I want to take time right now to go into the Word of God and go into the scriptures and read some portion of the scriptures. If you have your Bible, could you go together with me to Galatians chapter 5 and verse 16? And if you do not have a Bible, you are just free to listen as I am going to read Galatians chapter 5 verse 16. I say then, walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusts against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh. And these are contrary to one another, so you do not do the things that you wish. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. And then in verse 19 it mentions works of the flesh, I think it mentions about 17 different things that the flesh does. Verse 22 talks about, but the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control, against such there is no law. But those who are crisis have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Somebody say amen. Somebody say amen. I want to speak today on a simple topic called Spirit Walk. Spirit Walk. We are going to talk about our relationship with Holy Spirit. A lot of times I feel like that the church is afraid to talk about Holy Spirit is because of the mission and the work of the Holy Spirit in the Bible that is to point to Jesus and to glorify Jesus. And some people feel like because the church, because the Holy Spirit, the third person of Trinity, his assignment is to point to Jesus, then we should never really talk about him because, well, he always wants to remain anonymous. But that is not true because Jesus talked about Holy Spirit and though Holy Spirit points to Jesus, Jesus constantly points to the Holy Spirit. And also Paul always wrote about the Holy Spirit and we just wrote a small expert, small portion of the scriptures where Apostle Paul points out to Christians to walk in the Holy Spirit. Many of us must understand that the early church did not have the book we have, but they had the Holy Spirit. And many times we want to have the results that they had, not valuing the being, the person that they valued. When we valued the book, they didn't have. They did not have the writings of Paul. They did not have the writings of Peter. Those came later, but who they had is they had the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit led them. And because the Holy Spirit led them, they lived according to scriptures, but they lived in the Holy Spirit. Amen? Most of us as Pentecostals, and let's do the camera work with such a way that we don't cause any distraction. Most of us as people who are Pentecostals or charismatic, we understand the talk, the spirit talk. It means any time I even saw during one of the missionary trips when I think Anna or somebody went with some girls and they came afterwards and they testified here. And one girl mentioned a very unique perspective on the Holy Spirit. She said, when I went to the mission trip, my Holy Spirit learned few new words. And it was kind of funny to me and inside because I knew what she was talking about and she meant every single thing right, but in her world the Holy Spirit was reduced to few syllables that come when you get filled with this aha moment, this ecstasy of heaven. And it is true that Holy Spirit gives us a language and most of us know the spirit talk. We know that Holy Spirit comes and you begin to speak in a known language and you become edified and you become filled. And it's one of those occurrences you don't tell your friends about because you're going to get into a theological debate. And so you just leave it to yourself and they just kind of like, it's my world, I do what I want with Holy Spirit. And so Holy Spirit talks, but in here apostle Paul talks about the walk of the Holy Spirit. It is good to have the talk of the Holy Spirit, but the walk of the Holy Spirit speaks of something more than speaking few things you don't understand with your natural mind. It talks about a walk, a lifestyle in accordance and a life of relationship with the being who fills us with a language we don't understand. The spirit walk, the spirit walk to walk in the Holy Spirit. Sometimes we can receive the gift of tongues, but not develop the relationship with the person of the Holy Spirit. And our desire as a young people, our desire as kids is not just to receive the gift of tongues. That's why for those of you who come to a church, you notice that in our church the highest priority after you receive Jesus and after you get baptized is not just to get you to speak in tongues. It's not just simple, hey come and we can pray so you can receive the same gift that we all have to speak in tongues. That is not really the aim. The aim is to know the Holy Spirit and to walk in the Holy Spirit. Because you can talk the spirit without walking in the spirit. But if you walk in the spirit, you will talk in the spirit. And that's why the aim is not in the pressure. I remember when I was growing up younger and we had these groups where we would pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit indicating that you will receive tongues. And the pressure was not so that you get filled with the Holy Spirit and the pressure was not so you can walk in the Holy Spirit. The pressure is so that you can pronounce few syllables nobody else understands. And if you got the syllables, let's say you got the Holy Ghost. But in reality that is not accurately and theologically correct. Because we have the Holy Spirit when Jesus comes to live inside of us and the focus and the pressure has to be not unspeaking the spirit which is also very important and it's a significant gift but pulses walk in the spirit. Because somebody say amen. And that's where the aim has to be of our lives. I want to speak to you just briefly. A few basic thoughts from the scripture we just read about walking in the Holy Spirit. I am in no way an expert.  And the first thing I want you to write down if you are taking notes is the relationship with the Holy Spirit conquers inner conflict. Relationship with the Holy Spirit conquers inner conflict. Amen Joseph. That's right. Relationship with the Holy Spirit conquers inner conflict. People who take notes are world changers and in our church we encourage everybody to take your notes. So if you can take notes, you can grab your phone, take notes app out of it and just take some notes. It will help you to pay attention and it will help you to remember something even if you won't read it again. But the messages we put here are so powerful. They are going to be worth reading again, posting on Facebook and Twitter and making a photo collage on Instagram for the glory of God. Can somebody say amen. Relationship with the Holy Spirit conquers inner conflict. We read in Galatians chapter 5 where Apostle Paul says that inside of you there is a conflict. There is a flesh. The flesh is like the carnal nature, like the bad dog. And the Holy Spirit which is a gift from God you receive at salvation. A flesh is what you get when you are born physically. Holy Spirit is what you get when you are born spiritually. A flesh is what you get when you are born for the first time. A Holy Spirit is who you have when you are born for the second time. That's why we Christians use this phrase born again.  Devil gave you a gift when you got born. It's called your flesh. It means it's that thing that's always bent on doing evil. You have it, I have it, all of us have it. But God gives you a gift when you get born again and he gives you something better, a lot better. He gives you not just your conscience, not just your desire to do good. He actually gives a Holy Spirit on the birthday of your second birth. And so you have these two, the flesh and also the Holy Spirit. And because you're born again this conflict already exists. The only people who don't have this conflict are those who don't have the Holy Spirit. People without Holy Spirit or without salvation, they do not have a conflict. That doesn't mean that everything they do, they like. It doesn't mean everything they decide, they enjoy. It just simply means that they could do something wrong without a tension. And when they've done it, there is no troubling, sleepless, torment and guilt. Why? Because the Holy Spirit is not there to bug their mind.  But it's not the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that conquers the conflict. It's the indwelling of the Holy Spirit that creates the conflict. But it's the relationship with Holy Spirit that conquers the conflict that His presence creates. Let me repeat that again. Many of us think that the moment I get saved, Holy Spirit becomes the conqueror and He conquers my inner conflict. Not realizing actually the moment you get saved, you create a conflict inside of you that previously you did not have. Because presence of the Holy Spirit immediately because He's opposing to your flesh, He creates a conflict inside of you. That's why Paul says, he says the flesh lusts against the Spirit. It means they are on the completely opposite side because when you did not have the Holy Spirit, flesh did whatever it wanted and you suffered as a result. But Holy Spirit's presence creates a conflict. But when you have a relationship with Holy Spirit that lives inside of us, He in return conquers the conflict we have on the inside. There was a woman in the Bible whose name was Rebecca. And Rebecca had two children in her womb. She had twins. And the Bible says that when she went to God to ask about the two twins, the Scripture says that there are two nations in your womb. Two nations in your womb. And the Lord gave you a prophecy. He said that the younger will dominate the older. And the Bible says when there was a delivery time happening that both of them were fighting. Who is going to get out first? And it would make sense. And so the older, the guy who got out first, his name was Esau. But the guy who got out second, his name was Jacob. And so the interesting part is the one who was born first, they both were in the womb. One was first, one was second. And the one that was second was prophetically supposed to dominate the one that's first.   You have one that was born first, it's called your flesh. And you have another one that was born second, it's called the Holy Spirit. And there's a constant tension inside, but the prophetic word is this. It's if you develop a relationship with Holy Spirit, the younger will dominate the older. It means the bad, the thing that wants to do bad things inside of you, that thing will be unsubjection when you receive Jesus that the good part, the Holy Spirit part will dominate the devil part inside of you. Everybody say, if you understand, say yes. Relationship with the Holy Spirit conquers inner conflict. If you're assuming, hoping or wishing that relationship with Holy Spirit will remove an inner conflict, you are daydreaming and you are out of the context of the scriptures. Sometimes we think that if I reached the special heights with God, I would be so high out there where the devil is just there who's going to be no flesh and I am going to be a little angel with feathers flying all around with wings and I'm going to be above the flesh and I'm going to stand here and say, I am holy. Don't get tempted. I don't know what lust is. I don't know what greed is. I don't know what laziness, procrastination, mediocrity. I don't know what all of this stuff is. This is just above because I am so in the spirit. That doesn't exist. With Holy Spirit, you don't have an absence of conflict. Actually, His presence creates a conflict. With Holy Spirit, with His relationship, we conquer that conflict and that conflict becomes under dominion of the Holy Spirit. Somebody say yes. The second thing I want you to write down is relationship with Holy Spirit fulfills you. Relationship with Holy Spirit fulfills you. Apostle Paul says in Galatians chapter 5 verse 16, that walk in the spirit and you will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. Relationship with Holy Spirit fulfills you. Why is this so significant? Because the flesh that you and I both have inside, and another thing that is important to point out, when you get saved, your flesh does not get an update. When you get saved, God does not provide an upgrade for your flesh. It's like, you know what? Your flesh was bad. Let's kind of soften the rough edges around it. No murder thoughts, just bad thoughts, but not suicide thoughts. Let's do, you know, like no really bad thoughts.    No polishman, literally God left it completely untouched. The way it is, that's why I don't be surprised if Christians can do some things that non-Christians will not do. Why?  The only difference between us is not that we only have flesh, we also have the Holy Spirit, and if we develop a relationship with him, we will not live according to our flesh. Somebody say yes. Relationship with the Holy Spirit brings fulfillment. Why is it so important? Because Apostle Paul says that lust is of the flesh, and the flesh lusts. And when I have a relationship with the Holy Spirit, it doesn't cause my flesh not to have any lusts. It will just cause those lusts not to be fulfilled. And they're not going to be not fulfilled because I will strive, and I will be like so hard. It's just because I am going to be so satisfied with the Holy Spirit that those lusts will no longer seem as enticing, attractive, and pooling to me as they would be when I would not be satisfied with the Holy Spirit. It's a simple principle.  And so you know you're full, and you can't take nothing in why because you are full.  The relationship with the Holy Spirit is the only protection against craving and demand and intense pool and enticement of your flesh. The relationship with the Holy Spirit is the only guarantee. If you have flesh lust problems, which every person has in here, and lust doesn't necessarily pornography, lust doesn't necessarily sexual, lust is in every, every of our life, and lust is like an athlete's food. If you ever had an athlete's food, something happened. When it itches, what do you do? You scratch it, and it itches the more. You scratch it to remove the itch, but you realize quickly the more you scratch it, the more it itches. That's exactly what lust is. It's never meant to be satisfied. It never can be content. It's a bottomless hole. The more you throw into it, it just vanishes, and it asks for more.  You bring the furniture to kill the fire, but it makes it bigger. You brought your bed to kill the fire, it makes it bigger. You brought the kitchen cabinets to kill the fire, it just makes it bigger. And at the end, you throw yourself there, it makes you bigger, and you have nothing. That's exactly what lust is. Lust always wants more, and more, and more, and it never leaves you satisfied. That's why if anybody here has ever been addicted to pornography, you know one thing, that pornography never satisfies. You never could have enough.  Enough. No. There's always harder, there's always harder, there's always harder, until people begin to play out what they see on a computer screen. Why? Because it's a bottomless hole. It's never enough. But the most fascinating thing about Holy Spirit is the Bible says that we can be filled with Holy Spirit. When you have a relationship with Holy Spirit, you have a bottom, and you can be filled. And sometimes you don't need a Columbia River size of the Holy Spirit to be filled.  Some of you, you experience this presence. When you come in into worship, and when you come in, maybe during reading of the Scriptures, or maybe during prayer, where the presence of Jesus not in an astronomical, powerful way, but it seems like a drop, and your whole bottle became filled. Why? Because Holy Spirit relationship fulfills you. The essence of that relationship is fulfillment. The essence of that relationship is satisfaction. Can somebody say yes? Can somebody say amen? All Christians have Holy Spirit. But Holy Spirit does not have all Christians. And that is the difference between walking in the Holy Spirit and having Holy Spirit. All of us here, we have the Holy Spirit. But not all of us here, Holy Spirit has us. The relationship with Holy Spirit brings satisfaction. When you have this relationship, when you have this walk, your life begins to be marked by fulfillment. That doesn't mean you don't have lusts. That doesn't mean that you don't have temptation.  With lust, you are never satisfied. And to overcome lust is to be filled with Holy Spirit. D. L. Moody, a student in front of a group of people while he was preaching, he took a glass, an empty glass, and he asked the students in front of him, he said, how do I remove the air out of the glass?   He said, the best way to remove the air from the glass is to fill it with water. Because as the water goes in, the air goes out. And that's exactly the way to remove lust and sin out of your life.  Now, the programs for alcoholic anonymous, the 12-step programs, all of these have a place, but the Christian way of dealing with it, even in those programs, the first step is not to get a vacuumer and suck sin out, bad addictions. I don't want to do this. I don't want to curse. I don't want to do this.  It's to be filled with Holy Spirit who pushes it out of you. Most of us think that if I deny my lust, only then I will be ready to be filled with Holy Spirit, but it's actually the opposite.  And so the Paul teaches us, he says, you have to be filled with Holy Spirit. Only then you will not fulfill the lust of your flesh.  Relax. Your main goal today has to be is Holy Spirit, fill me with your presence and as you fill me with your presence, every evil thing is gonna get fleshed out. It's a lot of replacement. I've done this. When I've heard this for the first time, I've done this in my own house when I put half of the glass with milk and I decided to get the milk out without pouring the glass. And it's actually fascinating. You can do that in your own house. It works for everybody. It will work for you too. What you do is that you put the glass, the half of a glass of milk in front of the faucet and you open the water. And you just watch the transformation. It will take a few minutes. You watch as the water goes into milk and at first it seems like it's just mixing with milk.  Not for long. As long as the water keeps going in and then the cup begins to overflow and you see it gets diluted, diluted, diluted until all of the trace of milk until there is not one drop and not even a trace of milk in the glass. That is the power of the Holy Spirit. When you get filled, He flushes things out. The goal is not to empty yourself so you can be free from the Holy Spirit. The goal is to come to the Holy Spirit so you can get filled and then things begin to get fleshed out. Can somebody say amen? Can somebody say yes?  New year begins and many people have new resolutions. This is what I want to quit and this is what I want to do. And they end up cracking under the weight of the lack of their efforts and discipline. The best way is to be filled with Holy Spirit and at times you will feel like well I feel like I'm mixing things. I feel like I still have this and I'm trying to reach to the Holy Spirit. Paul said walk in the Spirit. He didn't say get rid of your lust. He said walk in the Spirit and then you will not fulfill the lust of your flesh. Amen? Number three, relationship with Holy Spirit makes rules necessary. Relationship with Holy Spirit makes rule necessary. So we mentioned the first thing is that relationship with Holy Spirit conquers inner conflict. The presence of the Holy Spirit creates that conflict. We mentioned the second thing is that relationship with Holy Spirit brings fulfillment in our life. And we mentioned that lust can be conquered when we are satisfied and that all Christians have Holy Spirit but Holy Spirit doesn't have all Christians. The third thing is that relationship with Holy Spirit makes rule necessary. Now I want you to listen very carefully. One of the portion of the verses we've read tonight in Galatians 5 is when Paul says if we are led by Holy Spirit we are not under the law. So if Holy Spirit leads us we are no longer under the law. Now I want you to notice what Apostle Paul is not saying. He is not saying if you are led by the Holy Spirit you don't need the law. You don't have the law and the law is completely out of your life. He just says when Holy Spirit wasn't your leader the law was. When Holy Spirit is your leader the law is not your babysitter. You are no longer under the law. Now for those of us who are Christians we understand that the law which is all testament precepts there was actually three different laws. The ceremonial law which was fulfilled in Jesus. The ceremonial law is when they brought a lamb on the Passover like we have Easter so what they did during that time in church is they brought a sheep and they killed a sheep in the church and that was a ceremonial law. We don't do that no more.  We don't do that because that was fulfilled in Jesus but then there was a second law second types of laws it was a civil law. For example a civil law meant you have to watch your borders you have to watch how you grow things you have to watch what kind of seeds so it had to be civil law which mainly applies to the nation of Israel we don't live in Israel we have a different civil law today in our country and we try to live by it but there was a third kind of law which we still have as Christians all the way from all testament it was called moral law it's the part where the Bible says no kill with the part where the Bible says thou shall not steal it's the part where the Bible says thou shall have no other gods in front of you that law though was fulfilled in Jesus it's still in our life today because many Christians say things like well we are no longer under the law the law is done with and today the only thing is we are under grace true ceremonial and civil but not moral the moral law is still in the life of a Christian now the difference is in the Old Testament the saints were under it the law the Bible says was a tutor it was a babysitter all of these laws people were under it but the Bible says here when we are led by Holy Spirit the law is not our babysitter no more because we have a leader so where does the law come into our life the law the rules are there to confirm not to condition our relationship with Holy Spirit write this down the rules are to confirm not to condition our relationship with Holy Spirit and I will explain that in a minute the rules are not to condition but to confirm our relationship with Holy Spirit so they are not to condition but they are to confirm our relationship with Holy Spirit how many of you have a gym membership? if you go to a gym to sign up for a gym membership they give you laws they call them rules there's no 10 commandments but they have certain rules at the end you say agree and because you agree upon these rules you join the gym so the rules are the way you enter into your relationship with your gym if you break any of the rules what do they give you they kick you out they take your membership and you're completely out dad is Old Testament now let me give you a new testament those of you who have a home when you were born in your family every single one of you you did not have to agree to any rules before you were born in your family right i don't think your mama sends you a file in your womb says do you agree take off your shoes clean the dishes and don't walk in the carpet and feed the dog and cut the grass on saturday and don't curse and don't swear don't the drugs if you don't don't come out of there find you another mommy none of us had that we are born and we never had any laws to be part of the family am i right but once we are in the family we have rules in the family why not to stay in the family but because so that we can grow in that family and when you break the rule do you stop being a son no you can get a timeout you can get spanking you may lose your wi-fi password which will be the end of the world you may have to do certain things but you know one thing is that when the rules are broken in the family it's not the same thing as rules are broken in the gym because in the family the rules never caused you to enter the family and therefore they cannot cause you to get out of the family everything is based on relationship in the gym things are based on rules so what paul is saying when i have relationship with holy spirit it's like a family the rules are there to confirm and to protect a relationship not to determine the relationship but the rules are still there the rules are still there and the rules are very important to relationship with holy spirit anything worthy anything valuable is protected you have if you have a car you have an insurance on your car now some of you you don't have an insurance on your car and which is bad but if you have a nice car you have an insurance on your car if you don't have a car you don't have insurance there needs to be no rules if there is nothing to protect it nothing too valuable to protect it if you are married you have certain rules around your life as a married couple these rules you didn't present them to the person that you're married to on the first date and says do you subscribe to these based on our mutual agreement let me give you a ring you give me a kiss and we enter into into our marriage that is not how it worked but when you do get married you establish certain rules in certain homes different rules matter like in our homes this is the rule is that you when you walk into the house i have to remove my shoes that is the rule that me and my wife have we remove our shoes now if we don't remove my shoes if i don't remove my shoes i don't my wife doesn't my relationship doesn't break with her but this is the rule that we have i don't live by this rule i live by a relationship but this relationship is protected by certain rules that we have in our home in our relationship the way i relate to other women the way she relates with other men we have certain rules why because this relationship is so important it deserves to be protected anytime a christian says i don't need any rules in my life it simply means your relationship with holy spirit is not worth protecting but if it's valuable and if it's important it must be protected you must have guardrails around your relationship with holy spirit just like you have guardrails on your ramp or on your road to keep you going on the right track can somebody say yes somebody say amen and the last thing i want to share with you about relationship with holy spirit i write this down relationship with holy spirit is a gift to people around you relationship with holy spirit is a gift to people around you that means when you know holy spirit you become a gift to people who are around you so the first thing that we shared is relationship with holy spirit is what conquers our inner conflict. Relationship with Holy Spirit is what gives us fulfillment, we said secondly. The third thing is that we mentioned that relationship with Holy Spirit, it makes rules necessary. So we are not under the rules, we are above the rules, but we still have them. We have those rules to guide our conduct and to help us protect our relationship, not to secure our salvation. And the fourth thing relates to the Holy Spirit is the gift to other people. And this comes from the verse where Apostle Paul says that the fruit of the Spirit, and he mentions nine characteristics, but before that he mentions the works of the flesh. The works of the flesh are about 17 and the fruit of the Spirit is 9. Now stay with me just for a few more minutes. It's interesting that the Bible says here not fruits of the Spirit. You would assume it's talking about nine different characteristics like love, peace, patience, kindness, and you would assume it will use proper grammar by calling it fruits of the Spirit because there are many of them. But it's using word fruit. When it talks about works of the flesh, it uses plural works. When it uses fruit it says only fruit, not fruits of the Spirit. Why? Because Holy Spirit, all of these nine characteristics, Holy Spirit develops at the same time in your life. You can develop one of them by yourself, but you cannot develop nine of them by yourself at the same time. You can develop love at the expense of self-control. You can develop kindness at the expense of love. You can develop one, work on one, while all five other of them are just rotten to the bone. But you cannot develop all nine at the same time. Only Holy Spirit can take all nine and at the same time develop these in your life. A person can develop one at the expense of another, but Holy Spirit develops all nine at the same time. That's why they're called fruit, not fruits of the Spirit. Therefore you and I cannot say, well, I have the fruit of love, but I don't have the fruit of patience. That means you don't have the fruit of the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Holy Spirit is all nine. You may say, oh my goodness, that's not possible. That's why it's called fruit of the Holy Spirit. It's not called fruit of fasting. It's not called fruit of your prayer. It's not called fruit of your New Year's resolutions. It's not called fruit of your workout. It's not called fruit of reading self-help books. It's not called fruit of I'm gonna work on myself. It's not fruit of your efforts, because if you work on yourself, if you pump an apple, that's all it's gonna be. But then you see all others will be struggling. But when Holy Spirit is working on it, they're all nine being produced at the same time. And somebody say amen. So it's a fruit of the Spirit versus the works of the flesh. But the interesting part here is that it's a fruit. It's a fruit. A fruit grows slowly. A fruit is not a machinery produced by a machine where things can be done so quickly. A fruit first is sour before it's sweet. And this is the frustrating part that we get sometimes as Christians, is when you walk with Holy Spirit, you begin to notice that your character and change in your life does not happen all the time. That's why I have a hard time believing testimonies where people say my life was radically changed on that night. I know what you mean. But I also know what really happened. Your life cannot be dramatically changed in one day. It cannot. Now you can receive salvation in one moment. You can receive deliverance in one moment. You can receive healing in one moment. But fruit cannot be developed in one service. And so after a week or after two weeks, you will recognize, you know what? Not everything changed that night. And then after a month you realize, well, you know what? It seems like nothing changed since that night. Why? Because a fruit does not happen overnight. And at first it's sour before it's sweet.  Yes, He is. You just have to pat yourself on the back and say, my fruit is so sour today. But it's on the way to be sweet. You have to pat yourself on the back. And when you see a fellow Christian sinning, or maybe like, you see that they're not, their attitude is so damn, you pat them on the back and say, you know what? We all can taste. It's kind of sour, huh? Your fruit is very sour, but you are on your way. Don't immediately think that they got a demon. Don't immediately think that, oh, the Holy Spirit is so far from them. Oh, they're so far from the Holy Spirit because they don't have these features in their life and they're not sweet. Remember, before they got sweet, they were for sour. And so it's the process the Holy Spirit develops. And Holy Spirit uses the word fruit to encourage you that if certain things in your life are still not in there where they're supposed to be, this is not a moment to quit and say, this is taking too slow. Can we hurry up? God, don't you have a microwave? God, don't you have a drive-through system? God, can we get it done faster? I can help you to do it faster. No, this is the moment to say, Holy Spirit, I am not gonna quit in my relationship. Why? Because I know that it's a fruit and I know fruit takes time. It grows. It doesn't get made. It grows. It doesn't get created. That's why with Holy Spirit, you don't go through life.  That's why with Holy Spirit, every single year, you are getting better. You might not be better than me. You might not be, I might not be better than you, but with Holy Spirit, I am better this year than I was last year. With Holy Spirit, I can be better this week than I was last year. Why? Because it's a fruit and it grows. But you know, every single, if you have trees in your backyard or in your front yard, and I would encourage you to plant some if you don't have any, because it's a fascinating, interesting part of how slow they grow, and they encourage your Christian faith. But secondly, you can do nothing to pull a fruit out of a tree. You cannot set up a blow dryer. You cannot put a certain sprinkler on it to sprinkle. You cannot feed it nothing. The only thing you can do to grow fruits is that you can constantly and continuously work and cultivate the tree. And the tree will produce the fruit on its own. And this is my encouragement to you here. Work on your relationship with Holy Spirit, and Holy Spirit will work on your character. When you work on the character, it's the same thing as coming to the tree, taking a branch and trying to pull an apple out of it. Now, it will not give you an apple. But if you take some water and you cultivate the roots, if you come and you need to trim some branches and you pay so much attention to the tree, the tree will give you fruit and will give you so much fruit that you will never be able to produce and manufacture on your own. The biggest mistakes we make as Christians is we look over the fence and see how non-Christians live. And the way they produce their character is they make certain resolutions. They make certain goals. They make certain disciplines and they push it out of them because they don't have a relationship with Holy Spirit. But you have a Holy Spirit. You have a tree. Your goal is to cultivate the root, to cultivate the relationship. And as you cultivate a relationship, he takes responsibility for how your character, your personality turns out. Can somebody say amen? And the best part is if you have a fruit. The fruit doesn't feed the tree. The fruit feeds people around it. People who have a fruit of the spirit are people who are benefit to people around them. When you have a fruit of the spirit, you are a blessing to your company. When you have a good attitude, your boss, even if he has a demon, he's going to be benefited from it. If you have a fruit of love, if you're coworkers, maybe they have a hard day, but you become a juicy, sweet, red, pink, red. Well, that's actually not really good. Pink, red, but thick, red apple to your coworkers.  They blessed by you. They love to be in your presence. Your company, when they go through layoff, they will keep the apples on the payroll.  We don't have a position for you.  You feed people. You don't starve people. You don't kill people.  Your presence is like an orange, orange, or like a banana, or like a good fruit.  You always feed the circle of friends that you are around. Can I ask you a question? Will you be missed if you leave your circle of influence? Will anybody starve if you disappear? Or will people not even notice that you were there? Are you a tree that has no fruit? Are you a tree that Jesus comes to and the Bible says he was looking for something to eat and there was nothing but leaves. Nothing but just a christianese. Nothing but a bumper sticker. No character, no attitude. Defeats and blesses people but just well I'm a christian. You need more than that to feed people around you. You need to have a holy spirit produced character. The goal is not to go home tonight. I said this is what I need to change. This is what I need to stop doing and this is what I need to start doing. The goal tonight today is to say I want to make my relationship with the holy spirit the number one priority and as I do that he will make my attitude, my character, my personality, everything about me his priority to fix. You try to fix yourself. You're not successful. Try to work on a relationship and he will be successful in changing and transforming your life. Amen.


Imagine owning prime real estate without the household of being a landlord. Well, today I'm going to bring you guys my top seven dividend REITs that might help your dreams become reality. You see how I did their dream? I'm Zeke. Welcome to the dream green show. Today I'm going to bring you guys seven different real estate REITs.  REIT stands for real estate investment trust companies. These are companies that are required by law to pay back the investors in the form of dividends, 90% of their taxable income. So that means dividend REITs usually have a higher dividend yield. And the higher the dividend yield is, the more money you'll make. And another thing real estate REITs, most of these companies are monthly paying dividend stocks.  But the thing is our bills are due every single month. Our bills ain't due every single quarter. So we need consistent passive income now. So when we get paid dividends now, we can live off of some of that money. Now, if you don't know what dividends are, dividends is when companies pay back their investors, people that got own shares of these companies. They pay their investors as a farm, as a farmer saying, hey, thank you for investing inside our company. Here's a little check. They send out every single month, every single quarter under deposit inside your account. Now they're hoping that you reinvest that money back into the company to help it grow.  I'm going to show you guys seven real estate REITs with high dividend yields that you can live off in the near future. So make sure that you stick to throughout the entire video so you don't miss out on any crucial information. Hit that thumbs up button and subscribe to the channel. Now, I would like to thank today's sponsor of this video, Moomoo, their longtime sponsor on this channel. Right now, if you signed up with them to deposit $100, you could get up to 15 free stocks. And right now they have a 5.1 plus a 3% bonus. So an 8.1 APY cash suite interest on the cash that's just sitting inside of your account guys, that 8.1 8.1 really guys, that's an opportunity that you don't want to miss out on. And they also offer free commission trading, free commission on the options after market hours, early market hours, access to other markets. They have tons of tools in there that you guys could use to help become better traders, better investors, find hidden gems, find stocks before they blow up. They have all the tools in there necessary in order for you to become financially educated and financially free down the line. So guys, I want to thank today's sponsor again of this video, Moomoo. Please check them out. That link is going to be down in the description. Check out Moomoo. But enough talking. Let's go ahead and dive straight into this video. Welcome back dreamers. Here we are on Moomoo. We're taking a look at the first one, ticker symbol, Oh, really the income. This is known as the monthly paying dividends stock. We're going to go ahead and get this one out the way. Everyone knows this one. They pay that dividends every single month and they have a pretty sweet dividend yield of 5.6%. If you take a look right there at the bottom left where it says dividend yield TTM, it says 5.6%. And really the income, they've been doing pretty well over the last couple of months. And then if you take a look at the last couple of years, they've been doing extremely well. Now ticker symbol, Oh, it's known as the monthly paying dividend stock because they're one of the only ones in this list. That is a dividend aristocrat. A dividend aristocrat is any company that's inside the S&P 500 and increase their dividends every single year for the last 25 years. That's ticker symbol. Oh, so most when most real estate investment trust companies was cutting their dividends, they was able to grow their dividends for the last 25 years. They lasted through recessions, pandemics, depressions, all that kind of stuff that was able to increase their dividends. And that's why ticker symbol Oh is known as the monthly paying dividend stock at $54 and 19 cents ticker symbol. They own the buildings for like CVS, dollars general, Walmart, LA fitness or all of those business AMC to they actually own those buildings. And they lease them out to Walmart and people like them. Right. So they specialize in retail and commercial real estate. So let's go ahead and move on to the next one. Ticker symbol GL PI gaming in leisure properties at $45 and 51 cents. They have a sweet dividend yield of 6.32 percent and they're all about casinos. They're all about casino. So now that all you gamblers that went out there and used to lose all your money at the casino, trying to beat the house. Don't beat the house. Be the house. Go ahead and invest into those buildings that's taking all of your money. And now you got a winning edge in getting a 6.3 percent. Dividing your every single month. So GL PI focuses on owning and leasing casino properties a sector with a high cash flow and resilience. Once again, we take a look at GL PI and over the last couple. They haven't been out that long, but over the last couple of years, they've been doing extremely well also. So this is another monthly paying dividend stock that you guys might want to look into. Let's move over to the next one. Ticker symbol W ELL, well, well tower. Now, well, tower has a dividend year of 2.77 percent and a price of $87.93 at the time of the recording of this video. And they've been doing pretty decent over the last couple of years. Now with interest being so high on some of these real estate things when they finally bring some of the interest back, you could expect a lot of these REITs to explode in the near future. And when they explode, they really they outperform a lot of the market. So we're waiting for the interest rates to finally pull back. But we're getting in while the prices are low. This could be a setting up for a pretty decent dividend portfolio. Now, well tower, they invest into senior living facilities, outpatient centers and long term care facilities in a position itself to capitalize on the aging global population. So all the baby boomers out there, all the old people getting older, as long as the population continues to increase and people continue to get older. These living centers, these old patient homes, these old folks homes, they're the ones that's going to they're the ones building these places and random out to those companies. So as long as people continue to live and get old, this might be a good idea to go ahead and get inside of that sector. Let's move over to the next one. Tickets from a PSA public storage is at two hundred and eighty dollars and they have a dividend year of three point nine two percent. Now, public storage has been doing extremely well from two thousand nineteen two thousand twenty four. If we look over from two thousand the year two thousand two two thousand twenty one two thousand twenty four. They've been doing extremely well. They have a dividend year of three point nine two percent. If we scroll all the way down on Moomoo, they have amazing things. They have a bullish signal right here. If it was bearish, you should sell it bullish mean you should buy it. And then they got a lot of things that you guys can look at on the Weibo app, but they they're still bullish with a price point of two hundred and eighty dollars and they've been doing extremely well. Public storage, they have facilities in the United States in over in Europe. So with the ever increasing demand of storage with all of the houses being put up, this could be a great revenue stream to have inside of your portfolio. The next one that we're going to look at is DLR. Digital Realty Trust is a digital. They build facilities out to house the equipment for like the cloud and stuff like that or digital computing power with the digital revolution showing no signs of slowing down. Digital Realty Trust focuses on data center real estate and right now is more relevant than ever. Now, DLR is supposed to infrastructure for the digital economy from cloud service to the global connectivity. So if you're thinking about computing power in the future, all of this is it's not in the cloud. It's actually on storage devices here in buildings. That's the actual cloud. You guys are looking into that DLR is at one hundred and forty four dollars and forty nine cents. That might be an amazing one to look at as well. Let's take a look at the next one, another health care one. GMRE. All right. So the global medical rate is at nine dollars and eighty eight cents. And they have a dividend yield of eight point five percent, which is completely insane. It is it is amazing. We take a look at the weekly. They've been doing fine or decent from 2019 to 2022. Scroll down. They have a bullet signal as well. GMRE offers a unique investment opportunity in health care real estate that focus on leasing to health care providers on long term agreements provides a stable income stream. So if you guys are looking for more of the health care facilities like that, GMRE is an amazing way to go as well with a very high dividend yield of eight point five percent. Now, let's move over to one of my favorites, AGNC. Now, AGNC investing to natural real estate properties homes. Now, like my guy over on, I think, Joseph said it on let's let's talk money over on his channel. He said AGNC buys the best looking house in the worst neighborhood. So they're going to find the best looking house in the worst neighborhood. And that is their strategy on real estate investing. And with the interest rates should pull back this year. They've been pretty high over the last couple of years. That's why AGNC haven't not been doing well. But once interest rates finally pull back, they pull back just even a little bit. You can expect AGNC AGNC to finally take off. And as you guys see right there, they have a 15 point zero eight percent dividend yield pan every single month. Completely insane. That's paying every single month. And this is one that I plan to have inside my portfolio for a while. Over the last couple of years, they've been doing OK. They've been having a pullback kind of stagnant. But once again, we're waiting for the interest rates to pull back. And once they do, I'm getting AGNC right now at a very cheap price. And once the interest rate pulled back, I expect them to take off. And let's scroll down and look at the indicator. It says it's neutral. It's not really saying but it's not really saying sell. So we're just going to keep it right there. I'll dial the cost average in on them just a little bit and collect dividends on the way into the interest rates. Hopefully finally drop a little bit. And there we go, dreamers. Let me know that I miss any of those on my top seven. Let me know which ones that you like down in the comments section. Because I know once the interest rates decides to pull back, all of these REITs are going to do amazing. Did you know what REITs were before this video? You could be honest. Let me know down in the comments section. You ain't got a lot. Did you know what dividend kings was? Dividend aristocrats? If you didn't know what they were, check out the free ebook down in the pinned comment section. Mastering dividends. It took me some time to make that. I just didn't throw all of that together in a week. It took me some time to make that. To make it as easy to understand for you guys as possible. So that link is going to be down in the pinned comment section. Let me know what real estate companies are you investing into? Would you rather buy land?   Let these companies go up in price. You can let the dividends from them every single month and not have to worry about being the landlord of these places by doing real estate that way. Which way is better for you? Let me know down in the comment section. And once again, I would like to thank today's sponsors. This video, Mumu. Guys, thank you, Mumu. Everybody say thank you to Mumu. Thank you to Mumu. All right, because right now they have an offer that you cannot resist. You sign up to $1,000 to get your 15 free starts. You sign up. You keep your cash in there. You get an 8.1% APY cash sweep on the cash. It's just in there making money.  Just put your money in there. Guys, they gave that offer to you guys. Take full advantage. That link is gonna be down in the description. Want to thank them again. Thank you, Mumu, for sponsoring this video. And also, if you made it to the end of this video, you real, if you made it to the end of this video, you real, go ahead, hit that subscribe button. 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Hi, this is Peter Burris with another Wikibon Action Item Quick Take. George Gilbert, everybody's talking about AI, ML, DL, as though, like always, the stack's going to be highly disaggregated. What's really happening? Well, the key part for going really mainstream is we're going to have to have these embedded in the fabric of applications, high volume applications. And right now, because it's so bespoke, it can only really be justified in strategic applications, but the key scarce resource of the data scientists, we can look at them as the new class of developer, but they're very different from the old class of developer. I mean, they need entirely different schooling and training and tools. So the closest we can get to the sort of completely bespoke apps are at the big tech companies, for the most part, or tech-centric companies like AtTech and FinTech. But beyond that, when you're trying to get these out to more mainstream but still sophisticated customers, we have platforms like C3 or IBM's Watson IoT, where they're templates, but you work intensively between the vendor and the customer. It's going to be a while before we see them as widespread components of legacy enterprise apps because those apps actually are keeping the vendors and the customers busy trying to move them to the cloud. They were heavily customized. And you can't really embed the machine learning apps in those while they're sort of so customized because they need a certain amount of data and they evolve a certain type of data and they evolve very quickly, whereas the systems of record are very, very rigid. All right. Once again, thank you very much, George. This has been Peter Burris with another Wikibon Action Item Quick Take.


So over the past week there's been a lot of excitement about the return of Rafa Nadal in 2024 and when he's actually going to come back, Craig Tiley, the Australian Open director came out and said that he's probably going to play the Australian Open. Rafa's come out and said, I don't know if I'm going to be there. I might be there. I'm hoping to be there. Let's see what Rafa had to say. This is what Rafa had to say in an event recently. My first option to be back on the professional court would be January in Australia. But right now I really can't confirm something I don't know. Nothing has changed in the last few weeks except for the fact that I'm training a bit more than before, which is an accomplishment for me and my mental health. I'm not training without pain. I'm in less pain than I used to be, but I'm still in pain. However, this pain allows me to do more and more things eventually. Things would be different if I had zero pain. I could give you a date for my return if I had zero pain because I would have time to prepare myself for that. And this is in response to what Craig Tiley said last week on Australian television. We can reveal exclusively here that Rafa will be back. He's been off court for most of the year. Been talking to him over the last few days. He confirmed he will be back, which we're really excited about. The champion of 2022, that's awesome. There you have it. That is what Rafa had to say recently in response to what Craig Tiley said a couple of weeks ago about Rafa being back, coming back to the Australian Open. Rafa said, I'm not quite ready yet. Just let me, let me get better and we'll see if we get there in time. But it'll be great to see him. Of course, next year is supposed to be his final year on tour. He's going to be retiring at the end of next year, according to him. But then again, if he wins the Australian Open and he plays and wins the French and he's back in the top 10 in, you know, in a couple of months into the 2024 season, he probably keep playing. So it's a really interesting way to see how Rafa does next year and hopefully plays the Australian Open. Hopefully we see him in Australia again after last year where he got injured in Australia. But let me know down in the comments below. Do you think he's going to be back in January? Or do you think he might be more realistically going to be back maybe on the clay courts in February in Rio or somewhere in South America?


Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to a very quick ceremony where we want to honor the awardees of our global growth companies for Greater China. These are nine Chinese companies who have made the world's list and are invited to join our World Economic Forum community of the world's fastest growing and most innovative companies. They are China's pioneer of video streaming and content provider iQiyi. Please a round of applause for iQiyi. A popular platform for city life, Dianpi, one of the world's fastest growing drone manufacturers Dajing Chunxin, DJI, one-stop transportation platform which everybody knows, Didi Kuidi, number one fashion online retailer Lafa Soh, one of our leading China financial experts, China PNR, world leader in the solar industry Jinko Solar, building one of the most innovative internet ecosystems, Lishi. Lishi. Thank you. And China's largest private manufacturer of preventative health care, Manian One Health. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a round of applause for our new global growth company, Honorees. Thank you.


Hello there, this is Mr. P. On today's lesson, we're going to learn how to give a good oral presentation think plan and talk preparing an oral presentation Giving an oral presentation or talk as part of your academic course is similar in many ways to preparing an essay remember introduction body and conclusion The following guidelines apply to most types of talk follow these steps number one review guidelines number two writing your talk number three producing notes number four preparing visual aids number five Practicing your talk and number six preparing for questions the first one review guidelines Well, number one check the guidelines and how much time you have you have been given Number two think about the purpose of your talk. Is it to inform to entertain or to persuade your audience? Number three think about your audience. Who are they? How much do they already know about your topic? How much information do you need for your speech? number four the side on the topic If you don't know it already if you do decide on the specific area you will present pay attention to the time you have available Number five collect your ideas and gather more information if you need to number two writing your talk number one Make notes on what you want to include think about what you must tell your audience What you should tell them and what you would like to tell them if you have time number two create an outline or a plan of your talk Consider writing an introduction and meet talk and a conclusion to your presentation number three If you decide to follow the guidelines of an essay do not read it when you give your presentation Instead make notes based on what you wrote and discuss them using your own words Are you with me? I hope so. Let's take a look at number three producing notes Make notes in English for ESL students on cards like this ones to use them while speaking Open with an introduction to the title and an overview of what you want to say So these are examples of cards. I would use when giving a presentation about learning English well the first Thing that I would do I will show slide one and I would Introduce myself by saying good morning everyone my talk today examines how students learn English I Will give an overview also and I will say something like I tend to Outline three important points about learning English. So moving on to slide two I Would show the slide to and I would say the first point I want to discuss is how a student learns a language and I will discuss how the student learns a language a Further point is where the student learns English is it in their own country or in an English speaking country? And I would talk about learning where the student learns English Let's take a look at producing notes Number one try to get the attention of the audience at the beginning Starting with a joke a surprising fact or a personal anecdote number two close with a summary and an invitation for people to ask questions like Do you have any questions? Number three Some people find it useful to write out the whole introduction and conclusion This depends on how you feel prepared about the topic So number four preparing visual aids and this is the fun part Number one visual aids help you to communicate your talk to the audience Number two if using PowerPoint or keynote your writing and diagrams must be large and clear Number three Do not put too much information on each slide number four If you use posters or pictures make sure they are clear and readable from a considerable distance number five avoid writing or drawing things on the board during your talk Considering I'm giving a presentation on learning English. I will show some slides and these are some examples Learning English so that that would be the title and the three main points that I would talk during my presentation So listening Reading and speaking then on my second slide I will show examples of listening of course because the first one is listening, right? So listening what can you listen? Well, you can listen to movies. You can listen to podcasts You can listen to audiobooks. Okay, and I will give some examples of each so movies like you'll really enjoy For examples, I enjoyed Watching Joker for example, so you can watch that movie with subtitles in English and in English Podcasts there are tons of podcasts Available to learn English and audiobooks. Well, I'm reading a lot of books right now. So Instead of reading them. I like to you know, listen and at the same time follow the book So listen and reading that is an excellent exercise to learn English And here mr. P says use notes not sentences just like in these examples So let's take a look at practicing your talk now Well, number one is practice, of course the more you practice the more you feel confident Number two try practicing alone first trying to keep track of time and focusing on the topic of presentation Number three ask a friend to listen to your presentation Ask them to check your tone of voice. Is it loud? Is it clear? It's a low Number four use your dictionary or online sites to check your pronunciation vocabulary and grammar So preparing for questions Number one try to predict some of the questions your audience may ask you and practice your answers So how how did you learn English if we're giving a presentation on English learning? What what did you learn? Why are you wearing Canada? Why why is that English is the most difficult language in the world? Well, these are some questions that your audience might ask you, right? So let's take a look at some useful language that you can use during your oral presentation In your introduction, you can start by saying obviously your name and then good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening My talk today examines Hello, everyone. Today. I'm going to discuss or to talk about Explaining structure in this presentation. I intend to outline Or I will discuss the main features off Introducing each point. I want to begin by looking at the first the second the third point if You want to clarify something you would say something like in other words that is to say what I mean is If you want to change subject, then you would say something like so I have discussed Now I'd like to turn to Move it on to the next point When you conclude your presentation, you can say something like I have talked about in my case learning English to sum up or to summarize in Conclusion, I believe etc. Let's suggestions before giving your presentation You must feel confident about your English if English is not your first language Practice your pronunciation Be fully prepared about the topic Learn how to answer possible questions and most important of all, rehearse practice So that's it for today If you have any questions about oral presentations, please type them under the video If you haven't subscribed to my channel, please do if you liked the lesson click on the like button, please and If you want to share it with your friends or with your class or with your classmates please do Having said that have a nice day and see you the next lesson. Take care. Bye. Bye


Alright guys, so I'm putting together another video here, and I've got a bunch of them So each video's got you know things I like about it don't like about it I mean and we're talking stuff from two years ago or longer, so it just kind of really depends So what I'm gonna do on this video here. I kind of held it. I made a mistake and Kind of was like not sure I wanted to show it, but screw it. Let's do it This video is brought to you in part by TrueTech tools quality tools essential support All right, so we get a zero zone Reaching cooler. I was told it was a freezer That was freezing up, but it's a cooler So it looks like they shut it off because it was supposedly freezing product and breaking it so I believe they turned it off I haven't been outside to check yet They've got thermostat down there. Well, they got it turned up to 60. So maybe that's why I'll just give it a brief look over The TXV here Screen actually has a port to check their super heat. It's fairly newer some of it. It's in 2015 Like I said that thermostat It's turned up because they probably trying to call it out. It does not appear to be running. So Here for a moment, I don't feel anything going on so I'm gonna say it's probably turned off I'm gonna go outside and see what's going on out there I would say it's this one here. I'm getting very little information on why what when All these things kill you when it comes time to find problems and people don't have good information So you got Two other coolers over here and one over there. We just flipped it on Vance just came on like I said the disconnect was off Well, those are a little dirty Looks like a makeshift pop-off device of some sort Kind of amazed by all these they're actually legal to have honestly They're so worried about vinten refrigerant and they're allowing them away to vina. You would think they'd let them blow the compressor up It was so dangerous for the environment It's pretty solid. That's a good thing I'm wondering does it come down and shut off? We have a problem with the bracer switch, maybe not working correctly Just plowing it to run It's so annoying to shut it off. I don't know The problem with this here when you don't really have a good way to know what was going on Because you've kind of got to go through and just start double-checking everything. I mean it's such a waste of time because You don't get a good description of what's going on It grows up. I mean first of all it's full of a freezer That's wrong I'm told it's froze up, but they've already thought it out They really are doing a disservice themselves by not giving you a good accurate description of what's going on And that's not our people's fault. It's the owner of not getting information to the service person So now it's time to be a detective and go through here and see if we can figure out What exactly causes it to do it. We've got our usual maintenance items dirty coil Possibly low on charge hard to tell yet the coolant is not down to temperature and TXV is probably adjusting So first thing I did when I got here was I made sure all the fans are running Now what I'm gonna do is most of you look at the thermostats turning on and off that Look at that variance There it's tight Check super variances on that. I'm gonna go outside make sure that shuts off It looks like it is because I can hear stop the flow. So we're gonna go and make sure it's shutting off And we're just gonna be generic and go from in here Not pumping down very quickly Sure for Jordan this can either Except for a four-bound Check that pressure switch, of course even if the pressure switch isn't Shutting it off the solenoid valve stopping the flow There's 15 so the 15 suit it does Checking the contact around making sure everything's good to get taking all the wire connections There's looking for burn wires We're looking at that point going through it just trying to eliminate things like that You know, that's a rubout just waiting for a place to happen Just stupid stuff like this that you just got to look at it Just start finding all the other stuff Likely going out next so even if it's not the one particular thing all they know is hey you were just out here and It's having problems again may not be the Same issue, but I'd be another and they expect you to find everything the first trip Wait for it to see if it's 50 which I don't think it's gonna take much longer. It should See where it shuts off at most likely what I'm figuring we got going on We've got a thermostat that's bad But you've got all these other things you just want to make sure you check everything Okay, so we're 48 Shipping a rocket just a little bit and it should shut off Can't find the me frost clock either somebody's got that hidden somewhere Well degrees off area Let this thing come down. I think it takes these not adjusted very well either Doesn't seem like it's feeding very good just looking at the pipes But once again, that's like digging yourself into a whole new hole Things just never quit few things changing a bunch of stuff Definitely not pumping down very quickly whatever Zillinoid's not closing Wilbur, I think they might have the issue Shut off earlier Nothing's happening. So I'm gonna make sure I didn't Somehow not to turn it off If not then So long to solenoid valve sticking, which I've not had before Could be our issue. It shouldn't be pumping down Definitely cranked all the way up Feel like it's doing anything And I'm just asking for that to get into the family Our time that up here in a little bit Trying to have it my clock is down here somewhere. So we got that off of there She should be pumping down, but I'm not seeing her pumping down So we've got a solenoid acting up here. That's kind of weird Definitely a little weird Feel the heat coming through the filter guy just seems Interesting Here's to me. He's got a bad solenoids. So you gotta come back on for another go around aren't you? Sporm on valve here three-eighths. It's good for up to three point two tons, which I know that's no three ton unit It's not quite the exact type of mounting system. This uses a screw down coil They tend to use those more often because they're more secure We're gonna go ahead and use this one and it should sit on top. They're fine one thing I don't like about this one here. It's brass directly. No nice copper in between. I gotta use the High silver content brace. Oh boy. Can remove at least you can rebuild these unlike the cheaper ones That have just the copper stub. We'll go ahead and get this in there All right, so we got it in there. Go ahead and chop the other piece off right there ended up Clean it up with my brass wheel here end up using the stay-silver paste along with the high silver contents 40 45 percent area so then we just clean it up a little bit make it look pretty and Should be good to go everything Looks like it's sealed right. I had double-checked all of our joints there Go ahead and get her back together pull it put back on it Make sure it's not leaking this so you new guys know what's inside here This piece here that goes down in the actual valve right here Got the needle Just this piece right here Just got some holes and stuff in it like that Then you get your seal which is that metal ring up in here There's just be a spring in there And there's a plate in there for it So then the electric magnet solenoid Sucks that thing up We're gonna put a little bit of nile on around the Threads a little bit throw our magnet on that to pull that up so we can pull through it May actually just pull inside here because there's no other valves anywhere else to pull on it Outside all those valves are on the system not on the Evaporator side that's something that's a little different with the way Frituration works versus air conditioning. I will mention too. There's a little bleed port right there Put that in the wrong way that goes in there like that right there that way Don't mislead you There's a lot of people pick up on these sort of things Actually play it back and look for a little errors that they might make And so you guys know for it. I am not perfect. Believe it or not so anyhow it's like that we'll torque that down a little bit and Get busy with the vacuum I'll take this moment to to mention here's a couple of the tips I use this is the captain hook It's got its goods and bads You gotta have the pressures perfect if you bump it sometimes should go out and you'll have backfire on it This one right here is probably the most reliable if you're wanting to do two tips this is a Harris I believe and Not really sure the number on it anymore, but that one does an exceptionally good job It just isn't a real big wide opening. I think that's my number one I don't ever use that and then this is my one of my rosebud tips, which does a real good job all this stuff Sets inside my little bag here, which is a little husky bag and that's where I keep my cap tube cutter an extra port there for three-eighths along with my little cutter and my flux and my Braze rod another braze rod is there's blue ones there. Those are really nice, too But generally what I'll do is I'll shine that up dip it in there Then apply it it usually works really good and one other tip you can add water to this and Make it as runny as you want it because it will dry out if you're not using it very often So don't be afraid to add a little bit of water to it every so often. All right, so this is the old valve Can be the quick check on it You get rotated multiple different locations Eventually you'll get it in there But I would say it was getting hung up on it when I backed it out. I don't get crushed it any so it's sticking So I don't think just backing it out because it doesn't look like I overled it when I backed it out that it cost that It's not a whole lot to these things. What was probably happening for whatever reason some crap has gotten inside of there and That's why it ended up failing I'm just gonna pull a quick vacuum get this thing down into the negative get the air out of it They're not going to 500 microns and it's just nearly impossible Luckily, it's able to get our electric off the top I've made a little sheet cheater cords that plug in with a fan that for and that works out pretty good, too You know you want to make sure you got your coil pinned of some sort So you don't burn your coil out I also got a pin for like trailers and stuff for that, too We're gonna go ahead and with this thing replace here in a second and make sure there's no leaks So we went ahead and killed the power and went ahead and turned the valves on so we get the pressure up Move into a leak check real quick This works a little bit better than trying to get all the nitrogen out and not cross contaminate stuff These are the little things that you're gonna learn when you start doing more refrigeration Okay, so I went ahead and just spray down all the fittings that are typical to leak Any of my fittings there so they all look good You might have to tighten that up a little bit That there's probably just the air sneaking out from around the stem. That's about 70 pounds of pressure on it So it's Sweet adequate So we're gonna get a longer screw. We're gonna put it in there as you see Works just fine It's just a little bit deeper Magnet the most part is all in line with that metal stem We're gonna make sure this thing pumps down right now. That's not energized So once this shuts down pumps down, we're gonna go ahead and then open it up and then just make sure she runs This thing shuts off for backup make sure it's operating and Should wrap it up unless there's other hidden gyms on this So it wasn't one to pump down Since nobody has a clue about anything that's going on around here and nothing is labeled This walk-in cooler here is also on the circuit so That's why it was trying to run still So it's opening and closing like it should now I'm back to possibly replacing the thermostat now. I'm gonna go ahead and replace the thermostat and call it a day Would have been great to have known All right, so we got the new thermostat on there To do that. I have a digital tracker by ideal And it's such a wired mess here that I cannot find the breaker I ended up just taping off the prongs and pulling it out and doing it live because there's just no way to get it in there So anyhow, she's on it's running got everything tucked up Gonna go ahead and double-check it. Hopefully get out of here Far as the job here don't know what to say about that I went ahead and labeled it so coolers on walk-in cool walk-in cooler So the next person will know that you're not wasting a lot of time I wish we could found the breaker, but that wasn't the case. I wish I could find the defrost clock. I can't find that either Not sure this one has one in here because the other cooler is on there with it So it's hard to say I say they both are gonna probably go into defrost at the same time It's gonna be a timed off defrost. I was able to get a longer screw to fit that It makes full use of that without having to sell them a whole new solenoid And it's not vibrating or anything so we get there so far. Everything's running See whether it cycles off the tip which I've got another call in this town So I'm gonna go do that and I'll stop back later. Let's see how it's doing I'd have said about 36 37 We just went through and kind of blew it out with the Milwaukee blower You can see a light through it It's precious holding pretty good. It's about 85 out here.  We've been here for quite a while. So Everything's cooling down See how this goes. We'll stop back later and make sure that it's shutting off where it should Luckily, I had my valve front seated on my receiver and my compressor So when I pulled that vacuum on it, I pulled the walking cooler into a vacuum at the same time So then when I released it that was, you know, all Clean fresh freon from the system coming back in no air Even though we had that other circuit on the system. So we're good to go there That's why I like doing that because if not it would have came through with a nitrogen It could have contaminated the whole system Just another good reason why if you can avoid using it on stuff like this, we've got multiple heads different things go on Sometimes you're better off. I mean the system is dry and clean begin with we open it up for a split second to do a repair Put it back together. It isn't like it rained inside of it or anything like that That's my feeling on it. Some of this stuff is a little hyper and inflated far as some of the crap that we do I have no problem doing on a brand new system spend a long time do it perfect But on some of this repair stuff, it's just not logical It's just not feasible sometimes to do a lot of that So if you guys like the video and you want to see more like it give it a thumbs up like share and subscribe And until next time we'll catch you guys on the next one


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The meeting today is May 30th, 2023. Thank you for joining us for in the busher conference for those of us who are online for the special giving of the bonus to the council. The time is five oh seven. We'll begin our agenda this evening with item one, which is a motion to adopt the agenda. Is there a motion to adopt the agenda? I move. I thank you, Councillor Berthman, seconded by Councillor Carpenter. Is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion to accept the budget. Would Dr. Agenda please say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Moos, please say no. We have an agenda and I'll note that Councillors Hightower, Jiang, Grant and Shannon are all joining us via Zoom. Thanks so much for being here. We'll go to our next agenda item, which is item 2.01, the public forum. Normally we conduct public forum as we all know with a process of submitting forms either in person or online. And as this is a limited agenda and probably a limited public forum, there doesn't appear to be anyone in the Bush or conference room who's a member of the public. However, there may be people online.  So if there are any community members who wish to address the council public forum, now would be that you can just use the raised hand function. Once, going twice, we will close the public forum at 5.09 and move on to our deliberative agenda. The third item on our agenda is 3.01, which is Mellie et al versus the city of Burlington et al. The purpose of this agenda item is to vote on a settlement that has been reached between the parties for a brief update and just to give us an understanding of globally what we're voting on and then what the process is going forward. I'll turn to the Assistant City Attorney Chair, Colorin. Good afternoon, Councilors. As we have been discussing, there is a tentative settlement agreement here between the city and the Mellies. And for the reason that it is tentative, we advise that the contents of the settlement agreement remain confidential at this time because they are not final until the point that both parties have signed that tentative agreement that had been presented to the court and the court considers the stipulated settlement agreement. And if they accept it, at which time that would finalize the litigation. And still such time as it's finalized by the court, things could hypothetically change. We don't expect that to be the case, but they are sensitive. And so at this point we still would counsel you all to keep those terms of the stipulated agreement confidential and at which point they do become finalized, we can then release it to the public. It's also an exemption under the Public Records Act. You all are familiar with that, I think. And if someone from the public was to seek the tentative negotiated agreement at this point, it would be subject to an exemption of the Public Record Act because again, it isn't finalized by the court. And until that happens, we can't release it, but at which point it does become finalized, we will then be able to provide the public with a copy of the finalized agreement, which we intend to do. And I know that's the city's attention as well. So just wanted to let you all know that and see if there were any questions. Yes, thanks for that brief update. And certainly before we would go to a vote on this tentative settlement, if there are any questions from the council, now would be the time. And I'll also look on the screen in front of me, if there are any counselors who have any questions. I have one brief one, which is given the kind of nature of this given that there is going to probably be some further communications that we'll be making to the public. I would ask that the administration keep the council, in particular, a prize of everything that's going on very, very closely and also to the extent to which we can be able to be involved in any statements or communications that are being crafted, that we be involved in that. So that is a request that I am making because I think that it would be most appropriate if we are. Thank you, Council Bergman. We'll certainly keep the council a praise each step of the way as this works towards foundation. I will say as we discussed it, I will share this one element of the executive session, the agreement specifically calls for a statement worked out between the Mellie brothers and the mayor. So I think that's going to, I'm not sure it's going to be a lot of opportunity for consultation there, but I understand the interest. Thank you for noting that. And I do think it would be written to advise them and for us to be in, to the extent possible to be involved and I have a hard time seeing how that could not be possible, but we never know. So I appreciate a certain amount of flex on that, but really hope that we can do everything we can to make that happen. I hear you're saying Council Bergman. Thank you, I understand. Thanks so much, Council Bergman. Are there any other questions that we could go on motion? Okay, then C89 will go on motion and I will ask Council Bergman to make that motion. So I would be that time. I would move the acceptance of the tentative agreement pending further action by the court and that is in light of our conversations and executive session. Do not need the floor back. Turning color in, is that a close-knit approximation of the written out response? We can just have it authorized the mayor to sign the tentative settlement agreement that would be appreciated. Yes, and would Mayor, let me read it directly to move to approve and authorize the mayor in conjunction with the city attorney's office to enter into a stipulated settlement agreement in a pending matter captioned belly at all versus the city of Burlington, Vermont at all. Thank you so much, Council Bergman. I just need a second motion. Seconded by Council Permanentary. Is there any further discussion on this meeting? Nunn will go to a vote. All those in favor, are you okay with that, by the way, with a long roll welcome? Is that it? All those in favor of the motion, if you could just say aye, please. And are there any opposed? So that motion passes and that motion passes unanimously. I am looking around to make sure that there are two, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, which means, oh, and we have one absent. That is Councilor Schreiber's. Thank you, thanks very much. So we will move on to the last item on agenda before we adjourn, which is item 4.01, on a communication regarding city place. And I did see senior director, Brian Pine, consultant David White, and Tim Samson, who is right behind me. Sorry, I apologize for here for this update. As this is a discussion regarding a contractual matter, there is an expected executive session. Before we go into the motions for executive session, we normally go to either the administration, city attorney, CAO. If you have any update that you can provide for the community in open session. Sure, I'm happy to be President Paul. This is an executive session, another executive session we've had many years about seeing place. The reason for this executive session is we want to update the council on where the project stands and with respect particularly to upcoming actions that the city is going to be taking. One of these actions you've already approved, which is we do intend to borrow $18.8 million for TIF investment later in the month of June. We, as we talked about last November, when the council approved development agreement so that the local partners could move forward and start putting concrete in the ground. Sorry. I think he got here after. Did he vote on that? He was a president. He got here right after. This isn't curly and I apologize for interrupting you. Please go ahead. So, councillors who are here, which I know is not everyone, will remember back in November when you approved the latest ARTA 2.0, our attorney, Tim Sampson, who you hear from tonight, said publicly and privately that it was likely that future amendments were going to be necessary and it's now been about eight or so months since that vote the project has evolved and there are some updates to it that we think should be reflected in the ARTA agreement and we think that should be done in advance of the bonding or the debt being incurred in later June. So no votes is anticipated tonight. What we are anticipating doing executive session is laying out the changes that are going to be necessary in the ARTA for the council and then we would come back and we take your input on that. Excuse me, come back and have a public vote on an updated agreement likely next Monday on that month. So that I think is my best summary of the plan. Great, thank you so much and again, my apologies, but I'm going to find myself out of work. I don't like my apologies. I thought there was a chance that I may have miscounted on the last item. So with that, thank you so much. With that, I'll go to Councilor Carpenter if you could please make a motion, the first motion regarding the executive secretary. I would move that the council find that premature general knowledge of the information concerning contract negotiations and attorney plant communications regarding city place, clearly place the city as standard as managed with such negotiations. Thank you, Councilor Carpenter. Is there a second to that? Thank you, Councilor McKee. Is there any discussion on the first motion? Seeing none, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion may translate out by Councilor Carpenter. Please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, please say no. Passes unanimously and with that we'll go to the second motion, Councilor Carpenter. I would move based upon that finding and move that the council go to executive session to receive confidential attorney plant communications and updates on contract negotiations regarding city place. One, DSA subsection 313A1A and F. Thank you, Councilor Carpenter. Seconded by Councilor McKee. Motion is made to go into executive session. Is there any discussion on that motion? Seeing none, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of the motion, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed, please say no. That motion passes unanimously. So we will go into executive session that will come out of the executive session really for purposes of learning the meeting. There will be, as the mayor has said, no action taken when we return to open session. CAO Schad was, did everyone check my email? Did everyone get an email about, I assume, Link going into executive session? Chief of staff, we're not always at the meeting. Maybe it's the meeting. Yeah. We'll send it out right now. Okay, so to Councilor Jang Grant, Hightower, Shannon and Traverse, we will be sending you a link momentarily. You can stay on until you get that or get off and we'll...