Basically, you can divide the entire blockchain growth into two areas. One is the crypto-related and another is the business blockchain. The crypto-related areas are growing slowly because there are some regulatory hurdles which are getting resolved by the government of India now. And we are seeing the growth in this ecosystem a bit cautiously, but it is happening now. So crypto exchanges are generating good volumes in 2023. The workforce that we are building from colleges and universities have a lot of blockchain expertise now. Earlier, it was very difficult to get the blockchain expert, students or professionals from the market. Now, that's not the case. Similarly, the crypto-related products, also a lot of startups are coming from India. I think there are more than 300 companies which are working in this direction, especially in India. As far as business blockchains are concerned or the blockchain for the enterprise are concerned, that is something which is booming a lot in India. SDFC is doing a project, ES Bank is doing a project for settling off the funds abroad. Similarly, in supply chains, you can see many companies starting from the smaller companies, like Killer Jeans, two of the bigger companies like Geo. Everyone is trying to create an ecosystem where they can include traceability in their end-to-end products using blockchain. So supply chain is something where you are seeing a lot of adoption in India. Agritech companies are there. I work with a startup that is doing traceability of agri-agri-agri products. So now you can trace your vegetable of fruit from farm till fork. So those kind of ecosystems are developing very, very fast. Similarly, your decentralized ID or ID on blockchain, this is something that even IITs are working along with ADHAR and other kind of projects. Healthcare domain projects are coming. Apollo has started a first project where they are putting all their data on blockchain healthcare, which has a humongous potential. So the business blockchain growth in India is taking a lot of pace and adoption. The crypto is slightly delayed from the other parts of the world. So we are currently at seventh rank across the world. But I think this year, once the entire guidelines and the legal framework is made and done, I think we will see the similar growth in the crypto space as well. Thanks, sir. I think this is helpful. So seeing crypto already making ways into finance, supply chain. So let's take this to Avinash. So Avinash, based on your experience at Clear, how are you seeing business being transformed or a significant value is being generated using AI, crypto and blockchain? Yeah, so ClearTax serves both customers and enterprises. So what we are seeing, right? There's one set of technologies which is AI which is far ahead of adoption curve. It's very difficult or it's becoming increasingly difficult for businesses to adopt to AI because the technology is there. It's just how do we adopt and how fast can we adopt? And there are technologies like blockchain, Metaverse, NFTs. These technologies are like the technology is still not as scalable or is still not there where common use cases or common businesses can adopt to them easily. So we are seeing this two different bipolar world where one technology is far ahead and there's other technology which is still lagging behind. And businesses are trying to adopt but it's still not there yet. And common use cases like for example in our own company, AI has transformed a lot. Like we are trying to adopt AI into marketing. There are video campaigns that can be personalized to each user. And there's operations that can be built on chat, GPT. So a lot of transformation is happening and we are running behind the block to adopt to them. There's also a lot of new use cases that are getting unblocked. We are also someone who sell mutual funds and 50% of our customers come and ask, can you please recommend me what sort of portfolio of mutual funds should I have? And when you are discussing something as discreet and as customized to every user, there's no construct that you can give which can be adopted to everyone. And with AI and GPT and some of these models, you can build a good framework and a good construct that can be personalized to many, probably a million users. So yeah, a lot of businesses are sort of trying to haggle between the two worlds and my sense is that a lot of businesses would try to move faster towards AI because the technology is far ahead. And blockchain, I think once it catches up, people will look into it but businesses have started looking into blockchain and it's still not there yet for adoption. Got it. So there's a good start, but still there is some way to go. Yeah, yeah. So let's now take it to Kamesh on the meta side, on the meta-verse side. What's the road ahead for meta-verse? We all have seen the hype curve about a couple of years back or at least an year back on this. So and how do you see NFTs and other digital collectibles getting adopted, especially in India? So I can give some examples. Unfortunately, we don't see any kind of blockchain adoption happening other than crypto to be frank, right? So if you take an example of biggest meta-verse like Sandbox, so where there is a token business which is going on, there's a billion-dollar market cap and everything. If you see the actual users who are really spending time and efficiently using it, it's highly questionable. Right now what I see in the last five years, I always used to watch any interesting use case which can get out from crypto. It's not actually. So we were all talking about blockchain, all the billion-dollar companies are trying to pilot something on blockchain. But the money and finance and entrepreneurs can make money as well as the VCs want to inverse everything around revolving around cryptos. Unfortunately, if you say that I'm really solving some purpose in the real world through blockchain and obviously using this technology, no one cares. So right in a VC point of view as well as the adoption point of view, it's all about the tokens as of now. So I would say that the meta-verse, I would say gaming is something that's really natural towards adapting to NFT. Why? Because of people already buying $200 billion worth of in-game assets already through PlayStores. Unfortunately, whatever you buy through PlayStores, I know you can't re-trade or you can't rent these NFTs, right? So because there is no concept of NFTs in PlayStore, right? So imagine if we able to convert every digital gaming asset that we can convert as NFTs. So people can buy the guns or dresses and skin and then if they, after playing the game, they feel boring and then they can even easily re-trade it or you can put it for rental. That is the other use case that we can generate around that. So what I see, the world is moving towards that because, which is not quite natural because it is not new, right?  Like it's like watching movie for an older generation. But right now for the younger generation it's all about just buying out the new game for 5,000, 10,000 rupees and just playing it for fun, right? Which is there. So I feel like this younger generation naturally adapts towards the NFTs and re-trading and everything. You can see this Web2 world, that is the biggest gaming marketplace called Steam, which do billions of trade volume like Binance, right? All the young kids are used to buy the gaming assets and trade it for fun, right? I can see that is one gun which cost $160,000 just for the fun. This young kids are just buying a gun for the $160,000. They can re-trade, they can only re-trade inside the marketplace. They can't remove that asset to the different game or move the asset to the different game. They can't put it for rental. So but still people were spending money for it, right? So because for them it's so important because their entire friends and family and the community of all, everyone sitting on Discord and chatting about the game and they want to showcase things, right? How we used to buy Rolls Royce and Rolex watches and everything for the newer generation is all about gaming, right? They want to showcase things, how they play well in the game, what kind of premium assets they have and if there is opportunity because of the NFTs, they can re-trade. Naturally, we see there's a huge, you know, in the three, four years, we're able to see that there's a huge spike for NFTs and gaming. So if we can say gaming is part of Metaverse, right? So Metaverse is nothing but I would say it's gaming. The biggest Metaverse right now is going to be roadblocks but it's a centralized Metaverse, right? So where I feel like, you know, naturally this Metaverse culture is already there. People are spending time inside the game, right? So I feel that is something we don't want to define Metaverse like sandbox. I feel like every games are going to be Metaverse, right? If you're able to move the assets from the game, then it's going to be Metaverse. That is where I see there's a huge opportunity. For example, we recently did something with Flipkart, right? We're just moving, you know, we're powering the entire technology for Flipkart where they're trying to re-trade their loyalty points as NFTs, right? They hold close to half a billion worth of loyalty points inside there. You know, everyone has super coins and everything, right? Imagine like you can trade the super coins, right? Those kind of use cases we are experimenting with them. We already just launched a soft launch and we able to generate 1.1 million wallets. So it clearly shows that it's adoption. No one cares about crypto, right? When it's come to, you know, if you're able to get a discount through Flipkart, right? You already own cash back. You don't know how to use it, right? If you can re-trade that, any kind of technology is fine for the people. So that is what I'd say. That's very interesting, NFTs, collectibles, gaming. But I think on the blockchain and crypto, let's hear from the next round what panelists have to say about the challenges and adoption. But moving on to Varun. So Varun, see, we heard about the potential of all these technologies there. What, according to you, should be the policies or the policy frameworks to ensure that the adoption increases and people move ahead without much of an issues on this? Yeah. So Rajat, I have good news to tell. Okay, the good news is, if you talk about adoption, it's happening. And it's happening in India, in public sector. You know, we all crib about government not coming up with policies, government not doing this. All of that is towards the financial aspect of tokens that we call it, which is crypto. But if you look at the underlying technology of decentralization and blockchain, the maximum and the biggest case studies that exist in India are in Indian, in public sector, whether it's land records, whether it's Digiatra, by the way, it's my favorite app. Or, you know, so I think one thing that I would like to ask every time we discuss this is, what is the problem we are trying to solve? And that also leads to your first question. It's not whether AI is solving the problem or blockchain is solving, it's a problem. And that solution needs all technologies to come together. So that's one. As far as the regulatory framework is concerned, look, the short answer is nobody has figured it out yet. Anywhere in the world, right? The difference is in approach. Some countries have approached it in a more liberal way. Some countries, including our government, is conservative because we all know, right? There's a lot of speculation involved in this, right? And we have a large population who does not understand the technicals of crypto. They would just buy crypto because they saw somebody in YouTube and said, oh, this will go up 100%. So 99% of the cases in retail sector are like that. But if you really look at it from a government and regulatory aspect, nobody has figured it out yet. Nobody has a concrete law. These things happen in iterations. Even if you look at the financial systems that exist today, banking, they were built in iterations over decades and decades, right? So it will take time for the regulatory framework to evolve. I think one area which will really accelerate this is forensics. So today, the biggest challenge government, I was talking to some of you before the session, the two words that all governments globally are worried about and they're scared. One is censorship freedom. It's not about, it's not about, this word reflects the mindset of the person. They don't want to be controlled, right? And which is dangerous in some cases, that it is not dangerous, but censorship freedom is a problem. And that when it coupled with anonymity, which is again, big, this is what governments are very, very scared of. And the way these things can be managed and governments can be, they feel more comfortable when they will have the right technology to do forensics. I think that is, and forensics at scale, if it has to happen in India, because we know every guy at the corner is buying crypto and selling crypto and, so this is one area which needs improvement. The second is, I think the technology itself is yet to mature. So if you look at Web3 stack, there are a lot of white spaces which are yet to be created, right? There are people who are working on it. It's not there yet, right? So I think that is a second piece. Third piece is, we have to understand fundamentally, this technology was not created for one organization. This technology was created for ecosystems, right? For solving industry level problems. So applying this to solve those kind of problems where two competitors have to come together to solve it. I think those are the use cases which are waiting to be discovered, right? Traditionally enterprises are very control savvy. They want to have control over IP. They want to have control over service. They want to control it, right? I think that mindset is evolving as we speak slowly and slowly and people understand that it's important for an ecosystem to succeed that you have trust in this ecosystem and that comes when you don't have a control and you have a governance. So most of these chains that you see are run by foundations. They're not run by dot coms and they're mostly foundations. So these are things that are being developed as we speak. So are these the only hindrance? Do you see talent also as one of the hindrance or at least holding us from where we should be? See talent in blockchain is simple, remote. I think, I love that word, right? Because this is our gift as blockchain developers to the IT industry remote, right? Other places you want to be physically co-located in an ODC as we call it in IT industry, right? Here it is impossible to find 15 developers in Delhi. It is impossible. So you need to leverage up the development of you but from the consumption point of view. People using that. Are they trained enough right now or do you need post-training? Some of the best implementations of technology are when the technology is not visible. Use Digiatra. I'm a big fan. Again, but unless you go into the FAQs of that app, you will not know that it runs on blockchain and it is using verifiable credentials. I am very passionate about it because I myself run DiceID, which is our product of verifiable credentials and we're creating the largest ecosystem of talent in India. But coming back to the point, Rajat, it should not be visible to users. It should be about solving the problem and user experience, right? Isn't it? Nobody had a change management for WhatsApp. Exactly. So I think that is the fundamental thing when there is a lot of friction in Web3 because the way you log in into an app is very different the way you log in into a Web3. You have to attach your wallet and that comes with its own risks, right? So I think these are the things which are getting solved. Mobile enablement of Web3 apps is another area which is getting solved as we speak. Good, so let's build on that, Kamesh, with you. So from Metaverse perspective, what are the key success factors which will solve some of these challenges and improve adoption? Right now I would say experience of the game, right? You can't find the experience of roadblocks in any of the Web3 games as of now. Most of the Web3 games are more like DeFi-based games. Just people used to play the games just to make coins, right? So there is no real interest or addiction in the gameplay. That needs to be changed. So that's why I can see the next boom is going to be on AAA games getting into Web3. So that is something, you know, because every six months or every Bitcoin orbing cycle which we used to figure out a new trend, right? The last trend was into more like UNISAP kind of exchanges, DeFi boom, all these kind of things happened. It is not in 2018, it is on after 2020, it's all happened. The next boom is going to be on the gaming, I would say. So right now the gaming quality of the game and the experience of the game really sucks. So the only way to change huge adoption and everything, so if you have a good game, as you were rightly telling, that you know, people should not even feel the chains or blockchain, it should be seamless to them. So that's where we're able to get more adoption and then like Fiat payment gateways and everything which is really getting day by day mature now. When governments also start supporting for Fiat payment gateways, we can see you can buy cryptos on set pay using your UPI or CACADIC cards, right? So which is the facility that we were able to see evolving for a period of time. So getting Fiat payment gateway and then like, you know, having better user experience other than MetaMask and then like, you know, good quality of the games. All these kind of things will have a bigger adoption and more users will get into the, as of now, which is not available. If you take a biggest meta versus right now, whatever we're speaking in the web three world, if you, you can't spend more than 20 minutes into that. You'll feel so boring after 30 minutes. So that is a way, but the coins can be treated on billions, but unfortunately, if the real users will not have a good experience for something, but that is a way, even internet. In the initial days, right? If you want to see your mark and everything, it takes, you know, 30 minutes and everything to get your results, right? So those were the days, but right now it is on the mobile. I think this evolution will happen. So I'm able to feel it because I'm, last month I was in LA, I'm able to see more than 25, 30 plus game, all AAA rated games are getting into, you know, NFTs and web three. So, which is a good positive sign because top studios are getting into that. So top AAA studios are exploring meta versus and all this kind of things will have a, I think naturally in the next one year is we were able to see a lot of adoption towards the gaming metaverse and web three because of the quality of the games. So the user experience which is driving the adoption and we see the value being realized in subsequent years to come. So let's build on top of that, Avinash. So at ClearTechs, how have you seen your organization demystifying these technologies and bring a more business lens or improve the overall business operations there? So one thing, you know, what we observed while demystifying this is some of these technologies that are coming off this age are from a completely different universe. It's not something that is easily adaptable, you know? You, I think it's a good, yeah. It's very difficult for engineers to sort of suddenly adapt into, you know, people who have been coding in Java Python to suddenly adapt into SolidDT Rust. It's very difficult for marketers to communicate effectively about crypto technologies.  You know, so the, it's a challenge for most of these organizations to demystify this and it is another challenge to actually make it work into an effective business model.  Brazilians generally follow football and probably F1, but if you show them any sport, you know, you generally show them basketball, you show them American football, rugby, they don't play rugby, but if you show them rugby, they're probably in 15 minutes get what the game is. You show them cricket for two hours, they don't get a clue what it is. Nobody gets a clue what cricket is. And except probably the subcontinent and a few commonwealth countries, nobody understands what cricket is or naturally gets what it is. It is a challenge for them. And some of these technologies I sort of is analogous to cricket. If you are in it, you understand what to do. If you are outside of it, it is very difficult to adopt. And it's as if there's a Chinese wall between and you have to cross it to understand what the other technologies. So like Anuj and Varun were saying, it's very difficult to get developers in these technologies. And so people, I mean, it'll be transformational as an ecosystem to start getting people, developers, marketeers, operation executives to start understanding the technology and support the businesses effectively. So yeah, it's challenging for existing business to suddenly adopt to this. And yeah, so because the learning curve is very steep. Yeah. Varun, you want to add something before I come to Anuj? Yeah, very quickly. You have to look at blockchain talent from two perspectives. There are further segmentation. One is developers who integrate blockchain into the apps. That ecosystem is developing, right? The integration with Ethereum, Polygon is an SDK integration. So people are able to learn and they're able to do it. But writing the contract is difficult, right? If you want to use say Polkadot to construct a blockchain assembly, is that talent is difficult to get? Just want to do it. Interesting, good. So just to add on this thing, since we talked about adoption and all, see, I agree to the point that any technology, which is for the consumer side, it should be like almost invisible. You are doing a facial recognition. Do you know that there's a lot of AI tech behind this thing? If you are, you might have used, or everyone over here must have used DND services. You know this is all done on a blockchain there between telecoms. So technology is there to solve the back end problem for it and make people life easier. And that is where many people are not even aware that they are on the blockchain indirectly. They're using this technology, but they are just because of the ease, which are larger enterprises have put years to bring in. They are unaware that it's a tech game at the end, where now if a DND would happen for one market, at one telecom, it will be there for all the telecoms and you cannot really go beyond that wall. So a lot of things are happening. Governments have came in, in this particular sector, health ID. So health related data, aims have floated tenders and everything, where they want all their health data to be kind of put to encryption level all over the blockchain thing itself. So it's a more enterprise game so that users' life can be made easy and user experience remain unchanged for all the people around. And that is where the people are targeting and focusing on. Got it. Now I think that makes sense. And so let me bring back to Anurja. So let me just bring back to you Anurja very quickly. So based on this, I mean what fundamental shifts do you have to see? We hear that we should not be aware that what kind of attack is being used behind. But what fundamental shifts that organizations needs to have to bring all this to the business part? We see on a consumer side, there's already there. But from a business, that typical traditional supply chain, typical finance, how do you make value and money out of that by using these texts? So first you can counter the blockchain adoption crypto adoption part as well. So I think most of the blockchain adoption is invisible, like as Varun also said, because under the hood, what technology is getting used is not known to us. But I'll still hold to the point that this sector is growing by 80%. And even in India, it's growing even higher, especially the business blockchain. As far as the challenges for the organizations are concerned, it starts from assessing the need of a blockchain itself. Earlier it was very difficult for blockchain companies to convince the client that it is actually the requirement. Now we have established decision trees by which if you traverse through those decision trees, you can at least come to know that you need a blockchain. There is a problem of trust. You need a distributed ledger. There's a problem of consensus. You can't do it with a third party agreement and all. So at least the first level is now very, very clear that you can convince a corporate that a blockchain technology is needed in their organization. The second issue that we generally face whenever we start working with any client in the blockchain space is how do we interoperate with their existing IT systems? Because that is also very, very complex in nature. Creating a blockchain architecture and integrating it with the current technology stack. Blockchain has a completely different way of designing the thing. It's a distributed architecture. You have nodes. You have application running on different points. You cannot develop an application from scratch for an organization. You generally have to integrate with their ERPs, apps, or any other legacy systems that they are using. So how do you create an architecture? How do you bring the data and take the data forth and back from those? And how do you put it in a ledger? How do you basically sync up the databases of those two organizations together? That's another major challenge. Whenever you start designing the blockchain applications for the enterprises. And normally when you design a blockchain application, it's not only one organization that become parts of it. You generally have to bring many organizations that works in that ecosystem become the part of it. Because essentially what you want to solve is a problem of trust. And the problem of trust exists between multiple entities. So it's not only about I convince Reliance that I want to win the blockchain, but you have to convince the entire ecosystem which works around Reliance to have a blockchain adoption. No, this is helpful. So let me just take a final question sort of to you. So sort of see what, and I think it's in public news that in APAC there is some funding that comes approximately a 140 billion. And China takes up a huge chunk of that. And India is I think at least one fourth or one fifth of what that funding is. Where are we lacking? What is that problem that, where are we struggling that this kind of a huge fund goes to our neighbor? And what's the problem here? What are we lacking here? So Rajat, if you would see when it comes to enterprises, startups, building the tech on the blockchain or metaverse or AI, there are lot happening in the space. I can give you a count on fingers like they are at least 35, 40 different companies were trying to shape or change the paradigm of how we interchange data, how the interoperability works. There's a company called Modrex which works on crypto as a service. They're putting up the entire exchange to custodian everything in one stack and lot of the things are all together. Then there's a company which is doing like a rupee card. So they are using the regular rupee cards and then they are giving the benefits of a crypto and a digital gold or the card itself. So user would have that ease because it's already pre-created wallet in the rupee card and they're kind of leveraging on it. Government is helping them out. It's not like the startups and the enterprises are not there working in the direction for India. It's just the other side of the mindset where VC sits there. They want a second validation coming from Western world or from somewhere outside the country as a proven or use case as a proven market where they would see that okay, Indian market shall be also adopting it. It's also a mindset again that Indian consumers are not smart enough but I would really contradict on this day we have a larger IQ than most of the Western worlds in general or in average. So it's just a certain mindset because we have seen the shifts from e-commerce to D2C. Now it will be a pure tech play for another coming half a decade. You will see a lot of investments coming or routing to India because of, you know, now again, governance play and other things will matter a lot in that particular thing because investing in India is always difficult. People take out the funds set up in UAE, Singapore, other free zones outside the India and that's where Indian founders are working, Indian founders running entities out of the India and operating in India, putting the team over here, putting the fund outside India itself. So it's just that the mindset has to change to a larger extent to enable that thing. A lot of things are happening in India when it comes to this amalgamation of tech.


In this work, we built an open source tool to predict the delivery trajectory for a new DICOM treatment plan. The tool uses a machine learning model that's trained using prior trajectory log files as is illustrated here. The training data included 116 IMRT plans and 125 VMAT plans that were collected over two months period on nine different linear accelerators of two different machine models. A number of machine learning algorithms were evaluated and the training models were developed independently for IMRT and VMAT. In addition, we verified whether a training model developed for one linear accelerator could be applicable to another linear accelerator and whether a generalized model for all linear accelerators could be developed with sufficient accuracy. Shown here are the results for the prediction model for IMRT, where each point on the graph represents an individual field delivery and each color on the graph represents a different linear accelerator. On the left, you can see the plot of the actual MLC error per field versus the predicted MLC error per field. The dashed line represents a perfect prediction. The linear accelerator represented by the orange points had the worst prediction. The MLC for this linear accelerator is later serviced at which point the prediction improved and shown here are the results for the VMAT prediction model. The prediction model is made openly available as a tool for approximating radiotherapy delivery via informed simulation or TARDIS for short. Here, I would like to demonstrate how to use the TARDIS gluing. So there are three steps. The first one is that I choose the input dichon-article print file you have. So you just click the open here and choose the line print here. The dichon-article print here, I have a line IMRT print with seven fields. Then you click open. After that, you choose now what kind of machine learning model you want to do the prediction. So I have time-article print and I choose that. Just randomly choose the both two fields here. After that, you can click if you want to add the random error when they predict the MLC error and the percentage of the contradiction error. And after that, you just click run. And after you click run, you will try to predict the MLC error for each counterpoint and for each leaf. And after that, you will show the Rumi-square error and the maximum of the predicted MLC error. And also, back to here, there will be a line-generated dichon file with the predicted MLC position in here. So they will be ready to report back to the Truman-Fanley system. And for each field, they will generate a CSV file. They will include the predicted MLC error and also the predicted MLC position. And also, the MLC motion parameters. So that's how to use NEED or privacy building.


Hey everybody, welcome to another exciting episode another edition of what we can get them here on YouTube and today I am so excited to be able to unbox this for you guys. I have been waiting anxiously for this to arrive I am so excited. I got this I pre-ordered this item as soon as it was solicited I knew it was expensive, but I said you know what I need it because I'd love this show so much I am a big fan of the fates series of the main fates series before I get people commenting I'm sorry. I've tried the spin-offs and they're very good shows don't get me wrong I just like like you know the main story the main universe if you will But yeah, I did a video review on fates zero a while back because of the series I think it's still on Netflix. I'm not too sure and I got to be completely honest with you guys It is one of my most disliked reviews. 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This is awesome. Look at that This is the first one you can see disc one disc two and This is pretty cool. It's all the classes assassin saver Lancer Archer Caster writer and berserker looking pretty freaking fantastic. Look at that. That's awesome Here is the back Right there one of my favorite images from the franchise. I love this so much Here is said to this is really cool guys. I love this open it up Disc three and four and yeah, it's the same image on this set as well. There is sets one through four first season and second season I should say and The booklet complete blu-ray box set This I think this is on the import This is the cover for the import box from Japan and Here you get summaries of the episodes Yeah, that's the cover for the second box set of the original sets plot descriptions and The contents of the disc and staff That's it's pretty cool. That's really awesome. I love it So there it is guys fade zero the complete blu-ray box set for the first time the two sets in one of the complete series and The retail price on this is a little bit high for your standard blu-ray So a lot of you are probably going to ask like should I Get this should I invest in this? I think if you're a fan of the fade series, this is the best Fade series in my honest opinion. This is the one I love the most is well-written with great characters and just a fantastic Story that I highly recommend if you want to watch it first to go ahead and do that You can still find it on streaming sites like Netflix. I don't know if Crunchyroll has it you might correct me on that in the comments section if you if you can watch it first And then decide like yeah, I want to own this then I do think it's worth it Even with the high price, but thankfully it's not the price of the previous sets because they're sold out They're out of print and people online are going crazy Charging you obscene amounts of money. So that's it guys. Thank you so much. Thank you It really means a lot to me that you're tuning in to watch these videos I love the fade series and I was really excited to do this Video leave your comments down below. Have you seen fade zero? Have you read the manga adaptation? Have you seen the whole fade series? What do you think? Let me know and of course Do you own the previous sets or are you getting this one? Let me know in the comment section down below as always Thank you for liking commenting subscribing following me on social media and all that wonderful stuff. Thank you so very much I really really appreciate it. I have got to go. I've got a new series to rewatch I will catch all of you on our next episode


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Yeah, let's see something big for you here, Jason JBL stargazing Mustafa Ali Astro Shot see prove Otis Sheamus and Michael Satamura three brothers Astro Mustafa Ali Booker T stargazing and carrying cross Astro, this is nice Sunburst. I'm sorry lava auto to 10 Tomaso Champa Nice Tomaso Champa five of ten So when he was first signed to developmental He got he got released, but when he was first signed His ring name was Thomas Penmanship. Can't believe that one didn't stick make that one, please We'll mag that Tomaso for you Congrats Jason Cosmic Wesley box number seven Alexander D Kofi groove Dakota Kai Usos and Cosmic Tyler Bate Drew McIntyre Josh Briggs Astro Batista So Gulls Astro we are sold out on our first select football Halfcase pick your teams. We have Broncos Lions Packers Chiefs and Vikings in our second one That's a judgment day groove and nice Sean Michaels auto. No, Alexander nice HBK Fraser and Sunburst pretty deadly 99. What's up, Nick? Oh great here. How are you? 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In the early hours of this morning there was a fire at the Cleveland Ambulance Centre at Wellington Street at Cleveland. Two ambulances in the complex were completely destroyed by fire. The ambulance centre was also destroyed by fire. Another third ambulance was located nearby about two kilometres away and it was also completely destroyed by fire. At the present time we're interviewing a number of witnesses to the incident. At this stage the investigations are in a very early phase and we'd ask any person with any information concerning the fires at the ambulance centre or the one at Almoston where the third ambulance was located if they'd contact crime stoppers and provide that information. We asked the public to assist us with this investigation. As I previously said, the three ambulances destroyed an ambulance centre and we'd urge the public to assist in the location of the offender or offenders. As I said earlier, we're in the very early stages of the investigation and we've got a long way to go. We acknowledge that. So again we just urge the public with any information to do with the fires to contact crime stoppers. Thank you. Just quickly, Mike, can you say what led to that third ambulance being located? Was there any sort of chase involved? No, there certainly wasn't any chase. We believe the third ambulance was stolen from the Cleveland Ambulance Centre at Wellington Street at Cleveland and it was completely destroyed by fire at Dundas Street at Almoston. That's where it's located. Was it involved in a crash beforehand? At this stage, we're not quite sure. All the indicators are that it wasn't involved in a crash but we've yet to verify that and we will as the course of the investigation unfolds. Was there anyone sleeping in the station? There was no person present in the station at the time of the fire. Do you have any clues as to how they got into the station at this stage? At this stage, as I said, it's very early in the investigation but we are looking at the possibility of there being a forced entry into the ambulance station. Had the ambulance that was in Dundas Street, was that turning out to another accident? No, it wasn't, no. Are you investigating any hoax calls that may have diverted rescue crews away from the fire at the station? We're open to all possibilities but not specifically, no. Tony, do you know how they burned the station in the ambulance? What sort of fire or fuel? Well, our scientific officers are presently at the scene. There's two crime scenes. The secondary crime scene is to do with the third ambulance and investigations are being undertaken there by scientific officers. Does it seem likely the station might have been dashed in petrol or... There's no indication of that at this time and as I said, scientific investigations will reveal if there was an accelerant used in the commission of the offence. Obviously, someone was agripe to do that much damage? We're just open to all possibility at this stage. Is there any more idea? No leads at this stage? Just a number of witnesses who may have seen things and we're just trying to put it all together, pieces all together and that's all I have at the present time and we'd welcome perhaps as the day unfolds, we could advise you further on any information we may have but our main message is anybody that has any information to come forward and contact Crime Stoppers. Do you know what time that third ambulance may have been stolen? We believe it around midnight but we can't confirm that. We believe probably prior to midnight but not confirmed at this stage. So it was said on fire first an emergency cruise were called out to it? I wouldn't like to at this stage confirm which fire was commenced first. That'd be speculation on my part so I won't commit to which fire was actually lit first. Do you know if they broke into that ambulance or did they know where the keys were to actually start it? We have yet to determine as to how they gained entry into the ambulance and when we do find out later in the course of the day we'll let you know as much as we can. So thank you for your talk.


When it comes to schools, that means that parents are really concerned about adequate funding and they're concerned about safety and security in schools. You'll notice that I didn't say anything about banning books or what or censoring what teachers are talking about in the classroom. That's really not what parents care about. And we think that that is a strategy that is being used to try to divide and distract parents at a time when parents are feeling really stressed, anxious. It's been two years of COVID, closed schools, economic insecurity. So these made of controversies about book bans and censoring history are just a ploy to try to get us distracted from the things that really matter. And what parents are telling us that they're feeling anxious about is how to provide for their families. The solutions that they need are things like expanding the child tax credit, for example, adequately funding schools and having their kids feel safe in schools.


Nothing, nothing, I'm a dad, we all goin' Man, hey man, listen man, you know Y'all niggas don't really understand what's going down Over here at Boss Talk 101, y'all think y'all know But y'all really gon' find out, man It goin' down, man, we get some of the dopest Guests to come on Boss Talk 101, man This guy right here, man I've been rockin' with him a long time You know, if you really Love music, you know who this is If you don't, nigga, you frontin' Nigga, know your history, man Jody Breeze in the building What's going on, my God? Man, hey man It's a lot I want to ask you about A lot, but I know already she gon' Ladies first, damn But one thing I say, I love your accent I love that Atlanta accent, because not everybody has that We've met so many people from Atlanta But it's only a certain, I don't know if you have to be From a certain part of Atlanta to have that accent But it's just, some of y'all like DJ Ace He got it, DJ Ace Yeah, he got that accent, you got it I can hear it, but not everybody have it What's up? Not so much Not so much But anyway, you from Atlanta What part? From South Atlanta, including Georgia Oh, okay, so you don't wrap Atlanta One thing I know it's about y'all is like It'd be like, oh, I don't wrap Atlanta I'm from such and such, everybody always Sum everybody into Atlanta You gotta rip what you from But you gotta rip what you from How far is it? Is it outskirt or is it?   Yeah, it's a lot of places in Atlanta If you drive north 30, 40 minutes, it's an outskirt You drive west, 30, 40 minutes, it's an outskirt But you know, that's what makes up Atlanta It's the outskirts And Georgia has so much to offer You realize still what I hate Because we visit there frequently But I come back home and be on my Instagram And I see people taking pictures by this place Like it has a waterfall and stuff like that And I'm like, nah, that's not Atlanta Or a centennial park Somewhere out there, and I'm like That's pretty, I've never seen that In Atlanta before Yeah, that's like downtown Like a waterfall And you can take pictures and stuff Atlanta is a beautiful city, though Yeah, low-key So you raised with your mom, dad, or just your mom?  He was functional So was he still in your life? Because I had somebody recently who Because I always felt like if you were on drugs You wouldn't run out and whatever But some people come on and be like No, my mom or my dad was a functional drug addict Where you wouldn't really know unless you know Yeah, he had his first You know, sometimes they try to Do the right thing, but you know That shit harder than not That shit harder than not Especially back then I had it everywhere It was worse When it first happened It wasn't out I ain't going to tell what happened When I first got some I stole it from my uncle So when I started passing it out I got come up, you know what I'm saying When I came up, I really came up I really was like the man I didn't realize what was going on in my mind I lost kind of thought of who I used to be I became the man People were listening to me I really started buying stuff with it I didn't know what you should be doing You know, the girls was kind of They liked it Let's be real, when you young When you young, you don't know So you trying to figure this out I had a whooper One thing I noticed, all y'all men Do it because of the woman They do it because they want the woman's attention The woman? No, it wasn't just It was about the power And the money I'm going to tell you something The money was so dope You didn't care about the money As much as you cared about the dope Because you knew if you had the dope You had the money coming So if I ran out, I used to be like If I had a bread I'd be upset, nigga I got to have it So I can be able to do my thing What I was trying to do Because that's what timing was The money was coming Because the money can't Because you didn't have the frame of mind To invest the money in anything else No, I had ten cars I had no house, nothing, I lived with mama We just ride clean every day Damn right It was a different time Sisters and brothers Yeah, I got like three sisters And one brother And where you falling between that?  What's the worst thing I did? Why you say that you was bad Like what's the worst thing? Shit I'll give you an incident Okay I say probably in the fifth grade I was probably like ten years old I stole the car And drove, I drove to school for a week To elementary school For a whole week Ten years old? Yeah, I only got a coat Because I bussed the tire coming back home On that Friday Whose car did you steal? My stud daddy car And he didn't know? No, he was asleep He was a truck driver Oh, so he was out of town? No, he was asleep He just be knocked out, you know what I mean For five days? No, about four Because he went to school No, it was Monday through Friday But how is that possible? He's not asleep the whole day I'm saying when I get up in the morning He's asleep He's still asleep He didn't realize No, I was getting away with it I got away with it for five days I bussed the tire coming back home On that Friday I guess he didn't know how to change the tire No, they call the police They call the police right They say somebody Bussed the tire of some shit But, you know, I did What did he say? A neighbor down the street came down And told him that you've been doing it What did he say?   Actually know how to drive at that time? Yeah, my momma told me how to drive It was her fault But she was just trying to look out for him The best she could That's the way it been Let me ask you about this music I'm going to jump right into it I just want to ask about How in the hell did you link up with What he did to you?  When boys in her hood First came out Kim is the one who took us to The lady he was married to at the time From the beginning Y'all were just like my When y'all first came out It was just you by yourself How did Kim find you? No, her and Block was kind of cool You know what I mean?  I was probably like 19, 20 I was just turning 20 How did you feel? I already had a deal I already was signed to Warner Brothers Oh, damn!  I was 18 I was like just turning 19 Oh, so everything started going back to back to back Because at the time I came The only Who was out then It was like real music Like real, real music out then So you just couldn't just rap to be rapping You had to have some telling You had to be about what you were talking about You know what I mean? So I just came at a time when Niggas needed some new shit like some new young niggas It was a time when This was a time when you had The Pharrell You had them brothers What was them brothers up there Pharrell and them two brothers All that I'm just going back in my mind I'm an old nigga Right back to it It was not only them It was even Timberland was hot And popping back then I'm going to be honest with you Miss Elliott Outcast and all these people Outcast We were just about to take over Like this one in the south Just started to pop this shit off This is where niggas live off of That era The rappers who rap today Who all this old shit It's from that era Niggas still living off of that shit That's how big it was It was a different kind of time Niggas really trying to keep it real No, no, no It was a real movement back then I was just happy for the entrepreneurship I'm a smart nigga So I'm happy niggas getting money Because it's getting money now A whole lot of money It wasn't getting that before And that's why old rappers really got mad The ones who didn't get to get it Some of them old rappers they called to it The LL's and all that they called to it But a lot of them couldn't figure it out And you seen that too You still got to be a hustler though You got to know how to get to the money No matter what you doing You got to know how to get to the money By the way, how they doing it nowadays Compared to the way they did it Everything was more hands on back then Now everything is more digital Yeah, way more Is it easier now than it was back then Or is it harder Of course it's easier But it's more watered down though So you made it easy But you took away what it was really Meaning You got to get out here and Earn a shit man You just can't turn the phone on That's the one thing people be looking at us And be like how y'all growing so fast And stuff like that And I would always say I would always say Because we out here giving out cars We out here talking to people We still on that grind like what it used to be But we still capitalizing on the social media And trying to get people online To do that so why not do both A lot of these younger people are just straight internet They don't know how to Talk to people face to face We out there on the grind That's what I am That's all you know exactly When I see that era You talking about the BMF movement And all that stuff was going on There's a lot of money being thrown around A lot of niggas talking that talk But walking that walk Niggas flying here, niggas flying there Y'all got billboards everywhere I'm still trying to get a billboard Up a boss talk right now It was a lot of history man How was that Atlanta thing When the BMF movement was going on Shit, it was like What you see What you hear, you know what I mean Is it true?    You wrote it?   Everybody was writing At that time Because when you just starting out Because I'm sure they're so experiencing it That they don't really have to write no more They just jump in and do their thing But when you started That's what made them Come in and hear They telling me You need the paint No I'm like nah give me the beat That's what made Where do you get that from Your music abilities Did it come down to your mama daddy Somebody?  I wrote like eight songs What songs was it? On his press play He did a press play album I was with him for like six or seven months Just writing and game game How was that?    From the jump So that's kind of hard I haven't met everybody From the jump But I've met everybody Like who was the first person You really linked in It wasn't P.D.      But we wanna heal the world Yeah, like, what is it? That's conceptual We wanna heal the world Because that's the reason Why we do this Is because hopefully Somebody's watching it Who's going through something With their girlfriend, their wife Whatever And realize that I don't need to walk out this door And say, you know What, screw you Whatever, I'm not coming back Why people don't stay married no more? Everybody wanna The devil Everybody wanna get married But why they don't stay married no more?    A lot of times they don't understand You giving up on something like that But it's special though It made me major though It's special when you know what you got You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah It's major I applauded them But thank you man Jody Breeze is big coming from you Because I started to leave Nigga 10 years ago Nigga I was gonna get up out of there But I changed my mind Nah, I don't do that Don't do that You came out You heard Jody Because Jody Breeze told me to stay You came out on top We should make a hole in all that together Nah man, thank you so much But that was just a disgruntled woman In the background That's probably the best Probably the best Probably the best Probably the best Probably the best Yeah But man, what you Okay, top three all this about time I gotta get you out of here Dead or alive, any genre Any genre, number one Top three all the time Yeah, any genre Easy Number one Long Hill Okay That's fine Somebody else did that Who else did that Number two Who else want this shit Number two Number two Andre 3000 Long Hill Did you ever get to work with this dude To talk to him or been in the same studio?  Yeah What type of dude is trick that? What type of dude is that? What type of dude is that?


Okay, recording has started. Good morning and welcome everybody back to the second lecture R for BC 106 interpreting scripture. So in the previous R, we just, you know, kind of went through very quickly on something very important, which is the process of meditation. Just want to repeat what I said. Meditation is a discipline we have in our lives for the rest of our lives. We have to learn how to meditate in the word because God has given that to us as a way to put his word into our hearts. So the word must be sewn into our hearts in order for to produce and so it should get into our hearts through the process of meditation. Now there's a question in the chat from Silatoli. She says, I really like the method you mentioned the lecture regarding how we meditate on specific scriptures on a particular day. And I want to apply personal meditation time. So I just wanted to know how much scripture portion would be ideal per day. So what I would suggest Silatoli, you know, you could, I mean, if you want to do it, like how I, how we talked about, well, let me just share that document there. Oh, yeah. So I give you three different practices that I use to meditate in the word. One is word seeds. That means I just meditate on a certain theme or topic, which is something I keep doing. Second is I used to have a fixed timetable, like, you know, every particular day of the week, meditate on certain topics.  And if you, if you want to follow that kind of timetable, that's a good idea. And what I would say is towards the end of that book, God's Word, the Miracle Seed, towards the end of that book, I have listed all the topics from A to Z. And under each topic, I've listed scriptures. Now, for example, for A, authority, answer to prayer, anointing, B for boldness, for bones in our body, bones, for blessing, C for children, for courage, for confidence, D for deliverance, for day, E for eternal life, for exploits, and things like that, you know, so you can go A to Z, all different topics, and scriptures on those topics. So what you do is you form a little timetable. You decide that, okay, every Sunday, I will meditate on one topic or two topics. And then you can take from that section towards the end of the book, from that topic, take about five or six scriptures, and meditate on that. Yeah. So, for example, when I say anointing, I would usually start off, you know, with Luke chapter 4, 17 and 18. Now, I would meditate in Acts 10, 38. I would meditate, talk about the anointing of God. I would also look into some Old Testament scriptures, you know, Exodus 35, what the anointing of God does in our lives, Isaiah 10, 27. Scripture is related to the work of the Holy Spirit, John 7, 37 to 39.  And so I would say take five or six scriptures on those topics, and you do it like a discipline, you know, and so you can start out like that with a timetable that will help you develop that discipline. Did I answer your question? You're supposed to do that, but that was very helpful. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And then later on, you know, you could do other things. Later on in this course, when we talk about tools to study the word, I will explain a little further on contemplative Bible reading, you know, so the tools you can use to meditate and study the word. Okay. So let's go forward. Now we'll go back to what we were talking about. Yeah. So we're considering now with the parable of the sober, what we are learning through this parable is how can we get the seed of the word to produce in our lives? That's the essence of the parable, right? That's the reason Jesus gave us the parable to awaken us to understand that the word of God is like seed, but there's a process involved for that seed to produce in our lives. And we must, you know, we must make sure and we must take care of the process. So first part of the process, the seed must be sown into our heart. The seed, if it just remains in the Bible, it is, it will not produce. It's there in the Bible, but it's need to go from the Bible. It needs to get into our heart and through the process of meditation. But then once the seed is sown in our heart, there's some other things involved. That's what we want to understand from the same parable. We must protect and nurture the seed. It is very interesting that Satan is after the word, you know, and you find this in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Satan, the wicked one comes to snatch the word. So what does Satan after? He's after the word. Satan comes immediately to take away the word. Mark says, and Luke says that devil comes, takes away the word. So what does Satan after? He's after the word. He doesn't want the word to take root in our hearts. Why? Because this is God's way of working in our lives. When the word takes root, it's going to produce. So Satan is after the word of God. He does not want the word to get into our hearts. He wants to take it away.  So now, see, we understand when the word of God is in us, we become overcomers. John wrote, I have written to you, young men, because you are strong. The word of God abides in you and you have overcome. You have overcome the wicked one. See, the word when it gets into us, it will make us overcomers, overcome the wicked one. So that's the thing. The devil does not want the word to get into us, because if it does, we will become overcomers. So as long as the word is in the Bible, it's in some sermon, some re-stalking, this, that, okay, he's not worried, but the moment the word is getting into our hearts, he wants to try to take it away. Now, of course, he can try to distract us through being disinterested, we are busy. Sometimes we don't understand the word sometimes, doubts and unbelief. So Satan is going to try all these tactics to try to keep the word away from us. But, you know, he doesn't want the word to be shown in our hearts. He'll try all these things. And what we are seeing in this parable is, we must understand the word, right? So the word, you know, the word must be protected and nurtured, and as Satan will, you know, there are other things, persecutions, cares of this world, we will look at this later. But the word, where did I say this? Sorry, I just, yeah. So the thing that keeps us from receiving the word is when we do not understand it, and I explain it in the next chapter, when we do not understand it, then Satan comes and steals the word. This lack of understanding gives Satan the opportunity to take the word away. So we can hear the word, so you can be sitting under the best preacher who's preaching. But if you don't understand it, what happens? Satan just takes away the word. It doesn't get shown in our hearts. So this understanding the word is so important. Hearing the word is not enough. We have to understand it. Now, there are other important things we have to do, like I was saying, you know, our persecutions and cares, we will look at that later. But when the seed is sown, it will produce in our lives, right? This is the kingdom of God, it's like a man putting a seed in the ground, dying passes by. It will germinate, it will produce. It will produce. But the thing that keeps that word from producing, Satan can take it away if he don't understand it. And so that's the next part. When we do not understand the word, then the wicked one comes. He does not understand, then the wicked one comes.   So that's what the devil does, takes the word away from our hearts. So we need to get to grasp, to comprehend, to understand the word. So not only intelligently and intellectually, but spiritual understanding of spiritual truth, it's revelation. So we need to get the understanding of the word, spiritualism. So this is where the scriptures and we discuss the fact that the human intellect may not always understand the things of God. Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 2.14, the natural man does not receive the things of the spirit. They're foolishness to him. And he can't know them. He can't understand them. Why? Because they're spiritually understood. They are spiritually understood. That means we need the enabling of the Holy Spirit to receive revelation, receive what the word of God means and what is the meaning of the word. But God has given us his Holy Spirit. Yeah. And he reads through his spirit the things of God. He says, we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit of who's from God that we might know the things that are freely given to us by God. So God is given the spirit of God that we might know, that we might understand. So this is where we pray, Holy Spirit, give me revelation. I want to understand the word. Right? So before you read the word, oh God, help me understand. Oh God, open my eyes. I need, because if I don't understand the word, it will not produce, because the devil is going to take it off. He won't let the word get into my heart. So if I don't get spiritual understanding of the word, it won't even fall into my heart. It won't get implanted into my heart. It's gone. Satan will take away the word, because he knows if the word gets into my heart, it will produce. So this is where Holy Spirit you are there. You help me know the things that are freely given to me by God. You help me open my eyes to see. And God will give us. So we pray for revelation. You know, this is a beautiful prayer to pray for all of ourselves. You know, you pray, you say, Lord, give me the spirit of wisdom and revelation in knowing you. May the eyes of my understanding be enlightened that I may know what is the hope of your calling? That means, what's the purpose of your calling? That I may know what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance. That I know the inheritance. So there are four things Paul is praying here. Know him, know the hope of your calling. That means the purpose of your calling. Know the riches of your inheritance and know the greatness of his power. Four things he says. I want you to know four things. I want you to know him. I want you to know the purpose of your calling.  And I want you to know the greatness of God's power towards us. But this comes through the spirit of wisdom and revelation. Holy Spirit give me wisdom and revelation. So this is where, once again, when we are meditating, the Holy Spirit gives us wisdom and revelation. We call it illumination. He gives that to us so we can understand the word. And once you understand the word, the devil has no chance. He can't steal it. He can't take it away. It's going to go. The word is going to go right into your heart and it's going to start producing. So we talked about meditation, then comes revelation. It's important. But revelation comes to us through the Holy Spirit. As you're meditating, Holy Spirit gives you revelation. You get understood. I know this is what the word says. I know this is what it means. Now, in revelation, in the process of revelation, that is where hermeneutics comes in. That means that is where we are going to do our part to study the word, right? To correctly understand the word. That is where hermeneutics come in. Holy Spirit is giving us wisdom and understanding. And we are doing our part. We're going to learn how to study the word. We use tools today. We have the tools today. I've shared with you the tools you can use to study the word. We have the rules by which we interpret the word. So we are doing our part. Holy Spirit is doing his part. And then we get a correct understanding, a good understanding of the word of God. The devil cannot steal the word. It's going to produce. It's going to go into our hearts and it's going to produce in our lives. But remember this, Satan is after the word. And the only thing that gives him opportunity to take that word away is that we don't understand it. If you don't understand it, gone. He takes it off. It can't produce.  If you're not understanding, Satan easily takes it off. But that's where what we're going to learn in this course is very important, how to correctly understand the word, that the word will produce in our lives. Now, there are other harvest blockers Jesus talked about in the parable of the sower. He said, when you hear the word and he receives the word. So this man, he receives the word. He welcomes it. But there's no root. There's no root. Why there is no root? He said, tribulation or persecution comes because of the word. It is interesting. He says in all these places, tribulation or persecution arises for the word's sake in a time of temptation and a time of testing that word temptation is the word, the Greek word can be translated testing or it can be translated temptation. Just so depending on the context, they would use the word test or temptation, but it's the same Greek word in most places. So because of the word, you receive the word with joy, the man is so excited. Wow. I love it. They hear the word of God. They receive it with gladness. They receive it with joy. I mean, so happy. This is what the word says. So just because somebody receives, there's an initial reaction to the word. Yes, amen. Wonderful. This doesn't mean it's going to produce. Why? Because after that challenges come, difficulties come because of the word. That means it's aligned to the word.  So tribulation arises for the word's sake.  God has made us bold. Right after that, some situation would try to come and make us fearful. The tribulation of persecution or testing or challenges come in line with that word and that's the real test. You've received the word with joy, but you're facing difficulty in line with that word that is challenging that word. Will you hold on to it or give up on it? So what did Jesus say? They endure only for a while. That means you're all excited about the word, but it's for a short moment. They endure only for a time. They're excited about the word, but it's very short lived. And during the time of difficulty, they fall away. They give up on the word. Okay, okay, okay. I don't want healing. Healing is okay. It's okay. Not for me, for somebody else. They give up on it. Oh, it's being bold to give up. Oh, fear, fear, fear comes. So they're excited about the word. They receive the word with gladness, but it is very short lived. The moment they are challenged in that word, some difficulty, tribulation, persecution, temptation, something challenges that word. They give up. So Jesus said, these people are like the sea that falls on the stones, on the rocks. There is no root. There's no root, no root. And if you don't have root, you cannot produce. They have no root. They have no root. You see this in all, all the three places have no root. That means the word didn't get deep into their heart. They received it, but it's not taking root because they give up and they face difficulties. So here's another part of the process. If the word is going to produce in our lives, we must hold on to the word of God. Not just when you hear it and you get excited, but hold on to the word even through the difficulties, through the, you know, whatever the challenging situation may be.  God will provide. God is the God who cares for his people. He's the shepherd. He will not let us be in want. Oh, they are all so excited. My God's going to take care of my needs, everything. The next thing they may face a little financial challenges. Oh, they give up on. Maybe God won't take care of me. They, no root. They endure only. They give up on the word. So what happens? The word does not produce. Nothing wrong with the seed. The seed was designed to produce, but because we gave up, the seed will not produce. So the message for us is even when we face opposition, the challenging situations hold on to the word. So stand through the opposition and let the word take deep root. Another thing is the choked thorns that choke the word. So what Jesus said is there was another set of people who they received the word. So here again, they received the word. But then there were things that were around it that choked the word. It's like thorns. So the seed is good. It gets into the heart. It's starting to get implanted and starting to germinate. It is beginning to spring up. But what happens? Things choke the word. And what are those things he mentioned? He said things like the cares of this world, meaning all the responsibilities, the deceitfulness of riches, that means the pull of wealth and money. So cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, the desire for other things and they get attracted to other things or look what's in pleasures of life. So what happens? We receive the word. It gets into our heart. But then we let other things come in, the cares, responsibilities are going after the riches. Now, there's nothing wrong if God has blessed somebody and they have a lot of money, good for them, God bless them. We're not against it. But to go running after money, to go running after riches, if that giving into the pull, what happens? It can choke the word, desire for other things. So it could be anything else in the world that is coming into our heart and occupying space in our heart. Pleasures of life. Obviously, God has created so many nice things. There is some people like nature, they like the mountains, the forests, the beaches, whatever. God has given wonderful things. I think wrong enjoy. But if we get caught up in the pleasures, things of life. So cares, responsibilities, being deceived by riches, desiring other things, pleasures of life. If these things start coming into our heart, occupying space in our heart, it will choke the word. And the word becomes in our heart, unfruitful. So we are not able to see anything happen in that person's life. So they're hearing the word. It's getting in. But it's not producing. Why? Because there are other things inside that are choking the word. Things like what? Cares of the world, deceitful of riches, desire for other things, pleasures of life. They choke the word. So nothing wrong with the word. But there's a problem in the environment in the heart. There are things that are choking the word. So we have to God have our heart. Don't let these things come. Now all of us face the cares of this world. We all face it. We all have responsibilities. We have to fulfill our responsibilities. Some of it can be very heavy. We all have that. We all have to face it.  We have to, you know, we need money. We have to use money. We have to pay this and pay that and all those things. Yeah, it's there. Other things. There are things in this world that may seem pleasurable, attractive. We all face it. But we must protect our heart. Keep these things away so that the word of God can get implanted and bear fruit. And finally, so God against these things. Okay. Protect your heart and affirm your love for God, God, your heart, our sleep. Finally, there are three keys we see in Matthew, Mark and Luke. Matthew says we have to understand. Mark says we have to receive and Luke says we have to retain if the word is to produce in our legs. So I've clubbed these three together. We have to understand the word, which is with the help of the Holy Spirit. We have to receive the word. That means, yes, God, I embrace it. I welcome it in my life. I've got to retain it. That means it's not just a short lived thing. I stay with the word. Then what happens? It will bring fruit in our lives. It'll bring fruit in our lives. Things will begin to happen. The word will produce. God said, my word that goes forth will not return to me void. It will produce. But we have to follow the process. God, our heart, understand, receive and retain the scriptures. Receive, retain. We keep living by the word and we will be blessed. So this is the key. You are God's garden. You sow the seeds of the word and you will receive. So word seeds. I'll just close with this. So in the same book in this chapter, for various topics, I've given you references in order from Old Testament to New Testament. Of course, you can pick any of these verses you want on these topics. Answer to prayer and armor of God, baby in the womb, believers, authority, blessing, blood of Jesus, fullness, bones. So what you do is you meditate in the scriptures. So these are like seeds. You've got to sow the seed if you want to harvest. So you can, you know, depending on the harvest, which area you want to see the harvest, you meditate in the seeds of the word and you'll begin to see. If you follow the process, you will begin to see the word of God producing in our lives. All right. Any questions so far? Everybody is with me. You've understood what we have covered so far in the book and I've gone through it quickly. Any questions before we go to the next chapter? Okay. So I trust all of you have, you know, understood the parable of the sower. It's a very basic but very important parable. It gives us the mystery, the secrets of how to have the word of God produce in our lives. I want to encourage all of us to practice it, make it a part of our studying and the word of God. Okay. So now we're going to move forward into the next chapter where we start getting into the course itself, the course content. All right. So we covered chapter one right now, which is God's word, the miracle seed. We've gone through that book. Now we're getting into chapter two. Right. So let's just look at some terminology that generally we must be familiar with. So when we talk about hermeneutics, we're talking about how to understand the meaning, the meaning of the text. Right. So how do you go about doing that? So there are rules. So there are principles that we follow. They're going to learn them. Very important. And there is a way that there's a method of how you study so that you can get the meaning. So that's what this course is going to focus on. What are the rules and the methods by which we determine the meaning of a text? Now there is, when we talk about exegesis, exegesis is another term that simply means you are bringing out the meaning of the text in its context. In its context could be the historical, it could be the literary, it could be so many other things, but basically you're bringing out the meaning of the text. So you call that exegesis. So when somebody is doing exegesis, it means they're explaining, they're bringing out the meaning of a text in the place, in the context of what it was written, historical, cultural, literary, other things. Exposition is taking exegesis one step forward.  That's exposition. Okay. So how many texts is what we do when we study? Exegesis is what we do when we explain. Exposition is what we do when we communicate with relevance to our hearers. That means I'm bringing out the meaning, but I'm bringing it with relevance. I'm making it understandable and applicable to the people who are listening. Okay. Now, homolytics or preaching is you will study it in a different course, which deals with the principles and the methods of how to preach, how to communicate to people. So that's homolytics. Whereas in our course, we are going to focus mainly on homolytics, but this is going to help us in our exegesis and our exposition. That if we do this correctly, if we get the, if we know how to understand the meaning of the text correctly, then we know how to explain the meaning and we know how to make it relevant to people who are listening to us. Okay. And then of course, there is the aspect of teaching. So preaching and teaching could be combined under homolytics or you could break it separately. But there's a preaching situation, there's a teaching situation, but it's basically communicating the word of God to people, whether you preach it or teach it, it doesn't matter. Okay. All right. So let's get started. So we know that and we have seen these scriptures before. Second Timothy 16 17 that all scripture is given by inspiration of God. So we know that the scripture not inspired by God, God has breathed into the words of the Bible and he's the author of the scriptures. We also have read Second Peter 1 16 21 that the human authors were guided by the Holy Spirit when they wrote the scripture. So they didn't just make it up, but the Holy Spirit guided them. So while God has given to us the scriptures, we need help to interpret the scriptures. So let's go to Acts chapter 8. Now I didn't give the full passage here, but I would request us to turn to Acts chapter 8 and I will just tell the requesters to read one verse here from Acts 8 in Acts chapter 8 if let me give it the exact words. Acts chapter 8. Let's can somebody read verse 20 or let's read the passage Acts 8 29 to 35. Acts 8 29 to 35. Can somebody read that for us please. What's 29 onwards? Then the Spirit said to Philip, go up and join this chariot. Philip ran up and heard him reading Isaiah the prophet and said, do you understand what you're reading? And he said, well how could I unless someone guides me and he invited Philip to come up and sit with him. Now the passage of scripture which he was reading was this. He was led as a sheep to slaughter and as a lamb before his share to its share is silent. So he does not open his mouth in humiliation his judgment was taken away who will relate his generation for his life is removed from the earth. The Enoch answered Philip and said, please tell me of whom does the prophet say of this of himself or someone else. Then Philip opened his mouth and beginning from the scripture he preached Jesus to him as they went along. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So you know you look at verse 13. So here's a very educated man. This is a man who was the treasurer to the queen of Ethiopia. So high ranked high ranked official. He has purchased a copy of the book of Isaiah and he's reading it and he's covered quite a bit. He's come to the 53rd chapter of Isaiah and the Holy Spirit has sent Philip to join this chariot and Philip asks him, you know, do you understand what you are reading? Verse 30. Do you understand what you're reading? So this man, very intelligent man, he's reading the scriptures but he's not understanding what he's reading and he says in verse 31, you know, how can I unless somebody guides me. So he's really, he needs help to understand the scriptures and like that there are so many people today who need help to understand the scriptures and Philip from the passage here in Isaiah 53 is able to explain it to him and what it says in verse 35 is he explains to him that, you know, Isaiah 53 is actually speaking about Jesus. So Philip has got the revelation. Isaiah 53 is speaking about Jesus. He explains. So this is just a simple example where people read the scriptures but they need help in understanding it and receiving the revelation of the scriptures. Another example there is in Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1 through 8. Maybe we can turn there Nehemiah. Here's again another example where people heard the scriptures but, you know, somebody had to explain it to them. Nehemiah chapter 8 was 1 through 8. Could somebody read that for us please? Nehemiah chapter 8, 1 through 8. Now all the people gathered together as one man in the open square that was in front of the water gate and they told Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had commanded Israel. So Ezra the priest brought the law before the assembly of men and women and all who could hear here with understanding on the first day of the seventh month. Then he read from it in the open square that was in front of the water gate from morning until midday before the men and women and those who could understand and the years of all the people were attentive to the book of the law. So Ezra the scribe stood on a platform of wood which they had made for the purpose and beside him at his right hand stood Mekli Kaya. You can skip all those names. It's okay go on to Asfaye please. Okay and Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people for he was standing above all the people and when he opened it all the people stood up and Ezra blessed the Lord the great God and all the people answered amen, amen while lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground also Joshua. All right maybe the last one. And the Levites helped the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place so they read distinctly from the book in the law of God and they gave the sense and helped them to understand the reading, amen. So this is a little long passage but it's very beautiful in the Old Testament times. Okay so they're opening the Old Testament and Ezra is reading the people have very reverential they're standing up you know half a day they're standing they're listening to the reading of the scriptures they're worshiping God and they hear the reading of the scriptures but it also says there in verse and it was latter part of verse seven and then verse eight it says not only did they read from the scriptures it says they gave the sense and helped them to understand the reading you know so not only did they read but they gave them they helped the people understand the sense they interpreted the reading and they helped them to understand it. So that is a part that you and I are going to learn how to do and how do you how do we not only read the scriptures but how do we bring out the meaning the understanding and the revelation of the scriptures. Now why is this important because if we do not interpret the Bible correctly we will end up applying it wrongly you know we can read the scriptures but if you don't understand it we can do something wrong we think we're doing the what the Bible is saying but if we didn't understand correctly we will apply it incorrectly. Now we will explain it to people wrongly and they will go and do something there you know that may be hurtful harmful so we have to be careful right. Now I'm skipping these scriptures here now what are the challenges we face let me just cover maybe just a little bit more and then we will stop what are the challenges we face in interpreting scripture. So we know the Bible was written way back in time so the Old Testament you know almost 3 and a half thousand years ago about 3,500 400 years ago almost around that time New Testament almost 2,000 years ago so you know the times are so different. Here we are 2,000 years after the New Testament was written or 3,500 years after the first five books were written. So we are here in different time frame and it's also written in different language the Old Testament was written in Hebrew some of it was written in Aramaic the language of the Babylonians at that time and the New Testament was written in Greek so what are the challenges there's a spiritual gap that means the people that are in the gap that means the people living in those days had a certain spiritual understanding and here we are far away in time in a different time and place our spiritual understanding may be different we were not brought up in those environments there's a time gap like we said you know we are living in different ages there's a geographical gap most of the things the biblical geography is around in and around the Middle East most specifically Israel and its neighbors but we are living in different parts of the world many of us have never been to Israel we don't understand the geography and you know the situation there's a cultural gap there's a language gap there's a literary gap that means even in our understanding of literature the way the the the phrases the idioms the the metaphors you know the language itself and the style of writing itself is very different from are what we are used to so we're just putting out okay look these are the challenges when we are going going to read the scriptures we should be able to bridge these gaps in order to get the correct meaning of the scriptures okay and that's part of what we're going to learn in in in the rules of interpretation we need to bridge these gaps the best we can and we have the tools today that will help us do it so we make use of the tools so that we can be confident that we are interpreting the scriptures correctly okay so I'm going to stop here our time is almost out we'll pick this up from here and then we you know get into various details on how to interpret the scriptures and the tools that we can use to study the scriptures all of that okay so I trust everyone is following me so far everything is okay could somebody close this class in prayer and you know please please feel free to ask questions anytime especially as we get into the the actual rules of interpretation and how to study the word please feel free to ask questions okay let's close in prayer could somebody pray in this Mr. Klaas please relax pray let's pray father we want to thank you for this time of learning we submit us as a class to your mighty presence God Lord as we learn today God help us to meditate on your word and help us to draw insights from your spirit Lord Jesus in what intention you have spoken those words God we pray that you would continue to speak to us so that we can understand and as we continue to learn how to interpret the scriptures that you have provided us you pray oh God let your Holy Spirit lead us and help us to learn this in the perfect way Lord Jesus and also to apply in our lives and be able to to understand and to interpret and to help others as we Lord Jesus we praise you in Jesus most purchase name we pray amen amen amen thank you everyone God bless have a good break and you can continue next class see you again next week God bless bye