Hello friends and welcome back to another episode of our VGC 2020 battle series My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today We're gonna be playing a team very excited to be playing the third place Finishing team from the IC over the weekend the online tournament that has just taken place and finished If you guys did take part in the tournament, of course as always, please leave your comments down below Let me know what teams you played and how you got on in that tournament over the weekend can't fly Underscore SS is the Japanese players using him on Twitter Who created this team and had that third place finish? His blog is also linked down in the description as well as all his social handles So go and check out the blog and give him a follow over on Twitter very fun team obviously got a lot of their fun and Innovative their innovative if I can even speak. What's wrong with me today? Choices and texts and things like that So it'll be really fun looking forward to it because I haven't actually played charlotte venus old this season on the channel So and it'll be a lot of fun I've been trying out lots of weird and wonderful things if you're wondering about my rating at the minute And I've got a really cool kind of Grim's Gigantamax Grimstall team that I'm trying to finish off which I will feature here as soon as they do get it finished But yeah, that's why the rating is all over the shop But anyway on to our first opponent the episode they're playing a team of dust globs riperea gastarone Incineroar Bishop and the Dragapult so lots of things to consider because the taranatara on this team is Weakness policy it kind of is minimum speed So you want to be getting it under a trick room the only issue here is we're going up against the riperea That's gonna be probably slower than it also with the weakness policy and also the gastarone doesn't really help Us out too much in that respect But Coven Knight doesn't do too bad against the majority of this team to be honest The only thing that we really need to be super scared of is the incineroar which it can't even intimidate us anyway So that's something to think about and how do they stop the Charizard? I mean we could go Gmax Charizard just get a Wildfire off just to get like the chip damage onto the field as early as possible That might be a nice way to do that and then If we can get an iron defense with Coven Knight as well kind of does help us But we probably do want to have T-Tar. I'm gonna go for this. I'm gonna go for this lead I'm gonna test try try it out. Let's see what we do here. And then our last Pokemon we probably want I mean we could use dust globs to reverse the trick room but And let's go Venus all because Venus all can handle like things like Bishop incineroar and the Gastarone pretty well as well as the Rhyperia and Especially because we've got the life orb of power which really does help us out there And it's just the the dragon pull that will be a little bit of an issue, but We'll just have to approach it a little bit carefully. You know, we've got T-Tar as well So it shouldn't be too difficult to get around. Okay. Well, so we've got Dragapult. We've got Incineroar as our lead from our opponent. I Guess the one thing that I didn't really want to see was kind of I want to get the Coven Knight set up with the Iron Defense as soon as possible because it's got the body press here and the issue is that We don't really want to Leave it in front of the incineroar either way. I mean we could just go for an Iron Defender But like I say I want to go for this Do I go for an Airstream and switch in Char's T-Tar? It's not like It's not the best thing to do to be honest Because we could go to the G-Max We've got Airstream right now into Incineroar, but we're probably better off going for the Dragapult It's gonna be the one thing that does causes a few more problems than not so we'll switch in T-Tar just to be safe Keep Corvi around for later. I think like It's difficult, isn't it? Because I call the night it feels like one of those Pokemon It's gonna be really useful like towards the the latter stages of this game I'm not gonna see anything down a maximum on this side of the field And although we're not gonna really be doing that much damage to the Dragapult It's more about the residual chip damage that we're gonna be getting every turn Especially when we're stacking it with the sound pretty nice If we can't get an Airstream or a couple of Airstreams up as well on top of this It puts us in a decent enough position with T-Tar to start actually hitting things before they can they can do lots of things to us So there's a Faker from Incineroar just gone for that turn one you turn Into the Charizard that would have been perfect if it had been into a Duranitar and we'll see what they bring in I mean, I'm kind of happy that the Dragapult's getting out of here. It resists the fire I mean other than Ryperion Gastrodon coming in we should be all right, whatever we hit and Dustclops, so that's that's actually all right. Okay But we didn't went for the Airstream, which is fine like that's totally fine, isn't it? The Airstream it does so much damage with a massive critical hit. Okay, but the T-Tar gonna be super fast now We can just rock slide and go for the blast burn Of a GMax wildfire and that should be enough to get the dustclops. I Guess the worrying part is if we see ally switch that could be a little bit of a problem because I don't know if rock slide would get The dustclops by itself Let's see. Let's see what my opponent goes for here It's like the Airstream did so much damage, but yeah the crit the crit makes total sense there Okay, right. There's the ally switch. We feared it. Okay. Well, I mean it they're not going for a trick room right so it's not the worst thing in the world and We probably will with a combination of this and rock slide get the Incinero Unless unless we avoid of course, but no, okay, okay Well, I mean We don't hit the one we want the rock slide there onto the dustclops would have been nice because then it would have Definitely meant we take it down the next turn fortune. We do see a parting shot come out from the NC Um, what's coming in Dragapult potentially? Oh, right, period. It makes a lot of sense The wildfire stack here is is super super useful super useful because now like a rock slide will get will get both We're likely to use Charizard here Do we go for a rock slide again? I feel like I need to go for a rock slide to be honest And the right period probably maxes But I do want to let the trick room go up not really No, I definitely don't because like We won't call the night not we won't call the night to get at least a An iron defense up Before the right period can hit us And we don't really want the right period proc and that weakness policy either so I think just getting damage onto the board right now Okay, well, that's still fine. We'll get a little bit of extra damage with our Charizard here like nothing The crunch would have been a lot more reliable since you missed last turn hopefully T-tiles got his goggles on here So he does actually hit and you prevent the trick room from being set up the problem is now I guess and the incident all coming on to the field with the the vehicle Dynamics turns have finished. I mean the wildfire damage onto the right here already is insanely good But We probably want to get T-tile out of here I think we keep T-tile in particular for the the dragon put later on in the match So we can definitely close that up We could just protect with Charizard. It's a little bit risky though. The thing is like even through the protect Probably not getting Really that much because if they go for a max rockfall into Charizard then They definitely pick up the knockout here. I'll go for a blast burn just to get some last ditch Damage off and we'll bring in overnight It's a bit of a shame because T-tile had that plus one speed So it would have been out speeding the incineroar for sure and now that we've switched out Probably not gonna be but if we see a max quake here, I mean, it's fine We've got to levitate and pop well flying Pokemon levitate and whatever you want to call it on the field so I mean If you're going after the T-tile which would make sense because you want to protect your incineroar Then we kind of waste the turn of the the dynamite turns at least it's my opponent and we get a blast burn off There's a fake out. It's into that slot T-tile. We get the blast burn It's not really big damage, but at least it's some damage. We see the rockboard. It's gonna be into Charizard So I mean we're not getting not losing out there by any means I don't feel and now we can get Venus off And imagine But we could sleep powder we could sleep powder Because of body press probably gets the incineroar from this range I reckon But an any like an energy ball a life-over energy ball definitely gets the right period for sure Yeah, yeah, I think we don't even need to mess around here I think we just got body press into the incineroar and energy ball into the right period and think that gets it I think without the trick room up the right period is gonna struggle against this sort of building Charizard's done so much work already Wow, okay That's a big call switching up the right period But I mean, I guess not as well. You're gonna lose it either way. So Is the energy ball? And it's just about a cover knife being faster than the incineroar really that's that's the main thing Yeah, and we are so I kind of thought we would be There's a body press and I don't feel like there's much my opponent can do now. I mean Than some subsides The dragon pulp probably is gonna be able to get Venus off right The wildfire is just insane the wildfire is such like this is the one thing like I love colossal as well Because the colossal's got the the G max vocal it doesn't it? It's like it's pretty much the same just a rock type and instead Now do we double we double the right period? Good iron defense I'm gonna just iron defense actually because if the dragon pulp tends to be more on the standard side It's gonna be physical, right? So now defense is gonna be to help us out regardless here There's a chance the dragon pulp could go phantom force And I don't really want to target into that slot and waste waste the turn on my end So and I need you ball if we get it off into the right period definitely take it down This Venus looks pretty bulky as well. It's like it's not just your standard 250 250 My period does protect that's fine Thunderbolt, ah, okay But I mean it's not even it's not doing enough is it it's just not doing enough There's a brave bird now a brave bird and Well, we can just double the right period to be honest because we've got tita on the back We don't even need to take the risk Hmm talking about doubling like everyone it's like Are they gonna have flamethrower they don't have lifeball so I don't think it takes the Venus or down either way we just Yeah, let's just break this dragon pulp. There's no way this this right period doing anything to cover night It does go for the double protect there's another Thunderbolt, so now that's fine We're gonna be able to lock this up. Okay, it's into the stop this time. I guess just Clicking whatever just to try and get some damage on and but we do pick up a win We had I feel like we just brute-forced our way through this battle It's a bit of a weird one. This is like literally as well my first game with the team So I'm still like learning the team and I'm gonna be like I think playing a lot with this team I really like have a lot of time for it There's a lot of Pokemon in here that I think are really good this season like over night I think really good right now tita. It's another one another favorite Pokemon of mine Like I've used like every season it's ever been available and it's always been very good other than like the The Restricted Pokemon when they're in not as good then other than 2010 2010 was Tito was really good. I'm pretty sure it was on Was it on the second place? Team worlds. I am pretty sure it was But yeah, yeah other than that it's always been amazing Pokemon Venus or another one that I do really like talk up everything on this team I like so I mean that's that's one of the reasons why when I saw the standings It was really cool. And we've got Piera up next playing a team of toggle kiss. That's clubs Manda Buzz. It's a nice pick of the minute Manda Buzz I do like I'm just gonna stop a minute just talk about that because it's got the overcoat ability So it does give it the immunity to sleep powder Which is quite a big thing in this format and it does have access to things like Tailwind taunt roost Powerplay it's dark typing as well. So it's really nice. It's flying as well So just having that immunity to to ground type attacks is really nice And all right never made up with the rest of the team is gonna be Lapras, Iggy Slash and the Dom Minotin Well, well, well, well, I mean we could go Charizard We could go Charizard and talk all to be honest like as a lead. It's not bad And it stops my phone gone through the trick room. I don't really yeah We'll go with that we'll go with that because I can I can do something with talk all that we've not talked about yet Which is pretty good. Um, other than that, what else do we want Corvie here? I Think Tito be pretty nice. It's good against To flying types and dust globs and pretty good against Lapras as well And the egg slash depend on the set, of course And then we could probably just round it off with dust globs trying to get a trick room after late game because I don't think there's too much Really that slow my opponent team. I think min speed Tito probably under speed majority of the like that the threats They've got to us. So I'm just imagining like the end game with like Dom Minotin and if we hadn't brought dust globs then You know that's kind of done. Isn't it if you play the Dom Minotin?  Um, but I think like having it late games pretty nice and we've got to be careful here though because Obviously scoff rocks like a banded rock slide What's it gonna be though? It can be banded as scarred. I would imagine more scarf than this sword So look, can I see can I see Pokemon? You can see Pokemon. I imagine it's probably scarred more scarred than anything else Makes me definitely want to switch things around It's definitely gonna be a rock slide that comes out. There's no way We're gonna say like I don't think an article I mean one thing we could do is just potentially switch in dust globs And just go for heatwave Yeah, because I don't think a rock slide And a foul play would get us here. The Dom Minotin actually gonna retreat here. I'm gonna see Lapras come in Um, I don't mind this and I'm pleased. I'd like to talk all on the field Let's see what this minibus goes for probably goes for The tailwind So it's a light play on the Lapras Rocky helmet. Nice Interesting. Ah, that's not good. You don't want to lose that That's the one thing we don't want to lose. Okay. Get the heatwave. We do miss the third Which is a bit annoying, but I mean we get some big damage onto the Lapras there, which is really good. Um, okay We want to go for the trick room. I don't know if we do I mean we can do I think it'd be useful wouldn't it if we can get the trick room I don't think we're gonna be able to um, we'll go for yawn into the Lapras because this will completely shut down any Uh, Dynamax 10s that they go for now. So, uh, this is a really nice tech that I saw on the team The talk all I didn't even realize talk or got yawn Um, so just having access to it Um, as soon as they saw it was like, right, let's breed one up. Let's get one. So There's plenty of stuff as well. I'm sure you've got Pokemon in your box with yawn Like I think I bred mine with a meows stick With yawn, which also has to be bred onto I think I think Pretty sure. Um, but yeah, it was pretty pretty good. Um, so I thought yeah, this is a really good way and and how he described Using it was to to really disrupt Dynamax Pokemon Oh, wow won't survive with two HP. That's insane. Okay. Well, that's fine Um, and I mean we're gonna get a trick room up, which is really nice. Uh, we do get the yawn off also really useful Um, and I think we keep talk off for later on in this game um You know, we could ally switch But they probably target the scrubs. I think They probably do The one thing we could potentially do is bulldoze and switch into tea tall It's just I don't want to take a gap. I don't want to take a max guys and that's the the big thing here. Um Let's go for a night shade into the lapras and I want to keep talk all around for later I don't really want to lose to Charizard either to be honest, but it's probably the best thing to lose right now Or do we just lose talk all let's just lose talk all let's just do it Let's just go for the double up into lapras here Scro, which is always useful and the night shade. Yeah, max resonance. We're gonna get that out. That's gonna be into Okay, just clubs What's this mind of us gonna do? That's not ideal, but I'm hoping the talk all goes down here Yeah, okay Because we kind of we needed the dust globs to stick around. Uh, the lapras is asleep now, which is perfect. Um, which allows us to get tea tower into the field. Um, get our weakness proceed propped But actually do we want to not dynamax with Charizard because a tea tower I should say I think we'd be better off Trying to get a max airstream with Charizard before the trick room ends. That would be like like Oh my god, I need to see how many turns of trick. Okay, we've got three Three turns of trick Okay I think we do that. Okay, so I'm just gonna I'm gonna bulldoze and I'm just gonna rock slide I don't even want to um I'm not gonna max tea tower yet And then we still got the option because it pretty much comes down to whether or not we can manipulate and The field with our Charizard or not like if you can get a boost up before Like if don't mind it turns out in the field and that that works out perfectly if you can get a flinch on the The mind of us here. That's what we want really We take down the Lapras take down the mind of us just below 50% health, which is ideal I guess if I'm gonna flinch onto the mind of us now, that'd be huge um Yes, we get it. We ask in the gods reply Okay, um, which is perfect Okay So what they're gonna bring in now They do have the light screen up still. Uh the la the um of our For the max darkness Behind the veil. I don't know if we'll get it. I don't know if we will get it or not and It might be better just going for an eye shade and then going for because I think the dust globs probably Does the dust globs go for uh A willow is that's the that's the question or does it go for Because we could be cheeky and just got ally switch here We go rock side Because I I've got a suspicion that I'm gonna see willow spm. I really don't want t-tart to get burned And it's going for the trick room. It's going for trick room. Okay, we get rid of man buzz Okay, but this is all right. I don't know. We do see a willow is okay.   This is really confusing because like how did t-tart and dispute dust globs I guess we've got the bulldoze. There's not minimum speed dust globs. Okay. Okay, that makes more sense The brain's hurting people don't judge. Okay. Um, right What are we where we where we where are we with this last turn in trick room? Okay, well, I think we just got max now and I think we go for the man at hand Do you have willow with an ally switch? I very much doubt it And burnt. I still think we get Um, the dark man at hand. I think we could rock slide, but we'll probably better off Just going for this and here we go ally switch again. What do we just play the mind game? I mean, why wouldn't you if you've got it? I'm just gonna be that guy We'll do it. We'll see. Um, don't man at hand should go down here. So It's still not over, but I mean like t-tart should be able to to deal with dust globs And then we've got Charizard in the back as well.  It could be sashed. It could be sashed, you know But even if it is it's got to guess right after the ally switch And it will still go down to the sand.  You know when you do it yourself.   Why? It's such a bad. It's a horrible move. It's a horrible move. I'm not endorsing it And then in comes that charizard. So we'll just go for a heat wave and then go for, um, max darkness There we go. Let's see how much damage we do not that much, but respectable max darkness We like speed time the whole time then I I don't know how these speed tiers are working. We must be must be be time. Anyway We do pick up the win That's two wins today. That's really nice and Yeah, just nice showcasing the team and even though I feel like I've got A long way to kind of go with learning the team and seeing how it actually all it's like little intricacies and things like that Um, I still feel like it feels like a really really nice solid team, which you would expect from such a high finish as well


All right. So we have completed second John. So now we will look at the third letter of John. Now this third letter of John is written to a person named Gaius, G-A-I-U-S. And it basically touches upon three things. It praises Gaius for some good thing which he has done. And then it criticizes another person named Biotrips for something bad that he has done. And there is a request made regarding a person named Demetrius. So these are just the basic three things that are dealt with in this particular letter. So to begin with, if we could have someone read out for us the first four verses of third John. If someone could read out for us the first four verses of the third epistle. Third John, the first four verses please. To the beloved Gaius, who I love in truth. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health just as your soul prospers. For I received, I rejoiced greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you. Just as you walk in the truth. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth. Amen. Thank you. I really appreciate your reading. Yeah, I know because it helps me when someone reads. So in this third letter as well, you have John just simply addressing himself as elder. He doesn't use his bigger title of apostle just simply refers to himself as an elder. And so he is writing to Gaius whom again he says I love in the truth just like he did in the previous letter. He's emphasizing the fact that all that they are doing, all that they feel for each other, all that they are accomplishing. It's all in the truth of Jesus Christ. So now who is this Gaius? There are basically two persons bearing this name in the New Testament. The first one would be in Acts chapter 1929 and also Acts 20 verse 4. So in these two chapters 19 and 20, this is the name of a person who was Paul's traveling companion. He was from the region of Galatia from a place called Derby and his name was Gaius. So this could be Paul's traveling companion who is being referred to over here. On the other hand, it could also be someone else who is mentioned in 1 Corinthians 114. In 1 Corinthians 114, when Paul goes to Corinth, he stays in the home of a person named Gaius. And in fact, he's the only person whom he personally baptizes in Corinth. So it may be referring to that person and then again it may be referring to just about somebody else named Gaius. But as far as we know, there are two Gaiuses mentioned in the New Testament, one in Acts and one in 1 Corinthians. So it could be one of those two persons or it could be somebody else altogether. So we have no knowledge regarding that. But one thing we get to know about this man Gaius, what an amazing compliment is given to him by John. It says in verse 2, Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you even as your soul is getting along well. Basically, what John is saying over here is that, you know, let your external health and all the things in your life may be as good as your internal health. So this man's internal health, his spiritual health must have been in excellent condition.  And when I was just reading this yesterday, you know, in the night and I was meditating on the scriptures, the thought that came to me is, can someone give me a compliment like this? You know, because for most Christians, if you were to give them this kind, speak this particular sentence as a blessing over them.  Goodness knows what condition they would be in because you see for many Christians, their internal condition, their spiritual condition is so bad.  So over here, for John to so confidently say, may the rest of your life and may your health be as good as the way your soul is doing on the inside. What a compliment that is. Here is a man who is walking in God, who is renewing his mind on a daily basis, who is strengthening himself in his inner man. A person like this, because he is so healthy on the inside, John is able to say to him, may your external health be as grand as your internal health is. What a great compliment. So it's something that maybe we all need to ask ourselves, in what condition is my internal spiritual health? Can someone actually say this to me? Can they say to me, may your external health be as good as your internal health? So, you know, we kind of need to ask ourselves, what condition are we in? Now this man, why was his internal health, his spiritual health that great? It is because he was faithful to the truth is what we get to know in verse 3. John says, people have been testifying about how faithful you are to the truth, he says. And they've been telling John how this man is continuing to walk in the truth. And so he says, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. So he refers to Gaius as my children. So maybe, you know, he, John had been mentoring him and, you know, speaking the scriptures to him. So he is so happy now to see this Gaius having grown up so well in the faith and he's walking in the truth. Not only is he just, you know, listening to the truth, it says continue to walk in it is what he says. People have been telling him how Gaius is continuing to walk in this truth, which means on a daily basis is applying it. So it actually basically comes down to that. If you and I want to have a really great internal health, spiritual health, we should be people who are not just listening to the truth, which is easy enough to do. You know, you just need to stay awake and keep your ears open and you'll be able to hear the truth. But are we practicing it? Are we literally walking in it? Are we applying it? Because then our internal health is going to be really good. So here is a man who was actually doing that and he was walking in the truth to the extent of showing kindness to strangers. This is what we find out in verses five, six, seven, eight. So, you know, if someone could read out for us, most probably to be Collins who will be doing that for us. Verses five, six, seven and eight, you know, if you could read out for us, please. Beloved, you do faithfully whatever you do for the brethren and for strangers who has borne witness of your love before the church. If you send them forward on their journey in a manner worthy of God, you will do well because they went forth for his name in sake, taking nothing from the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such that we may become fellow workers for the truth. Amen. So in the earlier letter, we saw John very strictly warning the believers and telling them do not take people into your home who are false teachers. Now here it's the exact opposite. He's saying those who are true teachers of the word, those who are true missionaries of the gospel, please welcome them into your home. So, he's so glad that Gaius is doing this. Okay, so he says, dear friend, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brethren.  And so, he's so glad that Gaius has done this.  They have told the church about your love. So when they came back, they told all of us about the love that you showed, you know, the way you treated them. And so John is so happy about it.  So because basically you see from here, from Gaius home, they'll be now be going to another town and over there, again, they will be sharing the gospel. So what does he mean by when he says, send them in a manner that honors God? Maybe he's referring to the fact that, you know, when they move on to the next place, they may not have finances. So maybe he would need to give them a contribution when they are leaving so that they will have enough in their hands to, you know, travel to the next place and stay somewhere till they can find a home which will be willing to take them in or maybe he's also saying send a letter of recommendation with them because this is basically how it operated in those days. So if you want to go and stay in a place, a lodging house is not going to be safe. So what you would do is you would take a letter of recommendation from someone that you know over here and they know somebody in that other town. So you take a letter from this person to that person over there and you give them that letter. So that person would read the letter and say, okay, fine. Someone that I know is recommending this person. So maybe this person is somebody acceptable. So then they would be willing to take you into their home and shelter you for a period of time. So John is probably referring to something like that.  Also, if they need a letter of recommendation and you know someone that you can recommend them to, then you know, please send a letter along with them so that when they go over there, they'll have some shelter, you know, in somebody's home. So John is very pleased with what Gaius is doing because he says, you see these people, these missionaries who are going from place to place, they are doing it for the sake of the name.  They're not teaching the true Christ. They are teaching an anti-Christ. They're teaching false Christs. So these people, they are traveling from place to place, you know, and living amongst strangers for the sake of the name. And obviously, they're not receiving any help from the pagans. You know, is what he says in verse 7. So it's basically us believers who should be helping because who else will they turn to? And then he says, we ought therefore to show hospitality to such people so that we may work together for the truth. So when we, you know, show hospitality to such people, it's like as if along with them, we are doing the ministry work which they are doing.  But at least I can open my home, you know, and I can maybe shelter them. I can provide them with a bed. I can provide them with food. And when I do that, I'm actually participating in the Great Commission. I'm actually fulfilling the Great Commission, you know, because I opened my door, now the Great Commission is getting fulfilled in my town. So what I am doing by just showing hospitality is almost as great as preaching and teaching. You see, so while those people who are traveling from, you know, place to place are actually speaking out the words because they have been given that gifting to, you know, explain the scriptures. This guy is who maybe has no ability to teach and preach just by opening his doors. He's participating in the Great Commission and bringing about its fulfillment. So imagine the reward that he would receive in heaven. He would receive a reward equal to the teachers and the preachers, you know, because he was, he fully participated in the Great Commission and did his part by giving hospitality to those people. So John is very pleased regarding these things. And then we also get to know why he is so pleased with Gaya's conduct because we get to know another aspect of this whole story in the next few verses. So if we could have, you know, one of us read out verses 9, 10, 11 and 12, 9, 10, 11 and 12, which opens up the next part of the story to us. I will write to the church. I wrote to the church, but diatrophies who loves to have the permanence among them does not receive us. Therefore, if I come, I will call to mind his deeds which he does, parting against us with malicious words and not content with that. He himself does not receive the brethren's and forbids those who wish to put them out of the church. Beloved, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God, but he who does evil has not seen God. Demetrius has a good testimony from all and from the truth itself. And we also bear witness and you know that our testimony is true. Amen. Thank you. So here we get to know that there's this person named Diotryphus who seems to have some kind of an important position in the church. So here John is saying, I wrote to the church, but Diotryphus who loves to be first will not welcome us. So it looks as though John has sent a letter of recommendation to Diotryphus saying, please accommodate these missionaries whom I'm sending. Open up your doors to them. Welcome them, shelter them so that they can do their work. But this Diotryphus was not willing to welcome them. He rejected the recommendation letter which was sent. Why? Because he loves to be first. Maybe he regarded these traveling preachers and missionaries as competition because maybe he liked being prominent in the church and having an important position in the church and how everyone looks up to him and admires his teachings and all of that. And now here you have outsiders coming in and they know when they start preaching and teaching, then the congregation receives new truths from them and they are happy to learn more and he doesn't want to share the glory. He wants it all for himself. So it looks like he's a man, a very narrow-minded person who loves being praised, who loves being popular and he doesn't want to share his personal glory with others. So when these missionaries come over there, you know, sent by God to minister, he does not want them to come in. So what does he do this man? In verse 10, this is what John says about this man. He says, So when I come, I will call attention to what he is doing, spreading malicious nonsense about us, not satisfied with that. He even refuses to welcome other believers. He also stops those who want to do so and puts them out of the church. So this man, he seems to be an important person. So when someone tries to entertain these missionaries who are coming, he threatens them and says, I'll have you excommunicated from the church if you entertain these missionaries. So he's gone to that extent. And plus, he's spreading malicious wrong information regarding John and the others. And he's doing all of this because he loves to be prominent. You see, for him, self-promotion has become so important, that he's willing to go to the extent of throwing out people who are willing to entertain the missionaries. So actually, when Gaius took the step of taking people into his home, he did it at a great risk. He actually ran the risk of being thrown out by Diatriphus from the church, which basically indicates that Diatriphus must have had the support of the majority of the other members. Because if he was on his own, he would not have been able to excommunicate people, which means everyone held him in such high regard that they were willing to agree with him and participate in excommunicating people who are going against his orders. So which is why John says, when I come, I will call attention to this and I'll let people know what kind of a person he is. Then the congregation will realize what he is like and they will stop supporting him, because he is presenting himself as somebody that he is not. And then the congregation will realize what kind of a person he is, their eyes will be opened and he will lose the support which he has and he will be brought down to the place where he should be rightly put. So that is what John says. Now think about it. In the earlier letter when John said, do not entertain false teachers in your homes. He never added the threat and said, if you entertain false teachers in your home, then I will have you excommunicated. Imagine John himself did not make any threat like that. An apostle who was a disciple of Jesus, even he never made a threat like that and said, if you entertain false teachers, I'll excommunicate you. And here is somebody who is not even as great as John, who is going around excommunicating people as he wishes. It clearly shows that he is abusing his leadership position. And so a person like this, John says, I will put him in his place when I come there. I will warn everyone about what he is doing and so he says in verse 11, dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good.  Don't follow his evil example. Continue to do what is good because he says, anyone who does what is evil has not seen God. This man, even though he is presenting himself as somebody very religious and spiritual, he has not seen God. He does not know the love of God. If he did, he would entertain the missionaries. He would not excommunicate people who are showing love towards the missionaries. So this is a man who has not seen God is what he says. And now he brings up this other issue, this third issue which he wants to talk about. So he speaks about a person named Demetrius. And he says, Demetrius is well spoken of by everyone and even by the truth itself, even the truth is speaking well about this man. We also speak well of him and you know that our testimony is true. So there are three categories of people or things which are testifying to the goodness of this Demetrius. Everyone is saying good things about him. The truth, the very truth, Jesus and his word, they are speaking well about him and John is also speaking well about him. Which means here is a man who is walking in the truth, is committed to the teachings of Jesus and he is following them and practicing them. So maybe, why is this Demetrius being mentioned at the end of the letter? Probably Demetrius is the man through whom this third letter is being sent to the church that is receiving it. So maybe John is telling Gaius, please shelter Demetrius, he is a good man and even the truth itself is speaking well of him. So maybe he is saying you need to shelter him and put him up at your place because everyone is speaking well about him. So Demetrius is probably the person who carried this third letter and went to that church in which Gaius was a member. And so with that, he ends this letter. He says, I have much to write you but I do not want to do so with pen and ink. He is kind of repeating what he has said in the earlier letter and then he says, I hope to see you soon and we will talk face to face. And then he says, the friends here send their greetings. Greet the friends there by name. In the previous letter, it was talking about sisters. If you look at the very end of your second John, these are the words over there. It says, the children of your chosen sister send you their greetings. Over there, the churches are addressed as sisters. So they are all sister churches all belonging to the same family. So one sister church is greeting the other sister church. Here, the church communities are referred to as friends which is actually not a very common way of referring to the church. At that time, the term family sister was more common but probably these believers were thinking in terms of John 15 where Jesus says, you're no longer my servants but now you are my friends. So maybe they regarded themselves as friends of Jesus. So maybe that's the reason why the church community is being referred to as friends. So here, he says, the friends here greet the friends over there. So one church community is greeting the other church community and they are referring to themselves as the friends of Jesus. So just to touch upon that verse 12 where it says that even the truth is speaking well of Demetrius can we say that about ourselves, Jesus, the truth and the truth which he proclaims in his teachings. Can they speak well about us? Are we following the truth and living by it to an extent where Jesus himself is impressed and he's speaking well about us? Does he testify and say, yes, this is one person who's really committed to what I have taught and they are following my teachings and they are walking in love? So there are many interesting compliments which are scattered about in this letter. So can people give us such compliments? It's a question which we would need to ask ourselves even as we meditate on this particular letter. So this is about it. We looked at the Gospel of John and now we have looked at all the three letters that John has written. Lot has been conveyed as information but information becomes reality only when we practice it. So our goal should be whenever possible to meditate upon maybe some chosen passages from these letters and Gospel of John. Just meditate on some portions that the Lord has led us to and actively try to implement those in our lives because then the beauty of what God wanted to accomplish through those verses becomes a reality in our lives. Otherwise it just stays as information somewhere in the corner of our head and maybe someday when we have to preach maybe we will dig into our notes and take out those notes and preach but there's no real joy in that. On the other hand when we practice any of these scriptures it literally becomes Jesus living out his life in us and that kind of it adds value to our life, to our existence. So we should never just be hearers but we should be doers of all that we have heard. So let that be our goal even as we are ending this entire teaching. So let's just close with a word of prayer. Lord we are just committing ourselves into your hands. When John wrote his Gospel and when he wrote these three letters there was so much passion with which he wrote a lot. He really believed in what he was writing and it was so important to him that whatever he is saying should be imprinted on the hearts of his readers and so Lord even as we have gone through these things and had some revelations and learned some new things Lord we pray that through your Holy Spirit you would imprint these things upon our hearts and minds so that Lord they will not just be information in our heads but they will become things that we actually practice so that you the truth, the living word will literally live your life out in us and Christ will start getting formed in us Lord as a result of that. Lord we pray that that would happen for every one of us who has attended this course. We just commit all of ourselves into your hands so Lord bless each student, bless them in their lives so Lord bless them in their ministry so Lord and also bless them in all of their future studies we commit all of ourselves so Lord into your hands thank you Lord in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much. Amen. You're welcome Pastor. Thank you.


He's able. He's able. I know what he means through. He's able. He makes the land cross the blind to see that's why he's able. We thank for this day, we thank for the gift of life. As we're about to learn about the journey of Paul, please help us learn lessons from it and apply it into our daily lives in jizanemi pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you very much for joining us today for the children's someone. Which class is this? Junior class. This is junior class. In the months passed by, we've been studying the book of acts. Today we are in acts chapter 21 and as to begin, the writer of the book of acts, by the way, who wrote this book? Luke. Oh, Luke. Dr. Luke wrote the book of acts and in acts chapter 21, Luke is giving us step by step journey of Paul from one island to the next island. But before we go deep into the story, would we remind boys and girls about our key texts as well as the topic for today? Oh, Siza. What's our topic for today? Boys and girls, our topic for today is Bound for Christ. Bound for Christ, nice. And our key text is Hawi. Our key text is bound by Jerusalem, but I'm also ready to be bound for the Lord. Thank you very much, Hawi. With me is a very fantastic team. A team from junior class. His name is Siza, he's Aaron and the only girl amidst boys is Hawi. The name is Tjastim. Now get into the story in acts chapter 21. Luke, with the writer, gives us a step by step scenario of the journey of Paul. Beginning from Kos, an island, then proceeds to Rhodes, an island as well, proceeds to Patara, but we could stop there and help the boys understand how these islands look like. Do we have a picture of these islands how they look like? Yes, Siza. Patara was a very important city. It had a beautiful harbor. It was a very busy city, just like Mombasa. Did you say busy? Yes. Busy means there are a lot of activities taking place there. Yes. Oh well. And it's compared it to Mombasa. Probably because of the sandy beaches and maybe the beautiful harbor. Well, from Patara, Paul proceeds to a place called Tyre. Now at Tyre, Paul is welcomed by the disciples there, the believers there. They welcome Paul so much. And Paul, remember, is on his journey to Jerusalem. So Paul tells them, I'm just passing by. I want to go to Jerusalem. And so the people are happy that he's going to Jerusalem. Are they happy? No. They're not happy. Yes. So what happens? Yes, yes, Errol. What happens? They said, don't go to Jerusalem. Oh, they told him not to go to Jerusalem. Why? Because they were afraid for his safety. Oh, for his safety. But does Paul accept and stays back? No, he goes to Jerusalem just like that. He insists on going to Jerusalem. Yes. Well, so the entire church at Tyre accepts Paul's decision. They accompany Paul to the show. And then what happens at the show? They prayed with him. They pray with Paul at the show. And if I say the entire church accompanied Paul to the show, what does it mean the entire church? Yes, howee. Howee say the entire church means children ministry, ammo as well as the women ministry. They accompany Paul to the show. And did you say what happened at the show? What happens there? They prayed. Oh, they knelt down at the show and prayed with Paul before he sails to another destination. Is there a lesson we can learn from here? Yes, howee. The lesson is that whenever a family member is travelling, you need to come together and pray for them. Very important, the entire church accompanied Paul and prayed with him. To ask children whenever a family member or a friend is going on a journey, they need to come together and pray for their safety. Very well. So he leaves Tyre and sails over and gets to Caesarean. When he gets there, let me ask you people. You know Paul, when you are going on a journey like us, we don't move with our houses there. So when he gets to the other side of Caesarean, who was he? Yes, Aaron? Philip. Philip was Paul to the other side of Caesarean. Who is Philip? Who is Philip? Yes? Philip was one of the seven evangelists and had four unmarried daughters who proclaimed the word of God. Wait, many lessons are here. Evangelists had four daughters unmarried who professed the word of God. Now this reminds me of some, can I call this daughter's prophetess? Yes. Oh, I'm allowed. This reminds me of many female prophetess in the Bible, but I might not remember their names. Anybody who remembers? Oh, we do. Okay. Caesar? Oh, Aaron? Hi, Rod. Hanna. Hanna? Ehe, any? Deborah. Deborah. Hulda. Hulda. I remember Miriam as well singing the song after the cross direct sing. Thank you very much. Now Paul again here at Caesarean. He tells the entire church that you know what? I'm not staying here. I'm going to Jerusalem and so the people are very happy for him because he's leaving, isn't it? No. No. Again they're not happy? No. Caesarean, what happens? They begged him not to go to Jerusalem because they were afraid for his safety. What does Paul respond? What is Paul's response?   So Paul was so determined to go to Jerusalem. At Tyre he existed. They left him. Here at Caesarean he's insisting and they're almost leaving him. So what does the church here do now that he's insisted that he's going to Jerusalem? Yes, Aaron? They gave up and said. And they gave up. Paul, now we give up. You go. And they say. May the Lord's will be done. We've told you not to go. We fear for your safety, but you said you're going all the best. Now Paul crosses over, gets another ship, crosses over to Jerusalem. So now we are at Jerusalem. Feel easy we are at Jerusalem. But now the next question is, at Jerusalem, who lost Paul? Because remember it's not moving with the house. Who lost Paul at Jerusalem? Again, Aaron? It was Nassan. Oh, we get to Nassan's place at Jerusalem. So he's hosted there. But remember, Paul is moving with the look, Paul himself and the entire company. There are so many. So I'm wondering how Nassan, one place, one person, sorry, is able to take care of these big companies. Yes, how? Because Nassan is one very, one very wealthy man. Oh, Nassan is wealthy. So he's able to take care of these people. I think here if you look at it kindly, there's a lesson we can pick from here. Can we pick a lesson from here? I give this to Caesar. Boys and girls, when God blesses you with wealth, he should use it to advance the gospel. Oh, nice. Nassan is very wealthy. So he's able to accommodate Paul, Luke and the entire company so that the cause of the gospel is advanced as Caesar puts it. Very nice. Now Paul thought that when he arrives in Jerusalem, he will not be received warmly by the church but opposite happens. He's welcomed warmly and from Nassan's place he goes to see, to meet some people. Whom does he meet first? Yes, howie? He meets Elder James. Oh Elder James, the Elder James, the Elder James, the Elder Elder and the Elder Elders of the church. So they welcome Paul very warmly but connected one thing, not everybody was happy to receive Paul back. Okay, the Elders, they received him. A bigger section of the church, they received him but just a click, a small group, they didn't welcome Paul. They looked at him with a lot of mistrust. They said, ah, this man is not good, he's not honest, he's not genuine. I'm just wondering why this portion of the church will not trust Paul. Why were they doubting Paul? Why were they doubting Paul? Yes, Aaron. It's because they thought that he brought, he told people not to listen to the laws of Moses. Oh, so there were rumors that Paul was teaching against the law of Moses, that's why they doubted him. Now the next question, you have another point? There were also rumors that Paul said that you should not circumcise their children. Oh, the law of Moses, so they thought that Paul was teaching contrary to the law of Moses. But let me ask you, was it true? Is that legation? Are they true? No. No. Hey, how can I know proof? Yes, because Paul himself believed in circumcision and circumcised Timothy. One evidence, Paul himself believed in circumcision and even went further to circumcise Timothy. Aaron. Another one, he attended Jewish pilgrims. Paul himself took part in the Jewish pilgrim festival. All the festivals. Thank you, Hawee. Another one, do you have the last one? Oh, I'm thinking of one. Yes. And he was also another right vow. Oh, Paul took another right vow. That's a big word for the children. What is another right vow? You know, Hawee. Another right vow is someone who doesn't do the following three things. The following three things. One, we'll never cut their hair. Two, we'll never touch dead bodies. And three, he'll never take strong drinks like alcohol or wine. That is another right. Thank you very much for helping me and the boys and girls understand who another right is. So we've learned that Paul was falsely accused. Now Paul, for the sake of the unity of the church, for the sake of the unity of the church, they last told him, Paul, there are some four men who are going to be purified. Please join them. You be purified so that you are accepted by the entire church. Then Paul accepted to be purified. But you know what? They saw him. They just there in Jerusalem, they saw Paul with somebody, with a man. Do you remember the name? Yes, Hawee? Trophy mass. Trophy mass. But now I'm just wondering. Is there a problem? Like if somebody see me with you, sees me with you, what's the problem with that? Yes, Caesar? They were mad with Paul because Trophy mass was a gentle and gentiles weren't allowed in the temple. Also that was the problem that Paul was moving with this man, a gentile into the temple while the gentiles were never allowed to get into the temple. Okay. So the mob, after seeing Paul, the mob does something. What does the mob do? He throws him out of the church. The police close the door behind him and then they start beating Paul. They grab and start beating him. And now when the other people in Jerusalem heard about this, they came running from every part of the city coming and they came, so everybody was there. And they grab Paul and they were still beating Paul. And now this noise went as far as somewhere. The noise reached somebody. Who heard this? Yes, Caesar? The commander. Oh, the commander had the noise that there's something going on. So what do we do? Took chariots, ran very fast to where Paul was and he joined the beating, isn't it? No. What does he do? He comes and then when he comes, the mob stops beating. Oh, the mob stops beating this, beating Paul. Is there a lesson we can pick from there? Yes, howie? The lesson that we pick from there is that God is always on time. Oh, God is always on time. Thank you. Paul didn't see. He thought this was his last day, but the news reached the commander, came very fast, stopped the mob from beating him. Then they took Paul into the inner courts as people were still trying to beat Paul. Paul spoke to the commander. In which language? Greek. Oh, in Greek. Can I tell you something? And then the permission was granted and then Paul spoke to the commander. But before, they thought that Paul was an Egyptian. The Egyptian fellow that led 4,000 terrorists into the desert. So why did Paul want to speak to the commander as well as these other people? Yes. For his own defence. He wanted to make it very clear that he's not a Greek. So was and an Egyptian. Thank you. So was this permission granted? Was it? Yes. It was granted? Yes. Then Paul started speaking. How does it start it? He stands up and says the crowd and says, I am a Jew born in Tarsis in Silesia and I am a citizen of a very important city. Please let me speak to the people. Then Paul starts speaking to the people. That speech is part of our next sabat samon. Don't miss Paul's speech. Thank you for joining us today. For now, how we will pray with us. Let's pray. And help and please take us through the day in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Welcome as we listen to Paul's speech next sabat. For now.


English vocabulary word of the day, press from espressoenglish.net. First, let's practice the pronunciation. PR sounds like in the words prefer, proud, and pretty. The letter E has the EH sound, like in wet, less, and red. And SS sounds like in kiss, mess, and boss. Say the word after me, press. The verb press means to apply pressure by pushing. For example, pressing the big red button will sound the alarm. Press is also a general word for the media and news publishers. For example, the president hasn't yet made a statement to the press. We can talk about the local press or the international press, again referring to local media and international media. The expression press coverage refers to how much a topic is appearing in the news. And we also have something called a press conference. That's a meeting where a famous or important person talks to multiple reporters and the reporters can ask questions. One expression with the word press is pressed for time. If you're pressed for time, it means you don't have much time, so you're in a rush. For example, I can't chat right now, I have a doctor's appointment, and I'm pressed for time. Another expression is being hard pressed to do something. This means have a lot of trouble or difficulty doing it. For example, this is a great computer, you'd be hard pressed to find a better one. This means it would be difficult to find a better computer than this. If you're interested in learning more, check out my vocabulary builder course as well as the free sample lessons that you can get by clicking on the link in the video.


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The computer revolution. It's going to recreate the workplace. No more paper. Elimination of repetitive assembly line jobs. Goodbye, drudgery. Computers will make everyone's life easier. Most of the work of most of the people will be done by machines. It's the night. Many of the promises of the computer revolution have yet to be realized. Law enforcement is one area that hasn't fully wreaked the benefits the computer revolution promised. Until now. The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Texas Transportation Institute, with support from the Texas Department of Transportation, are building a better information system for data management and law enforcement. Advanced Law Enforcement Response Technology, or ALERT, is an exciting application of first response technology. ALERT allows officers to collect traffic and incident data more efficiently while ensuring a greater margin of on-the-job safety. It's public safety technology for the 21st century, supported by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. It's on Brother and Mama. Crash has changed normally safe streets into hazardous environments for police, rescue personnel and crash victims. Along with the danger comes traffic congestion for other drivers. Traffic stacks up while the crash scene remains unclear. Police officers can spend hours out of every day clearing these scenes. The challenges are many. Long waits for information. Numerous forms to complete and occasionally inaccurate traffic data to sort through. Clearly, this important task is far more complicated than it should be. ALERT operates on a rugged onboard computer located in the patrol car's trunk. A touchscreen display is the only visual hint that this is a machine with a mission. The computer and screen integrate all police car functions including lights, siren, radar, radio, video and global positioning system. The display, handheld remote unit and digital camera give officers wireless communication power with an easy reach. Ticket and accident forms are stored in the handheld unit. Photos are electronically captured, printed and transmitted. No fumbling with an endless stream of paper form. The officer enters information electronically into the computer on site. Data is entered only once ensuring its integrity. In addition, ALERT allows officers to directly access federal, state and local traffic and criminal records without depending on a dispatcher to relay that information. Electronic data entry means police officers can process more information more quickly compared to the conventional paper form. Time savings adds up real fast. For example, College Station Texas officers worked approximately 1,900 crashes in 1995. Our average time required to clear those crashes was approximately 50 minutes. Depending on the complexity of the crash, time savings by our officers on the scene are estimated at between 20 and 50 percent. With quicker and more accurate data collection, our officers are expected to be back on the street a lot sooner. Because ALERT allows officers to enter data electronically at the scene, errors made while transcribing handwriting or repeatedly re-entering the data are eliminated. Information is more complete because the reports are partially automated and much easier to fill out. A software editing feature helps pinpoint errors as data is entered. After information is entered only one time, it is sent electronically to state records databases or the officer's base station. Because data is entered more quickly, records are complete and up to date. Collecting the data in a manner that allows uploading to databases closest to the scene of that incident will reduce the overhead involved in collecting the information and getting it into a system. It will improve the accuracy of that data and improve the timings. Those are kind of hidden benefits to using the ALERT vehicle. It's kind of a win-win situation. With complete and accurate information, highway engineers can make better decisions when developing operations improvements. The ALERT vehicle is going to answer some of the more serious questions and solve some of the more serious problems we have. From our perspective, from the Highway Safety Office's perspective, we use information to identify problems as the way we allocate money. It's how we decide that we are going to do different projects. So accident data is critical to us. Citation information is critical to us as well. From just a general traffic records point of view, there are a multitude of users out there. The EMS people want to know where accidents are happening so they can station their ambulances nearby. They want to know where traffic congestion is the worst so that they can avoid that area if they have to if they're responding to emergency call. Traffic engineers have to know traffic volumes on sections of road everywhere before they do an overlay project so they know what materials to use and how to build it. All that information is essential to making decisions on how we're going to spend money in the future. I'm Clay Taylor with the Department of Public Safety. I've been in law enforcement for over 15 years. With all the advancements in technology, police work is still dangerous and paperwork is a real pain. Alert technology will make my job safer and more efficient. Alert provides an element of safety to the officer and at the same time an element of convenience. It has taken advantage of all of the modern technology. It's done the things that we believe needed to be done years ago. It's made the environment of that automobile safer for the officer by moving things around, by eliminating the need to flip switches and do all of the things that we do manually. It streamlines the reporting time frame, if you will. More instantaneous reports back to individuals and we've got to remember that writing a citation and making an arrest, although valuable, really is not the end of the product. Reporting that information and having it accurately tabulated and accounted for is very valuable. For the officer in the field, alert enhances convenience and safety. Features like the lights, siren, radar, video camera and global positioning equipment are operated independently or in a pre-programmed sequence from a single touch sensitive screen. The sequence can be prescribed by departmental policy. When things get hectic, response is automatic. This clean cockpit approach allows officers one touch operation of vital controls. No fumbling for switches, no flying objects if the airbags deploy. I'm Sergeant Greg Lewis with the College Station Texas Police Department. When I'm on a contact, I no longer have to return to my car nor rely on dispatch for the information I need. I have all the communication power, when and where I need it. A magstripe reader and barcode reader directly enters driver's license information and vehicle identification numbers. This allows me to quickly obtain information to check for wants or stolen. This information can also be entered into the ticket or accident forms program. I can download the data from my unit or save it to a data file at the end of my shift. The global positioning system allows dispatch to quickly locate me in the event I need assistance and I can't communicate with them. It pinpoints a crash location or where I issue a citation. All of this right in the palm of my hand. The U.S. Department of Transportation invited law enforcement officers and traffic records managers from across the United States to form the Alert Technical Working Group. Since law enforcement, there's probably been three significant steps. One of them is in the introduction of the radio. Another one is the weapon. This is the police vehicle and now this is the fourth one. This is going to provide the officer with everything that he needs on the street. Alert is certainly going to bring to the law enforcement community. I think beyond what we recognize right now, it's going to keep going further and further. When you hear leading law enforcement officials across the country at the federal level as well as the state and local level saying that this is good and this is the best thing that's happened to law enforcement and long-time technology-wise, then Alert is certainly going to bring about some changes that we may not even know the full results of for a long time, but certainly good changes. This is the most exciting thing in my career in law enforcement and it's going to have a tremendous impact today, tomorrow, and in the future. Alert. Public safety technology for the 21st century. New features are constantly being integrated. Off-the-shelf technology, not fancy one-of-a-kind systems. Alert is a modular plug-and-play concept. All alert components integrate seamlessly into the open system architecture. Industry working group participation helped make this possible. Traffic safety is just the leading edge of alert technology application. The system can be adapted to support all phases of criminal investigation and law enforcement, EMS, fire, emergency incident management, street maintenance, commercial vehicle operations, even communicating with trains to make rail crossing safer. In the future, government agencies must work smarter. Technology has to work harder. Communication and information sharing make alert the public safety technology for the 21st century.


You two team keep it clean. What's going on the same grave in here with another video And then this video which will be Extremely quick because I know all of y'all know about this already. I just never got an opportunity To do a live stream about it because I was out with the family yesterday when it all came out So again, this is old news for some if you haven't heard about it. Well, I guess you can hear about it now but anyway For my Bronco for my brown for my Texans QB Mr. Brock Oswala Mr. Brock Oswala, he is rejoining the team That he won the Super Bowl with and it's so weird that he's he's a Super Bowl champion Brock Oswala is a Super Bowl Champion and he can say Hey, I Started on a Super Bowl team at one point in time not enough for the whole season, but I started on a Super Bowl team So shout out to him. But anyway, Brock Oswala signed a one-year deal to come back to the Broncos Because I believe Is it Paxton Lynch that's hurt? I believe Paxton Lynch is hurt for like three to four weeks So he's going to be out Travis Simeon is Disappointed starter for now. Let's see if things change if they say, you know what we want to go with our Super Bowl champion Brock Oswala every time I Happens to me every time every time that I say Brock Oswala I always want to say Brock less than because it's so easy easy to get those two confused But anyway, really quick before we get into what will be a very quick video Let me still introduce myself because I don't want to be rude me I'm engraving vids. 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But like I said, we couldn't we couldn't stream as soon as it happened But I wanted to make sure I did talk about this because it is something that's It's kind of comical to me because y'all know how much I just I don't like Brock Oswiler. I don't like him. He He is the only quarterback that I watch and it's cringy It's cringy to watch It's like oh gross like how is this guy making all this money He really I know a lot of people like to use the term finesse nowadays That dude is just finesse in the whole NFL man Yeah, 804 taco I do But he is just finesse in the whole NFL this guy went for Broncos he He just didn't look good to me for Broncos back then Then What what do they do? He becomes free agent Broncos. They gave him an offer, but they capped it out They capped it out. They say we're not gonna give you any more than this. That's gonna be it Yeah, yeah, he's he said Brock Oswiler got the best agent in NFL history. He just might he just might but he They won the Super Bowl he became a free agent Broncos offered him a certain amount of money He thought about it. Then the Texans They offered him even more money. He said Broncos. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your business But I'm gonna go ahead and move on now Declined Broncos offer shortly after joining the Texans for 80 million dollars eight million dollar deal So he went to the Texans sucked and then after that The Texans were like man, what do we do? What do we get ourselves into? No, I mean, I actually just woke up About 15 20 minutes ago. So I did go to sleep for a little bit, but now I'm up He beat the 10 and old Patriots That that game no he didn't beat them that he the NFL beat them The NFL beat them because they they were not gonna let them win that game because they had it one a couple times They should have had it one a couple times and and that felt said no this ain't going down like that Like I'm in I'm not a Patriots fan at all So I called it exactly how I saw it in that he did not beat the Patriots the NFL beat the Patriots in that game But um anyway and shout out to Broncos defense because they saved they saved both him and Peyton Manning they saved both of them But anyway But yeah, the Texans signed them to that 80 million dollar deal and he went to the Texans sucked then Texans were like hey NFL can somebody please get to take this guy off our hands We'll even throw in a draft pick if you take him off our hands and his what 15 million or 16 million dollar cap hit Just take them off our hands, please. Would you so then here come the Browns? Hey, you know what? Brock if he's if he's even half as good as Brock Lesnar, then he'll be straight So, you know what? Let's let's bring them in. He got a powerful first name Brock Brock Oswala so they brought him in and Hey Open competition Brock you a Super Bowl champ. You got this big contract Well, we took it on because we're the Browns and we think you can do some things here you're gonna be competing with the rookie and Whoever else we got on this team, I don't even remember the other quarterbacks They got on the Browns team, but you're gonna be competing with those guys So you got a chance to be the starter and you know what you're gonna be able to start the first preseason game for us And you're gonna be able to start the second one, too He did that went out there. He sucked. They didn't like him And if if you can't you can't even stick with the Browns. Who can you stick with? You can't even stick with the Browns. Who can you stick stick with who? So Brown say, you know what we're gonna deactivate you for this third game because we're trying to find somebody to trade you To trade you with or trade you for whatever we're trying to find a team and that'll take on his trade That'll take on his contract because we're done with you. We got our pick We got our draft pick I believe it was like a second round pick or something from the Houston, Texas They were willing to give us a pick to take you off their hands So we got it, but now you know what we're done with you We got the cap room we got plenty of cap room to take that 15 million dollar hit So that ain't nothing and it'll be worth it to take that hit just to see you go bye-bye So they released them and Then along came comes his old team. They signed him on. I believe what was a $775,000 dollar deal.  It's nothing to them, but he he's a familiar face He's a familiar face. He comes in like hey, did anybody miss me? He gets to see his boys Vimeo, I mean, I don't even know Vimeo likes him or not usually defensive Usually great defensive players don't like sucky offensive players. So I'm not sure how he feels about him Packs and getting ready to be a bust. Let's see. Let's see, man We'll see. You know, he said I wish I got a $775,000 deal. Don't we all don't we all? And possibly to ride the bench the whole year possibly to ride the bench the whole year possibly But he could possibly start to who knows we'll see But he he's he's back he gets to walk in there and say hey fellas. I'm back Welcome back. He's basically a worst T. Bohoof and Hey, I was saying it the other day T. Bohoof He was he was overrated to me. You know, he was just overrated and can't even say just to me He was he was overrated Because a lot of people like oh, yeah T. Bohoof was so great. He was so this he was so that didn't you see all his comeback wins Didn't you see all his game-winning tribes and all that but T. Bohoof will come out there in the NFL game He said John that way with I don't know what John that way did but T. Bohoof will come out there Quarters one two and three really for three and a half quarters. He came out there. He sucked. He was terrible He came out there. He was terrible for three and a half quarters but then The last half of the fourth quarter. He just said you know what? Let's turn it on. Let's go out there and try to win this and thank goodness that Broncos defense Was keeping them in all those games that they got to do that on That the other that they got to do that for all those nice comebacks and whatnot and they were fun games to watch So I can't take that away that they were entertaining and that's what NFL wants entertaining games. So they got that with those But yeah, then T. Bo would turn it on and go out there and he was like, you know what? Let me act like I'm in college or something and just make all these plays now But this dude for the first three and a half quarters his throws were so ugly. They I don't know who he thought he was throwing To I don't know where he was trying to lead the ball I don't know what he was doing, but then all of a sudden fourth quarter. He just for he remembered like oh, man I'm an NFL. I Can't do all my college stuff like I used to anymore But let me actually try to make make something work and he did he did just that he did just that so But that obviously only lasted so long It only lasted so long never understood why people hype hype quarterbacks because of their comeback wins That means they're playing from behind. Oh good point good point Good point never thought about that Never thought about that before And if you always play from behind, it's not a good thing. That is a very very good point. Wow Very good point right there But you see the T. Bo thing it After that one year with the Broncos with all the hype and then then then the Steelers win Then the Steelers playoff when He got Exposed Well, he had already been exposed all year cuz like yep like Meach said it was comeback wins So that means he was not up in those games and like I said He played bad for the first three and a half quarters every single game Every single game if you could look at his numbers his numbers backed it up that he wasn't that good or wasn't good And so did his play And so did his team being down in those games them having to come back. So yeah, good great point Meach but he Yeah, he just wasn't good. So That happened throughout the season.  That was the year that We won a Super Bowl, I believe Yeah, I think that was the year that we won a Super Bowl They beat Pittsburgh in overtime game but then You say, you know what? Hey, you want to beat Pittsburgh in that overtime game? That's cool Let me show you all the Patriots here come the Patriots They played the Patriots or that T-Bow stuff didn't oh that was that was the year before okay 804 Taco all every team but then he had come to Patriots and That was it T-Bow showed that he cannot get into no shootout He can't hang He can't he couldn't do it He couldn't do it John. Just oh this is the Von Miller But yeah T-Bow he couldn't hang he could not hang with the Patriots. He couldn't put go points for points T-Bow is like T-Bow reminded. Oh, no, I can't even say that. That's like that's even a diss to Alex Smith I'm gonna say T-Bow remind me of a of a Scrambling Alex Smith, but no I take that back.  He's not built for that That's not him and he he has a limit on where he'll be able to take you He is not to me. He's not a Super Bowl quarterback He's not the type of quarterback that can go to Super Bowl that defense would have to be Perfect for him to get there because he's not gonna lose you to Super Bowl. He's definitely not gonna win it for you though He's not gonna win it for you. So Alex Smith is he just is his cat his limit has already been reached. Oh, y'all just heard that Xbox come on His limit has already been reached and he's not gonna get any higher But anyway, that's that I appreciate y'all. I said it was gonna be a really quick video ended up being 15 minutes So, yeah But he's back joins his old team if I can find they goes my life But yeah, that's that and anyway on that note. I appreciate y'all man. Thank you Broncos fans enjoy your guy And then yeah, he went He also speaking of jets. He also had went to the jet speaking of Tebow He also went to the jets and that didn't work out. I mean, it was really fun playing with him and Madden on the jets, but That's the only thing. That's the only way it worked out. Anyway Oh, I got the real Revis for the jets. No, I'm not gonna be streaming Madden No, I'm not gonna be streaming it because I I don't feel like talking About Madden right now Yeah, I just need to Take me a break drinks and orange juice and relax and play matter Even though playing Madden is not relaxing that game is very stressful. But anyway, I appreciate y'all man. Thank you And I will see you late on today. I'm not I don't think I'll be streaming at all anymore this morning Because hopefully they'll hopefully there won't be any more news But if there is we'll see but if not, I won't be mad at that at all. Anyway, appreciate you Thank you. And yeah, not that I hate talking but just it's so early in the morning and I just want to chill right now. Sometimes you just want to just chill just vibe and relax That's what I'm about to do now Appreciate that 804. Thank you, but I'll see y'all next time. I'm gone man


Fingerings are very important for the interpretation because different fingerings make a different sound quality. Think of the four strings of the violin, they all sound very different and you can play the same passage with different fingerings on different strings and that makes a total different sound and it will be a different expression like that. On the other hand, fingerings are very important to master technically passages, to find a possibility to play clean and for that you need the right fingering and it's great that in the Hill Lab we have different fingerings to compare each other and to use the best possible version. Fingerings can change an interpretation very much. I would like to give you a little example. This motif of the D minor sonata of Brahms. See it now in the fingering by Christian Tetzlath in the fourth position on the D string. Now what about a historic fingering by Osip Schnirlin? Osip Schnirlin was a student of Josef Joachim so there is a good link to Brahms because of the friendship Brahms-Joachim. Unfortunately there is no fingering by Joachim but of his student Osip Schnirlin and the fingering is like that. It sounds maybe strange to us today but it is historic. It is a fingering here with flageolet and with glissando. Let's now check a fingering from another student of Josef Joachim, Leopold Auer. Even more glissando because no flageolet here and the fingering 4-4. Leopold Auer did his edition of the Brahms sonatas in 1917 so it's something like an essence of his teaching because by that he had already taught his great students, Heifetz, Elman, Toscha Seidel, Zimbalis and all the others. So this gives us great insight in the history of island playing. With the bowings it's the same idea. They also can change an interpretation and the phrase completely. For example think of the main theme of the Frühlingssonate by Beethoven. That is the bowing from Igor Osip to start it with downbow and that means that the third bar in this phrase, this D minor with the G, is something like an aim. You go to the third bar because it's downbow and the downbow naturally is a little bit more heavy than the upbow. Listen to it again. Now Henrik Schering has a different idea. He starts it with upbow and that means that for him the fourth bar in this phrase when we go to G minor is the most important bar because it will be in downbow. I think that's absolutely fascinating to compare the different ideas of the different players. It gives you the possibility to have a library under your arm and you don't have only the great compositions but you also have something like a history of violin playing always with you when you compare all the fingerings and bowings of actual artists and of historic artists.