Yeah, the recording is on so we can continue. Yeah, Brother Shey, if you're here, you can ask your question. Thank you, Pastor. Yes. So it's just a follow-up question again. Well, thank you so much for the detailed explanation. That was a great one. I was just asking another question again. Could it also again be, I mentioned the Old Testament and I'm going to the New Testament. Could it also be because of the verse in Revelation 12 verse 11 that they have overcome the enemy by the words of their testimony and by the blood of the Lamb? Are we using that verse out of context or what do you think is the real explanation in relation to what you explained about how we apply the blood? Because there are even songs that say, oh, I plead the blood, I plead the blood. There are many songs that talk about the blood, you know, just applying the blood, you know, when faced with the enemy or crisis or something like that. So my question basically is, are we misinterpreting that scripture as a basis for why we plead the blood or apply the blood or does that verse support our use of applying the blood, you know, whether it be in prayer or whether it be when crisis or, I don't know, just more clarity, Ma, thank you. Yeah, so if we are looking at Revelation 12 verse 11 and if you go to any commentary, you know, any established commentary, they would explain, they would elaborate on this and they would explain what the terms mean and so yes, it does come across that if we want victory in our lives over Satan and over our circumstances, there are two things that would have to be working. One, of course, obviously, is the blood of the lamb which over here, it's just like a, not sure if this is mentioned in your textbook, no. But I did see this in one commentary, you know, where the author used this term, he said, it's like a shorthand for the work of the cross, the blood of the lamb and it just simply uses a phrase over there, the blood of the lamb. Shorthand for the finished work of Christ on the cross and all that he accomplished for the believers by doing that. So rather than giving that long, lengthy statement about what Christ has accomplished on the cross for us, they simply use the shorthand phrase, blood of the lamb. So obviously because of the blood of the lamb that we have victory, if the blood of the lamb had not been shed, we would not even have victory. But there's something else which has to be added to the blood of the lamb over here for us to be conquerors.  So they have testified and said, yes, this is the word that I'm, this is the work of the cross that I'm standing upon. And yes, I believe that this will, you know, will cancel out the works of the evil one. I believe that the work of what Christ did on the cross is greater than these things that I'm facing. And so they testify and they, is my connection intact? I think it is. Yeah, I just had this notification coming onto my screen. So they testify and declare and say, I believe in this work of the cross. I believe in what the shed blood of Jesus has accomplished and I stand upon it and I cancel the works of the evil one. And when they do it, knowing what they are doing and they declare it, the evil one has no hold over them any longer because he has to come in line with the truth and submit and walk away, you know, slink away. He has no choice. So the victory is coming to these people through the blood of the lamb over here, which means the finished work of the cross. So the victory is coming through the finished work of the cross and by their personal testimony of it, they are declaring it over their lives and saying, yes, this indeed is going to work even for me, not just for the other believers, but his finished work. All that he did even applies to me and my children and my family. So they are testifying and declaring it. And once they take that stand and they cancel the works of the evil one, the evil one has no hold over them. It has to leave. So here these people, when they were going through this terrible tribulation, they were not just randomly saying, you know, I apply the blood. No, they consciously knew what they were doing. They were aware of what this blood stood for, what it had accomplished, which is why even when we take the Lord's table, when we celebrate the Lord's table, we are holding that grape juice in our hand and we don't just simply think of it as blood. We think of it as a symbol of the covenant, what he has done through his blood, what he has done through his broken body for us. So we focus on these two elements as symbols of his finished, established, signed covenant with us. And we know that he will never go back on what he has signed. So he has put a signature over there and we know that now what we are holding in our hands represents something that is finished, accomplished. It has been given over to us. So now we can boldly claim all that that covenant contains. So it's never just simply us thinking of the blood as a object that can be used like a magic object to ward off evil. No, we do it consciously by backing it up with, by believing in it, by through the word of our testimony. So over here, word of testimony would mean a person who is giving a testimony would need to know what they are talking about. Otherwise, their testimony does not hold much value. So these people, when they were giving their testimony, they were genuinely testifying about what the cross has accomplished. They were fully aware of what it has accomplished and they stood on that and they got their victory. So yeah, we cannot say that in our Indian religions, we have this custom where people tie this sacred thread on the wrist of the babies on their grown-ups. So we can't reduce the blood to something like that. They have a thread on their wrist and we have this invisible blood which we go around applying. No, these are not talismans that we are using, but we are talking about the finished work of the cross. So we would do it in full awareness, testifying what we have believed in. And then there is power because in his name, we are cancelling what the evil one has done and then he no longer has any hold over us. So yeah, that I think, does that help? Yeah. Beautifully explained. Thank you so much for the clarity. Thank you so much. Wow, we have more questions. I don't know whether we'll be able to get through our portion. Yeah, but yeah, after all, we have to address questions because that is where the learning comes in. So yes, Charles, your name is on my screen first. After that, I have Brother Sri Kumar's name. So first, Charles, if you could go ahead with your question. No, okay. Brother Charles, you have not raised a question. Then in that case, fine, we can go ahead with Sri Kumar. Yes, Pastor, thank you. My question is connected with the blood of Jesus. Now, I just want to know that when Jesus established the communion and he said that he raised the cup and he said that this is this is my blood and I am establishing my covenant with the blood. And even if you read the book of Corinthians, the Paul again says that this is the cup of blessing. So both the side, actually the covenant is established with the blood and Paul also saying it is the cup of blessing. So why it is not with the covenant is not with the flesh? That's my question. Or why that is not mentioned or even when Jesus said this thing, he never said that it's connected with the flesh, but it is connected with the blood. I just want to move that. Thank you Pastor. Yeah, it's just that maybe it has to do with creation. When human beings and animals were created in the beginning, the flesh would be the vessel, the carrier inside which you would have the life blood flowing because it is said in the Old Testament and in fact also mentioned in our New Testament in Acts that the life is in the blood.  So life is always in the blood. So Jesus Christ sheds his blood as in he's laying down his life so that we who are dead can be restored. So it's his life in exchange for our lives. So he does that work of appeasement on our behalf.  So he emphasizes and says that the covenant is being established by the blood simply because the life is in the blood and you have I think in three, four places in the Old Testament where you have that wording which says do not eat the blood because the life is in the blood and of course in your acts where it mentions the life is in the blood so you must not eat the blood. So the life is in the blood and that's the reason why the blood is used as your symbol in sealing the covenant. One life has been given up, sacrificed on behalf of the lives of all the other people who will now be raised to life, to eternal life because of this one life which is being laid down. That's it. The life is in the blood. Thank you. So let us look at 1st John chapter 1 verses 8 to 10. Now there are some very nice things which are contained over here in this passage if we could read out verses 8 to 10 please. Can I read back? 8 to 10. If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us the confessor sins his faithful and just forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unbridledness. If we say we have not sin we make him a liar and his word is not in us. Yes. The problem with the Gnostics is that they were saying that you know they've had this mystical experience with God and now they have been, their minds have been filled with some kind of special knowledge and because of that now they can no longer sin. So they are going around claiming from the time that we had this experience with God we have not sinned at all and so John writes over here saying if you are claiming that you have not sinned then you are calling God a liar because God talks about how you know you can repent and he will forgive and he will restore so when God is saying those things he is indicating that a person will sin even after they have made a commitment and they can go to him and he will forgive and he will accept so these people who are going around saying that oh we are now sinless we are incapable of committing any sin because we are now filled with the superior knowledge in our minds he says you are wrong what you are saying is wrong so he says if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves instead he says in verse 9 why not just simply you know frankly go to the Lord confess our sins and he is faithful and just and he will forgive us so rather than pretending that we are sinless rather than pretending that we are not sinning why not frankly go to him and admit our sin and you know say Lord I really do not want to do this anymore so please forgive me and if we go with a genuinely repentant attitude he will forgive another verse that we could another passage that we can you know kind of look at to you know gain further clarity going back to the gospel of John if someone could read out John chapter 3 verses 20 and 21 John 3 20 and 21 John 3 20 for everyone who does wicked things hate the light and does not come to the light lest his works should be exposed but whoever does what is true but whoever does what is true comes to the light so that it may be clearly seen that his works have been carried out in God okay there's this difference between believers and you know those who are still in the world they don't like coming into the light because their deeds will be exposed they'd rather stay in the dark where their deeds don't look so bad because it's only when you bring your actions under the glare of God's holiness then very very clearly it is seen that what you have done is so rotten and it stinks you know or even you're hiding in the darkness everything seems alright everything is gray over there in the darkness right so what you've done also doesn't look too bad the details of what of your rottenness are hidden and it feels nice you can feel good about yourself so the people who are you know consciously living in the darkness they hate the light because the light really exposes them for what they are and then it says in verse 21 those who are in the light on the other hand they come out into the light very plainly it says over lives by the light comes into the light so that it may be plainly seen that what they have done has been done in the sight of God so what happens when a believer sins you know they feel that they need to go and hide because obviously they are aware that God is holy and what they have done is wrong and so now they feel guilty and they don't feel comfortable coming into the light coming into his presence but the instruction that we are given over here is do not hide from God do not pretend and try to deceive yourself and say oh it's okay what I did was not too bad let me try and forget about it no just plainly boldly come into the light come into his presence you know let it be clearly seen that yes what I have done is wrong and frankly admit and say yes Lord in the light of your holiness I can now clearly see that what I said on that day was not just an opinion which I expressed but rather I did something very hurtful I actually genuinely hurt that believer and I realize now that it's not me expressing my opinion rather I have sinned against you with my words by tearing down that person I admit that I have sinned so in the full glare of his glory you can see and he can see that what you have done is really bad and you are frankly getting down on your knees and admitting and saying yes what I have done is wrong and now when you come with that attitude the Lord he is just and he is faithful and he will forgive and he will purify us from our unrighteousness so we who are in the light never need to hide if we continue to hide either we will go in the air along the line in the direction of deception and start telling ourselves what I have done is not too bad it's okay it's alright we start arguing and we move into deception or we can be consumed with guilt and think oh my this is one sin that God can never forgive I am beyond forgiveness and we are always held imprisoned by that guilt so whether it is deception or whether it is guilt as long as we continue to hide Satan can take advantage of us and we may actually go back into a life of sin so when we are walking in the light it's alright better to come directly into the glare full glare of the light and say yes I can see that what I have done is bad I can see that what I have done is sinful I confess and admit that what I have done is not just a mistake but a sin committed against you and when we come with that attitude and admit it he is immediately just and faithful he forgives and not just forgives he purifies us from the unrighteousness of what has been done so now we are spotless before him again and we can continue with our walk with him so what John is saying over here is do not hide hiding will only create greater danger Satan can take advantage of us when we sin it's best to immediately come back into his presence even though it is so shameful and humbling because in the light of his presence we can see that what we have done is so rotten but it's okay it's good to be honest and admit what we have done because then the Lord can purify us from that unrighteous attitude and he can start working in us to changes and transform us so we don't have to be stuck where we are we can move on to greater heights through him so the advice is to not hide immediately come back into his presence and enjoy what he has to offer maybe we can yes we have raised hands Charles if you would like to go with your question first I don't know it's just that your name keeps appearing over there I'm so sorry it clearly says over there Charles and Sheyi have raised hands it says but yeah if Charles doesn't have a question Brother Sheyi you can go ahead Yes thank you pastor I'm sorry I'm just asking too many questions Go ahead yes My question since we're on the issue of sin and believer covering up their sins and all that I would just like to get more clarity on verse 8 of chapter 1 the reason why I'm asking this is I truly get the understanding that if we if we have sin in our hearts we should actually own up to it and converse but there's an attitude that I have seen growing up over the years and is that they use this scripture verse 8 especially that if we claim to be without sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us that's verse 8 of chapter 1 and this is the basis is that everybody's a sinner that even as a Christian you're still a sinner you still have sin so every time we come to prayer people call this verse as they ask God for forgiveness for your sins particularly even congressional prayer and there was a time I really really took time to really understand that is this really true like is this what John was trying to point out so maybe for clarity and I may be wrong maybe what John is saying is exactly what everybody has been saying but the way I look at this verse is I don't think he's saying that Christians who have been blood washed by Christ who are not willfully sinning you know necessarily always have a sin I don't know if that's what the verse is saying but maybe he can give more context that what is John particularly saying is he saying that regardless of the fact that we've asked for God for forgiveness we still have sin so even when we come to prayer we pray to God we should also say God forgive me for the sins I have because that verse many people have used this verse to say oh if we claim we have sin we are deceiving ourselves so better ask God for forgiveness of sin and even though you know within you that there's nothing you know you might have done and I'm not saying this that oh out of prayer that oh you're coming with your self righteousness but basically within you the Holy Spirit has not convicted you but because of what that person is saying there's this sense of guilt that comes upon you that maybe I should just ask God for forgiveness so I was just maybe if you could just give more clarity on what John was exactly saying in that verse contextually in his letter yeah that's me that's what I was trying to say yeah so here he's asking them to confess the sin which they have committed so he's obviously speaking about sins which they have felt convicted about so something has been done and they have felt convicted about it and so rather than you know hiding and pretending that what they have done is pretending that it's not a sin it's better to confess and admit that yes this is a sin so they have felt convicted about it so he is asking for us to go ahead and seek forgiveness whenever we do anything and it's brought to our awareness by the Holy Spirit saying what you have done this is wrong you must repent and so we must be willing to go ahead and repent so I'm sure that over here John is speaking about sins which we feel convicted about regarding things that we are doing they say not just sins of commission which we are more aware of but also sins of omission things which you should have done but you have not done now those there are probably scores of those which we are not yet even aware of because Paul with his level of spiritual maturity he says he has still not yet arrived you know he has not yet fully been made into the image of Christ there are still areas in which he is still lacking in which he is still falling short so the more a person grows in spiritual maturity the more they are coming into the light and the more they are seeing all of their life in the light of that bright light of God's holiness and what earlier probably did not look like sin is now beginning to look very much like sin and so the awareness increases as we grow in God the more we our eyes are opened the more closer we draw to him the more we begin to recognize things in ourselves which we thought were alright earlier but now we know that they are not alright so yes we are all in the process of growth and yes we all have these you know attitudes and perspectives and actions that need correction it's just that we are not even aware that we are doing something bad you know so yes it is true we will always be imperfect on this side of heaven but it's not necessary for us to live under some kind of you know cloud of guilt and always have to start off our prayers by saying oh I have done I'm a sinful person and my lips are sinful and so even as I begin my prayer please forgive me that kind of makes it sound like as if we are living in a relationship of fear and not really the kind of you know the spirit which God has put in us because the spirit which has been given to us teaches us to cry out Abba Father and to know that we have been declared righteous and now we are safe in our Abba and so only when Abba corrects and says you know this thing which you have done I think you need to admit that what you have done is sinful and that time when Abba says that better to confess and say yes Lord what I have done is wrong so sorry Abba I do not want to continue this way you purify me forgive me and purify me Abba will do it but to always come to him with that attitude of saying I am a sinner my lips are unclean my attitudes are unclean so please forgive me and then start the prayer that seems like a relationship of fear and no I do not think God would really like that he would prefer us to enjoy his presence and feel secure in him and when he gives a word of correction as children we accept it and we say yes Lord I am sorry I know this is sin and I admit it is sin and I confess so I think that would be a healthier attitude which God would enjoy he wants us to be secure in him does not want us to always you know that fear and always feel condemned and guilty no yeah thank you pastor I wish many people could just hear what you said because a lot of Christians have the attitude of guilt and condemnation even in the place of prayer I really really wish because many people isolate this verse and don't look at the context of what everyone was saying and that's why I just ask so that to gain more clarity thank you so much pastor thank you thank you yes so let us now come to maybe verse chapter 2 and verse 1 and 2 yeah if someone could read out in chapter 2 if someone could read out verses 1 and 2 my little children my little children my little children these things are right to you so that you may not sin and if anyone sins we have an advocate for the Father Jesus Christ the righteous and he himself is the perpetration for our sins perpetration of our sins and not for us alone but also for the whole world yes so here Jesus is being described as the perpetration for our sins in some versions the simpler term atoning sacrifice is used so in your Greek that would be the word Helasmos so what exactly is this word Helasmos signifying because only over here in this particular verse and in another one place in the entire New Testament so just on the basis of these two verses it kind of becomes difficult to understand what exactly is Helasmos what exactly is this propitiation so what people generally do is they go to the Septuagint which is your Greek translation of the Old Testament and over there in the Greek translation of the Old Testament this word Helasmos is used 6 times so here we can get a kind of broader idea of what exactly this word stands for and we make the beautiful discovery that over here this word is not just indicating cleansing from sin and forgiveness of sin it is also referring to the removal of God's anger God's anger against us is taken away wiped out, removed God is no longer angry with us peace with us so we have that security to just go to him and say Abba Father because Jesus Christ became this atoning sacrifice for us so Jesus Christ is not only offering us cleansing and forgiveness he is also taking away God's anger against us so when I have committed a sin and the minute I realize that what I have done is sinful and I feel convicted I come into his presence and I say Lord I admit that what I have done is sinful it's not just a mistake but it's a sin that I have committed against you so I confess and I repent and I do not want to repeat it any longer you purify me oh Lord you forgive me oh Lord so when I do that he forgives and not only does he forgive so has taken away God's anger against us so God is not angry at all he forgives he cleanses but anger is not there that factor of anger is not there at all because right there at that moment when you submitted your life to Jesus and that atoning sacrifice was applied to you and you became a new creation in that moment anger was removed from the the scene so God's anger does not apply to a believer anymore unless like it says in Hebrew chapter 6 and I think chapter 10 where it talks about a person who has enjoyed the blood and who has tasted of the Holy Spirit and then in spite of that they have chosen to go back into the world for them there is no repentance there is only judgment in them so except for such people the basic believer is not under anger at all God's anger at all we are not under God's anger at all we are under his love so it's a beautiful thing we can come to him you know when we sin we can come to him having that full secure knowledge that he will forgive he's not angry he just wants us to stop being foolish and frankly admit that what we have done is sinful and move on because you know he will forgive he will start purifying us we will be able to overcome this thing in the future and you know life can go on the relationship can continue to be built between him and us so we never have to feel insecure so these are beautiful amazing things that John is imparting to the church so that they can hold on to him confidently and not be led away by all these false teachers who are talking about some kind of special club of people who alone have access to God and the rest of them are useless and have no access to God all that's rubbish is what John is saying over here because he says that this is what Jesus did he became an atoning sacrifice for us so even if you have committed a sin frankly admit it come to him and you know relationship with him will be restored is what is the point that he brings out over here maybe the next verse that we can look at could be verse 10 I just kind of liked verse 10 maybe someone could read out 9 and 10 please yeah it's a rather I don't know big statement a person who loves their brother and sister and lives in the light there is nothing in them to make them stumble I mean so it's like as if a person who is really living in an attitude of love you know Christ like love that love which is willing to correct that love which is willing to pick up a person when they have fallen a love which is willing to overlook when they have hurt you in some way and still continue to be kind and compassionate towards them a love which does all of those things a person living in that kind of love there is nothing inside them left that can make them stumble so I think when Paul was saying I have not yet attained I have not yet reached but I am continuing to press forward towards that that was probably what he was aiming for to be that Christ like to be that full of Christ love but everything he does is motivated by love the way he treats people the way he does his ministry why he does the ministry you know why he prays how he prays everything he does is coloured and and soaked by Christ love you know so such a person it says there is nothing left in them which can make them stumble they have kind of almost reached Christ likeness you know so it is an amazing verse and I was thinking wow I mean if I could be that loving towards people in everything that I do and if I could be that loving in the way I do my ministry in the way I do my Bible reading in all my speech it is a very high ideal you know to work towards but because we have the Holy Spirit in us he is constantly you know causing us to improve and become more and more so that we can actually achieve this ideal you know so another verse that we can yeah we can maybe move into this new section which would be verses 12 to 17 okay so chapter 2 verses 12 to 17 is a new section so in the earlier section we saw people who claim that they know God people who claim that they are Christians how would you test them you would test their attitude towards sin and also you would test their attitude towards obedience are they obeying him are they keeping his commandments so these are the two tests which you would you know apply to people to find out whether they are really genuinely believers their attitude towards sin and also their obedience are they living in obedience or not so now we come to this new section which would be chapter 2 verses 12 to 17 where he starts off by saying whom he is talking to and he explains to them why he is specifically talking to them and then he goes on to say something so we have maybe about 7 or 8 minutes let's just quickly you know cover that look in verses 12 to 12 to 14 he makes a repetition over there in verse 12 he says I am writing to you dear children he says and then in verse 13 he says I am writing to you fathers and later on in the next portion of the same verse I am writing to you young men and almost exactly what he says in verses 12 and 13 he once again repeats the wording in verse 14 it's almost an exact repetition except that he changes the phrases a little bit so again he says I write to you dear children and he goes on to say I write to your fathers and then he says I write to you young men so there are all kinds of interpretations given to this passage and you know people talk about how when he says dear children they are talking about people who are still new believers and they have not matured very much and they say that the fathers of course is talking about people who have become very very mature in the Lord young men on the other hand they've had some experience in walking with the Lord they've had some spiritual victories and so they kind of you know popular sermons generally go for this kind of an interpretation but when you look at you know the really established commentaries which have gone into the whole Greek and the grammar and all of that they will point out that here is not referring to three categories of people based on their spiritual growth he's actually talking to he's using the word technon which you know he uses everywhere else in his John in his Gospel as well as his epistels he refers to everyone as technon irrespective of their spiritual maturity so he's speaking in general to all of his dear children all of the people in the church all of the believers and among the believers he's specifically addressing two categories of people the ones who are fathers the older people age wise nothing to do with spiritual maturity people who are older in age so the fathers and he's addressing the youngsters who are young in age and this is basically what he says he says you know you fathers you who are older you who have lived longer and you know been with God for a longer period of time you know him not intellectual knowledge but you know you've been walking with him for a while now because of your age and so you kind of know him more now in a personal way as for you youngsters it's been very long but you have had your victories you know you have stood on the word of God and you have you know been able to overcome the evil one and so you to have some experience with the Lord so I'm addressing all of you dear children I'm addressing you fathers who are older in age I'm also addressing you young men who are still young and of course we know right in those days the masculine word was used so over here even though it says fathers it's also talking about the women who are older in age and in the same way when it says young men it's not only addressing the men it's also addressing young girls so it's just that the masculine word was used even in our older English that's the way the wording was when you just say it doesn't mean just men it means humanity it means both men and women so it's that kind of a wording that is used over here so what is he saying to them he says you older people you know him you younger ones you had victory in him and so because of this he says in verse 15 he says because of you know you walk with him because your sins have been forgiven because you know him because you have overcome Satan through the word therefore do not love the world or anything in the world that's how he comes to verse 15 so verses 12, 13, 14 are like an introduction where he's saying I'm talking to these two categories of people because of the experience that they have had with God because of this experience which you have had with the Lord do not love the world or anything in the world he goes on to say in verse 15 and he explains what he means by anything in the world because he repeats that again in verse 16 where he says everything in the world so anything in the world everything in the world can be divided into three basic elements what are they last of the flesh last of the eyes pride of life so he says do not indulge in these three elements because that is what this world is all about so he says stay on your guard because if you are not on your guard and you are given to these three things you know it says over there if anyone loves the world love for the father is not in them and why is the love of the father not in such people he explains in verse 16 he says these things you know these three elements of the world last of the flesh last of the pride of life they do not come from the father they come from the world so if you are indulging in these three things you cannot possibly have the love of the father in you because you are indulging in something which is off the world on the other hand if you have been perfected in love then you will automatically see that you are obeying him so that in fact is mentioned somewhere in an earlier verse as well where he actually uses that wording that would be in actually chapter 2 verse 5 where he says NIV has a rather unfortunate translation it says if anyone obeys his word love for God is made complete in them but it is not actually a conditional statement based on the Greek grammar the actual translation of that particular verse would be um it would be whoever keeps his word truly in this one the love of God is perfected it's like you know you are saying truly a person who is keeping the word of God it proves that God's love has been perfected in them so here he is talking to the fathers and to the young people and he is saying because you know the love of the father has been perfected in you because you know him because you have come satan through the word of God therefore do not indulge in these three things lust of the flesh lust of the eyes and pride of life because these things are coming from the world and not from the father so if you if the love of the father has been perfected in you then you will not be participating in these three things okay so he he gives them that commandment and then you come to the last portion which would be you know verse 18 onwards again you know he kind of warns them and he says you know you have all these false teachers who are coming in so stay on guard against them you know they acted like I said they were part of us they acted as if they belong to us but now you know they have gone back into the world so this proves that they were never actually part of our true church you know so he talks about that and so he says in verse 24 hold on to what you heard from the beginning what was presented to you originally hold on to that do not stray away from it so these are all things that you have already talked about so we are not getting into the details of it but so the main message he is conveying over here is that because the love of the father has been perfected inside you therefore you don't need to indulge in these three things you are of God you are not of the world so do not be like the people of the world and participate in these three things is what he is saying to them so yeah I think there is no time for anything more now next class we will finish off all the other three remaining chapters 3 4 5 we will cover it next class and then second John third John can be you know done together in the last class so yeah so by this weekend I will try to put up the assessment the assessment will be only up to whatever we covered today in the class so there will be 75 questions which you would need to tick so even if you do maybe 5 questions a day you will have time enough you know to complete so yeah so let's just close with the word of prayer oh lord we just thank you for the many many things that we learnt in today's session lord whenever we need these things bring them back to our mind oh lord help us to recollect all that we have studied and lord we pray that we will be people who are secure in you people who are confident of your atoning sacrifice which has been done for us people who are secure in the work of the cross and we know what you have achieved for us and we pray that you would help us to stand on that and claim our victory I pray oh lord that because of your work divine work which is going on in our hearts we will not be like the people of the world and indulge in worldly things which we don't need to anymore we are free in you so I pray oh lord that we would remain in your love and by doing that we can show to the world that we truly belong to you thank you oh lord for all the things that you taught us and I pray that we would continue to grow in you and become more Christ like thank you lord in Jesus name amen thank you so much for you know patiently staying throughout the class so we will meet again next week yeah


There's one other thing I wanted to address regarding some of the questions that came my way when I loaded up the Q&A video, asked me any questions you'd like and I'll answer them as best as I can. And there's been a lot of questions regarding music. Some people are asking me what I listen to, what type of music I listen to, going as deep as I think this couple of questions I had, I might be mixing them up. One person asked me to name the actors I like the most and the roles that they played the most. And I believe someone else asked me to list one song from an artist that I really like. And that's really difficult for me. I do have favorites but usually when it comes to music, I've listened to a lot of music and I think music is a huge part of my life, I've gone through multiple phases. And for the last 15 years or so the majority of music, like 99% of music I've listened to for the last at least 15 years, there's three different genres which is basically hip hop, electronic and metal, that's mainly been my consumption. And most of that stuff has been more contemporary stuff, I don't really go back too far in terms of what I listen to. There are some that I listen to for sure, there's 70s Rush and 80s Rush that I loop every now and then and Nina Simone I go to a lot and I will most definitely create videos where I talk about some of my favorite artists and I've only done one write up, music write up which is a review of System of the Downs 2006 album, it was a double album but one of the first part came out. So if you want to, at some point I will be doing more write ups on reviews of music because I really like it, I actually started one on Nina Simone but she's so large I never got it done, I was only able to get the System of the Down out that year when I was looping Nina Simone the System of the Down. In regards to music, what I really love, what I listen to, what I can do is for now anyway because I haven't done the research looking into the type of music, you know, the artists that I listen to because one of the other ones on the same level as Nina Simone and System of the Down that I listen to a lot would be Nujabas and if you've watched some of my previous videos you'd know that Nujabas is a huge part of the music I constantly go to, constantly go to, right? But as far as what I'm listening to right now is, there's one group I just recently got exposed to, they're UK hip-hop artists and I was exposed to them through a political news coverage that I go to which is a sub-media TV stimulator and he does, he covers a lot of politics from the underground, from a very straight up perspective where it's at, right? And he covers, he introduces a lot of music in his news coverage, what he does and one of the last videos that he put out, these hip-hop artists were on there and I, you know, tracked on some of their music and I've, for the last, you know, since that news coverage came out I guess it was 10 days ago or something, two weeks ago, all I've been doing is looping this group and I believe that's what I'm going to do for the rest of the summer anyway, it's just basically loop and that's what I really like to do, I like to take artists that have a library of content and I like to loop that and the group that I'm looping right now that I'm going to be looping most likely when I go out and shoot my math videos because I basically, most of what I do on foot, I walk around everywhere and I put on my music and think about the content that I'm creating, the group that I'm going to be looping for the summer that I've been looping is Caxton Press, fantastic UK hip-hop, you know, slowly they'll, you know, I'm letting the lyrics sink in and the content that they've created, I've gone through, they've got, as far as I know they've put five albums out, I've got to look into this a little bit more, I grabbed the compilation online but I'm going to find out what else they have and make sure I'm looping everything but I've already gone through their repertoire of the five albums, three times and loving it, definitely need more of it so as far as music goes what I'm listening to right now that would be Caxton Press UK, I don't know any specifics of the group, I've just been listening to their music and you know checking out their beats and rhymes right so you can, pretty sure you can track down the info online of who they are and what their what their philosophy is whatever else you want to find out above and beyond what they're putting out right and I'll let you know what else I end up if I end up looping anything else this summer or in the future so I'll share with you what artists, what bands, what music I'm listening to okay that's it for now I'll see you guys in the next video


What's up YouTube? Today I am going to workshop a successful personal statement and this is from Dr. Rex. He was so gracious to share his personal statement and a few of his secondaries that were successful in admissions. He got into Dartmouth UNC a whole list and you can learn about all his stats and his journey in his YouTube channel which is great because you can kind of like live the experience with him. I will link that below but today we're going to go through the personal statement so that you can really get a sense as to why it was successful, what works, what things I think could be improved upon and that way as you sit down to write you can kind of start writing your most compelling personal statement yourself. Hi, I am Dr. Josie. This is Write Your Acceptance. I work with a ton of students who are medical school, indential school, residency. We work to really establish your voice but be as compelling as possible and if you want to learn more about how I work with students you can grab your free 15-minute consult with me. You can learn about my program, the personal statement Rx, the kind of one-hour free webinar that I am hosting these days and all that good stuff in the links below but for now let's get started on Rex's personal statement. I'm going to read the entire thing first and then we'll go kind of section by section so you can get a sense of the entire the essay in its entirety and then we can kind of break it down. All right, he will be taken off life support in the next couple days but he can still hear you. Read the all-to-brief description next to the patient's name on the weekly list of hospital visitation requests sent to St. Thomas More Church. I've read this short line while holding the day's religious census as I looked up the room numbers of patients on the visit request list. It completely caught me off guard. What does someone say to a total stranger who is so near the end of their life? I did not believe I was qualified to answer the question but I do believe that there is not one answer that applies to every person. While I was partially terrified at the responsibility of the upcoming conversation I was grateful to have the opportunity to simply be with another person and share human interaction at such a significant point in their life despite that fact that I did not know what this interaction with a man who could no longer speak or move would be like. Ultimately the opportunity to share in some of the most intimate moments of people's lives both high and low is why I visit patients in the hospital every weekend as a Catholic Communion minister for the chaplain's office and why I want to be a doctor one day.  This basic truth is not something I always understood. During high school I had a significant struggle with depression. I spent a lot of time attempting to hide from my emotions and seeing no escape. I had isolated myself from relationships and felt my emotions were the greatest burden of being human. Now years later my experience confronting depression helps shape my actions every day of my life. I live each day embracing every opportunity to feel alive and cherish each opportunity to experience emotion especially through sharing in another's joy sorrow pain or love.  I want to spend my life caring for people that at times when disease and physical injury might otherwise make them feel alone or isolated sharing in people's experiences and emotion is what makes me feel most human and alive and that is what I seek to do in my future career. I visited the man on life support first that day inside the ICU tubes and wires protruded from him taking measurements and serving functions I hope to one day fully understand. His skin appeared almost plastic it was hard to see or hear signs of life in the room and the only sounds were robotic beeping and the mechanical war of air. He was all alone with the machines that were keeping him alive. I looked at his eyes I have found that no matter what people's eyes always remind me that they are human. I sat down in the chair and began talking to him. I do not remember all of what I said that day I introduced myself I told him that I was glad to be there with him and that he was not alone. I explained that I didn't know if he could hear me but hope that he could. Then I simply prayed with him for a few minutes in the way of our shared faith tradition. I thanked him for the visit and told him of my continued prayers for him. I do not know how many days later the man died but he was not on the religious census the next weekend. I still stay up some nights thinking about my conversation with him wondering what more I might have said and how I could have said things better. My hope is that if he could hear me my words and presence brought him comfort and peace for those moments when I shared life with him. The desire to be a doctor is manifest to me because I want to share in more of these moments with people. Specifically I want to work for the elderly so I can not only share in but also aid people through some of the medical trials and result from becoming elderly. Aging often brings a multifaceted need for healing in the physical emotional social and spiritual domains. Medical science can bring amazing physical healing to a person and I believe my intellect's innovative thinking and ability to synthesize diverse information will serve me well to improve a patient's quality of life. However the role of a doctor does not end with physical healing. Doctors serve their patients so much more when they seek to also bring person-centered healing that goes beyond presenting physical condition. For me a doctor is being both one connecting the tubes and wires to a patient and the person sitting at their bedside when medicine has reached its limits. Okay so first I mean holistically a beautiful personal statement. It is a privilege to workshop and share it with you guys. Let's deep dive into the different sections. There are places of kind of room for improvement in my humble opinion. There are moments where he kind of just hits it on the head and just strikes such a beautiful emotional cord and so I kind of want to celebrate and critique with your permission a little bit so that you can find your voice and find your space within kind of this storytelling type of personal statement. So intro. He will be taking off life support in the next couple days but he can still hear you. Read the all too brief description next to the patient's name on the weekly list of hospital visitation requests sent to St. Thomas More Church. I read the short line while holding the day's religious census as I looked at the room numbers of patients on the visitor request list. It completely caught me off guard. What does someone say to a total stranger who is so near the end of their life? So the line the introduction line the first line grips you right away right? He will be taken off life support in the next couple days but he can still hear you. Usually I am not a huge fan of kind of a quote from someone else right so from a celebrity a scholar not that the words are not thoughtful not adequate to the you know not pertaining to the situation just because I don't I'm selfish with the real estate of the essay and I don't like to give too much voice away from the writer. Having said that this line is excellent in the sense of like from a narrative perspective right? Like it grips you as a reader you want to read more you want to understand what is happening. So kudos great first line. I feel like the second half of line one kind of drives on a little bit right? So the patient's name on the weekly list of a hospital visitation request sent to the church. So I feel like that could have been a little bit more brief. Very quickly let's do paragraph two. The very quick detail is I don't love starting a sentence with but it's just not my favorite. So the first couple lines I did not believe that I was qualified to answer that question but I do believe that there is no one answer that applies to every person. So just a quick kind of like you know of writing detail for me that kind of bothers me. Really like the second half of paragraph two. Ultimately the opportunity to share in some of the most intimate moments of people's lives both high and low is why I visit patients in the hospital every weekend as a Catholic community minister for the chaplain's office and why I want to be a doctor one day. So really like this personal kind of moment of growth in the introduction section right? So yes this is paragraph two but it's still kind of talking about a formative moment the same kind of moment and they're teasing out how they value the experience. I like the kind of what I call the loose thesis statement in the personal statement. So it is that moment where they kind of connect that spark moment or the initial experience right to why medicine and so they do that very nicely in that last sentence.  This basic truth is not something I always understood. During high school I had a significant struggle with depression. I spent a lot of time attempting to hide from my emotions and seeing no escape and I isolated myself so they continued with that with one more line. Typically I don't like any content that is from high school or before unless it is a spark moment and by spark moment I mean the passive medical experience that tuned you into medicine for the first time usually is a passive experience or something happens to you right?  In this moment he is sharing a very kind of delicate about with depression and it was in high school so it was pretty young because they started with the kind of introductory experience was something that is pretty contemporary pretty recent. They kind of go back to their spark moment in this high school experience. So I thought that in that sense it's good but you want to make sure that you are thinking about using as much relevant and recent content. Patient-centric is ideal as possible especially in the middle of the essay. Next up now years later my experience confronting depression helps shape my actions every day of my life. Love that topic sentence. It really connects what he just kind of wrapped up and then it goes into how that kind of still has significance in his life deployed differently now. I think this next section could be a little shorter because it's not about him. I live each day embracing every opportunity to feel alive and cherish each opportunity to experience emotion especially through sharing in others joy sorrow pain and love love that line but then it goes into Jimmy V's sb acceptance speech and we have a whole line. It's like three sentences I would try and make it like a sentence and a half so really shorten maybe that first sentence and then the the quote and then towards the end of that paragraph I want to spend my life caring for people at times when disease and physical injury might otherwise make them feel alone or isolated. Sharing in people's experiences and emotions is what makes me feel. I don't love quotes just because it takes away from the student voice it takes away from kind of the moment the immediacy of the experience but rats does a very great job at the end of this paragraph to bring it back to him his valuation and his connection of that quote and living a sense of full life and serving others in living their full life to why medicine so I thought that he did that very nicely. Do I love this paragraph? No I would have maybe voted for another patient-centric experience but does this paragraph work? Yes because they do come back to medicine and more importantly than that they show a different dimension or they share a different dimension of who they are right emotional maturity self-awareness it really does come back to advancing medicine and those aspects of their identity so then they continue. I visited the man on life support first that day inside the ICU tubes and why is protruded from him. I love how this comes back to the opening image right and it comes back to the opening image as if we were already we were just talking about it in a very interesting way Rex says that he sometimes thinks about this moment and the conversation what he could have said better how he could have kind of done something different so it feels like we are coming as readers we are kind of coming back to this moment over and over and so I love how there's no forced transitional topic sentence here it just goes into the details in a very image sensory driven way I hear the beeping of the machines I see the tubes protruding it's a beautiful moment I mean kudos to the decisions like rhetorically here and then probably my favorite line is from the bottom of this or the end of this paragraph I looked at his eyes I have found that no matter what people's eyes always remind me that they're human I sat down in a chair and began talking to him that's definitely something that's not going to be in Rex's CV right we're not going to see that in resume so those are the moments and reflections that you really want to capture in your personal statement especially if they're patient-centric which this is so it's like ding ding ding hits all the boxes I love it and then it kind of continued I do not know how many days later that man died but he was not in a religious census the next weekend if it were for me like you know I was ruling this world um this personal statement world I would have either swapped this paragraph or the Jimmy V paragraph out and put in one more patient experience patient-centric experience that offered a different lesson because I just wanted to see a little bit more of of his experiences more varied but that's just me because I'm being picky um it is a beautiful kind of reflection as to how this stuck with him and then it's a productive conclusion it's still about 4,800 characters so again I would have put in one more patient experience so that you can have gotten because you have the space you don't have to get to the 5,300 characters you don't have to be 5,296 right but um but you do have the space and because I would have swapped out one of the other two paragraphs you would have had ample space to kind of go into one more experience all in all though a privilege to workshop this essay I really love what it does I really love how it shares very vulnerable experiences very medically driven in the sense of it is advancing the why medicine in most if not all paragraphs I get a sense of who Rex is as a person what he values and who he is right so so I really like that I hope this video was helpful I have more on these videos I have a few essays that I workshop so check out the playlist below I can link that there and if you want to talk about how I work with students definitely book a call with me and and we can chat about personal statement rx my program or anything else that that you need if you're like in the secondary stage of your writing please give us a like and comment anything that I need to get back to you on thank you so much have a good one bye


So the next presentation is by Mr. Falka and he's going to talk about KDE itinerary. So please give him a round of applause over to you. Thank you. Yeah, so I'm going to talk about KDE itinerary or digital travel assistance. What do we mean when we say that? You probably know services like TripIt or some of the travel assistance features in Google Now. They all more or less work the same, right? So they read your email. They find tickets, boarding passes, bookings, that kind of stuff in there. They put it into your calendar or create a nice timeline and then guide you through that and give you real-time updates on delays and that kind of stuff. All of that is available for free in the sense that you don't pay for it, at least not by money, but with your data. And how bad is that? So the first thing that comes to mind is like the data you directly leak to those services, right? So your name, your birthday, your credit card number, your passport number, that kind of stuff. And maybe you're okay with sharing that with those services, but the thing people think less about is kind of the indirectly leaked data. So if you and I travel to Brussels on the first weekend in February, that might be pure coincidence, right? But I guess for many of us, that isn't the first time that has happened, right? So two or three times, same destination, same time. That is no longer a coincidence, right? So if you have enough of that travel data, that actually tells you a lot on relations between people. So what you are interested in, who you work for, where your family lives, all that kind of stuff, right? So in that point, giving your travel data to someone like Google is not just impacting yourself, but everyone else as well. So not ideal. What do we do about that? So one approach might be let's just not use those services. And that works until you find yourself traveling in a foreign country where you don't speak any of the local languages and then get introduced to their counterpart of Schien-Essatzverkehr or Tarif-Zorn-Randgebiet. And then you really want some assistance, right? So that brings us to another approach to deal with this. If you don't like something that, well, if you don't like the available options, right? Let's build one on our own. So let's have a look at what this would take. Turns out the problem is actually more about data rather than about code. There's also quite some code necessary, but a lot of building blocks already exist. The main challenge seems to be getting the various pieces of data we need. And I grouped this into three general categories. The first one is the personal data. So that is you booked a hotel or a train to a specific location. That data usually comes to you in the form of emails or PDF documents or you find it on a website. The second category of data is what I would call the static data. So that is information on where exactly is a specific airport or in which time zone is that airport. I come from Berlin, so their airports are actually static. In other parts of the world, people apparently manage to build new airports. So static here refers to kind of the release cycle of the software, right? So a few months at most. So that is data that is practical to ship for offline use. And the third category is what I would call dynamic data. So delay information, for example, or gate changes. So extremely short-lived information that you need to query from some online service. So let's look at those three categories in a bit more detail. Fortunately, we are not the first one with those specific problems, right? Google built the same system and they also needed to get their hands on those data. And the way Google usually solves this is they define a standard and encourage everyone else to follow that. And that's what they did for the booking data. They came up with the schema.org data model, which they also use for the search engine. But that contains like structured annotations that they expect in emails about your flight or your train and so on. Depending on where you live, that seems to be present in about 30 to 50% of booking-related emails. So that's a good starting point. Then, of course, you have random unstructured emails. So just meant for human consumption that we have to deal with. Then for flights, there is Apple wallet passes as something that is fairly popular. And then there's barcodes. Barcodes I can probably fill an entire talk with on what you can extract from data. So kind of structured information, but not meant for our purpose. But so that's at least something to work with. For static data, we also have quite some stuff to work with. Most prominently, weekly data. So that is structured data of pretty much everything imaginable. And OpenStreetMap covering the local specific parts. And also the time zone maps. Time zones is something really important for that use case. Areas where we still have some gaps, I would say, is adding vendor-specific station identifiers to weekly data. That is, for example, necessary to match to barcode content. And then the whole problem of indoor navigation and navigation to your specific seat on the train and those kind of information. And for dynamic data, again, Google did some groundwork there. They defined the GTFS standards as an interface for public transport operators to feed that information to Google Maps. But many of them luckily do that as open data. So we can consume that by free software as well. And there's two big free software implementations of such journey querying services based on top of GTFS. That's Navitea and OpenTrip planner. So that's at least covering the train and bus part. Then we have the Apple wallet boarding passes again. They also have a built-in update API that's useful for gate changes, for example. But that has the disadvantage that it leaks user information, so not ideal. And then, of course, there's plenty of vendor-specific online APIs. Many of them, unfortunately, not really compatible with free software or open data requirements. So you have some terms of conditions that aren't really compatible with our use cases. Or you need API keys that you're not allowed to publish. So problems like this. But that's the theory. So let's have a look at what we have actually built over the last two years. The first component is the K itinerary data extraction library. So that implements the schema.org data model for flights, trains, buses, hotels, events. And I'm forgetting one. Well, basically those are restaurant reservations, that's the other one. And it has an extraction system that can handle the structured data. So if there are structured annotations in emails, it can consume that. And it has an unstructured extraction mechanism, both generically. And it has support for, like, vendor-specific scripts. So for, I think, a bit more than 50 vendors where we, where the generic approaches or the structured approaches don't work, you can write a small JavaScript that does the extraction for that specific render. And that's then a few lines of regular expressions or express queries. The output of that is then augmented by informations we draw from VikiData. So that's filling in time zones or geo-coordinates for stations and airports. And that can consume basically all the data formats in which you might get these documents, anything you find in an email, PDF, the app-related boarding passes and so on. And if you, if anyone of you has seen the next talk from just earlier today, they showed the integration with the attenuator extraction, that's using exactly that system. Another building block we created is the K-Public Transport Library. So that's covering basically the dynamic data problem. Giving you API for querying for locations, departures, and arrivals at those locations and journeys between locations. This can talk to free software services, Navizia and OpenTurk planner, as well as to a few proprietary backends. And we have about 50 or so configurations for different services that then use any of those backends to actually get the data form. And the library picks the right service for the location you are looking at, and then gives you the results for that. And of course we have the actual KDI Generator application. That's a mobile app giving you a timeline of your trip that automatically groups the various bits on your itinerary together. So that's my FOSSTEM trip, this life weather report in between. I can show you the boarding passes. And it can pull you delay information for trains or gate and platform changes. If you miss your train, it allows you to find an alternative connection to get to your destination. Having all the data available, it provides you some statistics on how much you traveled in the last year. So if you're watching out for your CO2 impact, for example, that gives you trends on if you're improving over the years. One of my favorite features, because nobody else has it, is the PowerPlug compatibility warning powered by Vicky Data. So if you're traveling to the UK, you probably know they have weird PowerPlug, but some more normal countries like Switzerland or Italy coming from Germany also need an adapter, and I tend to forget that. So the app seeing that I travel to those countries or through those countries reminds me to bring the corresponding adapter. Something that is pretty new is an assistance feature to automatically fill the gaps in your itinerary. So I arrive at the main station in Brussels. I have my hotel somewhere. How do I get to the hotel? It now suggested me to take the metro number two to wherever I needed to go. So that's actually moving from just managing data to actively supporting you on this. That's another brand new thing. That's the train layout display. So it shows me where on the platform I need to go to find my reserved seat. Right. And then finally, how do we actually get the data into the app? For that we have plugins for a number of different email applications. Starting in Kmail, of course. That's where we came from. So that shows you a nice to read banner on what it found in the email. Next cloud you might have seen earlier today doing something similar. Released two weeks ago. The third one is Thunderbird. That isn't released yet, but it's basically going to have the same functionality available there as well. And last but not least, we have the browser plugin basically doing the same for websites you're looking at. Right. And then I'm done almost exactly in time. One last bit. Forget about all the privacy stuff I said. We need test data to improve the data extraction, so please donate that. If you want to learn more about that, meet us in building K at the KDE stand or at the next cloud stand around the corner. Thank you. To respect the time and the time delay we're having, if there are no burning questions, my advice is please reach out to Falker and address the question in person and we can move on to the next presentation. Thank you so much.


Hey everyone, welcome to Nintendo Prime. And here's the thing, when I'm looking to create videos, I'm always looking at a number of factors, right? I'm looking at what's interesting to you. What would be interesting to me? What's something I wanna discuss about? And what's something that at least has a tangible idea of truth to it. Now, one of our stories today is literally news. It broke this morning. You guys might know what it is. It has to do a Pokemon. And we'll talk about that.  But we also have these rumors that have just been permeating over the last week that I have refused to cover for one reason or another. But today, oh, today, we're going to cover them for posterity's sake or maybe just out of morbid curiosity or I don't know, maybe because I wanna bring the tinfoil hat back. I have no idea. We have multiple games supposedly coming, big ones coming to Nintendo at some point in the future. We have a doggo down here because he wanted to come in and say hi and a brand new rumor on a switch system. What? A new hardware coming? What is happening today? It's August 1st. Why are we getting started with a bang? I don't know. Editor, roll that intro. Now, before I dive into the news, I wanna remind you, we are giving away this thing right here. You see this? This is a broken down Game Boy, of course. You got Tetris in the background. I got, this one's mine, but I have another one already packed up over here to give away. You can enter to win it down in the pinned comment or in the description and we're adding new ways to enter every day. In fact, every single day in August, I'm gonna be having a different code every day that you have to listen throughout the video to find that code to enter to get a additional 20 entries per day. So, good luck. And today's, no, just kidding. Let's get into the first story. So, I mentioned Pokemon News, and that's because a Pokemon Presents was announced this morning. I'm sure you've heard of the news already. If you haven't, here you go. Here's the details. It's on August 3rd, so two days away. Thanks for the two-day warning. It's happening at 8 a.m. Central Time, so 6 a.m. Pacific, 9 a.m. Eastern, and is gonna feature news on Pokemon apps and games, including Scarlet and Violet. Not really too surprising. We already were expecting Pokemon News on the 15th from a certain magazine in Japan, so getting news now just kind of sort of made sense. I know people are gonna get that ball rolling, right?    I don't think this suddenly means we're getting a Nintendo Direct in August, but maybe we will. But for right now, we're talking about Pokemon, really excited. You know we'll be live streaming that event right here, so tune in, it's going to be a blast. Next up, we have our first batch of rumors. We have three different rumors we're gonna go over today, and hold on, I'm not in the right attire. Yes, so much better. So this first rumor is actually about a brand new Star Fox game. Now this comes from Zippo. Now Zippo has a reputation of getting some things right years ago. It's actually been quite a while since he said anything right, and I am of mind that I think he just makes it up, but since I don't have any definitive evidence that he actually makes it up, and there aren't really other leakers decrying him, like Emily Rogers doesn't say anything, like nobody's really saying that Zippo is fake other than just my own observations. So let's cover this because I just want it to happen anyways, all right? So let's dive right into what the actual news is. So this new Star Fox game will be made by an outside studio with close supervision of Nintendo. It's apparently towing the line between a reboot and successor. It'll have some sort of online multiplayer component. The new Star Fox animated series is in the works at Nintendo's new animation studio as well, Nintendo Pictures, and don't expect to actually hear about it for a while, which is weird when you say, it's been in the works for a while, but don't expect to hear about it for a while. I don't know, maybe because they wanna time it with the release of animated. Maybe this is gonna be for their next platform. I don't know. Now I would love to have a brand new Star Fox game. Who wouldn't? Star Fox was great and I don't think Zero was a good representation of leaving the game in the right place. Now he notes he doesn't know who the studio is, but for some reason knows it's not platinum. Look, how do you not know who the studio is, but then know that it's not a certain studio beats me? He always asks like, his sources are from inside Nintendo. Very few people have real sources inside Nintendo. In fact, if this game leaked, I feel like it'll be more likely to leak from the outside studio, but hey, you know what? That's what he had to say about this, but you know what? That's not the only game he talked about. So next up is another game, another big one. Another one a lot of us wanna see return and we were hoping maybe Hal Laboratories or Sakurai was working on this. We're talking about Kid Icarus Uprising. So Zippo also put out there that Kid Icarus Uprising remastered is in the works and is being worked on by Bandai Namco. Now, what's interesting about Bandai Namco working on this game is while they are putting in an effort and doing all the work and it's gonna keep the multiplayer and they're gonna make the control scheme more intuitive and user-friendly, one thing to note is that the online multiplayer runs on Bandai Namco's net code, which is infamously not good. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate also uses that net code Tekken 7.0, basically a lot of fighting games and those fighting games have really bad net code. So whether or not that matters for games that aren't fighting games, I don't know, but that is something that he notes. Again, this all comes from Zippo and I'll link to his stuff and you guys can go check the sources yourself. Look, it is what it is. I'm not really sure about this, but I want Kid Icarus Uprising back. I want a new Kid Icarus in general. I just want to, I want Nintendo Remake IPs. I want my F-Zero. I want my 1080 Snowboarding, my Snowboard kids. Like, there's so many IPs I want Nintendo to bring back, Wave Race. Like that, hey, whatever. You know, Star Fox and Kid Icarus are nice, but you know what's even nicer? How about a rumor about a brand new Nintendo Switch platform? All right, so we got to switch the hat up a little bit here because I'm not, I don't know. Why am I talking about this? I kind of feel like others who have talked about this a little bit where it's like, why? This is weird. Look, we talk about rumors from 4chan sporadically, right? Not all the time. There's, oh gosh, last time I checked there are over a dozen new rumors related to Nintendo and let alone the entire gaming industry. There's like 50 of them related to the game industry, but like a dozen of them daily for Nintendo Switch.  Not really, not really. I could do nothing but make videos on 4chan rumors, but why are we talking about this one? Well, not only because it's related to new Switch hardware, but because of the strangeness of what that hardware is and just the peculiarity of the fact that it's such a well-constructed post and look, this was brought to my attention how well-constructed it was actually about RGT87, so credit to him over the weekend. I fully watched his video on this and I kind of agree in covering 4chan rumors in the past that this one is oddly well-constructed by someone who looks like they actually care. I don't know. Like when people always dismiss 4chan, oh, I don't believe 4chan ate 4chan, fully leaked the Nintendo Switch presentation. I also have fully leaked multiple Nintendo Directs and the whole reason that can happen is you can literally be an employee at Nintendo and post on 4chan and no one would be able to trace it back to you as long as you were stupid and left indicators of who you are. So yeah, it's all anonymous, it's untraceable and that's what makes 4chan still matter to this day and it also makes it a great platform for legitimate leaks. It also makes it a great platform for people that just make things up and just see if it runs wild on the internet. So maybe this is one of those cases, but also what this system is sounds dumb, but Nintendo does dumb things. Game Boy Micro, anybody? I don't know, Virtual Boy? Nintendo just makes dumbass decisions at times. So what are we talking about? Well, yes, a brand new Switch platform called the Switch Lite 5G.  Here's the 4chan post. So it is gonna support 5G and 4G LTE. It's gonna be using Qualcomm's Snapdragon X55 5G Modem, which I believe came out in 2019. So it kinda checks the box for being a little bit older tech that's probably cheaper to get your hands on. I mean, I would like to see them improve the wifi chip, but whatever. 10 to 20% bigger screen than the current Lite, which I mean, I guess you just cut out the bezel. You don't really have to even make a new chassis.  Next up, it's supposed to release in spring of 2023 at $249. So you're paying an extra 50 bucks for the privilege of paying a subscription to access the internet. That's always interesting. And apparently they have partnered with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile locally here in North America. And the data plans will be discounted and data plans for those with Nintendo Switch Online. So like basically you can get a data plan through those carriers. You don't have to be part of those carriers or if you are with those carriers, you can get a discount on that data plan if you're also an Nintendo Switch Online member. Now they do note carriers and stuff like this in other territories, Australia, UK, Japan, et cetera. So it's a very well put together with proper punctuation. A lot of research and actual knowledge in there. Not a lot of people, if this is just someone in the United States making up some sort of rumor. I don't know off the top of my head, I can tell you right now, if this was me, I don't know off the top of my head who the carriers and providers for this sort of service is in Japan, Australia, and the UK. But I actually Googled the stuff that this person put in the post and it turns out it's accurate. So this person either knew it or was at least able to use Google to figure it out. Like saying it's complicated. I'm not saying it's impossible to put together this post, but I am saying that if it's made up, it's made up by somebody who actually put a little time in research into it, which is pretty neat, pretty neat.   I think we have Wi-Fi in enough places that that's what you should be using instead. Cell phone signals aren't the best for online gameplay anyways. I guess maybe you want to download a game with them. Why do you want to use a data plan for that?  I think this is the stupidest.  Remember when the Vita had 4G?   And then the charge $50 more.  Just update the current switch light and put a chip in it and let people do it.  Nothing about this system is good. This system is gonna take harder than the final episode of season eight of Game of Thrones. I mean, that's how bad this is.  It shouldn't exist. And here's the problem.     But because this is Nintendo, we can't just like, oh yeah, they won't ever do that. They'll never. They wouldn't do that or would they? And the thing is people just buy it. They gobble it up. Of course, Game Boy Micro flops so hard at the intent, Virtual Boy flops so hard at the intent. I mean, just look at all the different systems. We had the new 2DS, that little wedge. And you had the 2DS, just like the 2DS normal or whatever, the clamshell one.   I can't imagine this platform existing except this is Nintendo. So it's a 4chan rumor. It's probably not true. None of these rumors you talked about today are probably true, but they're out there. People are talking about them. They're getting attention and I don't know. I can't verify and deny any of it. So there are my thoughts on it. Let me know your thoughts on it down in the comments below. I will say this. At least the game rumors are interesting, right? It's fun to dream about another Star Fox game. It's fun to dream about Kid Icarus Uprising comeback. It's fun to dream. So those are enjoyable, digestible and at least give you something tangible to maybe desire down the line. You know, it's just like if we start talking about Pikmin 4 again, right? Like something to desire down the line. This isn't something I think any of us actually want. Now, maybe I'm wrong and maybe some of you guys actually do want a Switch Lite 5G. Maybe it is, maybe I'm misreading the room entirely and I'm the one that's got a problem and then this tin foil hatchet get tossed in the garbage. I don't know. You guys let me know what you think about this. I am Nathaniel Robles from the Center Prime and I'll catch you guys in the next video.