We're in Matthew chapter 10. We're gonna be looking at verses 24 through 33 as we continue our verse by verse study here in the gospel of Matthew. And what we're looking at here in chapter 10 pertains to Jesus commissioning his disciples to go out. He's sending them out and he gave them some instructions as they're about to go out. As I've been mentioning to you as you've been with us, those of you who've been with us, he's giving instructions that pertain to what will take place in their present, but it also is what is called a panoramic view of the history of the church up to a second coming. And so he's giving to them marching orders, but also speaking to those in future generations. And so as we look at this, we're gonna continue seeing that the Lord is sending out his disciples and the things that they can expect as they go out into the world preaching the gospel. So beginning at verse 24, Matthew chapter 10, reading to verse 33. Jesus says, a disciple is not above his teacher nor a servant above his master. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher and a servant like his master. If they've called the master of the house of Elzebub, how much more will they call those of his household? And therefore do not fear them, for there's nothing covered that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known. Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light. What you hear in the air, preach on the house tops.  Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your father's will, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore your of more value than many sparrows. Therefore whoever confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my father who's in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my father who is in heaven. So we've been seeing that Jesus is preparing his disciples. They are being prepared for what has been referred to as the work of ministry. We've seen that he's given them spiritual power. He's given to them a mission field. He's given to them an encouragement to have proper motives. He's given them a message. He's given to them a methodology. He's been sending them out and he's preparing them to go out. And so as he's been preparing them to go out to do the work of ministry, he is also instructing them concerning the inevitable consequences of preaching his message. So what he's preparing them for is the inevitable persecution, the inevitable rejection that will result. We all know that not everyone thinks that the message of the gospel is to be received. And some of those who hear the message of the gospel, Jesus is saying, will reject it and sometimes will do so even with anger. So the rejection of the message of the gospel produces persecution of believers. When we read concerning the word persecute, we use that word often, what the word means is to drive away. When someone is persecuted they are driven away. It speaks of pursuing someone in a hostile manner to mistreat somebody or to trouble somebody. And so Jesus is saying that these people, that includes all of us in this room who are believers are going to suffer persecution. That is one of the promises that many of us in our gospel promise boxes that we have where you go for your verse of the day and you read it and you say, oh, you know, you're going to be the head and not the tail. Praise the Lord, oh, thank you, Jesus. Well, that's not one of those verses you want to pull out of your promise box. You shall be hated by all men for my name's sake. That's not one, you look at that and you say to yourself, that can't possibly be a promise for me. I must have taken my wife's promise of the day. I'll give it to her later on. Persecution isn't something that we necessarily desire, but the fact is the gospel message isn't always going to find receptive hearers. Some will respond to that message and some of you have experienced that with anger. In John chapter three, verses 19 and 20, Jesus said, this is the verdict. Light has come into the world, but men love darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light and will not come into light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. People don't necessarily want to hear the truth as a matter of fact in the Old Testament book of Amos chapter five, verse 10, it says they hate him who reproves in the gate. They abhor him who speaks the truth. And so people aren't always responsive to the truth. And very often what happens as they go out to proclaim the gospel is there are those who reject them. So Jesus made it clear that persecution was to be expected and believers are to be prepared for it. Now, the origin of persecution is spiritual because people are rejecting spiritual truth. You see today there are voices that continue to reject Christ and mock and insult believers. There's a well-known atheist, Alistair Crowley. And Alistair Crowley said one would go mad if one took the Bible seriously. But to take it seriously, one must be already mad. And so there's this antagonism for the Bible. There's an antagonism for Jesus Christ. There's an antagonism to those who have proclaimed this message of salvation through Christ. The origin of that antagonism is spiritual. Paul in 2 Corinthians four, verse four said it like this. He said, the God of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ who's the image of God. And that's a fact. Some of you have taken the word of God seriously and when you see that Jesus says take this and share it with others, you do that. Not everybody does. There are a lot of closet Christians, a lot of chameleon believers, try and blend in with their surroundings, don't wanna stand out as being odd or different, don't wanna be rejected by the world and thus they remain silent. But there are others who are willing to trust God as a word to take the word because you actually believe that what Jesus said is true and when Jesus later on says don't fear him who can kill the body and after that has no power.  If you're gonna fear anybody, fear him. We'll see that in just a moment but some people go out and proclaim the gospel. They receive rejection. Other people don't want to because they're more concerned for other things. And then there are those who as they are sharing begin to try and argue people into the kingdom of God and you have to understand you can't argue somebody into the kingdom. You cannot win an argument just through argumentation. You can't win them to Christ just by trying to persuade and argue them without the power of the Holy Spirit because it requires the power of the Holy Spirit to convict an unbeliever of sin, righteousness and judgment because they are spiritually blind. And so you've spoken, I've spoken to people where I've given them scripture and I've said this is what it says and they immediately will reject that because they have made up their mind that they're gonna believe something other than that. Well, it's a spiritual battle and they are spiritually blinded. So Jesus knew that his followers would be persecuted and because he knows that he prepares them for it. And he also made it very clear and we should say this quickly that believers are not to take it personally because the world in reality is not just rejecting us alone. The world in reality, Jesus said, is rejecting him.  If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.  If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.  But all these things they will do to you for my name's sake because they do not know him who sent me. And so the Lord is preparing them for rejection. As we saw last time, this persecution rejection will come from religion. It'll come from the government, from the family and ultimately from society in general. The thought of being persecuted for our faith is discomforting and even frightening. We read of the persecution that occurs worldwide, we want to avoid it. But that's not possible, especially if we are living for the Lord. 2 Timothy 312, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution. And so as we read through chapter 10 and as we look through the things that the Lord is preparing disciples for, we can be tempted to exempt ourselves, exclude ourselves from this teaching. But the fact is Jesus never presented being a disciple as an easy path. We're called to be like him. And he's the one who endured rejection and he's the one who endured pain. In 1 Peter 2, 20 and 21, it says, how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God. To this you were called because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps. So this passage contains a crucial teaching concerning being a disciple. And Jesus intends to give men insight into their task. Their task is to produce disciples. The production of disciples is what the church is intended to do into the future. I want you to notice something here in this passage. Jesus doesn't minimize nor does he reduce the demands of being his disciple. In doing so, he would more than likely have gotten many to profess faith in him. If you'd have given them the path of easy believism, there would have been a number of people doing that. They'd have followed him. But instead, he declares to them that following him actually is costly. You need to weigh the cost, count the cost. Christianity isn't an easy way of life. I had a guy I used to work with and we were speaking together and he knew I was a Christian. I had shared the gospel with them. This is before I was pastoring this church many years ago now. And I was speaking to him about the Lord and all. And I did so on occasion. His name was Gus and he and I would speak and I would share some things about the Lord and how he needed to come to faith in Christ. And then finally, one day at work, he said to me, well, yeah, you're a Christian, you chose the easy way. But Jesus never taught that being a Christian is the easy way. Jesus said it's a difficult way. In Matthew 16, verses 24 and 25, Jesus said to his disciples, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, follow me, for whoever desires to save his life will lose it. Whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. So he's calling his disciples to a complete commitment to himself. He is not calling and never has called people into a part-time walk with him. He never called simply for decisions. He called for complete discipleship, complete faith in him. So as we look at this, notice with me in verse 24, how he says, a disciple is not above his teacher nor a servant above his master. If I'm gonna be a disciple of Christ, there is the element of humility that is required. Jesus begins by reminding his disciples of the relationship with him as disciples. And he says, a disciple is not above his teacher. A learner or a pupil is not over or beyond or more than his teacher. A disciple, he is saying, is beneath his teacher, beneath the teacher in knowledge and beneath the teacher in experience. Now I realize, of course, that today we have Google geniuses who are able to be experts on pretty much anything that they desire to Google. And you have conversations with them every once in a while. Well they say, while I was reading this article, I saw this feed or whatever. And they've got all this information and now they are experts. They've never gone to school. They'd never studied in any depth, never read books about it, but they did read an article once. And so they are now people, they slept in that motel and they wake up very brilliant. That's kinda how it is today. If you're gonna be a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, it requires humility. It requires for us to understand who he is and who we are in comparison. That's really basic and it's very simple, but that's how it begins. You need to understand that you're beneath the teacher and knowledge and beneath the teacher and experience. What he's saying here is really simple, is you're not my teachers, I am yours. It's kinda like in a parental relationship when my children were younger, not necessarily small, they were old enough to understand the point I was making. It's kinda like in a parental relationship when my kids were in their teens and they were giving me a problem and we were having what we would call a conversation. Well in fact it wasn't a conversation, I'd be having a teaching moment with them if you would. And I would say to them something. And then if they began to speak back, I can still remember on occasions I would say, no, wait a minute, please don't be mistaken. I don't want you to make a mistake and they'd look at me and I'd say, I don't want you to make a mistake at this moment. We're not having a conversation. What we have is dad speaking and you listening. That's what we're having right now. We're not discussing this. You're not gonna present your point. You're the child, I'm the father. The father speaking, the child listens. And in a parental relationship, very often we would have those conversations when they did something and they're trying to make their point. I was respectful and I'd listened at certain times but there were times when they were just so flat out wrong that there's no conversation involved. And you need to understand your relationship with me and I can still remember when one of them was growing up and they got a little smart. I said, listen, you can speak perhaps to your children, your friends like that but you're not gonna speak to your father like that. You have to understand a relationship here. I am your father and I'm speaking to you as your father. I have experience that you don't have and you need to listen because as you listen, you can be instructed and that was the conversations we would have. My daughter Anna would tell you if you asked her. She said, I never spanked her in her life. I never spanked Anna one time in her life. She said, I wish, she told me this a while back, that I wish you would have, the lectures killed me. I said, I know, that's the reason I did that. And she was hard headed.  You're not walking out until the point is made.  I take an offering, go into a second service. I mean, it was wonderful. But do you understand what I'm trying to say? I'm not trying to be hard. What I'm trying to say is this, that the Lord says, look at, I'm dad, you're the child. Do you get it? If you get it, I can lead you. If you don't get it, you're gonna try and lead me. It ain't gonna work. Because you don't lead the Lord.  And if he did, well, we'll talk to you afterwards. He needs some help. The bottom line is, Jesus is simply saying, and guys, I'm telling you, this is so important. I don't know how to say it without saying it just like this. It is so important. I am the learner, he is the master. If you understand that, you can grow.  He's the master.  If we get that, we can be used by God. If we don't get that, we won't be. Because we're gonna tell him how to run his universe and that's why Jesus said, a servant is not above his master. A disciple is not above his teacher. The teacher is the one who instructs because he has knowledge and he has wisdom and experience. The learner goes to the teacher to learn.  That's what you're gonna do. You're gonna show them. Or you're the first year student in philosophy in your university and you're gonna walk in and you're gonna teach the PhD something about philosophy because you think once in a while and he needs to know one. You read two books and you like C.S. Lewis. So you're gonna teach him, right?  That's what happens. I spent a lot of years in college. Sadly, this is the product of it. I'm still ignorant.   That's how it works. And so it's real basic here, guys. A student is not above his teacher nor is a slave above the master. He's starting out with some very basic things. You are not my teachers, I am yours. You are not the master, I am. And I don't come to you for teaching and I don't come to you for direction. And Romans 11-34, the question is asked, who has known the mind of the Lord? Who has been his counselor? In Job 38, verses one through three, after Job has been questioning the Lord, the Lord begins to answer Job. And it says, the Lord answered Job out of the storm. He said, who is this that darkens my counsel with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man. I will question you and you shall answer me. And so it's the Lord who speaks. You see, in our day, the way that we receive instruction is when we read and we study through the word of God. When we read the Bible, we don't look for a new or original take on scripture. We rely on what God has handed down through faithful ministers. Second Timothy, chapter two, verse two says, the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others. And so we receive from the Lord through his word as we have received that which has been given to others. So we're being taught, we're pupils. He said a servant is not above his master. The word servant is the word doulos. It's a slave who has been devoted to another to the disregard of their own interest. And so he's making it clear that he's their master. They are his servants. In Luke chapter 17, verses seven through 10, Jesus said, suppose one of you had a servant plowing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to that servant when he comes in from the field, come along now and sit down to eat?  After that, you may eat and drink. Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? So you also, when you have done everything, you were told to do should say, we are unworthy servants, we have only done our duty. And so I am a pupil and I am also a servant if I am a disciple. There are two basic qualities of a disciple. One, teachability, two, servanthood. And so there's a purpose in this, verse 25. It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher and a servant like his master. So the purpose of a true disciple and servant of the Lord is to become like him. Now here's a question for you. What was Jesus like and what was his example that he left for us to follow? Now I'll give you a biblical answer of that in just a moment but I heard a preacher on TV say something that was so interesting I jotted it down. This is what this television preacher said. The Bible says that Jesus has left us an example that we should follow his steps. That's the reason why I drive a Rolls Royce. I'm following Jesus's steps. And so I bought one because I want to too. Just kidding. Now somebody's going down, are you guys, no I don't drive a Rolls, I drive a Bentley. Anyway, is that what he's talking about? Is that what he's talking about? I am telling you, hundreds of thousands if not in the millions listen to people say things like that and that's part of the reason people will say I don't want to be a Christian, listen to the wacky things they believe. What is a disciple? A disciple decides to follow a teacher. A disciple memorizes his words. A disciple learns the way of ministry that is taught to him by his teacher. He imitates his life as well as his character and then he goes on when he becomes a disciple himself to raise up their own disciples. So what is Jesus an example of? He says that we might be like our teacher, that we might be like our master. Well I already mentioned it, one of the examples of Christ is that he was one of sacrifice. First Peter 221 to this you were called because Christ suffered for you leaving you an example that you should follow in his steps. So one is sacrifice, two is service. In John 13 verses 14 and 15, now that I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. In the New Testament there are only two times that Jesus is ever specifically spoken of as being our example, one is sacrifice, the other is service. And so if we're gonna be walking in his footsteps, if we're gonna be like him, if we're gonna be like our master, he's saying you will do so when you sacrifice and when you serve. Now when that happens, the call to discipleship will also include a call to rejection. So be expecting that, that happens. You see when you sincerely follow the Lord, rejection is something you will experience. So don't be surprised when you are rejected.  Don't be surprised, be willing. You see in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus made it clear that persecution would also be verbal. Remember in Matthew 511 how he had said, blessed are you when they revile and persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake? Jesus was reviled and he was falsely spoken against. The Pharisees referred to Jesus as Beelzebub. Beelzebub is another way of speaking of the Lord of the Flies. This was to the Jews of the days of the Lord Jesus Christ, another name for Satan. And that was a price that he paid. That was part of the price he paid for loving people and telling them the truth. In Isaiah 53 verse three, he was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces, he was despised, we esteemed him not. Don't be surprised.  I'm not saying that either. I'm not trying to teach paranoia. What I'm trying to teach you is don't be surprised. Don't be surprised when your friends who are very close to you don't want to hang around with you anymore. Don't be surprised when relatives whom you love very much, a mom, a dad, brother or a sister, an aunt, an uncle, a cousin. When those who are very close to you begin to say things to you that are hurtful or odd. I had a friend, rather a cousin who was a friend. His name was Ray, my cousin Ray. I got saved and I shared the gospel with him and Ray spoke to me and said to me, I liked you when you were the other way. You're too serious now. I liked you when you were fun. Don't be surprised when people think of you differently once you get saved than they did before. Don't be surprised if somebody rejects you. Don't be surprised if they say things to you or say things about you. And don't be surprised if you're sharing some time and somebody might even get physical. Don't be surprised about that. Jesus said it's going to happen. They responded that way to him. They will respond that way to us. So what are we to do? Well, faith and courage are required of a disciple. Notice verse 26. It says, do not fear them. There's nothing covered that will not be revealed and hidden that will not be known. Abuse and criticism, even danger, is a constant companion to a follower of Christ. So they needed to be encouraged to be bold in the Lord, even as we need to be encouraged to be so also. You know, I've mentioned to this church before that as a young man when I started going to college, I began going to Bible college. I went to Biola, but I spent a year in Biola and then went to other universities. I spent time in different colleges, Cal State Fullerton, Cal Poly Pomona, other colleges, I think seven in total. And not all of those colleges were Christian. I spent time in secular school. I spent time in classes where they were not positive towards the gospel at all. I saw opportunity to share and I would take the opportunity and I would say something about the Lord. I was in a class one time, it was minority studies and there were 32 students in that class and the professor said he was going to give to us a word. Every one of you students one time will be given a word and I want you to speak in an impromptu way on that word. And so he would call you up any time, any given moment and he'd say okay, Bill, you're going to speak on strength. Oh, darling, you're going to be speaking about family. He would just give him a word and then you had to speak for a few minutes on that subject and I was seated there in a secular college. I still remember this, a young man.  I want you to speak on freedom. And I remember looking at him and saying to the class something like freedom. When you speak about freedom, I take a biblical perspective. The Bible says that every person is born with a sin nature and is in bondage to sin. The Bible says that those who are in bondage to sin will never have freedom until they give their hearts to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ said, I have come to set you free and it's the truth that sets you free. And so what every person in this room needs today is freedom from sin because Jesus Christ has come to set you free from your sin.   Yeah, I was 25 years old. But I knew what freedom is. It comes through faith in Christ. And you have to be willing. What you do is you just trust the Lord. It is the spirit of your father who speaks at that moment. You just yield yourself to him and say, Lord, I'll stand up for you. You gave me an opportunity and you set it up. You gave me the word freedom. That's something I know about because I've been in bondage to sin all my life. And now I've been set free by the blood of Christ. You see, that's all you need to do is trust the Lord.  And you need to just stand up in faith.  So do not fear them. He had told them that they would be like sheep in the midst of wolves. He said that you would be tried in counsel, scourged in Jewish courts.  You will be rejected by society. There will be complete rejection. There will be pain. Yet do not fear those who do that to you. It's interesting how he says, do not fear three times in this passage. He says it in verse 26, verse 28 and verse 31. So the fear of men ultimately stifles your witness for Christ. In Proverbs 29, 25, fear of men will prove to be a snare. Whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe. So he says, look it, if they call you names, if they mistreat you, do not fear them. Don't allow it to overwhelm you and silence you in your witness of Jesus Christ. It can be difficult to present Jesus when you're considered stupid, when you're considered foolish, when you're considered ignorant, when you're considered to be weird. The desire to be accepted is powerful. But don't allow it to overwhelm you. Don't allow that desire to be accepted to influence you to be quiet. Jesus was reviled and Jesus was rejected. It says in 1 Peter 2, 23, when he was reviled did not revile in return. When he suffered, he did not threaten. He committed himself to him, he judges righteously. You see verse 26 says there's nothing covered that will not be revealed, hidden that will not be known. In the end, the world's evil will be revealed for what it truly is. Some things done are regarded as charitable today, but sin can be covered through something that appears very good. There are some very ungodly people who support well-respected causes and charities. But ultimately, the veneer will be stripped away and the heart will be revealed. What is covered and what is hidden, one day will be revealed and will be known. Psalm 4421 says, shall not God search this out? He knows the secrets of the heart. As a Christian, our perspective needs to be eternal. Our motive should be to glorify him. The world system that rejects the reign of Christ isn't gonna last forever. It's passing away. We Christians need to see beyond the present. We need to look to the future and it's glorious in Christ. There's an example we find in scripture. His name is Moses. And in Hebrews 11, 25, and 26, it says Moses chose to be mistreated along with the people of God, rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. Moses looked ahead. He could have been potentially at least the next Pharaoh, the most powerful empire of his day. But he chose rather to be with the children of Israel in a wilderness than the rule in a palace. Because had he rejected God, his rule would have been short indeed. But his time with the Lord goes on forever. Remain faithful to the Lord, hold fast to him. Now here's something that I think is very practical in all of this, verse 27. Whatever I tell you in the dark, speak in the light, what you hear in the ear, preach on the housetops.  In this time of quietness, in this time of solitude, by his Holy Spirit, through his word, he instructs you. So when Jesus speaks concerning what you hear in the dark, the dark would be a metaphor for your quiet time with the Lord, your personal time with God. If you do not have personal time with the Lord, begin tomorrow to have it. Get up in the morning, spend time in prayer, open your Bible, read some scripture, meditate on it, think about it, and as you leave, consider it throughout the day. What did you share with me today? Let me tell you something, it's a guarantee. If you begin to make that a habit, you will find opportunities to share that with other people. You will find opportunities. Somebody will say something to you that will trigger what you were meditating on today. And as that happens, you'll say, you know, it's interesting how the Bible says this, I was just reading it today. And so Jesus said, what you hear in the darkness, in the ear, speak, and make it open, share with other people, whatever you hear in the ear. One commentator said during the New Testament times, rabbis often would teach the students to share by standing next to them, whispering in their ears. What the rabbi spoke, the student repeated, thus producing confidence within the student. So believers are not to be constantly silent, we're to be open, we're to be evangelistic. Listen, part of the reason that we're seeing here in the United States, the kinds of things that we're seeing is the church has been silent too long. We were called by God to be salt and light. We're supposed to be expressing the things he gives to us. And instead of obeying the Lord by sharing the gospel, we became silent. And so our voices have been muted while the enemy's voice has been amplified. And people don't know real Christians. You know, if you listen to and talk to somebody and all and ask them, what is a Christian? Very often their idea of a Christian is almost cartoonish because they really don't know that they know any. And they'll tell you that. And sometimes they come up with the weirdest things about what Christians are. Normally it's what Christians don't do or how useless they are because they really don't know any. And that's one of the reasons why it's important to not only share that you're a Christian, but to live as one before them. When I was a college student going to college classes and all, when I was given opportunity, the first time I would be given opportunity in the class, I would say my name is David because they'd have us introduce ourselves very often. I'd say I'm David, I'm a Christian, I love the Lord Jesus Christ. And I would make that statement immediately. That way I had something to live up to the rest of the class. I would have already made that statement. Now I'll live up to the statement. I didn't hide it under a basket. I was open. This is who I am. This is what I believe. This is what the Lord has taught me. And again, I was a new believer. I was two and a half years old, three years old in college classes in Christ. I didn't really know anything. I knew once I was lost, now I'm found. Once I was blind, now I see. Once I was deaf, now I can hear. I knew those things. But I didn't know the word very well yet. I was just learning. I began teaching the Bible for a reason. I wanted to actually learn what the word of God has to say. You ought to do the same kinds of things. Get up in the morning, read the word of God. When he whispers in your ear, then share with somebody else. When you meditate on it, when you pray about it. Listen, care about your family. Care about your neighbors. Care about the people you work with. Care about the fellow students. Care about their souls. My sister Madeline got saved when she was 16 years old. And I went into the military. I got out. She had graduated from high school and she and I were speaking on one occasion. She was now 18 years old. And as we were speaking together, she said to me something I've never forgotten. She said to me, she said, all those people that I went to high school with that I could have shared the love of Christ with. She said, I failed to do it David because I wanted to be accepted and I wanted to be cool. She says that I'll never see them again and I'll never have opportunity to share with them what Jesus could have done in their life. She says, I am so broken and so sad because I kept my mouth shut when I should have opened it. And so we need to open our mouth. And God will fill it with his wisdom if we're in the word of God. What he whispers to us in the dark and into our ear, share it with other people. He goes on and I'm gonna have to conclude. I should have, now I'll keep going. Verse 28.   Are not two sparrows sold for a copper coin? And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your father's will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore you are of more value than many sparrows. Therefore whoever confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my father who's in heaven. Whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my father who is in heaven.  This is the second time he says do not fear. He's saying listen you need to have eternity in view. Believers will be martyred. You should be aware that this is something that will happen. The knowledge that harm can experience, you can experience as only temporary should strengthen you. You see the fact is only God has ultimate control. Therefore he deserves our complete dedication. It's interesting how he chooses to use the word destroy. That word destroy means to put an end to.  It speaks of being to be perishing or to be lost. In 2 Thessalonians 1-7-9 it says God will provide rest for you who are being persecuted and also for us when the Lord Jesus appears from heaven.  They will be punished with everlasting destruction forever separated from the Lord and from his glorious power.  There is an eternity before you. Therefore live as if you really believe it. I've had people ask me in the past how is it that you as a young believer, brand new in Christ had the nerve to speak to your father and your mother the way that you did? Because I told them, I told my dad and all of you know the story but I told my dad, you're a good man.  And I said to him, daddy, I love you and I don't wanna go to heaven without you.  And I've shared that many times. My father's response was bowing his head but he said later on, he said, Dave, he said, you know what I felt when you said that? I said, no dad, what did you feel? He said, I felt like I wanted to get up and hit you. He said, you disrespected me in my own house.  And that was my dad, there's no doubt in my mind, you don't disrespect my father. But he said, but when you said you love me and you didn't wanna go to heaven without me, that touched my heart. One portion of context that maybe I don't say often enough or really ever, I never told my father I loved him. And my father never told me he loved me. I never said I loved you to my memory until the day I got saved. The day I got saved, December 27th, 1970, is the first time I remember in my life as beyond maybe three or four years old, maybe I said I love you, probably did. But you see, when I was about four years old, I went to give my dad a kiss good night and my dad put his hands out and put them on my chest and pushed me away. And my dad said, men don't kiss, men shake hands. My dad did not have affection towards us. My dad did not put his arm around me. My dad didn't say, son, I love you. My dad didn't show any affection. My father was not that way. He came from a different time, different cut of cloth. He came from the hard times, the depression era. That was my dad, World War II vet. Men don't show affection, men bump fists. We still do that to this day. Men don't hold, men don't cry, men don't feel, men don't do that, men are men. And that's how I was raised. And so I never told my dad I love you. My dad never said I love you to me, ever. That was not something men say to other men. You don't say that. You just show them. You work hard, you put food on the table, put shoes on their feet and clothes on their back and you remain faithful to their mother. That's how my dad showed me love. My dad never said I love you. And I never said it to him. As a matter of fact, I didn't love my father. As a matter of fact, I had gotten to hate him. I hated my father. Some of you don't know that, but that's a fact. I did not like my father. My father was mean. My father was quiet. My father just was not a nice man. So I didn't like him. I didn't want anything to do with him. I didn't show him any affection. My dad didn't say I love you to me until I was about almost 18 years old. And I had gotten in trouble and I was standing in the front yard and my dad was yelling at me about something. And as I was speaking to him, he said, you could have come and spoken to me. You could have told me what you needed help. And I looked at him and I said, how can I speak to you? How can I speak to you? I said, you and I together. I said, in the entire lifetime that we've had together, I have spoken to you maybe five times in my whole life. And now you're telling me that I can come and tell you and I've got a problem. You've got to be kidding. We had a blowout in the front yard. A blowout. You have got to be kidding. I'm going to come and tell you when I have a problem. You have got to be kidding me. And my dad cried and he grabbed me and wept on my shoulder and he said, son, I love you. And I was standing there and he's holding onto me and I'm thinking, let me go, leave me alone. I don't want you to touch me. That's how I was. That's how my life was. So I didn't say I love you. Are you kidding me? Why would I say I love you? I never did. Then I got saved. Then I came home. Then I said, mom, dad, Becky, Madeline, I love you. Praise the Lord. And that's why my mom got up and did a rosary for me. She thought I went crazy. That's a fact. That's why she did that. This kid's nuts. He's loaded on something. She told my dad, Frank, go check him. He's loaded on something. That's a fact. He said, nah, he just got religion. My dad told that to my mom. Nah, he got religion. And that leads you to three weeks later when I said, dad, I love you. He hadn't heard that. And that's why he says to me when you said I love you and you didn't want to go to heaven without me, that's why I gave my heart to Jesus Christ. I did not want my father to perish without Christ.  I wasn't afraid of my dad.  I loved him. When you love him, you tell him the truth. Now, my context is different than yours. In my house, we spoke our minds. My mama was real outspoken. She had no problem telling you what she was thinking. That was my mom. I take after my mom.  I can't. I'm just not made like that. I'm just not like that. I was with my mom in a shoe store. Guy disrespected her. Big old guy disrespected my mom. My mom turns to me. I was only about seven years old. She says, wait here. She goes into the back where the guy is and he's kneeling down and getting some shoes. She doesn't see me follow her in. And she looks at him with her arms folded and she says, listen, she said this to this guy. Listen, I have a husband who's very short, but he can jump real high. My mom said that to this guy. And if you ever speak to me like that, I'll go get him and I'll show you what I mean. That was my mom. So I was raised in a home like, hey.  That's why when I speak to you, I'll tell you because I was raised that way. So when I go and speak to my mom and my dad, hey, this is the truth. Daddy, I love you. And I don't wanna go to heaven without you.  You're gonna receive Christ as your lord and your savior right now. Cause this is the word of God and you need Jesus. That's how I've always been since I got saved. I wouldn't be any other way.  I didn't make that up. Jesus said it. And he says, if you want to be set free, you follow me. That's how it worked. By the way, that's not a popular message today, is it? You know, we have churches, I call them home on the range churches. I don't know if you guys ever remember the song home, home on the range, where never is heard a discouraging word. That's church. Oh, I don't wanna make you feel bad.  I do too, but I want you to walk out not burdened by your sin with a joy in your heart cause you're gonna be with Christ and he's blessing your life. He's forgiven you. And that's the gospel that he's given us.  They won't always receive it and they aren't gonna love you for it. Sometimes they'll even persecute you when you do it. But if you're gonna choose to fear anyone, don't choose the one who kills you alone and has no power after that. Choose to fear the one who has eternal judgment in his hand. If you choose to fear anyone, fear him. And then he goes on to tell us this.  He says to us in verse 31, do not fear therefore you are of more value than many sparrows, you have tremendous value. A sparrow is sold in the marketplace for a very cheap price, but God even knows when they hit the ground, you are of more value than that. Therefore whoever confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my father was in heaven. Whoever denies me before men, him I also will deny before my father was in heaven. Be willing to be openly identified with Jesus Christ. A false disciple will not be willing to openly admit their relationship because they are unwilling to pay the price. The Bible tells us in Romans 10, 9, and 10, if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes into righteousness. With the mouth confession is made into salvation. Whoever confesses me, whoever openly identifies with me, whoever lives a life in agreement with my teaching, that's what it means to confess. It doesn't mean just getting up and walking forward at an invitation. It means to live a life in agreement with Christ. In a nation that calls itself Christian, there are not that many in reality who are openly agreeing with Christ in his teachings. There are many who profess Christ, but there are not that many who agree with Christ.  If you confess me, I will confess you before my father. I will say this one is mine. But if you go through life, pretending to be one thing, well, God knows the secrets of the heart, those things will be exposed. So the bottom line is, when a person really knows the Lord, they go out and they live what Christ has taught. They spend time with them so that he might speak to them. Then they openly say that on rooftops, housetops. They're not afraid of people who disagree. They have the wisdom to know not to provoke them unnecessarily. But they share the gospel with other people. The good news, because they have their devotional time, they have their studies. They go to church, not just on a Sunday. They go and give an opportunity. They study the word of God. They get to know God's word. And then they share what God has given to them openly. It's not just having a bumper sticker. It's not just wearing a t-shirt that says some Christian slogan on it. It's not simply going to a church. It's not just listening to radio programs or having a Bible with your name in gold on it. It's not just wearing a cross. It's bearing a cross. And that cross is not just on my neck. That cross is burned into my heart. And it transformed the way that I live. Changed my values and gave me a willingness to stand up and be identified with Christ regardless of what people think or say. Because the only thing I want to hear one day will be well done, my good, my faithful servant. Now that's something every believer ought to desire.


Hey guys, welcome back to Kyle again. I'm Shannon and today I'm gonna be reviewing the 2015 Ghostbusters annual Very good story by Eric Burnham and Dan Schoening. I Look at this they Don't know how well you can see that you got Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters to World of the psychic Janine Haley Griffin just to show you the extents they went to Ray in his Ray's occult books type Clothing, you know, it's not a spitting image of the characters or of the actors anyway, but It's close enough to where It's just it's astonishing. It's almost like We're getting the animated series that we didn't get in the 90s With good with the real Ghostbusters They had to change the look and appearance of all the Ghostbusters so that they didn't have to pay the likeness rights and all that whereas with the way Dan Schoening is Doing the art on this on these guys It's You don't have the like this issues But it's not so far off to where they just look like completely different characters in this annual You have the Ghostbusters against the Sandman This isn't the Sandman that we all grew up with stories on where he'd bring people dreams and all that this is a Sandman where People who try to fight sleep who try to stay awake He comes in he puts them to sleep and then he steals their eyes and feeds them to his children You got the Ghostbusters recovering from The Ghostbusters get real story arc this takes place immediately after Ghostbusters gets real They're working on repairing the firehouse It's officially become More trouble than it's worth police detective who comes to the Ghostbusters for help because of these people waking up with their eyes completely gone skin Healed over them or whatever and they end up finding the Sandman They are all taken into the dream world where at first they don't realize they're in a dream Ray kind of puts two and two together when he discovers kind of a deja vu type thing and Then he goes to Peter Well first before he goes to Peter he come across someone who looks like one of the Blues Brothers You know I'm not a huge Blues Brothers fan. I think Dan Ackroyd's character was Elwood and I forget I forget the other one It's it's really great the bickering back and forth between the two he's kind of like Ray's spirit guide and in order to Go between dreams kicks right out of wind And then we pick up with Peter at Dana Barrett's apartment and this is when she's possessed by the gatekeeper and word-for-word it it goes up I Just whacked her up with about 300 cc's of Thorazine. She's gonna take a little nap now She says she's the gatekeeper. Does that make any sense to you? You know it makes sense to me And Peter looks up for it is Ray in Dana's clothing and he's Peter's like Egon.  This is a dream. We're in a shared hallucination Here's how you cross over to other dream worlds any kicks Venkman out of the window So anyway, we come to Winston who's sharing an evening with his faceless wife He knows it's a dream though because he wants because it's a recurring dream Where it's a real relaxing evening without having to worry about the Ghostbusters and it pisses him off when the Ghostbusters show up It's supposed to be as one night To not have to deal with the paranormal So then we get to see Egon's dream and this is what Egon dreams He dreams of mass-solving equations and He knows he's in a dream and he's cracked the code on dreaming He knows that anything you wanted a dream you just got to think of and it'll magically appear So anyway, Egon's been staying awake for days on end trying not to sleep and the Sandman Tracks him down and he's trying to take his eye out until the Ghostbusters conjure up their packs and blast them and They end up waking up floating in mid-air and Then it explains What went down? Who the ghost was not That's just the first story of the annual Now I haven't really read all the rest they just look too goofy and cartoony for my taste They're still based on the same artwork of Dan's going But they're just kind of They're just very cartoonish. I haven't read this one yet, but it looks like The Ghostbusters have to take on that ghost from Big Trouble and Little China And that's just Little short It's called no sale and it starts out with the spirit He says and that is the offer Egon Spengler in Exchange for my freedom and your soul. I will grant you whatever you desire Name it and Egon looks up at him He says I need to I desire the total and immediate Disincorporation of your form and consciousness at the subatomic level you wish oblivion on me try again Okay, look down look down I've been bested no He gone just drops a trap right up And it looks like there's a story in here of Louis Tully called the nuclear option get another cartoonish one a world of the psychic episode Like I said, I haven't read all the way through this but These guys do a great job on Ghostbusters. I love I love the work especially when Eric Burnham and and Dan sconing team up just the Just the way they write and that Eric writes and Dan draws is just It's amazing. I've waited a long time for Comics like this of the Ghostbusters It it's just so surreal they they take it straight from the movies and the cartoons and the video game and just I Can't say enough good things about it So if you guys have a chance Let me go back to the beginning here All right, so if you guys have a chance pick up the 2015 Ghostbusters annual from IDW publishing Great work.  I I can't say enough good things about it Next I'm gonna be reading once I finish up with what I'm reading now I'm gonna be reading one of the holiday specials that Dan recommended for me Which involves these Ghostbusters going up against the boogeyman And then it's a Can original take on the boogeyman not like the boogeyman from the real Ghostbusters even though that one was good Cuz I had tweeted Dan a few days ago and asked him if they were ever going to do a These Ghostbusters going up against the boogeyman and he told me That they already had and it was during this holiday special I know I've already I've got it on comicsology right now. I haven't transferred it over here yet I don't think for me, but he recommended it to me. So I'm gonna read it next and I hope I enjoyed as much as I like all the others I would have probably gone a different route with boogeyman though as I mentioned to him I would probably make the real Ghostbusters boogeyman be almost like a Dark side type character of IDW's multiverse the same boogeyman Traveling through the multiverse dealing with the different versions of the Ghostbusters and just being this ultimate threat but you know they did their own thing and That's cool, too. So I'll probably review be reviewing that in a couple weeks. Well So Yeah, check it out guys 2015 annual Ghostbusters annual by IDW publishing Take care


Well, welcome back everybody for this lovely Friday on the 11th of January already two weeks in going into the new year Good to see you all loud and clear. Good. Good. Good. All right.  That's up a hundred and seven percent already nice little cheap little stock exactly what we always look for We're gonna talk about I know a lot of you guys saw the stock earlier eight o'clock this morning Everyone should have been in right around the 265 price range once it broke out a little bit She's not a big winner, but you know what how nice is to buy a thousand shares of a two dollars and sixty cent stock Which is about two dollars and twenty six hundred and you're up about two hundred bucks for the morning Some of us would be happy with that do that every day an age of fifty thousand a year, right? I don't know too many people could do that in 30 minutes, but anyway, she's been pretty she's been really really a nice easy runner Two point seven million shares traded She tested that resistance levels.  Let's go out there and let's just talk about yesterday And then we'll we'll get into the watch list. So a couple of good stocks I want to cover from yesterday that did pretty well First of all the PCG Wanted to bring that back up We all know potentially it's facing a six point nine billion dollar penalty from California Wildfires, we all know that's you know, I say it all the time Unfortunately catastrophes make opportunities and I'm not talking about the catastrophe for the fire for us It's about this company that got involved, you know, so we're just benefiting from you know what they did so PCG you could see it nice expensive and always thought quote-unquote blue chip safety stocks, you know on a On an on you know utility stock you would never think that would happen and sure enough look what it did down to 17 dollars That was pretty good and looks like you know what we want. You listen There's gonna be a buying opportunity PCG, you know, it could be six months from now It could be two months from now, but let all this bad news come out as much as possible once it finds its bottom It'll be okay, but I Don't think PCG, you know, I never heard of utility company going out of business. I'm gonna get merged another big one Bed bath and beyond that was another nice one We had yesterday had a couple little nasty shakes right here, but she broke higher highs that one did really well You know, it was gapped up yesterday The day before and then it just tanked in pre-market, but she came right back that one We did a lot did pretty well Poor earnings got crushed But you know, you could see it really kind of didn't crush it too much because it came right back The AMRN was probably the best trade of the day AMRN was another very nice and expensive stock Around $14 right 10 o'clock. She ran all the way up to about 1750 and then she continued a mill the day So that was pretty much the best day of them all now for a lot of you there are my students goal platinum and diamond students we we just finished phase three yesterday and Let me tell you the first lesson the first day lesson one and two, you know yesterday I mean, it wasn't it was okay. It wasn't great. We learned we've learned a couple of things You always learn something because it's always live trading But you know if you're if you're a veteran been here and you didn't weren't able to get into class because you wanted to Trade you got to watch phase one and phase two lesson one and two. It was just awesome. All right So that's that ladies and gentlemen now. Let's get ready going into what's going on this morning Obviously the big news this morning is that FT? K trade right there She's starting to kind of build a little bit of a support right here, which pretty looks pretty interesting So that right now is the top of the list this morning early. I don't know what was happening I thought the pot stocks were really making a big Comeback a pot stocks. You could see I mean these things got destroyed Maybe TL our why we know we knew this was gonna happen I mean you have a stock that goes from and we were trading this thing at $20 when it went public and you go 300 but I still have people that talk about it every day But you know listen if you're new to here to see to you you're watching this on our channel We get these things all the time, you know, I can go down the list of elfin dryers, I mean it's just a This is so a CC I yeah, and there's so many of them out there So don't worry. We'll find another one but but but that's that's the past That's worried about the present and I thought the stock was gonna make a big comeback But she really took a big hit she gapped up pretty big up to a past 100 She's down about six bucks, but obviously a lot of us are not gonna trade a 94 dollar stock But we do have the other ones that we could trade echo along with it like a new Bev Chrome CRON, you know ACB, you know all those other stocks are pretty good too. All right, but we'll keep an eye on that one Remember, this is the indicator IPX Why I mean Here's a stock up 11% stock that took a little bit of a hit a couple of months ago You can see it was at $4 start make a little bit of a comeback Spread looks pretty okay. Good volume nice iceberg orders here on the matrix You know, it's I'm always looking at some of these sleepers that come out of the way HIMX what a fun stock that was last couple of days. We did pretty well on that one She's gapping up again up up 6% 73,000 shares. She was an easy stock to trade. She was fun We know how she trades you probably took very good notes on your journals like we taught you to do Keep an eye on that one that one's not bad and GM what's going on with GM? I haven't heard that stock in a long time. Long time. What happened with GM? Would they say what one of you put out a put out a chat out there regarding their news? Something about GMC's was it Ernest per share was it Would you write that Frank Fran wrote that was at 650 to 7 it just a little more free cash flow Well, listen when you when you start firing Employees which is the most expensive part of your, you know, your expense of running a business Well, you know, obviously when people look at is I think it is bad time sometimes a very positive sign That's why these stocks open up. So obviously they're doing pretty well I'll be about a flying. Are they developing a flying car? Well, we are invaders over here in America. So every always likes to follow the leader so what happened with Tesla, but I'm not ready for flying cars. I thought they're gonna be here sooner after watching back to the future Remember that movie when first came out? So I don't know what the hell's going on. We haven't got him yet. That's the Tesla's new roadster Let's see how that thing takes off the ground no more traffic jam no more helicopters All right, so what stock I want I can have a little fun talking about guys and you know And a lot of you here been here for a long time. I got to bring this up It came up on my radar and I want to just talk about it really quick the Was it WTW? Weight Watchers Who remembers weight watchers? Let me change the slide here remember weight watches. We were training it back last year And it went from $20 all the way to 110. We're like what the hell just happened You know like who would ever think buying weight watchers and we all know you know Oprah bought into it and pushed it up I think that was that nice little rally here in 2016 But first of all, I mean where did that come from right went to a hundred dollars weight watch you kidding me? Well, look where she is right now. She's at 33. Let me change the time frame over here Look what happened. She tanked in July from 110 down to 35 Okay leader, you remember remember we kept we were training weight watchers and we said, you know what this thing It's pretty too volatile. She was a great swing trade but This is the big difference, you know what you learn being a day trader while we're here is that everybody thinks like I Can't really day trade or I know some people that that are trial members are like, you know, it's really not my style I'm glad that I jumped in but now I understand it. The thing is this If you want to be a swing trader or an options trader You got to know what happens over the course of the day to be a good day trader and by being a good day trader You could see why W Wtw went all the way up and you could have known how to get out probably around the 90s a hundred dollar price range And now you know what some people don't know want to take a loss and now that you know that nice profit that they were Banking on now is gone, you know, so you got to be a good day trader remember day trading is the most conservative Less risky thing to do people don't think that they think it's more risky I'm like, no, it's not because the more technology need more indicators. You need more this more that it takes more of your time Time is money Some people just happy just trading the FT the FTK that we traded And just making that 200 bucks this morning and calling it a day, you know So, you know, that's that's where it comes into play But anyway, I just thought it was a kick to bring up Weight Watchers how crushed it got No, we were talking about we and you know, we were talking about it a lot in in the morning meetings watching that stock So I was just it's it's just it just blows my mind and see where these things go like going back And sometimes you crack, you know, it drives you crazy because sometimes you like look at some other stocks And you're like, wait a minute that stock is $1,100 Or like a price line price line. Are you kidding me? What's it? What's the sim? I didn't even look at it What was it? What's a symbol of price line? You probably never even saw this stock before What is it P? Was a PRLN Not to say everybody remember the symbol of price line in the room Look, nobody even knows it because there nobody trades it. They're even thought about it DCLN is that it? No, that's not it LN No, that's not it No, that's not it Not coming up It's not coming up on my radar It has a new symbol. Is that why okay? All right, well that figures it out But anyway, was that stock like I? Thought it was PCLN also not coming up. It has a new name Well, anyway, it's not important the bottom line is some people never thought that stock was like $1,500 So it's like what price line are you kidding me? It's that's a new S. That's a new word be BK and G Yeah, I'm not I'm not looking at dryers that that is that's gonna have a new symbol to Actually, I always get a kick out of this DRYS My buddy Ken over there You know, it's funny, but you can't really notice it on this one but With all the reverse stock splits where it's trading right now the stock was trading at $15 million Back in 2015. Are you kidding me? That's scary or what? unbelievable All right, so guys, so let's get ready to trade markets opening up less than 15 minutes go fill up your coffees Remember, there's nothing really going on until about 9 30 feeding jump in earlier ready But if you got a good position right now, you know, like we say, let's hold till the open You know The FTK did pretty well for us. We always find new ones that will pop up pop out of the blue So if you missed whatever this morning in pre-market, don't worry We always get a new list of stocks like what we found yesterday, you know, there was a lot of them out there If it was the PCG or the AMR N like yesterday or BB By that we found and didn't really pick up to laughter. We always find something new But so fellow traders see something say something and if you're new to see to you I know we have a lot of new members make sure you talk to education advisor watch the videos that we told you to watch Watch how the traders make money. Don't look at me. Look at them It's not about me. It's about you know, it's it's it's knowing that if this is for you or not The only way you're gonna know that if other people could do it, I know I could do it You got to figure out if I'm if we're able to teach you how to do it And the only way you're gonna see that is watch everybody else So go out there and do your homework. All right guys. Good luck everyone happy trading and we'll see you back at 2 30 Meeting let's go out there make some money


You're watching the queue. Welcome to our continuous coverage of AWS re-invent 2021. I'm Dave Nicholson. We've got an amazing event that's been going on for the last four days with two live sets, two studios, more than a hundred guests, and two very distinguished gentlemen here on the set with us live in Las Vegas. I'd like to welcome Krishnamohan, Vice President and Global Head of TCS's AWS Business Unit. Welcome Krishnamohan. Thank you, Dave. And also with us Aditya Jagapal Nagarajan. I hope I did your name justice. Perfect. I try. And Aditya is Head of Strategy and Business Operations for the TCS AWS Business Unit. Krishnamohan, starting with you, tell us about TCS and AWS over the last year. What's been going on? Thank you, Dave, for having me here. It's great to be in person, actually. Back in re-invent, back in person, 25,000 people, but still we have pretty good measures, health measures that way. So very happy to be here. TCS AWS Business Unit has formed three quarters back and we actually had always AWS partnership, but we actually felt that it's important to kind of have a separate business unit, which is a full stack multi-dimensional unit, providing cloud migration, modernization across applications, data and infrastructure, and also main focus on industry solutions. So it has been a great three quarters and our partnership only enhanced significantly. Predominantly what we're actually seeing in the last one year, the cloud overall transformation, I think it kind of taken a different shape. It used to be cloud migration, modernization, cloud native development, but from there it has moved to enterprise transformation that's happening on cloud and specifically AWS, a majority of the time. So with that we actually see a lot of customers. Broadly you can categorize them into three, cloud for IT, cloud for business, and cloud for innovation. And we're definitely seeing maximum traction there with our customers across the three categories. So I'm super excited to be here at the re-invent. Couple of our customers were in the keynote, both Adam and Doug, Western Union was the keynote, Shelley covered it, Western Union transformation in the partner keynote with Doug, and very happy to see Linda cover the transformation in the United Airlines with Adam. So it's really great to see how we are helping the customers on the transformation. That's definitely the way that we see. And we have made significant progress on the overall in the last three quarters. And these kinds of wins and business transformation that has actually happened is what resulted in TCS, getting the raising star GSI award for US. So I'm pretty happy to actually carry this little thing here. Is that what this is? Absolutely. So it means a lot because our customer kind of reinforcing the value that TCS along with AWS is bringing to the customer. So I wasn't going to say anything. I just assumed that you were a 2001 space Odyssey fan and you just brought a version of the monolith with you. I wasn't sure. Congratulations, that's quite an achievement, especially in the relatively short period of time. And especially with the constraints that have been placed upon all of us. Did they give you like a swag bag with a bunch of, with a, you know, like they do at the Academy Awards? Are you familiar with that? We had a great fun event on Monday afternoon. Fantastic. Yeah.   Talk about how you engage with the customers that you're helping to bridge the divide between what their business requirements are and the technology that AWS is delivering. Because I think we, I think we all agree that everything we're seeing here from AWS is wonderful. But without an organization like yours, actual end users, actual customers have a hard time driving benefits. So how do you approach that? Firstly, thank you Dave and thank you for the cube for having us here. And just from what Krishna talked about, the three layers of value creation, the cloud for IT, cloud for business and cloud for innovation. We see the journey's client's take to start with how they look at IT modernization and go all the way to business transformation and look at ecosystem transformation as well. For example, we just heard about Western Union and we just came off a one with SWVC where they are completely modernized the payment systems on AWS and TCS has been the partner for transforming that for them. And that not only just means the technology layers but also reimagining business processes in the cloud. Moving on from the financial side, if you look at the digital farming for example, we have been working with some of the leading transformative players in the healthcare industry and in the manufacturing space to look at helping farmers with AI, right? And helping them look at how they can ensure better analytics and drone capabilities for digital farming. Drug trial development and acceleration for time to market has been a front and center for all of us in the last two years where we've been helping pharmacy organizations get better and able to bring up drug trials and reach the end customers better with cloud. So these are various examples here. I want to poke on that a little bit. So when TCS is engaging a customer say in farming versus pharma, how much of your interaction with them is specialized by industry vertical or specific area expertise versus the generic workings that are going to be supporting that effort in the background. What does that look like? Are you going in first with a pharma discussion? First with a farm discussion as opposed to an overall discussion? It's a great point you mentioned Dave. So because that's the sort of essence of TCS. So the way we look at it, we actually appeal to the industry specific. So our domain and contextual knowledge is very important to appeal to the customers and to the very stakeholders. No longer are the days where you talk about technology as a means to an end. We talk about how end customers can benefit in that context of what they're going through in that industry and how can then technology be part of that strategy, right? So hence, as you rightly said, domain and context first, followed by technology, powering the outcome. Even though pharma and pharma sound a lot alike. I can assure you they're very different. And they may share some things in common. Yes, very, very different. Chris, now talk about your go-to-market motion. How are clients aware of TCS? Do you have teams that engage clients directly and then bring AWS into the conversation? Or are you being brought in by AWS? Is it a combination? What does that look like? So very good, relevant question. So our GTM strategy is TCS has been in the, serving the enterprise customers and IT transformation for 52 years now. So we have a huge base. But specifically from an AWS BU perspective, we are focusing on selective verticals. Panking financial services and insurance is large, life sciences, healthcare, and travel, transportation and hospitality. So these are the verticals that we're actually focusing on. And given our presence in the enterprise sector, we already have a direct sales teams. We are engaging with the customers directly on enterprise transformation and business transformation. And once we have that conversation, we actually take all of these solutions that we have built on AWS and along with AWS. There are few customers in the last three quarters after forming the AWS business unit. One thing that we did is with AWS, we are proactively going and identifying the logos and the customers. And with the focus not on technology, with the focus on how to solve their problems on the business side and how to create new business models. So it's kind of both. We bring in, AWS brings in logos as well, so green field accounts. And as well as our contextual knowledge of the industry is how the GTM is working out and working out pretty good. You mentioned that you've been at this for 52 years. You must have been very young when you started doing this. Talk about the internal dynamics. So think of TCS, the larger organization. You represent the AWS business unit. TCS has been doing this for a long time, predating what we think now of as cloud. I'm sure that you have long existing relationships with customers where you've been doing things for them that aren't cloudy. And those things keep the lights on at TCS, right? Important sources of revenue. Yet you're going in and you're consulting and saying, hey, you know, it might be better for you, Mr. Customer, to work with AWS and TCS, as opposed to maybe being at a data center that TCS manages.  You've got to have people at TCS who are saying, stay away, that's my revenue. Don't move my cheese. What does that look like? Very valid question, Dave. So the way that TCS is actually looking at is twin engine strategy. There's a cost and optimization strategy which we have. We saw the customers and operations running the BAU, if you will, business as usual. Then you have something called growth and transformation. So as a strategy that we are very clear that the path of business transformation is growth and transformation channel. So we as a company are very comfortable cannibalizing our C&O business because we want to be relevant to the market, relevant to the customer, and relevant to the partner ecosystem. So the only way you're relevant is actually to challenge yourself, cannibalize your own business, and for the long strategy of looking at how to grow. And that's how our twin engine strategy is working. And there are a lot of customers where we have developed our contextual knowledge serving 20 years, 25 years of the customers. We know how they work, how what their business is actually, what's going to be the future of the business. So we are in a better position to actually transform them. And as a company, we are ready to cannibalize our revenue. So Adi, give us an example of working with a customer and give us an idea of what that customer's perspective is in terms of their place on the spectrum of, I don't want to move anything if I don't have to, versus hey, you guys can't move fast enough to deliver what I want. Where are you seeing that spectrum of customer requirements at this point? Do you feel like you're having to lead people to water still? Where are we with that? Well, if you asked me this question a couple of years ago, it would be about, look, here's a beautiful water and the lake looks good. Why don't we spend by the side and see what it tastes like? Now the question is, how much water to drink? So the point being that customers have fast realized that cloud is not just an IT decision. It's a business transformative decision. So if I may just go back what Krishna talked about, the dual engine strategy, a clear testament to that is some of our relationships, or most of our relationships for the matter has been over two decades with our clients. And that's a perfect indication of being constantly relevant for them because as their models change, as their markets change, customer expectations change, we need to constantly innovate ourselves.  Absolutely. So as we say, you're in the boat with them and you're going through the same changes. And so coming back to the question which you asked, the point was we give them a point of what experience they can have with cloud by each stakeholder. The CIO wants to look at how we can look at better sustainability of their operations, keep the lights on, as you said, enhance stability with more automatable capabilities, looking at DevOps. The business is completely looking at how can cloud fundamentally change my business model? And you have both these stakeholders coexisting with the same outcome towards enterprise transformation. And that's the experience which we work with them to shape, to say what their starting point is, where would they like to go, and how can we go through that with the journey. What's interesting here is nobody has all the answers. Neither is AWS nor customer, the TCS, but we are here to create a culture of discovering the right goal and the right answers. It's very important. That's the approach to getting it working. Krishnan, our last minute together, you've just received the Rising Star Award. 2022 is rapidly approaching. This doesn't put any pressure on you at all for 2022. Because people are going to ask, well what did those Rising Stars do again in 2022? Yes, do again. What's on the horizon? What are the two of you excited about for next year? I think we are super excited with how AWS, you know, definitely in Adam's keynote. If I had to take a couple of points that I'm taking away, is in addition to enhancing their core cloud capabilities, but if there's pivoted on industry solutions, the fin space that they have announced and the industrial solutions that they have announced. So that is where it very clearly aligns to our strategy of TCS, helping customers look for change their business models, implement new business models, create ecosystem play. And that's basically where we are really super excited. And another point which I took from Adam is their focus on Edge, with IoT and private 5G. And that's very, very important when, especially when you look at it, both IT as well as the OT transformation. So we are super excited with the potential. All the new bells and whistles AWS has rolled out in the last four days. And looking forward for a few more of this. Congratulations again. It's a fantastic acknowledgement of what you've been able to do over the last just three quarters, as you mentioned, closing out 2021 in a very, very good way. Looking forward to 2022. Thank you gentlemen for joining us today here on theCUBE. And thank all of you for joining us for continuing continuous CUBE coverage of AWS re-invent 2021. We are the leader in hybrid technology event coverage. I'm Dave Nicholson. Stay tuned for more from theCUBE.


Good afternoon everyone. Thank you for joining us. I'm Gael Biquette. I'm the director of the ISA International Center and I'm with Thomas Padilla from Internet Archive and we are going to talk about multi-custodial approaches to digital preservation of scholarship. First of all, I would like to thank the organizers for inviting us to talk on this subject and I remember I was here at CNI four years ago talking about the also talking about Kipper's Registry, so the idea today is to provide you with an update and Clifford Lynch has served on the technical advisory committee for Kipper's Registry and he has always been a great supporter of these projects. So here is the outline of my presentation. As I've just said, I want to give you an update on Kipper's Registry. Also a quick overview of a service that we've just implemented, which is called Submit Retrieve Reuse and touch upon the policy for the development of Kipper's Registry starting 2025. So just to start with, I would like to give you a brief introduction of Kipper's Registry. It was created and set up at the University of Edinburgh by Edina, and in 2019 actually the ISA International Center took over the service from Edina as JISC was stopping funding to the service and the ISA International Center had been involved right from the start with the project. So this is the reason why there was let's say a natural shift of responsibility between the University of Edinburgh and the ISA International Center. So we work with keepers with the preservation agencies, with lists you see on the screen. And since 2019 and since we took over the service we've been eager or eagerly working on the development of the service by actually involving more agencies. So nowadays we have at the moment 14 active preservation agencies working with us and three inactive preservation agencies. These agencies are archaeological data service, the British Library and the Swiss National Library. So we hope that at one point they may review their decision and come back and work with us. But we are fortunate to work with 14 other agencies and with the ISA Center as a linchpin to match data between these archiving agencies and the ISA Center database we know that at the moment there are a bit more than 88,000 titles which are preserved and a bit more than 21,000 titles of cereals which are preserved at least by three agencies, which is to say one quarter of preserved titles are actually held by more than three agencies. We've just included data from the National Library of Spain. It has just been added, but we have not yet communicated on on on this new inclusion and we also work with TIB in Germany, the Leipniz Information Center for Science and Technology and they are currently updating or upgrading their data to be able to share it with us. And, as I've said before, we've developed a new service. I will come to that in a moment. We've also added a handful of statistics about the collections which are preserved and these statistics allow users to compare between the agencies and to know the amount of preserved titles that they each handle. As you can see here, Portico is well actually holds the most titles they preserve the most titles in their archive and then comes clocks, locks and I think scholars portal. So, of course these statistics evolve with time. We have a MOU with each archiving agency that actually defines the frequency with which they update their data. And, of course, Internet Archive is also a partner. So, this is a reason why we are both here to talk about preservation, digital preservation. These statistics are also interesting because they show you how unique some titles are and among the 88,000 titles which are preserved actually a bit more than 55,000 are held only by one agency. And so this means that what we call the keep safe ratio is still to be improved because this ratio was devised right from the start, I think, of the project stating that to be assured that the resources will be kept for the long term, it would be safe to have them archived by more than three agencies. So, as you can see, there is here some progress to be made. We also have developed a coverage overlap short. You can see here on this one, I think the overlap between locks, clocks and portico, but you can move the arrow on the statistics, on the page, on the portal page and see what are the overlaps between other agencies. And here, this is more recent, we have developed some statistics on the national sovereignty of the preservation of journals. And here you have the example of France. As you can see, Gallica, which is the archiving system or the depot for the archive of the National Library of France, actually holds more than 96% of all French titles which are recorded in the ICES and database. But these figures are a bit different when you look at Netherlands. As you can see here, the preservation of titles published in the Netherlands is much more balanced since clocks, the archive of the Royal Library of the Netherlands, but also Internet Archive, the Library of Congress, locks and also portico actually holds in the archives a lot of titles which are published in the Netherlands. Coming to the UK and the US, we have the same situation here that the preservation of these titles is also well shared among the keepers. Another interesting statistic is the preservation of open access resources. The ICES International Center has developed a directory of open access resources and as you can see here on the screen, for France, there are a bit more than 4,000 titles which are listed in the road and according to the statistics, only 145 are actually archived. The situation is a bit better for the UK and the US. As you can see, there are a bit more than 2,000 open access journals listed in the ICES and portal out of which a bit more than 1,500 are actually preserved by keepers. I want now to switch to a service that we've developed which is called Submit Retrieve Reuse. The idea or the rationale for developing this service was to allow libraries, publishers or any content provider to be able to check the validity of the ISSN in their catalog, update the ISSN and the metadata, retrieve keepers registry data in bulk because that's of interest to libraries to know about the preservation of these resources and the ultimate goal being of course to make room for in the 3D and the digital storage facilities based on information retrieved from keepers registry. You have here a screenshot of the metadata which is held in the ISSN database and here more specifically information about the archival status and this is what you retrieve by uploading a list of ISSN. You retrieve information on the validity of these identifiers but also data about the title whether it's print or digital and as well as detailed metadata and also information coming from indexing services and from the agencies participating in keepers registry. What's next for keepers registry? We are currently devising a policy for the development of the service. We would like to increase the interest ratio of course by increasing the number of keepers but also by diversifying the agencies so that we can cover some titles from other parts of the world because for the time being as you were able to see our main focus is on North America, Europe, a bit of South America but we would like to work for example with Indonesia because we know they publish a lot of journals. Also Australia, Canada, Finland, Denmark and Turkey. These were the countries which were actually identified through this research that we are currently leading. Also contact publishers in countries with low interest ratio to encourage them to work with archiving agencies and choose from the keepers or other agencies that may do the job for them. Another objective is to engage with libraries that select open access titles were such archiving because it's always tricky to actually identify or know about these titles and whether they are worse being ingested. So I think that's something we could do with the contributions of libraries around the world. Develop a metric to monitor coverage for each archive title for the time being but that's an issue that is addressed by I suppose a lot of you and libraries in general is that we have heterogeneous holdings descriptions and we need to tackle this issue by trying to streamline or rework these holdings so that we can compare actually between all the archiving agencies what are the gaps and find the gaps wherever they are. And also another objective would be to achieve formal registration with UNESCO memory of the World Program and to achieve this we will need of course some support from the archiving agencies which contribute to the service. Thank you for your attention. Okay, hello everyone. I am not Jefferson Bailey. I am surprised. I am Thomas Padilla. So Jefferson couldn't make it. I'm here to pitch hit today. I'm going to do my best Jeffersonian version of this presentation. So going to talk a lot about a project that we work on at the Internet Archive called Internet Archive Scholar but of course trying to make the larger point about the relative to the title of this session that multi-custodialism is needed to preserve open scholarship. So our work on Internet Archive Scholar very much in alignment with our general mission at the Internet Archive which is to provide universal access to all knowledge. In terms of preservation and access strategies that we have at work at the Internet Archive to preserve scholarship they are various. We have publishers and authors self deposit through archive.org. We have publisher and author donations. We have ongoing large scale digitization of material in various formats and we have the targeted born digital collection strategy through IA Scholar. Access approaches similarly various public access to content through archive.org participation in interlibrary loan and again IA Scholar as an access sort of portal aggregation point etc. for open scholarship. This is an example of a kind of preservation of scholarship that we do at the Internet Archive. What you see on the left is a picture of what we refer to locally as the SIM collection or the serials in microfilm. Large scale digitization project, 14,000 titles, 480,000 volume years and about 500 million pages. Ongoing increasingly made accessible. High level goals for IA Scholar as we try to do with most of our services we seek to leverage the open infrastructure that we have on hand and our large scale web archiving program to provide better access to scholarship. Part of the way that we do that is by trying to integrate additional automation within our broader automation workflows for web archiving globally at scale and kind of nest within there another workflow to try and capture and archive open scholarship as it proliferates across the Internet. We develop various tools to identify these scholarly objects in web harvests and archives and work to improve and augment the metadata often through integrations and partnerships in the broader community. Four main preservation strategies that we have of course automated daily archiving making use of persistent identifier sources periodic archiving and targeted web crawls and some ID and extracting content from past generic web crawls and then again partnerships and integrations which I'll mention in a few slides a few examples in that vein. In terms of distinguishing how we approach this work we do it in two ways. We have sort of a top down or known work approach and then we also have a bottom up or unknown work approach. We mostly tend toward the top down and known work approach where we're seeking to harvest and archive pids registries metadata manifest and so forth. In terms of bottom up unknown work that entails you know often applying machine learning strategies to the general web archive collection. There are many billions of PDFs in this archive so we tend to do that on a semi regular basis. It can be quite expensive on the compute side. Many many millions of outputs preserved including datasets in IA scholar about 35 million OA papers with open full text datasets. We also maintain a scholarly citation graph called ref cat which is also openly accessible online. And in terms of acquisition we're at about 30,000 new objects a day via pids archive PubMed and so forth. Roughly five million new objects per year end up in IA scholar via the targeted and general web harvesting that the larger Internet archive operations are engaged with. This is a depiction of a workflow for PDF processing from some of the general collections to identify unidentified works making use of a series of open source software called PDF Trio grow bit and fuzzy cat helps us to service things surface things that are otherwise not identified and are perhaps not preserved in some cases. Everything that I'm talking about or I think yeah pretty much everything I'm talking about can be accessed at a scholar now it is available it is live it has been live for some time. The URL is kind of nested there in the slide it's scholar archive org. Courage you to take a look. Internet archive scholar also interacts with various interlibrary loan platforms. We provide access to the aggregate metadata sources databases and data at archive org in a collection called bulk bibliographic metadata quite descriptive. It's all there take a look in terms of sort of values of Internet archive scholar various depending upon your position in the field. Not to read all of these I'll just maybe maybe just one from each. So we think with you know for journals that Internet archive scholar provides some value and being able to just sort of relatively automatically archiving open access pubs through our web harvest for institutions. A storage preservation and indexing service and for researchers essentially research data particularly for folks working in meta science. Many partnerships and integrations make this possible. A couple of examples or before examples a note about multi custodial strategies. You know kind of like I was saying at the very beginning this doesn't really become possible without many partnerships and integrations fairly fragile space. And so we're trying to seek as many partnerships and integrations as we can and reinforce the rest of the community where we can. So in line with them to mention a couple of examples Internet archive has joined the Keeper's Registry of preservation organizations. We do reports two times a year of you know everything that we have committed to preserving. We have a partnership with Google Scholar where 30 million of the O.A. works and I. Scholar are now indexed and available through Google Scholar. And we also work with Semantic Scholar. We have an additional integration with the Center for Open Science where basically anything that goes up on Center for Open Science in the research registries is automatically archived at archive dot org. Currently focused on the research registrations about 100,000 archive but we're scoping to include inclusion of additional O.S.F. areas. We are also participating in Jasper which is a multi institutional effort to provide digital preservation services to O.A. non-profit journals in D.O.A.J. Currently 100 plus deposits from 30 journals are preserved through that collaboration. Partners at D.O.A.J. clocks public knowledge project and keepers slash ISSN. And finally my last bit here in this whirlwind tour. We're in the pilot stage of working with core and cross ref and data site to look at hosting mirrors of content and services such as databases API search indexes and so forth. And a last bit we're also exploring the potential value of selfless deposit which would basically be a service where we would provide universities mirrors of scholarship from their faculty. That we find and put in an I.A. scholar but are not yet necessarily deposited by faculty into their local I.R. Selfless deposit. So that's it for me and this wolf credit of course to Jefferson and colleagues Martin, Nate, Alex and Monica and also colleagues David and Vicki. And thanks to our past funders who have brought us to this point, the Mellon Foundation and IMLS. Thank you so much. We have time for questions. Do you want to pick who goes first? Who's your favorite child? Yes, Meen. I knew it. I knew it. This question is for Thomas. I see that internet scholar is in beta and I was wondering what the threshold is going to be for I.A. to take it out of beta. That's a great question. So I guess I have been advised to not answer questions. I don't know the answer to by Jefferson. So that's I guess that's I would suggest following up with Jefferson. So my question kind of for both of you. I think the point about so few journals being many of the journals only being kept by one keeper as I think important. But it follows along to the second point you were making to write that we don't really know the completeness of these because the data is at the title level. And so I was just curious for either of your particularly with e-journals. It's hard to even know what the unit is. There used to be a bound volume that came in the mail and if you kept all those you had it but like issues aren't even really the unit by which materials are distributed. I'm just curious if either of you are working on or thinking about ways to sort of track or measure completeness or how you might kind of pick at some of that. Thank you Trevor. Well actually that's what I was explaining in my presentation. We are aware of these these flows let's say in the data that we can retrieve from the agencies. And there there has been a development and maybe you're you've heard about that in in Brazil by a big. They've they've implemented or just launched a project called Pina case. And they so it's about the preservation of journals. And they've been able to tackle the issue of heterogeneous holdings descriptions. So we need to get in touch with them and see how technically they've been able to achieve that. And recently a colleague of mine from the Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur. So the the agency which actually coordinates academic libraries in France has sent me information regarding pie mark or so that also a development or program that can address these type of issues. So I think there there is some progress done and I hope we can find a solution by investigating further. I've got a question for Thomas. I was really intrigued by the ref graph citation. You know one of the constant hurdles we have with away publications is trying to show the value to faculty to publish there instead of publishing commercial journals. And is the Internet archive thinking about using that information to kind of advance research impact metrics for for that corpus of work. Thanks. It's a good question. I think that you know certainly ref cat itself seems like a good research object or research data set for researchers that may want to pursue that question. And certainly we provide open access to it in in that spirit. Well if there are no other questions we thank you for your time.