is this a game they put us in the prison and now they are saying you go so let them come let them come themselves and let them get us out okay but what happens now is now that Paul has revealed he what did he say he said uncondemned Romans the magistrates got scared they were afraid now that oh no we treated a Roman like this we shouldn't have done that so they come to Paul and they plead they plead with both Paul and Silas and then they bring them out and then they say you know so sorry we didn't know you were Romans and you know you got treated like this so now with great apologies you know we set you free you can go now you can go out of the city so the finally Paul and Silas after the magistrates apologize and set things right they went out of the prison and whose house do will they go to in Philippi whose house do they have Lydia yeah they entered Lydia's house where they had the brethren and they encouraged them and departed so maybe they felt that it was time now for them to move on so they left Philippi okay we move on to Acts chapter 17 any any thoughts any anything that you like discussing about if so we can pick it up otherwise we can just keep going city by city okay let's go on so what would we see here in Philippi three people okay three people Lydia wealthy businesswoman then we said the slave girl she's from a poorer section of society but also a jailer a jailer is someone that you can look at as maybe you know like an employee or some places they may call like a blue collar worker so every section of the society wherever there's an open door they're making an impact and they're moving on so now they will move on to the next city now our understanding is that maybe Luke stay Luke stayed back in Philippi and Paul Silas and Timothy moved on to the next place which the bigger city that they will come to will be Thessalonica now they do pass through Amphipolis and Apollonia but we don't read much about what exactly happened in those places so why are those places they will come to Thessalonica in Acts chapter 17 so that's what we are going to discuss about over here okay yeah so let's go on to act 17 and read about Thessalonica we can read all the way from verse one to verse nine so anyone who would like to volunteer can go ahead and do it sorry yeah let's see if there's anyone who would want to read here I encourage our online audience yeah online students please act 17 bus buses one tonight now when they had passed through Amphipolis and upon Apollonia they came to Thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the Jews then Paul as his customers went into them and for three Sabbaths reasons with them from the scriptures explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead and saying this Jesus whom I preach to you is the Christ and some of them were persuaded and they put an agreement multitude of the devote Greek Greeks and not a few of the leading women joined Paul and Silas but the Jews who were not persuaded became envious took some of the evil men from the marketplace and gathering a mob set all the city in an opera and attacked the house of Jason and sought to bring them out to the city to the people but when they did not find them they dragged Jason and some brotherly to the rollers of the city crying out these who turn who turned the world upside down have come here too. Jason has harbored them and these are all and these are all acting contrary to the decrees of Caesar saying there is another king Jesus and they troubled and they troubled the crowd and the rollers of the city when they had these things when they had these things so when they had taken security from Jason and the rest they left they let them go. Amen. Amen thank you Lupega thank you so much for leading reading this section so we now have them in Thessalonica and their their usual strategy the way Paul used to go he'll first go to the synagogue if there's an opportunity so the same thing is happening he's going there he's ministering there it says for three Sabbaths so three weeks he's there and he's teaching from the scriptures he's talking about the Lord Jesus and how you know Jesus he had to suffer and about Jesus' resurrection and he preaches Jesus Christ to these people and there was good ministry that took place because we understand that some of the people responded so they were persuaded and a great multitude of the devout Greeks it says so the Greek people a lot of them believed in Jesus so imagine with me when whenever we look at the steam going to a city and then moving on there's going to be a set of people left behind in that city whom we will call as the church of that city you understand because that's what it is group of people who worship the Lord there is a church you could say a church is planted now a church is planted by the initial preaching of Paul and these devout Greeks there are a multitude some some of the Jews are persuaded and a lot of women there's a lot of women so not a few of the leading women meaning these leading women would have been influential women rich women and so there's a good ministry that has taken place and it seems like there's another host in Thessalonica the host in Philippi was Lydia but in Thessalonica it is Jason and in Jason's house they seem to have some meetings going on so now what happens is one such meeting is happening and because people have started opposing Paul some Jews who were not accepting of his message started opposing Paul so what they did is they went to Jason's house and they attacked it and they wanted to bring these people out okay so they couldn't find Paul and so they just needed to show their power they decided to get the owner of the house out and treat him badly so the Bible says they drag Jason and some brethren to the rulers of the city okay and then you know they make their accusation and that this Jason is hosting this person who is contrary to the the law of our land so they have this concept that when Christ is preached or Jesus is preached that Paul is actually preaching another rulership or another authority okay so that was their their perspective and they felt that this is anti-government what is going on and that is why they you know are trying to do all these things so they drag out Jason and we are told that they collected a security meaning for Jason what did he want he just wanted to have a you know prayer meeting in his house but when they didn't find Paul they brought him dragged him out into before the once again dragged him out and some rulers of the city accusing them so that's what they did and after they collected the security it was more like intimidating them again they just let them go but one detail that I want us to notice here is when they accused when when they spoke to Jason and the brethren they said in verse 6 okay regarding Paul and right now we have Paul and Silas and Timothy okay regarding this team they said these who have turned the world upside down have come here too so it was meant to be a rude comment so I don't know how they would have said it in you know that the tone of their voice maybe they would have angrily shouted these who have turned the world upside down they have come here to something like that but isn't that a compliment what do you think this isn't that a compliment these who have turned the world upside down have come here too I really think that non-believers should also speak that of us in this generation yeah yeah so you know it really shows us how impactful the ministry was of these men that those who don't know much about them and after all Paul and team were there for three Sabbaths right like some three weeks four weeks is all they have spent in the Salonika and the comment of the people around of the you know authorities are these men who have turned the world upside down have come here also meaning they are so impactful in in what they are doing they're preaching this Christ so there is a threat now that threat is that they may topple the government they may lead the hearts of the people astray okay but yeah we know that that was not what you know the team was up to they were preaching the Lord Jesus Christ but in these tough situations again what is the option left the option left is to just move on to the next place otherwise already in Philippi they had that prison experience so maybe God would have given them the peace to leave the Salonika just about four weeks okay go to the next place so in verse 10 we read then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beria so the next station would be Beria so what do we see about Beria what do we what can we understand about this particular place something special about the people of this place okay they were people who loved the word of God to the extent that they did not accept anything at face value they always wanted to test it and ensure that what is being taught is correct so we read about them would anyone like to read about the Beria ministry verse 10 to verse 15 then the brethren immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beria when they arrived they went to into the synagogue of the Jews these were more failed minded minded than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness and searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so therefore many of them believed and also not a few of the Greeks prominent women as well as men but when they used from Thessalonica learnt that the word of God was preached by Paul in Beria they came there also and stirred up the clouds then immediately the brethren set Paul away to go to the sea but both Silas and Timothy remained there so these were conducted so those who conducted Paul brought him to Athens and receiving a command for Silas and Timothy to come to him with all speed they departed amen yes thank you Lubina thank you for reading this passage as well so we see now that the brethren now again this terminology when we read the word brethren generally it means its believers so the believers from Thessalonica came to Beria because of the threat sorry which existed in Thessalonica so when they arrived here they went to the synagogue of the Jews you see that like a common thing that's happening then in verse 11 it says about them these were fair minded then those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness and searched the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so so we can only imagine you know how diligent these people were that not that they stopped any preacher from preaching they would listen so they received with readiness they received the word but also they verified now think with me the person who was preaching to them is by far the best preacher one of the best preachers you know that that we can point to and say guys like wake up it's Paul it's Apostle Paul like you don't know Apostle Paul you don't really have to check your Bible to you know note he's written the large section of the Bible here but that was not a concern for these people they were very happy to check right they were happy to check whether or not what was being spoken was correct or accurate okay so such was the desire of these people today do we do that do we check the doctrine that we hear we should yeah we should so it's a good thing to be open to listen to what people have to say but is it really in the word of God that is a responsibility that we carry and so we need to make sure that our foundations are always strong don't let any you know wrong teaching come in don't let any inaccurate teaching settle in in our hearts so these are all the responsibilities that we carry and so much more when we are preaching or we are teaching the word of God to others to ensure that you know it's in the word and to the best of like we are doing the accurate interpretation these are all concerns that one must bear in mind so Beria is known for the people there with hearts of readiness those who were checking the scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so and what was the kind of ministry that took place there very good ministry because he says that therefore many of them believed and you know many Greeks believe prominent women as well as men believe so there is a church plant okay so if you if we had a map and if Paul had the habit of you know you pin it you pin that city and then you move on you would have put one star over there or something saying okay come on something has started here let's go to the next place and then he moves on from there but you see this thing of facing opposition it's happening everywhere people are rising up everywhere against Paul so the missionary journeys were not easy isn't it yeah on the spiritual side there is fruit in the ministry and that's something to be joyful about maybe that gave Paul and the team strength to keep moving on but on the other side persecution it's so hard to deal with persecution and I don't know how they they could have you know really continued with with all these things going on we don't know what people said about them what they accuse them of and how they treated them right maybe some basic facilities which they they required was was taken away from them and they struggled through their journey but they were willing to do it because they were so committed to the Lord so opposition in every city every city and anyway they now move on the brethren send him away they say okay come on you go to the next place so he goes to Athens or Athens however that is pronounced and Silas and Timothy they are they leave them behind do you see a pattern whom did they leave behind in Thessalonica yeah Philippi somebody was left behind in Philippi to take care of the believers okay and now in Berea they say you be there for some time but then you come come join us so Paul goes ahead of them and then they are supposed to come and join Paul in Athens so now Paul is in this amazing city Greece you know the capital city of Greece Athens and in those times it was like you know one of those tourist destinations if we have a dream place to go to maybe people would have written down or someday I want to visit Athens because it was popular it was the birthplace of philosophy and you know free thought free thinking and really really a place a sort after place where people may have wanted to go sometime in their lives so from Berea Paul travels to Athens the capital city of the modern you know country of Greece and maybe he would have traveled about 270 miles that's that's what we understand he also journeys by land it would have been for something like 12 days of traveling and then you know three days by sea and then he lands up in this place so what about this place called as Athens what are some features Athens was named after the Greek goddess and it was one of the oldest named cities in the world I'm reading out some facts for us and then it was a very long inhabited city so it was not a new city it was an old one about 5,000 years old so then we can understand the culture that the city carried right because people have lived there for so long and Athens was also the home of famous Greek philosophers many of us may have heard names like Socrates you know Plato, Demostines these were all from Athens because they had that culture of you know like thinking and philosophy even Aristotle Aristotle have you heard of Aristotle I think many of us would have so even he is a noted Greek philosopher and scientist who spent some time studying at Plato's Academy in Athens so there was much that Athens had to offer that imagine somebody as great as Aristotle decides to come to Athens to spend time there and it is said that you know he almost spent two decades so there was so much to learn in that city now in the city you had you know because there's a learning culture there were centers there were centers where people used to go to learn about science to learn about art to even learn about philosophy so in our today's world we have certain cities which are cities with universities people students go like they go this university Massachusetts or you know I'm just saying some Oxford Harvard so people it's it's sought after people want to go there to get educated to get degrees and to come out as you know these very mature individuals professionals and all of that so Athens has that image Athens has that feel anyone would want to be there and learn from them but at the time when Paul went there were two dominating philosophies that existed in Athens these were one is known as Epicurean Epicurean the other is known as Stoicism so Epicurean was from the teachings of a person known as Epicurus and what he shared was a little complicated okay I still don't understand it but there is some philosophy which he had he said like death is not the end of all things and gods were remote from the world like gods don't care that was another thought that he had that is not the end of this world gods are very impersonal they they are in their own world we are in our own world so you know that was his way of thinking and he also believed that pleasure pleasure is what man needs so once life must be spent in pleasure so these are the key teachings of Epicurus and he established the philosophy which is known as Epicurean thought or Epicurean philosophy now Stoicism we talked about that right that was started by a man known as Zeno and he was lived at the same time as Epicurus now Stoicism had slightly different thoughts what were some of the key beliefs of Stoicism he believed or it thought that everything was God and that God was a fiery spirit that gave men life okay and that fiery spirit or that spark of that fiery spirit lived in lived in man and when people die that spark or that fiery spirit returns back to God okay and that everything that happens is in the will of God like everything good or bad that happens is in the will of God and the world is often disintegrated and started all over again so it's like cyclic events of the world keep taking place now frankly every time I have to read these because I get confused like what exactly are the philosophies of these men but we have an idea isn't it we have an idea where Epicureanism is basically stating enjoy your life live a pleasurable life God is not concerned you know but the gods have their own remote life and oh sorry and death is the end of all death is the end of all sorry I said death is not so death is the end of all so then death is the end of all it makes sense because ultimately everyone is going to die then might as well enjoy life so that is Epicureanism but Stoicism is more about everything is God and there is a fiery spirit that gives life to us and that spark is in everyone when a person dies that that spark will return back that life will return back so people were accepting of every new interesting philosophy so maybe at that time this sounded very interesting and they were happy they were happy to hear these things but this is the time when Paul goes to Athens and we will see so it's like we'll close the scene right now okay I don't think we have sufficient time to discuss the ministry of Paul so with this scene we close today so imagine with me he's gone to this famous city with universities and these two existing thoughts right now and he's in Athens he's waiting who's he waiting for he's gone by C3 days he's gone by the road 12 days and he's waiting for somebody who's he waiting for is waiting for Cyrus and Timothy very good that's right so he's waiting for Silas and Timothy because he told them you'll be here in barrier and then you know follow come quickly so yeah so we are here with Paul waiting okay and so the scene closes here we'll open the next scene next week all right so let's pray and close and everyone I will be posting your assignment today okay your first assignment and you can actually work on it even the e-learning students not today but shortly your assignment will be up so you can begin to work on it and I'll try and give an early second assignment also so that you can you know given your answers in time all right so let's wrap up then unless there are some burning comments from you sure let's pray and close who would like to lead in prayer shall we pray yes please our father or go on to say thank you for this wonderful opportunity to give it to us to learn thank you for feeling back your daughter thank you Lord for all this today receive all the glory in the name of Jesus my father my God all that we have plant this money please oh Lord I post to put them in practice to for the purpose of serving your kingdom in the name of Jesus thank you because we're wonderful God we commit every nation into your hands and we pray for the history my father my God oh Lord prove yourself strong in the life of your people in the name of Jesus Christ in Jesus name we pray amen thank you thank you brother success so nice to hear your voice God bless you all have a great weekend let's come together next week thank you