presents the halls of Ivy. If you like good beer do as millions of people are doing all over the country as for Schlitz, the beer that made Milwaukee famous. Schlitz tastes so good to so many people that it's the largest selling beer in America. It has to be fine to be first for halls of Ivy. Welcome again to Ivy, Ivy colleagues that is in the town of Ivy USA. Ivy's president, Dr. William Carthunder Hall, was a guest last night at a civic banquet. He went for force and came home persuaded. As he tells his wife Victoria for the reigning beauty of the London stage this morning. Frankly my darling I enjoyed it. That's how I've mellowed with age. I've been weakens for the final weeks of the school year. Perhaps until now I haven't entered into the spirit of call me Bill and did you hear the one about the conductors on the mink coats. And with the fact remains that I had a most pleasant evening. What was the decoration on the fruit cup? Oh, you mean did they serve the inevitable half a maraschino cherry? Yes, they did and I ate mine and liked it. Oh Toddy, you are mellowing. Why have you climbed the most spectacular raises with those half cherries? I know, I know. Ordinarily half a cherry on a fruit cocktail infuriates me. It seems to say if I were a whole cherry, oh man, you'd not be able to appreciate the delightful repast which follows. However, last night the food was edible. The coffee was hot and good. The speeches were amusing and except for one minor incident, I hope I am not interrupting. Interrupting was for goodness sake. I wasn't saying anything. I know, you've been very polite darling, but in your beautiful eyes there is that look which says I wish it finished their interminable story because I have a funnier one. You never tell interminable stories. For me they're much too insurmountable. Now what was the minor incident? Well, it was so minor it will keep. Now what's your funny story? Well, really, really funny. It's this interesting. Do you remember that painting, Mrs. Quintan and so does the other night? Well, you mean the original oil by a son, my lead artist named Ramon Ricardo. The one which looked as if he'd painted it while wearing boxing gloves. And then walked on it with muddy deluxe. You mean you didn't like it? Vicki, my sweet, I have seen better composition on a hotel bath mat. That painting was a trotter. Well, but good heavens, I thought you were mad about it after what you told me, Mrs. Quintan. Well, just what did I say? Well, you said it was, well, you seem to think it was just the way you stood there. You mean that wasn't Rapture? Rapture was hardly the emotion which gripped me. It was more like Vertigo. Believe me, if I'd known, if I'd known Vertigo, I'd have gone. Well, you had me fooled, darling. So suddenly that I bought you another one for the same artist. What did you do? You mean he couldn't lose his nerve after painting the one we saw? He did another? Yeah, and I only got it because I thought you'd love it. Now, let's have a look at it then. Maybe Ricardo's had a painting lesson since he did Mrs. Quintanen. Or thought of using paint instead of mud and ashes and beef gravy. Yes, I can return it to the art shop, personally. Excuse me, Diane. Dr. Hall speaking. Oh, yes, Jeffrey. Why, certainly, yes, come right over. No, not interrupting a thing. That's all right. Goodbye. Jeffrey? Didn't Jeffrey? Yes. Student body president? Yes, he's coming over. Something wrong? I don't know, but probably. I am seldom beg for a quick interview unless there's a wrangle on the quadrangle. Er, in the mean time, let's see the old master you bought for your old master. Well, all right. I was going to buy you a chair so I could supply you with it. Now, here you are. Well, darling, you did surprise me. You and Ricardo. Worse than the other. Yes, I thought so. I'm glad you disliked it. Well, that's a fine way to talk to the recipient of a gift. Why are you glad I disliked it? Because at Quintanen's the other night I thought your well-known critical judgment had packed up and gone to Yugoslavia or someplace. But I say to myself, I said, if he likes that sort of thing I said, buy him one, I said. Now, Vicki, my darling, I love you and I do appreciate the thought behind this, this. A tragedy? Behind the gift of this tragedy, yes. But hereafter, please do not let my social attitude betray you and a false estimate of my sanity. The fact that Mrs. Quintanen was our hostess and was obviously happy with her painting was, by the way, has this dreadful little production a title? Yes. Yes, it is written on the back of the frame. Now, let's see. Here it is. Magenta miasma. Magenta miasma. How appropriate. It does look sort of like a Florida resort, doesn't it? There's no little bit sideways like this. Darling, there is no Florida resort called miasma. You are thinking of Miami. Oh! Yes, Miami. Well, then where's miasma? Down this canvas for one place. Miasma is a word meaning a noxious effluvium emanating from a swampy putrescent, which makes it apparent that Ricardo lacks either a dictionary or a puff of pride in his work. Darling, I thank you for this interesting gift, and how soon can you get it out of the house? I'll take it back today. And now let's go back to your minor incident. My minor incident? At the banquet last night. Oh, yes, yes. Well, it was just a slight argument with a mayor of Ivy about a proposed addition to the city hall. Which is already big enough to serve a town besides the Philadelphia. They call that dipping into the beef keg, don't they? The pork barrel, my pet. And building an addition to a local city hall is pure tender saculant pork. I say that you said so to the mayor. I did. And after the lovely Magenta miasma receded from his somewhat porcine face, which is probably an occupational... Yeah, well, that's probably Jim Jeffery. I'd better hide this canvas.  Now, we can explain it away as an example of new wallpaper. Now, come in, Jim. I was just... Oh, good morning, Mr. Wellman. I was expecting Jim Jeffery. Come in, anyway. Thank you. Well, Dr. Hall, the president of this college, I am sure you are aware of Mrs. Hall. Good morning. Hello, Mr. Wellman. It would be a better morning if I didn't have to concern myself with certain... I mean, Dr. Hall, it should be obvious to you by this time that... Well, it's imperative, Dr. Hall, imperative. But just what is imperative, Mr. Wellman? Weren't you listening?  I am speaking, Dr. Hall, of your behavior at the banquet last night. Oh, go on, Mr. Wellman. You always been his night at the banquet. Like folks, great for conversation and never liked his pipe. It would have been better if he had lit his fork. I mean, lighted his... lit his pipe. And kept quiet. Dr. Hall, you insulted the mayor. Oh, Mr. Wellman, in the first place, it would take a sharper conversation on Harpoonman's mind to get to the political hide of Mayor Baker. Please, Dr. Hall, you are speaking of what... Well, Mayor Baker is an old friend of mine. He went to school. He comes from a fine old family. May flower stop. Mr. Wellman, Mr. Wellman, Mr. Wellman, and he meant who serves his community well has no need of answers. I know, I know! And, as a citizen and taxpayer interested in good government, I cannot approve such public pocket picking. Pidley pocket... pocket... Wrong words, Dr. Hall. Yeah, they're hard to say, too. As a member of the city council, I resent it. The addition to the city hall has been a lifelong dream of Mayor Baker. He wants to take pride in this... in his city. He wants to take... He wants to take this basic. Please, Mrs. Hall, I know Mayor Baker. You do not. And I want to be the first to congratulate me. For leaving his honor... honor a moment, what is the point you are trying to make, Mr. Wellman? The point I am making, Dr. Hall, is that from now on, officially Ivy College will adopt a closed-mouthed policy on all such public matters. Is that clear? The statement's clear enough, but the attitude you recommend, Mr. Wellman, is dangerous and unrealistic. And because of more political evils than anything I can imagine, you advocate apathy, disinterest, and public silence in the face of mouthings. I advocate minding our own collegiate business, Dr. Hall. Nothing more, nothing less. I advocated both as chairman of Ivy's Board of Governors and as a member of the Ivy City Council, and as chairman of the Board of Governors, a word for the wise. Good day. You know, I think Mr. Wellman is one of the most resistible characters I ever knew. You suppose he's getting a slice of that graft? No, no, I don't. No matter how misplaced his loyalty is or how distorted his viewpoints, I think the man's absolutely honest. You mean he's honest according to his life, but he drives a lot with his dimmers' arms. Well, sir, something like that, yes. I credit Mr. Wellman with judging Mayor Baker by Wellman and not Baker's standards. Use every man after his dessert. Use every man after his dessert. And who should escape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Hamlet. Good for you, darling. How did you know? It was his turn. Whose turn? It was Hamlet. Nobody asked me what that from. I always say either Hamlet or the Bible. It was Hamlet's turn. Well, between the Moody Dane and the Holy Writ, one is usually unfrooded based grounds because... Oh, do you think that CW or Jim? Oh, no, no, no, I doubt it. Lisex, it had an air of finality about him. In that case, I'll be hospitable. Oh, hello, Jim. Come in, please. Thank you, Mr. Paul. Hello, Jim. Sit down. Thank you, sir. I'll get right to it. Have you heard about the proposed new addition to the Ivy City Hall? Well, you heard about the new addition to the Ivy City Hall. Well, you heard about it from the mayor and vice versa. Yes, I did. And I assigned myself the pleasant chore of telling his honor... his honor... without telling him that I considered it an out-and-out patronage job with no civic merit and that he might have difficulty in finding necessary funds in an already depleted city treasury. I'm sure glad you feel that way about it. Well, why, Jim? You're not a taxpayer. Well, not now, but it looks like I might be. It looks like all Ivy students will be taxpayers. Well, you mean local taxpayers? You are. That's why I'm here. On behalf of the student body. The word hasn't gotten around the campus yet. But when it does, there's going to be a real Donnie Brooks. Well, what word? What's going on? Go, go, go. You're your major in political science, aren't you, Jim? Yes, sir. I'm doing a little field work down at the city hall. That's how I happen to hear about this tax bill. If they build that city hall addition, Ivy College is going to pay for it. The college? How?  Passed in 1885. It's the head tax law and authorizes the leving of tax on students. 16 years old and over. Oh, but that must have been in the time of desperate financial stringency when the college was young. Well, that doesn't matter. It's never been stricken from the status. It's as good or as bad as the day it was passed. I wonder if Mr. Wellman knows this. Mr. Wellman. Well, never mind, Jim. I've got to think this over. What can you do, William? At the moment, I don't know. But I have a feeling we'll have to fight fire with fire. And I... What's the matter, Doc? Do you smell something? Yes, barbecued pork. It's early afternoon and we find Dr. Hall, who's up in arms over the town of Ivy's revival of an old law which would permit the taxation of college students. Just that with the mayor's office, the mayor, the honorable Francis X Baker, welcomes him with professional hardness. Bill, it's great to see you. Just great. Come on in and sit down. You don't come in often enough. You know, there's a lot of truth in the old saying, there's no friend like an old friend. Yes, I never thought of it that way. The quotation marks around the cliché are merely the crow's feet of weary repetition. How true! How true! I feel Billy Hall never catch him without a quote. I have another one. James Russell Lowell. Little he loves but power, most of all. And that he seems to scorn as one who knew how powers men choose to crawl there too. By what power powers men choose? Now wait a minute, anything personal in that bill? Well, Frank, if the truth fits, why should it bless you? As my remarks to you at the banquet last night about the disgraceful plundering of public funds to build the addition to the city hall. Oh, now forget it, Billy. You don't have to apologize for that. Apologize. I'm not apologizing, Frank. On the contrary, I wish to extend and amplify my remarks. Well, go right ahead, son. It's a free country. For a free country, you're trying your best to make it expensive. For the backpacks. This ghost law you'll vex you will mean the headsacks of 1885. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold everything, Billy. I didn't dig up any ghost law. That's a very life statute. Never been off the books. There's also a law still in the books which demands that every horseless carriage be perceived at a distance of 20 feet by a man carrying a red flag or a lantern. Are you planning to enforce that, too? No, but I would. It would help me build a wing on the city hall. Why is the building of this new wing so imperative? I consider it a flagrant abuse of office. Fragrant abuse of... You have revived an emergency law past 65 years ago. Pasturing a desperate period for a specific purpose. And you are using it, legally perhaps, but unethically, certainly, to implement a raid on public funds to pay for a needless piece of construction. And the students of my college are the prospective victims of this fraud. Well, I've been mayor of this town for a long time. My record is clean. My administration... Oh, I'm not referring to your past record. Whatever it is. I am talking about the business of building up in the city council tomorrow. Permitting a city tax on students 16 years and over. Well, I'm only the mayor, Billy Boy. I don't control the city council. We need additional revenue at this time for civic projects. In this case, a permanent and useful testimonial to my annuler of office. Well, that's a... very neat euphemism. How would you describe the Brink's express robbery in Boston? The transfer of funds from the temporary custodian for a more equitable distribution among deserving, if unknown, citizens? You're quibbling. Am I? Now, let's face back. The city needs money. And we can collect it legally according to a definite statute. We'll pass for a similar purpose at another period. Listen, outrageous example of veneral politics. How can we teach good government in Ivy College if we have this sample of bad government on our own doorstep? Now, that's a lot of hogwash, Billy. What you call bad government, I call good business. It's stimulating. It puts money in circulation. And we get the money to do it by any legal means at our disposal. From 16-year-olds. Ah, thanks very much for our representation, Frank. Why, it's the principle upon which war has been declared. Twice. Twice, Billy? Yes, in 1776 and right now. Hello, darling. How are you? It is due just on a week over that he missed these and promised to be a good boy. No, I can see you didn't. No, he not only didn't, but he kept calling me Billy Boy. Well, only friendly, anyway. Perhaps, but I felt like brushing people on my way home. Well, the reason I'm so late, darling, is that I talked to several members of the city council. Including Mr. Wellman? No, no, I fasted up Mr. Wellman. He's not a man to reason with. With whom to reason? Either one man. Well, but you say you think he's absolutely honest. Doesn't he realize what it will do to either? Think it even closed the school? I always find it hard to realize what Mr. Wellman realizes. I feel right now like a man in a small dory with a hurricane coming up. Well, maybe your dory is not so hunky right now, dear. You think of something. Well, if I do, I'd better hurry, and I wish I could share your confidence with... What do you mean, hmm? What are you saying, dad? No, that painting. You... You didn't have time to return it? Oh, no, I'll take it back in the morning. It doesn't grow on your digit. You can't say that it does. Are you sure you have it right-side-up? I don't think it has any right-side-up. That's the side-up it was up in the shop. No wire on the back? To suggest we slide the painter's foot with the top or bottom?  Your lady's already struck out. Well, perhaps I'm a philistine, Vicki, but I think representational art that has required some basic study of drawing and color is the representation. Now, now, that's giving me a... Keep looking at it, darling.  The icing was at the door. What does that have to do with the painting? I had a significant thought somewhere. You're looking here.  Hello, Doctor. Did you have any luck with the mayor today? My report is embarrassingly negative. I'm afraid my persuasive powers have deserted me. Well, that's not good. The word's out, Doctor. There's been a big meeting called at the gym tonight. I don't like the thing for it might happen. That's all I have students to send on this town. Something's got to be done. Yes, you're right. Taxation without representation, we... Wait a minute. That's it, of course. The painting. The painting. What painting? What are you talking about, Jim? The possible solution. Doctor Hall, are you sure you heard what I said? Just to turn out to be a case of mob violence, Jim. You were elected persons of this student body because you have the qualities of a leader. Now, I want you to get down there to that gymnasium and be one. I have a couple of phone calls to make, but if what I suspect is true, there'll be no reason for a riot. That tax bill will never be passed. Well, if you say so, Doctor. I'm 99% certain. Now, get going and come back and report to me. Okay. Goodbye. I don't mind, but I don't. Heidi, what is this about? Taxation without representation. This can't be. Excuse me, darling. I just want to make this call. All right. Hello. Registrar's office. This is Doctor Hall. Yes. Yes, you can help me. I want to know the exact figures. Hello. Citizens' office, please. Hello. This is Doctor Hall of Ivy College. I'd like some information. Yes. I want to know the exact figures. Good afternoon, Mrs. Hall. Hi. Good morning. I have good news, Doctor Hall. Very good news. Splendid news. I'm very glad. The first is terrible tax bill, which came up before the city council today. It won't last, Doctor Hall, never. Due to my vigilance, my unsiring efforts, my keep interest in both the town of Ivy and Ivy College. And also, I presume to the suggestion I made to you over the phone. Yes, of course. Do also for your suggestion. Thank you, Mr. Daly. But as I was saying, due to my vigilance, the students of Ivy College will not be taxed. Ridiculous idea in the first place. And I'm surprised that Mayor Bacon, old schoolmaker of mine, couldn't. I mean, we don't need a city hall addition, Doctor Hall, and you cannot convince me that we do. Madam George, about William, you can't put over that dreadful tax bill of yours. Well, what happened, Mr. Wellman? What happened is that, sir, well, the mayor, uh, he called the tax bill. Oh, then it was passed by the city council. I am not the only member on it, Mr. Hall. It was enough that I got to the mayor. Yes, yes. Of course it was, Mr. Wellman, and I appreciate your effort. You've done a noble service to this school. It was nothing, Doctor Hall. What do I mean nothing? It was tremendous. Well, sir, goodbye. Now, please, William, tell me, tell me. Mr. Wellman. Very well, darling. You see, it was all due to... Get not, Mr. Wellman. Don't tell me that. I heard you phone the registrar's office. This is declared. And then, Mr. Wellman, that whatever was done, you done it. Now, what was done? Well, I found out that the enrollment of the College of Ivy was two-thirds larger than the voting population of the town of Ivy. Well, skip the statistic, darling. Well, I got a blathering on, as you remember, about representational art, which brought me back to the taxation of our students with our representation. Then I said to myself... Billy, you said. Billy, boy, I said... Aren't you just assuming they have no representation? So, I checked the 1885 law again and found that it definitely gave the students the right to vote. I spoke to Mr. Wellman, who showed his honor that was the majority of angry students. He was headed straight for impeachment. Well, good old magenta miasma. Now, we'd better keep the painting. No, no, no, darling. No, we will present it to the college. With a little brass plate on the bottom of it, saying, this minor work of art demonstrates that you may be unworthy, but you need not be framed. Oh. Very good. Now, where did you put the little brass plate? On the bottom of the frame. Which is the bottom? Darling, I'll let you decide. I solved my problem. This one's yours. Good night, everybody. Good night. This week at the same time, with the halls of Ivy starring Mr. and Mrs. Waddle's folks, Mr. Wellman is played by Herbert Butterfield, others are cast with Jim Bacchus and Bill Mim. Tonight's script was written by Cameron Blake and Don Cliff. The music was composed and conducted by Henry Russell. The halls of Ivy were created by Don Quinn, directed by Matt Wolfe, and presented transcribes of the Joseph Swift Brewing Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who invites you to enjoy the Pulitzer Prize Playhouse on television on Friday night. 10 o'clock for this week. Oh, we love the halls that surround us.


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Apologize for that. I got hit with that like five minutes before church. I just want to remind you that the Bible is very clear that small children that die go to heaven. Alright, keep your place in Proverbs chapter 22. Now I'm going to scream at you on how to raise your kids after all that. Alright, Proverbs chapter 22. David said, he shall not come to me, I shall go to him. Alright, so we're in the Seasons of Life sermon series. You've learned about the single life, we talked about the single life. We talked about the married life. This morning we're going to talk about you've gotten married and now you have small children in your house. I guess I have to ask you first off, do you believe the Bible this morning? When it tells you something that is contrary to how you feel or what you feel you should do, are you going to listen to the Bible in your life? Is what it boils down to? Will you listen? So you've got small children, we're talking about raising small children. So let me ask you this, what are your goals with your children? Have you thought about that? If you have one or two or more small children, what are your goals with them? What are your goals for those children's lives? Have you spent time before those children were born or now that they are with you to think about what those goals are? I used to work with a guy, I worked at a power plant many years ago and this power plant provided the electricity for almost the entire state of Minnesota. This one power plant. And this one man was in charge of every two years this plant would need maintenance and it would get shut down for 30 days. So this plant that was super important and provided so much energy was shut down for 30 days and this one man, it was his job to manage all that work and to plan all that work. And he's one of the better leaders that I've ever worked for in my life and one thing that he would do is before, months before this shutdown happened we would all be just forced to sit in these meetings and just go over the plan again and again and again.  But this guy, we would go over this plan so much that by the time the actual shutdown happened everyone knew it like the back of their hand. They would just execute. And nothing ever went wrong because, and the guy would always say this, he'd always say you plan your work and you work your plan. He would say that over and over and over to where we're just like, oh, another meeting. He said it again, but you know, it worked. So he had very clear goals and that's a, you know, that's a secular example but if I knocked on your door, we knock on a lot of people's doors, right? If I knocked on your door and said, what are your goals for your children? What, what would you tell me? Would you have an answer for me? What would you tell me? This is what I'm asking you this morning.  Okay, my goal is basically boiled down to basically three things. All right. The first goal that I have for my children in their lives is that they fear the Lord and serve Him with their lives. That's, that's the first thing. You could really say that that is that they fear and love the Lord. Because I want them to fear the Lord and if they serve Him with their lives, that means that they're keeping the commandments and they're doing what God's asked them to do. So that my children fear and love the Lord is my first goal for my children. My second, my second goal is that they grow up to love their parents, their spouses, and their siblings. That's my second goal for my children. And my third goal is that they will choose spouses that have the same first two goals, basically. I mean that seems pretty simple, right? Look, the way, the way of this world, I mean you think about the things that we've talked about since this church started. The way of this world is a huge random number generator as far as how, how the world wants you to raise your children. I mean it's just random.  And number two, they're sending them off to all these institutions like day care centers, like public schools, like colleges.  And, you know, it's just, it's just a random situation.  I mean it's not hard to understand how it's happening. You know, I've seen many situations in my life where when the parents die, the children just have nothing to do with each other at that point. Because they've all grown apart. They've all grown apart, they've married different people. They're raising their children in different ways. I mean it makes sense, right, that it's just a random situation out in the world. There's no goals. It's just random what they'll fall into. Everything's random. The school's teaching them all these random different things that have nothing to do with the Bible that are opposite from the Bible. It's random who they marry. It's random how they decide to what philosophy they choose to raise their children. So what makes, I mean, why would you hang out with somebody who has nothing in common with you, right? So I mean that's why the Bible says in Proverbs 17-17, a friend loved it at all times and a brother is born for adversity. That's what it means.  And many times by the way, these sibling rivalries where siblings grow apart, a lot of times there's resentment from childhood as well. So these are all things to think about. So I don't want, look, I don't want it left up to randomness for my family. I want to control the situation. I want to do exactly what the Bible says that I'm supposed to do when I'm raising my kids. And you know, I'm doing it in an imperfect way like everyone else is. But the Bible gives us this framework. And here's the thing, if you do decide to do this, everything and almost everyone will be against you. So it's going to take some fortitude. Look down at Proverbs 22 if you kept your place there. Proverbs 22 in verse number six, the Bible says, Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. So the way he should go, these are the goals that you set for your child. The way he should go, your goals are the way he or she should go. And those goals should be based on the Bible. And when he is old the Bible says he will not depart from it. Left to themselves, children will go the wrong way. That's the bottom line. So you have to look at this small children situation as an emergency situation. Because whether you like it or not, they're getting older every single day. They're getting older every single day. You've got to think of it as a car heading towards a cliff that needs to be steered away from the cliff. And not only do you have to figure out a plan to steer it away from the cliff, you need to know what direction to point the car once you get it steered away from the cliff. So there's two things. So this morning, all that just for introduction, this morning I just want to give you two simple tips on how to train your child in the way he should go according to the Bible. Two simple steps. The first step is this. You must define structures and boundaries. Turn to Exodus 20. We talked about the Ten Commandments a week or so ago. When you think about it, think of God's law. God's law is a set of structures and boundaries for us. You think of the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments is the superstructure, is the main frame of God's structure and boundaries for us in our lives. For us, we're not even talking about kids here. The rest of the Bible is the details. You think about the book of Proverbs. The book of Proverbs is the details. It's how to deal with your friends, how to deal with church members, how to deal with business, how to deal with your parents, how to deal with money, how to deal with everything.  It's all the details being filled in. So the Ten Commandments is structure and boundaries for us. Look at Exodus 20 in verse number 9. The Bible gives us some structure here. The Bible says in verse number 9, 6 days shall thou labor and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, and that shall not do any work. Thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger, that is within thy gates. That is structure right there. That's a detail of structure in your life that God is giving you. So the first thing that children need in their life is structure. They need structure. It will build confidence and help you train them properly. If you don't have structure, you can't train your child. It's your training framework. Think about it that way. The structure is a consistent life. Now, consistency. You're going to hear me say this word consistency again and again. Somebody at Men's Preaching Night did a sermon on consistency. You cannot train without consistency. That's the first side note I want to make before I really get into this. You will find, if you want to go read books on training, training anything, training athletically, training whatever, you will find that consistency is the most important part of training, is being consistent. Period. Think of the military. Think of people that have been in the military. They're forced to wake up at a certain time. They eat every single meal at a certain time. They do activities at a certain time. They go to bed at a certain time, grown adults in the military. This is, it's consistent again and again and again and again and again. They learn to shoot the same way again and again and again and again. It's consistent. It's training. That's how they are successfully training people in the military. It's a big part of training. Look, secular studies show that a structured family environment with a mom and dad, I mean it has drastic impacts on children's future lives. I mean secular studies admit this. Secular people. It's a big deal. So this means that small children in your life, they need structure. They need a set bedtime. They need a set time where they wake up every day. They need a set time where they eat breakfast, where they eat lunch, where they eat dinner. Activities during the week, it all needs to be structured. And they need to learn that structure if you want to be successful with your children. Look, this is the importance of the stay at home mom for young children. You know, you think that being a stay at home mom with little kids, there's a way to do it completely wrong where it's not that hard.  There's a way to do it wrong. But if you do it right, it's extremely difficult. Well, it's not necessarily difficult. It's just it takes time. It takes time to set up these structures to enforce these structures. You know, it takes time to get a kid used to going to bed at 8 o'clock or whatever that structure is. You know, it takes time to get that training going. So there needs to be a consistent routine for children and sticking to it is a lot of work. Laying it down is a lot of work. And it's super important. So why is it so important to have this structure? It's important because of this. Without a structure, there can be no boundaries. So the boundaries are built. Think of the structure of your children's lives as the framework that encases their life. And then when you need to come, now you need to train them in boundaries. It's all about structure and boundaries. You don't have boundaries without structure, right? So number two is this. You need to set boundaries that are consistent around that structured life, period. And then you need to consistently enforce this structure and boundaries. Turn back to Proverbs 22 if you've gotten away from there. And here's why. Look at Proverbs 22 in verse number 15. The Bible says this. It says, Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. We'll get to the second part of that verse in a minute. Go over to Proverbs 29 in verse number 15. So it says, Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child. Look at chapter 29 in verse number 15. The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself bring his mother to shame. So I want to focus in on this. Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child and left to themselves, they will go in the wrong direction. You have to understand today, this morning, that the default is failure. Do you understand what I'm saying?  It's not that it might work out or it might turn out right or it's some, you know, your role in the dice. The default is failure. Foolishness is already bound in their heart. You have to get it out. It has to be something that's removed. It's already there.  Seen it many times. Turn to Proverbs 13. So you see that there must be correction. There must be corrective action taken with small children. That's what I'm trying to get you to understand. The default is failure. Plain and simple. Proverbs 13.24 says this. He that spareeth his rod, hateeth his son. But he that loveth him, chasteneth him be times. Look, you see this rod keeps coming up in the Bible.  It's talking about enforcing these boundaries with physical spanking.  We are not for child abuse. What we are talking about is applying the board of education to the seat of knowledge, basically. We're talking about spanking your children on the place where God gave you to spank him.  So please understand what I'm saying. I'm talking about spanking your children here. And that's what the Bible is talking about. The Bible is talking about physically enforcing these boundaries that you put on your children. Now, Proverbs 23. Go to Proverbs 23 verse 13. That's pretty strong language where it says, He that spareth his rod, hateeth his son. Isn't that strong language? Doesn't that seem extreme?   I am old enough in my life to have seen dozens of times the results of people that do not properly discipline their children. Dozens of times. And you know what?  Because that child's life is ruined. I'm old enough to where I can see these children who are now 18, 19, 20 years old, 25 years old. That's how old I am. But they've ruined their children's lives because they did not raise them properly according to what the Bible said. Proverbs 23, 13. Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.  Whoa! More extreme language. Deliver his soul from hell? Yes. Because your child's salvation is directly related to how you discipline them. Period. What I'm saying is if you don't discipline your child properly, there's a chance that they might not get saved. Did you hear what I said at the beginning of the sermon where I said everyone is against you? Everyone's against you. In this world. Everyone in this world is against your child sitting in a Bible preaching church being homeschooled, learning what the Bible says and not what the world is teaching them. Everyone's against it. Do you know how many saved people that are currently living for the Lord right now that have unsaved children that I know?  There's a lot of them.  Nope. Think about your children's children who have passed that. You're passing this on. You're passing this on. So let's talk about spanking. Let's talk about spanking your kids. Here's the main reason. I could just throw my notes away right now. Here's the main reason people don't spank their kids in my experience because I don't like it. I don't want to because I love my child. And I don't... But what I'm telling you today is do you believe the Bible? Because what is love? You're all brainwashed on what you think love is in this world. I'm telling you right now. Because love is doing what the Bible says. Love is not being this person who's driven by their emotions and someone who can look at the Bible and have enough faith that that's what God told you to do and it's for good reason. It's for good reason. We're sitting after David last week. We're sitting after church and brother David says a couple guys are sitting around and brother David says I really don't like spanking my son. And I'm sitting there thinking to myself but he spanks him all the time. I know he does. I've seen that kid dragged out of here several times to get spanked. But you know what? He's also a two-and-a-half-year-old kid that I see sitting in church constantly. That's spanking my son. Well, thank you for being a man a godly man that will shut down your own emotions and just listen to what the Bible says. Your children will thank you for that one day for actually being a man and not letting your emotions rule you. I don't like it either. You think I come home from work and Heidi tells me that Garrett needs to be spanked. He was throwing water balloons at the dog. He was at work and you think I want to go home and spank my kids? No, but I do it because I love them. If I didn't do it, I hate them. And I'll sit there and I don't think that he's evil because he was throwing water balloons at the dog but it's something that needs to be stopped and needs to end. So it ends. Look, I've been humbled.  I've been humbled by my kids more than I can even count.  It was mine. But I dealt with it swiftly and according to the way the Bible tells me to deal with it. And that's what you have to do.  I want to go home and I want to play Airsoft. I want to go home and do fun things. But we're going to get the water balloon dog thing taken care of first and then we will go do those fun things. Okay? So that's the first thing. You don't want to. Because it goes against, you know, this emoji.  But you have to. It's serious business, folks. I've seen it end in complete disaster. You have to do it. Other common excuses. Let's just go through some because I've got a lot of them. I've heard them over the years. Spanking doesn't work for my child. That's a good one. If I had a nickel for every time I heard that, I'd be a billionaire right now. If spanking doesn't work for your child, here's the thing. Your child's not special. You are not doing it right. It works. The Bible says it works. So it works. If you're spanking your child and they don't care, you know, you can't spank them on the outside of the diaper and swat them. It needs to be something that is deliberate and done in, you know, you look at the women at Verity Baptist Church if you've ever visited there.  I'm not kidding. They walk into church and they've got a person, they've got a stick hanging out of their purse like this and they're not messing around. And they use that stick every single day. So they know how to spank their kids at that church. So if you're spanking your kids and it's not having any effect, you are not doing it right. You need to talk to somebody and ask, how should I spank my kids? And someone in this church will show you. Will tell you. Not show you. Okay? Number two, excuses. And this is really dangerous. So please listen up if you're one of these people. They're sick. They're tired. They're hungry. They're bored. This is my favorite one.  I heard that one a lot as well.  That's why I have to spank him all the time. What are you supposed to say to that?  How will they ever come to that point in their life where they're like, oh, I need salvation? It's a big deal. Don't make excuses for your kids. I always default to guilty with my kids. If somebody ever comes to me, there's not even a trial. It's just guilty. And I think I've spanked maybe once or maybe twice in error. But other than that, and I don't think they're too messed up about it, to be honest. Other than that, I don't make excuses for my kids.  That's how it should be.  Because by the point, especially, we don't really have a culture here where people tattle on other people's kids. If somebody actually comes to you about your child, it's probably something serious, especially in this church. And we don't want to have that culture where everyone's ratting out everybody else's kids either. That's not the culture that we want here. All right. Number three. We just don't believe in spanking. Well, that's an easy one. You just don't believe the Bible. Period. All right. So let's look at some application here. Let's look at some application. So you set the structure in their life and you build boundaries around that structure. And then this is how it works, folks. This is why your life is going to get easier today. You just set the structure. You build those boundaries. You deviate. They get spanked. That's it. That's it. It's that simple. I actually made a graph for you. I have a graph. This is how my spanking curve graph I made for you this morning. This is how your child's life should look right here. Can everyone see that?  So each kid's life will be a little bit different, but basically the amount of spankings that they get should follow that type of pattern. I believe this here is about 10 to 12 years old down here at the bottom, okay? Because look, if you don't have control of your kids, we need to see it again. When they're toddlers, basically from two to three to four years old, they should be getting spanked constantly. It's normal. You're teaching them to stay within those boundaries. That's the way it should go. They should be getting spanked all the time. You say that's mean. No, it's loving. You're setting those boundaries up for them. And it must be the way it's going. Because do you think that I'm putting my 18-year-old across my knee? No, you've got to fix these problems right away. You need to lay those tracks early in their life, okay? Turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 14.  I'll just give you examples of the boundaries in this church that I help enforce those boundaries. I don't have a lot of rules for kids in this church. We haven't made a lot of rules for kids in this church. We're a small church. There's not too many serious things that have been going on here. So there's not that many rules. But look at 1 Corinthians 14 and verse 40. The Bible says this, let all things be done decently and in order. Talking about the fellowship of the believers. As this church grows, there's probably going to be more rules as far as kids' behavior in this church. As the church grows, as we have more people walking around here, as there's maybe older ladies walking around. But look, we have some simple rules here. Don't touch the blinds is a simple rule, right? This is a super easy one. You should use this one to get these boundaries set right now. It's easy. You don't have to follow your kids around and be like, whoa, whoa, whoa. You know, it doesn't have to be like that. What you do is sit down, fellowship, keep an eye on your kids. They touch the blinds, spanked. It's easy. Within two days, it'll be done. They'll never touch the blinds again. It's really simple. I mean the worst one we had, one of our kids was doing something, I can't remember, it was something simple. It wasn't something like, these are simple boundaries, right? These aren't things where you're like, they touch the blinds. Is he going to be a reprobate? No, it's simple things. They just need to know the boundaries. My wife was having a problem with one of the kids leaving a door open. And it was just constant. She was constantly dealing with it years ago. And she's finally just like, I'm just solving this. And she spanked that kid like six times in one day. No more problems with the door. Boundaries, that's it. The blinds is an easy one. The stage, easy one. Go on the stage, spanked, done. Then just relax and fellowship. I mean, here's the thing. Your kids are going to be happier too.  They're constantly screaming. They're constantly like upset about something. I mean, it's crazy. I mean, I remember years ago we were watching some kids being raised that we were always around. You know, they were relatives of ours. And I'm just like, why are they doing it that way? Their kids are miserable.  It's crazy. So, just simple boundaries. I mean, we don't have that many boundaries here, but use those as, you know, as training. Now, the boundaries in your home, you decide.  But you've got to decide. Because what's the big thing you have to do? You have to be consistent. I mean, it's not fair for you to change the rules on a two-year-old every other day.  You know, you just need to set those boundaries, folks, and be consistent. Look, few things, just so you know, few things are more important to me than the kids enjoying themselves in this church. Okay, and that's why we don't have that many boundaries here. But use those two little simple boundaries as training tools. It's a perfect way to do it. But look, aside from those two rules, here's another good way to do it. When you see yourselves, when you see a bunch of kids playing games, or when you see the normal social environment going on, and you have one kid who's just outside that environment, he's either wrecking the game, or he's punching kids or hitting kids or tackling kids or whatever, that's outside the normal environment. Take care of that. That's a boundary that you should set, okay? That's a boundary. Now look, these are simple boundaries. In our family, we've had major boundaries as well. My wife and I have set up major boundaries that we consider like, I mean, not throwing water balloons at the dog type stuff, okay? I just want to give you a few of those. You don't have to take these, but I would advise that you do, because it's biblical, all right? Look, major boundaries that we have used is this. When these lines are crossed, the way I put it to my wife is, if these lines are crossed with our children, I bring the world down over their ears big time. I come down on them hard so they know that something serious has just happened, okay? Now here's some major boundaries. Turn to first Samuel III. The first major boundary that we have always set in our family is this. It's lying. It's when your children lie to you. And this will start at a very young age, lying. And if you don't stomp it out, it will become a big problem. Because here's the thing, folks, it is really easy to tell when a five-year-old is lying to you. It is not so easy to tell when a 15-year-old is lying to you, especially if they've been lying to you for 10 years at that point. So lying is something that we have taken very seriously always in my family.  So in 1 Samuel 318, basically this is where God was calling Samuel. Samuel was working for Eli. Eli had these wicked sons, okay?  And then Eli, you know, or Samuel, the Lord told little Samuel, he was a young child, the Bible says. And the Lord told him that basically he was going to bring down and judge the house of Eli. So imagine this situation. You have this young child who is told by God that basically his boss or his mentor or his father figure is going to be basically destroyed by God. His house is going to be judged by God. Don't you think that there's a pretty strong temptation there for Samuel to not tell the truth when Eli asked him what the Lord said to you? Because Eli knew that God told him something.  Look at verse 18. And Samuel told him every wit and hid nothing from him. And he said, it is the Lord. And this is, Eli said, it is the Lord. Let him do what seemeth good. This shows you the character of Samuel that he did not lie even as a young child to Eli. When there was a lot of, you know, incentive for him probably in his young mind to lie and not tell the whole truth at that point.   Because if they lie about small things to you and you either decide not to punish that it will get worse and worse and worse. And you do not want to have a teenager living under your roof that is constantly thinking that they can lie to you. That will be disaster for you and for them. The second one is this. Back talk or disrespecting your parents. This is the same, this is treated with the same severity in our house as lying. This will be a problem that is literally unsolvable if you let it go. Unsolvable. It could quite possibly ruin your child's entire life if you allow this to go. What am I talking about? It starts with temper tantrums. Temper tantrum. This is how it was dealt with in our house. Temper tantrum over anything? Spanked. They won't stop the temper tantrum. Spanked again. It all begins with temper tantrums. It begins with telling your parents, No! Go do that. No! Whoa, you better, my kids said that to me one time. Because you better see red and take care of that issue right away if your kids start defying you and showing you disrespect. Because that will turn into something that is unfixable in their life. And if you don't fix it, you hate them. Do you understand what the Bible is saying? It says you hate them. It leads to eye rolls. Outright disrespect. I mean, think about it. I've met adults who are 30 years old who I can tell have never had a parental figure in their life who they have had to respect. They can't hold a job. They get kicked out of churches. Their life is ruined. If I hated them, that's what I would wish for their life. You see?  Here's another one that we've never allowed and that we consider a major boundary in our home. And that is this. It's physical violence. Physical violence, especially towards their siblings. Pushing, hitting, kicking, et cetera. Basically anything that could be considered assault by an adult. And I won't put up with it here either. I've not seen it here, but I won't put up with it here either. We will not have kids come to this church that are worried about getting knocked down or pushed around or whatever. It won't happen here. I promise you that. I will step in in those types of situations. It's not cute. You know what? This, I have also seen 60, 70-year-old adults who still hold resentment for how their brothers treated them when they were little kids. Think about that.  They would do it one time in my house. And that's it. It was a big deal. A big deal.  That they have good relationship with their siblings, right? Look, those are some major lines that we've always held in our house. Let's look at some serious, you know, you say, I don't know if I can do this. I don't know if I want to. Let's look at some implications of what will happen if you don't believe the Bible and you don't do this. So the first series of implications is this, they will learn to not respect authority in their life. And that's that kid that I told you about. You know, children who don't learn boundaries at a young age will not have boundaries as adults. And you know, it's possible that the federal government could give them those boundaries. You know, unfortunately, I've seen that one too. Yeah, it's a really sad case. Look, it'll cause problems in their marriage, with their jobs, with their church, you know, life in general. And ultimately, they could end up in prison. Turn to 1 Samuel chapter 2. You have to teach your kids to respect the authority in their life. I can tell right away a kid also that doesn't get disciplined.  And they don't even look at me as another adult, as not their parent. If your children don't have any respect for you, they're sure not going to have any respect for any other adult either. So that's very obvious with kids.  Because it's very obvious.  It's crazy. While you're turning to 1 Samuel 2, let me read you Hebrews 13-7. Obey them that have the rule over you. And submit yourselves for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account that they might do it with joy and not with grief. For that is unprofitable for you.   That's what Proverbs just says that again and again and again is a child who just isn't disciplined and is not going the right way. It would just be a shame unto their mothers. Did you turn to 1 Samuel 2? Here's the second point. They will learn to not fear the Lord. If they don't fear you, well-disciplined children will what will they end up doing sooner than other kids? They will end up sitting in church sooner than other kids. They will learn the Word of God faster.  They're eventually going to start asking their parents, hey, mom, dad, am I going to heaven? I go out soul-winning with you and we talk to all these people about going to heaven and am I going to go? Because I'm doing bad things according to the Bible and all this type of stuff. And all of a sudden, that's what leads to their salvation that they're trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ.  You know, the mother-baby room, if the mother-baby room is treated like a play room, why would a kid ever want to sit in church? I mean, just think about that. It was just a place where they get to go. I mean, when my kids left church, they left church to get spanked from the very beginning, all three of them. I mean, when they were getting taken out of church, it was never for a good reason. It was always to get spanked. You know, we got to think about, you know, when I was, you ushers now are kind of doing the same rotation, but when I would sit security at Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, it's really funny because I would see the kids that were getting dragged out to get spanked all the time. And the funny thing is, I always hated to see, I didn't hate to see it, but I was always like, oh man, because it was always the nicest kids getting dragged out to get spanked all the time. And isn't that funny? It wasn't a coincidence because the nicest kids are the nicest kids because they're getting spanked all the time. That's why. So look, we have to remember that, you know, disciplining our children and, you know, using the mother-baby room properly, you know, that's a culture that we need to have here because there's going to be visitors that come into this church. There's going to be visitors that come into this church and, you know, want to, you know, have a small child and want to watch the service and not have, you know, a circus going on in there. You know what I mean? So let's keep that in mind as well. It's not fair to mothers who want to listen to the preaching, like Pastor brought up. So in conclusion, I just want to say this, look, with the small kids, you're laying, you know, think about it this way. You're laying the train tracks right now. You're laying the tracks. You're laying those tracks down. When those kids get older, the corrections that you're able to make are going to get smaller. Does that make sense? The big corrections need to happen now. Look down at 1 Samuel 2. The methods are different in dealing with teenagers than they are with small children. We're going to talk about that next week. The corrections are different. Look at 1 Samuel 2 in verse number 24. Eli has heard of all the horrible things that his sons are doing.  And in verse number 24, the Bible reads, Name my sons, for it is no good report that I hear. You make the Lord's people to transgress. They're doing all sorts of wicked things. In verse number 25, the Bible says, If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him. But if any man sin against the Lord, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father because the Lord would slay them. Look, it was too late for Eli to correct this. You have to understand that if you have small children, there is a time clock running. You only have a certain amount of time to get them on the right tracks, to lay those train tracks down. So once again, what are the goals? Our goals are that our children fear the Lord and serve him with their lives. That's number one. Number two, that the children grow up. There are children grow up to love their parents, spouses, and their siblings. Number three, that they choose spouses that will have these first same two goals.  It's that simple. And if they do end up saved anyway, just think of the last verse, verse number 25, of 2 Samuel 2. If they end up saved because you're in a Bible-preaching church, how will they fear and respect the discipline of God when they never feared and respected yours? I mean, it's a good model. It's a good model. You're looking at, like I said, you're looking at an imperfect parent this morning. I've not done everything right, and I don't claim to say that I've always done anything right. But this is such an important sermon, and I hope you all listen to me this morning. You have to listen to the Bible here. Okay? And men, this, you've got to set these structures and boundaries in your home. Okay? You've got to set these structures and boundaries, and then you have to enforce them. You have to enforce them.  Tell us what you really think. I think that there's a possibility that my wife would say that I was too hard on our kids. I think it's possible. But here's the thing, guys. No, I'm dead serious. Listen to me. Women are ruled by their emotions more than men are. You are needed in this situation. You are needed here. So, that's why I was so happy to hear Brother David say what he said a week ago. Because, you know, all I see is over and over again is these feminized pansies in our society today who are just completely ruled by their emotions. Your children need you to actually be a man. That's what they need. They need you to be a man, and when a child needs to be disciplined, when there's a serious problem that needs to be corrected and your wife might have a more sympathetic heart, you need to look at that situation logically, you need to look at what the Bible says, and you need to take some leadership and make sure that that enforcement happens.  It's about being a man. That's why God gave children a mother and a father. So men, you are needed here. So next week we'll look at raising older children. Let me just leave you with this. You know, an interesting point in Proverbs 22. You know, the Bible said if a child the way he should go and when he's old, he will not depart from it. In verse number one, of 1 Samuel 2, it's said about Hothni and Phineas, they knew not the Lord. And in turn, they hearkened not unto the voice of their Father. You see how those two things tie together? So Proverbs 22.6 says they will not depart from it. If you teach them the way that they should go, which is the way of the Bible, it says when they're old, if you train them properly, when they're old, they won't depart from it. Or the opposite of being Hothni and Phineas, they knew not the Lord, and they hearkened not unto the voice of their Father. They're reprobates. God killed them. They're sons of Belial, the Bible said. God killed them. You know, the last part of verse 25 it says because God should kill them. He'd already decided he was going to kill them for what they did. So it's the exact opposite with Hothni and Phineas.  That's the bottom line. It's a big deal. It's a far heads and pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for today. We thank you for the Bible. Lord, we thank you for all these practical tips that you've given us on how to raise children. Lord, we ask that you just give us the faith to just do what the Bible says no matter what our emotions or what the world or what anyone around us tells us to do. Lord, we know that your way is right. We love our children. We want to protect them from all these influences that are out there trying to drag them down. We want to get this foolishness out of their heart, Lord. And you've given us the directions to do it. Just give us the faith to follow through. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.


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It's in a week I think or almost a week depending on when you watch this video. So to be honest, I'm getting a little hype right now I'm getting pretty high, but I can't wait for it and Let me know First of all right now, I want you guys to comment down below. Who do you think it's gonna win the All-Star MVP? Who do you reckon is gonna win the slam dunk competition? And who do you think is gonna win the three-point competition? Not only that Who do you think is gonna win out of the for the rookies and sophomores? There's you know world vs. USA team. I'm going for the world team because you know, I'm from Australia I want Australia to you know represent some plays. I don't think we look I don't think we even have anyone do we? Goddamn, I don't think we even have anyone out of Australia, but in the next few years we will we're gonna have Ben Simmons and Thumb maker Which is pretty cool. So, uh, yeah, I hope you guys Are excited for the All-Star weekend because I definitely am so yeah coming down below and while you're at it It'd be awesome if you guys could leave a like on the video That would be so amazing because it shares this video around and means, you know I can grow my channel and it just shows the support man it shows the support I try to edit and upload videos every day for you guys and Yeah in return it'd be awesome if you guys could leave a like but anyway, if you don't want either don't don't do it I get a pretty nice slam dunk right there come on Anthony throws it down. I get 10,000 fans as well That's pretty good right there tomato Rosen hits the mid-range shot and the Raptor suddenly have the lead But look at me. I get him right back.  I'm it wasn't even a threat was the mid-range, but still that was cool right there I just I just made the rose and jump and I knocked down that mid-range shot but we were down five points going into the second half of this game and If if I'm playing well right now, so I'm playing pretty well. I'm not gonna lie get a lucky roll right here and I've dropped 18 and 9 and 4 assists already All right, it's already it's just the start of the second half and I have a pretty nice stat line To be honest if I drop like 40 points and we lose I'ma I'ma ask for a trade. Okay. I'ma ask for a trade This man right here. He fouls me. That was a flagrant as well. So, uh, I don't know I don't know what you were doing valentunas. That was a that was a dog move right there He just grabbed me across the face and slammed me to the ground. So Mel is at the life of two I'm taking my time and I'm knocking them down right here 62 to 69 make it 63 to 69 if we can hit this free throw I mean if I make this free throw 25 points of 12 rebounds with five assists. That's a pretty solid stat line and You know, we still got some we still got the last quarter to play. I feed Galaniah right here He passes it right back to me.  It's a ten point game right now Tyler Johnson heat player What the hell get down in my house mellow just he just he just sent that back right there That's pretty cool. Then I find Galaniah for the mid-range shop. So now it's 30 points 12 rebounds a couple of assists We we were playing you know pretty good basketball right now. We're sharing the rock. It's only a nine point game and It's a nine point game going into the last quarter. We can seriously win this game the way that I've been shooting in this game We can win this we can win this game. So I'm like alright. It's the last quarter I'ma play shocking defense right there I just let the martyrs and go all the way to the hoop easy lay it for him and then I'm going all the way I missed a lay-up of three to house my back He gets that to go and that's pretty much the only thing Kenneth did all game anyway 89 to 97 Make it 89 to 99 so 10 point lead to the Raptors one minute 40 left in this game Let's just let's just play well. All right. I know that you guys so oh my goodness get dunked on Valentinas whoa what a dunk right there by mellow tomorrow's it takes a terrible shot But he gets the lucky roll right there and Yeah, I'm just you know sizing him up right here. I get him with a quick crossover.  Whoo. That was a beastly and one right there. I'm shaking hands with Kenneth I'm like you know what I gotta make this free throw right here if I make this free throw We're looking good excellent release and it's only a seven point game. We can actually win this game I've dropped 37 14 Five assists. I know that you see those eight turnovers. I'm a turnover machine if I if look if I what if I go to a good team I promise you turnovers will be limited. I promise you that okay I will 100% promise you I will not get a lot of turnovers for some reason in Denver I'm getting a lot of turnovers, but look how clutch. I am right there hitting that three It's only a four point game now. All we have to do is get a quick foul Nobody was failing finally Moudier decides to fail. Kylery misses his first free throw So I'm thinking that we have a chance right here. We have a chance He does make the second free throw and now I'm like, you know feeding the rock unfortunately feeds me too late So I find a man to Moudier right back and the shock lock just went out and we lost so This is actually the last game. I'm gonna play for the Denver Nuggets All right. Melo's had enough Camelo Anthony has had enough in Denver He can't take it anymore. He doesn't like losing, you know Melo's on pace to win the MVP I think in this series he averages, you know 28 points almost 30 points per game He averages double digit rebounds, but his teammates They suck. Okay.  I don't know what he's doing. He always misses shots So I want you guys to also comment down below Which team do you think I asked to trade for I'll give you a hint It's a team that has a hundred percent interest in me. So it's not the it's not the Thunder. It's not the Rockets It's not Miami. Who is it comment down below? Who is the team that I get traded to? I'm out leave a like subscribe leave a like on this video if you want to see the next episode Which is where you find out who I get traded to I'm out. Peace


Yes, hi guys. I'm Mattis Kretz. I work for Swisscom. I'm the head of cloud empowerment there. We are a small team of cloud experts helping our customers, internal and external customers in their journey to cloud-based engineering. And I'm Dormaine Dreowitz. I'm on the product marketing team at Pivotal. And this is the first time that I've been doing the cloud foundry in the enterprise track chair at CF Summit in Europe, but I've done it two times for North America. So we have some observations from kind of what we were able to look through in terms of the submissions that came in for this track. One thing that we talked about is kind of an important criteria for how we look at the submissions to build this is you know, really focusing on real end users with real experiences in the enterprise. And so while sometimes some of the submissions had really interesting sounding ideas about what they were going to show as being possible on cloud foundry, we favored real end users who would have not been talking about something that maybe it's just a science experiment. So Mathis, do you want to go through what we've got lined up for day one quickly? Yes, sure. So when we were Dormaine and I were preparing this track, we had the nice problem that we had a lot of submissions to choose from, which is as I said a nice problem to have because that shows us that our community in the enterprise is very much alive. Our stuff that we engineer every day in the cloud foundry community is being used to create value in the enterprise, which would be a very bad sign if it didn't happen, would be a very bad sign for us. But luckily that's not the case and we have a brilliant lineup for you prepared for today. We have contributions by Talents, which will be the starting point of this of this track. Then we have Talus Digital Factory and Pivotal. Then we have FISERF, then Wipro Energy and Pivotal. Then we have the Renault Nissan Mitsubishi Alliance together with Pivotal. We have the Fidelity International folks and we finish off with a contribution by Air France and KLM. So as you can see, we have a very interesting lineup planned for you today. Yeah, I think one way to think about day one is these are some of the stories that were submitted that seemed maybe a bit more broad and general about the adoption or how some of these different organizations have gotten started with the platform. But as we look to day two, we start to get into some more specific use cases and some interesting things that are happening inside a couple of specific organizations like Rabobank, Dativ, Reichspotterstadt, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, and Novotech, which is doing a lot of work within the German speaking regions. And then finally with Comic Relief, which is a UK-based charity that's been using Cloud Foundry for a number of years and continues to kind of push the boundaries. So they're adding the container service is going to come up in that panel. So I think, you know, getting to sort of today is sort of the warm up, you know, see kind of the general overview and tomorrow is kind of the master's level courses, if you will. But we both agreed as we were talking about this track that it's obviously the most important track in the whole conference.  No, don't leave. Okay, mine is too. Because of what Martha said, that this is all an indication of the the growing health of the community in terms of the end users that are really putting this to the test inside enterprises. And last year, I think there was maybe four or five different end user enterprises that were presenting at the conference. Like I said, I wasn't a track chair last year. But I was always keenly watching those. And so this year, the fact that we had, you know, more than enough to fill the entire track. So I think about 13 different talks. That's a pretty big jump. So over 100% growth in terms of the number of end users that are presenting here. And I think this doesn't even count. Arange, which is presenting in another track, as they've gotten even more into the just going straight into technical tracks. You know, we still consider them part of the most important track, of course, that being this one. So now, and it's kind of interesting also this, this next bit that we've observed as, as the evidence grows about use of Cloud Foundry in the enterprise. Exactly. So we've heard a very interesting talk about diversity in the keynotes. And again, here we observe a lot of cultural diversity. We have contributions from many different countries in Europe. This is obviously also a characteristic of the European summit. We get a lot more different countries contributing. We have people, local people, then we have people from France, the Netherlands, the UK, Germany. And probably we've forgotten some flags here as well. Yeah, maybe some folks who are on some of the panels or add some additional coverage across the globe. So this is exciting for me because, yeah, in the North American one, it's usually like two countries. So not as many flags. So that's always a disappointment. But I think with that, we'll hand it over to our first speaker. Thanks to the folks who are coming in. Welcome and enjoy the day. And we'll start off with Daniel Boston from Tallings, who's going to tell us about their journey from AWS to Cloud Foundry. Thank you very much.


Hi everyone, it's 4pm in an unusually snowy Edinburgh. This is the discussion backend team update for the last five weeks. I'm Sean McGiven and I'm the engineering manager for that team. This is a cool thing. In epics, you can now reorder issues. These work related to issues, but also issue boards in the sense that you can order the issues in an epic in whatever order you choose, probably priority. That's a nice feature that was shipped in GitLab 10.4. So thanks Yaka and Clement for working on that. The next slide was going to show a speed improvement on the dashboard. So we have basically figured out how to make the dashboard work when filtering by label. The problem is that we fixed the first problem and by making it query faster and removing another one that was completely useless, like the result was literally used nowhere. But then when we fixed that we found that we had another one that is almost useless but not quite. So it takes a little bit more effort to get rid of that. I think hopefully by the time we release 10.4.0, we will have this fixed. So yeah, thanks Felipe for working on that. It's very nearly there. It's just not quite. Similarly with search. Search is kind of a problem in general. So when I talk about search here I'm talking about global search so using the search box in the top right of the GitLab interface. We have elastic search available as an enterprise edition feature but we can use it on gitlab.com at the moment and it's quite a lot of engineering work to unblock that. In the meantime we need to make sure that the existing search works okay but it struggles because it's searching everything you can see. But on a large instance like gitlab.com everything you see includes hundreds of thousands of issues because there are lots of public projects with public issues like the gitlab community edition project for instance and everybody can see those issues. So we don't get to filter out a lot of the search results and it's problematic for query performance. We did improve the query performance here but only for certain inputs like it depends how many results are in your result set. So what we're doing now is limiting that to I think it was either a thousand or ten thousand. So if you have more than ten thousand issues we will just so that there are ten thousand plus issues in the results. We don't expect people are actually searching and paging through ten thousand results. In fact we know they aren't because it times out into the work. So Jan's been doing a great job on this. The issues linked in the title of this slide and you can see there's a whole bunch of attempted query improvements and query plans that we've run through initiating on trying to fix this again hopefully in the final 10.4 release this will be addressed. So both of these issues are like regionals like this close piece this close so we're almost done. The thing that's been challenging has been moving uploads to object storage. We wanted to get this done in 10.4. It's not going to be in 10.4, it's going to be 10.5. It's been challenging for a few reasons. The week before the freeze we thought we had 80% done and we've probably had over 80% left in terms of effort if not in terms of code changes. Michael has written up a great description of the schema of the way upload paths work. So sorry when I talk about uploads here I'm talking about like user avatars, group avatars, project avatars. Whenever you drag a file or paste a screenshot into a comment or an issue or a mode request that's an upload. So we're trying to enable those to be moved to object storage and it turns out that a lot of the code elsewhere assumes that it knows what part of that path is but not the rest of it and assumes that it can just ask a part of it when really it should ask for all of it. We also discovered while working on this that is not strictly related but we use these directories for temporary uploads in Workhorse I think that we have both temp upload and temp upload. I can't remember which is which but one is used for CI artifacts and one is used for LFS files and it's super confusing that we have both and there's that arbitrary difference between them. Basically what happened here was when we started working on this issue we just didn't realize how much this touched and how much complexity there was. We probably should have reached out to a couple of people who we know had expertise in certain areas of how these uploads were used. When we were scoping it out to get a better estimate sooner. So Mika has been doing a really great job on this. I think it's finally ready for review today and everything's passing so we're going to go forward from there. We've got some API improvements. We have APIs now for group issue boards, EPICs and EPIC issues going forward for portfolio management which involves EPICs and roadmaps and so on. We will try and keep the public API parity with every feature so that we don't have to think about this again. It's something we should do for every feature but sometimes we're not so great about it with portfolio management. We really want to make sure that that's there from the start for every feature. We have our OKRs which I'm not going to go through in too much detail. They're on the OKR page. The significant things are just as a high level we're looking to make sure that community contributions are under control. We want to make sure our bug backlog is under control. We want to make sure that important issues from different teams. We currently have different priority labels for security support and availability from the infrastructure team. All the essential issues from those are resolved. In future I think we will try and move to a single set of priority labels so we don't have this like three different lengths for three different teams as priorities. The other thing is we want to move to Rails 5. We're going to pick up work again on that in the 10.6 development cycle and we will see where we get. It is probable that we will need to adapt the existing MR to make it so that we can run the app in Rails 4 mode or in Rails 5 mode and then merge that and then work towards Rails 5 compatibility incrementally. We're also hiring. I think Eric's had this in a previous update. Basically the plan is to double the team size by hiring six developers over the course of 2018. I think hopefully we have one starting in the next couple of weeks so that's pretty stark to the ear. If you don't work at GitLab please tell your friends anyway but if you do work at GitLab and you qualify for a referral bonus you can get a referral bonus by referring someone who's hired so please do that. What's next on the agenda? Jan is going to be working more on portfolio management and Jaco will be responsible for reviewing that. You can see the features there. As you have mentioned in his update yesterday we're going to start working on batch commenting in MRs in this release but we are aiming to ship it in 10.6 because there are some front end blockers there at the moment. So shipping it in 10.5 isn't really realistic. Dif collapsing is something that's been a problem for a while. We have a bunch of different limits, hard limits, soft limits for both blob sizes and diff sizes and they feed into each other in weird ways and difficulties kind of confusing to explain to people but it's also kind of confusing to make better. This is something that I've been talking about with Victor who's the product manager for discussion and we've talked about it quite a lot. We haven't really come up with a great solution yet but we are talking about it and trying to think of a way to make this better. Sorry that was nine minutes so it's a bit long. I'm just going to stop sharing and see if there are any questions. Bob, you were so close with the LFS and attachments thing. Yeah, it's hard to know that. It doesn't look like there are any other questions. I'll give everybody 15 seconds probably otherwise. Remy's excited about batch commenting in MRs. Yeah, so am I. So I just do this manually at the moment so I just click a bunch of lines, start drafting a bunch of comments and then when I'm sort of done reading the diff, I go back up and click comment on all of them. So it would be nice to have that native in the application. Cool. Well, have a great day everybody and I'll see you on the team call.